The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday, attended
by Viscountess Forbes, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin,
Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Alfred Paget, Earl of Surrey,
Colonel Buckley, and Sir George Quentin.
The Earl of Albemarle and Viscount Melbourne had
audiences yesterday of the Queen.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening. in
eluded Lord Leveson, Lord Brabazon, Earl of Surrey,
Hon. William Cowper, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel
Wemyss.
_ _

Lord Alfred Paget hits relieved Colonel Buckley in the
duty of Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Ba-
roness Ahlefcldt and Major Stephens, honoured Lord
Burghersh with their company at dinner yesterday. Their
Royal Highnesses went in the evening to the performance
of the Concert of Ancient Music, at the Hanover-square
Rooms.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the
official residence of Viscount Mellsourno, in Downing-
street. It was attended by all the Ministers, except Mr.
Poulett Thomson.

The Council sat two hours and a half.

Lord Northampton, Mr. Campbell, of Isla, Mr. Mac-
bean, of Pennycross, Mr. Auldjo, Mr. Galbraith, and Mr.
S. Smith, and Mr. Lock, on behalf of the British Society,
a Deputation on the subject of destitution and emigration,
from Argyleshire, had an interview with the Marquis of
Normanby yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
The Right Hon. C. Wynn, Mr. F. French, M.P., and
Mr. Charles Wood, had interviews with Lord John Rus-
sell yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Thos. G. Allen transacted business yesterday at the
Colonial-office, on his appointment as Civil Medical Officer
at Ceylon.

The Postmaster- General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street.
Tho Russian Ambassador transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on
Tuesday evening franc Hastings.

His Excellency the Russian Ambassador enter-
tained the Princess Toresemski, Princesses Basile and
Helene Metschersky, Count Labinski, Earl and Coun-
tess Bruce, his Excellency Count and Countess Worou-
zow, Countess Potocki, Earl and Countess of Dunmore,
Dowager Countess of Pembroke, Earl and Countess of
Clanwilliam. Hon. Sydney Herbert, Countess Choiseul,
M. de Kisseleff, Lord and Lady Heytesbury, and a select
party, at dinner on Monday evening, at Ashburnham-house.
Covers were laid for 28. This was to have been a farewell
entertainment to Count and Countess Worozaow, but
owing to the expected arrival of the Grand Duke Alex-
under on Friday, his Excellency and Counteis purpose
staying some time longer.
The Marquis of Westminster's magnificent gal-
lery of pictures at Grosvenor house has been re-embel-
lished and the pictures newly-arranged under the superin-
tendence of M. &pier, his Lordship's picture agent.
It is not the intention of the Noble Marquis to throw open
the gallery for the inspection of the public by tickets dur-
ing the present season. The Marquis and Marchioness
arc expected in town for the season after Chester races,
which commence on the 10th of May.
The Countess of Jersey and her youthful
daughters, the Ladies Villiers, after being present at the
grand entertainment given by the Earl and Countess of
Shrewsbury, at their palazzo, at Rome, on the occasion
of the marriage of the Lady Mary Talbot to Prince Doria
Pamphili, took their departure for Paris, via Turin, on
their way to li,ngland.
Mr. William Russell, the Private Secretary of
the Lord Chancellor, has been yesterday appointed to the
office of Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, in
the room of Mr. Adam.

The Lancashire Quakers are about to found an
institution, at which their young men may receive a regular
collegiate education, the site of which will probably be
fixed at Macclesfield or Preston.

'IIIIRTY•THREE MILES AN HOUR.—The
Sporting Magazine has given a portrait of two carrier
pigeons that were bred in Hertfordstire, educated at first
to fly short distances, and then trusted to make longer
flights, until they accomplished the astonishing feat of re-
turning from Haverfordwest in Wales, a distance of 265
miles in eight hours.
FIRE.—On Tuesday morning, about eleven
o'clock, a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Hill, book-
binder, of No. 3, Princes-street, Red Lion-square. The
flames were discovered busting out of the windows on the
first floor. An alarm was immediately given, and in a
short time a body of the fire brigade establishment and
three large engines were on the spot, and the fire was got
under after considerable damage had been done.
ALARM OF FIRE AT ST. PAUL'S CATHE-
DRAL—An alarm prevailed on Monday evening that St.
Paul's Cathedral was ou fire, and the fire brigade and en-
gines were summoned. It was proved, however, that the
alarm had been occasioned by a fire lighted by the workmen
engaged in erecting the galleries for the festival of the
Sons of the Clergy.
DESPERATE OUTRAGE.—On Tuesday morn-
ing an athletic ruffi,inly-looking fellow was riding behind a
hackney-coach in Russell-square, when a little boy called
out to the driver, " Cut behind," which call the driver
ebeycd, and lashed •the intruder, who jumped down from
his seat, and rushing towards the boy, knocked him down, and
commenced kicking him in a violent manner. A butcher
who was passing by remonstrated with the fellow, and
called him a coward. He instantly made an attack upon
the butcher, who fought with him until overpowered by
superior strength. The ruffian then indiscriminately
attacked every passenger, challenging them to fight, and
injured some of them severely, until a gentleman, who had
witnessed his conduct, faced him, and gave him a sound
thrashing. At length a policeman of the E division
arrived, and took the fellow to Hatton-garden police-office,
where the above facts were proved. The prisoner gave
his name Musty Duggan, an Irish labourer. He was con-
victed in the penalty of 3/., and in default of payment
committed for two months to the House of Correction.

It is understood in the best informed naval 6:des
that the Admiralty have resolved in future to keep a strong
naval force on. the home station, instead of sending the
ships o❑ distant though temporary services. The Corn.
wallis and Hastings, now on their way home, and the
Bolleislc, Benbow, and Blenheim, just commissioned, with
the Donegal and Implacable, at Lisbon, and the throe
guard ships, Boyal Adelaide, Howe. and Britannia, to-
gether ton sail of the line, will compose the home squad-
ron. Four or five of these at a t►me are, we hear, to
cruise for exercise within the limits of the station. But
whether a flag officer will be appointed to this special
command is quite uncertain ; nor has this arrangement
been called for by any aggressive disposition displayed:by
Russia or any other power, our relations with foreign
States having become more satisfactory of late than for
some time past, but simply to quiet any alarm, real or pre-
tended, which the recent clamour about the unprotected
state of our own shores may have originated. It is merely
a new distribution of the fleet, fir the actual increase to
our naval force will not exceed two sail of the line.—
Ply►nouth Journal.

ALLEGED DEATH OF A PAUPER CHILD
FROM NFut,xc r.—On Tuesday afternoon a highly respects..
blejury of tradesmen was empa into
before Mr. Payne,
the City Coroner, to pursue an inquiry natoetthi e
eleven years,circumstan-
ces
attending the death of John Mitten, aged
who is alleged to hate died from the want of proper nou-
rishment and attention at the
.workhouse for pauper
children at Norwood. After a long diicussion among the
Coroner and jury, in which it was admitted on all hands that
the case was one demanding the strictest scrutiny, it was
agreed to transfer the case into the hands of Mr. Carter,
the Surrey Coroner. Mr. Pae ordered that the body
pi
should be conveyed back to Norwood, for the purpose of
a judicial investigation.

E VEN IN G EDITIO

MR. MARTIN, M.P., AND CAPTAI.

BURTON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUZ.
Sta,---It is with extreme reluctance I intrude on the
notice of the public a statement of facts relative to reY
difference with Captain Burton, but as an erroneous ec-
count has appeared in the Newspapers, I feel it due to enY
character to set the public right as to the circumstaeces
which have occurred.
Some time after my father's death, who died in 1834,
Captain Burton called on me and stated that there was a
sum of money due to him by my late father, and that he
applied to me for the payment. I stated very explicitly t.,
him that having suffered very much by the securities which.
I had already given for my father's debts, I was deterruin°_.
never to secure or pay another shilling
same time I informed Captain Burton that wa
of them ; at tu:
about to raise a large sum of money to pay' eff the
securities I had already passed for my father's
and that in the event of my succeeding I would refer
him to a branch of the family who was to receiv.e
and who 0130°
a portion of the money when raised,
to pay the demand which he had made on me, but e'ye.:
cially giving him to understand that I by no means uncle`
took or engaged directly or indirectly to ace him p a id. the
Captain Burton's next application to me was i" the
debte,
presence of Mr. Eneas Macdonnell, when I gave him
same answer as on the former occasion, and most
citly again repeated to him that
engagement. I would make no
Captain Burton's next application to me was, Wine!
in August, 1838, when he called at my lodgings, sinwen't
there were two gentlemen in the drawineeroom, '-
clown stairs to speak to him ; he accosted' me by saylt
" I have called to demand payment of the
due to me by your father." My answer `vas
person
" Captain Burton, I have on all former occaslr,
told you that I would not make myself liable for the de r,
nor will I ever do so, amid I hold myself free from all Fete
sonal liability. On this he said, " I will proclaim YOu.e'
.
the world as a swindler." Upon this I declined all furten
conversation, and immediately withdrew ; Captain Burt%
followed me up stairs, and made use of the same larifeelor
in the presence of the two gentlemen who were waiting, e
me, viz., Mr. Edward O'Maley, Purser of her isfleieg`Yde
ship Britannia, and Mr. John Davis; and he also m'd",
some very impertinent observations on oness And
feeling indignant at his conduct, I thereup eized hi° .0
the collar, and forced him towards the door ; tits
Burton then said, " I will send you a message." bed
ply was, whatever you intend doing in this way,ari dY7pten.s
batter do quickly, as I am packing up,
leaving town in the morning. then went down atilt:,
to speak to a gentleman on business, and on InY retu,rbe
ing to my sitting-room, Captain Burton said that
had been made sensible of the impropriety of his ce,'
duct by a conversation with Mr. O'Maley and Mr. ve":101.
and he then, in their presence, apologised for his '
perance. I then, before these gentlemen, in.his Prase to
and without any contradiction from him, stated that Lnb-elki
I
had made him a promise of payment, and that dbe
myself perfectly free from any liability to pay hire,
eCaptainthen went away. On the 19th instant, Captain e'b°is
called upon m.a at the Wyndham Club, and sent ,aPtee
card with a message, that he wished to see m° 1:101,
strangers' room, and I went down to him. On ease
the room Captain Burton said, " I am come for PaY.eer
of the debt due to me by your father, and which you.',;:;
mised to pay." I answered by denying ever b"..0-y
made any promise to pay him, or that I was liable t° ai,.
him, when he replied, " I must say that you are actin:taco
honourably." I answered that I regretted my imp
,a7e-b be
in granting him an interview, after the violence w" —free
had previously shown, and I was about withdrawieg pit
the room, when Captain Burton started up from h'se tee
and said with great vehemence, " I will proclaim Yottt;eete
~
world as a blackguard and a cheat," upon which a
Captain Burton a blow, and left the room ; he f°'„liirlg
me into the hall, and again made use of the same 1°1;110
language in presence of some of the waiters, wheal ga',ltede
another blow, and he then put himself in a fightingrat:jiere
and held up hie umbrella as if to strike me ; and oo
upon wrested the umbrella out of his hand, breaking Ito
his shoulders, and, as ho was leaving the ball, I threwasn
fragments after him. Towards evening of the sallie„,ol
the Hon. Captain George Perceval, R.N., M. P•' be
on me, requesting me to name a friend, with vi"°t-eee°
could communicate upon what had passed that day be"gsjor
Captain Burton and myself, and I referred him t°,l`, ea
Macnamara, M.P. for Clare ; and these two Ben
having met, the subject matter of their conference 7.-atsla
duced to writing by them, and assented to by
Burton, and was as follows :—" In consequence Of 19011
tercation which took place this morning, April the die!
1639, it is agreed between the mutual friends of the,,,11a,;000
concerned, viz., Captain Burton, R.N., and .-`,:eret
Martin, Esq., that Captain Burton having give° tkyirtial
offence, so far as using strong language to Mr. *ties,
Captain Perceval is willing to enter into 1111 eapla
e
thereon, stating that Captain Burton is unconscloz yfr,
having used the expressions attributed to him veYieli"
Martin, and regrets that Mr. Martin should have °;,-,fial
conceived him, but at the same time he is sorry fer,",tiete
made use of any expressions in a moment 0f ire
which might be deemed offensive by Mr. Martin.
" WILLIAM N. MACNAMA'''
" GEORGE PERCEVAL. to to
" Major Macnamara on the part of Mr. Marti's, bas
express his great regret at the consequences that end
and apologises accordingly. RA'
" WILLIAM N. MACNAMA
" GEORGE PERCEVAL."
Nothing further passed between Captain Burl
inten the
myself until the 26th inst., when about ten ecl°c,l
morning, as I was passing by Northumberland "L'hie
(which is within a few yards of my lodgings) I Sirch ths
approaching me with a very large bludgeon (ffblc:, a
constable afterwards told me was loaded), he allP,.reot
much excited, and made some observations which I , °
I
understand, but from his flurried manner, and ane the ull-ilei a
tst
size of his club, suspecting some hostile intention, I gitec•
close to him as I could, to prevent him from making ee,becl
tug! use of his club), but said nothing, except that I %of
to have no more to say to him ; and I endeavoured rerre
on when he struck me. I am not conscious ofehal'jlibila
turned the blow, but I collared him in order to haa,tioa
over to the Police. The further details of the tranTep'l
it is unnecessary to repeat, but I could not in justice ece°
character forbear to vindicate myself from the err°
leo
and utterly groundless imputation of having made a Pr°
of payment which I had declined to fulfil. 4t.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servalis,
THOMAS MAR
Wyndham Club House, April 30,1839.

PENNY POSTA6E.
The Mercantile Committee charged with an e,i,
tion into the advantages combined with the pr4,c:olif
of the proposed reduction of postage on the Pla"ccirreth't
Rowland Hill, have recently distributed by virnY n'broog:,l
their Report, in which the pith cf the question 16 "1.1)/
summarily before the tradinn• community at large:olfe „-
subject has been so often before' the public, as t° "afoes;
unnecessary to quote from this part of it. They ooe",'
strongly the adoption at once of Mr. Hill's plan' -essoreit,
ing a far better prospect of success than any half 000
such as are recommended by the Parliamentary 1%-ley 0
tee. On the advantages of previous payment tnuroi,
remark, that they consist in the greater ee°l-1,0
cause, instead of being collected as now bY,,
pensive agency in " 80,000,000 of small sums throeAr
in round numbers is the quantity passing We:
the Post-office annually) from every town an bePri
let of the empire, it would be " carried atio
hand" in large sums to the Stamp-ef6e•e' t
protection would, moreover, be afforded ag.n9,.,0 ria"
nor
infliction" of paying for anonymous or n„%oise'tw
communications. The recommendation of the be ~fri
tary Committee, that in the first instance it w'°°' ,t ie
pedient to " reduce the rates on inland general P°"ificie;eci
to an uniform rate of 2d. per half.ounce," with antrst'of
of one penny for each half-ounce in addition, i 9 C°)ber%f
in this mercantile report by observing that the vie ore
the Parliamentary Committee were not so fully
the mercantile and trading interests of the "great 'Pe
ance of the difference" between one penny and ee°-of I
upon small profits on trivial orders. Fur one `A-ciredide
rnercial cperation it is remarked, there were l'unieinie.,t,
operat.ons of trifling import, all which with andityPc's•
number of circulars would be "shut out" fro° '000,11'41
office at the higher rate of twopence, by which the ,01°,;,‘r,
inerous class of customers and dealers would bi.e;
from the benefit proposed. Moreover, tu, -,, to ,;tit
CIICe would be of still greater considerati°-,03"0
anaonioe „f seie
humbler classes of the community at large,
it is found sufficient to suppress generally th,,° not Coo,
article not strictly an object of necessity'• r°,t rec - r
circumstances the report concludes with an earl'etii" 01'10
mendation of Mr. Hill's plan as a whole, and f°r,,eanf'be,
diate reduction of postage universally to one l'r
isallY,b
greater st
being at once more safe for the revenue and tinly°", tY
neficial to the public. There is the nece"svost°,lo
this appeal from the Mercantile Committee °P t Wes3of
•
should be seconded by the whole trading In 't ,
country, as Mr. Spring Rice, and the Tressur.,:',os`o,
derstood, are as yet quite immoveable on thbl;; to 0,
which, instead of being met by any argument, ot $ll of
counter a sluggish inertness, which seems to re absll
pression. It is proposed that a public meeting,
shortly be called on this matter.— Times.

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ANTI-CORN-LA NV CIRC t), ---
Call:
We presume by the second number of the iiinr/t:, Oal:
law Circular that the lecturers employed by the '-'''' gric-1.1
law League have commenced their labours heavedtheo two
tural counties, and that they have been r Pit
great body of their hearers with enthusiastic fsirs.s.hil't' it
is a new era in the agitation of the questio. '‘'.n ,tradc° of
may well afford satisfaction to the friends of 're- tisOgte
cannot fail to strike with alarm the selfi.li Par _,,er ~
monopoly and scarcity. Let us henceforth n° I°7o°o
told by the advocates of the Corn-laws that thiscigv oeocbre
tion between the north and south—between foct°Vora ie
and farmers. The verdict has gone forth Eton' the",
very centre of the corn-growing districts Wail-104°n;
Lpte Regis,
enactments. In
Tiverton,odious and starvim,Exeter,
_chere '
bits e
manufacture • • l ,txist,large assemblies of the Mb'
ve Fa r 3
crowded halls, and in open market places, bai Tolorei
Lincoln, and Louth,...`. pt., isd
unanimous votes of condemnation upon the 7,tocr6-1,
havelegislation. turned Chartists, and attempted to put dow,' .i. cffor ,
meats of the lecturers by physical force; but._thdcyl of tb
have invariably been frustrated by the great 9° , ,
Pc°A,Plielo'vel
mode of treating an opponent .li
in ar'• trat° Ili,uritestof
resorted to by a Dr. Trought, one of the Magi' cj 1
cLout,h, who having. very- indiscreetly Fhallcunstoch be
'aut9, the Lecturer, to a public discussion iwomeot,
was routed amidst the hisses of his fellow-t°-
bb one
I'lP-
their own town-ball, summoned the Lecturer b
o"fe of l'.l'.
under a frivolous charge, brought before him
ibiy,
t:iftliobl,Yo
dboolordsbie
own creatures ! This is Corn-law justice I
consistent in one who defends the right of the I,:et, of the
pass laws for taking the money out of the F°,c_d,,, of 19:0
bread-eaters. We suspect however that the lAO_l oe ti_,
associated together in the Anti-Corn-law LeriV, to rl 1
spirited and wealthy to allow the Justice Shall w
their pranks with impunity.
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