The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-01 00:00:00

SPIMT or TI-It PUBLIC JOIYIINALS.

One of those contemptible farces, called the Hemp.
shire Pitt Club, held its annual Meeting at Win.
cheater last week, and was attended by no less (or
more should we rather say ?) than eleven persons, and
of these, two were country gentlemen, six clergymen, and
the rest " persons unknown," And is this really all that
remains of Pitt principles in Mr. Hose's own county,
where, while the Minister lived, and bad the disposal
of all the good things of life, caps were tossed up by
hundreds—nay, by thousands, in his praise ? u How
dumb the tuncliil !" What is become even of those
who to this hour aro revelling in the sweets of Mr.
Pitt's providing ? had they not one hour to bestow
upon the memory of the man whose deeds they at least
feel the consequences of? Or is the thing become
in itself so truly ridiculous and out of place that they
are ashamed any longer to countenance it ? In fact,
it is high time for this foolery to be at an end. Lord
Somers, in the case of the Herefordshire Club, has
shown the utter absurdity and inconsistency of the
thing; for what, for the most part, are these Pitt
Clubs become, but a mere knot of Clergy getting to-
gether to promote and keep alive an opposition to, one
of the most prominent and notorious of Mr. Pitt's
principles ! Of this Hampshire Pitt Club a corres-
pondent remarks, that its announcement has for seve-
rid years been made in very nearly the same words,
and its meetings attended by, nearly the very same
people ; so that had the provincial Papers bad the para.
graph stereotyped, they would have been saved, the
trouble of every year recomposing the very same ar.
tiele.—Morning Herald.

A Meeting will be held to-day, to consider whether
the Shareholders in the Chilian and Peruvian Mining
Scheme shall proceed with the thing, or give it up,
before more money flies from their pockets. We re-
: commend the Shareholders to give it up as soon as
poasible, for, from the first, it is as precious a bit of
humbug as ever, John Bull was inveigled into. We
recommended the Public, when first we heard of it,
to have nothing to do with it ; but no, John Bull's
mouth was wide open for large gains, little capital to
be advanced, and no trouble, but, merely meeting to
talk and pass Resolutions for Miners, Secretaries, and
other worthies to execute. 0 John I what re blind
buzzard bast thou been for the last two years, and yet
you call this the intellectual age 1 And you are going
to have a University that is to cost not more than
150,000/. Now mark—before . you have ddne with
that University, the builders will got the Council
out of the Contract, and your University will not cost
you much less than half a million, or even a million, in-
eluding books and other paraphernalia.—lbid.
It would appear from an article in The New Monthly
Magazine for November, entitled Sketches of Pa.
Tilden Society," that a sort of. counterpart of the very
amusing farce lately acted at Kingston by the Surrey
JUslices, was exhibited about the same time at Paris,
Never, (says the vivacious Frenchman?, perhaps,
were so acute and intelligent a people as the French, ruled
by so silly a Government. As a proof of this, I shall not
enter into a detail of circumstances, which would not, per-
haps, be easily understood by foreigners : I will merely
Bive you the following fact. There is a Theatre on the
oulevards of Paris, similar to your Coburg Theatre in
London. At this Theatre there was recently announced
a piece, entitled f Le Pauvre de l'llotel Dieu.' The
great hospital called L'Hotel Dieu being situated on the
Place de Notre Dame, where the action of the melodrama
was supposed to take place, it was necessary that one of
the scenes should represent the church, with its tine Go-
-04 portico, told two, towers ; Lit our pious Government
was. *Locked at the idea of the holy edifice being represen-
ted on the stagea place excommunicated by the Galli-
eau church. The Dramatic Censorship informed the ma-
nagers of the Theatre tie Is Gaietc that they could only be
permitted, at the very most, to represent a side view of
Notre Dame. The managers, though not a little este-
tithed at this singular communication, nevertheless
rested their scene painter to prepare a different view of
the Cathedral of Paris. The painter, obedient to the
orders of the Censor, produced a new scene, exhibiting
only one wing and one of the towers of Notre Dame.—
At length came the night !bled for the performance of the
Pauvre de l'llotel Dieu,' but just us the curtain was
abont to rise, a gendarme arrived at full gallop, with a
fresh order from the Prefect of Police, intimating, that
not oven a side view of the Church of Notre Dame must
be profanely represented in a theatre. The managers were
consequently obliged to make use of their old scenes; and
the performers of the Theatre de la Gaicte, not being
restrained by any etiquette, related the above anecdote,
which in a few days was publicly circulated through Paris.
Only imagine what may be done in the provinces when
such absurdities are committed in Paris, in the face of six
free journals. • Bid pray observe the Machinery, if I may
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origin. express myself, in which this singular order had
• origin. The Censor and the Clerks who wrote it felt its
absurdity as much as the public did, and were the first to
laugh at it in priVate. But what care they how much the
Bourbon Government is degraded by such measures ?
The Censor and the Clerks are well aware that their ad-
vancement will be more rapid, in proportion as their or•
tiers are extravagant and ridiculous,
We, leave it to others to determine whether the
alarm of Mr. I-1. Sumner least our late Most Gracious
Majesty George the Third should be thrust into the
City o f the Plague at the Cobourg, or that the French
employ 6, lest the Church of Notre Dame should fon' n
the subject of the scenery of a piece at the Theatre 'of
the Boulevards, is the richest treat. But this we can
say, that even with the appendage of the gensdarme
rushing into the Theatre when the curtain was about
to be drawn, to prevent the profanation of the Church,
even by the representation of a side view of it, the
French exhibition appears to have been 'altogether a
lime business compared with the successive displays at
Kingston. We hope some Frenchman will translate,
fer the edification of his countrymen, the whole of the
most amusing scene of the Vauxhall Licensing, as re-
ported in a late number of ibis .Tournal. But we fear
the national vanity of our neighbours, will not allow
tbem to afford its this triumph. They would as soon
think of writing a candid account of the Battle of
Waterloo, as of doing justice to the merits of the
Magistracy, the very Surrey flower of the 44 Great
Unpaid." The French correspondent ' of The
New Monthly reveals the Secret, of the superiority
of our neighbours. ‘; The Censor and the Clerks
absurdity,
(he says), who wrote the order,. felt its
Were the first
as much M the public di,q, and
• private. Now, in II
to laugh at At to pr our op,
Ilion, men who are - themselves conscious Ariat
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they are acting an absurd part, are infinitely less smug.
ing than men' who exhibit absurdity without being eon.
scions of it.
We will undertake to say there was not
our of the actors in the Vauxhall drama, who WAS not
seriously persuaded that every sentence
he uttered was
inspired by absolute wisdom. Our Magistrates are
utter strangers to that dread of ridicule witch haunts
even the Parisian gendarme, Heaven having,
•
fortu-
nately for us, denied them the perception of the ridi-
culous. Hence the moment the. affair of Notre Dame
got wind, the
poor French Employe would, no doubt,
Withdraw his order. But we have seen that every year
the Surrey Licensing Exhibition has been rising in

richness. The-exhibition of last year was More amus-
ing than that of the preceding year, and that of the
present year, rich as it is, will probably be exceeded by
that of the next. The actors, so far from being dis-
heartened by the perception of any supposed want of
sympathy with their labours, on the part of the public,
derive fresh courage from every successive display.—
How far Mr. Gyc will feel consoled by knowing that
the Magistrates, in destroying his property, have given
so marked a triumph to the nation, we cannot exactly
say. Had he been under a French Police; his pro-
perty iniett have suffered less; but his patriotism may
induce him to make light of this. He ought to frame
and.glaie the Report m The Chronicle, and stick it
up in one of the most conspicuous parts of the Gardens
next summer; and we think we can assure him, that
it will not be one of the poorest treats of the place.-
-Morning chronicle.