The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

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" Who runs way read."

FOREIGN.

The illoniteur Universel announces that her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Nemours was happily confin don Thursday
evening, at seven o'clock, at the Palace of Neuilly, of a Prince,
who, according to the King's orders, will bear the title of the
Count d'Eu. The Journal des Debuts says—" On Thursday,
the `39th ult., the Duke and Duchess of Nemours went to take
up their residence at Neuilly. During the day her Royal
Highness was taken with the pains of labour. The Queen im-
mediately went from the Tuileries to Neuilly, and the King
arrived there at six o'clock. All the Royal Family assembled.
After the confieement the King and Family returned to the
Tuileries. The Chancellor (Baron Pasquier ) and the Grand
Reterendary of the Chamber of Peers ( the Duke Decazes),
were alo present at Neuilly as witnesses."
The King of the French has now seven grandchildren, the
Counts of Paris and Chartres (sons of the Duke of Orleans),
the Count of Eu, Prince Philippe, son of Prince Frederick
and the Princes Leopold and Philippe and Princess Maria of
Belgium (the children of King Leopold and the Princess Louisa
of Orleans).
The National has the following significant remarks on the
projected marriage of the Queen of Spain:—" Whatever may
be the views hereafter of the French Government, the mar-
riage of the Queen of Spain is a question which the press
cannot refrain from noticing. If the situation of the Regent
he considered, it will be easy to comprehend that he is not in
any great haste to give a husband to his sovereign. Espartero
knows his position perfectly well. In a thousand possible hypo_
theses, he needs an entire liberty of action, and therefore it is
not likely that he will add voluntarily to his embarrassments.
If the Queen of Spain should ever receive a husband from
him, it may be considered certain tint Espartero will not
bestow him until the very last extremity. The French Go-
vernment has therefore two years before it. Let it, in the
menitirne, put itself in a position to exercise a legitimate in-
fluence over an event so interesting to France, and every one
will commend it. But let it beware of employing means which
may tend directly to prevent its object."
The Courrier Francais treats the same question as fol-
lows:—" France has no pretension to rule it over Spain, but
that she has the right to oppose that it should be placed under
the distatorship of a foreign Prince by a Government without
force and without nationality. The respect which England
would exhibit for the independence of the Spanish people may
be judged of by the oppressive influence she exercises over
Portugal. If France allowed it, the Barons of the English
aristocracy would soon have reduced Spain to the same condi-
tion. It is to prevent Spain becoming a colony and fief of Eng-
land that the French Government combats the possibility of
the marriage of Queen Isabella 11. with a foreign Prince.
The powerless artillery of the English press will not turn
France from this object. It is already too much that England
possesses Gibraltar en the Spanish coast ; it is our duty to see
that British influence is not all powerful at Madrid."
The remains of M. Humann, late Minister of Finance, were
on Saturday morning removed in great state to the church of
the Madeleine, and the first sacred service was performed in
that magnificent edifice, The pall was supported by Marshal
Soult ( War), Admiral Duperre (Marine), M. Martin du
Nord (Justice), and M. Guizot (Foreign Affairs). The chief
mourners were M. Humann, the son, and the Viscount Gerim-
nay, son-in-law of the deceased. The Archbishop of Paris
delivered the funeral service. No speeches were made. Ge-
neral Heymes, whose death was prematurely announced the
other day, died on Saturday. He was the favourite Aide-de-
Camp of Louis Philippe.
The Quotidienne gives the following :—" In the midst of
his press of business M. Humann never forgot his Christian
duties. Every morning, before commencing the labours of his
department, he read a portion of a German prayer-book. On
the day of his decease the mark in this book showed that he
had been meditating on death, and on the necessity of prepar-
ing for it."

The Toulonnais, of April 26, says that the Ocean, a three
decker, the flag-ship of Admiral Hugon, Commander-in-Chief
of the squadron in the Mediterranean, the Souverain, also a
three-decker, the Marengo, the Hercule, and the Alger, have
received orders to take in three months' provisions, and to pre.
pare for their departure.—The same Journal announces that
the marines embarked on board the corvettes Boussole and Ex-
peditive were destined for New Zealand, and that the French
station in that district is to he reinforced arid commanded by a
Captain in the Navy. It also states that an order had arrived
to tit out a corvette of war and a transport vessel to reinforce
that station.
A letter from Vienna, in the Gazette of Upper Germany,
says that the railroads are to be urged on as much as possible.
Fifty-six engineers, forming eight sections, had set out for the
North and South, to lay down the lines from Vienna to the
Saxon frontier and to Trieste. Two moi.ths will, it is said,
suffice for the completion of these preparatory labours, and the
works are to commence in August. The idea of employing
soldiers is said to be abandoned. It is calculated that the
Vienna and Trieste Railroad will be completed in six years.
PARLIAMENTARY.
Lord Denman stated last night that finding there were
serious objections to Bills giving relief to only one class of her
Majesty's subjects, he meant to introduce, instead of the Bap-
tists' Affirmation Bill, a general measure on the subject of
oaths.

Lord Brougham moved that their Lordships should send a
message to the other House for a copy of the Reports of the
Sudbury and Ipswich Election Committees, and backed his
motion by a speech denouncing with much vehemence the
general bribery and corruption which prevailed at the late
elections. His Lordship spoke in no favourable terms of
the present law for settling controverted elections, and of the
Election Committees. He dwelt, too, with much emphasis on
the fact, that nine out of ten of the decisions of those Com-
mittees had been in accordance with the political sentiments,
arid favourable to the political party, of the Chairman of the
Committee.

The Lord Chancellor informed the Noble and Learned Lord
that he had inquired into the consequence of the motion, and
his Noble Friend would understand him, when hobinted that
it would be of no avail to press it.
Viscount Canterbury also deprecated the motion, and said
that the Commons would no doubt return a most courteous
answer, that they would send an answer by messengers of their
own ; but however long the session might last, the Commons
would never find time to send up any other answer on the
subject.

Lord Brougham, protesting against their Lordships not
having that information which was necessary for them to legis-
late, withdrew his motion.

Their Lordships transacted some other, but routine business.
The first event in the Commons was Mr. T. Duncombe
presenting the petition of the working classes, which, from its
vast bulk, occupied a conspicuous place in the House. It was
ordered to be printed, with a view of bringing it under the
consideration of the House. _

In reply to Mr. Wallace, the Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr.
S. Herbert, stated that the Admiralty had taken the stations
of the West India Mail Packets into consideration, with a view
of improving the communication with the West Indies.
In reply to Mr. Hawes, Sir R. Inglis reiterated his determi-
nation to bring forward a motion to extend the Church.
The House went into Committee on the Income-tax Bill
at an early hour, when a few observations were made pro
and con, on the advantages of speedily getting to a discussion on
the Tariff, and on those who had delayed the discussion. Mr.
Hume said the delay was making trade worse than ever. Mr.
Labouchere said Sir Robert Peel might have brought forward
his Tariff before the Income-tax.

In answer to Mr. B. Wood, Sir Robert Peel would
positively accede to his proposition to allow a set-off for losses
on one trade against the gains on another, en the ground that
it would lead to fraud, but the discussion on the subject will
take place hereafter. The Committee proceeded with the
Bill till a late hour.
Mr. Hume wished that only the income accruing after the
sth of April should be subject to the tax, but was defeated by
159 to 84.
Mr. F. T. Baring was desirous to exempt foreigners
who have money in the Funds from the tax, as they have been
exempt from all former Income-taxes, and made a good
speech in support of his motion, but lost it by 163.
The House resumed,-and shortly afterwards, at Twoo'Clock,
adjourned.

puilLIC OPINION.
The Times, referring to Mr. Roebuck's amendment on the
Income-tax, says :—" The unfairness of the Bill is palpably, as
Sir Robert Peel put it, that it does not take into account the
duration as well as the amount of the incomes which it taxes.
This injustice Mr. Roebuck does not distinctly negative; but
he does this—finding that all persons to be taxe 1 are arranged
under several sehedules, one of which embraces no incomes of
an absolutely permanent character, and very many of a more
precarious nature than can be at all found in the other sche-
dules, he proposes at once to exempt this schedule, and this
schedule only, from one-half (the fairness of the proportion
we do not here discuss) of the impost, as a rough approxima-
tion to justice. An approximation it would be, but one of an
unlucky character. Instead of being what it ought to be, a
remission of a certair. amount of taxation inequitably imposed,
it takes the shape in Mr. Roebuck's hands of a concession to
certain particular interests."
The Herald says:—" Mr. Roebuck's expedient would not,
if adopted, have relieved trade, profession, and mental labour,
from the odious inquiries of the tax assessor and commis,ioners;
but the removal of some portion of the grievance where the
inquisitorial powers will be greatest, and their results most
oppressive, would have withdrawn a little of the bitterness from
the most nauseous draught that has been offered to the middle
classes since the war. No man in the House of Commons de- 1
nied that Schedule D would inflict a monstrous injustice on all
who will be driven by the exposure of their affairs into its
grasp. No one could deny that Mr. Roebuck's amendment
would mitigate that injustice; but that amendment was re-
jected because other acts of injustice would also be thereby
lessened. There might have been something in this excuse
had there been any equality in the injustice to be perpetrated
by all the schedules; but the excess of injustice to be inflicted
by Schedule D is so much greater than the combined injustice
of all the rest, that this excuse is a contemptible piece of special
pleading."
The Post has the following remarks:--" The proposition to
tax incomes derived from trades and professions at only half
the rate of incomes derived horn roperty, was supported by a
respectable minority, and yet then upport was much less than
many may have expected from the zeal with which some Con-
servative Journals have maintained the same views as those
brought forward by Mr. Reebuck. And it is to be remarked,
too, that the debate upon this occasion—including the speeches
against the Government proposal, as well as those in its
favour—was unusually able. The arguments brought forward,
and the temper in which they were brought forward, made the
discussion of so dry a subject highly interesting, and showed
that in some cases, at all events, we have no reason to be
ashamed of our present House of Commons, including the
Opposition."
We quote the following from the Chronicle: —" At last
Sir Robert Pell has been beaten! And by whom ? What
worthy and sufficient cause has dissolved the union of his ad-
herents and combined friends and foes into a majority against
him ; Is it the pressure of the Income-tax ? is it the par-
tiality of his mode of applying free trade so as to ruin the hum-
bler monopolists, while he leaves the greater unscathed? Or
is it a general indignation against the deceit by which he ac-
quired power ? He has been beaten by his own party, even
when supported by almost all those of his habitual opponents
who chanced to be in the house when this unexpected division
took place at an unusual hour. Anil the cause which has led
to this sudden insurrection of the Tories against their leader
was nothing but the irrepressible desire of the bulk of the
party to shield the agents of their corrupt practices, and throw
obstacles in the way of discovering truth in a particular ease.
Banded in a cause so dear to them, Tories could not be ex-
pected to listen even to Sir Robert Peel ; and for daring to
oppose corruption in a Parliament of his own collecting, the
Minister has paid the penalty of being outvoted."
The Leeds Times, in advising various reformatory measures
in our legislation, remarks :—" We, call our country a free
country ; and yet not more than one human being in thirty.
in Great Britain, has any political existence. The great mass
of the people are compelled to obey laws to which they have
never givers their consent. The non-represented classes are
ruled by the repreSented classes. They are taxed without
their consent; and taxation, as has been declared by Lord
Camden, is a tyranny of the very worst kind."
The present condition of the country is thus viewed by the
Liverpool Journal:__" It is a painful and unparalleled spec-

tacle, at this season of the year, to behold, in every part of the
kingdom,.sigus of stagnation, torpor, and despsir. It is idle to
lay the blame on the delay of the tariff. The passing of that
measure can do little for us. The fall in the price of food is
fully anticipated, but there is more reason to fear a rise in the
price of wheat, and a further import, than any beneficial change."
MONEY—TRADE —cozainzac.E.
To-day is fixed for the adjourned meeting, under the
fiat issued azainst the Messrs. Wigney. The examination is
expected to la-t two days.
At Bradford and Huddersfield trade during the past week
has been limited; at Halifax, Holmfirth, Leicester, and Leeds,
dull ; at Manchester and Oldham, stationary; Rochdale is
weekly growing worse.
The stock of bullion in the Bank has been gradually on the
increase since the beginning of last year. In January 1841 it
only 3,557,0001., while according to the last return it was, on
the 231 of April, 6,590,0001.

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At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society of Litera-
ture, the report read stated the income of the past year to have
been 874/ 11s. 3d., leaving, after all expenditure, a balance of
1241. 3s. 6d. Lord Colborne was chosen Vice-President in
the room of the Duke of Sutherland.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
New barracks are about to be formed in the Tower ; the
moat, it is sad, is to be filled up, surveys having been for some
making for the purpose._

ELECTIONEERING.
The writ for the Brighton election has been received;
Thursday next is fixed for the nomination, and Friday for the
polling.

The announcement at Blackburn, on Thursday, of Mr.
Turner's defeat, in his petition against the return of Mr. Homer,
led- to a disturbance. The windows of Mr. flornby's Com-
mittee-room were demolished by the work-people, and on the
appearance of the military, Mr. Astley, a stationer, aged 52,
lost his life.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
Lieut. Moody, Governor of the Falkland Islands, with the
detachment of Royal Sappers and Miners under his charge,
reached their destination on the 15th of January last.
MAW AND POLICE.
Richard Edwards, who has strangled his mother at Merthyr-
Tydvil, was committed on Friday to take his trial at the next
Glamorganshire Assizes.

The boy Smith, aged 14, accused of the murder of an unfor-
tunate girl at Liverpool on Thursday, was arrested on Saturday.
FINE ARTS.
A monument on Woolwich-common is about to be erected
to the memory of the late Sir Alexander Dickson, G. C.B. ;
1,000/. has already been subscribed.
A monument is about to be erected at Malaga to the memory
of General Torrejos, and the forty-eight victims sacrificed by
Ferdinand VII. It is to be built on the spot where the melan-
choly execution took place.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Camden, the celebrated antiquarian, was born yesterday,
iu 1551.

Sir Charles Bell, the eminent practitioner, author of many
valuable works, and especially the Bridgwater treatise on the
hand, died on Thursday last, at Hatton-park, near Worcester.
He was the fourth son of the Rev. Mr. Bell of Edinburgh,
and Professor of Surgery in the University of that place. Sir
Charles was knighted in 1831.
The sixth day's sale of the Strawberry-hill books on Satur •
day, produced 1,6231. A letter of Oliver Cromwell's, addressed
to his wife, " Elizabeth Cromwell," on the day following his
victory over the Royalists at Dunbar, sold for 21 guineas.
COMAT—M.SHIONABLE.
The Duke of Northumberland left town on Saturday, for
Sion House.

The Duchess of Northumberland is expected to remain a
fortnight longer at Sion House.
Viscount and Viscountess Beresford gave a dinner in Ca-
vendish-square on Saturday, to the Lord Primate of Ireland,
the Marquis of Waterford, &c.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield returned to town from
Newmarket on Friday.
His Excellency the French Ambassador, gave a banquet at
Manchester House last evening, in celebration of the fete-day
of Louis Philippe.
The Earl of Bandon is, we understand, to be appointed Lord
Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Cork, in
place of the late Earl of Shannon.
The Earl of Minto has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-
street, for the season.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The rural custom of electing the handsomest in the village
for a May Queen, is still practised in some parts of Spain.
Among the characters which will be assumed in the Royal
Masque, Prince George of Cambridge is spoken of as enacting
Gaston Ile Foix, who, at the age of 24, died at the battle of
Ravenna. The Princess Augusta represents Claude de France,
the daughter cf Louis the Twelfth ; and the Earl of Cardigan
the Chevalier Bayard.
The accounts from Tipperary are still very unfavourable.
The Nenagh Guardian contains a list of ten outrages charac-
terised by various features of atrocity.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager. accompanied by
his Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar,
and attended by the Viscountess Barrington, visited her
Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen took an airing yesterday afternoon in an
open carriage and four. His Royal Highness Prince
Albert rode out on horseback, attended by Colonel
Wylde.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yes-
terday evening included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent ; Count de Pollon, the Sardinian
Minister ; Count de Reventlow, the Danish Minister,
and the Countess de Reventlow; Baron de Hugel, the
Wurternberg Minister; the Duchess of Buccleuch,
Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Lady Anne Maria
Dawson, Earl and Countess of Lincoln, Viscount and
Viscountess Pollington, Bishop of Peterborough and
Miss Davy s, Colonel the Hon. Dawson Darner, and Sir
George Cowper, Bart.
The Band of the Ist Life Guards were in attendance
at the Palace during the evening.
Mr. Baxter had the honour yesterday of submitting to
her Majesty and Prince Albert his Picture of the Coro-
nation, painted in oil colours, and an Outline of the Bap •
tism of the Prince of Wales, with which her Majesty and
his Royal Highness were pleased to express their appro-
bation.

The Queen Dowager, accompanied by her Serene
Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, visited their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, at Glouces-
ter House, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at
Cambridge House.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, left town yesterday forenoon, for Claremont.
Her Royal Highness returned to her residence, Clarence
House, in the afternoon.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen Dowager, end
the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, on Sunday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the Foreign Office. It was attended by
most of the Ministers. The Council sat two hours.
General Bell had an interview with Lord Stanley,
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, held a meeting
yesterday afternoon, at the Council-office.
Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope, and from the Governor of Gibraltar, were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

MUSIC.
THE NATIONAL PSALMIST.
By Charles Danvers Hackett. consisting of Original
Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, Responses, Anthems,
6.c. London: Sitnpkin, Marshall, and Co.
Mr. Hackett has made an admirable selection of
Psalm Tunes. The fine old melodies of London,
New St. Mary's, Windsor, with the Old Hun-
dredth and Luther's Hymn, are beautifully pre-
served with the original harmonies. The original
tunes need little comment; it is sufficient to read
over the list of names to see that a host of talent has
been pressed into the service. This is the good old
church style of music we wish to see in general use
in our churches. Hampton, by Dr. Wesley, is a
perfect gem ; so much beauty in so short a space is sel-
dom attained, but we will not attempt to particula-
rize—where all is good, it is difficult to determine
which is best. The tunes composed by Mr. Hackett
are quiet and devotional, and, with one exception, well
harmonized. We wish, however, he had been rather
more particular in the doming cadences, and not have
made the leading note so frequently descend. The
voice parts are free from this error, and are well
arranged.
" The tunes commonty known as the Old Hun-
dredth, the Old EightyArst, and Luther's Hymn,'
may be cited as specimens. Handel was an admirer
of Luther's tunes, and strenuously asserted the Old
Hundredth to be his. It is remarkable, however, that
the melody of this tune i s assigned to the Hundred
and Thirty-fourth Psalm, in all the Lutheran and
Calvinian copies. The old Eighty-first, whether Lu-
ther's or an imitation, is a tune of surpassing fluency
and sweetness. Luther's Hymn,' as it is customa-
rily called, is a truly nol melody ; but the words
adapted to it are, as to r3rthin and poetry, disgrace-
fully doggerel.—(' Great God, what do I see and
hear.') The author is de strrvedly apocryphal. Nei-
ther Lutherans nor Mora vians acknowledge the pro-
duction."

We sincerely hope ths t this work may induce
others to follow the author's example of giving the
Psalms in score, and that it may be the means of ex-
pelling that monotonous and ineffectual custom in our
churches of singing in unison. It is much to be
regretted that so many of our Protestant members
are induced to assist in the service of the Roman
Catholic church. It is a fact that three-fourths of the
singers who go regularly through the masses of
Haydn and Mozart on Sundays in these establish..
ments are Protestants.

To conclude, we must sriy it is our decided opinion,
that if organists were alio\ red to introduce this sort of
music to be sung bycompete. at persons,into our churches,
they would perform their Ntrt with more feeling and
propriety, and instead of tile tuneless roar of the cha-
rity children, to the utter destruction of all devotional
feeling in the congregation, we should have the per-
formance of our church ser'iice rescued from the list-
less ceremony into which has fallen.

FIRE AT LEWES.—Abou t half-past two on Monday
morning, a fire broke out at tb printing-office of the Sussex
Advertiser. This is one of .the oldest Sussex papers, having
been established in the year 17%45, since which time it has re-
mained in the same fainily. No cause can be given for the
origin of the tire. Mr. Frederi ck Lee, one of the proprietors.
was the last person in the oSce, and put out his candle, but
having forgotten his spectaelt s, he returned in the dark to
obtain them, when all appeared quite safe, although it is clearly
proved that the fire commen cc d at this spot The whole of
the type, printing presses, stamps, paper, &c., are destroyed,
in fact, not a vestige was say, od, and the damage estimated at
nearly 7,000/. Air. Lee !s i soured in the Sun-office, to the
extent of 1,300/. Mr. Browi sing, the spirit merchant, has also
sustained a loss to the exl:ent of 2001. Mr. Baxter, the
proprietor of the Sussex Ea :press came forward in the most
handsome manner and tendered every assistance to Mr. Lee.
which will enable him to bring out the Sussex Advertiser as
u,ual this evening.
DEATH OF GEN'BRAL SCOTT.—This distinguished
veteran, who was the oldest officer in the British army, died
yesterday, at his residence, Alalleney House. He was in the
97th year of his age, having been born in the eventful:l74l,
and appeared to be in Iris usual health on the day preceding
his death, which was nstite sudden.--Edinburgh vanar_