The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 17.—The letter to Mr. O'Connell from

Mr. Sharman Crawford, and the extracts from Mr,

O'Brien's address to the electors of Limerick, both of which
we intimated our intention of giving to-day, are as follows :
Crawfordsburn, Jan. 15, 1837.

Sir—The papers I have received this day contain a
speech, reported as having been delivered by you in the
General Association on Friday last, in which I find an
attack made upon my political principles and conduct.
I take the liberty of informing you that it is my intention
to attend the meeting of the Association on Thursday next,
the 19th inst., for the purpose of replying to that attack.
I have the honour to be, Sir, &c., &c.,
WM. SHARMAN CRAWFORD.
To Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.
O'BRlEN.—After expressing his conviction that the
electors of the county of Limerick are too enlightened " to
require any tuition to enable them to form a correct judg-
ment respecting the great public questions submitted for
their consideration, or to entertain a just opinion respecting
an individual whose home is amongst them, and every act
of whose public life has been submitted by him to their
strictest scrutiny," the Hon. Member for Limerick tells
Mr. O'Connell that he is " equally indifferent to his praise
or censure.'

With respect to a State provision for the Clergy, Mr.

O'Brien says, " There is no man in the country so entirely
disqualified as Mr. O'Connell to call to account any one
who may advocate a pension for the Catholic clergy. He
now indeed says that he would rather die than couple his
religion with the temporalities of this world ; but he was in

the full maturity of his intellect when; in 1823, he strongly
advocated, in terms which I should be sorry to use, the ex-
pediency of this measure. He did not then think that it
would either prejudice the interests of the Catholic
Church, or disturb the harmony and well-being of society
in Ireland." . • • • .

A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Vis-
count Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount
Duncannon, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl
of Minto, Sir John Hob-
house, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulctt Thomson, and Viscount
Howick. The Lord Chancellor joined his colleagues soon
after three o'clock. The Council broke up at half-past
four o'clock.
Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Ambassador, arrived
in town on Tuesday, from the Continent.
The Saxon Minister has returned to town from Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield are entertaining a
distinguished sporting party, at their seat, Renton Abbey.
Amongst them arc the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield,
Lord and Lady Uxbridge, Lord Alvanlev, Colonel and
Mrs. Anson, Lord Waterpark, Sir Robert Gordon, &c.
Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, and Baron
de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, transacted business yes-
terday, at the Foreign Office.
Despatches were sent off by a messenger from the Foreign
Office, on Tuesday night, for the British Minister at Con-
stantinople.

But though, as regards the views of Mr. O'Connell, I
find it difficult to determine whether most weight ought to
be attached to the opinions of his manhood or those of his
more advanced years, I have too much respect for the Ca-
tholic body in general not to feel that if their opinions be
decidedly adverse to this measure, it would be at once fruit-

less, and in a Protestant indelicate, to persist in urging for-
ward an arrangement which, instead of being accepted with
good will, li ould be repudiated with disdain. My recent
letters have tended to call forth an expression of the opi-
nions of a portion of the Catholics of Ireland, in opposi-

tion to the views which I entertain, and, in the absence of
all exhibition of a contrary feeling, I think it right to say
(reserving to myself the full power of advocating the mea-
sure at :future time) that I do not consider it desirable
that the question should at present be brought under discus-
sion in the House of Commons."

Mr. O'Brien then argues in support of his opinions on

le Duke of Cumberland is expected to arrive to
attend his Parliamentary duties in ten days. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess will remain on the Continent with
Prince George some time longer. The young Prince's eye-
sight still continues without any material improvement.
Mr. Grove Price is confined by severe indisposition,
at the Royal, Hotel, Deal. He has scarcely left his bed
for several days, and has been attended by two physicians,
both of whom peremptorily forbid his attendance at any
public meeting before the assembling of Parliament.
The late venerable Dowager Marchioness of Exeter,
who expired at her mansion in Whitehall-gardens, was the
fourth daughter of Peter Burrell, Esq., and sister of Peter
Lord Gwvdir, deceased, and was widow first of Douglas,
eighth Duke of Hamilton, and then of Henry, first Mar-
quis of Exeter, who died in 1804.
The families of the Duke of Buccleuch and Mar-
quis of Bath have been placed in mourning by the death of
Thomas Viscount Weymouth, eldest son of the Noble
Marquis, and brother of the Duchess of Buccleuch. His
Lordship died at Shanks House, Dorset, on Monday, and,
leaving no issue, his next brother, Lord Henry Thynne,
who married Miss Baring, daughter of Lord Ashburton,
becomes Lord Weymouti
Lord and Lady Delamore have during the last week
been giving several grand fetes at Vale Royal, their beau-
tiful seat in Cheshire. The grand dinner on Thursday last
was succeeded by an elegant ball, at which, besides the
Noble guests who are on visits to the worthy Lord and
Lady, upwards cf 100 of the neighbouring nobility and
gentry were present.

the Ballot, and challenges Mr. O'Connell to the proof of
the oppression alleged to have been exercised by Sir Ed-
ward, the father of the present Hon. Member for Lime-
rick. The letter concludes with the following passages :
" In one part of his (Mr. O'Connell's) address to you I
fully concur. I unite with him in exhorting you to peti-
tion for the abolition of tithes, for corporation reform, and
I will add, for another measure which he has omitted—
namely, sound legislative enactments, tending to alleviate
the wretchedness of our too much unheeded poor. You
owe it to yourselves, that the sacred interests of reason,
of justice, and of humanity, be %indicated by the expres-
sion of your opinions, and sustained by your constitutional
support.

" In reviewing the general tenor of his letter, I will not
affect to be misled by the tone of protection and mock
respect towards me, under which his intentions are masked.
The real purport of his letter is, to me at least, obvious.
A dissolution is approaching. Mr. O'Brien will never con-
sent to be the slave or the tool of Mr. O'Connell ; and an
adherent of his own must, therefore, if possible, be sub-
stituted in the county of Limerick. An apparent diffe-
rence between your opinions and mine, offers a favourable
opportunity for undermining my position, and the blow is
struck. In any event which may arise, I know not how
you may act, but my part has been long since taken. The
highest object of my ambition is to retain my seat, as I
obtained it by an almost unanimous concurrence of opinion
in my favour in the county and city of Limerick ; but I
would not hold it for an hour, if the condition annexed to
its possession were subserviency to the views of Mr. O'Con-
nell, or of any other individual.
" I will not on this occasion be tempted to retaliate, by
calling your attention to those portions of the policy of Mr.
O'Connell, which have called forth the reprobation of many.
. . . But if he should again interpose his arro-
gant dictation between me and my constituents, I shall as-
suredly not shrink from the task of freely and searchingly
questioning the title upon which he founds that supremacy
over the opinion of my countrymen which can alone justify
such an interference. . . . . . . .

Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess de Po-
lignac and family left the Terrace Hotel, Richmond-hill,
en Tuesday, for Sinden House, Arundel, Sussex, the seat
of the Countess of Newburg.
•
His Excellency Count Pozzo di Borgo and suite
arrived at Ashburnham House on Tuesday, at five p.m.,
from Paris, in excellent health and spirits. The Ambas-
sador quitted Paris on Thursday, and slept at Canterbury
00 Monday evening. The Count entertained Baron
Maltitz and the Secretaries. of Legation at dinner ; and in
the course of the week he will proceed to Brighton, on a
visit to their Majesties.
Sir Hamilton Seymour, our Minister at Brussels,
who has been for some time residing with his family at
Brighton, is on the eve of returning to his diplomatic duties
at the Court of Belgium, where the Chevalier Serrurier
has arrived, to present his credentials as Envoy from the
King of the French.
Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod,
independent of the claims of personal relationship, is closely
connected with the Duke of Devonshire by marriage. Lady
Clifford, the daughter of Lord John Townshend, is a fa-
vourite cousin of the Noble Duke, from whom on her mar-
riage she received a handsome addition to her fortune, as
Well as a magnificent present in jewels.
The Earl of Wemyss and March has forwarded 201.
for the benefit of the sufferers by the fire in Greenside-
street, Edinburgh.
• The Right Hon. James Abercromby, and the At-
torney-General, the members for the city, have transmitted
the sum of 101. each, for behoof of the sufferers by the late
fire in Edinburgh.
of The superb piece of plate, subscribed by the friends
to thed natherton was presented yesterday at Teddesley,
Noble Lord'
C. P.
mington Villiers, M P has been sojourning at Lea-
spa.• ”
tlbe mansion in
Mr. St. John Mildmay has entered on possession of
int ends to Berkeley-square, called Darnley House, and
Colonel Ch
Conimence his fashionable parties there next month.
Charles Napier, C. 8., and Colonel George
Napier,
rich W. Napier, 0
"3., both of them distinguished brothers of Colo-
were-.11, the historian of the Peninsular War,
071 Tuesday la.st advanced to the rank of Major-
thanks General Charles Napier returned
thanks at the dinner
,a. at the .
Guildhall, on the sth, on the
part of the army. ,
He is a very eminent officer, and was
most severely wounded at the battle of Corunna, and was
returned in the
was left upon' the
dispatch of General Baird as killed. He
field,
and
his
preservation was one of the
singular incideilts of that battle. He was the commanding
offiCer of the 50th regirueßt,
gallant conduct. General 'George received Napier, C. 8., led the
'md a medal for his
severely wounded at the top of the breach.—Bath Journal.
Mr. Stephen Edward
lirivate s tof .`Spring Rice, eldest son and
on
a. eere ary ,. he Chancellor of the Exchequer, was
~,f 7..itralierday sworn into office as high sheriff of the county
Tile Va..rquis of Huntly,
hold
Last weetenantry.
k then a num.ber social treats to his
fßirse,
' bas gi, .
of ) since his visit to Scot-
.A.bovne, GI Marquis gave a ball to his tenants
Ma,.,..,_ mariner, &c., at Charlestown. The Noble
~quis Was present, and took part in the animated scene.
whosekTeodrge John Thicknesse Fouchet, Baron Audley,
eessioenath has been noticed, was the 17th Peer in direct
ilelz daug.liter of Ad .
He was in his 55th year, and by his lady, the
,chi reu, th Admiral Ross Donnelly, has left several
:his 20th yeaereldest of whom, now Baron Audley, completed
;the Peerage, gatZerruesday. This is one of the oldest titles in
1405, but oric,inaireation being by writ of summons in
title on the roll of Yi3semmoned in 1297. It is the fourth
tailnallle Clifford.
Bos, Le Despenser, arons, the three preceding being De
The remains of
interred in Dutnbartoe ate Duke of Montrose were not
burial-ground is in the aisle
as reported. The family
Ferthshire. aisle of Aberutliven church, in
The late Lady Farning
S h,he was eldest daughter
of lil was in her 66th year
Her ladyship had no children. r Abraham Hume, Bart.
A :7olieetor of rates and taxes
br2en `° missing" missing" for the last three
or f St. ---
anour days, and some
ofPcras has
luundreds of pounds are missing also,
Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, whose de',
:nave already stated, entered the army QS death we
a Cornet -in the
_tOth Dragoons in 1800. He was appointed
the 60th F0...t in 180 G, Major in the 2.3 d Captain Dragoons 1 next year, Lieutenant-Colonel same regirnent 1810, re-
i roved into the 12th Dragoons in 1811, and was appointed
C'olonel by brevet, June 4, 1814. He served with the
id Dragoons in Talavera, on the Staff as Assistant-Adju
tai It-General at Busaco and- Barossa, and with the 12th
Di 'agoons at Salamanca, Vittoria, Nive, and 'Waterloo.
He was wounded near Santarem when the army was in the
line, 3, also near Burgos during the seige, and at Waterloo
in, fil le places. Sir Frederick obtained the Colonelcy of the
list ...Dragoons in May last, having in May, k Cwneral Offleer. 1825, been made

" It is in the consciousness of my own rectitude that I
entirely disregard the attempts of Mr. O'Connell to dis-
parage me in the eyes of my fellow-countrymen—whether
those attempts be masked, as in the present instance, under
terms of insidious praise, or unveiled in the language of
open denunciation."

[lt is understood that Mr. O'Brien will be called upon
by the Liberal Club to resign his seat, in consequence of
the letter from which the above extracts are made.]
WATERFORD DINNER.—On Monday last, at a meeting
of the citizens of Waterford, it was resolved to invite Mr.
O'Connell to a public dinner. _

S. GaAwroa), ESQ.—The Hon. Member for Dundalk
was entertained at a soiree, on Tuesday evening last, in the
Assembly-room of the Exchange-buildings of Belfast, by
the friends of religious liberty. The party consisted of
about 250.

THE DUEL.—We are glad to be able to state that the
late affair of honour between Messrs. Ellis and Costello ter-
minated without mischief to either party. Two shots were
exchanged, when the seconds led their principals off the
ground, without explanation or expression of satisfaction.
The scene of action was a field two miles beyond Holy-
head, the owner of which threatened a visit from the po-
lice.—Pilot.

MASTERSHIP OF TIIE ROLLE.—The Mail alleges that
the friends of Baron O'Loghlen state that there was a sti-
pulation with the Government, when he accepted the place
of Puisne Judge, that he was to have precedence of Mr.
Richards in the event of a vacancy occurring on the Rolls'
Bench ; and the Morning Resister states that such a sti-
pulation would be " unworthy of the Government and of
the Learned Baron." It would have been also unworthy
of the Attorney-General, Mr. Richards, and inconsistent
with his character and conduct through life, to have ac-
ceded to any such stipulation. To put at rest all pretence
as to any stipulation having been made with Mr. Richards,
at the time of his appointment to the office of Attorney-
General, the duties of which he has so faithfully and
honourably discharged, we can with confidence state,

that no stipulation whatsoever was made with him at the
time of his accepting that high and dignified office, and that
he holds the same in as full, large, and beneficial a manner
as it was ever held by any of his right honourable predeces-
sors.—Dublin Evening Post.

THE SUN, LONDON, THITRSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1837.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 17.—We have accounts from the Royal
head-quarters to the evening of the 10th. Charles V. is
still at Durango. The head-quarters of the Infant Don
Sebastian remain at Tornoza.

A letter from Bayonne (not from our usual correspon-
dent) contains the following details :—" If the thaw con-
tinues it is probable that an important action between the
two armies will shortly take place. Espartero continually
announces that he is going to march ; but hitherto he has
not moved. The Royal troops appear in force on the emi-
nences which surround Bilboa, and seem to defy the enemy
to come out of it. The project formed by Ribeiro and
Narvaez to march into Biscay and Guipuscoa, is known at
head-quarters ; every measure has been taken to defeat it.
Three Royalist battalions have been sent to Navarre ; two
others are going to be stationed on the line of Arlaban. A
strong force of infantry and cavalry will go and join the
division of Guipuscoa which is at Hernani. The state-
ment that the Royalists had withdrawn their cannon from
Fontarabia is erroneous ; on the contrary, they are fortify-
ing both that place and Irun ; four howitzers were sent
thither three days ago. The bad weather bad injured the
defensive works at Oyarzun and Hernani : no time has
been lost to repair them."—Gazelle de France, Jan. 18.
PARIS, JAN. 17.—The Poland, which has just arrived
at Havre in twenty days from New York, brings news of
the 24th December.

The candidates for the post of Vice President not having
obtained a sufficient majority of votes in the elections of the
States, the choice of the Vice President will be made by
the Senate.

General Jackson was convalescent. His friends hoped
that he would be able to receive the usual visits at new year.
Accounts from New Orleans, of the 14th December,
announce that General Santa Anna had left that city on
board the Missisippi steam-boat, to proceed to Washington,
accompanied by two American officers.—Journal du Com-
merce.

It seems that the Ministers have by no means exhausted
all the projects of law to be laid before the Chamber. The
whole number is forty, among which are several about iron
rail-roads.

Count Pozzo di Borgo, Russian Ambassador at London,
left Paris on Thursday, to return to his post.—La Paix,
Jan. 13.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JAN. 17.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 109 f. sc, 10c.
Four per Cents., 100 f. 60c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 60c 65c.
Bank Actions, 2,315 f.
Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 60c. 75c. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., Ha
Spanish Actives, 26 25/4
Spanish DifFeres, litc, lA.
Spanish Passives, 7% 674 71/6.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 30N%.
haytian Loan, 375 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 30c.
Three months, paper, 231. 10c.; money, 2.5 f. 10c.
_(.o,,rs Au/hen/um.

BOURSE, HALF-PAST FOUR.—Nothing at all was done in
French securities to-day, nor indeed in any of the other funds,
excepting the Spanish Actives, which at first evinced a ten-
dency to fall, but recovered, and closed at yesterday's prices.
The new species of stock (of the Societe Beige), quoted
yesterday here for the first time, has found much favour with
the great bankers, and has risen 4 per cent. in consequence.
It opened yesterday at 1,525 f., and closed to-day at 1,528 ff.
Letters from Bayonne of the lath state, that a number of
Carlist officers, according to Christino reports, to 50, and to
the Carlist accounts to 5 only, had been brought into that
town by the Gendarmerie, having been met on the Bidassoa,
having come to take refuge in Prance. Among them, report
stated, was the English Lord Ranelagh. They were hooted
by the mob, but bore the insult with good humour. After
having been left for some time in the town prison, they were
allowed to go at liberty. Several of them had taken out pass-
ports for Rome. _ _ _

I am assured that a revolutionary movement is apprehended
in Piedmont. An understanding bem cen the conspirators
and parties in Corsica has existed for some time. It is even
alleged that 10,000 muskets have been landed from thence on
the coast of Piedmont.

LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 15c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 85c.
Bank Actions, '2,345E
Rente de Naples, WE 95c
Ro,nan Five per Cents., 102.
Belgian Society, 1,528 f. 75c.
Brussels Bank, 32.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 3034
Haytian Loan, 375 f.
Spanish Actives, '26
Spanish Passives, 7
Spanish Differes, 9.
New Differes, 11 k.

STATISTICAL SOCIETY.

The ordinary meeting was held on Monday evening,
W. H. Porter, Esq. V. P. in the Chair. Several presents
were announced, and members elected ; and Baron Hum-
boldt, Signor Rapino, Finance Minister to his Majesty the
King of Naples ; M. Vandermaden, of Brussels ; M. Hoff-
man, of Berlin ; and M. Victerichi, were chosen foreign
members. The President likewise announced that the
vacancy in the Council, from the death of the Earl of Kerry,
had been filled by the appointment of Charles Knight, Esq.
The Secretary read a paper from the Chairman, being
the statistics of the mineral productions of France, from
official documents of that Government, being the result of
observations made by competent engineers under the direc-
tion of the Commissioners fur superintending the mines.
These were divided into the following six heads :-1, iron ;
2, fuel ; 3, metals ; 4, salt, alum, and copperas ; 5, quarry-
ing ; and 6, operations connected with these arts ; each de-
scribing the number of mines and men employed therein, and
the subsequent processes, with their value, as well as the
total estimated value.

At the conclusion, the Chairman regretted that so little
was known in this country respecting its mineral wealth,
constituting, as that did, so large a portion of its commer-
cial prosperity. This knowledge was, however, likely soon
to be made public, from the inquiries of M. Le Plaise,
principal Inspector of Mines in France, who had recently
made an extensive tour of inspection, as agent for the
French Government, and who had every where received
every degree of information from the proprietors. The re-
sults of the observations of this gentleman had shown that
the mineral wealth of this country was much greater than
had been previously considered ; and whilst the total pro-
ducts of the coal-mines of France, in 1834, were 1,500,000
tons, those of this country, in 1835, were 30,000,000 ; and
of the iron mines of the former, 230,000 tons ; in this
country it was upwards of 1,000,000 of tons.
An interesting conversation ensued on the subject of cri-
minal statistics, in allusion to a notice given by the Chair-
man, that the Council had appointed a Committee for in-
vestigating the subject.
In connection with this question the Chairman announced
a melancholy fact, resulting from some recent local inquiries
of the Central Society of Education, made in a very poor
part of the parish of St. Marylcbone. It resulted that from
578 families, consisting of 575 children, only 510 go to
school, whilst the remaining 1,065 are destitute of the
means of instruction ! and of the total it was found that
there were but 747 who could read or write, the remain-
der being entirely uneducated.