The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

AHE COMPLEXION.—LOWLAND'S LO-
TION removes all impurities and discolorations of the
skin, and promptly re-establlshes a clear and healthy toneof sur-
face, while its sustaining properties in obviating the effects of
variable temperature upon the tint of the Complexion is veri-
fied by the continued freshness usually limited to the earlier
periods of personal attraction.
" Robt. Shaw, London," is in white letters on the Govern-
ment stamp, without which it is not genuine. Prices, 2s. 9d.,
ss. 6d., quarts Bs. 6d:
• Sold by all Perfumers and Medicine Venders, of whom
may be had Shaw's,Mindora Oil, for the Hair, price 3s.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE AT HOUNSLOW, AND rRO-
VIDENTiAt, ESCAPES.—For some days past consider-
able excitement has-existed throughout the neigh-
bourhood of Hounslow, in consequence of the circu-
lation of a report that at the recent assembling of the
Bth Royal HussarE (now quartered at Hounslow
barracks), for manoeuvring on the Review-ground, on
Hounslow-heath, one of the privates of that regiment
had fired ball cartridge instead of blank cartridge, and
that several persons had, in consequence, while pur-
suing their daily occupations in the neighbouring
fields, &c., most miraculously escaped being shot.
From inquiries made by our reporter at Hounslow,
we have ascertained that the report is substantially
correct. On the day in question, while the troops
were skirmishing, Mr. Brainbridge, an extensive
miller, whose mill and premises stand on the right
side of the high road, was engaged within his pre-
mises near the gate, with two of his men, superintend-
' ing the carting of dung, and was standing at the
horse's head, when he was alarmed by the whiz
of a ball, which fortunately passed between
his own and the horse's head, and lodged
in the wall of: a cottage behind, where it
still remains, The horse instantly reared its head and
became almost unmanageable, but was quickly se-
cured, and within the room of the cottage, the wall of
which was struck, were two females and seven chil •
dren, who were greatly alarmed by the circumstance,
the ball-being forced full three inches into the wall.
The ball in question had, in its progress crossed the
high road; and, it is believed, from the inquiries that
have been made, that fifb balls, in the whole, are
known to have passed over the road. The miller
represented to the Colonel in command the providen-
tial escape he and other persons had had, when that
officer summoned the whole of the officers to his pre-
sence, and acquainted them with the circumstance,
when, from the inquiry made, and the position from
which the balls came, it was considered that they
must have been fired by one of the privates of the
E troop, doing duty at Hampton Court Palace, whi-
ther the troop had returned. Two orderlies were in-
stantly dispatched 'to Hampton Court, with orders to
search the men, and they returned to the barracks
with the suspected private in custody, but nothing
was found upon him to prove the truth of the suspi-
cion, and after a searching interrogatory he was libe-
rated, and sent back to his troop. It is said that
during the firing one of the sergeant-majors was
heard to say, " There goes a shot," and by some per-
sons it is considered that the shots were intended for
one of the officers, but upon what grounds such a sus-
picion is entertained has not transpired.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The bursting of the British. Ameri-
can Emigration and Colonization Bubble, and
especially the circumstances which led to the ex-
• plosion, continue to excite no inconsiderable sue-
. prise, even among those whose position has en-
abled them to watch
.the concoction and working
of similar schemes, and their temporary success
in drawing the credulous and unsuspectingwithin
their snares. The source of this surprise is dis-
covered in .the prominent place assigned to his
.Grace the Duke of Argyll in the formation of the
Association, and the confidence with which the
agents of the- scheme have referred to his
Grace as the parent of the undertaking—
a statement which received a considerable mea-
sure of- confirmation from the fact, that in
the programmeof the scheme, the Duke of Argyll
was held up as the illustrious " President" ot the
Association.. A long list 'of' Scotch Baronets
.were included in the list of Directors—we beg
pardon, " Commissioners"--in whom the honour
and responsibility of managing the afiltirs of the
Association were invested. Picot such an Asso-
ciation—the Duke of Argyll at its head, and a
long line of titled names following, with due re-
gard to heraldic precedency, as honoured asso-
ciates,with him in the, cause of E nigration and
Colonization —that such a confederacy of titles
and philanthropy should turn out no better than
it should be—a scheme to entrap the unwary—
another of those bubble-companies, by which so
many of our fellow-countrymen have been de-
ceived to their ruin—was indeed a finale to so
high-sounding an overture for which few, if any,
were prepared. Yet such it has proved! We
alluded yesterday to the history of this additional
instance of the ingenuity and impudence which
characterise the proceedings of adventurers who
prey on public credulity, for the purpose of cau-
tioning persons of rank against being duped into
giving eclat to such schemes by permitting the
use of their names as Patrons, Presidents, Chair-
men, or in any other way, until they have, by
close personal inquiry and investigation, obtained
assurance that they are rendering a service to
the public by giving this certificate of good cha-
racter to the projects, instead of being, as they
often have been, the mere tools with which
knaves have worked upon the unsuspecting,
whom they have fleeced by their means. To this
extent only we were at the first inclined to re-
gard the Duke of Argyll as blame-worthy. We
treated him as the dupe of clever knaves; who
had Cajoled him into lending his high-sounding
name to their scheme, well-knowing that their
own would be ineffectual for deceiving even the
most simple. A closer acquaintance with, and
fuller inforniation upon, the subject, supplied by
his Grace's own letter to the Lord Mayor, place
the Noble Duke in a position from which we
cannot see how he can escape without paying the
penalty of the responsibility he has chosen to
incur, by indemnifying every one who has been
induced to embark his property, or to intrust his
person to-the supposed integrity of the scheme,
on the faith of his Grace's name. From this re-
sponsibility there is no loop-
hole of retreat.
STANDARD.—A reverend gentleman lately
charged the Conservative press with apostacy,
because of the less attention which we have
lately devoted to the proceedings of i‘lr O'Con-
nell and the political Roman Catholic party in
Ireland. We have an unfeigned respect for our
accuser—hard as is the measure of his reproof—
and can easily enough understand why lie, who •
properly confines his consideration to the strictly
religious question, should look at the progress
of affairs in a light different front that in which it
must present itself to us, who transgress the
limits of our province, if we go beyond conside-
rations merely potitical. - Not that our care for
the interests of true religion ought to he less
than that of others, -but that we art' inemnPe-
tent to garrison any save its political defences.
Now, it scents to us, that the political defences
of the Protestant faith arc secure ia the custody
of her Majesty's present Ministers, or, if not ab-
solutely free from all danger, at least so much
more secure than they were under the ascen-
dancy of Mr. O'Connell's tools—men prepared
with heavy blows and great discouragement for
the religion of truth—as to authorise, if not en- •
join, a di&rent line of action on our part. Now
is the time for the immediate ministers of reli-
gion to exert themselves zealously as such; we
have done our part in labouring to procure them
an opportunity, free from the malign influence
of a corrupt and hostile Administration—let
them use that opportunity, as we believe the im-
mense majority are using it. Although, how-
ever, the Mr. O'Connell of 1842 is a very diffe-
rent person from the Mr. O'Connell of 1840, this
" Wallenstein of the gutter," while he is
still able to keep round him his rabble
of adventurers and desperadoes, and to persist in
his career of outrage, delusion, and robbery, must
not be altogether neglected, merely because he
can no longer display a recognised banner.
Treason from the lips of any one, however con-
temptible, may lead to mischief; and from the
lips of a chief of faction it will probably infect of.
his faction as many as are not already thoroughly. •
tainted, and even reach others. The O'Connel
lite faction, too, though _hourly diminishing by
the secession of conscientious and prudent men, •
must be expected to receive in exchange re-.
crui.s from the wounded selfslove or disappointed
ambition of many deserters from other parties, if
men are not fully warned of the road upon which
they enter when they proceed to join him.

MONEY MARKET and -CIT Y NEWS.

FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE —lt is stated in the accounts lately
received from the United States, that men of all par-
tiesseriously and cilnastshees
eaornes beginningidera t
n ot.,
plans for the restora-
tion of State credit, as the best means of restoring the
general prosperity. We hail this movement as the
dawning of better days, both for America and for
England, and we rejoice that it should come from the
people generally, the source of all power in the States.
It will render the measures adopted more certain in
their effects, and more honourable to the Federal Re-
public. The • credit of America being restored, and
placed on a proper footing, the
may begin together a long career of
twou r
eC oo
urnnt -rli lei: s
prosperity. We understand that the State of Illi-
nois, which has been so much embarrassed by vast
undertakings of canals and railroads, is making an
effort with the view of paying a part of the interest
on her debt due in January. This is beginning the
right way, and will, we hope, be met by proper en-
couragement on the part of the European capitalists
interested in her stock. A curious and interesting
tribute has lately been rendered to Illinois. An As-
sociation has been formed in Ireland under the auspi-
ces of that excellent person, Father Mathew, (who
has, perhaps, done more for his countrymen than any
man living), for promoting the comfort and well be-
ing of Irishmen, wishing to emigrate to foreign coun-
tries. In the prospectus of the Association the State
of Illinois is recommended, not only on account of its
fertile prairies and fine climate,;but for the efforts she
is making to fulfil the obligations of
whose name
god faith. The
good priest would not have recommended
Irishmen to
a most respectable
ladoptngiht
become abye-word a Stat e, as their future
n n
d ttcountry,r reproach
0a c h
children's children. Illinois may yet take thetotheir
start
of her elder sister, Pennsylvania, who has immense
rr eusroatli
population,rce
s ,
with speculative financiers, the authors of her an d,
butwe understand,
a nidn,
the first instance,
misfor-
tunes, and now with manceuvring politicians, who
think more of their own little objects than the most
important interests of the State.
lIERALD.--Among the Custom-house frauds
which are now the ' subject of conversation, and of
which instances can now be produced in; almost every
trade by those familiar with the current workings of
their own special vocation, may be noticed the extent
to which tobacco, in the shape of Bengal and Manila
clieroots, has been regularly, not smuggled, but
openly though fraudulently introduced through the
Custom-house. It is well known how insignificant
is the quantity of these cheroots regularly entered and
passed for duty through the Customs, not more it is
stated than a few cases yearly, though not having the
import tables at hand for the moment the exact quan •
tity cannot he verified. And yet there can be no
question, cr at least there is none in the trade, that
from 40 to 50 tons enter into the annual consumption
of the kingdom. The duty stands at the rate of
9s. 6d. per lb., whilst the sale price of the article
without duty rules only generally about is. 6d. per
lb Instances are, however, quoted of purchases at a
much lower rate of price than what the duty alone
would arrount to, where the parcel purchased was
: ctually cleared through the Custom-house to . the
purchaser by the vendor. Of course it was well
understood both on one si le and the other how the-
business was adjusted and the discrepancy of values