The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-21 00:00:00

THE DUMFRIES CANDLEMAS FAIR.

Our, town was crowded with strangers on Wed-
nesday, and it was lucky the second and heaviest
snow-storm did not come on till Thursday. Had
the snow fallen a day earlier, many intending visi.
tors must have kept away, while those who did
venture to town, would have found considerable dif-
ficulty in returning home, The drapers, we under-
stand, did a fair share of business, and, the lads and
lasses seemed as Blythe and caiity as ever sve saw
them in the best of times. in the end of the week,
very little business was done, and many, we presume,
postponed making purchases from Ito other cause
I Ilan the inclemency of the weather.
Hoßss M.titkFr,--The horse market was well
ttended by dealers, from Ediiibtirgli; Glasgow, Ayr,
&c., but the show of cattle was on the Whole in-
itTior. Good horses were particularly scarce, and
lrought higher prices than usual. Breeding in
this department has been conducted injudiciously
of late' years, and though the farmers 11011 t clearly
sce their error, a cotrAderable period must yet
,lapse before the supply is adjusted tv the
.demand,
Our.resident dealers sold every horse in titeii. pos-
:,rssiodiria,uagnidlt,onNevhoifeitihebmr6
uegxlhitibitthed'a cbthe fiotf
tit. This, however, was the top:price of the market.
The advance since last year on this particular descrip-
tion of cattle, is as near as may be &5 per cent.
Of roadsters, coachers, bunters, cobs, and ponies,
t !te show was poor, though we might quote many
individual exceptions. The sales of these were on
the whole dull ; for d late years, too, Many
coacher-6, &c., have been reared, while ie breeding of
t fraught horses has been comparatively:neglected. The
best-hunter shown, sold for 7.5/. Roadsters may be
quoted from 18/. to 35/.; coachers from 30/. to 45/. ;
;end draught animals from 2.51, to 40/. •
HARE-SKINS.—The Dumfries Candlemas Fair,
the greatest market of hare-skins in Britain, tuna
Unties to be attended by furriers from various part's

of the country, such as Sheffield, Preston, Sunder-
land, Berwick, Wigton, and Greenock. The sup-
ply, however, this year, was under, an average one,
owing to the great openness of the winter, up to a
very recent period, Altogether about 1,60 dozen
kius were turned out, and as the mawkins, during
such weather as, the present, may be caught even
by a colly dog, it is confidently expected that an
equal, if not a greater .number, will yet reach the
Dumfries dealers, and be transported by them to the
market of the South. Prices, we understand,

rated from twelve to fourteen shillings,and we learn
from authority, that thirteen shillings is as correct
an average as can possibly be struck. The Dm•
fries dealers expected to realize better prices; but
the furriers were firm, and " would' not budge from
-their first bodes." One reason assigned for this is,

that considerable importations have arrived at both
Liverpool and London of what the trade call Neidie.;
skins, a species of South American monkey, the fir
of which is held to be superior to that of the"best
British hates. Most commodities, whether natural
or artificial, are divided into finer and coarser kinds ;
but hare-skins, when sorted, are all classed under
one head, and sell at the same rate per bundle.
Ihres, however, like other animals, are found of
all sorts and sizes, and very frequently 30 inferior
skins go for one entire dozen. When first counted,
they are divided into wholes, halves; and what are
called rubbish, and when we speak of 1,600 dOzen of
skins, we must be understood as meaning so many
parcels, each worth 13s. Reckoning by indi-
vidual skins, the total number shown here could
not, we are told, be under 38,400—certainly a very
goodly number for one small section of the kingdoni
of Scotland. The -fur of hares, killed in summer,
is both scanty, and of :inferior quality, and 30 full-
grown skins of this character, are only rated as equal
to a single dozen of good ones. From October to
January, the fur is thickest, and of consequence best;
ind after the present month it begins to get dete-
riorated both -as to quantity• and quality. The
buyers, it appears, set little value on inferior fur,
and, as will. be, seen from a notice in another part of
our paper, intend in 'future to reckon decimally, by
making. ten bad skins equal to one gitod one.
Of Rabbit skins there were IWO dozens from
Ayrshire, and several small parcels from other quar-
ters. These were all purchased by one house, and
,though We did not learn the exact price, we believe
it was about 4s. 6d. per dozen. The Ayrshire rab-
' bits are reckoned superick to those of Wigtownshire,
a fact it is very difficult to account for, considering
the nature of the 'soil and herbage common to every
warren in the country.
Foumart skins were unusually scarce this year,
a proof that these vermin are falling off in numbers,
and a fact every old wife will be glad to hear who
values the integrity of her hen-roost.—PuiVries
Courier.

ABDUCTION.—We understand that on Mon-
day night a young woman named KENNEDY, was forcibly
carried off from her father's house near Kilinaganny, county
Kilkenny, by a party of about thirty fellows. A number
of women and several men chased the party, and having
released her, placed her in a public-how,e, from whence
she %vas afterwards removed to the residence of the Rev.
Mr. HALLY, P. P. of Commonsfield, for better security.
The principal party concerned in the offence has been
committed to the jail of Clonmel.--Dublin Morning
Register.
ANECDOTE OF MADAME PASTA..—We
must relate an anecdote of Madame PASTA. Some gentle-'
Men who knew her well, informed a friend of ours when be
was in Paris, that she would come home from the opera,
and sit in a passion of tears at the recollection :of what she
had been acting. They told him that nothing could be
more unaffected, and that she would say she knew it to be
idle, but that she "could nut get the thing out of her head."
This is just what imaginative people would expect her to
say. She never pretended that she had taken herself for
the character she . represented ; but she had sympathized
with it 'so strongly, that it became the next thing to reality;
and if our hearts can be touched, and our colour changed,
by the mere perusal of a tragedy, bow much more may not
a woman's nature be moved that has been almost identified
with the calamities iu it ; that by force of imagination has
brought the soul of another to inhabit her own warm being ;
and has entertained it there as the very guest of humanity,
giving it her own heart to agitate, and taking upon herbal
the burden of its infirmities !—Leigh Hunt's Companion.

DEATH OF DELPINT.—Died, on Wednes-
day morning list, at an obscure lodging in Lancaster-court,
St. Martin's Church-yard, CHARLES ANTHONY DELPINI,
the author of several dramatic works, and many years ago
the best clown of his day at both the principal theatres ;
besides which he was stage-manager of the Opera-house.
He was not only a caterer for the public amusements, but
likewise for the diversions of his present MAJESTY, when
young, having got up, for the Prince of Wriars's enter-
tainment, that grand festival, or rather masquerade, at
the Pantheon, called La Fiera di Venezia,—tlie most
`superb thing of the kind ever exhibited in this coun-
try, the 'tickets of which were sold" as high as three
guineas each. This grand and magnificent fete was in-
tended in celebration of the Prince's attaining the age of
majority. DELenit, however, was considerably out of
pocket on the winding up of the expellees incurred by this
demonstration of loyalty. Such were the volatility and
eccentricity of Dnelza's character, that he never once
thought of the future, by either providing for his old age, or
even subscribing to the Theatrical Fund, or any such
provident institution ; so that he was laid ou a bed
of sickness for some years, and afflicted with a complica-
tion of disorders, without any resource but the occa-
sional' relief derivable from a few friends, amongst whom
Must riot be forgotten the great kindness of his old
patron, the Prince—his present MAJEsiv—who, about six
years ago, was graciously pleased to send biro, through the
medium of the writer of this, the sum of 2001. ; recollect-
was nactly
ing, perhaps, the zeal with which DELPINI had served hire
both in London and at Brighton. The decline of pow
Dzulm'e life was solaced by the unremitting attentions of
his widow, who attended his bed of sickness, misery, arn I
suffering, with the most praiseworthy affection and ca
wholl disregarding her own privation
who is now left in a state of entire and frightfulsingular presenti-
destitu-
tion. DiLettrf had a ver tro g and
very strong
"
Merit that he should not die till the year Eight," as he
and fatigues, and
often declared to the writer of this, which
realized, for he died in the year 1828, at the age of 88.
He was born in the parish of St. Martin, at Rome, and
drew his last breath in the parish of St. Martin nay, in
St. Martin's church-yard, Leaden. As his life was con-
nected with many of the most distinguished characters
during the late and present reign, it is intended to publish
his memoirs, for the benefit of his destitute widow,

SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOVRNALS

. .
We readily publish, as eve are bound, the followiD
authentic; denial of Mr. iluskissonis alleged COM Tin

nication to Lord Seaford, of which we spoke in rmt-
leading at tiele of yesterday
are autliorizzal to state, with reference to a para
graph in our paper of ye.terday, in irhich Mr. •Ilutitioain
is charger] with having made a certain declaration,. in
words to Lady Canning, and in xvriting to Lord Seaford;
_ _

that Mr. Iloskisson never wrote to Lind Seaford for the
subject to which those words relate, and that Lord Scarm
never 'admitted,. that Mr. IluAisson had done so, or
31r. Iluskisson had used those words to hiM." •
We shall not now take the trouble 01' inviritie
vvhether there is any distinction intended betNi;4l
the
nression " never admitting," and "-denyitik."
Mr. 1-fusCzi'on himself has allowed the fact (ancrti-e.
niselveS stated ,4!: within two days of its Occurrent*)
of his &eating that be would form no politicat
anion with thOJe'w;ai bac! destroyed his late friend.
We refer also to a third Jotter from " Algernon," in
this day's journal, for a pos4i;ye and untitiestionable
statement of the fast. Mr. HlN'sl(isson complained
the other evening, in the House of commons, that
irTich his declaration had been made _:;_nown by a
breacii of confidence. The sentiment, hov4.ferudid
him honote, and'fbc knowledge of it has only twcotne
distressing, since the engagement has been violated.
—Times. • '

il;:jegT:l::veyilellixumenrdtdoi?otpithirsitveedocifiyotlkoflr. Gordon,
descriptionsufierings o
ft
curative
in behalf of the
most miserable of human creatures, whom. the- Al-
nom Gentleman to the public praise and gratitude, az:
Kience. We never
addressedencttolhlueeifitetterlsiecei:tafat:l4;el;hieliensatoi;lenreCtadnal-
se of
file
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ia
tttiiilcieset.oslir
Commons on Tuesday evening by the,
of
on the itao'll.l:
tee: ei:oag:burez tiej
ut
j
of numerous patient...
attendancetatlelloeefftdiitccevai,lelndtenclue
made pristaiersi and all labouring under. anon
cruel disease,—tile loathsome and abominable fiirl,
in which they arc coraleruned to wallow,—the per-
tl.ct hopelessness of recovery. under such a systclu,
Nv.here there is no medical or magisterial inspection
that deserves the name, and the terrible facility with
which a person of the most sane mind 11a:'
be .seiied, by a malignant or rapacious relative,
;aid on ;factitious testimony lodged for life.
iir
one of these hellish dungeons, really convey to the
imagination the picture of a ccimmunity so helpless,
and of a legislative power so utttrly barbarous, as
to resemble nothing in history, or alinasi, in fiction,
much less a faithful representation of l'yfie happens,
hourly in this free and Christian laud. Wet belirye
i!lat not many instances can be adduced of a ft`W4i---
patient recovering, or being suffered to recover;-in
;:ily even of what are looked upon as the le aA fault;
private madhouses. We. have been told so. with, a
grin and sarcastic wink, by some,of the " funitim-
;hies" employed in them. The profit of the,princi,
lid certainly arises from the deicntiva of lunatic,--
.T>t from their release. Mr. Peel haviu given I
warm 'support to the motion of Mr. Gordon, fo
mending the law upon this Most painful
we have hopes, at length, that by the interference of
the Government, there may be secured to this un-
happy class of our fellow. creatures some sensible.and
durable advantage.— rbid.

. . .
It seems to be a matter of common consent,
that nothing so unsightly—nothing so ignoble—no-
thing so senseless—:vas ever attempted in the -way
of architecture, as the new palace ere while build-
ng for the town residence of the King of England,
nd now partly on the point of demolition. About
.1 twelvemonth ago, this mass of unmeaning prcrli-
cality was denounced in a leading article of the
Times, and we then did nut flinch from pretty
broadly describing the fate which ought one day to
nefall it. The " patchwork"—tlus "carbuncles"--
the misshapen " egg-cup" on the top•—have sittc'e
been carrying on with unabated obstinacy, find with
barbarous profusion, until at last, in the maturn,7 01
their hideousness, it appears they are, One and alt,
to be Oiled down, and a substitute administered,
mich as may be found among the examples of so-
briety, common sense, and Civilization. It has been
long since affirmed, that Mr. Nash is not to bhimu.
for any part of these melancholy, because wasteful,.
absurdities. Mr. Nash has, it is known, deipre-
eated and abjured the abominations of Bucking;
ham Palace. It is but an act of common justice
to acquit this gentleman—to whom London owea
Amething—of a crime in ornamental architecture,
which Nvoula have cancelled a thousand times th-
obligation. It is not Mr. Nash's Palace. Whose.
then, is it'?- It is for his Majesty, no doubt; but.
who is the attist ? That is a point on which the
people have a right to be satisfied; and, whoeier
the culprit may be, Parliament—that is, the Houae.
of Conn:lions—the guardian of the much-perverted
national purse, must have him. Whether it be the
hardihood of childish ignorance, or the pertinacity
of capricious dotage, whoever has so misemployed,
the public money, and so marred a public object,
bungler may never again have the means of renewing
must be dragged forward, that such a. meddler anti
his folly. The nation has no reason to boast of its
public architecture. It gained nothing by the
Chinese palace at Brighton. it lost rather lesk in
money, though not in credit, by that gloomy chaos of
stone and mortar which so long disfigured tire banks
of the Thames at Kew, and puzzled every traveller
on the western road through Brentford. Least of
all does it. benefit a heavily taxed people, to have
brat the erection, and next the prostration, of t:.le
Buckingham-house anomalies to pay for. If--
what seems incredible—any British subject' has
taken the commands of an irresponsible per-
sonage, not countersigned or sanctioned by
an authority known to the ConstitUtion, and has
acted *upon such orders, instead .of a regular
application to the public Treasury for money, the
Duke of Wellington will, we suppose, refuse inex.
orably the means of discharging debts incurred by
such unwarrantable proceedings, and will leave the
issuer and executor of illegal commands to settle the
account between them. If committees of taste, and
other courtly flatterers, recommend to a tradesman
bseub4soeronit.
the execution of commands not sanctiornleadusbwyboix
of the King's Ministers,- let the courtiers and the
ttauhirajdlt's tool:Lett oeuk e of Wei-
tradesmen once be compelled to take the euize-
quence, and we can answer for it that matters. vvill
always go right hereafter. - The House of Com-
mons must stop, this intosoletf•aarbletopir
goes an inch further. The sooner the stand-is made,
the easier and more effectual will it prove itself,.
Whether the cost of deviating from
demolitionswo
rer4eor gwulal
and
we
authorised,edoalterations,
hope
unconstitutional
tbi teutotiroeil
dent that enougli
before Parris-
, influence,ment hutaisf
he
eo
lington will not truckle
of spirit and tense will-be found in the House of
Commons to reject the
ceheaurtdees.
the application with contempt

Ibid.
In tile Reuse of n
Coninions, oil Tuesday night,.
he thought that the influx of Irish labourer.
7iad: a good rather
mr. snring. R
ice is reported, in a discussio on the.
• r f the removal o
.I.lbjeet f Scotch vagrant to have
than an evil to England, a it
tended materially to keep down the price of labour.
both agricultural and manufacturing. He objected •
most strongly to the introduction of Poor Law;
in
to Ireland." As this report, from its brevity, can
only contain a part of the observations made by the
Hon. Gentleman, we are willing to believe, that if
all which fell from the Hon. Gentleman had Leer
reported, it would be found that his observation:.
were so qualified as to convey a different meaning
from what the above lines import. e are unveil=
ling to believe that a Gentleman, who has lately
tilled the important office of Under Secretary of
State for the Home Department, could give expret,
sion to an opinion so
utterly unjustifiable in every
point of view, as that it is a good to keep down the
price of labour by excessive competition. 'We are
unwilling to believe in the existence in the present
day of any one, who, however anxious he might be
in bis individual capacity to make as advantageous