The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-12 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Her Majesty's staghounds will commence their season
immediately after rain.
Colonel G. Wyndham's hounds will meet on Wednes-
day, at William's Wood ; Ft iday, at Durford-bridge—at
half-past cloven.
The East Sussex hounds ou Thursday, at Beddingham ;
Saturday, at Southease—at a quarter to eleven.
The Brighton harriers on Wednesday, at Patcham ;
Friday, at the Dyke—at a quarter to eleven.
The East Kent harriers on Thursday, at Pinebem—at
half-past ten.
The Northumberland and North Durham hounds on Sa-
turday, at Moneylaws—at half-past ten.
Mr. Fat quharson's hounds to-morrow, at King's Settles;
Thursday, at Mereton—at ten.
The Duke of Bucelcuch's hounds to-morrow, at Kelso-
bridge; Thursday, at Stichill—at half-past eight; and on
Saturday, at Floors—at eleven.
The B. V. H. to-morrow, at Milborno Pert; Friday,
at Map-powder-gate—at half-past elevon.
The Earl of Harewood's hounds on Wednesday, at
R;ffa ; Friday, at Deig ,ton-bar—at half-past ten.
Mr. Tudway's hounds on Wednesday, et Cranmorc-
gate ; Friday, at Gear-hill.
The M. H. ta-morrow, at Dole's Ash ; Friday, at Win-
frith--at half-past ten.
The York and Ainsty hounds to-morrow, at Askhan
Bryan ; Thursday, at Green Hammerton ; Saturday, at
Piil Moor—at half-past ten.
Mr. Bulteel's hounds to-morrow, at Puslinch-bridge ;
Friday, at Ivy-bridge—at half-past ter.
The F. B. H. ou Thursday, at Casawes—at ten.
Mr. Archer's hounds on Thursday, at Dolsdown, at
half-past ten. •

WEEKLY Gossir.—The New Eastern Zoolo-
gical Gallery at the British Museum, containing the col-
lection of birds, has been this week partly opened to the
public. It contains the Passerine, Gallinaccous, and
Wading birds, and the former being smaller sized, are
arranged on a new plan, so that there is a light ground
immediately behind each of the birds, which gives them
more relief. The whole of this gallery CM feet long)
is fitted up with bronze door-frames, and largo panes of
plate-,glass, and is certainly one of the most magnificent
rooms ever devoted to a zoological collection, and, at the
same time, is very quiet and chaste. When the room is
completed, and the one adjoining it, which will be, w,!
be-
lieve, by the spring of next year, the British Museum wttl
contain the most beautiful zoological gallery in Europ.
The collection there has lately been enriched from Russia
by specimens of antelope seaga and antelope subgatterara,
two species described by Pallas, but which have never be-
fore been seen in the west of Europe.—Athena"w• This
THE LATE MR. JONES BURT) CIT.—
gentleman, who died at his villa at Twickenham, last
week, was the only surviving. brother of Sir Francis
Burdett, Bart., M.P., and grandson of Sir Robert Bur-
dett, Batt., of Feremark,
Manners daughter who married Lady Garonne
of John, second Doke of Rutland.
Mr. Burdett, by his marria,e with Miss Brent, mcce
of
Timothy Brent, has left a numerous family. His eldest
son, Mr. Francis Burdett, is a Lieutenant in the 17th
Lancers. He was in his 66th year.

" ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 9) 1840.
"MY DEAR LORD MAYOR,—The deep interest
your Lordship has taken in the cause of my persecuted
and suffering brethren at Damascus, and the readiness
with which your Lordship kindly granted the use of the
Egyptian-hall for the meeting of the merchants on the
subject, induces me to trouble your Lordship with this
letter, to inform your Lordship that amidst much oppo-
sition, discouragement, and fears, we bays succeeded
in obtaining from his Highness the Viceroy—
" A Firman for the unconditional discharge of the
nine unhappy persons confined at Damascus on the ac-
cusation of being parties to the murder of Father Tomaso.

" Permissionfor such of the Jews who had fled to re-
turn to their homes unmolested.

" A general declaration that the Jews should have
tl.e same protection as all other subjects.
" It will, I am certain, impart to your Lordship much
satisfaction to learn that so far our mission has not been
'in vain. More was anticipated when we left home, but
the turn political affairs have taken, the agitation that
prevails here, the disturbed state of Syria, and the oppo-
sition of the French authorities, have hitherto prevented
our proceeding to Damascus, or obtaining a new trial, and
thus daring our accusers to bring proof that my co-reli-
giJnists were in any way implicated in the murder.
" The rise, progress, and end of the Rhodes affair af-
fords an uschil lesson to persecutors, and demonstrate
that where cupidity is united to religious fanaticism,
truth is altogether shut out, guilt escipes, and innocence
alone is sure to suffer.

" Notwithstanding our difficulties it is not our inten-
tion to quit the East without visiting Damascus, unless
compelled by actual hostilities.
" I have the honour to be,
" My dear Lord Mayor,
" Yoar's most truly,
" MOSES MONTEFIORE.
" To the 11)ght Hon. the Lord Mayor."

PREHENSILE ROCKETS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

Sett,—lrr your paper of this day there is a paragraph
stating that Lard Dundonald, better known as Lord
Cochrane, has proposed a sure plan for destroying the
Egyptian fleet in the port of Alexandria. • This may be
very true ; but your allusion to his rocket attack on the
French ships in the Basque Roads is not to the pur-
pose, because none of them were fired by the multitude
of Congrevc rockets employed by Lord Cochrane on
that occasion. Such rockets pass through the sails and
rigging of a ship like cannon-shot. It is very easy to
set fire to the hull of a ship by means of carcasses, red-
hot shot, and carcase-roc:tts, but then there must be
no one on board to extinguish the flaming wood, or
they must be all asleep. But if you can ignite
the sails, tarred ropes, yards, &c., in fifty places at
once, no crew can possibly prevent the conflagration
taking effect and spreading like that of a bed or window
curtain.

In alt the inventions of Fulton's catamarans (sub-
' aqueous vessels to fix globes full of powder to the
bottom of a ship, &c.) there is only this great difficulty
e., that of fixing them to tho vessel, even whilst at
anchor. Colonels Paixhans and Ravichio, of the Preach
artiilcry, have devised msny such plans, feasible to those
who do not reflect on the subject.
These devices are just like the one proposed to me
when I was a child—to catch birds by putting salt on
their tails. Ido not dispute, the efficacy of Lord Dun-
donald's plan, because Ido not know what it is. But
as you, Sir, have given publicity to his proposal, I trust
that you will allow me merely to allude to a projectile
(No. 16) of my inventions, which, when used in the
proper way, will cause an entire and immediate change
in naval warfare.

I call my rockets, which I first made in 1820, " Com-
pound Naval Rockets." I call them " compound" be-
cause they combine the explosive, penetrating, fractur-
ing power of a Congreve shell rocket of equal weight,
with the ennflagrating power of a similarly-sized carcass
rocket. But this is not enough ; it is indispensable that,
these rockets should not pass through the Sails or rig-
ging of an enemy's ships, but be infallibly detained.
If the cast-iron conical head, containing from one to
eight pounds of powder, strikes a mast, a yard, or even
the hull, it will do better service than a shell of equal
weight, and splinter all to pieces. But the difficulty I
had to overcome was to cause my rockets to be retained
in the sails and rigging of a ship, or in the branches of a
fir tree. I overcame this. At 1,500 yards I can put
fifty rookets per minute into the rigging of a first-rate
ship of war, so as to cause numerous conillgrations,
which no crew can possibly extinguish.
Masts, sails, yards, &c. all in a blaze, the ship must
strike or be destroyed, to the great caving .of human
life, otherwise wasted by a very prolonged cannonade,&c.
In 1827 1 proposed my rockets to the Duke of
Clarence. He said that he " would not for the world
introduce such projectiles into the service, because they
would put the weak on a level with the strong ; and,
as England was the strongest at sea he had no need
of such extra means." I replied, that " perhaps one
day it might happen that it would be very prudent
to prevent the weak' from becoming possessed of such
means ;" but he did not take the hint, which alluded
to his giving me employment at Woolwich.
On my return from Constantinople in 1830, I exhi-
bited the corlagrating powers of my rockets to Captain
Pechell, a Lord of the Admiralty,and M.P. for Brighton,
Sir Andrew Green, R. N., and to Sir Thomas Ilardy, •
who declared that they would put a quietus on all
ships rigged after the present plan.
In 1827 I presented a memoir to the Admiralty, pro-
posing the use of these rockets from a steam-vessel,
rendered shot-proof at the bows, with high bulwarks,
over which one or two guns of ten or twelve inches cali-
bre will throw shells horizontally, en barbette, with a
1 frame to project vollies of my prehensile rockets. I
explained the certainty of my shot proof plan, applied
to the bows, so that such a steamer con keep her head
towards a ship of the line at 1,500 yards distance,
presenting only a point against the 24,000 square feet
of surface of the enemy, and backing her engines at plea-
sure. Not one shot in a hundred will hit the steamer,
and such as do hit so acute and fortified an angular sur-
face glance off without doing any injury. Whilst the
broadsides of the enemy's ship are receiving the twelve-
inch shells, one of which sticking in either side, and there
exploding, forms a breach as big as a palace window, or
exploding between decks, will put a hundred men hors
de combat. Meanwhile my rockets are flying by dozens
each minute into the sails and rigging of such extensive
surface, wherein they infallibly must remain, and each
burns for twenty minutes with the strongest fire hitherto
invented at any of the European laboratories, not ex-
cluding Woolwich. This latter fact has been assured'.
me by Woolwich officers, who have witnessed the effects
of my carcass composition, or roche afett.
But the grand point is to cause incendiary projectiles,
&c., to adhere to a ship and take effect, so that the
crew cannot possibly prevent their effect ; and my pre-
hensile rockets arc the only means hitherto found. This
I will show to any parties desirous of gaining a signal
and most important triumph by their first application.
The common Congreve shell-rockets can be converted
into my compound naval rockets, with a diminished
range of only one-seventh in the small ones and ono-
fifth in the 32-pounders.
In 1829, at Constantinople., I set fire to a clump of
cypress trees at 1,200 yards, with only three six-pounder
prehensile rockets. I took with me to Constantinople
several hundreds of these rockets, and was for some
time on board the Capitan Pacha's flag-ship. I pre-
pared several hundred twelve-inch shells, to be pro-
jected from the twenty beautiful guns on board each of
his liners, in lieu of the foolish stone balls used by the
Turks. With my rockets and 12-inch shells, fired
horizontally, instead of the stone shot, the Capitan
Pacha from day to day promised me that he would at-
tack the Russian fleet ; but the attack was always to
he " to-morrow"—which never came. The Tory diplo-
matic intrigues of the British Ambassador, Sir Robert
Gordon (brother of Lord Aberdeen) were set to work
against me. But of all this, and a thousand more im.
portant matters, I have treated in the two volumes of
my memoir
• s (not yet published), continuing the two
first from 1818 to 1840. the bill of fare of which may be
seen at the end of my second volume.—Your obedient,
Sept. 20, 1840. MACERONI.

We are reque,ted to state that the new novel
entitled Dowager; or, the Modern School for
Scandal," Mrs. Gore, author of " Mothers and Daugh-
ters,"claaYS' b
toykest.ill Place," &c., in 3 vols.,
post Svo.,b is
ringready, and can be bad of all booksellers, and at all the
libraries.

HoltsE-DEALING IN CIRCASSIA.—Notiting
could disconcert them more than when we gave to the
dealer the price he first asked for his horse ; it being the
custom to demand at least twice as much as it is worth,
for the pleasure of protracting the bargain. As guests
and strangers, it would have been shameful to cheat us
but not to display their acuteness in making the best of
the market would have been scarcely more pardonable. Tot
ra:ve them in this dilemma, we employed our servan,tisn..
buy for us ; and then the fuse that took place, the !aorga4wi.h.
h4gling, and hairsplitting, all carbr!t-e'agrar:ty,
the most exemplary patience and orl •'s
- 5 —iongte
proved extremely satisfactory to all pave .
Year among Ow Circassian!. impertura I

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,
SIR—I perceive in this eveni,oo Sun a contradiction
b 3 our Vestry Clerk of a statement made by Mr. Alldis,
at a public meeting held by the rate-rayers on Wednes-
i,lay, September 30, and, as a Director o.rthe Poor, I beg
; Nermission to lay before your readers the following
_
?).pgures and facts :
The parish is governed under local acts, and in con-
_ Ise, uen ce of the popular mode of election, many bold,
reckLess, and ignorant men are made parish legislators.
These p,ersons are so proud of their acquired plumage,
that soon after their election they look around amvugst
their servants" for some one as their prbtege. On a
recent occasion
is delectable party attempted to be-
stow their favours on the parish. surveyor, by voting him
.50/. for services which they irepudently alleged had
been performed at the Workhouse. This job actually
passed in a Committee of Directors, and the Vestry. I
am sorry to say, were so venal as to agree vith this job-
bing " building" Committee. When the minutes of the
Yestry, at a subsequent meeting were read, a Director
of the Poor moved the omission of that portion which
related to the said " gratuity" on the following grounds :
—lst. That .be Surveyor was the best paid officer of the
parieh, for be hall 1501. a-year for little or no services-
-24. That he had int.( performed more than his duties, for
which he was liberally raid. 3d. That the parish was
in debt, and obliged to bo,:ow money to meet the cur-
rent expenses. These reason,- induced the Vestry to
rescind their former vote. Now mark. The jobbers
were so exasperated at the conduct of the said Director,
this; one of them gave notice of another, a Quix,atic at-
ter* to induce the Vestry to rob the parishioners. The
Vestry again met, the subject was again introduced, as&
after a discussion of more than four hours' duration, the
Vestry divided, when there appeared for the job, 20, ire,-
eluding the Chairman,—against it, 2G. The assertion;
of Mr. Alldis was made on the statement of the Director
alluded to, in this debate, and at the meeting which was
held [for the purpose of expending the parisit money for
a local purpose.
I shall now proceed to show by figures that Mr.
Alldis was not very erroneous. These jobbers have
drawn down on their heads this statement by ti2eir
stupid and ill-directed enmity to the said Director.
They tremble at the Poor-law Commissioners, and well
they may, for a more imbecile crew of creatures never
existed in any parish, and though 1 am one of their body
I am ashamed of pelf-seeking, parish politicians.
On Tuesday the 29th of September, 1840, the Di-
rectors of the Poor met, and the accounts stood thus :---
DEBT.

'Loans from Banker
Due to Police
Due for County Rate
Tradesmen's Bilis, including a debt for
Lighting a portion of the Parish above
the Lock-bridge, Kentish-town
Salaries due to Parish Officer.

£4,000 0 0
4,494 15 0
1,082 7 6

577 4 0
541 15 0

£9.696 1 6
Balance in Banker's hands to meet this
Debt

. £9,530 9 4

Now, Sir, I dare contradiction to these figures. Oa
that very day checks were drawn for 2,579/. 155.,
thus overdrawing the Banker 1,414/.25. 10d.! and we
owe the said Banker, 4001. " Temporary" loans,
forsooth ! I am fearful we shall not find our difficulties
so very temporary. The fact is, Sir,the letter alluded to
was put forth in fear of the Poor-law Commissioners,
and in order that they should not consider us in debt;
and difficulties. These Parish Solons talk of the large
amount of " arrears." Arrears! Why they deem the
present rate, now in collection, as arrears. Alt ! they
Aare not state the real amount of arrears—that would
discover all they wish to conceal.
Perhaps some wiseacre will again move that the
:Vestry Clerk replies to this letter ? Let him. I will
then administer another dose, which he will relish
.A
little less than this potion.
While I always ad%ocate a fair and a just remune-
ration for the services of every officer of the parish,
will never be a party to a gross job. If a man is ill
paid for his labour, I will support an increase of salary,
Ltut I have ever repudiated gratuities, aad I ever shalt.
' Will some of your resders inform me out of what
fund the machinery and the medical officers are to be
paid for vaccinating "all" persons resident in St. Pan-
cras, under an Act just passed, for " Extending the
Practice of Vaccination ?" The Act is silent on this
subject. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A DIRECTOR OF THE POOR OF
Oct. 10, 1840. ST. PANCRAS.

THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADF.

t •

The total actual quantity cf wines and foreign spirits
on which duty has been paid for home consumption in
the port of London, from the commencement of tire
present year up Thursdiy last, according to the offi-
cial returns made up to that darn, and to which period
the latest report is made out, is as follows, namely :
WlNEs.—Cape, hitherto this year, 141,010 gal-
lons, against 163,051 gallons, which were cleared
forborne consumption during the same time in the
last year, showing a decrease in the quantity cln-

_ .
sumed this year up to the present time, com-
pared with the same date in the last-year, of 21,741
gallons, being upwards of flfteen and one-third per
cent.—or more exactly, fifteen and thirty-eight hun-
dredths per cent.--and very nearly one-sixth part ditni-
nntion on the total quantity consumed.
Craret, Champagne, Burgundy, and all other Freud!
wines _collectively, up to the present time this year,
187,640 gallons, against 220,490 gallons, on which
duty was paid for home consumption during
the corresponding portion of the year 1839, show-
ing a falling off in the quantity taken into use hi-
therto this year, as compared with the same time in the
last year, of 32,850 gallons, being rather more than
seventeen and a half, or fifty-one-hundredths per cent.,
and approaching nearly towards a proportionate falling
off this year of one-fifth part of the total quantity con-
sumed during the same time in the last year.
Madeira, since the first day of January of this
year, 71,186 gallons, which, compared with the
66,104 gallons on which duty was paid for home
consumption during the first nine months of
the last year, shows, contrary to the above two de-
-1 scriptions of wines, an increase in the quantity taken

into use up to the present time in this year of 5,082
gallons, being upwards of seven and two-thirds per cent.,
or more exactly seven and sixty-eight hundredths per
cent., or an increase of one-thirteenth proportio❑ en the
total comparative consumption during the same periods
in each year respectively.

Port, up to the present date this year, 1,195,503
gallons against 1,239,133 gallons, on which duty was
paid for home consumption during the corresponding por-
tion of the last year, the comparative deficiencies this year
extending to 43,625 gallons, being very nearly nine and

two-thirds per cent. or exceeding three and sixty-five hun-
dredls per cent., or in the proportion of one gallon in
every twenty-seven and two-fifths of a gallon on the total
quantity consumed.

- Ilecii, and all other Rhenish wines hitherto the year.
34,60 S gallons against 35,812 gallons which were clearer'
for home use within the parallel period of the fiat nine
months of the last year, showing a decrease in the con-
sumption up to the present time this year of 1,204 gal-
lons, being very nearly three and a half per cent., or,
more exactly, three and forty-eight hundredths per cent.,
and in the proportion of one gallon in every twenty-
eight and three quarters gallons on the total consump-
tien of the last year (1889).
Sherry, and all other wines the growth and produce of
Spain of whatever denomination collectively, hitherto this
being compared with
Iyear,.oLB ,16,80f3g, La
17107 n
sg
oa
allown•sh'ich"-hdiuctly'' was paid for home con-
sumption in the port of London during the corresponding
portion of the last year, shows a proportionate decrease in
the quantity consumed up to the present time this year
of 20,10$ gallons, being a falling off of upwards of one
and throe-fifths per cent., or more correctly one aettd
sixty-one hundredths per cent , and in the proportion of
nponpc
toot:
airs
of
:Fes collectively,
hs ssttiyear
cei ra6er l huspa, :
70fb particularised,retohemne
a decrease of Oi3C gallon on every sixty-two and Ont.
present
corui neittlast:itrleinepincvngatlecaiurcspll(l
i,eoelsocn.dii
of alt
it:cnoai
enlnitaoti
intnyih;
tele.,
001 t6oeorf
commencement
the a 1
place
i liseace6ncoas
ceebngresii
muvri i
imported,
eii
:rfib,'sarufrsitririti
fifths
iyn'
Increased
gal-
lons, whirl'. were cleared forborne consumption during the
corresponding tine months in the year 1839, showing
an inereare in the quantity of miscellaneous wines con-
sumed hitherto this year of 959 gallons, being scarcely
an increase of three-fifths per cent., the proportion not
surpassing fifty-nine hundredths per cent. on the total
comparative consumption.
Total aggregate decrease in the quantity of wines
taken into home consumption since the commencement
of the present year, compared with the same time is
last year, 119,528 gallons—deduct increase 6,041 gal-
lons—total actual decrease 11:3,457 gallons.
will be
observed that the principal deficiency h
From the above returns and comparisons it
the excep-
, tumption of wine this year occurs, with
ILion of Capeupwards of fifteen
and one-third per cent.), on those
andi itthewliel
may, there-
fore(which has fallen off
rjes
which
are
chiefly used by the most syeasfoi,..
Rhenish wines, in-
cludingvarious descriptions of, French
, Burgundy, Hocli,(Szc,, while
luxury, namely, the
be appropriately styled ;Tie
and
Champagne,
port, the consumption of
use have fallen off in but a
very trifling decree,
tliree and about two-stds
stolu: onels
peat
Itil(•iinn
which is less this year b s only
per cent., and the
per cent.,
con-
sumption hi c h has
aeo9idonmi‘liciotrasseattah.ciasiierEre:cCei
nearly seven and
In the use of the
seven-tenths per cent. 1 , a
rmseellane-
enumerate( trines, there does not vonappear
I OW, or
much I alteration, the increase in the consumption th's
year only surpassing one-half per cent., and not reach-
ing.
three-fifths per cent.

PRESS GANGS.—The Times luis stated that
great alarm exists along the river on the subject of an ap.
prchended " press" for the naval service of the country;
re is not the slightest ground for entertaining any such
prehension.

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4:VENING EDITION.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.'
MEMBERS of the SENATE, favourably disposed
towards the ELECTION of his Grace the DUKE of NOR-
THUMBERLAND into the CHANCELLORSHIP of the
University, are respectfully requested to ASSEMBLE at the
Britis'i Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, To-:‘LORROW, October
13, at One 7.31., there to concert measures for securing such
Election. CHARLES BLICK,
• St. John's College, Agent to his Grace.