The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-06 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Lord and Lady Holland, from Holland House, for Brighton ;
the Earl of Thanet, for his seat in Kent; Sir John and Lady
Maria Stanley, from their seat, Alderley Park, Cheshire, for
North Wales; W. Chirte, Esq. from Hatchett's Hotel, l'icca.
dilly, for his scat in Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Galbert, from
Talke's Hotel (late Miller's), Jermyn-street, for Bedfordshire;
the Earl of Stair, from Scotland, for Paris ; Lord Ellenborough,
from Connaught-place, for Worthing; the Hight Hon. George
and Mrs. Tierney, from Dover-street, for Brighton ; Lord Bray_
brook, from New Burlington-street, for his scat in Essex ; Er.
nest Bonar, Esq. from Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St.
James's-street, for his seat in Kent ; Mr. and Mrs. Glasgow and
family, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Paris; Mr.
and Mrs. Thornton, from ditto, for Berkshire; Mr. and Mrs,
Fitzgerald, from Grosvenor-street, for Brighton; Mrs. G. H.
Drummond, from Piccadilly, for Derbyshire; Viscount Wey.
mouth, from his house in Cumberland-street, for Hastings.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to town
yesterday afternoon, from a visit to his MAJESTY at the
Royal Lodge in Windsor Park.
'The Austrian Ambassador, the Prussian Mi-
nister, and the French Charge d'Affaires, had interviews
with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Foreign
Office.

Earl BATHURST and Sir GEORGE MUR-
R.►Y transacted business yesterday at the office of the Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. ROTLESCHILD
transacted business at the Foreign Office yesterday.
Lord HILL visited Sir GEORGE MURRAY
yesterday, at the Colonial Office.

Mr. LOCKHART, the Editor of the Quar-
terly Review, and Mrs. L., arc still on a visit to Sir
WALTER SCOTT, at Abbotsford. Mr. L. has just finished
his new edition of " The Life of Napoleon I3uonaparte,"
for writing which, it is said, MuRRAY has given him five
hundred guineas.

rOM DEBDIN, one of the most facetious as
well as successful writers of the present day, has written
a Drama, which, in the opinion of a veteran of taste in
Theatrical matters, is as likely to be successful as the once
popular and effective play called The Birth Day, written
by the same author.

Francis the First is the name of the Histori-
cal Tragedy written by Miss FANNY KEMBLE, the accom-
plished daughter of CHARLEs KEMBLE, who last night
made her dAut at Covent Garden, in the character
of Juliet. We believe it is not intended to produce
Francis the First at any Theatre during the present
season.

Mr. COOPER'S NEW NOVEL.—We are re-
quested to state that the new Tale of " The Borderers,"
by the distinguished Author of " The Spy," " The Pilot,"
" The Red Rover," &c. is now published, and may be had
of the Booksellers, and at the various Libraries. Agents
for Scotland, Messrs. BELE and BRADruTE ; fur Ireland,
Mr. JOIIN CUMMING.

The present Bishop of CHICIIESTER was one
of his MAJESTY'S early friends. The writer of this is
old enough to remember the period when the hospitali-
ties of the Pavilion at Brighton were unbounded. In
those days of frolic, when DAY, MELLISH, LEE, M‘Ma-
HON, Lord CRAVEN Major HANGER, SHERIDAN, Lord
JOHN TOWNSHEND, FITZPATRICK, Lord BERKELEY,
Capt. Moßars, and many other finished bon vivants, were
companions of their Royal Master ; the Rev. Mr. CARR
was likewise a constant guest at their midnight orgies.

A marriage in high life will, we understand,
be solemnized to-day. A most sumptuous dejeune will be
given on the occasion, to which numerous fashionable, are
invited.

From the Dublin Gazette of Thursday, Oct.
, 1829 ; -

" Ulster's Office, Sept. 30, 1829.
" This day, at the Castle, his Excellency the LORD LIEU..
TENANT was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood
On CHARLES SCLIDAMORE, of Wimpole-street, London,
Esq., M.D., F. R. S., and Physician Extraordinary to his
Excellency. " W. BETI-lAM."

The Admiralty have despatched a royal yacht,
and also one of the Government steam-packets, to Dieppe,
to be at the command of his Royal Highness the Duke of
CLARENCE.

The drawing-rooms of the Duke of WEL-
LxNaToN's mansion are finished, and are beginning to
exhibit specimens of splendid furniture.

Dr. JOHNSON, speaking of claret, said that it
would drown a man before it would make him drunk.

The House of Commons is to undergo several
alterations previous to the meeting of Parliament. Work-
men are now employed enlarging the long gallery leading
from the Coffee-room to the Committee-rooms.

The repairs upon the front of the Banqueting
Hall, at Whitehall, begin to attract public attention. About
one-half of that fine display of architecture wears a new face.

Letters from Terceira state, that two days after
the attack made by Don ATIGuEL's squadron, which was
so gallantly and successfully resisted by the garrison, a
Gravesend boat had arrived from England with 20,0004
in specie, for the use of the troops. —Devonport Telegraph.

CHARLES KEMBLE, respecting the delicacy
or fastidiousness of the age, will not act the character of
Romeo to his daughter's Juliet. The writer of this,
however, remembers the time when these extremely deco-
rous niceties were less observed. Many years ago, a
daughter of the late GEORGE HOLMAN, nearly related to
Mr. NUDE, of Drury-lane Theatre, introduced his daugh-
ter upon the stage, on their return from America, in
Belvidere; and Mr. Hocmax (a highly accomplished
gentleman, educated at the School, in Soho-square, and
subsequently at the University), played Jager.—Morn-
ing Paper.

Business is undoubtedly reviving. The last
accounts from India announce a considerable advance in
the value of yarn and muslins; and there have, in conse-
quence of these agreeable tidings, been extensive purchases
of lappets and other fine goods. The works of HENRY
MoNTEITH and Co., at Barrow&ld, which for a con-
siderable time past were but partially employed, are now,
we are happy to learn, in full and active operation. We
learn also that the printing works at Campsie have not
been fur a long time so fully employed as at present. The
improvement, we trust, will be great enough to give full
work to the weavers.— Glasgow Chronicle.

On Sunday evening, between six and seven
o'clock, a beautiful meteor was seen descending to the
north of Edinburgh. It was globular-shaped, of a bril-
liant white colour, and exploded before reaching the earth,
leaving behind a whitish cloud of smoke.—Cal. Mercury.

At Horsebridge fair, on Tuesday last, there
was a large show of sheep and lambs, and a good supply of
horned cattle, the whole of which met a very heavy sale ;
and for full half of it no purchasers could be found, even at
reduced pi ices.

Our private advices from Paris assure us that
the appointment of M. de VITROLIES, as successor to
the Due de LAVAL MONTMORENCY, in the embassy at
Vienna, is by no means certain. M. de MONTIIORENCY
may be expected in London almost immediately; bat it is
considered rather more than probable that the first blamed
individual swill be employed in a Ministerial rather than a
diplomatic capacity : our sagacious and well-informed
correspondent conceives the permanence of the present
French Administration to be intimately connected with
the course of events in the East; and he considers the
published lists of intended successors to various Members
of the existing Cabinet to be wholly unworthy of atten-
tion. Ile leans strongly to the opinion that no material
change, nor even any important modification, is to be ex-
pected, at all events, previous to the opening of the
Sessions ; and, contrary to the inference we should natu-
rally draw from the statements of the Parisian press, he
conceives the POLIO NAC Ministry is rather gaining ground.
We record his opinions with the usual reservation, that
althoughintrinsically entitled to much consideration, it
is not to be inferred that we adopt them in their full ex•
tent.,—Morning Chronicle.

COMMERCIAL POLIC V.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The great misfortune under which the who],
civilized world seems at present to labour, is an cx
cessive competition in the supply of manzffirctu.-es
Under the influence of this, manufacturing profit•
are reduced to nothing—goods must be got up in
the cheapest possible way—even this will not always
honestly clear the merchant—frauds are therefore
common—manual labour is getting everywhere more
and more superseded in manufacture by machinery
—where there is no work there can be no wages,
and every branch of business suffers, because a large
portion of the powers of consumption in every
market is thus destroyed. Such at least are the
distinctive features of the case. We have no desire
to exaggerate the extent to which they may prevail;
hut whatever their extent, they obviously proceed
necessarily from the competition noticed ; and the
inquiry is therefore a very interesting one, are there
no means by which it may be abated ?
To lessen our own manufacturing exertions would
clearly give no relief, because the pressure of pro-
duction is from without, as well as from within ;
and we should thus only give our competitors freer
scope—to say nothing of the greater degree in
which our artizans would be thus deprived of labour
and bread. It seems, probable, however, that if, as
in extinguishing competition in private life, we
would extraordinarily cheapen them, the effect
would be most beneficial ; and, at all events, the
consideration of this suggestion seems to open up
some new and very interesting views of policy, as
we shall now endeavour to explain.
The great temptation to manufacture has been
the high price of manufactured goods, relatively to
the raw material of which they are composed; and
to such extent has this disproportion been in some
cases carried, (partly, no doubt, from the nature of
things, but greatly aided by taxes on materials, ma-
chinery, food, clothing, lodging, and communication,
high profits thus gained on a larger capital than
would otherwise have been necessary, high wages,
&c.), and so little has its true operation been con-
sidered, that it is not unusual to find, in newspapers
and school-books, a boast made how many thou-
sand times a little labour and skill have been able to
raise the value of an ounce of iron or cotton. The
consequences of this, however, have been these.
We have driven other nations to manufacture in com-
petition with us, because a few goods from us ex-
hausted the stock of new products which they had
to spare as equivalents, and their supply would
have been otherwise inadequate. We have also sti-
mulated them to act under this necessity, and be-
yond it, by the high idea we have given them of the
rate of manufacturing profits. We have thus every-
where called a greater amount of capital into this
line than would have naturally flowed into it ; and
in our own hands and those of others, have caused
it to be accumulated and re-invested, till it now
greatly exceeds any powers of consumption which
the increase of population, and progress yet made
in communication and civilization, have evolved.
While the war lasted, indeed, the mischief was not
so much felt, although even then a feverish throb
occasionally indicated that all was not right. But
when the war consumption ceased, the evil soon
came to a head.

Having keen caused, however, by giving a high
relative value to manufactures, it is, obviously, at
least probable that it could be repaired by altering
this proportion, and, code qui coule, making them
extraordinarily cheap. But this probability is
greatly more apparent when we examine its detail.
The process we have been considering would be
just reversed. Presenting our manufactures every-
where at a very low price, we should in effect
raise the value-.f raw produce, and the temptation
would be to grow it. The capital now invested
abroad in manufactures would be thus gradually
transferred to the cultivation of the soil. The pre-
sent violent competition would cease. Only enough,
perhaps, would remain to keep down the profits of
manufactures, so that they should neither themselves
accumulate so fast as to outrun the powers of con-
sumption, nor draw in other capital to compete
with them, and re-produce all the evil. And
there are some other consequences still which seem
even more interesting than these.
So great is the apparent temptation now held out
to manufacture, that it is received as a certain fact

in political history, that at a certain stage of its
progress in population, wealth, and civilization, every
nation must begin ; and, in fact, all now do begin,
and many even before this (supposed) natural
period, which they seek to anticipate by means of
protecting regulations. Manufactures, too, are not
like the growth of raw produce—they can be carried
on, for the most part, nearly equally well in all cir-
cumstances; and the consequence must be, that in
time there will be little or no interchange of com-
modities between any two communities, excepting
what little may be necessary to supply each with
such raw material as it does not grow, and yet re-
quires for its consumption or manufactures. And
yet, more than this, no country will have work for
its population. For so great is now the improve-
ment in machinery for the purposes of manufacture
(and still so progressive), it is certain that a very
small portion of the labourers of every country will
always keep it in manufactured goods, while the
cultivation of the soil cannot possibly maintain the
rest, so long as its produce bears its present low ex-
changeable value, compared with these goods. And
already, indeed, in every part of the civilized world,
is this evil beginning to be experienced.
Let us now, however, reverse the picture, and
consider how very different all this would be, were
the temptation to manufacture less, and that to grow
raw produce more,—in other words, if manufac-
turing in all its stages were made so cheap, that it
would take three or four times the quantity of
goods that it does now to represent the same quan-
tity of raw produce. In the first place, it does not
appear that in such case there would be any more
obligation on a nation to manufacture as it gets
rich, than on a boy to make his own coat as he be-
comes a man ;—on the contrary, in like manner as a
child's clothes are first made by his mother, but
afterwards got from a tailor, it would appear more
natural that a nation which, while yet secluded and
barbarous, was forced to use: its own rude manufac-
•tures, as it gradually came within the pale of civilized

life, and in close contact with the great drapers and
clothiers of the world, would give these up, and be-
take itself in preference to a diligent improvement
of its natural advantages, so as to grow equivalents
for more perfect wares. 2dly, Other countries,
then, whose stake already embarked in manu-
factures is not so great as our's, while their
scope for improving the culture of their soil is
greater, would probably give their labour and ca•
pital, more and more, this latter direction :—and
this country, differently circumstanced, and with her
mind more peculiarly bent on manufactures, would
acquire a share in their supply, proportioned to the
energy with which she might bid for it, by at once,
and greatly, reducing their cost and prices, by what-
soever means this may be best effected. 3dly, The
prices of manufactures thus falling, the expence of
living, and the rate of wages, would also fall ; and
manual labour would maintain a better competition
with mechanical power than is now possible—if not
in the higher branches of manufacture, in those
which are more simple ; and at the worst, in hus-
bandry, the machinery employed in which is neces-
sarily imperfect, insomuch, that even under present
circumstances, many agriculturists arc of opinion
that manual labour might be extended to advantage,
and this is chiefly prevented by the great immediate
expence arising from high wages. 4thly, Wi t h
this immense resource, however, for our labouring
population, the degree in which the improvement
of machinery may yet farther exclude hand labour
from manufactures, instead of a curse would be a
blessing; because the vacillations which seem inse-
parable from trade, would thus, less and less, pro-
gressively, affect the lower orders. And, lastly, The
interests of nations, which are now severed by com-
petition, would be dove-tailed together by reciprocal
demand and supply; And the Pam system which,

lugurs domestic comfort, would seem thus calculated
to insure us also international amity. Perhaps it is
!yen suspicious that it should thus, altogether, pro-
'rise so much ; hn• the links seem sufficient too by
vhich the whole is connected.
Surnm►ring up this argument, then, we may say
hat our first of jests at pre,,:it 'hould be to cheapen
he production, and facilitate the distribution of our
manufactures, each as much as possible : and these
conclusions, broken down into details, seem to give
us the following practical advice. We should re-
peal all taxes which bear upon the costs of manufac-
ture, or upon their transit, or upon the transit of
the materials of whi?li they are made, or of the equi-
valents received for them. We should impose duties
rather on property already realized, or on polls, gra-
duating these last according to civil rank, and class-
ing the middle orders at their own choice, but widi
certain qualifications for public and municipal offices,
and certain privileges as to liveries, &c., according
to the scale they selected—while the higher and
lower orders would be marked of then-it-elves. For
some years it might even be expedient to raise a
large portion of our necessary annual expenditure by
loan ; and we ought not to scruple at this, when so
great a good is in view as the system thus laid down
seems to promise. We should further protect our
agricultural interests by bounties on home corn,
making food and labour cheap, not by duties on
foreign corn, making it dear at still the same, or

even a greater expence ; and we should protect them
liberally, at least for a time, both that they may be
really able to sell cheap, and be led to furnish
spade labour extensively to the industrious poor.
We should next look abroad, and especially study
to improve the domestic communications of foreign
countries, because the more minutely and extensively
we are able to distribute our manufactures, and
bring away raw produce in exchange, the more we
shall improve our market, and the fewer competitors
we shall ultimately leave in it. And, therefore,

lastly, we should also diligently study, and render
popular among us a knowledge of all their statistics,
that we may be enabled from time to time to sug-
gest new wants to them, and new articles of raw
growth to rear in exchange for them. Our own
soil is limited in extent, and we never can compete
in such commodities ourselves, and it is not even
desirable that we should, for if we sell, we must buy.
But, on the other hand, we have more loose capital,
more trading► spirit, more general science than most ;
and but a few years ago these qualities betrayed us
into the most lamentable follies, merely because we
wanted exact information by which to guide them.
A wide field might yet be opened, however, for
their profitable employment, if only minute particu-
lars were accurately known respecting foreign coun-
tries, and the means of improving their domestic
markets ; and a literary society for compiling and
condensing such information into a tangible form for
the use of speculative, but not literary men, would
be thus one of the most interesting institutions of
the present day.
We conclude with only one more remark. An
analogy will be found between these views and
those which govern private life, which may well be
claimed as at least a presumption in their favour.
They contemplate that division of labour and pro-
duce among nations which is found to answer so
well in private life. They propose to bring it about
just as individuals do, by one community putting
forth its whole strength in its own particular branch
if necessary, even at a temporary sacrifice. And they
recommend markets to be sought by facilitating
communication, and studying the peculiarities, as
they may be termed, of our customers, the points
about them by which they may' be induced or en-
abled to order from us more freely. Even the boun-
ties on agricultural products, which they contem-
plate, however repugnant they may seem to the ab-
stract maxims of political economy, are not without
many analogies in every-day practice. If a coach
is wanted along a new road, its tolls are remitted,—
hi other words it receives a bounty, for a given time,
to this extent, If labour is wanted for the poor of
a parish, some neighbouring farmer receives a
bounty out of the poors' rates towards their wages.
Whenever, indeed, an object is much desired, some
little sacrifice is readily trade in the outset, to ob-

tain it. But the objects here contemplated are
among the most important imaginable, and come
home to the interests of the whole community.—
They are first to cheapen production--next to pro-
tect agricultural investments against an undue com-
petition from without, and thereby enable them ex-
tensively to employ the poor in spade labour,—and
lastly, to assist these same poor in maintaining a
competition with machinery in the more simple
branches of manufacture also. The first is the pivot
on which the whole system of national relief here
sketched, turns; the second is at present sought
by protecting duties, which, however, by raising
wages, defeat its most important portion ; the third
it has often been proposed to attain in the same
way, by ditties on machinery; and the difference
between the two methods seems just to be this.
Protection by duties is like making head-way in a
canal by means of locks; the object is attained, but
great inconvenience and expence are incurred, and
the price of the goods transmitted is by so much in-
creased, or the profit on them impaired. Protec-
tion by bounties is, on the other hand like travelling
on rail-ways, laid down, it may be, at public ex-
pence, but from which every one derives his pro-
portion of benefit. For it is absurd to suppose that
with a free and unobstructed competition from
without, which the bounties would be graduated so
as'to moderate, not extinguish, either landlords or
farmers would keep an undue portion of them to
themselves.

Much practical wisdom may be frequently learned
by watching the devices of untutored minds in par-
ticular emergencies; and without being fettered by
them, suffering them to have their due weight on
our conclusions. Some months ago the weavers in
a manufacturing town in Scotland, in an ebullition of
feeling against the present corn laws, proposed to
raise a subscription among themselves to pay the
duty on some foreign corn, bonded in their neigh-
bourhood ; and if they had done this, they would,
no doubt, have got their money again in the form of
cheap bread, but the neighbouring farmers would
have been pro tanto injured, either by losing their
markets, or by being forced to enter it under dis-
advantage. But if, instead of this, the subscription
had been universal, and instead of going to pay the
duty, had been devoted to purchase up from the
farming interest their protection by it, so as to have
allowed the foreign corn to come in free, all parties
would have been benefited alike, the consumer the
rather because the supply would have been thus
greater. And this would just have been a bounty;
and the snore the idea is thus considered, not with 4
reference to the (supposed) maxims of a seionco yet
confessedly unsettled, but to the realities of common
life, the more, we are persuaded, will it be relished.
Should the system we have thus traced ever be
acted on, it is true, (and we cannot help thinking
that through some agency or other this is, more than
probable), this portion of it may in time be given
up; because, through the general prosperity, general
density of population wh;,:h need thus have no
limits, greater consequent demand on the land for
the growth of luxuries, general relief from poors'
rates, and greater relative value of !and produce, all
of which it is calculated to produce, the agricultural
interest may cease to require protection. But
meanwhile if we wish to run our coach we must
for a time pay its tolls ; in other words, if we wish
to change our system we must do it gradually, and
put up with some imperfections in our new devices.
With the present btirtheus on land it must have
some protection, not merely for its own interests,
but for those of the whole community ; and the
question is not any, or how much, but by what
means ?

A SINGULAR SIIOT.—Mr. STRuTT, park-
keeper to his Grace the Dike of DEvossniax, at Chats-
worth, after looking out fur a good fat buck, and having
fixed upon a prime one, fired and killed it, and the ball
passed through its neck, struck another equally good, and
killed it Also.

CITY PROPERTY.

The property of the Corporation is improving ra-
2idly in price, as the streets in the City gradually
widen. That about Fleet-market has had a rise be-

vond all expectation. About three weeks ago-Mr.
Adamson, the auctioneer, sold by public auction a
piece of freehold ground, at the corner of Stonecut-
ter-street and Fleet-market, which the Corporation
had purchased when the new market was projeet.
Et consisted of 17 feet up Stonecutter-street and 3`s
feet along the line of the old market, and it was
knocked down to Mr. Elmes, the surveyor to the
port of London, at 1,330/. Five years ago it would
not have produced more than 300/. It is reported
is the City that the London Improvement Commit-
tee and the Port of London Committee are to be
abandoned this year, the one having accomplished
the structure of Fleet-market, and the other having
completed the arrangement for the new bye-law,,, of
the port, which have given great satisfaction. The
former is to be merged in the City Lands Commit-
tee and the latter in the Navigation Committee,
both of which are more constantly occupied with
business than any others.
The improvements which have been contem-
plated round St. Paul's, and respecting which se-
veral conferences were held with the late Earl of
Liverpool, are, it is confidently reported, to be
commenced at a very early period. They are upon
the most magnificent plan. Alderman Wood, and
another of the Corporation, forming a deputation,
had impressed the Minister with the idea of the
urgent necessity of commencing operations about
St. Paul's, on the ground that the retail trade in
the ornamental line was abandoning the City,'in
consequence of the narrowness of the approaches.
A great deal of olp•ervation has been excited by the
long-established practice of selecting men not qua-
lified for the business, to sit as members of the

Improvement Committee ; and it has bee-1 sug-
gested, that the way of improving the Committeo
effectually would be by substituting a select Corn•
mittee of men who undetstood what they wer:-
abaut, in the place of a Ward Committee seleetbil
at random. This would be in unison with the re-
commendation of the Lords of the Treasury, and in
imitation of the Committee for wide streets in Dub-

lin. It has been also suggested to the Corpnr;;-
don, to order a survey of the City to be made,
and to have marked out all the improvements
deemed necessary, to be proceeded wiih progres-
sively, as the money might fall in. If this plan
should be pursued, it is calculated the City would
soon compete with Westminster and Alarylebone,
in the fashionable retail business.

As soon as London Bridge shall have been cm.
pleted, it is said that those improvements will be
immediately commenced; and it is also said that the
trifling duty on coals will be continued ad infinitym,
for the purpose of defraying the expences. The
projected improvements round St. Paul's will, it is
estimated, by the Port of London Surveyor, cause
an expence of 280,0001., of which 80,000/. will he
for ever sunk, but the remainder will be recovered
by reletting the ground. The defective intercourse
between the west and east ends of the town will, by
this plan, which, it is supposed, must be adopted, be
effectually remedied.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

Yesterday was a busy day at Hyde Park Corner, al-
though little business was done. In the first place, odds
were quoted against several horses for the Derby, which
offers a remarkably fine field for betting round ; money,
however, is short, so that few engagements were entered
into—the heaviest bet was 500 even on the field against
the following ten :—The Mummer, Sal, Cressida, Ad-
vance, Red Rover, Rupert, Cobweb, Captain Atthur,
\Vat Tyler, and Brother to Lamplighter. There are no
prices as yet for the Oaks. Lord Exeter's Shumla (Sis-
ter to Varna) appears to be the favourite, the odds being
indefinite. Several bets were made on the Garden Stakes ;
Coroner, Luss, and Mameluke, being severally backed at
3 to I. Zinganee had no friends, 4to 1 p.p. having
been repeatedly offered against him; he is not expecttd
start. The St. Leger was not mentioned.—To compen-
sate for the slackness of business, there were " lots of fun, '
afforded by a person who proposes to tell the colours to
be worn by the jockey of the winning horse of Derby,
Oaks, or St. Leger ; and avers that he has picked out
the " black and pink" for the last two or three years'.
How he arrives at the secret, or what his terms are, we
cannot state.—We subjoin the present state of the market •

DERBY, 1830.

8 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Hammer (taken)
12 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
18 to 1 agst Mr. Dilly's Cressida colt

20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Nat Tyler
20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Major
20 to 1 agst Col. Wilson's Brother to Lamplighter
20 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur
20 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt
20 to 1 agst Mr. Dilly's Cetus
20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Sal colt
20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Advance colt
25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Red Rover
25 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Brine
25 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Canker,

THE SOMERSETSHI RE STAEVE.—The stakes are awanled
to Liston, and the bets to Rasselas, who saves his stake ;
and there being no second horse in consequence of this
decision, the 25 sovereigns are to be divided among the
horses not placed.

In consequence of the robbery of the. Princess
of ORANGE'S jewkli, a positive order was given by the
police to search every person passing th,J frontiers of the
Netherlands ; and so rigidly has the order been obeyed,
that one family, whose carriage was closely packed, were
detained three hours while the hopeless search was making.
Another instance of the uncertainty of life, anti
the slender tenure of man's existence, occurred on Wedues-•
day evening. Mr. Jou); WATT, for many years a mer •
chant in Leith, dropped down while reading a newspaper,
and expired. We learn that his fortune, which is con-
siderable, is laid aside as a fund for the support of old and
unfortunate merchants.—Scotsman.

STAGE COSTUME.--" Gentleman LEWIS"
was in the habit of amusing his friends with an account
of the circumstances in which he first saw the greatest
tragedian of his time. At an early period of his career,
Mr. LEWIS, on his way from Covent-garden to Liverpool,
stopped at Leicester for the night, and witnessixl at the
Theatre there a representation of the Claxdestine Mar-
riage. _Loren:ell was played by a tall gaunt young mat),
tricked out in an antique drab suit, with long, lank, hluck
hair hanging about his shoulders—the very moral, in fact,
of a stage puritan. Such at that time was JOHN KENl-
BLE—destined afterwar:k to embody in his personations
all that his contemporaries could conceive as heroic in
stage action, azd to aid the effect of these by the adoption
of all that was classical in stage costume, Ilis labours in
this department were, however, confined chiefly to tilt.
gedy ; and the costume of comedy remains scdrcely less
anomalous than was that of tragedy before the days of
KEMBLE, is, in fact, a tissue of patch-work, neither
ancient nor modern, but presenting to our view at once
the actual and the obsolete in dress, Why should not the
costume in comedies of marmors—comedies having no in-
violable connection with history or chronology—be the--
roughly modernised? The Loeeu,ells of the present day
do not transform themselves into counterparts of &row.
.Pure-they wear the fashionable city dress of 1829; and
why should the Lord Oglebys by their side masquerade ;e
ina court suit of GrcQunD. the First? Let the -Lovetrells
and Oglebys keep eauh other in countenance--let the dif-
ference in their style of dress correspond with the differ-
ence merely in their ages. Lard Ogleby is not exclu-
sively the battered beau of GARRICK and COLMAN'S expe-
iiritiuennpdcreroe,fdaonr;,,,lo,yaf,e
years
I,innetreo
tae of Queen
sahno ladgAeaLpNpbEeua.
age—but
He is,
tiasi ntoghtennteoe.
:s,aptei
generation
behind the younger part of the spectators. We would not,
indeed, have him caricatured as one of our modern ever-
greens; we would dispense with the dandy surtout and
artificial whiskers of some venerable youngsters, of whom
the times give us proof." Let him represent the beaux
of thirty years back. We are old enough to recollect the
Duke of —, seated in his balcony in Piccadilly, in a
green and buff club unifirm, with a broad-brimmed straw
hat to guard his eyes and complexion from the intrusive
beams of the sun, and believing himself "the glass of
fashion" all the while. Nor did the race of Oligthys die
with his Grace. But we certainly know no better n,, del
of the fine gentleman of the last generation, nor one, by
attention to whose costume histrionic aspirants ,E9r.l
Ogleby's honours could profit more. _:;