The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-26 00:00:00

THE DIORAMA.

This exhibition has just re-opened wi',:n a change of views
The first of thepictures represents Fountain's Abbey, one of
the most striking and pirturesque of the monastic ruins which
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out any defect or drawback. It represents the crypt of the
cathedral of St. Denis, and some of the chapels constructP:, in
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of day appears to stream '
seen as truly throuf::., those which are more remote; while the
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in every respect, worth a visit.

COURT OF:COMIVION PLEAS, FEB. 25.

(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.)
CURTIS V. CURTIS. _ .

•
This was an action by the plaintiff for slander.
The plaintiff, Mr S ;mnd Curtis. was a relative of the
defendant (Mr. John Harrisson Curtis, the celebrated
aurist). In 1831 plaintiff was placed by his father, a
gentleman residing in Essex. with the defendant, his rela-
tive, as an assistant in his profession. Both plaintiff and
defendant lived upon the best terms possible until the
month of February, 1833. The defendant received an
anonymous letter, apparently purporting to come from
Wicklow, in Ireland, but was ultimately ascertained to
have come from Winslow, in Buckingbarn.hire. This letter
was framed in the most offensive language. It called defen-
dant "a victimizing old scoundrel, and said he was an eror-
tioner, and there was not living a greater blackguard; it
asked him by what rieht he was styled an Esquire. and
that be ought to be called a thief. One who pretended to
cure diseases of the ear, and that he knew no more about
them (diseases) than the victimized individu whom be
addressed." The letter went on to say--" Youh pitiful
miscreant, I would give you five pounds to let me stand
upon you hut for half an boar ; it woul I make you appear
black and blue, as many of your victims have done. I
should like to administer to you the tincture of cantharides
every four hours, then give you a bolus of fishing books,
and afterwards blister you with hot oils ; all these would
keep you from your fellowmen." This was the contents
of the letter complained of, and which was attributed to
the plaintiff.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence, and the
jury, afer some consideration, found a verdict for the
plaintiff.--Damages 40s.

PREROGATIVE COURT, FEB. 25.

(Before Sir JoHN NICHOLL.)
BURN V. FLOYD.

This was a suit for trying the validity of a paper pro-
pounded by Mrs. Floyd as the last will of the late -
Burn, Esq., and which was in her favour, hut was op-
posed by the next of kin of the deceased on the ground of
incompleteness. and that it had not b. en properly obtained.
The facts of the case are curious. The deceased was a
bachelor, and died on the sth of F,-bruary, 1832, at the
age of twenty-nine years. For some time he cohabited
with a female who said she was the natural daughter of
the late Lord Cranstoun. It was alleged by the lady that
she had been pregnant by the deceased, and in order to
provide for her and the issue of the connec►ion the deceased
drew up the paper before the Court. The property of
the deceased amounted to about 7,0001., of which about
2,0001. were given in legacies, and by a will executed in
1827 he gave the residue to his sister Janet Burn. The
paper now before the Court was dated in July. 1831, and
altered the disposition of the residue by giving it to the
lady with whom be lived for her life, and on her death to
the child, should any be born.
Sir JOHN ISTicnoLn, after going over the facts, pro-
nounced against the validity of the paper.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO VISCOUNT
BA RRINGTON'S DA UGHTE CORONER'S INQUEST...—
At seven o'clock yesterday evening an inquisition was taken
at the Crown public-house, Old Cavendish-street, Caven-
dish square, before Mr. Stirling and a highly respectable
J,iry, on the body of the Hon. Caroline Barrington, aged
six years, daughter of Viscount Barrington, tesiding in
the akive-named square, who, on Monday night last, met
with her death in consequence of falling out of his Lord-
ship's carriage. The facts, as we detailed them yesterday.
were given in evidence by several witnesses, including all
the servants present at the melancholy occurrence. The
coachman and footman were closely examined by the
Coroner and Jury. The Jury having then consulted for
a short time returned a verdict of " Accidental Death,"
and that no blame whatever was attributable to any of the
domestics.
THE PILOT.—The second edition of the
Morning Register continues to be regularly supplied to
the subscribers and usual purchasers of the suppressed
journal. Mr. Barrett is its sole Editor, and has been
invested with the same authority over it, as to its contents,
which he exercised over his own journal. Numerous
communications have been received, intimating to him the
satisfaction which the arrangement has given to his friends
in town and country.—Morning Register of Monday.
Sir John Maxwell has announced his inten-
tion of retiring from PatTament. We formerly congratu-
lated the constituency of Paisley on having procured such
a highly respectable representative; and we now congratu-
late the worthy baronet on getting quit of his political
toils, and on resuming the useful labours and the health-
ful amusements of a country life in the bosom of his fa
roily.— Glasgow Herald.
Mr. Slingsby Duncombe has appealed against
his appointment as Sheriff of Nottingham. Mr. Walker,
another of the gentlemen nominated by the senior judge
of ass"ze, has been for some time abroad. Near as the
time 114 the asiz-.9 is approaching, it is yet uncertain
who will be sheriff of the county for the ensuing year.—
Nottinghamshire Review.
A deputation from the electors of the borough
of Marylebone waited yesterday on William Alexander
Mackinnon, Dq., at his man-ion, Hyde Park-place, to
request that gentleman to offer himself on the next vacancy
with every prospect of success, which invitation Mr. Mac-
kinnon declined for the present, but said he should feel
happy in supporting any gentleman of his own principles
in the borough.
DEATH OF MR. C. KRAMER, MASTER
OF HIS MAJESTY'S STATE BA 14D• iS eminent musi-
cian died on Tuesday evening last, at his residenc•
in Huntley-street, Bedford square, after a long indisposi.
tion, aged 54. Mr. Kramer, who was denominated in the
musical world K. Kramer, to distinguish him from the
Messrs. Cramer, was many years master of George the
Fourth's fine military band, which he brought to a perfec-
tion never surpassed, and seldom equalled. On the deat
of Mr. Shield, Mr. Kramer was appointed master of the
King's state band. In 1827 Mr. Kramer brought out an
opera at Covent-garden Theatre, called The Seraglio.
the music arranged and adapted by him from Mozart'.l
drama of the same title, with additional airs, &c., by him-
self, which had a run of fifteen nights. No man bett.r
understood the genius of wind instruments than Mr.
Kramtr, and he was a very good performer on the clario-
net and flute. He made 'fay great improvement the

serpent.
THE OATH.—We understand the follow-
ing is tl e form of the oath taken by the men who be-
come members of the Trades' Union :—" Ido before
Almighty God, and this loyal lodge, most solemnly swear
titat I will not work for any master that is not in the
Unien, nor will I work witb any illegal man or men, but
will do my best for the support of wages, and most
solemnly swear to keep inviolate all the secrets of thi,.
order; nor will I ever consent to have any money for any
purpose but for the use of the lodge, and te support of
the trade ; nor will I write, or cause t o wrote,
print, mark, either on stone, marble, brass, paper, of
sand, any thing connected with this order, FO help me
Clod, and keep me steadfast to this my present ()blip
tion. And I further promise to do my best to bring all
legal men that I am connected with into this order;
if ever I reveal any of the rules, may what is before
roe plunge my soul into eternity."— Worcester Journal.
LONDON CORPORATION INQUlRY.—Yes-
terday the Commissioners met at the Guildhall, at ten
o'clock. Mr. Mayne, the commissioner of the metropolitan
police, attended to give evidence. He stated that much
inconvenience arose from the want of the necessary corn
numications between the metropolitan and the city police.
After having examined at great length Mr. Mayne and
other witnesses upon the organization and effect of the
metropolitan and city police, the court adjourned.
THE SEVEN TEMPTATIONS.—The taste
for poetry seems to be reviving—witness the late beautiful'
productions of Miss Landon, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Hemans.
and Mrs. Mary Howitt. Mr. Bewley (Mr. Colburn's
successor) has just announred a new work from the pen
of this last, but certainly not least, among our living poets.
It is to be called " The Seven Temptations".--a startling
title.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, FEJ3. 24.
We have had a good demand for cotton : the sales to-day
are fully 3,500 bags of all descriptions, viz., Baweds, Sd
to Sid., Alabaman and Mobiles 71d. to Sid., New Orleans
10d., Babies 9d. to 9id., Pernams 10Id. to 10id.,
tlliranhauts 10d., and Swats si-d. to 6d. per lh.
t,"on,iderable reductions will take place in the
ents, even at Chelsea College, where an
increase of Lq;.!nesshas been occasioned by the transfer of
the Ordnance penizoners to
. that establishment. Some
decrease in the number
of clerks is contemplated; and
at the Horse Guards there a:111 he a reduction both in the
number of clerks and staff.—Na,:-Ilana.lli/itary Gazette.
Twenty-one
persons are arre.sted in Castle-
townroche and its neighbourhood for the attack on Mr.
Warren, clerk to the Doneraile Petty Sess:ona Court,.
while on his way to Cork last Summer Assaes, to Five
evidence respecting the murders of Cumming and Canning,
title-proctors, who were killed in Castlepooke. Warren's
lift at the time was des/mind of.
—Liinerick Chronicle.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1834.

The question of Mr. BARRETT and the
Pilot newspaper was brought forward last night
in the House of Commons by Mr. O'DWYER.
On this occasion the " Member for all Ireland"
put forth one of his most ingenious displays of
special pleading, but was replied to by Mr.
STANLEY with a promptness and a spirit that
cut him to the core, right through all the
seven-fold linings in which vanity and pre-
sumption have so thickly encased him. In
a word, Mr. O'CoNNELL was fairly de-
molished. He had not a leg left to stand on,
,qo was compelled, as a last resource, to take to
the pathetic, and whine and whimper, like a
blubbering school-boy. The Right Hon. Se-
cretary was so cutting—so cruel ! He was
so fond of sporting with his delicate sen-
sibilities ! " He was always pleased to make him
(Mr. O'CONNELL) his victim in that House;
lie spared every one else, but him alone. On
every occasion, in and out of the House, he
pursued him with the most unrelenting, bitter,
kind persevering hostility." Who that has ever
read the fable of the Wolf and the Lamb,
where the one submissively remonstrates against
the cruelty of the other, can fail to apply it in
the present instance, and to recognize in Mr.
O'CONNELL an emblem of that gentle, helpless,
injured innocent, whom the wolf, STANLEY,
has torn to pieces ? His very brogue last night
betrayed him. It had a meek, unquestionable
touch of the bleat in it.
Again, what could be more harsh—what more
cutting, than Mr. STANLEY'S allusions to Mr.
O'CoNNELL's jesuitical appeals to his country-
men ? " He calls," said the Right Hon.
Secretary, " upon his good friends,' his' sweet
friends,' and begs them not to be stirred up—' to
such a sudden flood of mutiny.' He tells them to
bear with the yoke, though it galls them to the
quick—to submit to the injustice, though it be.
crying and apparent—to bear with the oppres-
sion, though it is most grievous and burden-
some, but in no case to violate the law.—( Hear,
hear.) Such are the recommendations, and so
accompanied, which the hon. gentleman gives to
his countrymen in this letter—recommendations
which he has so often addressed to them with
similar accompaniments." This sort of recom-
mendation reminds us of the old story of the debtor
in the King's Bench, who, seeing a crowd hem-
ming in an unfortunate attorney, and debating
in what way they might best testify their disap•
probation of his conduct, said, in the most pacific
i slam possible, " Gents, it is true you have sus-

tained grievous wrong at this fellow's hands ;
he has ruined you—beggared you ; but never
mind that—don't break the peace—don't drag
him to the pump Of course the hint was
acted on, and the attorney baptized, as it was
intended he should be.

When his stripes are healed, and his anguished
sensibilities in some degree calmed down, Mr.
O'CONNELL will, no doubt, be grateful for the
salutary chastisement he received last night. It
will operate as a fine moral lesson, and help him
to a juster and fitter estimate of his own import-
ance than he appears yet to have entertained.
The House of Commons is the best place in
the world for enabling men to rise or fall to
their proper level.

The Dissenters will be glad to find that their
tried friend and steady supporter, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, brought in a bill last night to redress
one of their numerous grievances—the present
exclusive mode of celebrating marriages in Eng-
land. The bill is not so simple and unshackled
as they may wish, but the more dispassionate
and moderate of the party are aware that, in any
great alteration, a variety of interests are in-
volved, and that, in this case, not only the
claims of the dissenters, but those of a
powerful body—the clergy of the established
church, are to be taken into account. Out of
compliment to that body, therefore, licenses are
still required, the bans are to be published in
the parish church, and returns made to the re-
gistrar of the diocese of all marriages celebrated
by dissenting clergymen. A law declaring
marriage a civil contract, in which light it was
viewed originally by Protestants, might have
given more general satisfaction ; but though
such a proposition might have been carried in
one House, it would as certainly have been re-
jected in the other. That system has been tried in
France for 40 years, and for two hundred in Scot-
land, and in neither country are there more
improvident marriages, or is the ceremony less
binding or sacred than in England. On this
head the Marriage Act is extremely absurd, for
though the Legislature makes a clergyman in-
dispensable at the ceremony in England, it
leaves Scotland entirely out of the question, and
thereby allows every couple, who can gallop to
Gretna Green, the power of celebrating the
marriage in their own way. The bill ap•
plies to all Dissenters, Catholics as well as
Protestants, and is a boon, not only to the laity
but to the dissenting clergy, who will come in for
a share of the fees, or perquisites, or presents
usually given to the officiating clergymen. In
districts where Dissenters are numerous, the
change will be seriously felt by the latter class.
The practice on that point, as well as regards
baptisms and funerals, ought never to have been
adopted. The tithes and other church property
are amply sufficient to pay for all church services,
and why then impose a tax inconvenient to the
middle and lower classes for the performance of
duties already provided for? Till a more equal
distribution, however, of the revenues of the
church is made, some provision should be made
for existing interests, otherwise persons who
have spent large sums on their education, and
who depend partly on these fees, will be de-
prived of no inconsiderable portion of their