The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

SINGULAR SCENE.

NO. 3, CLEVELAND-SQUARE V. N 0.3, CLEVELAND•ROW.

Advertisements have appeared for the last few
days in the public papers, announcing the grand

dinner to be given at Drury-lane Theatre to
GEORGE BYNG, Esq., the venerable Member for

;Middlesex, on an occasion which may never occur
to any individual vet unborn—the celebration of

Isis having sat FIFTY CONSECUTIVE years in
Parliament I! ! Why, the like has never
occurred before, and in all human probability will

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never occur again, if we take into account the pro-
bability of Triennial, and the radical improbability of

Annual Parliaments.

George the Third had a Jubilee of fifty years'
reign, which he could not enjoy, but it was reserved
for George Byng to see and enjoy the celebration of
a Jubilee far more wonderful and interesting. Just

fancy a man to sit in Parliament fifty long years !
The very idea is quite enough to strike ladies dumb
—a miracle in itself. But to suppose any gentle-
man could outlive all the talk, good, bad, and in-
different, uttered in the House of Commons both
before and (far worse) after the Reform Bill, is
beyond crediblity. But so it is, and in exact pro-
portion to the wonder is the curiosity of the public
excited to behold, not the Lion of the Day, but the
GREAT PARLIAMENTARY LION of hay a cen-

fury ! Nor is the curiosity confined to natives--fo-
reigners protest they cannot believe it !—and, in
proportion to their disbelief, do they run or send
for tickets to behold such a phenomenon displayed
on the boards of old Drury on Wednesday night.
It has often been found-very awkward to live near
people of similar names, but still more awkward for
strangers when the names of places located near
each other are somewhat similar. It was thus with
Cleveland-square and Cleveland-row in respect to the
tickets for Mr. Byng's dinner. Why, every one
thought that such a man as Mr. Byng must live in a
square, and not in a row, and so they posted to No.
3, Cleveland•square, for tickets. But as luck
would have it there were no tickets to be had, and
the hunters after strange sights were most strangely
bewildered ! Some insisted that they were right,
and others wondered how they could be wrong !
The beauty of the mistake was not a little
heightened by the circumstance that as some were
coming away from Cleveland-square, gloomily
pondering over their mistake, others were hastening
thither with bright faces to make all right for the
Jubilee !
Now, No. 3, Cleveland-square, is the mansion
of a Nobleman who was hourly expected to arrive
from the country, and the servants were busily
employed putting things in order for his reception.
But in this laudable duty they were sadly inter-
rupted by the constant applications for tickets to the
dinner I Those who went away-empty handed
did not of course repeat the visit ; but there was no
lack of new visitors, who were far more numerous
than welcome. At last the thing became so intoler-
able that the servants at the square resolved not to
answer any more knocking. But this resolution
had not long been put in force, when one of the
servants fancied that a particular rat-tat was
"my Lord's I" and the door opened not to my
Lord, but to some twenty ticket hunters
The scene was ludicrous in the extreme, for Cleve-
land Square was for the time turned into Cleveland
Row. At last it was deemed more advisable to
leave the door open to prevent the confounded
knocking ; but here another dilemma arose, for the
ticket men walked in without asking any questions,
and crowded the hall. The only alternative now
left was for a servant to go to the Row for some ex-
planation of so extraordinary a visitation, when
something like the following_ dialogue ensued :
C. Square—l want to know what is the reason
you are sending all the people to us for tickets,
when we have no tickets to give them ?
C. Row—Well, you had better get some tickets,
I think.
C. Square, (in a rage)—But we don't want
them.
C. Row—(calmly)—Very well, leave them
alone.

C. Square—(still more incensed)—But why do
you send the people to us ?
C. Row—(very mildly and smiling)—We do
not send people to you ; it is a mistake, no doubt.
C.ubt.
C. Square (rather subdued) Well, it is
very strange that everybody should mistake, for
from morning to night there is nothing but.
knock, knock—and " I want tickets ;" and the
worst of it is they won't believe us, saying they
were quite right, for they saw it advertised in the
Times.

C. Row—Oh I the Times is full of advertise
ments.

C. Square—But they say they saw it in the
other papers also.
C. Row.—Not Cleveland-square ! It is a mistake.
C. Square.—Yes—No I that's what we tell
them, but they won't believe us.
C. Row.—lt is very odd.
C. Square.—Odd I I tell you it is very hard.
What business have we to be bothered so?
C. Row,—l'm sure I don't know ; but had you
not better direct them here ?
C. Square—So we do ; but they continue com-
ing as bad as ever. All Friday and Saturday last
it was bad enough, but this day it is quite intoler-
able. We can't get on with the work at all, and
my Lord is expected home every minute. What's
to be done ?
(By this time several persons canie to the door ask-
ing for tickets, and among them one who stuttered
so much, that he could not be understood. " Oh,
that's the gentleman who bothered us so much half
an hour ago," whispered the Square to the Row ;
" and here comes the deaf one, who would not take
No for an answer, for the deaf gentleman stared
so at the stuttering one till the bye-standers burst
into a horse laugh, and then walked away."
Finally, it was arranged that the Police should
be stationed in the Square, to point out the dif-
ference between Cleveland-row and Cleveland•
square, and the stream of visitors was tutned in the
proper direction for tickets to the Grand Dinner.

ANTI-CHURCH EXTENSION MEETING.—The
meeting of Thursday, at Liverpool, to petition Parliament
against the Church Extension job, was marked by one of those
contemptible manoeuvres at which the Tories are so successful
—hiring a number of low ruffians for the purpose of " kicking
up a row," as it is elegantly phrased, to drown, if possible, an
expression of opinion unpalatable to the dissentients.

AN OLD DEBT.—A. few days ago, a shop-
keeper in this town received, by post, from Ireland, a post-
office order for 1/. 6s. which had been due to the estate of his
father, who has been dead nearly thirty years. The father was
in business in Dublin ; and the party who has thus honestly
discharged his obligation, had been una')le to ascertain where
the debt could be paid—Halifax Express.

Indications, of which the following, from the
Leicestershire Mercury, is a specimen, of dissatisfaction with
the Ministers for not going either far enough or fast enough,
are by no means rare among our country contemporaries :--
" Parliament continues to sit and—do nothing. The apathy
of both houses appears, if possible, to increase rather than to
diminish as weeks roll on. Precious, irredeemable time
wasted in party squabbles. The Ministry continue to take UP
positions front which they invariably retreat. Uncertainty
vacillation political imbecility, seem to be the order of the
day ; and the people, whose interests these Senators are
chosen to represent and to promote, are left to shift for them-
selves." Hard words these, and not to the full extent, per-
haps, quite fair and fully justified. But, at all events, they are
signs of the times, as well as of the state of public opinion, in
some of the provinces.

We give the following monstrosity, head, tail,
and all, just as we find in the Dublin Evening Mail, became:
among other purposes, it may prove a provocative to laughter
" MINISTERS AND THEIR PROSPECTS—DISSO-
LUTION OF PARLIAMENT—RETIREMENT OF
LORD MELBOURNE.

" All these topics—the least of them most interesting and ire'
portant—are treated of in the subjoined letter. None of the
London papers, received last night or this morning, have at' al-
lusion either to the approaching dissolution, the retirement 0,
Lord Melbourne, or the acceptance by Lord Clarendon of the
unenviable office of Prime Minister. We have it, however, from
good authority, that Ministers are in a state of such perplexity,
that they are unable to give a decisive anew 'r to their own re-
porters as to the probable time when Government measures are
likely to be brought on."—lf London news be wanted, go t°
Dublin for it ; the Mail manufactures the article.

MAIL AND STAGE COACH PROPRIETORS,"-:
The introduction of the penny postage appears to have seriouslf
affected the interests of this useful class of the public, by de
reiving them of the advantages they formerly derived from t,
conveyance of small parcels, and which, until the sth of April
next, when their mail contracts expire, they are compelleo
carry free of extra remuneration as regards the payments
s`"
for
conveying the mails. The present contractors have 00
quently pres.entod a memorial to the Lords of the Treasurld•
praying that the operations of the Post-office may be confine.
as heretofore, to the transmission of letters only, or that in WI
thereof some other relief may be afforded to the memorialists-
So great have been the losses of the mail and coaclt proprietors
in the past year, occasioned by the unprecedented bad weather,
high price of corn, &c., and other untoward circumstances,
that many of the minor partners in coat h establishments t 0.,"
declined horsing the mails, &c., thereby throwing the Irb7.:
risk of the concerns on the larger capitalists. tinder t":
above circumstances, a further remission of coach duties,
or
considerable increase in the cost of carrying the 111a1151 may b°
anticipated after the sth of April next,—.Nuth jounicii•
• lir
FACTORY ACTS.--.The otistirt, law is cert9lll
out of favour with parties intet.•%ted, and, in s°g;
places, 1(10;4 to greater hardships than were entailed uls'n
paw( children by the old sytera.— Leeds Intelligences.