The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-26 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1842.

'•-• Tit,N-7
, !•ri) I-
uandnd iie;etieur, the see,,tai ;et, itei.ttlett
iSeabhorse, r Policy,
rand
b, „ e ot iv of norses kin racing p am. 0-
r)tiLirittab, rue•k••), mut then the tail--viz., Defier.
v(tigrilatm P:,llaclititn, "u(1 Ioi;t a s:art of ticarty one i.itindreti yards.
Iti,eitzrd}:hp:qatiteietiise;kt
egitkita,a,rter a mile the pace Was 'lndurate
and Lasso imniediateiy vacated the
e.
I:‘,ut other respects the rare proct•eded as
'+("N"iii)vii it, near the turn, when Bel .
tohi. 'l...Aettla and Conibermere, and, w•ith the :wo
tutir7.,sok•lil
Itte•r.., carrier', the running into du- straight
,s,, IIV Mt behind consisting Unttliam,
"rsc• Policy, and the Agreeable colt, Robert tit
kinriut, who had ,ri•dtittil iroved his position, 13-11:1;
ittirlevaad;otherwise w
IleXi• 'flit front rank cont3inueld intact to the rolid, but
it h that bt•hind it. Coldrenick had
shown that the distance was too great for him.
cult Chatham fell lime ; Seaborse, and the Jigri-eable
hod shot their bolt, and liobert de Gorham
!Passing them in succession, took his ground next
•0 Auckland. A few yards friou the distance Coin-
berrisere
g'e up in 1 oto, and fell into the cock,
ant i avmmediately after Attila shot past Belcceur, took a
decisive lead, kept it to the end, and won with the most
I:):i•feet ease imaginable by two lengths. Robert de
tiorlann ran by .:~nd half way up the distance,
L'"Ultred Leleceur at the stand, and beat hint for the
4,eond money cleverly by a length, Auckland being we:l
up with Belcceur at the finish. Ttie Agreeable colt and
l'elicy were fifth and sixth, Sealturse dividing themfr(4e. the crowd behind. Jack . and Palladium wt•re
about the last two. The pace was good, but eel--
tainlY* not first-rate. Value of the stakes, 4,900/. nc,t
Anson, Lords Chesterfield and Maidstone, and
in
are Fact, all the gentlemen connected with Scott's stt ble,
great winners 011 the race ; the Manchester men are
ralso en the right side, the balances to be handed over
sa Ml. t° ,ptintinZ according to report, to 70,000/. (Where
eoule from ?) Considering whet favourable op-
portunities the Coldt•enick party had of hedging their
l' inulleY. we take it for granted they have not been hit
.;,hurd-; albeit their confidence (in a very bad horse)
hA” almost without a parallel in the annals of racing.
ol settling will take place on Tuesday next ; it must
Thi,e,,,ev3.---%e hope it fluty be a good one.
Yrs '1)8('In Stakes of 5 Soya. each, with 35 added ; 3
ukL 7st 10lb ; 4 yrs, Bst 111 b ; 5 yrs, 9st 21b ; 6
.307'4„ all(l'iiaged, 9st 61b. The winner to be sold for 120/.
rnet (12 Subs.)
Forth's Catnelino, 6 yrs (Bell) 1
14*• P)l9l'S t rident, 3 yrs
• baY'S br m by Nimrod, Out of Busk 3
b The Ibllowing also started, but were not placed :—Count
(iarinnoll Box, 4 yrs, Mr. Bushell's Jenny
ch",,,i;7'f,26 Yrs, Mr. Smith's Astronomer, 3rs, Mr. Bat-
-ug b) 4 yrs, Mr. 'Teen's Haitoc, 3 yrs,
,11.1 r,.
listrel
4 Was Miss Fidget, 4yrs, and Mr. Pryse Pry se s
iat 4 rs.
1„. The race was entirely: between Mr. Forth's two, and
Tuks Wk)tt cy •
the Waltonleverly. Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 35 added; three
Yrs old, 7st 11:11b; four, Bst 11lb; five, 9st 21b; six and
,„BP„tt 9st 61b. The winner to be sold for 100/. One
(7 Subs.)
• North's Knightsbridge, 4 yrs (Butler) 1
4n.r.-jok, •
1/..„ usciu s Frank, 6 yrs 2
3
r• savage's John o' Gaunt, 3 yrs
• The following also started but werenot placed:—Mar-
Exeter's Patchwork,
37 Exeter's Patchwork, 3 yrs; Mr. Garrard's Thu
5.-:'`'-',3 yrs; and Captain Cunningham's Mungo Park,
Tilt's . \Von cleverly by a length; a good race for second.
--7,33urgh Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 35 added; three
4;495t• 41b• 11 old, Bst 21b; four. Bst 11113; five, 9st; six and aged,
N\ inner to be sold for 801. One mile. (12
• *lbs.)
Pit
• ,CMaul Daintree's b c by Mulatto,. 3 yrs....(Marson)
01
aptain
Rous's Nicholas 5 yrs
The follovv'ngalso started:—Lord G. Bentinck's Bal-
}1"/Y.' 3,3'1'3; ILbrd Exeter's Patchwork, 3 yrs; Hon. S.
t ernert s Teetotaller, 3 yrs; Mr. Lichtwald's b m
to
5 yrs ; Mr. Price's Marshal Biron, 3 yrs
Greville's Palasmon 4 yrs ; Mr. Lawrence's
7tlll3edci, 3 yrs ; ;Mr. Williamson's Wiltona, 3 yrs ; Mr.
• t3cott's fby Bay Middleton, 3 yrs ; and Mr. T. Wal-
ters' Miss Whinney, 4 yrs.
short, quick run race, and won cleverly by half a
'legth.
T 111: OAlM—The only betting we heard after the
;aces, was 5 to 2 agst Lord Jersey's Adela filly, and 3
"° I agst Lord Chesterfield's Dil-bar.

1,-,f4TEST MANCHESTERBETTING

AIANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.
h e great event of to-morrow attracted a very good
44,tendatice this forenoon. The engagements made did
!°t come up to expectation. The letters received from
e South-give little hope but to the front rank. The
Wices at the close of the room were as follows:
.

THE DERBY.
9 NI 4 agst Mr. Trelawney's Coldrenick—t. then off
:..•3 18 1 agst Col. Anson's Attila—taken, then offered
6 161 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—t. then off.
8 61,1: agst Mr. Greville's Canadian—taken
13 to,l agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack—taken
4on Attila and Auckland (t) 4to 1 agst Attila
. and Auckland being first and second (t) ; 4 to 1 in ponies
:offered that the winner of the Derby does not win the St.
.I,e,rer.
THE OAKS.—I\o betting.
,'• THE ST. LEGER.—P 2 to I was booked to about a
Bcore on Auckland. We have not seen any important
;flanges at the room since the morning papers arrived.
best intelligence that me can glean is decidedly in
.-,!otly of Day's lot, or of Auckland.
...AAA.. *Or/ 00.••••••••••
1! JAMES'S T HE A TRE.—FRENC H
PLAYS.

4.1-‘,...e.vaudeville of Le Vicomte de Letorieres, was produced
theatre last evening, the part of Le Vicomte being sus-
s?tis dY Mademoiselle Dejazet. The plot of this play is the
• that of Mrs. Gore's popular tale of " Fascination.',
{l°d filth neral being, of course, Mademoiselle Dejazet
there one more fitted by nature to fascinate.
ifascinating the landlady of the miserable
lo
C ►aec%n
"a all recollection of the 400 livres due for rent,
of sundry protestations of love in exchange, her
• • 'candour with poor old Pomponne the preceptor,
"nt,l4:9lnpounded of the pedantry of Dominie Sampson,
by it, of Caleb Balderstone, which was excellently
dr'tni Gatoard—lier numerous and most laughable
the eat fh CEIn .1-43 Of th B ron Tibulle Menelas d Hugeon
Lieoai.rde), were all excellent but by . far the
perri flittinaco ti the piece. was the manner in which
Lk, trey „. r-general fascinates Le Conseiller Des-
set th"l. Cartigny) into giving a legal decision favour-
. moruk...--4'.clairrts of the ;aid fascinator. This learned csou_n;
cnoiki;
.lies ars extensive law library, to which it. i his
Pe,9.luoi.lllstom, of an afternoon,"
theeorks
of
Dy g Divers
02nlatch_ Ingjornes are lettered, uessau,
itlieeredi'arelomuollienes,b and. as
Cicerwo. 'I hese, when
ases containing bottles of
• lAiritel:t liqueursa then leearoced gentleman studies the
..tesquie:t the mere letter of the law—and consequently Mon-
.e6verifthis the
his favourite authors. The Vicomte dis-
:snter e.nature of the contents of" The advocate's library 'nectii:,/t!hile he is at his studies; joins him in his spiritual
..,tassei,-:°42, and at length convinces the worthy Judge of the
mkt adeciding the iin his favour by which he becomes
.tie,--eme—r of --a
larger fortune, and is delivered from
-Ity of any further attempts at fascina-
Vt' ii'e.letPt en amateur. This was a character
::eint,'7,,lited to the peculiar genius of Dejazet, the
aris, and never did we see her to greater advan-
dia 1.-at all who wish to see the most fascinating actress of,
,I.tia`lifrth !stage, in her best character, go to the St. Jame.s s
sie''and see arm Deja as Le Vicomte de Letorieres. he
Crowded by st fashionable audience.

41-1"1RE ATHAMBURGH.
..,L,'St'li „9 TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Divill,,,-:ive think it may he of interest fur you to have the fel-
tltg i4hP.ltt_tiettlars of the fire ; it appears now that the follow-
, ' 44.,i,reeted statement. Burnt down .--
. '12.0 "7., reels. • •
: -I.9Eri."•°4rts.
, -1,716 kttses, and
.44W1-I,lling floors (Etages, Sable).
• ,:'it ,-eataees.
•11,,,,A ,••"I telling cellars.
.. i , 4
uaibehitaesn.ts roofless.
:• ..„, linagogoet,
, ..4.- -114 . atermills, with 36 wolves.
Otirr • 6Ptnlthaus and zuehthaus, with their churches (houses of
Itticti°ll).
'-' . le hetentions house.
"';!'ll4Sriat house.
lilt ',..u.11:1 Excliange.—N.B., The new Exchange, only built
).; ow, it, saved, iii,d- after a few days repairing, in use 'gain.
,-: 77. E.lobecii-bouie, containing Court of Lommerce, Court
:1-•• itcon roes, 'with offices; the Custom-house_ offices,
es
iti ,
' ' *Area, the Lottery 'saloon, the Citizen tivard uffici •
7
1.. 'ft V' Piii ic "Asia.
',. ~.-.04, k
,:?,A-,b,24 •
s:lmkerkS many, and all of the largest hotels, and all the
'';fl ut....._"*.•-,
'll'stnin....."4"o square feet is the superficial extent of the burnt
'lsf,..fhe city.
' ',- • . nespectfully, Sir, your most obedient servants,
'41.„,,,'2:t. ABIt.\HAM BAUER AND CO.
9*w, May IS, 1842.
? ' Ttt t. ~
Ir. et-,,,,` nACEs.—At this period, when the races at-
It (1-I,_" In, Itch public attention, the following account of races
ste on-r" (given by the late Sir Alexander Burnes) may not
•• Perenteresting. They are certainly races well calculated to
rstin". the jockeys of Epsom and. Newmarket:—" Horae
tret!,lll a favourite amusement, and the horses for the purpose
atteir rally trained for a fortnight or three weeks preceding ;
No i„„7 requite this, for a race here is not a matter of one or
tweo-6,112 heats. but a regular continued run for twenty or
Widi '.uve kos (40 or 50 miles !) across the country, sometimes
fluently the
morasses and swimming rivers, but more fre-
Ithiti:Yerossing their magnificent extended plains; lone of
4reel2ta* level as our best race-courses, and with a beautiful
Liu; tierf covering, not unfrequently extends the entire dis-
. mated be run. The scene on these occasions is highly am-
set off. asnot only the racers, generally about '2O in number,
.-. top but the whole of the sporting assembly, perhaps 100, or
nt.f QM in number, accompany them, at least for the first three
tooZtittln)iles A judge ha's lieen sent on in vance,
.and the
(... etrt.ai : ra seldom return till the next nay !ad
zhe prizes are
was 'llY worth some exertion, and, in one case, when the donor
4tid ''• Man of fiord substance, they were as follows :—The first
: ,ttrillelTirahel"sical' was
a Yming
nd 50 maiden, generally a Huzarah
, both prized for their personal attractions; the se-
&ith), sheep ; the third, a boy ; the fourth, a horse ; the
Isth,,, a "'net ; the sixth, a cow y;
and the seventh, a water
1,.._e; the winner of which becomes an object of ridicule and
•",, for the rest of the meeting.
,laB :i. Ilt CROPS.—The crops in this vicinity are suffer-
severely from thet
want of ruin. The wheats are getting
. .ug );10:nd unhealthy, anSI on some stiff lands the oat-sowing
IT completed. Peas have suffered severely from the
',
,-jib.• .. g, which was never known to be more destructive than this
It i s •
,4„,r.,
the
I.= ~,_. west of Kent, not one-half of the usual breadth of
'',iiN,--_`7lst is sown, and also that the produce of that in the ground
rlt:•4l,tst• average more than two quarters per acre, and with but
, "'" steavi. The hot weather has bad a good effect on the
Plririe .
`,.i; g„ • . and the tying
, .is to he found, is now nearly completed; but sonic
which, at this time, gives risetoomuch fear.
•11/lew
. ‘,. t., ,.Guardian.
?., id •
.o.ll,'FfettAlUniCipal.Coun.cil of. Paris has voted the sum
, b , 4 i of. for the immediate widening of
at
rhcch
eR
auue
zd eF 11
ea
liCili Cite,
' I,l4e4tions on the.right side, from the-
:- eit
•'' -•- —lit dtf Marche Neuf.
' ..i ... :

GENERA!, ASSEMBLY.
PATII()NAGE.

On Monday, Mr. Cunningham, one of the Non-Intrusion
Ministers, m..ved the follewirig resolution :—" That the Ge-
neral Assembly, having considered the overtures anent pa-
tronage, resolve and declare that' patronage is a grievance, has
been attended with much injury to the cause of true religion in
this Chu. ch and kingdom, is the main cause of the difficulties
in whirls the Church is at present involved, and that it ought to
be abolished." 'fht Rev. Gentleman made a long speech in
sue port of his motion, and concluded in the following words:—
" lt they 1 .oked to the support of the great body of the people
of Scorland, which was, after all, next to the Providence of
God, their main stay, they must lift up their voice against
patrenage in every form. It the Church of ~cotland should now
shrink from the way to which she was plainly and manifestly
called from fears, doubts, and difficulties, he was persuaded
in his conscience, she would give an open and palpable
proof of her unworthiness for the position in which God, in
his Provident e, had placed her. Whether, therefore, they
looked to the blessing of God, or to the support of their people,
the plain course was to adopt the motion now before them. If
the Church should now be mean enough, or base enough, to
refuse to ask for the abolition of patronage, I for one have very
little hope that she will ever get out of her troubles. I believe,
and the belief has been lately strengthened, that she will perish,
and .in a great measure deserve to perish, for she will perish
unpitied and disgraced.
Mr. Heenan, of Kelloe, seconded the motion, though he
could not go along to the full extent of the views of the Rev.
mover as to the bearing which Scripture had upon the question.
They had heard of many schemes of late, but they had all been
abandoned, and the fact was that they had now unlimited pa-
tronage, and so the Church was driven into a corner. The
question was, therefore substantially, whether they would
have unlimited patronage, or no patronage at all. Un-
doubtedly he would say no patronage. lle had from
his youth been attached to what was called the Conservative
party, but he regretted he could not approve of the conduct of
that party, in regard to the Church at the present time. Never
were there any statesmen that had entered into power with a
greater opportunity of securing a nation's gratitude than had
the. present Government: they had the power of healing the
divisions in the Church, but he deeply regretted, and it pained
him to say, that they had evinced no disposition to that de-
sired consummation; but he could not forego the hope, that they
might yet view these matters in a different light. Otte of the
blessings of this country was a free press, but in this particular
instance, that freedom had led to much misrepresentation, by
disguising from those in the South the real state of feeling in
Scotland as to the present position of the Church.
The PaocußAToa said it was with great reluctance
that he had been prevailed on to undertake the task of
proposing the amendment on this occasion. He was
well aware that it was the unpopular side of the question,
which was a thing that one did hot naturally like, and he was
also reluctant in meeting the very able speaker who, he under-
stood, was to make the motion. But if Mr. Cunni gharn
failed to convince even the gentleman who seconded his
motion of the soundness of his views, he could not be surprised
that he should not have convinced him. He was no out and
out admirer t.f patronage—he was not prepared to say that it
was the best mode that could be devised ; on the contrary, he
had always thought that some method might be devised which
would render it safe to abolish patronage. He might
say that his view had one advantage, that was,
that he was defending that which exi.ted ; and accord.
ingly it did appear to him that his Reverend Friend
had failed to make out that argument by showing what he would
substitute for that which existed. He was now standing up in
support of an existing institution—an institution which, except-
ing an interval of Prelacy, and also the interval from 1649 to
1660, had existed 300 years ; and it also existed during that
interval of Prelacy, but of course not along with a Presbyterian
Church. Patronage, as stated last year by Dr. Cook, had its
origin in the party who built and endowed the Church, reserving
the right of presentation to himself. What was more natural
and proper than that the State, when it came to establish re-
ligion, should consider what sect it would adopt ? He was not
saying patronage was good in itself; but was it not natural that
the State should see that the system of religious doctrine should
remain which they intended to endow. lie would assume that
patronage was very bad, although he was perfectly satis-
fied that it was net the worst method in which a minister
could be appointed—still he had not imagined until to -day that
his Rev. Friend Mr. Cunningham and his party had ever held
that popular election was a good thing. The lower classes,
giving them the credit for being the best in any country, had
not the means of making the choice—they could not know the
man until they got him among them, and, in his opinion, to
give them the election, would be a worse mode than even the
existing mode of patronage. But if they simply brought forward
a motion for abolishing the Act of Queen Anne, then it came
to popular election. Accordingly the motion merely rested on
a vague resolution, and the Mover did not show what was to
come in the place of patronage. He might allude to an
analogous case which would "be well understood, viz., what
would be thought of any Reformer of the Radical party,
making in some such instance as they had done lately, a mo-
tion in the House of Commons that the present system of re-
presentation was the worst that could be imagined, and there-
fore that it should be put an end to. Would he find a seconder
if he did not propose what was to follow ? Would any man,
except those as wild as himself, listen for a moment to a scheme
that would throw the conntry into anarchy and confusion by
sweeping away the existing Parliament without leaving any in
its place? This day he (Mr. C.) had told them six times over
that he had established his argument from Scripture. Now,
had they heard anything more than that quotation? The
question was, what his Rev. Friend intended to substitute.
He wished Mr. Cunningham would tell them what he
wanted—he held they were entitled to know what was wanted.
If even the Church and people of Scotland were so decided
for the abolition of patronage as had been represented by his
Rev. Friend and ethers, he could not help holding it a little
singular, that out of the 82 Presbyteries only twenty-five had
sent overtures to the Assembly on that question, and out of
all the people of the Church there were not above 20,000 in-
dividual petitioners. He would move as an amendment—
" That the General Assembly having considered the overtures,
And that it is inexpedient in present circumstances to adopt
the motion."

A great number of speakers followed, among others Dr.
Chalmers, who expressed his determina ion to vote against
patrouage, but at the same time gave a strange proof of his con-
viction, that the people were the best judges of a clergyman's
qualifications. We can make no sense of his argument, but
possibly some of our readers may. In our opinion, his argu- 1
ment was in favour of patronage , but they are infinitely more
mysterious than any of the most absurd speeches of Oliver
Cromwell. These are his words, they effectually show the
spirit of Non-Intrusion :—He had no faith in the entire in-
fallibility of the popular voice. The principle on which he,
however, contended for the popular element in the matter was,
thatby it the Church Courts, if the congregation were honest
and sincere, were enabled to collect an amount of opinion
which was the best and the surest guide for them in the choice 1
and election of a minister to a parish. When he spoke of the
popular conscience, he spoke of the religious character of a
people which was ascertained, not the promiscuous multitude who
may be congregated within a parish. ,-:e btlieved this system
of household or resident election was as bad as high-handed I
patronage. A godless and secular democracy over-riding the i
Church and the Christian people, would be just as hateful I
as the supremacy of a godless and secular aristocracy.
To the Church Courts belonged the highest and most important
part of this matter. By the exercise of more strictness, and a
greater degree of watchfulness, they could so raise the qualifi-
cations of the students, that the dangers to be apprehended from
a perfectly uncontrolled popular election need no longer be
entertained. By placing the initiative in the hands of the
Church Courts, they would act and react on each other in the
most admirably manner, and the people might look with confi-
dence for a very superior class of clergy under this rule. On
the other hand, the history of patronage, receiving as it is
undubitable confirmation by what is going on, gees to show
that it is not limited, and cannot be limited in its operation.
Like the Grand Turk, it will admit of no rival near its throne.
On all these grounds, and for the reasons stated, he had arrived
at the conclusion that the question'can only be clearly and con-
sistently settled by the entire abolition of patronage.
Mr. Roamrsors, of Ellon, would not have spoken on this
occasion, had it not been for the allusion made by Mr. Cun-
ningham in the opening address on this subject, to a concession
made by him last year upon the question now before the House.
He still adhered to the exact terms of that concession, and
whenever he saw a modification of patronage embodied in any
Act on the principle of that concession he would vote for it,
come from what quarter it might. He agreed with Mr.
Cunningham that the question must be discussed and dec ded
on the ground of principle. We have to do with patronage as
it stands, and to deal with it as it exists under the system which
we see before us. Mr. Cunningham went on the consideration
that no parties except the two he mentioned ought to be con-
sidered in this matter, and assumed that the power which he
insisted belonged to these two parties could belong to no
other party whatever, although it might be distributed
according to circumstances between these two. But Mr. Cun-
ningham had neglected to attend to another element in the
consideration of it, which could not be omitted unless he went
to the legitimate conclusion which its omission implied, and
proved that the Christian Church could not be an Established
Church at all. Unless such were the effect of his positions, he
must admit another element into the question, the introduction
of which, as he would endeavour to prove, did not in any re-
spect deprive the Church Courts or the people of the rights
which belong to them. The other element, however, must be
attended to. He supposed the case of a corporate body estab-
lished in the country, invested with the whole wealth of the
country ; the power of distributing that wealth exclusively
made to belong to it ; and that its acts were not to be brought
under the review of the civil pewee. This he conceived only re-
quired to be applied to the circumstances of the Church.•
The difficulty in Ibis este via, found to be that tbe peo-
ple slid also the Presbytery founded on sal unlimited
right of controlling the law, and the latter insisted that th y
were not required-to put forward more than a conscientious
idea of duty as a reason for what they did. The side of the
House to which he belonged considered the Church Courts, in
this case, to be acting without defined control ; and they wished,
on the principle laid down by Lord Bacon, that these Court
should be compelled to give a reason for their decisions. Their
epponents forgot the important fact, that it was the danger of
the Church to commit error as well as others. The fallibility
of the Church was equally
.an element in this matter, and de-
served to be considered in its discassion. He did net attach his
faith in all things to the example of tl.e primitive Churches. Ad
herence might he proper to the primitive Church in the essential
partsof their faith, but he did not know that this Church with
its Presbyterian system, rules, and forms, was modelled exactly
after the model of the primitive Church. So long, how-
ever as the Church in its primitive era remained a voluntary
Church, its spiritual concerns were not under the power of the
Roman Government. But when it secured the sanction of that
povrer, what was the consequence? Would it be maintained
that while the Church was admitted to retain the property of the
State in virtue of the connection then formed, it cught to hare
the power of disposing of that property without reference to the
law of the State? It had often been said in the course of this
agitation, that the Church would be put down by the State;
but he considered it equally clear that the Church may put
down the State. The experience of past history justified this
idea as much as it did the other. The Church did put
down the State. It first became the rival, and afterwards the
superior power; and were he to draw an inference from the
existence of the Church in such circumstances, and in such
a position as regards the civil power, he would conclude that an
Established Church is not consistent with civil government.
Principal Dewar, Dr. Boyce, Dr. Cook, and some other
speakers of inferior note followed, when, on a division, the votes
were,—

For the abolition of patronage
Against the motion 147
Majority -69
Mr. CUNNINGHAM then moved that a Committee should be
appointed to prepare an Address to the Queen, and potitions to
both Houses of Parliament for the abolition of patronage.

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The General Steam Navigation Company's British
steam-ship Earl of Liverpool, Captain H. Lomax, landed her
passengers at London-bridge Whatf, from Ostend, yesterday,
at one o'clock. She passed the Bruges at Sea Reach, not-
withstanding the latter started from Ostend an hour before.

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Cantab, Liverpool, to R:o
Grande, sth ult., lat. I, lon. 20 ; Eleanor, from Londqp, 14th
ult., lat. 6, lon. 23, by the Vulcan, arrived off Hastings.
Bolivar, of Bristol, for Africa, 10th inst., lat. 39, ion. 12;
Rose, bark, of Guernsey, 15th inst., lat. 39, lon. 13, by the
Janet, arrived at Falmouth.• Margaretha, schooner, 7th ult.,
lat. 1 N., long 22 W. ; Maria, 13th ult., lat. 4, lon. 21, by the
Columbine, arrived at Liverpool. Esperance, from Martinique,
March 28, leaky, lat. 40, lon. 6, by the Phoenix, arrived at
Marseilles.

DEATH OF SIR ROBERT KEIt

FORTE
THE PAINTER AND TRAVELLER.

" Trave;ler rest! Thy journey 's o'er;
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Dream of foreign homes no tours,
Days of wanifring—nights of waking."

Dr. Porter, the phy,iedan, at Bristol, has just received news
from St. Peiersburgh, of the untimely death, Ly apoplexy, of
his brother, Sir Robert Ker Porter.
The lather of Sir Robeit Ker Porter was an officer of
Di agoutis, of an Irish family. He was, moreover, a younger
brut tier. who, dying in the prime of life, let, his widow with
five almost it-tiara children, in very low and slender circum-
stances ; and who, from time to time, were relieved by the
Royal Fatuity and other persons of distinction. Three of the
orphans were sons; the two eldest early entered professions,
winch they filled in a manner honourable to their name; the
th rd was Sir Robert Ker, who was burn in the year 1750, at
Dui ham, and who, consequently, at the time of his death, was
62 years of age. The two daughters were ;Hiss Jane and Miss
Anna Maria Foi ter, both of them so well known as authoress, s,
in the littrary
world, and of whose productions, ‘• The Hun-
garian Brothers," " The Scottish Chiefs," " Thaddeus, of
Warsaw," the " Village of Mariendorpt,' and other works of a
like nature, need only be mentioned to p. esent copious proofs of
their wide-spread tame and celebrity.
Sir Robert Ker Porter, as regards genealogy and family.
sprang from a race of brave and talented ancestors. Amongst
the foremost of these are to be numbered Sir William Porter,
of the Field of Agincourt.; End} mum I'orter, of classic and
loyal memery ; the Lord Chief Justice Sir Charles Porter,
who transplanted his father's branch of the tree to Ireland;
and another who, adheritig to the cause of James Stuart, Int-
lowed that Monarch's ruined fortunes to the Continent, after-
wards settled at Bruges, and ultimately became the founder of
an opulent and highly influential house.
On his mother's side, Sir Robert counted the old Anglo-
Saxon Barons of Blenkinsopp and Hilton, and the learned
Adarnsons, farther north, amongst his forelathers. As one
of the modern offsets derived from these venerable progeni-
tors, the subject of our memoir was ti equently uelighted to
mention the name of John Tweddell, the celebrated traveller
of Greece, now entombed in the Temple of Theseus, at
Athens—a shrine visited by every Englishman who goes to
that classic land.
Mrs. Porter, the mother of Sir Robert, has long been
known to the world, from eotemporary friends, as one of the
most exemplary women of the day, dedicating herself entirely
to the comfort and education of her children; indeed, from the
slender circumstances in which the widows of military men
are left, she, Lom prudence no less than from inclination,
sought a retired life. Under her care and tuition all her
children gave early proofs of mental superiority, which ap-
peared more particularly alter Anna Mai ia, the youngest, with
her sister Jane, and their brother, sir Robert, had been seine
time under the tutorship of . George Fulton, who then kept
a celebrated day-school in Edinburgh, and is weil known as the
compiler of an excellent dictionary.
On the removal of Mrs. Porter from Scotland to England,
where she, with this her young family, resided fora few years
in one of the northern counties, in the near neighbourhood
of one of the late Bishops of the Church, young Sir Robert,
with his two sisters (Lail formed a group in the Episcopal
library, to which they had free access whenever they pleased.
The boy, who was then but the embryo artist and traveller,
drawing from missals and ilium nated books : the girls, as di-
ligently reading some of the excellent works they found there,
espeerally the otaChronicies, many of them in the black letter.
ikOne of Mr. Northcote's choicest paintings was struck off in
commemoration of this little group, and their early habits.
He was a long-esteemed friend. The subject, as treated by
him forms a slight but beautiful sketch of three happy-looking
children, in a Gothic sort of chamber. One of the brightei
ornaments of the world of letters, having beheld this scene,
apostrophized it thus
" Lo ! he is there—within that Gothic chamber

One of a cherub-group—the book unsealed—
The well-spring opened;—they are drinking deep
Of knowledge and of beauty ! old Romance
And fairy spells are round them. His young eye,
Instinct with rapture, hails the witching vision,
And straight transmits its glories to his mind,
And precious seed-store for the future hour."
The residences of Sir Hubert Ker Porter and his family
were various on their coming to London. About 1623 they
lived at a pretty ivy-mantled spot on the banks of the Thames,
at Ditton, and shortly after at another little abode of a similar
description, situated on a hill at Esher, where in the June of
1631 his mother died. After this bereavement they sought
change of place, and after residing different times at Hyde-
park and Portland-place, took up their residence at a friend's
house on Banner-down, near Bath : they then proceeded to
Bristol, to visit their brother, Dr. Porter, who had been fir
some years settled in that town as a physician, and where on
the 6th of June, Anna Maria Porter died of typhus.
On referring to the Catalogues of the Royal ticademy of past
years, he appears to have been a constant and attractive exhi-
bitor. In the exhibition for 1804 he exhibited two paintings,
one of a Russian Cuirassier, and another of a British Light
Dragoon. 18C5, A drawing from the Avenger, or the
Wrongs of Lady Hermegeld. 1797, A horseman run down
by a lion. Portrait of a gentleman as Hamlet ; and about
half-a-dozen various other portraits. He was then living in
Newport-street. 1795, A Saracen flying from the enemy',
and portraits. Living at 66, St. Martin's-lane. 1793, The
defeat of King Stephen at the battle of Lincoln, from Rapti).
He was then living at 38. Bedford-street, Covent-garden.
Sir Robert became a student at the Royal Academy, under
the auspices of Mr. West, and two years after commencing his
studies at the Academy, he was employed to paint his picture
of Moses and Aaron, for the Communion-table of Shoreditch
Church ; in 1794 he presented an altar-piece to the Roman
Catholic Chapel at Portsea, representing, Christ suppressing the
Storm ; and in 1798 he gave to St. Johns College, Cambridge.
the altar-piece of St. John Preaching in the Wilderness. At
only 22 years of age he began his large picture of the Storm-
ing of Seringapatam, whic was succecded by the Battle of
Agincourt, and was presented to the City of London. The
painting, however, which attracted most attention, and which
was exhibited in the year 1801 at the Lyceum, was the fine
historical subject tf the "Siege of Acre," relative to the late
contest which had then taken place in Syria under Sir Sidney
Sunth. This production was a piece of very excellent colour-
ing, the groupings good, and the whole, from its truth an:i exe-
cution, drew large numbers to see it.
-In 1803 he was appointed a Captain in the Westminster
Militia ; in 1804 he was invited to Russia, anti appointed his-
torical painter to the Emperor. During his residence at St.
Petersburgh he gained the affections of the Princess Mary,
daughter of Prince Theodore de Shei batorff, of Russia, and
was about to marry her, when Ministerial differences com-
pelled him to leave Russia • in the year, Jail 1, however, this
marriage was solemnized, and the Prince's now survives him.
Sir Robert accompanied Sir John Moore into Spain, an
shared in the hardships and perils of the campaign which
ended in the Battle of Corunna. In 1807 he was created a
Knight of St. Joachim of Wurtemberg, and on his return to
England, 1813, he received the honour of Knighthood from
the Prince Regent.
Sir Robert's fame, as a traveller and literary man, was first
made known to the world by his " Travelling Sketches in
Russia and Sweden during the years 1805-6-7-8," and which
in the ensuing year were given to the public.
he sailed from England on this extensive tour in the August
of 1605, and passing the Sound, visited first Elsineur, where
he followed Hamlet everywhere, and " measured the
shadows on the platform.), From Zealand, he next
struck across to Cronstadt, and thence to St. Petersburgh.
Here his lucubrations grow entertaining and full; the Church
dedicated to " the Motner of God at Ratan," the architect of
which was formerly a slave of Count Strcgonoff, where, too,
were hung up the keys of Johmael, Okzakow, Derbent, and the
standards and trophies of Pultowa, Noir, and Alessandria, was
not among the least notmeabletif the things there seen by him.
From Moscow he journied through Finland and across the
Gulf to Stockholm, where he visited the King Gustavus and his
Queen, the latter of whom—then a most beautiful woman—he
the North." He visited the
sepoontsii:nierpetaliethcaeri.i`a
,FsavihrerlieeGleunstoalvus Nasa took refuge from the
Danish usurper, and was next carried by his military ardour
to Gottenburg, where he resolved to enter on immediate service
with the hnglish army, then assembled in that port, and ulti-
mately came to England.
Sir Robert Ker Porter's second series of travel was begun
in the year 1817, and he was engaged the three consecutive
years in following them up. During this period he traversed
Georgia, Persia, Armenia, and Ancient Babylon.
Having from childhood been an ardent lover and sedulous
practicer of the arts, the study of antiquity, daring these
travels, shared no small part of his attention, and the plains
of Babylon afforded him even ampler scope than those of Per-
sepolis, while Kurdistan, a county of which little comparatively
was known, of whom the people and country too were highly
picturesque, was explored by him to a great extent, and he
travelled over this latter portion of country with much careful
geographical precision, which he rendered more particularly
interesting by tracing the march of Xenophon.
In It4lB, he enjned the company of Air. Rich, the late
Consul, at Bagdad, and in concert with that gentleman made
many excellent excursions and antiquarian researches among
the old ruins of Babylon: his observations with his sextant were
unceasing, and astronomy kept him constantly alive. His
much-lamented friend Belino died at this period. Of the great
quantity of relics which he collected at Mujelebe, El Kasr, or
the palace, Al Hymer, Persepolis, and Mackshi-Roustan, va-
rious allotments were presented by him to the British Museum,
where every clay visitors may inspect them, as also to the Edin-
burgh and Dublin Museums, in which are the smaller speci-
mens, while others are deposited in the, Imperial Mtuseum at
St. Peteraburg.h.
In 1819, he was created a Knight of the Lied and Sun of
Persil. In the diplomatic and in the military awaken,' the ,
State be had much distinguished hinxiself, having served, th, both
capacities, in Russia, in the Peninsula; various nava of the..
Continent, in Persia, and in South America. In' the year
1632, he was created a Knight Commander of the' Hanoverian
Order by William IV. His most recent appointment was that
of Consul at Venezuela, from which place he returned in 1841.

DREADFUL SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—.lUesuay
evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at Battholomew's Hns.
pital, on view of the body of Ann Johnson, aged 35. Susan
Hall, of 29, C.;ck-lane, Smithfield, stated that she and de-
ceased
lodged in the same house together. About eight
o'clock on Thursday evening last witness's daughter (a child
about eight years old) heard a knocking in deceased's room,
and thinking she wanted some one, the child went in. On
entering the apartment she found deceased lying on the bed.
She appeared to be unable to speak, but made a sign to the
child to go and fetch her mother, which sho accordingly did.
On witness going into the deCeased's room she went up to
her bedside, and asked her if she was not well? Deceased, in
reply, shook her head, and then significantly drew her right
liana across the bed clothes over her throat. Witness said,
Good heavens, you have cut your throat ! Deceased replied
in the affirmative by nodding her head. Witness rushed out
of the room to procure assistance. The bed was soaked with
blood, and there was a tub at the end of the bed with a great
quantity of blood in it. She had evidently cut her throat with
her head hanging over the end of the bed, and then drawn het -
self up into the bed. Deceased had been drinking during the
previous week, and had subsequently suffeted severely from
low spirits. She died on Sunday last. Verdict—" Temporary
losantty."
TIIE DEANERY OF ST. PATRICE'S.—It is under-
stood that Dr. Radcliffe will pronounce judgment to-morrow
in the long litigated question arising out of the election to the
Deanery of St. Patrick's, vacant by the death of the lamented
Dean Dawson. —Dublin Pilot (Monday).
The Austrian Observer, of the 16th inst., contain
an order from the Emperor of Austria for the opening of sub-
scriptions in all the provinces of the empire, in favour of Ham-
burgh.
The contemplated improvements in Piccadilly have
been postponed until the ensuing autumn, in consequence of
on the subject which have arisen on the part
o
s-in-the- basin Fields, whose limits extend to the
sinorm Stelt;dei l‘MGlacrruetlinietn Park. The parish of St George, Hanover-
square, are willing to accede to the proposals of the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests to facilitate the widening of
the street, and there is no doubt that this desirable improve-
ment, though now at a stand-Still, will be ultimately carried
into effect.
An interesting ceremony took place, on Saturday,
at the Church of St. Pierre, at Montmartre. It was the c, le-
bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage between a
wot thy couple named Rouselot. The Cure, in giving them the
usual benediction, declared that it was the first known instance
• of the kind wain the parish.

LITERATURE:
. ,
1 DE VALME
Mitchell,
874'
2R.AGED
Y.
We learn from the title-page of this remarkable
drama, that it is the joint production of two gentle-
men, rejoicing in the names of William Henry Hos-
kins, and Horatio Huntley Hoskins, and that it has
already been performed at the Norwich and Lynn
theatres. In what form it was played there—whether
as a tragedy, comedy, or three, the authors do not in-
form us, but as they style it atragedy, we may reason-
ably presume that it was perfornied as such ; and truly
there is much in it of a deeply tragic character, for
common sense is assassinated h the very first act ;
grammar put to the most wanton torturers ; and pro-
bability subjected to such grievous shocks, as might
make even stones weep! When we bear in mind
that this surprising composition is a sort of Beau-
mont-and-Fletcher concern, we feel a natural
curiosity, in which the public will no doubt share,
to ascertain how much of it is due to William
Henry Hoskins, and how much to Horatio Huntley
Hoskins—who did the funny, and who the pathetic
parts—who manufactured the prose, and who the
poesy ; unfortunately, however, we are left in the
dark, as to the exact share which each gentleman had
in the piece ; and we are not a little uneasy, there-
fore, least while courteously protesting against certain
portions of it, we make William Henry wince, when
Horatio Huntley should be the object Of our mild ob-
jurgation. The tragedy opens with a fight between
Vitelli, an Italian peer, and Jacquez, a foolish
footman, who is interrupted by the entrance of
Traversaro, a Judge of Ferrara, and Regent during
the Duke's absence, who taunts the combatants with
seeking "to untie each other's lives," whereupon
Vitelli proceeds to explain the cause of the row, which
originated—as most skrimmages do—in a woman.
It seems that Eufrania Galeazzo, a wealthy, and high-
born lady of Ferrara, had some time before been sub-
jected to the importunate addresses of Vitelli, which
so annoyed her sweet-heart, Fernando de Valencourt,
apordigal peer, that he ordered hisfootman, Jacques, to
pitch into him the first convenient opportunity. Hence
the " disturbant riot," to quote our author's phraseo-
logy. in the next scene, we
learn that Eufrania has
been clapped in quod for high treason having ven-
tured to plead for the pardon of her father, who had
been unjustly executed by the late Duke of Ferrara
for a traitor. Feeling, as might be expected,
exceedingly uncomfortable in her cell, 'especially
as she is -in chains, the disconsolate young woman
pours forth her griefs in soliloqUy to a bird, which is in
a cage beside her, reminding the feathered warbler
how kind she had been to him in happier days, and
requesting him as a particular favour to tune up. On
his refusing to comply with her strenuous solicitations,
she expresses her astonishment at his obstinate silence,
but immediately afterwards diseOvers that it is from
a delicate regard to her feelings that he declines to
sing her 6` requiem," and touchingly adds,
"Oh, honest bird !
How like the faithful dog ! How different, ,
From faithless man !" •
Generally speaking, there is unquestionably a great
difference between a man and a bird ; though we
have known some men who bore a most marvellous
semblance to a goose.—The next scene introduces us
to Francisco, the Duke of F,errara, and Eufrania's
sweet-heart, Fernando. Both are in a high state of
excitement, for the one is relating, and the other is
listening to, the particulars of the lady's imprisonment.
" Her arms," observes the indignant Fernando—
" Which once lent lustre to fine polished armlets, were
manacled with rusty iron to her silver thighs ; round
her fair neck, which wore a careanet of unexcelled mag-
nificence, a brazen band was coarsely gartered, and her
pure and vestal temple ingirt with ruffians. In fine, her
rank was paid no compliment, but. in the common prison,
there—there was she with Ferrara's scum vilely incar-
cerated."
There is a pleasing ambiguity in this passage,
which possesses all the charm "of an enigma ; but as
we are indifferent guessers at riddles, we shall make
no further comment on it, than just to express our in-
dignation at the wretches who could clap rusty chains
onagetltleNoek mar s
ithey possessed silverthi gehse's's,e7 the dtie a garter
round her hveslightest
spark of 'sentiment, they would have died rather than
have done so, for, mark, how the fair object of their
brutality is described by her impassioned lover Fer-
nando ! _ _ _

" 011 ! her eyes du beggar heaven's brightest stars i❑
lustre—her hair long and luxuriant, dark as the jettest
raven's—her fair forehead mild and expressive as 4f:gean
Jove's—her mouth a paradise of flowers secured by gates
of whitest ivory, made jocund by her nimble tongue, that
ever and anon would warble strains of varied and of
cadent harmony, which should outdo each feathered
songster of the grove ! She is in form the very proto-
type of grace,—and then her mind ! Oh, it is a glass,
whereat Truth and Virtue robe themselves when they
would convert a profligate ! "
This animated description so works upon the Duke
Francisco, that he expresses the strongest sym-
pathy with Eufrania, and adds, addressing, himself to
Fernando, •

" As a man, I feel and share your sorrow; but then
my mind is so moulded, that I can whistle shallow sighs
off to their native element, when action is reqiiired."
We would give much to have seen the. Duke of
Ferrara engaged in the occupation of whistling a
sigh off to its native element; and regret that he did
not inform us by what means such a perplexing feat
was to be achieved. The result of the confabulation
between him and Fernando iS,•that the latter resolves
on pleading Eufrania's cause; in the disguise of a
doctor of laws, before Traversaro, the judge, who,
happening to be an exceeding rogue, is bent op pro-
curing the prisoner's conviction, as in that case, he
will be put in possesion of her estates. Accordingly,
after the case for the prosecution. is closed, he declares
Eufrania to be guilty, notwithstanding an energetic
protest from Fernando; when, lo.! just as Traversaro
is about to put on the black cap, an order comes from
Francisco, commanding him to quit the judgment-
seat, and stand at the bar as a criminal ! Of course
he has no alternative, but to' obey ; and evidence
being adduced against him, he is found guilty of
corrupt practices as a judge, and sentenced to be
hanged, while his intended victim is honourably ac-
quitted. Fernando, still disguised as a lawyer, now
thinks himself entitled to his client's lasting gratitude ;
and in a long and sentimental dialogue with her, thus
alludes to a lady whom he deeply loved :
" Her riches were as countless as the gnat
Which, summer through,
Teazes the reaper as he toils ; her mind
Was as a sacred Fame lit up with Truth,
With Virile sentinelled, and fretted o'er
With silver hieroglyphs of Innocence !"
There is infinite pastoral beauty in the image of the
gnat teasing the reaper, though it is by no means im-
probable that the reaper himself may be of a different
opinion. When Fernando has brought his speech to
an anchor, Enfrania sets to, and candidly acknowledges
that she is in love with him,' upon which be throws
off his disguise, and tells her that, if she has no ob-
jection, he will marry her on the spot, observing,
" We'll strait at Church

Be confirmed in Ouriiiie;,—aii—dinthe glee
And jocund jollity, with which from hence
We will demean ourselves, we will inspire
Ferrara all afresh !—no dance but we
Will mingle in, and track each other's steps
All through the giddy maze !—no masquerade
But we will there be seen in lover's guise,
And thou shalt be my Juliet, and I
Thy Romeo ! No tilt, no tournament,
But we will be conspicuons in for carriage,
And for well governed steeds No theatre but

Shall have our patronage !,,-
Fernando keeps his promise to the letter. After
his marriage with Eufrania, he indulges in all sorts
—games—gives splendid
play—and soon' runs
But mischief Mean • '
tio.el fier
doTu—ng
.7--hg
oabeevstes fun-
rrtoa cop ee srt
ht
ye .
time: is at work, for we find his rival Vitelli plotting
in the second act with a worthy agent, one Cavigni—
it horrid scamp—the young Benedict's utter ruin.
It seems that the Duke de Ornise and the Mar-
quis and Marchioness de Brion are shortly ex-
pected at Ferrara, on leaving which Cavigni waylays
and murders them, and then, with Vitelli, and a lady
the bell for the
of easy virtue, by name Cleora, takes upon himself to
personate them, and being introduced to Fernando,
plunges him head over ears in debts of honour. In the
Sufi a
fln‘ioa. rimingrethr to .ehunt
Lord is. On his
iu n t
with
his illus-
trious trench guests, and threatening a long speech
rft footman,
diyllialaincg,t thatalNil'
ed fih has E
askingias gonem h
on the subject, she cuts him short by remarking,
" Sir, you are circumlocuttve,"
And orders him to go to the, book-case in the next
room, and

writ by
" Reach the English book
Walton !"
are supposed by
the authors to have occured in the year 1600, at which
is insolvent, and
years old, we are
puzzled to understand how Eufrania could have had
period N oUw
rloza sia
a' the
11
the
WaltonAevretnotr Alovfnlistghloiinflty'-rafig:ely
his work on Angling M her possession ! But to re-
sume. The lady is soon roused from her piscatory
studies by the abrupt entrance:of her husband, who,
ehe
iiiiao‘t'iluignliaktelbankrupts in the
Gazette, flies into a rage ' with his wife—and
before company, too, which ,makes the matter
worse. Having thus disembarrassed himself of a
lengthy to
o figure discoveredam on
among
that t
il
portion of his spleen, Fernando attempts to borrow
money of h's aristocratic French friends ; but they,
havng a natural objection to lend, except ;in
gocd security, politely decline compliance with
his request ; which so enrages him, that he tell;
them they are anything but gentlemen, and
announces his intention of . shortly visiting them
NN ith the severest pains and penalties. Accordingly,
we discover him, in the fifth act, pursuing the voca-
tion of a money lender, living in an obscure alley,
sporting a beard like a he-goat's, growing stingier
and stingier every day, and ruining as many noblemen
by his usurious practices as lie possibly can. As for
his wife, though the authors do not specify
the exact
extent of her privations, we 'fear that her husband
does not allow her more than five shillings a week,
on which he evidently expOts.. that she • thali keep

herself and-household'.. But is not the worst of
poor- Eufrania's-Isufferings, for, fallen though she is
in fortunes she finds that Vitelli still persecutes her
with his odious addresses, and on one remarkable oc-
casion endeavous to ropse her jealousy, by vomiting
the following diabolical calumny on her husband :
" But yesternight, as I lay stretched along
The river bank, in the breath revelling
Of balmy eve, and sunset's 'chanted hour,
Approach there did a- foot which broke my dream.
As from a trance I startled into life,
And viewed (oh, the foul horror, have I words
To mention it?) the substance of my dream
With a foul wanton I my master saw
Kissing and cooing like a new-joined pair."

To this malicious insinuation Eufrania makes a very
proper and spirited reply,' She knows well that
usurer, with a beard like a he-goat's, and who cares
for nothing but the blunt, 'is not the man to go kis-
sing, and cooing, and caterwauling, so expresses her
sense of Vitelli's falsehood in this energetic and im-
passioned style :-- •
Most wanton liar ! Now thy soul is grimed •
And black as Hell to conceive such a thought!!
Fool, do you think I am so great a slave
To passion, that I'd let a jealousy
Unfounded as a madman's brain, swoop down
My rest of life into the dark abyss
Of sharp, soul-cankering remorse?—Let not-
Your presence again offend mine eyes--begone !"

But Vitelli won't go. On the contrary, he sticks
like bricks to Eufrania, and when she flatly tells him
that his " zeal is lust," the lewd wretch, struck by the
apt felicity of her hypothesis, draws a rapier from his
kickseys, and is just about to spit her therewith, when
in rushes Fernando, and of course defeats his murder-
ous intentions. The, tragedy now hurries to a close.
After one or two more incidents of no great moment,
Vitelli succeeds in stabbing Fernando, who dies in
the middle of a long speech, but not before he has
subjected several inoffensive metaphors to a erious
compound fracture. The murderer is immediately
seized and' carried off to the nearest station-house;
and Eufrania is left, at the fall of the curtain, looking
as silly as a-sheep, and expressing her decided convic-
tion that Fernando is as dead as mutton ! Such is a
brief, hasty summary of the leading incidents of this
very remarkable tragedy, which, we regret to state,
is, in some of its passages, quite as incomprehensible
as Sir Robert Peel's Income=tax Bill, and is likely to
obtain just the same amount of popularity. As well-
wishers to the authors, we should strongly advise
them to send a copy of their play to the Right lion.
Baronet, who, as a dealer in the unintelligible him-
self, can scarcely fail to appreciate this faculty in others.

WEATHER AND CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—The preva-
lent wind for several weeks has been the east and north-east.
We have observed that, of late years, the easterly has been the
prevalent wind from about the middle of Aril till towards the
end of June • and this circumstance, especially to invalids, has
been no slight drawback on the out-of-door enjoyments of the
season. For some days the Caithness and Sutherland moun-
tains have been hid from us by a haze, or but dimly discovered
through a long and sweeping veil of mist. During the day, a
bank of fog liesalong the verge of the German sea, which, to-
wards nightfall, sends long strips and filmy trains of dusky
vapour trailing along our hills and straths ; and not seldom does
this chilling and cheerless visitation overspread the whole coun-
t' y, giving the vapours to the people who had, but five minutes
before, been basking and rejoicing in the sunshine. Notwith-
standing the bleak east wind, however, vegetation is making
visible and rapid progress. The potatoes are beginning to peep
out from among the clods ; and the process of capping to facili-
tate their egress is going on vigorously. The braird is rising
_steadily and healthfully—the clover looks fresh and promising,
and the farmer is now beginning to prepare his land for turnip
seed. More rain is desirable. On the light uplands the sur-
face soil is asdry as dust. The fruit trees, unless their blossoms
be blighted or shaken off by the wind, promise a crop unusually
abundant. The price of cattle continues low, but butcher's meat
is not cheap in proportion. The tariff panic seems to have
subsided in this district, as elsewhere. Ruup are rife.— Wick
Paper.
_ _

-A:letter from Hamburgh, in a Frankfort paper,
states that M. Solomon Heine, .the banker, in addition to his
munificent donation of 150,000 f. to the fund for the relief of
the persons who had been reduced to poverty by the late fire,
ordered a thousand rations of soup to be distributed daily at
his expense.

MURRAIN AMONG CATTLE.—A short time since,
ten beautiful short-horned Durham heifers were turned into a
close belonging to Mrs. Morris, of .Ampthill ; they were then
in a thriving condition. On Saturday last one of them mani-
fested symptoms of disease, and shortly died. Since then three
others have been attacked in a similar way, all of which have
died ; others are still ill. It is believed that the disease with
which they have been attacked is the murrain, which appeared
about 130 years ago.—Herts Reformer.
Arrangements have been made with the South
Eastern Railway Company, for the transmission of newspapers,
by which the delivery will be accelerated at Tunbridge Wells
and other places between three andfour hours, and the evening
papers will be delivered the same day.
On Friday last, the Procureur du Roi at Versailles
applied to the Tribunal de Premiere Instance of that town, to
order the cessation of the proceedings commenced before it in
consequence of the late disastrous accident at Meudon, con-
sidering that they had been taken up by the Tribunal at Paris.
But the Judges differing in opinion with the Procureur du
refused the application, and directed that the examinations
should be continued. The public prosecutor declared his de-
termination to appeal to the Cour Royale.
M. Carteaux, a peace-officer, who distinguished
himself in suppressing the political riots of 1832 and 1834, and
who subsequently, in a moment of temporary derangement,
attempted to drown himself in the canal St. Martin, threw
himself, abeut three weeks ago, from the upper story of the
house in which he lodged, and was taken from the pavement
with a leg and several ribs broken. He was carried -to the
hospital, where he lingered in great suffering till the day be-
tore yesterday, and then died, leaving a widow and several
! children.

The Cologne Gazette states that the dervish who
has accompanied the Turkish Ambassador to Vienna was lately
presented to the Princess de Metternich. At his entrance into
the drawing-room he dung a rose in the face of the Princess,
which eau.sed some surprise. This was, however, speedily dis-
sipated, when hh declared that it was the custom of his order
to salute ladies of distinction in this manner.

The donation of the Duke of Roxburgh to the Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society this year
was erroneously stated in The Sun of Monday to be if. ss. I
should have been 25 guineas.
The following melancholy suicide has just occur-
red. Sebastian Massa, an Italian historical painter, living
with his wife in humble lodgings, in the Rue Saint Roch, had
endeavoured to earn a subsistence by working for dealers, but,
finding his gains inadequate to his wants, his mind gave way,
and he frequently talked of self-destruction. His wife attempted
to soothe and encourage him, and succeeded till two days ago,
when, being apprehensive of arrest for debt, he sat down and
wrote a letter, and, having finished it., embraced his wife, and
bade her adieu in a tone which convinced her that he was
resolved to leave her for ever. She endeavoured to detain
him, but breaking from her, he threw himself out of the win-
dow. The poor woman fainted, and before she recovered her
senses, her husband was brought back into the room a lifeless
corpse. The letter he had written ivas todeclare that it was by
his own will and resolution that he committed the suicide.
_

Amongst the victims of the late deplorable railroad
accident were three nephews and a niece of M. Thenet, who
was formerly Sub• Prefect at Civray, in the Vienne, and is now
Registrar at Chateau Latour. The first of the young men was
so entirely consumed that no relic of him could be found except
a knife which was is his pocket. Another was so dreadfully
burnt in the face, that though still alive no hopes of his recovery
are entertained. The third nephew, who had previously lost an
arm, has been obliged to have one of his legs amputated, and
may be saved. The young lady was dreadfully burnt in her
body, but survived in excruciating pain till Saturday morning,
whrn she expired.
THE TIDE OF EMlGRATlON.—Emigration is now
exciting greater attention among our labouring and middle class
population than it has done for a long time past. In some dis-
tricts it is almost the only subject of conversation. Many have
ceased to Jake an interest in the discussion of home politics, and
look abroad to other countries for that liberty to labour which
their own country now denies to them. No hope of improve-
ment is anticipated from a Tory Government. It is the most
thoughtful, foreseeing, industrious, and skilful of our operatives
and mechanics who are leaving their native country—the men
who, are really and truly" their country's pride." Great num-
bers of the middle classes, of the rank of shopkeepers and small
capitalists, are also preparing to leave England. They have felt
themselves going " downhill " for many years past, and those
who have any means left are anxious, for the sake of their
families, to make a last effort before being finally crushed.
Many families have already left Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield,
Barnsley, Wakefield, Cleckheaton, &c., for the United States
and Australia; and numbers more are preparing to follow their
example. It almost seems as if England'sglory were now on the
wane, and that she is doomed to suffer a lingering, but eertain
decay, under the withering blight oilier blinded and selfish aris-
tocracy. —Sheffield Iris.
At the sitting on the 18th instant of the Court of
Assizes for the Lor-et-Cher, a woman was convicted of the
murder of her husband, lvian Leloup, of Mouthon-sur -
Bievre. They had for several years 'flied upon bad terms, and
frequently had desperate quarrels ending. in blows, in which the
husband from weakness, caused by having had one of his arms
broken, always got the worst. On April 29th one of these do-
mestic feuds arose, and with such violence that the whole
neighbourhood was alarmed, and assembled round the house of
strife ; but no one dared' enter, though some of them described
the blows as sounding like those of a butcher felling an ox. At
length all was silent, and then they called in the garde cham-
petre and the Mayor, who made their way in and found Leloup
lying in a pool of blood on the floor, in the last agonies of death.
His wife confessed her crime, but attributed the provocation to
Leloup, eau) she said quarrelled with her because she opposed
his going out in the night, and beat her with a wooden prang.
She then'in het rage took an iron bar from the fire-place, and
did the deed. The Mayor, who was examined with the other
witnesses, stated the facts which had come to his knowledge,
but at the same titre, in all respects, except as to her quarrels
with her husband, gave the prisoner an excellent character for
her charitable ann kind disposition, "adding that she was the
only person of the place who would undertake the nursing of a
patient. dismissed from the hospital as incurable. She was
found guilty with extenuating circumstances, and eondemned
to be imprisoned with hard labour for ten years.
The Quotidienne states that, a few days ago, a re-
bellion broke out in the Polytechnic School, which rose to such
a height that some of the refractory youths were sent. to the
prison of the Abbaye. On inquiry, we find the circumstances
to be as follows :—lt has hitherto been the custom for the po•
pits to celebrate the close of the period devoted to lessons in
drawing, which ends in May, by a discharge of fireworks. This
year, however, the Governor of the school, by an order of the
day, prohibited the exhibition. The pupils took no notice of
the order, and let off their fireworks as usual,. in consequence
s.f which breach of discipline seven of the ringleaders have been
sent to the military prison, and the other pupils are confined to
the t chool.
A Correspondent has furnished us with the testa-
e-eat of a very singular nucurrence that recently took place in
a neighlx)uring county, but which we decliine inserting in its
circumstantiarform, at least for the present. It appears that a
certain gay Lothario in high life, not duly influenced by the
sacred obligation of the tenth commandment, having been smitten
by Cupid's darts, glanced from the bright blue eyes of an humble
cottager's wife, importuned this Laura of humble life in vain ;
but on a luckless occasion last week, he bent his steps to his en-
slaver's door, on the information that the gudeman was awe',
and he essayed to open the door-latch by introducing his finger,
when off was cut the offending finger by the knife of the in-
dignant husband ! Off started poor Don Juan, with but nine
. fingers, roaring out that tho Chartists were coming ! We
understand the finger was next day found iu a garden.—
, Monmouth Merlin.

TiiE HAWARDEN COLLIERS.
TO THE EDITOR' OF THE SUN.

SIB,—My attention having been, for the first time
to-day, directed by a friend to aletter which appeared
in your paper on the 7th inst., purporting to come
from a workman, in which if, is stated " that the col-
tiers," as far as the writer is able to know, " by no
means wish to dictate to their employers who shall; or
shall not_ conduct their business, but that •Mr. Staley
is supposed by the workman to have suggested,
and carried into practice a scheme for reducing
the colliers' wages from 18s. to about 12s. per week,
by enlarging the meshes of the screens that screen the
coals, so as to admit one-third of the coals, for which
they were used to be paid, to pass through them as
slack ; the strike is, in fact, to prevent an actual re-
duction of 33 per cent."
I beg to state, in reply to. this gross misrepresen-
tation, that the riddles in .use by the colliers, before
the turn-out, had meshes of one inch and a half square,
and that the size of the meshes in the new riddles
were one inch and three quarters only, being an in-
crease of one quarter of an inch. It is, therefore,
Manifest that the loss to the workmen by the new
riddles, could not possibly be anything like one-third
of. the. coals ; it could only be. equal to the difference
.between the large and small meshes, which differ
only one quarter of an inch in size.
I also beg to add, that the Ewloe Colliery Com-
pany are now paying more for the cutting of their
coals than they were at any time during the war,
when wheat was selling at 20s. a bushel, and coals at
that time were selling at 10s. per ton on the bank ;
they are now selling coals at from ss. to 6s. &l.
per ton.
This fact shows most clearly that Messrs. Rigby's
have no disposition to oppress the men, and it is my
determination, wherever I may be concerned, to see
the workman fairly remunerated.
To prove that the attack wasTersonal towards my-
self, I have only to state that the dispute, in reference
to the riddles, had been settled to the satisfaction of
the men before the assault was committed ; and I have
since discovered that reports to my prejudice, en-
tirely false, were industriously circulated amongst
them.

Although in this instance I have replied to an
anonymous Correspondent, in order to correct a most
barefaced falSehood, it is not my intention in future
to notice any letter to which the writer is ashamed
of affixing his own name.
Your insertion of this letter in your very excellent
Paper will much oblige your very obedient servant,
BENJAMIN STALEY.
Ilawarden, May 18, 1842.
P.S.—I beg to add that our men are now all at
work, and perfectly quiet.

TAXES ON SOLICITORS AND
ATTORNEYS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

wish to call the attention of the public,
through the instrumentality of your paper, to a tax
imposed of late years upon a particular class of men,
who, if they perform their duties well, cannot
be considered as enemies to the commonwealth, and
should not be made the objects of speCial taxation.
The celebrated Magna Charta was supposed to
secure various privileges to the English people, and
amongst others, that of appointing confidential agents
to represent them in the king's Courts, to sue for and
defend their just property and rights. Since that
statute was enacted these agents have existed under
the denomination of attorneys and solicitors. For
five hundred years they had been enrolled ; and after
this long lapse of time the Legislature considers them
fit objects of special taxation : they are to be taxed
specially every year before they can enter upon
duties necessary for the execution of the laWs
If there be a class of men who are taxed without
mercy, it surely must be those who are called to
the ancient and honourable degree of an attorney-
at-law. They are taxed in their clerkship, 1201.
being levied on their articles ; taxed on admission
as Attorneys to the amount of 501. more, before
they are duly qualified for All the duties of their
office • taxed annually either Si. or 121., in fine, taxed
for life.

Against this last life-tax, Mr. Editor, I protest,
and if it is continued with the Income-tax, which is
about to receive the sanction of the Legislature, the
lawyers are indeed a proscribed race.
The tax is partial, confined to one profession, and
to one branch of that profession ; it is unjust, because
confined to those who are frequently employed in pro-
tecting the rights of other professions ; and the
amount of duty imposed is perhaps for some time
more than is actually earned. It is of little benefit to
the Exchequer, disgraceful to the solicitor, and indi- ,
rectly injurious to his clients.
It is commonly objected to the removal of this im-
post that attorneys are by no means immaculate
characters—that their emoluments are great, and the
tax itself popular. If a just and equitable tax were
not generally the reverse of one that is popular—if
the professional earnings of solicitors and attorneys
were really lucrative—if they, as a body of men, were
more reprehensible than members of other professions,
or their offences less open to speedy punishment, there
might be some ground for these. objections; but all
this remains yet to be proved.
The fact is, they are officers of the Courts .at
minster, subject to the arbitrary jurisdiction of the
Judges who there preside : they may be fined, im-
prisoned, struck off the rolls, and effectually controlled
within the bounds of justice. Their emoluments are
limited by statute. They alone are !liable to have
their bills taxed by functionaries specially appointed
for the purpose, and this duty is rigorously and
punctually discharged.
To many supporters of the tax the members of the
legal profession are obnoxious on account of the
severity of the laws, or the hardship with which they
press on particular interests ; yet these do not reflect
that by such a tax they make men accountable for
effects, over which they can have no controul. It sel-
dom happens that a solicitor is a legislator. Others owe
them a grudge, who have sUffered from the unjust
decision of a suit at law or in equity ; yet, these
matters are determined by a judge or a jury, and of
the latter, a solicitor cannot be a member. Others
again complain of trivial vexatious law-suits, whilst
they utterly forget that no solicitor can be engaged
in legal proceedings, without the retainer of a client;
and, it is seldom that an honest claim can be sup-
ported and enforced by dishonest means. But should
a suitor have engaged on his side an unprincipled
practitioner, he ought not to bestow promiscuously on
the whole profession the blame which attaches to his
own selection. _ _ .

This tax is a stigma upon the profession ; it oppresses
them, it degrades them, and is calculated to bring the
law itself into comtempt. To degrade men in their
own eyes and before the public, is sometimes bad
policy, though they may offend in something. Teach
them to respect themselves, and they will frequently
amend their faults, exalt themselves in the social
scale, and do honour to their fellow citizens. This
good the tax will never effect ; its results will be of
au opposite nature, and thus the public suitors and
clients will eventually be injured by it.
May 19th, 1842. MANCU MEN SIS.

ELECTION PROCEEDINGS 1N

1646.

The following account of the mode of obtainining an
election to Parliament in 1646 is taken from a memo-
randum MS. of J. Harrington,. Esq., of Kelston, in
Somersetshire
" A' Note of my Bathe Business about the Parlia-
ment.'—Saturday, Dec. 26, 1646, went to Bathe, and
dined with the I%iaior and citizens l'emiferred-about. my
election to serve in Parliament; as my father was help-
and ill-able to go any morn:, went to the George
Inn at night, met the bailiffs, and desired to be dismissed
from the service ; drank strong beer and -metheglin ;
expended about (three shillings ;.- went 'home late,' but
could not get excuse, as they entertained a good opinion
of my father.
" Monday, Dec. *2B, went to Bathe, met Sir John
Horner ; we were chosen by the citizens to serve for the
city ; the maior and citizens conferred about Parliament •
business ; the maior promised Sir John Horner and
myself a horse a piece, when we went to London to the
Parliament, which we accepted of, and we talked about
the Synod and the ecclesiastical dismissions. lam to
go again on Thursday, and meet the citizens about all
such matters, and take advice thereon.
" Thursday, 31, went to Bathe ; Mr. Ashe preached.
Dined at the George Inn with the major and bailiff's and
four citizens ; spent at dinner 6s. in wine.
" Laid out in victuals at the George Inn 11 s. 4d.
" Laid out in drinking 7 2
" Laid out in tobacco and drinking vessels 4 4
" January I.—My father gave me 41. to bear my ex-
penses to Bathe ; Mr. Chapman, the maior, came to
Kelston, and returned thanks, for my being chosen to
serve in Parliament, to my father, in the name of all the
citizens. My father gave the good advice, touching my
speaking in Parliament as the city should direct me ;
came late at night, much troubled hereat, concerning my
proceeding truly for men's good report and my own
safety.
" NOTE,—I gave the city me§sengers two shillings,
for bearing the Major's letter to me ; laid out in all
7s. for victuals, drink, and horse hire, together with
divers gifts."
[N.B.—It is not quite certain that this election was in
1646, as the date is obscure in the MS. ; but it is within
a year or two of that time.] . •

SHOCKING
OCCURRENCE.—The following tragical
occurrence has thrown the quiet village of liana orth, Middle-
sex, into a state of great excitement. On Sunday night last a
fight ensued between two men, named Thomas and_ John
Stores, brothers, whilst under the influence of liquor, in the
Bear public-house, in that place. From the statement of par-
ties present, the affray seems to have originated with John
Stores, who gained the fight and left the house. He had
reached the 6' Green," when Thomas Stores ran up to him,
and stabbed him in the back and stomach with a pocket-knife.
The poor inan fell to the ground, exclaiming " I'm killed, I'm
killed !" The perpetrator of the attempted fratricide made his
escape. The wounded.man was taken back to the Bear public-
house, and quickly attended upon by a medical roan, who, up
to yezterday, Dive no hcpes of his recovery. On Monday after-
noon'Thomas Stores Was apprehended by a constable of the 'V

IPSWICH COMPROW.SE.
TO THE EDITOR OF TILE' EN-PRESS..
• Wason having, in a letter to. Mr. Sto-
phens, of Ipswich, published in the Suffolk Chronide
of
,this day's date, given his opinion as to ;the pro-
priety of a compromise between. thr Whig azicl
party in the event of a new election for your borougk
and also alluded to the proposal -which 'Was tii,ade to
him (Mr. Wason) to resign his seat, during the pro-
, ceedings of the late Committee, 11.0 it incinnben t on
me to make a plain statement of the facts which Jed
to that proposition to Mr. Wason;.l Before doing so,
however, it is but proper for me to sa,v., that I
offer no opinion as to whether a compromise :now
is :desirable or not, further than to assuLe ;he
electors that if any vindictive feeling shout
lead the Tory party to institute legal pre-
ceedings against any of our friendS, whose zeal mow
have induced them to commit indiscreet acts at the,.
last election, I shall feel called on to prosecute those.
witnesses whose perjuries and misstatements—l have
before alluded to—misled the Committee to a very
considerable extent, but who must be well aware that
although they.could not be puniAled before an Elec-
tion Committee, from the impossibility of Mr. Wason
or myself convicting them, that there is no difficulty
in a court of Law, in bringing them to the punish-
ment which they so well deserve ;: and in exposing
them, let those who instigated them beware. 1 have
said thus much to remove any impression which
might influence a compromise in itself not otherwise
desirable.

I come now to the proposition of compromise of-
fered •to Mr. Wason himself; and, • perhaps, a simple
narrative of what took place will hest convey to the
electors the real circumstances.' When Mr. Wason
returned from Ipswich, about the:end of March. he
told me that it was -currently reported that the
Tory party were desirous of compromising, rather .
than risk the chances of a trial before an Elec-
tion Committee. That at first he was given to under-
stand that they required his seat, but that subse-
quently they would accept of mine. At that
time, from the rotation of Chairmen who had -served
on Election Committees, we supposed that the
chances were in favour of our getting. a. Whig, and
in addition to this Mr. Wason was so confident of our
case being a good one, -that neither of us reverted to
the subject until after the Committee was chosen.
Indeed if a proof of. Mr. Wasilm's confidence was
wanting, I might refer to his 'speech at the Admiral's
Head, whilst he .was at Ipswich. - •
After the first day's proceedings in Committee it.
was obvious to me that to Pro4cute the case could
only end in losing both seats—exposing many of our
most zealous, but least prudent, friends to painful in-
terrogations—and lead to a denunciation of that bo-
rough, which IMt persuadedqt merited much less
than nine out of ten of the English constituencies.
With these iMpressions,•l consulted Mr. Ashurst,
our solicitor, who fully coincided with Inc -as to the
hopelessness of the contest, with a Committee consti-
tuted as ours was ; and afterwards I agreed, in the
presence of Mr. W. May and Ali.. ‘Vason, to put my
seat at the disposal of our friends to compromise the
proceedings, and, if possible, to arrest the consequences
which have since ensued. This offer was met by the
petitioners with the answer, that they were ready to
make terms, but that the seat- to be relinquished must
be Mr. Wason's. This answer was received on the
morning of the 15th, the Committee having com-
menced its sittings on the 13th. • Wason declined
to entertain the proposition of his retirement, giving
as a reason that a charge of personal bribery against
himself having been preferred, he could not do so, and
trusting to the petitioners, in• the Course of that, or
next day, agreeing to accept,: of my resignation.
No communication having been received to that
abet, at a consultation held on the)7th I again re-
' Dewed the subject, and feelling that no circumstances
had occurred which could inditce-bit to believe that
our ;seats could be maintained, and it having been
• intimated to us that the personal charge against Mr.
Wason of bribery would be entirely abandoned, I
urged him, as the petitioners declined to accept my
seat, that he should resign. This he positively, de-
clined to accede to, and was, 1 believe, counselled -to
that effect by Mr. IEII. how •tnr that was a wise
counsel, I will offer no opinion, but I felt justified
in the proposition I made to 'l4r. Wason, from
the fact that a few days previously, in the
Lewes Election Committee, where a similar per-
sonal charge was brought against Mr. Summers
Harkin!, one of the sitting Members, it was not
felt by hint, nor by his Counsel, Mr. Austin, as any
impediment, on the charge being Withdrawn. to Mr.
llarford's retirement, to avoid the paintill conse-
quences of prosecuting the contesri nor has there,
during Mr. Ilarford's late canvass and unsuccessful
election at Brighton, been any alltiSion to the with-
drawing under. those circumstances, as implying any-
thing
unworthy or dishonourable.
hiding that Mr. Wason was determined to persist
• in the prosecution of what seemed to- me, and, to
every person on whose judgment 1-had any reliance,
a hopeless and indeed .a disastrous contest, 1 gave
notice to Mr. Wason, and to Mr.A.l.lmrst, that 1 re-
tired' frOm it, and would not hold myself responsible
any farther for the consequences.
It may not be unnecessary to state, that had the
compromise above alluded to been aocepte,pither
by \lr. Wason or myself,
,the niininer in Which it
would have been carried tut would have been that
the petitioners would have withdrawn the petition.
and at a specified time one of us Nkoold have accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds.
I feel persuaded that the votes I have given,
while in Parliament, cannot lay me open to the
charge of being a compromiserut I hold the doe..
trine that discretion is the better part of valour, and
having, from the ready offer to sacrifice my own seat,
exonerated myself from all responsibility, or charge
of selfishness, in this unfortunate affair, it is for
the electors of Ipswich to judge whether, under the
circumstances, that compromise which I endeavoured
to promote would have been more for the interests
of the borough, whether present or future, or whether
the prosecution of -that contest, terminating as it has
done with all its painful accompaniments, public as
well as private, has been the wisest and most prudent
course—whether,if a compromise ,were desirable, the
Letter time was iefore the Committee, or when a new
writ shall be issuedan event of very doubtful date I
I have now stated, to the best • of my recollection,
• all the material facts of the proposition to which Mr.
Wason has alluded to in his letter to Mr. Stephens,
and whether the course recommended was right or
wrong I leave to the consideratitm Oithe constituency,
May 14. • G. RENNIE.