The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-18 00:00:00

"THE ROYAL WEDDING SUN."

ROYAL INIEDALLIONS.-7he Sun of Monday
contains two beautiful Medallion Portraits of the
Queen and Prince Albert, each eight inches in di-
ameter, surmounted by the Crown, with a tail-piece
consisting of the Lily, Roses, and Myrtle. The
resemblance of the heads is remarkable ; the con-
tour, not only of the features but of the profiles,
corresponds so as to impress the idea of close rela-
tionship, or family likeness, as between a brother
and sister. Those portraits are engraved by a
lately invented process which takes a fac-simile of
any object executed in bas relief, and is remarka-
ble for imitating metallic lustre, though merely
consisting of a tissue of parallel lines, with inter-
vals, which when blank produce the effect of
bright lights.—Cork Standard.
The Proprietor of The Sun, with his usual spirit,
has celebrated the event of, Monday last by giving,
in his Paper of that dste, two Medallion Portraits
of her Majesty and Prince Albert, engraved in
the same style and manner with those of Soult and
Wellington, which were so much and so justly
admired shortly after the Coronation.—Silurian.
In The Sun of last Monday, the readers of that
Journal were presented with two beautiful Medal-
lion Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert.
This is another instance of the enterprise of the
proprietors, who, in this, as in former cases, have
not spared expense to procure an effective work of
art. The likenesses are faithful. At the top in
the centre is the Crown of England, on the two
sides of which arc written " God save Victoria and
Albert." The paper contains a concise history of
both the illustrious personages, and of their houses,
besides a full account of the celebration of the nup •
tials.—Derbyshire Courier.
We have been favoured by the welcome present
of a " Nuptial Sun," by Mr. Young; it contains
noble portraits of the Queen and her Consort, and
should be purchased by " all the world."—Mon-
mouth Merlin.

The London Sun newspaper of Monday last has
two large Medallion Likenesses of the Queen and
Prince Albert, elegantly finished, accompanied
with a memoir of these distinguished personages,
and an account of the marriage ceremony.—Lime-
rick Chronicle. _ .

The universal exhibition of affectionate loyalty
that burst forth on Monday in every part of the
kingdom is one of the most cheering signs of the
times. Even the applauders of Bradshaw and Co.,
and their comrades in feeling, the rebellious Char-
tists, were obliged on that day "to assume a virtue
if they had it not," and in deference to public opi-
nion to put on a mask of j3y and lisp the language
of loyalty. We cannot close these brief remarks
without expressing our obligations to the spirited
proprietor of The Sun Newspaper, whose report we
have adopted. On Tuesday we received a copy of
his elegant Wedding Sun, containing exquisite
medallion portraits of the Royal pair, with me-
moirs. It is worthy of note, as illustrating the
extraordinary advantages of that greatest measure
of modern ►imes, the Penny Postage, that so many
letters, each including a shilling with an order for
the Wedding Sun, were sent on Tuesday and
`Wednesday, that the Post-office reused to deliver
them without an order from the Proprietor, and ten
clerks were employed for two days in the single
occupation of opening the letters, and as many in
addressing the papers to the orders.
Such a demand is unparalleled in thz history of
the Newspaper press, and is attributable in no
small measure to the conveniences afforded by the
glorious Penny Postage. Somerset Ceunty
Gazette.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROII THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The debate of Friday night on the Irish Corporations'
Bill affords a satisfactlry proof of the increase of Li-
beral principles in the Legislature. The Papists were
objected to in decent terms ; and even Sergeant Jack-
son was obliged to adopt Lord Gray's proposal for
allowing each elector to vote for only one half of
the Corporation—a plan by which its Noble author
supposed each corporate body would be equally divided
between Catholic and Protestant, and which would pro-
bably have produced an equal division upon all questions of
Catholic lighting and Protestant paving, and have ulti-
lnatgly left every thing to the casting vote of the Mayor.
Still it is satisfactory to find that a leader of the most into-
lerant party that this, or perhaps any other, country has
known, is ready in 184) to pick up the cas'-v.vay scheme
of a Liberal of 1836, and to use it as a means of keeping
religious dissension. It is even more satisfactory that
the Learned Sergeant's protege met with no favour from
the House.

(From the Standard )
The Dublin newspapers received this mornin , are
filled with the report of proceedings held in the Irish me-
it.sropora, to protest against th© Municipal Corporation
Bill introduced by Lord Morpeth. The meeting was
not a meeting of the Corporation, or in any considerable
degree composed of members of the existing municipal body ;
1! Is, therefore, not open to the suspicion of selfish mo-
tives, even if it bad cot tended that no change should
!kk(l place ; but for this it did not contend. The meet-
ing, consisting in the greater part of persons as
much aggrieved by exclusion from the municipal franchise,
11 that is a grievance, as any Roman Catholics, confined it-
self to a protest against the erection of Roman Catholic
tUorporations, leaving the Corporations that are now in exist-
Ince to be dealt with as the Legislature shall in its wis-
dom think fit. Now, is not a rcmonstrance of this kind
ii.eserving of serious attention? We have in it the testi-
!lTnony of men upon the spot as to what must be the wolk-
ula or Lord Althor ' p 6 Bill.

(From the Courier.)
The Ministerial organ of this morning labours hard to
t Ministers out of the mess into which their defeat in the
house of Commons on Thursday has plunged them. Of
course the desire of the Conservative party to bring
t° light the real state of the finances of the country, to
understand the difficulties, and boldly to grapple with
en], is attributed to Tory party tactics. If so, the party
tactics of the Opposition have been eminently successful
On the present occasion, and are supported not only by
üb4 public out of doors, but by a majority of the
,','°°&e of Commons within. The Morning Chronicle
-,i4Pl"---" The deficiency, whatever it may be, occasioned by
Lee reduction of the postage, and the extraordiLary ex-
Ponditure entailed on us by the state of Canada and
our foreign relations, will be made good, if necessary, by
the
irriposition of fresh taxes. They (the Tories) blame
.Ministers for not keeping up taxation, with a view to effect
reduction of the national debt." The deficiency is to be
t(!ade up by " a fresh imposition of taxes !" Why it is pre-
.?.sely this necessity of a fresh imnosition of trAcs, in the
wenty-fifth year of peace, that the country complains of.

CONCLUSION OF THE COMMISSION OF Lu-
liacy urox Jowl. PIiTER ROBINSON, ESQ.—On
morning Messrs. Phillimore. Murray' and West, the Cosnmis-
linter and the ury, aembled, for the fourth tirae. at the
raYs'lnn Coffeje-housess, Holborn, when the inquiry into the
%tate of mind of John Peter Robinson, Erg., was resumed. The
1:1:1 , after a long inquiry, retired to consider their verdict,
7o after an absence of about a quarter of an hour they re-
ed into the long-room, when. R. Carpenter, Esq., the
Zeraan, reported to the
.Commeisioners that the jury had
—„rne unanimous verdict that Mr. Robinson. was now of
a-iinundto mind,an and incapable of taking. care of himself and his
ri'llerty, and that he had been so since the Ist of July, 1839.
r• Robinson, in addition to being possehssed oef lsabrage l.anded
vst4teS and funded property, has severalhundred shares in the
Steam Navigation Company '
and the Vauxhall Bridge
r°l'iny, besides being a shareholder in the Regent's Canal
CornP a nY, the Kent Waterworks Company, and the Brighton
lell4 Trust. It was said that.his father, one of the most onu-
14't itnssian merchants, left him at his death above 100,0001.
investigation lasted altogether about twenty-five hours.
CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING.—On Satur-
-41,0ft, at the public office, Kidderminster, Edward
brought_Broo.m-
before Henry Talbot, Esquire,
;ilaart;rvfgeitrahahna'y'vvalasg, lst of May last, stolen a horse,
ne and bridle, a cropper and. a Macintosh coat, the pro.
i)1.13' of Mr. Austin, of W.oiverley, in this county. The
' l'oner in his defence, said that in the beginning of the
rsotith
() August last,. between three and four o'clock in the
amditng, he was going home from his work, and he sax the
e and bridle lying near the middle of the horse road ; he
ed it up and took it home ; it a all over dirt, and he got
k4e.warna water and flannel and eras
it, and got a brush
Ott ,13roslied it; he hung it up ,n the house till the month of
kiltP%,''.er, when he was at the house of the witness Bartle, and
tri'm the same for 20s. The prisoner was committed for
Tt tile next Ams:zes.
11
a SYSTEM ILLUSTRATED.
tea,i PPears by the petition of the butchers. of Paris for a
that' of the duties on the importation of foreign cattle,
few trench oxen have degenerated so mucfhwithin the last
meat and tallow,
gm Years that they yield z 0 per cent. lesso
41z that tile high price of oxen renders. it necessary to
Rliter 20,000 cows annually for the Paris
in Paris,
instead
fair fair°4lY 4,000 as formerly. Butcher's meal.
lb., mid conse-
'l444,4itY, is now from 14 to 20 sous
this poor very few persons can tasfeerit ; yet in spite
t2oprohibitory d9ties are kept up.
tore i n increasing, for there is at the same.time a wanTthoef peaysil.
treePnci, and a want of spirited agriculturists to im rove the
1111, or the mode of raisin,* cattle. If French cornP.t.s wseeirde,
ped into England free of duty, it would be. easy, I
or;nigiand to send cattle into Fiance and derive a profit, for
that id fit for pasture would be thrown into that culture
(4`,,,!° of corn. The idea may appear extravagant,. but there
4-'tra:°Y agriculturists here who know the capabilities of both
10,, who say that it is'practicable.