The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-11 00:00:00

CHATHAM.

JULY 10.—The Commandant, Sir Thomas Wilshire, Bart.,
K.C.8., issued garrison orders this day to Major J. Casimer
Harold, commanding the 74th, to hold in readiness a detach-
ment of his corps to proceed to Harwich to relieve a com-
pany of the 58th, that returns to this garrison.
This morning the following detatachments from the pro-
visional battalion marched from this depot en route to Graves-
end, attended by the drums and fifes of the battalion, when
they embarked from the Ordnance Wharf on board the ship
Owen Glendower, for Bengal : their strength consisted of 61
men of the 10th Regiment, and 58 men of the 62d, under the
command of Captain Stanter, of the 10th ; Ensign Fitzgerald,
39th ; and Ensign Bruce, also of the 39th. A medical officer
proceeded with the troops to inspect them when on board.
Colonel Kelly and Captain Jackson also went with the men
to see that every requisite accommodation was afforded to
them on board.
The casement barrack at Brompton, which has been
fittedjup at a considerable expense for the accommodation of
invalid soldiers, is now so crowded that it was found neces-
sary on Monday to apply to Sir _Thomas Wiltshire, Bart.,
for additional barrack room. There are at this time nearly
1,200 men of different corps in these barracks, although they
were fitted up for the accommodation of only 840 men. The
inconvenience felt is very great.
The late Sergeant-Major Valance, of the 12th Lancers,
who, it will he recollected, was tried at Chatham on the 6th
of May by a Court-martial, for an alleged attempt to bribe
Major Mayer, :of .the cavalry depot at Maidstone, and who
was reduced to the ranks, has since been sent to his regiment,
and returned again yesterday to be discharged; he has been
in the 'service twenty-six years, fourteen of which he was
troop-sergeant, has been nearly two years sergeant-major,
and during the whole period of his service bad conducted
himself in every manner worthy the character of a British
soldier ; owing, however, to that charge against him, he will
only be allowed a shilling a day pension, which it is under-
stood will be granted to him.

LIBRARY OF THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—Yes
terday the sale of the extensive and valuable theological por-
tion of the library of the late Duke of Sussex was continued
at Messrs. Evans's, Pall-mall ; and many of the lots fetched
equally high prices as those disposed of on the preceding
days. (1,413) New Testament, Latin and English, translated
by J. Hollybushe. Nicholson's July edition of 1538, " im-
perfect." 14/. (1,426) Holy Bible, with all the Holy Scrip-
ture, truly and purely translated into English by Thomas
Mathew, extremtly rare, with wood cuts ; 14 leaves of pre-
liminary matter wanting. The title a pen and ink fac-simile,
several leaves damaged and stained. 1527. The real name of
the translator is said to have been John Rogers, who was the
first martyr in Queen Mary's reign. 221. 10s. (1,429) Holy
Bible, translated by T. atthewe, very 'rare. W. Hyll and
T. Reynoldes. 1549. 19/. 10s. (1,430) Holy Bible, with Cran-
mer's preface, rare; imprynted by Whytchurche. 1549. At
the commencement is the Common Prayer, 1689. 21/.
(1,435) The Bible, Genevan version,' with profitable annota-
tions ; the first Bible printed in Scotland. The first title is
a fac-simile by Harris ; very rare. Printed in Edinburgh,
the Old Testament by Arbuthnot, 1579 ; the New Testament
by Bassandyne, 1576. This copy wants the address to King
James, two leaves, part of the map at p. 82, and.one leaf of
a perfit supputation at the end. 12/. 15s. (1,651) The Byble,
in Englyshe ; Bishop Cranmer's, first edition, extremely
rare, fine copy. The leaf of title is an admirable fac-simile.
A few corners of the kalendar and of the first leaf restored
by fac-simile. Grafton and Whitchurch, finished in April,
1539. 70/. (1,658) Holy Bible ; Cranmer's, quite perfect,
very rare. Whitchurch, November, 1541. 19/. 108. (1,669)
Holy Bible, 2 vols., ruled with red lines. Oxford, Baskett,
1717. This Bible is designated the vinegar Bible, from a
misprint of "vinegar" instead of "vineyard," on the top of
the 20th chapter of St. Luke. 12/. 12s.
AMERICAN CLOCKS. —A novel species of clocks have
recently been introduced from the United States. These
clocks are shaped something like hall-clocks, the principal
novelty of them consisting of a sheet of plate or looking-
glass being fixed in the door under the face. These mirrors
vary in size from a few inches to two feet in length. On
the first importations of the article, it seems that the officers
at London and Liverpool, uncertain as to their correct deno-
mination, delivered them on payment of the duty as goods
manufactured, at the ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.
The matter has since been brought under the notice of the
Board of Customs, and they have directed that in every
instance the adivalorem duty be charged on the clocks, with
the addition of the duty on the plate-glass of 4s. a foot. The
importers have remonstrated, and have requested to be al-
lowed to serape the silver off, which has been refused, and
the parties informed that they can only be allowed to remove
the glass and export the same. The importation of these
clocks has lately been very considerable, a parcel arriving by
almost every American vessel.
ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING.—A most important
Anti-Corn-law meeting has been held at Lyneham,
North Wiltshire. The district is a purely agricultural
one, and the persons of whom the meeting was com-
posed were farmers and farm-labourers, chiefly the lat-
ter. About one thousand were in attendance, and but
for the exceedingly unfavourable state of the weather
the meeting would have been a very large one. Reso-
lutions were unanimously passed in favour of free-trade,
a significant indication of the progress of free-trade doc-
trines amongst a class for whose benefit the landowners
have the impudence to affirm the corn-laws were enacted.
—Boleyn Free Press.

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LITERATU.
EDINBURGH RE VIE 11
Longman, London,
The subject of " Popular Del
theme—is amusingly treated in .1
Reviewer, however, is mistaken w

the crime of poisoning, so general initaly during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,' he- states that

" in France arid England this crime, though occa-
sionally practised, never became common." ' Unfelt,
tunately in the reign of Elizabeth, - and more
especially of her successor James, no. ''node
of assassination was more common among
our higher classes, and not a few women
are known to have lived in affluence in tlie metro-
polis by their skill in compounding deadly drugs, and
the handsome sums which were paid for them by
their reckless customers. In France -the practice of
poisoning was of still more frequent occurrence, and
was first introduced into that country by the Italian
druggists and perfumers, 'who swarmed 'in. Paris
during the demoralising sway of Catherine de Medici,
and received no stinted share of Court patronage.
Catherine herself was a first-rate genius as a poi-
soner. She dispatched her enemies in the most
scientific manner passible, and with an adroitness that
bade defiance to discovery. One was got rid of by a
pair of perfumed gl:.ives, sent her as a mark of delicate
attention by her royal mistress ; another, by a per-
fumed rose ; and a third, by the ingenious contrivance
of a poisoned billet. In the reign of Louis XIV. this
crime reached its acme, but the severe measures
adopted by Government contributed greatly to its
suppression, and still more the general horror excited
by the trial of the infamous Marchioness of Brin-
villiers, who was found guilty of having poisoned
her father and her two brothers, and of having at-
tempted also the lives of her husband and her sister.
This amiable creature was remarkably gentle in her
manners, of a prepossessing countenance, and much
addicted to sentimentality. The " Late Census"
states some curious particulars relative to the increase
of population within the last ten years ; and alluding
incidentally to one distinguishing point in Sir R.
Peel's tariff, which it appears has been in some de-
gree a failure, the Reviewer remarks :—" The Pre-
mier allowed the importation of foreign cattle
and of American junks; but, alas ! it was found,
though oxen could be fed in and shipped from
distant countries at a cheaper rate than under
the present system they can be slaughtered in
England, yet that the Bay of Biscay affords too
hazardous a transit, and the heats of summer too
insidious an hostility, to encourage the importation of
live cattle or of fresh meat ; while the salted com-
modity supplied by our transatlantic brethren occupies
a position below that to which British stomachs have as
yet generally descended." In the " Memoirs of the
Duke de la Force," we have a rapid summary of some of
the most remarkable events that took place in France
from the period of the St. Bartholomew massacre
down to within a few years of the breaking out of the
childish and ridiculous wars of the Fronde. Refer-
ring to the favourite policy of Richelieu, the Re-
viewer says that "by levelling social superiorities,
abolishing privileges, and dismantling the citadels of
the reformed party, this arbitrary Minister pre-
pared future dangers for the monarchy." This
is perfectly true, as the sequel proved, for
during the feeble and disastrous reign of Louis XVI.,
when the Crown most needed support against the
rapid encroachments of the revolutionary principle,
the noblesse—who had been deprived of • substantial
power for upwards of a century, and had become
the mere sycophants and hangers-on of the throne
—were found wholly unable to render • that
support, and the Monarch was left to fight
his battle with the people alone. " George
Selwyn and his Contemporaries" is a notice of Mr.
Jesse's pleasant gossiping work on this subject. The
Reviewer enlivens his criticism by brief biographical
sketches of some of the most remarkable characters
who flourished during the last half of the eighteenth
century. The following is his account of the Duke of
Queensberry—an eccentric, profligate nobleman, who
died in the year 1810, at the patriarchal age of 8.5 :
" He was born in 1725, succeeded his father in the
earldom of March in 1731, his mother in the earldom of
Ruglen in 1748, and his cousin in tie dukedom 9f Queens-
berry in 1778, being then in his fifty-third year. Few
men of his day acquired greater notoriety, or were more
an object of inquiry or speculation ; yet he took little
part in political events, except so far as his own interests
were affected by them, and it would hare been' better for
his reputation had he taken none. When the King's
malady grew serious, in 1788, he gave in his allegiance
to Fox ; and on the recovery of his royal master, was
unceremoniously dismissed from his situation of Lord of
the Bedchamber, which he had held for twenty-eight
years, notwithstanding the known profligacy of his life.
Wraxall says he took a journey to Windsor to learn the
exact condition of the King, but he was misled by Dr.
Warren. The mistake mattered little. His business was
pleasure, his passions were women and the turf ; and he
contrived to gratify both, without impairing either his
fortune or his constitution. As regards the turf, he was

thoroughly versed in all its mysteri+ s, and seldom in-
dulged in any sort of gaming unconnected with it, or
relating to matters where any undue advantage could be
taken of him. On the contrary, he was generally ma
the look-out for opportunities of turning his own shrewd-
ness and coolness to account. A curious instance is
related in Edgworth's memoirs.
" Lord March had noticed a coachmaker's journeyman
running with a wheel, and on minuting him by a stop-
watch, found that he actually ran a considerable distance
faster with it than most men could run unencumbered.
A waiter in Betty's fruit-shop was famous for speed.
Lord March adroitly introduced the topic, and maintain-
ing what appeared a paradox, easily got bets to a large
amount, that the waiter would run faster for a mile than
any one could run with the kind-wheel of his Lord-
ship's carriage, then standing at the door. But be com-
mitted a trifling overstht. The wheel was lower than
the wheel the man was used to run with; and the biter

would have been bit, had not Sir Francis Blake Delaval
suggested an expedient. The night before the match,
planks were obtained from the Board of Works, and a
raised groove, for the wheel to run in, was constructed
across the course. The journeyman won, and the Jockey
Club decided in Lord March's favour. Another of his bets
carne before the Court of King's Bench. He had laid a
wager of five hundred guineas with young Mr. Pigot, that
old Mr. Pigot (the father) would die before Sir William
Codrington. Old Mr. Pigot died the same morning be-
fore the making of the wager, but neither of the parties
was acquainted with the fact. The Court held that tha
dutiful and hopeful heir must pay. A startling example
of this style of bet is mentioned by Walpole. I, t'other
night at White's, found a very remarkable entry in our
very remarkable wager-book :—Lord bets Sir
twenty guineas that Nash outlives Cibber. How odd
that these two old creatures should live to see both their
wagerers put an end to their own lives!' Lord March's
rate of betting was never very high. The largest sum
he appears to have won or lost at any race or meeting,
during the period over which this correspondence ex-
tends, was 4,1001., and this is mentioned as a rare oc-
currence."

CONSTANCE D'OYLEY. 3 Vols.
Bentley, London. 1844.
The incidents in this story—which, like those of
Miss Austen, is wholly of a domestic character—are
few and simple, and put together in the most inarti-
ficial manner possible. They have all, however, the rare
merit of probability, and, in consequence, the reader's
interest is kept up throughout the narrative. The princil
pal recommendation, however, of-Constance D'Oyley
consists in the skill with which the leading characters
are delineated. Those, in particular, of the heroine
Constance, and her unfortunate young friend, Isabel
llernshaw, are discriminated with great nicety; the one
exhibiting in her career the effects of a careful and
conscientious education ; the other, of ,an artificial
and dishonest one. The dialogues are uniformly
natural and appropriate, and, when opportunity offer's,
by no means deficient in sprighthneas. A little
more variety and breadth of incident would not have
been amiss ; still the story is worth reading, and
points an excellent moral. The lighter scenes are the
most successful, with the sole exception of that
wherein the author relates the tragic death of Isabel
Hernshaw, which is described with no ordinary vigour.

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
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„„
AIETROPOLITANIMPROVEMENTS.-1.119 extensive
street from Long-acre to Piccadilly is making rabid progress,
and two intervening houses having been pulled down, there
is now a clear opening from Leicester-square to Coventry.
street, the completion of the line. Other improvements are
in contemplation here, amongst which is that of building on
the freehold land forming the square in the centre. This has
for some time past been in a most neglected state, the sub-
scriptions of the inhabitants being far short of the sum' re-
quisite to keep it in proper repair ; nor are these likely t 9 be
increased when one side will be the line of an extensive traffic.
The large site of ground on which the hotel stoxl still re-
mains unappropriated, and the square has long lost all at-
tractions for business, or as •the resort of fashion, for whit it
wag 9110 celebrated.

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