The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-10 00:00:00

TRH StrN, LOND-ON IVIOND AY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1843,

COURT CIRCULAR.

Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on
Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attend d by Sir
Edward Bowater, rode out on horseback, on Satim'ay.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
were taken airings in the royal gardens on Saturday.
ll r Maj, sty, and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Dunmore, Eon. Miss Kerr, the Earl of
Morton, Marquis of Granby, Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured Drury-lane
Theatre with their presence on Saturday c vening.
Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Granby and
Sir E. Bowater, also honoured the Marquis of North-
ampton with his company, at his residence in Piccadilly.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen •
tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, at-
tended Divine service yesterday morning in the private
Chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C,
Leslie Courtenay officiated.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured Christ's Hos-
pital with a visit last evening, to attend the service and
witness the scholars at their evening meal.
Tier Majesty coal his Royal Highness arrived at half-
past six o'clock, alighting at a temporary entrance,
erected on the south side of the Hall, leading to the
principal staircase, where they were received by Mr.
Alderman Thompson, M.P., the President, and Mr. R.
Hotham Pigeon, the Treasurer. The royal suite con-
sisted of the Duchess of Buceluch, Mistress of the
Robes ; the Countess of 'Dunmore, Lady in Waiting ;
the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting ; Mr. R. Ormsby
Gore, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey, Equerry in Waiting, and Major-General Sir
Edward Bowater, Equerry to the Prince.
As the royal party entered the Hall, the organ corn
menced playing the National Anthem. He r Majesty and
Prince Albert (who wore the Star of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter) passed up the middle of the Hall
followed immediately by the president and the treasurer,
and also by the royal suite.
The app' arance of the Hall was very interesting, the
building, which is about two hundred feet long, fifty-
two feet wide, and forty-sev• n feet high, contained near
nine hundred scholars, ranged at long rows of tables ;
and great lumbers or Governors of the Institution occu-
pying seats on either side of the Hall.
At the east-end was the Organ-gallery with the
scholars composing the choir, and at the west-end were
a number of raised seats, filled with the ladies of the
Governors and of the members of the Corporation.
Tie Lord Mayor and most of the Aldermen were pre-
sent, and occupied seats on the south side of the hall
at the western end ; and fronting the corporation on the
opposite side were the members of the committee, in-
cluding Lord Sandys, Sir William Curtis, Mr. B.
Baldwin, M. P., and Mr. Thomas Poynder, and also the
Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey,
and other governors.
Her Majesty sat in the Chair of State, usually filled
by the President, who sat, on this occasion, on her Ma-
jeAty's left. The Treasurer was on the right of Prince
Albert ; the Duchess of Buccleuch and the Countess of
Dunmore were on the right of the Treasurer ; and the
noblemen and gentlemen in waiting occupied seats on
the left of the President.
The Chair of State was placed in front of the raised
seats at the west-end of the Hall, and behind the Queen
sat Mrs. Thompson, the wife of the President, and Mrs.
Pigeon, the wife of the Treasurer.
The Steward of the Hospital was stationed underneath
the magnificent window of stained glass, in the middle
of the Hall, which contains the Arms of its four Royal
Governors, viz , the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince
of Wales, and Prince George, and the Arms of Edward
Vl.,Founder of the Hospital; and of Charles 11., Founder
of the Mathematical School ; also the Arms of the Pre-
sident and the Treasurer.

On a signal fr,m the Steward the service commenced
by the whole of the scholars singing the first two verses
of the 100th Psalm, written copies of the Psalm being
presented to the Queen and Prince Albert by two of the
scholars, kneeling.
The Reader for the evening, Edward A. Newton, one
of the Senior Grecian Scholars, then read a portion of
the tenth chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke, beginning
with the 21st verse.
Then followed several prayers.
The scholars sang four verses of the 139th Psalm,
copies in ornamental penmanship being presented to
her Majesty and the Prince, by the scholars by whom
they were written.
Grace having been said, the supper was served. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert then rose, and followed by
the Royal Suite (including the Marquis of Exeter)
passed down the whole extent of the table in the Hall,
while the scholars were at their meal. The President
and the Treasurer attending the august visitors.
The Queen and the Prince having returned to their
seats, and the supper being ended, the following anthem
(composed by Hayes) was sung :
The Lord is good, fresh acts of grace
His pity still supplies ;
His anger moves with slowest pace,
His willing mercy flies.
Therefore will we the righteous ways
Of Providence proclaim ;
We'll sing the praise of God most high,
And celebrate his name.

CHORUS.
By angels in heav'n, of every degree,
And saints upon earth, all praise be address'd
To God in three persons, one God ever blost,
As it has been, now is, and always shall be.
The Solo part of the Anthem was sung by Master
Sharp ; the Duet by Masters Pizey and Hunt.
The whole of the scholars then passed in procession
before the Queen and Prince Albert, the twelve Gre-
cians (proceeding to the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge) passin., first, followed by the twelve King's
scholars destined for the naval service. The othor boys
followed, with their nurses, in the order of their wards.
The s .holars, having made their obeisance to the Sove-
reign and the Prince, retired from the Hall. The organ
continued to play during the procession of the scholars.
The Queen and Prince Albert then rose and quitted
the Hall, attended by their suites; the President and the
Treasurer conducting her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness to their carriage.
Mr. George Cooper presided at the organ.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes-
terday morning in the Foundling Hospital. The Duchess
of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz attended Divine service yesterday
morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes-
terday afternoon in Grosvenor Chapel.
Mr. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Spooner, M.P., Mr. Muntz,
M P., Mr. Benbow, M.P., and a deputation of manufac-
turers of flint"glass, consisting of Messrs. Green, Christie,
Powell, and Pellatt, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and the Chairman of the Excise,
on Saturday.

His Excellency Sarim Effendi, attended by his suite,
visited the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday, at the Office
of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Hutt, Mr. John Chapman, Mr. Alderman
Gresham, Mr. Atkinson, and Mr. Kinloch, with Sir
John Rennie, Mr. Leach, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Ord,
a deputation from the Hull and Gainsborough Railway,
transacted business on Saturday at the Railway Depart-
ment of the Board of Trade.

Dispatches for the Governor of the settlement on the
Gambia were sent off from the Colonial-office on Satur-
day evening. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mau-
ritius were received on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on Saturday, at the official residence of the Right lion.
Gentleman in Downing-street.

•: DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS.
The next mails for Malta, Greece, lonian Islands, Egypt,
Ceylon, India, and China, will be dispatched from Southamp-
ton on the 20th inst. ; letters in time on morning of that day.
Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India and China, via Mar-
seilles ; next mails dispatched on evening of 24th inst.
West Indies, &c.—Letters in time on morning of 17th
inst. ; the steamer appointed to take them out from South-
ampton is the Tweed.
America—The steamer Caledonia is appointed to take out
the mails of the evening of April 3d.
Sydney, New South Wales—The next mail will be dis-
patched hence on the evening of the 31st March.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—An accidents
nearly attended with loss of life, took place a few nights
back, near the Brentwood station, owing to a concussion
between one of the third-class trains and a luggage I
train. It seems that when the up luggage train in
heavily loaded, it is customary to detach some
of the trucks before ascending the inclined plane
by the third arched bridge at the commence-
ment of the cutting at Shenfield, the engine taking
the remainder of the trucks on to the Brentwood station.
Soon after seven o'clock, on the evening in question,
the guard was left in charge of some of the trucks
of the luggage train ; and whilst waiting the return
of the engines, a third-class train came up, and
the night being dark, the engine-driver did not see
the signal ; the two trains came into collision with
terrific force ; some of the carriages were driven off
the line, and shattered considerably. The guard was
thrown across the rail, sustaining very serious injury.
The poor fellow was conveyed by an engine to the sta-
tion at Brentwood, where surgical assistance was ob-
tained. The passengers by the cheap train were exces-
sively terrified, but, fortunately, none were much hurt.
Spc [MAE ADVENTURES.—The adventures of a
second Robinson Crusoe, in the person.of Charles Good-
ridge, who has family connexions in Colchester, have
just been published, and present one of the most singular
narratives ever recorded. The author, with his fellow-
shipmates, were wrecked when on a sealing voyage in
1821, and cast ashore upon one of the Crozet Islands in
the South Seas, uninhabited by any human being, and
without a tree or shrub growing upon its barren soil.
A part of the crew landed upon another island
some miles distant ; each party believing the
other to hare perished. In this situation they furnished
themselves with such accommodation as pieces saved
from the wreck afforded, subsisting on birds, the sea-
elephant, and fish. After the lapse of about two years
they were rescued from their situation by an American
schooner, the captain and the mate of which afterwards
quarrelled upon the soyage, and the former determined
to leave the latter upon one of the numerous islands in
those seas, and abtindon him to his fate. The mate's
situation met with sympathy from those who had been
so recently released from their captivity, and our author,
with eight others. declared they would accompany the
mate in his ( xile if the captain persevered in his deter
ruination. The captain did keep his word, and so did
the others, and all were left together upon an uninha-
bited island by the inhuman captain. After a length
ened sojourn here, and after passing through many
scenes of privation and suffering, they were taken off by
a vessel, carried to Van Dieman's Land, and eventually
returned to England. The truth of the narrative is well
attested, and is altogether one of the most singular and
romantic we have ever met with.—lpswicli Express.

ro THE RIGHT HON. THE CHAN-
CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.
Sir,—Justice ! Mr. Goulburn, you have the power
to dispense it. Why do you refuse!' Your own
character is at stake, you hazard the charac.er of the
Government. Remember, that honesty is the best
policy—that when you propose great commercial
changes, at a period least expected, you have no right
recklessly to sacrifice the property of individuals.
You have, Sir, been informed that the wholesale
grocers in Liverpool, and other ports, purchase their
West India sugars at the long or duty-paid price.
You also know, that in consequence of the large
capital which this business absorbs, few are engaged
in it. In Liverpool there are only about four
wholesale grocers • each of these cannot in
ordinary times hold less than 200 or 300 hhds.
Last year the annual Sugar Bill was moved and
carried as usual ; that Act expires next July. Sir
Robert Peel had informed the country that when
the income-tax cane again under discussion the ex-
pediency of reducing the duties upon sugar would
occupy the attention of Parliament. The wholeslle
grocers, therefore, expected a change, and they in-
tended to be prepared for it ; they had already coin •
menced operating cautiously, but they could not be
prepared for a move unparalleled in the annals of
England. The deputation did not claim compen-
sation for sugars actually taken into stock; they
only required the drawback upon sugars in her
Majesty's possession. You were told that the
quantity of duty-paid sugar was larger; with
the aid of your officials you have satisfied your-
self that the statement is correct; you were also in.
formed that when the last reduction was made, you,
Mr. Goulburn, allowed a drawback. Why do you
refuse it now? mark the answer, Englishmen. "I do
not dispute the justice of the claim, but I cannot
afford —" Yes, honest, woraing-men of Britain,
listen to your Chancellor, take a leaf out of his book,
imitate his example, and tell him boldly that you
cannot afford to pay the income-tax. Rejoice, ye
rogues who refuse to pay your just debts, you are as
honest as the Chancellor. You cannot afford, Mr.
Goulburn, you must therefore rob the honest man of
the fruits of his labour. But although you cannot be
honest you will be lenient, the new duties shall
not come into operation until the 14th of
March. " Gentlemen, you shall have an opportu-•
nity of working. off your stocks." Will the grocers in
that time dispose of ten tons of sugar? You must
be very ignorant to suppose any such thing. You,
Sir, are only adding torment to injury; you are, in
the plenitude of your goodness, favouring them with
a lingering, instead of a sudden termination of their
misery. lam aware that you are grossly (not wil-
fully) ignorant of the sugar trade. I freely grant
that the very honest and intelligent man, Mr. George
Crossfield, who, all acknowledge, has a happy knack
of elucidating a subject, could with difficulty make
you to comprehend the case ; but, Sir, it is rather too
bad that the wholesale grocers should suffer through
your ignorance and want of honesty. lum not per-
sonally interested in this matter; I do not hold a
pound of sugar. Yet I take a great interest in the
cause of the wholesale grocers. I have been for
some years connected with the trade. I know that
their profits are very limited, and I cannot allow
them to be robbed of their earnings, without entering
my protest against it.—Yours, &c., B.
Liverpool, March 1.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The House having last night decided on re-
jecting the Bill for the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
and Birmingham Railway, I would request your in-
sertion of the fact that a requisition has been prepa' ed,
and is already numerously signed, calling on the Com-
mittee of Management to dissolve the Company and
return whatever balance remains unexpended from the
amount deposited. The Shareholders have felt them.
selves called on to pursue this course from a full per-
suasion that the Committee and their officers have
forfeited all claim to their confidence by their number-
less instances of gross and palpable negligence proved
against them during the investigation before the Sub-
Committee on Standing Orders; and they think the
measure recommended in the requisition the only one
which affords them a chance of escaping the loss of
the whole amount which they have already advanced,
and of which a large portion has already been ab-
sorbed by the expenses of the undertaking.--I am,
Sir, your obedient servant,
London, Ma: ch 7.

A SHAREHOLDER.

SUGAR DUTY.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH s.—The undersigned wholesale
uyocers of Liverpool beg to submit to the attention of
Honourable Mcmbers of the House of Commons the
tbllowing

STATEMENT

WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTEMPLATED ALTERATION IN

TUE SUGAR DUTIES :-

" That the duty upon sugar has always been levied by
an annual bill extending from the 50a of July in one
year, to the same period in the following p ar. That
the Act of last session, chap. 28, expressly continues the
present duty of 245. and 5 per cent. until the sth of
July 1845. Upon the faith of this enactment we, in
commoa with other houses throughout the kingdom, and
in the usual course of our business, had (prior to the an-
nouncement of the intended change) bought lurge quan-
tities of sugar on which this duty had been paid. Part
of this sugar is in our own warehouses, and part re-
mains undelivered from the bonded warehouses. On the
portion so undelivered we contend that we are justly en-
titled to a drawback of the difference of duty, this draw-
back was allowed on all sugar so circumstanced in 1830,
when a reduction of 3s. per cwt. took place.
" We therefore considered that we were fully justiqed
in pursuing the usual course of our business, in keeping
stocks duty-paid on hand, for our purchases were made
on the faith of a legislative enactment, and in the confi-
dence that the Government would act towards us in all
good faith, and if they intended to depart from all former
usage in regard to time (we have the high authority of the
lion. Memer for Taunton for considering the present
proposition as such a departure), still we considered
that with the precedent of 1830 to guide us we were safe;
fora precedent of this sort must be regarded in the light
of a specific pledge, more especially seeing that the same
Chancellor of the Exchequer is in office now as then.
We have limited our request for the drawback to
sugar undelivered from the bonded warehouse, because
we did not wish to ask too muck, and because its being
so limited effectually closed the door against all fraud as
to quantity or quality, yet we distinctly informed the
Government that if they wished to carry the drawback
further than this, so much the more satisfaction would it

give. _
" The quantity of sugar so circumstanced which we
held when the measure was announced and which we
sti I hold, for it has been imposs:ble to sell any of it, is
about 550 tons, and the difference of duty upon it is
upwards of 6,0001.; this is a large sum for four houses
to lose by a sudden change in the collection of duties, a
change made, too, contrary to the express provisions of
an Act of Parliament, and we contend that it ought to
be borne, not by us, but by the public at large, who will
be most benefited by the proposed change. Further, if
we were not frequently to purchase larger stocks than
those we now hold, we should lose the benefit to be de-
rived from the due use of our credit and capital, and
unless we can look to protection from sudden changes in
duty on the article in which we deal, we shall be con-
stantly exposed to losses of a very serious character.
" The postponement of the new duty to the 14th of
March, or even for a longer period, will afford us little
or no relief ; on the contrary it is an injury, for it
checks and paralyses trade in the interval, and the
stocks of sugar out of bond will be far from exhausted
by that day, though the consumption no doubt goes on
as usual.—We are, respectfully,
" GEO. CROSFIELD and CO.

" JOSEPH lIEAP and SONS.
" RICHARD TAYLOR and SONS.
" EDWARD P. PARRY."

FREE-TRADE CLUB.—We are happy to inform our
readers that this Club is now fairly established, and that
the Committee had their first house-dinner, on Saturday
evening last, at their house, No. 27, Regent-street. The
M.P.; Richard
dinner was provided by the steward, and gave great sa-
tisfaction. Among the gentlemen who sat down, we
noticed—Major-General Briggs, in the Chair ; John
Lewis Ricardo, Esq., M.P. ; W. D. Christie, Esq., M.P. ;
Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P. ; Thomas Milner Gibson, Esq,
cM..bPd.e;n,HEosnq..,Cmhair,.le;s
JPoehlnhaßmriVghiltl,ieErss,q.,
M.P.p ;
James
Wilson, Esq. ; Ralph Ricardo, Esq. ; W. A. Wilkin- 1
son, Esq., &c.
FaEricu PLATS.—The first performance of Robert
Macaire attracted on Friday night the fullest house of
the season. Amongst the audience we observed the
Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl of Morning-
ton, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Col.
and Lady Mary Fox, Lady Anstruther, Lady Selina
Bridgman, Mrs. Denistoun, Duke of Montrose, Lord
Duncannon, Earl Bruce, Sir H. Mildmay, Sir Henry and
Laay Meux, Lady and Miss Quentin, Earl of Shelburne,
Sir Henry Webster, Lord Lilford, &c.
BILDESTONE.—UNFEELING CONDUCT OF A POLICE-
MAN.—Last Monday week, about eight o'clock in the even-
ing, as one of the rural police for this division was on his beat,
vdet
at Hitcham, he saw a young; man, named Gosling, having in
his possession an empty sack, which the policeman de-
manded. Gosling replied, that if he (the policeman) had more
right to it than himself he might have it, upon which a
scuffle ensued, and, by the assistance of persons coming up,
Gosling was taken into custody, hand-cuffed, and taken to
the cold,
a cage, scarcely e, but more
Bilproperlydestonae
daunndgeloond,g
exposedlodged in a place
to
any-
thing to lie upon; there was a very small quantity of
straw, but it was so damp and offensive that no human
being would venture to creep into it. The Ipswich magis-
trates complained, a short time since, of the state of their
cells, but compared with this place they are palaces. In
this uncomfortable place the poor fellow was obliged to
remain until between three and four o'clock in the after.
noon of the next day, with the band- cuffs on all the time.
One of the Bildestone constables litimanely carried the
prisoner a pint of beer and some tread and cheese, at the
risk of having to pay for it himself; but when the-policeman
came to visit his victim, he had the conscience to demand
payment of the prisoner, and actually received the money
of him. The case was examined before the Rev. Pro-
fessor Henslow, who immediately dismissed the prisoner.
It is earnestly hoped that these magistrates' servants
(fur they are not the people's) will not be allowed to exer-
cise their littlo brief authority in this tyrannical manner, so
that the better feelings of the inhabitants of this place may
not be outraged by the repetition of such heartless and un-
feeling conduct.—lpswich Express.

LI

3IAXIMS AND 013:211ONS OF THE. DUKE
OF WELLING7'ON. By George Henry Fiancis,
Esq.
This will be found a very useful collection, and
easy for reference, of the opinions expressed in his
writings, but chiefly in his Parliamentary speeches en
important events, civil as well as military, by this re-
markable man. They bear the stamp of an original
mind which thinks for itself, and fears not to disclose
what it thinks. Though unpalatable to his hearers,
and not unfrequently somewhat adverse to his party
the sentiments of the Duke of Wellington have seldom
a. never been concealed, and they have, consequently, at
times produced effects which neither he, perhaps, nor
his Tory friends anticipated. Such was his remark-
able eulogium passed on the unreformed House of
Commons. " I maintain," said he, " that it is as
complete a legislative body as can he required, and
that, since the peace particularly, it has shown itself,
to be the most efficient legislative body that ever
xlsted in any country in the world, not exeepting this."
These are the words quoted by the compiler, but the
Duke said something more, and that sotnethitig gave
:he finishing stroke to the Reform cause. Ile added
words to this effect—" If I had the making of a Con-
stitution, and a representation of the people, I would
take the present as the best that can be found." It
was announced in The Sun, on the evening on which
these words were used, that they had sealed the fate
of the Wellington Administration—that it would be
extinct in a week ; and, within a week, the Duke an-
nounced his resignation. Many of his sayings, how-
ever, are not liable to the same objections, for they
abound with knowledge of human nature, and with
the sage conclusions of a mind that watched events,
that took many circumstances into account, and that
rarely was ever diverted from its purpose by conflict-
ing opinions. A rage at one time prevailed, and still
partially prevails, for the conversion of the Ilindoos
by means of a few missionaries. The hopelessness—
nay, the imminent danger—of such a scheme could not
escape his notice and reprehension. After entreating
the House never to lose sight of the fact that, with
the exception of about 20,000 of her Majesty's troops,
the civil servants, mad a few European residents,
there is not a man in India who is not an idolater, he
added—" I know from experience, for I have seen the
missionaries at work, the little progress which they
make. I warn the Government not to go too far in
their measures against the idolatry of India; for the
Indian empire is one of great importance, and they
must not expect to convert 100,000,000 of idolaters
to our holy religion by the small means at their dis-
posal." Many of his sayings, too, like those of most
great men, have become household words. " A great
country cannot wage a little war." " It is no mistake,
it can be no mistake, and it shall be no mistake." " I
say that the means of Church extension must proceed,
in the first instance, from the Church, and that they
must be exhausted before the public are called on
for other means," and many others might be quoted.
We will not advert to his contradictory opinions about
Catholic Emancipation further than to say that he
made atonement for his inconsistency by timely and
just concessions. His remarks on the absolute neces-
sity of maintaining an efficient naval force should never
be forgotten, and it is probably to him the country
owes the increase of the present estimates for the
steam navy. In 1838, he said, " Should we at any
time be involved again in another war—which God
forbid—the only mode of keeping out of difficulty
would be to maintain such a navy as would give pro-
tection to her Majesty's subjects in all parts of the
world." These extracts give a fair specimen of the j
collection, which is preceded by a concise and com-
prehensive memoir of the Duke, with a very good
portrait, taken from the best likeness by Lawrence.

DIARY OF TRAVELS IN FRANCE AND
SPAIN, CHIEFLY IN 1844. By the Rev. Frc.ncis
Trench.

The author of this diary claims no merit for it as a
book of travels ; he'publishes it simply as a daily or
weekly journal of events and scenes which he wit-
nessed, chiefly in the south of France and in districts
not usually visited by travellers. His object was
laudable. He was anxious to make himself acquainted
with the state of religion, both Roman Catholic and
Protestant, and we regret to find that he was greatly
disappointed, especially as regards the Reformed
Church. The zeal of the Hugonots had entirely dis-
appeared, and the temples were thinly attended. In
adverting to the low state of the Protestant Church
at Naumur, a place, in the days of Henry IV., cele-
brated for the number of its Protestant inhabitants,
he says, until the erection of the only church for that
body in the town, very lately, there was " no point of
Christian union, no flock, and no pastor—much zeal
and perseverance are requisite in order to form and
preserve a congregation amidst the many obstacles
which rise up, and the general depression of Pro-
testants in the land." Even at Albi, the town which
gave its name to the Albigenses, there is only one
Protestant family, and no church nearer than Real-
mont, nine miles distant. The work is illustrated by
some neat sketches, made evidently by Mrs. T—,
who is often mentioned in the "Diary," and to whom
it is inscribed.

ON PROPRIETY IN UNITING
SCULPTURE WITH ARCHITECTURE.

Whoever has examined the images in our Gothic
cathedrals, will have been struck with their peculiar
form and impress. Their attitudes, the folds of their
drapery, their whole execution and design, bear an
assimilation to the character of the edifices, of which
they are part. The smaller decorations of the capital
or the boss often show great grotesqueness of fancy,
and pliancy of curvature, but the larger figures, which
partake less of detail, and more of the general effect,
have an expression of stability in accordance with that
of the mass. In all points these are strictly architec-
tural ; the crusader rests in unbroken sleep, recumbent
on the tombstone, the saint stands erect in solemn medi-
tation. In other styles of architecture, we find not an
equal propriety of design. It is forgotten that sculp-
ture is for the most part seen in connexion with ar-
chitecture : it should be subservient to it whenever

the arts are employed together. The sculptures on
the fronts of Grecian temples, faultless as they are in
themselves, have less of accordance with that motion-
less character, if we may thus apply the term, which
the Grecian style, more than any other, presents. The
centaurs, in violent contest with the Lapithx, are
hurling huge rocks at their opponents, whilst women,
with fluttering garments, are flying from the scene
of action. In the Panathenaic procession in the
Parthenon, the horses bound with their riders,
and no one can look at this fine frieze, without
feeling the impression of motion in the actual marble
before him, most powerfully depicted in his mind.
During two thousand years these sculptures have re-
mained unsurpassed, and it may seem little short of
hypercriticism to question in any respect their pro-
priety as works of art. In the buildings of the later
Italians, we find statues beautiful, perhaps, if they
could be viewed apart from the edifices which they
are designed to decorate: but, perhaps, placed in a
niche or a pediment, they are entirely out of keeping
with the building. Palladio, in his designs, has given
figures with extended arms and distorted attitudes,
and Wren himself, in his statues on St. Paul's, has
shown some want of the architectural character for
which we contend.--The Builder.

DEPOSITS AT THE ADELAIDE

GALLERY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—About eighteen years ago I became pos-
sessed of a very curious relic of former times. It was
a b )ttle so ingeniously manufactured, that it puzzled
the most clever mechanics of the present day to say
how it had been made. It was found at St. Anne's
Well, near Nottingham, and I procured it in that
vicinity. When I was subsequently at Edinburgh,
a report of so interesting a memento of days long
gone-bye in my possession reached the ears of Sir
Walter Scott, who was ever delighted in antiquarian
researches. He saw it—examined it very minutely
—and gave me his opinion of it in writing. That
opinion I will presently subjoin. But I first beg
leave to mention that from tradition, and from other
circumstances, it is not unreasonable to suppose that
the identical bottle in question at one period belonged
to the renowned Robin Hood,or some of the followers
of that famous freebooter. Now for the opinion of
the " Great Wizard of the North."

" Sir Walter Scott presents his compliments to Mr.
Rayner, and is greatly obliged to him for a sight of
the very curious leather bottle, presented to him
through the medium of Mr. William Murray. It
differs materially in shape from any Sir Walter Scott
has ever seen, and seems to him well calculated for
the purposes of an outlaw forester."
Having transcribed the written opinion of, perhaps,
the most competent judge then living on such
matters in the world, I was induced to send it for
exhibition at the Adelaide Gallery, for the gratifica-
tion of the visitors to that establishment, and where

it remained for a number of years, and until very
recently, with the original note of Sir Walter Scott
affixed to it.

Hearing, however, that the effects of the Adelaide
Gallery were about to be sold off, I reclaimed my
bottle, which was returned; but without the autograph
of the great northern hard, and to which I attached as
much value as to the bottle itself, or indeed more.
Now, Sir, how can any person, in future, entrust.
to the managers of a public exhibition an article of
value, who are so culpably negligent of their duty ?
The duty if the proprietors of the Adelaide Gallery
was to restore my property in the same state as that
in which I deposited it in their hands. Had I
claimed remuneration from them they might have
had some excuse for their misconduct.
I shall, therefore, feel obliged by your publishing
these facts, and remain, &c.,
L. B. RAYNER.