The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-22 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

POLISH FRONTIERS, JUNE 9.—We learn from Warsaw
that the return of Prince Paskewitsch, which took place only
a week ago, has been so long delayed by the military arrange-
ments which are rendered necessary by the state of the fron-
tier provinces of Turkey. How long will the mouldering
ruin be prevented from falling by props and buttresses front
without ? We have letters from the Lower Danube, just a
week old, lying before us, which give detailed accounts of the
dissolution of all social ties. The Porte is wholly incapable of
stopping by a decisive blow the frightful excesses of the Al-
banians, and the whole country, from Uscup to the Servian
frontiers, is said to be a scene of the most dreadful devastation.
The accounts from Warsaw say that several emigrants
have been pardoned by the Emperor through the mediation
of Prince Paskewitsch.

In consequence of the promising appearance of the crops
the prices of all kinds of corn have fallen considerably, ex-
cept that of wheat, for which there is a pretty brisk demand.
The Jews, who always find ways and means to attain their
ends, have succeeded in obtaining for another year, the right
of selling brandy, which had been taken from them.
A Greek church is now building in Warsaw.—Allgemeine
Zeitung, June 16.

Le fee-farm rents, dispersed throughout eighteen
counties, of the late Viscount Fitzwilliam, are announced
in our columns, by Mr. George Robins, for absolute sale
next month. It will be a capital opportunity for the
possessors of the fee-simple estat's to have the means
of purchasing, and thus relieving their property from a
perpetual rent chare,e—a never-en-ling annoyance; and,
with a view to a good income, it offers a tempting oppor-
tunity to solicitors, who by this means are entitled to a
fee for each separate rent. If left in arrear a single
week, a remainder puts a fee into the solicitor's pocket,
and will amount, in the aggregate, to a round sum.
They are situate in the following counties:—
Bedford Rutland
Essex Shropshire
Hants Stafford
Hereford Suffolk
Hertford Surrey
Leicester Sussex
Middlesex Warwick
Northampton Wilts, and
Norfolk Yorkshire.
The advertisement gives additional particulars to illu-
mine the profession.
NEW LINE OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON
AND MANCHESTER.—Yesterday, a meeting of gentlemen
interested in the promotion of a direct line of railway
communication between Manchester and the metropolis,
was held at the Bull and Mouth Hotel, St. Martin's-le-
Grand, Mr. Livius, of Bedford, in the chair. Mr.
Thomas Mulcock, of Southampton-row, Russell- square,
addressed the meeting at considerable length in expla-
nation of the project which he contended was designed
to elevate Manchester to a position worthy of its core-
merciall importance with respect to railway communica-
tion, and to free it from what he calls the grasping
monopoly of the London and Birmingham Company,
and in some respect also of the Grand Junction.
Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and a
series of resolutions expressing cordial approbation of
the project were unanimously carried. Sir John Ren-
niet and Mr. Remington were appoined engineers con-
currently, and a committee consiting of Messrs. Muloch,
Sherman, Hayman, and l!hreteyard, with, power to add
to the number, was nominated to carry out the necessary
arrangements.
DEATHS OF INFANTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
—There have just been laid before the House of Lords,
pursuant to order, some very remarkable returns, show-
ing the number of inquests that have been held for the
last ten years, in England and Wales, upon the bodies of
infants of one year old and under, distinguishing those
cases in which verdicts of " murder," or " found dead"
have been given by the juries at such inquests. The mere
enumeration of the cases, with a few remarks subjoined
to each, occupies a folio volume of more than 150 pages,
which fact will afford some idea of the extent of mor-
tality among very young infants, from the various " ills
that flesh is heir to," or is most unnaturally exposed to,
during that tender age. Some of the verdicts returned
sound rather curiou-ly; such as the following, being very
common among the list, and being selecte at random
from the immense numbers enumerated in the volume in
question:—" Casually overlaid in bed by his mother;"
"Found dead in his bed with his mother;" "Died sud-
denly by the visitation of God, of convulsions;" " Died
by the visitation of God, to wit, stoppages," or " to wit,
in a fit ;" " Casually poisoned by an overdose of lauda-
num ;" " Casually poisoned by laudanum administered
by mistake;" and the like. The number of verdicts of
wilful murder against the mother, or " against some
person or persons unknown," is still more terrible,
proving that the attention of the Legislature should be
directed to the subject, in order to see whether the ex-
isting poor-law does not tend to cause such a fearful sys-
tem; and, it so, whether a statute that could even he
suspected as tending to such results ought not to be suc-
ceeded by wiser and more liberal enactments.
THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The follow-
ing report has been presented by the Select Committee
appointed to inquire into the progress of the building of
the Houses of Parliament: " That the Committee have
met, and considered the subject matter to them referred,
and have examined witnesses, and have come to the fol-
lowing resolution, viz.:—That, considering the great in-
convenience of the present House of Lords, and that such
inconvenience will be greatly aggravated by the progress
of the new buildings before the commencement of the
session of 1844, no delay should take place in the build-
ing and preparing the new House of Lords beyond what
is absolutely required for the safety of the work ; that
the architect be directed so to corduct his operations as
to secure the occupation of the new House of Lords,
with temporary fittings, at the commencement of the
session of 1814 ; that in case the architect, in the pro-
gress of the work of the new House of Lords, shall find
that more time will be required in consequence of any
apprehension of injurious consequences to the building,
he shall report the same to the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods and Forests, in order that such report
may be communicated to this House in due time - that it
does not appear to the Committee that it is advisable
that .any alteration in the ventilation of the present
House of Lords, which would lead to additional expense,
should be adopted ; and the Committee have directed
the minutes of evidence taken before them to be laid be-
fore your Lordships."
DREADFUL GIG ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last,
as an officer in the army was driving his wife and child
in a gig along the Barnet-road, near Whetstone, the
horse took fright, and galloped off at a furious rate past
the Torrington Arms and Swan with Two Necks. The
officer, in his endeavour to check the speed of the animal,
was thrown out of the gig with great force, and, in con-
sequence of the fall, had both of his legs broken. The
horse continued to gallop along, until arriving at the
Whetstone turnpike, the gate of which was closed. The
lady and the child escaped unhurt, but the gentleman
(whose name our informant has not ascertained) now
lies in a dangerous state at the Swan Inn.
GIGANTIC NUTCRACKERS.--The other day, we
inserted a paragrab, showing how the Bristol boys, in
the "good old times," were in the habit of cracking
their nuts. Our story was—that a ricketty old church,
with a huge tower, was accustomed to rock to and fro,
and that the lads, watching their opportunity, popped
their nuts into the opening fissures of the wall, and
snatched them out again when they were cracked !
The truth of our statement was doubted—(for what
is there that some people will not doubt ?)—and
as we had the fact only on hearsay, we were
obliged to remain silent under the suspicions of the
sceptical. But we have now to state, on our own know-
ledge, that even the old church has been outdone—

a pair of nutcrackers having been introduced into 671,tes-
head, weighing not less than twenty tons, and worked
by a steam-engine of fifty-horse power ! ! These nut-
crackers we saw atwork this week, at Messrs. Hawks and
Crawshay's iron-works ; for when Mr. Nasmith was ex-
hibiting the powers of his " direct-action hammer," he
concluded its performances with cracking nuts ! Placing
a nut on the anvil, he dropped the huge hammer, weigh-
ing three tons and a half, so gently down, that it just
cracked the shell—and then, under the potent sway of
steam, rose to its previous position ! A nicer illustra-
tion of its obedience to the hand of the workman mild
not hap) been, afforded.—Gateshead Observer.

LITERAT EIRE. R IL
HORACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO 51,.
1844,10
MANN. Vols. 36- 4. Bentley, London,
The most characteristic feature in these lu
sTiortcl
—in which Walpole's correspondence with Sir qed
Mann is brought to a close—is the memoir olio
‘; short Notes of my Life," which profesei to..de
brief summary of the principal events in the ant° st
life from the year 1724 down to the year 17.°_,.4.'
terming
which period the manuscript abruptly
coost
Horace Walpole it may be remembered,
declaiming in his letters against the self-conceit 11,4
with. t!_'io
pedantry of literary men; their society,
exceptions, he describes as being irksome ttlatet
the extreme ; and nothing seems to give hint' g:.
annoyance than the supposition that any of bistro,
or correspondents should mistake him for one otrei
fraternity. Like Congreve, hen Voltaire honn,
him with a visit, in token of his admiration o'er
abilities as a dramatist, Walpole professes to be go.
tleman and not an author, just as though it werebined
possible that the two characters could be COni
in the same individual. When resident in LI
he represents himself as sedulously areiclinbeleti
literary coteries, and when in Paris eschews tern
with equal pertinacity, observing in one of his let left
to that overrated. wit, George Selwyn, "fl,2avtbete
off going to the Baron D'Olbuch's dinners, lior,oni,
was no bearing the authors, philosophers, aii;ul wsji
of which he has a pigeon-house full." "is
thought that there was a g ood deal of affectation
this disclaimer of authorship, and dislike to theiTes
panionship of literary men, and Horace Wi.irt, tje
" Short Notes" of his life have confirmed
pus hiich
justice of our hypothesis. In these
he insisted on his executors not allowing to beletb,
lished until a certain number of yearS after his to the
and which are now fur the first time given ,
tip
world—he catalogues, with all the circumo,oB
minuteness of an auctioneer, not only every vn.:clif
which he produced, and the exact year and eveue4
"Notes "--4 ob.
of the month on which he produced it, but or
scrap of prose and poetry which he
mencing with a boyish copy of Latin verses,!`ce of
he composed on the marriage of Frederick, Irate
Wales, and which he takes special care to ada.„4o
thought worthy of being published in a Callybo
periodical of that period. And yet the Man /4„itel
thus nervously solicitous to make posterity acqtll
with everything he wrote, no matter how trivlsi
wrote, ilich
who regards his literary compositions as the n3°5,50
portant events of his life, is the same who predessi.,joit
utter indifference to literary reputation, and tu'ilvith
beneath his dignity to associate on equal terms 0,0
authors! The truth is, Horace Walpole was !is 10
eaten up with vanity; the ruling passion of 1'
,be
was a thirst fur distinction in the world of letters; add
could not obtain this to the extent he desiredi
took refuge therefore, from disappointment, TO
ill-concealed', supercilious indifference. iv
e.
were sour, but they were only sour when •"7,;ffueta
they were above his reach. • But the widely uaarielf
fame which he so much coveted, but inissed' bbe
his life, has been amply awarded him by the floe
voice since his de.i.th. He is now generally %se;
to be the most brilliant letter-writer in the 13nf,erbto
and neither time, nor circumstance, nor the Pro 1 P
caprice and mutability of fashion, are ever li,":ehtilti
diminish his celebrity in this familiar and deg tbli
branch of literature. The letters contained In ad'
volumes before us, which were written at $4,1:1010
vanced period of the author's life, are penned, for
most part, in a subdued and sober vein ; there
ildll
casional flashes of wit in them ; but shrewd, i!,510.
common sense, flavoured here and there wit',rtiolls',
of piquant sarcasm, are their chief recominenuiros ste
As a specimen of his most earnest and on, ale
manner, we subjoin Walpole's defence of 1315
brated father, Sir Robert : id rill
" Last year Mr. Fox was burnt in effigy ; it'
is.—Oh !my dear sir, it is all a farce! 011 -01. s bey„
about an hundred years ago (look at my dale), /Iv dr
the wisest man I have seen. He kept his °Lillie
peace for twenty years, and it flourished aceldol,„
He injured no man, was benevolent, good-1103°u of
did nothing but the common necessar businessal
State. Yet he was burned in effigy too ;and s° the
icte: •
that his name is not purified yet !—Ask wbY ifol
mory is not in veneration ? You will be told, Leri
bell and trash, that he was the Grand Comae
What ! did he corrupt the nation to make it lisEg.'cu
and peaceable? Who was oppressed duringZi4iitel;
nistration ?—Those saints, Bolingbroke and
were kept out of the paradise of the Court ; O'e'-Borrk
Pretender was kept out and was kept quiet. Sir sllo°'
fell: a rebellion ensued in four years, and the crowLic to'
on the head. The nation, too, which had, 1.7"-,
lerably corrupted before his time, and which, wit it'
experience and with its eyes opened, has not enio
self of being corrupt, is not quite so Prosperous a.„5 orols;
day of that man, who, it seems, poisoned its ',Oil'
Eormerly it was the. most virtuous nation o'l -st°
Under Henry the Eighth and his children there.islo",
persecution, no fluctuation of religion : their tillrh'oo:
shifted their faith four times, and were sincerentee
men There was no servility, no flattery. ne tr
of the nation abroad, under James the First •ogh
ranny under Charles the First and Laud ; no facti
hrotibt
no civil war ! Charles the Second, however'
back all the virtues and morality, which, sogge,7l-0)_,10
other, were missing. His brother's was a st4l-0107
blessed reign, though in a different way ! King ”0-aiog
was di,turbed and distressed by: no nOto3-
factions, and did not endeavour to bribe tu-fgage"
let him pursue his great object of humblinV"-ial
The Duke of Marlborough was not overborne
similn. and more glorious career by a den-0h
cabal !—and if Oxford and Bolingbroke did reo3°°!•os,"
from the most patriotic motives, they, good n3el34crf tp,
no corruption . Twelve peerages showered at -„,0.;
c,mvert the House. of Lords, were no bribes _; 04cogy
shilling issued for secret services ; nor would a cog,
of either House have received it ! Sir R. waipcse.,
and, strange to tell, found the whole Parliaraeat
every Parliament, at least a great majority of eglooP
Lament, ready to take his money. For what fr-troatils
their country !—which, however wickedly as bererl,re'
and ready as they were to concur, he left in hep.ing,l
spect in the condition he found it, except ig
proved in trade, wealth, and tranquillity ;
who expelled him, had dipped their poor
war ;which was far from mendin its COnditeoie
Robert died, fortelling a rebellion, which irPrie Le"
less than six months, and for predicting h
sel'eth
been ridiculed : and in detestation of ama."'
to him by his enemies, that every man has his Pi;jote"
ty
tariff of every Parliament since has been as,vve,ol b,
as the price of beef and mutton ; and the
tors, who cry out against that traffic, are "°`,,-„it -
vendible than their electors.—was not Sir Row'
pole an abominable Minister ?"

THE TREASURY OF THE SANCTUARY i0,,0e
DAME DE Lonurro.—The rich treasure of St,”"tighthireo
Loretto, has been stolen, and the event has '',reco"the
sternation on the Court of Rome. It will be ""itsli',o
that, at the time of the French conquests in ,re' of
Pontifical Government transported the rich treas*",,
the
Virgin to Rome, to prevent them from falling illave,.l, it
,ndasndof.tthhee
tcroenasquureersorsh.avSeinlacregethlyen they
rfaensteorheda ineretwooo,l,er
was always said that, sooner or later, tbeYhe recel et,
into the hands of the infidels. Count Rocchi,,t'ositeuritea
general of the province of Ancona, and 001301
the chests of the religious house of Loretto, na" vitbire
in an Austrian steamer for Trieste, carrYinga
the contents of all the chests of which he bete letter.
This news has reached us to-day in a Frivs' d
Revue de Paris. issiorl (40
COMMISSION OF LUNACY. —A C00n,,,g,
Lunacy was held at the Red Lion, Calnbe'.ibe 6'09
terday, before F. Barlow, Esq., to inquire intoorborri
of mind of Mr. Charles Davis, of Peck!' forillelle
Asylum, aged forty. The alleged lunatic wr
a linendraper, in Eaton-street, Pimlico. 'lifter uoo'
married, and settled 5,000/. upon his wife, °or. to
to3a
Davis
ar
diisesdu elnanFde,brinnavfyailluaraet:
lteoavtihneg s4h,r3voilottivotr;
money in the Three-per-Cent. Consols; and -04, be
mission was issued for the purpose of chtllslaniP
amount to apply to his use. After Mr- Dacodolig
wife had been in business two years 60 the 110.5/1 io
such gross habits of intoxication that, 10ilgiplooli
drapery was soon given up. They then tcel'offee-01)
Queen-street, Northampton-square, and at a
1842, Ilet
in St. Peter's-lane, St. John-street. In Nov., st-ter e(1
policemen apprehended him for runnings ooveltocl
Majesty's carriage, with his hat off; he w 21401'01,04
to St. George's Hospital and had his bead_ " surge..."co
on being taken home to St. Peter's-lane, te_,ebe °Wad.
the hospital directed that a keeper should be 01;0
for him. When in liquor he was never fit telberti'teli
The alleged lunatic's wife left him in Dcce eoterber'
to live with another man ; he then becanletaio br°,l*,cl3'
destitute, and in June, 1843, Capt. Davis, ':„„
took him away to Andover. He had con the
sP Dior
-tbe °l)/
less from December to June. Mr. White' a thslt fe
surgeon of the Holborn union, was satisfies
014,05,
the 24th of June to 29th July last, Mr- 1114003
state of insanity he was very obstinate, away tlPoto,
speak for a week at a time ; he would
ed
down the ward, and throw himself into 07,00
tudes. He was not at all violent. The jury retr
verdict of unsound mind since June, 1843• been clooli
DARING SACRlLEGE.—lnformation baSOliC' tbrlef'
la ted throughout the Metropolitan and city p. A.p.e0,,0g
the night of the 13th instant the parish church follow' &pt.:A
near Pewsey, Wilts, was broken open, anni;ayer'7oo
property stolen therefrom, viz , a Bible ana_.',.l,o
(in a case), bound withdark green tnorocc.?%v" wit!! 1001
inside, "Emma Annatta Astley ;" ;
_tog
cover, name written inside, "Frances
Bibles, marked on the outside " Society reL the 1.1,3011
Christian Knowledge," and written eti,s sin:11:1f,
" Everley Church, 1844 ;" six Prayer-130.0 :::,side Aof
marked ; and a Prayer-book, written on th Co
Waterman," having a dark -coloured cover..
_Antio ot
10/. is offered for the discovery and apprene
sad
thieves. Thicl 10e4
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THE POOR NEVER'EFAVE RELATIVES.- liwor-
Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the
Gray's Inn lane, on the body of Enoch Lice_
vrbas
six, a tin-plate worker, out of employ, weY3i, 00'00
tap-room, on Tuesday morning in a tap-roo,
at
es,
wall. In his pocket was a penny, and his
for clothe
sc
the words of his landlord, were only fit -.0 p
In reply to a question from Mr. Wakley, the
wthaatkilaeo;eobosfedne,ecdeastehda'ts rietlmataivsesnihnasdt ceoxintreafnorrasvi_!"-ara4iviotvrei
the poor never had relatives. Had some
02,y4-tiici;,,,,
been found in poor Lloyd's pockets, parties Iv it.',..oureso
have shown themselves, and traced in his w that ;Ae
that his friends might be made acquainted
deathfamily
wouldlikeness. ga n Thepu b I ijcui tryy
Verdict—" Natural death,"tehxrpouregshsedthea
phre°4-e, wriliaza°o

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