The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-05 00:00:00

The Report was ordered to be received on Monday.

RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.—GENERAL CEME-
TERY COMPANY.—We are happy to find, from an advertise-
ment which has been sent to us, that a powerful body
are taking up the subject of the erection of burial places,
without the invidious and un-Christian distinctions which have
been made between Churchmen and Dissenters. Nine-tenths
of the Churchmen detest those distinctions as much as the
Dissenters themselves, and it only wanted the co-operation of
their friends in Parliament, with capitalists without, to effect
the banishment of that intolerant spirit which, like the ghole
of the East, made its prey upon graves.

The Impartial contains an account of the late
journey of the Duke Charles of Brunswick to London to the
following effect:—The Duke, it appears, doubted rather of
the cordiality of the reception that would be given to him in
England, and, therefore, as an experiment, having started
from Paris with his suite, he left them at St. Denis, and re-
turned here in a coucou, after having enjoined his courier,
Bertini, who bears an extraordinary resemblance to his master,
to proceed on the journey, and to personate him throughout.
The courier, wrapped up in the Duke's cloak, got into the
carriage, and was persuaded by the Baron d'Andlau, who
went with as a sei- di.sant attendant, to act the Duke's part;
this he did with great success, ordering four repasts a-day,
having his dishes always tasted by the Dae's negro attendant
before eating them, and drinking an enormous quantity of
champagne. On arriving at Payne's Brunswick Hotel, in
Jermyn- street, the master of the house was let into the secret,
and the false Duke was made to feign indisposition and to
keep his bed. This, however, did not at all suit him ; and
though my Lord Palmerston and others of the nobility left
their cards, and inquired after his Royal Highness's health,
he strongly regretted the loss of the champagne. To play
the part of a sick Prince, with the stomach of a courier, at
length became insupportable ; and, therefore, at the end of a
few days, he told Baron d'Andlau that he must return to
Paris. The latter promised him 6,000 francs if he would carry
on the farce a week longer, and Bertini, receiving 3,000 francs
on account, remained in bed another seven days. When they
set off, the courier made up on the road for his fasting in
London ; and, on arriving again at St. Denis, the exchange
with the duke was made; Bertini jumped up behind as
courier, and the party returned to Paris. Here the courier,
rich with his 3,000 f., obtained leave of absence for a month to
go to Piedmont, that he might bring his aged mother to Paris,
and settle her here. On his return, however, the hotel was
empty, the duke was really gone to London, and Baron
d'Andlau notified to the poor courier that he was no longer
in the duke's service, and that he would not receive the re-
mainder of the 6,000 f. Bertini, the Impartial adds, is by no
means of this opinion, and has put an embargo on the car-
riages and furniture of the duke. The tribunals are to decide
shortly whether his personification of the Duke of Brunswick
is worth 6,000 f. or not.

TESTIMONIAL.—At the conclusion of Colone
Thompson's last letter to the Radical Association of Huh
the Hon. Gentleman says, in reference to the proceedings
which took place in the House of Commons on Friday respect-
ing the Commons Fields Inclosure Bill—" It is sickening to
see the interests of the many and the poor thus made away
with. Truly if the people knew all about our doings, they
would be tempted to sweep us away with the bosom of some-
thing sharper than Reform."
For two years past the parishioners of Horncastle
have refused to grant a church rate, but offered to contribute
voluntarily towards defraying the expenses of the church.
During the above period a considerable debt has been incurred,
and within a few days, it has been tried to raise by contribu-
tions, a sum to liquidate this debt : so fortunate have the col-
lectors been, that not only sufficient will be raised to defray
the debt, but it is expected when all the parishioners have been
visited there will also be a surplus adequate to the current ex-
penses of the year..—Lincoln Gazette.
Scarlet fever is very prevalent in Arbroath at pre-
sent among children, and many a hearth has been made deso-
late by its appalling ravages.
REPRESENTATION OF HALIFAX.--A special
general meeting of the Halifax Reform Association was held
on Monday evening, and was most respectably attended.
Jonathan Akroyd, Esq., was called to the chair ; and the opi-
nion of the meeting, which comprised many of the leading
members of the Whig and Radical parties, was taken as to the
two candidates to be proposed and supported at the next elec-
tion. That opinion was unanimously and warmly expressed
in favour of our present representative, Charles Wood, Esq.,
and the late candidate, Edward Protheroe, jun., Esq.—Hali-
fax Express.
The French republic ended after a stormy existence
of hardly twelve years. It began in blood and spoliation ; it
terminated in trickery and mystification. The great body of
the people had never understood it, and yet a million of men
were slain in its behalf. The abolition of exclusive privileges,
which was the pretext for it, had been accomplished before by
the first assembly, which proclaimed the constitutional mo-
narchy. But they afterwards rashly destroyed that constitu-
tion, and now, after twelve years of continual agitation, they
took refuge under the shade of an imperial throne, without
any popular representation whatever.—Foreign Quarterly
Review.