The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-27 00:00:00

UN EXPRESS EXTRAORDINARY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. GLASGOW, JAN. 18, 1837. Sin —The extraordinary and unprecedented despatch • with which you have given to the public an account of the splendid banquet •to Sir Robert Peel in this city on Friday last, and received back by the ordinary post on Tuesday, demands, even from a political opponent, some trifling acknowledgment ; and I do it with the more plea sure, because accident brought me in contact with the ac tive and intelligent gentlemen by whom your extraordinary express was so cleverly managed. On my way through Argyle.street, at a late hour of the night, I was attracted ) , y an assemblage of three or four hundred persons, oppo site the Black Bull Inn, and, on making inquiry, was in formed that one of the London Papers was about despatching a report of the important proceedings which had just taken place at the Pavilion. Little dreaming that the honour of giving exclusively the first intelligence of this brilliant display of political feeling would be left to one of tke organs of the Movement party, I mingled with the crowd, and was astounded when I heard two gentlemen, • who were struggling through the dense mass, exclaim— " Make way for The Sun Express!" The crowd instantly did give way—_the important despatch was thrown over the shoulders of the fearless rider—the animal which he be strode dashed off at a pace which bid fair to render any rail way communication between this and your metropolis un necessary, his scarlet coat, laced hat, an d s t ream i ng r ibb ons flashing like a meteor in the wind ; and I joined most cordially in the hearty shout of acclamation which rent the , air from the assembled multitude as an involun tary tribute to the skill and enterprize which had conceived and executed this arduous undertaking. I re turned to the dinner-table with the gentlemen to whom the conduct of the express was entrusted, where I had the pleasure of spreading a tale which was received with a buzz of astonishment and admiration, mingled, I must say, in many quarters with a good deal of incredulity, and of joining Tories and Conservatives of all shades in pledg ing " the gentlemen of The Sun" in full bumpers. What ever my opinion of the political principles advocated by The Sun may be, I sincerely trust that the enterprizing spirit which has prompted such unparalleled and expensive expresses on every matter of interest or importance, may meat the reward it so justly merits in an ample share of public patronage.—l have the honour to be, Sir, &c., A CONSERVATIVE EYE-WITNESS. EXTRACT OF A LETTER. English Newspaper Office, Paris, Jan. 17. DEAR SIR,—It was not until after the arrival of your extraordinary express at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, with copies of your Sunday edition of The Sun, containing the proceedings at the Glasgow banquet in honour of Sir Robert Peel's installation, that I received by the ordinary Post-office estafette, your letter of the 13th of January, written in London, at the very moment when the Lord Rector elect was in the act of delivering his after dinner speech to the Conservatives of the North ; so that the continental branch of your seriis of expresses made such good speed compared with the English mail, the Go vernment steamer, and the French malle estafette, as to save all the time that had been consumed in writing the report, in bringing up the manuscript to town, in preparing it for press, and in printing and dispatching it. It is true that the storm in the Channel had caused the mail due in Paris on Sunday to fail altogether, and had retarded that of Monday by two or three hours ; but after making the most liberal deduction for this accident in your favour, the feat you have achieved is justly considered, by those who are best versed in such matters, to be far beyond all prece dent. I need not assure you that the papers were not many minutes in my possession until they found their way to most of the regular readers of The Sun in this capital. I enclose the extracts from Galignani's Messenger, the Paris Sun, the Courrier Francais, the Journal du Commerce, and the Quotidienne. To-morrow I shall do the like by any other papers that may have availed themselves of your express. The Suns, with special addresses to the King of the French, the British Ambassador, the Minister of the Interior, and Lord Lyndhurst, were delivered instantly on the arrival of the express, as were also copies for the Pre sidents of the two Chambers, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Duke of Sutherland, and a number of other distinguished individuals.—Yours, faithfully, ---, Agent. EXTRACT OF A LETTER. BOULOGNE, JAN. 16.—DEAa Sta,—Your expre ss ar rived here on Sunday. As no one was at our Offi ce at the ti me , h a lf an h ou r was lost before it could be for warded. Measures were, however, immediately adopted for its dispatch, and the courier enjoined to travel quickly. It was not until after the express had been dispatched that your letter of the 13th, advising us of its intended arrival, came to hand. If this letter had reached.tjs as it ought to have done, the evening before, we should have had time to have made the necessary preparation, and thus have pre vented the delay taking. place. ~ -.Blame ought to be attached to the English Captain, who, on other occasions, has been the cause of similar delay, by persisting in going to Calais instead of coming to- Boulogne. The mail of the 14th arrived here yesterday (the 15th), and entered our port Without any difficulty . ; and the Captain who had your let ter m'ght, of cinfi;e, have done the same, if he had not thougl.t propertkpiefey going to Calais.—your': faithfully, * * * By the kindness of the conductors of the London jour nal, The Sun, we have-been favoured with an express copy of that- journal published on Sunday morning, with an account the dinner at Glasgow, and the speech of 'Phis is % WO was dispatched t o P ar i s b y express. tise' rst ti me the spirit and enterprise of the proprietor of our London Cont emporary has called forth our acknowledgments ; but the rapidity with which this account was transmitted from Glasgow, and pub lished ii The Sun, appears une xamp l e d ; the distance of that City' from the British Metropolis amounting to 404 miles, and the speeches reported having been delivered, many of them, at a late hour on Friday night. W e regret that the large portion of our columns already this morning devoted to Sir R. Peel, being the report of his admirable inauguration address as Lord Rector of the University, compels us, in justice to the important intelligence which at this moment presses upon us from many points, to defer inserting the account of this Conservative ban quet until our next publication. The banquet hall erected for the occasion appears from the description to be one of the most magnificent temporary edifices ever raised in so short a time. The company amounted to about 3,500 persons, Henry Monteith, Esq., in the Chair, supported by nearly all the .distinguished Conservative Noblemen and Gentlemen in North Britain. The speech of the Right Hon. Baronet was received with the utmost enthusiasm. After a well-timed and graceful appeal to the national feelings of the company, he introduced the subject of Re form, the Ministry, and their supporters, against whom he called upon the loyalty of those around him to defend their ancient institutions. The Right Hon. Baronet, in con demning revolutions, quoted the noble passage in M. Guizoe s late address to the Institute, in which that States man described the morals of society in revolutionised France ; and also quoted M. Tocquevillc and other authorities, upo n the United States; and, contrasting the proud pre-eminence of England with her ancient Constitution of King, Lords, a " Commons, with the position of other countries, he con jured them to stand by their native land, their old establish• meats,hY , their anc i ent f a i t h . Thi s a dd ress was responded t o J ong demon s t ra ti ons o f a dh es i on , w hi c h continued for s fte tim e a f ter t h e R i ght Hon. Baronet ha d resumed his l'eat• Several other gentlemen afterwards addressed the afnpanY• and a number o f C onserva ti ve t oas ts were gi ven , after which the company separated.—Galignanes Illessen gcraf Jan. 17. a We Yesterday received from the office of the London Sun, t o ,,, l tdaY edition, published by the spirited pr2prie 'a ha our liber a l namesa k e — conta i n i ng e i g ht co l umns an d .the p rocee di ngs a t Gl asgow on F r id ay l as t, a t t h e el ecte '"entary dinner to Sir Robert Peel, as the newly coni,„g Lord Rector of Glasgow University. The dinner '"eneed at about half-past five, and if we consider the masticat ion t_a_stication to hav e occup i e d an hour, and the speechifica un five hours and a half, we shall bring our time account to midni g h t o f the 13th. Suppose the copy of the reporters p r epared in six hours, and that this copy left Glasgow at t i. s aan. on th e 14th, on its journey of 404 miles to the Bri tt I t e metropolis— w be n the intelligence reached The Sun e in London, it had to be composed, read, corrected, and printed. hours must have occupied at the lowest cal culation eight 4 rs and as we received our copy of The London Sun at o'clocksoi yesterday afternoon, the express can only have had Hours for its transmission of the re port 650 Miles—frot Boulogne, to Paris—Glasgo w , by London, Dover, and whichi s at the rate of 13 miles per hour for the entire di sa slescription, inclusive. Tchei—delays, and accidents of every & needs no comment ; and, least of all, in a country where en made for th e roa d s , instead of ' horses, an d ve hi c l es are them. We subjoin the speech oft h t e h roads being made for hope we shall be considered fairl te honoured guest ; and thlshave discharged our u duty as caterers for all tastes, inyintenTrrangement of the supply of interestin g ere. After t routine toasts had been disposed of with g ue Igennoursiivoenr bat, musical, and vociferous, the Chairman t_eith, Esq., of Carstairs, proposed the healtii of Si r r y ßober; Peel, which announcement was received with loud cheers , which cont i nued for several minutes. —Paris S un of Jan. 17. • The lack of local intelligence in our column s of this week, will be amply compensated by the interesting and stirringspirit speech of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow. It is un nweicieessary for us to make an apology for withholding notices, C . l . h whatever their interest 0:11St necessarily fait of ex iting such interest as the '0 l•ave reported nearly at length. The metropolitansc 4 newspaper.. we stole of the, re fully sen excitement this speech would proms, from, the pains they took to have express reports at io early an hour. The Sun received its report at half-past one on Sunday morning —thus performing a distance, presuming the reporter to have left the meeting at eleven o'clock, of nearly 400 miles, in the incredibly short space of twenty six hours and a half. The report was re-expressed through out the kingdom on Sunday, and we have to acknowledge the courtesy of the spirited proprietor, in favouring us with so early a copy of his Journal, containing nearly the whole proceedings of this memorable meeting.—Luny and Supllt. herald. PARIS, JAN. 17.—We received an extraordinary num ber of The Sun published on Sunday morning, and seat hither by express. It contains a ltdl report of the pro ceedings, not only at the installation of Sir Robert Peel as Lord Rector, but also at the banquet at which that States man was entertained at Glasgow on Friday evening.— Journal du Commerce. The promised express of The Sun newspaper, with the speech of Sir Robert Peel at the Glasgow dinner, which was expected in this city last night, did not arrive until this day at 2 o'clock. The bad state of the road over a dis tance of nearly COO miles, has no doubt impeded our Con temporary's arrangements. As it is, however, we may consider it the most unprecedented despatch that has ever occurred, and the proprietor of The Sun has in this in stance eclipsed himself by his extraordinary exertions. Owing to the arrival occurring as we were going to press, it is impossible to give more than the following brief ac count of this glorious meeting.—Western Luminary. The Sun Paper, by most extraordinary speed, obtained and published the report of the proceedings at Glasgow up to their close, on Friday night, so early as Sunday morn ing, half-past one o'clock. The distance is four hundred miles.—Taunton Courier. By " a most extraordinary express,"received at The Sun Newspaper Office on Sunday morning at half-past one o'clock, the spirited proprietor of that Journal was enabled to give a full report of the speeches at the Glasgow Ban quet to Sir Robert Peel on Friday evening, and copies of The Sun were circulated in these towns by nine o'clock on Sunday morning, thereby anticipating the rest of the me tropolitan press by twenty-seven hours.—Rochester, Chat ham, and Stroud Gazette, and Weekly Advertiser. DINNER TO SIR R. PEML.—The expresses of The Sun London newspaper have been employed on this occasion with extraordinary effect. The account of the dinner at Glasgow, about four hundred miles from London, reached Birmingham in about forty-eight hours after the feast com menced ; and we ourselves received a copy from Messrs. Mansell and Co., news agents in Birmingham, on Sunday evening —an instance of expedition which, we believe, is unexampled in the annals of newspapers.—lVolverhanipton Chronicle. We believe that The Sun was the only London paper of Tuesday evening last that reached Jersey, with the " Brevet Promotions " by Thursday's packet ; in consequence of which,- the members of one of our reading rooms requested the proprietor to accommodate them with that Journal in fut Tire, instead of the Globe, or the Courier. For our own parts, from an experience of several years, we are satisfied that The Sun is decidedly the•best of the Metropolitan EVe ning Papers, and it would appear, by the following -an nouncement, that its spirited proprietor is determined to maintain its high character for energetic despatch and priority of intelligence :—" During the Eventful Session now at hand, The Sun wilt endeavour to outdo its former ex ertions, in giving the very latest and fullest Reports of Par liamentary Debates, up to the hour of post, and, when ne cessary, by express on all the great Lines of Road."— Jersey Argus. For an early copy of Sir R. Peel's Speech, se are in debted to the spirited exertions of the proprietor of The Sun. The speech was delivered in Glasgow on Friday evening, and was published in London—a distance of 400 miles--in an extraordinary edition of The Sun,. soon after midnight on Saturday ! We are sure that exertions like these cannot fail to be duly rewarded by the public—Ha lifax Express. It is a proud thing to witness the involuntary homage paid to the superiority of the Conservative leaders. When was half the anxiety felt to read a speech of Lord' John Russell ?—risu;n teneatis 7—or even of Lord Brougham, or Lord Grey, that has been displayed, by Whigs and Radi cals, as well as 'Tories, to read the speech of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow ? Even a " Liberal" paper, The Sun— and it would be unjust on such an occasion not to notice its .wonderful exertions—published in London, early on Sunday, a long report of the dinner, which had thus been brought, irr an almost incredibly short space of time, a dis tance of four hundred miles.—Brighton Gazette. SIR R. PEEL'S SPEECH.—It is but due to our enterpris ing London Contemporary, The Sun, to notice the extra ordinary exertions it made in procuring a report of the Glasgow meeting. The account was expressed to London in little more than twenty-four hours, was printed to the extent of. nearly nine columns, and reached this city by-the Emerald coach on Sunday evening about half-past nine. It is also due to our aforesaid Contemporary to state, that though similar surprising efforts are now made by other London papers, The Sun was the first, some years ago, to set the example, and that it is particularly and almost exclusively distinguished among the evening Press, for the fullness and lateness of its intelligence. In the eventful Session about to commence, as we are quite sure a similar display of energy will not be wanting, so we trust it will meet with a corresponding return on the part of the pub lic.—Bristel Gazette. DINNER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—We copy the following from an "Expressed Edition" of The Sun newspaper. The dinner took place on Friday evening, at Glasgow, after which this and other speeches were delivered. The report, being eight and a half columns in length, small type, was, expressed to London, a distance of 400 miles, in about 24 hours after the meeting, immediately printed, and forwarded to all parts of the kingdom within 200 miles of the metro polis by Sunday evening. The extraordinary rapidity with which important events have heretofore been circulated through the country by The Sun, has been matter of sur prise and astonishment to the whole kingdom ; but the dis patch used in this instance exceeds that of any former oc casion. Yet the spirited proprietor promises to endeavour to outdo his former exertions, during the eventful Session of Parliament now at hand. To doubt for a moment that such herculean efforts and tremendous sacrifices as must then be called into requisition, will go unrewarded, would be a libel upon the common-sense of the British public.—Leaming tun Chronicle. DINNER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—We are indebted to the spirited proprietor of The Sun for a copy of that paper, which reached us ear l y on M on d ay morn i ng , containing a report, extending to eight columns, of the proceedings at the dinner given on Friday last, at Glasgow, to Sir Ro bert Peel.—Barrow's Worcester Journal. Through the astonishing exertions made by the con ductors of The Sun newspaper, that publication on Sunday morning contained a lengthened report of Sir Robert Peel's speech, delivered at the dinner at Glasgow, on Friday even ing. The company did not sit down to table till five o'clock ; and allowing for the time occupied in discussing the feast, in the toasts which preceded that of their dis tinguished guest, the Right Hon. Baronet's address, and the subsequent speeches—then the copying the short hand notes—the distance accomplished (400 miles in about twenty-four bours,and full half the time in darkness)—and, lastly, the publication at seven o'clock Sunday morning— when, we say, all these are taken into consideration, grati fication gives place to' wonder at the excellence of their ar rangements; and the astonishing celerity with which the task was accomplished.—Sherborne Journal. The proprietor of The Sun Evening Newspaper, to whose public-spirited exertions we alluded last week, fulfilled his engagement with the public almost to the letter ! The dinner took place at Glasgow at half-past five in the even ; and by the time that the immense report, occupying eight and a half columns of small type (with abundant ma terials for more in the reporters' copy) was taken, the hour of midnight must have been exceeded before the despatch started for London. And yet, incredible as it may ap pear, within one hour after midnight on Sunday, the copy was in the printers' hands, and, in a few hours afterwards, the paper was again expressed to all parts of England, reaching Bath by half•past six on Sunday evening—a dis tance of more than 500 miles from the spot where the re port was taken.—Bath Herald. The subjoined report of Sir Robert Peel's speech at this dinner, is copied at full length from The Sun London Paper, the proprietor of which Journal, by extraordinary and we believe unparalleled exertions, received in London at half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning, an account of the proceedi ngs at the Glasgow dinner on Friday evening, the distance between the two places being about 400 miles! In the course of the morning an edition of The Sun was published (containing a report of more than eight columns in extent), and immediately transmitted by express to all parts of the kingdom. —Coventry Herald. The speech of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow, on Friday night, was transmitted to us by express, on Sunday, by.the Proprietor of The Sun Paper. The accuracy with which the oration is reported, in the midst of such incredible speed, is wonderful. Our copy of the paper was mischievously Intercepted by parties in Shrewsbury.—Shretvabury Chron. W9NDERFUL DISPATCH.—The enterprising proprietor of The Sun newspaper in his efforts to put the public as early as possible in possession of the speech of Sir Robert Peel, at the Glasgow banquet, has outdone all his former exertions, great and extraordinary as these exertions are ac knowledged to be. The distance from Glasgow to London is about f our h un d red miles. The Sun Express react have left t sonugibPre about ten o'clock on Friday night ; and in eight and twenty hours miter, it arrived in town, travelling this immense distance at the ineredilde $1)00 9f64Peu miles THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1837 an hour. By five o'clock, eight columns of the speech was in type, printed off, and re-expressed to every quarter of the kingdom, arriving in Birmingham at an early hour in the evening. These exertions, we doubt not, will be appreciated in the manner they deserve by the country.—Birminghant Philanthropist. THE SUN NEWSPAPER.—The account of the grand banquet to Sir Robert Peel was received in this town early on Monday morning through the Expresses which have, on all similar extraordinary occasions, l can employed by the proprietor of The Sun. The particulirs of the speeches, although London is 400 miles from Glasgow, were actually received in Birmingham in forty-eight hours after they were delivered—an instance of extraordinary dispatch, in printing and travelling, never before equalled in this kingdom, and frr which the thinks of the public are due to Mr. Murdo Young, the proprietor.—Stockport Advertiser. Amongst the many instances of activity on the part o' the Metropolitan press in furnishing the public with the earliest information, none stand in a more forward position for extraordinary and successful exertion than The Sun Newspaper. This acknowledgment is particularly due from us to the conductor of that journal, not only on public grounds, but also from the courtesy with which he allowed his provincial Contemporaries to participate in the advan tage. A copy of The Sun, containing Sir Robert Peel's political speech was delivered to us on Monday morning, being 24 hours before an y o th er L on d on newspaper reache d us by the usual conveyance.--VotibTh Chronic/e. The inauguration of Sir Robert Peel into the office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, and the dinner to which he was invited in that city, have both taken place, the former ceremony on Wednesday se'nnight, and the lat ter on the following Friday. 'l'o the proceedings on those occasions, and especially to the speech delivered by the Right Hon. Baronet at the dinner, which, in consequence of the extraordinary efforts of the spirited Proprietor of The Sun, reached us on Tuesday morning, we have allotted a large portion of our paper, in order that our readers may have a fair opportunity of judging for themselves of the ar guments by which this vaunted champion of Toryism en deavours to support his cause.—West Briton. We cannot conclude these remarks without offering our warmest thanks to The Sun Newspaper, for its attention in sending us a paper, containing the report, as early as Sun day morning. The immense exertions which must have been necessary to achieve this, are unrivalled in the annals of newspaper expresses—and the subscribers to our public Newsroom were also highly gratified to receive four copies from the same expeditious Source.—Sherhorne,;Dorchester, and Taunton Journal. THE SUN NEWSPAPER.--The enterprisjng proprie tor of The Sun, Murdo Youn g , E sq. h as , i n thi s instance, as far outstripped all his former feats of dispatch as he had greatly excelled his competitors on former . occasions. The speeches were delivered on Friday evening, a distance of 400 miles from London, and were printed and published on Sunday morning, thus anticipating all other accounts- full 24 hours ; so that at the same time the cockneys were read ing the account in " the leading journal " on Monday—the breakfast tables of the Parisians were furnished with The Sun, which conveyed *them the same information.—Stifi folk Chronicle. Aware of the deep interest our readers will take in the speech of Sir Robert Peel at the Glasgow Dinner, on Fri day evening, we have availed ourselves of the public spirited and unexampled dispatch with which The Sun Newspaper has conveyed the report of the proceedings, and have the pleasure of presenting them with the entire Address of the Right Honourable Baronet, in the. fornr of a Supplement to our Paper of this day. The Sun express reached the offices of Messrs. Cooper and Maunsell, the agents, at seven o'clock yesterday evening.—Birminighant Gazelle of Monday. In another column we have given the principal features of Sir Robert Peel's speech at the Glasgow dinner on Friday. For the very copious details from which our abstract is made, we are indebted to the columns of The Sun. The proprie tor of that journal, with his characteristic promptitude and energy, had his report of the proceedings sent to town by expresses which travelled with almost incredible rapidity. It was half-past twelve o'clock on Friday night before the proceedings of the dinner terminated, and the account of them arrived at The Sun Office by half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning—a distance of 400 Miles in about twenty four hours !—Bath and Cheltenham Gazette. WONDERFUL DISPATCH !—We have received a copy of The Sun newspaper, containing a report cf the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow on Friday evening last. The report contains eight columns and a half of closely. printed matter, conveyed from Glasgow to London (some 400 miles). written out, and printed, by half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning, not more than twenty-seven hours from the time the speeches were delivered ! We are not altogether inexperienced in the matter of expressing; but we Must yet confess our astonishment at this almost incredible achievement. The mail bet Ween London and Glasgow occupies, if we recollect rightly, forty-two hours on its journey. —Maidstone Gazette. The printer being aware of the desire of persons of all politics to know if the Leader of the Opposition Party in the House of Commons should let fall, at the Glasgow Dinner, on Friday last, any outline of the course intended to be pursued by him and his friends on the opening of Par-. fitment, hastens to lay before his readers a copy of his Speech, now about fifty-five hours old, and spoken upwards of 470 miles distant ; added to which, his words and the whole report had to be fairly written, and has twice been put into type. To enable this to be done, great exertions have been made, but the entire credit is due to Murdo Young, Esq., Proprietor of The Sun London Evening. Paper, the whole of the following being reprinted from the Second Edition of that print of the date of Saturday last.-- Supplement to the Hampshire Telegraph of Monday. SUN EXPRESS.—The spirited proprietor of The Sun has fairly outdone all his previous wonderful achievements in the art and mystery of expressing l The speech of Sir Robert Peel (which, by the bye, was scarcely worth print ing), delivered at Glasgow on Friday evening (400 miles from London), was actually received at The Sun Mice within twenty-eight hours after, printed, published, and re expressed to all parts of the kingdom, and being read 200 miles from town on Sunday evening !—Leicester Mercury. We must not omit stating, that we are indebted for the report of this grand banquet, to the proprietor - of The Sun Newspaper, who, by an extraordinary express, was en abled to publish his report at half-past one o'clock on Sunday, a copy of which he kindly forwarded to our office, and reached us on Monday night. In expressing our acknowledgements for this unsolicited .act of kindness, we cannot but highly commend the industry and unprecc. dented dispatch which it exhibits. We are also indebted to the Morning Herald for a like favour, which did not; however, arrive as early as The Sun.—Carmarthen Journal. Through the exertions of the proprietor of The Sun Newspaper, Sir Robert Peel's speech at the grand Con servative dinner at Glasgow, on Friday,• was published in London at half-past seven on Sunday morning. The com, puny did not sit down to table till five o'clock, mill allow ing for the time occupied in discussing the feast, in the toasts which preceded that of their distinguished guest, the Right Hon. Baronet's address, and the subsequent speeches —then the copying the short-hand notes, the distance ac complished (400 miles in about twenty-four hours, and full half the time in darkness)—when, we say, all these are taken into consideration, gratification gives place to won der at the excellence of their arrangements, and the as tonishing celerity with which the task was accomplished.— Cambrian. THE SUN EXPRESS.—The Sun London Evening Paper of Saturday, from which we have made our abstract of Sir Robert Peel's Speech at the Glasgow dinner on Friday evening, contained eight and a half closely printed columns of the speeches delivered on that occasion. The proprie tor of that spirited Paper had his report of the speeches sent to London by express ; and, although we have seen on former occasions, the greatest dispatch and energy ex ercised by the proprietor of The Sun, yet the present in stance is decidedly the greatest effort lie has made. It was half-past twelve o'clock on Friday night before the proceedings of the dinner terminated, and the account of them arrived at The Sun office by half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning —a distance of . 400 miles in twenty-five hours.—Norils Derbyshire Chronicle. TnE SUN EXPRESS.—Through the spirited exertions of Murdo Young, Esq., we were favoured on Monday last with an expressed copy of The Sun, containing ten columns of the report of the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel, at Glasgow, on the previous Friday evening. This wonderful expedition in expressing, reporting, printing, publishing, and re-expressing, is without parallel or example in the history of newspziper management ; and we hope the proprietor will meet with the reward which is justly due to his indefatiga ble exertions.—Northampton Chronicle. THE LONDON *NEWSPAPER PRESS.—Among all the cir cumstances connected with the late splendid banquet to Sir Robert Peel in this city, few of them deserve more at tention than the wonderful exertions that were made by the London Morning Papers to have a full and early report of the proceedings at the dinner. As we formerly men tioned, there were about twenty gentlemen connected with those papers in Glasgow at the time of the festival. The Sun used formerly to be the journal which excelled all the others in the quickness with which it was forwarded through out the country every thing of pnGjip interest hnt on the present occasion that paper has been visibly eclipsed by the 11 Morning ~ Herald, The dinner proceedi ngs conc l u d e d h e re about half-past one o'clock on Saturday morning, and at half-past eleven on Monday forenoon we received a copy of the Morniv Herald, containing six closely-printed columns of the speeches, the report being brought down to the close. This unprecedented dispatelt has given ri§e to a strong sus pieion that the report, as it occupies just a neat page, may have been printed' in Manchester - or Liverpool, a idantity of the Heralds containing the - other three pages being sent to either of these places to be thus filled up. This theory is corroborated by the silence of the paper in question regarding the matter in the following publication. Had it been a bona fide transaction, we imagine there would have been, at the earliest opportunity, a little puffing 'u the subject. The whole period occupied here is fifty iiight hours, being fourteen m►les travelling per hour, with out either stoppage to print or stoppage on the road.. The Sun, the 2110).niny Advertiser, Post, Chronicle, Times, &c., bad alio most cap►tal reports, published with great speed. The whole of these journals are loud in their praises of the grandeur of the-banqueting-hall, the whole arrangements (which indeed can never be too highly spoken of),• and the excellent demeanour of the immense company. Since writ ing the above we have taken a look at. the Morning Herald, and can now say that the dinner page: in that journal dluded to has been printed by itself, wherever it Was done. —GlasgOw Herald. • We were indebted to the proprietor of The Sun Even ing Paper, for the first report of Sir Robert Peel's speech at the Glasgow Dinner, which reached this town on Mon- - day evening., having been forwarded expresi out of London on Sunday.' This is another instance of the extrpordinary dispatch for which the spirited - Proprietor of The Sun is celebrated. - But for the had. condition of tl.e roads they would have accomplished their object many hours earlier.--- . Devonport Telegraph. -EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—The spiritod exertions of the proprietor of The Sun, to obtain and circulate the earliest intelligence of public events, have won universal admiration. On Friday evening Sir Robert Peel and others addressed the guests at the dinner in Glasgow, and I y Monday evening, cix o'clock, we received a copy, and read their speeches in Devonport, they having had, in that time, to be fairly written out from the reporter's notes, trans mitted to London, composed, printed, and distributed through the Post-offices, and by .otherconveyances.—De vonport Independent. The rider who was sent off express by Paton & Co, Black Bull Inn, with. the report of the Peel Banquet, for The Sun Newspaper,. reached Beatock Inn—a distance of 56 miles from Glasgow—in the short period of three hours and 17 minutes. Had it not been that he was . detained at a toll-bar, he would have reached his'destina tion in less time.—Ayr Advert4er. SIR R. PEEL AT GLASGOW.—Among the numerous public occurrences that have recently taken place, none has excited so much g eneral interest as those of the instal lation of Sir Robert Peel as Rector of the University of Glasgow, which took place in that city on, the I lth instant, and the grand banquet on the 13th Our readers may form some idea of the intense interest of the latter, when we inform them that an account of the dinner, with Sir Robert Peel's speech on the occasion, was published in the Horning Herald, London paper' of Saturday, an instance of expedition unprecedented in the annals of the press. They were also published in an edition of The Sun on the following morning ; and those papers were kindly forwarded to our office. We have not space this day for Sir Robert's Speech, but shall give it in our next.—Enniskillen Chro nicle, and Erne Packet. It is not a minor proof of the interest attached to the . exposition of Conservative principles by its leader, that The Sun, a Liberal paper, made the extraordinary effort to sup ply the metropolis with a copy of the speech, within forty eight hours of its delivery, expressing it a distance of 400 miles.—./lampshire Advertiser. The grand banquet given by the Tories of Glasgow to the Right Hon. Baronet was held on the following Friday, in a magnificent pavilion, erected for the express purpose, with accommodations for 3,435 persons. The subsequent particulars we 'borrow from our spirited Contemporary, The Sun, the conductors of which made arrangements by which they were enabled to publish a report, exceeding eight columns in length, within twenty-six hours of the close of the banquet. This fact, when it is considered that Glasgow and London are four hundred miles apart, must be regarded as a most wonderful instance of rapid travelling and expeditious printing.—Leicester Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCII...—WC have often noticed the extraordinary exertions made by Mr. Young, of The Sun newspaper, to obtain and communicate to the public important information at the earliest possible period ; but we never recollect an instance in which such dispatch has been used equal to the ono we are about to mention. The re port of the speeches at the grand banquet which was given to Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow yesterday week, appeared in The Sun on Sunday morning, dated half-past one o'clock, to the extent of nearly eight columns and a half! Such dispatch is, we believe, unprecedented.—Windsor Express. REPORTING EXT RAORDI NA RY.---Tbe Sun London Even ing Newspaper has begun the new year, with a literary feat, which shows that the enterprise of its proprietor will he as , active in the present year as it was on formereecasions. The speeches of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow, were reported to the extent of seven Columns in The Sun of Sunday morning! The dinner speech of Sir Robert Peel was de livered in Glasgow on Friday evening ; the proceedings of the dinner terminated at half-past twelve o'clock that night.; and yet The Sun expresses arrived at The Sun office in the Strand at half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning —a distanee of only 400 miles in 2.5 hours! ! Such despatch is, we believe, without a parallel ; and when it is reflected that. the report, about eight columns of closely printed matter, had been taken in short hand, then translated and copied, then set in type, and read twice in proof before it was published, it will be admitted that The Sun Reporli►•g Extirmrdinary is among the curiosities of literature.— Ireqord Times. We are indebted to the spirited proprietor of The Sun for a copy of that paper, containing a report of eight columns of the proceedings at the dinner given on Friday at Glas gow, to Sir R. Peel.—Chellenham Journal. Through the extraordinary exertions of the spirited pro prietor of The Sun Newspaper, we received a copy of that paper on Monday, at 1 a.m.,.froni which we give the follow ing outline. These expresses of The gun ought to call for the same public expression of gratitude."—E.reter Western Times. . The almost -unparalleled tiers - methy our indefa tigable Contemporary, The Sun itpaaper, enabled us to publish, in a second edition, on Suny,lay morning last, upwards of eight columns o f the inipor&fproceedings at the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel by the Conservatives of Glasgow“ on the Friday Pievions. Not having 'been able to get. the report into the'whole of our impression, we now insert Sir :Robert Peel's speech entire.—Sunday ,:‘ Times. , " A Constant Subieriber" who complains of the omis sion of " Sir Joseph Surface's speech" from our last week's paper, is one,of those persons who show their wisdom by complaining that impossibilities hare not been overcome. It is true that our friend Mr. Young, the spirited and en terprising Proprietor of The Sun. Daily Paper, did ad vertise the town that he would publish this spee'ch in his Edition of Saturday evening; and if any one could succeed in accomplishing this unprecedented feat, Mr. Young was the man to do it. Had we , deemed it Possible to obtain a report in time for our Sunday edition, the expenses of the express would have been considered as , literally no object. But, owing to the immense circulation of the Dispatch, we are obliged to go to press at a very early hour. We thought it impossible to give the speech, and the result proves that we were right. Mr: Young did not Oublish t2ll rather a late hour on Sunday m6rnirtig'; and it is a fact that no account of the Glasgow Dinner could be obtained in London till the whole of our impression was worked off, with the exception of a few " extras."— Weekly Dispatch. After copying the paragraph from the - Herald which we have published above, the No/M kagbidshire Mercury says--" We have heard that sheets of the Morn ing Herald, printed 'only,on the first, second, and last pages, were sent - down to Carlisle, where arrangements had been made for printing the . Glasgow dinner on the inner page. This is the first instance we believe of a London Paper being printed in a provincial town !" GREAT DISPATCII.—The Sun Newspaper which has on . former o ccas i ons commun i cated intelligence conveyed in an' almost i ncre dibl y short period of time, has been quite dis tanced by the Morning Herald in the Publicatriln of the proceedings at the great meeting at Glasgow, which took place yesterday week, the accoupt of which was received here in a second edition of Saturday's paper, although the Chairman and Sir Robert Peel did not leave the Pavillion until half-past one o'clock on Sattirday morning. :We were also politely obliged with a copy of the' Glasgow Cottlie,., wherein the proceedings were given at great length, which we received on Sunday. The people are greatly indebted, to the proprietors of such journals 'l for it is impossible that any sales of papers can reimburse them for the heavy ex pense incurred in conveying intelligence on such a system of dispatch.—Preston We have to acknowledge the courtesy of The Sun and the Times in forwarding us copies of their journals con taining reports of the proceedings at Sir R. Peel's dinner at Glasgow. The Sun published the whole of the speeches delivered on the previous Friday night at one O'clock on Sunday morning, and was far beyond all its London Con temporaries, notwithstanding the ruse which the MOGii:y Herald has attempted to play off, The qid lady of Shoe lane absolutely sent t-14 Ann (If her papers on Saturday morning, with' the speeches delivered the night beforc at Glasgow, imagining that we, in con unction with several of our provin c i a l C on t em po rar ie s should be gulled by' the im posture. We u p by no means disposed to underrate the exertions of the Londoripapers ; but when we find the jour nals of the metropolis endeavouring 'to take an unfair ad, vantage of the provincial press, we shall clo our best to ex pose and defeat theni, The report ttf the % A new dinner was not published in London on Saturday, although several of our country friends may have seen the paper called the Morning Herald of SaTintoale morning, containing it. The truth is Grandmamma printed off a-number of her Sa thrclay papers, leaving one page . blank, which wai com pleted at GlaSgow or Liverpool. It is therefore an im pudent cheat to call a paper thus cobbled up, the Lisnlon He.• - ald of Saturday. Our Glasgow Contempo reties deserve equally as much . credit for their exertions as the London prev.—Yo, Tabu eman. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.—" Latest intelligence," "early news," &e., are favourite topics for those who puff their papers, and certainly we had here-on Sunday last a speci• men that would put competition at defiance, did not common sense drop in and set us ri, ; ht. A copy of the ,110-•ninj He, ald was presented to Sir Robert Peel at the King's Arms Inn, in this town, at. half-past three o'clock on Sunday, purporting to have been printed in London on Saturday, and containing a garbled copy of the Right Ike. Baronet's"" speech delivered at Glasgow on Friday night at twelve o'clock. Sir Robert, we are told, looked at the paper and smiled ; but though others:. were gulled, he, no doubt, was Op to the ince or trick.: The time from the breaking up of the meeting till the arrival of Sir Robert Peel here was abut thirty-nine hours, and in that space the speech had to travel (if it had been. printed in London) nearly 700 miles, or about twentimiles an hour, without allowing any time for transcribing notes, composition, labour, and printing ; and if it had been done, it was, as we are told, " by the most extraordinary and un precedented exertions." A witch on a broom-stick must have been the messenger from Glasgow to London, and from London hither, and accomplished the distance in a few minutes. But we might as well at once let our readers into the whole history of' the secret. A certain number of copies of the Mo. ning Herald was printed in London on Thursday the 12th, instead of Saturday the 14th, with a blank page, and forwarded per mail that night here. It arrived on Saturday, and in the evening was met by the gentlemen of the Press from Glasgow. They furnished the matter, and it was carried to the office of the Kendal Afercury, there set up during Saturday night and the Sabbath day—the blank page of the said Morning He rald printed off and despatched per mail that night, north and south. Such is a history of the 41 early intelligence." We .do not suppose that the Mercury people had tine share in the business beyond that of printing and getting paid for the job, otherwise we should have had white-headed Bob, the palterer, running about the'streets on Sunday evening, and proclaiming, " Latest News," " Sir Robert Peel's Speech," &e.—Westmoreland Gazelle. • • EXTRAORDINARY SPEED.-41c London newspapers this week have surpassed all their former efforts to obtain im portant news at the earliest opportunity. The visit of Sir Robert Peel to Glasgow was very naturally regarded as an object of such great interest to the public at large that the utmost competition was resorted to for the purpose of being first in the field. The proprietors of the /I forning Herald distanced all their competitors; so far as regards the cir culation of the north. The reporters for that paper arrived at Carlisle, on their return from Glasgow, at. half-past three on Saturday afternoon, and at eight o'clock on Sunday evening a full report of the speeches printed in that paper arrived at Carlis/c. Where that paper was printed appears a mystery—the 'report certainly could not have been to London and back in twenty-nine hours. The papers were immediately forwarded by express to Glasgow. The Sun, which is always famous for speed, had their Express con veyed throughout at a most rapid rate by horses at short stages. The first horse. left Glasgow at half-past eleven on Friday night; and the Express arrived in London at half past one on Sunday morning. The papers were then printed off, and expresses sent into the south. The speech was published in Paris at six o'clock on Monday morning. Taken altogether, the speed shoWn on this occasion ex ceeds all former efforts of the . kind.—Cailisle Patriot. THE SUN EXPRESS.—The public are much indebted to the exertions of the spirited proprietor of The Sun. In the incredibly short period of twenty-four hours, a report of the proceedings at the Glasgow Dinner on Friday even ing, was conveyed to London, a distance of four hundred miles ; it,tras immediately printed in a Sunday edition of The Sun,eind re-expressed to all parts of the kingdom. A copy 9f the paper reached our office on Sunday noon. is almost miraculous dispatch, well nigh fulfilling the rovers' wish of " annihilating space and time."—Kent Herald. TIM PEEL DINNER.--7-EXPAF.SS EXTRAORDINARY.-- Hitherto The Sun newspaper has been pre-eminent for prio rity of intelligence on such occasions as the present ; but Graudmamma, alias the Morning Herald, seems to have entered the lists as a competitor with Mr. Young on this occasion. We do not think her reverence has been very successful. The Sun's report is not only superior, but alto gether free from the suspicion of trickery which in the mean time attaches to the Herald. We say this without 'any fayout for The Sun,' haring had experience of its un fairness on at least one occasion. But, nevertheless, its exertions are quite unrivalled ; and, in proof of this, we need only add, that twenty-four hours after we received our report of the proceedings at Glasgow through a twice a week paper published' there, we were in possession of The Sun's report, published-in London. Honour to whom honour is due.c,-Dundee Chronicle. - -[We cordially thank our respected and talented Contemporary for the expres sion of his good opinion, in spite of " our unfairness on at least one occasion.' We are quite unconscious pf having acted . unfairly ; hut if we have, we shall be happy to make the amende honorable.—Ed. Sun.] NEWSPAPER EXPRESSING.—WC were prepared, with matey of our Contemporaries, to eaptess our all but inex pressible Astonishment, when; et six o'clock on Monday evening, Messrs. Robertson and Scott, newspaper ag ents here, polit e ly sen t us a copy o f a Second Edition of Satur day's London Morning Herald, containing a report of the proceedings at the Peel Dinner 'at: Glasgow up to its close, at some minutes past one o'clock of the same morning. But something still more wonderful came to light. The same paper was received in Glasgow by Mr. M'Phun at eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon. We had cogitated, and won dered, and conjectured, as concerning the manner—railroad, steam-engine, balloon, or other—in which our London Con temporary bad achieved this apparently impossible feat, and, like a Glasgow brother, had put it down to the account of diablerie and Dr. Faustus—when the murder popped out in pretty considerably probable report that the said Second Edition hie -been printed in Carlisle. That such, or some thing similar, was-the fact there can be no doubt, as the paper bears intrinsic marks that three. pages of it were printed in London, and the other, containing the Second Edition, somewhere out of it, albeit the whole bears to be " printed by John Ryan, printer, of No. 104, Shoe-lane, Fleet -street, in the City of London," on " Saturday, January 14, 1837." Now, had the Morning Herald avowed this fact, we should have been inclined to give it credit for an " ingenious device ;" as it is, it looks, we must say, very much liko a hoax upon the public and upon its readers. The Sun promised to do great things—and it bona fide did so—for we had in Edinburgh copies of that paper on Tues day, containing between nine and ten columns of the Peel Dinner. This was a feat worthy of The Sun, and cor responding to many of its former exertions.—Caledonian cu.y. The Morning Herald, London journal, has been de tected in something very like a fraud, which is doubtless in its own opinion, only " an ingenious device." It may be remembered that Sir Robert Peel's Speech at Glasgow was delivered on Friday evening, the 13thinst. On. Saturday the Herald published a Second Edition, purporting to be printed in London, containing a report of the proceedings, which was forwarded to Glasgow and other towns in the North, as a specimen of " the extraordinary and unprece dented exertions" of the proprietors of that paper. Extra. ordinary and unprecedented, indeed, would they have been, even exceeding the bounds of possibility. It now appears that the Herald forwarded a number of copies of Saturday's publication, with three pages ready printed, and one page left blank, to sew town in the North (Manchester has been stated) where the reporters on their return from Glasgow easily procured the blank page to be set up in type, -and then despatched the papers, as before stated. We do not know that this matter ought to have been looked at in any other light than as a clever trick, except on two grounds. The first, that the Herald has since inserted in its columns a number of acknowledgments to its great activity from the deceived parties, and has taken great credit for the feat, even allowing it to go forth in its .own columns without contradiction, that the account was expressed to London in twenty-two hours, and re-expressed to Glasgow in twenty three hours. Secondly, that it ha committed a fraudulent act upon those of its Contemporaries who bona fide made great exertions to procure a full and accurate report ; par ticularly on 2Yee Sun, whose really surprising efforts we no ticed in our last. —Bristol Gazette, of Jan. 26. UNSPOKEN SPEECHES.—The Morning Post of Monday gravely gives, - as having been delivered at the Peel Ban- Oct on Friday week, three of the speeches which %.:Z,re intended to be spoken on the occasion,. but on tvliich the prosing of the previous speakers, and the rapid advance of Morninn put an unmerciful extinguisher. The speeches had doubtless, Li;,:at previously delivered to the Poses Re perter-, who had at once transmitted them to London, duly garnished with " cheers," "Icatd .eheering," and " rapturous applause." Tha names of the speakers whose productions have been thus singularly called into existence, are Mr. J. A, Anderson, Mr. Leadbitter, and Mr. Brash. The Glas- E'ow Argus states that when the Post was received in the xchange Reading-rooms, the sight of the " lo s t Pl e i a d s ," occasioned " roars of -laughter" and " rapturous applause." Mr. J. A. Anderson shook his ears like a mouse in a bowl, An d scampered off when his f r i en d s crowded round him with congratulation s upon his successful speech. Mr. Lead bitter, on the .other hand, L i ke . a wise man, repaired to the stand, and perused his own effusion with sincere delight an.' admiration.—Scotsman. THE PEEL DINNER.—We stated last week that we had been favoured with a copy of the Morning Herold, dated on Saturday, and containing a full report of. Sir Robert Peel's speech at the GlasgoW Festival on Friday, but ex pressed ourselves incompetent to explain how so extraordi. nary a feat could have been accomplished. We are tdd that five of the London papers, the Times, Past, -Ch; Herald, and Sun, spent on the means of despatch 'no Itsd than 2,000/., but that the Herald had the good fortune to be first in the field ; although we are now assured that.it3 race has not. been honourably won. We are unwill rig to believe that such is the case, yet we arc ready to admit that the despatch necessary for the accomplishment of the task so far exceeds what we should have deemed practicable, Oat we are unable to account for so unprecedented a , per formance. As the subject has created no inconsiderable doubt among the newspapers, as well as astunishmett among their readers generally, we annex the statements of dderent Contemporaries by way of establishin 7 or"disproving this extraordinary achiev emen t. [Here follow ex tracts from the - We:3ow Chronicle, Westmoreland Gazelle, and Neweastk Journal, already published.] We have thus given pro and con what has come under our own observation relative to this exlr:lnr(linary feat, but as the matter is still involved in considerable mystery, we must leave the No rang herald to explain and set itself right with the public.—Cumbe, land Parket. FUDGE EXPRESSES.—It is all very well the system of " expresses," by the London press, and its marvellous speed in getting up reports, but a thing may be overdone. When accuracy is made a subordinate consideration to early publication, and when reports are published is such a hurry that matters are chronicled which never occurred, it is high tim to expose the quackery. The Sun was the ear hest of the London papers (we have to thank its agent, Mr. Rutherglen, for a copy of its express) ; but The Sun gravely states that all the toasts in the printed list were given, and w ith un bl us hi ng f ace, a dd s that it has kept back seven columns of its report. By the fullest report, only two additional columns were spoken. The Mwninj Herald published a second edition : t Carlisle. but, so far as we can learn, none in London. The profes sions of this journal, if meant gravely to deceive, are a gross fraud on the public ; if only meant as a quiz on The Sun, they may pass muster for a bad joke. The lifoining Post, after printing three speeches more, than were delivered, gravely regrets that it is obliged to exclude a nure, oer of the excellent orations which fo'lowod. Such gross mendacity and quackish pretens'on is degrading to the character of the Press. Some of the Provincial journals, with less .'e!o about it, effected, consides Mg their compara tively limited means, much more than the metropolitan brag-. gadocios. 'clic most a;:tive and successful was the Caledo nian miry, which sent to press. in Edinburgh, at 5 o'clock in the morning, six columns of a bout:fide reriort of Ce fter-dinner speeches. The GThs : /ow Courier gravely attributes the possibility of the Morniuy despatch .(assuming its reality) to the inspiration of the banquet ; the one piece of fudge is in perfect keeping with the other. —Glasgow Argus of Jan. 21.—[We beg to tell the Argus that we, received several columns of printed speeches by our Express, but as some of them were not spoken, we declined to insert them. We covet no uncl'2 e praise, being well satisfied with an acknowledgment tat what we actually do.—ED. Sun.] BRIGHTON-THURSDAY. Owing to the 'rainy weather none of the Royal Family have been SeNl in public to-day. This morning his Majesty sat to Mr. Newton for his miniature. Colonel Sir Horace Seymour left the Palace this morn ing for Cowdray Lodge, but will return again in a day or two. His Majesty gave audience to Colonel Park, and also to Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway, this morning. The calls at the Palace yesterday included-- Lieutenant -Colon e l Parke, Colonel Jodrell, Lieutenant- Colonel Trickey, General Sir C. Colville, Hon. Lady Col ville, Major-General Sir Arthur Clifton, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. J. Loftus, Earl and Countess of Wicklow, Lady Catherine and the Mi sses B ernar d , M r. an d Mrs. v. Grant, of Grant, on leaving. To day the following have paid their respects to their Majesties : Major Ratcliffe, Inniskilling Dragoons ; Earl of West morland and Lady Georgiana Vane, and the Knight of Kerry (on passing through Brighton.) Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway was honoured with an audience of the King yesterday. Sir Robert leaves in a day or two, to take the command at the Nore, having been ap pointed to succeed the Hon. Elphinstone Fleming on that station, and will hoist his flag on board the Howe (three decker), of 120 guns. The remains of Lady Codrington were deposited in a vault under our parish church this morning. . • COURT CIRCULAR. His Majesty will receive the Recorder's report at the Court at Brighton. to-morrow. Itedshid Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, and M. de BourqUeney, the French Charge d'Aff,:ires, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. _ _ Lord John Russell was expected in town last night from le scat of the Marquis of Tavistock, Oakley House, iedfordshire. Despatches from Sir Lionel Smith, Governor of Jamaica, and from the Governors of the other West India Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday at the Co unc il Offi ce , t o consider a p e titi on o f Mr. Peter Perrot against an Act of the States of Jersey. Dr. Lushington appeared for the: petitioner, and Sir Charles Wetherell for the States. Tim Marquis o f Lansdowne intimated that a document tad been submitted to their Lordships, signed by three mernheis of the States of Jeisey, stating that no meeting of the, States took place on the 15th of December, 183 G ; but the answer of the Stat e s to th e petition was dated on that day. The Counsel for the States explained that in June or July last the States nominated a Committee in the matter of the petition, and the answer was that which had been drawn up by the Committee. Dr. Lushington agreed to accept the: answer as the answer of the States, but contended, that be— fore it was forwarded to their Lordships, it ought to have been submitted to a meeting of the States. Sir Charles Wetherell and Dr. Lushington were heard on the right of the petitioner to appeal to his Majesty in Council, and of being heard by Counsel, &e. Their Lordships then ad-- journed. The Lords present were, the Marquis of Lan.s &woe, Viscount Duncannen, and Mr. Poulett Thomson. The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 26.—A congregation was this day holesett for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferr e d : DOCTOR OF DIVINITY.—Rev. F. C. :Plumptre, Mawr of University College. BACHELOR OF DIVINITT.—Rev. Charles Williams, Fellow of Jesus College. MASTER OF Arrs....._Mr. J. Doraville, Christ Church : Mr. Daniel Butler, Lincoln College ; flee. Octavius Pox, Lincoln College; Mr. Thomas Protheroe, Brazenuose College; Mr. Robert P l .ackburne,' Fellow of Brazennose College. PACHELORS OF ARTS.—Mr. R. Kent, Brazennose College; 111 r. W. G. Penny, Student of Christ Church ; Mr. W. C. P. Webber, Student of Christ Church; Mr: J. R. O. Gore, Christ Church ; Mr. George Mellish, University College (Grand Compounder); Mr. F. M. Rowden, Wadham Col lege ; Mr. W. Robbins, Worcester College. Lord A. Fitzclarence has arrived at his house in the Ambassadors' Court, from the Duke of Beaufort's, at Bad minton. The Archbishop of Armagh and the Ladies Beres ford are not enpected in Charles-street, St. James's, until after Easter. Lord and Lady Charles Townshend have arrived at the family seat, Raynham-hall, Norfolk. The Marquis Townshend has been for many years an absentee. Lord and Lady NV harncliffe arrived in Curzon street, on Wednesday, from visits to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, anti the Earl and Countess Brownlow, at Belton-house, where the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess of Darlington, and Lady Augusta Poulett, Lord Rokeby, 'Right Hon. Henry Pierrepoint, &c., have been on a visit to the Earl and Countess. Sir William and Lady Cumming Gordon have left the Clarendon Hotel fz - ,r Paris. The Dukc r! e . * Richmond has relinquished the man sion h G occupied so long in Cavendish-square, and will ec("Lpy apartments at the British Hotel, Jermyn•street, until his Grace engages another residence. The Duke of Devonshire is accompanied to Chats worth by Sir Augustus Clifford, who returns to town to morrow, for the purpose of attending the Houses of Par liament as Usher of the Black Rod. Sir Augustus com manded the frigate that conveyed the Duke from this coun try to Russia as Ambassador Extraordinary during the reign of George IV. During the administration of Lord North the Ses sion of Parliament often lasted longer than it has of late years—the Houses assembling in November and not being prorogued till July. _ At a meeting of the Patrons of that most excellent and Christian Institution, the Refuge for the Destitute, held in the City of London, on Wednesday, the Treasurers an nounced a balance in favour of the Institution of upwards of 9001,