The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-25 00:00:00

REFORM FESTIVAL AT BOX, WILTS.

Quantities imported into thelJnited Kingdom
in the Month ended July 1, 1832.

Imported from
Foreign
Countries.

Qrs. Bus.
37,384 0
3,760 1
1,846 3

752 1
5,281 2

366 6

47,390 5

Cwts. qrs. lb.

20,779 2 8

20,779 2 9

4,883 1

Cwts. qrs. lb.

159 1 21

0 0 1

159 1 al

The Produce
of, and Im-
ported from,
British Posses.
sinus out of
Europe.

Qrs. Bus.'
V 5 4

406 4

Cwts. qrs. lb,

5,779 1 19

6,401 1

Cwts. qrs. lb.

Total.

Qrs. Bus.
37,789 4

752 1
5,281 2

366 6

6,123 1 26

6,123 1 26

47,796 1

Cwts. gm lb.

26,557 3 27

for Home Con.
ingdom in the

11,284 2

Cwts. qrs. lb.

6,282 3 0

0 0

6,252 3 1

Quantities remaining in Warehouse in the
United Kingdom on July 1, 1E4..12.

" To Mr. Betts. "

Imported from
Foreign
Countries.

Qrs. Bus.
616,1'86 7
9.0,412 2
278,059 7
2,470 2

2;317 6
24,139 1

385 5

944,569 6

The Produce
of, and Im.
ported from,
British Posses-
sions out of
Europe.

Qrs. Bus,
63,340 5

63,340 5

Cwts. qrs. lb.

Cwts. qrs. lb.

347,312 3 12

20,110 2 9
82 2 11
56 1 26

1 3 0

1,007,900 3

Cwts. qrs. lb.

667,423 1 21
82 2 11
56 1 26

1 3 0

This truly interesting fete, which took place on Friday,
the 21st instant, spontaneously originated with the
tiadeamen and agriculturi-ts of this beautiful and ruin n-
eic village, situate about five miles distant from Bath.
The morning was auspicous—early ringing and firing of
bells, accompanied with repeated discharges of musketry,
announced to the inhabitants that the day's rejoicing had
commenced. At mid-day most of the labourers and jour.
neymen mechanics, with their wives and families, and the
whole of the poor parishioners, met opposite " Middle
Hill Spa-house," and there were formed into 18 cornpa-
niea of 60 each, preceded by two of the Committee, and
banners. bearing the following► mottoes :—" King and the
People"—" Britons rejoice, Tyranny is subdued"—" Free-
dom's cause and the Rights of the People"—two Union
Jacks, " May the British Lion never rise in anger or lie
down in fear." The procession so formed proceeded thence,
with an excellent band at its head, to a field in the village
belonging to a g-ntleman of the ancient family of Pinsent,
who cheerfully and heartily granted its use for what he
choosed to term the " sacred purpose." There the whole
precession, amounting to one thousand and upwards, were
plentifully regaled with good roast beef and excellent
strong beer. The scene was imposingly gratifying, and
the patriotic tunes played by the band, during the dinner,
tended to enliven the pleasure of thousands of spectators,
among whom many females of great beauty and fashion
were observed to be the grace and ornament of the assem-
blage. As soon as the cloth was removed, Messrs. Pin-
chin and Wilton, churchwardens, and other gentlemen of
the parish, gave the toasts and music as follows :--
" The King"—tune, God save the King;' " Earl Grey
and his Majesty's Ministers"—tune, Rule Britannia ;' " The
glorious cause of Reform," &c. &c., all of which were
well received, and especially the one relative to Reform,
with almost deafening plaudits. Dancing commenced
early, and refreshments for the ladies were profusely
handed about, to which stock Mr. Bullock, wine-mer-
chant, sent from his extensive establishment, Bath, a
large hamper of choice wines. About ten o'clock the
company left the field after having given three hearty
cheers for the cause of Reform. It reflects the highest
credit on the Committee who managed this demonstration
of popular feeling, that not a single instance of ebriety or
insubordination occurred, and that every countenance ap-
peared to he delighted with the day's festivity! ! The
staunch Reformers, Messrs. Brewers, of Rudloe, in the
Caine patriotic spirit, entertained at their great stone works,
in the same parish, a numerous body of their workmen
with smoking-hot roasted beef, plumb pudding, and an
unstinted quantity of fine old October !

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sr a,— At the commencement of the present session ofPar-
liament, Mr. D. Whittle Harvey gave notice that he intruded
to move the repeal of the stamp duty on the admission of
freemen to the enjoyment of municipal rights in boroughs.
As the Reform Bill is now become the law of the land,
and the political rights of the people are secured, the free
admission to the municipal rights of boroughs appears to
be not only necessary to consummate their independence,
but equally so to provide an efficient government in them,
and to render the constituted authorities respected. We
are not aware that any further steps have been taken to-
wards so desirable a subject by Mr. D. W. Harvey, or
that the Government have any plan in contemplation to
remove the inconvenience of the present system. We
trust, however, that some public-spirited Member of the
House of Commons will take the earliest opportunity of
carrying into effect the entire subjugation of borough
usurpation, by obtaining a repeal of the stamp duty on ad-
mission, and by extending the municipal and judicial juris-
diction equidistant with the electoral districts. As the
unconstitutional monopoly of political power is nearly an-
nihilated, to check, as much as possible, the overwhelming
influence of property in the hands of designing men, it is
highly necessary that the close corporations, the fast-hold
of corruption, should be entirely destroyed. The exist-
ence of any permanent public body, either avowedly, or
not, for the purpose of promoting the local influence or in-
terest of any man, or set of men, will, in the end, be detri-
mental to, if not destructive of. the principle of public
lib rty. Public bodies of any kind should not be encou-
raged, or suffered to exist, but for the general benefit of
3mo 1 the public.
1,848 3 I Rye, July 23. AN ELECTOR OF RYE.

IADVERTISTII FliT.l
PATENT BRANDY VERSUS CHOLERA.

The following are IMPORTANT FACTS, with which the
public, at the present moment, ought to be fully acquainted.
First,—Tliat BETTS'S " PATENT FRENCH DISTILLED

BRANDY" is the only known pure Spirit in the World !
Secondly,—That while it possesses all the valuable pro-
perties which characterise the finest Cognac Brandy, it
is free from those acids which that spirit is known to

contain, and which are now so desirable to he avoided.
Thirdly,—That unlike other Spirits, the Patent Brandy
will not produce nausea or head. ache; hut, on the con-
trary, from its essential purity will be found congenial
to the most &Beate constitution, and an invaluable sub-
stitute to persons of bilious and ant► digestive habits.

Fourthly,—That as an ordinary beverace, diluted in the
proportion of six to one, (as recommended by the first
Physicians), it is beyond all calculation preferable to
malt and other fermentable liquors, while its moderate
price brings it within the reach of nearly every class of

consumers.
Fifthly,—That all the faculty who are acquainted with the
transcendant merits of the Patent Brandy, recommend it

in preference to French Brandy for medicinal purposes.
Sixthly,—That it has been analyzed by a great number of
the most celebrated Chemists, whose opinions are una-
nimous as to its decided superiority, and from whose
certificates the two following extracts are made :
From JOHN THOMAS COOPER, Esq., Lecturer on Che-
mistry at the Medical School in Ablersgate-street—

" Your Brandy is free from uncombined acid and as•
" tringent matter, which exists more or less in most of
" the Brandies imported from France."

From JOSEPH Hums, Esq., of Long Acre, Chemist to
his Majesty—

" I am bound to say, and do assert it with confidence,
" that for purity of spirit, this cannot be surpassed, and
" that your Patent Brandy is also quite free from those
" acids which, though minute in quantity, always conta-
" minute the Foreign Spirit."
" J. T. Betts, Esq."

J. T. BETTS and Co. deem it expedient to state, that
their only Eqablishment is at No. 7, Smithfield-bars,
(Icadin, to St. John-street,) where the Patent Brandy,
either Pale or Coloured, may be had in quantities of not
less than two gallons, at 18s. per imperial gallon.
N.B.—A liberal discount to the trade.

His MAJESTY has given the Stud-house,
with the surrounding grounds, to the Earl of ALBEMARLE
as a mark of his respect. This does not look as though
his MAJESTY was unfavourable to the Whigs; for a more
staunch supporter of Mr. Fox's politics never sat among
the Peers. For two and thirty years the present Master
of the Horse has never given an inconsistent vote.

The next Number of the New Monthly Ma-
gazine, to be published the Ist of August, will contain,
we understand, among various other papers of great inte-
rest, the continuation of Lady BLISSINGTON's journal of
her conversations with Lord BYftszqr, comprising an ori-
ginal and very extraordinary poem by his Lordship.
DRAMATIC COMMITTEE.—Mr. RAYNER,
not being able to attend before the Committee, in conse-
quence of several provincial engagements, transmitted
from Harrogate, last week, through the bands of Mr. T.
DUNCOMBE, the following opinion and observations
The two great houses should be called upon to produce
their patents; the spirit of the conditions on which they
were granted (if I am rightly informed) runs thus :
" For the advancement of our morals—the refinement of
taste—and the improvement of Dramatic Literature."
Now, should such be the language of those grants, then
will the following question necessarily obtrude itself :
Has the production of " The Dog of Montargis,"," Jack
the Giant Killer," 6‘ The Lions of Mysore," and 500
other pieces of a similar description, tended to " the
advancement of our morals—the refinement of taste—and
the improvement of our Literature ?" Should the answer to
this question be in the negative, then are the patents
Of any there be in existence) void, by so glaring a depar-
ture from the conditions of the grant ; but if their past
transgressions are to be overlooked, and they are reinstated
in their patent rights, they ought to be bound by some
restrictive law never, in future, to represent melodrame,
burlesque, or pantomime, or in fact, any thing but what
tends to the advancemens, &c. With regard to the con-
sorship of the drama, it is in my opinion highly expedient
that one should exist; but, with all respect for the illus-
trious Duke, to whom that power is, at this time, dele-
gated, believing as I do both in his general liberality and
impartiality, I cannot help thinking that such power would
be better vested with a body than with any single officir
of the Crown. It would, in the frailty of our nature, be
safer from the influence of private trienes‘iip, or the more
powerful spell charm of a petticoat.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

Yesterday James Lakin, a diminutive man, of
pale and cadaverous aspect, was brought before Al-
derman Sir C. MARSHALL, charged with creat-
ing a disturbance in F nsbury-circus.
A policeman, while on duty that morning in Fins-
bury-square, was informed by a tradesman of that
neighbourhood that a small man was kicking up a
terrible piece of work in the Circus, and frighten-
ing men, women, and children, who suspected that
he had escaped from a madhouse, and would do
some serious injury before he was captured. The
policeman said upon the fact being mentioned to
him, he hastened to the Circus, and saw the de.
feudant in the midst of a mob of about two hundred
persona; he had neither coat or shoes on; his wig
was turned the wrong way, and he danced and ca-
pered about for all the world like a mountebank,
making all sorts of wry faces, such as he (the po-
liceman) had never seen except in the theatre. The
defendant's pranks were not confined to gesticu-
lation alone, bet every now and then he set up a
loud and discordant noise, similar to the bray-
ing of an ass, and the imitation was so natural as
to cause shouts of laughter from the persons by
whom he was surrounded. " I made my way,
(added the policeman) through the crowd as well
as I could, and, going up to the defendant, I said,
my friend, you are kicking up h—ll's delights here—
you must not do so, for, if you do, I must be neces-
sitated to take you to the station-house, With that
he dared me to take him, and became so obstreper-
ous, that at length (continued the policeman) I was
necessitated to collar him, and on the way to the
station he kicked, struck, and hit me, and, if I had
not happened to be the better man of the two he would
have demolished me, as sure as I stand here before
your Worship."

The ALDERMAN said, that from the policeman's
account of the affair, the defendant must have con-
ducted himself in a very riotous and disorderly man-
ner. The defendant was then asked what he was
and from whence he had come ? In reply he said,
" Please your Worship, I am a poor tailor from the
west-end; I took a drop too much yesterday morn-
ing, and not being in the habit of drinking so early
on an empty stomach, it took an effect on me."

The ALDERMAN asked him what he had been
drinking, and whether he had not seen men going
about the streets with placards cautioning persons to
beware of thinking liquors during the prevalence
of the epidemic? Defendant—" Your Worship, I
never drinks liquor, I had only six pints of ale, and
the members of our society say that a man may
drink a couple of gallons without the lest dread of
the Cholera."

The ALDERMAN said that it appeared that he(the de-
fendant) was drunk at the time, and he must there-
fore pay the usual fine for the offence. The de-
fendant had spent all his money, and had nothing
about him but his thimble and a pair of sheers,
which he had no objection to leave in the hands of
the officers until he paid the fine.
The ALDERMAN, in discharging the defendant,
cautioned him to keep ou: of the City when he got
drunk.

The defendant, on quitting the Justice-room, said
that he must have been Tad drunk to stray all the
way from the neighbourhood of Golden-square into
the City.