The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Szit—l understand that a private Band is about to be
formed, as is the custom, for her Majesty's use ; and I am
sure you will coincide with me in the hope that this depart-
ment, as has heretofore Lem the case, will rot now be exclu-
sively composed of Foreigners.
I desire not to be invidious—but I ask, is it not a disparage-
ment of native talent—is it not an injustice to the Musicians
of this country, that natives of no matter what foreign State
should be exclusively employed by our Sovereign ? Our late
respectable Monarch, seeing the plpable injustice of such a
system, did in some measure seek to remedy it ; and I feel
assured that the good sense her Majesty has evinced, in shew-
tug her anxiety for the welfare of all classes of her subjects,4
will point out to her the justice of extending a fostering hand
to native talent of every description, and amongst the rest, I
trust, the British Musician will not be forgotten.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
A FRIEND TO THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF
NATIVE TALENT.

Dec. 1, 1837.

ROCKINGHAM PEERAGE.—(From a Corres-
pondent.)--In the Morning Herald, and some other papers,
it is stated that her Majesty's Government is about to create
Earl Fitzwilliam, Marquis of Rockingham. We are in-
formed that the various patents of nobility of Thomas Watson,
Earl of Rockingham, &c., are all limited to the heirs male of
the family, who, it will be seen from national records, changed
their name from Watson to TVentworth, to inherit vast be-
queathed estates ; and that Thomas Watson, a bumble member
in the establishment of the Morning Advertiser, Fleet street, is a
lineal descendant, and one of the male heirs to" Rockingham."
If this be the case, we hope the \%hig Government, who lay
claim to the character of " Reformers of abuses," will not pas-
sively sanction the usurpation or encroachment of one man's
hereditary rights by another. The laws of inheritance in Eng.
land are perfectly dissimilar, to the injury of ancient nobility.
Thus, an heir to entailed lands will be barred if he is ignorant
of his rights, and does net claim them within sixty years ; but
now, by 2 and 3 of William IV., territorial claims are re-
stricted to twenty years ; whereas, on the other hand, no term
of years can bar or deprive an heir to a peerage, nor is
there any law to compel a perscn to take up his title or peer-
age in the House of Lords, as was exemplified in the case
of the eccentric Colonel Hanger, by descent Lord Coleraine,
the boon companion of George the Fourth, and relative of
Lord Holland. One of the causes that prevents persons ap-
plying for their titles is, perhaps, the enormous fees charge-
able on peerage claims. It is not generally known that a bar-
rister is entitled to the fee of fifty guineas in moving in the
House of Lords to prove a pedigree of a claimant. The
country is aware that in the peerages of Willoughby de
Parham, Marquis Hastings, Marquis Stafford, and others on
• record, those titles %ere given away to favourites, without
caution, or any investigation after the heirs of those respective
ancient families. The consequence was, an inquiry was set on
foot by the real heirs, and aft: r much toil and expense, they
ultimately obtained their inheritances, not much to the honour
Hof the parties who made light of their rights ; the last of
those injured heirs was Lieutenant Francis Hastings, R. N.,
afterwards Earl Huntingdon. We hope, for the dignity of
the Crown, and honour of the House of Lords, that the Rock-
ingham peerage will not be so hastily given away to the pre-
judice of heirs male, before due inquiry be made.
JANE LOMAX ; OR, A MOTHER'S CRIME.—This
new work, by the celebrated author of " Rejected Addresses,"
promises, from all we hear of it, to compete in interest and
popularity with his " Brambletye House," which, at the time
of its production, ran almost a parallel career with one of the
'most celebrated of Walter Scott's novels, which appeared at
th sane time. Yet its character is said to be
wholly dif-
ferent, and in no degree " histo,ical"—on the contrary, it is
zul entirely original story, having for its object to illustrate the
passions, the aff,ctions, and the humours of actual life in that
most fertile source of novelty and interest_the middle rank of
English society.
" LOVE."—It is to be hoped, that at the commence-
ment of the reign of a youthful and lovely Queen, even the newly
opening prospects of politics itself will be allowed to give the
pas to such an announcement as that which has just met our
eye—a new novel entitled " Love," by the loveliest woman of
er day, and one of the most ch irming and atiraciive female
writers of any day. If we mistake not, this most piquant an-
:nouncement was made nearly twelc e months ago. Why the
:fulfilment of it has been so loog delayed, we have no means of
:levowing ; but may it not be that the peculiar circumstances on
'hick the story is said to be founded were of a nature to make
ttia delay politic at least, if not indispensable ?
Rossini has obtained a divorce from his wife, the
'nee-celebrated Madame Colbran, and has gone to spend the
r int er in Milan. Ile is expected to return to Bologna in the
pringe

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New 5 per Cent.... — Exch. Bills, Z1,000.
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London and Croydon Railway Company
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MRS. BRAY'S NEW NOVEL.
This day was published, in 3 vols., post Bvo.
TRELAWNY of TRELAWNE ; or, the
Prophecy : A Legend of Cornwall.
By Mrs. BRAY,
Author of "De Font," " The Talba," " Warleigh,"
" Borders of the Tamar and Tavy," &c. &c.
London : Longman, Orme, and Co.

he publication of TITS SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

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LONDON:

THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1837.

The House of Loans did not meet yesterday.
In the HOUSE OF COMMONS the 66 SpormsvvooDE conspi-
racy" formod, almost exclusively, the subject of the night's
discussion. The speeches on both sides, it will be seen, were
sharp, and the proceedings throughout were characterised by
more than ordinary animation as well as by much interest and
importance. After an announcement from the SPEAKER re-
lative to some Election Petitions, Mr. O'BRIEN, the Member
for Limerick, presented a petition from himself, complaininu
of the SPOTTISWOODE subscriptions, and of the conduct of
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in referonce to them, which gave rise
to some smart discussion. Ultimately the House divided,
when the motion was carried by a majority of 31.
Lord JOIN RUSQELI, then brourzht forward his motion, fixing
the time at %Lich the Election Petitions arc to be taken into
consideration. He moved that the first upon the list be con-
sidered on the 6th of Fctoruary.
The Noble Lf.,rd then brought up the second port of
the Commission of Inquiry into -Church Accommodation in
Sc,tllnd.

On the motion of Mr. S LEFEVRE, the Highway Rates
Bill was read a second time, and referred to a Select Com-
mittee.

The Municipal Officers Declaration Bill was read a third
time.

The second reading of the Custudy of Insane Persons Bill
was postpoecd till to-day.
Lord Jour; RUSSELL obtained leave to bring in a Bill "to
regulate the terms of payment of rates and taxes by Parlia-
mentary electors, and to abolish the stamp duty on the ad-
mission of freemen."

Sir R. PEEL gave notice that he should bring forward a
motion for the postponement of Mr. C. BULLER'S Bill relat-
ing to Controverted Elections.

Mr. BLEwIT r moved his five resolutions relative to the
subscriptions raised by the Tories in aid of petitions against
the return of the Liberal Members. The Hon. Member for
Monmouth, however, after some lively discussion, consented to
withdraw them, since the whole subject would come before the
House this evtning on the presentation of Mr. SbIITII
O'BRIEN'S petition. In a later stage of the proceedings Lord
J. RUSSELL took occasion to announce to Lord STANLEY, "that
he was not to leave the House with an assurance that the con-
federacy formed for the purpose of collecting money by sub-
scription, to displace Irish Members, and Irish Members only,
was to remain unnoticed by Pailiament."
The House adjourned at a Quarter-past Ten o'Clock.

The proceedings in the House of Commons last
light are highly interesting, assuming, as they do,
;hat character wlich blends amusement with edifica-
ion. It may, perhaps, appear to some to be a de-
parture from senatorial dignity to exhibit any signs of
human frailty in the august assembly of the Repre-
sentatives of the people ; but we do not carry our no-
tions of legislative decorum quite so far. We like
to see a natural burst of individual character now and
then making its way through the dull artificial
haze which pervades the regions of legislation.
It is an agreeable variety, if nothing else. To begin
with Sir EDWARD SUGDEN. Is it not refreshing to
recognize in the conduct of this Learned Gentleman,
last night, the effects of disappointed ambition, work-
ing upon a temper proverbially testy ? Sir EDWARD
is now never happy, but when he is snarling and
snapping. Then comes our old friend Colonel
SIBTHORP, terrible in form as a " whiskered
Pandour, or a fierce Hussar," but exhibiting
all those symptoms of mental innocuousness
which have hitherto characterised his political
hostilities. Who is not pleased to see the beautiful
developement of the black-letter bump on the cranium
of Mr. WILLIAM WYNN, as he strains his throat
on the subject of order and ancient privilege ? Can
any one mistake the thick-headedness of a KNA TCII-
BULL for that of any other human being ? And does
not GOULBURN stand confessed in last night's debate,
as in all others, the dullest sayer of nothings—the
most tedious of Parliamentary twaddlers ?
The SPOTTISWOODE gang, and their backers in
the House, were in the end taught a lesson which we
hope they will lay to heart. Their attempt to screen
" Old Glory" from the consequences of a participation
in their conspiracy, ended in a division in which the
numbers on the Ministerial side were 234, on that of
the Opposition 203, giving to the former a majority
of 31. The demeanour of Sir F. BURDETT on this
occasion, was such as might have been expected
from that half-crazy old man. He seems to retain as
much sense of his degradation as to render him ex-
tremely irritable when any allusion to it is made, but
not so much judgment as to prevent him from accus-
ing others of those things of which he himself has
been guilty to a greater extent than any other living
man. Gracchus complaining of sedition is but
a faint shadowing forth of Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT deprecating agitation. It will hardly
be believed that the renegade Baronet, in a
state of great excitement of course—actually charged
Mr. O'CONNELL With " agitation II" Nothing
the dereliction of reason
could more clearly show
than this circumstance ; for every one knows that
the Baronet's public life, up to the time that
Mr. O'CONNELL'S. to xering genies ec,lipsed the
glimmer of his feeble intellectual ray, was one
scene of agitation and tumult. There is, we are
aware, a mighty difference in the object of the agi-
tators. Mr. O'CoNNELL''s agitation is directed entirely
to the good of his country-. It is to the last degree dis-
inrerested and patriotic. Sir FRANCIS has proved
that his agitation was altogether personal, and
adopted as a means—the only means he possessed—
of gaining that notorie:y which his heart longed
for above all things—and which, it is evident, it still
longs for, even amid the vrrock of his faculties, and the
extinction of his political character.
We cannot here omit noticing a circumstance
that occurred just before the division took place.
Sir FRANCIS. after his ;frantic display of imbecile
rage against Mr. O'CONII,ELL, hobbled out of the