The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-12 00:00:00

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THE - SUN, LONDON,_TITTIRSDAY E rENING, .ITJNF! 12, 1845.

THE MAYNOOTH GRANT.

The following protest against the second reading of the
ntynooth bill in the House of Lords has been made by Lords
Farnham and Kenyon.
PROTEST AGAINST THE SECOND READING OF

I -RE L A
OPENING CF DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.

DUBLIN, JUNE 10.—A decision of considerable importance,
connected with the opening of Trinity College, was pronounced
to-day in the Court of Queen's Ben h. In the present term, Mr.
O'lla.,;an, on behalf of Mr. D. C. Heron, a Roman Catholic student
of Trinity College, moved the Court that a peremytory mandamus
should go to the visitors, the Primate and the Archbishop of Dublin,
requiring them to hear Mr. Heron's appeal against the decision of
the Provost and Senior Fellows, who had refused him a scholarship,
because he was a Roman Catholic, and would not take the Sacra.
mental Test.

The case was argued at great length by Mr. ©'Hagan and Mr.
Holmes for Mr. Heron, and by Mr. Miller and Mr. Napier, Q.C.,
for the visitors.

'I he Chief Justice gave the unanimous decision of the Court,
that the peremptory mandamus should go, notwithstanding the re-
turn of the visitors.

" This (the Dublin Evening Post remarks) is ajudgment of the
last importance. It raises the question distinctly as to the right of
the Catholics of Ireland to scholarships—of which they have been
so long deprived. The law is with them ; high legal authorities
at the bar and in the College are with them ; and we confidently
anticipate that justice will at last be done. We congratulate the
country on this great step in advance towards it."

C UP 1' ITL A

IViNnsort, WEPNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert,
ar comp /lied by their illustrious gin.sts, went this morning to
it ,speet th.! troops stationed here, consisting (tithe Regiment of
f :oyal Horse Guards and the r,etond battalion of the Coldstream
'Gust do.

Her Majesty, followed by the illustrious party, was conducted
by the Lord Chamberlain, at ten o'clock, to the royal en-
tr once, 'here the Queen mounted a fine Chesnut charger.
er Majesty were a blue habit, with velvet collar and small
mi stal buttons, a Field Marshall's aiguillette on the right
shoulder, and the star of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
over the left breast. Also a cap (resembling the undress
rrdlitary cap), bordered with wide gold lace, and having the
p ?air in front edged with gold. His Royal Highness Prince
Albert, his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, and most
of: the gentlemen were on horseback. The Duchess of hue-
citeuch (Mistress of the Robcs) attended the Queen on horse-
ba ck. The rest of the ladies were in carriages.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was habited in a Field
M arshal's uniform, arid wore the ensign of the Order of the
G erter, and of the Golden Fleece, and the stars of she Legion
of Honour and of the Order of the Bath.
His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours wore a French
military uniform..

The Queen's Equerries, the Hon. Colonel Grey and Major-
General Wernysi ; Prince Albert's Equerries, Major-General
Six Edward Bowater and Colonel Bouverie ; the Groom in
Waiting, Colonel Berkeley Drummond; and the Officer in
Waiting on the Duke de Nemours, M. Borel de Bretizel, were
irr uniform, and on horseback.

The Master of the Hor-s-e, Lord George Lennox, Major-
Gimeral Sir Henry Wheatley, and the Master of the Howe-
hoi d, were also on horseback, and wore the Windsor uniform.
Two carriages and four went with the royal natty ; the first
conveyed her Royal Highness the Duchess .t Kent, her Royal
Highness the Duchess de Nemours, and his Serene Highness
the Prince of Leiningen. In the second carriage were his
Royal Hig,fr.ne,,s the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness the
Princess Ito.eal, her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, and
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Lady in Waiting, the Coun-
tess of Gainsborough, and la Bayonne de Finguerhn, were in
the third carriage.
The Marquis of Ormonde followed in one of the Russian
Droslikas.

The royal and august party proceeded to the Great Park,
where the Royal Horse Guards, commanded by Colonel
Richardson, and the second battalion of Coldstream Guards,
commanded by Colonel Henry Bentinck, were assembled, with
the bands of both regiments, and received the Sovereign on
her arrival, with the usual honours.
The cavalry regiment and infantry battalion then passed in
review, the Queen being in front, having the Duke de Ne-
mours on her right, and Prince Albert on her left. The
Duchess of Buccleuch and the Master of the Horse were be-
hind her Majesty, and the Equerries in Waiting and the Gen-
tlemen of the Court were ranged in a line at a short distance.
The remainder of the royal party witnessed the spectacle
from the carriages.
-The inspection being ended, her Majesty and Prince Albert
and the whole of their illustrious visitors and suite quitted the
Park shortly before half-past eleven o'clock, and returned to
the Castle.

His Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the Duchess of Bed-
ford, Lord George Lennox, and Sir Henry Wheatley, took
their departure from the Castle to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken an airing this
morning in the pleasure grounds of the Castle.
A copy of the Pictorial Times, printed on white satin, con-
taining illustrations of the Queen's recent Bal Costume, was
submitted to her Majesty this morning for presentation by Mr.
C. Evans, and was graciously accepted.
His Royal Highness Prince George, the Duke of Buccleuch,
the Duke of Rutland, and Lady Adeiiza Manners, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter, the Countess of Jersey, and the
Ladies Clementina and Adria Villiers, the Right lion. Sir
Robert and Lady Peel and Captain Francis Seymour, arrived
at the Castle to-day on a visit to her Majesty.
His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, attended by the
Hon. Colonel Grey and M. Borel de Bretizel, went to-day
to attend the Ascot Races.

At four o'clock the royal and august party left the Castle
for a drive ; the Queen and the Duchess de Nemours being in
a pony phaeton and pair ; the Duchess of Buccleuch and la
Baronne M. de Finguerlin, in the double-seated Droshka, and
the Countess of Gainsborough in the single Droshka. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert was on horseback, attended by Major-
General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen shortly fol-
lowed the royal party on horseback.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing in the
afternoon in an open carriage, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent at her residence, Frogmore Lodge. Prince
Alfred was also taken an airing in the afternoon. A grand
banquet was given by her Majesty in the evening in St.
George's Hall. The dinner table was very tastefully decorated
with a number of choice flowering shrubs, inserted in vases of
silver gilt, copied from the Warwick vase, and also with se-
veral vases filled with fine growing strawberries, both flowers
and fruit being the produce of the royal gardens at Frogmore.
The " Prince of Wales's Epergne" was placed in the middle of
the table, opposite the seats of her Majesty and of her illustrious
guests.
The Band of the Royal 1-horse Guards was in attendance in
one of the galleries of the Hall during dinner.

The royal dinner party included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, their Royal Ilighnesses the Duke and
Duchess de Nemours, his Serene Highness the Prince of Lei-
ningen, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleach, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Exeter, the Right Hoe. Sir Robert and Lady
Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl
and Countess Delawarr, and Lady Mary Sackville West, the
Earl and Countess of Jersey, and the Ladies Clementina and
Adela Villiers, Earl of Rosslyn. Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Mr. and Lady Theresa Digby,
the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Spencer, Mr. George Edward
and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, La Baronne
M. de Finguerlin, M. Borel de Bretizel, Hon. and Rev.
Charles Leslie Courtenay, Captain Francis Seymour, Colonel
and Mrs. Bentinck, Colonel Richardson, Colonel and Mrs.
Bouverie, and General and Miss Wemyss, and Lieut.-Colonel
Codrincrton. . .

The. Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday from Kew. The Royal Duke returned
to Kew in the afternoon.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel left town yesterday afternoon for
Windsor Castle, or, a visit to her Majesty.

The Duke of Buceleuch alio left town on a visit to her Ma-
jesty at Windsor Castle yesterday afternoon.

CRICKET.

THE MARYLEBONE CLUB WITH HILLYER AND LILLYWHITE V.
THE UNDER-GRADUATES OF CAN MIDGE.—This mat,h was brought
to a conclusion on Tuesday, when the Matylebone Cricket Club
were declared the victors by seven wickets. At the close of the
day on Monday it will be remembered the game stood thus :•
Marylebone, first innings, 109 ; Cambridge 28 on the first hands
and 79, with two wickets to go down on the second. On Tuesday
morning the University renewed their station at the wickets, mad
the last batsman was not removed until his side had scored 19 on ;
so that the club had to go in for 20 to win. Ere they had accom.
plished that object, however, four of their wickets had succumbed to
the attacks of the collegians.
The match for this day at Lord's is the University of Oxford v.
the University of Cambridge, in which the following gentlemen will
contend for the priority of play :
OXFORD.—M. Ainslie, Esq., T. Hughes, Esq., B. Moberley,
Esq., V. Smith, Esq., P. Williams, Esq., G. Yonge, Esq., H. Hild.
yard, Esq., C. Randolph, Esq., H. Des Veeux, Esq., C. Ridding,
Esq., and R. Honey wood, Esq.
CAMBRIDGE.--/lots. F. Grimston, S. C. Campbell, Esq., F. L.
Currie, Esq., G. Ottey, Esq., E. M. Dewing, Esq., F. Hughes,
Esq , R. Long, Esq., J. Nicholson, Esq., C. 0. Pell, Esq., S. Rip.
pingall, Esq., and T. Wroth, Esq.

LITERATURE.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIETV

The present number possesses greater variety than is
usullly displayed in this Review, which devotes so much
Taco and labour to subjects of political economy, and,
in our opinion, far too little to literature and the elegant
arts. It is therefore much more attractive to general
readers, and more adapted also to the principal objects of
its conductors—the dissemination of true principles of go-
vernment amongst the greatest number. Manaind re-
quire to be led on—to be beguiled, as it were, into such
studies ; and this can be more effectually accomplished
by furnishing an agreeable book of instruction and
amusement, occasionally intermixing light articles with
others of more serious and forbidding cast. We have
here not fewer than three or four of the former deserip-
tion—" Old and New London," " The Iliad of Homer,"
" Life of Voltaire," and Mrs. Norton's new poem,
" The Child of the Islands." To Homer, however,
scarcely fair justice is done. The writer seems too much
occupied in minute criticisms, in detecting faults in
translations, and in other labours more congenial to the
spirit of a German scholiast, titan a lively and classical
reviewer. At the same time, we must admit, his views
in general are very correct ; he blames with truth the
tedious and expletive paraphrases of Pope, which have
no foundation in the original, and gives due praise to a
new translation by the son of the Vice Chancellor of
England. The following description, by the writer, of
what a translation should be, we recommend to the at-
tention of those engaged in one of the mot difficult of
classical labours:—

" A translation is, or ought to be, as much a resemblance of
the thoughts and style of a writer, as a portrait of his features.
It is not enough to know his height, age, and form,—we must
have his air, complexion, and countenance. There is abun-
dance of gold and silver in the world, it is the head on the
medal that gives it its value. The thoughts of the ancients
ha've occurred, and will occur to thousands ; we must have
more—we must have the expression in its sharpness of finish,
and boldness of outline ; we must have the words that burn, not
perhaps with all the brilliant glow they possessed, as they flew
off from the anvil of the master, but at least with that portion
of heat which may be preserved .in a translation. What men
want is not Pope's or Dryden's poetry, but Homer's or Virgil's.
It is of that they are ignorant, and it is that consequently they
want to know. If, instead, we are presented with a beautiful
poem, we accept it with pleasure and gratitude—but we still
look for our original object. Cromwell, with characteristic
force of mind, said to Lely, ' If you don't paint every wart on
my face, I wouldn't give a farthing for your picture."
But by far the most interesting article in the number
is that on Voltaire, founded on a review of Livt s of
Men of Letters, &c., by Lord Brougham. Full justice
is done both to the illustrious Frenchman, and to his
noble biographer. Every reader has heard of' the phi-
losopher (;f Ferney, of his wit and sarcasm, and poetry
and history, and almost every accomplishment which
befits a great mind, with, we admit, one important
exception, but taking the extracts from Lord Brougham's
work, and the additional information furnished by the
reviewer into account, we have never read any life
which places in such a strong light the versa-
tile powers, the high genius, and the great abilities of
this distinguished writer. His avowed infidelity is
justly and strongly condemned, while allowances
are at the same time made for the weak-
nesses of human nature, and the provocation
which Voltaire had received from a Church and a State
vying with each other in vices which cast such a stigma
on France during the middle of the eighteenth century,
and paved the way for the great revolution. We give
the subjoined extract as a fair specimen of the ability
with which the reviewer has accomplished his work :
" His life was one long strife with what he deemed error ;
to the end of exposing falsehood, he early determined to dedi-
cate all the energies and faculties of his extraordinary genius :
endowed with a pungent and brilliant wit in a measure far
surpassing that which is allotted even to the most distinguished
among men, he naturally employed this his most formidable
weapon of offence against that which he unfortunately be-
lieved to be the great master-error of his time. In so doing,
he unwisely and unfairly wounded the pious feelings of the
whole Christian world, and however great was the immediate
effect of his assaults, has by the very outrage thus committed
upon existing religious opinions, very materially diminished the
extent and the permanence of his influence upon the opinions
of mankind.

" There is, however, much that may be adduced in extenua-
tion of the conduct of Voltaire. It behoves us not to judge of
him by the circumstances which now surround us, and which,
in so far as they are more happy than than those which ex-
isted in his day, may truly be said to be greatly the result of
his indefatigable exertions in the cause of tolerance and free-
dom. To estimate fairly the course pursued by him, we must
place ourselves in the same position ; must form a vivid, as
well as an accurate picture of the baneful influences of the
religion of his people, and of the many dreadful corruptions
which rendered the Catholic Church of his time one of the
most active and effective instruments of evil that ever hung
like a curse over the destinies of mankind. Let us once pic-
ture to ourselves the extent and potency of the bigotry and
intolerance which then afflicted Europe, and we shall cease to
wonder at the zeal and steadiness with which Voltaire pursued
the pernicious superstition of his countrymen ; we shall find
ourselves unwilling to rebuke the wit which covered with ever-
lasting ridicule the miserable pretences of piety and virtue
which led to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and all the
many horrors with which that atrocious result of doting im-
becility was attended. We shall learn to honour the courage,
and wonder at the skill and perseverance which rescued the un-
fortunate family of Calas from the pious fury of the intolerant
and bigoted magistrates of Toulouse. We shall involuntarily
begin to esteem the intrepid defender of Sirven, and to believe
that he who boldly stood between the ferocious assassins of the
unfortunate La Barre, and their remaining victims, has many
claims upon our love and gratitude, and that his large and
generous charity would cover a greater multitude of sins than
truth can fairly lay at the door of Voltaire. Living as we now
live, safe from the assaults of any such barbarous fanaticism
we are by our very safety rendered almost incapable'
of properly appreciating' the worth of him who, in an age of
such terrible and ferocious bigotry, could raise his voice firmly
and loudly in defence of outraged humanity. 'fhe people of
Paris, however, could and did understand the value of the great
deeds of which we are speaking. Who is it they are follow-
ing,' said a stranger at Paris, in the year 1795, to a poor
woman—' Who is that old man the people are crowding after ?'
The poor woman knew him not as the great dramatist or tie
great poet. She had never read Zaire,' never heard of the
Henriade ;' neither could she tell the inquiring stranger that
the patriarch of toleration was here—the great philosopher,
the greater historian. But she answered, Do you not know ?
it is the saviour of the family of Calas.' Il out cette reponse,'
says Condorcet, et au milieu de toutes les marques d'admira-
tion qui lui furent prodiguees, ce fut ce qui le toucha le "