The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-19 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lady Peel presented her family with a daugh-
ter on Tuesday, at the mansion of the Right Hon. Baronet, in
Privy Gardens. Sir Robert, by his marriage with her Lady.
ship, a daughter of the late General Sir John Floyd, Bart. has
an infant family of four or five children.
The number's of the division on the third
reading of the Tithes (Ireland) Bill were on Tuesday errone-
ously given in all the Papers. Instead of being ayes 52, noes
7, they were, ayes 52, noes 10. As the reporters, in mainte-
nance of ridiculous and unmeaning custom, are excluded on
divisions, they are compelled to depend upon others for the
numbers ; and as sometimes half a dozen Members may be
asked immediately afterwards, before one can recollect the
numbers, the wonder is, there are not more mistakes.

The Earl of Dudley is said to be an accom-
plished Nobleman, and on the formation of the Administra-
tion of which Mr. Canning was the head on March, 1827, his
Lordship accepted the office of Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, which he, however, resigned in the following January,
when the Earl of Aberdeen was appointed his successor.
His Lordship's hereditary possessions are immense, and he
lately completed the re-building of his magnificent residence
in Park-lane, at an enormous exptnse. The Earl is now about
50 years of age, and unmarried ; he is the only issue of the
marriage of the late Viscount Dudly and Ward, with a
daughter of Godfrey Bosville, Esq. The late Lord died in
18123, but the Viscountess survives, and her Ladyship is the
only near relative the Noble Earl possesses. His Lordship's
ball, which took place a month ago, is said to have been given
in honour of the debut of the Hon. Miss Lyttleton, daughter
of Lord Lyttleton, and niece to Lord Althorp.
It
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favourablesixteenrepresentative
Reform. These are the Marquess of Queensberry, Viscount
Falkland, Lord Belhaven, and Lord Napier. Of the 28 Irish
representative Peers, only five voted in the majority—the Mar.reoe
Peers
quess of Westmeath, the Earls of Charlemont, O'Neill, Gos-
ford, and Lord Dunally.
A meeting of the Bethnal-green Benevolent
Association was held on Monday evening, in the new Church
of St, John's, Bethnal-green, when a frightful account was
given of the misery, distress, and disease which raged in that
district. It was stated the Association received a few days ago
from the general fund in the hands of the Metropolitan Relief
Committee the sum of 2001. Several instances of individual
privation were mentioned, amongst which was that of a poor
woman delivered of a male child on Saturday night, and of
two more male children early on Sunday morning.
ARLINGTON.—Having, in his former novels,
given an amusing exposition of most of the varieties of male
character in high life, the author of " Granby" seems now re-
solved to exhibit a gallery of female sketches—the leading
ladies of the reign of William IV. The reader will be especi-
ally amused by the portraits under the names of Lady Roch-
dale and her daughter, Lady Ulverston, Lady Crawford, Lady
Balsover, Lady Berwick, Lady Evesham, Mrs. Hartland, Miss
Saville, &c. &c.
im-
mense number of tragedians at present on the stage, because
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they murder all characters, whether in comedy or not, with
which they are intrusted.—Morning Advertiser.
QUEEN CHARLOTTE.—A third death re-
mains to be recorded in this year—that of queen Charlotte, at
Kew Palace, on the 17th of November, in the seventy-fifth year
of her age. Opposite opinions would be satisfied, and, strange
as it may appear, a just notion given of her character, by merely
o andn o r t of George
prudent.
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unquestionable, and, being a virtue of the people, is not without
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its merit in a queen ; but her decorum was suspected of being
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hypocritical, and her prudence of being sordid. She accepted
presents with a want of scruple which implied either personal
meanness, or a return in the corrupt disposal of court honours.
The precious stuffs of the East were found piled and moth-eaten
in her wardrobe upon her death. Her personal property disposed
of by her will was sworn under 140,0001., but it was dated only
the day before she died, and there had been previously a family
partition of her treasure, chiefly in favour of the Prince Regent
in her will only as being already provided for, without the
slightest token of remembrance, or expression of kindness.
She mentions her eldest daughter, the Queen of Wirternburg,
This marked distinction was ascribed to a letter of the Queen of
Wirtemburg, in which she said that Napoleon, to whom, by the
way, she was indebted for being a Queen, had really the ways
of a gentleman. Queen Charlotte has still her duped or canting
admirers; but the spirit of the nation and of the times is
changed? and a Queen of England in the second quarter of the
nineteenth century could hardly choose a more unhappy model.
—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library.
THE DUKE OF YORK.—The Duke of York
was not without personal good qualities, which scarcely de.
served the name of private virtues, and were overclouded by his
private vices. He was constant in his friendships ;—but who
were his friends and associates ? Were they persons distin-
guished in the state, in literature, in science, in art, or even
in his own profession of arms ? Were they not the companions
and sharers of his dissipations and prodigalities ? He did not
exact from his associates subserviency or form ; but it was no.
torious that, from the meanness of his capacity, or the vulga-
rity of his tastes, he descended very low before he found him-
self at his own social level. His services to the army as Corn-
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Horse-Guards. But, it will be said, he had an uncompromis-
amounts to no more than that his bigotry was honest and un-
cession fortunate for the peace of the country and the stability
sight, he would have risked the integrity of the United King-
monarchy rather than sanction Reform. It would be easy to
constitution of his mind and of that of James Duke of York,
to choose between their liberties and his deposition from the
throne.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library.
SIR ISLAC NEWTON.—Every memorial of so great a man as
Sir Isaac Newton has been preserved and cherished with pe-
culiar veneration. The best painting of him was by Sir Go.
frey Kneller, and is in the possession of Lord Egremont, at
Petworth. His house at Woolsthorpe, of which we have given
an engraving, has been religiously protected by Mr. Tumor, of
Stoke Rocheford, the proprietor. Dr. Stukely, who visited it
in Sir Isaac's lifetime on the 13th of October, 1721, gives the
following description of it in his letter to Dr. Mead, written in
1727 'Tis built of stone, as is the way of the country here-
abouts, and a reasonable good one. They led me up stairs and
showed me Sir Isaac's study, where I suppose he studied when
in the country in his younger days, or perhaps when he visited
his mother from the university. I observed the shelves were
of his own making, being pieces of deal boxes, which probably
he sent his books and clothes down in on those occasions. There
were some years ago two or three hundred books in it of his
father-in-law, Mr. Smith, which Sir Isaac gave to Dr. Newton,
of our town." The house is now occupied by a person of the
name of John Wollerton : it still contains the two dials made
by Newton, but the stiles of both are wanting. The celebrated
apple-tree, the fall of one of the apples of which is said to have
turned the attention of Newton to the subject of gravity, was
destroyed by wind about four years ago ; but Mr. Tumor has
preserved it in the form of a chair. The chambers which Sir
Isaac inhabited at Cambridge are known by tradition : they
are the apartments next to the great gate of Trinity College,
and it is believed that they then communicated by a staircase
with the Observatory in the Great Tower,—an observatory
which was furnished with the contributions of Newton, Cotes,
and others. His telescope is preserved in the library of the
Royal Society of London, and his globe, his universal ring-dial,
quadrant, compass, and a reflecting telescope said to have be-
longed to him, in the library of Trinity College. There is also
in the same collection a long and curled lock of his silver
white hair. The door of his bookcase is in the Museum of
thr Royal Society of Edinburgh.—Family Library.
HOGG AND WORDSWORTH.—I dined with
Wordsworth, and called on him several times afterwards, and
certainly never met with any thing but the most genuine kind-
ness ; therefore people have wondered why I should have in.
dulged in caricaturing his style in the Poetic Mirror. I have
often regretted that myself; but it was merely a piece of ill_
nature at an affront which I conceived had been put on me. It
was the triumphal arch scene. This anecdote has been told
and told again, but never truly; and was likewise brought for.
ward in the Nodes Ambrosiame as a joke; but it was no joke,
and the plain simple truth of the matter was thus :—lt chanced
one night when I was there, that there was a splendid arch
across the zenith, from one horizon to the other, of something
like the aurora borealis, but much brighter. It was a scene that
is well remembered, for it struck the country with admiration,
as such a phenomenon had never before been witnessed in such
perfection ; and, as far as I could learn, it had been more bril-
liant over the mountains and pure waters of Westmoreland than
any where else. Welt, when word came into the room of the
splendid meteor, wean went out to view it; and, on the beau-
tiful platform of Mount Ryedale, we were all walking in twos
and threes, arm.in-arm, talking about the phenomenon,
and admiring it. Now, be it remembered, that Words-
worth, Professor Wilson, Lloyd, de Quincey, and myself, were
present, besides several other literary gentlemen, whose names

lam not certain that I remember aright. Miss Wordsworth's
arm was in mine, and she was expressing some fears that the
splendid stranger might prove ominous, when I, by ill luck,
blundered out the following remark, thinking that I was saying
a good thing—" Hout, me'm ! it is neither mair nor less than
joost a traeumphal airch raised in honour of the meeting of the
poets." " That's not amiss. Eh ! Eh ! that's very good," said

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the Professor, laughing. But Wordsworth, who had De
Quincey's arm, gave a grunt and turned on his heel, and leading
the little opium chewer aside, he addressed him in these dis.
dainful and venomous words—" Poets! Poets ! What does the
fellow mean ? Where arc they ?" Who could forgive this ? For
my part, I never can, and never will! I admire Wordsworth ;
(as who does not, whatever they may pretend ?) but for that
short sentence I have a lingering ill-will at him which I cannot
get rid of. It is surely presumption in any man to circumscribe
all human excellence within the narrow siihere of his own caps.
city. The " Where are they ?" was too bad. I have always
hearcome
Wordsworth hopes
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that
De
Quincey was lecing, for I did not myself
utter the wards,—liogg's Alto* Tales.

CURIOUS CONVERSATION BETWEEN
Sir ISAAC NEWTON and Mr. CONDUIT.

Thc following paper, with the above title pre-
fixed to it, was found among the Portsmouth
MSS. in the hand-writing of Mr. Conduit. ". I
was on Sunday night, the 7th of March, 1724.5,
at Kensington with Sir Isaac Newton, in his
lodgings, just after he was come out of a fit of the
the gout, which he had had in both his feet, for
the first time, in the eighty-third year of his age.
He was better after it, and his head clearer, and
memory stronger, than I had known them for
some time. He then repeated to me, by way of
discourse, very distinctly, though rather in
answer to my queries than in continued narra-
tion, what he had often hinted to me before, viz.
that it was his conjecture (he would affirm no-
thing) that there was a sort of revolution in the
heavenly bodies ; that the vapours and light
emitted by the sun, which had their sediment as
water and other matter, had gathered themselves
by degrees into a body, and attracted more mat-
ter from the planets, and at last made a secon-
dary planet (viz, one of those that go round
another planet), and then, by gathering to them,
and attracting more matter, became a primary
planet ; and then, by increasing still, became a
comet, which, after certain revolutions, by com-
ing nearer and nearer to the sun, had all its
volatile parts condensed, and became a matter fit
to recruit and replenish the sun (which must
waste by the constant heat and light it emitted),
as a faggot would this fire if put into it (we
were sitting by a wood fire), and that that would
probably be the effect of the comet of 1680,
sooner or later, for, by the observations made
upon it, it appeared, before it came near the
sun, with a tail only two or three degrees long ;
but by the heat it contracted in going so near
the sun, it seemed to have a tail of thirty or
forty degrees when it went from it ; that he could
not say when this comet would drop into the
sun ; it might perhaps have five or six revolu-
tions more first, but whenever it did, it would
so much increase the heat of the sun, that this
earth would be burnt, and no animals on it could
live. That he took the three phenomena seen
by Hipparchus, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler's dis-
ciples to have been of this kind, for he could not
otherwise account for an extraordinary light, as
those were, appearing all at once among the
fixed stars (all which he took to be suns en-
lightening other planets as our sun does ours),
as big as Mercury or Venus seems to us, and
gradually diminishing for sixteen months, and
then sinking into nothing. He seemed to doubt
whether there were not intelligent beings, superior
to us, who superintended these revolutions of the
heavenly bodies by the direction of the Supreme
Being. He appeared also to be very clearly of
opinion that the inhabitants of this world were
of a short date, and alleged as one reason for
that opinion, that all arts, as letters, ships,
printing, the needle, &c. were discovered within the
memory of history, which could not have hap-
pened if the world had been eternal ; and that
there were visible marks of ruin upon it which
could not be effected by a flood only. When I
asked him how this earth could have been re-
peopled if ever it had undergone the same fate it
was threatened with hereafter by the comet of
1680, he answered, that required the power of
a Creator. He said he took all the planets to
be composed of the same matter with this earth,
viz., earth, water, stones, &c., but variously con-
cocted. I asked him why he would not publish
his conjectures as cony-tures, and instanced
that Kepler had communicated his ; and though
he had not gone near so far as Kepler, yet
m
answer
'
not
been deal in
in
of con-
jectures.'the But upon my talking to him about
the four observations Kepler's guesses were so just and happy, that
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comet of 1680, at 574 years' distance,
ask-
ing him the and particular times, he opened his
Principia, which laid on the table,
me there the particular periods, and showed
viz., Ist, the
Julium Sidus, in the time of Justinian
1106, in 1680. , in

" And I observing that he said there of that
comet, incidet in corpus solis,' and in the
next paragraph adds, fix refici pos-
sunt,' told him I thought he owned there what
we had been talking about, viz., that the comet
would drop into the sun, and that fixed stars
were recruited and replenished by comets when
they dropt into them ; and, consequently, that
the sun would be recruited too; and asked him
why he would not own as freely what he thought
of the sun as well as what he thought of the
fixed stars. He said, that concerned us
more ;' and, laughing, added, that he had
said enough for people to know his meaning."
Family Library, No. XXIV., Dr. Brewster's
Life of Newton.

Sir Walter Scott, accompanied by Sir Wm.
Gel], as his Ciceroni, is expected at Rome in the course of next
month.

There were no less than thirty beer-shops
opened at Margate within thiee months from passing the Beer
Act The number, however, has been decreasing some time;
there are not more than twelve out of the thirty open now
Kentish Gazette.
The heavy guns which were removed from the
Martello Tower, at St. Osyth, some years ago, are about to be
remounted all along the coast. This seems as though active
measures were about to be taken to prevent the increase of
smuggling.
SPLENDID FLOWER.--There is at present
in flower in Dunninald, near Montrose, that magnificent plant
the Yucca Gloriosa, or Adam's Needle. This beautiful exotic,
from its root to the top of the flower, is about 15 feet high, and
presents about 030 blossoms of a rich delicate colour. The
spectacle is, indeed, as grand as it is rare. A plant of the same
kind flowered there last in 1816.—Scotch Paper.
SUICIDE.—We are sorry to have to record a
case of suicide, which occurred in this neighbourhood last week.
A young man, a gardener, who lived at Pitcullo, and had been
recently married, having fallen into a state of religious melan-
choly, hanged himself. What rendered the circumstance the
more afflicting was, that the discovery was made by his wife, who
found him suspended from a tree in his garden.—Kfc Herald.
We understand that there was caught In the
Bay of Nigg, on Friday last, in a net constructed for the pur-
pose, a seal of extraordinary dimensions, measuring no less than
7!a feet in length, and 4 n round the body. This animal has
been known to frequent the Bay of Nigg, and the lower parts of
the rivers Dec and Doti, for several years, and has been highl
detrimental to the salmon fishings at these stations; as a proof
of which we may merely Mention, that We greater part of 11/e
different salmon were found ill his belly when brought ashore,'
.dberdcen Journal,
DEATH OF MR. CANNING.—This was a
melancholy consummation. When he had unmanacled his
genius from the jealous inferiority and bad principles of an oli-
garchy, to which a vicious system of government and his own
toi
led long, and at last reached the highest sphere of his hopes
—but before he could yet enjoy his conquest, or give lustre to
his elevation—his life and genius were extinguished. It is
commonly said that Mr. Canning's days were shortened by the
ceaseless malice and systematic vexations of his opponents
within, and their slanderous scurrility without, the walls of
Parliament. Where are the proofs or the presumptions ? If '
Mr. Canning had the susceptibilities, he had also the courage
and force, of impassioned temperament. There is, doubtless,
in the world much of moral anomaly and evil ; but it would
be too much to suppose that this deadly hold was accorded to
grovelling upon superior natures. His death spread disappoint-
ment and mourning, not only over his country, but over Eu.
rope. England regretted in him the most accomplished orator
whom the popular and better spirit of her constitution had yet
produced—a minister who could wield the energies and sustain
the greatness of a free people abroad, and create new resources
of advanced civilization and refreshed industry at home.
Liberal Europe mourned in him the British minister who
would at least leave the fair chances of combat to liberty and
reason against leagued despotism and hireling force,--Dr.
Lardner's Cabinet Library,