The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

THE MANNER IN WHICH KINGS

DECEIVE.

A BovaL Soto.—How many a visitor to the Court of Valencay
has listened with admiration and delight to the playing of the King
of Spain. His vigorous bowing, his perfect intonation and
purity of tone, the tenderness of his andante, and the spirit of
his allegretto, have excited raptures. But Kings possess re-
sources unknown to ordinary men, and when Ferdinand re-
ceived the adulation of his auditors, standing with an air of mo-
desty at the other end of the room, and relieved en profile
against a rich japanned screen, what was he doing? The King
of the two Spares and the two Indies was drawing his bow in
the air, and the auditors were charmed by the skill of Boucher,
who executed all the difficult passages while concealed behind
the screen. After this display, and while the room resounded
with expressions of admiration, while the enthusiasm of all was
at its height, the royal trickster would step forward, in the
coolest manner possible, to receive the rapturous applause
bestowed on his sham solo.— Theodore Rod's French Stage.
Might we not extend this to other things
Does not the Prime Minister, or some clever
man stand behind the screen and fiddle politics,
while the Royal puppet bows and smiles and re-
ceives all the applause? For the last century,
there have probably been about three monarchs
in Europe, Frederick the Great of Prussia,
Joseph 11., and Napoleon, who have not been
in all things—matters infinitely more important
than the poor show of fiddling !—like FERDI-
NAND, no better than quacks and impostors.
The day of Royalty is gone bye. King-heroes
are at an end, but it is still thought necessary
for a purpose for some one to enact the parr.
When will the public learn properly to value
the comedy ?

INFLUENCE OF INTEREST ON OPINION.—The
Liverpool Times states that Mr. John Gladstone,
formerly a merchant, slave-owner, and planter,
has lately become an extensive landowner like
Lord Ashburton, and accordingly, like Lord Ash-
burton, he has become a defender of the bread-
tax. We could not possibly imagine what had
brought this gentleman from his obscurity to in-
dite and publish, in the Morning Post, as silly a
piece of twaddle as we have for a long time met
with. The fact mentioned by the Liverpool
Times explains all. The great merchant is not
yet hoisted into the House of Peers—he could
not get a constituency to place him in the Com-
mons, and he is obliged, therefore, to have re-
course to the press to obtain distinction. To
show the bread-taxers how worthy he is to sit in
their House by the side of Lord Ashburton, he
has done by writing what that Noble Lord has
done by speaking. We need not inform the
readers of The Sun what that is.

P USE Y ISM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Melksham, April 27, 1841.
SlR,—The inhabitants of this negisbourhood are exceed-
ingly surprised by the strange doctrines preached by the
Clergy.
Most of the Clergy are becoming Puseyites, or are leaning
that way. This lam not surprised at, fora lazy useless par-
son, when he is almost shamed out of his cloth by the activity
and usefulness of the Methodist parson, falls back upon this
consolation—" he has no authority, for I am the only autho-
rised Minister." " Sixty years have I attaided our church,
(said an old man to me,) where I have always been taught to
hate the Papists and Popery, 'because their priests pretended
they could for give sins ; and now our parson says he can for-
giveve themefore so ;
are al and if he can, all the parsons who preLched
b him liars."
We have attempted to abolish Popery it
nEenrgolafnpde.-en out and 2t a- . has br -
I:lRniathe chbyaullremhanin

A MEMBER OF "
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

TO
HE EDITOR 0? THE SUN.
SIR
1 have been bred up with a dislike to Popery, and I
...ve always suppotted• the Tories becau,e I have been always
taught to bebeve that they were the great enemies of Popery,
and our parsons here at Keevil always said that if the Radicals
got in v%e should be all Catholics, and Radicals, and IVe-
thodists, and infidels, and that we should have neither God
nor devil. But now we have got a new parson, Mr. Poke,
who said in his sermon last Sunday week that he could forgive
sins, and that is what the Romans say they can do.
I wrote this to you just to let the Bishops know what is
going on, in the hops they will put a stop to it.
Keevil, near Trowbridge, April 27. G. W.

WOOLWICH.-TUESDAY.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.
GENERAL ORDER, APRIL 25, 1841.—The regiment will
take into wear the new clothing for the present year at Head-
Quarters on Sunday, the 9th of May next, and at the out-
stations as soon after as possible.
H. D. ROSS, Colonel, Deputy Adjutant-General.
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G. C. 13., and G. C. 11.,
inspected the detachments under orders for Canada and Hali-
fax on the Guard-Mounting Parade yesterday afternoon at
2 o'clock. The officers proceeding to the above stations arc
Captains Cator, Story, Hill, 'Dupuis, and Walsh. Captain
Grant will not now proceed, having exchanged with Captain
Dupuis. 70 non-commissioned officers and men,6l to Canada,
and 9 to Halifax, Nova Scotia, are the numbers selected, and
a finer body of young artillerymen we have seldom witnessed.
The Lieutenant-General seemed highly pleased with their ap-
pearance, and expressed himself to that effect. The whole of
the officers and men embarked at 3 o'clock this afternoon—►he
detachments for Canada in the St. Ann's freight-ship, and the
detachment for Halifax in the England. A number of the
Guards, Major Robe, of the Royal Engineers, and 1 sergeant
and 6 marines proceed in the same vessels to North America.
ROYAL MARINES.
An order was received at Woolwich on Sunday !horning for
1 sergeant, 3 corporals, and 80 privates of the Royal Marines,
to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Plymouth and
join the Admiral's ship, and Acre to wait for further orders.
This intelligence was notified to them when assembled for
church parade, and in the afternoon they again assembled to
have their kits examined. Lieutenant Curtis will take charge
of the detachment to Plymouth, and they hourly expect to em-
bark in the Salamander steam-vessel for speedy conveyance.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterciay, a
St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Viscount Jocelyn
eldest son of the Earl of Roden, to Lady Frances Elizabeth
Cowper, youngest daughter of the late Earl Cowper and Vis-
countess Palmerston. The Very Rev. the Dean of Carlisle
officiated at the solemnisation, the fair bride being given away
by her eldest brother, Earl Cowper. Lady Adelaide Paget,
daughter of the Marquis of Anglesey, and the Ladies Eleanor
and Constantine Paget, daughters of the Earl of Uxbridge,
were the bridesmaids on the happy occasion. A very nume-
rous and highly distinguished party of the relatives and
friends of both families were pretest at the ceremony, among
whom were Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Earl
and Countess of Roden and Lady Maria Jocelyn, Hon.
Mrs. Jocelyn, Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord and Lady
Ashley, Countess of Jersey and Lady Sarah Villiers,
Earl and Countess de Grey, Earl of Clare, Mr. Samuel
Rogers, Viscount Ossulston, Countess of 1 ankerville,
EA and Countess of Uxbridge and Ladies Eleanor
and Constance Paget, Viscount anti Lady Marianne Alford,
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Dowager Lady Le De.
spencer, Sir Hercules and Lady Pakenham, Lady Barham,
and Horn Miss Noel, Viscount and Viscountess PowersFourt,
Earl of Hillsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Stapleton, Mr. Huskinson,
Mr. Lutterell, Hon. C. Howard, Hon. Wm. Cowper, Hon.
Charles Gore, Viscount and Viscountess Norreys, Countess
Stanhope, and -Lady, Wilhelmina Stanhope, Sir Edmund and
Etibura,,-- Mrs:.
Lady Hayes, Mrs. Lamb, Earl and Countess of Erroll and
,!•`cly Ida Hay, Hon. Charles Noel, Lady Adelaide Paget, Dr.
Wyndham and Miss Wyndham, Countess of
reramith;lind Lady "Le Despencer, &c. At the conclusion of
the ceremony the wedding party repaired to the residence of
v iscounti-and'Vlieountess Palmerston in Carlton House-ter-
race, where a'anniptuous dejeuner was given by her Ladyship.
It was served up- in the splendid saloon occupying the whole
range of the mansion fronting the Park. Sturdy after one the
happy couple started for Barham Court, near Maidstone, the
seat of Lord and Lady Barham, with the intention of passing
the honeymoon at that delightful retreat.