The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-29 00:00:00

MISS ELIZABETH LONG.

A white tulle dress over a satin slip, elegantly trimmed
with bouquets of May and pink holyoak ; the body and
sleeves to correspond ;tr of pink moire, trimmed with
blonde and satin. Head-dress, feathers, blonde lappets,
and pearls.
THE MISSES BURDETT.

Dresses of rich British blonde lace over white satin
slips ; bodies and sleeves full trimmed with blonde lace ;
trains of rich striped figured satin, trimmed with rosets
of gauze riband tastefully arranged. Head-dresses, plumes
of white feathers and blonde lace lappets.

The theatres, the principal club-houses, and
the shops of the Royal tradesmen, at the West-end of the
town, were last night illuminated in honour of the KING'S
birthday. The display was neither brilliant nor general,
nor were the streets much crowded. Among the build-
ings best illuminated, in St. James's-street, were AR-
THUR'S, the Guards, Virws's (the residence of Lord
ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE), and Caocg. roan's, the en-
tire front of which was one mass of light, arranged, how-
ever, with more regard to splendour than tasteful effect.
The shop of Howlett and JAMES, in Regent street, was
decorated with peculiar brilliancy and elegance ; and the
Athenaeum and United Service Club-houses presented a
very beautiful appearance. Piccadilly looked extremely
sombre, with the exception of ore house—that of Messrs.
RoasoN and HALL (decorators to his MAJESTY), which
was well lighted. The iliuminations at the theatres (in-
cluding Drury-lane and Covvnt-garden) possessed nothing
remarkable; and we have seen the Strand present, on the
most ordinary occasions, an appearance nearly as brilliant
as it did last night.

There were not more than 12 ships in the
river Thames between London-bridge and Greenwich with
their flags hoisted yesterday in honour of the KING'S birth-
day, and half of these, if not more, were Government
vessels. In the London docks on!y two ships displayed
their colours, though more than 500 were in the ba.ins ;
in St. Katharine-docks only one ; and in the West India
and Commercial•docks, which are full of shipping, there
were not more than 20 with the Union Jack dying at their
mast-heads. In fact, less demonstrations of rejlicing on
the reigning KING'S birthday, or so few remarks of respect
as was paid on the occasion, was never before observed.

Saturday a grand dinner was given at the Pa-
lais Royal to the friends of civil and religious liberty, in
celebration of the late glorious triumph of Earl GREY and
his politics in this country. The meeting was attended
by gentlemen of all ranks and nations.

Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL, who is under.

stood to be charged with an important mission to Lisbon,
is an officer of high gallantry. His Lordship much dis-
tinguished himself in many of the victories in the Penims
sulJ, and, on several occasions, was selected by the Duke
of WELLINGTON to bring home despatches from the army.
He was formerly Member for Bedford, and last summer
he was employed in a diplomatic transaction in Belgium,
on which occasion be displayed considerable ability.—
Lord WILLIAM is a Colonel in the Army and Aide-de-
Camp to his MAJESTY, and second son of the Duke of
BEDFORD.
The Lieutenant-Coloneleies of the Ist and

2d Regiments of Life Guards are expected to become va-
cant by the promotion of Colonels the Honourables
HENRY BEAUCHAMP and EDWARD PYNDAR LYDON tO

the rank of Major-Generals, those Gallant Officers being
entitled to that step by their length of service. Colonel
HENRY LYGON has commanded the Ist Guards since
1821, and Colonel EDWARD LYOON the 2d since 1818.
It is confidently affirmed in the Military Clubs that the

&II of 3.ll:NsTErt (a Colonel of 1830) will be appointed
to succeed one of the Col. LYCONS.

It is understood that Lords ADOLPHUS and
FREDERICK FITZCLARENCE arid Mr. MELLISH, of the
Foreign Office, will leave town to-thy or to-morrow, in
charge of the model frigate presented by his MAJESTY to
the King of PRUSSIA. The Noble Lords and their com-
panion are expected to return to this country at the expi-
ration of two months.

Two sons of Earl GREY are now in command
of ships on the Mediterranean station. Captain the Hon.
FREDERICK WILLIAM GREY, thitd son to the Noble Earl
at the head of his MAJEsxv's Councils, commands the
4cteon frigate, 2S guns, and Commander the Hon.
GEORGE GREY has bee❑ lately appointed to the Sc.9lla
sloop. llis Lordship's youngest son is a youth of 14, now
at school. By the marriage of the Noble Premier with a
sister of Lord PONSONBY, of lmokilly, he had a family o
16 children, of whom 13 survive.

Of the present Ministers, the Duke of RICH-
moND, the Marquess of LANSDOWNE, and Lord DIIRILAM,
are said to decline receiving the salaries of their respective
effiees. This, if true, though highly patriotic in the indi-
viduals, as a precedent, is of no great value ; for if it were
to be understood that no man should bold office who cannot
afford to do so gratuitously, the public would in nearly
every department be deprived of the services of the most
efficient persons. What the country wishes to see is, not
the working and the active deprived of their just reinu.
neration, but the drones and sinecurista driven from the
hive, in which they consume so large a portion of the
Herald.
honey. —Morning

GOTTINGEN, MAY 6.---M. Bieulieu, Director
of the Police, yesterday sent for M. Van Tur and two other
Poles, whose papers he had taken from them, and told
them, in the name of the Government, that application had
been made to the Russian Legation at Dresden to return
them their private papers, but had received for answer that
all the papers had been sent to Warsaw ; they were, how-
ever, at liberty to apply to Prince Paskewitch. He
further informed them, that the order requiring them to
remain in the town was revoked, and the Government
would not in any way binder them from leaving Got-
tingen. M. Van Tur was born in the kingdom of Poland,
and was never in the Russian service. It is said he had
sent his most important papers t) Englan I,—Hamburg
Paper%, May t??,.

JUNIUS BRUTUS TO THE DUKE OF

WELLINGTON.

As the Suit
Thou didst rise gloriously, and now i' the evening,
When thou shouldst pass with honour to thy rest,
Wilt thou fall like a meteor ?—MAssisoF,R.

" 111 weaved ambition! how art thou now shrunk :"*
How hast thou shown thy true proportions now !
At first, with bold and unabash'd brow,
And then, behind the throne, thy thicket, sluzik.f
Infecting him who slept upon his post
With counsels most unworthy of him ! But
The ears of Kings to justice are not shut,
And one weak voice 'vails not against a host,
Thou hast done well—thou show'st us what thou art :
How all unsuited thou to play a part
Among a rising world, where mind alone
Gives the preeminence : the day is flown
When brutal force prevailed : thy task is done
We see the soldier's character which grew
Upon the doubtful field of Waterloo,
He who stood up against Napoleon,
For, Scipio like, his troops were Romans. Why
Could'st thou not, satisfied with honour, die?
Nor show the world how narrow was thy mind,
How soulless the clay-idol they inspired ?
How hast thou heaped upon thyself disgrace:
The pander of thy protests—the assertor
Of all Corruption's worst abuse—the friend
Of borough_barterers—and then deserter !
What can these spots indelible erase?
What was thy object, thy high hope, thy end ?
Be it not stamp'd upon thy memory—place!
Shakspeare.
" Back to the thicket slunk
" The wily serpent."—MlLTON.

The Hon. G. J. VERNON, M.P. for Derby-
shire, paired off in favour of the third reading of the Irish
Reform Bill, with the Hon. W. LASCELLES.
Mr. ATIIERLEY being prevented by indis-
position from attending the division on Thursday last,
paired off with the Hon. P. CusT in favour of Mr. Box-
TON'S motion. Mr. ATHERLEY also paired off with Mr.
ABEL SMITH on Friday night.
WINDSOR.—The friends of Mr. HALLETT
have been canvassing here to-day, and been ♦ery favourably
received, notwithstanding Mr. PALMER baying previously
paid his respects.—Reading Mercury.
SUFFOLK REPRESENTATION.—SirH.BUN•
BURY has announced to his Committee that he intends to
retire from the Representation of the County at the end
of the present Session, in consequence of the bad state of
his health. It is reported that the Earl of SURREY will
offer himself.—Suffolk Chronicle.
BERKSIIIREELECTION.NOMINATION OF
THE CANDIDATES.—READING, MAY 28.—A most
numerous and respectable body of the freeholders of this
county took place at Reading this day, for the purpose of
nominating the candidates for the seat in Parliament for
the county, rendered vacant by the call of Mr. C. DUNDAS
(now Lord AMESBURY) to the Peerage. The candidates
are Messrs. HALLETT and PALMER, the former of whom
was nominated by Sir F. BURDETT, and the latter by Mr.
SAWYER. The election will commence at Abingdon, at
ten o'clock, on Thursday.

By the death of CAMBEN GRAY, 11th Lord
Kircudbright, at Ghent, on the 29th ult., the Peerage has,
we understand, devolved, as the nearest wale heir, on Sir
J. T. LEE, one of the County Magistrates of Middlesex.

Lord KENYON, who holds parochial in the
same dislike as Parliamentary Reform, was among the
most active opponents of the successful candidates in the
late election of vestrymen of illarylebone. In the cha-
racter of churchwarden the Noble Lord was an active
canvasser for what was called " The FILADONG'S Hotel
List," With what success the result has shown, to the
Noble Lord's great mortification.

The Marquess of LONDONDERRY has signi-
fied his wish to his agents that they should apportion a
plot of land to such families employed on his Lordship's
collieries as were desirous for, and worthy of, such an in-
dulgence.—Newcastle Journal.

Among the rumours of the present day is one
that arrangements are on foot to elevate the Right Hon.
C. MANNERS SUTTON to the Peerage; and in that case
that the Chair of the House of Commons would devolve
upon the Attorney-General, Sir THOMAS DENMAN.

On Sunday afternoon the Bishop of EXETER
preached at St. James's Church to a crowded congregation.
His Lordship took his text from the celebrated exclama-
tion of the gaoler to PAUL and SiLas—" What shall I do
to be saved ?" The Bishop's discourse lasted nearly three-
quarters of an hour, and was doubtless highly edifying to
those who heard it; but, unfortunately, that was not the
case with any large portion of the audience, from the low
and apparently agitated manner in which the whole was
delivered.—Morning Herald.

In the pension list of CHARLES 11. it appears
that THOMAS KING, Esq., M. P. for Harwich had a pen.sion
of fifty pounds a session, besides meat and drink, and now
and then a suit of clothes—a very disinterested fellow.—.
Colchester Gazette.

On Friday afternoon Mr. C. KEMBLE be-
came so suddenly indisposed that he was unable to per-
form, although his name was in the bills of the evening
for Jaffier. Mr. WAADE played the part, and acquitted
himself respectably. On Saturday night Mr. J. MASON
was his substitute in The Hunchback.

On Friday night, in the Green-room of Co-
vent-garden Theatre, Mr. FARLEY presented Mr. YOUNG
with a handsome ring, subscribed for by some of the
members of the company, not only as a token of his ge-
neral merits as an actor, but for his suavity of manners,
kindly disposition, and gentlemanly deportment in all the
relations of life. The gift was presented and received
with appropriate speeches, both from Mr. FARLEY and
Mr. YOUNG, to the great satisfaction of a crowded Green-
room.

Among the most popular of the fictions in-
troduced in the " Standard Novels," now being published
in monthly series, are the beautiful Tales of " Self-
Control" and " Discipline," by the late Mrs. Brunton.
These works form, together with the productions of the
author of " Marriage," a class which has been called,
par excellence, " The Scotch Novek" of female writers,
and have been judged worthy of partaking the celebrity of
the novels of the Author of Waverley.

We trust that nothing so absurd and incon-
venient will be sanctioned by Government as the idea of
placing a National Gallery on the South side of St James's-
park.

Eton Montem takes place on Whit-Tuesday.
Wednesday night was what is termed " Sure night," and
at twelve o'clock the customary firing of beds, challis,
windows, shutters, &c., took place throughout college.
The son of WILLIAms, Esq., of Park-street, will re-
ceive the benefit. The frieto:s of this young gentleman
have been most liberal in their orders, and the show on
this occasion will be unusually slpendid.—Reading
Mercury.

THE NEW VESTRY ACT.—The parishioners
St. Imes, Westminster, assembled yesterday, in WEL-
Lts's 111401139, King street, for the purpose of electing ves-
trymen and auditors, agreeably to the regulation of the
new Act. Lists were proposed by the old vestry, and by
the new parochial Committee ; the Committee list was
almost unanimously supported by the assembled parish-
ioners ; and a ballot was demanded by the " old select."

A very extraordinary phenomenon has been
observed at Valenciennes, i❑ France, i❑ the grounds of two
bleachers, which are more than 600 yards from each other,
tne linen laid out to whiten has become as red as if it had
been dyed with blood. The water with which the linen
was dressed has been analysed, and found not to contain
the least acid. When the cholera became extinct, this
colouring ceased. A chemist of the town attributes it to
the effect of certain acid exhalations, from whence he sup-
poses the cholera proceeded.

SINGULAR CASE OF BIGAMY.-JOHN
P EARMAIN, 23, labourer, was indicted at the Essex ad.
journed Sessions for intermarrying with CATHERINE
AVCAitzny, his first wife being at that time alive.
FREEMAN, parish-clerk of Chingford, proved the mar-
riage of the prisoner on the 28th July, 1831, with CA.
THERINE CONNOR. CATHERINE APCARTHY proved her
marriage with the prisoner on the Ist of August, 1831.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Learned
CHAIRMAN then addressed him as follows :—" Of all
the cases of this kind I ever heard of, this is the worst ;
for it appears from the documents, that while the bans
were publishing for your second wife, you actually mar-
ried CATHERINE CoNNoa by license, just three days be-
fore your second marriage. This argues a deliberate se.
duction of two wcuien at the same time. It is a case of
complicated wickedness and vice, and is a crime against
the laws, against religion, decency, and morality. What
effect punishment may have upon you I cannot tell, but it
may have an effect as an example to others. The sentence
of the Court is, that you be transported for seven years. "
Thank you, my Lord," raid the prisoner.

LITERATURE.

CONTARINI FLEMING. Foul! Vats.

LONDON, 1832.

There is no deficiency of power in these four
striking volumes, no sterility of fancy, no bar-
renness of invention, for it abounds to profusion
in all the qualifications requisite to constitute an
efficient romance ; still, notwithstanding these
recommendations, it is, and cannot be otherwise
than, a failure ; for this reason, that it lacks a
continuous interest, is caviare to the multitude,
and possesses, so far as we can perceive, neither
beginning, middle, nor end. Report attributes
the work to the practised pen of Mr. D'lsraeli,
jun., the author of " Vivian Grey," and that
forcibly written tale " The young Duke." If this
be the case, we cannot compliment him on
the improvement, or rather the direction, of his
powers. He has lavished much ability on an
unpromising subject, and exhibited throughout a
striking instance of ill-regulated faculties. The
story of Contarini Fleming is that of a wild en-
thusiast, half-visionary, half-madman, who in-
volves himself in adventures, and mixes himself
up with characters and incidents, in which it is
utterly impossible for any reader to take inte-
rest. He sees not human nature as the rest
of his fellow-men see it, but darkly, through a
glass of his own. The consequence is, that he
is a creature wholly made up of egotism, selfish-
ness, and (whatever his creator may think to the
contrary) of prejudice and bigotry. Doubtless
Mr. D'lsraeli conceives that the conception of
such an out of the way character as Contarini
Fleming is wholly original, but he is mistaken,
for the germs of it may be found in the novels
of Godwin, particularly " Mandeville," and in
Goethe's best prose romance. Having urged thus
much in disparagement of the work, we are
bound in common fairness to state, that its de-
fects are owing not to want of capacity, but to
misdirected capacity. It abounds in passages of
surpassing vigour and splendour, is radiant with
fancy, and as full fraught with earnest in-
tense feeling, as any modern work with
which we are acquainted. The cursory de-
scriptions of Spain and its Alhambra, the
terse occasional criticisms on the Saracenicarchi-
tecture, the first struggles of the poetic faculty
within the bosom of the young enthusiast, his
progress through school, and the details of his
various adventures in the Austrian dominions,
are conceived and executed in the truest spirit of
genius. When Mr. D'lsraeli descends to the
level of real life, no man writes better, for no
man writes with more force and feeling than he
does ; but when he soars far above human ken,
into the regions of fantasy (which we feel strongly
inclined to call the limbo of vanity), he becomes
vague, mysterious, unintelligible—in fact, a
decided bore. As a specimen of the better por-
tions of his book, we subjoin Mr. D'lsraeli's
account of the first stirring of love in the breast
of Contarini Fleming, then a boy of eight years
of age, while the object of his romantic attach-
ment is a beautiful girl hastening to pass her
eighteenth year. The description is exquisitely
beautiful :
" The visit of Christiana drew to a close. There was
a children's ball at our house, and she condescended to be
its mistress. Among my new companions there was a
buy, who was two years my senior. He bad more know-
ledge of the world than most of us, for he had been some
time at school. He was gay, vivacious, talkative. He
was the leader in all our diversions. We all envied him
his superiority. and all called him conceited. He was ever
with Christiana. I disliked him.

.E I hated dancing, but to night I had determined to
dance, for the honour of our fair president. When the
ball opened, I walked up to claim her hand as a matter of
course. She was engaged—she was engaged to this youth-
ful hero. Engaged ! Was it true ! Engaged ! Horrible
jargon I Were the hollow forms of mature society to in-
terfere with our play of love ? She expressed her regret,
and promised to dance with me afterwards. She pro-
mised what I did not require. Pale and agitated, I stole
to a corner, and fed upon my mortified heart.
" I watched her in the dance. Never had she looked
more beautiful ; what was worse, never more happy.
Every smile pierced me through. Each pressure of my
rival's hand touched my brain. I grew sick and dizzy. It
was a terrible effort not to give way to my passion. But
I succeeded, and escaped from the chamber with all its
glaring lights and jarring sounds.
" I stopped one moment on the staircase for breath. A
servant came up and asked if I wanted anything. I could
not answer. He asked if I were unwell. I struggled
with my choaking voice, and said I was very well. I
stole up to my bedroo►n. I had no light, but a dim mom
just revealed my bed. I thew myself upon it and wished
to die.

" My forehead was burning hot, my feet were icy cold.
My heart seemed in my throat. I felt quite sick. I
could not speak ; I could not weep ; I could not think.
Everything seemed blended in one terrible sensation of de-
solate and desolating wretchdness.
" Much time perhaps had not elapsed, although it
seemed to me an age, but there was a sound in the room,
light and gentle. I looked around, I thought that e
shadowy form passed between me and the window. A
feeling of terror crossed me. I nearly cried out; but as
my lips moved, a warm mouth sealed them with sweetness.
" 6 Contarini,' said a voice I could not mistake, are
you unwell ?'
" I would not answer.
" ' Contarini, my love, speak to Christiana!'
" But the demon prevailed, and I would not speak.
" Contarini, you are not asleep.'
" Still I was silent.
" Contarini, you do not love me.'
_ _

" I would have been silent, but fsighed.
" Contarini, what has happened? Tell me, tell me,
dearest. Tell your Christiana. You know you always
tell her everything.'

" I seized her—baud--I bathed it with my fast-flowing
tears.

" She knelt down as she did on our first meeting in the
garden, and clasped me in her arms ; and each moment
the madness of my mind grew greater. I was convulsed
with passion.
" And when I grew more calm, she again spoke, and
asked me what made me so unhappy ; and I said, between
my wild sobs, 'Oh ! Christiana, you too have turned
against me !'

" Dear, sensitive child,' she said, as she pressed me to
her bosom, ' if you feel so keenly, you will never be •
happy. Turn against you! Oh ! Contarini, who is your
ir:end if not Christiana ! Do I not love you better than
all the world ? Do I not do all I can to makc you happy
Ind good ? And why should I turn against Contarini
when he is the best and dearest of boys, and loves his
Christiana with all his heart and soul?'

" She raised tue from the bed, and placed me in her
lap. My head reposed upon her fond 3n d faithful heart.
She was silent, for I was exhausted, .and I felt her sweet
breath descending upon my cheek.
Go,' I said, after some little time, and in a feeble
voice, ' Go, Christiana. They want you.'
" 6 Not without you, dearest. I came to fetch you.'
I cannot go. It is impossible: lam so tired.'
" Oh ! come, dearest ! I shall be so unhappy if you
do not come. You would not have me unhappy the
whole evening, this evening that we were to be so gay.
See ! I will run and fetch a light, and be with you in a
moment.' And she kissed me and ran away, and in a
moment returned.

" Dearest Christiana ! 1 cannot go. What will they
think of me ?'

" ' Nobody knows even that you are away : all are

busy.'
" What will they think of me? Really I cannot go,
and my eyes are so red.'
" Nonsense ! They are the blackest and most beauti-
ful eyes I ever saw.'
" ' Oh ! they are horridly red,' I answered, looking in
the glass. I cannot go, Christiana.'
" ' They are not the least red. I will wash them
with some eau de Cologne and water.'
'‘ ' Oh ! Christiana, do you really love me? Have you
really made it up ?'
'6 I love you more than ever, dear ! There, let me
brush your curls. Is this your brush ? What a funny
little brush ! Dear Coutarloi, how pretty you look !'"

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No. ITT., for JUNE. _ _ _

Contents-1. Our Three Days-2. Cultivation of the
Fancy-3. What will the Army do ?-4. Miss Edge.
Worth's Werks-5. The Botheration of the " Personnel"
G. To a certain Et-Minister-7. The Bank Charter—
G. Goethe-9. To a Tame Deer-10. Irish Education--
11. Power and Prospects of Russia-12. My Native Isle-
-13. Jean Jacques Rousseau-14. The Fourth Estate--
15. The Contrast.-16. Notes on the Crisis-17. Monthly
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Hackney affair was contradicted in our Paper of Saturday.
We wish our Correspondent would look to our Paper before
he ventures an opinion.