The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1847.

Tram Pete' ; on Horseback.
Trumpeter on Horseback. Trumpeter on Horseback.
Guard on Ilorseback. Guard on Horseback.
Standard Bearer, hi lis If-Armour, bearing the Banner
esf his Knight.
Esquire, in Half-Armou.r, Esquire, in Half-Armour,
bearing the Shield. bearing the Sword.
A7n( dent Knight,
Mounted on a Charge.r., armed Car-1 Pie, in a suit of
Burnished Bray; :Scale Armour, and Plumed.
Yeoman of the Guard. Yeoman of the Guard.
Armourer. Armourer.
Guard on Horseback. Guard on Horseback.
Mr. Sheriff Oubitt, in his State Chariot.
The Aldermen lrho have not passed the Chair.
The Recorder.
The Aldermen 'who have passed the Chair.
The: late Lord Mayor.
Trun-Lpeter on Horseback.
Trumpeter on Horsebt.ck. Trumpeter on Horseback.
Guard on Horse'oack. . Guard on Horseback.
Standard Bearer, in Half-Armour, bearing the Banner
of his Knight.
Esquire, in Half-Armour, Esquire, in Half-Armour,
bearing the Shield. bearing the Sword.
Ancient Knight,
Mounted on a Charger, armed Cap a-pie, in a suit of Polished
Steel Armour, and Plumed.
Yeoman of the Guard. Yeoman of the Guard.
Armourer. Armourer.
Guard on Horseback. Guard on Horseback.
The Lady Mayoress, in her State Carriage,
drawn by Six Horses,
Will join the Procession on its return from Westminster.
Trumpeter on Horseback.
Trumpeter on Horseback. Trumpeter on Horseback.
Guard on Horseback. Guard on Horseback.
Standard Bearer, in Half-Armour, bearing the Banner
of his Knight.
Esquire, in Half-Armour, Esquire, in Half-Armour,
bearing the Shield. bearing the Sword.
Ancient Knight.
Mounted on a Charger, armed Cap-a-pie, in a suit of
Burnished Brass Scale Armour, and Plumed.

Yeoman of the Guard. Yeoman of the Guard.
Armourer. Armourer.
Guard on Horseback. Guard on Horseback.
Trumpeter on Horseback.

Trumpeter on Horseback. Trumpeter on Horseback.
The Lord Mayor's Servants in State Liveries.
The Band of the Life Guards, mounted.
The Upper City Marshal on Horseback.
Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's Household.
The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR,
In his State Carriage, drawn by Six Horses,
Attended by the Chaplain, Sword Bearer, Common Crier,
and Water Bailiff.
Guard of Honour on Horseback.

His Lordship was well received as he passed along.
At Blackfriars-bridge, at which point the crowd was
immense, and which was reached shortly after one,
the Lord Mayor was met by several of the com-
panies, and his Lordship and the members of the
different companies having consigned themselves to
their respective barges, which occupied some time,
the gallant barks proceeded more rapidly than usual,
for the tide was flowing up, to Westminster-bridge ;
where a landing was effected at a temporary pier
adjacent to the new Houses of Parliament a little
after two. A procession was again formed,
which proceeded at once into the Court of Exche-
quer. A posse of policemen—the only unpoetical-
looking persons who had aught to do with the chivalric
proceedings of the day—guarding an avenue, through
which it wound its way. The crowd here, filled
Palace Yard, almost to overflowing. It was gene-
rally remarked—not, however by the " oldest in-
habitant,"—that the fineness of the day had drawn
a greater number of people towards the sight, than
at any former time, within the memory of the most
inveterate patrons of the exhibition. Lord Mayor's
days, stifling fogs, and greasy streets, weee always
synonymous : to-day was a glorious exception, but
the streets were buttery as of old; and the bells of
the churches rang out merry peals in honour of the
birthday of the Prince of Wales, and the advent of
the new Lord Mayor.
His Lordship then returned to his barge, and after
landing at Blackfriars, proceeded with the same im-
posing grandeur, chronicled above, to Guildhall,
through New Bridge street, Ludgate-hill, Ludgate-
street, St. Paul's Churchyard, Cheapside, and King-
street, to Guildhall. At the Obelisk, Bridge-street, the
procession was joined by the Ambassadors, Her Ma-
jesty's Ministers, the Nobility, Judges, Members of
Parliament, and other parsons of distinction, invited to
the banquet at Guildhall.

SWEARING-IN of the LORD MAYOR.
(THIS DAY.)

Shortly after two o'clock the new Lord Mayor,
accompanied by Sir G. Carroll, the late Lord Mayor,
and attended by the Recorder and various Civic
officers, entered the Court of Exchequer in grand
procession, and with the usual formalities.
The Recorder, in presenting the Lord Mayor
to the Court, passed a high eulogium upon Sir George
Carroll for the manner in which he had performed
the functions of his office, more particularly for the
mingled firmness and urbanity with which he had
conducted himself under very difficult circumstances.

The Lord Chief Baron in his reply also paid a
high compliment to Sir George Carroll.
The Lord ➢layor having taken the oaths of office,
and

The late Lord Mayor having rendered up his ac-
counts,
The Recorder, in the name of the Lord:Mayor,
invited the judges to the banquet at Guildhall, this
evening, which invitation having been accepted by
the Lord Chief Baron,'on the part of himself and his
learned brethren, the procession withdrew.
The Lord Mayor afterwar3s proceeded to the other
courts to invite the judges.

to market only enough to meet their pecuniary re-
quirements. Our market, therefore is but ill supplied.
ITZHOE.—Our annual cattle market was favoured
with the finest weather, and the supply of cattle from
far and near was greater than it has been for some
years. So great was the influx of strangers,
that it was impossible to accommodate them all in
the town. About 8,000 head of extremely fine cattle
were brought to market, above half of which were
fattened. The trade was extremely brisk ; in two
days all the cattle that was brought to market was
sold except 400 head.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 2.—The wool market at Flan-
ders has been extremely active, and prices, consider-
ing the depressed state of things in general, were
very good.
RUSSIA AND POLAND.—Moscow.---From the re-
port of the cholera committee, it appears that on the
15th October, 27 males and 13 females, total 40,
sickened of the cholera ; of them 10 males and 8
females died. The number of the sick on the 16th
was 105. In the course of this day 37 males and
20 females were seized, of whom 23 males and 4
females died. On the 17th there were still 135 on
the sick list. Although it is yell known that
the autumnal weather is, on the whole, most
favourable to the spreading of the disease,
yet we cannot consider that the proportion of persons
attacked with this epidemic, compared with the po-
pulation of the city, is very great. No cases of
cholera have appeared in the circle of the govern-
ment of Moscow.

MUNICH, Nov. I.—A report has been in general
circulation here for the last few days that a corps of
Bavarian troops has been ordered to the Swiss fron-
tier. Upon closer inquiry, we find that this is not
the case, although an attempt has been made to in-
duce Bavaria to surround the frontier. This, how-
ever, was refused at Bavaria, on the ground that so
long as the Swiss dissensions were confined within
their own borders, and the interests of Bavaria were
not threatened by them, there was no intention to
undertake anything whatever which might have the
slightest appearance of an interference. Under
the Ahel Ministry there would probably not have
been wanting a demonstration in favour of the Son-
derbund.

VIENNA, OCT. 28.—The railway between Vienna
and Presburg will be opened on the 6th of November,
and on the 7th will be used for general traffic, at the
opening of the Hungarian Diet. This is now the
case only with the line from Ganserndorf to Marchegg,
the boundary town of Austria, from whence a com-
munication will be effected by means of express
trains. The extremely difficult works of the bridges
over the March river, whose rushing waters con-
stantly destroy the hydrotechine works, occasions
:: :: :: :: :: ........ Bills.it6 Money.
this delay.—Hamburgh papers, Nov. 5.
HAMBURGIi BORSENHALLE, Noy.2.
BAuanstkrlsahnasrepse.r.C.en..t.s.....
Anglo-Russian Loan •............, lO4 _
Russian 5 per Cunt., Harnb. Certificate. 100►% 100
Ditto Ist serieslnscription............ 101
Ditto,ilope and C0.,3d and 4th series• • 94
Ditto, in Certificate• • .... •••••• •• .• • • 94
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 86
Ditto Stleglitz •. • . ........ ........, sis
Spanish New 5 per Cent • ....... •••• •• 12
Ditto 3 per Cent ••....••—• • • • • • • • 22
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent......
Ditto 3 per Cent. •• .•.• .• ........
Polish New 4 per Cont. Loan, 1844.... 75
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .... •• 80% 50
National Bank Shares...." ..........

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER AND

RECAPTURE OF A PRISONER.

It will be recollected that on the sth of March last
Richard Hackford, an old and desperate offender,
effected his escape from our county gaol, to which he
had been committed for trial on the charge of stealing
a sheep from Mr. Bunning, of Holmer, near this city.
Nothing certain was heard of him till about a month
ago, when Police-sergeant Sadler, of Aberdaire, re-
ceived information that he was working in one of the
mines on the " Hills" near Hirwain Common, about
six miles beyond Merthyr. Upon this common are
" tracks" along which the workmen proceed to their
respective mines for the labours of the day. On Mon
day night, the 25th ult., Sadler commenced watching
these tracks, and continued doing so, taking one
each night in succession, but did not meet with his
man (of whom he had a full description) until the
early hour of a quarter to five o'clock on Friday
morning last. He then, in the moonlight, saw five
men going up the track to their work. He spoke to
them in Welsh, and some of them answered in the
same language, but Hackford, who was with them,
did not. Sadler, looking at him, said, " You are the
man I want—l am a police-officer, and you are my
prisoner." He then took Hackford by the collar,
who, after going with him a few paces, attempted to
trip him up. The officer recovered himself, threw
Hackford, and then a deadly struggle commenced.
The two combatants were young and powerful,
and sometimes one had the advantage, and some-
times the other. The working companions of Hack-
ford stood by, and he entreated them to turn to help
him. The officer also called upon one of them in
the Queen's name to assist him as a constable, but
instead of doing so he wrenched the staff out of
the officer's hand, and gave it to Hackford, who
inflicted with it several severe blows on the
head of his resolute antagonist. Sadler, however,
recovered his staff, when Hackford drew
forth a large clasp knife, and gave the
officer a severe wound, two inches in length, on
the forehead, which] bled profusely. At last Sadler,
summoning up all his strength, threw his man down,
and falling upon him, Hackford, with a groan,
said, " I will go with you." The officer, however,
in putting on the handcuffs, still experienced great
resistance ; but a young man, who knew the sergeant,
happening to pass at this moment to his work, as-
sisted him in doing so. The capture was then com-
plete, and the officer having had his wound dressed
(the prisoner does not appear to hare been very
greatly damaged), removed Hackford by mail to
Abergavenny, and thence by conveyance to his old
quarters at our county gaol, where he arrived about
half-past two o'clock on Saturday morning last. The
officer has of course received the small reward offered
for the recapture of this desperate character ; but we
trust that he will receive more substantial benefit for
so courageously risking his life in the cause of
justice.—Hereford Journal.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOS,

TON RAILWAY.

A special general meeting of the shareholders o
this railway was held on Friday, in the Exchange
Rooms in this town, for the purpose of considering
the proposal of the Great Northern Company to lease
the line.—W. J. N. Norton, Esq., presided.
The proposal of the Great Northern Company
having been read, C
The HAIRMAN said, the directors, upon receiving
these proposals, again met, and decided on rejecting
them by a majority of thirteen to two, and a circular
was sent to each shareholder, to put them into posses-
sion of the reasons for this determination on the part
of the directors.
Mr. BADGER then rose and said, as he had been one
of the parties who originated this offer from the Great
Northern Company, he should content himself with
moving the adoption of the company's offer, because
he believed it would be conducive to the interest of
the shareholders. He, however, knew that the ma-
jority of votes would be against the offer, and this he
attributed to the letter and recommendation sent by
the directors to the shareholders. He, too, had sent a
letter to the shareholders to put them in possession of
the proceedings of the committee.
Mr. IRONSIDES begged to second the motion. He
was quite sure that the repeated meetings of the
shareholders would have an injurious effect on the
value of their property—(Hear, hear)—and cer-
tainly, from the great majority of rotes by which the
question had been decided at a former meeting, he
did think that it would not be necessary to have
another decision en the same point. That meeting
was pretty significant of the wishes of the share•
holders, and ought to have been decisive. He was
sure the capital would not be sufficient to make the
line, and he would tell them why. Let them look
at the expense of their engineering staff. There was
the chief engineer, Mr. Rastrick, 1,0001. a year ;
Mr. Underwood, engineer, 1,0001.; Mr. Dobson,
assistant engineer, 4001. a year ; Mr. Johnson, 400/.
a year ; Messrs. Meredith, Kerly, Brown, Beer,
Bate, and Collingford, making together 4,950/.
for engineering staff, exclusive of travelling ex-
penses. Now he had received an official letter
relative to the London and Brighton expenses, and
he found that the engineering staff of that
company cost 1,9411., which was not half the amount
the Ambergate Company paid. Besides, the London
and Brighton had 137 miles at work, had four short
branches, and sixteen miles of line in progress, with
many stations in course of construction. It was
quite clear, therefore, that the capital of the com-
pany would be inadequate to make the line if they
were to spend it in this way on its engineering staff.
The offer of the Great Northern Company took all
the expense away. It guaranteed them a certain per
centage, and found all the money beyond the original
capital. He believed, if the offer were accepted, and
the Northern Company allowed to make the works, it
would be to the interest of all parties. There were
other points he wished to notice, but he would not
now detain the meeting. He would simply content
himself with seconding the motion for accepting the
proposition of the Great Northern Company.
The Rev. MYERS thought it would be a good
thing if the Ambergate Company could come to some
equitable arrangement with the Great Northern Com-
pany. If in order, he wonld beg to propose that the
p
directors be empowered to confer with the Great
the arrangement
Northern Company, on time basis of their late pro-
posal,would suggest should notthat
go through
standingosaL lf tothe
Great Northern pay the expenses. If it passed
standing orders, then the two companies might divide
the expenses between them.

A PROPRIETOR wished to know the difference be-
tween the present and the former offer of the Great
Northern Company.
A DIRECTOR replied that the: present proposal of
the Great Northern Company was, to take off the
arrangement with the canals, and to form the line
from Ambergate to Grantham, being, in fact, the
best part of their line, only.
The CHAIR➢IAN said the question could not be en-
tertained that day, as the meeting had been convened
for the purpose of accepting or rejecting the offer of
the Great Northern Company.
A long, stormy, and somewhat personal discussion
followed, during which many conflicting statements
were made. Ultimately the meeting went to the
vote, and the result was that the offer of the Great
Northern Company was rejected by an overwhelming
majority.
The meeting then terminated.

LITERATURE.
POEMS. By George Powell Thomas.
An elegant volume of versification, with an unpre-
tending title-page. George Powell Thomas is a
Captain in the Bengal Army, and already known in
some measure to English readers by his " Views of
Simla." He has in his present compositions adven-
tured upon loftier grounds of authorcraft, and, as he
acknowledges in his brief and manly preface, has
been sustained in so doing by a conviction that " the
age of poetry never will, and never can, pass away
but with time itself." The success of preceding
bards in divers particulars has not abashed him ; he
has striven to pluck a leaf from those laurel groves
which had been already thinned by the fingers of the
illustrious. The exquisite ejaculations addressed by
William Cowper to a miniature of his mother have
not deterred our author from penning some graceful
verses "On seeing a Miniature of my Mother." The
sublime and almost divine hymn chaunted by Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, when gazing upon the sunrise
among the snows and pinnacles of Chamouni, has not
scared him from the production of certain impas-
sioned lines "On a distant View of the Snowy
Range of the Himalayas at Sunset." The Asiatic
intonations of Thomas Day have not prevented him,
with all their beauty, from printing a passage on
" The Jungle River." The inimitable epigram of Sir
William Jones, an epigram that can never be repeated
too frequently—
" On parent's knees a naked, new-born child
Weeping thou satst, whilst all around thee smiled;
So live that, sinking to thy last long sleep,
Then thou mayst smile whilst all around thee weep -"
has not induced him to obliterate the poem headed
" The young Father to his First Born." The memo-
rable letters of Sidney Smith on " repudiation"
have not silenced his remarks "To Brother Jona-
than." The renowned travestie by Samuel John-
son on " The Hermit," showing the effect of true
Scriblerian Bathos, in a parody, ending " Come in,
my lad, and drink some beer," has not frightened
Captain Thomas from the publication of the jeux-
d'esprit imagined off the island of Jungheera. The
playful, and almost prattling, tenderness of Leigh
Hunt's verses to his little son, aged three years, has
not so far affected our author as to dissuade him
from writing in rhythm "To his Daughter, aged
four years. There are a variety of similar indica-
tions of audacity which, notwithstanding the melli-
fluousness of the language in which they are embo-
died, and the arts of rhetoric by which they are em-
bellished, remain to us " nevertheless notwithstand-
ing" quite incomprehensible. We cannot conceive,
indeed, but that if the pruning-knife had been skil-
fully applied by Capt. Thomas to his poetical blossom-
ings, the result would have been preferable. Had
he restricted himself, for example, to such originali-
ties as that of " The Frozen Ship," the most
pretentious, and, to our thinking, the most
creditable composition •in the volume, he would
have very materially increased his chances of acquir-
ing popularity. We remember perfectly well the first
appearance of the narrative, which suggested the
vision to his imagination, and bear in recollection, too,
that the coincidence struck us as being peculiarly
fitted for commemoration in a metrical form. That
coincidence was so thrilling, so fraught with horror,
so pregnant with thoughts of despair and desolation !
These characteristics have been well and passionately
conveyed in the poem beginning at page 45. Some-
times a noble and most suggestive theme is frittered
away in common-places, as in the " Sonnet suggested
by the Daguerreotype." What a novel and lovely
subject for a sonnet! A sonnet on the. Daguerre-
otype. How Wordsworth would have commemorated
the genius of Daguerre! How Charles Lamb would
have quipped and cranked over the metallic reflection !
How Herrick would have chinked his words in
honour of the congealed shadow ! How Abraham
Cowley would have sucked honey-words out of the
fact through his quaint goosequill ! But here—at
page 227—what an abortion of a sonnet, a sonnet in
truth such as might readily be supposed capable of
making the ghosts of Milton and Petrarch " squeak
and gibber" not "in the Roman streets," but in the
Hades of the quaffers of Helicon. Occasionally the
writer neutralizes the sweetness of one stanza by the
inanity of another ; as thus, when addressing .Miss
Jacintha Hunt, daughter of Leigh Hunt—

"I ask, if like thy gifted sire,
Thou touchest, too, the poet's lyre ;
Thy gifted sire makes answer terse,
Jacintha is herself a verse.'
"Yet albeit those sweet eyes of thine
Beam full of poesy divine,
To aught that's beauteous, good, or true,
Sure am 1, ne'er averse are you."
The fourth verse, liow epigrammatic! the eighth, how
strangulated and ineffective ! With all its inequali-
ties and hobblings, however, the book has some casual
snatches of true melody, and some intermittent pas-
sages of genuine sentiment.

THE BLESSINGS OF TEMPERANCE. A

Poem. By John O'Neill.

Most of the systematic upholders-- of the principles
of temperance, and the disciples of Father Theobald
Mathew, are long ago familiar with this poetic
homily. The present copy of it demands some brief
commemorative notice, inasmuch as it is a sccond
edition of an effusion already a favourite with the in-
telligent. Its popularity was, however, first achieved
under a different title, namely, " The Drunkard." We
are by no means partial to this mode of rechristening
a poem, especially when that poem is as worthy of
approval as the one written by John O'Neill.
" The Blessings of Temperance" may be more ap-
propriate as conveying more explicitly the intention
of the author, but we should have preferred seeing
the second edition with its old familiar title, " The
Drunkard." Appearing as this republication does, so
immediately after the remarkable glyphographic
plates of George Cruikahank—" The Bottle"—it is
entitled to a more particular attention, seeing that
the illustration of the verses of O'Neill must have first
suggested the series to that famous artist. Indeed,
one etching—that at page 16, " The Drunkard's
Home"—may be said to contain the germ of " The
Bottle." Of the other embellishments, who can ever
forget Cruikshank's sketches of the " Upas Tree,"
or of " The Raving Maniac and the Driv'ling Fool ?"
O'Neill's poem is calculated to disseminate such an
abhorrenbe of the vice of drunkenness, and such a
love for temperance in all things, that its republication
in this cheap and compact edition merits the encou-
ragement of every well-wisher of humanity and every
lover of talent in poetic literature.