The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

THE

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF COMICAL FELLOWS.—
A few evenings ago a numerous meeting of this ancient
order took place at the Coach and Horses, Chiswell-
street, Finsbury-square, whet) N. G. R. Thomas Sedg-
wick took the chair, and was ably supported by D. G. M.
Stenlake, S. G. M. Perrin, Secretary Waite, from the
City Arms Lodge, Brothers Freeman and Olive from
the Whitstable Lodge, Secretary Dorner and Brother
Barber from the Haggerstone Lodge, and P. N. G.
Greenwood, from the SouthwarkLodge. After the usual
toasts had been given, and warmly responded to, the
widows and orphans of the No. 7 Lodge were ushered
into the room, and were liberally relieved by the brothers
of the lodge, in addition to the regular funeral money,
such relief being given regular once a year, by each
lodge, to their respective widows and orphans, so that
in fact, they are never forsaken. The evening was spent
in the, greatest conviviality and, good humour. This
flourishing society, although bearing a strange appella-
tion, appears from their address, wherein they state that
"to cheer and protect the unfortunate, to sympathise
with and aid those whom accident or disease overtakes,
in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving drink
to the thirsty, visiting the sick, relieving and releasing
the captive, a husband to the widow, and a father to the
fatherless, are the leading objects of the Independent
Order of Comical Fellows," to have excellent intentions
in view, and is calculated to do much good.
‘,.' PHILLIPS' GARDENS RAGGED SCHOOLS.—Yester-
day evenings public meeting was held at the Nationl
School Room, Mortimer's Market, Tottenham Court-road,
for the purpose of celebrating the opening of the Phillips'
Gardens Ragged Schools. The Right Hon. Lord Ashley
presided. By the report of the committee it appeared
that the school had been opened on the 26th of last
month, with an attendance of forty children of both
sexes, which number was afterwards increased to an
average of sixty. The total sum received towards the
object of the charity was 914 3s. 6d., and the disburse-
ments amounted to 27L 1 ls. sd. while the annual ex-
penditure was calculated at 1001. The Noble Chairman,
inlan able speech, adVocated the paramount claims of
such institutions to generous and timely support. The
Rev. Mr. Dibden, the Rev. Mr. Denam, the Rev. Mr.
Hughes, Mr. Bevan, Mr. Carson, Mr. East, and other
gentlemen, having addressed the meeting, resolutions in
accordance with the objet is which they bade. as-
sembled to promote were passed, and the proceedings
terminated.
DARING, HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.—Yesterday infor-
mation of the following daring cases of highway robbery
in the metropolis was received by the police: —On
Saturday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, as
a young man named Dunn, residing at Twickenham,
was proceeding through Zion Park, he was met by two
men, who stopped him and threw him down, and struck
him repeatedly with their fists, and after robbing him of
two half-crowns they decamped. On the same night,
between seven and half-past, as Mrs. Whettington, the
wife of the keeper of the Ship beershop, Cusford-hill,
Lewisham, was proceeding along Perry Vale, Syden-
ham, when near the finger-post she was stopped by a
man, who asked her for a penny, and on her declining to
Five him one, he knocked her down, and stole from her
person a purse containing 14 15s. in silver, with which
he got clear off.
bUICEDE BY LEAPING FROM A WINDOW.—Last
evening, Mr. W. Payne held an baouest at St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, on the body of Walter Bell, aged 53,
who committed suicide. The deceased was a hair-
dresser, lately carrying on business at No. 40, King-
street, Snow-hill, who had been of weak intellect for
some time past, which the family attributed to their
being much reduced and disappointed in his business,
which had greatly fallen off. On Friday evening last,
about six o'clock, the deceased was in his bedroom, on
the third floor, . with his daughter, when be suddenly
rushed up, and said, "I will give you a shilling if you
will go outside of the door. lie then ran to the
window, and jumped out into the street, where he was
found by his son. Ile was removed on a stretcher to
the above hospital, where he died the same night from
fractures of the right hip bone, lower jaw, and other
extensive injuries. The jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary Insanity."
APPLICATIONS FOR "LOCAL Ac's."—Yesterday
was the last day for notice to be given to the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests of intended applications in
the ensuing session for Local Acts. By the second sec-
tion the Commissioners can, within a month, appoint a
" surveying officer" to make a local examination, whose
duty will be to report to Parliament on er before the
lit of March. By this new Act (9 and 10 Vict., c. 106)
it is expected that considerable expense will be saved iu
procuring local Acts.
RAILWAY EXTENSION.—DEPOSITING THE PLANS.
—Yesterday being the 30th of November, the day on
which it is necessary to deposit plans, and sections of
intended railways, in order that the merits of the re-
spective lines may be brought under the notice of Par-
liament in the course of the forthcoming session, the
portals of the new Railway Board Rooms in Great
George-street, Westminster, were thrown open to their
utmost width to receive the huge masses of engraved
papers, which owe their origin to the inventive faculties
of boards of directors, solicitors, secretaries, and the
thousand and one other persons interested in the exten-
sion of railway communication in every district from
Cornwall to Caithness. The new main schemes in the
list of Bills deposited are very few, though the total
number of plans deposited amounts to two hundred and
ninety-one.
SBERIFFs' FuNDt—The half-yearly general meet-
ing was held yesterday at the London Coffee-house,
Ludgate-hill, when the chair was taken by Mr. Alder-
man and Sheriff Challis, who was supported by Mr.
Sheriff Kennard, Mr. Alderman Johnson, the late Lord
Mayor, Mr. Under-Sheriff Tilliard, Mr. Deputy Bed-
ford, Mr. Eagleton, and several other of its active
supporters. The report, which was read by Mr. J. C.
Cooper, the Honorary Secretary, recommended the
appropriation of 500/. from the permanent fund to the
Elizabeth Fry Refuge for the Relief of Destitute
Females, on the principles long advocated by the society.
Several members spoke in favour of the recommenda-
tion, which, on the proposal of the late Lord Mayor, was
agreed to, and the officers and committee for the ensuing
year were appointed.
SMITHFIELD CLITB CATTLE SHOW.—The prepafa-
tiers are now completed for the ensuing show, which
takes place next week. Since the erection of the per-
manent roof over the large area these have not been
very extensive; but the part appropriated to the exhi-
bition of implements, a department yearly increasing in
interest and importance, has been this year extended to
nearly double its usual size. The last day for receivine.
stock will be next Monday; the award of the judges will
be made on Tuesday, and the show will be open for the
remainder of the week. The entries are more numerous
than last year.
On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at
the East India House, when Mr. Frederick Currie eas
unanimously appointed a provisional member of the
Council of India.
A CHINESE DINNER.—An officer of the United
States squadron in the Chinese seas gives the following
bill of fare at a large Chinese dinner, to which he, with
numerous other foreigners, was invited:—" 1. lirds'-
nest soup. 2. Pork fat, fried with potatoes. 3. Hogs'
hoofs. 4. Mushrooms, stewed. 5. Birds'-nest salad.
6. Giblet soup. 7. Kitten hash. 8. Fried Irish pota-
toes. 9. Rat hash. 10. Tea. 11. Sharks' fins. 12.
Fried ducks. 13. Dog stew. 14. Stewed chickens.
15. 11am stew. 16. Pork stew. 17. Fried cucumbers.
18. Yeti of rats. 19. Feline ragout. 20. Ham stewed
with pork. 21. Sucking pig. 22. Snail pate. 23. Snail
soup. I tasted the first dish,' and became so disgusted
that I could not proceed. They were brought on, one
dish at a time, in exquisitely beautiful china bowls.
GUN COTTON.--A gentleman residing in the vici-
nity of Leith-walk, having purchased some of the gun
cotton, left it in his study after having made some ex-
periments' with it. His little boy, a fine intelligent child
of five years, entering the room in his father's absence,
determined to play him a trick, and seizing some of the
cotton, hastened to the nursery, and placed some of it
by the side of the fire. Neither the nurse nor governess
being aware of the dangerous plaything their young
charge had got into his possession, took no notice of
what he was doing until they were aroused by a dread-
tul report, and on looking in the direction whence it
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HAMBURGH MAIL. MAGAZINE DAY.
ST. PETERSBITRGH, Nov. 19.—The Niva has been full BLACKWOOD.
of drift ice since the 15th, and the bridges have therefore After an elaborate and impartial digest of the re-
been taken up, cent lucubrations upon Denmark and the Marshes, by
The public safety of this capital has lately been con-
the celebrated German traveller Kohl ; after a de-
siderably interrupted by several murders, the first of
served panegyric upon the late revered statesman,
these crimes was committed by a person who has
Lord Metcalfe, and especially in reference to his go-
hitherto contrived to elude the pursuit of justice. The
vernment of Jamaica, Blackwood affords us a delight-
victim was a young man of the middle class. Imme-
diately after two victims of the lower orders were ful catalogue raisonne of the " Annals and Antiquities
sacrificed by murderers, who were taken in the fact, to of London. Those who are familiar with the latest
which they appear to have been induced by the desire of productions in our literature will at once conjecture
plunder. that the article above mentioned is nothing less than
A report has been spread that the natives of the pr a review of Mr. J. T. Smith's work, entitled " An
pro
of Livonia, who had lately been converted to th e Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London." In
Russian Greek Church from other Christian confessions
that conjecture they will have been partially wrong and
might, if they repented this conversion, return to their
partially right. The contribution is scarcely so much a
former communion. The Governor, General Golonin,
contradicting this report, has published a proclamation, of that interesting production, as a kind of col-
r. on
in which he warns the individuals in question, against loquial description of some of the scenes and incidents
such a step, and threatens the seceders with all the therein delineated. The descriptions, however, are
severe punishments which the new penal code decrees rendered original, not only by the newness of the
against apostates and their seducers. manner in which they are given, but also by the
Srocrenonas, Nov. 20. Baron Von Manderstoom, number of additional facts with which they are be-
Cabinet Secretary and Chamberlain, embarked on heard sprinkled. The extraordinary associations connected
the Gauthoid steamer for Lubeck, on a special mission with the different parishes, streets, and houses of the
from his Majesty the King to the Russian Court, where
he will meet our Crown Prince at Berlin. It is conjec- metropolis are but little' dreamt. of by the
tured, of course, that the mission is the betrothing of multitudes who are passing the localities every day.
his Royal Highness to Princess Louisa of Prussia. Those who walk down Bennet-street and Arlington-
VIENNA, Nov. 19.—The assassin Reinell, who for street, little imagine they are wandering over the site
his attempt to murder the Emperor, was sentenced to of the once famous and fashionable Mulberry-gardens
twenty years' imprisonment in the celebrated fortress of —those gardens in which Dryden disported himself
Munkats, in Hungary, died there a month ago. with his mistress, Anne Reeve, eating tarts and
GLIICHSTADT, Nov. 22.—The Committee of Mer- cheese-cakes and guzzling syllabubs ! The unthink-
chants bas summoned a meeting for Tuesday next, to ing frequenters of St. James's-park never dream,
deliberate on the establishment of a communication, by doubtless, that until it was mercifully enclosed and
steam-boats, between this town and Hull. The commit- drained by order of the eighth Harry, that pleasant
tee, it is said, intend to effect this project by means of The casual down
a was- a swamp. passenger
a joint stock company, but which, for the present, will the mall, now a-days' little thinks that there, accord-
not have a steamer of its own, but only raise a capital to
ing to that rhyming varlet, Colley Libber, Charles the
hire a steam-boat, and in case the experiment should not
Second was wont to fondle his dogs and chuck crumbs
succeed sufficient to make up the loss.
to his favourite ducklings, in a miscellaneous mob of
his subjects ; they little reflect that Duke•street
Chapel was originally a wing of the house of the
notorious and execrable Judge Jeffreys ; that Ho-
garth's mansion has been changed into a portion of
the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester- square ; that Sir
Joshua Reynolds lived almost immediately opposite ;
that Titus Oates, and Parsons, the principal, contriver
of the Cock-lane ghost, were exposed in the pillory at
Charing-cross ; that culprits were formerly boiled to
death in Smithfield-market; that Wycheily had lodg-
ings in Bow-street; that Garrick lived of yore in James-
street, Covent-garden ; that Benjamin Franklin re-
sided in Duke-street; that Voltaire was staying some
while in Maiden-lane, at the the White Peruke, a
wigmaker's shop ; that in the burial-ground and
vaults of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, are the ashes of
Samuel Butler, Wycherly, and Southerne, the satrical
and dramatic poets ; of Sir Peter Lely, otherwise
Vandervaes, the portrait painter ; of Macklin, the
comedian ; of Strange, the engraver ; of Arne, the
musician ; of Walcot, the Peter Pinder. The casual
pedestrian is unconcious of many or all of these
things, and consequently his peregrinations about
London are divested of a fascination which they
would otherwise possess. For the opening of a most
enthralling world of metropolitan revelations, we
commend such to the work lately published
from the MSS. of the deceased author of
" Nollekins and his Times," or for the nonce to
the agreeable contribution here particularised.
Two etymological definitions are so curious that
we give them. From " a pickadill " being defined
in Blount's Glossography as "the round hem of a gar-
ment or other thing,' it is presumed that the famous
ordinary hard by St. James's, which first bore the name
of Piccadilly, was so called as being at the time on
the outskirts of the suburb. Charing-cross, again, is
thought to have been so christened from the Saxon
Charan (implying to turn), used in reference to the
adjacent bend or turning of the Thames. In ob-
serving that John Hunter lived next door to Ho-
garth's House, in Leicester-square, the writer should
not have forgotten that the residence of the great
anatomist was Earl's- court, Old Brompton. Some-
times the contributor indulges in a ridiculous affecta-
tion of being graphic, as where he is speaking of the
foreigners in Cranbourne-street sauntering, "cigar in
mouth, over the shabby pavement!" The very valu-
able series of " Marlborough's Dispatches " is con-
tinued. A tale entitled " Mildred "is commenced
with considerable promise, and is followed by an
excellent paper on "The Law and its Punish-
ment-5," and a comical jeux d'esprit hight, " Lays
and Legends of the Thames." In the article upon
" Recent Royal Marriages," we observe that Black-
wood declares itself definitively, but somewhat tardily,
against the policy which has united the Queen Isa-
bella with Don Francisco d'Assis, and the Infanta
Luisa to the Duc de Montpensier. " How," says
Maga, in a just tone of indignation, " how is it that
a people, once so great and powerful, still so easy to
rouse, and jealous of its independence, has suffered
itself to be fooled by an abandoned Italian woman,
and a wily and unscrupulous foreign potentate—by
a corrupt Camarillo., and a party that is but a name?"
From the publication of the -Pragmatic Sanction in
1830 by Ferdinand the Seventh, whereby the crown
was secured to his offspring should it be a female,
down to the consummation of the perfidious negotia-
tions between the Courts and Cabinets of the Tuileries
and the Hotel Courcelles, the history of Spain is sur-
veyed, and the principal facts of that history perspi-
cuously narrated in a few pages. Such a paper is judi-
ciously produced at a time when, in the angry comments
of the press, the exact sequence and bearing of events
might be misapprehended by the superficial reader.
The vile conduct of Maria Christina, not merely in
her amours with the cigar-seller's son, Munoz, Duke
of Rianzares, and her wholesale peculation, not merely
in her libidinous depravities and extortionate avarice,
but in her unmotherly and unqueenly treatment of
Isabella, in her thieving her daughter's wardrobe and
jewels, and in her successively upholding the claims
of the Due de Montemolin and of an Austrian Areh-
duke in opposition to her own solemn and voluntary
engagements to support the claims of the son of Don
Francisco de Paulo, is exposed. The episode of her
expulsion from the Iberian soil in 1840, and the three
years of the regency of Espartero the Duc de la
Victoria, is then described. Lastly, the perfidious
machinations of King Louis Philippe, from his first
plan to marry the Duc d'Aumale to the Queen of
Spain, to his hypocritical engagement to Queen Vic-
toria at Eu, thence to his advocacy of the cause of
the Count Trapani, and ultimately to the shameless
catastrophe of the Peninsular plot, are well and clearly
divulged. The spirit in which Blackwood regards the
entire transaction may be discerned from the follow-
ing ludicrous summary :
" We remember to have encountered, in a neglected
foreign gallery, an ancient picture of a criminal in the
hands of the torturers. The subject was a painful one,
and yetshe painting provoked a smile. Some wandering
brother of the brush, some mischievous and idly-indus-
trious Tinto, had beguiled his leisure by transmogrifying
the costumes both of victim and executioners, converting
the ancient Spanish garb into the stiff and unpicturesque
apparel of the present day. The vault in which the
cruel scene was enacted, remains in all its gloomy se-
verity of massive pillars, Tasty shackles, and cobwebbed
walls; the grim unshapely instruments of torture were
there; the uncouth visages of the executioners, the ago-
nized countenance of the sufferer, were unaltered. But,
contrasting with the antique aspect and time-darkened
tints of these details, were the vivid colouring and mo-
dern fashions of Parisian paletots, trim pantaloons, and
ballroom waistcoats. We have been irresistibly re-
minded of this defaced picture by the recent events in
Spain. They appear to us like a page from the history
of the middle ages transported into our own times. The
darir, and unprincipled intrigue whose dendtrment has
just been witnessed, is surely out of place in the nine-
teenth century, and belongs more properly to the days of
the Medicis and the Guise. A review of its circum-
stances affords the elements of some romantic history of
three hundred years ago. At night, in a palace, we see
a dissolute Italian dowager and a crafty French ambas-
sador coercing a sovereign of sixteen into a detested al-
liance. The day breaks on the child's tearful consent;
the ambassador, the paleness of his vigil chased from
his cheek by the flush of triumph, emerges from the
royal dwelling. Quick! to horst !—and a courier starts
0 tell the diplomat's master that the glorious victory is
won. A few days—a very few—of astonishment to Eu-
rope and consternation to Spain, and a French prince,
with gay and gallant retinue, stands on the Bides-
soa's bank and gazes wistfully southwards. Why does
he tarry; whence ails delay? He waits an escort.
Strange rumours are abroad of ambuscade and assassi-
nation; of vows made by fierce guerillas that the In-
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scatter flowers in his path, and Biscay's brave sons strain
their stout arms to ring peals in his honour? Do the
poor and hardy peasantry of Castile line the highway
and shout vivas as he passes? Not so. If bells are
rung and flowers strewn, it is by salaried ringers and by
women hired, not to wail at a funeral, but to celebrate
a marriage scarcely more auspicious. If hurrahs, few
and faint, are heard, those who utter are paid for them.
Sullen looks and lowering glances greet the Frenchman,
as, guarded by two thousand men-at-arms, he hurries to
the capital where his bride awaits him. In aq haste,
amidst the murmurs of a deeply offended people, the knot
is tied. Not a moment must be lost, lest something
should yet occur to mar the marriage feast. And now
for the rewards, shamefully showered upon the venal
abettors of this rinpapular union. A dukedom and
grandeeship of Spain for the ambassador's infant son;
titles to mercenary ministers; high and time-honoured
decorations, once reserved as the premium for exalted
valour and chivalrous deeds—to corrupt deputies; dia-
mond snuff-boxes, jewels, and gold, to the infamous
writers of prostituted journals; Christina rejoices; her
Camarillo are in ecstacies; Bresson rubs his hands in
irrepressible exultation; in his distant capital the French
monarch heaves a sigh of relief and satisfaction as his
telegraph informs him of the fait accompli. Then come
splendid bullfights and monster pucheros, to dazzle the
eyes and stop the mouths of the multitude. Pan y toros—
panis ac eircenses—to the many-headed .beast. And in
all haste the, prince hurries back to Paris with his bride,
to receive the paternal benediction, the fraternal em-
brace,
and the congratulations of the few score indivi-
. duals who,alone, in all France, feel real pleasure and