The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

SALE of the KEYNSHAM ESTATE.

The estates of Keynsham cleave not to their master-
Though they have been in the hands of the Chandos
Dukes since the time of the Sixth Edward, they are now
evanishing from their possession, fading like the subtle._
illusion of the Arabian mirage from the sight and remem—
brances of Buckingham. Nevertheless, the prices
realised.by the Duke forlis broad acres were certainly
fine equivalents, as will appear on statement that the
Keynsham property, consisting of 1,183 acres of land,
having on its superfices sundry farm-buildings, public-
houses, quarries of limestone, and two wharfs; the yearly
rental of which is estimated at 3,000/. Ter • annurti, per-
duced, even though some few lots were bought in by, the
proprietor, the handsome sum of 70,0001. One lot; Which .
consisted of no more than 44 acres, number -47 in theg
Auction Catalogue, sold for the golden heap of 4,0001.,.E
while lot 56, containing only a couple of roods and t•
and twenty perches, realized no less than 3001. Soil, of
Golconda could scarce fetch more.

The property thus disposed of on Wednesday and
Thursday last at Bristol, lays claim to no an-
tiquity.

In the time of William the Conqueror, Keyne-4.-iiiffliad
the following descrition :
" The KingbOldS CAINF.SHAM. In the time orVing Ed-
ward it gelded for forty hides. The arable is or.e hundred
caruentes. Thereof are in demesne fifteen 'aides and a
half, and there are ten carucates, and tworty 'servants,
and seventy villanes, and forty cottagers, with sixty-
three ploughs. There are six mills of sixty shillings
rent, and one hundred acres of meadow, and one him- •
dred acres of pasture. Wood one mile long, and a g
much broad. It renders one hundred and eight. poun is.
by tale. It did render fourscore pounds."
The legendary history of this estate will. It rhaps be
read with interest.

Keynsham, say the Monkish Chronicies of the four-
teenth century, derived its name from. one Neytui, a Bri-
tish virgin, in the year 490, daughter of Prince Bra-
genus. This charming lady, wher she arrived at years
of maturity, attracted multatudef of admirers, and man
were the noble persons who Y'eight her in marriage. All
overtures, however,
fell unheeded upon her ear, for she
had consecrated. her v;
..rginity by a perpetual vow.
Therefore the Britons called her Keyn-Wyryf, which
means, by interpretf.tion, Keynu, the Virgin. With a
mind prune p) F.eezedness and solitude, Keyna deter-
mined to 'seek sune solitary spot or wilderness where
she in;- .6 t feud herself round about with a holy privacy,
9.:ed dedicate her days to praise and devotion. Tying on .
her broidcred sandals, she journied along till she came to.
the blue waters of the Avon, and after seard,ng about:
the greenwoods of these parts, found a woot.y and se-
cluded spot, which pleased her greatly. Whereupon Shea
forthwith made a request to the Prince of tie country,..
that she might there be permitted to pray az al live Italy*
in peaeeful retirement. " Ready am I," said the Prince,'-
" to grant you your request, fair Virgin, but, truth to saw
the place so swarms with deadly serpents, that neither'
man nor beast can live therein." To which the Virgint
replied that she firmly trusted she should be able to
drive all the venomous brood out of the country. Hero-
j.
upon the place was granted her. Now Keyed was .11
chaste and holy maid, abounding D. the 'lgo urs
prayer, and strong in the ferveiicies of the spnit.
Aaron lifted up the serpents in the wilderness,toßeye as,
by the mighty efficacy of her prayerfuln'es Una Coornllatitllult
implorations, was invested by heaven
witthithseuPplace h
gifts over the serpentry that g
flames of fire, and the celesiilaildedeaubsouwith which : the
the Chronicle, Inc: yns
aniphisbmnas. Thus, continuessa
this day, continues the
drove out all the serpents, and thus became armed extirpated thes entiree brood of den dly
resemble the windings
Monk, the stones in Keyeu
and :•t_
tields as if they
of serpents through all ttl
had been so framedor snake-stones.
by the name of bya
.11:=.,0f the engraver, going
Puke is the last representative, in
of which the p ; 0 the bands of the Chandos
the time of I%ewit
rd the Sixth, in thcesixth year of his
(1552), it being e then granted to Thomas Ilfrdges,
the sum of 9221. 2s. This Thos.
reilgil:ynshantreiraciosaC.f.
the second son of Sir Giles Bridges, or
Bridges in the county of Gloucester, and brother of
Coberlo',S ,
•r John' Bridges, created Baron
Chandos, of sodde -
y
in Gloucester, April 8, 1554—a family which dew
Castles • from b • hof 1
their origin younger lane t old
rived -
>ries. This Sir Thomas was of the Court of
3lontgon't . •
the Eighth, and one of those who attended the
in consideration
Henry • -
King's funeral, bearing the dragon-standard.
In the sale which was made on Thursday, besides the.
stone quarries, particular reservation was made of the
tithes and advowson of the parish, and from parcels in
the origieal deed of conveyanee,:which was at that time
,riven by the King to the above-mentioned Thomas
Bridges, and which, up to this time, have remained in
the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, will be seen of
what this reservation consisted. Accordingly we find
therein conveyed, " All that the rectory and church of
Keynsham, and right of patronage of the same, and all
tithes called the Strews-Tything ; also all houses, lands,
barns, tithes, glebes, tithes of grain and hay, and all
other tithes, as well aa oblations and profits belonging to
the said rectory; also all the tithes of Chewton," &c. &c.
When, therefore, it is considered that so great n reser-
vation of. patronage and monetary profit is still retained
by the Duke of Buckingham, this, and the simulta-
neous transfer into his coffers of so rich a plonib as
70,0001., will very materially tend to stifle many hard
longings after the mills, quarries, and cavities of Keyn-
sham.

JAMES HATFIELD AND THE BEAUTY OF
BUTTERMERE.—WO are old enough (says a Contem-
porary) to remember when the fate of James Hatfield.
and the 13e my of Buttermere made a greater sensation
in England than any public event. All were interested
in it. The story is new revived, and although facts are
not literally adhered to, they are not more departed front
than might have been expected, and the whole are eom-
bined,and the subject is altogether managed with such
skill and talent us to produce a very entertaining work,
gsrnecentiLng Thui te highest
which, from its nature, will, we have nu doubt, be moat
extensively, read. Mr. Crttikshraik has been in his hap.
piest mood in illustrating the work, and he evinces mom
sit:gstemaanttderj
usual:unu tride
- r
personages o. the period
fienvdermit'liesh
in which the cataar --h it p-
penal... Lord Clunclford figures appropr'wt °IP *e Il-
e y m the
tvork, and the Prince Regent, Tom Moore,A
oa the scene, with that celehrat' ' b
thanwll
. sce. appear
-t. uattty, wit, and (Hs"
sipatedlady, the Duchess of DQvum.l,; -.re.

EVENING SUN.

SECOND EDITION

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock .. 168 India Stock ....248
3 per Cent Red. B9i Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons B9/ Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red 9B/ Ditto New Annuities...
Nevi 3i per Cent 9Bi .Ez. Bills, 1,000/....2 d 16 p a
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l6 pm
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l6 pm
Jan. .1860 .. 12 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 13-16 India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct 893
FOREIGN FUNDS.
lustrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian, 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent: —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian; ii per cent...... Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l9/
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred 9i
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 15:45, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 251 French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1325. Dutch, 21 per cent. ...
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 101 i
SHARES
Birmingham and Gloucester Rail% ay (100 p) 60
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ......... ... .. 30/
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 74
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ..... ...... 81
,Ditto New Shares 00 paid 561
Ditto Firth (4 paid)
Loudon aukl Brighton (30 paid) 4.),
-.
ti-,-.l:ion ai:,! Blackwall liailwav (23 ;mid)... 15
Loe.dou and Bi:rniAigliam Railway (90 pd) --
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) . . r .24
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd)
• Ditto Scrip. (3 paid) 5l
London and South Western
....Ditto Tenths (1 i paid)
I.,ondon and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l-,-,
-
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .. 501
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 17

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GOBE.—The sudden change in the tone and lan-
guage of the Times toward the Irish Catholic clergy and
their flocks, joined to the severe reproofs it has admi-
nistered to the Protestant Association for applying to
them the self-same epithet, and accusing them of the
self-same crimes, which had copiously filled the Times'
columns, have naturally excited mingled surprise and dis-
g Ist in the Association, thus deserted, betrayed, and de-
n iunced by its former friend and advocate. The other
Tory J.ournals, less facile in the art of pirouetting, employ
considerable severity of rentrirk on this portentous omen
tj the cause of intolerance : and charge the " Leadirg
Journal" with dishonesty hi heaping upon the Protest.-
ant Association "unmeasured and unwarrantable in-
vective"—having shortly before praised its objects, its
efforts, and its agents. We alluded yesterday to the
appeal which the Standard deemed it right to make in
behalf of the Association, which, notwithstanding the
denunciations of the Times, was affirmed to " deserve the
support of the country." This morning the Herald devotes
a considerable space to the same object. A letter from
" A member of the Protestant Association" is published in
its columns, and a long leading article gives effect to the
epistle. The letter complains that " a journal well known
for its sudden and unexpected changes of opinion on im-
portant subjects (witness those of late on Puseyism and
Corn-laws), has within these three or -four days de-
nounced the• 4 Protestant Association,' as 'incendiaries ;' "
and the Editor follows up the impeachment by remark-
ing, that the writer of the letter " complains with great
earnestness, of the decree of condemnation which it has
pleased a Morningf Contemporary to pass upon that body,-
after its most imperial fashion of deposition and degra-
dation." The " leviathan of the press" is too mucliac-
customed to have the charge of " apostacy" hurled at its
columns to be greatly disquieted by this fresh discovery
of its baseness. The hide of a rhinoceros is not more
impervious to the tickling of a straw than is the moral
feeling of the Times to anything like a sensibility of
shame. It is vain, therefore, for the Herald to at-
tempt to produce any such feeling in that journal by a
quotation from its own columns ; and to add, that
" our Contemporary himself, a few days before, anathe-
matised,- as 'surpliced ruffians,'" the Catholic priesthood
of Ireland ; and, we may add, employed the degrading
appellation of "savagery," as the characteristic portrai-
ture of the Irish people. For Popery or Protestantism,
except as party words, and as supplying weapons for
political controversy, on the principle which actuates
mercenaries in a campaign, the Times cares nothing.
The object for which the Irish Catholics were anathe-
matise& iS answered.
STANDARD.—The immediate effect of the New
Poor-law;-'-inAiminishing home consumption, cannot be
treated lightly by those who listen to the apology of the
" deffcit'Ministers," for the defalcation to which they
owe their names—the apology, that the success of the
Rev.',Mr: Mathew's mission has seriously affected the
expenditure of the lower classe4 of the Irish. In So-
merset House there are three missionaries—we will not
affront the excellent teacher of temperance by calling
them - three Mr. Mathews—whose ascetic lessons have a
far wider range of population to act upon, and -
embrace a much greater number of articles of ex-
penditure than Mr. Mathew's pledge ; and there
is this difference between them, that whereas Mr.
Mathew leaves his followers to expend at their ,
pleasure .the money which they save by. his
salutary instructions, the stern disciplinarians of So-
merset House make the unhappy beings submitted
to their mercy still poorer by starvation: To look, how-
. ever, no further than the immediate effect of the Poor-
law as a cause of the depression of the home market,
would 'be to take a very inadequate view of the mischie-
vous operation of a measure as unwise as it :is' inhuman.
The fear of the union workhouse compels men to make 1
sacrifices and, exertions no less injurious to the commu-
nity
than to themselves. They abridge their diet, not
for their own profit, but for the gain of others ; they
overtask their powers, not to gain more, but to pro-
cure any wages; and thus, in a market already' more
than overstocked with labour, render miserable, and
shorten, their own lives, in order to force others out
of employment. And what is the general effect of
this ? To enable the money capitalist to gamble with
the most • complete indifference in the lives and
happiness of his fellow-creatures. and in the safety of his
country. It would be perfectly easy to trace-the opera-
tion of the New Poor-law in producing, by the encou-
agement of speculation, the distress now afflicting the
rmanufacturing districts. The .money capitalist has
always had labour at his command at whatever wages he
might please to pay ; and if wages do not seem to have
much diMinished, it is because inure toil has been taken
out of the slave for the same money, and he has been
paid for a less number of months or weeks. Has any
one ever heard of a manufactory silent for want of hands
since 18:34, or of many manufactories where work has
been constant for the last seven years? No, the New
Poor-law has changed all that. The money capitalist
can now .take the market at his pleasure. and leave the
earners of his additional wealth to starve whenever the
inarket does not invite him.
COU-111E":1.—We took occasion a few weeks ago to
expose the groundlessness and fallacy of the supposition,
that a Gauen ative Government would find any peculiar
difli-calty in dealing with. Ireland and Irish interests in
the new Parliament ; and notwithstanding the more
than .itsiial acrimonious virulence of Mr. O'Connell and
hii; regiment of ragged partisans, notwithstanding his
turgid threats, and his tone of insolent defiance, we
have seen no reason since to alter or modify the decisive
opinion we then expressed. With Ireland, we again
emphatically repeat, Sir Robert Peel will experience
i.o ',greater difficulty in dealing than with the other per-
dens *of the empire, and for this cogent reason, that his
measures, and the wrole course of his policy, legislative
and administrative, towards that country, will be charac-
terised by the same rigorous adherence to constitutional
prin:qples, and the same regard to the real wants and •
wishes of the people, as will be Ills measures with regard
to Vuollnd or Scotland. Those who pretend or fancy
they • see in the state of Ireland obstacles in Sir R. Peel's
path, reason about it as if it were a separate and distinct
nation, and not an integral portion of the British em-
pire. They forget,. or seem to forget, .that all. distill-
tious oti account of religion have been abolished, as well
as that all those questions that were. wont to
hove
the had field of parties in the Commons, false been
finally posed of., The subject of corporate reform lias
been hickily set at rest. The tithe question—that fr_t_ti.t;
ful .sou.t,ce4),f bitterness, heart-burninr.r.s,
and crime—h
becal adjusted oa pregi.zely the stone teems as were pro-
pose.! by Sir R. Peel, tiuring- .leis brief lmt, brilliuot
pre-
; 11, ier VtI4IIAS she. business or
legil4a..4;ti- L.:fiefs Li no it-qldin.!..4 prim: ipleno one pro •
raiment or laipOrtant point of policy relating exclusively
to that part of the empire, ,from the handling of which
there is the remotest chance of embarrassment or per-
plexity arising to his administration. In this respect
the time of his accession to power is peculiarly propi—
tious. •

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER SEA-HORSE
AT HOBART Tows.—The following is an extract from
a private letter:—" Hobart Town, April 11, 1841.—
Yesterday much interest was excited by seeing a
rnagnificient steamer, under canvass, standing, up the
Derwent, which proved to be the Sea-Horse, from
London. This splendid vessel of 300-horse power is,
we understand, the first of the four powerful steamers
which are coming out to navigate our seas, and call
into existence the vast resources of these important
colonies. By our last advices from home we learn that
the tituio, of similar power, was upon the eve of sail-
ing ; and we .can only add that if she and the others are
equal to the Sea-Horse, no such vessels • have ever ap-
peared on our side of the globe. The Erebus and Ter-
ror, southern discovery shii):. II r! in the harbour. They
have been further to the son:hwtird than any former
ex-
pedition sail',, over the continent recently discovered
n ,-, „
by :he Americans.
AFFECTING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.
--A respectable young man of the name of Robinson.
with resided at No. 4, Devonshire street, New North-
road, Hoxton, returning from the city, whither he had
been to deliver some work (his employment being that of
a working jeweller), between the hours of eight and
Pine o'clock on Tuesday evening knocked at the door of
his residence, but before it could be opened he was
speechless. At eleven o'clock he was a corpse, and up
to then, from the time he entered, he had not been able
, • to utter a sentence, although he had made several ineffec-
--. teal endeavours to do so., He has left a young wife and
four small children to deplore his loss.
„.7,-P-ISAPI`EVRANCE OF A STUDENT OF HO-
VEii+ N CoinEcE..-.—Yesterday information was received
''..-.'!::,-.1.1-9tlte
,inetropolavin police stations of the mysterious
.. 'll aPPearance of Mtn. Thomas Hinds, a student at H 0,.....
,..... •xnertOn College. lo
?. question,. who is aboUt
(
' Gravesend for London on twenty-threete
appears that the gentleman in
years of age, left
morning. of Saturday
Ic,, lait, where he arrived in safety,r
called at the
having
4,._ •.... , _

College about six o'clock the same evening ; since which
time he has not been seen nor heard of. He is described as
being about five feet eight inches in height, with a full
face, and hair light and curly ; no wiskers, light blue
eyes, and in person full bodied. Was dressed in a suit
of black clothes, a satin stock with long ends, fastened
with a Peruvian diamond pin ; linen marked, "T.
Hinds." Had in his waistcoat pocket a gold chronome-
ter watch, made by Frodesham, &c., London, with the
initials "I'. IL" on the cases, worn with a gold guard
chain. In his pocket he had also 3/. and a Russia leather
pocket-book containing memorandums. •
INUNDATION AT LANGLEY, NEAR SLOUGH.
—Upon the estate of R. Harvey, Esq. who resides at
Blackpark, Langley, about two miles from Slough, 'there
was a large piece of water, in many places upwards of 13
feet in depth, and covering an extent of 20 acres. Some
saw-mills have lately been erected near this spot; and it
having been discovered that a considerable leakage had
taken place, it was resolved that the culvert,.several feet
below the surface of the earth, should be bored down to,
to ascertain if the flood-gates were faulty. While this
work was in progress, and nearly completed (but
fortunately while the workmen were absent), the
force and weight of the water blew up the culvert,
scattering the bricks and earth in various directions,
and, in the course of a very short time, the whole
of this immense sheet of water was dispersed. inun-
dating the neighbourhood of George-green and Langley
to the depth of several feet, for a considerable distance.
The lake is now nearly dry, and can be walked across
at any part. The fish, of which it contained an im-
mense- quantity, are dispersed amongst the various
ditches, and a considerable portion have been left dead
(high and dry) in those places over which the enrrent
passed.

Yesterday the policemen's old peat coats were
distributed for the use of the poor to the different metro-
politan parishes, by order of the Commissioners of Police.
Many of them are very 'decent, and will be of great service
to the poor men who are exposed to the inclemency of
the weather.

Among the fashions prevailing just now in Patis
is that of wearing ten breadths in the skirts of the dress.
In one of Jauy's papers he makes an old lady declare
that the brocade of her wedding suit was afterwards
Made into covers for a sofa and a dozen arm-chairs, and
it seems likely that so curious an epoch of fashion will
be now renewed. _ _

POPULATION OF -TURKEY.—The Augsburg
Gazette states that the total population of Turkey is
twenty-three millions, of whom sixteen are Musselinuns,
and seven Christians or Jews. In some quarters of Con-
stantinople the population has been tripled since the
commencement of the last reign.