The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-24 00:00:00

1? 0 YAL PA VILION.

During, the recess the whole of the interior and much
of the exterior has been remodelled and newly decorated.
The entertainments last night were of the most amusing
description. The first piece presented was the po-
pular romance of Cherry and Fair Star, or the
Orphans of Cyprus. Of the performers we must speak
in the highest praise—they all did great justice to their
parts. FARRELL entered into the spirit of Topack with
excellent gout, and was loudly applauded. FnEEn. raised
the part of Sanguinbeck to a consequence which few other
actors could have given to it. The music, selected hY,
WooLe, and the dances under the direction of AUSTIN (of
Covent-garden), are exceedingly well adapted to the
piece, and were hailed accordingly. The principal aurae'
lion, however, consists in the beauty of the scenery, and
the extent and novel working of the machinery, both of
which appointments are admirable. The Lottery Ticket
followed, and introduced BUCKSTONE, fur the first time,
in the character of IVormwood. The other parts were
we'l sustained, and the piece was loudly applauded
throughout. The pantomime of Gunner Gurton, or
Llarlequin and the Magic Needle, concluded the enter-
tainments with more than ordinary eclat.

Q UEE N' S.
The performances at this theatre last night were re:
ceived with much applause, being well selected, well go'
up, ahne.rlovLell
inteofpwlaydheiei.,
was a'speitiirosrtinpec
perform'
was Jane
.chsthe pirSithoarnear
propriety by Mrs. Hoorzn. Miss NU GENT played the
part of Alicia with quite as much talent as so ridicultno
a character deserves. The tragedy ct/is followed by two
farces, entitled The Spoiled child, and Peter the Greai
and Peter the Little. Bath were received with Inucb
approbation by a full, but not a crowded, house.

NE TY STRAND SUBSCRIPTION:
Three new pieces, each of which was successful? 14
deserved to be so, were brought out last night at !P;
theatre. The first and best, entitled The Long Fis'r:
is the manufacture of a Mr. BERNARD, and founded
one of WAsnINGToN Invisc's tales. It was highly IP
pistoled tbraighout. Miss Foanft, Miss SostEavalf.:
y
and Mr. RAYNER played in the other pieces, and con'
hilted mainly to their success.

STRAND THEATRE, APRIL 13.—RAM0
SAMEE has grown quite a wag. When about to swallor/
stone, some pettou expressed his doubt as to the stone
being a stone—" Him be tone !" exclaimed the Indian ;
" him cum from Regin Park (Regent's Park), and (putting
it in his mouth) me 'sure you him not so soff as moll
potatto !"—Literary Gazette.
THE FIRST PLAY BILL.--Tile Bth April,
1663, is the date of the first play-bid that issued fro'',
Drury-lane Theatre. The following is a copy :—"
his MAJESTY his company of comedians, at the
Theatre, in Drury-lane, this day, being Thursday, Apr"
t
s, 1663, will be acted a comedy, called The .Honorrovs
Liertenant. The King, Mr. WINTERSELL ; Denietrivit
Ur. IIoRT ; Selerir3, Mr. IiVRT ; Le0721i1,8,
will begin at three o'clock exactly."
NlAltoN ; .Lievtenant, Mr. GLYN ; Celia, Mrs. no'
trees promise well
SHATI,Lh.e
pTehaerplaaynd
apple
blossom, In D,:vc!nshire ciirr is 509, per hogshead.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL 24, 1832.

The country, as we suspected would be the
ease, is again on the stir. The Glasgow Re-
form Association met on Wednesday,last for the
Purpose of addressing the KING, and petition-
ing the House of Lords to preserve the integrity
of the Ministerial Bill in its fullest extent. On
this -occasion Sir D. K. SANDFORD well ob-
served, 4, he must state his belief that at no pe-
riod in the history of this vital measure—elated
48 he was at its present advancement--did there
mingle with his joyful feelings so many mis-
glivings, so much alarm, lest those hopes
sould after all be disappointed." The ap-
prehensions of the Learned Knight, which we
hope may prove unfounded, are not without rea-
sOn, and have evidently originated in the fol-
-I°wing remarks of Lord GREY, in his reply on
the Second Reading, as respects schedule A, and
more particularly the ten-pound franchise.
that a number of boroughs should be dis-
franchised, or that the ten-pound qualification
should be altered, still they formed no part of
the principle of the Bill, and both might be
altered with perfect consistency. For himself,
he certainly should resist any alteration in-
consistent with the main object of the
measure. He would certainly oppose any
Proposition for reducing the number of
boroughs to be disfranchised, or for raising the
lot, franchise much higher." These are the
observations that have alarmed the Glasgow Re-
form Association, and drawn forth the comments
of Sir D. K. SANDFORD. And truly not with-
out good cause. Lord GREY'S allusions to the
101. franchise are, to say the least, unsatisfactory.
He even hints that it may possibly be raised
higher, on the plea that the principle of en-
franchisement will still remain virtually unvio-
lated.
Why, so it would remain inviolate
were the franchise to be raised to twenty, or even
twenty-five pounds; but what, we ask, would
then become of the integrity of the measure ?
What, of its adaptation to the taste and temper of
the times, by which, as it at present stands, it is
so eminently distinguished ? So far from ap-
Proaching in the slightest degree to universal
suffrage, the ten pound franchise is, in many
parts of the kingdom, a ban of exclusion to
thousands, to hundreds of thousands of the
intelligent and deserving classes of the community.
In North and South Wales—in Devonshire—
ur Dorsetshire—in many of the populous towns
of 'Yorkshire, it partakes rather of an aristocratic
than a democratic qualification. Indeed,
throughout whole districts in `Vales for miles
and miles together, scarcely twenty individuals
will be found, possessing it, while in De-
vonshire, it descends no lower than to
the respectable gentry and yeomanry. We
hope the people will bear this steadily and
constantly in mind, and demand in respectful,
but decided language, that the Bill be allowed
to pass the Lords unemasculated, unadulterated ;
and more particularly that no alteration, not
even the slightest, be made in the ten-pound
franchise.
We look on this as the keystone of the
Bill, deprived of which, the whole edifice tum-
bles to pieces. Sir D. K. SANDFORD'S argu-
ments on this point are worthy of attention.
" Cut off the 101. voters of this very place,
Glasgow, and you lose more than one-third of
those who would otherwise get the franchise. If
you make it 15/. the franchise will be lost to
2,500 men. If you raise it to 201. your voters
tvill lose two-thirds of their number. He was
certain he would be borne out by every landlord
in saying that the 101. householders were a class
every way as respectable, intelligent, and inde- '
Pendent as the householders of 151. But, after
all, the best argument in favour of the 101. fran-
chise is,
that it has been promised to the country."
We must confess we entertain more apprehen-
sion for the safety of this portion of the Bill than
any other. Lord GREY alludes to it not in a
bold, uncompromising spirit, but with hesi-
tation—with reluctancewith timidity. He
seems to think it scarcely worth battling for,
notwithstanding it is that very portion of the

measure, which has most caught the people's

fancy.

Under these circumstances, there is but one
thing to be done, and that is, for the country to
bestir itself, and express its opinion boldly and
unanimously on the subject of the ten-pound
franchise. Otherwise, we fear, it will be thrown
overboard.

A comical article, fraught with a copious ca-
talogue of the virtues, talents, and all that sort
of thing, of the Bishop of EXETER—who, not-
withstanding his Anti. Catholic and Pro-Ca-
tholic predilections, was unlucky enough the
other day to lose his thirty talents, the fat
Rectory of Stanhope—will be found in an-
other part of The Sun. For this queer pro-
duction a grateful public is indebted to
the "horning Post. Our contemporary is
not addicted to joking, or we should con-
clude that in so vehemently insisting on his
popularity, he was quizzing the good Bishop.
Dr. -PHILLPOTTS " popular!" Dr. PHILL-
POTTS,—" the most respected, the most in-
fluential, of all the Bishops of the Church
of England !
" Can such things be,
And overcome us, like a summer-eoud,
Without our special wonder ?"

We can imagine the chuckling self-satisfac-
faction with which the wag of the Morn-
ing Post penned his eulogium on Dr.
PHILLPOTTS. How his sides must have
ached in anticipating the astonishment
of his readers, when the precious effusion met
their eyes ! Above all, what Herculean difficulty
he must have found—the incomparable wag—
in sobering down his style to the requisite gra-
vity ! The Post, we repeat, is seldom guilty of
a quiz, but on this particular occasion, it has put
forth a specimen of irony worthy of SWIFT him-
self. There is nothing in the " Tale of a Tub"
superior to our cotemporary's defence of Dr.
PHILLPOTTS. What can be more delicious
than the following sly inuendo ? It is really
quite a tit-bit :—" We hope and believe the
Bishop of EXETER is not subject to be elated
beyond measure, for to a person of light and
unreflecting character, the notice he has re-
ceived would be dangerous." Notice forsooth !
Any such a notice as the poorest—the humblest
—the most insignificant member of the commu-
nity would justly shudder to have drawn down
on himself. Notice ! Aye, the notice bestowed
on the Anti-Catholic Pamphleteer—the Pro-Ca-
tholic Oxford Elector—the advocate of the Man-
chester massacre--the opponent of the Reform Bill !
This is, indeed, a notice to be proud of ; and
well may our cotemporary ironically supplicate
the Right Rev. Prelate not " to be elated be-
yond measure" by it. It would have been as
well, however, if he had also conjured the good
Bishop not to be too much " elated" by the loss
of his rich Rectory of Stanhope.

German Papers, received this morning, con•
tain the following news from Italy, which how•
ever is not of much importance :

FRONTIERS OF ITALY, APRIL 13.—Count St. Aulaire
has received instructions from Paris to annul the contract
entered into by General Cubieres for the subsistence of the
French troops in the environs of Ancona. It is said, too,
that he is particularly recommended to take care that no
cause for complaint be given to the Roman Government,
and that the French commanders conduct themselves in
such a manner that the same justice may be done to them
as to the Austrians. The enthusiasm with which the
French were at first received by the restless inhabitants of
the marches gradually abates the longer they remain in
Ancona ; the people are undeceived, and become sensible
that their deliverers, as they are called, have nothing
better to bring them than that what has been already pro-
posed to them by their lawful sovereign, the Pope, and
consequently that it would be advisable to come to an
understanding without the aid of foreigners, whose inter-
vention, which has become unnecessary, must con-
sequently lead to an increase of their burdens.
It is therefore not impossible that we may soon
hear of deputations being sent to Rome, in the name of
the revolted marches, to solicit the departure of the
foreign troops ; and it is said that such a step has been
spiken of at Ancona itself. It seems doubtful whether
this request could be complied with till their return to
obedience should be secured by the presence of a sufficient
number of troops in the pay of the Government, that may
be depended upon ; for there are very good reasons for
arming the citizens, though they would very willingly, for
the present at least, perform military service to restore
tranquillity'.
The King of Bavaria, travelling under the name of
Conte d'Augusta (Count of Augsburg), arrived on the 9th
instant at Florence, and, after a short stay, proceeded on
his journey to Rome.
ANCONA, Amt. S.—Though we are without a Go-
vernment, things go on in their usual course, as the people
are very docile. Yesterday we thought we were blockaded, as
the Papal troops stopped the peoplewho came with provisions.
The object of such a step did not appear, as the sea is
open, and we could suffer only a temporary inconvenience
from it. However, this proceeding soon ceased, and to-
day the market is supplied as usual. In the whole of the
Papal States, however, p issports to Ancona are pretty
generally refused. Entire tranquillity continues to prevail
here, which is not disturbed by the persons who go about
the streets with the French and Italian flags, singing pa.
triotic songs. The news of the assent of Austria to the
Belgian convention, which was received the day before
yesterday, and confirmed to-day, though not yet offici 11,
has caused a degree of surprise in the Anti-Liberal party,
and put them in ill humour.
Last week the chief of the staff of General Cubieres
arrived here in seven days from Paris, and brought pro-
motions tor several officers of the 66th regiment of the
line. An aide-de-camp of the Minister of War arrived
here a few days ago. We are in daily expectation of the
Bellorsa frigate, which some say will be accompanied by two
transports. It is reported here that the French are to
occupy the five delegations of the March, the legations of
Urbino and Pesaro, and the Austrians the four legations,
Bologna, Ferrara, Forti, and Ravenna. The appearance
of a may-of-war off Cenna induced the French General to
send the Elifa brig on Friday evening to reconnoitre.
The Roman Court, it seems, will not yet hear of conces-
sions, and issues notes and protests. One might almost
believe that it must have no good accounts of the real
state of affairs.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.
April 12. April 13.
Five per Cer.t
Four per Cent ......
Bank shares 1,14331
—Allgemeine Zeitung, April 18. 1,148
TRIESTE, Aran, 7.—An Egyptian brig of war of 20
guns, arrived in our roads yesterday, and saluted the city
with 21 guns, which was returned by the pert. This
brig is come, it seems, to procure ammunition, through
the house of Peter Jusiutff, and an express has been sent to
Vienna to obtain permission. Many persons affirm that
it has brought articles of value, which the Viceroy desires
to lodge in a place of safety, in case his expedition to
Syria should have an unfavourable issue. We are in
daily expectation of the arrival of 90 pieces of heavy ar-
tillery, as our road is to be defended by 10 batteries, for
which preparations are commenced. This is, however,
considered to be only a prudent precaution, anti by no
means as indicating any thoughts of war on the part of
our Government.—Frankfort Papers, April 17.

Operas were first set on foot by a set of gentle-
men, who acted, not for ►noney, but for their own diver
sion—there were abous thirty at them. When they first
came to be acted for money there was one of the actresses
who had one hundred and twenty crowns for acting for
one season. This was then looked upon as such a vast
reward fora linger, tbdt she gat the name of La Cento-
ulna by it.

LAMIII!TH VESTRY MEETING.

(THIS DAY.)

This being Easter Tuesday-, the day appointed for the
election of parcchial officers, a vestry meeting was held at
the Boys' Sch( of-room, Hercules-buildings, for the pur-
pose of electing officers for Lambeth pari,h for the year
ensuing.

The attendarce was more than usually numerous, and
the room was crowded to excess. Owing to the enor-
mous amount of rates collected and money expended in
the parish, an ;Association of the more humble rate-payers
was some time ago formed, at the instance of a parishioner
named Fall, the avowed object of which was to operate as
a check upon the parish expenditure. The mem-
bers of that association mustered in great num.
bers at the present meeting, to endeavour to eject
the present Vestry Clerk, Mr. R. Watmore, who has been
in that situation eighteen }ears. He is strongly supported
by the wealthier classes in the parish ; thus the parish is
divided into two powerful bodies. From a paper that was
circulated in the school-room, it appeared that from Ettster,
1824, to Easter, 1825, the amount raised by the poor-
rate and expended was 62,1201. 2s. 2d., the rate being
4s. 4d. in the pound, white in the year ending this Easter
58,7371. 6s. Id. was raised and expended, the rate being
Is. 2d. in the pound.
The Rev. Dr. DOYLF, the Rector, took the chair. In
alluding to the great numbers present, he:said he hoped for
their assistance in preserving order, and he trusted that no
person who wished to address the meeting would resort to
personalities, but would proceed to the consideration of the
questions to be submitted to them with that calmness and
decorum which were necessary to enable them to decide in
the best way for their own interests.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. FALL wished, before they proceeded to the business
for which they had met, to put a question to the Chair-
man, as to whether it was his intention to proceed in con-
formity with their local act, or whether they intended to
resort to that infamous act called Sturges Bourne's Act.
He was of opinion, that in the election of parish officers,
they were bound to proceed according to the local act by
which every rate-payer would have one vote, and not by
Sturges Bourne's Act, by which some persons would have
as many as six votes.

The CHAIRMAN declined to answer that question, but
said he should proceed in the regular way.
Mr. FALL finding be could not get an answer, said he
would at a future stage contest that point with the Chair-
man. At the last election he proposed a reduction of the
Vestry Clerk's salary, from 500 to 300 guineas, but by
the operation of Sturges Bourne's Act, in giving so many
votes to some persons, he failed in his desire—though, if
the election had been under the Local Act, the reduction
would have been effected. He now stated his intention
to propose some other person as Vestry Clerk, a situation
which Mr. Watmore was unworthy to fill.—(Cheers
and hisses.) The society to which he (Mr. Fall) belonged,
had, after some difficulty, fixed on Mr. O'Grady to be put in
nomination as possessing every necessary qualification for
the office. He knew that every species of falsehood and
misrepresention had been resorted to by Mr. Watmore
and his friends to secure his 19th election, and to depre-
ciate Mr. O'Grady in the estimation of the parishioners.
It was said that that gentleman had held forth at the
Rotunda, and that he was not a member of that beautiful
and amiable institution, the National Church.—(Loud
hisses and a great uproar.) But the office was purely
a lay office, and bad nothing to do with the Church; there-
lore, an Irishman was as well qualified to fill it as an Eng-
lishman. Besides, Mr. O'Grady had been the foremost
in getting rid of the ab iminable fourpenny church-build-
ing rate. Last year Mr. Watmore had been assisted by his
friend, the Chancery barrister (Mr. Moore), in rendering
an account of the expenditure of the money be received
from the parish—an account that was grossly incorrect.—
(Hisses and cheers.)

Mr. MooßE—lf you mean to say I advised him to put
forth a false statement, you are telling a gross falsehood.—
(Loud uproar aga n.)

Tke CHAIR9IAI7 requested Mr. Fall not to indulge in
personalities.
Mr. FALL said the Chairman assisted Mr. Moore and
Mr. Watmore, and they formed the trio. He
then went into a variety of details to show that
Ur. Watmore was greatly overpaid for his services ; he
received the following salaries and allowances : as Vestry
Clerk of St. Mary's Lambeth, 5251. ; summonses for
poor's-rates 2541., from the burial ground Trustees 31/.
10s., and sever il annual salaries from the district churches
and the Walcot Charity, in the whole, amounting to
10041. Ws. a year. He was proceeding in his details
and comments upon them, when o, ,r reporter left.
The contest for the election of Vestry Clerk is expected
to be a very severe one.

PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH,
(THIS DAY.)

This being Easter Tursday, pursuant to Act of Parlia-
ment, a most numerous Vestry of the Inhabitants of this
parish was held in the Parish Church, for the purpose of
electing Churchwardens, 32 Commissioners under the
Local Act, a Guardian of the Infant Poor, Commissioners
of the Court of Requests, Auditors of the Parish Accounts,
Trustees under the Burial Ground Act, Workhouse Com-
mittee, Vestry Clerk, Organist, and Beadles for the year
ensuing ; and also to vote an additional grant to the Rec-
tor of the parish for his services and that of his Curate;
to make a Minister's rate, and on other general parochial
business. The Chair was taken by the Rector, shortly
after nine o'clock.

Messrs. M'Ewen and Hobson were proposed by Mr.
Hawes, seconded by Mr. Smith, as churchwardens ; to
which an amendment was moved by Mr. Hobbs, se-
conded by Mr. Meeke, that Messrs. M'Ewen and Giles
should be placed in their stead.
A long discussion then ensued, as to the merits and de-
merits of each respective candidate; and upon the question
being put to the meeting, the show of hands was declared
to be in favour of the two latter gentlemen. A poll was
then demanded on behalf of Mr. Hobson, and was agreed
to be proceeded with at the termination of the meeting,
and to close to-morrow, at five o'clock.
The next business prcceeded with was the appointment
of Commissioners under the Local Act.

Mr. DAVEY proposed thirty-two gentlemen agreeable to
:he Act of Parliament.

Mr. DANIEL objected to the wholesale manner in which
these gentlemen were proposed, and moved as an amend-
ment, the proposal of sixteen instead of thirty-two.

Mr. NVIItTi seconded the amendment.
Mr. DAVEY thought that such a course would be
llegal.

The CHAIRItAIIt after putting the amendment to the
meeting, declared it to be carried.

Mr. DANIEL then read his list of the sixteen gentlemen
he proposed, but to which

rilr..Hoans objected, and proposed sixteen other gen-
tlemen. A good deal of discussion then took place as to
which list ought to be adopted by the met t ng, and
The CHAIRMAN, after putting the question, declared
the meeting to be in favour of the gentlemen proposed by
Mr. Hobbs.

Mr. DANIEL then demanded a poll.
Mr. DAVEY then rose. He proposed the appointment
of 16 other gentlemen, to make up the 32, but the majo-
rity of the meeting aremed unwilling to hear him, and a
good deal of uproar and confusion prevailed. When order
had in some measure been restored,
Mr. WEBS stated that the Act was imperative, and that
the meeting must elect 32 gentlemen.
Ultimately, however, a new list was formed, and
agreed to.

On the motion of Mr. Foal., seconded by Mr. JAMES,
Mr. Henry Taylor was appointed Guardian for the Infant
Poor for the ensuing year.
On the motion of Mr. HAWES, five gentlemen were ap-
pointed Commissioners for the Court of Requests.
Mr. HAWES then moved the appointm, nt of fourteen
gentlemen as Auditors of the parish accounts.
Mr. Nouns said that this was the most important
part of the business which the meeting bad that day to
transact. The persons now proposed as auditors of the
parish accounts, with the exception of one op two, were the
same as those which were appointed last year.—
(Cheers.) One of them had been auditor eleven times,
another ten, another seven, and so on, and he could not see
why they should again be put forward unless they were
found extremely convenient in passing aceounts.—(Lnud
cheers.) He thought many of them extremely improper
persons, for they had in some instances been so neglectful
of their duty, that the greatest difficulty had been expe-
rienced to get five of them together to audit the accounts,
and in more instances than one, the auditing of the ac-
counts was obliged to be deferred in consequence of the
non attendance of some of these gentlemen..—(Cheers and
hisses.) He thought many of the names ought not to be
introduced.

Mr. PERRIN thought the auditors ought to be elected
individually ; and made a motion, which w,is carried una-
nimoudy, to that effect. Each auditor was then pro-
posed singly, and there was hardly any name put to
the meeting, which it was not proposed to erase and in-
sert another. This took up a great deal of time, interspersed
now and then with long and tedious discussions as to
what had taken place at the last vestry. Ultimately it was
agreed that the vestry clerk should expunge all the names
that had been proposed, and a new list was agreed to una-
nimously.
The meeting was proceeding with the election of

Trustees, under the Burial Ground Act, when our re-
porter left. The proceedings of the 'meeting were
conducted with such irregularity as almost to render it
impossibie for any person to understand what was goin,
on. A sharp contest is expected in the election of Vestry
Clerk.

It was anticipated that the Hon. Member for Preston,
who is a parishioner, would have been present, but at the
time of our reporter leaving, he bad not made his appear•

anee.