The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

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_SUN, LONDON, Fr

HEEL MAJESTY AT STRATI!

FIELD,SANt.

STRAITIMEtbS,VrEt TUESDAY EVENING.—The pro-
mise (A' fine weather afforded by the close of yesterday
was quite falfilled
.to-day. The morning oretk'd With
a fine frost, and the rest of the ire,lf&s been remark-
ably fine, even warm,
In addition to the list of guests given in our paper
yesterday, there were at the dinner on Monday Mr.
and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, Mr,.
Portal, the Hon. B. Baring, and the Hon. endlteV.
Gerald Wellesley, rector of the parish And the Duke's
domestic chaplain. There were also some visitors in
the evening--Mr, and Mrs. Pigott, Captain and Mrs,,
Brown, Miss Vc a 1 tn isley, Dr. Keate (Dealt ‘oif
sor), tgad Mr. and Mrs. Keate.
The band of the Grenadier Guards played during
the evening. They were stationed in the conservatory,
The royal party sat in the library after dinner,, 0,114
her Majesty was much interested in the hotts`e, parts
of which she saw during the evening. There is a
very remarkable collection of old and modern prints,
very numerous, which are hung all over the walls.
There are also .setne goud pictures in the drawing and
dining-rooms, with which her Majesty wal tuttch
pleased.

Her Majesty and the Prince retirerl to rest at eleven
&dock.

This morning her Majesty and the Prince rose
at seven o'clock, aria breakfasted (alone) at eight.
They afterwards walked on the lawn in front of the
house.

At about half-past ten o'clock the Prince, accom•
panied by the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of
Bedford, Mr. Shaw Lefevre (the Speaker), Sir R.
Peel, the Earl of Jersey, and Colonel Bouverie, went
out to the Lower Pitham cover to shoot. They re-
mained out till half-past one.
The party had some fine wild sport, which the
Prince seemed much to enjoy. His Royal Highness
killed 45 head of game, including two woodcocks.
The Duke of Wellington walked well through it all.
The party rode to the ground, which is about a mile
and a half from the house.

At two o'clock the royal party lunched, and at
about three o'clock hcr Majesty and the Prince drove
over to Bramshill, an ancient mansion, and a fine
specimen of the Elizabethan style of architecture,
situated at about five miles from Strathfieldsaye.
Her Majesty went over the mansion. The present
proprietor, Sir John Cope, was absent, but he met
the royal party on their return to the mansion.
The Queen was driven in a pony phaeton by Prince
Albert. There was a second pony carriage, which
was driven by the Marchioness of Douro. The
Duchess of Bedford and the Marquis of Douro were
in this carriage. The Duke of Wellington's carriage
followed. The royal party returned at about half-
past four o'clock. Lord Charles 11'ellesley accom-
panied the party on horseback.
It will be seen from the foregoing detail of the
movements of her Majesty, that this visit is of an
entirely private character, affording but few features
calculated to interest the public.
It is a circumstance worth mentioning, that there
is not a single soldier on duty as guard at Strath-
fieldsaye. There is, however, a body of the London
police of the A division.

ADMIRAL DtTPETIT THOUARS
AND THE SWORD OF HONOUR.
The Nationai publishes the proceedings of the com-
mittee appointed to manage the funds produced by the
subscription in honour of Admiral Dupetit Thouars, at
its sitting held on the 18th inst.
At the appointed hour the President called on M. C.
Thomas. of the National, who gave an account of the
financial position of the subscription. It appeared from
his explanation that the pulAlie protest of which the
disavowal of Admiral Pst'petit Thouars was the object,
found an echo in tsti the important towns of France.
Three Paris and 75 provincial journals published a list
of the citizens who had contributed to that manifesta-
tion. According to the average of the subscription, it
appeared that 175,000 persons joined in the expression
of the same sentiment. It must not be forgotten that this
French protest produced an effect even in foreign countries.
We do not speak of Algiers, Oran, or Blidah ; but sub-
scription lists have reached the National from London, Ca-
diz, St. Sebastian. New Orleans, and St. Louis, in the
United States, Nice, Geneva, and Gex. M. Thomas added
that, with respect to the National, the full amount
received by it was 19,685 f. sc. We owe a debt of
gratitude to M. Goudchaux, who has had the kindness
to open an account for the subscription, and to allow an
interest of 4 per cent. on the deposits. This sum of
19,685 f. sc. is composed of partial subscriptions ad-
dressed directly to the National, and of remittances
which some provincial journals forwarded. There still
remain 32 journals which have not forwarded the sub-
scriptions received by them. As far as it could be ascer-
tained, the total amount of the subscriptions received
exceeds 30,000 f. This explanation produced no discus-
sion. A member observed that it would bo necessary to
write to the provincial journals to forward their sub-
scriptions to the Treasurer. The delegates who were
appointed to wait upon Admiral Dupetit Thouars having
been called on to give an account of their mission, one of
them read the following report :
" Gentlemen,—Before you would take any decision rela-
tive to the employment of the funds produced by the sub-
scription, you considered it advisable to hold a communica-
tion with Admiral Dupetit Thouars relative to the sword
of honour you were authorised to offer him. We waited
upon the Admiral as your delegates, and we wish to
render an account of our interview. We explained to
Admiral Dupetit Thouars the sentiments which had in-
spired the public manifestation in which 175,000 citizens
had joined. The subscribers wished to honour in his
person the entire navy which had taken part in that
contest in which the French flag was opposed to the
insolent pretensions of England. They particularly
protested against the act of cowardice committed by the
Ministry disavowing, by order of the London Cabinet, a
general officer who had fulfilled his duty. Public
opinion, excited by that act, had hastened to extend its
hand to the person attacked ; because it was considered
necessary to prove to our armies by land and sea
who are charged with defending the honour and
dignity of France, that esteem, consideration, and a
just popularity are the rewards secured in our
country to those who on all occasions recollect that
our first sentiment ought to be the love of country,
and that the devotion which it inspires ought to pre-
cede all others. After having expressed to the Admiral
the sense of the manifestation which he had witnessed in
his person, because he alone had been the object of the
disavowal aecompaYsied by calumnies, we asked him
whether he wesiid accept a sword of honour, or whether
the committee should employ the funds for another pur-
Posr.:! Admiral Dupetit Thouars, who experienced on
receiving. us an emotion which he did not conceal, told
us that he sees profoundly affected at our proceeding,
that he kit strongly how honourable it was to him per-
sonnally, and that the approbation of his fellow-citizens
Was assuredly the most legitimate ambition and the most
agreeable recompense for any man called on to serve his
country; but he prayed us to consider that the imperative
duties of discipline would not permit him to explain him-
self as to a political manifestation, nor to receive, with-
out the permission of his superiors, a mark of public ap-
probation. Placed, as he was, in the royal navy he could
not, without a violation of military law, depart from that
reserve imposed upon him either to blame or to praise an act
of the Government; neither, consequently, could he ac-
cept any recompense which would imply, on his part, an
adhesion to a political demonstration. We were bound to
respect a determination supported by motives in which
Admiral Dupetit Thouars believed his professional posi-
tion involved. We could not, moreover, without an
abuse, refer in this place to the confidential conversa-
tion in which we were enabled to learn the true and
honourable sentiments of the Admiral. But we may
say, that ever occupied with the fate of the brave men
whom he commanded, he spoke with a warm interest
of all those who had fallen in the expedition against
Otaheite. We then asked him what %%mild, according
to his idea, be the best mode of employing the funds
subscribed ? To which he replied that he could not be-
lieve that he was under an illusion when he considered
the homage of which he was the object was intended to
extend to all the seamen who had served worthily in those
distant seas, and that assuredly it would be to respond
to the wishes of the subscribers to expend the amount
subscribed to relieve the wounded seamen or the wives
and children of those who had died in the performance
of their duty. We regret that we cannot be more ex-
plicit in a report intended for publicity, but we believe
we can affirm, gentlemen, that the mission with which
we were charged has impressed us with a profound
conviction that public opinion was not deceived
when it wished to do honour to a general officer dev,;sel
to the glory of his country, a determined enemy of the
foreign foe, jealous of our interest, and well determined
not to commit any act by which it might be tarnished.
Your delegates propose to you, therefore, to declare the
subscription closed; to make public the motives of Ad-
miral Dupetit Thouars' refusal—motives exclusively
connected with military discipline; and, in fine, that the
funds of the subscription should be allocated in procur-
ing relief for the wounded seamen or the widows and
children of those who fell in the expedition to Otaheite.
" DEGOUSEE.
" JULES BASTIDE.
" ARMAND MARRAST.''
After a short deliberation the Committee adopted the
resolutions proposed by the delegates. It determined
that this decision and the motives on which it was
founded should be rendered public, and it proceeded Jill.
mediately to elect a Committee to execute it. This
Committee is composed of—MM. Goudchaux, Recurt,
Grisier, David, Delestre, Degouse, A. Domes.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.—MY. Wallace, the
Member for Greenock, has the following notice of motion
on the Order Book of the House of Commons for the
session appointed to commence on the 4th proximo. To
move at the next session of Parliament as follows:
" That with a view to avoid in future the anomalies and
'inconveniences which have sprung out of the sale of
papers under the order of this House, and restore to it
the independent and valuable privileges which formerly
were possessed, as well as the respectability which the
House of Lords has not forfeited by a sale of the papers
printed under its orders, no sale of papers printed under
the order of this House shall take place hereafter."
The Hon. Member procured a return in the course of last
session on the same subject, from which it appears, that
besides the information afforded to the public by the
publication of the papers printed by order of the House,
the net profit to the public by the sale of printed
Parliamentary papers (pm )836 to e 1843 amounted to
30111,4 76.2 d.

LITERATURE.

FOREIGN QU4R,TERLY flf.E IV.—No. 68.
C/Actti4,en ana: Lull, London, 1845.
V4:': b some talent in this Number, and the in-
formation it contains is by no means of an ordinary
character, hut, as a whole, it is heavy, and wants the
relief afforded by apt choice and variety of subject:
We have too mucht for inntaike, aborit thins And
India, thoerh atilelet, on these
tate, have been expatiated On us iteirs,? i'situsearis-are
skilfully reasoned, arid e'Virees ho slight amount of
research. Had they appeared a year or two since,
when pubic attention was keenly and anxiously fixed
the East, they would have been much more ac-
ceptable to the general reader; but, ;just . rift; tlieY
possess no more flavour or pivittaKy than fish or game
out of season., Ti!TY ti t article in the Number is
ricvotO td a consideration of the Baron Hormayr's
" Reminiscences of the Wars in Germany"—a work
not less conspicuous by its boldness, than the justnean
of its portraits of the numerous eminent politicians
and soldiers who took part In these wars. Referring
incidentally to the herculean efforts made by the
Germans to emancipate themselves from the thraldom
of Napoleon, the reviewer truly states that the
merit of these patriotic efforts belongs rather to the
Prussians than the Austrians, whose rulers were in-
variably sluggish and obstinate, and constantly
damped by their perverse, changeable, and timid
policy, the enthusiasm of the people. Hadi the Arch-
duke Charles been left to follow out his own views,
he would have been a far more formidable opponent
to the French Emperor than he was; but the crooked
and halting policy of the Aulic Council, by whom
his plans were perpetually circumvented, deprived
him of all freedom of action, and rendered him little
better than a mere cypher. Here is a specimen of an
Austrian Minister, Baron Thugut, who retired from
office somewhere about the year 1801. God help the
people subjected to the sway of such a man !
" Force was in Thugut's eyes the only infallible,
eternal, divine thing; inexorable and irreconciliable,
he possessed in the highest degree the patience of
hatred. His goal lay always as plain before, as his
means and his instruments were secret and crooked.
His policy knew neither virtue nor vice, but only
means to an end. He desired neither to convince nor to
seduce, but was content when he could compel. In
him dwelt a sovereign contempt for human nature.
His great weapon was fear. " Oderint dum metuant,"
he muttered frequently between his teeth, and expa-
tiated with a smile, on the Emperor Nero, who, he
said, was a charming man, only the Romans did not
understand him. Independence of character, freedom
of opinion, generosity and pure virtue, he positively
abhorred." If this portrait be not overcharged, it
represents as heartless, unprincipled, and tyrannical
a statesman, as ever cursed a country, and degraded
human nature. No wonder that Napolean should so
speedily and easily have humbled the pride of Austria,
in his first brilliant Italian campaigns, when such a
politician as Thugut held the foremost rank in her
Cabinet ! " Bettina Brentano" is a notice of the
most recently published correspondence of this en-
thusiastic young German authoress, who when only
sixteen years of age, fell desperately in love with
Goßhe, then upwards of sixty, attracted by his poetic
celebrity, and the beauty of a portrait which
she had seen of him in his youth. For
this strange infatuation Bettina was much censured
by her friends; but the attachment on both sides
seems to have been purely a platonic one, and some
few years afterwards the fair enthusiast married, and
is noir, we understand, quietly settled down into a
staid, homely, common-place wife, with lots of
children about her who, in conjunction with a plain,
matter-of-fact husband, have served to dispel all the
romance of her early life. In the observations on the
" Projected ship canal across the great American
Isthmus" this magnificent undertaking is warmly re-
commended, the reviewer remarking, " assuming
that it should even cost four millions, there can be
little doubt that an ample return might be realized by
a moderate toll, even should we found our calcula-
tions on the existing state of commerce and naviga-
tion, end leave wholly out of consideration the vast
increase they would infallibly receive so soon as the
barrier of the Isthmus was broken down. The new
route would then be taken by all vessels from Europe
destined for those points which are now reached by
doubling Cape Horn ; that is to say, the whole
western coast of North and South America, and the
islands of the South sea." From a discriminating
criticism on "Freiligrath's Poems," we quote a
spirited lyric entitled " Freedom and Right," which
—together with a German translation of Burn's noble
song, " A Man's a Man for a' that"—was, it seems,
prohibited by the pedantic and tyrannical Austrian
Government-
-0 say not, believe not, the gloom of the grave
For ever has closed upon Freedom's glad light,
For that sealed are the lips of the honest and brave,
And the scorners of baseness are robbed of their right.
Though the true to their oaths into exile are driven,
Or, weary of wrong, with their own hands have given
Their blood to their jailers, their spirits to heaven—
Yet immortal is Freedom, immortal is Right.
Freedom and Right I
Let us not be by partial defeats disconcerted ;
They will make the grand triumph more signal and
bright ;
Thus whetted, our zeal will be doubly exerted,
And the cry be raised louder of Freedom and Right !
For these two are one, and they mock all endeavour
Of despots their holy alliance to sever,
Where there's Right be ye sure there are freemen, and
ever

Where freemen are found, will God prosper the Right.
Freedom and Right !
And let this thought, too, cheer us—more proudly defiant
The twins never bore them in fight after fight,
Never breathed forth a spirit more joyous and buoyant,
Making heroes of dastards in nature's despite.
Round the wide earth they're marching ; their message
they've spoken,
And nations leap up at the heart-thrilling token ;
For the serf and the slave they have battled, and broken
The fetters that hung upon black limbs and white.
Freedom and Right
And battle they still, where the voice of earth's sorrow
Tells of wrongs to avenge, of oppressions to smite ;
And conquerors this day, or conquered to-morrow,
Fear ye not, in the end they will conquer outright.
Oh ! to see the bright wreath round their victor brows
shining,
All the leaves that are dear to the nations combining,
Erin's shamrock, the olive of Hellas entwining
With the oak-leaf, proud emblem of Germany's might !
Freedom and Right !
There are sore aching bosoms and dim eyes of weepers
Will be gathered to rest ere that day see the light ;
But ye two will Ballow the graves of the sleepers,
0 ye blest ones, we owe to them, Freedom and Right !
Fill your glasses meanwhile :—To the hearts that were
true, boys,
To the eause that they loved when the storm fiercest
blew, boys,
Who had wrong for their portion, but won right for you,
boys,
Drink to them, to the Right, and to Freedom through
Right !

Freedom through Right !

RESIGNATION OF MR. BARON GURNEY.-Mr.
Baron Gurney, in consequence of continued ill•health
and increasing weakness, has sent to the Lord Chan-
cellor his resignation of the high office of one of the
Barons of the Exchequer, which the Learned Baron has
filled for some years with great ability and satisfaction
to the bar and the public. The general opinion in West-
minster Hall is that Mr. Platt, Q C., will succeed to the
vacant seat on the Exchequer Bench, but of course no
arrangement has at present been made.—Evening paper.
EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF TIIE POWER OF
ENDURANCE IN TUE HUMAN FRAME.—A Post-office
messenger passes twice daily through the village of
Great Bardfield, in Essex. In the morning he walks
fuurteen miles, carrying weight which varies from 14lbs.
to 401bs. The time in which he has to perform the
distance, stoppages included, is three hours. lie rests
six hours, and then returns by the same route, and within
the same limit of time. This, over a somewhat rough,
cross-country road, he has done every day for upwards of
eight years. Throwing the average weight into the
scale, the task has been estimated equal to the labour of
walking thirty-fire miles per day ; and even in the most
unfavourable state of the weather he has been rarely
known to exceed his time by a quarter of an hour.
Could he be induced to try his "powers" in public, there
is little doubt that he would put to a severe test some of
the "stags" and " deers" of walking celebrity. It is
stated that he can carry weight in a given time to a greater
distance than has hitherto been accomplished by any
other pedestrian. He is confident that he could travel
on foot forty miles a day, for 365 days in succession.
He is now in his 38th year, stands about five feet nine
inches, and weighs under nine stone.

- ,
ALARMING FlRES.—Tuesday night between ten and
eleven o'clock, a very alarming fire broke out upon tht_
premises belonging to Mr. Farraday, japanner, situate at
No. SJ, Spitalfields. It originated in the
workshop at the rear of the dwelling—a building corn
posed chiefly of timber. Owing to the easily ignitable
nature of the same, not many minutes elapsed before tht
place was enveloped in flames. Several engines of the
brigade, with those of the parish and County-office, were
early in arriving, and being aided with a plentiful supply
of water, the firemen soon extinguished the flames, not
however, until the building in which they comrnence6
was nearly destroyed. Fortunately, the loss will be
covered by an insurance in the Royal Exchange-office
The overheating of a stove is the supposed cause of the
outbreak. Between twelve and one yesterday morning
second fire, and which was nearly attended with fats
consequence, was discovered burning upon the premise_
belonging to Mr. Davis, sathiler, of 100, High-street.
Borough. It appears that the attention of a gentleman
in passing was directed towards the premises by per-
ceiving smoke issuing through the window-shutters. Ai
alarm was raised, and Sergeant Cowlin, of the M divi-
sion of police, hastened to the spot, but the smoke was
so dense the inmates were unable to descend the stairs.
The sergeant having obtained a ladder, the residents
were enabled to escape through one of the upper windows
banridgawdeit,hcty, and
without meeting with any injury. Engines of the
West of England offices, were early
in arriving, and there being a good supply of water, one
engine was found sufficient to subdue the flames. The
origin of this fire is unknown. The proprietor is insured
in the Phoenix-office,