The Sun. — London, England, 1840-02-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO DRURY-LANE THEATRE. " Old Drury" presented, last night, a spectacle, which, by those who witnessed it, will never be for gotten. The visit of a Sovereign to one of our national theatres is always an occasion joyfully welcomed, and long recollected ; but this was not an ordinary, a cus tomary, a formal visit—the first appearance of a fair, a young, a beloved QUEEN, amongst her at tached and affectionate subjects—after entering into the relations of marriage, and that upon an oc casion of public entertainment and diversion—in an edifice so surrounded by bright and splended remi niscences as this magnificent theatre, amidst all the cheerful abandonment of mind and feeling to the charms of dramatic illusion, and the fascination of music's spell. Again, we say, those who were so happy as to behold, will retain the recollection through their lives. So early as two o'clock public excitement was mani fested by eager crowding to the doors. It is needless to say, that the moment they were opened the rush was tremendous, and the filling of the house all but simul taneous—boxes, and all, presented, in a short time, one densely crowded audience. When the Queen arrived, what an overpowering outburst of ardent, enthusiastic loyalty ! The walls seemed to tremble at the thunder. Her Majesty ac knowledged this affectionate greeting most graciously. Her Illustrious Consort also appeared fully sensible of the warmth and energy of the welcome. The Royal party occupied the stage-box, which, however, was brought out some feet, so as to allow the audience a f ull opportunity of beholding their Sovereign. The front of the box was splendidly embla zoned with the British arms in gold on crim son, and the drapery, suspended tastefully over it, bore on two pendents the letters V. and A., above the chairs on which the Queen and the Prince were seated, side by side. The house looked magnificent. The private -boxes were all crowded with her Majesty's suite, or with fo reign Ambassadors, or with noblemen and officers in full costume. The dress circle and the two circles above were all glittering and waving with the splendid array of beauty, in all the lustre of diamonds, and all the brilliancy of attire. The pit, with its vast sea of human faces—the boxes, with their dazzling circles of beauty and splendour—the stage, with its mass of spectators— all the Corps Dramatique, in full costume—in front an audience of some four thousand, " uprising, uncovered" —the thrilling strains of our noble anthem sounding in the music of a first-rate orchestra—each verse rising in tones of exquisite melody, and startling power—the choruses swelling with the overwhelming majesty, and followed by the thundering cheers, of enthusiastic num bers--in vain the attempt to describe—but many will remember! That beautiful opera the Mountain Sylph was com manded by her Majesty, and certainly few performances could have been selected more suited for such a happy occasion than this charming composition, with its simple, pleasing love story. The fascinating witchery of its aerial beauties—the picturesque variety of its scenery —the fine harmony of the music—its exquisite mingling of all the most thrilling of melodies, with the most touching of expression, makes it in deed a gent. Above all, that divine—that incom parable " Farewell," of Phillips ! It would be in vain, were we to endeavour to convey an idea of the sur passing melody and pathos of this air, as sung by him—it must be heard. What an encore ! There would have been half-a-dozen—but for the sake of the vocalist. It is unnecessary to add, that, on retiring, her Ma jesty and the Prince received as hearty a demonstra frau of attachment and respect as on entering. EVENING EDITION• COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert went in State, last even ing, to honour Drury-lane Theatre with their presence. The Royal Suite occupied nine carriages and included the Duchess of Bedford and the Marchioness of Normanby, Ladies in Waiting; the Hon. Misses Murray (in waiting), Lister (in waiting), Paget, Pitt, Cocks, Cavendish, and Anson, Maids of Honour ; the Hon. Mrs. George Camp. bell, Woman of the Bedchamber in Waiting; the Earl of Errol, K. T., Lord Steward; the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Chambeclain ; the Earl of Ilchester, Captain of the Yeo men of the Guard; Lord Hill, G. C. 8., Gold Stick in Whiting; Lord Robert Grosvenor, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert; the Marquis of Headfort. K. P., Lord in Waitiing ; the Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of the Household ; the Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, Comptroller of the Household ; the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, the Clerk Marshal; the Honourable General Sir William Lumley, Groom in Waiting; Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting; Viscount Boringdon, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert ; Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert ; Lieutenant Francis Seymour, Groom of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert ; Mr. Cowell and Master Wemyss, Pages of H onour ( t the Queen) in Waiting ; the Hon. Frederick Byng, Sir William Martins, and Captain Green. Gentleman Ushers in Waiting ; and Captain Bellairs, Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard in Waiting. The Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes, and the Earl of Albemarle, G. C. H., Master of the Horse, rode in the same carriage with the Queen and Prince Al bert. A party of the Household Troops escorted the royal procession to the theatre. The manager, Mr. Ham mond, received her Majesty and Prince Albert at the Royal Entrance, and preceded the royal party with wax lights to the Royal Box. The Reigning Duke, and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe cobourg Gotha were also present at Drury-lane Theatre last evening. Their Serene Highnesses were at tended by Count Kolowrath, Baron Alvensleben, Baron de Lowenfels, Baron Ernest de Poellnitz, and Baron de Gruben. Viscount Melbourne and the Judge Advocate General had audiences yesterday of the Queen. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Charles Somerset, paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Hall, Mr. B. J. Armstrong, Sir Charles Forbes, Mr. Henry Pownall, and Mr. Charles Augustus Tulk, a deputation of Justices of Middlesex, attended at the Home office yesterday afternoon, to confer with the Marquis of Normanby. A deputation on the subject of Emigration from the Highlands and the Islands of Scotland, consisting of his Grace the Duke of Argyll, Lord Macdonald, Sir Donald Campbell, Colonel Wyndham, J. Brydone, Esq., Mr. W. F. Campbell, M.P., Colonel Macpherson, Captain Bel stead, Dr. Rolph (Upper Canada), Dr. Hill, B. Hill, Esq., James Law, Esq., Robert Scott, Esq., and Sir Duncan Macdougall, h a d an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A Deputation consisting of Lord Ashley, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., Sir W. W. Pepys, Bart., Sir W. Far quhar, Bart., Rev. J. R. Maitland, Mr. Sergeant Stephen, T. Williams Helps, Esq., P. J. Heisch, Esq., and Robert Stephen, Esq., had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Lord Seaton and Lieutenant-General Sir Samford Whittingbam, had interviews with Lord J. Russell yes terday at the Colonial-office. Lo - rd Portman had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has com manded an annual subscription of 10 guineas to be paid to the Mendicity Society. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, as well as her Majesty's Royal aunts, presented a cadeau de note to the Royal Bride on her wedding day. The illustrious parent presented her daughter with a bracelet in the form of a serpent, made entirely of turquoise, with the exception of a diamond collar, and the head, which was also ornamented with brilliants and rubies. The Queen's aunts decided also on a memento of this nature, the joint gift of their Royal High nesses, and this decision preceded almost immediately the de mise of the late much lamented L an d grav i ne o f Hesse Homburg. The Marchioness of Normanby held her sixth assembly yesterday evening, in Hill-street. The Speaker will hold his second levee on Sa turday next, and his third and last levee for the season on the succeeding Saturday. The Speaker will give his third Parliamentary dinner on Saturday next, in Eaton-square. The Right Hon. Gentleman will continue his series of dinners every Saturday till the Easter recess. Viscount Fitzallan gave his first dinner in Great Stanhope -street, late the residence of Lord Aboyne, on Mon day evening. Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, the Mar quis of Douro, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, Lord Eliot, Sir Robert Inglis, Lord Sandon, Colonel Perceval, Lord Granville Somerset, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir William Rae, were among the distin guished Members of the Conservative party who were present at the Speaker's second Parliamentary dinner. THE FLOU R B ILL (IRELAND.) —A petition against the importation of foreign flour into Ireland has received the sanction of men of all parties on the Grand Jury of Meath, and has been numerously signed by them and the gentry and farmers assembled at the Assizes. The petition adopted in Meath is founded on the principle that, by the con templated admi ss i on o f foreign flour, labour will be diminished —the capital embarked in milling seriously damaged—the far mer depressed, and the poor deprived of the cheap food now re -B,llting from the home manufacture of flour. — Dublin Even ing Nail. Extract of a letter from Carlsruhe, 20th inst.:— .4 . k grant!. ball was given here yesterday evening by the Hon. Robert Kennedy, in honour of the marriage of the Queen of England with Prince Albert. During the supper, which com prised every delicacy, the health of the Royal pair was given, and received with the greatest enthusiasm. This brilliant fete, so well in harmony with the known hospitality of the Noble Host cannot fail to remain most agreeably impressed on the minis of everybody at Carlsruhe."—Galignani. LITERATURE. ON THE OBJECTS, PLEASURES, AND ADVANTAGES OF POLITICAL SCI ENCE. London, 1840. • How many essays have we not had, within the last twenty years, on this theme ! but how few that are readable ! Reviews, monthly and quarterly—Journals, daily and weekly—Pamphlets, Encyclopaedias, and Penny Magazines—all have lent their aid to enlighten the public on the subject of Political Science, yet scarce'y one has so handled it as to attract the unin formed reader to its study. Hume led the way to this field of fertile speculation, and Adam Smith followed him ; but, if we except these agreeable and luminous writers, many of whose doctrines are now, we believe, obsolete, it is hardly possible to mention one, whose work is penned in a sufficiently popular spirit to induce the tyro to master its contents. Maculloch is, we un derstand, sound authority on most points connected with this department of intellect ; but there is no denying the fact that he is also one of the dullest essayists that ever spawned a sentence. His very name begets a yawn. Ricardo, who is equally well versed in Political Science, and whose opinions have not been without their influ ence, is another writer of the same dry, wearisome cha racter, whose speculations, however they may suit the tastes of the congenial Few, are certainly caviare to the Many. What the public wants, is, not so much a grave, profound, cumbrous volume on the Science, as a shrewd, concise essay penned in a familiar and unaffected style, which all who read may understand. We do not wish to be bewildered and frightened into conviction by a formal array of pedantic arguments and abstruse theories ; but to be entertained, while we are instructed, by terse, perti nent reflections, set off by those lighter graces of man ner—such as are of constant occurrence even in the profoundest works of the philosophic Bacon—which usually accompany a clear and vigorous understand ing. Of such an attractive character is the essay be fore us, which we have little hesitation in ascribing to the pen of Lord Brougham. The object of this mas terly treatise is to set forth the pleasures and advanta ges that attend the study of Political Science ; and this it does with a heartiness of feeling, a vigour —preci sion—and vivacity of style, a strength and luminous ness of reasoning enriched and enforced by illustrations drawn from a variety of sources, of which no other writer of the day is capable. It was said 'of 'Burke, by one not prone to undue panegyric, that he could render the most matter-of-fact and uninviting subject as entertaining as a fairy tale ; and the same may be said of the author of this elegant essay. By the grace and lightness of his touch, and the numerous little sallies of fancy that escape him—quite accidentally, as it were— he has imparted an interest to his theme, of which few, if any, would suppose it susceptible. With what fervour he insists on the paramount advantages of Political Science ; and how generous and elevated is his tone when he comes to discuss the vulgar, utilitarian notion that the most important advantage derived from the sciences is their practical adaptation to the uses of life : " There cannot," he says, " be a greater oversight, or a greater confusion of ideas, than that in which such a notion had its origin. It is nearly akin to the fallacy which represents profitable or productive labour as only that kind of labour by which some substantial or material thing is produced or fashioned. The labour which of all others most benefits a community, the superior order of labour which governs, defends, and improves a State, is by this fallacy excluded from the title of production, merely because, instead of bestowing additional value on one mass or parcel of a nation's capital, it gives additional value to the whole of its property, and gives it that quality of secu rity without which all other value would be worthless. So they who deny the importance of mere scientific contem plation, and exclude from the uses of science the pure and real pleasure of discovering, and of learning, and of sur veying its truths, forget how many of the enjoyments de rived from what are called the practical application of the sciences, resolve themselves into gratifications of a merely contemplative kind. Thus, the steam-engine is confessed to be the most useful application of machinery and chemistry to the arts. Would it not be so if steam-navi gation were its only result, and if no one used a steam boat but for excursions of curiosity or amusement ? Would it not be so, if steam-engines had never been used but in the fine arts ? So a microscope is a useful practical ap plication of optical science as well as a telescope, and a telescope would be so, although it were only used in ex amining distant views for our amusement, or in showing us the real figures of the planets, and were of no use in navi gation or in war. The mere pleasure, then, of tracing relations, and of contemplating general laws in the mate rial, the moral, and the political world, is the direct and legitimate value of science; and all scientific truths are important for this reason, whether they ever lend any aid to the common arts of life, or no. In like manner, the mental gratification afforded by the scientific contemplations of natural religion are of great value, independently of their much higher virtue in mending the heart and im proving the life, towards which important object, indeed, all the contemplations of science more or less directly tend, and in this higher sense all the pleasures of science are justly considered as practical uses." We cannot too highly applaud the pure and elevated character of this fine passage, whose tone is as far supe rior to anything one meets with in Paley—a shrewd but by no means a lofty-minded writer—as " Hyperion to a Satyr." On the subject of public instruction, Lord Brougham speaks out, as might be expected from him, in a bold, generous, and beneficent spirit. He is an ad vocate for education to the utmost extent to which it can be carried. He will hear of no half-measure—no compromise on the subject. The more you instruct the people, the more guarantees you give for good govern ment, the more you strengthen the foundations of social order. Such is the tenor of his reasoning on this most momentous subject, especially as regards the political education of the people. But let him speak for himself " It may be said that there is this peculiar to a course of political instruction, that many of the principles explained in it are those which the existing parties in the State are at the time appealing to, and disputing about—many of the il lustrations used in expounding those principles are the very topics of most vehement discussion among the practical statesmen and faction of the day. The whole subject, it may be argued, is more or less controversial, and the con troversy is one in which, as it involves men's real or sup posed interests, and consequently engages their passions deeply, no instructor can easily avoid taking a side, and no audience can help being swayed by the prevailing sen timents of the times; so that instruction becomes difficult, from the interference of party prejudice in both the teacher and the pupil, while a factious spirit is sure to be fostered, and unkindly feelings to be exacerbated, if not engen dered. In this remark there is, unquestionably, much truth ; it refers to the principal difficulty that attends poli tical instruction. But it can never be allowed to prove that no such instruction should be conveyed ; it only warns us to guard as much as possible against falling into the errors which it points out. If it were suffered to operate as a conclusive reason against teaching politics, this would follow—that upon the things most necessary to be known, ignorance is better than knowledge—that in proportion as the subject is more interesting to men, they should take the less pains to understand it. But that is not all ; it would also follow that, upon topics calculated to excite strong feelings, it is better and safer for the people to be kept in the dark. For by the supposition which forms the ground of the whole objection, you cannot keep the peo ple from taking an interest in these subjects : you cannot help their being excited and split into parties ; their being so is the very origin of the remark with which we are deal ing. Then, because such excitement and such party dif ferences prevail, is there any common sense in prescribing an entire ignorance of the questions those dissensions re late to, as a likely means of allaying them? Are political differences the more sure to be reconciled, by keeping those who are split by them in ignorance of the subjects under dispute? Are men more likely to agree upon any matter, the less they know about it ? The people, it seems, feel strongly upon certain subjects, and are much divided, many being for a certain course of policy, many against it. The argument is, that for the purpose of bringing about an understanding, and making all in its favour, or all join in rejecting it, or all unite in preferring some middle course safely placed at a distance from either extreme, the parties should be prevented from comprehending the na ture of the measure in question, and kept in ignorance of all the arguments for it, all the arguments against it, and all the arguments for a middle course. Once upon a time, says the old fable, two gallant knights met upon a plain where a shield stood upright; and one of them having called it a white shield, the other asserted it to be black, whereupon they prepared to fight after the manner of that age, somewhat in vogue at the present day. But a der vise or priest came up, and, having learnt the cause of their quarrel, suggested that each had better look at both sides of the buckler—when they found that each knight was right—the one side being pure white, the other jet black. The minister of peace performed his duty wisely; but our objectors, and some of them nominally of the same vocation with the dervise, have no better expedient to pro pose than that the shield should be covered up from both combatants, and the fight go on.:' We have given but a hasty and imperfect notice of this Essay, but trust we have said quite enough to induce our readers to peruse it with the deep attention it de serves. They need not take fright at the subject, and imagine that they will meet with a series of abstruse, perplexing arguments and theories, as difficult of diges tion as an ounce of lead ; Lord B roug h am d oes not dis cuss his theme in this dry, repulsive fashion ; his manner is as familiar as it is conciliatory, and his logic uniformly recommended by good sense, rendered impressive by its earnestness and animation, and attractive by the sty le in which it is set, like a precious jewel in gold. We hope he will continue his essays on Political Scienc , ., and thereby bequeath to the world a legacy calculated to benefit it through all time. CUBA, WITH NOTICES OF PORTO RICO AND THE SLAVE-TRADE. BY DAVID 7URNBULL, ESQ. Longman and Co., 1840. This volume represents the fragment (in the words of the author) of a tour of considerable extent on the western side of the Atlantic, begun in 1837 and con cluded towards the close of 1839, and will be followed by another, embracing, in lik e manner, historical and ge ographical notices of other foreign colonies. A con siderable portion of the present work relates to the slave-trade and the sugar and coffee plantations in the island of Cuba. The author had good opportunities of ascertaining the effects of the attempts of Great Britain to abolish the slave-trade, and he comes exactly to the melancholy conclusion of Mr. Buxton, that the suffer ings of the unfortunate slaves have been greatly aggra vated since concealment and escape became necessary conditions to the slave-trader's profit. To remedy this frightful evil by putting an end to the trade, he pro poses that the " ultimate proprietor of the imported slave should be made insecure in his right to his illicit acquisition ;" in other words, that the holders of African slaves should be amenable to the Courts of Justice, and be compelled to emancipate all those illicitly imported. That these Courts should by law be directed to con sider the civil right under the existing laws of Spain of an imported African to his freedom after the fact of his being landed in the island. This is all very plausible, but we fear utterly impracticable. If, after entering into a solemn treaty with Portugal for the abolition of the slave trade, Great Britain can not compel the Government of that country to observe anything like a decent observance of the treaty on the open seas, what chance could she have of compelling slave-holding judges and slave-holding attorneys in the interior of Cuba, or any other settlement belonging to Spain or Portugal, to carry into effect any law which would lessen the value of their property, and the pro perty also, possibly, of some of the members of the Government ? We fear this is what the French call a chateau en Espagne. But we must refer our readers to the book itself, where they will find some curious particulars about the designs of the people of the United States on Cuba and the Canadas. We give the following extract as a specimen which, we trust, is much exaggerated : At the close of the last Session of Congress I spent a month in Washington ; and during the outrageous debates on the boundary question, which have never been fully or faithfully reported, I was in daily attendance in the House of Representatives, or the Senate, in order to witness their proceedings. • • In the more popular body I heard one man, the repre sentative of one of the Carolinas, who is styled by courtesy a General, get up in his place and say, that he was for open and immediate war, without waiting for the running of lines, or the issue of idle negotiations. And what was he to do, think you, when he declared war against England or broke ground without any declaration ? Why, the first thing he was to do was, to take possession of the island cf Cuba; the next was, quietly to annex the young republic of Texas to the Union ; and, in the third place, by way of seriously commencing the struggle, he was to send an army, with himself doubtless at its bead, across the lakes or the St. Lawrence, to drive out the British intruders on the soil of his own continent, and convert it into one vast arena for the enjoyment of so much liberty as is consistent with " the peculiar institutions of the south." As this gen tleman's rhapsody was received with the most rapturous applause, and as the two Houses were all but unanimous in proclaiming their eagerness for a fresh struggle with Great Britain on the boundary question, it is difficult to doubt that the first aspiration of the Carolina representative is also the first wish of the majority of his countrymen. It was not easy to restrain a smile at the vehement tone of his oration, and the extravagant gestures with which it was enforced ; but both would have been strangely damped, had any one whispered the word " Seminoles" in his ear, and recalled to his recellection that, for several years, within a few hours' sail of Cuba, the whole military force of the Union has been fruitlessly employed in the attempt to sub due a mere handful of naked barbaria.ns LIFE OF WELLINGTON. 2 Vols. Churton, London, 1840. Next to Maxwell's Life of the great Duke, which has lately been published in numbers by Bailey, we consider this the best biographical memoir, for it is penned in a perfectly calm and equable spirit ; is full of well-considered and well-digested facts ; and is distin guished in many places by a flow of easy, unaffected eloquence. We may instance, in particular, the bio grapher's account of the Battle of Waterloo, which deserves high praise, not only for force and animation of description, but for the generous feeling and uniform perspicuity of details that characterize it. At the close of the work we find the character of the Duke pourtrayed with much skill and subtlety, though we must enter our protest against the remark, that " it would be difficult to show that he had any human sympathies." This is hastily said, and will certainly not bear consideration. The volumes are embellished with several passable wood-cuts, and are of the same size, and are printed in the same style, as the well-known Life of Buonaparte, in Murray's Family Library. NICKLEBY MARRIED. Williams, London, 1840. A mere catchpenny, professing to be a sequel to Ni cholas Nickleby, but possessing nothing in common with that clever tale but the title. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1840. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. In the forthcoming number of Tait's Magazine there is an interesting and conclusive article on the Veto question, which is now agitating Scotland from the Tweed to John O'Groat's. The writer endeavours to prove, and it must be admitted he does so with some effect, that the great object of Dr. Chalmers and his party is not to give the people the choice of their ministers, but to increase the ecclesiastical and civil power of a party, and place the whole Church patro nage of Scotland in the hands of the clergy. In se veral instances strong evidence is afforded that this imputation is well founded. The clergy, who call out for the Veto, claim the power of excluding all whom they consider improper persons from their communion. In some of the Highland parishes many of the most respectable inhabitants have been deprived of Church privileges. In one the number of com municants has been reduced to ten, and in an other, to five or six, all the favourites and creatures of the clergyman, and these will 'nave the sole privi lege of filling up the next vacancy. The writer of the article naturally asks, " Why limit the right of dissent to the heads of families in communion with the Church ? These are generally but few in number —in the case of Daviot they amounted to only ten— why should not the whole congregation —nay, why should not the whole parish join in the choice ? The Churchman will smile at this, for he has his reasons, and they are very cogent. Church ordinances are not with us, as they are in England, privileges to which the people are entitled, they are boons which the Church confers, and which she may refuse when she thinks fit." We have heard much of the cunning of the Jesuits—sti 1 more of the tyranny and absolutism of Catholic priests, but of all the attempts to delude the people and to introduce, under the cloak of religious privileges, the most complete ecclesiastical despotism, the attempt of Dr. Chalmers appears the most daring, cunning, and Jesuitical. Why, if the principle on which he acts were carried out—and if not checked the Kirk will carry it out, for the priesthood, whether Jewish, Catho lic, Protestant, or Presbyterian, have ever aimed at supreme power—Scotland would be placed in a worse condition than any of the most priest-ridden com munities in the world. The majority of the Scottish clergy at present are in fact calling on the Legislature to give them power to op press the people. If the non-intrusion principle is ceded, no man could vote fora Clergyman without the consent of the Church. The whole Ecclesiastical fran chise would be in her hands. The minister of the pa rish, in order to strike off communicants, may say to one, " thou art a drunkard," to another, " thou dost not perform family worship," to a third, " thou encou ragest dancing and singing," and, in short, he may al lege a pretence for depriving a man of his vote without any one to gainsay him. The same party would have Church Extension, thus burdening Dissenters, Catholics, and Episcopalians, for a State Re ligion, over which they have supreme con trol. Nay, more ; compensation must be made to the present patrons if the scheme is carried into effect, and the whole of the country must be mulcted to gratify the worldly ambition of men who profess to have in view only the eternal welfare of the people and the purification of a Church that has long held the first rank among the Christian Churches of Europe. We are quite convinced that no Government can succeed in any scheme like that proposed by the General As sembly. If they propose a reform, and we admit it is wanted, let it be a Radical reform. Let there be uni versal suffrage—let the whole male inhabitants of every parish have a vote in the election of the clergyman, and let compensation be made to the patrons, who have enjoyed the right of presenting to livings for the last cen tury and a half. At present the people of Scotland are placed, in consequence of the pretensions of the Clergy, in the most humiliating condition. The Missionaries sent forth by the Commission, but interdicted by the Court of Session, have issued handbills (better named Presbyterian Bulls) in several parishes, warning the parishioners not to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the rite of marriage, nor baptism for their chil dren, from their own pastors, as the ceremonies would be void and null. The article in the Magazine thus sums up the mischievous results which must ensue from the combined aggressions of the English as well as the Scottish Church : " To zealous and conscientious supporters of the Church of Scotland, who are not too much infatuated by partizan ship to see the obvious tendency of these incidents, the prospects of their favourite establishment must assume the most gloomy and disastrous hue. To the friends of Voluntary Church principles, the whole tissue of events is merely a phase of the natural workings of an Established Church, leading to this satisfactory conclusion, that such institutions, when their powers are unscrupulously stretched, are found to contain the elements of self-destruction in their bosoms. These are not times when vigorous ex periments can be tried upon such aged subjects; and we think we can perceive signs, that the more majestic esta blishment of our neighbours is beginning to exhibit internal symptoms prognosticating a similar result." THE WHALE FISHERY.—Th e only vessels about to proceed from the port of Hull for the Northern whale fishery this season are, the Abraham, Comet, Swan, and Truelove. The Ellison and Duncombe, which were out last year are not going. It seems from this, that this trade, which once engaged nearly 70 ships from Hull, i s now all but aban doned. Had it been so earlier it would have been all the better for the prosperity of the port, —Hill Obser ver . MR. BAILLIE ERASER ' S NEW TRAVELS TN THE EAST.—We are requested to state that the New Work under the title of " Travels in Koordistan and M esopotamia, including an account of the parts of those countr i es hitherto unvisited by Europeans, with Sketches of th e c h aracter and manners of the Koordish and Arab Tribes," b y J. BaMie Fraser, .1.., with engravings ) . i E t sg, Author is published r of"'h thiseKuzzi daylbasli,' &e. (i n 2 vole Bvby ' Mr. B en tl ey, New Burlington- street, publisher in ordinary to her Majesty, and can now be had of all Booksellers. Agents : for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; fo r I re l and, Mr. ' J. Cumming, Dublin. CASE OF FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—.With this letter I beg to hand you a copy of a petition which I forwarded to Lord Normanby on Monday last, with a request that he would lay the same before the Queen. I also send herewith a copy of a letter which I have since received from his Lordship's Secretary. I shall feel much obliged by your allowing those docu ments to appear in your Paper of to-morrow, and pro bably you will be good enough to give insertion to this let ter also, and thus afford me an opportunity of making known to those who have felt interested in the case of these unfortunate men, that I went to .Portsmouth on Thursday last for the purpose of seeing them, and that I had two interviews with them of some duration. I had to undergo in those interviews a truly heart-rending scene. The pri soners were confined in a small cell, which they were not permitted to leave under any circumstances. They were clad in a dress which I shall not attempt to describe, and each had on the right leg an iron manacle. They were greatly depressed, but more particularly Mr. Frost and Mr. Williams. The former is evidently fast drooping into eternity, borne down by mental anguish and bodily decay. They all firmly and frequently declared they would rather have undergone the extreme penalty of the law than the pain and torture inflicted by the suspense in which they were kept at Monmouth, by the manner in which they were removed from thence, and by the mental and bodily suffer ing they ate now enduring. I abstain from further comment at present, it being my intention shortly to address a series of letters to the British public on all the bearings of this extraordinary case, in which will be embodied a volume of matter supported by unquestionable and convincing evidence, which will not only tend to palliate the offence of which these unfortunate men have been guilty, but will necessarily create an im pression and produce a conviction in the public mind, which facts warrant, and which justice has long demanded. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, Tavistock Hotel, Feb. 26., W. F. GEACH. TO THE QUEEN'S MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY. The humble petition of Sarah Roberts, widow, who is now in the 81st year of her age, mother of John Frost (a prisoner on board your Majesty's transport ship the York, at Gosport), of Mary Frost, the wife of the said John Frost; Elizabeth Frost, Sarah Fry, late Sarah Frost, Catherine Frost, Ellen Frost, Ann Frost, and Henry FroSt, the children of the said John Frost, humbly showeth— That your petitioners' unfortunate relative Mr. John Frost bath lately been found guilty of a high offence against the laws of your Majesty's realm : That your petitioners deeply deplore the infatuation which plunged their unfortunate relative into the commis sion of that offence, and your petitioners do and must ever continue to feel deep and poignant regret and sorrow at the fatal and calamitous consequences which followed the offence in which their unfortunate relative has been involved. That your petitioners have ever found their unfortunate relative affectionate, kind, and indulgent, and humane in all the relations of social life, and your petitioners humbly beg permission to express to your Majesty their united and honest belief and conviction that their unfortunate relative became involved in the assemblage of persons that pro ceeded to Newport on the 4th of November last, and which terminated so fatally under circumstances of over whelming apprehension, without a suspicion that such dis astrous consequences would have ensued, and free from the contemplation of any attack upon persons or property. That your petitioners beg to represent to your Majesty that within the period of a fortnight antecedently to the 4th day of November, your petitioners' unfortunate rela tive had been confined to his bed for many days by a severe attack of illness, and that at that time, as also upon other then recent occasions, he ha l manifested an absence and an aberration of mind, and an alteration of conduct, which was observed and remarked upon, not only by your peti tioners, but by professional men and others, who are pre pared solemnly to depose to the truth of these your peti tioners' humble representations. That your petitioners have been informed that a doubt exists as to the legality of the conviction of their unfortu nate relative, six of the fifteen of your Majesty's judges having decided that such conviction is illegal, and two out of the three of the Learned Judges, who alone, as your petitioners are informed, were invested with lawful au tho: ity to try your petitioners' unfortunate relative, having decided that such conviction was illegal. Your petitioners humbly pray that by your Majesty's gracious interposition the full benefit of the doubt so exist ing may, in conformity with the humane spirit and principle of criminal jurisprudence, as established and recognized within your Majesty's realms, be secured and extended to your petitioners' unfortunate relative, and to his follow prisoners. And that in consideration of the facts set forth in this your petitioners' humble appeal, and in the righteous exercise of the extended clemency which has heretofore characterised the nuptial hour of Royalty within these realms, and in merciful consideration for your Majesty's bereaved and heart-broken petitioners, an aged mother and unprotected wife and children, who are innocent of any offence in thought or deed against your Majesty's sacred person or laws, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to extend to your peti tioners' unfortunate relative, and to his fellow-prisoners, a free pardon, thereby affording your petitioners the means of lessening, as far as human efforts may avail, the remorse and anguish of mind under which their unfortunate and deluded relative is doomed to linger out his few re maining years. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. SARAH ROBERTS. CATHERINE FROST. MARY FROST. ELLEN FROST. ELIZABETH FROST. H. H. FROST. - SARAH FR T. ANN FROST. THE ANSWER. Whitehall, Feb. 241. Sir—l am directed by the Marquis of Normanby to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th inst., transmitting a petition from the several members of the family of John Frost, a prisoner convicted of high treason, praying for a free pardon; and to inform you that Lord Normanby cannot, consistently with his public duty, advise her Majesty to accede to the prayer of the petition. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, S. M. PHILLIPS. W. F. Geach, Esq., Tavistock Hotel, Covent-garden. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. THE CHESTER CUP, P.P. 7i to 1 agst Sir Thomas Stanley's Cowboy—taken' 11 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney 11 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Lanercost 13 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen—taken freely 15 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole 16 to 1 agst Mr. 0. Fairlie's Abraham Newland 17 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Melbourne 18 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's St. Bennett—offered 18 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Captain Pops—offered to 20 20 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph—offered MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) TIM E S.—The holders of Spanish Bonds were not a little surprised at the declaration in the Queen of Spain's speech, that although the finances of that country, after a war of seven years, are not so prosperous as could be wished, immense resources are possessed by the Spaniards to retrieve the credit of the nation and to leave unimpaired "its good faith, which never belied itself," recollecting, as most of them did to their cost, the manner in which in the course of the lsst sixteen years the Cortes loans were re pudiated by Ferdinand; his loans by the Cortes which ruled after his death; and the total bankruptcy since of everything bearing the name of Spanish security. They consider it a view of public credit peculiarly Spabish. It seems, however, to have had the effect of keeping up the price of yesterday, though without any advance, for the Actives left off at 28 to k. CHRONICLE.— We understand that the Committee of Spanish Bondholders held a meeting to-day at the of fice of the Chairman, to consider what measures might now be necessary for their interests; and we observe, by our advertising columns to-day, that they have prepared the correspondence which they have had with the loan con tractors for publication, and that it will be ready for distri bution in the beginning of March. We view the an nouncement of this publication as very important to the bondholders, as it is essentially requisite that the alleged issuing of unauthorized bonds should be fully investigated, and all doubts as to the upright conduct of the parties set at rest. POST.—Accounts received to-day from Holland men tion that an arrangement had at last been come to between the Dutch and Belgian Governments respecting the pay ment of monies claimed by the former from the latter under the treaty concluded some months ago. Well in formed persons in the city seem to have no doubt of the correctness of the statement. The Belgians have recently undertaken to supply Holland with iron for the Arnheim Railway, and at a rate very materially ch ea p er t h an i t could have been supplied by this country. The desire which has been manifested by the two kingdoms to cul tivate a commercial intercourse, has in all probability assisted in the decision of the money affair to which we have alluded. SUN.—There has not been a single arrival in the City up to five o'clock. A good deal of attention is excited in the City to the question of East India duties, which has been brought before the house of Commons, and which it is hoped will meet with serious and favourable considera tion from the Legislature, and impartial and steady ad. vocacy from the Press. The funds were not buoyant this afternoon, owing to the scarcity of money, which was worth 5 to G par cent. Consols closed at 904 for Money, and 91* for the new Account. Exchequer Bills left off at a decline to 3 premium. After one o'clock today there was a reaction in Spanish stock, the result of some speculative sales, and the Actives fell 4 per cent, viz. to 27i, though s'ab sequently they rallied, and closed at 28 ; Portuguese new Five per Cents. were done at 34 to 334 ; Brazil Bonds dropped to 784 and Mexican to 29*. The ad vance in Dutch Bonds was maintained with tolerable firmness. The Railway Shares were depressed in value late in the day. The Great Western dropped to 2 premium, and the Birmingham to 66 premium. British North American Bank Shares fell to 3 discount. PASTA'S PUPIL, MDLL E. TOsh—Laporte, we learn, has enlisted in his corps the only pupil of the purely classical Pasta, Madlle. Emeline Tosi. Report says that she is no less beautiful in form than remarkable for richness, flexi bility, and compass of voice. She makes h er fir s t a ppearance in March, when we anticipate she will excite no inconsiderable sensation. In introducing " The health of the Queen Dowager," the Chairman observed that although her rank was not equal to what it was, they must all recollect that she had been the means of making happy the home of our late Sovereign, to whose throne her many virtues im parted an additional lustre. The CHAIRMAN next gave " the Duke of Sussex and the rest of the Royal Family." He begged here to obseve that he had proposed the " bold hurrah" to every toast, as he did not know if it would be agreeable to . the company ; but he could assure th em h e did it from no feeling of disrespect to either. The CHAIRMAN next gave the " Navy and Army." The CHAIRMAN in propo s i ng " th e h ea lth o f h e r Ma jesty's Ministers," said he well remembered its being ob served when they came into office that it was impossible for any Ministry to maintain the peace of England for six months. The Whig Ministry had, however, main tained it for nine years.—(Cheers.) They had also suc ceeded in binding the kingdom together. Ireland was now firmly united to England in a manner he never remem bered ; and they might depend on this, that if a Tory Ministry now came into power, that union would cease, and as a consequence EnOand would lose her weight in the scale of nations. The fluctuations in crops and commerce no man could be held account able for ; the first was dependant on the will of en Almighty power, the s econd was a common consequence of trade, let who might be i n power. He w as happy to say that the Whigs with all the odium that had been cast upon their Government had suc ceeded in putting down the attempts of a misguided faotiou without calling upon the Legislature to pass any new or coercive measures—a ci rcumstance unknown in the annals of Tory legislation. An attempt had been made during the last recess to get the body of th e people to turn against the M i nisters and dislod ge th em from the helm of S tate ; but happilyit had not suc ceeded. To the Tories they owed all their present difficulties. He remembered the beginning of the American war which was caused by them, and the con sequence was the loss of the country they w i s h e d to coe rce. They begun and carried on the French war which ended in nothing, and left the country eight hun dred millions in debt.—( Hear, hear.) And if they were now to return to power, it would be the signal for a rebellion in Ireland, and ultimately its severance from England. But he felt satisfied the people of England were becoming too much alive to their own interests not to appreciate the advantages of living under the government of a Liberal Administra tion. He could not cast blame on them. He knew they were desirous of advancing ; but the present exist ing differences in the public mind rendered it unsafe for any Minister to legislate in advance of it. But if the people called upon them to advance, they were ready to do so.—(Cheers.) The toast was drunk with three times three. The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Mayor and Town Council of Rye." _ Mr. HICKS returned thanks in the absence of the Mayor, who was in London. The CHAIRMAN, in a short and appropriate speech, proposed the health of Herbert Barrett Curteis, Esq.— (Cheers.) Mr. CURTEIS returned thanks in a somewhat lengthy speech, which time this week prevents us from doing that justice to which it requires ; we shall therefore leave it with a brief outline until our next. He ani madverted in the strongest terms upon the late political conduct of the Her. Dr. Lamb in the borough, in lend ing himself, as he had so lately done, to a party desirous of raising unnecessarily the discord consequent upon po litical strife, and that after he had himself declared that he would never again enter the arena, but would in fu ture devote himself to the duties of a minister of Christ, whose path was peace and good will to all mankind. He confessed himself not so bold as the Rev. Gentleman, who stood buttoned to the chin ready to receive whatever shafts might be launched against him. He considered the conduct of the Tories towards their present Member was worthy of them, and unjust towards him who had faithfully done their work. They were now without ceremony endeavouring to kick him out, and had introduced an address from Mr. Farn comb—an address so general that no man could dis agree with it as the wording stood, but not one prin ciple was professed in it. As Mr. Parncomb had thus prematurely solicited their suffrages, he felt he should not be doing wrong in stating that it was his intention, whenever the proper period arrived, to offer himself for their choice.—(Tremendous cheering.) From what had been observed by a gentleman of the county at a late Tory dinner at Brighton, it behoves the Liberal constituency of the county to look well to themselves, as they were by that gentleman threatened with a double infliction at the next election. The re verse might be the result, and the tables turned on the gentleman in possession, and the one in expectancy, if the Reformers would meet and, sinking all minor dif ferences, determine to be free.—( Applause.) Mr. Curteis concluded by proposing the health of the Chairman.—(Three times three.) Mr. ELPHINSTONE, in returning thanks, read a cu rious document, bearing date 1758, heir).- a compact entered into between the Lamb family and' others to have and to hold the fee-simple of the borough in their hands. He might be asked why he, as a Radical, was found at dinner in the company of those who professed to support the present Ministry ? He would answer, that though the Government of the day did not advance so fast as he could desire, at the same time he saw in them the genuine germs of reform which needed but the people's influence to warm them into existence, and there fore supported the present Government. A number o f other appropriate toasts were drunk and suitably ac knowledged. The numbers assembled on the occasion were vs follows :—George 131, Red Lion 115, Union, 20 ; Ship 93 ; Dolphin 40 ; Horse and Groom, 37 ; Express 20 ; total 426, being about the number of voters in the Borough. Mr. J. Smith in the course of his speech assured the meetinc , that there were more than 300 voters assembled on the occasion, and that they should be enabled at the next election to beat their opponents two to one.—Brighton Guardian. INDEPENDENCE of the CHURCH. ( Abridged from the Edinburgh Advertiser.) On Monday a public meeting of those who are friendly to the recent proceedings of the Church of Scotland, was held in the large Assembly Room, at two o'clock, for the purpose of calling the attention of her Majesty's Government to the recent judgment in the Strathbogie case ; and adopting a memorial to Government repre senting the increase necessity thence arising of an im mediate settlement of the present question." Before the hour of meeting the room was quite filled. Dr. WELSH, in submitting a motion said—The cir cumstances in which they were assembled, were indeed of the most extraordinary description—they were with out a parallel, not only in the history of our own times, but for a century preceding. But— [Here the IfeV . . Doctor was suddenly arrested, in consequence of the platform, extending across the whole breadth of the room, and on which he him self, the Chairman, and a great crowd were stand ing, giving way with a loud crash. Several of the ladies shrieked, and great consternation prevailed in the body of the meeting, as at the moment no one knew of the extent of the injury. However, it having soon become apparent that none of the gentle men who were standing on the platform, at the time it gave way, had received any serious bodily harm, the as semblage kept their places ; and in a short time the Lord Provost, Dr. Chalmers, and others, who were in volved among the fallen beams, were extricated from their awkward plight. Dr. Simpson, of Kirknovtown, Mr. J. P. Laurie, the Secretary of the meeting, aided by a few gentlemen, then with great readiness propped up a tem porary elevation for the Chair, and the business pro ceeded, after an interruption of abo\vt twenty minutes. Dr. WELSH then resumed, and after a speech ad verting to the object of the meeting, moved that the Lord Provost take the chair. The LORD PROVOST having taken the Chair, the meeting was then opened with prayer by the Rev. J. J. Wood. Dr. CHALMERS, after a lengthened speech, concluded by moving—" That this meeting, fully approving of the resolutions and petition adopted at the meetings lately held in Edinburgh on the subject of the present posi tition of the Church, contemplates the recent decision of the Court of Session, in the case of Strathbogie, with the deepest anxiety and alarm, as involving a manifest assumption of a right to control or regulate the decisions of Church Courts in matters purely spiritual." The Rev. Doctor then resumed his seat amidst loud and continued cheering. Sir ANDREW AGNEW rose amidst loud cheers, to second the resolution. He said he could only echo the sentiments so forcibly expressed by the venerable Doctor who had moved the resolution. The Rev. Mr. Moopv STUART proposed the follow ing resolution " That this meeting resolve to forward a Memorial to her Majesty's Government, urging the imperative necessity of an immediate settlement of the present question, to prevent increasing danger to the Church and the peace of the country, arising from the invasion of the rights of the Church by the recent decision of the Civil Court. That the Memorial be presented by a deputation, who are requested to proceed to London, for the purpose, with as little delay as possible ; and that all Members of both Houses of Parliament friendly to the interests of the Church be solicited to give their support to the deputation, and to unite in urging the subject of the Memorial upon the immediate attention of Government." These, and several other resolutions of a similar tendency, were agreed to unanimously, and it was announced that the Lord Provost would form one of the deputation to London. REMARKABLE CURE OF LOCK-JAW.—We give the detail of the circumstance in the words of the owner of the mare :—" In consequence of one of the tendons being injured by the smith, lock-jaw ensued ; the best advice was procured, but it proved of no avail ' • the mare gradually sunk day by day for upwards of a fort n i g ht, and all attempts to sup. port nature failing, my distress at seeing a creature which had been my companion for years suffer so much, induced me at last to give directions that she should be shot. I left home at nine o'clock in the morning, and mentioned the circumstance to a friend, who is a subscriber to the Hereford Journal, and to my surprise he pointed out a case of cure of lock-jaw men tioned in an old number of the paper. Many minutes did not elapse before I was on my road home to countermand the order for the destruction of the animal, and the proposed remedy was immediately put in operation. Between two and three hogs heads of water were thrown upon her spine, and repeatedly I thought she must sink under it, but persevering, I at last per ceived her skin as it were to creep upon her ; this over, she was well wrapped up in blankets, and by kind treatment and diligent attention to her, with nourishing diet and gruel, she recovered, and has since been as well as ever she was, which circumstance is well known to nearly the whole of Ludlow,"— Hereford Journal. CHARGE OF MURDER IN THE A5YLUM........ The case of Hilton, a lunatic, charged with the murder of an other lunatic, named Donelly, was mentioned in our police re ports of Monday week, on which day the prisoner was re manded. He has subsequently been again before the Mao-is (rates, and several witnesses have been examined, the amount of the evidence being that Donelly slept in the same room with Hilt o n, and was found dead, having some marks of bruises about his thro stand other parts of his body, but not sufficient to in dicate the cause of his death, as there was no p ost mortem m i na tion ordered by the Coroner's Jury, th oug h Dr. Alders o n, and Mr. Casson, surgeon, had expressed a wish to ma k e one. The defendant was stated to h ave sa id that Satan had visited ee him during the night, and that he had a sev ere conflict with him. The prisoner ha s b een committed fo r trial to York, and, if found guilty, will very probably be consigned for life to the asylum from which he has been taken, as was the case with Noble, who murdered a person in the workhouse here some time ago, and died himself within the last few months.--Hull Rockingham. A Glasgow builder, for two-and-a-half acres of land required by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, clai me d 24 , 00 0 / . ! and a Jury, after two days trial, awarded 1,0541. in full! S U N ) - 1 / 4 ,71717-4=_ EVENING EICOITIO ---„_ NT‘i ---',---':- ..; " ----- IMPRISONMENT OF THE SHERIFF. Tuesday a meeting of the inhabitant householders of ihrt ward of Farringdon Without was held at the Inquest-room, St. Andrew's, flolborn, to consider what measures 6:111141 be adopted in consequence of the imprisonment of Jahn Evans, Esq. The meeting was called for eleven, and at twelve o'clock Mr. Alderman Harmer took the chair, at , which time there were but forty persons present. After a delay of a quarter of an hour the Chairman stated the ob ject of the meeting, and asked if any of the requisitionists had any resolutions to propose ? No one responding to this call, Mr. PONTIFEX moved that the meeting do adjourn.— ( Roars of laughter.) He was sorry the chairman had had the trouble to attend a meeting at which the very party who convened it declined coming forward. Mr. Woos seconded the motion. Mr. GALLOWAY said, if any of the requisitionists had proposed resolutions according to the notice they had given, he should have moved an amendment to the effect, that the wardrnote approved of the conduct of the House of Com mons. The motion for adjournment was put and carried by a considerable majority, amid roars of laughter, during which Mr. Richard Taylor entered the room, and having been informed of what had taken place, said the whole proceeding was a trick, similar to that which was lately practised at Freemasons' Hall. He was interrupted by cries of " Read the Riot Act," and shouts of laughter. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, Mr. Alderman HARMER, in acknowledging the compli ment, defended himself at great length from the attacks that have been recently made upon him in the Times news paper, and which he attributed to his persevering exertions in the cause of Reform. L`J `‘ . l . Three cheers were then giten for the Queen, thr for the House of Commons, and three for the chairman, after which the meeting adjourned. The above ward contains a population of at least 30,000 persons, yet there were not, at any time, tnore than fifty persons present, the majority of whom toted for an ad journment immediately after the chair was taken. GERMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL. The friends and supporters of the German Catholic School dined together yesterday evening, at the Free masons' Tavern, Great Queen -street, to celebrate the marriage of her Majesty, and at the same time promote the cause of the charity by receiving subscriptions in aid of the School. ' The chair was taken by Mr. O'Connell, M.P., sup ported on his right by Mr. Wyse, M.P., and on his left • by Mr. P. Howard, M.P. About 150 other gentlemen, principally Germans, were present. After the cloth had been removed, The CHAIRMAN rose, and said it was unnecessary for him to tell them what was the first toast on his list. Their hearts, their affections, and their loyalty. would at once respond to it. In former times, per haps, such was not the case, for every succeeding Monarch of the Brunswick line had exhibited nothing but hostility to the Roman Catho lics of Ireland, and had only made :concessions when the wants and necessities of the State rendered it expedient to conciliate, before they appealed to the energies and affections of the people —(Hear, hear.) Happily that season was now passed by, and they had a young and lovely Sovereign on the throne, who had show❑ perfect impartiality towards all sects and classes of her subjects.—(Loud cheers.) Under such cir cumstances loyalty was more a passion than a prin ciple, and he pitied the wretch who would not devote the last drop of his blood, and the best energies of his brain, to defend that Throne which was graced by youth and beauty, and adorned by the purest virtue. " Her Majesty the Queen"—drank with three times three, and all the honours. Air—" God save the Queen"—the chorus of which was taken up by the children of the school in beautiful and correct style, and elicited great applause. The CHAIRMAN said the next toast on his list was the illustrious youth whom the Queen had chosen for her partner —(Loud cheers.) He could not speak of al?, past portion of his life, for his life had scarcely be gu❑ ; but he might fairly prophecy in him a futurity of utility and glory for their country.—( Hear, hear.) Her Majesty had shown great tact and judgment in the choice of her Ministers, and her political servants and counsellors ; and as the heart was more frequently right than the head, and as her late choice was one in which her heart was deeply interested, the most gratifying re sults might be augured from the union. " His Royal Highness Prince Albert."—(Loud cheers.) The next toast was, " The Duchess of Kent, and the rest of the Royal Family resident in England."— (Laughter, and cheers.) " The Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic Prelate of the diocese."—(Loud cheers.) The Rev. Mr. HonytownEri returned thanks. Mr. PHILIP HOWARD, M.P., proposed the healths of " the Emperor of Austria, and the other Sovereigns and rulers of the Germanic Confederation." He was happy to find that the Emperor had given his sanction to his Ambassador at the English Court Prince Esterha•ay—to become the patron of the German Catholic School of London.—(Hear, and cheers.) He need not further remind them that many of the German Potentates, although not themselves Roman Catholics, had exhibited the greatest spirit of toleration to their Catholic subjects, and had carried out to their fullest extent the principles of civil and religious liberty." The toast was drank with much cheering. Mr. WYSE, M.P., said the toast that had been en- trusted to him embraced the great object of their meet ing that evening. It was " Success to the Fund for Erecting a School for the Education of German Chil dren."--(Cheers.) A more important or praiseworthy object could not possibly he brought before any assem blage,and he believed there was little doubt of its success. They must all be conversant with the ignorance, and depravity, and destitution to which the youth of that metropolis, who had not the means of obtaining moral Ind religious instruction, were exposed. If anything could add to the interest of the present charity it was that the nation, in whose behalf it was about to be es tablished, was the German—a nation eminent for its attainments in every department of science and litera ture, and which had often rivalled their own country in its researches and discoveries.—(Cheers.) That en lightened nation had diffused over the whole of Germany a system of sound moral education, the fruits of which were beautifully exemplified in the good feeling and Christian brotherhood which existed between Protestants and Catholics in that country, illustrating the divine precept of " peace on earth, good will towards men."—(Cheers.) In that country it was impossible to exaggerate the kindness of heart and hospitality with which Englishmen were received— their libraries, their schools, their galleries of sculpture and painting, and all their rich stores of knowledge were thrown open to them, and he trusted the children of that country would receive in England a like meed of hospitality which they were aloays ready to extend to strangers in their father land.—(Cheers.) The toast was drank with much enthusiasm. The Rev. Mr. JACTII, pastor of the German Catho lic Chapel, then addressed the company on behalf of the charity in German, Italian, and French. The Rev. Dr. BUTLER also made an affecting appeal On its behalf. Mr. KETSSER, in appropriate terms, gave the health of their esteemed Chairman, Mr. O'Connell, which was drank with enthusiastic cheering, and three imes three. Mr. O'CONNELL returned thanks, and subsequently announced that the subscriptions received in the course of the evening amounted to upwards of 1301.—(Cheers.) " The imprisoned Archbishops of Posen and Co logne," and several other toasts, were afterwards drank. The Chairman and the greater part of the company left the room at eleven o'clock, and shortly afterwards the meeting separated. POPULAR DEMONSTRATION AT RYE. (From the Brighton Guardian.) Monday was a grand day for the Liberals of Rye. Its constituency assembled in a multitude to avow their support of Liberal principles, and to give a death blow to Toryism in the borough. Nearly 500 dined at the several inns. At the George, the principal inn, 170 sat down, presided over by Thomas Law Hodges, Esq., M.P., supported by H. B. Curteis, S. B. Brocket, H. Elphinstone, Adams, Renwick. H. M. Curteis, S. Selmes, T. C. Langford, T. Hodges, Jeremiah Smith, E. N. Dawes, and C. Hicks, Esqs., &c. Upon the removal of the cloth, The CHAIRMAN said the first toast in every Eng lishman's heart was the Sovereign—(Cheers)—in connec tion with whom there were two subjects not to be passed over. Her Majesty had within a few days united her self in marriage with the choice of her own heart. It had been no hasty decision on her part, for the young couple had been long known to each other. They had grown up together, and had been acquainted with each other for years, so that an early imbibed af fection seemed to promise them future years of perfect happiness. Looking at her Majesty as in a measure an unprotected lady who had passed her youth without the care of a father, no female in England had been so sub jected to base and unmanly attacks as that illustrious lady had been.—(Hear.) He mentioned this circum stance because he knew that it needed only to be known to encounter the disapprobation of that loyal company, and to give rise in their breasts to a regret that it had ever happened in England.—" The Queen," drunk with three times three. The CHAIRMAN then gave, with a most appropriate introduction, " The health of Prince Albert," which was received with loud applause . The 'county Meath, it will be seen, assembled on Saturday, for the purpose of addressing the Queen and Prince Albert, on the happy event of their marriage. The county of Westmeath is to meet to-morrow. The requisition to the High Sheriff is signed by the nobility and gentry, with out any party distinction. The Earl of Longford and Sir Mon tagu Chapman, Lord Kilmaine and Mr. Tuite, Sir Richard Levinge, and Mr. Gerald Dease, cordially unite in this well timed expression of loyalty. —Pilot, of Monday. The Glasgow Chronicle says, A German sausage-dealer was found guilty there of cutting a boy with a cleaning knife upon the haunch, b u t sentence was delayed till the boy was quits recovered of his wound. We understand that Mr. Harland, M.P. for this city, will be included in a new batch of Baronets.—Durham Chronicle. Mr. Sheriff Wheelton did not accompany the Lord Mayor to the Common Hall on the tl4th instant, his state of health since he left the House of Commons not permitting him to attend to any business or official engagement whatever. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday the Court of Aldermen was held pursuant to adjournment, for the purpose of settling the redoubtable point of debate relative to the Civic Address of congratu lation to her Majesty on the event of her recent nuptials. A great number of Aldermen were present. After a desultory conversation, in which Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman T. Wood, and Brown, took a prominent part, Sir WILLIAM HETGATE, Bart., as the senior Alderman present, after some prefatory observations, then moved that the former resolution be rescinded. Alderman BROWN seconded the motion, and said the quarrel Detween the House of Commons and the City of London ought not to interfere with their duty and allegi ance to the Sovereign and the illustrious House of which she was a member—with that quarrel, however much it was to he regretted, her Majesty had nothing to do.--( Hear.) Sir P. LAURIE said that he had been of opinion that they ought not to go up without the Sheriffs, but under circumstances he would waive the objection. Alderman KELLY said that, when he was Lord Mayor, he went to learn her Majesty's pleasure as to when she would dine with the citizens, unattended; therefore he saw no impropriety in the Lord Mayor going up on the present occasion. Alderman WILSON regretted exceedingly that thi ad dress had not gone up before. It was finally resolved and agreed to that the Lord Mayor, attended by the Recorder and Remembraneer, should go to Court to ascertain her Majesty's pleasure as to when she would receive the address. It was also agreed; that an address should be presented to Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent. The Court then adjourned. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. THE ADDRESS OF CONGRATULATION TO THE QUEEN, UPON HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE, &c. Yesterday, a Court was hed for the purpose of con sidering the propriety of rescinding the resolution paSsed at a former Court, that the Sheriffs should go up to the Throne to ascertain when her Majesty would be pleased to receive the address of the Court of Common Council upon her marriage. Mr. W. LAWRENCE said, that although he deeply regretted the inability of the Sheriffs to attend upon the important occasion of presenting the address to her Majesty, he could not but think that the Court would appear to be guilty of want of loyalty if they declined, from whatever cause, to go to the foot of the Thron e with their congratulations as soon as possible. Even if no precedent existed for waiting upon the Sovereign without the Sheriffs, they ought at once to pay that tribute of respect. There was another subject on which it would be necessary for them to go to the foot of the Throne, and if in the one case they could not actin the ab• sence of the Sheriffs, they certainly could not in the other. lie lamented that addresses from other bodies would reach her Majesty before that of the Corporation of London, but he trusted that the Court would, though late, be unanimous. --(Hear, hear.) He then moved that the Lord Mayor, attended by the Recorder and Remembrancer should go up to the Queen, to learn when her Majesty would be graciously pleased to re ceive the address of the Corporation, &e. Mr. STEVENS seconded the motion. Mr. ANDERTON said it was his intention, though he should stand alouev to move the previdas question.—. —(Hear, hear, and loud cries of" No, no.") Ho was not wanting in loyalty and attachment to the Sovereign, and he was as desirious as any member to attend with the address, but he wished that the Sovereign should bo waited upon in the customary form. If the Court could not carry out their resolution in its true spirit, it was not their fault. They ought to act at all events with consis tency, and not abandon on one day what they advocated on a day or two before. It would supply Lord John Russell with an argument for saying that the Court would bark but was afraid to bite, and that it woßld eventually adopt the views of the Ministers. Suppo t e, the Court went up to the Queen without their Sheriff, would they not be a pretty laughing-stock to all who witnessed the cavalcade.—(A laugh.) He would not march through Coventry with such a pack.—(Loud laughter.) They were to wear white favours, too t it appears.—(Cries of " Certainly.") White favours in deed! He had provided himself with a parcel of snob white favours as those who advocated such a proposi•' tion deserved to wear.—(Here Mr. Anderton produced a bundle of goose-feathers.) Yes, they ought all to be distinguished by white favours of that kind, for they had shown the white feather with a vengeance.—(Roars of laughter.) He concluded by moving the previous question. Mr. WELLS seconded tha amendment. He had bees sent to the Court by a large body of the constituency, and he could not violate the trust reposed in him by as senting to that which would be an essential departure films established practice. He was surprised to find that some gentlemen who had so resolutely contended for the maintenance of the privilege of going with the Sheriffs, were now adopting quite a contrary course while others were absent, because they did not like to eat their own words. Mr. R. TAYLOR said they had assembled to congra tulate the Queen, and not to mix up with their con gratulation a subject with which her Majesty had nothing to do. The Court was bound to maintain its character for discrimination with the country, and the matter ought not to have been treated with the levity just displayed. Mr. ANDERTON-It was no levity. Mr. TAYLOR liked a joke as well as any man, and if he were to judge from whence the goose quills came, he would certainly say that the worthy member who displayed them had plucked them from his own wing. —(Laughter.) Mr. BURTON (of Alderagate Ward) said that the question of congratulation was quite distinct froes that which had been mixed up with it. He regretted that a man so gallant as the worthy member wh o had exhibited the white favours bad expressed his in tention not to accompany the rest of the troop t t o o Co ventry—(Laughter)—for t h at H on. Gentleman bad on a former occasion di s ti ngu i s h e d himself, greatly the amusement of his fellow-citizens, on horseback, and it would be a serious loss if he did not take his ata.tio; when the Address should be presented. It was evi dent that Mr. Anderton bad not plucked the realm., from his own wing, however well furnished the :ranee might consider him to be with that description of orna ment. To be sure he might have plucked them front the wing of the worthy seconder of his amendment, who appeared to be always in full feather.—(Gr ea t laughter.) That worthy gentleman had stood forward with the evident determination to do all the business of the Corporation, and put him in mind of Bottom the weaver, who wanted not only to play Pyramus and Thisbe, but the hole in the wall, and the lion, that would roar you like any sucking-dove !--(Roars of laughter.) Mr. W. JONES considered that the time had arrived when the Court ought to go up with the Address. Mr. BAYLIS said that he could not conceal his con viction that any step the Court had taken till now, with regard to the Address, was a downward step is the course ofreyutation and character.—(Cri es o f " H ear, hear," and " No, no.") They were daily losing ground in public opinion, by mixing up questions-so totally dis tinct. What in the name of common sense had the Queen to do with the question before the Courts of Law and the House of Commons ? Her Majesty could be made a party to it only b) a proceeding against the people's representatives, which would be also against the spirit of the British Constitution.—(Hear, hear.) Thera should be nothing like conditional loy alty on this on 3 of the most interesting and one of the most important events of our time.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped Mr. Anderton would withdraw the amend ment and let the Court come to an unanimous vote oa the question. After a few words from Mr. PEWTaESS and ether Members, a division took place, when there appeared-~ For the previous question l2 For the original motion . 18G Majority in favour of going up with- ...., out the Sheriffs 96 Mr. Horatio Smith has been unanienoisly elected President of the Sussex Royal Institution for the pro ! sent year.