The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-17 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1837.

THE KING'S HEALTH.

WINDSOR CASTLE,

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1837.
" The symptoms of hlrs MAJESTY'S Disease has

undergone no essential change since yesterday

morning.

(Signed) WM. FRED. CHAMBERS.
DAVID DAVIES.

PRAYER
FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE KING,

(To be used by direction of the Lords of the Council, June

16, 1837.)
A PRAYER to be used immediately before the Litany,
and when the Litany shall not be read, before
the Prayer for all Conditions of Men ; in all
Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches
and Chapels in England and Ireland, as soon as
the Ministers thereof shall receive the same ; and
to be continued during his Majesty's present
Indisposition :

Almighty and most merciful God, in whose hands are
the issues of life and death, incline Thine car, we beseech
Thee, to the cry of Thy people, and accept our supplica-
tions and prayers which we make unto Thee on behalf of
Thy servant, our Sovereign Lord the King.
Vouchsafe, of Thy goodness, 0 Lord, to assuage his
pain, to relieve his infirmity, and to strengthen his soul by
the consolations of Thy Grace, that so, resigning himself
with all meekness and patience to Thy Holy Will, and
trusting entirely in Thy mercy, he may be raised by Thy
power from the bed of sickness, and long continue to go-
vern Thy people, committed to his charge, in peace and
righteousness.
And finally grant, 0 Heavenly Father, that when it shall
be Thy good pleasure to call him from this world unto
Thee, he may receive a Crown of Glory in Thy everlasting
Kingdcm ; through the merits and mediation of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

We are happy to state that the last report from Windsor
describes ale state of his Majesty's health in as favourable
terms as the one immediately proceeding. We refer to the
letter of our correspondent for particulars :

" WINDSOR, FRIDAY NIGHT, I I O'CLOCK.

" His Majesty remains much in the same state as on
Thursday night—that is with all the most violent symp-
toms of his malady very materially abated, but still extremely
feeble, as the official bulletin of this morning, for once
truly, stated. That the Royal patient was racked as he has
so long been by the most frightful paroxysms of coughing,
was naturally to be expected ; but there is one consolatory
symptom which the official bulletin does not mention, though
it appears to be one of great importance and of happy omen.
His Majesty's voice and articulation, which had almost
deserted him, have to day been observed to be gradually
returning.

"As Carly as ten o'clock this morning, a King's mes-
senger was sent off to Downing-street with state documents
which had received the Royal signature.
" There were no arrivals at the castle to-day, except
Mr. Bridge, of the house of Rundell and Bridge, the emi-
nent goldsmiths, who waited on his Majesty by appoint-
ment—probably in furtherance of some kind wish of his
Majesty to signify to those about him his grateful sense of
their affectionate devotion to his comfort and relief.
William the Fourth is ever studying to do kind deeds."—
ilforiiiiv Herald.

We think we may congratulate all who wish well to
the working classes, and to that national prosperity of
which the working classes are the,main, if not the sole,
instrument, on the proceedings which tool; place in the
House of Commons last night, with reference to the
New Poor Law Act. It is well known that it has been the
unceasing endeavour of a Morning Print to blacken
the character of this Act by every means in its power ;
to misrepresent its object, its tendency, its operation ;
and to calumniate all who are in any way connected
with its administration. It matters little from what
motive all this rancorous feeling springs—some im-
pute it, in the first instance, to hatred of Lord
BROUGHAM, who took a leading part in carrying
through the Bill. Others say that the fact of the
Bill being carried, as it were, by common consent, in
utter disregard of the wallies of thunder hurled
every morning from Printing-house-square, engen-