The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

EVEN EN Or EDITION. THE MAY NUMBER, Embellished with Eight Illustrations, Price Half-a-Crown, of BEN,TLEY'S MISCELLANY, Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. CONTAINg:-- kr. Ainsworth's Guy Fawkes, China. The Beal State of illustrated by George Cruik- the Case, freely translated shank i from the original Chinese. A Legend of the American i illustrated by Alfred Crow- War I quill with Four real China Journal of Old Barnes the Plates Pantaloor on a Trip to I Visit to a Siberian Fa ir—The Paris in 15.30, with Two i Tsbulashi Fair at Ost-ov- Illustrations noie. By a Russian Tra- JuvPnile Delinquency (Moral veder Economy of Large Towns). The Death-bed Confession, By Dr. W. C. Taylor from the Posthumous Papers Jack Frost of a late Surgeon Early Friendship ; or, the Stanley Thorn. By the Author Slave of Passion of " Valentine Vox" Judging by Appearances— Captain Morris : a Review, Mistakes in a Drawing-room ita a Portrait Charade. By Miss A!Farr , r &c., &a. 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" Jack Ashore' is an excellent novel, well calculated to become a standard work, from its exquisite representation of a seaman's character. It contains an infinite variety of scenes of every description, some pathetic, some awful; others very sa tirical; and others fraught with every species of hamour, from the most broad to the most refined." —Dispatch. " This work will be read with as great an interest by cul tivated intellects, as it will with the most eager curiosity and entertainment by the merest idler of the circulating library."— New :Monthly• Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE MAY NUMBER OF CO LBUR N'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq. CONTAINS :- Fathers and Sons,by theEditor,!The Widow Married, by Mrs. 'the Gamesters. A French Trollope,illustratedby Phiz. Story, by the Countess of The U,es and Abuses of Truth. Blessington. !Specimens of German Lyric The Advantages of being too Poetry, by J. H. 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Persons desirous to purchase, may receive, .PRE VIOUS to giving any order ,the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addresin. , WITHOUT DELAY, a line HEINE, BROTHERS , at HAMBURGII. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND. - EIGHT HUNDRED, SIX HUNDRED, FIVE HUN DRED, THREE HUNDRED, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONe. HUNDRED AND FIFTY. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, ONE HUN DRED AND TEN, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &e. &c., amounting to £134,990 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, APRIL 28, Will be performed Bickerstaff's Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Justice Woodcock, Farren ; Young Meadows, Mr, Frazer ; Hawthorn, Mr. W. Harrison ; Hodge, Mr. Keeley; Rosetta, Miss nainftrth ; Deborah Woodcock, Mrs. C. Jones; Lucinda, Miss Wilkinson; Madge, Mrs. W. Lacy. After which will be repeated, the entirely New and Original Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Extrava7,auza, in Three Parts, entitled rnd founded on that popuhr NurFers Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vcstris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, tk.c. Ike. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2.5. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gailery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at t've-i o'Clock. Tickets and plat ns for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of ee, from Ten till Four, whtre Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to he had agilely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. The members of the Ladies' Club, honoured by the success of their undertaking, and anxious to keep pace with (or rather to outrus) the spirit of the atr, have petitioned Fancy to so• licit Time to allow them to show the Public the HOUSE OF LADIES ; Intended to be chartered in H 45. THIS EVENING, APRIL 28. Will be presented, for the Forty-eighth time, THE LADIES' CLUB. Mrs. Fitzsm%th (the Chairwoman), Mrs.:Stirling. o be followed by THE HOUSE OF LADIES. Mrs. Fitzsmytb (Member for Chatterton)—Mrs. Stirling. .Mrs. Morton (Member for Smallborough)—Miss Atkinson. Mrs. Rookhy (Member far Edmondsbury—Miss Treble. Mrs. Derby (Member for Melton) —Miss Firmalter. Mrs. O'Donnell (Member fer Donnybrook)—Miss Ayres. Mrs. Bustle (Secretary for the Fashionable Department)— 'Miss Stephf ns. Mrs. Twonkay (Speakerl—Mrs. Garrick. Fancy, Miss Bcachamp. Time, Mr. Edmonds. After which, A ROYAL COMMISSION FROM PARIS. Monsieur Jollivet, Mr. F. Vieing; Alexis Kerbont, Mr. Balser; Madame Jollivet, Mies Fitzwalter ; Causette, Miss Ayres. To conclude with the - New and Original Drama (by the author of" The L.tdies' Club"), called GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; Owen Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hall; Hugh Morgan, Mr. G. Wild. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Theatre has been entirely Re-Decorated. and embellished in a novel and tasteful style, during the Recess. The Three New Pieces hive met with tumultuous a, probation from crowded audiences. and la ill be repeat , :d every evenirg. THIS EVENING, Aritm 28, Will be acted an entirely New Village Tragedy, illustrating Ho„frarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress," entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. After which, a New Comic Drama, called THE WET NURSE. To conclude with an entirely New Romance, entitled THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN. The Scenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in Venice. PflgH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Inrning. ..... 5 minutes after I Evening 0 minutes after G. he Publication of the Evening Edition of TITS SUN corn manced at 10 m.n•utes after Three. . • ..e.;• • (7 - QL, LONDON: TUESDAY, APRIL 2s, 1840. As moralists, the Tories sad bunglers. The wolf in the fable wore not the sheep's disguise half so awkwardly as do the Tory journals au affected regard for peace with China, while they are en deavouring to goad this country on to a was with the United States. They would be mightily well content, if we may believe their declarations of last week, to sacrifice three millions sterling to maintain pacific relations with China on the terms proposvd by the High Commissioner ; but they are almost frantic at the bare idea of sacrificing 200,0001. to establish the basis of a lasting and honour able peace between Great Britain and the United States. In China, if required, they would per form the nine prostrations before the statue of the EMPEROR —they would sign an opium bond, voluntarily forfeit:mg the lives of ships' crews, and the loss of the vessels and cartzoes, on a quantity of opium, just equal to seven eighth s of two ounces, being found on board by a Chinese Custom-house ' officer (who might very easily contrive to secrete five times this quantity on his own person, and thus be always in a condition to confiscate any vessel unless largely bribed)—and they would g i ve up ., to certain death all suspected British vileleatostrsea;lf , Chinese laws, whether innocent or gu il ty . But r i N o rth America, they would rather bee the 167, of the St. Lawrence choked with dead bodies, than either yield an inch of territory, or pay a fraction of compensation to the State of Maine. The Chinese not being Christians, and consequently not in the right way of salvation, the Tories have scruples about shed ding their blood ; but none whatever about shooting their American co-religionists. If Christians fight with one another, no scandal, it appears, is given ; but to make war on the Heathen prevents the spread of the peace-inspiring precepts of the Gos pel ! We are to pity and pardon the Chinese after receiving at their hands the most atrocious insults —after being ignominiously expelled as felons from the " central flowery land," and having our trade declared to be for ever abolished ; but if we find the people of Maine obstinate in carrying on an old contest about a boundary line, bequeathed them by Massachusets while it was a British province, and when Lower Canada belonged to the Crown of France, why, we are to make no more ado than to pour an army into their territory, and if possible destroy them with fire and sword ! We are not to allow ourselves to be insulted by any talk about a new arbitration. In a leading article in the Times of yesterday, that polluted organ of all that is most detestable in Toryism—hypocrisy and tergiversa tion—says, in one place, that the award of the King of HOLLAND was unjustifiable, and in another that the State of Maine ought to be compelled, vi et armis, to abide by it ! Mark the consistency of the " misleading Journal :" " The award of the King of Holland, which stretched the Maine boundary to the northernmost bend of the St. John's, beyond the Eagle Lakes, was in itself an unjusti fiable transfer of a large portion of British territory to the United States—namely, that contained between the fron tier heretofore contended for by Great Britain and the St. John's river." This is tolerably explicit, and looks very like the preface of an appeal to the two Governments to submit to a second arbitration. But nothing is further from the intention of the honest swaggerer of Printing-house-square. We quote from the very same article from which the above is taken :---- " What next ? Why, will ye believe it ? we are actually insulted by the threat of another arbitration !—to end, like the last, in the contemptuous treatment of what ever decision may be come to, which does not assign over to the Republicans the full measure of their demands upon this country, founding their rejection of it on some equi vocal pretence, that a loop-hole has been left in the care less wording of the bond, through which their conscience is not ashamed to wriggle out of its gravest obligations. We tell Lord Palmerston that neither Parliament nor people will suffer him to ply away English t.easure as a makeweight for his incapable diplomacy. We tell him further, that he must not palter with the patience of a manly people in conniving at the proposed mockery of a second arbitration, by which the King of Holland can do no otherwise than feel himself personally outraged ; and, still more, the British nation be made sensible that their own Minister panders to the scheme of a foreign Govern- meet for gaining time until its unfriendly projects are matured, and keeping this empire vexed arid harassed by the needles non-adjustment of quarrels affecting its com mercial security, its dignity in the eyes of other nations, and its comfort and trahquillity at home." So, rather than hurt the feelings of the old ' King of HOLLAND, whose award the Times pre viously denounces as uqjust, we are to plunge two great nations into all the horrors of a bloody and calamitous war ! Mark, too, the marvellous incre dulity of the Times, that a people should be found to resist a Royal award, however preposterous I " Oh, dear no !" shouts the moral Times, " the country must not think of preventing such a con tingency as a war between Great Britain and the United States, at the expense of the personal feel ings of the Royal adorer of the Countess D'OUL TREMONT—the aged hero, whom the Hague Journals celebrate as the conqueror of his own too susceptible heart." Now, with all proper respect for the wisdom of a King, whose folly cost him a kingdom, we sec no just ground for refusing to set aside the award of WILLIAM of HOLLAND, which has satisfied neither England nor the United States, and referring the whole question to the arbitration of the King of the FRENCH. The &spited territory *as "elaiiried by Canada for the Crown of France, when Maine, forming a part of the State of Massachusetts, belonged to Great Britain ; and therefore there must be many maps and papers in the Colonial archives of France likely to throw considerable light upon it. This is the more necessary to be done, as President VAN BUREN declares that he has no power to interfere to limit the pretensions of Maine, unless he be called upon to enforce an arbitration pre viously assented to by the British and Maine . authorities. :Maine being an independent Federal State, cannot be coerced unless proved to be wrong by a valid sentence of arbitration ; and save in the very teeth of such an award can involve the whole Federal Government in her quarrel. The territory in dispute embraces an extent of about 10,500 square miles, of not much value in trinsically ; but of vast importance to Great Britain as connecting the provinces of New Brunswick and Lower Canada. The whole dispute has arisen out of the interpretation of the word "highlands in the treaty of 1783, the British Government main taining that the highlands described in the treaty as forming the line of boundary are those which separate the waters of the St. John River from the waters of the Penobscot ; while the Maine authorities contend that the highlands in question are those which divide the waters of the St. John from those of the St. Lawrence. Now, as the question is by no means so clear as is con tended on both sides, and as the territory in dispute is of the utmost importance to us, we would be inclined to look upon the sum of 200,0001. as well expended in obtaining the undis puted possession of it. We are here taking for granted that the rumour, which has so alarmed the Tinzes, about such a settlement of the question is well founded—a matter of which we profess to have no exclusive information. The adjustment of a boundary is a sorry pretext for a war between two great, civilized, Christian nations ; and rather than take upon our own shoulders any part of the re sponsibility of originating it, we profess our readi ness to make great sacrifices indeed. Let it be re membered too that we shall not fight the worse when driven to it, for a careful abstinence from contests of doubtful necessity. A Correspondent, whose letter we published lately, found fault with what and thence t ourhecalleldcedrew h ‘‘bitttere ness" against the Church, charitable conclusion that we must resctbdeito of the a fairheCa tholic religi o n. Another gives us and impartial mode of dealing with questions arising OR points connected with religion ; while a third complains that we are far too partial to the Dissent ers. We would wish to believe that there is no just ground for the charges brought against us, and we say, once for all, that we regard all religious sects with an equal eye. With religious opinions, or forms of worship, we quarrel not. In those matters we reverently acknowledg e the supremacy of each man's own conscience. To his own Ma?ter every individual standeth or falleth, and n 9 human power has a right to interfere. But far be it from us to clothe with similar and a b uses w hi ch, of a n unhal immunities the corruptions arising not out of religion, but out lowed alliance between the minister of religion and the civil magistrate, are, in our o • religion and the greatest obstacles to national advancement, whether considered in a social, civil, moral, or religious point of view. We honestly confess that we can not, without feeling and expressing strong indig. nation, 1.-,ce the claims of ecclesiastical domination and spiritual tyranny, - advanced with so much ar rogance, prosecuted with so much vehemence, en. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1840. forced by such enormities, and, we may add, en dured with so much apathy. These claims are as inconsistent with the spirit of the Gospel, as they are hostile to the advancement of truth and knowledge, yet, in spite of their injustice and ab surdity, they ate shamelessly maintained in opposi tion to all the boasted light and liberty of the nineteenth century. To the Episcopalian Church we are friendly, but to the State machine created by Act of Parliament we are determined enemies. We are anxious, for the interests of both the State and the Church, that the connection which unites them should be severed, and as we have now a little space 'at command, we shall de- vote two or three articles to the subject—a subject which we may remark is beginning to interest deeply large bodies of the people. - In contemplating the innumerable evils which have been produced by Ecclesiastical domination, it is natural to inquire how such a system—a system so unjust in its nature, so dreadful in its: operation, so utterly repugnant to the genius of Christianity, and to the views of its Author, was introduced, established, and continued in the Christian world. We know that in the pure and primitive days of the Church the religion of JESUS CHRIST, in its native simpli city of doctrine and worship, was utterly disjoined from civil establishments ; that it supported itself by its own truth and excellence, not only without the aid, but in opposition to the enmity, and in defiance of the persecution of the civil power. We know that its ministers were—what its Founder in- tended they should be—men of lowly minds and unblemished characters, who devoted themselves to the service of the Gospel, not for the sake of wealth and preferment, but. with the pious and honourable view of promoting the great interests of truth, vir tue, and happiness. This state of things, however, was not of long duration. Religion which is a personal and inde pendent thing, the concerns of which lie only be- tween GOD and the human heart, and whose business it is to raise our views above the world, has in every age been perverted from its proper end to the base purposes of worldly ambition and State intrigue. Christianity itself, though it utterly dis claims the connection, was soon pressed into the service of the magistrate, and soon became, under his management, the direct reverse of what it was before. Human nature is the same in all profes sions. No class of men are superior to the allure ments of interest and ambition. As soon as this ill-sorted union took place between the Church and State—between the kingdom of CHRIST and the the kingdoms of the world, prospects of wealth and aggrandizement were immediately opened to the ministers of religion, so flattering to human pride that they could not fail to have a very general and a very pernicious influence. Their influence, in deed, was powerful and rapid. Instead of the lowly temper, the unaffected piety, the disinterested zeal which had distinguished and ennobled the first ministers of Christianity, we soon behold the gradual introduction and rapid spread of a very different spirit—a spirit of contention for power and rre eminence, of base rapacity, of intolerance, hypo crisy, and superstition, than which nothing can be more unlike the genuine spirit of Christianity. It is astonishing to think to what a pitch this spirit of worldly ambition and insolent domination was carried by those who styled themselves the ministers Of CHRIST, and it is still more astonishing that mankind should have submitted so tamely for many centuries to the most palpable and the most impudent of all usurpations. The extent of power to which the Church attained, and the insolence with which her authority was exercised during the dark ages, if the fact were not, ascertained by un doubted evidence, exceed all bounds of belief. - Her ministers, instead. ,of .being. the servants :of., the people, became of all tyrants the most dangerous and the most formidable. Having fully confirmed the empire of a splendid superstition, and being enabled by the operation of that powerful engine to manage and to awe the people, they held all Europe in disgraceful bondage, trampled upon the necks of kings, and made nations tremble at the thunder of their anathemas. The civil magistrate, by whose favour and assistance the Church was ad vanced to this pitch of worldly grandeur, who wished to use her as an instrument, and often found her a very convenient and effectual one, for confirm ing his own despotism, and keeping mankind in ser vile subjection, not unfrequentiv became, in his turn, a slave to spiritual authority, and a martyr to ecclesiastical intrigue. This tyranny at last grew insupportable. The claims of Rome began to be scrutinized—their utter inconsistency with the New Testament was pointed out, and this country, with others, was finally emancipated, though not without much struggle and much bloodshed, from the yoke of Rome. A Gentleman, whose zeal for the honour of his country is more praiseworthy than his acquaintance with the black letter historians of England, has written to us in a great passion to say that it was never the popular superstition of Englishmen that the Jews mingled Christian blood with any of 'their religious sacrifices. We are not surprised that an honest Christian should feel indignant at such an imputation being laid to the charge of his country men ; but, unfortunately for our too zealous Corre spondent, we are in a condition to prove al! that we have averred upon the subject, five times over. MATTHEW of PARIS, that earliest of British historians, under date 1255, relates in substance the following narrati ie, which we copy from the " Kalendre of the New Legende of Englande, dated the xx daye of February, in yere of our Lorde God MCCCCC and xvi," and dedicated to King HENRY VIII. We pass over the allusion to it in CHAUCER'S tale of the Prioress, and in the ballads preserved in the beautiful " Percy Relics," of which a new edition has lately been given to the world by Mr. TENI PLETON. The following monkish legend is cer tainly the origin of the miserable farce got up in Syria, which has so displeased our Correspendent " In the yere of our Lorde a m. cc. and Lv. aboute ye feestys of seynt Peter and Paule, ye Jewys of Lyncolne stale a cristen Chylde, that was aboute the age of viii. yerys, called Hugh, and they put hym in a secrete house and fede hym x dayes with mylke, yt he myght abyde yo gretter turmentys. And thereupon they sent to all ye townys in Englonde, wberin were any Jewys, to haue some of them to be at ye sacryfyce of this Childe, which they entendyd to crucyfye in despyte of our Lord Jhesu Cryste. And when they were gaderyd they appoyntyd a Juge as for Pylat, and so they Jugyd hym to deth. And then they bet bym soo that the blode folowyd, they crownyd bym with thorne, they spyt vppon hym, and mockyd hym, and euery man pryckyd hym with his knyfe, they gaue hym to drynke gall. And with great opprobrycs and blasphc mouse wordys, with gnasshynge of theyr teth, they callyd hym Jhesus the Cursyd prophet, and after they Crucyfyed bym, and with a spore thruste hym to the Norte. And when he was deed they toko his Body from the Crosse, and vnbowelde bym for theyr enchauntementys. After when they 'cycle his Bodye into the grounde, the grounde wolde not kepe it but caste it vppc agayne, wherfore they were merueylously aferde, and threwe bym into a p ytte . After ye =der of the Chylde, which made greatc sorowe, s a e n e cl u di a l s y t g e c a n t t a l y j e e n w q y u s e h r yd u s f e o r p h e y y m in g , e li a w r d i t e n s j ay h ew , y t s a he c t hy id r i.o s e v n. And so she went sodeynly into the house, and there she t fo h l a i t nd o e wy t h d e the C od ues. wasAn d v t ak p y o u n , a t a d t h s e u s c p o e n e f e e y s i o y n d , t t h h e e m m u a r n . der, whereupon xviii of the Rychest of the Jewys of Lyn colne yt assented to the martyrdoms of ye sayd hless3d chylde, were drawyn and hangyd, and the cbanons of Lyneolne alkyd the Body of ye sayde Cbylde, and buryed bym like a gloryouse martyr." To the effect of the important documents rela tive to the claims of Sir AUGUSTUS D' EsTE, which appear in another part of The Sun, it may almost seem superfluous in us to attempt to add weight by any observations of our own. Those documents speak so plainly, tell the sad tale of the deeply injured individual to whom they refer so simply yet so forcibly, that, independently of their legal character, they cannot fail to strike the heart and awaken the sympathies of-every person whose heart is in the right place, and whose sympathies are not dead to the calls of suffering merit. We have seen already that, in the opinion of two of the ablest lawyers in England, AuGusTus of ESTE is the legitimate son of the Duke of SUSSEX, and, consequently, a Prince of the Blood Royal of England. The most eminent lawyer in Ire land has declared his most decided opinion that the marriage of the Royal Duke contracted at Rome in 1793, was perfectly valid as regards Ireland, and that the son of that marriage is, in virtue of his birth, a Prince of that kingdom, c l ot h e d w i t h a ll the rights and privileges of th a t c h aracter . W e have to-day the further evidence of two of the most celebrated jurists of Germany, KLUBER of Frankfort, and ZACHARIA of Heidelberg, that whether the marriage of his Royal Highness at Rome, or that which was subsequently solem nized in London, be adopted as the test of the le gitimacy of AUGUSTUS of ESTE, he is, to all in tents and purposes, by the rules of German law, and by the usages of the House of Hanover, an undoubted Prince of that kingdom. We venture to assert that there never was a cas e o f t hi s nature more strongly supported by law, by reason, and by justice. Of this truth the people of Great Britain are more and more convinced every day, and their powerful influence will soon be thrown into the scale of justice, should it be rendered necessary by the continuation of injustice. One of their noblest characteristics is that unconquerable love of fair play, which prompts them almost with the quick ness of instinct, to range themselves on the side of the injured. Let it but be made to appear that innocence is in danger, that justice has been with held where it was due, or that oppression has been exercised by the powerful over the weak and the defenceless, and their sympathies are roused at once; they feel the cause to be their own ; they enter into it with all their heart and soul, and never rest satisfied, never relax their exertions, until they have averted the threatened evil, or redressed the in flicted wrong. This is a good-I;ke quality, and of itself sufficient to stamp the Briton with a superi ority over the other tribes of mankind. It may also be remarked that the power of this generous feeling, wben it is manifested by the people generally, is all but irresistible. Even in our own times we have seen it triumph over the power of the Crown, wielded neither by a weak nor a scrupulous hand. What was it but the sympathy of the people, that made GEORGE IV. quail and desist from his purpose, when he had determined to sacrifice a Queen whom he hated with an intensity proportionate to the injuries which he had heaped upon her ? And what was the consequence of the persecution which he had set on foot and carried on against her ? Popular hatred of her persecutor. We do not hold this out as a threat to the parties who have it in their power to place the son of the Duke of Sussex in the position which he ought to occupy. We merely state it to illustrate the fact that there is no rank or station in life which can either exempt the possessor from the performance of high duties, or protect him from the consequences of neglecting them. One of these consequences is the alienation of the 'affections of the people. We have received the following letter, which we insert, as it affords us an opportunity of correcting a mistake into which other persons, besides our cor respondent, may perhaps fall. We beg leave to asseire our correspondent that there is nothing in the ,Ohjection started by him t o t h e va lidi ty o f t h e Duke of SUSSEX'S first marriage. By the common law of England minors may contract marriage ; but the 26th George IL, c. 33, commonly called the Marriage Act, took away that right. That Act however was confined strictly within the limits of England. English minors may go to Scotland—as they frequently do —and contract marriage, which will be good in England. Besides, the Royal Family are expressly excepted from the operation of that statute. Lady AUGUSTA MURRAY'S na tive domicile was Scotland, and therefore the pater nal consent was not necessary to render her mar riage valid. By the canon law, which is the rule of marriage at Rome, paternal consent, though held to be decent and proper, is not deemed essential. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Coax, APRIL 24, 1840. SIR—A deep interest has been excited in the public mind by the production of the documents that relate to the first marriage of the Duke of Sussex, and the profes sional answer to the legal case, establishing, as it would appear, the validity of that contract, has given general satis faction ; for on it only the claim of the children to legiti macy stems to rest ; as the subsequent ceremony in England was clearly nullified by the Royal Marriage Act, the operation of which, however, did not extend to foreign parts. But the case submitted for legal advice has not embraced an objection which I have not seen urged in the discussion of the subject, though, I apprehend, not without weight, —lt is, that the marriage was performed at Rcme, while the parties were minors, in 1793, when the Duke, born in January, 1773, was only twenty, and the lady, as we learn, not more than eighteen years old—both, conse quently, unqualified to marry without the consent of their parents or guardians, in every country of Europe. Indeed, at that time the period of legal majority on the continent generally was twenty-five, and certainly was so in Rome. In this instance, however, the engagement would have been equally inv a lid i n E ng l an d ; for we know that the Duke's father did not pive his consent; and the bride's mother, we are assured by his Royal Highness, was not made acquainted with the marriage until three months after its celebration. It was, therefore, null, not by a special or local act, but by the universal jurisprudence of Europe, as well as by the rational necessity of defin ing the competent age for entering into a contract which is the basis of social order. According to the then existing English law, no length of subsequent cohabitation could impart cffic4cy to such a marriage, as at present would be the consequence. The solution to this objection by any of your professional readers will oblige, Sir, Your obedient Servant, J. R. Madrid Papers of the 19th inst. have reached us, but their contents arc unimportant. The Eco de Aragon of the 21st states that CABRERA is still at Mora del Ebro, in a state of debility, which gives him the appearance of being more dead than alive. No military movement had taken place of the least moment. The Five per Cents., Active, were at 294 for cash on the Madrid Bourse on the 29th. The illoniteur of Sunday, received along with the other Paris Journals of the same date, Liives the followin g account of the meeting of the Ro y al family of France and the Princess VICTORIA, whose nuptials with the Duke DE NEMOURS were to be celebrated on Monday : " This day at seven P. m., the Duchess Victoria of Saxe Coburg Gotha, Duke Ferdinand, her father, and her brother Prince Augustus, arrived at the Palace of St. Cloud. " His there on the preceding evening. The Queen of the Bel_ Majesty the King of the Belgians had arrived gians, owing to her advanced state of pregnancy, remains at Brussels. " Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria arrived yesterday evening at ten o'clock at the Chateau of Com piegne, with Prince Ferdinand, her father, and Prince Augustus, her brother. The town was spontaneously il luminated, and presented the most brilliant coup ttosil. During the entire journey the Princess had magnificent weather, and received the most lively demonstrations of the joy of the population. This morning her Royal High. ness quitted Compiegne to go to St. Cloud, where sh e arrived at seven, P. M., her arrival having been delayed by the loyal testimonials on the road. She was met at Peronne by the Duke of Nemours. The Royal Family was all assembled, and as soon at; the Princess saw the King, sh e b ent her knee, b ut his Majesty raised her, a n d embraced h er a ff ect i onate ly. All the Ministers were pre sented individually to the Princess , wh ose m odest grace and remark a bl e beauty charmed every beholder. " Princ e F er di nan d o f S ax e Coburg received from th e hands of th e King the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. " The young Princess, her father, and her brother, ap., peared quite affected and delighted at the reception given to them by France. The King, the Queen, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Nemours were r.o less affected at the nnw 'Awes of hAppiness with %Illicit this day inspires the Royal Family." The marriage was to be celebtated yesterday in the most private manner. This was to spite the Deputies, whose rejection of the proposed nota tion Bill has been since visited by an alinost total exclusion from the Court circle. We are surprised that so shrewd a man as LOUIS PHILIPP,E should not be sensible that by such conduct he must greatly increase the unpopularity of the Duke DE NEMOURS, and confirm the Chamber in its determination to grant no more dotation s t o t h e c hild ren o f a Sove- req:n so well able to provide for them out of his private fortune. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, M. GOLBERG presented a Report on petitions for the abrogation of the law which exiles the family of NAPOLEON from th e so il o f F iance, an d for the removal of the remains of the Emperor from St. Helena to Paris. The Report was favourable to the existing law, but left the question of. the re moval of NAPOLEON' S remains to be decided by the President of the Council. An early application to the British Government may be expected to be made by M. TRIERS for permission to restore to France the asbQs of the most illustrious of her warriors and statesmen. No other act in the Ministry of M. THIERS will so endear his memory to future generations of Frenchmen. The French Government had ordered a squadron of observation, consisting of Eur ships of the line, and as many war steamers, to be formed on the coast of Naples. The Courrier Francais says that on the Ist of May, the K ING ' S birthday, Ministers will advise his Majesty to grant an unconditional amnesty for all political offences whatsoever. Exiles for poli tical offences will be allowed to return unquestioned to their country : The follo,ing , lines, dated London, 13th April, and published by the Augsburg Gazette, might almost pass for an official communication : "'Those who are acquainted with the firm will of the Emperor Nicholas have no doubt that the expedition against Khiva, will be shortly resumed. It is known, too, that the plan of his policy extends further than Khiva ; for this reason the news that has been received has riot surprised the Council of Ministers. In fact a new expedition into the countries on the Oxus is said to have been projected at St. Petersburgh. Ac cordingly it has been declared to Count Brunow that if the Russian Government persisted in its project the Anglo- Indian Government would send an army to the Oxus, and would cause all the most important points, particu larly Balkh, to be occupied by a military force. On this point public opinion is perfectly in unison with the Ministry. We have already spoken of the fire which reduced to ashes the town of Sallanche in Savity, on the 19th inst. 13,y some recent accounts we learn that forty persons were dead or dying of their wounds on the 21st in the morn ing. The number of the maimed is stated at more than fifty, and 100 more were missing ; whether they have perished in the ruins or have fled through terror is not known. Some unfortunate women were found suncated in the cellars in which they had taken refuge. The fire has destroyed all the important documents in the hands cf the notaries, and very few persons have saved their most valuable effects. Only four or five houses remain standing at the extremity of the town; the remainder, to the number of 250, are reduced to ahea. The Church, in which a great part of the inha bitants were assembled (it being Easter Sunday) at the time when the fire broke out, fell down in a few hours. It was one of the finest, and i's steeple one of the most ancient ; of Fancigny. The Hotel of Belle Vue, so well known to travellers, in the Alps, has been consumed, with all the furniture and its vast dependencies. One of the brothers of the landlord perished in attempting to extin guish the fire. The damage done is immense, considering that the in habitants are by no means rich. Supplies of all kinds of necessaries have been sent there in abundance from all the neighbouring places, and the most generous hospitality has afforded an asylum. A subscription has been opened for them at Gueneva. Sallanche had 2,000 inhabitants. It was once before destroyel by fire 321 years ago, and as on this occasion, on Easier Sunday, in a season of drought, which bad dried up all the springs, and during the preva lence of a high wind.—Le Commerce, M Poisson, Peer of France, President of the Academy of Science, Member of the Royal Council of Public In struction, Professor of Mechanics, Examiner of the Poly technic School and of Artillery, Commander of the Le gion of Honour, and member of all the learned societies in Europe, died at Sceaux on the 25th, at the age of 58, much lamented, and leaving four children. Paris letters say that rain had not fallen in the capital fer several weeks, and that very serious apprehensions are entertained on account of that continued drought. The price of bread is expected to reach 20 sous the quarts rn loaf in a few days, which is a famine price ; and' if means a-e not taken by the Government to ensure an abundant supply, and lower rates, serious consequences may be ex pected. Strong symptoms of discontent were observed at Saturday's Corn Market, caused by the large purchases of flour made by the Royal. Household, and if such a cir cumstance again publicly-occurs. the people will not scruple to impute it to the worst motives. . - . , tr, tiE.L.ti LAN r u NDS-,lsittisssta, APRIL 25. actual Deist , 21, , , per Cent. R Alisehild', Loan, 5 per Ci n t I. ea( Loan of Thirty Million, 4 per Cent. 9!.% 3 per Cent. . ... 7. % Loan of ( itv, 18314 4 per Cent — Society of Cornm‘rce, 4y, per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent BB National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, April 25. A USTIIIA N FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 17 rive per Cents. netalliques • lOl% For per Cents Jul i 4 Three pcn. Cents Bank Shares :823 -,Altemeine Zeitung, April 42. HAMB OR MARKETS. AIN. GR Wheat, Marks 4OB to 4:,6 -•---- Magdeburg 2911 to 453 - Anhalt, white 409 to 456 - red 39 to 453 Bruns ick 403• to 455 Nlecklenburg 1 1 ,4 to -.6 - I'olish - Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg Dantzic Elbing ,nd Ka nigsburg - Upland - Riga iol to Harley, Mecklenburgh 186 to 255 -- Magdeburgh 11:2 to 214 --- Holstein 1 -- Summer lB5 to 210 Oats, Eider ... ~ 110 t o .1 4 l , - Mecllenburg ll4 to 11;5 - Holstein -- Lost rrie!•land l2O to 1 8 !Pease, Mecklenburg ....../25 to ~8) itleans t!7o to 315 Buck Wheat. 6O to ,it, Rapeseed, Hanover Malt Fares I'ON. COTI Carolina and Tennessee 7 1 ,( 2 t0 Georgia, Ist sort l'44 B 2d 614 744 :id and 4th 5U t COG - : Mocha 11 to 14, i Batavia 5% N Sumatra Alaianham Madras 4.% 3LA Surats •M 5% Domingo ..... ....... ,EE. Domingo La tinityra sy 6 Porto Rico 5% 6 Havannah 4% Rio 4v 54 „,, Bahia 4% 5'S SUGAR.—(Wit Havannah, White Brown 54 514 Rio, White 5 14 t;% Brown Manilla, Brov 8% Discount.) Bahia, White 5%t071h Brown 5 5 , !7i Pernambuco, White 5% i s Brown 5 534, 5U to 5% EXCHEQUEit CHAMBER, (THIS DAY.) (Before Lord ABINGER.) NEW MASTER. At tbe Sitting of the Court this morning, the Hon. Ruben Campbell Scarlett was sworn as a Juint Master of the Court of Exchequer, in the room of the late Master Sprenger. .Mr. — HA47,son took the oaths as Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty. The Court was occupied the remainder of the morning with petitions of no general interest. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) SIDMOVTII V. SIDMOUTH. The Master of the ROLLS gave judgment in this case, deciding in favour of the plaintiff, but directed an inquiry as to who were the next of kin of the late Lord Ston ell, in order that they might be brought before the Court, and the cause made perfect. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. Supplies fair, and a good attendance ; prices steady. Tur bot, ss. to 21s. ; Soles, 10d. to 4s. per pair; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. ; Cod, 3s. to Bs. ; Salmon, 2s. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Beef, 7d. to Bid.; Mutton, 7id. to 81d. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d.; Pork. lid. to 81d. per lb. Of Vegetables a good iupply, and a fair trade. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, et,d demand fair ; prices stationary. Turbot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 2a. 6d. to Ss. ; Soles, 6d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. 6d. ; Salmnn, 2s. to 2s. 6d. per lb. ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; Mackerel, 4d. to 6d. ; Haddocks, 6d. to la. HAY MARKETS. Supplies good; this demand middling, and prices much as before. Hay, 50s. to 925. 6d.; Clover, 70s. to I lbs.; Straw, 325. to 425. per load. - TALLOW MARKET. The market very quiet, and the price of P.Y.C. 51s. 6d. to 525. TEA MARKET.. This market was very quiet, and stireely a single transaction in any description except Company's Cougou, at 2s. sd. COLONIAL MARKET. But little business done, and prices very little changed. B.P. Sugar scarce and sold slowly, prices very firm and looking up wards; 5.600 bags Mauritius sold at 625. and 635. for good qua lities, and 2 parcels NVhite Bengal, at 635. to 70s. ; bOO bags 13engal Rice sold at 13s. 6d fur fair quality, and 102 puns. W.I. Molasses at 31s. to 365. The Coffee Market very flat, and prices where altered lower. The Cinnamon Sale is over. It has been flat, and no great quantity sold. Fine sorts hive goi.e 2d. per lb. higher, and inferior kinds 2d. to 3d. per lb. lower. COAL s. Huddle's West Hartley 2') , 0 0i Carr's Ilartl. y Hebburn Main l9 Holywell Main l9 1 Lea', s Main l5 Original WHlsor's Pontnp IS :3 Ord's Itedhugh Pontop Windsor lB I , `Guth Hartley l9 0 \\ ' ylam , Walls End Gosforth 29 wails rind Heat...l . ..... Walls End Hilda H) 4 ' Walls End Hotspur Ships arrived since] 6IARKET. d. %Valls End Belmont 2l 3 Walls Endßraddyll'aletton 22 6 Wal's End Haswell :2:2 9 Walls End Hato,' • Weis End Lambton u Walls End Russell's Hetton 22 6 Walls End Stewart's l3 6 Walls End Hartlepool 23 3 Pennant's Hartlepool 72 6 Walls End Victoria Tees ::0 Blythe' l5 6 Brampton Main Nevill's Llanelly .last market-day, e 2, Died, on the 27th inst., at the house of his son, the Chevalier J. B. Ruspini, aged 72 years. DEATH OF SIR FRANCIS MACDONALD.--- This highly respected gentleman died on Friday night, at his esidence in Dublin. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCIr. LIVERPOnL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 27. ibis day's ;ales are 4,000 bales, 200 of which were taken for expor. ,ation, without any alteration in price since our last quo ;atiens. Arrivals this morning by the French mail—Ship letters from Madeira, Mauritius, Jan. 18, Madras, Jan. 19, Cape, Feb. 29. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers of Feb. 29, from which we extract the following : " In his Excellency's reply to the Stellenbosch Memo rial, given in our last, every point contained in that Me morial appears to be met in a most satisfactory manner. If the wine and corn farmers cannot procure labour for money they are much to be pitied." Front the frontier we have again nothing of importance. We mean, no depredations. It will be seen by an extract below from the Colonial Times, that the conduct of the Coffee Chiefs at their recent interview with the Licute nao-Governor has been very much exaggerated. We arc happy to learn that the report noticed some time ago of al,: death of Sir A. Oliphant, Chief Justice of Ceylon, turns out to he unfounded. Since Thursday last we have had three or four of our hottest days at the Cape. _ . ( From the Zued 4fr . PGriT NATAL, FED. 2 —(Extract.)--... I expected a letter from you since your departure. Nothing has oc curred, except that the English troops have left us, that the Council had immediately stt;tioned some of the burghers at this point, awl that a ra.st office has been estab lished ; therefore if you come here with merehaticlize, you will have to pay a duty of 3 p-r cent. Many new inhabit ants have lately arrived at Boseheman's Rand, belonging to the party of Burhner. Many other parties have also arrived, so that our force is becoming pretty strong. The new election has taken place, and 24 members have been chosen by a majority to rule over us ; and I have great satisfaction in stating that they consist of the most fit per. :ions amongst us, a n d th ere i s now a prospect that things will go on - better. The Cammando hag m trehed against Dingaan, and is about 500 strong ; and we now trust there will be an end to everything unpleasant. Panda has joined our Commando, but his people have gone to place themselves in the rear of Dingaan's chief General Tambousa. Panda is our friend, but we do not trust him much. I intend to make a fine tour to the Amapouda Chief Faker. I have been chosen by . the Council to go thither, to make some arrangements with Faker, especially as to the boundary ; but my journey is postponed, because Faker is waging war with Capany. We also intend to go to Pietermawritzburgh within a short time, and to estab lish ourselves there." ( From the Colonial Times.) Intelligence concerning the Boors, or Emigrants, at the Moddcn River and Port Natal, has been received this week from a farmer named De Vos, who called at our ...fEee for the purpose of affording information, in order that others may not be deluded. This Do Vos has just returned from the camp at Modder River, and details the following facts :—The camp contains about 400 families, who are living in a miserable state, and for want of a head are continua,ly quarrelling and disputing among them selves. Provisions are scarce, the cattle dying ; and he assures us that many of the farmers would return into the colony if they possessed the means of so doing. or if Go vernment would receive them. The camp over the Slink hoot Rant contains 600 boors, 400 were preparing for a commando, in conjunction with Panda, against Dingaan. At this camp it is impossible to feed sheep, so that most of them and the cattle arc on this side of the Vaal River; in fact this De Vos, whose heart appears to bleed for the suffer ings of his fellow-countrymen, gives a most woful descrip tion of the sufferings and privations of the emigrants, and deeply do we regret the state of misery into which these infituated and misled boors have plunged themselves. In his Excellency's reply to the memorial from Stellen bosch, he states—" In regard to wages his Excellency be lieves that many a master cannot afford to meet the expec tations of the labourer, although his own interest must show him the necessity of giving what he can afford. If labourers were not hired with him on those terms it is a misfortune, and cannot be remedied either by legis lative enactment or by Executive authority ; and of this the memorialists must be fully sensible. The rate of wages offered is, therefore, matter of little impor tance ; the memorialists say they are high, the labourers may say the contrary, and whichever way the truth may be the result would still be the same. The memorialists have pointed to emigration as affording the only remedy for disabilities under which they at present labour; and his Excellency has the satisfaction to inform them that he has joined the Council in strongly recommending that the existing impediments in the way of emigration from Europe may be removed. In regard to imported labour from other quarters he is not prepared to say that the checks put upon it are improper, although fully admitting that many of the objections made to it, as regarding other British Colonies, are not applicable to the Cape. The Lisbon mail continues due, and is not expected this week ; on her going out she met with some accident in her machinery, and was obliged to put back to repair, THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leavine-mlf prices of yesterday, 91-ki for the Account ; Money 90i- 91, with an inactive market ...o the present time ; Exchequer Bills 22 24 prem. • India Bonds 3 5 prem. ; Bank Sock 174} 1751- ii India Stock 249& 2504-. in the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues at the leaving-off price, 29* ; Deterred 14i i ; Passive 7+ f ; Portuguese as they closed 35i i ; Three per Cents. 24 1; Colombian rather better, 25 26; Mexican 281; Bra. zlian 731 76k; Belgian 104 k 105 fr ; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents. 534 54 ; Five per Cents. 100+ i. Although very little is doing either in the British or Foreign Market, the Funds continue steady and firm. The Share Market is also in a buoyant state. We do not bear of any improvement in the United States Bank Shares, although the accounts received yes terday by the packet from New York were rather of a fa vourable nature respecting the ab,,ve Bank. The shares may be quoted at 151, per share. The prevailing opinion in the City is, that we shall not have a war with Ame rica in respect to the Maine Trestion, owing to her Trea. sury being at a low ebb. Pli ICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLUCIC. Bank Stock 1751 I India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cents. Con 90% 1 South Sea Stock 3y tier Cent - ! Old Annuities I it.fo Red. 9.4%',4 , New Ditto New N pet Cent 99'4 % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire 1 Ditto 500 . 2! 14 pm. Jan 5, 18011 l3 9-10% Ditto Small 22 24 in. Oct. 111, 18511 l3 1-16 Ditto Commercial dis. Jan. 5,16 Co — Ditto Advertised ..... pm. Jan. 5, ISO — Bank Stock for Account .. April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account... Jan, 5.1870 —; Consols for Account 9l PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE u CLOCK Austrian Bonds -^ Peruvian Minis — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian i'Ands i Ditto New Bonds ; Buenos kyres Bonds Ditto ‘„count • —, Ditto Account 24% Chinni Bond s —; Prussian Bonds Ditta 'Loco. nt — , Russian Bonds, 182'J — Coloration &:ids —, Ditto Account — Ditta t:.:;.iit Columbian 3: • d 5,1824 25%% , Spanish Bonas .................29 6% Ditto kccal.i R DanisU Bonds Ditto Az.t: :at — , Deferred l4 fr., Greek Bon's —, French, 5 per cent...-. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1625 ~ —._. 4 per cent. —4. --c. Ditto Account -- 3 per cent. .--f. —c Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ' ------ Exchange. —l. Ditto Account Ditto, 0 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Ditto Acc0unt........ — PRICES OF SHARE THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid, Per snare. Birmingham and Derby Railway Company ....WO 83 5 4 Cheltenham and Great Western Railway treat Western hallway Company 65 f 3 i Ditto New .,,, 39 London and Blautwall Railway 2O 14 1.1 noon and Birmingham Raltrtas Company, 9O 165 Midland Counties Railway Company. if,o 91 South Eastern and Dover Railway Company iB 34' HALF-PAST ONE. In respect to the operations in the British Market dur ing the morning, we cannot quote a feature worth notice, with the exception that the price of Consols continues firm to the present hour. The approaching Budget, and the needful which Ministers would require, either by a loan or otherwise, as well as the new taxes, will in a few days operate on the market. Ce ►scquently the speculators and monied interest at present will not enter into any extensive operations until the above mea sures of• Ministers are known, money being so plentiful among the City capitalists that we have no doubt a loan of 10 or 15 millions could be obtained with the greatest Consols at present for the Account 91 ; Money 908 91 ; Exchequer Bills 22 24 prem. ; India Bonds nothing (tune; Bank Stock 175 k. In the For, Market Spanish Active a shade lower than in the morning, when they were 29, at present 28k ; in Portuguese nothing done in the Five per Cents ; Three per Cents., 24f ; Colombian, 26 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Halt per Cents., 53/; F:ve per Cents, 1004. Scarce a bargain doing in the above market. Shares maintain yesterday's prices. We hear of a letter being in town from Rhodes, stating that the Greeks wanted to sacrifice the Jews in the above town ; that the Pacha ordered the Jews to remain in their quarters, and that no harm should befal them. Whe ther the above is a fact we must wait a few days to ascertain. We perceive from the Birmingham Journal, that an attempt has been made in that town to effect some arrange ment which might put an end to the anomakus position in which the borough has been placed through the opposition to the Charter. An explosion of fire damp took place on Tues day, in Shinzliffe Colliery, near Durham, and four men were severely scorched. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening, a vat or boiler in the brewery of Mr. Younger, South Back of Canongate, burst, and two men and three boys, who were near, were so severely burned, that they were carried instantly to the Royal Infirmary, where, we regret to add, one of the boys died on - Thursday forenoon. The others, it is hoped, will recover. Edinburgh Courant. CEIARTIST EMIGRATION. Mr. G. R. Batchelor (who, it will be remember e d, was one o f the part i es prosecuted at Durham last assizes, but against whom a true bill was nut found) has gone to America. Mr. B. was a native of Newport, and an intimate friend of Frost. Though young, he was a talented and enthusiastic advocate of the people's rights. —Liberator. We regret to state that on Wednesday evening last Mr. Simon Hore, formerly a brewer of Exeter, dropped down sudd en l y , when about a quarter of a mile from his house at Shillingford, and died very soon afterwards. A man of the name of Yelland, a labourer in the employ of the Rev. Charles Brown, of Whitstone, the ta blood -vessel on W e d nes d aymorn i ng , w hil s t at work in field, and instantly Lied. Evangelical A p D r s t e o n t e be r s, adnedv to advocate to rt l .t :_o e l r u e t s it t a s r3, of n t .i i r ie . ciple, is likely to app ear i n a s hort time. ceremony .e on Fliday. Nationa School at Woolwich took Oa( t h e the i 1 The of laying the fou ndation of the THE ART-UNION OF LONDON. 'rho members of this largely increasing association met yesterday 014ntley7 to receive the report of the Committee, and to distribute the prizes. The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton took the chair. At the request of the Committee George Godwin, jun. Esq., F. R. S., introduced the business of the meeting and read the report. The number of Members was 1,970, the total amount subscribed was 2,2501. ; of this the sum of 1,4001. was allotted for the purchase of forty-two works of art, and 5871. for engraving one of the pictures purchased, an impression of which is received by each subscriber. The distribution having:been made, and the names of the prize -holders announced by the scrutineers, thanks were voted to the Committee, to Mr. Rainy for the use of his gallery, where the meeting. was held, and to Mr. Godwin for his assistance. The Marquis having left the chair. it was moved by B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., F. R. S., seconded by Mr. Alderman Wilson, and carried unanimously, that the best thanks of the meeting were due to his Lordship for his able and kind conduct in the chair. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 27.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the Louisa, Musgrave, from Madeira; Rose. St. Michael's. Sailed the Jane, Duke, for Sydney, New South Wales ; Mar mion, Jellard, Port Philip; Eliza, Watkins, St. Helena. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 27.—Wind variable.—Arrived off. Sir Cohn Campbell, from Bombay ; Garonne, New Orleans. Sailed the Coimna, Wilmot. for the Cape Of Good Hope ; David, Adair Cuba ; Henry, Sailey, Phi. ladelphia ; Champlain. Brown, ditto; Colonel Howard, Trenton, Baltimore ; Forester, Parker, Havannah ; Cot tager, Smith, Montreal; Sisters, Jaques, ditto; Carthage, Knapp, Virginia. PonTsmouTn. APRIL 27. Wind variable.—Arrived off, the Figaro. from Rio Janeiro ; Johanna, Mensing, 1 1 a" vannaii ; Fornics, Charleston; Maria Fredca, Bourard, Surinam; H Ice Monro, Nair). Girgcnti. PLTstounr, APRIL 27.—Wind light and variable.—Ar rived the Wellinton, Liddell, from Madras, sailed the 20. h January, Pondicherry 21, Cape of Good Hope 2 . 5 ult , St. Helena 13, Ascension 20.. Arrived off. the El*- zabeth, O.T, Matanzas; Earl Powis, Spittal, Mauritius, sailed 18 h January. FALMOUTH, Arum 26 —Wind N. to N.N.E., fresh breezes. —Arrived the Aurora, Vandon, from St. Michael's. BRISTOL, APRIL 27.—Arrived the Daring, Miller, from St. Michael's. HOLYHEAD, APRIL 26.—Arrived off, the Dumfriesshire , Gowan, from New Orleans. OFF THE OLD HEAD OF KINSALE, APRIL 24.---The Lichfield, from Fornando Po. COPES, Aram 27.—Arrived the Samos, Brewer, from the Havannah and Matanzas. CORK, APRIL 27.—StAed the Colonist, Dristle, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; Edward Cuthbertson, ditto ; Stakesby packet, Gobble, Halifax ; Hercules, Rugnault Quebec, _ Hutt, Arßtt 27.—Wind N.—Sailed the Montreal Allen, for Richebucto ; Washington, Walker, Calcutta. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Last night a burletta entitled " The House of Ladies, and intended " to be chartered in 1845," was produced at this theatre, and was prodigiously successful. It is a sort of sequel to the Ladies' Club, and follows up with ex ceeding wit and point the instructive satire convey ed in that popular and elegant little comedy. We are . given to understand in the play-bills, that the " idea of the two pieces was suggested by the follow ing passage quoted from Boerbeave in his " E ssa y for the Cure of Scolding."—" T would propose, there fore, if I were a legislator, or if I had influence enough to s et a fashion, that the ladies should, in all respects, im itate the societies of the men ; that they should W e their coffee-houses, their disputing societies, and eel their Parliaments." Mark Leman having worked out this idea with admirable taste, in his well-timed el?: pljcation of the principle to the Ladies' Club, has pushedhe a little further to the extravagant, by chartering f or Ladies of the Club a House of Parliament in the neig h " bourbood of Westminster Hall,—the condition of the charter being that the members should not quarrel. ar t s render what might appear outre in the prelim i, and development of this plan, a little vrai.semblaote fancy is introduced in a smartly written pro logue, beseeching (and inducing) Time to anticipatte five years, and to allow her to hold the mirror nP Fashion, that that lady may view herself as she w ill . ID‘f seen in 1845. We will not attempt to sketch any of b e very moral and e::quisitely laughable scenes in which t he . ladies present themselves in the rivalry of their lords follies and eccentricities at Tattersall's and in , 13 , 4 , 1 :: liament. Any thing more completely, successful'''. l i more universally laughed at from beginning to end--wiY_ o r out a particle of vulgar drollery or coarseness in word }t,. situation, we have scarcely ever seen. Very great as ar e t merits of the author, neat as is his diction, and refined nis wit, we must acknowledge that much of the brilliant success of last night was owing to the excellence of the performancet.. Every part was adequately filled, and played with earn e sbe ness and zest. Mrs. Stirling, as Mrs. Fitzmyt h, t member for Chatterton," a loquacious, pert, and wou . r. be witty honourable gentlewoman, did wonders for the de bating scene, and was admirably supported by her °PP!' nent, Mrs. Bookly, the sporting member for EdvnonOsi• bury ( Muss Ayres). and an bash member, Mre. O'Don e ' was represented with great spirit and archness. :The et l 7 dition of the charter being very speedily violated, the boos° was dissolved ; bust on the application of Mrs. Stirlingto the laughter-sick audience, leave was given unanimously. - atl° amidst tremendous applause, to sit again every - A ight ( Sundays excepted) for the rest of the season.,—Nark Leman was loudly called for, but did not answer the sum. coons. Mr. Halford, as Sir Charles Lavender, the ad mirer and admired of the ladies, and their coadjutor in the schemes of retaliation upon their un.domestie spouse , and Mr. G. Wild, as Flammer, the intriguing and inveriti k .,/, e footman, Mr.' M a j or M or t ar , di v id e d w ith th e lacliei3O" applause of the house. and the merit of its triumph. ' We observ e d th e E ar l an d C ountess o f Harringtr l ; one of the private boxes, and Mr. and Mrs. Feg te 4 father and mother of t h e C ou nt es s occupied 0114 " 9 . opposite side. The House was crowded to excess. , On Thursday, a gentleman in a gig, on Pass l . a t the Tron Church, pulled up his horse suddenly, it hav ll stumbled, which so frightened the animal that it set Oat M", speed along the North Bridge. As he neared Prince' s-s"e :purpe:;; he used all his exertions to control the horse, bat to no for it dashed against the railings in front of the iteg la w . o Office, and was transfixed on them. The gentlem an d witched from hi 4 seat by the concussion, inside the ra ilings hat is astonishing, was in no way injured. The h°rlnluen removed with some difficulty, a n d th oug h it lost a grea t q , tity of blood, it is expected to rec ove r, a s none of the vitao '- understood to be injured.—Edinburgh Courant. i e irs RAILWAY COMPENSATION.--11l tile . c ..7. 1 - n . he Court, cn Saturday last, Mr S ne l grove r ecovered tom' Eastern Counti es Railway, 336/. compensation for certain Sesit mises required by the Comp an y. Th e verdict was inclePen of the value of the fixtures and improvements. ACCIDENTS.—The last time the Earl of V' c ; bridge gave a match at cricket to be played in the grm„ in , ds :0 Cumberland Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, Mr. 0 "7,41 in inhabitant of Egham, who was one of the players, ohtsf attempting to catch the ball, and broke the cap ef f knee. He was just sufficiently recovered from the e " -- o f ° e the accident to be enabled to walk with the assistaneeng e .. crutch, when a few days since he trod en a piece °f fa sad peel, fell on the pavement, broke the cap of the left kneel put severely cut the one which had been broken before. I t is expected he will ever be able to walk again. ' At Pool fair, Montgomeryshi r e, on the 15t, rh,e and 16th instant, fat sheep obt a in e d 6id. to 7d. per 11-1 * n ot couples of ewe s an d l am b s so ld we ll, b ut poor stores we saleable, keep being deficient. merl Three Privates of the 45th Regimen t, na;,.,of Walker, Cunningham, and Waugh, who had sold some pawns re boots to an o ld man ca ll r d P erry, res i d i ng i n Pillgwenlly , tried by a regi men t a l court mart i a l f or t h e o ffence, and `en tried teneed to forty days' imprisonment, with hard labour. o n DARING OUTRAGE AT KILLAMARSI I do or the night of Monday, the 13th i ns t an t, was written on t he h, of the house inhabited by Mr. John Mallendar, at Kill if ' near Chesterfield, the following notice :—" John Mantled!, : e you don't leave this place you will be shot." Several 0 ,1 e offeredwindows so f\ovorfetthdheiel Wednesday s i o d u a s ey detection learosefttbirlteohkaeeffne. convicts od reward e A nrv.ic s 1 ,,. hay, and Burke, were removed from Monmouth countY g a° , of tern' the Warwick hulk, preparatory to undergoing the ir transportation. 0 s ail THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND.--We are ; 0 0IY to learn that this distinguished nobleman continues ser o3 - ~4 1 a i a n h d a i p s e po th se a c t i. eac H it i e s s G e r a a l c is e i ' d s e m ra a b la le dy an h a a i s e , ty w a e a u , n a d n e g r s s — t iVi ta h n tl i d a r,rea l l::l n ds i---t°• Durham Chronicle. m Capt. Burnett, R.N., commanding 11.1V1. e l was ag Generali nearlye je nn o e f , rt iv l h ea t t i eN l t i a e v d tyo, at Portsmouth on ThursileY , last lei° March 11, 1834. He Sir and hi William , s dt . 1 8 . scp u oo r tas n i m e t i t 0i t ia.1......? t the dat e e pbo_ P erea : : .: s7, s 4, sailing, in command of w t as hat a shi o p i when he was seized with his fatal fi i r n s Portsmouth, on the 11th February last, the eve ° ship, to theto AthieedAilteargriacitioelaun; 04 last, and was on „wino , indisposition. — Herald. r i a , l h d l e . • Welshman calls upon the Dissenters „ f pg; :i g , i : i s c e i sir R Principality obe rti a n t g. iaonce,s proposed i) o adopt sed THE ALLEGED applicationMUßDEß R O o F r fora ~ a .0 money to build new churches. tint HUSBAND. --Simon M IV IC 13 'SC `Adore custody, since the 15 h t inst., on the charge of murder 5 0es wife, was on Tuesday brought before the Bench of Mag , " 1 for for final examination, and committed to Camckfergus r y, the man who haL be o e t rb l is trial at next assizes. . a t the PETRIFACTIONS.—WhiIe the workmen . s te, '- centre of the Railway Tunnel at Falkirk were enga. 120 pit, they discovered the trunk of a tree in a petrified te .___ hea a bout 2 0 / 7 i , a feet from the surface. It appeared to be cut from the root, and is about five feet in circumference.: av_ also beautiful specimen. Several other organic remains b c been found.— Stirling Observer. NANCY'I DENBIGHSHIRE LORD LIEUTE . te d Lor- Robert Myddleton Biddulph, Esq., the newly n i l:l l ° m b pfilitia, Lieutenant, assumes the command of the D g Devi didleton Did taking rank as a Colonel in the army. d is ul n p ( h )w w v a a s c p a i n e t v a io c us a l p y t a ain Ca s p c ta o i m n i m n is t s h i i o s a c . orp A s SIIIRE.--- RURAL POLICE IN NOTTINGHAM mei °. At the meeting of magistrates, on Tuesday last, a great o th i s rity decided upon adopting the Constabulary & I This I:olt;aghani county, and a superintendent was elected. ...0 , and 'straws, Review is very angry with the majority of the mag and coo asserts that a spy system abhorrent to the feelings, . e ..,0 ,.., ^ea in the tle a" - trary to the constitution of Englishmen, 'lr i ° i n i ll l seyrenpilY trer A a blished throughout the kingdom. lint Duke of Neweas new Colonel Wildman, who opposed the oduction of the f o re:, are highly praised by our alarmed contemp o rary- t ,_, iirt i nv , a DEATH FROM SWINGING.--On o at " t a kert the London Hospital, an inquest was held befo re Mr. The on view of the body of Edward Hutchinson, aged 46 ' m iths. ' deceased was in the employ of Messrs. Norbury, coPPe r4 a Ti n to of Mile End. and on the afternoon of Monday e a ___. he a swing at Mtepney fair, but had scarcely sa down before ed '1 fractur tell out with great violence upon his head, and here his skull. He was removed to the London Hospital, r: , .... I c h i e de e r x ia i i r d ed ea a t t h. t j even o'clock on Friday night. Verdid-- - " I "' - —.so RVENING EDITION.