The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-23 00:00:00

ST. ALBAN'S ABBEY.

We are gratified to learn that the prospect relative to
the restoration of this ancient structure is very encourag-
ing ; the meeting which took place the other day, al-
though not numerous, was highly respectable, and up-
wards of one thousand pounds was subscribed, and it is
understood that the timber required, as in the case of
York Minster, will be furnished from the Dock-yard by
Government.

" It was in the year 1480, the art of printing was in-
troduced at this place, and the press set up in the
Monastery. While Caiton war printing in the Monastery
at Westminster, another press was set up at Sion,
though forty years later than this time. The printer's
name was John Herford, and he printed here the follow-
ing books, Typog. Antiq."

Ist. Rhetorica Nova Fratris Laur. Gal. de Saona
Ord. Minorum Imp. ap Villam St. Albani, 1480." It is
a small quarto, and was in Dr. Mead's collection.
" 2d. Alberti Liher Mordorum significande, 1480."
" 3d. Incepiunt Exempla Sacrm Scripturm, 1480."
" 4th. In Aristotelis Physica, 1481."
" sth. The " St. Alban's Chronicle," compiled also at
this place, 1483. Some part of this, viz. what related to
English a.Tairs bad Leen printed by Caxton in the year
1480, and called " The Chronicle of England." But now
much foreign history and Scripture was interwoven, col-
lected from the 4. Fasciculus Temporum," printed 1481,
and named " Fructus Temporum." This chronicle was
printed again in 1497 by Wynken de Worde, at West-
minster; and be says in the title, " It was compiled in a
boke, and also emprynted by one sometyme scole mayster
of St. Alban's." In the " Register of Wallingford's Acts
and Deeds," no notice is taken of this new and curious art,
nor of the renowned author that appeared a few years after,
1486, within their own walls, and this was the Lady
Juliana Barnes, or Berners,* the Prioress of Sosswell, who
had composed a book containing three treatises, one on
hawking, another on hunting and fishing, and the third
on " Coot's Arinuris." Her name is affixed only to the
end of the second, but the whole was printed by Herford,
in the year 1486. This art seems to have been dropt by
Herford, for the monks gave no encouragement to printing;
and it is recorded that Wolsey afterwards discountenanced
it very much, having said, at a convocation of the Clergy
at St. Paul's, iu his early days, " that if they did not forbid
printing, it would prove the ruin of the Church,"
After this there was here, as also at Oxford, and at
Cambridge, a long intermission of printing. Belford
went to London, settled in Aldersgate-street, and printed
again in 1536, and some years alter ; and in 1534, at
the request of Abbot Cotton, he printed the " Lyfe and
Passion of Seint Alban," as it was then translated out of
" French and Latin by John Lydgate, Monk of Bury."
• This Juliana Deniers was the daughter of Sir James Ber-
ners, of Bern** Reding, in the county of Essex, Knight, and
sister to Richard, Lord Berners, was living in 1460, according to
Bale, rent. 8. tol. 611, and became Lady Prioress of Sosswell.
This is said by tits. Barton in a letter to Thomas Hearne, dated
December 16, 1733, and is written in a blank leaf in a copy,
once belonging to Bishop More, and now in the University of
Cambridge.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1832.

The Boundary Bill, being the completion of
the English portion of the Reform, passed the
Commons last night. Anxiously—eagerly as
we have supported the Government throughout
their arduous labours, it would appear ludicrous
if it were not most painful to find that the very
last step in passing the Bill by which they were
concluded, was to create a nomination borollAh.
We allude to the borough of Stanford. Of
all the boroughs in England, this ought to have
been most carefully protected, after its noble, ge-
nerous, patriotic, and successful sacrifice to the
cause of Reform. Yet under the application of
a supposed general rule, which, by the way, does
not seem to have been acted upon in any other
case, the neighbouring township of St. Martin,
over the river in another county, Northampton,
the property of that gentle landlord, the Marquess
of EXETER, is wilfully added to Stamford, in
Linconshire, already containing between 400
and 500 ten-pound houses, and 6,000 inhabi-
tants. The added parish only contains 1,200,
and about sixty or seventy voters at present,
but this is ample to overwhelm the independent
majority of the old borough. Under the
pretence of giving representation to the
inhabitants of St. Martin, Lord EXETER'S
vassals, the addition has had the effect of
taking the benefit of representation from
Stamford itself—that representation which had
been purchased by its inhabitants at the
price of much pecuniary sacrifice and personal
labour administered by the band of their
ancient and now reinstated patron. Mr. TENNY-
SON made a strong appeal to the House on
behalf of his constituents, but all in vain ;
—the Whigs supported the Commissioner (Mr.
TALLENTS, agent to the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE), and the Tories supported Lord EXE-
TER, so Mr. TENNYSON and his liberal friends
were greatly outnumbered. Mr. TENNYSON
during two severe contests fought manfully, and
at great personal and pecuniary sacrifice to him-
self; for the redemption of this borough for the
people, at a time when he was himself in posses-
sion of, and we believe, actually returned for one
of the close seats in his family which were sur-
rendered to the public cause. We know not
what his projects may now be for reentering the
House of Commons, but we do hope that the
people will not lose the services of so tried a
friend. His long exertions in every way in the
cause of public liberty, and the sacrifices which
he and his connexions have made, fully entitle
him to the favour as well as to the confidence
of the new constituencies. He is one of the
last men, and Stamford the last borough which
ought to have been immolated at the shrine of
Reform, but the still greater vexation is, that
the sacrifice made of them tarnishes the glory,
counteracts the objects, and risks the stability of
that great measure.

The pledges which the Liverymen of London
propose to demand from those who may have
the high honour of representing the City in a
Reformed Parliament, are such as should be
demanded from their representatives by all elec-
tors throughout the United Kingdom. Indeed,
it is a point of the most imperious, the most
sacred duty, for the people to exact such pledges

from their representatives. They are called on
to do so by every tie, moral and intellectual,
that can bind the soul of man. The Reform
Bill is a mere piece of useless lumber, unless
the people work the machinery properly.—
We subjoin a list of the pledges which the
Livery propose to demand from their Members:
" That I will neglect nothing within my power
to cause, in the very first Session, a total aboli-
tion of tithes, a repeal of the assessed taxes, and
the taxes on malt and soap. These having been
repealed, I pledge myself to the immediate con-
sideration of a revision of the Corn Bill ; and I
further pledge myself to do every thing within
my power to cause the abolition of all sinecures
and unmerited pensions, and a repeal of that act
of daring usurpation called the Septennial Act.
I will, at all times, and in all things, act confor-
mably to the wishes of a majority of my consti-
tuents, deliberately expressed ; or I will, at their
request, resign the trust with which they have ho-
noured me." One of the most important of these
pledges, is decidedly that regarding the " Septen-
nial Act," which is very aptly characterized as " a
daring usurpation." We hope our countrymen
will be alive to the necessity of insisting on
a Repeal of this Act, for they may rely on it
that the establishment of Triennial Parliaments
alone will eventually be the means of carrying
all their other favourite measures.

For particulars respecting the proceedings of
the Duke of FITZJAMES, and M. CHATEAU-
BRIAND, we refer our readers to the French
Papers.

The observations made by Mr. DAWSON on
a former night, and partly repeated last night,
in the House of Commons, relative to the re-
ports of speeches, are exceedingly amusing.—
The Right Honourable Gentleman never loses
an opportunity of venting his rage against the
newspapers and the reporters ; and the only
reason we can discover for this is, his belief that
nearly all the Papers, and, according to his
own statement, all the reporters, are in favour
of Reform. This only shows how impru-
dent it is for any man to talk about what
he does not know. We could point oul
at least ten gentlemen on the morning pa-
pers more furious Anti-Reformers even than
himself, besides a considerable number who are
luke-warm on the question. Yet, Air. DAW-
SON says only the speeches in favour of Re-
form are given. Reference to the papers would
at once prove the incorrectness of the assertion.
Has Mr. CROKER not been given at length,
when on some occasions his speech occupies as
much space in the papers as the speeches of all
the other Members ? Has Sir ROBERT PEEL or
Si' CHAS. WETHERELL ever made any com-
plaint, or had any ground of complaint, on that
score ? Never. They know that they have had
equal justice meted to them with the other lead-
ing Members of the House, and they have too
much honour to make any accusation incon-
sistent with truth. The smaller Members—the
Dii Minores, if we may so call them—and
those still smaller /Eoluses, and Cerberuses, and
Charons, have not had such justice done them for
the best. of all reasons—they did not deserve
it. With very rare exception these are the only
class that complain ; and, however indignant they
may feel, we believe the public are grateful for
the wise discretion of the reporters in limiting
the extent of their speeches to their merit. In
some instances, though rarely, partiality has
been shown, but if any party have a right
to complain, it is certainly not the Opposi-
tion side of the House. Mr. DAWSON,
however, puts the nature of his state-
ment beyond all doubt by his own ad-
mission—that .Hansard's Debates are cor-
rect—though these are made up from those
very reports which Mr. DAWSON denounces as
partial and shameful. The public will thus be
able to judge what weight ought to be given to
charges accusing a respectable and intelligent class
of individuals with falsifying reports for the
purpose of gratifying their own personal or party
feelings. If partiality occasionally be shown on
either side, it is only the exception to the general
rule, which as we can vouch from personal know-
ledge, is to give the speeches as they are de-
livered, with, not unfrequently, an improvement
of the language, but without any infusion of
personal hostility or party politics.

German Papers have been received, from
which the following are extracts :

(From the Spires Gazette.)

LAUDAN, JUNE 9.—Three pieces of cannon, with three
powder waggons, and the men belonging to them, have
just set out from this place for Deux Pouts.
Yesterday, the young men at Annweiler, who were sup-
posed to have planted the tree of liberty, some weeks ago,
were formerly acquitted, nothing positive having come
out against them to show that they had been guilty of
committing any disorders. The citizens who were sum-
moned to give evidence against them, gave the money
which they received for their attendance to the young men
that they might have a holiday.
Casszc, JUNE 7.—The staff-officers and colonels of re-
giments were yesterday invited to a Ministerial Conference,
in presence of the Prince Regent. It is said to be in con-
templation to call out a corps of the troops of the electo-
rate, which, on the requisition of the Diet of the Confede-
ration, is, in case of need, to march into the Rhenish pro-
vinces, to maintain tranquillity. This project is supposed
to be connected with the arrival of Major-General Van
Ochs, plenipotentiary of Ilesse Cassel, in the military com-
mittee of the Confederation at Frankfort. It it
said that, in this Ministerial Conference, the
law of the civic guard again came under discussion. It
is affirmed that the Prince himself now wishes for a
speedy arrangement with the States on this subject, be-
cause, if the regular troops should have to go out, a well
organised civic guard would alone be able to insure the
maintenance of public order and tranquillity. The hopes
of an agreement respecting the other laws still pending
appear to vanish.
MUNICH, JUNE 14.—His Majesty the King returning
from Italy will be welcomed, on the 18th inst., at Send-
ling, by a proceqiion of the citiaens with the national fi igs,
preceded by a band of musicians in a car, drawn by six
horses, and will thus make his entry into the capital• Of
the flags three are to bear inscriptions,—viz, " Long live
our King"..—" The Constitution for ever"—" Bavarian
Loyalty for ever."
Ou the 12th and 13th there were sittings of the Coun-
cils of Ministers at the residence of Field Marshal Wrede,
who, it is said, is going to the Circle of the Rhine to in-
spect the troops.
The Spires Gazette contradicts the statement it gave
lately that Dr. Wirth had fled to France ; only Dr. Grosse
has done so. It insinuates also that the Ministers of
Finance and the Interior have assigned funds to the Go-
vernment of the circle of the Rhine, for the purpose of pur-
chasing corn abroad, and to distribute it below the mean
price of the market, among those communes which are un-
able to supply the poorer classes of the inhabitants with
bread at lower prices. The Government of the circle has

HAY M A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0
Kew Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 5 4 0

Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15
Clover Hay 5 0 6 10
Oat Straw £1 14 to £1 16 I Wheat Straw ... 1 18 2 0
Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary.
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5
New Meadow Hay 2 10 3 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay .....
Clover Hay (extra fine)....£6 10... Generally
Oat Straw ... £ 1 16 to £1 IS—Wheat Straw 1 IS 2 0
A short supply, and a steady trade; prices as last quoted.

CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.