The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-03 00:00:00

We have received from an authentic source the news
of a report in Paris, that five persons, foreigners, are now in
that capital, for the purpose of abducting the Duke Charles of
Brunswick, after the mode of the Due d'Enghien ; and that
in the course of the last month, 10,000/. were received by them
for that purpose.—Morning Advertiser.
The Rev. Mr. Code, Curate. of 'Westport, has
resigned his curacy, and has since attached himself to a new
sect of Christians, the doctrines of which have lately been
expounded in Westport, and who are denominated " Dar-
byites."
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN GUERNSEY.—
Solitary confinement is in Guernsey the punishment which is
almost constantly had recourse to, both for minor offences and
for those of a graver character. At this time there are.more
prisoners than cells, and the consequence is, that the priioners
are confined by twos and threes, and most of the cells being
close to each other, they beguile their solitary hours—hours
very solitary—in cracking jokes with each other, and being
musically inclined, and withal admirably placed to indulge in
this propensity, duets and trios, in strains more loud than
sweet, issue many times a day from their separate cells, fol-
lowed, as a matter*of course, 'fiy roaring choruses from the
whole. - This queer sort oria4itarg confinement is as Mope-
rate of good on the offender, as it is inefficient as an example
to deter from the commipion of-evil, It is a perfect buy-
lcsrpie on punishment. •
A gentleman' left Manchester in the morning, tent
to Liverpool, 30 miles off, purchased and took back with him
to Manchester on the railroad 150 tons of cotton. This he
immediately disposed of, and the article being liked, an offer
was made to take another such quantity. Off he starts again,
and actually that evening delivered the second 150 tuns, hav-
ing travelled 120 miles in four journeys, and bought, sold, and
delivered, 30 miles off, at two distinct, consecutive deliveries,
300 tons of goods in about twelve hours t We simply ask the
opponents of railways, with their darling " things as they are,"
could they do so ? We may indeed truly say, that if the ex-
cellence of our common roads has been the body, good well-
constructed railroads will be the soul of our national prosperity.
—Railway Magazine and Annals of Science, March 1.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS: PORTSMOUTH, WED-
NESDAY.—A general meeting of the Licensed Victuallers of
Portsmouth and Portsea was held last evening at the Duke of
Clarence, Queen-street, when a petition to the House of
Commons was agreed on, and is now in course of signature,
praying to be relieved from that most unfair and unjust im-
post, the advance of 50 per Cent. on their spirit licenses ; at
which meeting letters were read by the Chairman, Mr. It
Kien, from various quarters, in condemnation of that grievous
tax, and calling upon the victuallers throughout the kingdom
to persevere in their endeavours to be relieved from that abo-
minable imposition. J. Fleming, one of our county Members,
will present the petition.
PARLIAMENTARY CHURCH.—The Brighton
Guardian—who is an unsparing censor of ecclesiastical vices,
week after week treating mother Church with as little forbear-
ing ceremony as Jeremy Bentham was wont to evince towards
the Establishment—in an article on the recent appointment of
Dr. Hampden, whom the Tories and Oxford Doctors have all
at once suddenly discovered to be hetorodox, observes, " that
the Tories degraded the Church by a great number of unsuit-
able appointments, and that they did not reform the discipline
as the age demanded, is a subject of general complaint • and
when we see such a radical defect in the constitution Of the
Church as that of placing the power of nominating its Teachers
and Bishops in the hands of an Arian or an Atheist, may we
not infer that the Church has departed from Christianity, and
that the Dissenters who have left it have cleaved to the true
faith ? Such a lamentable suspicion or conclusion for the con-
gregations of the Church of Er.gland is the necessary conse-
quence of having a Parliamentary Church. The Prelates
have sacrificed even the purity of the faith to their avarice and
ambition. While other sects have the Bible and the Testa-
ment for authorities, and decide all opinions by them only,
the leading men of the Church look up to the Ministers of the
Crown ' • and the consequence of having a Parliamentary
Church is to make the faith of the people depend on the opi-
nions of the Prime Minister. The teachers at the colleges,
the interpreters of the Scriptures, as well as the Bishops, arc
all under the control of the King's Ministers, and that the
faith of the Members of the Church of England is determined
by what doctrines and views will serve the ambition and the
purposes of politicians."
NEWSPAPERS.—We affect to hold the censorship
of foreign countries in contempt; but is not the restriction of
the press to a certain class of readers, and, to please them, to
ft certain class of opinions, in reality a censorship ? The whole
gist of the argument is, that at present newspapers, being
written for the upper and middle classes, will be what is called
moderate in their politics ; but that, were the productive
classes once to become the majority of newspaper readers, the
tone of the journalists would be altered, and opinions avowed
and maintained, which, being unpalatable to the present class
of readers, are now kept sub silentio. Now, what is this but
modified Toryism ?—Edinburyh Patriot.
Mayerbeer's long-expected opera of Les Huguenots
was brought out last night (Monday) at the Grand Opera with
all the imposing splendour which distinguishes this theatre.
The lateness of the hour at which the piece concluded, added
to want of space necessary to do any thing like justice to it,
prevents us from doing more than announcing that it was as
successful as the warmest friends of the composer could desire,
and that Mayerbeer was named amid thunders of applause.
The libretto, which is of more than usual interest, is by
M. Scribe. At the fall of the curtain Mademoiselle Falcon,
M. A. Nourrit, and M. Lavasseur, who sustained the principal
characters, were called upon to receive the special plaudits of
the auditory. M. Mayerbeer was also called upon to receive
the felicitations of the public on his success, but remained
deaf to the summons. Her Majesty and the Princesses, with
their suites, honoured this representation with their presence.
—Galignani's Messenger.
The late inundations in Italy had well nigh des-
troyed the celebrated grotto of Neptune at Tivoli. The tor-
rents from the mountains were too violent to be carried off by
the new cascade, and they consequently forced their way into
the bed of the old river, overthrew a rock which served as a
natural pillar, and passed through the grotto with such impe-
tuosity that fears were entertained that the roof would fall in.
The new aqueduct opened last year has, however, diverted a
part of the evil ; for had it not existed, a part of the town of
Tivoli would have been carried away by the flood.—French
Paper.
M. Ovannez Dadian, director of the gunpowder
works at Azatli, near Constantinople, has just arrived at
Paris, having been sent by the Sultan to study the improved
processes introduced within a few years into the manufacture
of that article. M. Dadian is an Armenian, which shows
that among the reforms made by the Sultan is that of not ex-
cluding such of his subjects as are not Mussulmans from
public offices,