The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21 1842.

SPORT

Under this title, the Paris Journal La Presse, pub-
lishes the following amusing article, the original fea-
tures of which our translation shall endeavour to
respect as much as possible :
Let me not be accused of singularity, or Anglo-
manic, for having selected a title which many
persons will deem as pretending as it is English.
But the word sport has no equivalent in the
French language, and fragments of phrases would
be required to explain what it explains so well.
Sport means horse-races, steeple-chases, coursing,
and fowling. Sport means also pigeon-shooting, dog
and cock fighting, losing, and bets of every descrip-
tion. In short, by the word sport are meant all bodily
exercises, all fatiguing and dangerous pleasures, re-
quiring strength, boldness, and vanity. And now,
have we a word of such varied signification—a word
so universal ? Is not the borrowing such a term of a
foreign language very innocent? Could I have re-
course to another title, I, who am about to dwell as
well as I can on the feats of which horses and dogs,
pigeons and men, are the victims or heroes?
This country has its own sort of national sport.
In Spain the sport is bull-fights—sanguinary • but
grand fetes, bequeathed by the Moors to the
Spaniards.

At Florence and at Rome it is the races of horses
without riders.

Among the Russians the turf is the frozen water of
their river and lakes ; their sport consists in•the art
of skating with gracefulness, boldness in driving a
swift sledge, the splendour of their equipage, the
magnificence and profusion of furs, the noise of the
little bells, and, above all, the coquetrie with which
the horse in hand casts his head aside as he gallops.
In Germany, the waltz, pipe, and beer.
In the East, the Djerrid exercise.
In Holland, hawking.
In Africa, lion hunting.
In Bengal, guinea-hen catching, an ingenious ex-
ploitation of the taste those poor birds have for rum.
In other parts of India they have, together with
gigantic combats of elephants, tigers, and panthers,
pitched battles of thrushes against thruShes, and quails
against quails,
In France the taste for sport has always been very
lively, but it has not been directed to any particular
object. We handle the sword, pistol, gun, and car-
bine, as well as any other nation in the world. We
are neither less dexterous, less intelligent, nor less
bold than so many others. On horseback our teme-
rity is sometimes folly. What, then, do we lack to
become complete sportsmen ? " Money, and the perse-
verance of vanity.
Our fortunes are too narrow to admit of our in-
dulging in the way of hunting and racing, a prodi-
gality which would be ruinous to us, but which
the heaps of gold of our neighbours do not
even notice. In England there are, certainly,
as many as two hundred packs of hounds ; of
that number a hundred, at least, belong to pri-
vate individuals, who are as rich as the heroes
of the Arabian Night tales. The other hundred
belong either to purses which have clubbed toge-
ther, or to industriels, who get up a hunting associa-
tion, just as a theatre is got up at Paris; and, almost
always, the English speculation, which buys four
footed artists, fares better than the theatrical specula-
tion, which engages biped performers.
During three or four of the winter months the
cities are deserted and abandoned in England, and
towns-people become country-people. The woods and
fields ring with the sounds of the horn, the barking of
dogs, and the shouts of the sportsmen.
With respect to vanity, although nobody has, as yet,
reproached us with being in want of it, if there
be in the world an undeniable truth, it is that,
compared with the English, we were mere myrmidons
and Lilliputians. The English are not vain from
Englishman to Englishman, they are vain from
nation to nation. Whatever be their station,
and whatever they do, they always stand champions
of their country ; in short, they have a perseverance
of vanity which we have not. Let two travelling
Englishmen be surprised by a robber who is a country-
man of theirs, they will not even attempt to defend
their purses ; they will suffer themselves to be plun-
dered without resistance; but if an Englishman be
attacked by a band of French robbers, he will fight
like a lion, and rather die than yield, because he will
not let Frenchmen boast of having intimidated an
Englishman.

We Frenchmen have personal vanity and individual
gloriole, but not the least national feeling. We care
little whether the witness of our rashness be a Russian,
Englishman, or Frenchman ; provided we have two
eyes fixed upon us, it is all we want ; and at that
moment, we are fellows to fight a whole army ;
but, as soon as the two eyes cease to look on us, our
ardour vanishes, and our passion is extinguished. Such
is the nuance between the characters of the two
people. Both are proud, and proud to excess ; one of
his country, the other of himself ; but the Frenchman
has but fits of vanity, and with the Englishman the
fever is a permanent one.

But let it not be fancied that sport recruits its
adepts, only among rich and idle men. The
most celebrated statesmen—Lord Palmerston, the
Duke of Richmond, Marquis of Normanby, and
so many others, Ministers as they have been, are,
or will again be, have not the less continued the
heroes of sport. English lawyers arrive at their
Courts on horseback, duly spurred and whips in
hand. Their names daily figure in the racing bets.
What would Monsieur le Premier President of our
Cour Royale say, if a lawyer presented himself at his
sittings to argue a cause, after winning, the day
before, the Royal prize • in the Champ de Mars?
What jokes have been lavished on M. Thiers's grey
horse ? What was. there not said of the equestrian
pretensions of M. Cousin, when, in the grand costume
of Minister of Public Instruction, he rode in the
King's cortege 1' In France a statesman Cannot be a
horseman, and a lawyer must move about only on
foot, or in a hackney-coach. In England, on the
contrary, statesmen and lawyers must be sportsmen,
on pain, as regards the former, of being less popular,
and, as regards the latter, of having fewer causes to
plead.
me Derby is a national fete in England. The
Derby ! Where is the Englishman who will not
sacrifice to it his dearest interests, his most sacred
duties, and the presence even of the woman he loves
most ? The Derby ! Where are the bright eyes, the
delicious smile, that have ever made so many hearts
beat, and kindled more passions ? For, see you, the day
the Derby Stakes are run for, the rapture is general,
and one thinks and dreams oinothing but the Derby.
That wizard is potent enough to wrest, for a whole
day, every Englishman from his lethargic gravity,
and to be candid, without sharing, in such fanatical
enthusiasm, justice must be done to that marvellous
spectacle. Thousands of vehicles cover the plain, a
whole world intoxicated with joy, elegant and lovely
women, the Court, which, on that day, honour
the people with the exhibition of its gala
equipages—the Queen with her dazzling toilette
and beauty the greatest names of England
treating as their equals the grooms and jockeys—
the bets crossing one another—every vehicle converted
into a dining room—the hawkers—the numberless
booths styling themselves Frascati Francaise, Rou-
lette Francaise' where one may, beforehand, double
or recover the loss which one will realise after the
race. Oh! the admirable, astonishing sights, even to
eyes not English ! The starting signal is given, the
horses rush forward ; silence then becomes gene-
ral, for the moment is a solemn one. The horses
fly • they would not be so light if they carried all the
gold staked upon their swiftness. For some seconds they
are lost sight of behind a little eminence, but they soon
re-appear. A whole arsenal of opera-glasses and teles
copes is directed upon them, seeking to follow the various
stages and fluctuations of a drama more rapid than the
wind. The green jacket is foremost, but the red cap
has the rope ; at the first turning it will have the advan-
vantage, but the turning is passed, and the green jacket
still prevails. The nearer the horses approach the
goal, the more animated and desperate is the struggle.
Silence has ceased ; some excite by gesture and voice
the horse that carries with him, perhaps, their fortune.
The cries raised by the others, though more disin-
terested, are not less violent. Twenty horses have
started—only two or three return. -What a dearly
bought victory ! But the conqueror has often won.
30,0001. or 40,0001.

The race being over, vehicle races begin on the
road ; amidst an awful confusion they cross, meet,
strike against one another, and break down. The
roads are covered with shattered poles and wheels ;
no obstacle stops the tipsy drivers ; they pass every-
where, and overturn every thing ; one would fancy
it a debaccle of the Neva, an avalanche of Mont
Blanc, a tempest on the ocean !
In the hierarchy of sport, steeple-chases occupy but
a second rank, though the riders were at the very
least gentlemen, and though the danger is greater.
But the steeple-chase horses are not usually of so pure
a blood, and of so noble a breed as the race horses,
and, before all, respect to blood, respect to lofted !
After steeple-chases, come, ever in compliance with
the hierarchic order of sport, greyhound racing. More
fortunate than the race-horse, who triumphs only to
enrich his master, the winning greyhound finds his
reward at the end of his career. In those races which
are much in fashion in England, considerable sums are
staked, won, and lost. _ _

Next come stag, hare, and fox-hunting, with its
fatigues, emotions, and perils.
Then comes pigeon-shooting--the other chasse in
slippers and robe de chambre, and favourite pastime
of folks who reject all that is adventurous and fa-
tiguing- in sport.
In the way of interludes,, we have proposals more
or less, singular, and bets more or less extraordinary.
- Thus, a Woolwich lieutenant offers to play a game
at tennis against anybody for a sum of 50/., a singu-
lar accomplishment for an artillery officer !
An individual announces that on the lath of Ja-
nuary, at noon, he will throw himself, dressed, into
the Thames, from the top of Waterloo-bridge ; for 5/.
he will treat himself to that Cold bath; may it is too

cheap to deny ourselves so lively a pleasure, and all
hasten to carry their contributions to the appointed
place.
Another engages not to touch any food for ten days,
if a subscription of 101. be filled up, which he opens
to his profit at the Crown tavern. The pound ster-
ling fr everyof fasting! It is not too much.
After horses,day greyhounds, foxes, pigeons, and
bull-dogs, we at length come to boxers—that last

class of sport, which hOlds V brutes Vin greater
esteem than men ; for do not fancy that this
classification is the effect of chance, and of a sense
of shame or disgust. Not so; the English do
nothing without an intention ; they never blush at
what they do, and are enraptured with delight at the
hideous sight of two desperate boxers. Thus the last
rank allotted in the hierarchy of spoil to those ignoble
fights. roves only, that if they tremble when their horse
hascaught a cold, they have somewhat less feeling when
they behold a man's ribs knocked in. In those com-
bats every th:ng is opprobrious and repulsive—ay, every-
thing, from the teethless mouth, and the brutal looks
ofthose degraded beings, to the preparations and pre-
cautions destined to prolong the combat. Each parrain
brings his champion a pail of water, a large horse
sponge, and a bottle of brandy or wine. The heroes
are stripped to the waist, and, at first, toster as
much from fear as jrom drunkenness ; but the mur-
murs of the spectators soon warn them that (they
have not come to witness mere childish play. Vanity
then prevails over fear, and the combat becomes se-
rious. At every tooth that drops, at every rib that
breaks, at every eye that falls out, there are voices that
shout bravo ! and hands that applaud. The struggle
has already lasted an hour ; the boxers are exhausted ;
they can scarcely stand ; their faces are bruised, and
covered with blood ; their bodies present but a huge sore.
But they have not yet rested and assailed one another
above ,50 times, and a beau combat must be renewed
at least 60 or 70. Their parrains apply the
sponge to the flowing blood, wash their eyes, noses,
and ears, pour wine or brandy down their throats ;
and the blows resound again, until one of them, ex-
hausted, panting, almost dead, falls down to get
up no more. And yet the crowd is often dissatisfied;
often does it cry that there has been treachery or
cowardice—instead of one corpse, it would have two.
This is the ugly side of sport in England, for it
is not the populace only that is avide of these loath-
some spectacles ; the most elegant men blush not to
witness them, and to speculate upon the fists of a
boxer with the same sang. froid as they speculate
upon a horse's legs.
In this department of sport we shall never be on a
level with the English, and we can but congratulate
ourselves upon it.

The Annals of the Propagation of the Faith:contain
a letter to the Pope from the Bishop of Algiers, with a statement
of the condition of the Catholic Church in his diocese. At Algiers,
the Bishop states, the number of Catholics is 12,000, with two
churches and four chapels, besides others getting ready, with
several hospitals. In the province of Algiers there are five other
churches and four chapels. The priests are twenty.three, and there
are several establishments of religious sisters and brethren. At
Chercell there is a priest and an hospital, and two mosques
consecrated to Christian worship; at Oran 5,000 Catho-
lics, three priests, an establishment of religious sisters, and an hos
pital. At Constantine there are three priests, several religious
sisters, a church, a chapel, and several hospitals. At Bugia there
is a priest, with a church and an hospital. In all parts of the pro.
vinces the military masses have been re-established, and at Constan-
tina 1,000 soldiers took the sacrament last Easter, out of 3,000
forming the garrison: The Bishop adds several details of his pro.
ceedings for the redemption of the prisoners, whieh we have already
laid before our readers at the time they occurred.

" It appears," says the Courrier Francais, " that
Government has decided on corning to an understanding with the
Commission which the Chamber of Deputies will appoint to exa.
mine the project of law on railroads, in order to begin hnme-
uiately part of the direct line to Strasburg, and to introduce
into the great lines that from Strasburg to Marseilles, via Mul-
hausen, Dijon, and Lyons. A credit will also be demanded this
year for commencing in 1842 the works upon this new great line.
It is also stated that the Minister of Public Works will shortly
present a project oflaw for conceding to companies (with a subsidy
from the State) three important branch lines, viz., from Creil to
Compeigne, from Orleans to Viereon, and from Bordeaux to
Bayonne."
A letter in the Constitutionnel, from the bivouac of
User, on the road between Oran and Tlemcen, dated 19th ult.,
says :—" The following plan of operations, and respecting which
no secresy is observed, has been decided upon in the general staff.
The army will remain a fortnight at Tlemcen, and means will be
taken to organise the country and the relations with our new allies.
The Marabout Sidi.Mahommed• ould.el.Chigr, who is with us, will
be installed in the mechouar or citadel of Tlemcen, and there will
be left with him for his defence two pieces of artillery and a bat-
tenon of natives, which is to be raised for that purpose. They
will be commanded entirely by French officers. All the ar.
rangemcnts being terminated, our column will march for Mas.
care and Oran, by the valley. The expedition will take up thirty
days. We have just learned from the scouts of General Mu&
tapha that Abd-el-Kader is following us with all the force that he
could raise, and that he hbs with him two renowned chiefs, Ben
Salem and Sidi Embarrack. These chiefs, who are natives of the
province of Algiers, are accompanied by a pretty strong force of
cavalry, and 2,000 infantry. This shows how the power of the
Emir has declined in the province of Oran, where he had formerly
only to give his orders to raise all the tribes. Abd.el.Kader has
executed a razzia among the Beni.Amers, who had attempted to
join us, and had even furnished us with 400 cavalry. He came
upon them suddenly, and, after raising heavy contributions, made
all the chiefs of this rich and powerful tribe prisoners. They are
shut up in Tlemcen, and we are informed that we shall find their
heads on the gates of the town when we shall arrive there."

The Gazette die Midi announces the arrival in
France of a Senator of the Venezuelan Republic, who has come
from Bordeaux to Marseilles, with a commission to engage in France
and Spain thirty missionaries, preferring Spanish Capuchin friars.
if they can be obtained, for re-establishing the ancient missions of
the Caronis, Rio Negro, and other districts, and also 100 priests,
for performing service in the parishes of the three divisions of Ca.
racas, Guyana, and Merida. His commission further extends to
the engagement of thirty journeymen carpenters, smiths, masons,
potters, lime-burners, and weavers for the missions. The gentle•
man in question is said to be furnished by his Government with
sufficient fluids to defray the expenses of all whom he may engage
to the places of their destination.
ROMAN REMAINS AT ETRETAT (SEINE
IrtrEatimea. )—The lAbbe Cochet made some researches
seven years ago among some Roman ruins discovered at
Etretat, ?near' Havre, but was at length forced to suspend
them. 'Having, %however, received a small grant of money
from Government, he-"has lately resumed his labours, and
ccvilla. It is about thirty yards in length, formed of small-
squared reedded stone,in Blearingfaced a wall,. evidently part. of an ancient
with flint. At the end towards the
succeeded
sea, is a small cell below the building, the floor and
walls of which are composed of stone, carefully ce-
mented. In the wall are the traces of stone pipes,
intended to bring down water into the cell from the upper
parts of the building. Immediately above, and in advance
of this basin, which appears to have been used for washing,
was a spacious apartment, paved in compartments. The di-
mensions of the ruins are about 24 feet at their greatest
breadth, and the walls rise from 3 to 6 feet. The lower
part was demolished in the earliest ages of Christianity, and
the materials used for building the old chapel of St. Valery,
one wall of which is still standing. The only remains of art
hitherto discovered are a small child's sarcophagus, in good
preservation, two coins of the Upper Empire, very much de-
faced, a bone pin, an urn of grey stone, and numerous frag-
ments of coloured coatings of walls,
some tiles, and irrdesecnt
glass. At a short. distance were found several skeletons, with
the heads laid indifferently as to the points of the compass,
showing that the bodies were interred in the times of Paganism.
Another steam-boat blew up, near Nantes, a few
days since. It ran between Nantes and Pellerin. Fortunately
nobody was injured, and the passengers, being landed, finished
their route on foot.

The amount paid by the Cirque Olympique, for
the year 1841, to the hospices, Was 92,127 f. being a tenth part
of its gross receipts, as fixed by law for places of public amusement.
ENGLISH CARDINAL.--Five new Cardinals
were proclaimed at Rome on the 24th ult. One of the new
appointments of his Holiness is an Englishman, Cardinal
Acton. Cardinal Acton is a younger son of the late Ambas-
sador at Naples, and is related to one of the oldest families in
Shropshire. His Eminence was educated at Magdalen Col-
lege, Cambridge, where, though he much distinguished him-
self by close application to study, his religious tenets prevented
him from proceeding to his degree. He is the youngest mem-
ber of the Sacred College, and has long lived at Rome, with
his mother, Lady Acton.

The Commission appointed by the Municipal Coun-
cil of Paris for examining the questions as to the regulation of the
butcher trade, having heard the representations of the feeders,
butchers, and different agents of the administration, has proposed
an ordonnance to the following effect No butcher shall have
more than one shop or stall. There shall be one butcher for every
2,200 inhabitants. All shops and stalls exceeding this number shall
be repurchased by the syndicate. A shop or stall msy be sold by a
butcher to one of his-relations. In case of-death, the widow or
children may succeed. Every btitcher must make a deposit of eau..
tion.money. The members of the syndicate are to be elected by a
majority of the votes of the butchers. Every shop or stall which
shall remain three days without a supply of meat, shall, be closed
for six months. No sales or purchases shall be made, except in
markets duly licensed fur this species of provisions. The trade
called als cheeille (carcase-butchers), in which rich butchers kill
cattle anu sell the meat to others of the trade, is suppressed after the
tolerance of four years. Country dealers, as well as the butchers of
Paris, are authorised to sell meat in the markets."
ed those of
1840 by nearly 2,000,000 f.
of
amountAugu of
tfi thens,during sales
thein last year,
the
e Poultryxc market of
exceeded
1840 The
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The Correctional Tribunal Lyons has been en-
gaged three days on the trial of forty-five men, accused of belong.
ing to an illegal association at Lyons, assuming the title of Chariots.
eerie Reformee. The existence of this Society became known to
the Magistracy soon after its formation, and it was ascertained that
a journeyman currier, named Briquemont, was one of its members.
He was arrested, and his lodgings searched. Two regulation mus-
kets, a poignard, a sash of red, blue, and black colours, a quantity
of powder and cartridges, and the catechism of the Society, were
found in the privy, where it had been attempted to conceal them.'
Other papers relating to the Association were afterwards discovered,
and among them a list of persens designated by such names as
Brutus, Publicola, Cato, Alibaud 1., Alibaud II ; but, from the ex-
amination of Briquemont, the real persons to whom these appella-
tives were given were soon disclosed, and the number of persons
stated above were included in the prosecution, although twelve of
theni contrived to escape the grasP of the officers of justice. Two
parts of the documents read in Court excited particular attention.
The first, which was part of the catechism, consisted of the follow-
ing question and answer :—;; Q. Who are the parasites of society?—
A. Their number is infinite. They are-1. Capitalists and owners
of houses and lands ; 2. The advocates ; 3. The avoues and huts.
siers ; 4. The judges, and generally all those who are charged with
te s respected causing the laws to be executed and ; 5- All builders of
walls or other inclosures betweep different propessiew,_The second
paper ran thus :—" We have seen thousands of martyrs in the
streets, in the prisons, on the scaffolds, who, for the death of the
King, would give twenty louis, if they had them,
We admire them,
we sing their praise, but we dare not.-imitate them. We may,
therefore, be justly called Egotists. We expect to see others shed
their blood, that we may take the benefit." On Friday last judg-
ment was delivered. Thirty-three were found guilty, and sentenced
to various penalties, varying from five months to ten days' imprison-
ment, down to a simple fine of 50f. Twelve were acquitted.

A N TI-CORN-L A W CONFERENCE.--Mr. Ash-
worth, in his speech on Saturclat, stated that in seven of the
principal branches of trade, there had been a falling off in wages
to the amount of 170,000 i. (not 1,7001.) a-year, and that the
amount altogether might be reckoned at diminu-
tion32o,o of comfort equal to 1,000/. for every working day. The
W/. ; a
wool trade of Westmoreland alone was estimated to be 10,0001.
a-year worse than In 11/138, as wool had fallen from 17s. to 125.
par itene.

THE NEW SCALE.
A Parliamentary friend well acquainted with foreign trade
says—
" The best part of Peel's plan is that which governs the im-
port of Oats, Barley, and the inferior sorts of grain. They
will undoubtedly come in upon much better terms than at pre-
sent. I think very ill of the plan relating to Wheat, whim,
with the new averages, will always be liable to as oppressive.
a duty as it could possibly pay. It is almost a monopoly to
the landlords, and will quite cut off American supplies.
" The Irish Tories (the greatest jobbers we have) are
alarmed about the duty on Oats being so low, but they must
submit. Last year they threw out a Bill brought in by Mr.
Labouchere to admit foreign flour into Ireland, but this year
they submit vo ithout a murmur because Peel is the propsser.
" The accounts are very bad from America. You will have
a very bad trade with that country ; but, take their corn and
flour, and you will have a very good one."--- Leeds Mercury.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
An inquest was held at the sign of the Swan, Kingsland-
road, before Mr. Baker, the coroner, on ♦iew of the body of
Mr. John Henry Watson,-:a remarkably fine young man, a sur-
geon, who committed suicide under the following extraordinary
circumstances.

The first witness called was Mr. George Henry Gould, a
surgeon, residing at No. 19, Kingsland-crescent, who stated
that between the hours of one and two o'clock on Thursday
morning last he was called on to attend the deceased, whom heY
found in the kitchen of the house No. 21, Kingsland-road.
The deceased, on his making his appearance, said he had taken
three ounces of laudanum, but did not state what was the cause
of his doing so. He, witness, from his appearance, having
much doubt whether his statement was correct, ordered him to
go home, and he accordingly walked home. The smell from
his breath did Rot indicate that he had taken laudanum, and
this was in a great measure the cause of witness's suspecting
that he had not taken opium.
CORONER-If he had taken prussic acid would not the
smell have been somewhat the same as laudanum ? Witness :
It might, but it would hive a much more powerful effect, as
the deceassd did not even appear drowsy, though he had
pointed to the bottle from which he had taken the poison. On
his way home from the house of Mr. Webster to that of his
brother, a short distance off, the deceased appeared perfectly
rational, and on reaching his brother's he (witness) used the
stomach pump, but could not perceive anything of a delete-
rious kind, though it might have partook of some spirituous
liquor. On Friday morning he (witness) called agreeable to
the wish of the coroner. He called to make a post mortem ex-
amination of the body, but he then ascertained that thet bro-
ther of the deceased had called in another surgeon to assist
him in the post mortem examination, which was done without
him.

The Coroner and jury expressed their surprise that the post
mortem examination should not have been performed by the
witness, but by a second party.
Police Constable Walton, 8 N. deposed that, on Thursday
day morning last, he saw a crowd of perions about the area of
the house of Mr. Webster, No. 21, Kingsland-crescent, and
on going there he found the deceased inside the railing, and in
the area, a depth of nine feet. His (witness's) first impression
was that he was a thief, and he asked him what he was doing
there The deceased replied, " I'm after a d—d girl in this
house." He appeared to be in liquor at the time, and he (wit-
ness) called for the assistance of a brother constable, and on
his coming up he knew the decea.ed, and asked him what he
was doing there ? when he repeated he was'after a d—d girl,
and said he had taken poison ; and Mr. Gould, the last witness,
who was present, replied, " Serve you right."
Mr. Gould denied the statement of the constable, but that
officer declared it was perfectly true.
The brother of the deceased, who said he had been merely
assistant to him for the last twelve months, was next examined,
but nothing particular was elicited from him. He, however,
admitted that the deceased had latterly, from several causes,
been in a very excited state of mind, and had frequently ex-
pressed his determination to destroy himself by swallowing
laudanum.

Mr. Hatton, a surgeon, who had examined the body after
death, gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died of
collapse, and admitted that he might have taken laudanum,
which might be absorbed into the system, as there was no indi-
cation of its presence in the stomach.
The Coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict,
" That the deceased had died of collapse, caused by excitement,
and which might have been accelerated by laudanum, but of
the fact of his doing so no evidence appeared before the jury "
The deceased had, it appeared, paid his addresses for some
time to Miss Webster, a young lady of property, but who, as
well as her friends, had latterly discarded him on account of
his irregular habits.

TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF
THE LATE J. SYDNEY TAYLOR,
(THIS DAY.)
A public meeting was held at one o'clock at Exeter
Hall, for the purpose of raising a fund for erectinr, a
monument to the memory of the late Mr. J. S. Taylor,
and for the publication of his works. The meeting was
most respectably attended by gentlemen connected with
the Bar, and others who have admired the principles of
the deceased, and the able manner in which he advocated
them.

The chair was taken by Sir JOHN CHETWODE, Bart,
M.P., who briefly introduced the subject to the meeting.
The Secretary, M. PRENDERGAST, Esq., read several
letters from Mr. Thos. Clarkson, Mr. Wm. Allen, and Mr.
Moore, of Dublin, expressive of the high admiration of
the writers for the talent of the deceased, and the phi-
lantrophic objects, to the promotion of which those talents
were directed.

Mr. EWART, M.P., moved the first resolution, to the
effect that the distinguished public services of the late
John Sydney Taylor demand some testimonial of public
respect to his memory. That for the promotion of
this object a fund be raised, to be applied under
the direction of a Committee, to provide a tomb
and inscription to the memory of the deceased,:
and that a separate fund be raised for the publication of
Mr. Taylor's valuable works. Mr. Ewart said he con-
sidered himself honoured by its being proposed to him
to move a resolution on the present occasion. A resolu-
tion connected with the memory of a man so distin-
guished for his public services, for the inflexibility with
which he pursued them, and for the ability with which
he carried them into effect. The resolution combined in it
three propositions, all relating to the character of the late
Mr. Taylor. His situation as an advocate ; his relations
to the public as a writer ; and last, and most worthy of
their attention, his efforts as a distinguished philanthro-
pist in the general cause of humanity. As an advo-
cate, Mr. Taylor gave early promise of excellence,
and was rising to distinction in his profession, when the
hopes of his friends were frustrated by his death.
As a writer, he was distinguished both by the cause he
undertook, and the effect he produced on the public.
Even in the more humble, but more useful, path of a
periodical writer, he daily worked on the public mind
and advanced great public causes. Through a'. period
of many years he strongly advocated the total repeal of the
punishment of death. Of that cause he was a most zealous
and most effective advocate. Mr. Ewart proceeded to
describe the untiring energies and labours of the deceased
in the cause to which he had devoted himself; concluding
by saying, that whoever added to a general knowledge
of the deceased the happiness of knowing him more in-
timately, he was convinced would all combine, in their
public and private capacities, to pour the mingled tribute
of sorrow and respect upon his urn.

JOHN T. BA It Esq., seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.

Mr. Sergeant GLOVER, in moving the next resolution,
passed a high eulogy on the attainments of Mr. Taylor
as a scholar, he having been a fellow-student with him
at Trinity College, where Mr. Taylor obtained the
last gold medal given by the
.Historical Society
for eloquence, and honour which he participated with
Plunkett, Chief Justice Bushe, and other most eminent
men of their day. He referred to the exertions of Mr.
Taylor in the case of Mr. Dillon, whom he restored to
the peerage, and to his pamphlet entitled " Anti-Draco,"
written in advocacy of the repeal of the punishment of
death in cases of. forgery.
Mr. ETTY, R.A., said it had been asserted that Mr.
Sydney Taylor had not been sufficiently known as a
public man to justify the attempt to raise a public
monument to his memory, but, for his own
part, he could not conceive any better title
to the character of a public man than having done emi-
nent public services.—(Hear, hear.) Among the Ro-
mans it was the highest honour to save the life of a citi-
zen. This was not the only claim which Mr. Taylor
had to their admiration. He was also an ardent lover
of the beautiful, and a most zealous- defender of it,
when it was attacked either by the daring hand of pre-'
sumptuous taste, or the more cold-blooded calculations
of Mammon. He then alluded to the exertions of the
deceased in saving from destruction those beautiful
relics of church architecture, St.:Alban's Abbey, the
Ladie Chapel of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and one of
the finest portions of York Cathedral. These were
standing evidences of the power of the segis which had
interposed between them and the ,barbarism of mischie-
vous men. As it was with one of the first philospher3 of
the old world, as it was with very well-organised mind,
a love of the beautiful and the good were with him
synonymous terms ; and of him might be said in the
words of a poet he admired—
" Fame is the spur which the clear spirit cloth raise,
That last infirmity of noble minds,
To scorn delight and live laborious days ;
But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find,
Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears
And slits the thin spun life,"
but he trusted " not the praise," which the deceased so
justly merited. It is said that the Mahometans
have a feeling amounting almost to superstition,
which prevents them from destroying any piece
of paper that has manuscript on it, for fear
it may contain a verse of the Koran. With re-
gard to those who had charge of Mr. Taylor's manu-
scripts he was assured they would have the same feeling,
for he was convinced that every one of them contained
some impress of his eloquent mind, and some mark of
the inspirations which the Muses gave him. He would
conclude by addressing to them some words from the
poet of whom was Mr. Taylor was so fond :
" Oh guard the relics to your care consigned,
And bear the merits of the dead in mind ;
How skilled he was in each obliging art,
The mildest manners and the gentlest heart,
For these were his, till fate decreed his end—
In death a hero, as in life a friend."
THOS. SATMDEITS, Esq., F.S.A., moved a resolution
for providing a fund for the publication of the works of
Mr. Taylor, which fund is to be made distinct and sepa-
rate from that for raising a monument.
Dr. BARRY seconded the resolution.
Resolutions for fixing a day for a public meeting, for
appointing a Treasurer and Secretary, and for printing,
advertising, and distributing the resolutions passed on
the present occasion, were then moved and seconded by
Mr. Power, J. Tarte, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Hewson, and
M. Prendergast, Esq.
M. WELLS, jun.; Esq., then moved the thanks of the'
meeting to Sir John Chetwode, .a.r,t...,,f0r his- conduct
in the Chair, which was briefly acknowledged by the
Chairman, and the meeting separated.
A list of contributions already made to the fund was
read by the Secretary before the meeting broke up. •

On the 28th ult., a female named Paula Ullastres
died, at Barcelona, leaving by her will instructions that she should
be attended to her grave by twelve poor persons in new clothing,
and a band of music playing hymns and marches. Her wish was
complied with, and the procession passed through the principal
greets of the Olt, Air the wa74otbe burial place,