The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-25 00:00:00

"ATTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

HAGUR, APRIL 22.—We have received the Java
I,,ur:als, from the 21st of November to the 6th of Dec,re.-
be: inclusive. They contain the following letter :
" ilaTavla, Nov. 20, 1838.--We learn that the town
of S..,cvaloija was visited on the eleventh of this month, by
a d-eadful fire in the KamFong of Perele, belonging to the
sniiurb. The high wind caused the flames to spread so ra-
p,ily that about 25C houses were in a short time reduced
to ashes. The cause of the fire had not been ascertained,
co- was the amount of the damage known, but it was
Fu.,posed that it must be considerable, as several store and
we qi,ll horses, most of them belonging to wealthy inhabi-
ts ,r a had n,,t escaped.
' Yesterday evening we were threatened with a E..imilar
rn r tune.
About ten o'clock a fire broke out near Wel-
t( ~1-eden. As most of the houses were of bamb.,o, the
d ice rriht have been very great, but happily there
stai wind, so that the fire w,s speedily-got under, and
en: tel or twelve habitations, mostly of bamboo were de-
itt ed."
.:.I.S.TERDANI, APRIL 20.—We are happy to say that
e indispositien of her Royal Highness the Princess of
.inge is not increased, and that there is every reason to
ek.~eCt Fen speedy recovery. Captain Seymour in the
F. service has arrived here to-dry from Frankfort
v :• ,3espatches for the British Government.
nz 11AocE, APRIL 22.—Amsterdam Journals an-
t. c. under yesterday's date that the Princess of Orange
-,. so much recovered that she had been able set out to
to the Hague, where she, in fact, arrived yesterday

l'ho Brussels Papers of Sunday announce tie signirg
t Treaty of Peace on the afternoon of the 19th by
‘1 Van de Weyer at the Foreign Office at London, with-
out. the r scrvation of the points which have been so often
pp ,keci Mr. Nothomb, whose missio i to London was
th o terminated, was expecte Ito return immadiately. The
B. :IA of Belgium announces a new dividend of 10 per cent.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Globe of last evening contains the following re-
m rks occasioned by the Bishop of Exeter's speech in the
Lords on Tuesday night :—" A Bill having been introduced
et , Parliament to settle the doubtful point as to whether
tne Sovcr .ign, as Head of the Church in this country, has not
the right of appointing to vacant deaneries, without the in-
tariosition af a veto by the Chapters, the Bishop of Exeter
era e-s the lists as champion for the Church, and armed
cap-a-pie, declares himself ready to contest the prize with
the Crown. Weak and timid mortals would apprehend
danger to the union of Church and State' by such a col-
lusion the Bishop has no such fears. High Church loy-
alty has ever been in an exact ratio with the disposition of
the Crown to yield its prerogative to the Church. " I
will permit you to reign," is the language of the Church to
the Sovereign ; ' but I must be Viceroy over you.' What-
ever may be thought of Bishop Philpotts' courage, many
Sill doubt whether his zeal be tempered with prudence.
To set up a claim against the Crown in behalf of Chapters
to appoint to vacant deaneries, to support which he finds it
accessary to go so far back as 1560, since which period he
admits the Crown has invariably presented, savours so
mach of a love for Popish times as to lead to a suspicion
that there is much more affection for temporal dominion in
Bishop Philpotts than is quite consistent in a Protestant
Prelate of the nineteenth century."
The Courier makes the following comments on the
Bishop of Exeter's recent conduct with respect to the
Deanery of Exeter:—" Extremes meet ; and thus in the
opinions- and practice of the Right Reverend Apostle
of High Toryism, we discern a palpable approximation to
tome of the sentiments and experiments of such liltra•
Radicals as Dr. Wade. Crown rights are held in rather
light estimation by the Prelate; but Church rights are as
sacred in his eyes as the religion of which they are nomi-
nally the props, but virtually in nine instances out of ten
the practical impediments. He is most anxious to relieve
t•.e Crown from the duty imposed upon it for centuries,
of appointing to the Deanery of Exeter some
iteveretid personage qualified for the office, and deems
it to be for the advantage of the Church that the State
abauld have nothing to do with her in such matters.
Ctlapters should elect their own Deans ; and the right of
suffrage (we presume he contends) should be conceded to
a select body of the clergy, so that they may elect their
-an bishops. We have no doubt that there are plenty of
rreons 'n this country who would willingly concede to Dr.
.'hiipotts all he contends for, would gladly consent that
t .e Church should, in all things, manage her own affairs;
but then they would reasonably expect, as a condition of
such au arrangement, that there should be something in the
soap° of a restoration on the other side; for the State hes
assuredly bought and paid for, whatsoever privileges it
retains in such matters as bishoprics and deaneries."

The Standard observes as follows on the subject of the
Deanery of Exeter :—" 1,1 the Committee upon the
Deanery of Exeter Bill last night, the Bishop of Exeter
odered in explanation of his views a fact which will dis-
r, though it can scarcely surprise, the Protestant
Fe -ple of this country. The Right Rev. Lord intl.
71atcd that his attention was first called to the subject of
the Bill by the discovery, that a negociation had been
opened with her Majesty's ministers for the appointment
—. the Exeter Deanery of the nominee of an Irish Ro.
man Catho:ic Viscount !—not a member of the House
Lords, nor resident in this country, but resident in
1-eind, This Romanist Nobleman had actually recom-
mended a protege for the high dignity of a Dean in the
Established Protestant Church 1 Now, was it not time
for the Bishop of the Diocese against which such an insult

was attempted, to think of his duty and of his oath, when
warned by this act of portentous impudence ? Was it not
time to suggest the inquiry whether the acquiescence in
the recommendation of the Crown by former chapters had
not been the expression of a dutiful respect to the Crown,
and of confidence in the fidelity of the Crown advisers to
the 13.-otestant faith, or a mere submission to peremptory
law ?"

The Iliad of Homer has been lately translated
in the Sam crit.--Foreif,n Quarterly Review.
Si',, K.ATII ERIN E'S HOSPITAL.—It appears to
be now settled that the valuable appointment to the Master-
ship of this foundation vests in the Queen Dowager, who
immediately on her return to England will fill up the va-
cancy occasioned by the death of Sir Herbert Taylor.
Captain Curzon has been mentioned as among those likely
to be selected.
WOODEN PA VEMEN T.—Yesterday in the COM •
mittee of Sewers at Guildhall, it was determined to try
the experiment of a wooden pavement in the carriage way
oppo.iite to the Central Criminal Court. It is expected
that the wood will be a great improvement upon the stone,
and will effectually prevent interruption in the Court
from the noise of carts and carriages, as well as be incom-
p.L-ahly cheaper. There are to be two patterns laid down,
the one the patent of Mr. Stead, whose wooden pavement
iu Oxford-street has been so highly commended ; the other
tut. patent of Mr. Geary, who a short time ago petitioned
the Court of Common Council on the subject, and
(:ffered, if his experiment did not satisfy the Corpora-
tion, to rernave it, and substitute the stone p,vernent
;ithout making any charge. The contractors will
eon mence operations in the street in six weeks, and will
complete the pavement in sixteen hours, so that there will
LI no interruption to the traffic through the street. It was
stated on the occasion of the meeting of the Commission-
er.. that Ccl. Wi!son, the Engineer to the Emperor t f
Russia, had said that the wooden pavement in Oxford-street
was superior to that used in the capital of the Eirp.tror's
dominions. It is believed that the wooden pavement will
soon be laid doan in the vicinity of the City churche,,, and
two eminent engineers Lye seceived instructions to inquire
whether the wooden pavement is likely to answer on in-
clined planes as well as on levels. From this fact we
,•aleulate that it may be the intention of Mr. Prior, the
Chairman of Blacktriars-bridge, who is anxious to-make
the iron rovements in that edifice as great as possible, t.
lay down a pavement of the most approved kind. The pa-
tentees of the two patterns of wooden pavements stated
that the cleanliness of the new plans would strike the pub-
lic as remarkable, and Mr. Stead declared that the dirt
which appeared upon his p.)rtion of pavement in Oxford-
street was occasioned by the accumulation from the neigh-
bouring stone pavement, which had been laid down in corn-
petion.

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF AN A RTILL ECY-
MAN. Yesterday an inquisition was taken before Charles
J. Carttar, Esq., one of the Coroners for Kent, at the
Gun Tavern, Woolwich, on the body of Charles Cheddey,
aged nineteen, a driver and gunner, belonging to the 2d
Liettaliim of Royal Artillery, commanded by Captain Bas-
t. henry M .nsell, an artilleryman, stated that he had
acqu tinted with the deceased for the last three months,
lodged in the same roo.-n with him, at the Artillery
Ilarraccs. Between five and six o'clock on Sunday even-
ing, witness gave the deceased some coffee, and at that
time he appeared to be in his usual spirits. He had been
to church in the morning, and packed up his things
in the afternoon, for the purpose of going into the
hospital on Monday morning, to be cured of a dis-
ease under which he laboured. lie had been in bed during
the afternoon, and trembled and cried. A few minutes
before the fatal occurrence took place, the deceased sprung
out of bed, and said that he would clean his straps for
o-ii”-d, and go on duty next day, instead of going to the
hospital. He then got into another man's bed under the
gun rack, and took down his pouch, in order, as witness
thought, to clean it. He must also at this time have taken
down his musket, and concealed it under a coat which was
wrappe4l round him. Witness and three or four others
were sitting in the room with their backs to the deceased,
and they suddenly heard him exclaim, " Good bye, my
lads I I must leave you now." Upon which they instantly
turned round, and saw a bayonet placed across the trigger
of a musket, and the deceased's feet placed on either end
of it, and the muzzle of the piece pointed towards his
head. Before they had time to advance a step he dis
charged the musket by pressing the bayonet, and com-
pletely shivered his face and head to pieces. A portion
of his skull was forced through the window into the back
Lard, and his brains were scattered over the bed and wall.
l'he Jury, after hearing some further evidence to the same
effect-, returned a verdict—" That the deceased destroyed
himself while labouring under temporary derangement."
THE MOUNTAIN BONFIRES— TITHES.--
The numerous bonfires which blazed on every hill and
mountain, from the magnificent Slievenaman to Bagwell's
Folly, on the night of the 11th instant, were a mystery to
the authorities and to everybody else—but they are no
longer so--the following letter from our Multinahono
Correspondent tells " the why and wherefore :"—" A case
Involving the abominable and generally detested exaction
of tithes came on for trial on the 11th instant, at Tippe-
la" Quarter Sessions, before Mr. Howley, the Assistant
Barrister, at the suit of Bazil Bryan, Esq., for tithe sup-
Posed to be due out of the lands of Ballycullen, near Mul-
'
linahone and as a pro bone publico service, I beg to inform
you and
the community at large, that this odious charge,
under the new enactment, has been triumphantly and most
signally defeated, much to the dislike of Mr. B. ; on
which occasion_a the surrounding country from Slievenaman
r Bagwell's to well's Folly, has been emblazoned by
-cares, to commemorate the joyful and successful event
.tamely, the defeat of that detested exaction."— Tippe-
;wry Free Press.

Mr. WHITTLE must protest against the language
used by Mr. Ryder ; it was a contempt to the Chair
and good order, and tended to lower the Convention in
the ey, s of the country.—(Cheers.) The proper
course for Members of the Convention was to watch its
conduct and adhere to it as long as they could, and
when they had no confidence in it to withdraw. He
thought they ought to take no further notice of the
matter for the present, but to beg Mr. Ryder, for the
sake of his character and discretion, for the future to
observe the propriety of not interrupting the order of
debate by injurious aspersions on any Member or the
whole body.—(Cheers.)
Dr. FLETCHER said the question now was whether
the country was to be taught to look on the Con-
vention as rotten and contemptible. If so they had
better dissolve at once. Mr. O'Connor had alluded to
certain ironical cheers which were given when it was
said that the retirement of Mr. Ryder from the Conven-
tion, if he could show good cause, would be injurious.
Mr. O'Connor made use of the words " such a person,"
and it to that the ironical cheers applied, be-
cause it implied that there were superior persons.—
(Hear, hear.) He thought the whole of Mr. Ryder's
conduct had been calculated and was intended to bring
the Convention into contempt ; and he therefore thought

Mr. CARPENTER said lie had been told that the
Convention had no power to receive the resignation
of members, and therefore that the tendered resigna-
tion of Mr. Ryder went for nothing—that he was still
a member, and that the discussion was not as this
present position, but the propriety or impropriety of his
tendering his resignation yesterday, and attempting to
resume his seat this morning. He differed from every
member who had spoken on the subject. There never
had been a resolution passed by the Convention, affirm-
ing that it could not receive the resignation of members.
A resolution of that kind was proposed and negatived,
and that, in conjunction with the fact that the Convention
had previously received and entered the resignation of
members, must be conc:usive, that the Convention had
taken on itself the right of receiving resignations, enter-
ing them on the minutes, and acting on them.—(Hear.)
He took it, therefore, that Mr. Ryder was no longer a
member of their body, and that he could not again take
his seat, unless sent by a constituency. He should
bring forward a resolution declaratory of the fact, that
Mr. Ryder could not be considered a member of the
Convention, He (Mr. C.) did not feel at, all grieved
at what Mr. Ryder had said of the character of the
Convention. If anything could have given him pleasure it
would have been that Mr. Ryder should not have named
him as one of the eight, because he was thoroughly sa-
tisfied that there was nothing which would tend more
to raise a man in the estimation of all the honest and
right-thinking men of the country than to be denounced
by the men (and he did not mean to use the word as
personally offensive to Mr. Ryder), whose tool he had
been made in this Convention.—( Hear, hear.) It was
his opinion that Mr. Ryder had been made suchinstru-
ment, and he said this upon his public acts and uniform
conduct, and the conduct of the faction to which he be-
longed. When he saw a knot of individuals doing all
they could to bring the Convention into contempt—
(Hear, hear)—when he saw them acquiescing in mea-
sures here, and then denouncing them out of doors, was
he not right in denouncing them as endeavouring to
bring the Convention into contempt ? Mr. Ryder, and
those acting with him, had been parties to a plan for
the organization of London, for the formation of
Charter Associations throughout the Metropolis and
its vicinity. Why did they not oppose it in the Con-
vention ? Why did they become parties to it, and
then go out of doors and denounce the Convention as
unworthy the confidence of the country, because they
had adopted this among other plans ?—( Hear, hear.)
What was to be the end of this affair ? Would the Con-
vention allow a man to resign one day, and then come
back again the next for the purpose of raising these
personal discussions ? He believed this was one of the
steps which Mr. Ryder and his party were determined
to take to mar the plan of the Convention, and throw
it into confusion, in order that they might go back to
those parts of the country where they had succeeded by
their mad appeals to the passions of the people, and
almost goaded them into acts of violence, and justify
the course they had taken in denouncing the character

matter how charitable he was in the expressions he hid
used with regard to Mr. Ryder,inasmuch as the cha-
racter of Mr. Ryder's proceedings, which that gentle-
man had given them,
was not correct. Mr. Carpenter,
n
he must say, spoke acted on this occasion in a dif-
ferent mode from what e l had when the question of the
BirrningliamDele.ates ')nresignation was introduced, but he
O
supposed thisarose fromdifference in the circumstances
of the parties. lie thouehtat.
every means should be
exerted to keep the Convention together, instead of
the Members doing their utmost to create disunion. if
they wished to raise Mr. ltyd.r to tinfiat pinnacle of emi-
nence which the conduct
of sone
say,
Delegates did
imply that they did not, he would
reso-
lution.—( Let them give theiarys'apnacsos lnhitso this
vote of expulsion and send him forth to the country as
a martyr.—( fLar, and laughter.) Some of them might
laugh, but he would persist in saying that Mr. Ryder
would be looked on by his countrymen and fellow-work-
men as a sacrificed member.—(Hear, bear.) ' He had
no hesitation in saying that if this vote was ratified by the
Convention, Mr. Ryder would attain a pitch of eminence
which the promoters of this resolution did not imagine.—
( Laughter.) For the temperate manlier in which Mr.
Harney had replied to the insinuations made against
him he deserved the warmest approval of every friend of
dispassionate debate.—( Hear, hear.) By the bold,
manly, and independent manner in which he has called
for the production of the charges made against him, in
an underhand manner, he has inflicted on his accuser
the sharpest .rebuke. For himself; he thought that if
Mr. Harney had ever displayed one feeling in favour of
their cause above another it was zeal.—(Hear, bear.)
They were much mistaken if they thought they could
by their vote this day dispose of the question at issue :
they could not ; it only remained for the people to do
so, they alone had the power of dealing with their
Members.—(Hear, hear.) No man sat there at the
will or by authority of the Convention.—(Hear,
hear, hear.) They were assuming an authority which
even the House of Commons, bad as it was, never as-
-snmed•—( Hear.) Had Mr. Ryder defended himself ?
Wash not attempted to give judgment on him before he
has had time or opportunity to make his defence ? The
manner in which this debate has gone on would give a
person to understand any thing but the real question in
debate. Mr. O'Connor proceeded to argue against the as-
sumption of power sought to be maintained if the resolu-
tion would pass, and concluded by saying that if they
did so it would be an act of despotism, not the vindica-
tion of a principle. The Convention want to do that
which is out of their power.—(" Hear," anti ironical
cheers.) He did not care for their cheers, it was beyond
,the power of the Convention to deal with this question ;
their duties were confined to doing the people's bidding;
they were but a money Convention, and could not in
terfere with a subject that was to be dealt with only
by the people outside.—(Hear, hear.) He begged of
them not to do that which would rouse up the whole
country, for what would the people say, but that as they
were deserted there was little necessity for union on
their part.—(Hear.) Mr. O'Connor in sitting down
apologised for the warmth of his address, ell he
said was occasioned by the great interest he attached to
this question.
Mr. CARPENTER would not give up the right of ex-
pressing his opinion. Let him set Mr. O'Connor right
with regard to the course which he took on a similar
question, concerniug the resignation of the Birmingham
Delegates. On referring to the minute-book, he found
he had acted in a contrary manner to what Mr.
O'Connor stated. On that occasion he opposed Mr.

MOItAL INSANITY.—Some thirty years ago a
young lady, the only daughter of a noble house in the oorth
of Germany, from being one of the most cheerful girls be-
came subject to fits of the deepest melancholy. All the
entreaties of her parents were insufficient to draw from her
the reason of it ; to their affection she was cold, to their
caresses rude; and though society failed to enliven her,
she bore her part in it uith a power and venom of sarcasm
that were as strange to her former character as they were
unbecoming her rank and youth. The parents contrived,
during her temporary absence from home, to investigate
the contents of her writing-desk, but no indications of a
concealed or disappointed passion were to be found, and
it was equally clear that no papers had been removed.
The first 'news they heard of her was, that the house
in which she was visiting had been burnt to the ground;
that she had been saved with difficulty, though her
room was not in that part of the building where the fire
had commenced ; that her escape had at first been taken
for granted, and that when her door was burst open she
was found still dressed and seated in her usually melan-
choly attitude, her eyes fixed on the ground. She re-
turned home neither altered in mariner nor changed in de
meAnor, and as painfully brilliant in conversation when
forced into it. Within two months of her return the
house was burnt to the ground, and her mother perished
in the flames; she was again found in the same state as on
the former occasion ; suffered herself to be led away with.
out eagerness or resistance; did not alter her deportment
upon hearing the fate of her mother, made no attempt to
cons')le her father, and replied to the condolence of her
friends with a bitterness and scorn almost demoniacal. The
father and daughter removed to a spa for a change of
scene. On the night of their arrival the hotel was in flames ;
but this time the fire began in her apartment, for from her
window were the sparks first seen to issue, and again was
she found dressed, seated, and in a reverie. The hotel was
the property of ?he sovereign of the little state in which
the spa was situated. An investigation took place : she
was arrested, and at once confessed that on each of the
three occasions she had been the culprit : that she could
not tell wherefore, except that she had an irresistible long-
ing to set houses on fire. Each time site had striven against
it as long as she could, but was unable to withstand the
temptation; that this longing first supervened a few weeks
after she had been seized with a sudden depression of spi-
rits; that she felt a hatred to all the world, but had
strength to refrain from oaths and cerses against it. She
is at this moment in a madhouse, where she was first al-
lowed some liberty, but after an exhibition of homicidal
monomania towards a child, of a ferocity most appalling, it
was found necessary to apply the severest restraint. She
still possesses her memory, her reasoning powers, her petu-
lant wit, and observes the most scrupulous delicacy.—
Monthly Law Magazine.
THE ADVANTAGES OF LAW.—In the Insol-
vent Debtors' Court, on Tuesday, an insolvent named
Eastman was admitted to bail until his hearing. He had
been sued by an undertaker in one of the Superior Courts
for 31., which he alleged he did not owe; he pleaded a
verdict was obtained against him, and the law expenses of
the plaintiff were upwards of 231. I He was in prison at
his suit.