The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

D k I', AUGUST 9 1-41.

find and wear, suited to the Queen's taste, before he cal
sit easily as her Minister."

-- The Dublin Evening Post observes that " Sir Ro-
bert Peel may talk moderation, and possibly may be dis-
posed to practice it, but as well might he essay the tam-
ing of a herd of tigers or hyenas as to attempt the im-
possible task of reducing the Ultras, who form the bone
and sinew of the faction which he leads, into habits of
quietness and forbearance. No—that faction pant for the
restoration of Toryism as much for the means of exer-
cising unbridled power, as for the pelf and patronage
belonging to office."

" The real qualities of the quack doctor," says the
Coventry Herald, "are completely betrayed by his late
words ; but the most engaging part of the whole is the
mysterious silence of the man of specifics, about the medi-
cine and treatment suitable to the case ; while he never-
theless points to the box of physic which he has carried
at his back ever since 1835, and hints that the cure and
cordial are both surely there."

AGRICULTURAL.
Accounts from Ireland state, that at Newry the
crop is abundant. The oat crops at Tipperary are in
full produce. Though the rains have damaged the hay,
yet barley and oats have thriven from it.
A Correspondent from an extensive corn district in
the north-west of England, states that the appearance of
the wheat crop is very promising.

LAW AND POLICE.
A man at Wootton Bassett was lately taken into
custody for threatening to beat a woman. Whether
acting under Magistrate's advice or not is unknown, but
he was unceremoniously put into the Blind-house, and
from the Saturday to the ensuing Thursday confined
there. After an undecisive examination, he was again
thrust into this miserable hole—unallovved.to breathe
fresh air, or obey the calls of nature. He has since
been dismissed. Surely investigation is required here.
Dame Fanny Parker, commonly called Lady Hyde
Parker, appeared on Friday before the Commissioners it
the Insolvent Debtors' Court, to obtain release, she hav-
ing three detainers still lodged against her. Her bail,
however, was found faultyand refused, and her Ladyship
was conducted back to prison.

TREAT CAL.
The Concerts d'Ete, at Drury-lane, were on Friday
night honoured by the presence of the Duke, Duchess,
Princess Augusta, and Prince George of Cambridge.

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not be ministerially trifled with. Such a rebuff as Sir COURT CIRCULAR.
Robert met in 1839, will not be forgotten, on either I Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
side, for years to come. The Duke of Wellington says, Cambridge, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of
that Peel has no manners for Court. Manners he must
Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, Baron
i
Knesebeck, and Colonel Jones. left town on Saturday
evening, for their residence at Kew.
The _Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the
Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening.
Baron Brunow, the Russian Ambassador, and M. Tri-
coupi, the Grecian Minister, transacted business at the
Foreign-office on Saturday.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at his official
residence in Downing-street
The Marquis of Normanby arrived in town on Satur-
day from Ryde, Isle of Wight.
The Earl of Albemarle arrived in town yesterday from
Brighton.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has returned to town
from Portsmouth.
Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope, and also from the Governor of St. Helena, were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

DUTCh MAIL.

THE HAGUE, AUG. 4.—His Majesty has been pleased
to pardon M. Meeter, formerly a writer in. the Tolk der
Vryheid, who was condemned to four years' imprison-
ment. Mrs. Elizabeth Fry arrived at the Hague yester-
day with relatives and attendants.
THE HAGUE, AUG. s.—The statue of De Ruyter is to
be inaugurated at Flushing on the 18th. It is hoped that
his Majesty will be present at the ceremony.
NIZeEGUEN, AUG. I.—To-day at noon a most tremen-
dous storm of hail and rain passed over this city ; the
hailstones were of extraordinary size. It is to be feared
that it has done great damage to the str nding crops.
The heavy rains have already done great injury to the
crops ill most parts of our country. Some public works
have also suffered severely. _

KAMPE;q, Atm. 3.—Ail the accounts from the bank:
of the Rhine hold out very unfavourable prospects of the
vintage. The last hurricane has destroyed all hopes of
even a moderate vintage.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AiusTEIOAM, AUG. 6
Alone!. Elds.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Jilt°, ditto S per cent.
Amen SI ndic, 4% per cent Ol% 91%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 74 75%
Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent lss!i 55%
Ditto (1t135 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cant.
Exchange on London, One month l2 02%
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 95 8114
Two months 35 sti
AUSTRIAN Fti N DS. —VIENNA, Atio. 2
five per Conte. Metall iques ........ ........ ......... ..... iO5 LA
Four per Cents. 97
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares ... ...... ........... ............. —. ..... .....

THE " LADY THIEF" AT LINCOLN.—As
was anticipated and predicted, the " lady thief." has been
permitted to escape ; she has quitted Lincoln, it is
stated. Several fresh cases of daring theft on her part
are now freely spoken of, showing whatever place she
visited she plundered if possible—taking jewellery, fancy
wools, or anything portable that came in her way. Many
tradesmen have missed articles of great value. During
the latter pait of last week the lady called several times
at the shops from which she was positively known to
have stolen, to endeavour to compromise matters by
paying for the goods. One party refused until she had
not only returned all they had seen her take, but every-
thing she had taken ; she went away, returned, and de-
livered up a bundle of fancy wools and worsteds. Not
content with compounding crime (an indictable offence,
by-the-bye), and defeating justice to the public, parties
are, framing excuses for the thief worth 4001. a-year.
• Her disorder is tenderly ascribed to a morbid and irre-
pressible propensity, or monomania. And it is sought
to palliate her offence by the representation that she did
`not intend harm in taking what belonged to others. 7--
Zi;zeoln Mercury.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND' SUICIDE..-04
Thursday morning(29th ), about nine o'clock, the in-
habitants of Langrove,c9Hininonv, in the parish of Llan-
garren, in this county, alarmed by the cries of
" Murder," proceeding, TrOiti the cottage of Jonathan
Strong, a shoemaker, aged 524 He had been a sick
cripple, and confined to his cottage between five and six
years, and latterly had been in an excited state of mind.
The cries of murder were made by his wife, Ann
Strong, who was found leaning against the cottage door,
fainting, with her throat cut, and bleeding profusely.
She subsequently stated, that her husband, on coming
down stairs to breakfast, asked her how she
was. She answered, " Very poorly." He then
produced a razor, and said, " This will make
you better," threw her across the table, and begin-
ning at the fleshy part of the neck, which he cut to the
spine, drew the razor across her throat. In the scuffle
for life she pushed her hand to her throat, and thus
saved the main blood-vessel, two of her fingers being
cut to the bone. On her escaping from him to the door
of the cottage, he inflicted'a deep wound across his own
throat, which reached into the back of his mouth.
Surgical aid was immediately procured, and Mr. Millard
found them both faint from the loss of blood. He took
up six or eight blood-vessels in each throat. As the
man appeared still bent on self-destruction, he, with the
sanction of Jonathan Strong's family, left him under re-
straint. His wife was removed to her son's cottage, a
few yards from her husband's. At eight in the evening
they were both alive, but there is little hope of their re-
covery.—Hereford Paper.
WALSALL.—On Wednesday afternoon, about
one hundred and fifty electors met Mr. Scott, the Mem-
ber for the Borough, at dinner, Mr. R. A. Kettle in the
chair.

THE MOORS.—During the present week the
passage of the distinguished company towards the north
has been considerable, and the increase is daily ob-
servable as the 12th approaches. The meeting of
Parliament on the 19th will, however, interfere ma-
terially with the motions of many sportsmen, par-
ticularly those to the northern counties ' • and we
understand the most urgent appeals have been made
to members of both parties for their personal attend-
ance on the very first day of the session. The pros-
pects of the game are plentiful, although the cold weather
and drought early in July is represented as having been
prejudicial in some grounds. The stations in this
county are this year to be occupied as follows :—Earl
of Mansfield, Glenfernate ; Earl of Lauderdale and
party, Grandtully and Strathbran ; Earl of Mexborough
at Auchnafree ; Lord Grantley, Rannoch ; Lord J. Scott,
Dirnanean ; Sir P. M. Threiplaud and Sir J. Mackenzie,
Dalnaspidal ; Sir D. Dundas, Glenlednock ; Right Hon.
Fox Manic, Kinlock ; Mr. Labouchere, Glenquaich ; C.
Gray, Esq., Glasgow, Aldvonline, and Clunes ; H. W.
des Voaux, Kyrachan and Glencrombie ; Mr. Brown and
party, Glenbruar • Colonel Paterson, of Castlehuntly,
Logie-almond Lodge ; Mr. Atkinson, Mount Alexander;
Mr. Russell, Strathtummell ; Mr. Haig, Corriemuck-
loch ; Captain Teesdale, Auchleeks ; Mr. Rogers, from
Lincolnshire, Ochtertyre Hills ; Mr. Ormsby Gore,
M.P., Bunrannoch ,• Mr. Muir Ferguson, Staloeh ; Mr.
Irvine, Finatrlen ; Mr. Clark, Aberuchill ; Mr. Small,
Dalnacarnocii and Garrabruich ; Mr. Murray, Loch
Valigan ; Mr. Colquhoun, Balnaguard and Logierait.—
Perth Courier.

Her Majesty is expected to return to Bucking-
am Palace this day week from Windsor Castle,
al-
though no day is yet positiveiy fixed. The Duchess of
Kent's birth-day will be celebrated fa' the following day.
It is p7obable her Majesty will open the
ew Parliament
in person
; and, on Wednesday, thc 25th nil taut, her
Majeaty is ex
pee,;:d to hold a Court, at which the arch-
Q
bishop of Canterburyend the Convocation of the Bisholl's
will be present,
THE BISHOP or LowDoN.—A certain aged
Rector, in Middlesex; has lately been summoned to attend
his Lordship to give an account of his couduct on the
following charges :—That he is in the habit of opening
Me window, and converting himself into what the Ame-
ricans call a trollop, viz., sitting in an arm chair and giv-
ing the passera-by a view of the soles of his shoes—that,
in such unclerical posture, he has been seen reading a
newspaper on the Loren" day—and last, but not least in
the Bishop's eyes, that his reverence has a cask of ale
(canon ale of course) on his drawing-room sofa ! The
old gentleman, not a little annoyed at being brought from
a distance to answer such paltry charges, told the Bishop
that he WWI not aware thtx,---n-no anything very hoinoue
in any of the charges, supposing they were all true, but
pleaded not giiilty to the Sunday newspaper reading. It
is really pitiful to find a learned man like Dr. Blomfield
listening to the tittle-tattle of every busy fool. If a cler-
gyman is guilty of any immorality, it is a Bishop's duty
to interfere, but the eccentricities of seventy may surely
be passed oler. It is too late at such an age to study
Chesterfield or the dancing-master.—Sunday Times.
PETITION FOR A SECOND DRAMATIC PA-
TCNT FOR LIVERPOOL.--A petition has lately been pre-
ea:maid to the Queen, signed by no less than eleven thou-
sand of the inhabitants of this great and improving town,
praying for a second dramatic patent. There has been
but one Theatre Royal there for the last seventy years,
for which a patent was granted when the population was
only 30,000; now we believe ii is upwards of 300,000.
There is, we think, every reason to believe that her Ma-
jesty will comply. The Marquis of Normanby has taken
the opinion of the Town Council of Liverpool on the
subject, and the measure has been approved of there by
a large majority, An attempt to oppose the grant has
been made by the proprietors of the old Theatre Royal,
who have reaped a rich harvest from it for years ; but
Ottesition emanating from a few interested parties can
Vial little effect when weighed against the united
voices tfrt eleven thousand inhabitants of the second town
-'-n Britigt Impire. We believe it is intended to sp-
in "- -'ected new patent to the present Liver The-
ply the ext.. ' a intiot popular place of entertainment,
titre in Liverpoo, • Lard Malone Raymond, a gentle-
ciondnated by dr. - a most popular manager.
friary of family end eonnectioa, harvest makes but
't fit 1-lAftirEgf.The ha, . elom—the rainy
jog ffoete. this Pet Of the king.- -,erations of
weather orierseilff,tieqUent ob'stiadal to the La- -e have
the labourer. Ma 4 yet 11.13`‘-'11th
been somewhat improved mo-19%..the ; bet the
' return will be " light." 'IR' 64th eil,ePa. ge-
genera.. .
neral are locate:" hope for at) iiWerage
favourable weather ensue,
well since the late rill& and shoilld
we mayinuch within. the :Nil
harvest. Oats have grown.
'Barley looks well ; and
few weeks, and look promising though on cold lands
there may be a want of straw.
wheat, though thin, is well alltded, and appears healthy.
Turnips got in at
prober season look promising-
with the rain. ;
and the later
have imlrioved
abundant crop. The
Pota-
toes, we are afraid, a littlebut, from
late winds may have shaken corn ;
not be an
what we. have seen, the roots are not generally much
loosened.—Durham Chronicle.
The Hon, Captain Maurice Berkeley has pub-
lished I),n address of thanks to the electors of Gloucester,
,
Majesty's ship off Gib-
,4 twit. on board her
a'altar, in which he declares that
subject of
the all-engrossing
of the porn-laws he shall give his most cordial
support to her Majesty's present Ministers.""
_ His creed,
he says, is, " Live and let live"—" unto others you
would they should do unto you.
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