The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-24 00:00:00

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by the Nchle and Learned Lord near ',Ain( Lord 11roughinni he
cottli no. but think that the Noble ;Ind t_.:.tort 'must. be
a Lttle mistrustful dins own position, n lien he saw that, with
all his commanding and unrivalled powers, and with all his
energy and ability, there was hardly any one who had been in
the habit of acting with him, that was net now directly apposed
to
ipim. he was not aware that any persons in either House,
act,l eonsi.stently on (he pnticiples which the Noble and
-earnuit Lord had prol-ssed, wield be inclined to take the
Noble and Learned Lord at present as their leader.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to make an observation with
reference to the charge which the Noble Alarquis said he had
brought against the Government for altering their policy on the
'remise of the late King. Now he believed it was not till
Nov. 1837 that they had heard for the first time the doctrine of
finality propounded in another place.—( Hear, bear.) Per-
haps he was wrong, and perhaps it had always been professed
as tee prin.,iple of the Government, but he knew that it was
net professed just before the general election.—( Hear,
hear, hear.) Nothing was said about. finality till
the new Queen aril the new Court. came. Now, he had no
doubt the. Noble Marquis thought he had made a very powerful
speech—(Great laughter)e-and if his Noble and Learned
Friend opposite (Lord Lyndhurst) thought he had been da-
maged much, he would address the House ; if not, he was sure
he would not trouble hem. He (Lord Brougham) did not
feel th the had been much damaged—( Renewed laughter)—
hut he wished to reply to the last observation of the Noble
Marquis, which the Noble Marquis might think was very
severe—( Laughter)—namely. that he ( Lord B.) had no party to
follow him. If he were in the Colonial office perhaps he miglit
have had same one to follow hen, but would the Noble Marquis
take the trouble to say how many followed him when he vas
out of office.—( Laughter.) No party to fellow him ! Why
he was plagued from morning to evening, of which he did not
complain, to preside at public meetings. Nobody presented so
many petitions to their Lordships as him elf.—( Hear, hear. )
Was the Noble Marquis ever overburdened with petitions ?
(Laughter. ) He had no objection to make ever all those
public meetings, whether eatrician or plebeian, which he could
not attend, to the Noble Marquis; for he was asked till he
Was sick of refusing to preside at meetings, all on
the Liberal side of the question, and to form a party.
That was the thing he had been asked to do by all Reformers
who stuck to the Reform standard, and he believed he would
soon be able to produce a party that would satisfy the Noble
.Marquis. They would see whether they had any possibility of
acting in corcer, although God forbid he should become a
leader. He was the leader of Opposition in the House of
Commons for many years; and no one. could have led a more
slavish life than he did there, God knew ; although had it not
been for that lead, the Noble Marquis would not have
been a leader of a party now.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.)
The LORD CLIANCELLOI. said that the Noble Lord
bad ...rid that in her Majesty's Speech the attetitioll )f pa 1u dent
',";'••• called to the measures rennittg of:lointstra;.to.i of
Justice, and that none uf these ;K.eonio last
was undoubtedly true ; but whose feel, v-as it that 1110 expe.c-
tat ion so raised had not been realised. t the eoinueetectineet
Of the Session there were two itnvortant nieasures on which
legislation was required, namely, the Ecclesiastical Courts
and the_ Court of Chancery. He ( the Lord Chancellor)
introduced a Bili for the regulation of th, discipline of the
Church, which unfortunately was sent to a Select Committee,
and was there so completely altered that. he no longer consi-
dered himself re-ponsible for it, and merely voted tor the third
reading because he thought it might receive such alterations in
the House of Commons as would make it an admissible measure.
—(Hear, hear.) The House of Commons took a different
• view of the matter, and it was one of the measures which the
Noble and Learned Lord had described as having been
abandoned. This was no fault of the Government, but it was
the fault of their Lordships. On the other subject, the Court
of Chancery, two or three years ago he proposed two Bills for
that purpose, of both of which the Lord Chancellor moved the
rejection. The arrears of cases became so great that he deter-
mined not to let the present Session pass without making some
attempt to correct the evil, and he wrote to the Noble and
Learoed Lord, pressing him to take the subject into his consi-
deration, That proposition was received in a friendly way, and
he hoped that the Noble and Learned Lord would have sup.
ported him. After Easter lie again communicated with the
Noble and Learned Lord, and was glad to hear that he gave
notice of a motion for the production of returns, little expecting
to be blamed for inattention to the wants of the Court. As he found
no chance of obtaining the co- operation of the Noble and Learned
Lord, he turned his attention to see how far the obtaining
of a smaller measure was likely to prejudice the obtaining of a
greater at some future period, and from a consideration of all
t:2e difficulties, he was induced to postpone it until the next Ses-
sion, He trusted he had now satisfactorily explained why
neither of these measures had become the law. He considered,
however, that they ought not to be delayed beyond the com-
mencement of the next Session, and trusted that then the No-
ble and Learned Lord would give his co-operation and
assistance, and be a little more liberal at the commencement
of the next Session than he was on the present.
If his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Lyndhurst) would give
him his support next Session, he truste they might effect a
heneficial change in the Court of Chance dy.
Lord LYNDHURST said he would only advert to the
single fact, that a reform in the Court of Chancery
had been promised in the Queen's Speech, and after a pro-
tracted Session had not been attempted.—( Hear, hear.) He
had reeommended what seemed to him the only practicable
reform—the appointment of a new Judge—and he had under-
stood that his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack had
assented to that measure. He regretted greatly this delay.
I he motion having been agreed to,
Their Lordships adjourned at Eleven o'Clock.

MEETING OF THE BRITISH AS-

SOCIATION IN BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMINGIIAM, FRIDAY EVENING.—AS the time of
Meeting approaches things here begin to wear a more ani-
rizated and promising appearance than they presented at
the beginning of the week. A large number of members
have b en during the last two or three days, and
,c'
d mannerwhich the call for subscriptions has
the spirits:
spon,led to leaves nothing to be desired on this ►
been re
head ; indeed ; believe I am fully borne out in saying that
after providing fnc the necessary expenses of the meetings
during the week, a surplus will remain more than adequate
to the entertainment of the members in the most sump-
tuous manner. A wish lintever, has been expressed In.
tawny of the leading members et' the Association, that it,
present and future meetings should be conducted in that
t,ui,2t and unostentatious manner befitting the character
and important objects of the Society, and it will not be the
least good effected by the meeting in Birmingham, if the
manner in which it is conducted tends to the attainment of
this desirable end. On Thursday the Chairmen, Seere-
tar;es, and Stewards of the different sections were ap-
pointed, and the Local Council hold their first general
meeting to-morrow ( Saturday) morning. Arrangements
have in the mean time been made for procuring the access
Jf non-resident members to cvcr)thing worth seeing in
Birmingham and its neighbourhood, many of the manu-
facturers having liberally communicated to the Council
their desire to throw open their establishment to those
strangers who may feel interested in visiting them. The
Society of Arts will open their exhibition of works of mo-
dern artists to the members of the Association during the..
week, and the Council of the Royal School of Medicine
have also announced their intention of giving free access to
their Anatomical and Natural History Museum. Nume-
rous models have been sent in during the week to the great
rown in the Grammar School, which has been kindly given
by the Governors of the Institution for this exhibition,
as also specimens of the various manufactures under
their dift'erent forms, from the raw material to
the most delicate and highly wrought pieces of
workmanship. 'Amongst the models are several use-
ful. and curious inventions ; one of these is a design for
passing canal boats, by means of inclined planes and simple
and ingenious machinery, from one water level to another,
without the expensive and tedious working of locks ;
another consists of the model of a railway mail, with plan
I for changing the bags at the various stations without ar-
resting the progress of the carriages ; a third is a valuable
contrivance for preventing accidents from the breaking of
ropes or chains in ascending or descending mines;
in addition to which there are models of every description of
steam-engines in operation in Birmingham and the coal
and iron district of Staffordshire, including a highly finished
model of the newly invented Stoke Prior engine.
The Local Council have sustained an irreparable loss in
the leath of John Carrie, Esq , one of the Vice- Presi-
dents eject of the British Association, and President of the
Birmingham Philosophical Institution. He had engaged
to furnish a g-fologieal map of the town and neighbourhood,
for the use of the Geological seciion, a task to which his
devotion to this brute:: of science and his talents eminently
'- fitted him. He was a mat of great arid scientific attain-
ments, and ever ready to lei:d his aid in promoting the
es L
establishment of institutions calcuated to benefit and eon.
tribute to the happiness of mankirO, His remains were
followed to the grave by the members of the Philosophical
Institution and by a numerous body of the i`Jost respectable
• inhabitants, by whom he was held in veneration and esteem.

Her Majesty, attended by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton and Lord Liltord: will return to Buckingham
P,Nllce this afternoon, from Windsor Castle.
Lord and Lady Southampton are daily expected
in Ca,-hon-gardens, from a lengthened tour in Egypt, Pa-
lestine, Syria, Greece, and Italy. The Noble Lord has
been absent from England more than twelve months.
The Ear? of Liverpool and Lady Louisa Jen-
kinson have left Fife House, for Pitchford Hall, near,
Shrewsbury. The Noble Earl will return to town the
week after tiest, when the marring:, announced between
his Lordship's accornplisi. rialightur with John Cotes,
Esq., of Wondeot Hall, Shropr:hire, will be solemnised.
The marriage of the Archduke Albert of Aus-
tria with the Grand Duchriz: Olga is considered in Vienna
to be almost certain.

We should conceive the followinr, Adverti..,eatcot,
which recently appeared
~inifadairtohydin.eiat'p'aper, rather dif-
ficult to be answered :
supposed to have died at Hull, in' x*l-11;erkl‘shloirreri,soinn,tiviiheo37eaasr
1834, should meet this notice. b, c
a. mg on Mr. Craw iord
Macklin, barrister, in the Temple, she will hear of some-
thing to her advantage."
Harvest haessiceordmlmenced in
TII E HARVEST.—
varigo parts of the neighbourhood. y
of barley were cut down at Loehend and in the'y "g'''
fields
g";
i
hood of Dufiding,ston. The weather, though n(Cleld an
wet during the end of last week, Is now all that can bed
wished for prosecuting harvest operations. The harvest
is now generally begun on all the low lands in Dunbar dis-
trict. The crop is excellent.--Edinburg; Evening Con-
rant, Aug. 22,
. FELONIES BY PARISI! OFFlCERS.—lnfopria_
tion has been received at the police offices that on Thursday
i‘til Edwin Davis, who was clerk to Mr. Tilsey, a solicit();
ancl held also the office of assistant overseer for the parish
of N;oretoß.in.Marsh, Gloucestershire, absconded with a
considorable amount of money which he had received in
his eve, 'tit), of assistant overseer. He is about 55 years of
am five 1:let six inches, has a head very full of grey hair,
with dark .'yes and prominent nose. He wore a blue
pilot coat over black clothes, is of gentlemanly appearance,
and professed .11imself to be a half-pay officer in the
Marines. A warrant has been issued, and a reward of
501. offered for Ole apprehension of William Turner, late
vestry clerk of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, who has
absconded, and is charged with felony. He is described
as a very slender person, Jive feet eight or nine inches high,
and about 33 years of age, of fair complexion, with very
light
hair, and is short•ighted. He wore a blue top coat
over a black coat Mith velvet collar.
BRUSSELS. AUG. 21.—The King has received
the letters by which Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid notifies to his
Majesty the death of Sultan Mahmond his father. and his
i own acnession to the throne
a_ The Falnion season is drawing to a close. The
t Inum fishin in Scotland will end the 14th of next month.