The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-25 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. that also was loaded full of men. We then came to a I house—l think, called the Welsh Oak. There were a great number of men there previ ous to our coming up. I should think i there were upwards o f 5,000 in our party. A great number of them were armed, and some of them had lights in lanterns, and others had candles. I did not get out of the tram till I got to the Welsh Oak. I have been at Risca. The house I call the Welsh Oak was this side of Risca. It was about three or four o'clock in the morning when I arrived there. We had been out on the road during the whole of the night. It was daylight when we left there. The prisoner kept the gang all the way. I did not see him in the house, I saw a chaise standing at the corner of the tram-road. The men were were placed two and two, and came along the tram-road. I saw the prisoner then put an extra ball into his pistol. The ball was too large, and he cut it with a knife. As he put it into the pistol he said, "'There it is for them, however." It was an &d-fashioned pistol ; the barrel about nine inches long. The man who gave him the ball had a mandril on his back, and a hero in his pocket. I heard the horn blown several times. We came through Sir Charles Morgan's park. I dhi not see them stop there ; but some men said they would not go any further ; they were forced to go on. There was the prisoner, a man with a plaid cloak, and the man with the horn behind them all. I came with them to the top of Stow-hill ; the prisoner was then be hind with a gang, leading their. on. I saw him nearly opposite the church. I was with him. At this time I saw a man carried up with blood on his ancle ; the men were retreating, and said to the prisoner, " Why have yon brought us here to be slaughtered ?" He said, "Go on, go on, don't be cowards." I then made my escape es soon as pot.sible, and did not see the prisoner afta.rwards. I had not heard any firing at that time. The prisoner was then asked whether there were any yaostions that he wished to put to the witness. The prisoner said, " No, I will reserve that for .an other day, by which time I think be will correct nine ; tenths of what he has said." 'rile prisoner was then remanded till Monday next, aild thJ Court adjourned till that day. _ --mm••••••=1MMIWO~N SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. i ! (From the Tiniez.) Is it, can it he, the wish of the Ministers who stir ! round the Sovereign, to alarm the subjects of their ' Royal Mistress at the moment, of all others, when the feelings of loyalty and of love ought to flow the most 1 ' freely ! Can it be their object, in announcing an event which involves the hope of a long and honoured inheri i tence for the throne, to cast misgivings across the peo i plc's joy, and cloud the prospect of the Protestant sue : cession ! Are they still so deeply in arrear to the demon ' of Popery, that, not content with attempting to sacrifice before it the clergy, the nobility, and the most revered institutions of the realm, they must now curry favour with their monster ally, by endeavouring to sell, or to ) blur, the popularity of the Crown ? Is the Queen to be ' thus betrayed :?Her people are too loyal and too dis -„ 7 cerning to let the mischief light upon ber. Be it on the 1 heads of those in whose selfish policy it has been engen -1 dered. On Saturday the Privy Council, according to pre- I eedeat, assembled for the purpose of receiving the So j vereign's gracious communication of her intended mar riage. According to precedent, the summons was a general one, end it might have been expected that some regard to the same precedent would also have been preserved in the Royal declaration. There was ! no conflict of authorities to distract the Minister who framed it ; for the only case in point since the 1 settlement of the crown upon the reigning family is &hot of George 111. The marriages of Anne, of the tiro, second, and fourth Georges, and of his late Majesty, were all contracted before those Sovereigns respectively attained the Crown. George the Third lalone took a consort after his accession. On the Bth of July, 1761, that Monarch, " being present in ' council, was pleased to make the following declara -1 tion :—Having nothing so much at heart as to pro cure the welfare and happiness of my people, and to reader the the same stable and permanent to poste rity, I have, ever since my accession to the Throne, turned my thoughts towards the choice of a Prin cess for a consort ; and I now, with great satis faction, acquaint you, that after the fullest information sad mature deliberation, I am come to a resolution to demand in marriage the Princess Charlotte of .Mecklen ! burgh Streiitz—a Princess distinguished by ever emi nent virtue and amiable endowment, whose illustrious ‘ 'iris has constantly shown the firmest zeal for the Pro testant religion, and a particular attachment to my • family. I have judged proper to communicate to you these .my intentions, in order that you may be fully ap prised of a matter so highly important to me and to my kingdom, and which, I persuade myself, will be most acceptable to all my loving subjects." For the most pars, with the alterations necessary to suit the circum stances, the precedent of King George 111. has bees followed in the declaration of Queen Victoria ; but in tills declaration her Majesty's Ministers have omitted •• one passage, and that is the passage which carries the ple arge for the Protestant religion. Do we infer from this omisr:on that our Sovereign is unfriendly, or even indiffer ent to the religion of her family and people. We allow no suspicion of such a nature to have a moment's place in our i minds. Do IN e conclude, that the Prince to whom she is about to unite herself is regardless of the Protestant faith ? All testimonies concur to establish a contrary persuasion. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are as little open to any' suspicion of anti-Protestant bias even as Bier Majesty's grandfather himself. Yet it was tlieught expedient on his marriage to gratify the feel ings of the nation by an assurance that the intended consort was attached to the Protestant religion, and this, although there then existed no applicable prece- I dent. The subject, therefore, might then have been omitted, without leading to any sort of observation. But now, so far from having inserted it in the absence ) o f precedents, the Minister has expunged it in viola lion of them. Far from having gone out of his way `t to introduce so important a pledge, he has actually left [ ea beaten track to get rid of it. And whereas, in the e ,:q, of 1761, the Sovereign was a male, and therefore ,i w e' r e se; to be swayed on the momentous question of i r „li z r a , a by the female partner of his throne, the case of 1 1839 is that of a Sovereign whose sex does not preclude ! the proleaility that conjugal influence may have consi derable weii r ;ht in a matter of such importance. It may 1 be, and we have no doubt it is, the perfect truth, that the influence of the Prince now selected is not likely to I, r exerted in any direction unfavourable to the Pro t t „, ..pct faith ; but was it not then due to him, as well 1 as t i,, , people, to let that truth be stated ? For several wce , i ti,,' s e , •t the few followers who are still left to , •‘• ( r h o mr„ rata, - have been endeavouring to asperse the o f t h„- . r betters, by arguing from the speeches of to} ally ty seine extravage nt and wine-warmed individuals, that there exists are 'ong the Conservatives an ultra-Pro tustant wish to sea' the present heir presumptive in ac tual possession o. the Crown. Against so false and i abominable an insl;esretion it is needless, nay, it would be unworthy to enter e'en a defence. But if those who s ave fabricated or encon.-aged this wicked charge do really believe that area , comeeicreble part of her Ma , jests's subjects are labouring Linde.- the groundless ap at a m , lineut when po orchension that the Sovereign, b,, t its claws,. is ,‘ery pushes out not only its feelers, how 4 en l or even lukewarm in the Protestant .behalf, ss-or —ts ' how imperative a reason was it, why Minis stn we, „ hou d eagerly seize this apt and authentic ,eeeeien to u . „ ° that mistaken class of the public by a frank •d recognition of the faith which is, and and well-tines be, the bond of union, allegiance, esnd 1 : which is still t:' affection betwee n the Sovereign and the line of he r '' ;,aped-for issue '. 'We say with earnestness, that after the imputations ca ‘ t, however untruly, upon the Queen e ' faithful subjects of a coolness to her Crown and person, 1I „, 'S t ing from misref. !reeentation of her feelings towarde I the Church, it beck ime on th e occasion of this new r bounden duty of Ministers, even I ep o ch in her reign, the if go precedent had e qreadY existed for assuring the m, ; ' put precedent on purpose. They is rsel, to make a ode—they use . it to all other find a pree,edent ready re intents ; but. in the one / ,'Dint for which it r r was e mo t st .' fi gra t i . sin e ofretile c valuable, through which o rank ion t he people's Protestantism, a -Royal cor"- , religious charter, s ight have been nr naturally, lneed app h ro ; to( — I in , that y, and unosteltatiously ' one, single, only point, they prL.4, ,me to shove the a it was hardly to P aside. Perhaps in theen be wondered at ; for who can expect" I should shrink from a violation of that those men •‘-e . cedent whose 1 whole career has been a violation ' of P ' nciple ?—that pr. `action whose I they should respect the forms of the Consti. ' five are bent And on the destruction of its essene I" ?• 1„ for f ir yflung t hat purp ose i s it that they have tte IS new ' s li g 1- upon the Protestant Church and people Not ta please their mist ress ; her Majesty, w . ell as se red, has no feelings in common witle we are those who woe ''''' rel.!uke even tacitly that faith, the legacy of her father, and the best ilt heritance of her children. As little case ' ' tthe e'rote,etant Prince who aspires to her hand be in disparaging the Ch urc h whereof he is him- ' I terested in self a sincere member. \Vhom, t h en, has this sacrifice ' ' been made to 1 , ropitiate ? The Irish P ap i sts an d t h e i r Council —th e P r i ests, through nominees in tie' Priv y I „h„„ aaa l es O'Connell juggles, and the incendiaries for whom Normanby carries cloak, mask, and match— or of two, in the House o f Corn ; the majority of tee e I mons, the avowed 1 t3sailan ts of the Constitution wit of '.e he Church, but th,? masters and sole preservers of a disgraced, a treachecous, and a dependent Ministry. (From the Morning Chronicle.) ' On Saturday her Majesty communicated to the Privy Council that it was her intention to ally herself in mar riage with Prince Albert, of Saxe Cotsourg and Gotha. The attendance of members of the Council was greater I than, con s id er i ng the season, we were led to antis:Tate. i Of the f u t ure h us b an d o f our Q ue en, report speak:; e terrv°ere•hisa He is a few months younger than i Ma' .. ....y, havin g b een b orn on the 26th of August, 1819, , w. tide the Queen, was born on the 34th May, 1 819 . I t i-• understood - that Prince Albert and her Majesty I h ave • long felt towards each other a strong attachment ; 1 and, teom an union under such circumstances, her Ma r J ; es ty , s loyal subje c t s i n d u l ge the hope that in the strong ~,s uran ce which . she f ee l s , that " with the blessing of ! : L thnight.) y God, it will at once secure her domestic fe sese...-- 7 77 ' 1 licity, and serve the interests of her countu," she will 1 not be disappointed. Prince Albert is not %ply a Pro testant, but descended in a right line from t i ttle eldest branch of the House of Saxony which protected Lu ther, and enabled the Reformation to take root. In ' the war to which the Reformation led, the great ances tor of the Prince was unsuccessful and stripped of his possessions ; but the people of Germany have al ways a grateful attachment to the illustrious house which, at the critical period when the Reformation was strugglinc , for existence, afforded to its founders a se cure asylum and an effective patronage. In Germany, where religious bigotry prevails less than in England, even Catholic writers allow that the Protestant Re formation was a blessing to Europe, and that Luther reformed the Church of Rome itself while he founded another ; and both Catholics and Protestants revere the memory of the great Elector of Saxony, the ances tor of the house of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha. Throughout the whole of Saturday there was the greatest excitement in town. On the countenances of the people satisfaction at the announced marriage of her Majesty was expressed in a manner not to be mis taken. On the breaking up of the Council Ministers were loudly cheered on their way from the Palace. A few of the rabble, however, evidently hired for the oc casion, attempted to hoot several of the Ministers. The Sun says, " We observed among the crowd a cer tain Noble Marquis, who has lately ratted from the Whigs, and a Baronet of some celebrity in East Indian affairs, who were signalling the populace as to what parties they should cheer or groan." This is a paltry way of evincing hostility. (From the Aforning Advertiser.) The proceedings of the Privy Council on Saturday last, as well as the gracious declaration by her Majesty that it was her determination to ally herself by marriage with a Prince of the House of Saxe Cobourg, will be found elsewhere at full length, as well as a variety of particulars pertaining to the same subject—a subject of no inconsiderable interest, not only to all loyally-dis posed persons in these realms, but intimately connected with the future welfare and prosperity of dominions upon which the sun never sets. For our own part, we could have wished, for many reasons, that her Majesty's choice of a husband had fallen elsewhere—upon a Prince of the House of Orange, for example, who, instead of requiring a settlement at the hands of her subjects, would have brought not only personal, but the sources of public wealth with him to our country ; but there are many reasons why we should not find fault with the choice which has been made. Prince Albert is not only a Protestant Prince, and des cended from a Protestant family, illustrious in the annals of Europe for the liberality of its principles, and the protection which it has at all times afforded to the advocates of free discussion and general improvement ; but if general report be well founded, he is a Prince of excellent education, of sound princi ples, of good conduct. and of amiable manners ; and far be it from us, in consequence, who are attached to the Throne, and desire it to be the seat of happiness and domestic comfort, to attempt to canvas for a moment the propriety of her Majesty's choice. So far as the public is concerned, the Prince is not only unobjectionable, but oss many accounts desirable ; and hound and tied up as her Majesty's ha❑ds are in all State affairs, by constitutional principles, it is little enough that she should enjoy the unrestricted privilege of selecting for the future partner of her joys and sorrows him to whom her affections are most inclined. We have said that the intended alliance, which we have reason to believe will be brought to maturity in the course of next spring, is in many respects de sirable ; and we have, in proof of our position, simply to allude to the recent proceedings of the Cumber land faction in parading a Royal lady throughout the country as the patroness of their principles, in order to convince every one both of the necessity of her Majesty declaring her choice at the earliest possible period, and of its propriety. The Prince is not only a young man of nearly the same age as the Queen, and endowed with all those qualities which are calculated to keep as well as to win the affections of her Majesty ; but he is more —he is not shackled by party feelings—he brings no prejudices with him hostile to the constitutional regime of the country ; and farther, his first friendships, so far as official connection is concerned, must be with men who are the known friends of freedom and human im provement. It is true that the Prince has no constitu tional right of interference with the course of public affairs in this country ; but the husband of a Queen must always possess a certain influence over the feelings and inclinations of his wife, and it cannot in conse quence, fail to be matter of rejoicing that he upon whom her Majesty has fixed her affections is much more likely to influence them for the good titan for the bad govern ment of the country. L ong life to both of them, we say ; and may their days bo as happy as we trust they will be numerous. (From the Morning Herald.) The announcement made by the Queen to her Privy Council on Saturday, having been for some time anti cipated, excited no surprise ; nor did it appear to awaken any great degree of interest in the metropolis, if we may judge from the small number of persons who, notwithstanding the fineness of the day, assembled before the Palace on this important occasion. The crowd which the anticipation of the announcement of the intended marriage of the Queen of England with a Prince of the Coburg family brought together, and which did not much exceed a thousand persons, was not restrained by the joyous nature of the occasion on which they had assembled from manifesting, under the win dows of the Palace, that irrepressible feeling of hatred and disrespect for her Majesty's Ministers, which is ac customed to salute their ears on all public occasions. The appearance of the Duke of Wellington called forth great acclamations. The Duke of Cambridge and Sir Robert Peel were also loudly cheered ; but, except when a Minister was hooted, or a Conservative leader cheered, a most solemn, and what upon a less animating occasion might be called a most decorous silence, was observed. Why is this seeming apathy in the people with regard to the intended nuptials of their youthful Queen ? Already have the Ministerial jour nals and some of the Conservative papers called upon the public to rejoice in the prospect of an union which is not only to assure the domestic felicity of the Queen but to restore the prosperity and happiness of the em pire. We frankly confess we know so little of Prince Albert re cannot undertake either to affirm or deny the flattering portraiture which some have drawn of his character, talents, disposition, and accomplishments. We hope he is, in all respects, one who, as the consort of the Queen, will justify her Majesty's preference, and realise the anticipations of all those whu expect from such an alliance consequences the most beneficial to the nation ; hut as he is even younger than the Queen, he is still almost a beardless youth, of whose future conduct in that elevated position to which he is about to be raised more must be surmised or hoped than confidently predicted. The evening organ of the Minis try says, that the communication made by her Majesty to the Privy Council on Saturday, was " second in im portance to none that could possibly come within the range of privilege to receive, or of duty to advise on." Advise upon, indeed ! Does the Globe suppose that the Privy Council was convened for the purpose of giving advice on a matter of such incalculable import ance, for good or evil, to the future destinies of Eng . land ? Nothing of the sort was thought of. The ' Privy Council was convened not to discuss, but to listen —nut to deliberate respect;ng the choice of a new ' family alliance for England, but to register the royal degree. We question not the right of the Queen to have fixed her choice irrevocably before she called the Privy Council together. We only oh- I jut to the Globe mis-stating the purpose for which Ithe extraordinary assemblage of the Council was convened. " I have caused you to be summoned at the present time," says her Majesty, " in order that I may acquaint yo u wills my resolution in a matter which deeply concerns the welfare of my people and the hap p:ness of my future life. It is my intention to ally my self in marriage with the Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha." If this marriage should have the effect of purifying the Court, by chasing from its precincts those voluptuaries and libertines who have been placed near the person of Royalty, by unscrupulous politicians tak ing advantage of the inexperience and unsuspecting innocence of a maiden Queen, it will be an auspi cious event for public morals. If ever a Regal Court in England set an example of domestic purity—of spotless honour—of high and virtuous in fluence to a nation, it should be the Court of a fe male Sovereign. Well will it be for England if the proposed matrimonial alliance should have the e ff ect o f ‘‘ taking away the wicked from before the Queen that her throne may be established in righte ousness." In that event we shall have no reason to re , gret that the alliance was not, as to family considerations, more worthy the grandeur of England and the high place of her Sovereign among the rulers of the earth. Her Majesty, speaking of the intended contract, says she has the strongest assurance that " it will at once se c ure my domestic felicity, and serve the interests of my . country." Every loyal heart will ,, f D er o v m en es tl t y io wish feli t h al : :h at assurance may be realised.only flourish c i ty " 1 1l Court or cottage ca n only ourish ni i t n io t n h s e . peace f r o i 13 and the purity of virtuous a sso a o re i t , o tainted brt. is a flower o: .atli t o oo f ldiebleirctainteist:bimpournst ntootliavpopirinoacahntiaitt.molllt. p n h ot ere gu o il f ty fou p l le t a are too inordinately . . ~ x , h i a r el as ,t ions ; and wherefrioouultsi,vateiodu,git soon withers away:. Well does the great didactic poet say of that home-6_4: and heart-bred enjoyment, which is the greatest under Reaven, " Domestic bappinesi,. thou only bliss Of Paradise that has vurvived the fall ? Thou art not known where pleasure is adored, That reeling goddess with the zonelees waist." This is as true in the application to the palace of a mo narch as to the dwelling of the humblest peasant that bows beneath the sceptre. In the character and con duct so amiably sustained throughout conjugal life, of t he honoured widow of our late lamented Sovereign, vVilliam IV., the Queen of England has before her o , o s, in this her inexperienced youth, a beautiftil and n ot de example. Happy will she be if she faithfully co pies i t . That exauaple of unassuming virtue and Chris tian benevolence in a high station, the journals which i %A.k4 THE SUN, LON' take their malevolent inspiration from despised courtiers and delinquent Ministers, have lately been decrying, as if the public homage paid to goodness was a source of indescribable pain to minds not consti tuted to admire such virtue, or to practise it. Certain we are that no King ever sat upon the throne of England was more happy in the conjugal state than the late King William. The qualities of the mind and heart of Adelaide ensured him, amid all the excitement and turmoils of his eventful reign, that which our young and innocent Queen is now seeking, " domestic happiness." Hence does every mention of her name touch the hearts of Englishmen, and call forth on every public occasion those fervent and pure praises which the proudest Monarchs of the earth might envy. The era of the marriage of a Sovereign is usually a season of public joy and festivity—a time of national jubilee. But the present is a season of gloom and discontent, and evil foreboding. The blood of civil slaughter is yet fresh upon the land. The sword of justice is about to be unsheathed, to offer up these vic tims to the violated law which the sword of military force has spared. The popular mind is tainted far and wide with the infection of principles subversive of all civil society ; and the rude impostor of Ireland, who has yoked the Queen's Ministers to the car of his revolutionary agitation, offers 500,000 fighting Papists to her Ma jesty, to enable her to crush the " treasonable desig us" of her English Protestant subjects. If such a time is calculated to despoil a royal wedding of the joyousness that should attend it, the blame lies at the door of h er Majesty's Ministers, whose incapacity and profligate misrule have sown the seeds of rebellion, and even of barbarism, in the land—snapped asunder the ties of lave fill authority—and loosened the foundations of all regul:sr government. The evening organ of the Ministry strongly recommends Prince Albert to public favour, on the ground of his being descended from a long line of Pro. testant ancestors. It reminds us that the father of thf Reformation, Luther, was indebted for protection to au illustrious member of the family about to become con nected by marriage with the Queen of England ; and adds, " that of all the kingdoms of Europe, England was most benefited in its religion, laws, and literature by that event"—the Reformation. And yet the Chief Minister of our Queen is the man who did not hesitate to proclaim his intention of inflicting " a heavy blow and great discouragement on Protestantism"—that is, on the principles of the Reformation, by which England has been so " benefited in its religion, laws, and litera ture." But, since the connection of the Coburg family with the Protestant religion is so strongly pressed upon our notice, let us hope that, in this new alliance with that family, we shall have a guarantee that the system of great discouragement to Protestantism is no longer to continue ; although there is a Prince of Coburg who is a Roman Catholic in his own dominions ; another who professes the Romish faith while he shares the royal affections of the Queen of Portugal ; and a third who, though professing Protestantism in Belgium, is married to a Roman Catholic daughter of France, and has agreed to bring up his son i n th e Roman Catolic religion. If Luther had lived in these days, what would he have said to these things? But the Queen has made her choice, and Par liament will be called upon to settle the terms before the troubles of the nation are settled. Hoping that choice may be a happy one, both for herself and the country, we will prejudge nothing ; nor will we, like those Con servatives who see optimism in everything resolved upon by the Court, endeavour to vie with Whig flatterers in offering the incense of adulation. If the Queen's matrimonial alliance should prove, in the result, a means of strengthening the bulwarks of the Protestant religion and of civil liberty in England—if it should have the effect of reuniting the broken bonds of law and order—if it should exercise that auspicious influence on the destinies of the kingdom, that will extirpate the growing barbarism of the Socialist and Chartist doctrines, and avert the dangers that threaten the monarchy and the whole constitutional system of Government—then, indeed shall we rejoice to hear the names of Victoria and Albert wafted to immortal fame upon the tide of a grateful people's acclamation. ( From the Courier.) The singular fortunes of the family of Saxe Coburg, are the extraordinary and wonderful incidents of this age. The domain of Cobourg, the patrimonial estate of the present Duke, the eldest of the family, and brother of Leopold, was a very small principality ; the net revenue did not exceed 7001. per annum. Of course, upon such an income, the family pride was difficult to support, and the means of education for the younger branches extreme ly restricted. On account of the smallness of means, none of the family could venture an appearance at Court, at Vienna, save the Duke, and he rarely. The portion of the inheritance of Gotha-Altenbourg, which came to him, greatly improved his standing and extended his possessions, an inheritance, which perhaps would not so readily have been conceded to him but from the powerful alliance and countenance of this country through Leopold. The territory of Cobourg and Gotha may be estimated to contain together 160,000 souls. The revenue is stated at 100,0001. per annum, from which has to be deducted the interest of the debt or mortgage upon the property amounting to 464,0001., which, taking the rate at 6 per cent., not a high rate for Germany, will be an annual charge of 27,8401. The Duchy is rated to furnish a contingent of 800 men to the Germanic Confederation. At the time of his selection by the Princess Charlotte, Leopold was a simple Major in the Austrian ser vice, and his whole means and prospective expectations centered in his profession. His rise led to and was the prelude of that of the whole family. His sister be came Duchess of Kent, adopted, like himself, into the Royal Family of England, and in course, if not Queen Mother, Mother of the Queen. Leopold himself is King of Belgium ; one nephew, Ferdinand, King Con sort of Portugal ; and a third about to become Prince Consort of the Sovereign Queen of Great Britain. Never before, perhaps, in so short a space of time, did a family attain fortunes so magnificent, without deeds of arms or special services of any public nature. (From the Globe.) MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN. The Privy Council, convened by special command of her Majesty, met at Buckingham Palace this day, to receive a communication from her Majesty, second in importance to none which could possibly come within its range of privilege to receive, or of duty to advise on. We need hardly add that the commuunication to which we have adverted relates to the highly interesting and important event of her Majesty having selected from among the Protestant Princes of Europe the indi vidual who, as her future Consort, is now placed in a position which renders him an object of deep interest to the nation, and of envy to the world. Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg Gotha,thus signally honoured above his fel lows, is, we are assured by tho3e who have had opportu nities of being in h ;s company, and of observing his bear ing both towards nis equals and inferiors, worthy of the proud distinction which awaits him. Report assigns him accomplishments such as qualify him to adorn a Court, and justify the hope that his intimate relation to our beloved Sovereign, will, under the blessing of a gracious Providence, confer on her the pure and refined enjoyments of domestic lite, without which even the splendors of a Court, the power of a throne, and even the affectionate loyalty of an empire, leave an aching void in the heart. That void will, we trust, be occupied fully and enduringly by the contemplated union of which the Privy Coun cillors of the Sovereign will have this day official in formation. Prince Albert is the second son of Ernest, reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, and derives his birth from a long unbroken line of Protest an t ances t ors ; to one of whom Luther was indebted for protection, and probably preservation from death, when, after the Diet of Worms, the Pope employed his powerful influence with the Princes of Continental Europe to effect his destruc tion. Thus was the Reformation instrumentally indebted for the protection and preservation of its great author to an illustrious member of the fa mily about to become connected by marriage with the Queen of England ; of all the other countries of Europe most benefited in its religion, laws, arts, and literature, by that great event. His Royal Highness was born August 2G, 1819, and is consequently the junior of her Majesty, who was born on the 24th of May pre ceding, about three months. IMPORTANT INVENTI ON . gentleman of this town informs us that he has invented a new engine, immensely superior in i every resp ec t t o t h e old steam engine. The power s created by air and steam. It will consume only one-half the quantity of fuel of the old one ; and the rapidity b . y which a vesse l propelled by it will sail will enable it to perform a p assage to America in six days. Owing to a particular way in which the power acts upon the vessel, twenty miles the hour can be realised with the greatest possible ease. The weight of the machinery will be only one-half of that required by the old steam-engine, and instead of straining and weakening the ship, will brace and strengthen it. By this method the steam power is more than doubled.—Liverpool Albion. e H d o n i e m s fi d r a t y h week,ikia Magistrates t thirteen o malesß A appearedsT BASTARDY.—On R DY before .---°n V the fa ther th e i r b astar d c hild ren , on w h om or d ers were made \ varying from one shilling to two shillings per week.— Leeds Mercury. Statements having appeared in the Morning Chronicle respecting her Majesty Queen Adelaide, and referring to her conduct, as well as to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, we are authorised by a gentleman who accompanied the Queen Dowager to Lisbon, and who has ample means of knowing the falsehood of all these statements, to give the most peremptory and un equivocal contradiction, both in the general and in the particular, to the whole statement, which, as it has its foundation in falsehood, could only be dictated by a malicious disposition to create mischief.—Times. FEMALE INEBRIETY. —Amongst the night charges at Mar lborou g h- street police-otli ce on S atur d ay , 2:3 person: were char g ed w ith bating be en f oun d d run k in the streets, and incapable of takin g care of themselves. and of this number 17 were females. They were gene rally fined 55. each, and in default of payment commit ted to the Westrnithiter Bridewoll. i , N2 ) ‘.l - DA y l NOVEMBER 25, 1839. v i~ OF DR. TAYLOR. Ye las t w ' eek stated ______ that an officer from Carlisle had -__ been . ''t ° . ..is town with a warrant f or t h e appre h ens i on of Dr. T Vic a., but had not succeeded in discovering him. It has s in ce appeared that th e D octor went f rom t hi s town to :Liston Moor, in whi c h ne i g hb our h oo d we are informer t he had held secret meetings amongst the miners o f that district, at which he urged them to arm t h, r ,„ e l, es and be in readiness, as upon a day shortly to be fix ed upon, they would be joined by several thousand ; from the West, then proceeding into North umberland, and being reinforced by seven h un d re d men with rifles from \Viulaton, they would take pos session of 7 Newcastle ! Some of the Doctor's audi tors beco ming alarmed, gave information of what was going fore card to persons in that neighbourhood, who immediate ly communicated the same to the Mayors of Carlisle and Newcastle. The account given by these informants seemed to be altogether so incredible, that ie would n .ot have been believed, had it not received confirmati. m in several of its details, particularly that of letters I aving come from the south to the Post-office, Alston, ad dressed to names unknown there, and which it was ascertained had been called for by persons in direct communicr lion with Dr. Taylor. One of these letters, however, w 'as discovered, and we understand its contents were so ala rn ling, that it was considered necessary to forward it to the Secretary of State. This letter, we e are informed, was dated from London, but si gne d only it lamented d ee pl y t h e miscarriage of with initials ; the attempt 7 in Wales, which it attributed to the folly of the 'meat rs, and trusted that Dr. Taylor would manage. matt.% Is better in the N or th ; i t a l so not i ce d the receipt Of pecuniary aid f rom " Th e P o l e, " w h o i s under stood to be the person connected with the Russian ag en cy, mentiniled by some of the witnesses at Newport, and the letter .also referred to communications with a Nob le Lord wleo has made himself so conspicuous by his opposition to the New Poor Law ! What the real trends ti en of these mys •terious giving s out maybe, it is impossible pee'cisely to say ; and they are altogether so incredible and um ccountable, that had we not received our information fro .n the very best: authority, we should not have placed an, • credit in their existence. That they originate in most eat raordinary infatuation, or great duplicity, or both, is certain ; and we strongly suspect that the latter has no sma .11 share in the matter, for if it be once known or ima pined that gold, whether Russian or English signifies not, . is to be had for such purposes, it cannot be matter of a urprise if means are taken to obtain it, and cases snug lit to be made out to justify its appropriation. In the :North, however, we are confident that all such at tem vts will fail. On Saturday, Dr. Taylor, finding that his retreat was discovered, took his departure from Als ton, and was seen to take the Penrith road ; at the san m time the officers from Carlisle arrived, and imme diately went in pursuit of him. They soon overtook the Dc ictor, and captured him en Hartside, about three miles fro su Melmerby, and conveyed him to Carlisle gaol the se ale day.—Newcastle Chronicle, VENTNOR, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Nov. 24. LANDSLIP.—Some one in the Weeklies has been endeavouring to frighten our inhabitants and visitors with an account of a landslip of about eight acres, near the Needles, said to be occasioned by the late continued heavy rains, and that it is more than pro bable we may have a similar visitation, or rather that we may take our departure in a similar way, ar.d some Clark morning find ourselves at sea without a pilot. They would make us believe that the " movement' has already commenced ; if this should turn out only to be a sinking, and a steep hill settle itself down, so as to give us a level road to Carisbrook, &c., it might an swer the purpose ; it is a pity the famous writer did not state that Carisbrook was equally warm and healthy as Ventnor, and by persons from Ventnor taking up their abode there they would improve their health, avoid the catastrophe, and yet be so near it as to view the won derful scene as soon as the sun rose on it. There is certainly a screw loose somewhere, for on the 20th tilt barometer was as high as 30.025, on the 21st the mer cury sunk to 29.125, nearly an inch ; on the 22d it again rose to 30., and yesterday it rose to 30.250, and now, the 23d, it is sinking again, and we are certainly all going, going, but the said writer says we shall not be actually gone till the frost sits in. The lighthouse at Niton is nearly finished. One o' the vessels which brought the stone—a fine sloop, the Friends, of Cowes—was wrecked near it on the 15th inst. ; she had landed her cargo, the sea was perfectly calm and smooth, but about 10 p.m. the ground-swell, which has swept hundreds from the book of life, rolled in and speedily made a wreck of her. It is to be hoped that as little time as possible will be lost in ex hibiting a light on it, to warn the mariner through the coming winter, to avoid this dangerous coast. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. Arrived, and came into harbour to repair, the Pauline, Meyer, New York packet-ship, with a general cargo and seven passengers, for Bremen ; in a hurricane, on the 31st ult., her foremost went by the board near the deck, taking with it her main and mizen top masts and the heads of her lower masts. After rigging jury masts she was twenty-three days to this port, and she had been out eleven when the accident happened. A cabin pas senger, named Deidrick van Lipke, a merchant of New York, died on the passage. The Newport River Improvement Company, having advertised their intention of applying to Parliament for powers to build piers, quays, wharfs, &c. at Cowes, and to levy and take certain tolls, rates, and duties on all ships, vessels, boats, passengers, goods, and cattle enter ing or leaving Cowes Harbour, has caused a great sen sation here. The inhabitants are opposed to the mea sure, and they remember the vast sum the Corporation of Southampton obtained for their mudlands of the Southampton Dock Company, and fear that the Cor poration of Newport may be tempted to sell the mud lands at Cowes to the Company, land which till within a very short period. the inhabitants thought their own. The Corporation, at their meeting on Friday, decided on not granting any more land till after they see what is likely to be done by the Company (some think to sec what sum they may be offered) ; at all events, a public quay that was purposed to be built, and for which an Act of Parliament was obtained in 1816 by the inha bitants of Cowes, is stopped, and several private indi viduals w h o wished to extend their quays cannot, in consequence of this resolution ; those who have built without the consent of the Corporation are to be pro secuted. HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE. THE PRIVY COUNCIL. (From the Second Edition of The Sun of Saturday.) Her Majesty held a Privy Council this day at Buckingham Palace, at half-past One o'Clock, which was attended by an unusually large number of Members. The proceedings excited unusual interest from its being generally understood that an announcement of her Majesty's intended Marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg would be made to the Council, and as early as twelve o'clock a large concourse of persons had assembled in front of the Palace, and at two o'clock the number had in creased to several thousands—there was a very large sprinkling of foreigners among the crowd. The following is the communication made by her Majesty to the Privy Council assembled at Buckingham Palace this day I have caused you to be summoned at the pre sent time, in order that I may acquaint you with my, resolution in a rnatter which deeply concerns the welfare of my people, and the happiness of my future life. " It is my intention to ally myself in marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha. " Deeply impressed with the solemnity of the engagement which I O.ITI about to contract, I have not come to this decision without mature consideration, nor without feeling a strong assurance that, with the blessing of Almighty God, it will at once secure my domestic felicity, and serve the interests of my country. "I have thought fit to make this resolution known to you at the earliest period, in order that you may be fully apprised of a matter so highly important to me and my kingdom, and: which I persuade myself will be most acceptable to all my loving subjects." Her Majesty looked in excellent health, and delivered the Address with great composure. The Council broke up shortly before three o'clock ; and on leaving the Pala ce her Majesty's Ministers and other leading political characters were received with the usual popular marks of applause or disapprobation. Lord Melbourne, who was nearly the last that quitted the Palace, was loudly cheered by the majority of those present, but there was some vehement hooting from a mob of per sons who followed his carriage round the entire front of the Palace. His Lordship smiled and bowed good-humouredly to his assailants. The Marquis of Normanby and Lord J. Russell were in the same carriage, and came in for a pretty equal share of applause and disapprobation. The Duke of Wellington, who was looking extremely thin and pale, but in good spirits, was most enthusiastically cheered. Lord Monteagle (Mr. Spring Rice) was greeted with a hearty groan. There was a sorry at tempt at a cheer for Sir Robert Peel, from the same knot to whom we have before alluded. Mr. Goul burn, Mr. Wilson Croker, and others of that party, were allowed to pass almost unnoticed. The reception of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was of the same lukewarm character. Lord Palmerston's reception was by no means flattering, but it would be impossible to parti cularize all the various shades of shouting, cheer ing, hooting, and hissing, which alternately prevailed. We observed among the crowd a certain Noble Marquis who has lately ratted from the Whigs, and a Baronet of some celebrity in West India affairs, who were signalling the populace as to what par ties they should cheer or groan. These two gen tlemen appeared to enjoy the fun amazingly, and remained on the ground till the last carriage had left the Palace. Her Majesty and her attendants, escorted by a party of the Lancers, left Buckingham Palace shortly afterwards for Windsor, and was greeted on her route towards Hyde-park with loud and general cheering by the assembled multitude. On Saturday Evening an " Extraordinary Gazette" appeared, containing, besides the above declaration, the following : At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23d day of November, 1839, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, (For the list of-Privy Councillors present see Court Circular.) Her IVlajesty being this day present in Council, was pleased to make the following Declaration, (see above.) Whereupon all the Privy Councillors present made it their humble request to her Majesty, that her Majesty's most gracious declaration to them might be made public ; which her Majesty was pleased to order accordingly. C. C. GREVILLE. The Duke of Newcastle, With the Lord Pelham Clinton, is shortly expected to leave Hafod for Clurn ber.park, Nottinghamshi re , w h e re his Grace will pass the winter.—Carnarvon Herald. ELECTIONS. PRESTON.--We believe we may state, with conside• ra ble confidence s , that before many days elapse a requi si will be in the course of preparation to Edward tanley, Esq., ol Cross-hall, near Ormskirk, calling ipon him to offer himself as a candidate for this borough .at the next general election. Mr. Stanley is, we be lieve, a relative of the Earl of Derby, and a nephew of the late Colonel Stanley, who represented, f or many years, this county in Parliament. He is possessed of considerable property in Preston. Mr. Stanley is the same gentleman who, at the last general election, stood a contest for the southern division of the county in con junction with Mr. Charles Towneley. There is, we apprehend, no doubt but that the honourable gentle man will comply with the requisition.—Preston Chron. LANCASHIRE, (SOLITII.)—It is reported (and we have received personal information of the fact from an i , ,uthentie source), that, in consequence of sonic imputed i 'liberal attacks recently made by the Rev. H. Stowell, on the Roman Catholics, three influential members of that body, viz., Sir J. Gerard, Bart., C. Scarisbrick, Esq., (high-sheriff) and I'. Trafford, Esq., all of whom have hitherto supported the Conservatives at the elec tions for South Lancashire, have intimated their inten tion of withdrawing their countenance from the Conser vative party, and that their influence will henceforth be exerted in favour of the Liberal interest. Upwards of 1,000 votes were given to the present Conservative Members at the last election by the tenantry of these gentlemen, so that the change of sides of this number of voters will doubtless affect the seats of one, if not both, of the present representatives.—Preston Chronicle. FALMOUTH.—On Friday morning last Mr. S. Blight, the Mayor of Falmouth, received a letter from Baron Rolfe, stating that her Majesty had been pleased to elevate him to the Exchequer Court, and that con sequently his connexion with the borough had ceased as their representative in Parliament. A placard was directly issued, requesting the electors of Liberal prin ciples to meet at I'earce's Hotel that evening, After the Mayor had opened the business of the meeting, several gentlemen addressed the assembly, and candi dates' names were mentioned as likely to promote the interests of the town. Captain Plumridge, R.N., and Commandant of the Packet Station, was proposed. After thanking them for the honour they intended him, he expressed a hope that they would find a better man, but that he would consult his friends, and give them an answer on a future day. The party then returned to the hotel.— Nest Briton. LEOMINGITEL—CoIoneI Thomson, it is said, will offer himself as a candidate for L eom i ns t er at the next election. Consistently with the onward march of re form, the Gallant Colonel and R a di ca l po li t i c i an h as our cordial and warmest wishes. Mr. Sergeant Wilde is appointed Solicitor- General. The bar and the public will assuredly con cur in a cordial approbation of this appointment. The number of persons whose curiosity led them to Buckingham Palace on Saturday, was not very great, until about half-past two o'clock. Amongst the pedestrians we noticed the Marquis of Downsbire and Sir Alexander Grant, who appeared to take a lively in terest in ascertaining the identity of the numerous Members of the Council as they drove up to the Palace. The Duke of Cambridge was received avith loud cheers, and, on alighting at the grand entrance, the military presented arms, the band playing " God save the Queen." Every one, however, seemed especially on the qui vice for the arrival of " the Duke," and it eras most pleasing to witness the really affectionate anxiety which was evinced by all present " to see how tb-e Duke looked." At length his Grace's carriage was seen driving down Constitution-hill, and a number of gentle men ran to meet it. The Duke was hailed with deafen ing cheers, and appeared much pleased with his recep tion. We arc happy to say that his Grace seemed in good spirits, and looked much as usual in health.— Morning Herald. PoSTAGE.—" My Lords" have trot pleased every body by the Treasury Minute. Several of our Liberal Contemporaries call out loudly against the four penny plan. The Wilts Independent falls foul of it in the following terms :—" This is it appears a bona fide preparative to the Penny post. That is to say it is in tended as a preparative ; though preparation of what single principle of the latter we are at a loss to conceive. Not of prepayment, for letters arc to be charged 4d. on delivery, thus puttin g every man's purse (es now) at the mercy of his correspondent s ; not of simplicity, for there are many complexities ; not of revenue ad vantage, for we do not believe that any very great in crease will result, for the need of correspondence is chiefly felt in those shorter distances where the postage now does not much exceed fourpence. It. is a bungling initiative, and the pretext wholly absurd, for what can be easier than the process of weighing on the present patent scale, which is certainly much more easy than marking and taxing, and stamping ; and there was no real ground for making a delay to initiate clerks into so very much simpler a plan than the present. BETTING IN FRANCE..—In 1832, the Prince de la Moskowa and M. Lachaise made a match between their horses, play or pay, to be run on June 6th in that year, in the Bois de Boulogne. M. Lachaise brought Iris horse to the post, but the Prince, in consequenc e of the insurrection which took plane that day, conceived that such an amusement would be inconsistent, and declined meeting his rival. M. Lachaise, acting upon the established laws of the Jockey Club, ran his horse over the course, and claimed the stakes. All applica tions made to the Prince having been unsuccessful, M. Lachaise brought an action against him to recover the bet. The case came on to a hearing before the Tribunal de Premiere Instance, and was argued with great ability by the conusel for each party. The Court, however, considered, that the circumstances of the day were sufficient to overrule the law of the Jockey Club, and gave judenieut against M. Lachaise. EXTRAORDINARY MORTA.LITY.—The follow ing almost unheard-of instance of mortality occurred in a family of the name of Law, resident at Doddington, in this county. On the 19th of August last, Andrew, the young es t son, aged 23, paid the d e b t o f nature. On the I 1 th o f September, Matilda, t h e e ld es t daugh ter, aged 21. O n the 18th of Septem b er , A m b rose, the eldest son, aged 33. On the 30th of September, , On the 14th of Oc tober, Willi am, the father aged so ; George, th e second son, aged 25. and on the 12th ' of November, Harriet, the second daughter, aged 19. The mother and one daughter are the only surviving member s of a family in which the hand of death has been at work with such fearful rapidity,— Northampton Her a ld. ACCIDENT ON THE L IVE RPOOL RAILWA Y . —The train s f rom Liverpool, &c., were detained for about an hour on S aturday and yester d ay , by the falling_ in of a large portion of the bank near Walsall. At this point there is a very deep cutting, the banks of which, having been loosened by the recent rains, were shaken down by the vibration caused by the passage of the train at six o'clock on Saturday morning. The engine was overturned and several of the carriages half buried, but fortunately no injury was received by any of the passen gers. A great number of workmen are employed in clearing away the rubbish, and probably in a day or two the obstruction will be entirely removed. COURT CIRCULAP. The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for the reception of her Nlajtsty's declaration on the subject of her intended marriage with his Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg Gotha. The Council was attended by eighty-two Privy Coun_ cillors, all of whom (with very few exceptions) appeared in naval, military, or official costumes, or in their robes of office : the members of orders of knighthood wearing their respective ensigns. Among the earliest arrivals were Lord Lyndhurst, Earl Durham, Viscount Beres ford, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Ellenborough, Earl of Ripon, and Lord Brougham. The last named Noble Lord came in forensic costume. The Duke of Wellington appeared in his Uniform as Governor of the Tower ; his Grace while entering the Council Room took the arm of his brother Lord Cowley. The Noble Duke was warmly congratulated on his ar rival by many Noblemen and Gentlemen present. The Privy Councillors were ushered, on their arrival, across the Grand Hall and Sculpture Gallery into the Library, where the Council was held. The Queen's Guard was on duty on the Palace-lawn, and received his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge on his arrival with the usual honours, the Band playing " God Save the Queen." When the Council had assembled, the Queen entered the Chamber from an ante-room. Her Majesty retired after reading her declaration. Lady Barham, the Lady in Waiting, attended the Queen to the door of the Council-room. The Marquis of Headfort, Lord in Waiting, the Hon. General Sir William Lumley, Groom in Waiting, and Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry, were also in attendance at the door of the Council-room. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had an audience of her Majesty directly after the Council. The following were the Privy Councillors attending the Council : H. R. H. Duke of Cambridge Lord Wynford Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Brougham Lord Chancellor L or d D enman _ _ Lord President Lord Privy Seal Duke of Norfolk Lord Abinger Lord Ashburton Lord Hatherton ........... ........,..-.. Duke of Devonshire Lord Langdale Duke of Montrose Lord Monteagle Duke of Wellington The Speaker Marquis of Salisbury Hon. T. P. Courtnay Marquis of Anglesey Hon. Henry Pierrepoint Marquis of Normanby Sir Robert Peel, Bart. Lord Chamberlain Sir Gore Ouscley, Bart. Earl of Surrey Henry Goulburn Earl of Albemarle Lord Chief Justice Tyndal Earl of Jersey Sir William Alexander Earl of Erroll Sir George Cockburn Earl of Tankerville Mr. Stephen Lushington Earl Minto Mr. Herries Earl Howe Mr. Vice- Chancellor Earl Amherst Sir George Murray Earl of Durham Sir Henry Harding() Earl Ripon Sir Robert Adair Viscount Castlereagh Sir Brook Taylor Lord J. Russell Hon. Thomas Erskine Viscount Strangford Sir Edward H. East, Bart. Viscount Palmerston Sir J. C. Ilobhouse, Bart. Viscount Melbourne Mr. Tenyson D'Eyncourt Viscount Beresford Edward Ellice Viscount Ebrington Mr. Baron Parke Lord Burghersh Sir Alexander Johnston Bishop of London Mr. Justice Bosanquet Lord Willoughby de Eresby Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart. Lord Holland Mr. Planta Lord Ellenborough Mr, Wm. Peel Lord Hill Mr. Labouchere Lord Bexley Hon. G. S. Byng Lord Bloomfield Dr. Lushington Lord Wharncliffe Sir George Grey, Bart. Lord Lyndhurst Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Cowley Mr. Macaulay. The Clerks of the Privy Council, Mr. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst, were both in attendance. The Council broke up soon after two o'clock. Her Majesty left town at twenty minutes past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, and attended by Lady Barham, in a carriage and four, with outriders, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, for Windsor Castle. Her Majesty was attended to her carriage by the Comptroller of the Household and the Master of the Household. The Royal suite followed in three carriages and four, and consisted of the Hon. Miss Cocks, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Uxbridge, Mar quis of Headfort, Sir William Lumley. and Lord Alfred Paget. On passing into the Park from the Marble Arch, her Majesty was loudly cheered by the numerous spectators who had assembled. The Princess Augusta attended Divine Service yes terday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, who took his text from Job, chap. xxi. ver. 14. The prayers were read by the Rev. C. Haden, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service by the Rev. C. Haden and the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The An them (full) was " Why do the Heathen so furiously rage" (Kent). Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. Miss Wynyard was in waiting on her Royal High ness. The Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Eliot, Lord W. Lennox, and other Noblemen attended the Service. The Duke of Cambridge arrived in town on Satur day morning from the seat of Sir Gore Ouseley, Hall Burne Park, Bucks. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge visited the Princess Augusta on Saturday. The Marquis of Downshire had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday. Viscount Melbourne left town on Saturday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. General Palmer had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday, at the Home Office. Despatches from the British Minister at the Hague, were received yesterday at the Foreign Office. WINDSOR, SUNDAY,—Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and at tended by Lady Barham, arrived with her suite at the Castle at half-past five o'clock yesterday afternoon, escorted by a party of the Second Life Guards. In the course of the evening the Earls of Erroll and Albemarle, the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the La dies Eleonora, and Constance Paget, Viscounts Mel bourne and Duncannon, arrived and joined the Royal Circle at dinner. The Hon. Miss Cocks and Lady Gardiner attended Divine Service this morning at St. George's Chapel. Lord Abercrornby is expected to arrive at the Castle to-day. Lady Barham, Lady Fanny Howard, lion. Alias Cocks, and Lady Gardiner, attended Divine Service this evening in Sc. George's Chapel. FASMONABLEINTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Grafton, in Clarges-street ; Sir William Fremantle, the Right Hon. Gev. Dawson, the Hon. Major-General HenryLygon, Sir Wyndham Dalling, Burt. from Norfolk. DEPARTURES. Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart., on a tour ; Lady Harriet D'Orsay. and the Hon. Mrs. Gardiner, for the Continent ; Lieut.-Colonel Vandeleur, for Dorchester; Lord and Lady Tankerville, for Walton- upon- Thames ; Captain and Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Bolvoir Castle ; Mr. Wodehouse M. P., for St. Leonard's-o n - S ea . , The Marquis of Anglesey is, we are told, to be elevated to a Dukedom, by the title of Duke of Mona. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex re turned to Lambton Castle from Howick-hall, on Mon day last, and yesterday left for Aske-hall, the seat of the Earl of Zetland.—Sunderla n d Herald. The Earl and Countess of Sefton are entertain ing a select party at Croxteth-hall, Lancashire. — Preston chronicle. FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—On the day of the funeral nearly the whole of the shops in the town of Bedford were partially closed, out of respect for the memory of his Grace, who had done so much to advance the interests of the town.—Herts Reformer. Lord Brougham pays o ccasional visits to Brigh ton. Lady Brougham and the Hon. Miss Ed en are still in Brunswick-terrace, occupying the residence of the Earl of Munster. The venerable Earl of West moreland entertains select parties to dinner almost every evening. Hi s Lordship is one of t h e b est patrons e xceeding th a t o f any other Noble man.—Sussex E a.press. It was remarked at the Privy Co unc il h e ld on Saturday that the Queen appeared to f ee l t h e extremo stay awkwardness of her position, looked unusually pale, sand read the declaration of her intended marriage with some trepidation of voice and manner, though she pro nounced the words mature consideration emphatically. Her Majesty wore a brilliant bracelet, on which was the portrait of Prince Albert. The Marquis of Lansdowne addressed a very compli mentary speech to her when she had concluded hers, saying, " that he was persuaded that the news of her approaching nuptials would diffuse universal joy throughout the realm, and that he begged her gracious permission to make the news public." The Queen bowed gracefully, and handed him her speech. All eyes were on the Duke of Wellington, and univer sal joy- was experienced at seeing his Grace so perfectly recovered. EVENING EDITION On January Ist will be published, price Is., handsomely printed in medium Bvo., the First Number of - p 0 0 R A C K-• By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, Author of " Peter Simple," Sze. With Illustrations by Clarkson Stanfield, R. A. To be completed in Twenty Monthly Numbers. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OE MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MONDAY, Nov. 25, 1839, Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Fire Acts, written by James Sheridan Knowles, called LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper ; Sir Rupert of Lorch, Mr. J. Yining ; Huon, Mr. Anderson ; the Countess of Eppel , ' • stein, Miss Ellen Tree ; Katherine, Madame Yestris. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, M. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly ['eachum, Miss Austin; Lucy Lockit, Madame Vestris. To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 643. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. • Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The production of Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," has attracted eemplete overflows, and ',seen pronounced to be the greatest achievement ever yet attempted, it will consequently be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, Nov. 25, Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivan t ' Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Grant Mrs. Laws, &c. To conclude with an Extraordinary Drama, in Two Acts , entitled THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS; OR, HELL'S BELLES. Astaroth, Mr. Neville ; Cerberus, Mr. Cullen ; DiavoliV Miss Martin ! Robert, Mrs. H. Vining; Polycarpe , M r. Smith; Tambour, Mr. Ross. HioIi.VVATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO. •• OR 110 W. Morning fiminutes atter 5 ; Evening 21 minutes atter . • ltrA , .Saec, Zin -'•••1-riai. LONDON : MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1839. HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE. In our Second Edition on Saturday we pub lished the declaration which her MAJESTY made to the Privy Council concerning her intended mar riage with Prince ALBERT of Saxe Cobourg• Before reading it we had some misgivings that her d MAJESTY, a young l a dy scarce ly of age, wou ld have found it an unpleasant office to announce au intention of that nature, personally, to so m a " gentlemen of almost all ages. After reading it we can readily believe that her MAJESTY might de liver it with a composed an d di gn ifi e d mien. The declaration is most properly worded, and says every; thing which it was requisite to say, in the best an d most delicate manner. It is a very business -like document, and does credit to its author. lie r MAJESTY will, we are persuaded, be the more endeared to her people by the suitableness of her choice and the judicious manner in which it was announced to the public. We cannot, however, allow her MAJESTY'S intention to be thus publicly and authoritatively declared, without reminding our readers that The Sun informed them in the early part of the year that her MAJESTY'S marriage with Prince ALBERT was then determined on. For making that an nouncement we were jeered by the great body of the press ; but, confident in the correctness of ou r information, we waited, as we then said, with e ljre equanimity, for time to do justice to our assertion' It must now be :universally allowed that we did not make the assertion recklessly and at hazard/ bu t from correct information. We IN ere indeed somewhat in error the as to period at whi c h t h e i nten d e d marr i age wo uld be announced to the nati on , b u t w e continue to be lieve that, when we made the statement shortly' before the Parliament assembled, a design was en tertained of making a communication to it on the subject during the last Session. What circum stances caused the design to be postponed for a season, we know not ; but We have good reason to suppose that some unexpected circumstances did arise to cause it be postponed, and so make our announcement incorrect as to time, but as to time only. We do not remind our readers of having forestalled our Contemporarie! and having therefore been exposed to the ,ir sneers, with any view of taking credit to ourselv but simply to do justice between them and us, e.nd to express thus publicly our unabated conficir,nc e in the correctness of the authority from whic'n we derived our information. The Times of this morning seems to have for gotten that an Act was passed in 1829, which put an end to the ascendancy of Protestantism as a' State religion. By that Act, though th'e possess° l. of the Cr own , th e L or d-Li eutenant of Ire l an d ) and the Lord Ch ance ll ors o f E ngland and Ireland, oles, i_ be Protestants, Protestantism, asthe onlyrelig i°n : i t ) h a e in S s ta a t n e d ,tl p le en ob al s t e ie rv s, an l c v e as ofw removed hieh is t i f; from its be e ilf reform erciul dominant position. Th e S OVEREIGN f or the first time became the rul er o f the people withou t regard to their religio n , an d if , as M:r. GRE GG and others have observed, there st ill rema i n se veral laws o n th e statute- b ook, c onsistent on l y with th e f ormer persecution. o f the cattle lies, and inconsistent with their present stat e ' that is a re ason f or purg i ng t h e statute-book._ oe these old en orm iti es , not f or aga i n ma king the (i p 6 d vernment an instrument for oppres s i ng one sect a ° exalting another. By the Act of 1829 the I' ve man Catholics, from being a degra d ed a nd s lave l class under the law, were elevated to the same Je with the rest of t h e peop l e ; but t h e Times, under the direction o f th e bigots, wishes . been denoun to revive perser: ,1 ution in our manners after it h" 'Je. i n t h e statute-book. It is quite' furious, th er e f ore this erefore, morning be cause her M A... JESTY 'was not a d v i se d , i n declaring h er inteeued mart.; age, to return. to the old char acter of the Se' vev.eigns of these realms, and declare herself the Sovereign of only one sect. Her MAJESTY'S Ministers are severely censured for not having taken the opportunity of pledgiug 'herself for the Pre' testantism of Prince ALBERT, and of reminding her C a th o li c su bj ects t h a t s h e i s the enemy of their faith. In the present state of the religious world the hatred of Rom an C a tholicism, wh ich caused the protests of our ancestors, has no longe I a justifiable cause, and it is little less than absur'''., 0 preserve the expression of that hatred in all Stat e ceremonies, to the insult of eight million ,- , o f her MAJESTY'S subjects. The Times quotes what GEortG• E 111. s aid when he declared his intention to war y , and inSiStO • that the precedent opght to have he ~ --•.en strictly fol— lowed. Would that Journal he'vella d herMAJEsT I say, " I have ever since toy accessi on t o the Throne i turned my thoughts tov:ars the choi ce o f a Prince • for a consort." indelicacy o f such a statement is not greater lihan the abstn:dity of wishing her ' IVIAJEsTt continually to decltare that she is the - Sovereign only of a sect. There exists, we think, great confusion in, the pub!,ic mind, at least in the wri ;jugs of public --e