The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

We have received by Express news from Paris.; 9°
of yesterday's date. The Bourse was open, and the -77.8
orders for the post to close at an earlier
hour than usual in consequence of the celebra-
don of the fetes were countermanded. The French
capital was perfectly tranquil. Early in the morning'
a mass for the repose of the souls of the heroes or
July was chanted in all the churches. In the church
• of St. Paul this service was peculiarly solemn, because it
is the church of the parish in which the remain; of the
heroes of July are interred. After the relicrious ccremonY
a few hundred young men proceeded to the'Place de la Bay"
tile, paraded round the pillar, and then quietly dispersed.
" M. N. Gailla, the new Procureur-General," says the
Moniteur, " arrived in Toulouse on the 9 sth. The, in
quiry was going on." The Debuts states that the hung
had received M. Mahul, the ex-Prefect of Toulouse.
The Toulouse papers of the 25th announce the complete
evacuation of the posts held by the National Guards,wfor°
disbanding was hourly expected. A subscription to present
the dismissed General St. Michel with a sword of honour
is announced. The French papers publish a long re:-
port of _ the Toulouse riots, drawn up by the Muni-
cipal Council, and addressed to the Minister. It "d
chiefly directed against M. Mahul, the ex-Prefect, an
M. Plougoulm, the ex-Procureur-General. The Nati°l3ll'
Guards of Marseilles, having sent an inflammatory
address of congratulation to the National Guards °f
Toulouse, the disbanding of the former is expected Is'
well as the latter.
M. Maurice Duval has addressed a circular to f:ne
Sub-Prefects and Mayors of the Haute Garonne, ins.' ‘;i11,14
them to see that the fetes of July be properly celebrate",
and reminding them that the ardent desire of tha jing
is, that the national:rejoicings should be made an occasion
for the relief of the poor.
The Royal ordonnance, authorising the administra-
tion of the hospitals to accept the donation made by the
Baron de Foucheres, of all the property which he ma/
inherity from the late Baroness, has been signed by the
King.
A commission of superior engineers and naval offic'ils'
has been charged to survey the coast from Granvil' e to
Dunkirk, for the purpose of preparing a plan for the de-
fence of the coast.

The Mayence Gazette of the 24th announces from al-
thority that the negotiations pending between. Franeeo.
and Belgium for a union of Customs were preceedia,
with every prospect of a favourable conclusion.
The Marseilles Semaphore of the 24th,
all• the vessels entering that port consigned
and:
Merentie Brothers, are searched by the police,
the goods and papers seized, by virtue of a Comm
's:
sion from Paris. The merchandise is to be sequel
trated and papers sent to Paris. The coffee crops lur"
Cuba had been bought for 700,000 dollars, by this.firn,
and thirty-five vessels charged with them, the polic..es °'
sels
insurance being in the hands of justice. Five ves
had been seized already at Marseilles. The bee,
of the firm there had been arrested. Branches of
the house existed in London, Paris, and Cuba .
Marseilles creditors oppose the management of t'.ie assets
claimed in Paris as the seat of the principal
The Gazette du Midi affirms that the chief of the nrro
states, that
in the Havannah had arranged with his creditors. ix"
had granted him ten years letters of license to pay e
Ore
PARIS BOURSE.—Five per Cents., 115 E 20c. ;
per Cents. 76f. 60c. ; Spanish, 21.

• SPAIN.
MADRID, JULY 21.—The Clergy Property B- •se
5 e,
the Deputies this day. The two Chambers have Guar
as to the oath to be taken by Senor Arguelles as nhi ..s
dian-83 against 26 decided that before. he bega-
functions the oath to the Cortes was imperative.
The Exaltados were agitating to procure the suPPre
sion of the Royal Guard. The Fives, 24 13-16 for cas
and 25 11-16 for 60 days.
The surrender of the revolted garrison of Alhu ,:e:
mas was • obtained by surprise, narcotic; hay Los
been mixed with pipes of wine sent into the to W
Ten of the men were shot at Malaga on the 16th, uric
twelve others were sentenced to be executed in the. Pre '
sidios, on the coast of Africa. The Regent has corclerel
an exhibition of Spanish industry, to begin 19th IsT °very'
ber, and to last till 20th December.

The Madrid Gazette states that Mr. Aston had
announced to the Spanish Government that the
boat of the Guard Coast, seized by the British_ a‘
San Felipe on the 7th, had been restored on the i lth,
on the demand of Baron de Carondetet. The Ga
concludes by hoping that the British Government. 0"
give full satisfaction for this event to prove the sin"ritY
of its relations with Spain.

TURKEY.
Accounts from Athens of the 12th state
that a
party of Greeks had surprised the fort of neidteg
near Foros, and having disarmed the guard' o
possession of the military stores and arms it co
s-
tained, with which they escaped in the direction 00
Candisland,ia. According to the latest intelligence fr( Imo
that Tahir Pacha had, in violation of his s°lel,..
promise to the European Consuls, committed the In
atrocious excesses, laying waste the whole of the l°-tidi".
gent territory, burning the houses and crops of unoffe ad
ing inhabitants, rooting up their vineyards, and rourd°
ing old men, women, and children.
Prince Milosch of Servia arrived at Vienna on id
20th, accompanied by a secretary, an aide-de-de-camp'ps
rJ
a servant.
Our private advices from Constantinople, receo..„
via Germany, mention that 8,000,000 of pia`
brought thither by Said Bey, the grandson of M hi
met Ali, were to be applied as follows :-5,000,00
account of tribute ; half a million as a pre Ise%
to the Sultan ; half a million to the Sul °lll
mother ; half a million to the officers of .1, e:
castles of the Dardanelles ; and half a milli )n
those of the Porte. The Sultan was said to be rauc'
pleased with the arrival of Said Bey. A remoristrse°
had been received from the mountaineers of "Le nand
against the tribute imposed upon them, which it 1%14'
believed the Divan would take into consideration.

CIRUASSIA.
The Moniteur Parien states that accounts had bee
received at Odessa from the seat of war in the Caucastl. l.
The 14th division of the Russian army had crossed th
river Luba in April, in effecting which eight officers an'
300 soldiers were killed.
The fort of Veliamenon had been successful"; ,
cannonaded towards the end of May, The gar
rison of the fort of Gagra had lost fifty In"
who had been sent in search of a detachment wilco I,
absence had been prolonged. This Journal add'
that the Russians serve with reluctance, and lose to"
nually in the Circassian war 30,000 men by the ene"
my or sickness. The Moniteur Algerien contains an or"
der of the day from General Bugeaud, dated the 15th-
inst., in which he praises the troops for their recent;
campaigns, and reminds them of the effective assistance.
of the mail driven on the coast, without which the eXpe
dition with stores could never have moved so quickly a's
it did.
The Agrian Gazette maintains a report of the rach.;
of Tusla, a petty mountain district of Bosnia, on the
Sclavonian frontier, havingrevolted against the Forte
authority, and attacked the Governor's troops.

EUPHkCATES.
The most recent news is from Aleppo, announcing
that the English had ascended the Euphrates up
Biledschik. Colonel Chesney, five years since, failed iu
the attempt. Bir, or

DUTCH MAIL
HANoVER, JULY 22.—The Hanover Gazette of
date, contains a notification by the of the In-
terior, announcing that the King has given orders, eaer-
geticlly, to repress all unlawful resistance to the Con"
stitutlon, and especially every attempt to influence the
election of Deputies to the Assemblies of the
which is shortly to be convoked, and immediately to ar,;
rest and deliver into the hands of justice those who sha"
be guilty of such dangerous intrigues ; at the same time
all the authorities are called upon to exercise the utrnos,
vigilance with respect to such unlawful practices, and
without asking or waiting for the assent of superior autho-
rity to take energetic measures against those who shall
be guilty of them, and, if necessary, order therrA to 10
imprisoned.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JULY 27
Money . Ell:e.
Actual Debt. 2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 peir cent
A mei t Syndic,4 per cent 9OV
Ditto, ditto, 3y;, per cent 74g 75 States,
Commercial Company, 3S; per cent..... • 156 ti !:0N
Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. ........»•• /01%.
Loan 1837, 5 per cont. 97 07)4
Exchange on London, One month to 05
Two months ..... 11 97g
Hamburgh, One month 3)
Two months 3.i 054
Dutch Papers, July 28.

_
Sir Thomas Wilde visited Birmingha. d 1 ‘on
Thursday, and, accompanied by one of ow: to- AT', nu 'll'
in3pected_a considerable number of our more irite sevti :ig
manufactories. Sir Thomas was acconypanled
i,y fair
lady. In the course of his inspection we racnc; fe sr
Thomas would find, with much that wa-, crarious • .but
instructive, a degree of depression for w'nieh be w: iS • Ilia
indifferently prepared. We are mucl-4 mistaken if,
.1,
his perambulation, he listened to one individual PrD'...
whose mouth the earnest complailit of trade, ruin ecl 7,
ruinous, did not fall upon his ear. We believe, it tf4
a`"
that at no period in its history has the industrious
Zn
of Birmingham felt more difficulty in keeping his "i"1-7
than at this moment.—Birntingham Journal

MORN I/srG SUN.

`iESMERIM-

LECTURE AT THE HANOVE ft-SQUARE
ROOMS.
kneeh t
• Te Perplexing and incomprehensible Mystery, which,
he year 1775, has from time to time attracted the
attention, incited the controversies, and divided the
°Pillion of the most eminent physiologists of Germany,
p Public
and England, is once more made the subject of
investigation in this country, by a distinguished
ibench physician, M. Lafontaine. The professor seems
es
,a.are made an ill-advised choice of the theatre for his
"atbitions. The Hanover-square rooms have an aris-
,s_T4eratie character, and the judgment of the aris-
*wive i s y n all matters of science or common sense
has
tn,)ll, ° weight with any enlightened portion of the
tiselish public. Since the delusions of quackery as prac-
ssed by St. John Long and Morison, received so much
0-"SPort from rank and title, under circumstances in which
el 7 insanity or idiotcy could be • imposed upon, it is ab-
'trd to submit to the examination of the " fashionable
*se,rld," a subject upon which the whole " scientific world"
is divided, and which involves so many considerations of
°aht and uncertainty, and suspicion, as this vexata
questio of Mesmerism.
11,11.11i0t en the open, candid, and philosophic experiments of
Eson were conducted atUniversity College,
gave in The Sun, not only detailed accounts of the
Perhnents themselves, as we witnessed them, but also a
,
"tiec inct and adequate narrative of the principal facts
Which have marked the progress of this " Mystery,"
which
Must either be regarded as an awful discovery
jihYsiological science; or a frightful result of con-
sP'tseY and fraud on the part of men holding the highest
Potation for knowledge, skill, and honour of the pre-
sent age.
e Yesterday attended the lecture of M. Lafontaine
*itttwi Messed with pain, if we may not say with horror
osth appeared to be conclusive and unquestionable proofs
tlrel e power which one human bein physicalossess of en-
saj subjecting to his will the and moral
;tides of another.
'ae room was crowdtel to excess at the hour appointed
t the
th commencement 4 of the lecture and the illustrationsl
Which it was to be accompanied. Several gentle-
s° complained that the room was too small
svhok,_censmodate the large number of persons
won had been admitted, and an adjournment to some
psse`:,capacious apartment in the same building was pro-
sy". But M. Lafontaine, after some delay"and inquiry,
(Peined that he had taken the small chamber because
l 1" not expect to be honoured by the presence of so
asee
Witl.lll a Company, and it would be impossible to prepare,
the space of two or three hours, any apartment
and
entlater dimensn
w ions. Yet he requested those ladies
ero gemeho felt it inconvenient to remain in the
obswded lecteire-room; to postpone to a future day the
smerration of the facts which they had come to witness,
see t° receive from his doorkeepers their tickets, or the
IsasiteY which they had paid for them., This suggestion
themselves
with great applause, and so many availed
se 1,-selves of ite that all who remained were able to ob-
htt,,: the phenomena exposed to their investigation, with
inconvenience or interruption.
sseen as order was established a French gentleman
came forward on the platform, and said that M. Lafon-
es,tcould not speak one word of English, and as he had
terd some time in the country, and could express him-
tap with some degree of ease, he offered himself in the
inaear tY 'of an interpreter, throwing himself upon the
gence of !his auditory.- (Great applause.) It
fightto be that English gentlemen who were sufficiently
mersant with the French language to express them-
thevv " intelligibly to the lecturer, might be deterred from
(La7ort by the characteristic modesty of the nation.--
to thPter, and very great applause.) All he could say
his gentleman was, that he would, to the best of
the vi/Qwer, faithfully interpret to M. Lafontaine what
th,- said ; and lie considered it due to himself to state at
hlaine time—whether to his credit or not—that he
d'
_ tfortned no opinion upon the subject which was to
ite Tnitted to their investigation, and he had had no
,a'lttance with M. Lafontaine previous to that gentle-
mansKe tecture in that room a few days ago.—(Applause.)
seine as_ , aware that many people in this country had paid
_ attention to the subject of Mesmerism ; but there
4-'oll'. still greater number who knew nothing whatever
getese it,
and he would, therefore, bespeak the indul-
gave :Ohose who had 'a
previous knowledge, whilst he
they we ef account of the extraordinary subject which
Prederi,re„ assembled to investigate.—(Hear, hear.)
at vie; suesnier, a young German physician, studying
cons -114, had his attention first drawn to this still in-
astrprehensible subject by Professor Maximilian Dell, an
"(Mier well known over all Germany and civilised
Europe for his labours in the branch of science which
gasplaced under his direction, and for an extensive ac-
quaintance with physical science in every other depart-
tileht. Professor Dell directed the attention of the young
red aspiring udt nly to the fct, that one human
ing had thest power of subduing a
and controlling the
'teufties, and regulating the sensations of another, with-
°its t the consent or will of that other. Mesmer, filled with
thusiam, and astonished at the success of his own ex-
periment
`ti
proceeded so far as to incur the hostility of the
medical profession, which, like every other that depends
mainly upon tradition, regards naturally the introduction
sq.
(-very novelty with enmity and distrust.—(Hear,
tea, r.) Mesmer at length, scouted at Vienna, and sub-
Ouentlat Munich and Berlin, quitted Germany, and
sent to Paris, where the public attention was so much
attracted by his exhibitions, that a Committee was ap-
ti ted by the Government to investigate the truth of
41!
.pretensions. That Committee comprised .the
,x"isst,. illustrious men of science at that time
svit Ling in France ;- and amongst them two,
ef °in all observers of nature, and all students
ie tsV(nce, of every language and esery nation, will 1 old
skill' highest honour—Lavoisier, the chemist, and Jus-
ee ' the naturalist.—(Great applause.) The members
.witthat Commission recorded the facts which they had
itncinte,ssed, and satisfied themselves, the Government,
rod whole scientific world, by the statement that the
0.. a t 8
were produced by "touching and imagination."—
w,-uisliter and applause.) The Learned Gentleman then
seillt, into a detail of the juggling and imposture by
tee" Mesmer contrived to make money for himself, and
taietnbarrass and obscure the most important and diffi-
-114 question that ever was raised amongst those. who,
eh
,er the name of philsophers, have made man, in his
3 steal and moral capabilities, their study. He
had
tli himself no decided opinion upon the subject which
wheealled that meeting together. But he must say, that
les
list he condemneea ready credulity, he also thought
gor a stubborn scepticism was adverse to truth.. 13i-
ZtivrY was repudiated by all those who made scientific
o testigation their pursuit, and he could not say which bi-
teenry was the most to be condemned—that which believed
Th Much, or that hi believed nothing.
,t 4 gentleman, whose name we were unable to learn,
Who spoke fluently and clearly, although with an
ace
con-
el which marked him as a native of France, con-
e'd amidst enthusiastic cheering.
• -131 the chair, which had been at all former meetings
in this
tl room appropriated to the President, a young gen-
of the
of remarkably healthy appearance, exhibiting none
hadcharacteristics of a scrofulous or epileptic patient,
been sitting for a considerable time before the con-
clusion of the speech of the interpreter, and he had re-
s atdlY made signs of concurrence with the observations
thatees: gentleman. We had no notion that he was the
las-T°l-1 who was to be operated upon ; but before the
test sentence of the speech was concluded, we observed
tht - "is eyes were closed, and his head fell back under
bl apparent influence of manipulations performed by
yn ,-Lafontaine, who stood behind him. The
which sunk into a state of absolute insensibility, in
e" he underwent a series of experiments which it
des painful to witness, and difficult, if net impossible to
Chi d• Pins were stuck into his head, cheeks, and
t„e,g_"s! without producing any exhibition of feeling or
isesatiose The electro-ma gnetic machine was em-
f,„7.3,7e with its greatest force, not only by M. La-
s uLanie and his assistants, but by visitors who
Zi!!.%)ted the invitation of the Lecturer, and made
e'se sx_periments themselves. Several gentlemen, who ap-
ra•sa :to be sceptical, determined to try the force of
• .i'e.battery, but flung the wires from their hands with
4'Rralts of agony, whilst the subject of the inquiry was
ttt'ily unconscious that the electric stream pervaded
s'll every nerve and distended every muscle. The
repetition of the experiment was painful to
every one in the room. Every one was satisfiedthe
t!Perator, but everyone was shocked at such an e
x
lf? 11 or the prostration of one human being to the
will ,
o
another. When, after repeated discussions as to the
warner in which the experiment had been conducted,
Subjects
all those gentlemen who chose to make themselves
of exhibition for the purpose of testing the
elecid faith of the Lecturer, had satisfied themselves and
piLs eenspany that they could neither discover nor ex-
any(3-e fraud, M. Lafontaine performed a series
butof
•;‘,estieulations which it is impossible to describe,
youth hich appeared to have the effect of restoring the_ ,
to life and sense. The distressed and
Wearied assembly seemed to feel themselves almost
as
itt much relieved from a degrading bondage as the
h•teresting object of their sympathies. They had seen
tra for two entire hours compelled to hold,
his legs and
grins in one rigid position in which they were placed
ne volition of his, but by the will of a master, of
w °se presence he was unconscious. When this youth
Ras
released from his appalling state of subjection, a
lad 37 Volunteered to subject herself to the Professor's
Rower. (There were then loud cries of" Name, name.")
A
Gentleman said be was the lady's husband.
hadde had come to the room a sceptic, but he
mu seen enough to convince him that there
st be something inscrutable in the inquiry, and his
reto4,llaring expressed to him a wish to submit herself
lbs ~. experiment lie would not oppose her.—(Cheers.)
- came there prepared to believe that it was altogether
matter of humbug, but he should like to see it to the
"dt,•,7(Cheers.)
te're lady then took her place in the chair, and M.
ntaine having stated to the audience that
he °_
had never seen the lady before, and that he was
v 'rY doubtful, from the strength of will which :Ile seemed
ilPossess, whether his operations would have any effect
Pen her, said he would try. In two minutes and a half
xl,
6.'l,,was thrown into a profound sleep, and M. Lafon-
„, - said that she was completely mesmerised, and he
nalsl proceed to exhibit in her case the phenomena
Which he had frequently exhibited in the cases of other
persow similarly reduced under the mesmeric influence.
'ad 's husband said that ha did not wish her to be
11')jected to any further experiment, and M. Lafontaine
accordingly restored her to a state of sense, when
Sr declared that she was utterly unconscious of any-
thing more than that she had resisted, to the utmost of
r power, the influence which was exercised over
her, and which she found to overcome her
senses, and induce her into a state of sleep.
'4- Young lady who had sat for nearly two hours upon

the platform without any notice from the company,
was then led forward by 2:1. Lafontaine. He said
(in French) I have been disappointed in the attendance
of a female who has been subjected to Mesmerism,
and in whom I might have illustrated some of
the most important phenomena. But there is this
young lady, who is, I am told, a natural somnam-
bulist. I am told she has been already before
Baron Dupotet ; but I believe she has not been perfectly
under the control of any magnetiser. She is a natu-
ral somnambulist. I can bring her into the state of som-
nambulism, but it is not in my power to govern her or
control her acts as I can those who are in a perfect state
of magnetism. You will see much in her which may
look like charlatanry ; however, it is my object to
arrive at Truth, and I have no control:over those ob-
scurities under which she sometimes chooses to veil
herself,
M. Lafontaine then used the passes, or movements
of the hand, which are generally employed in the subjec-
tion of a patient to the Mesmeric influence ; and the
girl, having appeared for some time to be thrown into a
profound sleep, suddenly rose up, and spoke with a
flippancy and boldness quite opposed to the modesty and
deference of her previous manner. M. Lafontaine said
(in French) " She is now in a state of natural somnam-
bulism. I have to repeat that I am told she is a
natural somnambule. I think so from what I see of her.
She has never been reduced under the power of the mag-
netiser. She is not now under my power, but I think I
can do this—if any gentleman will write for me on a
piece of paper any English phrase to ask her a question,
I will think it, and she will give the answer."
The girl said " Indeed I will not."
Several papers were sent up to M. Lafontaine by
persons who were curious to see the experiment
carried out to its fullest extent, and he presented them
closed to the eyes of the patient. On each occasion she
said "I know very wellwhat it is, but I will not tell you."
He said it is not in my power to bring her under the.
control of the operation. She is a natural somnam-
bulist, and she is in that state now. I may take her out
of it, but I cannot control her.
The young lady was then allowed to roam upon the
platform as she pleased, and she exhibited a most piti-
able appearance of fatuity. She laughed, joked, and in-
terfered in the subsequent experiments in a man-
ner which drew tears from the eyes of seve-
ral ladies who sat near us, who expressed, before
she was brought out in that helpless state, great ad-
mit ation of the gentle and sincere expression of her
countenance. The Professor was then about to close the
lecture and illustrations, when a gentleman, who was well-
known to ail the• members of the Press who at-
tended at the lecture, and whose ingenuousness will be
admitted by all those who have ever had the pleasure of
his acquaintance, requested to be subjected to an
experiment, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether or not he himself was susceptible of
this mysterious influence. In eleven minutes and a
half he was thrown into what seemed to be a pro-
found sleep, in which he was, as far as we could judge,
powerless and helpless. When revived by the manipula-
tions of the exhibitor, in answer to questions put to
him by several of his own friends, who had been
the loudest in their denunciations of such incidents in
the course of the illustrations as were most doubtful, or
least comprehensible, he said that whilst M. Lafontaine
was making those passes which were intended to operate
on him, he felt a sensation of warmth pass up his arms
from his wrists to his shoulders, and a sensation besides
which he could not describe otherwise than by comparing
it to that which one feels upon inhaling the nitrous oxyde
gas. It was not the same sensation, but was something
very like it. He did not think that he had been asleep
at all. (In truth he was asleep ; his head fell over
the back of the chair, and he was to all appearance in-
sensible.) He said that he felt a sensation of, drowsiness
coming over him, but he felt it in his power to resist it,
and hedid resist it. He did not think he had been a,sleep; he
was quite certain that his consciousness had not been
suspended ; he knew very well that he had not been
asleep the whole time.
A gentleman then stood up and shook hands with the
Lecturer amidst very great applause from all the company,
who were evidently united in one feeling of admiration
for his candour and good humour.
A considerable time was afterwards occupied in the
exertions of the Professor to restore the somnambule
from a state of unconsciousness, and after the leCture and
the illustrations had occupied three hours and a half the
company separated.

AWFUL ACCIDENT AND WONDERFUL
ESCAPE.—On Tuesday afternoon a most calamitous and
fatal accident, yet marked by the almost miraculous
escape of one of the men who had nearly fallen a victim
to it, occurred at the Hately Heath colliery, belonging
to Messrs. Bagnall, near West Bromwich. Three men
named Thomas Ward, Thomas Gibbons, and Richard
Knight, were employed in bricking the shaft of a pit,
upon a scaffold, about nine feet from the bottom, when a
man named John Holden, who had just come out of the
pit, hearinc, a great noise, turned round and saw the
banksman, James Lewis, and a quantity of bricks fall-
ing down the shaft. He immediately ran to the shaft
and found the banksman hanging in it by his shoe, which
had providentially caught some projection of the mouth
of the pit ! Holden instantly seized him by the legs,
and dragged him up out of the shall without his
having sustained any injury Strenuous exertions
were then made to rescue the three unfortunate men
below, and Holden instantly went down the pit, but
unhappily only to discover that the accident had proved
fatal to them all ; they were all three found lying at
the bottom of the pit, and quite dead ; "knocked all
to pieces," Holden said, " there being scarcely a bone
about them but was broken." An inquest was
held on the bodies of the three unfortunate sufferers on
Thursday last, when a verdict of " Accidental death,"
was returned, with a deodand of 10s. on the bricks.—
Wolverhanipton.Chronicle.
NEWARK, JULY 27.—A report is current in
the political circles amongst the Tories, that Mr. W. B.
Gladstone, the Newcastle nominee for Newark, is' to
have an office in the approaching " Conservative" Go-
vernment. As the heads of the Tories are with such
shameless and breathless haste partitioning out the various
offices in the State, before the Queen has called any of
them to her councils, it behoves all who have in any way
the power, to be firmly resolved in opposing that party,
who, in opposition, were the brazen slanderers of the
Queen's good name, and who now, on the prospect of
accession to power, display such an anxious zeal to
trample alike on her and on the people. If Mr. Glad-
stone accepts office, as it is most probable he will, who-
ever may be the Tory Premier, for his pert flippancy in
debate will be much wanted in aid of the place-hungry
crew, he will again have to appear before the electors of
Newark. The implied compact by which, in 1834, " the
united interest" abandoned one seat to the Liberals, has
been broken, and it behoves the Reformers anxious to
bestir themselves, to look round for a good candidate,
who will not permit the constituency to be treated as so
many puppets, but will afford the opportunity of record-
ing their suffrages in his favour, and against the dicta-
tion of " Cannot Ido as I will with my own ?" At the
late contest they were unprepared. Let them be wise
from that defeat, and know that forewarned is forearmed.
With prompt organization, and the name of, some well-
known advocate of liberal and enlightened principles,
they stand an excellent chance of retrieving their lost
ground.—/Vewark Gazette.
THE MURDER AT EXETER.—The Coroner's
Jury have returned a verdict of " Wilful murder by
drowning," against persons unknown. The case is there-
fore left to be sifted by the magistrates. There are seven
or eight in custody, all young men (under 21), resident
in Exeter, who have been long leading profligate and
dissolute lives. One 'of them is a young man named
Pitts, who appears to have been at the Cattle Market Inn
the night of the murder. He is about eighteen years of
age, son of a washerwoman in the Bonhay, and by busi-
ness a tailor. The other is a young man of indifferent
character, named Brimstead, son of respectable parents
on St. David's Hill. Suspicion had fallen upon Pitts, he
having been seen in the house on Friday night. He
kept out of the way until Sunday morning, when he was
met by a person who told him the officers were looking
for him. He made off and was lost sight of for hours.
In the meantime Stukes, one of the nightly watch, made
an examination of Pitts' bed-room, in which he found
his jacket, the shoulder and sleeve of which were very
much stained with fresh blood. Pitts was not found
until the evening, when he was seen in Alphington-
street by one of the persons looking for him. He im-
mediate but off in the direction of Okehampton-
street, was pursued and taken, after running ac on-
siderable distance.
SIR. R. PEEL AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
My meditations led me to try and estimate the cha-
racter of Sir Robert Peel. Our Saviour speaks of a sin,
against which he solemnly warned his disciples, and
which he called the sin against the Holy Ghost.
Divines interpret this as meaning sin against light and
knowledge. Verily, Madam, in all earnestness, and in
all sincerity, do I believe that Sir Robert Peel is guilty
of such a sin. He sins against light and knowledge.
His mind is not narrow enough to shut out from his view
the consequences of commercial reform ; but for the poor
sake of heading a powerful party that scarcely puts its
trust in him—for the paltry ambition of being a great
man of an hour—he declares himself determined, in
spite of better knowledge and of common sense, to up-
hold a policy which immediately is grinding to dust
thousands of your Majesty's subjects, and in its ultimate
results must pour decay through all the channels of trade
and commerce. From the contemplation of the cha-
racter of Sir Robert Peel, I turned to that of Lord John
Russell. I had mingled in the crowd that hailed him,
when he presented himself as as candidate to the citizens
of London. I heard him in simple, unaffected, manly
language, tell how he and his colleagues had pro-
posed measures which would add, by the natural ma-
gic of commercial freedom, at once to the revenue, and
to the prosperity of the people. I heard him tell how
they had advised you, Madam, to exercise your
Royal prerogative, and appeal to the country on this
great vital question ; and though now the general-result
shows Lord John Fussell defeated, and Sir Robert Peel
victorious, oh, how, immeasurably different the charac-
ters of the two mei; appeared ! Sir Robert Peel, sprung
from the people, enormously rich, dying with anxiety to
identify himself with the aristocracy, with a mind per-
fectly cognizant of the mighty results which would spring,
from commercial reform, yet sinning against light and
knowledge, 'clever, showy, and plausible. Lord John
Russell, the scion of an ancient and noble stock, linked
with the aristocracy, yet the friend of the people, ad-
vancing slowly yet firmly in the path of social improve-
ment, without showy plausibilities, or crafty dexterity,
yet true to his convictions, and firm in asserting what he
conceives to be just—ean
you wonder, ..51ada,m, that in
the contemplation, Sir Robert Peel stood up before me
my enemy, and Lord John Russell my friend that in
the Statesman of expediency I beheld the foe of my do-
mestic comfort, and the blighter of my children's hopes ;
and in the Statesman of principle the fast friend of me
and mine, the promoter of the universal comfort of all
your Majesty's subjects ?—Letter in the Chronicle.