The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF• COMMONS, DEC. 8.

The House met proforma this day at two o'clock,
and immediately adjourned till to-morrow. The
SPEAKER, Lord CAVENDISH, Sir F. VINCENT, and
several other Members, then proceeded to St. James's
Palace, to present the address to the King.
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VISIT TO BRIGHTON.

141 F (From the Glasgow Chronicle.)
We have been favoured with the following in-
teresting extracts from a letter of Dr. Burns, *of
Paisley, giving an account of his visit to the
King, on Tuesday the 22d of November last. It
is a pleasing proof of the King's accessibleness,
and of the cordial interest which he takes in all
his subjects :
" Having communicated to Mr. Young, Lord
Melbourne's private secretary, the wish of the
publishers of Wodrow's Church History to have
the next edition- of it dedicated to his Majesty, •
as the first had been to George 1., and that his
Majesty would be pleased to accept a copy of the
work, Mr. Young advised me to put the thing
in writing to Lord Melbourne, and that be would
communicate officially with the King. This was
accordingly done, and in the course of a few days
I had an answer from Mr. Young, stating that
his Majesty had most readily acceded to the pet!,
tion, to have the work inscribed to him, and
that he had ordered Sir Herbert Taylor to say
that his Majesty would be glad to see me at the
Pavilion at Brighton, and to receive the copy of
the work which had been prepared for his Ma-
jesty's acceptance. Accordingly I went down by
the afternoon coach on Monday, and sent a note
to Sir Herbert, announcing my arrival. The re-
turn from the Pavilion was, that Sir had
gone to London, but was hourly expected. 1
had learned that his Majesty had. gone up in the
morning to hold a Cabinet Council, and felt
some fear lost he might not return till Tuesday,
although his general custom is to return the same
day. After breakfast on Tuesday, I had a card
from Sir H. stating that his Majesty would see
me at half-past one, When we got to the grand
gateway, we were stopped by two gigantic look-
ing guards in the old Court costume, who very
civilly asked for whom 1 .? Not wishing
to tell all my errand at once, I said, Sir Her,
bert Taylorearing that if I had said The
Kin;' they might have put me out of the way.ol
seeing the Secretary first, which would have pre-
vented me from getting my instructions, &c. frog
hinge 'lf you wish to call on Sir they
said, you must enter by a gate. a little farther
on ; but if you are to be itt,4oduced to the King,
we shall let you in this way.' On being talc'
that the I;ing was the object of ray visit, the
great gate was immediately thrown open, and we
drove up in style to the grand entrance,, where
I was again met by two servants in splendid
livery, stationed to receive the visitors. To one
of them I gage my address, and desired him to
hand it to Sir H. Taylor, if in the Pavilion, By
the time this was done, the Chief Page made his
appearance and conducted the into a large and
handsome saloon, where he told me to walk
about for a few minutes till his Majesty w 421
dis-
engaged. I did so, and the Page hawing soon
returned, told me that Si; Herbert was in the
ante-room, and, y:as ready to introduce me to his
Majesty, On going in to Sir Herhe4 (who is
a very tall and gentlemanly-looking man, a
General Officer), he told me that kneeling was
diSpensed with, and that I might just do as I
. would in the presence of any nobleman or gen-
! tleman of rank. He led me into the presence
chamber—a large and elegantly furnished room,
announced my name, and then retired ; leaving
me thus alone with the King. His Majesty
was sitting at a table, but rose and returned my
obeisance just in the way that one gentleman is

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rUV.ENILE CYCLOPJEDIA, Nos. 1,2, 3, 4.
LONDON, 1831.
We have a great affection for children's books,
dwayS excepting those nightmares of the youth-
ill mind, the Greek, Latin, and English Gram-
nars. They bring us back to our own days of
childhood—to the solitary walk by the river side
—to the seat among the old ruins of the Abbey—
to the stolen hour at night, when, long after our
companions, fatigued with the day's cricketting
and prisoner's-base, and trap-ball, had retired
to their respective dormitories, we perused by
the dim candle-light, whose wick, as a matter of
course, was snuffed by our own fingers—a peril-
ous achievement, and requiring much presence
of mind—the wondrous adventures of the grim
old American Buccaniers—of Scanderbeg, at
once the pride and the plague of more than one
Amurath—of Captain Cooke and Owhyhee—of
Robinson Crusoe, and the print of the strange
foot in the desert island, that most fortunate and
dramatic of incidents, which Scott and Shakspeare
have equalled but not surpassed—of Anson and
his voyages round the world—and above all, of
Aladdin and his Enchanted Lamp—of Sinbad
and the Court of Serendib—of the inimitable
oriental Barber and his Seven Brothers—of Gul-
Ever and his Flying Island, read then as a work
of amusement, now of sound moral and politi-
cal instruction—of Christendom and its Seven
stalwart Champions—of Mrs. Bunch and her
endless Fairy Tales, invariably commencing with
"once upon a time" and terminating with the cha-
ritable and by no means necessary conclusion, " and
so the young Prince and Princess married, and
lived very happily afterwards." Those days
are gone. Other and more worldly pursuits en-
gross the attention of manhood. Romance has
given place to Reform ; the fairy tales to the
tithe question ; Scanderberg to O'Connell ; Lord
Anson to Lord Londonderry ; the gossiping
barber and his brothers to the Ultra Tories and
their associates ; Don Quixotte to Sir C. We-
therell ; and the veracious Lemuel Gulliver to the
Hon. Member for Preston ! Is this a change
for the better, or the wiser ? We fear not. At
any rate it is inevitable. The golden bowl of
romance has been broken at the fountain ; the
wheel broken at the cistern ; and to unite the
shattered fragments is no longer possible. Still
memory may do much ; and it is by her means
that we are here enabled to express our un-
feigned, hearty love of children's books, in all
their forms and varieties.
Of late years a great change, it must be con-
fessed, has taken place in these books. Reason
has superseded romance ; instruction has taken
the place of entertainment. Boys from the earliest
period at which they are capable of forming an
opinion, are now lured to the level, broad
highway of science, instead of (as of yore) to the
tangled wilds of fiction ; imaginary, they exchange
for real voyages ; legends of fairies and magicians
for treatises on natural history, &c. By this whole-
sale change the reason is of course the gainer; in fact
the rising generation ought (from the pains taken
with them) to turn out a generation of philo-
sophers and metaphysicians, and to despise poetry
and romance as things of no marketable value,
and wholly beneath the consideration of preco-
cious Utilitarians. Whether they will do so or
not, cannot of course yet be known ; but we con•
ceive we hazard no very reckless prediction, when
we assert that thirty years hence, a true poet
will be as great a phenomenon in England, as
a professor of poetry is now a bore cf the first
water.
The Editor of the volumes before us has wisely
consulted the taste and temper of the times : he
has produced a child's book which is at once
amusing and instructive ; which strengthens
the judgment while it satisfies the imagination.
The first number is confined to a collection of
the most approved Voyages ; the second and
third, to Travels of similar excellence; the fourth
to Ancient Biography, embracing well digested
:Memoirs of some of the most celebrated Legis-
lators and Warriors of antiquity. All these various
subjects are treated i❑ a familiar, popular man-
ner, so as to engross the willing attention of
youth. Trite, lengthy reflections are scrupu-
lously avoided, as matters fitter for the considera-
tion of riper years ; hence the book is just what
it should be—strictly and emphatically speaking,
a book for youth and youth only. We must
not omit to state that it is of a convenient size
and price, and remarkably well embellished.

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Now ready, in 12m0., cloth boards, price 65., with Portrait,
A New Edition of
DE FOE'S HISTORY of the PLAGUE
in 1665.
" Had he not been the author of Robinson Crusoe,' De Foe
would have deserved immortality for the genius he has displayed
in this work."—Sir Walter Scott.
Renshaw and Rush, 356, Strand; and J. Gilbert, 51,
Paternoster-row.

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In the House of Lords, last night, nothing of
any immediate importance transpired. On the
Earl of SALISBURY inquiring whether Govern-
ment intended to bring forward, during the
Session, any Bill on the subject of the Poor
Laws, the LORD CHANCELLOR replied, that

if no other Noble Lord did, he would him-
self propose some measure respecting those
laws. In answer to a question from the Earl
of WINCHILSEA, with regard to the Politi-
cal Unions, Earl GREY said that he thought
Government was already sufficiently armed with
power to put down all illegal associations.

The French Papers of Wednesday, with the
Evening Papers of yesterday's date, have been
received. According to the latest accounts from
Lyons every thing seemed to be going on
favourably. The workmen had nearly surren-
dered all the arms in their possession dur-
ing the revolt ; and such was the determina-
tion with which the Executive were proceeding,
that Marshal SOULT had dissolved the National
Guard of the city of Lyons, ordering them to
deposit their stores and arms in the. Government
depot. This decision must have been the re-
sult of the inefficient manner in which the
National Guard conducted itself during the
insurrection. The Marshal felt himself, no
doubt, called on to act with firmness, but he
should well weigh the consequences of perhaps
ill-timed temerity. Public feeling in the South
of France is not to be treated slightly even by
Marshal SOULT and the Duke of ORLEANS
to boot. Lours PHILIP is not yet so firmly
seated in the hearts of the people that he can
afford to play the Grand Monarque.
(From the tifoniteur of Tuesday, Dec. 6.)
Pants, DEC. 5. —The despatches which the Govern-
ment has received to-day by estafette left Lyons at the
same time as the telegraphic despatch which arrived yes-
terday, and of which they are to supply the place in case
of bad weather.
On his entrance into the city, the Prince was received
by the municipal authorities at the gate of Vaise. M.
Pilinglle, Mayor of Lyons, had addressed his Royal High-
ness in a speech, to which the Prince replied in an answer
full of dignity, which was received with unanimous ap-
probation by those who bad been able to hear it. Every
where on his passage in the surburb of Vaise, and on the
quays of the Rhone, his Royal Highness not only met
with countenances animated with joy at his presence, but
frank and sincere acclamations everywhere accompanied
hilts. Happy expressions, showing the gratitude of some,
the repPotaDee of others, the confidence of all, where heard
on all sides.
At the moment when the despatches came away, the
Prince had just gone to the Place de Bellecour to review
the troops. Their appearance wan admirable, their spirit
eracellent. The attitude of the citizens corresponded wor-
thily with that of the army. Every thing announced
the return of good understanding, under auspices which
were the more satisfactory, as the delivery up of the arms,
which had been completely effected, proved the most en-
tire submission to the authority of the laws and the orders
of the Government.
The ordinances, the proclamations, and the decrees,
were read by the crowd and elicited no objection. At the
head of the troops marched the part of the National Guard
of Lyons, which, after having so valiantly seconded them,
had followed them out ,of Nis city. This detachment
brought b ,ck its colours which it had constantly retained,
snit which it had just deposited at the Town-hall with its
arms, in ikedience to the ordinance for its dissolution.
Other battalion/ pf the National Guard of the Saone and
Loire, of the Drone ak,ul the Isere, showed by their pre-
sence the ready concurre,oq pf the population of those de-
partments in the re-establishruent ,of public order, without
which there is neither industry, nor liberty, nor country.
We expect more ample details, especially apeeches
of the tauthorities, and the answers of the Prince, the 41ectt
of which was naostt satisfactory.
(From the Messayer Aes aambres, dated Wednesday.)
PARIS, DEC. s.—Tire 4Precursfitir of Lyons has been
seized. It is accused of having, in MO article in its num-
ber of the 2d of December, excited revolt, appray.ed ;moor-
rectirac, and legitimated before hand all attacks upon
property. ,Cush at least (assures that Journal) is the
meaniug of the expresaions of the writ issued against it.
The Journals of Naptea announce that the Duchess of
Berri, who travels under the ..amne of the Countess of
Sagana, arrived at Naples on the 16th of ;Vovernber.
The fours 4utl4entique of Tuesday has not ai,-ri7ed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR has just auiended (From the Journ4 des PeL•ofs of Wednesday.) :t
16, 17, IS, 19, 24, and '76, of the orders itXTRACT OF A PRIVATE ILETTER. ,rR9?L LYONS Or AUG. 3.
numbers 6, 13,
issued by Lord LYNDHURST, for the regulation of the " The work•people in silk have in general eepelited of
practice of the Court of Chancery, and has added a new the djaorAers they have committed during the 'late die-
order respecting the return of writs. The amended orders turbanees, atod which lasted for several hours after their
will not come into operation until the first day of next Hi- tritianph, when they ,gat ; themselves up to devastation
and eruelti.eh 'ivbich would 4. Fye disgraced barbarians.
ary term, but the new order is to take effect immediately.
To-day the Duke of Orleans made tale entry into our city,
The Duke of WELLINGTON', we regret to
pus-
state, has been confined to his room ever '
tome his return to •
ac.companied by about 20,1)Q9 men, who have Etalr.en 1
session of the town and fauboaiege, We expect the as-
town with a severe cold, caught by his Grace whiist t
Walmer Castle. The illustrious Duke wag of course un-
bem Inge y ,
veryas the workspe;ple are in thef
numerous, and but few oft
able to attend the House of Lords on the first day of the
;Session. Sir HENRY llALioao and another physician in entacTP oxY, TII
are is frequent attendance upon his Grace, TILE ANSWER O,F
TILE MTAM ppy.F; OF ORLEANS TO
ADDRESS OF AYOZ,
Mr. SCALES has carried his election for' P I cannot express to you with what profound grief my
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Portsoken Ward by a considerable majority. The numhexs kingdoms penetrated this day in the second town of tile
were—For Mr. ScAL") 169 ; for Al" 111"11", , after the bloody disordews ae.4 the excesses it has

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY

FROM LLOYD'S.
PotersmouTu, Dm W.S.W.—Arrived tie
Ilite~ ell, Bras,,, from Oporto.
MARGATE, DEC. B.—Arrived off port, the Minerva,
APDoneld, from St. Übe's ; and Duke of Clarence, Pol-
lock, fron Cork.
LtvERPOOL, DEC. 7.—Arrived the Colombia, Ware,
from Bengal.
GREENOCK, Die. B.—Arrived the Jane Haddon, Ha-
milton, from Bay Chaleur ; and Meteor, Gibbs, from
siay.
STANEGATE, DEC. B.—Arrived the Isabella, Streaker;
and Brunswick, Woods, from St. Petetsburgh.

The Lloyds, Spence, from Fraserburg to Ireland, was
wrecked at Stronmess on the 28th ult.
The Argyle, Sharp, from Shetland to Dublin, fowlr
dered off Cape Wrath, 28th ult.—Crew saved.
The Margaretta, Cooper, from Seville to London, was
driven on shore at Penzance on Wednesday morning, but
it was expected would be got off after discharging.
The My, Wright, from Rotterdam to Shoreham, was
driven on shore near Littlehampton on Wedneeday, but
expected to be got off.—Cargo .sued,
The Canton packet, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, put
into Cork leaky, and must discharge.
The Jones, Labronder, from Havre to St. Petersburgh,
is wrecked near Christiana.
Ti►e Concordia. Holsmail, from Riga, is lost on 01a.n.d.:1
The Lamont, Walmsley, from Sydney, has arrived off
Dover; sailed 29th July.