The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 27, lB4O.

every iustice, particularly the Emperor, wlinse .st:up:;n-
doos intellecturd enerries he is fully capable of appre-
ciating. We c.mnot but regret, however, that ho has
le:,gthened• out. his work to such an extent six thick
octavo volunma,are really too much for the Peninsular
war, which, alter all, was but an .episode—though
splendid one—in the late grand European contest. It
was not in Spain and Pdrtugeil that the desti:-:ies of the
French Emperor were-decided ; .but among the snows
of Russia, and on the fatal field.of Leipsic. When we
add that Colonel Napier's History, which embraces
only a period of reven years, is nearly, if not quite, as
long as Gibbon's History, which ranges over a space of
fifteen hundred years, and is occupied with such mo-
mentous and imposing details as those of the fall of the
Roman Empire in the West, and its rise, progress, and
final extinction in the East ;—when we state this, we
have, we conceive, stated quite enough to prove that
the siza of the gallant author's work is out of all pro-
portion to the importance of his subject : Matericin
superat opus.

THE BRITISH JEWS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Thanks for your generous article of the
10th December, in answer to my respectful letter of
the 6th of December, in favour of this peculiar
people, and although the public mind might not
possibly at that period be sufficiently ripe for a fa-
vourable consideration of the disabilities under
which they have so long laboured, I am willing to
hope the time has at last arrived when the fullest
consideration will be afforded to their cause. Well
may you ask what are the Hebrew communities in
England, &c., about, that they do not bestir them-
selves at this peculiar moment in favour of their
persecuted brethren in the East ?
That they are sufficiently numerous to make a
powerful appeal there can be no doubt, but if
made, it must he made with effect ! The secret
must be out, viz. :—They must move as one man,
for the advancement of their cause. The large
sums of money possessed by the few must not any
longer keep in awe the more numerous of their bre-
thren. Their cause will never be fully advocated
by the British public,'until they witness the same
zealously advocated by their own body. You, Sir,
may burden your Paper with the most liberal articles
-to aid them, but to no purpose, unless with gratitude
responded to, and worked out by themselves. Now
is the time for their movement, and well sure am I,
the tide of public opinion will be with them, if, in
the start, they themselves will throw overboard all
stiffnecked prejudice, and go hand in hand with
those, who are, and have ever been, alive to the
full advancement of " Civil and Religious Liberty."

Let the movement now emanate, as it were, anew ;
let them call meetings of their own, and freely ex-
press their grievances. In so doing, however, let
them not ask any aid from some of those of their
people to whom they have-looked in vain for as-
sistance, viz.—such as had been advanced to posi-
tions of great honour, and, as it now turns out,
only for the gratification, of their own personal
vanity, and riot for the promotion of their people.
I am tired, nay sick, 'at the lukewarmness that I
have witnessed in some Jews whom I have known,
nay, personally advanced to great honours—to see
the coldness
.which they have evinced for the like
promotion of their brethren. •
Freedom is due to the Jews; therefore I pray
your assistance, since two or three of your appeals
will merit the • fullest public sympathy. You may
possibly be pestered with letters from some ungene-
rous minds to desist from pressing this matter, and
they may • tax the Jews with being an ungrateful
people: if so, no matter ; the time will come when
tney will see their error. Who has laboured
harder than I have for them—and who has ex-
perienced greater ingratitude from, •a few of them
than myself ? But it was not for the pleasure of
their 'small but their.larger number that I worked
with so warm a zeal.
I am, Sir, your's, obliged and indebted,
Leith, April 21, 1840. W. T.

COURT CIRCULAR.

. ,
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, arrived at
Buckingham Palace at ten minutes past five o'clock on
Saturday afternoon in an open carriage and four, escorted
by a party of Light Dragoons, from Windsor Castle. The
Rival suite followed in several carriages and four, and in-
cluded the Countess of Charlemont. Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon.
Miss Spring Rice, Lord Byron, Baron de Gruben, Sir
Robert -Otway, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bou-
veric, and Mr. Francis Seymour.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Queen Dowa-
gei attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Lessons and Prayers
were read by the Rev. Horscley Dakins. The Chant
was Attwood's. The Magnificat and Nunc dimittis,
Barrow's in F. The Anthem (quartett and chorus)
.‘ Bow thine ear to me" ( Dowland); the quartett iwas
sung by Messrs. Wylde, Hobbs, J. B. Sale, and one of
the boys of the chapel. Sir George Smart presided at
the organ.

The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in wait-
ing. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Char-
lemont, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lord
Byron, Lord George Lennox, Sir Robert Otwity, Hon.
Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Francis
Seymour.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert and suite returned after
the Service in four carriages, to Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, honoured the
Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening.
In the Royal Suite was the Countess of Charlemont, Hon.
Ass Pitt, Lord Byron, Baron de Gruben, Sir Robert 0.-
way, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr.
,Francis Seymour.
Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, visited
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of
Saxe-Weimar yesterday, at Marlborough House. His
Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of Cambridge
yesterday.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida
of Saxe Weimar attended Divine Service yesterday morn-
ing in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Steath,l Sob-Dean, from Isaiah,
chap. 32, verse 2. The Lessons were read by the Rev.
Mr. Hull, the Prayers by the Rev. H. Dakins, and the
Communion Service by the Sub-Dean and the Rev.
Messrs. Hall and Dakins. The Chant was Dr. Boyce's.
The Te Deum and Jubilate, Barrow's in F. The Sanctus
and Responses, J. B. Sale's. The Anthem " Sing 0
Heavens" (Kent), was sung, `_y Messrs. Wylde, Hobbs, and
J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the organ.
The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in
waiting. Her Majesty was attended by the Hon. Miss
Hudson and Earl Howe.
Saturday was the birth-day of the Duchess of Glouces-
ter. Her Royal Highness, we regret to state, being in.
disposed, the congratulatory visits from the members of
the Royal Family were deferred. His Royal Highness'
Prince Albert, attended by Mr. Francis Seymour, called
at Gloucester House in the afternoon; after bis arrival from,
Windsor Castle. Several of the Foreign Ministers, and
many of the nobility, left their names for her Royal !Bel-
ness, in the course of the day, at Gloucester House.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended
by Baron Knesebeck, arrived in town at four o'clock on
Saturday afternoon from a vi,it to the Duke of Wellington
at Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Prince George of Cambridge
also returned to town on Saturday afternoon from a visit
to his Grace. His Royal Highness visited the Princess
Augusta.
The Queen Dowager and the Duke of Cambridge
visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at Clarence House,
St. James's.
The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the
Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager
and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George,
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine
Service yesterday moaning in Grosvenor Chapel. Lady
Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck were in waiting
on their Royal Highnesses.
The Queen Dowager rode out on horseback on Satur-
day, and the Duchess of Saxe,Weimar 'took a carriage
drive.
M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, left London last
Saturday for the Hague, where he intends to pass a fort-
night or three weeks.
The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satur-
day in Downing-street.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from Captain Prescott, Governor of Newfoundland.
Lord Wharnclitfc had an interview with the Marquis of
Normanby on Saturday at the Home Office.
Viscount Melbourne arrived in town on Saturday from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Viscount Duncannon returned to town on Saturday.
_

The Marquis of Normanby arrived in town on Saturday
from the scat of the Earl of Hardy‘icke, Wimpole Hall,
Cambridgeshire.
The Marquis of Ormonde left town on Saturday for
the Isle of Wight, from whence the Noble Nlixquis will
proceed on an excursion to the Mediterranean.
Mr. E. J. Cooper, M. P., and Mrs. Cooper. have ar-
rived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from Brighton.

THE QUEEY.—It is whispered in circles likely
to be acquainted with the fact, that her Majesty is in a way
likely to prevent the succession to the throne from passing into
I any other than the direct line. The report derives strength
fi om her Majesty's recent abstinence from her favourite excl.-
oa horseback, and also from dancing-, in which she is
known to take much pleasure.— Globe.
It has reached us from an excellent authority
that is the intention of her Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Ili,,huess Prince Albert to be present at a review at Woolwich
in the course of the ensuing month.
he Earl of Clarendon gives a Cabinet dinner
on Wednesday next. The whole of the members of the
Cabinet, with the exception of Viscount Murpeth, dine with
thu Noble Earl.
His Excellency Prince Castelcieala, A mba•sa-
dor Extraordinary from the Court of Naples to the British
. Court, arrived on Saturday last from Paris.

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SUP-PLEM,i':N TTo D T!1 LOIN LOIN N

GAZETTE OF APRIL 24.

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TREASURY WARRANT.

Whereas by an Act, passed in the last Session of Par-
liament, intituled " An Act for the Further Regulation
of. the Duties on Postage until the sth day of October,
1840," poster was given the Lords of the Treasury,
by warrantamd, r their hands, to be inserted in the London
Gazette (which warrant might be rescinded, varied, or
altered, as they should, from time to time, think fit) to direct
that letters written en stamped paper, or enclosed in
stamped covers, or having .a stamp affixed thereto (the
stamp in every such case being of the value or amount in
such warrant to be expressed, and specially provided for
the purpose under the authority of the stid Act). should
(if within the limitation of weight to be fixed under the pro-
visions of the said Act, and if the stamp should not have
been used before) pass by the post free of postage ; arid
also to requir,s, in case the stamp on which any letter
should be written, or the stamp on the cover in which it
should be enclosed, or to which it should be :affixed, should
be of less value or amount than in sue!) warrant should be
expressed, or should have been used before, such letter
should be charged and chargeable with such rate of post-
age cs such warrant should direct ; and power was thereby
also given to the Lords of the Treasury, to order and di-
rect the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, from
time to time, to provide proper and sufficient dies or
other implements for expressing and denoting the
rides or duties which should be directed by any such
warrant as aforesaid, and to give any other orders,
and make any other regulations relative thereto, they
might deem expedient.
And whereas by a warrant, under the hands of three of.
the Lords Commissioaers of her Majesty's Treasury,
dated the 27th day of December, 1839, the said Lords
Commissioners, in pursuance of the power or authority in
them vested in and by the said Act, fixed and limited a scale
of weight of letters to be transmitted by the post, and they
thereby subjected such letters, on and after the 10th day
of January, 1840, to the rates of postage therein con-
tained, and directed that no letter exceeding sixteen
ounces in weight should be forwarded by the post between
places within the United Kingdom, except in the instances
therein specified.
And they ordered and directed, that on all letters,
not exceeding half an ounce in weight, transmitted
by she post between places within the United
Kingdom (not being letters sent to or
.from parts
beyond the seas) there should be charged and taken
one uniform rate of postage of one penny ; and on
all such letters, if exceeding half an ounce in weight pro.
gressive and additional rates of postage (each additional
rate being estimated at oae penny), according to the scale
of weight and number of rates thereinbefore fixed, pro-
vided that such postage should be pre-paid at the time of
posting such letters, or otherwise there should be charged
on such letters a double rate of postage :
And they further directed, that on all_ letters not ex-
ceeding half an ounce in weight, transmitted between any
place within the United Kingdom and any other of the
British dominions or colonies by packet-boat, anti riot
through France (including, however, letters to and from
the East Indies, by way of Falmouth and Alexandria).
and on all letters transmitted by vessels, not being pasket-
boats, between the United Kingdom, and any place be-
yond the Seas, (including Ceylon, the Mauritius, the
Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies,) and on
all letters not exceeding half an mines in weight,
transmitted by post, between any part of the United
Kingdom and France, or any other foreign country,
through France (letters to or from any of her Me-
jesty's colonies or dominions excepted), and between
the United Kingdom, and foreign parts (except France
and any foreign country through France), or between the
United Kingdom and any of her Majesty's colonies or domi-
nions through a foreign country, or between any ports,
islands, or places out of the United Kingdom, there should
he charged and taken the several- rates of British postage
therein mentioned or referred to. ,

And that on every letter so transmitted (except letters
chargeable with uniform rates of postage), which should
be posted within the United Kingdom at any other place
than the port of departure of the packet by which the
same should be forwarded, or which should be addressed
or delivered at any other place within the United Kingdom
than the port at which the packet bringing the same should
arrive, and not exceeding half an ounce in weight, an
inland rate of two-pence should be charged and taken
in addition to the rate of British postage then payable
thereon.
And that on every letter so trensmitted.as thereinbefore
respectively mentioned, exceeding half an ounce in weight
(letters on which uniform rates were payable as aforesaid
included), there should be charged and taken progressive
and additional rates of British postage, according to the
scale of weight and -number of rates thereinbefore con-
tained, estimating and charging each additional rate at
the amount theroinbefore directed to be charged and
taken on every letter so transmitted, not exceeding half an
ounce in weight, and charging the inland rate (if any) as

aforesaid. -
And whereas by another warrant, under the hands of
three of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury, bearing date the 31st day of January now last, the
said Lords Commissioners, in exercise of the power in
them for such purpose vested by the said Act of Pasha.
merit, ordered and directed that on all printed votes, and
proceedings,' of the Imperial Parliament, forwarded by
post between places in the United Kingdom, or between
the United Kingdom and her Majesty's Colonies, on
or after the 1 1 th day of February then next, subject,
nevertheless, to all the regulations and restrictions
in force respecting such votes and proceedings under the
Act of the Ist Vict. cap 3-1, there should be charged and
paid the rates of postage therein specified.
And whereas the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury have determined that all letters, and printed
votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, posted
in the United Kingdom, may be transmitted by the post
free of postage, if duly stamped or having a stamp affixed
thereto, in manner hereinafter provided.
Now, we, the undersigned, being three of the Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, do, in exer-
cise of the power or authority in us for such purpose
vested in and by the Said Act, and of all other powers en-
abling us in this behalf, order and direct, that this 'pre-
sent warrant shall come into operation on the 6th day of
May next : and we hereby direct, that all letters, printed
votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, which,
on or after that day shall be posted in any town, or
place, w:thia the United Kogdom, shall, if written
on stamped paper, or enclosed in stamped covers, or
having a stamp or stamps affixed thereto (the stamp or
stamps in every such case being the value or amount here-
inafter expressed, and specially provided under the autho-
rity of the said Act, as hereinafter directed, and if the
stamp shall not have been used before), pass by post, free
of postage, as hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say)
In case any such letter shall be directed to any place
within the United Kingdom, the stamp or stamps thereon
shall be equal in value or amount to the rates of postage
to which such letters would be liable under the said warrant
of the 27th day of December last, if pre-paid.
In case any such letters shall be addressed to any other
of the British dominions or Colonies, or to any foreign
country, the stamp or stamps thereon shall be equal in
value or amount to the rates of British postage, to which
such letters would have been liable under the said warrant
of the 27th day of December last.
And on all such printed votes and proceedings of Par-
liament, the stamp or stamps shall be equal in value or
amount to the rates of postage to which such votes and pre-
ceedirv.. s would have been liable under the said warrant of
the 31st day of January last.
And we further order and direct, that in all cases in
which the same shall be necessary, in order to place on
any such letters, printed votes, or proceedings of Par-
liament, the full amount of stamps hereby required as afore-
said, there shall be affixed thereto such a number of ad-
hesive stamps, as alone, or in combination with the stamp
on such letter or packet, or on the envelope or cover
thereof, will be equal in amount to the rates of postage to
which such letters, printed votes, or proceedings of Parlia-
ment, would be liable under the said warrants of the 27th
day of December, and 31st day of January, now last re-
spectively as aforesaid.
That in all cases'in which letters addressed to places
within the United Kingdom shall be posted without any
stamp thereon, and without the postage being pre• paid,
there shall be charged on such letters the postage to which
such letters would be liable under the said warrant of the
27th day of December last ; and in all cases in which
printed votes, or proceedings of Parliament, addressed to
places within the United Kingdom, shall be posted without
any stamp thereon, there shall be charged on such votes
and proceedings the postage to which the same would be
liable under the said warrant of the 31st day of January last.
That in all cases in which any letters addressed to places
within the United Kingdom shall be posted having thereon
or affixed thereto any stamp or stamps, the value or amount
of which shall be less than the rate of postage to which
such letters would be liable under the said warrant of the
27th day of December last if pre-paid, there shall be
charged on such letters a postage of double the amount of
the diffsrence between the value of such stamp or stamps
and the postage to which such letter would be liable as
aforesaid if pre-paid.
And in all cases in which any votes or proceedings of
Parliament addressed to places within the United Kingdom
shall be posted, having thereon or affixed thereto any
stamp or stamps, the value Or amount of which shall be less
than the rate of postage to which such votes and proceed-
ings would be liable uncler the said warrant of the 31st of
January last, there shall be charged on such votes or pro-
ceedings a.poAage equal to the amount of the difference
between the value of such stamp or stamps, and the post-
age to which such votes or proceedings would be liable as
aforesaid. -
Provided always, that it shall in all cases be optional
with the parties sending any letters, printed votes,
or pioceedings of Parliament by the post, to forward the
same, free of postage, by means of a proper stamp, or
stamps, thereon, or affixed thereto, in manner hereinbefere
provided, or to forward the same in like manner as the
same might have been forwarded before the signing of this
present warrant.
But in case arty letters or printed votes or proceedings
of Parliament, addressed to places out of the United King-
dom shall have thereon or affixed thereto, any stamp or
stamps, being less in value or amount than the rates of post-
age, to which such letters or such votes or proceedings
would be liable under the said warrants of the 27th day of
December and 31st day of January last respectively, such
letters or printed votes, cr proceedings of Parliament, shall
not, in any case, be forwarded by the post, but shall, so far
as may be practicable, be returned to the senders thereof,
through the dead letter office.
Provided also, that with reference to the existing treaties
between his lee Majesty King William IV., her present
Majesty, and his Majesty the King of the French, letters
between the United Kingdom and France may be sent
without being stamped or pre-paid ; but in all other cases
of letters sent out of the United Kingdom, it shall be lawful
for the Postmaster• General to require either that such
letters shall be duly and properly stamped as herein di-
rected, or that the postage thereof shall be paid by the
sender on the tender or delivery of such letters at the Post
Offices• or other places appointed by the Postmaster-Ge-
neral, for the receipt of such Ivaers, for the purpose of
transmission by the post (subject, nevertheless, to the re-

gul ations- and enactments in this respect, contained in tire
Act of th( lit. Viet., cap. 34. sec. 14.)
Provided also. that the transmission of printed votes and
proecedicgQ Parliament by the post, shall be subject to
LII the ret.ilat;.ons and restrictions in force under the said
Act of the Ist of Victoria, cap. 34; and the said warrant of
the 31st of January list.
And we further order and direct, that in any case in
which a stamp shall be placed on any letter, or printed votes
or proceedings of Parliament, or affixed thereto, which shall
have used before, the same shall have no force or
effect whatsoever.

And we ftpther order and direct the'Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes, front time to time, to provide proper
and sufficient dies, or other implements, for expressing
and denoting rates or duties of one penny and twopence
for tho purposes hereinbefore directed.

. .
And ae ruttier order and direct, that the terms and ex.
pressioxis u,:ed in this present warrant shall be construed
to have the like meaning., in all respects. as they would
have had if inserted in the said warrant of the 27th duy of
of December last.

Pro%ideri lastly, and we hereby declare, that it shall be
lawful for the Lords Commissioners, for the time being,
of her Al,jesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by war-
rant under their hands at any time hereafter, to rescind,
vary, cr alter, all or any of the regulations and directions
herein contained, and to 'wake, establish, and declare any
new or o regulations and directions respecting the
sending by the pot of letters written on stamped paper,
or enclosed in stamped covers, or having a stamp affixed
thereto, in manner provided by the said Act made and
passed in the last Session of Parliament, as they shall
deem expedient.

As witness our hands, this 24th day of April. 1840.
p. T. BARING.

THOS. WYSE.
H. TUFNELL.

SPORTING

LA TEST LETTING AT MANCHESTER.
The result of the Column Stakes is a great blow to the long
and over-sanguine backers of Lord Orford's colt. Private
trials are too eagerly followed ; and, we should think, sooner
or later the system will not be sn eagerly watched, or acted
upon. There can be no doubt that the party in the south are
greatly disappointed, for he was backed at Tattersall's for
months past with the most lavish hand—indeed for an unusually
large stake. Now, the on dit is, that he was not "up to the
mark ; ri .o 4on him at " start" is rather in favour of his
looking all that could be wished for. We have not heard him
mimed since ; 5 to 1 is offered on the field ; 7 to 1 taken on
Theon ; 7?; would be taken on Confederate ; 100 to 9 offered
at noon against Assassin ; 400 to 26 was pencilled down this
forenoon on Muley Ishmael—backed yesterday largely at that
price ; 300 to 8 was offered against. Pathfinder ; some 50's to 1
taken last night on Prince Albert.
THE CHESTER Cur.—Cowboy is .firm, but not so Cruis-
Leen ; she, has tottered for three days. At noun 100 to 5 was
absolutely bet. St. Bennett shows himself to be Dawson's
horse ; at all events 12 to I could not be obtained to a sum this
morning. The prices fluctuate nearly every hour, and will do
so until the race conies off.
5 to I agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy—offered
9 to I agst Mr. J. Henderson's Lanercost—offered
10 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Melbourne—take 11
11 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney
12 to I agst Lord Eglinton's St. Bennett—taken •
15 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland
17 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—taken'
17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Dey of Algiers
20 to 1 agst Mr. R. Friee's Captain Pops—taken
20 to 1 agst i.d. Miltown's Cruiskeen—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph—taken
25 to 1 agst Alr. Speed's Aimwell—taken
30 to 1 agst. Mr. Knox's George •
4.) to 1 agst Lord Milltown's \Virrestrew
100 to 4 agst The Feather—offered
100 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson's Stansty—offered
60 to 40 offered on Cowboy v. Melbourne
Letters received from Newmarket, dated last night, state that
Cruiskeen is backed at 6 to 1 for the Chester Cup!
ODDS AT NEWMARKET.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS' STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate
3 tot agst Lord G. Bentinek's Crucifix
8 to I a4st Lord Exeter's lot •
10 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Warden—taken
THE DERBY.

ri to 1 agst Marquis of Westminster's Launcelot—taken
and after wards offered
7to I agst Duke of Cleveland's Theon—taken and after-
wards offered
8 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate—take 9 to 1
1 t to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Assassin—taken
18 to 1 egst Lord Jersey's Muley Ishmael _take 20 to 1
22 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Melody colt—take 25 to 1
25 to 1 Captain Gardnor's %lonops
25 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Angelica colt
35 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's St. Andrew—take 40 to 1
40 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Black Bess—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Gambia—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Maroon—taken and after-
wards offered
1000 to 10 agst Mr: Fowler's Cormorant—ditto
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Eddison's The Ruler—taken
1000 to 10 agst Duke of Rutland's Crazy Boy—taken
3to 1 agst Seott's lot—taken
1000 to 20 agst Little Wonder and Solace (taken); 600 to
400 on Angelica colt agst Black Bess (taken); 500 to 400 on
Monops agst St. Andrew (taken); 560 to /0 agst 'Limon' and
Crucifix for Derby and Oaks (taken).

MARItIAGE of the DUKE of SUSSEX.

NARRATIVE OF SIR AUGUSTUS D'ESTE.
Same months after the receipt of the preceding an-
swers, (the opinions of Dr. Leshington and Mr. R.:ch-
ards, which were inserted in The Sun of Monday hist,)
I was indebted to Sir John Dihon for the publication of
a work entitled " The Case of the Children of the Duke
of Sussex."
It was the sharp sight of that acute lawyer, which at
c the first glance saw that my case was just, and that the
laws as they existed were the silent but staunch support-
ers of ray claims.
in 1811, Sir John Dillon published his " Considera-
tions on the Royal Marriage Act," where he , demon-;1.,
s.retes that the authors of it never contemplated.its ei- •
tending beyond the shores of Britain, and he shows the
folly of those who would idly maintain that the Britisli
Legislature hid imagined the absurdity of shackling, in
regard to marriage throughout the wide expanse of
Europe, Hanoverian Princes !—Princes who. were
members of the German Empire !—and any one of whom
was liable to be called upon to ascend its Imperial
Throne.
To return to the later work of Sir J. Dillon entitled
" The Case of the Children of the Duke of Sussex."
Amidst the important contents of this.volume in the
notes to page 36, were the following acts of the British
and Irish Parliaments.
6TH GEORGE 1., C. 5.
This British Statute declared and enacted, " That
" the Kingdom of Ireland hath been, and is, and of
" right ought to be subordinate to,and dependent upon,
" the Imperial Crown of Great Britain, as being inse-
parably united and annexed thereto ; and that the
`• King's Majestic, by and with the advice and consent
" of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons
" of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, bath,
" and of right ought to have full power and authority
" to make laws and statutes of sufficient force to bind
the Kingdom and People of Ireland." .
The Statute, 22 George 111., c. 28, reciting the
above (6 George 1., c. 51, shortly enacts that " From
and after the passing of this Act, the abovementioned
Act, and the several matters and things therein con-
tained shall be, and is, and are hereby repealed.
The Act 23 George 111 , e. 28," Removes all doubts
of the right claimed by the people of Ireland to be bound
only by laws enacted by his Majesty and the Parlia-
ment of that kingdom in all cases whatever."
Then as to marriage, whilst Ireland was only a Land,
and tire. Kings (if England only Lords, it was held that
the sentence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
Acts of Parliament in England regulating or annulling
marriage, bad not any force in Ireland.
The marriage of Queen Catherine was dissolved by
" the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons
in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority
of the same," the Irish Statute (the 28 Henry VIII.,
c. 9.), reciting at the same time the English Statute to
that effect, not as of any force in Ireland, but only as a
good Act, and emphatically repeating that as to Ireland
the marriage was dissolved by authority of the present
Parliament.
The Irish Statute, 33 Henry VIII., c. 6, declares
the marriage of all persons to be lawful that be not pro-
hibited by God's law ; and it also seems to recognise
the validity of marriages made by mere contract if con-
summate with bodily knowledge. Thus at the time of
the Union with Ireland the law of Ireland did not re-
cogniSe the validity or legal effect of any Acts merely of
the British Parliament regulating marriage in Ireland.
From the above extracts it became evident that there
could be no Royal Marriage Act of force in Ireland,
unless there could be shown some Statute of the Irish
Parliament to legislate in regard to the marriages of the
children of the Kings of that country.
A diligent search was made into the Irish Statute
Book, but no such- Act was discovered. The question,
however, having been. mooted of my status in that kine'a
doin, it was deemed indispensable to submit a case for
the opinion cf that gentleman whose professional re-
putation stood the highest for a knowledge of the laws
of that country previous to the Union, when Ireland
Was an independent kingdom. •
The following case was accordingly laid before Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, and received front that very emi-
nent and learned gentleman the answers which are sub-
joined
CASE FOR MR. O'CONNELL.
" In the year 1793, Prince Augustus Frederick, of
Great Britain -and Ireland, son to his Majesty George
(afterwards created Duke of Sussex, but only since
the Union), intermarried at Rome, out of all British
jurisdiction Whatever, with the Right Hon. Lady Au-
gusta Murray, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore, a
Peer of Scotland, and whose native domicile was in-that
part of the United Kingdom, and not in England.
" Prince Augustus himself, previously to his mar-
riage, had never been actually domiciled in England,
but had been sent abroad at an earl) period of his in-
fancy, !I
and educated as a German prince, in the tin .n
electorate, and now the kingdom of Hanover, of which
his father was sovereign, holding that sovereignty in a
right wholly distinct from the crown of Great Britain.
He never fixed his abode permanently in England until
the year 1804, long after the marriage and the birth of
his children.
" Tile marriage at Rome was performed by a minister
of the Church of England ; and the House of Lords,
in the case of Lord Cloncurry, has established the
validity in Ireland of marriages so celebrated between
parties who are Protestants.—Vide Cruise on Dignities,l
second edition, p. 276.
" As Mr. O'Connell may not in London have the
facility of referring at once to that work, he will find it
in Mr. Cruise's. report of the case set forth in page it)
of a work just published by Sir John Dillon ; he will
also in the latter work, left herewith, find the English
Royal Marriage Act, and from pages 35 to 37 a review
of the constitution of the Irish monarchy as it stood at
the time of the Union, and of several Irish statutes re-
lating thereto.
" There was issue of the marriage—a son, Augustus
Frederick, born in 1794, and a daughter, Augusta.
" In the British statute 12th of George 111., c. 11,
Ireland is not mentioned, nor is any allusion made to
the Great Seal or Privy Council of Ireland, although
descendants of George 11. might settle and marry in
that kingdom.
" N.B. The ordinary Marriage Act, 26 George 11.,
c. 33, is confined to England,-and the marriages of the
Royal Family are expressly exempted from the operation
of that statute.
" Your opinion is requested—
" 1. Whether, at the time of the marriage of his Royal
Highness at Rome, he was liable to any disability of
contracting marriage in that city, as son of the, than
King of Ireland, by virtue of any law of force in 1793,
within that kingdom, then wholly separate and inde-
pendent of British legislation ; and so declared in
- 1782, by the British Parliament itself? and if he were
so, you ere requested to point out the particular sta-
tute, if any, by which such disability was wrought.
"ANSWER.
" I am of opinion—and it is an opinion free from any
doubt—that at the time of the marriage of his Royal
Highness at Rome he was under no incapacity, by vir-
tue of any law of force in Ireland, to contract marriage
in that city. The marriage cunt: acted at Rome by his
Royal Highness was, in my opinion, one of unquestion-
- able validity in Ireland.
"2. What was the status of the son of his Royal
Highness, in point of rank and legitimacy in Ireland,
and according to the law of that kingdom at the
time,of the union with Great Britain in 1801 ? And
how, according to that law, was lie entitled to be
designated and styled in all public acts, or in legal
proceedings then, and at the present moment, in
Ireland ?

" ANSWER.

" The status of the son of his Royal Highness in
Ireland, at the union, was and still is that of a Prince of
the Blood Royal, grandson of the reigning [in 18011
King of Ireland. He is still entitled to that rank, and
ti all rights dependent on, or incident to, his legitimacy
in Ireland, as such Prince of the Blood Royal.
"3. In case the son of his Royal Highness should pur-
chase land in Ireland, and die intestate, to whom
would any estate so purchased devolve ? To his sis-
ter, as his heir-at-law, or to the Crown, by escheat,
for want of heirs

" ANSWER.

" Any land purchased in Ireland by the son of his
Royal Highness, in the event of his dying intestate,
would certainly descend to his sister, as his
heiress-at law. There could be no escheat in
that case to the Crown. The sister, in the event
supposed, would have no difficulty in recovering
the possession of the land, if that possession were
withheld from her by any person not deriving from her
brother. For that purpose, she could maintain an eject-
ment on her singlo demise • if the land were held by
tenants, she could recover the rents by action or dis-
tress. In short, she would hare no difficulty in asser:-
ing and establishing her rights in our Courts of. Law.
Besides clear principle, the authority of Lord Cloneur-
ry's ease, in our Courts and before the Lords, leaves,
in my judgment, no doubt on this subject.
" DANIEL O'CONNELL.

" 7th July 1832-4, Parliament-street, London."

THEDUKEOFSUSSEX AND THE DUCHESS
OF INVERNESS.
(From the Ar,us.)
The plain fact is that the Lady(dignify her as you
may) is either the Duke's wife, or his mistress. If she
wen; his legal wife, she would
she is not so. The nobility and others,who have placed
their autographs in her visitors' book, have, in our opi-
nion, Committed a very great error. " But they are
married," says the Duke of Somerset, " and I will re-
ceive them as man and wife." Good, my Lord Duke.
You have hitherto maintained the reputation of
a. moral, prudent gentleman. You
.have .daughters
very amiable and handsome women. Would you
that any one of the Ladies St. Maur should ha so
wedded as the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of
Inverness are reported to have been ? Marriage, to
be legal in England, must be by one of three

modes ; by licences, by• banns, or by registration be-
fore a .Magistrate. These are the on/s/ farms reto,g-
vised by the lad ; and was the marriage of the Duke of
Sussex to the .Dueliess of Inverness by soy one of these
modes? We believe not. But, for the sake of argu-
twin; supposing it to have been so, it could not hive
been a legal marriage without the consent of the Crown
and the Ptivy Council, the Royal Marriage Act render.:
all such unions void: The Duke's former marriage,
with Lady Augusta Murray,,was a very different affair.
They were first Married abroad, agreeably to the cere-
mony of the 'country where both resided ; they were
.subsequently married by banns in the parishchurch of
St. George, .Hanover-square--openly, undisguisedly,
and without any one interfering to forbid the ceremony.
That the marriage with Lady Augusta Murray was a
legal marriage, Without the limitations of the Royal
rAlarriage Act (which does not extend to Ireland, Scot-
land, Hanover, or any other place beyond the seas),
,there can be no doubt ; and Colonel D'Este ought to
Ip'se ho time in bringing claims, and those
.of
his arniahle' sister;' before • the notice of Parha-
znent:' The . conduct of the Duke of Sussex
to his legal wife 'and children may be easily traced, by
reference to the papers of the late Mr. Dillon, then
Ccmusel to 'Lady Augusta Murray, and residing in Lin-
colnis Ica. The executors of Mrs. Billingtom.the ce-
lebrated vocalist; might also furnish some minutes of
iiis Royal Highrices's Eenerosity to a lady, who lived
With hi}n • fore long period, and sacrificed her private
fortune to his uses. It i's not our wish to enter into
these priF,,ate detailg of the past. The materials have
tong since been' hands ; and. if the' injudicious
remarks in t. 11.?, •, !'Morning Chronicle had not provoked
Comment, (coming, 3s We.,orc persuaded•they do, from
lensiagton Pollee); we l'shbUld`sot have said' mach.
As" it is, we shall he 'delighted to reader any assistance
in our power' to Col. D'gSte:lnclihis sister; iri,*sta-
blishing their legitimate righte :` and tve:l'at* surf ihat
in doing so, we shall have the sr-nice?* arid: good
wishes of a triajoritY bE
.the people of Gredt Btitacn
with us,'in fay.our of their claims. ' r

The following simple, effecting. and heft/inl letter,
reached' us this day. It is written by 'thi, Htui: Mr.
11Itirra3', son' of the late Earl of Dunmore, aitd brother
to the hapless and ill-fated Lady Augusta. Its perusal
Will arOttse the feelings of the public, and tend to in-
crease the sympathy now so universally felt for her
children. 'justice has b6en tardy in her'dealings towards
theth ; but she Will be sure, and her retriliution will he
Hunteous. This letter places her Ladyship's charac-
ter' in a new and magnanimous point of view—as the
resigned'and saffezing martyr, and as the firm and un-
earnpithitising heroine—enduring ever! mistipand pri-
vation, even to the disgrace of arrest—and for her
husband's debts—rather than betray a trust or violate
a promise.
"TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL.
"Farmley, near Ragshot, April IR, 1840.
"Sil',—;FrOm a paragraph which appears in the
. . Chronicle (apparently 'derived from some one
to' whom the circumstance was well krMwri) the-editor
states

" That at the time of the rnarria;e of the Duke of
Sussex to Lady Augusta Murray,'in 1793, each of
them gave to the clergyman, by whom the ceremony
Was performed, a pledge neither.to reveal his tamne, nor
perMit him to incur any peril on their account. The
Mike of Sussex has kept his'tvord.'
"And thus. the artiele•abruptly terminates,' leaving
the inference to be drawn that. My lath sistcr'had been
less mindful of her'pledgc. 'l3at tint her memory may
not SUfhr from any erroneous opinions'on this head, I
beg to infortn you that on several occasions;: when she
was arrested for debt, and other Wise subjected 'to great
mental suffkirings from such 'arrests; that I urged and
entreated her, all b my power, between .1803 and 1898,
to plead fenitne couverte ; one of her invariable replies
to vihich.Was, INo I cannot ; F-pleiged tr.y n-Ord.to
the clergyman, most sacredly, that I would not reveal
his name, and that pledge I should be obliged to break,
to establish, in• a Court of Law, wen I to do what
you wish.

" No, Mr. Editor, it was many years after the
before-mentioned period, when, finding my mother, the
lath 'Countess of Dunmore, to be in 'a very Weak state
of health, that I was indticed to urge her so solemnly,
net only on the act of injustice that she was doing to us,
her sons, .and more especially to her grandson, the pre-
'sent'S;r Augustus d'Este, that she at last revealed to me
*pat only the clergyman's name and lige, but also the
'county ia which he resided, who had Married the parties;
as also the name of another person who had been in-
Auced to listen when the ceremony was being per-
formCd, froth having had' their suspicions aroused that
.something of the kind was going on, from what had
previously occurred, as welt- as I
from the mysterious
'Manner in which the clergyman alluded to‘was Smuggled
into the palace when my mother had gone'outotrit,
" Having subsequently seen the persons alluded to,
and they not denying the:fact,• I some time afterwards
appealed to his Royal Highness Whether it would not
'be an act of common justice to the family of the
Duchess, and to her-children, that he should obtain
(considering the extreme age of the 'clergyinan who had
intermarried his Royal Highness with my sister)ri cer-
tificate to such effect—at the same time aequainting
his Royal Highness how and in what manner 1 had
come possessed of the clergyman's name, Ikc. : in reply
to which appeal a gentleman of the name of Stephenson
called upon me an the subject of such certificate,
which not terminating satisfactordy, after two or
three interviews, he inquired if I had any objec-
tion to an interview with his Royal Highness's legal
adviier on the subject of it. My. answer to which
hwas,
:that I would willingly meet any honourable
minded man whom be chose, to appoint. The reult of
which was, that the present Lord Brougham, with Mr.
Stephenson, called, when the former (on being made
acquainted with the cause of our meeting, and my ex-
planation of what was wanted,) immediately addressed
himself to Mr.Stephenion, and told him he could not
'see any objection to his Royal Highness's compliance
with so reasonable a request on my Part, and which I
had a right to expect from him ; or what was tanta-
mount to it.

" However, not receiving the certificates required, I
repaired to the party, who, to the disgrace of his holy
office, though acknowledging I,is having performed
the. ceremony, declined giving. to me the certificate,
until he had personally communicated with his dio-
cesan, the late Bishop of Norwich, who informed rue
first personally. and subsequently by letter, that it it
depended upon his advice, I should not be long
without the certificate required ; yet, notwithstanding
advice to such effect from his diocesan, the old gen-
tlethan declined giving the certificate, but. pledging
himself that one should be left behind him to such
effect ; all of which circumstances Sir Augustus
D'Este was • informed of by me as they severally oc-
curred, and certainly not through his mother.
"Before I conclude, Mr. Editor, permit me to thank
you for the warm interest which you have taken in
the cause of my late injured sister and her offspring,
by a publication of the various facts which you have
given insertion to in your very respectable journal.
And allow me to add, that I am, with esteem, your
obliged humble servant,

" A. MURRAY."

DREADFUL PERSECUTION OF

THE JEWS AT DAMASCUS.

(From the Journal des Debat s.)
We continue to receive the most afflicting details
respecting the persecution prevailing at this moment
in the east against the Jews, and the suffering in-
flicted on those accused of having murdered the
priest Tomaso, at Damascus. There is every rea-
son to suppose that the sufferers have been the
victims of some odious machination, invented for
the purpose of levying a heavy tax upon them, and
perhaps upon the whole community, by exciting
fanaticism and hatred against it. The Austrian
Observer declares that the bones found in the
sewer of the Jewish quarter were bones of animals,
as will he seen from the following extract.
" Official accounts from Beyrout, of the 15th
March, rectify the details of the Smyrna journals,
published in our paper of yesterday, respecting
the pretended murder of Father Thomas, the
prior of the Spanish convent at Damascus ;
the fact is nowise proved, and the preparators of
the deed are not discovered. The medical men
and surgeons, charged by the local authorities with
the examination of the bones found in the sewers
of the Jewish quarter, have declared that the bones
roust have been there a long time, and were bones
of animals. If the persecution of the Jews at
Damascus arises, as several letters affirm, from the
often-repeated assertion that the Jews eat Christian
blood at their passover, this merely proves that
centuries cannot destroy opinions repugnant to
human nature, which are. contrary to the letter of
the Jewish law, and which, in this instance, are
still made void of probability, as the murder of
Father Thomas took place in February, whereas
the Jewish passover is in April."
The following letters from Beyrout, addressed to
M. Lehzen, President of the Pekidim and Amar-
calim of the communes of the Israelites of the
Holy Land, at Amsterdam, prove how harshly the
Jews have been treated :

" Beyrout, Feb. `?0.
" ' Your brethren at Damascus are much to be
pitied. Father Tomas°, a capuchin, and keeper
s
of the convent, disappeared on the ":)th with his
man-servant, and has v.;:, been found, in spite of
the search ttk;L has been made. The whole town
1.-.-&d in tumult—Turks and Christians wanted to
murder the Jews, and fire their quarter, because it
ate severals io l,
.
was supposed that they had murdered Father To-
masa. Infamous reports were invented,
the ciu
and
Jews were hastinadoed and p
Several of the elders were thrown into prison, and
the Paella declared that many heads should fall, if