The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-15 00:00:00

ErCGLISII GIN.

The flavour and quality of W. STEVENS' ENGLISH
iGngIN the price is accord-
thoa9thloengstbroenngetht.he peer-eminence,
Good Gin 6s. 84. and ss. 4d, per gallon.
Excellent 9s id. and Ss. ed. ditto
The highest Strength lOs. 9d. ditto
FOREIGN WINES.
Good full bodied Port
Ditto, finest imported l7s. and 30s. ditto
Sherry, warranted genuine
Ditto, fine quality, ... 30s. and 3.i.f. ditto
Ditto, straw colour, soft and nutty 40s. ),; •,-. • ditto
Old fashioned Brown Sherry 42s. • -'y ditto
The Arrnontillado Sherry ... .....
Bucellas, finest imported
West India Madeira, curious 3ss. ~.• . ditto
East India Ditto, very old .. 6os.
'4 Wit': ditto
Li.slum, Vidonia, and Mountain 2Bs. and S2s. ditto
CRUSTED PORTS.
These Wines were imported from the most celebrated
Oporto Houses, selected from the most approved Vintages,
have been in Bottle from three to live years, and areworthy
the attention of the Connoisseur.
Old Port, highest quality, 5 years in Bottle, 425. per doz.
Ditto, Choice Light Wine, ditto (Crust loose) 365. ditto
Fine Old Port, four rears in 80tt1e.......
Ditto, .... 381. ditto
two years in Bottle ..................... 325. ditto
FRENCH WINES.

.
Good Claret ___
42g. per doz.
Lititte, 1822
Sparkling Champagne
WINES FROM THE SAYE. •
Madeira Good
Finest imported .
Stein Wine (Collison) .......
18s. and 201. ditto
Pentac (Port flavour)
Ditto, finest imported .1145. ditto
Constantia
PACKAGES.-Casks at Cooper's prices, Stone Bottles,
7d. per ga 36, per dozen; Hampers,
llon,
Glass Bottles,
6d. per dozen.--Ttione • returned if sent back.

'file trade supplied.

The vane of Chichester Cathedral was taken
down last week, being the seventh time that operation has
become neee”ary within the last 60 years.

Mr. H. CLEMENTS detailed the Report of the
Committee. It appeared that on the 26th of March
a petition was presented
.to Parliament by Mr. Al-
derman Thorenson lAmlf, of the ,Cnach,,Prot
prietors, and ordered to be printed. liorie7zr no
Member brought in any Bill to remedy the griev-
ances of the trade, and :11r. Hume was subsequently
consulted on the matter, and he suggested that a
Petition recommending the removal of the Hackney
Coach Commissioners should be presented, and also
p.rayin for the Repeal of some of the Clauses of the
nth Of Artne,
, •
This Petition was read to the Meeting by Mr.
HENMAN, the clerk of the Committee.
Mr. CLEMENTS then adverted to the discussions
in the house of Commons upon the petition, be-
tween Sir John Newport, Mr. Hume,.Mr. Dawson,
the Seeretary to the Treashr!;,, arid other Members,
Itqne, declared that the Commissioners ought
to be removed, because they appeared altogether
insufficient. No notice was taken of Mr. Hume's
recommendation during the Session, and the Com-
mittee, considering their application neglected, de-
termined upon sending a letter to the„Lords of the
Treesirry; recotiitnehdisii tri Aet tlf Pt4rnaifient to
be •passed, with the following as the basis of its
clauses:-Ist, The reduction of the hackney-coach
fares; .2d, That the licenses be transferreil; 3d,
That all drivers be licensed; 4th, To prevent all
stage-CoacheS taking up and setting down passengers
in the streets; anti to oblige them to proceed
to their several destinations ; sth, That all branch
coaches be stopped ; 6th, To make cabriolets gene-
ral. To which letter they received the following
reply

" Tredsury Chakibers, Oth jane, 1828.
" am commanded by the Lords Commissioner
of his Majesty's Treisury, to acqu lint you that yOur letter
of the :Id initaut, Submitting alterations in the Hackney-
coach Laws, has i'een transmitted to the Commissioneni of
Hackney-coaches, with directions to repoit their euinion
upon, with as little delay as possible.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" GEORGE ROBERT DAWSON.
" Mr. Thos. Henmart, Clerk to the Committee
of Coach Proprietors, (12, High ileitititn:"
No further notice being taken of the state of
trade, some further correspondence took place, which
was terminated by a letter from Mr. Dawson, inform-
ing them that after dtie consideration the Lords
Commissioners did not deem it expedient to adopt
the suggestions of the Committee. Under the pre-
sent system, they had no coutroul over the drivers,
therefore the public must expect to be plundered;
and the only course to remedy the evil, would be
not to make the drivers subject to the masters, and
this was only to be done by adopting an Act of Per,
4iament, and which he was convinced would ensure
soberness, civility, and honesty amongst the drivers.
By their being all licensed, a sufficient check would
be obtained over their character. lie pronounced
the cabriolets to be in a great measure destructive of
the trade, because in no instance had the pledges
given by their owners been redeemed. The cabriolet
licenFes had been granted in the most partial man.,
ner, Mr. Rotch, a barrister, Mr. Bradshaw, a
banker, and two half-pay Captains, named Williams
and Abbott, and the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby Staples,
having monopolized 150 cabriolets, which they let
out at one pound a day. Mr. Clements concluded
by recommending the propositions contained in the
Report of the Committee.
The CHAIRMAN said, that Counsel was of opinion
that nothing could prevent them placing their li-
censed plates upon two-wheeled carriages, but the
opinion also stated that it was possible, under the
48th Cleo. DI. the Commissioners might have the
power to fine them 5/, for so doing. That question,
however, had not been tried, and he suggested that
the experiment might be carried into effect, the
funds for which should be raised by a general sub-
scription amongst themselves.
The proposal was agreed to; and a subscription
was then opened to carry this plan into execution.
Mr. COBB wish to 'know whether by placing
plates on a cabriolet, they were not liable to lose
their plates ?
The CHAIRMAN replied in the negative.
After some further observations, several Resolu-
tions were adopted, and a subscription opened, and
the Meeting separated.

Many of the confectioners, milliners, and other
panders to fashion at the west end of the town, are said to
be grievously afflicted with the tic doloreux.

An anonymous letter, of which the following
is a copy, has been received by Sir M. W. RIDLEY, Bart.,
M.P., who has given the money therein mentioned to the
Dispensary of this town :

" Newcastle, Aug. 9th, 1828.
" Sir,-1 swindled your late father out of 31. Ss. about
30 years since. lam extremely sorry for what I did. I
have enclosed the amount. May the Lord bless you, deer
Sir, and all your family, is the prayer of your obedient
servant."

The Worthy Baronet, we understand, is desirous that
the xvriter would make himself known to him.—Tyne
Mercury.

- Our Gevermneut may now be said to have
fairly renounced the semblance of liberality which it at first
assumed, and to hare started on the direct line of th
CASTLE3EAGH policy. All the measures adopted by Mr.
CANNING to retrieve us from the consequences of that po-
licy, have, since his death, been one by one renounced, and
we now are resuming, as quickly as possible, the political
position in which CASTLEREAGH left us. We have de-
nounced the victory of Navarin, which, had it been pro-
perly followed np, would immediately have established the
independence of Greece, and thereby secured the peace of
Enrols,; we have recalled the brave Commander who
gained for us that brilliant victory, while the French and
Russian Commanders, who fought in concert widi him, are
loaded by their Governments with praises and honours.—
We are, from an affected desire to avoid war allowing
Russia, France, and Austria, to pursue plans of individual
aggrandisement, which will ultimately either force us into
a war at fearful disadraotages, or degrade us to
the . rank of a third-rate European State ; and,
lastly, indelible disgrace has been brought upon the
national character, by the part which our Govern-
ment recently acted towards Sir FREDERICK LAMB, our ,
late Ambassador at Lisbon, and still more by its appoint-
ing such a person as Lord STRANGEORD to act as our
Plenipotentiary at Brazil, for the purpose of inducing the
Emperor Pena° to acknowledge the right of his infamous
brother to the throne of Portugal ! In another part of to-
day's Paper, we have so liberally extracted from the French
and English Journals relative to all these topics, that it
would be superfluous here to discuss them, since we could
only reiterate the sentiments expressed in the extracts
copied from the Journals alluded to.. Glasgow Free
Press of Wednesday.
RESURRECTIONISTS.-During tho interment
of the late Mrs. HORNBUCKLK, of this town, yesterday
afternoon, at Fishtoft, a small village in the neighbour-
hood, it was discovered that the grave of her late husband,
who has been dead solue months, had been opened, the
breast-plate wrenched from the coffin, the lid raised, and the
corpse removed from its usual position. It is conjectured
that the wretches who thus violated the peaceful precincts
of the grave were disappointed of their object by the coffin
being bound with iron, which prevented the removal of
the corpse; they therefore suddenly desisted, but left be-
hind them traces of their intention...Bodon Gagette.

11, MANSIOPI-IiOrSE.--A few, days since a ease was
1-ro-Itglit teftee tie I.:9,tzgAT which is likely to prove
of considerable Importar.Ce .1)4: i!avlgatipn,ef !lie river,
and to the General Steam-boat Navigation a.i:etl:"atir.
Two gentlemen applied to the LORD MATOR. for a
moos against the Captain of the principal steam-boot which
carries passengers from Gravesend to Loudon. The corn-
plaint against the commander of this boat was, that he had
ed. fot itiis farefisyhet.7,he sy,a by law only enti-
tled to demand td. TLlti itifiltiort of n lase, to regulate
the fares of steam-boats excited some surprise .1 !!!'of.teel
but the applicants stated, that by the new laws for the re-
gulation of watermen's fares, it was determined that no
packet-boat for the conveyance of passengers from London
to Gravesend should be entitled to demand more than
fld; ,cao
.passenger. They considered, that whether
the rdoa'il by wl':'l.;ti :hit; tetp,tqn;.ytd was propelled by
oars, by wind, or by ettam; ri4!?e, no difie,renFe, incithat a
steam-boat was a packet-boat strictly watliin fhi !.reanhig
of the act, and, fortunately for the public, subject t =tare
gulationa. Their complaint was not against the fare as
exorbitant, provided that a proper degree of speed was used,
and that the company dealt fairly with the public and the
gf Gravesend. But no sooner had the company
driven the c't ctit pf the market, than they began
to slacken their passe. The ap"plintl complained that a
bad steam-boat was supplied to the place, and iliai fl±ey tied
been nearly six hours in coming to town by it. They Ina
consulted the rulers of the Waterman's Company on the
subject, and they were clearly of opinion that the stoam-
heata earne within the act.
The Lti.in MA 76:g granted a summons to the parties for
the purpose of trying the questiM-:. Yeelerday was ap-
pointed as the day, but further time was re4uatAd ; end
it was intimated that the parties wished to appear by
Counsel : further time was therefore granted.
It may be observed, as an instance of the increased ra-
Lidi of communication, that a passage of six hours from
oileati xthich is now complained of as re-
markably dilatory, wai, tf4ttit years ago, considered
unnsually rapid.
d. Doris, driver of one of the Edmonton bE3giy, Mae
charged with having committed an assault upon a passenger.
The defendant was held to bail, to answer for the assault
Se-*ons.
Thoniai Atne, the -olketing clerk of Messrs. Royds
awl Brockbank, BracktVtliAidl! fee/nay oral remanded for
further examination, on a charge of fri&e.llement.

GUILDHALL.—THE BEADLE OF THE PAgtsii.-Ort
Tuesday a Mr. George John Jackson applied for a sum-
reion.'s against Snow, the beadle of St. Paul's, for ill-treat'-
ing a poof., ftuit woman on Ludgate-hill. A summons
was granted, and the cage axed to be heard yesterday.
Bridget Ryan' in complaint stated, that on Tuesday,
abotit twelve o'clock at noon, she was steigtg her fruit on
LudOte-bilt, when the beadle, Snow, came up', awl, with-
out more to do, rted her repeatedly in the side with his
stick, from which she is no* rill black and blue; and, not
contented with that, he kicked at het bucket and upset it,
by which all her fruit was tumbled into the ketinel, spoiled
with mud, trod under foot by passengers, and crushed with
carriage *heals, Being plums, they were rendered useless,
and out of two sisfel of fruit, for which she had paid Ba.,
she had not realised one sivence. The loss had left her
helpless, as she had lost her stock, and had not the means
to i'efils4:e it:
Mr. Jackson cerreborafed the testimony of Bridget, as
far as the assault went.

Snow in defence, said that he thought the gentleman
interfered;
d a
r:particularnd if h
friend
o had
not
te
encouragedlrisli
, or h e
the
woman,
wh
u haveo
was nothing but an Irish vagrant, she had gone away quiet
erWugh ; hilt as coon as Mr. Jackson took her part she
became ineufferebly abusive.
A person from the cro,rd in the room called out that
snow had been taken before the Vestry on two similar
charges, about four months ago, and the s'estry had, after
a strict investigation, exonerated him of cruelty, and rather
commended his conduct.
Alderman AINSLIE said that it was difficult to decide
among the parties on the question. He, however, recom-
mended Snoic to retire and compromise the matter by
giving the woman some compensation for her fruit.
They did retire, but Mr. jackgon coon returned, and
stated that Snow had refused to give any cottipeueation.
The ALDERMAN told Mr. Jackson in that case he might
complain in the proper quarter.
Mr. Jackson was not willing to proceed farther. So
thus the matter ended, leaving the woman to seek her
remedy.
MARLBOROUGII,STREET.—Thoinaa Higgins, a
fishmonger, who has resided for many years in Walker's-
court, Barwick-street, St. James's, carrying on that busi-
ness, and who has been in custody for above a fortnight
upon a charge of maliciously stabbing with intent to kill
or maim a man named Killdillon, one of the inspectors of
St. James's parish, was yesterday brought before Mr. ROE,
the sitting Magistrate, for final examination.
Win. Killdillon, who had hitherto been confined at St,
George's Hospital since the wound was inflicted on him,
and the nature of which rendered him unable id attend and
give his evidence, now appeared with his head bound tap,
and being sworn, deposed that he is one of the inspectors of
nuisances for the parish of St. James, and in that capacity
has had occasion two or three times to caution the prisoner,
whom he has only known about six months, against placing
his fish and other things, as he had been accustomed to do,
on the foot-pavement in front of his shop in Walker's-
court. On Friday, the let inst., deponent was informed
that the prisoner had that morning uttered some very vio-
lent threats against him, and had expressed a determination
to take away his life; and hearing that the prisoner was
then at a public-house called the Black Lion, in Berwick-
, street, the deponent went to that house about one o'clock
in the afternoon, accompanied by Williams, a street-keeper,
and there, in a back parlour, he saw the prisoner, and asked
him if he was the man who had said that he would take
away his (deponent's) life; and the prisoner replied that he
was, and that by the Almighty God he would never rest
until he did take his life. Deponent then quitted the
Black Lion, and walked as far as the end of Walker's-
court, followed close behind by Williams, the street-keeper,
and there deponent leaned against one of the posts in the
street, and was considering what was the beet course for him
to adopt towards the prisoner, and whether he had not
better come to this office and procure a warrant against
him; and while leaning thus, and thinking on the subject,
he suddenly received a violent blow on the side of the face,
and turning round on the instant, he saw the prisoner close
by his side, with a knife in his hand, and which Williams
the street-keeper had at the moment grasped, to prevent the
prisoner repeating the blow ; deponent also seized the pri-
soner, and did not at first know that he was himself wound-
ed, until he saw the blood pouring down his person ; he
then lett the prisoner secured in the hands of Williams and
others, and proceeded to a neighbouring surgeon, Mr. '
Dixon, to have his wound dressed, which being done, he
was removed to St. George's Hospital, where he has been
confined ever since.

John Williams, the street-keeper, deposed that lie accom-
panied the complainant to the Black Lion on the Ist inst.
Deponent afterw►wards walked with the complainant as far
as the end of Walker's-court, where the latter stood for a
moment against a post, as if thinking on something,
when suddenly deponent observed the prisoner running
towards the complainant with a large knife in his hand,
and on seeing him, deponent called oat Oh Lord, here
he comes with a knife," and almost on the same instant he
saw the prisoner strike the complainant on the side of
the face with the knife.

Samuel Lindley, a shopkeeper in the neighbourhood of
Walker's-court, said to the prisoner, " I am afraid, Hig-
gins, you have done it at last ;" and the prisoner re-
plied, " I hope I have. Do yon think I have killed the
Orange rascal—the Irish Orange —?" De-
ponent answered, " I do not know, but I fear you have
done too much.
Mr. ROE inquired if the knife with which the wound
was inflicted was forthcoming?
One of the constables said that it was not : the knife
was one which the prisoner had snatched up from a butcher's
block in the street ; and the butcher, who had since got it
back, refused to part with it.
The prisoner, a short thick-set man, about 60 years of
age, was then fully committed to Newgate for trial on the
capital charge under Lord Ellenborough's Act, and the
witnesses bound over to prosecute.
Both the prisoner and the prosecutor are natives of Ire-
land, but of different religious persuasion..

QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday Byers, the informer,
attended by his witness (Rawlins), appeared before Mr.
Maartiorr, to sopport a new species of information against

HATTON-GARVEP.,-..,Yesterday James Harris,
known by the title of Long iets, surd the same individual
who about two years since was senteneeif lo.cienth for robbing
Lord Cowper's steward, but being subsequently forrod to be
innocent of the crime laid to his charge, was reprinted and
see tit :il..4.erty, and a man named John Pellier, who ctafed
himself to be a ethrrter and glazier, residing in the neigh-
bourhood of Somers-toe t?,, were placed at the bar of this
office, before Messrs. ROOERS arAi Ss.,mox, charged upon
suspicion with being concerned in the Mewing burglary
and robbery:—
Late on Tuesday night, or early on Wednesday neterni.ng
the !eternises of a Mr. Samuel Scanlan, a tailor, No. el,
Charlkn-streeti SOWN-town, were broken into and robbed
of cloths, kersepiee, &c,, to the amount of 160/. The
premises were first sliseortted to have been plundered by
the watchman on the beat about O'rie efekock on Wednesday
morning, and he instantly reported fhe circumstance to
Teasdale, the watch-house-keeper, who went to make in-
Caliries ; but being unable to effect any information, he
fochei rrp the shop, and took his departure. In the morn-
ing, Mr, Stns an, whose dwelling-house is in the neigh-
bourhood of the Perm's-park, arrived and learned the loss
he had sustained. Tettcsltile had in the meantime ascer-
tained that the prisoner Harris drove a coach very near the
prosecutor's house, about half-past ten o'clock on Tuesday
night, and that he was subsequently seen mlking in the
Polygon with two men, whose appearance and manner
were calculated to create suspicion.
Harris (lid not deny being in the place alluded to with a
coach at the time described, but did not consider it a
matter of great suspicion for a coachman to drive his coach
to any particular spot, and alight and talk to a friend or
two. The other prisoner also treated the matter very lightly.
Mr. Roeaas, boweves, thought it right to remand them
both to a future day.
L AMBETH-STREET...--PA RENTAL
Yesterday two young girls, one about 17 and the other
20, were sabered into the office, accompanied by several
respectable-looking persons, at whose instance, it appeared,
they came to make the complaint. Both were in floods
of teats, and OR being asked by Mr. Wyarr what it was
that requited the magisterial interference, a decent-looking
man came forward and said that it was for the protection
of the lan' against the cruelty and ill-treatment of their
father. He had almost starved them, and whenever they
asked for food, he beat them mast severely.
The Rev. Mr. MATHIAS asked was this the fact ? The
Person—lndeed it is Sir. The neighbours have pitied the
unfortunate young women, and seeing the brutal ill usage
with which they have been treated, have now come forward
to try and Flare them.
Mr. Mantras—Was there not a complaint made before
on this subject ? The Person—There was, Sir ; hut his
cruelty towards his children has not abated, and he now
treats them in the roost barbarous manner. If they ask
for a bit of bread, he beats them, and so cruelly that at the
paeoent moment both their arms and legs are bruised and
discoloured,
Mr. MATH think I know the fellow. This is not
the first complaint against him.—Tlic Person : It is not,
Sir.

Mr. MAxmAs—Then a warrant shall be issued against
him.

Tl:e father here entered the office, and said—l am told
my daughters are here to make a complaint against me.
I am ready to meet it.
Igr: Wit Arr, to the younger girl—How old are you?—
Girl : Eighteen, Sir ; and my mother has been dead for
some time.

Mc. Wa-arr—Were you beaten and starved ?—The
I'ersen : She was both the one and the other, that I'll
swear to.
MATHIAS-This unnatural parent is a purser in
the naiy, I understand," and has It3l. a quarter. If he
does not chatege his conduct, I will apply to the Admiralty.
The Father—Dodt, Sir, they arc light girls, and keep bad
company.
The Person—lt is a lie ; they arc well conducted girls ;
but they have a had father.
The MaGisradm.---.We believe him so, and for the as-
sault swtan to we convict biro in the penalty of Ili., and in
defatit of payment to remaid !pr three months in the
House of Correction.
The daughter—Oh don't, your Woet,2lin, for God's,
sake do not. He is our father, and we are to for-
get and forgive all, do not, do not, good gentleroes2t ',end
him to prison.
At an after period of the evening we believe he was libe-
rated, on paying the fine.
THAMES-OFFICE.—Mary Ann Morley, a decent.
looking woman, was yesterday brought before Mr. BAL-
LANTINE, charged with a robbery.
She occasionally engaged in the house of Mr. John Mor-
gan Thomas, Shadwell, as charwoman. lion-ever, upon
the occasion of her latest visite, a variety of property wax
missed, and a brother of Mr. Thomas was placed in a
hogshead to keep an eye upon her movements en Wednes-
day, when again employed in the house. During that day
this witness observed her (when no poison to all appear-
ance in her imagination had any view of her actions) ap-
proach the money-till and abstract some silver, which she
pocketed. She also, in a similar manner, disposed of
several small parcels of sugar. She was immediately
pounced upon, and fainted away.
The:woman wept bitterly, and piteously implored mercy,
as she had four helpless young children entirely dependent
upon her for support. She said it was her first offence.
Mr. BALLANTINE was afraid not.
The prisoner again repeated it was but her first offence ;
and begged Mr. Thomas, dropping upon her knees, to have
pity upon her little children.
Mr. Thomas, upon this appeal, appeared affected, and
said, " I will not prosecute, Mr. Ballantine ; I would rather
not. Let her go : she has these helpless children, who
will be thrown upon the world : give her an admonition,
and in God's name let her go."
Mr. BALLANTINE-1 cannot do it, Sir; I have no
power to do such a thing.
Mr. Thomas--In mercy to her children.
Mr. BALLANTINE-That I cannot help ; it cannot weigh
with me. If my. OWN brother were there, I must aied
would commit him, if the accusation were made out. I
would rather not commit this woman, indeed svetild soonei
pay the money myself, but I have no alternative left to me.
The woman was then committed to N
TOWN- HALL.—We stated the case about
.a weefokunidnebel,
of an intelligent child of 12 years of age bnuf's, between;
Wilkinson, the watch-house-keeper of St..Saivnio
St. Saviour's
twelve and one at night, sleeping on a hulk
away
church-yard, who confessed to having. run . trim h„
rflose of gratifying an irre-
parents in Belfast, for the r
sistible desire to see London, after helping himself to three
notes on the Belfast bank of the value of 3/. 10s., as pro-
vision for his journey; and of his being placed by order of
the Magistrate under the special care of the keeper of tin
Borough Compeer, till his father could be male acquainted
etvgate.
6.
with his situation. This morning a letter was received b‘
Mr. Newman, the chief clerk, from Mr. Patrick O'Neal
the father, conveying his most grateful acknowledgment,
for the information afforded him from the office, as well a,
through the medium of the Times, and fer his child's

and twenty-horse power, mid that the number o
engines in these cities exceed a hundred, whilst
there arc only twenty in operation here, and those
only in activity for a part (7f the year, it may be
easily seen that Lille sinks sadly in the com-
parison 03 to quantity of manufacturing cm-
quality of the work marked
'Phis is mani
sfbPe!s:tt'vearn, feelirwo°hrrig:ilecl7lti°.llllaleiretireillgiciloiont:fhesori:)irnitthye. a manulactlrrect
same fineness
a 3 English cloths of the present day, nor,
indeed, are they equal to those which w ere-
manufactured in France some Tears ago. Whc-
ther it be from superiority of English machinery,
or from whatever other cause it may proceed, it
is certain, even on the admission of the French
manufacturers themselves, that they do not reach
that extreme fineness of thread in the spinning
of the cotton which has been attained in Eng-
land. For the last two or three years, this branch
of business has rather declined than /advanced at
ille.
f
t
tlLoi
wns ot of CBboeemlgriluelanaiir:dt:t
hweohfislpsli:anin:iitn
spinning
Ghent .and telifac-
tories of cotton manufacture have been of ia..`c in
constant activity and growing-prosperity.
The manufacture of thread or Nottingham
lace of late years bas been extensively established
here ; and Lille has obtained throughout France
an eminent celebrity in this article. Without
groper inquiry into the cause of this celebrity,
one may be disposed to believe that it was
merited, and ought to be attributed to the cre-
ditable industry of the inhabitants. But it is no
such thing ; and I have been assured that more
than half of the lace which is sold as the manu-
facture of Lille is of English workmanship. in-
deed, this remark equally extends to the lace
manufactured at Lille and the larger quantity-
that is smuggled into it, for all the proprietors VI
machines for making lace are exclusively Eng-
lishmen. In some instances (but rarely) they
employ French workmen, who are far less expert
in working the machines, who receive consider-
ably less wages, and who arc kept in igno-
rance as to the mode of regulating the machine:,:
should they get out of order. These ouvrie7s
arc merely made acquainted with so much
knowledge of the business as enables them to
keep the machine in action. Their masters
were originally working mechanics ; but by habits

of industry, and by the grst large demands for ;.4
new manufacture which 6( introduced to th

Lney in,
country, they have raised themselves into consi-
derable capitalists. Their elevation by means
successful industry is unquestionably•creditabie
to them ; but it. cannot, I believe, be denied

that that elevation is greatly sustained by snnitir-

' -
filing. Several large seizures of -Nottinghani
lace have been made, yet it is imported in the
large quantities I have mentioned, and it is likely
cr,,,,e.cirti,iiila,ichitnioeelis)ip,tirifnotoicriieessitisiolloiptobofvreetsarmiytiinuoepglati:grvletiexntdoi:twr_ieshill'filbaos
crtli,i
eel it*.titi ilyee.: present,li,il;ii .
The Nottingham lace is first imported into Hol-
land. This is easily done at the free port of
Ostend, and in other Belgic ports. When a
continental lodgment has been once obtained,
the passing of the frontier alone remains to con-
ydavlerieds
stachsde i smuggledaacned isw eillolwell-disciplined
ci
cumbrous
ilu,eliiliiitibietrdoo
uitirsil:o'cpiliootrohtfi
nosgfn,iliu'argalgi:,ieceiet
in„:? easiiiliy ealoinicoesatl
aiitly
°n
quantity their
andptehrastonisn'ax, be
re..l extended line of frontier, part of
im-
portci:biireclidit.is itlmpcletly watched, offers but a trifling
impediment to the smuggler, in comparison to
the irresistible obstacles presented by our Engli.sli
water-guards and our English Custom-housf,
scrutineers at the Thames-stairs, at Dover, and at
about. eighty-lour
lace arc more highly prized, and receive nearly
population, than
tßrighton.
hou\lVdinilestnr, th':tsguobluedvitrioje.hmaanilcusfa(ci'
perhau.;
fsrpaiiilnse;rs.
the
latter The formerabout
.seafrina n from 40
week.4o t t..) ;:.) 0
double the wages, of mechanics who arc cotton-
, English resident.;
here, in proportion to the
populationthoTushaend;
mechanics, or pro-
in any city or town in France. There arc no
English families of gentry or the higher classes to
of
there
aoric Lillekwe is
be met with, and those . our countrymen who
are exclusively
previous
of small manufacturing estahlishnienL.
previous to the Revolution, it was otherwise.
Line was a favourite residence for English- fami-
lies; but it is DO
reside here
longer so, nor from its enemas-
i„gconiniercial character is it likely to become so
again to those who •
live, as most English ladies
and gentlemen do
round of gay
society and of light amusements.
There is a theatre here of commodious size ;
but the attendance and the performances arc in-
different ; there is also a public library, which
possesses some curious works, specimens of
early printing, but it is deficient in works of
modern literature. 'l.le II
churches merit no par-
ticular mention for architectural beauty. A large
room in the College of the town is devoted to a
Picture Gallery, which is retrieved frain insipidity
by a splendid painting by Rubens, and a wild
rocky landscape, of Salvator Rosa, in his happiest
style.

Wheat, which has been partially injured by
being carried in a moist state, may be in a great measure
restored by judicious kiln 'drying.

ETCHINGS FROM LIFE.--No. VII.

A RAINY DAY IN LONDON.

Life has few things worse than a settled un-
flinching rainy day. It persuadeth to olives and
1,,A0 bottles of port, sickness at .night, and soda-
water next morning. It induces lethargy and
hypochondriasm ; a bullet in the brains, suspension
from the bed-post, or arsenic in a tea-cup,. In
London it is the., ne plus ultra of abomination.
the Thames olfactory,
The air is full of fog;
the streets indescribable. The very shops them-
,selves wear a conscious Look of melancholy and
desertion, and the eaves-drops from the windows
fall with horrid monotony on the pavement, or
noiselessly into the neck of some gentleman who
has forgotten his umbrella. The hackney
coachmen, with a wisp of dingy straw round
their hats, and a bit of canvas on their •Shoul-.
tiers; glance from their box on either side the
street, with faces symptomatic of an over-
charge. Do not engage them, you will be
cheated if you do. In the crowded city streets
umbrellas wage war with umbrellas; elegance is
dispensed with, amenity is at a discount. Ladies
whose legs . border on obesity feel shocked at
the idea of display, but the happy owners of
well-proportioned ankles are readily reconciled
to the impropriety. At the corner of Russell-
squar—that degraded Paria piece of locality—
wlaere gales are apt to congregate, like thieves
remind a Police-office, a gentleman in unavoid-
able chit-chat with two ladies whom be has just
Ind, feels his umbrella turned suddenly inside
out ; in his haste to remedy this affliction, his hat
is blown ofr(if he wears a wig this is an additional
.atisfaction) and he stands painfully vacillating be-
tween his politeness and the necessities of his sit u-
ation.—Alas for human nature, he has com-
promised his gentility and bolted 1 Abiit—excessit
—evasit—erupit—full gallop after the abstracted
beaver, which reaches Chief Justice Best's Area,
in Bedford-square, just two minutes before him.
In walking along Pall-mall with a friend, you
;ice before you the slim figure of some fair un-
known, with petticoats just sufficiently raised to
call forth your warmest admiration. Unluckily
she overhears you, turns round, and discovers the
face of your aunt by the mother's Side, h devout
old maid, who had preciously conceived high
notions ofraur morality, and from whom you had
great exFatations. At the theatre all is gin=
the Cl(awn strives in vain to grin, the audience to
app' and : Harlequin is dyspeptic, Columbine has
gut the tooth-ache. Towards midnight this gloom
degenerates intoa hopeless drizzle, the fogdeepei,...,
the West End-looks disconsolate, and a liglit' from
a front room in BrutOn-street casts_ a apelanC.koly
gleam across the pavement. It is Lard
lord's lamp, he is dating a despatch
bon. By midnight the rain has becor4 „ta„
ract, the watchman a walking spo*,
a modern Heraclitus ; so-fatigue-a with the day's-
monotony, and uneheered,,,teen Glzsgow
punch, you saunter sullsity to . bed,' are seized
with the night-mare, and dream of the-devil.
(" A Rainy Day iu theCountry"te-aiorefiv.)