The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-04 00:00:00

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
PLYMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING, AUG. 2.—On Satur-
day, none of the sections meeting on that day, the seve-
ral excursions were made. The largest party, consisting
of the several geologists, went on an excursion to view
the Elven dykes of Cornwall, on the edge of that large
and romantic wild, Dartmoor, the picturesque and neat
town of Tavistock, with the celebrated Wheal Friend-
ship and Wheal Betsey mines at Mary Tavy. This party
contained the most distinguished of the savans, amongst
whom were the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl of
Morley, Lord Ebrington, M.P., Sir Thomas Dyke Ac-
land, and Sir Charles Leman. Almost every conveyance
of the town was put in requisition, the distance being about
18 miles from this place. The party, consisting of upwards
of 200 persons, was conducted round the mines to witness
the application of water power and steam on a very exten-
sive scale, to the various purposes of pumping, raising
the ores, crushing, and stamping, by Mr. John Taylor ;
and Mr. Delabeche explained the nature of the strata.
These mines are very extensive, the seam running up-
wards of three miles, producing the ores of copper, lead,
and tin, and being excavated to a depth. of 1,200 feet.
The party was afterwards provided with a cold collation
by the:proprietors of the mines.
Two steam-vessels having been placed at the disposal
of the Association by the liberality of the Admiralty,
were employed in excursions to the Eddystone light-
house and the Breakwater; and to explore the beautiful ;
and far-famed scenery up the river Tamar, which we
have already noticed, and the source of the Weir.
To-day the great object of attraction will be the launch
of the ship Hindostant at the dock-yard at Devenport ; and
to give greater effect., the tradesmen of the town have come
to a general resolution to close their shops at noon. This
morning, at eight o'clock, the preliminary operation of
lifting the ship by wedges was performed before a large
assembly of members. The Hindostan is a teak-built
ship, the frame timbers of which were converted in India,
and sent home. She has been 13 years in construction,
having been laid down in August, 1828, and was origi-
nally intended to be an 80-gun ship. Her burden is
2,050 tons, the weight when launched 1,606 tons, and
her weight when completely equipped for sea 3,213 tons.
The disposition of her armament is as follows :—Gun
decks, 30 guns, four of which will throw hollow shot of
561bs. weight, or shell of 8-in. diameter, the remaining
26 being 32-pounder guns ; on the main deck .32 guns,
two of which are for 56-Ib. hollow shot .; and on the
quarter deck and forecastle 16 guns, of which four will
be 32-pounders, and the remaining 12 will be 32-pounder
carronades. The weight of a round of shot from this
armament is 9,5201b5. of iron, and of a broadside 1,260.
Up to this morning the number of non-resident mem-
bers present is 435, the least attendance of any of the
meetings, with the exception of the first at York. Some
valuable discussions are anticipated to-day at some of the
sections, the number of papers put down for reading
being very considerable.

CORONER'S IN QUEST.
Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Robin-
son Crusoe, Earl-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of
William Morton, aged 51, formerly an omnibus pro-
prietor, latterly a conductor, but more recently without
any employment.
Edward 'Wright, an omnibus driver, residing at No.
31, Little Carlile-street, Edgware-road, said, deceased
was a lodger of his, and that about four o'clock on
Saturday last, witness sent his daughter, aged nine years,
to deceased's room to call him down to tea. She re-
turned quite alarmed, saying, " Mr. Morton looked very
white in the face, and had a string round his neck."
Witness was then in the act of cutting bread and butter,
and he ran up stairs with the knife in his hand, and
seeing deceased hanging, he cut him down. lie was
quite dead, and a doctor who was called in tried ineffec-
tually to bleed him. He had cut one of the bed cords in
half, and with it hanged himself by the neck from a hook
in the ceiling.
By the CORONER—I saw him reading a book about
eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon, and I then told
him, his rent being in arrear, that I had let his room to
another. He replied very carelessly, "Oh, have you ?"
He was formerly in partnership with Mr. Shillibeer. Since
then he became a conductor, but eight months ago lost
his situation through drunkenness ; he was extremely
low and dull, except when he drank, and latterly he was
never a day sober. lam confident he hanged himself.
The CORONER, addressing Wright—Do you think that
drunkenness brought on insanity, or that insanity led to
drunkenness? Wright—l think the man must be insane
to drink as he did. I have known him drink a bottle of
brandy a day for twelve months together. He formerly
attempted to cut his throat with a razor, and on Friday
night last he asked another conductor to lend him a
penny, saying he wanted it to buy a cord wherewith to
hang himself.
Verdict—" Temporary insanity."

DEER-STEALING IN WINDSOR.
GREAT PARK.
Notwithstanding the sharp look out kept day and
night by her Majesty's keepers in the Great Park at
Windsor, deer-stealing has been successfully carried on,
and to a great extent, during the whole of the summer.
On Monday afternoon a notorious character, residing at
Old Windsor, named Joseph Atkins, alias ovely Joe,
who has long been suspected, from his well-known
poaching tricks, to have been connected with these de-
predations, was brought before Mr. Ward, one of the
Magistrates for the county of Berks, at Englefield-
green, charged by David Fisher, constable of Old
Windsor, with having shot at and killed a female deer,
the property of her Majesty, early on the morning of
Sunday last.
It appeared from the evidence of Sampson Strickland,
one of her Majesty's keepers (who was-corroborated by
another witness), that between one and two o'clock on
Sunday morning (the moon shining at the time) he and
three of his assistants were on watch in the park, at
Peter's-hill, near the paddocks formerly used for the
Hanoverian horses, and almost close to the new union
workhouse, when they heard the report of a gun about
300 yards from where they were standing. After wait-
ing quietly behind the trees for nearly half an hour, they
saw the prisoner descend from the wall into the park, by
means of a short ladder, which it was proved had been
taken by the prisoner from the rick-yard of a farmer at
Old Windsor, named Friend. It was from the top of this
wall the deer was shot. The fellow, in attempting to carry
off the deer, several times tried to get it upon his shoulders,
but failed,from the state of drunkenness he was in, falling
each time with the deer in his arms. At this time Strick-
land and his assistants went up to the prisoner, who
made no resistance, and took him into custody. The
accused, who had hidden his gun on Peter's-hill, in a
gutter or water-course, within a short distance of where
be was taken, pointed out the spot to the keepers, where
it was found.
The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was
fully committed to Reading gaol to take his trial for the
capital offence of killing and slaying a deer within en-
closed grounds, the property of the Queen, at the next
assizes for the county of Berks.
He has been several times convicted at Aylesbury
and Reading of poaching, for which he has undergone
various terms of imprisonment. As a " wirer of hares"
be is considered to be the greatest proficient in the neigh-
' of Windsor and Eobam.

bourhood

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Sir Robert Peel has pledged the Conserva-
tives who follow his guidance in Parliament to act as
men " determined to maintain upon their ancient founda-
tions the institutions of the country in Church and State."
We claim the full benefit of that pledge, for the main-
tenance, and for the restoration, so far as they have been
impaired, of those fundamental institutions which we
have now been engaged in describing, and which we
verily believe to lie deep at the root of the liberty, the
strength, the prosperity, greatness, and glory of the
British nation. These foundations have been of late
years systematically undermined by the Whigs, and se-
rious breaches have been made in some of them. It is
here, then, that the essential difference between Whigs
and Conservatives ought to be exhibited. If Sir Robert
Peel did not mean so much as this, he has used idle
words; and trifled with the earnest expectations of
his supporters and the people on a vital point.
,There
has been no vice of Lord Melbourne's Government more
strongly marked, none certainly which has contributed
more towards its fall, than the tendency of their mea-
sures, of late scarcely disavowed, to introduce upon the
ruins of our ancient constitution the principles and prac-
tice of an executive despotism. Under the pretence of
removing abuses, promoting economy, and increasing the
efficiency of institutions, they have been engaged in a
constant endeavour to absorb and concentrate into
their own hands the various and widely-distributed
elements of administrative power. For every board
of Commissioners \ hick they have created, so much
power has been taken out of the hands of the people,
and so much actual liberty, and still more, security
for liberty, has been lost. By the new Poor-law they
have drained off the streams and fountains of a vast
system of self-government which circulated throughout
the nation, into a small number of main dikes and ditches,
terminating in the one everlasting and insatiable reser-
voir—themselves. The Rural Police Act is another
offspring of this un-English and anti-popular spirit ; and
we cannot help referring to the same principle Lord
John Russell's arbitrary attempt to make the self-
assertion of privilege by the House of Commons para-
mount to law, and also the language which the Whigs
have lately begun to hold concerning the prerogative of
the Crown. But this is a point of too much importance
to be treated of incidentally at the end of an article, and
we shall reserve the development of it till a future op-
portunity.
HERALD.—The Whigs seem determined that their
candle shall not be hid under a bushel. Lord John Rus-
sell, in his epistle to the citizens of London, took as
much credit to himself as might satisfy any reasonable
appetite for self-praise ; but the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer has proved himself a real glutton in adulating
himself. We did not expect this from him. We had
always attributed to him greater • tact and a better taste
than he evinced in his speech the other day at Winches-
ter. We even went further in our good opinion of him.
We acquitted him of the mean • propensity to steal the
laurel from another man's brow. But we must take the
Right Hon. Gentleman's claims on public credulity
seriatim. Whatever might be their fate," he says,
speaking of the Whig Ministry, whatever might be
the result of the first few days of the meeting of the
next Parliament, whatever the majority which the people
may have returned against those who at present
hold the reins of power, from the annals of hiitory they
could never erase those great trophies which her Majesty's
Government had won for the people." What an ungrate-
ful set the people must be to turn out a Ministry who
have won such " great trophies" for them ! If the people
had thought that the Whigs sticking to place was a
'• great trophy," the people would have kept them in
place. The people—by which term we designate the pro-
perty, intelligence, and industry of the country—are not
to be deceived twice. In every walk of life this charac-
teristic of the Englishman is remarkable. The Irishman
is more zealous, the Scotchman is more calculating—the
Englishman reflects. The sensible Englishman is never
cheated a second time; and in that feature of our national
character Mr. Baring may read as he runs—the down-
fall of the Whig Ministry. But the "trophies," and we
will take the first that Mr. Baring appropriates. "Do what
they (the people) might," he says, " the chains of 800,000
fellow-creatures have been struck off." Who struck
them off? Not Mr. Baring, for he was then not even in
the Cabinet. Not Lord John Russell, for the question
was too large for his limited intellect. He had not the
moral courage to strike the chains from the slave at a
blow. Not Lord Howick, with his petty fancy of a loan
of 15,000,0001. No : none of these fine holiday gentlemen
knew how to effect the emancipation of the poor negro.
It was left to the more masculine mind of Lord Stanley
to elbow Lord Howick out of his way, and purchase the
negro's liberty out and out. And Mr. Baring claims
this, the best achievement of Lord Stanley, for a
Ministry which Lord Stanley abandoned in disgust !
The second trophy is comprised in the following words,
—" Whatever language they (the people) might use,
history will write that, since Ireland has been a con-
quered country,. during the whole of that period this is
the first Administration to which the Irish people have
looked with confidence." A few years ago Lord Mel-
bourne persuaded the Sovereign to stigmatise O'Connell
as a disturber of the public peace. Not only was the
public peace then thought to be compromised, but the
personal peace and constitutional dignity of the Sove-
reign. This was no dream of the Conservative party ;
it was then, we believe, the honest conviction of the
Whig Government. Lord Melbourne himself dictated
the Speech ; and now, what will history really tell of a
Government who were mean enough to proscribe a mis-
chievous agitator from the throne, and, in order to keep
in place, hold the self-same man up as the man they look
to with "confidence !" What must be thought of a
party which can encourage disaffection to the Queen by
ripping up all the bad legislation of by-gone centuries,
inflaming the passions of misguided men, by taunting
them with the reproach tint they are a conquered race ?
Are they statesmen who, for the mere sake of place, can
do this ? No ; they are merely placemen.
ADVERTISER.—The Tories begin already to dis-
cover the inconvenience attendant upon the necessity of
maintaining a good character—namely, that it requires a
constant outlay for the purpose of keeping it up—an un-
intermitting expenditure of oasis as well as conscience
seems indispensable for preserving their reputation in
even tolerable condition ; but it is with the latter alone
that we have for the present to do ; and, leaving the
consideration of pounds, shillings, and pence, for a
future occasion, ,we must briefly notice a small traffic
in the article of conscience by a veteran huckster, whom
few of our readers will suspect of dealing in that commodity.
Sir James Graham has, we perceive, been following
the example set by Sir Robert Peel, and entertaining the
pure electors of Dorchester at a public dinner, instead of
being himself the object of their invitation. Toryism
must be at a low ebb in the country when, in lieu of those
political banquets which used to be held in its honour
in all parts of the kingdom at a time when its votaries
were in a minority, a gratuitous feast is now necessary
to congregate its helots when their banner is for the mo-
ment triumphant. But this is a consideration which
more concerns its disciples than ourselves, though the
country may derive consolation from the reflection that,
even with its own supporters, Toryism is at such a dis-
count that even its adherents can only be assembled by
the prospect of a gratuitous guzzle. The speech which has
prompted these remarks undoubtedly required some slight
lubrication a la Kitchiner to make it go down even with
the dull denizens of Dorchester ; for a more inane piece
of egotistical insipidity it has not been our lot for many
a day to encounter. It far outvies in emptiness
the Tamworth oration, which even the Standard was
obliged to confess "would possibly disappoint those who
looked to it for novelty ;" and is the nearest approach in
recent times to the realization of Talleyrand's celebrated
apothegm, that language was given to man for the pur-
pose of enabling him to conceal his thoughts. In the
whole of its dreary dulness it would be more difficult to
distinguish a particle of meaning than to find a needle in
a bundle of hay, or a pickle of corn in a cart-load of
chaff. Even the Tory journals would seem to have been
ashamed of it, as they have not only allowed it to pass
unnoticed by the slightest mark of editorial comment,
but consigned it in obscurity to the most obscure quarter
Of their columns ; and, but for our casual observation, it
would at once have been doomed
" Soon to the mass of dulness to return,
Where things forgot are swept to things unborn."
In the whole mass of senseless verbosity which encum-
bers a column of the Times, it is impossible to distinguish
the slightest extenuation of Tory policy for the past, or
the slightest indication of Tory policy for the future.
The bulky Baronet who accused the Lincolnshire farmers
of heaviness, though he might vie with the densest of
them in more than Beetian stupidity, has contrived to
outvie Sir Robert Peel himself in point of incommunica-

tiveness.
POST.—The morning organ of the beaten Adminis
tration employs itself in spinning leading articles out of
a pamphlet by Mr. Baptist Noel, Minister of St. John's
Chapel, Bedford-row, on the subject of the Corn-laws. The
Whig-Radical journalist says that the reputation of the
benevolent author, one of the brightest ornaments of the
Church of England, who is looked up to as a high autho-
rity by the religious world, will no doubt obtain for the
pamphlet a very extended circulation, and therefore
much importance should be attached to its appearance.
We take leave to enter our protest against this puff
direct of Mr. Noel's pamphlet. When such paragraphs
are found in the " back page" of a London journal, they
are generally well enough understood to be the composi-
tion of some person who has an interest in selling the book
or pamphlet thus bepuffed, and who therefore pays for
the insertion of the eulogy. But it is really unfair to put
such paragraphs into the leading columns of any re-
spectable newspaper, Without being very presumptuous
we may venture to assume that we know rather better
than any Whig-Radical Journal, whether any particular
gentleman is looked up to as an ornament of the Church
of England, and we do assure the public that Mr. Bap-
tist Noel is not considered by the soundest members of
that Church to be at all ornamental to it, and still less is
he considered to be useful. In short, he is not looked
upon as a Church of England man at all, but a dissen-
ter ; and if the gentleman had a mind capable of appre-
ciating, or even of distinguishing, what is necessary to
strict propriety, strict integrity, and strict decorum, it
is probable that long ere this he would have formally se-
ceded from the Church of England. We do not at all
mean to charge Mr. Noel with an intentional and con-
scious violation of the integrity of his duty to the Church.
The fault or misfortune, or whatever it should be called,
lies in a deficiency of understanding and judgment. He
is a lamentable instance of presumption and incapacity
combined. To allude to him as a person of authority is
perfectly ridiculous.
CHRONICLE.—We have to acknowledge the ser-
vice rendered to the public by the Morniny Post, in
bringing into broad and clear light a characteristic pas-
sage in Sir Robert Peels late oration at Tamworth.
The medical analogy is in every one's memory. Physi-
cians are not uncommon who, in cases of distress, gene-
rously disregard the fee ; the quack never does. By
that unconscious sympathy which influences a speaker's
mind, and brings out the truth in spite of himself, Sir
Robert identified himself with the quack while labouring
to claim an affinity 'AO; the physician. " I see around