The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

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TATTERSALL'S—TI.IS EVENING.
six o'CLocx.

CRITERI ON.
4 to 1 agst Silistria
5 to 1 agst any other
CAMBRIDGESIIIRE.
7 to 1 agst Dacia
7 to 1 agst Lanesborough
7 to 1 agst Backbiter
10 to 1 agst Chanticleer
11 to 1 agst Geraldine
20 to 1 agst Wanota
25 to 1 agst Miss Sarah
28 to 1 agst Buscot Buck
40 to 1 agst The Moor
49 to 1 agst Dulcet
DERBY.
No betting.

THE P. FOR PAISLEY'AND HIS

CONSTITUENTS.
On Friday last, Mr. Archibald Ilastie, the respected
representative of Paisley, was subjected to a " heck•
ling" by his constituents in the Exchange-rooms,
Moss-street, in that town. The meeting was a public
one—the Provost in the chair. Mr. Hastie gave a
lengthened and interesting address, illustrative and
explanatory of the votes he had given during the past
session, which sometimes was received with cheers, and
sometimes with disapprobation. From the discussion
which followed, and which was characterized
by as much ill-nature as good-humour, Mr.
Hastie appears to have given mortal offence
to his constituents, or at least to a part of
them, for not going sufficiently far as a free-
trader in sugar ; and, second, for not going the whole
hog in support of Mr. Joseph Hutne's motion for
household suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial Parlia-
ments, electoral districts, &c. Mr. Hastie agreed to
several of these points, and would even go the length
of a W. franchise in the burgh, and 101. in the county,
but he would not swallow household suffrage, and
hinted to the meeting that it might take a good lesson
from the helter-skelter pace at which the universal-
suffragists were moving to destruction on the Con-
tinent. The reasoning of the Honourable Gentle-
man, however, did not satisfy his constituents, at
least those who were there ; and after some fur-
ther sparring, the Rev. Dr. Baird moved a left-
handed vote of censure, concluding with the " re-
quest that Mr. Hastie shall re-consider this
subject, and support the motion for Reform (i. e.
Joseph flume's) when again brought before Par-
liament ; or, failing this, he shall adopt such a
course as his own sense of honour and justice may
prompt, that the constituency may not he misre-
presented on a subject which they deem of vast im-
portance, not only to them but to the empire at
large." Mr. i3rown was a degree plainer, and moved
as an amendment, that Mr. Hastie had lost the
confidence of the meeting altogether. The electors
then went to the vote, when, tellers having been
appointed, the division was declared to have been
as follows :—For Dr. Baird's motion, 160; for
Mr. Brown's amendment, 167 ; majority in
favour of the amendment, 7. The announcement was
received with loud cheering, both by the supporters
of the amendment in the room, and the large body
of non-electors who thronged the stairs and passage
outside. So the matter rests, and it remains to be
seen whether Mr. Hastie will take the hint to accept
the Chiltern Hundreds, as the result of a division in
a meeting composes of 327, while the almanac sets
down the tots! constituency at 1,086. While
en this subj-et, we may state that we have
seen some Paisley folks who are not at all
ill-pied that their member has declined to
dance &rain hill, arm- in-arm with the fast politi-
ciama of that town. They express themselves as nut
blind to the fact that the French Chamber is elected
aeccrrding to the " six points," and even something
beyond them; and yet a most unpromising concern
it is ; and they are aware, too, that universal suffrage
has pitched into the German Parliament or Diet a
parcel of men, as legislators, who cannot write their
own names. It is said that in the event of Mr.
Hastie's resignarl'on, Mr. Vincent is willing to under-
take the representation of the burgh on genuine
principles —Glasgow Herald.

IORTIINATE 11bCAPB.—Laq. week the second mate
r_jr.,,e packet sh,l; Gipsy and a passenger were going on
hoard !ph* vessel from the Waterloo pier-head by means
olift ladder, when it suddenly snapped. The mate fell
i to the water, but being able to swim, he supported
hire ,•lf, ;purl was picked up by a boat. The passenger,
how •ver, slir,ped with one leg between the steps of that
portion of the ladder next the pier, and was suspended
he,-1 downwards. By the prompt assistance of several
bystat:de;:. he was ultimately rescued from his perilous
p.,sition without sustaining other injury than some
slig t brui:,.es.—Liverpool Courier.
sae BITBR lirrrtm—A rather amusing incident
secuntly occurred connected with the visits of the Sub-
Sheriff in tie discharge of his duty to the North Riding
of Tippermry, which certainly are by no means similar
to " augel visits" in frequency and number. On one of
thoc occasion: having to pass through a bohreen or lane,
whose ruts and stones threatened destruction to the
springs (if his fashionable drag, that functionary was
obliged to deseend from his seat, and, throwing the reins
to a servant, proceeded eon: pedihus suss, accompanied
by a posau of bailiffs, to the scwne of his professi, nal
lab,trs. The operation of unhousing the inmates of the
se74-al eirbins having been gone through—the fires being
qu,•nalied and the roof trees levelled—ho repaired to
Vivre he left his servant with the "drag." But what
was his dismay to find it distrain,d for arrear of county
cess, and surrounded by the county cess collector and
his bailiffs. An explanation was demanded and given,
when it appeared that the servant brought the vehicle
and horse into an adjoining field to await the return of
its The field was deep in the county-cess collec-
tor's book, who seeing such an opportunity of clearing
off the arrears, and judging that so valuable an article
Would not again be on the lands, pounced on the drag
for the sum due. The disconcerted officer paid the
rimouat, and drove off in high dudgeon.-7ipperary
Vindicator.

A raonicsomn Hoasn.—As Mr. Barrett, colt-
breaker, was attempting to ride a horse through the
street at Totnes, on Thursday, the sth inst., the animal
refused to move one step onward, but went back
ward, reared, and sprung from one side of the street to
the other, insomuch that most of the shopkeepers put
up their window shutters. A crowd of persons soon
assembled to witness these freaks, and some of them
endeavoured to pull and others push the animal for-
ward, but all thiir efforts were in vain. The shop
window of Mr. Kinsman, saddler, not being secured by
the shutters, were broken in by she horse suddenly run-
ning again-.t it. At last the horse galloped off on the
\ah burton-road. Is appeared that those mad tricks are
not owing to any natural viciousness in the animal, but
are the fesults of a bad education, it having been
trained to carry the famous Billy Button" in an ex-
hibition of horsemanship.— Western Ftying Post.
GEOLOGICIT, DiscovEar.—A. cdrespondent of
the: Fife ileraid states that " A section of limestone
rock has been lately laid open by the cutting of the
E(linburgh and Northern Railway at the Nswburgh
station, which belongs to the Cornstone of the old red
sandstone formation. The face exposed is, about a hun-
dred feet in length by upwards of twenty feet in thick-
ness, and very distinctly stratified. The beds are broken
near the centre, which causes their edges to slip down
and dip in opposite directions, inclining on the one side
at: an angle of 28 degrees towards the north-east, and on
the other approaching to nearly a vertical position
wto-
ards the north-west. What adds to the geological im-
portance of the discovery is the fact of the gray sand-
stone, or Carmylie fessiliferous pavement stone teing
found in the immediate vicinity of the calcareous deposit.
The representative of the Cornstone in England, it is
well known, is extremely ricEin fossils, particularly of
the genus Cephalaspis, while not a fragment has as yet
becn detected in may of its numerous localities in Scot-
land. The colour of the limestone is that of a dark
flinty gray, with innumerable white thread-like veins of
carbonate of lime, both vertical and longitudinal, and
which cause the rock to split up into thin bands of
larger and smaller rhomboidal masses. The deposit
is subcrystalliue, of an extremely hard and chesty
te::,ture ; it is not nodular or compound, as in so many
othor places, but of a close uniform homogeneous struc-

tura."'
RAILWAY SLIP.—On Tuesday and Wednesday
last, rsilwiv travellers on the Great Western Chelten,
hem brae di', and the Bristol and Birmingham line, were
subjected to great inconvenience in consequence of the
oecarrence of a slip in the Widg;worth embankment, near
the four-mile post between this city and Cheltenham.
The last Great Western down train on Monday
night was the first, we believe, that came up after
the bank gawe way, and got into a difficulty. We have
hei..rd more than one version, but shall content our-
selves with stating that the passengers were neces-
sarily subjected to much delay. a\ll traffic on one
doehle gauge line of rails—i. e. the Great Western
" down line," and the Birmingham " up"—was of course
immediately suspended. A large gang of men were em-
ployed in strengthening the embankment, and materials
wesee conveyed from other parts of the lino for that
purpose. The whole of the traffic of both companies,
up and down, was therefore driven on erne set of rails.
Great and commendable care was exercised, with great
success, to secure the pubhe safety; but the number of
trains both ways led, as may he supposed, to serious
delays occasionally. Each train was " piloted" by a
special engine, which had so much work to do, that, for
example, the passengers of the 9 A.M. train from Chel-
tenham, cn Wednesday, were actually two hours on
their journey, i. e., two hours in the train. On Wednes-
day night the slip was repaired, the lino rendered safe,
and again worked. al large number of labourers are
sell employed in strengthening the embankment, which
is, we see, to be drained fn the best manner practicable.
'-he very heavy ries which we have recently had have
' Si; '.' f A tie: 0 test any embankment.—Gloucester Chron.
' - '''- • ' iti rItOVEMBNTS.—On Tuesday the Commis-
s.o,,erela rrying out the contemplated improvements
witain,'L
.-'' yof London gave notice that on the 25th
jest. tfiiiil Id commence the removal of the houses
,:it
0/1 the is ' side of Cannon-street, next Dowgate-hill
and Walbreiik, for the formation of a new street from
leas;- Williern• street, Leredon-bridge, to Queen-street,
teeutiwark;bridge. The thoroughfare of Little Bell-
alley, Grecechureh-street, is to be widened by pulling
down thalousea on the north side.