The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

RE LATE RE $7.. DR. HEUGH.

It is with deep concern that we announce the death
of this eminently good man and distinguished public
character. This event took place at his house, Mon-
trose-street, Glasgow, on the morning of the 10th instant.
For several months Dr. Heugh's health had been in an
enfeebled state, and considerable apprehensions were felt
as to the issue; but it was only within a few weeks past
that the symptoms became decidedly unfavourable, so as
to resist every means which medical skill could employ
to check their progress. As was to be expected of one
whose religious principles were so pure and whose piety
was so deep and fervent, his afflictions were borne, not
only with resignation but with cheerfulness ; his deathbed
was a scene of peaceful triumph. It is impossible within
our narrow limits to do anything like justice to the cha-
racter and services ot such a man as Dr. Heugh. During the
*whole of his public life, the influence of his fine intel-
lect and active talent was devoted to the best interests
of mankind. As a Christian minister he was the
earnest supporter of evangelical truth and of practical
piety. On public questions affecting religion he took
a leading part. On all such his opinions were decided,
and to the advancement of right views with respect to
them his powerful advocacy was cheerfully afforded.
lh was peculiarly fitted for efficient service in this
department, from the union of acuteness and power, of
Promptitude in conception withsagacity in action,
Which formed the character of his mind. He was espe-
cially interested in every measure for the advancement
of Christianity in our own country and throughout the
wert•ld ; and to the liberal views, and the ener,y with
Which he enforced them, were owing, in a great degree.
the enlarged schemes of missionary enterprise in which
the Secession Church has for several years been en-
gaged. Eminent as were the gifts and attainments of
Dr. Heugh, his public usefulness was scarcely less
owing to high character than to distinguished ability.
Combining a fine sense of honour with unbending in-
tegrity, he was at once true to his principles and fair to
those who differed from him—commanding respect for
the purity of los in tives, and the esteem of mans
whose views he might deem it his duty to oppose. It
was a beautiful instance of the power of religions prin-
ciple and of its high maturity in the character of Dr.
Rough, that the circumstances of a recent attack on his
good name—an attack unprecedented for its wantonness
—appeared, amidst the holy calm of his last days, to
have absolutely passed from his recollection. Dr.
neugh was in the 64th year of his age and the 40th of
12ia ministry.—Scotsman.

THE FLITTING-DAY IN EDIN-

BURGH.

Monday (25th) was the flitting-day in this city, and
a very large number of removals taok place. This is a
queer season in Edinburgh—one of unutterable personal
toil and anxiety to the emigrants. Were a householder
is so fortunate as to obtain an empty domicile, or his
predecessor can find it convenient to leave before the
time, matters are not so bad—the new tenant can choose
the best weather, and the season most convenient for
removal, and can easily command the services of carts,
Porters, &c. But in the more frequently recurring
cues the incoming tenant does not get possession of his
abode till twelve o'clock on the term-day; in other
'words, one party is removing his furniture while the
other is carrying in his. And what a hurry-burry there
is—the whole previous night is mostly occupied in screw
ing down beds, emptying drawers, raising carpets, &c.,
and everybody is employed in the most laborious and
irritating drudgery. Even when the waggons or carts
have conveyed the heavy loads of furniture to the new
house, it may happen that the previous tenant is not
ready to admit the "plenishing," and there is no help
for it but either to deposit the articles in the "back
green," or allow the vehicle to remain on the streets
with their contents till the coast is clear. Few pic-
tures of misery can adequately match that presented
in our streets, when, as is the case, we apprehend
nine times out of ten, the "flitting morning ' is one
of heavy rain. The scene is really wretched in the
extreme, though the cause be trivial and the details
somewhat ludicrous. We have men and women. the
high and low, the rich and poor, drenched to the skin
with wet—porters and carters splashed with mud and
water—furniture dripping—feather mattresses and bed-
ding literally soaked through, and one would think, ren-
dered damp in all time coming. And then, in ny.ny
cases, to see the poor children dragged from bed, ill
dressed, with dishevelled hair, and looks sulky, or de-
picting stupid surprise—nobody able to tell what to
make of them, or whether any receptacle can be found
in which they may find an asylum for the time. This
is indeed a season of trial. At the Roman saturnalia,
slaves and masters mingled on terms of equality; now
the men of physical strength—porters, &c., are every-
thing, and wealth, wisdom, and science nothing at all.
The affair is worse than a washing day, so much de-
tested by the Candles of the male ..ender, or the vvhite•
washing madness in America, of whose processes Dr.
Franklin has written. Some men, a-e apprehend, leave
the whole details to their spouses, perhaps on the prin-
ciple that women have the gift of patience in greater
development than the other sex ; uncharitable misan-
thropes might say, because they cannot abide, to take
the trouble which would devolve upon them were they
actually found upon the scene of action.
As regards the transactions of Monday, it most fortu-
nately happened that the day was good—an inestimable
ads antage. On the Sabbath night there fell a few drops
of rain, and the sky looked d;ll.finTl The morning seemed
doutafill, but- the day kept u
"merry as a marriage bell." e y, and things went
Scarcely ever did such ,
term
.ns
number of people remove at on.
so far
,rn
at
su twgeh ,haarve,
it is pletwieg to think that everytt.
chi-ertulne,t,
heard, was conducted with propriert‘
was necessary
The bedding and other articles which- ailtd
to leave on the streets, or to deposit temporarilywoagreen,,
and catrts, were as dry as if left on a room
we ought to add, that although the night previous Andwa
that of the Sabbath, and the temptation to lighten the
s
burdens of the next day strong, we did not witness on
the streets a single person carry an article, but every-
thing was a 4 decorous in appearance as on ordinary oc-
casions.—Edinburgh Post.

ENGLISH GOVERNESSES.—In -thu-, the governess is
held in such respect that she is led forth as an honoured
guest, taking precedence of the pupil whose education she
has completed. In England it would be difficult to ascer-
tain her position—charged with the sole care of the
"precious jewels" of an illustrious house; considered com-
petent to cultivate their minds—to f ;rm their manners—to
aids' ge their views, that they may keep their p sition, and
become all that is desired in English gentlewomen—the
person who does all this, if admitted into society at all,
thrust, unintroduced, into a corner, and expected to retire
when the younger children are sent to bed—slighted by the
servants—who consider her a servast—and looked upon as a
person to be dismissed as soon as done with by the mistress!
For one governess who receives a pension fcr past services—
services which can never be repaid—there are, protected and
prosperous—a hundred ladies' maids; it is not at all uncom -
mon to meet with . pensioned servants, but a pensioned
governess is a rara avis ; we find them in hospitals pr work-
houses, when they are overtaken by ill health, or faded into
old age ;-.The iclrt Union for Jim

THE 13TARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN
OF SPAIN•

(Froia the Constitutionnel)
The opinions t xpressed by M. Thiers and M. Guizot
during a rt cent deb,te on the affairs of Spain, and more
particularly on the alliances proposed for Queen
have excited great attention at Madrid. They have led
to some very curious communications, the sources of
winch we cannot make known, but the authenticity of
which we can guarantee. The explanations confirm all
Ciat was said by N. Thiers on the sutj,ct of the young
Que,e's marriage, with the exception of one point. It
was not from Queen Maria Christina that originated the
idea of the eandidatesidp of Gaunt Trani, which is now

declared to be impossible—it is France that must bear
the responsibility of this briiliant idea. The share
taken by the French Government in the entanOed
politics in which unhappy Spain is involved is much
greater than M. Thiers represented it to be in the
Chamber. This question of marriage, so important
to Spain, and to her relations with France and with
Europe, has long been agitated between the Govern-
ments. With more or less wisdom, consistency or propri-
ety, five candida' es for the Queen's hand have been thought
of—the Duke de Montpensier, of the Royal house of
France ; the Count de Montemolin. son of Don Carlos ;
a German Prince of the house of Coburg ; the Neapo-
litan Prince, Count de Trapani ; and one of the sons of
the Princess Carlotta, Mario Christino's sister, have
been successively cti,cu&sed urn, and preferred or ex-
cluded in '..he councils of the different European Gov rn-
ments. The predilections of the Queen Mother have
i-een from the first in favour of the Duke de Montpensier.
This alliance would certainly have been rpular in Spain;
Out our Government has uniformly declined it. For
this refus...l there was a serious motive. In such a nation
33 Spain great caution must be taken not to make any
foreign influence prominent. The marriage of the Duke
de Mont pensier to Qiteen Isabella would have been atten-
ded with this inconvenience, and have rendered it dis-
tateful to Spain. This motive of refusal, founded on the
'uspicious character of the people of Spain, was a grave
me, but at the same time was not that shieh decided

the resolution of our Government. It is, in fact,-well
known that it has always wished to act in Spain without
!saving the appearance of acting. The marriage of the
Duke de Aloutpe!isier to Queen Isabella might, so,n,r
or later, give cause for an open intervention in the affairs
.f Spain, of which intervention our Cabinet has a
horror. This candidate put aside, it would have wil-
i,ngly promoted the pretensions of the Count de
Aontemolin. If it had been possible to brine the par-
,tes together, and efface all the traces of the civil war
by the marriage of the son of Don Carlos to the
±aughter of Queen Christina, thus confounding all
rival pretensions, nothing could be more reasonable
than mach a union. But, far from producing this
desirable conciliation, the choice of the son of Don
Carlos would, on the contrary, revive in Spain all those
feelings of hatred which are but half extinguished. The
Progressists, and nearly all the Moderados, would find
in this alliance a counter-revolution, and events would
soon justify their fears. The Carlists would gather
round the consort of th(ir Queen, and conceive a hope
of restoring through him all of Old Spain that the re-
volution has destroyed. The strife between the restora-
ion and the revolution would be recommenced. The
Fueroi, the clergy, and absolutism would make war
upon a st;cial state as yet but insufficiently consolidated,
upon the national property acquired so lately, and
von the constitutional system scarcely yet com-
menced. Thuc the Count de Monternolin, whose mar•

iage would be desirable if it were likely to accom-
plish the fusion of dynastic pretensions, cannot pos
sibly be the successful candidate. As to a prince of
the House of Coburg, our Government has interposed
its veto. This is certainly not because the house
of Coburg is German, and because there is a dread
of re-establishing that antique European Power
which was founded by Charles V., and which cost
France so many wars and effifts to overthrow. Such
a danger could not recur unless an archduke should be
the successful candidate ; for the House of Coburg has
no serious power in Germany. But this house has
,)ecome altogether English, and on this account cannot
he admitted to a hold in Spain without exciting great ap-
prehension. The French Cabinet, knowing that this
would be thus judged of by the public, has not shown
any favour to this project of alliance. Besides, the
Houses of Orleans and Coburg, although united by more
than ono marriage, are not completely amalgamated.
After having set aside the Duke de Monpensier,
because he might give rise to the question of inter-
vention—the Count de Montemolin, because he is ab-
solutely rejected by Spain, even by the Moderados
—a Prince of the House of Coburg, because he
does not inspire much sympathy in France, there
remained but one reasonably political course to take,
that of turning towards cne of the sons of Don Francisco

le Paula, nephew of Maria Christina7Thes7;;;
neither too much nor too little Bourbonists—they are
Spaniards, Liberals, and Princes. To them there is only
one obstacle. Imprudent acts committed by the mother
eave weakened the recollection of the service rendered
by her to her sister, Maria Christina. They have been
made displeasing to our Government by their mother
having placed them in the Progressist party. This, in-
stead of reconciling the nephews to the aunt, has caused
:heir rejection. The family of the Infanta, already irri-
,ated, became more and more violent, and suffered itself
to be led to take inconsiderate steps—the division became
envenomed, and'an alliance with this branch was rendered
as impossible as all the others. Our Government,
however, brought forward the Count de Trapani, in
spite of the objections raised by the Queen Mother, as
.ve know, to this project, but to which she afterwards
resigned herself. As long ago as 1843 our Government
entered upon this subject with the Cabinets of Vienna
mod Berlin. At a later day, at the moment when M:
Olezaga was about to quit Paris to become Minister in
Spain, conferences, at which the King of the Belgians
was present, were held in Paris, at which the name of
the Count de Trapani was mentioned, as well as that of
Count d'Aquila, who was not at that time married to a
Brazilian Princess. But it was particularly at the period
when M. Donoso Cortes came to Paris to recall the Queen
Mother that the Neapolitan Prince was directly named as a
candidate. M. Donoso Cortes did not leave until alter hav-
ing been much edified on the merits of the Count de Tra-
pani, put forth at the various conferences, and carried
with him a portrait of the Count, destined for Gonzales
Bravo, then Minister. Neither has it been forgotten
that an Ambassador was sent to Spain by the Court of
Naples, by the advice of France, to endeavour to bring
about a reconciliation between the two Courts, and thus
prepare the way for the marriage. At conferences at
the Chateau d'Eu, between the King of the French,
Queen Victoria, M. Guizat, and Lord Aberdeen, the
merits of the several candidates were discussed, and an
alliance between Queen Isabella and a Neapolitan Prince
decided upon as the most eligible. Nothing, however,
could be less politic—more impracticable. The endea-
vours of the Prince de Carini and M. Bres-
son to promote the fulfilment of this project,
have only rendered the antipathy of Spain more
deep and strong. • The same feelings which in-
duced France to accept the Orleans dynasty, 'al-
though Bourbon, produces the effect in Spain of making
the monarchy popular, abhough the House of Bourbon
is not so, but the Neapolitan branch is still less so. It
was, in fact, difficult for Spain to forget the manner in
which the Court of Naples acted in the Spanish revolu-
tion, refusing to acknowledge it. This repulsion was
common to all parties in Spain, Moderados as well as
Progressists. The Moderados were unwilling to add to
all the other grounds of its unpopularity, true or false,
that of assenting to such a marriage, and therefore were
almost unanimous in rejecting it. The power to act upon
the impressionable mind of Narvaez, and to make him de-
cide in favour of the Count de Trapani. Tfo n it was that
the Moderados, impressed with the fear that the Narvaez
Ministry might come to an unfavourable resolution,
made those manifestions which, in the winter, em-
broiled Narvaez with his colleagues, and brought about
the dissolution of the Moderadu Ministry. In fine, the
acceptance of the Count de Trapani has been unani-
mously pronounced impossible, and in fact he is given
up by all parties. Such is the series of faults which
have brought Spain to the position in which she stands,
and from which no one can tell how she can relieve her-
self ; for almost all the marriages which have been suc-
cessively proposed have failed almost irrecoverably. The
id'alainet of the Tuileries is afraid to persist in proposing
for the royal hand the Duke de Montpensier - the
choice of the Count de Montemolin would raise all 'Spain
in arms ; the Count de Trapani is acknowledged to be
absolutely ineligible, and our Government will not ad-
mit of a Coburg. The causes of dissension which sepa-
rated the Queen-Mother from the sons of the Infanta
Carlotta have been aggravated. Maria Christina
anxious to have her daughter married, in order that she
herself may be at liberty to leave Spain, says to our
cabinet, give the Duke de Montpensier to my daughter
for a husband, or sutler me to marry her to a Prince of
Coburg. It is evident that our cabinet, after having
committed the fault of not using its influence in bringing
about a marriage between Isabella and one of the
nephews of the Queen Mother, has deprived itself of the
only chance it had of escaping the alternative of a Prince
of Coburg, that is to say, an English alliance, or of the
Duke de Montpensier, which would be a compromising
marriage. D not these facts, which are of undoubted
authenticity, render evident to all eyes the want of
j udgment and foresight in the policy of our Government?".

• the debate on the Glasgow,
ERRATUM.—The num b(sontheDflunnialfrdieisv.isaihodn
Cfoarrhasdle-
journing
for a weak, was incorrectly stated in yester-
Id have been, for the adjournment, 44;
day's pap 9 -
agairsi it, 39 ; rii-J'
imp ,rtant experi-
ment —.'i very
R iil way
yoT,T.., DISEASE fix the adjournment, 5.
THE eßrill;hey should
a. nity
lands. Last year he had a crop of ash-leaf kidneys much
merit has just been completed by Mr. Sclater of Summer-
atlected by the disease. and as they daily became worse, he
caused all that were affected
they have been three
This was in November, and though .
sixths of the sets
times cut down by the frost, still five
to be picked out and planted.
prospered. A considerabl
or sale, and in no instance pisortthidenre appearance
slightest
of disease in
the new potatoes, which are excellent in quality.
otfhethe.scirxop shas been dug
propagate disease in the crop raised from themst.TnEe
This, at least, proves that diseased sets will
It is also
.-. fact worth knowing in case of the re-appearance of the
disease.— West Briton.
...EARNE, OF MANCHnEo R.ce_ssarily
VuE RLV. U. is
friends and admirers of the Rev. Daniel Hearne, Roman
Catholich C
Priestof St. Patrick's Chapel, .Manchester, met In the Trades' hall
of that town on Thursday evening, for tilepurposemanneroifil3renting him
with a testimonial of their regard for the
discharged his duties since his appointment to the office which
he had,
the chapel in 1.'.25 The testimonial consisted of a seloenclirdesgtold
cross, gdd watch and appendages, and 270 sovereigns. p
A B-Dv FOUND IN THE THAMES.— Y.-sterday morn-
ing the body of a female, unknown, and whose age appeared to be
about twenty-five, was found floating under one of the arches of
Waterloo bridge. An Inquest was opened last evening at the Essex
Head, Essex-street, Strand, by Mr. Biggs, who adjournedthe inquiry
to afford an opportunity for deceased's friends to identify the body,
which was respectably attired in half mourning. ,
THE RAMBLER STEAMBOAT.—TiIiS ill-fated vessel,
on hoard of which so twiny persons perished at the time of the colli-
sion with the Sea Nymph, resumed her station between Liverpool
and Slio on Saturday last. Parini; her trip she ran upon the
Maiden Rock, near Belfast, and sunk. The crew and passengers were
i *arcs, 2:ltt TOW; we IniIOYOI is a toi4l wreck.