The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-17 00:00:00

The SOLDIER, HIS WIFE, and MOTHER.

(From L. Hunt's " Captain Sword and Captain Pen.")
Two loving women, lingering yet,
Ere the fire is out, are met,
Talking sweetly, time beguil'd
One of her bridegroom, one her child,
The bridegroom he. They have received
Happy letters, more believed
For public news, and feel the bliss
The heavenlier on a night like this.
• They think him hous'd, they think him blessed,
Curtained in the core of rest,
Danger distant, all good near
their " Good night" a tear?
Behold ! by a ditch he lies,
Clutching the wet earth, his eyes
Beginning to be mad. In vain
His tongue still thirsts to lick the rain,
That mocked but now his homeward tears ;
And ever and anon he rears
His legs and knees with all their strength,
And then as strongly thrusts at length,
Raised, outstretched, he cannot bear
The wound that girds him, weltering there :
And " Water," he cries, with moonward stare.

The Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria have
signified to the Earl of Liverpool their intention of honouring
the East Sussex Hunt Races, which take place next Monday,
on the Lewes Course, with their presence. Every arrange-
ment is making at Lewes to provide ample accommodation for
the Royal visiters and suite on the course. Their Royal High-
nesses will, as soon as the races are over, return to the Earl of
Liverpool's seat at Butted.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford intended to
have left town on Wednesday for Devonshire ; but a sudden
attack of illness having seized his Grace, the journey is given
up. The disease is a rheumatic affection in the head.

The remains of the late Dowager Countess of Bur-

lington were removed yesterday from Compton-place, East-
bourne, for interment in the family mausoleum of the Caven-
dishes, at Derby, where the mournful ceremony will take place
in the presence of the Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Burling-
ton, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Hon. C. Cavendish, and Lord
Charles Fitzroy (son-in-law to the deceased). The Duke of
Devonshire will leave Kemptown for Derbyshire on Monday
next. The deceased did not lie in state at Burlington House,
nor did the cavalcade pass through town on its way to its
destination.

King Louis Philip intends to visit the South of
France in the course of next summer. His Majesty has already
sent an architect to Pau, to prepare the chateau of that town
for his reception.
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Louis Philip has purchased for the Museum, the
three finest pictures of the gallery of Marshal Soult ; the Vir-
gin of Murillo, and the Leprous and Paralytic of the same
master.

Colonel Jolliffe has been turning some of his Peters-
field tenants out of their houses and shops, as a punishment
for voting at the last election for his successful opponent
Mr. Hector.

The pictures for the year's exhibitions at Somerset-
house have been sent in, and are very numerous.
LAST MOMENTS OF PRINCE AUGUSTUS OY
PORTUGAL.-A letter from Lisbon gives the following parti-
culars of the last moments of this young Prince. On Friday
morning he was fully sensible of his danger, and a weakness
with which he was seized assured him that his end was nigh.
He desired that the sacraments should be administered to him.
" I know," said he, "that I am dying—confiding, I hope, in
God and a pure conscience, but it would have been sweet to
live and labour for the happiness of Portugal." A few in-
stants afterwards he was no more. It was necessary to tear
the Queen from the death-bed, and an hour later force was
also resorted to remove the Empress. Deeply afflicted, she
sat by the bed-side, with the hand of the dying Prince in hers,
vainly trying to count pulsations which had already ceased, and
striving against the certainty of -her misfortune. The two
Princesses are a prey to despair.
PEN s roN.—Sir Robert Peel's last official act was the
completing the instrument for the grant of a pension to Mr. J.
Montgomery, the poet, "the Christian and the patriot," as he
is justly described by the Sheffield Iris. Sir Robert says, " I
think you will be pleased when you hear the names of those
who have with yourself been selected on public grounds, and
with a view to the encouragement of science and literature,
for this mark of royal favour—Professor Airey, of Cambridge,
Mrs. Somerville, Sharon Turner, and Robert Southey."
INTIMIDATION.—At the last election for the
borough of Cirencester, several of Earl Bathurst's tenantry
refused to vote for Lord Edward Somerset, his Lordship's
nominee, and voted for Mr. Whatley.' On the last quarter-
day notices to quit their respective houses at Midsummer next
were served upon several of Mr. W.'s supporters. Mr. W.
wrote to Earl Bathurst immediately, stating the hardship of
two cases—the men being tradesmen, and likely to be seriously
injured by a removal ; and further, not being at all in arrear
with their rent, they became tenants only at Midsummer last.
His Lordship's reply was, that 'for reasons best known to
himself he did not choose to have the two persons for tenants
any longer.
ROME, APRIL 2.—The English society has been
somewhat thinned since the beginning of Lent, a great many
having gone on to Naples. Amongst these departures arc the
Marquis of Anglesey and family, the Marquis of Douglas,
Lord and Lady Dunsany, &c. In return, there have been a
few arrivals—the Dowager Marchioness of Clanricarde, Lady
Ashbrook, and our great tragedian Young, who has been
sojourning here for some days, on his way from Naples to
England, and seems in good health and spirits. The cele-
brated Marshal Marmont has also just arrived from the East.
The Countess of Clare, the Earl of Shrewsbury and family,
the Countess of Coventry, and many other distinguished Eng-
lish residents, are still here. Early in May, a marriage is to
take place, which will no doubt excite much attention; The
parties are Don Marc Antonio Borghese, eldest son of the
Prince Borghese, and the Lady Gwendeline Talbot, second
daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The marriage is con-
sidered a very advantageous one on both sides, as the bride-
groom is heir apparent to the first title and fortune in Italy,
and the bride, besides great beauty and accomplishments, will
bring him, it is said, a fortune of 100,000/. The statement
which appeared in some of the papers that the elder daughter
of Lord Shrewsbury was about to give her hand to the Mar-
quis of Douglas is wholly without 'foundation.
Provincial Editors should acknowledge the source
whence the Abstracts of Acts of Parliament are derived. The
Sun does not make these abstracts without considerable cost
both of time and money.

THE FUNDS AND THE PEOPLE.—The steadi-
ness of the Public Securities is the inost splendid compliment
that could possibly be paid to the excellent good sense and
calm rationality of the British people. The capitalists know,
that however much bent on practical improvements, the people
are too intelligent, and have too much respect for the Majesty
of the law, to patronize measures of a revolutionary tendency,
and, therefore, they trust their money freely. The Funds are
described as the barometer of the State—nothing in them in-
dicates either storm or foul weather.

According to the Almanack of Cracow, the num-
ber of Cardinals now amounts to 55, the oldest of whom has
reached the age of 83, the youngest that of 48. The pope is
73 years of age. In addition to the above we have 12 patri-
archs. The entire Catholic church counts 671 bishoprics,
several of which have vacancies to be filled up. The present
Pope has created six new bishoprics—one in Belgium, one in
Westphalia, two in the United States, and two in the kingdom
of Naples. The celebrated copperplate engraver (M. Pin-
celli) has just died at Rome.

There were lately taken by Mr. Peter Ferguson,
gamekeeper to his Grace the Duke of Argyll, in the vicinity
of Inverary, in two traps placed for vermin, within a yard of
each other, a beautiful eagle and a wild cat. The eagle is a
remarkably fine specimen of the golden eagle, now almost ex-
tinct in this country ; and the cat is as fine a specimen of the
original native Highland wild cat, also now very rare. The
struggles of the first captured, it is probable, had invited the
other to prey upon it, and thus both shared the same fate.
They are both in progress of being stuffed, and it is hoped they
may add to the adorning of Inverary Castle, where visitors
may have an opportunity of seeing them.—Glasgow Herald.
A few days ago a young man, aged 25, who had
been brought up as the son of a peasant, in the environs of
Antwerp, went to a widow lady in that city, and presented
himself to her as her son, declaring that his foster-mother had
confessed to the priest of her parish, on her death-bed, that
having been engaged by the lady as wet-nurse to her second
son, she, when the child was weaned and sent for home, sub-
-0--n boy for him. The pretender to new maternal
claims was at first repelled as an impostor; but tl'r. tesony
of the priest, and the striking resemblance between the young;
man and the eldest son of the lady, connected with other cir-
cumstances, led to a conviction of the truth of this statement,
and induced her to receive the claimant as a third son ; for the
changling by his good conduct had got too strong a hold upon
the affections of his supposed mother to be cast off as an alien.
FLY BURNING AT FLORENCE.—Mr. Galli& wit-
nessed an extraordinary spectacle, which he states to be an
annual performance--the burning of some myriads of flies, which
ascend the Arno towards the end of July or the beginning of
August, and are immediately devoted to the flames. Great
fires were lighted for the purpose, on the two upper bridges,
into which immense crowds of them rushed in rapid succession,
and the ground was covered with their remains all round the
fires to the depth of at least two inches. The operation seemed
to inspire all the spectators with mirth.—Conder's Italy.