The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Vubitt Optittott.

" Who runs may read."

POSIZIGW.
Most of the Ministers present in Paris proceeded on
-erida3. to St. Cloud to transact business with the Duke
,tle Nemours who, according to some, had been appointed
l'ieotenant General of the Kingdom. and to others, mere
President Of the Council, without a deliberating vote.
Marshal Soult is to manage the business of the Depart-
'tents of Foreign Affairs and Marine during the ab-
sence of M. Guixot and Admiral Mackau.
On Wednesday the Prince de Joinville was mingled
with the crowd visiting the tent in the Garden of the
burnt ne
T 'l •
His Royal Highness has become much sun-
Theries. Hi
Minister of Marine left Paris on Friday morning
for leo.
1 The Revue de Paris states that the affianced bride of
4is Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale, the daughter
of the Piince de Sskrno and neice of the Emperor of
raekeiittraiial,
uisainifitio
liernes7arkable for personal beauty and
The Duke d'Aumale is expected at Paris about the
20th inst. The Prince will thence repair to Naples in
tae beginning of November, the period fixed for his mar-
tiage with the daughter of the Prince of Salerno, whom
he •
,i„ Is to conduct to France after the nuptial ceremony.
4 tie IS de Montpensier is to accompany his brother
to hely.
The famous parasol was exposed to view at the h-
ail; on Pride) It is
valides
placed open, behind the iron
r''''ags of the choir.' The colours of Morocco are placed 011 the pilasters at both sides of the grand altar.
The Messa r anticline. to the rumour of tke loss of
Me
Virginie,gsca:vs:—" The correspondence, which has
le1,111_,,„",(1 at the Ministry of Marine up to the present day,
ttoo-wiitts:stsa-Sa°thine. which can give the least foundation
short has been rumoured on this subject After a
at Sainte Croix-de-Tendriffe, this frigate put
we
else: th",,,447ainni on the 2d of August, in most favourable
since then no information has beets re-
the? create any uneasiness as to the remainder of
Wel; to 747aegaelj;
contra:. ::de Paris announces that M. de Glucksberg
bctwee -,.,1'e Paris on Saturday %iith the treaty concluded
o
-v ranee and Morocco, and ratified by the two
The -ting Powers.
of the C'eurrier de la Drone gives the following statistic
France Produce of silk in the several departments of
herePass•nee:--.Very little more than fifteen years have
since there were only six departments in which
the ' Were extensive plantations of mulberry trees, for
so general rearing of silk-worms. To these might be
ea`r4.d sixteen others, in which this cultivation was
Ml:tried on, but on a limited scale, and in a precarious
havli tL. Now, however, forty-two new departments
capital. up on this profitable employment of time and
dep;'; so that we have sixty-four out of the eighty-six
silk-ith`racrnis clothed with mulberry trees, and producing
five to greater or lesser quantities.
Th.;
Moniteur contains a very long ordonnanee rela-
rantee,the acquisition of property in Algeria, the guas with c
Ito pore,
nasers, and the various points connected
re., ° "Isation The object of this ordonnance is to
—ore .1, . •
le
0.0131.113,e, e difficulties which, owing to an imperfect
gls abet] h
of 1 : ,
e,..natve er hithertop prevented the due development
13" r 0
)'al Yal ordunnance of September, 1844,. the manu-
The • °f gunpowder is formally prohibited in Algeria.
Poi. ,Ipportation of foreign gunpowder is also forbidden.
see's future no powder is to be sold in Algeria but
as comes from the royal manufactory in France.
The • . cotnirr—lerainxosctusza. aftie Invitations sent out from the Lord Chamberlain's-
Itose on Wednesday to the Duke of Wellington, Sir
(mil Peel,totte, _ the Earl of Aberdeen,. &c., were counter-
eat% `: °o Saturday, when a reissue was made, the
othne Bthstaing the Queen's invitation to be from Tuesday
um to Monday next, instead of Wednesday the 9th,
kin .-"ch day it seems it was at first arranged that the
p g of the French would reach Windsor Castle from
°rt,amuh.
doh " Duke of Richmond, and a large party from Gor-
vtteCasstle, left that ducal residence early in the last
keestinror Inverness, to be present at the northern
The ma
W''l rquis of Buto left Cardiff
tesa s
i Ctl his seat in
11,_l, on Mond for ay last, his estane, Bedfordshire.
iit, 'ne Earl of Rosse who has been attending the meet-
rig!, of the British Association at York, proceeds to
Countess 'nto at Russel of the week on a visit to the Dowager
of
The Earl
i'aurrinrgdieZ
b_uve and Countess of Radnor and Lady Jane
passing the autumn at Coteshill Park, near
Berks.
otT.,he Earl of Aboyne presided at the anniversary dinner
line Peterborough Agricultural Society on Thursday.
Earl Cadogan has
and Ladies Augusta gone to Widmer, and the
Countess
from Brighton on Vk7cd Honoria Cadogan, who arrived
nesday, have left town to visit
the Earl and Countess of
Ifuntingdonshire. Sandwich at Hinchinbrooke,
The Earl of Eglinton's birthday was celebrated by .a
41Piaiyielliireecarsitl:nner at Irvine, and general entertainments in
Parts of his estates in Scotland, last week. The
P.titicmtexpressions of admiration were promulgated by
, wie:ted tenantry holding farms under the Noble
then„chac,ete e.xcellence as a landlord is deservedly praised
The il Pis large property in that country.
L44ies Seitott-t,"wah Countess of
.Eldon, and the youthful
Fever Scott, o are on a visit to the Dowager Lady
epee hate,
to' '4l the West Cliff, at Scarborough, are not
!..,nct °f the press
return to Hamilton-place, London, until the
'gall, D e Prest.nt month, when they proceed to Encombe
Horse for the winter.
The SZI*3O3SZOkALMMOUS.
tritishc °tint St Aulaire, Ambassador for France to the
ifeto, Gn.Ourt,
in the ea I I has taken apartments at the Railway
The Re'Port, to wait the arrival of his royal master.
as so,
infidel
Robert Taylor, who made himself notorious
preacher and writer, is no more. He died
There riY part of last month at Tours, in France.
hlts resigneds orstruth in the report that Sir W. Symonds
its totue
office of Surveyor of the Navy, as stated
~, The • of the Papers.
4,131, a --oration of the monument in honour of the
al gee °f Wellin
P:de:, tSolliorr gton, erected in Glasgow, is take ,
d °"‘'• Extensive preparations have been Parts ofd h a large number of the nobility, from various
btirig he
"atrY, have • ified their intention of
Th Pre'ent at the signified
mae sas, interesting ceremony.
450 CPsoll steam-frigate, of 1,299 tons' burden,
naaster.e•arsePower, designedl by Mr. Oliver Lang,
at half-past IPwright of Woolwich Dockyard, was launched
troesaterEttenePtoithfstrifuo._ur
o'clock, P.M., en
.Tuesday. last, in the
aierous naval and military officers, and al-
The f e fashionable families in the neighbourhood.
1311111% aboartilitdings of Mr. Priddle, of North Stone-
yered on ant '°lll' miles from Southampton, were disco-
,4t recal,rendered
'lent ore e urn
then Saturday An express was immediatel)
spot, " 'or fire-e •- • , hich.ere speedily on the
nary; pig.t.st(ifesP,ra.° most efficient assistance" in saving a
plearrta. It is stated that four ricks, gra
Pert ~
full was destro • . quantity of corn,. and other pro-
f h ata°llnt. 3ed, and that it is not
insured to its
ae. _ s
an _ Strong suspicion exist that the fire was
the heL )..? 4 incendiary.
Secret;tjn rtlst Executive have officially, and through
pcd,
tii
Until "Y announced, that unless they are better
the will resign ih
they now
kr• O'Connorsv.t.....n a month. They state that
their eal!n°t expect 1 has stood the needful, which
litaNronthseit C
any
itporritelt:rd,B bu
:slim to continue any longer, and. that.
iil o large that they cannot give him
r ers
Castle is ordered to be appropriated as a
.mi-
Y Prison, to
flag at weed° contain 100 offer ders. Another build-
t)tlted for the n' and a. third elsewhere, are also to be
ecosen t
r_rangemseanmtseisObileocot4 The estimated outlay for
,eevriteart,
foss oaitirda..
J last the overseer of the parish of Bay-
ed C u.aPPeard befor A
ilatersttf.o.6.raifr. James Espinasse, the revising
attend
' 4 '8
to show cause why he did not
n°.. the Act
or ii . n the previous Thursday, as required
ected with h. arhament, to discharge the duties con-
neither read : °face. His excuse was, that he could
or write !

DEATII OF --------- ________
ADMIRAL
BART., R.C.8., AND G C.II Ili
'
announce the
death f this V • •• --We have to
o is t istinguished flag-officer lce
S ..1-7----on's Poo BERESFORD,
which took p a
on Wednesday, at Bedaie, in Yorkshii:e. The deceased
NMiral, Sir John Beresford, was born in 1769, and was
the natural son of George first Marquis of Waterford,
!t_ lid brother of Viscount Beresford. -He married three
times. Sir John Beresfori entered the navy in the
Year 1782. In 1796, while in the command of the Lynx
wl')op, he captured La Concorde, of fourteen guns, and
Ptil Captain of the Raison, fought a gallant action
with tile French frigate 'Vengeance. In 1801, be was
iiresent, and rendered great services at the capture of the
Nandi of St. Bartholomew, St. Martin's &c. He core-
rat ended the Theseus at the attack on the enemy in Aix
•hec'ttdfL In 1813 and 1814, he was actively employed on
that American station, in command of the Poictiers. On
~ return to this country, he was selected by the Lords
!1,1 the Admiralty to escort Louis XVIIL to Calais, on
he
restoration to the crown of France. In
yn,.e succeeding month, he was created a Baronet of the
ilutil%nitt.dßingdoin. Ile was first elected a Member of the
sc of Commons in 1812. In 1835, on Sir Robert
eel succeeding to the Administration, Sir John was
40(1 4PPointed one of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty,
contested the borough of Chatham with the Hon.
Captain Byng, the result of the election Sir
v°l,l in a minority of twenty-five. Since placingthinfl°ll of that Parliament, the deceased had retired entirely
,r,.^111 public affairs, and resided mostly at his seat in
lowst orkshire. His naval commissions were dated as fol-
:--Lieutenant, 4th of November, 1790 ; Com-
iatlder, sth of July, 1794 ; Captain, 25th of June,
5. „'9,5 ; Rear-Admiral, 4th of June, 1814 Vice-Admiral,
11-tn.of May, 1825 ; Admiral, 28th of June, 1838. Ile
81leeeeded in the Baronetcy by his eldest son, Captain
George Bed
now Sir George Beresford, Bart.
1 117/1 WELstr CATTLE PAIRS.—Our cattle fairs
tql,..
0,,,111R the month of September have been but thinly at-
bt-r,""ed by the drovers who usually purchase for the put_
Ift,se of driving cattle to the English fairs and markets.
01.7 failure of turnip crops, together with the short crops
"V and straw all over the kingdom (with very few
ti),{eePtions) are alleged as the reasons. Compared with
the business usually transacted at this season of the year,
ro.' araount of transactions has been small. Cattle fit
' slaughtering were scarce, and a demand at 403. to
to,
4, • Per cwt. to sink the offal; prime sheep are worth
,•"' Per lb., also to sink the offal. Pork and bacon pigs
,•',4 t little on the advance, while small ones, and bare
andsre are at a very low price; good horses are scarce
An demand, while poor ones are nearly unsaleable.
wastel: 4"begwily fair, on Wednesday last, the show of
was very In • different, and few changed hands.
fairs.
es ruled nearly the same as at the September
rye/Malan.

THE MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM
(From the Times.)
No one can read the brilliant addresses made at the
soiree of the Manchester Athenxum, without feeling
a double pleasure, first, in the excellence of the occa-
sion, then, in finding it so worthily celebrated. It is
the great difficulty of our age to bring things toge-
ther. Either there is profusion or lack. What
might tell with noble effect if well bestowed, is
thrown awAy where it is. We have literature and
taste enough, but then it is all in a class, heaped
together—of as little use as a well-stored magazine
ten miles off the devoted band who are selling their
lives dear because their ammunition is exhausted.
On the one hand there are thousands who are daily
pining for the occasion which is to bring out their
powers. Their one great lack is opportunity. Oh for
something to do—somebody to work upon—something
to assure me I am a real man, and not a shadow, with
an actual call and business in this world. Mean-
while a street, or a wall, or a less visible barrier,
separates you from a sphere where it is all opportu-
nity, all raw material; everything to be done. The
elements of grandeur lie waste because the soul of
order is absent. There is plenty of rudeness, wild
nature of men and things, unorganized multitudes,
brutish incessant toil, furious energies, noble instincts,
gigantic capabilities, everything vast and shapeless,
the sooty workshop of the Cyclops. All this waits
to be informed, and trained to beauty and greatness.
But as yet that cannot be accomplished. Strength is
rude, and refinement is coy. The one resents inter-
ference, the other revolts from its task. Thus
both are wasted. It is then a great beginning
that literature should be seen raising its head in the
midst of our great marts of industry, and summoning
to its aid some of its most favoured sons. It is
not necessary to abate one's satisfaction with the
salvo, that literary institutions, libraries, news-
rooms, with the appendage of gymnasia and balls, are
not sufficient. Such a caution is even less needful in
Manchester than in the enlightened metropolis. True,
they may satisfy and fill the mind. To that abuse
are all heaven's gifts obnoxious. They are, how-
ever, good as far as they go. It is a good thing done
—an actual step in advance—if minds or hands here-
tofore occupied in mere mechanic arts should ask ad-
mission to the worlds of imagination and taste.
Imagination is near akin to faith, and taste to good-
ness. The ideal is the school of truth. With all the
many weaknesses and temptations of literature, who
that has it would not have had it ? Let those who
declaim most eloquently on its engrossing, or
enfeebling, or secularising tendency, consider within
themselves whether they are not on the whole
gainers by this perilous gift. Why, then, should
he who would be miserable without his bookshelves,
dictate to others an abstinence or a deprivation
which he would himself be the first to break

selves. " For my own part," says he, " I really
believe that had that party and sectarian feeling pro-
ceeded in the same power and virulence it has done
for the last twelve or fourteen years, it must have
exercised a barbarising influence upon public senti-
ments and public manners. There are some amongst
us now, I know, who believe that the period has
arrived when a great effort must be made to emanci-
pate the country from the degrading thraldom of fac-
tion ; to terminate, if possible, that extreme, that
sectarian, and limited view in which all human con-
duct is examined, observed, and criticised; to put an
end to exclusiveness, which, in its peculiar sphere, is
equally deleterious as that aristocratical exclusiveness
of manners which has produced so much evil; and, as
far as I can form an opinion, these views have met with
sympathy from every part of the counntry." These
sentiments were received with loud applause, and they
well deserved it. Coming from any public man, they
must have been gladly and gratefully received ; but
coming from a gentleman who sits in the House of
Commons immediately behind Sir R. Peel, they must
have been received with special wonder and delight.
Among those present who most cordially hailed
the utterance of these liberal and enlightened senti-
ments, was the Member for Stockport. Mr. Cobden's
observations had an immediate reference to the liberal
character of the Institution, whose interests they
were all assembled to promote, but they were meant
to hare a universal application. "He could not,"
says the report of Mr. Cobden's speech, " help con-
gratulating himself, while Mr. D'lsraeli was speak-
ing, that with Lord John Manners on the one side,
and Mr. Smythe on the other, the imputation of party
must be an absolute contradiction. He thanked them
fur coining among them, and producing so admirable
a result as they had witnessed that night. And now
taking that vantage ground—having the fullest reli-
ance upon the cordial support of every party, sect,
and class, in the community, he would ask what might
not the Atl-enasum become under such favoarable aus-
pices 2" Lord J. Manners referred, with an exulting
spirit, to the auspicious absence of party feeling which
characterised their assembling together. "In these
days," says that Noble Lord, "of political rancour,
and class and party distinctions, it is gratifying to
any one who remembers that the name of English-
man should be one of prouder import, and bear a
more quickening spell, than that of Whig or Tory,
to find a field whereon politicians of all opinions may
meet without quarrelling, and, better still, with a
good hope that the result of the meeting may be af-
fording increased means of mental amusement and
recreation to the laborious tradesman and toiling
apprentice." We trust we are not over sanguine in
believing that a new and happier era is about to dawn
on this country. We think we can clearly discern
the proximate advent of a period when the greatest
and best of our public men will bury their political
partisanship and personal jealousies in the dust; and
shall strive together as to who shall contribute most
largely to the improvement of the moral and social
condition of their countrymen. That were a noble
rivalry. That were an emulation worthy the dignity
of our nature. Were the feeling but universal, and
we rejoice to say it is rapidly extending, it would, in
a very little time, convert a world which is full of
crime and misery, into one of the purest virtue and
most exalted bliss.

through ? He owes half his thoughts, and more than

half his tone of thinking, to literature. It is the
grammar of his mind. It is also his no slight social
bond. He tries to communicate his thoughts and
feelings, and finds himself unintelligible to the
crowd—intelligible only to the initiated few. Piety
opens its mouth to denounce literature, and finds
itself speaking the language and recognising the
mission of its imagined rival. In the act of condemning
philosophy it is itself guilty of the crime. Let it be
remembered, too, that the gentile world was provi-
dentially led through a course of arts before it came
to the gospel. The truths of Christianity were de-
veloped in the schools, and grew into a divine philo-
sophy, the awful literature of Heaven. Those fathers
whose mind and language have sunk deepest into the
memory of the Church were bred on the lap of
Pagan science. Let such pursuits be only followed
in a spirit of gravity and reverence, and no one need
fear the result. Some will think this a superfluous
advocacy of what must speak for itself. Of course
they will also set down the speeches of Mr. D'lsraeli,
Lord John Manners, and Mr. Smythe, as idle and
fruitless displays. But there is a wide-spread and a
deep-rooted prejudice against the higher and finer
accomplishments, against every branch of learning
which does not pretend an obvious utility. It is
agreed that the sons of manufacturers must be manu-
facturers, and no more than manufacturers; and that
if you try to make them more, you will fail alto-
gether. Writers who furnish in their own style abun-
dant proofs of the powers and delights of a
classical education, are so ungrateful or so
thoughtless as to think the wealthy master of
five hundred operatives will be better and happier
and abler without it. " He will have to cast accounts
and compute profits. Then he must learn bookkeep-
ing. He will have to improve his machinery. Then
let him study mechanics. He will have to pay wages.
Let him acquire a positive taste for compound addi-
tion. In order to make out and. execute orders he
must be handy at practice. Geography also will be
wanted occasionally." Offhand writers seldom mean
all that they say, but we do not see what other
meaning to assign to the following passage in Ur.
Cooke Taylor's Tour in the Manufacturing Districts
of Lancashire :
" I should be very much puzzled if I were asked to
point out a dozen schools in the country where youth
could obtain instruction in those branches of knowledge
which are the best calculated to train them for a life of
commerce and active business. In plain terms, the ma-
nufacturing youth of the higher and middle classes are
not trained for the order to which they must eventually
belong, but for an order to which there are few chances
of their ever attaining, but after which there is all but
a perfect certainty that they will render themselves mi-
serable by aspiring. This defect is sufficiently notorious,
and one consequence of it has passed into a proverb,
that There is but one generation in Lancashire between
clog and clog.' If manufacturers cannot be induced to
associate themselves into a distinct order for their own
sake, they ought certainly to do so for the sake of their
children, and, above all things, they should assert the
dignity of the commercial character by a public recog-
nition of the extent of information necessary for the
commercial profession."
On the contrary, manufactures and commerce
seem especially to crave the greatest possible infusion
of literature. They know best their own want. The
manufacturer sends his son to a public school, and is
anxious to see him an accomplished scholar. To be
able to do this was part of the vision which, from his
earliest life, concentrated and sustained his efforts.
But for this hope, he would have continued to this
day a smug, self-satisfied, eating, drinking, and sleep-
ing, fifth-rate tradesman. Deprive him of mental
advancement, and his wealth has lost its value. This
is Dr. Cooke Taylor's own supposition. He is cen-
suring the folly of commercial men who wish to make
their sons scholars and gentlemen. What's the use of
money, if they are not to do this ? The process of
mechanic production induces a conceit of power,
which breaks out into overbearing arrogance. A
man who has secured the most glittering of human
prizes, and has that which all mankind seem running
after, is too conscious of his success. His activity
becomes rough and tyrannic. The fine arts are use-
ful in this stage, though such a mind will scarcely
apprehend any other than their most sensual ap-
plication. There is another stage in the manufac-
turing history—another class, to which literature is
indispensable. What can wealth do, or be, without
it ? Dr. C. Taylor will answer, " Let wealth go
on producing wealth." Experience shows that it
will not. The youthful possessor or expectant of
thousands per annum is apt to contemplate his wealth
till his mind becomes as laden and lumpy as his ingots.
To possess and to enjoy is his life. Soul and body he
yields himself to the passive delight. The gold enters
into his soul. He devours it with his eyes before he
comes to its actual use, Such is the being whom a
man of real genius proposes to keep at the desk, to
the exclusion of other art or science. A worse danger
remains. It is impossible that the mere pursuit of
wealth and mere mechanic employments should so
satisfy the mind as to render it even ordinarily secure
against the sensual allurements to which wealth is so
easy a prey. High religious feeling is the gift of few;
but against that host of lower dangers a gentlemanly
education is at least an immense auxiliary. Any-
thing in the mind, if only innocent, helps against
sense. The education of the working classes has
already done wonders in Lancashire. To it must be
ascribed the affecting resignation with which so vast
a mass endured the virtual famine of 1840-42. The

(From the Morning Herald.)
A meeting took place at Manchester, on Thursday,
graced by the presence of several of the " new
generation," the reporting of which meeting shows
that there is nothing so unimportant as to escape the
vigilant caterers for public information. It was, to
be sure, declared by one of the lions on the occasion
—Mr. Cr. Smythe, of Canterbury, called by a con-
temporary at the very nadir of bathos, " the chival-
rous Smythe"—that " that meeting will be memora-
ble when civilisation shall be one hour from its
zenith;" yet we fear the mischievous will add the
ill-natured commentary of Porson—" but not till
then." The meeting was held for a very excellent
purpose, and the founders and supporters of the
Manchester Athenaeum are entitled to all praise.
But of what importance upon earth is it to the rest of
the empire to know that Mr. D'lsraeli went down to
Manchester to tell the people there the history of
what they themselves had done—a history with
which they were, of course, much better acquainted
than Mr. D'lsraeli could possibly be ? " You have
founded a news-room," and " you have founded
a lecture-room," were facts both important and
creditable to the locality in which they were stated;
and if the facts were not recorded with a parade which
makes them ridiculous, they might serve as examples
to other places. But when the meeting is exhibited
as an important " sign of the times" (that portent
which is always most easily discovered when the
seeker is the least intelligent), or is compared modestly
with the invention of printing, the beneficial effect is
infinitely lessened. Mr. D'lsraeli may have seen
" Ilyssue silvery springs," and may have the most
vivid recollection of the sunset on that occasion. He
may be also aware that Mr. Cobden gazed delight-
fully on the land where Penelope wove her web of
yore, yet the relation of these facts, however it may
serve for a sign of character, we scarcely can call " a
sign of the times." But Mr. D'lsraeli enunciated
some rare maxims, and one of these was, that " it is
the duty of every citizen in a free community
to be acquainted with the opinions he has
formed." We hope it is a duty which " Young li
England" has not failed to perform ; for if their
" opinions" (as we presume their phantasies
are designated) can be reduced to a compre-
hensible system, the sooner some one of the frater-
nity, remembering the fate of the- theories of the late
reverend and ingenious Edward Irving, promulgates
their politics in a known tongue, the more advan-
tageous will it be to their prosperity. The allusions
of the guests of the people of Manchester to that very
ancient desideratum, which " Young England
chooses to call one of its discoveries; viz., facilities
for the amusement of the working classes, could not
have been made in a more appropiate place. The
games and sports in which " Young England " places
—and to some extent justly—great confidence as a
political medicine, are certainly least known in
manufacturing districts. The anti-experience legis-
lators, however, mistake the concomitants of a certain
state of society for its essence; and because highly-
coloured tradition tells us of a happy peasantry under
the regime of priestcraft, would saddle us again with
the " corporations of bachelors." The amicability
with which " Young England" sighs for an over-
throw of party spirit is highly commendable,
but hew are they carrying it out ? Albeit that
to honest party spirit, the pure attachment of up-
right minds to the principles which they admired, we
owe most of all that is valuable in the British Consti-
tut;on—nay, the preservation of that Constitution
itself; yet it were indeed lamentable if much neutral
ground did not exist upon which distinctions of party
could be forgotten. This fusion, however, is not
to be accomplished by the system of Messrs. Smythe
and D'lsraeli, viz., flattering on all occasions the dis-

tinctive tenets or characteristics of a party, and as
invariably voting against it. On this conduct we had
some time since the following lamentation from the.
League :
" It is with grief we add that the name of this
powerful advocate for the extension of commerce (Mr.
Smythe) was found in the list of the monopolist ma•
jority that rejected Mr. Villiers's motion, and that the
same list contains the name of the author of " Co-
ningsby," to whose eloquent denunciations of commer-
cial restriction we recently directed the attention of our
readers. This is a sad anomaly."
Now we think it rather a wholesome anomaly. If
a man perpetually says one thing and perpetually
does another, it requires no great quantity of algebra
to discover the value of his principle or his common
sense ; and with such facts before the world, the
mouthing of " Young England," even at a gala soirée
at Manchester, is as harmless as the pipes of the Stre-
phons, with whom one of its young members would
cover the grass-grown ruins of that important town.

(Prom the Morning Post.)
With feelings of rare and unqualified delight we
bespeak the attention of all our readers to the report
we this day publish of the magnificent meeting held
on Thursday, at the Manchester Athenteum. We
publish an elaborate report of the proceedings; for
we conceive them to be interesting in the most ele-
vated sense of the term. They present a grand and
consoling indication of that better feeling, with re-
gard to the social and domestic condition of the work-
ing people, which, within a comparatively recent
period, has made its influences felt in quarters the
most widely separated on most points of taste and
opinion. And amid the many uncheering charac-
teristics of the times, it is no light comfort to find at
least one symptom giving ground for hope that all may
yet be well with England. Truly it was a noble spec-
tacle to see Lord J. Manners—the young and generous
representative of England's most exalted aristocracy
—standing amongst the honest workpeople and their
wealthy employers, in consultation upon the mode of
making all classes better pleased with each other—
better qualified to be virtuous, useful, happy, and
loyal subjects of the mighty empire whereof their

higher and intermediate classes are advancing in pro-
portion. Of course, one watches with anxiety, and
even suspicion, the sudden efforts of a newly-gathered
population ; but the auspiees are good at present.
They only want leaders.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The meeting of the subscribers to the Athenaeum,
at Manchester, held on Thursday last, was one of no
common character. The numbers present were com-
puted at 3,000; but it is not to the greatness of the
gathering that the importance of the meeting is to be
ascribed. The character of the assemblage, the
speeches delivered, and the spirit which pervaded the
intelligent throng, were the circumstances which in-
vested that meeting with a special interest. By far
the most important characteristic of the meeting• was
the entire absence of party feeling. Never did men
of more opposite principles assemble together. Who
could be more opposed to each other in their political
faith, than Mr. Cobden and Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli
Mr. 3dilner Gibson and Lord John Manners ? The
same diversity of political sentiment prevailed among
the more humble individuals composing the body of
the meeting. And yet the most harmonious feel-
ing pervaded the entire proceedings. Mr. Benjamin
D'lsraeli was in the chair. The speech of the
Honourable Gentleman was able and eloquent ; but
it possessed a still higher quality, especially con-
sidering the political party with whom the speaker
has hitherto acted : it was a thoroughly liberal
speech. it was more : it was a manifesto in favour
of the organisation of a party who shall disconnect
themselves from any and every faction, and be solely
influenced in all their actions by an earnest desire to
promote the well-being of the people. Mr. D'lsraeli
denounced, with withering effect, the narrow, exclu•
sive, sectarian feeling which has hitherto, more or
less, largely characterised the various factions into
which the politicians of the day have divided them-

little_ island home is the mistress and arbitress. 'When
we further mention the name of the chivalrous
Smythe—of D'lsraeli, the champion of the essential
principle of monarchic rule—of Cobden, and Gibson,
and Brotherton, advocates of the violent doctrines of
political Liberalism, we sufficiently intimate how en-
tirely absent was everything partaking of , vulgar
party combination. Rejoicing, as we do, that the
rich manufacturer in our large towns is at length ac-
knowledging the claims of the poor to some portion
of -care for their health and comfort—heartily re-
joicing that the amusements and relaxations of the
people are attracting some share of attention, as an
important element in the constitution of a happy
and healthy body politic—we cannot help re-
verting, with gratitude and satisfaction, to that
which has been the main promoter of this move-
ment for amelioration, in what may be called the
domestic politics of the nation. No very long time
has elapsed since we gave our cordial support to
the -recommendations contained in a pamphlet by

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING OCToBER 7, 1844.

are ordered to assemble at nine o'clock. The Mayor
and Corporation will also present an address to his
Majesty, suitable to the occasion.—Hampshire Te-
legraph. !...)
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 6.—The Caiman, French war-
steamer, arrived hero this morning with dispatches from
his Majesty to the Queen, and to his Excellency Count
St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador. The Caiman also
brought a portion of his Majesty's equipage, and was
hauled alongside the dockyard to land it. Seven of the
King's horses formed part of the freight ; they were
landed at the dockyard, and will be conveyed, with their
attendant grooms, to-morrow morning by railway to
Farnborough, and thence to proceed to Windsor.
In the afternoon the steamer left the harbour on her
return to France, where she is to join the squadron
which is to accompany his Majesty to England. As
soon as she had passed the Parade-battery she fired a
salute, which was returned by her Majesty's ship the
St. Vincent, at Spithead.
His Excellency Count St. Aulaire sent down a special
messenger on Friday to engage apartments for himself
and suite, as it is his intention to be here to await the
arrival of his Sovereign. Apartments have been selected
at the Railway Hotel, which are ordered to be in readi-
ness this evening ; it is therefore expected that his Ex-
cellency or a portion of his suite will arrive to-night.
It is now generally understood that his Majesty will
embark on board the Gomer, at Treport, on Monday,
and arrive here on Tuesday morning, accompanied by a
squadron of steamers, which, as well as the Gomer, will
take up their moorings in the harbour. His Majesty
will land at the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, where
he will be received by his Grace the Duke of 'Welling-
ton, the Lot d Lieutenant of the county ; his Excellency
Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, Admiral Sir Charles
Rowley, the Naval Commander-in-Chief at this port ;
Major-General Sir Hercules Pakenham, the Lieutenant-
Governor And Commander-in-Chief of the district ;
Rear-Admiral Parker, the Admiral Superintendent,
with their respective staffs, naval and military ; and by
the Mayor of Portsmouth, and other municipal authori-
ties. It is also anticipated that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert will meet his Majesty upon landing.
From the Clarence-yard his Majesty will proceed at
once to the railway terminus, where a special train will
be in readiness to convey him and his suite to the Farn-
borough station, whence they will be conveyed to Wind-
sor in the royal carriages.
Every preparation is being made to receive the King
with becoming eclat. The squadron already assembled
at Spithead to salute him consists of two line-of-battle
ships, and eight sloops of war, namely, the St. Vincent,
120, with the flag of the Commander-in-Chief ; Queen,
110 ; Cruiser, 16 ; Flying Fish, 15 ; Osprey, 12 ;
Daring, 12 ; Mutine, 12 ; Espeigle, 12 ; Pantaloon, 8
and Water Witch, 8. Several of the vessels belonging
to the Royal Yacht Squadron, among which is that of
the Commodore (the Earl of Yarborough), the Kestrel,
have also assembled at this port, to wait the arrival of
his Majesty.
The troops of the garrison are ordered to be under
arms at nine o'clock, and are to line the road from the
Clarence-yard to the railway terminus in the following
order :—The 47th Regiment, the Royal Marines, the
59th Regiment, the 76th Regiment. The guard of honour
which is to receive his Majesty the King of the French,
upon his landing at the Royal Clarence-yard, will con-
sist of the Grenadier Companies of the 47th, 59th, and
76th Regiments, under the command of Major Gordon.
A guard of honour will also be stationed at the railway
terminus, to receive his Majesty on his arrival there.
,The Mayor and Corporation of Portsmouth are pre-
paring a suitable address, to be presented to his Majesty
on his reaching this country, in the event of the applica-
tion which has been forwarded to the King through the
French Ambassador, to know if his Majesty will be
disposed to receive the same, being answered in the
affirmative.

Lord John Manners, on the sports and pastimes of the
people. The publication of that pamphlet drew an
interest to the subject which it had never before
been able to secure. This interest has fortunately
gone on increasing. We have parks proposed and
planned for Manchester—we have the Prime Minis-
ter of England, with that princely munificence by
which his every private act is distinguished, sending
down his 1,0001. subscription towards the expenses
of a work that is practically to increase the innocent
enjoyments of the poor artisan. All this is pleasant
to think on. We pray sincerely it may be only at
its beginning, and that its noble and high-minded
originator may have hereafter to congratulate him-
self on the restoration of some of that manly
sentiment of respectful affection and confidence be-
tween different orders of society, which was always
characteristic of the honest minds of old England.

• Whilst his Majesty is paying his visit to the Queen at
Windsor Castle, the officers of his squadron will not be
neglected here, but will be invited to a series of enter-
tainments to be given by the naval and military officers
at the port and by the inhabitants of the borough. On
Tuesday, the day of their arrival, they will be invited to
dine with the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles
Rowley. On subsequent days they will be entertained
at dinner by the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General
Sir Hercules Pakenham. A ball and supper, to be given
by the naval officers in commission, and for which pre-
parations on a magnificent scale are being made, is to
take place at the Royal Naval College, in the dock-yard.
Intelligence has been received here this afternoon,
which places it beyond a doubt that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert will come to receive the King of the
French on his arrival.

DEATH OF THE REV. ROBERT
TAYLOR.
This eccentric and extraordinary man died about a
month since at Tours, to which place he retired some
years since, and where he practised as a surgeon, to
which profession he was originally bred.
Robert Taylor was the son of a respectable ironmon-
ger of that name, who resided many years in Fenchurch-
street, amassed a fortune, and retired upon it to Enfield.
To his favourite son, Robert, he Sate a first-rate educa-
tion. He (Robert) was sent to bt. John's, Cambridge,
where he took his demrees, and was esteemed an admir-
able scholar. He took holy orders, and became Curate
of Midhurst, Kent (qy. Sussex). It was at a christening
that he first expressed his dissent to the doctrines of the
Established Church, and subsequently, literally breaking
into infidelism in the pulpit, he was stripped of his
gown. _ _

Ile came to London and associated with Carlile,
man far beneath Taylor in intellect, and not to be named
with him in attainment. Mr. Taylor took the Roll's-
rooms, in Chancery-lane ; from thence he proceeded to
the Paul's Head, Cateaton-street, then to Founder's-
hall, Lothbury ; at all which places he lectured (or
preached, as Carlile termed it) his favourite doctrine.
He also visited several provincial towns. At Leeds he
was confronted by Mr. Calvert, a clever actor, then in
Mr. Cummins's company. Calvert, who was a ripe
scholar, detected Taylor's false quotations from the
Latin ecclesiastical writers. This induced the Doctor to
beat a retreat.

Taylor returned to town, was a constant visitor at
Lunt 's Coffee-house, Clerkenwell-green, where he asso-
ciated with Gale Jones, Wenman, and other well-known
characters of the day. He was also seen at Smith's,
High llolborn, near Great Turnstile; and at the Globe,
Fleet-street. In the summer his favourite resort was
Temple-gardens, where he distributed his tracts, and
sought disciples.
The Doctor's followers at length purchased for him
Dr. Bengo Collier's Chapel, in Cannon-street, City.
This place Taylor christened the Areopagus. Here he
ran riot, and at the instigation of Alderman Brown, now
Chamberlain, then Lord Mayor, was prosecuted, and
committed to the Compter. There Carlile brought Miss
Richards (better known as Mrs. Dorey, of Barber and
Fletcher (celebrity) to him as a visitor. The Doctor
fell, or feigned to fall, desperately in love with the lady,
and gave her a promise of marriage; but they were
doomed to part, for Taylor having been tried and con-
victed of blasphemy, was sentenced to two years' impri-
sonment.

On the expiration of his sentence, he returned to his
old lodgings at Mr. Russell's (a law-stationer, in Carey-
street, Chancery-lane), and there, we believe, he met a
lady somewhat stricken in years, who subsequently be-
came Mrs. Taylor. This wedding, of course, roused the
ire of Miss Richards, who commenced an action for a
breach of promise of marriage, and recovered 2501.
damages, to avoid the payment of which Mr. Taylor
and his bride departed for Tours. Though some dis-
parity of- years existed betwecn Mr. and Mrs. Taylor,
they lived very happily. He renounced his errors, and
returned to the doctrines of the Established Church.
Robert Taylor was born in 1792 ; he was, consequently,
either near his 52d or in his 53d year. About eighteen
years since a bitter article against him, written by a
well-known dramatist, appeared in a popular weekly
newspaper. Taylor threatened an action for libel, but
wisely abstained from carrying his threat into execution.
Mr. Taylor was a man of great acquirements, but
erratic. He was generous, nay, profuse, in his nature.

EXPERIMENTS IN THE MARSHES.—WOOLAviciI,
OCT. s.—Colonel Paterson, Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey,
C. 8., and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assistant
Director-General of the Royal Artillery, attended in the
marshes yesterday afternoon to witness various experi-
ments. The first were carried on by firing at a shield
placed in a butt at a range of 200 yards, the intention of
the inventor of the shield, which was composed of alter-
nate bars of iron and wood, was to ascertain if it would
prove a defence if applied on the same principle to pro-
tect steam-vessels when fired at. The shield was only
three feet long, by two feet ten inches broad, and ten
inches .deep, according to its curved form. The bars
of iron were three inches broad, and three-quarters of
inch thick. Five out of the ten rounds fired at the
shield struck, and went through, breaking the lower part
into minute fragments. The same inventor, Captain
Addison, then submitted a plan for heating shot to a red
heat, by placing sixty 12. pounders into a square cast
metal furnace, nearly similar in appearance to a stove.
The shots were admitted six each, at ten different entries,
five above each other, and, after the furnace was heated,
which occupied an hour and three-quarters in the first
instance, the heat became so great that the shot were
heated red hot in twenty minutes, and afterwards in less
than a quarter of an hour. The invention appears far
superior to the rough grating hitherto used, and it does
not consume much fuel. It appears to be formed in
such a mannerthat in the time of peace it would answer
the purpose admirably:of heating store or barrack-rooms,
and only requires some modification to regulate the
draught according to the state of the wind, to render it
highly useful for many purposes. Experiments were
also carried on by firing two 24-pounder guns on heavy
carriages, and two 24-pounders on ship carriages, to test
the strength of Alderton's platform. Seventy rounds
have now been fired out of the 100 intended for each gun,
and the platform still remains in good condition.
TIER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CITY.—It iS gene-
rally supposed that the 23d instant will be the day on
which ber Majesty will visit the City, on the occasion of
opening the Royal Exchange. The number of persons
to be invited to dinner will not exceed 1,300. The viands,
wines, plate, seats, &c., are to be done by contract. and
tenders have been sent out to six of the most eminent
houses in the City for the purpose of ascertainingtl'e
amount per head. The collation istoibn
be
cold.tended that her
Accord-
ing to the present arrangements, it is
Majesty should enter at the west-end of the building. It i
is impossible to finish every part of the works ; the por-
tions left unfinished will, therefore,
crimson cloth. As the time is too short for the statue of
her Majesty to be finished, it is arranged that the model
shall be fixed up for the occasion, and It is now undergoing
a process of enamelling, to make it appear like marble.
The large commemoration medal, to be presented to her
Majesty, the Royal Family, and others, will not be ready,
but the smaller silver medal, of the size of half-a-crown,
is already finished, and will be given to the company who
are invited,—Observer.

IRELAND.
ILLNESS OF LADY HEYTESBURY.
DUBLIN, OCT. 5.-Lady Heytesbury, we regret
to say, is in a most dangerous state. The medical
attendants have scarcely a hope that she can survive
the attack, symptoms of dropsy having appeared. lAt
two o'clock on Saturday the answer to inquiries at
the Vice-regal lodge was, "Her Excellency is worse."
Lord Heytesbury, Lord Eliot, and the other rela-
tives of her Excellency are in the deepest affliction.
BALLIgASLOE FAIR.
The great annual sheep and cattle fair commenced
yesterday. On Friday there was an advance in sheep
of from 3s. to 4s. on the prices of last year. Another
account represents the advance as ss. or 6s. per head.
Wool was much inquired for, but an advance was
demanded :-
" At an early hour considerable quantities of sheep
were driven into Garbally-park, but not, however, to
the extent of the number exhibited for sale at the
fair of last year. Ewes seemed to be more in demand
than others, and buyers, especially from Leinster
and Ulster, were readily found at an advance of from
3s. to ss. per head over the prices of last year.
" Mr. Pat. 'Taaffe's top lot of ewes brought, as I
have been informed, very advanced prices. His wed-
ders were sold as high as 21. 12s. 6d. The prices
given for ewes varied from 1/. 7s. to 21. 45.-the
latter sum was for very heavy stock. Two year-old
wedders fetched, according to the condition and
quality, from 30s. to 50s.
" Mr. John Fahey, of Loughrea, sold four mixed
lots of maiden ewes and wedders for 31s. 6d. Mr.
Walter Bourke, of Dumacreena, for mixed ewes and
wedders, and Mr. O'Flaherty, of Lisadowna, obtained
345. for ewes, which was an increase of from 4s. to
58. over last year for the same description of stock.
Mr. Charles Blake, of Tuam, sold a lot of ewes for
305., such as were with no inconsiderable share of
difficulty disposed of last October for 255. ; and he
obtained for a better quality 325. Mr. Burke's, of
Clegg, ewes fetched 325. 6d. Mr. Dennis got 435.
for some fine wedders, and 30s. for two and three-
years-old ewes. Mr. Kelly, of Kelly's-grove, sold to
Mr. Hopkins 200 two and three- years- old ewes for 31s.
6d., and for a beautiful lot of ewe hoggets 465. Mr.
Robert Fair disposed of 240 three-years-old ewes at
333. 6d.; 200 three-years-old wedders at 485.; and
100 of an inferior quality, fed on light land, at 455.
Mr. Thomas Fair's good lot of three-years-old ewes
brought 29s ; Mr. Hughes's ewes, three-years -old,
30s. ; and Dr. Colahan's two-years-old ewes 435.
" There is a large supply of hogget rams of a very
beautiful quality, and almost monster dimensions, but
as yet no sales of any consequence have been effected,
gentlemen anxious to become possessed of first-rate
tups being busily engaged in the selection of other
descriptions of stock. Mr. Reit has a prime rain,
which he expects will bring close on 30 guineas. It
is a cross of the Leicester and the old Irish, crossed
again by the Cotswold.
" Already several horses, some of them thorough-
bred weight-carrying hunters, and animals well
adapted for military chargers, have been exhibited
through town, and, as a demand is expected, the prices
will, in all probability, rate high. It is said that an
agent of the King of the French is in I3allinasloe, and
has been located in the neighbourhood since Monday,
intending to pick up any good young horses sub-
mitted for sale, arid the contractors for supplying the
cavalry stationed in Ireland with chargers have also
arrived. Well-matched carriage horses will be looked
after largely, an English jobber being here to make
purchases of that nature.
" The nobility, gentry, and landholders of Con-
naught, assembled at the Ballinasloe fair, and all in-
terested in the prosperity of this province, are to
hold a meeting on Monday, at Gill's Hotel, on the
subject of railway communication being extended to
the remote districts of Galway and Mayo, the advan•
tages of which are now so self-apparent. Lord Cle-
ments has expressed his intention of presiding on the
occasion."

•
in lighting his windows on the 9th of September, as
a token of rejoicing for Mr. O'Connell's release frarri
prison. Mr. Sullivan is a Protestant, and was one of
several Protestants who illuminated on the occasion.
—Leinster Express (Tory paper).
PORTOBELLO GARDENS.—BALLOON
ASCENT.
_ _ _

QUEEN'S BENCH.—REVOLTING CASE.
On Thursday a case of a singular character was
brought before Judge Burton, at his private residence
in Stephen's•vreen. Mr. J. A. Curran appeared as
counsel, Mr. Fitzgerald as attorney, for a respectable
man named Esmonde. Mr. Martyn and Mr. Lodge
attended as counsel and attorney for a person named
Joseph Millikin,an electrotype gilder, who it appears
lived in Mary-street.
The facts of the case, according to the statement
of the counsel for Mr. Esmonde, were these :—To-
wards the close of the year 1843, Bridget Anne
Esmonde, the daughter of Mr. Currant's client, was
seduced by Joseph Millikin, and induced to leave her
family ; an altercation is alleged to have taken place
between Bridget Esmonde and her family, in conse-
quence of their desire to prevail upon her to return to
her home. She summoned them before Mr. Duffy.
of Henry-street Police-office, on Friday last; and her
father and sisters, finding that a good opportunity to
recover possession of her, endeavoured to force her
home. A scene then ensued which baffles all descrip-
tion. Mr. Duffy was interrupted in the progress of
his magisterial duties by the most terrific screams
emanating from Miss Esmonde's sisters, father, and
brother, all of whom were engaged in the attempt to
compel her to accompany them home, in which they
were strenuously resisted by Joseph Millikin. Mr.
Duffy said he would afford every facility to Mr. Es-
monde to recover his long lost daughter, and the re-
sult was, that she was prevailed upon to go home.
Since that occasion Joseph Millikin made an appli-
cation to Judge Burton for a habeas corpus, to be
served on Mr. Esmonde, requiring him to produce his
daughter, alleging as his reason for seeking the writ
that she was treated cruelly by him; and on Thurs-
day Mr. Curran, with Mr. Fitzgerald, attended
before his Lordship, as already stated, to make
return to the writ. his Lordship desired Mr. Fitz-
gerald to make a return, which he accordingly did
declaring that Miss Esmonde was not in the posses-
sion of her father at the time when the writ was
served upon him, nor had she since been so. Mr.
Martyn produced an affidavit sworn by his client, set-
ting forth that Miss Esmonde was confined in a peni-
tentiary in Marlborough-street—that she was starved,
and otherwise badly treated. Mr. Curran, in reply,
said that the institution to which Mr. Martyn referred
was under the control and guidance of the Roman
Catholic clergy of Marlborough-street Chapel, and
that the treatment received by females who sought
refuge within its walls was kind and benevolent in
the extreme. Mr. Esmonde said that his daughter had
been detained by force from him, in order that he
might not be able to procure the facts from her ne-
cessary to sustain an action for seduction again .t
Millikin. Judge Burton said that Mr. Curran should
produce an affidavit verifying the truth of the return
made to the writ of halves corpus, and he would ad-
journ the case to Saturday next (in chamber), when
he expected Miss Esmonde would appear, and enable
him fully to investigate the facts. It would seem
that Miss Esmonde was of full age, and it might turn
out to be a case in which he could not interfere, but
for which the law in another way provided a remedy.
The application for a habeas corpus on the part of an
alleged seducer to get back from her father the person
who he had led from virtue, and induced to abscond
from his house, was very novel, and one in acting
upon which required from him the exercise of great
caution ; on the other hand, if the institution adverted
to was one in which the girl enjoyed her freedom and
was her own mistress, he could not see what impedi-
ment was in her way to enable her to appear before
him and state her or case. his Lordship then an
flounced that he would sit in chamber on Saturday
to hear the ease, and the parties withdrew.
On Saturday Mr. Justice Burton sit in chamber.
At four o'clock the case of Millikin and Esmonde
was called, and Miss Esmonde waa produced. After
hearing counsel on both sides,
Mr. Justice Burton decided that as Miss Esmonde
was of age, she was free to go where she pleased, and
could not e controlled.

After a most affecting advice from Judge Burton,
who shed tears, Miss Esmonde consented to go back
to the house of her father.

Mr. Martyn and Mr. Lodge emphatically denied
that they were counsel and agent for Millikin, having
been retained by Miss Esmonde.

The ascent of Mr. Hampton, the xronaut, in his
" monster balloon," which is little inferior in size to
the " great Nassau " itself; took place on Friday,
from the Portobello Gardens. Mr. Hampton de-
scended en the grounds of M. Callaghan, Esq., Ar-
tane House, a few minutes before five o'clock ; and
arrived, with his balloon, at the Portobello Gardens,
at half-past six o'clock, accompanied by some friends,
who followed him in vehicles.

LANDLORD AND TENANT COMMISSION.
The inquiry was held in Kilkenny yesterday. The
Commissioners in attendance were Sir R. Fergusson,
Messrs. John Wynn, Redington, and Hamilton.
MR. O'CONNELL IN DERRYNANE.
The Kerry Examiner contains the following:—
" The Liberator, though received with enthusiasm
everywhere on his route from Dublin, could not have
been more warmly or cordially welcomed than on
his entrance, and all through his native mountains,
to Derrynane Abbey. The roads were thronged
with joyous human beings. He sojourned for- two
days at Hillgrove, the hospitable mansion of his
relative and agent, John Primrose, Esq., with his son
John and lady, and the two sons of his friend, the
of
Right Hon. David Pigot, where a large number_ f
the neighbouring gentry were also entlerntadildnepda.ekOonf
Monday morning he left, with hihsesp
be
Ahe 'Within
beagles, and hunted on his way to t
several miles of this lovely
thousands of thetheir joyous weh
spot he was met by tens of
people, shouting
Herean
beingsthem :o tit
the
people towetrheeilri
tleirb:lrlyatoarliasned
Nimiatrhtybr.am
people from the shores of Berehaven and Bantry Bay
came in yachts and boats, accompanied by bands, to
hail their liberator at his own door, returned from an
unjust imprisonment, but, blessed be God, in the best
health and spirits."
THE LATE ILLUMINATIONS.
Sergeant Maher, of the 62d Regiment, attached to
the recruiting party stationed here, and who, our
readers will recollect, was charged with having his
lodgings illuminated on the occasion of Mr. O'Con-
nell's liberation, has received orders to join the regi-
mental depot at Chatham.—Carlow Sentinel (Tory
parer).

An investigation has been ordered by the magis-
trates of Philipstown district, into the conduct of
Mr. Sullivan, clerk of petty seisions in Philipstown,

THE WEST INDIES.
(From the Jamaica Morning Journal, Sept. 9.)
The present mail will convey to our distant readers
the intelligence that the Jamaica House of Assembly has
been dissolved—that new writs have been issued for a
general election. The dissolution took place on the
2Gth of August.
The weather throughout the island is represented as
favourable, and the prospects of large crops general.
The parishes to leeward are said to be looking remark-
ably

Colic immigration, it is thought, will not be favour-
ably regarded -by tho new House of Assembly, nor en-
couraged to the extent which parties in the mother
country seem to desire. The proposition for a loan will
of course not be necessary, if the views of members
prove, as they are expected to do, adverse to the new
immigration scheme. To African immigration there
does not exist any strong objections. It is likely there-
fore to continue.

The island remains healthy and perfectly quiet and
peaceful.

KINGSTON, SEPT. 3. The Royal Mail Company's
steam-packet Trent, with the mail of the Ist of August,
appeared in the ofling on Saturday evening, but could
not reach Port Royal, on account of the dangerous situ-
ation of the keys. She therefore anchored outside, and
passing round that place, reached her moorings off the
company's wharf early yesterday morning.
EXECUTION OF THOMAS BROWN FOR

MURDER.
(From the Cornwall Chronicle.)
The above-named criminal, who, it will be recollected,
was convicted at the last July Cornwall Assizes for the
murder of James Miller, of St. Elizabeth, was executed
on Tuesday last, the 27th instant (August). The gal-
lows was erected in the gaol-yard. The necessary ar-
rangements having been completed, the prisoner was led
from his cell at seventeen minutes past eleven o'clock.
On arriving at the scaffold, the Rev. Mr. Macintyre and
the prisoner knelt at the foot of the ladder. At the
conclusion the prisoner stood firmly up and looked
around him for a moment, putting one foot on the lad-
der to ascend ; but seeing Mr. Delisser on his right, he
said, "Me Massa Delisser, shake me ban' now." Mr.
Delisser cordially shook hands. He next turned to the
Rev. Doctor, who also warmly shook the prisoner's
hands. Other persons attached to the gaol, who had
ministered to the prisoner's wants while there, seemed
also to attract his attention. The ceremonies ended, he
ascended the ladder, during which he said, " I don't de-
serre what lis to suffer—l don't deserve it—l will die
like a man—l hope God will give me the spirit." The
assistant of the executioner, after the prisoner had gained
the platform, ascended to pinion his arms, on which he
said, " Massa, me don't want dis man here." The
man descended ; and this arrangement' having been
accomplished by the executioner himself, he said, " I
want to speak one word before lam done. Yearry me,
massa, addressing himself to the rector, who told him
that that gentleman (pointing to Mr. Delisser) would
tell him when to speak ; and Mr. Delisser shortly after
said, " Now, Thomas Brown, say what you have to
say." He replied, " Tel dem witness dat prove against
me dat I forgive dem freely from my heart ; I hope dat
massa (meaning God) will forgive dem." He paused,
and then added, " I hope my Lord Jesus will forgive
dem too. And now me bredderin, onoo all good bye."
The rector, fearing lest he should become excited, then
said to him in a soothing tone, "Remember what I said
to you." He replied, " Yes, massa, I have nothing
more to say," and became calm and collected. The cap
and rope having been completely adjusted, the rector
commenced to read the funeral service, during which, at
the words, " Sutler us not, at our last moment, for any
pains of death to fall from thee," &c., the rope by which
the drop was fastened was cut ; it fell down with a loud
clap, and the wretched man, after a few brief shudders
and weak struggles, seemed to enter into eternity with
little visible suffering. It was one of the most impressive
and orderly conducted executions we have ever wit-
nessed in this country.

FEARFUL COLLISION ON TILE CROYDON RAILWAY.
—(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)—SattIrdAy morning, at
half-past twelve o'clock, a monster train, divided into two
parts for the convenience of conveying passengers to the
Bricklayers' Arms and the London terminus, left Croy-
don with about seven hundred persons. The London
passengers took their places first, and the train started
off, followed in a few minutes by those for the Brick-
layers' Arms terminus. The train for London reached
the Annerly station about twenty minutes before one,
where, unfortunately, the lamp at the tail of the train
went out for want of oil. This circumstance not being
q)bserved by the conductor, the train went on, followed
immediately by the second one, when, in less than a
minute after, the collision took place, attended with an
awful crash. The greater part of the passengers were
asleep in both trains, having been spending the day at
Croydon fair, and were returning at a late hour much
fatigued. They were awoke out of their slumbers in the
greatest consternation. On the stopping of the trains lamps
were procured, when it was discovered that one of the car-
riages had been forced off the line and much damaged. A
first-class carriage in the London train was much broken,
the panels being smashed, together with the windows.
The last carriage was broken into splinters. The in-
jured persons, between thirty-five and forty in number,
were speedily released from their painful and embarrass-
ing situation, and proceeded to the Annerly Arms'
public-house, where they remained:upwards of an hour,
during which the trains were put in order. Many of the
sufferers, both male and female, presented severe contu-
sions of the head, arms, and body, and two females
were severely cut on the temple and eye, another had
her skull fractured, and was put to bed and attended by
a surgeon. Many of the sufferers presented black eyes
and bleeding faces. Some lost their hats, and others
their bonnets, shawls, and reticules, during the darkness
and confusion. The trains ultimately reached the
Bricklayers' Arms and London-bridge stations at three
o'clock, with those who had received slight injuries, and
thus ended their trip to Croydon fair. The directors
have expressed their readiness to make good the loss and
damage of property, and surgeons' bills, created by this
unfortunate event.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—One night during the
present week a barrel containing yeast was deposited at
the Hertford station of the Eastern Counties Railway.
Being in a high state of fermentation, the cask burst,
and it was forced against the roof with so much violence
as to occasion considerable damage.—llertford County
Press.

THE MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—This highly promis-
ing club has obtained leave to prefix the word " Royal"
to the club, and its title will henceforth be " The Royal
Mersey Yacht Club." The Honorary Secretary of the
Club has received letters from Sir Robert Peel, the Earl
of Wilton, the Marquis of Anglesea, and other noble•
men, consenting to become honorary members of the
club ; and also a notification from Sir J. Barrow, Secre-
tary to the Admiralty, granting permission for the ves-
sels to carry the blue ensign of her Majesty's fleet, with
the distinguishing marks of the club, which it is believed
will be a Liver and Crown in the fly of the ensign.
AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Monday evening last a
joiner, of the name of Thomas Jamieson, a native of
Ayr, was married at Stirling, and on Tuesday the
couple, accompanied by Elizabeth Jamieson, a sister of
the bridegroom, drove to Callender in a drosky, where
they met with another joiner, James Taylor, a native of
Stirling, but who has resided for some time at Cause-
'way-head, and was working at Callender. While there,
they had a desire to visit Bracklinn. The party set
off unknown to Taylor, but he suspecting where they
had gone, followed briskly, and unfortunately came up
to them just as they were about to enter upon the
bridge, which the young woman, Elizabeth Jamieson,
was objecting to do, when he seized her in mere wanton-
ness to place her on the giddy pathway, which is s
wooden structure scarcely two feet broad, with a railing
upon it, and stretching over a yawning chasm of most
gloomy and forbidding appearance, upon which but to
look- thrills tho nerves of the hardiest not accustomed to
such scenes. She, in her endeavours to avoid the dis-
agreeable object, fixed her hold upon the railing, whit*
gave way, when both were precipitated into the abyss
below. Every one who knows the place can easily form
an idea what the consequence must be. The body, of'
Taylor could not be got at the time, having been carried
..
away by the stream, and must have been ti
mangled ; while the girl was found with the lifstille l.l
yesterday afternoon, when ourinformant .1
her, but with little prospect of surviving.
left, Aetftohuor
woman
was still alive, and the body ,of Taylor bad not
beets
found.—Stirling Observer.
INCOME-TAX.
the Warwick Ad-
in pusuance of a requisf-
verftser, that on
tion presented to the Mayor, and his Worship's conse-
-Ailonredayleallsnt, from
quent apporn
• orient of a public meeting, to be held at
inhabitants of the borough of Warwick assembled, " for
the Court-house, many of the professional and trading
-the purpose of taking into consideration the mode of as.
sessing the income-tax, and the place of appeal against
all taxes; and also the propriety of petitioning the Legis-
lature against the continuance of the tax upon income."
Resolutions in furtherance of the object of the meeting
were agreed to, and the Mayor has forwarded to Sir
John Mordaunt, Bart. (Chairman of the Local Board of
Commissioners of Taxes fcr the district), a coy of them.
The Earl of Clare and the Hon. Col. Fitzgibbon
have been placed in mourning by the death of Mr. Thos.
G. Fitzgibbon, who died at his beat in the county Lime*
rick last week.

It is calculated that the thirty-one railways for
which Acts of Parliament were obtained last session will
require a capital of 11,741,7171. sterling.
It is reported that Lieutenant Puddicombe intends.
to prefer an action for damages against Colonel Burton,
11. M., whose letter respecting the Lieutenant's erimi.
nalit3- h s been the subject of animadversion.

We are informed that the preliminaries have been
arranged for a matrimonial alliance between the Hon.
Captain Boyle, second son of the Earl of Cork, and Miss
Georgiana Itobarts, daughter of the well-known banker
of that name. The ceremony will take place during the
present month.
The marriage of Lord Loftus nith the wom
plished daughter of Lady Elizabeth Hop, Vere, which,
was to have been solemnised to-morrow, is unavoidably
postponed for a few days.