The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

NF LITERATURE. COURT CIRCULAR.
'I'SOIV S DISPATCHES AND- LETTERS. 1 IA.
..71NDSOR, TUESDAY.
Vol. I. Culburn London 1844. Misses Liddell
—The Queen and Prince Al-
I bert, attowled by Lady Portman, Hon.
The great - which 'dispatches' of the Duke and Paget, Lord Byron,
success the .
of The
la , ngton, as edited by Colonel Gurs.oo ,have , Major-General lion. Captain Duncombe,
7 d ' Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie, re-
national im
eIY met with, no doubt suggested the idea of the turned yesterday evening from town. .
present publication Nihich refers to subjects of equal This morning her Majesty and Prmce. Albert-
I walked out for some time M the slopes and pleasure
port -nd bids fair to obtain an equal
measure f ante, "
h 0 popuiarity. .1a the volume before us we I grounds adjacent to the Castle.
front a sketch of the public career of Lord Nelson, 1 Their Royal Highnesses Wales
4,:foui the year 1777 downi to the year 1794—a period !Prince Alfred, the 1-)reacss Royal, and the Prinee.„.,:,
Ras unceasing toil and anxiety, to the hero, when he Alice, were tat: 'tile. prince of _ _
~
`: a their accustomed airinr, co-day.
l‘ fighting his way to fame, amidst a host of obstacles The E
Lie e4-;:al of Ellenborough and `..lcie Earl of Liver-
taintedli would have crushed the energies of an inferior 1
• But the victor of the Nile and Trafalgar,
.P°ll', k ,r,Ord Steward) ar.rived. a.t thc Castle to-day, on
'aosttwithstanding the cloud that too frequently 0:,,ea.. a visit to the Queen. 'The Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel arrived in the afternoon, on a visit to her Ma-
ear his prospects, in the earlier portion of '„,3 naval 1 jesty.
Cher,car -
in when. 7 acting under the orders of
to Zs.M.editerranean, seems never co have given
Hood I In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert
given way I again walked out.
heart pair, but uniformly to 'nava maintained a stout Kent, Lady
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of . . d
dispatch ! and trusted, Elea laTaPe]leon, to his star. His , Charlotte Dundas, and the Countess Wratislaw, joined
gaed_es, dated in, the --eiir 1794, when he was en- the royal circle at dinner to-day.
n 0 e ' . -'
of ,1.1 peratl.ana off Corsica, give abundant proofs
, The band of the Royal Horse Guards., was in at-
-1114 well-r
, agadated confidence in his own powers of tondanae during dinner. Her Majesty s private band
'uled the
leadin,aua 'nab, conviction that when called on to play a afterwards attended in the Castle, and perlor ,
the,. :, Part, he should not be found wanting. Yet !remainder of the evening.
r.„•4 Is nothing of boastfulness in his private letters I Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
-"fficial communications this period; writes Charlotte
'pith
uniform,ventur modesty and propriety ; and when he and Sir George Couper, .. ..,
town.
Haat returned to Frogmore
na es upon a decided opinion in opposition to those
u --e Nil . House yesterday evening, from
~.
to
rig N OSe erders he is acting, he takes special care lice Loyal Highness the Duchess. did
VI twice in
h e reasons for the faith that is in him, and argues George Hayter the honour of sitting tostiinnn
the Point with an ingenuity that cannot fail to extort the last week forthe picture of the Christening of his
one reader's repect and admiration. There is Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Peculiarit ,in Lord Nelson'sl' et h,* which is
equoi 3
lingtoY remarkable in those of the Duke of Wel-
the,_ n• There is nothing cloudy or diffuse about
.theydirect deal .in no circumlocutions, but come
q,,,,,et the point in a concise, nervous, business-like
them,
wor.thy, of all praise. He who runs may read
enui.. which is not uniformly the case with the official
osto";;unications of military and naval men, who are
The'",Y, more ready with the sword than the pen.
eut:,,M.ditor of the volume before us, who has exe-
io bui his task in a careful and diligent spirit, observes,
othei:, Prefaco____„
Every Letter of Nelson, whether
so that t cr private, is placaai according to its exact date,
kind e the thoughts ?Ail duties which occupied his
day, esu4ch daY, and eXcan at various times of the same
extreme] be traced ;. and these transitions are often
advaot: Y curious, This arrangement has a great
cause the Bair r.ny mere classification, not only be-
e r
unbroken lof thought and of events , are alike
dispatch °' bra the dry profeisional details of a public
teat ar-e often by the more attractive con-
. s of relieved
edit , Private and familiar communications." The
or
"hi
4, , arrangement of the " Nelson Dispatches," to
14itatle here modestly alludes, deserves every praise
atet th 'lO, and Enables us to trace tbe hero step by
aig t Yough his arduous career, and gives us an in-
,,,,ind Into the thoughts and feelings of which his
iag hi as full, while steadily and perseveringly fight-
yeatos waY to fame. We quote one of his private
r pieations to his wife, dated from Corsica, in the
fret, e 194, previously to that melancholy separation
hie,. 'er, hich was brought about through the in-
aaes of Lady
Hamilton :

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived in town on Monday evening from a visit to
her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Witley Court,
Worcestershire. His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge visited the Royal Duchess yesterday at
Gloucester House, after her arrival from Kew.
His Excellency M. Dedel returned to Wilton-
crescent last Sunday evening from Tottenham Park,
to attend the ceremony of opening the Royal Ex-
change on Monday.
Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, bad an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
The Earl of Westmoreland transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Lordship after-
wards had an interview with the Right Honourable
W. E. Gladstone, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon for
Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Marquis of Exeter had an interview with Sir
James Graham on Monday afternoon, at the Home-
office.
Mr. H. Cope, jun., Solicitor to the Metropolitan
Anti-Bridge Toll Association, presented yesterday
to the Lords of the Treasury a memorial from 10,000
merchants, manufacturers, and householders of the
Western and central districts of the metropolis, being
one of several containing upwards of 200,000 signa-
tures, already presented for the free passage of Wa-
terloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall Bridges, as a para-
mount measure of metropolis improvement, by the
commutation of the burdensome imposts thereon.
The Chancilor of the Exchequer left town yester-
day afternoon for his seat, Beechworth House, Surrey.
Lady Peel left her residence in Whitehall-gardens
yesterday afternoon, for Brighton.
The Yeomen of the Queen's 13ody Guard, in full
coronation costume, were on duty at the opening of
the New Royal Exchange by her Majesty, under the
'2,orimiand of the Earl of Beverley, Captain; Sir George
Lee, Lieutenant; Mr. Ellerthorp, Adjutant ; antl Cap-
tain Sadler, Egon in Waiting, and lined the grand
portico of the western entrance, and area, the am-
bulatory, the great area, the eastern area, the grand
staircase, and the rooms leading to the Throne-
room. The Officers, Exon and Yeomen, were after-
-11 wards regaled by the Lord Mayor.

literally to I am we ,
Ni°er better, and in active servicw, which 1y like. Lord
4141 expresses himself on every occasion. well pleased
Ive„IPY Conduct. He is come on this side himself, buth
113."`u not bring an older captain than me; therefore t e
oval not
at Ristia is entrusted to my direction,
'hirer her Lordship. fhave now six frigates with me.
,vhe little brush last Sunday, happened at the moir,nt
'hill: Part of our army made their appearance en the
St, Fire Bastia, they having marched Ave'.tand from
get:lore
~ , nzo, which is only twelve miles o:.(stant. The
11,0,44` (Lieutenant-General I)undas) sin* an express to
sight iiitood to Fierenzo to tell him of it'. W hat a noble
grand must have been! indeed,
'on board itwas the
five Cat thing I ever saw. 11 I had carried with me
the undred troops, to a eertr..;:nty I should have stormed
town
Arrnies and I believe it might have been carried„
to go SO slow, 11
, ...at SLR , t ' nall think they never mean
get f°rward;
inciiPle al 'vat I dare say they act on a surer prin.
res'ed tll°ugb- we seldom fai(. You cannot think how
kst, ~,,, -` -d Hood has been with my attack on Sunday
ene,, rather my repelling of an attack which the
.43'.11aado on me. He is gone to Porto Ferrajo for
Ikatehor'aypilies, but will return
within two days. I am to.
thern.,::4) nave COMMUUleation the army. Bastia is
rr 'c'tvu, and
wni populous, having 10,000 inhabitants ;.
Is a 6ne mol f 1. ;0. If we take Corsica, of
eh T ,_ e or a upp.no.
keep it, "aro not the smallest doubt, I hope we shall
,0 The natives
.viee.otti)::
and _vre,:s
isseem to hate the French, and are. a brave
-Uera'i Paoliee, Lhieldaetrtfaucil.iment of the Corsiciapsintoo
When 1 took io ,
I tiastla, the Corsicans all declared for the English;
rttAtu Rtutlenaan came
Ni(,N to
ki- a, tak: - ~ . .
a m said,
to
o Paoli
can
upon
tAtaci it, 'aurbiaday,mliZvture (of him from his. bosom, he
hundreds on their knees immediately
is ,aa3 tooth° do the same This is pure affection. r
LS
the 44)4 to give them, nor any honours to. bestow. It
acritier..,l Ilte of a generous people to a chief who has.
lit.c) to 'B'4_ eterything- for their benefit. I hope he will
And w,„"c the
lby
n,-'" eldtivated,
Corsicans truly free. It is a fine island,
wines...lller .. but the produce has been kept uncT•
00. detachments of French soldiers. Their
their _ serous
with those of France, and in consequenceh_ their nPortation was almost prohibited. Should itouled
,447a)ii's' it
would soon bi: a rich country ; but w
Y hurt the Italian powers.—Yours, &c.
" HORATIO NELSON."

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IiAND-BOOK FOR LIVERPOOL.
.urrnatloti n
The strap -Lacey, Liverpool, 1844.
iv_
_range
1n Liverpool will derive as much. local
;work, whin ''S he can possibly desire from this little
'jailed No.; is got up with singular care, is emb.el-
tions 0/1.-4 a. variety of illustrations, and gives descry-
ill Live., 'verY place and public building of importance
r pool and its immediate vicinity.

THE FREE CHURCH.
(From the Monthly Statement.)
, °ll-r attention has been called, of late, by corn
-.ini
s,,,s_, kations from various quarters, to a matter of no
twdil.importance, as regards the comfort: and usefulness
„,nnnisters in country congregations, and even in
7tinle towns. It ought to be borne in mind that the
froPmend, ("f* the minister is understood to be derived
Cehtr
al separate and independent sources—the
Loe
. Sustentation Fund on the one hand, and the
ptinadi Sustentation Fund on the other. The Central
nue is made up of the contributions from the vari-
iiilalsisociations accumulated in one fund, and divided
4nd rYs.t.teent,er the ministers of the Free Church,
Thee, ""e arrangement of the General Assembly.
frotjtahYrnents or dividends allowed to each minister,
alt,,:isieentral Fund, are received by him at the
We
r. griy ter
. ms of Martinmas
the 1) e desirous, h ion of
and Whitsunday.
, f cai the attent
the duefae°lls' Courto inwever eacho of oullrng congregations to
13 ' —3' wh• h • • them, to appro-
,riate t, lc is incumbent upon
is
froei vs'le Local Sustentation Fund, which derived
to its ti:e Sabbath-day collections at the church doors,
pletii; TiPortant and legitimate object, that of sup-
Ineotilli,‘ng the minister's stipend. One case has been
t;00,,.„-ned to us, in which a minister of a country retVgation, amounting to 800 or 900 persons, has
durinvV no supplement from the Deacons' Court_
to has 0 the Past year. The clergyman now referral
of eea large family, and yet the deacons, with a wan e, nsideration which we should hope is rare, have
thtnded the whole of the Local Fund in defraying
ehudebt of the church. Such an alienation of the
diallch door collections from their proper object is is
nnet ePposition to the Act of the General Assem-
c 1'6,-,n,:the subject, which provides that "the ordinary
hul, ~',"()ns at the church doors shall be administered
fe4t4et.deacons of the congregations. (after deducting
the „lac "es) insurance, and the ordinary expenses of
for): ie ,ef worship, where not otherwise provided
Tt n increasing the stipend of the minister," &c.
le ~,,
the sy'Plementing of the minister's stipend, then, iS
As e,._r3' first object contemplated by the Act of
*us 141°13' 1n the disposal of the Local Fund after
• -Ytilg necessar
dely expenses; and it is the imperative
,
;,...Y of the Deacons' Court to fulfil that object, and
is 41_
that duty of the Presbytery of the bounds to see
at that object has been fulfilled. To pay off debt
'rntri the collections at the church doors is, in other
Words, to burden the minister with the payment of
debt. Nay, we have known one or two instances
41 'which the proposal has been coolly made, that the
deficiency of the association funds should be made up
friern the Sabbath collections. And what is this in
Ptain language hut to propose that the minister should
1,3' into cage but
Sustentation Fund a portion of
his Stipend, that the want of vigour and energy on
th,e the association may be concealed from the
view of the Church generally. These abuses, we
conceie, require only to be hinted at. They are a
°Qin departure from the arrangements of the Church,
and we trust that Deacons' Courts on the one hand,
and presbyteries on the other, will take care that, in
tvery case, the evils be remedied promptly and effec-
Sueually. The best arrangement, perhaps, would be,
as the grants to the ministers from the Central
tentation Fund are made at Whitsunday and
Alartinmas, the grants from the Local Fund should
be made at Candlemas and Lammas. The whole
Would thus be brought into regular operation, and
the minister would be able to count upon a payment
each quarter from the one fund or the other.—Ber
Wick Advertiser.
T

-IIE CONVICTS BARBER AND PLETCLIER.--Ac-
counts recently arrived in London state that in the ves-
sel which took out the above convicted will- forgers a
fever has broken out to which several of the crew have
fallen a sacrifice, and some of the convicts also, and
aniong Others Barber. He has, it is said, left behind
hire some important memoirs connected with the extra-
ordinary will forgeries.
INDUSTRY or BEES.—The postmaster at Evanton
hada twice
three hives in his garden this season. Each hive
one, and produced 2751 b. of virgin honey.
of the casts weighe,l 681 b. of honey, and sold for
th
1141. per lb., realizing 2/. 16s. 8:1., giving daily income
zu
e owner of 9d. per day, fur 75 days, being the exact
'lumber of days from the time it cast until taken down.
--Ross-shire Advertiser.

THE AI ELPHI THEATRE.
" glut Orsar cut Diubolus" might be taken as the
motto of the present theatrical season. Go were we
will we are sure to find either Don Caesar de Bazan
or Satan. At the Haymarket Caesar reigns supreme,
while the Devil, with his seven castles, hath taken
possession of the Lyceum. At the Adelphi
" Divisa Imperia cum Satano Caesar habet"—
the Devil and the Don have united .their powers of
attraction—The Mysterious Stranger appearing in
the form of a lovely woman in the beginning of the
evening, while the Don announces himself as King of
Spain towards the conclusion.
" The Devil and the King divide the prize"
of drawing crowded houses to the great profit of Mr.
Webster. There is at the present moment a very
pleasant comedie vaudeville by Messrs. Clarville and
Damarin, which, under the title of Satan, ou Le
Diable a Paris, is attracting all Paris. This drama
has been very cleverly adapted to the English stage by
Mr. Charles Selby, under the title of The Myste-
rious Stranger, and we have no doubt but that the
nightly • levees of the Mysterious Stranger at the
Adelphi will be as numerously attended as the levees
of Monsieur Satan have been at, Paris. In the
opening scene, we are introduced to Count Henry de
Beausoleil (Mr. Hudson), who is giving his farewell
bachelor party preparatory to his marriage with Ma-
demoiselle de Nantelle (Miss E. Harding). A
stranger is announced, who sends up his card " Satan,"
and who enters in the person of Mademoiselle Celeste,
attired as an exquisite of the first water. The Count
' is reminded by his visitor that some ten years pre-
viously he had ruined himself to save a friend from de-
struction, and that, utterly destitute of money, he had
drawn up a paper offering to sell himself to the Devil
for ten years of wealth ; that the next morning he
had heard of a large legacy left him by a distant re-
lative, and had ever since been in the enjoy-
ment of wealth unbounded. " You had
no relation," says the Mysterious Stranger ;
" I took you at your word. Here is your bond—the
date is run out, and you're mine." The Count treats
his visitor as an imposter. " Well," says the Stranger,
" in twenty-four hours I will deprive you of your
wealth, your mistress, and your friends ; and then I
shall demand the execution of my bond." He goes
to a ball, where he finds his mistress flirting with an-
other ; while there he bears that his banker has ab-
sconded with the whole of his property. The Myste-
rious Stranger, dressed as a lady, enters, and reminds
him that she had foretold it. A grand fete is given
at the mansion of a Polish Princess with an unpro-
nounceable name. The guests are Beausoliel's mis-
tress and his former friends. They determine to cut
him. He enters, followed by the Princess, who is
no other than the Mysterious Stranger. She exposes
their duplicity to him, and gives him letters written
by his mistress to his rival. At the opening of the
second act the unfortunate Count is in utter despon-
dency, and gives utterance to his grief in a very
touching song, which sias exquisitely sung by Hudson,
and deservedly encored. Mademoiselle de Nantelle
enters—she explains her past conduct, and seeks again
to win his affections. "Those letters were written," she
says, "just as she left her convent, at that period of
life when the girl is becoming the woman, and when
to say I love, is sufficient to secure her affections ;
but the dreams of girlhood had long since passed
away, he was the choice of her maturer years, and
although she knows him poor, she has come to share
her fortune with him." This scene was very beauti-
fully given by Miss E. Harding. There was an im-
passioned tenderness about her acting, restrained,
however, by the innate bashfulness of the retiring
girl, which told admirably. Henry at once gives way
and defies Satan—but too soon. Scarcely has the
lady retired when the Mysterious Stranger enters
and shows him a paragraph in a newsparer,
announcing that his banker has been arrested.
The lady enters immediately afterwards, and
the Count, hid in a closet, is witness a
scene in which the Mysterious Stranger, infornsang
the lady that the paragraph in question is false, and
that Henry is a ruined man, woos and wins her.
Henry enters, the lady faints, and the stranger laughs
at the success of his diabolical wiles. The last
scene discovers Henry asleep on a sofa. He awakes,
and the Mysterious Stranger appears to him
in propria persone. She is the daughter of the
friend whom he has saved from ruin. To her he owes
his fortune. She has long loved him, and has adopted
this strange method of opening his eyes to the heart-
lessness of his pretended friends. It is scarcely
necessary to add that he willingly liquidates his bond,
and becomes hers for life. There is a comic under-
plot, admirably supported by Wright and Miss Chap-
lin, and one scene, in which we are introduced to the
back slums of Paris, in which 0. Smith, as the keeper
of lapis franc, and a dealer in forged passports, acts as
he alone can act. There is a chorus song introduced
into this scene, which was admirably sung by a gen-
tleman with whose name we are unacquainted, and
whom we do not recollect to have seen before, but
whose talents are such that it is impossible he can
long remain unknown. Celeste, as the Mys-
terious Stranger was the most fascinating Devil
that has ever appeared in public ; and Hudson,
as the Count, was first-rate. The mounting of
the piece was perfection, and it cannot
fail to draw crowded houses. The overture,
by M. Doche, is a very elegant and agreeable com-
position, and will form a most useful addition to the
repertoire of stock overtures. It was admirably given
by the orchestra; and we cannot but congratulate the
proprietors of this theatre on the vast Improvement
which has taken place in the orchestral department.
At the fall of the curtain Madame Celeste, Hudson,
and Wright, were called for, and received with all the
honours. When they had retired there were loud
calls for Selby, who came forward and announced the
piece for repetition amidst the enthusiastic applause of
a crowded house.

GllANOr—Owing to the easterly winds the arrivals
of the past week from Ichaboe do not exceed 300 tons.
Sales hale been made to the extent of 100 or 120 tors,
at 51. 17s. 6d. to 61. An entire cargo on the spot is re-
ported to be sold at the latter price. For forward deli-
very there is no business doing.—Liverpool