The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-21 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

Bellini's beautiful Opera, "La Sonnanzbula," in
which Miss Cooper, who was the Amina, sang the su-
perb music of the part with exquisite taste and feeling, was
last evening followed hy a new ballet-divertissement enti-
tled L'Amour, which was completely successful. The ad-
mirable dancing of Mademoiselle Pauline Guichard
and Monsieur Silvain, would have ensured the success
of a ballet of much less intrinsic merit. The tours de
force of Mons. Silvain are quite astonishing, while the
elegance of Mademoiselle Guiehard constitutes in-
deed " the poetry of motion." They were called for
at the fall of the curtain, and were greeted with the
hearty cheers of the audience. We cannot close this
notice without giving our meed of approbation to Miss
James, a little fairy thing, apparently not more than 10
years of age, but whose precision in dancing and elegance
of attitude, might serve as an example to many an older
votary of Terpischore.

The Charivari says M. Viennet, who only
heard of his nomination from his porter on a Friday on
his return from the country, is very angry at having been
made a Peer without his having been first asked, but
observes that his calamity is not to be wondered at as
it occurred 'on a Friday. As to the ill-natured turn
played him by his porter in saluting him with the title
of Peer with such eagerness, the Charivari can only
suppose that the porter owed a revenge for some piece
of malice which his master had practised, probably such
a thing as giving him an order for the play to see one
of his own tragedies.
The affairs of Spain seem settled. Don Carlos
has met in France with a touching hospitality. The
French gendarmerie have displayed an eagerness of
good company in receiving him. He has been requested
to select any town for his residence, with the assurance
that his demand would be gladly acceded to, provided
choice fell upon the town of Bourges.—Le Guepes.
Ma, BRADSIIAW'S SPEECH.—The Corpora-
tie n of 130blin on Friday last conferred the freedom of
th e city on Mr. Bradshaw, the Member for Canterbury,
in testimony of their approbation of the sentiments con-
tained in this speech ; and our Liberal Press here has
be a n profuse in their epithets of " Traitor"—" Treason"
Rebel"—" Rebellion" and so forth.—Dublin Even-
ingC:23Sl.o°NT. RAST IN RENTS.---A large manufactu-
rerback over his leases, found that land of his,
entire agricultural, which 79 years since paid 12s:
n r
ne aw le tkipay
141. Lord Howick states that rents have
risen 'within 60 years 400 per cent.—Bradford Ob-
server.•

RIOTS AT NEWPORT•

TREASONABLE SPEECHES AT THE
CHARTIST MEETINGS.

NEWPORT, TUESDAY, ELEVEN P.M.
The examinations to-day are of considerable import-
ance, as developing the organization and proceedings of
the Chartists for a considerable time. Etheridge is
committed for high treason, and Llewellin for sedition.
There are again rumours abroad of the turbulence of
the Chartists at Hermaine ; but I think it best not to
do more than merely mention the matter, unless any
authentic information should be received. Robert, the
Bath Chartist solicitor, was discharged this morning. I
have just learnt, by a return chaise from Bristol, that
" Jack the Fifer" has been taken in that city.

Samuel Etheridge was then charged with high treason
and sedition. _ _

The first witness called was Thomas Ady—l am a
special constable for the Borough of Newport, and
reside at Pillgwenlly. On Friday last, the 15th inst.,
I searched the prisoner's house, where I found various
manuscripts, copies of the Western Vindicator, and
other papers. I kept them in my own possession. On
Wednesday night I gave them to Mr. Phelps.
William Trueman Harford Phelps examined—l re-
ceived the papers which I now produce from the lust
witness. They have not been since out of my pos
session.

Mr. Phelps then produced the following paper :
" Let us form into sections by choosing a good, stanch,
indefatigable brother at the head of each section ; that
is to say, each section to be composed of ten men
who is known to him to be sincere, so that the head
of each section will know his own. Then five sec-
tions will compose fifty-five men, with others ; then
those five officers, such as corporals, will choose a
head officer over them, so that he may give his five
officers notice ; so those fifty men is to be called a
by-name. Then these fifty will compose a company,
and the three officers will choose a proper person to
command the 155 men in company, officers and all,
such as a captain. Then the three companies will
compose 495 men and officers, which officers will be
such as a brigade-general. So three brigades will
choose a chief, which will be 1,485 men and officers,
which chief officer is to be in the style of a conven-
tional general ; so by these means the signal of w—
r— can be given in two hours' notice, within seven
miles, by the head noticing every officer under him 'till
it comes to the deacons or corporals to notice ten men
—the officers to have by-names, not a military name, to
prevent the law."
" Gay Palace, Monmouth, June 22, 1839.

" Citizens and Brothers—Your letter arrived safe—
we have long expected a letter from you with general
information. We did not reply to your former ones,
because we did not think that you expected any. We
don't think of you as our friends at Newport (so called)
think of us, viz., out of sight, out of mind.' We
thank you for the books sent. ' Hudibras' was
taken away again by Mr. Dickinson. Have you had
it ? We are in tolerable health considering our apart-
ments ; and trust our foe Prothero and are in
pickle.
" Waiting your next, we remain faithfully yours,
" W. W. TOWNSEND,
" For Vincent and Co.
" Newspapers are rather scarce."
" The labourer toils and starves the more,
While tyrants are carousing ;
But, hark I I hear the lion's roar,
The British youth are rousing.
The rich are liable to pain,
The poor man feels the smart, Sir ;
But let us break the despot's chain,
We shall soon have the Charter.
I have seen the poplars flourish fast,
Where humble briars abound them—
I have seen them torn up by the blast
Of elements around them.
The lightning flashing through the sky,
The thunder loud roars after,
For to scorch the oppressors—why ?
Because they refuse the Charter.
Then rouse, my boys, and fight the foe,
Your arms are truth and reason ;
We will let the Whigs and Tories know
That union is not treason.
Ye Lords oppose us, if you can—
Your own down you seek after;
With or without you we will stand,
Until we gain the Charter."

" TO MR. ETHERIDGE, NEWPORT,MONMOUTHSHIRE.

" SIR—At a meeting of the Council of the Merthyr
Tydvil Working Men's Association, held April 23,
1839, it was unanimously resolved,' That the Secretary
be required to write to the different Associations in
Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, requesting them to
send a person to a Meeting to be held at the Queen's
Head, Sirhowy, on the 30th of April, for the purpose
of making arrangements for holding a grand demon-
stration in some central place, then and there to be
fixed upon, for the purpose of supporting the General
Convention of the Working Classes and other matters.
The meeting to take place at 12 o'clock in the forenoon.'
" By order of the Council,
" MORGAN WILLIAMS, Hon. Sec."

Walter Williams—l reside at Caerleon. 'Was in
Newport on the morning of the 4th of November.
know the prisoner. Samuel Etheridge was in his house
that morning at about half-past nine o'clock. Charles
Rogers was with me, and Gunter, of Caerleon. Before
I started from Caerleon I heard firing in the neighbour-
hood of Newport. I heard the prisoner say he had
been in the square of the Westgate, and he thought
Newport would be all his own within half an hour. He
did not say how it was to be taken.
John O'Dwyer sworn—l was in Newport on Mon-
day, the 4th of November. I know the prisoner at the
bar, and saw him that morning at Mr. Levy's shop,
immediately opposite Stow-hill. I cannot say whether
he had anything in his hand. He had no weapon, or I
should have observed it.—(The witness here described
the riot by the mob.) At the time they fired the pri-
soner could not have walked three hundred yards from
the house.

The prisoner said—Perhaps it might be thought that
I was connected with them, and that, by my being in
the town that morning, I had a knowledge of the Char-
tists coming, or their movements or intentions. I
came to town between eight and nine o'clock, for the
purpose of consulting Mrs. Dickinson about the time
that she or her daughter would go to Monmouth. The
crowd between Mr. Webber's and Mr. Loyd's was very
great. I did not see any of the Chartists coming
down Stow-hill, nor did I look in that direction. I
found all the shutters shut and doors too. I went to
Mrs. Dickinson's, knocked, and she came to me. Whilst
speaking with Mrs. Dickinson an armed mob came in
front of the Westgate. She asked me to come in, and I
refused, saying I would go home immediately. Before I
had left the door one minute the mob had made an
entry into the Westgate, and firing commenced imme-
diately. I passed the front of the Westgate and hur-
ried down Skinner-street with Mr. Bowen, and then
walked slowly towards home. I went to Carpenter's
Arms-lane, and stood in Napper's shop perhaps a minute
or two. Saw a man having the appearance of a car-
penter holding his arm, from which blood was running.
Had I known the intentions of the mob, or that they
had been coming, I should not have conic to town. 1
will next begin with the papers that were read. The
papers are not in my hand-writing. I allude to the
first you read about the sections. [The prisoner here
asked if he was required to prove how they came into
his possession ?]
Mr. Coles—You are to do as you think best. We
cannot give you advice how to act.

Prisoner-LI do not consider these things evidence
against me. The paper was put in my possession (the
one relating to the sections) by a person not now in
Newport. There are other papers connected with it,
which I believe to be in the handkerchief. They are
in the same handwriting, giving an account of the rise
of the rebellion in Ireland in 1798 ; and that paper
you have read connected with the others gives an ac-
count of the rise and progress of the rebellion in Ire-
land, which was intended at one time to have been pub-
lished. I have no knowledge of its having anything to
do whatever with the late movement. I have no need
to say anything more, I believe, except I may as well
say I have had it in my possession twelve months before
I had anything to do with the Chartists at all. I will
take Morgan Williams's letter next. The reason why
that letter was directed to me was, my being secretary
to the association in this town, which I was from
January last down to June. That accounts for the
letter being directed to me. The cards are next, I
believe. They are not in my handwriting ; they are
filled up for persons that do not receive them. The
figures on the hack I account for by casting up the
accounts in the book. The song was sent to me to
get printed, which I did not have done. The petition I
was employed to copy from the first that was in posses-
sion of the association, that was drawn up by a school-
master in Newport, but I don't know who. I was paid
for writing the petition that was written for Mr. Ed-
wards (I was to have been paid, I should have said),
who, in consequence of my upbraiding him for his
violent language, did not afterwards take it from me.
Walter Williams, a witness called here, states in his
evidence that I should say the Chartists would have
Newport in half an hour. I had left Newport then
more than an hour, and the Chartists had run away in
all directions. Since the latter end of June, or begin-
ning of July, I have not written, acted, or done any-
thing whatever connected with the Chartists. I have
attended the room, I believe, three times. I did not
see or hear anything that would lead one to think such
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and sedition.
John Llewellin was charged with high treason and
worn.—l am a labourer, and live at
sedition.
I know the prisoner John Llewellin. I
have johantteldagedgss
Pontnewynydd.
meetings at his house at the first going

off. I belonged to the Working Men's Association. It
is more than twelve months since I first belonged to it.
The prisoner was a member ;be was treasurer. We
paid so much a meeting—id. a night as a contribution.
We paid 3d. on admission, and received a card, but I
have not got it. It was printed, and had on it, " An-
nual Parliaments and no property qualification." A
man named Davis acted as secretary to the association.
The prisoner was there when I paid the money. I have
heard him address the members at the meetings. I
cannot tell the words, but the subject was universal suf-
frage, and that we had no secret to know each other by.
Heard nothing said about the Charter. Never heard of
the Chartist Association while I was there. Have said
that I heard J. Llewellin say we must stick up for the
rights of the Charter. Have heard him say that.
Prisoner—That man is a false swearer.
Mr. Coles—You will have an opportunity of speaking
by and by.
Examination resumed—Members were admitted to
the association by ballot. Saw a box there, and had some-
thing given me to put into it.—(A ballot-box was here
produced and the witness said it was a box like that).
When we were balloting for a member we had a four-
square tin given us. Tbat was for the person to come
in. The other piece was three-square, and that was
against the person.—(The pieces of tin were here pro
duced.)—.l remember attending a public meeting in
James Llewellin's house. It was a Chartist meeting.
This meeting was held on New Year's Day. I cannot
judge how many people were there. There might have
been 700 or 800, or more. John Llewellin was there.
I continued a member of this society, I should think,
seven or eight months, or more. After this I gave up,
because I did not see that it would come to any effect
to do any good.
Cross-examined by the prisoner—Heard you say we
must stick up for the Charter in your house. The money
was paid at the meeting, and you received it at the
close. When a new member came in that was one penny
contribution, threepence entrance, and one penny the
card. Frost was elected delegate for Newport, Pon-
typool, and Caerleon.
David Jones, examined by Mr. Phelps—l know the
prisoner John Llewellin ; he keeps a beer-shop. On
the 11th January last I attended a meeting. I was in-
duced to attend, seeing placards about the town con-
vening the meeting to consider of the Charter,:which was
to be submitted for approval and adoption. I should
suppose from 700 to 1,000 attended it. The prisoner
was there. I can't exactly say at what time the meeting
commenced. There was a procession before it of the
members of this association, which came into the town
at about one o'clock. There was a band before it and
a banner. I saw on these " Universal Suffrage,"
" Vote by Ballot," and other things that they usually
advocate. The prisoner was on the hustings at the
time, and I heard him propose Frost as a delegate to
the National Convention for Pontypool, and I believe
he said he had been elected for Newport and Caerleon.
I made a memorandum of the proceedings of the
meeting. I made it within an hour of the meeting. I
took part of Frost's speech down at the hustings. [The
witness here, by direction of the Court, produced his
notes.] My reason for attending the meeting was, I
had attended one before at Palace-yard, London ; and
thinking them a dangerous sort of people, I came to see
what they were about.
Mr. Phillips—Be good enough to read your me-
moranda.

The witness did so as follows :—This Ist of January
I attended a meeting convened by printed placards at
Pontnewynydd, in this parish, held for the purpose of
passing the People's Charter, and electing a representa-
tive delegate to the National Convention, to be sent in
conjunction with Newport and Caerleon. After parad-
ing the town with a band and banners, the speakers and
association arrived on the ground at one o'clock. The
meeting was held in the open air. The speakers were
accommodated on temporary hustings, erected for the
purpose. A man by the name of Edwards was called
upon to preside, who, it appears, is a master baker
at Newport. After the usual introduction and two
or three speeches had been delivered, a gentleman
was introduced to the meeting as John Frost, Esq.,
a Magistrate for the borough of Newport. Frost
said, " The Privy Council, of the number of about
130, receive more of your money in pensions and
other ways than the whole amount of the direct taxes
paid by the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, and
Brecon, and receive 630,0001. sterling annually between
130 of them. A very pretty thing !" At another part
of his speech he said, " Now, just look at the Queen's
household. She has an income of 500,000/. annually of
your money, besides carriages, servants, and palaces.
Besides she has twelve Lords in the bedchamber. Now,
what would any of you say if your wife or your sister
had twelve great strapping chaps about their bedcham-
ber? I think you'd beready to discard your sister or
look out for another wife. I know I should. And
each of these fellows receives a thousand a year." Again
he said—" And this is not all—she (the Queen) has
twelve grooms in the bedchamber—ay, twelve grooms
to the bedchamber. Now, if any of you hear of a
gentleman hiring a groom, you know that that
gentleman wants him to clean his horses ; but whatever
these fellows do for the Queen I cannot tell you." All
this was received with cheers and great applause.
Vincent said" he was ready to suffer death or imprison-
ment in the cause of the Charter." He said the House
of Commons was a long room, with'a chap at one end of
it with a bag wig on, singing out " Order, order, order,"
with a lot of fellows sitting round, some drunk and some
asleep ; and, on the whole, they were a lot of drunkards.
gamblers, money-grinders, and tyrants—that the meet-
ing must join the people of the north, and send the
Members about their business, and so have a new House
of Commons. He said the Members of the House of
Commons ware fools, and enemies, of the working man,
and that, some fine morning, the people would rise and
send the Members to the right-about ; and would not
the men of Wales assist the men of England in corn-
pslling them to pass the Charter ? The people in York-
shire, Lancashire, London, and Bristol, Bath, Trow-
bridge, and Newport, were determined to have the
Charter, and they would crush the tyrants with
one blow. He said " the soldiers would not fire
upon the Chartists ; and if the soldiers came agains
them they would put the women in front of the
ranks, and then the soldiers would not fire upon
the women, and that half the soldiers would turn over
to the Chartists. The working classes produced all
wealth, and they ought to have their share of that wealth.
The people had been kept down long enough, for the
working men had the shopkeepers on them, and on the
shopkeepers were the farmers, and on the farmers were
the parsons, and the lawyers on the parsons, and the par-
sons on the army, on the lawyers, and the Government;
on the army and the Government there was a pretty
little bauble ; that the people of England had all joined
together, and now the people of Wales would make a
long leap, and stretch it across the Channel, and the
English would join the Welsh, and then they would
wriggle and twist about (accompanying that with a
lt ihtot lee wb
ahuab I eweraet atbhoeve
totphemw,
motion as he spoke it) till down would come
e them e
down pretty
would come
too, and thus they should all be equal, and
have equal rights and equal property." I cannot say
positively whether Mr. Edwards said anything. I heard
him say he had a strong arm. The prisoner was present
during the time of speaking. The hustings were twelve
feet square, and he was not off the hustings at all. I
heard him propose Frost as a delegate, after he had
made that speech. I understood the word " bauble" to
refer to the Queen, and so did every one there that I
spoke to. I attended the Chartist meetings on the sth,
20th, and 24th of April last. That of the sth was held
at the King's Head, Pontypool, for which I paid 2d.
to join. The King's Head is kept by John Probyn.
On the 20th and 24th there were public meetings in
Craven-street, in an open space called Newbold-field.
Edwards and Jones, and the prisoner, were at the
two last meetings. I saw the prisoner out in the
road both times, and I heard him cheer the speakers
repeatedly. I recollect Edwards saying at the meeting
of the sth of April, at which the prisoner was pre-
sent, that " he had 4,000 able fellows like himself at
Blackwood, that he could call together by a blow
of his horn to support the cause if required." He said
that " every Whig and Tory ought to have a tenpenny
nail drove through his b.—. heart into a platform."
He said " his hearers were like the children of Israel in
Egypt, and that he was Moses, and their masters were
the Egyptians, and as the Israelites had despoiled their
oppressors, so would they." I saw a procession on the
26th of May--a large number of persons at Blackwood.
I saw the prisoner there. In August I saw a proces-
sion going to Duke's Town. They started from Lle-
wellin's house, and he was amongst them. I should
suppose there were about 600 or 800 in the procession
on the 26th of May. In August I think I counted
130 ; they marched three deep. One of the men I saw
fall in was Shell, whom I saw dead here since the riot,
and another whom I was told was George Ashman.
These meetings created great alarm in the towns and
country. On the 6th of May all the shops were closed,
and all the Special Constables called out of their busi-
ness. I believe there were 1,500 Special Constables
sworn in.

Cross•examined.—l am quite certain that it was
equal property that was said, and not equal laws. In
my opinion the meetings would have led to disturbances
if it had not been for the vigilance of the authorities.
James Emery sworn.—l live at Pontypool, and am
a cabinet-maker. I know the prisooer. I was a mem-
ber of a Chartist Society, meeting at Jones's, the
watchmaker,
in Pontypool. I attended a meeting at
the prisoner's house on the 29th of October, the
Tuesday before the riots. The prisoner was present,
and the room was full.

John Roberts am superintendent of police
for the parish of Trevethire. I know the prisoner. He
is a housekeeper in that parish. I know of Working
Men's Associations or Chartist Clubs being held at his
house. The prisoner has told me he is a Chartist.
The Magistrates,
in one thousand five hundred special constables. I know
that a person called Morgan Emanuel proceeded against
in Consequence of those meetings, swore
the prisoner for the expense of erecting the hustings.
The Magistrates made him pay 1/. and costs. Saw
bills offering a reward for his apprehension. I searched

the prisoner's house. I found in the house the ballot-
box which I produce, some portraits of Chartist leaders,
Frost and Stephens, in engravings of the National Con-
vention, and two banners, one bearing the inscription
" Universal Liberty" the other the eye of Providence.
I also found several Numbers of the Jrestern Vindicator
and the Champion.
Mr. Phelps here said there were other witnesses, but
they were not present, and therefore if the Court had
any doubt upon the minor charge of sedition he would
ask them to remand the prisoner,
Mr. Coles—Let us hear his defence.

The prisoner then spoke as follows :—With respect
to these public meetings which I am charged with be-
ing held in my house, and with myself attending at
other places, it is not my intention to deny, for they
all have been public, and no secret at all is encouraged
in those meetings, so far as I have understood. If I had
found out any secrets I should have immediately aban-
doned them. It appears to me to-night that I was chiefly
to blame, owing to the exertions of those associations.
I was only one single individual myself, and with respect
to that meeting held on the Ist of January, 1839, it was
not I who ca led it. It was not held on my premises.
Evan Emanuel, the turner, you just spoke of, he hired
the field where the meeting was held, of James Bevan,
of Pontypool, and he came and asked me if he should
erect part of the hustings against nay wall, which was
in this field ? I certainly gave him liberty, so that no
injury was done to the wall. He erected the hustings
himself, so I did not consider that meetings of those
kinds were illegal. None ever told me that they were.
Two months or a little more previous to that Lord
John Russell, Secretary of State, said at a public
dinner at Liverpool, that public meetings were not only
lawful but commendable, for by public discussion he
thought was the best means to elicit truth. Upon these
considerations, myself, with many others, thought these
meetings were perfectly legal, so under such considera-
tion, I thought we were perfectly right in attending those
meetings. If any one had told me that these meetings
must be stopped, or put down I certainly would
have been the first to stop it ; but with respect to the
language described by the witness here to-night as hav-
ing been used in those meetings, I abhor it, but at the
same time I do not believe that one-half of it is correct
as stated by the witness. I have always advocated
peaceable means lawfully and constitutionally. I have
always rejected, or despised, or abhorred any appearance
of violence. I advocated the case of the Radical on
this subject in the Charter by means of praying and pe-
titioning, peacefully and lawfully, the Legislature, and
no step further would I go with them, or any man
or set of men in the world. Now, concerning the
delegate John Frost, as the chosen delegate for
Pontypool district, I was the person appointed to
name him, and another person to second him. Mr Frost
was not chosen as delegate for Pontypool in conjunction
with Newport and Caerleon ; he was delegated from
here and from Caerleon some months before he was
chosen for Pontypool. I dare say chief part of the
gentlemen here have known of that body of men called
the Convention ; we named it a committee to watch
the presentation of the National Petition in the House
of Commons. Now, concerning this committee, I be-
lieve, as far as I can understand, of forty-nine in num-
ber, it is perfectly legal. The subscriptions that have
been collected amongst the associations have been to
pay so much a week to the members to support them
while they were there, and the association in that neigh-
bourhood contributed for Mr. Frost till the National
Petition was presented, and I believe there has been
none since paid him to my knowledge. Now, perhaps, I
might state a few words with respect to my situation in
Pontypool. I have had notice to quit my house half a year,
and the time is now just up, and I have not been able to
obtain any place to suit me since I had the notice. I
was informed about three weeks since that I might get
a place to suit me at Aberdare, so I went to see if I
could, and also looked at Merthyr Tydvil. I could not
obtain one, either at Merthyr or Aberdare, at the time
I wanted it. I went to Ilwane, and stayed three or
four days, and was in prospect of having a place there,
but could not get it to suit my purpose ; consequently
1 went on, intending to go to my own country native
home, to see if I could get suited there, for I had made
up my mind to leave Pontypool. I shall reserve what
else I have to say for my trial.
The Magistrates having consulted, considered there
was sufficient evidence to justify them in committing the
prisoner on the charge of sedition.

The Court rose a little before nine o'clock.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Standard never was more mistaken than when it
charges us with a disposition to drag the Queen
Dowager unnecessarily before the public—" If Queen
Adelaide," says our Contemporary, "is popular, as
indeed she is, and will be, while Englishmen honour
virtue, her's is the popularity which follows, not that
which is run after ; for it is impossible to show that her
Majesty has canvassed for it otherwise than by the
graceful exercise in comparative retirement of every vir-
tue that can adorn a woman's character." Whether the
Queen Dowager exercises her virtues gracefully or un-
gracefully is a matter into which we should never
think of inquiring. She derived whatever import-
ance she once possessed exclusively from the situation
she filled ; and, though the people of England bore no
goodwill towards her during the Reform struggles, from
a belief that her influence was exercised against their
interests, yet, believing her influence at an end on the
accession of Queen Victoria, they wished to forget
her. But the Queen Dowager seems determined that
the people shall not continue in a state of indifference
towards her. She is at no pains to conceal the un-
charitable sentiments she entertains with regard to
her Royal Mistress. During her recent absence,
her great delight in the societies in which she
mingled was to indulge in ill-natured criticisms on the
Queen. When she was at Lisbon, for instance, the
decrying Queen Victoria was her favourite theme. At
the Duke of Palmella's she took every opportunity of
sneering at her Majesty, whose most innecent gratifica-
tions were tortured into charges against her. Among
other grounds of dissatisfaction with the Queen, was her
visiting Drury-lane Theatre and the Opera. In the
true Mrs. Candour style the Queen Dowager observed
that she was not aware whether her Majesty was a fre-
quent attender of Church, but it could not be doubted
she was a frequent attender of the theatre ; and the
enjoyment of an opera on a Saturday night was not,
perhaps, the best preparation for Sunday devotions.
Her conversation ran so much in this vein, that it
gave considerable annoyance to those on whom she
inflicted her visitations. In fact, it was evident that
the Queen Dowager, while running down her So-
vereign, had her own supposed virtues constantly
in her eye. Retirement becomes the position and
the age of the Queen Dowager ; but who, that had
not laid aside the charity that best becomes a Chris-
tian, would think of making the tastes and inclina-
tions of a lady verging towards fifty, and who has run
her career, the rule for a young Queen entering
on life, with all the freshness of feeling natural to her
age ? George 111., who is the eternal theme of Tory
eulogy, had a strong relish for the theatre, even at an
advanced age, and was a great admirer of actresses, like
Miss Duncan, more remarkable for the exuberance of
their animal spirits than their gracefulness. Yet, who
ever thought of reproaching George 111. with the plea-
sure he derived from the theatre?
We should never have thought of noticing these
ebullitions of the Queen Dowager did we
not see
her bent on mischief. She is evidently delighted with
the opportunity which the Tories have afforded her, of
acting a part which she thinks may annoy her Royal
Mistress. She mikes a parade of her Tory predilec-
tions, and of her hatred of all who support the Go-
vernment of the Queen. She parades herself through
the country, and seems anxious to shew her Queen
how much higher she stands with the Tories than her
Mistress.

But Queen Adelaide is mistaken in quitting the
" graceful exercise" of her virtues in retirement, to be-
come the puppet of a faction. The Tories used her
merely as an instrument for annoying the Queen, under
an impression that by playing off the Dowager against
the reigning Sovereign, they might mortify and intimi-
date the latter. They are prepared to cast off Queen
Adelaide at a moment's notice, if the Sovereign would
only put herself in their hands. Queen Adelaide, like
too many of the party whose views she seeks to pro-
mote, may sneer at the exercise of virtue for the sake
of its own reward ; but she will assuredly reap nothing
but future mortification from the part she is now acting.
Let her take warning in time.

THE LATE FIRE IN WIDEGATE-ALLEY.--
Yesterday afternoon at four o'clock the adjourned Co-
roner's Inquest upon the bodies of the eight persons
destroyed by the above fire, was resumed before Mr.
Payne. The Coroner read the principal points of the
evidence to the Jury, and they returned the following
verdict :—" We find that the deaths of Peter Flood,
Mary Flood, his wife, John Flood, Mary Flood, and
Margaret Flood, his children, Daniel M'Carthy, James
Hennessey, and Harriet Hennessey were caused by a
fire the origin of which is unknown.

About two years ago a gentleman, whilst bathing
at Prior's Haven, Tynemouth, lost from his finger a
valuable gold ring, and, as a matter of course, considered
it as for ever gone ; but no, fortune would not have it
so ; last week a girl who was seeking coals near Clif-
ford's Fort discovered the identical ring with the owner's
name engraved thereon, and immediately restored it.
What renders this more strange is, that it had been
washed round a projecting point of rocks, and thence
about a mile into the harbour of Shields.—Northern
Times.

The Dumfries Courier says, " We are enabled
to state, although not on the authority of Mr. Ewart,
that he intends to become a candidate for the honour of
representing the Dumfries District of Burghs, in the
event of a dissolution and the retirement of General
Sharpe, of Hoddam Castle. Mr. Ewart's talents and
principles are well known, and most Liberals will con-
gratulate themselves on the prospect of securing his
services."