The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of Cumberland left town on Saturday for his
residence at Kew. His Royal Highness honoured Sir
George Quentin with his company, at dinner, in the
evening.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and
their Household, attended Divine Service ye,sterday, The
Dean of Chester officiated.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon. It
was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor,
Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
Glenelg, Mr. Spring Rice, Earl IA Minto, Lord Holland,
Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Howick.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
The French Ambassador, the Prussian and Greek Minis-
ters, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday.
The Governor of the Bank of England had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday.
Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, had a grand
dinner party last evening, at his residence in. Manchester•
square.

The dinner party at the Marquis of Lansdowne's, on
Friday evening, included the Lord Chancellor, Earls Minto
and Albemarle, Viscounts Melbourne, Palmerston, and
Howick, Lord Glenelg, Sir J. Hobhouse, Right Honour-
ables Spring Rice and Poulett Thomson, Honourables W.
Bathurst and Mr. C. Greville.

THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.
On Saturday evening (being the 30th of Janua.,y),
instead of
the usual entertainments of the theatre, there 'gas aSacred
and Miscellaneous performance of Music,"
the style of the
" Oratorios," which it has so long been
the custom to give
during the time of Lent. The first par:6 consisted of
portions.
of Hadyn's " Creation and Seasons," and of Handel's
Israel
in Egypt," with Martin Luther's I:.(yrnn, sung by Braham. The
second part consisted of a selection from " The Messiah
;' and
the third part was composedo a variety of popular songs, bal-
ladsd pieces of instrume'Atal music. During the first and
second'parts, the stage, 'With the orchestra erected upon it, was
so fitted up as to give a. representation of the interior of York
Cathedral on the oce4sion of the late festival. The effect was
excellent. Among the principal singers were Mr. Brehm
Madame Stockhausen, Miss Shim reff, Mr. Philli?s, Miss Healer'
Mr. Giubilei, and Mr. Hawkins. Mr. T. Cooke was the
conductor. The house was crowded in every part, and OD
audience appeared to enjoy greatly tht performances of the
evening.

CO VENT- GARDEN.
" The Messiah," restored pretty much to its original entirety
as an Oratorio, and without the incongruous mixture of other
music in the course of its performance, was represented on Sa-
turday night ; and in credit to the musical taste of the town,
we are happy to say that it attracted a good audience. The
principal singers were Mr. Hobbs of the Ancient Concert*
Mr. Machin, Mr. Manvers, Madame Caradori, Mrs. Alfred.
Shaw (formerly Miss Postans), Mrs. Geesin, and Miss Turpin;
but the inferior accessories were very numerous and excellent,
and we have seldom heard the chorusses " He is the King Uf
Glory," " Hallelujah," " Thanks be to God," and indeed all
the music arranged for many voices, better executed. The
performance was divided into three parts ; betv,een the first
and second, Lindley, Dragonetti and Philli.ps, introduced
Corelli's trio for two violoncelli and a bas- and erformed
that delightful piece of music so absolutey well, that it wail
instantly encored. Between the second and third parts, ,
Ma-
dame
Bonniaz, from the Conservatoire Royal, at Paris, played a fantasia on the piano-forte, as improved by Erard.

The Duke of Wellington returned to Apsley-house
on Friday.
Sir James and Lady Graham and family have ar-
rived in Grosvenor-place from their seat, Netherby-hall,
Cumberland, for the season.
The Marquis of Wellesley is seduously engaged in
preparing for publication all the original documents and
dispatches written by the Noble Marquis from his entrance
into public life until his retirement from the high office of
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
A Life of Sir Robert Peel, father of the present
Baronet, and founder of the family, is, we understand, pre-
paring by a man of science, long acquainted with the late
Baronet. The Life is patronised by the son, to whom it
will be dedicated.
The Marquis of Chandos has gained an accession
of wealth, to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds, by the result of the Breadalbane cause in Scot-
land, to the great joy of many of his Lordship's friends
in England.
Lord John Russell has been seriously affected With
a severe cold, which afterwards assumed the character of
scarlatina. His Lordshir,, we understand, is much better ;
and very little doubt is entertained that he will occupy his
place in the House of Commons the day Parliament
Assembles.
The new house in Carlton-gardens, assigned for the
present as the residence of the Speaker of the House of
Commons, is less capacious, but more pleasantly situated,
than the mansion in the same quarter, which was occupied
by the Right Hon. Gentleman last year. The Speaker is
expected to remain in his present residence until the pro-
jected Houses of Parliament, and the Speaker's residence
appended to them, are built.
The marriage between Captain Viscount Deer-
burst, of the 2d Life Guards, eldest son of the Earl of
Coventry, and Miss Cockerel], eldest daughter of Sir
Charles Cockerell, Bart., M.P., one of the Commissioners
of the Board of Control, is expected to be solemnized in the
course of the present week at Sczincote-hall, in Gloueester"
shire, the seat of Sir Charles.
The Duke of Cumberland will, we understand,
shortly resume his snug and very select Sattr. day dinner
parties at Kew, where a very facetious learned Knight, 3
delightfully convivial ex-whipper-in, and a Right Reverend
Father-in-God are his constant guests.
It is stated that the stay of the Court at Brighton
will not exceed the 20th of February. The King rises
every morning regularly at eight o'clock. His MajestY
!passes the mornings in busin.zss connected with the affairs
of State, and in the afternoon he takes an airing for tvo
or three hours. The King retires for the night general'Y
At. eleven.
REPFESENTATION OF GLASGOW.—The requis'
tion to Lord Wm. Bentinck, was subscribed by about
1,200 electors during the few hours it was open for signs''
s
ture c-m Tuesday and Wedn'esday, and, by the post of
Thursday morning, it was dispatched to his Lordship.
answer may be e)veeted on this day week. We have per-
ceived with 4egrei, the divisive measures to which a fevr
Refumevs, 0:go entertain extremely liberal principles, has'°'
reaorted,--Scots Times (of Saturday). •
L'hursday night a meeting was held at Edinburgh.:
for the purpose of forming an association of the Liberal
electors of the district, in order, by mutual support and el';
operation, to secure the return of men of enlightened
views to represent their interests in the Town Council,Wl
different public boards,

MAGAZIN DAY.

81, A CKIV 0 OD' S MAGAZINE.
The " Huguenot Captain"—an intelligent series of
historical and biographical essays, referring, of course,
to the stormy times of Henry the Fourth and the
League—is concluded in the present Number, with a
T •
brief account of the last days of that most volatile arid
chivalrous of Sovereigns, which is so interesting that
we make no apology for extracting it :
During the long course of those transactions, D'Aubigne
thowed himself the same man of sincerity and virtue. He
left the court, and joined himself to the assemblies of the Hu-
guenots, then struggling for the existence of their church.
But he was occasionally summoned by the King; and there
exhibited all the firmness and fortitude of a pure and noble
rind. Henry, one day, when no one was present but Ga-
brielle d'Etrees, showed him the scar on his lip, from a wound
which had been lately given him by an assassin—Jean Chastel.
" Sire," said this intrepid Christian, " you have yet renounced
God only with your lips. he has therefore suffered only your
lip to be pierced ; but if ever you renounce him with your
heart, in your heart will the wound be criven." The King
laid nothing to this bold speech ; but Gabeielle cried out, " A
said
finely expressed, but ill applied." " True, madam,"
d
D'Aubigne to her gravely, " because it will have no
effect." Shortly after, at the siege of La Fere, the King was
teized with an illness, which alarmed him so much that he
Again sent for D'Aubigne, and ordering the chamber door to
be locked, and after they had twice joined in prayer, he asked
him to say plainly, in that hour of his extremity, whether he
thought that " he" (the King) " had ever committed the un.
Pardonable sin—the sin against the Holy Ghost ?" D'Au-
bigne would have declined the office as above his learning, and
advised the summoning of a Huguenot minister. But the
King insisted on his answer, and he then described the sin by
four marks. which say more for his sincerity than his theolo-
gical erudition. Those were, the commission of the sin with
knowledge—the wilful adoption of religious error—the absence
of compensation—and the despair of mercy. Some of those
points struck hard on Henry's apostacy,—and the conference
lasted four hours, during which they joined in prayer not leas
than ?ix times. But of all temperaments a volatile nature is
the least fitted for true impressions of religion. Henry's ill-
ness took a favourable change next day ; he rose from his bed,
galloped to the field, reviewed his troops, danced among his
mistresses, and with the old moral of the penitence produced
by fear, was the most brilliant, and most incurable of kingly
p]ofikates once again. The war with Spain was discussed in
Henryee Council, and D'Aubigne advised an invasion of the country.
P replied with the adage, which has been found so strik-
with t y gly true in ever subsequent war.—." Whoever enters Spain
a a small army will be beaten—and whoever enters it with
nlarge one will be starved." But their old conferences were
ot forgotten, and, on parting, Henry said, " D'Aubigne, de-
eive yourself no longer. lam persuaded that my temporal
and spiritual life is in the hands of the Pope, whom I sincerely
acknowledge as Christ's Vicar on earth." Astonished and
f6clted at this final declaration, he left the royal presence and
4°o that moment solemnly pronounced the King undone.
ne Whole narrative has almost a judicial impression. " I
jes see," said he to all his friends, " that the King's great
irigril will pass away in vapour. I even dread danger for his
Tiel, allied he has trusted to a mortal for its preservation."
1), prognotic was too speedily fulfilled; and so strong was
whAubigne's confidence in the nature of this calamity, that
throllie, was told that Ravaillac's knife had struck the King's
by a No," said he, recurring to his remark on the wound
Is-are-haste', " am sure it was not in the throat. It must
„.1.1-teeti in the hea't.
_ the statistic paper. on "Foreign Policy and Foreign
on: eree,"
specting the we meet wills some curious detail! re-
fairs of Russia, which, it seems, are on
so gigantic a scale, as wholly " to eclipse the wonders,
even ofvvel Leips:e and Frankfort." There is also much
with
matter on the subject of the traffic carried on
'-'t.Petersburgh, along the southern shore of the
'llea. The late
co 'llea.
• Meetings of the Irish Clergy" of
(1111 - give Christopher a fine opportunity for the in-
nc of his high Church and high Tory predilec-
s ; and accordingly he tells us—unconvinced
the
i
tithe massacres at Rathcormack, Newton-
loarry
blarnty that " the cure for Ireland is
tl:rotestantism ; and the only means of giving the
ue weight to Protestantism are to be found in
gth'veing increased energy to the Church." On
contrarst, we should say that the establish-
ser:w which for years and years has been enabled to
upwards of half a million annually from the
eerke.ts of the poorest nation in Europe, needs ra-
'
1111, to. have its energies a.minished than increased.
‘ there is no arguing with a Tory on this point.
e is_ unassailable by argument, and Ivyorid the reach
of
bri;onviction. Though lie sees the stupendous fa-
- of the Irish Protestant Church tottering and rock-
trig to its very foundations, yet he will not lend a hand
shore it up, unless the job be done after a fashion
of his own, Nay, though he is told the edifice is
"safe, and warned to keep out of harm's way, yet he
will
persist in standing under it, and just at the very
Part where it is most ricketty. He even seems to take
a pride in maintaining his position, if to be rash
were to be valorous ; if, therefore, theas building falls
and buries him beneath its ruins, none ‘Yill be to blame
hut himself. " Hints to Authors" is an article which
has little merit beyond that of respectable common-
pal_a
,cce: The idea is not amiss, but the execution is
benorie nt in humour and ingenuity. " The Trojan
1.1. se" is an admirable political satire, though it tells
of
sadl .
Y against us, poor Liberals ; and the second notice
el_ Joanna Baillie's Dramas," prefaced by some
ofecluent and discriminating criticisms on the writings
Ten nYseli, and our warm-hearted friend, Sheridan

FRAZER'S MAGAZINE.
We inSnitely prefer this Number to the last, for it
is fuller of Weful and interesting matter ; and devoid
litlf that fliPpanei and egotism—so often mistaken for.
juntelur'which- disfigured almost every page of its
114111111,aq predecessor. We delight in the " Noctes" of
(ci\lae-w°°(l, but we cannot tolerate the second-hand
Nvlii°Letes" of Frazer.
is 'en has They are an impertinence
not even novelty to reeomoend it. There.
th:othi„g
of the sort, however, to be objected to it
well Umber before us. Its argumentative articles are
4lioh, I'' at any rate, ingeniously, reasoned, and itsr
,:er ones replete with point and vivacity. Poor
,lictui eneillings-by-the-Way Willis ! He is sadly
the eLd bY Oliver Yorke, who lays on the lash with all
d B°l and energy of the most practised drummer ;
kno Stever was
flagallation more richly merited. W
ean_*!lut that we have read for years a bitterer or more
At:tle grit' than is contained in the notice of the
willehtican Attache's Pencillings. We " calculate" lie
titan cautious how he next details in print the s.ub
tiozere (),f. Private conversations. " Kondiaronk" is a
trit;aPilleal memoir of one of the chiefs of the Huron
tf t-hf Indians, who died about the commencement
!tili;s.
eveelnatsctocentury, and was distinguished throughout
career by the possession of qualities rarely
tiv4l).4:sded even by the ablest warriors and politicians of
illode-e, Europe. The description of his mother's
thou- ,°E educating him, is edifying, if not original ;
ob u rriore to be "honoured in the breach than the
servan,„
:,s
tiNivile bringing up
ig prt -
and training of the young Indians,
I„isronie( 41t.ogether on the mothers ; and the mother of K on-
qie W 'night be considered the spirit of revenge personified..
kad 410 asst the proud daughter of one of the boldesti swbaarnrdioras
I*,s4errior
of pert hluntsmen of the tribe ; and
an her
of theiu utmost
4, 4 ,n(i
skill, stature, and. a hunts
ofm the Six Nations
17 of the ''!", had.long been the terror 4% tin.,
~Abenqis, as well as the chief. leader in the bearv‘,as
15tily fou7.tee buffalo chase. Left :=I widow when her son .
i'ld the; Years
old, she related to hint the legends of. her tribe,
Abena ryictories over the Iroquois, the Autagamis, and the
:hewetici;:ls• She invoked the manitous, or spirits--she. re-
Ind sh .er yews of hatred and revenge against those tribes—
'Ail
eh e LlMPeriously demanded a limb of each Iroquois victim,
1-inosstudeetia.n.ght her son from infancy to. suck and gnaw as
ehly in . icious and most desirable delicacy—and she cease-
stilled stilled into his heart and mind the most malignant
fro,t, `,l.towards that
_tribe, whose total extermination became
11411:118 Youth the cherished passion of his soul. She made
hide him r.erlasting vengeance against them and their allies—
v,etati invoke the manitous—and renew his vows and in-
-1 eio"s every moon. She had him early exercised in lessons
llN,quellce, and in feats of activity, strength, and skill.
lii,tmes her influence as the eldest daiihter of the oldest and
svti 2:oPerated chief, and the widow of the boldest warrior
thrv..wiftest hunter, she was considered the most notable
N,,041' :Icier of legends, dreams, visions, and. events, of all the
eoiincirts.l%;,ho sat, in their appropriate circle, at the Indian
4: It es AU of Wine Bibbing" is another gossipping. 1
edotied article, from the pen of that practical
-Pottstii.„... , A ,
IL man a,nu author, Mr. Apperton, who rejoices in
'lle
name of ic Nimrod," We always recur to this
..