The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-09 00:00:00

ST. LEGER BETTING,

13 to. 8 on• Coronation, 5 to 1 agst Van Amburgh, 9
to I agst The Squire (taken), and 30 to 1 agst SatiriSt
(taken).
The Knight of the Whistle and Lampoon are talked
of, but not at any price.
Lanercost will not run for the Doncaster Cup.

SOCIALISM.
TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN.

Sin--I observe, in your paper of last evening,
a statement respecting the Socialists, which has
been going the round of the weekly and daily
press, and which purports to be extracted from
an Anti-Socialist circular, of which I bad not
previously heard. You preface the statement by
heading it, " Approaching extinction of the
wretched Socialists," and say it will be read
with much interest, as it shows Socialism to be
rapidly on 'the decline. Alkiis me to inform
your readers, through pages, by the inser-
tion of this 16ter, that`'there • does not exist a
more happy class of per Sons than the Secialists,
because they possess the confidence of being
enabled, not only to relieve themselves, batlike-
wise the whole of society, from the wretchedly,
distressed state in which they arc now placed, by
the daily-increasing powers of machinery ;,.,and,
with re!,.ard to their Society being on the
cline, fshall be happy to furnish you such'sta-
tistieal information of their rapid increase, as
shall convince the most incredulous of the error
of such a statement.

By order of the Central Board,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM GALPIN, Gen. Sec.
Central Board Office, 57, Pall Mall,
Sept. 8, 1841.
[We copied the paragraph from a Tory paper.
—ED. Sun.] • -

THE FESTIVITIES AT WYNN-
STAY.

The long-talked of festivities, destined to take place
at Wynnstay, in Denbighshire,the noble baronial residence
of the present Sir W. Williams Wynn, in celebration of
his coming of age, and for which brilliant preparations
have been making for the last three weeks, commenced
the day before yesterday at this ancient seat. The mag-
nificent nature of the entertainments and reception may
be supposed, when it is stated that the PereyA, London-
derrys, Cholmondeleys, and numerous others of the
highest families of the realm, have hastened to partici-
pate in the pleasures of the occasion, and we therefore
furnish, from actual investigation and other sources, an
account of the park, mansion, and interesting vicinage,
through which, for the next few days, so. many princely
persons will meet together in pageants and festivities.
The interior of the mansion at Wynnstay, in which
these festivities are taking place, is in every part hand-
somely fitted up, and in many rooms approaches to
magnificence. The several spacious apartments which
it contains are ornamented with many excellent paint-
ings. Among those which may be more especially par-
ticularized, are three large family portraits ; a beautiful
St. Cecilia by Sir Joshua Reynolds; together with an
Orpheus, by Dance, afterwards Sir Nathaniel Holland.
The house itself, the most delightful residence, per-
haps, in Denbighshire, consists of a long range of building,
standing. on the spot where formerly stood the mansion
of Madox ap Gruffyd Maelor. Part of it was rebuilt by
the first Sir John Wynn, in the sixteenth century, and
part of it by a late Baronet of the family ; the late Sir
Watkins also recently cased and enlarged the whole.
This mansion is situated on a spacious lawn, in a broad
and open park, in which there are abundance of attrac-
tions.. for the gay parties that now fill its circuits. Fore-
most of thee is a column nearly a hundred feet high, erect-
ed to the memory of the late Sir William Watkins Wynn,
by his mother, Frances Lady William Wynn. Next to
this, there is an avenue nearly a mile in length, the
borders of which are adorned with some superb oak
and elm-trees, which- will form one of the chief scenes of
gaiety and carousal, leading as it does in a continuous
arcade from a handsome modern gateway direct to the
hall. Again in the park there is one feature which
gathers much attraction about it, not from any intrinsic
beauty in the thing itself, but from an affecting remi-
niscence with which it is connected. It appears only in the
shape of an old and venerable oak, which is named
after Sir John Wynn ; and tradition has handed down
the report, that to this spot he w•as frequently led to feel
the old tree, after that most precious thing on earth
had been taken from him—his sight. He loved, it is
said, to linger under its ancient branches, and as the
winds of autumn shook the leaves in fitful gusts around
his head, he often sighed at the remembrance of his own
blither summer days, and repined at the dark winter
which, unalleviated by light, was about to visit his later
years.

Beautifully, too, through these parts, the River Dee
pours its pleasant waters, brightening the whole of this
estate, through which it runs for a distance of more than
five miles in length. Along the banks of this fair
stream is a fine drive in the park, on which two
buildings are passed, and which we must not omit to no-
tice. One is a tower erected in commemoration of the
battle of Waterloo ; the other a cenotaph,' after the
design of the Capo di Bove, near Rome, to the memory
of the officers and soldiers of the regiment of
Ancient British Cavalry, who fell in Ireland
under Sir W. Williams Wynn. The views from both
these buildings are capacious, and afford many rich and
striking pictures to the eye. The grounds are of consi-
derable extent in themselves, being about eight miles in
circumference.

Adjoining the mansion is a neat small building, for-
merly used for private theatricals by the grandfather of
the present Sir William. On a wall within the court-
yard are tho following lines, inscribed, more than a cen-
tury ago, by Sir John Wynn, Bart. :

_ .
._ . .
Cui domus est victusque decens, et patria dulcis
Sunt satis hive vitae, ceetera cure, labor."
Bosomful of sweets and pleasures, .
Glides his life who owns the treasures
Of thardear and threefold good— •
Country—home—and wholesome food :
All beyond these three things fair,
Are but gilded pain and care.
The family name of the owner •of Wynnstay was
originally Williams, the addendum of Wynn being made
early in the last century, upon their coming into posses-
sion of the Wynnstay property. The descent of the
family-, which is the most ancient in the Principality,
is dated from Cadrod Harrd, or Cadrod the Handsome,
a British chieftain, who resided at Tremaday, and was
Lord of Tallybolion in the beginning of the 12th century.
The most illustrious member of this house in modern
times was :Sir William Wynn, of Gray's Inn, the first
Baronet, so created in the year 1688. Gray's
celebrated
lawyer was Recorder of Chester, Solicitor-General dur-
ing the short reign of James 11., and also under his
successor, William 111.
Mention has already been made of the change of name
in the family and estate ; but it may be interesting to
state that the first 71zunt‘ of the mansion W• at-stay, arose
from its situation on the famous dike. It also should be
remarked that the collection
of ancient Welsh manu-
scripts made by. that eminent antiquary, Mr. W. Maurice,
of Cern v Braich, are now preserved in the Library at
to as mostitandi‘,l- The park, which we have before adverted
Wymnstily.
°f
in Cant
ref
situated, reaches as far as the
village
situated
b.on, and the whole of the estate is
f t ‘vech,oNnalnr3t,, now called the Hundred
of
CBlroostenfioenldth e
outskirtsre
tan tnl3n.stay are many relics of
' :a:rnh ita)ennhgart,,asitt)trizaubeoort the s
gexreaamtiannetitqhtelialty:
others may be mentioneduniillit o
faagre Bill,at
• thetempt the curious to
Caer, called the Garthen
buildings,
t,
habitations
acres of ground
man
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possessors. Within two hundred of the: old
Offa's Dike, along
the
top
t)i.
~,,,.e3;ards. of this there is
1 1 u the turnpike-road
runs for al, considerable way. A fierce kettle
at this pce between Prince Owain -cyfei.was fought
English, attended with victory to theancient Band the
and which gave rise to a very excellent poem called;lols,
" Hirlas Owain, or the Drinking Horn of Owain ,l' .
posed by that Prince himself. com.
In visiting these and
other celebrated spots in
the vicinity, the rides and excursions of the illustrious
guests will be greatly enhanced with pleasures. Amor,
those who have already- arrived here to partake Of the
splendid hospitalities of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn,
are the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, miss
Percy, Marchioness of Londonderry, and Lady Prances
Vane, Lord Seaham, Earl and Countess of I'owis and
the Ladies Herbert, . Hon. R. 11. and Lady Harriet
Clive and Miss Clive, Viscount and Viscountess Dungan-
non, Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers,
Hon. Miss Irvine, Lord and Lady Delamere and Hon.
Miss Chohnondeley, lion. Hugh Chohnondelev, M.P.,
&c., who, already with the elite of the beau motuit besides
assembled, and the neighbouring gentry, number at least
one thousand visitors.

In digging :he trenches for the foundation of
the intended fort at llomainville, a considerable number
Of human skeletons have been disinterred. From their
forms, the fragments of clothing, some cuirasses in
Swedish iron, and other indications, they are presumed
to be the remains of foreign troops killed on the capture
of Paris in 1814 and 1815. The bones have been col-
lected by the Mayor of Romainville and buried in the
cemetery.
We are sorry to hear of the decease of M. Alex-
andre Adam, sen., of Boulogne-sur-:tier, which took
place on the Ist inst., in his 81st year.—Gulignani.