The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-21 00:00:00

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COLONEL KENNEDY.—The organ of the Irish Orangemen
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following solution of the Colonel's somewhat strange conduct:
(says the Mail of Monday) is the conduct of the Irish Govern-
ment with respect to Captain Gleeson of Carlow notoriety.
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state nee
d was an open and contumacious refusal to obey
the orders of his superior officer. Colonel Kennedy
conceives that the observance of discipline and due subor-
din ition requires the dismissal of this man from the
The Government contents itself with a slight
service.
rebuke, dignified even into approbation by embracing the of-
fended superior officer in the same, and inflicting on the of-
fender a punishment infinitely less severe than on the itnot specify
of-
fended: Captain Gleeson having been removed only to
another part of the county—Captain Vignoles to a distant
and desolate region on the south-western coast. Colonel
the Government determines onretention. No alternative
Kennedy calls for the dismissal
hisot the insubordinate officer_
remains but the resignation of that very head of the constabu-
lary force, on whose character and principles the country
implicitly relied against the abuse of the arbitrary and de-
-pldeisumpoisnsaili,imr,atahneirt—woof
spotic powers with which the force is invested ; and Captain
Gleeson has the triumph of boasting in the club-rooms
would
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of Carlow (as we are authentically informed he does) that he
but for his (Captain Gleeson's) superior interest
dsig;onattria°llln
THE QUEEN V. FARRELL—In this case, which excited con-
siderable t,ectich)
siderable interest, it being the same in which applications have
has procur:,hdot
beea made to the Court of Exchequer on the part of the
Crown, more than once during the last year, and opposed by
the Conservative party, the jury, after being shut up for se-
veral hours, intimated there was no likelihood of their agree-
ing, and they were duly discharged.
Our correspondent, who dates his communication from
Clonmel, March 17, says .
" I have just heard that nine are for a conviction, and the
other three as steadfastly determined to acquit."
This trial occupied nearly the whole day.

The following deplorable event is stated by the
Droit K
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alastunmonatthldaltovßelialla, in Silesia.—
Baronlong time had kept up a criminal intercourse w‘-vitihfe,Mwho for a
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woef, a young Advocate of the Superior Tribunal of Breslau.
Mme. Kcenigsvogel was, notwithstanding her own infidelity,
extremely jealous of her husband. The Baron, who was not
ignorant of this circumstance, wrote a letter and signed it
with the name of a female, purporting that the person who
wrote the letter would visit him at nine o'clock that evening.
He took care that this letter should fall into his wife's hands,
who did not scruple to open it. The Baron went into his
wife's apartment,
kindness whichto h waser
,orpeptoi
retiring sit to his
rly
own, and behaved
w
under
pretext
having an engagement. At half-pant eight the Baroness,
armed with a knife, placed herself in a window between the
two apartments. At the appointed hour a tall fine-looking
aodf
female came up stairs, and was proceeding towards the Baron's
door, as if she knew the house well, when the Baroness sprung
upon her and stabbed her in the breast ; she uttered a cry and
fell. The Baron and his servants hastened to the spot; and,
to their surprise, found bathed in his blood M. Hundswoef, the
advocate. A surgeon and an agent of police were sent for :
the former declared the wound not mortal, and the latter pul
the Baroness under arrest. It appeared that the Baron had
thewife.The
Baroness
beyconfessedcriminalsentencedtenintercourse,years' matter _
tinemeat in the House of Correction at I3ialla. The Baron
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MR. OwEN.-\Ve see by the Scotsman, that
this well-known philanthropist is about to deliver a course of
Six Lectures in the Waterloo Room, Edinburgh, illustrative
of his system, The proceeds of his lectures are to be given
In e• aid of the soup-kitchens,

COURT CIRCULAR.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Ala-

jesty.
The following joined the Royal circle at dinner yesterday :
The Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Earl of
Ilchester.

The Countess of Durham and Lady
.11arrizA Clive have
succeeded the Countess of Charlemont and the Hon. Mrs.
George Campbell as the Lady in Waiting and the Bedchamber
Woman in Waiting on her Majesty. Lord Byron and the
Hon. Mr. C. Murray have succeeded the Earl of Fingal and
Sir Frederick Stovin as the Lord and Groom in Waiting en
the Queen.

The Earl of Durham and Lord Hill had interviews with
Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Don Manuel D'Aguilar, the Spanish Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Earl of Durham's first Aide-dc-Camp, Captain Con-
roy, of the Coldstrea:n Guards, left town yesterday, to em-
bark at Portsmouth for New York.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Duke of Dorset, in Harley-street, from Draighton
House, Northamptonshire; Colonel Kennedy, from the Con-
tinent; Lord Crewe, from ditto ; the Count de Salis, from
Paris ; the Hon. Twistleton Fiennes, in Grosvenor-street,
from Brighton ; Colonel and Mrs. Montagu, at Montagu
House, Portman-square, from ditto ; Lord Charles Paulet,
from Stetesbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon; the Rev. John and
Lady Cecil Delafield, in Bryanstone-square, from Lord Lime-
rick's seat, Southill-park, Berks ; the Countess de Alontalem-
bort, in Chapel-street, Park-lane; Right Hon. Tennyson
D'Eyncourt, in Park-street, from Baynes Manor, Lincoln-
shire ; Major Ormsby Gore, in Portland-place, from Porking-
ton, Shropshire ; Rev. J. Byng, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street,
from Bedfordshire; Mr. Hambro', at ditto, from Paris.
DEPARTURES.

Mrs. Currie, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street for Brighton ;
Hon. and Rev. H. Powys and the Hon. Mrs. Powys, from
ditto, for Wimbledon ; C. Craven, Esq., from ditto, for
Dublin.

Her Majesty the Queen, at the instance of the royal
and noble Directors of the Ancient Concert, has been gra-
ciously pleased to grant her royal licence and permission that
this concert shall in future be denominated " The Queen's
Concert of Ancient Music."

Lord Arthur Lennox, M.P., who is a Captain in
the 71st regiment, will proceed to join the forces in Canada
during the ensuing month. Lady Arthur Lennox, Lady Ha-
milton, Mrs. Daniels, and several other ladies of the officers
ordered abroad, will embark at the same time.

Among the earliest presentations at this year's draw-
ing-rooms it is said will be the Lady Adelaide Fitzclarence,
eldest daughter of the Earl of Munster, now in her eighteenth
year ; and the beautiful daughter of the Earl of Jersey, Lady
Sarah Villiers, is also named as a debutante, although unusu-
ally young for a presentation. From the extreme youth of her
Majesty many fair belles of distinguished families are to be in-
troduced into the gay world earlier than has been the case
heretofore; an emancipation which will bring much spirit to
the dances at Almack's.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Capua were visited yesterday at Mivart's Hotel by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. In the afternoon the
Prince gave an audience to Viscount Palmerston. Among
the most distinguished of their Royal Highnesses' visiters
yesterday were his Grace the Duke of Wellington, Marquis
and Marchioness of Salisbury, Countess of Tankerville, Count
and Countess Sebastiani, Count Philip de Chabot, Count
Janson, Count Ludolph, Viscountess Keith, Lord and Lady
Cowley, Hon. Miss Wellesley, Baron Gersdorff, the Dean of
Carlisle, &c. It is generally thought that the recent differences
between the Prince and his Royal brother, the King of Na-
ples, have been amicably arranged.
The venerable Earl of Mount Edgecumbe arrived
yesterday at Mivart's Hotel in excellent health.
The Speaker's Second Levee will be held on Satur-
day next, the 24th inst.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will
give a grand dinner on Saturday next at Cholmondeley House.
The Countess de Salis has issued cards for a
splendid ball at her mansion in Carlton House-terrace, on the
3d of April. .

The Earl and Countess of Rosebery will give a
splendid entertainment to her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester and a distinguished party, at their mansion, in Pic-.
cadilly, on the 4th of next month.

The friends of Mr. Maurice O'Connell in Tralee
illuminated their windows on hearing the Committee had re-
stored him to his seat for that town.

Mr. O'Connell's proposition for the settlement of
the tithe que3tion is viewed by all parties in this country
much more favourably than any plan hitherto suggested.—
Limerick Chronicle.

B. Hall, Esq., M.P., of Llanover, has received a
communication from Lord John Russell, stating that her Ma-
jesty is graciously pleased to become the Patroness of the
Society for the publication of Ancient Welch MSS. —Merlin.
_ _

Lord Arundel, on Monday, took the oath in the
House of Lords, prescribed by the Act 10 Gco. IV., to be
taken by Peers professing the Roman Catholic religion.
Lord Brougham's rival Bill to that of Lord Glenelg
is entitled " An Act for putting an end to the Apprenticeship
of those who were formerly Slaves in the British Colonies."

The following Members paired off in favour of
Colonel Scale's motion:—E. R. Rice with Colonel Trench,
Lord James'Stuart with Gaily Knight, Sir J. Carnac with
Colonel Powell, Sir R. Ferguson with Rice Trevor, Mr.
Wrightson with Mr. Sanford.
The Colonelcy of the 31st Foot has become vacant
by the death of Lieut.-General Sir Edward Barnes. The
regiment being in India, it is double the value of one on the
home establishment.
BRIGHTON, MARCH 20.—There is no foundation
for the rumour that the Duke of Devonshire has offered to lend
his mansion at Kemptown to the Queen Dowager, who is not
expected here. The Earl of Wilton arrived express from
Wilton yesterday, in consequence of the melancholy demise of
his eldest daughter, Lady Mary Grey Egerton, who expired on
Sunday, in her 11th year.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury and
Lord Charles Bruce are expected to arrive in town, from Italy,
the first weelc-in May.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn intend
to make the tour of Italy previous to their return home.
Early in May, in company with their noble relatives the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford and Lady Georgians Russell, they
will leave Nice for Naples.
Captain Octavius Vernon Harcourt, son of the
Archbishop of York, and his bride, late Mrs. Danby, of
Honiton Park, Yorkshire, have been passing the honeymoon at
St. Leonard's Hill, near Windsor, the beautiful seat of the
Marquis de Harcourt.
MAIDSTONE, MARCH 21.—(From a Correspon-
dent,)—Yesterday the Mayor issued his precept for the eke.
tion to take place at the Town-hall on Monday next. In the
evening I attended a meeting of some of the independent free-
me❑ of the borough (so said the placards) at the Fountain
Inn, consisting chiefly of the working classes ; when a resolu-
tion was drawn up, to the effect, that should any gentleman of
liberal principles tender his services, the meeting pledged
themselves to a man to support him by their vote and influence.
The paper was signed by about 70 persons, and the Chairman
said he would get 150 more in the course of the day. It is
rumoured this morning that a Mr. Alford, an American
merchant in the City, is coming down this evening—a gentle-
man whose political pretensions are in unison with the wishes
of the liberal Maidstonites. Should that be so, unless some
heavy arrears are paid, and the spiders commence their dirty
work again, there is no doubt but that he will " make his
calling and election sure."

SMOKING ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHES-
TER RAILWAY.—The Directors of this railway have passed a
bye-law against smoking tobacco in or upon any coach,
waggon, or other carriage used upon the railway, or in or
upon any of the stations—under which bye-law, the penalty
of 40s. is recoverable for every such offence.—Manchester
Gnat dian.

In the courst, of the argument of a case in the House
of Lords on Monday, Lord Brougham asked how it was that
the case had been so very long pending in the Courts in Scot-
land? He was answered, that a fire had happened and had
destroyed all the papers, by which a very long delay had been
occasioned. Lord Brougham—l hope that assistance was
promptly rendered at the fire. It has been said that at a re-
cent fire the crowd absolutely refused assistance when it was
believed that four lawyers were in the fire.—(A laugh.) The
Attorney-General—l hope that assistance would have been
promptly rendered if :t was known that the Attorney-Gene-
ral was in danger.—(Laughter.) Lord Brougham—Eh 1
Why, your name was mentioned as one of the four.--(Much
laughter.)
Yesterday evening, between six and seven o'clock,
an accident occurred in Drury-lane to the carriage of the
Duke of Brunswick, by which his Royal Highness had a
narrow escape. It appears that the coachman was driving
along Drury-lane at a rapid rate (the carriage pavement be-
ing broken up in various places by laying down gas-pipes),
when the horses dashed forward, and the wheels of the car-
riage coming in contact with those of a waggon, the collision
drove the horses into one of the holes, and both of them fell ;
the carriage at the moment was overturned. His Royal
Highness, observing the danger, opened the carriage door
and leaped out of the chariot into the road, and fortunately
escaped without any injury. The horses, with assistance,
were extricated.

From a statement published in the Moniteur it ap-
pears that in 1837 the promotions in the army amounted to
1,875—viz., 17 Generals, 48 in the staff-corps, 1,130 in the
infantry, 303 in the cavalry, 209 in the artillery, 4 in the wag-
gon train, 94 in the engineers, and 70 in the gendarmerie.
On Friday evening last a tee-total meeting was held
in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Fulstow, near Louth, the
Rev. J. M. Holt, vicar, in the chair. The vicar opened the
meeting, which was afterwards addressed by Messrs. North,
Smith, Priestley, Miller, and others. Previous to the assem-
bling of the meeting, the hospitable vicar invited three or
four drunkards to take tea with him, and afterwards several to
supper.—Lincoln Gazette.
BREAD.—The four pound loaf, best 'mad, was
raised, at Edinburgh, on Monday last, to 81d. for ready money
(or if paid within a month), and 9d. credit. Flour, 3s. per
stone ; bran, Bd. per stone.

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CORRESPONDENCE BE
EARL OF WINCHILSEA AND MIT
-.31v
To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRdNtUte'rk,r
SIR-May I request that you will bare the kindness to in-
sert in your paper of to-morrow the enclosed correspondence.
I must bog to refer you to your paper of the 2d for the •ques-
tions and answers alluded to.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient, humble Servant,
WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM.
.), Hill-street, March 20, 1838.

16, Pall-mall, London, March 5, 1838.
"MY Loan—l cannot bring myself for one moment to
doubt that your Lordship will receive this letter in the spirit
of courtesy in which I write it, and that you will do me the
act of justice which I respectfully solicit from your Lordship
precisely as you would desire to have a similar justice done
to yourself under similar circumstances, should they be appli-
cable to you.
" The grounds, my Lord, upon which I ask this act of jus-
tice are these : the Lord Bishop cf Exeter is reported by
the newspapers, and in particular in the Morning Post and
Morning Chronicle, to have quoted you, my Lord, as his
authority for attributing to me opinions and assertions the
exactitude of which I mean publicly to deny ; but being con-
vinced either that the newspapers misunderstood the Right
Rev. Prelate, or that some person has misinformed your Lord-
ship, I solicit at your hands a reply to the two questions
which I beg leave to address to you on the subject. I think
I have a right, in point of justice to such reply ; but I prefer
seeking it as an act of courtesy.
" The first question is, whether your Lordship ever quoted
the questions and answers specified by the Right Rev. Prelate,
or, I should rather say, alleged by the newspapers to have
been specified by him?
The second question is, if the fact be answered affirma-
tively, upon what authority did you, my Lord, quote them ?
" In order to save your Lordship any trouble in searching
for the matter which has given rise to these questions, I beg
leave to enclose that portion of the Morning Chronicle of the
2d inst. which contains the supposed introductory words of the
Right Rev. Prelate, and the queries and replies of the intro-
duction of which I complain.
" I think it my duty to add. that until I read the News-
pipers of the 2d inst., I never heard of such questions and
replies that I remember.
" It is right also that I should add, that I am not inquiring
into anything that was said or done in the House of Lords. I
appeal solely to the newspaper statements, and my enquiries
arc limited exclusively to the documents set out in these
newspapers, purporting to be an examination I underwent.
I solicit information merely as to whether that document
was represented to your Lordship as genuine, and if so,
by whom and in what manner. This is my object in writing
to your Lordship.

:‘ Confiding to your courtesy for as speedy a reply as may
suit your perfect convenience,
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your very obedient humble servant,

“DANIEL O'CONNELL.”

" The Earl of Winchilsea."

" Eastwell-park, March 6, 1838.
" SIR,—I hasten to reply to your letter, whicii has just
reached me. In answer to the first question which you have
put, to me, whether 1 have ever quoted the questions and
answers lately specified by the Bishop of Exeter in the House
of Lords ?' the extracts of which you have enclosed to me, I
beg to inform you that I certainly have, upon different occa-
sions, both in the House of Lords and elsewhere, publicly
quoted them.
"In answer to your second question, Upon what authority
I quoted them ?' I have only to reply, that I reed them in the
House of Lords out of a newspaper, in which they had been
inserted, stating, at the same time, as they had received no
contradiction from you, that I conceived them to be authentic ;

if in this conclusion 1 find myself mistaken, I have only to add
that I shall be ready to acknowledge it.
" I cannot bring back to my recollection positively at what
time, and in what paper, the quotatiour appeared, but I think
either in the Morning Post or New Times, and that they were
founded on the evidence given by you about the year 1825 on
the subject of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient humble servant,
" WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM.
" Daniel O'Connell, Esq."

" 16, Pall-mall, March 17, 1838.
" IZy Lord—l am bound to acknowledge thankfully the
promptitude and distinctness of the reply to my two questions.
" I owe it to myself, and I think I also owe it to you, my
Lord, to state that although I had no doubt that the pretended
extract of any evidence which you found in the newspapers
mentioned by your Lordship was a mere fabrication by the
writers of those newspapers; yet I have taken the trouble of
reading over the entire of my evidence before both Houses of
Parliament, and I now solemnly pledge myself that the pas-
sage quoted by you is totally unfounded, and that no evidence
of mine could warrant the publication of that passage as ge..
nuine. You have, therefore, Ido assure you, my Lord, been
deceived by the newspapers you quote ; and perhaps you would
permit me to say that my leaving the deception uncontradicted
would be no proof of its truth, as I have little inclination, and
less time, to contradict the multitudinous false charges daily
published in the newspapers against me.
" i readily offer your Lordship to authenticate or to con-
tradict any matter attributed to me of which you should desire
to make public use, if you give yourself the trouble of a pre-
vious inquiry from rne.
" Again, my Lord, thanking you for your satisfactory reply,
I have the honour to be, my Lord, your very obedient humble
servant, " DANIEL O'CONNEL.

" The Earl of Winchilsea."

" 2, Hill-street, March 19, 1838.
" SIR-I was on the point of writing to you ►wen your
letter reached me, to inform you that after a considerable
s-areli, I have discovered that the extracts of evidence reported
to hive been given by you before the Parliamentary Committee
in 1825, were inserted in the Standard newspaper of the sth
of February, 1833, accompanying the leading article of that
day.
" I have since carefully perused the evidence given by you
before the Committees of both Houses in that year, and I am
bound in justice to you to state, that the opinions attributed to
you in the extracts referred to, are not in any way borne out
by the sentiments you then expressed.
" I have only to express to you my sincere regret that I
have in any way been instrumental in misrepresenting any
part of the evidence which you gave before the Committee
in 1825.

" I shall be ready to make you the only reparation in my
power, by placing you right before the public on this point,
in any way most gratifying to your own feelings, either
by contradicting it in my place in the [louse of Lords,
or by publishing the correspondence Ns hid' has passed be-
tween us.

" I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble
servant,

" WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM.
" Daniel O'Connell, Esq."

" 16, Pall-mall, March 19, 1838.
" Lotto,--I am bound to say, and I say it cheerfully,
that nothing can be more candid or handsome than your Lord-
ship's conduct on the subject of the fictitious extract from my
evidence in 1825. I thtrefore accept your offer of the publi-
cation of our correspondence on the subject.
" I cannot conclude without once more tendering to your
Lordship the expression of my thankfulness.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord, your obedient bumble
servant,

" DANIEL O'CONNELL.

" The Earl of Winebilsea."

Count d'Aglie is expected in town from the Conti-
nent to resume leis diplomatic functions at the Court of St.
James's.

THE PETITION FOR A CHARTER OF INCOR-
PORATIoN FOR MANCHESTER.—AS we announced on Satur-
day, signatures to the petition to the Privy Council for a
Charter of Incorporation for the borough of Manchester
were attached up to two o'clock on that day, when the sheets
were collected and united, forming, with two columns of sig-
natures and two of residences on each sheet, a petition nearly
one hundred yards in length, and containing " eleven thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one" signatures. The gentlemen
appointed as a deputation to present the petition were Mr.
William Neild, the late senior constable of Manchester, and
who would now have been the boroughreevo but for his pe-
remptory refusal to accept the ()nice, and Mr. Richard Cob-
den. The latter gentleman proceeded to London by railway
on Saturday evening, and he was joined in town by Mr.
Neild on Monday evening. We believe the petition was
signed in London by George William Wood, Esq., M. P. ;
Richard Potter, Esq., M. P. ; and Mark Philips, Esq., M. P. ;
and that it was subsequently placed in the Privy Council
Office, there being some little doubt as to the day when the
next Privy Council would be held. The petition is nearly ono
hundred yards in length, and is, we should suppose, the most
numerously signed, considered in relation to the population,
of any that has yet been presented to the Privy Council, for a
Charter of Incorporation. That from Birmingham was
Signed by about 4,400 individuals, out of a population of pro-
bably upwards of 150,000 ; in 1831 it was under 147,000,
while the petition from Manchester is signed by 11,831 per-
sons, out of a population of probably 200,000 ; for in 1831, it
was exactly 187,022. The population of the borough of Bir-
mingham is to that of the borough of Manchester, as 3 to 4,
while the signatures to the petition from Birmingham were, in
proportion to those attached to the Manchester petition, only
as 1 to Since then, we have hoard that the Birmingham
petition was subsequently augmented in numbers, and ulti-
mately reached nearly 8,000 signatures. The Parliamentary
borough of Manchester comprises the following townships ;
and wo have attached the total population of each in 1831, and
the total male population of each, including childrea:—
Total Males.
Manchester
Chorlton-on-Medlock • . 20,569 9,304
Hulme
Ardwick
Newton 4,377 2,112
Cheatham 4,025 1,820
Harpurhey
Beswick
166
Bradford

Totals
Deducting children, and those who neither occupy houses nor
pay rates within the borough, it will be tolerably obvious, that
the petition from the householders and ratepayers cf Manches-
ter has been signed by a considerable majority of those classes
of the community.—Manchester Guardian.

11/4 publication of THE SIIN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.