The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-13 00:00:00

tveNING g_orrioN

BARNES, THE PANTALOON, AN
PARTY AT A DINNER IN FRANCE.

ifor dinner. All of 4- I was t°
them
said
But it now came to the point ,vhat we were to have
N.B. That. cursed Harlequin, who c,au aye
te had left
pre o, us.) I asked Columbine 1..13(1 her mamma
if they W0UTC1‘........ ke some soup ? The latter r. 'plied," That
„ h oinrdteerr:
it never agreed with ."...!ther of them." No 10 there- 1
then thought they might iike some fish ; bu t . t
know how to ask for it ; and that infern W,""
"poi;sons," again caught my eye, and made a '‘e "51-
tate. Seymour inquired if I happened to
the French for .4 brown stout ?" I confesse
having looked in my dictionary in the morning for 1116
two words, and bad written them down in my lit 414` •
memorandum-book. So, putting on my spectacles. X -
read them "Brune, qui adu cteur." This rijoiced Sey- 4 ,
mour, who begged me to order him a pot of it ; but
I could not make the fool of a waiter understand mo•
:tud, if his porter had no better head' than he- had, it
could net have been good for much. TOey were now
all becoming very impatient, picking and Ohh:.,ng their- •;
bread, and kept me in a state of nervous trekNidt:aioenb vas
to ordering dinner. I never in my life was 111
twitter, as we 61.'41 all the eyes of the room 14,0 a
which was not a little increased by Coltunbine's ma %ova
sweeping a large glass decanter of water off ',the t. 431"
with her elbow, which Cashed into fifty pee 15•
and wetted through a Freneb gentleman's crow
barred black silk stockings at the neat table. We "
could not apologise ; laud he kept shaking his feet like
a cat ; and worse than all, thoz,e brutes, Sept-lour and
Ronaldson, could not refrain (coin laughing. Colum
bine, blushing, said, " Do make haste; Mr. Barnes, Arul
order something ' • lam very hungry." So I vrax cont-
pelted to make a dash at the first dish that then caugl).-
tny eye on the till of fare, " des raves " So •
beckoned the waiter, and painted "to the article. • •
`r Pour .quatre, monsieur ?" said he, " Yes," said
I, with the carte in my band. He stared :
but immediately went to order for its. " Thank
Hcoi•sn 1" exclaimed Ronaldaon. " we shall now getstimrt-
thing nice ,:pd hot. What a comfort it is to have in a
foreign country •,h;sh a person as Mr. Barnes for a.
traveller !" I felt .001c-2-hoop" at this complintet ttod
quoted Oid Rapid in the "C;tre for the Heart-Ache 4'l.`"
it is everso little let me have it Itt;t." But Lord! how tileir
faces all turned blue when the waiter put on the to
tila
four dishes of turnip radishes! (You might have knock. If!.
sue down with a straw. Now, pray how was the pat
tomitue to succeed when the first scene was a dead'
1 failure?) When, as luck would have it, the .Tew •
Frenchman (harlequin) came to seek us ; and, on .
explaining the dilemma, got us tpasted turkey
stuffed with chestnuts ; cotelettes a la Jtfointenou—
sviich are mutton-chops with writing-pver
—anti some other dishes of which we were atwaii even
tn ask tht; names ; all very savoury, and plenty of onions.
and garlic ; buy whether they were composed of Squir-
rels, parrots, dormiez; hippotamus, or alligator, we ne-r-.-
inquired, and never knel.7.—Barnes's Journal, in Bent-
ley's Miscellany, July.

THREE BODIES FOUND IN THE RIVER.-
This morning, three bodies were found is: the river Thames,
between Westminster and Putney Bridges, One of them is
supposed to be that of an engineer, which w.O found close to
Westminster Bridge ; the other two were found tear Chelsea.
No fewer than seven persons were drowned last wisek by acci-
dent in the river.

SUDDEN DEATIIS.—Within eight succissive
days Mr. Whitmarsh, coroner for Wilts, has held as man v in-
quests in cases of sudden death.
ELOPEMENT. Considerable excitement was-
manifested it, Tenby, on Friday last, among the higher order of
society, en its being known that a young lady of high connexions,
had, in the course of the nir,St, eloped with a young gentleman
of good fortune. Their plans w..re well concocted, which ren-
dered pursuit unavailing. The lady prudently took her maid ;
their destination is supposed to be Gretna. Green.-- Cambrian.

THE INCUBUS.—The Corn-laws, like a two-
edged sword, are now cutting up the interests of the countr)
two ways ; first, by abridging the number of our customeri..
and secondly, by feeding our rivals in manufactures at orre-halt
the price. Surely a way will ere Long be found to the thrice
prohibited brains of John Bull, who seems still ie be fall of
loyal enthusiasm, talks of our glorious Constitution 13 Church
Sad State, and really thinks himself to be even now th'e admi-
ration 'f the world and the envy of surrounding natient.•---
Leeds 7'inseg.

DEPARTURE OF THE BRITANNIA STEAM—
Si:lf item tlrAx atin BosToN.—Ort Friday morning this
new and splendid steam-ship, the first of Mr. Cunard's line of .
Royal mail steanierti went into the river from the Coburg
Dock. and came to moorings off Birkenhead. Next fore-
noon she was ready for sea her passengers, embarked on
hoard a river steamer at the Egtemont-slip, south-end of the
Prince's Parade, and as soon as the mail-begs Ware reaetr
proceeded to the Britannia. Every arrangement being corn-
pletcd, shortly after one she steamed in galidnt style clown tho
ri‘er, and proceeded to sea, the wind blowing strong from thee
S. S.W. The which is commanded by Lieutenant
Woodruff, R. N., who has had great experience in steam navi-
gation; is expected to reach Halifax on the 18th, and Boston on,
the 20th itTfant. She takes out sixty-three passengers. The.
following are their names f...-The Bishop of Nova Scotia and
family, the Earl of Caledon, Hon. Samuel Cunard, Miss Cu-
nard, Lieut.-Col. Monius and lady, Col. Butler and his Limt,
Mr. C. M. Rosberry, Major Halton, his Lady, and family,
General Broughton, . Mr. Featherstonhartgh, Mr. las4ell.
Captain and ;Ws. Winter, Captain John Hutton, Mr. Ell-
wood and Mr. J. Ellwood, F. B. Ogden, .Esg., Americas
Consul at this port ; W. Andrews, Erg., Amer: can Consul at'
Malta ; Mr. and Mrs. Moore, Mr. John Cunningham, Mr.
13-"Fiaiw, Mr. Samuel Renshaw, Mr. B. Ross, Mr, Thomas
Palmer, Mr. L. C. Colton, Alr. Morley, Mr. C. F. lien=
worthy, Mr. H. T. Jenkins,. kr, .'n
Clark, and -Mr. Jaet
Clark, Mr. Foord, 'Miss lialli urto'ti, Miss Stewart, Mr;-
Mrs. Inglis. and family,- Mr. Colin Rasta end Mrs.
Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Piequenet and:faraily, Mr. Charles
Mantern, Mr... 1. J. Spence, Mr. Frankland, A. Mit-
chell, Mr. M'Queer, Mr.. Joseph Lawyer, Mr. S. Lean, Mr.
Hart. At six o'clock the Britannia was off the Great Om-
ahead.
A Committee of English vocalists are said to be
in treaty for Drury-lane Theatre for the next season, with an
intention of confining the entertainments to opera and ballet.
Pious RESIGNATION.—A certain reverend
ago Episcopalian,
within
a eiu
ah
uinrderiedrae
to a feet da}r miles
. tii
of Sandel, was applied
for eras
(a Dissenting first 1,
" eon
neighbour) fi)paur
Then I'm d—d if I do."--.Leeds Times. •

DEsTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HIGHGATE.-- 011
Friday morning a fire broke out at 3, Green-street. Highgate.
the preemies of Mr. George Colvin, brewer. They eonsisto
of a large wooden budding, two stories high. with bleeds and
stables attached, tenanted by Mr. Williams, an extensive cow-
keeper and dairyman. In the front the lower Dart was oceu..
pied by Mr. Colvin, as a beer-shop, and the back was his
brewery. The fire was first discovered by the police; it had
apparently origiaated in the first-floor, occupied as a carpen-
ter s work-shop. In a few minutes miter the discovery the'
whole of the upper portion of the building was in flames, and
ten minutes had not elapsed before they extended to the stables
and sheds, n which there were several cows and horses. An
enlry was made, and the cows were saved, but one of the
horses fell a 'acritice. The moment the fire was discovered
one of th t moury ed police was despatched to London for the
fire-engines, nn t in less than thirty-five minutes the engine.
and a (lett:client nt of the brigade from the Holborn : t elm,.
were on the spot. The Kentish-town engine had arrived pre-
viously, and was playing on the flames. Four other of the
Brigade and the W est of England engines quickly followed, anO•
by a little after four o'clock the fire was titally subdued, but
I not until the above premises were totally destroyed. The
1 buildings only are insured. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Gould has been removed from this dockyard its
company with 120 other convicts in the tender, to be embarked
on board the ship Ada, for transportation. It is understood
that on his arrival at the colony, the " log-book" of daily tle.
portment during the voyage will give a discretionary power to
the Government to determine whether he shall be disposed of
as en assigned servant its an agricultural district, or as an
ineorrigibt, offender, sent to work in darkness and chaired in
the mines of Norfolk island.—Dorrr Chronicle. -
A MOTHER'S LOVE.—Happy is he'‘Ntio know-.
a mother's lore. What is so pure? The patriot expects fame,
the friend sympathy. and the lover pleasure. Even religiose,
while she waters her faith with tears. looks forward to the lees!.
fruit oilier love. But maternal affection springs from the breese
uninvoked by the touch of interest. Its objects are the v'eal.
and wocul. Its haunts the cradle of infantine pain, or hovel'•
near the couch of the faint or forsaken. Its sweetest smiles
break the clouds of misfortune, and its gentlest tones arise amid
the sight of suffering and of sorrow. It is a limpid and lovely flree
of feeling, which gushes from the fountain head of purity, anti
courses the heart through selfish designs and sordid passions-
unni:ngling and tiusullied.—What is so firm? Time, misfor-
tune; penury and persecution, hatred and infamy, may restl
their dark waves successively over it, and still it smiles un-
changed, and the more potent allurements of fortune, opu.
lence, power, and pride may woo her—and vet she is unmere:i.
A mother t• loves and loves for ever."---What is so faithful ?
From infancy to age, " through good report and evil report,"
the dews of maternal affection are shed upon' the soul. When
heart-stricken 'and abandoned, when branded by shame, fol-
lowed by scorn, her arms are still open, her breast still kind i.
through every trial, that lose will follow, cheer us in misfus-
tune, support. us in disease, smooth the pillow of pail,. and
moisten the bed of death.—Happy is the man who kno we' a .
mother's love !
SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM THE INCATITItit
USE OF Go N FOWDE it. —WINDSOR, FRIDAt..-I:»Yeiteida.l.
evening a serious accident occurred in the Long Walk to two
Irds, the sons of Colonel Millman and Captain M`Derniott, ;ko
the latter of whom it is feared it will be attended with a fatal
result. It appears that the two boys were amusing thetrielves
be laying long trains of gunpowder, and then firing thew kr
with lneifer matches. Young Ikl‘Dertnott had just laid a •traiui
and before he had secured the powder flask, which he held in
his hand, it was ignited at the other end by his companion i
and the flask (which contained .nearlv a quarter of a pound of
powder) was blown into a thoutaral pieces. One piece Wee
thrust through the hat of Millman into his forehead, eatisitee a-
severe wound, and an immense flew of blood. The liandef
M`Dermott was dreadfully shattered, several of the muscles in
the ball of the thumb completely divided, and it is feared eeet
lock-jaw will take place. lie was immediately conveyed to tlie
(ooz-barracks, where he was bled, and his wound dressed ; and
he was afterwards taken to the resid..nce of his father at the
Tnh,
to triiel32l,.. Castle. This morning he was pronounced somewhat better
but he still continues in a very preearious state.
onQnaUgEe,l3aEnCd.—PasCsengl-lel
June inclusive, for the years 1839 and 1840.:
rpsa, raatt.itlite
pSctrta toefmcle fuletboe
cf A , riv
I !Years. Vessels. Tonnage. Passengers
I`o 466 ...:.. 152,969
1839 ...... .. 43
More 9,830 .. ..... .
7 ...... 143,139 - .. 0
--- ... ...... ..
.„. . .... 0
• - .
this year ...... 29
Return of the Number of Emigrants arrived at the pert or
Quebec during
the week ending the 13th iest. ;--
. .
Ireland... .............................. 1,442'
England ... . .................
Scotland
Lower Parts ... .... 7

1,998
Previously reported „ ...... 9,683

11,887
To corresponding period last year 2,701

Increase in faxour of 1640...... 9,186

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