The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-21 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.

Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Moore, and Lord Pal-
merston, are candidates for this borough. The number
of electors registered for Lambeth is 2,083, and for the
whole borough, including Camberwell and Newington,
will be about 3,500. The friends of the two former
have, for some months, been actively canvassing the elec-
tors in their behalf; and Mr. Moore's pretensions as a re-
sident have been long known to the inhabitants at large.
A few highly respectable and influential individuals,
however, duly appreciating the benefits, and desirous,
more especially, to evince their gratitude to the Admini-
stration, who, " through good report and evil report," have
conferred upon them the privilege, for the first time, of
exercising the elective franchise—opposing firmly any ma-
terial alterations in the Bill, especially the motion of the
Marquis of Chandos, which would have deprived the me-
tropolitan districts of the right conferred on the country
at large,—have lately been induced to solicit Lord Pal-
merston to offer himself as a candidate.

In a few days the signatures of upwards of 300 electors
in Lambeth alone were attached to the requisition. The
answer of his Lordship responds to the wishes of requisi-
tionists; his reply to the deputation, assuring them " that
he highly appreciated this unsolicited mark of approval of
his public conduct, which was no less gratifying to his
feelings as an individual than flattering to him as a Mini-
ster of the Crown."

His Lordship and Mr. Tennyson, it is believed, will be
the successful candidates, the electors having practical
proofs of their sincerity as reformers,—Times.

The Marchioness WELLESLEY has left Ted-
desley Park, Staffordshire, the seat of E. J. LITTLITON,
Esq., M,P. for Buxton.

The CHANCELLOR has dismissed Mr. fIocH-
FORT, of Walshestown, from the commission of the peace,
for presiding at an anti-tithe meeting at Lusk.—Dablin
Evening Mail.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.—The accounts from
Abbotsford continue to be very gloomy.—Scotsman.

During the great struggle between France and
England, JEFFERSON characterised them as " the mam-
moth of the land and the leviathan of the sea."

SONIERVILLE, the soldier, has obtained his
discharge. A subscription of upwards of 3001. has been
raised, in small sums, to enable him to settle in life.

A bookseller in Paris being lately asked for
a copy of the Constitution of 1814, replied, " Sir, I keep
no Periodicals."

" The Charter shall henceforth be a verity,"
said once a King. These words remind us of the village-
barber's sign :—" Shave well here for nothing—to-mor-
row."— Corsaire.

PEN AND SWORD.—CulOilel HODGES, who
commands the English brigade in the service of Don
PEDRO, was editor of a weekly periodical in the metro-
polis a short time before he left this country.

Among the unclaimed letters now lying at the
Post-office there ie one with the following enigmatical su-
perscription :—" A Mester Mester Jonson, Sep-Mekeler
Beforan Mester Chriestaen."

Of all the crops of the present abundant
season, that of barley is reported to be the most prolific ;
in many instances the produce appearing to be double that
of an average crop.

CHOLERA.—We are happy to say that Hali-
fax and Huddersfield are free from this disease. At Leeds
it continues severe, and Manchester is suffering greatly.—
Halifax Express.

MONUMENT TO GUTENBERG.-It is pro-
posed to raise a monument in Mentz, by public subscrip-
tion and the support of all nations, to the inventor of the
art of printing.—Foreiyn Quarterly Review.

COBBETT.—It isstated that COBBETT'S re-
turn for Oldham is certain. We long to see the old egotist
in Parliament, not from the good he is to do, God knows,
but for the sport he is likely to occasion..—Scotsman.

PETERHEAD, AUG. 15, 1832.—The her-
ring fishery here, this season, Ills been, with few excep-
tions, prosecuted with abundant success. On Monday and
Tuesday last, upwards of 1,000 crane were brought i❑
each day.

A PERTINENT QUESTION.-A little girl on
hearing her mamma say she intended changing her dress
for half•mourning, replied, looking up in her face with
great archness, " Pray, dear Ma, are any of our relations
half dead?"

CLIMAX.—A lecturer on the history of chy-
mistry thus described the celebrated Mr. BOYLE : He
was a great man, a very great man, he was the father of
modern chymistry, and the brother of the Earl of CORK."
—,elthenceum.

BASINGSTOKE.--We had a good supply of
new wheat at market on Wednesday, which comes very
fine to hand, and met a reduction in price of full 4s. per
quarter. In all other kinds of grain no difference. Bread
remains as before, notwithstanding the fall in wheat.

Lord Chancellor BROUGHAM'S motto, " Pro
rege, lege, grege," is not newly assumed, as it would ap-
pear to be. It has been long borne by the family, and is
to be seen in an old apartment at Brougham Hall, of the
age of Queen ELIZABETH.

Grouse shooting commenced on Monday
last. The birds are said to be numerous upon the moors
in this county, but are strong upon the wing, and ex-
tremely shy. Comparatively few birds have been bagged.
—Carlisle Journal.

About three weeks ago, at Litherland, a man
named PRICE threw a boy who offended him into a boiler
of hot water! The poor little fellow died in consequence a
few days ago. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned
against PRICE, who is to take his trial at the ensuing as-
sizes at Lancaster.

The most high, most puissant, and most excel-
lent Revolution of July, Queen of the Barricades, and
Princess of the Three Days, is going to be married i❑
Germany forthwith :—already the people of the Con-
federation of the Rhine dispute amongst themselves for her
hand.— Corsaire.

A bottle of sherry brought up from the
Royal George, sunk at Spithead, has, within these few
days, been presented to Cr JAMES GRAB M, by the per-
sons engaged in working at the vessel; pieces of the
wreck and other articles have also been presented to Earl
GREY and Lord ALTiroar.

Samples of new wheat and oats were shown
in HAwick market on Thursday last. All the crops,
which are mostly good, are fast getting ripe, and harvest
will be general in a few days. The hay crop is parcularly
abundant. In Hawick, during the last week, upwards of
GOO cart loads (about 40,000 stones) were weighed.—
Kelso Mail.

BENTITAM.—The Edinburgh Review, talk-
ing of BENTHAM and the parties of flatterers and detractors
which he had during his lifetime, says—" He will now
have judges—posterity will pronounce its calm and impar-
tial decision; and that decision will, we firmly believe,
place i❑ the same rank with GALILEO and LOCKE the man
who had found Jurisprudence a gibberish, and left it a
science."

The carriage of Prince TALLEYRAND, on
his way from Compiegne to Paris, was overturned with
great violence at sonic distance from Bourbon l'Archam-
bault. The Prince was not hurt, but the Princess
PomAzowsxi, sister of the illustrious PONIATOWSKI, who
accompanied M. DE TALLEYRAND, was so seriously injured
that she had an immediate attack of apoplexy, and her life
is despaired of.

When SHELLEY, the poet, was drowned in
the squall off the coast of Italy, his death must have come
upon him and his party when they were quite unprepared.
When found he had his hand locked in his waistcoat
pocket, where he had in his haste, says Captain MEOWIN,
thrust a volume of BEAT'S poems, showing that he had
been reading to the last moment, and had not made the
slightest struggle to save himself.

DESCENT OF THE BISHOPS.—The present
amialA and respected Primate of all ENGLAND chances to
be the son of a poor country clergyman. The Bishop of
LONDON derives his descent from a schoolmaster in Nor-
wich. The father of the Bishop of DURHAM was nothing
more than a shopkeeper in London. The Bishops of
WINCHESTER and CHESTER boast no nobler lineage than
belongs to the sons of an under-master at Harrow. Bishop
BURGESS, as all the world knows, is the son of that illus-
trious citizen with whose excellent fish-sauce civilized men
are generally well acquainted ;
while his Lordship of
EXETER dates his parentage through a long line of heredi-
tary innkeepers in the town of Gloucester. Besides these,
we have the Bishop of Baa,rot., the son of a silversmith in
London ; the Bishop of BANGOR, the son of a school-
master in Wallingford ; the Bishop of LLANDAFF, whose
father was a country clergyman; with many others, whom

it were superfluous to enumerate. LINCOLN', ST. ASAPII
ELY, PETERBOROUGH, GLOUCESTER, all spring from the
middling classes of society.—Fraser's Magazine.
COMPARATIVE CONDITIONS.—One of the
greatest arts, says JOHNSON, of escaping superfluous un-
easiness is to free our minds from the habit of comparing
our condition with that of (abets o❑ whom the blessings
of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary
states of delight and security perhaps unattainable by mor-
tals. Few are placed in a situation so gloomy and dis-
tressful as mot to see every day beings yet more forlorn and
miserable, from whom they may learn to rejoice in their
own lot.

On Sunday, the 12th instant, four porters,
employed to carry patients to the cholera hospital at Killi-
neer, were sent to fetch a cholera patient from a cottage
in the neighbourhood. Instead of hastening back with
the sufferer, they carried him to the house of his landlord,
Mr. CA RNEY, at the Red Mountain, where they threat-
ened to leave him unless they were supplied with whisky ;
from thence they conveyed him to Mr. THomrsotes house
at Killineer, hut upon their approach being observed the
gates were closed, which so enraged them that they at-
tempted to pull them down. They then proceeded with
their burden towards town, stopping at almost every
house on their way, and demanding whiskey. At length
they reached the hospital, but the patient was so far gone
that he expired in half an hour after his arrival.—
Drogheda Journal.

It was formerly usual among the Battas (in-
habitants of Sumatra) for the people to eat their parents
when too old for work. The old people selected the ho•
rizontal branch of a tree, and quietly suspended themselves
by their hands, while their children and neighbours,
farming a circle, danced round them, crying out, " When
the fruit is ripe then it will fall." This practice took
place during the season of limes, when salt and pepper
were plenteous ; and as soon as the victims became fatigued,
and could hold on no longer, they fell down, when all
hands cut them up, and made a hearty meal of them.
The palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are the
delicacies. This practice, however, of eating the old
people has been abandoned, and thus a step in civilization
has been attained, and therefore there are hopes of future
improvement.—Life of Sir T. S. Raffles.
DREADFUL CANNIBALISM IN FIFESIIIRE.
—On the occasion of a public dinner at St. Andrew's, we
learn from the Fife Herald of Thursday, that " as early
as six o'clsck the Market-street was crowded with indivi-
duals, who were served up, to the number of 900, with
beef, porter, and bread."

The cause assigned for the President of the
United States having placed his veto on the Bill for the
renewal of the Bank Charter is, that the Members who
control the affairs of the Bank are adverse to the Presi-
dent's re-election ; and he hopes, by dissolving the estab-
lishment, to deprive them of their influence, and, at the
same time, to win over to his side the partners i❑ those
Provincial Banks whose interests were injured by the
rivalry of the National institution.

Extract of a private letter read at the Inver-
ness Board of Health yesterday :—" Portmahomack,
13th Aug. 1832.—Cholera has made its appearance
amongst us. Since the 4th inst. there have been eighteen
deaths, of whom 14 have died since four o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon. Hardly any that are attacked recover ;
some stand only nine or ten hours, and others 24. The
inhabitants are half dead with fright. We have two doc-
tors attending from Tain. This trouble has made a wil.
derness of the place ; there is neither herrings nor boats,
business or shipping."—lnverness Courier, Wednesday.

As instances how little the provision respect-
ing the payment of taxes interferes to exclude from the
lists persons otherwise qualified to become electors, we may
mention that the Blackburn Mail of Wednesday states
that the number of persons disqualified in that borough,
by reason of the non-payment of rates, is only 19 ; and
we have been assured on, we believe, first-rate authority,
that the number in the same situation in Bolton is not
more than 10. So much for the restrictive provision of
the Reform Act, where the people are disposed to do their
duty to themselves.—Manchester Guardian.
SUPERFINE WRITING.--Mr. ATTWOOD'S
entry into Whitehaven is described in glowing terms in the
Carlisle conservative Paper. "In the whole range of
probable or possible circumstances," says the Editor, "we
eannot conceive any thing more gratifying than this splen-
did reception must have been to the feelings of Mr. Arr-
woon. He was evidently moved by it; and while gazing
upon his keen eye and expressive features, every line of
which hears the stamp of intellect in legible characters, we
could discern the shades of emotion passing over his coun-
tenance like the thin silvery clouds over Me full moon in
an autumnal sky."
DELICATE OPERATION.—AbOUt a fort-
night ago, a boy, nine years of age, son of Mr. Josxrar
TAYLOR, of Middleton, found an iron button, which he
incautiously put into his mouth, and whilst he was in the
act of jumping, it passed into the wind-pipe, and thence
into the lungs. The boy endured the greatest torture, as
whenever be attempted to cough, partial suffocation was
produced. Lust week, Mr. Dacxxx, of Middleton, as-
sisted by five other medical gentlemen, made an incision
in the wind-pipe, with a pair of foreceps of a peculiar
construction, which were passed six inches to the bron-
chus, but they could not extract tte button. The attempt
was renewed on Saturday by Mr. DICKEN and Mr.
SCIIOLFIELD, and, after about three hours, they succeeded
in extracting the object of their search. The case has
excited considerable interest in Middleton and in the
neighbourhood.—Caledonian Mercury.

JOHN HERRING, a blind pensioner, of Prim-
rose-hill, near this city, will make an affidavit that he was
lately called upo❑ by one of Mr. MlLEs's agents, who told
him that if he did not vote for Mr. MILES, he would lose
his pension in less than two years ! The independent
Englishman instantly replied, " I did not mean to vote at
all, but now I will go and register myself for LANGTON
and BRIGSTOCK ; for I am very sure neither of them
would attempt to get a vote from me in this unhandsome
manner.—Bath Herald.

's Edmonton stages,
DREADFUL COACH ACClDENT.—Yester-
day, at nine o'clock, one of AIATTHEWS
when racing with another coach, on turning a sharp angle
near the bridge at Lower Edmonton, was upset. There
were seven outside passengers, one of whom, R. SOPER,
Esq., of Bury-street, Lower Edmonton, was thrown on
his face, by which his nose was split open, and the rest of
his features shockingly mutilated by the sharp stones. His
son, a fine young man in his 21st year, was thrown under
the coach, which crushed him in a most dreadful manner.
Mr. SERENE, surgeon, of Edmonton, who happened to be
one of the
passengers, promptly attended the young man,
and found his left leg shockingly shivered. He was con-
veyed on a shutter to his father's residence in Bury-
street, where he remains with but slight hopes of recovery.
Mr. WATTS, an outside passenger, bad his shoulder dislo-
cated. The rest escaped with trifling contusions. There
were three inside passengers (ladies) none of whom sus-
tained any material injury.

Loss OF SHIPS.—A correspondent of the
Boston Gazette furnishes the following remarkable facts :
—" From an examination of LLoio's Lists, from the
year 1793 to the commencement of 1829, it has appeared
that the number of British vessels alone, lost during that
period, amounted, on an average, to no less than one and
a half daily. We learn from MoaEAu's tables that the
number of merchant-vessels employed at one time in the
navigation of England and Scotland amounts to about
20,000, having one with another a burden of 120 tons.
Out of 551 ships of the Royal navy of England lost to the
country during the period above mentioned, only 160 were
taken or destroyed by the enemy ; the rest having either
stranded or foundered, or having been burnt by accident—
a striking proof that the dangers of naval warfare, how-
ever great, may be far exceeded by the storm, the hurri.
cane, the shoal, and all the other perils of the deep. During
the last great war in Europe, 32 British ships of the line
went to the bottom in the space of 22 years, besides
seven 50• gun ships, 86 frigates, and a multitude of
smaller vessels. The navies of the other European Powers
—France, Holland, Spain, and Denmark,—were almost
annihilated during the same period, so that the aggregate
of their losses must have many times exceeded that of the
kingdom of Great Britain. These numbers, we believe,
very far exceeded what most people would have supposed.
To this immense loss of ships of tvar and of commerce, the
imagination must be left to supply the incalculable amount
of wealth swallowed up with them, and the thousands of
human beings who thus found a watery grave."
On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr.
thoos, at the Millbank Penitentiary, on the body of
THOMAS VICKERS, aged 25, a convict under sentence of
imprisonment in that institution, who died on the pre-
vious evening of an attack of the cholera morbus. Capt.
CHAPMAN, the governor, stated that the deceased was
tried and convicted at the Salford quarter sessions for
stealing two sacks of oats from his master, for which
offence he was sentenced to seven years' transportation.—
This was, however, commuted to five years' imprisonment
i❑ the Penitentiary, and he was received on the 30th of
November, 1831. Mr. JAMES WADE, the surgeon of
the Penitentiary, stated that the deceased Was Seized on

Friday morning, hetiveen seven and eight o'clock, With a
violent attack of the cholera morbus. He was immedi-
ately conveyed to the Infirmary, where every thing possible
was done for him ; but he sank under the attack, and died
about seven o'clock the same evening. He died of the
prevailing epidemic. C,pt. CHAPMAN stated that it was
very singular that a convict named JAMES TURNER, who
was convicted with the deceased at Salford for stealing the
two sacks of oats, died last Wednesday of the cholera
morbus in the Penitentiary, and on whom an inquest had
also been held. The deceased assisted to bear TURNER to
the grave, and in two days after it appeared he bad been
attacked and carried off by the same complaint. The Jury
immediately returned a verdict of—" Died by the visita-
tion of Ga."

Died on the 14th of July, at Old Windsor,
THOMAS POPE, in his 97th year, who had followed the
employment of a shepherd with little exception, from an
age when he received twopence per day, and discharged
the trust reposed in him with great fidelity and honesty.
He was an example to others in the humble station of life
in which he was placed, having brought up a large family
without parochial aid, for which he only applied when his
age rendered him unable to live by the fruits of his labour.
His known good character procured him many friends,
who supplied every want his advanced age required. At
his particular wish his crook and bell were buried with
him—the crook in one band and the bell in the other. He
was followed to the grave by his family, and his master
paid the last mark of respect to so faithful a servant, with
many of the villagers in the mournful train.

Died, at Ayr, on Monday morning, suddenly,
Mr. ALEXANDER WHITE, harbour master's officer. The
deceased was born on the same day with Scotland's darling
poet, BURNS, and under the same roof. It may be re-
membered that a dreadful hurricane prevailed on the night
when the embryo poet entered on the stage of life, and
that he and his mother were removed, withing a few hours
after his birth, from the bed where he was born to the
house of a neighbour, for greater safety, as the cottage oc-
cupied by the parents of BURNS was reckoned insecure—
but it is not so generally known that Mrs. B. and the
infant were placed in the same bed with Mrs. WHITE,
and the individual whose death we are now recording.
Shortly after the removal of I‘lrs. BURNS and the infant,
the gable of the cottage was thrown down, and fell with
tremendous violence upon the bed she had so lately oceu-
pied.—Ayr Observer.

DISTRESSING CASE.—On Sunday week, a
fine young girl, of 15 or 16 years of age, daughter of
DAVID Ross, carpenter, in Tarrel, parish of Tarbet, went
out with a cow to graze. While engaged in tethering the
cow, the animal attacked her, and drove its horns into one
of her sides. She survived the injury a very short time.—
Edinburgh Evening Courant.

PERILOUS DORMITORY.—Some evenings
ago, about twelve o'clock, as a gentleman was proceeding
homewards along the New Bridge, he was surprised to dis-
cover a sou of Neptune, who had been indulging in some-
thing more potent than three-water grog, sound asleep on
the top of the parapet wall of the bridge. The gentle-
man, assisted by another person who came up, firmly hid
hold of the snoozing bacchanalian, and safely placed him
on the causeway of the bridge, very much to his surprise,
as he by no means could account for his having adopted
such a dangerous sleeping place. Had he turned the least
on one side, he must inevitably have tumbled into the river
below, then at high flood.—Ayr Observer.

MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY.—On Tuesday,
as the quarrymen of Mr. CAMPION were clearing away
some earth at the rear of Montgomery-street, they found
the skeleton of a man within a few feet of the surface; a
breast-plate, with " Castledermot Cavalry" inscribed on
it, the buttons of a yeomanry jacket, a pair of spurs, the
swivel of a belt, a cartouch box, a few old halfpence, and
part of a pair of boots. It is thought by the people gene-
rally that those were the remains of a yeoman, by the
name of COLEMAN, who so mysteriously disappeared
about thirty-two years ago, from the Bear Inn (formerly
held in this town), where he had been celebrating an
Orange festival.— Carlow Morning Post.

FATAL DRUNKEN FROLIC.—An inquest
was held last night, at the Fox-under-the-hill, Strand, on
the body of WILLIAM BULL, a smith, living in Gell's-
court, Marylebone. On Sunday morning, he was in-
toxicated at the above public-house, and he challenged any
one to fight or swim with him. No one accepted his
challenge, and he then swore that he would swim across
the river for " a lark." His companions prevented him
at the time, but he watched his opportunity, and having
escaped from them, he plunged into the river. Being a
good swimmer, be got three parts of the way over, when,
becoming weak, he sunk in sight of his friends. Several
boats repaired to the spot, but the body was not found for
half an hour, when life, of course, was extinct.—Verdict,
" Accidentally drowned."
ANOTHER DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE
Itivait.—About the same time that the accident happened
with Lord CHOLMONDELEY'S sailing boat, on the river
Thames, off El itb, and within a short distance of the
the same place, a gentleman, the superintendent of a boat-
builder's yard, near Blackwall, (whose name we have not
vet ascertained), was in a boat amusing himself with a
fowling-piece, when a steam-boat passing by, he placed
the gun between his legs, to assist a friend who accompa-
nied him to manage the boat, when the gun went off, and
the contents lodged in his abdomen. He was immediately
taken ashore to Erith, where a medical gentleman was
called in, who pronounced the case hopeless.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Wednesday
afternoon last a private soldier, belonging to the detach-
ment of the 77th Regiment, at present quartered in Stone-
house Barracks, very deliberately shot at a serjeant of the
same corps, with intent to murder him. It appears that
the man, who is a notoriously bad character, had been for
his repeated misconduct ordered knapsack drill. On the
above morning he came off the Dockyard Guard, and,
soon after his arrival at the Barracks, lie asked the ser-
jeant "if he was to attend drill that afternooon?" The
serjeant answered, " Yes, by order of the Captain." On
which the private said, " Very well ;" and, on the ser-
jeant's quitting, he took his firelock and levelled it at him
from the window of the room, but providentially the ser-
jeant, although unaware of his design (his back being to-
wards the man), suddenly moved aside, and thus escaped
destruction. The soldier was of course instantly secured,
and must abide the sentence of a General Court-martial.—
De vonport Telegraph.

OUTRAGE AT BIRMINGHAM.--Last Sun-.
day evening, in consequence of a report that an old man,
named BamoN, who died of the cholera, had been
buried alive, a mob, consisting of women and children,
assembled in St. Mary's chapel-yard, broke open the
coffin, and carried the deceased on the lid to the work-
house.—An inquest was then held upon the body in
order to allay the great excitement that prevailed. One
of the reports was, that the deceased had been poisoned;
but it was clearly proved that the deceased was seized
with cholera symptoms, after eating two large half-boiled
cabbages, and that he died of the disease. It appeared
that a young woman, named PRICE, who bas been gene-
rally considered half an idiot, and who was attached to
the deceased, had circulated the report, and caused the
disturbance. We regret to say, that one of the witnesses,
a decent female, named JarninaELL, in whose house the
deceased lived, was assaulted by the mob after leaving the
inquest-room. From the effects of the ill-treatment and
fright she expired on Thursday. Several persons are in
enstody.—Birntingham Journal.

The following letter, which was sent to a re-
spectable grocer in this city a few days ago by one of his
customers, will serve to give the public some idea of the
means which are being resorted to by the Tory party in
order to procure, or at least to neutralize, votes :—" Air.
A---, do not for your own sake vote for Ault-
CROMBY and JEFFREY next election, for it will hurt your
interest very much, and it will never do you any good to
help the Whigs--they are a despicable crew; but if you
do vote for either of these people, then you may anticipate
that no more of my custom—and you have had a good
deal in your time—will ever reach you again. Keep this
to yourself, and act prudently. You have a family, and
will be far better off than meddling with politics." This
is the body or text of the letter ; but ladies proverbially
reserve for the postscript the expression of their real senti-
ments—En voici un e.zemple. "If you hrve promised
already, never mind, but don't vote. If you have not,
vote for BLAIR ; I'll inquire." Now without saying any-
thing super inquirendis, this is as pretty a specimen as
one would desire to see of female morality. "If you
have promised already, never mind ; but don't vote !"
That is, be guilty of the most damning violation of honour
and rectitude in order to save your " custom." Am,ang
men, nothing short of a double-posted poltrean could have
tendered such advice to an honest tusksman ; but women,
when their passions 2re or.ce fairly engaged in any cause,
and rhea these are excited by opposition, seem to
overleap at once all barriers of principle, and to lose sight
of everything but the accomplishment of the object op
which they have set their hearts. Would not the writer
of this letter, to use her own words, have " been far
better off than meddling with politics ?" Three inn-
keepers have damaged Captain DUNLOP; it remains to be
seen how many ladies are required to ruin Mr.: BLAIR.
Caledonian Mercury.