The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-14 00:00:00

ELECTORS !-REGISTER I REGISTER !

The 20th of July is the last day for sending in county
claims ; and for 101. voters paying poor-rates and assessed
taxes in boroughs.
County electors who are not already registered for the same
property, or who have changed their places of abode since last
July, must, on or before the 20th of July instant, send to the
overseers of the parish in which their property is situated their
claims to vote, which must contain a description of their places
of residence, the nature of qualification, and its situation, or the
tenant's name; and they must send with each claim a shilling.
Borough electors who live in 101 houses will lose their votes
unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant, all poor-
rates and window taxes due prior to the 6th of April last,
whether demanded by the collector or not. Scot and lot
voters will be disfranchised unless they pay. on or before the
30th of July instant, all the poor-rates which have been de-
of them up to that day.
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EXCLUSIVE DEALING.—A society has been
formed by the Tories, for the purpose of encouraging
exclusive dealing. The proposal is an immoral one, be-
cause its object is to tempt or terrify men into com-
mitting the crime of voting against their consciences.
But it is both unwise and impracticable. It is unwise,
because it is more likely to provoke anger than alarm.
Englishmen may be persuaded, but will never be bullied,
into supporting any party. The very attempt to dictate
to a tradesman is an insult which he is sure to resent,
and if he appears outwardly to conform, his efforts are
privately.
edirected to advance his real opinions. For
one who is thus awed into silence or a vote, three will
be roused by the consciousness of attempted tyranny
into active resistance and tenfold efforts to defeat the
tyrants who try to trample on them. It is unwise,
also, as it provokes retaliation, and Tory tradesmen
would equally object to have every Whig customer
crossed out of their books. At Bath the system
was attempted, and it ,has produced the result ex-
hibited at the last election ; indignation overcame
fear, and threats led to active resistance. Some
bankers there having tried the game, the insulted
tradesmen, whose franchises were thus sought to be
taken from them, resolved that it was one at which two
parties could play, and they immediately determined to
refuse to take the notes, when presented, of the banks
which had used undue influences, and half-a-dozen
tradesmen might, by so doing, break any bank in a few
days. And it is impracticable, for political connexion
is but one of many that rule the affairs of life. Men
must deal with those who deal with them ; they have
friends to seive, relations to oblige, whom they cannot
afford to sacrifice for that which their consciences must
tell them is, after all, a serious moral wrong. Add to
these who cannot act upon the system, the many whose
good sense and good feeling will not permit them to
coerce the consciences of their neighbours, and the
remnant who are foolish or unprincipled enough to act
upon it will be so small, that they will be ashamed of
themselves. Exclusive dealing has been often attempted,
and in many places, and nowhere has it succeeded, for it
is contrary to the irresistible law of commerce, that in-
duces every one to buy where we can obtain the best
and cheapest article, without reference to the politics,
religion, or intelligence of the seller.— Somerset County
Gazette.

CHANGES IN THE SOLAR SPOTS.—We lately
noticed that two pretty large clusters of spots were tra-
versing the sun's disk, and that a third cluster had ap-
peared on the morning of the 23d ult. On the.morning
of the 27th, one of the two .former clusters had entirely
disappeared, though
.it had scarcely arrived at the middle
of the disk. It consisted of one pretty large and' flit
smaller spots. This change must have taken place
during Friday or Saturday, the 25th and 26th ult.
Some of the small spots in the third cluster have also
since disappeared. The large spot connected with the
other cluster, which appeared with a eompact dark
nucleus, and which was . reckoned to 'be nearly the
size of the earth, has since that time been divided
into two parts, with a • bright space between them,
and they are both included within one regular penum-
bra. These changes, accomplished in so short a time,
in masses of matter larger than the whole extent of the
terraqueous globe, indicate that vast changes are con-
stantly going forward, either in the solid body of the
sun, or in his luminous atmosphere, and that powerful
agents, far surpassing-what we can now conceive, are in
incessant operation to produce so astonishing effects.
Perhaps the overwhelming of America by the Atlantic
Ocean, or the violent disruption of Africa from the
continent of Asia, would not exhibit phenomena morewonderful than the sudden disappearance of some o f the
large solar spots.—T. D.—Correspondent of the Dundee
Advertiser.

ACTING THE AGREEABLE.—An Englishman
seldom lays himself out to act the agreeable to women ;
a Frenchman never omits an opportunity of so doing ;
hence the attentions of the latter are less gratifying
than those of the former, because a woman, however
free from vanity, may suppose that when an Englishman
takes the trouble—and it is evidently a trouble, more or
less, to all our islanders to enact the agreeable—she has
really inspired him with the desire to please.—Lady
Blessington's Idler in Prance.
FRENCH PREJUDICE..--I am often amused,
and sometimes half-vexed, by witnessing the prejudices
that still exist in France with regard to the English.
These prejudices prevail in all ranks, and are, I am dis-
posed to think, incurable. They extend to trivial as well
as to more grave matters, and influence the opinions pro-
nounced on all subjects. An example of this prejudice oc-
curred a few weeks ago, when one of our most admired
belles having arrived at Paris from London, her personal
appearance was much canvassed. One person found her
too tall, another discovered that she had too much enbon-
point, and a third said her feet were much too large. A
Frenchman, when appealed to for his opinion, declared
" Elle est tres Lien pour une Anglaise." I ought to add
that there was no English person present when he made
this ungallant speech, which was repeated to me by. a
French lady, who laughed heartily at his notion.—Lady
Bkssington's Idler in France.

SIR D. WILKIE.

A general meeting of the Members of the
Royal Scottish Academy was held in the Royal
Institution, on Friday, the 9th instant, for the
purpose of expressing sympathy and condolence
with the relatives of Sir David Wilkie, on the
death of the illustrious artist. At the desire of
the Academicans, then unanimously expressed,
Mr. Allan, their President, has addressed a letter,
expressive of their feelings, to Thomas Wilkie,
Esq., the only surviving brother of the deceased.
The following is a copy :
" Royal Scottish Academy,
" Edinburgh, July 9, 1841.
" Sir—Upon learning of the death of Sir David
Wilkie, the members of the Royal Scottish Aca-
demy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture,
met under feelings of the deepest regret, in order
that they might conjointly express their sincere
sympathy with his bereaved relatives, and their
sense of the great loss which society and the
arts have sustained—a loss which must be felt to
be alike a subject of national regret, and of grief to
those friends from whom his acquirements and vir-
tues drew an ample measure ofregard. But to such
friends it is a source of consolation and pride,
that although his demise has taken place at a
period of life when much might yet have been
added to what he has already done, the many
productions of his genius have established his
fame on a foundation which at once secures its
perpetuity and its extent.
" It is, therefore, with the greatest respect for
the memory, and admiration for the talents, of
Sir David Wilkie, that the members of the Royal
Scottish Academy desire to offer to you, and to
Miss Wilkie, their unfeigned condolence.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
"Your very obedient servant,
(Signed) " WM. ALLAN, President.
" To Thomas Wilkie, Esq."

CUPAR-ANGUS.-LETHENDY
CASE.

Another action, presenting rather a new fea-
ture in the Church question, has been raised and
executed, at the instance of Mr. Thomas Clark,
presentee to the Church and united parishes of
Lethendy and Kinloch, against the majority
of the Presbytery of Dunkeld. It will be re-
collected that, on 30th of March last, the
Presbytery of Dunkeld, by a majority of fif-
teen to three, refused to take Mr. Clark on
trials. The three forming the minority were
the Rev. Henry Henderson of Kinclaven, the
Rev. Thomas Nelson of Auchtergaven, Minis-
ters, and Robert Menzies, banker, Dunkeld,
elder, who gave in a paper stating that they
were willing and ready to take Mr. Clark
on trials, and, if found qualified, to admit
and receive him Minister of the Church and
parishes of Lethendy and Kinloch according to
law. The present action has been brought
to have it found and declared that the mi-
nority are competent to constitute and hold
meetings of Presbytery for the purpose of
taking Mr. Clark on trials, and if in their
judgment he be found qualified, to admit
and receive him as Minister of the said
church and united parishes; and also for in-
terdict against the majority of the Presbytery
obstructing, moloting, or hindering in any way
the minority in performing what is styled
their statutory duty, when, meeting for that
object, or from taking any part in any meeting
of Presbytery held for that purpose ; and from
delaying, or adjourning. or stopping the same,
by their acts and votes, or otherwise, so that the
laws and statutes of the realm may not be de•
feated and set at nought by the illegal refusal of
the major part of the number of Presbytery to
discharge the duty as aforesaid. Dundee
Warder.

DEATH OF ROBERT ALLAN) THE REN..
FREWSIIIRE POET.—This ingenious man, who was born
and reared in the village of Kilbarchan, left this country
for America in the month of April last, and only sur-
vived seven days after his arrival at New York. He en-
joyed good health, and was in high spirits during the
passage, till the vessel (Clutha) came to the banks of
Newfoundland, and the weather being cold and foggy,
he caught from the change a severe illness, which le:,
terly terminated in fever. His interment was re,-
ably
nie.li with a
ably conducted by a number of his country
few of the American people, who, from th7e pee'uliarity
'to display their
of his mournful case, manifested a wish
regard for his remains by followin- 8 . the same to the
of age. The volume of
7.11 Glasgow a few years ago,
tomb. He was sixty-six years
yheexpeuetisahtedsongs,
which became the theme
poetry
contains whichm an
of much praise. If, was a collection of his more gentle
pieces, leaving hks more elaborateproductions for another
and a larger volume, which he constantly announced his
intention of printing either in this country or America.
His emigration arose from attachment to an only son,
who resolved on going to America in the capacity of
a portrait painter, and a separation could not be borne.
Glasgow paper.

Gaon IlviNG.—The Bishops in France are
said to have had the most luxurious dinners imaginable
on what were erroneously styled fast-days ; and their
cooks had such a reputation for their skill, that the
having served a Monseigneur d'Eglise was a passport to
the kitchens of all lovers of good eating. There are
people so profane as to insinuate that the excellence at
which the cooks arrived in dressing les diners maigres, is
one of the causes why Catholicism has continued to
flourish ; but this, of course, must be looked on as a
malicious hint of the enemies to that faith which thus
proves itself less addicted to indulgence in the flesh than
are its decryers.—Lady Blessington's Idler in France.
INVERNESS PRESBYTERY.—THE DAVIOT
CASE.—A meeting of the Presbytery of Inverness was
held on Tuesday, when Mr. C. Stewart, agent for the
people of Daviot, read the sentence of the General As-
sembly rejecting Mr. Simon Mackintosh as presentee of
this parish, and appointing it to be intimated to the pa-
tron (the Crown). The Presbytery resolved to comply
with this injunction, on which it was moved by Dr. Rose,
and seconded by Mr. Fraser, of Dores, that " in making
this intimation to the Crown, in obedience to the General
Assembly, the Presbytery state that they are perfectly
aware that they are in violation of the statute law, as de-
clared by the Court of Session and the House of Lords,
and that if the patron or the presentee may choose in
this case to assert their undoubted rights, the Presbytery
will have the alternative of being deposed, or subjected to
an action of damages and imprisonment. The Presby-
tery, therefore, respectfully, but earnestly submit to the
Crown, and through it to the Legislature, whether this
be a situation in which any loyal and obedient subject,
should be placed or suffered to remain for a single day.'
It was moved by lir. Fraser, of Kirkhill, and seconded
by Mr. Sutherland, that this statement be not trans-
mitted. Votes being taken, it was carried " Not trans-
mit," by five to four.
AN AMERICAN LADY'S CRITICISM ON
ENGLISH FEMALE BEAUTY.—I think one of our parties
must strike an Englishman like a nursery ball. Even in
this immense assembly at House I saw few young
people, none extremely young ; but I must confess the
tout ensemble struck me Its very superior in physical con-
dition and beauty to a similar assembly with us. Our
girl, with her delicate features and nymph-like figure,
bveultoptmheenEt,ngflairsh
swu•io.pmaassne,s
is far more lovely in her first freshness than the English ;
twenty to forty-five The women here,. up
in
ours her
ripeness
to five-and-forty (and splendid women ninny
fotefrttlitanit
are up to that age), dress with taste--fitness ; a
superb from
reneisss and full de-
not
how much longer, leave their necks and arms
.‘
ed,"
abominably. 1V omen to seventy, and Heavben knows
here and there one, " blinded, deluded, and 14:11)-teompora
but whole assemblies of fat
parchment 0 mores !--and lean. Such
'll arms bared, that
seen bedizened with diamonds,
scissors of destiny, or to stir
w(nnhenentannecks as I have
seemed only fit to hold the s
~.itehes.
Dresses in azure
the caldron of Macbet
dimpled as a cherub's, though
they were as round
bunchesu
satins and rose-coloured and bares her arms as if
of sinews, that seem only kept
they are mere
•.k Paley expatiates This post mor-
wristband, on win-
's, perh , aps after all, an act of penance
tem demonstrationri
together by thatnic,e
_anatomical contrivance 'of the
perhaps it is a benevolent admonition
for past vanities,
last ! Who knows
?—Miss Sedgwiek's " Letters
come at
youngiesanok fair, that to this favour they must
to the
from Abroad."
DARING ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY AT
WHITTINGTON.—ONE OF TILE BURGLARS SHOT.—on
Friday night, the 25th ult., one of the most daring
tempts at burglary which have been heard of for many
years took place at a lone cottage at Whittington, near
Carlisle. The cottage is inhabited by an elderly female,
a widow aged Str, named,Buckle, with her daughter, and
a youth (we believe her'grandson), aged about 14 years.
The inmates retired to rest at the usual period, but were
shortly afterwards apprised of danger by a little dog in
the cottage. The boy arose and distinctly heard an at-
tempt to pick the lock on the door, and upon looking
into the court-yard he distinctly perceived five. or
six men of ruffianly appearance. The younger fe-
male arose and inquired of the boy if the gun
was loaded, and said she would open the win-
dow and ask the men their business. The lad
(who had been keeping off birds during the day)
replied that the gun was loaded, and the wo-
man cautiously opened the window, and asked their
intentions, when one of the men replied they would
" let her know in two minutes." By this time the
thieves became more resolute, and were attempting to
force the -door with a heavy instrument resembling a
hammer or an axe. The woman then called to the boy,
and he discharged the gun at the man who was in the
act of striking the door, hitting him in the shoulder, or,
as the boy supposes, on the left side, under the arm. He
fell instantly with a loud shriek, and a man who stood
at the opposite side of the door also fell. The party in-
stantly decamped, carrying the wounded man with
them. The gun was reloaded, and the woman took her'
post at the window, while the boy went to some neigh-
bourinc, cottages to seek assistance, with which he
speedily returned, and although immediate search was
then made, and has been continued, no clue has been
obtained as to who the parties are. A heavy rain came
Strongs
he
haso notattachesbeen to
seen a pesrir
known e
on directly after the occurrence, and prevented all traces
of theit t
their
steps.
lie
cottagers,
butucin
the occurrence, and fears are entertained that he was the'
person who was shot, and that he has forfeited his life..
—Carlisle Patriot.