The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of Cumberland honoured Sir Charles Knightley
with his company at dinner last evening, at his tidence in
Upper Brook-street.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent aid the Prin-
cess Victoria, and the Prince and Princess Hohenlohe, rode on
horseback in the Parks at an early hour yesterday morning.
Prince George of Cumberland and his preceptor, the ]Rev.
Mr. Wood, left town on Saturday, on a visit to the King, at
Windsor Castle.

M. de Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Minister, visited
Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign Office.
The Commander of the Forces, and the Quarter-Master-
General transacted business yesterday with Mr. Secretary
Rice, at the Colonial office.
Earl Bathurst has bad a serious attack of illness, and still
continues indisposed, at his residence in Arlington-street.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Earl and Countess Jermyn, in St. James's-square, from Putney
Heath ; James Taylor, Esq. and Son, at Symmons's Hotel, St.
James's-street, from their seat near Birmingham ; Colonel and
Mrs. L. P. Jones, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, from Leaming-
ton, Warwickshire ; Captain and Mrs. King and family, at ditto,
from Brighton ; Wm. Garnett, Esq., and family, at Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street, from the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. W.
Fyson..in Grosvenor-street, from their seat in Sussex ; Captain
Gordon, at Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from the Continent ;
Captain R. Williamson, at the Albion Hord, Cockspur-street,
from Southampton ; Ruteray, Esq., at ditto, from Edinburgh ;
Captain Oeorge, at ditto, from Southampton; J. Musters, Esq.,
in Grosvenor-place, from Colwick Hall, Nottinghamshire ; B.
Greville, Esq., in Hill-street, from a Continental tour; Sir Theo.
dore and the Hon. Lady Broadhead, in Berkeley-sauare, from a
tour ; Sir Sandford and Lady Graham, in Portland-place ; Lord
and Lady Clanmoriss, in Dean-street, Park-lane, from a tour ; the
Earl of Lsiburne, in Weymouth-street, from a tour ; Sir David
Erskine, at the Pulteney Hotel, from Dryburgh Abbey, N.B. ;
Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Randon and Lady Cremorne, in Great
Stanhope-street, from a tour; Captain Sir Hugh Pigott, in Pic-
cadilly, from Sheerness.
DEPARTURES.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, for Windsor Castle ;
Lord Delamere, for his seat, Vale Royal, Cheshire ; T. W. Coke,
Esq., for his seat in Norfolk; Mr, and Airs. Wybrants, from War-
ren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Devonshire ; Baron Dc Tuyll, from
the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Holland ; Mons. A.
Roney, from ditto, for ditto ; Mons. De Lesea, from ditto, for
ditto ; the Marquis Amorine, from ditto, for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs.
Boode, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Con-
tinent; Lady Clinton, from ditto, for Windsor ; Mrs. and Miss W.
Freeman, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, for Henley Park ;
Messrs. Adair, from ditto, for Dublin ; Sir Edward, Lady, and
Miss Smith, from Hitchcock's St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-
street, for their seat in Shropshire ; Mr. and Mrs. C. Buchanan
and family, from ditto, for Ostend ; Mrs. and Miss Corbet and
Miss Myton, from ditto, for their seat in Shropshire ; Rev. Thos.
and Miss Grove, from ditto, for Staffordshire ; General and Miss
Sharpe, from Fenton's Hotel, Sr. James's-street, for Harrowgate ;
Wm. Sitwell, Esq., from ditto, for Worthing ; Colonel Vernon
Graham, from the Albion Hotel, Ceckspur-street, for Edinburgh ;
George Cash, Esq. and family, from ditto, for Paris ; Sir Wm.
Robinson, Bart.. from ditto, for Bath; John Howlin, Esq., from
ditto, for Hamburg.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for 3-yr.-olds, colts, Bst. 61b. ; and
fillies, Bst. 31b. New T. Y. C.
Sir S. Graham's Zulima Conolly I
Sir M. Wood's Charivari
Mr. Hunter's Morotto
Lord Berner's b. c. by Lamplighter 4
Mr. Barrett's Airy 5
Won by a head, after a fine race ; only two placed by the Judge.
Betting--9 to 4 agst. Zulima, 3to 1 agst. Charivari, sto 2 agst.
b. C. byn Lamplighter.
First Year of a Renewal of the July Stakes, of 50 sovs. each, 30 ft.,
for 2-yr.-olds. ; colts, Bst. 61b. ; and fillies, Bst. 41b. New T. Y. C.
/.29 subs. )
Mr. Pettit's Kate Kearney, by Benedict .....Conolly 1
Mr. Hunter's b. f. Sister to Forester
Sir M. Wood's ch. c. by Camel—Aspasia 3
The following also started, but were not placed :
Colonel Peel's br. c. by Filho—Young Rhoda.
Sir S. Graham names b. f. by Sultan—Emma.
Mr. Wilson's b. f. by Tramp— Ridotto.
Mr. Pettit's b. c. Ibrahim, by Emilius—Pera. •
Mr. W. Isaacson's b. c. The Brigand, by Emilius.
Mr. W. Chifncy's b. f. by Whisker—Shoveller.
Mr. Greatrex's b. f. by Camel—Martha.
General Grosvenor's Constantia, by Camel.
Won by a length. Betting-7 to 2 agst. Kate Kearney, 7to 1
apt. Aspasia, 8 to 1 agst. Ridoto, 7 to 1 agst. Brigand, Bto 1 agst.
Sister to Forester, 2 to 1 agst. Martha.

Kinston House Rooms, Monday Night.
GOODWOOD GOLD CUP, P.P.
9 to 1 agst Glencoe, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b. (taken).
5 to 1 agst Colwick, 6 yrs, 9st. 21b. (taken).
10 to 1 agst Glaucus, 4 yrs, 9st. 71b. (taken).
12 to 1 agst Rockingham, 4 yrs, Bst. 101 b. (taken).
14 to I agst Liston's dam, 6 yrs, 7st. 91b.
20 to 1 agst Carnaby, 4 yrs, Bst. IMb. (taken).
20 to 1 agst Rubini, 6 yrs, lOst. (taken).
25 to 1 agst Famine (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to I on the field.
16 to 1 agst Easton (taken).
16 to 1 agst Barney Bodkin (taken).
20 to 1 agst Malibran (taken)
THE DERBY.
23 to 1 agst Darioletta (taken).
25 to 1 agst Brother to Augustus (taken).
25 to 1 agst Ibrahim, by Sultan (taken).
30 to I agst Stockport (taken).
ENTRY FOR To- MORROW'S PLATE.
Vespa, 4 yrs. ; f.—Spotless, 4 yrs. ; Catalonian, 4 yrs. ; f.—
Shovel, 4 yrs. ; Amadillo, 3 yrs. ; c.—Young Barossa, 3 yrs. ;
Sister to Runnymede, 3 yrs.
There will be six or seven races on Wednesday.

• • ,
OLIVE OIL.--It is said to be the intention of
Government to reduce the duty on olive oil from 81. Bs. per
tun to 41. 45., or probably 31. 3s. per tun.
• •
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION,.—There is another
state of the system to which habitual drankards are said to be
liable, which is, perhaps, still more horrible than any I have
hitherto mentioned. It is that state which renders the body
susceptible of catacausis, or combustion, either spontaneous or
excited by very slight causes. Lecat reports the case of Ma-
dame Boiseon, aged 80, very lean, and having drunk nothing
but brandy for several years. She was sitting in her arm chair
before the fire, and was left by her servant for a few moments.
At her return, the servant saw her mistress all in flames. She
cried out, and brought people to her assistance. They en-
deavoured to extinguish the fire with the hand ; but the fire
stnck to the hand as if it had been dipped in flaming brandy or
oil. Water was brought and thrown in large quantities upon
the lady, but the fire appeared only the more violent. It was
not extinguished until all her flesh had been consumed. Her
skeleton, very black, remained entire in the arm-chair. The
chair itself was only a little scorched. Only one leg and two
hands of the lady were detached from the other bones.—Car-
butt's Clinical Lectures.
ENGLISH LITERATURE UNDER THE STUARTS.
—That period of the English 'press, from the accession of
James I. to the Revolution, is, perhaps, all circumstances con-
sidered, the least favourable to the diffusion of knowledge of
any period in our whole literary history. In the reign of the
first Stuart came an inundation of pedantry, which surrounded
the court with verbal criticism and solemn quibble—the peo-
ple, indeed, had their glorious dramatists, but Bacon was looked
upon as an impracticable dreamer. Controversy, too, began
to be rife in England ; and the " Spirit of the Age" exploded
in such a torrent of civil and ecclesiastical violence m the
reign of James's successor, as left the many little leisure for
the cultivation of their understandings. The press was ab-
sorbed by the proddetions of this "furious spirit." There
in the British Museum, a collection of 2,000 volumes of tracts
issued between the years 1640 and 1660, the whole number of
which several publications amounts to the enormous quantity
of 30,000. This most curious collection was made by a book-
seller of the name of Tomlinson, in the times when the tracts
were printed—was bargained for, but not bought, by Charles
11.--and was eventually bought by George 111., and presented
by him to the British Museum. The number of impressions
of new books unconnected with Controversial subjects, printed
during these stormy days,
_ must have been very small. Dr.
Johnson has well remarked that the nation, from 1623 to
1664, was satisfied with two editions of Shakespeare's Plays,
which, probably, together, did not amount to a thouslnd
copies. •

(From the private Correspondent of a Morning Paper.)
MADRID, JUNE 25.—The public attention is at present com-
pletely engrossed' with the business of the elections. As yet
we can only judge from the samples produced in the first pro-
cess of distillation of the probable qualities of the future re-
presentative extract ; but if the whole machine work as well
as it has hitherto done in the electoral college of the pro-
vince of Madrid, there will be less. reason to complain of
the result than was lately apprehended on the score of
liberality or independence. In the metropolitan province
there are eight electoral districts, that formed. by the city
of Madrid sen,ling twelve, and the other seven, two electors
each into the provincial college. The twelve electors of Madrid
having the means of communication with each other from day
to day, and concerting their measures, could easily of course
control the returns of every one of the five representatives. It
appears, however, that they are willing to content themselves
with the return of three of the five, and these three will pro-
bably be Gargollo, the late director of the sinking fund ; Bar-
maseda, the banker; and Aguirre Solarte, the senior partner
of an eminent house of business in London. These three
gentlemen are all as distinguished for liberality of character
as for independence of fortune, and if the Representative
Chamber should in general be composed of similar mate-
rials, the friends of good government and of enlightened
but cautious legislation will not have much to complain of.
There has been an attempt on the part of the Ministry
to force their nominee, the corregidor, the Marquis de
Falces, on the electors of Madrid, but in spite of the habits
of deference to constituted authority, which are in this country
so closely incorporated with men's thoughts and actions a
spirit of resistance has eyidently arisen to this attempt at dic-
tation, and to-day it tisxpected that the independent mem-
bers of the electoral college will be able to command a majo-
rity against any candidate proposed to them holding, place of
any kind under Government. This resulla in a great degree
to be attributed to the personal firmness and the habits of busi-
ness of M. Aguirre Solarte, who would himself make a most
useful procurador if his personal scruples could be overcome,
or if his duties in London were compatible with his acceptance
of a seat in the Spanish Legislature. From the intelligence I
have been able to collect out of letters which have arrived by
this day's post, I have reason to believe that the returns from
the more distant provinces, and especially from Murcia and
Cordova, the Rieja, Cuenca, and Guadalaxara, will in general
be of a similar character._ This reserve is ascribed to a dispo-
sition on the part of the electors generally to make the Cham-
ber of Procuradores a sort of counterpoise to that of the
Proceres, the members of which, although in general men of
liberal sentiments, are almost without exception dependent,
more or less, from the offices they hold, on the pleasure of the
Ministry.
. It is understood that a question of very great importance to
purchasers of what was called national property during the
period of the Constitution, has been for several days under
the consideration of the Council of Regency. It is said that
no less than five different meetings of the Council have been
held on the subject, and that a very marked division of epi-
nion has arisen, leaving little or no chance of reconciliation
or adjustment. Amarillas, Santa Cruz, Castanos and Ofa-
lia, are all supposed to be decidedly in favour of the com-
plete indemnification of those who lost their property by the
general confiscation of 1823, while the other four, the Arch-
bishop of Mexico, Medina Celi, Puiz, and Carro, are all as
decidedly against it.
The appearance of the cholera in the town of Mora, and
province of Toledo, within 14 leagues of Madrid, has excited
a very great degree of alarm, so that already a great number
of families are directing their steps northward, preferring the
dangers of civil war to those of the pestilence. To prove how
general this feeling operates, I may mention, that on calling
with a friend this morning at the office of the royal diligences,
we found that there was not a place to be had in any of the
coaches for the north for a fortnight to come. In fear, as in
fashion, the Court unfortunately takes the lead in giving a
tone to the public mind, as the sudden decampment from
Aranjuez sufficiently testifies. It is said that the Queen al-
ready speaks of moving to Valladolid or Burgos, and if the
panic continues, it may very possibly interfere, in one way or
the other, with the meeting of the Cortes.
The fear of the cholera has produced the most active pre-
parations for cleansing the city, and a project has been set on
foot for introducing a more plentiful supply of water.

Circular addressed to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Ca-
. tholic Queen to her Majesty's Diplomatic Agents Abroad.
" As it is desirable, for the better service of her Majesty the
Queen, that a correct idea be formed in foreign countries of the
present state of the nation, in order to dissipate the errors which
private interest, bad faith, or the spirit of party, may strive to cir-
culate, her Majesty commands me to charge your Excellency, by
all the means in your power, to givethe greatest publicity possible
to those facts and circumstances which daily present the cause of
the legitimate throne and the nation in a more favourable point of
view, and which'form the basis of their present welfare and their
future hopes.
" The contest in:Portugal having been concluded in the course
of a month by the arms of Spain, the treaty of the 22d of April
having been at the same time negotiated, so as with the united
strength of the two kingdoms of the Peninsula, and the eventual
co-operation of two such powerful nations as those of England and
France, to give a last blow to the illusions of the party of the usurpa-
tion; the insurgents, who had risen rather as hordes of banditti than
as political partisans, having been put down in all the provinces, ex-
cepting only those of Biscay and 1\ avarre ; the Urban militia hav-
ing everywhere been organized in great force and full of enthusiasm;
the last levies for the army having been completed and put in mo-
tion as if by enchantment, and the troops returning from Portugal
improved in discipline and fitter for service, anxious to join their
companions in arms, the heroes of the north, to extinguish once for
all the flames of civil war—such is the condition in which the
Queen's cause presents itself in a military point of view.
" If we turn our eyes to its political condition, we find it not
less flattering and satisfactory. Amidst the agitation which is con-
stantly produced by a state of domestic discord, by the rising of
some provinces, and by the powerless attempts to disturb the peace
of others, good order, obedience to the laws, and respect for the con-
stituted authorities had been maintained, and while the party of the
usurpation is falling, the magnificent edifice of the ancient laws of the
monarchy arises, without danger or convulsion to the state, without
the necessity of recurring to measures of exception, and without the im-
position of any extraordinary burdens on the people. Such, on the
contrary, is our present state of security? and the general confi-
dence in its continuance, that the national credit has risen to a
point till now unknown, furnishing the means of meeting a large
expenditure which the circumstances of the period have rendered
indispensable, and the nation, already occupied in choosing its re-
presentatives, awaits in tranquillity the approaching session of the
Cortes, assured of then finding fresh pledges of order and stability.
" These facts being public and notorious, furnish a triumphant
answer to the erroneous calculations, the sinister predictions, and
the calumnious imputations with which we have been assailed, and
ought to serve the important purpose of enlightening public opinion
on a matter of so much importance. To this effect your Excellency
will apply such diligence and zeal as may correspond with the con-
fidence her Majesty reposes in you.
" God protect your Excellency many years.
" FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.
" Palace, June 21."

MADRID JUNE 29.—The rumour has been actively circu-
lated to-day that the. cholera has made its appearance in
Madrid ; but although the alarm is undoubtedly a false one, its
effect has been to increase the panic which previously pre-
vailed. In place, however, of attempting to calm the common
consternation, the. Queen and the Government have been the
first to set the example of pusillanimity. On Friday last it
was intimated to the diplomatic body that the Queen and the
Ministers were about to set out for St. Ildefonso, and as this
intimation was regarded as a command by such of the foreign
Ministers as usually accompany the Court, the most active
preparations for a somewhat sudden demenagement were to be
seen on the following day at the French and English Em-
bassies. A few hours after Martinez de la Rosa and Garelli
had left the capitkl for La Granja, two Royal orders made
their appearance, the one countersigned by Moscoso, the Mi-
nister of the Interior, forbidding the sub-delegate of police to
issue any passports for the Sitio after 12 o'clock on Saturday,
the other by the Minister at War, directing the establish-
ment of two sanatory cordons, the one at La Granja
itself, and the other at the pass called the Puerto de
Navacerrada, in the mountains of the Guadarrama. It ap-
pears that the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and for the Depart-
ment of Grace, and Jusice Martinez de la Rosa and Garelli,
are to remain in attendance on the Royal person, and that
Zarco del Valle and Moscoso, the Ministers of the War and
Home Departments, are to be stationed two leagues further
off, at Segovia, but that the intercourse between the two places
is to be carried on by correspondence only, to the exclusion of
all personal communicationbetween the members of the Cabi-
net on the opposite sides of the cordon.
If it were not obvious that all this solemn trifling was to pro-
duce a great deal of distress and inconvenience by the interrup-
tion of business, and the excitement of apprehensions already
too general, it might be possible to pass it over with a smile ;
but when such a measure is taken in the midst of the elections,
on the eve of the meeting of the Cortes, and in defiance of all
the dictates of experience, it is not easy to speak of it without
some feeling of indignation. The apology made for the Re-
gent is, that the young Queen and her infant sister had for
some days been indisposed, and had excited a mother's fears
for their safety ; but supppsing that to have been the case, it
did not necesstuily follow that the whole frame of the Govern-
ment was to be broken up and dispersed, and that the relations
of the Ministers with each other, with the capital, and with the
agents of friendly powers, were to be interrupted by means of
cordons, which may very well stop the march of business, but
not that of the cholera. _ _

The panic, however, is not confined to the Queen and her
Ministers. The whole population appears to be infected with
it, and to-day there are persons of the highest rank in society
who are unable on any terms to obtain the means of trans-
portinb themselves beyond the reach of the apprehended
danger. The medical practitioners, and those especially who
havo had opportunities of studying this particular malady in
foreign countries, are enjoying, the prospect of a golden har-
vest, several of them having already opened lists for the in-
sertion of the names of those who wish to secure their services
in case of need. The nearest authentic case of cholera is at
the village of Vallecas, about two leagues from the capital, so
that there is very little doubt of its rapid approach ; but whe-
ther the government will think it right to postpone the session

As the publication of these unpopular arrangements coin-
cided with the eve of the great feast of St. Peter and St.
Paul, when the whole of the lower classes of Madrid are on
foot during the greater part of the night, parading with music
through the street, attending church at intervals, and dancing
on the Prado, it was feared that the discontents of yesterday
might burst out into some serious commotion. Unlike- other
prophecies, however, the prediction of a disturbance of the
peace has no tendency to produce its own verification.. The
public authorities were evidently on the alert, and in addition
to the ordinary force at the disposal of the police, the streets
were patrolled during the night by strong parties of cavalry,
without, however, interfering with the nocturnal enjoy-
ments of the populace. It is remarked as not very, credit-
able to the candour of Martinez de la Rosa, that on taking
leave of M. de Rayneval and another member of the
diplomatic body, he assured 'them, in answer to their
remarks on the impossibility of committing all their senti-
ments to writing, and on the necessity of constant personal
intercourse with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, that it
was his intention to return to Madrid in a very few days, but
that if an interview became necessary before his arrival, they
should be provided with orders for post-horses, which is the
usual form in which passports are granted to the members of
the diplomatic body. Now, at the very moment when these
assurances were given, the Minister must have been aware of
the resolution to establish cordons, cutting off most rigorously
aH sort of communication with La Granja, forbidding alike his
own return to Madrid, and the journey of the ambassadors to
Sitio. This is not perhaps a crime, yet politically, it is some-
thing worse—c'est une folic
The elections continue to proceed as satisfactorily as
could have been expected. Those of the metropolitan pro-
vince attract very naturally the greatest share of atten-
tion. The whole of the electors had yesterday arrived
in Madrid, and have already had several preparatory meet-
ings. Some change has, in consequence, taken place in the
views of the aggregate body, but the return of M. Fontagud
Gargollo, the late director of the Sinking Fund, may be con-
sidered as certain, Messrs. Balmaseda and Aguirre Solarte
having persisted in their refusal to accept the offered nomina-
tion. The Marquis de la Gandara, an able and upright man,
who has suffered severely during the last eleven years, will, I
believe, be another, and M. Firmin Caballero, formerly the
editor of the suppressed paper called the Boletin del Comercio,
and now of its substitute, the Eco del Comercio, will probably
be a third. Should the courier be delayed an hour or two
later, I may be able to furnish you with the other two names,
as the electors are now in deliberation at the house of M.
Aguirre Solarte.