The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-05 00:00:00

Your constant Reader,
P— M—.

Norwich, August 2, 1840.

COURT CJRUULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
afternoon in an open carriage and four, Colonels Weiny-ss
and Bouverie attending on horseback.
The Dike of Cambridge visited Prince Albert yester-
day at Buckingham Palace.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her
Majesty.

f.L.r Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun-
tess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Miss Paget, Viscount
Torrington, Earl of Surrey, General the Hon. Sir W.
Lumley, Colonel Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie, honoured
the Italian Opera with their presence last everting.
Viscount Torrington and General the Hon. Sir William
Lumley have succeeded Lord Byron and the Hon. W.
Cowper as the Lord aid Groom in waiting on her Majesty.
The infant Louisa Vinning had the honour of tinging
before the Queen and Prince Albert on Monday evening
at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, and his Royal
Highness, were pleased to express their approbation, and
her Majesty presented Miss Vinning, on leaving, with an
elegant diamond pin.
The Duchess of Kent took an airing yesterday in tt
carriage.

TriC Princess Augusta we regret to state was not so well
yesterday afternoon. Her Royal Highness received visits
during the day from the Duchess of Gloucester and the
Duke of Cadibridge. In the forenoon the follo►ving was
issued :
" The Princess Augusta is better, having pawed a few
hours of yesterday on her sofa, and her Royal Highness
has had a good night.'!
" Clarence House, August 4, 1840."
The Duke of Sussex had a dinner party yesterday at
Kensington Palace. Their Royal Ilightles°es the Duchess
of Gloucester and the Doke of Catub:Lidge were among
the company.
His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Min-
later transacted business at the Foreign office yesterday.
His Excellency had also an interview with Lord John
Russell at the Colonial- office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners had a meeting yester-
day afternoon in Whitehall-place.
Lcrd F. Somerset had an interview with the Niriquis
of Noiaialiby yesterday, at the Home-office.
Tue Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour:-.'ble Privy
council had a meeting yesterday afternoon, in t►,a Coun-
cil-Chamber, on the subject of the harbour of St. Helier,
in the Island cf Jersey. There were present the Lcrd
President, th Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary cf State
far the Home Department, and the President of the Board
if Trade.

Si: Frederick Pollock was heard by thcir Lord-ships,
and the Attorney.C.nneral commenced his reply. Their
Lordships then adjourned.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Dowager Countess of Muuntnorris, Mr. nn4 Mrs.
Hedworth Lambton, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Fazakerley,
General Taylor, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Fred. West, the
Grecian Minister, and Madame Mavrocordato, Lord Ve..
rulam, Mr. Carr Glynn.

DEPARTURES.
Lord Emlyn, fur Stackpole, Pembrokeshire; Sir &rat_
ford Canning, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Viscount Lovyther,
Lord and Lady George Lennox, Mr. and Lady 'Catherine
Cavendish, Mr. Latimer, General and Afiss 'Sharpe, the
Earl cf flopetoun, from Stcven.s's Hotr.'l, fc,r
Castle ; the Hon. A. Willoughby, for tilde ; the Earl and
Couritcss of Listowel, on a Coutirkental tour ; Lady New-
bolt and family, for Weymouqi ; Captain Charles"Bulltr-
ley, on a c:uii.ze in the Peri yacht ; Sir Richard and Laey
Bulkcley Phillips, for Pieuri Castle; Lord and Lat'y
Maryborough, for Deal Castle; the Hon. Captain S r
Ashby Maude, R. N., for Brighton; Lord William Thyritn ,
for ditto ; Mr, and Lady Louisa Tighe, for Woodstock
House, Kilkenny; Lord and Lady Bateman, for Brighton;
Lord Hill, on an official tour of inspection; Sir George
Staunton, Bart., for Leigh Park, Hants; Sir John Beres.
ford and family, and Miss Peirse, from Harley-street, for
Bedale, Yorkshire.

LIYING THE FOUNDATION_
STONE OF A NEW CHAPEL IN WEST-
:IIINSTEIL

On 11Ionday the very interesting ceremony of layirg
the first stone of a new chapel, to be erected upon the
ground upon which the Old Westminster Hospital
stood, at the end of York-street and James-street, West-
minster, took place, amidst an assemblage of thousands..
This chapel, which is built upon the voluntary prin-
ciple, will be a large and commodious building, of pure
Grecian style, and capable of containing 1,500 sitting-s.
It is erected under the auspices of the Metropolis pets' Fund Association. Thomas Wilson, Esq., sub-
scribed 2,000/.; Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P., 1,0001. ;
and various other individuals to the amount of 4,000/,
The total coat of the building will he 8,000/.
The Rev. Dr. Vaughan, of Kensington, offered
prayers, after which Mr. Ilindley went through the
ceremony of laying the stone.
The Rev. Dr. Leifchild, of Craven Chapel, then
delivered a most eloquent address, which was listened
to with breathless attention,

Ocher gentlemen addressed the meeting, vAich was
concluded with a solemn prayer, after which a large
party dined at the Swan Tavern.. Mr. C. Hindley,
'M.P., was called to the chair. Several able speeches
were made, the sum of :350/. was collected, and the
company did not separate until a late hour.

On Mondav a great many persons were assem-
bled in the Chalk-road, leading to the Caledonian Asylum, by
a wager. .T. E. Mulloy, who undertook to perform, in six
h_nr-, the task of walking twenty miles ; to
run one mile, to
walk one mile, to walk backwards one mile, to trundle a hoop
one mile, wheel a barrow a mile, to walk a similar distance in
wooden shoes and in a sack, and to pick up forty stones one
yard apart with his mouth, dance a hornpipe, and sing a Fong.
The commencement of this arduous task was at two o'clock,
in a measured line of ground of a quarter of a mile, arid the
pedestrian accomplished his task well until the latter part of
walking in a sack, when, principally in consequence of the
pressure of the crowd, he was compelled to desist.
CHINA EXPEDITION.—The 26th Foot em-
barked for China and sailed on the 23d of February. The 49th
Regiment relieved the Cameronians in Fort William. Major..
General Oglander has resigned his command of the station of
Cawnpore and embarked for China, in command of his regi-
ment. The 21st Royal N. B. Fusiliers left Chinsurah on the
Bth of April, and arrived at Fort William on the 11th of April.
The 49th Regiment embarked for China on the 14th of April,
and the Royal N. B. Fusiliers were under orders (20th of
April) for embarkation.—Naval and Military Gazette.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SELF-DESTRUC-.
TR/N.—EFFE CTS OF INTOXICATION.—Yesterday morning a
man named AI Donald, a cabinet maker, was received into St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, having inflicted a dreadful gash in his
throat with a carving knife at his residence, No. 24, Old-street,
St. Luke's, under the following melancholy circumstances :
The unfortunate man's wife stated that he had been for the last
month in a continued state of intoxication. Yesterday morn-
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NAVAL MALE SCHOOL.—On Mon-
d al°public e
l A
meeting of the supporters of this Institution was
held for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Council on
itihsehActen t which Received the Royal Assent, "
For the Estab-
and Government oft thee Institution called the Royal
,Nrha\e'alp,Sigehhtootio'na.ndsietoGa.4 u measures toc .eirrythoeut
President,
was op
Cockburn,n as
was called to the chair ; Colonel Robinson ;• 'Captains u rrie
Evans, Dickson, Thomson ; Lieutenants Henderson and Gar-
diner ; Drs. Parker and Malcolm, were amongst the officers
present. A resolution was passed directing the former trusties
to tralsfer to the Council two sums of 4,8951. 16s. each. The
Patrons, Vice-Patrons, and the several officers of the
tion were then elected. Institn-
Mr. J. K. Hooper, a resident of Queenbithe
Ward, has been solicited to come forward for the vacancy in its
Aldermanic gown, and assented. This will probably cause the
retirement of all the non-resident eAnaidates.
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individuals, that ever appeared in a Journal pretending t, be
conducted by gentlemen, Not merely was attacked,has
sieen
struck b) Divine Providence with a malady, which for about a
because of her religious faith, but her husband
year has laid I^,:rostrate the faculties of one of the richest stored
il
minds of modern times, was foully assailed._The.
_ writer
the indi:
in the
Tidies must be totally ignorant of the character
would have known that had Mr. Browne a
been as heretofore, he would have
-.idual attacked, oche
mental and physical powers
condescended to the most humble employment sooner than be-
come a State pensioner; and in at last accepting aid from the
public purse, every one at all acquainted with hint exclaims, it
is his necessities, not his will, that consents. It is a great
mistake, to o.scribe Dr. Browne as only capable of revising
artic)oz. He is known to be the author of some of the most,
erudite papers
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It was cruel, besides, to wound the fee,:ings of a
family suffering under as severe an affliction as can befall huma-
nity. But any ass may kick at a dead lion. The correspond-
ent
of the Tithes forgets to mention that the Rev. Mr. Con-
ningham found himself constrained to make a very abject apology
arid recantation for his statement about the Encyclope
Britannica.—Edinburgh Paper
Alia

ENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TTRONI FHB DAILY PAPERS OF YESTELDAY.)
( From the Globe.)
It has teen generally believed for some days past by
well-informed persons, that the extreme violence of the
French newspapers upon the Turkish question was not
wholly unconnected with suggestions from individuals
on this side of the Channel ; and the Journal des Debats
of Thursday, the 30th ult., affords a comical proof that
such suspicions are well founded. That paper contains
a long and furious article, full of personalities and in-
vective, the whole tenour and context of which show
that it was written in English and translated into French ;
but there are two expressions in it which place this beyond
a doubt. In this country we have heard much of "pres-
sure from without," and of "open questions." They are
slang phrases of the day, and most of our readers in this town
must know particular individuals in whose mouths these
phrases are familiar as household words. But to the editor of
a French newspaper these expressions are gibberish untrans-
lated into French ; accordingly, though the editor of the De-
buts has made a very fair translation of the rest of his English
manuscript, he found these two cant phrases too much for him.
The first he made an awkward attempt to render by the ex-
pression " /a compression du dehors ;" but, as if ashamed
of an expression so little in accordance with French idiom,
he prirted it in italics to show that it was an extraneous
phrase. But the second expression of " open questions" ab-
solutely beat him, and after offering to his readers the expres-
sion of "question reservee" in exchange for it, he modestly
adds in brackets the English words ( "open question") which
he found in his English origi•.;al, in order to explain what his
words question resercee meant. We would beg to offer a
suggestion to the editor of the Debuts and to his " distin-
tinguished Correspondent" in this country—and that is,
either that the Distinguished Correspondent should send
in future a French translation of what he wants to have
inserted—and if he is not himself sufficiently master of
the language, he may probably find among his acquaint-
ances some learned Doctor utriusque lingua who could
help him ; or else that the editor of the Debats should
print his English manuscript as he gets it.
( From the Standard.)
In the House of Lords, last night, Lord Brougham
moved the second reading of his Lordship's Bill for facili-
tating the administration of justice in the Courts of
Chancery. This Bill goes the right way to work,
for it gives plenary power to the Lord Chancellor,
assisted by two others of the Equity Judges, to re-
form the whole system of process and pleading in the
Equity Courts. Should the Bill pass—as there
is little doubt it will—the responsibility for whatever
may be hereafter found amiss in the proceedings
of the courts of equity will rest, as it ought to rest,
upon the Judges. They will be constantly amenable
to public opinion for the conduct of their courts, and
how much soever they may be disposed to adhere
to old forms, and to protect abuses profitable to
professional men, but injurious to public justice,
and ruinous to litigants, they will not dare to pre-
serve either the one or the other. It is a distinction which
ought never to be lost sight of, that while the judges may
be most safely trusted as regards their awards, they may
not be so safely trusted as to the details of forms and pro-
cess. It is well, however, that they should have the re-
form of these things committed to them, as they are best
equainted with the subject, and must prosecute the task
under the strict superintendence of Parliament and of the
public.
(From the Courier.)
Our good friends of Paris are a mercurial race, and
would die of pure inanition if subjected to the monotony
of common life and labour as here, and in other sober
and industrious communities. A new sensation is to
them a primary necessity of every day existence, and
the salons would be tristes, if not deserted, if the peopl a
who deal in politics—qui font de la politique—and
congregate in those high places, had no special excite-
ment wherewith to season bons bons aid give zest to eau
lucre. And if such be the ordinary tenour of their ways,
we cannot wonder that such an event as a political caper
of Lord Palmerston, and his fickle exchange of an old love
for a new one, should set all Paris in a blaze and absorb the
public mind, to the exclusion of all other feelings and feuds.
Fairly to speak, however, they have solid cause now for asto-
nishment, indignation, and complaint, for of the fresh qua-
druple fantasy of the Foreign office, displacing its more
antiquated sister with so little of form and etiquette, not
the slightest forewarning appears to have been afforded, and
but for an unlicensed correspondent of our contemporary,
the Post, Parliament might have separated without
the least suspicion of the sword tempered at Da-
mascus, which the Foreign Secretary had ingeniously
contrived to suspend by a hair, Damocles like, over the
destinies of the nation, and the Parisians, in like manner,
would still have remained in happy ignorance of impending
fate. That contemptuous rupture of existing relations,
and utter disregard of the commonest courtesies of good
breeding and neighbourly feeling on the one side, should
beget distrust and defiance on the other, need not there-
fore create surprise ; the miracle would have been, on the
contrary, that a high spirited, gallant, and mighty nation
should be found crouching tamely to unmerited insult,
and the insolent assumption of airs of superiority.

INDlGo.—Since.the...Quarterly.Sale of East India, 250
chests have bean disposed of chiefly-for export at the
rates established thereat, the principal part consisted of
good quality, the market is looking better; the stock is
now 90,934 chests, last year at the same time it was
18,496 chests, and in 1833, 23,968 chests. Of Spanish
the stock is 1,152 serons, against 2,070 serons last year at
this period.
TaLLow.—There has been a better demand for Russian
Tallow on the spot since we last wrote, and prices have
improved to 52s 3d a 52s 63 for P. Y. Candle of first quality.
For delivery in the last three months prices have advanced
to 523 6d to 52s 9.1 per cwt. Town Tallow at previous
rates.

This afternoon prices were firm at 523 6d a 523 9d for
P. Y. Candle on the spot and for arrival, at which there
was a fair business doing.
RICE.—In the early part of the last week Bengal was
in good request, at full prices, bat towards the close 2,196
bags at public sale went at 3d a 6d under the rates of the
last auction, good and fine bold white sold at 14s a 153,
middling 13s 6d. Java rather higher, viz , good and fine
white 12s a 133 6cl per cwt. Carolina for home consump-
tion at 343 a 365, for export 21s a 23s per cwt.
This afternoon the demand for East India was limited.
Madras sold at 9; to 103 for mid yellow, being it.; full va-
lue. Java at lls to 12: for good white.
SPICES.—Thig afternoon the public sales consisted of
1,391 bags Pepper, 18 brls Nutmegs, and 120 bags Pi-
mento ; Pepper was all taken in above its value, viz.,
common dusty and stalky Sumatra at aad to 31d. Nut-
megs, very ordinary, worm-eaten and shrivelled at 2s.
Pimento sold at full prices, viz , mid quality at 3ad per lb.
Ort.s.—Fish Oils have further improved, 30; to 40; for
Seal, and 103 for Southern. The former in large parcels
has been disposed of at 29/ 103 to 301; for pale, brown,
and yellow, 26/ 103 to 281; and the latter at 24/15s to 25/
153 for middling to good quality. Cod at 291103. For arrival
sales in pale Seal have been made at 29/. Southern at
23/ 15s to 251 15s for good and fine quality. New-
foundland Whale 25155. Sperm, 94/ 15s to 95/ paid for
large, and 96/ a 971 for small parcels first quaility. At
auction 15 tuns sold at 951155 to 96/ fine quality. Linseed
Oil 293. For forward delivery 29.3 3d to 293 6d per cwt.
Rape has further improved; pale at 403 and brown at 39s
per cwt. Palm at 371 to 371 lOs on the spot for fine qua-
lity. A cargo has been disposed of at about 36/ lOs per
tun ; Lucca higher. East India Cocoa Nut Oil at 42s
per cwt for good quality.

MARKETS.
A IN.
Barley, Mecklenbargh ISO to WS
I - Magdeburgh 192 to 214
- Holstein
-- Summer IAS to ISO
Oats, Eider
- Mecklenburg
Holstein

(-- Elst Friesland.— 132 to 162
Pease, Mecklenburg ... 300 to 31
Beans
,Buck Wheat 6O to 8

Rapeseed, Hanover SO t• 83
Malt
Tares
CON.

Maranham
Madras 5 5!4
Surats 4 4%
Domingo . 6IA 6%
'EE.
-- •

Domingo
La Gua3 ra 47, 6%
Porto Rico 54 140
Havannalt 4% 6%
1 8% Discount.)
Bahia, Whits? 5% t 07%
Brown 5 5%
Pernambuco, White 5% 75
Brown 5 5)4
, .
,wn, 5 to 6%