The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE S UN.

Sta,—A Correspondent frOm Hanover maintains in your
Paper of the 14th instant " there never yet was an instance
of a Sovereign's ascending the throne in a state of blindness."
But that is untrue, and since, as far as I know, nobody has
contradicted it hitherto, I do so myself, and hope the reader
will be pleased by being informed of an interesting historical
fact :

Colomanus, King of Hungary, after having defeated his
brother, the Duke Almus, who had repeatedly contended
with him for the supremacy, anxious to secure to his only son,
Stephanus, tL succession to the throne, contrived to muti-
late his ambitious rival ; and in the year A.D., 1113, com-
manded the unhappy Prince with his only son, Bela, to be
deprived of their sight and imprisoned in a cloister, which in
better times had been erected at the expense of Almus himself.
Colomanus died A.D. 1115, when his son, Stcphanus Se-
cundus, ascended the throne, who, in the year 1127 became
dangerously ill, not having a descendant ; therefore some of
the Magnates desired a sister's son of the King, to be heir of
the Crown, whilst others .aspired themselves to the throne.
But the King recovered for that time, and punished the 'for-
ward pretenders severely. En the meantime, overjoyed at the
news that his blind cousin, Bela, was still alive, Stephanus
solemnly declared him the successor, and, immediately endow-
ing with the province of Tolna, did join him in a wedlock.
In the year 1131 Stephanus died, and Bela she Blind
was proclaimed King of Hungary, and reigned till 1141, nine
years and eleven months, when he died. His descendants
reigned two centuries. The following sketch of his character
is literally translated from " Pray Annales Regum Hun-
garim"

" For the loss of sight, of which he (Bela) was deprived by
the violence of Colomanus, he admirably compensated by
prudence, firmneas, and zeal for religion, which he has exerted
in the administration of the public affairs; and he might be
ranked amongst the most excellent, Kings, had he not fallen
a victim to the vice of intemperance, which, despicable for it.
self, is most unbecoming in a King."
London, September 25, 1838. NT (a Hungarian).
T H

E COAL DUTY.-NEW ROYAL
EXCHANGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stß,—Your successful exposure of the Coal monopoly on a
recent occasion, and of its oppressive nature, along with the
port-duties, on the London public, induces me to hope that
you will give publicity to a measure designed t) add still
farther to these burdens.

It will he recollected how decidedly public opinion was op-
posed to Sir Mathew Wood's propose, to defray the expense
of certain metropolitan improvements by an additional duty
upon coals ; but in spite of public discontent repeatedly ex-
pressed through the medium of your and other metropolitan
Journals, the city authorities have obtained through the aid of
Government, an Act of Parliament to raise a sum of 150,0001.
upon the credit of one item of the Coal duty, for the purpose
of improving the approaches to, and the site of, the Royal
Exchange. _ _ _

A fund was raised by a duty of 4d. per ton upon Coals, to
improve the approaches to London Bridge, and this fund it is
calculated will be sufficient to defray all the charges upon it
by 1858. It would then have been discontinued, and the
public burdens would have been proportionally eased, but the
Act in question continues the impost for a farther period to
raise the sum of 150,0001., which sum may, probably, be
doubled by the interest on the annuities which the authorities
arefempowered to issue, and other charges which may be most
conveniently saddled upon the Coal duty.
I think, Sir, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is very much
to blame in th;s matter, for the readiness with which he has
conceded power to the City authorities to tax the community
in an article so essential to health and comfort as Coals. The
manner in which this Act was obtained, was calculated to dis-
arm public suspicion, and to suspend vigilance. It did not
come in the shape of a demand for an extra duty upon
Coals, although in fact it is so. It did not propose to tax
any new commodity, for this would have created alarm and
opposition. The public were entirely off their guard, and
for Government to agree to the measure under all these circum-
stances was highly objectionable.
But whether the money is to be raised by a tax upon Coals,
or on any other article, the justice of such a step is questionable.
Why should the inhabitants of Marylebone, St. Pancras,
Islington, Mile End, and other populous districts around the
metropolis, be compelled to contribute to the expenses of im-
provements which ought wholly to be defrayed by the Corpo-
ration of London? It is their property that will be improved
—and their own funds should be employed on the improve-
ment. How little will the thousands pent up in alleys and
narrow dirty streets in the suburbs benefit by improvements
raised at the expense of their labour, and health, and com-
forts? Of what advantage is a Royal Exchange to nine.
tenths of the million and a half of individuals in and about
London who are taxed in their Coals? To the London
Corporation it is most disgraceful to have obtained such an
Act for such a purpose. A body that expends tens of thou-
sands upon a civic feast, ought to shrink from the meanness,
the despicable littleness of raising a sum of money which must
come principally from the earnings of poverty—from hard, un-
remitting toil 1
London, Sept. 25. J K.

I remain, &c.

THE PENTATEUCH, &c.—GEONOMY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—It is on no inerudite ground I shall take my stand,
being thus described by " The Translators of tl.e BIBLE :"---
" Out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with compar-
ing of the labours, both in our own, and foreign Languages,
of many worthy rnen"—" one more exact Translation of the
Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue." At the same
time I am aware that a revision of this version might be autho-
rised by our Queen ; and should bail the undertaking as a
further check to interpolators, especially if each of the Mother
Languages, "
Britanniar.," shared the wholesome benefit of a
living interpretation.
This exact Translation informs us that IN ONE INSTANT--
" In the beginning"—creation was entire, which physical
nature is termed " the heaven and the earth." And here the
respective disciples of Leibnitz, of Buckland, Curler, and the
pre.Adamites, are entitled to occupy any demonstrable lapse
of ages or uncertain hiatus. The narration then describes the
conformation if not re-formation, commencing from the period
when "the earth was without form and void, and darkness upon
the face of the deep." Light, or caloric, is the first deve-
lopment from the general laboratory of matter; a specific
work, operation, or analysis, instantaneously resulting in the
else inert mass from the fiat or mere determination of Divine
WILL. Consequently, the opaque or non-luminous granules or
globes were completely invested with an intermedium bound-
less as the universe. To confine to one orb, our earth, the
consideration of this action,—let us imagine the liberated ca-
loric surrounding an isolated dense nucleus, whose liquid par-
ticles become conglobated about the fixed by equal pressure
or expansive tendency which the light would exercise, and
it is now the Omnipotent desire that total privation of the ca-
loric matter in any (every), our, system of neighbouring orbs
should be effected throughout the exterior portion of extent
appertaining to them : that condensation of light, or drifting
of caloric one way, may be supposed to have halted at a sphe-
rical boundary of vast amplitude with the globe or globes it
had rushed by, revolving on the confines of light and vacuity_
thus recorded:—" God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness be called
Night.. And the evening and the morning"—the turning, or
rotatory whirling (secondarily flowing from, say, that oblique
direction of caloric particles each orb obeyed) out of and into
the ocean of " Day"—" were the first day," or diurnal revolu-
tion. " The second" elaborated, at mid depth from " the face
of the waters" (" deep" mantle of the central continent), the
air—" a firmament;"—(v. 20. " and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven"—vr. 26, 28, 30.,
" fowl of the air");—by which " God" " divided the waters
which were under the firmament from the waters which were
above the firmament ;" making three concentric spheres about
the inner part or core of the same globe. On " the third day"
the inferior sphere, " the waters under the heaven," found en-
trance for part of its quantity at " one place" (qu. a Mael-
strom ?): the " Earth" and " Seas" then first forming a ter-
raqueous orb, encompassed with the Air and " waters which
were above," enclosing all. " The fourth day" the caloric is
precipitated upon the body of one—the largest—of this sys.
tern's globes, and there revolving as an intensely luminous at-
mosphere, dissipates light with so swift velocity that when re-
flected from the other discs it even then proceeds with a
rapidity that is hardly mensurable but from nicest data. Hence
light being diffused from a centre, the night of any planet is
found in the opposite aspect, being its own shadow. Origin
(second cause) of the motion in annual orbit around the pri.
mary is not a question necessarily involved in this discussion,
but amongst our very imperfect conceptions of these initia,
may have been produced when the division of " Light" and
" Night" took place. To return : there seems a great pro-
priety in making mention of the other centres of systems—
" stars"—where our primary becomes enshrined in the effluent
(and probably comet-fed) cumulus of the most subtle agent in
material subdivision. (Vide Milton.) Insisting, then, on the
siderial, more properly than diurnal, rotation of a planet, ours,
being to itself, and not as its annual revolution connected with
the motions of ether bodies in the same system, it will be evi-
dent that I am not proposing to have it considered, whether
we refer to Joshua, x., 12, or ii Kings, xx., 11, that the earth's
year was prolonged by stoppage or reversion of its spin on its
own axis ; and this I again assert is a collateral proof of the
wisdom which dictated those records.

" Aleph" and " Quaesitor" will pardon the imperfect notico
I now take of a few out of multifarious difficulties which are
strangely deemed appropriable to my shoulders ;—and with
every respect for Geologists, much FROM SCIENCE, and much
FROM THE ORACLES or TRUTH, may yet be advanced to demon-
strate the absurdity of their possible contradiction.
I am, Sir, yours,
BEREAN.

DOVER, SEPT. 27.—His Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington gave a splendid entertainment to-day at \Valmer
Castle to her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda.
A large party of fashionables from Dover and the neighbour-
hood were invited to meet the Princess. The Marquis and
Marchioness of Bute, the Duchess of Cannizzaro, Lord Dela-
war, Lord Maryborough, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sx-, at-
tended. Several of the county families were prevented being
present by the death of Sir Henry Oxenden, whose funeral is
to take place to-morrow. The officers of the Dover Garrison,
consisting of Royal Artillely, Engineers, and the depots of
the 43d and 27th Rz,giments were of the party. A Royal
salute was fired from the Castle ramparts on the arrival and
the departure of the Princess.

COIJ

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WINDSOR, SEPT. 27.—This afternoon the Queen, accom-
panied by the Duchess of Kent, took her accustomed airing
in the Park on horseback, and was attended by the follow-
ing personages : Lady Portman, Lady Forbes, the Hon.
Miss Paget, Viscount Melbourne, the Hon. Colonel Caven-
dish, the Hon. C. A. Murray, and the Marquis of Clanri-
carde. Five carriages followed, in which were Baroness
Lehzen, the Hors. Miss Anson, Sir Thomas and Lady Cart-
wright, Lord Lilford, Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Marchioness
of Clanricarde, and Lady Mary Stopford.
Yesterday the Earl of Surrey took his departure.
Colonel Richardson, Colonel Sir James Hope, and the
Hon. Mrs. and Miss Cavendish will have the honour ofjoin-
ing the Royal dinner party this evening.

The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Colonel Jones
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Baroness
Ahlefeldt, came to town yesterday from Kew. The Duke of
Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marl-
borough House. His Royal Highness and the Princess
returned to Kew in the afternoon.

Sir Robert Dick and Mr. Ward had interviews with Lord
Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
Despatches from Sir E. C. Disbrowe, Minister Plenipo-
tentiary at the Hague, were received yesterday at the Foreign
Office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

ARRIVALS.

Colonel and Mrs. George Wyndham, at the late residence o,
the Earl of Egremont, in Grosvenor-place, from Scarborough
Lord and Lady Maynard and the Hon. Mass Maynard, it;
Grosvenor-square, from Easton Court, Essex; Lord Glenelg
in Great George-street, from Windsor; Lord Cardigan, in
Portman-square, from Hales Court, near Canterbury; the
Duke and Duchess de Stackpoole, ia Hyde Park-place, from
Scarborough ; Captain Purves, Grenadier Guards, from
Montreal, Canada ; Mr. Philip Hope, in Connaught-square,
from Amsterdam ; Lady Davy, in Park-street, from a tour;
Sir James Clark, in George-street, Hanover-square, from
Windsor Castle ; Mr. and Lady Anna Maria Tollemache, in
Park-lane, from Meriden, Warwickshire ; Viscount Temple..
town, in Whitehall-place ; Count Potton, in Hill-street,
from a tour ; Col. Gurwood, in Piccadilly, from a visit to
the Duke of Wellington, at Walmer Castle ; the Earl of Bel-
fast, in Belgrave-square, from Dublin ; Earl and Countess
Bruce, at the town residence of the Marquis and Marchioness of
Ailesbury, from a continental tour; Lord and Lady
Rivers, in Belgrave.square, from Brighton ; Mr. William and
Lady Anne Tollemache, in Hyde Park-terrace, from a visit to
the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, at Leamington Spa; the
Duchess of Sutherland, Marquis of Stafford, and the Ladies
Gower, at Stafford House, from their scat, Trentham Hall,
Staffordshire; the Hon. William Howard, M. P., in Grosvenor-
place, from Brighton ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis-
bury, in Arlington street, from their seat, Hatfield House,
Herts ; Lady Catherine Barham, at her residence at Kensing-
ton, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at Gor-
hamburv, Hefts ; Hon. and Rev. P. Bouveric, at Batt's
Hotel, Dover-street, from Wiltshire ; the Bishop of Cork and
family, at English's Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from the
Continent ; the Bishop of Worcester and family, at ditto, from
Lancing, Sussex ; Wm. Maury, Esq., and family, at ditto,
from Liverpool ; Russell Kendall, Esq., at ditto, from
Oxford; J. Stirling, Esq., at ditto, from ditto; Edmund
Gardiner, Esq., at ditto, from Henley.
DEPARTURES.

Lord and Lady Henniker, fromitanhope- street, for their
seat, Major House, Storeham, Suffolk ; the Hon. W. Dun-
das, for his seat, near Hastings; Sir Charles Broke Vere,
Bart., M.P., from Great Scotland-yard, for his seat, Broke
Hall, Ipswich; the Marquis de Jaubat, from Jermyn-street,
for the Continent ; the Hon. Captain and Mrs. King, for St.
Leonard's; Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, from Curzon-street,
for their seat, Wortley Hall, near S'ieffield ; Sir G. and Lady
Moore, for Brighton; Viscount Norreys, from Hanover-
square, fur the Continent ; the Marquis and Marchioness of
Thomond, from Bdgrave-spare, for Tunbr'dge- wells, Kent;
Lady Moreland, for Hastings; the Hon. Captain and Lady
Mary Hood, from the Marquis of Downshire's, in Hanover-
square, on a tour of visits; Viscount Strangford, from Harley-
street, for his seat, Ashford, Kent; Earl Waldegrave, from
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, for Bath; the Duchess de
Cannizzaro, horn Hanover-square, for Dover; Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney, from Cleveland-square, for their seat
near Footscray, Kent; Sir William and Lady Pringle, from
Stratford-place, for Tunbridge-wells ; Mrs. C. Craven, from
Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for Kemp Town, Brighton • Mrs.
J. Craven, from ditto, for her seat near Newbury;
--:Hodg-
son, Esq., from ditto, for Rickmansworth ; Jonn Wood, Esq.,
from ditto, for Brighton; H. W. Barlow, Esq., from ditto,
for Coventry; Messrs. Westropp, Powell, and Smith, from
English's Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, for Limerick;
J. Fogarty, Esq , from ditto, for Dublin ; J. Seeden, Esq.,
from ditto, for Boulogne, France.

CHANGES.
Prince Esterhazy and Prince Nicholas, at the Heaton Park
races, from a visit to the Earl of Scarborough, at Sandbeck
Park, near Doncaster; the Duke of St. Albans, at his seat,
Redbourne Hall, near Brigg, Lincolnshire, from a visit to the
Earl of Selkirk, at St. Mary's Isle, Kircudbright ; the Hon.
Colonel Wingfield at Cork Abbey, county Wicklow, from
Mayo ; the Bishop of Ripon at the Palace, Ripon, from a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Harewood, at Harewood Hall,
Yorkshire ; the Earl of Ewton, at Euston Hall, Thetford,
from his scat Salcey Park, Northamptonshire; the Earl Ca-
dogan, on a tour of visits in Norfolk, from Malvern Wells ;
Lord and Lady Suffield, at Heaton Park, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Wilton, from Scotland; the Duke and
Duchess of Richmond, at Ness Castle, on a visit to Lady
Saltoun, from their scat, Gordon Castle, Fochabers, N.B. ;
the Marquis of Douro, at Oakley Park, near Eye, on a visit to
Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., M. P., and Lady Kerrison, from
Norwich ; Dowager Lady Lubbock, at St. Leonard's, from
Tunbridge-wells; the Hon. Col. and Mrs. Parker, at Eushall
Hall, Oxfordshire, from Brighton ; Col. and Lady Alice Peel,
at Heaton Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Wil-
ton, from Doncaster ; Lady Francis Egerton at the family
seat, Worseley Hall, Lancashire, from a visit to the Duchess.
Countess of Sutherland, at Dunrobin Castle ; Sir Hussey
Vivian, at Newstead Abbey, on a visit to Colonel Wildman,
from Scotland ; the Countess Cadogan and the Ladies Au-
gusta and Henoria Cadogan, at Venice, from Milan ; the Hon.
Captain and' Mrs. Heniker, on a tour,. from Brighton; the
Earl of Winchilsea, at Eastwell Park, his seat in Kent, from
a tour of his estates in Lincolnshire ; the Earl and Countess
of Granville, in Paris, from Switzerland ; his Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Cornwall,
at Falmouth, from Exeter; the Earl and Countess of Beverley
and the Ladies Percy, at Venice, from Milan; Lord George
Stuart, from Milan, on a tour in Italy ; the Earl and Countess
of Chesterfield, at Heaton Park, near Manchester, from Don-
caster; Sir John and Lady Charlotte Guest, at Milan, from
Paris ; the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Bertie Percy, from Milan,
for Venice; the Duke of Manchester, at Munich, from
Baden-Baden ; the Attorney-General, at Duddingstone House,
near Edinburgh, from a tour of visits ; Lord and Lady
Montagu and the Hon. Miss Montagu, at Dalkeith Palace,
N. 8., from Ditton Park, Henley-upon-Thames; the Mar-
quis of Douro, from Norwich, on a visit to Lieut.-General Sir
Edward and Lady Kerrison, at Oakley Park, Eye, Suffolk ;
Prince Doria Pamphili, from Dover for Paris, on his way to Italy;
Algernon Greville, Esq., at his shooting quarters, at Auch-
intour, North Britain, from a tour; Lord and Lady Sydney,
at Footscray, Kent, from the Continent; Sir Edward and
Lady Deriiig, at Milan, from a tour in Savoy; Sir Rowland
Hill, Bart., at Hawkstone House, from a visit to Lord Hill,
at Hardwicke Grange; Lord Fitzalan and Colonel Beau-
champ, from Smyrna, for Malta; the Countess de Salis, at
Brighton, from Dawley Lodge, near Uxbridge; the Earl
and Countess of Sefton, and the Ladies Molyneux, from
Weymouth, for Stoke Farm, near Windsor; Lord Alford,
from Baden-Baden, for Bavaria; the Countess of Plymouth,
at Knole Park, near Seven Oaks, from Worthing; the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, near Watford,
Herts, from Leamington Spa; Mr. and Mrs. William Rus-
sell, on a visit to the Duke of Richmond, at Gordon Castle,
from a visit to Lord and Lady Lovat, at Beaufort Castle,
Inverness.

Her Majesty, we understand, knew nothing of the
orders given to exclude the public from the Little Park during
the review at Windsor last week.

The Prince and Princess of Oldenburg, attended by
Count Tolstoy and Baroness d'Aretin, arrived at the Claren-
don Hotel, Bond-street, on Wednesday, from Doncaster.
The Prince of Oude, after visiting the natural'
wonders of the northern coast of the county Antrim, returned
to Belfast on Saturday evening. On Sunday his Highness
visited Holywood, &c. ; and on Monday, at half-past two
o'clock, embarked with his suite for Glasgow, where he arrived
the following morning.
The Earl and Countess of Denbigh, and the Earl
and Countess of Sheffield and their families, accompany her
Majesty the Queen Dowager to Malta.
Prince Esterhazy has arrived at Chandos House,
from a visit to the Earl of Scarborough, at Sandbeck Park,
Yorkshire.
The Earl and Countess of Galloway are entertaining
a party of sporting gentlemen, at Galloway House, in Scot-
land.-- Glasgow Courier.
The Marchioness of Breadalbane will not visit Scot-
land this year. Her Ladyship and Miss Bailey are going to
Ramsgate in a few days, where some friends of the family are
already assembled.

On Sunday, his Excellency, Achmet Pacha, Am-
bassador from the Sublime Porte, and suite, arrived at Coterie's
Royal Hotel, from Liverpool, and departed thence, yesterday
afternoon, for Edinburgh.—Glasgow Courier of Tuesday.
The marriage of his Highness Prince Doria Pam-
phili, of Rome, with Lady Mary Adathea Talbot, will not
be solemnised until February next. Lord Shrewsbury will
give his daughter away at the altar, and a series of brilliant
festivities will take place on the occasion at the magnificent
palazzas of the Princes Doria Borghese and Salmons at Rome;
the last-named distinguished personage is the son-in-law of
the Earl of Shrewsbury, having married his Lordship's
youngest daughter, Lady Guendaline Talbot.
General and Madame Sehastiani will not leave
Manchester House for Paris for three weeks. His Ex-
cellency gives small diplomatic dinners every Wednesday and
Sunday.
The Russian Ambassador is expected to leave
Ashburnham House, on Wednesday next, for his newly-pur-
chased hotel, Rue de l'University, at Paris. His Excel-
lency is expected to be absent about a month or six weeks.
`l Chevalier Kisselef will be accredited Charge d'Affsires
during his absence, with Prince Paul de Lieven as first Secre-
tary of Legation.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1838.