The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-29 00:00:00

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A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock
this afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
All the Ministers were present.
The Court will leave town on Monday next for Wind-
sor Castle.

SPIRIT of thelrUl3LIC JOURNALS
FROM THE EVENING PAPZRS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.--The speech of Mr. Ingham affords shrewd
indications of what the Tories have to expect in quar-
ters connected with commerce. The Hon. 'Gentleman
appears to have no mind to present himself anew to the
constituency of North Shields, with the stigma of having
voted for Sir Robert Peel's motion. He has been in
the habit of acting with Opposition on recent occasions ;
but he cannot afford to do so now with any satisfaction
to himself—or to the worthy and independent electors
of the borough of North Shields. This is a salutary
symptom of commercial secession from the side of Tory-
ism ; as was the language of Lord Worsley of agricul-
tural " want of confidence."—" "What security," said the
Noble Lord, " have the agriculturists that he will not
alter the Corn-laws, when they see Sir George Murray,
a leading Member of his late Cabinet, seeking the
suffrages of the electors of Manchester, upon the assu-
rance that he is favourable to a low fixed duty on corn—
when they saw last year his brother-in-law, Mr. Dawson,
ready to throw the Corn-laws overboard altogether, for
the sake of catching a dozen or two of votes at Devon-
port ?" Thus, while landed members of the Liberal party
have no solid motive for deserting their political friends
on the present occasion, mercantile men, even those
whose leanings are towards the side of the Opposition,
have every motive for postponing party to national and
commercial interests. And these symptoms afford the
strongest justification of Ministers for the decided
course they have now taken on the great questions under
discussion. That course, as Lord John Russell stated
and proved (and as our own Madrid correspondence
proved), was not taken on the mere spur of the
moment—on the mere impulse of defeat. It was
taken on a deliberate view of the state of finance and
commerce. That view had been prepared, and the pub-
lic prepared to respond to it, by the publication of the
valuable Report of the Import Duties Committee. The
party in the State Who give their support to the pre-
sent Government rejoice to see its leaders identified
with the cause of commercial and industrial freedom.
And now, forsooth, it is made an imputation upon their
conduct, that they have identified themselves with that
cause. It is an unfair advantage that they take of the
Opposition—when they agitate the country for free trade
in corn, timber, and sugar ! If it is an unfair advantage,
it is an advantage. How does that tacit admission con-
sist with the other charge brought against Ministers,
that they have made a sham demonstration in a
notoriously hopeless cause ? How would it suit a
great party to identify itself with such a cause ?
The Whigs have been said, of old time, to build
walls to knock their own heads against. They did
so, much to their honour—but the walls stood—and the
Tories finished them ! The firm of Peel, Copley, and
Co. contracted for the work, on the lowest terms, after
the Whig builders had been unfairly choused out of the
job. So it may be on the present occasion ; although
we will wish and hope otherwise. If the substance of the
present measures is carried, within a short period,
whoever is Minister,—the present Ministers will be more
than justified for having introduced them as they have
done.

LAUNCH OF THE SOLWAY.—On Friday,
the ship-building yard of Mr. J, Crawftrds-
dyke, Greenock, presented an interesting and animated
appearance. The colossal Solway, of 1,871 tons, on the
ways, ready to be launched into the sea, was a powerful
attraction to thousands of the inhabitants. At twelve
o'clock noon this gigantic steam-ship commenced sliding
down the ways in fine style; but from the want of water her
keel stuck in the mud. With the assistance of an additional
steamer, she was safely moored next tide at the East
India Quay. This is the first of the ten steam-frigates,
belonging to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company,
which has yet been built of British and African oak, and
with diagonal iron and wood fastenings, from stem to
stern, as is done in her Majesty's steam-frigates.—Edin-
burgh Evening Courant.

BOROUGH OF STROUD ANTI-CORN-LAW
DEMONSTRITION.—We have to congratulate the respec-
table inhabitants of Stroud on the prompt steps they have
taken to wipe away the stain which the proceedings of
their Anti-Corn-law meeting on Thursday last affixed
to their character as a liberal constituency. It would
indeed be strange if the electors of Stroud should be
willing to stultify their own choice, by opposing the po-
licy of their representative, now when his liberal con-
duct has proved him more than ever worthy of their
support. We have not been so unjust as to blame the ge-
neral body of Reformers fur the acts of a few misguided
men. We know it is easy for men to raise an outcry, and
lift "their most sweet voices" at a public meeting, who
have no stake in 'the town, nor interest in its prosperity.
Yet a public meeting havin&• been called, and the pro-
ceedings perverted from their only real purpose, it was
necessary for the honest Anti-Corn-law Reformers to
devise some means to male? their voice heard in unison
with the rest of the nation at this important crisis, and
accordingly this evening a meeting was held in the Sub'
scription Room, for the purpose of passing resolutions,
and agreeing to a petition to the House of Commons
in favour of the Ministerial proposition. This proceed-
ing comes very opportunely at the present moment, pend-
ing the discussion of Sir Robert Peel's motion of want
of confidence in Ministers—a motion evidently brought
forward by the Tories to avoid being forced to commit
themselves before the country on this important ques-
tion. On the motion of Mr. Partridge, Mr. Parsons
was called to the chair. After several spirited and intel-
ligent speeches had been made, a petition to the House
of Commons in favour of the Ministerial Corn-law and
Commercial Reforms, was agreed to.—Cheltenimm Exa-
miner.

STANDARD.—AII the arguments of the Ministerial
speakers in the debate commenced on Thursday go to es-
tablish this one position—that it is no longer necessary
for the Ministers of the Crown to possess the confidence
of the House of Commons ; and the Reform Bill it is
which is thus charged with having deprived the people
of any efficient share in directing the government of the
country. Years have passed since Sir Robert Peel pre-
' dieted that he and his friends would have to defend the
substance of the Reform Bill against the assaults of
its author, and often within those years has he nobly
realised the prediction : at present, his honourable task
is to defend not only its substance, but its chaeacter.
If the effect of the Reform Bill has been to enable
the Crown to continue an Administration in which
the representatives of the people repose no trust, then
is the Reform Bill the most fatal inroad upon na-
tional liberty that. ever was made, or even attempted, in
this country. A remark of the Duke of Welling-
ton, directed against the Bill in question has been,
we know, quoted in support of the hypothel3, that the
Reform Rill has wrought the deadly change assigned to
it. • "How," asked the illustrious Duke, "is tlms Kin ;'s
Government to be carried on after you have passed this
Bill ?" What was the answer ? Did any of the sup-
porters of the Reform Bill say, "As it may please the
King, without regard to the will of the representatives of
the people ?" Oh no ; if such had been the answer, the
doom of the Reform Bill had been sealed on the inste.at.

The reply, and, as we thought at the time, and still think,
the satisfactory and conclusive reply, was, " That the
Kings of the line of Hanover may be trusted as wishing
:to govern well, and the people of England may be trusted
as not disposed to vexatiously, or perversely, embar-
rass a good Government." Certain it is, that no sup-
porter of the Reform Bill dared to threaten from it a
Government carried on in defiaiice of the manifest
distrust of the House of Commons. That the Duke
of Wellington himself contemplated no • such outrage
upon the Constitution is proved by the form of • his
question ; still more clearly proved by his resignation
upon the very first refusal of the House of Commons
to sanction a measure proposed by the
_Government
of which he was a member. His Grace, no doubt,
.
overrated the danger of the Reform Bill`'; this' vas
a very different thing from recommending an implicit
adoption of that, the worst consequence of 'which
he thought he foresaw as certain to flow from it:
The course of events has proved that the illustrious
Duke was in error in his distrust of the good sense of
the people of England. The late elections have shown
that Englishmen know the value of good government,
and the evil of that government which is not good ; and
let a general election come to-morrow, and it is by no
doubtful return, by no "measuring-cast majority," that
the people will ensure to themselves the benefit of good
government.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE INFERNAL
31A.cmsE.—Mr. Brooks, at our late Anti-Corn-law tea
party, gave a new name to the sliding scale, when he
called it the infernal machine. We hope the name will
be generally aiopted by the anti-bread-tax party. This
will undoubtedly be doing an injustice to the inventor
of the Parisian infernal machine. Fieschi compassed
the death of fifteen persons only, whilst the sliding inven-
tion of which Sir R. Peel is the patron, has subjected
hundreds of thousands to the lingering torments of star-
vation. The sliding scale is such a perfect scheme of
legalized murder and robbery, that we oncelleard a quaint
.•
man express his doubts, at a public meeting, whether it
vits•teally of human invention,' or Whether it had.not
•sprungfrom the nether world. The bread taxers knoW its
Origin; and they have a congefiial love for its infernal
nttrihtites: They will cling to. it to the death, and if
,driven•-by the indignation of the-country to withdraw it
fora moment from sight, they. will endeavour, like • the
scared reptile that 'swallows its venomous progeny; to
cast it up again. We -.were prepared for Sir Robert
Peel's declaration in favour of the infernal machine. • He
has given himself over to. the bread taxers.. He is from
this time the pledged 'enemy of the people -of this.
country. Ile and his followers are political Ishmaelites ;
their hands are in every honest man's pocket. Let all
who desire to escape their plunder nerve their hearts
for the coining election, when the cry must be, "Down
with Peel ! down with his followers ! down with their
infernal machine, the sliding scale !—Anti-Bread-Tax
Circular.

GOSSIP OF THE HERALD.-LORD EBRING-
TON'S MARRIAGE.-The happy day of the Viceroy's nuptials
s not yet publicly known. According to some rumours, they
will not take place till the fate of the Ministry is decided, but
it is more generally thought that his Excellency will not suffer
any Ministerial division to create a matrimonial one, or the
destiny of her Majesty's advisers to control his own. As it is
not every day that a chief Governor falls in love, it may be in-
teresting to some readers to know the manner in which the
arrows of Cupid pierced the heart of Lord Ebrington. He
was partaking of the hospitalities of Mrs. Putland, at Bray,
enjoying the delights of a fete cliampetre, some short time
ago, when a thunder-storm arose. The illustrious guest fled for
shelter to a tree—an oak of the forest. It so happened that Lady
Somerville retreated to the same place of shelter. The storm con-
tinued for an hour—the fair lady became alarmed—his Excel-
lency consoled. her, and appeased her fears. An agreeable
tete-a-tete ensued despite the rain and thunder, and in that
hour, tempestuous in weather but felicitous in love, the vene-
rable and sedate Lord Ebrington became enamoured of the
beautiful enchantress. It is also not a little singular, that
Sir W. Somervile offered the lady his hand before his father,
Sir Marcus, proposed to make her the partner of his life;
but she declined the honour, and took Sir Marcus " for
better for worse." Some years after the death of Sir Marcus,
the Hon. Hugh Fortesoue, son of Lord Ebrington, sought
the honour of relieving hot ladyship from the weeds of widow-
hood, but she politely rejected his amatory offer. Lord
Ebrington addressed her, and she consented to become his
wife. This rejection of two sons, and acceptence of two
fathers, has given rise to much amusing chit-chat in the
fashionable circles here.
. .

The " Want-of. Confidence" motion, by which
the Tories hoped to burk the Corn-law discussion, is
likely to prove a failure. It is- confidently stated that
Ministers will have a majority. If this be the case—
and we deem it very probable--the wily Baronet will
have done good service to the Ministry and to the
people's cause ;he will have afforded time—at rresent
most essential to success—in which the necessary ar-
rangements for the coming contest may be made, and the
people prepared for meeting the advocates of monopoly
at the hustings, and by defeating them there, insure the
destruction of monopoly.-;--- Globe.
Lon D LYNEDOCII.—The following anecdote
speaks volumes for the urbanity and kindness of the veteran.
An old soldier, a pensioner, who had served in the Peninsular
war, and in many instances fought under his Lordship's imme-
diate command, is now living in Malta. A short time ago, en
the anniversary of the battle of Busaco, he waited on his Lord-
ship and presented him with an orange branch ; his Lordship
was delighted with the attention thus paid him by a fellow ve-
teran of that well-fought field, and sent him a token to drink
his health. On Thursday last his Lordship actually ordered
his horse and rode to St. Giuseppe to visit the old soldier,
when to his astonishment, gratitude, and delight, his Lordship
condescended to converse for upwards of half an hour " fight-
ing o'er again their hard-earned fame." Such acts as these
must endear the memory of an old commander, and nrove
worthy of imitation to those of the present day.—Malta chro-
nicle, May 13.
MEETING OF REFORMERS TO ADDRESS
THE QUEEN.—CORN, SUGAR, AND TIMBER DUTIES.—
A meeting of the Reformers of Belfast, says the Nefu:r
Letter, was held yesterday in Devlin's Great-room:,
.1,
the purpose of considering the " propriety of forwr
an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty
tthoe
to the nation by a dissolution of Parliament on
measures of
Government; previously fi accepting the. r appeal
measures of mercantile policy lately introduced.by the
Ministers." Resolutions in conformity
lion' were unanimously adopted.
Between 8 and 9
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—
withesthle requisi-
George's Chapel, Windsor, were engaeger
o'clock on Monday morning last, while thde ringers gtheres beeflfSryt•
m peal in honour
of the Julius Caesar tower, ringing a.
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affixedwhich
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the
tenoreriajheesltly(' sw be
(weighing;
thhi -hdgtt3,
upwardstheo l iu•g
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This immense mass of
to the ceiling, snapped in t
more than a few feet by its coming;
buttress on the other,
metal, in its fall, was most fort'uvlia. teilnyeporheitiaeenttlevidtdhethsceensclintonge
f • tl • circ
upon which wall on one side, and a
t would have forced it through
eittinnogt been for I.ls una-
.tance hgrietarteswteedig.h HPra°A
rine:ors were stationed ,
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two' intermediate . doorsan tdo
lossthe boeflsfuirtylt.4o,
besides Vmh
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srte theprobably,
t height
dwo e
1,1 have been the lamentable re
sanction of the bell, which would have fallen upwards
of eighty feet upon the stone ffooring "Of the cellar below.
By the . aid of the block tackle from the Castle, and
,morkai,ll, the hell re-tixt)(l in the aft&rnooli,
And the merry peal, which Was so nnex-peetedly cut
short in the morning, was finished in the course of the
evening.

THE FRUIT -CROPS.—Apples appeared to Set
well after a fine bloom, but the maggot has since made great
havoc, in many places not only devouring the apples, but even
the leaves. Under the hills:in some places the gooseberry
bushes may be seen completely stripped of both fruit and leaves
by this destructive insect. Pears are variable, and plums
hare also in some places suffered much from blight. The for-
ward cherries will probably be very " platty" or unequal; of
the prospect of the backward cherries it is too early yet to
form a correct judgment.
A correspondent writes from Calais, that on
Wednesday morning, in consequence of a dense fog, the Eng-
lish schooner Hope, of Bristol, Captain 'Dickey, from Har-
wich to Bristol, with a cargo of stones and timber, ran ashore
half a league eastward of Calais. The crew were landed
safely, but the vessel was not expected to Le saved. In the
afternoon of the same day, the three-masted vessel, Henry Wel-
lesley, Captain Castle, from London to Hobart Town, with a
mixed cargo and three passengers, went ashore near the former
vessel. All the crew and passengers were safely landed, and it
was hoped, if the weather should improve, that the ship, which
had eight feet water in her hold, would he got off.
ORDER OF ST. JOHN.—The decree of the
Emperor of Austria for re-establishing the Order of St. Jelin
of Jerusalem, directs that the buildings of this ancient priory
at Venice, in the parish of St. Francis della Vigna, shall be
destined to the foundation of the priory of the Order ; anti
that the Grand Prior shall receive 2,000 florins (convention),
or rather more than 5,000 f. per annum. None bat Austrian
subjects can be appointed to the Grand Priorate, and every
facility
is to be given to Noble families in the Lombardo- Ve-
netian kingdom who may wish to make foundations connected
with this Order.
We are authorised to state, that in consequence
of the excitement which at pre,eut prevails in the country,
the Installalion.of 9tage..the Duke of Northumberland, as
Chancelliir of this University, has been postponed until next
year.—Cantbridge Chronicle.

ROMANCE IN REA.L L.
.
1 (From the New York Sunday Morning
" Marria on Tuesday, by
a the Rev:- Wm.
BRITISH FUNDS.
THE FUNDF—,'CLOSING PRICES.) nywitt, to Charlotte Conroy,
both of this Ci
Bank Stock 169 India Stock 25289 Ditto Bonds 4 par The above marriage was consummated in this 'citron
3 per Cent Red last Tuesday week, and thereby hangs a tale of the ma--
'
3 per Cent Cons 9O Ditto' Old Annuities ... vellous. Mr. Mowitt is a respectable boss shoemaker, who
31 pert Cent Red 971 Ditto New Annuities... keeps several men employed, and amongst the rest was
New 3 per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 13 pm ~-ohn Pel3ing, who had ingratiated himself so much in his
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 ll pm favour by his faithfulness, industry, and sobriety, that he
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l5 pm . took
,him into partnership about three years
since, and
Jan. 1860 .... 124 Bank Stock for Acct... had nil .cause to regret lus kindness. From that period
Oct 1859 l2/1 India Stock for 0pg.... Mr. moviit.` and Mr.h Pelsing were constant friends and
Jan. 1860. ......
FOREIGN FUNDS.
twelve months shaa'e, when one "clay they were: subpoenaed
Austrian, 5 per cent....
,Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Pitt°, New Ditto 33i. fora
Coroner's which
Impost, was about 0 be held on
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian' 5 per cent — the body of a man that had been taken out of the Maiden
Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent Russian,s per cent _ Land DoJt. The deceased had all the appearance of
Chilian 6 per cent...... Ditte, Metallic — having been a regular dock loafer, and
at was the
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 234 opinion of all present that he had fallen into the slip while
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent. — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. given in a frw minutea—was merely "Found drowned."
Greek, 13:45, 5 per cent. Exchange --E -- c. The jury being dismissed, Mr. M. turned round to look
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 28k French, 3 per cent —f. —c for Isis friend and fellow-juror, who had been at his side
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent.: ... 52t till that moment, but he was .gone •, and he thought he
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, S per cent 100
SHARES saw him running at almost full speed: up Maiden Lane.
Great Western Railway (65 paid) — This struck him as being curious ,: and it also re-
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) llh minded him of another curious fact (at least Curious as
London and Brighton (50 paid) 4511 taken in connection with his sudden flight,) namely,
London and Blackwell Railway (25 paid)... 19 that when Mr. Pelsing had first glanced at the
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths (1 k paid) . . ..... la pale. Mr. Mowitt then proceeded to his bearding-
Midland Counties Railway (109 paid) .. BBl house, and thence to his store, to look for his partner,
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid)
North Midland Railway (100 aid)
return that night ; nor the next ; nor the next ;
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) 331
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 72 and two months passed away without bringing any
Ditto New Shares (10 paid)
fully made up his mind that there was some mysterious
connexion between his friend and the man that was found
drowned, and that, in consequence thereof, Mr. Pelsing
had in all probability made away with himself. Well, so
matters rested until a certain day in last June, when
a lady called at Mr. Mow itt's store, and asked for Mr.
Pelsing. She was told the particulars of Isis story," And
hasn't he been here since ?" she inquired. " Not since,"
replied Mr. Mowitt. " I know he has," said the
lady. "He has not, I assure you, at least to my
knowledge," answered Mr. Mowitt. " But lam positive!"
said the lady, somewhat smartish. " What proof
have you of it ?" inquired the shoemaker. " The best
in the world," returned the stranger, " for I am here,
and I and Mr. Pelsing are one and the same person."
And strange as it may appear, such was the actual
first. Nell, the question was, whether Mr. Pelsing,
was a gentleman, or a lady, and it turned out that
she was a lady, and more than that, her name was not
John Pelsing at all, but Charlotte Conroy, and further-
more, that she was the widow of the man that had been
found drowned. She then stated that her husband was a
shoemaker in Philadelphia, and to whom she had been
married about two,years ; he treated her very badly, the
consequence of which was, that she picked up his
trade by stealth, and when she thought she was
sufficiently perfect, equipped herself in men's
clothes, and ran oil to this city to be the more
safely out of the reach of her lord and master.
Here, as we have • seen, she got into the employ-
ment and remained in the confidence of Mr. Mowitt
until the time of the Coroner's inquest, immediately
after which she proceeded to Philadelphia where
she learned that her husband (who had become a
wandering loafer) had, on the hint of some friend,
set out to New York about a week before, to look
for her ; but where, instead of an injured wife, he found
a watery grave. The upshot of this romantic affair was
that Mr. Mowitt requested Mrs. C. to make his house her
home; that after a while he found that he liked heryet better
as Mrs. C., than as Mr. Pelsing, that by virtue thereof,
he proposed a renewal of their terms of partnership, which
was accepted ; that on last Tuesday week, Mr. Mowitt
and the late Mr. John Pelsing became husband and wife.
This is the first instance, we believe, on record, where-
in a wife performed the office of a coroner's juryman on
the body of her own husband, or wherein a young man
was married to his own master. The lady, by the way,
is very good-looking, and still on the safe side of thirty

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