The Sun. — 1846-06-29 (London, England)

HAYDON.  " King's Bench Prison, July 7." One hundred pounds in 23 years 1 and not a penny during the next 19! The utilitarians to whom we vote our hundreds of thousands of pounds, in reward for their having made their own fortunes by railroad schemes, will piously wonder •ver the suicide, whom 42 years of neglect have driven into his desperate grave.  Long before the date of his letter to the Herald, Haydon had been liberated from gaol as an insolvent, under which process one of his finest pictures (a debt contracted for its gilt frame being, I believe, in his schedule ; and another, probably, for its canvas and colours), was sold to a tradesman for less than the cost price of its materials! _ .  (I, TA A :q, .  June 25, 1846.  [Surely these facts only tend the more conspicuously to evidence the necessity for some sweeping reformation in the treatment which so many of our countrymen have received, and are receiving, from the Legislature ! Delicacy alone prevents us from mentioning individuals now living who have acquired for themselves a claim upon the gratitude of their country, but who are at this moment pining silently and secretly, as poor Haydon pined during two -and-forty weary years of disappointment and penury, their great claim unrecognised, their sufferings unappeased by the balm of sympathy l Delicacy, we say, though we acknowledge it to be but a presumptive and hypothetical delicacy, after all. For it arises from that morbid sensitiveness, which is the usual accompaniment of genius. We have already adduced the contumely awarded to Chatterton, the starvation of Otway, and the deathful labours of Hood ; we might, unhappily, extend the catalogue of intellectual agony threefold, but that what we have already observed is of itself more than sufficient. When we find an old man like Haydon, who has adorned his country with such noble works, driven to death by a protracted career of misery, is there not a proof that some radical change is requisite ? When we find less than ten thousand pounds annually appropriated to the solace of our illustrious sufferers, shall we say that Government is acting fairly, generously, nobly, justly ? Shall we say that there is no cause for a reformation in this item bofeckpounblictoexupssadifrtoumre?hislf do,nwegeleeted d aneoatthher Burns may couch ! Another Goldsmith may plead to us for a release from his embarrassments ! in vain ! Another Laman Blanchard_ may be incited to a suicidal insanity, another Haydontdest rO7 himself in the midst of_ his unfinished creations= he victims of our shameful and deplorable parsimony! The swami of these unfortunate and gifted men rebuke us for our indifference, they call in their solemn memories for a reformation of this national grievance I—ED• Sun.]  most unpleasant AT BELLEWSTOWN eel:lsiDryhooniteao ng, M'Donagh, Si wr een bcoenlitervee,toouokt polfacse. reodnceotnahftec race-csicanscutzney, tin yesterday, wwhhoi,chit ,aam;atlitnasre3d:r, Hamilton acted as the friend has already been before refusedbe that remembered, ge n tbadle m beenen tal i e?h publica meeting; e challenged et dhi is unnecessary nallne Mr. merely state t to it further onhe tfheeete ae presentthey occasion. We yeWsteerdwaiyll., therefore, merely Hamilton was standing near the line of carriages opposite the when. Mr. M‘Donagh came up, and addressing stand-house, ndsjah;d°,u,r'llamilton you are one of the greatest scoundrels and cowards I ever knew; and but that I fear you would bring me in. to the Queens Bench, I would horsewhip you within an inch o your life,"—at the same time brandishing a small stick over his shoulders, and telling him "to consider himself horsewhipped," adding, " The first time I meet your blackguard companion, I will serve him the same way." Mr. Hamilton turned round and said, " Your present conduct shows you are just the scoundrel I always took you for, and I want to have nothing to do with you." Mr. M'Donagh again repeatel that but for fear of be,ps brought into the Queen's Bench lie would thrash him, upo'n which Mr. Hamilton said, " I pledge you my honour, sir, I will not bring you into the Queen's Bench if you strike me." "Then have at you and be d—d to you," said Mr. M'Donagh, accompanying the words with a blow of his stick, first across Mr. Hamilton's shoulders, and afterwards his face, which broke his stick. Mr. Hamilton immediately grappled with and struck Mr. M'Donagh. Some one presen handed Mr. Hamilton a stick, upon seeing which Mr. M'Donagh ran away, followed by Mr. Hamilton, who struck him two or three times, apparently severely, on the head. We were informed that at a subsequent period of the day some very offensive language was addressed by Mr. M'Donagh to Mr. HOMiltOll.—Dublin Freeman.