The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-07 00:00:00

MR. THACKE.RAY IN EDINBURGH.

The Scotsman contains a summary of the first of Mr.
Thackeray'si lectures on "The Four Georges." There
was a crowded audience in the Music Hall—"not the
le ~s fit that they were not few."
The lecture comprised a rapid sketch of the Guelph
family, from William the Pious, who sang psalms with
Doctor Luther and frugally ordered his quiet "palace"
at Zell, to the German Prince who married his de-
scendant, and sorrowfully left bis Hanoverian Court to
assume the Crown of England. Thus tracing the ramifi-
cation 4 of the Guelph family, he at last centred the in-
terest in the Court of Hanover, to the Elector of which
the Princess Sophia, nine years after her uncle, Charles I
lost his head, along with her scanty trousseau the re.
version of the English Crown. Quoting a description
of the ladies of the Court of Hanover in the time of the
Electresa Sophia'si eon, George Lewis, who actually
realised this reversion, in which description "sly Mary
Wortley" represents them as having all snort beautiful
rosy cheeks and alabaster foreheads, complexions
that look charmingly in candle-light, and
never leave them until their death except when
they go too near the fire), the b e urer took a peep
into the ward-room, the pantry, the kitchen, the cellar,
and the plate-room, calling up throngs if pages, yeomen,
cooks, scullions, confectioner, butlers, and keepers of
the plate—and only two washerwomen for the whole
court. At the ti ee that Ge„r;:e I. left his dear old Dent-
schlaad for England feudalism had been fairly beaten
down by monarchy—the rule of the nobles had entirely
succumbed to that of the Sovereign. Princes of the
blood were proud to carry candles before Louis
XIV., and quarrels originated between great nobles
about which should be nrivilezed to h old tt e
oyal shirt when his most Christian Majesty changed
tbat garment. The shrewd awl cynical German had
sufficient penetration to see through the pretence of
loyalty with which he was received in England, know-
ing that there were fifty heirs to the Crown nearer than
himself, and that he was there but by accident. His
Keilsoatsogge, surnamed " the Elephant," whom Le
made Countess of Darlington and her rival, surnamed
"the Maypole," whom he made Duchess of Kends',
had reluc,antly followed him to England ; ane
to them he would spy—" Come, let us go to my
priva'e rooms, and hare oysters, and beer, and Rhine
wine, and let us leave these bawling British with their
pretended, loyalty." Of bite, however, it must be said
that he was loyal to England.

Sporting Intelligence.

TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY.

This was the first of the series of long winter after-
noons. About a dozen members dropped in, but not a
bet was

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING.
Weights for the Aintree Piate. One mile.
Age st lb Age st lb
Mary 4 8 7 L'Addia 4 6 12
The Earl
Jack Sheppard
Allred
Polmoodia 3 7 6 lab) 3 6 0
Excitement ...—. 4 7 4 Janet 2 510
Gay

Catherine Parr ... 6 7 0 I Sulpitia
"Julia
Weights for the Crbsteth Welter Cup. Mile and a half.

14 subs.

• Age st lb
Alonzo
Wild Huntsman 5 11 2
Lough Bann a 10 10

Ace st lh
Hospitality
Red Robin-
Gaudy
Johnny Taft 4 9 '6
The Sluggard 4 9 6
Barfleur 3 9 2
King of Scotland 3 9 2
ndicap Stakes. T.Y.C. 33
tbs. ,

Reveillee
Catherine Parr
Excitement
Prince of Orange 3 10 0
The Knowsley Nursery Hai
sul
st lb(

st lb

Filly, by Teaiaway, -
out of All's Well 7 4
General Williams 7 4
Petto
Liverpool 7 2
Impostor
Schneider •
Admiral Lyons
Apothecary 6 10
Kenerdy
Sunrise 6 4
Ella
The Little Cub
Lima
Sister to Dramatist 6 0
Cumberland... 5 10
Sir Humphrey

Old Fashion • 8 7
Commoner
Mongrel
Vaulter
Polly
_Ca
out of Dipthong
Colt
anl rteeit
tebFrya Bt amgt
Touchstone,
a
Odd' Trick
777
68S.
Yorkshireman 7 4
Zanoni 7 4
fled, White, and Blue 7 4
The Tattler
Rickledon
Queen Bess 7 4
Violet Face... 7 4
• The Sefton Handles]
22 si
Yrs at lb
Alonzo
The Early Bird 5 8 2
Wild Huntsman 5 8 0
Yorkshire Grey -4 T 7
Mary 4 7 5'
Lough Bawn a 7 5
Pretty Boy
Landyfoot 3 7 0
Reveillee
Fanny Fern
Hospitality
Weights for the Hurdle B
Acceptances to be dee]
Yrs at lb
Yra st lb
Titterstone
Black Swan ...... 6 10 11 Victory, h b ...... a 10 2
Harry Lorrequer 5 10 11 Royalty ............ a 10 2
Lough Bawn alo 6 Boadicea, h b...... 49 9
Minerva, h b 6lO 6 Croxteth, h b 59 5

4:1. Mile and a Half.
nibs.

. Yrs st lb
Peter Flat 3 6 10
,Thames Ditton 3 610
Pol raoodie
Catherine Parr 6 4
Excitement ......
Gaudy
Alma
Uzella ......... 3 6 0
Barfleur
King of Acotland 3 5 12
De Ginkel
ace. Two miles. 10 subs.
lared on Monday next.

RACES. LIVERPOOL AND SHREWSBURY. —YOUATT
War. GRAY'S information for the above will be forwarded
this day and to-morrow. He guarantees ten winners at the
tw• meetings, or the money returned, the winner of two
races being at 20 to 1 each. Its pa it success—upwards of 250
winners, including the winners of the Derby and the Oaks
—is a sufficient recommendation. Terms to the end of the
season, 55., including stee2lechases. Address, 15, Charing-
cross. Stamps taken.

Six wild boars were killed last week in the neighbour.
hood of Rochefort (Netherlands), and the number of
wolves and foxes killed this year in that neighbourhood
surpasses to a considerable extent that of former years.
Five friars of the order of Barefooted Carmelites left
Bordeaux on Sunday fer Marseille,., where they will em-
bark for the mission in Syria. They are first to proceed
to Mount Carmel; where they will be informed of their
ulterior destination.
AUSTRALIA VIA JAVA.—A. society exists in Holland
for promoting the observation of phenomena at sea, and
in its last sitting, which was held a few days ago at
Rotterdam, it was announced that under its auspices
413 nautical instruments had been examined, making a
total of 763 for the two years the society had been nsta•
blished ; also, that in the course of the last year it had
received 40 log nooks kept on Lieutenant Maury's plan,
and had distributed 103 each books or charts. An ac-
count was besides given to the society of the sailing of
vessels to Australia and Java by what has been indicated
as the shortest route ; the experiments made being
proved by 500 extracts from log books to be satisfactory.
ENTERTAINMENT AT LINCOLN'S-INN HALL TO THE
NEW BARON OF THE EXCHEQUER.—Yesterday morning
the benchers of Lincoln's•ima entertained W. IL Wat-
son, Eget., one of the benchers of the inn, the breakfast,
in the New Hall, Lincoln's-inn, on the occasion of his
elevation as one of the barons ofthe Court of Exchequer.
The attendance of benchers was most numerous, and
the learned baron received the congratelations of all pre-
sent, After the entertainment the ceremony of ringing
out t•)le place—a custom always followed on the elevate
tion of a member of the inn to the bench.
FRAUD BY A CONTRACTOR.—A letter from Breslau of
the 28th ult., in the Journal di Frankfort, states that a
considerable sensation has been caused there by the
arrest of M. Sch—n, one of the largest manufacturers cf
cloth and blankets at Stockeieau, and contractor for the
supply of the army. This arrest is connected with some
extensive frauds committed by the military equipment
eammission. Between 30 and 40 other persons are impli-
cated in the affair. The military authorities have de-
manded that all the landed property of M. Sch—n,
amounting in value to 600,0008.. should be placed un-
der Sequestration. The great majority of the clerks em-
ployed by the above comeaission are mixed up in this
fraud, which, it appears, has been going on since 1848.
The loss to the State amounts to nearly 2,000,0001
A WoLF SHOT.—A journal of Aix (Bouches du Rhone)
ss
iadyisn
gt
just
ta
outsidefew days t
that
to
city,a gentleman
bneaetne named Estelle,
informed -
a strange animal had penetrated into an enclosure belong-
iugtit
to
him,
guns
ent
t
hewre
provided loadedich, on seeing them, boldly Ad-
vanced, with slugs, and followed by
accompanied by a friend, both
several peasants armed with pitchforks or clubs. They
found
ith foam at its mouth, and prepared
to
stpid ri a
but both gentlemen fired at the same
lg oyoungn them
growling,ewu o
il wolf,
moment, and the animal received one shot in the head,
aunt her in the breast. Ile fell, but made desperate et-
tempts to rise, and a third shot killed him outright. The
appearance of wolves so early is considered an indication
of a severe winter.

How TO CONVERSE PROPERLY.—This, too, is a prin-
cipal point to attend to—knowledge how to converse—
to interrogate without over-earnestness, to answer with-
out desire of display, not to interrupt a profitaole speaker
nor desire ambitiously to put in a word of one's own, to
be measured in speaking and hearing, not to be ashamed
of receiving, or to be grudging of giving information, nor
to pass another'a knowledge for one's own. The middle
tone of voice is best ; neither so low as to be inaudible,
nor ill-bred from its high pitch. Oae should reflect first
What he is going to say, and then give it utterance : be
courteous when addressed, amiable in social intercourse,
not aiming to be pleasant by facetiousness, but cultivat-
ing gentleness in kind admonitions. Harshness is ever
to be put aside, even in censuring.—Home Magazine.
The public sales of foreign and colonial wool,
being the last series this year, commenced yester-
day afternoon. There was a very numerous at-
tendance of buyers, both home and foreign, and
the biddings were spirted. The choice descrip-
tions of Australian advanced about id. per lb.,
as compared with the rates obtained at the last
sales ; and all other descriptions commanded full
quotations. These auctions, at which about 49,000
bales will be offered, close on the 29th of this
month.