The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-05 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

ST. PETERSBURG, AuG.22.—lt is positively affirmed
that their Imperial Majesties, the Grand Duchess Olga,
the Grand Duke Alexander, and hii bride, the Princess
Mary of Hesse, will arrive at Zarskojeselo on the 9th
of slatember, where they will spend some weeks. On
the 28th of September the august bride, accompanied
by the Imperial family, will make her solemn entry into
the capital. Great preparations are making here for
the ceremony. The marriage will not take place till
July next.

Among the possessions hitherto held by our Go-
vernment on the north-west coast of America was the
Colony of Ross, above California, in the 38th degree
of north latitude. We now abandon it after thirty years'
possession. The population consisting of Russians,
Creoles, Alentians, and Indians, 253 persons, all pro-
fessing the Christian religion, have received orders to
quit the Colony and to remove to Lilka.

- HANOVER, Auo. 27.—Within a short time the life
of our beloved Sovereign has been twice in great dan-
ger, when Heaven happily saved it. Once was at the
King's late hunting party at the Gohrae. There, as we
are told, the fowling-piece that was standing► near the
King went off in consequence of the jolting of the 'ear.:
tinge, and the ball passed within a few inches of the
King's head. The second time was when the King was
riding out. A large dog attacked the King's horse,
which was frightened, and began to plunge and rear up.
The King's good horsemanship and presence of mind,
and the aide-de-camp's hastening to his assistance, pre-
vented a fatal accident. When such events fill the
loyal Hanovei ians with apprehensions for their revered
King, on the other hand we may hope that the skilful
hand of Jaeger, who is positively expected here to-mor-
row, will complete the work of Giaet, and restore the
sight of the Crown Prince.

MEETING OF THE GUERNSEY
TATES.-DISSENTERS' BILL.

A meeting of the States took place on Friday last,
in reference to the Dissenters' Bill. To men whose
minds are not absolutely barred against conviction, the
speech of the Attorney-General must have been more
than sufficient ; the inferences he deduced from the
enactments of the Council of Trent, and the English
Marriage Act of 1775, were rigidly logical, and proved
beyond all cavil and equivocation that marriage was and
is a civil contract. However, he failed in securing a
majority of votes, for he addressed an audience whose
minds were imprisoned in a narrow prejudice—a preju-
dice arising from distorted, though we believe conscieu•
tious, views of religion. At any rate, though defeated,
the Attorney-General has the satisfaction of knowing
that he has done his duty to his Queen, to her Govern-
ment, and to society—and, higher than all, that he has
testified to the truth.

An elevated moral courage is one of the brightest or-
namonts in the character of a public man, and that
moral courage the first law officer of the Crown has
displayed throughout the whole discussion of this 1311.
In this respect we may apply to him the close of one of
the noblest stanzas in Horace—

" Nec sunlit aut ponit secures
Arbitrio popularis rurm.
Of the speeches of the Rev. Messrs. Guille and Do_
bree it is impossible but to speak in terms of the Sc.
verest reprehension. Where was the Christian charity
of the former of these gentlemen, when he blended to-
gether in one sweeping whirlwind of anathema the
Dissenter, the Romanist,the Infidel,and the Atheist's"
Is there no piety, no virtue, no morality without the
pile of Church of Englandism ? To such intolerance
we would apply the command of Christ, " Judge not
lest, ye be judged." ,
Rev. Mr. Dobree denounced the letter of the
Lords of the Council as " a mere mrsckery and an in-
suit ;" is this the fitting language of a Member of the
States? Is this the courtesy due to the paternal Go-
vernment of the Crown ? Is this the gratitude which
this highly-favoured ishir,d owes to the Government of
England ? Thank Heaven.t this was the sentiment of
but one man—it met with no response from the States—
the people disclaim all participation in such intemperate
and unwarrantable denunciations.
In reply to Mr. Le Retilley, the Rev. Mr. Brock
put forth a novel doctrine. The former gentleman had
said that he saw no difference between marriages at the
Greffe and marriages in a Chapel ; but the Rector of
St. Peter-in-the-Wciod maintained there was a diffcr-
bkcaßev. Divine denies the übiquity and omnipresence of
Deity we are utterly at a loss to know what he really
meant to affirm.
The resulr. of
the debate virtually settled this dis-
Te Godailn wasot
for
moment one place and not in the
Asother." i
puted question, for there can be no doubt that the wis-
dom of her Majesty's Government will enforce the °7th
clause, and place the Dissenters
_of Guernsey on the
same looting as their brethren in England.—Guernsey
Star.

-- tool:
me on Sunday to see iNlarchesi, the sculptor, a man who
certainly deserves great respect for the courage with which
he has ' borne up agaiost adverse circumstances. The
MA RCHESI, TILE SCUL.PTOII.—M.C.... , 1
building which contained all his models, and many of the
works which had occupied his lii.e, caught fire, and very
atelier, arranged ex,.
little was rescued from destruction. Ho had another
built to suit his own ideas of fitness and convenience, and
present.
was beginning to fill it with his productions, when the roof
fell in. Unsubdued by the recurrence of one of the
greatest calamities that could have befallen an artist, he
resumed his labours, and 411
ireisly for the purposes of sculpture, is perhaps the largest
and most suitable in the wkol! world. let he has already
furnished it very tolerably with the most varied works of
art, whereas, in Chantrey's large room in London, nothing
is to be seen hut the set»per ttlem of prosaic Englili
statues and monuments. What a contrast does not the
indomitable courage of Marchcsi offer to the puny vanity
of Nourrit, who jumped out of window because somebody
had hissed him !•—Rattmer's Italy and the Italians.