The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON PON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, is 36

answerable for Ilis general conduct, but for not one of
his particular acts !

The House of Commons decided last night by a
flattering majority of fort)-two, in favour of Mr.
GRANTL EY BERK EL EY'S motion for the admission
of ladies into th:,. gallery. We congratulqte the
House on the gallant and courteous spirit that dictated
this decision ; and more especially, on the part of our
fair readers, do we feel bound to - return bur best
thanks to the chivalrous Forty-two, who, with an
enernr worthy of the Highland Black Watch, have
stormed the trenches of prejudice, and carried all be-
`fore them. Gallant men They are worthy to have
their names emblazoned in characters of gold, on the
walls of every boudoir and drawing-room in the king-
dom. No one knows the good they will be the
means of entailing on the country, by their advocacy
of the claims of the fair sex to a seat in Parliament.
Long, prosing speeches will he at once put all end to,
for who will twaddle when ladies refuse to listen ;
braying and cock-crowing will be- voted nuisances,
instead of accomplishments, as they now arc ; and the
whole House—the Irish Members in particular—awed
by the presence of beauty, will, to use the chaste and
apt expression of Dr. BOWRI NG, " bridle their manly
passions," and become miracles of statesman-like and.
philosophic phlegm. Neither will there, as some have.
imagined, be the slightest difficulty in clearing the gal-
lery of its fair occupants, when the forms of the House
demand their withdrawal. It will only be necessary
for Sir ANDREW AGNEW or Colonel SIBTIIORP to
get up on their legs, to occasion an instantaneous, but
decorous, rush of ladies to the door. As for the'
notion that the younger and more susceptible Mem-
bers will be apt to address the SPEAKER as
" Ma'am," instead of " Sir,"—thinking rather of
the bright eyes in the gallery, than of the grave
face in the Chair—we scout it as a fiendish ca-
lumny, utterly at variance with all we know of
the strait-forward, business-like habits of our Re-
formed House. Mr. KEARSLEY, we perceive, opposed
the motion, as being " idle and ridiculous." Now, in
answer to this, we may observe, that had it not been
carried, the most flagrant injustice would have been
done to the younger portion of the female community,
for old ladies are already. eligible to a seat in the Gallery,
we ourselves haying seen our fair contemporary the Morn-
inglie7ald there, not six nights since ! But if were there
no other argument for the motion, a quite sufficient one
would be found in the assertion of Dr. BOWRING, that
its immediate effect will be to cause Hon. Members to
"bridle their manly passions." Think of DANIEL,
tail and all, " bridled" by a gallery full of ladies ! The
fierce agitator tamed—the " mighty Dragon" van-
quished by a band of she St. Georges No wonder the
motion was carried, for not a Tory in the House bu,
must have voted for it—for this, if net for no other

reason.

KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

BUSINESS OF THE COURT.

At the sitting of the Court, Lord DENMAN said, that to-
morrow, if convenient, they would take the St. Pancras case,
which had been partly heard, from the peremptory• paper.
There was also a ease of Leely v. Brew, which the Couit
should like to dispose of. They then proposed to take mo-
tions, and afterwards the peremptory paper, till the end of the
Term.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL begged to know what decision
their Lordships had come to with respect to the case of Ben-
ton v. Peppercorn, which was an action for a malicious prose-
cution, and in which a verdict of 5001. had been obtained.

Lord DENMAN—Has any arrangement been made yet be-
tween the parties?
Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK said that no arrangement had
been made. ,

The COURT having conferred for some time,
Lord DENMAN-1 suppose, Mr. Attorney, there are a great
many motions?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—There are a good many, my
Lord.

Lord DENMAN-Then, as it will be desirable that we should
give the rest of this term to motions, we will take the case
;Benton and Peppercorn) next Term, and shall hear one
Counsel on each side.

The COURT then took the case of the King v. The London
Dock Company, from the Crown Paper. The question in-
volved in it was the right of the proprictor of the Wheat Sheaf
public-house, Star-street, Shadwell, to compensation for injury
sustained in his business, in consequence of alterations made
in the neighbourhood by the London Dock Company.
The arguments of Counsel, in support of the claim of the
party to compensation, had not terminated when our Re-
porter left.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY).

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are moderate arrivals of Grain this week, and a good
return of Flour. The Wheat trade continues firm at Mon-
day's prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease are unaltered. Oats
are again rather dearer. The Flour trade is not brisk, but
Monday's terms are well maintained.
ARRIVALS.
Whelt I Barley. I Oats. I Flour.
2,520 gra 2,41J0 grs 1,8 eu qrs. :/,21 1 sacks
6,2611

English
Irish
Foreign

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have no Foreign arrivals this morning. Two French
Mails are now due ; but arc expected in the course of the day,
as the wind has abated.

THE FUNDS.

Being without intelligence from Paris, or other Continental
news, the various Funds remain stationary at yesterday's quo-
tations. Consols, 01i for the Account—same for Money ;
Exchequer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock,
2104 ; India, 2572 2581.
h. the Foreign Market, not a bargain doing yet. Spanish
Active, at the price they closed yesterday, 4671 ; Passive,
14+ -1:; Deferred, 224 23 ; Portuguese, 831 ; Three per Cents,
52+ 531 • Colombian, 321 33 ; Mexican, 35 36 ; Dutch Two-
and-a.half per Cents, 56+ 57 ; Five per Cents, 1011 +.
HALF-PAST-ONE.
We are exceedingly dull in the city, owing to there being
no Continental arrivals to the present hour, and the specula-
tors in the Funds are anxiously waiting for the French mails ;
consequently there is a stagnation both in the British and Fo-
reign Markets. _ . . .

The Batavia, from Holland, which is expected every hour
with the Prince of Orange and his two sons, has caused
various speculations for their coming to this country, but we
understand they are going to Oxford for their education ;
ther...fore the report of the Prince of Orange coming on poli-
tical motives is supposed to be entirely groundless.
Consols have been during the morning at 91i. for the Ac-
count, and 9lifor Money, with a scarce a bargain doily?' ; Ex-
chequer Bilis 18 20 ; India Bunds 5 3 ; Bank Stock 2101;
India Stock 2571.
In the Foreign Market there is scarcely any alteration in
the prices of the morning ; Spanish Active 461 ; Passive
14a. ; Portuguese 831 ; Three per Cents. 534 ; Dutch Five
per Cents. have risen per cent. 1014.
SllARES.—Colonial Bank 71 4 prem. ; Great Western 351;
Stephenson's Brighton 20 ; Rennie's par ; Greenwich 27.
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for the Account, 914.

Sir Andrew A onew's Bill prohibits all work on
the Lord's day. By the first clause it is proposed, "That no
person upon the Lord's Day shall do, er hire, or employ any
person to dD any manner of labour, or any work of his or her
ordinary calling, or in the way of trade or business," &c., &c.
The 4th clause empowers constables and others to seize goods
offered for sale in public places on the Lord's Day. The
highest penalties for drunkenness and for keeping open houses
of public entertainment on the Lord's Day, are 40 shillings
for the former, and 5/. for the latter. We instanced ;.yes-
terday some other more absurd and objectionable clauses.
MILTON-UPON- TH AM ES.—Great improvements
arc going on at Milton-upon-Thames. The foundation stone
of the new street, leading from the Terrace Pier to the Dover-
road, was laid yesterday by Mr. Alderman Harmer, in the
presence of a large number of the inhabitants. The street,
in compliment to the worthy Alderman, was named " Harmer-
street." .
EATON PARK.—" We have heard, with the utmost
indignation," says the. Chester Courant, " that some rude and
vulgar fellows in a gig, on driving recently through the Park,
nearly ran down our Noble neighbour the Marquis of West-
minster. Instead of apologizing for their abrupt, and we should
hope, unintentional conduct, they made use of language to his
Lordship which we shall not repeat. His Lordship has, in
consequence, ordered the gates of his park to be locked ; and
thus are the good citizens of Chester deprived of a most de-
lightful promenade through the conduct of two ill-behaved and
worthless men.
SHAFTESBURY'S RELlGlON.—Shaftesbury was
one day conversing in a whisper with a friend, while a lady
related to him was in another part of the room. As the con-
versation proceeded, the Earl became less conscious of the
lady's presence, and at last observed, loud enough to be heard
Men of sense are all of one religion." " And what re-
ligion is that ?" unexpectedly inquired the lady. The Earl
turnilig round and bowing, replied; " That, Madam men of
sense never tell."

LITER&TURE.

DUn LIN REVIEW. No. I.

Spooner. London. 1836.
This is the first Number of a new Quarterly. periodical, .
brought out under the joint auspices of Messrs. O'Connell
and Quin. It contains many clever papers, but on the
whole, is somewhat heavy—a serious defect with the majo-
rity of readers, whose constant cry is for the sprightly and
the superficial in criticism, as in almost every thing else.
The first article, on " Howitt's Book of the Seasons" is
the most eloquently written in the Number, and describes
the various phenomena of creation, animate and inanimate,
in a philosophic, and. we may even add, a poetic spirit.
" Earl Mulgrave in Ireland," after briefly pointing out the
fallacy of the system on which the MarquiS of Anglesey
proceeded, during his second Vice-Royalty, goes on to
speak in the highest terms of the enlightened policy of the
present Lord Lieutenant and the Irish Secretary, Lord
Morpeth. In vain has the Orange party had recourse
tr) the old method of intrigue and bluster ; in vain en-
daavoured to terrify those whom they could not cajole ;
neither the Viceroy nor the Secretary would give heed to
them ; but from the first moment of their taking office,
d'wn to the present, have pursued one 'uniform system of
strict impartiality. The consequence of this is, that the
clamor- for " Repeat' has almost wholly died away, • and
Ireland is more amicably disposed towards the British Go-
vernment than it has been for centuries—infinitely, of course,
to the annoyance of the Tories, who seldom let pass a day
without venting their spleen on Lord Mulgrave and Lord
Morpeth. This article is penned throughout in a calm,
convincing spirit, by one who is thoroughly conversant with
the theme on which he expatiates. The review of Mr.
Bulwer's "Rienzi," is laudatory, but not too much so, and is
_interspersed with such political reflections as necessarily
arise from the nature of the subject. The comparison be-
tween the patricians of Rome in the time of Rienzi, and the
sapient English patricians of the preSent day, is briefly, but
skilfully drawn. • ~". Ecclesiastical Music" is an interesting
topic, but it is drily treated, and at too great length. 4 Maria
Monk's Black Nunnery" is a triumphant exposure of a trum-
pery book lately published in British America, for the pur-
pose of calumniating the members of the Catholic religious
establishments of Montreal in Lower Canada, and thereby
casting obloquy on the professors of • that faith 'generally.
We had hoped that this sort of wholesale, ribald abuse, had
been confined to the M`Ghees and O'Sullivans:of Exeter
Hall ; and arc sorry, not less than surprised, to find that it
has made its way across the Atlantic. The " Edom of the
Prophecies " is full of interesting information respect-
ing the deserted City of Petra in Arabia, whose state of
abject desolation fully bears out the predictions of Isaiah and
Jeremiah. Its very site was unknown till lately, when a French
traveller, after a world of difficulties, contrived to explore it,
and return safe home to France. His details of the se-
pulchres in the rocks, to which the Reviewer alludes, are
deeply interesting. " England in 1835," is a dispassionate
notice of Raumer's recently published volumes of travels.
On the whole, we may pronounce the present Number, a
very favourable specimen, though here and there a sectarian
spirit peeps out, when Ecclesiastical " endowments" are al-
luded to.. From the criticism on Raumer's England, we
quote an able character of Sir Robert Peel :

" Sir Robert Peel must be admitted upon all bands, to be a
ready and accurate man of business in office ; a clear, often an
eloquent, and always a plausible debater in the House of Com-
mons, perfectly skilled in Parliamentary tactics, a fair and even
a generous opponent, gifted with great talents, indefatigable in
his attention to public affairs, and a perfect master of every
subject on which he delivers his sentiments. But it will be the
disagreeable duty of history to add, that he never appears to
have had the slightest consciousness of principle. He is wholly
destitute of the faculty which enables the accomplished states-
man to see, even though dimly, before, as well as around and
behind him. One should have thought, that while he was
Chief Secretary for Ireland, he must have become acquainted
with a great variety of circumstances, which would hare de-
monstrated to him the utter impossibility of preventing us Ca-
tholics from speedily spurning the yoke of the penal laws.
Had he even an ordinary degree of sagacity, he must have seen
with his own eyes, that our accumulating numbers, our grow-
ing wealth, our hourly increasing intelligence, would, by the
mere force of moral action, have dissipated every distinction
between us and our fellow-subjects of the Protestant denomi-
nation. But to the palpable operation of these active agents
of revolution, Mr. Peel was incurably blind. Session after
session served only to exhibit his ignorance of our condition, un-
til at length we sent forth a simultaneous shout for liberty
which was not to be resisted.

" How happened it that the same man who had won his way
to power by the energy which he displayed in opposing our
claims, subsequently took his station among those who were the
first to yield to them ? He had no principle. He was the ad-
vocate of party. He was the champion of an ascendancy which
had no foundation in the natural order of things. He was an
instrument of passion, not the child of wisdom."

HINTS to the CITIZENS of LONDON on the
SALUBRITY of GRAVESEND.

BY J. B. CULVERWELL, M.D.
Effingham Wilson.

The object of this Pamphlet is explained best by the
title page. It contains, besides some useful strictures on
cold, tepid, and warm sea-bathing. According to Dr. Cul-
verwell, Gravesend is one of the most salubrious watering-
places within sixty miles of London ; but then the Doctor
resides at Aspin-terrace--one of the most salubrious spots
in this most salubrious of watering-places. We have had
a good deal to do with medical gentlemen in our time, and
we have never 3et heard a physician say that the neigh-
bourhood in which he lived himself was unwholesome.
Of course, this is not meant to apply to Dr. Culverwell's
opinion of the wholsomeness of one of the most deservedly
thriving places in the vicinity of the metropolis.

The Berry Hill Estate, near to Newcastle, contain-
ing 194 acres, the property of the late Earl of Ormonde. was
sold to the Lord Mayor yesterday, by George Robins. There
was much competition for it. The rental is 2201. a year, and
it produced 18,000 guineas.
THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.—The lovers ;of
the Drama have experinced a rich treat during the week, in
witnessing the performance of Mr. Kean, who appeared on
Monday evening, for the first time this season, as Hamlet,'
and was hai!ed with that enthusiasm due to the first tragic
actor of the day. His performance, throughout, was replete
with beauties, but in no scene did his genius soar more
grandly than in the interview with the Queen Mother,
where " He sets her up a glass, that she may see the inmost
part of her." The Prince of Denmark is decidedly the most
finished of Kean's efforts, and the one in which he is seen to
the most advantage,—his youth, grace, awl dignified deport-
ment,—his countenance, beaming with intellect,—all corre-
spond with the royal Dane, and suit him alone, above all
other performers, for the representation of this great character.
Mr. Kean has just concluded his engagement in Edinburgh,
where he has been hailed with an enthusiasm only equalled
in the golden days of his Father, or O'Neil. For twenty-four
nights he has there attracted a succession of crowded audi-
ences, and been honoured by the constant attendance of the
highest literary characters of which Scotland boasts. So
great was the excitement that the theatre doors were nightly
besieged by eager multitudes, long previous to the appointed
hour, and hundreds were obliged to return disappointed of ad-
mission ; on some occasions even the Orchestra was let at
box price, and the musicians obliged to vacate their seats to
satisfy, the eager -curiosity of the Modern Athens. On the
conclusion of his engagement he was 'called for by the audi-
ence, and, amidst the waving hats and hankerchiefs, several
wreaths of laurel were thrown upon the stage—a custom never
before indulged by our Northern brethren. Mr. Kean, it is
asserted, cleared, during his engagement there, nearly a
thousand pounds. —Liverpool Chronicle.
The Duke of Devonshire gave a grand dinner on
Sunday, at Devonshire House, to the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, Marquis of Anglesea, Duke of Norfolk, Marquis
and Marchioness Conyngham, Earl and Countess of Burling-
ton, Viscount and Viscountess. Howick, Lord and Lady John
Russell, Duke and Duchess of Leinstcr, Duke of Grafton,
Earl of Lichfield, and Mr. Poulett Thomson. We have
beard that, during seasons like the present, the Noble Duke is
known to have spent 10,000/. in the balls and concerts at
Devonshire House, besides the fCtes at Chiswick. When
Prince Schwartzenburg was asked how he liked Devonshire
House—" Why, der is a great deal of de light there !" It is
not easy to make out whether he alluded to the illumination
or the amusement, but he was right in either sense.
TILE COUNCIL AND THE CITY CREDITORS.—
The public will be gratified to learn that the Trustees for the
City Creditors have agreed to recommend to that body the ac-
ceptance of a composition on their debts of 15s. in the pound,
so that it is likely the unfortunate dispute between them and
the Council will be amicably settled. The Trustees are
alarmed, and not without reason, at the progress of the
Trinity Harbour Bill, which cannot, with any show of reason,
be opposed, unless there be a certain prospect of carrying into
effect the improvement of Leith Harbour. But an agreement
between the city and its creditors is the first essential step to
thissimprovement ; and this having accordingly been brought
about, and a deputation from both parties appointed to proceed
to London, we may expect that some satisfactory arrangement
will row be agreed upon, and vigorous measures adopted for
the improvement of the port, and for thus accommodating the
public, and at the same time securing the important interests
connected with the town of Leith.—Edinburgh Courant.

Typhus and scarlet fever prevail at present in this
district to a considerable extent, and two of the medical
gentlemen who visit the poor gratuitously have caught the
disease, and are consequently unable to continue their profes-
sional labours,—Ayr Observer.