The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-09 00:00:00

GABRIELT.I.

Of this famous singer many incidents are told as,
evidencing her enormous estimate of the value her
tit;
talents. On her visit to Russia, the Empress Itiatdaorfor
received her very graciously. " What arefsivaes o
travelled
this young beauty," said the latter,
_who
r rather my
from IsTispl-s expressly for our
child, speak—what terms„ do„ pallykia-:quuire for your en-
Ni it please your 'lin-
iment( nt at our
.Court .shall be put to cmsiderable
jes
eretphl
se replied
,7toerri
tars, and
.as ant but a poor
E pff Tl 4,
,4shing. your .4,..,N;_ty too much if I
artiste, shall I be
say 20,000 ronbleb? At this astounding de mar,d, uttere6
with the most consummate sang-froid and coolness, the
a slight but angry
brow of th.e.Einpresis gre;w da
flush was visible on ier. checks while her eyes sparkled
ut these signs. of displeasure were only momentary.
Gabtielli,,M relating this scene, acknowlodged—" I was
terribly frightened, and bitterly regretted my words,
but, wotnatililt,, I would not for worlds have recalled
them, in the presence of the young and handsome officer
who gsz:ng at me with such interest." " Twenty
thousand roubles!" echoed Katharine, "are you aware
what pm demand, child? For this sum I ran purchase
two field. marshals!" "In that case," returned Gabrielli,
with unequalled temerity, "perhaps your Majesty will
engage two field-tinn.hals who can slug!" Gabrielli
uttered this in the mot imaginable.
"I determined manner
"I do not know wh tt poaseesed me," she afterwards
said," it must have been some evil spirit, fur as I uttered
the worsts I believed I saw my fate balancing between
the Hermitage and ito.rirt.." But the good fortune of '
Gabrielli did not at that tame desert her. "You are
bold, young woman," returned the Empress, resuming

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-her-pleasant and peculiar smile, "you are bold, but de.
part now, hrti con Aler es wrth two fiold.
rnarshr,ls."

ITo THE SECRET. R Y OF THE
M.ETROPOLI FAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,`—On Wednesday the. 4th a sharp debate tock
poicP on the question of exelimting Scotland from the
operation of the Bill fur I.ralizing_marriage with the
sister of a deceased wife; and occasion ,-as taken to
add Ireland to the demand. OP course Scotch and
Irish Members have H a .:lit to act as timy see fit, or
as they may be instructed. But there is a strong
reason why English Members should not lightly
give way to demands of this nature, as there is too
often a disposition to do.
It is no secret that the world is changing its opi-
nions on many points which were once held indis-
putable, and that it is the business of prudent legis-
lation to keep pace with these changes, with of course
full liberty of opposition for the retainers of the old
convictions. And it is no secret also, that in some
portions of an empire like the British, these changes
proceed faster than in others, albeit in the other
portions there is commonly a strong minority, though
often almost without voice in consequence of the seal
with which the opposite party silences contradiction.
The most careless observer cannot fail to have
perceived, that whenever in England a change in the
laws connected with any of these decaying opiniOns is
desired, it is in some of the other component-por-
tions of the empire that the stand is made. Scotland,
for example, is the stronghold of resistance; and
whenever any false reading of a scriptural statute is
to be forced down the throats of Englishmen to the
damage of their temporal felicity, it is almost an-
nounced that in Scotland the Scripture has been
read with insertion or omission of a " not" -from
time immemorial.

Yet no man can fail to know that in Scotland as well
as here, there are those who suffer by the corruption
of the statute, and who would as gladly be free if they
knew how, as any of the forefathers in either country
in the days of fiercest struggle against ecclesiastical
dictation on false pretences. It is clearly therefore one
of the benefits which the hindmost country, or the
sufferers in it, have a right to expect from the union
with one more advanced, that there should not be too
ready concession to the demand that it should be habi-
tually and by a sort of ex officio process cut off from
partaking in the general progress of the imperial law.
On these grou❑ds, it was a fortunate event, that
the proposal to exempt Scotland and Ireland from the
dangerous power of doing as they liked, in a matter
where there was no shadow of attempt to force any.
body to do otherwise than as they please, was rejected
by a majority of 119 against 66.
In fact a step has been silently made during the
progress of this Marriage question. On this and
other questions founded on the authority of a written
law, there will be an end of the reckless practice of
deciding without hearing the law recited.
Oa 'Thursday I am told I voted wrong on what is
called the Quarter Acre Clause in the Irish Relief
Bill. The purport of this clause is to determine that
no man in Ireland shall be entitled to relief from the
poor-rate, who is the holder of more than a quarter
of an acre of land. This is certainly tantamount to
saying, that no man shall have relief from the poor-
rate till he has not a shirt to his back ; and the question
may be, whether it would not be politic, to say nothing
()fatty other reason, to give the man assistance to keep
iii, head above water, without waiting for this desperate
criterion. As the majority for retaining the clause
was very great (74 against 12) it looks as if the other
aide had not been sufficiently brought into notice by
its advocates.
On Friday a question connected with the same
subject was br,ught forward, in the shape of an
amendment directed to alter that portion of the Bill
which directs that lour-rate shall not he levied from
tenants holding to the yearly amount of less than 41.,
but shall be levied from the landlord. There was
undeniably a good deal to be said on both sides;
for the ground on which the amendment was
supported was, that laying the poor-rate on the
landlord tends to the ejection of the tenant. It cer-
tainly may act as a premium en having no tenants
under 41. ; and in that way lead to a certain
quantity of ejections. But on the whole, there may
be reason to think that the evil of trying to levy the
rate from all the small tenants, would amount to
more than that of the ejections to arise. And so the
House probably thought, when it decided against
the amendment by a majority of 55 against 25.
The seine evening concluded the debate on the
State of the Nation. The Right Hon. Member for
Tamworth came forward bolßly with what were no-
velties in the House, but were in fact only the !tic,
ha c, hoc of the League seven years ago ; so that to
old Leaguers his declarations sounded like the thaw-
ing of the notes which had frozen in the postboy's
horn. The reply of the mover aimed at nothing, and
accomplished its aim. The most remarkable point
about the whole, was the pertinacity with which the
motion was declared to be one that was to remove
the Government, and change the policy of nations.
The wordy display ended in a majority on the side
of the Government, of 296 against 156.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, July 9, 18-19.

THE GREAT SEA SERPENT.
Mr. .1. A. Derriman, commander of che ship Brazilian,
now lying rre:r the principal entrance of the London
Dock, makes the following curious and Interesting
statement:—
He left the Cap on the 19th of February, running
with a strong south-easterly wind for four days. On
.he morning of the 24th the ship was becalmed in lati-
tude 26 south, longitude 8 east, te,ing about forty miles
from the place in which Captain M'Quhae, R.N., is said
to have seen the great iea serpent. About eight o'clock
on that morning, whilst the captain was surveying the
calm heavy rippleless swell of the sea through his tele-
scope, the ship at the same time heading north-north-
west, he perceived something right abeam, about half ts
mile to the westward, stretched along the water to the
length of about twenty-five or thirty feet, and percep-
tibly moving from the ship with a steady sinuous motion.
The head, which seemed to be lifted several feet above
the waters, had something resembling a mane, running
down to the floating portion, and within about six feet
of the tail it forked out into a sort of double fin. Haying
read at Colombo the account of the monster said to have
been seen by Captain M•Quhtte in nearly the same lati-
tude, Mr. flerrim.at wa, led to suppose that he had
fallen in with the same animal, or one of the
genus ; he immediately called his chief officer,
Mr. Long, with several of the passengers, who,
altar surveying the objeot for some time, came
to the unanimous conclusion that it must be the sea-
serpent seen by Captain M'Quhae. As the Brazilian
was making no headway Mr. Merriman, determining to
bring all doubts to an issue, had a beat lowered down,
and taking two hands on board, together with Mr. Boyd,
of Peterhead, near Aberdeen, one of the passengers, who
acted us steersman under the direction of the captain,
they approached the monster, Capt. Herrimau standing
in the bow of the boat, armed tvith a harpoon, to com-
mence the onslaught. The combat, however, was not
i t boardw as a ropurned-
shtetnednedde,dfowri tch,n tchoem
idnagh
gcelrosewhtiochthtehoosbjeoent
to be nothing more than an immense piece of sea-weed,
evidently detached from a coral reef, and drifting with
the current, which sets coastently to the westward in
this latitude, and which, together with the swell, left by
the subsidence of the gale, gave it the sinuous snakelike
motion.
But for the calm which afforded Capt. Iferriman an
opportunity of examining the weed we should have had
another " eye-witness" account of the great sea-serpent;
Mr. lierrimati himself admitting that he should have re-
mained under the impression of having seen it. What
app' tared to be heai, crest, and mane of the inunens-um
vbiumen, was but the large root which floated upwards,
arid to which several pieces of the coral reef still adhered.
The captain had it hauled on board, but, as it began to
decay, was compelled to throw it over. He now regrets
that he had not preserved it in a waterbutt for the pur-
pose of exhibition in the Thameta where the conflicting
motion produced by the tide and steamers would in all
probability give it a like appearance.
A curious accident occurred on board the Brazilian
during her outward-bound voyage to Colombo. 11.Thiol!!
iu lati•ude 39 south, 1 iegitude 28.30 east, off qle. Atngn I
has Batik, at midnight, the was struck
.Ibey_i,igha„aingt:
which k.lled a seaman named David .on tii
itt,sptiLs'eei
descent,
mast, and after (It stro)ing
itself among the
cargo, into the hol,f, and dissipated . g •
and splinterieg a portion astoreedgecekarnrithe mainmast,
other injury thaa filling the
cargo, without doieg any , ,
sutpnureus smell.
between decks with a au"'
Several others orthe crewwere struck clown and stupi-
tied by the stock, but without serious injury. The most
uedie a tan
y ctreunis ee connected with the accident
e,,„.t:tii.,
,fr,c,
xa .
the .hi ck had on the cotnpasscs of the
ship, th,, polatity of which was totally destroyed, and
had only recovered their proper totonetic
arrival of the weasel at • -
the difficulty which the lost, C powers on the
6 ofo .
this .1. tvailsuaebalseyituodeexonocca-
sioned to the captain, who, however—and it redounds
greatly to his skill and ability as a seaman, when we take
into account that the space traversed without this impor-
tant aniaeat to navigation was 2,700 miles of latitude—
succeeded in bringing his vessel safely into port iu the
unprect.dmtedly snort space of 101 days from London.

WOOLWICU, JULY ARTILLERY.—Capt.
corevany battalion), recently returned
from St. John's, New Brunswick, and Captain Crofton's
company (7th battalion), and Captain Munday's com-
pany (3d battalion), from Canada, assembled at half-
past ten o'clock A.M. yesterday, on the barrack-field, for
the Commandant's inspection. Lime.-General Sir
Thomas Downman, C.B. and K.C.11., accompanied by
Colonel Cruttenden, Brigade-Major Bingham, and the
commanding officers and adjutants, arrived shortly after,
and made a tninut.t inspection of the men,: At the COU•
chtsion the Commandant expressed himself highly
pleased with their clean and aoldicrliko appearance, and
the excellent manner in which their appointments were
kept.
CITY DisrENs.taY.—Yesterday the Right lion.
the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Aldermen of Cord-
wain Common Council, attended at
e Ward,
Church
St. anal the
tary.ir
Cheapsitle, to hear the
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Hereford, who preached
a sermon in aid of the funds of the City Dispensary,
situate in Queen-street, Cheapside. The service was
well attended, and the collection was liberal.

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SE.

J A M 1' 1-i P.; A 1* Li
FRENCif PLAYS and OPERA COMIqUE.
Last Night but Two of the Season.
Monsieur ARNAL and Mdme. DOCUE In Two VaudevillaL
Tills n; VEN
TM Performances will commence at Half-past seven o'clock with
LES DEUX DIVORCES.
After which,
LE MARI DE LA DAME DE CHCEURS.
To conclude with
MONSIEUR ET MADAME GALOCHARD.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
MADAME SONTAG,
TO-MORROW EVENING
Win be performed Donizettl's celebrated Opera,
LINDA DI CHA3IOUNL
To conclude with a new grand Ballet, entitled
LES PLAISIRS DE L'HIVEB.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
ox -o ft! ce of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as
usual, price 10s. 6d. each.

THEATRE ROYAL, itAYMARILET.
Mr. R. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
1 HIS EVENTN ,
Will be performed a new and original tragic Play, in Five Acts,
entitled STRATHMORE. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Kean,
H. Vandeuhoff, Buckstone, Howe, Stuart, Rogers ; Mrs. C. Kean,
Mrs. Fttzwilliant, and Miss Reynolds.
After which WHO'S YOUR FRIEND ?
To conclude with PAS DE FASCINATION.

THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHL
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented a new piece, entitled WEBSTER'S ROYAL
RED BOOK.
After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S
VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS.
To be followed by a novelty in the shape of A ALOST UNWAR
RANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright
to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford.
To conclude with. JOHN JONES.

/LOYAL LYGs..U.M THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Cnarles Ma• he s.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH.
To be followed by A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
After which the Ballet of AULD ROBIN GRAY.
To conclude with ILTED UP.
Dret3 ~uxe:, 55.; Upper Boxes, 43. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. No
talf-price tc,' any part of the house.
The New Box-office, No. 2, WebLigto-o, street, is open to the
public every ,Jay, from Ten till Slit.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITILKA.TRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen. his Royal Highness
Prince &lbert, Etc.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time :
Mdlles. Adelaide lllnnis, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeaue
Josephine ; Miss Woolford. Barrand , Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.
In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in alnounc-
lag that he has engaged that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte,
whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent ant in America have ac-
quired for her the appellation of the Equestrian Enchantress.
TO-MORROW,
The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled
3100LTAN and GOOJEctAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs.
To b, ,olloweu by to ,nunitar,le display oi :•(!bSCE,.
CIRCLE. in which Marie Macarte will appear, supported by the first
Equestrian talent ..f the
To conclude with a favourite Melodrama, entitled TtlF. SOLI-
TARY OF LAMBETH; or, The Mur eIl n St. George's-I:WIC&
tiox,rnet ,bv, from Eleven ttli r our
izet. Mr. W

ROYAL Z,,uLokile iL tiAItDL,S.
Eugu,;en.elit ut M. JULLIEN.
I'ARALLKLED SUCCESS,
IMMENSE AND UN

Ceder the patroinge of her %Ns Gracious Majesty, no Majesty the
Queen Dowager. h s Royal !lioness Prince Albert, &c.

The Public Press has unanimously pronounced the -:torming of
Radajoz to be the most pert' et aai life-like exhibition.

The Gentry, and the Pablic .ire respectthily informed
that thin favourite place of fashionable resort is open every
MONDAY, T'E.;DAY, WEDNEADAf, AND l'iltrltsDAT.
Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AVD
FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public
*pinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever
oreseuted—Splendid Menagerie—du lien's unrivalled Band—Vo-
eal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and
Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder—
Solos by Koenig, Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by
Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and outer at-
tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of
Badajoz, pourtraying the advance of the British army—bombard-
ment and attack—gallantdefence—rush to the breach oy real troops
—and final tableaux in honour of the " hero of a hundred fights."
REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long
complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only
could be procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinct
portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had
of the first quality, and at the usual Prices.
Doors open at Nine o'Clock, A.m. ; feeding of the animals at Five ;
Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five; Concert at Six; Storming
ad BadaJoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 9.
ThEamomrtms, Lowest, 59; Highest, 66, Noon, 74,

BAROMETER, 30.36.
WIND W.—fine sunshiny weather.

HIGH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tau DAT —Morning, S min. after 4 i Evening, 25 min. after 4
To-Moasow—Morning, 44 min. after 4 Evenin-, 3 min. after 5

was the ROUBILLIAC of his generation—whose Eve
had (as in the history of eges) been only the ante-
cedent and promise of his Graces. Tnere was the
KEPLER of England whose efforts for the
advancement of astronomic science bad added
a new dignity to the lustre of his
nobility. There, near the renowned geologist
of the day, was the first caricalurist of a time
abounding is those eccentric maters of the
pencil. There, by the witty editor of Punch,
was its facetious and inimitable illustrator. With
these were numbered also engineers who have
accomplished more than was ever attempted by AR-
CHIEUDES—naturaI philosophers, who have emulated
the fame of DAVY—dramatists and wits, novelists and
engravers, poets and publishers, artists and li-
brarians, physicians and architects, divines
tied muscians. Never, perhaps, had the hanquetting
hall of the civic palace contained at one moment
such a brilliant array of intellects—never certainly
one so attractive and miscellaneous. The remem-
brance of Saturday evening will not very speedily
be forgotten. It will add another memento of in-
terest to a Mayoralty already distinguished by the
possession of so many guarantees to remembrance.

The proceedings of the Dublin Corporation a few
days since were of an unusually interesting character.
The long-talked-of and much-desired visit of her
Gracious MAJESTY to Ireland—that very interesting
portion of her dominions—was officially announced
to the chief magistrate of the second city of the
empire; and the loyal spirit in which the announce-
ment was received conveys a promise of the enthu-
siasm with which her MAJESTY will be welcomed by
that hospitable and warm-hearted people. We sin-
cerely believe our illustrious QUEEN deeply feels for
the misfortunes and calamities of Ireland, and that no
Monarch had ever stronger claims to the loyalty and
gratitude of her Irish subjects than the illustrious
lady who now wears the Imperial Crown. We hail
her MAJESTY'S visit to Ireland as the harbinger of
peace and hope to that suffering land ; and
though her MAJESTY'S visit,
as announced, will
be but short, and though in her circumscribed
tour she can see but few of the beauties and capaci-
ties of that lovely island, we trust it will produce a
desire to revisit, at no distant period, this portion of
her dominions ; and that, in future, the illustrious
daughter of the Earl of DUBLIN will be deemed no
stranger,in her ancient city on the banks of the Liffey.
The municipal authorities of Dublin, on the same au-
spicious occasion, discharged another important duty in
electing their chief civic officer for the ensuing year,
and we congratulate the citizins on their selection ;
they have done but justice to the talent and ability of
the indefatigable Member for the Irish metropolis.
He has well earned this meed of honourable
ambition at the hands of his fellow-citizens.
The selection of such a gentleman at this mo-
ment is a sure guarantee of the heartfelt shout of
loyalty which will greet her MAJESTY the moment
she touches the Irish shore. The suggestion thrown
out by Mr. REYNOLDS, the Lord Mayor elect of the
city of Dublin, of the p..opriety of building a royal
pal-ice in the neighbourhood of Dublin for the future,
reception of I:er MAJESTY, deserves the most serious
consideration, and we have no doubt, will ere long, be
acted on; we cannot conceive anything more calcu-
lated to cement the ties of loyalty and affection be-
tween her MAJESTY and her Irish subjects than a
residence amongst them. The Irish people are at-
tached to monarchy, and have ever been proverbially
loyal. A few enthusiasts there ore, no doubt,
as there are in all lands where tLere is
a political grievance to complain of, or a
wrong to be redressed, but the heart of the country
is scund and loyal, and requires no stronger remedies
than such as can be applied through the medium of
the Constitution. Let the waste lands be reclaimed,
adjust the landlord and tenant question, give facilities
to finish and extend railroads, extend the principle of
free trade by an unrestricted currency, and the total
abolition of indirect taxation. Let these matters be
set about with a hearty good will; they are all within
the limits of the Constitution, they are no more than
the requirements of justice demand. By these means
you will banish discontent by giving employment to a
starving and industrious people; you will hear no
more of young gentlemen figuring in green and
gold on the plains of Balingarry, and Primrose-hill
itself will not be more tranquil than the
wild mountains of Tipperary.

The facilities offered to pleasure-seeking tourists
to visit Ireland, to which we referred on a former
occasion, will, we have no doubt, be continued during
her MAsEsTv's trip. Much suffering and sorrow will
be relieved by the influx of wealthy visitors, who will
be amply repaid by the enjoyment of beautiful
scenery, and what, perhaps, will be no less grateful to
some of them, the blessings of many a grateful heart.
The time chosen for her MAJESTY'S visit is auspicious.
The unemployed artisans of Dublin will be set to
work—the drooping trade will revive—the merry
harvest time will give employment to the agricultural
labourer—there will be hope and gladness through
the length and breadth of the land—and Vic-
TORIA'S visit to Ireland will be hailed as
the harbinger of happier days and fairer pros-
pects to that lovely, but afflicted island. We
will not, we cannot indulge in the contemplation
of anything that could mar these happy anticipations ;
we believe that our fellow-subjects wi!l "cast every
bitter remembrance away," and will join in one uni-
versal and uninterrupted song of joy and welcome to
amiable and benevolent QUEEN. While the
popular voice speaks through such organs as the
Honourable Member for Dublin, who has just re-
ceived the highest reward of a useful citizen's honest
ambition, Ise can have no doubt e,•r Graciou,
Qum.; will be rec-ived with all respect, 5... d love, anti
loyalty, and that her reception will be in every re-
lpect worthy the QUEEN and the country.

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