The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-01 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We thank our Correspondent, " Oswald," for his Poetical Address
to the Earl of Winchilsea, but must beg leave to decline it, for
the subject does not possess sufficient interest for the public.
To a " Lincolnshire Admirer," who thanks us for having done our
best to expose the humbug of the late Sabbath Restriction
Bill, we have to say in reply, that we are gratified by his good
opinion of our sincerity.

The publication of Tar. SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this dap
al 7 minutos past 3 o'clock.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE I, 1835.

The twentieth Anniversary of the Artists' Benevo-
volent Institution was celebrated on Saturday last, by
a dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern. The chair was
occupied by Lord 1.3n0 M ho, in an eloquent
adiress, pointed out to a numerous and admiring
audience the national advantages to be derived from
the cultivation of the Fine A rts. The Noble Lord la-
mented that so little attention was paid to the art of
design in this country, while in other countries it was
considered an essential branch of education. He re-
marked that in almost every town in France, which
he visited in his late tour in that country, he found a
School of Design established, in which all who chose
received gratuitous instruction. In the manufacturing
towns in particular the benefits of such institutions is
fully appreciated, and to them we may justly ascribe
the elegance and taste of those patterns which grace
the productions of the French loom, and which far
surpass those of other nations. One consequence of
this inattention on our part to the art of Design is, that
the price of our figured silks, cottons and muslins, to
say nothing of ornamental works in metal, is greatly
enhanced. There are, it appears, only two artists in
London who supply good patterns for muslin and
calico printers. The supply being thus limited, the
price is very high—so much so, indeed, that Lord
BROUGHAM mentioned an instance which came
within his own knowledge, where he was shown a
pattern, the price of which was such that a Royal
Academician—a first-rate artist too—declared that he
would be happy to spend his whole life in furnishing
such things at one:fourth of the price paid for that. We
trust that this national reproach—for .such we must
consider it—will soon be wipedoff by the Government's
taking the subject into consideration, and giving its
countenance to the establishment of a better system.
The object of the Artists' Benevolent Institution is
to relieve the distresses of meritorious Artists, whether
members or not, and also to make some provision for
their widows and orphans. It is therefore one which
earnestly recommend to the charitable and the hu-
mane. We are happy to learn that Lord BROUGHA
did not plead its cause in vain on Saturday. A sum
of nearly 5001. was subscribed in the room.

The Westminster Reform Club held a Meeting on
Saturday last, which was numerobsly attended. After
the business of the day had been completed, about 60
of the members sat down to dinner, JOHN Wu, s,
Esq., M.P., in the Chair. Several excellent speeches
were delivered—which our limited space has compelled
us to curtail--and the greatest harmony and good feel-
ing prevailed throughout the evening. We are particu-
larly gratified to see such meetings at the present mo-
ment, and we are persuaded that upon the stir which
the Reformers now make, much, if not all their fu-
ture success will depend. They must overawe, and
not be overawed by, their enemies. If they expect to
come off victorious in the approaching conflict, they
must take up a commanding position, and display the
formidable array and gallant spirit of their forces.

In the Times newspaper of last Saturday there ap-
peared an article bearing the signature of " T. 0.," im-
pugning the accuracy of a statement contained in the
" Companion to the Almanack" to the effect that all
Acts of Parliament take effect from the day on which
they receive the Royal assent, unless some other day
is specially directed by any particular Act. The cor-
respondent of the Times made the very notable disco-
very that this was an erroneous view of the law on the
part of those who -get up the "Companion to the Al.
manack," and amongst whom it is his pleasure to place
Lord 131touGuAzd. After a goad deal of what is in-

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tended to be very sarcastic badinage, as to the fitness
and propriety that those who attempt to teach the pub-
lic should at least themselves be informed on the sub-
ject which they propose to teach, he proceeds to tell us
on the authority of Lord COKE, and some other
learned legal writers, that Acts of Parliament operate
from the first day of the session in which they are
passed, as that is the day to which in law they have
relation. But it needed no such authority to prove
that that position once was law. It is a posi-
tion well-known and thoroughly understood, but
if " T. 0." had been a lawyer, which he cer-
tainly is not (though he may be a barrister),
or at all acquainted, even by sight, with a printed
Act of Parliament, he would have known that a par-
ticular date is attached to the title of every Act, and
has been so ever since the year 1793. As this
learned gentleman may possibly be desirous to learn
the reason why the date was then, and has been ever
since, so attached, let him take the trouble to turn to
the statutes of the 33 Geo. 111. (1793), and read the
13th Chapter. He will there find that the Clerk of
the Parliament is directed to endorse, immediately after
the title of every Act, the day, month, and year when
the same passed and received the Royal assent, be-
cause such endorsement is there directed to be taken as
part of the Act, and to be the date of its commence-
ment, where no other commencement shall be therein

provided.
We hope this little failure will not discourage the
laudable efforts of this acute and learned advocate, to
set Lord BROUGHAM right. To be sure this, his
first essay, has proved a mare's nest, and, what is still
worse, all the eggs have been sucked. But what of
that—enlisted, as he is, in so good a cause—animated,
too, by feelings so entirely opposed to the bitterness
of disappointed malice?—ardour such as his, will carry
him through even a more disgraceful defeat than this.
We should be extremely sorry to say any thing that
might tend, in the most remote degree, to damp this
ardour, but we cannot help hinting to " T. 0.," that
there would be no harm if he would bear in mind the
awkward dilemma in which he may sometimes be
placed who attempts to teach others a lesson which he
has not learnt himself.

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Friday and Saturday. On Friday the Court of Peers
was occupied with the examination of the advocates
who signed the letter addressed to the prisoners of
April, through the columns of the Tribune and Re-
formateur journals of the 11th May. A condensed
report of the proceedings in the Court of Peers on this
extraordinary occasion will be found in another part of
The Sun. It exhibits a lamentable picture of the
rash imbecility which characterizes every movement of
the French Peerage in the exercise of their judicial
functions. How contemptible must not the Peers
have appeared even in their own eyes, sitting in judg-
ment on men who could brave their wrath, and expose
them to the ridicule of the world, under the plea of
urging a personal defence ? Having degraded them-
selves to the level of spies and quibbling inquisitors,
in order to be revenged on men who dared to repel in-
justice and expose tyranny, how it must have galled
them to find their position fully understood by those
upon whom they had the effrontery to sit in judgment.
Be the immediate result of these trials what it may,
we do not hesitate to assert that it will terminate even-
tually in the annihilation of the present Chamber of
Peers. Of this we are quite confident.
The question of Foreign intervention in the affliir;
of Spain continues to excite public attention in Paris.
The final arrangement must, however, take place in
London ; and we are only surprised that it is not al-
ready concluded. Louts PHILIPPE would be ex-
ceedingly delighted to hear that intervention was not
approved of by England, as he is personally, as weli
as M. lIUM4NN strongly opposed to it. TDIEns,
Guizere and DE BROGLIE hold different opinions
frAn the KING, and are all in favour of active, instant
intervention. As to the apprehensions of the Greet
Northern Powers taking an active part in the struggle,
should England and France take the field, we regard
them as utterly groundless. Austria will not inter-
fere, and Russia will not dare to march an army into
Spain ill the present distracted state of her own prc-
vincesi,,,4'4l..zth a step would be quickly followed by
another of the Poles ; and as sure as that event
would occuo,;England and France would never sheathe
the sword, until, by asserting the nationality of that
brave people, they would have wiped away the foul
stain which the subjugation of Poland by Russia has
fixed upon them.

PARIS, MAY 29.—Sir Charles Bugot, lately Ambassador
Extraordinary for England at Vienna, passed through Stras-
burg, on his return to England, on the 20th May.
Neither the Moniteur, nor the Journal des Debate, say
anything, this morning, on the intervention.
M. de Talleyrand was at the Palace yesterday, from two
o'clock till five.

The Renovateur says—" A great deal is said in the politi-
cal world about a Memoir
.presented by M. de Talleyrand,
against an armed intervention in the affairs of Spain. It is
affirmed that this diplomatic document, which is agreeable to
the personal ideas of Louis Philippe on the question, is re-
marL•able for its great lucidity."—Messager, May 30.

FIIENCH FUNDS.-PAats, 51sv 29.
Five iwr Vents., 106 f. 60c. 40c. 60c.
Four per Cents., 97f. 90c.
Three: per Cents., 79f. 78f 90c. Coc.
Bank Actions, 1,961'f. 1,955 f.
Bente de Naples, 571. 10c. 96f. 75c.
Homan Five per Cents., -.
Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents 40.
Bente d'Espagne Three per Cents., 27 27!434.
'loyal Spanish Loan, 47 46
Bente I'erpet. d'Espagne. Five per Cents., 4114 41 40g.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, -.
Portisgue,e Loan, Five per Cent., 95 9414.
Haytian Loan, 4251. -c.
EXCHANUE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 25t 40c.
Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money, '2sf. 25c.
-Coors ffmthentique.
FRFNCH FUNDS -PARIS, MAY 30.
Five per Cents., 106 f. 56c. 80c. fsc.
Four per Cents., -1. - c.
Three per Cents., 78f. 75c. 79f. 78f. 95c.
Bank Actions, 1,952 f. 51.1 c.
Bente de Naples, 96f. 75c. 97f. 10c.
Roman Five per Cents., 99.
Bente il'Espagne, Five per Cents., 4014 41.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 2714
nova: Spanish Loan, 46 4.5!4.
lleiita,Perpet.dTspagne, Five per Cent., 41 4114 41.
Belgian Loan Five per Cents., -.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 9414.
Haytian Loan, i2sf.
RXCHANOB ON LONDON.
0.,e month, paper, 25f. 40c. • money, 9.5 f. 40e.
Three months, paper, 2151. money, 25f. 25c.
- o,rs AuMentione.

BOURN*, TRIMS o'CLoas.—The Rentes have remained
stationary at 78f. 60c. to 65c., after having been at Tortoni's
at 78t. SOc. ; the fact is, that every nerve is strained to pre-
vent another decline till next Monday, that being settling day.
Spanish stock is also lower, and very little business is doing in
it. Great anxiety is still prevailing about the different trials.
QUAaTBS ro Fotra.—Fiv• per Cents., 107 f. ; Three per
Ceuta., 78c. 90c. ; Five per Cent. Spanish, 41 ; Three per
Cant. Spanish, 24; Cortes, 41 ; Coupons, 214 ; Guebhards,
45f ; Differ k 171; New Loan, 53; Definitives, 501;
Passive, 15; Ducats, 97 ; Romans, 99; Belgian, 100-4-;
Pedro., 944; Miguel, 26; Haytians, 42bf. ; Brabant Bank,
16 premiuns.

We have received German and Brussels Papers.
The following extract from the Allgemeine Zeitung
will be read with interest :
" The Emperor Ferdinand has for many years devoted his
leisure to the spirit of an age so rich in invention and enter-
prises, for which ho has a decided predilection—as his august
father succeeded in maintaining the firmest union between the
allied sovereigns, he will, if Heaven prolong his valuable life,
accomplish the great work which he proposes to himself,
namely, to lead his people, while he preserves the monarchical
principle in its purity, but in harmony with the progress of the
age, the prosperity and the development of all great under-
takings. As heir to the Throne he lived in retirement, but
with this object constantly in view, and dispensing be-
nefits, mostly through the medium of confidential persons
who were enjoined not to disclose the quarter from
which they came. He seemed to take little part in the great
events which must often have clouded his early years. But
the few months of his Government have shown how he has
employed his youth, and what was the spirit that seemed to
slumber in him. Prompt and indefatigable, he devotes him-
self to the duties of Government, and one great project
after another is examined and approved by him. We lately
mentioned that for an iron railroad to Lemberg, in Gallicia,
and can now announce a Navigation Society, whose statutes
are already sanctioned by the Emperor, which promises great