The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-27 00:00:00

WEST-END GAMBLING HOUSES.

The recent capture by the police of a number of
the gambling-house proprietors and unfortunate vic-
tims, has caused a general feeling of satisfaction
among the respectable inhabitants who reside within
the district in which these dens of robbers flourished,
at the expense of the miserable dupes who nightly at-
tended them. In the City the exposure has occa-
sioned a great stir, and excited a vast deal of conver-
sation and interest ; and the magistrates there say
that this first bold effort upon the part of the police
authorities must be followed up with an unflinching
determination not to permit any attempt at re-esta-
blishing these horrible nuisances. We have taken
the trouble to make inquiries, through a channel of
unquestionable authority and experience, into the par-
ticular condition of affairs amongst the maters of the
extensive vicinity of the playhouses, and we trust
that the information we shall from time to time
supply will give important assistance to the
police, and that the police will be honest
enough to act:upon it. It appears, upon the exami-
nation of the roulette tables which were seized by
the officers, that they were found to be so ingeni-
ously constructed as to prevent the possibility of
winning upon the part of the players, the proprietor
having the power, by the use of a secret spring, to
check the ball in. its progress to the aperture, the fall-
ing of the ball into which would entitle the dupe to
win. The dice which were taken in all the houses,
particularly in the Albemarle-street crib, were false,
and consisted of different descriptions, variously num-
bered, and so ingeniously contrived that it was ut-
terly impossible for any one but the most adept black-
' leg to detect the villany. For instance, if the player
had to throw six to win his bet, one of the fraternity
usually termed " bonnets " would change the dice
with the expertness of a thimble-rigger, and substi-
tute dice without such a number upon them, so that
a losing number must be thrown ; the same trick is
carried on with any other number. The expectation
of the slightest chance of what the unfortunate
players call luck is, therefore, quite out of the ques-
tion. This plan has been acted upon in all the play
houses, but most successfully in the large establish-
ments, in which the greater number of assistants or
" bonnets" are employed.
It may be useful to describe these rascals. A
" bonnet" is sometimes a regular swell, dressed in the
first style of fashion. On occasions he is dressed
without any dash at all, and generally in black, and
he frequently assumes the clerical appearance, " with
spectacles on nose." These worthies appear at the
tables, in the presence of the casual parties who are
playing, as total strangers to all parties, and play with
a remarkable degree of ease and quiet, as if they had
nothing on, earth to do with the conspiracy to plunder
' the visitors. There is another class of " bonnets" to
be seen at the minor houses. They are mostly Jews,
and appear covered with mosaic gold chains and rings.
If an unhappy person with a propensity to play gets
amongst these indefatigable gentry, the idea of escap-
ing with the amount of a fare of a cab is quite absurd.
A " bonnet" generally receives from three to five
guineas a week, and a per centage of from 25 to 50
per cent. upon the money lost by any friend he may
introduce to the establishment. Some of the indivi-
duals who follow this most degrading occupation
were formerly in respectable situations in life, but
their early love of play reduced them gradually to
their present infamous position. When a " bonnet"
becomes too well known—say after five or six years'
employment—he becomes useless in that capa-
city, as his phis is recognised by the still decent
frequenters of the house ; but he is not altogether
discarded by his old associates in villany. He is kept
to be turned to another account,, and appears in the
character of a " dodger." In this capacity, if he
happen to be a sober fellow, he does great service to
an establishment. His duties are, however, most
laborious, as well as debasing. He is engaged in the
out-door work of the house at night—in following
new visitors to their residences, and ascertaining who
they are, and all about them. If a stranger ofgentle-
manlike appearance walk into a flash hell, and lose
fifty or one hundred pounds without making any
bustle or croaking about it, and behaves "quite the
gentleman," the " dodger" is ready to follow him to
his place of abode, and to make inquiries, which, if
found to be favourable, cause great attention to be
paid to him on his next visit, and when he loses what-
ever money he has about him, he is offered a loan
upon his IOU, or his cheque. The moment the ac-
commodation is accepted, the gentleman is booked as
a safe pigeon, for a sum corresponding with his posi-
tion in society. This game progresses for some time ;
the I 0 U's and cheques are paid, but at last the
victim finds out the secret that he has been robbed
and that everybody about him has been concerned in
plucking him. In some instances a dupe is bullied
out of his bills, or threatened with exposure amongst
his relations and friends. In other cases, however,
men who have plunged into the vice without thought,
have been able to muster up nerve enough to send for
the police to take the extortioners in charge upon the
demand of a settlement, and under such circumstances
the claimant has rejoiced to get away, and has never
been heard of as a claimant afterwards.

These practices have been carried on to such an
extent within a few years, that many young men who
held respectable situations in public offices and in
mercantile houses in the City have been obliged to
forfeit them in consequence., of the annoyances to
which they were subjected by the duns of the gam-
bling-houses for the amount of I 0 U's for money
lost by the means we have already described; shame
alone having prevented them from at once rousing the
police from the nightly sleep in which they have been
indulging, while the owners of the flash hells have
been wide awake in this most atrocious work of
rapacity. -
There is no part of the metropolis which the gam-
bling-house keeper and his satellites hold in such
utter abhorrence as the City of London. They de-
clare that a City Alderman (and they more particu-
larly point at Sir Peter Laurie) has no notion of the
duties of a magistrate—that his early education unfits
him for taking an enlarged and liberal and enlightened
view of the refined usages of society—that he is in
truth a century behind the age; and they adduce, as
an instance, the fact that no gambling-house could
ever be established in the City, in consequence of the
absurd and misplaced vigilance of the Civic authorities.
It is not in the spirit of exaggeration we state that
there is not a hell-keeper or " bonnet" or " dodger"
at the West-end who would not willingly subscribe to
pay the funeral expenses of the Alderman of Alders-
gate ward, whose image is perpetually haunting their
imaginations, as it was said, to visit the sleeping and
waking thoughts of Coster long before that delinquent
was charged with the offence for which he was removed
from the country. We trust that when any of these
gentry make their appearance in the City, to at-
tempt to extort money, pretended to be won, they
may be handed over to the magistrates for whose qua-
lifications they have so much contempt. Not long
ago a young gentleman of highly respectable family,
who held a situation, producing 1,0001. a year, under
Lord Jersey, the Master of the Horse, was ruined
amongst these hells, and, having become indebted to
some of the proprietors, was absolutely hunted out of
his office, and exposed, and is now wandering an out-
cast about the Continent.
It is well known that several of the men wha have
shares in these establishments, and keep expensive
equipages, can neither write nor read, from such low
conditions have they risen to wealth; but they have,
indirectly attached to their interests a well-known
attorney, who is associated with a class of persons
who supply him with ready-made or extemporaneous
evidence, for the purpose of sanctioning the enforce-
ment of any demands they have the shadow of a right
to make.

The Secretary of State for the Home Department
has been in communication with the Commissioners
of Police upon the subject of effectually putting down
gaming ; and it is rumoured that the Commissioners
have been rebuked for having allowed the Police Act
and the laws against gambling to be so openly and
audaciously violated as they have been within the last
two years, and they have been called upon to state
whether it is requisite to make the laws more stringent
to enable the authorities to check a practice which
has proved so destructive, and so completely paralysed
the moral energies of society.
It is considered a most strange and inexplicable
fact, that in such a country, boasting of an effective
and most powerful police as to physical strength,
public decency and the laws are so fearfully infringed,
while at Paris all the gambling-houses were com-
pletely broken up within forty-eight hours after the
Act passed for their prohibition • and although ten
years have elapsed since that prohibition, not a single
instance of the transgression of the law has been
heard of.—Sunday Times.

THE COLLIERIES OF THE TYNE. •-•..Arrangements,
as is now pretty well known, have been set on foot for some
time past by the coal owners of this district, to get their pits
again at work. In addition to those 'already enumerated we
have now to mention Willington, Heaton, Sosfuth, and Coi-
lodge, as having partially resumed operations. We have
been informed that Felling Colliery will commence full work
next week, with an entirely new set of men, unless the turn-
outs should in the meantime accept the conditions offered
by their late employers. If the pitmen should still hold out,
they will in many instances be compelled to quit their dwell-
ings, in order to make room for those. who are willing to
accept employment.—Newcastle Advertiser.
LONGEVITY.—On Thursday, William Milnes, aged
104 years, the oldest pauper on the barony roll and pensioner
on the Old Man's Friend Seibiety, Glasgow, died in that in-
stitution. The deceased was brother to Andrew who is still
alive and hearty in the Old Man's Asylum. He is in his 103 d
year.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL Securr—We are de-
lighted to be enabled to inform our readers that there is
every prospect of the approaching meeting surpassing
all the preceding. ones. The entries for implements ex-
ceed that or the last year at Derby by 130. We are
given to understand, that from the numerous applica-
tions already made for stock certific,ites, there is uo
doubt that the show in that department also will be the
largest on record. The Duke of Richmond was elected,
at the meeting of the Council on Wednesday last, Pre- j
sident fvr 1845.—Hampshire Independent,

A. SCENE AT THE NOMINATION
FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
MR. COBDEN'S SPEECH.
RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P., asked if the Sheriff I
had decided that no one weld speak unless he had to
nominate or second a candidate ?
The SHERIFF replied in the affirmative.
Mr. COBDEN then intimated that he would propose
another candidate.
Mr. BRANDT—The time to do so is before the candi-
dates speak. You are now quite out of time.
Mr. COBDEN—No ; I believe I am quite in order.—
(Cheers.) Mr Cobden then came forward to address the
electors, amidst loud cheers from the majority of the as-
serabage, and considerable uproar and hooting, all sorts
of clamorous vociferation from Mr. Entwisle's booth ;
which the Sheriff for some time in vain endeavoured to
restore to something like decent quietness and order.
At length Mr. ENTWISLE essayed with better effect,
saying—Gentlemen, I do beg of you; that you will give
every man a patient hearing and be quiet, and allow
every man to speak.
The gentlemen in the booth having subsided into a
momentary hush, the Tory mob below took their cue
from them, and were tolerably quiet for a minute. But
I Mr. Cobden had no sooner again commenced, by asking
" Why, what are you afraid of ? " when he was again
assailed by an uproar of yells, shouts, groans, and
shrieks, in which we are bound to say, those which pro-
ceeded from the hustings equalled, if they did not sur-
pass, those which emanated from the crowd.
Mr. BRANDT loudly called " order," but in vain; and,
turning to Mr, Cobden, he said,—lf the gentlemen on
the hustings would be quite silent, you might proceed.
Mr. COBDEN—Yes; but they are by far the worst.
The SHERlFF—Gentlemen, Mr. Cobden, as a free- '
holder of this county, has declared that ho intends to
propose another candidate. He has a right to he heard,
and I shall insist upon having him heard, or I shall ad-
journ the meeting.
Mr. COBDEN—Now, gentlemen, respect your High
Sheriffi—(Renewed Tory uproar.) Gentlemen, I will
stand hear till midnight but I will be heard.— (Groans
and hisses, responded to by loud cheering from the free-
traders.)
Mr. JOHN WILSON PATTEN, M.P. (to the friends of
Mr. Entwisle)—Gentlemen, Mr. Cobden has a perfect
right to be heard, and you will do yourselves no good
by this.
Mr. COBDEN—NOW, gentlemen, shall I go on ?—(lm-
mediately a large drum was beaten, close by the Horse
and Jockey inn, about 30 yards from the hustings.)
Gentleman, that is their argument,
The UNDER-SHERIFF requested Captain Woodford,
the chief of the county constabulary, to give orders to stop
the drum ; but he cooly replied, " the drum is half a
mile off;" and gave no directions concerning it that we
saw or heard, although he had previously given various
directiens to stop the music of the bands which were
playing while passing the hustings.
The uproar, both on the hustings and in the crowd,
continuing.
Sir T. BRI.NCKER said, Gentlemen, pray hear Mr.
Cobden—he has a right to be heard.
Mr. COBDEN—Now, gentlemen, are you ready to hear
me?—(Renewed yelling, hissing, and clamour.) Ad-
dressing the Sheriff, Mr. Cobden said, Pray, Mr.
Sheriff, request those people on the other side of you to
be quiet.
The SHERIFF—I have requested them, but in vain.—
(A. Voice on the hustings—" Get down with you,
Cobden.") The Sheriff suggested to Mr. Cobden, that
if he commenced speaking, the noise would probably
cease in a while; and Mr. Cobden said he had no objec-
tion to try that experiment; but, at all events, he was
determined to be heard, if he stayed all day. He then
came forward and spoke for a time, amidst all sorts of
discordant noises, which, however, gradually diminished,
and, during the greater part of his speech, he was only
occasionally interrupted in this way. So far as we could
hear him for the clamour, he said—
Gentlemen, I will detain you but a short time, but
claim the right, as a freeholder of this county, to appear
before you. I will maintain my right to be heard in
this meeting, even if I am obliged to remain till twelve
o'clock at night.—(Cheers, hisses, and " Off, off.") Our
opponents have stated—(Tory uproar)—ah ! its a very
few of them that are making all the noise. Our oppo-
nents on this occasion have made one great admission,
to which I am very anxious to draw your attention.
Mr. Entwisle has stated that there is no point of dif-
ference between himself and Mr. Brown, on general
politics ; he has let us know that Mr. Brown is as good
a Conservative as he is himself, and that the only
point of difference between them is on the free trade
question.—(Hear.) Now, I thank him for that admis-
sion, because it at once proves that the free traders of
South Lancashire, who are willing to support Mr. Brown,
whether they are Whigs, Radicals, or Chartists, are
sufficiently in earnest in support of that principle to
throw aside party on this occasion ; and if we gain
nothing else by this election—and I think we shall gain
a great deal more—we shall at least gain this—that we
shall have a moral standing hereafter, as being an honest
party--caring neither for Whigs nor Tories, but having
at heart the principles of free trade, which we have been
so long contending for.—(Heir.) But Mr. Entwisle has
stated—(Great uproar from Mr. Entwisle's booth)—ethat
Mr. Brown comes forward claiming the patronage Of her
Majesty's Government, and anxious to seek popularity as
the supporter of Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear.) Now, Mr.
Brown distinctly stated that he would supp,,rt any Go-
vernment, whatever it might be, so long as their mea-
sures were good; and that he would go to Parliament
neither to wear the colours of Sir R. Peel, or to bow
to his dictation, any 'more than he would to that of
Lord John Russell.—(" Question.") But the Hon. Can-
didate on the other side has said more. He says Mr.
. Brown has narrowed this question to a mere question of
corn. Why, Mr. Brown distinctly said that he was op-
posed to all protective and differential duties, whether
in cern, or sugar, or coffee, or in any other article.—
("Off, off.") Gentlemen, it is not very easy .to learn
from the speech of Mr. Entwisle what his own princi-
ples are in reference to trade or anything else—(hear)
—but there is an old saying, that you may know a
man by the company he keeps—(Laughter)—and there-
fore, if we would learn Mr. Entwisle's opinion, we cannot
do better than refer to the opinion of the lion. Gentle-
man who nominated him. I declare to you most solemnly
that the fallacies that gentleman used on the subject of
the corn-laws have been dead and buried, even in the
House of Commons, were these things generally are
very long-lived, for the last two years.—(Hear, hear.)
If it were not that I would not wish to be personal, I
would ask the Hon. Gentleman where he had been for
the last five years ; for I think, if we had found some
antediluvian remains of a politician, he could not be
more hopelessly in the dark as to the question of the
corn-laws.—(Laughter and applause.) He tells us that
we want, by repealing the corn-laws, to throw land out
of cultivation. Why, has he ever consulted the best
farmers whether a free trade in corn would throw the
land oat of cultivation ? Did he ever ask Lord
Spencer, the best arable farmer in the kingdom ? Did
he ever ask Lord Ducie ?—(Cries Loom Mr. Entwistle's
booth of " Off, off," and Mr. Brandt, turning to the
gentlemen, called out repeatedly, " Order, order.")
Gentlemen, we advocate free trade in corn, because
amongst its other good effects, we believe that a
free trade in corn will make the land of this coun-
try to be better cultivated ; and that is the opinion
of all the best farmers in the country.—(Cheers,
and Tory hooting.)—Gentlemen, there's but a few of
them ; but they make a great noise.—(Laughter.) But
I do not take the landowners of Lancashire ' as the best
judges on this question ; for I remember. that Lord
Duck, Lord Spencer, and other distinguished agricul-
.turiste, have declared that Lancashire and Cheshire are '
two of the worst farmed counties in the kingdom.— '
(Hear, hear.) When attending an agricultural meeting
at Knutsford, I remarked upon the state of the land '
along both sides of the railway, that it was actually
growing more rushes than grass. Now, I happened
lately to be in the company of a number of farmers
from Knutsford ; and they said, " What a lot of drain-
ing has been going on here since Cobden blackguarded
them about their rushes !"—(Laughter and applause.)
Why, I scarcely ever make my appearance in
any part of the country, but draining-tiles spring
up as if by magic, wherever I put my foot ; and, if the
mere fear of free trade makes them grow increased
quantities and improve their land, how much more will
free trade itself do ?—(Hear and applause, and a cry of
"Down with the League !") Gentlemen, those noisy
fellows are reduced to about a score now.—(Laughter.)
Now this gentleman tells us that there was no country
ever great and prosperous that depended upon foreign-
ers for food, and neglected their own agriculturists.
But we don't intend to neglect our own agricul-
turists. I saw Lord Ducie at Bristol the other day ;
and he said to me, "I can grow wheat at 365. a quarter,
and charge 2/. au acre rent for my land."—(" Hear"
and " Oh !") Now that shows how ignoran; some of
these Lancashire squires are of farming. Now, gen-
tlemen, and farmers who are here, I want to re-
mark upon what Colonel Tempest has said.—(" Name
your candidate.") I will propose him in my own good
time. Colonel Tempest says that the proportion which
rent bears to the produce of the land is only from Bs. to
1 10s. a quarter on the wheat grown. This is an attempt
to make the farmers believe, that they have all the
1 benefit of the corn-laws; but I will expose that fallacy,
so that every farmer shall understand it. Let every
, farmer that hears me go home, and take an account of
all he gets at market for the sale of his produce, and
then see how much of that money goes to the landlord, and
how much in other directions; and he will find, that, of
the gross amount of what he has received, one-half of
all he takes from elle market is paid to the landlord for
rent.— (Uproar.) When I was in Scotland I had
some conversation with a body of intelligent East
Lothian farmers, who made a calculation there to-
gether; and they came to a conclusion that every
quarter of wheat they took to market they paid to the
landlord 225. 7d. rent upon it.—(l-fear, applause, and
hooting.) Now, I de not say that the landlords are not
entitled to all the rent they can get; but they have no i
right to put on a corn-law to raise their rents, and then
tell us that the farmers get all the benefit of it. Now,
this gentleman tells us that the agricultural interest is a
much richer and more powerful interest than the menu-
facturiag interest—that they have hundreds of millions
of capital more than us, and that we are a comparatively
small and insignificant interest. Is it not, then, very
unreasonable that this mighty giant should come and ask
protection at the hands of this little diminutive dwarf ?
(Laughter and cheers.) But if we are really so small and
insignificant an interest as this gentleman says, who made
us so? Why is it that our trade is not greater? Why is it
that our foreign trade is not larger? We come to complain
that it is not large, and we tell you the reason; and then
our opponents, who are chargeable with having made us 1
so stunted in growth and so insignificant in size, turn
round upon us, and say—" Get away, you insignificant I
pigmy ! you have no right to complain : see what a
'nighty giant I am."—(Laughter and applause.) Well,
then, one thing more let me remark upon. The-gentle-
men on the other side propose to give equal protection
to all. Now, I ask these gentlemen how they propose
to give protection to the lebouter for hie wages ?—.

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(Hear and cheers.) The labourer is told that be is to
suffer a reduction of wages if we bring corn front
abroad. The labourers are told, "You will halivel! t°„
work for the same miserable wages as the P
Russian peasant, and to eat black bread." They Inro?
'"°_
as well tell you that if you are to bring rice fos
Africa, you are certain to grow black and to have curlirt
hair.—(Loud laughter.) If we proposed to bring curia
Russian or Polish peasants or operatives, to compete
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with our labourers at home, there might be some o_
of reason for what they say; but there is a free trade in
labourers; there is no prohibition of labourers; but l'fe_
propose to have free trade, which means more trade
corn, sugar, coffee, and all the other comforts and 14
cessaries of life which the working classes require; ah.,‘
having this free trade, there will be more employln;
for labour, for two masters will be seeking_ one muse)
stead of two men- seeking one master—(APP;
and, consequently, there will be a rise in wages, an.°_.er
working man will get the comforts of life at a tow s
price, and at the same time will get higher wag:ei,
for his labour.—(Cheers.) I see a great toaue
farmers here—l suppose your landlords will 1111;;
no objection to my speaking to you and
for it is rather difficult to get at you; ft;re,
now I want to let the cat out of the bag. their
ors are told that this corn-law is passed The
for
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t-netit and they are told to support the corn-100 nh,
these
cause it maintains their interests. But how d :ea of
corn-laws benefit you farmers ? If we raise the prie
the
corn by Act of Parliament, do the corn-laws gilTiarl
farmer the benefit of all this increase of price bell?---k •
uproar.) Gentlemen, there is now only about Lori
dozen of them.—(Cheers.) This is a part of DIY; me
which the gentlemen on tho other side will not 1„ out
tell if they can help it ; for they do not like lue,:plue
common sense into the heads of the farmers.
men, if we in Parliament raise the price of corn, welt dad
itlo lords raise
ai, ye, yes.")seeeur rentsin proportion. I suppose owning
cottages in a back street law to
lise,
the rents to the same amount as those of hutbst
Spposhienrge, a
ploasteofa men raise
in the front street, how long do you think do,
would last ? Why, only till the next quarter a, of
and then the tenants would leave, or those landlorso.
houses in the front street would raise their rents 't 00
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and down to 395. ; but, gentlemen, your rentisl.. let
high prices, and then it is to be paid when prices
on al_ is
and the consequence is that the farmer is allealLoldP
books of his landlord. Aftersome further remarks:lto" yo!,
Recollect that next Monday is the poll ; 1001 P-no'
votes ; you have had enough of blue and relli; boaefig
the sound principles of common sense and of I°`;
Take into your consideration the importance no OS;
question to this district ; consider what a bloWlie sel7,
strike by carrying the free trade candidate. .0, en°
first steamer will carry the intelligence to Anievrisa
At
the Americans will say, " We thought the EePtriek.l
not in favour of free trade ; but they ha"„ obis .11
in London and won there, and now they ha./' ' • • an
the same standard in the manufacturing distrie;ets
we will go on and reciprocate with them, and j°--ef fry
hand to hand, in carrying out the principles
trade.—(Great cheering.)
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REDUCTION IN THE ROYAL HOUSE
article appeared in the Times of Monday las' eot
from a weekly publication, respecting some recessr
ductions in the royal household; but for the es-rticle,
currency and the implied sanction given to tbisf oohs
by its having found a place in the columns toetlAii
journal as the Times, we should not have eV'
enfecethssearwyrittoernootficeeurhd
acmonatlrkaidoiuc
et tahtteemabpsture fa-)
bet
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character of the Sovereign in the estunatinu. 11/_,
loyal and devoted subjects. After some renlarTi; r
proper spirit of an ignorant detractor, the wr.-siets
ceeds to 'say, " but the popular grievance e°.,lideetie.
the somewhat anomalous fact, that this very oulr,
will absolutely entail an increased burden on t`l" 'of
Persons, whose services are thus dropped out 000
royal household, must be pensioned; but the their
are not to be paid out of the amount saved by , es'
duction, but are to constitute a fresh charge on
the Fe;
tional treasury. The consequence will be, that:by th.-
lic expenditure, instead or being diminished be of
25,0001. a year (the assumed reduction), w,i,111„,s
mented by the amount of the pensions." Sel,7„-died
we seen so much ignorance and falsehood elnu,e-be Pe,,";
in the few lines forming the above extract. 4, of 0
sious, whatever they may be, will be paid °°''
same fund that the salaries would have been b. piet
namely, out of the revenue voted by Parliament,he f
maintenance of the Sovereign, or in other words,' tae!
List, which is granted to the Sovereign in COnsiderseots
the surrender of the hereditary revenues of the Crorilf
the public. This constitutional arrangement fleet, th:
takes place after the accession of the Sovereign t oft
Throne, and in a pecuniary. point of view it esnl.lojeo)
the public to a farthing's amount, whether her nibessl
continues on the royal establishment the ilionr„ed
of useless domestics, or whether they are Peilsw;o,,ei
liberally, as, we believe, has been the case In
stance. Upon this question we feel we have as v'
whatever to inquire or remark. It is enough fees, 05
know that it is most false to assert that all,: son
rangement which may have taken place in if:,.114.e•
household can become a matter of additional er
the national exchequer that is, on the public' d
server. Oren
THE WONDERS OF MANCHESTER. --• Be ese
lf
chambers vaster than are told/of. an Arabian resent
peopled with inhabitants moree'wohderful than 0,010
Pefi. For there he beheld, in long-continueo,,e, tlist
those mysterious forms full of existence without 11' OS
perform with facility, and in an instant, what Danis s
fulfil only with difficulty and in days. A Ina°llll is
slave that neither brings or bears degradation :enesgP
being endowed with the greatest degree of 00',
and acting under the greatest degree
a" pas
~s
ment, yet free at the same time from ,;„ 11
I'l
and emotion. It is therefore not only 3 slave,
a supernatural slave. And why should one oar '-
the machine does not live ? It breathes, it rOOl
breath forms the atmosphere of some towns• it not is
with more regularity than man. And has e',„ girl.kre
voice ? Does not the spindle sing like a ineur",' es, 11;
her work, and the steam-engine roar in jollY
a strong artisan handling his lusty tools, anu Debt "_,•
fair (lay's wages for a fair day's toil ? Nor s r guy-
weaving-remn be forgotten, where a thousand ° itlllo
hundred girls may be observed in their coral nere.tt
working like Penelope in the day time ; 50°100etred
some pert, some graceful and jocund, some ebsd,
their occupation ; a little serious some ; few 5600 fhe
the 'cotton you have observed in its rude state' sticl
have seen the silent spinner change into threat, watP;
bustling wearer convert into cloth, you may DO.; ,
as in a moment it is tinted with beautiful col err"
printed with fanciful patterns. And yet the,,lsties ;01
mysteries is to view machines making ll:nap ew
spectacle that fills the mind v( ith curious, and '•
speculation.—Coningsby, or the New Generation.
DEPARTURE or TROOPS FOR GUERNSS,Ir; Goeffr
sudden embarkation of a large body of trooPs,l°oed
sey, on Sunday and Monday, somewhat a'3r;aserrti.
Isle of Wight friends, who surmised than an ale° 0
tion had broken out amongst the. Guernsernentlocontir,
ject being to depose Governor' Napier. T,llead is Peie
from Guernsey, however, show that the lstoritieso
feetly tranquil, and the intention of the autube Pe
ordering this military movement, appears t° not, Vol:
nently to increase the garrison. We know te in
-
ever, why there should have been so much ha,s
a simple transaction.—Hampshire Independe" opt
We are informed by a correspondent
receive
Roberts, solicitor, of Spring-gardens, has r';:ere f°„er'
structions from several persons whose houses of
bly entered by the police, when the late caPtil,ooo tea
sons employed in gaming was made, to COte_ golly
tions for trespass against the magistrates 011'0000 ero
warrants, and also against the Police Constnissstioa .ed
whom they were enforced. The houses in claes 0014
entered under the impression that gambling Witt'ef
on in them, but nothing was seen or discoverea to P,A
the suspicion. The late Sir Richard Birnie hsvuer,
800/. for the settlement of a like action.—Obser
BIRTHS.
On the 22d inst., at Worlingham Hall, Viscoun'+ efis 6001
f
of a son. time Car r• On the 27th of February, at Colesberg, - hot% of.
Hope, the lady of John Campbell, Esq., of a daute lad/
On the 9th ult., at Spanish-town, Jamaica/ 006
Simon, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. _dat-sti
On the 23d inst., at Hunter-street, Bruns" spy)
of
Mrs. Mardon, of a son. ri
On the 23d inst., at Lymington, the la Y
Agar, Esq., of Elm Lodge, of a son. S 6%o°'
On the 23th inst., the lady of C. Evens'Fort's-
On the 23d inst., at the Royal Naval College,
the lady of Captain Wilson, R A., of a daughter; of irbe.:
On the 24th inst., at Temple Dinsley, the latlyo, otPt;
P. Halsey, Esq., of a son, which only survived a coci., is
herOilital.iieest2yttsh7i4ntsht
Regiment,, the lad)
ooff
ner. t Horton ,:ro
10, ore,
On the 24th inst., at the Priory, see, tby
Henry Haes, of a son. ov
On the 24th inst., air Chester-terrace, -es Hied
wife of the Rev. Morgan Cowie, of a son, who „low
f NTI
few hours. ladY°
On the 24th inst., in Abingdon-street, the
Currey, Esq., of a son, still-born.
MARRIED. „wick opt,
On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras, Mr. Fl r
Martin, to Ellen Matilda, youngest daughter e- Pr°
the est
Crutched-friars. Ate,
On the 23d inst., at St. John's Church, lug ,of 9(14
Elphege Van Zuyen Van Nyevelt de Gaesbe 4,1000,
to Ellen Claiborne, eldest daughter of Thomas Wat. Job!e,ibingd(4l6stlle
Wandswort
of Charleston, South Carolina, and of }forgot
On the 23d inst., at St. laelen's Church, to ,00,
Henry Westcar Peel, Esq., of Watling Esq
ofA
05
rine, eldest daughter of J. Torry__ Hest 49' er! log,
DIED.
Robert 4'11°10"
On Thursday, the 23d inst., Mr. Robo_o
__t_gas
proprietor of the Bedford Hotel, Piazza, C,
On the 12th inst., at Rome, Thomas Anon! Qtatfort4ifittlis,
tMorfs.thS:rlial;'llll32eljbiro,
oOnn
tthhee 2211 ss tt rust.,ns taitiaßnanyasilYarteelrin,
Esq., of Belgrave, Leicestershire.
Aeitolj
Ile"
Irish Dragoon Guards.
On the 22d inst., at the Vicarage,
poncast...,e', 54,,,„1-01
On the 22d inst., at Hatfield, near
IsTorthoPjZittsof Pia
Archer Allen, Esq., Lieutenant in the 4th Roerge:r"
William Pilkingtos, Esq., of Kensington-g -% ice-
otf
On the 23d inst., at Highfield, Southanipto"
Hollis, aged,43l.
Esq., of Gloucester-place, Portman-square; ,rtroat
On the 23d inst., at Cumberland-sees
aged. i 0- $O,O
Eliza, the wife of Admiral Carpenter,
On the 23d inst., at Notting-hill-terracc,
Ifq(*.
London ; Printed and Published 197
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tm ma'. the W.--
Strand, in the Preeinct of the Sitiol, 01
Middlesex, Monday, May 27, 1544.

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