The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-01 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENJNG, NOVEMBER 1, 1845.

MAGAZINE DAY.
COLBURIV'S NEW MONTHLY.

The best article in the present number of the New
Monthly is a ballad by Charles Ilooton, entitled " The
Exploits of Moreno, the Texan." It is a spirit-stirring
composition, and is such a ballad as Scott might have
written on the subject of a border foray. Moreno is
the Sheriff of Texas, and having heard of a celebrated
robber .and murderer named Van Clein, who, by his
atrocities, wasi the :terror of the district—he obtains
admission to the monster's haunts in disguise, and hav-
ing reconnoitred his hiding-place, retires unmolested.
As soon as he has fled Van Clein suspects the true state
of the case, and prepares for defence. Moreno aeon
arrives at the head of a party of Lynchers ; and the
catastrophe we give in the words of the ballad itself :
Not many days were overpass'd, ere, in the dark of morn,
The tramp of many horsemen on the desert air was borne.
Van Clein look'd out, and through the mist of mingled night

and cloud,
He beheld that hated stranger upon his courser proud ;

While on his left six mounted men, and six upon his right,
Prancedj oyfully and eagerly to aid him in the flight.
Van Clein rush'd out with fury, calling loudly on his sous,
To follow him like heroes, and to handle well their guns.
" Now Satin guide my bullets true, and take my soul in pay.—
I've cheaply held my life before—l'll sell it dear to• day !
And a hard and bitter bargain will he have who deals with me,
As very soon this traitor and his company shall see!"

Van Chin crouch'd earthwards cat-like, and his rifle levell'd

well.—
A crack,—a bla ze,—a smoke,—a groan, and brave bforeno fell.
But three belted balls in answer took the robber by the head.
Yet he fired again in falling, and when ha fell was dead :*
The sons threw down their weapons, and in vain essay'd to fly,
The mounted Lynchers caught them both, and both adjudged

to die.
So they took a rope and lash'd them—those two brothers—
face to face, •
And in one noose they hang'd them on a tree before the place.
After that they held a revel on what they found within ;
To feast on robbers' provender, these judges deem'd no sin.'
They also found Moreno's gold, with not a doubloon spent.
So back into the saddle-bags from whence it came it went.
To recruit the wounded sheriff,—fur 'twas not a mortal
wound,—
Three good days and nights they tarried upon that fatal ground.
Then burn'd the buildings through and through till nothing

could be seen,
Save hot and blacken'd dust to tell the story of Van Clein
* Literally true.
This story gives us a more favourable idea of Lynch
law then we had previously entertained. It is in the
unsettled districts of America what border law was in
th unsettled districts of the border between England
and Scotland before the union of the two Crowns—an
efficient substitute for an inefficient executive. Mr.
Justice Lynch is only a transatlantic " Belted Will
Howard." Peter Priggins gives us an amusing illus-
tration of the fable of the wolf in sheep's clothing—the
wolf in this instance being a certain Mr. Worthington,
alias Slinking Tom, who, by a judicious display of pro-
perty and piety, manages to victimise the Ebenezerites
of the village of Brackenbury to a considerable extent ;
he is, however, caught at last, and becomes an involun-
tary emigrant to Van Diemen's Land. We have to re-
iterate our complaint against the abominable system of
continuation's, which diverts a magazine from its legiti-
mate purpose, and converts, it into a federalism of
serials. In the present number we have no
less than six continuations—James's " Beauchamp,"
Captain Maryatt's " Privateersmen," " The Adven-
tures of Mr. Jolly Green," Mrs. Trollope's "Ro-
berts's on their travels," " Maxwell's Lights and
Shades of a Gentleman on Half-pay," and • " Mariotti's
Organ boys' progress." The latter promises to be a
valuable work. The account of the sufferings entailed
on the poor Italian organ-boys by the well-meant but
injudicious efforts which have been made to convert them
to Protestantism, is a sad illustration of the mischief that
may be done, and the misery that may be inflicted in the
name of humanity and religion, by most philanthropic
and t xcellent persons when they suffer their zeal to out-
run their discretion.

ance or surplus fund will suffer less than in other circum-
stances; for that which, on the occurrence of such evils at
previous periods, was expended in charities, will at present
reach the operative in the far more beneficial form of the
wages of productive labour.
" The cessation of the speculation, or, which is the same
thing, the unusual effort, will not be the cessation of the con-
struction of railways; which, on the contrary, will then
simply take its part and share in the usual industry of the
country; subject always to renewed and sudden expansion,
the instant that profits.in other employments again diminish
through superabundance. Doubtless, men will ask here,
where and when is it all to stop? for surely tvis, like all
things else, must have an end. That end is yet far away :
so far, that we believe even the least likely of existing pro-
posals will soon become realities in our country, with their
lines of arms and feeders, and be thought of as no marvels :
nor will it belie our expectations, founded not on dreams or
hopes, but on the fullest knowledge of what art can do, if the
chief existing lines early undergo an entire remodelling; so
that they exchange their present second-rate character, for
the swiftness and competency then considered imperative
in the main trunks of the internal communication of this
country."

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDson, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked
for some time this morning, and on the return of her ➢iajesty
and her Royal Consort, his Royal Highness and the Earl of
Hardwicke and Colonel Bouverie, all on horseback, took the
diversion of shooting, returning shortly before two o'clock to
the Castle.

In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton,
his Royal Highness driving. The Countess of Mount Edge-
cumbe, Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, followed in a pony
landau and four. The Hon. Colonel Grey and Colonel
Bouverie, Equerries in Waiting, attended on horseback.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal,
and the Princess Alice, were all taken their accustomed
airings this morning.
Captain Vyner arrived at the Castle this forenoon with
dispatches from Saxe-Coburg, and afterwards proceeded to
the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore.
The royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Speth, and Major-General Wemps.
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in the
evening.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon. The
meeting was held at the private residence of Sir Robert Peel,
in Whitehall-gardens, the Right Hon. Baronet being slightly
indisposed with an attack of the gout.
The Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Lincoln, and the
Right lion. Sir Sidney Herbert, attended.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
The Lord Chancellor receives the Judges, Queen's Counsel,
&c., on Monday next, the first day of Michaelmas term, at
hi, residence in George-street.
Mr. Freshficld had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of New South Wales and
Van Diemen's Land.

The Earl of Dalhousie arrived in town on Thursday night,
from Deal Castle.

The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe arrived at Farrance's Hotel,
Belgrave-street, from Windsor Castle.

A THRENODY on the APPROACH-
ING DEMISE of OLD MOTHER CORN-LAW.

BY THOMAS MOORE.
I see, I see—it is coming fast,
Our dear old Corn-law's doom is cast !
That ancient lady, of high degree,
Is as near her end as she well can be ;
And much will all vulgar eaters of bread
Rejoice, when they see her fairly dead :
For never, from ancient Medea* down
To the late Mrs. Brownrigg, of bad renown,
has any old dame been known, they aver,
Who could starve and carve poor folks, like her.
But, dear old damsel, they wrong her sadly,
'Twas all by law she behaved so badly;
And God forbid, whate'er the event,
That free-born Britons should e'er repent
Wrongs done by Act of Parliament.
But is it indeed then come to this,
After all our course of high-bread bliss?
Poor, dear old Corn-law !—prop of Peers,
And glory of Squires, through countless years,
Must all thy structure of Pounds and Pence,
Like another Babylon, vanish hence?
Must towering Prices and Rents sublime
Thus topple, like turrets touch'd by time,—
And all, for what? that each shirtless oaf
May bolt, for breakfast, a larger loaf!
For this one vulgar purpose alone
Is all this inelegant mischief done.
For ti,;." poor Knatchbull—hard privation—
Must lower u peg his " social station !"
For this, even lords (distresing thought)
Will soon to short commons all be brought ;
Will fall with their wheat so much per quarter,
And get to look blue as Bucky's garter.
And stars will grow pale as prices fail,
And fees in tale will be cut off for sale,
And all will sink by a sliding scale,—
As "slips o'er its slime the sleek slug-snail,"t
Nor leave one corn-lord high and hale,
Though they flourish now to tell the tale!
* This lady, as is well known, was in the agricultural line.
See, for an account of her farming operations, Ovid, Meta-
morph. I, vii. v. 227. Her skill in "carving" is thus briefly
described by the same poet—
• stricto Medea recludit
Ense senis jugulum."
t A line borrowed, with but little alteration, from one of
the Lake poets, the original being as follows :
"Slow sliding o'er its slime the slippery sleek slug-snail."

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY

COMPANY.

The first ordinary meeting of the Shareholders in the
South Wales Railway was held yesterday, at the Great
Western Railway Station, Paddington; Mr. C. Russell, M.P.,
Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair. The meet-
ing was made special for the purpose of giving authority
to the Directors with respect to any agreements with
other Companies, and application to Parliament, which they
might think it expedient to make in the ensuing session,
and generally for other matters.
The common seal of the Company having been formally
affixed to the registry of shareholders, and it having been
announced that the whole of the capital had been sub..
scribed,

The CHAIRMAN said the Directors had great
pleasure in meeting their proprietory, and they
congratulated them on the success which had
hitherto attended their operations and proceedings in Par-
liament. The great difficulty they had met with proceeded
from the obstacles which had been thrown in their way of
crossing the Severn. It was impossible for the Committee
of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons to
resist the authority vested in the Board of Admiralty
by law, but both Committees did all they could for them.
They gave them their line complete, with the exception
of that portion of it which embraced the passage of the
Severn, which had been reserved for the next session.
The question was certainly a most important one, and it
had since occupied the deliberate and serious consideration of
the Directors, who still continued of opinion that the place
they had selected for crossing the Severn was in
all respects the most advisable. They believed, in
fact, that it would not only be beneficial to themselves,
but it would tend greatly to improve the navigation
of the Severn itself ; but it was not for them to impugn
either the judgment or the authority of the Board of Admi-
ralty. They had, however, lately been in communication with
that Board, and they were not without hopes that some plan
might yet be devised by which they would be enabled to
carry out the project in the mode and manner they bad
originally wished. It was, nevertheless, desirable that they
should not enter more largely into a discussion of that
question then, and they had therefore not required their
engineer to make any special report upon the subject. Since
their Act had been obtained their engineer had been em-
ployed in revising the surveys, and he had the authority of
Mr. Brunel for stating that they were nearly completed.
Immediately that they were so the shareholders might
rely upon it that the Directors would enter into
contracts and proceed with the works with the utmost
possible diligence and rapidity. The attention of the Direc-
tors had, of course, been called to the numerous projects for
new lines, which form almost a net-work over the
whole of the Principality of Wales. It could
not be expected that any very considerable portion
of these lines would be entertained, much less passed,
by the Legislature. From many of them they had selected
such as they thought were likely to prove advantageous to
the South Wales Railway, and to these they were willing to
give their entire, their friendly support and co-operation.
The Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester, and the Hereford
and Shrewsbury lines were likely to be of great importance
to the South Wales Railway Company, in so far as they
would tend to convey their traffic to the north,
and they had accordingly entered into an understanding
with them. Previous to their going before Parliament they
entered into an agreement for the purchase of the Forest of
Dean Railway, contingent upon their own Act passing. Their
Act had of course passed, and the agreement had become binding
upon themselves. It was, he might add, their intention to
enlarge and improve it, and then they anticipated it would
have the effect of bringing a large and important mineral
traffic upon their main line. They had thought it ex-
tremely desirable that they should encourage and support a
line of railway running up the Vale of Neath, and it was pos-
sible and far from improbable that a line of railway would also
be formed from the top of the Vale of Neath to Merthyr
the
Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester, passing by Merthyr
Tydvil and Abergavenny, in order to afford railway accom-
modation .to a large and no less important mineral
and manpfacturing district.—(Hear, hear.) If this Neath
Company should be able to make an arrangement with the
Hereford and Gloucester Company, the South Wales Com-
pany would also be disposed to give it its utmost support.
He believed these were the only lines with which they had
formed any connexion, and in the present state of the
money and railway market they thought it advisable not to
encumber themselves with any fresh or extraordinary under-
takings.
The report, which was simply an echo of the Chairman's
speech, and contained no statement of the accounts, was then
read, and afterwards adopted.
The present Directors were then confirmed, and their salary
fixed at 1,8001., and Messrs. Dobree and Gower having been
appointed auditors ; with an allowance of 251. each, the secre-
tary's salary was fixed at 7001. per annum.
The purchase of the Forest of Dean Railway was confirmed,
and the Directors empowered to take what steps they might
deem necessary in the ensuing session of Parliament for the
general interest of the Company.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting
terminated.

GREAT WESTERN SHARES.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
COSt.

A person, buying 10 Great Western shares in
Oct., 1844, at 621. prem. on 801. paid ...... 0 0
He has since received a new issue in respect of
above, of 20 quarter shares, worth 181. prem.
each, reducing his cost

Real Cost 1,060 0 0
The present value of 10 Great Western shares,
"ex New Issue," is 1451. to 1501. each—say
10 shares, at 1451.

Leave a pretit of £39o 0 0
Instead of a loss of 1,0001., as represented by the Times.
Any Stock-broker in London will confirm this, and it ought
to be noticed.
The new issue has been altogether lost sight of, both by
you and the Times, and was a great boon to the Shareholders.

rumoured in Leicester that the Roman Ca-
tholics are
about to purchase the Three Crowns, and in its
.
t magnificent cathedral, similar to that lately
pbulaicite
atto eNroectt
gh,zin. They are now erecting a very large
college at Ratcliffe, neu:
the Syston station; and on Charn-
wood Forest is a monasterj inhabited by about thirty monks.
The latter possess a farm of about 250 acres, which they
themselves cultivate, and to the poor of the neighbourhood
they are exceedingly charitable.—Dedw _Reporter.
MR. OAKELEY.—It is not true, ad stated by the
Morning Post, that the Rev. Frederick Oakeley's resignation
of his fellowship at Balliol College (in opposition to the
advice of Dr. Pusey) is founded on the decision of the
Arches Court against him, and on his not being permitted to
perform his duties. Mr. Oakeley has resigned, in conse-
quence of formally entering the Romanist communion at
Oxford, on Wednesday last.—Church and State Gazette.
JESUITS.—The number of Jesuits already arrived
at Lucerne amounts to nine. A correspondent in that place
assures us that they will gain no ground, not at least in the
town itself. The barricades erected by order of the Govern-
ment are still standing, the National Guards are still under
arms, a considerable cumber of citizens are living miserably
away from their country, and banished far from their families.
1,500 men are already condemned; others are amenable to
capital punishment, all their fortunes are confiscated, and
it is in this state of things that the Jesuits have just been
installed in Lucerne. The Court of Appeal has sent back to
the inferior court the prosecution instituted against Captain
Ulmi and Jost Barth. It has decided that they are not
amenable to the penalty of death decreed by the inferior
court. The news of banishment of Dr. Feni and Professor
Daffner is confirmed. It is still thought that they will be
imprisoned in a fortress of Piedmont.—ConstitutionneL
SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPTAIN HARDY.—Yesterday
Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Blue Boar, Caro-
line street, Bedford-square, on the body of Captain Hardy,
late of 8, Tavistock-street, aged sixty-five. The deceased
had been originally attached to the East India Company's
Marine Service. After leaving the service he became one of
the most active and liberal governors of Middlesex Hospital,
and a director of the poor of the parish of St. Giles. From
the evidence before the coroner it appeared that shortly after
retiring to rest, in his usual health and spirits, last Wednes-
day night, he felt himself so suddenly attacked with illness,
that he called his nephew, and desired him to send for Mr.
Combe, surgeon, of Caroline-street, who immediately at-
tended, and applied stimulants, which afforded temporary
relief. But scarcely had Mr. Combe left, when his illness,
accompanied with the most alarming symptoms, returned.
It was then deemed advisable to call in °Dr. Amott, of Bed-
ford-square ; but all his efforts were unavailing, as his
patient was a corpse in a few minutes after he first saw him.
The medical witnesses gave it as their opinion that deceased
died of a diseased heart, and a verdict accordingly was
returned.
THE ISLAND or MADAGASCAR.—The recent affair
at Madagascar naturally draws attention to that island.
After New Holland it is the largest island in the world. Its
length is about 900 miles; and its central part is about 400
miles in breadth. It is supposed to contain about 250,000,000
or a 10,000,000 of acres. The climate and soil are generally
highly i",:yourable to vegetation, including all the choicest
productions or he tropical regions. It is rich in minerals,
particularly in the',;:etals, with forests of fine timber, and,
not improbably, fields o. coal. Its geographical position
renders it capable of becomU:: one of the richest por-
tions of the globe. In attemptinj to bring its barbaric
sovereign to reason, a better way may be ,!!)und thah that of
attacking valueless towns and useless forts on trs;.:' coast. The
capital must be reached or threatened; but to sice,7llP!ish
this by marching a force through the marshes is clearly
possible, or most hazardous. Is there any other way ? In
the common maps, a river rising not very far from the capi-
tal, and within the healthy region, is conducted, by the
mapmakers, to the sea on the west side of the island near
the 20th degree of south latitude. But it is supposed by
others, that this river, instead of running west, runs north,
and falls into the sea about the 16th degree of south lati-
titude ; and it is supposed to be navigable to within four or
five days' journey of the capital. This river, it is said, was
once frequented by Arab vessels, and a fair was held at the
point where it ceased to be navigable for boats, &c. Ra-
dame's father, and afterwards Radama himself, becoming
jealous of this near approach of foreigners, prohibited this
traffic, and endeavoured to conceal the real course of the
river. Should the Admiral or the Governor of Mauritius
wish for certain information concerning it, they may find
fugative natives of Madagascar in the island of Mohilla,
near Johanna, who would gladly act as explorers.—South
African.
FOREIGN CATTLE AND FRUIT, &C.—The General
Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Sir Edward Banks, from
Ostend, a day or two since, brought 32 packages of Belgian poultry,
a quantity of fresh fish, eggs, plants. &Q. The Company's vessel
Belfast, from Calais, brought 25 skins of walnuts; the Harlequin,
from Boulogne, 64 skins of walnuts, four packages of poultry, and
other articles. The Venezuela, from Rotterdam, brought 91 sheep,
eight calves, 17 packages of poultry, eight packages of yeast, a
large quantity of cheese, butter, seeds, roots, &c. The James Watt,
from Havre, brought 39 skins of chesnuts, the first importation of
the article, we believe, this season—a quantity of peas, eggs, and
other articles ; and the Soho, from Antwerp, brought, amongst
a variety of other articles of French produce, 41 baskets of smelts,
&c. Two or three sailing vessels have also arrived, laden with fresh
ripe fruit fer the metropolitan markets. The Alexandre, from Grave-
lines, brought 111 packages of walnuts, besides a large quantity of
eggs and other French produce. The Express, from Jersey, brought
1,500 bushels, one barrel, and three boxes of apples, the produce of
that Island, besides a quantity of pears, &c. ; and the Guernsey Lass,
from Dunkirk, brought about 30 packages of apples, the produce of
Normandy, and other articles.
We are requested to state that it was Mr. Bruton,
the comic vocalist, and not Mr. Cornish, who attended at
the dinner given to Sir W. Molesworth.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 31.—The Avon steam-vessel,
Commander Denham, F.R.S., left Woolwich on the 27th inst., on
her surveying expedition to the coast of Guinea, including the
mouths of the Niger. The Devastation, Growler, and Ardent,
paid off during the month, are to undergo a refit, and be again
made ready for commission. The shipwrights are employed build
ins the Sphynx and Niger steam-vessels by task work, as it is de_
sirable they should be ready by the close of the financial year. The
Amphion frigate, building. will be ready for launching early next
year, and is to be fitted with a screw propeller. -
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.—BeIrs Life
is London, Nov. 2, contains seven folio columns of the week's
races. Price of the enlarged Bell's Life Sixpence. Published in
time for all the Saturday etternoon railways.