The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

I e Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons,
Mereurii, 13 die Augusti, 1834.)
NOTICES GIVEN ON WEDNESDAY, Auc. 13, 1834.
I.—Sir Francis Vincent—Address to his Majesty for a copy of
the minutes of the court of inquiry on Lieut.-Colonel Home.
(Next session.)
2.—Mr. Ward—On reading the sessional orders, to bring under
the consideration of the House the question of giving publicity
...to the lists of the divisions. (Commencement of next session.)
4 —Mr. Ward—To call the attention of the House to the state of
the Protestant Establishment in Ireland, and to the n2,,ecsslty of
so remodelling it, upon the death of the present incumbents, as
to afford permanent and substantial relief to the Roman Catholic
4.Population. (Very early next session.)
Buckingham—Bill to consolidate and amend the laws
against, drunkenness, with a view to the suppression of that chief
source of the crime and pauperism of the country. (Early next
5. session. )
Ewart--Bill to abolish capital punishment in cases of
6.ietter stealing, and in cases of sacrilege. (Next session.)
"'Sir Samuel Whalley—Bill for the abolition of the hereditary
7.Peerage. (Early next session.)
--Sir Samuel Whalley—Return of the first and second readings,
committals, and third reading of each Bill in 1833 and 1834, and
the respective divisions on every stage (except in Committees),
.7.noddsst
..ati(nxg
ethxte same particulars of their progress in the House of
B—Mr. Mullins— s
Comonmittee to inquire into the state, operation,
and abuses of the Irish Fishery Laws, with a view to the an consoli-
n.dation d amendment of the same. (Early next session.)
Mr. Pd
to abolish Grand Juries in England and
,„`Vales. (Next session. )
, —Mr. Halcomb--Bill for the better regulation and improve-
ment of the British Channel Fisheries. (Next session.)
tc`h Halcomb—Select Committee on the petition of Mr.
ar esßeamish, late a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. (Next
session.)

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er
eester Highness the Princess Sophia of Glou-
t) asse through Canterbury on Wednesday, on her way
r., 13roap
dstairs. She merely stopped to change horses at the
cynntain, and thence proceeded to view the venerable church
~ t. Martin's,
where she was attended by the Rector. She
ititerwards visited the beautiful entrance gate and ruins of the
nionasterY of St. Augustine's. Her Royal Highness seemed
4toedtake a live
hly intera
ict in these remains, and was much grati-
----Ketis Chronle.
ri,Re OYAL KENT THEATRE, KENSINGTON.—This
4u atre opened yesterday, according to announcement. Our
olPfa thef!ill not to-day enable us to give such a detailed account
N
anoteperformance as their merits claim ; but we shall take
atin onportunitys of looking in on the Kensington corps dra-
gue, and reporting its future proceedings.
411:1d1
jt is related of Sir Walter Scott, that when in
e
h he d
haver refused to see any one, however humble, who
stilee, "Ponid him ; and that he scarce handerev received a letter
not answer by his own
in
1, is said that a clerk to a house this city has
•
Leic4 declared by a decision of the Lord Chancellor to be the
twat law to a property of 20,000/, ayear, and a large sum in
Y money—Bristol Journal.
heDEPARTURE OF SHERIDAN KNOWLES, Esq.—
wittnursday this eminent dramatist arrived here. On Friday
artethak of a farewell dinner, at the Mersey Coffee-house,
on La few private friends, who afterwards accompanied him
take7ard the Columbus, in which
vessel every berth had been
"---Liverpool Paper.
ter re,
kr --RA.TION.—It appears that the spirit of emi-
Leart:on to the Colonies and United States has not yet subsided
notwithstanding the advanced period of the season.
breitetrediaoynginmorrig ing the Pandora, Power, master, a beautiful
down
to Mr. Jacob Penrose, of this city, dropped
Ara the river as far as Passage, and will sail this day for
aedlll!chi, with several passengers, including men, women,
we e ridren. The situation of the poor people on board was,
etteverei
th; understand,- made as comfortable as it was possible under
for sejrcmstances. Some passengers also sailed this week
t„ Liverupool, to take passage there for theellnited States.
Chronicle.
L. Lord
Lo
Dunsany has addressed a circular letter to the
his peers on the fourth article of the Act of Union, by which
Predship maintains that a British Peer cannot sit as a re-
seedaitiortoof:S
sentatiee of the Irish Peerage.
On
the
M. Nestor Roqueplan, responsible
Figaro, was fined 500 f. for having omitted to
tne office of the Procureur du Roi a certain number of
Inhillis.,-:unal, as by law required. M. Roqueplan admitted the
en 71°,ne.and urged in his defence the negligence of a person
.1%,...3"1 under him, but his apology proved of no avail.—
per."Pe
lips THp
GRENADIER GUARDS.—The third batta-
'Aar °I: this corps, under the command of Colonel Lambert,
ceed "
en yesterday morning, from Westminster
tie Jute to Dublin, to relieve the Guards quartered in that
•'• Colonels Ferrars, Loftus, Lascelles, and Harcourt ;
terallaatains Clinton, Drummond, and Hon. A. F. Foley ; Lieu-
ere Ptt3 Viscount Easthope, Lord Lovaine, and Home Purves,
Lne officers who accompany the battalion.
le,:ok duel with pistols took place on the 2d inst., at
le;i'dnt on the French territory, near the borders of Switzer-
f 0„) nuetween Sambuc arid M. Allier, who was expelled
Cer 'relleva, where he was one of the editors of the Europe
dere 'late' M. Sambuc was mortally wounded, and after un-
inee°lng the most excruciating pain for three days, died, leav-
e a widow and two infant children.
and ORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES.—The Magistrates
the 6cmn Council of Inverness have presented a memorial to
Net cnnroissioners of Northern Lights, suggesting the pro-
oast? of erecting a lighthouse on the Cove-sea Skerries, lying
lives e coast of Moray. They state, that the extensive loss of
last tud shipping which has always, and especially within the
crease w, Years, taken place in the Moray Frith, and the in-
theiliVe,ln the number of vessels passing through it, warrant
\
'II making this application.—Aberdeen Observer.
at Q°°L SALE.—The second sale of wool yesterday,
Prev•-rraway's, went off with equal spirit as attendant upon the
„.I°Lta day's auction, and the prices were maintained.
Live,
esenitu e*AIIPOOL, AUGUST 12.—The weather . has
tlnieu now very sultry for some time, indeed, at times,
ost
tee, . usually so. The home crops, we imagine,. must in
100i/llnarter be placed beyond danger. In this country they
tikee'l very promising during a trip the writer had a short
ibg :go, since when the season has gone on in a very flatter-
le_ariller• A great deal is already got in.
e,,lone late unfavourable weather for the harvest gave
lane n,;"l,tory start to the price of old wheats, both in Mark-
sees hid the country markets, but which a return of the pre-
cheek IghlY favourable weather will, it is imagined, as suddenly
'the
the
e, harvest is now in rapid progress throughout
staltll,,ntirY, and generally will be most abundant. We regret
this however, that in some parts of the neighbourhood of
darn, -Iva, the wheat has a blackened appearance, having been
the"ed by mildew. This is particulai ly observable eastward
leaded town, We do not hear that the blight is widely ex-
ee, ',so that it may not have any perceptible influence on;
be ye'rY) °at to the owners of the damaged crops theinjury will
•The crops serious.
.61 e/d hzd
_ ependent.
4ereq
teen 'tack of new wheat, the produce of twelve or thir-
of
J • was destroyed by fire on Sunday night , the farm
oh
Flowerdew of Wortham. It was insured in the
tlceasi 're-office, so that if the mischief was maliciously
4,leetuued, the incendiary, as usual, has entirely failed in his
stro , and has reduced, by just the value of the property de-
-10,4ec1, the means of employing himself and his fellow-
lieeinrers, in the country. Could no method be found of con-
elegtne labouring classes of this demonstrable truth ? Pro-
NVIly shns terrorem have been often put forth to no purpose.
Per'ould not proclamations to instruct be issued as an ex-
-eat
TR_ —ury Post.
abIeHARVEST.—The weather continues as favour-
are as the
heart of man can desire for field operations, which
%rein Y where in this district in full activity. Yesterday
Ilareerege ‘,` The Port," or hiring market for shearers, was very
cletseew"slY attended, but there was much chaffering in making
lahi cements, the workers hanging back owing to the reported
nd Zagea in the South. There was a goodly show of High-
eimearers, the great majority of whom were females; there.
•asle no want of Irish, whose appearance contrasted mise-
°4;olN,e'telh the clean, though coarse, c -mfortahle clothing of
tonie „" • country folks. As accurately as we could ascertain
dee' 'aversity of reports the average of wages was Is. 4d.
-`l4'lewritill two, and in some instances three, diets a-deje—
ct). 9 Advertiser.
'lohNt.
011 101 8 . NV e were shown yesterday, by Mr.
wiliolit:uiLwn:f the Grapes Inn, a rose, which was culled at
the Re"), with leaves growing through and o'ertopping the
• A curiosity of this kind is not entirely new ; but
sh:srernarkable, nine roses every way similar were found
anle Parent bush.—Dumfries Courier.
Cone;-tradngernents have been made near Pont de la
Ltixtt e for the
• purpose of disembarking the obelisk from the
Tee fore pat fth vessel is cut away. An inclined
Nge tv',.°od, coonstreucted, passes from the hold to the
eistithe:;,e ,cluaY, and the necessary machinery for the pullies
1-"e' in the middle of the wood work and near the
te • P* „
shelve
'Jut en she enormous capstans, brought from Brest, are
menced on Friday,
the isl'en thelud.
obyeiiskTilliaedope ration
nice , brolse
suspended. The re-
a d been shi_fwteascl about seven feet one of
b,..41 of th_ ,
et.
_n the removal was
'arke Ta iisk. was continued on Saturday, but the chains
our,
stitihnthreeTheses which
times,
herculean
and it became necessary to add four
eh
eletiese pstans were turned by 160 men from the Ist
dlirtawoof
fArrottinllej,.. At two
(z/' ne en which • u•vessel, tof the and was placed upon the
the mighty mass was com-
igeani,_
4,.._cit is to be conveyed to its destinatton.—
senger.
1• 3A
• -TEI,T, 0 (ADVERTISEMENT.)
1,11 triad, .°O. AF COMPANY.--An experiment has
cr. „th within the last few days, before
.the
_Committee
klsed ers connected with this Company, which has far
.sur-
bte,s•.aily stated
tikt most
bold expectations. It was ascertained
Ceigiet-e, article be produced at a lower price than was
ti preyed y the patentee; the cleansing qualities have
ease • to far exceed t
!Ogle Yoi hat of common soap. It is more
he
an cant nua,,,aPpearance and use, and in addition a very•im-
oeepounliciYaihas been discovered, which of itself renders
almost invaluable, and cannot fail to command
elkilt):r.ornrsesill:teeacilleusrsaeithsoaafflteee,t;:iz. ,
tiktartlde,rsatfiiter,r which that it can be used in salt water with
to that of soft water. We beg to remind
Share List will be closed on the 2lst of
qe
:re I(sinnlYg.
terms
doh no more will be allowed except upon
itttaekeemn auyptwhiinthk
rpreoaptera.TidiTtyl7 shares,

LITERATURE.

EUROPEAN COLONIES. By JOHN How.rsox.
2 Vor.s. Bvo. BENTLEY, 1834.

The subjects of this work are so many, that we almost
despair of conveying a sufficient idea of them within any
reasonable limit. Africa, which, with its two divi-

sions into west and south, occupies nearly the whole

of the first volume, may not, perhaps, at first sight
appear a very attractive topic ; for what is to be learnt
from a land, on which not a vestige remains to wit-
ness that it was at any time other than what it is at
present ? Still it is far from being without its own
peculiar interest, while there is something even novel
in the idea of a people without traditions, and a coun-
try without a single monument of an earlier period.
Even the wilds of America, wet and dripping as they
are from the flow of recent waters, arc yet said to
have their ruins—the mighty fragments of forgotten
civilization.

West Africa differs from the southern portions of
the same quarter of the globe, not less in its general
physical characteristics, than in the manners and dis-
positions of its inhabitants. The former is a flat,

alluvial soil, abundantly supplied with water, and with
noble forests, containing a variety of timber unknown
to European climates—the date, the tamarind, the

cocoa-nut, the banana, and the bahobab, or calabash
tree, the largest vegetable production in the world ; its
trunk sometimes measures sixty or seventy feet in cir-
cumference, and throws out no branches for nearly an

equal height from the ground. The land is fertile
under the slightest cultivation ; so much so, that, in
the neighbourhood of the rivers Senegal and Gambia,
twenty days' tillage in the sowing season,- will afford

ample subsistence to an individual throughout the suc-
ceeding year. Buffaloes, wild cows, deer, boars, and
elephants abound in the fields and meadows ; and
there is every reason to suppose that it is no less rich
in gold than Peru and Mexico, though the mines have
hitherto escaped the avarice or the entcrprize of Euro-
peans. For four centuries has Africa exchange:l away
immense quantities of gold dust, besides what she has
retained for her own use ; yet up to the present hour
she has had no occasion to seek in mines for the pre-
cious metals, but has obtained an adequate supply by
the simple expedient of washing the soil, or sifting
the sands of rivers. Opposed to this seductive pic-

ture, Barbary and South Africa, though situated under
much happier latitudes, consist almost entirely of
sandy plains, and afford neither gold nor silver to
compensate for their sterility. The want of good har-
bours is common to all the coast, the mouths of the
rivers being blocked up by formidable sand-bars, that
render them inaccessible to ships of any burden.
The Negroes, the principal aborigines of Western
Africa, have found a flattering painter in Mr. Howi-
son, who describes them as being mild, placid, and
hospitable. This is far from agreeing with the ac-
count of other writers on the subject, nor is it very
compatible with his own details of their sanguinary
sacrifices. He tells us that the King of Dahomey
holds an annual festival, on which, in Negro phraseo-
logy, he " waters the graves of his ancestors." It is

not, however, " a river or fountain that affords him
the requisite fluid for that purpose--but hundreds of
decapitated human bodies. The victims are mostly
slaves, brought from distant places ; but when these
cannot be procured in sufficient number, the deficiency
is supplied out of the lower orders of the country.
For several days the executions go on almost without
intermission, and the inclosures of the palace are gar-
nished with bloody human heads, while the carcasses

lie scattered about in the neighbourhood." With such
an account before us, it is in vain to plead, as our
author does, that this barbarity affects only the cha-
racter of the royal perpetrator; the custom could never
have continued, century after century, unless it had
been in unison with the feelings of the people.
The religion of the Negroes, where they have any
religion,.is Mohammedanism, though at what period
_ _

this;faith was introduced by the Moorish Marabouts is
uncertain. It has not, however, wrought with the
African as with the Turk, teaching him to resign life
without reluctance ; so far from this being the case,
the fear of death prevails with this people to such a
degree that they dislike even to hear the word men-
tioned ; and we are told by Bosman that no Negro in
the whole country dare to speak of death in presence of
the King, or of any great man, on penalty of under-
going it as a punishment himself. This weakness Mr.
Howison is inclined to attribute to the " disturbance of

the imagination produced by the daily view of their
hideous fetiches or idols," yet in the same breath he
talks of the Asiatic indifference to dissolution ; surely
the monsters of Elephanta are a match for any fetich.
Just as little do we agree with him when he attributes

the fact of the Negroes having learnt nothing from the
European intercourse to a modest diffidence in their
own abilities ; ignorance is never so bashful ; yet if
this really be the exception to the general rule, we must
express our hearty concurrence in the Negro estimate
of themselves ; in spite of all the sentimental trash that

has been talked and written on the subject, it is clear
to all who are not like old Gobbo, " high gravel blind,"
that the Negroes are inferior to the whites in intellect ;
when was there an instance of art or science owing any
thing to a black community ? they have not even the
gift of poetry, a gift denied to few other savages than
themselves.

The barrennuts of South Africa has been already no-
ticed, and the aspect of its ocean is not less desolate,
though situated in the neighbourhood of the tropics.
From the continued turbulence of the s2a there is

little development of animal or vegetable life—no
medusw, no coral insects, no flying-fish, and even the
algae, the moment they are forced from the rocks, are
torn to pieces by the waves, which rise full thirty feet
in ridges of immeasurable extent. From out this
world of waters stands forth the Cape, composed of
three mountains, one of which is supposed to bear an
intimate resemblance to a colossal lion. The country
in its vicinity has been converted into a garden by the
introduction of all sorts of foreign seeds, a fertility that
is rendered yet more striking by the desolation wh:ch
surrounds it, and which contrasts strangely with the
beautiful climate—with the stars of such exceeding
refulgence that opaque bodies cast well-defined shadows
in the light of Jupiter and Venus, and with skies so
bright and genial that they might well be spread over an
earthly paradise. Nor is the contrast less admirable
between the sterile soil and the variety, beauty, per-
fection, and magnitude of the quadrupeds ; and the
wonder is yet farther enhanced, when we ask ourselves
whence these vast troops of graminivorous animals can
possibly derive subsistence ?

It is said that, at one time, South Africa was oc-
cupied by seventeen nations. We may now limit their
number to three—the Hottentots, the Bosch men, whom
some, however, consider to be a variety of the same
race, and the CafFres. The Hottentots are of an olive
complexion, moderate in their stature, and remarkable
for the triangularity of their faces, the chief redeeming
points with them being the lady-like delicacy of their
hands and feet. In their general character, the abori-
ginals
were mild, timid, and averse from war, notwith-
standing that animal food was their universal and ex-
clusive diet. What, then, becomes of the doctrine of
Rousseau, who maintains that the devourers of flesh
are invariably cruel, and exemplifies his assertion by
the English ? Of dpurse, too, he considered the rice-