The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-07 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

MARRIAGE. A. Comedy. Longman, London, 1842.
As we gave an abstract of the plot and the
leading incidents of this comedy, in our notice
of its first representation at the Haymarket
Theatre, we shall content ourselves, on the pre-
sent occasion, with just saying a few words on
the subject of its characters and its dialogues.
And first of the former. The most life-like per-
sonage is undoubtedly Mr. Doubtful—a middle-
aged gentleman who has united himself to a
young boarding-sChool girl, and, as a necessary
consequence, is kept by her in a constant state
of hot water. .His alternate fits of distrust and
confidence—of affection and coldness—of vivacity
and sullenness—are discriminated by Mr. Bell
in a very skilful manner. Nor are the diverting
caprices of this elderly Benedick too much in-
sisted on, as is apt to be the case with drama-
tists when they get hold of a character which
strikes their fancy. We have just enough of
Mr. Doubtful and no more. His young and
well-meaning wife is a mere non-entity, but she
could scarcely have been rendered otherwise, at
least with tt'due regard to the proprieties of na-
ture.. Mr. Cavendish Pause is a less happy de-
lineation than that of Doubtful, though some of
his quaint peculiarities of sentiment and expres-
sion eve whimsical enough, and must, we should
imagine—for we have not seen the play acted—
occasion much laughter on representation. Sir
Harry Vivid is a character that must be well
known to the readers of Farquhar; Centlivre,
and Cibber; he has nothing original about him,
but his lively, dashing qualities are such as are
always attractive on the stage. With regard to
language Of the comedy, it is plain to see in
every page that it has been most studiously ela-
borated; and we may add that it is uniformly
more remarkable for elegance and precision than
wit or vivacity. Bounding animal spirits are in-
deed by no means one of the chief' characteristics
of the comedy ; but it possesses— what is the
next best thing to great natural sprightliness—an
even, uninterrupted flow of good-humour, and
sometimes, but not often, much archness and
cleverness of repartee. The author must try his
hand again at the drama, for his present work—
though, as we have observed, by no means de-
void of blemishes—has no one radical defect, but
gives promise of future excellence.

THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES. 3 Vols.
Colburn, London, 1842.

We perfectly remember the former tale of the
, authoress of the work before us; it was entitled
" Temptation, or a Wife's Perils," and gave a
promise of ability which its successor has scarcely
fulfilled. Not that the '' School for Wives "is
deficient in talent; its descriptions are graphic
and spirited; and when the tenderer feelings are
to be excited, it supplies the requisite power to
a certain extent; but it fails in the constructive
faculty; and not only is this the case, but—com-
pared with its predecessor—it exhibits a marked
decadence in point of invention. When the
characters—with the exception, perhaps, of
that of the heroine, Susan Bouverie—
are, what may be called "differences without
distinctions"—that is to say, they are manufac-
tured after the most approved novel fashion,
without being sufficiently discriminated. Had
more pains been taken with the story—particu-
larly with the deposition of the incidents, it
might have been rendered as attractive as
" Temptation ;" but it seems to have been got
up in a hurry, and as if the materials had not
previously been arranged and digested in the
writer's mind, but she had trusted to the Char-
ter of Accidents to make successful progress
with it. The leading incidents of the story
may be soon summed up. Susan Bou-
verie, the heroine—a most exemplary spe-
cimen of womankind—firms an attachment
in early youth to a younger man, by name Sid-
ney Gower, whois captivated, however, less by
the charms of the person, for her exterior is
something homely, than by the sweetness of her
temper, and the strength and elegance of her
understanding. She returns his affections, and
they are accordingly betrothed to each other,
when, unfortunately, Sidney meets with the
beautiful Julia Curzon, the daughter of haughty,
aristocratic parents, by whom his truant feel-
ings are enamoured, and whom, after a long
struggle with his conscience, he makes his
wife. Charles Bouverie, the brother of the
deserted Susan, instantly resolves on calling
the " fickle swain " to account, and a
duel takes place between them, in which
Charles is shot dead. All this portion of the
narrative is related with uncommon earnestness;
and the sketch of the sister, after the death of
her favourite brother, abounds in touches of the
sincerest pathos. It is indeed the redeeming fea-
ture of the work. In due time, Susan's exces-
sive grief abates, she becomes reconciled to life
and ultimately meets with a lover more to her
taste than was the former one, in the person of
• Arthur Tyrrell, whom she marries, with which
event the story concludes. There are several
minor characters and incidents introduced to
vary the progress of the story; but of these
we take no notice, for its principal interest cen-
ters in Susan Bouverie, who possesses all the he-
roism, disinterestedness, and fortitude of nature
which Sir Walter Scott has exhibited in Jeanie
Deans—in fact, Susan is the Jeanie of the middle
classes. The story is introduced by a preface in
rhyme, which displays a lively and ready power
of versification.

THE BOOK OF THE PO OR MAN 'S CHURCH.
London, Cleave.
This is a well-timed, useful publication. Its ob-
ject is to instruct the people as to the worldly
qualities of the poor man's Church. The author's
intention of instituting an impartial and ingenious
examination of the principles and practices of the
Church is carefully carried out ; and the conclu-
sion he arrives at, " That the Church is a cun-
ningly devised system of anti-Christ, alike ini-
mical to the temporal welfare and the spiritual
interests of mankind," is borne out by the facts
he adduces. As the book is at once cheap and
full of information, it will become the manual of
all Church Refiirmers. We shall quote a short
passage, in. de up of extracts from works lying
eyond tl!e ordinary reading of most persons, to
show the secular and purely political character
of the Church :

We have a fine illustration of the light in which the digni-
fied clergy themselves regard their position in the Establish-
ment, and of the real Objects they aim at, in what Archbishop
Wake said :—" As for myself," he writes to M. Beauvoir,
"as Archbishop of Canterbury, I have more power, larger
privileges, and greater authority than any of their Arch-
bishops; from which, by the grace of God, I will not
depart, no, not for the sake of an union with them." And,
again, in a postcript to the same, he says, " Did Cardinal
Nenailles know what authority the Archbishop of Canter-
bury has got by the Reformation, and how much greater a man
he is now than when he was the Pope's legatos natus, it
might encourage him to follow so good a pattern ; and be as-
sured, in that case, he would lose nothing by sending back
his Cardinal's cap to Rome. I doubt your doctors know little
of these matters."

In concluding this part of the subject. we request attention
to
themselves,
followingelvea,ini traweeoxfofcts from the
secular
and
purely
yngps of Churchmen
olttical
character
of the Church Establishment :
trhaeteCthtsursculi.
resignedß isuo ritsWiAnßdeßpUelinTdOenNc—e
independence,
the h
the Chief
cparennineeihtheledr Magistrate
—doand
orndoewct,eweitahnoyutthihnigs.vprobation and allowance,
DEAN PKIDEALIE—" What power the Pope had used
on the abrogation of the Papal authority in this realm, ,was
trans.
ferred to the King by the statutes."
supreme power in ecclesiastical affairs and causes ; and, wit
HOOKER—" Christian Kings have spiritual dominionhoinr
their own precinct, an authority and power to command, even
in matters of Christian religion."
BLACKSTONE--" The Parliament of Britain can alter the
established religion of the land ; as was done in a variety of
instances in the reigns of Henry VIII. and his children."
BISHOP VAN MILDERT—" Even over her own membt rs her
control is very limited, and entirely subject to the legislative
and executive authorities of the country."
BISHOP LOWTH.—" It pleased God, in his unsearchable
wisdom, to suffer the_ progress of the Reformation to be stopped
in the midway."—Visitation Sermon, 1758.
Da. HENRY MORE--" The Reformed Churches have sepa-
rated from the great Babylon to build those that are lesser and
more tolerable, but not to be tolerated for ever."—MYat. of
Iniquity, p. 553.
Btacxwooies MAGAZINE-.-" The business of the Church
is
and lumped with the
much other business of the Home department,
thon to believe that it is carried on
with reference merely to secular ends ; and that that portion
of the wealth of the Church which i 4 at the disposal of the
Crown, is only considered as so much oil for greasing the wheels
of Government, in order that the machine of State ma roll on
more smoothly."—February, 1832 y
BEVEKLEY—" I am thorouglily impressed with this truth
as paramount to all other truths, excepting the high mysteries
of our religion, that the Church of England is a machine of
anti-Christ, greatly surpassing, in the grossness of its abuses,
all other jobs or systems of corruption that ever have afflicted
the kingdom."

FLANDERS MAIL.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
COURSING.
NEWMARKET NEW MEETING.—FRIDAY.
SECOND TIES FOR THE ALLINGTON HILL STAKES.—Mr.
Vipan's Victorina beat Mr. Finch's Gossip ; Mr. Inikip's Ma
ran a bye.
SECOND TIES FOR THE Cur.—Captain Daintree's Knab
beat Mr. Dobecles Demallen ; Mr4Edward's Arsenic beat Mr.
Vipan's Vulcan. .

-SECOND TIES FOR THE CHIPPENHA3I STAKES.—Mr.
Dobede's Defiance beat Mr. Edward's Arctic ; Mr. Moody's
Railroad beat Mr. Vipan's Victor.
PORT STAKES. SECOND TtEs.—Mr. Range's Telegraph
peat Mr. Fyson's Fly , Mr. Fyson's Finesse beat Mr. Edward's
A.B. C.

TUE RUTLAND STAKEE, TUESDAT.-51r. Rates Crucifix
Junior rAn a bye ; Mr. Gillett's Gretian Queen beat Mr.
Fyson's Frederica.

CLYDESDALE CLOG, Jaw. 29 and 30.—The Cup was 'won
by Lord Doeglas's Arduch, the Champion Collar by Sir A.
Maxwe'l's Music, and the Hamilton Stakes by Lord Dou-
glas's Kent.

LATEST BETTING AT .MANCHESTER.—Fains•r.
CHESTER Cur.-9 to I agst Lanercost (taken)-12 to 1
apt Marshal Soult (taken)—l4 to I agst• Itory O'More—l4
to 1 agst Beßona (taken)-22 to 1 agst Alice IJawtho:n-
-27 to 1 agst Billingham Lass—the rest as on Tuesday.
DERBT.-12 to I agst Chatham-23 to 1 agst Auckland-
-25 to 1 agst Wiseacre-27 to 1 agst Robert de Gorham-33 to
I agst the Joanna cult-66 to I agst William Le Gros-40 to I
agst Moss Trooper—the rest as before.
thura. —Nothing done.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Her Majesty's stag-hounds, Wed., Ashstead ; Sat.,
Fern Hill Gate-11.

White Cross harriers, Wed., Terrick; Sat., Worlds
End-101.
. _

Oakley hounds, Tues., Roxton Spinnies; Thurs., Cran-
field Sat., Milton Mill-11.

Baron Rothschild's stag-hounds, Wed., Wing-11i.
Mr. Hellier's hounds, Wed., Dunchurch—lli.
Mr. Fojambe's hounds, Tues., Headon Clump; Thurs.
Sandheck Park; Fri. Rossington Bridge-101.
Lord Yarborough's hounds, Wed., Thornton College;
Fri., Man ton Warren —ll.

Sir R. Sutton's hounds, Tues., Halfway House, Newark
Road ; Wed., Wellingore; Thurs., Gantby Park; Sat.,
Wickenby— 11.-
_ _

Licut;Colonel Hildyard's harriers, Wed., Stainton
Vale; Fri., Nimpthorpe-10.
Rufford hds, Thurs., Kennels ; Sat., Dean Hall-104.
Mr. Russell's hounds, Wednesday, Whitworth Fark ;
Friday, Brancepeth-11.
Duke of Grafton's hounds, Thurs., Shoesley Ground ;
Friday, Whistley Wood.
Heythrop hds.,Wed., Blenheim; Fri., New Barn-10.
York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Wild lan ; Thurs., Rib-
ston Park ; Sat., Grimston Bar-10i.
Holderness hds., Tues., Londsborough Gate ; Thurs.,
Burton Constable ; Fri., Bishop Burton-94.
Harewood hds., Wed., Paper Mill Bar ; Fri., Deigh
ton Bar-10}.
Pytchley hds., Tues., Cransley; Fri., Misterton ; Sat.,
Cambridgeshire hds., Friday, Patton Wood—q.
Atherstone hounds Wed., Cadeby Toll-gate ; Thurs.,
Bonehill ; Sat., Churchover-104.
Badsworth hounds Tues., Wentbridge ; Thurs., Red
House ; Sat., Notton Village-10i.
Mr. Giles's hounds, Tues., Frith Wood ; Fri., Hethell
Pit-gate.
Pembrokeshire hounds, Thurs., Burton-10.
Herefordshire hounds, Wed., Wormelow Turnpike ;
Fri., Ruckhall Wood-10. _

Cheshire hounds, Wed., Shipbrook Bridge ; Thurs.,
Manor House ; Sat., Bradfield Green-10i.
Montgomery-shire hounds, Thurs., Stingivern ; Sat.,
Sarnybryncaled-10.
United Pack, Thurs., Wiley Park.
Sir W. M. Stanley's hounds, Tues., Denhall ; Fri.,
Upton Ball.

Wheatland hds, Tues., Muckley Cross ; Fri., Cresson
Park.

Mr. Long's harriers, Tues., New Copse ; Fri., Black-
acre Farm.

8.V.H., Tues., Barton Common ; Fri., Fulham Cross-
roads.

Leamington hounds, Tues., Tylas-bridge ; Fri., Ap-
pleton Common-10.
Lieut.-Col. Hildyard's harriers, Wed., Stanton Vale.
Boroughbridge harriers, Tues., York Gate ; Fri.,
Skelton Mill.

Hurworth hounds, Tues., Hilton ; Thurs., Neasham ;
Sat., Haughton Bridge-14.
Cleveland hounds, Thurs., Coatham- 10.
M. H., 'rues., Alton Village ; Fri , Cheselborne Mill.
Sir M. W. llidley's hounds, Tues., Waggon and Horses;
Thurs., Belsay ; Sat., Thropple-10i.
Allendale hounds, Tues., Bull's Hill; Sat., Thornley
Gate-9.

East Kent harriers, Tues., Beaksbourne Mill ; Thum,
Lydder Street ; Fri., Barnsole

-Ilaydon hounds, Wed., Langley Castle ; Sat., Sewing
Shields-9.

Maley hounds, Wed., Dalton ; Sat., Broomley Fell-9.
Prudhoe and Derwent hds., Wed., Crawerook ; Fri.,
Sheriff Hill-10.

Old Forest liarrier3, Wed., S%innie Toll ; Sat., Pal-

BRUSSELS, FEB. 3. —The average price of Wheat last
week was 21f. 44c., and that of Rye, 121. 51c.
The Journal de Bruxelles says, "It is affirmed that
Count Le Hon, the Belgian Ambassador at Paris, is re.
called."

We are assured that in an audience which King Louis
Phillippe gave some days ago to Count Le Hon, his Ma-
jesty told him, that the affiur of his brother ought not to
have any influence on his official character.

BaussELs, FEB. 4.—The AVoniteur contains a Royal
Ordinance, fixing at 10,000 men, the levy for the Militia
in 1842, assigning the number to be furnished by each
province according to its population. It appears that the
entire population of the kingdom is 4,066,8.17.
The Royal carriages arc gone to-day to Ostend. The
King will go to that town to receive his Majesty the
King of Prussia, who is to arrive at about seven o'clock
in the morning. The two Monarchs will proceed toge-
ther to the Palace of Lacken. The day before yesterday,
in the afternoon, Prince Ernest of Saxe-Coburg, arrived
here. He was at the ball at Court in the evening.
1,1A.41 A N M Li NDS—BauseaLd. FED. 4.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93
3 per Cent.
72%
(1.,:40) 103%
Loan of City, 1912,4 per Cent. 95%
Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent B4
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent,,,,,,,,,,,,,„ 80
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 4.
AUSTRIAN FUI-44).-17
.112NN1, JAN.
five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. 131%
Three par Cents.
Bank Sharrs
—4llre:wine Zeitsing. Jan. 31.:
HAMBURG BOMENHALLE, Fan 1.
Austrian 5 per Cents. Bills. Money
Bank Shares ............................ 118%
A nglo.ltussian Loan
16.1110 1650
4 110
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, C,rtitieate
Inscription, Ist Set is!
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
98y,
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe, Cent t 50ik
Ditto
Polish Bonds 5 per Ceti.
15g
New licket .............................................. 1t,7
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 7S% 70
E
23.—Three
.r_NeeGim.:o:nmOthoNsu.tlsh)..3o.3NB7l%)o N.
wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cunt...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l9
fismatnin, Fan. 1.-13 B.—Two months, 13 6.
pence
STocanout, JAN. 2 i.--Sevonty-five days. 12. 0.
VIeNNA. JAN.
ettUSSIANI'UNI)S.--SeawN.JAN. 89.
St, Schuld. Sch., 4% Bills Money
per cent. lOl% 104%
Prussian English Lean. 1830,4 per cant 103
xe hang eon London, three months 621 6 20%
—Prussian State Gazette. Jan. CO

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Manchester,.ESt
numerous audience at Liverpool, which" was enlivened by
experiments on several strangers, whom he reduced into a
state of sleepiness. Air. Braid explained his own theory at
considerable length. He attributed the extraordinary and
rapid rise of the pulse, during the mesmeric state, to the
stoppage of the flow of blood through those members in the
cataleptiform state, and its rapid fall after demesmerisa-
tion to the rush of blood into its ordinary chan-
nels. He had proved the truth of this by the application of a
tourniquet to the legs and arms of a person experimented
upon , • and the same effects had resulted. One of the most
important features of his system was its applicability to the
cure of a number of diseases which had resisted every other
curative agency, with present immunity iron pain and the
absence of any bad result. He had by means of it extracted
teeth without the patient suffering any pain ; he had re-
moved rheumatic pains, which had tortured the patient for
months and years ; he had in eight minutes cured a case
of tic doloreux, under which a person had been suffering for
eight weeks; he had restored paralytic limbs, which had
been useless for twenty-four years; he had given hearing to
the (leaf, and the power of speech to the dumb; and even in
cases where the persons had been born deaf, he had caused
them to hear the, tick of a watch in the space of ten or
twelve minutes. From experiments that he had for a short
time been engaged in, he trusted to be able to show that by a
modification of his method the use of opiates might be dis-
pensed with. He would give his word of honour that in the
experiments which would be exhibited to the audience there
should be no attempt at collusion or delusion.---( Cheers.) His
wish was not to mystify, but to elicit truth. Mr. Braid then
introduced two brothers, named Shelmadine, who had been
deaf and dumb, to move the curative effects of mesmerism.
The elder brother, Edward, had never heard any sound in his
life, except the .report of a gun, and after having been
mesmerised, could hear the ticking of a watch at a distance
of three inches from the left ear, and one inch from his
right. The lecturer cited, from the Medical Tintes,-a case
where another gentleman had restored a person to hearing on
111 r. B.'s plan. A certificate from the head-master of the
Manchester school for the deaf and dumb was read. It stated
that before Mr. Braid had operated on the brothers Shelma-
dine, they had been unable to hear or articulate, but that they
could now do bet h. —Leeds Mescury.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT LOCHEND.—
At Lochead on Saturday, two brothers, a young man
about sixteen years of age, and a younger brother, sons
of a widow lady named Faulds, residing near the Abbey,
with two other persons, were precipitated into the water,
in the deepest part of the Loch, while skating on the
ice. Three of them were rescued, but on the fourth
being got out, after having been for three-quarters of
an hour under water, life was found to be entirely ex-
tinct. We understand, that, on the same day, five in-
dividuals were immersed in Duddingstone Loch, but
were extricated by the saving apparatus.—Edinburgh
Advt.? tiser.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB, 2. The
supply of Sugar in first hands has been so very limited, that
we have scarcely had a market since our last report. What
little has been done has been at extreme rates. The opportune
arrival of two vessels from Demerara with 900 hhds. will afford
the trade an opportunity of partially supplying themselves, as
most probably the importers will bring them forward
mediately.

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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEB-

7, 1842.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIV LAS.
Mr. and Morant, at Long's Hotel, from their seat in
Hants ; W. Bagge, Esq., M.P., at ditto, from Norfolk ; Rev.
C. Grove, at ditto, from Odstock Rectory; Sir W. 0. Mal-
ley, Bart., at ditto, from Brighton ; John Wakefield, Esq., at
ditto, from Belfast; H. Gwynne, Esq., at ditto, from Bybee,
Wales; Lord and Lady Southampton, in Great Stanhope-
street, from Whittlebury Lodge; the Marquis and Marchioness
of Camden, in Belgrave-square, from the Wilderness, Kent ;
Lord and Lady Methuen, in Park-street, from their seat, Cors-
ham Howe, Wilts; Lord and Lady Clonbrock, from Clon-
brock Castle, Galway ; Lady De Donstanville, in Charles-
street, Berkeley-square; Sir Robert Batesou, Bart. M.P., at
the Burlington Hotel; James Ackers, Esq ,M.P., at ditto. from
Shropshire ; the Bishop of Winchester and Mrs. Summer, from
Farnham Palace ; the Earl of Clarendon, on Grosvenor-cres-
cent, from Gorhambury, Herts ; Lord Osssnlston, at Lord Tan-
kerville's, Maddox-street, from Heron Court, Hants • Lord and
Lady Braybrooke, Honourable Miss Neville, and Lady Louisa
Cornwallis, from Audley End, Saffron Walden • Lord and
Lady Lovat, from Beaufort Castle, Inverness, N. B. ; the
Marquis of Worcester, at Beaufort House, from Badminton ;
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., M.P., at the Waterloo
Hotel, Jermyn-street, from his seat, Killerton, Devon ; Miss
Hay, at ditto, from Blackheath Park ; the Earl of Stradbroke,
at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street ; Col. Conolly, M.P.,
at ditto ; the Honourable and Rev. Mr. Henniker, at ditto ;
the Countess of Cavan, at ditto ; James W. Walters, Esq. and
family, at ditto.