The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

(From the Non-Conformist.)
It is recorded of Byron that after the funeral obse-
quies of his mother had left the house, he put on the
boxing-gloves, and attempted to control, and thus hide
his struggling emotions by a desperate resort to a fa-
vourite recreation. The speech of Sir Robert indicates
to us the same purpose. His laughter is not natural—
his jokes anything but genuine. The smile which he
wears in his Countenance is a rigid one—a constriction
of muscles, not a relaxation—a thing of the head rather
than the heart. His thoughts come not from within
him—they look gay but they have no life in them—t hey
breathe not—they. are destitute of soul. Everything
about them is artificial. They are not bloom, but paint.
Their high colouring is not blood sent up through every
vessel by a joyous heart—but carmine laid on with little
skill to hide the pallor produced by anxious fear. Rhe-
torical jesting is Sir Robert's mode of whittling—and
whittling here ns in America, in proportion as it is pains-
taking and energetic, indicates thoughts absent from the
employment, and engaged in grappling unsuccessfully
with a theme too mighty for them to master. He pa-
rades his rank and file topics (to change the figure), as
a General does his sentinels and watch-fires, as a blind
behind which to effect a retreat, and while thus scheming
to deceive the country into a belief, that so confident is
he of success as to be able to advance the main forces of
his mind to the confines of the ludicrous, he is really oc-
cupied in anxious investigation as to the possibility of
his long maintaining any position whatever. in the land
of office, which he has surprised by a coup de main.
All the circumstances which distinguished the posi-
tion of the expectant premier, called fur a manly and
dignified, even though it might be a cheerful, gravity.
A great statesman, one would have imagined, if he could
have descended on such an occasion to deal with the
little and the vulgar, would have been rebuked by the
recollection that he was virtually addressing himself to
all the political assemblies of the civilised world, and that
his speech would till a, pagein the records of universal
history. Such a man, one might have eNpected, deeply
impressed with a sense of his solemn responsibility ;
foreseaing that the issue of the present crisis, whether
for weal or woe, would assume a character of importance
unprecedented in our annals ; and, conscious of posses-
sing within himself resources equal to the exigency,
would, in his first public manifesto, have modestly sur-
veyed his own position, taken a rapid but comprehensive
glance at the real and formidable difficulties which he has
to encounter, laid bare to their source the evils which'
now afflict the country, pointed out the sufficiency of
Conservative principles to supply a remedy, and, re-
serving to himself the liberty of deciding hereafter upon
the minor details of his policy, given to the world abroad
and vigorous outline of the course lie intended to pursue
in his efforts to save the sinking vessel of the State.
Instead of this, we have a series of heavy jokes levelled
at newspaper editors and affronted publicans. In the
place of a grave state oration, Sir Robert gives us the
ill-managed quips and quiddities of a sorry jester. In
the eye of Europe, he comes forward upon the stage, and
where we looked to hear the calm and measured lan-
guage of philosophy, and to witness the staid sobriety
and dignified bearing of a statesman, we see nothing but
the commonest antics of a third rate debater ; and the
Hon. Baronet snaps his fingers, slaps his thigh, plays the
buffoon, and cries, " When I get into power, • you shall
see vat you shall see?" We have been irresistibly re-
minded by his speech of vain-glorious Bottom the
weaver, during the period of his strange but
unconscious transformation. The ethereal beauty
of the Queen of Fairies, the witchery of her
tones, the exquisite poetry of her language, the soft
enchantment which, like sunlight, lent charms before un-
known to the delicious scenery around him, were all
thrown away upon the rude and boorish Athenian me-
chanic, and elicted nothing in response from him above
the level of " Scratch my head, Peas-blossom."
Nothing has so painfully impressed us, as this speech,
with a sense of the inherent vulgarity of Sir Robert's
mind. A man who can be thus elated by vanity is not
the man competent to stand at the helm in times like
these, and take the . vessel of the State through " the
devil's grip," amid the howlings of the storm which is
brewing overhead. No ! this is not the man to make
the very fury of the tempest subserve the purpose of a
commanding intellect and an indomitable will—to rise
superior to the impassioned elements of strife, and ride
upon the mountainous and hoary-headed billows of poli-
tical discontent, to national quiet and prosperity. Ile
may be able to manage• better than other men, the
crew to whom the working of the ship is confided—
but his is not the calm consciousness of power, and
unflinching steadiness of purpose, that will dare
to look a north-wester in the face, and take
no other notice • of the lightning's flash, than
to avail himself of the momentary glare to peer
further a-head upon the waste of waters. Afraid to put
boldly out to sea in the teeth of the swelling blast, and
sympathising with the timidity of passengers who think
they can be no longer safe when they have lost sight of
shore, he will attempt to coast it, and will be caught
among the shallows. Then, when his danger becomes
apparent to every eye, and the crew that he contrived to
govern discover his incompetency for his post, he will be
compelled, amid the jeers of every party, to give place to
some less dexterous, but more courageous and skilful
pilot.
The speech of Sir Robert Peel, even viewed apart from
his previous course, gives sufficient indication that, under
Tory as well as Whig rule, we are to have a temporising,
compromising, peddling policy. The aristocrat bureau
and red-tape statesmen have not yet played out their
part. Their days, though numbered, have not yet run
out. Perhaps it is better that it should be so. The coun-
try is not yet sufficiently in earnest to appreciate the
wcyth of great principles. Serious men are the offspring
^..prious times. They are nurtured in adversity. Their
of
a:. _called out by perilous exigencies. Some such,
powers
-e,,now quietly and unconsciously ma-
we doubt not, a., -e-kture greatness, communing with
taring themselves for ... by daily exercise, and
truth, strengthening princq,.. 4istant period, will be
storing up knowledge which, at no 11 passing cir-
of infinite service to the State. Such men, . • ..time is
cumstances are doing much to educate. Then ee
not yet come. But it rapidly approaches—and when,..
it does arrive, one.thing is tolerably certain, that Minto
manifestoes and Tamworth speeches will be buried amid
the rubbish of an obselete age of politics.

LATEST BETTING AT MAN-
CHESTER.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.
It appeared, both from the strength of the room,
and the absolute desire to execute business, that the
Goodwood events hav: not exactly suited the Lanca-
shire books. Be that as it may, we never remember
such a sample of business before, Wolverhampton
races and the Pottery meeting being,.' actually " on.' A
variety of events were spoken of, not forgetting the
Mostyn Mile. This at once shows that real business
was not in fashion. The annexed are a few of the
offers, &c., taking up time until nearly two o'clock.
THE Cur (THIS DAY ),---Even betting, then 5 to 4, and
after 6 to 4 offered agst Bellona.
THE COPELAND HANDICAP (TO Drontiow),-2 to 1
against Bellona (taken, then 5 to 2 offered) ; 2 to 1
against Ararat (offered) ; 4 to 1 against Ruler (taken);
4 to 1 against Dr. Caius (taken) ; 7 to 2 against Bellona
winning the two (taken) ; to against Mustapha
Maley for the Cup and St. Leger (taken).
WOLVERHAMPTON STAKES.-50 to 20 against The
Corsair (taken) ; 7 to 2 agst Recorder ; 5 to 1 agst
Black Bess ; 7 to 1 agst The Currier ; 8 to 1 agst any
other.
THE LEAMINGTON STAKES.-7 to 2 offered on the
field.
ST. LEGER.-6 to 4 agst Coronation (taken) ; 4
to 1 against Van Arnburgh (offered) ; 8 to 1 against
Middleham.

On Monday afternoon the first public exhibition of
Mr. Bains's electro-magnetic printing machine took place
in the Lecture-room of the Royal Polytechnic Institu-
tion, and the occasion called together a numerous and
highly respectable attendance. This novel application of
electro• magnetism was introduced and explained in a suc-
cinct lecture on the subject, and by a comparison between
the inventions of Professor Wheatstone and others with
the ingenious instrument now for the first time brought
under public notice. The principle upon which electro-
magnetism has been applied already, not only to tele-
graphic communications, but also to clocks, &c., is already
so generally understood, that an attempt at even a de-
scriptive outline of this explanatory lecture would be al-
most idle repetition. Suffice it to say, • therefore, that
the invention which it was the object of the lecturer to
describe, surpasses its predecessors in this striking and
most important point—viz., that while previous inven •
tions required the constant attention of some agent at the
terminus to which the communication was to be made'
this instrument might be left at the terminus wholly un-
protected and wwched, and yet the information commu-
nicated from the other extremity of the line would be
found legibly in type by the curator, on his return after a
short or prolonged absence. Mr. Alexander Bains, the
inventor and patentee of the machine, was in attendance,
and explained its capabilities.
The apparatus consists of a dial-plate, inscribed with
the alphabet and numerals, with a revolving hand, worked
by ordinary clock-work. On the other side of the room
Stood the important portion of the invention—that which
furnished in type the communication to be sent forth
froM the dial-plate already described. Between these
two machines a connexion (capable of being extended in
practice to any length) by means of wire conductors com-
municating with two electro-magnets placed on a frame,
and connected with a cylinder covered with paper, upon
which the type was to leave its impression—an horizon-
tal wheel, in which types to correspond with the letters
and figures on the dials were fixed. This wheel was in-
geniously brought in contract with an inking roller, and
these three portions of the machine were all brought
into motion horizontally.
Difficult as it is to describe even a simple piece of ma-
chinery, we again essay to describe to our readers the
modes operandi. The party directing communication
stands at the dial-plate first described, and fixes a peg
under the letter desired to be communicated. The index
or revolving hand performs its rotation until its progress
is arrested by coming in contact with the peg. A small
trigger is then pulled, the galvanic power is then brought
to liear, by the aid of the communicating wires, upon
the two electro-magnets, with their machinery on the
second frame, and the letter thus communicated is printed
upon the paper affixed to the cylinder.
The operations excited universal admiration, and the
machine itself is well worthy the attention of the curious,
for though at present it may fail as a speedy means of
communicating information in print, still by the adoption
of a code of signals (by which one letter or character
might be construed to denote a sentence or describe a
subject) the invention might be made extremely valuable
in the times in which we live. A visit to the inventor
will, however, he amply repaid by the interest which his
explanations afford.

THE CENSUS.
LIVERPOOL.

The following exhibits the population of the parish
of Liverpool at the five decennial poriods specified, being
all the years in which a regular census throughout Eng.
land has been taken ; with the actual increase per cent.
during the sumo periods :
Increase in Per centage
10 years. increase.
1801 77,653 _ _

1811
1821 118,972

1831 165,175

. .
1841 224,954
Besides the parish of Liverpool, the townships of Ever-
ton, Kirkdale, 'West Derby, and Toxteth Park, are in-
' eluded in the Parliamentary borough. The following ex-
hibits the population of these townships at three decen-
nial periods :-
1821. 1831. 1841.
Everton
Kirkdale
West Derby..... 6,304
Toxteth Park... 12,829

Totals 22,103

40,789

71,009

Taking the aggregate population of these townships,
there appears to have been, in the ten years ended in
1831, an increase of 18,686 individuals, or 841 per cent.;
and in the ten years ended last month, an increase of
30,220, or 74 per cent. Putting together the aggregate
population of these townships, and that of the parish, we
obtain the population of the Parliamentary borough of
Liverpool, viz., 293,963. The population of the Parlia-
mentary borough, in 1831, was 195,964 ; but at that pe-
riod the borough was not so extensive as it now is, the
limits having been extended by the Boundaries Act ;
therefore no fair comparison can be made between them.

• BIRMINGHAM.
The follonting is an abstract of the population returns,
&c., for the borough of Birmingham :
Inhabited houses
Uninhabited houses 3,793
Houses building
. . . .

Inhabitants (Miles) 88,305
Inhabitants (females)
Total number of inhabitants— 182,698

CANTERBURY.

The return in our last did not give the population of
those parishes which, since the passing of the Municipal
Act, have become part and parcel of the city of Canter-
bury. The following statement will be found perfectly
correct, being made from the returns of the several enu-
merators :

Inhabitants in the city and borough of Canterbury 17,320
Inhabitants of the barrack departmen 2,012

Total 19,332
‘faidstone Gazette:

HUNG 'gortu AND LAMBETH
(PROPOSEL7,cha..9 1 SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
This ver elegant
et:, suspension bridge is in
course of con
hames, from y
struction across t`l
Hunger-
ford-market to the Lambeth ham:. at a short distance
west of the brewery of Messrs. Go .7
and Co., and in
'
'ding
a line with the Belvidere-road. The want of '.!'uch a com-
munication as this bridge will present has been g;,'gerally
acknowledged since the erection of Hungerford-mar::Qt,
in the year 1833 ; shortly after the plan was submitted
to the public, a Company formed, and an Act of Parlia-
ment obtained, authorising them to raise a capital of
106,000/. for the purpose.
The engineer of the bridge is Mr. I. K. Brunel,
F.R.S., who is also executing a stupendous suspension
bridge across the Avon, at Clifton. The design presents
a handsome arched approach from each back of the river,
the road, or rather the pathway, being suspended by
iron chains from two stme piers in the Italian style,
corresponding, generally, with the campaniles of Hunger-
ford-market. The architect to the Company is Mr.
I. P. Brunning, and the masonry has been contracted
for at 63,0001., by Mr. G. Chadwick. The iron work
will be executed at the works of Messrs. Sandys and
Co., in Cornwall, at the estimated cost of 17,000/. The
weight will be 700 tons ; the entire length .1,410 feet,
divided as follows :—From each shore topier, 370 feet ;
centre between piers, 670 feet ; the viaduct will be 28 feet
above high water mark, or three feet higher than the
crown of the centre arch of Waterloo-bridge. It will
be adapted for foot passengers only, the toll being a half-
penny each person. Ou the Hungerford side the plat-
form will join the centre of the terraced roof of the co-
lonnade between the two taverns, whence the traffic will
pass through the galleries over the colonnades of the
fish market, by the level of the general market to Hun-
gerfOrd-street and the Strand.
The total cost of the bridge and approaches is estima-
ted at 102,2541. 7s. ; and the estimated return, based
upon the traffic of the existing bridges, is as follows :-
Ist. Ordinary traffic at a halfpenny each person is
estimated at per annum ........................ £B,OOO
2d. Traffic from Lambeth to the Hungerford
market
3d. Matches on the River, for the sight of which
the bridge ‘tvii.alltribee
tpoaratnicdulit.rtrolmy
4tlt. asdteallanteldboats 3OO
sth. Rent of uhal,c,:',..Triated portion of the pro-
perty already purchases"

--
CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NAVAL STORY,
" Tom llowutso."--,This spirited tale of the sea seems
to be generally considered as one of the best that has
proceeded from Captain Chamier's popular pen. The
Naval and Military Gazette says :—" There is some-
thing in the name of Tom BoMing that is essentially
suggestive of all that is stirring and attractive in sea-life;
and this Captain Chamier seems to have felt, for his
novel is typical of all that is British seamanlike in the
character of these Whose home is on the waters.' A
general idea of this novel is indicated in the fact that
its author has made Tom Bowling the ideal of a Brltish
seaman in all the various grades of that character—from
the poor cabin boy of a collier to the great Admire.
But this is but a comparatively small portion of their
contents the career of the imaginary hero being made
the vehicle for placing before us incident-al delineations,
drawn from the life of several of our most celebrated
naval heroes—Nelson, Collingwood, Jervis, &e.—to-
gether with a large variety of other sketches, both real
and ideal, forming together one of the most charac-
teristic, spirited, and entertaining illustrations of sca-
life that our recent literature has furnished.
MARCH OF IMPUDENCE.--AR impudent trick
was practised on Tuesday morning, about 11 o'clock, in
High Holborn, by a " shabby genteel" fellow who was
loitering near a book-stall opposite Day and Martin's.
A gentleman who had been looking for some time at a
volume which was lying on the stall, marked 7s. 6d., at
length took it up, and, thinking that the individual
above alluded to belonged to the shop, said to him—
" I will give you ss. for this, if you like." " Why, Sir,"
said the man, with the most perfect nonchalance, busi-
ness is very bad, so I suppose I must take it." The
gentleman dropped -two half-crowns into the fellow's
hand, and he was out of sight in a moment. The shop-
iteeper, who bed been busily engaged, happened to per-
ceive the gentleman walking away with the book, and
stopped hint,
„when an explanation took place, and the
gentleman lad the mortification to pay a second crown
for his " bargain.
SALTING MEAT.-7-The method for which
patent has been taken out by Mr. Payne is thus described:
—The meat to be salted is placed within a strollg iron
vessel, which is,closed in an air-tight manner,- and the'
air exhausted from it by means of an air-pump ; a coon..
munication is then opened with a brine vessel, whence
the brine flows into the receiver, until it is about half
filled ; the air-pump- is then again worked to draw Al
every particle of air from the meat, &c. Tho. brine is
then permitted to fill the receiver, and a further quantity
is injected by means of a common forcing pump, the
pressure being regulated by a safety-vat re loaded with
about 1001 b. or 1501 b. upon the square int :h. After re-
maining under this pressure for about fifteen minutes
the meat is cured, and may be taken out of the rewirer,

. _
WWe trust these anticipations may-be £9,010
1,,..,,,-...15.F,d
.to Llr
full, for assuredly the new bridge must add consi,l`•• -},
to the public convenience. As a point for embarking °At
debarking there will be a commodious flight of stairs
.a.
each extremity of the bridge, which will probably
,stie,l:fitr.
sede the unsightly wooden piers now in use. Thee
~rom
boat traffic at the Hungerford Pier has increased from
0.
100,000 persons in 1834-5 (the first year of thoeoru,nrns(f)nn!•iiti
the small steam-boats), to upwards of'l,loo
1839-40. The importance to Lambeth ofe't:hcceicP;oetnnttigiuist
of a general market (particularly
roll el e-
market) will, it is calculated, ensureef,nit:aungehret7kbaffilecr.
bridge will likewise afford a safe
for which have been
Southwark and Lambeth (the Billsn,
"ado ; and upon. the completionouf"
erford-bridgc will be
i submitted to Parliament). the new streets in
I the most direct line of
communication
districts of
Southern, south-eastern, a.n
..
cross, shortening the dis-
tance iluininication between the
the metropolis and
these Charing-cross,
parts nearly half a mile.
I tance bet.veen many of
will be completed in about eighteen
The works are now i
1 ex-
pected that time bridge n active progress, and it is ex-
inonths.--Mirror

- -
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—The works
at the eastern part of Chelmsford are rapidly progress-
ing. The embankment to form the line from Spring-
field over the river Chelmer has been raised to within a
few rods of the bridge now erecting, by which the line
will pass over New-street ; the arch of the bridge is
Completed, and exhibits a skilful piece of workmanship;
it is supported by ten buttresses on each side. The em-
bankment. also, at the western side of the town is fast
approaching the river Cann. These two contracts,
which are expected to be completed early in the spring,
will form about two miles of the road iu our immediate
yicinity.—Essex Herald,

.)_11:,1 N
RE OE THE
REFCOO2II
Ol' nit MIDDLESEX MBEIGTISTTEILE‘.-
TION CLUB.
L.Th nix
Your Committee having performed the duties en-
trusted to them, have great satisfaction in l:no ing that
their labours have been instrumental in deterring
second Tory candidate from offering himself for the
county, and in securing for their venerable friend, Georg
Byng, Esq., his return to 'Parliament for the fif-
teenth time.
Your Committee were of opinion, previous to the elec:
Lion, that a second Liberal candidate would be certain of
success, and they are proud to find this conclusion con-
firmed by the numerous letters that have been received
from the electors residing in the. various
.districts of the_
county and in other parts of the kingdom, promising
their aid to two candidates who would support the policy
of the present Liberal Government.
Your Committee take credit for having successfully
defended four hundred and seventy-two Liberal claims,
and for having struck off four hundred and seventy-nine
Tory claims, during the last revision, making a total of
3,882 claims defended, and 1,879 struck off, since the
election in'lB37. The importance of the club is there-
fore manifest.
Your Committee, seeing the importance of a strict
attention to the register, are willing to renew their exer-
tions, and hope to receive that support and assistance
which the state of be funds, as shown on the annexed
balance-sheet, imperatively demands.
By order of the Committee,
W. IL JAMES, Secretary.
Committee-room, 11, Beaufort-buildings, Strand,
July 28th, 1841.
The objects of the Club are to protect the registration
of electors of reform principles ; to prevent fraudulent
registration ; and to promote the return of Liberal repre-
sentatives for the county to Parliament. It may be
proper to observe, the Committee of this Club are de-
sirous of carrying out these objects effectually, and
trust to the liberality of the friends of reform to aid
their laboitrs by a subscription to the fund.
Subscriptions received by the Treasurer, Gilbert
Pouncy, Esq., No. 65, Long-acre ; Mr. W. 11. James,
Secretary, 11, Beaufort-buildings, Strand ; and at Messrs.
Cocks and Biddulphs, bankers, Charing-cross.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE OF THE CLUB, FROM NO-
VEMBER 1, 1839. TO THE GENERAL MEETING HELD
ON THE 6TII OF MAY, 1840.
Balance due to the Treasurer on last year's
account • X 66 5 7
Cash paid for advertisements - 2 9 6
Ditto for clerks
Ditto for coach hire and travelling expenses 26 8 0
Ditto for postage and sundries, as per book 2l 10 2
Ditto for coals' for office
Ditto for Collector, due on last year's account 11 2 6
Cash repaid, received in error

£164 5 3
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE OF TRU CLUJ; FROM THE
GENERAL MEETING, lIELD ON 6TII NAT, 1840, TO 6TH
MAY, 1841.
Cash paid for advertisements...
Ditto for clerks, messengers, and notice
servers, eleven in number
Ditto for printing
Ditto for books and stationery
Ditto for coach-hire and travelling expenses
to the various parishes and districts of the
county, incurred by various persons em-
ployed by the Committee 6l 12 2
Ditto for postage of letters, sent and received 39 2 2
Ditto for county registers, parish lists of
claims and objections, and moneys paid
with claims 43 0 0
Ditto for coals for office
Ditto for collecting subscriptions lB 17 0
Ditto for sundries, as per account book 59 5 4
Ditto for expenses during the three weeks of
the revision, as per recommendation of the
Committee
Ditto for rent of offices up to the 29th of
September, 1840 2O 0 0
Ditto for Secretary's salary (three years)
The attendance in opposition and defence of
claimants in the Registration Courts was
on the part of Messrs. Coppock, Holmes,
and James gratuitous

£ 3 13 0

25 0 0

£673 6 3i
Subscriptions received from Ist November,
1839, to sth June, 1841, including Mr
Byng's subscription of £2OO 419 4 6

Due to the Treasurer • £254 1 2}
The foregoing accounts were examined, and found to
be correct.
June 5, 1841. THOMAS DE VEAR,
1 Auditors.
ROBERT M' WILLIAM,

RICHARD SAVAGE AND << THE

SMALLEST FOOT IN TOWN."

" The shoes being placed in a bag, I was sent away,
and soon found myself at the door of Mrs. L'Estrange.
The servant to whom I imparted my business, directed
me to walk up stairs into the front room; where I should
find the lady. When I entered fhe room—which I did
silently, the door having been what is termed a-jar,'—
I discovered a very little woman, magnificently dressed,
parading before a large mirror; now advancing towards,
and now retreating from it; anon skipping.froni side to
side, in a manner so utterly wanting in vigour as
to betoken that the performer was pretty well stricken
in years. At length, either beholding my distant
reflection in the glass, or hearing the short e.Jugh with
which I sought to interrupt her measured exercises, she
turned suddenly round, and presenting to inspection a
face highly embellished with paint, said,

" Aiid,pr'ythee, who art thou?"
I stated from whom I came, and presented my cre-
dentials.

" And where is that respectful young man, who usu-
ally comes upon these occasions.?" inquired the lady—
" not gone, I hope?" • .
I answered that a pressure of business had prevented
his attendance upon her.
" Thou art a vast deal handsomer, child," she said,
seating herself ; " but I doubt whether thou wilt make
thy way in the world as he will. Dost know how to
handle a lady's foot," and she slipped off her shoe, and
stretched it forth, gazing at it from side to side with
much complacency.
" What is the lad's name—Carnaby?—yes—Carnaby
says," and she simpered, and continued to survey her
symmetrical extremity under her half-closed eyelids,
" that mine is the smallest foot in town. Come, give me
one of thy shoes while thou fittest on the other."

I heartily wished at the moment that Carnaby were
there, rather than I, to put his praise and practice into
operation. However, there was no help for it. Down I
%%lint upon one knee, and laying hold upon the lady's
ankle, endeavoured to insinuate the " smallest foot in
town" into the shoe.

" What, in the name of Vulcan," exclaimed Mrs.
L'Estrange, "is the rude bear of -a boy about ? Dost
think thou art shoeing a horse? Thou young Nero,
thou 1" and she saluted me with several smart taps
upon the sensorium with the heel of the other shoe.

I raised my head hastily, as well I
.might, and with an
unpardonable inadvertence, caused it, with a crash, to
come in contact with the lady's somewhat prolonged chin.
thought at the time, and so, no doubt, did she, that I
had ci‘arranged her dental economy.
" llelpl in mercy's name, help!" she cried, throwing
herself back in her chair. " Mr. L'Estrange! where
are you?" and she repeated these outcries, whilst I arose,
disconcerted, to my feet.—" Richard Savage" in Bent-
lei's Miscellany for August.

A maltThr,EvalsiYmEaltdEeNlasCtEwOeelk',
TROTTING MATCH.
Tllß 1'
between Mr. 131110,0,
of
trotting notoriety, and a Mr. E. Rttisell, for 100/. ; the
former undertaking to trot a grey.ponv, under 13 hands,
belonging to him, from the fourth mile-stone in the New
Cross-road to Welling and back, a distance of twelve wiles,
within the hour ; the pony to draw ft gig and driver
(Mr. Burke), and an additional weight off' 15
stone 9
From the state of the roads and the tremendous hills—
(namely, Blackheath and Shooter's-hills, the' latter of
which would have to be ascended on either side), which
he would have to encounter, it was deemed
dda an utter im-
and o to a large
possibility to complete the match'
amount were laid, 100/. to 50/. in one instance being
taken. The match was to have come off on Tuesday
morning, but was delayed in consequence of the absence
of the backers. In the meantime the police, having re-
ceived information of the affair, determined, if possible, to
d at eight o'clock a number of the
to prevent the same, an
K division mustered opposite the station in the B!ack-
heath-roa • "
d nd blocked up the road with seafluld-poles
•
and long ladders. These preparations having come to
tlie knowledge of the parties engaged in the match, they
applied to the sitting Magistrate fur his sanction to allow
the match to come off.
Accordingly Mr. Burke waited upon Mr. Grove,
who said he could not give permission for its comimg
off, and after enumerating various offences that, he
said, might result from the same, told Mr. Burke
that he must. take all responsibility upon himself for.
whatever might occur.
Inspector Jenkins said that Mr. Burke, would proceed
through the most populous part of Deptford.
Mr. Burke said that, unfortunately, he had been bound
,lown to perform the match on this particular road, and
hi„-,Z.dokng so would make him liable to forfeit upwards
of 100/. tie would, however, undertake to walk the
pony through
Mr. Grove said lie ci;7lld not but consider that there
was danger to be apprehendea,--lind he could not, .there-
,
fore, grant the application.
Mr. Burke then left the office,•expressing his determi- •
nation of starting, which lie did at one o'clock, passing •
through Deptford at a gentle pace, which he soon, hey,
ever, mended, and ascended Blackheath-hill at a. rapid
rate. -The grentett trial, however, was Shooteet,-hill,
• •wI uch the pony went over at a most extraordinary rate
which he kept up to Welling, where he turned, and
again ascended and descended S rooter's-hill, in a manner
which showed the wonderful musculer p,,wer lie pos-
-1 sessed. In going up the hill he broke once, and was
pulled round. The numerous her es that mi.companied
the match be,ran to show symptoms of distress from the
severity of the pace, and the- heavy state of the, roads.
The gallant little animal, however, arrived at Deptford
a winner by 2 minutes and 32 seconds, having completed
the match in 57 minutes and 28 seconds. Immediately
after Mr. Burke had started, a mounted policeman was
j despatched after him, with instructions to prevent any
obstruction or furious driving, and the police at the sta-
tion-house were held in readiness to blockade upon the
party returning ; but upon its -being represented to the
i inspector that great danger might result from lacing
any impediment.
p in their way, the idea of stopping the
party was abandoned, and the piequet that had been
posted were recalled. In the Broadway the mounted
patrol endeavoured to stop Mr. .Burke, but he very
cleverly evadTAl them. The
y afterwards proceeded
tv town,