The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-24 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1842.

wila:L a difi:crence distance does snake.
The Busk iiliy, with four stone on her back, would
have had no chance in the long race, or about as much
as Magog. Mona, last year, turned loose, was nearly
distanced in the short race. When this handicap
first appeared I spoke of its excellence ; the more I
look at it, the more confirmed am I in that opinion.
Was the Audley-end Course the distance, I should
have an eye on I-am-not-aware ; when this horse
happens to be the favourite the noise in the ring is
something terrible from a happy method of pronounc-
ing those words attained by one of its leading mem-
bers, whose lungs are equally the admiration aid
envy of the crowd. Ralph should run well, and is
safe to beat Garry Owen this distance; but I fancy
Bellissima will beat every horse that carries as
much or more weight than herself. Proceeding
down the list then, I see Cabrera the top weight
among the three-year olds ; the public back him ; I
cannot see why Florence is not to beat him; it
must take a pretty good three-year-old to give her the
year and 6lbs. Lady Adela showed amazing speed
at Goodwood; she beat Garry Owen, receiving 2 4lbs.,
and Misdeal giving 51bs. : Misdeal on the following
day won the Racing Stakes in a canter. There are
several quite unknowns among the light weights.
Lucy Banks has, in her best day, done sufficient to
have no contemptible chance. Topsail must be very
fresh. Hawk and Recompense ! what are these, and
where do they come from ? The conqueror has twice
this year been backed in earnest—at Bath he was beat
a long way—at Warwick he tumbled head over heels
over the ropes. It is a good plan not to be against
horses that have ever in their lives been expected to
do a great thing. Broadwath, however, was an ex-
pensive horse to follow : said to have been purchased
by Mr. Meiklam for three thousand guineas (more
likely fiddlesticks !) He was first favourite for the
Liverpool Cup at 6 to 4, taken freely : I have no re-
collection of his ever winning a 501. plate. Whistle
Binkie has been beating the winner of the Great York-
shire Handicap very easy, in Scotland. It looks well for
Cabrera that they back him in preference. Vulcan, the
winner last year, is overweighted : Roscius, the winner
the year before, carries but Bst. 51b. Dawson has
four entered, but if I was to want one of these to win,
that particular one would be doubtless locked up safe,
and another started in the same beautiful condition
that Blue Bonnet looked in for the Cesarewitch. At-
tentively reading the above remarks, if any one can
name the winner he is a sharper fellow than your
correspondent, who could be happy with each of a
half-dozen were five of them miles a way. It is un-
doubtedly a splendid handicap.
Murat and Testy will probably compromise the race
on Thursday. This would not happen had Lord
Exeter only a hack entered. Some gentlern9n was
bold enough last week to bet 2 to 1 against all the
two-year-olds that ran in the plate for the Nursery
Stakes. This would have succeeded last year, but I
should be decidedly a taker of those odds for the race
on Friday. By the bye, if this stake be divided into
two classes, this will be rather an awkward wager.
The " Scott's let" question seems likely to be set-
tled in the fair and equitable manner I proposed on
Monday. So long as the great men agree to those
conditions, the little men have not, nor do they re-
quire, a voice in the matter.
I observe that a very great improvement is an-
nounced to take place in Weatherby's Racing Calendar
next season. JLIDEX.
October 22.

MR. PoLLocK.—Saunders's News Letter contra-
dicts the report of the death of Mr. Pollock, Clerk of
the Crown for twelve counties, which we copied from
that journal on Saturday last.—Dublin Post.
ROWING MATCH.—On Saturday afternoon John
and Robert Doubidee, of Lambeth, and T. Coombes
and Goodrum, of Vauxhall, rowed an oars match from
Westminster-bridge to Putney, for 301. a side. They
are well-known watermen on the Thames, and have
frequently distinguished themselves in various matches,
and the present one consequently excited much inte-
rest among gentlemen amateurs, who, despite the un-
favourable state of the weather, mustered pretty nu-
merously, the Leander and King's College eight-oared
cutters being among the boats brought into requisi-
tion. The men started themselves at about half-past
three o'clock, the rain descending in torrents at the
time. They went off evenly, Coombes arid his partner
appearing to have a slight lead before passing the
barge roads, but, having to go outside them, lost what
advantage they had gained, and at the Horseferry the
Doubledees were nearly a boat's length ahead. The
leading men increased upon this, but off the Red
House, Battersea-fields, the young ones, and who
were also much lighter men, gallantly overhauled
their opponents, and a desperate fouling match ensued
for full a mile and a half, during which some admira-
ble manoeuvring and science in the art was displayed.
At length, however, the Doubledees were enabled to
"shake oft"' their courageous and dangerous oppo-
nents, and they ultimately won the match by about
200 yards. It was a really spirited and gallant con-
eat throughout, and both p arties deserve the highest
praise.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE.—Mr. Wil-
liamson, cattle dealer, from Aberdeenshire, exhibited
for sale at the Leeds Fortnight fair, held on Wednes-
day last, 21 head of foreign cattle, being part of a
cargo of 72 imported.last week into Hull, from Hol-
stein. The cattle shown being of superior quality, con-
siderable interest was excited among the butchers,
farmers, and other parties attending the market. The
whole of the beasts appeared in excellent condition,
and eleven of them, which remained unsold, being in-
tended for the London market, were acknowledged to
be superior to any ever shown in the Leeds market.
Fifteen of them averaging 54 to 56 stones each, were
sold on an average at 16/. 10s. each. The imports into
Hull this week have comprised an increasing number
of very fine cattle The following is the return for
the week :-109 oxen all from Hamburg, 17 cows,
and 4 swine.—Leeds ilfercur.
THE CHESHIRE FARMERS AND THE TARIFF.--A
few months ago the Cheshire farmers congratulated
themselves much on the fact, that Sir Robert Peel, in
his sweeping alteration of the tariff, had not ventured
to meddle with the cheese monopoly, for which unac-
countable exemption they conceived themselves in-
debted to the warm remonstrances made to the Pre-
mier, in their behalf, by the county Members. Alas,
for the instability of agricultural prosperity under the
protective system ! they are now beginning to find
that neither a protecting duty of 10s. 6d. per cwt.,
nor the warmest remonstrances, can prevent the price
of cheese from falling, if the great mass of the la-
bouring classes are so impoverished, by restrictions
on trade, that they cannot procure a sufficient supply
of food. Though no alteration has been made in the
duties on butter and cheese, the reduction in the price
of both those articles of general consumption is con-
siderable, which will not only bring them more within
the reach of the poorer classes, but will teach the
farmers not to rely upon legislative protection. We
have heard of one farmer, in the neighbourhood of
Crewe, who, in consequence of the fall in the price of
cheese, has given up the manufacture of that article
altogether ; and, having made a contract with the
Railway Company, now actually sends his milk for
sale every day to Liverpool, a distance of forty-three
miles. We have not heard how his project has suc-
ceeded; but if it prove a profitable one, he will, no
doubt, soon have many competitors, unless trade
speedily revive.—Manchester Guardian.
THE LATE COLONEL DENNIE.—The public will
learn with regret that the family of this Gallant Offi-
cer, to whose heroic conduct the successful defence of
Jellalabad is ill great measure owing, and whose death
on the field of battle, while leading on his troops with
but too rash gallantry against Akbar Khan's camp,
must be fresh in the recollection of our readers, are
by no means so well provided with this world's goods
as could be wished. His only son, who is in the
army, will, of course, be provided for in his profession,
but his four daughters are left with scarcely any
other provision than a pension of 801. each settled on
them by the Government. In these times of retrench-
ment, this may be considered a liberal allowance from
the public funds, but we should hope that the East
India Company will not allow the descendants of one
of their bravest soldiers to remain without some sub-
stantial mark of their gratitude for their father's
1 services. .

On Saturday, at the Kensington Police Court, an
application was made to Mr. T. Paynter, the sitting
Magistrate, on the part of Captain Davis, of Turn-
ham-green, for the restoration of a diamond ring,
valued at fifty guineas, which had been detained at
the Court, in consequence of Captain Davis refusing
to prosecute two young women, named Foster, who
had stolen it from his house. Mr. Paynter, in answer
to the application, observed that he did not see that
he should be justified in ordering the ring to be de-
ii, ~red up to Captain Davis, inasmuch as he had
thwa.-ted the ends of justice, by objecting to appear
and ide:ntify the ring. It, however, subsequently
Davis was an aged gentleman,
appearing !hat Captain. D.
who had noL left his house for years, Mr. Paynter
consented that it .should be given up, upon the Captain
paying a sum of m to the office poor-box.
C.Tiey
A. rope upwards of .4.'bree miles long, and weighing,
fifteen tons, has been recently supplied to the Direc-
tors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway by
Messrs. Haggie, of Gateshead. It is heavier by five
tons than any line ever manufactured before, and is
intended for the tunnel on the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Railway.—Dundee Courier.
An inquest was held in the Penitentiary, Millbank,
on Saturday, before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Eliza-
beth Martin, aged 80, who died in the infirmary of
that prison on Friday. It appeared that the deceased
was convicted at the Old Bailey in April, 1840, and
was sentenced to seven years' transportation, which
was, however, commuted in consequence of her age ;
she was an old offender, and told Mr. Nihil, the chap-
lain, only a few days before her death, that she only
recollected having been at liberty two years during
the whole period of her life. The surgeon stated that
she had been an inmate of the infirmary some time,
and died from a general decay of nature. Verdict
accordingly.

LIT, RATURE.

AMI RIC AN NOTES FUR GENERAL

CULATION. 2 Vets.
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Those a Ito, remembering. tile reception Mr.
Dickens met with trom the Americans—the Boz
mania, in fact, with which they were infected—
expected that on nis return home he would pro-
duce a work filled with exaggerated praises of
the United States, will be surprised, on reading
these volumes, to find that they are anything but
hyperbolical in their eulogiums, but main-
tain a moderate, and to all appearance,
an impartial tone throughout, except on the
question of slavery, on which the author ex-
presses himself with a fervour of disgust and ab-
horrence, that proves hint to be as uncomprom-
ising an Abolitionist as even Sir Fowell Buxton
himself. We should add, perhaps, that he is
nearly as energetic in his reprehension of the
American Newspaper Press generally, which he
conceives to be quite a curse to the country,
abounding, as it does, according to his account,
in slanders and falsehoods of the grossest
order, and conducted, in seven cases out
of ten, by mere illiterate adventurers, as
remarkable for their utter want of talent, as
for their utter want of all principle and decency.
Ifs we except these two points, Mr. Dickens'
remarks are, on the whole favourable to the
Americans, though they are certainly penned in
no sycophantic spirit of adulation, and may pos-
sibly therefore disappoint those whose national
vanity led them to hope that the feted and
lionized Boz would go the whole hog in their
favour. The work opens with an account
of the author's voyage from Liverpool
to Halifax, which, as the month was January,
was something of the stormiest. On the third
morning of the vessel's departure, a sudden gale
came on ; the immediate results we give in Mr.
Dickens' own words :—" It is the third morn-
ing; I am awakened out of my sleep by a dismal
shriek from my wife, who demands to know whe-
ther there's any danger. I rouse myself and
look out of bed. The water jug is plunging
and leaping like a lively dolphin ; all the
smaller articles are afloat, except my shoes,
which are stranded on a carpet-bag, high and
dry, like a couple of coal-barges. Suddenly I
see them spring into the air, and behold the
looking-glass, which is nailed to the wall, stick-
ing fast upon the ceiling. At the same time the
door entirely disappears, and a new one is
opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend
that the state-room is standing on its
head." The horrors of sea sickness arc detailed
by Mr. Dickens with equal spirit arid humour;
and indeed the whole chapter entitled " The Pas-
sage out," will forcibly recal to the reader's re-
collection some of time raciest and most whim-
sical descriptions in ‘• Pick wick" and "N ickleby."
Of Boston, a hick was the first American city
visited by our author, he speaks in high
terms of praise, observing that is a
cheerful and beautiful town, and that !he general
tone of its society is remarkably refined and in-
tellectual. He seems to have strayed curiously
into all its most out-of-the-way nooks and
corners, and one Sunday morning, "in a chapel
down aniong the shipping, in one of the narrow,
old, water-side streets," he found a sort of
Yankee Boatswain Smith, named Taylor, preach-
ing a sermon to the jack-tars„ stuffed full
of nautical epithets and images. Portions of the
sermon are quoted for the reader's edification,
and grotesque enough they are; but had they
been otherwise, we presume they would have
been unintelligible to the amphibious congrega-
tion. vV hile at Boston, Mr. Dickens took the
opportunity of visiting a factory which is esta-
blished in the immediate neighbourhood, and
was surprised to find how much better it was
conducted, and how much cleanlier, happier, and
more respectable the girls were, than
is the case in our Lancashire factories. He saw
no squalid destitution—no reckless, barefaced
vice—no deformity, the result of exceeding
labour—no brutal overseers with billy-rollers in
their hands, for the purpose of hitting a post-
man's double knock now and then on the skull
of some overtasked, sleepy child—no painful
scenes of this sort appeared in the factory at
Lowell, but everything wore a cheerful, sunny,
and improving aspect. Arrived at Washington,
the seat of the Legislature, Mr. Dickens was struck
with the disgusting practice of spitting, which
prevailed among all classes; his remarks on this
delicate subject will be found exceedingly whim-
sical and amusing. Niagara and its tar-famed
cataract, he describes with the animation usual
with all travellers, when alluding to this sublime
spectacle; but as the subject is an intolerably
backnied one, we prefer quoting our author's
humorous account of a stage-coach drive along a
Virginian road :
" The first half mile of the road is over bridges
made of loose planks laid across two parallel poles,
which tilt up as the wheels roll over them ;_ and in
the river. The river has a clayey bottom and is full
of holes, so that half a horse is constantly disappear-
ing unexpectedly, and can't be found again for some
time.
_ _

" But we get past even this, and come to the road
itself, which is a series of alternate swamps and gra-
vel-pits. A tremendous place is close before us, the
black driver rolls his eyes, screws his mouth up very
round, and looks straight between the two leaders, as
if he were saying to himself, We have done this
often before, but now I think we shall have a crash.'
He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both ;
and dances on the splashboard with both feet (keep-
ing his seat, of course) like the late lamented Ducrow
on two of his fiery coursers. We come to the spot,
sink down in the mire nearly to the coach windows,
tilt on one side at an angle of forty-five degrees, and
stick there. The insides scream dismally ; the coach
stops ; the horses flounder ; all the other six coaches
stop ; and their four-and-twenty horses flounder like-
wise; but merely for company, and in sympathy with
ours. Then the following circumstances occur :
" Black Driver (to the horses)—' Hi !
" Nothing happens. Insides scream again.
" Black Driver (to the horses)—' Ho !"
" Horses plunge, and splash the black driver.
" Gentleman inside (looking out)—' Why, what
on a i rth—'

" Gentleman receives a variety of splashes and
draws his head in again, without finishing his ques-
tion or waiting for an answer.
" Black Driver (still to the horses)—' Jiddy 1
Jiddy !'
" Horses pull violently, drag the coach out of the
hole, and draw it up a bank ; so steep, that the black
driver's legs fly up in the air, and he goes back among
the luggage on the roof. But he immediately reco-
vers himself, and cries (still to the horses) Pill !'

"No effect. On the contrary, the coach begins to
roll back upon No. 2, which rolls back upon No. 3,
which rolls back upon No. 4, and so on, until No. 7
is heard to curse and swear, nearly a quarter of a mile
behind.

" Black Driver (louder than before)—' Pill !'
" Horses make another struggle to get up the bank,
and again the coach rolls backward.
" Black Driver (louder than before)—' Pe-e-e-ill!'
" Horses make a desperate struggle.
" Black Driver (recovering spirits)—'
Jiddy, Pill!'
" Horses make another effort.

Hi, Jiddy,

" Black Driver (with great vigour)—' Ally Loo l
Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy. Pill. Ally Loo!'
" Horses almost do it.

" Black Driver (with his eyes starting out of his
head)—' Lee, den. Lee, dere. Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy.
Pill. Ally Loo. Lee-e-e-e-c 1'
" They run up the bank, and go down again on the
other side at a fearful pace. It is impossible to stop
them, and at the bottom there is a deep hollow, full of
water. The coach rolls frightfully. The insides
scream. The mud and water fly about us. The
black driver dances like a madman. Suddenly we
are all right by some extraordinary means, and stop
to breathe.

" A black friend of the black driver is sitting on a
fence. The black driver recognises him by twirling
his head round and round like a Harlequin, rolling
his eyes, shrugging his shoulders, and grinning from
ear to ear. He stops short, turns to me, and says—
" We shall get you through sa, like a fiddle, and
hope a please you when we get you through sa. Old
'ooman at home, sa,' chuckling very much. Out-
side gentleman sa, he often remember old 'ooman at
home sa,' grinning again.
" Aye, aye, we'll take care of the old woman.
Don't be afraid.'

" The black driver grins again, but there i 3 another
hole, and beyond that another bank, close before us.
So he stops short, cries (to the horses again) 4 Easy,
Easy den. Ease. Steady. Hi. Jiddy. Pill. Ally.
Loo,' but never Lee !' until we are reduced to the
very last extremity, and are in the midst of difficul-
ties, extrication from which appears to be all but im-
possible.
" And so we do the ten miles or thereabouts in two
hours and a half ; breaking no bones, though bruising
a great many; and, in short, getting through the dis-
tance like a fiddle:"

Though Mr. Dickens' volumes are hastily put
together, and will in some respects disappoint
expectation, yet it is impossible to deny that
they are highly entertaining; but this not so
much from any particular shrewdness or ori-
ginality of observation they evince, as from the
rich fund of humour that pervades them,
and the frank, manly, firm, but concilia-
tory spirit in which they are penned.
No man of sense in the United States but will
read them in the spirit in which they were
written; but all the touchy, conceited fools in
Yankee-land will be sure to prick up their long
ears, and denounce, in good set terms, the
ingratitude of the author, reminding him

same time that they did not give him a
Buz ball at New York, and a Boz dinner at
Boston, and make asses of themselves for his
sake for weeks together, in order that he might
afterwards say of them that, hospitable as they
were, he did not altogether find them prodigies
of perfection!

A VISIT TO ITALY. 2 Vulg.
Bentley, London, 1142.
Mrs. Trollope, one of the most indefatigable of
modern authors, and to whom no species of
writing appears to come amiss, has just published
an account of a Visit to Italy, which she made
in the year 1841, and with which, on the whole,
she- seems to have been better pleased than with
all her other continental trips put together.
Quitting Paris for Lyons, where she made a
brief halt; she thence crossed the frontier to
Turin, of which capital she speaks in the warmest
terms, observing that it is the most beautifully
placed of all the cities she has ever seen, being
situated on a fair and fertile plain, watered by a
noble river, surrounded by a circle of majestic
mountains, and blessed with an atmosphere of
exquisite purity. With Genoa " the superb"—
as it is usually called—she was not less delighted,
though, notwithstanding its splendour and pic-
turesque beauty of situation, she honestly con-
fesses that she could not endure it "as a home
to live in," so lonesome and quiet, even to dul-
ness, are its splendid streets and buildings. If
we remember rightly, Lord Byron has made the
same remark in one of his letters dated from
Genoa. But it is Venice that seems to have made
the deepest impression on Mrs. Trollope's ima-
gination, and accordingly she is never weary of
chanting the praises of this Queen of the Adriatic.
A great portion of her second volume is devoted
to the descriptions of the streets, palaces, bridges,
canals, paintings, sculptures, &c., of Venice,
which we are glad to learn is by no means in
that state of hopeless decay so frequently insisted
on, and lamented by, recent travellers. Our
authoress, indeed, asserts that it is exhibiting
slow but certain traces of improvement under
the foreign sway of Austria ; but we question
whether she is competent to tbrm an opinion on
this point, for, in first place, her stay was too
short, and her means of procuring information
too limited, to enable her to come to any sound
conclusions; and, secondly, in her work on
" Vienna and the Austrians" she has shown far
too strong a bias in favour of Prince Metternich
and his stand-still system of policy, to be able
to speak impartially on any subject connected
with that dubious system. On the whole, we
have been much amused—we wish we could add
instructed—by Mrs. Trollope's journal of her
Italian tour; she is often flippant and superficial
in her remarks, and occasionally dogmatizes, es-
pecially when speaking of paintings; but the
tone of her narrative generally is animated, her
sketches are graphic without being elaborate,
and she is, with scarce an exception, uniformly
in good humour with the people she encounters,
and the scenes•which she visits. The following
curious anecdote of the once-celebrated singer,
Madame Catalani, may perhaps amuse our
readers:—

On another evening we again forsook the Cascina
for the purpose of passing a few hours with Madame
Catalani Valabrique, and very delightful hours they
were—for nut only did she again sing to us—and still
as nobody but her charming self can sing—but she
recounted to us an adventure which had befallen her
some five-and-twenty years ago, with a degree of spi-
rit and dramatic effect that was delightful.
It seems that while making a professional visit to a
certain city in Germany, she heard in every circle of
a horrible phenomenon at that time enclosed within
its walls—namely, a woman who had been convicted
of having committed above sixty murders ! The
monster, though still a young woman, had for seve-
ral years, followed the profession of a garde malade,
and, from the evidence upon her trial, it was proved
that, beyond the possibility of any doubt, she had
been in the habit of making away with her miserable
patients by means of poison, which she constantly car-
ried about her in her curling papers, and which she
had never scrupled to administer when the poor suf-
ferers appeared to her to linger too long!
On hearing this tremendous statement, a most vivid
feeling of curiosity seized upon our cantatrice to be-
hold a creature so awfully marked out as a terrific va-
riety of the human species. Whether this wish to
see her arose from the same impulse as made Garrick
visit Bedlam—whether she thought that any index-
lines of her countenance might create ideas that
should become professionally useful, I know not; but
so strong was the wish that she mentioned it to seve-
ral influential people in the place, in the hope that by
their interest she might obtain it. But she was as-
sured on all sides that it was impossible, as the same
wish had been shared by so many, that it had been
found necessary to refuse its gratification in the most
replied
peremptory manner to all. Yet still the desire pur-
sued her; and finding herself one day seated at a
charming petitioner
dinner-party, next the Supreme Judge of the Court
in which the worn= had been tried, shtheecnceitm‘Nomsre
stated her wish. The venerable Magistrate
that he was extremely sorry to say thatsm iiltewtaisiaitmpsohse-
sm:sitslhesitlhoeenreceodmoplfsolmyr with ivmtehliln-iurtet.
me
eoTmrhbteteh,daarnmd
related it—and then she began to revolve in her mind
what she could do, or say, that might be most likely
to shake the resolution of the recusant Judge. "Je
vous chanterai une jolie petite canzonette," she replied
in a whisper. An Orpheus may have power on this
side the Styx as well as on the other. A day and
hour were fixed, before the party separated, when
she might repair to an appointed place,
and hope to be
led where she wished to go. The
appointment was
punctually kept on both. sides ; and now, trembling
at finding herself on the eve of doing the thing she
had so earnestly desired to do, the fair philosopher
committed herself to the care of he official dignitary,
and proceeding with him to the prison, reached the
small chamber in which this unparalleled homicide was
confined. The Solitary wretch was weeping bitterly,
and the lower part of her face was wholly concealed
in the handkerchief which she held in her hand—but
the upper part of the countenance was visible, and the
animated narrator declared that she thought she had
never looked upon a lovelier face. The brow was
large, finely formed, and
delicately fair ; the eye
long, having a rich black silken eye-lash, from be-
neath which the big tears rolled slowly down her
pallid cheeks. Madame Catalini said that she looked
at this beautiful sad face till the memory of her crimes
company.
was actually forgotten, and she herself wept too, for
N'ayez pas pitie de cette scelerate atroce, Ma-
dame I" exclaimed the Judge. The criminal removed
the handkrcbief from her mouth—and in an instant,
everythingdisappeared, leaving an ex-
pression of hard villany that it was impossible to look
like beauty
upon without a shudder. A strong confirmation this
of Lavater's theory, that though intellect speaks
through the eye, moral propensities are indicated by
the mouth. Madame Catalani told us that before her
execution this wretched creature not only confessed
her crimes, but explained as clearly as she could the
sort of infernal impulse which led her to commit
them. She liked, she said, to see the spirit pass
away, and it was where this result was doubtful among
the unhappy ones whom she was employed to watch
that she took means to render it certain.

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LEltTiTtiEleßseS2
interesting, volumes we have a faithful
translation, from the pen of Miss Agnes Strick-
land, of the inedited Letters of Mary, Queen of
Scots, collected by the Russian Prince, Alex-
ander
Labanoff, from the manuscripts in the
Royal library and national archives at Paris.
With the Letters of Queen Mary are inter-
spersed
others that were addressed to her by
various distinguished personages; also several
of the Reports of the French Ambassadors, which
term to elucidate mysterious passages in the life
of Elizabeth. In a neatly-written introduction,
the fair editor, speaking of the epistolary talents
of the Scottish Queen, says, "Though acknow-
ledged to be of a very superior order, they have
scarcely as yet been rated at their full value.
No one, however, who is capable of appreciating
the beauty and shnplicity of her style, and the
eloquence of her expressions, can deny that her
Letters very far surpass those of her most ac-
complished contemporaries, not even excepting
those of Bacon and Sir I hilip Sidney." This is
lavish praise, but we do not think it will be
borne out, on a perusal of the Letters in ques-
tion. Simplicity they possess, and feeling; and
they possess, also, qualities of which Miss Strick-
land has made no mention, namely, tact and
address, as where, M writing a supplicatory
epistle to Elizabeth, Mary makes a dexterous
allusion to her " lion-heart," which was a species
of flattery peculiarly- acceptable to the English
Queen ; but we are yet to learn that the Letters
evince any of that " eloquence of expression" on
which the editor lays such stress; on the con-
trary, they appear to us to be rather dry and
homely in style—in fact, very like the generality
of Royal epistles, With this sole exception, that
they exhibit a little more sincerity of feeling.
On the whole, the collection is an exceedingly
curious and interesting one, and place the cha-
racter of the Scottish Queen in a very pleasing
and amiable light.

EXTRAORDINARY 1811•—One of the most enor-
mous skates ever seen was caught at Skegness on
Monday last, and purchased by Mr. T. Pridmore,
fishmonger, of Stamford, in whose shop it was exhi-
bited. It weighed 1191bs. without the entrails, and
thesize, is
liveris e
xwe,
ealsieln4t—
-I.Stafnford Mercury.
The quality, notwithstanding the

TUE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNING.—A great meet-
ing of the Anti-Corn-law League was held at New-
all's-buildings, Market-street, last evening, to receive
the proposals of the Council for raising the great
League Fund which Mr. Cobden had announced at a
former meeting to be in contemplation for the purpose
of carrying on the struggle with renewed energy and
effect during the ensuing session • and for the purpose
of hearing an address from Mr. Charles Hindle,
M.P. for Ashton, on the subject of repeal. Mr. Ct.
Wilson, Chairman of the Council, presided.
The CHAIRMAN, after apologising for the absence
of Mr. M. Gibson, who was prevented from attending
by a domestic affliction, proceeded to explain Mr.
Cobden's plan for raising a fund for Anti-Corn-law
purposes in the following terms :—We propose to call
on the country to expend a certain sum of money
—say fifty thousand pounds—(Applause)--4o be
paid into the Treasurer's hands by January, 1843,
to be a fund for augmenting our resources, and
enabling us the more extensively to diffuse infor-
mation on this question through every part of the
country. We shall be enabled by this means to send
out our missionary agents to every elector in the
country, with not merely a pamphlet or tract, but a
little library of information on this question, which
shall show him the proper bearings of it in every re-
spect, and which shall teach him how to act on every
occasion so as best to promote this great cause.—
(Hear, hear.) Our agents will be supplied with maps
of their districts, and we hope that no town, no vil-
lage, or hamlet—we hope that no dwelling in the
kingdom shall be found so remote or obscure that our
agents shall not visit it and leave a copy of our tracts
behind them.—(Applause.) In addition to this we
propose to hold conferences and meetings, and to send
deputations to the different towns in the kingdom. We
propose, further, to have a conference, to meet in
London the day before the assembling of Parliament;
to be there during the entire of the session, if neces-
sary—(Loud applause)—and never again to separate,
if possible, till the measure is finally settled by the
total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.—(Great
cheering.) In our address to the people of Great
Britain and Ireland on this subject you will find it
stated that the sum of 50,0001. for so great a measure
as the repeal is easily to be obtained. It is but
1,000,000 shillings—it is but 400,000 half-crowns—
it is but 200,000 crowns—it is less than a halfpenny
per head from the whole population. The 2,000,000
that petitioned Parliament for the repeal can easily
raise this sum, and since they hit signed a petition
hundreds of thousands have become repealers. The
50,0001., then, will be obtained ; but it is desirable
that all parts of the kingdom should contribute. We
propose the following method of rendering the col-
lection general, and in some degree equal :—ln every
town a Committee must be formed, consisting of
ladies and gentlemen, having a Secretary and Trea-
surer, whose names are to be forwarded to the Chair-
man of the Council in Manchester. A beautifully
engraved subscription card and a duplicate card will
be furnished to every collector, each card to represent
a certain sum, which the collector undertakes or will
endeavour to obtain ; the duplicate to be forwarded to
Manchester when the card is filled up. An account
of the sums collected is to be sent weekly to the
Council. In the villages and more retireedistricts,
where it may not be convenient or practicable to form
Cemmittees, the friends of the great cause will be pro-
vided with cards, and they can correspond directly
with the Chairman of the Council. It is intended
that the League fund shall be closed in January, 1843,
when a great aggregate meeting of the National Anti-
Corn-law League will be held in Manchester—(Ap-
plause)—at which the amount of subscriptions from
each district, town, and village will be announced.
To this great meeting all the Alembers of the Houses
of Commons and Peers who have voted for a repeal of
the Corn-laws, with many other eminent individuals,
will be invited to attend, together with ministers of
religion of all denominations, deputies, and members
of the League from all parts of the kingdom.—(Re-
newed applause.)
The CHAIRMAN then introduced Er. Hindley, the
Member for Ashton. _

Mr. C. HINDLEY, M.P., rose, and was loudly
cheered. He said,—Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gen-
tlemen, I am a decided friend to the repeal of the
Corn-laws.—(Applause.) I am a decided friend to
the entire freedom of trade.—(applause.) If I could
by any means assist in the object, I would desire to
see every Custom-house on the face of the earth de-
stroyed—(Hear, hear)—and every labourer, and every
manufacturer, and every one engaged in the pro-
ducticn of what is useful to himself or beneficial
to the community, allowed to exchange the sur-
plus of what he himself produces for the surplus
production of others.—(Hear, hear, and applause.)
And I do conceive that the system is monstrous
which encourages Custom-houses, or anything else
that would prevent the entire freedom of the exchange
of the surplus productions of one man for the sur-
plus productions of another.—(Applause.) I trust,
thereiore, that in appearing before you to-night you
will not doubt my sincerity as a decided advocate of
the object you have is view. I am, as I said before,
a friend to the total repeal of the orn-laws ; I am a
friend to the entire freedom of trade; and happy shall
I be when I see every man allowed to exchange his
surplus commodities with his fellow-men all over the
world—when every one shall have the utmost reward
for his own industry.--(Applause.) Well, then, the
next point is, how are we to get it ?—(Hear.) It is all
very good—l should be delighted to find that calicoes
could be sold to-morrow at ls. a piece profit, instead
of 6d. a piece loss. I should be delighted to see that.
The question is, how can we get it ? It is not only
wise to have a good object, but it is also wise to have
prudent means to accomplish that object. Now, look
your circumstances in the face. What did Lord
Abinger say respecting Chartism? Mr. Cobden
found fault with him the other day for having lugged
into his speech as a Judge a condemnation of the
Corn- law question. But what did he say
about Chartism ? He said that these principles
could never be carried, except with blood-
shed, and by upsetting the existing institutions of the
country. Do you think that the project of the total
and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws can be carried
without bloodshed ?—(Yes, yes.) That is the ques-
tion for our consideration. I came with the packet
from Boulogne in February last along with one of her
Majesty's household. He was a knowing man, and a
clever man.—(Laughter.) I did not know him per-
sonally, but I saw ho belonged to the more uncompro-
mising portion of the aristocracy; and he told me—
" Sir, we don't intend this question to be carried ; we
have the army at our back."—(Laughter.) He then
went on to tell me how, that some years ago he had
put a mob to flight, at the gates of Leicester, with a
force of only 20 men; and he said " We shall fight
before we yield." This was from an anonymous gen
tleman ; indeed, the whole tale is anonymous ; but, at
the same time, it shows me what I believe to be the
temper of the aristocracy ; they will fight hard before
they will yield this question. I don't mean they will
themselves fight, but they will employ all the force at
their command to prevent this question being carried.
Now, what I would ask is this :—I am an advocate
of peace, and I don't want one portion of society to
be set against another portion of society. Is there,
then, any means by which we can accomplish our ob-
ject without having recourse to fighting?—(Laughter.)
I have no need to urge arguments in favour of that
principle which you are met to adopt and encourage.
Why, I cannot stir a step in the street without being
furnished, with one or other individuals, with argu-
ments in favour of your cause.—(Applause.) I met
a most respectable man this day—a man whom I had
known in better circumstances—a man who has
walked your Exchange as much respected as any man
there, and he told me he had a letter from his son,
who had gone to a district of America. He had met
there his sister, a lady who had been educated in one
of the boarding-schools in this neighbourhood, and he
had found her and her children and dependents all in
a comfortable state of enjoyment, so far as food was
concerned; but actually without shoes or stockings,
or any of the comforts of life in reference to clothing.
—(Hear.) Such being the state of things, the first
reflection is, as these people have connexions in Man-
chester, could not their friends here send over the cloth-
ing they wanted? No; the Custom-house officer,
the tax-gatherer, puts his veto upon that,, and insists
on the payment of a certain sum of money as duty,
which it is quite out of their power to furnish. What
is the situation in which our labourers here are
placed ? The other day I met a number of hand-
loom weavers ; and they were wishing to meet yes-
terday to state their grievances to the Queen. I asked
them their numbers ; they said there were 7,000 of
them, and that 4,000 were out of employment.-
-(Hear, hear.) Now, is it not most sad that we
should have 4,000 of these laborious, hard-working
men out of employment, when there are people in
America and other places who are destitute of the
very articles which these men could furnish ? Here
are these people without food, while the people on the
other side of the Atlantic are without clothing. There
does not need a single argument to show that the pre-
sent system will not do ; the only question is, how
shall we get it altered ?—(Hear.) The ladies have
come into the field—(Applause)--and I trust that
they will direct all their energies, not only for the
promotion of the object you have in view, but also to
keep their husbands and brothers in a right course.—
(Applause.) Oh; what gentleness, what winning-
ness belong to the ladies : let them carry the whole of
that kindliness and good feeling along with them in
this cause. I believe that we shall gain the day, if
we are not too hasty and too violent. Let the ladies
take care that, while their cause is a good one, the
conduct of their brothers, and their fathers, and their
friends shall be of a gentle and a kindly nature. I
don't disguise from myself, and I will not disguise it
from you, that the course you are going upon, by di-
viding the country into districts and getting regis-
tered members of the League,—that I think such a
course will upset any Government in the world, and
I think you can have your own way.—(Rear, hear,)

When I see what O'Connell has done in Ireland with
regard to the repeal of the Catholic Test Act, I say
your proceedings will eventually conquer any Go-
vernment whatsoever.—(Loud applause.)
The meeting was addressed by Mr. Acland and
Mr. Paulton, and was then adjourned.

BUENOS AYRES BONDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
observe that some of your Contemporaries
are disposed to think that too much apathy has been
manifested by the bondholders of the Argentine Re-
public, and indirectly (by comparison, at least) they
also attribute a want of energy to the contractors,
because hitherto no substantial benefit has been ob-
tained.

The first view, as it regards the bondholders, may in
some few instances be correct ; I am happy, however,
in having it in my power decidedly to negative the idea
of any want of energy, or of the least inattention, indif-
ference, or neglect, on the part of the contractors, in
urging and supporting, by every possible means, the
hard case of the creditors on the Buenos Ayrean
Government ; but quite the contrary. If all the
bona fide holders will do as I have done, send the
numbers of their bonds, and solicit information from
the respectable contractors (Messrs. Baring and Co.),
I have no doubt but they will agree with me that the
measures recently adopted, and now in progress by that
house, will prove much more effectual than any com-
bined public meeting or remonstrance of the bond-
holders. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

X CONSTANT READER
Oct. 21, 1842. AND SUBSCRIBER.