The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

lives, properties, rights, and liberties, against the envc,
nomed and increasing hostility of the bigoted Tories o
Great Britain.

" Your faithful servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARN

An affair of a singular nature has recently occurred
in the county of Norfolk. We abstain from revealing
the names of the parties, as we are informed a Court of
Law will speedily decide on the merits of the case. It
appears that the gentleman, Mr. --, was informed by
his domestics that his lady was a great admirer of an
officer in the Lancers, now quartered in the city of
Norwich ; indeed, so well founded were the suspicions,
and so strongly conveyed, that the injured husband de-
termined to procure proof positive, and to effect this
invited the gentleman and a brother officer to dine and
sleep, omitting to say in the invitation that some
Bens d'annes were to be of the party. The lady and
her husband it seems have been long in the habit
of occupying different apartments, and on this par-
ticular night Mrs. --, it was remarked, wished
her husband good night more affectionately than usual.
The police, however,were on the alert, and stationed about
the mansion. At about three in the morning a figure
appeared, slowly and carefully bending its way through
the passages, and finally ensconced itself in the lady's
bedroom, and turned the key. To make assurance
doubly sure, the gentleman's room was searched, but
nor ghost nor shadow was discovered there. Doors, in
these fashionable and romantic days, arc made of stout
oak, and do not give way as in the times of Jack Shep-
pard. Armed with pistols, the police and husband
were yet several minutes effecting an entrance, and the
gay Lothario, doubtless without much hesitation,
jumped out at the window in his robe de nail and one
slipper. It was (fortunate or not our readers must
determine) the merest chance in the world he was not
killed on the spot, falling within two inches of a deep
area ; however, a run of three miles across ploughed
fields proved that the gallant gentleman was more
frightened than hurt. The end of this romance is, that
Mrs. - departed to her friends, the enraged husband
to the French, and the officer to the English metropolis
—.fronting Post.

•
DEATH OE LADY EMILY WELLESLEY.—We
regret to hear of the decease, alter a lingering illness, of
Lady Emily Wellesley. The event took took place on
the 22d inst., at Boulogne.sur-Mer. Her remains will
be brought to London tor interment. The late Lady
Emily Wellesley was the eldest daughter of Charles
Sloane, first Earl Cadogan. Her Ladyship was born
on the 26th of May, 1778, and was married on the 2d
of Juno, 1802, to the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian
Wellesley, D. 1)., Prebendary of Durham, and a younger
brother of the Duke of Wellington. Lady Emily has
left a numerous family. Her third daughter is married
to the Viscount Chelsea, eldest son of Earl Cadogan.
Lady Emily was the sister of the present Marchioness
of Anglesey.
SIGNS or TILE TIMES.—In one of our garrison
towns the following exposition of an important principle
is to be seen, exhibited on a large painted board, in front
of a tradesman's shop, quite in a business style :,
". Peace on earth : good will among men." So-
cieties for the Promotion of Permanent and Univer-
sal Peace.—Peace Societies, which are in operation
in London, this neighbourhood, many other parts
of Great Britain, in Ireland, America, Switzer-
land, and France, are formed to rectify public
opinion on the custom of wan, all kinds of which they
regard as utterly opposed to the precepts and example
of Jesus Christ, which enjoin all mankind to live as
brethren, " to return not evil for evil, but good for evil."
Inst cad of resorting to human butchery, the conflagra-
tion of cities, and the destruction of the rich bounties
of a beneficent Providence, a system withal for the ob-
tainment of justice, proverbially uncertain. They pro-
pose that a congress of wise and good men of different
nations should be established, to whom international
disputes should be submitted for equitable adjustment.
Peace Societies disclaim all sectarianism, and seek only
to unite the whole human family, the offspring of a corn-
mon parent, in one peaoeful brotherhood. " The co-
operation of all persons favourable to these views is ear-
nestly requested. The sinfulness, the horrors, the im-
policy, and the folly of war, are set forth in the Society's
publications, which may be obtained for perusal of --.-
of whom further information may be had." " One
mur-
,
der makes a villain—millions a hero."-- Porteos.
" War is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings
couel not play at."—Cowper. " The national debt,
which was contracted by war, is nearly eight hundred
million pounds sterling, the interest of which burdens the
country with taxes to the amount of about thirty mil-.
lion pounds annually."
NEWARK ELECTION.—During the pa'A week
although not so excited as by the presence zind during
the canvas of the Solicitor. General, Newt:trk has been
all alive ; the meetings of the Liberal Society have been
very numerously attended, and with considerable acces-
sion of members they meet, not for riotous excess,
but for mutual information, and for the common benefit
of their common cause. The announcement of a dis-
tribution of the charity funds, which were so long with-
held by the old corporation, and have only just been re-
covered, added to the excitement. Among the signs of
weakness on the part of the factious oppositionists, not
only have they very greatly abated in the numbers by
which they boast they shall win, hoping vainly to deceive
the very few stragglers of no decided character, but
they also are issuing addresses, which notwithstanding
their great words, display manifest alarm, if not also a
consciousness that they will be beaten. The High
Church party in Newark hope by their factious cry of
" No Popery" to cajole the Wesleyans into aiding them
to reject the Queen's Solicitor-General.—Nereark Ga-
zette.

BAPTISM BY IMMERSION BY A CLERGYMAN
O THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.--OR Sunday week the
Rev. Mr. Storr, Rector of Otley, baptized a female by
immersion in a new baptistry, which had been made by
orderiof the clergyman in the vestry.—lpstvich Express,
ADDRESSES."--We
GF THE AUTHOR
OF REJECTI
AnnaEssEs."We are grieved to record the
James Smith, Esq., the author of " ReectP' "It took places yestei day morning, j 41 eath 11At d
his d
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housescs. of 3 "
in Craven-street. It is but sei-
, ...
individual to combine so
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nom the fortune of an
and mind as were pOS many advantages in person
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be sincerely mourn, .: sed by James Smith ;he must
admitted to h;- • "ect by all who had the happiness to he
sroin a v-
.. intimacy. He had been subject to gout
die, wry early period of his existence, yet it never
.....urbed the equanimity of his temper, or prevented
him frem enjoying the quiet society of his friends when
its torments had subsided. Last January he was at-
tacked with a violent increase of the disease, and the
system seemed for some weeks unable to rally. His
end was tranquil, and distinguished by that placidity and
contentment so characteristic of his disposition.
A correspondent at Brighton informs us that a
wealthy gentleman of the Jewish nation, who possesses
the Wyke estate there, has offered to present a portion
of it to her Majesty for the site and grounds of a new
palace, with a view to remove the objection which her
Majesty is understood to entertain to frequent or pro-
tracted visits to Brighton, on account of the want of a
sea view, and the limited extent of grounds at the
Pavilioa. It is added that the same gentleman has
offered to lend the whole sum required for the build-
, leg, and that an architect of the same nation has alrp- 4
prepared a plan for the edifice upon a scaler ' ,
Re' "g
1
a magnificence.—llfornin. Post.
A DRUNKARD.-On Tuesday an inquest was
held before Mr. Payne at St. BP:
ctlinlornew's Hos 't l
on view of the body of Mary Giii aged • . PI a t
, sixty years. It
appeared from the evidencethe previous Saturda,•
. of several witnesses that on
of the Turk's r-
' .
,afternoon deceased the
came out
Clerken
•. Head public-house, Turnmill-street,
-
k - -ea, in a state of intoxication, and fell off the ,
-o
-stone into the road, and both the near and hind 1
wheels of an empty coal waggon passed over her body. 1 1
She was conveyed to the above hospitzl, where she died i
at six o'clock the same evening. Verdict—" AQei-.
i
dental death."

DUBLIN, DEC. 2:3.
TRIUMPH OF REFoßm.—The following notice was
this morning posted in the City :
" Mr. O'Connell presents his respects to the el ctors
of the city of Dublin, for whom notices of registry have
been served, and solicits the honour of their attendialce
to meet him at the sitting of the Registry Court this
day, to proceed with the registration.
" Punctual attendance at ten o'clock is most earnestl
requested.
" Merrion-square, December, 1839."
At half-past three o'clock the Liberals had a majority
the Tories having polled only two or three, while twent

Reformers registered. The Pilot says—
" The Liberator is making the most earnest and
vigorous exertion to get up for registry all those for
whom notices have been served at these Sessions ; and
his efforts are, we rejoice to say, most signally an I tri-
umphantly successful."
1 INCENTIVE To REBELLION.—In the speech made l,
Mr. O'Connell at the Tralec dinner, the Moil dis-
covers—what think you ? why, an incentive to rebel-
lion ! The following passages are amongst those pro-
duced as damning evidence against the traitor :
" Here (in 'fralee) was the origin of his physical—
of his professional lite ; and what place so fitting for
the re-opening of that peaceful, holy, and nece,,sary
campaign on which the maintenance of our liberties—
aye, and the safety of our lives, and our properties and
our families depend ?" ,
" I stand fearlessly upon the right—aye, gentlemen,
and, thank God, upon the ?night of the Irish people ;
and I say to them that they shall not crush us—they
shall not put us down."
AGITATE, AGITATE.—Mr. O'Connell has pub-
lished the following requisition :

" Merrion-square, Dec. 93.
" I request a meeting of my constituents at the
Adelphi Theatre, Great Brunswick-street, To-morrow
(Tuesday), the 24th inst., at half-past three o'clock, in
order that I may communicate to them my views of the
necessity of taking immediate measures to defend our

Vt.',_:NING EDITION.

THE LATE RIOT in BIRMINGHAM

(Ns_). I-)
Whitehall, Dec. 20. 1839.
am directed by the Marquis of Normanby
to transmit to you the copy of a letter, which has been
this day addressed, by his Lordship's desire, to J. B.
Hebbert, Esq., at Birmingham.
I have the honour to loe, Sir, your obedient servAnt,
(Signed) S. M. PHILLiPPS.
To Wm. Scholefi2Td, Esq., Birmingham.

(No. 2.)
, (Copy.) Whitehall, Dec. '2O, 1839.
StR,-With reference to the memorial and repre-
sentation of certain of the inhabitants of the borough
I of Birmingham, presented to the Secretary of State,
• relative to the conduct of the Mayor and
lagis-
trates of that town, on the evening of Monday the
15th of July last, in which memorial it is
stated, that from about half-past eight to a quarter
before ten, on that night, the property and
lives of the memorialiasts were left unprotected
to the violence of an organized mob, although
full and authentic information had been early
given to the Mayor and Magistrates of the borough
of the intentions and plans of the rioters,—Lord Nor-
manby directs me to inform you, that, having consi-
dered the evidence adduced on the part of the memo-
rialists before David Dundas, Esq., to whom it was re-
ferred to investigate the subject-matter of the said me-
morial, and having also considered the evidence adduced
on the part of the Mayor and Magistrates, his Lord-
ship is of opinion that the memorialists have altogether
lailed in establishing the allegations and charge con-
tained in their memorial, and that such evidence does ,
not call for, and would not warrant the institution of any
such proceedings as are prayed for in the memorial
against the Mayor and Magistrates.
Lord Normauby directs me to add, that, in conse- • quence of his having only recently received the rcpo!'t
of the inquiry, he has not been able to make an eP.rlier
communication to you of his decision.—l am, sm.
(Signed) S. M. PHILLIPPS,
To J. B. lichbert, E:q., Birmingham.