The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-13 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.

Yesterday afternoon information was given to the
Chief Magistrate of Bo :v-street ,of an elopement
which took place under very curious and almost ro-
mantic cireurnstlnees about two hours previously.
The rarties were John Clayton Cowell, Esq., a
Lieutenant in the Army, residing pro tem, at the
Bedford Hotel, Covent-garden, and Miss Frances
Anne Iberton Brickenden, daughter to Lady Anne
Brickenden, of Park-place, Hyde-park. It appears
that the gentleman was on terms of intimacy with
the family for some years, and that within the last
two years he had avowed himself as the professed
admirer of Miss Brickenden, who received his at-
tentions favourably; but the proposals of marriage
which he made met with the decided opposition of
the mother and other relatives of the young lady.—
The gallant officer, however, with that determined
spirit of perseverance which characterizes the lover
and the soldier, continued his attentions whenever
an opportunity presented itself, and it was deemed
expedient by her friends to take her to France for a
time, in the hope that absence would weaken the
impression which had been made upon her mind in
favour of the young and handsome suitor. Thither
the Lieutenant followed, and stole occasional inter-
views; and a abort time ago, when the family re-
turned to London, he contrived to inform the lady of
his readiness, " with all means and appliances to
boots" to carry her off to that part of the British
dominions where the nuptial knot can be tied without

those tedious forms and ceremonies so annoying to
persons thus situated. The young lady, it is now
presumed, did not withhold her consent to engage in
so interesting an adventure, and yesterday, at the
hour already mentioned, the elopement took place.
The house adjoining that of Lady Brickenden is at
present uninhabited, and thus a facility was afforded
for the accomplishment of the object that the youthful
lovers had in view, which was not at all thought of, or
guarded against by the parents of the lady. At
eleven o'clock yesterday morning Miss Brickenden
quitted the chamber of her mother, with whom she
had been previously for some time in conversation,
for the avowed purpose of retiring to her own dress.
ing-room. Two hours had elapsed, when her pro-
tracted absence was rather extraordinary, and a ser-
vant was sent to request her attendance in the
drawing-room. The servant, on her arrival at the
young lady's dressing-room, found that the was ab-
sent, and a window which looks on a balcony was
open. An alarm was immediately given, but the
yourig lady was no where to be found, and the truth
flashed upon the mind of her mother, who de-
spatched her domestics in all directions in pursuit of
the fugitives, but the plan had been, as it would ap-
pear, well contrived, for no trace whatever could be
obtained of them.
It is conjectured that the young lady got upon
the balcony, and from thence was assisted by her
lover through a window of the house adjoining, and
so into a chaise, which, it was ascertained, was
waiting at a short distance, and which was seen to
drive off with flying speed in the direction of the
northern road. Information was forthwith sent to
Colonel Rowan, the Chief Commissioner of Police,
requesting assistance in pursuing the fugitives, and
the Colonel despatched a note to Sir Richard Birnie,
expressing a wish that one of the most experienced
principal officers of the old police should be sent on
the required service. This step, we understand,
was taken, but the youthful pair must have had at
least three hours' start of their pursuers, and the
probability is, that they will be " made one" ere
they can be overtaken. Lady Brickenden is the
daughter of an Irish earl, and the wife of a clergy-
man of the Established Church. The young lady
left her home without her bonnet, and had not even
a change of dress. Miss Brickenden has a large
fortune in her own right, as well as great expecta-
tions. The elopement will doubtless create a great
sensation in the circles in which the parties are ac-
customed to move.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

The betting yesterday was so'dull that we can only
subjoin the present state of the-finds against all the horses
now in the betting for Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger.

DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Mummer
14 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
14 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's Cetus
17 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud
18 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Wat Tyler
18 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Sall colt
18 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt
20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Major
20 to 1 agst Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt
25 to I agst Lord Sefton's Mouche
25 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur
25 to I agst Lord Exeter's Red Rover
25 to I agst Mr. Roberts's Sister to Sailor
$0 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Darioletta colt

OAKS.
15 to 2 agst Lord Sefton's Mouche
10 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly
12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Shumla.
20 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Filagree f.
20 to 1 agst Lord Queensberry's Sister to Emma
25 to 1 agst Mr. Maberley's Nina filly

ST. LEGER. -
9 to 1 agst Lord Queensberry's Bud
15 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
16 to 1 agst Duke of Leeds's Lady Mowbray
16 to 1 apt Mr. Richardson's St. Nicholas
20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Major
20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Reginald
25 to 8 agst Mr. Petre's Laura.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
APPOINTMENTS FOIL THE ENSUING. WEEP.
The Duke of Rutland's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Her-
ring's Lodge; Wednesday, at Croxton Park; Friday, at
Weaver's Lodge; and Saturday, at Belvoir—at Half-past
Ten.
The Cottesmore Hounds, on Monday, at Corby
bar ; Tuesday, at Owston Wood ; and Thursday, at Carlby
Windmill—at a Quarter before Eleven.
Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Sawtty
Garse; Wednesday, at Hunt's Closes; and Thursday, at
Helby Wood—at Ten.
Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Gautby
House ; Tuesday, at Branston Wood ; Wednesday, Wince-
by Village; Thursday, at Kettlethorpe ; Friday, at Clay
Bridge ; and Saturday, at Brant Broughton—at Eleven.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Scawby
House ; Tuesday, at Roxton Wood ; Friday, at Elkington
Cow Pasture; and Saturday, at Kettlrby Thorpe—at
Eleven.
The East Sussex Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Newtim-
ber ; Thursday, at Plumpton Plain; and Saturday, at
Jevington—at a Qualter to Woven.
The Brighton Harriers on nday, at Pateham ; Wed-
nesday, at the Race Course ; aifd.Friday, at the Dyke—at
Half-past Ten.
The Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket-
Hill ; Wednesday, at Ashcombe, the alternate Wednesday
at the Kennel ; and Friday, at .Telscombe Tye—at Half-
past Ten.
Mr. Jolliffe's Hounds, on Monday, at Box Hill ; Wed-
nesday, at Horse Hills; and Saturday, at Windmill Wal-
ton—at Eleven.

The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Hamsey
Green ; Thursday, at the Rose and Crown ; and Saturday,
at Liinpsfield—at Half-past Ten.
The Cambridgeshire Hounds, on Monday, at Hardwkke
Arms ; and Friday, at Tadlow—at Half-past Ten.
The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Furneaux
Pelham ; Wednesday, at Blakes Ware; and Saturday, at
Capons—at Half-past Ten.
The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Melbourn Hyde ;
and Thursday, at the Red Lion, Reed Hill—at Half-
past Ten.
The.Doddington Harriers, on Tuesday, at Green's Mill;
and Friday, at Mill Field.
Sir Richard Pulleston's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Clo-
verley ; and Friday, at Crewe-green—at Eleven.
The Cheshire Hounds, Monday, at Sandiway . Head ;
Wednesday, at Henbury Lodge ; Thursday, at Withing-
ton ; and Saturday, at Weaver-hall--at Half-past Ten.

The remainder of the French troops have re-
turned from the Morea. The insalubrity of the climate
has caused enormous losses. The officers complain of
their food, which consisted only of salt meat, and urea-
limed dysentery.

L;

,S.

The reluctance of the parish officers of St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields to prosecute a wretch of
more than ordinary criminality, even in her line,
is very reprehensible. Should they fail of a
conviction, which is hardly passible, they must
disturb the miscreant in her horrid calling, com-
pared to which body-snatching is a life of inno-
cence. Have the parish-officers of St. Martin's
no time for any thing but defending their rights
and those of the- select vestry against the unbend-

lug and indefatigable Mr. Fenn ? The princi-
pal street of London, the Strand, becomes a nui-
sance, from the assaults of abandoned women
and girls, as soon as it enters their parish :
whereas the nuisance ought rather to diminish as
the distance from the theatres ir.creases. Our
opinion is, that the New Police have already
effected much good ; but they ought to be sup-
ported by the parochial authorities, or else their
utility will inevitably decline. They are also
decent, respectable, and quiet•looking men ; and
are calculated, by their appearance, to inspire
among ourselves, and to give foreigners, an high
opinion of our domestic policy. It is not alien
to this subject to note an error, at least as we
conceive it to be, in our proceedings in crimi-
nal cases, from which much mischief proceeds.
Why, in all capital offences, except that of mur-
der, is so long a time suffered to elapse between
the conviction of the offender and his execution
Be it observed that we are not now defending
the propriety of capital punishments : they make
a part of the law of the land, and while they con-
tinue to do so, they ought, we say, to be in-
flicted speedily. How is the time of the convict
usually spent after his conviction, and almost up
to the day of his execution ? In a corre-
spondence, which it is impossible to prevent,
with his old partners in crime. They support
his courage by messages and communications ;
and he takes an interest in their enterprises : he
no doubt goes to chapel, prays, weeps, and talks
piously at intervals ; but it is notorious that he
knows full well what is going on out of
doors. The convicted burglar in Newgate
sees, in his nightly visions, the burglary
which is committing by his late comrades,
and in which he would have participated
had he been free : he trembles for their dan-
ger, and rejoices in their escape, nor in truth
does he seriously prepare for death till it is com-
municated to him that the fatal warrant is signed.
We feel convinced, therefore, that where it is
determined to subject the offender to the law's
severest award, not more than a week, perhaps
not more than three days, should be suffered to in-
tervene between his conviction and the execution
of the sentence ; and that such despatch would
both be a powerful method of preventing crime
by the terror which it would inspire, and the
truest compassion to the sufferer. We have
also an additional reason for recommending this
course ; and that is, that it. will intercept the pro-
ceedings of humanity-mongers, which we are
convinced are becoming very injurious to the
laws, and to the respect due to them : for, under
existing circumstances, no sooner is a thief con-
demned, than this class of persons, having all
the evidence of the conviction before them, im-
mediately set themselves to work to hunt out
other evidence to subvert it. and, having plenty
of time before them for the execution of their
task, and no one being employed on the other
side to search for evidence to rebut theirs, it has
happened that few men have been convicted
even on grounds the most sure, but some futile
and specious pretext has been subsequently ais.,
covered to shake the verdict. :• So that t 4 duty
of a petty-juryman, difficult at all times, is ren-
dered doubly difficult : he can hardly ever come
well out of a trial followed by conviction. Either
let the laws be altered, or let them be executed
with promptitude and vigour.—Times.
In the number of' the Quarterly Review pub •
lished yesterday, there is an article on our Fi-
nances, which contains various statements de-
serving of attention at this time. The Finance
Committee, in their Report, had shown that tot.
duties on several of the principal articles or, ge-
neral consumption, which had been s'abject to
no change, experienced a considerable rise be-
tween 1823 and 1827. The Reviewer has en-
tered into a more extensive investigation of this
most interesting and instructive subject. " The
very favourable conclusion," he says, " at which
the Committee arrived, induced us to extend the
inquiry over the former years of the peace. The
result is shown by the following table, in the
formation of which we have selected twelve ar-
ticles :—Six of daily enjoyment—tea, coffee,
sugar, wine, foreign spirits, and tobacco ; and
five of household necessity—soap, starch, candle
of wax and tallow, and bricks. To these silk
has been added. Beer we have not inserted,
because its late increase (Justices' Juice ;t P.) has
outgrown, we understand, the progress in the
consumption of malt. Leather is alsoet
has xcllie id, in
ed
by an imperfection inuethheieprlri hasecatutiol iri gil of
sNel
figures a ab
returns. The quan-
tities given below are those of domestic con-
sumption."wiiicli " The reviewer
anuseless n
been avoided, by adopting one million as the
unit, so that the decimal places are hundreds of
i
thousands, &c:' Even with this 'limitation,
the table presents so formidable an array of
figures, that we are unable at present to insert it.
In includes the consumption for the.years 1816-
17-18-19-20-21-22.23-24-25-26-27 and 1829,
excepting that wax, soap, tallow, starch, and
bricks, are not given for 1828. The fol-
lowing is the result roundly stated by the ReL
viewer :—" We here see that the people of this
country have, in the Jag yeaf,. coughed one-
.half more of candles, soap, starch, bricks, su-
gar, brandy, and one-third more of tea, than
they did only twelve years ago-.---a date which
seems to most of us recent. Yet on none of
these articles has there been any. considerable
reduction of duty. The consumption of the re-
maining commodities, the imposts on which
have been abated, has increased in various pro-
portions. Within the last six years, coffee has
doubled, rum and wine have grown by one-
half, tobacco at a slower rate. Of raw silk
six times as much, and of thrown silk there
have been introduced three times as much, as at
the close of the war. In tracing on the table
the steps of this general progress, we find that
%;:ailri,llganedhbh;asa
been higher
the year 1825 shows in every column. sudden
advance, which is not surprisin, for that was
the year of excess, but we alsO °find that this
d even under our
spring tide of consumption has had no counter-
t
at
as reachedtiicl
elisot bi
generally
con-
tended t
oh
na
present discouragement. The sudden but last-
-1
the
mg advance extends to almost every official re-
tended that-outrlsp;opaluuliati:,ne has increased
ld wish
t 0 in the
wcrLauoitirliainostuobmofefetlttlic'heir ibseyv increasei
period."e ic can be afforded of the ab-

serdity of the declamations in all the Tory
Newspapers as to the ruin of the country. The
articles selected are not consumed by particular
classes, but by all ; and they prove to demonstra-
tion, that notwithstanding the occasional stagna-
tion in particular branches of industry—industry,
as a whole, has gradually, even since the peace,
been obtaining a better reward. What becomes,
then, of the nonsense about the evils of free
trade? The Quarterly Review always reminds
us of Noah's Ark, in which all sorts of animals,
clean and unclean, were crowded together.—
The High Churchman (the very essence of
selfishness) and the enthusiastic visionary repose
together in its pages in peace and amity, like the
lion and the lamb. We have in the above ar-
ticle satisfactory evidence that the reward of
labour cannot have diminished since the peace.
But in an article on Co-operative Societies in
the same number, the working classes are repre-
sented as having been all but annihilated by
machinery ; and we have all the notions of over-
production, which Mr. Owen has been so inde-
fatigable in communicating, over again thrust
upon us. "In manufacturing districts," we are
told by the Reviewer, " they are frequently
overtaken by the horrors of a famine, not from a
failure of the crops, but from a failure of em-
ployment, of which Manchester, Kiddermin-
ster, and Spitalfields, afford recent examples.—
But putting aside these occasional distresses, the
mass of the working population are, as society
is at present constituted, placed in circumstances
which preclude the possibility of attaining an
independence, however small, for themselves,
in case of sickness or age ; and if they die, for
their wives and children. Hard work for a long
day, and a long week, with no time for inno-
cent enjoyments, and for that improvement of
the mind which would teach them to prefer in-
nocent to vicious pleasures, and so on through
the whole active period of their lives, is barely
sufficient to procure them common- necessaries;
to succeed thus far is their best lot. They have
no hope of rising above it into independence,
and myriads sink below it into wretchedness.
But misery produces crime, and the most severe
and sanguinary laws are insufficient to oppose it.
A hungry stomach, starving children, and in
winter a cold hearth, are stronger temptations
than the fear of punishment can counteract.
And this is the lot of those who fabricate all the
wealth of the country. The labour of every
nation,' says Adam Smith, is the fund which
originally supplies it with all the necessaries and
conveniences which it consumes.' But time la-
bourers, those from whose hands issue all wealth,
are themselves left with empty hands ; those
who grow all the corn, make all the clothes,
build all the houses which we see, are the worst
feel, the worst clothed, and the worst housed part
of the community ; those who contribute hands
and arms, and skill and knowledge, and the al-
most incessant employment of these to the
production of wealth—their lot is poverty ; they
whose hands and arms, and skill and knowledge,
are not exerted—their lot is plenty, indepen-
dence, ease, and often wealth. When the dis•
covery was made that machines could be con-
trived which would increase to an incredible de-
gree the productiveness of labour, so that one
man could produce as much as formerly re-
quired hundreds or thousands, a simple per-
son, who knew nothing of the mechanism of
society—of the connection between the working
classes and those by whom they are employed,
and the way in which the former arc rewarded for
their toil—such a person might naturally ex-
pect that the discovery of machinery would be
the happiest of all possible events for the work-
ing classes : it is they who have discovered the
machines in most cases, and have fabricated them
in all ; and it might be reasonably expected that
these lifeless but industrious children of their in-
genuity would become their useful slaves, who
s'otild work for them, lighten their labour, and
increase their abundance. But whatever the
ultimate result may be, and we, for our part,
doubt not that it will be good—the consequence
to the existing generation has been very different,
instead of serving them as the Fairies did Cris-
pin, in the German Tale, who had only to cut
out his shoes at night and he was sure to find
them made die next morning, machines have
served them like the Monster in Frankenstein,
who, when life was given him, used it only to
persecute the giver, Machines, instead of
being their servants, have become their most
formidable competitors." If this be not abso-
lute wisdom, it is next to it. And pray, Mr.
Reviewer, why should machinery extend pro-
duction, if the effect of it is to destroy con-
sumers ? Time goods moat be generally wanted,
otherwise they would not be produced, and the
ability to consume them must likewise exist.
Production and consumption must go hand in
band. But let us hear the Reviewer farther :
The application of machinery to manufac-
tures, instead of being a blessing to the existing
generation of the labouring classes, brought on
them a new evil, called over-production ; the
machines which had been almost always con-
trived, and were of course always fabricated by
them, became the property of their masters, and
worked for them, and not for the labourers. By
the combination of labour and machinery, the
master manufacturer was enabled to produce as
many goods as he did formerly with a small
number of workmen, and thus was enabled and
-:induced to discharge hands; or if he continued
to employ as many, these, by the Aid of machinery,
produced such a superabundance of goods, that
the master manufacturer could not sell them ;
JOr a time, therefore, he ceased to produce them,
and during the 'season of non-production paid
off a crowd of workmen ; thus, either at
first or tiltimately, the employment of machi-
nery in Manufactures diminished the demand
for labour; and the consequences were low
wages, diminished employment, and sometimes
none at all, with its attendant horrors." If the
Reviewer were at all acquainted with the state of
society in this country, he must have discovered
that the labouring classes who have deteriorated
in their circumstances are those who use no
machinery, as the agricultural labourers for in-
stance, and the hand-loom weavers. In the
south of England, we believe tiw labourers are
deteriorated, though not perhaps to the eatent
imagined, because the same sum now
commands more manufactured goods than it
would have commanded forty or fifty years ego.
When machinery is introduced for the first time
into any branch of industry, hands are of course
discharged, and this is an evil; but the diminished
price increases the consumption, and more hands
are gradually employed. Machinery, so far
from causing employment to be unsteady, pre
duces the contrary effect, because the capital
laid out in the works, &c., compels the manus
facturer to:keep on his hands. But those who
employ. hand-loom weavers are under no such
necessity of continuing employment, and dis-
charge their people when demand is not brisk,
without ceremony. Machinery tends to equae
We the demand for labour. Dut, indeed the

whole of what the Reviewer says is absurd in
the extreme.—Morning Chronicle.
A Correspondent in a Morning Paper in-
dulges in an indignant philippic against us for
having freely expressed our opinion of the detri-
ment which the public service received on the last
Western Circuit, in consequence of the lamented
infirmities of Mr. Justice Burrough. It is not
our habit to make remarks upon the conduct of
any public man, except in his public capacity.
In adverting to the case of the Learned Judge,
we were actuated solely by an anxious desire for
the effective wlministration of justice ; and we
are not aware that our observations transgressed

the allowable freedom of the Press. For the

personal qualities, the moral character, and pro-
fessional abilities of Mr. Justice Burrough, we
entertain the most sincere respect. We believe
that a person of better intention and more un-
blemished integrity never occupied a judicial si-
tuation in a country remarkable for the high-
minded purity of its Judges; nor did we ever
deny his reputation for learning and sound legal
acquirements. It is therefore, no answer to our
remarks for the writer in question to say that " he
established the character of an excellent lawyer

and special pleader during the time that such
men as my Lord Kenyon, my Lord Ellenbo-
rough, Mr. Justice Buller, Mr. Justice Law-
rence, and other great men, presided in the
Courts, and supported that character at the
Bar, when it might justly boast of the most
solid and splendid talents ;"—still less does
it meet our objections to state that " I
know him to be a man of the strictest inte-

grity, and no one upon the Bench more up-
right or unsophisticated—and though, from age,
his intellect may not be so quick and prompt as
formerly, yet I believe him to possess as solid a
judgment as ever; in private and social life no
man is more justly and universally esteemed." It
argues no small confusion of ideas in the writer
who could suppose that these deserved enco-
miums on the professional and personal cha-
racter of Mr. Justice Burrough were an answer
to our objections to the continuance of that
venerable personage on the Bench. Our objec-
tions and the writer's statements are not con-
tradictory, but co-existent. The writer is accu-
rate in his premises, but illogical in his conclu-
sion. In order to disprove our argument- he
should show, not that Mr. Justice Burrough
was some ten or filteen years ago a most able
lawyer and efficient member of the Bench, or
that he is still a Judge of sound learning, solid
judgment, and spotless pub is and private ohs-
' racter, but that his excellent qualities of mind
are not neutralised by the infirmities of the body

—that he is neither inaudible, or deaf, or somno-
lent on the judgment-seat—nor at all seriously
afflicted v‘ith those symptoms of years and de-
bility whitli interfere with the prompt and effec-
tive administration of justice. Far be it from us

.o speak of old age with any thing bu,
reverence; but nature has set limits to the
active exertions of men.—There is no public
station that requires both the mental and phy-
sical faculties to be in better condition than the
office of a British Judge. The writer in ques-
tion admits that, " from age, the intellect of
Mr. Justice Burrough is not so quick and
prompt as formerly." Although this is an al-
mission that age has impaired the excellence of
his mental powers, we consider his deafness and
inarticulate mode of delivery more serious defects
in a Judge. Is it to be forgotten that, at some
town, on the last Western Circuit—we believe
Bridgewater—on the Learned Judge having
summed up a
.case, he was told by the Jury
they had not heard one word of his charge, and
it was found necessary, if the report of that case
be correct, that the Jury should leave the box,
and stand close to the Judge while he went over
his charge again ? As to sudden indisposition
upon Circuit, the youngest and most vigorous
member of the Bench may, of course, be liable
to that, but we speak of defects which, when they
attach themselves to men at an advanced period
of life, are the warnings of nature to the human
mind to retire from the troubles and cares of pub-
lic duty and ambition into the meditation and
repose of private life. Solve senescentem, &c.,
is a maxim of sound wisdom too much neglected
in practice ; and hence we often see men, who
have acquired a deserved reputation in various
walks of public life, lingering so long upon the
stage as to el ace the remembrance of their better
fame.—Morning Herald.
We rejoice to find that the few observations
which we made yesterday on the subject of
music, and playing a " sober game of whist,"
in a tavern, have not only met with general ap-
probation, as a correct statement of the law in
such cases, but that the opinion which we ex-
pressed coincides in every respect with that
which has been given by Counsel specially em-
ployed to expound the law. We state this on
the authority of a respected correspondent, who,
we are glad to find, is about to call a meeting of
those interested in the decision of such matters,
for the purpose of forming an Association for
their mutual protection against informations, and
defending, or at least trying, such as may be
brought against them. This is the only way in
which the matter can be satisfactorily settled.
Lct a friendly information be given, as was done
two years ago by tho dealers in game, against
one another, and have the merits of the case
tried by sufficient judges, and the question, in
so far as the constm uction of the present law is
concerned, will then be set at rest for ever.
The opinion of Counsel, as we have already
hinted, is, that tavern-keepers do not ren •
der themselves liable to any penalty by
having music and dancing in their houses,
when their rooms are let to private parties only
admissible by tickets ; and this is, assuredly, also
the common-sense view of the subject. What
greater harm is there in music and dancing, or
" a sober game of whist," in a tavern, than in
the mansion of his Grace of Wellington ? If
such amusements are innocent at Apsley House,
are they not equally so in the London Tavern,
or the Freemasons' Hall ? We know no reason
why they should not, and we are confident that
the public participates iu our opinion. The
question, however, must not he left in this un-
decided state—the meeting must be called, and a
ease tried before a competent tribunal, and then
every one will be aware whether he is, or is not,
liable to a penalty, for permitting such amuse-
ITIOIIts in his house. It will be seen from our
Bow-street report, that the Magistrates of that
office have decided a case of card-playing, pre-
cisely according to the opinion which we ex-
pressed yesterday on the subject.—Morn. uidv.

By private intelligence we learn that the Gil-
more, in which vessel Mr. TIIO3IAS PEEL and suite cm-
harked for the new settlement at Swan River, arrived
Madeira on the 28th of August. Jn the same vessel are
also embarked the family of Mr. SAiITUERS, who emigrated
from this town as a settler on Mr. PEpt.'s domains. Mr.
P. is represented as conducing in every possible way to
the comfort and convenience of the passengers, whose num-
ber amount to nearly 300,--R .9 Gazette.