The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

ACCEPTANCES.

Yrs at lb 1 'Yrs st lb
Pyrrhus the Pirst... 4 8 7 Crozier
Mendicant 4 8 6,11a10
St. Lawrence a 8 3 Limestone
I 3 6 2
The Conjuror .. .. ... 4 712 Milliner . .....
Miss Ella
Grimston 4 710 Ellerdale
Bourton 4 7 6 Bingham
Arthur 5 7 5 Ulysses 3 5 8
Conspiracy.
Woodpecker 4 6 12 Mathematician...... 3 5 7
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Malt
Duke of Kent ...... 5 6 7 Cast-steel Filly 3 5 5
Flahowlagh
The Premier....... 4 6 6 Lady Tightleg 3 5 5
Forinualla . . 4 6 4 Sir Martin 3 4 10
Punch

THE ORDER OF THE FAMILY REQUIRED IT.
Another leaf from my scrap-book ; and you may be
sure that I shall only state facts, derived from sources
in the truthfulness of which I have implicit confidence ;
and I say this once for all. A Christian woman from
one of the slave states, a lady who, although
a largefor
slave-holder, sustains at this moment a reputation
piety such as few enjoy, and who,this
in life, discharges every duty as in the fe.arteor,f
whoO also is
lady holds now as a slave a Christian
in most of the_nt_tions
in the household the place of cook is Jell
that
she
was
of irreproachable character, and holding
.hsilattfolyr nivaainnyedyasearas
servant. This cook was one day
ahsosa-
' load of company a_d j
carriage-load dinner should be prepared.
unable to leave her bed withonuattsaohreurilrped,_•
, asnodu t hy ee rt in
pitality required that a
woman, then one of the family,
sponsibility ; but.a nor
far as she could, in getting dinner.
None but the sick womthaegnroncoould be allowed to take the re-
volunteered to aid, sotto
tablet the mistress of the family
and before cutting into a fine
plate;
placed before carefully cutoff and put
chicken pie
calledWh en
forit awna was
extra
an
aside a few crumbs of the crust which was slightly
burned on one side. After the company departed, this
lady brought out the pieces of burnt crust, and, charg-
ing the mishap upon the cook, sent for the constable,
and had the sick slave most severely whipped. She did
this, although the lady who aided in preparing the dinner
petitioned for her, and said she was herself most to
blame; and although the woman was s 3 ill that her hus-
band had to lift her out of bed to take her whipping.
And why did she do it? Because, as the mistress her•
self said, the order of the family required it, and she had
told the cook what she might expect if guilty of suet
carelessness 1 1 If this be Christian slave-holding, what
may not the poor slave suffer under ungodly men? Alas!
we know but too well what some suffer."--Letter from
W. E. Whiting, Esq., Merchant, of New York, and
Treasurer 01 the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery So-
ciety, dated May, 1847.
THE DUKE OF CORNWALL STEAMER. --
bed
FAL-
MOUTH, SUNDAY EVENlNG.—lntelligence ha!erfsactide
us that this steamer was got off by theb
eenveni
towedg into
from her perilous situation, and has
bie
9 no casualty
Falmouth. She is strained considerz. y and tics re-
eel% ed injury to ha fare foot, happilybut.ie
tide
rc.ce.2cd
te) her passengers has occurrcda. _ When 11
her coals and stores
empty ca:-.ks fr.ata her
chains were placed undo r her, ad.
decks were attached at her bows,
Sir Francois Drake steamer e was hauled off, and ttaS
were placed in lighters, andajt with the sssistance of the
em brought in here.

LITERATURE.
VANITY FAIR. By, W. M. Thackeray. Part VII.
The story in this number retrogrades a little, and
to account for the sudden appearance of Captain,
Dobbin at Brighton, relates to us the unsuccessful
attempts which he had made to mollify the father of-
George Osborne. Old Osborne, on being informed.
of George's marriage, returns to his own room to
ruminate.
" Behind Mr. Osborne's dining-room was the usual
apartment:, which went in his home by the name of the '
study ; and was sacred to the master of the house.
Hither Mr. Osborne would retire of a Sunday forenoon.
when net minded to go to church ; and here pass the
morning in his crimson leather chair, reading the paper.
A couple of glazed book-cases were here, containing
standard works in stout gilt bindings. The ' Annual
Register, the 'Gentleman's Magazine," Blair's Sermons,'
and ' Hume and Smollet.' From year's end to year's
end he never took one of these volumes from the shelf; '
but there was no member of the family that would dare
for his life to touch one of the books, except upon those
rare Sunday evenings when there was no dinner party,
and when the great scarlet Bible and Prayer-book were
taken out from the corner where they stood beside his
copy of the Peerage, and-the servants being rung up to
the dining parlour, Osborne read the evening service to .
his family in a loud grating pompous voice. No member
of the household, child or domestic, ever entered that
room without a certain terror. Here he checked the
housekeerer's accounts, and overhauled the butler's
cellar-book. Hence he could command, across the
clean gravel court-yard, the back entrance of the sta-
bles with which one of his bells communicated, and
into this yard the coachman issued from his premises as
iwnitnodao
wd.oc kio au nr dt
iOmsebso ran eysewaror emai
sts ht
i'v i
rfrom n t
in
ca
epiajet rot
heeni tr tqou ga
re
tte herrl asialloawryan;cea. n d
Gh
ei so r
g e
a s daughtersa tebhroeeytdsot
hut r e -hdadlys
been horsewhipped in this room many times ; his mo-
ther sitting sick on the stair listening to the cuts of the
whip. Tee boy was scarcely ever known to cry under '
the punishment ; the poor woman used to fondle and
kiss him secretly, and give him money to soothe him,
when he came out.

" There was a picture of the family over the mantel- '
piece, removed thither from the front-room after Mrs.
Osborne's death—George was on a poney, the elder
sister holding him up a bunch of flowers ; the younger
led by her mother's hand ; all with red cheeks and
large red mouths, simpering on each other in the ap- •
proved family-portrait manner. The mother lay under
ground now, long since forgotten—the sisters and bro-
ther had a hundred different interests of their own, and

familiar still, were utterly estranged from each other.
Some few score of years afterwards, when all the par-
ties represented are grown old, what bitter satire there
is in those flaunting childish family-portraits, with their
farce of sentiment and smiling lies, and innocence so self-
conscious, and self-satisfied. Osborne's own stately -
portrait, with that of his great silver inkstand and arm-
ehair, had taken the place of honour in the dining•
room, vacated by the family-piece.

" To this study old Osborne retired then, greatly to
the relief of the small party whom he. left. When the
servants had withdrawn, they began to talk for a while
volubly but very low ; then they went up stairs quietly,
Mr. Bullock accompanying them stealthily on his creaking
shoes. lie had no heart to sit alone drinking wine,
and so close to the terrible old gentleman in the study
hard at hand. _

An hour at least after dark, the butler, not having
received any summons, ventured to tap at his door and
take him in wax candles and tea. The master of the
house sate in his chair, pretending to read the paper,
and when the servant, placing the lights and refresh-
ment on the table by him, retired, Mr. Osborne got up
and locked the door after him. This time there was no
mistaking the matter ; all the household knew that
some great catastrophe was going to happen which was
likely direly to affect Master George.
" In the large shining mahogany escrutoire Mr. Os-
borne had a drawer especially devoted to his son's
affairs and papers. Here he kept all the documents re-
lating to him ever since he had been a boy : here were
his prize copy-books and drawing-books, all bearing
George's hand, and that of the master : here were his
first letters in large round hand sending his love to paps
and mamma, and conveying his petitions for a cake.
His dear godpapa Sedley was more than once men-
tioned in them. Curses quivered on old Osborne's
. .

lived lips, and horrid hatred and disappointment
writhed in his heart, as looking through some
of these papers he came on that name.
They were all marked and docketed, and tied with red
tape. It was—' From Georgy, requesting 55., April 23,
18—; answered, April 25,'—or Georgy about a pony,
October 13,'—and so forth. In another packet were—
' Dr. S.'s accounts'—' G.'s tailor's bills and outfits, drafts
on me by G. Osborne, jun.' &e.—his letters from the
West Indies—his agent's letters, and the newspapers
containing his commission : here was a whip he bad
when a boy, and in a paper a locket containing his hair,
which his mother used to wear. _

....._. _..... _
" Turning one over after another, and musing over
these memorials, the unhappy man passed many hours.

_ -
His dearest vanities, ambitions, hopes, had all been here.
What pride he had in his boy! He was the handsomest

child ever seen. Every body said he was like a noble-

man's son. A rot al piince;s had remarked him, and
kissed him, and asked his name in Kew Gardens. What
city man could show such another? Could a prince have
been better cared for? Anything that money could buy
had been his son's. Ho used to go down on speech days
with four horses and new liveries, and scatter new slid-

lings amoi g the boys at the school where George was :
when ho went with George to the depot of his regiment,
before the boy embarked for Canada, he gave the officers
such a dinner as the Duke of York might have sat down
to. Had he ever refused a bill when George drew one?
There they were—paid without a word. Many a general
in the army couldn t ride the horses he had 1 He had
the child before his eyes on a hundred different days
when he remembered George—after dinner, when he
used to come in as bold as a lord and drink ff his glass
by bis father's side, at the head of the table—on the
pony at Brighton, when be cleared the hedge and kept
otcthheuelhdrunur,
tircperaoßnd—eugcoeenn
ta theat
finer t dayh e y
oew
uv hen eegn, f
llhe
oe
when all
.aas
Ap rsneti-
jsuepani
ntweeidst,isti
this, this was the end of all I—to marry a bankrupt and
fly in the face of duty and fortune! What humiliation
and fury: what pangs of sickening rage, balked am-
bition and love ; what wounds of outraged vanity, ten-
derness even, had this old worldling now to suffer under!
" Having examined these papers, and pondered over
this one and the other, in that bitterest of all helpless
woe, with which miserable men think of happy past
times—George's father took the whole of the documents
out of the drawer in which he had kept them so long, and
locked them into a writing-box, which he tied and sealed
with his seal. Then he opened the book-case, and took
down the great rod Bible we have spoken of—a pompous
book, seldom looked at, and shining all over with gold.
There was a frontispiece to the volume, representing
Abraham sacrificing Isaac. Here, according to custom,
Osborne had recorded on the fly-leaf, and in his large
clerk-like hand, the dates of his marriage and his wife's
death, and the births and Christian names of his
chil-
dren. Jane came first, then George Sedley Osborne,
then Maria Frances, and the days of the christening of
each. Taking a pen, he carefully obliterated George's
names from the page; and when the leaf was quite dry,
restored the volume to the place from which he had
moved it. Then he took a document out of another
drawer, where his own private papers were kept, and
having read it, crumpled it up and lighted it at one of
the candles, and saw it burn away entirely in the grate.
It was his will ; which being burned, he sate down and
wrote off a letter, and rang for his servant, whom he
charged to deliver it in the morning. It was morning
already: as he went up to bed, the whole house was
alight with the sunshine ; and the birds were singing
among the fresh green leaves in Russell-square."
He then directs his solicitor to George informing
him that 2,0001., which is his share of his mother
fortune shall be paid to his order, but
that henceforth George is to cease to con-
sider himself a member of the Osborne family:
Rebecca manages to bring about (in the absence of
Mrs. Bute) a quasi reconciliation between Rawdon,
and his aunt; and at the conclusion of this number
we leave Rawdon, George, and Dobbin en route
_ough for,
Belgium, to join the army which afterwards fought fterwards
at Waterloo.

THAMES.
ING IN THE,
EVENING.—This afternoon an
WINDSOR, MONDAY.I..Ie W. J. marlin, Esq., the coroner
inquest was held D
at the King's Arms, Thames-side, on
LAMENTABLE CASE OF DROWN_
Julius Jacobson, of the firm of Jacob-
sonmerchants, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-
Brothers,
la, was unfortunately drowned yesterday after-
street, w
ntfohoreo bathingntbhowedhybioloerfouMgiriborough, at
in the Thames, a short distance be-
low Windsor-bridge.
Dr. Hermann Scherer, of 36, Half-Moon-street, Pic-
cadilly, the gentleman who accompanied the deceased,
deposed as follows:—The deceased and I arrived in
Windsor yesterday, and shortly afterwards engaged a
boy to take us in a punt to a part of the Thames where
there was plenty of room for swimming. I had no doubt
the deceased could swim, as we had been bathing toge-
ther last week at Richmond. We told the lad we could
swim. I first plunged into the water, close to the weir,
from off the bank; the deceased shortly after following
me. I soon after, while I was standing upon the weir,
_
saw him struggling through the stream, but I heartderh .
utter no cry. I immediately sprung into the
aliinn::
his assistance, but was unable to reach him for
of the our"
rent. I found him sinking and exhausted• or two, in consequence of the rapid nuatmez
of his body
to get hold of his shoulder, the
wholehis weight, and so
being under water, but such
my nwasatrength failed, and it
deep was the river,
that
my and reached the shore,
was with difficulty
I saved Instion. The body was after-
wards managed
when I fell down from exh_eauwithia a
few yards whence
wards found in a deep 1
were examined, and the
tlsolf " Accidentally drowned while
jury returned a venue
- I bathing."
:11 lit sunk. Some other
, hole,

Finn AT DocKnEAD.—Yesterday afternoon, be-
tween the hours of three and four, a fire of an alarming
character was discovered on the premises in the occu-
pation of Messrs. Colley and Border, coal and charcoal
merchants, 52, Shad Thames, Doekhattd. The flames
when first perceived had obtained a firm hold of up-
wards of two thousand bushels of charcoal deposited in
ono of the lofts. An attempt was made to extinguish
the fire by heaving buckets of watt r upon it, but owing
to the suffocat'ng gr.; from the burning material, the
men were obliged to make a precipitate retreat. The
trenr n, by dint ;if gre it exertion, succeeded iu getting the
r.-......t, •,.! over the ti:Lln,IL, but Ihq wc,,._ but entirely *V.,
1 tioguibtied midi considerable damage was done. The
1 precise cause of the disaster could not be ascertained, bet
1
the prevailing opinion is that it originated spontaneously
from the intense heat of the weather acting on the ober-
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