The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

MORNING SU

FREDERICK WILLIAM L's EARLY
AVERSION TO POMP.

In his boyhood Frederick William manifested no
pleasure in the extravagant splendour with which he
was surrounded. An eye-witness relates, that " when
the first coat like a man's was made for the Prince,
bordered with broad gold lace, he looked at it with to-
lerable satisfaction, and quietly suffered it to be put on
him ; but when a dressing gown of brocade was brought
to him, he examined it before and behind, inside and
outside, and then, snatching it up, flung it into the fire,
and, as it was winter time, there happened to be a very
large one." Another not less decided indication of his
aversion to useless expense was given by him while
Prince Royal. One day, on entering the King's ante.
chamber, ho there found several courtiers and chamber-
lains seated round a blazing fire. The Prince, who had
begun to wear a uniform, had been exempted from the
burden of a flowing wig, and had only a bob ; being in
a merry vein, he took off his light head-covering, and
consigned it to the flames, with the exclamation, " A
scoundrel who will not do the same !" The courtiers
looked aghast at each other, but they had no choice
left ; the grave air and emphatic tone of the Prince
Royal convinced them that it was not meant for a joke.
One after the other lifted the huge mass, beplastered
with pomatum and powder, from his bare sconce, and
with unwilling band committed it to the flames. Not
merely did the courtiers regret the loss of an expensive
apparatus, which, mostly imported from Paris, and
chargeable with a high stamp duty, cost two hundred
dollars, or, perhaps, a larger sum, but, what was still
more painful to them, was to see their hopes of the
future government of such a Sovereign vanish in smoke,
which left behind it not the most agreeable odour."—
Campbell's Frederick the Great and his Times.

PUBLIC RECANTATION OF THE ERRORS OF
THE ROMISFI CHURCH.—On Wednesday, in St. Jude's
Church, five persons, in the presence of an over-

. .
flowing congregation, publicly recanted and abjured the
errors of the Church of Rome, in which they had been
matured. In the first instance, three other Roman

Catholics (making eight in the whole) intended thus
openly to enter into the communion of the Church of
England ; but between the period when they intimated
their desire and the celebration of the service, some con-

cealed influence so worked upon their fears, that they
did not make their appearance at the appointed time.
The Church of England has no prescribed form of re.

cantation of error; and, therefore, the Rev. Hugh
1114 Neile, the incumbent of the church, prepared one
from Archbishops Tennison and Magee, which he has

printed for circulation.

The service commenced at two

O'clock in the afternoon, and was conducted by the Rev.
Mr. NPNeile.—Liverpool Times.

A PRINCE WITHOUT A SKlN.—Though the
fact is sufficiently remarkable, we should think, to com-
mand general notice, few, if any, modern historians
mention that we had once a Prince of Wales who was
born absolutely skinless. There exists, however, an his-
torical volume, very scarce, and therefore very valuable,
published in 1553, on Magna Charta and the Statutes,
a carefully arranged and authentic work, which
mentions the circumstance. It is written in French

and Latin, and under the head of Nomina Re-

gum et eorum corouatio, announces a list of the
Kings " w.ho- from the time of Saint Edward
_King

of England, had reigned, down to the Most Serene
King and Queen Philip and Mary." A series of brief
notices of births, coronations, and deaths follows. That

to which we particularly direct attention runs thus :
" Ricardus 11., filius Ed. Principis natus sine
pelle et nutritus in pellibus caprium incepit, regnare,
xxiii. Junii, anno domini mccclxxvii."—" Richard the

Second, son of Edward Prince of Wales, born with-
out skin, and nursed in skins of goats, began to reign
June 23, 1377."

A few days ago a person named Fonvielle, an
inhabitant of the little town of Realmont, was brought
before the Court of Assize at Albi, on a charge of having
attempted to excite hatred and contempt of the Govern-
ment by hanging in front of his house, during the ex-
citement caused by the census, an effigy, having in one
hand a reed, and in the other a paper bearing the words,
"Mesures Fiscales, Mahul, Soult, liumann, Guizot,"
and over the head another paper, with the words, " Con-
damnation d'Humann et de ses complices." The Jury
acquitted the prisoner after a few minutes' deliberation.

A public meeting was held on Monday at Bridge-
water for the purposeof voting addressess to her Majesty
and Prince Albert, on the birth of a Prince. The meet-

inn was convened by the High Sheriff of Somersetshire,
William Francis Knatchbull, Esq., in pursuance of a re-
quisition signed by most of the leading men in the county,
amongst whom were the Earl of Cork, Lord Lovelace,
Lord Poulett, Sir William Medlicott, Bart., Sir Alexander
Flood, Bart. ; Colonel Gore Langton and W. Miles,
Esq., Members for the Eastern Division ; T. D. Acland,
Esq., and F. H. Dickinson, Esq., Members for the West-
ern Division ; Poulet St. John Mildmay, Esq., and many
others. The addresses were unanimously agreed to, and,
after a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff had been
passed, the meeting broke up.
LIEUTENANCY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.+
We have reason to believe that the dignity of Lord

Lieutenant of the county of Northamiton- has been
offered to, and will be accepted by, the Marquis of Exeter.

THE GARTER.—It iS probable that the vacant
stall in St. George's Chapel will remain for some time
unoccupied.
SOCIETY OF ANCIENT BRITONS.—THE
PRINCE OF WALES.—On Monday a meeting of the So-
ciety of Ancient Britons was held at the Welsh School-
room, in the Gray's Inn-road. for the purpose of agreeing
to an address of congratulation to her Majesty the Queen,
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, on the safe aceouchement of
her Majesty. The chair was taken by Colonel Wood,
M.P. for Brecon, and the meeting was numerously
attended. The address to her Majesty dwelt particularly
on the circumstance of the Royal infant being created
Prince of Wales. Mr. Sergeant Atcherly moved the
address, which was carried with applause. Addresses
to his Royal highness Prince Albert and her Royal
highness the Duchess of Kent were also agreed to una-
nimously. The speakers were Dr. Rowland, Mr. Wm.
Williams, M.P., Mr. Bateman, Mr. Jones, and others.
The addresses are to be presented by the officers of the
society at the next Levee day. There are at present in
the Welsh school 120 boys and 65 girls, who are main-
tained, clothed, and educated.

A fatal accident took place on Sunday afternoon,
near the Eyre Arms, St. John's Wood. Shortly after
four o'clock in the afternoon, a young man, about 20
years of age, but whose name is unknown, was
amusing himself by trying the substance of the ice
on a pond, in a field near the Eyre Arms Tavern,
the water in which is ten feet deep. He was standing on
the ice, and kicking a hole in it with his heel, when
suddenly a large mass gave way. Police-constable 91 S,
saw him disappear, but upwards of 20 minutes elapsed
before the body was recovered, when life was quite ex-
tinct, and it was conveyed to Marylebone workhouse. He
is of fair complexion and dark hair, and wore a fustian
jacket and waistcoat, corduroy trowsers, and laced shoes.
lip to a late hour last night the body had not been owned.
PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—At the ordinary
meeting held on Monday evening, in the rooms of the
Society at Exeter Hall, Dr. Elliotson, President, in the
chair, there was a very interesting communication read
on the relative proport►ons of the organs of the skull
between Blakesley and Courvoisier, both of whom were
recently executed for murder, and casts of whom were
exhibited. It was a matter of singular coincidence that

no less than 12 measurements were equal. Inliaeeit7;
the organs of destructiveness, self-esteem, and firmness,
were very large, as were those of attachment and love of
offspring. It was stated that, at the next meeting, a cast
of the head of Ward, the unhappy individual who was
executed on Monday morning for murder, would be ex-
hibited.

KIRK PERSECUTION.
his child on a
Dundee Advertiser that Key,TA appears from the
the only son of a 11)..
woman with difficulty
Church privileges by the man who was refused
the minister of Barry for burying
Sunday, is not the first who has suffered
from priestly tyran
poor
muvisdt:rwed
A Correspondent mentions. ,thiat
thaersengentd numberi to
carry the coffin to the church-yard on the following
Sunday, but just as the body was laid in thegra.ve, the
grave-diggers were ordered to desist, and the coffin lay
uncovered in the open grave all that day and night!
The Ceizseur of Lyons reports that several
ycung men of that city, belonging to families in easy
circumstances, were arrested, on the 14th inst., as par-
ticipators in robbing the Lyons and Turin diligence of
27,000 f., which we have already mentioned.
Another slight shock of earthquake was felt at
Bogey, near Lyons, on the 9th inst.
THE TEMPLE CHGRCH.—Shortly after the
Reformation, the Protestant lawyers, from au over-
anious desire to efface all the emblems of the Popish
faith, covered the gorgeously-painted ceiling of this
useableve-
structure with an uniform coating of whitewash;
buried the antique tesselated pavement under hun-
they
dreds of cart-loads of earth and rubbish, on the surface
of which, two feet above the level of the ancient floor,
they placed another pavement, formed of old - grave-
stones. They, moreover, disfigured all the magnificent
marble columns with a thick coating of plaster and
paint, and destroyed the beauty of the elaborately_
wrought mouldings of the arches, and the exquisitely-
carved marble ornaments, with thick incrustations of
whitewash, clothing the whole edifice in one uniform
garb of plain white, in accordance with the puritanical
ideas of these times.—Addison 's History cift n f the K •
ghts
Temidars.
EARLY INTELLIGENCE I—The late firm of
Sir George Duckett, Morlands, and Co., stopped p,.-
!Lent on the 20th March, 1832, the eve of Mr. V ercr ival's
" Fast-day" for the cholera.—Evening Paper.
The Carlisle Patriot has the following im-
portant news .—We arc informed that during the recent
visit of Sir James Graham to Netherby, Ile has provided
abundant employment fur the labourers of the district,
by the diversion of various water-courses.
EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.---On Tuesday
last a little black mare, which ran until lately night
Eng N‘it, on being
ineer coach from this town to Longto in the
led to the stables at Cannobie, broke away
from the
strapper, and took the old road to the Hod
gallop. In its course it met with a horse and Hollows at full
cart, which
it was expected would stop her career, but the mare took
the leap without hesitation, and cleared the
obstruction
in splendid style, much to the astonishment of the driver
of the cart. The mare arrived at Langlibohne full twenty
minutes before the coach from which it
and it is a remarkable fact., that, thoughadbeen
neverone ;
of the
Buck before, the animal galloped to the
stablesthat
Buck Inn, where the coach
changes horses,—Carlisle
Patriet,