The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-22 00:00:00

THE SttN, LofSWON, THURSDAY, DECEMI3VR iB3d.

itirofuml, a new fascination has been added o the
already almost irresistible ottntetitiM of the Frenett
capital. Tmrd tiyhfiliist, too, is not the individtial
litely palace hiiziself spontaneously in 4 sittiation in
which his position must be that at bound to
the chariot-N:yheels 'vietbrioits and detested rival,

&Thy !" There!. hit fig patise to take breath !, Not a word
taf it ts °ids: lid iitit be giNieCted of this un-
kirid attack up.oti. the , tranquil tetiremerit df .040
horiest Lord Altlidip;" If .He had encountered rid.
Hertel' 'hoslility tllati °his he Might ,haVe slept away
the feniairider of His days among hig .ariA His
bee.,;es; fOrgettitig.gradnally that He ever puzzled hhri-
selt With firldilciai gpeetiliatithiS, dr 6tdriiSh6d Other§
with dietotiCal Hig the
provemerit of plorighS dr the aggrandisement of turiliA
arid recreathig himself in congenial society with discus-
sidriS iiped the merits of Mangel-worzell or the excel-
lences of oilcake. The rude d.sEttlit by which 1118 tielOt...-
ful dreams have been disturbed is from the hand of the
Constitutional—the able organ of that party, by which,
through four Sessions of Parliament, eulogy was ex-
hausted upon the labours of the candid Lord Althorp,
the industrious Lord Althorp, the patient Lord Al-
thorp, the intelligent Lord Althorp. Four years ago
Lord Althorp was the one heaven-born Minister, with-
out whose energy, and affability, and perseverance, the
Reform 13ill could not have been carried. TWo years
ago Lord Althorp was the indispensable ally, whose
defection was enough to put Lord Grey out—whose
adhesion was necessary to help Lord Melbourne in.
Now, we quote the Constitutional again. " The re-
sult of his reputation fur honesty is the fame
of having retarded Worm more than any other
single Reformer that has flourished in the present
reign." To be more serious, however, we recom,
mend the whole article upon which we have been
commenting to ,the attention of our readers. It is all
clever, and it is almost all true. The wonder is that any
newspaper, that any Parliament, that any mob, ever
thought Lord Spencer less a blockhead than newspa-
pers, Parliament, and mobs henceforth will confess
him to be. And we have in the discovery of Lord
Spencer's nothingness one more lesson for• those who
set their affections upon the vanities of popular favour,
the cheerings and the shootings, the address of the
numerous meeting, and the freedom of the ancient city
—the halfpenny ballad, and the penny cup. " How
are the mighty fallen I" In the language of their old
admirers, Lord Grey is a driveller, Lord Brougham is
a lunatic, Mr. Spring Rice is assured that his office is
not worth three months' purchase, and the sound of
Lord Spencer's voice reminds his friends of an often-
quoted reflection, " 'With how little wisdom the world
is governed !"—Morning Post. •

end pti•niitteA to siieali it ill; he ninst be con
tent to .SUbniit his eXpressibris, eiteirial.dictatidn:
the Tories may again and again aSsilie its of the sink
`eirity df the reconciliation which has been hastily
patched up between their leaders, but again and again
we must repeat our fixed incredulity: We litio*;
quite as well as our CoMdMitiVe histrUctors, the
genuine ttlitiMents of their chiefs, and we have no
hesitation in declaring our conviction, that no two
public men in England are more irreconcilably hostile
than the Ex-Premier and the Ex-Chatteellor. Con-
formity of character has ever been held to be the only
foundation tot enduring friendship. Let us endeavour
to tty Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst by the
test, and then examine the result. In the fOrmor we
see an individual cold, jealous, austere, and unsocia-
ble ; a rigid economist, but a punctual paymaster ;
pure, or, at least, circumspect, in his morality ; and
pharisaically decorous in religious observances. In
the latter we have a man fond of society, and de-
voted to pleasure-2—lavish in his expenditure, and not
over scrupulous of the sources from which it is to be
supplied—indifferent to the ceremonials of religion, and
careless of the construction put on that indifference.
When we add to these discordant elements of indivi-

dual character the aspiring ambition common to both,
we can be at no loss to pronounce the utter impossibi-
lity of a cordial unanimity where bitter dissension was
but lately flagrantly notorious. But it is idle to in-
dulge in speculation when facts must so soon deter-
mine the points at issue. The Tories assert that Sir
Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst are cordially recon-
ciled ; we affirm that their differences are as irrecon-
cileable as ever. The Tories undertake fur the pre-

sence of the Learned Baron' at Glasgow; we know
that his appearance there is extremely problematical,
or, to speak more plainly, we do not believe he has
any intention of exhibiting himself. The Tories as-
sert that Sir Robert Peel will make a full and explicit
declaration of the motives and principles which will
guide his conduct in the approaching Session ; we, on
the contrary, are perfectly convinced that the Right
Hon. Baronet will do nothing of the kind, but will
confine himself to the old stock clap-trap of his " rea-
diness to correct all proved abuses," reserving to him-
self the interpretation of those cabalistical words which
in his vocabulary may mean anything or nothing, as
the circumstances of the moment may seem to require.
—Morning Advertiser.
Daniel, who was some time ago saluted by Mr.
George Evans, the Whig Member for the county
Dublin, with the dignified title of " Hackball, King
of the Beggars ;" is making a sturdy battle for the
preservation of, his mendicant dynasty, which he na-
turally fears would be pretty considerably shaken by
an Irish poor law, to rescue the suffering masses of
his countrymen from the most deplorable wretchedness
that ever tried the endurance' of human nature.—Da-
niel, whose keen sense of his own interest has always
taught him that the 'charity which begins at home and
ends there is best, naturally fears that, by the estab-
lishment of a legal provision for the Irish poor, the
tributary streams of eleemosynary bounty might be di-
verted to the support of the starving thousands, from
the engulphing reservoir of contribution to himself.
The Fieschi plot to blow up at once the whole House
of Orleans did not apparently create more horror in
the mind of the Citizen King, than the poor law plot in-
flicts upon the alarmed sensibilities of the " King of
the beggars." He views it as a deeply-laid conspiracy,
to deprive him of his Royal monopoly in alms. He
sees in the efforts making by humane and benevolent
persons, to raise his starving countrymen from their
state of naked and dunghill destitution, a premeditated
design to reduce, if not abolish, that lucrative nuisance
" the rent." In this endangered state of his throne
and Royal revenue, his tatte;demalion Majesty bran-
dishes his sceptre, alias his gaberlunzie staff, and lays
about him on all sides with the blind fury of the
giant Despair. We have, of course, come in for
a share of the knocks ; but that dOes not discom-
pose us much, for we fear nothing from Daniel, as
we are not exposed to the treachery of his friend-
ship or the defamation of his praise. Encompassed
and shaken as the mendicant dynasty is by such
dangers, we would, to show we can return good
for evil, advise ,Daniel to insist upon - his political
dependants, the ci-devant " base, bloody, and brutal
Whigs," passing a law to make it a crime punishable
with the penalties of high treason to his crown and
dignity, for any:person or persons to compass and ima-
gine the subversion of his sovereign power, and the
abolition of the princely revenue which he levies, much
after the fashion of the harquebuss-beggar in " Gil
Blas," upon the pockets of the poorest people in the
world. The proposing of a poor law for Ireland, ex-
cept such a one as was intended $o be a mere delusion,
should of course constitute an overt act of such trea=
soil, and be punished accordingly—for Daniel is a
genuine autocrat in his way. He sees in every honest
advocate for the famishing poor of Ireland an enemy ;
lie sees in every rival beggar, as some of the " pa-
triots" who would follow the same occupation have
found to their cost, a traitor to his power, and he never
hesitates on those occasions to shew that, in maintain-
ing the regal supremacy, to which Mr. Evans ad-
mitted the validity of his title, lie—
" Bears, like the Turk, no brother near the throne."
But we are told that a Roman Catholic priest—a
Mr. O'Malley, of some such name—has had the har-
dihood to rise in rebellion against Daniel, and carry re-
solutions against him in favour of a poor law for Ire-
land, even in his own Intimidation Society,. This to
many observers appears passing strange—for ilitr own
part we see nothing in the affair that might io be a
matter of especial wonder. As far as public opinion
goes in, Ireland, the question of poor laws has been
carried for some time, notwithstanding all the efforts of
Daniel, at one time by wheedling and cajolery, at
another by fierce and violent opposition, and even by
detpotic denunciation, to prevent it. In this state of
thiAgs, the wily priest, who, by his speech, appears to
be no mean proficient in the science and tactics of
Loyola, stepped upon the arena—advocated a poor law
with the most energetic zeal, and with convincing argu-
ments ; but then he proposes that the support of the
poor shall be the confiscated property of the Church ;
in other words, that the fund for public charity shall
be public plunder. Who will say that Daniel and the
priest, though they appear to differ, do not thoroughly
understand each other ? Daniel's arguments go to
show that a poor law would be impolitic—the priest's,
that it must be impracticable ; for it can have no other
funds than such as are to be derived from a system of
plunder, which can only be effected by means of a
sweeping revolution. To reduce all the Protestant
clergymen of Ireland to a state of pauperism, that the
poor may enjoy the clerical revenues, is a new way of
robbing Peter to pay Paul. The enunciation of so
monstrous ,a proposition is obviously intended to aid,
not to oppose the Whigs and O'Connell, in shuffling
off the question of an Irish poor law next Session to
some indefinite period, by showing that, even though
the Irish public have agreed to the principle, they
place it on such a footing, as to the mode of carrying
it into, practice, as must, of necessity, render its con-
sideration more difficult than ever. Thus father
O'Malley's reasoning goes in aid, not against the pre-
servation of Daniel's dynasty and revenues ; and,
under pretence of advocating the claims of the help-
less poor, dooms them, in effect, to continued and
hopeless starvation.—Morning Herald.
" If we were not made feelingly and most painfully
sensible of the presence of men in the Cabinet not a
whit wiser or more fitted for the greatest labours of a
Statesman than Lord Althorp was, we should be apt
to look back upon his Lordship's leadership of the
House of Commons, and the infatuation of the thou-
sands who bade the Romans mark him, and write
his speeches in their books,' as idle pliantasies, and
the dreams of some crazy contributor to that old al-
manac, history.' It is difficult to contemplate as a
reality the sway which the mind' of Lord Althorp
once exercised, and that so recently, over the mind'
of the public—we should rather say, perhaps, the ab-
solute dominion which his personal qualities held over
the political councils of the country. Seldom has utter
incapacity as a Statesman exercised all, not to say much
mere than the ordinary functions of intellectual aucen-

Very large quantities of potatoes are at present,
shipped from Havre for England and Ireland. The price
there of middling potatoes is from 20d. to 22d. per cwt.,
which is considered high ; but if the demand for exporta-
tion should continue, it is expected to be much higher. A
brisk export trade is also carrying on in articles of luxury
as well as of necessity ; turkeys are being sent off to Eng-
land by hundreds at a time. The price of a moderate-
sized turkey is five francs.
In the outer office of the Masters in Chancery, in
Southampton-buildings, and placed prominently over the
fire-place, in the view of all suitors and others who have
to do with the Court of Chancery, is an elaborately-co-
loured engraving of a Lunatic Asylum, at Hillingdon, near
Uxbridge.
The suit instituted by Mademoiselle Grisi against
her husband, M. Gerard de Meley, for a declaration of the
nullity of their marriage, came to a final hearing on Friday
before the Tribunal of Premiere Instance ; and, although
the lady lost her cause, it seems she has gained her real
object by obtaining a confirmation of the legality of her
union. From the proceedings at the trial it appears that in
May last the fair cantatrice was married in England to M.
de Meley, who, being a minor, had the formal consent of his
mother. On her return to France doubts were insinuated
against the validity of the marriage, first, on the ground that
the parties had not resided in the parish where the cere-
mony was performed the time required by the English laws ;
and secondly, that the declaration of the marriage had not
been made within the period required by the laws of France
after their return into this country. The first objection
was overruled by a reference to the dicta of Judge Black-
stone in his Commentaries, and other eminent English juris-
consults ; and the other was pronounced to be equally un-
tenable, although it involved penalties upon the fair plain-
tiff, the defendant, and his mother, of 500 f. each, which the
Court assessed accordingly, and at the same time decreed
the marriage to be good and indissoluble.—Galignani's
_Messenger.
A case was tried in the Supreme Court of Massa-
chussetta, in which Mr. Charles Kemble was defendant.
The suit had its origin in some misunderstanding which
that gentleman, when performing in America, had with
the manager of the Tremont theatre, at Boston. The
action was brought to recover from Mr. Kemble that sum
of 3,000 dollars, paid to him conditionally by the above
manager. Mr. Kemble offered to play at the Boston
theatre on the same terms as he had previously received at
the Park Theatre, New York—half the gross receipts of
the house. The Boston manager proved that Mr. Kemble
only divided the profits at the Park, after a certain sum
had been deducted for expenses by the manager of that
establishment. The jury returned a verdict for the ma-
nager—damages 2,500 dollars. Mr. Kemble's Counsel
moved for a new trial, which was granted, and the case will
come before the Court again in March.—American Paper.
An inquest was on Monday taken at St. Thomas's
Hospital, on the body of Harriet Weymore, aged 36, who
was burnt so as to occasion death within a few hours. Mr.
John Welkins deposed that he was living at 45, Lower
Stamford•street ; the deceased was his housekeeper ; on
the Friday'night he was awoke by screams, and on going
down stairs found the deceased burning dreadfully ; with as-
sistance he got the flames out as well as he could ; her
clothes, including her stays, were completely burnt off ;
she told him she had been sitting before the fire, and fell
asleep„ and was awoke by the pain of the flames the were
scorching her ; she was carried to the hospital, where she
died early the next morning. Another witness said she told
him that she had put a log of wood upon the fire before
she sat down in front of it, and there fell asleep ; it was an
easy chair, stuffed at the back and sides with hay, with a
covering over it. It was burnt nearly to pieces. Verdict
Accidental Death."
TILE WHIGS.—In consequence of the course of
observations which the Free Press of Cheltenham has
thought it right to adopt, in condemnation of the policy pur-
sued by the present Ministers, Lord Segrave and his bro-
ther have withdrawn their subscriptions to that Journal.
A correspondence on the subject of some real or alleged
rumour, that the 'Free Press had been bought over by the
Tories, has taken place between the parties before named
and:Messrs. Harper and Symons, gentlemen connected with
that Paper. In the letter of the latter gentleman is the fol-
lowing passage :—" I do not• underrate the rancorous hos-
tility of the Tory faction. On the contrary, my estimate of
its magnitude and virulence, is the precise reason why I
condemn the meagre energy and vigourless measures by
which this hostility has been met. Is it then surprising that
in the midst of the national disappointment—in the fifth
year of the Reform Bill era—after another nearly sterile
Session of Whig Radical union—without one valid gain
over our foe, and with their added victories over us—is it,
I ask, unnatural that the Radicals should be averse to the
concession of a third renewal of that aid and union which has
twice proved so barren and bootless ? Is it without reason
that the Radicals require better security for the energy es-
sential to the fruition of the benefits of union, ere they again
afford it : and do you really see no practical advantage,' to
be derived to the cause of Reform from the stimulus to
the Ministry which the marked discontent of the country
has afforded ?"
WELSH CHURCH.—The Carnarvon Herald of
Saturday, contains the form of a petition to Parliament., for
the reform of the many and grievous anomalies which dis-
figure and impair the utility of the Church Establishment
in that section of the kingdom. We extract the following
passages from the petition: —" That it is unquestionable
that every one of the Prelates, who at present preside over
the Dioceses of Wales, are destitute of all knowledge of
the language of the Welsh people, and many English
Clergymen, totally or nearly ignorant of the Welsh lan-
guage, have in consequence been promoted to parishes in
which that language exclusively prevails, though the twenty-
fourth Article of the Church of England declares that the
celebration of the rites of religion in a language not under-
stood by the people, is a practice repugnant alike to, the
usages of the Primitive Church, and to the Spirit of the
Sacred Scriptures ; and as those rites arc required to be
administered by Diocesans as well as Pastoral Clergy, they
submit such appointments are at direct variance with the
spirit of that article. . . . That a great portion of the
richest livings in North \Vales are in the hands of indivi-
duals who are absentees from the Principality ; while, on
the other hand, many of the most populous districts are left
to the care of Curates, who are barely provided with the
necessary means of existence, and certainly not of fulfilling
with due efficiency the strict duties of their pastoral charge.
. . . That as a striking proof of the extent of the mal-
administration of the Church in Wales, your petitioners
may advert to the appalling fact, that a larger portion of the
Tithes of North Wales is, at present, absorbed in the repair
of Cathedrals—in the support of Colleges and Bishoprics
in England7--by the Bishops of Wales and their relations—
and by Incumbents, who are either absent from the Bene-
fices, or unacquainted with the language of their flocks—
than is enjoyed by the whole body of the working Parochial
Clergy ; and that consequently so much is withdrawn from
the spiritual and moral efficiency of the Welsh Church."