The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 171ITDA V. JUNE 26, 1835,

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Montreal Papers to the 29th May, Quebec to the 26th May,
Sydney to the 24th February, and Hobart Town to the 25th
February, have been received at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee House. The Montreal papers give the following
comparative statement of the arrivals, tonnage, and emigrants
up to the 23d May :
Vessels. Tons. Emigrants.
1834
1835

Decrease. ..b.. .

15,742

4,520

The New York Papers to the 2d June do not bring any
news of the least importance.
The Hamilton Mercury of the 16th May states that wheat
has advanced to 3s. 9d. currency, owing to the demand from
the United States—flour to 5 dollars per barrel. The streets
and wharfs have assumed the bustle of business, but the quan-
tity of goods is not so great as in former years, more particu-
larly for Quebec. Up to this time but few emigrants have
arrived.

The Sydney papers state that his Excellency, the Governor
and suite, had embarked on board his Majesty's ship Hyacinth
on a tour of inspection to Twofold Bay, and would return
overland. _ .

The Hobart Town papers state the arrival there of the
Sarah, which has presented a novel feature in emigration.
The whole of the passengers have arrived without the least
disturbance, or stain upon their character. Such a body of
female emigrants are indeed valuable to the colony ; and if
women are sent out as they have been, then will the colonists
have cause to thank the Emigration Committee.
The House of Assembly of Newfoundland was busily en-
gaged, by the last accounts, in improving the Ways and
Means. Resolutions were passed, laying a duty of two and
a half per cent., ad valorem, on all articles imported into
the colony, except wines, spirits, and molasses. Several yes-
gels had arrived from the seal fishery, with immense cargoes,
and had brought very flattering accounts of the success of
those left behind.

The Quebec Papers state, " it will be observed, under the
shipping head, that 103 vessels have entered for loading, but
will experience considerable delay, from the scarcity of timber
in port, owing to the detention of rafts by contrary winds.
Sales of white pine at sd. per foot ; red pine selling at 11d.
per foot."
Awful occurrence at New Orleans between 2 and 3 o'clock
on the morning of Friday, May 15 : —The roof and third and
fourth stories of the Planters' Hotel, a large building in Canal-
street, New Orleans, gave way and fell to the ground. More
than fifty persons were asleep at the time ; about forty of them
have been taken out, and the people are still at work in search
of others. The number of lives lost is not as yet ascertained.

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY,

In the Loans, last night, the Earl of DEVON took his seat.
The House was entirely occupied with petitions. The Duke
of fitcumorin presented one in favour of Poor Laws for Ire-
land. The Bishop of EXETER presented two petitions—one
from Mr. Mangles, the other from Mr. Stoney, relative to the
conduct of the Commissioners on Education in Ireland. A
discussion arose, in the course of which Lords BaouunAm
and DUNCANNON justified the course pursued by the Com-
missioners.

In the COMMONS, Mr. Sheriff RAPHAEL took the oaths and
his seat. Sir J. HOBHOUSE stated, in reply to a question
respecting the monopoly of Salt and Opium in India, which
produced 1,600,0001., that the subject was under consideration.
Petitions were presented from PILGRIM and DASENT, the men
now in Newgate, for the part they took respecting the Ipswich
Election petition. Notice was given that motions, this day,
would be made by Mr. HAWES and Mr. P. STEWART, that the
guilty parties be discharged. Mr. KEARSLEY wished all the
parties to be called to the bar and discharged. An Hon.
Member declared that justice would not be done until the AT-
TOIINETGENERAL was directed to prosecute the late sitting
Members. After some discussion it was agreed that the sub-
ject should be resumed this day. Adam, Doyle, and Fer-
rell were ordered into custody for disobeying the SPEAKER'S
summons to attend the Drogheda Election Committee. Mr.
WAKLET brought forward the case of the Dorchester labourers
in an impressive and argumentative speech. He denied that
the Association to which they belonged was illegal, or that
the taking of secret oaths brought them within the law. If
guilty, they were guilty not by intention, but through ignorance.
The Hon. Member for Finsbury concluded by moving an Ad-
dress to his Majesty, praying that a pardon might be granted
to the Dorchester labourers convicted in 1833. Mr. HuME
seconded the motion, and strongly supported the petition.
An interesting discussion followed. On a division, the num-
bers for Mr. WAKLEY'S motion were 82, against it, 308.
[Before the motion was brought on, a request to defer it was
made by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who stated that he had felt it
to be his duty to recommend a remission of the sentence, that
the whole of them should be pardoned on condition of remain-
ing in the Colonies ; that with respect to four of them, if the
Governor at the end of two years reported their good conduct,
they were to have full pardon, and leave to return home ; but
that with respect to two of them, they having been most ac-
tive, he had not advised this remission.] In consequence of
the lateness of the hour, Lord JOHN RUSSELL postponed the
Committee on the Corporation Reform Bill until this day.
Mr. F. MArLE unsuccessfully moved for leave to bring in a
Bill for relief of the occupiers of land in Scotland, from the
damage done to their crops by game. On the subject of the
South Sea Duties, Mr. P. THOMSON stated that a, measure
would be introduced next Session. The appointment of a
Committee to inquire into our Consular Establishments was
ordered, and the House then adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
1. Expenses at Elections Bill—Second reading.
2. Loan Societies Bill—Third reading.
3. Bankrupts Estates (Scotland) Bili—Further consideration ,f
Report.
4. Roman Catholic Marriages (Ireland) Bill—Adjourned Debate
on Third reading.
b. Supply—Committee.
6. Ways and Means—Committee.
7. Corn Trade (Isle of Man) Bill—Third reading.
S. Snap Duties Drawback Bill—Committee.
9. Infant Property (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
10. Courts of Equity Conternpts (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
11. Municipal Corporations Bill—Committee.
12. Sugar Duties Bill—Report.

MUSIC.

TEN NEW SONGS and TWO VOCAL DUETS.

BY T. MOORE, ESQ.
If thou would'st have me sing and play—Night waneth fast—
Upon this sword—Love's Victory—Still when day-light—
Mind not tho' day-light—Let's take this world—Song of
Hercules—For thee alone—Calm thy sleep—They tell me
thou—With moon-light beaming.
Cramer and Co. London. 1835.

These delightful little songs, whose melody is as
graceful as their poetry, alternating between pathos
and vivacity, are the productions of the first song-
writer of this or, if we except Anacreon, of any age.
In simplicity of musical composition they remind us of
the National Melodies, which we are heretics enough
to prefer even to the more famous Irish ones. Mr.
Moore has shown, in the songs before us, that time
has had no power over the magic of his melody. He
does not decay in his powers, but merely mellows, like
good wine, as he grows older. We predict for these
airs a triumphant run through the season, nor do we
know any present that a gentleman can make to a
lady, at once so elegant and so acceptable.• When
bound up together, as it is fit they should be, they
will form a neat, commodious volume. We will not
say they are the best, when we call to mind his pathe-
tic Ballad " Here's the Bower," but we will assert,
without fear of contradiction, that the present songs
are fully equal to any that Moore has ever yet com-
posed, and set to music.

KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

TILE KING V. O'GORNIAN MAHON.

Mr. PLATT stated the case. It was an indictment for an
ass;r.ilt committed by the defendant upon an attorney named
Wigley, and the circumstances which led to it were as' follows :
—ln February last, an indictment had been preferred by Mr.
Mahon against Mr. Wigley, charging him with perjury, and
Mr. Wigley was acquitted. On leaving the Court after the
trial, a rule was served upon Mr. Mahon for the payment of
costs upon a former postponement of the trial, and Mr.
Mahon became very much irritated, and returned into Court
to claim its protection. When he had again left the Court he
commenced abusing Mr. Wigley in no very measured terms,
calling him a rascal and a villain ;and Mr. Wigley who was pass-
ing at the time retorted. Mr. Mahon followed Mr. Wigley
down the passage, and struck him several very severe blows,
by which one of the bones of his face was fractured. He
would now call witnesses to prove these facts.
Henry Rodolph Wigley; the prosecutor, and John Cooper,
a p.)lic,:man, who was on duty in the Court of King's Bench
when the assault was committed, proved the facts of the case.

Mr. CLARKSON, for the defendant, said that he was in-
structed to admit the assault, but under circumstances which
would be, in some degree, a justification of the defendant.
As, however, the witnesses by whom this justification could be
substantiated were not present, he could not, consistently with
his duty to the Court and the public, occupy their time in
detailing facts which he could not at present prove in evi-
df2::ce, and Mr. Mahon would have an- opportunity, on a futur,
occasion, of making whatever defence might seem advisable.
The Jury immediately found the defendant Guilty.
There were two other cases on the list for trial to-day, hut
the records were withdrawn, and the Court rose shortly after
ten o'clock.

EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

FINE ARTS.

TRIAL OF AL GERNON SYDNEY.

The only fault we have to find with this historical
picture, is the expression which the artist (Mr.
Stephanoff) has given to the countenance of Chief
Justice Jeffries, who is represented as presiding in
person at the trial of one of the most distinguished
patriots that England ever knew. He has given him
the aspect rather of a high-minded judge, who regret-
ted the stern sense of duty that compelled him to
punish, than of a ferocious, dram-drinking ruffian,
who was never so happy—never so much in his ele-
ment—as when he was sacrificing innocent people to
his monstrous party prejudices. Any one who is at
all acquainted with English history, knows well the
character of the " bloody Jeffries "—as he was aptly
called after his judicial murders in the west of Eng-
land—knows well that the baleful passions of the
fellow's nature were mirrored in his countenance ;
that he was as hideous as he was tyrannical ; that, in
fact, just as his heart was, so was his face. Now, in
the work before us, we find nothing of the sort. We
miss even the fiery, carbuncled nose of the brandy-
swilling Jeffries ; he is pourtrayed merely as a stern
Judge • there is even an air of conscientiousness in
his look, just as though he firmly believed that the
weight of legitimate and undeniable evidence was go-
ing against the prisoner. This is a grave, historical
blemish, for never was man more marked by the
" outward and visible signs " of a base origin and
ruffian nature
.than Jeffries.. In other respects, the
picture is all that such a picture should be. The at-
titude and expression of countenance of Algernon
Sidney are full of energy and significance, amounting
almost to the sublime ; while the figures about him,
especially that pathetic one of Lord Russell's son,
who is weeping at the recollection, which the scene too
forcibly recalls, of his father's fate, shows that Mr.
Stephanoff has as much command over the, loftiest, as
he has over the gentlest, feelings of our nature. The
painting has been well engraved by Bromley, and if

merit can ensure popularity, will be sure to become
popular.

LITERATURE.

TRAVELS to JET US: I,Elff and the HOLY LAND

THROUGH EGYPT.
BY THE VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND. •
Third Edition. Htnry Caburn. London, 1835.

When a book of any description has fairly reach►;d
a third edition, it may be said to be placed beyond `the
pale of Newspaper criticism. With one generation
at least it is sure to be a favourite. Of Chateaubriand's
Travels in the Holy Land we pronounced favourably
on its first appearance ; and the past success of the
work is the best possible proof of the accuracy of our
estimate of its peculiar merits, and the discernment Of
the reading public in every part of Great Britain.
The historical introduction with which Chateaubriand
precedes his account of modern Greece and Jerusalem,
greatly enhances the value of descriptions which in
themselves have all the truth and reality of drawings
from real life. This work is in the best sense of the
word popular, and its popularity is justly deserved.

ANSTER'S FAUSTUS.
•
Longman, London. 1835.
Viewed as a whole, without reference to detached
passages, Mr. Anster's Translation of Faust may
safely be pronounced the best that has yet appeared.
Portions of it were, it seems, published in Blackwood's
Magazine so long ago as 1820 ; and it was in con-
sequence of the favour with which these specimens
were received, and the interest they excited, that the
translator was induced to complete his arduous task.
We congratulate him on the skill with which he has
acquitted himself. His version throughout is remark-
able for spirit and fidelity ; and in the famous Witch
Dance on the Brocken—where Mr. Anster has evi-
dently tasked all his powers to the utmost—may vie
in the melody and variety of its rhythm, and the almost
literalness of its adherence to the original text, with,
Shelley's well-known translation of the same scene..
Few authors are more difficult to render into English.
than Goethe. His allusions are frequently of the abr.
strusest nature, and he is fond of dealing in metaphy-
sical hints which it requires a kindred intellect t/j do
justice to. These difficulties Mr. Anster has boldly
combatted, and, in a great degree, overcome ; o.nd we
hazard little in predicting—though in no spirit of
ill-
will to other translators—that the public will recog-
nise in his, the only true translation of Faust. A va-
riety of explanatory notes are added to it, which do
credit to Mr. Anster's research and critical perspicuity

MEMOIRS OF JOHN SELDEN,
AND NOTICES OF THE POLITICAL CONTEST DURING HIS TIPS•

BY GEORGE W. JOHNSON.
London : Orr and Smith, 1835.

A life of the learned Selden—" the living Biblir"
theca--the literary Ajax" of the seventeenth centu.ryt
can only be uninteresting to an English reader viheti
literature is without an admirer, and liberty witb.out a
worshipper. The mind of Selden was a phewcrolenon
which no writer has ever yet attempted to rec oncile
with our received impressions of the effects Of: parti-
cular studies on the imagination, the feelings, and the
conduct of mankind. His antiquarian researches ; his
intimate acquaintance with, and veneration cor, the
laws; his fondness for heraldic decorations; and his
profound respect for all authority drawn from the his-
torical remains of the past, never once betrayed him
into the usual weaknesses which attend th,e applica-
tion of such knowledge to those questions fof civil and
ecclesiastical policy which beset the ant;tquarian in
daily life. Selden seemed to live to think, and to act
without a single predilection derived from the peculiar
nature of his researches. His profound knowledge of
the law was attended with no leaning towards the coercive
prerogative claimed by the superior courts; his admiration
of ancestral dignities and the honors of an illustrious de-
scent was always subservient to his convictions of the
inherent equality of the whole human race ; and his great •
respect for the power of Parliament and the prerogative ,0
of the Crown never misled him into an approval of Ole
factious proceedings of the one, nor the despotical , as•
sumptions of the other. Even at this distancr we
cannot contemplate his calmness in the midst , of a
tempest—his lucid appeals to authority when a . autho-
rity was abused by the partizans of Parliamma t, as well
as of the Court—without pronouncing him to be one
of the most remarkable men of ancient or modern times.
Blessed by nature with a cool temperament,
equally in-
different to the duties of an active and contemplative
life—endowed moreover with a genius of that happy
pliancy which needs but direction to succeed in any
pursuit—Selden was a man for all times, countries,
and situations, and under all possible circumstant,:es,
would have been great.

We agree with Mr Johnson, the industrivus bio-
grapher of Salden, that the present time is, peculiarly
adapted to the study of the political conduct of this
eminent Reformer. The same great political questions,
which agitated England previous to the establishmetat'
of the commonwealth, are now the subjects of constant-
discussion throughout the country. (€ Tithes--
Church government—Episcopal Legislators—the
Forms of the Liturgy—theprivikges of the Peerage--
the Rights of the Universities—Equitable Taxation"--
are unquestionably the occasion of as strong political
feelings in the bosoms of Englishmen now, as they
were in 1640. But; thank Heaven, the effects which'
these feelings must now produce, are very different;_
from those which, of a moral necessity, they produce&