The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-25 00:00:00

THE TIT EA FRES.

Kura's TUEATRE.—The season for Masque-
rades concluded last night with an entertainment
of this kind, which was well attended. Thera
was a variety of characters, and if there was not
an abundance of wit, there was at least a predo-
minance of hilarity. It was proposed that a
game of chess should be performed by real men
instexd of the customary pieces. But this per-
formance was of too grave and dull a cast for a
scene devoted to mirth and conviviality. An
ample supper was provided, and the contents of
the dishes were removed by the avidity of the
guests almost as soon as if by the wand that dis-
appointed poor Sancho. The company remained
till a late hour.

DRURY-LANE.—Mr. ELLICTON last night re-
sumed the part of She' in the Comedy of The
Jew, one of his earliest performances ou the Lon-
don Boards, and, on account of the illness of Mr.
DOWTON, the Farce of Sylvester Duggerwood
was represented instead of The Merry Mourners,
which had been announced.—Mr. &adsTON, in
the former piece, performed the Dunstable liero
with his usual spirit, as well as Shevu in the
with his usual accuracy.--CATALAN I added to the
attraction of the evening, and the house was
well attended. •

COVENT-GARDEN.—The Comedy of The Clan-
destine Marriage, and the Farce of High Life
Below Stairs, were last night represented at this
Theatre for the Benefit of Mr. FARREN. The
dramatic pieces were followed by a Masquerade,
in which Mr. FARKEN brought forward many
characters well known in London, among whom
were the Swiss Giantess, REEVE, of the Adelphi
Theatre, young GRIMALDI, a Rope-dancer,
YATES, as the Dandy of a Regiment, and others,
who all displayed their various talents, and af-
forded abundant amusement to a numerous au-
dience.

MADAME RONZI DE BEGNIS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

A report having been industriously circulated
that Madame RoNzr Du BEGNIS had refused to
sing in the part of Giuletta, in the Opera of
Romeo e Giuktla, in consequence of which the
indisposition, which obliged her to postpone the
representation of the Opera of La Donna del
Lugo, which was to have taken place for her own
benefit, was called in doubt by uninformed per-
sons, Madame R __ONZI DC BEGNIII considers her-
self called upon to state, that being a little better
on the Saturday previous to Madame PASTA'S be-
nefit on the Monday following, she not only of-
fered herself to take the part alluded to, that
evening (though a very short time intervened),
but even on any future evening.
37, Golden-square, June 24, 1824.

Bayonne letters of the date of the 15th inst.
have been received. They contain a Proclama-
tion of the King of SPAIN, which appeared in the
Madrid Gazette of the Bth, calling upon the Spa-
nish people to be pacific and well-disposed ; and,
above all, to act with good will and cordiality
towards the troops of France.

Last evening, at seven o'clock, the KING left
his Palace in Pall-mall, in his carriage, with four
footmen in their state liveries, escorted by a
party of the Life Guards, and proceeded through
St. James's Park to the Duke of VVELLINGTON'S
to dinner. The Duke of YORK also dined with
the Noble Duke.

Yesterday the Duke of YORK and the Princess
AUGUSTA visited the KING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR had an audience of
his MAJESTY yesterday.
On Wednesday the Duke and Duchess of
CLARENCE dined with SirJAMES and Lady GRA..
lIAM, at their residence, in Portland-place. The
Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE visited the
Duchess of KENT yesterday, at her apartments,
at the King's Palace, Kensington.—On Wednes-
day Prince LEOPOLD honoured Col. H ucti and
Mrs. BAILLIE with his company to dinner, at
their residence in Mortimer-street.

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'rHE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 525.

[THE TimEs.]
The message of Santander, Vice-President of
Colombia, to the Congress, is a public document
of great interest, and presents a very favourable
picture of the advances made by that infant com-
monwealth on the road to national prosperity..—
For the first time the Vice-President has been
enabled to congratulate his countrymen on the
total clearance of the territory of Colombia from
the vexation of a foreign enemy. There- is not
now a single Spaniard in arms throughout the
whole Republic. Advantage has been taken of
the danger which threatens alike every part of
Spanish America, to press upon the several pro-
vinces the identity of their cause, and the neces-
sity of uniting iu support of it. Besides, there-
fore, the measures of active military co-operation,
which are carried on by Bolivar for the imme-
diate relief of Peru, and which are fairly de-
scribed in the message to be undertaken in
defence of Colombia herself, as much as if they
bad been confined within her own frontier,—be-
sides these operations, the Vice-President an-
nounces that treaties of friendship end confe-
deracy have been concluded with Buenos Ayres
and Mexico : and that one of a similar nature
was on the point of being signed with the Go-
vernment of Chili. The growth and consistency
of the friendly relations between Colombia and
the United States are dwelt upon by Santander
with natural and just complacency. He asserts
that the Colombian Minister was received at
Washington, with a full expression of the honours
dui to him; and draws the recollection of Congress
to that remarkable and decisive sentence in the
message of Mr. Monroe, wherein lie extended to
Spain herself the warning addressed by England to
France and other Powers—that any•attack upon
the Free States of America, with a view to bring
them under the domination of European politics,
would be regarded as a lawful cause of war by
the -Cabinet so announcing its intentions. The
various branches of the internal Government of
Colombia are touched upon throughout the mes-
sage. Education is said within the last year to
have made sensible progress -by the establish-
ment of schools and colleges; but a grant of
money for the further extension of this benefit
is earnestly solicited from the Legislature. A
new organization of the Courts of Justice is
recommended, withdrawing them from the
cognizance of the Intendants and Governors,
increasing their number, and rendering them
more accessible to suitors in a thinly-peopled
country. The lsws relative to the natural-
ization of strangers have already been pro-
ductive of considerable good ; as have the
privileges of navigation, and the distribution of
uncultivated lands. The proposed establishments
of steam-boats on the lake of Maracaybo, and on
the Pacific, are to be immediately submitted to
Congress. A system of revenue is yet, it appears,
to be begun. The resources of the country have,
we admit, been exhausted by years of civil war;
but it seems questionable how far the Vice-Pre-
sident is qualified to repair such a misfortune,
when he opens his fiscal operations by recom-
mending- a revival of the old monopoly of tobacco!
It would not be right to pass by altogether the
mention made in this official document of the po-
sition in which England has been placed by her
Ministers with regard to the Colombian people.
" Pier politics appear favourable to the cause of
" South America." " The sympathy of the British
public and Government inspire the Vice-Presi-
" dent. with the most flattering hopes." 44 A Com-
" missioner from the British Government is now ac-
" tually in this capital"( Bogota)." Yet," I am sor-
" ry that 1 cannot communicate to you what may he
" the ultimate resolution of his Britannic Majesty
'' with respect to this Republic." Here, then, it
is manifest that Mr. Canning has succeeded in
puzzling the Colombians, as well as he has per-
plexed. his ow ii countrymen, with regard to his
real policy towards South America :—perhaps,
and still we are loth to say so, the Holy Alliance
may be more familiar than either, with the secrets
of the Right lion. Gentleman. If the honest re-
cognition of South" America would have, as we
think it must have, the effect of preventing Fer-
dinand and the blinded Spaniards from rushing
into another war with America, we hold it to be
the bounden and sacred duty of the English Go-
vernment to cast aside al! frivolous excuses, and
take that manly step the first moment at which
they receive au official report from their agents.
To wait for an acknowledgment by Spain herself,
was a mere fraud upon the common sense of this
country.. Our Ministers know, and have known
from the beginning, that Spain will not acknow-
ledge the independence of her colonies. Let us,
then, hear no more false pretences, and let Eng-
lish honour be the great leading principle of
those ho are its appointed guardians.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There was a numerous attendance of the Peers
last night to hear the complaint and motion of
Lord Holland, respecting the Protest entered
upon the Journals against the passing of "the
Earl Marshal's 13i11," and signed by the Duke
of Newcastle and the Earl of Abingdon. The
complaint was confined to the fourth and last
reason assigned for the ' protest. It was there
stated that the Bill protested against was read a
third time " at the early hour of five o'clock,"
when many Peers were absent, and that the vote
did " not express the sense of the House." Lord
Holland contended that five was not an early
hour, but the regular hour for beginning public
business in that House, and that, in fact,.eight
petitions -upon public questions had been presented
and read after five o'clock, and before the
Earl 'Marshal's Bill was read a third time ; there
was a much more numerous attendance than at
seven, • when the House divided eight. to three,
ppon the Welch /
Judicature Mil, and no Lord
was taken by surprise. As to the sense of the
House, there could be no safe, and there was no
en.o.ry.mo.de of ascertaining, it, but by the
Parliam
rit • No divisiolltha"
vote of the mqo. y t ever took
Place bad a majority of all
the
• Lords for the
majority in that division. There we. .:
e• -
351 Peers)

and no majority ever yet boasted 176. The No-
ble Lord gave a pleasant account of the contests
in former times about expunging protests, the
protesters always embodying their offensive
reasons in every succeeding protest against
the expunging of those reason.. He moved
not for expunging, but for inserting a state-
ment of facts in contradiction of the reason of the
protest in question. The Earl of Abingdon at
once expressed his regret for having signed the
reason complained of, and declared that he had
meant only to protest against the principle of the
Bill. The Duke of Newcastle, less yielding,
persisted in thinking the reason quite correct.—
It might be five minutes past fire, but not more.
He would, however, submit to the judgment of
their Lordships. The Lord Chancellor expressed
a very decided opinion upon the vote being the
sense of the House, and, with some verbal amend-
ments, supported the motion, which was una-
nimously adopted. Their Royal Highnesses
the Dukes of York and Sussex were present, and
seemed to enter with great interest into the dis-
cussion. The Duke of Richmond bore testimony
to the fact of having himself presented five pub-
lic petitions after five o'clock, and before the
third reading of the Earl Marshal's Bill. There
was the greatest good humour on both sides.—
Much laughter was excited by Lord Ilolland
calling the " Welch Judicature Bill " the Welch
Peers' Bill. He remarked in explanation-46 I
am sure they must be of sufficiently ancient de-
scent."

[MORNING POST.]
There was no business of importance in the
Commons last night. A Petition was presented
from the Debtors confined in the Surrey Gaol by
Mr. Hobhouse, complaining of the severity of the
regulations made and enforced by the Magistrates.
Mr. Denison admitted the truth of some of its
allegations, and expressed his intention of calling
the attention of his brother Magistrates to the
subject. The petition was then received.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
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Among our extracts from Paris Papers will be
found a communication from Sir Wm. A'Court to
the Count Ofalia at Madrid, disclaiming, on the
part of the British Government, all concern with
the return of Iturhide, and stating that it never
had had any communication with that in-
dividual. A ridiculous story is told, in the
Madrid article of the Etoile, on the au-
thority of the Master of a vessel which left
Havanna!) the 6th March, of an attack and rob-
bery of the English Commissioners to Mexico, on
their attempting to return. Numberless commu-
nications from Mexico, of a much later date, hare
been received here, and the letters from the Ha-
vannah come down even to the middle of May.
But any thing will do for Madrid and the Etude.