The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-16 00:00:00

bers, the Catholic Archbishop, three Catholic Bishops, a
great number of Deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates.
The Requisition for Mayo, in our columns Oil evening,
contains nearly cue thousand names, including the Mar-
quis of Sligo, Lieutenant of the County, and 36 Deputy
Lieutenants and Magistrates.
The Roscommon Requisition for a county meeting on
Thursday, is signed. by many of the great proprietors, in-
cluding Mr. Kelly, of Cargins, and a considerable num-
ber of Magistrates. The Sheriff, to whom respect for
his office required that an application should be made,
having refused to convene the county, the Magistrates per-
formed that agreeable duty.
The County of Meath has been convened for Tuesday.
The requisitionists include the great proprietors, and a
host of Deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates. Here too
the Tory Sheriff resisted the call made upon him, and
the Nobility and Gentry, and Magistracy, convened the
county. —lbid.

feel that no public reparation having been made for this
outrage against every feeling of delicacy, of justice, and
of honour, I should be wanting in every impulse which
ought to actuate and guide a brother, if 1 did not
take the last means now left in my power of showing that
it is not from the numerous chffieulties which have been
thrown in the way of finding out the slanderers of my sister
that her family have been prevented f ore bringing them to
justice, and holding them up to the contempt and in-
dignation of the world, but from the manner in which
they have been screened by the Court (and whilst I use
the word Court I will net allow my loyalty to be ques-
tioned—such a supposition would ill apply to one who
bears my name). I impute nothing to the Sovereign, but
the misfortune of being betrayed by that baneful influence
which now surrounds the throne; and it is to clear that
Court of these slanderers,
and to place this infamous trans-
action in its true light, that I now address you as the re-
sponsible Minister of the Crown. My Lord, you have
stated that the removal of these persons would be unpre-
cedented. Need I say that their conduct has been unpre.
cedented, and is. calculated, in the highest degree, to throw
disgrace and discredit on the Court. A near relative of
mine having, from a kind feeling of the painful position
in -which all my family have been placed by the gar-
bled statements which appeared in the public prints,
pnblished unknown to every one of its members an au•
thentic statement of facts, 1 feel convinced that the think
ing part of the community will no longer require from the
wounded feelings of a brother a repetition of those disgusting
proceedings. I once more urge upon you, my Lord, that
course which you say is withoue precedent ; the occasion
will justify you in making one. fly sister is daily sub-
jected to the bitterness that reults from the presence of
those who have so basely slandered her. I should instantly
have relieved her from this had I not known that by so
doing I should give fresh opportunity for calumniating her,
and act ungratefully to her illustrious and generous mis-
tress, the Duchess of Kent, whose noble conduct will
ever be gratefully remembered by my family, and duly ap-
preciated and respected by every well-thinking person
within this realm. HASTINGS.

SPANISH DEFERRED DEBT.
The SPANISH COMMISSIONERS are instructed
by the Government to acquaint the Holders of the Bonds, that
the Drawing of the Second Twelfth of its Amount, agreeably
to the conditions of the Contract entered into with Mr. Ardoin,
will take place publicly at Madrid. on THURSDAY, 2d Slay.
London, April 15, 18:39.

IS Majesty the E\-IPERORof AUSTRIA
His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA,
And His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA,
having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis•
tributions of Money, which (though they are NO LOT.
TERIES, offer a great many posibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES.
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, and
HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK,

are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS-
TRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various prices. The Dis-
tributions contain various portions, partly of most considerable
amounts. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PRE-
VIOUS to giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulars,
upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.
P. S. THE NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION
CONTAINS PORTIONS OF

4,0001., 7,5001., and 30,0001.
The Distributine. Day being so very near, we are on the eve
of a considerable Rise in Price, and NO TIME IS TO BE
LOST for those desirous to become Shareholders for this next
Distribution.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
The Public is respectfully informed, that the
PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE
WITH THIS SEASON ;
The following Programme is therefore given of its tival
rangements :
The Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, wil
each be performed once more, viz. :
KING LEAR, MACHETE', OTHELLO,
HAMLET, CORIOLANUS, lON,
THE TWO FOSCARI, WEI,N ER, and VIRGINIUS,
THIS EVENING, Aram 16,
Will be performed the Tragedy of
KING LEAR.
After which,
THE QUAKER.
To-Morrow, Richelieu, with The Marriage of Figare.

Donnington Park, April 8, 1839.
MY LORD—I am induced thus publicly to address you
as Prime Minister of the Cromi, not only from a feeling of
duty to my own family, who have been insulted and wronged
to the last degree by the late proceedings at Buckingham
Palace, but from a sense that public justice and public
opinion loudly demand my adopting such a course.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1839.

solution does not, enabled him to meet the question
of the collisio❑ of the two Houses frankly and fairly.
He did not say, indeed, in plain terms, as in justice
he might have said, that the two Houses are al-
ready actually in collision, not on one, but on many
points, and that his resolution, provided it have
all the qualities attributed to it by Sir H. PEEL,
only involves a fact which is unhappily known to
the whole Empire. He said, in fact, that Lord
RoDEN had carried a measure in the Lords which

the Carli'ts to one of the poin:s of the Spanish coast
designated by them, and leave them to joh the troops of
Don Carlos.
Tiv, Captain of .the Proscrpioe d-tnanded the four
Carlists from Metilla, who have taken refuge there, sayinn-
that they were included in the capitulation; but G:Aier.7l
Guepenue refused to give them up. The felucca left on
the 231, to return to Metilla.
The Mcdrid Gazelle of the 6th of April cont =ins .a
circular, dated March 20, and sent by the Minister of
Finance to the Intendant of the Provinces of Catalonia,
Barcelona, Llerida, Gerona, and Tarragona. This cir-
cular says that the Spanish Government has not signed or
concluded any convention relative to the intruduction of
foreign cotton manufactures and other prohibited goods,
and thus contradicts the reports that have been circulated
of a treaty of commerce with England.—Le Commerce,
April 14.

his Tarty was afraid to bring forward in the House
of Commons, hi cause they knew that they
would he defeated. That Sunday Journal which
has been most severe in its condemnation of Mi-
nisters, affirmed in substance, in its last publica-
tion, that the measures of the LORD ADVOCATE
relative to the improvement of the constituencies of
Scotland would never receive the sanction of the
House of Lords. How does that Journal dare
make such an assertion ? Simply because every
man and every child knows that the Lords have
decidedly set their faces against improvement in
the representation of the people, and against every
righteous improvement in the laws—the Corn-laws
to wit ; and that so far as the House of Com-

The correspondence between the British and French
Governments relative to the removal of a Mexican pilot
from on board her Majesty's packet Express in the
gulf of Mexico, was last night laid before Parliament.
It consists principally of three letters—one from Lieut.
CROKE, the Officer commanding the Express, to Mr.
GIFFAnn, the British Consul, giving an account of the
outrage ; one of apology, in the name of the KING of
the French, from the French Ambassador to Lord PAL-
MERSTON ; and his Lordship's alisiver expressive of the
satisfaction of the Government with the explanation
offered. Lieut. CROKE'S account of the affair h6s re-
peatedly appeared in our columns. The following is a
translation of Count SEBASTIANI'S letter to Lord PAL-
MERSTON, with the ans,ver of the Noble Foreign Secre-
tary, wluch concludes the correspondence :

mons represent the people, and is disposed
to do them justice, just so far dues
there exist a practical collision between the
the two Houses of Parliament. Carrying out that
principle, and seeking to extend it in Ireland, by
passing a censure )n the policy of the Government,
which has hitherto always been supported by the
Commons and opposed by the Lords, and thus taking
the Executive Government into their hands, the
Lords adopted Lord RODEN'S motion, and by adopt-
ing it affirmed the grounds on which he made It.
Thus the collision exists, in fact, and has been
wantonly provoked in the particular case, by the
House of Lords. It will recommend Lord JOHN
RUSSELL to all true and honest Reformers, to find
that he does not shirk this question, as imposed on
him by his adversaries' amendment, but states
boldly—though we must add tardily—that the House
of Commons must not shrink from exerting its own
privileges and powers, because the Tory Lords, for-
sooth, would ride rough-shod over Ireland were they
put, as Sir R. PEEL recommends, into abeyance.
Lord JOHN quoted several precedents in favour of
the motion, as affecting the House of Lords, and
we earnestly recommend that part of his speech to
the attention of our readers.
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S lengthened arguments about
not placing the two legislative bodies in col-
lision, while the fact is that they are in
are not worth a button. It all amounts
to that mock modesty which, ridiculous in private
life is contemptible in public affairs, acknowledges
some great vice, but prohibits all mention of it. The
whole of his arguments on this point are really
knocked on, the bead by the fact, and Sir ROBERT
should have discussed the question, whether
or not it were proper i❑ the House to be
wholly silent on a circumstance which concerns
the welfare of the community, because it may
not be quite consistent with etiquette. Under the
mask of' prudery, however, he conceals a strong
motive for not acknowledging the collision. Total
silence—wholly to overlook the approbation given
by the House of Lords to Lord RODEN'S motion—
would at once place the Government in the hands
of the Lords and the Tories. Though he has
said that the chief of the Government must be
in the House of Commons though he has
declared that the battles of his party must be fought
in the Registration Courts; though he has, when it
suited his purpose, stickler] for the supremacy of
the House of Commons, he is now content to forego
those principles, and is even anxious to make the
Commons strike their flag to the Lords, in order to
recover his former place in the Administration. In
our estimation, this poor tool of a desperate party
becomes more and more degraded every day ; and
his latest act of degradation is his attempt last night
to place all the power and privileges of the Commons
in abeyance, in order to gain a triumph for the

COUNT SEBASTIANI TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

London, Apz it 3:,1839.

My Lord,—l am expressly charged by the King, my
master, to make known to the British Governmrnt the deili
regret which his Majesty feels at the removal which hes
taken place of a Mexican pilot from on board the Express
packet.
When Admiral Baudin unfortunately directed this mea-
sure he was not aware that the vessel belonged to the
British marine. This incident, therefore, was the result of •
a mistaae, and in no degree of a want of respect for the
English flag. Sincerely deplored by the Government of
the King, as well as by the Commander of our squadron, a
similar error will not occur again; and the strictest in-
structions will secure henceforward the most scrupulous
and vigilant attention, under similar circumstances.
In conveying to the knowledge of your Excellency these
explanations, I venture, in the name of my Government,
to express to you its confidence that they will appear suf-
ficient to the British Government ; and that nothing will
henceforward disturb the union which we ourselves have so
much at heart to maintain unimpaired between the two
countries, as well as between the two flags.
Accept, my Lord, the renewed assurances of my high
consideration.

(Signed)

SEBASTIANI.

VISCOUNT PALNIERSTON 'lO COUNT SEBASTIANI.

Foreign- office, April 9, 1839.
Monsieur le Comte,—l have the houonr to acknowledge
the receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 3d instant, in
which your Excellency informs me that you have been ex-
pressly charged by the King, your master, to testify to the
British Gove. nment the profound regret which him Majesty
has felt at the removal which has taken place of a Mexican
pilot from on board the Express packet.
Your Excellency further informs me that. when Admiral
Baudnn unfortunately directed this measure, he was not
aware that the vessel belonged to the British marine, and
that the measure therefore was the result of mistake only,
and not in any way of a want:of respect for the English flag ;
that being sincerely deplored by the Goverment of the
King, as well as by the Commander of the French squa-
dron, a similar error will not occur again, and that the
strictest instructions will secure henceforward the must
scrupulous and vigilant attention under analogous cir-
cumstances.

I have not failed to lay your Excellency's communication
before the Queen, my mistress, and I have great satisfac-
tion in stating to your Excellency, by her Majesty's com-
mands, that the explanation of this affair on the part of his
Majesty the King of the French, as conveyed in your Ex-
cellency's letter, is entirely satisfactory.
I will only add that her Majesty's Government fully par-
ticipate in the friendly sentiments expressed by your Ex-
cellency on the part of the Government of France, and
that they sincerely trust that nothing may ever arise to im-
pair the strength of that union which now happily subsists
between the two countries.--I have, &c.
(Signed) PALMERSTON.

Tories.
We have neither space nor time to enter into
the other parts of either Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S or
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speeches. We shall to-
morrow resume the subject. Lord JOHN was fol-
lowed last night by Sir ROBERT, and Sir ROBERT
was followed by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER. Mr. EMERSON TENNENT then moved
the adjournment of the debate, which will be re-
sumed this day.

We publish a correspondence which has taken
place between the Marchioness of HASTINGS and
Lord MELBOURNE relative to Lady FLORA
HASTINGS. Wet ope that no political object
dictates the sending!. his correspondence to the Tory
papers for publication ; but if there he we shall
doubly pity the poor lady in question, who will thus
be made twice a victim. Her honour required,
first, a distinct and positive recognition on the part
of her calumniators of her innocence. That ob-
tained, a careful brother would, we think, have
certainly withdrawn her from what he must
regard as very improper company ; and, when
she was withdrawn, he would have endea-
voured above all things also to withdraw her name
from before the public. A maiden's name, which
should not be mentioned, is now, however, given as
a prize to the public tongue. We think Lord HAST-
INGS, and with all deference, Lady HASTINGS,
most amazingly ill-advised in having allowed Ls.dy
FLORA to remain at Court, and i•: having made
published attacks on the Court through her. But
perhaps the petty pittance her Ladyship receives is
to them of mote consequence than honour; and deli-
cacy is sold for a few hundreds a-year. The starviAg
Glasgow hand-loom weavers set the Lords and
Ladies of the land a far nobler example.
We shall say one word on Lord MELBOURNE'S
share of the trinsaction. It has been small, and
we know not that it has been in any way improper.
Nevertheless, we are bound and we are free to
say that we think the time of the head
of the Ministry—the political chief, in fact—
of this vast empire, might.be, just at this season,
better employed than in. mingling with the quar-
rels of chamber-women, and regulating the ap-
pointments of the Court.

We understand that the LORD ADVOCATE is to be
the new Judge on the Scotch Bench. Mr. RUTHER-
FORD, the present Solicitor-General, supplies his place
as Lord-Advocate, and will also come into Parliament
for Leith. The talents of Mr. RUTHERFORD are of
the first order, and his political principles those of a
sincere Reformer.

We trust that every Liberal Member of the House
of Commons will be in his place this evening, be-
tween three and four o'clock, on the Wigan Election
Petition Ballot. The zealous and disinterested exer-
tions of the constituency of that borough, no less than
the steady course of Mr. Ewatur in the cluse of Reform,
call upon every Member of Parli talent to do his duty in
attending tits ballot. The crowd of Tories assembled
in Parliament against the policy of the Irish Govern-
ment further especially calls for the fullest attendance
of Liberals on the question, whether such a consti-
tuency as Wigan is or not to be Liberally represented.

CRIMINAL COURT--(THIS DAY

We have received the whole of the French Journals
of Sunday, but they are without any political news of
interest. On Saturday,the Chamber of Deputies re-
jected the return of M. EMILE GIRARDIN, a staunch
Nliuisterialist, and a friend of the KING, on the plea
that he was not duly qualified as a citizen of France.
This decision marks the overwhelming influence of the
Opposition, as the rejected candidate had a vote in the
Chamber in 1837 in his favour upon this very point,
which no person before ever dreamt of disputing. In
fact every day but manifests the decline of the Royal
influence in whatever form it comes to be tested by a
vote of the Chamber.

Marshal SouLT had a long interview with the KING
on Sunday. It was supposed that he had not altoge-
ther abandoned the hope of being able to form a Ca-
binet.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 7th inst.
General VAN lIALEN had addressed a letter to the
Government, stating that he had appeared before Se-
gura, and that CABRERA had not marched out to en-
gage him in the open field as he expected. He was
making preparations for an attack on the fortress.
PARIS, APRIL 14.—The Sentinel& des Pyrenees of the
11th has the following paragraph :
" Espartero was on Sunday last at Alcardia, with 14
battalions of infantry, 1,000 cavalry, and 2 batteries. This
news is certain."

General Ribero is at Logrono with his divisions. The
commencement of operations is impatiently' expected.
Cabrera continues to make great preparations for the
defence of Segura.
According to the Phare de Bayonne of the 11th, th•
operations against Segura were began on the 6th of this
month.

A letter from Oran of March 24, give us the follow-
ing details of the capture of Metilla, which has already
been announced by the Madrid Journals :
The Spanish felucca Proserpine arrived on the 18th
from Melilla, with despatches from the Spanish Consul
sent by the commander of the blockade. We learnt by
this opportunity that Metilla had capitulated on condition
that the ships of the blockadtng squadron should convey

OLD COURT.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Justice IXILLIANIS )
TILE QUEEN V. FOSTER AND OTHERS.

NATIONAL CHURCH :STAB•

LISHMENTS.

,
ALARMING FlRE.—Last night, shortly after
eight o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in a building,
situated in the rear of the houses in South-street, Penton-
ville, used for the manufacture of !tidier matelies The
flames raged for some time, and several loud explosions
occurred. Engines of the fire brigade soon arrived with
firemen, and the fire was got under. The damage is ex-
tensive, and neither the building nor the contents are insured.

The manner iu which this very serious affair has
terminated is highly satisfactory. The voluntary apo-
logy offered by the French Government is the only
reparation that France had it in her power to offer, and
our Government acted with great prudence in promptly
and frankly accepting it. We must not, however, be
supposed to acquit Ministers of blame in not having a
squadron earlier in the Gulf for the prompt and effi-
cacious protection of British honour and interests. The
presence of a few ships of war would have effectually
prevented the insult, whether intentional or otnersiFe,
offs red to the Express. Had an English squadron been
within gun-shot neither the Gallant Commanders of the
Neircide nor the Corvette would have made any such
blunder as to mistake a Packet for a merchant vessel.
But under the circumstances the King of the FRENCH
has behaved very handsomely, and we have every reason
to be well satisfied. In conclusion, though the observation
may appear harsh, we cannot acquit Lieut. CROKE ot
having acted with a coolness bordering on downright
pusillanimity in giving up the pilot without some overt
,:ct of resistance. For the honour of the service we
trust that there are few commanders in the Navy who
would have acted as he reports himself to have done on
this occasion. There arc hundreds of British officers
who would have fought while they had a plank to stand
upon, before allowing such an indignity to be offered to
the national flag. It is in the hands of such men we de-
sire to see our Naval dignity entrusted.

Francis John Nick, Us, who was on Friday tried for the
commission of an unnatural off,nce and acquitted, was this
morning again placed at the Imr on a similar charge, and
the trial had not concluded when we went to press. The
evidence, of coursP, is tv:fit for publication.
Richard Whiting was yesterday afternoon convicted of
feloniously and matieiou,ly cutting and wounding Eiizal,eth
Whiting, his wife, with intent to murder her, and sentenced
to fifteen yours' transportation.

There were no cases of public importance tried in the
New Court up to the time our Reporter left.

Mr. KELLY moved for a rule to show cause why a man-
damus should not issue directed to certain Justices of the
borough of Cambridge, commanding them to issue a dis-
tress warrant to levy certain poor-rates upon Thomas
Parker, the elder.-11a1P grinted.

THE QUEEN V. GORE.
Mr. HUMPHREY moved LO set aside an award in this
case, which was tried befo,c Lord Denman. The indict-
ment was for a nuisance at the laystall in Puddle Deck,
and the arbitrator was directed to state how the laystall
should be conducted, and the business carried on in
future. He ordered that from and after the Ist of April
the defendant should not bring or deposit any animal or
vegetable matter, tie., from any place without the City of
London, or the liberties thereof. This was in direr• con-
travention of one of the clauses in the lease, which pro-
vided that every person should be at liberty to lay anything
on the laystall, and if they were prevented from doll.; so
the lease would be forfeited.—Rule granted.
His Lordship then disposed of a great number of unde-
fended cases.

Dr. WARDLAW delivered his third Lecture on National
Church Establishments on Monday, at the Freemasons'
Hall. The press of Parliamentary matter compels us to
give but a very brief outline of it. The subject of the
Lecture was the proving that " all imitation of the ancient
Jewish Constitution, in regard to Church Establishments,
was impossible - and that if possible, it would not be
warrantable. And the Rcv Doctor, in order to demonstrate
this, laid down three positions :—that the Jewish Establish-
ment, or theocracy, was one which from its very nature
could not be imitated ; that in the prophets the New Tes•
tarnent dispensation was predicted -as effecting an entire
change of system in this respect ; and that under that dis-
pensation the change actually took place. Dr. Chalmers
admitted that he had no authority in the New Testament for
Church Establishments, but relied on the Old Testament.
Dr. Wardlaw then entered at great length into the Scrip-
ture argument on this point.

ANECDOTE OF DANIEL WEBSTER.—DanieI
Webster was a farmer's boy, in the Stale of New Hamp-
shire, thom his father had to rebuke, for his absent-
mindedness, so much like a scholar, and scold him to his
task in the field. Whereupon Daniel said, " Father, my
scythe hangs badly." His father endeavoured to fix it, but
still the boy complained that it was not right. " Hang it
yourself, then," said the father. Daniel smiled, walked
off with an arch look directed to his father, hung his
scythe on a tree, and said, " There, father, it hangs to
suit me now." And the father sent Daniel to Exeter
Academy. and next to Dartmouth University. What
Daniel Webster is now the world is sufficiently advised.—
A Voice from America to England. _ .

CONSTANTINOPLE, MA RC II 20.—Tapir Pacha
arrived here on the 14th, on board the Austrian steam-boat
Count Kolourat. On the 17th, being the Ist of the month
Muharrem (the Turkish new year's day) the usual visits
of congratulations were plid to the Porte. The ratiflea-
l!on of the commercial treaty concluded between the Porte
and France were exchanged to-day by Admiral Roussin,
the French Ambassador. The health of the capital and
environs is good.
BRUNSWICK, APRIL 6.—For more than this
fortnight past his Serene Highness visits the Theatre, 2s
well as his country seat ( Williamsburg), and it is he
will shortly set out on a journey to Italy.—Magdeburg
Journal.