The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-30 00:00:00

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I.lr Majesty and- her august Mother attended Divine
Service yesterday morning, at. the Chapel Royal, St.
James's. The sermon was preached by the Dean of
Salisbury, who took his text from St. Paul's Epistle to
the 116rews, chap. x. rer. 14. The Communion Service
was read by the Sub- Dean and the Rev. Dr. Vivian, and
the Rev. Mr. ILI ham. The Anthem, " lie was despised"
( Handel), was sung by Mr. \Yellin. Mr. J. B. Sale pre-
sided at the organ.
The Rrv. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in Waiting. The Royal Suite included the Mar-
chioness of Normanby, Lady Flora IL,..stings, Hon. Miss
Murray, Lady Charlotte Copley, Lord Gardner, Hon-
C. A. Murray, Sir Frederick Stovin, and the Hon.
Colonel Cavendish.
Her Majesty and Suite afterwards returned in three of
Royal carriages to Buckingham Palace.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty Yes-
terday.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, on Wednesday, at Kew.
Mr. Miers had an interview with Viscount Melbourne
yesterday in Downing-street.
Lord Morpeth has left town for Roehampton.
The Russian Ambassador transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Despatches from Major-General Napier, Governor of
the Cape of Good Hope, and from the Right Honourable
Stewart Mackenzie, Governor of Ceylon, were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office:
Mr. Broadley, M. P., bad an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday, accompanied
by Mr. Parker, the Chairman, and Mr. Frost, the Solicitor,
of the Hull Dock Company.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE•

ARRIVALS.
Lord and Lady Maynard, and the Hon. Miss Maynard,
in Grosvenor-square, from a Continental tour; Lord Jet-
land, in Arlington-street, from his seat, Aske Hall, Rich-
mond, Yorkshire ; Miss Williams Wynn, in Piccadilly;
Colonel henry Thomas, M. P., in Hill-street ; Count
Werner de Merode, from Brussels; Mademoiselle d'Este,
in South-street, Park-lane, for the season. from a visit-
ing tour; the Earl of Jersey, from a continental tour;
Mr. and Mrs. Hedworth Lambton, in Chester-street,
Grosvenor-place ; Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, at their
new r,sidence in Belgrave-square; Mr. Knox, at Fen-
tun's Hotel ; Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., in Arlington"
street ; Lord and Lady Farnham, at Mivart's Hotel ;
Lord and Lady Nugent, in Chandos-street, from Lilies
Hall, Bucks : Sir Wyndham Dalling, Bart., from his seat,
in Norfolk ; Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., M. P., in Gros-
venor-streat.

DEPARTURES.
Lord Brougham,.from Grafton Hotel, for Paris, for the
recess; Lord and Lady Plymouth, from Lower Brook-
street, for Bishain House, Berks; Lady Beresford, 11.001
Cavendish-square, on a visit to Mr. Hope, at the Deep'
do ae ; Lord Roden, from the Clarendon Hotel, for Pails:
Colonel and Lady Eleanor Lowther, from Bruton-Wee':
for Leicestershire ; Sir Compton, Lndy, and the Mist
Dornvile, from Grosvenor-square, for Brighton, for the
r. ; Lord Beresford, for Bedgebury Park, Kent ; the
Mai quis of Salisbury, from Arlington. street, for M°.ll/
Teviot Lodge, Rosburghshire, N.B. ; Lady Anne Altir.
ray, for Mr. Murray's villa, at Twickenham.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY)

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LzvERroat, FBlThic•
THE NEW POOR LAW IN TODMORDEN-1

DICTMENT.
(Nisi Prius Court, before Mr. Baron Alderson.)

THE QUEEN V. CROSSLET AND ANOTHER.
This was an indictment against Wm. Crossley and Willa
Robinson, overseers of the township of Todmorden as
Walsden, and the indictment set forth that the townsb';',
together with five others, had, by the orders of tu
Poor-law Commissioners been formed into an union foritt
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purposes of the administration of the laws for the re",,e
of the poor, that by an order of the Poor Law C 01109,1
sioners a Board of Guardians had been appointed for tua
union, and by another order an auditor had also bean r
plied to audit the accounts of the union, and that the ue'
fendant had disobeyed these orders, and also the potr.
law Amendment Act.
Mr. LAWRENCE PEEL opened the pleadings. Sr'
STARKIE, Queen's Counsel, stated the case for the
secution.
The defendants had disobeyed the Act, in not bavilit';
produced their accounts, as by law they were directed,er
do, before the auditor of the Todmorden Union, in
to be subjected to his inspection. Such was the cbale
upon the record, but it involved a charge of a far Oto
serious nature, viz. :—whether the Poor-law Bill Wss it
be carried into execution in this district or county.,
was not because it was certain that this was only a;iois
small part of a systematic opposition to the carrying ("b„.,,,0
statute into effect, which had been pursued for a very
ti me past.
The several orders of the Poor law Commissioners s/cil
then put in.
Mr. Stansfield, Solicitor to the Board of GtlaDdts
Mr. John Gledhall, Auditor, and other witnesses Wei
afterwards examined.
Mr. DLINDAS, for the defence, took a variety of
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objections to the indictment, all of which were overfrnd
by the Learned Judge, who observe d that if he was vir",
he could be et right by the Court above. '
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i he Jury,s under his Lordship's direction, then foupa ,ti
defendants Guilty, and leave was given to the defeauw"
to move to enter a verdict of Not Guilty.

The Earl and Countess of Mayo and the:
family are expected to visit Mn.s Smith, the Countesiii-
sister, at Berated Lodge, Bognor, during the ensuing wee;'
The Earl and Countess were a few days since at Pals
stun House, their seat, in the county of Kildare.
The Earl and Countess Cowper will entertain
fashionable party at Pansanger during the holidays. d
The Earl and Countess De Grey and Mr. to
Mrs. \Tyner will leave town on Monday next, on a Tis"
the Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger.
The Countess Manvers' assemblies are to C°
mence in Portman-square about the end of April.
11 1h
Lord Fortescue's eldest son, the Hon. 11,bil
ti.scue, heir presumptive to the Earldom, will law' to
majknity on the 4th of the enoting month. Mr. Fortelop
completed his education at one of the German Vnifed
tits. Earl Furtescue, the father of the Lord Lieute'
of Ireland, though in extreme old age, having attained-
86th year on the 12th instant, enjoys pretty good bfio,
at his seat, Castle Hill, Dovon. The new VicerOY t 3
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preted to make his public entry into Dublin on We";fef
day next. The Meteor Government steamer will'c°
his Lordship and suite to Kingstown. per
The Marchioness of Thcmond's parties in the
gr,ve-square are expected to commence early Ole!
holidays. -PLI/e
THE MA RC H 11 lONESS OF LONDONDE—,
The recent letters received in town give a favour
statement of her Ladyship's health. The illness
Marchioness has caused the greatest alarm to all the 1-
bers of family.
Lord and Lady Canterbury gave a SUITIPtIt-ord'
entertainment at their hotel in the Rue Neuve des r
chins, at Paris, on Thursday evening, to the Earl
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Countess of Elgin, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, L‘Oirrni.retl;
Lady Aylmer, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, Lady ",-,for°'
der, the lion. Captain Bruce, Mr. Crokcr, Mr. L'lhls
and Mica Paynter. Her Ladyship was also to bale
soiree last evening.
The Earl of Devon and his third son, the Ifro,
Charles Courtenay, during the recess, are visiting
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tensive estates bequeathed to his eldest son,
Courtenay, by the lute Lord, at Newcastle,
Limerick.
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SIR HERBERT TAYLOR.--We are author::et
to state that there is no truth in the report of the clece.l
Sir Herbert Taylor, which is stated to have taken Inif,
Rome on the 13th instant. A letter from Sir Bro:`,,ctir
lor, dated Rome, March 16, was yesterday receivea,l°
family of Sir Herbert Taylor, in London, in whi,clase
stated that at that time Sir Herbert continued
rously ill. LgJ!

The Marchioness of Anglesey and dvf;
Adelaide Paget arrived at Beaudesert Park, Staff°„Ar :re'
on Wednesday last, from Leamington Spa. The "'"wily
and Lord Allred Paget arrived the same day froin to
meet her Ladyship. 01)
Lord Suffield left town for the Continent
TuesLday. „woo
Lord Fitzalan has left town for Arundel
the seat of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk.
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At the Huntingdon Assizes, on Friday, a tesll4°-1
was found guilty, on the clearest evidence, of 6:40r0i
" two eggs ;" but when called up for judgment mob „i
Curio suggested that the indictment was bad, inat,.-filt‘
there could not be a larceny of eggs without acki7e
them as the produce of some domestic fowl. l'"j,
Chief Justice coinciding, the prisoner was discharge itC
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MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—WARwICICI
28.—The commission for this Court was open° atO
tees.'
hour yesterday, the business commencing this daY aorit4
o'clock, the Judges having first attended Divinco's Dcl#
There are sixty. three criminals for trial, some eas;‘,s, t it
of a heinous nature. The cause list has forty c° sotuel
special ; but they also are in many respects betol' Or'
bids fair to be a long assize. Nothing of interest °
in either Court this day.
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EQUALITY.—Equality of rights and ecrl to to
laws, a constitution which extends like protectioee sorlos
lowest and the highest, are essential to the existelevell'ele
the enjoyment of freedom. But to erect a pe°lo,
system, designed to place the whole mass of th° tssAto.
on the same footing, as to habits, manners'ottvicio
and sentiments, is a gross and ridiculous c froit'ied
tion of the necessary progress of society. ft,i,s!has Iftror
attempt to wage war with laws of Nature. Da', ate
the face of the world with mountain and valley, trile,
rent, forest and champaigne ; and she has forme" t e
bo
body in all the different shapes and complexions vi_oBloo9
with ail the various degrees of physical force and she 00
She has avoided equality in all her productions. 'io tri,
formerly said to have abhorred a vacuum. Evelloo ore,
of her ,works which prestnt the greatest apparent
tree
exact equality does not exist ; no one leaf of less it.?7,10'
cisely similar to another, and among the cool' cir
stars, each differs from the other in glory.
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ANOTHER INFANT FOUND
IN firt„,eior,
RlVER.—Thursiay morning, the body of another P.tosi
grown female infant was taken out of t Neu e.s,k ere
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bloc' tb't
where it is supposed to have been thrownnbc,Y
parent, and taken to the vaults of Jslingt?
make Y•
it awaits a coroner's inquest. This will
present weelt•
child taken out of this water during the
porta" eria°
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America has recently been adopted infis y
dominions, by which means
sons have been got rid of, --Journa
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