The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-15 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

littlf there FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
disappointment in England among the popu-
h, Party, at the concessions made by the House of Com-
t—h:lls to the Lords, there.is also much grief here among
the Tories, for the same cause. It was fully expected that
of rejection of the Bill would be a signal for the dismissal
Ivoti:beeLriiber al
,Administration, and that Peel and Perceval
e t once more lord it under the auspices of the Duke of
dela and • Their hopes are cruelly blasted, by the pru-
thi, conduct of Lord John Russell in proposing, and of
Ni,„People's friends in Parliament in adopting, the Bill,.
mutilated)
as it was, and thus avoiding the pitfall which had
cunningly devised for them. That which mortifies
Nuerii faction cannot, be bad for the interests of the com-
that „Y ; and therefore, although we could have wished
bee Lue Popular principle in the House of Commons had
tllltlttrong enough to trample upon the machinations of
tlta'ul'at and his brother apostates, we are well pleased
lice rir representatives have extorted even a show of jus-
,l,,rt)ca our hereditary depredators.
re_Aue hopes of the miserable outs must now, during the
'ess
re at least, lean on the chances of mortality ; and, in-
sue ble as it may appear, they do build their hopes upon
zeail calculations. I heard a Reverend Tory, with more
ti,,,Livati charity, and more piety than brains, speculating
1i,„7 complacently on a turn-out, through some casualty
•,,itar •
vela to that which sent the Whigs to the door last N?-
the Government
" Providence" he said, may create a vacancy in
oce,, ; and then—away it goes, more menus
the • hat a pity it is that Lord John Russell is not
eldest ion ! It is equally unfortunate that a son-in-law
u es not inherit the rank of his wife's father ; for, in that
ghe, most willingly would his grateful countrymen resign
at constitutional pillar—the Earl of Limerick, to Ely-
(141, for the sake of translating the Chancellor of the Ex-
Loquer to the Upper House. It is rather unlucky that
Ex-
Lord Palmerston has no living father, and that Hob-
irso and Powlett Thompson are last men. But there
yzkt. comfort in the thought, that .‘ nature's copy
is not eterne" in the fathers of Lords Morpeth and
and then should Lord Ebrington be pulled up
wo_ House of Lords, the shield of the Government
4reut.;l be manifestly hors de combat. Thus you see there
th,,_ll'ree chances with which the juggling fiend is amusing
007 wretched expectants. Such reeds do they lean up-
/ ,0 There is no harm, however, in any case, in praying as
t, most fervently, that God will prolong the lives of
lee tEballs Grey, Carlisle, and Fortescue, until they shall
tapri eir principles established on a firmer basis than the
of princes, or the frail tenure of a man's life.
tie, protest of the Noble wag, who entered his " dissen-
tilZ without his reasons against the Municipal Reform
rn,,ay be thus pieced out
Because Mr. O'Connell voted for it.
use by •
ee ausee th Bill was brought up to the bar of this
• a majority of the House of Commons and not

by Sir Robert Peel—an individual for whose opinions I en
tertain the highest respect.
The departure of Two Firebrands from Woolwich has
created the most lively sensation in Ireland. We hope
to hear of the safe return, in due course, of one of them.
kis unjust to say that the Lords have rejected every
measure for which Mr. O'Connell expressed a predilection.
They passed the modified Coercion Bill for Ireland with-
out opposition, although the Hon. Member for Dublin ap-
proved of its provisions. Perhaps, indeed,' if they had not
been so very anxious to maintain a good understanding
with the other House, they might have amended it by the
addition of martial-law clauses and curfew visitations, and
to make the measure as
_perfect as possible, demanded a
Conference thereupon. But the fact is in their favour,
and such is their love of Ireland, that they will adopt any
measure against its liberty, even from the hands of Mr.
O'Connell.

NEW HIGHWAY ACT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—lt appears to me that an erroneous opinion has
been given as to the present Surveyors of the Highways
continuing in office until new ones be appointed under the
.5 & 6 Gul. IV. c. 50. No part of the new Act whatever
takes effect until the 20th of March, 1836 (section 119).
The new Surveyors are to be chosen on the 25th day of
March next, or within fourteen days after ; so the Sur-
veyors who shall be chosen on the 22d inst. will not go out
of office on the 20th day of March next, but will remain in
office until fourteen days after the 25th of March next, if
new Surveyors be not chosen before. The Surveyor's ac-
counts must be produced and passed this year as before.—
Your's, &c.
Ilfracombe, Sept. 12. R. W. D.

The Duke de Nemours (son of the French King)
arrived on Thursday at the Angel Inn at Alcester, where
his Royal Highness and suite dined and slept. Friday
morning, at nine o'clock, the royal stranger and his attend-
ants reached Warwick, and took breakfast at the Swan
Hotel ; after which they visited the Castle, and St. Mary's
Church, with its magnificent chapel, with all of which his
Royal Highness and his fellow travellers expressed them-
selves greatly delighted. Immediately afterwards the young
Prince and his suite left their hotel to pass through Kenil-
worth for Birmingham, on their way to . Doncaster. The
Duke is of rather tall stature, slim and elegant in person,
and remarkaby Affable and polished in manners. He is ac-
companied by three French gentlemen of distinction.—
Warwick Advertiser.

Yesterday despatches for Madras and Bengal were
made up at the East India House, and forwarded to those
Presidencies by the ship Coromandel. Despatches were
also forwarded to Bengal by the ship Zenobia.

An active canvass is already going on in Liverpool
for seats in the new Council.

CHURCH RATES.—A vestry meeting was held at
the Town Hall on Wednesday evening last, at which a
resolution was carried against the proposed rate.—Devon-
port Independent.

According to the published lists just issued for the
borough of Devonport, eighty-three persons are objected to
vote for the Southern Division of the county, and seventy-
eight for the borough. The apparent number of new claim-
ants for the borough is sixty-two, but of these some are
mere misnomers, and others appear in the original list.—
Devonport Independent.

A GREAT CURIOSITY.—We have this past week
seen, in the possession of Mr. Holmes, St. Thomas-street,
a Siamese kitten, a perfect double animal, a male and fe-
male, with the exception of there being only one head. It
has two necks, two bodies, eight legs, and two tails, of equal
size and form. Mr. Holmes intends to present it to the
Museum of our Philosophical Society.—Gosport Herald.
The gallant Viscount Sade Bandeira, better known
as Bernardo Sade Bandeira, has written a long letter to
the Duke of Terceira, which is published in the National
relative to Marshal Saldanha's having declined to comply
with that officer's request, that the order of the Tower and
Sword should be conferred on several individuals who dis-
tinguished themselves whilst fighting under his orders in
the Algarves ; it is written in most temperate terms, yet
he contrives to convey to the Gallant Marshal his regret
that on the 2d of July, 1828, he did not follow his recom-
mendation of remaining at Oporto at the head of the 30
battalions, 6 cavalry corps, and 24 fieldpieces, and over-
throw the usurper, instead of embarking in the Belfast
steamer for England.

Letters from Naples, dated the 28th ult., state that
the King no longer paid any attention to the affairs of
state, being exclusively occupied with religious pursuits,
alarmed, perhaps, at the approach of the cholera. His
private Secretary, a Jesuit, had a carte blanche, and in-
perintended, and governed, and directed all the public
departments and the public business. The panic created
in Naples- by the march southward of the cholera was
extreme.

The Echo du Cantal says--,-" The Hon. Mr. Cal-
thorpe and his family, who were stopped at Chaudesaigne,
on their way to Toulouse, have been suffered to continue
their journey. Their detention arose from an irregularity
in their passport, but they were identified by letters from
his 'Excellency Lord Granville, accompanied by regular
papers. They were not put into actual confinement, but
suffered to reside at an hotel in Aurillac, where the Prefect
of the Cantal, who detained them, resided."

" Give a man a pension," said De Foe, " and he'll
never die ;" the, same may be said of the tender sex.
Lady Mary Dorchester (who is a pensioner on the Con-
solidated Fund) has been • annually in the receipt of
1151. 19s. 6d. ever since January 1764, a period of up-
wards of seventy-one years and a half! We should like to
know the nature of the services this venerable, alms-receiv-
ing, titled dame has done the State.

A melancholy accident took place at Bedhampton,
near Havant, on Wednesday night last. Mr. T. Jeffery,
Purser of his Majesty's ship Serpent, on his return home
from Portsmouth, was thrown from his gig, by some un-
known accident, and, awful to relate, was killed upon the
spot.—Devonport Independent.

'Weymouth was partially lighted with gas on Thurs-
day evening.

On Monday evening seven armed men, disguised,
attacked the residence of Dr. Mensergh, of Crenane (Ire-
land), and demanded fire-arms - the peasantry of the neigh-
bourhood assembled, but on their approach the party fled ;
they pursued them for a considerable distance, but to no
effect.

Among the curiosities at Apsley House, is the
truckle bed in which the Duke of Wellington sleeps.
" Why is it so narrow?" exclaimed a friend ; " there is not
even room to turn in it !" Turn in it !" cried his Grace,
" when once a man begins to turn in bed, it is time to turn
out."

On Monday two wheat-stacks, in the middle of a
row of seven, were set on fire, at Sturry Court, near Can-
terbury, by a young man named Joy.—Dover Chronicle.

A woodcock was shot on Friday last in the vicinity of
Braithwaite, near Keswick.

The floating island has again made its appearance in
Keswick Lake, and is exciting much attention.

The gentleman who was killed by the upsetting of the
Carlise mail at Penrith, was a Mr. Ranson, a quaker, of
the firm of Jackson and Ranson, of Southwark, furriers.

THE SUBMARINE VESSEL.—The experiment
with this vessel took place at St. Ouen, as proposed. The
vessel was repeatedly sunk to the depth of ten or twelve
feet, and re-appeared on the surface at different points. M.
Godde de Liancourt got into it, and remained there a quar-
ter of an hour. He stated that he did not experience the
least inconvenience, or any difficulty of respiration, during his
voyage under water. An official report upon the subject
is about to be submitted to the French Government.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On the
27th ult. the wife of Mr. John Donnelly, of Belfast, cooper,
was delivered of a son ; for which Mr. Henry M'Lornan,
who resides near the Belfast Distillery, stood sponsor; he
having, 72 years ago, stood sponsor for the child's great-
grandmother, lie being then 32 years of age ; consequently
Mr. M'Lornan is 104 years old 1 He is a stout, active
man, and travelled from Belfast to Antrim and back, a dis-
tance of twenty-four miles, only a few months since.
Two CHILDREN KIDNAPPED.—TWO little boys,
the eldest named David, aged ten, and the youngest named
Richard, aged six years, the children of David Williams,
of Lanboidy, near St. Clears, in the county of Carmarthen,
a Chelsea pensioner, have been missing from their father's
house since the 4th of July last. They are supposed to
have been enticed away by an itinerant puppet showman.
Their distressed father traced them to Hereford, where he
was told the youngest boy had cried for his mother, which
was noticed by a number of persons, and that the show-
man then abandoned them. The father was enabled to trace
them back to Brecon, Trecastle, and Llwynybrain, where
they were relieved by Mrs. Rice. He then followed them
to Llandaff, St. Fagan's, Cross Inn, and Ely Bridge, in this
county where he lost every clue of them.—The Cambrian.
AN INDIAN BREAKFAST.—An Indian break-
fast is allowed to be an unrivalled repast ; and it is to be
found in as much perfection in the midst of a desert as
when spread upon the princely boards of the City of Pala-
ces. Indian servants never permit their masters to regret
the want of regular kitchens ; all places appear to be the
same to them, and our dejeunes a la fourchette in camp,
could not be surpassed in the Land of Cakes. Fish of
every kind, fresh, dried, pickled, or preserved, or hermeti-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1835.

cally sealed in tin ; deli Cate fricassees, risolles, croquettes,
omelettes, and curries of all descriptions ; cold meats and
game of all sorts ; pates, jellies, and jams from London and
Lucknow ; fruits and sweetmeats ; with cakes in endless
variety, splendidly set out in china, cut-glass, and silver,
the guests providing their own tea-cups, plates, &c.—Miss
Roberts's Hindostan.

The large Sonnersetsbire estate, the property of the
Rev. Mr. Webb, near to Bridgewater, was sold privately
by George Robins, last week, to Sir Peregrine Ackland,
Bart.

Anegociation has been pending for some days rela-
tive to the letting of Covent-garden Theatre. The points
under discussion were, reduction of rent, and the expediency
of lowering the prices of admission, both of which were con-
ceded, but the parties differed on some other matters, and
the theatre still remains unlet.

A most distressing event occurred on Saturday last,
on the domain of Sir John Trevelyan, Bart., at Nettle-
combe. The gamekeeper, John Hill, was out shooting with
a young gentleman, son of the Rev. W. Bernard, a magis-
trate in that neighbourhood, when he was accidentally shot
by the young gentleman, and died on Monday evening.—
Bristol Journal.

A verdict of manslaughter has been returned at
Wolverhampton against a boy named Murray, for having
caused the death of another boy, named William Walton,
by throwing a large stone at him, and striking a violent
blow on the side, between the hip and the ribs. The.blow
had produced a large internal abscess, and had also ruptured
the kidney.

A CAPITAL CORRESPONDENT.—WiIIiams, OUT
Quartermaster, is an eccentric character. He is married,
and constantly receives letters from his absent rib ; these,
however, he never opens, but keeps them all tied up. On
his return, he says, she can read them to him all of a lump.
—Auldjo's Visit to Constantinople.

A terrible fire broke out a short time since at Lille,
owing to the imprudence of the stable-boy of a circus, esta-
blished on the Place du Theatre during the fairs. While
engaged with a sick horse the light which he carried set
fire to the temporary building of the circus, and spread with
such frightful rapidity that in the course of two hours and a
half ten houses were burnt to the ground. Twelve other
houses have been more or less damaged, and several firemen
and soldiers of the garrison were seriously hurt.
At Glasgow, on Thursday, Hugh Davidson, the
engineer of the Earl Grey steamer, was tried for culpable
homicide for neglect of duty, which caused the deaths of
several persons by the explosion of that vessel at Greenock.
He was acquitted by a considerable majority of the jury,
and the verdict was received with much cheering. It ap-
peared he was not culpable, but adopted every precaution
deemed necessary.

Bermuda papers to the 4th ult. have arrived. The
Legislature had been prorogued by the Governor in person,
on the 30th of July, to the 3d of September. His Excel-
lency, in his speech, thanked the House of Representatives
for the supplies they had granted him to meet the exigen-
cies of the colony, and congratulated the Legislature on a
year having elapsed since the emancipation of the slaves,
without it being thought necessary to secure tranquillity by
any further enactments relative to that class of the popula-
tion, notwithstanding the apprentice system had not been
adopted in that colony.

' ascertained ; pigs, fowls, and ducks were in abundance ; and
there were a few horses, one mule, and nineteen donkeys.
These last are of so very fine a breed that speculators
calling from the East Indies and New South Wales offer
large prices for them ; one had been sold for 251. to the
master of a merchant vessel, on his way to New South
Wales. An ox, bred on the Island, killed for the use of
the Pelorus, and which proved excellent meat, weighed
7201 b., whilst the cattle on the coast run generally from
851 b. to 1401 b., and seldom exceed 2001 b. The game,
guinea-fowl, jungle or wild (barn door) fowl, and rabbits
are numerous, particularly the former. The sweet potato
is plentiful—the English and Chinese potatoes are ad-
vancing ; and pumpkins, turnips, carrots, French beans,
eschalots, and radishes good and increasing. The great
reduction of the establishment it is, however, feared, will
tend much to retard the march of improvement.
MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK "TREMORDYN
CLIFF."—Here is a novel, of which the whole truth may be
told. It undoubtedly surpasses any thing we have yet seen from
its author, both in originality of conception and force of
execution. The idea of a high-born ambitious girl, deposed
from her proud estate as the head of a noble family, by the
birth of an heir, and yet resolving virtually to keep its
honours and its influences in her own hands, by ruling him
to her will, and finally to wear the coronet at the price of
his life, is a very bold one, and has been wrought out with
great skill. We strongly recommend this work to the at-
tention of the public.—Athenceuni.

A CAUTION.—Last Friday the captain of an Irish
vessel having occasion to call at Aldermanbury for a check
for 761., and having heard that the ticket-porters of London
are a trust-worthy set of fellows, who all give security for
their honesty, bailed a man in Lombard-street whom he
supposed to be one of those porters, being decently dressed,
with a white apron before him, but wanting the ticket
which distinguishes the ticket porter from the scuffle-hun-
ter, who gives no security. The captain asked this man to
show him to Aldermanbury, and from thence to the ban-
kers' in Birchin-lane. At the latter place the porter
urged him to take the 761. in sovereigns, which he did, and
then paying him for his trouble offered to treat him at a
public house in Nicholas-lane. Here glass followed glass
till the captain gqt groggy ; somebody then fetched a cab,
two persons, not known, then volunteered to see him home,
but instead of being set down at his lodgings in St. George's
in the East, he was dropped (minus his 76 sovereigns) at
the Yorkshire Stingo, at Paddington, with the assurance
that he was close at home. The number of the cab is un-
known.

A MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR.—The following little
fact supplies an amusing satire on the innocent proneness to
delusion so prevalent in families, as regards musical matters.
" How did you first learn music ?" was asked of a fashiona-
ble instructor, who was getting 2,0001. a year by his lessons.
By teaching it," was the candid reply.—Anerican Paper.
_ _ _

BRESLAU, AUG. 24.—Between the 3d and Bth of
September we shall enjoy the military spectacle, which is
to be the prelude to the grand manoeuvres of Kalisch.
Europe will see with astonishment how ready the Northern
armies are to march. The warlike spectacle of Schweid-
nitz and Kalisch may, therefore, be considered as a demon-
stration connected with a principle of greater importance.
The nations of the West, who, it appears, will have but one
witness of distinction at these manoeuvres, will know what
to think of the object of all this pomp. Let Belgium,
Spain, and Egypt reflect upon it.—Augsburgh Gazette.
On Tuesday evening a fire was discovered in an out-
office of Mr. Quin's establishment, Bray, which was soon
got under, owing to the exertions made by the respectable
individuals residing in the house, amongst whom were Lords
Dunlo and Killeen, the Austrian Consul (Le Chevalier
Bratich), Mr. Flanagan, &c., assisted by Lieutenant Di-
vine, chief officer of-the coast guard, and the men under his
command. The police, also the townspeople, exerted them-
selves. Fortunately the house was detached from the hotel,
otherwise the loss might have been very great. The da-
mage does not exceed WO/. Mr. Quin's concerns are in-
sured in the Globe.—Dublin Paper.

LOVE IN A`-Box.—On Friday last an occurrence
took place at the house of a farmer residing in Branston
Fen, which forcibly demonstrates the correctness of Shaks-
peare's assertion—" the course of true-love never .did run
smooth." The farmer had a man-servant, who came from
Wrangle, where in disconsolate solitude it appeared he had
left Mary, " the chosen of his heart." Poor Mary could
not endure the pangs of a long separation, and feeling that
" Sorrow eoncealed, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinder where it is,"—

IMPROVEMENTS IN SOUTH WA LES.—The march
of improvement in South Wales is making rapid strides.
At Swansea exertions are making to set,on foot a steamer to
pass and re-pass daily across the Bristol Channel to Ilfra-
combe. By this an uninterrupted communication will be
thrown open, from the Land's End, through South and
North Wales, to Liverpool. At Neath, a Scientific Insti-
tution has been formed, which calls forth a course of lec-
tures from the Rev. W. D. Conybeare, F.R.S., on that
very important subject (especially in Wales), Geology. A
new road is about to be formed from Neath to Merthyr-
Tydfil ; which latter place also is to be lit with gas--two
improvements of which all commercial travellers will ac-
knowledge the value. At Newport, in Monmouthshire,
excavations are made for the foundation of a new Church,
on the plan of Mr. Wyatt ; an immense building is in pro-
gress for the introduction of the hardware manufacture ;
and in shipbuilding they are " launching out" incessantly.
PERNAMBUCO.—A letter has been received in
Philadelphia, dated Pernambuco, July 17th :—" The place
has been thrown into considerable excitement, in conse-
quence of the assassination of two pFrsons in the Tribunal
de Jury, while it was in session trying an important case,
and filled with people : some ruffian scoundrel discharged a
pistol, with the intention of killing the Counsel of one of the
parties, the ball of which killed almost instantly two inno-
cent persons. This affair happened about nine o'clock at
night, while the Tribunal was crowded with people, and, as
you will readily conceive, the confusion was not inconsi-
derable, many jumped from the windows, which resulted in
broken limbs, &c."

she resolved forthwith to visit the abode of her admirer,
and disclose to him the doleful beatings of her heavy heart.
For several days a strange maiden was seen mysteriously
hovering about Branston, but no suspicion was entertained
of her purpose till yesterday week, when the farmer's maid-
servant peeping into the sleeping-room of the man-servant
(it is said " Love being jealous makes a good eye look
a-squint,") saw, or fancied she saw, under the bed of the
Wrangle Adonis, the gear of the mysterious Venus, and
her discovery being hastily communicated to the master,
a search was immediately instituted ; fortune, however,
smiled upon the lady upon this occasion, and she
avoided detection by ensconcing herself not under
Cnpid's wings, but under the wings of sundry de-
funct geese some bags of fehthers screened her from
the farmer's view. The night was, no doubt, passed
pleasantly, but morning brought back with it the terrors of
a disclosure, and John (so we may call the loving swain)
being summoned early to go to Lincoln, poor Mary was
consigned for secrecy to a clothes box, and at her own
earnest request locked in. In this unenviable plight she
remained from an early hour in the morning till the after-
noon, most dreadfully cramped, and all but smothered,
until, endeavouring to shift her position, she made such a
creaking noise as excited the curiosity of the farmer, and
another search being made. he insisted upon witnessing the
contents of the box. John, who had returned from Lin-
coln, was summoned to unlock it, and reluctantly yielding
to his master's bidding, disclosed to his astonished view the
crouching form of his hapless chere ande. The poor crea-
ture was almost exhausted, but after the first shock of sur-
prise was over, she was delivered from vile endurance to be
consigned to durance vile, and in company with her rustic
admirer, was marched off to Lincoln gaol. On the follow-
ing day, they underwent examination ; both were repri-
manded and discharged, not only from custody, but John
from his service, and they wended their way to Wrangle,
cursing the curiosity which led the Branston farmer to
discover how love might be carried on in a --box.—Lincoln
Gazette.

THE COMPLETION OF COWPER'S LIFE AND
WonKs.—The forthcoming volume of Mr. Grimshawe's beau-
tiful edition of Cowper's Life and Works, will contain the last
portion of the poet's inimitable Letters, and will complete
the publication of this unique edition ; we have watched its
monthly progress, and do not hesitate to pronounce it to
be the most perfect, and indeed only entire collection of his
works that ever has, or can appear ; the publishers pos-
sessing exclusively the copyright of that valuable portion
of the letters, the Private Correspondence. The compo-
nent parts of this beautiful edition now consist of the
Poems, original and translated, the whole- correspondence
unbroken and chronologically arranged, the Life, and an
elegantly-written Essay on the genius of Cowper, from the
pen of the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow. The
embellishments are from the drawings of Harding, exqui-
sitely engraved by the Finders, and illustrate admirably the
scenes associated with Cowper's Life ; the portraits are
those of Cowper, his mother, and Dr. Johnson, &c. Issued
at so moderate a price, the work cannot fail of having an
extensive circulation.

SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.—The ends of justice
have been much promoted of late by empowering two jus-
tices in sessions to try and adjudge small punishments, in
cases of minor thefts by reputed thieves, and in assault
cases. That power may be very beneficially extended to
the correction of young culprits. With other advantages,
it will have the beneficial effect of concealing their disgrace
from the eyes of the public. Some may complain that this
jurisdiction will touch on the trial by jury, and the rights of
the subject. This objection may be used as a theme for
declamation, but there appears to be little sense in it : an
abuse of the power will be guarded against by allowing the
lawful father the power to claim a trialby jury for the child,
if he prefer it. But the good parent will be grateful for the
interposition which saves his child from a public exposure,
while it corrects his vice ; and the bad parent may be con-
tent not to impede the summary correction, if the child be
guilty, under the expectation that on a public trial the pu-
nishment may be more severe, and the criminality be made
more public. But the delay, parade, and expense of a trial
by jury, are inconsistent with the correction of a child. The
hearing and commitment to prison by a magistrate—the
preparation of a bill of indictment—the exparte hearing by
a grand jury of twenty-four men—the trial before a bench
of justices, and by a jury of twelve men, with all the
array, forms, and solemnities of a trial in quarter sessions,
form a machinery out of all proportion to the necessary cor-
rection of a naughty boy ; which correction, also, fre-
quently comes out a much less punishment than the parent
more frequently bestows, in the wantonness of ill-humour,
without any just reason. Again, all this parade and expense
to the public are often incurred when the offence is acknow-
ledged, and the
,culprit offers no defence. Perfect separa-
tion and seclusion are essential to reformation. The clas-
sification of prisoners has been a favourite subject of late
years ; but classification imports association, which, among
criminals, is always bad. If the gaoler be able to divine
which are the good thieves and which the bad, and group
them accordingly, some among the supposed good ones will
be found bad enough to spoil the rest, and the known bad
ones herded together must necessarily make bad worse. If
any good is to be done, each young culprit must be a class
in hiinse?f, and have a cell to himself. This will be quite
practicable, without making additional cells, if the usual
term of confinement be reduced from sir months or weeps to
one. There will be then only one prisoner upon an ave-
rage where there are now six.—Morning Paper.

A crime of the most horrid nature has just been dis-
covered in a little village near Landau, in Rhenish Bava-
ria. The ages'of barbarism can hardly offer an example of
a case of such atrocious cruelty., In that-village resided a
respectable family, consisting of the father, mother, son and
daughter. Until the year 1828 they had always lived to-
getber in the greatest harmony. At that period the daughter,
then very young, formed an attachment to a man of low birth
and connections, which circumstance gave the greatest of-
fence to her family, and more especially to her father.
Neither entreaties or menaces were of avail to shake the
young lady's affections for her lover ; and the father,
seeing that all was in vain, resolved to employ the most
horrible means to be revenged upon hor. He made her
go down into one of the cellars of the house, where he
walled up a space in a corner so as to form a narrow
dungeon, the entrance to which he afterwards closed up with
stones and mortar, leaving only a small aperture, through
which the hand could be introduced for the purpose of sup-
plying her with food. He then, to allay the suspicions of
his neighbours, gave out that he had sent his daughter to
a boarding school. Shortly afterwards, he spread abroad a
rumour that she was dead, and went into mourning for her.
During seven years the unfortunate girl remained enclosed
in this dungeon. Every week her father took her down
fresh straw to lie upon, and a measure of boiled potatoes,
which was to serve for her own nourishment until the next
visit. About three weeks ago a happy accident delivered
her from this dreadful durance. One of the servant maids
-.whose curiosity had been excited by the father's conduct,
and by the circumstance of its being strictly forbidden to all
the family to enter the cellar, resolved to approach the in-
terdicted cave. When at the door she began to sing, and
soon afterwards she heard a faint cry in the corner. Ap-
proaching the spot whence the sound . proceeded, she was
soon informed of all the circumstances of this horrid affair.
The maid immediately gave information to the authorities
of the place, Who, on arriving, released the wretched
being from her long and doleful captivity. The fa-
ther and mother have been placed in custody. The un-
fortunate girl on being restored to the light of day presen-
ted the most hideous appearance. She was unable to stand,
her legs having been so long bent under her as to have de-
prived her of all use of them. Her body was covered
with hair, and it was hardly possible to recognise a human
being in the miserable and deformed object.—Courrier
Francaise.

VENEZUELA.—By an arrival at Baltimore, in 12
days, from Laguayra, we learn that General Paez was at
Caracas, and had succeeded in restoring order. He left
his quarters at San Pablo, with a few troops, mustered,
hastily, and marched to Valencia, and although that town
and Porto Cabello sided with the rebels,. his arrival there
induced the main army to declare in favour of the Consti-
tution, and he proceeded to Caracas. The night previous
to his arrival in that city, the wing of the army that bad
occupied it since the revolt, determined to move off, and
accordingly took the road to Cumana. The next morning
General Paez entered Caracas with a few troops, and de-
clared the Constitution to be in its full vigour. Having
placed all the civil authorities in possession of the capital,
he passed on in pursuit of the military who had gone to
Cumana. They had advanced too far, however, and he
returned to Caracas the next day, where he now remains.
The President and Vice-President have been recalled, and
will speedily return from St. Thomas. Thus has Constitu-
tional *order been restored in Valencia, Porto Cabello, La-
guayra, and Caracas, and it is hoped that tranquillity will
reign throughout Venezuela.

ISLAND OF ASCENSION.-By advices from As-
cension, brought by the Pelorus, which left on the 15th of
July, we learn that the improvements in that island had
advanced in a most rapid manner. The last public build-'
ings (the barracks, with two small buildings attached)
were nearly completed--so much so, that the barracks we
slept in, although the mess-rooms were not yet allowed to
be occupied. The tank and magazine of Fort Cockburn
were closing in, when a block-house is to be erected over
them,' loop-holed for musketry, se as to form a protection
to the valuable stores, &c. The tanks had 1,700 tons of
water in them ; the daily collection from the §everal drips
and wells was somewhat above four tons—giving a surplus
over the expenditure of the island of about twelve tons
per week ; a shower on the mountain made up any de-
ficiencies caused by the supplies of water to the shipping,
and merchant-vessels began to call freqnd had increased
uently, and were
promptly supplied. The stock on the isla
much. When the Pelorus left, there were eighty head of
horned cattle and three hundred sheep ; goats were nume-
rous, but so many wild that their numbers cannot be well

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DONCASTER RACES.
Doncaster, Sunday Night.

A peat number of fashionables have already arrived, but
not a tithe of the number which are expected here in the course
of to-morrow. The visit of their Royal Highnesses the Du-
chess of Kent and the Princess Victoria continues to be the
engrossing topic with all who are not speculating on the St.
Leger; their Royal Highnesses will reach the scat of Earl Fitz-
william in the course of to-morrow, and on Tuesday morning
will visit the town. An address will then be presented from
the Corporation by their Mayor (W. Sheardoun, Esq.), after
which their Royal Highnesses will be escorted to the race-
course by a party of yeomanry cavalry. Ample prepara-
tions for their reception have been made in the grand stand, in
front of which the band of the Scotch Greys will be stationed.
To insure good order, a very effective force has been placed
under the orders of those able officers, Messrs. Timbs and
Leadbittcr.

Amongst the present arrivals are the Count Matuszevic
(whose departure for Naples is postponed till after the Heaton
Park Meeting), the Duke of Leeds, Duke and Duchess of
Cleveland, Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord G. Bentinck,
Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon. H. Browne, lion. De Roos,
Sir J. l3eresford, Sir L. Glyn, Colonel Peel, Colonel Han-
cox, Colonel Ferguson, General Traver; Colonel Kennedy,
Captain Macnamara, Captain Taylor, Captain Hunter, Cap-
tain Lang, Messrs. C. Greville, Cookes, M. P., Etwall, M. P.,
Bowes, M. P., Worrall, A. Hunter, G. Walker, Clive, Vyner,
White, S. Fox, Payne, Cotterell, Denison, M. Foulis, J.
Peel, F. Craven, H. Fleetwood, &c.

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.

The odds quoted below will be found to vary in several im-
portant points from those last quoted by us. At the betting.
rooms last night Hornsea was backed at 4 to 1 to win twelve
hundred pounds in one bet ; after this a party offered to bet
7,000 to 1,000 against him, and to take the same about Mun-
dig, who was on the decline. Nothing, however, was done,
and the offers had no other effect than to send Hornsea back a
point. Queen of Trumps was at 3to 1, Ascot at 7to 1, and
and Jupiter on the rise. This morning it was rumoured, and
currently believed, that Ascot was coughing, and he went so
completely out of the market that any one anxious to " bear
up" might have got 20 to 1; in the afternoon an influential
party offered to take 16 to 1, but no one would bid more than
12 to 1. Queen of Trumps, who is looking and going beauti-
fully, is in immense force, and, should the furor continue, will
become a still further favourite. Hornsea was on the rise,
while the renowned Mundig, who is reported to have been tried
with hiin and " found wanting," is almost friendless at 12 to 1.
Preserve is in good demand with several good judges, and
Jupiter bas been backed as low as 17 to 2. Although there
are plenty of Leger horses here, it is now the on dit that not
above twelve or fourteen will show for it. At the time our
parcel was made up the prices were as follows :-
2 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Queen of Trumps
4 4o 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Hornsea
6 to 1 agst Mr, Greville's Preserve—taken
17 to 2 agst Mr. Johnson's Jupiter
12 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mundig
12 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Ascot -
to 8 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Turban

600 to 300.0 n Queen of Trumps agst Hornsea
600 to 400, and afterwards 400 to 200, on Preserve agst Mundig
The ground is in excellent order for running, and the
weather favourable.
The eiltries hLv.) 'closed as follow:

TO-MORROW.
The Fitzvalliam Stakes. Mile and a half.

Mr. T. O. Powlett's b. c. by Langar, out of Giovanni's dam, 3 yrs
Mr. Vasittart's b. f. Madame Pelerine, 3 yrs.
Lord Egrement's ch. c. Nonsense, 5 yrs
Mr. Mattson's bi. c. Louden, 4 yrs
His Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Four miles.
Duke of Cleveland's Muley Moloch, 5 yrs
Lord Derby's Speculator, aged
Duke of Leeds's Zohrab, by Lottery, 4 yrs
Mr. Richardson's b. f. Lady le Gros, 4 yrs
Mr. Marson's Louden, 4 yrs
Mr. W. Crompton's Mayflower, 4 yrs
Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus, 5 yrs .
WEDNESDAY.
The Corporation Plate of 60/. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Marson's b. f. by Tramp, out of Zirza, 3 yrs
Mr. W. .Crompton's Mayflower, 4 yrs
Mr. S. Fox's The Comet, 4 yrs
Mr. Gardner's Mowbray Hill, 6 yrs
The Doncaster Stakes of 10 son. each, with 25 added. Two miles.
Duke of Cleveland's Muley Moloch, 5 yrs
Mr. Townley's Algiers, 5 yrs
Mr. Houldsworth's ch. c. Turban, 3 yrs
Duke of Leeds's Zohrab, 4 yrs
Mr. S. Fox's The Count, 5 yrs
Mr. Heseltine's Physician, 6 yrs
The Selling Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 20 added. Leger Course.
Duke of Cleveland's c. by Memnon, out of Pucelle, 3 yrs
Mr. Ruthven's ch. c. Rush, 4 yrs
Mr. Townley's Algiers, 5 yrs •
Mr. Greville's br. f. by Tramp, out of Ridotto, 3 yrs
Mr. Crompton's Mayflower, 4 yrs
TIIITRSDAY.