The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

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ILLL'STRATED-BY LtEca. . .
O'L 151 t N E M N 'l' L
MAGAZINE AND HLIMORIS.T;:
• - FOR JAN UA ELY, •
Contains, Twenty interesting Artielei by tl e
NIOST FA VOUItITE 'WRITERS OF THE, DAY.
• The new year being'a favourable opportunity for commencing.
a periodical; those who may desire to take iu the New Monthly
Magazine, nreyeiluested to gite their orders withotiedelay to
their respetivetionksellers... . • t-:.
" A Whole host of names illustrious;irkliterattire herahi in the •
new year of itir...Colliorn'i n-}agaztne."—OlObe.
"'The. New Itlonthlropens the year ;okillr is various'ind at-
tractive a.nielanige,,supOorteglby a galaxy' 6( names as I'rilliant
cOuld well be wished for by its warmest friends. A I aper on
Talieyrand in his 'retirement, isicorth half a" dozen of the ordi-
*nary magaiine .attieldr;'and:llliss. Agnes Strickland% :‘ Barak
:Johysen%isia nervous and p9werfut piece el writing:, The :Um,:
.eltionesit of Linittenderri.contributes it'elaiming.narrailie alter,
late visit to the Courts-41 Vienna, =Certstanittiopie -Athens,
.and Naples 'lhe'euriesitypf the Number is beai tifalLpperri.
by poor L.E.L. Poale, Rarry Corpwall, Eliza Ccetkerßlanch-
ard, Purace Smith, Mrs. Trollope,, and otherstaridard names
till up the sterling merit of this month's issue!?,-:-Morning Post.
Henry- Colburn, Publisher, 13;.Great Marlborough-street.

January 15, will' he ready, fo.b2 continued on- the Ist and 15th
of every 111Onth,•Part 1. (with Five Plates) of .;
IIIE PEOVE LS GALLERY- Or' ENG RAV-

To contain Four beautiful. Plates on Steel, quarto size, for Is.,
including Ptortraits of eminent Persons, Historical ?.nd Imagi-
native Designs, Arcbiteet ore; SeenetY;'&c., in var►c.ui parts of
the world ; execnted)by- the first-rate Engravers from Originals
by Sir Thomas .Lawrence, Turner, Stanfield, Trout, D. Ro-
berts, Allot, Chalons, llayter,Parris, Maclise, Stel,hanoff, Cat-
tern-161e, Bertlett,'Leitch, /cc. ' ". • • • •
Edited hi the Rev. 0.-N—WRIGHT,III.N.; with; selections
from the writings of L. E.L.,..111r5. Ellis, Mary Ilowitt, Agues
Strickland, Bernard Barton,
Five Subjects will be given in Part I.,•viz, Chatsworth, late
Lord Lynedoch, Household . Treasures, 'the, Baron's Hall •at
Christmas, and Pastor Neff's Church in the liigl► Alps..
Fisher, Son, and Co., Nevtgate7strret, London.

111ARY:tQUEEN-OF. SCOTS.. • -
34111. TEMPLKI'ON - will repent his Popular
ENTERTAINMENT, of MARY -QUEEN of
SCOTS, and the Mnsic•of her Times, on SAie4DAr EvEre-
iNa NEXT, Jan: 13,at the Hanover-square Rooms; it the Herne,
Kennington, TxuasnAY, the lSth ; ou Syru.s.psAy., the :;oth,
at the Hanover-tqUare'Rooms ; and on MONDAY, the in
the City. . - . • •
Jr. Templeton will sing thirteen favourite Scotch Melo-
dies in each Entertainment.

EARL •SPENCER and, -.the INO W. 1714
, AMP.TONSIII.RE

. -
The following letter has beert.addressed.hy-Earl-Spenc,r to
Mr. Whitworth, the secretary of the Northamptonshire
Farming and Grazirg Society,-ard by him commurneat, d to
the members of that Society, who are s.umniOned to meet en
the 20th instant :

. . .
Alth irp, January 6. 1e44.
•
" Sir,—l have always been of bpinitm, atd have fluently
steed, that an .Agricaltural,Society which .had anything et' a
political character, was *Ft evil 'instead of.a benefit, tti.the-
try ; and have hiVatiahly declined 'to connect myself With any
such society, unless one of the conditions of its formation was
the total exclusion of all political discussions. The step which
several gentleMen..who are deservedly considered among the
most respected and eminent farmers of this courty; hive taken
of withdrawing their names from the Farming and Grazing
Society, and the reason which they have given for so doing,
must necessarily give a political character to this society; if
continue one of its members. I therefore must beg you-N:4.6th-
draw my name from it. lam very sorry to feel it my, fluty
the
take this step. I have had great satisfaction in acting with the..
Society, believing as I do that it has greatly improved the-
agricultt.re of this neighbourhood, but I am confident this hail.;
been mainly owing to the total exe:usion of all political feeling
from every part 'of its proceedings. If I remain a mertiblq:'
this can no longe.rbe the case, but when I am withd.

hope the farmer; will carry it on in the same spirit which ha 6-:
hitherto animated it. " " • •

With respect,to the prizes which I have been. in the habit'
of giving as a member of the Society, I shall, of course, give
these which are announced for this year. After. this year, I
shall continue to offer those for theep-shearing, for mowing,
and for hedge-rutting to the labourers; for none of them, a,_
least, will think that they have a right to dictate to me what
My political opinions shalt be, because I. offer
.priies for their
competition. • •
" I shall be quite ready also to. Continue the (Alm prim. if
the Society will accept them, .unless I find that it 16 imputed
to me that . I hare any-political or interested motive in so
doing.—l have the .leinour to _be, Sir, your .most obedient
humble servant,- • " SPENCER. '
IL Whitworth, Esq."
This letter was occasioned by several members of the Society
having met on January 4, and resolved amongst pthvr things—
" That in the Opinion of the undersigned, the recent avowal of
.the Right Hon. Earl Spencer in favour of free trade its corn,
has rendered it incumbent upon such independent agriculturists,
in this county, as are convinced of the evil tendency, of such a
measure, to show to the public their sense of the nun in which
they believe' it would involve them, by withdrawing from the
Agricultural Society of which his Lordship was the founder
and is the patror.
The Society, 'We must add; on the authority of the Nor-
thampton Mercury, under the name• of the'Northatoptonshire
Farming and Grazing Society, was established in 1819, for
the promotion' of improvement in agriculture in all its
branches, and for encouraging skill, industry. and good conduct.
in servants and labourers in husbandry.: It is:utterly false to
assert that it was established . for a political purpose. It Vas
'one of its earliest conditions that no political question—no
question under parliamentary discussion--.-should be intruded
upon it. The following is a copy of the rule upon the subject :—.
" No questiOn shall be discussed at the meetings of this
Society of a' political tendency, or which 'shall refer to any mea-
sure to be brought forward or pending iu either, House ot Par-
liament." • -

IRELAND,
THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.
DUBLIN, Jan. 7.—The Orange advisers of the Irish Go-
vernment have taken a fatal step in striking off the name of
every Roman Catholic from the special jury list. At first those
eleven Roman Catholics, and the single non-political Protes-
tant who was excluded along with them, were :set down by the
Orange and Government prcss as " Radicals." But, even if
they were Radicals, they would not, necessarily, be disquali-
fied from serving tin a jury•. It was found nezessary, there-
fore, to devise'some more plausible pretest for the nmoval of
every Roman Catholic hour the' panel. Accordingly, the
Awning Packet of last nigi.t received instruotions. from the
Castle to describe them as " Repealers." There is no evidence
whatever of this, even if the foct could be relied upon as a jus-
tification of the conduct of the Crtwn. At- the striking of
the jury, no► a sillable on the subject was uttered either by
the Counsel the Government ( Mr. Brewster), or the Clerk
of the Crown (Mr. Kemmis). As earls Roman Catholic name
was struck off, Mr. Cantwell, one of the agents of the tra-
versers, publicly declared that he was to struck off as a Roman
Cotholie. The fact was not denied. How could it be denied?
The truth is, that the objection about Repealers was an after-
thought, when the functionaries at the. Castle discovered the
fatal error into which their zeal had betrayed them.
But suppose that some, or even all of the Roman Catholics,
were Repeaters, what right would the Crown officer, acting on
behalf of the Government of the country, have to start su..h
an objection? How could he have had evidence of the fact,
even if there were law to disqualify a Repealer from-serving on
a jury ? If' a foreigner or an alien is to be tried on.a criminal
charge, the British law gives him the right to place six fo-
reigners upon his jury.
Here 'Roman Catholics, seven laymen and ere clergyman
(the second clergyman indicted has sunk into the grave), are
to be tried on a criminal charge, and every Roman Catholic
name drawn out of the ba:lot-box has been struck out of the
jury list by the officers of the Government I '
Mark you, this was a special jury list of forty-eight names,
selected from seven hundred, all perfectly eligible, unless some
legal objection could be sustained agaii,st the adjudication of
the Recorder upon the revision. if political opinion as a Re-
pealer were a disqualification, it should have been urged before
the Recorder. It was not started then, nor was it urged at
the ballot. If the Crown officers were determined to strike off
Repealers—supposing them to have been such—they should
have kept them off the panel altogether. As it is, the defend-
ants have not had a fair chance of a jury list of forty-eight,
inasmUch as Repealers are declared to be disqualified from
serving on a jury.'

It may be asked, did the Crown oounsel and' solicitor, whilst
they. held an inquisition respecting Repeaters and Roman Ca-
Abetting, take any steps to ascertain how many of those they left
on the jury list belong to the. Orange Ass.ociation?
But, as already observed, the objection shout repeal was a
mere after-thought. The naked fact before the empire—before
Europe—is this, that every Roman Catholic, without cause as-
signed, was struck off the Jury by the agents of the Govern-
ment. Sir Robert Peel is very plausible; but this damning
fact, not all his sophistry can explain away.
The Dublin Evening Post, of last night, contains the fol-
lowing announcement :
" AGGREGATE NIEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF'
IRELAND.—WIIO would have imagined that it would become
necessary, fourteen years after the Catholic Relief Bill had be-
come the law of the land—that the Catholics of Ireland would
find themselves coereed into an aggregate meeting,for the pur-
pose of denouncing the grievous wrong and the gross insult.
offered to them by the Crown, on the recent occasion of re-
ducing the special jury? Thanks, however, to our wise Go•
vernment—to those'emiriently practical' men who have the
mismanagement of oar affairs—this his happened. The re-
quisition will appear in the course of the next week; but'pre-
siously, we would call on every Roman Catholic gent lernan in
Ireland, who can conveniently leave home, to hold hitnselt in
readiness. We shall, on Tuesday, speak more at large on this
Most important movement."
EJECTION OF TENANTRY,
The Limerick Chronicle says Wednesday last, Williarai
Smith, Es., sub-Sheriff, with the aid of police, and a party
of the flee, from itatbkeale, dispossessed, under betrre, a
family of the name of Ahern, en the estate of Mr. Conyers, of
Castletown, and immediately after he bad withdrawn his force
the country people rushed on the premises, broke the leeks; and
re-took possession in view of the civil End military authorities."
• Lord Cardigan will resume the command of the fI th Hussari,
in pqb)in, on the inst , the day of l ly. O'cqritiellls
General Lord plpomOeld only stopped twp days at his seat,
Laug;liton, King's county. His Lordship has.permitted his out.,
'ofliceS to be appropriated for a detachment of cavalry to be,
slationea there.
The remains of Lord
.Grey'a grandson, who died a m:i!ship-
-rKin on board the Fe 4 frigate, were ;Mewed at 'Tarberf
with '44.11/9“Ogri. ; .

........r..........,.-
The Earl of Clare kit Afeuntshanncn on Fritray for ILE) tin,
the seat of Sir Clarks Coote, M.P., thcnce to Carti.o the re-
sidence of the Duke of Leinster, and afterwards to Dublin, on
a visit to 11:s Exeellency'Lord De Grey.
The Larrikrd and Tenant Commission is to resume its
labours to-morrow at thiblin Castle.

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COURT CIRCULAR.
Wi D SOR, 111oKnAy:—The Queen and Prince Albert toc k
• heir o,ual walk' this 'morning, in the neighbourhood of the
Castle-. • - -

His 1:o3a1 Highness the Prince of Wales was taken a eir-
riag, aieng, -attended by the -Dowager Lady Lytlehon.
Her Floyd Higinne,w the PrintesS lin-Al was taken to-clay
ft.r her, usual walking exercise: • • ' •
The Earl of Liyerpoolind Sir Hen y Wi.e:oh•3 ti.;searr,ved
at the Castle, on a: visit to bur Mrjosty.
:.Iter Ithyal fli2,llnese tire Deftess c.f Kew, and Lady Pa..ny
-Howard and Lsrd W. Russell, tv;11 join the circle
'at the Castle this evening.
• "I)4siorrow• (TtieSday) her 'Majesty and r,l Hid' n^ss
'Prinee*Alliert will, it, is• expee.ted, leave Tl.e Ca-ti f3rt
.tnont, The royal party will takC their i!e,,al:t:r.• af:cr
• • •
nOnn, after hinch. - •

• ILTulsiee,BwehreiteriimailnquLiroyr.
M.P., and Mr.. H. Bingham Baring, 111.1) -
111.'Gnarantliiv.rl.lenS:maierYs°e3tt,%1"ira.Yi.'lit."PtPer,
.The Duke of Wellington arrived at. Aps'ey House yesterday
evening, from .his seati Strathfieldsayii,
Thp Right Hon. Sir HerLert.fenaler Fl Judy of. tie .Pre-
rogative Court, and Mr. Justice Brightman,, v:site.t J..mt s
Orahani yesterday, at the flome-offiee.
- Baron -de Cetto, Bavarian Alinister, traroac;e4 busine,s yes-
terday at the Foreign-office.
The Lord Chancellor artived at his r si.'t ro,e in -(3,,0rf.e •
street, Hanover-square, 'ye.eter.'ay .eveuing, se.t,
Turvlto Park, Henley-on-Thames.
Lieut.-ileneral Sir Peregrine Maitlan,l, , Ceiveinor
and Commander-in. Chief-of the Cape of 0.1 Hope. It f- towit
'yesterday for Portsmouth, to embark for the Cate of Cioud
. Viscount: Lowthi.i, • Pnstrnaoer• Gen,rd, art interview
,ith the Chancellor of the Fselicqu r y stn ia
residence in Downing street.
_ Sir Edward Knatehtmll t,t teed in town iz-F.t.7r,,,ny,lruni
scat in Kent. - The Hight lion. liaron.t atie!.,l.ll at the Fay-
-office, Whitehall, in the aftorm,oo,

...Sir Henry Hardinge arrived in town se •ter.lay, m Sou 4
Park, kcnrrsir •-
,•
J. Grahainhad *au interview -with Sir IL Po 1. )es•crtlay.
The Countess or Euston arriVed at her it sid,t.ce, it.' 01 os-
venor•place, yesterday, from Euston Hal'. -; •.• •

THE THEATRES
ST 1? A 1).

A. new nperetta, The Littiitti:*e ; 4.T the
Rose of Altenheim, xvas uquetql. at this Ili, tre 1:4,:t
evening. with the most coniplete. Tbe plot
is very simple. A rich Gern :.‘n 14-t-lc-r ha=
agreed, f. ,r a consideration—to IN it, 31 (OM triP:t
his ditughter,.o the (-bn of the
.1110
young lady herself prt fers the Ilut.tscr. SSutt
Master Maximilian Illokk, Ilam-
mond, the young block, the chip of" The-
devises a notable scheme for frightt,iiir..:l,:e room;;
lady, into acquiescence by perforut!inL: fije
untstnan,-1 :mat: threiltening, her with, nil I,orts- (it
misfortunes if
~f....)at„....d.,;es not ei.m•ent

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. _ . _ , . _ .. .... ... ...,
•.:utne I3lokk, as per' cent Ntet. Ikr ;..;•:cu.t
hoWever, is overheard. tztid the t:dilt,s vie eu'oikit IV
turned upon -Min, • -for Ileinr:ch in-ers hini ar,
.lin
it brother spirit„ civols,it into do e lirli, i -ii:::! he
can ttetually -become 4list Le :,(,,-,i;I::: b.; re:i,.-an-ing
his earthly lAA Yttrretatiok -ahif, 11:,11.g. l,iiivli;ilded
Max, any 'bade 1.i..:„f1y througli -; a:e i,_o the
Brockeni asEembleluitte" villrgers,' and, in Ito it
presence nArcel hiui ,ouattisce all his earthly con-
tracts, ' ti rtkli.ithy 114it—ii:iili the hose of
Altenhe -araritWlßvlctiF,felieednYcs flu. Ilittrer's
Bride, po t"Dittax Kelnk dot lied --ti; eetnain a single
Blok k, ar iital42,l*-. laweger -41/!0!;lov,dbig( rs. -llam -
i
i 0na.P13.11.4.6 4-11P.EtfW9 gQ..icatirdViikjit !host' !Iv was
g orious. .In .tua-xoakt...,hostairt . h_ite in the ino_l
igliit'blyistal.tlVV,PtlggitiMe;t: t, !,;" t he izeli. her-
)4i4f- but . tio --he ~aprti------ 11—.3-----tr-L,
1•T
-tri4
.dik,:.,ni; an illilint,
Vill•Adl4-ly answeci)ial • Tti,42e4„,..„,,,tp,,; mid in the
*mg: x cone as :1!e
..,I:tsk -'-711:11.--',:- l‘-ith his
•0,-.,tea €l,-/tited4.;,:n. !4114..r to- g4l till
Age Ititharhi%n,oo ‘v , friF,•hteneil at wk!. he
K, s• of .hl,' iwn voice--then
tittcchnk'N arlitibtother :spirit; ,Entil then il-I,'ln, his
.... , h
1‘ ings, &a teilMitiktl,,.-n he. Is'Sailii..g. in :I in:tBic I.
to the )<L' olisint: ha -,kerit the atelivneo in a ron:ktant
c.P.4ircadill Ittiafr.til *of any actol.,:ji'S t xviCiel,co or
less tieorat Ulan 'Hammond; tAtt:n. :I scene would not
, .
have bce 'imattcndui ,v. ith 11-o,tii•r-; lint. tae' hat&
every point tell, and brought out the v.hole in the
.idlest lights and shades of tini:tin its and Lii-ote,que
humour. I,liis,s,cene alo:-.e is stillici, it to, staitt him •
as ' a t*sL;lceeomplished artiA. The music,
which is 1e.,-.P. Cieinent White, k%ho fitted
the part of- Tlciiirich the Hunter, is exceciliegly
tasteful and characteritic. Mr. While's i wee i.
•=weet and melOdious, and is }Raid to vreat advantiure
in this house. Ile was encored, and ilect v‘diy so., in
his song, "I have thought of Ow," the melody of
which is exceedingly teautifid. Ile also si.ng the
song, "My Mountain Land," with great spirit. The
cornet-a-piston accompaniment to his latter song was
4.;xquisitely given. We congratulate Mr. White on'
his success both as a composer and a singer, and hope
soon to meeiliim again; After the opera the Attie- '
i•cati Palmer, -the Kentucky Ilan:o PlAYer,"ititale his
first oppearance...olall the negro4l,o .m..!...f. I li t V,ao I I alve
hitherto appeared Palmer is decidedly the best--
his voice ' is clear• and musical, his melodies
very sweet, and. his action graceful, yet molt gro.
'teNtic... IF was applauded to the mho, and encored
ilOubly and trel,4, until at. length he w a.; obliged to
quit tlie stage froin exhaustion. The 4,peca was pre-
,ceded by Adele, in iihich the admirable 'acting of
Geore Bennett 'as the roue hro' her, told with most
thrilling effect ; we have seldom 'seen a finer piece of
acting than his dying seeiw. Ilan v,:ond and Airs.
-Montgomery, as dying Sec-in. han naiid aml Mrs.
Montgomery, as l)o:dou and ::(.,e ..%(,1 e txcelient,
and the school scene was as richly lannourous as i
ever; and elicited roars of laughter. ,The evening's
entertainments conchnled with Lore Langlsat Lack -
smiths. • The house was crowded in ev•ery riart.. .

VICTORIA:
Last evening a new piece entitled Poverty, in three
acts, of that class which is termed thedotacsiicdratna,
was produced at this theatre to a very crow fled.
uudi-
ence. The plot and incidents are common place
enough, Lut-are rather well- wot ked our in "tta.
Leonard (Mr. Freer), the son of Squire7Graitam,
having married against the father's will, a luitrible
girl; subsequently fhids himself and family, consisting
of his wife, Mary (Miss Vincent), and the onlyson, in
great poverty in London, where he is lured into a
course of crime by the yeoman, George Gartland ( Mr.
Nantz), whose proffered love Alitry ha.l ri-j,cted fur
that of Leonard. In the course of vice and crime
which he has thus entered upon, his w ire Airy is
abandoned by him, and, goaded on by Gartland. who
thirsts for revenge for his rejected suit, he attempts, a
country inn near his father's resi&nce, to bring his
evil deeds to a climax, by robbing; voust,7 naval
officers who stop there for the night, and vitt'o prove
to be the unfortunate burglar's Fon and his brother,
just returned from India. Mary Graham, the mother,
who had overheard her husband and his instigator
planning the robbery, gives the alarm, and Leonard,
already broken down by misery and remorse, sinks
confounded by the presence of his brother, child, and
wife, and dies. There is a sort of underplot, in which
Mr. Gardener, as Mr. Philip Augustus Figgins, and
Miss Arden, as his wife, were successful in drawing
forth much boisterims mirth. Miss Vincent and Mr.
Freer both elicited ..frequent applause through-
out the piece. The scenery was appropriate; and
though similar. pleees - have been .brought out
in more showy style, and with broader effect, and
therefore more attractive to many of the playgoers
who frequent the Victoria, yet the miss en scene in
the present instance was more consonant to just taste.
The piece was entirely successful. A trifle in two
acts, called the Broken Promise; or, a Sister's Honour
and a Brother's Duty, followed ; and the entertain-
inents of the evening concluded w:tlt the l'antomitne
of Harlequin,- Line Obi Lucky, which the eood folk
beyond the Thames seem by no means to he tired oi
37,?t At various times in the course of tha 'evening
the amusements were diversified by the- tistic en-
counters of some effervescent spiri:sin the more ex-
alted regions of the house, who, quite regartllefts ► f
the proceedings on the stage 11; low, huff,tn-d each
other most -manfully, amid the cht.ers, 41.:Itts, and
laughter of their respective abettors.

BUCKINGHAM THE ACTOR.— Oor theatrical realer~
will regret to kai n that this favourite of she Vans-hall.
&c.; is now suffering under all the privativos that rt verty and
Sickness entail, Mr. Buckingham %%asap eicellcso I,e(t,,mer.
His Trapbois (in the Fortunes of Nige/j wield have maee,any
actor's fortune ; but, alss ho pla)eit it at the Sol Ivy, slat at
Covent-garden, and John Dull has a ts'al knack of jodking
things by where they are done, heeiluu title tow they are
Clone} and the Surrey then not 11{M. Ili, Giles
( Miller's Maid) was ,&o au ailscab!e pero.m lice. Mr.
Buckingham has not been reduced t,, di-t ess by fell e• or ax-
cess—he has 311 his I.fe been known as an Lido thins, honAir-
able man ; but a wife, a large family (wp h, iii;te
dress), all dependent upon hit at lei gth bore hlm
H down. e has .now bees, ill, hclple,s, tor many inctiths.-
4'uticlay iinse,s.

. .. .
lIAMBURGII, JAN. 3.—An (7.t.licial stati•n:etit or the
maritime commerce (if liana urgh ivies the t:t.iulltti, ~i tiler-
ehantment that arrived therm this last f 4er -.0-4.ii, ks 't)llt)ws:
. , 441i1 iS4I :841 1643
VVitl. cargoes .. 9,640 2,t-99 3,(K;1 3,419
frs ballast . 295 304 r‘i!s9 ;Pi)
Under Elish colcurs t'l4 ni •OA /
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