The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1835.

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty attended divine service yesterday morning in
the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached
by the Lord Bishop of Bristol. Mr. Attwood presided at the
organ during the musical service (Boyce's in C.); Sir George
Smart afterwards presided at the performance of the Sanctus
( Arnold's in C.), and of the anthem, " 0 Lord, thou bast
searched me out" ( Croft), which was sung by Messrs. Sale,
Vaughan, and another gentleman of the Chapel Royal. The
King was accompanied by the Landgravine of Hesse Hom-
burg, the Princess Augusta, and Prince George of Cam-
bridge. The Dean of Hereford and the Rev. Dr. Blomberg
were in attendance as Deputy Clerks of the Closet. The
Marquises of Graham and Worcester, the Earls of Wilton,
Jersey, Howe, and Cawdor, and Lord Prudhoe, were among
the nobility present.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their
Royal Highnesses' Household, attended divine service yester-
day. The service was performed by the Dean of Chester.
His Majesty gave audience yesterday to Sir Robert Peel.
The Queen, attended by Miss Hope Johnstone and Miss
Hudson, visited the Duchess of Glocester on Saturday, at
Glocester-house.

The Duchess of Kent entertained a distinguished party to
dinner on Saturday, and in the evening Madame Dulcken per-
formed on the pianoforte before her Royal Highness's guests.
The Duke of CuMberland went on Saturday to his resi-
dence at Kew, where his Royal Highness entertained in the
evening a select party at dinner. His Royal Highness re-
turned to town yesterday afternoon.
The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, and the Princess
Augusta, visited the Duckess of Glocester yesterday.
The Princess Augusta entertained the Landgravine of Hesse
Homburg, and a select party, at dinner, last evening, at her
residence in St. James's Palace.

A Deputation (on the subject of the Hand-loom 'Weavers)
including the Earl of Euston, Lords Francis Egerton, D.
Stuart, and E. Stuart, Admiral Adam, Messrs. Maxwell,
Turner, Brotherton, Bolling, Fleetwood, Lawson, Forbes,
Gillon, Ainsworth, Fielden, R. Oswald, E. Tennent, Brockle-
burst, R. Wallace, and Cayley, had a conference on Saturday
with the Right Hon. Alexander Baring and Viscount Lowther,
at the office of the Board of Trade.

Sir Robert Peel, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and other mem-
bers of the Administration, attended a numerous meeting of
Members of the House of Commons on Saturday morning at
the Foreign-office.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgic Minister, and General Alava,
the Spanish Minister, visited the Duke of Wellington on
Saturday at the Foreign-office.

Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were re,
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

Earl Grey is expected to leave Grimston-house, Yorkshire,
the residence of Lord Howden, this day, on a visit to the Duke
of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.

DUBLIN.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MARCH 7.—Perhaps those Statesmen, whose constitutional
feelings are so egregiously outraged by what they think proper
to designate a ".factious opposition," would favour the world
with their valuable opinion as to the merits of a factious
" perseverance." The one is quite as contrary to rational free-
dom as the other ; and there is this material difference in the
state of things, that the latter has a real existence, whereas
the former is a mere chimera. There is not, nor can be, a
factious opposition in the House of Commons sufficient to
overwhelm the will of the sovereign people. The reign of
faction ceased in that House when the last of the borough-
mongers was expelled.

The stout resolution avowed by Sir Robert Peel, to die in
the last ditch, is hailed with rapture by his unreflecting adhe-
rents in this country as an assurance that he will be suffered
to get into that Ultima Thule by gradual approaches, before
be is obliged to he down and breathe his last speech as Grand
Vizir of Great Britain. The composure with which the poor
witless creatures talk of defying the majorities of the people's
House is laughable. They exult, because there has not been
a positive division against them since Thursday last, and upon
that poor comfort prattle about re-action. Unless they are
leathered every day, they think themselves victorious ; just as
a gamester, in the intervals of mischance, fancies that he is
getting on his legs again. But the opposition cannot be com-
posed of such fools and traitors, as now, with the prize in their
hands, to retire from the contest, and verify the infamous and
base imputations which have been cast upon their motives by
the faction they have all but annihilated.

The courage of the Tories is manifestly oozing fast out of
their fingers' ends. It was thought that they would have re-
called O'Connell's " patent of precedency," among the first
exhibitions of their vigour. It was, indeed, a point of honour
with them to do 30 ; for scarcely a night passed during the
sittings of the late Parliament that some one, in either House,
did not taunt Lord Grey with having licensed agitation by
conferring that distinction. Yet they have not dared to meddle
with it, nor does their Bobadil press ever venture to drop a
hint about it. Is the Cock of Waterloo a political craven after
all ? Does he really fear " Dan and his tail ?"
Should the experiment of a dissolution be ventured upon,
great must be its success in England, to counterbalance the
loss which will be sustained by the Government in Ireland.
Nothing can be more certain than that six Reformers, at the
very lowest computation, would be added to the Irish troop, if
the people had an opportunity of choosing again; and those
six would make a difference of twelve in a division. Thus
Ministers should gain twelve in Great Britain, to maintain
even the hopeless position which they now occupy.

ELY CATHEDRAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIM.

SlR,—The vacant stall in Ely Cathedral, which, in deference
to public opinion, it was expected, would have been left to the
disposal of the Commissioners about to be appointed under the
proposed Church Reform Bill, has, after long deliberation,
been given to Dr. Maddy.
The Bury paper, in commenting on a very intemperate
speech which this Reverend Divine delivered at a Conserva-
tive dinner, at Sudbury, about a fortnight since, stated him
then to be Rector of Boxted, Rector of Some' ton, Rector of
Stansfield, and Rector of Harlist ; Chaplain to the King, and
alternate Reader of St. James's, Westminster. He has now
an additional motive for his warm attachment to the Established
Church. At the Sudbury dinner he is said, not only to have
been lavish in his praises of the beauty and order of the esta-
blishment, but also to have been very free in branding Re-
formers with the names of infidels, &c. Surely, it would be
more consistent with the precepts of the Gospel, were he and
some other pluralists belonging to Ely Cathedral, who lately
have been making violent speeches at Conservative dinners,
first to enter into a little self-examination before they pass such
uncharitable judgments upon the creed of their neighbours.
Pluralists and non-residents cannot but be unbelievers of the
threatenings in Scripture against those pastors who desert
their flocks. _ _

In Ely Cathedral there are four other Prebendaries, who are
also plu;alists and sinecurists, whose Ecclesiastical preferments
must amount to four thousand a year each ; whilst the two
poor Curates, who discharge all the duties of the two very ex-
tensive parishes in Ely, are paid by the Dean and Chapter only
forty pounds a-year a piece for their services. As the Pre-
bendal stall of Westminster has been annexed to the adjoining
parish of St. Margaret's, there would have been no impropriety
in dividing the income f this stall at Ely between these two
poor Curates. Sincerely wishing these scandalous acts of in-
justice towards the poor working Clergy may shortly be reme-
died, although I entertain but very faint hopes of any real re-
formation in the Established Church,

I beg to subscribe myself your Constant Reader,
AN ENEMY TO OPPRESSION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Nous sommes tens de la meme famille

I3EAUMARCIIAIS.

Sia,—Our own affairs so much engross public attention,
that scarcely can we allow time for the consideration of what
is passing on the Continent. The position, however, of Louis
Philippe is at this moment particularly worthy of notice, for
great events are at hand, and matters in Ft ance, as here, are
fast drawing to a crisis. It is not possible for the King of
the French to continue pursuing that narrow policy which,
since his accession to the throne, has perseveringly dictated
all his actions and counsels. But for a caution peculiar to his
character, together with a certain dexterity in business, and
extreme plausibility of manners, he would, long ere this, have
been somewhat abruptly stopped in his occupation of breaking
engagements solemnly entered into by him at the Hotel de
Ville, and afterwards established by the CHARTER. Of all the
phenomena in which human nature abounds, perhaps the most
puzzling for the philosopher or the philanthropist to unravel, is
that obstinate resistance the mind offers to be improved by the
past. Events which, as they happen, weigh so heavily, and
excite our feelings to such a painful degree, are too frequently
robbed of any salutary influence when the mellowing hand of
time has swept over them. If you wished to single out a
man who had met with the severest trials, and to whom expe-
rience had read many a terrible lesson, you would almost na-
turally point to the soldier of Jemmapes, who now wields the
sceptre of France ; a long stormy life of dangers and priva-
tions was his best—l had nearly said—his only title to a crown
which the glorious Revolution of July placed at the disposal of
a few people : it was this, and this alone, which stood between
a monarchy and a republic. It was in the hope that a Prince
who, untainted by the nzataria of a Court, would have avoided
those Acroceraunian rocks on which so many of his prede-
cessors split, that the venerable Republican-General consented
to throw his sword into the scales, and to abandon those sen-
timents which were the polar star of a noble youth, and the
solace of an honoured old age. Louis Philippe, disguise it
as you may, has disappointed the just expectation of his
friends ; he has not gained the esteem of his enemies--he has
not won over the waverer—he stands alone, surrounded by a
people who ask for little, but to whom that little is sternly
denied. The ground upon which he is placed is not
tenable ; he must either go forward, and then his whole
system must be radically changed—or he must retro-
grade—and then indeed—adieu ! le dernier des Bourbons.
Changes of Ministry are become of so frequent occurrence
that they cause little else but a shrug of contempt, or a smile
cf ridicule. Measures must be altered. The Charter must
be kept in its inviolability ; the elective franchise must be
extended ; the colonies must be attended to ; the liberty of
the press must be a reality, and not a mockery ; the trial
by jury must be strictly kept sacred ; extraordinary tribu-
nals must be abolished : the political prisons must be thrown
open ; the friendship of free and not of despotic nations
must be courted ; every thing, in short, must begin de novo.
Can this revolution be hoped for ? Can the heart that so
fondly sips the sweets of absolutism be ever thoroughly Pu-
rified ? Can ingratitude be forgiven—can animosities be soft-

ened down,,and the past forgotten? These are 9tiestions on
the solution, of which depends the happiness or misery of mil-
lions of our felloii-men.

The position in which the French are placed, is far more
delicate and difficult than our's. They are submitting to a
punishment voluntarily administered ; and like the frogs of
old, are finding fault with the log of wood, for the pos-
session of which they have none to thank but themselves. We,
on the contrary, are resisting a force arbitrarily and capricious-
ly imposed upon us, and it is easier to annihilate a faction, than
to lecture a monarch. The writer, Sir, of these lines, is not
viewing the matter before him as it were "through a glass
darkly ;" he is not arguing on any fixed rule of right, and
applying it, regardless of particular circumstances. He
has passed the greater part of a not unobservant life among the
French people, and he fearlessly challenges inquiry as to the
facts he advances, and the inferences he draws from them.
He was at Havre-de-Grace (the Liverpool of France) at the
time of the " three days," and well he remembers the delight
felt by the people of that large and wealthy town when the
Steam-boat landed the English Newspapers ; and they read, in
The Sun especially, a glowing eulogium and enthusiastic ap-
proval of their recent glorious deeds. The kindly and ge-
nerous feelings that then passed between the two greatest na-
tions of the world, are to-day, I am sure, as warm as ever :
when they cease to exist, it will not be the fault of the
people in either. To you, Mr. Editor, much is due, for
having zealously lent your powerful aid in removing these
prejudices, which, to their shame, so often darken the un-
derstandings of our countrymen ; but so long as Govern-
ments are interested in keeping up a system of deception,
the greatest vigilance will be required of those whose duty
it is to see that the flame be not extinguished on the altars
of Liberty. MILO.