The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Your frequent advocacy of the right of the
poor to enjoyment, as well as the rich, induces me to
address you. _ __

As there is now so much talk of new parks and pro-
menades for the people in town and in country, I think
we ought to see that the people do enjoy what at present
they have a right to. This morning, going into St.
James's Park (the inclosure), two men were before me,
apparently mechanics; they had not, however, proceeded
many yards, when they were very unceremoniously
turned back by an official. They had no baskets of tools
with them, bags, or anything else in the shape of goods.
A gentleman passing at the time, and I suppose feeling
the poor men were treated harshly, asked the gatekeeper
why he turned the men back. He was anything but
civil to him, but said he acted under orders. On another
question or two being put, he (the official) said he had
a " discretionary power," and acted accordingly. Dis-
cretionary power in a gate-keeper ! Yes, so far that
that power be exercised not to admit dogs, all very good;
but let us not admit discretion further. Two men
dressed in fustian are refused admittance into the in-
closure, while two thieves, if dressed, pass the gate
without challenge.
I am an assistant draper, and perhaps we may hear of
a rule next week to prohibit young men from going in
who wear white cravats.—l remain, your constant reader,
Fleet-street, Sept. 30, 1844. VERAX.

THE. CESAREAN OPERATION.—The following ac-
count of one of the most extraordinary occurrences in
the annals of sporting has been sent us by a highly re-
spectable correspondent, Mr. John Lufkin, of Frating :
On Wednesday, the 11th inst., I went to Little Bentley
for the purpose of having a day's shooting, and having
put up my horse and cart proceeded in my pursuit, and
after having several hours' good sport I was making the
best of my way back, when, as I was crossing the last
field, up jumped a hare before me, which I shot, and on
picking her up I took my knife and made an incision
under the belly, to let the lad who was with me carrying
my game take out the intestines (which is a thing I fre-
quently do). On this occasion, however, I found three
young ones, which I saw frost their coat and general ap-
pearance were very near the time of their birth. I made
my lad carry them and put them on straw at the bottom
of my cart; and asl rode home the sun was shining very
bright and warm, so that by the time I had proceeded
two or three miles the young hares were quite dry and
crawling about the bottom of my cart. As I passed
through the village of Great Bentley I gave them to a
blacksmith whose name is Almond, who I knew was fond
of bringing up all kinds of young animals, and he immedi-
ately procured some new milk and gave them, from a
bottle with a quill put through the cork, and by which
he is successfully rearing them: he is supplied with what
milk he wants from the Rev. Mr. Heath's, who lives
just upon the spot, and they take about half-a-pint
daily, beside vegetable food, which they begin to eat
freely. I saw them myself on Wednesday last, quite
plump and healthy, and I should say quite as large as
they would have been had they been yeaned and reared
in the natural way. You will find from the dates that
they are now just a fortnight old.—Essex Standard.
DEATH OF A RECENT PRISONER IN THE HOUSE
OF CORRECTION.—Yesterday Mr. W. Baker, jun., held
an inquest at the White Horse, Goswell-street-road, on
the body of Mary Ann Daly, aged 22, recently a pri-
soner in the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields. It
appeared that on Thursday week last deceased was dis-
charged from the House of Correction, in which she had
been imprisoned a month, for disorderly conduct on the
streets, within the jurisdiction of the Clerkenwell Police-
court. Half the term of her imprisonment she passed in
the prison infirmary, her ostensible malady being palpi-
tation of the heart ; and although Mr. Wakfield, the
prison surgeon, wished her to remam until she should be
convalescent, she would not, and left on the day above
named. She was accompanied by one of the prison
matrons, and taken to her lodgings, No. 14, Peartree-
street, St. Luke's, and was about to become an inmate of
st. Bartholomew's Hospital, when she died on Wednes-
day last. Mr. Mungo Park, a surgeon, who had opened
the body, said deceased died from inflammation of the
lungs and mortification of the extremities, caused by a
disease which shame prevented her from discovering to
the prison surgeons. Verdict in accordance with the
medical testimony.
DARING ROBBERY.—Yesterday morning, about a
quarter past eight o'clock, a daring robbery was oom-
nutted in the shop of Mr. Samuel Kilby, general dealer,
2, Talbot-court, Gracechurch-street. t Three teen, re-
spectably dressed, and one of them carrying iv dark
coloured cloak or coat over his left arm, were seen by the
waiter at the White Lion Tavern, in Talbot-court, to
atop when they got abreast of Mr. Kilby's shop ; but, as
they had the appearance of travellers, no particular
notice was taken of them. It appears, however, that
one of the party went into the shop, leaving his two
companions at the door, and purchased a sheet of letter-
paper from Mrs. Kilby, who was the only person serving
in the shop at the time, the husband being absent on
business. Mr. Kilby has been in the habit of keeping
his cash-box in the private sitting-room on the shop-
floor, placed on the mantel-piece over the fire, or upon a
table in the room. It was on the table yesterday morning
when the paper customer entered. On his leaving the
shop, his accomplices entered, and asked to be served
with two sheets of letter-paper, which was done. After
they had left the shop about half an hour, it was dis-
covered that the cash-box, containing about 461., had
beeen stolen. The thieves appeared to be about forty
years of age. No trace of them has been got. No
doubt, the theft was committed while the two customers
were being served.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the evening of Wednesday
last a very melancholy affair occurred at Dollerie, two
and a half miles east from Crieff, arising from the in-
cautious use of fire-arms. It would appear that two
young lads, one of them the eldest son of Mr. Mill, who
occupies Dollerie-house, and the other also in his ser-
vice, had both gone out in the dusk of the evening, for
the purpose of shooting a roe, which was proving rather
destructive by its frequent attempts upon some of the
corn stooks. Mr. Mill's son was to start the roe, while
the other lad was to use the gun, which he had loaded ;
both separated for a time, and while the former was en-
gaged beating up at a bush, or small thicket, the latter
made his appearance, and seeing the bushes moving,
thoughtlessly concluded that the roe was there, and im-
mediately fired off the piece. His error was now, how-
ever, lamentably apparent ; the young man lay upon
the ground in great distress, having received the con-
tents of the gun in his abdomen. Intimation of the ac-
cident was immediately conveyed to the house, when
Mr. Mill had his son carried home, and a messenger in-
stantly dispatched to Crieff for a surgeon. In a short
time Dr. Shaw, with Messrs. Leitch and Maxton, sur-
geons, were in attendance ; but the wound was of so
fatal a nature that all medical skill was of no avail, and
he lingered on, enduring great sufferings, till next day,
when they terminated in death. The deceased was six-
teen years of age, and by this sad event a large and re-
spectable family have been plunged into the deepest sor-
row. The boy has since been taken into custody, and
examined before the Procurator-Fiscal • but was ulti-
mately released, until further inquiry be made on the
subject.—Perth Paper.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.
Yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, a
young woman, whose name is at present unknown, was
run over, whilst crossing Westminster-bridge, by a cart
loaded with hay, which was going towards the Middlesex
side. On being takeU up she vas found to be dreadfully
injured, and blood was streaming from her person. She
was immediately conveyed to the Westminster Hospital,
but she expired on the way.

LITERATURE.

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HISTORY OF TEN YEARS.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1844.
The present Part of this History of France, by M.
Louis Blanc, commences with the Royalist insurrec-
tion of the Duchess de Berri in 1832, and closes with
the trial of Armand Carrel for sedition, before the
House of Peers, in the year 1832. The history is
written with remarkable spirit and eloquence, and in
a tone of bitterness, as respects Louis Philippe, that
proves the author to be a most inveterate opponent of
that crafty monarch's system of policy. Not less de-
termined is he in his prejudices against the Bourgeoisie,
to, whose malign influence he attributes in a great de-
gree much of the humiliation which he represents
France as having endured since the establishment of
the Throne of the Barricades by the Revolution of
1830. M. Blanc is a decided Republican of the school
of Armand Carrel—a school which during the last six
or eight years has been subject to considerable fluc-
tuations in point of moral and numerical influence,
and is now, we believe, at a lower ebb in France than
it has been at any time since the accession of the pre-
sent King to the throne. The author's account of the
rise, progress, and final extinction of the insurrection
of the Duchess of Berri, and more especially of the
sanguinary riot that took place in Paris during the
funeral of General Lamarque, when the Orleans
dynasty was within an ace of being overthrown, and a
republic proclaimed on the ruins ;—these matters are
detailed with much graphic vigour by M. Blanc, and
are enlivened by characteristic anecdotes which greatly
add to their interest. We quote his portrait of Mar-
shal Maison, and of the course of conduct pursued
when nominated French Ambassador to the Court of
St. Petersburgh :
" Habitually rough and abrupt from his soldier's life,
but retaining all the shrewdness of an intelligent peasant,
he had no sooner arrived at St. Petersburg than he
formed the resolution of taking his stand there as an in-
dependent plain dealing, plain spoken man. his first in-
terview with the Emperor passed off auspiciously. A
number of Russian officers and noblemen were waiting
in an ante-room, where were also the Marshal's two aides-
de-camp, MM. Delarue and Chasseloup Laubat ; but,
though the former had before visited Russia, and formed
an intimacy with several persons of the Court, none of
them ventured to recognise him until they had taken
their cue from the looks of the Emperor. By and bye,
their master entered, looked graciously at the two aides-
de-camp, advanced towards M. Delarue, whom he had
known as aide-de-camp to the Duke de Ragusa, and
taking him apart into the embrasure of a window, con-
versed with him in a marked tone of favour. The next
moment, M. Delarue was the object of the most eager
and universal attentions ; everybody came up to him,
everybody asked him questions, everybody remembered
that he had seen him on a former occasion, everybody
remembered that M. Delarue had honoured him with his
friendship. This scene, the very puerility of which is
fruitful of reflections, distinctly announced that the
French Embassy was about to assume, at the Court of
St. Petersburgh, a better attitude than before, And so it
turned out, for the position of Marshal Maison, from the
very first day, grew more and more important. Certain
private circumstances contributed to this effect, which, at
first sight, might seem to have been calculated to produce
quite a different result. One day, at a grand dinner
party given by the French Ambassador, the conversation
having fallen upon the first wars of the Revolution, the
Marshal found occasion, incidentally and without the
least affectation, to mention that he was the son of a
peasant of Epinay. It is easy to imagine the effect pro-
duced upon a circle of aristocrats, nurtured in idle
vanities, by an admission such as this, made with per-
fect ease of manners, nay, with the pride of a man justly
proud of having owed all to himself'. The Emperor was
very speedily made acquainted with what bad taken
place, and it probably increased his esteem for the
Marshal. Even the very faults of the Marshal were of
service to him. He had retained, from his soldier's life,
a license of manners which he took no pains to conceal,
and age had not extinguished in him the fires of youth.
At St. Petersburgh, a passion for a dancer took posses-
sion of him, and he disdained to make a secret of it.
The imprudence of this was great ; for Nicholas, careful
of his dignity, affected extreme austerity. But he liked
the Marshal's open ways, his military frankness ; and
the escapade was not only overlooked, but there was
established between the Emperor and the Marshal an
intimacy, wherein a freedom of conversation was per-
mitted, which no Russian courtier, however great his
credit at Court, ever dreamed of aspiring to. There is
a severe chastisement which pride in high places re-
ceives at its own bands—ennui ; and the haughtiest
sovereigns are so much the wearied slaves of their own
lofty and isolated majesty, that, to relax a little, they
are sometimes compelled to descend. Whether from
this weariness of supreme rank, or from exceptional
tolerance, the Emperor came at last to lend an affable -
ear even to the most free spoken temerities of Marshal
Maison, and the latter profited, as ambassador, by the
influence which was accorded him as soldier."

MEDICAL REFORM BILL.—CHATHAM, SEPT. 30.
The members of the medical profession resident in the
borough of Chatham convened a meeting for the purpose
of petitioning the House of Commons in the next session
of Parliament, against the Medical Reform Bill pro-
posed by Sir James Graham, when it was contended that
the Bill in question would be productive of the most
disastrous results, both to the medical profession and the
public, by opening the practice of medicine to all un-
qualified persons without restraint. A petition was then
drawn up, and the chairman, Mr. Archibald Robertson,
submitted it to the members; it was unanimously agreed
on, and has since been transmitted to the Right Hon.
G. S. Byng, the Member for the borough. A copy of
the petition has also been forwarded to the Members of
'West Kent, with a request to support its prayer.
BONDED GOODS.—It having been discovered upon
a recent inspection of the goods deposited in the bonding
premises at one of the quays legally approved for the
deposit of goods under bond, that the landing marks
upon many of the packages were nearly obliterated, and
that great difficulty has in consequence been experienced
in ascertaining the identity of the goods, the Commis-
sioners of the Customs have directed that the landing
surveyors and other officers do take care in future that
the initials of the importing vessel and the master, the
date and the weight, be marked in a more legible manner
on all packages of bonded goods at the time of the same
being landed,

FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.—On Monday even-
ing there was a numerous meeting, principilly composed
of the operative classes, held at the Guildhall, Newcastle,
the object being to petition the throno for a recal of
Frost, Williams, and Jones from banishment.—Tyne
Mercury.

CARICATURING THE CLERGY.—" I believe," said
Lord Eldon to Mrs. Forster, " I hare preached more
sermons than any one who is not a clergyman. My
father always had the Church service read on the Sun-
day evenings, and a sermon after it. Harry and I used
to take it in turns to read the prayers or to preach. We
always bad a shirt put on over our clothes, to answer
for a surplice!"—Twiss's Life of Lord Eldon.

SOUVENIR FOR A SAILOR.—" What can I give you
for a keepsake, my dearest John ?" sobbed out a senti-
mental girl to her scapegrace lover, the Hon. Jack
V----, about to join his ship in warlike times. " Give,
my dearest angel," cried Jack, in some confusion," why,
why, you haven't such a thing as a 5/. note about you, I
suppose ?"—Aberdeen .Herald.
The King of Prussia has been graciously pleased to
confer on Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper the gold medal
for science and literature, in token of his Majesty's high
approbation of the " Proverbial Philosophy."
FOLKESTONE.—We have much pleasure in being
able to announce a continuation of increase, ,not only in
the steam traffic at this port, but also in the arrival of
several vessels of large tonnage, two withSilbout 14,000
sleepers for the railway, besides large balks of timber,
and others laden with coke, coal, salt, &c., the whole
of which will tend materially to benefit- the
South-Eastern Railway Company as well as the
town. When it is more generally known that vessels
drawing 15 or 16 feet of water can enter our harbour,
there is no doubt but that many owners of ships who
have been hitherto ignorant of the advantage our port
holds out to them will be induced to send large freights.
Our passenger traffic to and from Boulogne by the
steam-packets now averages about 1,000 to 1,200 each
week, being a considerable increase, not only upon past
weeks, but also upon the corresponding weeks of the last
year, when the novelty of a passage from this place aid
Boulogne induced many persons to visit France who
otherwise, perhaps, wouldnot have done so.—Canterbury
Journal.

LAZARETTR ESTABLISHMENT IN SOUTHAMPTON
WATER.—The Mayor has received an intimation, that
the application from the Town Council to her Majesty's
Treasury, praying for the establishment of a Lazarette
in the Southampton Water, has at length been acceded
to. The Lazarette vessel will arzive here on the sth of
October, and there will be accommodation for the recep-
tion of 8,000 packages. This will be a very important
advantage to the commerce of the port, the want of a
Lazarette establishment having forced the Peninsular
Company to send their ships with freights from the
Levant to Standgate Creek, and thence to London, in-
stead of discharging them here. There will be, of
course, a considerable establishment of officials in con-
nexion with the Lazarette.—Hants Independent.
EXPORTATION OF HORSES.-Mr. Dyson, the Lon-
don dealer, being commissioned to purchase forty-two
brood carriage mares for the Prussian Government,
twenty of his selection having arrived at Colley's Para-
gon Inn stables, were shipped on Saturday last, by Herr
Von Nathurius, per the Transit, Captain Dickinson, for
Hamburgh, en route for Hundisburg. The remaining
twenty-two, selected from the horses assembling for
Howden fair, arrived at the Paragon stables yesterday,
and are intended to be shipped to-morrow for the same
destination. The demand for English horses still con-
tinues in Prussia. Mr. Furstenberg, of Berlin, is again
here to attend the fair ; and Mr. Mon Clappison, of
Filling, is purchasing for Mr. Bamberger, the other
principal Prussian dealer. A party of stall-masters,
from the stables of his Majesty the King of Denmark,
are also here selecting entire horses for the royal stud.—
Hull Packet.

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