The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-26 00:00:00

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PORTRAIT OF A COUPLE OF PAISLEY
WEAVERS, FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.-7,-Tiley wore some-
times a light green or black coat, white dimity vest, nan-
keen small clothes,fastened at the kneeswith fat icy-colou red
ribbons or silver buckles, white stockings, and silver
or bright steel buckles in their shoes, a great bunch of
ruffles at their breast, trimmed with an edging of rich
lace, with the same appendage running circularly round
their wrists. The stock was made of the richest French
cambric, and fastened with a silver buckle or clasp be-
hind, which, from the lowness of the collar, showed to
great advantage. Their hair was richly powdered ; some-
times they wore a long que, and sometimes their natu-
ral hair was clubbed, and the whole was surmounted
by a smart cocked hat. When will these times come
again ? and echo answers. When ? These portraits
were common, but the two we have in our eye deserve
a passing word. One of them went to England, and
succeeded in a respectable business ; 'mad we saw the
other, a few days ago, sitting in his own carriage at-
tended by servants, and drawn by a pair of fine bay
horses.—Life and Adventures of Peter Bernet.

THE CENSUS, MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP.-
The following returns of the census for the town of Man-
chester include the townships of: Chorlton-on-Mollock,
Hulme, Ardwick, &c. ; and when it is considered iliat
in some districts whole rows of houses have been pub,ld
down, and their sites occupied by railways, &c., the in--
crease, it will be seen, has been very great. The follow-
ing account, -however, must be taken only as an approxi-
mation, the nearest at present to be obtained, to the
census of this township :—Males, 78,983 ; females,
84,464 ; total, 163,447. The classification of the above
returns is obtained from the five registrars' districts,
which comprise the older, and better known fourteen
police districts of the township. By referring to the
official returns of, the census of 1821, and that of 1831,
taking thence the populations at those periods of the
several police districts, included in the above return, in
one registrar's district, we obtain the following result-
-1821, 108,016 ; 1831, 142,026 ; 1841, 163,447. Thus it
will be seen that the total -increase of the population of
the township, during the ten years ending in 1831, was
34,010, or about 311 per cent. The increase during the
last ten years ending last month, was 21,421, or little
more than 15 per cent.

DEATH OF LADY KAYE.-.—Her Ladyship died
on Wednesday, at Coleby, near Lincolnshire, rather suddenly,
at the great age of 92. The ab we estimable lady was widuw
of the late very Rev. the Dean of Lincoln, Sir Richard Kaye,
and was grandmother of Lady, Sutton.
TILE l'
E LATE LORD EVERSHAM.—The mortal
remains of the deceased Lord were removed at an early
Lour this morning from the family mansion in Arling-
ton-street, fur Duncombe Park, Yorkshire, preparatory to
their interment in the ancestral vault at Helmsley, on Wednes-
day next. A special train will convey the body the greater
portion of the distance. Lord Fevertham, the Hon. Captain
A. Duncombe, M.P.,and other members of the family attendi
the obsequies. The owager Lady Feversham remains in town..

—•—
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.7--On Thursday
last, at Uttoxeter, the Hon. Richard Cavendish, second son of
the late and brother of the present Lord Waterpark, to :11i,,s
Elizabeth Maria Margaret Hart, only.daughter of Mr. Thomas
Hart, and niece to Sir Thomas Cotton Shepl ard, Bert. A
select circle of the relatives of both families were present at tie
ceremony.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calcula-
tion of the last weekly returns of 31 railways, 1,109 miles in
length, given in our present number will, we believe, be of in..
terest :—Number of passengers. on 21 railways, 271,579, con-
sequently the total for the week must be above 400,000. The
rece►pts for passengers on 32 railways, 70,9311. 7s. 11d. -
ditto for goods on 24 railways, 14,1841. 10s. 3d. ;
85,1151, 18s. 2d. This is an average of 764/. per mile per
week. The traffic therefore, is certainly at the rate of more
than four millions a yea-, and carrying twenty millions of pas-
sengers.—Railway Magazine.
CHANCERY SUlTS.—Every one has some vague
and indefinite notion at least, of the number of suits in Chan-
cery that are ever keeping in suspense such thousands of per-
sons, and millions of pounds sterling ; but the following curious
calculation will give a stronger and clearer idea of the extent
of these fearful equity squabbles and proceedings. From 1529
to 1532, in Chancellor More's time, there were 133 writs is
each year. In the first James's reign they averaged 1,500 per
annum, and 1,461 under the Chancellorship of the great Lord
Bacon. In the time of Chancellor Nottingham there were
annually 1,650; and in Lord Hardwicke's 2,000; and latterly
they have been from 1,500 to 2,000 ; and in 1749 to 1751, the
number of equity decisions made by Lord Hare icke, was 1,264;
and from 1808 to 1810, under Lord Eldon, they were but 962.
In 1832 the property of wards, trusts, minors, suitors, &c.,
standing in the name of the Accountant-General of the Court
of Chancery, was about fifty millions sterling.
ANOTHER FEMALE SAILOR.—A considera-
ble degree of excitement was caused last week in the town of
Brilham by the discovery of a female sailor on board one of
the trawl boats, in which capacity she had been employed for
some time with much credit. On Sunday last she accom-
panied two lasses to a fruit-garden in the neighbourhood,
where she treated them, behaving with all the gallantry ima-
ginable ; while there a tailor, who was enjoying his " otium,"
attempted to interfere with our hero's girls; the sailor " boy"
resented it, high words ensued, and blows followed ; Snip
showed fight like a man, while the pretended sailor was no
less active ; but alas fortune does not always favour the
brave ; the tailor was too much for his opponent, and the
sailor-lassey was so beaten that she was obliged to give in, and
on several persons coming round her to offer her assistance,
her sex was d►scovered, to the great surprise of every one,
the tailor not excepted. She is now dressed in apparel more
becoming her sex ; she is an interesting and rather good-
looking girl. The reason she states for adopting her late
mode of life was, that she could enjoy more freedom than in
domestic servitude. She is sixteen years of age, and her
name is Ellen Watts ; she adopted the name of Charles
Watts, and stated that she was a native of Plymouth.—
Devonshire paper.
THE TRUTH TOLD BY PARSON.—The ar-
tisan is exhausted with toil, chained to his post by the
pressure of poverty, dispirited by the all but impossibility
of rising, with pauperism ever gaping beneath his feet ;
the strength of his days is broken by labour, his mo-
ments of leisure spoilt by anxiety ; he secs above him a
class whose prosperity he little shares, whose reverses he
must often feel ; his position is the focus of grievances,
which may, perhaps, bear equally upon all, yet press
palpably on him, for he is at the very paying point of
taxation, and his scanty income is the very gauge of fiscal
pressure and mercantile vicissitude. Meanwhile he is
one of the multitude, and it is in the'mid sea of human

affairs that he is tossed to and fro. He is surrounded by
distress which he cannot remedy, systems which he Can-
not comprehend, anomalies which he cannot explain,
projects and projectors whose prudence and justice he
cannot weigh ; yet still everything about him is human ;
abstraction, seclusion, speculation, are the luxuries of
pampered ease and cultivated mind, not of incessant ma-
nual toil.—British Critic.

The Tories are busily engaged in circulating
rumours to the effect that the present Government wilt
either not meet the new Parliament, or that they will
immediately resign upon the first majority being de-
clared against them. Such, we can take upon us to state,
is not the fact, and will not be the result. Her Majesty's
Ministers are perfectly aware that they will be in a con-
siderable minority upon the first party division that
takes place ; but, with the example of Sir Robert Peel
before them, who clung to office until he had been four
times soundly beaten, they would lie not only the veriest
donkeys in existence, but the vilest traitors to the cause
of the people, if they were to desert the charge entrusted
to them, until they had laid their measures for the im-
provement of the finances, and general condition of the
country, fully and fairly before it. We learn, therefore,
from a most authentic source, that it is the determina-
tion of her Majesty's present advisers to persist in re-
taining office, until they have afforded the public a
fair opportunity of judging of their measures, and com-
paring them with those of their successors in office.—
British Queen.

ALDERMAN HUMPHERY.—There was a ru-
mouril.l3l Southwark,sulanc tkPrlhve
laeiliraYnci
current yesterday afternoon that Mr. Alderman
about to resign his seat for the borough of
esininct he
passed, which,
_at pr
rueqsemunence of the resolution recently
Passed with referenceonseßailwa to selling certain shares in the
Wer r
affectsd o n
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placecharacter,
has
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but it
btorlde
is equally true that the Alderman has had no
chance, at
easttiopnreedse;nt, of rebutting it. His character, up
toth,
ae
i‘pireemsebnetrtnimf
ve,arinliatlmment‘hreefold capacities of a citi-
zenor a Magistrate, has never
their judgment untiland tll'i'ee aptutebrliciswf'iallirlyvi
them. Even if the whole charge were true, there is not any-
thing in it which is not common in ail Companies, but
mtrhunsltethme
nothing to cast the slightest disgrace on his character
either as a man or a gentleman.—BritiA Queen.
SUDDEN DEATH OF LORD DUFFERIN.—A
considerable sensation was created in Belfast yesterday,
on the arrival of the Reindeer steamer, from Liverpool,
on accoun
atbsurevinengo'thcleocellikstgeohrei!
tof the sudden death, on board,' of Lord ,
Duf-
ferin. His Lordship complained of indisposition, on
Liverpool, on Tuesday night, and directed the
sletea:Vianrgd of the steamer to bring him a dose of morphine,
whichhe
breathed
lal
tehsedw swallowed
in
nn
hisgoing
sleep,t to bed. During
publica-
Wednesday morning he was observed still asleep. At nine
A.N. he was found dead in his sleeping berth. -His sister,
etitle of
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inquiry
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landar s ;
and there are now alive three Baronesses ofnanort
dowager and widow of
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(nowdiirgeei:tgn•
of the three cleBa.2sset,lh)eismaatrrpireedsesnetliinnal,taolnye.
was born on the 6th of May,Lord Dufferin
onee the 4th July,
beautiful and

accomplished daughters of Thomas Sheridan, Esq., and
consequently grand-daughter of the celebrated Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, and sister to the Hon. Mrs. Norton,

and to -Lady Seymour (" lie Queen of 13eauty"). There
40,
is issue one son, Frederi ged fifteen years, heir to the
title and large estates of fferin and eianeboyne. This.
young nobleman is now at Eton, whilst, as before inti-
mated, his Noble mother is abroad, and ignorant of the
calamity that has befallen her house. The Nobleman
now deceased was a Tory in politics, but a kind and con-
siderate landlord.—Northern Whig.
ACCIDENT ON THE PRESTON AND WYRE
11 AILW AY.—PAOV IDENTIAL ESCA rE.—As the train,
which leaves Fleetwood at five o'clock in the evening,
was proceeding on Thursday by Kirkham at full speed,
the engine suddenly ran off the line and was overturned
along with the tender into a ditch, and the carriages ran
into each other, and were all more or less broken. The
passengers on recovering from the effects of the shock,
extricated themselves from tho ruins of the carriages, and
proceeded to ascertain the extent of injury done. To
their joyful surprise they found that not a single person
was seriously injured, though several received bruises.
It is supposed that the accident occurred from the point 4
not being properly turned.—Lancader Guardian.