The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.

On Sunday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the
French received the Neapolitan Ambassador, the Ccunt de Fla.
hault, the Marquis de Bumigny, Vice-Admiral Baron de La
Sussc, the Counts de Montesquiou and Dumas, and the Baron de
Saint Didier.

The Duke of Devonshire, who went to Paris, it is said, cx.
pressly to view the exhibition of the Horticultural Scciety at the
Luxembourg, has, on the nomination of the Duke Decazes, been
made an honourary member, and was on Sunday presented with
his diploma. His Grace congratulated the Scciety on the excel.
lence of its pro-Ince, and made considerable purchases for his con-
servatories.

The following is a list of the principal objects required for the
fortifications of Paris, according to M. Allard's report :-2,208
mortars, cannons, or howitzers, of which 50 are Paixhans howit-
zers, 5,750 rampart guns, 200,000 muskets, 1,500 fused de
guerre, 2,760 gun.carriagcs, a million of projectiles of various
sorts, such as bombs, grenades, balls, and shells—in all, 9,129,000
kilos. of cast metal ; 40,350 ball-cases, and 800,000 kilos. of
lead, 2,0.:0,000 kilos. of gunpowder, 10,300,000 cartouches, be.
sides a considerable assortment of miscellaneous articles.

The Prcsse says :—" We have to announce a spontaneous act of
the Government. It has nominated to be members of the Legion
of Honour three eminent authors, namely, M. de Balzac, M. Al-
fred de Musset, and M. Frederic Soulie, without any of them hav-
ing solicited this mark of distinction to which they had an incen-
testible claim. Let there but be a few more such acts as we have
now to report, and like that which raised M. Victor Hugo to the
dignity of Peer of France, and the Ministry will discover that it is
promoting its own interests by shaking off that supineness in which
it has indulged itself too long."
Fhe Journal des Debats makes the following remarks on the
state of affairs, as regards England and the United States :
" People arc excited against England, as if by maintaining under
her domination Canada and the adjacent provinces, the British
Government is spoliating the United States. These are bad symp-
toms, or ridiculous clamours. As regards Canada, New Bruns-
wick, or even the Oregon, these demonstrations are without
danger. England is powerful enough to command respect from a
haughty and insatiable democracy, better able to talk than to act,
when the question is cue of military enterprise against regularly
organised forces, and against one of the greatest nations of the ci-
vilised world."

A correspondent writes from Vienna on the 21st :—" Prince
Metternich, who has been suffering from ill health, is entirely re.
stored, and has again returned to business with all his accustomed
activity. Yesterday he had a long conference with the Archduke
Palatine."

A letter from Hanover of the 23d states that a new loan, at 31
per cent., to be secured on the taxes, is sbout to be raised, for the
purpot e of constructing railroads.
I.A.V.T AND POLICE.

The hearing of the adjourned examination of James Gibbs, the
money scrivener, late of Jermyn.street, by Mr. Commissioner
Holroyd, in the Court of Bankruptcy, has been postponed to
Monday.
The Chief Judge of the Court of Review has decided in the case
exparte Clark re Harris, that the bankers of a friendly society
cannot be considered as officers of the society ; and that, there.
fore, the society must, in the event of the bankers becoming bank.
rupts, come in like other creditors, inasmuch as the provisions of
the Act 10 Gco. IV., giving friendly societies, in the event of the
bankruptcy of their officers, a right to be paid in full before other
creditors, does not apply to the bankers.
At Bow-street, Mr. J. G. Mayer, a furrier, residing at SS, Ox.
ford-street, was charged with assaulting his brother-in-law, Mr. E.
Mcclean, a frame and print shop keeper, near the Strand Theatre,
169, Strand. It appeared that the defendant had knocked at the
door of prosecutor's house late at night, and that on the prosccutor
appearing defendant had struck him several blows over the head
with a thick stick, Lnd inflicted severe punishment on him. The
defendant's solicitor did not deny the assault, but begged that his
client might be admitted to bail, alleging that he had received
great provocati;n, as the prosecutor was the seducer of his only
daughter. The magistrate, however, refused, and the prisoner
was committed for trial.

John Murphy, one of the swell mob, charged with attempting
to pick pockets in the saloon, at White Conduit-house, at a meet.
ing at the T.vern on Tuesday night last against the Endowment of
M.4ynooth College, was committed to the House of Correction for
three months, with hard labour, from the Cleikenwell Police-court.
At Worship-street, Henry Webb was remanded on several
charges of swindling, and on one of forgery. It ap-
peared that a decently-dressed woman had called at va-
rious shops in Spitalfields, and ordered certain articles which
she was aware were not generally kept in stock. Shortly
afterwards the prisoner made his appearance, representing
himself as the town traveller of some well-known firm which dealt
in those articles. Having received an order, he lost no time in
executing it, and received the money for the goods on delivery. Of
course the articles furnished were worthless; none of the firms
knew anything of the prisoner. On another occasion he forged the
name of a firm to a receipt. He was remanded.
COUZT-FASHIONABLE.

The Queen will have a concert at Buckingham Palace on Mon.
day next. _ _ _

The Queen Dowager has issued cards of invitation for a grand
soiree and concert at Marlborough Ilouse, on Monday next, the
sth May.
The Duchess of Kent intends to give a grand ball at Clarence
House, St. James's, on Friday, the 9th.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have issued cards for a
grand dinner at Montague House, on the 9th inst.
The French Ambassador gave a magnificent banquet last evening
at the French Embassy, in honour of the fete of the King of the
French, to most of the Foreign Ministers and the principal mem-
bers of the Government. The only toasts given were that of his
Majesty Louis Philippe, and that of our gracious Sovereign Queen
Victoria.

The Archbishop of York gave a grand banquet at his mansion in
Grosvet:or-square, to the directors of the Concerti of Ancient
Music, the Archbishop being the director for the evening. The
Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured
the Archbishop with their presence upon the occasion.
Lady Brougham had a soiree at her Ladyship's mansion in
Grafton-street, which was attended, among others, by the following
members of the fashionable world :—Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the French Ambassador and the Duke de Broglie, the
Spanish Atnbassador, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess
Dictrichsten, the Russian Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the
Hanoverian Minister, the Dutch Minister, the American Minister
and Mrs. and Miss Everett, the Bavarian Minister, the Duke of
Richmond, &c.

The meeting at Almack's, which was the last of the first sub-
scription, was very numerously attended. The second subscription
commences on Wednesday.

ZWIXSCEILMILNZIOUS.

The debate in the House of Lords on the subject of the admis-
sion of the public to the condemned sermon in Newgate, has caused
some stir in the City. The Sheriffs take upon themselves the en.
tire responsibility of what has occurred, and are ready to justify all
they have done whenever they may be called upon.
The Bill introduced by the Duke of Richmond into the House
of Lords, on Tuesday night, on the subject of spirit licences in
Scotland, granted to the keepers of turnpike.gates, is entitled a
Bill " for repealing so much of an Act passed in the first and
second year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the
Fourch, entitled ' An Act for amending and making more effectual
the Laws concerning Turnpike.roads in Scotland; as relates to the
powers of Justices to grant licences to Tacksmen of Tolls, &c."
The Bill was presented by the Noble Duke, and read a first time.
No day has yet been fixed for the next stage of this Bill.
From a return issued yesterday, by order of the House of Lords,

it appears that the amount of the banknotes in circulation in
Scotland, in 184'2, was, on an average, 2,820,726/. The average
of 1843 was 2,731,7701.; and of 1844, 2,950,7041. Some months
the amount exceeds 3,500;0001.; but the averages of the years
were as above stated.

Miss Davenport is suffering from a severe and dangerous attack
of bronchitis, and it is feared that it will be some time before she
is enabled to resume her professional duties.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of
101., sent by some person unknown, in a note dated the 30th of
April. _ .

On Tuesday morning, as a man in the employ of Mr. Bryant,
master carman, was loading his waggon with bags of sugar, at the
back of B warehouse, in the St. Katharine's Docks, two of the
bags, white in the act of being loWered from the loophole, slipped
from the sling, and falling, broke the poor fellow's leg. He was
instantly removed, in a state of great suffering, to the London
Hospital.
A too often successful trick is now playing off in and about Lon-
don by a seafAring.looking man, who, finding from gossiping neigh.
bours, any one who has dear relatives abroad, immediately goes to
him, and pretending that he has just arrived from that country, re.
presents that he was charged with a box or some other small package
from the distant relative, which was detained on landing at Liverpool
by the Custom-house, on account of some duties on cargo, and
stating that he is about to return to that place to rejoin his ship,
proffers his services to pay the charges, if the patty will only ad.
vance him the money,. And as most persoos are anxjons to have
any memorial from a dear friend abroad, the impostor succeeds,
in litany instances, in obtaining money and causing great disap-
pointment.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT.— We believe that we
can state with almost a certainty, that there is no foundation for
the paragraph which appeared in the Globe of last night, and
copied into some of the morning papers to-day, respecting it being
the intention of Earl Lonsdale, the Earl of Liverpool, and the
Marquis of Exeter to resign office, in consequence of not agreeing
with the increased grant to Maynooth. We understand no such
intimation has been given by the Noblemen alluded to.—Herald.
PEEBLES-SHIRE ELECTION.—The election for Pee-
bles.st.ire is fixed to take place at Peebles, on Monday next, the sth
inst. There is not to be any opposition to Mr. Mackenzie, on the
part of the Conservatives. The Liberals applied to Sir James
Forrest, late provost of Edinburgh (who, it will be remembered,
allowed her Majesty on her first visit to Scotland to steal a march
upon him by reclining too long on his pillow one morning), to be-
come a candidate ; but Sir James, it seems, declined to exchange
the privacy of domestic life for the dubious honours of a county re-
presentative.— Herald.
THE FINE ARTs.—Yesterday, the fifth and last
day's sale of Mr. Henry Rice's collection of pictures and drawings
took place at Messrs. Christie and Morison's. Lot No. 894,
• Cellini p esenting a censer to the Pope," an original painting
by Sir David Wilkie, which was presented to Mr. Rice, was, after
a spirited competition, knocked down for 705 guineas.
LIABILITIES OF AN EDITOR.—Lord Denman has
laid down the law recently, that an editor has no right to insert
any paragraph before he has ascertained " that the assertion made
in it is absolutely true." So then, in the case of the late disco-
veries made by the Earl of Rosse's telescope, an editor ought to
have proceeded to the different planets mentioned before he inserted
any statement respecting them. According to Lord Denman, the
Man in the Moon and Orion would both recover swinging da-
mages from almost every editor in the United Kingdom for the
reflections cast by the Earl's telescope on their characters as planets.
—Punch.

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bUICIDE OF THE CAPTAIN OF A DANISH SHIP.-
Yesterday the captain of the Danish brig Betsy, whose name Is at
present unknown, committed suicide by cutting his throat while in
a warm bath, at the bath establishment in Tower-street.
TURN-OUT IN THE GLASS TRADE.—The workmen
at the principal glass-bottle manufactory at Warrington have turned
out for an advance of wages. They at present receive more than
twice the usual rate of wages paid to artisans in Lids country, but
they hope to obtain more now that the duty has been taken off all
kinds of glass. As the proprietors of the glass-works in question
have a six months' stock of bottles on hand, they care very little
how long the men stay out, except for the sake of the inferior class
of workmen, such as cr..te-makers, who are dependent on the
progress of the manufacture for their daily bread.—Liverpool
Times.

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.-200 ACRES OF

PLANTATION CONSUMED.—One of the largest fires that has been
known to occur in Cornwall for many years happened on Friday,
about noon, in the parish of Boconner, in that county, adjacent
to the park of the Hon. G. Fortescue. It originated amongst some
loose furze on a large heath. By the falling of a quantity of burn-
ing peat, and °wil; to the dried condition of the furze, the flames
spread with great rapidity in all directions. The surrounding
domains being evidently in great danger, about '250 labourers were
engaged to stop the fire. They immediately attempted to check
its career by cutting down the shrubs, but this they speedily found
was of no avail, for before they could remove it it Ignited. The
conflagration is described to have been one of an awful character;
and at one time great fears were entertained for the safety of
Broodock Church and the park. After it had raged for several
hours, destroying near 200 acres of plantation, it was subdued by
digging a deep troth. The prope;ty kaopged to the Sou.
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1845.

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

The loud cries of " No Popery," the Maynooth
Bill, and the backsliding of Sir Robert Peel have at
last roused Blackwood from his slumbers, and com-
pelled him again to return to politics. This excuse
for such a long and dreary silence is not a little cha-
racteristic of the class to which he belongs. He
wishes to go with the Tory leader. He can have no
hope in Russell, or Palmerston, or Howick—they
would be tenfold worse than Peel. He therefore
waited to see if an accident would occur, by which
he might be able to catch something to make a good
plea for adhering to his party. Unluckily, the course
into which Sir Robert Peel has entered is so clear
and defined that not a turn or a winding was left for
the great Apollo of northern Toryism. He is obliged,
therefore, to make the best of his pitiable case, and
simply lament in tears the degeneracy of the man
who was regarded as the only prop and stay of Con-
servatism, and the last hope of the Protestant Church.
The reasons he gives for his long silence are curious :
" Of late," says he, " this journal has a good deal re-
tired from the strife of politics. Our readers must
not misunderstand this. It was not through any
treachery to that duty of hope which we have been
insisting on as sacred : it was through a change in
the public rather than in ourselves." And he then
goes on to say that there was nothing to write about
but O'Connell and the corn-laws. Domestic
feuds had dwindled into the corn question. The
audience fell away to nothing as the garrulity
of the speakers increased ; the public patience
languished as its abusers multiplied. Indeed,
nothing but corn-laws and O'Connell ! Why, Sir
Robert Peel last session announced, in the most ex-
plicit terms, that something must be done for Ireland.
That a new system of education must be adopted
which would include Catholics as well as Protestants,
and to suppose that this new system would not cost
so much as 26,0001., about which 30 much noise is
made, and make this an excuse for silence, is abso-
lutely puerile. But besides these topics, there were
others not less momentous to the party which looked
up to Blackwood as their guide. During the whole
session, which has now lasted three months, the Go-
vernment measures were so purely those f Cobden
and Hume., and Russell, and the various sections
classed under them as chiefs, that all the applause Sir
Robert Peel received came from the camp of the
enemy. Was it nothing to make a complete revolution
in the tariff, to take the duty off glass, reduce the
duty on sugar 11d. in the pound, and abolish the
customs duty on 400 articles, while Bankes and
Miles and all the farmers' friends, prayed in vain for
the slightest favour ? Never since 1831 has there
been such a stirring session as the present, and never
did the old Tory party stand so aghast, yet Black-
wood says there was no strife of politics. That is a
lame excuse for silence, and perhaps it would have
been better for his character had he preserved it
longer, for such a lame, halting, pithless attack on
the Maynooth grant has not issued either from Co-
vent-garden or Exeter-hall. One of his reasons for
opposing this popish measure is of a peculiar character,
and only shows to what shifts a man is driven when
under the plea of consistency he refuses to listen to the
voice of reason. The dire hostility, so long maintained
in this country between Protestants and Catholics—
the bloody deeds that have disgraced British dominion
in Ireland—the " half-hanging and flame," be regards
as the greatest of blessings toleration in religion as
the greatest curse, and attributes the inferiority of the
Continental States entirely to the harmony in which
Catholics and Protestants live with each other. We
give the principal reason for persecuting the Catholics
in his own language, as a genuine specimen of red-
hot Toryism in its golden age :
" It is a record of the political imbecility, it is to the
high disgrace, of the continental states, that with most
of them Catholics and Protestants could meet in this in-
sipid harmony : it was a harmony resembling the reli-
gious toleration of people—tolerant, because careless of
all religion. Had they, like ourselves, possessed a con-
stitution of slow growth, a representative system, a
popular mind, all stimulating to noble political feuds,—
in that ease they would have had high principles like
ourselves; they, like ourselves, would have faced the
action and re-action of endless contest ; and their po-
litical progress, like ours, would have been written on
every page of their history and legislation. It was
because they slept and snored for ages with no instincts
of fiery political life, that they were able, in modern
times—Catholics and Protestants—to fraternise in effe-
minate ruptures of maudlin sentimentality."

The other articles in the Number are of a more
amiable character ; among others we may mention
" The Cut of a Coat and the Good of a Gown," suited
to both sexes ; the continuation of " North's Speci-
mens of the British Critics," including Dryden and
Chaucer ; and " A Glance of the Peninsula," founded
on that excellent work, entitled " Revelations of
Spain." From the first of these articles we extract
the following genealogical pedigree of the
_modern
frock coat
" Our modern coats, those chefs-dteuvre of Stulz and
Co., are to be traced back by their pedigree to about the
middle of the seventeenth century; while our. paletots,
wrappers, or whatever else you like to call them, may
lay claim to a higher antiquity by three hundred years.
In the brilliant courts of Louis XIII., Philip IV., and
Charles 1., the costume had changed from the tight
jacket or vest of the sixteenth century, to the open and
somewhat neglige, though picturesque jerkin, so familiar
to the lovers of Rubens and Vandyke. Over the linen
integuments of his body, a gentleman in those days wore
only one upper permanent garment, the jerkin or vest in
question: the sleeves were loose and rather short; the
waist was not pinched in; the cut was rather straight;
the length extended only to the loins, and abundance of
fine linen and lace was displayed. Over this garment,
which was very plain, was worn a small cloak, more or
less ornamented, in the hall or the hunting field; but in
the tented camp, the cuirass was buckled on, and the
jerkin appeared below, covering the tops of the cuissards
or thigh-pieces. There is many a charming Vandyke
portraying our ancestors in this elegant dress; and even
the furious fanaticism of the Cromwellian times allowed
the fashion to remain in England, till the taste of the
French Court underwent a change, and modified the
habiliments of nearly all civilized Europe. To what
cause we do not know, but probably to some degree of
additional comfort required by Louis XIV. and his
courtiers in their earlier campaigns—is to be ascribed
the lengthening of the skirts of the jerkin, and the
corresponding increase in the dimensions of the cloak,
which we find to have taken place soon after 1660. The
portraits of Mignard, and the battle-pieces of Vander-
meulen, all show us the change that was then going on
at the Court of Versailles : we find the form of the dress
stiffening, the sleeves lengthening, pockets either yawn-
ing wide, or covered under deep lapels, the cuffs turned
up half way to the elbow, and a glorious display of gold
lace and ribbons, that must have made a fine gentleman
of those palmy days glitter with the colours of the rain-
bow. To the easy and languid elegance of the Spanish
costume had succeeded a certain degree of military stiff-
ness and precision among the French beaux : all Europe
was at that time lost in admiration of the Grand Mo-
narque ar.d his brilliant Court ; and their fashions were
adopted as the universal rule of taste. It was the stiff
coat of Louis XIV. that was the direct progenitor of
two degenerate, yet widely differing, sons—the habit or
coat, and the frock or suitoutt of the present day. De-
generate descendants truly ! Who that ever saw the
rustling, heavy, and almost self-supporting coat of
Charles II.; could have imagined that the plain, close-
fitting, and supple frock, or the be-clipped and almost
evanescent habit pare of the nineteenth century, were to
spring from them as types ?"