The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-08 00:00:00

MR. WILSON'S JACOBITE
RELICS"

On Monday night Mr. Wilson produced, at the Store-
street Room, a new entertainment under the above title.
His object appears to have been to describe the birth and
growth of what may be called the Jacobite muse of
Scotland—to trace the origin of that body of poetry and
music, inspired by enthusiasm for the Stuart dynasty,
which contributed to keep alive a Jacobite feeling in
Scotland long after it became, politically and rationally,
a mere absurdity. In his lecture Mr. Wilson went back
to the very commencement of Ja,cobitism—to the period
when Graham of Claverhouse—Viscount Dundee—fell
on the last of his fields in the cause of the last of the
Stuarts. He gave a narrative of the insurrection of
1714, into which he introduced a number of lyrical effu-
sions produced by the enthusiasm of that period ; and
he brought the subject down to the great rebellion of
1745 ; thus connecting his present entertainment with
the very popular one which is founded on the occur-
rences of that period.
Mr. Wilson's entertainment was characterised by the
same qualities as his former ones—great good sense and
judgment in the choice of his topics—a
simple and un-
affected, yet very animated delivery—a variety of inte-
resting and amusing anecdotes,—and, above all, a num-
ber of beautiful Scottish Jacobite ballads, sung as Wilson
alone can sing them. The Killiecrankie songs, with
ivhich he commenced, are full of racy Scottish humour;
but we should have thought it impossible to make them
at all intelligible to an English audience, had it not been
for the great hilarity they produced, and the applause
with which they were received. There were several,
however, of a plaintiff and melancholy cast, with which
every listener must be delighted and moved. Among
these we were enchanted with the beauty and pathos of
" Derwentwater's Farewell," and" The sun rises bright
in France." In this last some of the sweetest poetry
imaginable is united to a most expressive melody. The
first four lines strike us as exquisite :
" The sun rises bright in France,
And fair sets he; •
But he has tint the blink be had
In my sin countrie."
Mr. Wilson also introduced the well known song of
" Lewie Gordon," hut gave it all the charm of novelty
by the manner in which he sang it.
Taken altogether, this is a most interesting entertain-
ment; and it will, we have no doubt, have the success
which has attended Mr. Wilson's previous efforts.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NiMMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FOUR O'CLOCK.
The attenuated condition of a list that on its first ap-
pearance in " outline " looked very much like " business,"
is partly ascribed to the unpopularity of the handicap
for the Suffolk Stakes, and partly to the excessive hard-
ness of the ground, which naturally disinclines trainers
to risk horses that already arc, or will be, engaged at
Gorhambury, Epsom, or Ascot. A suspicion that the
mighty promise on paper would come to nothing, coupled
with the announcement that Oakley's matches with
Emma and St. Lawrence were off, sufficiently explains
why the attendance on the Heath this afternoon was so
small, and leads us to anticipate that although, a race of
some kind may be knocked up for Thursday, the meet-
ing, as far as the public are interested, will terminate
to-morrow. The sport this afternoon will speak for
itself.
501., for three-yrs old, 6st 21b ; four, Bst ; five, Bst
71b ; six, and aged, Bst 121 b. T.M.M. Winner to
be sold for 200 sovs.
Duke of Grafton's Esop, 4 yrs (Nat) 1 i
Lord W. Powlett's Falconer, 3 yrs 2
Lord Exeter's Maria Diaz, 4 yrs
Mr. Batson's Tipoe, 3 yrs
Esop made all the running, defeated Falconer's chal-
lenge half way in the cords, and won cleverly by a
length; Maria Diaz a bad third. The winner was
claimed. Even on Esop, and 7to 4 agst Maria Diaz.
50/., for three-yrs old, colts Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. R.M.
Duke of Rutland's Welbeck (Robinson) 1
Lord Exeter's Pergularia 2
Lord Chesterfield's Tiddly Winks 3
The following also ran :—Mr. Thorhill's Elemi, Lord
Albemarle's Winfarthing, Mr. John Day's Vates, Mr.
Francis's Seven's the Main. Betting 6to 5 agst Yates,
7to 4 agst Welbeck, and 4to 1 agst Elemi. Welbeck
made all the running, and won in a canter by three
lengths; a fine race for second, Vates fourth, and Elemi
fifth, close together; the others nowhere. Robinson's
stirrup-leather broke immediately after passing the post,
and he was nearly off; the horse ran nearly half a mile
before he was pulled up.
Match, A.F., 500 sovs., 100 ft.--Mr. Thornhill's Ex-
Y), beat Mr. Jaques's
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pore. Won by a length. . Even on Extem-
Match, D.M., 200 sovs., h ft.—Lord Chesterfield's The
Miser Scarve, received forfeit from Lord Exeter's Plush.
Match, A.F., 200 sovs., h ft, both 3 yrs old.—Duke:of
Bedford's Espoir, Bst, received 50 sovs. compromise from
Mr, Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingales Bst 714

THE WELSH CHURCH.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" We do hear them speak in our tongues the won-
derful works of God.' What a glorious opening
scene, and how gloriously continued on. " Their
sound is gone out into all lands."—" There is neither
speech nor language but their voices are heard among
the m."—Es en the distant isolated Briton rejoiced in
the heavenly privilege, and his descendants have en-
joyed it as their rightful inheritance to the present
day. But, alas ! here we are forced to stop. A
change has come over their fortunes; and when those
Britons now stand forward to hear the joyful tidings
in their tongue wherein they were born, they meet
with an unqualified refusal. " No," says the Church
of England, "you shall hear no such things unless
you learn English."
A short time ago we adverted to the practice in the
diocese of Llandaff, of denying the communion service
to the poor in their native tongue, and the many
other unchristian practices concurrent with that ;
and as such practices must be too notorious to escape
public animadversion, it may be asked why the ag-
grieved parties do not remonstrate and memorialise
the Bishop on the subject. Memorialise the Bishop !
W hy, he has been memorialised, expostulated with,
entreated, implored, supplicated upon the subject.
And what is said on the part of the Bishop ? Why,
that he is pastor pastorum, and not pastor populi;
and with these scraps of Latin the matter is dismissed.
The Bishop does his work by deputy, and the people
remain as they were. Deputyism and sinecurism
form the vital air of the Church of England. They
are the oxygen and hydrogen of its constant respira-
tion, only that to this combination is added another
ingredient of no less general diffusion, and that is
nepotism. This is the laughing gas of the Establish-
ment. It was this principle that operated so effica-
ciously in the recent arrangements in the parish of
Mamhilad, and produced the usual fruits there. In
this parish the people were accustomed to hear the
service of the Church in their native Welsh language;
but about the beginning of the present yearthe Welsh
clergyman having left, it was contrived that through
the exercise of some little reciprocities between influ-
ential persons in this diocese and others on the English
side of the Severn, without in the least consulting the
convenience of the parishioners, an English clergyman
was placed here totally ignorant of the Welsh lad-
guage, and who, of course, withheld from them their
customary service. Upon this the parishioners de-
termined upon addressing the Bishop, and accordingly
a petition was drawn up to the following effect, and
delivered to the Bishop :
"To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of
Llandaff.
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of the parish of
Mamhilad, in the county of Monmouth, and diocese
of Llandaff, humbly beg permission to state to your
Lordship," &c. And here they proceed to say that
they had been accustomed to have the service of their
parish church performed in their native Welsh lan-
guage, and that the congregation was often very con-
siderable, but that in consequence of the change al-
luded to, it was continually diminishing, and was
then reduced to seven individuals ; and then they added
that if such practice was persisted in, they had no
alternative but to absent themselves altogether from
their parish church, and seek some other place of wor-
ship, where they could hear the word of God in their
native tongue, and concluding with a prayer that the
Bishop would redress their grievances.
Would it not be natural to suppose that such an
appeal would be immediately attended to ? But no.
The pastor pastorum had nothing to do with this vox
populi. Week after week passed away, and nothing
was done ; and the last we heard of Mamhilad was,
that the seven tenacious churchmen had at last dwin-
dled into five. Whether those five have followed their
neighbours we know not ; but this we are assured of,
that there is a Dissenting chapel to be erected in the
parish, to which a popular and eloquent Welsh
preacher will be appointed ; and the swarm which has
left the old hive will be better housed, and if not more
wholesomely, at least more bountifully fed.
But one other fact, not less characteristic of the
system is, that this same English clergyman has been
also placed as minister to the new c' airch in the ad-
jacent iron works, in the midst of a Welsh-speaking
population, under the patronage of the Pastoral Aid
Society. Little do the contributors to that charity
suspect how their money is applied.
It may be asked, where will all this end ? We do
not possess the faculty of second sight, but with such
active causes before us we will venture to predict a
few effects, and in so doing we shall announce a few
facts, probably new in certain quarters. There is
even now a decree gene forth from the Vatican that
will ere long visit this nefarious system with the re-
tribution it so righteously deserves : for there are at
this moment preparing for the ministry in a Roman
Catholic seminary a number of young Welshmen,
well acquainted with the language, talented, elo-
quent men, devoted to their creed, who, as soon as
arrangements are complete, will be sent out into the
principality as missionaries and parish priests ; and,
what is more, there is actually a Welsh Catholic
Bishop, consecrated for Wales ; yea! and he will fix
his residence in the ancient see of Llandaff; yea, his
palace and cathedral are already planned out, and
that, too, in a style of magnificence worthy of the
importance of his charge, where, surrounded by his
suffragans and coadjutors, he will complete the or-
ganisation which his Church is so competent to design.
The Church of Rome was once expelled by the
Church of England for not ministering in a language
understood by the people. Three hundred years of
exile have taught her wisdom. We shall see her en-
gage her rival with the same weapons, and most pro-
bably not without effect. " See," she will say to the
injured and insulted people of Wales, pointing to the
Church of England, " See how that false, heartless
stepmother of yours famishes your souls and mocks
your cries. Come ye to me, and be ye comforted
and fed." And when this takes places, who is to
enter into battle in defence of the Protestant faith ?
Is it the crippled, crutched, and dotaged Church of
England ? Will she resist the march of mighty
Rome when she comes forth in the vigour of her re-
novated youth ? Is it the fashion-ridden Anglicised
clergy of the Establishment, who preach to bare
walls, that will direct the popular feeling and stay the
progress of the enemy? No; if the encroachment is
to be resisted at all, it is not by the Church of Eng-
land that it will be done, but by her deadly enemies,
the Dissenters. And in that conflict, if the Dissenters
are defeated, the Church of England is gone; but if
the Dissenters prevail, that very success will establish
their own supremacy, and be equally fatal to the
Church. Lo, this is our prediction!

BILL MACERS.—It is a matter of great surprise
amongst men of business in the city, that, notwithe
standing the innumerable warnings which the public
have received, through the Press, against intrusting
securities for money to persons unknown, and
after the repeated convictions which have taken
place, in the cases of bill-stealers, and the
severe sentences which have been passed upon the delin-
quents, there should be exhibited daily evidence of the
credulity of persons, in other respects, possessed of
ordinary good sense. The practice of bill-stealing is
carried on to an enormous extent in the west end of the
town. There are numbers of persons about the fashion-
able part of the metropolis who are designated "Bill
maters," alias, bill agents. They form a kind of part-
nership, and play into each others hands with much in-
genuity. The firm consists, in each locality, generally of
three individuals, each of whom has a different character
to perform. They are called " the bill macer," " the grab
macer," and " the huffily* macer." The bill macer is the
head or representative of the pecuniary strength of the firm,
and is to be considered as the negotiator. The grab
macer is to be found constantly haunting coffee-houses
and taverns on the look out for those who may be anxious
to get " bits of genuine stiff," or good bills, discounted,
in order to introduce them to the bill-macer, who is at
all times ready to misappropriate ; and the buffing-
macer is always in the way to be at the beck and call
of the other maters, in order to swear to the right of
possession on the part of the negotiator, and to the posi-
tive payment of the amount, with deduction of the inte-
rest to the unfortunate person, who calculates upon the
accommodation after he has placed the security at the
mercy of this gang of thieves. It is well known tirlit
robberies are every day perpetrated upon the system
above described ; and when a gentleman haPPV.Is to fall
into the snare so ingeniously laid and acted •upon, the
buffer is sure to beat him by a circumstanti
al detail in
which time and place and the number of sorpereigns paid
(for the negotiator always pays in gold) &ire sworn to,
except indeed he is prepared to aot wits more than
ordinary nerve in his own defence.
TRAVELLING IN SPAIN.--We -read in a Madrid
journal—" Mail-coaches, with three places for pas-
sengers, like those of France, have been est fib-fished upon
all our roads. It is difficult to give an idea, of the multi-
plication of public carriages of all kinds in Spain. They
are running in every direction, and there i so much op-
position, that the fares are brought extremely low, and
travelling has become so greatly increased, Ibiat the inns
and other establishments for their accominc,dation are
as greatly improved. If our highways are 'au q cleared of
the brigands who infest them, foreigners w ill flock to
explore our country mid its interesting• curiosities,
hitherto almost unknown to the rest of, Europe."—
Galignanes Messenger.
COFFEE ELECTRICITY.—Although it ic; not quite
new, it is not generally known that a man may be literally
and truly electrified with newly ground coffee. The manner
of doing so was exhibited to the writer of tl us a few days
ago at a shop in the New Town. A largen co in-mill, driven
by a steam-engine, was grinding coffee into i huge barrel.
In the barrel stood a copper scoop, directly o ceder the fall
of the fresh-ground coffee. An iron rod being; held within
an inch or so of the copper scoop, an instant %I meous flash of
lightning, or stream of electric fluid, was at tracted by the
iron. The same result followed when the bnkgeerntise.
aseni
ployed instead of the rod, and a slight shock,
was quite perceptible. By a ruk ju t •
punc-
ture of a pin,
coffee to.the'
contrivance,
a shock was also communicated from the grour
animal in a
tail of a cat, when off scampered the bewilder !id
state of the most earnest astonishment.
matter is curious, and not beneath the attent Ps together the
Of the phi-
losopher. Can there be electricity in flour, oa ftneal, or snuff?
These are exposed to friction as well as coe-
which proves the one to be genuine or the ; and a test
useful with regard to the others te-o treverse, may be
Scott:natl, isvontiqtt of the