The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-25 00:00:00

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Who was this unhappy Wight
That haunts our fancy like a sprite ?
Did he die, long years agorae,
As a recent talc has shown,
Or consent to drop away,
Quite worn out, the other day,
Shuffling off the load of life,
As Ellenborough did his wife?
Was he bored to death by hearing
Goulhourn twaddling, Inglis cheering,
Or reading (far worse visitation)
Phillpotts, on Emancipation,
(Phillpotts, who, at Clubs and Courts
Looks so natty in black shorts,'o
And spoiled when he became a Pastor,
A most consummate dancing-master)—
Or was he, by Saint Agnew sly
Preached into eternity ?
Did Miserrimus thus die,
Glad at length to take his case
After sufferings such as these ?
Or was he, by a lawyer's bill,
Dispatched—for such things often kill—
No, he still survives, to feel
The stamp of Whiggery's iron heel ;
To see his chance of place and pay
Fast declining day by day ;
To see his friends all growing needy,
Or, as poets phrase it, seedy ;
And hear Reformers to the skies
Applaud his bitterest enemies,
Bidding exultingly good bye
To Protestant Ascendancy ;
These many woes, without a cure,
Miserrimus cloth still endure,
Doomed to bow the knee to Dan,
And what is worse (ill-fated man)
To sign himself an—Orangeman !

Though opposed to the Right Rev. Prelate in politics, yet
heaven forbid that we should do him a• 1 injustice. He looks better
in black shorts than any man in Christendom, as H. B. has showu
in his late felicitous poctrait of the good Bishop.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria,
attended by Sir John and Lady Conroy, Lady Catherine Jen-
kinson, and Baroness Lezben were present at the performances
at Drury-lane Theatre on Monday evening. The Royal party
retired at the end of the second act of The Bronze Horse,

which was the afterpiece.
Tuesday was the anniversary of the birth-day of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who has entered

his 62d year.
THE HAGUE, FEB. 16.—The nineteenth anniver-
sary of the birth of his Royal Highness Prince William Alex-
ander, Hereditary Prince of Orange, was kept to-day with the

usual ceremonies.
We understand that a leading Member of the House
of Commons is collecting evidence respecting certain indivi-
duals who hold situations under Government, and are at the
same time Directors of Public Companies, under a just idea
that the public service must suffer b) its servants being engaged
in any speculative concerns of this nature.
The Illuminations last night, in honour of her
Majesty's Birth-day, were very general, although upon the
whole perhaps less brilliant than on former and similar occa-
sions. The club-houses, as usual, took the lead as luminaries

of the most conspicuous character.
'TIE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY.—On Wednes
day evening last, a public meeting:was held in the Theatre,
Bolton, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for a
repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. The meeting was
convened by the boroughreeves and constables of Great and
Little Bolton.
NEWSPAPER STAMPS.-The Edinburgh Patriot,
in a singularly able and argumentative demonstration of the
justice and policy of removing all restriction on the diffusion
of political knowledge through the medium of the Newspaper
Press, with equal truth adforce, thus concludes an article
upon the subject:—" The people," says the Patriot, "have a
right to insist that no artificial bar shall be opposed to the ac-
quisition of knowledge—that it is the privilege of every Briton
to judge for himself of the advantages or disadvantages of the
constitution under which he lives—and that consequently he
is unjustly treated when he is deprived of the means of form-
ing a correct opinion on this all important subject."
We are gratified to find that the agriculturists of
this great county are not entirely asleep. The East Kent
Association are bestirring themselves to obtain evidence for the
Parliamentary Committee. The farmers themselves, who have
f)r a long time deprecated the neglect of their interest by the
Legislature, must put their shoulders to the wheel, and each,
by giving Isis individual aid, will, we have no doubt, so strengthen
the hands of their friends, that justice will no longer be denied
them.- Kentish Gazette.
The late winds have done great damage on the
coast. At Whitstable the tide rose five feet above its level in
the early part of last week, and great fear was entertained lest
any portion of the wall should be washed away, and the town
inundated. A vessel is said to have gone down within sight of
the Cliffs, but under circumstances which prevented the most
distant hope of affording aid to those on board. At Herne
Bay much damage has also been done by the washing away of
the beach, and the inroad of the sea into the magnificent As-
sembly Rooms. Our coast letters are full of particulars of the
effects of the storm.—Kentish Gazette.
An idea of the immense quantity of foreign mer-
chandise which is accumulated at Frankfort may be formed
from the fact, that the duties to which they have become
liable, on the putting in force of the new system of customs,
are upwards of 4,300,000.
The German papers mention that an Austrian gen-
Oman, of great skill as a miner, has received a commission
from the Porte to examine the mines of Turkey, and report on
the best means of working them.
It was generally understood yesterday that Dr.
Grey, the Bishop of Hereford, is to be translated to the See
of Durham. The name of the Bishop of Chester was also
mentioned in connection with this splendid :preferment, but
the rumour did not obtain much credit.
A grand Conservative dinner was given yesterday
eveniefs at the Carlton Club, in honour of the commemora-
tion of her Majesty's birth-day. There was a numerous at-
tendance of members.
The Augsburg Gazette states, on the authority of
letters from Alexandria, that Mehemet Ali had renounced the
system of monopoly hitherto adopted by him, and removed a
number of obstacles that astructed the extension of the trade
in Syria.
ELOPEMENT.—DUBLIN, FEB. 22.—A young
lady, not eighteen years of age, of great personal beauty and
accomplishments, eloped yesterday morning with her cousin,
a young gentleman not quite of age. Both parties are highly
connected in this city.—Sounders.
The public mind has been thrown into a state of
fermentation in the Turkish capital by a regulation issued by
the Sultan, abolishing the gradation of ranks, such as it stood
since the establishment of the Ottoman empire ; and classing
the different individuals in office, according to regulations
and nomenclature—not only entirely novel, but subversive of
the ancient notions of propriety and etiquette in Turkey.
The English brig Diligent, Capt. Gibson, which
sailed from Newcastle on the 13th, was thrown on the 17th
against the northern mole of Havre, and went down before
any assistance could be given her. A part of the mainmast
was still seen at the surface of the waters. The crew safely
reached the shore.
A French gentleman having some friends to dine
with him on a maigre day, was told by his servant that there
was only a single salmon left in the market, which was be-
spoken by a barrister. " Here," said his master, putting two
or three pieces of gold into his hand, " go back directly, and
buy me the barrister and the salmon too."
The Duke of Wellington will remain in town until
Friday, when he will return to Strathfieldsaye to entertain the
Judges.
Lord Glenelg gave a grand official dinner yesterday
in Great George-street, to a party of twenty-four, chiefly offi-
cial personages, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day.
At the new Palace at St. James's Park are now de-
posited all the valuable armoury, both antient and modern,
pictures, plate, books, china, glass, and other furniture which
formerly adorned Carlton Palace, and which, when that edifice
was taken down, was removed to the mansion in Pall-mall,
once the residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert, and afterwards of Sir
Walter Stirling, and to the stables in Carlton-gardens, which
were fitted up at an enormous expense purposely to- receive
and preserve them.
At the Carnival masqued balls at the Opera at
Paris, the Tombola has been discontinued ; but a bazaar or
Fancy fair has been substituted for the benefit of the poor.
The managers of the Opera sent to the Committee the sum of
one thousand francs on the occasion of each ball, the money to
be expended in articles for the bazaar. The favourite actresses
of the Paris theatres officiated as merchandes at the stalls.
THE REV. JOHN TOZER.-We have very great
regret in stating that the apprehensions of many of the friends
of the Rev. John Tozer, late Curate of St. Petrock, in this
city; in which he was much respected, have proved but too
well founded. The melancholy discovery has been made in a
singularly striking way. The body of a gentleman was found
drowned a short time since near Shrewsbury, which was not
recognised by any one in the neighbourhood, but the circum-
stance was made known by a newspaper being sent accidentally
to a friend of the family at Teignmoutb, containing the para-
graph of a gentleman being found drowned, the description of
which caused strong suspicion of its referring to Mr. Tozer.
A relation went off immediately, who examined many articles
of his dress, and collected so much information as to leave not
the slightest doubt of his identity. The body, it is supposed,
had lain several weeks in the water previous to its discovery.—
Western Luminary.
SHIPOWNERS' SOCIETY.-otl Tuesday the an-
nual meeting of the General Shipowners' Society was held in
the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the pur-
pose of hearing the Report of their Committee of Manage-
ment, and taking into consideration the present position of
their interests. The Secretary read a Report, which, with
resolutions founded upon it, was unanimously adopted. Thanks
were then voted to the Committee, and the meeting separated.