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THE SUN, LONDON, WUDNESDAY, JUNE 23 1841

COURT OF COMMOis FLEAS

(Before Lord Chief Justice. Noit. and % Special Jury.)
GIBSON AND CAMPBELL V. JAMES BRAND, OF THE FIRM OF

HARVEY BRAND AND CO.
This cause began on Saturday, the 19th June, and lasted
three days.
Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Sergeant Bornnas, Mr. N.D. Hill/ and
Mr. Corrie, were Counsel for the plaintiffs; Sir W. Follett,
Mr. F. Kelly, and. Mr. Sergeant Channel', were Counsel for
the defendant.
The action was brought for the infringement of the plaintiffs'
patent granted to them for a new or improved process or manu-
facture of silk.
- Several witnesses were called on the part of the plaintiffs,
who proved that the invention was never heard of until after
the plaintiffs' patent, that it was useful, and had become of great
importance.
The witnesses for the defence spoke to a series of experiments
in 1819,1825, and 1831, made by differentpersons, but it did not
turn out that what they did was carried to a successful result.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence, and the Jury
retired to consider their verdict about ten o'clock at night on
Tuesday, the third day, and declared the following verdict :
The defendant was guilty of the infringement; that the in.
vention was useful ; that the specification was sufficient; that
the plaintiffs were the first who successfully applied the inven-
tion ; that the invention is not a new but an improved process.
—Verdict for the plaintiff.
AMM.II

FOREIGN EDUCATION.

(From the Times.)
The following atrocious case may serve as a pendant
to the account of the school at Boulogne which appeared
in the. Times last week, and it is to be hoped that it will
also serve as a warning to parents who think of sending
their children abroad for education:—
In the yeai 1836, a certain Mrs S. who had previously
kept a school in the. neighbourhood of Chelsea, quitted
England, and went to Boulogne, with the alleged design
of opening a school there. This _woman, on her arrival,
took the name of L., with the view, as she pretends, of con-
cealing her retreat from her husband, to whom she
had been married more than twenty years, and by
whom she had had several children. Her family at
Boulogne consisted of herself, one of her daughters,
.(married to a Mr. L.), and a young girl, whom we
shall only designate by the name of Ellen. This young
girl had been intrusted to her by a gentleman who
has for many years held a situation under Government,
and who, having been acquainted with Mrs. S. from her
childhobd, had iinplitit confidence in her, and thought
he could not place his • young ward Ellen in better
hands. At Boulogne Mrs. S. formed an acquaintance
with a Mr. R., and in the month of March, 1838,
she Went with him to Folkestone, and was there
married to him, he being then just 22 years of age.
Mr. S. was then, and still is, living in London. This re-
spectable schoolmistress had now three names. To Ellen's
guardian she was only known as Mrs. S.; to the bankers,
who paid her her quarterly bills, she was Mrs. L.; and to
all the world in France, who knew anything of her, the was
Mrs. B. About this time she received a second pupil, Selina
F., from England, the daughter of a respectable trades-
man ; and with these two pupils she went to Paris, and
opened a day school for poor children. About the
middle of February last a report was circulated that these
two children, aged respectively fifteen and fourteen, had
been prostituted, an inquiry was made, and the result
was, that Ellen, the elder girl, stated to two women
that Mrs. L. had taken her to the house of the Baron
de St. H., and there, in spite of her cries and resist-
ance, actually held her down on the sofa while the Baron
violated her person. The younger child, Selina, said
that she also had been taken by Mrs. L. to the same
place, and a scene of horrors, such as cannot le penned,
took place between the unhappy child, Mrs. L. and the
Baron. An information was lodged ; Mrs. B. left Paris,
taking Ellen with her. Mrs. L. was arrested, and Selina
F. was taken by a charitable Italian lady. The Baron
was not arrested. A month passed over, and the per-
sons who had lodged the informations, finding that
every possible intrigue was set on foot by the Baron's
friends to stifle the business, applied to some English
gentlemen, who took the matter up warmly. Mean-
while, Mrs. B. had returned to Paris, but Ellen, who
had known no other protectress than Mrs. 8., had been
so well tutored that she declared all her previous state-
ment to be false. As soon, however, as it was known
that other persons had taken up the business, Mrs. B. was
arrested, and Ellen was taken into the Ay-slum for
British Orphans. There it was found that she had
been in every way neglected ; she could scarcely read
or write--she had had no kind of religious instruc-
tion, having never entered a Church but .once since
she had been in Paris, and the only clothes she
possessed were the few rags she had on her ; she had
not even a change of linen. As soon as she was ex-
amined by the Judge, after she had been thus removed
from the contact of her former acquaintances she came
nearer the truth once more—she declared that the Baron
had attempted a rape in Mrs. L.'s presence, but had not
succeeded. Her guardian's name being now discovered,•
he was immediately informed of the business, and at
once went to Paris, and as soon as she saw him she told
him the whole truth, just as she had originally told it, and
added that her motive for concealing it was the desire she
had of saving Mrs. B. The other child never varied in her
tale ; yet the Baron was not arrested, and the Juge d'ln-
struction, who had the case before him, told one of the gen-
tlemen who conducted the business, that many persons had
solicited in his favour, and among others he named one who
is himself a Magistrate, and who even occasionally sits on
the bench as a Judge (juge suppliant). Mrs. S. alias
B. has been set at liberty within these few days, the
Chambre du Conseil (which answers-in some respects
to our Grand Jury) having decided that there was
not sufficient evidence of her complicity. The Baron
and Mrs. L. have been sent before the Police
Correctionelle, and are to be tried on Tuesday next.
The Baron is still at large I They have so managed
matters that their abominations are not called crimes,
otherwise they must have gone before a jury but they
have been fixed down to what they here call delits, little
peccadilloes, or frailties, which are brought before cor-
rectional courts. However, the matter cannot end here,
as the gentlemen who have taken the matter in hand are
determined to leave no stone unturned in obtaining j us-
ice, irrespective of the rank or condition of the parties.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SO-
CIETY.

Preparations, on a most extensive and magnificent
scale, are in active progress for the grand meeting of the
Royal Agricultural Society on the 21st, 22d, and 23d of
next month. The assemblage of noblemen, gentlemen,
and others connected with, or interested in, agricultural
pursuits, will assuredly be the greatest that ever yet oc-
curred in this, or, indeed, in any other country in the
world ; and the show of horses, cattle, and other live
stock, and of roots, seeds, and instruments of husbandry,
will doubtless be of commensurate excellence, the pre-
miums and the honours of successful competition
being such, that every hill and valley in the United
KinCrclom will be brought into requisition to send
their choicest and their best. We heartily congra-
tulate the members and friends of the Society on the
success which has hitherto marked their exertions to
promote the useful and most indispensable science of
agriculture, and on the still brightening prospects that
open to their view. The first great meeting was held in
Oxford, in 1837 ; the second at Cambridge, in 1840 ;
the third is appointed for this town ; and the fourth will,
we learn, be at BristoL The show rpf Stock, &c., is ad-
vertised for three successive days but will probably be
continued for a week. There will 'be two grand festive
entertainments on the occasion, if not, indeed, three,
should the accommodations prepared, great as they aret
be found inadequate for the gratification of so large a
body of guests. The first is fixed for Wednesday the
21st of July. The show ground is in Windsor, in the
immediate outskirts 'of the town. It is nearly square,
being 550 feet in length, from north to south, and 491
in breadth from east to west. Its boundaries are Upper-
Parliament-street on the south ; Sandon-street (and
Falkner-square) on the east ; Canning-street en
the north ; and Bedford-street on the west. It is
nearly on a dead level, it is of a light sandy soil, for
the most part covered with grass. A better site
could not have been chosen, and the approaches to it
are wide and numerous, so that all contusion will be
avoided. The area will comprise no fewer than thirteen
very long sheds or tents, of woodwork, covered with
canvas, prepared on purpose, with wide avenues between
them, and so arranged that each department will be
separate and distinct. The portion appropriated to the
exhibition of implements of husbandry, &c., is on the
side next to Canning-street, and contains four sheds,
running parallel east and west, the whole width •of the
ground, is 494 feet. These are each 16 feet wide, and
the pillars that support them, back and front, are 12 '
feet asunder. The avenues between are 20 feet wide.
The remainder of the ground is occupied by nine sheds,
running parallel from north to south, between Sandon-
street and Bedford-street. These are each about 500
feet in length. Five of them on the west side will be
fitted for the reception of cattle and horses, and four
of them on the east side for sheep and . pigs. The
avenues between these will be 39 feet wide. Accom:
modations will also be made for the exhibition of roots,
vegetables, grain, seeds, &c. &c. The carpentry in
these extensive erections is good and uniform, and when
the sheds are filled with cattle, &c., and the avenues
crowded with spectators, the whole will present a scene.
of great individual as well as national interest. The
quantity of timber required is necessarily immense, and
considerable waste is unavoidable. The Pavilion, is by
far the largest, and most unique in design, that has ever
been constructed in this town. Though having ex-
teriorly twenty-four sides, it appears, from the obtuse-
ness of the angles, and the great area which it covers,
to be round. It form is described within a circle of 123
feet in diameter. The height of the outer wall appears
to be about 14 feet, the next circle of pillars about of 35
feet, and the inner pillars about 42 feet. The roof will
rise above the latter in a conical form 12 or 13 feet to its
apex, so that the central elevation-mill be little, if at all,
short of 60 feet. This building, as well as the erections
on the show-ground, was undertaken.by Messrs. Samuel
and James Ilohne, of Seel-street, the only parties, in-
deed, in this locality, who could have undertaken a con-
tract of such magnitude.—Liverpool Chronicle.

THE LAUI4CH or H.M.S. TRAFALGAR.—
The only Commander present at Woolwich on Mon-
day, bwe'llro2l 80
w,
alsas, also
present at the battle of Trafalgar,
was Commander Richard Douglas,
of her Majesty's ship Poictiers, now stationed at Chat-
ham.Douglas" This officer, who, bareheaded stood conspicuous
i:ltrt,hebut who distinguished
among his gallant comrades on the poop of the Trafal-
gar during her being launehed, surrounded by many of
the " veterans " from Greenwich, who were also with
nNelsonotonl
only
onwtohuen
agedlOr i Oa
tUST2rlasita,
himself' in the Achille, winch • captured four French
frigates, and who assisted also at the taking of Marti-
nique, &c. &c. The only
.Admiral present at the' launch
who was also in the action, was Admiral; Sir Henry
Digby, now Commander-iu-Chicf at Sheernkss. -
Her Majesty's reception by the people was most
enthusiastic and revectful.—Courier..

COURT.CIRCULAR.
Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this aternoon
at Buckingham Palace. - • •
The Queen went in state, yesterday, to the Rouse of
Lords to prorogue the Parliament. Her Majesty, wearing
a robe of state, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
habited in a Field-Marshal's uniform, decorated with
the Collar and Star of the Most Noble-Order of the
Garter,- of the Most Honourable Military Order of the
Bath, and-of another Order of Knighthood, were con-
ducted by the Lord Chamberlain from the State-room
to
their carriage, preceded by the Lord Steward, the Vice-
Chamberlain, and Lord ISyron, Lord in -Waiting, at
twenty minutes before-two o'clock, her Majesty's train
being borne- by. Masters Byng, Wilson, and Wortley, the
Pages of Honour 'in Waiting. The state procession be-
ing then formed;left.'Buckingham Palace in the follow-
ing order i--
A carriage. drawn by six bays, conveying three of the
Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting, and the Exon in Waiting,
Sir Samuel Hancock.
A carriage drawn' by six bays, conveying the` Pages of
Honour in Waiting, Masters Wilson and Stuart Wortley,
the Silver Stick in Waiting, and the Groom of the Robes,
Captain Seymour. • . • .
A carriage drawn by- six bays, conveying the Page of
Honour in Waiting, Master Byng ; the Equerry to Prince
Albert, Major -General Sir Edward Bowater; the Equerry-
to the Queen, Colonel Werayss ;- the Groom in Waiting,
Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway ; the Comptroller of the
Household, the Right Hon. George Stevens Byng-
A carriage drawn by six bays, conveying the Gentle-
man in Waiting on Prince Albert, Lord George Iit:13I1ON ;
the Treasurer of the Household, the Earl of Surrey ; the
Master of the Buckhounds, Lord Kinnaird; and the Cap-
tain of the Yeoman Guard, the Earl of Ilchester.. •
A carriage drawn by six black horses, conveying the
Lady, in Waiting, the 'Countess of Sandwich ; the Lord
Steward, the Earl of Erroll, K.T. ; the Lord in Waiting,
Lord Byron; and the Gold Stick in Waiting,- Viscount
Combermere, G.C.B. •
The Queen's Marshalmen, two and two ; the Queen's
Footmen, in State liveries, two and two ; a party of the
Yeomen Guard ; the State coach, driven by Roberts,
drawn by eight cream-coloured horses,
conveying her
Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Sutherland,
and the Master of the Horse, the Earl of Albemarle,

G.C.H.
The crown was conveyed to the House of Lords in a
separate carriage, by • Sir William Martins, Gentleman
Usher in Waiting.
The State procession returned to Buckingham Palace
at three o'clock. Her Majesty and the Prince were re-
ceived by the Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Cham-
berlain.
The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall in
their Coronation costume. Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of the
Cheque of the Corps, was in attendance.
The Queen's Guard of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and
the band of the regiment, were on duty on the Palace
Lawn.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
yesterday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss An-
son, Lord Byroh, Sir Robert Otway, Colonel Wcmyss,
and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the Italian Opera
House with their presence last evening.
The Countess of Sandwich has succeeded Lady Bar-
ham as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen ; and Lord
Byron and Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway have suc-
ceeded Lord Poltimore and Sir W. Lumley as the Lord
and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester klouse. •
The Attorney-G eneral had an interview with Viscount
Melbourne at his official residence in Downing-street.
Colonel Wemyss and Mr. Murray had interviews with
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office.
Major-General Sir John Harvey had an interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Mr.
Justice Erskine, the Judge of the Prerogative Court,
and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
An appeal from the Royal Court of the Island of St.
Lucia was cominenced, " De Ruand v. ,Messrs. Banna-
tyne and others." Messrs. Pemberton and Burge, Queen's
Counsel, appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Knight,
Queen's Counsel, for the respondent.

THE “PRINCESS HOYAL" IRON

STEAM-SHIP.

TO THE OWNERS OF THE. PRINCESS ROYAL

-
• STEAM-SHIP.
We, the undersigned, passengers on board the Princess
Royal on her first voyage from Glasgow, have great plea-
sure in expressing our admiration of her extraordinary
speed, unaccompanied by the usual tremulous motion.
The distance from Greenock to Liverpool being com-
pleted in the unprecedented period of fifteen hours and
twenty-five minutes.
We have further to express our high satisfaction with
the very commodious and elegant manner in which the
vessel is fitted up, embracing everything calculated to
promote the comfort of•her passengers ; and we feel es-
pecially called upon to acknowledge the usual polite at-
tention of Capt. M'Arthur.
(signed by about fifty gentlemen passengers.)
Liverpool, June 19, 1841. • . -

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—It being now perfectly well understood that the
Livery of London are determined to return Lord John
Russell at. the• head of the poll, with the other Liberal
candidates, and by a very large majority ; therefore, al-
though the Reform interest has very much increas'd
generally throughout England since the important ques-
tion of an alteration in the Corn-laws was first made
known to the public by the plan of the present Govern-
ment, I beg leave to suggest that that excellent and
venerable true old English gentleman, Mr. 13yng, ought
certainly to have a Liberal representative returned with
him. Middlesex should not be without two candidates,
who will support Reform and the Repeal of Taxation,
which presses so unjustly on the voters and resources of
• the country. If the electors • return, with-Mr. Byng,an-
other honest Reformer, they would be -benefiting the pub-
: lie at large, and add honour and consequence to the consti-
tuency of the great metropolitan county. Let them
present a requisition to their old and excellent represen-
tative, and true Reformer, Joseph Hume, or some other
gentleman of ability, who possesses the confidence of the
Reformers generally.
I remain, Sir, yours, Scc.
L. C., a Liveryman of London.
June 22, 1841.

- - - -
WAKLEY FOR FINSBURY.
THE QUESTION AT ISSUE.
SIRS I trust from the very great circulati9n of your
paper you will excuse my requesting you to give a pro-
minent place to the following extract from Mr. Waklev's
spirited address to the electors of Finsbury. It is ae-
voutly- to be hoped that it will confront the upholders of
the accursed bread tax (whether Whig or Tory) at every
hustings in the empire.
" The question to be put to the people by the Sove-
reign will be this—Are you content to be taxed to the
extent of many millions sterling, for the purpose of
, raising money to be handed over to the owners of the

land ?"
As the Tory press has so often lauded and compli-
mented Mr. Wakley for the manly and independent
course he has pursued in Parliament, their particular
attention is respectfully solicited to this paragraph.
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS SLIDING SCALE.
Radcliff-highway, Oct. 22, 1841.
P.S. Should we have the dire misfortune of a Tory
Government, I strongly suspect the,admiration expressed
by the Tory press for Mr. Wakley will begin to wane.
He has been a sturdy and consistent opposer of the Poor-
law Amendment Bill, and will be therefore directly op-
posed on this question to Sir Robert Peel, who has given
it his decided support, as it saves the pockets of his
friends the landed aristocracy.

CONSERVATIVE COERCION IN
THE CITY.
TO THE EDITOR OF .THE SUN.
Stn,—lnclosed is one of a quantity of circulars left
at a house in the city, with a note, a Copy of which is
annexed.
Can honest men give their votes to candidates who
aim to be successful by such disgraceful and tyrannical
acts ?—Yours truly,
YOUR CONSTANT READER.
City, June 21, 1841.

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.
CONSERVATIVE COMMITTEE.
Russell Ellice, Esq., Chairman.
Francis Wilson, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Central Committee-room, London Tavern,
June, 1841.
We take the liberty of enclosing you some circulars,
containing the names of the Conservative candidates,
with the particular request that you will send them to
your tradespeople, convinced that your personal in-
Iluence would have great weight in obtaining votes for
the four candidates.
Hoping you will excuse us thus causing you an inter-
ruption to your business, we have the honour to be,
Your very faithful servants,
(Signed)
Deputy Chairman, AN
FR CIS WILSON.'
CRAWFORD Simpson
[Query.--The last name not plainly written.]

POP ULA TlO N.--The population of Middleton,
near Manchester, is 3,837 males. 3,894 females—grand
total, 7,731 ; inhabited houses, 1,441 ; uninhabited, 56 ;
increase (hiring the last ten years, 828. The popula-
tion of Chadderton, near Oldham, is 5,402, being a
at present
de-
crease since 1831 of 74 persons. This is owing to there
1,800; at
In the
being 106 empty houses, the families having emigrated
Manchester, where
into other districts. In the township of Tonge, near
it.
tot
townships
ds
ndsl
2,442,etiopns
in
the
imeti 1
ltehenrthere
neighbourhood population
hi.ebooiininrl
yhloBsoi3dxl ,
eminfapst
y 1
the principal business is the manufacture of silks, there
are but few empty houses in comparison to those places
where there are cotton mills. Liverpool Chronicle.
The hay harvest in the neighbourhood of Lynn
has pretty generally commenced, and upon low moist
meadows the crop is good; on the light soil, however,
the long drought . has had a very serious effect, and in
many cases the quantity will be full one-half less than
an average crop. The want:Of rain, joined to the cold
of the last tell da,v7.- has also produced a very sensible
alteration in the 'appearance of the corn, whleli must.
suffer materially unless an immediate change takes place
in the weathcr.—lpswich Express.

BOULOGNE, JUNE 21.
Yesterday was a great day flifthe pflents_at
Boulogne, The Church for ()nee, since the...Re:j
volution of
.Julywas predominant. ou the
Sunday preVions the llte-Dien was celebrated
in the low town With great portip tind.Ceremony;
but one day was not considered suffieiefit, dui) in
order that the wineries, as some of the Paris
papers justly describe the 'ceremonies, might be
prolonged, afete was appointed to take place in
this venerable city, on Sunday the 20th. The
day was ushered in with the ringing of bells, as
in the good olden times, when the priests and
nobles were exempted from taxes, and the
middle and lower classes had to support them,
and a luxurious Court, out of their hard earn-
ings. The priests here verify the celebrated
saying of Talleyraud, applied to the old worn-
out dynastr—" For the last fifty years, they
have learned and forgotten nothing." Like our
own grasping clergy, they seek power by delu-
sion ; and a second revolution must take place,
before they are finally brought to their senses.
The momeries were on a grand scale. Stations were
erected in different places, ornamented with
flowers and garlands. Most of the houses on the
line of the procession were • hung with white
linen. The Chief Priest marched, under a rich
canopy, to an altar erected in the Place d'Armes,
close to the house where Bonaparte resided dur-
ing the flotilla mania; he was accompanied by.a
host of priests, and a considerable number of
girls dressed in white, who had taken the sacra-
ment for the first time; and after various-chant-
ings, and abundance of frankincense had been
burnt, he proceeded under this canopy with his
train to the church of St. Jo'seph, to complete the
service of the day. A considerable crowd was
present, but they seemed to take no interest in
the ceremony. With their usual politeness, the
men took off their hats, but they looked upon it
as a show at a fair, ,and the women and children
viewed it without the slightest symptom of re-
spect. One little-Prefichman( in his mother's
arms, was adorned with a crown oflaurel,like that
which
.surrounds the effigies of Napoleon and
the Roman Emperors, but the contrast in other
respects was most ludicrous. He was half naked,
and what garments he had were of the most mi-
serable kind. The procession was accompanied
by a brass band, as they say at the Surrey Zoo-
logical Gardens ; some of the instruments of an
enormous size, and emitting a most woeful
sound ; and that, mingled with the chaunting of
the priests, the vain pomp of the canopy, borne
by some half•dozen porters, and the assumed im-
portance of the doyen under it, formed altogether
a most extraordinary exhibition. The Mayor,
M. Adam, declined to have any thing to do with
the affair. The clergy applied to him for his
countenance and company on the occasion, but
his answer was, " Perhaps I may be called upon
to prevent disturbance,—I will not prohibit the
procession, but I can have nothing- to do with.
it." In other towns of France, however, this
was not the case. The authorities in some took
part in the procession, and marched after the
petit Saint Jean et son mouton. At one place
(Chartres) the sheep ran away with the St. J ohn,
to the great scandal of the clergy, and the great
amusement of the people. At another, the
Mayor and the military authorities attended.
At Dijon the ceremony was absolutely prohi-
bited, as contrary to the Charter; and at other
places collisions took place between the Catholic
and Protestant *clergy, the people in general taking
part with neither. When the Catholics could
not compel the people to bow to their mome-
ries, they consoled themselves by
,exclaiming,
"better times are coming." All these things
are done with the consent or connivance of the
King, and the only paper that defends them
(the Universe) is supported by the King's sister.
There is a fatality about the race. La Dauphine
et le clerge expelled Charles X. Is the Church,
assisted by women, to be the means of changing
the dynasty a third time ? The people of France
have no feeling in common with the Church,
and if the clergy attempt to recover power
such ignoble arts, they will pull down the
Church and the State together. A third revolu-
tion would be felt in othr places besides France.
The warlike feeling in this part of the country
.has greatly subsided, and, as a consequence,•
strangers are returning to the own. At present
there are a considerable number of English re-
sidents here, and more are expected for the
bathing season. The Magnet steamer, which
left London on Saturday, ad made the passage
in ten hours, carried over more than a hundred
and thirty passengers, and takes back this even-
ing not more than fifty. The reports circulated
of the hostile disposition of the people of Bou-
logne, and the great preparations made for
repelling an attack on the plaCe, have
been enormously exaggerated. There are
but four guns mounted on one side of
the harbour, and three on the other ;
and as regards the disposition of the peo-
ple towards the English there does not ap-
pear to be the slightest difference since last year.
In the cabarets, in the neighbourhood, where
the middle and lower classes , pass the Sunday
afternoon, in great numbers, Englishmen are
treated with every respect. I had an opportu-
nity of ascertaining the feelings of the inhabitants
on Sunday, and certainly never met with more
politeneSs in France. I made a point of visiting
several public-houses, and in one, where more
than thirty persons were assembled, I remained
for an hour in conversation with two or three
Frenchmen, who invited me- to drink with them,
and who, with great difficulty, were prevailed
on, in turn, to accept of even one sou glass of
brandy; the sobriety and moderation of.the peo-
ple entitle them to the greatest praise. Most
of these-persons were drinking beer, very few
brandy, and all were sober, and well behaved.
EVen if Sir Andrew Agnew had the regulation of
public-houses, on a Sunday, under his control,
be could not make the people of England or
Scotland keep the Sabbath with such respect and
decorum as the French people do of their own
accord.
A grand fete is to take place here on the lsth
-of August, when the statue of Napoleon will be
placed on the top of the column. Independent
of the National Guards of Boulogne, and some
other towns of the department, five thousand
troops of the line are to be present. Marshal
Soult and one of the King's sons are expected to
honour the town with a visit on the occasion, and
'Teat will be the rejoicings.

TORY versus WHIG AS. FINAN-
CIERS.
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•
Such is the heading of a bill very generally circu-
lated, the matter,being. taken from that most consistent,
sincere, true. and patriotic journal, the Times.
The tenor of this exquisite production is, to claim
merit for the Tories for having diminished the national
debt and taken off many taxes, and to throw censure on
the Whigs by contrast.
The reply to all this sophistry is easy.
First—the taxes taken off nominally by Tory Go-
vernments, were, in effect, taken off by Whig opposi-
tions, who incessantly urged the reduction, and being
backed by " the pressure from without," compelled the
Tories most unwillingly to diminish establishments, and
thus leave a surplus of revenue, admitting of these dimi-
nutions of taxation of which they now make a boast !
Let it never be forgotten that these lauded Tory Mi-
nisters stoutly maintained that the establishments and
expenses of the country did not admit of any reduction
whatever, though, after a memorable defeat, tlicy imme-
diately brought forward an estimate for ten thousand
men less than the number which a week before they had
pronounced to be the lowest possible number with which
they could manage.
Secondly—When they bad concluded their forced re-
ductions, they repeated their assertion that then no fur-
ther diminution of taxation could possibly be made.
If this were true, the Whigs were not to be censured
if they had never taken off a shilling of taxation.
Now, the Tories hold a language which, if turned
into plain English, runs thus :
" Every Government can take off as many taxes as
that which preceded it; our men took off six millions,
therefore the Whigs ought to have taken off six mil-
lions too."
On this beautiful theory we have only to change Ad-
ministrations seven or eight times, and we shall end in
maintaining 100;000 troops and a formidable navy (be-
sides paying the interest of the national debt, if such a
thing then exists), out of no taxes " at all, at all," as
Paddy. says.
It is quite clear that the more taken off the less
must remain to be subjected to a further reduction. By
driving the Tories to abandon many taxes the Whigs
left themselves scarcely any to repeal when they came
into power. As before observed, had the yta
been true, that they had taken off all that could be
abandoned, of course their successors, with the best
possible will, could not have repealed one.
Finally--Whigs repeal taxes of the own ir will—Tories
`yen they can't help it. COMMON SENSE.

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This week a coining establishment, and a com-
plete set of coining apparatus, was discovered in Lone-
wells'-street, by the activity of the Paisley Police esta-
blishment. The moulds were for both the imitation of
copper and silver coin, made of lead, or other soft ma-
terial, they being merely casts in plaister of Paris. The
pursuer of this infamous calling has very properly- been
handed over to the county fiscal for prosecution. His
mime, we understand, is John Thomson.—Glasgow
gaper.
TCIIING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Tinirs-
day, John Murray, of North-street, called at our office,
stating that he had succeeded in hatching duck eggs by
a novel process ; his method is similar to that of the
Egyptian ovens. About three .weeks since, the hen that
had been sitting on the eggs for some days, died ; and
they were transferred to -a tin ca n, placed eta the tire,
and covered -with . flannel. On Wednesday o younc,
0115 partiary escaped froin the'shelt; but they were ne-
glL'et,Kl; and died. This Morning a third duckling' has
conic to town ; we have seen it and it appears in excel-
ent spirits.—Staffordshire Examine.

WAY S.

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RAIL
(From the Railway May,—
RAMWAY EXCURSIONS.
The Midland Cdiintio Herald gives an ac-
count of a number of excursions on the railways
in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, made by
members of Mechanics' Institutes, Temperance
StielPili?S, Ste, These excursions in the inland
district sari* in 1/S OS popular as steam-boat ex-
cursions here.

TAFF VALE RAILWAY.
We learn from the Gloucester Gazette that on
Thuriday week, the first train with Lancashire
ore reached the station at Merthyr ; the quan-
tity brought up was 70 tons. Had the same
quantity come by canal it must have taken three
days at least to bring it; it was brought up in
two hours from Cardiff! The lower portion of
the Dowlais branch, communicating with the old
tram road, was opened the same day for the con-
veyance of the ore to Dowlais works.
RAILWAYS INTO SCOTLAND FROM ENGLAND.
The Carlisle Journal observes upon this sub-
ject, that" A decisive step is likely to be taken
soon for the promotion of the lines recommended
by the Government Commissioners between Lan-
caster and Glasgow. The Railway Companies so
materially interested, between Birmingham and
Lancaster, are beginning to move in this under-
taking, and a powerful party is organising itself
in Scotland to co-operate with those interested in
the northern counties of England. So that
some important proceedings may be expected to
be taken when the preliminary measures are
ripe, and a favourable opportunity presents itself
for action.
NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY.
We hear that this Company are actively
engaged in surveying a new entrance into Lon-
don. It is said that they intend to come to a
place called Middleton Gardens, Islington.
But how will their agreement with the Eastern
Counties for twenty years chime
in with this?
Should they take the above line, we 6pppose they
will hardly need to compensate the part:.- again,
having, we believe, already paid near 37,001;..1 for
that purpose, to parties with whom they had eh'
tered into agreements, and been obliged to break
them on joining the Eastern Counties.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following calculation of the last weekly re-
turns of 30 railways, 1,0931 miles in length, given
in our present number will, we believe, be of in-
terest :—Number of passengers on 19 railways,_
247,023, consequently the total for the week
must be above 400,000. The receipts for passen-
gers on 30 railways, 65,6461. 18s. !21d.; ditto for
goods on 22 railways, 13,856/. 7s. Id. ; total,
79,5031. ss. 31d. This is an average of 721/.
per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is
certainly at the rate of more than three mil-
lions a year, and carrying fifteen millions of
passengers.