The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE REPIONIAND !-The Trade's Political Union, and the
metropolitan parish of St. Mary's, have met, and recorded
their thanks to Mr. O'Connell for his conduct during the late
trying occasion, when attacked by the Tory party for giving
free expression to his opinions on the defective mode of trying
petitions on controverted elections.

Petitions to Parliament also have been adopted against the
present mode of trying controverted elections.
A requisition for calling a public meeting of the citizens of
Cork, also for the purpose of preparing an address of congra-
tulation to Mr. O'Connell, is in the course of signature at the
Chamber of Commerce. There is no doubt the meeting will
be numerously and respectably attended, as there can be but
one opinion on the foul efforts made by the Committees of the
House of Commons to defeat the honest expression of the
public voice in the choice of our Representatives, and to rob
the electors of their rights in this quarter of the empire.
Such meetings are likely to become general in Ireland.
A MAN INDICTED INSTEAD OF A MARE.-An illustration
of the manner in which our criminal calendars aro most scan-
dalously swelled, was given at the present assizes of West-
meath. The foreman of the grand jury came down, and
stated to the Court that a bill of indictment had come
before them, charging a prisoner with having maliciously
killed a foal, the property of a neighbour, while it ap-
peared, from the testimony of the witnesses, that the ani-
mal was killed by a kick which it bad received from the
prisoner's mare. Believing that the prosecutor was en-
deavouring to compromise the charge—and repudiating
the monstrous idea that any magistrate, with the true state
of the case before him, would have doomed an unoffending man
to the felon's cell, the informations were sent for, and upon the
face of these the true nature of the fact was found distinctly set
forth I A mare killed a foal by a kick—for this informations
were sworn before a magistrate, not against the mare (in that
the ludicrous would not have been an outrage upon justice)—
but against the owner of the animal—his committal is duly
made out by a man holding the magisterial commission—
he is consigned to goal, an incarcerated for three weeks,
kept from his business and family, and degraded as a felon—
and when the real nature of the case is discovered, the unfor-
tunate man is left to the questionable remedy of a suit at law.
The matter thus brought to light is at once illustrative of
the efficiency of the great unpaid, and of the extent to which
the criminal calendars are loaded with mock or trivial cases.
—Pilot.

latstt
Poott LAW BILL—The Archbishop of Tuam, has
again addressed an argumentative letter to Lord John Russell,
pointing out the pernicious tendencies of the Ministerial
measure. The Dublin Faceman, in which Journal it appears,
observes in relation to the Bill—" Our own opinion is, that
before the measure is six months in operation the whole coun-
try will be in arms against it."

STATES GENERAL OF HOLLAND.

NEW FINANCIAL PROJECTS.

THE HAGUE, FEB. 28.—The second Chamber of the
States-General met to-day, when the preliminary business
being got through, four Royal messages were presented,
accompanying four projects of law, with their respective
explanatory memorials :-
1. Modification in the law of the 12th of March, 1818,
respecting the practice of medicine.
2. The means of providing for the entire payment of the
interest of the debts for 1838; the payments to be made by
the Colonial Treasury (4,200,000 florins each half). These
payments to be in form of a loan, to be repaid in the sequel
(both principal and interest) to the Colonial Treasury. The
funds to be provided by a debt to the amount of 8,500,000
florins, on account of the Colonies, either in coupons of
Losrenten at five per cent. interest from the Ist of April,
1838, or guaranteed on the posting of the law of the 11th of
March, 1837.

3. The extraordinary expenses of the navy, 700,000 florins;
of the army, 9,387,700 florins. These expenses will be co-
vered without having recourse to additional taxes by means of
the surplus of the sums voted for other purposes.
4. An emission of Losrenten, on a part of the sum charged
to the colonies to advance money for works of public utility.
This project of law proposes that the capital of 30 millions,
which constitutes the portion not yet issued of the said debt,
placed to the account of the colonies, is for the expenses of an
iron railroad from Amsterdam to Arnheim, by way of Utrecht,
with a branch from Rotterdam to Utrecht, and for embanking
and draining the Lake of Haarlem, and for the expenses of the
public works.
A royal resolution was afterwards communicated respecting
the accession of the grand duchy of Hesse to the treaty for
the navigation of the Rhine.
'We learn that his Majesty's frigate Bellona, with Prince
William Frederic Henry on board, had arrived at Singapore,
who negotiated
and sailed on the llth October through the Straits of Malacca
for Calcutta.
Messrs.Dehuffr
thesß Navigationochsen of the Rhine,,
with
ht is
Prussiasaid that
t thet
Convention for
are to go again to Berlin to negotiate a commercial treaty
with Prussia.
In consequence of the objections made by the sections of the
Second Chamber to the project of law brought forward in
December, last year, relative to a modification of the duties
on importation, exportation, and transit, the Government has
sent an amended project to the Chamber.

NEW MONTHLY IVIACA7,INE FOR
COLBURN'S
Alm F,
teu. om ro BY Mri EODORE OOK, Eso._in
the pre-
sent number of this amusing periodical, the contributors, who
include some of the ablest arid most popular writers of the day,
have put forth their best powers, and have produced a feast
of' wit sufficient to have created a high reputation for a dozen
magazines in times past. Theodore liook, Douglas Jerrold,
CaPtain Marryat, J.
B. Buckstone, John Poole, the author
of "Paul Pry
"—all wits of sparkling water—figure most bril-
liantly in these pages;
while Miss Landon furnishes poetical
strains worthy a name already so celebrated for immortal song.
In addition to the " Gurney Papers," the following will cause
many a mouth to expand in wreathed smiles or hearty laugh-
ter:—Consolatory Address to Mr. Murphy.-_A Discourse on
Bores—Historical Recollections of Major Gahagan—Baron
Geramb's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem—the " Genteel" Pigeons
—the Young Philanthropist and the Old Brute; while
Letters from Ireland—the American Indian, &c. will supply
the reflective with another kind of amusement.—Bath Herald.
PUBLIC PETITIONS.—The eleventh report of the
Select Committee on public petitions was issued on Friday.
From that document it appears that the number of petitions
presented to the House of Commons from the 21st of Sep-
tember,lB37, to the 23d of February, 1838, on the following
s übjects, was—For the Balkt 321 petitions, with 169,090 sig.
natures; against it, four petitions, with 1,310 signatures. For
an Extension of the Suffrage (generally), four petitions, with
1,288 signatures ; Household Suffrage, four petitions, 9,878
signatures; Universal Suffrage, seven petitions, 2,031 signa-
tures; Repeal of the Septennial Act, one petition, 726 signa-
tures ; against further endowments to the Church of Scotland,
10 petitions, 5,701 signatures ; for the abolition of Church-
rates, two petitions, 75 signatures ; for the abolition of Irish
Tithes, 15 petitions, 7,728 signatures ; against altering the
system, one petition, 124 signatures ; for the aboliton of Negro
Apprenticeship, 200 petitions, 71,346 signatures; for the re-
peal of the Corn Laws, 10 petitions, 8,347 signature.; on the
subject of Postage, 66 petitions, 4,845 signatures ; for a Na-
tional System of Education, 16 petitions, 36,277 signatures ;
in favour of the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill, 26 petitions,
13,615 signatures; against it, four petitions, 12 signatures.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE.—On Wednesday morning
last, as widow Clayton was proceeding from her house, about
three in the morning, to assist in washing, she was laid hold
of by two fellows in smoekfrocks, who stripped off her clothes,
pulled her ear-rings from her ears (which were at the time
torn), took her wedding-ring from her finger, put a strap
round her ancle, dragged her to the wash-dike of Mr. Agar's
,kin yard, and threw her in and left her, supposing, as they
said, she was " done for." Managing, however, to creep out,
she again met the ruffians, who threw her into the ditch a
second time. After lying some time, she again crept out,
and alarmed a person of the name of Clark, in the neigh,
bourhood, who conducted her home to bed, where she has since
lain in a very poor state. Unfortunately, at present, the fellows
are wiltnown.—Lincohi Gazette.
LORD STANLEY.—We are glad to learn that Lord
Stanley, who has been suffering from indisposition brought on
by cold, and not from the serious causes assigned by some of
our contemperaties, is now convalescent, and that it is not de-
oidedlY improbable that he will be able to attend the forth-
coming AsSize3 at Lancaster. We believe the Noble Lord's
illness arose from a severe cold, caught by him while Opt shpo,
ing— a sport of which, as is generallv-,knnWri4 4tt Is almost pas-
siontov fondi—,,pre,spri orooick:
on 140,11 day last the Duke of Wellington was 11LIP4
in a very critical situation in his way to join t 4 Ylne hounds.
The horse; tly ill§ grace 0440 from sortie unknown
cauSgi 41114 proKedod at all alarming pace nearly two miles
before they kvere stopped. His Grace coolly kept his seat,
and the servant clambered from the dickey, over the roof of
the cabriolet, to assist him, but most providentially no a,celdenc
occtn:red!—pegclinq itifercurp‘

SEVERN NAVIGATION COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—A short letter appeared in your excellent paper a
little time ago on this Bill, now soon to go before Parliament
a second time ; and as the Company has now to contend
against a most vexatious, and I may say unnatural opposition,
it is my wish just to let you into the real state of the case, not
elaborately, but in a concise manner. " Severn Naviga-
tion Company" was formed into such two }ears ago, for
public, not private, benefit, with a large and sufficient capital,
and a Bill sent before Parliament the Session previous to
the present. It was thrown out on the second reading, in the
shameful manner represented in the letter above alluded to.
It is admitted, even by the opponents to this measure, that
the river wants improvement. The Gloucester people care
not about it, as they now receive merchandize transhipped in
smaller craft, and forwarded to Worcestershire, Staffordshire,
Shropshire, &c. &c. Now, Sir, the city of Worcester and
its people, being close to the great manufacturing districts,
wish naturally to participate in the benefits of being placed on
so fine a river as the Severn ; and to have the full benefits
thereof, the river must be put into a better state by art, in
order to assist its natural utility for the purposes of trade and
commerce : the Gloucester people say, " You shall not do so,"
because, forsooth, the river in its present state suits them, and
the improving it may injure the it local trade ; we will by interest
swamp the Bill on its second reading, by wrong and false re-
presentations to Members of Parliament, for if we allow it to
go to Committee we must be beat on the true merits (f the Bill.
This was the case last Session, and the Company lost 12,000/.
This Session the Company have to contend with the Bir-
mingham Canal Company, who are urged on by their last
year's opponents—the Gloucester people. The Canal Com-
pany's opposition is of the same selfish stamp. They say you
shall not carry the trade beyond the mouth of cur Canal,
(which is about half a mile below the city of Worcester); for
if you do, our selfish views will not be answered, for we wish to
keep the trade from going further into the interior of the
kingdom, as if it should, other Canals will participate in the
benefits of the trade. Now the Bristol people may say, on
the same ground, that converting Gloucester, as it has been,
into a maritime place was injurious to them ; but would it not
be selfish and ridiculous in us to oppose Gloucester if she has
the means to accomplish such a desirable object? Gloucester
was therefore made a maritime port. The Bristol people now
sag—Surely this is a very unnatural and vexatious opposition,
for we know that great damage is sustained in the river in
its present state, and that it is capable of such improvements
as will be beneficial to our trade and commerce. We want
to employ a better and more substantial class of vessels, that
will go with safety across the Bristol Channel in all weathers,
and proceed direct up the Severn to Worcester and the im-
mediate vicinity of the great manufacturing districts of Wor-
cestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, and the
North of England, enabling us thereby to obta'n back freights
of salt, pottery, iron, hardware, &c. &c., with much greater
facility than we now can. These, Sir, arc a cow of the facts
of this case, which you, as a journalist of such an extensive
circulation, ought not to be unaquainted with.
I am, Sir,
A FRIEND TO ALL ADMITTED AND REAL
IMPROVEMENTS.
Worcester, Feb. 26, 1838.

RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF MAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—Allow me a few words of explanation in reference
to a softly severe notice of " the Religious History of Man,"
in your paper of the 17th.
The tone of that paragraph may lead such of your readers
as have not seen the volume to fancy that it is what is com-
monly called a pious book, the good intent of which should
cover its argumentative sins. Now, like the young lady who
objected to be called a virtuoso as a slur on her character, I
cannot allow my book to be called a pious book ; nor ought
its intention to shelter it from criticism, but the very reverse.
I directed a copy of it to be sent to you, not expecting cer-
tainly that the main arguments of it could be grappled with in
a newspaper paragraph ; but hoping that perhaps some of the
curious and startling facts, such as those regarding the
hieroglyphical language of the firmament, and the extensive
worship paid to The Sun at the time it was " incorporated
with the True Sun," might have elicited something
worth reading in the way of correction or elucidation—
and you send me in return a sugared plum about
piety 1 I have already compared myself to a young
lady, and you may have mistaken me for an old one,
but lam like Cuddie's mother. I have " got my leg
over the harrows ; and, the deil's in the wife for I will not
whisht." lam little solicitous of the opinions of the Press,
regarding either the piety or the composition of the volume,
but I am anxious that the nature of " the testimony it uplifts"
should be distinctly known. Permit me then to state to your
readers that the scope of " the Religious History of Man" is to
demonstrate that the pathways of Providence from the creation
to the present time, and the history and prospects of the human
race, are mystified and darkened by the popular as well as
philosophic opinions of the age—opinions as opposed to com-
mon sense as they are to Scripture. The gauntlet is thrown
down; and I am glad to see, from the contradictory opinions
of the book, daily issuing from the Press, that the subjects
discussed in it will soon force themselves on the notice of those
with whom it will be honour to " wrestle a fall."
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, Feb. 24, 1838. D. MORISON.

PETITIONS RESPECTING THE

CATHOLICS.

TO THE EDI7'OI? OF THE SUN.
SlR—Holding the same liberal principles which you so firmly
and so powerfully advocate, and agreeing in your wishes that
the Constitution of this country, improved by salutary reforms
wherever needful, should be preserved in security, I cannot
doubt your cordial approval, and your effective recommenda-
tion of, the measure, which I am about to lay before the
public through the channel of your excellent paper.
No reasonable man could expect that the House of Com-
mons would pay regard to the defective and partial petition
presented by Mr. Plumptre—a petition so manifestly defec-
tive in provisions for the attainment of its general object—and
no less manifestly partial, as looking solely to Protestant in-
terests, without any solicitude for corresponding advantages to
our Catholic brethren. Your motto and mine, Mr. Editor
in all legislation on such subjects would be, "security to the
Protestant, benefit to the Catholic." I therefore propose
that without loss of time, petitions should be presented to each
branch of the Legislature from every county, city, town, and
populous village in these kingdoms, earnestly praying that an
Act of Parliament be immediately passed, con aining substan-
tially the following enactments, in each of which all men must
see that the principles of our motto arc fully developed and
carried into execution :

1. That no Catholic be capable of having a seat in either
House of Parliament. Our Catholic brethren would thus be
relieved from onerous services for an unthankful public ; from
the troubles, the collisions, and the expenoes of contested olec-
(ions ; and from the loss of health by nightly attendance in the
corrupted atmosphere of the Douse of Commons.

2. That, as Protestant Members of Parliament elected by
Catholic influence must be politically classed with Catholics,
no Catholic, nor relative, connection, tenant, or dependent of
a Catholic, be capable of voting at any election of any Mem-
ber of Parliament whatever. All Catholics will thus be ex-
empted from the fear and danger so harrassing to their Pro-
testant fellow subjects, of offending superiors, of losing farms,
or of forfeiting custom or employment ; and will not need the
protection of the Ballot.
3. That no Catholic be capable of bolding any office in the
state, nor any municipal, or other office of trust or authority,
nor any commission in the army or in the navy. Catholics
would thus also be set free from unpleasant competitions,
from injurious interruptions in their private concerns, and from
the peril of wounds, loss of limbs, and of life, in campaigns
and battles by land and sea.
4. That, as property is the great source of undue influence,
Parliamentary Commissioners be appointed and empowered
to ascertain the property, real and personal, of each individual
Catholic in Great Britain and Ireland, above the rank of ar-
tisans, and to make reductions thereof by sale or otherwise,
not exceeding one half thereof, unless the remainder would
exceed three thousand pounds a-year, in which ease it is to be
reduced to that sum ; all such reductions to go to the Conso-
lidated Fund, and to be employed in the diminution of the
public taxes. Our Catholic brethren would share the ad-
vantage of diminished taxation, and would also be delivered
from the cares and temptations of inordinate wealth.
.. That Commissioners be appointed, and empowered in
each county, to enquire into the annual gains of all Catholics
above the rank of a day labourer from their several profes-
sions, trades, or occupations, and to appropiate yearly one
half thereof to the reduction of the county rates, the improve-
ment of roads and bridges, and other publio works within the
county, In the benefit and convenienoo of all these reductions
and improvements, our Cetholic brethren will be, as under the
preceding enactment, partakers.
6. That, as no State can rightly permit the diffusion of error,
no Catholic be allowed to act as tutor, teacher, or instructor
In any line whatever, in any school, seminary, or private
family. Catholics will thus be relieved from the drudgery of
trying to manage unmanageable youth, and to drive knowledge
into Impenetrable heads.
7. That, as it is the duty of Catholics to give a good educa-
tion to their children, and the State is bound to ensure the per-
formance of it; every Catholic shall be required to send each
of his children, male or female, before the child shall have
completed its seventh year (the poor to be enabled by a rate
on the wealthier Catholics) to some Catholic country beyond
the seas, the selection of the country being left to the free
choice of the parent, that the children may there be properly
eduoated. Catholics would thus have the comfort of securing
the education of thele offspring in the Catholic faith, at a safPe
distance from Protestant expositions and intrusion.
d. As it would be highly detrimental to the public welfare
to have a continual influx into these kingdoms of persons
trained in foreign habits, opinions, views, prepossessions, and
predilections, no child sent abroad as above shall ever be per-
mitted to return at any future time into any part of the British
Empire in Europe. Cethelles will thus rejoice in the cer-
tainty of their children fixing themselves permanently among
Catholics, amidst the predominance of Catholic instittitioes
a'
cei;;ltvies severally endeesed to them by
ass,m andc in the
ation
g.
youthful
uilifsaualgle ly; t4e. PetitlAners will naturally add, " As we should
be most unwilling to be compelled even to contemplate in
4houglit any harsh proceeding towards our Catholic brethren,
we would at present hope that the above mutuelly beneficial
measures, enforced by suitable penAltiee, and vigilantly exe-
ceted, may be sufficient to prevent the evils necessarily to be

44 AO dour Petitioners shall es er pray," &c.z.

1'

CLASSICAL EVENING CONC

The Third and last Concert of this Series (Wind Instru-
L ments) took place yesterday evening at the Hanover-square
; Rooms. The Concert was announced in the programme as
being under the immediate patronage of his Royal Highness
thc Duke of Cambridge, who was present in the Royal Gal..
icry on the occasion, and appeared much delighted. The
room, although on the two former nights it had been but thinly
• attended, was on the closing night most inconveniently
crowded. A more delicious treat to those amateur s who are
partial to the rich combinations of wind instruments, and who
are willing to sacrifice a little in the way of variety to the en..
joyment of such combinations, cannot be imagined than these
Concerts have been. On the present occasion the several
compositions were played with an equal degree of skill to that
displayed on the former nights, and the selection was equally
excellent. The First Part comprised a quintett of Reicher,
arid a sextuor of Onslow. The quintett was one in F„
No. 6, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, per.
formed by Messrs. Sedlatzek, Barret, Willman, Puzzi,
and Baumann. It was throughout played in most mace
terly style, and showed off the several instruments
'tyed,
great advantage, particularly the horn and oboe, bh in
regard to the beauty of tone with which they weae
played,
and the ability with which the difficulties and imperfections of
those instruments were overcome. The sextuor of Onslow
was for pianoforte, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and double.
bass, played by .11-ssre. E. Schultz, Sedlatzek,
Willm-
Puzzi, Baumann, and Dragonetti. It is throughout a clever com-
position, containing a good deal of very pretty melody an
air
with variations, in which the several instrument; had brilliant
and characteristic solo parts, was much admired. The
pianoforte was played by Mr. E. Schultz in first-rate style,
exhibiting a fine taste and great rapidity of fingering. 'lle
first part of the concert contained, in addition to the pieces
mentioned, Mozart's " Dove sono," by Miss Thompson, a
pupil of the Revel Academy ; a romance, " Doh Perdona,"
by Sigrer Ca3tellan, with an obligato horn part, by Signor
Tozer I and a song from \Vcber's Preeiosa, sung by Mlle. Oa-
tergsa d, and accompanied on the flute by Mr. Sedlatzck, \Ve
c nnot prase: either of these affairs very highly in regard to
the singing. Miss Thompson is a promising young debutante,
avid sang tsith much taste and feeling, but the quality
of her voice is not of the best. Signor Castellan is a coarse
singer, and had it not been for the horn accompaniment of
Puzzi the song would have been a very flat affair. The
young German lady's voice is very poor, and she possesses. no
particular excellence that we could discover, to comeeensate
for the deficiency. Of the eecoad part, the ccoaimencing
piece was Mozart's spleadid Aria from Clemeeiza da Tito,
" Parto ma to ben se o" sung by Miss WoodlArn, and accom-
panied on the .larinet by Mr. Willman. The song was too
much for this young lady. The lower notes of her voice are
rich and melodious, and the portion of the composition con_
fined to this part of her compass was well executed, but in
the upper passages she failed utterly ; they were neither
distinctly articulated nor correctly in tune. Willman's
clarinet accompaniment was superb. Another quire.
tett of Reicher, for the instruments already mentioned,
followed. It was the one in B flat, which had been played at
these concerts before, and was now repeated by " express do-.
sire." The excessively difficult passages for the horn, were
on this occasion executed by Puzzi, in most masteely style,
without a single failure, and excited admiration combined with
astonishment. \Ve noticed that in several passages of the
horn, echoed by the bassoon, the latter instrument played them
in a totally different style, both of tongueing and expression.
The horn-player, however, was in the right, and it would not
be amiss for the performer on the bassoon to take a lesson or
two from him. Webbe's " Mansion of Peace" was next
sung by Mr. J. Parry, in a very inoffensive, peaceable style.
It is a heavy affair, and we arc surprised at its introduction,
particularly at the fag end of the evening. Mr. Parry's voice
is of fine quality, but he wants energy. The programme an-
nounced a Nonnet of Thrommer, as the terminating piece of
the concert, but owing to sonic mistake about the copies it
was compulsorily omitted, and a Rondo, from one of the
Quintetts, substituted in its stead. \Ve should state that Sir
George Smart presided at the pianoforte, and accompanied
the vocal music with his usual tact and skill. It is, in our
opinion, much to be regretted that these concerts are at an
end. They were entirely out of the beaten track, and we are
certain, from their intrinsic excellence, that when they had
become generally known in the musical world, they would
have been appreciated and patronised to the full extent of
their merits.

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