The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-27 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. LITERATURE. A IV LIALEVG VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE. 2 V, Ls. , Benti,y, Lmiyun, 16 , 40. The author of these gossiping voluMes. a gentleman named Bennett, quitted 'England in the October of 1833 , in a ship of three h'undred ton's burden, on a Whaling expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Soon alter the crew came within sight of Madeira, they noticed the phenomenon which sailors call a "wind-;ale," and Which is a broad and perpendicular streak of colours Placed opposite the sun, and extending from e dark cloud to the verge of the horizon. "It may be con -1 sidered," the author tells us, " a fragment of a rainbow ;" and was shortly followed by a heavy gale of wind, " ac "mpanied by the presence of an ignis firta its on the summit of each mast head, gleaming with its peculiar 1 Sickly mid supernatural light." On the gradual abate ment of the storm the Wowing singular appearances Were observed on the surface of the water : " During 'a dark and calm night with transient squalls of mi., the sea presented an unusually luminous appear rree ; while undisturbed, the ocean emitted a flint gleam em its bosom, and when agitated by the passage of the ship, flashed forth streams of light which illuminated the "is, and shone in the wake with great intensity. A net towing alongside bad the appearance of a ball of fire fol 'owed by a long and sparkling train ; and large fish, as they darted through the water, could be traced by the scintillating lines they left upon its surface. The principal cause of this phosphorescent appearance was ascertained by the capture of numerous medusa, of flat and circular form, !ißht pink colour, , and eight inches in circumference. when disturbed, this medusa emitted from every part of its uody a b r illi a nt, greenish light, which shone without inter mission as long as the irritating cause continued, but when that vvis withdrawn, the luminousness gradually subsided. The luminous power evidently resided in a slimy secretion Which envelaped the animal, and which was freely commu nicated to water, as well as to any solid object." At Pitcairn's Island, where the voyagers made a short stay , an d w hi c h, it may be rememered, is the spot where the mutineers of the Bounty took refuge, they found the widow of Christian, the ringleader in ' the mutiny, still living ; and were much pleased with the attentions they received from her. She is, it seems, a very old woman, with milk-white hair, but her mental ..nd bodily powers are yet active. She appeared to have some knowledge of Captain Cook, and related many particulars connected with that great discover's Visits to Tahite, which Mr. Bennett unfortunately has not thought fit to furnish us with. Speaking generally of the present inhabitants of Pitcairn's Island, our author tells us that they are a tall and robust people, and ahat their features, though they can scarcely 'be Called handsome, display many Europeao traits. In disposition they are frank, honest, and hospitable, and Possess much -pride and susceptibility of feeling. In conducting the most trivial affairs of life, they are guided by the Scriptures, which they quote with free dom, no matter what be the occasion. •The women ar e characterized by a modest demeanor, much good -1 humour, grace, and artlessness of manner. They de servedly bear great sway in the colony, which now con sists of about eighty persons, and are proud of their English extraction. On quitting Pitcairn's Island, Mr. Bennett made sail for Raiatea, the largest of the Society Islands, where he was greatly struck with the simplicity of the .inhabitants, who, whenever a foreigner comes among them, always pay him respect in proportion to his dimensions, for " they associate a great mind with a Corresponding altitude of person, and entertain but little reverence for short men." This is a curious theory of intellectual greatness, and deserves notice, if only for its originality. We can imagine the sensation that 0"Coonell would create among the natives of Raiatea, and the ,srvereigti contempt with which they would look on the con e t tieror of Europe, Napoleon ! In addition to other peeu,!iarities; these unsophisticated islanders, like our more civilized Englishmen, are much addicted to the refreshment of " strong waters." They drink, in fact, like fishes, and over their cups are as fond of a " skrinimage" as an Irishman :-- " They will refrain long from spirits, or very abruptly relinquish their use, but when inclined to indulge, nothing short o f th e mos t co mplete inebriety will satisfy them. Many amongst them consider that a moderate use of ar dent spirits is tantalizing and disagreeable, and will oaten refuse to partake of any, unless they can obtain enough to produce-the happiest. effects. During. our. present visit to Raiat , :a the vice of intoxication was riot so prevalent as we found 't at a subsequent period ; yet on every fresh importation el liquor from Borabora, itsyss common to see the more debanched islanders parading the settlement in a state or riotous intoxication, linked arm-in-arm for mu tual support, and with bottles of spirits slung round their bodies, and cocoa-nut shells in their bands, occasionally pausing, to drink, then renewing their route, yelling like demons, until, incapable of further advance. they expended their last gleam of re:.‘son in seeking the nearest shed for 11 swinish repose." Leaving Raiatea and its tqalous anti-tee.totallers, Mr. Bennett proceedeed to the' Sandwich Islands, of whose fast increasing civilisation he gives, nu the whole , a favour "lle -account. The King, it seems, possesses a very re spectable" naval force, consisting of about ten ships, e ach of i more than one hundred tons burden, besides several small schooners and sloops ; and his subjects Carry oq a. br:sk traffic with the north-west coast of America, China, and the Spanish Main. Numerous 'South-seamen, too; annually visiting, the different Sand i with Islands, bring a great influx of specie, and actively' •stimu'ate the agricultural industry of 'the inhabitants. Shortly after setting sail from these islands, our author and his fellow-voyagers came in sight of several lat•ge sperm whales, three of which they succeeded in cap turing, but a fourth was exceedingly obstinate, and had no- notion of being .harpooned without showing fight. He was what is called " a tough subject," as will ap- Pear by the subjoined extract : " This Cachalot, which was a young male, had been Pierced with two well-planted harpoons ; but instead of flying from his enemies he rather sought to attack them, whenever they approached him for the purpose of lancing. His first effort was to rush against the boat with his head. Baffled in this, by the crew steering clear of the contact, he next attempted to crush it with his jaws ; when failing through the unaccommodating position of his mouth, he remedied this defect with much sagaci!y in his last and More successful assault; approaching impetuously from a distance of about forty yards, he turned upon his back, raising his lower jaw to grasp the boat from above; a 4 ace-wound, however, caused him to close his mouth and tesurae a natural posture, before he had attained his ob ject; but co..tinuing to advance, he struck the boat with a foice that nearly overturned it, and concluded by again ' turning on his back, and thrusting his lower jaw through n the planks. The boat filled with water almost imme °lately, sunk with its gunwale to the level of the sea, and was rendered capable of retaining its crew, only by the expedient of lashing the oars across its sides. The liar , Puon-line was cut and the whale made off without doing further mischief." . Speaki ng genera lly of the effects produced by our Mission ar i es on the morals and habits of the South- Sea Islanders, Mr. Bennett says, " the principal faults Inid to their char-c are too great an interference in the political and doinestic affairs of the natives, and too K een a participation in commercial transactions. Nor , o re these c h arges o lt oge th er g ro undless." He adds, H owever, that they apply rather to individuals than to ' O l 2 colle c tiv e b o dy, w hi c h, we are glad to hear, for the l ltee of ,Missionary is one requiring a combination of high and rare qualities—indomitable courage, moral as Well as physical ; perseverance that is rather quickened than subdued by difficulties ; tact, patience, a conci liatory bearing that softens, where it cannot wholly put down, opposition, and, above all, toleration ; and • if the South-sea Missionaries do not, as a collective body, possess all, or at least some, of. these qualifications, their labours will be in vain, and they will do more harm than good.' On his 'return home to Eng land, our author paid a visit to St. Helena, and, of course, took the opportunity of .seeing Longwood, and Napoleon's last resting-place. The house, which is now in the possession of a farmer, is in a sad state of dilapidation, and the very room wherein the mighty conqueror drew his last breath, is devoted to the in glorious purpose of a lumber-room ! But the favourite' willows he planted stilt flourish ; the fountain by whose side he so often sate, absorbed in thought—and what reflections must his have been !—still keeps fresh and fragrant the green sward about it ; and his mountain :tomb, high raised on the bosom of the Atlantic, still leads, and will read for ever, a most useful, though h umiliating, lesson to ambition. NAPIER'S P.NIIVSULAR WAR. Vol. 6. Boone, London, 1840. -:-- • -, Prefixed to this volume are a series of justificatory '°roments, which Colonel Napier has put forth in reply t° certain strictures Made upon his history by the Quar irrly Review, Colonel Durwood, Sir Walter Scott, ' - ',° , d Biresford and Mr. Alison. In these comments the i gallant author, in our opinion , refutes the charges of °ls critics in a most satisfactory manner ; and in noticing th ose of the Quarterly Reviewer, tells the following anecdote of the Duke of Wellington :—" When I first resolved to write this history, I applied verbally to his Waage to g ive me papers in aid of my undertaking. his answer, in substance, was, that he had arranged all ' l s Own papers with a view to publication himself ; that he bad not decided in what form they should be given to the world, or when—probably , not during his life time ; but he thought- his plan would be to . write a Plain, didactic history, to be published after his death ; that unless he he was resolved to publish anything Could tell the whole truth ; but at that time ht , could not tell the whole truth without wounding the feelings I ol mlny worthy men, a addin gnal so doin , mischief ; adding in a „ i"lughing way, ' I should ' do as :inch mischief as 13o ' -' l Pirte: " `‘,Ve have given this anecdote, because it exlabits all that discretion, straightforwardness, and con tkrate regard for the feelings of others, by which the Th uke's public conduct has been uniformly' characterised. ~.," present volume, which, we suppose, closes an Napier's history,, is penned throughout in 4 , r1 eloqueot and impartial manner, and possesses ! , e iadditional recomaiendation of being per!ectly scien "fie, without being ..it all encumbered by the pedantries Or tech n icalities of science. To shy that it is the be:it ac count of th e P en insular war that has yet issued from the press, is to say littie for it ; it is, beyond all compa r'un, k the finest military history that modern times have ""°- The gallant author—it gives us siocere plea- - ~ u re t o fi nd—does not adopt the vu l gar national p;eju i dices against Napoleon and his Marshals, but does thew P . THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 27, lB4O. every iustice, particularly the Emperor, wlinse .st:up:;n doos intellecturd enerries he is fully capable of appre ciating. We c.mnot but regret, however, that ho has le: , gthened• out. his work to such an extent six thick octavo volunma,are really too much for the Peninsular war, which, alter all, was but an .episode—though splendid one—in the late grand European contest. It was not in Spain and Pdrtugeil that the desti:-:ies of the French Emperor were-decided ; .but among the snows of Russia, and on the fatal field . of Leipsic. When we add that Colonel Napier's History, which embraces only a period of reven years, is nearly, if not quite, as long as Gibbon's History, which ranges over a space of fifteen hundred years, and is occupied with such mo mentous and imposing details as those of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, and its rise, progress, and final extinction in the East ;—when we state this, we have, we conceive, stated quite enough to prove that the siza of the gallant author's work is out of all pro portion to the importance of his subject : Matericin superat opus. THE BRITISH JEWS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Thanks for your generous article of the 10th December, in answer to my respectful letter of the 6th of December, in favour of this peculiar people, and although the public mind might not possibly at that period be sufficiently ripe for a fa vourable consideration of the disabilities under which they have so long laboured, I am willing to hope the time has at last arrived when the fullest consideration will be afforded to their cause. Well may you ask what are the Hebrew communities in England, &c., about, that they do not bestir them selves at this peculiar moment in favour of their persecuted brethren in the East ? That they are sufficiently numerous to make a powerful appeal there can be no doubt, but if made, it must he made with effect ! The secret must be out, viz. :—They must move as one man, for the advancement of their cause. The large sums of money possessed by the few must not any longer keep in awe the more numerous of their bre thren. Their cause will never be fully advocated by the British public,'until they witness the same zealously advocated by their own body. You, Sir, may burden your Paper with the most liberal articles -to aid them, but to no purpose, unless with gratitude responded to, and worked out by themselves. Now is the time for their movement, and well sure am I, the tide of public opinion will be with them, if, in the start, they themselves will throw overboard all stiffnecked prejudice, and go hand in hand with those, who are, and have ever been, alive to the full advancement of " Civil and Religious Liberty." Let the movement now emanate, as it were, anew ; let them call meetings of their own, and freely ex press their grievances. In so doing, however, let them not ask any aid from some of those of their people to whom they have-looked in vain for as sistance, viz.—such as had been advanced to posi tions of great honour, and, as it now turns out, only for the gratification, of their own personal vanity, and riot for the promotion of their people. I am tired, nay sick, 'at the lukewarmness that I have witnessed in some Jews whom I have known, nay, personally advanced to great honours—to see the coldness . which they have evinced for the like promotion of their brethren. • Freedom is due to the Jews; therefore I pray your assistance, since two or three of your appeals will merit the • fullest public sympathy. You may possibly be pestered with letters from some ungene rous minds to desist from pressing this matter, and they may • tax the Jews with being an ungrateful people: if so, no matter ; the time will come when tney will see their error. Who has laboured harder than I have for them—and who has ex perienced greater ingratitude from, •a few of them than myself ? But it was not for the pleasure of their 'small but their.larger number that I worked with so warm a zeal. I am, Sir, your's, obliged and indebted, Leith, April 21, 1840. W. T. COURT CIRCULAR. . , The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, arrived at Buckingham Palace at ten minutes past five o'clock on Saturday afternoon in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, from Windsor Castle. The Rival suite followed in several carriages and four, and in cluded the Countess of Charlemont. Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lord Byron, Baron de Gruben, Sir Robert - Otway, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bou veric, and Mr. Francis Seymour. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Queen Dowa gei attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Lessons and Prayers were read by the Rev. Horscley Dakins. The Chant was Attwood's. The Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Barrow's in F. The Anthem (quartett and chorus) .‘ Bow thine ear to me" ( Dowland); the quartett iwas sung by Messrs. Wylde, Hobbs, J. B. Sale, and one of the boys of the chapel. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in wait ing. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Char lemont, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lord Byron, Lord George Lennox, Sir Robert Otwity, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Francis Seymour. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and suite returned after the Service in four carriages, to Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. In the Royal Suite was the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Ass Pitt, Lord Byron, Baron de Gruben, Sir Robert 0 . - way, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. ,Francis Seymour. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, visited Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe-Weimar yesterday, at Marlborough House. His Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar attended Divine Service yesterday morn ing in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Steath,l Sob-Dean, from Isaiah, chap. 32, verse 2. The Lessons were read by the Rev. Mr. Hull, the Prayers by the Rev. H. Dakins, and the Communion Service by the Sub-Dean and the Rev. Messrs. Hall and Dakins. The Chant was Dr. Boyce's. The Te Deum and Jubilate, Barrow's in F. The Sanctus and Responses, J. B. Sale's. The Anthem " Sing 0 Heavens" (Kent), was sung, `_y Messrs. Wylde, Hobbs, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in waiting. Her Majesty was attended by the Hon. Miss Hudson and Earl Howe. Saturday was the birth-day of the Duchess of Glouces ter. Her Royal Highness, we regret to state, being in. disposed, the congratulatory visits from the members of the Royal Family were deferred. His Royal Highness' Prince Albert, attended by Mr. Francis Seymour, called at Gloucester House in the afternoon; after bis arrival from, Windsor Castle. Several of the Foreign Ministers, and many of the nobility, left their names for her Royal !Bel ness, in the course of the day, at Gloucester House. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Baron Knesebeck, arrived in town at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon from a vi , it to the Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Prince George of Cambridge also returned to town on Saturday afternoon from a visit to his Grace. His Royal Highness visited the Princess Augusta. The Queen Dowager and the Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday moaning in Grosvenor Chapel. Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses. The Queen Dowager rode out on horseback on Satur day, and the Duchess of Saxe,Weimar 'took a carriage drive. M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, left London last Saturday for the Hague, where he intends to pass a fort night or three weeks. The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satur day in Downing-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from Captain Prescott, Governor of Newfoundland. Lord Wharnclitfc had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Home Office. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town on Saturday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Viscount Duncannon returned to town on Saturday. _ The Marquis of Normanby arrived in town on Saturday from the scat of the Earl of Hardy‘icke, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. The Marquis of Ormonde left town on Saturday for the Isle of Wight, from whence the Noble Nlixquis will proceed on an excursion to the Mediterranean. Mr. E. J. Cooper, M. P., and Mrs. Cooper. have ar rived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Brighton. THE QUEEY.—It is whispered in circles likely to be acquainted with the fact, that her Majesty is in a way likely to prevent the succession to the throne from passing into I any other than the direct line. The report derives strength fi om her Majesty's recent abstinence from her favourite excl.- oa horseback, and also from dancing - , in which she is known to take much pleasure.— Globe. It has reached us from an excellent authority that is the intention of her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Ili,,huess Prince Albert to be present at a review at Woolwich in the course of the ensuing month. he Earl of Clarendon gives a Cabinet dinner on Wednesday next. The whole of the members of the Cabinet, with the exception of Viscount Murpeth, dine with thu Noble Earl. His Excellency Prince Castelcieala, A mba•sa dor Extraordinary from the Court of Naples to the British . Court, arrived on Saturday last from Paris. .. ~; SUP - PLEM,i':N TTo D T!1 LOIN LOIN N GAZETTE OF APRIL 24. ---~- TREASURY WARRANT. Whereas by an Act, passed in the last Session of Par liament, intituled " An Act for the Further Regulation of. the Duties on Postage until the sth day of October, 1840," poster was given the Lords of the Treasury, by warrantamd, r their hands, to be inserted in the London Gazette (which warrant might be rescinded, varied, or altered, as they should, from time to time, think fit) to direct that letters written en stamped paper, or enclosed in stamped covers, or having . a stamp affixed thereto (the stamp in every such case being of the value or amount in such warrant to be expressed, and specially provided for the purpose under the authority of the stid Act). should (if within the limitation of weight to be fixed under the pro visions of the said Act, and if the stamp should not have been used before) pass by the post free of postage ; arid also to requir,s, in case the stamp on which any letter should be written, or the stamp on the cover in which it should be enclosed, or to which it should be :affixed, should be of less value or amount than in sue!) warrant should be expressed, or should have been used before, such letter should be charged and chargeable with such rate of post age cs such warrant should direct ; and power was thereby also given to the Lords of the Treasury, to order and di rect the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, from time to time, to provide proper and sufficient dies or other implements for expressing and denoting the rides or duties which should be directed by any such warrant as aforesaid, and to give any other orders, and make any other regulations relative thereto, they might deem expedient. And whereas by a warrant, under the hands of three of . the Lords Commissioaers of her Majesty's Treasury, dated the 27th day of December, 1839, the said Lords Commissioners, in pursuance of the power or authority in them vested in and by the said Act, fixed and limited a scale of weight of letters to be transmitted by the post, and they thereby subjected such letters, on and after the 10th day of January, 1840, to the rates of postage therein con tained, and directed that no letter exceeding sixteen ounces in weight should be forwarded by the post between places within the United Kingdom, except in the instances therein specified. And they ordered and directed, that on all letters, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, transmitted by she post between places within the United Kingdom (not being letters sent to or .from parts beyond the seas) there should be charged and taken one uniform rate of postage of one penny ; and on all such letters, if exceeding half an ounce in weight pro. gressive and additional rates of postage (each additional rate being estimated at oae penny), according to the scale of weight and number of rates thereinbefore fixed, pro vided that such postage should be pre-paid at the time of posting such letters, or otherwise there should be charged on such letters a double rate of postage : And they further directed, that on all_ letters not ex ceeding half an ounce in weight, transmitted between any place within the United Kingdom and any other of the British dominions or colonies by packet-boat, anti riot through France (including, however, letters to and from the East Indies, by way of Falmouth and Alexandria). and on all letters transmitted by vessels, not being pasket boats, between the United Kingdom, and any place be yond the Seas, (including Ceylon, the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies,) and on all letters not exceeding half an mines in weight, transmitted by post, between any part of the United Kingdom and France, or any other foreign country, through France (letters to or from any of her Me jesty's colonies or dominions excepted), and between the United Kingdom, and foreign parts (except France and any foreign country through France), or between the United Kingdom and any of her Majesty's colonies or domi nions through a foreign country, or between any ports, islands, or places out of the United Kingdom, there should he charged and taken the several- rates of British postage therein mentioned or referred to. , And that on every letter so transmitted (except letters chargeable with uniform rates of postage), which should be posted within the United Kingdom at any other place than the port of departure of the packet by which the same should be forwarded, or which should be addressed or delivered at any other place within the United Kingdom than the port at which the packet bringing the same should arrive, and not exceeding half an ounce in weight, an inland rate of two-pence should be charged and taken in addition to the rate of British postage then payable thereon. And that on every letter so trensmitted.as thereinbefore respectively mentioned, exceeding half an ounce in weight (letters on which uniform rates were payable as aforesaid included), there should be charged and taken progressive and additional rates of British postage, according to the scale of weight and -number of rates thereinbefore con tained, estimating and charging each additional rate at the amount theroinbefore directed to be charged and taken on every letter so transmitted, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, and charging the inland rate (if any) as aforesaid. - And whereas by another warrant, under the hands of three of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea sury, bearing date the 31st day of January now last, the said Lords Commissioners, in exercise of the power in them for such purpose vested by the said Act of Pasha. merit, ordered and directed that on all printed votes, and proceedings,' of the Imperial Parliament, forwarded by post between places in the United Kingdom, or between the United Kingdom and her Majesty's Colonies, on or after the 1 1 th day of February then next, subject, nevertheless, to all the regulations and restrictions in force respecting such votes and proceedings under the Act of the Ist Vict. cap 3-1, there should be charged and paid the rates of postage therein specified. And whereas the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have determined that all letters, and printed votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, posted in the United Kingdom, may be transmitted by the post free of postage, if duly stamped or having a stamp affixed thereto, in manner hereinafter provided. Now, we, the undersigned, being three of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, do, in exer cise of the power or authority in us for such purpose vested in and by the Said Act, and of all other powers en abling us in this behalf, order and direct, that this 'pre sent warrant shall come into operation on the 6th day of May next : and we hereby direct, that all letters, printed votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, which, on or after that day shall be posted in any town, or place, w:thia the United Kogdom, shall, if written on stamped paper, or enclosed in stamped covers, or having a stamp or stamps affixed thereto (the stamp or stamps in every such case being the value or amount here inafter expressed, and specially provided under the autho rity of the said Act, as hereinafter directed, and if the stamp shall not have been used before), pass by post, free of postage, as hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say) In case any such letter shall be directed to any place within the United Kingdom, the stamp or stamps thereon shall be equal in value or amount to the rates of postage to which such letters would be liable under the said warrant of the 27th day of December last, if pre-paid. In case any such letters shall be addressed to any other of the British dominions or Colonies, or to any foreign country, the stamp or stamps thereon shall be equal in value or amount to the rates of British postage, to which such letters would have been liable under the said warrant of the 27th day of December last. And on all such printed votes and proceedings of Par liament, the stamp or stamps shall be equal in value or amount to the rates of postage to which such votes and pre ceedirv.. s would have been liable under the said warrant of the 31st day of January last. And we further order and direct, that in all cases in which the same shall be necessary, in order to place on any such letters, printed votes, or proceedings of Par liament, the full amount of stamps hereby required as afore said, there shall be affixed thereto such a number of ad hesive stamps, as alone, or in combination with the stamp on such letter or packet, or on the envelope or cover thereof, will be equal in amount to the rates of postage to which such letters, printed votes, or proceedings of Parlia ment, would be liable under the said warrants of the 27th day of December, and 31st day of January, now last re spectively as aforesaid. That in all cases'in which letters addressed to places within the United Kingdom shall be posted without any stamp thereon, and without the postage being pre• paid, there shall be charged on such letters the postage to which such letters would be liable under the said warrant of the 27th day of December last ; and in all cases in which printed votes, or proceedings of Parliament, addressed to places within the United Kingdom, shall be posted without any stamp thereon, there shall be charged on such votes and proceedings the postage to which the same would be liable under the said warrant of the 31st day of January last. That in all cases in which any letters addressed to places within the United Kingdom shall be posted having thereon or affixed thereto any stamp or stamps, the value or amount of which shall be less than the rate of postage to which such letters would be liable under the said warrant of the 27th day of December last if pre-paid, there shall be charged on such letters a postage of double the amount of the diffsrence between the value of such stamp or stamps and the postage to which such letter would be liable as aforesaid if pre-paid. And in all cases in which any votes or proceedings of Parliament addressed to places within the United Kingdom shall be posted, having thereon or affixed thereto any stamp or stamps, the value Or amount of which shall be less than the rate of postage to which such votes and proceed ings would be liable uncler the said warrant of the 31st of January last, there shall be charged on such votes or pro ceedings a.poAage equal to the amount of the difference between the value of such stamp or stamps, and the post age to which such votes or proceedings would be liable as aforesaid. - Provided always, that it shall in all cases be optional with the parties sending any letters, printed votes, or pioceedings of Parliament by the post, to forward the same, free of postage, by means of a proper stamp, or stamps, thereon, or affixed thereto, in manner hereinbefere provided, or to forward the same in like manner as the same might have been forwarded before the signing of this present warrant. But in case arty letters or printed votes or proceedings of Parliament, addressed to places out of the United King dom shall have thereon or affixed thereto, any stamp or stamps, being less in value or amount than the rates of post age, to which such letters or such votes or proceedings would be liable under the said warrants of the 27th day of December and 31st day of January last respectively, suc h letters or printed votes, cr proceedings of Parliament, shall not, in any case, be forwarded by the post, but shall, so far as may be practicable, be returned to the senders thereof, through the dead letter office. Provided also, that with reference to the existing treaties between his lee Majesty King William IV., her present Majesty, and his Majesty the King of the French, letters between the United Kingdom and France may be sent without being stamped or pre-paid ; but in all other cases of letters sent out of the United Kingdom, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster• General to require either that such letters shall be duly and properly stamped as herein di rected, or that the postage thereof shall be paid by the sender on the tender or delivery of such letters at the Post Offices• or other places appointed by the Postmaster-Ge neral, for the receipt of such Ivaers, for the purpose of transmission by the post (subject, nevertheless, to the re gul ations- and enactments in this respect, contained in tire Act of th( lit. Viet., cap. 34. sec. 14.) Provided also. that the transmission of printed votes and proecedicgQ Parliament by the post, shall be subject to LII the ret.ilat;.ons and restrictions in force under the said Act of the Ist of Victoria, cap. 34; and the said warrant of the 31st of January list. And we further order and direct, that in any case in which a stamp shall be placed on any letter, or printed votes or proceedings of Parliament, or affixed thereto, which shall have used before, the same shall have no force or effect whatsoever. And we ftpther order and direct the'Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, front time to time, to provide proper and sufficient dies, or other implements, for expressing and denoting rates or duties of one penny and twopence for tho purposes hereinbefore directed. . . And ae ruttier order and direct, that the terms and ex. pressioxis u,:ed in this present warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning., in all respects. as they would have had if inserted in the said warrant of the 27th duy of of December last. Pro%ideri lastly, and we hereby declare, that it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners, for the time being, of her Al,jesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by war rant under their hands at any time hereafter, to rescind, vary, cr alter, all or any of the regulations and directions herein contained, and to 'wake, establish, and declare any new or o regulations and directions respecting the sending by the pot of letters written on stamped paper, or enclosed in stamped covers, or having a stamp affixed thereto, in manner provided by the said Act made and passed in the last Session of Parliament, as they shall deem expedient. As witness our hands, this 24th day of April. 1840. p. T. BARING. THOS. WYSE. H. TUFNELL. SPORTING LA TEST LETTING AT MANCHESTER. The result of the Column Stakes is a great blow to the long and over-sanguine backers of Lord Orford's colt. Private trials are too eagerly followed ; and, we should think, sooner or later the system will not be sn eagerly watched, or acted upon. There can be no doubt that the party in the south are greatly disappointed, for he was backed at Tattersall's for months past with the most lavish hand—indeed for an unusually large stake. Now, the on dit is, that he was not "up to the mark ; ri .o 4on him at " start" is rather in favour of his looking all that could be wished for. We have not heard him mimed since ; 5 to 1 is offered on the field ; 7 to 1 taken on Theon ; 7?; would be taken on Confederate ; 100 to 9 offered at noon against Assassin ; 400 to 26 was pencilled down this forenoon on Muley Ishmael—backed yesterday largely at that price ; 300 to 8 was offered against. Pathfinder ; some 50's to 1 taken last night on Prince Albert. THE CHESTER Cur.—Cowboy is .firm, but not so Cruis- Leen ; she, has tottered for three days. At noun 100 to 5 was absolutely bet. St. Bennett shows himself to be Dawson's horse ; at all events 12 to I could not be obtained to a sum this morning. The prices fluctuate nearly every hour, and will do so until the race conies off. 5 to I agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy—offered 9 to I agst Mr. J. Henderson's Lanercost—offered 10 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Melbourne—take 11 11 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney 12 to I agst Lord Eglinton's St. Bennett—taken • 15 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland 17 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—taken' 17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Dey of Algiers 20 to 1 agst Mr. R. Friee's Captain Pops—taken 20 to 1 agst i.d. Miltown's Cruiskeen—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph—taken 25 to 1 agst Alr. Speed's Aimwell—taken 30 to 1 agst. Mr. Knox's George • 4.) to 1 agst Lord Milltown's \Virrestrew 100 to 4 agst The Feather—offered 100 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson's Stansty—offered 60 to 40 offered on Cowboy v. Melbourne Letters received from Newmarket, dated last night, state that Cruiskeen is backed at 6 to 1 for the Chester Cup! ODDS AT NEWMARKET. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS' STAKES. 2 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate 3 tot agst Lord G. Bentinek's Crucifix 8 to I a4st Lord Exeter's lot • 10 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Warden—taken THE DERBY. ri to 1 agst Marquis of Westminster's Launcelot—taken and after wards offered 7to I agst Duke of Cleveland's Theon—taken and after wards offered 8 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate—take 9 to 1 1 t to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Assassin—taken 18 to 1 egst Lord Jersey's Muley Ishmael _take 20 to 1 22 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Melody colt—take 25 to 1 25 to 1 Captain Gardnor's %lonops 25 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Angelica colt 35 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's St. Andrew—take 40 to 1 40 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Black Bess—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Gambia —taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon —taken and after wards offered 1000 to 10 agst Mr : Fowler's Cormorant—ditto 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Eddison's The Ruler—taken 1000 to 10 agst Duke of Rutland's Crazy Boy—taken 3to 1 agst Seott's lot—taken 1000 to 20 agst Little Wonder and Solace (taken); 600 to 400 on Angelica colt agst Black Bess (taken); 500 to 400 on Monops agst St. Andrew (taken); 560 to /0 agst 'Limon' and Crucifix for Derby and Oaks (taken). MARItIAGE of the DUKE of SUSSEX. NARRATIVE OF SIR AUGUSTUS D'ESTE. Same months after the receipt of the preceding an swers, (the opinions of Dr. Leshington and Mr. R.:ch ards, which were inserted in The Sun of Monday hist,) I was indebted to Sir John Dihon for the publication of a work entitled " The Case of the Children of the Duke of Sussex." It was the sharp sight of that acute lawyer, which at c the first glance saw that my case was just, a n d th a t th e laws as they existed were the silent but staunch support ers of ray claims. in 1811, Sir John Dillon published his " Considera tions on the Royal Marriage Act," where he , demon- ; 1., s.retes that the authors of it never contemplated . its ei- • tending beyond the shores of Britain, and he shows the folly of those who would idly maintain that the Britisli Legislature hid imagined the absurdity of shackling, in regard to marriage throughout the wide expanse of Europe, Hanoverian Princes !—Princes who . were members of the German Empire !—and any one of whom was liable to be called upon to ascend its Imperial Throne. To return to the later work of Sir J. Dillon entitled " The Case of the Children of the Duke of Sussex." Amidst the important contents of this.volume in the notes to page 36, were the following acts of the British and Irish Parliaments. 6TH GEORGE 1., C. 5. This British Statute declared and enacted, " That " the Kingdom of Ireland hath been, and is, and of " right ought to be subordinate to,and dependent upon, " the Imperial Crown of Great Britain, as being inse parably united and annexed thereto ; and that the `• King's Majestic, by and with the advice and consent " of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons " of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, bath, " and of right ought to have full power and authority " to make laws and statutes of sufficient force to bind the Kingdom and People of Ireland." . The Statute, 22 George 111., c. 28, reciting the above (6 George 1., c. 51, shortly enacts that " From and after the passing of this Act, the abovementioned Act, and the several matters and things therein con tained shall be, and is, and are hereby repealed. The Act 23 George 111 , e. 28," Removes all doubts of the right claimed by the people of Ireland to be bound only by laws enacted by his Majesty and the Parlia ment of that kingdom in all cases whatever." Then as to marriage, whilst Ireland was only a Land, and tire. Kings (if England only Lords, it was held that the sentence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Acts of Parliament in England regulating or annulling marriage, bad not any force in Ireland. The marriage of Queen Catherine was dissolved by " the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same," the Irish Statute (the 28 Henry VIII., c. 9.), reciting at the same time the English Statute to that effect, not as of any force in Ireland, but only as a good Act, and emphatically repeating that as to Ireland the marriage was dissolved by authority of the present Parliament. The Irish Statute, 33 Henry VIII., c. 6, declares the marriage of all persons to be lawful that be not pro hibited by God's law ; and it also seems to recognise the validity of marriages made by mere contract if con summate with bodily knowledge. Thus at the time of the Union with Ireland the law of Ireland did not re cogniSe the validity or legal effect of any Acts merely of the British Parliament regulating marriage in Ireland. From the above extracts it became evident that there could be no Royal Marriage Act of force in Ireland, unless there could be shown some Statute of the Irish Parliament to legislate in regard to the marriages of the children of the Kings of that country. A diligent search was made into the Irish Statute Book, but no such- Act was discovered. The question, however, having been. mooted of my status in that kine ' a doin, it was dee me d i n di spensa bl e to su b m it a case for the opinion cf that gentleman whose professional re putation stood the highest for a knowledge of the laws of that country previous to the Union, when Ireland Was an independent kingdom. • The following case was accordingly laid before Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and received front that very emi nent and learned gentleman the answers which are sub joined CASE FOR MR. O'CONNELL. " In the year 1793, Prince Augustus Frederick, of Great Britain - and Ireland, son to his Majesty George (afterwards created Duke of Sussex, but only since the Union), intermarried at Rome, out of all British jurisdiction Whatever, with the Right Hon. Lady Au gusta Murray, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore, a Peer of Scotland, and whose native domicile was in - that part of the United Kingdom, and not in England. " Prince Augustus himself, previously to his mar riage, had never been actually domiciled in England, but had been sent abroad at an earl) period of his in fancy, !I and educated as a German prince, in the tin .n electorate, and now the kingdom of Hanover, of which his father was sovereign, holding that sovereignty in a right wholly distinct from the crown of Great Britain. He never fixed his abode permanently in England until the year 1804, long after the marriage and the birth of his children. " Tile marriage at Rome was performed by a minister of the Church of England ; and the House of Lords, in the case of Lord Cloncurry, has established the validity in Ireland of marriages so celebrated between parties who are Protestants.—Vide Cruise on Dignities,l second edition, p. 276. " As Mr. O'Connell may not in London have the facility of referring at once to that work, he will find it in Mr. Cruise's . report of the case set forth in page it) of a work just published by Sir John Dillon ; he will also in the latter work, left herewith, find the English Royal Marriage Act, and from pages 35 to 37 a review of the constitution of the Irish monarchy as it stood at the time of the Union, and of several Irish statutes re lating thereto. " There was issue of the marriage —a son, Augustus Frederick, born in 1794, and a daughter, Augusta. " In the British statute 12th of George 111., c. 11, Ireland is not mentioned, nor is any allusion made to the Great Seal or Privy Council of Ireland, although descendants of George 11. might settle and marry in that kingdom. " N.B. The ordinary Marriage Act, 26 George 11., c. 33, is confined to England, - and the marriages of the Royal Family are expressly exempted from the operation of that statute. " Your opinion is requested— " 1. Whether, at the time of the marriage of his Royal Highness at Rome, he was liable to any disability of contracting marriage in that city, as son of the, than King of Ireland, by virtue of any law of force in 1793, within that kingdom, then wholly separate and inde pendent of British legislation ; and so declared in - 1782, by the British Parliament itself? and if he were so, you ere requested to point out the particular sta tute, if any, by which such disability was wrought. "ANSWER. " I am of opinion—and it is an opinion free from any doubt—that at the time of the marriage of his Royal Highness at Rome he was under no incapacity, by vir tue of any law of force in Ireland, to contract marriage in that city. The marriage cunt: acted at Rome by his Royal Highness was, in my opinion, one of unquestion - able validity in Ireland. "2. What was the status of the son of his Royal Highness, in point of rank and legitimacy in Ireland, and according to the law of that kingdom at the time,of the union with Great Britain in 1801 ? And how, according to that law, was lie entitled to be designated and styled in all public acts, or in legal proceedings then, and at the present moment, in Ireland ? " ANSWER. " The status of the son of his Royal Highness in Ireland, at the union, was and still is that of a Prince of the Blood Royal, grandson of the reigning [in 18011 King of Ireland. He is still entitled to that rank, and ti all rights dependent on, or incident to, his legitimacy in Ireland, as such Prince of the Blood Royal. "3. In case the son of his Royal Highness should pur chase land in Ireland, and die intestate, to whom would any estate so purchased devolve ? To his sis ter, as his heir-at-law, or to the Crown, by escheat, for want of heirs " ANSWER. " Any land purchased in Ireland by the son of his Royal Highness, in the event of his dying intestate, would certainly descend to his sister, as his heiress-at law. There could be no escheat in that case to the Crown. The sister, in the event supposed, would have no difficulty in recovering the possession of the land, if that possession were withheld from her by any person not deriving from her brother. For that purpose, she could maintain an eject ment on her singlo demise • if the land were held by tenants, she could recover the rents by action or dis tress. In short, she would hare no difficulty in asser:- ing and establishing her rights in our Courts of. Law. Besides clear principle, the authority of Lord Cloneur ry's ease, in our Courts and before the Lords, leaves, in my judgment, no doubt on this subject. " DANIEL O'CONNELL. " 7th July 1832-4, Parliament-street, London." THEDUKEOFSUSSEX AND THE DUCHESS OF INVERNESS. (From the Ar , us.) The plain fact is tha t the Lady(dignify her as you may) is either the Duke's wife, or his mistr ess . If she wen; his legal wife , she would she is not so. The nobility and others,wh o h ave p l aced their autographs in her visitors' book, have, in our opi nion, Committed a very great error. " But they are married," says the Duke of Somerset, " and I will re ceive them as man and wife." Good, my Lord Duke. You have hitherto maintained the reputation of a. moral, prudent gentleman. You .have . daughters very a miable and handsome women. Would you t h at a ny one of the Ladies St. Maur should ha so we dded as the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness are reported to have been ? Marriage, to be legal in England, must be by one of three modes ; by licences, by• banns, or by registration be fore a .Magistrate. These are the on/s/ farms reto,g vised by the lad ; and was the marriag e of the Duke of Sussex to the .Dueliess of Inverness by soy one of these modes? We believe not. But, for the sake of argu twin; supposing it to have been so, it could not hive been a legal marriage without the consent of the Crown and the Ptivy Council, the Royal Marriage Act render.: all such unions void: The Duke's former marriage, with Lady Augusta Murray,,was a very different affair. They were first Married abroad, agreeably to the cere mony of the 'country where both resided ; they were .subsequently married by banns in the parishchurch of St. George, .Hanover-square--openly, undisguisedly, and without any one interfering to forbid the ceremony. That the marriage with Lady Augusta Murray was a legal marriage, Without the limitations of the Royal rAlarriage Act (which does not extend to Ireland, Scot land, Hanover, or any other place beyond the seas), ,there can be no doubt ; and Colonel D'Este ought to Ip'se ho time in bringing claims, and those . of his arniahle' sister;' before • the notice of Parha znent:' The . conduct of the Duke of Sussex to his legal wife 'and children may be easily traced, by reference to the papers of the late Mr. Dillon, then Ccmusel to 'L a dy Augusta Murray, and residing in Lin colnis Ica. The executors of Mrs. Billingtom.the ce lebrated vocalist; might also furnish some minutes of iiis Royal Highrices's Eenerosity to a lady, who lived With hi}n • fore long period, and sacrificed her private fortune to his uses. It i's not our wish to enter into these priF,,ate detailg of the past. The materials have tong since been' hands ; and. if the' injudicious remarks in t. 1 1 . ?, •, !'Morning Chronicle had not provoked Comment, (coming, 3s We . ,orc persuaded•they do, from lensiagton Pollee); we l'shbUld`sot have said' mach. As" it is, we shall he 'delighted to reader any assistance in our power' to Col. D'gSte:lnclihis sister; iri,*sta blishing their legitimate righte :` and tve: l 'at* surf ihat in doing so, we shall have the sr - nice?* arid: good wishes of a triajoritY bE .the people of Gredt Btitacn with us,'in fay . our of their claims. ' r The following simple, effecting. and heft/inl letter, reached' us this day. It is written by 'thi , Htui: Mr. 11Itirra3', son' of the late Earl of Dunmore, aitd brother to the hapless and ill-fated Lady Augusta. Its perusal Will arOttse the feelings of the public, and tend to in crease the sympathy now so universally felt for her children. 'justice has b6en tardy in her'dealings towards theth ; but she Will be sure, and her retriliution will he Hunteous. This letter places her Ladyship's charac ter' in a new and magnanimous point of view—as the resigned'and saffezing martyr, and as the firm and un earnpithitising heroine—enduring ever! mistipand pri vation, even to the disgrace of arrest—and for her husband's debts—rather than betray a trust or violate a promise. "TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL. "Farmley, near Ragshot, April IR, 1840. "Sil',—;FrOm a paragraph which app ears i n th e . . Chronicle (apparently 'derived from some one to' whom the circumstance was well krMwri) the-editor states " That at the time of the rnarria;e of the Duke of Sussex to Lady Augusta Murray,'in 1793, each of them gave to the clergyman, by whom the ceremony Was performed, a pledge neither . to reveal his tamne, nor perMit him to incur any peril on their account. The Mike of Sussex has kept his'tvord.' "And thus . the artiele•abruptly terminates,' leaving the inference to be drawn that . My lath sistcr'had been less mindful of her'pledgc. 'l3at tint her memory may not SUfhr from any erroneous opinions'on this head, I beg to infortn you that on several occasions;: when she was arrested for debt, and other Wise subjected 'to great mental suffkirings from such 'arrests; that I urged and entreated her, all b my power, between . 1803 and 1898, to plead fenitne couverte ; one of her invariable replies to vihich.Was, I No I cannot ; F-pleiged tr.y n-Ord . to the clergyman, most sacredly, that I would not reveal his name, and that pledge I should be obliged to break, to establish, in• a Court of Law, wen I to do what you wish. " No, Mr. Editor, it was many years after the before-mentioned period, when, finding my mother, the lath 'Countess of Dunmore, to be in 'a very Weak state of health, that I was indticed to urge her so solemnly, net only on the act of injustice that she was doing to us, her sons, .and more especially to her grandson, the pre 'sent'S;r Augustus d'Este, that she at last revealed to me *pat only the clergyman's name and lige, but also the 'county ia which he resided, who had Married the parties; as also the name of another person who had been in- Auced to listen when the ceremony was being per formCd, froth having had' their suspicions aroused that .something of the kind was going on, from what h a d previously occurred, as welt - as I from the my s t e ri ous 'Manner in which the clergyman alluded to‘was Smuggled into the palace when my mother had gone'outotrit, " Having subsequently seen the persons alluded to, and they not denying the:fact,• I some time afterwards appealed to his Royal Highness Whether it would not 'be an act of common justice to the family of the Duchess, and to her - children, that he should obtain (considering the extreme age of the 'clergyinan who had intermarried his Royal Highness with my sister)ri cer tificate to such effect—at the same time aequainting his Royal Highness how and in what manner 1 had come possessed of the clergyman's name, Ikc. : in reply to which appeal a gentleman of the name of Stephenson called upon me an the subject of such certificate, which not terminating satisfactordy, after two or three interviews, he inquired if I had any objec tion to an interview with his Royal Highness's legal adviier on the subject of it. My. answer to which h was, : that I would willingly meet any honourable minded man whom be chose, to appoint. The reult of which was, that the present Lord Brougham, with Mr. Stephenson, called, when the former (on being made acquainted with the cause of our meeting, and my ex planation of what was wanted,) immediately addressed himself to Mr.Stephenion, and t o ld him he could n o t 'see any objection to his Royal Highness's compliance with so reasonable a request on my Part, and which I had a right to expect from him ; or what was tanta mount to it. " However, not receiving the certificates required, I repaired to the party, who, to the disgrace of his holy office, though acknowledging I,is having p er f orme d the. ceremony , declined giving. to me the certificate, until he had personally communicated with his dio cesan, the late Bishop of Norwich, who informed rue first personally. and subsequently by letter, that it it depended upon his advice, I should not be long without the certificate required ; yet, notwithstanding advice to such effect from his diocesan, the old gen tlethan declined giving the certificate, but. pledging himself that one should be left behind him to such effect ; all of which circumstances Sir Augustus D'Este was • informed of by me as they severally oc curred, and certainly not through his mother. "Before I conclude, Mr. Editor, permit me to thank you for the warm interest which you have taken in the cause of my late injured sister and her offspring, by a publication of the various facts which you have given insertion to in your very respectable journal. And allow me to add, that I am, with esteem, your obliged humble servant, " A. MURRAY." DREADFUL PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS AT DAMASCUS. (From the Journal des Debat s.) We continue to receive the most afflicting details respecting the persecution prevailing at this moment in the east against the Jews, and the suffering in flicted on those accused of having murdered the priest Tomaso, at Damascus. There is every rea son to suppose that the sufferers have been the victims of some odious machination, invented for the purpose of levying a heavy tax upon them, and perhaps upon the whole community, by exciting fanaticism and hatred against it. The Austrian Observer declares that the bones found in the sewer of the Jewish quarter were bones of animals, as will he seen from the following extract. " Official accounts from Beyrout, of the 15th March, rectify the details of the Smyrna journals, published in our paper of yesterday, respectin g the pretended murder of Father Thomas, the prior of the Spanish convent at Damascus ; the fact is nowise proved, and the preparators of the deed are not discovered. The medical men and surgeons, charged by the local authorities with the examination of the bones found in the sewers of the Jewish quarter, have declared that the bones roust have been there a long tim e , and were b ones of animals. If the persecution of the Jews at Damascus arises, as several letters affirm, from the often-repeated assertion that the Jews eat Christian blood at their passover, this merely proves that centuries cannot destroy opinions repugnant to human nature, which are. contrary to the letter of the Jewish law, and which, in this instance, are still made void of probability, as the murder of Father Thomas took place in February, whereas the Jewish passover is in April." The following letters from Beyrout, addressed to M. Lehzen, President of the Pekidim and Amar calim of the communes of the Israelites of the Holy Land, at Amsterdam, prove how harshly the Jews have been treated : " Beyrout, Feb. `?0. " ' Your brethren at Damascus are much to b e pitied. Father Tomas°, a capuchin, and keeper s of th e conven t, di sappeare d on the ":)th with his man -servant, and has v.;:, been found, in spite of the search ttk;L has been made. The whole town 1.-.-&d in tumult—Turks and Ch ristians wa nted to murder the Jews, and fire t heir quarter, becau se i t at e several s io l, . was supposed that they ha d murdered Father To masa. Infamous reports were invented, the ciu and Jews were hastinadoed and p Several of the elders were thrown into prison, and the Paella declared that many heads should fall, if THE OARS. 300 tollo agst Lord dlientinck's Crucifix—taken 3 times 12 to 1 agst Mr. Wigram's Teleta—taken Offers to take 8 to 1 about Black Bess. CATTERICK BRIDGE RACES.—TxsbAv. The Champagne Stakes of 20 sous. each, with 15 added; for two-years-old colts, Sat 31b ; and fillies, Bst. Three quarters of a mile. (5 Subs. ) Mr. Wormald'sb c Millepede, bro. to Centipede (Heseltine) 1 Duke of Cleveland's b e by. Muley Moloch Mr. Wilkin's br c Septimius Mr. T. 0. Povrlett's b f Kedge Mr. Fairlic's b f Crockery. ....................................... 5 6 and 7;04 on the Muley Aloloch colt. \Von easy. The Gold Cup, or specie, by Subs. of 10 soya. each. Two miles. (8 Subs.) Mr. Orde's b m Bee's Wing, aged, Bst 1 Ilb (Cartwright) 1 Sir J. Boswell's ch h The Hydra, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b Mr. Wright's b f Interlude, 3 yrs, 6st 31b Duke of Cleveland's b f by Voltaire, 3 yrs, Est 31b " 4 Mr. Attwr.od's ch c Little Phillip, 3 vrs, fist 31b. 7t04 on Bee's Wing , and 3to 1 a.rst Hydra. Won easy. The Broligh Handicap of 15 soy, each, 10 . ft. One mile and a h a lf. (6 Subs., 2of whom declared, &e.) Mr. Stephenson's br c Neptune, 3 yrs, Est 91b .. (Francis) 1 Lord Eglintoun's b c Doctor Cains, 3 yrs, 75t......... Mr. Wrather's , gr h Hackfall, 5 yrs, Bst 91 b 3 Mr. Wormald's b g Tiny, 4 yrs, 7st ' - )1b 5t04 on Hackfall. Won easy. The Hurdle Race, heats, once round over four' leaps, was won in two heats by Mr. Cundell's b h Expectation (h b) (Mr. Carter), beating seven others. CI7IIIIAGH APRIL. MEETING.. Tmunsnay. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs, for horses, &c.—too yrs al, sst 71b ; three yrs old, Bst 61b ; four yrs old, 9.• t 61b; five yrs old, 9_,t 12.1 b ; six and aged, tOst. Four miles. 31b to mares and geldings. _ Mr. Graydon's b f Alba, 4 yrs old (Keegan) Lord Howth's b c Claret, 3 yrs old . ... 2 Both kept close together to the end of the rails, when the mare headed, and won by two or three lengths. FRIDAY. Challenge of the Madrid Stakes of 25 sovs. each, and the 5 cove. fts. Hathbridge Post. Mr. Knox's b c 51alboy, Sst 9lb Mr. Maher's c by Skylark or Lapwing, Helen, 7st HO 2 Sweepstakes, 10 sovc. h ft, with 25 added ; second horse to save his stake ; s'.arted at the Three Year-old Course, and ended at the flue Post. Mr. Whitle', b h Vernal, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b (Wynne) 1 Mr. O'Reilly's gr e Bastard, 2 yrs, ist 1 llb Mr. Diekson's b f by Blackloek, 2 yi s, 6st 121 b THE NAVY-ADMIRALS' SECRE. TARIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—As the Commissionet s of Inquiry into Naval and Military Promotion state, that the Secretaries to Commanders-in-Chief are to have an increase of pay, we are told that all Secretaries serving as such, shall have 4001. per annum full-pay, by which those. at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and the Mediterranean, will have addition of sd. per anr.uni, fur they now receive 399/. 19s. 7d. As regards the half pay of Secretaries, the Com mission has fixed 12s. per diem to those who have served twelve years as Secretary, so that if an in dividual (a civilian for instance) can get taken by different Admirals, even at the home-posts, to com plete the twelve years, be becomes entitled to the half-pay of 12s. per diem without having been at sea, when a Purser whu may have belonged to the Navy full forty years, and served more than thirty, but, perhaps, has completed only ten years as Se cretary, is excluded from the half-pay of that class ; and he may have been in very many actions during the long war, and. gained considerable credit f o r conduct which net the approbation of Ad m i ra l s and Captains under whom he fought. I should therefore say, !et a portion of time served as the Purser go to make up half the re quired period of time necessary to entitle the Secre tary to become eligible for half-pay, v i z yrs. months. Two stations, six years as Secretary 6 0 Twelve years' servitude as Purser to he equal to, and allowed as, Se crerarv's tune • • • 6 0 12 0 Or let the half.pay of Secretaries be upon a gra duated scale, as follows, viz.:— ...._ , c d. Six years servitude as Secretary (per day) 6 0 Nine years do. do. do. 9 0 Twelve years do. do. do. 12 0 Otherwise you exclude those who may have served as Secretaries at least eleven and a half years, con sequently much injustice would be done to them. P. P. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, with the Lords and Ladies Lennox, come to town early in the present week, from Goodwood, for the season. The Earl of March has returned to town from Newmarket. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond comes to town this week. The Earl of Chesterfield arrived at Ch ester fi e ld House, on Friday night, from Newmarket, and was expected to leave on' Saturday or Monday, accompanied by the Countess of Chesterfield, for Bretby, Derbyshire. The Noble Earl's fine pack of hounds concluded the hunting season last week in Northamptonshire. THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON.--Welhave much pleasure in givinc , a more favourabl e account o f t h e sta t e of her Ladyship's diser der." The medical attendants reported her better yesterday afternoon, and were not apprehensive of danger. rhqqt EVENING EDITION. the monk was not found in forty-night hours. Not a &ngle . i•oice is - raiKed in behalf of the Jews. I sincerely -hope that Fatlier Tomaso or his servant will be found, in order to prevent some direful crimes. " E. KILBEE." Beyrout, Feb. 27. " I had the honour of writing to you on the 20th inst., respecting the murder of Father Thomas, at Damascus. I 1.1 - erred to the letter which M. A lfondery wrote to vou ; but having letters of the 24th from that town this morning, I hasten to communicate their contents to you. "The Israelites at Damascus are charged with being implicated in the murder ; but it appeals that every perquisition hitherto made has produced no result. .Nevertheless :nost of the heads of the prin cipal Jewish families have been imprisoned, and though their houses have been mrrowly searched, notlyng to criminate them has been discovered. A young Jew, about 20 years old, died on th e 19 t h, in consequence of the bastinado he had received, because he had affirmed that he had seen the capu chin enter a Turkish house. " Several persons are of . opinion that this affair is owing to the local Government having made the priest disappear in order to avail themselves of the outcry his loss would occasion as a pretext for levy. ing money on the Jews of Damascus. We shall SQC6 see to whom this murder is to be attributed. P. LAURELLA." The following letter, addressed to Messieurs onorte and Cohen, at Constantinople, furnishes t ith more ample details respecting the tortures inflicted rin this unfottunate race : I write ,these lines to you, after having wished, you peace and salvation, with great grief at hearts to - A%form you of ;he tribulations of our brethren'in Damasetis. 7 4‘ I ‘vroteVqop on the 21st February, and I was in hopes of being able to inform you to day that the calumny had been discovered ; but as my hopes have not been realised, I shall give you a succinct and correct account of the whole matter. On Wednesday, February 5, a: priest, who had lived at Damascus for the last forty years, Ruda denly disappeared with his servant. This prihr followed the medical profession, and visitettea tholic,'Armenian, and Jewish houses, for the pur.; pose of vaccinating. On the following day, same Turks and Greeks came into the Jewish quarter, affirming that they had seen the priest and his ser• vant in it on the preceding evening. They l a id hold of a poor Jewish barber, and dragged him before the Pacha, who instantly ordered him to re ceive 500 blows on his heels ; and, as he made no avowal, the most cruel tortures that tyranny t vold invent were, adMinistered. " In the meanwhile, the Greeks advised him to denimuce some rich Jews as the perpetrators of the crime, and, being unable to resis t and, further the torture to Which he was exposed, he named seven of the richest Jews in Damas eus—v:s., David Harary and his three brO , - thers„loaCk, Haron, and Joseph, Joseph Landiado, I Mons. Abulafia and Moses , Dekar-Luda. The barber stated that they had sent for him, and offerer] him 800 piasoks ,if he would sacriace Ow priest, because . ihey Wanted his Wood for their holy bread ; that he had refused, ,but did not know wiiat -Was become of the priest. The Pachainstantly ordered the seven :Jews to be brought before him and to be bastinadoed. • The poor wretches • protested that they.were innocent, and said that the Jews, who were prohibited feeding on , the blood of minim's, were not likely to commit an act so repugnant to human naturo.as.theone they were accuseZof. The Paella would hear no justification—ordered them to be loaded with chains, end made them undergo the most einel sufferings by forcing them to remain standing during forty hours without giving them anything to eat Or drink, or allowing them to sleep. He then sent for the three Rahbins, Jacob Antevi, Aaron Arari, and Azararia Halfaen, and torture,:t dicta till their flesh flew off in large bits, ai'.;.i n c, them in -the meanwhile whether they had employed blood in their holy bread ; they replied that if such had lit.en their custom their proselytes would have proclaimed the fact long ago. 'c The Paella then proceeded to the college, had the children thrown into prison and chained, pro- I hibiled their being seen by their mothers, allown's 9 I them but an ounce c bread and a glass of watera day each, hoeing that their parents, in order to hherote their children, world make some disclosures. ' A generous-hearted Jew came forward and told 'chi:: Paella that the calumny in question had already been discussed by all the pawers ip ) Europe,-and had been declared ioadinissable, and that' it.was , uot an , equitable ae4ion to inflict welt cruelties - tit - 4411m accusation wrenched out of an individual Immetans of torture. The Padli ordered this individual to be beaten tilt lie expir e d. ! _ ".Tl - ,Pac.ha then proceed e d i n p erson w i t h 600 men d ie' to J•s. , wi.s.h quarter, and ordered the houses of tbeJktv Licensed to be demolished, in the hope 1 of diseiiierifigi'the'dead bodies ; but having made no dikovery of the kind, he ordered the prisoners to. be : dragged - by their sexual organs to a sewer near the palace, and to be thrown into it. ' Not being. able to support . this torture, they preferred death, and acknowledged the charge to be true. The Governor then inquired where they bad put the blood of the men murdered, to which one of them replied, that it had been put into a bottle and given to Moses Abalafia. The latter denied this ; but having' received 1,000 stripes without making any acknowledgment, he was exposed to the most horrid torture, which made him say that he had placed the bottle of blood i n a cupboard. —As he could not stand on his feet, the Go vernor had the unfortunate man carried on tho shoulders of four soldiers to open the cup board ; but when this was opened, it contained nothing but. gold ; and as the Governor inquired for the bottle, Abalafia replied, that he had shown him the gold to be relieved from the calumny. The sufferer was then tottured afresh in order t o induce him to turn Turk to save his life. The others were treated in the same manner,- and these proceedings have lasted a month. An astrologer declared that he had discovered that the prisoners had assassi nated the priest, and that the servant had been killed he Raphael Farki, Nathan Levi, Aaron Levi, Mardocai Tarki, and Aarrkes di Listone, and the two first were arrested immediately ; the others had effected their escape. 4. This is the way in which justice, my dear friends, is administered here. The banker, Nigri, has embraced Islamism, being unable to support any danger the tortures to which he was exposed." VERY LIKE TORY HIGH CHURCH PERSECUTION. (mom A CORRESPONDENT.) At the annual meeting held in the Vestry of St. Mar garct'A Church, King's Lynn, on Easter Monday, after the preliminary proceedings, " A rate of eight-pence ip the pound" was proposed ; upon which an amendment. " That this Meeting do now adjourn," was moved, - 4!4 carried by a show of hands, upon which a poll was ae-: mande(i, arid granted by the Chairman. Two of the choristers of St. Nicholas Chapel, in the same parish, voted on Wednesday fur the arncmclment, and on Friday received an intimation from the Tory Chapel Warden that their services would be no longer required. It is not fur a moment to be supposed that the vote which. f.ley gave was by any means the :muse of their dismissal ; but it happened a little saispi,!ar that they should be the oi.ly petsons who received - cheir discharge upon the occa sion ; but such was tbt; fact One of the ehori:.iers has since met with an engagement at the ludepent'Ant Chapel, the funds of which are raised entirely upoo, the voluntary principle. Tacvl.ioni is expected to fulfil a short engagement tti the finperi?l Theatre of Vienna, eu route from the Russian (tapitaL and is not expectedtoreach town before the close of the ensuing month. The principa l danceuse from La Scala, a t 'Milan. has been engaged to succeed Fanny Elssler. DROPNIORE LODGE.—Lady Grenville is en tertaining the Countess Carysfort and the Ladies Proby, the Hon. George an d Lady Louisa Fortescuc, and the Right Hon. On Friday last, her Majesty an d P r i nce honoured her Latyship with a morn i ng visit Albert t a Grenville. u n i v t i (, lle. to inspect the beautiful grounds attached to the mansion. 13 1 .7cic1icrtsT LODGE, BERKSIIIRE.—Lord J. Rusq.ll is entertrining a family eirele at this delightful villa.. The Rev. Lord Wriothesly Russell, the new Canon of Windsor ; Mr. Henry and Lady Theresa Li s t er , the Hon. Miss Li s i er, and Lord llibblesdale, are among the Noble Secretary S'otte's visitert. Lord John will l eave t o - morrow, T ues d ay, te,r Wil ton-crescent, and Mr. an d L a d y Th eresa Li ster for *),,, Coup, tees of Morley's, Kent 11, - ,use. Viscount Alelhow,.,, pa id hilt Lordship a visit Sidarday, en route from the o,,fi e t o t own . The Earl of Kintioull is mu , :lt 'aettvr; The answer to inquiries, yesterday, at ihttipde'a House 'was - that his Lordship was out of danger. DEATH OF LADY BARBA HA. NEWDIGATE• ,"7", W e have to announce th e d em i se of the, above Lady, whoiliked. Wednesday last., at the family villa, on Blaeltheath. Tho • deceased was (laughter of the late and, sister of.the present:Earl of Daehmaith, anti was barn 29th November, 1791, and mar ried in April, lc:20, Mr. F. Newdigaie. - ALDERMAN HARMER.---In the B • I: .urtil'on Saturday morning, Mr. Charles Phillips fop , 0 1 thet . name of Mr. Alderman Harmer removed from tit 0 on the gr?une at a t t ; N t i, ,O .a r s tle \ a 'S bo O u f ito theC(l!elltritr frome tla teen'ussßeinenss; Mr. Justice Williams ch , granted the application. , Nz.. J 1