The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Through some unaccountable oversight that clumsy and
gigantic structure, the Speaker's chair, remains in stain
eodenz. It is hardly necessary to inform our readers how
effectually, during the last Session, the chair of the Speaker
prevented not only the, Right Hon. Gentleman himself, but
every Member who spoke before it, from being heard in
the Reporters' gallery. This impediment, instead of being
removed, has been greatly increased by the lowering of the
Reporters' gallery, which is now almost on a level with the
top of the Speaker's chair. We hope it is not too late to
make some alteration.

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

TYLER V. BELL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in
this case, which was an appeal from the decision of the Mas-
ter of the Rolls, allowing a demurrer, and refusing to give
the parties liberty to amend. As the case was only argued a
day or two since, when all the facts were given, it is unne-
cessary to repeat them. His Lordship affirmed the decision
of the Court below.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

PITT V. BONNER.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, which
was argued at considerable length before the Christmas
vacation. The principal object of the suit was to have
an account of the profits of two collieries, called the
Kinross and Guscombe Collieries, the plaintiff, Mr. Pitt,
alleging that he was entitled to the payment of an an
nuity of upwards of 1,1001. out of those profits. His Honour,
after going at considerable length into the facts of the case,
declared his opinion in favour of the plaintiff Mr. Pitt, and
ordered the account accordingly. In conclusion his Honour
said, in consequence of some observations made in the course of
the arguments against Mr. Pitt, that his conduct had been litigi-
ous, he had been requested by that gentleman to make some ob-
servations on that subject, and in justice to Mr. Pitt he felt bound
to do so. In his Honour's opinion Mr. Pitt was perfectly jus-'
tified, with a view to his own interests, in bringing forward the
case in the manner he had done, and there was no imputation
against him, either on account of litigiousness, improper extor-
tion, or improper conduct.
Mr. PITT, who was present, could not express the obligation
he felt to the Court for the remarks it had made.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR-It is a mere matter of justice to
you, Mr. Pitt, that I should do so.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

SHAW V. WRIGHT.
His Lordship the MASTER of the Rom.s was occupied the
whole morning in hearing the further arguments in this case,
which was opened yesterday.

KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

(Sittings in Banco.)
THE KING V. THE INHABITATNS OF WITHONW/CIC.

This was an appeal from an order of two justices, dated
Feb., 1835, for the removal of William Tiplady, a pauper, Anne
his wife, and their four children, from the township of Withon-
ick to the township of West Newton, in the West Riding of
Yorkshire. In the notice of appeal it wa't assigned as the
ground of objection, that the pauper never obtained any settle-
ment in the township of West Newton. On the trial of the
appeal it was further urged, that the order of removal was
bad, inasmuch as it did not state the names and ages of the
pauper's children. The Sessions decided, that that objection
not having been set out in the notice of appeal, could not then
be urged ; and confirmed the order for the removal of the
pauper an his wife, but quashed the order for the removal
of the children, subject to the decision of the Court.
Mr. HILLYARD now appeared to support the order of Ses-
sions, and contended that it was absolutely necessary, in order
to give validity to the orders of justices, that the names and
ages of the children should have been set out. The question
their Lordships had to decide was, whether the objection urged
at the trial of the appeal was bad, and also whether the
Sessions had power to amend the order of justices by inserting
the names of the children, which he submitted they had not.
The COURT observed that there could be no doubt upon this
point, because the 81st section of the Act required that the
written notice of appeal should set forth the grounds of the
appeal, and it was not competent to the appellant parish to go
into or give evidence upon any matter or grounds of appeal
other than those set out in. the notice. They were clearly of
opinion that the Sessions were not warranted in going into
such ground of objection, and therefore the order of Sessions
must be quashed, and the original order of justices for the re-
moval of the pauper and his family confirmed.

COMMON PLEAS—(THIS DAY.)
Nothing of any interest occurred• in this Court up to the
time when our reporter left.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JAN. 24.—Wind W. S.W. moderate.—Arrived the
Harpooner, Howard, from Mauritius ; Fanny, Cook, from
Jamaica•; St. James, Sebor, from New York ; Richmond,
West, from Trieste ; Lord Russell, from Messina.
STANGATE CREEK.—Arrived the Selina, Ludstone, from
Mogadore ; Countess Errol, Maitland, from Leghorn.
SHOREHAM, JAN. 24.—Arrived the Mary Ann, Potto, from
St. Michael's.

Poatsmount, J. 24.—W. S. W. fine.—Arrived the Os-
prey, Young, from St. Sebastian.
GLOUCESTER, JAN. 24.—Arrived the William Hill, from
Riga.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Tweed, Lawson, from
Bombay ; Lord Cochrane, Campbell, from Maranham ; Ann
Hall, Bowles, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Pollock,
from ditto ; Brothers, Bell, from Trieste; Liberty,
Scorgu, from Sicily ' • Selina, --, from Tarragona.
CANTON.— Arrived the Imogine, Riley, from Liverpool ;
Eliza, Stewart, from London.
BATAVlA.—Arrived the Mary Somerville, Jackson, from
Liverpool; Arabian, from Bristol.
BOMBAY.—Arrived the Australia, Forrester, from Liver-
pool ; Jamaica, Martin, from the Clyde; Henry Tanner,
Fergusson, from New South Wales.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Arrived the Lynheer, Kerswell,
and Scaleby Castle, Robertson, from London ; Lise, from
Bombay, leaky, and must discharge.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Globe, Soudry, from
Penang ; Chrystadt, Gladson, from Gergenti ; Antigua
packet, Cherry, from Antigua. Off port, the Conder, Pigott,
from Buenos Ayres ; Hamilton, from Demerara.
BRISTOL, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Lang, Atkinson, from
New Brunswick.
DUBLIN, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Vixen, Wickam, from
Leghorn ; Rose Hill, Harrison, from Memel ; Vaador, Mes-
queta, from St. Übes.
CORK, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Nonpareil, from St. John's,
New Brunswick.

The Susannah, bound to China, and the Admiral Buskes,
were lost in a typhoon on the 31st of July, near the Ladrories.
The Pruella, Hardy, from Dublin to Liverpool, is on shore
in Carnarvon Bay, and bilged—crew saved.
The Friends, Carl, from Gottenburg to Hull, put into
Christiansand very leaky, and must discharge.
The Superior, Tyson, from Marseilles to New York, struck
a reef of rocks near Bermuda on the 29th November, and
sunk--crew saved.

The Gambia, from New York to Lisbon, was capsized at
sea on the 29th November—mate, supercargo, and three men
drowned.

The Caleb, Goodwin, was driven on shore at Vera Cruz,
during a gale previous to Ist December, and wrecked.

Yesterday a numerous assemblage of the members
of the Incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers,
and other gentlemen, dined together at Mr. CORBY'S,
Craven-court, Strand, preparatory to presenting the
Secretary of the Society, Mr. BLAKE, with a piece of
plate, as a testimony of the high estimation in which
his services were held. Mr. THOMAS CORBY took
the chair, and after the usual toasts were drunk, pre-
sented Mr. BLAKE, in the name of the Society of
Licensed Victuallers, with an elegant cup and cover,
bearing the following inscription :

THIS CUP,
Purchased by the voluntary subscriptions
Of many of the Members of the
Incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers,
And other Gentlemen,
Was presented on the 24th of January, 1837, to
JAMES FREDERICK BLAKE, ESQ.
Secretary to the said Society,
As a testimonial of their high'estimation of his
Indefatigable exertions on behalf of the
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL,
And the other Charities connected with the
MORNING ADVERTISER,
And of their admiration of the talent, integrity, and zeal
uniformly displayed by him, in fulfilling the important
duties of the offices which he has held in the
service of the Society during a period of
twenty-eight years.
The reading of the inscription was_ greeted by the warmest
expressions of approbation.

Mr. BLAKE acknowledged the honour that had
been conferred upon him in a very clever and appro-
priate speech, to which we regret our limits will not per-
mit us to give insertion. He had been in the service
of the society for twenty-eight years, and had carefully
watched over its growth from infancy to maturity. The
Editor of the Morning Advertiier, Mr. Under-She-
riff WIRE, Mr. WARD, and Mr. POORE, severally
addressed the Company at great length. The com-
pany did not separate till a late hour.

A splendid ball took place at the White Hart Inn,
Bromley, on Monday, the 2sd inst., and was numerously
and fashionably attended. The rooms were elegantly fitted
up, and brilliantly illuminated. The company did not se=
parate until five in the morning.
One of the first silk merchants in Berlin has stopped
payment for the sum of 400,000 thalers.—French Paper.
The grocers of Leicester have announced their inten-
tion of limiting their credit accounts in future to two months.

LITERATURE.

ZULNEIDA. 3 Vols. Macrons, London, 1836.

The work before us is the production of Dr. Arthur
Mower, author of an impassioned little tale entitled
the " White Cottage," which was published some
years since by Blackwood, and was deservedly adknired
at the time. The author, however, has not improved
since then. There is nothing in his present tale. equal
in pathos and energy to the closing chapters of his first,
work, which— .. if our memory do not play us, false-7
turned upon the subject of hereditary insanity.. The:
great defect of Zulneida is want of truth and eon-
sistency of character. The dranzatis pers.oner are
numerous, but scarce one is a transcript° from lifei
being but just so many abstractions. They seem to :.
be constantly acting without sufficient motives ; if ire`
except the heroine Zulneida, whose character, incon;
sistent and indeed almost incomprehensible at first,
improves as it proceeds, and becomes, by the time we
have reached the third volume—a long way to go to find
.
something worth reading--intelligible and interesting,
though hardly in one instance is it removed from
commonplace. The best scenes in the novel (romance
rather) are those between Zulneida and Eugenio the
Benedictine monk, where the latter is persuading the
former to renounce the worship of Mahomet, and be-
come a Christian. Here the dialogue has both force
and propriety, and is sustained with considerable spirit.
Dr. Mower has great descriptive powers ; much ease
and elegance of style ; but little or no tact in delineat-
ing human character.

Granny does not deny that her pretended Second
Edition of the 14th inst. was printed somewhere between
London and Glasgow—she thinks that immaterial. We
entertain no jealousy of her success in such tricks. No diie,
woull compete with her in such a field. She has gained no.
triumph except in her own imagination : but if she can ;be •
pleased with that, we see no reason to be dissatisfiect We
are content to have exposed a contemptible fraud.—Times.

NEWSPAPER DISPATCH.—ShortIy after mid-day
on Monday last copies of a second edition of the Morning
Herald, of Saturday, arrived at our office, and at the Coffee-
room here, with a report of Peel's Banquet, extending to
six broad columns, and bringing the proceedings to a close
after one o'clock on Saturday morning !!! How occur-
rences that happen in the morning at Glasgow should on
the same evening be printed in London and back to Glas-
gow by eleven o'clock on Monday, was utterly beyond com-
prehension, and the occurrence accordingly became the
subject of universal discussion in town. The way the-
business was managed appears to be as follows :
The Morning Herald must have thrown off a number of
copies in London, printed on three pages, and sent them
down to Manchester, where the fourth page would be pet
up and printed, and copies sent off thence, as from a
centre, to all parts of the kingdom. The affair was admin.
ably managed, and the proprietors of the Morning Herald
deserve great praise both for their exertions and their inge-
nuity. An express copy of The' Sun, dated lust 24 hours
after the banquet, and containing 8f columns of a report,
was received at our office shortly after mid-day on Tuesday.
Such exertions are unprecedented, and justly entitle the
proprietors both to patronage and fame.—Paisley Advertiser.
THE DUKE OF SUSSEX'S SOIREES.—It gives us
Auch pleasure to observe that his Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex, as president of the Royal Society, re-
commences his soirees at Kensington-palace on the 11th
February, and that they will be repeated on the 11th March,
13th May, and 10th June. The cards of invitation to a
number of literary and scientific men, besides others of rank
and distinction, whether natives or foreigners, have just
been issued. Formerly these meetings consisted of a com-
bination of talent and attainment hardly to be equalled, and
the urbanity of the illustrious Duke, and his powers of con
versation on many subjects and in several languages, ren-
dered them highly attractive. Since the attack on the sight
of his Royal Highness (now happily restored) the re-unions
have, we believe, been discontinued, but they dill be revived
under the most favourable circumstances. Men of all
parties cast aside their political differences, and rejoiced to
partake of the Royal Duke's hospitality.

We are sorry to state that the indisposition of the
Countess of Essex still continues.

Lord Russell, the chairman of the Drury-lane Re-
form dinner, is the only son of the Marquis of TaVlstOck,
by his marriage with the eldest daughter of the late Earl of
Harrington. His Lordship is in his 28th year, and repre-
sentative for Tavistock.

The present Earl of Arran is Secretary orLegation
to Mr. Mandeville's Embassy at Buenos Ayres. His Lord-
ship is in his 35th year.

The Hon. Fred. Keppel Craven has sailed for Lis-
bon, as junior Attache to Lord Howard de
,Walden's em-
bassy.
Lord Etnlyn, eldest son of Earl Cawdor, and grand-
son of the Marquis of Bath, has entered Christ Church,
Oxford. The Earl and Countess, and family, are expected
in Grosvenor-square next month, from Stackpoole Court,
near Pembroke.

The Duke of Montrose will take the oaths and his
seat in the House of Lords as Earl Graham, in the Peer-
age of the United Kingdom, the Marquisate, Earldom, and
Dukedom of Montrose, of the date of creation. 1707, being
Scottish honours.

It is now said the fortune of the Queen of the Bel-
gians is not payable, either principal or interest, during her
father's lifetime.

Lieutenants Stuart and Semple, of the 86th depot,
prevented from settling an affair of honour in a hostile way,
in the neighbourhood of Mallow, met on the Race Course,
Fermoy, early on Saturday morning, the former attended
by the Hon. E. S. Plunkett, 86th, and the latter by Lieut.
Prescott, of the Queen's Bays. On the, word being given,
Mr. Semple's pistol missed fire, and Mr. Stuart discharged
his in the air. Thus the matter terminated.—lrish paper.,
Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, as
Colonel Maiseleyc, of Green-street, Grosvenor-square, wag
dri'ing in his gig, accompanied by his groom, along Gros-
venor-place, the horse took fright, and set off at a furious
rate. After proceeding for about 200 yards, the off-wheel
of the gig came in contact with that of a country waggon
with such force, that the gig was literally dashed to pieces.
The Colonel and his groom were thrown into the road, and
sustained severe injury, the former having his right wrist
and two of the fingers broken, and the latter his skull
severely fractured. The groom was removed to the hos-
pital, but is not expected to survive.

. -
Yesterday evening a meeting of the inhabitants of
St. Andrew's, Holborn, and several adjoining parishes, was
held in the vestry-room, St. Andrew's-court, when a series
of resolutions were passed, having for their object the pre-
vention of the desecration of the Sabbath, and after a vote of
thanks to the Rector, who presided, the meeting separated.
The rumour is, 'that the lessee of Covent-garden,
finding that the reduction of prices at Drury-lane has se-
riously diminished his receipts since Christmas, intends
still further to lower his terms, and that he means to re-
sort to this expedient without delay. We own that we
place no confidence in the statement, but we give it as it
has reached us. It is said that his project is to lower the
admission to the boxes to 35., and to the pit to Is, 6(1.
Observer.

iloAx.—Copies of a tragedy entitled The Student
of Padua, were sent round to most of the London Journals
with notes addressed to the different Editors, purporting to
come from Nobility or high official functionaries, such as
were presumed to stand most favourable with the respective
Journals. All the notes it has been ascertained were lot-
genies, but only some of the Journals saw through the
trick, and eschewed the bait.

Mrs. Ducrow departed this life on Sunday, the 15th
inst., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. Ducrow immediately
closed his performances, and on Thursday set out on the
mournful journey of attending ,the body of his departed
wife to London. •The funeral will take place from the
Amphitheatre house, Westminster-bridge, and the remains.
be deposited in the Cethetery-ground in the Harrow-road..
WILD WATER POND.—" Her mind was a cloud-
less sky, and every thought a star." Such is the image,
poetical alike in fancy and expression, by which the heroine
of Wild Water Pond is introduced to the admiring reader.
Where is Wild Water Pond ? and who is its heroine ?
On these poihts Mr. Sulivan must be consulted, who, in
his " Flittings of Fancy," just published, has conjured up
scene that may vie with the most enchanting and original
that even the pencil of Washington Irving has produced.--
Court Journal.

The Palace of Lacken, at Brussels, has witnes,so
a curious succession of dynasties during the last 40 years,
It was originally fitted up by the Archduchess Maria
Christina, wife to Duke Albert of Saxe Teschen, eldest
daughter of Maria Theresa, and Governess of the Nether-
lands, who resided there at the breaking out of the French
revolution : it next became the head-quarters of a revo-
lutionary General ! then the residence of the brother of
Buonaparte ; and at the period of the battle of Waterloo
remained exactly in the state in which it was left by the'
Emperor, by whom it had been decorated in the most'
sumptuous style : the present King and Queen of Holland
were its next occupants.

Mrs. Graham the aeronaut is still 'suffering from the
severe injuries resulting from her terrible accident, and the
consequences of that calamity have occasioned great pecu-
niary as well as physical distress,

BRIGHTON-TUESDAY.

His Majesty and the Princess Augusta took a carriage
tdr.uo• this morning.
der-Majesty, accompanied by Viscount Falkland, took
a c mine airing this morning, at one o'clock, along the
BULLF.TIN.—" Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester has passed an excellent night, and is convales-
cent this morning."
The calls at the Palace to-day were the Earl of Aber-
deen, Colonel Sir George and Lady Teesdale, and Lord
and Lady James Hay.
Yesterday afternoon his Majesty gave audience to Cap-
tain Pelly, Deputy Master of the Trinity House ; and also
to Mrs. Campbell.

ColoqelSiiSamuel Higgins returned to the Palace yes-
ter(lay evening.
Yesterday evening the Royal dinner invitations corn-
priselthe Earl and Countess of Wicklow, Marquis of Bris-
tol,. Earl of Aberdeen, Lord G. Seymour, and Major-
General Sir S. Higgins.
We regret to state that the Earl of Egremont is in-
disposed. His Lordship has been attended by Sir Mat-
thew. Tierney.
Owing to the prevalence of the influenza the fashionable
entertainments are thinly attended ; and the death of Lady
Codrington has thrown a gloom over the soirees among
which her Ladyship and daughters were formerly seen.
Many of our fashionables are on the eve of their de-
parture, including the Earl of Westmorland, Sir Hamilton
Seymour, Sir Robert and Lady Otway, &c.
Lord Western is at the York Hotel. His Lordship
has had a slight attack of influenza.
The postponemeat of the marriage of the Earl of Win-
chilsea to the Hon. Miss Bagot is owing, it is said, partly
to the visitation of a domestic calamity in the family of
Lord Mar, borough, and partly to the illness of the Duchess
of Gloucester. The marriage was to have been celebrated
at the Palace early in January, but we have not heard of
any fixed period for its celebration.