The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1844.

Liverpool ; Sultan, 16th ; Florest, 18th, from Hong-
Kong.
Departures from Manilla—Vlashandel, Jan. 20, to
Hamburgh ; Gambia, 20th, to Boston.
Arrivals at Ichiboe—Queen, Dixon, from Liverpool ;
Topaz, Bachelor, Silence, Commerce—all of London ;
Ann of Yarmouth.

EASTER AMUSEMENTS.

The following is the opening address, written by ltior.
George Beckett, which Mrs. Keeicy delivered with
great grace and naircte at the Lyceum on Monday night:
" When a new minister assumes the reins,
His policy 'tis right that he explains:
1, having taken office, don't refuse
To make the house acquainted with my views.
Some may conceive I owe an explanation
For having headed the administration :
Upon that point a motion 1 will make,
The opinion of the house at once to take,
That ladies can't good managers be reckoned.
Is that a motion any one will second—(Cheers)?
I thank the house for its polite decision,
The motion is thrown out without division.
To look on idly ne'er could be my choice,
A woman always likes to have a voice ;
Silent indifference could never suit her,
The grammar tells us woman can't be neuter.
'Tis true, I might have filled an humble station
In our theatrical administration;
But female influence soon gains the ascendant—
When. it begins, no one can see the end on't.
Instead of coming to it by degrees
I thought at once the Premiership I'd seize.
To keep the place I very much incline,
Unless this house calls on me to resign.
Now for the measures I shall introduce :
I mean to do away with one abuse.
•
The scheme on innovation somewhat borders,
But I propose to drop the standing orders.
My policy may probably be hinted
In a short bill I've ordered to be printed ;
That bill I see already in your hands—
I trust that you will pass it as it stands.
Tis not the least remarkable of facts,
That if you pass that bill, you pass five acts ;
If Parliament as fast could use its powers,
It would'nt be complaining of late hours.
My views with br:N-ity I now will state,
Upon the principle legitimate ;
The drama call'd legitimate may thrive
As well in two or three acts as in five.
Were length legitimacy's standard—then
What would become of all the little men ?
Heirs to a throne, if short, would lose a crown
Which must be
.given up—not handed down.
Man, by his mind, not by the height we rate;
Talent, not length, makes plays legitimate.
But here am I don't practice what I teach,
Making a long, and perhaps an empty speech ;
So, I'll be brief in coming to a close—
We've several measures ready to propose;
But if you deem them wrong they shall be stopp'd—
Amendments we are anxious to adopt.
The confidence I feel there's one thing clenches,
As yet I see no opposition benches.
Before I bring my statement to an end
One thing most earnestly I recommend—
Throw out our bills, object, or criticise—
But never think of stopping the supplies."

Arrivals at Hong-Kong—Her I`,lnjesty's ship Caztor,
Dee. 27, from Portsmouth and Cape ; Cornwall, Surfer,
from Portsmouth ; Flora Muir, Brown, from Livt•rpool ;
Henry Pratt, from New York ; Chieftain, Birnic, 28th,
from Whampon, and sailed, 29th, to Loudon ; Orissa,
Jan. 6, from the Clyda. •
Departures from Hong-Kong—Warlock, Die. 31, to
Calcutta ; Cincinnati, 31st, to Amsterdam ; IZonaldson
and Congress, to New York; Foam, Emu, Jamts Camp-
bell, and Ruby, Jan. 2, to LondOn ; Diana, Jan. 3, to
London ; Charles Jones, to Cork; Castle Eden, for
Madras, to sail Jan. 10.

NEWMARKET RACES.
NEWMARKET SUBSCRIPTION BETTING-

ROOM, MONDAY NIGHT,

The result of the 50 Sovs. Stakes caused an immediate
reversal of the positioni of the two favourites for the
Derby ; in the morning the Ugly Buck was at 4 to 1
and Rattan at 5 to 1 ; this evening they offer to take 4
to 1 about Rattan, and to be 6 to 5 on him against the
Buck ; the very easy style in which he was making a
complete spread-eagle of his horses justified the change,
and, as we have before observed, will make " bad hedg-
ing." The subjoined quotations will show two or three
other changes in this race, as well as in the Chester Cup
prices.
Even on The Ugly Buck 15 to 1 agst Keeley

CIIESTEn Cm
12 to 1 agst Pagan 20 to 1 agst Red Deer—taken
13 to 1 agst Roseina '25 to 1 agst Sir Robert
13 to 1 agst Cattonite 27 to 1 agst Everton
14 to 1 agst Pharaoh 30 to 1 agst The Prior
17 to 1 agst Bramble—taken 50 to 1 agst Collina—taken
20 to 1 agst Freedom

• DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Sir G:lleathcote's 25 to 1 agst Cockamaroo
lot—t 30 to 1 agst lonian
7to 2 agst Rattan—t 4t0130 to 1 agst King of Gipsies
9 to 1 agst Ugly Buck—take 33 to 1 agst Bay Momus—t
5 to 1 35 to 1 agst Campanero—t
,8 to 1 agst Orlando—taken 40 to 1 agst Mount Charles—t

'-to 5 offered on Rattan agst the Ugly Buck.
TUESDAY'S RACES.

Riddlesworth—The Duke of Portland'•, Mr. Wreford's,
and Lord G. Bentinck's colts are scratched.

200 Sovs. Stakes—Flycatcher filly and Miss Whip filly
have paid.
New Match for Friday—Duke of Bedford's Minotaur,
9st 51b, agst Mr. Payne's Audrey, 7st Mb ; 'T.Y.C. ;
150, h ft.

RACE COURSE, TUESDAY, THREE O'CLOCK.

The list for this day, as it sto.)4 at the beginning of
the week, contained five rims ; one of them, however,
the match between Lord Exeter's Pergularia and Molly
Mogg, has ended in a forfeit, leaving only four to come ;
of these we subjoin particulars :
The Oatland Stakes of 50 sous, h ft, and only 10 ft if
declared, &c. D.I. (7 Subs, 4 of whom declared.)
Lord Exeter's Maria Diaz, 4 yrs, 6st 81b (Pettit) 1
Lord Glasgow's Give-him-a-Name, 6 yrs, ist Mb ( Bell) 2
Colonel Peel's I-am-not-Aware, aged, 7st 31b ...(Nat) 3

MR. LOVE'S POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS.
This celebrated ventriloquist, or as he, more Grecian
like, styles himself, polyphonist, displayed his marvels
and his mirth on Monday at the Crown and Anchor,
Strand, in his usual talented manner. The variety of
characters he assumes, and the distinct intonation he
gives to each person, whether young or old, male or
female, certainly excel all we have heard sinee the days
of the immortal Mathews. Although Mr. Love is a
perfect master in the art of polyphony, he by no means
relies on that alone as the attraction of his performances,
but, like those that have gone before him in this very
curious and difficult exercitation of the human voice,
he developes his powers through the medium of inge-
nious and humorous plots, that are very cleverly wrought
out in terse and witty dialogue. His new monodrame,
called The Wolf in Sheep's Cl)thing ; or, the Biter Bitten,
affordei much amusement to the audience. Mr. Love
promises other novelties on Wednesday and Friday this
week, which we have no doubt will amply repay in gra-
tification all who go to see them.
BRITISH MUSEUM.
On Monday the number of visitors to this national
establishment was 21,139. On last Easter Monday there
were 18,342, making an increase of 2,907. Out of this
large number of persons there was not a single indi-
vidual rejected on the ground of intoxication. The
police arrangements were under the nsansgement of
Sergeant Reason, A division, who had 12 officers under
his command. The behaviour of the visitors was most
orderly, and there was not a single case of damage. A
great disappointment was experienced by persons taking
children under eight years of age, who, by the regula-
tions of the Museum, are refused admission. This re-
striction is likely to be removed from a suggestion of the
trustees. Thousands of persons during the day congre-
gated round Magna Charta, the original palladium of
English liberty, always an object of great, attraction.
The Museum continues open till Friday incluSivb.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY..
Nearly 10,000 persons inspected this natioliaf dtepw
sitory of paintings on Monday; their conduets,flas-genw. •
rally unexceptionable. e's
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.
This grand national edifice had less than fi..f:ty, visitors,
which may be accounted for by the continua-nee of the
exorbitant charge of 4s. 2d. to view the whole.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
There is, it would seem, a general repugnance to pay-
ing at all for admission to view public buildings, and,
consequently, though for tome time past the amount
charged to view the monuments and other .interestings
objects in this venerable edifice has been rcdtiverl
,to 6d.;
the visitors have not been near so numerous' rts,a Might
have been expected, and on Monday the numbgri were;
fewer than usual on holidays ; the exact number could
not, however, be accurately ascertained, for one attend-
ant said, "I don't know ;" another, " We must not say;
the numbers were very insignificant, but we don't want
to be noticed in the papers." Another said, " You had
better ask Mr. Hume.' The last verger (or attendant)
applied to said the number of visitors was about four
hundred, but it is understood there was not more than
half than number.
THE TOWER OF LONDON.
The armoury and the jewel-room at the Tower were
honoured with the presence of hundreds, who, while
visiting the " lions of London," could not refrain from
paying a visit to that place, which forms so prominent a
feature in the annals of their country. Among the new
features are several guns of Chinese manufacture, cap-
tured by the British during the recent campaign in China.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S-PARK.
The season for visiting these gardens commenced on
Monday, and if one might judge by the number who
flocked to them, they stand pre-eminent in the exhibi-
tions of the metropolis. During the past winter great
alterations have been made in the gardens, as well for
the biped as 'the quadruped, and the number of animals
has been greatly increased. Among the novelties is a
young giraffe, born in this country, and about five or six
months old. The time of feeding the animals has been
changed—the pelicans at one time and the lions at an-
other, so as to enable the visitors, who did not feel in-
clined to stay all day, to see some of the animals fed.
The most amusing, to the young folks, is the ouran-
outang, who likes tea and eats bread and butter in the
most accomplished style ; the dress consists of a crimson
velvet tunic with white trousers. The museum belong-
ing to the Society is in a great state of forwardness.
The Diorama, the Panorama, the Cosmorama, the
British Institution, and numerous other institutions in the
metropolis, also received a fair share of the patronage
of the holiday seekers. In various parts of London and
the suburbs amusements of all descriptions were going
forward for those who had not the means of going to
Greenwich or any of the foregoing exhibitions.

Betting-5 to 4on I-a-n-notlaWare, 7to 4 agst Maria
Diaz (t). Maria Diaz made slow running all the way,
was challenged half a distance from home, and headed
half way up the ropes, but in a desperate struggle home
won by a neck, Give-him-a-Name beating the favourite
by a head. A finer race was never witnessed.
The Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft., for
three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b ; D.M.;
untried mares or stallions allowed 31b, if both 51b.
(13 Subs.)
Col. Peel's Orlando, by Touchstone, Bst 21b ...(Nat.) 1
Mr. Watt's Baveno, by Bay Middleton, Bst 21b
Lord Exeter's Cloak, by Rockingham, Bst 41b
Betting-4 to lon Orlando ; Cloak made play for
the first qtrirter of a mile, and theneretired ; Orlando
went on by himself, and won easy by a length. After
the race 25 to 1 was laid against Orlando for the Derby.
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h. fr., for three yrs old
colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 31b ; those by stallions,
or out of mares which had not produced a winner
before the 4th of April, 1840, allowed 31b. D.M.
(7 Subs.)
Mr. Thornhill's hr f Example, by Emilius (F. Butler) 1
Lord Stradbroke's Boarding-school Miss (31b) 2
Mr. Greville's Jamaica (31b)
3 to 1 on the Boarding School Miss. Jamaica made
all the running at a slow pace, the others lying well up
until they were half-way up the cords ; they then closed,
and ran a splendid race home, Example winning by a
head, and the favourite beating Jamaica by a neck.
Match, B. C. 601., 40 ft.—Lord G. Bentinck's Bramble
(Rogers) Bst 71b, beat Lord Maidstone's The Caster,
Bst 71b (Nat). 2tol on Bramble, who won by nearly
twenty lengths.
SALE OF RACING STOCK.

The following lots, the property of the Mice of Beau-
fort, were sold by Messrs. Tattersall in the morning :
Filly, by Liverpool, out of Taglioni, 2 yrs, 20 guineas ;
Yearling colt, by he Saddler, out of Taglioni, 41
guineas ; Retamola, by Reveller, with a colt foal by
The Saddler, 40 guineas ; Esmeralda, by Zinganee, in
foal to Assassin, 100 guineas. Five other lots were
bought in.

THE HIGH PRICES of the FUNDS.
It appears that for the first time for nearly a cen-
tury, the Three per Cent. Consols are at par, or 1001.
money for 1001. stock. The last time they were at
1001. was in 1749, the year after the peace of Aix la-
Chapelle; at which period the romunt of the public
debt was rather more than 78,000,0001. The highest
price the Three per Cents. ever rose to was in June,
1737, and again in May, 1739, when they attained
the high price of 1071. Between the years 1729 and
the year of the Rebellion, 1745, the Three per
Cents. were never lower than 89, and for a consider-
able portion of that period they were above par.
Again, in March, 1792, they rose to 97i, when
the amount of the national debt was 239,350,000/.
During the period between the peace of Paris,
in 1763 (when the amount of the debt was
138,774,0001.), and the breaking' out of the
American war, they fluctuated between eighty and
ninety per cent. Towards the close of the Ame-
rican war—namely, in February, 1782, they were as
low as 541. At the termination of the American war
the debt was 249,851,628/. In the years 1797-8, in
consequence of the great success of the French armies
on the Continent, and of the-mutiny, at the Nore, and
of the rebellion in Ireland, together with the failure
of the attempt to negotiate with the French Republic,
the price of stock became less than it has been before
or since that time. In May, and again in June, 1797,
the Three per Cents. Reduced were as low as 464.
In the September of that year the Three per Cent.
Consols fell to 47k, being the lowest price to which
they have ever fallen. Dr. Hamilton, in his valuable
work on the national debt, states that they were also
at that price in January, 1798. The Three per Cent.
Consols have not been under 68 since the latter part
of the year 1820, when they were 67. The highest
price the Five per Cents. ever attained was 1071, in
August, 1791 ; and the lowest price was 594, in
January, 1798. The highest price the Five per Cents.
ever attained was in August, 1791, when they were
1223-, and the lowest price was in August, 1798, when
they were only 69k.

STATE TRIALS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—it may be of use to call the attention of those
who are intrusted with the defence of Mr. O'Connell to
the following passage in page 383 of the last Quarterly
Review :

Speaking of the French Revolution, it is said—"
first and most effective abuse of the forms of law was
this:—The Convention had decreed that all conspira-
cies and plots, tending to disturb the State by a civil war,
by arming citizens against each other, or against the
exercise of any lawful authority'. should be punished
with death. Under the vague and comprehensive terms
of conspiracy,' and 'pb)ts,' and tending,' words,
writings, and even thoughts, might be included ; and
the first question, therefore, generally submitted to the
jury was, whether there bad existed a counter-revolu-
tionary conspiracy?"
In what fellows, there are remarks which appear to
me to bear on tie late Irish trials, but if any one legally
employed thinks such remarks of any value, he will, of
course, turn to the Review itself.
AN ENGLISH MECHANIC.
Liverpool, April 8, 1844.

MARRIAGE OF ONE OF THE
113I1E WAY INDIANS.

At an early hour yesterday St. Martin's Church
and its vicinity presented a gay and animated appear-
ance, it having been known that one of the Ojibbeway
Indians, at present sojourning in this country, and who
is known by the extraordinary eppellation of Not-een-a-
akm, or the Strong Wind, and. Who acts in the capacity
of interpreter to the other Indians, was about to enter
into the bonds of holy matrimony with a young and
beautiful English lady. About half-past nine o'clock
a coach drawn by four grey horses containing
the Indians, their wives and children, attired
in their native costume, followed by two car-
riages—the first containing the bride, bridegroom,
and bridesitaids, and the second the father and friends
of the bride—drew up at the church, and the whole of the
party entered the sacred edifice, which was crowded by
fashionably .dressed persons, the majority being ladies.
After the solemn ceremony was performed in an impres-
sive manner by the officiating clergyman, the party re-
turned to their equipages, and drove off amidst the
cheers of the assembled multitude. The name of the
brido was Miss Sarah Haines, the second daughter of
Mr. Haines, of George-street, Euston-square (she was
elegant)), attired, and appeared to be in excellent health
eras attired tir
is ed
a in
very
a ry bluhean militarydsome man, surtobuotthantl
in
-.4eFapyits)—t.hat of the happy bridegroom, Alexander
."ffldebtte,. a native of Upper Canada, but of French ex-
ssct6t_i';roullse'rs: Ho
Ferson and features.

A YOUNG VAG AHOND.—John Scott, a boy of twelve
years, lately sentenced to eighteen months in the Peni-
tentiary at Perth, and liberated a few weeks ago, on the
score of bad'health, after having undergone the half of
his sentence', was yesterday sentenced to imprisonment
at the Police-court for being "drunk and disorderly."-
-seeetsmWf.
Taglioni is en route to Paris from Italy, having
been engaged at the Academie Royal for a limited num-
ber of nights ; after which the celebrated danseuee is ex-
pected to visit London.
Tins REVENUE.—Some time ago we stated that a
considerasle falling off would be found in the assessed
taxes department, in comparison with 1842, in conse-
quence of the income-tax. The revenue returns, just
published, show a deficiency last year of 73,064 e, com-
pared with the previous year. This loss does not end
here ; by the closing of windows, and reductions in ar-
ticles of establishment (to balance against the income
tax), tradespeople have sustained serious injury. Had
the measures of the late Government not been " ob-
structed," and those Ministers continued at the helm of
national affairs, we should not have had this loss to
tradesmen, the inquisitorial and oppressive income im-
post, nor a depressed trade. We predict a further falling
off in the assessed taxes this year.
FIRE IN GRAY'S INN.—Monday night great excite-
ment was created in the neighbourhood of Holborn, in
consequence of a fire breaking out in Gray's Inn.
Flames issuing out of the windows of the chambers oc-
cupied by Mr. Male, law-stationer, and situate No. 12,
South-square,
made. An immediate alarm was raised, but owing to
firmSthoeuth-caused the unwelcome discovery to be
hold the flames had attained it was found
utterly impossible to get them extinguished without the
assistance of the engines. In the course of half an hour
the fire was entirely extinguished.
Mr. Hatton, whose opera, Pascal Bruno, has been
produced by him with such marked success at Vienna,
has just arrived in London, from the Continent. It is
probable that the piece will shortly be performed here.
STATISTICS or INSOLVENCY.—During the month
of March there appeared in the Gazette 97 bankrupts;
increase
y I
432 insolvents, who have received vesting orders, by
which their persons are protected against their creditors;
ve n t'
and 42 assignments to trustees, making a total of 571
caseso c
°nv March, 1843, there
ey.There
s a
gradual
were
9 cBreaseof bankrupts,n
368 vesting ceders granted, and 28 assignments--a total
of 494. It may be assumed that not more than one
case in ten is gazetted ; this would make the insolven-
cies for March, 1844, 5,710, and if there be a deficiency
of only 2001. in each, the monthly loss would be
1,142,0001. On these assumed data the loss during the
There has been a debate on the Civil Contingencies year 1843 was 12,000,0001., or considerably more than
—always one of the most interesting items in a Cora- double the poors'-rate, and three-sevenths of the inte-
mittee of Supply. There was the old story of paying rest of the national debt.
the travelling expenses of foreigners of distinction, who A serious accident occurred on Thursday afternoon,
visited Great Britain ; with the interesting addition of to the son of Lady Russell, of Montpellier House, who,
paying the expenses of Prince Adalbert of Prussia, when when bird-shooting in the neighbourhood of Leek-
he went from Rio Janeiro to Para ; and some other hampton, was shot in the leg by the accidental discharge
foreign Prince, when he went from Jaffa to Beyrout, and of the gun of a young schoolfellow, by whom he was
thence to Constantinople. This may be all very sour- accompanies', and who had approached so near him at
teous, and all very generous ; and as it is well known the time that the entire contents of the fowling-piece
Great Britain has more money than she knows what to were lodged in the leg, just above the knee. Mr. Russell
do with, no doubt it is quite right for her to do so ; but was conveyed home on an hurdle, and, on the inspection
the question naturally rises— do our Princes and Prin- of the wound by the surgeons, instantly called in, it was
cessee, when they travel abroad, have their expenses paid found that the bone had been so severely shattered that
by the countries through which they pass, or which they amputation was indispensable. This operation, conse-
go to visit ? If so, there is something like reciprocity, quently, was performed yesterday, and we are glad to be
though the balance would be considerably against us ; able to add that the young gentleman was last evening
but as we do not suspect this to be the case, why John doing as well as, under the painful circumstances of the
Bull plays the same part he has been doing for the last case, was to be expected.— Cheltenham Looker-on.
half century, though, fortunately, now on a much COLLISION ON TILE RIVER.—On Monday, at a late
smaller scale. Only fancy, too, the Queen Dowager, hour, a collision of a most serious character, and which
with her 100,0001. it-year, sending in a "little bill" for it is much feared involved loss of life, happened on the
1001., for some trifling repairs to Marlborough House • river, between Greenwich and Blackwell, by the Coquette
and the British Parliament being called upon to vote 68i. steamer, the property of the Blackwell Railway Com-
for watering Park-gate-street, Dublin. Certainly those pany, running into the schooner Hibernia, belonging to
Civil Contingencies are full of the most interesting Guernsey, lying at anchor in Blackwell Reach. The
details !—Cheltenham Looker-on. following particulars are furnished by a reporter, who
PERILS OF AN EASTER-OFFERING COLLECTOR.— was on board the Coquette at the time. The steamer,
Owing to the extraordinary increase of the value of the which is iron-built, plies between the Greenwich and
tithes exacted by the Rector of Hackney, a strong and Blackwell piers, under the charge of Captain Batchelor.
something like united determination to resist further She left the former at a quarter before 9 o'clock, with
payment of " Easter-offerings" exists among the pa- about 150 passengers, the chief of whom consisted of
rishioners. The following plain-speaking placard was women and children. The night being very hazy, to the
freely distibuted throughout the parish on Saturday, and surprise of many she proceeded at full speed. The
has served to increase the hostility to the clerical poll- master, Mr. Batchelor, was on the paddle-box, and part
tax :—" The inhabitants of Hackney are cautioned against of the crew were placed forward, to keep a look out.
submitting to a pious fraud, in the shape of what are The first thing that attracted the attention of the pas-
called Easter-offerings. By the late commutation of sengers was those forward shouting out to the captain,
tithes the Rector is to receive a fixed rent-charge of 981/. " There is something a-head, sir." The vessel's course
per annum, instead of, as formerly, a sum under 500/. was not, however, altered. The vessel had then arrived
This increase has been, in fact, obtained by including in about half-way, and the watch again repeated, "There's
the rent-charge nearly the whole of what has hitherto a vessel a head, sir." The master made no reply for
been contributed by the inhabitant: as Easter-offerings. several seconds, but suddenly cried out, " Port, stop
Should, therefore, any one, not duly authorised, make her, turn a-stern." All eyes were now directed forward,
any demand on them fur Esser-offerings, they are re- when they saw a schooner, which proved to be the one
quested to hand him over to the police, in order that he above named, moored to the southward of mid-channel,
may be summarily dealt with as a person endeavouring the tide at the time running down fast. In an instant a
to extort money under false pretences." collision took place, the bow of the llibernia striking
ONE OF THE BROWN'S.—A fellow of gentlemanly amidships the Coquette, carrying away part of the lar-
appearance and address has lately been conferring Ins board paddle-box and the platform on which the captain
favours on several tradesmen of Canterbury, under the was standing; and throwing the steamer almost on her
noun de guerre of " Captain Brown," by giving very libe- beam ends. The scene that followed the dreadful crash
ral orders for clothes, boots, stationery, books, &c., pay- was one of a most agonising description ; the shrieks of
ing small accounts, and getting his name inserted in the the women and the loud cries for assistance could be
waste book, and hence to the ledger, for larger orders, heard on each side of the shore. Many of the crew
and then withdrawing from the vicinity "by moonlight being seen to rush to the schooner and clambering up
alone," leaving his name on the debtor's side ere he had tho rigging, apparently for the purpose of saving them-
placed it in juxta-position on the creditor's, thus pre. selves, and tile loud hissing of the steam, impressed upon
senting them with a " forget-me-not" as a " first flower the minds of the passengers the idea that the steamer was
of spring." He took lodgings in Orchard-street, St. going down, and they simultaneously made a similar
Dunstan's, and was thought by his landlady to be a very movement. At this trying moment it is asserted by
nice gentleman, and on his quitting his quarters he left several of those on board that some persons, amidst the
behind him his wardrobe inclosed in a carpet bag. which confusion, had fallen overboard, and it is not at all ite-
on inspection was found to contain a very old and dirty probable that such is the fact. The captain manifested
shirt and a sack, thus making good the old French pro- much presence of mind, and implored the passengers to
verb said to have been established at the building of the remain quiet, but for full ten minutes he was unable to
tower of Babel, " Chaeun son sac." Captain Brown has pacify them. At length the vessels were disentangled,
the appearance of having been to sea, is about five feet and it having been ascertained that the hull of the
six inches in height, black hair, and dark complexion, steamer was not materially injured, she proceeded,
and betrays great impatience to be attended to in giving leaving many of her passengers on board the schooner,
orders,--Correspondent of the Kent Herald. to Blaekwall, where she arrived about half-past nine.

THE INCLOSURE BILL.

This is the age of practical utilitarianism. Cui
bon.) ? What will it fetch ? How much per cent„?
What profit will it yield ? is the interrogative reply
with which, virtually and in effect, if not in so many
words, every proposal is met, every scheme tested,
and the merits of, we really believe, evtiry single
created thing beneath the sun, be it what it may, as
far as possible, estimated, in this stirring and enlight-
ened generation. Times have been, it is true, when
the age has been more professedly • selfish—when the •
surface has shown more unblushingly, and in deeper
colours, the external badge and symbol of the fashion-
able
self philosophy which was current; times have
indeed been,—we might point, in illustration of our
temark, to the latter part of the last century, with
its infidel "philosophy " and its universal laxity
of manners,—when, taking men individually,
society has been more thoroughly, as well as more
avowedly, imbued with the principles and practice
embodied in the belief that everything whatsoever is
convertible into pecuniary gain, and that all else-,-
health, happiness, morals, religion—is as nothing in
comparison with this. This, so far as general society
is concerned, must, we gladly acknowledge, be con-
ceded in favour of the present generation, or rather
against those which have preceded it; but for legis-
lating upon utilitarian principles,—for embodying in
public enactments, made for the benefit (!) not of the
lawgivers but of others,—the detestable morality of
Hobbes and Hume and Gibbon ;—for realisinr, in
practice that species of 'political morality which holds
that man is no more than an impersonation of capital
—a mere representative of so much "labour"—that
charity is only a falsification of economy—and that
that "benefit of the governed," which it is universally
conceded ought to be the object of every Government
—is nothing else than the highest possible state of
" productiveness" to which the aforegaid subject mul-
titude may be brought; for legislation of this sort,
we say, give us the days of King William and Queen
Victoria, for certainly, never before, since England
was a nation, has this sort of thing been more con-
sistently carried out within the walls of Parliament.
We might, of course instance at once many and
many a case in which this school of political doctrine
has found only too practical an operation ; many such
cases will doubtless occur to our readers; we will,
however, confine ourselves to-day to a single instance,
not perhaps the most prominent one, but which we
notice now in connexion with these remarks, because,
for one reason, it is a case Where there is still hope,
or at least room, for change, inasmuch as it is still
pending ; and, for a second, because it is a case of
itself, and intrinsically, of no small moment to that
much abused class, whose nominal benefit it professes
to seek—videlicet, the poor.
We have, indeed, often already impugned Lord
Worsley's Enclosure Bill on other—perhaps more
substantial, as they are certainly the first and most
obvious—grounds of objection, viz. as being simply a
measure of spoliation—a wrong—an injustice—be its
other merits or demerits what they may.
We have impeached it, too, on its own grounds ;
we have shown that as a matter of pounds, shillings,
and pence—as a mere question of utilitarianism, and
nothing else—and supposing utilitarianism the best
thing in the world, this Bill must needs entail a loss
upon the poor owner (we call him the owner, for his
right of common is to him as valuable and as much
his own, as the fee-simple of the manor is the lord's),
as depriving him of his pasturage fur the sake of
securing to the neighbouring landowners a few more
acres of park or game preserves.
We have argued the question on these grounds—
but there, is yet another,—one indicated in our open-
ing remarks, and one, we think of no less weight, or
which at least ought to be of no little weight, with
any one who has at heart the very vital health,
moral and mental, as well as bodily,—to say nothing
of the mere pleasure and relaxation,—of the poor
for whom he professes, or is supposed, to legislate.
• The wide green common is the poor man's park ;
the heath is his garden ; the open fields are his
pleasure grounds. He has none other. Near large
towns especially, and, to come nearer home, in the
neighbourhood of the metropolis, Lord Worsley's
Inclosure Bill would be principally and especially
odious, not, or at least not so much, on account of

the mere loss to the neighbouring poor of the value
of the land, as on account of the deprivation to the
poor, pale, dingy inhabitants of the smoky brick in-
closures which spread far and wide in the no remote
distance, of their only outlets to health and enjoy-
ment. sTo amount of money, we boldly say, could,
even if the money went to them, recompense the poor
of this great city for the loss of Hampstead-heath,
Kennington, or Clapham-common. Lord 'Worsley's
Bill, indeed, is, as an inclosure of these and similar
grounds, diametrically opposed to the admitted prin-
ciple of the Legislature in sanctioning the Victoria
Park and the other metropolitan improvements which
have been set on foot within the last few years. It is
with unfeigned pleasure, therefore, that we see that
an effort at least is to be made to rescue these often-
assailed blessings—for blessings they are—and, if
once lost, irreparable ones--from Lord Worsley's
clutches. An amendment is proposed, and we ear-
nestly hope it will be conceded at once without op-
position,
to the effect that the Act shall not " autho-
rise the inclosure of any common lands, fields, or
downs, within ten miles of London, or within four
miles of any other city having 4,000, or within two
miles of any other city having 2,000, inhabitants."
We say that the inclosure of the suburban (espe-
cially
the metropolitan) heaths and commons would
be neither more nor less than the sacrifice to Mam-
mon of the lives, and healths, and property of
the multitude of the poor pent within the confines
of our large cities. It would be legislating for
them (or rather against them) upon principles
which no man would think for an instant tenable,
much less applicable, in his own case. Why do not
gentlemen put under tillage their own pleasure gar-
dens, or parks, or chases ? The proceeding would,
doubtless, be profitable—and the sum total of the
productive land of the country would be greatly en-
hanced—and the economists beyond measure de-
lighted. Why, then, is it not done ? Simply, be-
cause gentlemen know very well, when the affair is
their own, that there are other things to be looked to
besides the mere maximum of production, and that
there are things to be sought besides monoy, and
which no money can purchase. Why, then, we ask,
do they not apply this same rule to the case of the
poor ? The suburban commons are their gardens,
their parks, their pleasure-grounds. 'Why must they
be compelled to give these up to be turned into money
—and that, too, when the money, after all, will not
go to them ? " They must answer to me for these
things," poor Charles Lamb used to say, every time
he marked the loss, one by one, of the few and little
comforts and refreshments which the increasing rapa-
city of the age swallowed away from the unhappy
denizens of the brick alleys among which he was
born, and so long lived ; and, assuredly, if Hamp-
stead-heath, or Epping-forest, or Wimbledon, or
Streatham commons, are allowed to be among the
things thus " to be answered for" to the helpless poor
of this great city, the account will be no light one.
We heartily wish Mr. Berkeley's amendment the
success which it so thoroughly deserves.—Tintes.