The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-28 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

BRITISH INSTITUTION.—(TIIIS DAY.)
We were favoured with a private view of this-Ex-
hibition this morning, which contains, as usual, many
able, and some first-rate pictures. Foremost among
the latter is " The Battle of Trafalgar," (No. 375),
which is the produHon of Mr. Huggins, and has, we
understand, been painted by express command of
Majesty. It is a fine work, with l!reat depth of colour,
but is rather too n-Arnotonous in its effect. The time
represented is just at the close of the battle. The
vessels are seen rolling in a heavy, gradual swell.of the
sea ; some are little better than mere- wrecks, and all-
show symptoms of a dreadful conflict, by their‘ tat-
tered sails, which hang in ribbands to the Mast; and
the evident disorder that prevails throughout the
fleet. A little more variety of effect—though
we are aware of the difficulty of giving variety
to marine paintings—would have greatly improved
the picture. In this instance, the artist might have
taken a hint from Stanfield. An " Interior with Fish",
(41), by Cooke, is a hold, vigorous production. Too
fish are painted with a force and skill worthy of Land-
seer. " Delinda's Toilette" (43), is by Partridge.
Parts of it are excellent, especially the atta.tude and
drapery of the principal figure, which fully realizes;
Pope's elaborate description. In the " Interview be-
tween Charles the First and Oliver Cromwell" (59),
by IVlaclise, the figure and face of the Protector are
pourtrayed with great vivacity. We miss, however,
the ratieund proboscis of " red-nosed Noll," for wh;,ch
Ihistory tells us he was notorious. " Greenwich, "Pen-
sioners commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar, in
Greenwich 'ark" (112), does great credit to the
artist, I.ktri Burnett. The principal figures, we are
assured, are portraits of men who served with Nelson,
and are now pensioners ; anti we should suppose so,
for they are full of character, and bear evident tokens
of having been sketched from the life. The back-
ground is skilfully developed, and the grouping in the
fore-ground teems with variety. " Regulus" (120),
is one of Turner's extraordinary productions, as any
one may perceive, even at the first glance. The
colouring is effective, though somewhat fantastic,
and certainly like nothing we have seen iu life ;
it is, in truth, a serious and premeditated cari-
cature of nature. The landscape is seen through
a silver mist, as through a light gauze curtain,
and conveys such an idea of intolerable sultri-
ness, as almost puts one into a perspiration to look at
it. The " Smuggler" (172) by Parker, is forcibly
coloured, but the figure is made too startling and pro-
minent. The best part about it are the hands, with
which great pains have been taken. The " Dairy
Door" (196) by Lance, contains the head of a cow,
which shows that the artist has studied Paul Potter
with attention. " Ruins of a Fountain" (207) is in
Chalon's most graceful and poetic manner. It
is finely felt, and conveys a vivid idea of solitude
and desolation, enhanced by the gathering shadows
of evening. " Cupid chasing a Butterfly" (No. 243),
by Salter, is as graceful a little gem as we have met
with for some time. The young God floats in air,
light and buoyant as gossamer ; he is not a heavy,
dead mass of flesh, as too many of our chubby Cupids
are, but is of true etherial fashion. His wild, flash'
lug, earnest eyes, too, are instinct with divinity ; and
his wing utterly devoid of any thing like pedantic stiff-
ness. The colouring of this picture throughout is rich
and glowing, but never exaggerated. " Temprania,
the Match-maker" (No. 335), is the production of
Clater. The subject is taken from a well-known
Essay in the Spectator, and is archly and skill-
fully treated, though the countenance of the co-
quette is, we think, a little out of drawing. The
drapery is most happily finished, the satin having
that rich, silky gloss, which we admire so much in
some of Lawrence's pictures. " Macbeth and the
Weird Sisters" (344) is clever, but there is too much
of the grotesque in some of the faces ,of. the witches ;
they are overdone. " Florentine Children" (400)1
by Salter, is a chaste, sober bit of colouring ; the
countenances of the boys are full of animation, like one
of Murillo's Spanish boys ; and their attitudes re'
markable for ease and simplicity. Taken as a whole
this is one of the most successful paintings in the exhi'
bition ; and proves that the artist is familar with, and
has studied hard and long, in the school of the oh'
masters. The " Death of Cardinal Wolsey" (358) is
clever; but we have seen better from the pencil of Ste'
plianoff. We have given but a hasty notice of this
exhibition, for space and time compel us to abridge
our remarks ; but possibly, at some more leisure oppor
tunity, we may be tempted to return to the subject.

MANUSCRIPT NEWSPAPER.—TIIC Swabian Met'
cury states, that a manuscript journal, in the Iliangaria°
language, has been long published at Pesth. It is edited
by a nobleman, who is by profession an advocate, and wb°
wishes, by this mode of publication, to escape the censor'
ship. A certain number of copies of his journal are take°
in a legible hand-writing, and circulated, not only in Hwy
gary, but in several other parts of the Austrian empire. 19
is said to have upwards of 100 subscribers.

From the proceedings at the meeting of the city
creditors on Friday last, the hopes of a speedy settlement
of the affairs of the City is for the present at an cnd•-'
Edinburgh lire,lkly Journal.

Gomez has been raised to the rank of Lieutena►zt'
General. Alaix is upon the look-out for a like promotion;
in order that it may be still said, " Alaix follows Gomez•
---Corsair e.

Accounts from Gallicia state that in the beginning '
of the present month the cholera was raging with grew .
violence in that province, and that it had re-appeared ig3
Poland.

It is with heartfelt satisfaction that we hail a de'
crease in that stigma on our humanity, the number of our
executions. From 1820 to 1824, or during Tory aseery
dancy, there were executed no less than 362 persons, being
on an average 90 per annum. From 1824 to 1828, Or
during the Tory decline, the number fell to 229, or .50 Per
'annum. It continued at the same rate till their expulsion
from office. But during an equal period of Whig rule, fil°
1832 to 1836, it has fallen to 155, or less than one-half.
being only 88 per annum. Or, if we take London Oa
Middlesex, we shall find that the Tory Government cause
to be executed during 1827, 1828, and 1829, sixty-three
persons. The Whigs in 1830, 1831, and 1832, onlY
16 ;in 1833, but 2 ; 1834 none ; 1835 none. And Ye!'
notwithstanding, or may we not say in consequence of ttns
merciful abstinence from blood, the number of offences in
which violence has been used, has decreased ?—From dui
able Pamphlet, entitled, What Next or the Peers and /11'
Third Time of Asking.
: a
CANT.—As a pregnant exemplification of the Ling
of brainless declamation, monkish sensibility, and tortol,-,
perversion in which the organs of those who are opposed t;
the New Poor Law so dishonestly deal, we copy from On
(the Kent Herald) of these hollow loud scarlet pretenders
~
to exclusive sympathy with the poor, the following frotl''i
and miserable vapouring ;—lt is stated by the advocates ?,
the New Poor Law, as a proof of its merits (says tl
apostle of truth and peace), that "in the thirty parisp,e,.
including Deal and Sandwich there are no paupers receivin;
out-door relief; and only five able-bodied labourers in tb
Union Workhouse," and that the annual payment for
gitimate children, which a year and a half ago was f",":
3,000/., is now absolutely nothing !" This seems almost 11(1,
credible, but if true, forms the strongest condemnation
the new system which it is possible to pen. What aOf
of unrelieved misery must exist in these unhappy parishe,so,
What a wholesale robbery of the rights of the poor, the lb.
dustrious, and unfortunate! It amounts almost to an lig
rogation of all poor laws—the favourite scheme of
aristocratic doctrinaires. The paupers altogether are r.tb
duced from 3,609 to 519 (!) This is wholesale dealing c
a witness! Oakum and Macshane never worked al
amendment in the sick list half so effectually. Wilfe,io,
-only 5 out of every 36 paupers deserving of relief? ri
upon this monstrous inhumanity. Fie, upon this mocked
of " amendment" in legislation. Fie, upon this Scand3lciltie
perversion of justice. Fie, on the hard-hearted hYPt/ciriet;
pretence of making the poor " independent." indepol
indeed! Destitution is independence—is it ? How in
pendent the starving Irish must be! i„J1)
On Monday last Jane, the wife Mr. J. Ran "0
jun., tailor, in Weymouth, was safely brought to bed of ," ..
daughters, it being her first accouchment. The rot
and three infants are doing well.—Dorset Chronicle.

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BRIGHTON-FRIDAY.

We are happy to state that both the King and Queen
are in excellent health. This morning at noon their Mr.-
. jesties took a carriage airing together.
Tile Royal dinner invitations yesterday evening com-
prised—the Dowager Countess of St. Germain's, Earl and
Countess Somers, Hon. Capt. Paulett, Sir W., Lady, and
Miss Pringle ; and Colonel Parke.
The Rev. R. Wood left the Palace last night, lut will re-
turn again in a day or two.
• • The calls at the Palace to-day include—Sir Henry Ons-
low, Lady and the Misses Napier (on leaving), Mr. Sher-
field Grace (on leaving), Mr. Robinson, Lieutenant-Gene-
ral Sir W. and Lady Pringle, Lady Augusta Seymour,
• Captain E. J. Johnson, R.N.; Captain and Mrs. Freman-
.. iticlou leaving), and Mrs. Ilidyard.
The Duchess of G!ouccster'a health is ready re-esta-
'Visited.

• • This morning the most Fatisfa et o y accounts were rc-
!mired here of the health of Lord Farnborough, who has
-been seriously indisposed for some time.
Mr. Estcourt, M.P., is expected at the Norfolk Hotel
to-morrow ; Mr. and Lady Vaughan have arrived.
The Ron. General Phipps will entertain a select party
this evening at dinner at the Norfolk.
Lady F. Burdett left Brighton this morning for her resi-
dence in town. The family of Sir Francis Burdett will
remain her', it is expected, a month longer.
Sir Ralph and Mrs. Rice gave a ball and supper on
Wedneseay evening on a splendid scale.

Mrs. Gib- bins's dance on Wednesday evening was attended
anump.- others by—the Duke of St. Alban's, Mi,ses Bur-
dett, Lady Fremantle, Sir R. and Lady Fitz Wygram,
Countless of Bosse, Lady 'Tierney, Sze.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Members of the Grand Cabinet (the Cabinet Mi-
nisters and the G: eat Officers of State) assembled at
Lansdowne House, Nrkeley-square, last evening, to settle
the Roll of Sheriffs for the present year. The Marquis of
Lansdowne entertained the party at dinner. The Lord
Chancellor, Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell,
Mr..Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howick, and other Mi-
.. ; misters, the Lord. Steward, and the Master of the Horse
'were present. The Hon. William Bathurst, Clerk to the
'Privy Council, also dined with the party.
- •
.A meeting of the Church Commission was held yester-

day, at the-Office in Whitehall-place. The Archbishop
of Cant:rbury, the Bishop of London, Marquis of Lans-
downe, Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and the
Right Honi.H. Hobhouse, were present. The meeting met
at two, and broke up soon after four o'clock.
Mr. Burge, Agent for Jamaica, had an inter view with
Lord Glenelg, yesterday, at the Colonial Office. Mr.
Burge had also an interview with the Chancellor of the
3"' Exchequer, in Downing-streeet.
sa The Hanoverian Minister transacted business yesterday,
IL at the Foreign Office.
214 Mr. Robert Fergusson, M.P., had an interview with
: •
Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-street.

The rumoured marriage of E. A. Sanford, Esq.,
M.P., to one of the daughters of Sir T. B. Lethbridge,
Bart., is contradicted.
Baron Bulow was present at the sumptuous but
select dinner given by Prince Esterhazy on Thursday 'eve-
ning at aandos House. The Baron was visited yester-
day at. Mivari's Hotel by the whole of the diplomatic corps
at present in town, including Prince Esterhazy, Count Pozzo
di Borgo, Prince Paul Lieven, Count Seckdendorff, Baron
Gersdorff, Baron Ompteda, M. Dedel, &c.
The remains of the wealthy W. Fulke Greville,
Esq., the father of Viscountess Cornbermere and uncle of
the Earl of Warwick, were removed from his residence on
Tuesday for interment in the family vault at Eastry.
General Soublette, one of the Colombian Envoys,
has left Mivart's Hotel for Sheernes, on a visit to Admiral
and the Hon. Mrs. Fleming. General O'Leary is still at
Ale above hotel.
Count Demidoff, after a tour of the most celebrated
German spas, has arrived in Paris, and will shortly resume
his brilliant fetes in that luxurious city.
Lord Mahon is labouring under a severe attack of
influenza.

. LordLeveson Gower, the son and private secretary
of Lord Granville, arrived
at Hanover-square late on
Thursday night from Paris, with important despatches from
his Excellency to our Government.
The last bulletin of the King's health, from Copen-
hagen, dated Jan. 20, is as follows :—" His Majesty the
King has had a good night, the fever is trifling, the cough
better. His Majesty is recovering his strength."
We learn from the Hague that his Majesty has
give)) orders to purchase at his own expense the fine collec-
tion of oriental MSS. belonging to the late Mr. J. Wilmot,
professor of oriental languages in the Athenaeum at Am-
sterdam, to make a present of them to the Royal Netherlands
institute of Arts and Sciences. A plan has been formed
at Amsterdam for establishing a commercial bank for which
his Majesty's sanction will be solicited. ,
The Duke of Devonshire is to arrive at Devonshire
House, Piccadilly, to-morrow, from Chatsworth, and will
be accompanied by Sir Augustus Clifford, who, after a tour
of visits, arrived at Chatsworth shortly after the arrival of
his Grace from Pansanger. Dr. Verite has been amongst
the visitors at his Grace's mansion.
The Duke of 'Wellington arrived at Apsley House,
from Stratfieldsaye, on Thursday evening.
The Marquis of Lansdowne commenced his dinner
parties yesterday, at Lansdowne House.
he Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Countess of
Kerry, Lord Henry and Lady Louisa Pitzinaurice, are
expected in town on. Wednesday next.
The Marquis of fweedale has let his mansion in
Belgrave-square to Mr. Tracey Leigh, for the season.
The Viscount and Viscountess Deerhurst left town
on 'Thursday last, on a visit to Lady Cockerell, at Seizin-
cote Hall.
We are authorised to state that 'one of the accom-
plished daughters of Lord and Lady Bridport will shortly
be led to the hymeneal altar by Henry Hall, Esq., of Hol-
brook House, in the county of Somerset.
Died at his seat, Keddleston, near Derby, on
Thursday morning, Jan. 26, the Right Hon. Lord Scars-
dale, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He is succeeded
in his title and estates by his eldest son, Nathaniel Curzon,
now Lord Scarsdale.

Father Enfantin, ex-Pope of the St. Simonians,
who, after he was released from prison went to Egypt, has
just landed at Marseilles. He remains in France only a
short period, and then returns to convert the Pacha.
At a meeting of the Royal Institution, held yester-
day. evening, Professor Braude delivered a highly interest-
ing lecture on embossing. He commenced with a brief
history, and detailed the various processes in the art, illus_
trating his observations by several fine specimens. The
theatre was crowded to excess.
The following distinguished persons have witnessed
the performance of Jim Crow and the Bedouin
:—LordedouinAo.r, LFoor
Arabs at
Lord
,the Adelphi Theatre during the past we
rester, Hon. 'Captain Forester, Hon. Captain Byti
Tenterden, B. Wall, Esq., M.P. ; Countess of Aldhorougli,
Colonel anti Mrs. Maberley, Colonel Lyste,r, Lord George
Lennox, and Colonel Burdett.
The King's Speech at the opening of the Session will
be submitted, it is understood, to his Majesty to-day, at
the Pavilion ; and on Monday Viscount Melbourne will
give a grand entertainment in Downing-street, to the mover
of the Address, the Earl of Fingal], and other Noble Peers,
to whin the Speech will be read. The same ceremony will
take place at the Foreign Office, in Downing-street, by
Lord John Russell, who will entertain a numerous party
of the House of Commons.
Those Mt 'fibers of Parliament favourable to the
present Ministry have circulars sent to their town resi-
dences, respectinc, their return to the duties of the Session.
The Irish Members arc the first who have made their ap-
pearance at the Clubs.
The marriage of the King of Naples and the Arch-
duchess Maria Theresa took place at Trent. The Royal
pair left that place on the 12th to return to their dominions.
RIESTE, JAN. 14.—. King Otho and his Queen
.are expected here next week ; also the Archduke Charles,
and perhaps the King and Queen of Naples, as they will
he at Venice this
The Poi tland frigate is awaiting
the arrival of KingvOktho. Dr. Bowring is here for a few
days.

Lord John Russell will give his grand Parliamentary
dinner to Members of the House of 'Commons on Monday
next, at the Foreign Office, and not at his Lordship's resi-
dence in Wilton-crescent, as has been stated.
Mr. D'Eyneourt's health is much improved. He
will arrive in town next week, to resume his Parliamentary
duties. It is his intention, es soon as public business will
permit him, to pay his respects to as many of his constituents
as he can possibly visit.
The present Earl of Rosslyn, Lieut.-Colonel of the
Dth Lancers, of which his Noble Father had been Colonel
since 1801, was appointed by his father, the late Noble
and Gallant Peer, to be Clerk in the Scotch Chancery, the
emoluments of which were returned at 1,1364 per annum.
No successor has been yet named to succeed Prince
Esterhazy in the high and distinguished post of Austrian
Ambassador. The Princes of Schoenberg
and Trautsmandorf
Leichtenstein have been mentioned in diplomatic circles
as candidates for the appointment.
eu3The late Hen. and Right Rev. Earl of Plymouth
nyed the family honours only a few years, haying suc-
ceeded his nephew
in 183 , Other Archer, sixth Earl of Plymouth,
3. The Noble and Rev. Earl dying unmarried: is
succeeded iu the titles and estates by his only surviving

brother, the Hon. Colonel Henry Windsor, youngest son
of Other Lewis, fourth Earl of Plymouth. The last Earl
but one died suddenly on board his yacht, in the prime of.
life. He was prohibited by his medical adviser from hunt-
ing the season before his death at Melton Mowbray, as
bad been his custom for several years. This cessation
from powerful exercise was thought to have had an un-
favourable effect.
The Earl of Minto gave a grand dinner on Tliurs-

,by evening, at the Admiralty, to the Marquis of Lans•
!lowne, Viscount Morpeth, the Speaker an-1 the Hon. Mrs.
Abercroniby, Mr. and Lady Mary \Vood, Rcar-Admirai
Sir Charles and Lady Adam, and the Hon. Mr. Cowper.
The Countess received a select evening party, consisting of
the Russian Ambassador, Lord Glenelg, Sir Rufane Don-
kin, the Hon. Frederick Grey, Mr. Romilly, Admiral and
the Misses Elliott, Count Gramtriont, Mr. Spring Rice,
Mr. and Lady Catherine Boileau, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley,
Hon. Mr. Grey, Lord and Lady llowiek, Mrs. Lister, and
Mr. and Mrs. Drummond.
Yesterday, before the Commissioners of Excise,
Sir J. Doyle, Chairman ; T. Harrison, Esq., and H. Da-
vies, Esq., the following defendants were fined in the heavy
penalties affixed to their names for adulterating the beer
they sold with salt, sugar, water, and other ingredients,
not malt or hops :—George Temple, landlord of the Cock,
Chalton-street, Somers' Town, 100/. ; E. J. Denton, of the
Dundee Arms, Wapping, 751; James Flack, of the Maid
and Magpie, Stepney, 50/.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth-day of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, when lie entered
his 64th year, the morning was ushered in at Kensington
by a merry peal from the bells of the old church, which
were again repeated at one o'clock. During the day his
Royal Highness received numerous visits of congratulation
from members of the Royal Family and the nobility. At
five o'clock, seventy of the Duke's tradesmen and principal
inhabitants of Kensington, sat down to an excellent dinner,
at the King's Arms Tavern, High-street. In the evening
the tradespeople's houses were illuminated.
The festival of the London Temperance Society
took place on Tuesday evening at the City of London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. After the company had par-
taken of tea, coffee, &c., W. Janson, Esq., was called to the
Chair, and the meeting was addressed by Mr. J. E.
Howard, Mr. Gilbert, Dr. Oxley, Captain Marshall, of
Hull, Mr. Teare, of Preston, and the Rev. Richard
Mills, in explanation of the principle of total abstinence
from all intoxicating drinks. The principal speech of the
evening was that of Mr. Teare, the founder of the far-famed
Temperance Society of Preston. He stated that it had
originated with himself and a few other persons who had
persisted in their scheme in defiance of all the ridicule

thrown out against them. The consequence had been that
crime had decreased in Preston 60 per cent., and, for the
last seven or eight assizes, not a single criminal had been
sent from that town to Lancaster for trial. The chap-
lain of the House of Correction of that place declared that

he was losing all his customers. There were now in the
United Kingdom 300,000 tea-totalers. In Wrexham there
were 32,000. Twelve months since he had gone over to the
Isle of Man, and converted nearly all the drunkards on the
north side of the Island. Of the whole population of
40,000, 3,000 had become members of the society. He
particularly deprecated idly partial abstinence from intoxi-
cating liquors, and enumerated various instances of the ad-
vantages of the system. Mr. Tears certainly appeared, if
we may judge from his robust frame and powerful voice, to
have suffered no ill effects from his abstinence. After the

delivery of the speeches the Chairman was presented by the
society with a medal, in testimony of the sense entertained
of his exertions in the cause, and it was proposed, and we
believe unanimously acceded to, that-a gold medal should
be granted to Mr. Teare,
A new opera bufFa, composed by M. Benedict, the
conductor, will be produced next week, at the Lyceum.
Mozart's Nozze di 1479aro,witli the whole strength of the
company, is to be put into immediate rehearsal.
The Jury of the Basse,; Alpes has just pronounced
a verdict of a singular and rather ►mportant character. A
young woman was brought to trial before them on a charge
of infanticide. Her guilt was fully proved, but the Jury
acquitted her because of their conviction, that " had not
the cradle hitherto kept in every ho.q);ec for the reception
of children about to be abandoned been suppressed by a
late order of the Prefuct, the prisoner would not have de-
stroyed her infant !"
Late accounts from the Cape of Good Hope state
that a most virulent scurvy had made its appearance amongst
the men of the 75th Regiment, quartered in the new pro-
vince. No less than 120 men of the regiment were la-
bouring under the disease, and many were in an extremely
dangerous state, It was generally attributed to a want of
vegetable food, and the use of impure water.

A letter from Rouen says--" In consequence of an
increase in the demands for our cottons and other tissues,
our manufactories have become more busy than they have
been for a length of time. The accounts received from
those countries which are the great markets for our produce
are most satisfactory. Confidence is evidintly reviving,
and everything indicates a favourable termination to the late

crisis."

The French comedians, we are sorry to learn, have
sustained pecuniary loss in their tour in the provinces, and
intend immediately returning to the metropolis.
The medical practitioners in most of the provincial
towns are said to be worn out with fatigue. The sight of
the day-book and iticl:er will probably furnish the surest re-
cipes fur their recovery.
An individual, sentenced to hard labour in a house
of detention at Wurzbourg, recently committed suicide, be-
cause the judgment pronounced against him deprived him
of the elective franchise.—Galiynani.
The Oldham turn-outs were principally disinclined
to agree, on Monday morning, to the terms proposed by
their employers—the payment of the prices of two years
ago. The spinners and other hands of two mills, Walshaw
and Greenbank, commenced work, however, on the morn-
ing named ; and, from present circumstances, it is probable
they have permanently arranged the differences between
them and their masters. The spinners and remaining hands
of the other 212 mills continue unemployed.—Manchester
Guardian.

MONEY-MA RKET.--The house of Medley, Scott,
and Co., extensive bill-brokers, stopped payment this morn-
ing (Friday). Besides the business in London, they had a
direct interest in two or three country banks, which have
either stopped payment, or will be compelled to do so, in
consequence of this event. The agency in London for
these banks was conducted by Esdaile's house, but, in con-
sequence of what recently occurred there, has been trans-
ferred to others, or at least was under treaty for that pur-
pose, when the stoppage of this morning occurred. These
country banks are said to be of recent formation, and not
to have entered, therefore, into very widely-spread spread
engagements. One of the partners of the house has taken
heretofore a leading part in the establishment and manage-
ment of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, and has enjoyed
some celebrity in the city for his experience in matters of
the kind, which introduced him to and obtained for him the
confidence of some of the leading bankers. Of the extent
of their general engagements we have not heard any ac.
count that can be depended on.
Burton has his benefit to-night. It is quite useless
to say a word in his behalf, for the box-sheet is already full,
we believe, and he is so general a favourite that praise is
almost valueless to him. Persons with lung noses should
abstain from going ; there will not be room in the theatre
for organs of that description.—Philadelphia Paper.
Thursda; morning, between the hours of 3 and 4
o'clock, the wife of a labouring man of the name of Good-
ridge, residing in John-street, City-road, St. Luke's, was
safely delivered of four children, three boys and ono girl, all
of whom are alive and very healthy. The mother is ra-
pidly recovering.

Orders have been sent to Woolwich to prepare for
embarking more of the Royal Artillery for the North coast
of Spain. Lieutenants Warburton and Dickson, and fifty
men are in readiness the moment one of his Majesty's steam-
vessels arrives from the westward to convey them to St.
Sebastian, where they will be under the orders of one of their
field-officers, who left here some time ago with thirty men.
INIELowsTs' CLUB.—The first meeting was held on
Thursday at the Freemasons' Tavern, and the musical treat
given on the occasion was of a very superior order. The
standing song (composed by Braham for the Club), " The
King, God bless him," was extremely well sung by Mr. J.
Bennett ; after which Horsley's charming glee, " Come,
gentle zephyr," was sweetly sung by Messrs. Spencer, Ben-
nett, Parry, jun., and Sir G. Stuart, who presided at the
pianoforte. Mr. Moscheles performed an extemporaneous
fantasia on the pianoforte, taking for his leading motif a
portion of Mr. Horsley's glee in a manner that elicited
the most rapturous applause. He also in the course of

the evening played IlLidel's beautiful air, " The Harmo-
nious Blacksmith," most delightfully, and took part in the
celebrated conceitante duet for violin and pianoforte called
" La Sentinelle" (composed by Mayseder and himself), with
Mr. Eliason, who executed a romance by B.!ethoven, ac-
companied by Sir G. Smart, in a most tasteful and brilliant
manner. Mr. Bennett sang " Autumn leaves," from the
opera of The Village Coquettes, very sweetly, and Mr.
Parry, jun., gave a mock Italian duet, also an imitative
solo of the serpent, accompanying himself on the piano-
forte, which afforded great pleasure to the company. The
healths of Mr. Braham and Mr. T. Cooke were then
drank with musical honours, the Chairman observing that
professional duties prevented their attendance. Mr. Parry
(Honorary Secretary) announced that he had already re-
ceived upwards of a dozen songs from candidates for the
premium offered by the Club for the best approved words,
to be set to music by the professional members of the
Club, as competitors for a silver goblet which the Duke of
Sussex intends to present in the course of the season.

2 0 THE EDITOR OF THE SUX.

Stn—Several of. your readers will feel themselves greatly
_obliged by your answering the following question :—ls it
just and equitable, or in accordance with public practice,
that the Chairman of any meeting should, upon a division,
support by his vote either of the two opposing parties,
less in the case of an equality of votes, where the casting
vote may be required ?

Jan. 2701, 1836.

I a::-i, Sir, your; very reTectfully,
H. M.

[Cetta:nly not. It is only a red-hot partisan who couli
be guilty of such bare-faced indecorum. DiFerction ant
strict impartiality should be the rule of conduct of a Chair.
SUN.]