The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-02 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

We noticed yesterday, in our city article, the failure of a
person of great trust in the city, which is confirmed this morn-
ing, and his name made public (Mr. Raikes, the Bank Direc-
tor), which has caused some sensation in the city, and it is
feared will cause some alarm in the country and on the Con-
tinent, until the present Bank Directors call a Committee to
investigate the affair, and acquaint the public with the result ;
but up to the present hour we may add that this unexpected
event has not had any effect on the Funds.
Consols opened as they left off yesterday, 901 for the Ac-
count, with little doing. Spanish, not so good as they left off,
opened at 53 to I, are at present 538 ; Portuguese, 808
An express has arrived from Madrid with accounts of the
death of Don Pedro on the 21st ult, at twelve o'clock at night.
Palmella is appointed Prime Minister ; the Duke of Terceira,
Minister of War; Carvalho, Minister of Financel; and Villa
Real, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The accounts from Ma-
drid are also favourable.

HALF-PAST ONE.

The effect of the death of Don Pedro on the Portuguese
Funds was contrary to the general opinion—it improved, then,
Instead of their receding. Portuguese Stock was done at 81 ;
at present they are 8141 fr. Spanish also higher, 531 4.
Consols continues stationary at 90+ fe.

THREE 0' CI, 0 CA.

Consols for the Account, 901 i.

WORCESTER, SEPT. 24.—About 2,000 pockets
were brought to market on the fair day. Generally the qua-
lity was good, but in many instances the planters had com-
mitted the common error of picking them too soon, or hurry-
ing them too much in the kiln. There was throughout the
day a contest between the dealers and planters as to prices,
and they differed so widely, that at the close of the market
only 386 pockets were sold, at an average of 5/. to 61. 10s. ;
prime a trifle higher. On the following day there was a better
understanding between the parties, and 1,610 pockets were
sold, at prices varying from 51. ss. to 61. 10. ; and 61. 15s.
was given for some of the primest lots. Picking will soon be
concluded ; the result will generally be satisfactory to the
planteri, though the prices do not range so high as they ex-
pected. Our duty is at 13,C00/.
DUNCANNON RACES.—We have seen a letter from
East Passage, stating that arrangements are being made
which will give unusual interest to the races, which will com-
mence at Duncannon at Friday next. Mr. Waddy, M.P., has
signified his intention of attending on Saturday, whose recep-
tion by the patriotic people of that district will be commensu-
rate with their love of the political principles advocated by the
honourable and patriotic gentleman.—Wexford Independent.

EXTENSIVE FlRE.—About eight o'clock on Satur-
day night last, a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs.
Fry, Ferris, Brown, and Co. chemists and druggists, Union-
street, Bristol. The engines arrived in about twenty minutes,
but the supply of water was at first scanty ; after some time,
however, water was brought in tolerable abundance, but notwith-
standing the exertions of the firemen, the whole of the pre-
mises, as well as the adjoining house, fell a prey to the
devouring element.

A swarm of bees alighted on the person of Mr.
Stocker, boatswain of his Majesty's ship Stag, last week, as
he was standing on the bowsprit of that ship attending to his
duties. The Stag Is lying in Hamoaze. He was stung very
severely.—Exeter Paper.

DUNTOCHER.—ChoIera has broken out with great
virulence at Duntocher and Glenhead, parish of Kilpatrick,
and several deaths have occurred. On Saturday last Mr.
M'Coll, a respectable farmer at Erskine ferry, went to the
above village to sell potatoes, and, knowing that cholera
raged with virulence among the inhabitants, was particularly
cautious in his communications with them ; but all was in vain;
he was seized with the dreadful malady a few hours after he
reached home, and but a few other hours elapsed ere he was
numbered with the dead.--Edinburgh Evening Courant.

How TO " PAY" THE PIPER.--A strolling piper
arrived a few weeks ago at Jedburgh, and is said to be the
scion of some noble house, playing for a great wager; but be
that as it may, the good people of the burgh have been highly
amused with his eccentricities. He has taken up his abode at
the Black Bull Inn, from whence he issues during the day,
and amuses the auld wives and bonny lasses with blowing on
his chanter, and in the evening his levee is wcll attended by
the knowing ones of the town, who are elated with the idea of
holding familiar conversation with the heir of one of our High-
land Chiefs. Whether he be really what is alleged or not, we
cannot say ; but it is said he acts with great economy, and
husbands well the " baubees " that are put into his philibeg.
According to another account ho is, on the contrary, very
lavish in his expenditure, and on this fact it is that the people
rest their opinion of his being a man of wealth and rank.—
[There has been lately rather more than enough of this species
of humbug, rnd perhaps the best mode of dealing with all such
scions of nobles' houses in future would be to commit them to
the house of correction as rogues and vagabonds. ]—.Kelso Mail.

MAGAZINES.-(CONTINVED.)

BLACKWOOD'S,

Blackwood is dead—and in his death the literary
world has to mourn the loss of a sincere and liberal
friend. He had identified himself with literature, was
imbued with its spirit, and, though to make money
might be his chief object, as it necessarily is of every
tradesman, yet there was nothing mean or sordid in
the manner of his traffic. He knew well that litera-
ture had a value independent of its market price, and,
as far as we know from the world's transactions with
him, he was not only just, but generous.
The present number of the Magazine is powerful,. as
usual, in the more serious articles, but the lighter papers
are less brilliant than their predecessors. The " Cruise
of the Midge," too, strongly resembles " Tom Crin-
gle's Log Book," while' we miss the raciness and
quaint fancies of the whimsical Mr. Thomas. "My
Cousin Nicholas" halts a little ; and the " Nights at
Mess" are, for once, more odd than humourous. But
the political department, we must allow, is conducted
with no common ability, opposed as we are, heart and
soul, to its principles, and indignant, as we are often
inclined to feel, at its ferocious intolerance. And even
this intolerant spirit has its kindlier moments, when
Christopher, relaxing his broad wrinkles, throws open
both door and window to the light of genius, indifferent
as to whether it comes from East or West, and basks
himself cheerily in its warmth. Then it is that the old
man's heart seems to melt, and he holds out his right
hand even to his enemies ; and who would not gladly ac-
cept the proffered grasp of Christopher North, though
the chances are that he lays his crutch across your
pate the next moment, especially if you happen
to be a Whig ? At such times—not exactly when he
is using his crutch—the Magazine is delightful read-
ing, of which we have au excellent specimen in,
Mirabeau's Memoirs, in the number now lying before
us. These memoirs are compiled from notices and
letters written by Mirabeau himself, by his father, and
his uncle, preceded by an interesting account from the
pen of Mirabeau on his remote ancestors. The deadly
hatred of the father for his extraordinary son,
commencing with childhood and ending only with his
own death, we would fain persuade ourselves,
is a solitary page in the history of human life.
Yet even this conviction fails to reconcile our minds to
such facts as these :—" Before this period (Mirabeau
was then only seven years old); the severity of his fa-
ther towards him began ; we find him on all occasions
urging his tutor to harshness and rigour." " The
severity of his father always went on increasing. Not
finding rigour enough in private tutors, he sent his son
to a school, but refused to let him bear his name."
" He (the father) had, when his son was not sixteen
years of age, formed the project of banishing him for
ever from Europe." His excesses, when in the army,
occasioned a lettre de cachet to be issued against him,
and his father, the promoter of it, " whose letters
against him always breathe the most implacable hatred
and rage, wrote to the Governor to enforce every se-
verity in his power." But in the course of time the vic-
tim is released—no thanks to the paternal lenity—when
" his father out of his love of power and despotism re-
fused him any suitable provision."

" The expensive habits of Mirabeau soon involved him in
debts and difficulties ; these his father-in-law would have ex-
tricated him from, but his father refused his security for the
final re-payment of the sum to be advanced. Mirabeau, there-
fore, retired into the country, but only to encounter new per-
secutions from his father. Under the pretence that his son
was ruining the patrimonial property, (which was proved after-
wards to be false,) he has him banishad by a lettre de cachet to
the little town of Monarque ; from thence, under the pretext
that lie had transgressed the bounds assigned him, he was
transferred to the narrower confinement of the chateau D' If,
and his father wrote to the governor to impose upon him every
kind of restraint, calumniating his son with the utmost ferocity,
and painting-him in the blackest colours."

Oppression ever makes men villains, and this maxim,
so general in its aOplication as seldom to have met with
an exception, was not contradicted by the results in
the case of Mirabeau. A prisoner at the instigation
of his father, deserted by his wife, he now contracted
a liaison with Sophia, the wife of an old man of
seventy. He was alone, all his natural friends had,
by the strange influence his father held over them, be-
come his enemies and calumniators : can we then won-
der at, though we may regret, this unhappy event,
which unfortunately is too common to call down parti-
cular vengeance upon the perpetrator ? The tender
parent does neither one nor the other, neither wonders,
nor regrets, but on the contrary is delighted at an act
which he expects will consummate the ruin of his son,
and he takes especial care it shall remain no secret to the
world at large. It is thus the hoary ruffian expresses
himself, and we consider the epithet, strong as it is,
too feeble when applied to. such infamous cruelty :
" I reproach not myself, I assure you, for his removal from
the chateau D'lf to the chateaux de Joux. If he had remained
at the chateaux D'lf, with the attestations of that fool Dal-
legre, (the governor,) he would be there still crying out
against injustice, and would not have been able to ruin himself,
as he has done, and which is the salvation of his family."

Who, on reading this, and the subsequent persecu-
tion which condemned the son to the scaffold, will not
agree with the able critic, that to this first offence,
dark indeed, but not unpardonable, " he had to a great
extent been impelled and exasperated by a stern do-
mestic despotism almost without parallel ? " or who
will deny the admirable remarks that follow ?

" But this father, or rather this lord and master—for all the
other relations of life seem to 'have been absorbed in the senti-
ment of personal authority, with which the feudal system gra-
tified Grandees—absolutely sported in his acts of despotism.
M. de Moupezat one day meeting him, the following conver-
sation took place, as related by himself :—" Your law suite
with Madame the Marchioness, is it finished ?"—" I have
gained it."—" And where is she ?"—" In a convent,"—" And
Monsieur your son, where is he "—" In a convent."—" And
Madame your daughter ?"—" In a convent."—" You have
undertaken, then, to people the convents ?"--" Yes, sir ; and
ifyou had been my son, you would have been in one long ago."

It would be too painful a task to follow up all the atro-
cities of this incarnate fiend, in whose depraved and cal-
lous heart the most intense selfishness, the most
reckless vanity, and a malignant love of torturing,
were predominant above all other passions. The ob-
ject of these Memoirs is undoubtedly to exculpate Mi-
rabeau from the calumnies which have been heaped
upon him, in the first place, by his parent, and disse-
minated afterwards by political hostility. And this
they have done. They have clearly shown that many
of the charges made against him were false, and that
much of the crime which may be fairly imputed to
him, was caused by a system of unrelenting cruelty.
But they have done more than this. They have proved
what is of infinitely gieater importance in a public point
of view, that the Revolution was an absolute necessity,
and that despotism not only sat upon the throne, sub-
duing the people with a sceptre of iron, but had also
stolen into the bosom of families, severed all the do-
mestic charities, and made of the social home a Hall
of Eblis, wherein the unhappy inmates wandered
about in eternity of torture. We repeat it, this tre-
mendous convulsion was an absolute necessity, and,
dreadful as it was, fearfully as its memory shakes us,
even at this distant hour, it swept away a state of
things that was ten times more intolerable.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

Mr. Bailey, of Parndon, having again presented the
members of the West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry with a fat
buck, the corps will have a field day on Thursday, the 9th of
October, at Waltham Abbey, and dine together afterwards at
the Cock Inn. Mr. Bailey was for many years an officer in
Colonel Burgoyne's corps of Yeomanry Cavalry, and remained
so until the corps was disbanded by Lord Lansdowne.

THE SCOTTISH WOODS BY4ON

DAY.

• •
The ancient Caledonian forests is a subject of deer
and just regret in many ways. Nothing appears more
inexplicable in the eyes of the Vulgar than that the
barren heights which have long excited a sneer from Dr.
Johnson and other southern travellers should have ever
been clothed in thick woods of our native timber; and the
naturalist and lover of hoar antiquity is content to pa,
teo! tu;
per his imagination with the scanty accounts transmit
us of those distant times when the bear, wolf, end
wild boar roamed .in savage freedom through the,
great Scottish forest, while herds of wild cattle Ana,
deer browsed upon its skirts, the capercailzie
the eagle keeping sway amid the stately oa,nP
and fir trees I That the whole of that e!e;
easte.rl.
vated range of country; extending. in a semicirculal
sweep from Stirling to the extremity of the
limit of the parish of Falkirk, was at
covered with wood appears more than probable aen
from its and that
present aspect ; the famous Torwood, f.
of Callendar at' Falkirk, are the evident remains °
this very extensive forest. The royal forest of Dun;
daff (i. e. hill of heifers or deer) must have co'ereff";
the highlands, called still the lands of Dun°
ed
the royal forest of Stirling, undoubtedly enveirlile
the rising grounds to the south of that town, it
the-extensive mosses on this part of the shire renuer.,,,
probable that even the lowlands were once coverebst
trees. It seems to have been the policy of our fore_itit
fliers, as it is now the custom in America, to rooti for
and remove these woods so as to fit the groin' ,f
one period
pasture or the plough. Besides the demolitiunks,
the Caledonian forest, of which Xiphilinus sPeneen,
and which had its site here, there is
_alota
reason to ..believe that the natives, from econuw of
views,. joined in after ages in stripping the o_2'lP:/by
its wood. Of this a striking evidence is afra';,bour-
the trunks of large trees still dug up in the ,hich
ing mosses, and sold in the markets for matches, v.firi
have often the mark of the hatchet or ile.--SP"- -
Magazine.

A DREAM VERIFIED.
veBls
Many of our readers will recollect, that a 1,;009
ago, a gentleman of respectable family and eon"e;c-the
in this county, was unfortunately drowned,:nfrora
Caledonian Canal, after just landing on its Wm: female
a lasgo vessel. He had lent his arm to 3 '6.-both
passenger; the night was dark, and by a false stel4ol.
were precipitated into the water, where they
Very early in life, whilst residing in the East. "air
this gentleman dreamt that he was engaged, "body of
pany with several persons, in seeking' for the
a drowned man ; they toiled long and anxiouslP
lights, boats, and grappling irons, but in v3".l'foit'
length, when they were about to abandon the of
less search, something was seen to rise slowly and
the water ; it assumed the form of a human be_r' 0,01
,
to his horror he saw that the countenance was °OltY
He awoke in great agitation, and had some tr-this
in shakin off the vivid impression left by the
phantom of the night. Years aftervvardsvess
same circumstance occurred to him in the ccoar
Indies. The dream with all its appalling ah
paniments of seeming reality, haunted his eouci,
Jed
terrified his imagination. His duties afterwa'or
him to return home, and he hoped he had ftefer,
parted with the unwelcome vision. In this, l'°"e
he was destined to be disappointed ; a third 611 ad
the same scene appear before him, as clear! the
as indelibly imprinted on his mind as ;3',.
former occasions. He talked of the sing Wsv. t re'
cumstance among his friends, and many untstl).celi be
member the frequency and solemnity with his
spoke of the dream. At last it was realize" "'ripe('
own melancholy fate. He was drowned, as descrebed
above—lights were procured, and the body Was selabool
for, though in vain—but, just as the party were pole'
to leave the spot, the head of the unfortunate gisible
Irian rose up, and every feature was distinctly v
in the torch-light above the water. A very` A
-.
1I oil
rive of the deceased instantly exclaimed,
Edward's dream is verified."—lnverness Coat

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CHICHESTER.—The inhabitants ofale -arc-
- r 0
on Sunday morning last, during the hours of div,cl;o' tr.
thrown into great consternation by another severe e,'-da5,,,," e
earthquake. Some individuals were so much terrtve, Ice
tually to leave the church and run into the open stree-for s"
earth was observed by many to be in a tremulous stlastiooe'
space of two minutes after the awful event. —Lewes 0'
fie like
UNREQUITED LOVE.—There is no va, ..re srl
a. 0,- .Ar
requited love—so many vulnerable portions of our foffeP-0
wounded by it ; even pride, ever prompt at the call? ths::l
self-love, bring but late relief, rather to repair roll,in
.4
avert it ; while memory, like a very antiquary, pic.kus Tsttbsel.
little relics, that were better left to be buried pith
hopes.L-Cleone.
tse
up 4th lilt'
A shock of an earthquake was felt on t",,,," „op "os
about 8 o'clock in the evening, at Christiania, in 'toe i,e
vibrations of which extended to a considerable ,-`..,/ of t
both sides of the mountains in the neighbotall'
lown.—French Paper.
The number of scientific men assembled at Stsuree!%,
on the 18th inst., to take part in the great scienti•s_:ej to Via,
!o be held there, was 390; on the 20th it allon'tt.he I'3/1
They held their Meeting in the Second Chamber 0' '
stand, corresponding to our. House of Commons. •01
ill° f
SuiciDE.—Manuel Delgardo, one of th!,briC,;
crew recently brought from England by the 1311.,t'5,1 is of
war Savage, and confined in the Leverett-street L'a",quart,,,,o
ton, committed suicide on Sunday. He broke a . ...-•'
Blass, and with a piece of it severed the jugular 0111.
Yorh, Sept. 2. 00
eels eil
There is a child now at Palermo, three Y. bt " •
o, . t , is
who is four feet and a half (French measure) In 740tios
formed, and vigorous. Discoveries of graeat ;rans
pathology are professed to have been made on all exam
St
of him by the physicians at Palermo.—Lancet.
siclole toe,
We are authorised by a gentleman re to :the
Hull, who has given us his name- and address'opM se
that although he had by will left the WesleY'a lee'
dist Connexion one thousand pounds, he bas'e; pojea
quence of the Manchester District and Conferen pev°oo..
ings, and decision on the case of Mr. J. R. Stephesional eon
the same, and also suspended his regular and oiccacate. al
tributions to its respective funds.—Christian 4"c°
rood
Pe
d 3
We are informed that some building ,b Os"-
Hastings has been sold at the rate of 31. 105. an
0'
inch.
A TRAVELLING WONDER. --Athe dot'
iOg kloor,
merous travelling vehicles and machinery of thisfMr.ol,,,gori,
employed for commercial purposes, the waggc° oThi' 1:11;re
of Rye, is not to be ranked as the least. r the ion 0(
which is of uncommon size, has been built 1°;od 0'`,,,1 hio s
of carrying hops to London in the season ;oreethic'lloading
reader is informed that a machine in shape ;toe °' tbat till°
gibbet or crane has been erected for the PI/,' learn :ts 091)„
the waggon, he need not be much surprised 1 hoe, 'food ~.
vast vehicle will stow and carry 14 tons °.0.0005 of 69
weight being besides five tons. All this erldigenee.9 per•
drr.wn by 14 horses from Rye-to London, ,to Rye
miles ; and the journey to London and bae A
formed once a week.—Brighton Gazette. Days
f john „ inea:
A YOUNG GlANT.—Philip, son °- of ag'' a fee.
shoemaker, Dent, Yorkshire, a lad of 14 Yeani,hs of v ifc
sures, without his shoes, the extraordinary o' b'
°portioned. if be
2 inches, and weighs 14 stone, handsomely Pr.ooe yesr,s'birth?
is a prodigy now—what will he be at tiventY e from his i_oo
continues to grow at the same ratio he has don A brall
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RISE AND FALL OF GREAT noW e"., '"
Cann, the champion wrestler of England, ls we_bridgejoi,
deliver tickets at the halfpenny gate at S.th(lilliiiiip;e de 13:IIrvihich
the same town, some years ago, Louis .r
an emigrant, published a syllabus of a
he proposed giving to a limited number
same Louis Phillippe is now King 0 iviosa oof
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BIRMINGHAM SAVINGS to SePteniittot°
REPORT.—Amount received from August
trepaid frog ~. tho
Amnon- • stol"
in 563 deposits, 2,4541. Is. 3d.— Amount inve
_..ep-ej
ditto, in 1.34 sums, 2,283/. 16s. 6dci.
New accounts °Y
Bank of England, 74,9901. lOs. 2
en, 4,30 i. a 5 ell'
this month, 91.---Total number now op aY
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