The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord Marcus Hill had an audience of the Queen yes-
terday, at Buckingham Palace, and had the honour to
kiss hands on ben.g appointed Comptroller of her Ma-
jcsty's Houehold. His Lordship received from her
Majesty his wand of office.

Her Majesty, attended by her Lady in Waiting and
her Equerry in Waiting, visited her Royal Highness
the Princess Sophia at her residence, at Kensington,
yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and En-
couraging the Fine Arts, in the rebuilding of the Palace
of Westminster. The Prince arrived at Gwydyr House,
Whitehall, at a quarter before three o'clock, attended
by Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour. The Commissioners
present were, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Right
Hon. the Speaker, Sir James Graham, Mr. Hawes, and
Mr. George Vivian. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was
in attendance.

The meeting. bro.ke up at four o'clock. Prince Albert,
attended by Mr. Eastlake, afterwards went to the new
palace, and inspected the new Houses of Parliament.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal took an airing yesterday in the royal
garden.
Their Royal Highnesses and Prince Alfred and the
Princess Alice took a carriage drive yesterday, in an
open carriage and four, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton.
The Royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and Earl
Spencer.
Miss Goddard, a child only nine years old, performed
on the pianoforte by command of the Queen on Thurs-
day evening, at Buckingham Palace, before her Majesty
and Prince Albert, her Royal highness the Duchess of
Kent, and the royal circle. The pieces performed were
two Fantasias, the one by Halkbrenner, and the othcr
by Thalberg, and their execution elicited the high ap-
probation of her Majesty and her Royal Consort.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured the Marchioness of
Westminster with a visit yesterday in Upper Grosvenor-
street.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Meckitnburgh Streiitz, attended by Baronets Ahlefeldt
and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, honoured the performance
of the French Plays with their presence yesterday
evening.
A deputation connected with Newfoundland had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-
office. Thf, deputation consisted of Mr. Walter Baine,
M.P., Mr. Thomas H. Brooking, Mr. George H. Robin-
son, Mr. Ewen Stabb, Mr. Robert Gillespie, and Mr.
Robert Neivinan Hunt.

Lord Morley had an interview with the Earl of Cla-
rendon yesterday at the office of thk. Board of Trade.
Mr. C. Greofell bad also an interview with the Noble
Earl.

His Excellency the Danish Minister transacted busi-
ness yesterd.ly at the Foreign-office.
The Attorney• General had an interview with Sir G.
Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Davis had an interview with the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade. Mr. Houldsworth had also an interview with

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the Right llon. Gentleman.
The Marquis of Anglesey had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. Lord Culthorpe had also an
interview with the Right Hon. Baronet.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIDGNORTH RACES.—TnuHSnAY.
The Patshull Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added, for 3
and 4-year olds. Twice round—nearly two miles. (6
Subs. )
Sir R. Pigot's Romance, 3
yrs (Tacker) 1
Mr. Pritchard's Idolater, ifyrs
Mr. Smith's Master Dounes, 4 yrs ...bolted
The Maiden Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added, the se-
cond to save his stakes. Heats, about one mile and a half.
Mr. Escott's Exhort, 4 yrs
Mr. Minor's Augustus, 3 yrs
Mr. Phillips's Tally-ho, 5 yrs 4 3
Lord Granville's bfby Y. Cadland, out of Tutela, 3 yrs 3 dr
NEWTON RACES.—Tuunsnalr.
The St. Leger Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 30 added, for
three yrs old. The second to save his stake. •One mile
and a half. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Clarke's f by Tomboy, out of Lapwing
Sir J. Gerard's Morocco
Mr. Worthington's Sharston 3
Mr. Meiklam's Alliance
The Golborne Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 50 added, for two
yrs old ; colts, Bst 51b, and fillies, Bst 21b. Golbome
course.
Mr. Mostyn's fby Piccaroon, out of Her Highness 1
Mr. Peel's Tweed, by Tory Boy 2
Mr. Price's Prairie Bird
The following also ran :—Mr. Meiklam's Susannah, Sir J.
Gerard's New Year's Day, Mr. Worthington's f by the Pro-
vost, out of Manilla.
The Garswood Hunt Stakes, of 10 sovs each, h ft, and 50
added ; .13st each. Two miles.
Sir J. Gerard's Parthian
The Borough Cup, of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap of 20
soya each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared; the second to re-
ceive 25 soya. out of the stakes. One mile and a half.
Lord Warwick's Yardley, 6 yrs
Mr. Ongley's Roderick, aged
Godfrey, Lightning, Lancashire Witch, Snob, and Gannet,
were not placed.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Godfrey, 3to 1 agst Yardley, sto 1
agst Lightning.
Won easy by a length-and-a-half. Godfrey losing second
place, and Lightning the third, by a neck.
Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, and 20 added.
Course. (4 Subs).
Mr. Clarke's fby Stockport, out of Caroline, 3 yr, lOst
Sir J. Gerald's Quebec, 12st 21b
Won easy by a length.
The Haydock Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, Gents. riders.
One Mile and-a-half. Winner to be sold for 2001. (7 Subs).
Mr. Billington's Fair Rosamond, 5 yrs, list 101 b
Sir J. Gerald's Quebec, 6 yrs,"l2st 21b... 2
Mr. T. Parker's Thalia and Mr. Hanson's Jane also ran.
Won easy.
Plate of 701. ; for three yrs old, 6st 81b; four, Bst 51b;
fillies allowed 31b; winners of a plate in 1846, 31b extra;
of two, a gold cup, or Queen's plate, 51b extra. Heats,
one mile and a half.
Count Bathyanny's Gannet, 4 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 1
Mr. W. Scott's Driffield, 3 vrs
Mr. Robinson's Josephine, 3 yrs
Mr. Barton's Princess Olga, 4 yrs 0 dr
Mr. Mangle's Comical Boy, 4 yrs
Each heat well contested, and won on the post by a head.

Golborne

HARVEST.—Reaping is generally begun in this
county, and the crop is spoken of as unusually good. In
some parts of the southern division the labourers asked 15s.
an acre for cutting wheat ! but they have agreed to take 12s.
Last year the price was 9s. The crop being heavy, and por-
tions of it laid, is partly the cause of this advance; the de-
mand for labourers on the railways is another reason. Let
the causes' however, be what they may, here we have the
important fact that not only has no reduction in wages, which
the protectionists prophesied as an immediate consequence
of the repeal of the corn-laws, taken place, but a great ad-
vance has been made. Again, so far from the repeal of
the corn-laws causing land to be thrown cut of cultiva-
tion, another pet prophecy of the protectionists, more fresh
land has been brought into cultivation this year, in the face
of the expected repeal of the corn-laws, than for many pre-
vious years ; another important fact which the labourers, as
well as the free, traders, and protectionists, too, will do well
to note. Let the shackles (game-laws, yearly tenancies,
and absurd and restrictive covenants) be removed from agri-
culture as well as from commerce, and labour will be more
abundant than ever, and wages higher. If the farmers do not
demand the abolition of these drawbacks to their prosperity,
they will deserve to continue, as they have been, the slaves of
their landlords.— Wiltshire Independent.
THE LATE ACCIDENT AT WHEAL ROSE.—We have
received the following from a gentleman who obtained his
information from undoubted authority :—ln great social cal-
lamities, such as the recent fearful one at Newlyn East, some-
time must elapse before the melancholy interest subsides;
tales of horror are continually occuring connected with the
event that tend to keep alive emotions of the most
painful kind.—One of the most affecting of these
..tales concerns two little boys working at the bottom
"of the mine, and were the first to give the alarm
to some of the men in the levels, who immediately
fled to the shafts; by this time the water had overtaken the
lads, and they begged piteously for life, but, poor fellows,
there was no arm to succour, and their wild shriek of
despair was heard amidst the stunning noises of that
awful hour.—Another poor fellow escaping from the levels
leaped at a venture to the ascending chain and was
saved by inserting one finger through a link and thus
was drawn in safety to the surface. Another, at-
temptin, the same mode of escape, unfortunately
'leaped
into the descending, instead of the ascending kibble,
and was consequently plunged many feet under water, but
held on with that tenacity so often seen in those who, on
making their final effort to save life, and succeeded in reach-
ing his anxious friends at the mouth of the shaft. One man
succeeded in saving his life by placing his back against one
wall of a narrow shaft and his feet against the other, lie con-
trived in this way to raise himself 10 fathoms, the rapidly
rising waters underneath goading him on ! Since our report
last week, four bodies have been found—leaving ten in the
mine.—Penzance Gazette.
CURIOUS WELSH CUSTOM.—One day last week a gal-
lant captain, who stands in a high position in the
civil force
of the :adjoining county of Carmarthen, took a w
hayfield, where the haymakers were pursuingantheinirk
tions. No sooner had he entered the field,
.t accord-
anceayasome
nlr invitsliteoray,
dis-
tricts with a
Walescustom
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givingw hi which
ergenerally prevaoiflshw in
a'
two women of
age, or sex, an initiatory tumb
lira
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prostrate
strengthrostratein
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andt hewmeolfillitstieamasoryesnm,
etadonh,
uea,rhnbidacgh' instantly
Bs nsataentitnhlgye
entirely ignorant of this custom
lawyers say, the memory of man runneth not to the con-
trary, our hero naturally imagined that he was about being
visited with summary and condign punishment for his former
active interference for the suppression of the Rebecca dis-
turbances. Having disengaged himself from the fangs of
his amazonian assailants, he lost no time in procuring an
authority for their apprehension. The case accordingly
came on for hearing before the magistrates at Carmarthen on
Saturday last. The complainant having detailed his
grievance amidst the merriment of the audience, the magis-
trates at the conclusion become immoderately convulsed with
laughter, one of their worships observing, that he had been
himself served out in the same way fifty times.—Case dis-
missed.—Cumbrian.

ALARM OF FIRE IN A Suow.—On Monday evening,
between five and six o'clock, whilst the crowd at and adjacent
to the scene of the fair was at its greatest density, a cry was
raised of " Calvert's show on fire !" The alarm, as it spread
through the crowd, and along the Salt-market, where the
concourse was so great that the people seemed almost wedged
together, created an immense hubbub, and thousands flocked
to the scene of the supposed disaster, the confusion being at
the same time vastly increased by the city and West of Eng-
land engines dashing through the mass towards the show in
question. Fortunately the occurrence proved of less conse-
quence than was supposed. It seems that an escape of gas
had taken place in the course of the performance, the flame
of which had communicated with a portion of the drapery,
which we believe was damaged to some extent : but the show
people by their own efforts soon succeeded in arresting the
progress of the flames, and all danger was speedily obviated
without the aid of the voginetb—Glasgotepaper.

1 ILITARY FLOGGING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- - - - - -
Sue,—Why do the aristocracy support flogging? The
Duke of Wellington's dispatches, quoted in Colonel Napier 's
History of the Peninsular War, say that English o__ cars,
being gentlemen, will not do their duty. Col. Napier tells
us that Sir John Moore thought that the very reason whY
they should do their duty all the better. And in the three
regiments of the light division, the 52d, 43d, 95th—this last;
now the rifle brigade, commonly called at that time Sir John
Moore's regiments, because instructed by him in Ireland—
the officers did do the duty, Sir; and these regiments, with two
Portuguese battalions, were the outpost men, the hard.;
workers of the army, who took all the fatiguing anxiety 0.
advance guard duty. And yet on the retreat from Salamanca
Wellington allows them praise before all the others! Sir, if in
all British regiments the same system existed, there would be
no flogging. As long as outlandish, expensive, and useless
ewes remain, and purchase exists, so Icing will you have 110
oflicers, but aristocratic dandies. And if there are no edu-
cated officers to take care of the uneducated soldiers, you can- •
not expect these latter to take care of themselves, thel
having no resource for occupation or amusement. And cone'
sequently officers resort to flogging, in the hope that thus'
they may sooner overawe the men. Now, Sir, if every
subaltern had his half-troop to instruct day by day
in riding,
drill, exercise, bridling, saddling, packing, blanket laying,,
he., and outpost duty, viz., patrolling, videttes, escorts of au
descriptions, skirmishing, surprises, means of discerning all
enemy, &c., besides visiting m his men in roots and stables---
being, in fact, responsible fur their social and moral condition',
as well as physical, and for the state of their horses and anus'
Seca such an officer would like his men, take their Fart, and;
mutual confidence would be the result. A good officer svouln
know beforehand his man's chance of failing, and warn his
non-commissioned oflicers to keep an eye on him at that
time. The real fact, Sir, is, you would not find one aristte-
cretic young gentleman willing to have anything of the sort
to do with the "common soldiers," as they are contemptue
ously termed; and yet, Sir, it is merely the want Of such
officers which renders our cavalry anyway inferior to the
French. In fighting they always heat their enemies with
surprising ease; but at all other duties they fail, because 121
taught ; and, Sir, sergeants cannot teach these things-
have seen a dozen horses with sore backs, and no sergeant',
could tell the cause; which was to be found in a bad pack °l'
accoutrements. And as to the real duties of light caralli,
not ten years' instruction by sergeants gives that knowledso
to the men which a very few lessons by a well-educated in'
telligent officer do. But rich young nobles purchase cone- '
missions, and make sergeants and riding masters do their
work. Sir, ten years' travel has made me acqUainted with
foreign cavalry. In all the large continental armies ever."'
subaltern has the fourth-part of a squadron as his indepea'
dent command. It requir,s a regimental decision to takel
one of his men from him, or any man's horse away from him,*
about which Dragoons are very sensible; and soldiers can,
appeal to the general on inspection days to return to their*
platoon, which they look on as their home. The subaltern
considers his platoon as his proper y, with which no one can
interfere; if anything is wrong the lieutenant is responsible;
and I have seen how well this works. Is an officer absent
short time, that platoon becomes the worst under sergeant's
command. But ask your 3 oung titled Crcesus, your lady"
killers in Hungarian dresses, to take such trouble. I bay.°
heard one call it a drudgery unfit for gentlemen. There 10
the secret, Sir. If a colonel wanted to flog a marl' blei
would have that man's officer, supported by
the other subalterns, constantly
petitioning. I will warrant that our men would theta
take an interest in something more than the public-house',
like to have books and read about professional matters, loa-
the officers would care more for t!3e welfare and superiority'
of their own platoon, than for Captain Maxwell's list of sic;
complishments, quoted in his first chapter of the "Stories ot
aterioo."
flow many thousand pounds more does an Hussar regt
ment cost than an English one. Nobody ever would have
seen Hussars if the dress were not an Hungarian national
costume, and if Hungarian Dragoons would wear anY I 56
expensive ones. Your lad y-killers like these dresses becau
they are better laced and more gaudy ; hut they protect S
part of the body, and are very inconvenient, and a uselees,,ee;
pense. The money spent on them would make not aIA
shoolmasters ; less gaudy and more laborious would our 0."--
cers then be.—Your obedient servant,
A CONSTANT READER-

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,—ln reading The Sun newspaper, published I think
last Monday evening, I observed a letter addressed to you 131
a " Barrister," upon the subject of the recent military Mr
ging at Hounslow Barracks. Now, in that letter it states
that at a former period, when a regiment of dragoons wel
stationed iu the aforesaid barracks, one of the officers stabb,
another, and for the offence was only reprimanded by the
Colonel. To be sure the wound which the said officer IS"
tlicted was not a mortal one, but is it not an action of bash
in that for an offence less criminal than the aforesai,
one—is it not urjust that for merely striking his sergeall:
a poor private should in the presence of his comrades u"
flogged to death? Trusting to your sense of justice to in
sert this in your paper, I remain your obedient servant,
July 23d, 1846. J.E-C'

SECOND LETTER OF EBENEVO
ELLIOTT TO THE COMMITTEE OF
WEST LONDON CENTRAL ANTI-INCL`P

SURE ASSOCIATION.
[Read in Committee, July 16.]
" You have misunderstood me.* Free trade will 111
affect footpaths, nor inclose any land situated highe.„.
than 650 feet above the sea, because lands of grata
elevation will not be worth inclosing, except in yell
densely peopled localities ; and townsmen must take
ta
care if they can, as you are trying to do, that wettie-,1:
near towns shall be cultivated for their benefit, as
gardens, or otherwise.
In the bitterness of my heart, I have said
more than once, when thinking of the corn-114;5g'
that there ought to be no class of
on the rent of laud, and it is c •tmen - -
such a class has been p,,ramoutuni e certainiags,. have bees
ignorant and oppressed : witness the
ealvd nd
modern Italy, Spain, Britain, _
ce.ss
and man the house, but the
use must uave land to
stand on ; and surely he who builds a house has a rig a
to live in it, or let it. Is Turkey, where all the 1114
God mtandoaet
twei;heelrleavnier,
belongs to the Government, well governed? In ta.,
United States the waste lands belong to the Govn.
went. Are you willing to buy an estate there, too
after cultivating it, resign it to the public? The quesn,e,
of the appropriation of land is a very important (7:6
You strong-headed men should consider it, and instriujo
us poets, who can feel, but not think. Unless lanu
unlike other things, it may, like other things, be boug:4
and sold—l guess.f Your opinion, that women otiglt
to have the franchise, proves that you ought, for
shows that you understand the subject. But the frail„;
chise ought to be exercised by no 'one who does 13'3;
deserve it, and until the women desire it, they 6014,
deserve it. If woman is disfranchised, so_ are nine-tee""of her brethren; but they demaqd the franchise, and s-to-
does not. I have only known one woman who wished
exercise it, and her object was the indulgence of her ,tille;
petite at the cost of other people. Separated from Rot
honest husband, sbe corrupted the husbands of hell 4..
wives, and liked gin, but did not like to pay for 'O,
There is great cant un the condition-of-woman questi%o
and some of the worst men I know are amongst tos
canters. So far as law could interfere, it concerns
chiefly the property of married persons. Should t"..,
property be joint or sole? I doubt whether the e?";
diticn of married women would be mended by subject:°'
them to the operation of the bankrupt laws, and 'ity;
prisonment for debt, but I think no husband's will oug,o
to be valid without the wife's signature, if she CO
with him. On this great subject too you men,
Wi
heads, should think fur us poets, who have only skulls.
" EBENEZER ELLIOTT'
" Great Houghton, near Barnsley, July 16."

• Respecting inclosures.
t Alluding to national property in land, which the cOl3l-
- are for.

LORD BROUGHAM AND A COI'
NESE WITNESS.
In the vast round of Lord Brougham's attainments
to
now turns out that he is practically and deeply learned
in Chinese theology ; and as knowlecke is always
power; this accomplishment gave him, last week, a most
remarkable hod over one of his Chinese flock. The
casion was a divorce case before the House of Lords'
sitting on appeals. The individual who came under TAI"
Brougham's pastoral charge was Kowhan, a female °i
vant, end a witness in the case ; and the immediate sub
;
ject o his hortations was an oath, which the vvitrs
d.
declined to take. The occurrence was highly interesA
as illustrating not only the extent of of
Brougham's attainments, but also the workr the
the oath in judicial forms. No sooner `vastf
witness produced, than Lord Brougham exhibited
laudable anxiety that the solemn ceremony
heel
be observed in all its integrity ;he " inquired wh re
it was not required of her to break her saucer bero,
she gave her evidence ?" Of course it was. Alitioty":
too forgetful
Bforrigteisthfulpuobflitch,
cesapwecfiaalllyfacotn,
et'shen3baride:SkeirnVga'OTCl9;
and saucers is, in Chinese, nothing else but swearing:,
and that wholesale crash which is so terrible to house'
wifely ears, it in truth a volley of oaths. The witnesf
boa ever, raised aquestion anterior to the detailsou
she reluctant to be sworn a sec°d
ttihmeeo, aotnh ;the plea that her gods would be very OA to
forpre t
er, Britisht h
apot
here r s
g!
d's‘
will
with her ! The Noble Lord proved quite ecl"ilevi
this new difficulty ;
proclaiming, by-the-bye, e 680
not her, if anything wrong is done ;" and he site. if she
h
added, " Tell her that no calamity can befal her ,:oples
eianinceterpbuenri,s' iluers
iv, and
will consent to be sworn." At length, her 5°,,"
allegiance
were appropriately vanquished by the threat t'sa to
she persisted in refusing, she should be coraraitt,,,,° ark'
prison. The recourse to that hint discloses o re— and
able similarity in the religious Opinions of Cbillsofer
England; for in this country also it is customary t° sto of
come religious scruples to taking the oath by th.ee
imprisonment. Kowhan was duly qualified to givoreeo
deuce by overcoming the attraction of cohesion be,,,
the
doe
ortily
the particles of the saucer—we hope it was
" China"—and the next day she was brought befbr_',l bar
peers, Lord Brougham desired the interpreter to t the
" that now she has been sworn, if she does not spec then
truth her gods will punish•her." The interpreterfjord's
made her acquainted with the Noble and Learned ,o ore
remark.—Lord Brougham—Now ask her, "
her gods ?" In reply, she said, through the irate, her
that the chief was Buddah.—Lord Brougham---t; does
that Buddah will punish her most severely if ta also
not speak the truth ; and that she will be puois": This
in this world if she does not speak the trutOla weak
being explained, she replied in Chinese, " I will poiot,
the truth." Lord Brougham had fully gained do as t°
in forcing the witness to give a satisfactory Pei
the truth of her evidence.—Spectator.
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markets this year have been extensively influencer,,,illarl,
' weather and there are but few which have not a Blysbitirs
diseased appearance. It is attributable to the. 212,;ing fron2
the early part of the season, and subsequent shrn:ls much
the heat of the sun, by which the quality of the fruit h
impaired.
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