The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-10 00:00:00

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POPULAR PHRASES.

Nothing can be more misapplied than same of our
most hackneyed and popular phrases : for example—
" LICENSED VICTUALLER."—Of all citizens the
Victualler is the most fettered, and consequently the
least licensed—witness every Qu irter Sessions. The
Magistrates are licensed to their hearts' content.

THE BENEFIT OF TIIE INSOLVENT ACT."—
Query, to which party is the benefit to be applied—
the debtor or creditor? there is no mistake in ap-
plying it to the Commissioners.
" CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT."---Examine nine-
tenths of the Church—viz. the working Clergy—
enter their houses—what are their establishments?
The Bishops can best tell.
" BIBLE AND CROWN"—Should ;be Crown at;d
Bible, for the Crown is always represented upper-
most. It would be turning the world topsy-turvy, i. c.
unhinging society, to put the Bible over the Crown.
" THE BOOK TBADE."—Not misapplied—author-
ship is indeed a trade.

‘‘ NOT AT i 103 f E."—Answer given at street doors
when people are most at home.:

" As UNBELIEVING AS A JEIV."—Of nil human
beings the Jew is the most credulous and faithful.
His mental swallow is immeasurable. Good heavens!
what does not a Jew believe ?
" THE ORANGE FACTION."—UnIess blood be of
an orange colour, which it may be, for aught we
k: ow, with Papists and in Ireland, the term orange
is sadly misapplied.

" LIBERTY; LAW, GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION,"
&c.—These terms :Ire not misapplied, at least to the
people of Newark, and to all other boroughs in these
happy realms.

TRUTH."-A speech from the Throne, a speech
from the Treasury Bench, the cry of fresh fish in
London streets, &c. 'We have the cry of our Glo-
rious Constitution, our equal Laws and free Govern-
ment, but no man ever yet heard the cry of " stink-
ing fish." They may very soon; the great must be
kept in countenance.

" QUlRT."—Applied to a bottle of wine, or a
quart of spirits, milk, &c. in the trade of London.

Tlie following important letter—important be-
cause explanatory of the peculiar duties of the police—woe
received last night (Friday) by a special messenger from
the Castle; and this morning we were favoured with a
copy of it by the gentleman to whom it is addressed.—
The question of the removal of the wholesale fish-market
from Pill-lane, unimportant when intri:isieally considered,
now appe.irs before the public under very altered circum-
stances. The Loan LIEUTENANT has expressed his dis-
approval of the employment of the police in effecting that
removal. The police are paid for the discharge of duties
far different from interfering to settle by force a di,puted
legal question, and the Executive is deserving of praise for
the very proper course adopted on this occasion. We re-
gard this official censure upon the employment of the
police to decide by force a question which has not been
settled by law, as indicative of • fair dealing and upright-
ness upon the part of the Government, which seems de-
termined to leave questions of civil right to the proper tri-
bunals, uninfluenced by the station of the parties concerned :
Dublin Castle, Nov. 6, 1829.
" Sin,—Your letter of the 21st ult., complaining, on
the part of the persons engaged in the wholesale fish trade,
of the horse police being employed to force them from the
market in Pill-lane, having been referred to the divisional
Jusoices of the Head Office of Polices, I have to acquaint
you that the Lord Lieutenant, on consideration of all the
circumstances, has signified his disapprobation of the em-
ployment of the police in the instance complained of in
your communication, and has taken steps to prevent their
.being employed in future under similar circumstances.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

" F. LEVESON GOWER.
" Mr. Hanratty, 101, Pill-lane."
Dublin Morning Register• of Saturday.
COWES, Nov. 7.—We regret to announce
the loss of the R. Y.C. yacht Halcyon, of 72 tons, be-
longing to CHAS. BownLza, Esq., who, with his lady
and servants, sailed from tkis port on the22d July, touched
at Falmouth, then proceeded to Lisbon, and Cadiz, and
Gibraltar ; and in her voyage home, keeping along the
French coast, was unfortunately, on the 22d ult., totally
lost on those dangerous rocks the Saints, near Brest, the
crew and passengers being providentially saved, though for
a considerable time in imminent peril. Mr. 13ownLEK, his
wife, and female servant, Miss BRACKENBURY (daughter
of the British Consul at Cadiz), and Mr. CHARLES HILL,
who composed the party, were safely landed at Brest, whete
the Master and crew left them, and proceeded to St. Ma-
loes ; here they took passage i❑ the Lord Bercsford
steam-packet, and were yesterday put on shore here. From
them we learn that the R.Y.C. yacht Ondine arrived all
well at Cadiz, previous to the sailing of the Halcyon for
Gibraltar, where she found his Majesty's ship Dartmouth,
on board which our Noble Commodore's second son is serv-
ing
as a Royal midshipman, and had the honour of achiev-
ing a feather for his cap in the brilliant action at Navarin.
Mr. BOWDLER visited and found him in excellent health
and spirits. On the 10th that frigate sailed on a cruize.
On the Bth and 9th, as we had previously learnt, the
Britannia and Melville passed the Rock The Halcyon
sailed from Gibraltar on the 11th. The garrison was
quite healthy ; and she left a frigate, two sloops of war,
and a brig, belonging to Holland, in the bay.

DESCRIPTION OF CROMWELL.—His eye-
brows, we are told, were large and shaggy, his counte-
nance approaching to the circular, and the feature already
so often mentioned attracted the attention of every be-
holder. When Major-General MASSEY was intro-
duced into the Presence-chamber at the Hague, after
his escape from England, immediately after the violent
death of CHARLES the First, the Marquis of MONTROSE,
by way of drollery, asked him " how OLIVER'S nose did ?"
CLEMENT WALKER ssys, that when CROMWELL ordered
the soldiers to fire, in the insurrection of the London ap-
prentices, " his nose looked as prodigiously upon you as a
comet ;" and speaking of the government making treason
no treason, he adds, that should the House vote that
" OLIVER'S nose is a ruby, they would expect you to swear
to it, and fight for it."—Russell's Life of Cromwell.
THE WILD HORSE.—AII travellers who
have crossed the plains extending from the shores of La
Plata to Patagonia have spoken of numerous droves of
wild horses. Some affirm that they have seen 10,000 in
one troop. They appear to be under the command of a
leader, the strongest anti boldest of the herd, and which
they implicitly obey. A secret instinct teaches them that
their safety consists in their union, and in a principle of
subordination. The lion, the tiger, and the leopard, are
their principal enemies. At some signal, intelligible to
them all, they either close into a dense mass, and trample
their enemy to death, or, placing the mares and foals in
the centre, they form themselves into a circle, and wel-
come him with their heels. In this attack, their leader
is the first to face the danger, and, when prudence de-
mands a retreat, they follow his rapid flight.—Library of
Useful Knowledge.
ALLEGED MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER
HusnAeen.—From the hour of three o'clock yesterday the
entire neighbourhood of Spitalfields was kept in an unre-
mitting state of ferment by the rumoared murder of an
elderly female, by her husband asd his supposed paramour.
Throughout the afternoon Vine-court, where the imputed
crime was perpetrated, was thronged by a multitude of the
inhabitants of the adjoining streets. Information of the
occurrence was communicated to the'parish officers, and
the police of Worship-street Office, and, amid the threats
of an incensed crowd, by whom they were followed, the
accused were apprehended and taken to the watch-house.
We have been furnished with an account of the circum-
stances which are said to have led to the death of the de-
ceased, but, as the information does not coma in the shape
of evidence, and might possibly he but the creation of po-
pular rumour, we decline entering father into the sub-
ject at piesent. After the caption of the parties, the
space in front of the watch-house was thronged by a
number of persons, who remained there for hours, anti
followed the alleged culprits to Worship-street Police-
office. A brief examination took place then before Mr.
BENETT, and the prisoners were remanded until this day,
when it is intended to enter more m.nutely into the grounds
of the accusation against them.