The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-04 00:00:00

MOA THLY LAW MAGAZINE.

There are always several sound and serviceable treatises
on legal and constitutional topics in this periodical, but
when the Editor begins to touch upon the politics of
the day, then his calm good sense forsakes him, and he
becomes quite furious ; as in the instance of the dia-
tribe headed '' Legislation," which is for nothing so re-
markable, as for its intemperate and headstrong assault
on Ministers, who are roundly accused of haying
" wickedly neglected the affairs of the country," merely
because they have shown a laudable desire to place the
Privilege question—a question, by the way, of para•
mount importance—on sure and safe basis! In no
other respect, however, save that of politics, have we
aught to object against this Magazine, which is con-
ducted with skill and judgment.

ORIENTAL HERALD.
In an article on the subject of the late " Cabool
Campaign,' the writer questions the policy of that cam-
paign, observing, " Lord Auckland's imagination created
the giant he has so valorously slain in Affghanistan.
His judgment, alas, could not discover that the for-
midable power of Russia was in the very heart of his
own dominions, and that while he was marching an
army to fight a shadow, a thousand miles from our own
frontier, he was in the most effectual way fighting the
battles of the Autocrat, by exciting a spirit of disaffec-
tion throughout Hindostan, exposing our own weakness,
and thus enc,uraging internal insurrection." Judging
from present appearances, there is no disaffection in our
Indian colonies that we need bo alarmed about. " Cal-
cutta" is un agreeable, sketchy paper ; and the rhymes
on " Cold Weather" arc us lively us some of poor
Haynes Bayly's bagatelles.

THE SPOI?TSMAN.
Of the two engravings in the present Sportsman's
Magazine, the best is that which represents " Pike•
fishing." It possesses, however, if we are not mis-
taken, one detect, for it is rather a brisk, lively, trout-
stream, in which the fishermen are shown as angling,
than the slow, deep quest water in which pike are most
commonly found. The article, in illustration of this
Pita°, relates some singular anecdotes of the size to
which this fresh-water shark grows, as also of his un-
common ravenousness. But we must take leave to
doubt the story of a pike having been caught twenty
years since, in a creek of the Shannon, weighing up-
wards of " ninety-two pounds !" The anecdote is ra-
ther too tough for our digestion.

THOMAS'kS' NAPOLEON.
The present part of this biography of the French
Emperor commences with the account of the celebrated
Austrian campaign of 1808, and concludes with the
triumphal entry of the French into Vienna, and the sub-
sequent marriage of Napoleon with Maria Louisa of
Austria The tone of the work is generally impartial ;
and the biography does not indulge, as so many of his
predecessors have done, in irrelevant speculation and
digression.

NATURAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS.
In th's Part (which is the third) we have some into.
resting particulars respecting the " osseous system of
Mamma for a considerable portion of which the
author is indebted to the researches of Cuvier and other
eminent naturalists. The part is embellished with seve-
ral explanatory wood-cuts.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MONDAY,
MARCH •2.—John Hampton, of parachute notoriety, who de-
scribed himself as an set onaut, and formerly a carver and gilder,
applied to be discharged under the Act. lie was supported by
Mr. Cooke. The case stood in the clause list since Fridas,
and a nuatber of act onauts were in attendance. The ease,
however, did not come on until nearly eight o'clock, and then
the creditor (George Newton), who had entered the opposition,
declined to oppose. The Schedule showed bona fide debts of
1,8371., and on the other side debts to 6771. Thu insolvency
was ascribed to heavy losses on balloon ascents. The insolvent
had made an assignment of his balloon, with other property, in
183!‘, but had used it since that period. The creditors wanted
an assignment, as it was feared he might lose his life. The in-
solvent, who had been in Whitecross-street prison since No-
vember, W:23 ordered to be discharged. The Court sat until
nearly nine o'clock.
In Stockport there arc 93 public-houses, out of
118, to let, and 2,C00 dwellings are empty.

THE R

FIA LS.

POF.TA CORCAGIEtiiiIS.
Vivite felices, quos lime lux festa perenni
Connubio jungit; quorum exiit alta per orbem
Alagni vox populi, fausto celebrantis amores
Auspicio lactos ; quos, inceptis bytnenzt;s,
Clay a nobilitatc viri, militesque, ducesque,
Cor..scripti patres, cives, et übique coloni,
Certatini salvcre jubent, unaque triumpho
crebros tollunt ad sidera plaurius.
Vivito felices, quibus et socialia cunctce
*Serta simul gcntes intexunt ; lilia pieta
Et violas Galli mittunt, Italia olivam.
Viritc felices,—tribuit Germania lauros,—
Sunt, Alberte, tuaa,—tibi sunt,
Victoria, dono :-
Necnon tuunditiis simplex, tria plaabet lerne,
Qum cordiv, folic ;—et virtutis Scotia spinas.
Anglia. 10 quid ovans ? Regali propria myrtus
Exuniceque roue capiti, quetcusque comata
Nectantur ; pariter studium ros ferte faventes
A,sidt,o dives, qualem regina coronlm,
Et qualem poscit princeps,—superetque nitore
Diritias horti gemmarum luminc cinctas.

Tu formil egregii, ingenuo to pectore prestans,
Majestate arnbo, et viltutibtu, omne per zovum
Laudari digni, vobis slut tempora ]seta,
Debeim populi ;—sit, terque quaterque beatis,
Quod placeat ecoo precibus concedere nostris,
ludole progenies specieque decors parentum.
Jam gaudent gentes, orto nam sidere vestro,
Candida pax terris, et pleno copia cornu,
Incipiunt ridere iterum,—clementia, virtw,
Et pietas toto incedit gratissima nsundo.

* Although this is not the season in trhich these flowers
flourish, by poetic license they are introduced here, as most
characteristic of the different countries mentioned.

VIENNA, FEB. 19.
At the house of an English gentleman in this capital,
at a large festive party given on the occasion of the Royal
Nupti,ls of Victoria, the following stanzas to the "
Na-
tional Anthem" were sung. They are from the pen of the
very hoTitable giver of the fete :
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN:

Oh I Lord to thee we pray,
On this auspicious day,
For her Majesty I
Grant that her noble race
May never meet disgrace,
Nor the bright deeds efface
Of her ancestry !

Ii
Oh ! may 'Victoria find
Hcr Consort goud and kind,
Her heart's own call
And may young Albert bring,
With fair Victoria's ring.
A heart to which we'll cling,
Beloved by all !

111.
Lord! grant our Coburg child"
01 nature sweet and mild,
Free from all stain !
Whose sentiments shall be
Just, noble, brave, and freo,
To all his kingdoms three !
And long to reign I
IV.
Hail then Victoria's day !
Long may her sceptre sway
Britannia's shore !
And may she feel that while
She love's her native Isle,
That Heaven on her will smile
For evermore !
Just naturalized.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

[The writer of the following letter takes up the ques-
tion with great ardour, and like a man in a passion, is
not very nice about his words, but the excitement
which the dispute has caused, must be the excuse.
'['he letter, too, contains statements which, if well
founded, must materially affect any plan for settling
the dispute. The Government will find some difficulty
in adjusting the claitns of Churchmen and Dissenters in
this ecclesiastical commotion.]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sts,—From a leading article in the Morningehroniele,
wouid appear that certain parties seem inclined to
make a handle of the Veto question, to influence the
electors at elections, and it is broadly asserted, that the
Whigs, as a body, have taken the popular, and the
Tories the unpopular side. The writer of this seems to
be utterly in the dark as to the true state of matters.
What he calls the popular side is the unpopular
with us, and vice versa ; that is, the veto
is opposed by the great hulk of the very
numerous body of Dissenters of all denominations
in Scotland, and by a great majority of the sensible men
of every shade of political opinion, so the attempt of
the Morning Chronicle to give this question a party
colour will signally fail, for men's minds are made up
already, and the absurd attempt of the General Assem-
bly to be independent of the laws of the land, as inter-
preted in the Supreme Courts, will meet with the suc-
cess it deserves. As to this being no party question I
need only refer to the great county meetings in Aber-
deen and Banfrshires,where themost influential landholders
of every political opinion, almost to a man, resolved upon
thwarting the attempts of the firebrand portion of the
Clergy. It is true that the Marquis of Breadalbane
and Mr. Fox Maule have taken their place in the non-
intrus'on ranks—and the itior•ning Cv/irishicie could,
perhaps, name a very few more Whigs who have adopted
the same views—but let the writer take up a list of the
Peerage, and Baronets, and extensive Proprietors in
Scotland, of Whig principles, and I hesitate not to say
that there are t t least ten to oar against the wild
party in the Church ; and as to the masses—the great
majority- of whom are Dissenters—they look with
too much contempt upon the party who would wish to
be independent of the State, and at the same time who
grasp the State's pay, to award them their support.
Look too, at the Newspaper Press, with the exception
of three or four, the whole of the newspaper press in
Scotland, of every shade of political sentiment, is
strongly opposed to the ruling party in the Church ;
and if the veto question was really a popular question,
as the Morning Chronicle calls it, it would not want sup-
porters in the press. Let Government take care that it
does not burn its fingers in this matter. Patronage
has been declared by the highest Courts of Law to be
a civil right. Let the Government have a care how
they infringe upon a right as sacred and as inviolate as
the patrimony which is in their individual pockets ; and
for whom would they interfere and do an injustice ?
Why in favour of that intolerant bigoted party in the
Church «hick have ever been foremost in denouncing
every liberal measure of Government—that same party
who have thrown the brand of discord among Chris-
tians, the calumniators of every sect but their
own—the "No Popery" men of the North.
But Government will not be hoodwinked by
a set of men, who in the first place deny their autho-
rity and power to do anything in the matter, inconsis-
tent with their own will on the subject, in the same
way that they deny the power of the Court of Session
and House of Lords to decide on the subject. Yct
these said men, the Vetoists, do not hesitate, by agitat-
ing to get up petitions to Parliament, and by send-
ing deputations to Government, to sue that same high
authority which they pretend to be independent of,
in the same way that this independent (!) body appealed
to the House of Lords after the Court of Sessions' de-
cision in the Auehterarder case. What a keen sense
of honour and admirable consistency these worthies pre-
sent! I cannot conceive anything in the shape of a
prostration of spirit more striking than for a Govern-
ment to pay any attention to any overture made to them
on the Church question before the General Assembly
acknowledges the power of Parliament, and gives obe-
dience to the laws of the lend—if, partly by misrepre-
sentation, arid partly by the pigmy bullying
de-
spicable wild party in the Church,. tley yield the least
way to their views, they earn for themselves a crown of
dg al d t and if either, having the Perthshire or any
otherer election'.°l' in view, ey attempt to make this a
party question,
they will find that they are wofully mis-
taken in anymay expect from such con-
support they
con-
duct. .
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Inverury, Feh.2S.

ENGLIsII POSTAGE.—The Director-General of
the Post-office has published a notice, announcing that the
postage charged over and above,the amoent of French postage
on all letters sent from France to any part of England, Scot-
land, nod Ireland, for whatever distance they may be carried
within the United Kingdom, will henceforth be reduced to the
uniform rate of 10 declines or I franc, for any letter not exceed-
ing in weight half an ounce English, or 14 grammes French.
Certain towns in the counties of Kent and Sussex, the postage
charge to which is under 1 franc for such letters, according to a
scale determined by the Convention of the 30th of
,March,
3,^.6, will continue to enjoy the same privilege. No alteration
is made in the charges of letters coining from, otrhgorineggultaor,
countries beyond sea, and conveyed either by
packets or merchant ships of England. Charges of all kinds
received in France upon letters for the English part of the
postage remain subject to the following English tariff, viz., for
any letter not exceeding in weight half an ounce English; or
14 grammes French, single postage ; exceeding half an ounce,
and not exceeding one ounce, or 28 grammes, double, postage ;
exceeding one ounce, and not exceeding two ounces, or 56
grammes, quadruple postage ; and so on for every additional
ounce, or 28 grammes, an additional double postage will be
charged. The French charge upon letters for the French part
of the postage remains :is follows :—For every letter not exceed-
ing 712 grammes, 1 franc ; not exceeding 10 grammes, If. 50c,
not exceeding ;5 grammes, tlf. ; and so on, 50c. being added
for every additional 5 grammes.— Galignani's Messenytr,
THE MONA RCIL—The Monarch steam-ship,
commanded by Captain Fraser, left Edinburgh for London on
Wednesday last, at four, P.m, but when off Danstanburgh,
grounded on a sunken ridge of rock. The weather being fine,
she was got off without material damage. It cannot but be a
source of congratulation that so fine a vessel has escaped so im-
minent a danger ; she is of great tonnage, with engines of 909
horse power, and it is said was purchased by the Company for
44,000/.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sm,---As you are always forernoSt in celebrating the
praises of our beloved Queen and her illustrious C,Alsort,
I send you for insertion in your Paper a Latin Poem, on
the joyful event of the Rayil Nuptials.
I am, Sir, Sour most obedient servant,
(Clifton) Cork-, Feb. 99. J. N. M.
VI

CTORLE REGINX et ALBERTO PRINCIPI
Carmen Nuptiale, ad Irutssimum diem, quartum Idus
Februarii, A. D. AIDCCCXL.