The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-02 00:00:00

CANADA.

THE NEW APPOINTMENTS.--D. B. Viger, native of
Lower Canada, advocate, large proprietor at Montreal,
many years a distinguished member of the Lower Canada
Assembly and Legislative Council, twice sent to England
on public business; in gaol at Montreal eighteen months
in 1838-9; member of Canada Legislative Assembly for
the County of Richelieu, voted generally with the late
Administration, uncle to L. J. Papineau, late Speaker.
D. Daly, native of north of Ireland, about twenty
years in Canada, came out as a private individual, was
acting secretary and registrar of Lower Canada for a
number of years, afterwards was promoted to the office.
Took little share in politics. Appointed by Lord Syden-
ham one of the provincial secretaries under the Union
Act, and elected member for Megantic. Since Mr. Har-
rison's resignation he has been sole provincial secretary.
Has property in Quebec.
William Henry Draper, Attorney-General for Upper
Canada, a native of the north of England, formerly in
the navy, has been upwards of twenty years in Upper
Canada; studied law at Toronto, we believe, with the
present Chief Justice; was many years a distinguished
member of the Upper Canada Assembly, and practitioner
at the bar ; was in England on public business some
years ago. Appointed Attorney-General and Executive
Councillor by Lord Sydenham, resigned in September,
1842, and since Legislative Councillor and Queen's
counsel.

William Morris, Receiver-General, a native of Ren-
frewshire, Scotland, came to Upper Canada about 30
years ago, engaged in trade ; was a conspicuous mem-
ber of the Upper Canada Assembly, and a Legislative
Councillor under the Union Act ; a wealthy proprietor
and of good practical talents.
Denis Beejamin Papineau, Commissioner of Crown
lands, native of Lower Canada, member for the county
of Octave, brother to L. J. Papineau, Speaker of the
Lower Canada Assembly, has had the management of
the Seigniory of Petite Nation, on the Ottawa, well in-
formed and good abilities, but his hearing imperfect.
James Smith, Attorney-General for .Lewer Canada,
was formerly in partnership with Mr. Fisher, as advo-
cate at Montreal; in good practice; supposed to be a
native of Montreal. _

None of the new executive councillors had any inti-
mate connection with the executive councillors in Upper
and Lower Canada before the Union Act, but were rather
opposed to them.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS, SEPT. 30.—Notwithstanding
the advanced period of the season this place continues
full, and balls and concerts are still proceeding. The
last of these was Madame Puzzi's annual concert, which
took place at the Assembly Rooms on Saturday, and was
attended by all the principal families, she being well
known and much esteemed here. Among the artists
were Mr. and Madame Balfe, and it would be difficult to
describe the sensation the former created, it being his
first appearance here ; everything he sang was encored.
Madame Balfe was also encored in her ballad, " When I
hear thy voice," which she sang with much taste. The
wonderful extent and brilliancy of Mademoiselle Favanti's
voice was greatly admired in " Il Segreto " and other
arias; and Mr. H. Chatfield executed scientifically a very
difficult cavatina of Pacini. Signor Brizzi, who is an old
favourite here, sang " La terra ci divisera," with that
pathos peculiar to him. Signor Puzzi, who has been an
extraordinary traveller lately, obtained the same success
which everywhere attends him. In Balfe's ballad,
" You'll remember me," ho expressed so entirely the
meaning of the melody, that the audience forgot that the
horn cannot speak.
IMPROVEMENTS IN PICCADILLY.—On Monday, by
direction of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, workmen were employed in the erection of a
pillar upon the summit of the western portion of the gate
at Hyde-park corner, which is intended for the reception
of an illuminated clock. The clock will have two dials,
via., one facing llyde-park, and the other fronting
Grosvenor-place. This, doubtlessly, will be as useful as
it will be ornamental, a public timepiece having long
been wanted in that immediate locality. The plan for
widening the road has also at length been begun ; it is
said, however, that it will not be completed until the en-
suing spring. The removal of Lady Gordon's house,
and the garden which belonged to it, together with the
appropriation of a small portion of the Green-park, will
occasion that section of the important thoroughfare to
be of equal width, from the residence of the Duke of
Grafton to the archway at Hyde-park corner. A further
improvement is in contemplation, that of removing the
remainder of the brick wall which is standing between
Albert-gate and Kensington, and substituting iron palli-
sades. The parish of St. George, Hanover-square, agree
to keep the roadway in repair, as far as the encroachment
on the Green-park is concerned.
On Saturday, a French man-of-war barque, Pre-
voyante, and a man-of-war cutter, Favourite, stood off
our harbour, when eight of the officers and a boat's
crew of the sailors landed, and made a tour through the
streets of the ancient town. The uniform worn by the
officers was similar to that worn by those of our own
navy, but their personal appearance at once bespoke
them foreigners, and hence they attracted some observa-
tion. After making some purchases of provisions, they
returned to their vessels, which, in the afternoon, sailed
for the south. They had been to the north of this, and,
on the Sunday, and again on the Wednesday previous,
were in the Leith Roads. Their object was the protec-
. ttoa of their herring fiehery.—Berwich Advertiser.

LITERATURE.

HISTORY OF TEN YEARS.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1844.

The present Part of this History of France, by M.
Louis Blanc, commences with the Royalist insurrec-
tion of the Duchess de Bern in 1832, and closes with
the trial of Armand Carrel for sedition, before the
House of Peers, in the year 1832. The history is
written with remarkable spirit and eloquence, and in
a tone of bitterness, as respects Louis Philippe, that
proves the author to be a most inveterate opponent of
that crafty monarch's system of policy. Not less de-
termined is he in his prejudices against the Bourgeoisie,
to whose malign influence he attributes in a great de-
gree much of the humiliation which he represents
France as having endured since the establishment of
the Throne of the Barricades by the Revolution of
1830. M. Blanc is a decided Republican of the school
of Armand Carrel—a school which during the last six
or eight years has been subject to considerable fluc-
tuations in point of moral and numerical influence,
and is now, we believe, at a lower ebb in France than
it has been at any time since the accession of the pre-
sent King to the throne. The author's account of the
rise, progress, and final extinction of the insurrection
of the Duchess of Berri, and more especially of the
sanguinary riot that took place in Paris during the
funeral of General Lamarque, when the Orleans
dynasty was within an ace of being overthrown, and a
republic proclaimed on the ruins ;—these matters are
detailed with much graphic vigour by M. Blanc, and
are enlivened by characteristic anecdotes which greatly
add to their interest. We quote his portrait of Mar-
shal Maison, and of the course of conduct pursued
when nominated French Ambassador to the Court of
St. Petersburgh :
" Habitually rough and abrupt from his soldier's life,
but retaining all the shrewdness of an intelligent peasant,
he had no sooner arrived at St. Petersburg than he
formed the resolution of taking his stand there as an in-
dependent plain dealing, plain spoken mac. His first in-
terview with the Emperor passed off auspiciously. A
number of Russian officers and noblemen were waiting
in an ante-room, where were also the Marshal's two aides-
de-camp, MM. Delarue and Chasseloup Lanbat ; but,
though the former had before visited Russia, and formed
an intimacy with several persons of the Court, none of
them ventured to recognise him until they had taken
their cue from the looks of the Emperor. By and bye,
their master entered, looked graciously at the two aides-
de-camp, advanced towards M. Delarue, whom he had
known as aide-de-camp to the Duke de Ragusa, and
taking him apart into the embrasure of a window, con-
versed with him in a marked tone of favour. The next
moment, M. Delarue was the object of the most eager
and universal attentions ; everybody came up to him,
everybody asked him questions, everybody remembered
that he had seen him on a former occasion, everybody
remembered that M. Delarue bad honoured him with his
friendship. This scene, the very puerility of which is
fruitful of reflections, distinctly announced that the
French Embassy was about to assume, at the Court of
St. Petersburgh, a better attitude than before, And so it
turned out, for the position of Marshal Maison, from the
very first day, grew more and more important. Certain
private circumstances contributed to this effect, which, at
first sight, might seem to have been calculated to produce
quite a different result. One day, at a grand dinner
party given by the French Ambassador, the conversation
having fallen upon the first wars of the Revolution, the
Marshal found occasion, incidentally and without the
least affectation, to mention that he was the son of a
peasant of Epinay. It is easy to imagine the effect pro-
duced upon a circle of aristocrats, nurtured in idle
vanities, by an admission such as this, made with per-
fect ease of manners, nay, with the pride of a man justly
proud of having owed all to himself. The Emperor was
very speedily made acquainted with what had taken
place, and it probably increased his esteem for the
Marshal. Even the very faults of the Marshal were of
service to him. He had retained, from his soldier's life,
a license of manners which he took no pains to conceal,
and age had not extinguished in him the fires of youth.
At St. Petersburgh, a passion for a dancer took posses-
sion of him, and he disdained to make a secret of it.
The imprudence of this was great ; for Nicholas, careful
of his dignity, affected extreme austerity. But he liked
the Marshal's open ways, his military frankness ; and
the escapade was not only overlooked, but there was
established between the Emperor and the Marshal an
intimacy, wherein a freedom of conversation was per-
mitted, which no Russian courtier, however great his
credit at Court, ever dreamed of aspiring to. There is
a severe chastisement which pride in high places re-
ceives at its own hands—ennui ; and the haughtiest
sovereigns are so much the wearied slaves of their own
lofty and isolated majesty, that, to relax a little, they
are sometimes compelled to descend. Whether from
this weariness of supreme rank, or from exceptional
tolerance, the Emperor came at last to lend an affable
ear even to the most free spoken temerities of Marshal
Maison, and the latter profited, as ambassador, by the
influence which was accorded him as soldier."

MEDICAL REFORM BILL.—CHATIIAM, SEPT. 30.
The members of the medical profession resident in the
borough of Chatham convened a meeting for the purpose
of petitioning the House of Commons in the next session
of Parliament, against the Medical Reform Bill pro-
posed by Sir James Graham, when it was contended that
the Bill in question would be productive of the most
disastrous results, both to the medical profession and the
public, by opening the practice of medicine to all un-
qualified persons without restraint. A petition was then
drawn up, and the chairman, Mr. Archibald Robertson,
submitted it to the members; it was unanimously agreed
on, and has since been transmitted to the Right Hon.
G. S. Byng, the Member for the borough. A copy of
the petition has also been forwarded to the Members of
West Kent, with a request to support its prayer.
BONDED GOODS.—It having been discovered upon
a recent inspection of the goods deposited in the bonding
premises at ono of the quays legally approved for the
deposit of goods under bond, that the landing marks
upon many of the packages were nearly obliterated, and
that great difficulty has in consequence been experienced
in ascertaining the identity of the goods, the Commis-
sioners of the Customs have directed that the landing
surveyors and other officers do take care in future that
the initials of the importing vessel and the master, the
date and the weight, be marked in a more legible manner
on all packages of bonded goods at the time of the same
being landed.
FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.—On Monday even-
ing there was a numerous meeting, principally composed
of the operative classes, held at the Guildhall, Newcastle,
the object being to petition the throne for a recal of
Frost, Williams, and Jones from banishment.—Tyne
Mercury.
CARICATURING THE CLERGY.—" I believe," said
Lord Eldon to Mrs. Forster, " I have preached more
sermons than any one who is not a clergyman. My
father always had the Church service read on the Sun-
day evenings, and a sermon after it. Harry and I used
to take it in turns to read the prayers or to preach. We
always had a shirt put oa over our clothes, to answer
for a surplicel"—Tzeiss's Life of Lord E&lon.
SOUVENIR MR A SAILOR.—" What can I give you
for a keepsake, my dearest John ?" sobbed out a senti-
mental girl to her scapegrace lover, the Hon. Jack
V—, about to join his ship in warlike times. "Give,
my dearest angel," cried Jack, in some confusion, " why,
why, you haven't such a thing as a 51. note about you, I
suppose ?"—Aberdeen Herald.
.1 he King of Prussia has been graciously pleased to
confer on Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper the gold medal
for science and literature, in token of his Majesty's high
approbation of the " Proverbial Philosophy."
FOLE.ESTONE.—We have much pleasure in being
able to announce a continuation of increase, not only in
the steam traffic at this port, but also in, the arrival of
several vessels of large tonnage, two with about 14,000
sleepers for the railway, besides large balks of timber,
and others laden with coke, coal, salt, &c., the whole
of which will tend materially to benefit the
South-Eastern Railway Company as well as the
town. When it is more generally known that ♦essels
drawing 15 or 16 feet of waterAcan enter our harbour,
there is no doubt but that many owners of ships who
hare been hitherto ignorant of the advantage our port
holds out to them will be induced to send large freights.
Our passenger traffic to and from Boulogne by the
steam-packets now averages about 1,000 to 1,200 each
week, being a considerable increase. not only upon past
weeks, but also upon the corresponding weeks of the last
year, when the novelty of a passage from this place and
Boulogne induced laany persons to visit France who
otherwise, perhaps, would not have done so.—Canterbury
Journal.
LAZARETTE ESTABLISHMENT IN SOUTHAMPTON
WATER.—The Mayor has received an intimation, that
the application from the Town Council to her Majesty's
Treasury, praying for the establishment of a Lazaretto
in the Southampton Water, has at length been acceded
to. The Lazaretto vessel will arm ive here on the sth of
October, and there will be accommodation for the recep-
tion of 8,000 packages. This will be a ♦ery important
advantage to the commerce of the port, the want of a
Lazarette establishment having forced the Peninsular
Company to send their ships with freights from the
Levant to Standgate Creek, and thence to London, in-
stead of discharging them here. There will be, of
course, a considerable establishment of officials in con-
nexion with the Lazarette.—Hants Independent.
EXPORTATION OF HORSES.--MT. Dyson, the Lon-
don dealer, being commissioned to purchase forty-two
brood carriage mares for the Prussian Government,
twenty of his selection having arrived at Colley's Para-
gon Inn stables, were shipped on Saturday last, by Kerr
Von Nathurius, per the Transit, Captain Dickinson, for
Hamburgh, en route for Hundisburg. The remaining
twenty-two, selected from the horses assembling for
Howden fair, arrived at the Paragon stables yesterday,
and arc intended to be shipped to-morrow for the same
destination. The demand for English horses still con-
tinues in Prussia. Mr. Fursten'oerg, of Berlin, is again
here to attend the fair ; and Mr. Bilton Clappison, of
Filling, is purchasing for Mr. Bomberger, the other
principal Prussian dealer. A party of stall-masters,
from the stables of his Majesty the King of Denmark,
are also here selecting entire horses for the royal stud.—
Ball Packet.

MB WOODEN PATEMENT.—On Saturday last

was agreed to unanimously, at a vestry held in the parish
of St. Marylebone, that part of the wooden pavement in
the said parish should be removed, and that a granite
pavement should be substituted.
THE LATE MURDER AT DOVER.—Various rumours
have been prevalent during the week respecting the cap-
ture of the murderers of police-constable Couchman, but
we arc glad to hear, from good authority, that at last
such a clue has been obtained of the lurking place of the
three Clarks, that, if not already in custody, there is but
little doubt of their being apprehended before to-morrow
(Tuesday).—Dover Telegraph,