The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-20 00:00:00

WENL OCK RACES, SEPT. 18.

Sweepstakes of 100 cove. each, with 20 cove. added
Twice round and a distance,—about 2 miles. (11 subs.)

Mr. Lawley names Independence 1
Mr. Mosley names Diana 2
Lord Darlington names Mezereon . 3
Lord Wenlock names Champignion 4

A Plate of 501., the Gift of B. Thompson, Eq. Heats,

twice round and a distance.
Mr. Painter's Decoction
Mr. Beardsworth'sb. g. by Scamper 2 2
Mr. Wadlow's Hector 3 3
The Farmer's, of 501., the Gilt of the Right Hon. Lord
Forester. Heats, twice round and a distance.
Mr. Wood's ch. g. by Bustard
Mr. Peter Bate's br. m. by Champion
Mr. Edward's gr. g. by Vestris 3 3
Mr. Giles's Sir Edward 4 4

GLOUCESTER RACES, SEPT. 18.
The Gloucester Stakes, of 20 soya. each, with 30 soya.

added from the Fund. 2 miles.
Mr. Thome's Harry
Mr. J. Day's Boy Blue
Mr. Peel's Changeling
The Berkeley Stakes of 5 sove. each, 30 eovs. added,
Heat., 2 miles.
Mr. J. Day's Boy Blue
Mr. G. Berkeley names Sinbad

The Waufort Stakes of 5 sove. each, with 30 cove. added,
Heals, once round the course.

Mr. J. Day's Listen
Mr. Peel's Uncle Toby 2 dr
Sir B. W. Guise names Trouville

RICHES OF ANCIENT MONASTERIES.-At
a very remote period the monastic institutions kept up a
pomp and magnificence which was never rivalled in any
of the palaces of royalty. In 1245 the monastery of Cluny
entertained at the same +line, alter the Council of Lyons,
the Pope,) two Pitriarchs, twelve Cardinals, three. Arch-
lii.ltops fifteen Bishops, several Abbes, St. Louis, with
the Queen Mother, his brother, and sister, the Emperor
of Constantinople, the sons of the King of Aragon and
Ctstile, the Duke de Bourgogne, and six Counts, &c. &c. ;
and all these great personages were attended by numerous
suites, all of whom were lodged within the walls of this
monastery.

(From the Times Private Correspondent.)
It is said that the King of the French and his
family in the course of their visit to Cherbourg were
carefully avoided by the noblesse of Normandy and
the dignataries of the Catholic hierarchy. The
Cardinal Archbishop of Rotten took the opportunity
of visiting his estates in Belgium, and at Cherbourg
the most prominent person in attendance upon his
Majesty was that same Colonel de Bricqueville who
has so often signalized himself in his place in the
Chamber of Deputies, by the motions he has made,
and the measures he has introduced, for the expul-.
sion of the elder branch of the Bourbons and the
confiscation of their property.
The King and Queen of the Belgians are now
also on a tour through several of the provinces of
their kingdom; but in their case there is this diss
tinction from that of the Royal Family of France,
that the hereditary nobility of Belgium, together
with the dignified clergy, have evinced the utmost
alacrity in meeting and welcoming their Majesties
at every practicable point in the course of their
progress.
It was on Thursday morning at- nine o'clock that
the King and Queen left Laecken, attended by
several of the principal officers of his Majesty's
household, and by the ladies of honour in waiting
on the Queen. They proceeded by way of Water-
loo. On the same day :he Royal party passed over
the field of another battle, less important in its con-
sequences, but which, in conjunction with that of
Valmy, it was the fashion to quote usque ad nau-
seam in the addresses presented to the King of the
French during the first few months after his acces-
sion to the throne.
The town of Namur is one of the fortresses which
was placed by the Congress of Vienna under the
guardianship and inspection of the Duke of Wel-
lington. Its situation at the confluence of the Meese
and the Sambre, gives it, of course, a high degree of
military importance; but overlooked and com-
manded as it is by the steep rising hills in the hol-
low of which it is embosomed, its strength must
bear a very different value with reference to the
school of modern warfare, when compared with
the regular fortifications of the school of Vauban.
Being the capital of the province, the Royal party
on their arrival at Namur took up their residence in
the hotel of the prefect or governor, where the
Baroness Stassart, the wife of the President of the
Senate, was in waiting to receive the Queen, and
perform the temporary duties of Dante du Palais.
The ordinary population of the town is about 20,000,
but during the three days of the royal visit that
number must have been nearly doubled, if we may
judge from the extreme difficulty there was of finding
the humblest accommodation in the shape of lodg-
ings. The streets were tastefully decorated with
triumphal arches and wreaths of verdure, and such
as were broad enough to admit of it were lined with
hedge-rows of transplanted trees, the effect, on the
whole, being quite as vivid and striking, although not
altogether so characteristic as the endless ranges
of party-coloured drapery with which the towns and
villages of Flanders were decorated at the period of
the King's visit to Ghent, Bruges, and Ostend, in
the spring of the present year. The town-hall itself,
a handsome building, was fitted up in a style of be-
coming splendour for the ball, which was given by
the corporation on 'Friday evening, at which her
Majesty condescended to dance two quadrilles, the
one with the Marquis de Trasiegnies, the other with
M.Victor Bodart. On Saturday the King and Queen
ascended the banks of the Maese, as far as Dinant,
whose handsome bridge bears the singular inscrip-
tion, "Ce pont a ete fait ici." After visiting the
manufacturing establishments of Dinazit and h.
neighbourhood, their Majesties returned to Namur to
dinner, and in the evening attended a concert at the
theatre, where upwards of a thousand places had
been secured, not for the purpose, as at Ghent, of
shutting the box-doors, and excluding the public,
but to seek an opportunity of testifying the senti-
ments of loyalty and attachment which animate the
inhabitants of Namur. At the nunnery called
L'Etablissement des Dames Franaises, which, like
other public buildings, was tastefully ornamented,
the King and Queen were received by the superior
with marked attention. Not content with addresses
in vtslgar prose, it seemed as if the tuneful Nine
had been expressly retained for the purpose of
greeting their Majesties in verse of every form and
measure which fancy could suggest. The columns
of the Eclaireur, a daily political journal, are loaded
with them ; but as it was not expected that the
King or Queen would make their answers in hexa-
meters, there is reason to hope that they may sur-
vive this metrical infliction.
Yesterday morning the King and Queen left
Namur, and, descending the right bank of the
Meese, arrived in time for breakfast at Huy, perhaps
the most remarkable in point of situation, of the
whole of that line of fortresses which King Louis
Philippe, in a speech from the throne, declared to.
have been created for the purpose of threatening the
French frontier. The new fortifications, consisting
of three ranges of batteries, one over the other, are
erected on the very verge of a perpendicular preci-
pice overhanging the river. The rock on which
they stand consists of dark blue limestone, of which
there is so much throughout the course of theMaese
from Dinant to Liege. But besides the limestone,
which predominates, there is an extraordinary inter-
mixture of other formations, which must make the
district extremely interesting to the geological ama-
teur. Although it does not lie in the beaten track
of the tourist, the scenery is so varied, so romantic,
and so beautiful, that it must, ere long, be brought
into notice. The well-made road on the Macadam
principle, is also a great relief from those inter-
minable chaussees which you meet with in almost
every other direction ; and it is matter of surprise,
that while Brussels retains its thousands, and Ghent
and Bruges their hundreds of English residents, the
well-built towns and snug-looking villages on the
line of the Maese have scarcely been explored, al-
though for cheapness and comfort, and the other
good qualities which emigrant Englishmen know
so well how to appreciate, they have probably the
advantage of the great towns of Brabant and Flan-
ders, which, after all, are only a day's journey nearer
home. When the great guns in the lowest battery
of the Castle of Huy are fired, the concussion is so
great as to shake the walls of the town underneath
to their foundations. On the entrance of the royal
cortege yesterday morning, it appeared as if the
gunners, in the excess of their loyalty, had applied a
double charge, to testify the sincerity of their Ma-
jesties' welcome, as every flash was followed, not by
its own report alone, but by a responsive crash of
broken windows, which must have delighted the
hearts of all the glaziers of Huy. The promenades in
that neighbourhood are singularly picturesque; but in
spite of the fatigues wide. her Majesty has sustained
during the last two or three days, the Royal party
spent the forenoon in an excursion to one of those
beautiful vallies which send their tributary waters to
augment the volume of the Meese. On their re-
turn, after the King had visited the fortifications,
andgitdiies
niie is
received
the public authorities of the pace an d
the principal inhabitants of the neighbourhood, their
Majesties were entertained at dinner by a distin-
guishedHuy.memberof the
This,however, Senate,
exceptionmm er re-
s
to the King's ordinary rule in his tournees through
the kingdom. When induced, as in this instance,
to accept the offers of private hospitality, the muni-
ficence with which he acknowledges, and, in fact,

This formality having been complied with, Mr.
Creed, the Secretary, proceeded to read the report.
The report was highly favourable. The Direc-
tors commenced by congratulating the subscribers
on their succes in at length obtaining the Act of
Parliament, after all the opposition they bad expe-
rienced. It appears that the contract deeds are
executed for subscriptions for the whole of the ca-
pital, 2,500,0001.; any 5,;.. -t
Company Is empowered, when 1,250,0001. shall
have been paid up, to raise the remainder, or any
portion of it, by loan, if it should be deemed expe-
dient. Equal portions of the line of railway have
been placed under the superintendence of the re-
spective London and Birmingham Committees;
and it has been arranged that one engineer should
have the entire direction of the works, and that his
time and services should be devoted exclusively to
the Company. Mr. Robert Stephenson has been
appointed engineer in chief. By the plan arranged,
the whole railway will be completed at the same
time ; and the time to be occupied in the work is at
present calculated at four years. One deviation
from this plan is proposed; the Directors recom-
mend that the portion of line at the London end
shall be executed with all possible expedition. This
recommendation arises from a conviction that the
novelty and convenience of a railway contiguous to
the metropolis connot fail to excite a general inte-
rest, and, consequently, to prove an early and pro-
ductive source of revenue to the Company.
. .

By the accounts furnished, it appears that the
directors have received deposits of .5/. on each
share, which, for 25,000 shares, amounts to
125,0001.; in addition to which, they have re-
ceived 3,165/. 4s. Id. for interest, making the total
receipts 128,165/. 49. ld. The total disbursements
are 83,4941. 18s. 2d., including 500/. for outstand-
ing claims, and 10,700/. already paid for the pur-
chase of land—leaving a balance in hand at the dis-
posal of the Company of 44,670/. .ss. l Id. On re-
garding the abstract of the expenditure, it appears
that the legal expenses have been tremendous.
This was accounted for, in the first place, by the
necessity of applying to all the owners of land in
the contemplated line (1 I 1 miles); and 2dly, by
great opposition to the passing of the Bill. The
solicitors' bills, counsels' and Parliamentary fees,
expense of witnesses, documents, plans, &c., amount
to upwards of 32,0001. The expenses of survey-
ing and engineering to about 16,000/. more.
Several gentlemen took the opportunity of inculcat-
ing the necessity of great economy in the admini-
teration of the funds of the Company, but expressed
their conviction, that under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, the expenses iucurred were riot
greater than necessity required.
Mr. CARUTHERS suggested the propriety of en-
gaging a solicitor with a fixed stipend ; but after
some conversation, the matter dropped, on the un-
derstanding that the Board of Directors would take
the subject into their consideration.
The question that the report should be received
was then carried unanimously.
The Directors were authorized to affix the seal of
the Company to the Register Land the meeting then
proceeded to the choice of Directors for the en-
suing year, in the place of those specified in the Act.
On the motion of Mr. J. IL HERON, of Man-
chester, seconded by Mr. CARRUTHERS, the follow-
ing gentlemen were appointed Directors on the
London Committee :—lsaac Sally, Esq., G. P.
E. Calvert, Esq., Mr. Alderman
Barclay, Esq,,
Nl
G. C. Glyn, Esq., P. Grenfell,
Esq., J. G. S. Lefevre, , J. L. Prevost, Esq.,
11. Rowles, Esq , T. Tooke, Esq., H. Warre, Esq.,
and B. Cropper, E-q.; and on the Birmingham
Committee—J. F. Ledsam, Esq., R. Garnett, Esq.,
J. Foster. Esq., W. Francis, Esq., D. Ledsam, Esq.,
J. Pearson, Esq., W. Phipson, Esq., T. W. Rath-
hone, Esq., T. Smith, Esq., J. Sturge, Esq., J.
Turner, Esq., and J. Walker, Esq.
Mr- J. E. TAYLOR (of the Manchester Guardian)
moved, and Mr. LARKLY seconded a resolution, in
pursuance of the Act of Parliament, appropriating
2,400/. per annum to the 24 Directors, as a remu-
neration for their services. The former gentleman
observed, that inadequate as such a sum certainly
was, he was sure the best reward which those gen-
tlemen could have, would be the contemplation of

The town clerk also laid before the Court a copy
of the Commission, which having been read,
Mr. Deputy WOOD laid before the Court a re-
port from the Committee in relation to the election
of Aldermen, and which stated that the town-clerk
having laid before them a copy of the Commission
appointed by his Majesty in relation to Municipal
Corporations in England and Wales, together with
the letter received by him from Sir Francis Pal-
grave, one of the said Commissioners, proposing to
be at the Guildhall on the 10th day of September
instant, and requesting him to be prepared with
whatever information he could supply on various
points, they took the same into their considera-
tion, and it appearing, in consequence of the refe-
rences from the Court for making an inquiry into
important branches of the Corporation, that the
labours of the Committee had, to a very great ex-
tent, been directed to the objects of several of the
points contained in the Commissioners' letter, and
might materially assist them in their researches and
investigations, and also that it would be a highly
desirable as well as an honourable course, on the
part of the Corporation, to afford every facility in
their inquiry into the nature and constitution of the
city, the Committee were of opinion that tbey
and documents to the Commissioners as may tend
to elucidate that object; and that it should be re-
ferred to the Committee to superintend the pro-
ceedings in respect thereof, and to confer with the
several officers of the Corporation, and give such in-
structions and directions from time to time as may
appear to be necessary.
Upon a motion to agree with the report,
Mr. PEARSON moved an amendment.
After a short discussion between Mr. Deputy
WOOD, Mr. PEARSON, Mr. LAWRENCE, Mr. WIL-
LIAMS, and some other members, the report was
agreed to.
A petition from the inhabitants of Leadenhall-
street and its vicinity, for the Court to adopt mea-
sures against the removal of the Leather and Raw
Hide Market from Leadenhall, was referred to the
City Lands Committee.
Several reports and petitions for leases were
agreed to.
The Court unanimously resolved to add 1,0001.
per annum to the salary of the Hon. C.E. Law,
Recorder, during their pleasure, it being the amount
allowed by them to his predecessors.
One hundred and five pounds was voted to the
Benevolent Strangers' Society, and the Chamber-
lain directed to pay the same in the name of the
Court.

Mr. PEARSON gave notice of a motion for a future
Court, for a reference to a Committe to inquire if
the Court have the power to consolidate the appoint-
ment of Judges of the Sheriffs' Court ; and if not,
whether it will be desirable for the Corporation to
apply to Parliament for an Act to consolidate the
City Local Courts, and render them efficient for the
recovery of small debts.

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE NEIGHBOUR.

HOOD OF LONDON BRIDGE.

The spacious new streets which were necessary
to give effect to the design of the noble structure
of London Bridge, are rapidly approaching to com-
pletion, and present lines of well-built firstrate
houses, worthy of the conspicuous situation they
occupy along one of the principal approaches to the
great city. Those who may not have visited the
spot recently will be surprised at the great advance
towards completion, which has within a short time
been made, particularly on the Southwark side of
the bridge. The old narrow High-street no longer
exists. Every one of the houses on its western
side, from the Bridge to the Town Hall, has been
rased to the ground, and their sites added to the
street, thus affording a noble breadth of carriage
and foot pavements. The old dilapidated tene-
ments in the rear have also been taken down,
and on the ground they occupied, a line of lofty
houses has been erected to form a new frontage to
to the High-street. Spacious cross streets have
been formed, instead of the old narrow ones, and
in every instance the corner houses are built circu-
lar. Red Lion-street, formerly a narrow lane, along
which two barrows could hardly be wheeled abreast,
will, when completed, be as broad as was the old
High-street. The street leading in a line with St.
Thomas's-street to the Borough Market, has also
been proportionately widened. An opening has
been left from which the beautiful church of St.
Saviour's and the restored Ladye Chapel are seen
to great advantage. On the opposite side of the
way, the whole of the houses have been taken down
which stood between St. Thomas's Hospital and
the Bridge, and a new street formed, which, by
means of decreasing arches, is carried with a gentle
dscent into old Tooley-street, which it enters just
beyond the church. The space between the new
street arid the hospital has been surrounded with a
noble iron railing fixed in a dwarf stone wall,
and which is carried by a bold circular sweep into
the new street. The space thus inclosed must

" His Majesty arrived at the riglit wing at half-
past nine o'clock, and rode along the line to the left
wing amidst loud hurrahs. His Majesty expresied
the highest satisfaction at the condition and appear-
ance of the troops."
ODESSA, SEPT. 3.—The environs of Odessa pre-
sent a melancholy spectacle this year. A whiter
without snow, and the drought at the beginning of
the season, have destroyed the hopes of the farmer.
The parched fields are covered with yellow grass,
and some straw without ears. This had re•u t o:

the harvest is the cause of the high price of some
kinds of corn. The scarcity is so great, that seve-
ral merchants are preparing to import oats and barley
from Constantinople.
DUTCH FUNDS.-AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 17.

,
Actual Debt, 24 per cent 47L to 48Y4
Amort Syndic, 4Y4 per cent 83% to 84%
Ditto, ditto, 3y2 per cent 684 to 694
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent lO2 to 104,i
Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent 9l 4to 92
Ditto, ditto, 1833, 5 per cent 9114 to P 2
Exchange on London l2 02%
Ditto, two months

On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Old
Plough, Eaatcott, near Harrow, on the body of Edward
Woodby, a gunsmith, aged nineteen. On Thursday last
the deceased went out shooting with a young man, named
J. Gerard. When about a mile from Eascott, the deceased
attempted to make an opening in a hedge wi•it the butt-
end of his gun. The naz!e was pointed towards his
person, and the piece by some accident went off, when
the contents lodged in his aide. He died in a few hours.
♦erdict-_Accidental death.

LONGEVITY OF THE SWAN.—The other
(lay, a male swan, which had seen many generations
come and go, and witnessed the other mutations incident
to the lapse of 200 years. died at Rosemount. He was
hroueht to Dunn when the late John Erskine, Esq., was
in infancy, and was the❑ said to be 100 years old. About
two years ago he was purchiked by the late David Duncan,
E q., of Rosemount ; and within that period his mate
brought forth four young ono, which be destroyed as
soon as they took the water. Mr. Nlolleson, Bridge-
street, (in whose museum the bird is now to be seen),
thinks he might have lived much longer but for a lump
or excrescence at the top of the windpipe, which, on
dissecting him, he found to be composed of grass and
tow. This is the same bud that was known and recog-
nized, in the early years of octogenarians in this and the
neighbouring parishes, by the name of " the old swan of
Dunn."—lllontrose Review.

Wednesday the steamer Heleizsburi„).ll had
just arrived at Greenock from Glasgow, and landed her
goods and passengers preparatory to her departure across
the water and had begun to back so as to swing the bow
out into the stream. The Earl Grey was at this mo.
ment coming down the river, on which Captain M'Leod,
of the Helensburgh, deemed it necessary to let go the
fast at the stern to prevent a collision, and directed for-
ward motion to be given to the engine. When this was
Clone it was observed that another steamer was close at
hand coming up, which it was necessary also to avoid.
For this purpose the engine was stopped, and the Ole at
this titne being about two-thirds ebb with a strong cur-
rent, the Relensburgh was carried towards a luggage-
boat fast to the quay, alongside of which was a yawl with
two men on board, one of whom had bold of the luggage-
boat as if attempting to ascend, but before lie could du so
the boats came in collision, and the body of the ntat:."':"he
turned round between them wo or time tit.
dropped dead in the water. The (oh r men► by
tise
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thirty-five years
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