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

DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.

Se , (IN THE COMMITTEE.)
triii,„4lld Clause ( That so far as no particular religious doe-
-11,403 or opinions, or mode of regulating worship, shall on the
meat the deeds or instrument declaring the trusts of any such
liagilnt;_house, be required to be taught or forbidden to be
tits therein, the usage of twenty-five years shall Le conclu-
'4egiii'Fnee of the religious doctrines which may properly be
Vie, „in such meeting-house, &e.):—Amendment proposed,
ho 14 'lle word " therein," to insert the words, " and where
Stiy krtielllar religious doctrines or opinions are contained in
tie r"°°k or other document preserved amongst the authen-
ethi"°44 of any recognised synod or religious body eon-
...Q 11 the 'Congregation frequenting such meeting-house:"
etion ut, 'a That those words be there inserted :" The
ts
Illntee divided :
Aet,),, MINORITY—AYES, 43.
Aftda Colonel Hardy, John Pollington, Viscount
4reh''eY. C. B. Harris, E. A. J. Rashleigh, William
N:4l. Captain Hayes, Sir F. Rushbrooke, Colonel
),N, tegnY,; Lor I Henley, J. W. Ryder, G. D.
Vatk,r',.. Thorau Hunapherv, John Sibthorp, Colonel
ro,c.the d,i. el d Jones, Captain Smith, Abel
„''',l,,-, Sir' A 11 an
La, Hon. C. E. Smyth, Sir H.
(~.'ltT:s Niar, WI,: Lefroy,v Antony Stewart, P. M.
'Mq4"),°(1,.0, Sir. John Lowther, H_on..CoL Taylor, Edward
piini,l, John C. M‘Geachy, F. A. Tollemache, John
Oki,: ',lon. W. F M.Taggart, J . Verner, Colonel
(,3,P,lh'am3n, F. H. Manners, Lord J.
11144r41404,atillite..::,iE,taBuird.., Northland, Lord TELLERS.
1.0, O'Brien. A. .Stafford Shaw, F.
Palmer, G. J ocely n,lVisco tint
aU. I. Plumptre, J. P.

Aetalm MAJORITY—NOES, 161. ,
.;',611 a Sir T.' D; Forster, Matthew O'Connell, M. J.
'l,la°..u° H. mil_ Fremantle, Sir T. O'Ferrall, R. More
Arb,ith, WilliarPacke, C. Wm.
kk,v;,,,,°t, Hun. H. Gaskell,James M. Patten, J. Wilson
b. 41, .ivg,st.. George Gibson, T. M. Pechell, Captain
zabiie ilham Gladstone, W. E. Peel, Sir Robert
BP.',agn, vYn'EA. Gladstone, J. N. Peel, Jonathan
Clyne, Sir Stephen Pendarves, E. W.
ta'l9g. F.f"
Gordon, Hon. W. Philips, M.
ha 14g, Th T. Graham, Sir James Plumridge, Captain
tarn.4,4_, _ Thomas
4,0 k.:.. G. Granby, Marquis of Powell, Colonel
eqi4,. u, Viscount Grey, Sir G. Pracd, William T.
Bernal ~ Lord G. Grimiton, Lord Protheroc, E.
4,,llieg_ltalph Grosvenor, Lord R. Pusey, Pailip
„. k,-..70re, R.. Halfarti, H. Bowdon, J. D.
Zld4no. \ , II: Harcourt, G. G. Rice, E. Royd
Lrth,,,?-,1,_ Henry G. Hawes, B. Ross, U. It.
Owl,s`c',, Peter Heathcote, Sir W. Russell, Lord John
twin, Aorkiral Hervey, Lord Alfred Scott,
Hill, Lord Marcus tcymour, Lord
tg'ocTitg,ll!l W. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Shelburne, Lord
e,thee"urst, J. Hope, Charl s Smith, B
Lr,,,,,,t0i1, J.
till 'e, NV Hope, G. W.
Hoskins, K. Smith,Rt.Hon. T. 8.0
Somerset, Lori 0.
ts er, N' -
, in,,,, 1r J. V. Howard C. G. W. Stanley, Lord
'S 47.5.,11. Sir H. Howard, J. K. Stanton, W, Henry
,r'll, John H Hoard, 11. Stuart, Lord James
x:11 well , - •
thtt,i ,!..clrard Hiatt, W. Stock, Sergsant
In,.estre Lord Sutton, Hon. H M.
Nyt 'W. L. WV, Irion, Sa'muel Tanercd, H. W.
r‘letl;4, Rice It James, William Thesiger, F.
,li . it• t R.
cve . .eorge Jerniyii, Earl 'homely. Thomas
Oeq.„,',. H. Johnstone, Sir John Trench, Sir F. W.
"5110_,.."'n, Sir G Knatehbull, Sir E. Trevor, Hon. It
e 4,1,..„
.h.,,,_ •
Knight, Henry Gaily Tufnell, Fleury
Nns. NVI" Leader, " J.T.Tumor, Christopher
_„,,_l)to ~ p C.
Vane, Lord H.
Cr 53,, H. '''• Lemon, Sir C.
Lennox, Lird A. Vivian, J. IL
l'':l4' ~Y G
1i41,,i w • Lincoln, Earl of Walker, R.
t)t I'4, I E Long. Walter Warburton, Henry
4,.3) Macaulay, T. B Wawn, John .1.
11. k, 0”,.. Feckett Mackenzie, W. F. Welby, G. E.
it-4Q4ttln M'Neill, Duncan White, Henry
lklroh.„;,ir C. E. M jnwaring T. , Whitmore, T. C.
hna,'V.March, Earl of Williams, W.
Wodehoose, E.
L.?ot, Lor,„iscount trrislraillianNkii S.
Wood, Charles
A:.7 tt, il,'_!, .
Moreland, H. Worsley, Lord ty'aailt!. ~',:r:.xnam
Martin, John Wrightson, W.
ter2,B W. Martin, C..W. Wynn, C. W.
*riii'n, Colonel Mitchell, Wyse, Thomas
t,lbwe:o,l,..Sir It. Morris, David
oilet,' p..jr James Nichol!, J. TELLERS.
t'h,ititanir NV. %V. Norreys, Sir D. J. Young, John
.I‘. Seaton O'Connell, M. Baring, Henry
Q' ____

put, " That the Clause, as amended, stand part of
The Committee divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 188.

MINORITY-NOES, 62.

EXPERIMENTS in the MARSHES
"Wooimicu, Juszn 21.—Colonel Paterson, Colonel Lacy,
Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Dun-
das, C. B , Lieutenant. Colonel Chalmer, Lieutenant-Colonel
Sweeting, and Captain Palliser attended at two o'clock r.si.
to-day in the marshes, to witness experiments isith an in-
vention, submitted to the members c.f the Select Committee
by Mr. Marsh, the celebrated chemist, connected with the
Royal Arsenal, whose name has been so often before the
public in connection with simple tests for detecting the pre-
sence of mineral poison. The invention experimented with
to-day consisted of three different kinds of applications of
simple substances to the common fusee used for igniting
the powder contained in shells, intended to burst when fired
from large OeCes of ordnance. The description used on this
occasion being one 68-pounder and two 32-pounder guns. Mr.
Marsh, unlike many other inventors, makes no secret of the
means by which he expects to regulate the bursting of the
shells when they strike the Crject aimed i.t, and one of the
modifications of his principle was very effective, one only
out of nine shells fired with meal powder caps bursting at
about 150 yards from the mouth of the gun, the other eight
entering the butt, and exploding immediately on passing
through, tearing the massive timbers in their progress into
hundreds cf fragments, some of them very large pieces.
The success of Mr. Marsh's discovery is entirely owing
to the application of Jeffery's marine glue to attach the
caps tilled with meal so-wder to the fusee, the whole opera-
tion being very simple and easily understood, without the
slightest risk being apprehended when moving the shells
about, or loading, as was shown to be the case with shells
made to explode on the percussion principle. The whole of
the shells fired, with the two other modifications of Mr.
Marsh's discovery, burst, but were not so regular or cer-
tain in exploding at the requisite period as those used with
caps filled with meal powder, as stated in the following

detail :

Three fasces filled with the usual composition for bursting
shells were cut about two inches from the top into the form
of the letter V, of sufficient depth to come into contact
with the composition, and a piece of copper inserted and
secured with the marine glue, that substance, in Mr.
Marsh's opinion, being most eligible for the purpose, in
consequence of its tenacity and expanding principle, at the
same time that it possesses the power of preventing injury
by the admission of moisture or the destruction to
which fusees are liable by the ravages of the white ant
in tropical climates. First shell fired from 32-pounder burst
at the mouth of the gun ; second, from 68-pounder, entered
the butt, and exploded instantaneously, with good effect ;
third, from 32-pounder, burst at 200 yards from the mouth
• of the gun.
Three fasces, with four meal-powder caps in each, attached,
and outside covered with marine glue. First shell, fired
from 32-pounder, burst at 150 yards from the mouth of the
gnu; second, from 68-pounder, entered the butt with instan-
taneous effect; third, from 32-pounder, entered the butt with
equally good effect, in proportion to the size of the shell.
Three fusees, with pieces ofwood in the form of letter V,
with thin leaf copper betwixt, joined with marine glue. First
shell, from 32-pounder, entered butt; and exploded in pass-
ing through. Second, from 68-pounder, burst 200 yards
from the mouth of the gun.- Third, from 32- pounder, en-
tered butt, and equally effective as the previous 32-pounder
shell.
Three fusees, with pieces of copper in the form of the let-
ter V, attached with marine glue. First shell, from 32-
pounder, burst at about 150 yards from the mouth of the
gun. Second, from 68-pounder, burst about the same dis-
tance. Third, from 32-pounder, entered the butt with good
effect.
Three fusees with caps containing meal-powder. One shell
from 68-pounder, and two from the 32-pounders, all entered
the butt with instantaneous effect.
Three fusces, with pieces of wood and copper leaf, one
shell from 68-pounder entered the butt, and one from 32-
pounder • the other 32-pounder shell entered the mound,
but all burst on striking the latter, at the moment it entered
the ground.
Three fusees with caps filled with meal powder. One shell
from 68-pounder, and two from the 32-pounders, all en-
tered the butt, and exploded instantaneously with powerful
effect. . _

_______
Three fusees, with pieces of wood and copper leaf, the whole
joined with marine glue, as previously described. First shell
from 32-pbunder burst at about 100 yards from the mouth of
the gun. Second from 68-pounder at about 150 yards. Third
from 32-pounder at about 100 yards, none of these having
been Carried a great distance. The range of the guns was 4CO
yards during the whole of the experiments.
The number of shells fired was 24, eight 68-pounders and
sixteen 32-pounders, and only one failed to enter the butt
when carried the length of the range, and it was not above
one foot east of the object aimed at. The river was also very
clear of shipping, and the practice was carried on with only
a few minutes'-interruption.

The 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 cpportunity for the
possessors of the fee-simple estates to have the means
of purchasing, and thus relieving their property from a
perpetual rent charge—a never-ending 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 reminder puts a fee into the sdicitor's pocket,
and will amount, in the aggregate, to a round sun,.
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.
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 f 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 cares, 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 fle,h is heir to," or is most unnaturally exposed to,
during that tender age. Some of the verdicts returned
sound rather curiothly; such as the following, being very
common among the list, and being selected 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 p )isoned 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.
DARING SACRlLEGE.—lnformation has been circu-
lated throughout the Metropolitan anti City police, that on
the night of the 13th instant the parish church of Everley,
near Pewsey, Wilts, was broken open, and the following
property stolen therefrom, viz , a Bible and Prayer-book
(in a case), bound with dark green morocco, name written
inside, " Emma Annatta Astley ;" a Bible with dark
cover, name written inside, "Frances Astley ;" four
Bibles, marked on the outside " Society for Pronioting
Christian Knowledge," and written on the inside
" Everley Church, 1844 ;" six Prayer-books, similarly
marked ; and *a Prayer-book, written on the inside " W.
Waterman," having a dark -coloured c oTer. A rew and of
101. is offered fur the discovery and apprehension of the

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OU E. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
steamer, Braganza, which has been for some months past
hauled upon Messrs. Thomas and John White's patent slip,
and been lengthened thirty feet amidships, is now nearly
ready to go afloat; she has been newly coppered, and will be
launched next spring tides.
Very few weeks more can elapse before the necessity of
hauling up such huge- leviathans on the slip will be done
away with, for we find the Messrs. White's, the 'proprietors
of the extensive building-yard and dry-dock at West Cowes,
have, in order'to keep pace with the' times, and provide for
the wants of the shipping interest, commenced another
great undertaking, viz., the construction of a dock, which is
to be the largest in the world, capable of taking in the largest
steamer afloat. We have, during the week, paid a visit to
the spot, and were surprised to find what energy and means
are being usid to bring this great, almost national, undertak-
ing to a completion, nature having, in a great measure,formed
of herself the site selected. It was formerly the mast fiend,
the whole of which has been piled in, and the soil, which is
a thick stratum of clay, is already two-thirds excavated.
The foundation of the dock-heads have been laid, and hun-
dreds of tons of stone have arrived, already prepared to lay
down. There appears to be a most important object which
the proprietors have in. view, and that is keeping clear a
sufficient space at the head of the ddck to enable them at
any future time to enlarge it. The entrance of the dock
Will be more than sufficiently wide to admit therein the
largest steamer without the necessity of removing their
paddle -wheels. From the.magnitude of the work and pre-
cautions taken to meet all ends, the follies of the projectors of
the Great Britain have been guarded against.
Great benefit will arise from having so capacious a dock in
this port; and the advantage will be great to the Royal Mail
West India and other steamers ; and we hope the spirited
and talented proprietors will meet with the success they so
highly deserve.
LAUNCH OF THE WATERWITCH. —All the scientific men
in this neighbourhood were attracted to Cowes on this occa-
sion, and 'a splendid launch it was. Exactly at twelve
o'clock she was, as it were, let loose. There was no coyness
in the lady; but she rushed into the bosom of the brine as if
it were her own, and she knew she had no equal on it. The
waves received her as their queen. She sits on the water
like a Wild sea-bird, and floats like a thing of air. The
Corkes say neither of the new ones can touch her, and they
are pretty good judges of what " the water likes."

thieves.
The Commission for Metropolitan Improvements had
a meeting on Wednesday, at the office, in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were the Earl of
Lincoln, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Colborne, Right Hon.
J. C. Herries, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. H. Gaily Knight,
Mr. Alderman Humphery, Mr. A. Milne, the Hon.
Charles Gore, and Sir Robert Smirke.
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MRS. BELANEY.—

4.1; E POOR NEVER DAVE RELATIVES.—On Thursday
'Vakley, M.P , held an inquest at the workhouse,
q,73')6 Inn• lane, on. the body of Enoch Lloyd, aged fifty-
dema tin-plate worker, out of employ, who was found
*4141. °ll Tuesday morning in a tap-room, at 31, Hatton-
the In his pocket was a penny, and his clothes, to use
411 of his landlord, were only fit for the scales..
l'`P'Y to a question from Mr. Wakley, the beadle said
etici,,°ne of deceased's relatives had come forward. Mr.
the ley observed that it was most extraordinary that
b :,1)"or never had relatives. Had some old guineas
1;?4-' found in poor Lloyd's pockets, parties would quickly
tiirri.sllowil themselves,, and traced in his features a
tlea;k3 likeness. The jury expressed a hope that his
gain publicity through the press, in order
r friends might be made acquainted with it.
aj ~.
1), L'"--" Natural death."
the t4lsinn. TO 1,200 or THE POOR OF ETON. —At
th%lnination of the proceedings connected with the laying
le the e,felindation. stone of the new buildings at Eton Col-
4ast,' his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on Thursday
"-Net); ',inner was given by the authorities of the college, in
stlifitriltion of the event, to 1,200 poor persons residing in the
lowt-e‘, iiiPlexon's field, within a few minutes' walk of the
distiThe Provost (who was accompanied by several of his
11411,,ga fished guests, including Viscount Morpeth, Lord
3,n.,z the Hon. Henry. Ashley, M.P., Ralph Neville,
4"-, Lord Rede,sdale, &e.), and the college au.thori-
th, were present during the repast. At the conclusion. of
qer,.e„atenainment, grace having been said by the respective
,i4W,,,lxaen ("ho were present) at the h of each table,
-Q0,3 • ave the Queen" was sung in excellent style, the
4boutJoinilag in full chorus. The party retired to their homes
is
seven oclock. The whole of the .conveyed ufin i
nf
„he earts rutted meat and bread was afterwards . i
p 0° t4le Eton union workhouse, to be divided amongst
LIKINGII.3r in that establishment.
tlioe ACCIDENT.--Thursday night last, about
ate Se ck, as Madame 1111-..noz de Sotomayer, widow of theh
et
tesidecretary to the Spa wish Ambassador, was returning to
4 44_ ace, 43, Pent,,n-street, Pentonville, on her arrival
9way -street, Ft* answick-square, she stopped to inquire
'°:wn ()f a ge:atl;tnan, when they. were both knocked
e Nvi4a. '..ahriolet, which was driven at a furious rate.
e la, of the vehicle passed over her person, by which
iijaa -donate lady was most seriously injured, and her
itsld face were shockingly mutilated and bruised, through
` n44(1 being trampled upon by the horse. She was taken
te
4r-street police station. house in a state of insensi-
-4ni-I.,when Mr. Raven, surgeon, of Hunter-street, attended,
aPPlying proper remedies, she was conveyed to.her
ate. `cc a cabriolet, where she now lies in a precarious
11140, The gentlernan whom she accosted was also very
the Nured. The number of the cabriolet was taken by
poll ee; and it is hoped the driver will be brought to justice.
ski,,'ltrry OF PARLIAMENTARY RET U RNS.—For
Years past Dr. Bowring has been in the habit of moy-
-1,4.,.c0r returns of the number of stamps issued to each news-
erp, pro'essAly as a test of the circulation. The follow-
aragraPb, from the Salisbury Journal will serve to show
hope that
of this parliamentary test ; but we
the 'flat our Contemporary will, in his next number, give
due toname of the London newspaper alluded to. This is
pretence anse who do not seek to obtain credit under false
qoaeti, :"--" A grocer of this town has this week had a vast
I>er st:Y of tea bills and wrappers printed on blank newspa-
12,ap,,;hir's, on which the title of one of the London morning
proe4r 7Peara. The stamps in question had doubtless been
liegto swell out the annual returns, and lead people to
ktioae that the circulation of the newspaper in question IVP
greater than it is in reality."—Post.

THAMES GRAND REGATTA.
SECOND DAY.

Yesterday morning opened propitiously, giving promise of
a most delightful day; the shun shone resplendently, and all
was bustle and animation at Putney. At as early an hour as
two o'clock the various steamers, omnibuses, and other con-
veyances, began to discharge their passengers, and at the
period the racing commenced everything which could be
termed a boat was seen floating towards the scene of action.
The Lord Mayor and several Aldermen of London, with the
Navigation Committee, were aboard the City State barge, the
Maria Wood ; and other large boats with awnings, decorated
with a liberal supply of streamers, had been moored on the
Middlesex side of the river. Lord Castlereagh, the President
of the Thames Regatta, and other noblemen and gentlemen
with several ladies, were on board the Queen Victoria, which
had been put in requisition for the umpires and the Com-
mittee. The Bishop of London had given permission to admit
respectable company into his extensive and beautiful grounds
on the Fulham shore, whilst the Vice-Chancellor of England
entertained a numerous and distinguished party, who could
command an admirable view of the matches:

The sports of the day commenced with •
AMATEUR PAIR. OARS RACE (Gentlemen), for two silver Cups.
A. A. Julius and A. Dalgleish—Red.
Harringtmi and Walmsley.
Kennedy and Ronayne.
G. Porter and J. Robinson.
A. Earnshaw and S. Chapman.
Betting was brisk; Dalgleish and Julius backed at even
against the field. Earnshaw and his partner, and Kennedy
and Rovnane, next dividing the interest. It was a capital
race. Pink and light blue took the lead, and made a beau-
tiful neck-and-neck race ; the former, if anything, leading.
Purple were making play in right good earnest, when they
run foul of a skiff which was in the middle of the course,
although its occupants had been frequently warned to row out
of the way. The rowing up the Reach was very fine, red
gradually shaking their opponents, light blue, off; and the
latter bestowing a similar favour upon pink. In this order
they passed the Crab-tree; red being about five boats'
length in advance of light blue; and light blue the same
distance of pink. They continued in this order to Hammer-
smith-bridge, where red passed through ten lengths a-head
of light blue, with the most apparent ease; pink being about
',le same distance astern of light blue.
'he FIFTY SOVEREIGNS PRIZE for four-oared boats. In three
heats.
• FIRST HEAT.
The Star Club, Fulham—Red.
A. Akers. I H. Bowen.
E. Bryson. I M. Chasemore.
A. Bowen, coxswain.
The Avon Club—Green.
Saunderson.
J. Clayton.
Western, coxswain.
The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Crew.
Henry Clasper. I 'William Clasper.
Robert Clasper. I Edward Hawkes.
coxswain.

It. Clayton.
Price.

As smart a start as ever was witnessed was followed by
the Newcastle boat taking the lead, and the other two being
oar and oar until after passing the Star and Garter, when
red went into the second place. The Newcastle men held
the lead with the most perfect ease throughout, and won by
twenty or thirty lengths, the Star Club being second. This
race was up to Chiswick Eyot.
SECOND HEAT.
Hammersmith Cutter Club—Light blue.
W. Biffin. G. Wright.
W. Wright. J. Wait.
W. Mansell, coxswain.
Lambeth Aratic Club.
W. Norris. T. Crockford.
D. Harrison. A. Wentwell.
E. Weeble, coxswain.

The Hammersmith Cutter Club took the lead for two mi-
nutes, when their opponents came up oar and oar with them,
and after a dozen hearty pulls passed them, but in five mi-
nutes more they were oar and oar, and a gallant race for the
next mile followed, in which they were alternately half a
length a-head. Light blue then got the lead, and kept it,
winning by three lengths.

GRAND DRAT.

The Newcastle, the Star, and the Hammersmith Clubs
were the competitors. Newcastle went right away with the
lead, never gave their opponents a shadow of a chance, and
won easily.

WATER3IEN'S SCULLS.
FIRST HEAT.

Church (red). Forest (orange).
Barrow (orange and white). R. Newell (pink).
T. Coonibes (green). T. Maynard (black).

SECOND HEAT.
D. Coombes (stripe). Watts (yellow).
Pocock (light blue). , Leach (purple).
White (black and white). Wilson (red and white).
Green took the lead in the irst heat, orange and white and
pink being on either side of him. Pink then laid down to
his work, soon shook his opponents off, and gallantly main-
tained the lead, winning by five lengths, green being se-
cond.

[From the Tyne Mercury of Tuesday last].—DFATH FROM
PRUSSIC Acm.—A great sensation has been produced in the
quiet village of North Sunderland during the past week, by
the sudden death of Mrs. Belaney, and the extraordinary
circumstances attending it.—[Then follows an abridgement
by the Tyne Mercury of the facts of the case as they appeared
in The Sun.] Two letters have been received in North Sun-
derland, one stating that Mrs. Belaney was very ill, and that
two physicians were attending her, and the other announcing
her death ; both, however, had been written after her decease.
It is said that the body of Mrs. Skelly, the mother of the
deceased, will be disinterred, as there are suspicions afloat as
to the cause of death ; more especially from the strange
manner in which the funeral was conducted. Mrs. Belaney,

whosedeath has cast a gloom over the village, was 22 years
of age, and beloved by a large number of devoted friends ;
she was daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Skelly, of North
Sunderland, and has therefore no brother in Essex, as stated
by the daily papers, nor has the prisoner possessions in West-
moreland.

FATAL CHAISE ACCIDENT.—Yesterday Mr. Riggs
held an inquest at the Prince's Head, Prince's-street, "West
minster, on the body of William Beck, aged 72, formerly a
job-master. It appeal el from the evidence of the waterman
attached to the hackney-coach stand, Palace-yard, that he
was standing near the Mitre and Dove, at the corner of
King-street and Bridge-street, on Thursday afternoon, and
saw a pony and chaise, in which deceased was, coming up
King-street, from Downing-street, towards the Abbey, at a
rate that convinced him the pony had run away. Several
persons, as well as witness, tried unsuccessfully- to stop the
animal,
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it, fell on its side, and the deceased, who was standing up-
right in the chaise about to jump out, was pitched into the
road, and fell on his head and side. He was picked up
bleeding and insensible, and instantly conveyed to the
Westminster Hospital, close by. Mr. It. 13. Bowman, said
the deceased. was admitted with slight injury to the left
side of the head, but with fracture of several ribs on the
same side. The fractured parts were driven into the lung,
which caused deceased's death yesterday morning. Mr.
Kennett, of Queen-square, to whom the pony belonged, said .
it was so docile that his wife chiefly drove it. Verdict—
" Accidental death."
SAUSAGES FOR THE MILLION.—Thomas Rose, a
salesman, in Smithfield Market, was brought before Alder-
man Gibbs, at Guildhall, charged by Sergeant Lambert, with
having exposed two cows for sale in Smithfield Market
which were unfit to be killed for human food. Mr. Charles
Clarke, a veterinary surgeon, stated he was called upon to
examine the cows, and found them in such a diseased state
that they were totally unfit to be slaughtered for butcher's
meat. The prisoner stated that the cows were not intended
to be sold for slaughter, but for fattening ! Lambert assured
the Alderman that there was a class of butchers who bought
up this description of animals in the market, for the purpose
of converting them into cheap sausages "for the million I"
Frederick Willis, the owner of one of the cows, said, that
he had no idea of its being sold for slaughter, for it would
not have been worth 405.. for butcher's meat, whereas it
might have fetched 5/. as a speculatipn for grazing.
The Alderman said he should not only order the cows to
be destroyed, but hold the salesman to bail, himself in 501.
and two sureties of 25/. each, to appear at the next session
to answer an indictment for exposing them to sale ; and
moreover he should order the City Solicitor to prosecute!

THE •SIT -N, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 2,' 1344,

TILE WELSH CHURCH.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" Put me,
,I pray that, into one of the priests' offices that
1 may eat a piece of bread."

However, in these days of degeneracy, we may lament
the &cline of zeal in the ministrations of the ordered
priest, we must at least acknowledge that it has lost
none of its pristine ardour in the aspirations of the can-
didate for that holy office. The " piece of silver " and
the ." morsel of bread" still exercise their influence in
ail its native freshness and vigour. Nqr are these crav-
ings of the aspirant permitted to remain unalloyed. The
importunity of the seeker awakens the sympathy of the
bestower of office in a manner truly exemplary ; both
exert themselves with the most laudable emulation to
carry into effect the principles upon which they are con-
federated.

But if we would see this system in its full and perfect
organisation, we must step over into Wales, and look at
the practice of the Welsh Church ; and there we shall
find the " piece (4 silver " and the " morsel of }weal "
stand out as prominently as if they formed the subject of
one of the queries in the ordination service, and some
essential qushficaticn were connected with their.presence.
In that unhappy country we shall find this pernicious
system as regularly maintained as if some dire fatality
rested en the land, for there we shall find prelates and
patrons, caniUdates and examinors, exerting themselves
to carry out this baneful principle with the infatuation
of men doomed to fulfil a curse.

We have already pointed to the custom in the Welsh
Church of denying to the people the
.serviee in their
native tongue, and thereby excluding them from the
communion, and ultimately driving them to the Dis-
senting chapels. We will now advert to a concurrent
practice, a branch of the same cankered trunk, of ad-
mitting into orders and instituting to livings men unqua-
lified for their office, through an utter ignorance of the
language of the people whom they undertake to in-
struct. That an abuse so enormous _should be suffered
to exist is absolutely incredible, except upon positive
and ocular testimony ; but, unhappily, in Wales such
testimony thrusts itself upon our notice, in whatever
direction we move. For the last century the Welsh
bishops have none of them been natives of the Princi-
pality, and, of course, true to the system of nepotism by
which they themselves, were placed in their respective
stations, they never failed to best° a' upon their English
relatives and friends such livings and dignities as fell to
their gift, and were worth accepting ; amid where pri-
vate advowsons existed, the same system of presents-
non obtained ; the bishop, of course, extending toWards
other patrons a liberal indulgence, and refraining from
too rigid an inquiry into qualiticatioes: By such prac-
tices the Welsh churches became to a great extent occu-
pied by men unacquainted with the language of the
country ; the poorer benefices alone escaping the cor-
rupting influence. In the course of time the effects of
this system began to show themselves in the rise of Dis-
sent, and the inhabitants of the Principality, from being
a strict and constant Church-going people, became a race
of determined and inveterate Dissenters. Doubtless, it
was no trifling sense of injury that could compel a
people, so attached to ancient customs as the Welsh, to
forsake the hereditary habits of their country, and
abandon those places of worship to which they had re-
sorted in their youth, and where the graves of their fore-
fathers lay. But such was the violence done to their
feelings by the unprincipled and oppressive proceedings
of those ecclesiastical traffickers who were sent amongst
them, that the strong bands of early attachment, and
even of religious association, were rent assunder, and the
people of Wales are at. this moment a nation of Dissen-
ters, becoming every day more and more exasperated
against that Church out of whose communion they were
driven.

However, at length these evils began to assume an as-
pect so threatening, that it was determined that persons
appointed to Welsh parishes should be acquainted with
the Welsh language, and that all candidates should un-
dergo an examination in that language. The effect of
this was that every man who had any prospect of a
Welsh curacy, or a Welsh living, applied himself with
all his energies to the acquiring of the language, pro-
mising himself to be able in the few months allowed him,
to master a new and difficult language, whose idioms
and pronounciation were, previous to that time, totally
unknown to him. And now we find another striking
feature present itself to our view : the bishops are, but
with one single exception, all of them utterly
and hopelessly ignorant of the language, and,
therefore, the examination is entrusted to a deputy. How
that duty is performed will not be asked, when we
state of the multitudes of candidates of all ages and
capacities who, after four or five months' study, have
offered themselves for examination, tot one has ever
been rejected. Men are often plucked, in a Latin exami-
nation, after a course of study of ten or fifteen years ;
but a man acquires Welsh in half as many months !
Aye, and is entrusted with the communication, through
that language, of the great mysteries of salvation ; he ir,
thus scantily provisioned, sent forth to instruct the igno-
rant, to combat error, to dispute with the subtle and
fluent Dissenter, and, in a word, to fill an office in which,
of all others, a knowledge of language and a command
of idiom and phraseology are indispensable. Well then,
the newly-appointed minister commences his laboure.
His first essay excites derision ; his next creates dis-

gust ; his thiid or fourth begins to empty his church ; and
before his half-dozenth is finished, preparations are making
for erecting a new dissenting chapel in his parish. And
how can we expect that it should be otherwise ? The
Welsh are, of all peoplo on earth, the least likely to be
satisfied with mediocrity,in the addresses they hear from
the pulpit. They are accustomed to a style of oratory
of the most stirring character. When the London re-
porters visited the Principality during the late disturb-
ances, though by no means disposed to speak favourably
of the Welsh, yet in this respect they were constrained
to acknowledge a degree of excellence of no ordinary
occurrence. After having attended the public meetings
on the mountains, and the religious assemblies in the
chapels, and listened to the various speakers addressing
the people in their native language, and thus feeling

thensel;res competent to form it—corieet opinion on the
subject, these men have told us distinctly, that they have
heard the most eloquent and distinguished speakers in
Britain, in the church, the senate, and at the bar, and
yet for action, delivery, fluency of language, and effect
upon the hearers, they never saw the real orator till
they came amongst what they designate as " the in-
spired peasantry of Wales." And it is to this people
that the English bishops of Wales send men to preach
who, till within a few months of undertaking that office,
have never pronounced one word of the language !
When, therefore, the people contrast the freedom of
utterance of their native preachers, with the stammer-
ing, hesitating, and blundering of their new preceptors,
and the manner in which the latter endeavour to squeeze
the bold and masculine intonations .of the ancient
British into the slender, wiredrawn accents of modern
tea-table English, is it to he wondered at that they turn
away with contempt and disgust, and seek some other
instructors ? But what cares the new incumbent for all

FINE ARTS.
MAPS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1815.

Captain Sibarne, the constructor of the well-known
model of the battle of Waterloo which was exhibited
so successfully for more than one season some few
years since at the Egyptian Hall, has just co:npleted a
series of maps illustrative of the campaign of 1815,
which was crowned by the memorable victory of Wa-
terloo, and the subsequent march of the triumphant
British and Prussian armies on Paris. These maps
are eleven in number, are coloured with great
beauty and nicety, and represent With the : ut-
most minuteness, and with a simplicity that there
can be no misunderstanding, all the various move-
ments of the contending forces during their three
days' hard fighting. Two of the maps are devoted to
the delineation of the closing action at Waterloo,
and those who study them with attention will
have a distincter and completer idea of that
murderous and obstinately contested- battle than
they have yet had. The first of the two maps
gives a view of the state of the field at a quarter before
eight o'clock in the evening, when Napoleon,
all his other chanceS having failed, had just issued
orders for the final charge of the squadrons of the
Imperial Guard. These brave veterans, - who are
coloured in blue, to distinguish them from the British
troops, who are coloured in red, are represented in
the act of advancing at full speed in a compact, for
midable body, up the long, undulating ridge behind
which the English, with Wellington at their heal,
were quietly waiting their approach. The names
of the different divisions and brigades, both horse and
foot, are also distinctly marked, together with the
exact position they maintained at this critical mo-
ment. To the right of the spectator the Prussian
auxiliary forces, coloured in green, are coming up at
the extremity of the field by the road from Ligny,
moving onward in heavy compact columns. In the
second map, which exhibits the condition of the con- '
tending parties at five minutes past eight o'clock in
the evening, we see the Imperial Guard scattered in
all directions, and precipitately retreating from the
ridge, with Adams's division apparently foremost in
pursuit, mingled among them, and the Prussians by
this time close, at hand. The representation of this
last disastrous attack of the French Emperor is deeply
interesting, and places the whole scene vividly before
us. But indeed no spot or movement of any import-
ance is omitted in these maps. We have the attack
and defenceof Hugouernout, with the exact appearance
of its garden, the farm of La Belle Alliance, the high
road leading across the field from Charleroi, and even
the inequalities of the ground, its level and its rising
portions, discriminated by shadows of more or less
depth. The same praise that we have given to the
two coloured maps of Waterloo may be extended to
those which represent the battles of Ligny, Quatre-
Bras, and I'Vavre, at the most critical period of these
sanguinary contests. The idea of these maps is a
perfectly novel one; and the constructor's (Captain
Siborne) skill in military surveying has enabled him
to give a scale of measurement which is characterised
by the most scrupulous accuracy. The majority of
our readers are of course perfectly acquainted with
the particulars of the brief, but glorious and decisive
campaign in Belgium; but we will venture to say
that of all the careful and circumstantial descriptions
they may have read of this campaign, none will give
them so distinct, vivid, and correct an idea of its cha-
racter as these eleven maps. We should not omit to
notice that they are engraved by Freebairn, who has
acquitted himself of a difficult and complicated task
with the greatest skill, spirit, and ingenuity, and dis-
, played first-rate abilities as an engraver.

LITERATURE.
HISTORY OF THE TVATERLOO CAMPAIGN.
2 Vols. Boone, London, 1844.
" Some years ago," says Captain Siborne, the
author of this history, " when constructing a model
of the field of Waterloo, I found it necessary to make
great exertions to procure that detailed information
for which I had sought in vain in the numerous pub-
lished accounts of the military transactions of 1815 ;
and ventured to apply to nearly all the surviving eye-
witnesses of the incidents which my model was in-
tended to represent. From officers of all ranks my
application was responded to in a most liberal spirit.
Thus was suggested the present work. Having be-
come the depository of such valuable materials, I felt
it a duty to submit a true and faithful account of this
memorable epoch." The author does himself no
more than justice in alluding to the " true and faith-
ful" character of his history. It wears all the ap-
pearance of the most rigid truthfulness, and is in-
terspersed with notes, in which we find a variety of
characteristic anecdotes, chiefly, as might be expected,
of a military nature. The history commences with
the landing of Napoleon in France, and gives detailed
accounts of the immense preparations that he made
for the campaign, which he foresaw was inevitable. It
then proceeds to speak of the musterings of the Allied
forces; of the" prompt measures taken by Prussia;
and enters into the most circumstantial details respect-
ing the three or four desperate conflicts that preceded
the crowning shock of Waterloo. But that portion
of the history which the genetal reader will regard
with the most interest, is the description of the last
decisive conflict between the troops of Napoleon and
those of Wellington, which possesses all the minute,
matter-of-fact accuracy of a gazette, combined with
a vivid and glowing power of description scarcely in
ferior even to Colonel Napier's admirable " History
of the Peninsular War." But indeed the work is
written throughout in the most perfect con amore
spirit ; and it is greatly to the author's credit that he
does every justice to the bravery of the French troops,
and the skilful dispositions made by Napoleon, pre-
viously to the commencement of the action. The
volumes are embellished with portraits of the prin-
cipal French and English commanders— those of
Soult and Picton are admirable likenesses—and at the
close of the history there is an account, drawn up
from the best authorities, of the numbers of regiments,
cavalry and infantry, who took a share in the battle
of Waterloo. We quote Captain Siborne's animated
description of the desperate charge of the Imperial
Guard, just towards the close of the action. It reads
just like a bit of Napier's " History," an 4 we know
not that we can give it higher praise :
" Notwithstanding the terrible havoc made in the
ranks of the leading column of the Imperial Guard, it
continued its advance in admirable order, and with tie
greatest enthusiasm. Several of its superior officers
placed themselves at its head. Ney's horse having been
shot under him, he drew his sword, and chivalrously led
the way on foot, sustaining to the last his appropriate
and well-earned nom de guerre—' le plus brave des
braves.' General Friant, who commanded the grena-
diers, fell severely wounded. General Michel, Colonel
en second of the chasseurs, was killed a few moments
afterwards. The fall of the latter occasioned some hesi-
tation—the Ist battalion of the 3d regiment of Grena-
diers halted ; but at the call of General Poret de Mar-
van, who commanded it, it renewed its advance at the
pas de charge, amidst loud shout of Vice l'En:preur!'
As the column neared the rise of ground which consti-
tuted the highest point of the ridge occupied by the
right wing of the Duke's line, it gradually passed the
line of fire hitherto directed upon it by the greater por-
tion of the batteries on the British right of that point.

this? He has got his "piece of silver "and" morsel of
bread?" What cares the patron? He has provided for
his friend. What cares the bishop? He looks forward
to be translated to a more lucrative see.

Wellington rode up to the British foot-battery posted in
the linmediate right of Maitland's brigade of guards,
with its own right thrown somewhat forward, nod ad-
dressing himself to an artillery officer (Lieutenant
Sharpin), hastily asked who commanded it. The latter
replied that Captain Bolton having just been killed, it
was now under the command of Captain Napier. The
Duke then said, Tell him to keep a look-out to his left,
for the French will soon be with him.' The message
had scarcely been communicated, when the bearskin
caps of the leading divisions of the column of the Im-
perial Guard appeared just above the summit of the hill.
The cannonade hitherto directed upon this point from
the distant French batteries now ceased, but a swarm of
skirmishers .opened a sharp and teasing fire among the
British gunners. In the next moment, however, they
were scattered and driven back upon the main body by
a sudden shower of canister, grape, and schrapnel shells,
poured forth from Napier's guns, which now kept up a
terrific fire upon the column, within a distance of forty
or fifty yards. Nevertheless "the French guards conti-
nued to advance. They had now topped the summit.
To the astonishment of the officers who were at their
head, there appeared iu their immediate front no direct
impediment to their further advance. They could only
distinguish dimly through the smoke extending from
Napier's battery, the cocked hats of a few mounted
officers, little imagining, probably, that the most pro-
minent of these was the great Duke himself. Pressing
boldly forward, they had arrived within fifty paces of
the spot on which the British guards were lying down,
when Wellington gave the talismanic call—' Up, guards;
make ready I' and ordered Maitland to attack. It was
a moment of thrilling excitement. The British guards
springing up so suddenly in a most compact four-deep
line, appeared to the French as if starting out of the
ground. The latter, with their high bonnets, as they
crowned the summit of the ridge, appeared to the Bri-
tish, through the smoky haze, like a corps of giants
bearing down upon them. The British guards instantly
opened their fire with a tremendous volley, thrown in
with so much coolness, deliberation, and precision, that
the head of the column became, as it were, convulsed by
the shock, and nearly the entire mass staggered under
the effect. Inless than a single minute more than three
hundred of these brave old warriors fell, to rise no more.
But the high spirit.and innate valour which actuated the
mass were not to be subdued by a first repulse. Its
officers placing themselves conspicuously in its front and
on its flanks, called aloud, waved their swords, and, by
encouraging words and gestures, commenced a deploy-,
ment in order to acquire a more extended front. But
the head of the column being continually shattered and
driven back upon the mass, by the well-sustained and
rapidly destructive fire by which it was assailed within
so extremely limited a :pace, this attempt altogether
failed. The front of the column was becoming momen-
tarily more disordered and broken up, men were turning
round and disappearing by the flanks, whilst others in
the rear began firing over the heads of those before
them. The confusion into which the French guards had
now bent throWn became manifest. The Duke ordered
Maitland to charge,; whilst, at the same instant, the
gallant Lord -Saltoun, equally alive to the real t•ituation
of the column, called out, Now's the time, my boys
The brigade sprang forward, with a loud cheer, to the
charge. Numbers of the French guards nearest to the

British, threw down their arms and knapsacks, and dis-
pased. The flanks began rapidly to spread out ; and
tlicT4 Cie mass partaking more generally of the panic, ap-
pearej as if rent asunder by some invisible power. At
the same time' Halkett, notwithstanding the fierce con-
flict in which Alien's diviSion was then engaged, most
judiciously pushed forward his two right regiment;, the
33d and 69th, a short distance, to cover, if possible,
Mait:and's brigade from any flank attack that might be
attempted by a part of Donzelot's troop, and such- -ad- •
vanced position.offered considerable security to the bri-
gade of guards as it subSequently retired to re-focal.
" The British guards had continued their charge some
distance down the slope of the hill, when Maitland per-
ceived the second attacking column of the imperial guard
advancing .on his right, and exposing his brigade to the
imminent risk of being turned on that flank. He ac-
eirdingly gave the order to face about and retire ; but
amidst their' victorious shouts, and the noise of the firing
of cannon and other arms, the command was imperfectly
understood, and the first sense of danger led to a cry of
Foram square' being passed along their line, it being
naturally assumed that the enemy's cavalry would take
advantage of their isolated position ; which, however,
was not the case. The flanks of battalions gave way as
if to form square. Saltoun conspicuously exerted him-
self in endeavouring to rectify the mistake, but in vain ;
and the whole went to the rear. The confusion in which
they retired was unavoidable ; but it was not the con-
fusion consequent upon either defeat or panic ; it re-
sulted simply from a misunderstanding of the command ;
and no greater er more distingui • hed proof coald be af-
forded of the excellent order, cool self-possession, and
admirable discipline of these troops, than the steadiness,
alacrity, and intelligence with which, upon regaining the
crest of the ridge, they obeyed the command, then given;
of Halt, front, form up.".

HORACE IVAIPOLR'S LETTERS TO SIR IL
MANN. Vols. 3.6 4. Bentley, Lonchn, 1544.
The most characteristic feature in these volume 3

—in which Walpole's correspondence with Sir Horace
Mann is brought to a close—is the memoir entitled
" Short Notes of my Life," which profes es to be a
brief summary of the principal events in the author's
life from the year 1724 down to the year 1779, at
which period the manuscript abruptly terminates.
Horace Walpole, it may be remembered, is constantly
declaiming in his letters against the self-conceit and
pedantry of literary men; their society, with a few
exceptions, he describes as being irksome to him in
the extreme ; and nothing seems to give him greater
annoyaece than the supposition that any of his friends
or correspondents should mistake him for one of the
fraternity. Like Congreve, when Voltaire honoured
him with a visit, in token of his admiration of his
abilities as a dramatist, Walpole profetses to be a gen-
tleman and not an author, just as though it were im-
possible that the two characters could be combined
in the same individual. When resident in London,
he represents himself as sedulously avoiding all
literary coteries, and when in Paris eschews them
with equal pertinacity, observing in one of his letters
to that overrated wit, George Selwyn, "I have left
off going to the Baron D'Olbuch's dinners, for there
was no bearing the authors, philosophers, and savans,
of which he has a pigeon-house full." We always
thought that there was a g ood deal of affectation in
this disclaimer of authorship, and dislike to the com-
panionship of literary men, and Horace Walpole's
" Short Notes" of his life have confirmed us in the
justice of our hypothesis. In these " Notes"—which
he insisted on his executors not allowing to be pub-
lished until a certain number of years after his death,
and which are now fur the first time given to the
world—he catalogues, with all the circumstantial
minuteness of an auctioneer, not only every volume
which he produced, and the exact year and even day
of the month on which he produced it, but every
scrap of prose and poetry which he wrote, com-
mencing with a boyish copy of Latin verses, which
he composed on the marriage of Frederick, Prince of
Wales, and which he takes special care to add, were
thought worthy of being published in a Cambridge
periodical of that period. And yet the man who is
thus nervously solicitous to make posterity acquainted
with everything he wrote, no matter how trivial, and
who regards his literary compositions as the most im-
portant events of his life, is the same who professes an
utter indifference to literary reputation, and thinks it
beneath his dignity to associate on equal terms with
authors ! The truth is, Horace Walpole was a man
eaten up with vanity; the ruling passion of his life
was a thirst for distinction in the world of letters ; he
could not obtain this to the extent he desired; and
took refuge therefore, from disappointment, in an
ill-concealed, supercilious indifference. The grapes
were sour, but they were wily sour when he found
they were above his reach. But the widely diffused
fame which he so much coveted, but missed, during
his life, h.v.s been amply awarded him by the public
voice since his death. He is now generally allowed
to he the most brilliant letter-writer in the language,
and neither time, nor circumstance, nor the proverbial
caprice and mutability of fashion, are ever likely to
diminish his celebrity in this familiar and delightful
branch of literature. The letters contained in the
volumes before. us, which were written at an ad-
vanced period of the author's life, are penned, for the
most part, in a subdued and sober vein ; there are oc-
casional flashes of wit in them ; but shrewd, worldly
common sense, flavoured here and there with a spice
of piquant sarcasm, are their chief recommendations.
As a specimen of his most earnest and animated
manner, we subjoin Walpole's defence of his cele-
brated father, Sir Robert :
" Last year Mr. Fox was burnt in effigy ; now, Mr. Pitt
is.—Oh ! my dear sir, it is all a farce ! On this day,
about an hundred years ago (look at my date), was born
the wisest man I have seen. He kept his country in
peace for twenty years, and it flourished accordingly.
He injured no man, was benevolent, good-humoured, and
did nothing but the common necessary business of the
State. Yet he was burned in effigy too ; and so traduced
that li!s name is not purified yet !—Ask why his me-
mory is not in veneration ? You will be told, from li-
bels and trash, that he was the Grand Corrupter.—
What ! did he corrupt the nation to make it happy, rich,
and peaceable? Who was oppressed during his admi
nistration ?—Those saints, Bolingbroke and Pulteney,
were kept out of the paradise of the Court ; aye, and the
Pretender was kept out and was kept quiet. Sir Robert
fal: a rebellion ensued in four years, and the crown shook
on the King's head. The nation, too, which had been to-
lerably corrupted before his time, and which, with all its
experience and with its eyes opened, has not cured it-
self of being corrupt, is not quite so prosperous as in the
day of that man, who, it seems, poisoned its morals.
Formerly it was the most virtuous nation on earth !
Under Henry the Eighth and his children there was no
persecution, no fluctuation of religion : their ministers
shifted their faith four times, and were sincere honest
men ! There was no servility, no flattery, no contempt,
of the nation abroad, under James the First. No
ty-
ranny under Charles the First and Laud ; no factions,
no civil war ! Charles the Second, however, brought
back all the virtues and morality, which, somehow or
other, were missing. His brother's was a still more
blessed reign, though in a different way ! King Wiilit m
was disturbed and distressed by no contending
factions, and did not endeavour to bribe them to
let him pursue his great object of humbling France!
The Duke of Marlborough was not overborne in a
similar and more glorious career by a detestable
cabal !-rand if Oxford and Bolingbroke did remove him,
from the most patriotic motives, they, good men ! used
no corruption ! Twelve peerages showered at once, to
convert the House of Lords, were, no bribes ; nor was a
shilling issued for secret services ; nor would a Member
of either House have received it ! Sir R. Walpole came,
and, strange to tell, found the whole Parliament, and
every Parliament, at least a great majority of every Par-
liament, ready to take his money. For what ?—to undo
their country !—which, however wickedly as he meant,
and ready as they were to core ..r, he left in every re-
spect in the condition he found it, except in being im-
proved in trade, wealth, and tranquillity ; till i's friends
who expelled him, had dipped their poor country in a
war ; which was far from mending its condition. Sir
Robert died, fortelling a rebellion, which happeaed in
less than six months, and for predicting wF.ich he had
been ridiculed : and in detestation of a maxim ascribed
to him by his enemies, that everyman has his price, the
tariff of every Parliament since has been as well known
as the price of beef and mutton ; and the universal elec-
tors, who cry out against that traffic, are not a jot less
vendible than their electors.—Was not Sir Robert Wal-
pole an abominable Minister 2"

Commissimi or LUNACY.—A Commission
Lunacy was held at the Red Lion, Camberwell, yes,
terday, before F. Barlow, Esq., to inqu're into the state
of mind of Mr. Charles Davis, of Peckham-house
Asylum, aged forty. The alleged lunatic was formerly
a linendraper, in Eaton-street, Pimlico. In 1829 be
married, and settled 5,000/. upon his wife, after death
to her issue, and, in failure, to the survivor. Mrs.
Davis died in February last, leaving 4,3001. of the
money in the Three-per-Cent. Consols; and the Com-
mission was issued for the purpose of obtaining that
amount to apply to his use. After Mr. Davis and his
wife had been in business two years they indulged in
such gross habits of intoxication that the linen-
drapery was soon given up. They then took lodgings in
Queen-street, Northampton-square, and at a coffee-shop
in St. Peter's-lane, St. John-street. In Nov., 1842, some
policemen apprehended him for running after her
Majesty's carriage, with his hat off ; he was conveyed
to St. George's Hospital and had his head shaved,.and
on taken
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When in liquor he was never fit to be trusted.
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.The alleged lunatic's wife left him in December, 1842,
to live with another man ; he then became completely
destitute, and in June, 1843, Capt. Davis, his brother,
took him away to Andover. He had continued speech-
less from December to June. Mr. White, the senior
surgeon of the Holborn union, was satisfied that from
the 24th of June to 29th July last, Mr. Davis was in a
state of insanity ; he was very obstinate, and would not
speak for a week at a time ; he would walk up .and
down the ward, and throw himself into dramatic atti-
tudes. He was not at all violent. The jury returned a
verdict of unsound mind since June, 1843.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The accounts
from the country on the whole are favourable. There
has been a good deal of rain in many districts, which
has given new life to the crops. One of the provincial
journals states that " the crops are improving ama-
zingly ; indeed, we had no expectation of seeing the
brown roots of a fortnight ago converted into the thick-
ening braids of this date. The pastures are also much
mended, and there is some little inquiry again for graz-
ing cattle that were scarcely saleable on any terms. The
only thing we hear of going wrong with the farmer is
the potato crop."