The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-19 00:00:00

THE SPEAKING FRENCH GRAMMAR,
By J. V. DOUVILLE,

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC AT THE

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.

It must' be quite refreshing to the starved and
hungry amateur and hunter of Operas to be enabled
to obtain an occasional meal of music, that he may
be prevented from being famished outright, during
the continuance of the alarming dearth which at
the present period prevails to an extent perhaps
without a parallel in the recent history of music.
Metaphor apart, we are fully borne out in this
belief, after contemplating the appearance of the
elegant audience which last night filled the English
Opera HOuse; 'in order to witness the second at-
tempt. of the pupils bejouging to the Royal Aca-
demy perform " L'lnganno Felice," a semi-
seria production of the brilliant ROSSIN/, "'re-
presented 'experimentally," says our book of the
performance—intended, we presume, as a modest
propitiation of the indulgence of the auditory.
However much such a feeling may be deemed most
commendable, it did not appear to our imagination
to be in the slightest degree requisite. consider-
ing the increased difficulty necessarily attendant
upon the embodying of a- serious drama, to say no-
thing of the pupils having to execute this task un-
aided by DE BEGNIs' very powerN histrionic
talent, it is quite impossible not to be impressed
with the even greater tact that was displayed upon
this interesting occasion, when compared with the
first performance. L'lnganno Felice is constructed
upon the stale materials of a true Italian story. A
husband becomes jealous of his wife, and very coolly
commissions a friend to take her to sea in a crazy
boat, which (of course) is wrecked; she is supposed
to be drowned, but, for" the better carryingon the
plot," is saved, and takes up her aboJe with a
miner, an honest one, as a matter of course, also.—
Ten years are supposed to have elapsed when the
amiable " cam sposa" is led to this very spot, during
his command of a military expedition; he makes his
appearance bewailing the supposed loss of his mur-
dered wife, good man ! His friend accompanies him,
the parties meet, reconciliation is the consequence,
and " mirabile dictu," the scoundrel kill-wife is also
pardoned! Upon this flimsy, and ,to us most im-
probable, story,- ROSSINI has composed some very
charming music, replete (as is usual with him) with
all that style of phraseology so remarkably adaptable
to comic opera. It is in the present instance some-
what out of keeping, and being of his earliest pro-
ductions, it is scarcely liberal to test it by the usual
ordeal of critical analyzation.
Miss CIIILDE was pre-eminently successful in the,
part of the injured wife. Her nice discrimination
and execution of the aria " Perche del tuo seno"
developed the highest kind of talent we (know of—
the pathetic—which usually includes that most try-
ing, as well as most estimable, requisite of a vocalist,
the sostenuto. This young lady has gone far to
convince those who have been fortunate enough to
observe her singularly happy attempts, that she is
destined to become a first-rate artist. In the second
act she introduced a beautiful and elaborate compo-
sition of that clever and lamented musician RADI-
CATI, during the performance of which there was
exhibited two or three exquisite touches of the most
tender, as well as the most exalted, passion, placing
at once this interesting novice upon a pedestal of
fame, that few, even of riper years, have ever sur-
passed. Her deportment, too, was less embarrassed
than upon the first appearance, and forcibly led our
ideas away from the supposition that an entire com-
pany of debutantes were placed before us.

PROFESSOR OF TIIE FRFNCH LANGUAGE.
No. 1, Soho-square; and 2, Lawrence-lane, Clie,gpside, Lon.
don. ISM. The Third Edition.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—The French Language being usuallystudied with
a view to conversation, this Grammar will be found emi-
nently useful to promote this desirable object. The rapid
sale of two large impressions of the work, and the increas-
ing patronage by which it is daily distinguished, are suffi-
cient proofs of its superiority. Extensive experience in
teaching having confirmed me in the conviction that the
English are peculiarly diffident in speaking French, I have
principally applied myself to remedy this mauvaise honte,
by continually. drilling the pupil on the verbs, and the
other parts of speech. By this means, and the explanatory
system adopted throughout the book, the student is kept
in constant practice; without which very little hope may
be entertained of ever speaking French. The essays on
the rules are all colloquial, and may be considered as a
repertory for conversation; while the verbs are exempli-
fied in quite a new and clear manner. The work is con-
cluded by a Grammatical Analysis, and a Treatise ou
French Prosody and Versification ; besides a classified
vocabulary ; a Collection of Familiar Phrases, arranged
under distinct heads ; and numerous Models of Notes and
Letters, with some forms of Bills of Exchange, Promissory
Notes, and Receipts. In the execution of the whole, in short,
I have spared no pains.in my endeavours to give the work
the greatest possible degree of perfection ; and I flatter
myself the present edition will be esteemed fully to justify
my pretensions.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
London, Dec. 10, 1928. J. V. DOUVILLE.
N.B. The Key to the Essays is just published.

A DREAM OF HINDOSTAN.

risum teneatis, amid.

" The longer one lives, the more one learns,"
Said 1, as off to sleep I went,
Beamed with thinking of Tithe concerns,
And reading a book, by the Bishop of Ferns,"

On the Irish Church Establishuient.
But, 10, in sleep not long I lay,
When Fancy her usual tricks began,
And I found myself bewitch'd away
To a goodly city in Hindestan,—
A city, where he, who dares to dine
On aught but rice, is deemed a sinner ;
Where sheep and kine are held divine,
. And, accordingly—never drest for dinner.
" But, how is this ?" 1 wondering cried,—
As I svalk'd that city, fair and wide,
And saw, in every marble street,
A row of beautiful butchers' shops,—...
" What means, for men who don't eat meat,
" This grand display of loins and chops ?"
In vain 1 ask'd—'twas plain to see
That nobody dared to answer me.
So, en, from street to street I strode;
And you can't imagine how vastly odd
The butchers look'd,—a roseate crew,
Inshrin'd in stalls, with nought to do;
While some on a bench, half dozing, sat,
And the Sacred Cows were not more fat.
Still posed to think, what all this scene
Of sinecure trade was meant to mean, •
" And, pray," ask'd I—" by whom is paid
" The expense of this strange masquerade ?"
" Th' expense !—oh, that is, of course, defray'd
(Said one of these well-fed Hecatombers)
" By yonder rascally rice-consumers."
" What ! they, who never must eat—,"
" No matter--
(And, while he spoke, his cheeks grew fatter)
" The rogues may munch their Paddy crop,
" But the rogues must still support our shop;
" And, depend upon it, the way to treat

" Heretical stoulaclia that thus diiisent,
" Is to burden all who won't eat meat,

" With a costly Meat Establishment."
On hearing these words so gravely said, .
With a volley of laughter loud I shook ; •
And my slumber fled, and my dream was sped,
And I found I was lying snug in bed,
With my nose in the Bishop of Ferns's book.

* An indefatigable scribbler of anti-Catholic pamphlets.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. SEGUIN was also much more at his ease, and
gave the aria " Una voce ha colpito" with very
great effect ; it was vehemently encored. A duet,
too, of a Comic character, between him and Mr. A.
SAPto, was exceedingly well executed, as was like-
wise an aria, " In voi Spero," by the latter gentle-
man.

CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 19.—The Norrisian prize was
on Tuesday last adjudged to the Rev. J. H. Peoley,
M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, for his essay
" On the nature and use of Parables, as employed by
Jesus Christ."

The Rev. Dr. Butler has, tendered his resignation
of the situation of head-master of Harrow school.

The Rev. James F. Roberts, M.A., of Waltham-
stow, Essex, is appointed, by the Elder Brethren of
the Trinity House, to the chaplaincy of their chapel
at Mile-end, London.
On the Bth inst., the Rev. Robert Collyer, 8.A.,
was collated to the vicarage of Dersingham, Norfolk,
on the gift of the Lord Bishop of Norwich, by reason
of lapse.

In truth this " experiment" (as the noble direc.
tors are pleased to term the very extraordinary exhi-
bitions we have witnessed) must create a very re-
markable sensation in the musical world. In the
imaginary evil that appears to suggest itself to the
reflections of many conscientious musicians, as
likely to arise out of this mode of disci-
pline, it cannot be concealed that some even-
tual good must also occur. The human mind
will not be restrained by the consideration of indivi-
dual calamity. This is not the age for exclusive
systems of tuition in any branch of science. Genius,
no doubt, will develope itself, despite of every ob-
stacle ; but it cannot be denied that, under auspices
and tuition such as the Royal Academy has to boast
of, it has a far greater chance of being properly
brought forth. It cannot be denied either, that the
tutored must have had tutors; and it would be
the most barefaced injustice, as well as in-
gratitude, to remain insensible to this fact.—
Whatever, then, may have been our gratifi-
cation at witnessing these exhibitions, their
tutors claim a large share of whatever merit
belongs to them. The very remarkable precision
of a well appointed Orchestra, led too by a mere
child, (Master MAwliEs) strikes the beholder with
astonishment, not only at the little fellow's aptitude;
but likewise at the undeniable efficacy of the sys-
tem under which lie has derived his precocious talent.
The Overture (one of Rossna's) was encored—and
the accompaniments to the opera throughout were
managed with a most laudable attention to the in-
dispensible minuteness of occasional delicacy, as
evinced by a close attention to the pianos and j
crescendos—we have been informed that much
praise is,due to a clever professor (C. POTTER, if
we mistake not,) for so felicitous a result, as the
combination presented to our ears by this adniik•able
hut juvenile band of musicians. We hope, nay we
must believe, that the " tout ensemble" thus of-
fered to the notice of the British public, will have a
tendency to divest it of those prejudices that are at
once of a most illiberal character, as they are as-
suredly most discreditable to their humanity, in the
childish and oftentimes indiscriminate preference and
patronage that it extends towards whatever is
foreign.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--Yesterday being the
day for the meeting of Parliament previous to the last pro-
rogation, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose,
and Lord Ellenborough, took their seats on the woolsack
at half-past three, as his Majesty's Commissioners. The
Commons were summoned, and a few of the clerks and
officers appeared at the bar to represent that house. The
commission was then read, after which the Lord Chancel-
lor, in the terms of the proclamation, declared Parliament
further prorogued to Thursday the sth of February. Lord
Melville was the only other Peer beside the Commissioners
present.

ELECTION OF A REPRESENTATIVE PEER.
—State of the Poll yesterday :
_Lord Dunally 54
Lord Castlemayne
Majority —B6
The ballot will close on the 18th instant, and the defeat
of Lord Castlemayne is now certain.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has,
witliout solicitation, presented the Rev. J. E. N. Moles-
worth, many years Curate of Mil%rook, N the valuable
living of Winksworth, in Derbyshire. The Rev. Gentleman
preached his farewell sermon to his parishioners at Mill.
brook on Sunday last ; and, by their request, the sermon
will be published. His parishioners have handsomely sub-
scribed upwards of one hundred pounds for a piece of plate
to be presented to the Rev. Mr. Mulesworth, in remem-
brance of his devoted services during his Curacy.—Salis-
bury Journal.

The following anecdote is related of Itoubi-
liac, the celebrated sculptor :—A gentleman who had
stayed one night at Slaughter's Coffee-house wail past twelve
o'clock, discovered he had forgotten the street-door' key of
the house where he lodged ; and as he had agreed with his
landlady not to disturb her other inmates beyond that hour,
was prevailed on by Roubiliae to take the other rubber, and
sleep in a spare bed much at his service. The gentleman
accepted his invitation, and upon Roubiliac sheaving him
the room, wished him a good night; but just as he was
nearly undressed, he was horror-stricken at the sight of the
corpse of a black won►an laid out upon the bed. He im-
mediately vociferated the name of Roubiliae, who upon
coming into the room exclaimed—" Olr dear! good fren,
I beg your pardon ! I did not remember poor Mary dare :
poor Mary ! she died yesterday vid de small poc ! Come,
come, anal you must take part vid my bed—come—poor.
Mary vu my hos-maid for five six year—more."

THE Ros E.—l saw a rose perfect in beauty;

it rested gracefully upon its stalk, and its perfume filled the
air. Many stopped to gaze upon it, many bowed to taste
its fragrance, and its owner hung over it with delight. I
passed it again, and behold it was gone—its stem was
leafless—its root had withered ; the enclosure which
surrounded it was broken down. The spoiler had been
there ; he saw that many admired it ; he knew that it
was dear to him who planted it, and beside it he had
no other plant to love. Yet he snatched it secretly
from the hand that cherished it ; he wore it on his bosom
till it hung its head and faded, and when he saw that its
glory was departed, he flung it rudely away. But it left
a thorn in his bosom, and vainly did he seek to extract it,
for now it pierces the spoiler, even in his hour of mirth.—
And when 1 saw that no man, who had loved the beauty
of the rose, gathered again its scattered leaves, or bound
up the stalk which the hands of violence had broken, I
looked earnestly at the spot where it grew, and my soul
received instruction. And I said, " Let her who is full
of beauty and admiration, sitting like the queen of flowers
in mijeety among the daughters of women, let her watch
lest vanity enter her heart, beguiling her to rest proudly
upon her own strength; let her remember that she standeth
upon slippery places, and be not high-minded but fear."—
Sigourney.

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A meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary Ttedcliff,
Bristol, was held on Tuesday, when it was unanimously
agreed to petition Parliament against granting any further
concessions of political power to the Roman Catholics.—
Bath Chronicle.

The number of newspapers seems to increase
almost daily in France. In °rut department alone (the de-
partement du Nord) there are no less than fourteen, nine
of which are Constitutional, three Absolutist, and two
Ministerial ; and two more Liberal ones are about to ap-
pear at Dunkerque.--Paris Paper.

FRENCH GLOVES.7--We understand from
authority on which we can rely, that the importation of
French gloves has considerably increased in the present
year. The numbers entered and paid duty for at the Cus-
tom-house, London, in eleven months and six days, to the
6th inst. being nearly 88,000 dozens. The import in
1827 was somewhat under 67,000 dozens, and we learn that
the increased importation of utile r foreign Manufactured goods
is in equal proportions, nearly all of which are paid for in
raw materials or gold, and not in English manufactured
goods;. our foreign friends not comprehending the policy
of starving their own poor for the benefit of their English
neighbours.— Itercford Journal.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Lord Viscount Kilmaine, in Clifford-street ' • General Bailey, in
Queen-street, May-fair; Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton,
Bart. and Lady Hamilton, in Foley-place, Cavendish-square,
from Iping, Sussex ; Captain Gunning, of the Royal Navy, at
Fladong's Hotel; Prince and Princess Lieven, at Ashburnham
House, Dover-street, from-Richmond ; the Earl of Chesterfield,
at his house in South Audley_street, from his seat, Bradley Hall,
Derbyshire ; the Earl and Countess Harcotirt, at Crawley's
Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle:street, from their seat, in Oxford.
shire ; Mr and Mrs. Douglas, in South Audley-street, from
Brussels; Major Symonds, in Clarges-street, from Rochester;
Major Cunningham, at the Mount Coffee-house ; Captain Felix
Macartney, in Pall-mall, from Corfu; Major Brown, at Fla-
dong's Hotel • Captain Wallace, in St James's-place, from.
Paris; Mr.' and Mrs. Wilbraham, in 'Gloucester-place, from
Paris; Captain Lumley, in Park-place, from Folkestone, in
Kent; Thomas Page, Esq. in St. Jales'a-street, from his scat
in Surrey ; Captain and hlrs. Russell, in Brook-street, from
Brighton; Earl of Fite, at the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street,
from the Royal Lr dge, Windsor; the Countess of Gosford and
the Ladies Acheson, at the Hyde-park Hotel, Hyde-park-place,
from Ramsgate.

CHANGES.
The Marquis of Camden, for his seat, the Wilderness, Kent ;
the Earl of Cassilis, from his house in Privy-gardens, for his
seat, St. Margaret's ; the Earl and Countess of Surrey, at the
Marquis of Stafford's Villa, West.hill, Surrey, from Suffolk ;
•
Lord Molyneux, at his father's, the Earl of Sefton's seat, Crux-
' the Honourable George Agar and
rgiana near Liverpool
Ellis, at lioehampton, from Earl Cowper's seat,
Herts; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eyre, from Piccadilly,
atfp.eatrndh
Bsy*eHr.Gi
ggae°helirto' n ; Captain South for Hounslow ; lur. and Madame
Dc Lisle, from Portman-street, for Bath ; Captain Cowper, from
Pall.mall, to Brighton; Ashton Smith, Esq. M.P. and Mrs.
Smith, from St James's-street, for their seat, Tedworth, near
Andover, Hants; Francis Pym, Esq. from Crawley's Hotel
(late Cook's), Albemarle-street, for Bedfordshire; W. Haw
kins, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; Mr. and Mrs. George Palmer,
from Welbeck-street, for Essex; the Earl of Buckingharrishite,
from the Hyde Park Hotel, for the Continent; the Honourable
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, from ditto, for Paris; the Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Noel, from ditto; Sir Thomas and Lady Hislop, from
ditto, for Kent; J Grattan, Esq. M.P., from ditto, for Brighton;
Sir George Tapps, Bart. front ditto.

Despatches were brought by a Russian courier
at a late hour on Tuesday night to Ashburnhatn-house,
Dover-street, fur Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador,
from his Government. Since the receipt of his despatches,
his Excellency has been in frequent communication with
the Earl of Aberdeen.

The Sardinian Minister and the Marquis tie
Paiutella transacted business yesterday at the office of the
Secretary of State for Foreign-Affairs.

HORSE-STEALING IN ESSEX.

1-I.lllCe and Princess Leven gave a grand din-
ner yesterJay evening at their residence in Dover-street, to
a numerous party of the Nob►lity and Gentry.

Despatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office from Sir L. Cole, the Governor of the Cape
of Good Hope.

Prince and Princess Lieverk gave a grand
dinner yesterday gvening at their residence in Dover street,
to a numerous party of the Nobility and Gentry.

The young Queen of Portugal will be re-
ceived with the pomp and ceremonies becoming a crowned
head by his Majesty on Monday next.

We have peat pleasure in stating that his
Excellency Prince Paul Esterhazy is waking rapid ad-
vances towards recovery, under the skilful care of Sir
Astley Cooper. The leg, although broken in two places,
already puts on a healthy appearance. The Prince was
enabled to take an airing, in a carriage, in the Regent's
Park, on Monday last.—Morning Paper.

On Saturday last,---his Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex left the hospitable mansion of Colonel
Wildman, at Newstead Abbey, near Mansfield, (formerly
the residence of Lord Byron), and arrived in the afternoon
at the Chesterfield Arnie, at Bingham, where he stopped a
short time, and then set forward for Rolkham, in Norfolk,
the seat of Mr. Coke, on a visit to that gentleman ; and
on Monday Afternoon the Duke of Rutland arrived at the
same inn, from his seat in Derbyshire; and after changing
horses his Grace went forward to Belvoir-castle.—Lin-
cola Mercury.

Mrs. Campbell gave an elegant Fancy-dress
Ball and Supper at her delightful villa, Mount Barrow, on
Wednesday evening, which was attended by upwards of
200 fashionable&

THE ARMY.—General Lord Hill has been
pleased to confer on Dr. Hair, Surgeon to the Royal Horse
Guards, the appointment of Surgeon to the General Corn-.
manding-in-Chief, vice Sir Patrick Macgregor, Bart., de-
ceased. The reduction in the Army Estimates, contem-
plated by the circular recently issued to the half-pay and
pensions in the army, is said to exceed one million. The
Paymasterahips of the 85th, 47th, 56th, 62d, 86tb, and
93d Regiments are vacant—Limerick Evening Mail of
Tuesday.

Mr. Kean, jun., has returned to his engage-
ment at Drury-lane Theatre, and will make his re-appear-
ance there on Monday night, for the first time before a
London audience, as Romeo. A new tragedy has been
accepted at this theatre, in which Miss Phillips will sustain
the principal female character.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The King's Theatre will commence its season
with La Donna del Logo. Amongst the novelties in
preparation is a new Opera by Pacini. The new Pit is
nearly finished.

We understand that gas will he entirely re-
moved from the King's Theatre next season, wax lights
being substituted in its place. We may also take this op-
portunity of quieting the fears of the John Bull as to a
" reported attempt to separate the pit from the boxes," no
such measure being even in contemplation. It was once
agitated by M. Laurent during time time he was connected
with the opera, from which circumstance the report has
probably arisen ; but no such measure has been intended,
or even thought of, by M. Laporte.—Brighton Gazette.
We hear, amongst other arrangements for the
ensuing Opera season, that Mademoiselle Sontag, Madame
Malabrun Garcia, Caradori, and, we believe, Pasta, are
engaged. For the Ballet, no engagement of any note has
yet been spoken of. The alterations in the interior of the
House are said to be confined to the Pit, the floor of which
has been somewhat lowered and relaid : nearly half the
Pit is proposed to be converted into private, or "lock-up"
seats--and in order to compensate for this reduction of the
area, to which the public have hitherto had free access,
the centre passage in the Pit, usually known as "Fop's-
alley," is to be done away with, leaving the passage around
the circle the only access to the seats. " Fop's-alley"
. _

afforded a great facility of access to the seats in the Pit, and
the alterations, if carried into effect as proposed, will mate-
rially contract the enjoyment of that portion of the fre-
quenters of the Opera, to whom the lounge is as great an
attraction as the music.
Mr. Hunt has started a Matchless Blacking
Van in Paris, and quite astonished the Parisians, as they
have no idea what an Engl6h blacking manufacturer,is.

TATTERSALL'S.
Very few alterations arose out of the limited betting
yesterday, the only change worth quoting for the Derby
being as below stated. There was no betting on the Oaks,
and scarcely any on the St. Leger :

DERBY.

At the late trial of M. de Berauger, the poet,
in Paris, his counsel, DI. Barthe, after alluding to the
satires and attacks made upon Princes and the Nobility by
Lafontaine, Racine, Labruyere, and other celebrated authors,
instanced the indifference with which the English Govern-
ment treated caricatures and epigrams of all kinds tending
to bring Royalty into contempt. He particularly cited
some articles which appeared in a London morning paper,
and read a part of an " Ode to the Princess Charlotte," in-
serted a short time before her death, characterising the
following expression as much more criminal than anything
to be found, in the Odes of Beranger, which were the sub-
ject of prosecution, though in England' no. notice was
taken of it:—" Daughter of the blood Royal, thou bast
to mourn thy father's dishonour and the destruction of a
kingdom. It would be well for thee ileach of thy tears
could wash away one of thy father's faults." A French
paper says, that when the counsel had concluded this pas-
sage, a feeling of amazement seemed to pervade the auditory
at the licentiousness which had been tolerated in a country
affecting so much morality as England.
A SPIRITED POETESS.—A drunken riotous
woman, who has always been a great annoyance to the
people in her neighbourhood, a mighty pest to the police
of Greenock, and who has long Since exhausted all the
common flowers of eloquence while pleading to escape the
dire punishment of solitary confinement in Bridewell, made
the following ludicrous attempt to influence the sitting
magistrate on Wednesday last :--Magistrate : Well,
mistress, what do you say to die charge of being again
drunk and disorderly ?—Prisoner : Oh, sir Bailie, I bee
made an unco nice poem on (here she mentioned the names
of two respectable gentlemen she had already celebrated in
verse), and every body that has seen it says its a very bonny
piece o' composin'.—Magistrate : Well, but what do you
say to the charge preferred against you T—Prisoner : Noo,
sir, if ye'll say nae mair aboot the charge, I'll try to mak
an uncommon nice sang aboot you, for indeed ye wed de-
serve it.—Magistrate (laughing) : Really, my good woman,
I believe it would he more honourable to receive censure
than praise from you ; but the witnesses in your case
have not come forward, you shall be indulged with 24
hours' further confinement, which will afford an excellent
opportunity to cultivate, in private, the favour of the
muses.—Prisoner : Wed, weel, sir, that's just a' I want;
has your sang ready by that time, if it be at a' possible.
—The woman then left the bar, apparently
highly pleased
with the merriment her ppposal had made in court.— 1
Greenock Advertise}

15 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Posthuina colt (taken)
15 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Canvas colt
15 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Will-o'-the-wisp
16 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Prince Eugene (taken)
16 to 1 agst Lord G. Cavendish's Espagnolle c.
17 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer
No others mentioned.

ST. LEGER.
10 to 1 agst Mi. Stephenson's Voltaire (offered)
IS to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Rowton (offered)
5 to 1 and 11 to 2, were taken about the two.

• HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
APPOINTDIENTB FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.
The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed-
nesday, near the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke--
at half-past ten. •
The Brookside Harriers will continue to meet every
Monday, at Newmarket ; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race
Course ; and Friday, at Tellescombe Tye—at half-past ten.
The Cottesmere Hounds, on Monday, at Uffington Wood;
Tuesday, at Glaston ; and Friday, at Overton Park—at a
quarter before eleven.

Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Standground
and Wednesday, at Hanunerton Gorse—at ten.
Sir Rich. Sutton's lloundspon Monday, at Midge Inn;
Horneastle-road ; Tuesday, at Stapleford Moor ; Wednes-
day, at Bransto❑ Wood ; Friday, at Brattleby ; and Sa•
turday, at Gate Burton—at eleven.

Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at lieelsby
Village ; Wednesday, at Kingsforth-house ; Friday, at
,Croxby Pond ; and Saturday, at Newshain Lodge—at
eleven.

Mr. Lester'a Harriers, on Monday, at Parkstone ; Wed-
nesday, at Corfe Hilla ; and Saturday, at Alderney Cot-
tage7at half-past ten.

The Gransden Hounda, on Monday, at Caxton Church
and Friday, at Coombe Grove—at ten.
The Puekeridge Hounds, on Monday, at the Angel
Hadham ; 'Wednesday, at Sacome Park ; and Saturday, al
Throcking—at half-past ten.
The Warwickshire Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Red-hill
—at half-past teu.

The Burton Bradstoek Harriers, on Tuesday, at Bea-
minster Down; and Friday, at Horne Hill.
The 131aelcmoor Vale Hounds, on Tuesday, at West End
Wood; and Friday, at Compton Lodge-gate, near Yeovil
—at ten.

The Worcestershire Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at the
Turnpike at the Cross-roads between Upton and Corse-
lawn ; and Friday, at the Cliffil Wood—at half-pist ten.
Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Kentchurch-paik ;
and Friday, at the Crosen—at ten.

Upton-upon-Severn Harritrs, on Wednesday, at Corse
lawn ; and Friday, at Hows-bill—at ten.

I SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.
On Wednesday morning a person, Mr. A., was . We give to-day Mr. Peel's letter to the Lord
apprehended at the White Hurt Inn, at Epping. Mayor, the subject of which has been long
At an early hour that morning, Mr. A. arrived at
the White Hart, mounted on a high-blooded animal,before the public, and been bi us discussed.—
with. the possession of which his appearance by no namely, the classification of the prisoners in
means corresponded. While in conversation with
Newa
o the landlord, he assumed the dialect of an ordinary ate. It is undoubtedly required by the
Act to which the Hight Hon. Gentleman reien,,
horse-dealer, but so badly did he sustain the charac-
and by ,
the principles of humanity also, that no
ter, that the landlord suspected all was not right,
" make.shift' practice be allowed with respect. to
and put some questions to him. The answers .to
these were beiitating and evasive; no direct answer I custody of prisoners in the principal criminal
could be received, and this strengthening the suspi- ' gaol of the kingdom, longer than .shall be ny-
der' that had been already aroused, the landlord, cessary to repair defects, and supply inadequacy
supposing him to be an accomplished London thiet
detained both him and the animal. In a short time
rids, to which the- contaminationimparted
.
; We regret the daily increasing numbers of crilni-
afterwards, a London police-officer arrived at the
greatly ; but there are also other causes which
young offenders in prison no doubt contributes
might be removed. The proverbial labour and
minand,eoanclqiiusarireitteudrnwfirtohmthtehecirlictommsetaCncirec.uit, and was
sys aizt
itioe
mePntrieovni,ortishattointhiiisis,h
expence of prosecutions afford the hope of
animal, he said that he had " chopped" another for impunity, and in most cases of minor of-
aoc"co'ervinetrinigt finora)a. bperonpeecret
of-
it in Smithfield-market, and that he could bring fences (the preludes to greater), gratify the
proof that such was the fact, and that be had obtained hope which they excite. The attendance day
it honestly. With this view he Wrote a letter to a after day at the Sessions-house is a most ap-
person in Westminster, who was a coachman. The palling evil, and really creates terror in honest
officer being apprised .of this, took his scat up to tradesmen who may have suffered a small loss
town in the stage which the coachman drove, and
by any depredation ; and ifat last they do come
communication to a dashing Cyp
intercepting the letter, found that it contained a
f ard, and venture to murmur a complaint
rian, with whom he °rsy
had cohabited, to procure for him u person to swear at tlie greater injury, the severer wrong, which
'on his examination that he had seen him making the they are sustaining from the prosecution tlian
exchange. The letter, it is needless to say, did not by ,theft, they are generally met with some
reach its destination, and whew he was yesterday 'rudeness from the Bench, as that " their coun-
brought berore a Magisirate in the vicinity of Ep- try expects," &c. Common-place trash !To
ping, the exculpatory witness was absent.
The case not having for the present arrived at which we should reply, cc that their country has
to expect that the way for a man to
, aright
maturity, we forbear giving the names of the several
punish robbery and fraud, and to make an useful
parties; 'but though the animal found in the
example,ac- punish
should brendered
, . e.
. . easy and practi-
eu,sed's possession has not as yet been owned, there
cable.' And till this is done, it is very well for
is little doubt of his criminality, as, since his appre-
hension, he has made a determined but fortunately salaried Magistrates to tell others what they
unsuccessful, attempt to commit suicide. Waiting ought to do and suffer for their-country's good ;
another examination, he now remains at Barking but the aversion to prosecute will continue to af-
gaol.
ford a•sure protection to guilt. We would ven-
ture to call the attention of Mr. Peel to this sub-
ject, because undoubtedly it would not be a
matter of insuperable difficulty to make such ar-
rangements as that prosecutors should not be
' obliged to wait, day after day, at Sessions
Houses, and other Criminal Courts, mixed
with the mere rabble, till their cause is called on.
The expence might, perhaps, be more properly
adjusted, if,. wherever in London parishes a
theft was committed, the parish were obliged to
defray the cost of going. to trial, whoever might
be the prosecutor. Were that the case, we sus-
pect the Strand would not be suffered to swarm
with pickpockets and thieves to • the degree to
which it is at present crowded, even 'hy'day, but
more especially after night-fall.- However, some
reform in these points.is;ObsqlOtey riieees'Sary.-',-
Times.
We foretold that Mr.'O'Connell's oratorical
" ambulance" to this country would never sue- - -
ceed, except as an instrument,' of -the' Orange
_.
faction, by provoking and disgustinglh e great body .
of the people of England, and gravely • injuring
the Catholic cause. The mission, however, -or
deputation, or plenipotentiary migration, has 'for-
. . .
for-
tunately been saved from so rough a trial of itS "
consequences. The good sense and right feeling
of Catholic noblemen and gentlemen, of those
who had been " honoured" by summonses to act
in it, have cushioned the farce, '
without giving '
it so much as a rehearsal. Lord Killeen, a sen-
sible and honest man, is much obliged, " but
can't leave Ireland at present." Lord Gorman-
ston thanks the gentlemen all the same, but can't .
" leave home at present." Lord French, much
obliged, but." sorry it is out of his power.
Hon. E. Preston, " highly flattered, but must
decline the honour." tkii. Thomas Browne
(brother of-Lord Kenmore), not even " thank
yoii,", or '6 by your leave ;" but " can't go just
at (:resent." sir Thomas • Esmonde much re-
'Marets ; ' but " particular' • business," &-c. Mr.
ichael Bellew is unable to go, like Benedict,.
possibly, '6 having got the tooth-ache." These
several letters, downrightly rejecting the di-
ptomatic harlequinade, would have been sup-
pressed, it seems, if the Secretary to the Associa-
tion, Mr. O'Gorman, could have persuaded the
other members, that " from various causes, and.
very good reasons, it would not be necessary to
read them !" No doubt " very good reasons"
with those who fancied that it was impolitic to
let the truth be known—that the suppressio
veri, the Jesuit's salve, would prove the best
Of the Judges at present on the Bench, it is ,
~
plaster for wounded vanity,, and that the fame
stated, that the Oxford circuit has furnished Lord Chief
Justice Abbott; the Western sent Judges Bayley, Bur- of all those upright and well-judging Catholics,
rough, and Gazelee; and the Home produced Chief Justice who, with Messrs. Shiel and Wyse, had man.
Best and Baron Garrow. Baron Vaughan was for some fully condemned a piece of rigmarole buffoonery,
time leader of the Midland ; and the Northern circuit,
should,al_ fully
so far as negative
a might go, be con-
ways abundant in talent, has graced the Bench with Judge
Park, Baroh Hullock, and Judges Littledale and James fiscated for the sake of its proposers. We re_
Parke. The Chief Baron Alexander, till his elevation joice to see the
Catholic
aristocracy clizosinfa.
was exclusively a Chancery lawyer, having been for many and following their- own course. ne , ''''
yeas one of the Masters of that Court. The Norfolk
show themselves capable of
~ , ~,•' ,Y Inu4
circuit only seems not, of late, to have contributed to F2-011Lleal •inde-
pendence—they must display crt of
LEEDS judicial eminence.— York Chronicle.
Tie power of
thinking for themselves---Lbelore
LEEDS FORTNIGHT FAIR.----We have, on the bulk of the
Protestant community
several previous occasions, called public attention to they can trust them with, the
•. a guardianship of a free f•f .•
growing importance of the" Leeds Fortnight cattle Fan,
and with this view we cannot help referring to our report however, that the Catholic Question is on both of yesterday's market in another column. Ever since the sides of the water betting into more skilful
change of day, we predicted that it would become one of ma-
nagement. `What- b
are the chances that in the
the most important and best-frequented fairs, both for
feeders of stock, &c. and purchasers, in this part of the session of 1830, Lord Killeen will not move
country; and we are now more confirmed than ever in our the address in the House of COMIllon) or the
opinion. lt is a fact not undeserving of notice, that the Duke of Norfolk in the Lords ?—/old,
average number of sheep and cattle, brought at present to
our fair, is above one-half more than what it was ten or We are glad to see from the Letter of Mr.
twelve months ago. The most sanguine of its promoters Peel to the City Authorities, that he is deter-
could not have anticipated a more flattering result.—Leeds mined to enforce the provisions of the law with,
Intelligences. •
reaard to prisons. It certainly is not very el,e..
At 'the White Lion Inn, in Ashover, on ditable to the rich Corporation of the City of
Saturday night last, a member of the Sick Club held at London, which is possessed of so many mono- the above house, who had been slandering the wife of a
polies, and levies, in one shape or other, dues
neighbour, was brought before T. C. Worsley, Esq. who '
on
sentenced him to kneel before the members of •the saidthe inhabitants the metropolitan of •
district
e.
Club (which he accordingly did), and say that he had no g beyond any thing known in any other part
grounds for his assertion, and that he knew nothing din- Of the kingdom, and which has consequently •
creditable of the woman. lit case he had not complied, suds ample means of demonstrating the advan-
be would have been sent to ~he House of Correction at taxes of Corporations and municipal •• • puvileges
,„ Derby.—Chesterfield Gazette.
- to a -country, should have their prisons in a state
a re
In connexion with the unfortunate failure of so disgraceful as to call for so severe -
primand
Fry's bank, it ought to be generally known that the gro-
g from ale- Home Secretary. If -Newer,
!hers of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry have, for several years, al- great prison of the b•tte'
the
lowed her 2,0001. per annum for those expenses to which
.. Metropolis, .be allowed t(1
the prosecution of her philanthropic engagements have stub- remain
.a great moral pest-house, the improves
known, meats in the
jeered her. This circumstance should be publicly prisons throughout the county twill
y WI
as it might otherwisebe • •ed that her husband's be in a great ni .-s
umagm t ) ea._tire, rendered mua t • We
a my.
affairs haul suffered by her usual benevolence.—_aun on
trust that the subjectof•b
Courier, prisons is not the only
sorry to add another of our police I :
part I atononstration which obtains
StitPWRECK.—We are his attention. The ,1 ' ' 1 circulated]
evkience a,reaoy
of those which havel alreadyu,ii . . _
shipwreck to the catalogueUnity, by the Committee, he evidence
swan Sands.
.The soop
-'' which has been printed,
still more, t
taken place on Celt'
to Carmarthen, with coals, on Satuft-.
bound from Llanelly
day week, was yrecked in a gale of on Cr. . circulated (a few extracts were given in this
'and the crew consist- Paper, The mast was carried by the board,he_
lallt we were interdicted .from cop_
d off the deck by t
consist-
ing only of two men were washed
d The hull of eavesrseel tinning them), as they explained rather too
Inendous sea, and both perks le .
over the Laugharne Sand, and clearly the protection which the thieves re-
Was subsequently driven . .
prove moderate, it is thought she will ceive from the police, and the. manner in
should the weather . .
. One of the men has left a widow with a large
be got ,
..
which the latter profit by the sucOess of the for
totally dependent on him for support family of children .
iner,isamplY sufficient to show the urgent necessity
North Wales Chronicle.
for a thorough cleansing of this &wean stable. Within the past week," says the A i; s
-:ens'i i Jobbing is so rooted in the whole system of this
' Gazette, " no less than 300 packing sheets have been ' that we are willing to allow the diffi-
imparted at Dover, consigned to an individual in that country,
of the task of constructing any establish-
town. The object of introducing them is in order that cultY
they shall be filled with wool for exportation. It is a . Anent, having for object the public protection,
fact, that since the last clip, two thirds of the wool grosyn which shall not be wrested to sinister purposes.
in Romney Marsh, and in the Weald, have been pur- • Whatever Parliamentary interest touches, it pa-
chased by French merchants; and should the foreign ralYses Wh •er an appointment is worth any
trade continue, with the same briskness
six months .- : enes
thing in a pecuniary point of view, the Minsster
. longer, hardly a dozen packs of wool will be left in those thi
places." 1 who wishes to preserve his place must name for

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