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would acknowledge that he had frequently given him pieces of . CHARTIST INTERRUPTIONS AT
gold and silver that he had found about the premises. PUBLIC MEETINGS.
Mr. Hedges said that he had done so, and the Magistrate
said that he had no doubt but the boy had been led into this TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
offence by the gold-refiner, whoever he was, to whom he had Six,—l observe. in The Sun of the 12th a letter, in
sold the metal, and on the prisoner promising to give Isis reply to my former communication, in which the writer,
ma,,ter all the information he could as to that person, and Air. J. Rainsley, has favoured your readers with a form
others, if he knew any, he would discharge him.
maa.-a-m...........a.amm.aam. of amendment, which he says is quite relevant to the
CIT VOF LONDON THEATRE. proceedings of a meeting, called by requisition to
Last evening we visited this Lyceum of the East, and were petition for the abolition of the bread tax. His amend-
well pleased to find the elegant little theatre well filled in every merit dec hires that it is a waste of time to petition the
part, and the boxes presenting a most fashionable appearance. House of Commons as at present constituted, and that
The performances commenced with a new melo-drama, called the only way of repealing bad laws, arising out of class
Inis de Castro, which, although not founded on the tragic legislation, is to cause the People's Charter to become
story of the celebrated Inez, was as interesting as such things
usually are, and was made sufficiently entertaining by the aid of the law of the land. Now, without waiting to ask how
good scenery, the broadsword combats of Coney and Blanchard, the Charter is to be obtained if Corn-law Repeal
fascinating archness and vivacity of Mrs. Honey, in sundry cannot be had, I have no hesitation in saying that
disguises and perilous adventures, together with the very good such an amendment would be disorderly, and any parties
farce of Mr. Dunn as a drunken robber, and the rich comedy persisting in pressing it against the decision of the
of " little " Ross, as a Court jester. The piece is an sinques- b
Mayor, or other constituted authority who called the
tionable hit, although it belongs to a school which criticism
has long since overlooked. °lt was very much applauded meeting, would be liable to be taken into custody. I
throughout, and especially the parts in which Ross, Mrs. should be the last man to infringe upon the right of
Honey, and Dunn, were prominent. 'The burletta of free eiscussion, or to claim any privilege for the middle
Woman's the Devii was next presented, being the first poor. r. alas ey, how-
time which I denied to the M R • 1 h
time this season. When we say that Mrs. Hooey sus- .
tained her favourite part of Lady Brilliant, it is needless ever, tries very ingeniously to make it appear that lam
to add that the burletta was received from beginning on the side of oppression, because I endfavouracl to
to end with boundless laughter and applause. 'the entertain- show that the Feargus O'Connor Chartists (for that is
mrnt concluded with The Emperor Anpoleon ; or, The De- the only party I have to deal with) have set themselves
serter and his Dog, in which Mr. Bennet, as Napoleon, Mr. .
Blanchard, as the Deserter (with his fine dog Hector), and against law and order, as well as common sense, in pre-
Miss Montague, as Therese, received very liberal and merited scribing to themselves the task of upsetting all public
applause. Ross, as the Polish and discarded lover, excited meetings unless called to petition for the Charter—
very great laughter, by giving a good deal of breadth and force " Stopping the supplies of public opinion" is I believe the
to a very meagre and insignificant part. name given to this new mode of agitating for the suffrage
mamma. _ _

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKETS.

iy the youth, Dr. M'Douall. Now, Sir, one of my
objects in exposing the ,disorderly and illegal course
thus recommended, to say nothing of its unmeaning
foolishness, was to prevent the honest but rash follow-
ers of Feargus O'Connor from falling, for the third time,
into trouble. Physical force was the first specific for
getting the Charter : it resulted in some hundreds of
poor, ignorant men finding themselves in prison, and
saddling us with the expense of an increase of army
and police. Next came the farce of the sacred holiday,
which covered with ridicule its actors ; and now we
have another recipe, which, unless the O'Connorites be
wiser than their leaders give them credit for, will cx-
pose them to a repetition of disasters and sufferings.
My sympathy for the misguided Chartists is not my
only motive for troubling you. I repeat, that I will
stand by my right to meet and proclaim my grievances,
and to petition upon any and every subject—a right
which I willingly allow to others—and a right which I
sha►l be as little disposed to surrender into the hands of
O'Connor, as I was to yield up to his countryman,
Castlereagh. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
April 14. AN ANGLO-SAXON.

The demand for almost all articles continues dull, and prices
still depressed. Raw Sugar for home use was lower,' and the
transactions very trivial. The public sales went off very heavily,
and the bulk uas bought in. Coffee dull and declining ; and
the larger parcels brought to the hammer were chiefly taken
in. Spices firm, and a fair request. Rice a very slow sale,
and a shade cheaper. Cotton in demand for export, and full
prices paid.

THE WANTS OF ADVERTISERS
" I know of no cure so good for the vapours,
As reading the wants that appear in the papers."
So signs John Perry, and with as much truth as wit.
The columns of a newspaper arc the ouCet for all
the crotchets and whims of individuals in this most
crotchety of nations. What a person would not think
of communicating in confidence to his most intimate
friend he goes and publishes to all the world in the
newspaper. But then he is hid beneath an impenetrable
veil, and has the pleasure of seeing his " want" fully
ad-
vertised without being taunted with the singularity or un-
reasonableness of it. Men let their most violent preju-
dices have full play in this open field, and the bigot ap-
pears in his full blaze of glory as an advertiser. DCC3 the
reader want a " case?" The crammed columns of the
Times furnish cart loads of them daily, but, to save the
trouble of reference, we will take one from last Wed-

nesday's:—
" Wanted, a; good cook, in a clergyman's family, a
person who values religious privileges. No kitchenmaid
kept : no dairy. If any lady can recommend such a per-
son she will oblige the advertiser."
A cook who values religious privilege; ! A cat that
can play on the fiddle ! The religious privileges of a cook
are to scold the scullion, snub the footboy, and sell the
dripping The former arc p.-.srsonal rights flowing from
the importance and the sanctity of her occupation—the
latter is the tithe which she exacts from all the world—
that is, all the world that have dinners !
Cast your eyes a little lower down, and we come to a
new want:—
" Nursery maid.—Wanted, a young woman, about twenty-
three years of age, in the above capacity. She must be
able to work welt at her needle, and be a member of the
Established Church. No followers allowed."
Here's a test of religion and morals ! A member of
the Established Church, and no followers !
It's plain these cenditions wou!dn't suit the modest
young woman hard by, who wants a situation "as good
plain cook, where a footman is kept." This is certainly
a very wise and necessary provision where no followers are
allowed !
What would Malthus say of the respectable widow who
wants " nurse-children ?"
What will romantic young ladies asd gentlemen say to
this :
" If Louisa will return immediately to her friends in
London she will be kindly received, and all that has passed
will be forgiven.—April 14."
How full of mystery—perhaps of misery; and how
many teats may have been shed before this dernier resort—
a public advertisement, to bring back an erring child, or
wife, or mother, was resolved on
No pang, however, we irwgine, accompanied the two
following intimations:—
"If Miss Ruth Hall, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, does
not fetch away her boxes, left at J. Verry's, 18, East-
cheap, City, in 14 days from this date, (April 14, 1841,)
they will be sold to defray all expenses."
" I hereby give notice, that unless John Stratford Best,
late of Denham Mount, in the parish of Denham, Bucks,
Esq., pays my demand, and removes within 14 days from
the date hereof, three greyhound puppies (ono dog and
two hitches), left with me on the 3d day of September
last by his servant, George Hencher, they will be sold to
defray my demands, and the expenses attending the same.
—Cooper, Elton, Denham Bucks, April 10, 1841."
What outrage against the delicacy of Miss Ruth Hall—
what inhumanity towards the puppies of John Stratford
Best, Esq. !—Brighton Herald.

THE PLAINS OF HUNGARY.—WC had heard
much of the dull and monotonous character of the great plain
of Hungary. We had now a veritable specimen of it before
us : for many long and weary miles we drove, ere so much as
a cottage made its appearance, and all the while the corn waved
on either hand, rank and luxuriant. Yet, singular as to us
this state of things appeared, it is but a copy, and an imper-
fect one, of what prevails elsewhere. There are parts of the
country, especially in the great plain of the Theiss, where
you may travel an entire day without encountering either
the houses or the faces of men ; and all the while your

route will be through fields loaded with abundan,
crops of wheat and rye. Moreover, the customs of the
people who occupy that plain are to the full as striking
as the external appearance of the country ; and it may be
as well if I describe them. The long and fierce wars
which Hungary sustained with Turkey, and the expo-
sure of these open districts to perpetual invasion, first induced
the inhabitants to congregate into heaps, and the habits then
contracted have never since been laid aside. Accordingly,
there are no such things as villages and hamlets, far less de-
tached dwellings to he seen anywhere ; but at remote intervals
one from another, you come upon towns, towns of the veriest
huts, where dwell six, eight, ten, and sometimes as many as
thirty thousand peasants to,hether. How they preserve order
among themselves I do not know, for their Magistrates seem
to possess little influence over them; yet they do live peace-
ably enough and, though all are poor and squalid, and filthy
to a degree, there seems to be a perfect indifference to the
evils which poverty and squalor bring with them. They arc to
a man agriculturists. It is by the labour of their hands that the
boundless plains through which you have travelled are
cultivated; and the process by which the mighty operation is
performed is this : —When the season for ploughing and sowing
comes round, the males march in a body from their homes.
They erect wigwams, or huts, here and there in the fields ;
and then setting to work, they toil from Monday till Saturday,
living on the provisions which they may have brought with
them, and sleeping at night in their bivouac. On Saturday
they all return to the town, and do not leave it again till Mon-
day. In this manner the first processes are carried through ;
and, when all the seed has been scattered, the people march
back to their permanent habitations, there to abide in idleness
and filth till some fresh operation becomes necessary. Finally,
when harvest is ready, the bivouac is resumed, the women
coining forth this time to assist in getting it in. And as the
completion of the sowing season sent them back to town, so,
hen reaping ends, the huts are abandoned.— Gleig's Hungary.
SHOCKING AND FATAL OCCURRENCE.—
Last Friday the Reverend Robert Quinn, clergyman
of the Scotch Presb2,terian Church of Cermoy, had
come to town for the pus pose of attending the consecra-
tion of the new Scotch Church in Queer-street, and
while standing on the footway outside Myers' Hotel, in
Patrick-street, talking to a hind, a-, about half-past three
o'clock, p.m., a horse, ridden by a boy of about twelve or
thirteen years of age, rushed furiously forward front a
directly opposite direction, and dashed with such violence
against the Rev. Mr. Quinn, that he was driven against
the wall of the hot el v ith a force that instantly brought
the blood bubbling from his mouth and nose in torrents ;
his rebound from the wall threw him to the ground,
where he fell across the cheek-stone of the footway, and
when taken up was quite dead ! One of the runners at
the coach-office adjacent, who said he was standing by at
the time, said he saw the horse roll over the ill-fated gen-
tleman, and when rising placed his knee or hoof on his
chest ; but on examination no mark of that sort, nor in-
deed any external wound whatever, appeared on the body.
1)r. Montague Smith, who was approaching the scene of
this sad catastrophe in an opposite direction from that
which the horse took, and having seen the animal's furious
pace, rushed forward, saw Mr. Quinn prostrate, and h d
him instantly brought into the public room of the hotel,
where he and Dr. Delany opened veins in the dceeiseu's
arm, hut he 3i2lded only a few drops of blood, and the
slight pulsation in his wrist and the tremulous beating of
his heart, which were felt when he was first brought in,
then ceased for ever. A great crowd of respectable per-
SOll3 was in the room in a very few minutes, amongst the
first of whom we saw several medical gentlemen, who did
all that medical or surgical skill could do to restate anima-
tion ;
.but all their efforts were in vain, for the unfortuua:e
gentleman was dead when iir:t removed from the street.
An additional feature of melancholy is added to this awful
and fatal accident,
ettaed has suffered this bereavement under the paitsful eir-
Lceome a mother, for
by the fact that the wife
toilfetisleecdone_d
eunistsnce of havin,
time, but a fortnightvbefore, and was teal ried but to years.
An inquest was held soon afterwards, when the Jury found
that deceased's death bad been accidental, caused by a
honorsteh,e Uhroersper.opeTrthyeo
Jury
u Tobin,l\rlyr.werenot unanimous as to the
with a deodand of 20/.
amount of the deodand; but the majority were for 201.
Cork Southern Reporter.
The operations, under the directions of Col.
Pasley, on the wreck of the Royal George, at Spithead,
are to commence forthwith. The Success hulk will be
employed in that service cc lietetofze. The flJers and
keel of that ill-fated Kesel trill remain to be removed.--
I/amps/tire lekir op
.14.