The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-17 00:00:00

WINDSOR, SEPT. 16.

Lady Sophia Sydney left yesterday for Bolton-row, Picca-
dilly, and Lady Augusta Kennedy Erskine for her villa near
St. Margaret's, Isleworth.
Colonel and Lady Isabella Wemyss arrived at the Castle
yesterday, on a visit to their Majesties.
Their Majesties drove out together yesterday for some boars
in an open carriage in the Great Park.
Sir Andrew Barnard left yesterday for his residence in Wil-
ton-crescent.

Viscount and Viscountess Falkland are expected to leave to-
morrow for town, on their way to their seat in Durham.
The King took an early drive in his pony phaeton this morn-
ing, accompanied by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville. In the afternoon
his Majesty drove out again with the Queen in an open ba-
rouche.

Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta paid a visit to their
Majesties this morning in the course of her drive, and after-
wards returned to her residence at Frogmore.
To-morrow morning (this day), at eleven, the King will
leave the Castle for St. James's Palace, but is expected to re-
turn in the evening in time for dinner.
We are happy to state their Majesties are both in the en-
joyment of good health. The Court will leave Windsor on
the Ist of November, for the Royal Pavillion, Brighton, an&
will remain there until the commencement of February.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

=There is this week a good arrival of Wheat, bat not much Other
grain reported. The \%heat trade remains dull at the terms of
Monday, Barley continues as last reported, Beans and Pease are
unvaried. Oats meet a fair sale at the last quotations. In the Flour
trade transactions are limited.

ARRIVALS
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Flour,
English
Irish - 900 ..—.
850
Foreign

Chatsworth is now very gay; visitants are arriving
daily ; before the end of the present week the chateau will be
full. The sports of the field and the wonders of the Peak
oc-
cupy the mornings ; cards and music the evening.
THE DARTMOUTH FAMILY.---The Earl and
Countess arc on a tour; the Dowager and the Ladies Legge
leave Dartmouth House, Blackheath, today for Brighton.
Lord Feversham has returned to town to complete
some family arrangements, and next week his Lordship goes to
buncombe Park,

SAVINGS* B.A.:NKs.----The sum paid into the Irish
Savings' Bards last year amounted to 1,100,9991. Bs. 9d., and
the paid out in the same time was 588,591/. 2s. 3d. The
1 total deposits in the Savings' Banks amount now to 14,402,0001.
—Freeman's Journal.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The inconsistency of the Times is not confined to
its attacks on Lord Brougham. The Bishop of Lon-
don is now distinguished by its vituperation. Although
we are no great admirers of his Lordship, and differ
with him in many points as to Church Reform, and
the sentiments expressed in a Charge lately delivered
to his clergy—to which we shall in a few days call the
attention of our readers—yet we cannot but remember
reading in the Times journal, in June last, a brief
report of the same Charge, which was denominated
admirable ; but then this was before Bishop Bloonlfleld
made his admirable speech in the House of Lords, in
which Ze so ably combated that Right Reverend
Father in God, Bishop Phillpotts, whom the consistent
Times took under its protection. There are, we
understand, many private motives which have actuated
the Times in its hostility to the Lord Chancellor ;
but the open attack upon his Lordship—the thunder
of the great Jupiter—was not heard till his
Lordship—taking the task from Earl Grey—made
his splendid speech in the House of Lords on moving
the second reading of the POOR-LAWS Bill. The
Times tells us that his Lordship is now "starring "
it, and that the Reform Bill and the Poor-laws " are
repeated, day after day, to overflowing and delighted
audiences." And the Times speaks TRUTH ; the au-
diences are overflowing, and they are delighted at hear-
ing and seeing their countryman again. And well may
Lord Brougham be proud of referring to these mea-
sures. Whilst he triumphantly rides on, public opi-
• nion goes with him, and urges them as his " chevaux
de-bataille," as our contemporary has it. But we are
old enough to remember that *there was a time when
both those measures were in " constant requisition"—
the interminable themes of adulation, not to the
readers only, but the conductors of the Times ;
but, as our correspondent, One of the Middle
Classes, justly observed, " The -Times should now
qffix a scythe over the dial of its emblematic frontis-
piece." We said that the beneficial operation of one of
these measures would soon be developed by the Times
Journal; and we perceive, by a letter in that paper yes-
terday, from Mr. Leech, the vestry-clerk of the parish
of Ratcliffe, that the details of the cases referred to,
and which excited the " sentimentality" of our con-
' temporary, afford still stronger proofs of the benefits
which may be expected from the new Poor Laws Bill ;
and we Hy before our readers the testimony of one
who has so many opportunities, in a very populous and
poor parish, of estimating the present, with what he
contemplates under the new regime. " I have no he-
sitation in saying, that if the parish 9.fficers had pos-
sessed the same discretionary power years ago,
which the Poor Laws Amendment Act now gives
them, the relief to these (the Higgins and Kennedys,
&c.) and many other persons similarly situated, would
have ceased long ago."—(Mr. Leech, Times,
Sept. 15.) We, on Monday, alluded to the ac-
counts which we had received from many parts of
- the country of the beneficial results which the opera-
tion of this bill is already producing ; that the farmers
and many practical persons are astonished at the hos-
tility of some portion of the press to the bill, and the
satisfaction generally expressed by masters being re-
lieved from the necessity of dismissing servants for a
time, to avoid allowing them (as under the old law)
to gain a settlement. The observations of the Lord
Chancellor on this head are so forcible that we are in-
duced to transcribe them. After a just eulogy of
the old custom of boarding the servants and labour-
ers in the farm-house, where they were under the
domestic control, and where parental superintendence
was exercised by the master over the men, and
where there was the moral sanction of 'the matron
of the family over the maids, Lord Brougham ob-
serves—" Of late years all this has been sadly
changed : farm servants are hired for eleven months
and a half, they are then turned out of the house lest
they should obtain a settlement ; and the consequence
is, that they spend half the time before they are hired
again at the ale-house, to which they never thought of
going before, except on a merry-making day, once in
several months. The consequence of this has been,
that the habits of the servants have become more dis-
solute from constant change of place, and that an un-
fortunate stimulus has been given to the progress of
population by labourers living in cottages. The effect
of this interval of a fortnight or three weeks, during
which the servants are necessarily out of all places and
moving about to fairs and markets, has been fatal to their
habits and their morals. I can state this, my Lords, from
my own experience and observation. I have also heard
from others, numerous instances in which men
have become idle and dissolute by being turned out in
this way. But if the system is bad for the men, it is
a great deal worse for the female servants ; for what is
to become of a poor girl, with a father and mother fifty
. miles off; who has nothing to do and no where to go,
but to run about from one market- to another ? My
Lords, it is quite in vain to doubt that during that
fortnight she has every chance of losing her character,
and of becoming a very different person from what she
was before." If the bodily labourer be " worthy of
his hire," then assuredly is Lord Brougham, by
whose mental exertions these two great measures
were developed and promoted, justly entitled to
his meed of reward. That reward he is now
obtaining —" the delight and approbation of his
countrymen I" Lord B. is certainly, as the Times
states, a great actor ; but the difference between his
Lordship and the great stars to which he is compared,
is, that while they attract by borrowed light, Lord
Brougham moves in his own hemisphere, a luminary
reflecting light on others. " One star differeth from
another star," as one " vessel" from another ; one is
made to honour and glory—another to dishonour and
subserviency. Let the Times take heed that the
" light," which still remains in it be not " darkness ;"
for, to use its own former emphatic language, when
the sun in its dial reflected the rays of truth, he whom
it now assails " safe in the pre-eminent excellence of
his character, and in that universal esteem which al-
ways follows merit, looks down (from his exalted re-
gion) with compassion, not unmixed with derision, on
petty plots and bustling I)obadilism."—ellorn ing
Chronicle.
Lord Brougham, in his late address to the Town
Council of Inverness, when alluding to the attacks
which have been recently made upon him by certain
portions of the press, more than once expressed his
utter " indifference ' about them. But Lord Brougham
should know that poor human nature, when even un-
der the guidance of a gigantic mind like his, still in-
herits the infirmities and the weaknesses which is her
earthly doom. One of these infirmities is to imagine
• that the world does not see through the flimsy disguise
in which often we endeavour to conceal our real im-
pressions. Lord Brougham ought to have known
that the more he reiterated his indifference, the more
the greater part of his hearers would be inclined to be-
lieve exactly the reverse. Censure, or, at all
events, slander, generally derives its importance
from the notice which men take of it ; and if we
would really be thought indifferent to it, we must
generally receive it in silence. That we take the
right view of Lord Brougham's alleged " indiffe-
rence" his Lordship has not left us long to wait for
the confirmation of. At Aberdeen his Lordship thus
expresses himself :—" You will be all aware of the
absurd, and stupid, and indefensible attacks which
have been showered against me, not one word of which
is true or deserved ; but," said the Lord Chancellor,
in an impassioned manner, " a day of retribution is at
hand it approaches. I have allowed certain persons
to go on. They have gone on—the net is enclosed
• around them, and they shall soon be held up to ridicule
and to scorn—ay, and topunishment. And his Lord-
ship concludes his address in the same strain The
falsehood of these attacks all shall be made to believe
in a very short time—except, perhaps, one or two con-
temptible individuals ; but although they may not be
* " All we can say of the plan contained in this Bill is,
that it is less revolting to the feelings than others which we
have heard from men of acknowledged virtue and humanity.
Times, April 22.
Again, April 19th, " The law of bastardy is substantially
amended, by. throwing the support of the illegitimate child
upon the vicious mother; in the present condition of the poor
laws, facilities are given to women to make a trade of swearing
children to those men who can best pay for their support," &c.
" This order of offence will be got rid of by this Bill."
Again, " The disastrous marriages which so frequently follow
the birth of bastard children, and which so often end tragi-
cally for child, mother, or both, are henceforth less likely to '
happen."