The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-26 00:00:00

TH_g SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1842.

exhibited a large transparency of the Queen and
Prince Albert, with the motto of " Our English Rose
—the Bud—the Blossom," and also enjoined the poet of
the establishment to write two additional verses, to be
sung with the National Anthem at the rising of the cur-
tain. In the City the illuminations were less frequent.

The PAINTER of the CHRISTENING.

TO - RANTER.
Flowing colours! flashing colours !—ye that upon high
Ever beauteous make the clouds and rainbows of the sky—
Ye that stream your rose and gold from rays and sun-

light-gushes—
Ye whose rich carnation tones tint the Summer's blushes
Jacinth ! Opal ! Chrysopraze ! Would I could combine
All your shades and splendours in one gathering divine—
Bind them in one glowing heap, with roscid lustres wet,
And fling them all triumphantly on HAYTER'S proud
palette.

Painter! thine a noble task—quit thee nobly then!
So thy work hereafter stand a worship among men:
Gather thou the images of all transcendant things—.

Flush thy work with pomp of lights and rosy glitterings:
Sure the dazzling Royalties that wait upon thine art,
Shall make its living miracles to full perfection start—
Make its shades and radiances, and harmonizing tints,
Strain their finest spendour-tones to picture England's
Prince !

Paint him-0 how splendidly !—enmantled in his bright
Apparellings imperial of purple and of white
Lay him in embroideries with gold and gem o'erflowered—
Paint a rain of starry eyes thrice-sweetly o'er him

showered :
Paint upon his infant lips, by Kings and Princes kissed,
Drops more sweet than honeycombs, with dews of

amethyst :
Types of his own innocence, let lily-flowers spring,
Then strew him all with silver-drops of sainted christening.
Round about him gird a throng of Princes and of Kings,
With purples, and with pageantries, and gorgeous bla-

zonings :
Crowd the casques and coronets ; with plumes, and

swords, and spurs,
His nobles, and his Barons bring, and knightly homagers :
Gonfalons, and herald-arms, and trumpetings, and throngs
Of people and gay minstrellers with loyal-sounding songs :
But proudest show, and chiefest, 'mid the grandeurs of

the scene,
The mother bright that bore him—England's diamond-

crowned Queen !
Now, Harpers ! peal your honours—to the princely infant

ring !
Your honours to the courtly Sire.from whom his graces

• spring
And honour—mighty honour—to his mother bright and

bold ;
Who truly through her infant's veins her own rich blood

hath rolled
And honour to the Painter—full honours, loud and long,
Who lastingly hath fixed the seine in draughtings grand

and strong :
And blazoned, on this famous day, in Colour's living spring
The young and primal glory of a newly, christened King.

SCRAPS UPON CHRISTENINGS.

Parvoque Alcmena superbit
Hercule, tergemina crinem circumdata Luna.
Proud of her son, behold Alcmena wear
Three moons, an ornament to grace her hair.

The present august occasion, on which the
Heir to the Throne is supposed to be admitted
into the Church, and sanctified to a virtuous life,
not . unappropriately allows of some remarks on
the nature and antiquity of the ceremony, as
well as some account of the mode of performing
it in different countries, and also of the more
remarkable christenings of British Princes.
Christening, according to its verbal significa-
tion, is disguised under different names in eccle-
siastical phraseology. Palingenesia is one of the
most ordinary, which signifies a new birth—the
true signification of christening. It is otherwise
called the " Signaculum Domini," or Seal of the
Lord, which the water-cross marked upon the
fbrehead by the officiating christener imprints.
ANTIQUITY OF CHRISTENING.-:-Although ae-
cording
.to the obvious derivation of the word,
christening would have been supposed to have
originated. with Christ, yet many among the
learned attach to it a far greater ancientness.
Grotius was of opinion, that the rite of christen-
ing had its origin from the time of the Deluge,
immediately after which lie thinks it was insti-
tuted in memory of the world being purged by
water.

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ORIGIN OF WHITE-SUNDAY OR CHRISTENING-
DAY.—St. Cyril in explaining the symbols and
ceremonies ,of christening, says that after being
printed on the forehead with the cross, the child
christened was put into a white garment, to de-
note his being washed from the defilements of
sin, or, in allusion to that of the Apostle, "as
many as are baptized in Christ have put on
Christ." From this custom the feast of Pentecost,
which was formerly one of the annual seasons of
christening, came to be called Whitsunday i. e.
White-Sunday.
CIIRISTNNINGS AT ito3lE.—Among the cere-
monies used in the Papal dominions, is that of
blessing the salt, a little of which is put into the
child's mouth, with the words " Receive the salt
of wisdom." This is performed at the church-
door. Being come to the font, the spirit of origi-
nal sin which is supposed to dwell in the child is
exorcised, and taking a Little of his own spittle,
with the thumb of his :right hand, the priest
christening, rubs it on the child's ears and ItOS..
trils, repeating, as he tau ches the right ear, the
word Ephatha, be thou opened; oils are then
poured over it, and the cbtilld is anointed.
CHRISTENING AT THE G A NGES.—The Brahmins
believe that christening has a virtue in it of re-
mitting and washing away all sins. At the season
that the waters of that immense river are clear,
and the brilliant weather sets in, the cleansing
or sanctifying qualities attached to its streams,
cause the people to flock from the remotest parts
even of Tartary.
CHRISTENINGS BY FIRE.--St. John's expres-
sion of " baptism by fire" has occasioned much
conjecture. The fathers h eld on this point that
all children before they. enter Paradise are to
pass through a certain fire, which is to purify
from all pollutions offlesh- The ancient Selen-
cians and Hermians, undo' rstanding the passage
literally, maintained that material fire was ac-
tually necessary at baptisms. Valentinus re-
baptised all who had received only water-bap-
tism, and conferred on th em the baptism of fire.
CHRISTENING PRESENTS.—In Germany these
are in extensive use, and are made by the sponsors
to the infant, consisting of money, plate, and
sometimes fiefs of lands, *hich by the law of the
country are to be kept for the child till of age,
the parents holding them :in trust.
CHRISTENING 'AF A PO:PE.—Perhaps one of
the prettiest christenings o n record, rendered so
by the very apt and beeatiful triplets that com-
memorated it, is that re le.ted by- the quaint. old
Fuller on the occasioniong of christening Sir
William Pope's little da tighter, in the presence
of King James, who was then on his progresses.
While the waterdrops • were sprinkled upon it
the babe was presented. to King James, who
acted as sponsor, with a copy of the following
verses in its hand:—
See this little misty ee is here,
Did never sit in Pets r's chair,
Or a triple crown dig 1 wear,
And yet she is a 1 'ope.
No benefice she ever sold,
Nor did dispense wit, h sins for gold,
She hardly is a seven night old.
And yet she is a Pepe.
No King her feet did ever kiss,
Or had from her wor to look than this—
Nor did she ever hi rpe
To saint one with a rope,
And yet she is a . 'Pope.
A female Pope, you'll say— a second Joan ;
No, sure, she is Pope Innoc, mt., or none.

PRINCES CHRISTENED AT WESTMINSTER.—ItI
the noble pile of Westminster , just after its aisles
and transepts had been re bu ilt by his father
Henry 111., Edward the Pin t was christened,
The mild virtues of the Cot fessor were thus
hoped to be conveyed with the name which
Saxons loved and revered.

Young Edward V. was ...christened in the
Jerusalem Chamber of the Abbey, not by in-
tention, but by the pressure iof afflicting circum-
stances. The distressed Q. seen of Edward IV.
had fled thither, when th a victorious Lancas-
trians were bent upon n. capture, and as a
sanctuary-woman she confi dell in Thomas Mil-
ling, the Abbot. No pomp a ttended this deso-
late christening; the font of stone was arrayed
in no draperies of gold. or tit ;sue; a small knot
of friends, rather in fear than. 7:. in pleasure, assisted
at the conferring of the ca 3remony upon one,
whose after-fate was yet a n tystery. The kind
Abbot stood godfather ; 1 lit. godmothers were
the old Duchess of Bedf curd, his own rand-
mother, and the attached attendant of his mo-
ther, Lady Scrope.

Another Westminster C' bits
the only son of Henry V 1., =hick was per-
* tening was that of
formed with unusual pomp bil.
the pious Wayn-
flete, Bishop of Winchester. The sponsors on
the occasion were the Duke of Somerset, the
Archbishop of Canterbury,
Buckingham. The font on t" ; occasion was ar-
rayed in russet cloth of ra td the Duchess of
g old , and , circled by
a blaze of tapers. The chr
ysot ne, or christening
mantle, in which the Ro-f al In the was received
after immersion, cost 554'i. ios„ Bd., and the issue

rolls state that it was very rich with embroidery
and precious stones. Within this mantle was a
fine white linen wrapper, to prevent the brocade
and gems from coming, in contact with the deli-
cate skin of the young heir. Ten Duchesses,
eight Countesses, one Viscountess, and sixteen
Baronesses received writs of summons to be pre-
sent at the churching,festival of the Queen
his mother.
ALTERATIONS IN 'CHRISTENING SINCE PRINCE
EDWARD'S TIME.—The first liturgy of King Ed-
ward was materially different in its form-, from
that now used and authorised by the book of
Common Prayer. The form of consecrating the
water anew did not then form part of the office,
as the water in the font was changed and con-
secrated, but once a month. What was called the
triune immersion was then in use ; it is now dis-
continued. By the first common prayer of King
Edward, after the child was baptised, the god-
fathers and the godmothers were to lay their
hands on it, and the minister was to put on him
the white vestment commonly' called the Chry.
some, and to say, " Take this white vesture as a
token of the innocency which by- God's grace, in
this holy sacrament of christening, is given unto
thee, and for a sign, whereby thou art admo,
nished, so long as thou livest, to give thyself
to innocence of living, that after this transitory
life thou mayest be partaker of the life everlast-
ing." This was done in imitation of the primitive
Church, but it is now discontinued.

CHRISTENING AMONG THE .MOUNTAINS.—On
the birth of Edward 11., by Eleanora, consort of
King Edward 1., and who bore him in the Eagle
Tower of Carnarvon Castle, he was shortly after
christened, not among the damasks and draperies
of gorgeous chambers, but amid the rude and
rocky fastnesses of 'Wales. Sheathed in armour,
the supporters of his sire stood around him at the
ceremony, and the chiefs of the land imprinted
their reluctant kiss of homage on the cheek of
the young Plantagenet, who could speak no word
either of French or English.

CHRISTENINGS AT -WINDSOR, WOODSTOCK,
KENSINGTON, &C.—Edward the Third was chris-
tened'with great splendour four days after his
birth, in November, in the chapel of St. Edward,
Windsor. The ceremony was performed by the
Cardinal Arnold, and though the. Prince had se-
ven godfathers, the name of not one godmother
is recorded. Queen Isabella and. her French
nobles urged that he should be called Louis, but
the English nobles, always averse to a foreign
name, insisted on its being Edward. Subse-
quently Henry VI. was' christened at Windsor :
his godfathers were his uncle, John Duke of Bed-
ford, and Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester. Jac-
queline, Countess of Hainault, presented him at
the font, who was known by the familiar nick-
name given her by Henry V. of Dame Jake.
Edward VI. was christened in the chapel of
Hampton Court; Charles 11. in the Chapel
Royal of St. James's Palace; Richard 11. in a
foreign land; Edward the Black Prince in the
Bowers of Woodstock, where Edward 111., his
father, resided in almost domestic retirement
with his Queen Philippa, who was not only his
Royal Mother; but also herself his nurse. Her
' present Majesty, Queen Victoria was christened
at Kensington Palace.
CHRISTENING OF GEORGE IV.—Pepys, who
was present at the christening of the last Prince
of Wales, gossips of the occasion in one of his
letters thus :—" Our next Monarch was
christened last night, George Augustus Fre-
derick ; the Princess, the Duke of Cumberland,
and Duke of Mecklenburgh, sponsors; the cere-
mony was -performed by the Bishop of Loudon.
The Queen's bed, magnificent,.and they say in
taste, was placed in the great drawing-room ;
though she was not to see company in form, yet
this looked as if she intended people should have
been there." The attendants, on his Royal
Highness on this occasion were roverness, Lady
Charlotte Finch; deputy governess, Mrs. Hen-
rietta Coultsworth ; wet nurse, Mrs. Scott; dry
nurse, Mrs. Chapman.
-CITY-CHRISTENINGS.—The importance which
Was of old attached by English people to ordi-
nary christenings, may be gathered from two in-
stances related hy Stowe. In the year 1561, a
daughter of a Knight and Alderman of the City
on being christened, is thus described :—" A fair
maid carried the child to the church, in a white
satin gown, the mantle of crimson satin, fringed
with gold of four inches broad. The Master of
the Rills and my Lady White stood sponsors,
and afterwards there was a splendid banquet at
home." The second christening was concluded
with " a great banquet, consisting of wafers and
hippocras ; French, Gascoigne, and Rhenish
wines, in great p!enty, and all their servants
had abanquet in the ball, with divers dishes."

THE ABSOLUTE CH RISTENERS OR AN BAPTISTS.

—Queen Elizabeth had so violent an antipathy
to the people of this sect, that, upon their first
arrival in this kingdom, in the year 1560, she
commanded them instantly to quit it. The Ab-
solute Christeners have in all ages stood so
staunchly by their principles, and boast from
this cause so many martyrs, that their " Mar-
tyrology" forms a large volume in folio. Bayle
wittily nicknamed them " Waterlandians."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
Very little business except among the foreign houses
having letters going out, was entered into here to-day.
The Exchanges were quoted much the same, viz. Ham-
burgh, 13 10- to 11 ; Paris, 25f. 77ic. ; Trieste, 9 51 to
52 ; and Amsterdam, 12 44 to 4)p.
(From The Sun of East Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 24.—There is
some improvement to notice in the Cotton Market to-
day, in so far as there has been a better demand front
the trade. The sales rather exceed 4,000 bales, includ-
ing 300 for export, but nothing doing in speculation.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 24.—The trans-
actions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 46; Grand Junction, Quarter shares,
28 ; London and Birmingham, New, 284 ; Paris and
Rouen, 13k.
AIAN(HEITER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 24.—We have
had very little business doing to-day ; there is, however,
no stock pressing on the market, and prices, on the whole,
are well maintained. We have a good demand for Man-
chester and Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, Lon-
don and Birmingham, and Lancaster and Preston Old
Shares. Manchester and Birmingham, 271 ; Manches-
ter and Leeds Quarters, 3i ; Manchester and Liverpool
District Bank, 10g.
The Stock Exchange, Bank, and all public offices being
closed, there is nothing going on in the City to notice.
There ar4 no later arrivals.
Nothing of tho least moment has occurred during the
morning.
COURSE fOF EXCHANGE—kYESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 74iGibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa 25 90
Antwerp l2 7 Milan
Hamburgh M. B. 13 13i Venice ... 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per ez 119 i
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 !Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin ..... ............ 7 New York, 2141ays sight 46k

Vienna, effee. 11. 3 M 953
Trieste, ditto 9 54
Madrid

Cadiz
Bilbao 36

Barcelona

Philadelphia - 46
PRICE 6 OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17- 9

Portugal Gold Coln 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0

New Dollars... 0 4
_94

Seville ...36

Silver in Bars 0 4 11 i

LITERATURE.
DUBLIN REVIEW. No. XXII.
Dolman, London, 1842.

The objection which we have so often made
against this Review--namely that it is much too
heavy and prolix in its character for the purposes
of general entertainment, applies with peculiar
force to the Number before us, which possesses
quite an elephantine ponderosity. Not only is
the matter dull, but the manner is equally unat-
tractive—that is to say, it is almost uniformly
devoid of spirit or vivacity. That many of the •
contributors are scholars—and ripe ones too—we
are far from denying, for evidences of reading,
aad not unfrequently of recondite research, are.
manifest in most of the articles; but unluckily
they have not the tact of rendering the various
themes they discuss acceptable to the general
reader. For instance, in the very first article,
" On the Successive Discoveries of America,"
the Reviewer, instead- of contenting himself with
enlarging on the authentic periods of discovery,
goes back to the days of the Deluge, and the
Noachidte, or descendants of Noah," as if any
thing in the shape of serviceable reasoning could
be drawn from such remote ages, where all is at
best but guess-work and speculation ! The clos-
ing pages of this article are in a far more inter-
esting strain, though we must protest againSt the
fairness of any hypothesis which should deprive
Columbus of the honour of having been the first
discoverer of the New World. " If," says the
Reviewer, " we have established our case rela-
tive to the anti-Columbian discoverers of Ame-
rica, we come to regard Columbus himself in a
new light. We may not admire him so much
an original discoverer, but as one who repeated
and established the accredited discoveries of his
predecessors in a most heroic and glorious style of
experiment. If; therefore, we admire Columbus
less as the hardy adventurer who, with a dogged
and desperate resolution, hoping against hope,
launched forth on the Atlantic to discover
he knew not what, we reverence him more
than ever as the keen-sighted and philoso-
phic truth-searcher, who, from the accumu-
lated testimony of ages, in the haughty
independence of conscious genius, moulded
a most refined yet demonstrable theory of
geographical facts." In opposition to this
theory, however plausibly supported, we still
hold to the opinion that Columbus was the first
European who ever trod on American ground,
and put little faith in the " curious fragments of
ancient Icelandic geographers ;" aad still less in
the statement that "in the eleventh century
Adam of Bremen heard of the discovery of
Greenland, from Swell', King of Denmark." The
" Unity and Catholicity of the English Protestant
Established Church" is an article whose object is
to show that, this Establishment has no right to
call itself Catholic. The " Elements of Euclid"—
of which, by the bye, we entertain a very shud-
dering recollection—is a paper which will chiefly
find readers and admirers among mathematicians.
For our own part, we must confess to have taken
little interest in its perusal. " Illegality of Crown
Grants of Public Fisheries in Ireland" is a useful,
practical article, wherein the claims of the
.pa-
tentees and monopolists are proved to be, not only
unjust, but untenable at law. "Those who
claim," says the Reviewer, "the exclusive fishery
of the sea and tidal rivers, merely because they
happen to have lands adjoining either, are the
most shameless plunderers in existence. It would
argue a very profound and singular ignorance of
the history of this country, to suppose that its
present landed proprietors enjoy any privileges
over the sea, and its branches, by prescription ;
and yet they blush not, contrary to every princi-
ple of law and justice, to appropriate to them-
selves the fishery of the sea and its branches ad-
joining their lands, as if it were part and parcel
of their inheritance." The Reviewer then goes
on to observe that "it only requires that the
people should know their rights and assert them,
to get rid of this enormous injustice. The aban-
donment, in the Limerick case, of the claim to
the exclusive fishery of sixty miles of the Shan-
non proves how much may be gained by an ap-
peal to the law. If similar attacks be made in
other quarters, similar results will follow. The
monopolists have neither law, nor justice, nor
public policy, nor public feeling, nor party inte-
rests to sustain them, and must strike at once, if
properly assailed." Of the few remaining arti-
cles., the one that will be read with the greatest
interest is the account of " Van Diemen's Land
under the Prison System."

MOORE'S ECLIPSE SPORTING ALMANAC

FOR 1842.

Mr. Mo.ore, of St. Martin's-lane, has pub-
lished this season, with his sheet Almanac, a
good print, both coloured and plain, of Flying
Chiklers—a horse well known to the sporting
world. In addition to copious information in the
almanac respecting horse-racing here and abroad,
he has also given the lengths of all the principal
race courses in England; Pedestrianism in 1841 ;
a list of the members of the Jockey Club, the
fights of celebrated pugilists since 1823; with the
prizes, and a comprehensive account of the
more celebrated races throughout the country
during the last year. This almanac will be found
very useful to sportsmen.

TEN HOURS' DEPUTATION "
WISDOM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--W hat is to be done with a leader of the
people and of a deputation to Sir Robert Peel,
who seriously maintains that the landowners are
making nothing by the Corn-laws, because they
can get from twenty-five to thirty years' pur-
chase for their land when they choose to sell.
Of course the argument would have been trebly
strong, if the rate of profit to be made by other
peopl with their money had been reduced so
low as to make the thirty a hundred.
" These be your gods, 0 Israel 1" Firmly
believing that in the main, without pretending
to the faculty of discerning spirits which would
authorise a judgment in an individual case, the
Ten Hours' deputation is a weak invention of
the enemy, I feel pleasure in anything which
may help to expose the flimsiness either of mas-
ter or of man.
Secrets ooze out. In the last Leeds Times you
will find on the authority of a letter from the
Continent, that the King of Prussia had ex-
pressed a desire to promote a freer commercial
intercourse. Hence the discourtesies.
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, 25th January. 1842.

THE LATE JOHN SMITH, ESQ., o DALE
PARK.—This eminent banker, who died on Thursday
last, at his seat, in Sussex, in his 75th year, was brother
to the late and uncle to the present Lord Carrington.
He formerly represented Midhurst and the county of
Sussex in Parliament, and has died extremely wealthy.
The bulk of his large fortune goes to J. A. Smith, Esq.,
M.P., of Belgrave-square, his eldest son, who is married
to a daughter of Sir Samuel C. Jervoise, Bart.
A shepherd boy, only 15 years old, of St. Jean
cle marvejois, in the Gard, was a few days ago tendisg
his sheep, when a wolf sprang suddenly into the middle
seized one, and dispersed the rest. The
;F theouth flock,th w a stone at the beast, and striking it on the
head stunned it for a moment. His dog seized the ani-
mal, and a conflict ensued, which probably would have
ended in favour of the wolf, had not the courageous lad
bestrode its back and laid it lifeless under him by plung-
ing a knife into its throat.