The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1838.

telligence of what had been done here, respecting Lord
Durham's ordinances as " disastrous," he seems to indi-
cate, in another passage, that nothing could have been more
favourable for his Lordship than the event of which the
" intelligence" was " disastrous." He says—
" When it is found that the effect of the disallowance of the
ordinances has been to silence all opposition to his Govern- '
ment, and to call forth an unanimous burst of enthusiastic de-
votion towards him, no one will say that the question does
not assume a new shape."
Certainly Lord Durham ought to have no quarrel with
an act of his friends the Ministers, which has led to such
results as these, but why then call the disallowance of the
ordinances " disastrous ?" Why abuse with such conti-
nual torrents of virulent reproach the House of Lords for
taking part in this very thing which has " silenced all op-
position to Lord Durham's Government ?" Why say that
the blame of every thing unfortunate which may happen
in Canada must rest upon those who interfered with Lord
Durham, if it be true that this interference produced an
unanimous burst of enthusiastic devotion to his Lordship ?
Why, 0 ! why, should the disallowance of the ordinances,
which produced effects so delectable, be afterwards referred
to as an act for which even our most admirable Whig- Rd-
, dieal Ministers deserve some blame ? How is the follow-
ing to be explained ?
" But while we refuse to Lord Durham the liberty to act
on mere personal feelings, we are far from justifying the dis-
allowing the ordinances. We have always been opposed to
the course which Ministers were led" (driven would, we think,
be a better word) " to adopt."
No doubt it is a serious thing for Lord Durham that
the editor of a London Ministerial Paper refuses him the
liberty to act on mere personal feelings ; but it may be,
perhaps, expected by the editor that his Lordship will for-
give this refusal, in consideration of the negative censure
pissed upon Ministers for doing that which (teste the same
editor) has silenced all opposition to his Lordship's Govern-
ment, and called forth an unanimous burst of approbation
towards his Lordship's noble self! Lord Durham must of
course be further and very exceedingly gratified to learn,
that whatever errors he may have fallen into have been
shared by those illustrious personages the correspondents
of the Ministerial Newspaper :
It
opinion that his authority had been so weakened as to render
, it impossible for him to discharge with advantage the duties of
the trust confided to him was shared by more than one of our
well-informed correspondents in that quarter. But neither
Lord Durham nor our correspondents are infallible. His
Lordship might be justified in anticipating, from the disallow-
ance of the ordinances, an effect in the way of weakening his
authority which experience may not confirm."
All this is very agreeable. Lord Durham cannot take
offence at not being considered infallible, since the same
amount of distrust is extended to the newspaper corre-
spondents, who so meritoriously contribute to the columns
of our Ministerial Contemporary. We hope our readers
may have derived some amusement from these extracts ;
the moral of the tale is that—if not the Ministers them-
' selves—the Ministerial Journal is perplexed in the extreme,
' and, not knoxing well what line to adhere to, takes several
lines which run contrary ways. It appears also that it is
still considered expedient to keep up the hope that Lord
' Durham may think better of his first determination, pocket
: his affronts, and remain in Canada.—Morning Post.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—A little comedy
called Jealousy followed the Tempest on Saturday night. It
is made up of very slight materials, turning on the cross pur-
poses of Colonel and Mrs. Neville ( Vandenhoff and Mrs.
Warner), and Mr. and Mrs. Hartley ( Anderson and Miss
Charles). Colonel Neville is a jealous husband, and Mrs.
Hartley a jealous wife. Mrs. Neville has been secretly mar-
ried prior to her marriage with the Colonel, and has a son,
who is protected by that gentleman as an orphan. The son
is involved in an affair of honour, and Mrs. Neville pays a
clandestine visit to Mr. Hartley, to implore him to hasten
to the appointed place of meeting, and prevent ill consequen-
ces. This meeting leads to a series of embarrassments ; the
Colonel arrrives, and Mrs. Neville bides behind a curtain,
then, after the retirement of the Colonel, his wife comes in
contact with Mrs. Hartley, and a number of situations occur
into which it is needless to enter, as they are addressed to the
eye, and it is on the rapidity with which they arc managed
that their effect depends. The result of all is, that the Co-
lonel and Mrs. Hartley believe Mrs. Neville and Hartley to be
guilty, and matters are not cleared up till Mrs. Nevill's son is
acknowledged, when the Colonel pardons his wife for having
kept the affair secret. The previous confusion is considerably
increased by the tattle of Sir Harry Effingham, a coxcombical
busybody, acted by Meadows, who is in love with Mrs. Hartley,
who knows a little of everything, so as to produce a great deal
of mischief, but whose character and position with the rest of
the personages is not defined with sufficient clearness. The
first act of the drama went off very well; the situations fol-
lowed each other smartly, and though there was nothing in
the dialogue, there was an agreeable bustle which kept the
audience in good humour. However, at the end of the second
and last act, when Neville commanded the newly acknow-
ledged son to throw himself into the arms of his mother, a
violent hissing commenced, which lasted after the fall of the
curtain. Anderson came forward to announce the piece for
repetition, but there was so much disapprobation that he re-
tired, notwithstand the heartiness of the applause of approving
parties. The latter steadily continued their plaudits for some
five minutes, when Vandenhoff came forward, and in spite of
the resistance of the " noes" succeeded in announcing a repe-
tition on Tuesday. The piece was very well acted, and was
one of those trifles which possess neither originality nor in-
terest, but amuse an audience for the time by their bustle, and
leave no lasting impression.
Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday morning,
as a little boy named Henry Horrocks, whose mother resides
in Alfred's-place, Fenchurch-street, was going up the court
to his mother's house, he was accidently knocked down with
great violence by another boy, who was running in an opposite
direction. His right thigh was found to be broken, and he
was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital.
An inquest was held yesterday at St. George's
Hospital on the body of Mrs. Green, aged 23, whose death
was occasioned by severe burning, her clothes having acciden-
tally taken fire. Deceased had lived at Turnham Green, and
it is supposed that, being subject to periodical fainting fits, her
clothes had become ignited during one of these visitations.
Verdict, " Accidental Death."

The Chinese have literally in every sense a Billings-
gate of their of their own. Mr. Downing, in his recent work,
informs us that, on bearing a dreadful altercation, he asked his
interpreter the cause, who informed him, in broken
English,
" They want shee too muchee dollar for the fishee."
At the Town Hall yesterday an elderly man of the
name of Wingate was brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly,
charged with having inflicted a dangerous wound on the head
of a person of the name of White. The parties, it appeared,
happened to meet at a public-house called the Old Justice,
in Mint-street on Saturday night, when some remarks were
made by complainant as to the honesty of the prisoner. With-
out saying a word the prisoner proceeded to the bar, and,
taking up a quart pot, returned to tbe room, and struck the
prosecutor a violent blow over the left eye, which completely
divided the main artery. Before the wound could be strapped
up White lost upwards of two quarts of blood. He was then
conveyed to Guy's Hospital, when the surgeon declared that
had the wound been half-an-inch lower instant death would
have ensued. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was sorry
for what he had done. Mr. Alderman Kelly observed, that
had death ensued he should have felt it to be his duty to com-
mit him for murder ; but, as there was no medical certificate
sent, be should remand him until the prosecutor was pro-
nounced out of danger.
EXTRAORDINARY FIRE.—On Saturday last
another fire broke out at Glynn House, the mansion of Sir
Hussey Vivian, Bart.' M. P., near Bodmin, under the follow-
ing strange and singular circumstances. It appears that on
that day Sir Hussey was expected home, and the servants had,
therefore, lit a fire in the stove to heat the apartments with hot
water, which was conveyed through the house in pipes, pass-
ing through the lobby to a coil in the corner which warms the
great staircase. The pipe in the lobby got red hot, and set
tire to the flooring which passed over it ; but, fortunately, as
it broke out in the day time, it was soon discovered, and the
flooring was being torn up when the gallant General arrived.
The fire was soon got under, and no great injury has been
done ; but had it occured much later, the whole premises
must have been destroyed. It is said by those connected with
the house that there was no stoppage in the circulation of the
water; but how pipes can become red hot that have in them
a free circulation of water, is beyond our comprehension. It
is a singular fact that on the last occasion that Sir Hussey visited
his residence, the farm buildings narrowly escaped being burnt
down, and Glynn House has once before been destroyed by
fire. West Briton.

An inquest was held on Saturday evening on the
body of a widow lady, named Eastwicke, late of Dorset-place,
Dorset-square, who committed suicide by throwing herself
from an attic window. Deceased's husband had died about a
year and a half ago, and this occurrence had for some time
utterly deprived her of reason. Ever since she had been
affected with a nervous disorder. She had been attended to
with much care by an only daughter, and had been left but for
a minute or two, when she threw herself from the window.
Verdict—" Temporary Derangement."
RIGHT OF WAY OVER PRIMROSE-HILL.—In
the Marylebonc Vestry, on Saturday, Mr. Kensett stated that
he had received a great number of communications from indi-
viduals upon the subject of the wall now in course of erection
on the estate of Colonel Eyre, which would prevent all access
from the avenue road to Primrose-hill. Many of these letters
were from people far advanced in years, bearing testimony to
the existence of the path in question by having passed over it
upwards of 40 years ago, and expressing their willingness to
come forward and prove their assertion. He would suggest
that the surveyor be directed to assist the Committee by col-
lecting all possible information from the localities which sur-
rounded Primrose-hill. This was agreed to.

—The Hope steam tug, which has seen many years
of service on the River Tyne, having been the fourth steam-
boat which was built, and, from her great age, was commonly
called the Old Hope, foundered at sea, during the heavy gale
of wind on Thursday. Being used as a towing vessel, she
had proceeded out of Shields in the morning on the " look
nut ;" and when the gale came on it was found impossible to
regain the harbour. After beating about at sea for some
lionr;, an attumpt wls made to run her into Sunderland, but
ate tilled with water and went down within a ,port distance
of that port. The crew, we are happy to say, were saved in a
boat which put off from Sunderland.— Glasgow Courier.