The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALCS—YESTERDAY.
Business was exceedingly dull, and not sufficiently interesting
to require any introductory remarks. It is enough to state,
that Launcelot and Gibraltar, were in considerable demand at
an improvement on Thursday's prices, and that Crucifix, after
remaining for some time at 16 to 1, found two or three sup-
porters,
the closing ones ; she was backed for about
two hundred pounds in the course of ten minutes. Broadwath
and Maroon declined two or three points, and were not sup-
ported with any spirit; nor was much money laid out on the
uot being
at those odds, but at 14 and 15 to 1, the last-
mentioned gy
others. A fiat day closed as follows :

ST. LEGER.
9 to 4 agst Lord Westminster's Launcelot—taken freely
6 to 1 agst Gen. Yates's Gibraltar taken
15 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix—taken and off.
16 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Broadwath---taken
. 20 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Theon
25 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius—taken
28 to 1 agst Mr. Shepherd's Viceroy—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Clark's Alonzo—taken
2000 to 30 agst Mr. Nevill's Christinetta—taken
500 even between Crucifix and Theon, the backer of the
mare giving five sovereigns for choice.

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.
ST. LEG ER.
The leading feature this morning (Friday) was the laying of
9 to 4 agst Launcelot ; 7 to 1 was laid agst Gibraltar ; and 12
to 1 agst Crucifix.

DONCASTER CUP.
7 to 2 offered on the field ; 7 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth
(taken freely).

TILE DERBY.
20 to I offered on the field.

PAISLEY RACES.—FRIDAY.
The Silver Bells, with 100 sous. added. Twice r(oNtmobdlean)d
la
distance.
Mr. Bowman's Easingwold, 4 yrs, Bst
Mr. Meiklam's Modesty, 6 yrs, 9st 31b
........ 2

:ire:Lord Eglinton's The Potentate, agaeNndtd,,o9.fistlell3ieels\b,:rlB3s''t
21b.
Lear, aged
two
-6oltdo
c4olotns,ABlostdesstlyb.;
, once round
Sweepstakes of 20 snvs. each, with 20 added from the Fund •
for two-
quarters of a mile. (6 subs.)
Mr. Ramsay's bl f Martyrdom
Lord Eglinton's br fby Muley Moloch, out of Zi11ah......... „
Mr. C. Alexander's hr. c Archer ... ......... • ............ ;
2tol on Martyrdom, Won easy. ....... -
30 added
Match for 251., list 71b each..—Mr. Yates's Ring
with 25 added, for all
beat Mr. Croft's Woldsman very easily.b,
The County Members' Plate of 50 guineas. Heats
and a distance.
Mr. Ramsay's Sunbeam, aged, Bst 3lb
, ( Noble) 1 1
Mr. Merry s Laurier, 3 yrs, ist 41b ........................ 2 9
4 to 1 on Sunbeam, who won each heat easily.
yrs, 7st 101 b ...... ...(Noble) 1
ThefrGomoldthCe Cup,
Fund.by subTs;voofmlsileSsOvasi;deaacdhis,
tlaOriefet.., ‘,.,,isthsubs. )
Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius, 3 yrs, ist .. .;: ....... .walked over
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, 11- ft.,ages.
Two miles•
(3 subs.)
Hon. J. Sandiland's Oswald, aged, 9st 31b .........walked over
The Aftershots Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each,
with 20 added.
AAilrr.. Bowman'sß e
di
.ern,s
Kathleen,Easing.o 16d,y4rs,
............... 9
A good race.
75t 41b

aged 26, who poisoned himself by
magistrate of
---_ .
SUICIDE oF A MEDICAL STUDENT.—On
Saturday evening an inquest was held;before Mr. Higgs, at i
tvhaer,Gr,raanindeHdioctaell,stCuodveenntt, Garden, on the body of Mr. Da- '
takirw prussic acid undo:. the following circumstances : I
who enjoys an income of from
theTh The
Manchesterdeceased, itd dock police,
was the son of a
2,2001. to 2,500/. per year. A short time since he married a
ivsatse
rlirsotur
egehtt,
young lady, the daughter of a clergyman, and on Friday he
This preyed so heavily upon
underwent an examination before the Royal Colleshgu
goons, and was rejected.
his mind, as his hopes rested upon his success in the
medical profession, that he entered the above hotel on Fri-
day night, and called for a go of gin. In about ten minutes
afterwards he was discovered in the water-closet, and an
ounce bottle, which had contained prussic acid, was lying on
the place. Life was not quite f elixoti.nelt2,,aAnidanhceb
King_stree►, was called in, but he arrived too late, as the
out into the supper-room,wh,) and Mr.
uEaidnwteadrdws,itak
deceased expired a few minutes after being first discovered.
It transpired that the deceased had been residing with
11A,Iira.neKheesntderri-cskq,uaare,surgeon,
Verdict, " Temporary Insanity.'
ROAST-BEEF REASONING.—One honourable
member could not bear to see Christianity abused, because
it was a part of the common law of England, not because
it was a part of common reason; this is solid,
substantial,
roast-beef reasoning. —Burke's Speeches, iersgoefl u,
family. ro..f

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.

PARIS, AUG. 23.

The Monitell?' of this day states that the preliminary
measures connected with the affair of Prince Louis
Bonaparte were in rapid progress, and that several of
the accused had undergone examination.
Among the fifteen persons examined have been
Prince Louis Napoleon, General Montholon, and Cols.
Montauban and Parquin. The examination of the
Prince, though not intended to be final, was extremely
long. His bearing and manner while it lasted disap-
pointed the functionaries who conducted it. They ex-
pected loftiness, hauteur, firmness, unshrinking courage
and determination, but they found him weighed down
by a sense of his own situation and that of his friends,
adherents, and party. He neither protested against
the competency of the Commissioners or examining
officers, nor refused to reply to any of their questions,
nor expressed indignation or resentment at any of their
many observations calculated to wound his amour propre.
General Montholon not only repeated that he was
not aware of the Prince's intention when he went on
hoard the steamer, but now added his belief that the
affair was, in respect of himfelf, a guet-a-pens (trap or
snare.)
The examinations of Colonels Montauban and Par-
quin produced from them respectively frank avowals of
their attachment and devotion to " the Imperial
cause."

The papers connected with this affair, now in the
hands of Government, develope the whole plan of the
conspiracy, and expose every step taken in it, and in
which—will you believe it ?—our old acquaintance the
Syren, Madam Gordon, was the chief agent. Strangely
enough, the police have this time also inflicted a wound
on that lady's self-love. They have not arrested her.
It is not known whether she will protest against this
culpable neglect aril inattention of the police.
It will appear that the Prince originally intended to
niakd his attempt about the month of November, that
is, at the epoch when the remains of Napoleon might be
expected to arrive in France, and when the enthusiasm
of the people and the army for his name might be natu-
rally at its height. Madame Gordon was, however, of
opinion that " the Irimas of November or December
might assert their chilling influence, and give to Louis
Philippe a chance which the ardency of the caniculi
(dog days) would ensure to the Prince." This sage
observation had all the success it merited, and the
Prince resolved that the expedition should take place at
that chosen and happy period, imparting to his fair coun-
sellor the knowledge of the day and manner of it—a
secret which it would be heresy to doubt she had reli•
giously kept.
We have seen this lady here in Paris in the character
of a concert singer, and with no mean pretensions to ex-
cellence in her art. But it was not the quality of her
voice nor the perfection of its cultivation that attracted
to her benefits the crowds we have witnessed. The
principal portion of her audience consisted of partisans
of the cause Inweriale. The remainder were spies of
the police, and persons attracted by curiosity.
Having concluded her series of entertainments in
Paris, she took to the provinces, and visited either in
her professed character of concert singer, or her real
one of Imperial Propagandist, or both together, as at
Paris, Metz, Douay, and other strong places, in which
were large garrisons, and in which (she reported to
the Prince) she brought over to the cause whole
regiments of soldiers and entire corps of officers.
Relying as be did on the success of her exertions, and
on the correctness of her assurances, the Prince ordered,
on the receipt of one despatch from her, a general
move of his adherents. One, a principal person, was
to proceed to Ghent to be at hand to enter Lille ;
another to Mons, to be ready to enter Valenciennes,
&c. This intention, however, was abandoned, and his
partisans accompanied him in his expedition, which
failed.

It would be unjust, however, to withhold from you
the knowledge of a real service this gifted lady effected.
The Legitimists and the Bonapartists of France aro
unquestionably as brave men as live, but it unfortu-
nately happens that the men of pluck, the fellows
who, under a Jeanne or a Barbes, would turn into
the streets, and in noon day attack a Government
defended by 120,000 bayonets, are not Legitimists
nor Bonapartists—they are Republicans. Now, as nei-
ther lily nor an eagle would be sure to produce a
rising of such daredevils as those who defended the
church of St. Mary in 183:2 and 1834, or attacked the
Palais de Justice in 1839, it was suggested by M. de
Crony Chanel that a union with the Republicans should
be effected. To this proposition the Prince returned a
positive refusal, for, be it for his praise or his dispraise,
it will come out that an idea of republicanism never
entered his head, nor, to his honour, was ever professed
by him. It struck Madame Gordon, however, that the
suggestion of M. dc Crony Chanel was rather a good
one, and, with a tact which no eulogy could do justice
to, she set about the affair and attached to the cause
Imperiale some thousands of Bonnets Rouges—princi-
pally of those formidable fellows the journeymen tailors
—but candidly stating to them that to establish an
Empire, and not a Republic, was to be the object of the
intended effort.

The Imperial party is, in fact, divided into three
sections. That of which I have just spoken has, or
had, for its leader, Madame Gordon. The second
which assembles at the residence of Madame Renault
de St. Jean d'Angeley (the widow of the great sena-
tor of that name), and who are called the " Worship-
pers," contemplate nothing in the shape of fighting.
The third has for its chief Madame de Salvage de Fa-
verselles, assisted by the Duchess de Ragara. This
latter section is the more enlightened of the three, and
are denominated "the expectants." hut who are adverse
to all rash attempts. Thus it will be seen that Madame
Gordon had it ail her own way.—Tines.

EGYPTIAN NEWS.

ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 7.

On the 29th ultimo, the Etna steamer arrived
from Toulon. It is generally said that it was the
bearer of despatches concerning Syria. The general
opinion is, that at the first energetic notification made
by the great Powers to Mehemet Ali, Ibrahim Paella
will march upon Constantinople. Every body is con-
vinced that such is the project of Mehemet Ali ; and it
is in accordance with the counsels given to him by his
friends at Constantinople. On the 30th his Highness
received a courier from Syria, who had left Beyrout on
the 25th. The despatches state that Baron Houffroy
and Viscount de Chausel, the leaders of the insurgents,
had taken refuge on board the Diligente. Three chiefs
of the mountaineers had been made prisoners, and were
to be brought to Mehemet Ali. Abbas Pacha bad
just received orders from his Highness to echellon the
troops on the coast. Soliman Pacha and Osman Pacha
were to proceed in the direction of Tripoli, in order to
put an end to the revolt which was still brewing in that
country ; and after having completed their mission
Osman Pacha was to take his regiments to St. Jean
d' Acre, and Soliman Pacha those under his orders to
Aleps and Damascus, with the view of reinforcing the
army of Marasch.

The preparations for war are being continued, and
cannon are planted daily along the shore. They are
arranged in batteries on the heights. His Highness
lately despatched one of his aides-de-camp in order to
accelerate the marching of the troops which are return-
ing from Mecca. Orders have been given for the Na-
tional Guards of Cairo to arm, to call them into active
service, and to despatch all the artillery possible to
Alexandria. From Cairo munitions of war arc de-
spatched to Syria. The materiel which his Highness
has at command is immense, but both the civil and
military service is badly managed, and the Pacha is sur-
rounded by a host of incapable men. Guns are mounted
on carriages which will not be able to undergo the least
shock without the necessity of being repaired. The
forts are supplied with metal of different calibre, but
experienced artillerymen are wanting for that service.
The land army, some regiments of Ibrahim Pacha's
guards excepted, are composed of uneducated children.
That army is decimated by sickness and the bad quality
of the provisions, and the sending away of European in-
structors has been the cause of all the evil. Mehemet
Ali does not view his position in a right ligbt, and he is
persuaded that ho can go to war with England, and even
Russia, which a handful of Circassians keep in check.
We have been informed of the departure, on board
the last vessel which conveyed the Levant mail, of a
Cabinet messenger, who, as soon as he reached Malta,
immediately proceeded to join the British fleet.
The steamer which arrived on the 4th instant brought
M. Augustin Capo d'lstria, who is exiled from Greece.
He was escorted on board at Syra by two gendarmes. The
Jewish expedition has arrived. Sir Moses Montefiore
has been already presented to the Pacha. The con-
ference did not last long. He was presented by Colo-
nel Hodges, the British Consul. M. Cremieux will be
presented, after the steamer leaves, by M Cochelet.
Two English steamers have just arrived, one from
Beyrout and the other from Smyrna. Nothing has
transpired. His Highness leaves to-morrow for Lower
Egypt, but the object of his journey is not known. On
the ‘27th July, at five in the afternoon, the steamer
Papin left for Toulon. M. Eugene Perier was
on board. His official mission with Mehemet Ali has
completely failed. The young diplomatist, who
was presented by M. Cochelet, has had several
conferences with his Highness. The object of his
mission was to prevail upon Mehemet Ali to avail hiraself
of the presence of Sami Bey at Constantinople,in order to
conclude, by some concessions, his differences with the
Porte. France demanded that his Highness should
abandon the district of Adana. Mehemet Ali refused
peremptorily in all the conferences which had taken
place up to the arrival of the steamer the Nile. On
the arrival of that packet M. Perier and M. Cochelet
again went to the Palace. They found Mehemet Ali
reading his Constantinople despatches, received from
Sami Bey. The conference lasted three hours, and
Mehemet refused to consent to any arrangement, con-
cluding by saying, " If they attempt to force me I will
defend myself, and I shall at least fall with honour:'
M. Cochelet tried to prove that the concessions were not
dishonourable, and asked him to wait for the decision of
I the London Conference, reminding him that he ought to

restore the Turkish fleet, as he had promised. Mehe-
met answered, "My offer was not accepted, for the
Divan has not named any one to whom I should restore
the squadron, and send it back to Constantinople."
After this unsatisfactory conference M. Perier left, well
convinced that the first diplomatist in the world could
obtain nothing from the l'acha.

BLOCKADE OF BUENOS AYRES.

The following is an extract of a letter received at
Lloyd's :

" Buenos Ayres, May IS, IS.IO.
" I have nothing to advise regarding the blockade by
the French—they continue it as usual, and from appear-
ances I do not see any chance of a speedy termination.
From General Lavalle's army in Entre Rios we know
nothing certain at present. The province of Incuman
has declared itself against this Government, and invites
the other provinces to follow its example. Should any-
thing result from this, I shall duly advise you."

FIRING UPON AN ENGLISH
SCHOONER BY THE FORT OF ALMERIA.

[EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LLOYD'S.]
" ALMERIA, AUG. 3, 1840.

" The British schooner Titania, Capt. R. Loosemore,
from Gibraltar, in ballast, and bound to Zante, anchored
here on the 29th ult., and sailed the following day for
her destination.

" The Titania was tacking off Almeria, on the morn-
ing of the 29th, owing to contrary winds, and coming, it
was alleged, under cannon•shot of the fort, without any
flag flying, she was fired at without ball ; and though
she immediately hoisted her ensign, they fired on her
twice more with cannon ball (one of which pitched
short of her stern) which naturally surprised the cap-
tain, and induced him to enter the port for explana-
tion, where he was detained till he should pay the
cost of the three shots. Every exertion on the part of
her Majesty's Vice-Consul against what he considered
an unjust and arbitrary proceeding was disregarded,
and to avoid greater prejudice by the detention of the
vessel he paid the amount demanded for account of
the captain (the latter having no money on board),
under protest, and the vessel was permitted to depart.
" It is only, very lately that the artillerymen at the
fort have received orders to fire on vessels approaching
without colours ; so far they may be justified ; but to
I continue firing with ball, after hoisting the flag, till the
vessel should deviate from her voyage and come to
anchor to pay the expense, may be attended with very
serious accidents, as nearly happened to the Titania.
Her Majesty's Vice-Consul has therefore given a full
report of the above to the Consul at Malaga, and I
consider it also advisable to inform you thereof."

LOWER RHINE COURT OF

ASSIZE.

(Abridged from the Gazette des Tribunaux.)

MURDER OF A GIRL BY HER LOVER.—George
Andres was charged with the murder of Marie Heintz,
a young woman only 16 years of age, by cutting her
throat in the forest of Gries, on the night of the 28th
of May last.
It appeared that the deceased, Marie Heintz, an or-
phan girl, entered the service of a small farmer, named
Andres, at Gries, near Strasbourg : and she had not
been there long before she had the misfortune to
attract the attentions of George Andres, one of the sons
of her master. The poor girl returned the affections
of the young man ; the intimacy proceeded until
she found herself enceinte. The connection between
his son and his servant remained a secret from M.
Andres, until early in the month of May an individual
who had become acquainted with the fact communi-
cated it to him ; and the girl was immediately dis-
missed from his service. Placed in this distressing po-
sition she made less mystery of her pregnancy, and con-
fided to some of her friends the fact that the young
Andres was the father of the child which she must ere
long give birth to ; but she consoled herself with the
belief that her lover would never abandon her. On

1 Bth May she was taken into the service of Abraham
Kcenig, a weaver at Bischwiller, in the capacity of shop-
woman. Here she soon gained the confidence of her
employer by her good temper and assiduity. On the
29th of May two women, who had gone in•o the forest
of Gries to gather dry wcod, discovered a female lying
on the ground with her face upwards exposed to the
rays of the sun. At first they thought she was asleep,
but on a near approach they discovered that it was the
dead body of the unfortunate Marie Heintz. They lost
no time in giving information of the circumstance to
the Mayor of Gries, who immediately proceeded to the
spot, and subsequently the Juge de Paix also arrived.
The body lay not far from a path leading from the com-
mune of Gries to that of Bischwiller ; it was extended
on the ground lying partly upon the right shoulder, the
face about ball discovered to view, the arms partly
crossed, and the fists clenched. The clothes, as well
as the face of the deceased,
_were covered with blood.
On the neck were two wounds, one under the chin, the
other a little lower down towards the bosom. At a
short distance lay a knife with a wooden handle,
covered with blood.

'The medical man who first examined the body pro-
nounced his opinion that the deceased had come to her
death by her own act ; and the earth soon covered the
remains of the unfortunate girl. The examination had,
however, been made very hastily in consequence of the
excitement and pressure of the crowd during the sur-
geon's inspection of the body.
Subsequently, however, Jacques Schuster, the bro-
ther-in-law of George Andres, conceived a suspicion
that the knife which had been found near the body of
deceased was the same which he had missed from his
house about six weeks previously ; and when it was
remembered that he had promised marriage to a young
woman named Eve Hammer, and that on the very
night previously to the discovery of the body he had

had an interview with the deceased, who stood in the (
way of his marriage with the other girl, the suspicion
that Andres was concerned in her death gained strength.
It was next discovered that Andres had called at
Kcenig's shop and purchased pipes ; had there seen
the unfortunate Marie, and made an appointment with
her for the same evening ; that she had told the young
Lisette Kcenig of his having done so, and said, " What
can he want with me ? No matter, I will go." In
the evening she kept the fatal appointment. The young
Lisette Kcenig and another girl went with her to the
end of the village, and then left her to proceed to her
lover alone. She was in excellent spirits when she
separated from her companions. She was afterwards
seen by a young woman named Matz, who stopped
talking to her until George Andres was seen approach-
ing, when she left her from feelings of delicacy. She
was never more seen alive except by her murderer.
About an hour after they had been seen by Matz,
Andres returned to the village of Gries, and proceeded
to Eve Hammer, whom he sought in marriage. When
he arrived be was covered with perspiration. He se-
veral times wiped his face, and said that he had been
taking a long walk to inspect a plantation of madder.
Although exhausted and fatigued, he could not rest in
one place, and proposed to Miss Hammer to take a
walk in the village ; this, however, she declined, as the
weather was threatening ; and he then left her and
went to an inn, at which he remained drinking till
about half-past nine o'clock, when he returned to the
Hammers' house. It had been remarked at the inn
how the perspiration fell from his face. He remained
with Miss Hammer until about ten o'clock, affecting
to talk and laugh cheerfully with the innocent cause of
the dreadful deed which he had committed. On his
return home his absence of mind was observed by a
young man who slept in the same chamber with him.
The body of the poor girl was now exhumed, and it
was satisfactorily proved that she had been the victim
of a murderer.
Andres began to act upon a system of denying every
thing, and declared that he had never had any improper
intimacy with the deceased.
He held out for some time, but at length abandoned
all hope of escape, and made a full confession of his
guilt.
CONFESSION OF THE PRISONER—" At the hour ap-
pointed I went, and waited for her on the borders of
the forest, and as soon as she arrived we entered its
shades. There we sat down upon the grass, side by
side, on the spot where her body was found. She took
the in her arms and affectionately embraced me. I re-
proached her with having stated that 1 was the father
of the child with which she was pregnant ; which
she denied. I was at the time seated by her
side, with my right arm round her waist. When I again
reproached her with what she had stated, she gave me
the lie. " Since you have the audacity," said I, " to deny
the reports of which you are the author, you deserve to
die in this place." She replied, "Kill me if you have
the courage !" She had scarcely uttered this, when
with my left hand I drew a knife from my waistcoat
pocket, and with the same hand (for I am left-handed)
plunged it into her throat. " George, George !” cried
she "do not kill me." At the same time she made
great efforts to escape from me, and it is not impro-
bable that during this struggle she received the wounds
found upon her hands. I then succeeded in forcing
her head round, and inflicting a wound in the upper
part of the neck. I quitted the spot as she was on the
point of expiring—as the last breath rattled in her
dfully affected
throat, and a few barely audible sobs alone indicated
thatT ieif wasteh
hardn prisonero t
labour.quiteyewtas i extinct.'
sentenced
Ia
xti n
sct. .:s dreadfully imprisonment
e
a
during the trial, and seemed bowed down with for
liferemorse.

CHURCH-RATE SEIZURE.—The Churchwar-
dens of St. Peters have laid their fangs upon a horse and
cart, the property of Mr. Thomas, of Pontcarreg, near
this town, for non-payment of Church-rate. They will be
offered to public auction on Saturday next in front of the
Cock public-house, when we hope there will be a large
attendance to witness the legalised plundering of private
property. Mr. Thomas is a highly respectable Dissenter,
and prefers allowing the Law, the Devil's Law,s e
to take
exampl
its course, than pay the rate voluntarily.
will be very generally followed by
the
the bidders and
parish in future. We shall duly chronicle
purchasers in our next.— Weishman.Dissenters of this

143 Y ENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS•

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the _Morning Chronicle.)
The Standard of last evening announces the discovery
of an " extraordinary conspiracy," for the alleged facts
of which it is indebted to no less an authority than the
Bristol Mirror, and its correspondent Mr. Handley,
one of the Vl/4"hie. Members for South Lincolnshire:"
The agents of this gunpowder plot are certain London
corn-factors. The object is to vest their cash in corn,
so as, by forced purchases, to raise the averages, and let
in foreign corn. And the crime imputed is, that they
plan "to swindle, nay, to starve, a whole nation with
impunity." A " villany," argues our Contemporary,
which " has strong substantive claims to the notice and
indignation of the community." Now, supposing the
facts to be as they are stated, we cannot see how the nation
is likely either to be swindled or starved by the transaction.
The result must be, that there will be more corn in the
Country. It will not be the dearer on that account. The
transaction seems much more likely to operate as a pre-
vention of starvation. Neither the farmer nor the con-
sumer has much cause of complaint against those who.
buy corn largely during harvest time. Few commercial
operations are more legitimate in themselves, or more
obviously useful in their tendency. And let us suppose
that, by the alleged purchases, the price is factitiously
raised, and the duty consequently reduced, who is to
blame ? The fault, if fault there be, is plainly in the
Corn-laws. There, and nowhere else, is the facility
created "to swindle, nay, starve the nation." But
for those laws the " extraordinary conspiracy" would
simply be taking extraordinary pains to ruin itself for
the public benefit. Our contemporary has provided for
the demolition of all his own arguments, through many
a month, in favour of the food monopoly. It is that
rnoaopoly alone which arms speculators in corn with
any formidable power over the markets. Were the
ports always open, either freely or even with a small
fixed duty, for the importation of foreign corn, the sup-
ply would accommodate itself to the demand. The
power of speculators and jobbers would be at an end.
The vicissitudes would cease by which they are stimu-
lated. A rant so uniform that it can be calculated,
year by year, to a nicety, would be met by a regular
importation. Instead of the apprehended drain of gold,
the production of which is further charged as a crime
on the dealers, there would be a proportionate export of
manufactures, enabling the workmen, by the employ-
ment it produced, to purchase the food they had earned.
Not an evil is indicated in this fervid exposure by
our Contemporary, but what really belongs to the hi;
itself, and is part and parcel of the scathing curse of a
bread-tax.

(From the Times.)
Our renders will find in another column a second
letter from the Rev. Mr. Watts, going into further de-
tails of the atrocities practised in the Bath Union
workhouse. We consider the exposure of these things
to be unspeakabiy valuable, as showing that the judg-
ment which we have been led to pronounce upon the
spirit of legislation in which the New Poor Law was
conceived, and upon the character of the manifestoes
which have at various times issued from Somerset
House, is borne out even to the minutest particular
by the actual working of the system in numerous and
distant places at the same time. All these facts tend
to a single point, the state of things which they discover
can as ise from one cause only, and can be healed by only
one remedy. How is it that. this monstrous uniformity
of oppression has been produced ? Plainly, by the
ruthless vigour, the consistency and concentration of
despotism—a despotism established expressly for this
purpose and not the less formidable because removed
from the conspicuous position of Royalty to the ob-
scurity of a dusty office of Somerset-house. Des-
potism (under another name, but we prefer the old one)
is the favourite expedient of root-and-branch Reformers,
on account of those very qualities which constitute its,
power for evil. Whet it does, it does cleanly and the-
roughly ; whi'e it lasts it is able to stifle and trample
down the resistance of those whom it oppresses ; it
can send out its polypus feelers into Cornwall, or
Northumberland, or Wales, without receiving the
slightest impression from that which is peculiar in the
circumstances of person or place. Whatever horrors
may be enacted at any point in the circle of operation,
whatever atmosphere of moral indignation those hor-
rors may originate within their immediate sphere, nei-
ther the horror nor the indignation come in contact
with the central intelligence, or influence its secret me-
tions. What might be calculated, if actually witnessed,
to excite human feelings in the hardest heart, will be
coldly or contemptuously disregarded when reported
from a distant, and possibly from a suspected, quarter.
(From the .Morning Advertiser..)
Shoul,d the calamity of a war with France be unfor-
tunately forced upon England, it is important that pub-
lic opinion should be matured upon the merits of the
case. It appears as the result of all the discussions that
France is determined to support the Paella of Egypt,
and to allow of no intervention in the affairs of the East.
For this course, she is pleased to assign no reason but
her sic vale, sic,jubeo. But the principle of Non-inter-
vention, loudly proclaimed by her at the revolution. of
July, and also announced as the principle of the foreign
administration of the English Reform Ministry, was ex-
plained by M. Thiess, the French Minister himself, in
reference to the Italian States, to mean that France
would neither interfere in the affairs of other States her-
self, nor permit other States to do so. This is the fair
meaning of non-intervention ; and unless it is capable
of this construction, it is a mere empty sound. France
now desires that the status quo should be preserves! inn
the affairs of the East, which Egypt and Turkey are to
settle between themselves without any interference ; but
she must he prepared to enforce the doctrine in both
ways, for if neither she nor England are to be allowed
to interfere she must be prepared to prevent Russia from
interfering likewise. What power has she to do this It
Could the relations of the Turkish Sultan and the
Egyptian Viceroy afford any hope of a permanent set-
tlement--could the obligations of treaties he cancelled,
and Great Britain liberated from her alliance with the
former, and Russia forced to forego the fatal privileges
of protectorship conferred upon her by the Treaty of
Unkiar Skelessi, this would be all very well. But what
security can France give that Russia would not laugh
to scorn her construction of non-intervention, and
march to the relief of the Sultan at the first summons,
careless whether the other European Powers relished
it or not ? Was not her conduct towards Poland
during the crisis of English and French reform a suffi-
cient proof of her respect for the promulgators of the
doctrine of non-intervention ? What Statesman, having
that before his eyes, would abandon Turkey to the
course of fortune, as France would insist ?
(From the Morning Post.)
We stated some time since, on the highest authority,
that the ratification of the new treaty by the Govern-
ment of Austria might be daily expected, and in so
doing we anticipated its actual arrival. The ratification
by the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh was never for an
instant considered doubtful, as distance was the only
question to be looked to in calculating the moment at
which it should reach this country. We thought we
might safely leave it to the most able political post-
masters to decide at how many versts an hour the Am-
bassador's bags might bring the imperial confirmation of
the treaty which the Autocrat had suggested. Nothing
can be more satisfactory, if true, than the discovery
made by our Contemporary, that the blockade of the
Syrian ports is to be exclusively a military one ; be-
cause as such a measure must, ex necessitate rei, be
nugatory, it will admit of any possible explanation. We
have only to hope that the sense to be ultimately affixed
to it may be pacific ; but, in our present state of infor-
mation, we cannot consider the announcement itself as
either more or less than a concession—and a somewhat
clumsy one—on the part of the British Government.
(From the Morning Herald.)
f Our own opinion of the policy of the New Poor
Law is known to be one of unqualified and unmiti-
gable hatred and disgust. We hold that Whig . boon
to the labouring classes" to be so bad in its principle
as to be incapable of being made a good measure by
any modified attempt at improvement. It is a law
which has done more to separate the rich and poor,
1 and by such alienation to render insecure the rights
1 of property, and unsettle the very foundations of so-
ciety, than any vicious, cruel, unchristian, and uncon-
stitutional law that has been passed since the founda-
tion of the monarchy. But though holding this
opinion of the law itself, when specific charges of ill-
treatment and cruelty to paupers, extra the law itself,
are made against Poor-law Guardians or their officers,
we wish to see the evidence before we condemn or
acquit the pat ties so charged. In the case of the Cre-
diton Uniun we suspend our judgment as to the truth
or falsehood of the charges. The result of the pro-
ceedings of the boasted Court V Inquiry has left as
more in the dark than ever. The question now to be
solved is, do the three Poor-law potentates at Somerset
House really desire that the case should be elucidated.
by evidence, or do they not ? If they do, let us have
no more mock-inquiries like that which agitated a whole
11 district for two days, only to terminate like...

"
Told by an ideot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

ANECDOTE OF THE QUEEN.—Shortly before
her Majesty's Coronation, General Wilkinson received a
notice to attend that solemnity, and do suite and service to
the Queen. The gallant officer, finding himself unable to
undertake a journey to London, prayed to be excused, on
the score of advanced age and bodily infirmity, and ex-
precsed a hope that his long services and conduct in the
field would satisfy his Sovereign that it was not through
want of loyalty that he sought exemption. A few days
after this answer was returned, a letter, addressed " Gv-
neral Sir William Wilkinson, K. C. 8.," was received by-
the gallant veteran, informing hint that her Majesty had
ro,
her of
been graciously pleased to dispense with his attendance a t
teen acknowledgment Victoria froth the Coronation on account of his advanced age, and to con-
fer upon him the honorary distinction of a Knight Co
tu-
his
sirtii long and
valuable herid
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soefrtvhiceesß._athQ,
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Committed to Monmouth Gaol, Aug. 14, Henry-
Mills, for stealing a pocket-handkerchief i the property got , William Gwynne while, removing the prisoners from l ..
1 van into the court.

ROE AND THE ROEITES.

Calverton, a retired village in Nottinghamshire, has
had the distinctio❑ of producing two men whose names
have travelled beyond its own boundaries. Lee, a I
gentleman who, having paid his addresses to a young
woman who had maintained herself by knitting fine
stockings, and been refused by her, vowed he would in-
vent a machine which would spoil her trade for ever ;
and, thereupon, never ceased beating his brain till he
bad produced the stocking-frame, and given birth to the
staple trade at Netting,ham, Derby, and Leicester ; and
John Roe, a cottager, who made himself the apostle of
new sect, which, however, never spread beyond his
own village, yet, we believe, continues to exist there
Jelin Roe was disgusted with the Church of Eng-
and ; and, looking about him for some religion to
which to join himself, he spied out the Quakers. He
greatly admired all those of their customs which as-
serted a freedom from the dominancy of the State re-
ligion, but he did not sec the reasonableness of other
practices. He therefore, set about to form a new sect,
to be styled the Reformed Quakers. John and his dis-
ciples resolved to marry and bury amongst themselves
as the Quakers did ; but they soon found that they
wanted the legal authority which the Quakers had oh•
ta'ned long before. The parish authorities required
them to give security, that their children should not be-
come eleArgeable ; but they refused to do anything of
the kind, asserting that they only did as the Quakers
did ; and, like them, would suffer anything the Magis-
trates might be pleased to inflict, rather than implicate
one atom of their religious liberty. The consequence
was that John and the chief members of his church soon
found themselves in Nottingham Gaol. There they
continued some years, maintaining their testimony, as
George Fox would have called it, as stubbornly as he
could have done. Eventually they wore out the pa-
tience of the Magistrates, who were glad to get rid of
them as well as they could. They were, therefore, in-
formed that the prison doors were open, and that
they might walk out at their pleasure. But no
like Paul and Silas of old, they said, " The
Magistrates hive put us here, and they shall come
and fetch us out." John and his fellow-martyrs tri-
umphed. The Magistrates were fain to go and make
themselves very agreeable, and request the holy
apostles of freedom of religion and matrimony most
politely to do them the favour to adjourn from those
walls they had so long honoured with their presence, to
their own dwellings, and their desiring friends at Cal-
verton ; which very civil request Juhn and his brethren
were pleased to grant, and issued forth, with due
dignity, exactly at noon-day. Having read this ac-
count in " Gough's History of the Quakers," or
" Walker's Geography," or some such book, many years
afterwards, and learning that John Roe was still living,
and illuminating Calverton with his doctrine, I walked
over there one Sunday, and inquired for the chapel of
the Recites, " Roeites ? Recites ? " said a young
farmer. " Oh, I know whe you mean. You mean the
debrmed Quakers. I'll go with you to the chapel." To
the chapel we went ; and, if John's disciples could be
said to resemble Quakers at all, the young man's de-
signatory epithet was not an inapt one. The scene
here was such a one as those who have not peeped a
little into the nooks of the world, could not imagine to
exist in England.
The chapel was a barn, standiag in a very retired
corner, amongst the village orchards, and half hidden
by their trees. The holes and slits in the walls, which
are left in barns to admit air, had been built up, and
doors and windows introduced. Within, it had all the
attributes of a very plain chapel—its loft, its pulpit,
and its seats ; not the least resemblance, however, to a
Friend's meeeting-house. My geide conducted me to
the loft, where I could see the whole congregation, and
exactly opposite to John Roe's pulpit. The congrega-
tion consisted of about thirty people : John Roe was
not yet arrived. My friend, the young farmer, having
,een me seated, laid his head very deliberately on the
front of the loft, and began, in a short period, to give
evidence that he was fast asleep, by a most unequivo-
cal snore. I shook him, and asked him if he knew where
he was. He said :—:‘ Yes, I have been here before ;"
lid so laid down his head, and resumed his dose.
It was a sultry day in July, and the greater part
of the congregation seemed similarly disposed.
Presently, a loud peal of thunder, and the
dashing of some drops of rain on the windows,
seemed to arouse them all, and just then in walked
John Roe and his wife. I would give something now
for a sketch of them at this instant ; for two such pic-
turesque objects, to a certainty, are not now to be met
with. Jolan was rather a small man, with a most vene-
rable aspect. He could not be less than eighty years
of age. His hair was long, as white as snow, and
comeed in flowing locks on his shoulders. He was clad
in the old fashioned garb, which, no doubt, even in that ,
hidden village, was old-fashioned when he was a lad ;
the most conspicuous part of which was his drab-coat,
and with very long and ample skirts, and adorned with
plated buttons of the size of dollars. Ills wife was a
tall woman, apparently not more than sixty, and must
have been a tine woman, too, in her day. She had a
mob cap, and a black silk gipsy bonnet, with the crown
not more than two inches deep, secured on the top of
her head. Her high and well-fitting stays, while
they gave her a remarkably long and taper waist,
stood up high above her bosom ; and her gown was a
chintz, of a large flowing pattern, each side drawn up
through the pocket-holes, that it might not dangle in the
wet of the thunder-shower, or, perhaps, to show, as it
did, a heavily quilted black silk petticoat. Black
stockings, high-heeled shoes, and large buckles, com-
pleted her costume. John Roe advanced slowly and
reverently into the middle of the chapel floor, and
looked round on his people, with an air of as much
dignity and seif•complacency as that with which the
most popular preacher could survey the most crowded
and splendid assembly, or as that with which an arch-
bishop could look on a titled crowd assembled to hear
hint in Westminster Abbey. While he made this dig-
nified circumspection, his wife, with as much evident
pride, shook the thunder-drops from the skirts of his
coat, wiped them from his shoulders with her handker.
chief, and then John ascended into the pulpit. There
was now a great bustle with the production of hymn-
books. A men with a pitch-pipe gave out the hya-in,
and blew a note loud enough to aw..ke all sleepers, and
we flail vonsi music " con ficoco" enough. Then some
one below gave us a prayer and another hymn ;
and Juhn opened his big Bible, and began, not
a sermon, but a sort of running commentary
en tile trausfiguration. But, if the commentary was
a running one, it soon brought most of the
people to a stop. I roust confess that I ,could
make neither head nor tail of John's discourse. Some-
thing he said of a " voice out of the cloud ;" but his
voice was like nothing but a voice in a cloud ; and of
" another and truer word of prophecy ;" sod he asked
us whether we thought this voice was the truer word of
prophecy, or whether we were to look for another ; but
he did I.ot answer the question, and scarcely any body
was awake to answer for themselves. The heat of the
day, and the droning of the old man's voice, had corn-
fortelely composed the congregation. I looked round,
and cook' not avoid smiling at the scene. Out of the
thirty persons present, twenty at least were scund
Asleep. They were " noddin." By John's pulpit
-core ranged two seats, on which sat the chief singers.
Inereabouts the only man awake was the min with the
pitch-pipe. He was actively looking out in his book
ter the next hymn ; which, having found, he began to
bah those before him lustily on their backs with his
thumb, to cell their attention to the place, most of whom
being taus rudely aroused from their sleep, gave a grea
wart, and every one nearly pitched forward on the floor

&hind these two seats, was a third considerably
elevated, and fastened to the wall. On this, close
to John puipit, and conspicuous to all the

asscinidy (whon awake), sat a stout countryman, in a
dark velveteen jacket, with a red handkerchief about
his neck, the ends of which dangled down his breast,
about a foot in length. By his side sat his son, a great
lad, ot twelve or fourteen years of age. Ho was fast
asleep, with the back of his head against the wall, his
mouth wide open, and his head performing a regular
rolling on the wall, from one shoulder to the other.
Presently, his father, observing his condition, gave him
a sharp jog in the side with his elbow : and, as he opened
his astonished eyes. he slyly drew from his waistcoat
pocket a large apple, and thrust it into his hand. The
lad raised himself up with a great stare, rubbed first
one eye, and then the other, with his coat sleeve, making
the most extraordinary grimaces with his mouth, at the
same time; deposited the apple in his pocket, laid his
bead against the wall, and away it went rolling to and
fro as before. Sleep now reigned triumpha
natn;d the
eyoung farmer snoring gloriously at my elbow,
re-
sisting every attempt to rouse him, and the voice of
John Roe droning on as drowsily as an old mill-wheel.
Luekily at this moment a swallow flew in at an open
Window. Twit, twit! went the swallow. The sight
and sound were music to some lads who happened to
awake. Up started one, and snatched at the bird ; upwent the hat of another, with a circling swoop, to catch
it. The alarmei creature twitted louder and louder,
and flew to and fro with the utmost rapidity ; the boys
were all in motion, the people awoke aattheeei snar-
ing
bte,
.John stopped- his droning, the •eryY ou g
frm
snapped off at once—the pitch-pipen blew aloud the
key note, and another vigorously chanted hymn restored
us all to ourselves, and to the open air.
I made many inquiries amongst John's people as to their
peculiar tenets ; but I could learn nothing distinctive—
all was cloudy as John's discourse, only that they were re-
formed Quakers, and would marry and bury themselves.
I was told in the village, that John's society had been
greatly checked in its growth by the simple fact of a
widow of one of his hearers having, lent him a consi-
derable sum of money, not on his note, but on Isis
word,--such was her faith,—who, on applying for the
repayment, was coolly told by him, " That the Lord I
commanded the children of Israel to borrow from the
`3:gyptians, but there was no command to pay them

—‘‘ What!" said the old dame ; "do you make an
T' -7.otian of me ?"
.
• What !" said others of his disciples ; " does he make
i-:.,vptians of us ?"
Ind the society began rapidly to diminish. Yet this
little sect cannot have existed in the village