The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

Wednesday, the 26th instant, is definitively settled for
the christening of the Prince of Wales.
The Countess of Erne, mother of Lady Wharncliffe,
expired at Hampton Palace yesterday. She was one of
the Ladies of the Bedchamber for several years to
Queen Charlotte.

The inhabitants of Salisbury have agreed to suspend
101 business, and have a general holiday, when the Prince
of Wales is christened.

Cimarosa, the celebrated composer, died on this day
in 1801. Of his twenty-six operas, "Il Matrimonio Se-
greto" is the greatest favourite in England.
On this day also died Linnaeus, the great Swedish bo-
tanist. A monument of porphyry was erected to his
memory in Upsal cathedral, and a medal of Mm struck
by the King's order at his death.
Lady Joan. Berkeley, in the reign of Henry 111., used
to warm herself in the cold weather by sawing billets and
sticks with a fine handsaw. Taylor, the water poet, in
the reign of Charles 1., says, " Now all their (the ladies)
exercise is privately to saw billets."

ODE TO THE POPE.

BY A PUSEYITE POET.

" Amongst other portentous opinions, Mr. William
Palmer upholds most fervently the malignant doctrine
of the persecution of heretics, and would think himself
in no error to burn any one, if the state of society
allowed it, who dares" depart from the opinions of what
he supposes to be the Church Catholic."—Orford Cor-
respondent.

The Pope is coming, Hurray ! Hurray I
He was seen off Calais at noon, they say,

And must now be half-seas over,
And with him is coming a ghostly freight
Of faggots and friars, in solemn state,

To astonish the nerves of Dover

Inquisitors, too, have been shipped by the score,
And monks well versed in bigotry's lore,
For 'tis said (oh, joyful sound !)
That his Holiness means our eyes to greet
With an Anto-da-fe, by way of a treat,
On Smithfield's hallowed ground.

'Tis now three hundred years and odd,
Since on that blest spot, by the grace of God,
A Bishop was roasted whole,
And 'tis time we there again should see
Some fat, round Prelate done to a T,
If but for the good of his soul.

•
Conceive how Cantuar would roast,
When chained to the flame-encircled post,
'Mid the mob's exulting stir !
Smooth London, too, would adorn the stake,
But I think 'twould be well, for example's sake,
To begin with Exeter

So, Hurray for the Auto-da-fe ! Hurray I
And should it take place, as I hope it may,
• I'll bet you half-a-crown,
Ere a month—perchance ere a fortnight—pass,
The bells shall all ring out for mass
In every British town.

And every Bishop, by singular luck,
Shall become an Abbot as fat as a buck,
And every Vicar a Friar,
And chaunt, despite his Protestant qualms,
The Seven long Penitential Psalms,
Thro' the nose, like Pat Maguire.*
And Glo'ster's Deant, grown wise at last,
Shall by forced penance, prayer, and fast,
His heretic nature soften,
And Sidney Smith, no longer gay,
Shall tell his beads four times a day,
And scourge himself as often !

And sly Sir Bob, and the Tories all,
Shall weekly go to confessional,
And each relate the story
Of his public sins ; but without avail,
For shrive and shrift alike must fail,
I fear, to save a Tory !

So ends my chaunt, God bless the Pope 1
On him I'll rest my sunniest hope
When age my spirit freezes;
Meantime, in reverence bending low, '9'l4:
I'll u joyfully kiss his pious toe,
Sri^.
Or whatever part else he pleases I

* An Trish Catholic Priest, well known in theological con-
troversy.
. Dr. Monk, one of the staunchest opponents of the Puseyites
b.-Jun

THE CENSUS.

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An amended account of the population of
Scotland has just been published by authority.
It appears that. the population of six counties
was stated erroneously in the previous account,
in consequence of the baste with which it was
prepared, in order that it might be laid as soon
as possible before Parliament.
The following are the counties, with the
correct returns of the total number of in-
habitants in 1841 :—Forfar, 170,4C0 Nairn,
9,218 ; Orkney and Shetland, 60,790 ; Ross and
Cromarty, 78,980; Roxburgh, 46,003 ; and
Wigtown, 39,179. The population of Glasgow
was stated incorrectly to be 257,592, whereas it
amounts to 267,463. There is a slight error also
in the return of the population of Great Britain
and the Islands in the British Seas. The correct
number, including the army, navy, and mer-
chant-seamen on shore at the time of the Census,
is 18,656,414.

A MINIMUM OF WAGES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—Opinion creeps slowly on, and there is
nothing like giving it from time to time a fillip,
by taking a new step into the region of the un-
moved.
A little time ago you inserted for me an, in-
quiry into what would be the result in a land-
lord-ridden country, of everybody (saving al-
ways the continuance of the landlords' tax) being
taken with the determination of giving away all
they had in charity. And we came to the con-
clusion, that it would be of exactly the same
effect, as giving away in charity in a ship kept
purposely at sea and short of water.
I now want to know, in the same manner,
what would be the effect of the other nostrum
so amiably recominended by the monopolists,
and so kindly gulped down by their gulls and
agents among the working classes; which con-
sists in the manufacturing employers agreeing
to give their workmen any sum it might be con-
venient to assign in the shape of wages ?
It may be said that this would come under the
old head of charity. And so it would, if carried
to the extreme of the imaginable. But if this
is not secured, it seems to admit of an earlier
solution. Suppose then it was enacted, that no
manufacturing employer should offer an ordinary
adult male operative less than twenty shillings
a-day, and others in some defined proportion;
and that by the erection of a guillotine or other-
wise, men were made afraid to resist or evade
the law. How would the matter solve itself?
Would it not be thus ? The masters would
cut down their operations to such a portion as
could be carried on consistently with twenty
shillings a-day to so many as were employed.
And the difference, would be dismissed from
employment. The immediate result, therefore,
to the working classes, would be something very
like one man in six having six pounds a-week,
instead of six having a pound a-piece.
If the guillotine was set to work to oblige the
masters to pay twenty shillings a-day to as many
as chose to ask for it, then the question would
come very nearto the case where men without
a guillotine were supposed to come to the reso-
lution of giving away all they had in charity.
Heads or no heads, the thing could go on no
longer than till the masters had nothing more
to give. And then the scheme must end in the
discovery as before, that in a ship short of water
nothing can mend the matter but going where
water is to be had.
I know the nervousness of the public when
they hear _of. guillotines; and purposely incur
the evil for the sake of noting, that as in France
the people, with less chance of knowledge, and
therefore more excusable, tried all manner of
follies in the way of making bread by blood,
in our country it is the owners of the soil who
set up the machine, and a cruelly blunt and
slow kind of death it is from what I see of it,
"by which the public is to be wrought into subjec-
tion to the quackeries of the greatest dunces that
ever ruled in an industrious nation.
A member of the Chamber of Deputies con
eluded every speech on every subject, with—
liberte illimitie de la presse. In addressing coma
mercial men and bread-eaters, it might be ex.
cusable in the same way to wind up every argu.
ment, with the one word of compensation.
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Manchester, Bth January, 1842.

Dr. Turnbull, who has been on a tour in the
north, and successfully curing and converting many un-
believers in his discoveries (as will be seen by an extract
in this day's paper), has returned to his residence in
Russell-square.
OMNIBUS ROBBERY.—Yesterday information
was received at the various station-houses of the Me-
tropolitan and City Police, that between one Land two
o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday last a gentleman,
named Marshall, residing at No. 34, Newman-street,
Oxford-street, was robbed while proceeding in an
omnibus between Whitechapel Church and Bow Church,
Cheapside, of a small Russia leather pocket-book, con-
taining 801. in Bank of England notes, viz., one 50/., one
201, and one 101., besides a Post-office order and other
papers and memorandums. Mr. Marshall can give no
information as to how the robbery was committed,. or
any description of th• thisires.