The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

WINCHESTER, JAN. 12.

The election of two Knights to represent the northern divi-
sion of Hampshire took place this day at the County Hall.
As there was no opposition expected the meeting was not so
numerous as we have witnessed.

P. ST. JOHN MILDMAY, Esq., M.P. for Winchester, came
forward amidst loud and long continued cheering to propose
his friend Charles Shaw Lefevre. That honourable gentle-
man's conduct was before the electors, and he would venture
to say, that there was not in the late Parliament a snore useful
member, or one more constant at his post.
E. W. Blunt, Esq., of Kempshott Park, seconded the
nomination. _

G. P. Jervoise, Esq., nominated, and Sir Henry Tichbourn
seconded, Mr. Scott.

Mr. Bunn, of Burghclare, contended that the late mem-
bers had not done their duty, or redeemed the pledges which
they made previous to the last election. One of them had
promised to vote for the repeal of the malt-tax, who, on that
question being submitted to the House, voted for its repeal,
and then, at the beck of the Minister voted to put
it on again. The other was seldom in Parliament.
The speaker then charged the late members with truckling to
the Duke of Wellington, by voting for the Kingsclose ludo-
sure Bill, and thought their reward was the withdrawal of the
Tory candidate fur the representation of the county, Mr.
Knight. He entreated the electors to send to Parliament
not one of the Squierarchy, but a man of business, and recom-
mended as a fit person to represent them Mr. John Cobbett,
which announcement was received with peals of laughter, and
concluded by requesting some gentleman to second his nomi-
nation, but no one appearing, the Sheriff declared Messrs.
Lefevre and Scott duly elected.
Mr. LEFEVRE, on coming forward, was received with great
applause. He thanked the electors for the honour which they
had again conferred upon him, which, to him, was a proof that
they were satisfied he had done his duty. He had given his
general support to the late Ministers, because he believed them
to have been honest in their intentions, and desirous of doing
justice to the country. He had differed from them in some
things, and had voted against them on the subject of triennial
parliaments and the enquiry into the pension list, and he trusted
before many months the country would see them restoredto office.
The country was now aware of the difficulties with which the
Whigs had been surrounded, and how they were checked at
every step by the House of Lords. They had done much, and
would have done more, had they remained in office. They
had prospectively abolished the Pension List, and they had
not quartered a single unmerited pensioner on the country.
They would have introduced measures for the commutation of
tythes, reforms in the Church of England and of that of Ire-
land, and; what was, he was sure, very desirable to the
people of Winchester, Corporation Reform.—( Loud applause. )
With the manifesto of Sir Robert Peel he was dissatisfied ;
nor did he believe that honourable gentleman and his col-
leagues could retain office four months. He denied that as
Chairman of the Committee on the Kingsclose Inclosure he
acted with partiality to the Duke of Wellington, but had sought
to do justice to all parties concerned.
Mr. SCOTT expressed his want of confidence in the present
Ministry, and his determination to support those principles
which first recommended him to the confidence of the electors
of Hampshire.
Mr. H. MARSII, in an address of great wit and humour, oc-
cupied the attention of the meeting for some time.
Thanks having been voted to the Sheriff, S. R. Jarvis, the
meeting dispersed quietly.

DUBLIN.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Mr. John O'Connell, one •of the very few Catholics who
were set down for Sheriffs, has been unceremoniously su-
perseded, and a Mr. Bland, who held a subordinate place in
the list, sworn in as High Sheriff of Kerry. The pretence
of this insulting proceeding is, that Mr. O'Connell is the
father of one of the candidates for the county ; but that is
only a pretence, for the election will be over before he
comes into office. The real cause is, that he is a brother
of Dan and a Papist. Mr. Bland, who is put forward in
his place is a member of an old family in the county, and
a near relative of the late Mrs. Jordan (autrefois Miss
Bland), of Drury-lane Theatre ; and by that knot, an Irish
cousin of certain branches of the Royal Family. To the
credit of his Irish pride, it must be stated that he has been
at all times most reluctant to acknowledge the connection.

Lord Ingestrie is said to be at Ciirraghmore, the resi-
dence of his brother-in-law, Lord Waterford, lying by for
an opportunity of repairing his defeat at Hertford, by trying
his luck at an Irish county. But as Mr. Villiers Stuart is
a candidate, together with Messrs. Galwey and Power, for
Waterford, the hopes of the Noble Lord, if he is in earnest,
are but slender.

The Sheriff of Wexford has been so accommodating as to
fix the election for the 21st instant, two days after Lord
Loftus, one of the candidates, shall have completed his 21st
year. This delay will be of no avail in that most indepen-
dent and determined county, which is the last place in Ireland
where a boy would be entrusted with a man's errand.
The blood of the Fosters is boiling up in Louth. They
have set up no less than two candidates, Mr. Skeffingtou
Foster and his cousin- German, Mr. Rodolph de Salis. The
Tory papers say that the mother of the last-named gentle-
man, Countess de Salis, left town in post-haste last week to
canvass for her son. As this is supposed to be the Queen's
Parliament, the Ladies are very busy everywhere. The
probable result of the Louth election may be judged from
the pledge—the only one—offered by Mr. Foster in his ad-
dress, that, in case of another rejection, he will insist on a
rigorous scrutiny.
" Sackvilles alone anticipate defeat,
And ere they dare the battle, sound retreat."
The Portarlington election is over, and Colonel Dawson
Darner has been returned without opposition. This gentle-
man, a brother of Lord Portarlington, stood on the Reform
interest in 1832, and was beaten by Mr. Gladstone, a perfect
stranger, but a known Tory ; for Portarlington is a town of
dandies and fanatics ' • and though Colonel Darner was bro-
ther of the landlord, his supposed Whiggism (Whigs being
then in power) was fatal to him. Never was a more unjust
exclusion, for the Hon. Gentleman is like Captain Burton,
neither a Whig nor Tory, but seems to make it a point of
duty to profess the principles of the dominant party, whatever
those may be. His address to the electors on this occasion
contained the following renewal of professions. I suppose it
was written before Mr. Gladstone's resignation :
" So short a time has elapsed since I had the honour of ex-
pressing to you what were my political sentiments, that I feel
I have upon this occasion little to do, save to inform you that
I am still actuated by an ardent wish to Reform," &c.
He was elected on Friday, and made a solemn confession of
confidence in the present Ministry ! Let the Whigs come in
before the next election, and he will be a patriot again ; for
such seems to be the golden rule of all the Dawson family—
whoever is miller, they are dogs.
The Limerick election has terminated in the return of the
Messrs. Roche. A petition is threatened by the Corporation,
on the ground that the bungling Tories neglected to test the
writ, and the Sheriffs, who are the tools of the Corporation,
proceeded to the election, though aware that the document
was without a date. _ _ .

The Waterford city election► has been delayed, in conse-
quence of another blunder of the marvellous clever and accu-
rate fellows who have taken the direction of affairs into their
hands. They directed the Sheriffs to return one Member,
not choosing to remember that the Reform Bill had given two
to Watel ford. It was a natural error for statesmen to fall
into, who intend to " carry out Reform" in the spirit of the
Tamworth address. The wish was father to the thought.
A brother of Colonel De Lacy Evans is a candidate, along
with Mr. Wallace, for Carlow county. The Tory candidates
and their backers threaten all sorts of vengeance upon their
tenants should they vote against their " natural protectors I"
The people know by bitter experience what it is to provoke
the vindictive malice of a Tory proprietor, and several of them
are hesitating between their inclinations and the legal harry-
ings and exterminations which must ensue should they vote as
they wish. The election begins on the 13th, and that impor-
tant portion of the electoral body, the Lancers, have already
marched into the county town. Should the contest end in the
return of Bruen and Cavanagh, it will be the effect of sheer
slave-driving.

The marriage of Lord Norreys with Miss Harcourt
took place on the 7th inst., at Nuneham Courtenay. The
ceremony was performed by the Archbishop of York in the
parish church, and was attended by a large party which was
assembled for the occasion. The Earl and Countess of Abing-
don, Lady Charlotte Bertie, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Bertie,
Lady Emily Bathurst, and other near relations of both families
were present. Several distinguished guests had also come to
celebrate the happy event ; amongst whom were the Dukes
of Bedford and Wellington, the Earl and Countess of Sand-
wich, Lord Leveson, the Hon. W. Bathurst, Mr. Anson, the
Warden of All Souls', &c. Lord and Lady Norreys left
Nuneham afterwards for Wytham Abbey.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 6th inst. reports
from Vienna, 30th of December, that Baran Von Cetto, Ba-
varian Ambassador at that Court, is recalled, and will go as
Ambassador to London, and Baron Von Lerchenfeld, late
Minister of Finance, is to be his successor. Count St. Aulaire
the French Ambassador, will leave us in a few days, and is
not expected to return, though his successor is not known.
We have an official account of the reported insurrection in
Albania, which seems to be much exaggerated.
SUDDEN DEATH.—A fine young man, the son of
Mr. Hammond, the proposer of Mr. Angerstein, on Saturday
was on the hustings in apparent good health and high spirits—
early on Sunday he was a corpse. The cause of his death is
attributed to the rupture of a blood vessel in the head, pro-
duced by the great excitement of the contest.

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A calculating Yankee, hearing that the cholera was
approaching New Orleans, and judging that its ravages were
likely to be extensive, actually chartered a vessel with coffins
which arrived before the disease had made its appearance, to
he no pall astonishment of the consignee.

LITERATURE.

HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COLONIES
Vol. 111. By R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN, F. S. S.
London : Cochrane and Co.
The present volume of this able work—the accumu-
lated study and research of years, judging from the
extraordinary mass of historical, geographical, and sta-
tistical information which it comprises—contains a
history of the British possessions in North America—
generally speaking, the best known of all our colonial
possessions. " Voyages" to, and from America—
" Travels" in, and through every state in North and
South America—" Rides," " Drives," " Hunts,"
and " -Wanderings" in America—" Residences" for
every conceivable number of days, weeks, months, and
years in America—" Excursions " in the United
States—in Upper and Lower Canada—in the Back
Settlements :—all these, with fifty other tedious disqui-
sions on the animal, vegetable, and mineral produc-
tions of America—myriads of treatises on the con-
stitution, laws, customs, habits, manners, feelings.
tastes, and fancies of the Americans, have been pub-
lished in such numbers, every year within our recol-
lection, that at present the announcement of a book on
America claims no more attention than a puff on the
" brilliancy" of Warren's jet manufacture. Book-
makers, by profession, are never at a loss for mate-
rials for a couple of handsome octavos on America. All
emigrants who can scrawl over three pages of foolscap
write long letters to their friends from America—which
the said friends always contrive to have published in
the newspapers ; and statesmen and orators are sure to
bundle themselves and audiences off to America, as
soon as they find they have nothing to illus-
trate their arguments with in England. All this is
annoying, troublesome, and vexatious to an incon-
ceivable extent : and yet it includes not one-half of
what we are annually obliged to hear, and put up with
about America. If a fellow insults you by his rude-
ness he justifies it with some remark about the free -
dom which all men enjoy in America: if you chide your
servant for neglecting your business, or require more res-
pect paid to your orders, it is fifty to one but he corre-
sponds with some friend in a similar employment to
himself in America, and the answer you receive is a
letter from the Trans-Atlantic domestic explaining to
his former associate how such orders are spurned in
that land of liberty : and if your banker makes up his
mind to relieve you entirely of the charge of your
property in his hands, the first tidings you are likely to
learn of him is that he has made his escape to Ame-
rica. Cobbett has written about eighty volumes of
" Registers" in almost every article of which America
is quoted, instanced, referred to, appealed to, lauded,
or, in some form or other, made to furnish examples,
anecdotes, or arguments, for that multifarious writer.
Had we authority to reckon the writing of " Re-
gisters" among the works of inspiration, we should
pronounce America " Cobbett's Muse"—for the apo-
theosis of a continent, capable of such wonders as
America, would be nothing wonderful in the mythology
of modern authors.
But great indeed would be our regret were we to
learn, that the apathy which the reading public evinces
towards works on America had extended itself to the
perusal of the excellent and useful publication now
before us. Mr. Montgomery Martin is by far the
ablest, and by a thousand times the most instructive
writer who has yet attempted to be ranked as the his-
torian of our colonies in either the old or new world.
His range of information is as wide as the subject re-
quires ; his attention to minute facts as unwearied as it
is invaluable ; and the arrangment of his statistical
tables, so as to give every information at a single
glance, as ingenious as it is judicious. The only part
of his work—and a most important part it is—on
which we differ with him, is in his opinions of the
right conclusions to be drawn from the statements
which he lays down, and the facts which he adduces.
In the two preceding volumes of this work, these opi-
nions if we remember rightly, were not so avowedly
expressed as they are in the volume before us ; and we
think, as an impartial historian, that the author acted
most prudently where he kept them entirely to himself.
Arguments which seem intended to suit the purposes
of a party, and epithets which, without distortion,
would bear a personal application, are not the best
guarantees which the avowed recorder of facts can offer
of either his impartiality or his disinterestedness. Now
it requires no person to look beyond the introduction
of this volume, to discover the arguments and epithets
above alluded, and which certainly wear a different
aspect coming from the pen of an historian, from what
they would if appearing in the leading article of a
newspaper, or the pages of a magazine. Let those
who think we are disposed to treat the author with
undue severity, because he evinces a marked predilec-
tion for Toryism—though he declares himself the ad-
herent of no party—judge of our impartiality by the
following brief extract :
" It is indeed high time that the destinies'of England ceased
to be confided to theorists—false economists, and political
mountebanks, who have made every possible effort within the
last few years to destroy our colonial commerce—at one mo-
ment threatening to destroy the Canada timber trade--at an-
other the Cape of Good Hope wine trade—and passively look-
ing on, or pretending to consult Crown Lawyers, when French
vessels of war were expelling by force peaceful British Fisher-
men from the coast of their own island of Newfoundland."
We have fairly extracted the above paragraph, which
stands separately as one in the original, and we leave
the public to judge whether such epithets as arc here
applied to Earl Grey's government are such as an im-
partial historian would be justified in using. The
threatened ruin of the trade with Canada is charitably
ascribed by the author, in a note at the bottom of the
page, " to placing a young Baltic merchant at the
head of the Board of Trade," or, in other words, to
the stupidity of the Cabinet, and the cupidity of Mr.
Poillett Thompson. These allusions, we presume to
think, had better have been avoided, when the author
was not prepared to combat the free-trade-system, advo-
cated by the late President of the Board of Trade,
with any stronger argument than an inference, as un-
worthy of him who drew it, as we believe it to be
groundless. It is hardly conceivable what ruin could
follow, except to companies of monopolists, for whom
the interests of the working classes are constantly being
sacrificed, were the trade between Great Britain and
Canada to terminate to-morrow, save on principles of
mutual reciprocity. The people of Canada sell us
bad timber at an exorbitant price, and in return we
oblige them to take our tea at treble the cost at which
they could purchase it in the United States. The
consequence of this is, that hardly one of our ships
is seaworthy after a fourth or fifth voyage, and
the country is taxed to an enormous amount to sup-
port a fleet which is only serviceable in filling the
purses of Canadian timber companies : whereas the
only persons who gain by the tea monopoly is the
merchants who trade in that commodity. Between
these two classes of monopolists the interests of the
mechanic and the labourer are alike forgotten or dis-
regarded. Buy where you can purchase cheapest, and
sell where you can dispose of dearest, is the maxim
which we have always recommended to individuals,
and to nations, which are only aggregates of individuals.
We have here given the only objection to which
this work is liable, even from the most liberal, which
are as atoms in the sun when compared with its great
surpassing excellence as a book of national utility.
The style is easy throughout ; generally pure, and
sometimes more than elegant—particularly in the de-
scriptive ?arts, which are sometimes given with much

force, vivacity of fancy, and great beauty. The infor-
mation regarding the public press, the public and pri-
vate schools, and the monetary system, is well worth
the consideration of the British Legislsture.

LHE GUIDING STAR; AND OTHER TALES.
Hunt, St. Paul's Church-yard. 1835.
A neat little volume, intended for children, bearing
the impress of being written by some member of the
Hibernian Bible Society. The first tale is, however,
the only objectionable one, being evidently intended to
suit a sectarian purpose. The others are pretty, and
inculcate the spirit of religious austerity, in a style and
by examples within the comprehension of very young
children.

THE PRACTICAL ELOCUTIONIST.
RP ALEXANDER BELL, PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION.
London: Sherwood. Gilbert and Piper. 1835.

This book promises to become popular in our pub-
. . ..

lic and private schools, as well from its improved sys-
tem of punctuation, as from its selection of passages
in prose and poetry, from the writings and speeches of
modern statesmen, orators, poets, and travellers, which
of course will procure for it a more willing patronage.
The various pieces have been selected with care, and
are so brief that each of them might be committed to
memory in a few hours. This is a great advantage in
a book of this description. It is very handsomely got
up in black-watered silk—we would recommend the
covering as a model to publishers—and is altogether
well adapted for the purpose for which it is designed.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS.
By ROBERT MUDIE.
London: Orr and Smith, Paternoster Row.

An excellent work for children and young persons,
from the pen of a very useful and intelligent writer.
Mr. Mudie is favoured with the talent of rendering
whatever he writes interesting, even to those who re-
quire not to read for instruction. His mind is full of
his subject ; but he looks at it with the eye of a phi-
losopher as well as a naturalist, and consequently his
observations and inferences are almost as valuable as
his facts. The history of British birds is comprised in
a very handsome pocket volume, embellished with some
hundreds of wood-cuts, very fairly executed. We
are acquainted with no work on Ornithology, with the
exception of Wilson's, which we can so cordially re-
commend to parents, governesses, tutors, and heads of
public schools, for the use of the youth committed to
their charge, in order to improve their minds with the
rudiments of this branch of natural history, as the vo-
lume before us. It is neither so learned nor so elabo-
rate as the treatise of Cuvier ; but the style is much
more animated, and the various descriptions of the fea-
thered tribes are rendered familiar to the most juvenile
capacity.

MY SKETCH BOOK. No. VI.
BY GEORGE CRUIKSH4Nr. Tilt, Fleet-street.

Cruikshank's humour is as inexhaustible as his
satire ; and he possesses both in a more equal if not
in a greater degree, than any other caricaturist of a
past or present age. In a limited sense all caricature
is satire, and, so far, humour and satire are one and
the same ; but they cease to be the same when pushed
to extremities ; and, in the extremes, seldom or never
meet in the same mind. There is an inherent acer-
bity about the keenest satire, which rejects humour as
too feeble a weapon with which to attack an opponent
or an abuse ; and in minds teeming with a flow of the
richest humour, there is not enough of the gall and
wormwood of a morbid imagination to engender satire
which shall not only cut, but lacerate. Juvenal was
,the severest satirist the world ever saw ; he was a
moral butcher, but he had not a drop of humour in his
composition : Rabelais and Cervantes were both ini-
mitable humourists, yet their satire only seemed the
seasoning of their wit—they only tickled, where the
Roman would have flayed. Here we have the ex-
tremes. Fielding and Smollett were both keen satirists,
and exquisite humourists ; but in both the love of
satire predominated. In Dr. liVolcott they were more
nearly balanced, but to a well ordered, reflecting mind
the pain occasioned by the perusal of his pieces, is
fully equal to the pleasure—yea, more than equal, for
almost every person feels that some portion or other of
them applies to himself.
Of the rare combination of satirical and humorous
powers in the mind of Cruikshank, we have a fine
illustration in the " Antiquarian," and the " Atheist"
in the first plate of the present number. The Anti-
quarian, with spectacles on nose, with his face turned
directivbel►ind him, and his feet following the direction
of his pigtail ; and again in a sitting attitude, he is so
engaged scrutinizing an old coin resting on the palm
of his hand, that he takes not the slightest notice of a
dog-hunted scape-grace, who is planting his foot on
his head. This is humour, rich and original. On
the other side, the Atheist, his hands. behind his back,
a walking stick under his arm, and wearing an ass'
head, which has the eyes bandaged, and the mouth
open, is walking over a precipice at the bottom of
which there is the outline of immense waves. And
here we have the satire unrelieved by the slightest
touch of humour.

The "Written Apology," aria " How we Steamers
do go along to be sure,"—the former representing the
interior of a country school, with a mother-written
apology to the Dominic for the absence of an original
looking little urchin ; and the latter exhibiting a tea-
kettle, dashing through the waves in company with a
steam-boat, are remarkably good. " Seeing double"
is a mere burlesque. The expression of the drunkard's
countenance has more of pain than pleasure in it. In
plate 2, " A Servant Girl of other days,' and a Ser-
vant Girl now-a-days"—" Brewing mischief"—" The
Toad Eater,"—and the " Wreath"—are all good. In
plate 3, the best are " Buy a broom," and the
" Porters." The " Bath Coach" is too common-
place. " First Steps " are sufficiently amusing ;
while the introduction of the bear-dance is another
exemplification of the commingling of the satirical
with the humourous in " Cruikshanks Sketches"

DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE TAUNTON.—We re-
gret to announce the death of Mr. Justice Taunton. This
melancholy event occurred at a late hour (half-past eleven
o'clock) on Sunday evening. This able and distinguished
lawyer never enjoyed a robust constitution, but his death was,
we understand, both sudden and unexpected. The announce-
ment in the Courts of Westminster Hall yesterday morning
created great and general regret.
The appointment of the Rev. Thomas Dale to the
living of St. Bride's by Sir Robert Peel, has given the most
lively satisfaction to the inhabitants of the parish. We have
been assured, on good author ity, that had his appointment
taken place a few days earlier, at least a hundred votes would
have been gained from that parish to the Conservative cause at
the last City election.—Morning Paper.
IMPORTANT POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENT._
We understand that after the beginning of April, the Royal
mail will arrive here about four o'clock p.m., instead of Line
as at present. This is in the meantime to be effected, not by
any acceleration, nor by shortening the route, but by detach-
ing the North mail from London at three o'clock in the after-
noon, instead of eight o'clock in the evening. The evening
papers are published about that hour, and of course will be
despatched by that conveyance. This arrangement has been
suggested by the demands for branch mails through various
districts of the country, which could not make a remunerating
return to the Post-Office—and in particular to obviate the ne-
cessity of a mail from Perth to Inverness by the Highland-
road, which has been so called for of late. By the proposed
arrangement, the mail will arrive at Inverness, by its present
circutious route, exactly twenty-four hours after it reaches
Perth—being fully earlier than it could by the Highland-
road, were no alteration of the despatch from the south and
other quarters to be made; and in fact every advantage will
be obtained, as to the course of post and delivery, which could
arise from the expensive establishment of a mail-coaeli
through the Highlands.—Perthshire Courier.
Those who profess to he in the secr,3, confidently
give out that the dissolution of the IEI4 Ilarliament was con-
trary to the opinions of the PrimeAlinister and the Lord
Chancellor,