The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-30 00:00:00

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EVENINTG SUN.

COBBETT AND PEEL.
The following is an extract from a littla work h 3 ' •
William Cobbctt. It was addressed to the Tory I'.
1834-5, and will apply equally to him in 1841: 'Till' a a
changeable •
" You and your i arty have always seemed to tales
granted, that the Reform of the House of Ceinmo,
hare been avoided; that it proceeded from the ambition, she
greediness, the love of power, and of prif in the Whigs ; and
that it was the Whi,es who made the Retorns of the Pariia-
ment, and who deluded the people into an expectatiou that
Reform would do them a great deal of good.
" This, Sir, was a capital error, and it has misled you all rho
way through. You are very fond of talking of the c intelli-
gence' and 'property of the countr.y. With sees rd to the
former, if yen mean information and knowledge With re,:ard to
civil and political r,ghts, and with regard -to the true interests
of the kingdom, the great passesscrs of this intelligence are to
be found amongst those who live by their labour; and I verly
believe that I could name a hundred weavers and metheines
of
the borough of Or.onaas, who po.7.sess a greeter portien oat.as
knowledge; and who are more capable of a profitable apptea'ion
of it than any hundred merchants of the city of Lo.aien ;
or than any hunlred of those who ate, called eoun try
gentlemen, the whole of whom have been too stop :1 to
learn anything; because too
_stupid to listen to any-
thing. which militated against their own. views, waah
have either been sordid in the extreme, or the eM'et n, Me, 0
animal pride. It Was the people, the whola body ef the peaole.
that demanded and en:breed the adoption of - ram m ; rn.!. if
the making of the reform had fallen into the. hands 05 !nen
who thought with the people on the subject, we Should
have had a tranquil and most prosperous country, insteaa! of
being haunted by the fears of a convulsive revolution, an:' the
fulfilment of all my prophecies, even ten their most tar:iLe
extent.
" Was it the despicable Whigs that produced the • lia-
mentary refot m ? What! it. was they, was it,-who eau, e
thousands of petitions, and the meetings all. over the ewe.
after Wit.z.iam the Fourth came to the thia;nti ? It o. • ey
who really threw the country into half a convulsion, le, • -
logs and petitions for reform ? It was they who fin • ,'.e.
Dual: of WELLINGTON boitout that silly speech upon the • !-
ing of Parliament, on the .26th of October, 1;{31 ; it an:
who created that indignation against him which compH'
King, out-of humanity to the people of Loadan, to res-i ia •
engagement to dine with his citizens there on the Lord sea. ~t's
day! The Dossa is fantous for shooting Ms bolt. a!,
pears to think himself always in a camp. His 1111Ca.1
observation, that county meetings were a farce,' has
been flung Its the teeth of his son. at meetisaas of
the roomy,' in which lies the estate granted him by f'
went-, and which estate was, in my opinion, most r:' •'r
granted. Next came his equally uncalled-for,-anti 'mos..
hag declaration, - that a House of Commons, with a ma ;11
it. norainated by Peers, by rich Commoners,. and by tie sa.
sury, was the best of all possible reprcsentat ices of :4, •
and that, if he had to fore a ileuse oF Commons. h,
come as near to it as possible, though he could .not. teepees to
form ally thing so perfectly good. -Next, we had his g.ratoi.
tons support of the Dead7-11ody ; and now, at leas. e
have his voluntary, enesilid- for, support of the Poor-/site
and his question to :MELBOURNE whether it was his into. .
introduce a rural police ; anti we have youe'Votes for Os.,
law Bill, and your well-known predilection for the I ',a. a-
like police. Marplots Ell the way through; and you :o
the peformance of your great and prodigious task, ai, ail
the heavy weight of these undeniable facts against you."

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LATEST AND EXCLUSIVE NAVAL NI:WS
Am) APPOINTAIENTS.—Rear-Admiral F. Mason has been
appointed to the command of the fleet, vice Sir Iloticri
ford, appointed to Greenwich Hospital. • Captain !,iiir.off,
R.N., has been appointed Captain Superintendent c.i 11-r
Majesty's Dock-yard, Chatham. Captain Sir William e.
R.N., has been appointed to the vacancy occasioned by Capt.
Shirreff, cc Captain Superintendent of her
yard, Deptford. Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge has bt en
appointed to the command of her Majesty's sliip Formidable,
commissicncd. It is expected that Sir Charles Adam win ;ro-
cecd to the North American and Wc:t Indian Station on
day, as Commander-in-chief on that station._ Sir Get,,-ze
Clerk, M.P. for Stamford, is confidently ,pokon of lobs Sceie-
tary tothe Admiralty under the Tory Administration.—British
Queen.

•
NEW NOVEL BY COOPER.—The in::umerable
admirers of " The Last of the Mohicans," " The Prairie,"
and other of Cooper's nati-nial romances, will be glad to hear
that the celebrated author is on the point of producing a row
story of life in the far-spreading prairies, the primeval fc,reAtc,
and on the vast lakes of North America. His forthcoming
work of fiction is called " The Deerslayer," the hero of which
(the deerslayer himself) is no other than our old and dearly_
beloved friend, Natty Bumppo of the Leather-stocking. Mr.
Cooper's new romance will exhibit this exquisitely-drawn
character—a character dear to memory in the same degree
that Uncle Toby is—during his early days, and under the
influence of his first adventurous and severe trials. In many
respects " The Deerslayer" is the most attractive of the author's
performances.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY 00 be published
to-morrow) contains, in addition to a great variety of Stories
and Sketches by the most popular writers of the day, a 31em
of Mr. Theodore Hook, with a Portrait of this distinguisle-d
writer by Eddis, and two Caricature Sketches by .Ifinseif. in
hen and ink, representing him as he was in 1807 and in IN Si.
The number is also erabebished by George Cruikshauk, Leach,
and Crowquill. _

From Naples it is stated that the Govermr-nt
has resolved upon undertaking new excavations, on an exten-
sive scale, at Herculaneum and in its environs. With this
view, negotiations are already commenced for the purchr,e of
various estates in the neighbourhood ; and the works w i.l be
commenced so soon as these shall have become the proliert3 cf
the State. The Minister of the Interior,- in conjunction
the Royal Academy of Sciences, is to appoint a Ceinr.'s.sion
of Archaeologists and Architects to preside over the et,ca,e-
tions.—To thii piece of Neapolitan intelligence we may rdd
the announcement, on a kindred subject,. that the Chor,lier
Zahn, who, for the last seven years, has been exclusively em-
ployed in copying the most remarkable of the paintings fo, tut
in Pompeii, is about to publish his collection, at the exr.s e,e
4i
of the tvernment. To these engravings the Chevalier a; -
plies a new lithe-chromatic process, invented by hie,
enabling him to make use of oil-colours; and the early i.. -a
of four of his plates, obtained by this methwi, are.now
to the public, and attracting much admiration.-..,eithenawn.
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINAIt.Y.—On Mutt-
-1 thy last .the quiet inhabitants of the Bow-road, Middlesex, were
thrown into no little excitement by a rumour that a.Mr. Denni-
sen, a hewer, had eloped with the beautiful and accompli:hed
daughter of Mr. S , a wealthy • gentleman. It app.-p..ls
that Mr. Dennison is :25 }ears of age, end had.long .
addresses 4, the lady, M, is wilt in her minority, arc
• just attained her twentieth }ear. His attentions were cl!s-
couraged by the young lady's father, but through the co.;-
ni
Vance of the fair one's maid, stolen interviews
tamed, and on Monday mcrnirg, before any other me:airy:3
of the family were stirring, Miss S. left her paternal home,
and .lew to the arms of her lover, who conducted her tv a
post-chaise which was in waiting, with four horses attached,
and the happy pair set off at full speed towards the .northern
road, with the intention of getting into the first train they met
with on the Northern Counties Railway, and 'proceeding to
Gretna-green. When the flight of the lady was first discovered
pursuit was commenced, but too late, and the fair fugitive be-
came Mrs. D., and escaped with her husband many hours be-
fore her pursuers ascertained the route they bad taken.
THE .CENSUS.—TIie vestry clerk read a com-
munication from Mr. H. C. Wilson, the superintendent re-
gistrar of St. Marylebone, showing the sum total of abstract
of enumerators' schedules fur each registrar's district of the
parish , from which document it al.pear,el that
,the •nunther of
houses in the parish inhabited were 14,3 i 6, uninhabited
building IB7—total 15,077. The amount of population enu-
merated ther6n is : Males 61.079, females 78,375—t0ta1,
139,454. It showed that there had been an inerewe of abort
20,000 souls in the parish within the last ten years, or 2,000
annually

THE FAUBOURGS OF BRUSSELS A QUARTER
CY A CENTURY AGO.- The cmbellishmehts rod imp Gye-
ments going on in the city of Brussels within the last tei i,o' y-
fire years, have been gained, it must be confe?sed, at a saei dice
of the picturesque. During the ear tho finis; views met our
eye immediately after quitting the gates of the city. /et the
period we speak of, front the city to Schaerbeek church, a
nearly continuous line of houses had not yet started into exist-
ence. A few country-seats and cottages, scattered here and
there, filled up the landscape, without spoiling it. After leav-
ing the ramparts, the road to Mon Plai4r
presented a moic
charming country walk than is now to be met with at two or
three miles distance.- Outside the Louvain gate, the densely-
populated faubourg of St. Josse-ten-Noode consisted of ldtle
more than the High-street and the ponds of Et&erbcck, at pre-
sent comparatively dried up, rivalled the niost delightful parts
of Boitsfort. The faubourg beyond the Namur gate was lirnitej‘
to the angles of the rues des 111inimeS and de Belle-Vee :
a few paces further, and you were completely in the country,__
at the ponds of Lxelles, or at the wood of La Cambre, which
ve a
vestige
itgbee
oefh church i
then extended to upwards of 500 yards on the city side of the
11Iendicity Depot. The faubourg de St. Gilles was termi-
nated4T?.hemFercerheastn,t7:tirl,ite
last i
converted into a delightful park. On either side, too, of the
Alice- Verte were p
promenade, and houses and shops intl-
leasant views; but now a street runs parallel
with this fashionable
the old chaussec de Luken. Vs hiie
to •
cept our passage
hcchan iilas the
eeen wood
purchasedcalled
is • our only object-DPing to :mite t',a
complain of what now ,
i te-uqeels magistrates to the necessity of think-
ingcalling to mind what once was, let us not be undors.tood to
complain
attention of the -A --
of that picturesque scenery which has been, perhaps, too
a /cct/e about preserving or restoring to Brussels a portion
hhalesacrificed. It - does seem as if the mag.strecy
borne in mind its
.how great a degree
foreign,,.," s, and especially our own countrpnen, have been
aitrar.e (
d lazier by the pleasant walks and strives around this
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capital. If we might be, allowed to offer an opinion upon the
matter, we would say that, previously to the corarletion cf the
e,e'l i
noFtsil s. uffie:ently
buildings now erecting along the boulevards du Midi, des Abet-
toirs, Barthelemy, and de VErtrupont, it would be 'sell for the
munioipai authorities—if they have left themselves the power--
to stipti!ate with the owners of houses that a garden should he
platitt•d before each mansion. A like condition was mat'e co,-i_
pulsewy, a few )ears ago, on every purchaser of land for build-
ing on the boulevard du Regent ; the same obligatiou might i.e
again enforced in the case of the streets erecting on the boule-
vard des Abattors. It is reasonable to believe if the land in
the neighircurhood of the north station, as well as the quarters
Leopold
.and Louise, were laid out as parks and pleasure
grounds, the measure would have the effect of inducing an
influx of respectable and wealthy families to the metropolis of
Belgium, anti be no inefficient substitute for the rural rides and
walks which hare be. curtailed of their fair proportion. This
above all—let rot the threatened uprooting of the 13ctanie
Garden, and the destruction of its hot-houses, take place as a
sacrifice to the building mania of the day. Before quitting the
subject, we trust that too great liberties will not be taken with
the view from the rue llo)ale, behind the statue of Guatral
Bellial d.—Brussets Gazette.

AN EXPERIMENTAL TRlP.—(Frcm a Cor-
respondent. )—On Thursitay morning last a new steam-car-
nage, bui:t by a company of gentlemen at the West. end of the
tow it, tt..rted on en experimental trip from London to
Hastings. where they arrived in the afternoon, within one
mile of Hastings, when, unfortunately, the boiler burst. The
eat nage wai brought into the town of Hastings., and on Friday
it was repaired, and •en Saturday sourning the party
left Hastings, en their return to London. In descending the
long and steep bill, within one mile of Sevenoaks. the skid or
drag-chain broke, and they descended the hill at the rate of
63 miles per hour, and fortunately reached the bottom of it
undamaged in person, although in the dement they every
moment expected to be dashed to pieces. On their attempt-
ing to proceed up the opposite hill into Sevenoaks, it was
found impossible, the whole of the machinery, being brolion
and out of place. With the assittame Uf ten horses it was
conveyed to the Crown Inn, at Sevenoaks, where it remains,
much damaged.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE SERPENTINE.---
1 hit morning a oung man of the name of Samuel Jr.nes, fi
footman, was drowned in the Serpentine under the following
circtimsances:—At six o'clock the deceased and a number of
other persons
.were bathing on the south bank of the river,
when ha suddenly sank. This was observed by several cf these
who were near him, and they called out. to the boatmen of the
Royal Hurrace Society, several of whom soon attended with
the drags, and after some time had elapsed the body was found.
The attempts that were made to restore animation were un-
availing, and the body now awaits an inquest to he held urr!
it, which Mr. Higgs has postponed till to-morrow
that inquiries may be made, ,