The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-18 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1828.

%vhose tears then flowed afresh, as with louder sobbings she
exclaimed--
" Oh, my Lord, what a sight is here ! Those dear eyes
'save been fixed as they are now for hours. He was a
good man, my Lord ; such a heart ! such tenderness !
Oh, he cannot, he cannot continue long ! Oh, that I
should live to see this !"
As Mrs. Greendale spoke, Penelope rose from her
kneeling posture, and turning round, then first saw that
Lord Spoonbill was in the room. His Lordship
intreated Mrs. Greendale to compose herself, and
then turning again towards the side man's
•he held- out his hand to Penelope, who resigned
to his Lordship the hand of the dying man,- which
she had been holding. Lord Spoonbill took the offered
hand, and kneeling on one knee pressed the hand to his
lips, and looked with searching earnestness to the face of
the patient, as if endeavouring to rouse him into conscious-
ness And recollection. The eyes were fixed anti motionless,
and their-brightness was passing away. After a few mo-
ments there appeared a convulsive movement of the lips,
and there seemed to be a gleam of consciousness in the eye,
and the hand which Lord Spoonbill had been holding was
lifted up and placed on his Lordship's head, from whence
it fell in a moment, and the breathing, after one long sigh,
died att-ay and was heard no-more.
There are other incidents in the tale, such as the
interview between a gentleman Who has just return-
ed home from a sixteen years residence in India, and
Mr. Kipperson, the agriculturist, in which the latter
strives hard to do away with what he calls the ex-
ploded prejudices of the former, and to persuade him
that the public mind (thanks to Mechanics' Insti-
tutes and all that) has nearly attained its acme of
perfection—which we might dwell on at some length,
did not our limits abruptly warn us to a conclusion.
Enough then to soy, that Penelope is a lively tale
of Theodore Hook's sketchy school, fertile in smart
remark, but barren in invention, and altogether unde-
serving of the outrageous puffs which have for the
last fortnight been propitiating the public in its
behalf.

SECO N 1) EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Foreign- Office, April 18.
The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Henry
Stephen Fox, Esq., late Secretary to his Majesty's Lega-
tion at Naples, to be his Majesty's Plenipotentiary to the
United Provinces of Rio do la Plata.

Colonial-Office, April 17.
The King has been pleased to appoint Major General
Nathaniel Blackwell to be Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Island of Tobago.

Whitehall, April 17.

The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Peter
Markeschan to the church at Locligilphead, in the parish of
Glassry, in the presbytery of Inverary and shire of Argyll.

Whitehall, April 17.

The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Lieut.
George Read, of the Royal Navy, late Lieutenant of his
Majesty's ship Lively, his royal licence and permission,
that he may, in compliance with the earnest desire ex-
pressed by his late Most Faithful Majesty John the
Sixth, King of Portugal, accept and wear the insignia
of a Knight of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of
the Tower and Sword, which that Sovereign was pleased to
confer upon him, on occasion of his Most Faithful Majesty's
visit on board that ship in the Tagus, in the month of
May, 1824 ; provided nevertheless, that his Majesty's said
licence and permission doth not authorise, and shall not be
deemed or construed to authorise, the assumption of any
stile, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertain-
ing unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms : and also to
command, that the said concession and especial mark of
his Majesty's royal favour,' together with the relative do-
cuments, be registered in the College of Arms.

Crown-Office, April 18.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

BOROUGH OF SUDEURY.-John Norman Macleod, of
Dunvegon-castle, in the county of Inverness, Esq., in the
room of John Wilke, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.

Whitehall, Feb. 27.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Ralph Lpicer, of
Great Marlow, in the county of Bucks, Gent., to be a
Master in the High Court of Chancery.

Commission in the Shrewsbury Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County
of Salop.
William Egerton Jeffreys, jun., Gent., to be Coronet,
vice Baldwyn Leighton, promoted. Dated April 9, 1829.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
James Rhodes, maltster, Gomersal, York. '
Robert Oliver, 'Willow-walk, Bermondsey, glue-mane•
Facturer.

Inhabitants of Moyallo, in the county of Down, praying
For the Abolition of Slavery.

Sir R. WILSON presented a petition from the Affec-
tionate Friendly Society at Preston, in Lancashire, against
the Friendly Societies Bill. They considered that nothing
satisfactory could be done until more full information could
be obtained upon the Subject, and therefore time for that
purpose ought to be allowed.
Mr. PORTMAN said the object of the present Bill was
to amend the former law. There was a clause in it
exempting the old Societies from the operation of the
Tunv law, provided they made no applications for new rules.
The Committee, however, would meet on Tuesday next,
and if they reported again that clause, it would, of course,
be abandoned.

Mr. W. DUNDAS preiented a petition from the Royal
College of Surgeons, praying that the House might take
into their consideration the state of the supply of anatomical
subjects to the different schools of anatomy, and grant such
relief as the case required.
Mr. Secretary PEEL presented petitions against the new
Friendly Societies Bill from the Tichfield Society of United
Friends, meeting at the Coach and Horses, in Tichfield,
.Ind from the Wickham, Southampton, and Fareham So-
cieties. They did not object to any prospective regulations
with respect to new Societies, but they protested egainst
anxinterference with the old. The Bill professed to ex-
empt existing Societies, provided they applied, not to
amend their regulations. Now this clause was calculated
to prevent any improvement in the regulation of the old
Societies, and it 'might upon that ground be desirable to
alter it.

Mr. FOWEI. BUXTON presented four similar peti-
.ions from the county of Middlesex.
_ .

Mr. FOWEL BUXTON moved for an Address to his
Majasty, for returns of the Slave Population in the Colo-
nies, distinguishing the sexes, and other particulars.—
Ordered.

Mr. IH presented two petitions from Friendly So-
cieties, in Hilgate, Scotland, and Landon, Dorset, against
the Friendly Societies Bill.
Mr. HUME said, he was requested to present a petition
from St. Mary and St. Ann, Shandon, Cork, complaining
that they were taxed by Protestants for the building and
repairing of Protestant churches. The Hon. Member said
he entirely concurred with the prayer of the petition.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Dundeen, pray-
ing for the repeal of the Stamp Duties on Receipts.—Laid
on the table.