The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-12 00:00:00

CHARGE.

INCOME.

Customs.—Consolidated Duties
Sugar applicable to the
Consolidated Fund

Total Customs

Excise
Stamps
Taxes
Post Office
Miscellaneous

To Cash brought to this Account to
replace the like sum issued, or to
be issued, out of the Consolidated
Fund in Ireland, tbr Supply and
other Services

3,475,536

3,475,536

3,924,785
,659,000
408,714
366,000
22,1.39

9,956,282

202,e25

10,158,907

3,391,8'72

3,891,872

4,007,375
1,671,188
355,120
372,000
40,798

10,338,353

682,054

11,020,407

The King, with his usual kindness and condescen-
sion, on being applied to by Mr. Arnold to extend the
licence of the present season of the New English Opera
House until February next, immediately granted the request.
We understand that the theatre will re-open, with dimi-
nished prices of admission, this day week.

The building of Braham's vaudeville theatre is pro-
gressing with astonishing rapidity. In a few days it will be
ready to be roofed. It is of considerable depth, and there
is a large space left fronting King-street, whereon a hand-
some front is to be erected, which is not yet begun.

Mdlle. Mars, who, it was reported, was shortly to
retire to the neighbourhood of Orleans for the recovery of
her health, remains in Paris, where she will be attended by
the most eminent of the medical world.

Mr. O'Connell has been prevented by the illness of
his lady from availing himself of the invitation to dine at
Limerick on Thursday. He has written to the Committee
to that effect, and Tuesday next has been appointed for
entertaining him in that city.

We understand that the General Steam Navigation
Company and Old Margate Company have, much to their
honour, granted a free passage to the crew and people who wrecked in the Ocean Hamburgh ship, from Rams-
gate to London, and from thence to Hamburgh. This is an
act of liberality highly creditable to their humanity, for the
crew of the Ocean, as well as the owners, have been altoge-
ther most untowardly treated.

ELOPEMENT.—On Tuesday se'nnight, S. T.Lucas,
Esq., of Baron-down, a married man, magistrate for both
the counties of Devon and Somerset, after attending the
magistrates' meeting at Wiveliscombe, instead of returning
home, took from her father's gate, where she was waiting
for him, Miss Charlotte Gardiner, with whom he eloped.
The parties were traced as far as Weymouth, where the
happy pair embarked for Guernsey, leaving his wife and
grown-up son at home. What adds to the troubles of his
wife and son is the melanoholy circumstance,. that, the day
before this business transpired, his son, while shooting rab-
bits, had the misfortune to shoot one of the servants, who
lingered two days and died.—Exeter Post.

Country people, who are by far the most correct
observers of the weather, declare that more rain falls on a
Friday than any other day throughout the year ; and that
the sun always shines more or less on a Saturday.
Admiral Sir Charles Tyler, the notice of whose
death appeared in The Sun of Wednesday last, was
one of the heroes of Trafalgar, in which memorable engage-
ment he commanded the Tennant, of 84 guns, the fourth
ship in the rear division, and to whom the Spanish Admiral
d'Aliva's ship, the Santa Anna, of 112 guns, struck, and was
taken possession of by a Lieutenant and 60 men from the
Tennant ; but during the dreadful hurricane which suc-
ceeded the battle, the British seamen being insufficient to
manage the ship required the assistance ofisome of the pri-
soners, who dishonourably rose upon the English, made
them prisoners, and ran the ship into Cadiz.• Out of 27
Captains who commanded ships on that glorious day, only
seven now remain. Sir Charles was an Admiral of the
White, and his death creates a vacancy of a Knight Grand
Cross.

MAGISTERIAL ASSAULT.--We are informed
that Joseph Armitage, Esq., of Huddersfield, the magis-
trate, who a few weeks,since attacked a child named Ma-
canna, while bathing, and after beating him with a stick,
threw his clothes into the water, has paid 101. as a compen-
sation for the offence.—Leeds Mercury.

A tradesman in Vine-street has been fined ss. at the
Marlborough-street police office, on an information, under
a local Act, for keeping fowls. The Act prohibits the in-
habitants from keeping pigs, poultry, or rabbits, and as
many are unaware of its existence, it may be well to caution
all parties infringing its provisions, as the police have strict
orders to put the law in force.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BIR-
MINGHAM RAILROAD.—About eleven o'clock on Friday
night, a miner, named William Otwell who was working
with others during the night-course, in'the shaft No. 3, on

the north side of Primrose-hill, was instantaneously crushed
to death by the falling of a ponderous load of earth upon
him, from the roof or top of the excavation he was engaged
in making. The deceased was a remarkably powerful ath-
letic man, 28 years of age, and has left a widow with two
children, and in the eighth month of her pregnancy.

NORTH CAROLINA GOLD MINES.—Many of
the inhabitants at Concord have pieces of pure gold of va-
rious weight, one of which weighs 281bs. The beds where
the gold is discovered are of gravel, and very extensive,
covered with water in the winter months, but dry in a sum-
mer. These beds are principally quartz, with slate, schist,
and some imperfectly formed granite ' • the sand is mingled
with mica, they rest on a bed of black or bluish argillaceous
earth. They are from 30 to 100 feet wide, and wind round
the hills, which rise in all forms in angles of from 20 to
60 degrees, and about 100 feet high.—Mining Journal.
Some one remarked that Scott's " Life of Napo-
leon" was a failure. " I think little of it," said Moore ;
" but after all it was an embarrassing task, and Scott did
what a wise man would do—made as much of his subject
as was politic and necessary, and no more." "It will not
live," said some one else, " as much because it is a bad
book, as because it is the life of an individual." We pre-
sume it was nobody but Mr. Willis that could have made
this last remark to the author of " The Life of Sheridan,"
" The Life of Byron," and " The Life and Death of Lord
Edward Fitvr6erald." Lady Blessington, no doubt, felt
rather awkward, but Mr. Moore turned the corner adroitly
and airily, " But what an individual !" Moore replied,
" Voltaire's Life of Charles XII.' was the life of an indi-
vidual, yet that will live and be read as long as there is a
book in the world ; and what was he to Napoleon ?"
Quarterly Review—Notice of Mr. Willis's Book.

On Saturday evening, about half-past 8 o'clock,
two of those sanguinary factions, that are the disgrace and
bane of the country, assailed each other at Barna, near
Pallas-green; on one side were arrayed the Bearys and
Reals, and on the other the Magraths. The conflict was
long and bloody, and the shouting of the combatants, as
if 300 men were engaged, was heard by those on the Va-
terford coach, at a distance of over a mile. At length, the
Magraths were beaten and forced to fly into their houses,
one of which was completely wrecked by the opposite party
—doors, windows, and all, presented a heap of ruin in the
morning ; fortunately no lives were lost, but some were se-
verely beaten. This occurred nearly within a mile of the
Nicker police-barracks, and, we may fairly ask, what were
those men doing who were so valiant and vigilant against
poor Londregan ?—Linzerick Star.
HYDROPHOBIA.--A melancholy case of hydropho-
bia occurred last week at Newcastle, in Staffordshire. The
sufferer was a corporal in the Ist Dragoons, now stationed
in that town, and billeted at the George and Dragon.
About ten or twelve months ago he was bit on the hand
by a dog, which had been previously bitten by another dog
in a rabid state. At intervals since that time he had suf-
fered from slight indisposition, but had never been seriously
affected until Wednesday morning, when he reported him-
self as sick. He shortly afterwards went to bed, where he
remained the whole of the day and night. On Thursday
morning he was considerably worse, and the virulence of
the disease began to manifest itself, and before evening it
was heart-rending to witness his sufferings, at times spring-
ing out of his bed with the utmost force, almost raging, and
at others lying as calm as possible, and talking in the most

Perroariint Debt.
Terminable Annuities
Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund
Sinking Fund
The Civil List
Other charges on the Consolidated Fund, including Civil Government Services formerly paid out of the Civil List, of the Heredi-
tary Revenues of the Crown

Total Charge

The Surplus

The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended sth July, 1835, and
taepaid ()flout of
Fund the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended 10th October, 1835, after deducting 150,0001. paid off out of
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended 10th October, 1831, in part of the sums gra;
for Supply Services
The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1835
The

probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Con,

lucid. and affecting manner of his past life, regretting that
he had not paid more attention to the concerns of another
world, and wishing all his comrades to come and see him.
On Friday his sufferings were very considerably increased,
and the unfortunate man expired at a late hour that night.
—Wolverhampton Chronicle.

The forest-keeper of Tegernsee, in Bavaria, named
Nassal, who had before saved several lives, was out in the
night of August 12, when he heard cries of distress from
'one of the almost perpendicular mountains, and hastening
to the spot, found a man holding by the edge of a rock,
which overhung a deep precipice. He was nearly exhausted,
but happily Nassal arrived in time, and saved-him, though
at the risk of his own life. They afterwards proceeded
together to the Chateau of Tegernsee, and then Nassal
discovered that he had rescued from impendinc, danger no
less a personage than the Prince Royal, Frederick, co-
Regent of Saxony, who had lost himself while botanising in
the forest. The Prince expressed his gratitude to Nassal
in the strongst terms, made him a present of a gold watch,
and will no doubt provide handsomely for him in future.
RESISTING POWER OF THE WHALE.---When
struck with the harpoon the whale dives perpendicularly,
and the quantity of line they sometimes take out in a per-
pendicular descent Captain Scoresby considers a good mea-
sure of the depth. By this rule they have been known to
descend a mile, bearing, consequently a pressure of one ton
and a quarter on every square inch, which, multiplied by the
extent of surface of the animal, varying in length from 60
to 200 feet, and of proportionate width, gives an amount al-
most incredible-720,000 tons !—The Analyst.
LUCIEN BONAPARTE.—I have seen Lucien Bona-
parte since his residence in Rome. I have a great regard
for him, and he seems to like me ; he has repeatedly in-
vited me, but you know my station does not precisely allow
of an intimate intercourse with him. His monomania is his
verses. He has read to me French poems of his without
rhyme, having imitated, as he thought he had, the ancient
metre. Imagine a poem relying, as to form, on metre only,
in a language which has no prosody, and hardly any rhythm !
It is a niarotte, if ever any existed! There is no earthly rea-
son for ending the line, or verse, as he calls it, where he
ends it ; he might just as wel ihave gone on, But, as I
said, I have a great regard for him.—Reminiscences of
Neibuhr.

ADULATION OF NAPOLEON.-" Napoleon est
notre Dieu," said Ney to the Professors of the University
of Helmsthedt. You know the Archbiihop of Paris called
him, in a pastoral letter to his bishops, " rhonzme de la
droite de Dieu :" and Fabre de l'Ande, President of the
Tribunal, wrote to Napoleon's mother—" La conception
que vows avez eue, en portant dans votre rein k Grand
Napoleon, n'a etee surement qu'une inspiration divine !"
But even with us, my friend, the adulation was carried by
some wretches to an equal extent of shameful madness.
Even now, when I relate it, it has already become incredi-
ble ; and yet it is a fact. How often has it not been said,
" God created Napoleon, and rested !" What is man ! This
happened but' yesterday; how utterly vile !—Reminireenres
of Neibuhr.

In Wakefield market, on Friday last, good apples
and potatoes fetched the same price—namely, ss, 6d. per
load.—Doncaster Gazette.

nted by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund

CHOLERA.—The last caravan attacked by the
cholera at Mecca, worn down with fatigue, and destitute
of water, almost wholly perished. No less than 40,000
pilgrims were left behind in the desert. The dust of the
desert surrounding Mecca is, in fact, the dust of men !
De Lamartine.

About half past one o'clock on Sunday morning, a
fire broke out in the bakehouse of Mr. John Smith, baker,
of 28, Robinson's-row, Kingsland. The bakehouse is under
the front shop, and as the fire advanced upwards towards
the shop, it was discovered by the policeman on duty, who
instantly alarmed the inmates, and then sent off notice to
the nearest fire-stations of the London Establishment,
whence engines were sent, and the fire got under. The da-
mage done to the building and stock is considerable, but is
believed to be fully covered by an insurance in the Pro-
tector office.

A. DINNER AT THE ATHEN/EUM.—A friend
of mine propw
that we should dine together at the Athe-
naeum,
and be ould send a brace of grouse he had just
received. We dined very satisfactorily, but agreed that a
perfect edition of our dinner would have been as follows :
First, a dozen and a half of small oysters, not pampered,
but fresh from their native bed, eaten simply after the
French fashion, with lemon juice, to give an edge to the
appetite. In about twenty minutes, the time necessary
for dressing them, three fine flounders waterzouchied, with
brown bread and butter—a dish which is better served at
the Athenaeum than anywhere I know. At a short inter-
val after the flounders the grouse, not sent up together,
but one after the other, hot and hot, like mutton chops,
each accompanied by a plate of French beans. With the
flounders half a pint of sherry, and with the grouse a bottle
of genuine claret, which we got for three and sixpence a
bottle ; after which a cup each of strong coffee.—Walker's
Original.

isolidated Fund, Quarter ended October 10, 1835..

JUDICIAL STATISTICS IN FRANCE.—The Mo-
nitcur contains a long report of the Keeper of the Seals on
the administration of Civil and Commercial Justice, which
completes the accounts of the labours of the judicial order
to the. end of 1833. This report comprises the last four
months of 1831, and the years 1832 and 1833. The num-
ber of civil causes on the rolls of all the tribunals of First
Instance was 128,138 for 1832, and 121,560 for 1833. In
examining the proportion of causes to the population, to
the surface of the kingdom, and to the amount of the finan-
cial contribution, we find that in 1832 there was one cause
to a population of 253, to 412 hectares of territorial sur-
face, and to 1,206 fr. of land tax. In 1833, one cause, 267
inhabitants, 434 hectares, 1,272 fr. of land-tax. The num-
ber of causes in 1833 was less considerable than in 1832 by
6,578, and less than in 1831 by 1,393. The total -number
of causes despatched in 1832 was 121,155 ; in 1833,
120,492. The commercial causes also were more nu-
merous in 1832 than in 1833. In 1832 the number was
116,204 ; in 1833, it was 103,157. Thy proportions in the
respective commercial districts are nearly equal in both
years, excepting that at Aix and Lyons the number was
somewhat greater in 1833 than in 1832. The account pre-
sents 112,151 commercial causes brought to a conclusion in
1832, and 95,140 in 1833.

Loss OF THE LEE AND ISABELLA.—We regret
that the first news received of the whale fishery is of the
most disheartening nature. Two noble vessels are com-
plete wrecks in the ice, and themumber of fish taken is so
insignificant as scarcely to be worth mentioning. On Wed-
nesday last, the mate of the Lee, one of the vessels lost, ar-
rived here, and yesterday Captain Lee, the master, fol-
lowed. This gentleman has obligingly communicated to us
the following particulars :—On the 14th of June, the wreck
of a vessel was seen amongst the ice, and ascertained to be
the Isabella, the vessel, it will be remembered, in which
Captain Ross and his gallant companions were brought to
this country. On the 17th Lee fell in with and took on
board Captain Carlill, and the crest of the Isabella, 25 in
number. On the Ist of July the Lee became fast in the
ice, in lat. 72 N. The following extract from the log-
book details the particulars of the loss of the vessel :
" Saturday, July 4, E.S.E. Fore part light breezes and
clear weg.ther. At 4 a.m. began to saw a dock for the
ship ; at 7 ditto done sawing, hauled the ship into the
dock, and made her fast. Middle and latter .part fresh
breezes and clear weather. At 10 a.m, the ice began to

Quarters ended Oct. 10.

3,601,801
1,313,614
18,601
344,257
127,500

244,402

5,650,205
4,508,702

10,158,907

3,032,364
5,583,415

3,3'2,078
1,35q,314
17,367
301,374
127,500

278,419

5,4313,982
5,583,415

W,720,497

6,567,240

2,557,0.51

4,016,189

press very much upon the ship. Called all hands, un-
shipped the rudder, and did other necessary work for the
safety of the ship. At 11 a.m. the edge of the dock broke
on the larboard side of the ship. At half-past 11 the ship
became a total wreck. A few hours afterwards all hands
went on board the William Torr." On the 14th, Captain
Lee, his mate, the Captain's son, and eight men, left the
William Torr, in one of their own whale-boats, and com-
menced the arduous undertaking of pulling for the nearest
settlement, a Danish factory called Lieblin, distant 380
miles, where they arrived on the 20th, in a very exhausted
and distressed state, having been at sea six days in an open
boat. They were received in the most hospitable manner
by the inspector, and afforded every assistance their melan-
choly condition required. On the 20th of August they
were taken on board a Danish vessel, and after proceeding
to another settlement, were eventually landed at Sandy
Island, in the Orkneys, whence the Captain and mate made
their way to Hull, and arrived here, as we have stated, the
former yesterday, and the latter on Wednesday.—Hull
Packet.

EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF A PUBLIC
PENSION.—The first Earl of Chatham died in 1778, at his
death a pension was voted to his son (the late Earl), of
four thousand pounds per annum, upon an address from the
Commons to the Crown. This pension has been paid to
him fifty seven years, consequently, the amount is two hun-
dred and twenty-eight thousand pounds. This sum is in
addition to the Earl's public appointments—First Lord of
the Admiralty, Governor and Vice-Admiral of Gibraltar, a
General in the Army, together with a regiment, the Fourth
Foot, &c., &c. Fortunately, his Lordship left no family,
or the pension, by the nature of its grant, might have ex-
tended to many generations.

Lotteries throughout France will entirely cease at
the end of the year. The offices at Valenciennes were last
week closed by anticipation.

The effects of the late unpropitious weather are
already manifesting themselves in this quarter, and threaten
serious loss to the Scotch farmer. Within the last week
several vessels have arrived from Lynn, Boston, and other
ports in England, laden with wheat. A number of our
bakers, we understand, have made large purchases of wheat
in England.—Dundee Chronicle.

DIFFUSION OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE.
—The first number of the cheap re-issue of " Colburn's
Modern Novelists" appears this day. It contains the first
portion of Mr. Bulwer's brilliant and racy performance,
Pelham," with a portrait of the author, which alone is well
worth the shilling that constitutes the price of the number.
Many thousands have already been distributed to the
various,London booksellers alone ; and an immense demand
may be anticipated for the successive portions of an under-
taking like this, which addresses itself so invitingly and so
commodiously to the tastes of all genuirte lovers of litera-
ture, who will now, for the first time, have the opportu-
nity of procuring, at the cost of one shilling per week, all
the best fictions of our most celebrated living English
writers.

At the burial of the mother of a family, lately so-
lemnized at a village not many miles east of Melton Mow-
bray, when the corpse was ,brought outt of the church it
was found that the yokel who sustains the two-fold office of
sexton and parish-clerk, had cut the grave with the feet
towards the west, contrary to the imr aemorial custom in
this country of laying the body with ale feet eastward.
The friends of the deceased peremptorily objected to this
novel mode of interment, and the little Ikald of mourners
stood surrounding the spot whilst the author of this pain-
inflicting blunder endeavoured to cut a e grave so as to
admit its destined occupant in the ctra tomary position.
The clergyman, who is remarkable for c ondescension and
affability, became impatient, and finished the service,
leaving the weeping relatives to stand tv renty minutes and
upwards listening to each other's sob:;, mingled with the
agonizing blows of the mattock and th e spade, and an oc-
casional murmur of indignation among: it the spectators.—
Lincoln Mercury.

The death of a poor man, name ci Crow, has occa-
sioned some sensation in Thaxted, it b eing alleged that he
died of starvation through the neglc et of the parish of-
ficers. Mr. Powell, the Poor Law CI )wmissioner, was en-
gaged the whole of Monday and Tue sda'y in investigating
the case, when we understand the evidence adduced tended
to acquit the parish-officers of all bla.mc. The matter is,
however, to undergo further inquiry.--Chelmsford Chron.
On Saturday a coroner's inques t was held at the
Half-Moon, Islington, on the body of a young man, about
18 years of age (name unknown), who se death was occa-
sioned by suffocation, while sleeping- on a brick-kiln, in
Rhodes's-fields, Islington. It appear eci' that the deceased
had been in a very destitute condition, and having no home,
had gone to the kiln for warmth. The deceased had been
dead some time before his body was found. Medical aid
was procured, but was of no avail. Ver diet—Accidentally
suffocated.

THE STANDARD NOVELS.— AtIC .ther most amus-
ing work has just been added by Mr„ Bentley to .‘ The
Standard Novels and Romances—" Cap tain Trelawney's
Adventures of a Younger Son." This co liection now con-
tains the best works of Bulwer ; also the favourite stories
of Cooper, Beckford's Vathek, the No• eels of Miss Austen,
Mrs. Brunton, Godwin's subtle Rom: ices, Miss Porter's
Popular Stories, the best works of. A [older, Hook, Galt,
Gleig, Grattan, Banim, Mrs. Shelley, Victor Hugo, Miss
Lee, &c. These popular works canno tbe obtained in any
other collection, as they are the exclusive property of Mr.
Bentley.

MONS MEG.—We stated some tune ago, that the
carriage on which this ancient piece c tE ordnance was sup-
ported, gave way with a loud crash, to the no small alarm
of those who were within hearing. 1 :ince that time no steps
have been taken to repair the damage, an d this relic of an-
dent times is now lying on the ground, as neglected as if it
were no more than so much old iron. We cannot believe
that the inhabitants of Edinburgh a re so fickle in their
feelings, as to set no value now on this venerable remnant of
olden warfare ; when not many years ago, they formed a
triumphal procession to welcome its re turn to Scotland; as
connected with the glory and the is idependence of the
country.—Edinburgh Courant.

FIRE-PROOF HOUSES.—A writer in the Mecha-
nics' Magazine communicated the folic )wing useful hints on
this subject :—" All party walls shoub I be 18 inches thick,
and all divisions between the front and back part of a house
should be nine-inch brickwork. The !joists should be one
inch thick, and drilled through every ;six inches, to receive
screws for fastening down the floor. :I would use for the
ceiling sheet-iron painted, which ',wort form a perfectly
even and durable ceiling, resisti'ag ;ffeletually one great
means of communication in case of fi re between the differ-
ent stories. Some of the floor screw s might be passed at
proper distances through the sheet-i ion, the heads being
neatly countersunk, and all of them r ire intended to screw
into the underside of the floor by pas sing the screw from
the lower room. On the top of e% very house should be
placed an iron tank, lined inside wit h lead—three pounds
might do—having a ball7cock, and si applied by the water
companies for domestic-purposes as w ell as in cases of fire,
The tank should be six feet square b y three feet deep, and
should be so placed on the roof that a ; communication by a
two inch pipe might be made betwee' .3 teach pair of tanks at
the bottom. A pipe should desc.2 rid to the bottom or
ground floor, and, passing through 'le r'lsror., t wall under the
pavement, should be inserted int,,3 a :gt !nem! supply
three-
inch pipe, the latter having at ;A-my 2h ird or fourth house

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a pipe two feet long rising from it, and fixed to the wall wit'i
a key-tap to fix a leather hose to when necessary, every in-
habitant having a key. Such taps would, in case of fire,
supply the engines, supposing only la houses forming the
side of a street, with nearly 8,000 gallons of water, and the
opposite houses of course the same. From the pipe that
descends from the tank should pass to each room an inch
branch-pipe, having a cock 18 or 20 inches from the floor,
with a key fixed to it by a chain. In cases of fire breaking
out in any apartment, the inmates could speedily put it out,
having nearly 1,300 gallons of water at their command, the
produce of two tanks."
MR. SPRING RICE.—The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, accompanied by his daughter and eldest son, ar-
rived at the Vice-Regal Lodge, Pheemx-park, on Friday
morning from Liverpool.
DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL IN LIMERICK.
The preparations for the public dinner to Mr. O'Connell
proceed on a scale consistent with the political rank and
claims of the distinguished guest. We are just apprised by
a notification from the Committee, that the dinner to Mr.
O'Connell is necessarily postponed, in consequence of the
indisposition of Mrs. O'Connell.

MAURICE O'CONNELL, Esq., M. P.—On Sun-
day, the day appointed for the entry of the borough mem-
ber into Tralee, an immense number of trades, and other in-
habitants of the town, preceded by a majority of the bo-
rough electors, proceeded to Mr. D. Supple's lodge, at the
Spa, where the honourable gentleman then was, for the
purpose of escorting him in. The day was unusually -fine,
and a very large concourse attended to do honour to the
man who had asserted the independence of the borough,
and who had rescued the rights and liberties of its inhabi-
from the grasp of the Aristocracy.
IRELAND.---- VICE-REGAL DINNERS.--MR.
O'CONNELL.— I have already informed you that Mr.
O'Connell had been invited to dine with the Lord-Lieute-
nant. The following appears in the newspapers of this
morning :—" His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant and
Countess of Mulgrave entertained the following personages
at dinner on Wednesday :—Lord and Lady Cloncurry,
Lord Morpeth, the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Perrin and
Mr. Perrin, the Right Hon. the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, and Mrs. Richards, Mr. Drummond, Mr.
E. Stanley, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Ronaync, Mr. Howley,
Mr. W. H. Curran, &c." Lady Cloncurry was seated be-
tween Lord Mulgrave and Mr. O'Connell, who was re•
markable taciturn during the evening. The party broke up
early. The customary entertainment to the leading mem-
bers of the Corporation, called the " trumpet dinner," was
given yesterday by the Lord-Lieutenant, at the Vice-Regal
Lodge. Amongst the company assembled on the occasion
were the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the Recorder, the Earl
and Countess of Wicklow, Lord and Lady Cloncurry,
Colonel Perceval, M.P., Sir Compton Domville, Bart.,
Colonel Yorke, and several Aldermen.—lllorning Paper.

TORY MOVEMENTS.—The Conservatives in the
northern division of Durham had a meeting at the Waterloo
Hotel, in this city, on Wednesday last. The Marquis of
Londonderry was in the chair. The attendance is rerte-
sented to have been miserably small. Various causes have
been assigned for holding the meeting. Some say it was
convened for the purpose of entering into a subscription to
defray the expenses of the registration. The subscription
entered into, on the occasion, it is added, amounted to about
701., chiefly contributed by a few individuals—there having
been (when the subscription paper was produced) a general
rush—towards the door. It is also stated that it was held
for the purpose of devising means fbr bringing forward
Tory Candidates, at the next election, for the city and nor-
thern division—two for each ! Another story is that it was
got up under the instruction of the Marquis, to appoint a
deputation to wait upon the Marquis Camden, now on a visit
at Wynyard, to invite him to a public dinner, to be given to
him by the Tories, as a token of their admiration of his pa-
triotic conduct in giving up the enormous fees of his sine-

cure office, as Teller of the Exchequer. What may we
not expect after this ? The least to be anticipated is that
the Devil himself will turn precisian.--Dur•harn Chronicle.

REGISTRATION.—We see in the Carlisle Journal
that some stirring work was done last week in the Registry
Court at Carlisle. For the county, the Dean and Chapter
have been struck off the roll ; and for the city, the whole
body of the freemen, and 209 householders, have been set
aside by wholesale ! That the five parsons should be struck
off was by no means strange ; the wonder is, how they could
muster power of face to ask to be placed on the register,
directly in the teeth of all law and custom ! The striking
off of so many householders, and the whole of the freemen,
for the city, requires a word of explanation. The Reformers
had lodged, in all, 44 objections ; the Tories lodged none.
But when the Court met on Monday morning, they started
a game of general objection to all household. voters ! The
list had been posted up in the usual way ; but this did not
satisfy them. The parish church door was not sufficient for
these holy men ; the act required churches and chapels, and
the liberal souls insisted that the dissenters should have a
share of the Sunday reading. So far as regarded dissenting
meeting-houses, the barristers would not admit the objec-
tion ; but at respected "all churches" of the Establishment,
they found themselves under the necessity of disfranchising
three of the eight townships of the city! The Reformers
had no 'resource but to retaliate ; and, notwithstanding the
grossest perjury ever listened to—notwithstanding Mr. Nem-
son's friendly hint to Tom Graham, that he " meant Sun-
day," and not Monday, as he had sworn to—they succeeded
in showing that the whole of the freemen had been dis-
franchised, and in having them struck off the roll

The Reformers were all along perfectly aware of this
error, but never intended to take advantage of it ;
when, however, they found that they were to be left to the
mercy of the freemen, they had no alternative but to strike

in return ; and most effective has been the blow. Instead.
of a majority of 3 to 2 in favour of Reform, they have a.
majority of 6 or 7to 1 against Toryism. The Tories have
themselves to thank for this result ; and wishing them plea-
sant dreams upon the consequences of their first attempt to
disfranchise the whole of their fellow-townsmen, we bid
them good bye till next week.

EDUCATION.—The sum of twenty-five thousand
pounds has been voted by Parliament this year for the edu-
cation of the negroes. This is all very well—we wish
something had also .been granted for the endowment of
schools in the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland,
where, according to the last returns, there are still 80,000
of the population unable to read or write.—lnverness Courier.
FARMING AND ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On
Saturday morning a private distillery on an extensive scale
was discovered on the farm of a Mr. Fordham, at Winch-
more-hill, near Hendon. It appears that suspicions have
for some time past been entertained that Mr. Fordham, ap-
parently a respectable farmer, and formerly a publican, was
engaged in such illicit proceedings, and on Saturday morn-
ing positive information of the fact having been received,
Mr. Burgess, a supervisor, went from London with a party
of officers to search the farm. Having placed several per-
sons about the house to prevent escape, Burgess and Smith
entered, and, finding the farmer in his parlour, immediately
seized him. He seemed terribly agitated, but a room of
suspicious appearance at the end of the rangd'of buildings
being observed, he willingly accompanied the officer, who
wished to examine it. In that room a trapdoor was found,
leading to a large cellar ; and it being lifted, a youth, who
proved to be the farmer's son, came running up the steps
with another person, the servant, and both were secured.

In the cellar a still of unusually large dimensions (between
sixty and seventy gallons) was found at work, with a quan-
tity of molasses, wash, some manufactured spirits, and all the
appurtenances-of a private distillery. The place had been
well contrived with means for conveying off the waste mat-
ter under ground to a cesspool at some distance. The ser-
vant, when discovered, pointed to Fordham, as his employer;
and, addressing the latter, said, " A pretty mess you've
brought me into, master." The three prisoners were taken
immediately afterwards before Dr. Robinson and another
Magistrate. Fordham was recognised by the Doctor as a
person who, before he took the farm in question, kept a
-public-house at Whetstone. The Magistrates remanded.
all the prisoners for a week that the solicitor to the excise
might attend.

THE SWELL MOB" IN QUEEN ELIZABETH S
RElGN.—Robert Greene, in his " Notable Discovery of
Coozeuage," a quarto pamphlet of excessive rarity, printed
in black letter in 1591, informs us that " Coney catchers"
and " Crosse byters" were much to be feared and carefully
avoided in his time. The first, be says, arc fellows "in
goode fashion and apparrell" who find means to introduce
themselves into good society, and then endeavour to draw
persons to card-playing, at which " the divilesh thieves," by
cheating, winneth all the money. The pickpockets and
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cut-purses are not half so dangerous to meete withal, as
theese coozening coney catchers. " The cross-byters" seems
by the author's description, to have " likened" more to the
swell-mob man of the present day, than the " coney-
catcher." They are characterized as " villainous vipers,
outcasts from Goy, base rogues," who do not confine their
practice to " cuttinc, purses and sneeking thievery," but
" they plaie with false dice, coozenage by gold false, and
followe up the eight kzves villainie”—their dress is stated
to be often " eerie costlie," the better "to introduce them-
selves into good societie, to plunder whatsoever they lay
there landes upon." In the course of the pamphlet is a
sort of Slang Dictionary, containing " the wordes used by
cross-byters, and other villaines." In 1592 appeared a
pamphlet on " Coney-catching," which, as the title page
states, " gives the meanes to understand the Pedlar's
French (flash language), and the meanes to understand the
counteoreite cranke—all writ by a Justice of Peace of great
authoritie, who bath had the trouncing of many of them."
This curious publication gives several instances of " the
swell-mob-man of the olden time" plundering merchants,
counting houses, and " the palaces of the Nobilitie in
Drurie•lane and the Straande."