The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

the power to make rules, orders, and regulations
for the government of auch prisons, subject to the
approval of the Secretary of State, and your peti-
tioners humbly suggest that the granting of such
general and undefined powers to a Secretary of
State would be entirely unprecedented, and that
the provisions of the said bill, if carried into effect,
would not only be a great inroad on the rights of
the county arid city magistrates throughout the
kingdom, and subject the ratepayers in counties to
a large and excessive taxation, but would also be
subversive of that system of local self-government
which has always been found to be most useful and
effective.

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, that
as the said bill proposes to gi%e such extraordinary
and undefined powers to an officer of the Govern-
ment, contrary to the spirit of the existing laws,
and consequently subversive of the
cowers of the
magistrates, and to the detriment of the ratepayers
of the country, that the said provisions may
not pass
into a law, and your petitioners will ever pray ."
Captain MORLEY seconded the motion.

The CHAIRMAN supported some portions of the
bill, which empowered the Secretary of State to
order prisoners confined for short periods to be pat
in smaller cells than those committed for long
periods. . .. _

Mr WALTERS, while looking
upon some parts of
the bill as dangerous to be put into the hands of the
Secretary of State, said there were some parts of it
that would be really beneficial,
and, so far, the in-
tentions of the Legislature ought not to be frus-
trated,

The CHAIRMAN put the motion for the adoption
of the petition, which was agreed to.

A discussion then arose as to the presentation of
the petition, and a motion was made that Mr New-
degate, who had a motion on the paper, should pre-
sent the petition to the House
of Commons, to
which an amendment was moved that it should be
presented by the members for the county (Lord En-
field and Mr Hanbury); and it was carried by a
majority of one that the presentation should be en-
trusted to Mr Newdegate.

There being no other business, the court adjourned.

Something Like a Fashionable Marriage,

(From the London Review)

When a notorious criminal is executed, the envoys
of the Press, it is well known, are on the ground all
night, bivouacking boldly with the crowd. The
Morning Post seems to have accorded the same
proud recognition to Lord Frederick Cavendish
that the Times did last February to the five pirates.
Aw
at nat
overy g i
n early
w e hfionudr —ill: n gbefore
faithful
emissary reli-
giously attending a matntinal service in the Abbey.
How he got there, or why he went there, unless he
had been in a pew throughout the night, it is not
easy t o k
explain.t o
There, however,
at the carriages he was seated,
watching
worshippers,
looking
as they arrived, and last in astonishment at the
number of coronets, which was so great that he was
driven to exchange confidences with an Abbey
verger on the subject. The picture of the inde-
fatigable matrimonial correspondent talking affably
to the police and the Cathedral officers about the
carriages is instructive and edifying :

"A veteran official in Dean's-yard was heard to express
his opinion that Dean's-yard had never been so full of
ooroneted carriages since her Majesty's coronation."

This is the- proper way in which information
should be gathered. It is a bright example to
foreign correspondents throughout Europe. We
can conceive how, on such a subject, the matrimo-
nial correspondent would treasure up everything
that fell from the lips of so great an authority, and
how important he would feel it to get the numbers
of coronets in their right and accurate order. The
early ten o'clock service soon began and ended; the
matrimonial correspondent somewhat severely, and,
we think, pharisaically, remarks that the object of
those present was less devotion than the gratifica-
tion of feminine curiosity. This appears an uncha-
ritable censure from one who had been in a pew all
night, and who accordingly could attend morning
prayers on this occasion without much additional
trouble. After service the Abbey was cleared of
strangers. But the matrimonial correspondent was
soon back again, if indeed he wail put out at all ;
and we have a burst of descriptive power which
seems clearly modelled on the famous description in
Macaulay of the trial of Warren Elastings:—

The friends and relatives of the bride and bridegroom
took their places early. There were th) Bishop of Oxford
and Lord Houghton. Earl Stanhope sat next to the Queen's
Advocate, Sir John Pakington behind them, and Black
Rod opposite. The Earl of Powis, High Steward of the
University of which the bridegroori's father is the
"honoured Lord and Chancellor," was teen far away under
the pulpit.

Whether "far awa7 under the pulpit" is a pic-
turesque way of saying that the matrimonial corres-
pondent had a distant view of his lordship in the
reading-desk, it is not easy to decide. On a matter
that the ch
so all-important as that, where Barl Powis and
Black Rod sat, it is a pity that history should be
appeared with the choir.At 11‘
!tlf.Put
thus loosely written.
of "the altar."
hereafter to remember
nthaeturall
So themselves ..
them-
selves "at the junction of the °I
, . I.w2iltlh
posteded
eclewrge
well
Posi.'nly
choir the tran-
septs, " and that the clergy betook wits,o the
vicinity
to one the bride entered, attended waited the audience
came. At a quarter
marriage
iyne n ded
commenced.by b r i dem a i dls
t,
whoseadmiration.''
ir a t
jee.,,
" elir3ited universal
will be a proud recollection
after life to the noble
bride and bridegroom that it o
RE,, . e B. Grey read
When the opening exhortation.
tok
hfit're w clergymen
es e x aust et:
marry them. The Hon. and ,
he was succeeded in turn by the Hon. and Rev. W,
IL Lyttelto a
e. Then the versicle
and prayers were
chanted by the Rev. S. F. Jones
W. H. Brookfield
whose "voice was
admirably hoard." The R
who by this time
dd e
ille
Beovh. n
,Wt.h
the
Ybtetlel Ist o
Weddingnosblerdi
crowd of
:f:
read the concluding exhort:tvie.,-21.1r
peal. Through Last of all the
had recovered himself again_
gaVe the benediction.
a The organist played oat the 46
01Ifonm. and
ol 2 f— - the
aa nd,
and bridegroom
erry
the
rlaadeigesouateda nig
entlem:m • bride
passed to the Jeragaielli C‘amb
-er, where the regis-
ter was signed. A very ;merge crowd assembled
outside the Deanery to see the newly-married
couple enter their eatrlage ) and, addB the matri-
monial correspondent, with a gettine
flow o: sen-
timent and enthusiasm, "every hat Wes' raised 1"
That this is the right style for the historian of the
marriages of the aristocracy to write in cannot be dis-
puted. It is powerful, picturesque, and animated,
and under all of it we every now and then seem to
catch the fresh gushinge of a human heart. Few
writers could go day after day to see noblemen
turned off, and preserve through it all that child-
like simplicity of nature which is equally ready
in the discharge of d to jot down what
veteran officials have to sayy about the carriages,
or to raise its hat to a lord. These are
the things that make us all f,
v
-, -Ling. There
is a kind of evergreen literary ability that
always astonishes us, while it charms. re
The matri-
monial correspondence of the Papers a one type of
it. Another and equally remarkable type is the
flow of poetical description in the advertisements
of auctionEerai What a genius must be required
to keep ail the we
ci " Aings in high life distinct and
-,st •t
life-like 1 What a genus m.. i take to describe
all the upland lawns and well-watere_ pasture lands
about Surrey mansions which are to be 'old or Ist,
so vividly and yet so differently ! That the .7"111
knows nothing of its greatest man is a reflection
from which occasionally it is difficult or impossible
to escape. Full many a village Hampden, if we
are to believe Grey's elegy, lies buried in the
country—full many a town Macaulay lies buried
in the fashionable columns of the Morning Post.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Among the most noted
oriminals of modern times, we may mention that of Doctor
Coaty de is Pommerais, who was guillotined a few days
since in Paris for poisoning Madame de Pauw, whom be
shlaodwliyadpuooiesodntiong her.
h A insure her life in his favour, under pretence
of being indebted to him in certain sums of money, and
who afterwards prevailed upon his victim to feign illness
te orfiuglilu 1
for the more effectually carrying out his base designs by
length portrait model of the
cu'prit, taken from
photograph by M. Trin-
quart, of Paris, exp., !ssly for Madame Tussawl's exhibi-
tion, is now added t 40 the chamber of physiognomy,
in
Baker-street.