The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-15 00:00:00

1.1 legal authorities.
the procession of Monday 1' which, though in-
terspersed with, and partly masked bytrades union
symbols, none can honestly deny the FAi,tical
cha-
racter that procession was directly in `tile teeth Of Cl')
the Act of Parliament ; and thus Lord lituligrOe',l:o(
was trepanned into a commencement of his Viceroyalty
by a flat violation of the law I That his Excellency ,
should long endure such a painful 'thraldom we shall
not easily believe. If he be at a loss for an ex-
ample how to act, he shall have one in a moment.
We have to announce that the Marquis Wellesley,
the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland but one before
Lord Mulgrave, the Whig Lord Lieutenant under Lord
Grey and Lord Melbourne, has resigned his office of
Lord Chamberlain. On being asked yesterday whether
the report was true, the Noble M arquis, we have reason
to believe, declared, to this effect—" that he had not re-
signed from any inability to execute the duties of the
office, but because, if he retained it he must support Lord
Melbourne's Administration, and this, as a man of
honour, he could not do, it being evident to him that
the Government of Ireland had been delegated by Lord
Melbourne, or through some irresponsible colleague"of
the Noble Lord, into the hands of Mr. O'Connell."
We have received the above statement from such au-
thority as entitles it to implicit credit ; nor will any-
thing but gross ignorance or barefaced impudence, both
of which, however, are sometimes put in requisition for
party purposes, enable any man, journalist or not, to
deny the truth of it. To disguise the importance of
Lord Wellesley's resignation, under such circumstances.,
and from such motives, would be as vain as to dispute
the fact. His Lordship was the first Lord-Lieutenant
sent over (in 1821-1822) for the avowed purpose of
modifying the ancient principle of the Government,
conciliating the Catholics, and repressing the violence
of the Orange party. He was always in advance of
the Liverpool Ministry, which had appointed him, with
regard to every measure which had conciliation through
the medium of equal justice for its object. During
his second Viceroyalty he was in full harmony,• as the
public was given to understand, with Lord Grey and
the better portion of the Grey Cabinet, upon the policy
to be pursued towards Ireland. There is not perhaps
a Statesman in the empire whose local knowledge of
that country is so accurate or so profound as Lord
Wellesley's. His retirement, therefore, and on the
grounds which his Lordship has alleged for that unam-
biguous manifestation of his sentiments, appears to us
the most severe rebuff which the subserviency of the
Cabinet to the O'Connell despotism could by possibi-
lity have encountered. It is indeed, to all human ap-
pearance " the beginning of the end ;" nor will that
end be long in its advent. The likelihood of a Romish
ascendancy over Protestant Ireland, and of a conse-
quent loss of the island to this Protestant realm, has
nauseated the whole English people beyond expression.
The scourge of the seven tailed beast must never again
be laid on Protestant shoulders here, while everywhere
else throughout Europe it has lost its early terrors.—
Time&

While Sir Robert Peel is labouring to produce an
impression that the Tories have become firm supporters
of the principles of civil and religious liberty, the
University of Oxford is about to give a striking proof
that it will abate nothing of its ancient bigotry. It is
understood that another attempt is now making (re-
port says at the instance of the Duke of Wellington)
to get rid of the subscription to the Thirty-nine Ar-
ticles on admission into the University. The High
Church party of that most bigotted University are
quite indignant at this endeavour to induce them to
make this slight concession to the spirit of the age.
The letter, of which the following is a copy, was
lately sent by an Oxford tutor to a former pupil, who
never received any communication from him before

" My dear , Wednesday, the 20th of May, at two
o'clock, is fixed for the convocation, to determine whether or
not 'subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles on Matriculation
is to be abolished,' and a weak and insidious declaration, as
far as my knowledge is concerned, substituted in its room.
The question is one of such vital importance, that I have
thought it right to inform you of the day and hour, that you
may have an opportunity of voting, should you think fit so to
do, more especially as a large majority will tend to settle, this
improperly agitated question. I remain, &c. --.."

Na an inch will the bigots of Oxford niove, even
at the solicitation of the Duke of Wellington. Can
we be astonished at the narrow and illiberal spirit for
which so many of the Tories are distinguished, when
we reflect that so many of them have imbibed the
principles inculcated in this hot-bed of intolerance ?--
Morning Chronicle.
We are very glad to observe that Mr. Hutt has
given notice of a motion for bringing under the con-
sideration of Parliament the claims of the British
Merchants and Ship-owners 'who suffered by the con-
fiscation of their property by order of the King of
Denmark, in 1807. The case of these unfortunate
persons is in very good hands, and we think it would
be difficult for Mr. Hutt to undertake a better cause.
It is understood that the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer is prepared to grant compensation to those
whose book debts were seized upon by the Danish
Government. Why not to the owners of goods and
shipping likewise ? Vattel lays it down as a gene-
ral position, that " those who have given cause
for reprisals ought to indemnify those who seer by
them. . . The sovereign is to compensate those
of his subjects on whom reprisals fall." It is a fact
which should not be overlooked by those who feel any
inclination to restore a Tory Government to powcr,
that in this case the Sovereign himself, by the culpable
contrivances of his Ministers, seized upon for the funds
assigned by the law for the express purpose of compen-
sating his suffqring subjects. At the period when our
Government came to the extraordinary resolution of
bombarding the capital of its ally, in the midst of peace
(a proceeding which gave rise to the capture of the
property in question), Danish shipping and cargoes to
the value of one million and a half were seized in leri-

tish ports. Upwards of 1,200,000/. was paid into the
droits of the Admiralty in consequence. 'What becalm.:
of this money ? It was handed over to the Sovereign,
to be squandered on gewgaw palaces, and employed iu
ministering to a depraved taste. Truly, our Church-
and-King men have been choice guardians of the pe-
cuniary interests of the country.—Morning Chrmack.

The General Steam Navigation Company's Mali
Packet the Ramona, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custona
House, at two o'clock, p.m., May 14. Also the Belfast, from
Calais, and the Tourist, from Anamorp.
PAUL Pity's SKETCH BOOK.—The most attrac-
tive literary novelty at the present moment is Mr. Poole's
work, entitled " Sketches and Recollections." It has been
well observed, " That these two volumes exhibit the author
genius, steeped all over in the spirit of comedy, full of richness:
and brightness. So many splendid specimens of genuine
English humour as are presented in this work it is indeed rare
to meet with ; and those who have hitherto only obtained a
knowledge of Mr. Poole's general powers through detached
bits, and as it were by sample, will be enabled to judge of
them in bulk, by possessing themselves of the above most
diverting publication."
In November, 1653, " The Bursse of Britain," .ixt
the Strand, where Exeter 'Change formerly stood, was the'
scene of a fatal affair. A quarrel having arisen between Mr.
Girard (a gentleman at that time engaged in a plot. against
Cromwell) and Pantaleon Sa (the Portuguese Ambassador's
brother), the latter, next day, came to the Exchange, accom-
pacied by assassins, who, mistaking another person for Mr.
Girard, seized upon him, and put him to death. For this
crime Pantaleon was condemned to die ; and, by a most re-
markable coincidence, he suffered on the same scaffold with
Mr. Girard, whose plot against the Protector had, in eke
mean time, been discovered.

A large fleet of free traders arrived yesterday in the
various docks from Canton, Calcutta, &c., a great portion or
their cargoes being teas. We noticed seven or eight go into
the St. Katherine's Dock. They were all towed up by small
steam-boats, and thus saved sevel al days. The Malvina and
Carnatic went into the West India Dock, having been towed
up by the Kingston; and the small Industry and Wear.
brought up the hero of Malown and Adelaide, East India-
men, into the Saint Katherine's Docks. These steam-boats
belong to the Thames Steam-towing Company.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL BADCOCK'S " ROUGH
LEAVES FROM A JOURNAL, KEPT IN SPAIN AND PORTUG. L,
IN 1832-33, AND 34."---" This is, in every sense of the word,"
says the Military and Naval Gazette, " a soldier's book. The
Colonel was commissioned by the British Government to lieep
a watchful eye on the proceedings of the belligerent parties in
Spain and Portugal. In order to discharge his duty, he pro-
ceeded by unfrequented and circuitous routes to Madrid, every
where beset by the jealousy of the people and of the authors
ties, and frequently in danger of assassination. Nothing can
be more animated and curious than his sketches of the wild
country and dismal towns through which he passed on his
mission, or more modest than his account of his own perils,
and the determination by which he was enabled to larmount
them. His account of the siege of Oporto we hQld to be tho
most circumstantial and authentic of any yet given of that de.
plorable, sanguinary, and unnatural contest."