The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-24 00:00:00

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No. 14,549.

HEA TRE ROYAL LYCEUM.
(Late English Opera-house.)
EVERY EVENING,
MILITARY PROMENADE CONCERT.
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And under the Patronage of
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The Orclictra„ consisting exclusively of Wind Instruments,

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PROGRAMME FOR TIIE WEEK.
ON WEDNESDAY AND FILIDAY.
r..taT I.
Overture—" Oberon," (Weber).
Waltz—" Aurora," (Labinski).
Aria Finale—" Fra poco a me,"—Lucia de Lammermoor,
(Doniz€tti).
Quadrille—" Falstaff," (Negri).
March—Austrian (Nemitz).
Overture—" Guillaume Tell," (Rossini).

PART 11.
Overture—' Le Coriaire," (Bochsa).
Quadrille—" Le Laveuses du Couvent," (Musard).
Solo.
Waltz—" Abschied von Pesth,"—Monument (Lanner).
Pas Redouble—" Du Perruquier de la Regence," (Brepsant).
Quadrille—" Les Echos," (Musard).
Waltz—" Hommago a la Reine de Graude Bretagne,"
(Straws).
OX THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY.
PART L
Overture—" Semiramide," (Rossini).
Walta—" Pau'erten," (Labiuski).
Scena ed Aria—" Alfin son Ina," Lucia de Lammermoor,
(DoniZetti).
Quadrille—" La Princesse de Grenade," (Musard).
March—(Mohr).
Overture—" Le Philtre," (Auber).

PART 11.
Overture—" Zampa," (Herold).
Waltz—" Elisabethen," ( Strauss).
Quadrille—" L'Ambassadricu," Musard.
Solo.l
Coro ed Aria—" Io To in Campo," Makk Adel (Costa).
Pas Redouble—(Brepsant). •
Galop—" Storming of Constantine," (Limner).
The Solos %% iII be performed by Mr. Las arts, Mr. Keating,
Mr. Burton, Mr. Dean, Air. Beale, and Mr. Handley.
Te-day on the Clarionet, by Mr. Lazarus.
I Wednei,day and Thursday, on the Cornet a Piston, by Mr.

Handley.
I Friday and Saturday, on the Clarionet lsy Mr. Burton.
The doors open at half-past Seven. The Concert will com-
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Reserved Seats Two Shillings.
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FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

WHITEHALL, APRIL 20,1839.
The Queen has been plea3ed to grant the office of ler
Majesty's Advocate for Scotland to Andrew Rutherfurcl, Esq.
The Queen has also been pleased to grant the office of her
Majesty's Solicitor-General for Scotland to James Ivory, Esq.

WHITEHALL, Aram 23.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend John
Walker to the Church of the united parishes of St. Andrew's
and Llanbride, in the presbytery and county of Elgin, vacant by
the death of the Reverend William Leslie.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE—Arm 19.
This day had audience of her Majesty, the Baron Ilulow,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the
King of Prussia, to take leave pro tempore :
To which he was introduced by Lord Viscount Palmei ston,
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knight, Master of the
Ceremonies.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 22.
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Monsieur Dedel, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
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TO THE LDIT(7I? OF THE SUN.
the folloming statement you will find, as it
appears to me, the only reply necessary to the letters in
your paper of to-day, relating to the proceedings in the
parish of Christchurch, with rekrence to the rates.
Neither I nor my brother, have ever attempted to
influence a single vote upon this question.
My brother had but to discliaige his duty according
to law, in the situation he was selected to fill by Mr.
PeHatt and his friends, and he has good reason now,
think, to regret that he yichled to their solicitation.
No one, when he took the office, contemplated a
Church-rate. It was as usual formally demanded, and
after a poll, carried. The rate an granted, must be col-
lected, and those who act with him, can easily state
whether my brother has taken one single step beyond
that he was legally called upon to take.
Whether he has acted harshly or kindly towards the
poorer rate-payers, others can, if they will, inform the
public. It is not for me to do so. I may add, that the
minister's rate is a rate levied under an old Act of Par-
liament, and the Churchwarden has only to collect it,
and pay it to the Rector. His duty is merely nominal.
I am Sir, your obedient servant,
April 23, 1839. W. HAWES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sire—The following sentence, which occurs in a
letter I have just received from Ipswich, helps to prove
that Dissenters are not quite so supine or indifferent
as the procedure of the late Church-rate Abolition So-
ciety bad led some persons and the Government to
imagine :—" We are here in good order with regard to
Church-rates. One hundred and nineteen persons have
been summoned to-day for non-payment, in one parish
alone, by a rabid Tory Churchwarden, who says ho will
go the whole bog with them ; and if bringing them
before the Magistrates will not avail, he will cite them
to the Ecclesiastical Court, for he is determined to hare
the money."
The events which are rapidly taking place speak
trumpet tongued, and cannot fail to produce results.
The sentence at Truro, and the manner in which the
Learned Judge passed that sentence, is doing its work
well. It was asked in your Paper last week, whether
Mr. Baron Gurney was ever a member of the Baptist
Church at M,:ze Pond ; and whether, in that
capacity, he ever moved a resolution to the
effect, that any person of that communion who
should qualify for office, by taking the Lord's Sup-
per according to the forms of the Church of England,
should be expelled from that Society. I always thought
this fact was as well known as any fact connected with
that eminent person's history. The first time I ever
heard it mentioned was by the late Mr. Flarel, the Com-
mon Councilman of London, and since by persons, as a
matter of course, both in connection with Maze Pond,
and other places. A swore sentence, therefore, and
harsh expressions towards Dissenters as such, by a per-
son under such circumstances, cannot fail to benefit the
cause of religious freedom greatly. Then the nephew of
the Judge has been, it seems, beginning a series of pro-
secution in the Ecclesiastical Courts, against his neigh-
bours of Christchurch, professing at the same time to be-
a Dissenter. Scott and Bobbitt, of this town, had both
been Dissenters, one by conviction, the other by birth,
and, as is always the case, pursued those with whom
they had worshipped with more rancour than others who
had never been renegades. The conduct of Mr. Hawes
will therefore benefit the cause, and the more as he is con-
nected with Baron Gurney by blood. At Leicester Mr.
Baines has been so lone. contumacious, one would al-
most fear for his soul's health,' had these Courts any-
thing to do with aught but the property and the bodies
of men ; he will have somewhere about one hundred
pounds worth of property taken from him, for a rate
originally of a few shillings ; that this affair will not
produce its proper result there is no danger ; Mr. Baines,
and his friends who will bear him harmless, are sure of
the lasting gratitude of mankind. The imprisonment
ofM r. Thorogood in Chelmsford gaol, and Mr. Jones at
Carmarthen, are producing effects, the results of which
will appear in days that are coining. The Churchmen
who thus deal with Christian men may depend upon it,
whatever of contempt they may feel, and whatever op-
pression they may exercise at present, that the sighs
which ascend from the cells of men so oppressed, will
return in aftertime like the thunder, which made the
surrounding mountain tremble, and the people who
heard it to quake and fear.

I urge the Dissenters to proceed as they have again
begun, trusting to no Societies nor bodies of men out of
their own districts, but relying on the strength and
power of their own principles, go onwards stedfastly
until their purpose shall be accomplished.
I em, Sir, your obedient servant,
Bungay, April 22. JOHN CHILDS.
P.S. The Dissenters have much reason to be thank-
ful to you for the zeal and energy with which you de-
fend their principles. The case of Dr. Cox, and his
spirit-stirring defence before the Magistrates at Hack-
ney, was by yourself at once reported, and attention
drawn to the proceeding by a spirited lending article.
The Editor of the Patriot copied your report, but nei-
ther inserted your leader nor one of his own, by which
the cause of rousing Dissenters in the country might be
furthered and strengthened. The Editor of that paper
lately charged me with using both fair means and foul
to injure that journal. I will venture to ask himself, if
it be possible that anything, whether foul or fair, can
injure it so much as the fact here brought to view ?
know the respectable Dissenters of Hackney are of this
opinion. Be good enough to convey to the Truro fund
my sovereign, for the benefit of the friends, as I have
no doubt they will prove to be, of Mr. BARON GURNEY.

FRENCH HOLDERS OF SPANISH
BONDS.

-mr-
The following is the copy of a representation addressed
to the Chamber of Deputies on the Bth inst. by M. Gar-
ems on behalf of the Spanish bondholders at Paris, and
~Mich appears to have met with the favourable reception
claimed for it :
" To Messieurs the Members of the Chamber of Deputies.
" GENTLEMEN—TiIe Delegates of the Spanish
Bondholders again solicit your influence with the Mi-
nister, in order to procure his interposition in their
behalf With the Spanish Government. The distress
into which they are plunged by the non-payment
of their dividends these three years past render
them worthy of every interest, of every attention on
the part of the Chamber, since it is not, as was re-
cently stated, for mere speculators that we ask your
solicitude (a class of persons who always withdrew them-
, selves in an unpromising state of things), but for respec-
' table fathers of families, some of whom find themselves
interested in the Spanish funds, in consequence of tran-
sactions anterior to the last revolution, while others, rec-
koning upon the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance,
have hoped that they miglit listen to the appeals made
to them, and aid with their purses the establishment of
the const:tutional rtginie in Spain. Having thought
thus to second the views of the French Government,
will you leave them a prey to misery and despair ?
Will you punish them for having had confidence in a
Minister who proclaimed himself so religious an observer
of treaties?

" It is not war, Gentlemen, that they demand in their
interest, as they know too well the evils which it brings
in its train to wish to engage their country in war, but
the execution, full and entire, of the treaty of the Qua-
druple Alliance, a free and liberal execution, which may
put an end to the evils that desolate Spain, and enable
her to re-establish her finances under the shade of the
olive-branch.

" When for a sum of sixty to eighty milliens, and
this a questionable matter, war is made upon Mexico,
our men, our vessels, and our commerce are exposed to
disasters which have their consequences, is nothing to
be done for a number of honourable persons whose whole
fortunes arc embarked in the Spanish funds? Do ten
millions of capital, drawn from our industry by the
civil war, and sunk in the Peninsula, merit less attention
than paltry quarrels which have given us occasion to
encounter the burning climate of South America and
the periodical risks of the yellow fever ?
" And since -a qu, stion of humanity is joined to a
question of honour, and a question of interest, will not
France raise her powerful voice in order to put a stop to
the massacres and assassinations for which, under the
name of reprisals, examples are to be found only in the
barbarous ages? France of the restoration sent
30,000 men at the expense of 300 millions to pre-
vent the unfortunate Greeks front falling into the hands
of the Turks. Will France of the revolution be less
great, less generous ? Will she do less for a friendly
nation, our neighbour, to which she is bound by engage-
ments the most sacred—by treaties the most solemn ;
when, above all, the fate of millions of Frenchmen de-
pend on the repose, the happiness of that nation ?
" We might, Gentlemen, push these considerations
still further, but we believe we have said enough to
convince you that all the great principles which govern
matter and govern men—humanity, honour, and the
general good—unite to plead in favour of our demand.
We presume, then, to hope that you will deign to afford
it, with the Minister, the protection of your august sup-
port._ . .

" We are, with the profoundest respect, &c.
" Pali!, April 7, 1839." (Signed).

SIGNS OF TILE TIMES.—(From a Correspon-
dent. )—The Sunderland Beacon, a high Tory journal,
has this last week turned round on Sir Robert Peel for
his amendment in the most hitter manner. How is this?
h it by the command of the Tory parsons ? or because, to
save its existence, it must change its politics? IVe sup-
pose the latter to be the case.