The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

TER MT N, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2g, 041.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of Grain this week have been moderate.
Wheat at Monday's prices, with little doing. Barley
sold heavily at the terms last reported. Beans and Pease
supported their value. Oats met a moderate demand, and
firmly maintained their prices. The Flour trade dull.
SMITHFIELD.

The supply was moderate, and trade brisk ; prices
higher. Beasts 447 ; Sheep 1,900 ; Pigs 347 ; Calves
104. Beef 31. 4d. to 4s. 101 Mutton 3s. Bd. to 59.
Veal 41. 4d. to 6:. Pork 4s. to ss.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The large public sales went off without spirit, but in
prices no variation of moment took place ; privately little
business was done either for home use or export. The
arrivals were to a fair extent.
TEA MARKET.
The Market was inacti►e, but prices were steady for
best Black and Green sorts. Company's Congou sold at
Is. sd. cash.

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

NEGLECT OF SOLICITORS.
Upon Mr. GIRDLESTONE mentioning a case to the
Court this morning, in vihieh he had obtained an order
yesterday, for the purpose of relieving his client from
.a
difficulty into which he had fallen, relative to the affidavn
of service,
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he would not assist parties
to overcome difficulties by which they had been surrounded
in consequence of their own ladies. The Court had been
treated latterly by its own officers, the Solicitors of the
Court, in a most improper manner, which his Lordship
;you'd take care should not occur again. In half the
causes that had been called on no party appeared, and
Counsel had not been instructed, in consequence of
the neglect of Solicitors, and in many of the other cases
the parties had taken such decrees as they could abide by,
the defendants not choosing to appear. This was a state
of things that ought not to exist, and which the Court
would take care to adopt some means to remedy. His
Lordship wished also the Bar and Solicitors to un-
derstand that, with respect to applications for causes to
stand over, in future the practice of the Court would be,
when such applications were made on the same day as the
cause was in the paper, all the Court would do, if sufficient
cause was shown, was to place the cause at the bottom of
that day's list, and, if parties were desirous of further de-
lay, the application must he made the day previous to the
cause being on the paper.
The COURT then proceeded to the hearing of original
causes.

VICE-CHANCERY. - (THIS DAY.)

Unopposed petitions andshort causes occupied the
Court the whole morning.

The Countess of Haddington is staying at Sher•
borne Castle, Oxon, on a visit to her father, the venerable
Earl of Macclesfield. The Earl of Haddington leaves
town to-day to join the family circle assembled at the
above seat. The Earl of Macclesfield comes to town for
the season the week after next.

NEW WAR STEAMERS.—Of the five new
war-steamers of a large class which have been built in her
Majesty's dockyards, and are to be immediately fitted for
active service, the first has arrived in the river, and is now
lying at the Isle of Dogs, where on Wednesday her boilers
were put on board. She is a most majestic vessel, of the
same class as the Cyclops and Gorgon, lately found so
effective in active service. She is to be fitted with two
engines of 140-horse power each, and her tonnage is
about 1,400. She is named the Driver, and is already
commissioned, a great part of the crew being now on
board assisting towards her completion. Her engines
are furnished with all the recent improvements, espe-
cially that importaant one which will enable her to
connect or disconnect, either one of her paddles
in an instant, and thereby change her position with
equal celerity. It is said that she will be furnished with
ta o long 98-pound guns on her upper deck, working en
swivels, besides other guns of a large calibre on her lower
deck. It will be observed that the steam power of the
Driver is 20-horse power each engine less than the Cyclops
and the Gorgon ; but the peculi ir build of the vessel and
the improvements in the engines will, it is stated, place
her on a perfect equality with those war-steamers. The
Driver will be completed in three months, and the four
others, two of which are named the Styx and the Vixen,
will also be fitted with boilers and engines in the course
of the year, the machinery for that purpose being already
in a very advanced state.
DISASTROUS COLLISION AND Two VES-
SRLS LOST AT SEA.—Yesterday afternoon intelligence
was received in the City of the total loss of the Robert, of
Goole, Captain Redman, master, and the Hunter, of Sun-
derland, a trader, with a cargo on board valued at 5,0001.,
which occurred on the night of Sunday last, at about ten
o'clock, in the North Sea, by the vessels coming into col-
lision. This disaster took place near the inner Dowsing
Sand, some distance from Bridlington Bay, a seaport
situated in East Yorkshire. From the few particulars re-
ceived it appears that at the time of the accident the wind
was blowing a gale from the westward, and the night ex-
tremely dark. The Hunter, which was a finely-built
vessel, left the river Thames for Sunderland in the early
part of the week, and was bearing under press of sail to-
wards her destination. The other unfortunate vessel, the
Robert, was on her voyage from Goole to Lcndon, and it
is stated there was a good look out kept on both vessels,
and that each other was not perceived until within
about two hundred yards, and the crews strained
every nerve to avoid collision, although they came in
contact with tremendous force. The collision is de-
scribed to have been most awful. The bows of
both vessels were smashed in, and they were so tightly
wedged together that several minutes elapsed before they
could be extricated, when it was discovered that both were
sinking. Many of the crew were asleep at the time in
their berths. The long-boats were, as quickly as possible,
lowered into the sea, upon which the crews threw what little
property could be saved into them, and afterwards jumped
into them themselves. The masters were the last on
board. Captain Redman, of the Robert, states that when
he got into the long-boat the water had covered the cabin-
deck ; and Captain Smithson, of the Hunter, says that
when he left his vessel the water was six feet in her hold,
and was coming in on the starboard bow like a main.
Within ten minutes after both vessels went down head kis-
most into deep water. The crews kept close together,
and in the course of the night were picked tip by the brig
Halifax, from Newhaven, Captain Jones master, who, after
treating them with the greatest humanity, safely put them
on shore at Bridlington. The total loss is reported to be
upwards of 12,0001. The vessels and their cargo are sup-
posed to be insured.
The Board of Guardians of the Wakefield
Union have confirmed, by a vote of 11 to 5, a resolution
adopted on the 30th September last, " that no relief, ex-
cept relief in the workheuse, be given by this Board to any
woman who has had more than one bastard child, nor any
woman being more than 21 years of ago at the time of the
birth of any bastard child of which she may be the mother."
ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER AT LONDON
BRlDGE.—Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'clock,
the Planet Gravesend steam-packet, Captain Hollingum,
was coming into London Bridge wharf, with 120 passen-
gers on board, and the Red Rover, from Herne Bay, was
a-head of her, also going into the wharf to land her pas-
sengers. The Planet threw out a rope in the usual man-
ner to bring up alongside, but could not make it fast, and
the tide, which was running up at the time very rapidly,
carried the Planet towards the bridge. She then let goher
anchor, but it dragged, and would not hold, and directly af-
terwards the stesmer came against the bridge with a tremen-
dous crash, and got athwart hawse of the pier. The tide swung
the Planet round stern foremost under the arch, and her fun-
nel caught the top of it, and was carried away to the great
alarm of the passengers. The funnel went went over the
starboard side of the vessel into the river, doing consider.
able damage in its descent. Several boats immediately
went alongside the Planet. The foremast came in contact
with the bridge, and was carried away. The passengers
all this time were jumping into the boats alongside in all
directions, and although they were much frightened, nut
one of them sustained any bodily injury. The Planet re-
mained under the arch for some time, and after landing
the remainder of the passengers at Fresh Wharf, proceeded
to Deptford to repair the damage.
THE PHCENIX AND THE BRITANNIA.—The
Havre Journal states that the London General Steam
Navigation Company had put the James Watt steamer
on the London and Havre line. to replace the Britannia,
which was damaged at the time when she run down
the Phoenix, and is still under repair. On the 19th
inst. the Captain of the James Watt, who was pre-
paring to sail from Havre for London, was informed
that the vessel had been ordered to be detained by the
French Custom-house, and that its papers would not
be issued ow account of M.lGuillou, geraut of the Phoenix
Company, having applied for its detention as security
for the payment of 700,000 francs, the sum claimed
by the company as damages on the loss of the Phoenix, In
the suit which we mentioned the other day. The captain
of the James Watt summoned M. Guillou on the 20th be-
fore the Tribunal of Commerce, but that Court, by a
decree of the 21st, declared itself incompetent. The
Captain then summoned M. Guillou before the President
of the Civil Tribunal en refere, in order to obtain a revoca-
tion of the order of detention; but that Magistrate, after
hearing counsel on both sides, maintained the order and
dismissed the case with costs.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 27.—We
i have had an excellent demand for all descriptions of sugar
and every desirable lot for either grocery or refining pur-
poses has been cleared off the market at extreme prices.
The stocks in first hands is reduced to a very small quan-
tity, particularly for fine descriptions. ' Refined goods
have also been in good request, and prices have improved.
—Bristol Gazette.
STATE OF TRADE. DISTRESS OF THE
WORKING CLASSES.—The Nottingham Review of this day
describes the trade in that town as being unprecedentedly
depressed, and states, as a necessary consequence, that the 1
working classes are suffering dreadfully. The warp silk
blonde trade is still in a very ur.settled state, most of the
hands contemplating to leave a manufacture that does not
afford remunerative wages for subsistence. The warp
eating lace branch is in a most deplorable state ; many of
the workmen being stinted to short work, which, with the
abatement of the wages, makes their situation truly
wretched. The fancy bobbin-net trade is not by any
means improved, though the workmen are inde-
fatigable in producing new patterns. Power nets are
in good demand; wages are low, but profits are good.
The fancy hosiery trade in Nottingham, Hucknall, Sutton,
Mansfield, and Derby, has been long in a stagnant state,
hut a new trade is revived, not much to the advantage of
the county of Nottingham. The silk cut.up trade is
rapidly
extending ; many of the frames is the neighbour-
ing villages make three hose at once. The practice is
also extending in the silk glove trade, and, of course,
employment is decreasing. The most fatal effects to the
interests of this town must ensue, if the practice be per
severed in. The silk knotted hands are yet in a very de-
pressed condition for want of employment. The cut-up
imitation warp silk knots have wholly failed. Full frame-
rent is much complained of in this and other branches,
when the workmen have only half work.
NORWAY.--(From a Correspondent.)—Yester-
day being the birth-day of the venerable Bernadotte,
King of Sweden and Norway, a party of Norwegian gen-
tlemen, resident in London, met in the City, according to
a preconcerted arrangement, and dined together in honour
on
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their King, and afterwards of
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Prince Albert were drank with feelings of great respect.
An excellent band was engaged for the occasion, which
responded to these sentiments by striking up the National
Anthems of both countries, and appropriate airs to the
many patriotic toasts of the evening, thereby giving addi-
tional zest to the enjoyments of the meeting. The saloon
in which the party assembled was decorated with a splen.
did transparent representation of the King, around the
upper part of which was inscribed, in the Norwegian lan-
guage, the enviable motto—" May ha be as happy as his
and'below, " His people's love is his reward."
people are ;"

LITERATURE.

;1/0 ORE'S POETICAL 11TORKS, Vol,. IV.
Longman, London, 1841.
The far-famed " Irish Melodies" are conclude►'.

in this volume, whiCh contains also " Sacred
Songs," " National Airs," and a graceful little
rhymed trifle, entitled the " Summer Fete," which
was suggested by a fashionable entertainment given
some years sinee at Boyle Farm, In his preface to
he " Melodies," Mr. Moore relates several cui:ous
particulars regarding the great Irish outbreak of
1797, the leaders of which, strange to say, were
almost all Protestants.. Among them was Robert
Emmet, with whom, observes our author, " I
formed an acquaintance, which soon grew into in-
timacy ; he was my senior by one class in the
University, and I found him in full reputation, not
only for his learning and eloquence, but also for
the blamelessness of his life, and the grave sua-
vity of his manners." Of this generous young
patriot, who was passionately fond—and no wonder
—of the national music, Mr. Moore tells the fol
lowing characteristic anecdote :—" Though never
regularly instructed in music, I could play over the
old Irish airs with tolerable facility on the piano.
forte. Robert Emmet used sometimes to sit by
me, when I was thus engaged : and I remember
one day his starting up as from a reverie, when I
had just finished that spirited tune called the Red
Fox, and exclaiming Oh, that I were at the head
of twenty thousand men, marching to that air !' "
Here is another amusing anecdote, which regards
our author himself :
"'Towards the latter end of the year 1797, the cele-
brated newspaper called " The Press" was set up by
Arthur O'Connor, Thomas Addis Emmett, and other
chiefs of the United Irish conspiracy, with the view of
preparing and ripening the public mind for the great
crisis then fast approaching. This memorable journal,
according to the impression I at present retain of it,
was far more distinguished for earnestness of purpose
and intrepidity, than for any great display of literary
talent ;—the bold letters written by Emmet (the
elder), under the signature of " Montanus," being the
only compositions I can now call to mind, as entitled
to praise for their literary merit. It required, however,
but a small sprinkling of talent to make bold writing
at that time palatable ; and, from the experience of
my own home, I can answer for the avidity with which
every line of this daring journal was devoured. It used
to come out, I think, twice a week, and on the evening
of publication I always read it aloud to our small circle
after supper.
" It may easily be conceived that, what with my ar-
dour for the national cause, and a growing conscious-
ness of some little turn for authorship, I was naturally
eager to become a contributor to those patriotic and
popular columns. But thesconstant anxiety about the
which 1 know my own family felt—a feeling more
wakeful far than even their zeal in the public cause—
withheld me from hazarding any step that might cause
them alarm. I had ventured, indeed, one evening to
pop privately into the letter-box of the Press a short
fragment in imitation of Ossian. But this, though in-
serted, passed off quietly ; and nobody was, in
any sense of the phrase, the wiser for it. I was
soon tempted, however, to try a more daring flight.
Without communicating my secret to any one but Ed-
ward Hudson, I addressed a long letter, in prose, to
the #*### of * * *, in which a profusion of bad
flowers of rhetoric was enwreathed plentifully with that
weed e hich Shakspeare calls " the cockle of rebellion,"
and, in the same manner as before, committed it trem-
blingly to the chances of the letter-box. I hardly ex-
pected my prose would be honoured with insertion,
when; 10, on the next evening of publication, when
seated as usual in my little corner by the fire, I un-
folded the paper for the purpose of reading it to my
select auditory, there was my own Letter staring me
full in the face, being honoured with so conspicuous a
place as to be one of the first articles my audience would
expect to hear. Assuming an outward appearance of
ease, while every nerve within me was trembling, I con-
trived to accomplish the reading of the Letter without
raising in either of my auditors a suspicion that it was
my own. I enjoyed the pleasure, too, of hearing it a
good deal praised by them; and might have been tempted
by this to acknowledge myself the author, lied I not
found that the language and sentiments of the article
were considered by both to be " very bold."
" I was not destined, however, to remain long unde-
tected. On the following day, Mr. Edward Hudson,
—the only one, as I have said, entrusted with my secret,
called to pay us a morning visitond had not been long in
the room, conversing with my mother, when looking
significantly at me, he said, " Well, you saw ---"
Here he stopped ; but the mother's eye had followed
his, with the rapidity of lightning, to mine, and at once
she perceived the whole truth. " That Letter was
yours, then ?" she asked of me eagerly ; and, without
hesitation, of course, I acknowledged the fact ; when in
the most earnest manner she entreated of me never
again to have any connexion with that paper ; and, as
every wish of hers was to me law, I readily pledged the
solemn promise she required."
We wish Mr. Moore had been a little more com-
municative of the personal recollections of his
youth, especially of that portion of it which was
spent in Ireland, for even from the brief glimpses he
affords us of his early life, we can see that he must
have come into contact with many singular charac-
ters ; and sketches of these, drawn by one so obser•
vant, sagacious, and quick-witted as himself, would
have been read with great interest and curiosity by
the majority of the public. In particular, his one
or two hasty and passing references to Emmet
make us anxious to know more of this generous
young enthusiast, and we have no doubt that we
share this anxiety in common with hundreds of
others. Mr. Moore need not be apprehensive of
becoming too much of a gossip or an egotist ; we
shall always be eager to read what he has to record
of his personal experiences, for few men of his time
have seen more, and can relate what they have seen
in so lively and attractive a manner. To resume
our extracts. Speaking of that popular Irish Me-
lody, " Dear Harp of my country," our author
says—quoting the authority of a late number of
the Quarterly Review :
" A young and promising poetess, Lucretia Davidson,
who died very early from nervous excitement, was particu-
larly sensitive to music. There was one song—it was
Moore's Farewell to his Harp—to which she took a spe-
cial fancy. She wished to hear it only at twilight, thus—
with that same perilous love of excitement which made
her place the tEolian harp in the window when she was
composing—seeking to increase the effect which the song
produced upon a nervous system already diseasedly suscep-
tible; for it is said that whenever she heard this song, she
became cold, pale, and almost fainting ; yet it was her
favourite of all songs, and gave occasion to some verses
addressed in her fifteenth year to her sister."
We well know the song in question, and are not
at all surprised at the effect it produced on the sus-
ceptible feelings of a young poetess. Though
somewhat monotonous, it breathes the very soul of
tender melancholy—indeed we know of but one air
that can compare with it in plaintiveness, and that
one, strange to say, is a French air, " Waters of
Elle." We quote the closing portion of Mr.
Moore's preface :
Of the translations that have appeared of the Melodies
in different languages, I shall here mention such as have
come to my knowledge.
Latin.—" Cantus llibernici," Nicholas Lee Torre,
London, 1835.
Italian —G. Flechia, Torino, 1836.—Adele Custi,
Milano, 1836.
French.—Madame Belloc, Paris, 1823.—Locve \Tel-
mars, Paris, 1829.
Russian.—Several detached Melodies, by the popular
Russian poet Kozlof.
Polish.—Selections, in the same manner, by Niemce-
wich, Kosmian, and others.
I have now exhausted not so much my own recollections,
as the patience, I fear, of my readers on this subject. We
are told of painters calling those last touches of the pencil
which they give to some favourite picture the " ultima
basis ;" and with the same sort of affectionate feeling do I
now take leave of the Irish Melodies,—the only work of my
pen, as I very sincerely believe, whose fame (thanks to the
sweet music in which it is embalmed) may boast a chance
of prolonging its existence to a day much beyond our own.

THE NEW TALE OF A TUB.
Colnaghe, London, 1841.
There is a good deal of spirit and drollery in
this little poetical extravaganza, which is from the
pen of Mr. Bayley, and refers to the adventures
that befel. two Bengalese gentlemen during a
pie-nic dinner, which, in the exuberance of their
animal spirits, they determined on taking in the
dangerous vicinity of a Bengal jungle. While
they were sitting enjoying themselves beneath
the shadow of a large tub which had contained
their provender, but was now empty, they were.
startled by the unexpected approach of a large
tiger who seemed anxious to make a third in
their party. The brute came on, with a steady
determination of purpose evinced in every fea-
ture of his intelligent and expressive counte-
nance,. and after chasing the revellers two or
three times round the tub, he made an attempt
to jump.over it, but falling short in his spring,
overbalanced the tub, which instantly rolled
over, and shut him up. The Bengalese, of
course, availed themselves to the utmost of this
providential chance, by pressing upon the tub
all their weight and while they were engaged
in this interesting occupation, one of them hap-
pened to see the tiger's long, stiff, thickened tail
popping out of a hole in the side of. the wood.
Quick as lightning, he caught hold of it with a
sturdy grasp, and assisted by his companion, suc-
ceeded in tying a double knot on it; winch so
hampered the animal's movements, that the Ben-
galese had no difficulty in making their
escapes