The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-24 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

FERRERS. 3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1841.
The career of Lord Ferrers, who it may be re-
membered, figured rather awkwardly in the year
1760, with a rope round his aristocratic neck, at
Tyburn, fir the wilful murder of his steward, is
pourtrayed with consummate skill in this ro-
mance, which, commencing with the year 1750,
when his Lordship was in the full vigour of his
manhood, tracks him through all his vicious
courses, keeping carefully in view the leading
points of his Character ; and does not take leave
of him till he stands at the foot of the gallows in
a state of exceeding • embarrassment and per-
plexity. The story opens .with a night adven-
ture of this degraded Peer, who, accidentally en-
countering a young girl whom he had seduced,
and who solicits his charity, fells, her to the
ground, and rushes from the spot in the full
conviction that he has been lier'inurderer. We
next find him drinking with some congenial
companions at a low public-house—and here we
have a sketch of flash life in the Ainsworth
style, only much better, because not so. _ repul-
sive or exaggerat ed—and then the scene changes,
and we are introduced to a prayer-meeting at
Lady Huntingdon's, which is interrupted by the
sudden entrance of Lord Ferrers, half-drunk,
who contrives to pick a quarrel with one of the
gentlemen of ,the. party, and only escapes a duel
with him, by the intervention of one of his low
vagabond associates, Jem Gabel, who gets scent
of his intentions, and rescues hiM from the
clutches of his determined and incensed oppo-
nent. Shortly after this, his Lordship marries
an amiable but-weak-minded yonng woman, the
daughter of William Meredith, and treats
her in so rufl:ianly a manner, that, after many in-
effectual attempts to soften the dogged ferocity
of his nature;she insists on a divorce, sues for,
and obtains it. Unfortunately, Lord Ferrers'
steward, Mr. Johnson, had interested himself
warmly in the case of the ill-treated Countess,
and on him, accordingly, the Peer's vengeance
now falls. After annoying hint in a variety of
ways, and subjecting him to the grossest insults,
he at length comes to the determination of mur-
dering him, so sends for him one day, on the
pretence that he is anxious to have a settlement
of the accounts between them, and, while he is ex-
plaining certain lAnsiness matters, shoots the un-.
happy wretch through the body, who is immedi-
ately conveyed home, and expires in the arms of
his daughter. Lord Ferrers is, of course, though
not w;thout some difficulty, apprehended for this
atrocious act; is conveyed to London, lodged, in
the Tower, tried before the House of Lords, found
guilty, and hanged at Tyburn ! This is but a
meagre sketch—in fact, a mere outline—of the
story, the best portion of which is taken up with
an account of the adventures of a young man,
named Hugh Bernard, an unacknowledged rela-
tive of Lord Ferrers ; of his early sufferings ; his
hair-breadth escape from a den of infamy in Bath,
and his still more surprising escape from the
clutches ofcertain assassins in a lone house at Pad-
dington; of his intimacy with a repentant mur-
derer, named Foxton; and his final prosperity, and
marriage with Sarah Johnson, the daughter of
Lord Ferrers' steward. The whole of this epi-
sode—if episode it can fitly be called, which in-
eludes the greater portion of the narrative—is
told with a terse, simple, manly vigour very un-
common among modern novelists. Vigour, in-
deed—but the vigour of health, not of convul-
sion—is the leading characteristic of Ferrers.
There is no maudlin sentimality about it—no
pandering to depraved tastes. The author treats
vice as vice, and not as relaxed virtue. He does
not interest us in his ruffians, or bid us admire
the heroism and magnanimity of their nature.
In a word, he is an anti-Jack-Sheppardist.
When we say that we have read his tale with
attention, and that that attention has never once
flagged throughout its perusal, we pay hint no
higher compliment than is his due. He has
shown very superior powers of invention in
weaving an interesting romance out of such
meagre and unpromising materials as Lord Fer-
rers' life affords; and his sketch of Foxton, the
heart-broken penitent—an admirably conceived
and most forcibly executed character—satisfies
us that his imagination and sensibility are fiilly
capable of maintaining him in• the very highest
walks
.of fictitious literature. Such a tale as
" Ferrers" has not appeared since the days of
" Oliver Twist ;" and in some respects we prefer
it to that well-known story, for, with equal spirit,
it has far more refinement of thought and grace
of expression.

BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—In the
parish of Braintree, and at a meeting of the inhabitants
held on Saturday, it was resolved to commemorate the
event by raising a subscription to supply the poor
with coals, &c., a Committee being formed for the pur-
pose, headed by the Vicar and the Churchwardens.—
Essex Herald.

PLYMOUTH. The Resistance frigate was
taken into the north new dock on Wednesday, to be ex-
amined previously to being fitted for a troop-ship, as the
Apollo. The Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote, was paid
advance yesterday, and will proceed to the coast of
Africa. The Harlequin, 16, Commander Hon. G. F.
Hastings, was also paid yesterday, and will sail for
China. The Ferret, 10, Lieutenant Commander C. H.
Lappidge, was paid off yesterday, and immediately re-
commissioned by her present commander. The Bellona,
74, taken into the head flock last week, is to be fitted for
a hulk.

THE DUKE OF CORNWALL. We extract
the following from the Manchester Times. It is a most
appropriate mode of celebrating the birth of the Prince,
and we trust will be imitated throughout the country.—
" We are glad to announce that a meeting, convened by
the Mayor, of gentlemen of all political parties, was held
in the Town-Hall yesterday, 'to consider whether any
public manifestation should take place on the joyful event
of the birth of an heir apparent to the throne of these
realms, whether by a public subscription, as commemora-
tive of the event, to be expended in the purchase of blankets
and warm clothing for distribution amongst the poor,
or in any other way that the meeting may think de-
sirable." Amongst the gentlemen present we observed
the Revs. R. Parkinson, C. D. Wray, and 0. Sergeant,
canons of the Collegiate Church ; Mr. Maude, stipen-'
diary Magistrate ; the:Boroughreeve ; Mr. M. Philips,
M.l'. ; Sir Thomas Potter, Sir Charles Shaw, and
Messrs. James Heywood, Robert Gardner, Rupert Ingle-
by, W. Langton, G. Hadfield, H. Newbury, R. Gill, J.
Bazley, S. Cay, W. Crewdson, J. Fowden; S. Fletcher, T.
olile T. Wheeler, J. Harter,
Kershaw, Armitage, Willert,
,
-"asnprcie\nV,Aielrili,daanienrsmd' eClinhoaClplap:elbdtli.enil'A. resolution was passed unani-
mously, that, instead (If the usual festivities on such oc-
casions, a Loyal Fund should be raised to supply the
poor with warm clothing and bedding. A Committee
was appointed to forward the object of the meeting, and
a subscription was commenced in the hall, the amount of
which, we cordially hope, will be swelled into three or
four thousand pounds before our next publication, and that
such amount will be doubled before this day fortnight."
DETERMINED SUICIDE IN A LUNATIC ASY-
LUM.—On Monday an inquest was held before Mr.
Baker, at the Manor House Tavern, Lordship-road, Stoke
Newington, on the body of Andrea Bardese, aged fifty-
one, late superintendent of the Northumberland House
Lunatic Asylum, who destroyed himself under the
following circumstances :—Robert Parker, groom to '
Mr. Birkett, the proprietor of the establishment, deposed
that the last time he saw the deceased alive was on
Friday last, about noon ; he then appeared perfectly
sane. About a quarter past eleven the same night
he passed through deceased's sitting room, which
he had to do for the purpose of reaching his sleep-
ing apartment, and saw deceased lying on the floor in
one corner, with his waistcoat on fire. He went up to
him, and, on extinguishing the flames, found.blood flow-
ing from a wound in his left breast. He raised an
alarm, and Mr. Birkett, with Mr. Spencer, the medical
gentleman of the establishment, came to his assist-
ance, and pronounced life to be extinct. He
searched the place, and in the wainscotting he
found, firmly fixed by the butt, a rifle-barrel horse-pistol
which had recently been fired, and immediately above
where the deceased was lying. Mr. Spencer, the surgeon,
said the deceased was quite dead when he saw him. On
examining the wound; he found that the ball had entered
the chest, perforating the lower lobe of the left lung,
passed through the apex of the heart, and lodged in the
left shoulder blade. He saw him on Thursday, when he
was much depressed, and had no doubt of its being de-
ceased's own act. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
SCARBOROUGH
have°R U Gjus witnessed H9t
Nioves.seld9a7 (Extract of a
Letappalling accident,
the fatal results of which are wholly, and without any
abatement, owing to the criminal apathy and negli-
'colftkhisthtis niowno. After a stormy
eight enc emorning, still a hard
gale and a heavy sea, the wind 8.5. E., when a small
g tohfer thee
was,authorities
at c e
oe
sloop, apparently of 25 or 30 tons, was descried mak-
ing for the harbour. She had laboured through the waves
till within a verr short distance (a few boats' lengths)
of the pier, and of safety, when a heightened gust of wind
and an enormous wave evorset her in an instant. Her
crew, consisting of two men and a boy, held on as long
as their strength in a tempestuous surge permitted. The
was visible the latest, still holding 1 •
poor boy up his
hands as he sank. In a very short time they had all
b
disappeared. Had the life-boat el"ging to this place
been in readiness every one of them could have been'
saved. But it was twenty minutes after the accident
before the lifeboat touched the waves ; and so hone-
less was then the effort that, after proceeding
about half-way towards the spot where the already
broken fragments of the vessel were floating, she returned
back again. The fact is, that the life-boat, instead of
being kept under a shed upon the pier, or slung alongside
its inner wall (whence also, it could be lowered into
smooth water, instead of being, as now, forced through
the breakers), is kept in
a building on the shore': It was
about half-tide when this accident occurred ; and it was
necessary to procure horses to draw the boat to the
water's edge. But the greatest delay was occasioned by
, want of men to man her. None are appointed for the
service, nor is there any fund from which the labour of
volunteers can be rewarded. The ill-fated vessel is said
to have belonged to Boston, and to have been a regular
trader between that place and Scarborough. Her cargo
was corn and apples.

INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

WITH INDIA.

The progress of internal communication in Bengal
is developed at great length in a report made in the
month of August last to the Government authorities
by the Military Board, which, besides containing an
account of what has been done during the official
year ending April, 1841. gives a general review for
the past 20 years. In this review we find the Grand
Turk-road from Calcutta, described as the main artery
of communication throughout Bengal and Hindostan,
extending to a length of 770 miles, with a general
breadth of 30 feet, increased in some places to 40.
It has already 1,402 bridges of various extent of open-
ing, has cost, exclusively of convict labour, 1,228,000
rupees, and is likely to cost 10 lacs more during the
three years required for its completion. The road
from Pooree to Bissenpore, which connects Orissa with
Bengal, and which is commonly known as the Jugur-
math-road, is held to be of the next importance, and has
cost about 1.5 lees, or at the rate of 5,415 rupees the
mile. The expense of the road from Calcutta to Kish-
nagur is estimated at 2,700,000 rupees, or 4,736 ru-
pees the mile for the 70 miles. The road from Sylhet
to Gowhatty, the capital of Assam, across the Cassia
hills, was in active preparation, and in this line of com-
munication the two torrents of the Bur-panee and the
Boga-panee are to be spanned with suspension-bridges.
The Deccan road from Mirzapore to Jubbulpore, a
distance of 239 miles, and commenced in 1824, had
been completed lately ; its cost in the fifteen years,
exclusive of the labour of convicts, had been eight lacs
of rupees. Another road, small in point of expense,
but of great importance, was also in progress from the
eastern frontier of Bengal, through Cachar, and across
the Munipore bills to the limits of the Burmese empire.
Besides these roads, which are stated to be the most
prominent, a variety of district roads have added greatly
to the local convenience of the people, and have pro- I
portionately occupied attention. The total outlay for all
the roads to which allusion is made has been 57,34,223
rupees, and from which there is no return. A toll on a
road is unknown.

The -canals which fringe the eastern part of the
of Calcutta, and connected with the Isamuttee river,
are of the highest importance to the welfare of the city,
as the produce of all the eastern districts is thus brought
to it with little or no risk. These have cost in the
whole about 16i- lac of rupees, which now includes the
erection of five suspension bridges. To improve
Telly's Nullab, seven suspension bridges have been
thrown across it at a cost of 179,381 rupees. The
canals west of the Jumna have been repaired at an
expense of 1,566,500 rupees, which, with a further out-
lay on the Dooab Canal, west of the Jumna of
579,164 rupees, makes, with other expenditure,
a total outlay of 4,963,288 rupees, in con-
structing and repairing canals in the Presi-
dency. The canals are very productive of revenue,
for the tolls on those in the vicinity of Calcutta ate
said to yield on an average 121,800 rupees a
year, while the annual average charge for their mainte-
nance appears to be about 45,000 rupees. Hence it is
argued, that the Government cannot do better than
lay out funds for their extension and improvement. In
reference to these canals it is remarked, that while the
toll remained at the rate of one rupee the 100 maunds,
the proceeds were 126,000 rupees, but when the Go-
vernment liberally reduced the levy by one•half, they
fell in the succeeding year to about 60,000 rupees.
This fall, it was ultimately discovered, arose mainly
from the corruption of the native collectors, which had
been so far remedied by close observance, that in the
last year (1840) the collection again rose to 122,000
rupees, showing that the State receives the same return
as when the import was double its present amount. The
canals east and west of the Jumna exhibit the most gra-
tifying results, not only in respect of the means they
supply to the agricultural community for the irri-
gation of upwards of 100,000 acres of land, but in
direct money returns. The sum expended on the
canals west of the Jumna by the British Government
has been 1,566,500 rupees, and the annual amount
levied as water rent is 258,826 rupees, or more
than 16i per cent. While the outlay has therefore
been in the whole 15i lacs of rupees, the returns
up the end of the year 1840 had been 21i lacs.
In restoring the Dooab Canal, the cost to the Go-
vernment was 5 lacs and 80,000 rupees. The
direct return in rupees up to the end of 1840 has
been 5 lacs and 13,000 rupees. At the end of the
official year, the whole sum expended by the Go-
vernment had been reimbursed to the public coffers,
and an annual income of 6,000 rupees might be ex-
pected for the future. The tolls on the Nuddea rivers
produce a clear annual surplus of I lac and 12,000 rupees.
And now adverting more particularly to what has been
done during the official year of 1840, we find that in the
department of canals the Government has sanctioned an
outlay of 23,000 rupees for deepening a canal in the Hid-
gelee district for the express object of facilitating the
transportation of salt. The other expenses in connexion
with canals have been incurred partly in reference
to those near Calcutta, and party to those on the
east and west of the Jumna. The former appear to
have cost in necessary repairs a sum of about 14,000
rupees, independently of an iron suspension bridge at
Ooltadanga, over the Circular Canal, amounting to
12,000 rupees. On the Dooab Canal has been ex-
pended 71,500 rupees in the construction of aqueducts,
with the view to the further extension of the benefits
of irrigation. The total amount of money expended
in canals during the year under consideration was
2,57,813 rupees, the returns 4,69,197 rupees, being a
'Clear profit of 2,11,384 rupees. The new roads were
progressing steadily. The road from Burdwar to Be-
nares is completed ;as far as regards earth work, to its
full height and width. On this undertaking there had
been an outlay of 6,00,000 rupees, and it will re-
quire an equal outlay to complete it. The road
from Patna to Gya would have the benefit of a grant
of 70,000 rupees, and for the road to Darjeching a
revised estimate of 28,000 rupees would be appro-
priated. The proposed road from Agra to Bombay
bad been negatived from the fact of the enormous ex-
pense it would entail. The total outlay in public works
for that period was 9,69,686 rupees, which produced a
return of 4,69,197 rupees, thus leaving 5,00,489 rupees
as the difference between expenditure and ruturn. On
this the India journals remark that it is an expenditure
of less than one per cent. on the land revenues of these
provinces, and that however much the public may be
grateful for these improvements, it exhibits much nig-
gardness as compared with the revenue the Government
authorities derive from the territory of which they are
the useful and necessary embellishment.
A correspondent who compliments us on the satis-
factory account we gave of the progress of Arracan a
few days ago, wishes it to be stated, and which was
not noticed among the causes which were laid before us
as contributing to the increase in the wealth and popu-
lation of that province, that slavery was abolished there
in the year 1834. He states further that Arracan is
the only province in India where slavery has been
totally abolished.—Times.

AN AFFRAY WITH SMUGGLERS......- The
Memorial of Pau relates that, a few days ago, a brigadier
of gendarmerie, named Gasquet, and one of his men, Mas,
were on the watch for smugglers near Mascuru, when they
saw eleven men, all armed with bludgeons, and nine of
them carrying packs, advancing by the road. Notwith-
standing the superiority of numbers, the two gendarmes
determined to do their duty, and advancing towards the
band summoned them to lay down their burdens. This
being refused, the gendarmes proCeeded to make a seizure,
and Gasquet received a severe blow with a bludgeon.
He returned this with a shot from his carbine, and a
lunge with his bayonet, but, being severely beaten about
the body, and wounded in the leg, and at the same time
believing that his comrade was killed, he contrived to
escape into a wood, and thence made his way back to
the village. Inas fought with great obstinacy until he
was disarmed, and had no more means of defence, when
he made a feint and fell as if killed. The smugglers,
believing him dead, moved off, but, on second thoughts,
retraced their steps, and determined to hang him on a tree
in terrorem. Ilias, however, had contrived to drag him-
self into concealment among some rocks, and thus saved
himself from his intended fate. Although the gendarmes
fired only two shots, one of the smugglers was killed, and
two wounded in the shoulder. All the survivors have
since been captured, and are now in custody.
THE BEY OF, TUNIS.—The Journal des
hebats publishes the following details relative to the
presenting four horses which the King of the French
sent lately to the Bey of Tunis :—" The Bey, who has
given in latter times so many proofs of zeal for the in-
terests of France, has just received, as a proof of his
Majesty's satisfaction, four magnificent Norman horses
of the purest blood, bearing rich harness, with
Achmet Bey's arms, and a coachman and . out-
riders attired in the Royal livery. It was a
curious sight • to see an equipage similar to
that which, conveys Louis Philippe from his Pa-
lace of the Tifileries to his residence at Neuilly para-
ding the streets of Tunis. The Bey expressed his satis-
faction at this mark of his Majesty's favour, and, after
thanking the French Consul and the officers of the Came-
icon, which conveyed the horses, Achmet Bey presented
himself on the terrace of his palace, whence he could see
the cortege defile, and such was his impatience to try his
new equipage, that he had himself immediately
conveyed by it to his palace of the Manouba, and
thence on the following day to Mahmoudieh, a
country-house situate three leagues from Tunis,
"to the astonishment of his fanatical subjects, who
could not comprehend how he suffered a Christian coach-
, man to sit upon a seat higher than that npon which he
was placed. Achmet Bey, in return, sent the King of
the French his war-horse and magnificent trappings,
three lions, an ostrich, .and sumptuous stuffs embroidered
with pearls, gold, and silver. Commander Poultier, of
the Cameleon, received a gold snuff-box and splendid
sabre, and each of his crew was presented with gratui-
ties far exceeding in amount what would be considered
munificent by European potentates."
POST-OFFICE ANOMALY. -- A letter for
London must be
of
at the large and important agri-
cultural towrl of 1\ ewbury, distant from the Reading
Station 17 miles and. a halt; and 56 miles from London,
only just one half hour later than in the city of Exeter,
44 miles from the Bridgewater Station, and 195 miles
from London. A letter, without paying any fee, can be
posted at Taunton or Bridgewater half an hour later than
in Reading, although one town is distant from it 123
miles, and the other 112, and the same train takes all
the letters.

WOOLWICH-MONDAY.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.

The officers of the royal artillery were highly gratified
by the intelligence communicated to them last evening
at the mess by a brother officer of high rank in the
service, that an extensive brevet was resolved upon
in honour of the birth of the Duke of Cornwall, the
heir to the throne of Great Britain. It is fully anti-
cipated the brevet will extend to lieutenant-colonels
of 1835 or 1836, and that it will promote nine of the
senior captains, who at present rank as majors, to be
lieutenant-colonels.

The following remarks as to the protection against
fire in a town of such importance as Woolwich may
prove the means of allaying any fears existing regard-
ing it in consequence of the reports which have been
spread throughout the country. In the dockyard there
are five engines kept in good order, and during the time
the Trafalgar was building, when nearly finished, there
were always two engines upon that vessel with water-
tanks, and every necessary preventive against fire. In
the Royal Arsenal there are six engines, the largest
named the Globe, capable of discharging a ton of water
per minute when its services are required., There are
two other patent engines, of the best construction, and
three of a smaller description. The gunners and drivers
of the Royal Artillery take these engines to the canal in
the Royal Arsenal, and exercise them on the first of
every month, to ascertain that they are in good working
order. The Globe engine has two levers on each side,
and it is a stirring sight to see fifteen men attached to
each, sixty in all, at one time, working this powerful
machine. In addition to these engines, there are two at
the Royal Sappers and Miners' Barracks, and two at the
quarters of the Royal Artillery at the garrison, besides
those of the Royal Marines, a sufficient proof that every
human precaution is taken against the destruction of
property in this quarter by fire.

NEWPORT.
GROSS CHARTIST INTERRUPTION.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Newport hav-
ing been convened by the Mayor, Mr. Lewis Edwards,
for the purpese of joining in a loyal address to the Queen
on the birth of a Prince of Wales, at twelve o'clock, the
hour appointed for the meeting, the National School-
room was completely crowded, and
Mr. T. J. PHILLIPS having called on the meeting to
appoint a chairman,

Mr. TOWNSEND (the Chartist) moved, that Mr.rlughes,
the late Mayor, should take the chair, instead of the
Mayor of the day, Mr. Lewis Edwards.

'I he great majority of the meeting being Chartists,
Mr. Hughes was appointed to the chair.
A loyal and dutiful address was then moved by Mr.
HAWKINS, and seconded by the Rev. J. FRANCIS, upon
which,
Mr. CRONIN, the Chartist, moved a counter address
calling upon the Queen to release Frost, Williams, and
Jones.—(Great cheering by the Chartists.)
Mr. WELLS said, the address was a most reasonable
one, and he would second it.

Mr. DOWLING rose and appealed whether this was a
fitting occasion for any such motion, and whether they
would allow Newport to be branded with disloyalty.
W. EDWARDS, the Chartist, who was imprisoned with
Vincent and the others, then said, he wondered that Mr.
Dowling should be carried away by the warmth of his
temperament. Now was the time for them to address
her Majesty for themselves; they never before had such
an opportunity, and never should again. Her present
Majesty was the best Sovereign which had sat on the
throne since the days of Edward I. She sat on a throne
which was founded on a bad system, and the people
could never know peace or happiness till that system
was wholly reformed. He prayed God to bless her as
long as she lived, and when she died he hoped the monar-
chical government would be at an end in England.
(Several gentlemen sitting round the table here rose
and left the meeting, saying that every loyal subject
ought to do the same.)
The CHAIRMAN begged to call the meeting to the re-
quisition, which was to address her Majesty on the
birth of a Prince.

Mr. CRONIN said he had no objection to the address,
but he should insist on his address being added to it.—
(Great uproar, and cries of "Put the amended address.")
Much desultory conversation ensued, and every
endeavour was used to induce the Chartists to withdraw
their amendment. Mr. Cronin said he would not abate
one iota of his amendment. The Chairman, finding
further efforts useless, dissolved the meeting, without
agreeing to any address.

TR A NSYL VA NIA. The Suabian Mercury,
under date Vienna, 12th inst., states that the aborigines
or Magyars of Transylvania were endeavouring to gain
the ascendancy in that province, but the German part of
the population were resisting strenuously. The greater
part of the Transylvanian comitats, inhabited by Hunga-
rians, had presented petitions to the Emperor, praying
his Majesty to incorporate the principality with Hun-
gary. On the other hand, Transylvania, which enjoys a
Constitution conferring many advantages upox the,inha-
bitants, would not wish to resign it. The opening of the
Transylvanian Diet is fixed for the 15th inst.

Among the exhumations that have lately taken
place at Bakewell Church, for the purpose of laying the
foundations of the part of the building about to be re-
newed, has been the coffin of the celebrated Dorothy
Vernon, the story of whose elopement from Haddon
Hall is familiar to all who have visited that romantic
edifice. Lady Dorothy died in June, in the year 1584,
and though 257 years have elapsed since her interment,
the hair was found to be undecayed, and firmly adhering
to the bone of the skull. In the hair there were half a-
dozen pins in a state of excellent preservation.
SALMON FISHING IN THE TAVE RIVER.—
Several very fine fish have been taken in the Tave river,
near St. Clears, with the fly, affording the gentlemen
engaged some very excellent sport. Captain Rowan,
the week before last, took a fine fish, weighing upwards
of 241bs, and several others of a smaller size. Sir Joseph
Leeds caught one, weighing upwards of 201bs, in the
same river. Thomas Williams, Esq., and several other
gentlemen, have also been very successful. The weather,
for the last month, has been unusually fine for this
season of the year, and very favourable fbr this sport.—
Carmarthen Journal.

ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATES.—A meeting
of the delegates from the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law
Associations was held on Monday in the Hall of the Cen-
tral Society, Strand, to receive a report from the Con-
ference held at Manchester on the 17th inst., and to de-
termine on the best means to carry the resolutions passed
at that meeting into effect. There was a large and in-
fluential attendance, and Mr. Prout was Chairman. A
report was submitted from the Manchester meeting,
which embodied the resolutions there carried, and pro-
ceedings were adopted to give the recommendations they
contained practical effect.
The following extract from a letter written by
an intelligent and most respectable gentleman of Boston,
in the United States, confirms the statements we pub-
lished some time ago respecting the Hunters' Lodges.
The letter is dated the 31st October :—" 'Webster will
continue in office, and his continuance is an assurance
that peace will be preserved. I sat next to him at
dinner last evening. He has in his possession evidence
of an immense chain of lodges and secret associations
for an invasion of Canada, extending from Cleveland, in
Ohio, to Burlington, in Vermont, bound together by
secret oaths, embracing two or three Members of Con-
gress, and having their head-quarters at Kingston,
Upper Canada. It is supposed that these lodges number
60,000 people. The new Bankrupt-law, passed last
Session, will disperse them, as this will discharge people
who choose to take the benefit of it, from their debts,
and the new patriots are thriftless vagabonds, who take
up their new calling, as they have failed in their legiti-
mate business. A discharge from their debts will enable
them to resume business."—Morning Chronicle.

INCENDIARY FIRE AT CU-DDESDON, CLOSE
TO THE BISHOP OF OXFORD'S PALACE.—A most alarm-
ing and destructive fire broke out on Wednesday morn-
ing, the 10th, about five o'clock, on the farm of Mr.
Gale, a large and most respectable farmer at Cuddesdon,
about six miles from Oxford. It destroyed one large
barn, about fifty yards long, twelve piggeries, and a
loose place used for the same purpose, part of a cow-
house, one cart hovel, three hay ricks, one wheat rick
(supposed to have contained forty loads of corn), two
bean-straw ricks, a thrashing machine, two hay-
making machines, five chaff boxes, a great num-
ber of ploughs, four loads of wheat in sacks, six
carts, three or four of them being nearly new, one
waggon, and from two to three thousand sacks of pota-
toes of a very fine sort. We understand there is no
doubt of its being the diabolical act of some incendiary.
The village church was within a few yards of the fire,
and at times was considered in danger ; had the wind
been in that direction, in all probability the sacred edi-
fice would now have been a mouldering ruin. We were
sorry to see the beastly state of intoxication which some
of the parties were in, having drunkrathaebere so
much belonging
once interfered
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to others who had been hard at Work. The drunken
nn fellows behaved in a very disorderly so
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Mr. Gale
bears a most excellent character in the parish as being a
good neighbour and master, and no
6 cause can be as-
siffned for the perpetration of
oxford Chronicle. so diabolical an act.—
CORONER'S INQUEST.--.on Monday an in-
quest was held before Mr. Payne, on the body of Robert
Atkinson, aged 38, a carpenter. lt appeared in evidence
that the deceased was employed at the New Sun Fire
Office, now being erected in Bartholomew-lane, near the
Royal Exchange. On Friday afternoon last he was on
a scaffold, 50 feet from the ground, holding a brace
which they were fitting into the butments of the build-
ing. The brace slipped from his arms, caught him, and
threw him backwards off the scaffold into the street. He
was immediately after the accident brought to that hos-
pital. Mr. Walton, house surgeon, said deceased was
admitted soon after the accident in a state of great col-
lapse. He died the following morning, from having the
breast-bone broken, and the vessels beneath it torn
through, from having the left hip-bone fractured in two
places, and the right thigh bone removed from its arti-
culation, besides rupture of th‘vessels of the left kidney-
Verdict—" Accidental Death. WS •W
A heavy gale on Saturday from the VV. • .
obliged several vessels to put into Falmouth harbour.
Among those which ran in for shelter were her Majesty's
ship Illustrious, 7•,, Captain Erskine, from Portsmouth,
for New York, with the Governor-General of the Ca-
nadas, Sir C.Bagot, on board ; and her Majesty's steamer
Volcano, from Plymouth for Liverpool.
We have to add the loss of M. Theaulon, the
well-known vaudevillist, to the list of recently-deceased
dramatists. He was in his 54th year, and had, either
alone or in copartnership, been the author of no less than
250 pieces.
At the Debtors' Court at Norwich last week,
j. iV. Foyster, a carrier from Southwold, attributed his
insolvency to the penny postage, which he said took
1001. a-year off the van, which would have amounted to
4,000 parcels yearly.