The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

THE 'SUN., LONDON, THURSDAY EVENINO!';

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen, accompanied by the Queen of the Bel-
gilm, and the Princess Royal, took au airin; yt sterdt y
in an open carriage and four. Lord Fred raga,
Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday, attended by the Hon. Captain Gordon.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yester-
day, at Clarence House, St. James's, and their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Heredi-
tary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, at Cam•
bridge House.
Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Henry Cole waited on his
Royal Highn ss Prince Albert yesterday, to submit the
prize patterns of the Society of Arts, and received his
Royal Highness's commands regarding the future pro-
ceedings of the Society, of which his Royal Highness is
President.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prir.ce of Wales, Prince
Alfred, and the Princess Alice, took an &ring in an
open carriage and four yesterday, accompanied by the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
Her Royal Highness the. Princess He'ena was taken
an airing yesterday in the pleasure grounds of the

Palace.
The Royal dinner party yesterday ut Buckingham
Palace, included their Majesties the Ki❑g and Queen of
the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Excellencies the Count and CJunte:s Dietrich-
stein, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Countess
Vilain XIV., Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de
Speth, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl and
Countess Grey, the Earl of Charlemont, Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, and
Major A. d'Hanins de Moerkerke.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at the
Palace during dinner, and performed the following

pieces—
Overture—" stradella—Flotow.
Romance—" Enfis un jour," (Les Mousquetaires de la

Reine)-11alevy.
'Solo and Serni-Chorus—" See rosy dawn," (Das linter-
brocbene Opferfest)—Winter.
Scena—" La mia Letizia," (I Lombardi)—Verdi.
. _

,
Grand Scena Matilda—"Malek Adel"—Costa.
Valse—"Fleur de Marie"—Barret.

Yesterday Mr. Thorburn was honoured with another
sitting for the portrait of his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred, by command of her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz visited he: Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
yesterday.
Mr. Young, Speaker of the Assembly of Nova Scotia,
Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., M.P., Sir Allan McNab,
the Hon. Robert Dickson, Member of the Legislative
Council of Canada, Mr. G. Robinson, Mr. Gillespie, Mr.
George Pemberton, Mr. T. H. Brooking, and Mr. Wzn.
Bridges, a deputation on the subject of the Halifax and
Quebec Railway, had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Warburton, M.P., had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing- street.
A deputation, including Earl Fortescue, Mr. Warbur-
ton, and the Chairman of the Excise, had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
The Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council had a meeting yesterday in the Council-cham-
ber, to consider a petition of the Provost and Fellows
of the College of Eton, against a scheme of the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners for carrying into effect certain
alterations in the Dioceses of Oxford and Salisbury.
Mr. Bethell, Queen's Counsel, was heard by their
Lordships during the whole of the sitting.
The Lords present were the Lord Presickn;, the Lord
Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
the Vice Chancellor of England, and the Judge of the
Admiralty Court. The Hon. William Bathurst was the
Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
The case was adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON RACES—WED3rEsminy.

The Two Year's Old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft ; with 25
added, for two yrs old colts, Bst 7lb ; and fillies, Bst 31b;
the second to save his stake. T.Y.C. (4 Subs.)
Duke of Richmond's Mistress Jean, 7st 31b (Abdale) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's Jollity, 7st 81b 2
Mr. Verran Little Muley, 7st 71b
Mr. Knowles's be by Camel, out of Zenana, 7st 71b ...... 4
5t04 on Jollity. Won by half a length.
The Brighton Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if
declared, with 100 added; the second to save his stake.
The Old Course. Two miles.
Count Battbyanny's Gannet, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Abdale) 1
Mr. Wallor's Columbus, 4 yrs, 7st 4lb

Sir J. Hawley's Alamode, 5 yrs, 9st 3
The following also ran :—Duke of Richmond's Pic Nic, 4
yrs, 7st 121b—Mr. T. Smith's Jack, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Sir S.
Spry's f by Sir Hercules, out of Taglion ,i 4 yrs, 7st—Mr.
Irwin's Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs, 7st—Lord Stradbroke's
Lvnceus,y 3 yrs, 6st 51b.
7to 4 agst Connaught Ranger-4 to 1 agst Pic-Nic-4 to
I agst Columbus-5 to 1 agst Alamode—aad 6to 1 agst
Gannet. Won by a length ; half a length between second
and third. _ _ _

The Town Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs.
each; the second to save his stake, and the winner to be
sold for 250/. Heats, New Course. Two miles. (Four
Subs.)
Mr. G. Hobson's Chatham, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Ealing) 1 1
Mr. Wall's cby Coronation, 3 yrs, Est 131 b
Lord Chesterfield's New Brighton, 6 yrs, 9st 6lb
:air. Booth's Moose Deer, 3 yrs, Est 101 b
4 dr

Won in a canter.
The Marine Stakes, of 5 sows. each, and 30 added, for three
yrs old, 7st 51b; four, Bst 51b; five, &c., Bst 121 b. Win-
ner to be sold for 1501. Heats, one mile. (Seven Subs.)
Duke of Richmond's Cherokee, 3 yrs ... (Abdale) 1 5 1
Mr. Pratt's Deodora, 4 yrs, Bst 5113
Mr. Booth's Miscellany, 4 yrs, Bst 51b
Mr. Freeman's Sir Diggory Diddle, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b 4 3 dr
Mr. Werninck's Patchwork, aged, Sat 121 b
Mr. Petit's Alvanley, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b ... sdr
Three well contested heats. The winner claimed.

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER—TuEsDAY.

ST. LEGER.-11 to 2 agst Pyrrhus the First-13 to 2 agst
Grimston (t.)-13 to 2 agst Sir Tatton Sykes (t.)-10 to 1
agst The Traverser-10 to 1 agst Fancy Boy (t )-12 to 1
aggt lago (t.)-25 to 1 agst Sting-30 to 1 agst Cranebrook
(t.)-30 to 1 agst Humdrum.
DERBY.-15 to 1 on the field (offered).

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1846.
MONDAY.

Lord Glasgow's Sister to Conspiracy. Bst, against Duke Of
Bedford's Eothen, ist I llb. T.Y.C. 200, h ft.
➢ir. Mytton's The Baron, against Mr. Gully's Old Eng-
land, Bst 71b each. T.M.M. 200, h ft.
The match between Free Gift and Eryx is off.

I Sheldar.
Johnson, stroke.
Burke, cexswain.
The whole of the boats went off well together, immediately
after which the winners went out a-head, and were closely
pressed by Barth°lot-news, until nearing Richmond-bridge,
when the latter had a slight foul with the Sylph. Won by
three lengths.
The boats afterwards rowed in procession from the Duke of
Buccleuch's, where the band of the 7th llussais were sta-
tioned, down to the winning-post, forming a very pretty
picture, and the band accompanying them.
The prizes were presented by C. J. Selwyn, Esq.

Nicbolsor.
Rowe.

THE MAGAZINES.

THE UNION.

" A Transatlantic Editor " is the title of a most hu-
morous Yankee sketch in the present number of the
Union. Mr. Washington Wolfe Lick is the publisher,
proprietor, and editor of the "Citizen of the West"
newspaper, published in an uncertain town in the uncer•
tain territory between Louisiana and Texas. Mr Lick,
in his journal, has libelled a certain Mr. Abel Wright
and a Mr. Herman, who determine to inflict corporal
punishment on their traducer, but who are personally
unacquainted with him, and with each other. The re-
mainder of the story is so good that we must give it in
the very words of the narrator:-
Ir. Lick was seated at his desk, engaged in skimming
over the contents of a number of newspapers, or rather
culling choice 2no.reeaux for the next Citizen. A loud knock
was heard at the street door. Lick started at the sound and
then listened attentively. The door was opened. He heard
a gruff voice growling out something, but could not distin-
guish what ; and immediately heavy and hasty steps were
heard ascending the stairs.

" Alia! here comes the freeman 1" exclaimed the editor,
and darting to the fire-place, seized the poker and shovel
(tongs there were none) which he deposited—oh sacrilege!
in the editorial desk; then seating himself on the high
stool, he plied his pen intitutly. The steps grew louder; the
stranger would be in the room in another instant.
" He's coming," quoth Lick; " and there's only one lucky
thing, he don't know me.

'hie heavy and hasty gentleman, who was no other than
Mr. Abel Wright, put his foot upon the topmost stair, and
without knocking, rushed into the room, armed with a beau-
tiful"; cowhide," and roared out, "Hullo here! is your name
Lick ?"

The editor slowly raised his eyes from the paper, and sur-
veyed the enemy with a bland look. "If you wish to see
Mr. Lick, sir,"—he deliberately commenced.
" Slice me into sandwiches end smash me into sosengers!

if you don't answer plain and spry, 1,11 bring this here to
bear upon you ;" and he flourished the cowhide before the
wily Lick.
'• You wish to see the editor, sir ?" said Lick, coming
down from his seat and going towards the door.
"Yes, sir; call him up. Say a gentleman has called to
pav a bill."
Yes, sir," answered Lick, "glad to escape in any manner
from within range of the formidable weapon. He stood out-
side the door for an instant, hesitating whether he should
turn the key upon Mr. Wright and lock him in, or seek
safety in flight, when lo ! he was startled by another loud
knock at the street-door. It was opened. Some one entered
hastily, and again was Mr. Lick inquired after. The idea
instantly flashed across his mind that this must be Blr. An-
drew Herman. Here was a dangerous situation. To go back
was madness—to go forward was like rushing into the lion's
jaws. It was, however, necessary to decide quickly, for the
enemy was now ascending the stairs. In another moment
they were face to face. Instead of a cowhide, this second as •
sailant rejoiced in the possession of an enormous cudgel. As
the editor imagined, it was Mr. Herman ; and if ever a man
testified his intention by his look, it was plain that the said
Mr. Herman was bent upon committing assault and battery
upon some person or other. He seized the luckless Lick
roughly by the collar, and, without uttering a word, had
already raised his cudgel high up in the air, in order that it
might descend with the utmost violence on the person of
that worthy, when the latter, with a forgiving and good-
natured smile, said, I presume you wish to see the editor of
the Citizen; if so, please to go to the room above."
"Oh ! beg pardon. Slight mistake of mine. Up stairs, I
see." With a chuckle of infinite glee, Lick straightway pro-
ceeded to the coffee-room on the opposite side of the road, to
wait the issue of his stratagem.
Meanwhile, Mr. Abel Wright prepared himself for the re-
ception of the editor, and hearing some one ascending the
stairs just after Lick's departure, he, naturally enough, sup-
posed it was that gentleman coming. Placing himself close
behind the door, and twisting the thong tightly round his
hand, he stood prepared to deal a " clencher" the mo •
ment his fancied libeller should enter. Mr. Herman
presently bolted into the room, and was saluted, on the
instant, with a tremendous whack across the shoul-
ders, and in the next Mr. Wright was favoured with
a smart tap on the head from the other's cudgel.
As may be imagined, a tremendous contest ensued, and the
hide and cudgel were plied stoutly. No words passed for
some time, but the epithets of " infernal scamp, rascal, scoun-
drel, villain," &c; presently, however Mr Wright beginning
to get the upper hand, exclaimed, " You blighted scoun-
drel. Plllteach you to abuse honest men ;" to which Mr. Her-
man replied, " Put anything in your humbugging paper
about me, and skin me alive if I don't break every bone in
your body." On hearing this, the former gentleman began
to think there must be some mistake in the matter, and
prompted by a sudden thought, he exclaimed, " Is your name
Lick ?"

Thinking this a fresh and most deliberate insult, Herman
recommenced using his cudgel, and another desperate en-
counter ensued. Everything in the room was overturned—
editor's desk, stool, fender, files; ink spilled, bottle broken,
kg. ; at last, having thoroughly exhausted themselves, the
combatants stood panting, and glaring savagely at each
other.

" Hear me," gasped Herman; " you skin-flint lightning=
driver, every time you put my name in your paper, you
shall fare like this."

As may be supposed, the extraordinary circumstance of
each accusing the other of the same offence at last induced
an explanation, and, when the mystery was cleared up,
great was the wrath and mortification of these amiable gen-
tlemen, on finding that the object of their vengeance had
escaped scot .free, while they each had received a sound
thrashing. Great, on the contrary, was the glee of Mr.
Washington Wolfe Lick, as he saw, from the window of the
coffee-room, his fiery visitors emerge from the house, flushed
and heated by their exertions ; their hats broken, necker-
chiefs untied, dresses disordered and countenances expressive
of the direst exasperation and chagrin.
Two days after this occurrence, Messrs. Wright and Her-
man were summoned to the Back-street police-office, at the
instance of Washington Wolfe Lack, editor and proprietor of
the Citizen of the West newspaper, charged with having en-
tered the house of the latter in his absence, and created an
uproar and disturb -nce therein ; and'also with having broken,
damaged, and spoilt a desk, stool, and sundry other of the
property of the said Lick. Fined twenty dollars each, and
costs.

The illustration to this story, by Mason, is almost as
good as the tale itself. The point of time chosen is that
just before the first meeting of Wright and Herman,
when the latter is in the act of opening the door of the
editor's room. The interesting adventures of the " Deal
Boatman " are continued, as are " The Sketches of Bri:

fish Landladies," and " The History of the Jesuits."
Wo have the commencement of the " Adventures of a
British Serjeant in the Auxiliary Legion in Spain,from
1835 to 1840," which promise well ; and a variety of
other amusing articles. This is a good number of the
Union.

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE,
The present number contains an admirable assort-
ment of professional and amusing articles. No one
understands better the art of mixing the dulce with the
utile than the editor of the United Service Magazine.

THE ALMANACK FOR THE MONTH.
Edited by G.. 4. A'Beckett.
A condensation of fun, frolic, whim, and wit of the
Last four weeks.

THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
By G. 4. A'Reckett. No. 11.
Merrily does Mr. A'Beckett, in the present number,
rattle through the History of England, from the days of
Ethelred to those of William the Conqueror • but,
albeit merrily, not the less truthfully. Take the follow-
ing account of " King Canute reproving his Courtiers"
as a specimen:—

" One day, when in the plenitude of his power, he caused
the throne to be removed from the throne-room and erected,
during low tide, on the sea-shore. Having taken his seat,
surrounded by his courtiers, he issued a proclamation to the
ocean, forbidding it to rise, and commanding it not, on any
account, to leave its bed until his permission for it to get up
was graciously awarded. The courtiers backed the royal
edict, and encouraged with the grossest adulation this first
great practical attempt to prove that Britannia rules the
waves. Such a rule, however, was soon proved to be nothing
better than a rule nisi, which it is impossible to make ab-
solute when opposed by Neptune's irresistible motion of
course. Every wave of Canute's sceptre was answered by a
wave from the sea, and the courtiers, who were already up to
their ankles in salt-water, began to fear that they should
soon be pickled in the foaming brine.
" At length the monarch himself found his footstool dis-
posed to go on swimmingly of its own accord, and there was
every prospect that the whole party would undergo the
ceremony of an immediate investiture of the bath. The
sovereign, who was very lightly shod, soon found that his
pumps were not capable of getting rid of the water, which
was now rising very rapidly. Having sat with his feet in
the sea for a few miutes, and not relishing the slight spe-
cimen of hydropathic treatment he had endured, he jumped
suddenly up, and began to abuse his courtiers for tits mess
into which he had been betrayed by their outrageous
flattery."
The illustrative woodcuts are laughter-moving ex-
ceedingly.

THE MIRROR. Edited by Percy a St. John.
This, the oldest and the best of the cheap weekly
periodicals, is now, under the able editorship of
Mr. Percy St. John, raised to the dignity of a monthly
magazine; and, considering the immense quantity of
matter contained in it, the Mirror is by far the cheapest
magazine published ; and, with regard to matter, the
name of the t ditor is alone a sufficient guarantee that
none but the productions of first-rate literary talent
will find admission to its pages. The present number is
in a great measure devoted to the conclusion of a French
tale, which the editor is obliged to finish to keep faith
with former subscribers, but we are glad to find, that,
in his address to his readers, he declares that henceforth
"it will be his rule never to have more than one con-
tinued article; nor will he ever resort to translations of
French romances to fill his columns, believing ample
literary talent, and to spare, to exist in this country."
In addition to this French tale we have the openinc,
chapters of a Texan romance by the editor, which are
full of striking incident, and promise well.

AUGUST 6,

that wonderful production is made the subject of a moz.t
severe, but, at the same time, just critique. The com-
position, however, of the commission, does not entitle its
report to much authority, as the writer of this article
justly observes.
"A schoolmaster is a very b-3:1 man of business, and perhaps
a soldier is a worse, though it is really impossible to institute
an occur* comparison; but a combination of the two pro.
fsions, in the maiters of the engineering school at Chatham,
might a priori he.conceived to constitute the height of unfit-
ness, if even experience had not proved it to us. We are
satisfied no merchant, we know no banker, would entrust
Major General Pasley or Lieut. Col. Sir Frederick Smith
even with his ledger, much less with any matter of busines ;
yet to these gentlemen is the whole subject of railway
management from time to time banded over for experiment,
in despite of-their professional unfitness, and the confirmed
experience they have afforded of it. They are thus placed in
a difficult and invidious position, having a glimmering of
their ignorance, and ashamed and afraid to confess it. Con-
fused with theoretical imaginations, and mystified occasionally
by some of the more daring of the rival railway men, they
are agitated by their theories, their prepossessions, their fears,
and their desire of popularity ; and bring forth those reports
which are rejected by the contending parties, read by the
pubi:e and then forgotten, and made the laughing stock of
railway men. The Government do not appoint majors-
general and colonels to be commissioners for the reduction
of the national debt, but they appoint merchants and hank-
ers; and if they 'mut appoint officers to look at tk r railway
traffic, the least they can do is to name men of business,
who have some knowledge of their duties, and not parties
who know nothing of business, never can know, and only do
mischief by being allowed to meddle in what they do not
understand."

It is to be hoped that in the present instance, as has
happened in so many other:, the superior authorities will
modify, if not altogether disregard, the recommendations
of the Commissioners, and that the City of London will
not be deprived of the Central Railway Terminus some-
where in the neighbourhood of Farringdon-street, with-
out which its cpmmerce will eventually—slowly, perhaps,
but most surely—leave it for the suburban towns now
springing up in the vicinity of the different metropoli'an
railway termini. Mr. Hyde Clarke, the editor, furnishes
some valuable contributions to railway statistics, and
wo have a very able paper explaining the adoption of the
barometrical system of atmospheric railway traction, in
addition to an accurate register of all the railway events
of the month, and a retrospective review of bygone rail-
way projects.

-I: By whom When
Ship's Names. = commanded. On what station commis-
-
:.D sioned.
Agincourt, flag-ship 7z Capt. Johnston East Indies .. Feb.,1842
Acheron, steam-
vessel .. .. `, Lieut. Aplin .. Mediterranean Dec., 1842
Alert • . .. 6 Corn. Ellis • • Coast of Africa July, 1543
. Castor .. .. 26 Capt. Graham East Indies .• April,lB43
Cleolatttra .. .. 126 Capt. Wyvil • • Cape of Good
I Hope • • Apr 11,1842
Conway • . .. 126 Capt. Kelley • • Cape of Good
Cormorant, steam- i
Hope .. May, 1843
sloop .. .. 1 6 Com. Gordon • Pacific • • • • April,lB43
Curocoa .. .. 124 Capt. Broughton Brazils .. .. Feb., 1843
Cyclops, steam-sloop 1 8 Capt. Lapidge Chan. Squadron Mar., 1843
Daphne .. . 118 Capt. Onslow.. Pacific .. .. July, 1842
Driver, steam-sloop 6 Cora. Hayes • • East Indies .. Sept.,lB4l
Espoir .. .. 10 Com. Hand • • Ceast of Africa May, 1843
Fisgard .. . 42 Capt. Duntze.. Pacific .. .. 3Jay, 1843
Frolic .. .. 16 Corn. II nrillton Pacific . • • • N0v..1842
Gorgon, steam-sloop 6 Corn. Crouch Brazils .. • . Nov., 1842
Hazard .. • . 18 Com. Egerton East Indies .. Oct., 1841
Ueda, steam-sloop 4 Com. Stormer Mediterranean Jan., 1843
Hermes, steam-sloop, 4 Lieut. Carr • • West Indies May, 1843
Hydra, steam-sloop 1 4 Com. Young .. Coast of Africa Aug., 1843
Lark .. .. 1 2 LIME. Lawrence West Indies .. July, 1842
Modesto • . .. 118 Com. Watkins Pacific . • • • June, 1843
North Star .. 126 Ct. Sir J. Horne East Indies .. Aug., 1841
Orestes .. .. ,18 Com. Cannon.. Mediterranean Aug., 1842
Pilot .. .. 'l6 Corn. Wilson .. East Indies .. July, 1843
Racer .. .. 16 Cont. Reed • • Brazils .. • • April,lB43
Rose .. .. lIS Corn. Pelley . • West Indies • • Mar.,1843
Royalist .. .. 110 Com. Ogle .. East Indies .. Oct., 1841
Salamander, steam-
sloop .. .. 4 Capt. Hamond Pacific . • • • June,lB42
Sappho • • .. 11 &lent Gambier Cape of Good
I Hope .. .. Feb , 1843
Sealark .. .. 'lOl Cont. Gooch • • Coast of Africa Oct., 1843
Spider .. .. 6Veut. Pym • • Brazils .. • • April,lB42
Spiteful, steam-sloop' 61Com. Maitland East Indies • • Dec., 1842
Talbot .. .. 26'Captain Sir T.
Thompson .. Pacific . • • • Apr 11,1842
Thunderbolt, steam- Cape of Good
sloop .. .. 6 Com. Boyle • • Hope • • • • Dec., 1843
Tyne • • .. 261 Capt. Glasscock Mediterranean April,lB43
Vestal .. .. 261 Capt. Talbot .. East Indies .. N0v.,1843
Virago, steam-sloop 61Coan. Lunn .. Mediterranean May, 1843
Wasp .. .. 16 Com. Ussher • • Coast of Africa Oct., 1842
Wolf .. .. 16'Coin. Gordon.. East Indies June,lB42
Wolverine .. 16 Coin. Clifford.. East Indies .. Jan., 1842