The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-16 00:00:00

SIN , LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1841.

TEACHING BY REALITIES.
The public have hitherto known little more of Mr.
Lovett than that he is a clever, honest, sturdy Chartist,
who submits to imprisonment . rather than compromise I
an iota of his opinions. We now beg to introduce him
to them in a new character. Bred up a ropemaker, he
has taught himself the art of cabinet-making, and
has become a finished workman. While he has
been a most active politician, he has also been
devising plans of education, to which his skill as a cabinet-
maker has been subservient. His efforts to awaken the
bulk of the working classes to a proper sense of their
deficiency in knowledge, are already known to our
readers by the clever work which he and Mr. Collins
wrote while they were in 'Warwick gaol. His present
production may be said to carry out in detail one recom-
mendation of that book, and is intended to assist pa-
rents and teachers in imparting easily useful knowledge
to their children and pupils. It is a series of first les-
sens in spelling, connected with a view of the actual ob-
ject of which the name is spelled. Mr., Lovett
has constructed a neat box of the shape and
appearance of a . book, which contains three
or four alphabets, and,u proper frame, into which the
letters can be easily placed. In a drawer, divided into
a great number of compartments, are numerous speci-,
wens of natural and artificial objects, such as steel-pens,
wafers, peas, pepper, coffee, corn, copper, tinfoil, sponge,
India rubber, etc. Animals and birds are represented by
pictures. The objects may. be as numerous and diver-
sified at any person pleases, and they may be ar-
ranged in a scientific order, se as to instruct
the youngest , child in some of the great scien-
tific divisions. The object of this apparatus is
to give children coirect ideas of words by teaching them
,in connection with things ; to teach children to spell
each word as the idea is presented to them, instead of
borthening their memories with tasks of words, the
meaning of which they do not understand ; to call forth
their observing faculties by their examination of. things
in order to ascertain their qualities and uses ; gradually
to accustom them to composition, and the elements of hang,
lish grammar. The mode of teaching is this: the teacher
should select an object from the drawer and present it
to the children for their examination, first asking or tell-
ing them its name, which when told, one of them should
be instructed to compose such name with the letters in the
frame, inside the lid of the box. After they have thus learnt
to compose the names of different objects, they should
be taught to compose the names of their most obvious
qualities, thus—A Pea. is round and hard—Cork is soft
and light. As the children progress they should be
taught the more difficult qualities of objects as well as
their uses, thus=-Glass is smooth, bright, and brittle,
and can be made elastic, so that dresses can be made of
it. India rubber is opaque, elastic, flexible, inflammable,
and tough ; it is made of the juice of a tree, and is used
for making cloth elastic, waterproof, &c. Copper is
heavy, sonorous, fusible, elastic,' malleable, ductile, com-
pact, and tenacious ; it is a mineral, and is used for mak-
ing boilers, pans, money, &c. To ascertain all the va-
rious qualities of objects, the children must be taught
to exercise their senses of seeing, hearing, smelling,
tasting, and touching, and when practicable, experiments
should be made to render every quality obvious to their
senses. They should not be taught to compose a word
till they understood its meaning.",
• Mr. Lovett makes no pretension to the merit of first
proposing teaching the use of words in conjunction with
objects. That plan has been acted on for many years,
and is now generally adopted in infant schools ; but Mr.
Lovett's apparatus facilitates the carrying it into execu-
tion. It will supply, we think, a delightful means for
parents to instruct their children and enable them to im-
part their own knowledge, acquired in practice, in a
graceful and useful way, to their offspring. Mr. Lovett
is untired in endeavouring to do good, and he deserves
all the encouragement which is due to modest and perse-
vering merit.

THE COMMISSIONERS OF

SEWERS ANI) THE BLACKWALL RAILWAY

COMPANY,

There has been a difference of opinion of late between
the City Commissioners of Sewers for the City of Lon-
don and the Directors of the Blackwell Railway Com-
pany, which has caused a great deal of conversation and
conjecture in the East-end of the town, and it is ex-
pected that very shortly the subject will come before the
public through the agreeable medium of a Court of Law.
The following is a pretty fair version of the two sides
of the case. It is known that in the Court of Common
Council a vigorous opposition was made to the intro-
duction of the railway into the City via Minories upon
the ground of the injury likely to arise from the passing
of the trains through the heart of a populous neighbour-
hood and from other objectionable circumstances con-
nected with the speculation, and that the inhabitants of
Portsoken ward argued strongly against the formation
of a terminus in the Minories. It is also known that a
further extension of the railway through Crutchedfriars
and Cooper's-lane, terminating in the immediate vicinity
of Fenchurch-street,'Was, after a considerable struggle,
carried against the voice of the inhabitants, and that one
of the objections started to the undertaking was the
annoyance to which the people in that part of the City
would be exposed front the noise of the engines and the
hubbub of the numerous passengers at all the busy hours
or the day.
For the purpose of meeting those objections on the
line of extension, the Blackwall Railway Company de-
termined.to raise a wall with skylights from the Mino-
ries to the terminus next to Fenchurch-street, a distance
of upwards of 300 yards, by means of which they might
smother the sound of the steam apparatus, and enable
the merchants and traders in the locality to transact their
busineSs in perfect quiet, and without apprehension of
being overwhelmed, in the event of any mismanagement
or unavoidable contingency as to the locomotive power.
A short time ago the whole of the covered way, which
had been considered by the Company not only to be cal-
, eulated to • remedy the evil dreaded by the opposers of
the project, but to he a v.try great additional benefit to
the passengers, was opened to the public, and, it is said,
that the proposed object of the Company has been fully
answered.

The,matter, it appears, is not, however, likely to be
so easily settled. The Commissioners of SeWerS, in going
the rounds of the City, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether surveyors and builders were interfei ing with the
public health, fixed upon this very inclosed portion of
the line of railroad as an exceedingly dangerous check
to the ventilation of this dense neighbourhood, and ac-
cordingly presented an indictment to the Grand Jury,
representing it as a nuisance, and as directly opposed to
the provisions of a Bill introduced by Lord Normanby to
Parliament to secure the health of the citizens of Lon-
don. The bill of indictment was, after the statements, of
the witnesses in favour of it, thrown out by the Grand
Jury, but the Commissioners of Sewers being determined
to have a legal investigation into the merits of the ques-
tion, have stated their intention to commit a trespass
upon the inclosed' portion of the line, in order that so im-
portant a matter should meet with due deliberation from
the highest authorities.
It is whispered that the inhabitants of Portsoken
Ward, who at first complained so bitterly of the esta-
blishment of a terminus in the Minories, had been made
by use so far reconciled to it, that they are now actually
enraged at its removal to the immediate neighbourhood
of Fenehurch-street.

The Blackwall Railway Company are, it is said, will-
ing to try the question before any authority, convinced
that they have done no mischief by raising a wall which
may have the effect of partially shutting out the sale=
brious breezes of Petticoat-lane and other fragrant loca-
lities.

REVISION OP VOTERS.
CITY OF LONDON.

Yesterday, Francis Bailey, Esq., Barrister-at-law, held
a Court at Guildhall for (he revision of the list of voters
in the election of Members to serve in Parliament for the
City of London.
The lists were taken alphabetically, the Apothe-
caries' Company being taken first, in the revision of which
no ease of interest occurred.

Mr. Quin. the Secretary to the Conservative Associa-
tion, and Mr. Trot, Secretary to the Liberal Association,
conducted the opposition and defence to the several
claims.

The name of James Hill appearing on the list of voters
for the parish of St. Anns,
Mr. Quin objected to its being retained, inasmuch as
he was described as of James's-place, Cambridge road,
there being no such place in esistence.
Thomas Peake, one of the Agents employed by the
Conservative Association as canvassers, proved that he
knew the neighbourhood well, and the••e was no such
street. The case was ordered to stand over to one
o'clock to-morrow.

On the list of the Bakers' Company coming under re-

vision,
Mr. Quin opposed the retention of the name of Chris-
topher Brookspoint, described as residing in Hampton-
street, he being unknown there, and a letter addressed
to him through the post returned witlt a similar intima-
tion marked on it.• The Association had at their own
expense addressed numerous letters to the liverymen,
whose residences as described in the list were suspected
to be erroneous, and in the Bakers' Company
.alone no
less than five of these letters' hal been returned with
the word unknown marked on them.. lie. thought the
clerks Or the_ beadles of the different companies ought to
be more' circumspect with regard to the addresses
appended to the different names in the lists, as the cri-
minal proceedings arising out of false -personation of
voters at the last City election, now pending at the suit
of the Court of Aldermen were in a great treasure the
fruit of this looseness in the addresses.
The H' vision Barrister reserved his decision until
one o'clock to-morrow.
James Brown, of Cooper's-row, Tower-hill, was next
opposed by Mr. Quin, on the ground, likewise, of a fuse
description, as the house, which he was described as
occupying there was taken down for the purpose of cer-
tain railway improvements. The law enacted that a
liveryman or burgess should reside within seven miles
of the city or borough ; but this was not the ground of
his objection at all. His objection was, that as the voter
did not reside on the premises described in the list his
name should he expunged.
The Revising Barrister—On what authority ?
Mr. Quin—Thu authority is on the face of the_ list.
This Court is only to revise the list, not to Turtke additionS
wi44 nnl empowered to correct clerical errors ;
but direct and palpable mis-statements were quite diffe-
rent matters.
This claim was likewise ordered to stand over until to-
morrow.
Mr. Quin objected to the retention of the name of
William Webster, on the ground of his not being en-
. titled to vote in last July, because he held the Post-office
neighbourhood and the law prohibited
. ---- 4. any person
Knapp, the Cashier a Op i‘filleral Pont•holding such office within twelve
was arrested at Rockford, Illinois,; Bank, in t
op thg 134} inst. He ,calendar months of the
INNl;ilebvister said he did not vote in Jul)
IlNa)sutidasha‘
was found to be in possession of aboutlloo,ooo %drafts,
lie
checks, certificates of deposit, ban:i 1"11s. s well aware that if he had done so he:
s6zrred ,
belonging
.to a penalty of 1001., having re.s(igned 'thee
to the Mineral Point Bank, most ingeniously
under the blank or fly 10 yes of some books. The been sty .1-`
nost-othee only on the previous 10th of December.
amount is supposed to be sufficient IP render the of Barrister—lf you could not vote in
Me Revising
the bank worth 75. cents. to the dollar. ii4App at•
July 1 5113 344 A Pvi'll9Uz. Trif 11414 e fr9lll Ow_ lig,
taken back to Mineral Point.

- ,
Mr. We' -'< —1 ;hall v,-,e. on mv own responsibility,
actor the toth of next .I),eemb::.r, if opportunity offers. (TALACAtCOAS AND IRON COM-isisteri3 reported
• • -PAN Y. of Modena.
Mr. Trot—Bat your name is now expunged. An extraordinary meeting was held yesterday of . the i The linperial
Mr. Webster--;-i don't care, I shall tender my vote at Shareholders in the above Company, at the ()ince, 30,
by parties of eve
,
least.—(Laughter.) I J ohnstreet, A delphi, for the purpose of taking into
Thomas Clark,-, described as of Norton-street, Port- ; considerate it the general affairs of the Company—to
land-place, Maryiebone, was objected to by Mr. Muir, I provide a nu:ma 'to pay of its liabilities—to adopt such
on grounds similar to those in the preceding ease, change ; proceedings at law or in equity as might appear de•Ar-
of residQnce. _ i ab:e, and also to determine upon the steps to be tallun for

. Mr. Clarke acid he had removed only three doors from
the house doscribed.in• the lists, and he hoped he should
not be disfranchised under such circumstances; the more
so, as be had given notice of his removal to the clerk of
the Company.
Mr. Quin said he did not think the Court would take
upon itself the power to alter those lists. They were to
be considered perfect before they came here ; and, as he
had before stated, it had only to correct clerical errors.
The Court would feel that it✓ was not to make any alte-
rations it liked.—Ordered to stand over till to-morrow:

On the namo of George Dawes, BlackfriarS'-road, being
read, Mr. Quin c2lied Jones, one of the Conserva-
tive a,2,-ents, who stated that he called at a baker's shop in
Black friars'-road, and was there informed that the former
proprietor's • name was George Dawes, but that he died
about four months ago.
Mr. Tro:-.--•Who told you so ? Jones—A person who
stated herself to be his widow.
Mr. Trot—Do you know .the number of the House
Jones--No.

winding up the affairS of the Company.
• Mr. Chapilon was proposed, and took the Chair.
There was but a thin attendance of proprietors, but se-
veral of diem came attended by solicitors.
The CHAIRMAN, on taking the chair, made a few ob-
servations, and was proceeding to read the requisition,
calling the meeting together, when he was interrupted
by Mr. Wire, who appeared for Mr. Weston, one of the
Shareholders, requesting to know how many'Direct,rs
there were at present in the Company, and als, requesting
; that the names be read over. The Chairman then read

the names of the Directors at pre:ceat tmettitg,
and it appeared that there were only about tour or five.
A long and desultory discussion then arose as to time legs-
lay of the meeting, the deed of settlement stating that
no meeting could be convened or held -unless there were
ten Directers in attendance, and it appeared that there
were only three Directors to the Company actually in
existence. At length, after considerable discussion and
math 'warmth on both sides, the Chairman roe and put
the question to the meeting, that the Report or the Com-

Mr. Trot said in spell a very long street as Black-
friats'-road, there iniu:ht be more than one of the name.
Mr. Quin—'Then he should describe himself properly.
Ire thought-the prooladduced before the Cdtirt was suf-
ficient to cause the: name to be struck oft -There was
no number mentioned in the list, and it had been found
that GeOrgi; Dawes, baker, formerly
residing in the
Blitekfriars -road was dead.
The Revising Barrister agreed in the view taken by
Mr. Quin, and accordingly expunged the name.
Mr. Quin applied to have the name of Edward William
Rainbow, described as residing in Essex-row, Islington,
struck off the list, no such place being known there.
Last year the Conservative Association forwarded• a
letter, directed as above, which was returned, and the
same happened this yOar.
The Revising Barrister said he supposed Mr. Quin
was aware that service by post was not valid.
Mr. Quin said he was aware of the fact, but he had
other proofs to offer.
One of the Conservative agents being sworn, said, he
could find no such place as Essex-row in Islington, al-
though he applied at the Post-office, the station-house,
and to the vestry-clerk.
The Beadle of the Guild said the agents must be very
much mistaken, as he (the, beadle)..had been, at Rain-
bow's, in Sussex-row, about t o years ago.
The Revising Barrister said, Mr. Rainbow might per-
haps appear personally before one o'clock to-morrow, to
which time he should adjourn the cise.
A number of other cases were brought before Mt•
Bailer, which all hinged upon the _Same point—inaccu-
racy in the description of the Liverymen's places of
abode, and were adjourned.
The Court meets agpin at ten o'clock to-morrow (this
day), when it is expected the decision with respect to
the principle involved in cases revised yesterday will be
pronounced.
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

The " Grand Autumnal Dahlia Show," of the South
London Floricultural Society, took place on Tuesday at
these gardens, and whether in point of numbers or
variety of specimens, the exhibition was one of unex-
ampled magnitude and splendour. The great pavilion,
three hundred feet in length, was appropriated chiefly
to the dahlias and miscellaneous flowers, while the
fruit, vegetables, and other subjects for competition, were
displayed in spacious and handsomely decorated mar-
quees, erected in various parts of the • grounds. The
prizes included three. gold, and not less than seventy
silver medals, with an extra prize of a silver medal, given
by R. Seldon, Esq., to amateurs, members of the Society,
for the best collection of twelve dahliaS (dissimilar
blooms), and which was awarded to Mr. Humber. One
of the gold medals for dahlia blooms was' obtained by
Mr. Wilmot, and a gold medal was' also awarded to
Mr. Atlee, fu: a magnificent specimen of the vcronia
thitticulatus. Fur English hot-house grapes, prizes
were obtained by Mr. Chapman and Mr. Bruce ; for
melons by Mr. Andrews ; fur four different sorts of fruit
by Mr. Baldwin. Notwithstanding the lateness of the
season, there were some splendid bunches of ruses, f.,r
which a silver medal was awarded to Paul and Co., of
Cheshunt. We noticed' a very'beautiful group of lilium
lanceiblium album, exhibited by Mr. Groom, of Wal-
worth, and the collection of orchideous plants, ericas,
heaths, cockscombs, and fusehias, were extremely fine,
but it would be impossible firr us to enumerate all the
successful candidates, in these various departments of
the floral art: The gardens were in the course of the
evening densely crowded, and there could not., on a
moderate computation, have been less than 15,000 persons
present.' The Girandola di St. Angelo closed the enter-
tainments, in which was introduced a superb emblema-
tical pyrotechnic device, in honour of the fete, which
elicited unbounded applause from the spectators.

THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF

LIFE IN PICCADILLY.
(ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.)

.• Li_
pane (which had been drawn up by the C:inipitn) 's
eitjr) should be read and adopted. This gave rise to
renewed discussion, and a great deal of angry parleying
was kept up by the Solicitors to the different Share-
holders and the Solicitor to the Company (Mr. Ashurst).
The alleged ground of opposition to the reception of the
Report was that it was a one-sided or ex parte statement,
and imputed fraud to many parties connected with the
Company. But it appeared that the opposition was prin-
cipally to the Report having been drawn up by
the three Directors themselves, without the knowledge
of the Shareholders, and part of it being founded on
documentary evidence, which the shareholders knew no-
thing about. From te proceedings that occurred yes-
terday, there appeared to be two distinct interests in the
Company, that of the Shareholders in the concert , and
the Directors. Mr. 'Weston, one of the Shareholders,
said that he believed that it was the object of the
Directors to at once dissolve the concern, and there
were parties who were waiting ready for its disso-
lution, to come and purchase the estate ; for a letter
had been put into his hand that morning, by a pers :311 who
expected that the plans of the Company would be ren-
dered nugatory, and who was ready to purchase the
estate, and who hoped by the present proceedings of the
I)itectors, to get it at a reduced" price.' Mr. Weston
stated that if the present report were read, it •would be
the means, not of aiding the Company in its present
difficulties, but of adding 20,0001. more to the already
accumulated losses. Whereas, if a proper report were
roddo out, by and with the sanction and inspection of
the Whole of the Shareholders, parties might be t;Jund
who would purchase the estate at a price which would
clear their losses. He himself knew parties who were
ready to purchase the estate on the terms he had men-
tioned. He characterised the report submitted to the
meeting as one of gross injustice to the Shareholders,
and more especially to himself, who, he was aware,
would be characterised in it as having acted the part of
a swiAler towards the Company. He himself did not
wish to suppress facts, but as an honourable man, and a
man of business, he wished the facts to go forth to the
world, but, in justice, he wished first to know what those
facts were, and how far they could be substantiated.
After a very angry discussion, in which there was con-
siderable bandying of personalities and wholesale abuse,
the Chairman submitted the amounts of the shares,
and other property held by the Directors, contrasting
it with that of the Shareholders, by which it appeared
that the Directors had 15,0001. invested in the concern,
while the Shareholders only possessed about 1,7001. This
was replied to by Mr. Weston, who said he was in a
position to show, within an hour, that the state-
ment of the Chairman was most incorrect, and if it
wes so, what an evil it would be to have
Report read, going forth, as it would, to the pub-
lic, which had been framed under such circumstances.
This, he said, was one convincing proof why the Report
should not be read. The conversation again wandered
into personalities, many parties frequently speaking at
the same time, and all abusing each other, when Mr.
Rawson, a shareholder, rose and said he thought they
were wasting a great deal of time in useless personalis
ties. He never condemned a man until he proved that
he was guilty ; therefore, although he could not consent
to the Report being read, he thought the best plan would
be to have a few gentlemen appointed for the purpose of
rose to
inspecting the Report, and then to report to the Shares
holders upon it at a future meeting. The Chairman hise
to put
whatever
this
wast()
ttatenmeeting,
sand several did so,ge &men:
speak at once, and there was great confusion. After
several of the Shareholders bad spent themselves out,
and almost talked themselves hoarse, a Shareholder,
whose name did not transpire, discovered that they weee
obdes etiethoeurrse hl tosp
1:1•;:e ,
doing no business, and thought that, as there was so much
objectionwouldbe
tt
oo readingadjooro theth oRe p
meeting,ort t
and
Report submitted or prepare another. This setintqf to meet
the views of all parties, and Mr. Rawson was called upon
to make a motion to that effect. A diseuniez filen arose
as to whether any of the Directors ultunlil be upon the
Committee, to be appointed to irmaeot, the Report ; but
this difficulty having bean got over, and Mr. Ashurst
having pledged himself to supply any documents that
might be required in the examination of the Report-, Mr.
Rawson proposed the following amendment to the motion.
that the Report be read and received That the
Meeting be adjourned until the 25tli Sept. inst.,- and
that a Committee be appointed to consider the Report,
and any other cirPnln4lanoes connected with the Com-
pany." . This amendment having been carried, the
in utiug was dissolved at about half-past three,

About five o'clock on Monday afternoon a large por-
tion of the wall between the houses Nos. 86 and 87, fell
down with a frightful crash, carrying the various floors
along with it, but providentally no person was hurt,
the fronts still remaining up. On 'rues lay, it being
evident that the front of No. 86 would soon come
down, and probably bring with it the front of Nos. 87
and 88. a hoard was commenced round Nos. 86 and 87,
and supports wore placed under the bow-windows of the
house of Mr. 'Nixon, No. 88, and under those:t:
house at the corner of Half Moon-street. About- hall'.
past five o'clock in the afternoon a lOnd crash W a sud-
denly heard, and instantly that part of Pieeadilly w
veloped in a dense cloud of dust, from which hundreds of
persons might be seen hastening in all directions. On
the dust clearing away a little, it was found that the
fronts of Nos. 86 and 87 had at last fallen ; fortunately
no one had been hurt. _

•Since the adjournment of the inquest it has transpired
that the name of the deceased was not William West,
but Moses West, in consequence of which some diffi-
culty has occurred as to the registering of the death,
to obviate which an" application on the subject has
been made to Mr. liiggs, the Deputy-Coroner for
Westminster, who being aware that should • it
turn out at the conclusion of the inquiry that the fire
had not been accidentally occasioned, the misnomer
might operate to the frustration of justice, has issued
another warrant is the ovine of Moses West, and on the
Jury re-assembling on the adjournment day, the inquisi-
tion will be again gone through do novo. The body will,
therefore, remain at the workhouse in Mount-street,
until again viewed by the Coroner and Jury.
The other unfortunate sufferer, James Weaver, still
remains at St. George's Hospital in a most precarious
state.

DL TCII AND -GERMAN PAPERS.

THE iiAquE, SEPT 11,—In the sitting. of the Second
Chamber of tho.States-General to-day, the Central Sec-
tion presented its Report on:the Project of Law for con-
verting the Defined into Active Debt ; and also its Report
on the Project of Law for the Redemption of Debt in
1441.

The debates of those Projects of Law are to take place
after that on the General Chamber, which is fixed on
Monday next.
SEPT 12.—1 t is now known that the French steamer
stranded on the sth of this month, between Pellin
and Calantroog, was the Neva, Capt. Tercapol. It is
deeply imbedded in the sand.
It is affirmed that hear- Admiral Pillachielsen is ap-
.

pointed Commander of his Majesty's naval force in the
East Indies, and Inspector of the Marine in that country.
Su pr. 13.—The debates on the project of law relative
to the General Chamber of Accounts commenced in the
Second Chamber to-day. Nine Members spoke. The
debate will be continued to- morrow.
limimx, SEPT. 4.—Two couriers from the Emperor

of Russia have already arrived, and it is confidently ex •
pected that his Majesty will pay a visit to our Kin.'; be-
fore the cud ef the reviews in Siberia. The Grand I.hilte
and Duchess of Saxe \Viemar left the Palace at Potsdam
this morning, where they had stopped to recover the
fatigues of a stormy passage by sea, which seems espe-
cially to affect the Grand Duchess. Their daughter,
Princess Charlotte, follows them to Weimar the day af-
ter to-morrow. Ma Royal Highness the Princess of
Russia will also pass some days there on her return to
Berlin, after taking the waters, while her august consort
goes to Austria for the inspection of the contingent which
has been so often spoken of.
We learn, from good authority, that one Power un-
willingly consented to the reciprocal inspection in the
manner now arranged,

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, SEPT. l4.—There was a decidedly bet-
terldemand for yarn yesterday than on the preceding Tues-
day, and though no advance was obtained, prices were
tolerably firm. In the goods market there was a
tolerable demand for fustians, domestics, and long-cloths;
bat shirtings and printing cloths continue much depressed.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT,
The flannel market continues good, yet not quite so
many pieces have been sold as upon former Mondays.
Prices remain still very low, - There is no change in the:
wooluntrlcet yet prices are firm.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 14.—A fair amount
of business was done to• day, yet not SO much as last
week. Nor is there quite so much confidence felt in
commercial stability, partly owing
~to nutneroui failures
in most parts of the country, and the foreign demand
being on the wane, The prinilpal demand was in
middle and low prievd woollens and kerseys. In plain
superfinos there was • more animation ; and in light
fancy goods, generally, the demand was equal to the
season. Prices are firm, and business in the warehouses
continues tolerable.

WEATHER.---NOON, SEPTEMBER 15.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STRELT.
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BRIDPOR:T ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR.OF•THE SUN.
Sin--The following paragraph appeared in a leading
article of the Morn;vg Post of Monday
" At Bridport, from the representation of which Mr.
Warburton, the philosophical Whig-Radical, has run
away in mere terror of an investigation into his peculiar
manner of illustrating the Liberal doctrine of purity of
election, Mr. Cochrane, an excellent and spirited Con-
servative, will walk over the course. This election, for
which an occasion has been afforded by the detection of
profligate an
shamelessd
l
• phi-
losophical purifier of the national character, a liberal
Now this statement so grossly misrepresents Mr. War-
burton's motives for retiring, from his seat that it ought
aider"l\elatjeesott;'s Ministers of one seat."
not to pass without notice. •
The Tories themselves arc well aware that Mr. War-
burton's character had nothing to fear from the strictest
investigation into the events of the late contest in this
borough. They know, and admit, that in retiring from
his seat he has been guided by the nicest sense (*honour.
.
They are well aware that no corrupt means were resorted
to, to secure his seat; that his high position in the. bo-
rough placed him far above the need of employing such
means, even if he had no.other motive to restrain WI%
and that, as on many former elections, he nu, „it,e of
of
being
voicere ur atnoefdalrg
a the f the l4lll by the sponta-
neouse
yhis old constituents,
influenced solely by that high esteem and regard for his
i
4).‘oliupcntAry and private character, which every addi-
tianal year of their connection with him (and be has
now represented them uninterruptedly for sixteen years)
has only tended to strengthen and confirm.
If Mr. Warburton has committed any error, it is (as
the Weeny Chronicle has well expressed it) " too high
and chivalrous a feeling of delicacy, in a case where nei-
ther delicacy nor justice have been shown to him ;" and
au over zealous care fur the interests of some who were
placed in jeopardy by the most horrible treacklgy that
can be conceived.
Mr. Cochram ? Y ii3tEi EU alt the satisfaction that
detV.i.all•oin having gained his seat by such .de-
testable agency: but the position which lie and his friends
foceupy is one that cannot be envied by any who value
aair, and upright, and honourable dealing, even towards
n opponent.

It is added ttu Count Von Munich Bellinghausen,
President of the German Diet, has rendered essential
services to all the States of the Confederation, in the
drawing up of the document on this subject. All the
Generals to whom the inspection is confided are posi-
tively forbidden to express any blame on the spot, or to
require alterations ; but they may state their objvetions
solely in a general report on. the inspection, to be com-
municated directly to the Militaiv Committee of the
German Confederation.---Alljemeine Zeitnng, Sept. 9.

Qi;
AN ELECT()
Bridportt Sept. 14, 1841.

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MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT BEDFORD.—Last
week, Mr. , Walter Brooke, a commercial traveller, of
Brorusgrove, Worcestershire, went by coach to the
Se al Hotel, Bedford. thi going to bed at night, he lcf,
oe the sideboard in the commercial room a pottfulio, cor-
taining, fifteen 5/. notes, all of the Cambridge Bank, and
upwards of 20 sovereigns. Next morning, shortly alter
entering the room, he discovered that the portfolio had
lesea broken open, and: notes to the amount of 25/. taken
therefrom. Mr. Jebbutt , the superintendent of police,
was sent•for, and a search was made by him amongst the
domestics and their apartments, but no discovery of the
lost property was made. It was suggested by the officer
that the commercial room had better be searched ; and
under the oil-cloth near the fire-place, and also under the
carpet, was found the property in question ; but how or
in what way it became concealed there, remains a mys-
tery.—Cantbridge Advertiser.
CAB ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about
twelve o'clock, as a cab was about to pass through Vic-
toria-gate, Bayswater, a bey named Thwaites, between
nine and ten years of age, attempted to jump up behind,
but failing to do so, his right leg because entangled in
one of the wheels of the cab, and the limb was broken
in three or four places. The poor boy was conveyed to
St. George's' Hospital.
The -Duke of Richmond is expected at Gordon
Castle about the middle of the present month. It is
understood that his Grace, before quitting the north,
will let the farms on those extensive portions of his
estates which lie in the upper parts of the counties of
Banff and Moray.—Elfein Courant.
" A short time back," says the Marietta Ant,
'• the dead bode- of a man was found in a wood, with the
weapon that slew him in his stiffened hand—a rum
bottle !"
A 200.1 woman called on Dr. B--,--- one day
in a great deal of trouble, and complained that her son
had swallowed a penny. "Pray, Madam," asked the
Doctor, " was it a counterfeit ?" " No, Sir, certainly
not," was the reply. " Then it will pass, of course," was
the reply of the facetious physician.
A TEMPERANCE " BULL."—A recent number
of the Saratoga Sentinel records a capital bull, manu-
factured by Mr. Pollard, of Baltimore, the well-known
Temperance lecturer, America. In a speech at a
meeting in the Presbyterian Church of that place, he
used these words:—" Fathers, you have children ; or, if
yoa have not, your daughters may have."
Accounts were received on Tuesday at the resi-
dence of Sir John Conroy, at Kensington, of the death
of his second son, late a Captain in the Coldstream
Guards. The event took place at Wiesbaden on the 9th.
The following extraordinary case came, a few
days ago, before the Court of Assize of the Pas de
Calais. On the 12th of May last a female named The-
rese Decamp, residing at Hanescampe, was found by one
of her neighbours in a barn, sitting on a chair, with a
quantity of blood at her feet, in which were several
pieces
of flesh without the skin. The woman who dis-
covered her in this situation immediately exclaimed,
" You were pregnant, and you have just assassinated
your child." No answer to this accusation was
given, and some medical men were called in, who,
after an examination declared that Therese De-
camp had really given birth to a child. The
pieces of flesh were then submitted to them and exa-
mined, and they declared, although the head, arms., 'Aegs,
and intestines were missing, that the part=
was of flesh
before them had belonged to a mot, child.•
The lungs
were immersed .by them ill ''.;,•ter, and the result was a
declaration that the ch;'.:t had been born alive. Upon
this evidence Tinrese Decamp was committed for trial
upon a cheerge of inrimticide, under all the horrible cir-
cumstances implied by the discovery which had been
made. Her defence, however, gave a very different colour
to the transaction, and excited astonishment and horror
is the Court at the extraordinary mistake which had
been made. She declared that she had never been delivered
of a child, and that she is at this moment within three
months of her accouchement ; but that as her seducer
had promised to marry her if she should really be preg-
nant, she had killed a large rabbit, and cut up some
of the flesh to make it appear that premature parturition
had takers place. This defence would have been regarded
as tl feble, if the Proeureur du Roi had not risen and in-
imed the Court that no doubt could be entertained of
the pregnancy of the accused in the advanced stage of
six months, and that proper means had been adopted to
revent any deception on that point ; consequently, as
undoe these circumstances parturition could not have
taken place in May last, he begged the Tribunal to ad-
journ the case till the next assizes ; as in the interval all
legal doubt, if any could be entertained, must disappear.
'This request waa complied with ; but the prisoner, on
hearing she was to be imprisoned for three months
longer, threaternd to destroy herself, as she preferred
death, she P'aid, to so lengthened an imprisonment. Or-
ders were givengiven that she should be carefully watched.
EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE.—On Tuesday
last, while a gentleman from Edinburgh was engaged
angling for trout on the Tay, in the neighbourhood of
Dunkeld, a very beautiful grilse of seven pounds weight
sprung at the end fly, which though he missed, he was
nevertheless struck, and firmly fixed by the tail. Lame-
d'ately afterwards, a splendid leap of several feet out of
the water followed, and a tremendous rushing out of the
line. The awkward position of the hook gave the fish
fall scrape for his agility and power, and rendered the
play both extremely arduous and protracted. In the
interim, a fine trout came up and seized the middle fly,
and, consequently, the difficulty of management was
greatly increased. Nor' was this all ; for, in order to
complete the extraordinary capture, a parr sprung at the
remaining bob fly, and the angler had thus fixed at his
'tackle, at one and the same time, in beautiful gradation, a
salmon, trout, and parr, the management of which re-
quired no little dexterity and art. However, after a very
toilsome and protracted working, and by dint of great
care and tact on the part of the angler, the whole three
were safely and securely landed on the green and grassy
banks of the river.
We find the following in the Qatotidienne, rela-
tive to the Cafe Valois, in the Palais Royal :—" This
Cafe, the stock and furniture of which have just been
sold off, in consequence of failure, had been established
sixty-eight years, and existed ten years before the gal-
lery of which it subsequently formed part. Its first
dend-tasses were served .'under the secular chestnut-trees
planted by the Cardinal de Richelieu, and the name of
Valois was assumed after that borne by the present King
of the French until he was i 2 years of age. In the great
Revolution the Cafe Valais was the rendezvous of the
Royalists who frequented thePalais Rua]. and the head-
quarters of the newsmentters, after Dr. Metra, the physi-
cian, had taken refuge there, when the fathous Arbre de
Cracovie, under the shade of which he had for 40 years
drawn plans of battles in sand had been cut down. Dr.
Metre was succeeded at the Cafe Valois by the brave and
witty Journiac de Saint-Meard, known by his Agonie de
trente-sir heures, during the dreadful massacres of the
month of September, and still better as the President of
the Societe des Gobe-211ouches, of which he was the
founder. Saint-Meard, who was a Chevalier tie Saint
Louis, and a Captain in , the King's Regiment, made the
fortune of the Caic de Velois, by the gaiety of his cha-
racter and his originality up to his death in 1827. After
the 18th Brumaire, the Cafe Valois became the rendez
vous of the returned emigrants, and the remnant of the
army of Conde ; and, under the Empire, was a sort of
breech establishment to the Faubourg St. Germain by
its opposition to Bonaparte. Under the Restoration it
was theTlace of meeting to the Royalists, and was often
exposed to outrage from the liberal canaille. The Revo-
lution of July was fatal to the Cafe Valois, and the name
of the Prince of Orleans, under whose patronage it had
first become celebrated, could not preserve it from de-
sertion and nine'
BANK or Barrisit NORTH AMERICA.—
Account, showing_the whole amount of debts and assets
of the Bank of British North America, at the close of
the year 1840, and Showing also the amount of its notes
payable on demand, which had been in circulation during
every month of that year, together
_with the amount of
specie and other assets, distinguishing each kind imme-
diately available in every such month, for the discharge
of such notes :
Debts. Assets.
Circulation '.£131,713 Specie £ 133,024
Oilier Liabilities.. 455,425 Other Assets 1,328,535

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• Total £587,138
1840. Notes in Cir. Specie.
June
July
August
September 165,257 88,013
October-. 1.62,753 93,583
November 152,183 103,397
December 144,504 137,89 G
By order of the Court,
(Signed) Cr. DE B. ATTWOOD, Sec.
HARVEST 1N THE WEST OF SCOTLAND.—
After the unwelcome rains which marked a part of lase
week, the close of it has been kindly and propitious.
On Saturday the weather was dry, clear, and breezy, and
yesterday was one of the brightest and best days of the
season. The sun was strong and warming ; the ther-
mometer stood at nearly 80 deg. in the shade, and yet
there was not the slightest indication of the presence of
electricity in the atmosphere. On the early soils in the
Vale of Clyde the cutting process is drawing rapidly to
a close, though as yet the quantity saved is not great,
from the fickle nature of the weather last week ; but ten
dry days from this time would effect a most beneficial
clearance, and make many a farmer independent of the fu-
ture season, however fitfuLit might be.— Ghsgow Herald.
ESCAPE FROM DROWNlNG.—Yesterday morn-
ing M. de Rhin, a foreign gentleman, had a narrow
escape from drowning near the Custom-house. It ap-
pears, that not being accustomed to steam-boats, he be-
came greatly alarmed at the swell, and in trying to
place himself in the middle of the wherry, he
iover-
balanced himself and fell into the water, calling l otutdZ
for assistance. The current being very strong a
time, he was carried rapidly away with the tide,and had
it not been for the prompt assistance of thewe'lld heterin withen he
would have perished. On being safely landed,
difficulty expressed his gratitude to the in
res-
cued him, and presented them each with a Napoleon fur
their trouble. eli who had
DREADFUL COLLISION AT SEA.—Late on
the schooner Surprise, a Sunday night last a collision of a most fearful,. character,
attendant with the total loss of
Jersey,
took place in the
fine sailing vessel belonging to.
the unfortunate
reads off Yarmouth. It appeca.ol
commanded by a Captain
vessel above mentioned
.ya e to Cadiz, having left New-
Juicy, and was on liclrs
prolot, "Thursday. On Sunday evening
castle on the
she arrived off Cromer Lighthouse, and in bearing down
the Channel a
came on from the north-
west'
violent
gale,l-had increased to a hurricane.
The Surprise which by 10 0 cloc
weathered the storm admirably, and was ma-

Total 4'1,461.559
Not. other l3ks.
L 40,783
57,814
53,373
61,764
50,966
66.252
71,509