The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-05 00:00:00

DIS ItILTS.

FIRE AT BEAR WOOD.

It is with much regret that we announce the oc-
currence of a fire at Bear Wood, the seat of John
Walter, Esq., M.P., which, although fortunately
checked in its progress, has occasioned the loss of
much valuable property, and for some hours threatened
the whole mansion with destruction. It appears
that about half-past one o'clock yesterday the fire,
which is supposed to have originated in the kitchen
flue, was discovered in some rooms occupied by the
servants, and forming the extremity of one wing of
the mansion. An alarm was instantly raised, ex-
presses were despatched to Wokingham and Read-
ing to procure the assistance of the engines, and in the
meantime the members of the family, assisted by
the numerous workmen employed upon the grounds,
and with the ready aid .of all the neighbours whom
the alarm had reached, did whatever could be done
to extinguish the fire, or, at least, to confine it to the
offices in which it had first broken out.
But little water, however, for such an emergency,
could be obtained, except from the lake, which,
although at no great distance, was still not near
enough to furnish such a supply as would enable
them to resist the flames, which were gaining rapidly
upon them when the engines arrived. The first was
that belonging to J. Simonds, Esq., of Sindlesham,
but it was speedily followed by one from Wokiugham
and, after a short interval, by two others from
Reading, and these all, the one supplying the other,
formed a line of communication with the lake, and
were soon brought efficiently into play.
By this time the news of the fire had spread in
every direction, and the neighbours and peasantry as-
sembled in great numbers, all anxious to assist either
in working the engines, in rescuing the property, or
in any manner which would evince their desire to
serve one who, by a multitude of kindly offices, and
especially by his devotion to the interests of the poor,
had rendered himself so deservedly popular. In a
short time every particle of furniture which could
possibly
.be removed had been placed in safety ; and,
as the thick wall of the conservatory resisted the pro-
gress of the flames, that building was preserved, and
the fire eventually prevented from extending beyond
the wing in which it had commenced.
At seven o'clock the fire was still smouldering, but
no further danger was apprehended.—Times.

MISS MARTINEIII.—The disinterested and truly
noble conduct of this lady, in refusing a pension so
kindly and delicately and properly (as things go)
offered her by Lord Melbourne, before he went last
out of office, has suggested to us the idea of proposing
a public subscription throughout the kingdom, to be
entered into by the working classes and others, ad-
mirers of the writings, principles, and character of
Miss Martineau, as an acknowledgement of her just
claims on the people, and acting on her own well and
justly laid down rule, that for services rendered to
the people, the people themselves ought directly to
pay. And the people, we make no doubt, will pay,
readily, cheerfully, and abundantly. Whatever may
be their faults they are not ungrateful. In order that
this proposal should be carried duly into effect, it is
only necessary that it should be taken in hand by some
known and responsible parties. Miss Martineau's re-
sidence in this neighbourhood seems to place a pecu-
liar obligation on us to begin the work, and we are
authorised on behalf of three gentlemen whom we
know, to subscribe 3/. as a beginning.—Tyne Pilot,
DEATH THROUGH FRIGHT.---'fhursday morning, at
about half-past seven, an elderly lady, residing at
Austin-friars, in the City, was being driven at a rapid
pace toward the railway station in Euston-square,
from whence she intended to proceed to Birmingham.
In descending the very awkward hill near the Bag_
nigge-wells Tavern, the horse stumbled and fell, the
driver was thrown off, and both shafts broken ; and it
was a mercy that the cab was not precipitated to the
pavement, which at this spot lies nearly four feet be-
low the level of the road. All that the poor old lady
could utter, when another cab was procured, was
be driven back to Austin-friars, where she•
almost speechless, and by half-past nine a paralytic
stroke terminated her existence.

A new religious sect, much more strict in discipline
than the Methodists, has just been established at
Geneva. They are said to be a sort of St. Simonians.
They are obliged to hold their noisy meetings outside
the town, not being able to procure a place within
the walls

--GHENT, OCT. 31.—T0-day the adjudication of the
works for the construction of a railway direct from
Ghent to Antwerp, took place at the Hall of the Pr°
vincial Government. M. de Ridder, the chief engi-
neer, who is the author of the plan, obtained the grant
of this new railway for ninety years.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—A curious and not uninteresting
consequence of the more popular basis on wluch
power has become placed in this country is de
veloping itself in a section of the Church. Wes.
are much mistaken if we do not see more of
this. We have anticipated its occurrence for
some time. At former epochs in European
e
affairs the Church has made bold bids for popu-
larity. The doctrine of the majesty of
people, and their right to cashier Kings for mis-
conduct—always of course under the direction
of their spiritual guides,—was first propagated in
modern Europe by the Jesuits in the cause of the
Church. The doctrines of unlimited democracy
(subservient always to the priests) were never
more broadly preached than in France in the
days of Henry the Third and Fourth; and the
spiritual guides of those days did not lack an
executive arm in the persons of such heroes
and martyrs of the true Church as Clement and.
Ravaillac. The genius of the Church of Eng-
land is supposed to be quite contrary to popular
agitation. And so it has hitherto appeared
doubtless, and is so still, on the part of the
" lambs'-wool brothers,"
" Fellows who put their legs in lamb's-wool hose,"
as the foul-mouthed monk expresses it, it we re-
collect right, in Mr. Taylor's " Edwin the Fair."
Right reverend dignitaries, and men of snug be-
nefices, are no more agitators than they were in
the last century, when they threw cold water on
the zeal of Methodism, and its offers of service
to the Church. But the new generation of
Churchmen, who put fbrth revived claims to spi-
ritual authority, appear disposed to raise them-
selves on the shoulders of the people to power. And
here a curious contrast exhibits itself between the
principles and practice of these gentlemen. Their
principle is to magnify the episcopal authority to
the utmost—to describe it as representing the apos-
tolical function through all ages. Their practice
is, through several organs of the press (we need
only name, at present, the Times and the British
Critic), to set at nought all episcopal admonition
that thwarts their new scheme of restoring
Church power on a popular basis. Truly there
is nothing new under the sun ! The philosophical
poet, we above quoted, has painted the new
Churchmen, in painting the old Monks. The
good easy Church-exteusionists, who fancy they
are planting new barriers against popular discon-
tents, providing new " security to property," by
seconding every Church movement, may find
they are subsidising new agitators,—substituting
a new and turbulent Monkery for the old Church
of England.
STANDARD.—When the extravagant tariff
adopted by the United States Legislature first
reached this country, we did not hesitate to say
that it must be utterly impossible to carry into
effect such a scheme of exclusion. The conside-
rations upon which we formed this opinion were—
first, the vast extent of the accessible frontier of
the States; secondly, the nature of the Govern-
ment. The frontier by land and water extends to
probably 5,000 or 6,000 miles, and such a frontier
could not be protected against a contraband trade
by an army of less than 100,000 custom officers—
such an army the States of the Union, were they
united in pursuit of the object, would not be able
or willing to keep on foot; but they are not and
cannot be united in this pursuit, and the at-
tempt to force the exclusive system effectually
would be, as in the case of the nullification
quarrel, to inflame a now indolent jealousy into
actual Ivan The number of Custom-house offi-
cers, of which we have spoken as necessary to
line the immense frontier line of the States, will
not be thought extravagant by those who have
observed the preventive force that now occupies
the coasts of Great Britain, and the frontier
line of France, by land and sea; and these
are countries where the authority of law
holds a higher place than, for centuries
to come, it can hold in the United States,
could it indeed ever hold that place in a demo-
cratical government. The effect upon the public
mind of the attempt rigorously to enforce ex-
clusion may be learned from the spirit which
Napoleon's attempt to enfore his Berlin and
Milan decrees, almost totally unsuccessful as that
attempt was, produced in every country of
Europe, France itself not excepted. Now the
American Government has a much greater ex-
tent of frontier to guard than that which
Napoleon failed to guard with a million of men
at his disposal, for with him every soldier was
a Custom-house officer. And instead of being,
like the French Emperor, responsible to
no one, the American Government is respon-
sible to the persons most strongly tempted and
most deeply interested to violate its injunctions.
It may be true that at moments of high excite-
ment, and when points believed to be of vital
importance should seem to press, the Americans
as well as others would make great present
sacrifices; but the disposition to make such
sacrifices never anywhere outlives the emergency
that calls for them—for men will not continue to
use " extreme medicine as daily bread," and
certainly there is nothing in the present position
of the States to justify its Legislature in calling
for any extraordinary exercise of self-denial on
the part of the people.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—Lord Stanley offered to admit
Canadian wheat and flour manufactured in Canada
(no matter where grown), into British ports duty
free, provided the Canadian Parliament would subject
American wheat to a fixed duty of three shillings
per quarter when imported to Canada. The Canadian
press even go so far as to say that all wheat im-
ported into Canada under that duty, whether manu-
factured afterwards or not, may be exported from
thence, and admitted into England free of all duty.
The Canadian Parliament have wisely closed
with the offer, and passed the Bill under that con-
tract with the Imperial Government. If her Ma-
jesty's Government, therefore, keep faith with the
Canadians, a Bill must be introduced the next
session of Parliament to give effect to the agree-
ment repealing the duties of ss. to is. now
levied on Canadian corn in British ports, and de-
claring the same admissible at all seasons free of duty.
Should this Bill pass the House of Commons and
House of Lords, Canada will become a depot, in
transit, for the produce of the great corn States of
America, and the meaning of Mr. Sullivan w:11 be
explained, who, in addressing the Legislative Coun-
cil, at Kingston, in support of the Bill, declared that
if the dispatch of Lord Stanley were carried out in its
full spirit and meaning, it would confer one of
the greatest boons upon Canada that had ever been
experienced. Such a measure, it will be remembered,
is in perfect accordance with the declared sentiments
of Mr. Gladstone, the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade, who expressly stated in the debate on Lord
Howick's motion, regarding differential duties, that
the true principle of legislation in respect of colonial
integral
part was, to treat the colonies as an "
part of the empire," thus intimating that colhonial
the p
re-
duce ought ought to be admitted duty free, an
tat
venue should be exacted from foreigners.. The new
tariff, which created differential duties in
.se.veral. in-
stances, forms a strange context to those opinions,
the
Right Honourable Gentleman the Vice-Presi en of
e Board of Trade.

, --- ---- -------- .
PEEL'S TARIFF IN IRELAND.
We are furnished with the following characteristic
effusion of an Irish farmer's bitter hostility to Peel
and his Tariff. It is contained in a private letter to a
friend, which will account for the unrestrained indul-
gence of expressions which, had his letter been in-
tended for publication, would probably have been
rendered more conformable to the standardof phraseo-
logy which is usually observed in compositions
erin-
tended for the public eye. He resides at
ar m filll.ain'
s
county Galway,.and is one of a numerous
prices.
eims which
is acutely suffering under high rents and low
" The times here are very bad. All the
are smashing ; they are not getting
paid last year for their cattle. Inear what they
heard that . . .
went off to Liverpool with his cows, and am afraid he
went to a bad market. The Tariff
is receiving many a hearty c of Sir Robert Peel,
curse.
soon follow the farmers,
and. The landlords will
Some very good oats havethe devil mend them !
stone, the best at 5d.; been sold here at 3d. a
selling up] the poor and the agents driving [i. e.
fact is, that the people in every direction. The
tunes of the distress agents and their drivers will make for-
,4 The Rev. m ess of the people.
Commission r.
. .
.
has been removed from the
of the p
with c_ „,,. Peace, on account of his fighting
w ry in Dunmore."

--- -
STRONTIAN CATTLE MARKET.—The StTOritiall an-
nual October market was held upon the new stance,
on Thursday, the 20th ult. The stock-exhibited for
sale, from the districts of Morven, Ardnamurchan,
and Moidart, was more numerous and better con-
ditioned than those produced at any previous market.
Buyers were also more numerous; but the prices of
every description of stock suffered a corresponding
depression to other markets. "Prices may be quoted
as follows :—Cows, from Si. to 6/. ; queys, from 4/. to
51.; six. quarter-old stirks, from 2/. 16s. to 4/. 4s. ;
and stirks, from 1/. to 2/. ss. Few of the latter were
and were very inferior in quality.—lnver-
We understand that the statement which has gone
tneix: eshsirboCiuted'
on't d r i
oe rf
. the papers as to a pension having been
conferred upon the poet Wordsworth, is not strictly
accurate. The yearly sum which Mr. Wordsworth
will receive is a retiring allowance, given to him upon
resigning the office of distributor of stamps.--Brighton
Gazette.

On Friday next, the 11th inst., will be published, in Bvo., with
Woodcuts, 245. cloth,
A TREATISE on the MECHANICAL
-L-1 PRIN-
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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 5,
Will be repeated a Comic Opera, called THE SECRET MAR-
. RIAGE. Being an English version of Cimarosa's "II Ma-
trimonio Segreto." The Character of Carolina, by Miss
Adelaide Kemble ; Fidalma, Mrs. Alfred Shaw ; Elisetta,
Miss Rainforth ; Signor Geronimo, Mr. Giubilei ; Count
Montoni, Mr. Leffler ; -Paolino, Mr. W. Harrison.
After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic
Drama, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The
Ladies' Club," &cc., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker,
Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop,
Mr. Meadows ; Aaron 'fret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper,
Mrs. Hinnby ; Mies Warren; Miss Lee.
To conclude -with-Abe Farce of COUSIN LAMBKIN.
. Squire Mulberry, Mr. -Bartley t, Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter
Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam,
Miss Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lce ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ;
First and Second Circles be., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box-effice, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, NOV. 5,
Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin.
eipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly,
Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P.
Grattan, Miss Faucitt, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c.
After which, DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Prin-
cipal Characters by Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Paul Bedford,
and Mrs. H. Beverly.-
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
The Imp, Mr. Wieland; Fleur-des-Champs. 3ldme. Priebe
Giubilei ; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs.
H. P. Grattan.
To conclude with NORMA. Polio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ;
Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.