The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-17 00:00:00

THE SIGN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1845.

tarily step forward to interpret for a Polish Jew, against
whom law was going , hard from ignorance of tho
Cockney dialect of the English language, affirmed that
he was a Polish refugee. But he had also been
heard to interpret for an itinerant weather-glass
sell(r from the Lake of Como in a similar scrape ;
and for a Turkish seaman who, having first been robbed,
was next to be sent to prison for not consenting to be
twice robbed—of his time and his money—in prosecuting
the thief. These things rather told in his favour. One
day the editor of a well-known liberal paper was seen to
stop The Gentleman with the Umbrella,' and carry
him into a large bookseller's shop; and on another he
was discovered in a hackney coach with some benevolent
Quakers from America, who had been looking on the
seamy side of civilisation in Newgate. Here was corro-
boration of good character. Of The Gentleman with
the Umbrella,' we may tell farther, that his sister-in-
law, Mrs. James Taylor, the wife of the rich solicitor in
Brunswick-square, affectionately named him, among her
friends, our excellent and unfot tunate brother, Mr.
Richard;' her husband, familiarly, our poor Dick;' a
young Templar, studying German, quaintly called him
Mephistophiles ;' and Mary Ann Moir, his god-
daughter, emphatically, The Good Genius.'
"It was, however, as The Gentleman with the
Umbrella' that Mr. Richard Taylor was best known;
for this was his name with the multitude, the many poor
women and children of whom he was the daily speaking
acquaintance, and with two-thirds of the men. He was,
indeed, lavish of his acquaintanceship, but as chary of
his intimacy. his circle took in both extremes
of society, and and all that lay between thew. On the
same morning he might hare been seen leaning on the
cane of the neatly rolled up brown silk umbrella, fixed
with its mother-of-pearl button, talking with the richest
merchants leaving the Exchange, or conversing with an
Irish market-woman, or an old Jew clothesman. Such
was the street status of Mr. Richard Taylor, when Peace
sent the hero of Waterloo to perambulate the pavement
of London; and, in his Grad, the people of Mr. Richard's
beat discovered, to his great annoyance, the double of
their Gentleman with the Umbrella.' In the height,
and the general outline of the figure, the compactness
of the person, the alacrity and firmness of movement,
and also in the length of the countenance, there might
be some slight resemblance, as well as in the plainness,
accuracy, and (a certain style established) the unpre-
tending neatness of the dress. But the main feature
was assuredly the umbrella; with something perhaps of
that cast of countenance which Richard himself called
the mock-heroic, and which he had but narrowly escaped,
while he thought it more fully developed in the more
aristocratic nose of his double. Any one who had seen
these alleged counterparts without their hats would have
been on the instant dispossessed of this ideal resem-
blance. Even young ladies allowed that Mr. Richard
Taylor, without his hat, was a quite other thing. And
Mary Anne, whose glory was her beautiful and redundant
golden tresses, then looked with genuine admiration on
the superb development of brain displayed in
The bald polish of the honoured head
of her godfather; and in his deep-sunk, dark eyes, grey
and lucid, saw gatherings of meanings, and signs of
thoughts, which do not often visit the minds of heroes.
This alleged, or imaginary resemblance, was, we have
said, exceedingly annoying to Mr. Richard Taylor, who
forthwith became for some months a small lion; or, what
is more teasing, the reflection of a great lion, and a re-
gular spectacle to holiday folks and country cousins. To
crown his chagrin, some shabby artist, who had better
opportunities of seeing him than his Grace of Wel-
lington, actually sketched him en hero; and, at the small
c, .sr of a few frogs and a stiff stock, posted him in several
print-shops as the true lion of Waterloo. This was the
more provoking to our hero, as, if there was one set of
men whom he detested more than another, it was heroes.
He had suffered by them, and seen others suffer; they
were but instruments, it is true; but he said One does
not like the gallows any more than the hangman.' "

The total amount since 1830 was 1,668,4061.

TO THE REAL PROTESTANTS OF
THE EMPIRE.

" Quis Custodiet Custodes ?"

Ring the alarum-bell I Throughout the land
Send forth the cry of warning, stern and deep ;
Up, for your liberties I a Judas-band
Betray the fortress while its guardians sleep;
Or some of them (kind heaven still keep them few)
Play Doubleface,—as twain* have dared to do.
Shame on those guardians : urge them to their trust ;
Rouse them to duty with a shout as dread
As that which levell'd, promptly, with the dust,
The false king's hopes, what time the false king fled :
Ile of the Stuarts' race: and Jesuits' zeal;
Last of his line, because—let truth be eaid—
Hc strove The Reformation to repeal ;
But Protestants repeal'd,—his treacherous power, instead !
2.

Ring the alarum- bell ! Too near the throne
The vipers nestle who may sting the heir :
Ring, till the mother-occupant shall own
The peal thrice bless'd that warred her of the snare.
That gentle occupant, so fair, so good,
Dreams not of fraud—herself devoid of guile—
Of teachings, trimnz'd, to be misunderstood ;
Of treason, 'tis no less, beneath a smile:
For he is traitor, blank against the crown,
Whoe'er the Puseyite poison would infuse,
And pull the sworn, imperial wearer down
From Protestant to Theocratic views ;
Traitor to God, and man, and all his vows :
Some such are near the throne—let this your zeal arouse !

That zeal work out in action. O'er the realm,
Fulmine the ceaseless summons of your fears,
'Till Protestant indignance overwhelm,
And set the sleek Iscariots by the ears.
Hath not the Chapel Royal heard them preach,
The Church, a power divine, above the State ?
Awl, thus, before the Queen's own face, impeach
Her title to be greatest o'er the great.
For quibble as these medium-mongerst may,
Who most, on Truth, the well-defined, make war ;
The Church which they'd enslave us to obey;
Their mediatorial priesthood we abhor;
So high prerogatived as they pretend,
Were paramount—to such, Queen, People, all must bend
BOANERGES.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek-
lenburgh Strelitz attended Divine service yesterday
morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street.
Mr. St. Edmund Mildmay was in waiting on their Royal
Highnesses.
Sir Edward Knatchbull had au interview with Sir
Robert Peel on Saturday.
The Earl of Lonsdale, Post-master General, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
meeting on Saturday afternoon at the office in White-
hall-place. The Commissioners present were the Bishop
of London, the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Llan-
daff, the Bishop of Wcrcester, the Right Hun. H. Hob-
house, and the Dean of Westminster.
A deputation relative to the Irish Presbyterian
Church had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on
Saturday.
The Mayor of Manchester and a deputation had an in-
terview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Saturday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.

Dispatches for the Governor of :Jamaica, and also for
the Governors of the other West India Cclonics, were
sent off from the Colonial-office on Saturday evening.
The Chairman of the Excise had an interview on Sa-
turday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Sir Robert Peel left town on Saturday afternoon for
the Pavilion at Brighton, on a visit to her Majesty.
Lord Stanley had a dinner party on Saturday, at his
residence in St. James's-square. The company included
the French Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulaire;
the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrich-
stein; M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister; Mr. Everett,
the American Minister ; Count and Countess d'Har-
court; the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst ; the
Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh; Lady Peel; the Earl
of Aberdeen ; Earl of Wilton; Earl of Dalhousie; Vis-
count Castlereagh; Lord Brougham ; Lord Cantalupe ;
and the Hon. C. A. Murray.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench
attended the early service yesterday, in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley read the
prayers, and preached the sermon. The Marquis of
Winchester, Lords Bective, Ernest Bruce, Palmer-
ston, Clive, and G. Paget attended the daily service.
Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Horsley Dakins; the
lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley and the communion
service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The sermon was
preached by the Bishop of Rochester." The anthem " I
was in the Spirit," was sung by Messrs. Holt, Chapman,
Hawkins, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at
the organ. The Marquis of Northampton, Lords
Wilton, Hawarden, and De Tabley attended the evening
service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.

THE COURT AT BRIGHTON.

SATURDAY EVENING.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by several of the royal suite, honoured the
Earl of Liverpool with a visit to-day, at his Lordship's
seat, Buxted Park. After partaking of luncheon her
Majesty and his Royal Highness returned to the Pavi-
lion, which they reached exactly at, half past five this
evening.

Sir Robert Peel is expected this evening on a visit to
her Majesty.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice were taken out for a carriage airing this
morning by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, and after-
wards on the Chain Pier. Their Royal Highnesses
were taken out again this afternoon.
HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT
TO BUXTED PARK, THE SEAT OF THE EARL
OF LIVERPOOL.
BRIGHTON, SATURDAY EVENING.
This morning, at half-past eleven o'clock, her Majesty
and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Countess of
Mount Edgcumbe, left the palace in a close carriage and
four, preieded by two outriders, but without any escort,
on a visit to the Earl of Liverpool, the lord steward, at
Busted Park. The royal carriage was followed by
another carriage, :containing the Marquis of Ormonde
(Lord in Waiting), Colonel Buckley (Equerry in Wait-
ing), Colonel Wylde (Equerry in Waiting to Prince
Albert), and :the Hon. G. E. Anson (Secretary to his
Royal Highness). The royal cortege proceeded along
the north level past the Cavalry Barracks, and was
speedily abreast of the Earl of Chichester's Park, at
Stanmer. The formation of the new line of railways
between Brighton and Lewes is progressing rapidly, and
her Majesty's attention was much attracted by the ac-
tivity displayed on the line.
The inhabitants of Lewes assembled in great numbers
to welcome her Majesty and Prince Albert on their
arrival in that town on their way to the Earl of Liver-
pool's. All the windows of the houses commanding a
view of the White Hart Hotel, where her Majesty
changed horses, were crowded with well-dressed females.
At half-past twelve o'clock the royal cortege entered the
town, and as it approached the White Hart her Majesty
and her Royal Consort were received with the
most enthusiastic cheering, which they acknow-
ledged with repeated salutations. The union jack
waved over the White Hart. The Star Hotel,
close by, was also profusely decorated with ever-
greens, and every available spot where a view of her
Majesty could be obtained was occupied. The high con-
stables, Messrs. Hotter and Morris, received her Ma-
jesty at the White Hart, and through their judicious ar-
rangements no interruption or inconvenience was expe-
rienced. " Old Gabriel," the town bell, was rung. The
horses were quickly changed, and the royal party pro-
ceeded to Uckfield, where a triumphal arch was thrown
across the road at the entrance of the town. The same
enthusiastic display of loyalty was evinced here. After
passing through the town, where her Majesty was met
by the Earl of Liverpool, they soon reached the Noble
Lord's seat. Her Majesty remained with the Noble
Earl to luncheon, and returned to the Pavilion in the
evening to dinner.

BRIGHTON, SUNDAY EVENING.—Tier Majesty and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe,
the Marquis of Ormo.nde, Col. Buckley, Col. Wylde, and the
Hon. G. E. Anson, visited the Earl of Liverpool yesterday, at
Busted Park, returning to the Palace to dinner.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken out for carriage
airings in the morning and afternoon of yesterday, and also
walked on the Chain-pier.
The Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce arrived this evening.
The royal dinner party this evening was increased by the
presence of Sir Robert Peel, the Venerable Archdeacon Wil-
berforce, Capt. Francis Seymour, and Sir James Clarke.
Sir James Clarke took his departure from the Palace
immediately after dinner.
Her Majesty and the Princess Royal took a carriage airing
this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert walked
out, accompanied by the Hon. U. E. Anson.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Princess
Alice, were taken for a carriage airing on the cliffs this
morning.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
the royal suite and household, attended Divine worship this
morning in the Pavilion. The Venerable Archdeacon Wil-
berforce was the officiating minister.
Lord and Lady Petre and the Misses Petre, the Hon. John
and Mrs. Boyle, Major Paine, and Bin Spencer Lyttelton,
were among those who called and paid their respects to her
Majesty yesterday. The Marquis of Donegal called at the
Palace this afternoon.
Sir Robert Peel and the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce
will be the only additions to the royal dinner party this
evening
The royal carriages attracted universal attention. Her
Majesty's phaeton was preceded by two oAriders in scarlet
liveries, and accompanied by Colonel Buckley and Colonel
Wylde on horseback. Her Majesty took one or two turns of
the Marine-parade, and along the King's-road, and returned
to the Palace about four o'clock.
Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Palace last night by. the
half•past four o'clock train, and was immediately admitted
to an audience of her Majesty. The Right Honourable Ba-
ronet dined and slept at the Palace, and this morning at-
tended Divine worship at St. George's Chapel, where the Rev.
J. S. M. Anderson, Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, is the officiating
minister. The Right Honourable Baronet was accompanied
by one of his sons, and the weather being fine, he took a
walk on the cliffs, which were crowded with persons. About
three o'clock Prince Albert drove her Majesty out in a pony
Phaeton, the royal children being out at the same time, but
going in an opposite direction.

CALEDONIAN FANCY DRESS
BALL.

The Caledonian Society of London held their
annual assembly in Willis's-rooms, on Thursday.
The whole suite of rooms were thrown open, and the
large one was decorated with flags, and hung with
tartan scarfs of various patterns ; at the extreme end,
the arms of the Society,. which are those of Scotland,
were displayed, embroidered on a blue ground silk,
hung with rich massive tassels, which had a beauti-
full effect. The company began to arrive at
nine o'clock, and, before eleven, there were
nearly five hundred in the room. The costumes
assumed by those present were tasteful and various,
almost every nation of the world had its representative,
but the most predominant were Highland Kilts and
Trews ; the patterns, of course, being those of the clan
of the wearer : the ladies were elegantly dressed, many
of whom wore fancy costumes, and rich plaid scarfs.
Quadrilles, country-dances, waltzes, polkas, &c., were
danced with spirit and grace, tor an excellent band, led
by Mr.:Guiness. The reels of fulloch and Strathspey
were danced with true Highland spirit and cheer, to
the stirring music of Mr. Donald M'Kay, the piper
and favourite of his late Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex. The dancing was kept up till after five.
At two o'clock the company descended to the supper-
room, which was amply provided with the very best
of fares, after which ices, and all such delicacies, were
served in the refreshment-room, adjoining the ball-
room ; in fact, everything was studied and done
for the comfort of the company, and we can-
not close this sketch without thanking the
managing committee and Stewards for their admirable
arrangements, and their attention to their friends and
visitors. The Society was instituted some years ago
by a number of gentlemen connected with Scotland,
for the purpose of assisting other societies, having for
their object the encouragement of education in the
Highlands and Islands of Scotland; and also, for the
preservation of the Highland costume.

* London, imprimis : Exeter, misserime.
The " Media Via " men. whose plausibilities tend more
than the directest efforts of the whole extreme party to obli-
terate every line of demarcation between Protestant liberty
(civil and religious) and theocratic absolutism, and by dint of
such insidious obliteration, to entrap us, at last, into abject
priest-worship. As a proof, in action, of this tendency and
intent, behold the great " Media Via " impostor voting in
favour of Mr. Ward, and, consequently, against honest sub-
scription, and the commonest good faith.

ENAMELLING.—We have received several beautiful
specimens of this art, executed in gold and copper on
letter paper, by J. Windsor. Those in copper are de-
cidedly superior, and have a fine effect from the various
tinges of colour exhibited according as the light is
thrown upon them. Windsor Castle and the New
Houses of Parliament are very favourable specimens
both for the correctness of the outline and the colouring.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Notwithstanding the in-
creasing attraction of the new ballet of Les Danaides
further novelties aro in preparation. La Bayadere will
be produced on Thursday, for Mademoiselle Maria; and
on Saturday Meyerbeer's immortal opera of Robert le
Diable will ha brou4ht out here, with all possible effect.
Air. Bunn'b benefit is announced for March 3, and the
usual bumper will follvrr.

ADMIRALTY.—Capt. the Hon. Richard Saunders
Dundas, C.B. (1824), who commanded the Melville, 72, in
the operations on the coast of China, including the capture
of the forts of the Bocca Tigris, and the operations against
Canton, in 1841, has been appointed Private Secretary to the
First Lord of the Admiralty, in the room. of Capt. IV. A. B.
Hamilton, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, vice Sir John
Barrow, Bart., retired. Captain Dundas is the second son of
the present Lord Melville.
We rejoice to hear, on what we believe good au-
thority, that matters are under discussion in a certain noble
family, likely in their result to lead to the re-union of two
persons of high rank. During their separation the amiable
lady has always enjoyed the society and friendship of her
lord's neared relatives.—Court Joterna/.

SOUTH WILTS ELECTION.
RETURN OF MR. SIDNEY HERBERT.
SALISBURY, SATURDAY.—A public breakfast was given
this morning at Wilton House, when upwards of 400 gentle-
men sat down in the large banquet-room, forming the right
wing of the Abbey.
Shortly before eleven o'clock the Right Hon. Candidate
and his immediate friends left Wilton Abbey, escorted by a
large cavalcade, and proceeded to the hustings.
Wm. Wyndham, Esq., of Dinton, then proposed, and John
Henry Jacob, Esq., seconded, the nomination of Mr. Sidney
Herbert, amidst loud applause.
No other candidate being proposed, the Hon. Sidney Her-
bert was declared duly elected.
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT then came forward and said, if they
would honour him with a patient hearing, he would not
detain them by any long speech ; but lie would briefly and
simply state to them the grounds on which he claimed their
suffrages that day. It was now 12 years since he first offered
himself as their candidate ; he then was a very young man,
first emerging into public life. He then asked them for
their suffrages upon his word, pledged for his faithfulness,
upon trust and credit for any abilities which he might pos-
sess to advance the public interest.—(Loud cheering.) It
was possible that during that time he might hare made some
mistakes, for he would admit the fallibility of man—(Cries
of " No, no")—more especially when dealing with compli-
cated questions. He conceived that the course he had gene-
rally taken had been of a nature to conciliate their support,
because it had proved to be in unison with the general
opinions of his constituency.—(Great cheering.) He said
he was happy to congratulate them on the improved con-
dition of the country during the last three years. At the
commencement of that period the present Government came
into office, when they found a sad deficiency in the revenue,
which was increasing every year, in consequence of which
national credit was at stake, for the books were balanced
on the wrong side.—(llear.) Trade was failing throughout
the country, and the manufacturing interests were in a state
of alarming distress. Many mills were closed, and great
suffering prevailed throughout those districts from the want
of a demand for their goods.—(Hear.) Then, in India, war
spread terror and alarm, and threatened the stability of that
portion of our empire, while in other parts abroad feelings of
hostility and jealousy prevailed on all sides, distrusting
every measure this country might adopt. Now this state
of things required the most prudent, moderate, and en-
lightened policy, so as to restore international bonds
of friendship, and so as to place things on a better and surer
basis.—(Cheers.) To effect the first they had recourse to a
tax which did not increase the burdens of the poor—he
meant the income-tax, which was borne only by those pos•
sessed of property, while, on the other hand, they removed
several imposts on articles of food and clothing, the consump-
tion chiefly of the poorer classes.—(Cheers.) By this tax
they had converted a deficiency of 2,000,000/. into a surplus
of 3,000,000/. By thus judiciously removing the shackles
upon,the commerce of the country, our exports had been in-
creased, and thereby a much larger amount of manu'acturing
industry had been called into action than was ever before re-
membered by man in this country.—(Loud cheering.) In
addition to this prosperity they found that at the present time
there were 80,000,000/. invested in railway speculations,
which would of course be expended in the employment of
labour and encouragement of industry, which would give
employment to vast numbers of the population.—(Cheers.)
There was but one more topic to which he would allude—
that relating to the change which had taken place in the
condition of the sister country.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
They had heard of agitation and discontent there almost
bordering on rebellion, and at the same time tending to the
dismemberment of the two countries. Tranquillity, how-
ever, in that unhappy country (Ireland) had been effected
by the exertion of the ordinary powers of the law alone,
and a state of contentment had been produced. He trusted
that he should live to sea the day when they would be en-
abled to legislate for their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects in
a generous and free spirit ; and the Government, with this
object in view, looked forward to a very improved state of
society in that part of her Majesty's dominions—a state in
whiclicapital might be safely invested there, and consequently
a state in which much might be done to improve the social
condition of the Irish people.—(Loud cheering.) He would
again thank them most cordially for the honour they had
done him by again electing him as their representative, and
he would assure them that, to the best of his ability, he
would strive to promote the prosperity of the country at
large, by assisting in the successful operation of the measures
introduced by the Government, including those mentioned
in the House last night; which would materially tend to in-
crease the comforts of the lower orders, and the prosperity
of all classes.—(Hear, hear.)
Three cheers were then given for Mr. Herbert.
The Right lion. Gentleman then rejoined the procession,
which escorted him to the White Hart Hotel, where he again
briefly returned thanks for their kindness.
The sheriffs' banquet was held shortly after this re-election,
which was well attended by the greater portion of those
before referred to.