The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-12 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR MAY.

(From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of
Fashion.")
Our more recent communications from Paris inform us
that the materials in fashion are likely to be of great variety
this season ; silks, glacees and shot, mostly of light colours,
muslins, pekins, satins, mousselines de laMe, &c. &c. ; with
respect to the make, there appears to exist some degree of
rivalry between tight sleeves and bonfante ones, but it is
probable the latter will triumph; the present tight sleeves
differ from those worn two years since—they resemble habit
sleeves, having two seams and elbows, and four small but-
tons on the bottom. The full sleeves are moderate in size,
and some are made without any trimming on the top, and ra-
ther short, with a band which buttons, and from it issues a
sleeve of clear or embroidered muslin, also terminating with
a narrow band, to which a cuff is sewed, falling on the hand.
Spencers continue in favour : those of velvet, with straight
sleeves, without any fulness, almost tight, no wristband.
Some very pretty spring dresses appeared at Longchamps,
with biais at the bottom of the skirts, and on the sleeves ;
the bodies open en cceur, with biais laid on, which met those
on the sleeves ; some were with bouillons, others with
flounces lisera with another colour ; embroidery in silks is
very fashionable, both for shawls and dresses. Lace is also
much used on dresses, both black and white ; as a general
observation, it may be said, that the folds on dresses may
either cross over each other or not ; that points are suitable
to married ladies, but for young ladies the point is not so
deep, and the body higher, and the fulness on the top of the
sleeves is confined very low on the arm. Coloured tulles
will be fashionable for light evening dresses, with corsage
drape, trimmed with bouillons.
Bonnets are made rather straight, short in front, and not
quite so low at the ears as those of the last year ; the shape
is round in front, and very small; the crown quite low and
very little ornamented. The bonnets at Longchamps were
white, with marabouts. glacees silks, poult de soie covered
with bouillons of crape mixed with violets : pink bonnets
with veils, reps covered with crape, which was bouillonne
at the edge, but in folds under and on the crown. Capotes
of gauxe or crape, with a ficu of lace or gauze on them ; the
favourite flowers were bunches of hearts-ease, roses, violets,
lilacs, and lilies of the valley.
Ribbons are but little used on bonnets; the favourite ones
are apricot, puce, green, violet, grey, pink, and chocolate ;
but before this came the Scotch plaids of ribbon, velvet,
plain, or epingle, checked, plain ground, or:varied by a showy
flower. A satin or watered ribbon of an inch wide, tied in a
rosette with long ends, forms a pretty ornament for the throat.
Fringes are likely to remain in favour this summer; they
will be worn on the ends of silk scarfs, and round cashmire
and Barige shawls, the latter materials again appearing ; very
large silk scarfs will be worn at the commencement of the
season, without being trimmed with fringe; but as soon as
they become comtnon,Yit is expected lace will be again re-
sorted to. A great many square cachtnires are worn just
now, green or blue, with large pines on a plain ground, fas-
tened in front by a brooch, for which purpose coral is very
fashionable.

GREAT COUNTER-AGITATION MEETING IN
BELFAST.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail)

Since the great meeting at Hillsborough, there has been
nothing in Ireland equal in present importance, and in future
promise, to the magnificent assemblage brought together in
the Music-hall of Belfast, on Saturday last, and of which we
this day extract a highly satisfactory report from two of our
northern cortinporaries. The anti-Stanleyite meeting a few
days before in the Theatre of the same town was, we admit,
to a certain extent a respectable assembly ; but it was no
more in comparison with this grand demonstration, than the
paltry meeting called " the Leinster aggregate" was in com-
parison with it, itself. Lord Gosford was in the chair at the
theatre meeting, and letters were read from Lords Belfast,
Cremorne, Lurgan, Templetown, and Rossmore. In the
Music-hall meeting the Marquis of Donegal, Londonderry,
and Hertford; from Earl O'Neil, and from the Earls of En-
niskillen, Antrim, Clanwilliam, and Hillsborough, and from
Viscount Castlereagh. At the Theatre meeting were present
Deputy-Lieutenants two, at the Music-hall meeting eleven.
At the Theatre meeting were present High Sheriffs none, at
the Music-hall meeting two. At the Theatre meeting, Mem-
bers of Parliament none, at the Music-hall meeting two. At
the Theatre meeting, Justices of the Peace seventeen ; at the
Music-hall meeting, FIFTY. And, what is infinitely better
and more cheering than all is the fact, that the assembly at
the Theatre was made up of two discordant parties, who
were, with difficulty, got to act for a short time together ;
whereas the meeting at the Music-hall was composed of men
who have always acted together hitherto, and whom nothing
now can disunite. The tone of the meeting throughout was
temperate, gentlemanly, and marked by a moral elevation to
which the advocates of perjury and personation have never
ventured to aspire. Nothing could be more happily timed
or better conceived than the speech of the Marquis of Down-
shire : calm, fair, clear, and convincing, it expressed the
feelings of an honest man, willing to live and let live, to give
and to take, anxious only that all parties should have the fair
enjoyment of the franchise upon equal terms ; that the vote
of the honest man, no matter of what party, should not be
overborne by that of the perjurer or the personator; and
that the voice of the man of substance, be he of what religion
or party he might, should not be drowned in the claim of the
pauper. The meeting will, we are confident, exercise a very
salutary influence in England.

THE TURF IN FRANCE.—Major F- has betted Lord
S- 500 louis that he will ride on horseback 25 times round
the Bois de Boulogne in a day for three consecutive days.
The distance is about 75 leagues or 180 miles. The day for
the match is not yet fixed definitively.

EXTRAORDINARY MEMORY.-There is in Brampton
Wesleyan Sunday School a little girl, under eight years of
age, who can commit to memory, with a few hours notice,
any chapter in the Old and New Testament. Last week she
said to one of the teachers the whole book of Hebrews, and
the 11th chapter of St. John, together containing 350 verses.
She completed the whole within an hour and 20 minutes.—
Derbyshire Courier.

NEW POST OFFICE ATROCITY.—AS if the effigy of the
Queen on the " glutinous wash" affair were not sufficiently
libellous on her Majesty, the authorities have added to the
affront, in practice, by stamping the Royal head with a
sprawling red. arabasque. Of course it was quite right to
take proper precautions against fraudulently using the badge
a second time, but really Mr. Rowland Hill has no business
to tattoo the Majesty of England into the resemblance of the
Queen of the Cannibal Islands.—Morning Post.

BRIDGE BUILDING.—The Revue d' Architecture et des
Traenni, man.or ors tknoolarat or v aa.wr
bridge building, invented by an architect of New York, Mr.
Town—as exhibited in a bridge constructed over James River,
at Richmond, in Virginia. This system, stated to be " the
most curious of all inventions which the art of carpentry
owes to the Americans, who are in the first rank of its pro-
fessors," entirely differs from all previous practice in bridge
building, is applicable to arches of any span, and peculiarly
useful in its adaptation on railroads. Mr. Town uses only
planks, so thin as to be readily carried on a man's shoulder.
No iron enters into the composition; the planks are united
by rivets of wood. These bridges, it is said, will bear any
amount or rapidity of traffic, are extremely economic in their
construction, and so simple that a village carpenter might
superintend their erection.
AN APPARMON.—Some time ago, an industrious family
went to Derby, from Wirksworth, to procure employment,
which they obtained. The occupant of the house they se-
lected for their residence had just departed this life. The
room in which he died was contiguous to the one where the
family eat their meals, and which opened into it. One
night, the mother of the family while sitting at tea remarked,
that she should not feel right unless the room in which the
dead man had lain was cleaned and whitewashed ; scarcely
had she spoken, when the latch of the door of the room al-
luded to was shaken as if by some supernatural agency. Be-
fore the horror-struck family could muster courage to enable
them to examine into the cause of so unusual an occurrence,
again the latch commenced shaking with still greater vio-
lence, the door slowly opening. This was too much for the
nerves of the party; and, greatly alarmed, rushed forth the
mistress of the house, carrying her child, uttering loud cries,
and protesting she would never again enter the haunted dwel-
ling. Her brother, a stout athletic man, seized the poker,
and with all his might closed the door, holding it fast shut
to prevent the egress of any one from within. The neigh-
bours flocked round, when one of them explained that their
departed neighbour had a cat, which could open the latch of
the door, which no doubt had been the cause of their alarm.
A search took place, when poor puss was found, half famished
and concealed, and had no doubt been driven by hunger to
exercise her ingenuity for the purpose of introducing herself
to the new occupants of her master's dwelling.--Derbyshire
Chronicle.

PARLIAMETARY REPORTING.—By a petition which has
been presented to to the House of Commons and ordered to
be printed with the votes, Feb. 24, 1840, it appears that Mr.
Gurney enjoys a most odious monopoly as a short-hand
writer, to the exclusion of others equally deserving, and of
equal talent. He was appointed short-hand writer to the
House of Commons in 1803, for the purpose of taking down
the evidence taken before election committees, along with
three others, namely, his father, Mr. Blanchard, and Mr.
Ramsay. The three latter having died, Mr. Gurney became
sole short-hand writer, and exercises his privilege with no
sparing hand; no other short-hand writer being allowed to
take the speeches of counsel on a private bill committee ex-
cept as Mr. Gurney's deputy. He is also short-hand writer
to the House of Lords, where he exercises the same exclu-
sive privileges ; to the Privy Council, where he claims the
right to take minutes of the evidence in patent cases for the
Council-office, at the expense of the parties ; to all the
Government-offices, namely, Treasury, India Board, ..
ar-
office, Admiralty, Customs, Excise, Stamps, Woods and Fo-
rests, &c, and he further claims to be shorthand writer to
all ecclesiastical, goverment, and specialcomtnissio, besides
having a large and lucrative private commission. The peti-
tion states that Mr. Gurney has been paid no less a sum than
£56,528 for the mere short-hand writing of the two Houses
of Parliament within the last four years. His establishment
consists of himself, two sons, and an assistant, so that his
pickings from his monopoly. must be something considerable.
We quite agree with the writer of the article, that " the whole
subject of thil,monopoly demands an immediate and rigid
investigation.
CHRISTIAN AND SARACEN.—The contest in which the
French are at present engaged in Africa, is reproducing some
of the picturesque effects of the chivalric times, and recalling`
the deeds done on the fields of Palestine, or of Spain. The
brilliant defence of Mazagran has aroused the emulation of
all the soldiers of France ; and the feat of arms performed at
against
6,000 A
Misserghine, where 800
ere Boo men held the field for seven hours
and finally remained masters of it, is a
worthy rival to the former war-passage, and has probably
attracted the notice of most of our readers. But private let-
ters bring particulars from the field of action, tilled with de-
tails of the character to which we have alluded. One of
these incidents, carrying tis back into the very regions of ro-
mance, we will quote—" The affair," says the letter, " was
warm and brilliant. Lieutenant Lepic was calm and intrepid
in the midst of danger. At a moment when his cavalry was
compelled to give way before numbers, our brave Lieutenant,
surrounded by a host of warriors who sought his life, and
menaced him with their yathagans, retained sufficient presence
of mind to face his foes, driving his sword right through the
body of the nearest, and wounding many. The Arabs looked
on in amazement. One of these thrusts of his took effect on
no mean foe ; and, next day, Lieutenant Lepic received a
letter from the chief of the Angads :—` I shall know thee,
Christian !' said the missive. " Wherever I meet thee, I
will challenge thee by name ;—and, .if thou darest measure
thyself singly against me, take my defiance !'—The Christian,
as you may suppose, has not suffered the challenge of the
Mussulman to fall to the ground, and we are all looking for-
ward impatiently for the day of this chivalric combat. The
two armies, in presence of each other, shall be, as of old be-
fore Jerusalem, the judges of the tourney."

ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ORCHARD.—In the first
place, you must wash the ball and principal branches of the
tree with hot lime, which not only destroys all the insects,
but gives the tree a fine healthy appearance, and, when wash-
ed with the rain, benefits the roots. If you find the soil be-
coming dry previous to the opening of the bloom, give each
full grown tree ten or twelve gallons of water at the roots
just before the bloom expands. If you have a sufficiency of
manure water, apply that ; but otherwise,
water, or, in preference to either, soap suds, if you can pro-
cure them. By the application of this atsoft pouch, or rain
the time directed,
you will find that the fruit always sets a great deal better
than if it were omitted, as it very
materially contributes to
the production of perfect stamina and formation. Without
watering, in many cases they would be defective, particularly
apple trees; also, in dry seasons, generally the greater part
of the bloom drops off, which is caused by the deficiency of
nourishment to strengthen it at the roots.

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THE OLD GREY MARE.

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Some dozen long years had this famous old tit
Been grazing in meadows and champing the bit ;
And used as a roadster or rid in the chase,
She still went along at a famous old pace.
She had had from a colt but one master to please,
And had carried him well and yet done it with ease ;
And never was known in her life-time to slack,
When her daring old rider was on her old back.
To market she'd fly like a bounding young hind,
And leave half the nags of the village behind ;
Thro' rain or thro' sunshine, thro' fire or thro' flood—
Not mattered a jot to this " old bit of blood."
At times her old rider would sleep on his way,
Worn out with the heat and fatigue of the day ;
And then, oh ! how gently she'd bear his old weight,
And neigh when she came to the old fold-yard gate.
Should a crack pack of hounds 'chance come opening by,
She'd prick up her ears at the merry old cry ;
And 'twas no wondrous thing for this Mettlesome elf,
When loose in the fields to go hunting herself.
No fence was so high but she over it leapt--
No thicket so bushy but through it she crept—
Nor wall, hurdle, quickset, nor any such check,
But she ventured to clear it or break her old neck.
She was known to be one of the best of old sorts
By the veteran lovers of " old English sports ;"
And when breaking from cover, would echo the shout—
" Hark forward ! hie over ! the old grey is out !"
But Time, that destroyer of all that is rare,
Hath stiffened the limbs of the bonnie grey mare ;
And the spot is but known by an Ad heap of stones,
Where rest now for ever her angled old bones.
Her hardy old owner is yet living on,
And since she dropped off thath crossed many an one ••
But never will have it that ought can compare
With the speed and the pluck of " the old grey mare."

The Churchman. April and May, 1849. London :W. E

These numbers of this truly excellent and orthodox ma-
gazine contain several articles which possess a very high de-
gree of merit, and which cannot fail to elevate its character,
as a medium for conveying religious and ecclesiastical intel-
ligence, in accordance with the pripciples of the Established
Church. In the number for April there is an admirable
practical comment on the words ",Every man shall bear his
own burden." The continuation of the article on " The
Trinity" will prove a useful antidote to the poison of Soci-
nianism. The " Observations on Bishop Burnett's Cha--
racter of Cardinal Wolsey" are replete with valuable histori-
cal information. We have been greatly pleased with the
perusal or the paper on " The Blessings of the Church."
The " Sketch of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Greek
Church in Russia" contains many highly-interesting, pas-
sages. In the May number there is an excellent article on
" The Detraction of Ministers," which, we trust, will effect
much good. We greatly approve of the 'lake of " Conti-
nental Literature." It displays considerable critical acumen.
The correspondence, poetry, reviews, ecclesiastical intelli-
gence, and miscellanea, in the Churchman, indicate the pre-
sidence of a gentleman of sound judgment over the editorial
department. This periodical well deserves the support of
every member of the Church of England.
The Village Churchman. April and May, 1840. London :

We know of few publications that we can more safely recom-
mend for circulation among the humbler members of the Esta-
blished Church than the one before us. Its original articles
and its selections are alike entitled to our highest praise.
The doctrinal str.tements which it puts foith are in Strict ac-
cordance with the articles, homilies, and public formularies
of the Church. Among the more prominent papers in the
numbers before us we would particularly mention " The
Pious Churchman's Sunday"—" Hints on Popery"—" The
Village Churchman's Sabbath Meditations"—" Popular
Mistakes respecting the Church -of England ",--" A Word
on these hard Times," and the notices of " The Church of
England Societies."

The Church Magazine. April, 1840. London : Hayward

It is highly gratifying to witness the press, metropolitan
and provincial, teeming with so many publications in defence
of our venerable church, and calculated to edify and instruct
all classes of its members. Among these the Chureh Maga-
zine occupies a prominent position. We regret that we have
occasionall been compelled to find fault with its intemperate
language, and the obvious leaning in some of its articles,
towards the errors of Puseirism. The number before us
contains an excellent memoir (accompanied by a well-en-
graved portrait) of Dr. Molesworth, the present highly es-
teemed Vicar of Rochdale. The article on " Popery against
the Catholic Church of England" is very seasonably intro-
duced. "What is the Church ?" is the title of a sermon,
which, from a cursory perusal, appears to embody sound
scriptural views on the subject. There is much useful mis-
cellaneous intelligence in this magazine.

The Ministry of Reconciliation. A Sermon, preached in the
Chapel of Farnham Castle, at the General Ordination held
by the Bishop of Winchester, December 15, 1839.__8y

Archdeacon Wilberforce. Loudon : James Burns. 1840

This is a masterly sermon, delineating, in vivid and elo-
quent terms, the nature and functions of the Christian mi-
nistry. It ought to be in the hands of every clergyman. We
particularly recommend it to the notice of all candidates for
°ruination.

Presbyterian Rights Asserted. By a Presbyter of the Church

This pamphlet is written in a temperate and conciliatory
spirit. The subject is one of great importance, respecting
which, however, very general ignorance prevails, viz.,—the
real position in the church of the secondorder in the ministry
—their duties and obligations to the first order of the ministry,
on the one hand, and their own rights and privileges, on the
other.

A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Lord Brougham, on
the Government Plan of Education. By Samuel Wilber-
force, M.A., Archdeacon of Surrey. London : James
Burns. 1840.

We are glad to find that this excellent Letter has reached
a second edition. The venerable author has rendered an
essential service to his country by the publication of his
sentiments on this important subject. He has spoken out
boldly for the Church, and sholn ample reasons for rescind-
ing the obnoxious education resolutiou. In the hands of
Archdeacon Wilberforce such men as Lords Brougham and
Lansdowne are like infants in the grasp of a giant.

The Crook in the Lot ; or, the Sovereignty and Wisdom of
God in the Afflictions of Men. By the Rev. Thomas
Boston. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black.
This invaluable work forms one of the series of republi-
cations under the general title of " Christian Literature,"
which the spirited publishers have recently undertaken.
" The Crook in the Lot" is a work too well known in the
religious world to need any recommendation from our feeble
pen. It has afforded rich consolation to many sorrowing
christians on their pilgrimage through this " vale of tears."

The Life and Times of Martin Luther. Bristol. Philp
and Evans ; London : John Green, 1840.

This constitutes the fifth number of a series of works,
under the title of " Standard American Literature." We
have not received any of the preceding parts. From the
specimen before us we should predict that this series will
become very popular: We understand that the first num-
ber has already reached a second edition. " The Life and
Times of Martin Luther" is written in an attractive collo-
quial style, and will be perused with considerable interest.

The New Statistical Account of Scotland. No. 25, Edin
burgh : Blackwood and Sons ; London : Cadell.

This great national work is proceeding in a Wanner which
fully justifies all the praises which we have felt it to be our
duty to bestow upon the preceding parts. The present part
contains a beautifully engraved and coloured map of. Aber-
deenshire, and a copious account of the following parishes :
Aberdeen, Petercalter, Kinellar, Dyce, Udny, Old Deer,
Fintray, New Deer, St. Fergus, Lonmay, Newhills, Belhel-
vie, Frazerburg, Aberdour, King Edward, and Auchterless.
The statistical details in this work are invaluable. They
have evidently been compiled with great care. Every Scots-
man, who can afford it, ought to place this account of his
native country on his library shelves, were it only on account
of the benevolent object to which the profits resulting from
its publication are devoted—the support of the sons and
daughters of the clergy.

Parliamentary Speeches. Session 1840. Part I. London

Mr. Painter deserves the thanks of his countrymen for
thus placing before them, in a cheap and accessible form,
corrected editions of the principal speeches of the great con-
servative leaders. The first part of this series of publications
contains the speeches of Sir. James Graham, Lord Stanley,
and Sir Robert Peel, on the " Vote of Confidence" motion.
Of the merits of these speeches it would be quite superfluous
for us to add another word, further than that they are worthy
of the exalted statesmen whose names we have mentioned.
Every tree conservative ought to purchase these speeches,
to hand down as an heir-loom to his children.

A general Outline of the United Kingdom, and Manual of
Comparative Anatomy. Part 9. By Thomas Rymer
Jones. London : John Van Voorst. 1840.

Mr. Rymer Jones's celebrity as a writer and lecturer on
natural history is alone sufficient to procure for this manual
an extensive circulation. Of its intrinsic merits we have
already recorded our opinion on sevqral occasions. The pre-
sent number continues the subject of the Conehifera. This
is followed by an elaborate description of the Gasteropoda,
the Pteropoda, and the Cephalopoda.

Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales
of the Borders, and of Scotland. Part 71. Edinburgh :
`John Sutherland.
This is another capital number of these popular, interest-
ing, and instructive tales. Many of the narratives possess a
very high degree of merit, and all of them are fax above
mediocrity .
Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon. By Harry Lorrequer.
Illuustrated by " Phiz." Part I. Dublin : W. Curry,
jun., and. Co.
It Is po mean praise of this new serial publication to ay

that it is worthy of the pen of Harry Lorrequer. The broad
humour and exquisite descriptions with.which this number
abounds justify us in prognosticating for Charles O'Malley
a prosperous career. The illustrations are exceedingly well
designed and executed.

Juvenile Historical Library for Youth, Schools, and
Families. Parts 111 and IV. Spain and Portugal. By
Miss Corner. London : Dean and Munday.
This work is exceedingly well got up, and must be pro-
nounced remarkably cheap. Each part is illustrated by
splendid steel engravings. A map is also attached to the
former of the two parts. How these, and nearly two hun-
dred pages of letter-press, can be afforded for two shillings,
is really surprising. Miss Corner's style is lucid and fami-.
liar. We know of few historical publications better adapted
for schools and private families than the one before us. We
hope that it will obtain an extensive circulation.

Master Humphrey's Clock. By " Boz." Part I. London :
Chapman and Hall ; Liverpool, Wareing Webb.
This new work by " Boz" improves as it proceeds. Some
of the episodical tales are highly interesting. As a whole,
however, it is inferior to Pickwick.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX AND HIS MARRIAGE.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
We gave in our last two articles—one from the Argus, the
other from the Britannia—in reference to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Sussex, and the children of his first mar-
riage. Subjoined we give an article, to which we attach
great importance, coming, as it does, from a most influential
and ably-conducted whig journal, one possessing the highest
circulation of any evening paper in London advocating that
line of politics—we mean the Sun. There are few occur-
rences, God knows, in these days, that make one connected
with the public press—connected as it is—proud of his asso-
ciation or connexion with that engine. The present occasion
forms a gratifying and an honourable exception ; for, when
we find a journalist separating himself from his party in the
assertion of truth and justice, we cannot but regard the man,
while we are constrained to report the motive. In such a
position stands the able and the honest editor of the Sun, and
he has reflected credit upon himself and the paper over which
he presides—for that he has, regardless of all associations
and consequences, had the moral courage to advocate the
cause of the injured and oppressed, in the persons of Augus-
tus of Este and his sister. It is a gratifying, it is a delight-
ful thing to find, that, in the dreary waste of politics, over
which we editors are doomed to traverse, we may sometimes
light upon a spot where, like the smoking grounds of the
North American Indians, all differences are forgotten, and
all bitterness is eschewed—no matter what may have been
the occasion, or how long may have been the continuance of
former feud. Upon such a spot the Sun and the Mail now
find themselves placed in harmony and peace, labouring in
the same cause, that of truth—advocating the same measure,
that of JUSTICE. _ _ _

The " case" of the children of the Duke's first marriage—
which it was our good fortune and privilege to bring fully and
fairly before the public for the first time—has, we know, pro-
duced an immense sensation in England—not only amongst
the nobility, who are more immediately concerned in all
questions relating to the status and position of every member
of the Royal Family, but amongst the middle and lower or-
ders of society, who are, constitutionally, haters of tyranny,
and, by habit, lovers of fair play. Indeed we should say that
the time was come for Sir Augustus of Este to reassume his
distinctions and honours as a prince of the blood royal.. It
is true, a base and a profligate minister may combine with a
heartless and unnatural parent in refusing to recognise him
by that style and title to which his lawful birth in wedlock
unquestionably give him claims; but he will be sustained by
public opinion, and acknowledged for a " true prince" by the
unanimous voice of a free people.
The following is the article from the Sun :
" To the effect of the important documents relative to the
claims of Sir Augustus D'Este, which appears in another
part of the Sun, it may almost seem superfluous in us to at-
tempt to add weight by any observations of our own. Those
documents speak so plainly, tell the sad tale of the deeply
injured individual to whom they refer so forcibly, that, inde-
pendently.of their legal character, they cannot fail to strike
the heart and awaken the sympathies of every person whose
heart is in the right place, and whose sympathies are not
dead to the calls of suffering merit.
" We have seen already that, in the opinion of two of the
ablest lawyers in England, Augustus of Este is the legitimate
son of the Duke of Sussex, and, consequently, a Prince of
the blood royal of England. The most eminent lawyer in
Ireland declared his most decided opinion that the marriage
of the royal Duke contracted at Rome in 1793, was perfectly
valid as regards Ireland, and that the son of that marriage is,
in virtue of his birth, a Prince of that kingdom, clothed with
all the rights and privileges of that character. We have to-
day the further evidence of two of themost celebrated jurists
of Germany, Kluber of Frankfort, and Zachariah of Heidel-
berg, that whether the marriage of his Royal Highness at
Rome, or that which was subsequently solemnised in Lon-
don, be adopted as the test of the legitimacy of Augustus of
Este, he is, to all intents and purposes, by the rules of Ger-
man law, and by the usages of the House of Hanover, an
undoubted Prince of that kingdom. We venture to assert
that there never was a case of this nature more strongly sup-
ported by law, by reason, and by justice.
" Of this truth the people of Great Britain are more and
more convinced every day, and their powerful influence will
soon be thrown into the scale of justice, should it be ren-
dered necessary by the continuance of injustice. One of the
noblest characteristics is that unconquerable love of fair play,
which prompts them, almost with the quickness of instinct,
to range themselves on the side of the injured. Let it but
be made to appear that innocence is in danger, that justice
has been withheld where it was due, or that oppression has
been exercised by the powerful over the weak and the de-
fenceless, and their sympathies are roused at once; they feel
the cause to be their own ; they enter into it with all their
heart and soul, and never rest satisfied, never relax their ex-
ertions, until they have averted the threatened evil, or re-
dressed the inflicted wrong. This is a Godlike quality, and
of it itself sufficient to stamp the Briton with a superiority
over the other tribes of mankind.

" It may also be remarked that the power of this generous
feeling, when it is manifested by the people generally, is all
but irresistible. Even in our own times we have seen it
triumph over the power of the Crown, wielded by neither a
weak nor a scrupulous hand. What was it but the sympathy
of the people that made. George IV. quail and desist from his
purpose, when he had determined to sacrifice a Queen whom
he hated with an intensity proportionate to the injuries which
he had heaped upon her? And what was the consequence of
the persecution which he had set on foot and carried on
against her? Popular hatred of her persecutor. We do not
hold this out as a threat to the parties who have it in their
power to place the son of the Duke of Sussex in the position
which he ought to occupy, We merely state it to illustrate
the fact that there is no rank or station in life which can
either exempt the possessor from the performance of high
duties, or protect him from the consequences of neglecting
them. One of these consequences is the alienation of the
affections of the people."

From the London Correspondent of the Limerick Chronicle.
" The exposures now making relative to the marriage of
the Duke of Sussex with Lady Augusta Murray, and the
manner in which the subject has been taken up by the family,
excites much interest here. His liberal Royal Highness is
damaged in the course of the investigation, for the heart-
lessness he has displayed towards his children by that ill-
used and broken-hearted lady. Lord Melbourne is almost
universally condemned for advising his youthful Sovereign
to give precedence to Lady Cecilia Underwood above so
many distinguished ladies—ornaments of purity in the peer-
age of England. However, the friends of the Premier seek
to remove the responsibility from his shoulders by insisting
it was the act of the Queen herself, whom they represent to
be particularly attached to the Duchess of Inverness, from
the many evenings spent in her society at Kensington Palace.
They even go so far as to say that the intercourse was SO
great that her Majesty, when a child, had the permission of
her royal mother to visit Lady Underwood unattended ! The
Duke of Sussex's popularity has unquestionably suffered in
this matter."