The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

'The friends of Reform met in Rotherham on Friday
last, for the purpose of forming a "Parliamentary Reform
Association." Rules were adopted, and a Committee
appointed.

A meeting of Reformers was held on Tuesday last,
at the Royal Exchange, Dublin, to consider the most
suitable testimonial they could present to Lord Mor-
peth, in gratitude for his services to their country.
-- The Irish Repeal Association, as we find by the
published Report of their Committee, have come to these,
among other resolutions:—" Never to support any Mi-
nistry that does not leave the question of Repeal an open
one to the Irish people," and " never to support any Mi-
nistry but one that avows further Reform, and disavows
Finality."
The Welsh coal-fields extend over 1,200 square
miles, with 23 beds of workable coal, at an average
thickness of 95 feet. Each acre will yield about 100,000
tons, being at the rate of 65,000,000 tons per mile. A1t0n;..5
ton;..5 ioraely for waste, these would supply England
with coal for 2,000 years after all the English mines
were exhausted.

Ghosts, it seems, are coming into fashion again.
On Friday night last, two servant-maids at Cambridge
were horror-struck by a phantom—." a thing of head and
legs," as they described it—coolly walking at midnight
into the nursery, where they were seated, and making
" several strange and mysterious noises." They rushed
out immediately, assistance was called in, but it had va-
nished, leaving behind " a curions odour." We doubt
the genuineness of a phantom that walks into the.private
apartments of servant-maids at midnight. Flesh and
blood, we suspect, had more to do with the matter than
spirit, unless indeed it were the spirit of wine !
" We esteemed it our duty," says the Cambridge
Advertiser, to send a reporter to the Newmarket Tory
Dinner ; but the speeches were so surprisingly stupid,
that we spare our readers the infliction." Our Contem-
porary deserves the lasting gratitude of the political
world, for this kind consideration for their feelings. We
cannot, bowever, account for his being surprised at the
stupidity of a Tory dinner speech. We should have been
SurpriSed had it been otherwise than stupid.
- On Wednesday morning, a laboufer in the West
India Dock was bit through his breeches by a centipede.
A Morning Paper sayS" It is not a little singular
that in London men who become ruindd and are penni-
less, immediately commence money-lenders to any
amount." This is new to us, for we had always till now
imagined that such men were rather money-borrowers.
A meeting within the few last days took place at
Liverpool, to promote the formation of a railway to
Edinburgh. The principal promoters of this measure
are the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Grand
Junction Railway Companies.
_ _ .

The question of Church-rates was violently agitated
on Thursday week, at Cheltenham. A poll was de-
manded, when a majority of 157 was obtained against
the rate.

At a Tory dinner given on Wednesday at
Reading, the Rev. S. W. Yates congratulated the com-
pany on " the noble stand which the Church had made
against the Government plan of national education.''
It is certainly a noble boast for the Church to make,
that she has resisted with all her might the diffusion of
knowledge, and done her utmost to continue the people
in a state of besotted ignorance ! A Church like this is
admirably qualified to be the mainstay of a Tory Go-
vernment. They are an amiable pair, and worthy of
each other!

tUINTOURS 0 5 ri rs DAY.
We understand that Sir Robert Peel is nearly wor-
ried to death by the clamours and importunities of his
hunzry oullocol*nrn misa /La e.
Aehooa, 4v
be torn to pieces by his own hounds.
We hear it rumoured that Sir Francis Burdett is
at Drayton Manor, fishing for a Peerage.
It is whispered at the Clubs that Mr. John Wilson
Croker has offered his services to Sir R. Peel ; and that
he is not particular about what place he takes, provided
the salary be handsome and well secured.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.—Le Journal des Debats praises
the last London Protocol, which, it asserts, was unwil-
lingly consented to by England and. Russia, but signed
with a good grace by Austria, France, and Prussia, as
putting a final termination to any power being allowed to
preponderate in the concerns of the Turkish empire.
Toulouse remained quiet, but the excitement in the
public mind continued, and arrests were daily taking
place. -
The accident which happened to the Duke de Bor-
.deaux, by a fall from his , horse, is confirmed. The
young prince has had his thigh broken. The last bul-
letin of the 4th mentions, however, that his Royal High-
ness is doing well, and that no serious results will ensue.
The Quotidienne quotes a letter from Kirchberg, of
the 4th instant, announcing that the fracture of the
Duke of Bordeaux had been reduced, that no fever had
ensued, and that the Noble patient was doing so well
that the Duchess of Berri, his mother, was preparing to
return to Gratz.

The Temps states, that the King and Royal family in-
tended to honour with their presence the fetes at Bou-
logne, for inaugurating the column of the grand army.
Marshal Soult was to leave Paris on Thursday to join
the Court at Eu, and accompany their Majesties to Bou-
logne.
According to the Siecle it had been debated in the
Council of Ministers whether the whole of the French
fleet should be ordered to resume its station at Vourla,
but the idea was abandoned in order to avoid exciting
the susceptibility of Great Britain, and depressing the
Stock market.
The Univers asserts that the Minister of Justice, so
far from having directed the Royal Court of Angers
to commence a prosecution against M. Ladre Roldin for
his speech to the electors of Mans, had written to re-
quest that tribunal to take no steps against him.
The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Constan-
tinople of the 22d ult., stating that the Sultan was very
weak, but not suffering from any organic disease as had
been reported. He had not appeared in public for a long
time. He frequently went out, but always in a state
barge ; and on Fridays he visited only the mosques situ-
ated along the banks of the Bosphorus,
Accounts from Berne, contained in the Debats, state
that the canton of Tessin was a prey to the vengeful acts
and violent extortions of the political party then at the
head of affairs, and called for the interferenee of the
Federal Diet. The canton of Solcure was likewise in a
disturbed state.
Le Siecle intimates that the Spanish Government
might be brought to cede Minorca to France for a round
sum, once it consents to sell Fernando Po to England
for a mere Z-rifie.
According to Ie Commerce, the opinion of some on
Queen Christina may possibly
the Bourse at Paris is ,`,hat
regain her footing in Spain.
FADIR BOURSE.—Five per k.,4tnta. la 55c.; Three
per Cents. 77f, sc; Spanish, 201.

SPAIN. .
Letters from Madrid of the 4th inform us that the
young Queen is much dissatisrted with the changes
made around her by
.Arguelles—that Espartero was
continually threatened, in anonymous letters,—that the
Government, was somewhat in alarm, but depended
on the approaching festivities of the Ist of Se tember,
for bringing about a re-action in its favour. El Cas-
tellano of the 4th gii-cs, lion e'er, the report that at .the
Puerto del Sol, it was i:.,i4 til° garrison was getting
under arms.
Basque provinces
The General commanding in tha- ...-
had apprised Government that he could
the troops under his orders. 2.5:1t ansvver for
n
- 1 .
The answer of the Spanish Regency had arrive,-
it is made up of generalities, stating that the will of
the Cortes is more imperative than the will of Fer-
dinand VII.
- • --;vate accounts from Madrid of the;tetliiiin6stthTftaanted,
Oury.- . ~f„sed Ocwiral Leon leave to repair
that the Regent hau r,.. "nu. trerr stationed in the'
to Paris on leave of absence. -,-.--,
ttahnelt-seblemed oz rid
were provinces had beet:alatAcilYl
were becoming very disaffec • • •
Queen'sbecleharnber had resiguedtheir functions. A panic
still prevailed on the Bourse in consequence of the late
failures. The Five per Cents. were done between 294
and 23 for cash, and 241 at GO days.
The Madrid Gazette of the sth publishes the decree for
the reorganization of the army, which is hereafter to con•
sist of 28 regiments of infantry, 15 of cavalry, and 50 bat-
talions, of provincial militia. The Body Guards are sup-
pressed, with the exception only of 200 halberdiers, and
the Royal Guard is reduced to two regiments of infantry
and two of cavalry.

Why is a watch like a primrose? Because they
both depend upon the spring.—Why is a tight boot like a
windmill ? Becalm they both grind the corn.