The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-14 00:00:00

WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.

• Instructions have have been received at the Castle for the
private :apartments to be prepared for the reception of
her Majesty by to-morrow week, the 21st instant, on
which d.ay, should her Majesty's health and strength
still continue improving, the Court will leave Bucking-
ham Palace for Windsor.

The whole of the arrangements connected with the
nurzery department, in the Victoria Tow..T, will be
finally completed i❑ the course of Tuesday next.
It is expected that the sojourn of the Court at Wind-
sorwill be prolonged until May.

Since thL: dermiture of Prince Albert the game in
the Great and Home Parks have been most carefully
preserved.

In consequence of the great number of deer which
have of late been missing from the Great Park, and
the success which has attended the efforts of the
poachers, with which the neighbourhood on all sides
abounds, several extra under-keepers have just been
appointed to watch their movements night and day.
A short time since her Majesty presented a donation
towards the establishment of a national school at
Upton-cum-Cbalvey, about two miles from this town.
During the past week his lloyai Highness Prince: Al-
bert has caused to be forwarded, in aid of the same be-
nevolent object, the sum of 10/. The Prince has like-
wise just become one of the patrons of the Reading
Mechanics' Institute.

PROSECUTIONS for BLASP HEM

TO THE E,Dll'Oll OF THE SUN.
Sill ,-1 am a sincere believer in Divine Revelation,
as recorded in the Holy &1./ pities, but in reading your
account of the trial of Mr. Hetherington before Lord
Denman, I was forcibly reminded of the astounding
sentiments of Lord Denman (when Attorney-General)
and of Sir Robert Peel on prosecutions for ulawhetny,
and on the principles of C;vil Government, as referred
to in tha Right lion. IlAronces speceb made by him
in the Huus..!4:i Commoas ie May 1632.
Those Lci.trktions I learn from a relig,inuo pamphlet
published hr Sues wood and Co., in the year 1833,
and entitled " Man nail, to govern mall." Tire fol-
lowing extract may prove interestir,g at this time, when
the good and amiable Lord Denman is again placed
(by bi, Civii Government office) in tbe painful situa-
Lon of doing ti.at which his better feelings, higher
principles, and his sound judgment pronounce to be
" moral injustice." I am, Sir, yours,
Cheltenham, December 12, 1840.

DA LETH.

" A little reflection would show the impossibility of car-
rying ou human Governments consistently with Chri tiaa
principles—the impossibility of acting front the moral, en-
nobling, and refined precepts of Jesus iii I:unian
lino; iu short, the impossibility of enacting and enforcing
the laws of man without transgressing the laws of God.
"That such is the case I am almost relieved from the
necessity of proving, by the acknowledgments of
politicians
and even statesmen themselves; but I submit, that with
such an admission, is it nut monstrous, is it not iniquitous,
that moo who make such acknowledgmeets should tkem-
selves as:uine tile two-fold character of both !talesman and
Christian. With such admission, is not my position esta-
blished—. Mar unfit to govern man?'
" U.. a late discussion in the legislative assembly of this
country, an eminent statesman and politician, Sir Robert
Peel, Bart., in answer to the Attorney-General, is reported
(in the Times of May 22, [832) to have said, The Attor-
ney-General Denman, in the course of his speech, had said,
I have myself acted as a criminal judge. I had to pass
sentence on a person charged with hay ing published a
most scandalous work, revo: Ong- to the feelings of every
man of common decency, not merely on account of its
calling in question the most sacred truths of religion,
but also or. account of the ribaldry and profaneness vy ith
which it treated therm' Now, he ( S:r Robert Peel)
could undeistand an Attorney-General saying, I doubt
the policy of instituting a prosecution against such a
man ;' but that was not what the present Attorney-Ge-
neral had said. He had said, ' I sentenced that man
to eighteen months' imprisonment ; but so certain was I
of the moral injustice—l speak not of lq;a1 ii justice
—which I committed in sentencing a men whe) sin-
cerely entertained such opinions to such an imprisonment,
that it was a relict to my mind and conscience, and I
again felt happy when these eighteen ninnthis were expired.'
Well, then, if the question were to be considered not as a
question regarding the policy of insti.uting prosecutions in
such cases, but a question iegarding the moral justice of visit-
ing the offences which caused them with punishment, he
( Sir R. Peel) doubted whether it would be possible long;
to maintain the existence of Government under ti,e prac-
tical execution of such principles." Here we hese ac-
knowledgments front two persons, at that time holding
high nflicial sit uatio e, in the Government or this country,
openly declared, of the impossibility of maintaining the ex-
istence of human government, and at the same time of
preserving moral justice.. Here is a direct and a correct
admission, that legal justice and civil policy have no corn.
reunion with, but arc in opposition to, moral justice and
moral dul."

Her Majesty the Queen Dowagser of Spain leaves
Paris this day at twelve o'clock for Route. It is reported
that the intention of her Majesty is soon to return to Paris,
where she means to reside. The Royal Family and all the
coys diplomatique took leave of her Majesty on Wednes-
day. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Capua remained with Queen Christina until ekt,eu on
Wednesday eight.— Galiptatti.
The Duke and I)ueliess of Somerset gave a din-
ner on Wednesday, at Wimble4pn Park, to the Duke of
Sussex, Duchess of Inverness, Lady Shane Stewart, &c.
Western Times.
The Duke and Duchess of Leeds are entertain-
inf.,: a select party of friends at their mnsnificent castle in
Yorkshire.
The .tipeetator, we sec, can sympathise with the
virulent Tory press in casting sneers on Mr. Baines. We
shuuld have looked for better things trout such a quarter.
We have been accustomed to hold the opinions of the
'Spectator in esteem, and so, we believe, have thousands
of those v.ho are disposed to treat the rights of conscience
with respect; but it its attachment to the great cause of
religious liberty is 50 slight that it can throw its jeers at a
man who is torn front his home for his consistent adherence
to his priticipict, the character of the Spectator must suffer
in public esteem. —Leicestershire Mercury.
night with a not th-easterly wind. The mercury, w.t t
fire, in-doers to-day, is down to 36.
Tii E WiittinAco.ri:.,,litou
merchants strained
sharp frost set ini
iliaenst
gar':tlliluouoL
vSeruyvt
enol
t stock of Museevadocs
litiys ialconsiderable. Tn.! present
against 58,500 last
in the kitindom is oily the decline Do
nEth e loweril.--- qsulla --
itt,O,IdIAR7T,
-Docehther, 1839:
en-
tirely counteracted,
nut the
failing off in the consumption,
by the
work, from the impossibility
meaxtokrebti tamnatteprriiaciel
materially
weary atrA of M,iurs 33:0;:i!cbtagosf lessthis than on tbhee
elus.t
and by
to which the .
it appears highly probable
rt:gireie'd the market
kith bu-iness, and
feel the impoliey of their conduct.--.Brigto,
they will now
.itterelliy.
Pe'itions c • BRUSSELS, DEC. 12.—_ .. ontinue tiro
and dealers in liquors. The Govern- .1 b
be received by the Chamber of Representatives against the
augmentation of cerctin taxes. Most of them are from 46
brewer.,
nrfetertrerrr.Y.et,l4:lcg distillers,
ment has authorised a deputation of the wounded of Sep- ~.16,
tember to he present at the funeral of the Emperor Na- : ...,.
po-,,,„•
1 We learn with pleasure that the deputation,
! consisting of six persons, has received from the French
Government a very friendly answer to its application, and
that a place is ass'gned to it in the procession,
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., 'M.P., has been en-
\tertaining a select party at Carclew, Cornwall. Sir W.
Molcswo,th, Bart. M. P., and Mr. Grote, M. P„ have
lamong the Hun. Baronet's; guests.--- Western Times.