The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-02 00:00:00

NEWARK.

The contest for this hitherto close borough is likely td !
be severe. Michael Thomas Saddler, Esq. of Leeds, has
been for some days in the -field, under the guardian ship of
a certain Noble Duke not far from Newcastle, and although
actively canvassing has met with but doubtful success.
Fear and doubt was entertained by the independent electors
that no candidate would dare to dispute the above influence;
Saturday however removed all doubt by the arrival of the
agents of Thomas Wilde, Esq., the eminent and learned
King's Sergeant, who published by large placards the in-
tention of the learned Sergeant being at Newark at
three o'clock. Shortly after an animated address from
the Learned Sergeant announced Lis determination to
abide a contest, and that the delay of him decision
was to be attributed to the sudden and unexpected re-
signation of their late Representative, and not to any
want of respect on hie part. The town now became all
bustle, the Blues assembled in thronging numbers opposite
the Castle and Falcon Hotel, engaged by the Sergeant,
waiting with anxiety the hour of his arrival among them.
Before two o'clock the road towards London was lined
with electors to meet him, and on his approach his horses
were taken from his carriage, arid he was drawn into the
borough amid the deafening cheers of all description of I
perions—not least in their welcome were the ladies. On
his return to the hotel the Learned Sergeant was intro-
dueed to the electors by Mr. Pearson, and then he pro.
seeded to address them from the window. His speech re-
tained all the usual power of the Learned Sergeant, and
was received with long and loud cheering.
The Mayor has signified his determination to give effect
to fair play, rather unusual in this borough, and has
conducted himself with much courtesy to the Learned
Sergeant ; and no doubt seems entertained as to the sec-
eessful
This morning (yesterday) the Mayor sent his compli-
ments, and stated he had given orders to the proper officers
to attend the Learned Sergeant to Church, and that his
official pew was at his service, which was as politely ac-
cepted by Mr. Wilde, and lie was attended by a large as-
semblage of well dressed electors and their ladies.
CoNscirwrious BaNKEßS.—Previous to Mr. Sergeant
Wilde leaving London, he placed in the hands of Barclay
and Co. bankers, London, 5,000/, to advise their cor-
respondents, Messrs. Godfrey and Batton, of at Newark
On the advice being received, they politely sent a note to
Mr. Wilde declining receiving the amount, not having be-
fore had the honour of opening an account with him.—
Query. Are they not stewards or agents to a Noble Duke?
Doubtless 5,0001. more will be shortly placed in their
hands by him, in consideration of their conscientious
conduct.

The effects of suitors in Chancery for 1828
nmBunted to near 40 millions.
The thermometer, in a sheltered situation, fell
on Saturday night to 28, being four degrees below the
freezing pint.
KIRRIEMUIR.—CATHOLIC ENI ANCIPA-
Tlol4.—We have seen the copy of a petition, in the course
of signing, which is to be presented to the King and both
Houses of Parliament, sent here by that great Anti-
Catholic of Dundee. The petitions we at once denounced
as the effusions of a madman. They are the most ludi-
crous we have sees of all the bigoted intolerant Anti-
Catholic petitiu.r, ; and we have too much confidence iu
our townsmen to be afraid of their patronizing any peti-
tioning to Parliament against Emancipation. The great
fanatic wrices with his circular that he hopes the rams'
horns of Scotland will sound from every corner; no doubt
thinking, ghat, if the horns were sounded, the cause of
Emancipation would fall as the wails of Jericho did of old.
—Dundee Advertiser.

MEASURES IN PROGRESS FOR THE RE-
STORATION OF YORK Mixstea.—lt is with great plea-
sure we call the attention of our readers to an advertise-
anent, in another column, requesting the attendance of the
Nobility and Gentry, at a meeting is be held in the Fes-
tival Concert Room, on Thursday next, in order to take
their opinion upon the best means to be adopted to restore
the Cathedral to its former stated An eminent architect
from the Metropolis (R. Smirke, Esq., R.A.) has been
consulted by the Dean and Chapter, and was engaged the
greater part of last week in surveying the edifice, prepa-
ratory to laying before the meeting alluded to the neces-
sary plans and estimates for its restoration in the most
complete manner. The Lord Lieutenant of the West
Riding has offered to attend the meeting, and the at-
tendance of the Lord Lieutenants of ttila other Ridings
may be hoped for, in case they should b 2. in the
county at the time. There is reason to believe that the
meeting will be numerously attended from all parts of
the county, by the nobility, clergy, gentry; by the mer-
chants and manufacturers ; in short, by every rJass of the
inhabitants ; and that it will not separate without taking
measures for rendering the subscription fully adequate to
the object. On Monday morning, worknien commenced
removing those parts of the pinnacles whieh, from their
situation, were found to be so materially injured p to re-
quire to be taken down. Others are employed in ret..-ov-
ing the rubbish loose stones above the window, of the
choir, and we trust after the meeting on Thursday, that
no time will he lost in..proceeding to the necessary repara-
tion of the building. The subscriptions for the restora-
tion of the Minster are advertised in another column. The
arn.unt already subscribed is upwards of 11,000/.-1s
Ilatifax the subscription already amp:Kits to 330/. ; and in
Bradford to about loot. ; in Leeds, 'Wakefield, and most
.f the other parishes of the county the opening of the sub-
scription is deferred till Mr. Smirke has made his report
to the General 'Meeting to be held at York next Thursday.
....Leeds Paper.

MAGAZINE DAY.

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
" Wellington and Emancipation" contains in
its first page the following animated allusions to
Lord Eldon and Lord Wellington, which we
extract as a fair sample of its manner and matter :
" Glory be-to Wellington ! He has raised himself to a
pinnacle of fame far more lofty than his military triumphs
ever afforded. He has shown himself the friend of human
freedom. The triumph of the mere soldier is soon for-
gotten; that of the benefactor of mankind is eternal. In-
dependent as we are, and will be, in our opinions, we
shall never prejudge, in future, the acts of this Minister,
let circumstances be ever so strong against him ; we shall
wait his defence, and grant even to the mistakes of his
honest manliness of character that indulgence of the pen,
which the sophistical assuming every-day statesman shall
never command.
" The silence of the Duke of Wellington, which was
eansi.lered a triumph by the foes of civil freedom, appears
to have laen a wise precaution. It freed him from a vast
deal of harassing intrigue, from the bullying of the Cum-
berland Brunswiekers, and the grey-bearded iteration of
Lord Eldon's musty predications. This Nobleman once
joined Lord Kenyon hi his recorded opinion respecting the
coronation oath being no obstacle to concession ! He was
the foe of the repeal of the Test Act, and of the Protestant
Dissenters, as he is the enemy of Catholic Emancipation,
and of the kingdom's best interests. He supported the
slave-trade to its last hour. He is hostile to freedom every
where—the self-congratulator, even at this day, on the
part he took against the members of the Corresponding Slo-
aiety (now, when the eyes of mankind are opened to the
conduct of certain individuals at that peras), while'the
world is rapidly advancing under the auspices of the prin-
ciples which he then, as now, would go any length to dr-
at:oy. lie is one whom time makes not wiser by expe-
rience, and who obstinately and doggedly opposes every
step to human improvement. He is the Antteus of his
faction ; opposes his Majesty's Ministers step by step, and,
with his followers, presents a more obstinate resistance, in
proportion as it becomes move misehievous. Does this
Nobleman desire that the only recollection of him that will
survive his grey hairs, shall increase the distaste of survivors
to his memory as years roll on ? We conjure him to afford
to the pleasure of retracting our opinions of bins : and not
ours alone, but those of the country. A death-bed peni-
tent is entitled to indulgenee. Alas !we fear his Lordship
will coutinue the same to the surd. " gut's) &us volt per-
d
ere prius dementat We must abanaloo him to Lord
Holland and the Duke of Wellington, during the remainder
of his political career ; and pray for a prodigality of charity,
if it be our lot to chronicle him hereafter.
" The character of the Duke of Wellington as a states-
man is no longer in doubt. The straight-forwardness of
his conduct haa restored confidence to the country. We
repeat it, the clouds of uncertainty have cleared away.
Ireland will be pacified, and six millions of population re-
stored to civil freedom, England will no longer exhibit
the brand of intolerance nn ber fair forehead. AU her
people will be linked in invineibi onion."
" Mr. Leslie Foster" is a graphic, hu-
morous, and grotesque sketch of this gentleman,
from the pen of Mr. Shed. It is worthy of his
powers of sarcasm and caricature. The Great
Agitator" is an admirably drawn portrait of Mr.
O'Connell, introduced in a very striliing and
dramatic manner. It does justice to his unri,
valled powers of addressing a mob—an Irish
one, be it observed—to his strength of expression
and activity of manner ; but unhesitatingly asserts
that, on the floor of the House of Commons, li
would, if not altogether fail, at least sink
into a second-rate orator. Other powers are
there requisite than those which can electrify
the Association, or quicken the pulses of seven
millions of excited Catholics. English oratory
is cool, decided, dispassionate ; it has little e4u-
beranee of action, little display, and is frigid in
manner, though full of matter. Irish oratory is
diametrically the reverse ; it appeals not to the
head, but to the heart ; and whether in action,
style, humour, pathos, description, or argument,
is sure to be redundant and over-done. Mr.
Shell's speeches are very fair specimens of the
highest order of modern Irish eloquence. " Tea
and Music" is chatty and agreeable ; it wants
strength, however, and point and freshness...,—
" Walks in Rome and its Environs" are full of
condensed information ; but are somewhat dry
reading. The remarks, however, on Italian
Landscape Gardening, it is but fair to add, are
neatly and elegantly penned. " The Opera
Box" is lively and colloquial, and " John
Bulliem" a smart satirical collection of national
apothegms, illustrative of honest John's character
and habits. We regret that we cannot afford
room for making extracts from this last article,
but our very contracted limits compel us at once
to conclude.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
The present number of this periodical is, as
might have been anticipated, filled with politics.
These consist, for the most part, of violent un-
compromising diatribes against the Catholics,
virulent in argument, virulent in expression,
virulent in a fixed boastful hostility to every
measure, no matter whether qualified with se-
curities or not, that tends to favour, even
in the remotest degree, Catholic ErnaliCi-
pation. Christopher North seems literally
horror-struck at such a catastrophe, and if
bluster were any proof of argument, or threats
of influence, would prove himself no contemptible
foe to administration. But the days of intole-
rance are we sincerely, earnestly trust gone for
ever. They sleep, we hope, with ages beyond
the flood, to be remembered only for their folly.
The first article in the present number is headed
" The Assembling of Parliament." Its chief
object seems to combat the idea that th e
majority hitherto gained in the House of Com-
mons over the opponents of concession, are
majorities to be at all feared, and to prove
at the same time that the sense of the country
is strongly and unequivocally opposed to the
introduction of Papists (even with rigid, secu-
rities) into either House of Parliament. Thc.>
folly of these two positions are so self-evident—
except where the judgment is warped by preju-
dice—that we shall not waste time in attempting
to refute them. To state them merely is at
once to show their utter fallacy. " Cuttioge" is
another humorous letter by the same supposed
Frenchman, who wrote a former article entitled
" Boxes ;" it points out with happy irony, and
with a rrench idiom, neatly preserved through-
out, the folly of
.applying the word " cut" to at
leant a hundred opposite meanings. We re-
commend it to the notice of our readers. " The
Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel" is indeed
a most bitter rancorous tirade against the epos-
, tacy,so the scribe in " Blackwood" phrases it—
of the hate? G=ent. His late disinterested con-
duct is termed sycophancy ; his conversion, 0
wish to preserve place, and sc on, through some
nine or ten pages of heavy lumbering coarse in-
vective. " First and Last" is a powerfully writ-
ten tale, penned, however, in an excited and
a morbid spirit, by Mr. Mudford, late Editor of

the Courier. It will well repay ,pe-cuial, and teems
with point and incident. " Sketches of Italy and
the Italians" is a dull disjointed article on
a dull worn-out subject. The remarks on Ra-
phael, in particular, though not ill-expressed, are
common- place ; nor is there a single critical
opinion put forward on this unsurpassed painter
which we have not heard a hundred times.
" The Two Emilies" is a sketchy feeble tale
about love and a thunder storm ; it has evident
traces of a female pen. " railors" is an into-
lerably prosing essay on that peculiarly poetic
fraternity ; the leading idea is stolen from a hint
furnished by the second or third chapter—we
cannot now remember which—in Swift's Tale
of a Tub. " The Grave of the Broken Heart "
improves considerably on acquaintance, there is
much natural feeling and unpretending descrip-
tive power in the way in which the incidents,
trite in themselves and threadbare, are brought
about. It is not yet, we perceive, concluded.
" Twelve Years of Military Adventure " is a
dashing, off-hand, spirited notice of a book,
which we reviewed under the same head some
weeks since in Me Sun ; it is amusing and
clever, without aspiring to wit, a:nl very easy
and entertaining in its egotism. " The Man
-Mountain " is a dream well sustained by
that amusing Journalist, " The Modern
Pythagorean ;" it is, however, too much an echo
of his former productions in " Blackwood." The
public is sick of dreams, and reveries, and allego-
ries. The following is a specimen of the amus-
ing caricature of this author. He is desciibing
the entrance of a fat man into a room where he
was sitting with two ladies :
‘‘ scarcely had our surprise time to subside, than we
heard the outer door opened by the servant—then it
closed—then heavy footsteps, one, two, and three, avert
audible in the lobby—then the dining-rosin door was
opened ; and a form which filled the whole of its ample
aperture, from top to bottom, from right to left, !wide its
appearance. It was the figure of a man, but language
would sink under his immensity. Never in heaven, or
earth, or air, or ocean, was such a man seen. He was
hugeness itself—bulk personified—the beau ideal of am,
plitude. When\ the dining-room was first opened, the
glare of the well-lighted lobby gleamed in upon us, illu-
minating our whole apartment with increase of lustre; but
no sooner did he set his foot upon the threshold, than the
lobby light behind him was shut out, He filled the whole
gorge of the door like an enormous shade. Thu door itself
seemed to stand aghast at such a stupendous substitute, and
its yawning apetture shrunk with apprehension lest its
jaws should be torn asunder by the entrance of so great a
mass of animated materials.
" Onward, clothed in black, came the moving moun-
tain, and a very pleasing monster he was. A neche like
that of a rhinoceros sat piled between his Atlautean
shoL:lders,' awl bore up,.‘n its tower-like and sturdy stem,
a countenance prepossts,ing from its good-humour, and
amazing for its plumpness and rubicundity. His cheeks
were swollen out into billows of fat,--.liis eyes over-hung
with turgid and most majestic lids, and hit ebin double,
triple, aye quadruple. As for his mouth-,,-
" It was enough to win a lady's heart
-I,'r :tlt its bewitching smile.'
" Onward eagle the i;lpyipbrr mountain—shaking the flaor
beneath his tread, filling a tithe of the. room with his bulk,
and blackening every object with his portentous shadow.
" I was amazed--I was confounded—l was horrified.
Not so Julia and her aunt, who, far from participating in
my perturbed emotions, got up from their seats, smiled
with a welcoming notil, and requested him to sit clown.
" Clad to see, you, Mr. Tims,' raid Julia.
" Glad to see iou, Mr. Titus,' said her aunt.
" Mr. Tints Gracioqs heavens, and was this the
name of the mighty entrant? Tims ! Titus Tims !
the thing was impossible. A Man With stich 4 pafaa
sho.dd be able to go into a nutshell ; and lieu was one
that the womb of a mountain could scarcely contain ! Had
be been called Sir Bullion O'Dunder, Sir Theodosius
M`Turk, Sir Rugantino gagnifieus, Sir Blunderbuss Blar-
ney, or some other high-sounding :;aglv, I should have
been perfectly satisfied, But to be called Tons I Urn
my honour, I was shocked to hear it„ The very first prin,
ciples of unity were outraged, and idea rimst atrocious dist,
cord substituted in their place."
The " Noctes" are distinguished, as ig their
wont," by a vein of coarse and, in some respects,
offensive humour. It is impossible to deny
their power, but it is power of a per:eat...al cha-
racter ; power calculated not to impose, but to re,
pel. The best parts about them are those re-
ferring to the " West Port Murders,"_ from
which graphic and spirited description we extract
he following, with which we must close our

notice
Naaan—What did you think, James, of the praceed•
ings of these two Irish gentlemen ?
" SitEritEßD—That they were too monotonous to bit
press the imagination. First ae drunk auld wife, arid
then anither drunk auid wife—and then a third drunk
acid wife--and then a drunk auld or sick man or twa,
The coufeeaion gat unco monotonous—the Lights and
Shadows o' Scottish Death want relief--though, to be
sure, poor Peggy Paterson, that Unfortunate, broke in
a little on the uniformity ; and sae did Daft Jeanie ; for
whilk last murder, without ony impiety, ane may van-
tore to say, the Devil is at this moment !Wein' that
Burke of u' hell fire wi' a three-prong'd fork, and then
in wi' him again, through the ribs—and then stirring
up the coals 7.e that eternal poker—aud then wi' the
great bellows blawin' pp the furnace, till, like an Etna,
or Mount Vesuvius, it vomits the murderer out again far
ower into the very middle o' the floor t/ the iplernal regions.
4' Tic K LER —Wit isli t—witialit—Jarnes
SuprirEno—Nae system o' divinity shuts ;portal
mouths ;pi:lst such enormous monsters. I ant but a
worm. We are al; worms. But we crawl in the licht
o' heaven ; and God has given us voices to be lifted up
from the dust, when horrid guilt loosens our tongues;
and the moral sense, roused by religion, than denounces,
without misgivings, the curse o' heaven on the hell dootn'd
soul o' the Atheistic murderer. What forbids?
" Nrcria—Base blind superstition, in the crimes of the
crea.ture forgetful of the laws of the Creator. Nothing else.
" SHEfIiEV-D—Was he penitent? If sae, I ablaur my
words.
" Nolaii—lmpatirat es a snake-remorseless as a tiger.
I studied, in his cell, his bard, cruel eyes, from whose
lids had never dropped the tear
That sacred pity had engender'd*—
his hardened lips, which ruth never touched nor moved
from their cunning compression—his voice rather seft and
calm, but steeped in hypocrisy and deceit—his collected
and guarded demeanour, full of danger and guile—all, all
betrayed, as lie lay in his shackles, the aa,ol, calculating,
callous, and unrelenting villain. As the day of executiop
drew near, his anxiety was often—l am told by those
who caw him, and marked him well—manifest in his
dim or darkened countenance—for the felon's throat felt:
in imagination tLe utrocating halter ; but when that
dream passed off, he would ainjle—nay laugh—and inly
exult in his series of murders, f 0 tang teecessfully per-
petrated—and the bodies of the slaughtered still ca, led to
a ready market—prompt payment without iliscounte-,:eig.l4
or ten pounds for a corpse, and whisky cheap !—so that
murderers, and time about to be murdered, might all get
speedily fuddled, and drunk together—and then the hand
on the mouth and throar,,,a few gasp 14;4
convulsions
—and then corpse aftee corpse huddled ip
or beneath chat:-beds, or into iterrihg- barrels,..-then
aeaachests—and off to the most unsuspicious aol generous
of stage:me that ever gave a bounty on the dead for the
benefit of the li.aaag.
t D —Was he ; strong fallow, Burke?
" Nonau—No, a neat little Ina; of about five feet Eve,
Well proportioned, especially in Ilia legs soil
2Q1,11)&1)0,14A but narrow-chested—arms rather thin—
small wrists, am! a moderate-sized hand—no mass of
muscle any where
about his limbs or frame—but vigor-
oust), necked—with hard forehead and cheek-bones--a
very active, but not a powerful man—and 4.ligniled by nature
for a daneing-inaster. Indeed he danced well—candling
in the Irish jig—and when working about Peebles and
Inaerleithen he was very fond of that recreation. In that
neighbourhood he was reckoned a good specimen of the
Irish character—not quarrelsome—expert with the spade
—and a pleasant enough companion over a jug of toddy.
Nothing repulsive about him, to ordinary observers at