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London, England, 1840-08-19 00:00:00

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to term a victory, a meeting of the
GREAT PUBLIC MEETING OF THE
to Mr. Petrie,
INHABITANTS.
means above detailed, in obtaining what they
The Church part
haveinhabitants been
at Roch-
dale, for the purpose of devising means for securing the
spacious new foundry belonging
rate-payers from the fraud of which it is thus sought, by
the most unworthy mean ever practised, to make them
the victims. At seven o'clock, the time of meeting, up-
wards of 4,000 people had assembled in and about the
building, and vast numbers, notwithstanding the great
size of the room in which the meeting was held, were
unable to gain admissiob; The spirit displayed by all
aceablthe same time deter-
present was of ape They are resolved not to submit to
mined character.
the rate ; and if we may judge of the work the Tories
have in store by this manifestation of feeling, it is ob-
vious they have shoute " victory" before they are in
field. John Howard, Esq., Chief possession of the Con-
stable of Rochdale, °n the motion of the Rev. Mr.
Kershaw, seconded by Mr. Barton, was called to the
Chair, and briefly opened the proceedings. .
The Rev. Mr. HEWITT then came forward and
moved the followino resolution :—" That the conduct
of the Vicar and Wardens of this parish in causing
another poll of the parish after a rate had been once
refused, is contrary
,to common justice, and insulting
,
to the parishioners.
_-(Loud cheers.) Mr. Hewitt
then proceeded at some length to comment on the dis-
graceful scenes produced in the parish by the late con-
tests, exposing the shallowness of the excuse set up by
the Vicar for insisting on a poll after the compromise
offered by the op
thponents of the rate, namely,
"that it
was the law of e land." Why if this was their only
defence, there was not a species of cruelty known in
the history of our country that had not been sanctioned
by the same excuse.—(Hear, hear.) It had been
justly described as the ,4 two-edged sword of craft and

they have many parishes there where the Rectors are
never seen but once a year—when they come to receive
tithes.—(Laughter.) Now I pushed the Vicar at our
last meeting for his law authority in sanction of the
course he was taking. " Oh," said he, " the law which
guides us the law of immemorial usage and custom."—
(Laughter.) " Our practices," he said. " are valid as
long as they are supported by usage." Now consult
the opinions of lawyers on this subject. Every sound
lawyer will tell you that the Church-rate claim is want-
ing in two grand essential things. Before they can
make out a valid claim of custom they must show first
" immemorial antiquity," and, secondly, " uniform prac-
tice."—( Hear, hear.) Now, if you come to search the
records of the Church, you find nothing of Church-rates
before the 14th century. They are not mentioned in
the Law Book before the 16th century. Parishes
were not known till the 12th century. The Bishops,
Deans, and their Chapters, before that lived in
their cathedrals, and subsisted on tithes. Church-
rates were never taken till after the Reformation. The
cathedral clergy built their churches, repaired them,
and maintained the poor out of the tithes ; and all
that the clergy had for their own support was one-
fourth part of those tithes.—(Hear, hear.) Can these
men plead immemorial usage in their favour, then,
when they cannot trace the custom back beyond the
14th century ? The idea is absurd. The story about
breaking the law by refusing Church-rates therefore,
though it may frighten a few old women out of their
money, must be laughed to ecorn by bearded men.—
(Applause.) Leaving the question of right, however,
I shall now proceed to show the conduct of the Vicar
in this question. It is well known that I had to con-
front the Vicar during the greater part of last week
in these proceedings. Soon after the poll commenced
on Tuesday last, the vicar complained bitterly against
the overseers of Spotland, Wardleworth, and Castleton
being absent, and said to me, " I blame you, Sir, for
it ; because it was through you they were kept away."
Well, I frankly acknowledged that I had done all in
my power to prevent them being present—(Loud
laughter)—but I told him that the object was to faci-
litate the taking of votes, and also to prevent fraud.
He replied, " I believe the object both of yourself
and those who acted with you was to frustrate
all my arrangements, and to enable fraud the more
readily to be effected." I told him it would become
his cloth to attribute more honoural)le motives to his
opponents ; and soon afterwards a man named William
Wild presented himself to vote. The Vicar asked him
for his certificate, when he replied that be bad not one,
and that he could not obtain one from the overseers
The Vicar said, " Which way do you intend to vote
" For the.rate," he replied. " Oh," said the Vicar," is
there any one here who knows him ?" A man present
said he knew him to be a rate-payer ; and upon that
the Vicar said, " You may go, then, and if you will send
your certificate to-morrow, I wiles e
m tahat your Church
is
recorded." Now, he treated a gny oparty in this way. I told him this was very improper,

and that many of these parties might go and get their
certificates afterwards, and vote over again. But he con-
tinued to do it ; and when I told him that if he did so I
should be under the necessity of sending to our friends
to do the same, he said that he would not record their
votes in that way.—(Cries of " Shame.") T will now
direct your attention to the facility with which bad votes
were
passed on their side, while every obstacle was
thrown in the way of taking votes for the opponents of
the rate. There was a youth of the name of Ely. who
voted nearly at the last, and gave six votes. I said
afterwards to Dr. Molesworth, as soon as I had an Pp°
tunity of speaking, " I was rather astonished, Doctor,°r-
give
six your taking the votes of that boy, who came to
six votes." He said he did not recollect him. I said
he was a youth of twelve or fourteen years of age, who
came and said he was a partner in the firm of Small-
bridge and Co. " Oh," said the Rector, " I recollect
him." " Well," said I, "he being so vcung, must be a
minor, and not entitled to vote." " Well," said he, " I
ant inclined to think myself the votes were bad." Hear-
ing this acknowledgment, and seeing the youth still in
Court, we had him called back ; but the whole Tory
host got round the Doctor, and the consequence was
that he changed his mind again, and said the votes
were good.—(Laughter.) I% ell, after that a Captain
Raby came to give six votes for the Manchester and
Leeds Railway. I said, " Mr. Raby, what have you
come for ?" He said, " I have come to give votes for
the Railway, in favour of the rate." " By whose autho-
rity ?" I asked. "By the authority of Captain Laws,"
he replied. " And who is he ?" I inquired. "Heis a
gentleman empowered to do anything he thinks right for
the line of railway," said he. Then said Ito the Vicar,
this man's votes are bad, because it is an acknowledged
maxim that if' a man is delegated to do any act for
another, he cannot transfer that power to a third party.
".‘ Oh," said Dr. Molesworth, " I cannot take your ob-
jection, the votes must be recorded." I appealed to
him then at least to put them upon the doubtful file
until the question could be decided by a competent au-
thority, but he would not.—(Cries of " Shame.") I
asked him next morning, when the polling re-commenced,
seeing that he was a little calmer than on the day before,
whether he had gisen the matter any further considera-
tion, and he said, " I am inclined to think that your ob-
jection was a valid one, but unfortunately the six votes
ore recorded, and cannot he erased !"—(Great laughter.)
Mr. Levi Lumb came up to vote against the rate. He
has an assessment of between 501. and 601. When he
came up the Doctor did all he could to reduce his as-
sessment below 50/. that he might have only one vote ;
and this was the mode he adopted. He said that when
the overseers made out the tickets for our party they
put on the gross amount of rent or annual value, but
that when they made out the tickets for the Church-
rate party they only put on the amount of assessment,
which was 25 per cent. less. I said, " Why it is ab-
surd to think so, Doctor ; how are they to know who
will vote for the rate and who against it ?" But it was
of no use, and our friend was consequently stuck upon
the doubtful file.—(Cries of " Shame.") Now I went
the morning afterwards and put the question to the over-
seers. And what was the answer? Why the men felt
indignant, as they well might. They said that their
practice was one uniform practice from which they
could not depart in any case. Well, I will mention
another. There was formerly at Spotland a mill held
by the firm of Aspden and Ramsbottom, but in April
last the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Aspden retiring
from all connection with the property. The dissolu-
tion was regularly gazetted, and was therefore no secret.
Now on Wednesday this Mr. Aspdcn actually came
ang gave five votes for the firm, though no longer a
partner. These votes were in favour of the rate. On
the following day Mr. Ramsbottom came to vote for
the property on behalf of himself and brother, and
showed that Mr. Aspden had no right to vote for it,
and I presented the Vicar with a copy of the Gazette,
showing that Aspden had separated. Well, what did
he do? Why lie looked very grave, and admitted
that the votes were bad ; " but,' said he, " unfortu-
nately, the votes are recorded and cannot be erased r
(Expressions of indignation.) 1 reminded him of a pro-
mise he had made at the beginning of the poll, that in
any case where one man voted for another his votes
should be struck out, and placed to the name of the
man whom he had voted for ; but he now said that he
could not carry this promise out.---(Cries of " Shame.")
Vs ell, but he not only allowed Mr. Aspden's five
votes to stand, but he refused to allow the actual
holder of the property, Mr. Ramsbottom, to have
more than three votes, on the ground that the as-
sessment was insufficient.—(Laughter.) I then told Mr,
Ramsbottom to go and get the assessment on his
house added to that of his mill. He did so, and it
was then sufficient for five votes ; but when he came
back the Vicar said, " Oh dear, the case presents quite
a new feature now ; I shall only allow you, Mr.
Ramsbottom, one vote for the mill, and one for your
house, and the same for your brother : this called
forth loud indignation. This roused me, and I said,
" you go to the Spotland booth, and let them refuse
you at their peril. This alarmed the Vicar, and he
said, " Mr. Barton, you will be so precipitate, you will
not let me give you judgment."—(Laughter.) The fact
is he had given judgment twice before, and I did not
like either of them.—(Laughter and cheers.) Now,
I am sure you cannot approve of conduct like this.
It is base : it is unmanly.—(Cheers.) Now the Vicar
told me, when he found himself defeated in the matter
of the overseers, that on another occasion he would
have his own way, in defiance either of the select vestry
or the overseers. I said, " Dr. Molesworth, you are
comparatively a stranger here yet ; when you become
better acquainted with your parishioners you will not
find them quite so flexible as whalebone ; you will
find that they will neither allow you or your party to " Port Elizabeth, May 03.
trample upon their rights with impunity."—(Great "On the 21st of March last, Lieutenant Rose, Com-
mander of her Majesty's ship Curlew, when in lat. 14,
cheering.)
3
S., lon. 43, 46 E., fell in with, and detained, a vessel
Mr. SAMUEL WHITWORTH seconded the resolution,
sailing under Arab colours, called Yaruga, armed with
which was then put to the vote and carried amidst
one gun and small arms, having slave irons, water tanks,
great cheering. .
and a quantity of matting on board, commanded by
Mr. JOHN BRIGHT came forward to move the third
Fatchei Kerin, who had no papers to show, but sta
ing. The resolution was as follows : That the ted
resolution, amidst loud and very long-continued cheer-
the vessel to be from Zanzebar, bound to Conducia
—"
Church-rates are unjust and unscriptural ; that this rate (Island of Madagascar), the crew consisting of eleven
is illegal ; that any attempt to enforce it shall be met men and one passenger, besides nineteen negroes (twelve
with the most determined opposition ; that this meeting men and seven boys). The vessel being found unsea-
pledges itself to use all legal means to prevent the levy-
worthy, was fired into and sunk, the nineteen slaves
and cargo having first , been received on board are
ing of this unholy and infamous tax ; and that the Roch-
Curlew, and the crew sent on shore ; but on April 3,
dale Religious Freedom Society be requested to under-
while at anchor at the port of Conducia, fifteen of the
take the defence of all those against whom legal proceed-
ings may be taken for the recovery of this illegal rate." negroes swam on shore and escaped into
--The reading of the resolution was followed by re-
" On the 26th March in lat. 14, 56 the woods.
S., and long.
Dewed cheering. It had been trul observed, said Mr.
41, 6 E., the Curlew fell in with the Portuguese brig
y
Bright, by one of the preceding speakers, that we never DoxPedro dupe de Porto, armed with four guns, corn-
had such an indefatigable Vicar before as the present mended by Lauchaude Tallachurde, from Deo, Arabian
one ; but, unfortunately, he was indefatigable in a bad Sea, bound to Mozambique harbour, and having de-
tainedher for a breach of the Slave Act, seat her into
cause.—(Cheers and lou.l laughter.) Mr. Bright
Simon's Bay, in charge of a prize master, having pre-
next proceeded to expose the trickery of the Church
viously put on board of her the Yaruga's cargo, and re-
party in keeping the poll open, on several nights during
twining four negroes taken out of her ; but on the 11th
the late struggle contrary to the understanding with their
o orients thou hno doubt with the knowledge of their inst., having lost her mainmast, fore-topmast, &e., during
,
a heavy gale from the N.W., she was obliged to put into
own partisans. There was cot a doubt that on Satur- Algoa Bay in distress.
day, when the Vicar and his friends entered to continue
" Her Majesty's brig Wizard, F. T. Buck, Corn-
the poll, they had made up their minds to extend the
mender, arrived in Simon's Bay on time 31st May,
time, if it should suit their purpose, to six o'clock. It
having, after a chase of twenty-seven hours, captured a
did suit their purpose, because at five o'clock, the time
g
announced for the close of the poll, they were beaten, brigantine. The crew, findin they would be taken,
and then it was that the Vicar, under pretence that
abandoned her off Cape Frio, and escaped.
"All rho
there had been an obstruction thrown in the way of slaves onboard had been landed by the Wizard.
parties voting, said he must keep it open another hour. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
—(Shame.) That this manoeuvre was understood and Hutt. AND SELBY RAILW AIt.—ADD! LIONAL PARTlcti-
expected by his own party was evident, by the voting Lees. Hair-breadth escapes were numerous. One
which took place afterwards, while the anti-rate party carriage which was overturned contained sixteen per_
were thrown off their guard ; and great numbers front sons, none of whom were seriously injured. The
the out-townships, who could have arrived in time to preservationfe aod odfaughter of the parish clerk of Howden,
the lives of Mrs. and Miss Fletcher,
defeat the trick, through ignorance that the poll would the wife
was corm ered miraculous. They were in the sam
carriage as Mr. Velttnann and Mr. Stead, and in cone.
be kept open, were prevented from going to record
to
their votes. Now, this excuse for keeping open thebut
latter,
es a
the
atnms,
versation with the whenfthe e
in an instant they felt
found projectedtitemse outfv o
poll, as many present at this meeting knew, was en-
themselves adrirtemhge,amanodagtshtemneuxdt
tirely without foundation.—(Hear, hear.) There was
, n;
moment
not at the time the least obstruction offered to parties and water, their bonnets being beaten
wishing to vote. He (Mr. Bright) happened to be their persons only slightly bruised. Mr.
SmithWar-
looking
out at the window, and he had an opportunity maid, of Tickton Grange, near Beverley, who was
of distinctly observing what passed outside, and he alone in the fourth carriage, was projected through
would declare that the,
passage was perfectly open, the window, and fell head foremost into the ditch
and there was not the least obstacle offered to the poll- his hat was broken, and thrust completely over.
the carriages was lying within six inches of his legs..
ing. Yet, notwithstanding this, at half-past five his face.
o'clock he saw Mr. C. Royds, in company with Mr. one of hOn recovering himself a little he perceived that
lle was slightly injured
Woods, turn the corner, and after them a detachment ) from the shaking, brit not at an
of soldiers. Now, he would be bound to say that he seriously hurt, and is now quite well. Mr. and Mrs. Robtert
Smith, of Carlton, near Selby, when the train was above to
could find a thousand persons who would bear him out
that there was no more need for bringing soldiers into startwheofr_o_m_.Selby. were going to step into the first carriage,
Warn Greayes, the guard, suggested that they
that meeting than into this.—(llear, hear.) But the would be as well a little farther from the engine (which is
object was evident. It was to enable the Vicar to usually considered the safest); they then got into another,
say in excuse for keeping the poll open beyond the front a lech, when the carriages were inthe act of falling
hour fixed for its close, that the disturbance was so over, they escaped by ofening the door onthe opposite aide,
great that they were compelled to send for the sol- Mr. Smith leaping out and pulling his wife after him. Mr.
diery.—( Hear,
hear.) He was informed, however, Kettle, of Birmingham, who was in the same carriage as
that one Magistrate, Mr. Chadwick, when he siw Miss Lee, had his watch in his band, and was telling ber how
the trick, and that there was no necessity' for the many minutes they had been from Selby ; the next moment
indignantly' ordered them to retire to their he found himself on the ground; he was stunned and
soldiery,
principle of bruised from his shoulder to the ealf of his leg on one side,
quarters.—(Hear, and cheers.) The
several buttons knocked off his coat, and his watch, ale
the Tories was, " Might before right." (Loud glass of which was broken,
hisn hismo uhtiain
t• speak
while thea
cheers)—and the first Tory we read of was Cain, who
killed hisbrother. Undoubtedly he was the fist Tory, d.
lying
i d u
alongsidea l to v‘l
oofmh ime had opened
dead, and his own raiment saturatedws
and the first to assert the principle, which had remained ‘-
...iith'blood. Mr. Craggy, we have been informed, was to
hereditary in the race ever since.—(Great cheering.) have been
'The resolution he tat I I
just moved pledged the meeting Mercury.
to the resistance of the Church-rate which had just been The right squadron of the 11th, or Prince Al—
carried by such unfair means ,Oa many present at that and no doubt there would Bert's Hussars, comprising the B and C troops, under the
be an attempt to levy it.command of Major Ratton, came in from out-quarters it
,
h ter on Friday. The men are quarteredno the foot
meeting it would doubtless fall lightly : on many work-
k at the bottom' of
barsreacChurch-street, and, to the su'r-
ing men, perhaps, it would not be more than three- inhabitants, their horses have been permit sea
pence. X fine sum truly, for a tolerant and forbear- 11.
:onus:the Queen's stables I
the Princess Augusta's, sow-
ing Church to create so much confusion about ! But i
sion has been off red to Lieutenant-Col net ,of the
they said they would have it !—(A voice, " 1 wish I regiment, the Earl of Cardigan,
for his Lordship' s real-
they may get it," and great laughter)—and those who dence during the sta •
y of the corps at Preston Barr arks.---
o
would not pay were to be sold up,tr even imprisoned Sussex Express,

EVENING EDITION.

LITERATURE.

• WANDERINGS IN GERMANY.
Ball, London, 1840;
In the summer of 1837 the author of this slight
and sketchy volume, a gentleman named Wilkey,
set out on a tour through Germany, a tour which
seems, now-as days, to be as much the fashion with
. Englishmen as that of Switzerland wase a dozen
. years ago. After an unusually stormy passage,
during which he " was a victim to the unutterable
agonies of sea-sickness," Mr. Wilkey reached
Hamburgh, of which he speaks in terms of high
praise, and seems inclined to dissent from die opinion
' of most travellers that it is " the most dissipated
place in Europe." We do not, however, lay much
stress upon his dissent, for he was there too short a
time to be able to form an opinion worth considera-
tion. Berlin, which he next visited, he pronounces
to be a dull city, though he was struck, as are most
foreigners, with " its imposing edifices, and broad,
• regular streets." The inhabitants, he tells us, are
shackled by etiquette, and, like all Germans, are
passionately fond of music. After a brief stay in
the Prussian capital our author took his departure
for Leipsic, so celebrated for its annual fair, and
that tremendous battle which decided the fortunes
of Napoleon. Here he heard the particulars of the
death of -the chivalrous Poniatowski, who was one
of the Emperor's most faithful adherents, and fell
in. the retreat from Leipsic. We quote the account
of this catastrophe, which we do not remember to
have seen detailed with such minuteness as is here
. x' ibi ed
On tl.e 19th of October, when the French army
I evin to retreat, the Prince was charged by Napoleon
w th the defence of that part of the suburbs of Leipsig
wisich les neatest to the Borna road. For this service
. he had only two thousand Polish infantry assigned him.
Pe.c,iving t'le French columns on his left flank in full
retreat, an.i the bridge completely choked up with their
retillcry and carriages, so that there was no possibility
( f ge ting over it, he drew his sabre, and turning to the
(ffice s elle were about him, Gentlemen,' said he, it
is ha ter to fall with honour.' With these words be
rushed, at the head of a few Polish cuirassiers, and the
officers surrounding him, upon the advancing columns
of the allies. He had been previously wounded on the
74th aeti 16th, and on this occasion also received a
musket ball in his left arm. He nevertheless pushed
in ward, but found the suburbs lull of the allied troops,
rho hastened up. to take him prisoner. He cut his
tea,' through them, received another wound through his
cross, threw himself into the Pleisse, and with the as-
sistanee of his officers reached the oppcsite bank in
ssfety, leaving his horse behind in the river. Though
much exhausted, he mounted another, and proceeded to
tl.e E ster, which was already lined by Saxon and Prus-
sian r.flemen. Seeing them coming upon him on all
sides, he plunged into the river, and instantly sunk, to-
gether with his horse. Several officers who threw them-
selves in after him, were also drowned ; anti others were
taken on the bank or in the water. The body of the
Prince was found on the fifth day (Oct. 24th), and
taken out of the water by a fisherman. He was dressed
in his gala noiform, the epaulets of which were studded
with dianarnde. His fingers were covered with rings
set with brilliants ; and his pockets contained snuff-
boxes of great value and other trinkets."
Mr. Wilkey is loud in his praises of Vienna,
chic a according to his account, must be one of the
liveliest and handsomest cities in Europe ; he can-
not, however, he adds, " say much in commenda-
tion of its climate, for it is very variable, and the
high winds that blow here, particularly that from
the east, are extremely piercing and injurious."
As regards the prevalent dissoluteness of manners
in the Austrian capital, our author agrees in opinion
with many other travellers, who have declared that
it is as dissipated a place as any in Christendom ;
and observes, in illustration of his assertion, " An
Englisshman who had spent a considerable time in
Austria, and whom I afterwards met, told me,
amongst other things, he had sate several days
following at the table of a man of consideration
at Vienna, when both his wife and mistress were
present, and the character of the latter was well
known to the company. In the opinion of my in-
formant, society at Vienna was even more licentious
than at Florence, for here, said he, in some in-
stances, one man will have an indefinite number of
mistresses, whilst at Florence, these lords of the
creation are content to be the husband of one
woman, and the cavalier of another." From
Ivrienua Mr. Wilkey went on a steam excursion to
Presburg, which was the extreme point of his
tour ; and thence retraced his steps homewards,
ssisitlng, on his way, several of the most eminent
towns and places of note in Germany. The great
fault of his hook is its want of anything like sub-
stantial information. It is a mere Diary, of the
slightest arid flimsiest nature possible, and the in-
feriority of the matter is by no means atoned for
11 the felicity of the manner.

PRINCE NAPOLEON LOUIS.

Few events have caused a greater sensation in society
than the lamentable termination of the Prince's late at-
tempt. It still remains to be seen what were the grounds
en which he undertook an enterprise that up to this =-
meet appears to have been so unaccountably rash. The
only conclusion to which it is possible to come is that he
must have been the victim of the intriguing adventurers by
whom he was literally besieged—of people who, having
nothing to lose, over-persuaded him to the adoption of a
course from which they anticipated a brilliant future for
ther own fortunes. This seems a probable conjecture ;
hut other persons, nether few ncr believe the
Prince to hove fallen into a snare laid for him by the
French police, in their anxiety to get rid of one who
cause! them so much uneasiness, and whom they especially
dreaded in reference to the excitement that is naturally
'peeked for when the remains of the ex-Emperor shall ar-
rive in France.
Alen elto were far from participating in the opinions or
entertaining the political views of the Prince have, never-
I heless, taken a deep interest in him en account of his per
sonal qualities, his great accomplishments, and his polished
m; nners. His unexampled generosity, which never per..
mitt:El him to inquire of what country the individuals
might be whom he invariably relieved in their distresses,
has acquired for him an universal sympathy that leads all
who knew him here to throw the blame of h:s recent at-
tempt—if any belong to it—upon those who led him astray,
A thousand instances might be adduced of his liberality,
and of the extreme delicacy with which it was exercised.
One of these we cannot forbear to mention. Two
foreign sharpers were late!y iu town, and contrived
under false but specious pretences to gain access into
the be: t s.ciety. They were everywhere received without
suspice n, end among other houses at which they visited
was that of Napoleon Louis in Carlton-gardens. It was
here that at a dinner party, Captain Vyse, of the 2rl Life
Guards, met the soi-disant Vicomte de Tracy, one of the
escroqueurs to whom we have alluded, and. before they
separated the latter agreed to purchase a charger from the
Captain for a hundred and fifty guineas. The horse was
sent to the stables of the Vicomte, who, however, forgot
that part of the transaction- which involved the payment of
the money. SlTthly afterwards the two chevaliers d'in
dustrie felt themselves impelled, by the extreme urgency of
their private affairs, to quit London in considerable haste,
leaving several little pecuniary matters unarranged—the
transaction with Captain Vyse among the rest. The Prince.
• having heard the story, at once determined that, as he had
• been the medium of the introduction, be-was bound to bear
les friend harmless from the consequences of it. With
this high-minded feeling he enclosed a check for the amount
- to Captain Vyse in a note remarkable for its delicacy.
'I he answer may be anticipated. It expressed the Cap-
tain's sense of the gentlemanly motives that had dictated
the offer, which, however, he declined to acceat, on the
ground thatl if he had been tricked he could only blame his
own Want of caution, and that he could not for a moment
acknowledge the Prince's responsibility. There the matter
bested till such property as the
.Vicomte de Tracy had
....deft behind him in his hurry was exposed to sale for tile
a.Tlacnefit of those who had suffered by him. When Captain
Vyse's horse was brought to the hammer the Prince di-
xected M. de Persigny to buy him, and send him to the
Captain, with a request that he would
accept present as
Captain a mark of his esteem and friendship.
Vyse could
- no longer refuse; and thus terminatedttr,eanasaction that
e , reflected the highest credit on both the
parties
• There is a circumstance connected with thetloatiet.enter-
prase of Napoleon Louis that gives it a peculiarly sombre
-and melancholly colouring. Prior to his departure the
.. Prince wrote to his banker a letter that hadi? some
sort the- cbacter of a testamentary paper.
It cen-
tained his last directions for making a generous pro_
,
rep; vision for his servants and other persons who were de-
pendent. on him ; ;and, if this were proof of the kind..
e ..mess of his disposition, his probity was shown by the
ayition of thamost detailed instructions for the payment
.a a who had pecuniary claims that it was incumbent
on him--to liquidate. He had always been in the habit
• of paying every account against him regularly once a
i. month ; and when we see, therefore, that, amidst the ins-
• ,portant cares that distracted him at the last moment, he
• did not lose sight of the smallest debt he had incurred, we
• have the most convincing proof that, among the other ex-
cellent traits that shed a lustre on his character, there was
none more remarkable than a high and scrupulous principle

of honour.
It is stated in the last advices from Paris that Marechal
Clause 1 and M. Mauguin are seriously compromised:by the
- maiseovery of some papers on board the steam boat. Ir this
• .be the case it would appear that in the interior of France
'9ler? was more foundation for the Prince's attempt than
the failure of it at Boulogne would justify one in believing.
—4ll"iling Post.
of
140;

rk John- Russell was a passenger by the mail
train ell the Lancaster and Preston Railway on Thursday
evening. His Lordship, after having stopped at the King's
Arms, pursued his journey into Sootier d the following
.morning.—Lancas er Guy, rdian.
Lord and Lady Brougham have left Grafton-
street tor the villa wit ch his Lordship has taken for a
term at Ashford, in Kent, where the Noble and Learned
.Baron intends to reside g the autumn. '

THE lONIAN ISLANDS, AND
THEIR NEW CODES OF LAW.

TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SinL-- There is no one who has in the least in-
terested himself in the affairs of the Government of
the lonian Islands, but must. have desired for them
new codes of Civil and Criminal. Law. Sir Thomas
Maitland recommend: l and commenced the work
by taking as its basis the best codes extant. Under
Sir Frederick Adam and Lord Nugent, these
codes were nearly perfected ; there remained for
Sir Howard Douglas the duty of submitting
• them for the consideration and sanction of the
lonian Legislative Assembly. For this purpose he
(Sir Howard Douglas) assembled a new Parliament
. (the sixth), in March 1839, and selected for the
members the most intelligent persons of the Islands.
And, to use his own words in his opening speech,
" Men of so much consideration, character, talent,
influence, and stake in the country, and one
of these men was the Cavaliere Mustoxides.

This Assembly, so formed, was proud of the
distinction conferred upon them (the consideration
of the Codes), felt the great importance of the
duty imposed upon them, the, great responsibility
attached to their proceedings, therefore deliberated
slowly and dispassionately, clause by clause, and
part by part, upon this great work. But, ere the
Assembly could complete their labours, so as-
siduously begun, a difference arose between them
and the Lord High Commissioner, which difference
eventually led to their dissolution, after two pro-
rogations. [See Sir Howard Douglas's imaginary
plot.]
To simplify the matter, with regard to delibera-
tion, by another Parliament, the Lord High Com-
missioner, in the selection of his Legislative As-
sembly, instead of naming them from the
iutelli-
gence of the Islands, as he had previously done, to
form his sixth Parliament, adopted an opposite
course, and, it is a fact, selected chiefly persons the
most ignorant. This seventh Parliament assembled
in February last (however without the compliments
to their character, intelligence, &c. granted to the
last), and proceeded to the consideration of the
Cones ; and, as a preliminary step, not a bad one,
they appointed a Committee of their body to ex-
amine and report upon them, and this was done
rapidly.
The Report of the Civil Code was received and
read, and without any discussion the Code was
unanimously adopted by the Assembly ; but the
Report of the Penal Code being read, a member
objected to the mode of proceeding, that of adopt-
ing the Code solely on the ground of the Report
of the Committee without discussion, and moved,
"that the Codes be read and discussed." Upon
which an amendment was proposed. " That the
Codes be carried nemine contradicente," upon -w hich
a division took place, when, for the original pro-
position, there voted 11, and for th amend-
ment 18. The amendment was adopted (and
it was not in Ireland !) There is no use arguing
upon the absurdity and unconstitutionality of
such proceedings. The answer would be, "It does
not signify ; the Lord High Commissioner saw no
objection." No; his objections have shown them-
selves to be confined to the exercise of reason and
common sense. He formed this nemine-contra-
dicente-Parliament to save himself the trouble cf
objecting, and from such a Parliament what a
miserable compliment that there should have issued
au address to the Throne of England in favour of
the Government of Sir Howard Douglas, and
such a one was presented on Friday, the 7th of
August last !

The codes may be the best that possibly could
have been formed, but it must be admitted that Sir
Howard Douglas, coming in at the eleventh hour,
has no more to do with them, deserves no more
credit, than in the planting of the olive-trees in the
islands, the fruit of which he may enjoy. But, if
fault hereafter shall be found with them, the biame,
from want of proper deliberation at their passing
into law, will rest on Sir Howard Douglas and his
ignorant Parliament. _

I have the honour to be _
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES FITZROY.

15th August, 1840.

On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, when
the Woolwich steam-packet Fairy had nearly reached
Ilungerford-market, a small boat, in which were three
very young lads, shot out from just below the pier, and so
suddenly , that it was impossible to prevent the steamboa t
from going over them, although the engines were imme -
diately stopped. The Fairy struck the boat in midship ,
and cut her in two. A Waterman named John Wand, f
Bermondsey, who was rowing down the river at the time,
pulled away to the spot where two of the boys were strug-
gling in the water, atd picked them up, The other boy
had disappeared, excepting one of his hands, which could
just be discerned above the surface of the water. A Wool-
wich waterman, named Richard Wheeler, one of the crew
of the Fairy, jumped overboard from the stem of the ves-
sel, and succeeded in saving him. Wand then rowed
to Wheeler, and took him and his charge into his boat,
and rowed them safe to the pier,

TIIE WEATHER.—In our last we announced
with pain the breaking up of the weather. Since then
little ill has happened to the growing crops. Friday, Sa-
turday, and yesterday, were growing days; and the sun-
shine predominated over the rain. The temperature is
low, and the moisture has greatly improved the meadow
hay, the turnips, and potatoes. It is our hope, however,
that the watery it fluences will not be permanent. In the
meantime, harvest has been commenced in our neighbour-
hood ; and, among others. a field of ba•-ley was cut last
week by Mr. Mather, at Barlanerk, near Glasgow. One
swallow, however, does not make a summer ; and this is a
petfectly isolated case as connected with Scotland, the
harvest in which, even with the most favourable weather,
will not make a commencement before the end of the pre.
sent or beginning of the next month.—Glasgow Argus.

Mr. Galloway recently proposed to Mehemet
Ali the construction of a railway from Alexandria
o Cairo, a distance of 120 miles, crossinc, the stream
twice, and passing through a great part of the Delta. This
road would cost about 3,000,000 thalers (500,0001.). and
the distance might be performed in four hours. The Vice.
foy has, ho to ever, made no reply to this plan.
ANIMALCULAR CONSTITUTION OF CHALK.
—Professor Ehrenberg, in 1836, announced, that in esti-
niriing chalk and other calcareous rocks, he bad dis-
cavered the characteristic fact, that the smallest grains
of chalk appeared to consist of regular elliptical par-
ticles, possessing a cr;•stalline aTecr. Since tli4 pe-
riod, he has ascertained that the chalk of Puskarerz,
in tt. e east of Prussia, and that of the island of Ru-
en, of Schonen, Denmark, Gravesend, Brighton, Ire-
land, Mendon near Paris, Giigenti in S,cily, pres4nts
two different structures ; the one inorganic, dis;in-
;;uished by its regular elliptical structure and granular slaty
disposition, and the other organic, consisting of microsco-
pical shells. By mixing Canada balsam, by the assistance
beat, with the dry chalk, in a fine state of division,
Ehrenberg found that the chalk contained an immense
number cf microscopical animalculm hitherto unknown, va-
ryin,g in size from one twenty-fourth to one two-hundred and
cighty-eighth part of a line. A cubic inch possessed up-
ards of a million of them ; consequently, a pound weight
of chalk contains above 10.000,000 of thesf! animaleulw.

THE LATE LORD DURHAM.—EarI Grey%vit-
nessed the departure of the funeral procession from Lamb_
ton Castle. The venerable Earl was stationed at a win-
dow in an apartment above the saloon ; from which it
could be seen for a considerable distance. It was rumoured
that his Lordship would have attended the funeral, but that
he remained in the castle to administer to Lady Durham
the consolation she so rnuch needed under her final sepa-
ration from her beloved and honoured lord.—Durham
Chronicle. ~
THE TOLERANT CHURCH.—On Monday, the
remains of the late Mr. Job Spriggs, who dicd at the house
of his brother, in this town, were removed to Clipston
Church for interment, but the deceased not having
been made "a child of God, and an inheritor of the
kingdom," by baptism according to the ritual of our
Popish establishment, the pope of the village, the
Rev. J. Bull, refused to perform the service, which
pronounces every [christianized] infidel our " beloved
brother," and commits his remains to the dust in the
" sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection to
eternal life." The Rev. F. Gough, Baptist minister,
delivered an address on the outside the " consecrated
enclosure," after which the interment took place in
silence. How long arc the feelings of surviving rela-
tives to be outraged by such execrable conduct ? What
Popish Bull was ever more contrary to humanity, reli-
gion, and common sense ? Can any of our readers inform
eihcye s
us what mode is adopted by the•priests of the Establish-
ment wierhsichhirethmeyol.ceuarryn.whether a deceased person has
been_ baptized according to the rites of the Church or not i
family,ith ger is
Mr. Bourdo
hasi t
successa
to n, a celebrated portrait painter, who
met with ;;rest
in taking the portraits of the Vice-
roy'sor Syria, where he is to take the
likeness of Ibrahim P-ed f
Pacha. He has given up the idea of
Lakin;; r, that of
, features such
constant changes that it is i
THE WEATHER impossible to delineate them.
HER AND THE HA R VEST.—The
last two or three days •
oisn London and its neighbourhood
have been unusually bternns'
accompanied at intervals
with heavy showers of rair
rain fell in torrents, the wind" On Sunday afternoon the
as
even-
ing unusually cold. On Monday the high, and the
ay the wind increased to a
hurricane from the S. W., and
several
1 during the day. The gale on theev heavy showers fell
riverand the steamers could hardly make headway was tremendous,
coming up the pool against the flood tide, while,
against it in
navi-
gation of the boats and small craft was e the
geatly A few gleams of sunshine occasionally burstr impeded,
hazy atmosphere, but altogether the day was cold,through the
wet, aed
cheerless. Nor had we yesterday much finer
weather.
We are, however, glad to find from the country
papers
that notwithstanding the temporary interruptions of the
fine weather the harvest proceedr pretty wall.