The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-13 00:00:00

TO A SLEEPING CHILD.

(FROM THE GERMAN OF KORNER.)
Sleep soft, my child, while, on tl y mother's heart,
Not yet thou feel'st the cold world's vice and pride
Sweet dreams of innocence that smile impart ;
Dearer to thee her love than worlds betide.
How sweetly gliding pass lie's earlier hours,
While on the overflow of love we live
Why does not memory, with its magic powers,
Record life's earlier days—one sweet remembrance give ?

J. - T.

DESTITUTION.-Ann Brown, a young woman
of very interesting appearance and genteely dressed, yva,
charged by the police with having been found sitting on
the step of a door in Regent-street, at half-past one
o'clock this morning. The prisoner stated that all her
relatives were dead, and that she, with a female ac-
quaintance, had contrived to support themselves by
dress-making since March last. Latterly, however, they
could not obtain employment, and, being in arrears of
rent, they had been turned nut of their lodgings. She
had entrusted the only few shillings she had in the
world to her companion, who had contrived to give her
the slip, and being thus left entirely destitute, she had
wandered about the streets until, overcome by fatigue
and the cold, she had sunk on the step of a door unable
to proceed any further. Mr. Dyer ordered her to be
discharged, and the unhappy creature left the office de-
spondingly.
THE GREAT NORTHERN MEETING. To all
.the lovers of horse racing in its most attractive and im-
posing form, the prospect which is unfolded before them
is bright and encouraging in the highest degree. In-
deed, it was never more so than at the present time ;
and while the clerk of the course himself must, after the
labour of many years, with his well acquired experience,
be delighted in seeinghis exertions crowned with'a
success
with which no former times can present a par'allel, and
the Town Council be convinced that their liberal grants
in every respect,—in subscription to the stakes, in ac-
commodation to the public, and in provision for their
security,—are fully appreciated by the true supporters
of the turf ; that large portion of the public, which is
attached to this noble diversion, as the means not only
of witnessing the respective decisions, but of meeting
their relatives, friends, and acquaintances on the joyful,
splendid, and exhilarating occasion, will, as year suc-
ceeds to year, find increased means of relaxation, of
pleasure, and of enjoyment, at this the Great Northern
Meeting.—Doncaster Gazette.
John Jupp, a fine looking young man, only
twenty-one years of age, was charged, at Woolwich
Petty Sessions, on Friday. with enlisting in, and de-
serting from, no less than four different regiments. The
prisoner, who declined saying anything in his defence,
was committed to Horsemonger-lane Gaol.
DRAYTON MANOR.—A very numerous party
were to partake of the splendid hospitalities of Sir
Robert and Lady Peel on Friday, tieing the last enter,
tainment previous to the departure of the Right Hen.
Baronet for the metropolis to attend to his Parliamen-
tary duties.

Tite monibers saw in this organization the ektnen:,
of that address. prudence, skill, and resolution, whi_li
were ,o eminently displayed by Tabeyrand• Tue iarg..
love of offspring, attachment, and love of approbation,
opposed by olv a moderate self-esteem, combativeness,
and destructiveness, indicate an amiable character.
The deficiency of veneration, and of love of the won-
derful, rendered him incapable of religious feeling, an.l
of reverence for great men and things, whith so often
supplies its place. The smallness of benevolence and

conscientiousness,prevented him, frombeinacortsoe.uous
rectitude or PrainthrOPy. A long sketch of
Talleyrand's life was given, and the author summed up
by saying that, as a public man, he seems to have die
played an extraordinary facility of accommodating. himself
to, and availing himself of, circumstances ; to have pos-
sessed great prudence and finesse, and, when necessary, as
in the consecration of the Bishops in 1791, to have exhi
bited great firmness, self-possession, and energy ; to have
been a faithful servant of every Government so long as it
employed him, but to have been little scrupulous of
overturning it afterwards ; and, above all, to have en.

tertained a supreme contempt for all forms of govern-
ment, republican, constitutional, and monarchical ; that,
again, in his private character he seems to have been

as a friend and master more than irreproachable,-al-
most exemplary, and to have been fond of money, whe-
ther for show or beneficence, and careless of spending it.
As to his repentance for his sins against the Roman
Catholic Church, MM. Flourens and Pache assure us
that the paper which he signed was presented to the

poor old man when he tvas nearly insensible, and that

he signed it, not knowing its nature, having the day
before, when in possession of his understanding, put it
_ _

aside, saying, Flu' s lard, Monsieur ; je 11C nee szis ja-

mai: presse

BUCKINGHAM CON .ERVATIVE

ASSOCIATION.

On Wednesday evening the third anniversary festi-
val of the Conservati,,e Association of Buckingham and
its neighbourhood, was held at the Town Hall. Buck-
ingham. The morning was ushered in by the rinjnt: of
bells and other demonstrations of joy, and during tiie
day a numerous band of musicians paraded the town,
with flags bearing inscriptions suitabte to the oceasion.
His Grace the Duke of Buckingh nit and Citridos.
President of the Association, took the chair ; and
amongst other persons present wort Lord Orkney,
Lord Norreys, Sir Wqt. Young. M.P. ; G. S. H ir-
court, Esq., M.P.. C. J. Du Pie, M.P. ; Sir '7. F:•ec-
imantle, ALP, ; S r J. Chetwode, Bart. ; B. Eseott,
Esq., Dr. Marsham, Rev. J. Coke ; Marquis of Chan-
, dos ; and B. D'lsraeli, M.P.
The Company sat down to an early dinner. *The
' Duke of Buckingham of course was the, principal
speaker, arid of the manner and mutter of his oration
the following extract from his speech is a sufficing st.o
cimen. 'Toryism -.did 'the -Corn• Liws, it -..i1l
be seen, are the shibboleth of his Grace. .' He
hoped ere long to see Sir Robert Peel at the ticitct
of the Government, feinting .he Co• servatives flo,-..a-d
until placed behind entrendmients from which no Ite•-
dicals could dislodge teem. If an individual could look
with a scrutinising eye, he might see the Ministers now
shivering by the fire-side in Downing-street. which they
I had too long occupied for their own good or that of the
country.—( Cheers.) HOW often had he heard the ques-
tion asked, in the precints of the House of Corn eons
—What will Sir Robert Peel do to-night? and having
ascertained that he meant not to oppose them, they
have gone home contented. • But now their anxiety was
intense, for they knew the honest views and the bold and
honest hearts of the Conservatives. If the present men
were to continue in office, he believed to his God they
would ruin the country beyond redemption.—(Cheers.)
• There was nothing they touched they had not injured.
—(Cheers.) The Noble Duke then adverted t,a the
policy of G^vernment with respect to open questions.
He knew the bribes that were held out with respect to
open questions. He knew that such a system was shut.-
fling upon the part of the Government. to get rid of all
responsibility, by saying that any given course was in
accordance with the opinion of Parliament. A states-
man should take a hold and manly line of conduct, and .
when he found it was pot in accordance with the feelings
of Parliament, 'ne ought to take his hat, make his bow,
and retire. He warned the meeting as agriculturists— •
he warned them as Conservatives, that they bad every-
thing at stake.—( Hear.) They should follow the course
they had hitherto pursued, and not listen to any alteration
whatever of that scale of duties upon the importation
of foreign corn which had, up to the present time, been
their safeguard and protection."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 9.

AGGREGATE MEETING.—The Meeting is to be held
to-morrow, and will, we understand, be attended by
many of the leading Reformers from all parts of the
country. The grand object is to co-operate in securing
a general re-registry of the dfforent liberal constituen-
cies throughout lreiand.

To-day- Mr. O'Connell reiterated his intention to
vote for the marriage portion ot Prince Albert ; but as
no specific sum was stilted by him, it. is hoped that the
lion. and Learned Geutk man's recent al.usion •-.r. the
enormcus grant of 100,0001. a-year was

than a lapses li»ti ice.
NO-POPERY MEETING —After all the epho the
Evening and ail the " nos, of fr.cparatioA," the
Great Meeting" of the Orange Electu-s of "trinity
College has been a most ludicrous taiiurr. Saunders
devotes exactly fifteen lines to tte five hours' sp,,,ehifi-
cation, which is just three lines per hour.

FRIGHTFUL CASE OF BURNING -0:1 Fr;day
evening an inquest was held at tne London 11.. i,ta
before Mr. Baker, on the remains of Ma:y Arai
aged twe!ve years, who died in that institution icon,
effects of severe burns which she had received. ~Fran
the evidence it appeared that the deceased had to.:en
wleiftthavt,tlcioamiesidieuriiinvegdt,nweit,cerfosrpa,,r3;kalt)isoetnncetio,efArtiarileecrwc,:i7on:
irinnarchefelh:hrhessolutteroswti,:srnliiiritii
jetiu.arte:dtni
to a r
her ffey:rieni
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She was instantly conveyed to the hospital, who,: d•
accidental death was returned.

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The Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday
brings intelligence equally extraordinary and distressing.
It has withdrawn its confidenco from Lord Ehringtnn I
His Lordship, however, mirabile dicta, still survives
an unannihilated Lord Lieutenant. His Excellency. it
must be admitted, has committed an unpardonable
crime : on the 2d day of January, 1840, he invited
Mr. O'Connell as a guest to his table. The offence,
we know, is inexpiable, but we do implore the Mail
not to visit the sin upon its readers by such inflictions as
the anathema headed " Lord Ebrin,gton. Unmasked."
This production of the Mail's pen may be in excellent
taste—it may not be throughout more vituperative and
vulgar than Orangemen delight in ; but its cruel absur-
dity is dangerous even to sober-minded men's lives. For
our parts we laughed so heartily at the breadth of our
Contemporary's extravagance, that, we thought it would
be the death of us.

REPRESENTATION OF DENEIGH‘--The two
counties must be placed under the superintendence of
staunch Liberals—Lord Dinorben or Mr. Biddulph will,
most probably, be elected to the Lord Lieutenancy of
Denbighshire; and the county of Merioneth expects a
Mostyn for its head. The Government, we feel as-
sured, will do their duty in both cases. But the most
pressing subject for consideration is, the duty which Sir
Watkin's death will impose upon the electors of Den-
bighshire. Important as that duty is, we should yet
have waived all immediate allusion to it, had not the
professional Jack of the house of Wynnstay, and the
immediate servants of the family, been already engaged
in an active canvass for Sir Robert Cunliffe of Acton.
The breath was scarcely out of the frame of the good
Sir Watkin ere a placard on the subject was potcd on
the walls of Wrexham.—Cmizerrron Herald.
THE WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL AT EDIN-
BURGH.—The sum already subscribed amounts to
3,0001. The Duke of Roxburghe has sent 100 guineas,
and the Duke of Hamilton, Earl of Wemyss and March,
and Earl of Hopetoun have respectively subscrtl ed
1,0001., and the Earls of Morton, Erroll, and Arlie;
Lords Montagu, Blantyre, Murray, and Jarey ; Sir
George Murray, and Sir George Sinclair, Bart., *.r..
&e., have put their names down fur liberal sums within
the last few days.

At the second and third meetings of the Society,
casts ix' the bead and skull of Talleyraad were laid
before the members, and a paper was read upon his
life and cerebral organisation, by Mr. Hudson Lowe.
The head was of the large size stated by Gall to be
necessary for the full enjoyment of mind ; the circum-
ference of the cast of the skull, taken from around the
lower part of the forehead, being 23i inches. The
remarkable feature was the great size of the whole of
the lower or basilar region, anterior, median, and pos-
terior, compared with that of the higher or coronal.
This indicated a predominance of the faculties of per-
er,tion over those of reasoning or reflection ; and of the
inferior propensities of human nature over the higher
todecd firmness was the only largely deve-
loped organ on the coroeal surface. The organs of
what Gall terns the sense of things or observation of
facts, of the sense of persons, and of that of places,
taiLlt three
caeeNuTsarylitly moderatearge.T ; a
That of
die bad.
fcotmlparriesor: of.i 1
the forehead was inconsiderable. The forehead was
,viclontly not that of a high order of intelieet,
ru
formed a sad contrast to that of Gall, Bac*. nod
His nature could not have led to
ile`(.011If a philosopher. The organ of tLe love
of property was large, as well as that of ,ove
•f notoriety ; but the great organs were reobe
,f the love of offspring, of attachment, of cireurnspec-
tion, artfuzess, and firmness. Those of pride, emu-
veeh ai nat organ),ion ws
.ndsm 3
01f1
the(as love tvel i
oa t h t
m a
'ativenes,. ann destruetivem-ss w re but moderate ; s•f
i r
i;,:nevolence, amativeness, and cnlscientiousness, ordi-
naryi,nipr;:ilft :c
butos.tr.le is )atot' ou
such