The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-23 00:00:00

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PRiNCE ALBERT'S NATURA.LIZA-

TION EXHIBITION BILL.

The Lord Chancellor on Monday presented the follow-
ing Bill, entitled " An Act for exhibiting a Bill in this
present Parliament for naturalizing his Serene Highness
Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha.":—
" Whereas it bath pleased her Majesty most graciously
to declare her intention to ally herself in marriage
with the Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha ;
and whereas a more grateful proof of the esteem and
affection of this kingdom cannot be given to his Se-
rene Highness than by an act of naturalization to
make him capable of enjoying those rights and liberties
which are enjoyed in this realm ; and whereas by an act
made in the seventh year of the reign of King James
1., every person is required to receive the sacrament
of the Lord's Supper within one month before any Bill for
naturalization be exhibited, and also to take the oaths of
supremacy and allegiance in the Parliament. House before
his or her Bill be twice read ; and whereas by an Act
passed in the first year of the reign of King George 1. it
was enacted, that no person shall be naturalized unless, in
the Bill exhibited for that purpose, a proper clause or par-
ticular words be inserted to declare that such person shall
not thereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council or a
Member of either House of Parliament, or to take any
office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have
any grant of lands, tenements, or hereditaments from
the Crown, to himself or any person in trust for him,
and that no Bill should thenceforth be received in
either House of Parliament unless such clause or words
be first inserted or contained therein ' • and whereas by
an Act passed in the 6th year of the reign of King
George IV., after reciting the said Act of the 7th of King
James 1., it was enacted, that from and after the passing
of the Act it should not thenceforth be necessary for any
person who is to be naturalized to receive the sacrament
of the Lord's Supper, as directed by the said recited Act;
be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal and Commons, is this present Parliament as-
sembled, and by the authority of the same, that a Bill for
the naturalization of his Serene Highness the Prince Al-
bert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, without the clause or par-
ticular words directed by the said recited Act of the Ist
year of the reign of King George I. to be inserted, and
without his taking the oaths by the first recited Act re-
quired, shall and may be exhibited and brought into this
Parliament, and twice read ; the said recited Acts, or any
other law, statute, matter, or thing whatsoever to the con-
trary notwithstanding."

NEW COINS, WEIGHTS, AND

MEASURES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—An inconvenience felt daily, and many times a
day, by a whole community, however trivial it may be,
ought to be corrected by those whose province it is to pro-
vide things fit and serviceable. One of these inconve-
niences is felt in the weight and material of our lowest
coinage of copper money. The other defect, too, which
pervades the entire system of our currency, viz., of not
being divisible into decimals, is another barbarism, the
existence of which can only be excused by the anticipation
of much perplexity in making the transition from old habits
to new. I beg to suggest my ideas, how to effect a change
of both these inconveniences by a process easy and intel-
ligible, and at the same time to retain in use, until they
shall become obsolete, all the present symbols of value. I
propose that a coinage should be largely issued, in silver,
or alloy, of money, which shall be in value the hundredth
part of a sovereign (the gold unit of our accounts.) If a
new coin, the hundredth part of our gold unit, is introduced
into general use, it could not fail of becoming the means
of keeping all accounts in two columns instead of the pre—
sent arbitrary distinctions of X. s. d., and this ulterior
change may be established independent of Act of Parlia-
ment and proclamations. In the course of a few years its
simplicity would work out the old symbols, and every
measure of value would at last be universally expressed in
sovereigns, and its hundred parts, with some familiar sub-
divisions of the hundred. The name of the new coin may
be a " Part," or any other conventional name, which the
flatterers of royalty may prefer. If of standard silver, it
would not be inconveniently small, but of alloy it would be
as large as a farthing. At the same time that provision
is made for this change, there should be a similar provision,
for establishing some term of unity, and its hundred parts,
in all our weights and measures ; and if these be also
brought into operation simultaneously with the new coin-
age, the use of such a system may be safely left to the
voluntary principle, unaided by any formal injunction by
Statute or otherwise, which, in almost all such cases, have
proved ineffective in superseding local custom.
Yours respectfully, E. B. D.

CRUEL HOAX on the DISTRESSED.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
One of the most wantonly cruel hoaxes we have ever
heard of was practised on Monday last, by the in-
dustrious distribution, in several of the poorer dis-
tricts of the town, of handbills, printed in blue ink (with
a woodcut representing the arms of the borough), and
artfully drawn up in the following terms :
TO THE WORKING CLASSES OF MAN-
CHESTER.
BOROUGH OF MANCHESTRA.

The Conservative Gentlemen of Manchester and its vi-
cinity, seeing the great distress that prevails in this town
and neighbourhood, have humanely entered into a subs:rip-
tion for the relief of the working classes ; and at this in-
clement season of the year they consider they cannot apply
the money to a better purpose than releasing the bedding
and clothing of those families who have been compelled to
pledge to procure food for themselves and distressed fami-
lies. The following are the regulations;._

A family consisting of ten or more persons, earning less
than 245. per week, will be entitled to the benefits of the
above charity;

A family cOnsisting of six persons, earning less than 203.
per week, will be entitled to the same.
A family containing three or less persons, earning 12s.
per week, receive the benefits of this charity.
The goods must be pledged prior to this date.
The Committee will meet at ten o'clock on Monday,
the 20th inst , and two following days, when any persons
requiring the assistance of this charity must apply person-
ally, at the Corn Exchange, Hanging Ditch, and take their
duplicates with them, when they will receive the means of
releasing them.—By older of the Committee.
Mr. BIRLEY, Secretary.
Spring-gardens, Jan. 15, 1840.
Thomsen, printer, Manchester.
The cruel author of this hoax was so far successful
in his object, as to attract great numbers of the poor to
the Corn Exchange, Hanging Ditch, in expectation of
having their clothes and bedding released from pawn,
by the assistance of the Committee ; but, after standing
some time in the street, and finding that the doors con-
tinued closed, and that there was no appearance of any
Committee or other parties, they were reluctantly
obliged to return to their expectant families, and to
communicate to them their own grievous disappoint.
ment. Some applied to Sir Charles Shaw on the sub-
ject ; but, of course, he could give them no information,
lie did offer a reward for the discovery of the scoundrel
who had practised this cruel deception ; but hitherto,
we believe, without success. We trust the author will
be discovered ; the publication of his name would be-
perhaps, punishment enough for him ; for, we should
think, he could scarcely venture to look any of his re-
spectable fellow-townsmen in the face.—Manchester
Guardian.

DOVER, JAN. 20.—A suite of state apart-
ments has been engaged at the Royal York Hotel for Prince
Albert of Saxe Coburg and suite, who are expected to arrive
from Ostend about the 9th or 10th of next month. His High.•
ness will sleep one night at• Dover previous to his departure
for town. It is expected the Corporation will welcome the
future consort of our gracious Sovereign by a congratulatory
address on the occasion of his landing here.

POSTAGE, DUBLIN.—The letters posted in
Dublin weekly have increased from eighty-eight thousand to
upwards of three hundred thousand ! NVhat may not be ex-
pected when the measure has had full time to work, and
when all classes of people, including the vast majority hereto-
fore excluded by the Post-office taxation, shall have become
habituated to the blessing and advantages of communicating
with their friends, at the cost of one penny. The reader can.
not fail to be struck at the ver) large proportion which the
number of letters sent through Dublin bears to the total
amount passed from the British capital—the Dublin letters being
snore than one-third of those forwarded from London. This,
we own, surprises us, although we have been long aware that
our capabilities and our .contributions to the Revenue have
been greatly undervalued. After the lapse of only a fortnight
_without the stamped covers, and with all the other imper-
fections necessarily attending the introduction of the Penny
Postage—the working of the measure already affords sufficient
data to warrant us in anticipating that eventually the Revenue
will not suffer from the extension of this great boon to the
p aRENv-eliAngW PE
Post
TITION.—It is most gra-
tiet:ipAnigeN.
people.—Dublin
announceublO that the petition. got up by the Edinburgh
rn Anti-Co-law Association, received, up
to
12,000 signatures. This is the third day that
thelast night
petition,
oanb oh‘a. es
lain for signatures,
and we expect a great host of additi mal
iwi aonrikeisnbgymtoe-morrow
ii i
n t was gratifying to see so many
their names. This is a sufficient re-
ward to the Committee for their zealous exertions. We can-
not omit to native
Chartists, whose bilp,iteicek of. paltry spite on the part of the
bills (calling a Wi-itfieldeC. ehtapyeelstienietatyinmoornoningthsetufcakee upof
the
Anti-Corn-law petition.' As the Committee will repost the
town with placards, the paltry trick will not avail. hem much.
Let no man neglect to sign this petition, and induce all with
whom he comes in contact to do so likewise. Mr. Macaulay is
expected in Edinburgh this evening.—Scottish Pilot of fia-
turday.
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NEWARK ELECTION.—On Wednesday, Mr.
Thesiger arrived from London, and Mr. Sergeant Wilde on
Thursday night ; he immediately resumed his canvass, and we
are happy to learn that several, who have never previously sup-
ported him, have now declared their intention of voting for the
Solicitor-General. The writ was received on Friday, and the
Mayor, as returning officer, has appointed next Thursday for
the nomination, and Friday for the polling. Among the
attempts made to obtain an undue advantage, was the proposal to
have five polling places, instead of four, as previously arranged ;
then a division of the polling-booths was desired ; and also the
places selected were such as greatly to favour the exercise of
improper influence. Besides these symptoms of weakness, the
Rah have abated much of their boasting, the time of trial is
too near, their hearts fail, and this most us-principled opposi-
tion will assuredly be defeated.—Newark Gazette.