The Sun. — London, England, 1835-05-25 00:00:00

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A work is already befor e the public expressly devoted to the peculiarities of a provincial town ; and, as in the present case, it professes to take nature for its guide, it has forestalled s much of Mi ss Mitf or d' s ma tt er ; f o r, however it may have been in old times, one town now bears nearly the same resemblance to another, as regards the characters and habits of its inhabitants, as the two Sosias bear to each other in the Amphitryon of Plautus. The quick and i • constant communication between the metropolis 411 .. X the country, has had the effect of smoothing' down 4) _a uniform polish all the rough edges of provincial character. There are no Peter Pounces—no Squire Westerns—no Parson Trullibers or Adamses—few Stiff, eeuftly old maids, rejoicing in faded brocade, and favourite St. James's anecdote, to - be met with lic rw-a days. The = dress of London is that of the %),li!.4fyfoWri*;" the manners of both are the same; the ! ari l° its - chit-chat ; the :same, or nearly the same, its ~!PtiAements. -The last , new fashion that you meet this MO-street, you shall meet the next in Bel- Yegis.- The last new book that electrifies the ` l3lol ':OP9lifen circles, to-day, shall produce the same effect on those4.heiforddlegis to-morrow. Miss Mit ,°,r,stherefore, has been unfortunate in her choice of sect .bnt 'nevertheless has throWn quite Mttylt 7 4- mess. into it. as was possible. - , • „ _ilpe,need scat , cet) , interm our readers: that Belfoid ! i 714 3, is Reading, and , that, however it may be with e acters• the scenic- descriptions are as true to the , , kilAny„coritained, " Our, Among the fittest of these—perhaps the very finest., because the m ost characteristic—is the opening sketch of the town, -` with its long ranges of modern buildings in the out skirts, mingled with picturesque old streets ; the huge monastic ruins of the Abbey ; the great river winding i lkng, like a thread of silver, trees and gardens ming -11 amongst all ; and the whole landscape enriched 4 : 4 lightened by the dropping elms of the foreground.", sketch lives in every line. That part of it which h ag reference to the Abbey seems to be a prime fa vourite w ith Mi ss Mitford, for she frequently reverts t 0 it in her volumes ; and on one occasion expresses her regret that " there was no guardian hand fifty Y e ars ago to prevent the introduction of national schools amongst some of the most extensive and finely sit uated m ona stic ruins in England." We cannot ho ld with this regret, for well we remember, even in 00? school-boy days, when rambling on a summer l aughte r about the Abbey, and hearing the shouts and 14 ughte r of the charity children, swelling up among its st ern and crumbling ruins, the vivid associations which lu eh unexpected sounds forced on our minds. Melan eal)lY and cheerfulness—youth and age—hope and 7 s Pair—seemed here mingled in fellowship together. tr r ne, the contrast was a startling one ; still it was far t ° ll l unpleasing, being informed with the deepest sett jrnent• Miss Mitford, however, does not regard it in tlis light ; she looks at the clekrity school with the e ye rather of a painter than a philosopher, and see s n othing in its erection among ruins but a violation of th e Picturesque. The best chapter in " Belford Regis" is " King 'arwooxl," which pourtrays the freaks of a brisk, s3 is ffie imis young cit, who comes down from Londo n for t he express purpose of illumining the provincials, in a vei n of pointed, but good-humoured satire. " Stephen Lade, the Butcher," is another well drawn character, th ough, if our memory does not mislead us, we have i ,n et with our fat friend before, in one of the Annuals. in the Belford " Cheese Fair" Miss Mitford is equally a t,, home, an d b r i ngs th e w h o l e scene o f g l or i ous con - fusion before us, as for seven successive Septembers , s:e_witnessed it on t h e For b ury play-ground. I n hi s Posthumous Memoirs "—one of the most fascinating hooks, by the way, in our language—Gibbon has ex pressly alluded to his school days, as being the most tniserable of his existence. He would not have said to, had he known what it was to look forward to a Belford Cheese Fair; still less, had he ever experi enced the enjoyment of that school Carnival—the Tli onth precedin g the performance of a Greek play. On this branch of her subject Miss Mitford dwells with peculiar animation. BEL flip !an cy," says she, "a quick and lively boy, learning to tread entgly, and carry himself demurely, and move gently, and eartsey modestly, and speak softly, and blush, and cast down his yes, and l oo k as like a girl as if he had all his life worn petticoats! t ley the va i n a tt em pt, by cold cream and chicken-skin gloves r u e i ernov e the stain of the summer's sun, and bring the coarse paws i n t o a semblance of feminine delicacy Fancy the rebellion of the lad, and his hatred of stays, and his horror of :Paint, and the thousand droll incidents that, partly from acci te'" and partly from design, were sure to happen at each re- Ir sal (the rehearsal of an English tragedy at a real theatre comical enough, heaven knows 1), and it will not be asto ti 1 ,.. 16 4 that, in spite of the labour required by the study of so b.7 Y long speeches, the performers as well as the guests ote;d the scenes were d e li g hted with the getting-up of the el plays." ti This sketch l eav es us nothing to add, except that it ot unirequently happened that the unhappy boy, wh ose lot it was t o distinguish himself in the part of a w °4l 'an, in the Alcestis or the Medea, was compelled for 111 ° ' - itths afterwards to fight, at least, one pitch-battle a :?, in order to rescue himself from the heinous accu \l°l4 of e ff em i na cy. We must not omit to notice o 18 z .Mitford's descriptions of the scenery about Bel frid, Which are full of that rare creative power which e e %hied us so much in " Our Village." But how vii Tft it that she says nothing of the neighbouring a ge• tof Caversham, than which Thames, in all his Nv se llic liptga from the Gloucestershire hills to the Nore, h ell, nt)thiog more sylvan or picturesque ? She might ere 't()o, have picked up one or two odd characters— fe'le s a mples of the old English yeoman—and not a lbastdultaatod old maids, the like of which are now rarel y o to be met with, beyond the bounds of some such i j u k te t , secluded hamlet, as Caversham. The parts we least in Belford Regis, are those wherein Miss lt foril enters the lists against Miss Austen —as, for Iti t anc• 2, in her sketches of the Harwood Family, and l i c ' t e et specially, in her chapters'entitled " Suppers and al ly," and " Belles of the Ball-room." Here she us " as with a difference" of the racy old t i:g l i B ht :novel " Emma." But what was life in the p -378 D.liss Austen, has ceased to be such in the tirnv s . Within the last twenty years a change t a ", .c. tme ... 01 , t. r the doniesticmanners . of' England, as 1.,, ti , g dern'a n d s tartling, as any that has takemplace for a 411 . tteti . e 'tutury before.. Those, therefore, who wish v ie \ re eminence in the difficult art of sketching 4: 4 41 : eter - , must rely, not on their :.recollection, but on cii.servation. • .`' ~Tj v : Y LIPB ; 7! BY THE AUTHOR OF " STOWE'S c v "! ZRLOcs."—" Since the publication of Miss Edgworth'S' stle RaCkrent,' we have met with no work of fiction, nor, e0i 1 .,7 0 of fact, containing a description at once so rich and 'so `` .l " , " of -the , state of society and manners in Ireland , some fr oz : r si::-and-thirty years ago, as that which is to be collected t he _lttes of this most amusing and spirited narrative. Ithua,ave..been much entertained by the characteristic sketches ItotiroVrotiS'iritidents of the author of 4 4 My Life.' His , tirt tt .O"terit; ' independently 'of the truth and correctness of Ills 'i-. 0 1141 2 . 14 74, 4 1 ' poini,:isiS in'the intenseness and`reality 'of indivi %lift e iraradt - Nor is this all. The author's Merit is not l),,`," 0 1 to individtial portraits, nor to the national dmpery‘iii' , I * - F I they a.we :enveloped. His descriptions. of some of the" ~ i t er i i nt t g events' which belong to the history of tbat -disastrous The - - u ' ' 'ix exceedingly. vivid and graphic. The battle, or re- • ` ' ',,,The-- .I', to Utf Of Castlebar, is described'with a power, a drn Port; t f-foot,t'ind acknowledge of details, .which give to that Wig; ", of the book all the attraction of rom an c e, comb h i bi 'loe authority of historical truth."..—Morning Post. THE BORE. IMITATED FROM HORACE.* (O'C-LL loquitur.) As I strolled down Bond-street t'other day, Who, on the opposite side of the way, Should my eyes unluckily happen to blink on, But Colonel Bore, M. P. for Lincoln ; I strove to cut him dead, and made A rush for the Burlington Arcade, But ere I could reach it, up he came, And without one particle of shame, ( For I only knew the man by name) Drawled out, " you're going East, I see,"— " No, West "—" well, it's all the same to me, A walk's delightful this sunny weather, So, lend me your arm, we'll go together." With this he drew his arm throl.mine, And twirling his whiskers with leer malign— Those matchless whiskers so formed to please, Nyhich, whatsoeer lady - sees, No, matter how_ high or loW_her station, Dies of excessive admiration— Began to talk of the fall in Rents, The coming Budget, the Three per Cents., The Tythe Bill, Corporation plot, Church Commission, and what not, Till bored to death by his prosy chat, And not knowing what the deuce to be at, (For both coach andcab had taken Bight From their' usual Stand, as if from spite) I broke away, looking wond'rous silly, • And flew, like a Sylph, down, Piccadilly; Crossing, despite the heat of May, To the hottest and sunniest side of the way; But in vain; for the quicker I dodged and flew, The quicker the Colonel followed too, And where I took . one step, he took two., Thus sore beset, I made stop, And, rushing into Ridgway's shop, Exclaimed, in tones of fierce despair, That made the astonished shop-boy - stare, " Quick, bring me a book—a pamphlet—bring TomkitT- 7 .Tenkins=or any thing ; • Quick L-here lie Cordes,'' . and I" paused and wept, For while I was speaking, in he stepped, And dragging me out by the button-hole, Began again such a rigmarole, That my ears, like Hamlet's sire's, of yore, Seemed steeped to death in hellebore ; And I thought with a sigh of Derrinane, And the friends I never should see again, And that blest isle, great, glorious, and free, First flower of earth, first gem of the sea; When sudden roused by the Colonel's glee, As he muttered the name of Alvanley, I resolved—so bitter was my cup— To knock some one down, and get taken up, For a night in the Station-House, quoth I, Compared with this, is Liberty ! While thoughts like these, in solemn train, Kept sweeping o'er and o'er my brain, I spied a Richmond Omnibus, And, smit with a sudden love of Rus, I screamed aloud, half mad with joy, " Richmond Omnibus, Ahoy 1" 'Twas just in time, the driver stopped, Down jumped the Cad, and in I popped ; Shouting the while, like boys at play, " Thank God, I'm safe at last, Hurray !I" * Ibam forte Via Sacra, sicut meus est mos, Nescio quid meditans nugarum, totus in i Accurrit quidam notus mihi nomine tantum, Arreptaque manu, &c.—Hor. Sat. CHURCH RATES. CASE OF MR JOHN CHILDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—" Let Church Rates be abrogated by the Legislature, before the people are driven to the dangerous experiment of proving to their Rulers that there is another mode of relief." So you advised on Friday last ; and so the Government, if they are wise enough to let " the shadows of coming events" warn them, will do. But if the present Ministry fear to break this link in the chain of oppression, which is peculiarly rusty and grating in its action upon the Body, they will only change into conviction a doubt—a fear, whatever it may be termed, that the Whigs are too far behind the people to be their fit leaders in the work of rational change ; too far behind in even moderate progression. No temporary expedient—no shifting of the saddle, will do : the burthen must be thrown off—the incubus must no longer weigh down, by its unhealthy pressure, the vital action of religious freedom. The VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE must be conceded—the Dissenters know their power —they are forbearing in spirit, but they have been suffering long ; the measure of forbearance is full, and if the Ministry will not act upon the principles of justice and truth to this mo derate extent, the Dissenters will be actors, passive actors, not petitioners merely ; they will become AGITATORS ; and they will use their political rights with that activity and zeal which the conviction that religious liberty is essentially iden tified with political liberty, and that the existence of both can only be secured by the political activity of religious men. Woe will betide the establishment, if once the oppressions of its hierarchs bring men into general activity who take the New Testament as their text-book—who look to the Scrip tures for their guide—who take the Bible, not as it is taught, but as it teaches itself, for authority against Kings and priests. It is impossible that men who guide themselves by lessons from the Bible, and who come into active life with its prin ciples impressed upon their minds, should not become the energetic advocates of the most enlightened and enlarged views of civil and religious liberty. I proceed, however, to illustrate, by the proceedings at Bun gay, the soundness of your advice. I mentioned, in my last, the seizure of the goods of Mr. Morris, of Bungay, and the restoration of those goods to him by a public procession ; and I gave a copy of a hand bill, in which the buyer, I may truly call him the unfortunate buyer, made honourable reparation to his neighbours and townsmen for what he himself termed his " unfortunate error." v. I state the following additional facts to shew the depth of the fading against these impositions, and to warn the Ministry against the danger of temporising with a feeling so intense; and the more so as that feeling has begun to manifest itself in passive, which is but another word for effectual, resistance. The infatuated men—for it is a species of infatuation when men do an act which they are afraid to follow out—seized goods which, when they had seized them, they were afraid or ashamed to expose to public sale. THEY WERE NEVER OFFERED FOR PUBLIC SALE. The Clergy and their tools knew that there would be no buyers ; they therefore made a clandestine sale of the goods, and the pur chaser afterwards issued a declaration in writing, that he had been "inveigled into the purchase of Mr. Morris's goods, which had been distrained for church rates," and that the sale to him was effected "only by a representation that another person was waiting on his refusal to take them at the price asked, which was much below their value." Here, then, was an instance of what, if it were not that a bad law legalized it, would be fitly characterized as a legal rob bery; and, if Mr. Morris bad not been actuated by a better spi rit than his persecutors, for which act of private sale before a public sale had been attempted, he might have recovered corn pebsation from a jury for the sacrifice of his property. Of the twenty-five shillings thus obtained by the church wardens of the man whom they made their dupe, the following account was rendered : ‘. The Churchwardens of Bungay St. Mary, and Mr. Joseph Morris, in the matter of distraint for church-rate : Distrained—Four rush-seat chairs, two voiders, and one table, sold at the appraised value Deduct expelces.—lnformation Summons copy and service Order copy 2s. Service is. 0 3 0 Distress warrant 2s. Levying 3s. 0 5 0 RATE DUE 1 3 0 Balance to Mr. Morris .......... 01. 2s. Od. The constables - offered Mr Morris the balance of 25., but the question with him was not one of shillings and pence, but of religious principle ; and he desired the constable to present the 2s. to the churchwardens for their trouble. When the indignant feeling of the town had worked repent ance on the mind of the buyer, and that repentance had worked its natural fruits, a4lesire to restore,the, ill-gotten goods to their owners and when the buyer had publicly declared that,: he would take . them.to,a, public inn in the town, that they might be restored. to ; the man_ from whom they had b een t a k en ,. I ,clp not ssy stolen-though the word comes natu ra lly froin the pen,at spilt ConneegOn • —the people detrmined upon a 'publicprocessib i ri t to carry them baCk—but; Mr.' Morris was not willing to sanctify . again _that „',which had been ' thus giossfy polluted; ' and when ' they rverb.',tendeied to biin by the people, he directed thein`to be - sold ih the 'market place, and, .gave the proceeds to the' poet '; in the distribution of 41 bushels ' of coals: . . this'daythe'collebtidit'of Churcb;rates, it was feared, could not go di - ZditifOrtahlyi—they cl3uld haVelgene ott peace ably, but itr., , t proffthblyi-Land peactrwilhotitf pence:will' not do fOr partons: The la:Wye/is have:4 number of 'stock sayings, and amongst those sayings there is one upon which they found a double allowance of puhishment ; they say if there were no 4 re - dei*ters there could be tib thieres. Of course,. I Cannot presume to suppose' such a maxim is applicable to the holy supporters 'of the' -Establitlied Faith, in the terfris which these lawyers "have chosen to'enthodY•the idea,.but the maxim may be con sidered for the present purpose as- establishing that if there were no buyers there would be but little use in their future forays, and; therefore; blithe spiritof Scottish Episeepalianism, it was determined that at the= thumb-screw in ,the shape of confisca tion'did not break the spirit; and make the Dissenters bow the 'lineeto Baall—the` boot should be tried, that the person shbuld be immured; and the double wedge of seventeen hours solitary, imprisonment out 'ofevery twenty.:four should-break down the vietirni-andAikeiClaverbouserandi his. herd who, showe4 no mercy when they hunted the Covenanters—the warrant 'Oro ceeding from the " Court Christian," was indorsed " TAKE NO BAIL." Mr. Childs was selected because he had always been the active and zealous distributor of cheap knowledge —he had taught in his circle, and that not a narrow one, that a black coat and sanctity were not identical—that Religion and Priestcraft were different things ; that the Church of Christ and the Church of Henry the Eighth were not one and the same ; and he called on the people to remember that warn ing from authority—too high to be opposed, too pertinent not to be felt by the Scribes and Pharisees of every age, which says, " Do not ye after their works : for they say and do not ; for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers, but all their works they do for to be seen of men ; they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of Men, Rabbi, Rabbi." It was needful that such a " pestilent fellow" should be con verted, or silenced ; conversion was hopeless—a prison might quiet ; and Ipswich gaol received an inmate, to be treated as a criminal, because he would' not resist the exaction. They wist not that h e desired by theirown acts to shetv to the people who they were that went about in sheep's clothing, but inwardly were ravening wolves ; they were blind and could net see afar off; and they have allowed him, to exhibit them in their true colours ; they saw not that when he had done so, he would return again to the flock, and convince them that -4 ' the hireling careth not for the flock, because he is a hireling." They wist not that they were investing him 'and others with an authority that would make the image of iron-and clay to fall. They wist not that they should enable him to show that the daughter of the Old Lady of Babylon—l should perchance entitle myself to a white sheet, if I used towards her the'vulgar term which Established Divines' have applied to- their mothet, and there fore I say " Old Lady"--they wist not that they would enable him and others to show that the daughter is as mere tricious as she affirmed her mother to be. Good wolves, you will make the sheep as wise as serpents ; and in return they hope, by drawing yo - ur teeth, to make you as harmless as doves, and fit to enter the kingdom of heaven. `As soon as the pack' had secured the victim in jail, and, as they thought, had crushed' him, the Church- and State howl was commenced, in the true spirit of the Established dicta. And the following paragraph appeared in their local Tory organ : " REF U SA L' TO PAY CHURCH RATES. —On Wednesday morning, Mr. Childs, of Bungay, was committed to the county gaol in this town, at the suit of the Consistorial Court of Norwich, for refusing to obey the injunction of, that Court, and is ordered to remain there until he shall have made satisfaction for such contempt. The cause of this proceeding was the refusal upon the part of Mr. Childs to pay the church rates of the parish of St. Mary, Bungay. For some time past there have been disputes in this parish regarding the payment of the church rate ; and last year . the goods of Mr. Morris were distrained on civil process, but having been offered for public sale, and some indications of popular tumult appearing, they were restored to him. The Act of Parliament under which this distraint was made proving inoperative, the Churchwardens, Mr. Samuel Scott and Mr. John Bobbit, entered a process in the Ecclesiastical Court at Norwich, and Mr. Childs was cited to appear before the Court to answer the complaint lodged against him. He, however, refused to do so, and is now suffering the penalty of his contumacy in the county gaol." When this paragraph appeared, and the truckling slavish spirit of the journal in which it was put forth was added to the in ternal evidence borne by the article itself, it was known di. rectly from whom it came, as was the bitter and biting spirit of the school from which it issued. The paragraph appeared in a paper devoted to and supported by the Tory Parsons. The iron-hearted Rathcormac spirit, which contemplates with complacency a prison as the fitting reward for refusing volunta rily to submit to plunder, gave to view the steeple-chace school of parsons, notorious in Suffolk and Norfolk, who have so re cently exhibited their love for religion, and their devotion to their holy calling, by their patronage of break-neck galloping, and the vulgar betting of vulgar squires. The lie that is raised by the paragraph, though not in words expressed, exhi bited to the sufferers—to those who had been coerced and plundered, and who knew the actors—the apostate dissenter manifesting the concentrated essence of hostility to the faith which once he professed. Who that read this paragraph would not suppose that the goods had been restored by those who—to use a Scotticism, had lffled them. " The goods were restored"— yes, but not till after the receiver had repented—the wretched things who first took the goods—and if the receiver may be considered as good authority, like their fellows of the Old Bailey class, lied to induce the receiver to purchase them. They kept the price of the spoil, and yet, guided by their holy and truth-loving teachers, they put forth a statement so worded as that those who read it and believed, should believe a lie. Verily when the spirit which has acted in and guided these proceedings is considered, we in Bungay almost fancy we hear the exclamation which has immortalized the cloth at Rathcor rnac—WlDOW RYAN, WILL YOU PAY ME NOW Mr. Childs has nine children—she, poor creature, had but three, and lost one "as the penalty for her contumacy." Mr. Childs, as yet, has only suffered imprisonment. The Holy Ministers of the self-denying Establishment have not yet vi sited Bungay with the bayonet at their heels, and the Gospel in their pockets, to terrify the heretics by the one, and swear them to submission upon the other—thus securing payment of the imposition, or the damnation of the defaulters. The Dissenters of England have too much unity of spirit to permit these Reverend Gentry to travel, as they will, if not stopped by steady, peaceable, passive resistance, with sol diers and carriage, to the hovels of the widow and the consci entious, to enforce the holy dues CO of these tender shepherds. The further acts of these Apostles shall appear, and the re sults thereof. ZENAS. THE StIN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 25, MIS. THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. We were favoured on Saturday with a private view of this exhibition, previous to its being opened for public inspection to-day. The pictures are numerous and well selected ; there are many fine specimens of the old masters, and among them a magnificent head by Rembrandt, and a landscape by Hob hima, one of his best, we should imagine. The effect of a few however, is not a little injured, by their being placed in a bad light--a fault which the slightest change in position will rectify. The rooms were so unusually crowded (just as if it had been the opening day of the Somerset House Exhibition) that we had not such an opportunity as we could have desired, for examin ing the pictures in detail. Among the most prominent arc the " St. Cecilia" of Dominichino ; a curious painting of the " Burgher Guard of Amsterdam," by Teniers ; Rembrandt's " Shipbuilder and his Wife ;" the " Duke of Richmond," by Vandyke; the " Entrance to a Town in Holland," by Hob bima, one of the artists must distinguished works, and which shows more powerfully, perhaps, than any he has ever painted, what wonders true genius can work out of the least promising materials. The " Conflict between Virtue and Vice," and the' Wisdom and Strength," by Paolo Veronese, are very admirable specimens ' • and the " Spanish Mendicant s " re ceiving Alms," by Murillo, is one of his best pictures. Rembrandt's portrait of his mother is a masterly work. The " Head of a Girl,* by Greuze (No. 69)—there is another of a very different character (No. 64,)—several landscapes by Ruysdael, one of the best of which is that which we noticed on a late occasion as forming part of Lord Charles Towns bend's collection; some beautifully painted sea views by Van der Velde • an " Incantation," one of Teniers's diableries ; and the " Baptizing the Eunuch," %by Both, are particularly deserving notice. "La Foire de Beson," by Watteau, is a picture full of beauty and interest, painted with the most charming skill and felicity. Two views by Pannani, of the in terior and exterior of the Church of St. Peter's at Rome, are very striking works, and there are a multitude of others which cannot fail to delight every one who is capable of being moved by the best efforts in an art one of the objects of which is to excite pleasurable emotions. The enamelled portraits, illus trative of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by the late Mr. Bone, add to the attractions of the gallery. Among the company present, we saw numerous Members of either House of Par liament. OUTLAWS.-011 Saturday, at the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion-square, another batch of debtors in high life were proclaimed as having proceedings of outlawry going on against them, among whom was a clergyman—namely, the Rev. Henry Hinxman,- and the Hon.- William Paget, commonly called Lord William Paget. This, we believe, is the Lord Paget who lately figured as Long Wellesley's friend at Brussels in some affair. METROPOLITAN FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.— We understand their Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, - the Princess Victoria, the Princess Augusta, the Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, and other members of the Royal Family, with the Foreign Ministers, intend being present at the Fete to be given at Lord's Cricket-ground to-morrow, in honour of the Princess Victoria's Birth-day. The newly-married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan, are sojourning at Lady Graham's (the bridegroom's aunt) seat, Netherby, which is (conveniently) near Gretna Green. THE RECENT ELOPEMENT.—The Court Journal gives some particulars of this talked-of event ;we give the principal :—" Miss M. Grant is, it appears, sole heiress to her father's large property, her elder sister being dead. Sir C. Grant wife was the rich and accomplished Miss Richards, who had 60,0001. Friday week, about five o'clock, the young couple (Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan) borrowed the carriage of a friend,,. and hastilycollecting some necessaries for the ward robe, set off full speed fel' the North . . They performed the journey in the 'short space of 32 hoitra; and were married on Sunday morning. Colonel Grant -foll Owed them, as he thought, by the Dover -" road ; imagining! they had gone to France, arid thus' missed . them. Sir Colquhoun, appears, was so well aware of his - 4aughter?S - attachment, that when. leaving,town at ,theinstance of the Duke of Cumberland, who was the means of Ins obtaining the hand of 'Miss Richards, to stand for Poole, he left her - under . the time guardianship of his relative, - Coloriel Grant, and another distinguished officer with whom he was on terms of intimacy. Mrs. Sheridan'.s property is stated. to 7,000/. or 8,0001. a year, independent of her father, besides the sum of 40,000/:, t 6 be paid the day she is of age, which will,be jn a few months.." Another account says, that " The lady took au ,airing with an' hon. poetess, and that when they were in.the park a fancy seized them for a promenade,, and so they got ,out and walked, acid bade the coachman stay. ;Stay he did; but at ten o'clock,' the ghosts just rising from the Serpentine,: Jehu Ventured,' and for the first time in his life, to digobey orders, and returned home wilhout his mistress."-L-“"It seems 'the lady's-maid was hi ale interest of the sire, and so she was despatched to Dartf&d. with the Wardrobe on a wild-geose errand ; just as was anticl pated, sli'e betrayed everything to the Colonel, and the Colo : nel rushed to Dartford to 'arrest the happy pair ; but the Co lonel forgot., that, he' w as d ea li ng Wi t h the posterity of the author of A Trip to &arborough - and :The Rivals. It is false that . thi travelling 7 carriage 'W as l ent b y a - Mi n i ster o f State. :was fiiimiihed by a . fri.end_jp the secretx 'Mr. B—k ; a bro, ther-in-law gave his purse ? one sister a Watdrobe, the other . a maid, and the third her good wishes." COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday being the birth-day of the Princess Victoria, when her Royal Highness completed her lath year, it was ushered in by a peal from the bells of the parish church. In the forenoon, divine service was performed before the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their Royal Highnesses' household. The Dean of Chester officiated. In the afternoon the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria received visits from the Duke of Sussex, the Land ;ravine of Hesse Homburg, the Princess Sophia, the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George of Cambridge, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and all the members of their Royal Highnesses' household. At the Palace, the day was kept as usual by the household of the Duchess of Kent, but the public celebration of it in the town of Kensington was delayed till to-day, when the tradesmen dine together and illuminate in the evening. During yesterday the visitors at the palace were very nume rous, to testify the feeling that prevailed on the occasion. The Princess Ancrusta, the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince .. George anal Prinpess Augusta of"Canibrid,, , q; attended" divine service mt . eiiays:.i.iiiining in • thW CI4OVROYaI, 'SC James s. The` Duke off', Cambridge" yesterday Morning soon after 9 o'clock, on a visit to the Duke of Cumberland at his re sidence at Kerr:, • - The Princess Augusta entertained tholandgravine of Hesse Homburg, the Duke and . Duchess •of Cambridge, Prince George, Barones,s,Ahlefeldt, Styne, ' and a select • party to . dinner .on Saturday , evening,, at her tesidence in St. James's Palaces.• " • • :* :; The Ducheas.X. PloucesteT visited the Duchess _of Cam • bridge yesterday. (i. 5 , A Cabinet Council was 'beld7o.t the - reAdoiCe pt,Viscount Melbourne in .bdwning-street 'at lialf r paqt two`o'clock on Sa turda,y a,ftmnqou... It wo attended by the members of the Cabinet except Viscount Palmerston, and, Lord Otenelg. The Council broke Up soon after four - Despatches from Honduras were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Colonel Torrens and Mr; Hutt, M. P., had an interview on Saturday with, Loyd - Glen:4g, atilie Colonial-office. The Archbishop of CanterburY entertained Viscount Mel bourne, Lord Auckland, Mr. ,Spring. Rice, ancLother,members of the Administration, to dinner, on,Saturday evoirig, atLam beth Palace. WINDSOR. T.:. MAY 24.—The troops assembled iu , the quadrangle this morning, and , were inspected, by his Majesty. _ The.. King ac companied by several of the visitors at the Castle, afterwards attended divine -eervice at St. George's Chapel. The Rev. Mr. Knyvett chanted the serVice, Te Deum, Sze., Dr. Nares, in F., the Anthem" Holy Lord God Almighty" (Handel), fol lowed by the Hallelujah Chorus: The Hon. and ' Rev. Mr. Stopford and the Hon. Dr. Marsham officiated at the altar. Dr. Marsham also preached the sermon. Their Majesties took an airing in a pony phaeton in the Great Park. On Tuesday it is expected the King and Queen will return to town. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 20.—At a congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were conferred DOCTORS IN PHYSIC. Richard Elmhirst, Caius College. HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS. The Marquis of Granby, Trinity College. MASTERS OF ARTS. Edward Thompson, Clarehall. LICENTIATES IN PHYSIC. Mervy Archdale N. Crawfoid, Trinity College. Charles Dudley, Trinity College. George Budd, Caius College. Thomas Alfred Barker, Downing College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Charles Old Goodford, King's College. Andrew Long, King's College. William Rogers Lawrence, Trinity College. Henry Nicholson Burrows, Trinity College. Robert W. Gaussen, Trinity College. Henry Clarke, Caius College. William John Johnson, Caius College. John Charles Barkley, Emmanuel College. MR. HOBBS'S CONCERT. This well-known singer held his annual Concert on Thursday evening, at Willis's Concert Rooms, King-street, St. James's. On this occasion, he had sacured the assistance of the Misses Masson, Woodyatt, Novello, Robson, Cooper, Calkin, and Hawes, and about thirty professional brethren, members of his Majesty's Chapels Royal, St. Paul's Cathedral, and West minster Abbey. The performance consisted of a number of well known Madrigals and Glees, a song from the Azor and Zendra of Spohr, and two new ballads, the compositions of Mr. Hobbs. Miss Calkin distinguished herself by her neat execution of some " Variations Brilliantes" by Herz, a compo sition altogether divested of thought or feeling, and for which every musician must hold an utter and irreverent distaste. Misses Novello, Cooper, Robson, Hawes, Masson, and Wood yatt ; and Messrs. Hobbs and Broadhurst severally appeared as solo singers, and gained the applause their endeavours so well deserved. We have never yet had the good fortune to meet with the compositions of Sir George Smart, but we sin cerely trust for the credit of his Majesty's Chapel Royal, the Fairy Glee performed by the Ladies Woodyatt, Hawes, and Masson, is not to be considered as a specimen of the extent of this gentleman's musical erudition. Nor can we speak in high commendation of his performance of the accompaniment to the Quartett " Over the dark blue waters," from the Oberon of Weber. The alterations made in the closing symphony to the exquisite song from the Zeinira of Spohr, was altogether inexcusable. The room was well filled with a brilliant and fashionable audience. MR. J. B. CRAMER'S CONCERT. This clever musician gave a parting Concert on Tuesday morning last to his numerous friends and admirers, at the Hanover-square Rooms, and was on this occasion surrounded by a thronged and attentive audience. There was the usual admixture of vocal and instrumental talent, but of course the interest of the scene was concentrated upon the performances of Mr. Cramer, who appeared in an early composition of his own, the Concerto in D minor, and a composition of Mozart. Mr. Cramer has never been distinguished for the mere velocity of his execution, or the rapid succession of abstruse or enhar monic modulations ; his principal and leading characteristics are the remarkable quality of tone he produces from the instru ment, and the smooth and unpretending method of his execu tion, both of which are the legacy of that great musician Muzio Clementi, who by the production of his immortal " Gradus ad Parnassum" has placed himself beyond all rivalry from any of his contemporaries in this branch of the art. As a composer for students, Mr. Cramer will ever be held in estimation. The clearness of his rythm, the variety of his sequence, and occa sional elegance of his melody, necessarily excite attention, and exercise the memory ; but in learned contrivance, complex elaboration, and mystification of the harmony, by the use of orchestral effects and divisions of the chords, Mr. Cramer is behind very many of his contemporaries. Indeed although the pianaforte compositions of Beethoven have long since made their way in this country, we believe Moscheles was the first pianist who practically elucidated the orchestral theory of the division of the barmony upon a keyed instrument. How hap pily this has been since carried out upon the organ by Meldelsohnn and the younger Wesley, can only be known and appreciated by those who have had the good fortune to hear these extraordinary performers. Mr. Cramer, it is reported, is a bout to leave the country : his departure will be viewed with regret by all well-wishers to the progress of this art. His pure taste and style of performance has proved a sound and useful check to the rising members of the profession, in which unfor tunately, there are too many to be found anxious to emblazon themselves by some insane figment, which has nothing beyond its eccentricity or vulgarity to raise itself into notice. DUBLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. The excitement natural to the mercurial people of this country is on the increase every day since the arrival of the Earl of Mulgrave. It is impossible to conceal a fact, attested by at least nine-tenths of the people of Ireland, that since the visit of our late good King, George IV., no event has caused so general an expectation of benefit to this country as the ap pointment of his Excellency. Whether such expectations will be disappointed, or not, remains to be determined at some fu ture day. Should his Lordship be so fortunate as to realize all, the present hopes of Ireland, his renown will be im perishable, as having achieved more than the most sanguine would, a few years ago, have anticipated during the existence of one vice-royalty, however long and successful. Indeed if he can effectuate one half the amelidration sought for at his hands, he will have earned tho approbation of those friends of this country, who know the difficulties he must contend with. Circumstances seem to favour the experiment about to be tried 'under. hig. governmen't ;• - fcedtriug . the short period he is among ii.§, - Sonie'Oeellent Opportunities for the judicious ex ercise of his patrOnage'have presented themselves. Mr. Lloyd, one .of the.3*o Co.tunAsienßy.A,o! Nudges,. of, the Insolvent Court, died on Saturday last., The placejs wertly,soo/. a year; including an,allowance forAravellinvexpenaes in the circuits, 'which they make twice a, yoar.,- Ihe..vq.caney is..said to have been immediately,, filled. up, . according to pre-arrangement, by the appointment. of 'Mr.' Farrell;.'lC - C.; . 'a Roman Catholic, every :way iittalified‘to discharge the. duties' of that sit uation ;' and as Mr. Farrell' had been.Chairrnfin,or assistant-barrister for Kilke . nni; j ilas - v*Caricy . in that county was With.",equal ex pedition filled up by "'" Marcel' Ci GerMili,r- thereby vacati n g' the ~gbairman. a lpp . 9f AVesinieetli: ~In Alid. meantime, Mr. Burrows, the e*ther Cerninisiiener of ih 4 e - llnSOl'yeet Court, is said to havO 'retired on a:pension; and ; his place is filled up by Mr.• H. CinTan,,:the ,a;ssistant-barristeni 4l :the county Of 'Galway ;' so that hero -ate two Cteirnissionerships, and two ' Chairmanships disposable in One week. — There 'is no doubt of the appoiiitnierits ' to theldrffid being already made ; or, a least; if 'Mr. 'CUrrarl' be notiyet - elevated;hd will be so in a a fete days . : aid is'rekards . 'thiiliirr of the diArilitition of GO- Vei:enint. patronage; the public and . the'llteiiiti Of the' prOfes , shin secY r n w e ll 'pleased: - But . . curiosity iS - On .. the qizi vice ,to knew: 'Who . are' to be . .the, new Chairmen, or from what description orbarristeri they will be selected. Already have half a doien names been mentioned in the Dublin newspapers as to-the probable appointee.i, and;' there are' at least half a dozen more talked of in the 'Hall of the four Courts, with equal' certainty 'of - sncceSs. "in , fact,' ivithOut knowing any thing of the tisfof candidai ' ds -. on Whose-bleiniS'his Excellency will have to decide, I think tlitTeiro : litlast fifty members Asf the long robe at this moment in a very fidgetty state of ex pectancy, .forty-eight of whom will be sorely disappointed, when the fortunate candidates are declared. And so they may, for many of the poor fellows really want such honours and distinction, albeit the income annexed thereto (at least 6001. or 700/. a-year) were not the primary object. I am told, however, that Messrs. Clarke and Gibson, are most likely to be the County Judges, notwithstanding other worthy men and staunch patriots, such as Dominick Ronayne, M. P., and John Dalton may have done the State more ser vice in different wa y s . It would, perhaps, be unfair to make known the secret paths of patronage through which Messrs. Clarke and Gibson are likely to prevail. To prevent misun derstanding, however, I must say their patrons are right good Irishmen ; and they are themselves liberal Protestants, whose promotion will afford satisfaction to the greater part of their brethren. And though there are man) other men as well worthy of promotion, it would be difficult to name two whose appointment would conciliate more friends to Government at this particular crisis. His Excellency and the Countess of Mulgrave have been much in public since theiviarrival onvexeeption— the College—were received most enthusiastically., *They are to visit the Theatre this evening ;', and if the precautionary measures •adopted •d&-Tiot prevent apprehended mischief, to morrow's newspapers may inform. you .pf such insults and danger as the Marquis of Wellesley; escaped some -years ago. It is said that some Orangemen of the - blue bottle tribe have conspired to disturbthe recreation' of iheil'Execlientiesi and all the respectable' people pftrptisepartieipa ting in their plea6ires **it hontliny derhbiistrAtion df Malig nity or tovidds"the ketat , majeritr of -his -*Majesty's subjects in this part of the United Kingdcar. , l tTli,evautheri ties are-forewarned, and-will,:it is hoped; not only prevent any disturbance, but seize -those who would attempt it, in order to have them amenable to justice: • .17 REFORMERS . MUST NOT , BE INACTIVE. - TO . THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The enemy, is defeated, although.eentinually meeting with reinforcements from: quarters. whence-attacks might have been reasonably expected. Mho could:have thought that. he Times,. the powerful defender ef,the Reform 41j11, and stern pleader of, the people, _could have sunk, so deep into the mud of bigotry, and become the _thick and thin advocate of po litical jesuits and swindlers ? Who ever dreamt to see ,the close of William Cobbett's life, marked by praise of Pitt and Peel, - and to beli c old . tfiaf pen,' for the last fifty year's Hourly in hostility to oppression now prostituting its expiring ener gies upon the altar of infamy ? Other individuals, too, are asleep in whom England once tool' pride ; viewing with a careless eye 'scenes of stirring interest, •or associating with those between whom there formerly was no kind of feeling whatever. Do these persons imagine that any past events will atone for their present callousness ? Do they suppose for a moment, that, when impartial posterity holds the scales, the little they have done will weigh against the page of history which shall record how in the hour of danger they basely apostatized? The principles they espoused would have flou rished had they never existed; they will be blooming and ga thering fresh strength, and warming the hearts of the wise and good when their slippery vindicators have gone " down to the vile dust from whence they sprung," with nought of all their short-lived glories but a perishable monument "to point a moral" to future public men. Truly will it be said that to gratify vanity, and attract attention, they enrolled themselves in a noble cause, but that when that cause was on the eve of triumphing, they shrunk aghast from it as if con scious that the sun of victory would lay bare their hollowness and treachery. The Tories, however, find these foreign aids useful, no doubt, but still not sufficient for their purposes. They have been pulling at the old " No Popery," bell till the rope is broken, and so, in the interim, recourse must be had to something else. Sir Robert Peel's speech is printed in a convenient form, and circulated throughout the kingdom. This oration—the oration ter EEOXE% in the presence of which antiquity must hide its Ciceros and Demosthenes—this paragon of eloquence, and infallible code of politics, is to work miracles, to inspire the drooping Tories with new life, and paralize the efforts of the Liberal party. But the Con servative leaders know very well that this precious piece of dull egotism would have per se no effect at all ; they know it would not cause one single clodhopper to flourish his stick in their favour ; they know that the mighty Chief has not the art of working upon the feelings, or enlisting the interest of any class whom he may address, because sincerity is an ally he cannot com mand, and to convince others, we must at least appear convinced ourselves. Hence the organs of the faction connect Associations with this after-dinner effusion. The walls of the towns are to be disfigured with this inimitable manifesto, but, likewise, numbers must be collected and formed into a body to express their admiration of, and determination to stand by the princi ples it contains. It is worthy of remark, en passant, that these clubs are being formed by the men who, a little time ago, denounced them as illegal and seditious. These nuclei of disaffection are composed of the religious, moral, obedient quiet Tories, whose creed is to obey " the powers that be"—who are commanded by the great Tartufire " never to hint at al teration, or raise a secret doubt by their conduct, even in the minds of the most seditious." It is to be hoped that in all the editions of this immortal production, these words are printed in Capital letters, as also that awkward lapsus linguce respecting the supremacy of the Commons, and inutility of King and Lords ; these would be proper parts for political parsons to choose their texts from. Such are the Tory tactics, and are Reformers to remain quiescent ? If they do, they will soon be tied hand and foot by their nimble opponents, and deserve it too. It is not enough for us to feel that our princi ples are good, unless we are prepared to bring them into play. They are founded on the immutable basis of justice, and must prevail, but they are not proof against the attacks of a ma lignant and experienced enemy. The time for talking is past —w E MUST ACT. When the enemies of man's undoubted rights were in the zenith of their withering splendour, all we could do was to maintain our sentiments in bold defiance of Go vernment, and to instil into the minds of our children the value—the inexpressible blessings and love of liberty. To day the case is widely different—words are idle—we must be up and stirring ; the gauntlet is thrown down—shall we not take it up ? When a soldier was recommended to the notice of Napo leon, the first question that great warrior and acute anatomist of the human mind put, was QU'A-T-IL FAIT? " What has he done ?" Let no public man have our support unless he can answer to our satisfaction this searching interrogatory ; let some deadlier proof of enmity be given than a mere speech. Neither ought we to be somnolent, whatever be our situation 1 in life ; the humblest amongst us may do much good if he have the will. As for the ten-pound householders they are responsible men ; their neglect of duty is tantamount to indif ference for home and country. Blackwood says " the battle must be fought in the registration courts," and Tory unions are accordingly every where in formation. Let the Reformers take the hint and be alive ; let them lose no time in entering the field, and vigourously prosecuting the war—" war even to the knife." Let us no longer be " meek and gentle with these butchers" of our liberties, but meet them with an unbending and stern brow. The eyes of Europe are upon us. The Liberals of enlightened and deceived France look to us for encouragement and advice under the evils inflicted on them by a true Bourbon : the dawning liberty of Spain and Portugal is as it were under our wing ; a thousand hearts of bondaged Italy are beating high in expectation of the issue of our struggles. Let us not show ourselves unworthy champions of a cause so sacred ; let it net be said that like children we longed for that which, when obtained, we could not appreciate. We are supported by the glorious recollections of by-gone days, and spurred on by the approval and co-operation of him who is the pride of his own country, and the ornament of Europe—HENßY BROUGHAM, a name rendered more than ever dear to his countrymen, because the object of the blackest calumny. Our cause is hallowed by the blood of martyrs, and honoured by the curses of tyrants. Shall we then abandon it through apathy ? Let every town, village and hamlet answer this by its POLITICAL UNION. MILO. THE IRISH CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. "When I see a rector with a large sum devoted to his support, which ought to be applied to religious instruction, I point to that rector and I may, that he is himself the surplus which some gentle men complain they cannot discover the existence of."— Speech of Lord John Russell at the Devonshire Election. MR. EDITOR,—I will go farther than Lord John Russell, and say, that such a rector is a living example of that very appropriation, in its worst and most noxious form, which those finished hypocrites, the Tories, attest to be incompatible with the maintenance of the Protestant faith. He is practically the spoliator who turns to secular uses the income which is given him for purposes of religious instruction. There are many such rectors in the Irish Church. By a return made in 1833 to an order of the House of Commons, it appears that the number of benefices in all Ireland where the incumbents were then resident, was three hundred and one. That was nine years after Mr. Goulburn's humbug Bill for enforcing residence. There are about thirteen hundred benefices in all Ireland, and where then, may we ask, are the thousand rectors who are found wanting in these returns? • The world is edified by stow dealb'epioul declamation from such sanctimonious Protestants as Lord Mandeville and, Mr: Shaw, about the Popish and exteriiiiiihEing tendericirof the measure contemplated by Lord Johti Rusiell; fbr insuring to every congregation of persons professit Protestant reli gion, the advantage of"a' instimetbt''" But. what, in truth, th'e' enet"bf'iliat'inleiaitte, 'ghOuld the Legislature hive'ilie'`WlSdem blid - *ttte" to: enact it? first and Most 'certain Oreet'wlllls . 6 to Ittereaseffie nufnher of resi-, dent efficient Christian: . teaeliers in Ireland. ' it may, in-' deed, induce theie l 'Ao - in the slanglif the'`day arse' called " The Gentlemen" of the Church, tb tu'rit`'''their horses' heads another tcay • in' 'quest of a profeYSion, 'or 'rather a provision,'suittible to' thtir ifetiOns, 'fee the' dfireciiii•trade' will no longer 'delight' their" beide 'Witk'fatileSk." :Ba the 'truth will' lie hetter, snore' - perteverintly;'itn'd eirec ttially taught. The'people'skill 'itrove'morle"intittiAtely ' ae- . quainted with their. Ministers, and will lik'e t hm better than their present opp&tunitles admit Of. There will be greater ; cexifidera l and mutual deriendelicelietWeeil the pAsfor'and his flock ; and the Protestants will be all united in one . hody arid one Spirit 'aitionl4' Viar' ficyit . beinp the case at present, while the least cause for ,hostility'svitii . thoSetf an other creed will have beetf'e - ottqfleiely 6radiattd: • No appropriatidn - of the Church revenues - tti ptrposes 'of 'general utility and improVemeht, could se - alienate the-minds of - the laity from their spiritual pastors and masters--no re duction of income could " thin the land" 6f . resident eeclesi : astics t:• the same extent ,as the gross and unblushing rapacity of our pluralists and nepotists has alreacii den°. What has been th6ir syStend for't,hoaSt: Ifun'clred years; - but tine cfinstant, undeniablei• and undenied course of appropriation ? I Yes, ap-. ropriation of funds, designed for_the encouragement of earning and advancement o f religion, to private ialnr fane uses. You have only to cast your eyes aver the Ecclesiastical Re. gister for proofs of this—there you will meet the younger branches of the most necessitous and greedy nobility in Europa, quartered in triple files upon the Church as spiritual rent chargers. There you will trace the rewards of political job bing and subserviency—there you will see how the Bishops themselves have profaned the sacred fund, which they are now so clamorous to guard intact, that they may still go on accu mulating favours, without regard to public opinion or the good of religion, upon their own kindred. They have made, and still make the Church a forcing-bed to raise np their own mushroom spawn into a second-hand aristocracy. I could name one amongst them, a very high dignitary, who has openly avowed the principle on which, with one or two re spectable exceptions, the rest, without avowinz it, do noto riously act, and declared that his patronage is his private property! And yet the Statesman who has the courage and the ho. nesty to say that this system must - and ought to be changed to something more suitable to a Christian . Institution, is assailed and slandered, as an abettor of Popery' • add 'art aceolttpliee of unbelievers ; and that by such ohampions•of ‘ruth-est a Man deville, such patterns of meek sincerity as a Shaw,..and such humble and steadfast supporters of " whatsoeier ,things are lovely and ef 'good report" as a , Philpettsl .7‘r. ;,,., IRELAND:• , , TO LORD Vii-NE LOISDPATD.R.ARA ti MY DEAR MARQUIS -" Gloryto TomfoOlery,” the Whigs have manifested their genuine attachment ro the Freedorti of Speech, by letting your tongue loose_Up.bn the world once more. Long may, you wag it from the . plaposition benches of the House of 'Lords, unscathed by Plunli•et and 'ithriniled by Brougham. If either of them tenses you in Alia least, 'he deserve not only the reprobation of his own party, whose cause you so well promote, but justly incur` the danger of a •piosecation by the Society for 'the Prevtntian of Cruelty to Animals. ' • • The greatest injury which the Tories inflicted during their late frolic, upon the interests of entertaining . knowledge, con sisted in that barrier of thick-ribbed Russian. ice wherewith, for their own protection, they locke l d up. your I,apge i rckus, jaw. It was a veritable cynanche inabgna, and you, 'May thank O'Connell who has delivered you frail it.: That wild Irish man gets .credit—as you know—for many things in which he has had neither' hand, act, or part ; 'but this. is one of his 'genuine works. You may depend uponifthat Dart and Shiel, between them, were.the means-of. taking• that. plenipotentiary, your tongue, out of quarantine, and setting it agoing in full clapper as before. My Dear Marquis, you must be an awkward sart.of-na com panion in a wood. I should not like to go out cock-shooting in your company ; for, judging by the random style in which you let fly, I suspect that no Insurance Company in the world would guarantee the safe return of either dog or man, who should wander within the right and left range of your number seven. Like a countryman of ours, who, for ought I know, was of your own kith-and-kin, you are great at shooting round a corner. Do, for pity sake, use a little caution ; else you may, some of these unlucky days, knock out the brains of your friends. What a pretty figure your neighbour, Sir Roger Greisley for instance, or that Irish sage whose blood and judg ment are so well commingled—lmean the Earl of Wicklow-- would cut without such a lining to his cranium. Pardon me for observing, in particular, that your flare up about the procession of Lord Mulgrave, was one of these left handed knocks which the Duke of Wellington so knowingly provided against, as long as he could bind you, by making a Muscovite of you. The mob you complained of was a terrible exhibition certainly to a Tory eye ; but fore-Gad, Marquis, the most mobbish and piperly looking thing about it was the Lord Mayor of Dublin and his tail. I hope you do not mean to say that part of the business was marshalled by the Protector of the Government in Ireland Dan has taste, I assure you. The old Times is palavering you, my Lord. Did you not notice how the knave grinned in your face, when he, quoted the authority of Lord Londonderry, " who is at least a man of truth," to bear him out in his big lie about the cause of Lord Wellesley's retirement. Take heed of that sneering dog, Marquis—Fcenum habet in cornu. Let the fellow be ac countable for his own inventions, and don't you be soothened, by his at least's, to break your back under any part of the burden. I tell you now, and I ought to know, the true rea son of that extraordinary resignation. Do you know a lady they call the Marchioness of Wellesley ? To be sure you do. She is a Papist ; and, what is more, she is a Yankee ; and, what is more than either, a very ladylike Tory, as all female Tories, of whatever rank or family, most allowedly arc. Now, that lady was, under the late regime—which is gone, the Heavens be praised therefore I—she was, or was to be, de facto, in conjunction with another gentlewoman, (one Lord Cowley,) the Ambassadress of her illustrious brother-in-law, the Duke Factotum of Wellington, to the Court of Louis Phillippe. Go to, Marquis—discernest thou nought in that ? She came home lately, very lately, from the Tuilleries; and she was not many days arrived, when the Noble Marquis, her Lord and (shall I say) Master, resigned his appointment in the Household. Tut, man—'tis as palpable as O'Connell's nomination of Spring Rice to be Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and he that does not see POPERY written in legible characters upon the whole transaction, is not fit to make assertions, and back out of them, in the House of Lords, or scarcely in any other House. Louis Phillippe has a right Conservative abhorrence of the Monstre Ministry of England. On that point he, and the Pope, and your own most Noble Lordship, are perfectly agreed. Do you not now smell a rat ? What would be more easy, think you, than for the King of the Barricades to send a hint to the Old Fellow on the Seven Hills—for the Old Fellow on the Seven Hills to telegraph a whisper (not the whisper of faction, of course) to the Marchioness, in her con fessional at Notre Dame—for the Marchioness to pour the leperous distillment into her dear Old Gentleman's night-cap at Richmond—and for the Old Gentleman, thus influenced, to play the game which, in my humble opinion, he has always played with unvarying constancy, and do his little possible to damage the character, and hurt the stability of the Whigs, by an unseasonable retirement. If you don't understand these things, Marquis, I fear I must abandon the hope of enlightening you. But your wit is such, that I cannot doubt that you have jumped to my conclusion half a page ago. Adieu, till the next occasion. —Yours, MAC-GUIL-PHADRIG. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS for the WEEK. THIS EVENING-Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell's Party, Charles-street, Berkeley-square. Hon. Mrs. Phillips's second Ball, Hill-street, Berkeley-square. Sir Charles and Lady Ogle's Dinner and Even ing Party, Belgrave-square. Mr. Kemp 's Dinner Party, Belgrave-square. ....Catch Club Dinner; the Duke of Cambridge in the chair. Mrs. Chauncy's Quadrille Party, Bryanstun square. ....The King's Levee, St. James's. Almack's Grand Ball. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge's Dinner to the Directors of the Concert of Ancient Music. ~...Her Majesty's Drawing Room, in celebration of the King's Birthday, St. James's Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Gordon's Party. Viscount Palmerston's Grand Dinner, in Stan hope-street, to the Foreign Ministers. Marchioness of Lansdowne's Full Dress Assembly, Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. Lord John Russell's Dinner, Downing-street. ....The Duchess of St. Alban's Fete Champetre, Holly Lodge. The Countess of Charleville's Assembly, Caven dish-square. Mrs. Coape's Quadrille Party, York-place. Lady Eleanor Balfeur's first Ball, Grosvenor square. Mrs. Russell Ellice's Concert, Portman-square. Mrs. Haldiman's Concert, Seymour-place. Mrs. Japte's Quadrille Party,Bryanston-square. ...Banquet of the Officers of Yeomanry Cavalry. The French Ambassador Grand Dinner, Man chester-house. Marquis of Winchester's Grand Dinner. Lord Stanley's Grand Dinner, in Carlton-gardens. ..Marchioness of Salisbury's Conversazione. The Russian Ambassador's Grand Entertain. ment, at Ashburnham-house. To-Monßow..., WEDNESDAY . THURSDAY FRIDAY . SATURDAY..." SUNDAY.. FURTHER ARRANGEMENT. MONDAY, JUNE 1 Third Subscription Banat the Hanover-square Rooms. JuNa 11... Second Grand Ball of the Officers of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK. TU EZDAY... ...... 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