The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-29 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Sir Charles Broke Vere, Bart. from Gould's Hotel, Jermvn_
street, for his seat, Broke Hall, near Ipswich ; 11. Villiers Stuart,
Esq. M.P. and Captain Stuart, from Warren's Hotel, Regent_
street, for the Continent; Charles Thompson, Esq. from Ellis's
Hotel, St. James's-street, for France; Mr. and Mrs. W. Met.
calf, from Grosvenor-sheet, for Brighton; Captain Leake, from
Albemarle-street, for Bath.

His MAJESTY held a Court yesterday after-
noon, at his Palace at Windsor, which was attended by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the Lord President of the Council,
the First Lord of the Treasury, and the Secretaries of
State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the Lord
Steward of the Household, the Treasurer• of the House •
hold, the Recorder of London, &c. At the Court the
Recorder of London was introduced into the presence of
the Kinn in Council, and made his report of the convicts
capitally convicted at Justice-hall in the Old Bailey during
the December sessions, when his MAJESTY was graciously
pleased to reprieve all of them during his pleasure. The
KING gave audiences to the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke
of WELLINGTON, Earls BATHURST and ABERDEEN, and
Mr. Secretary PEEL. The Earl of CHESTERFIELD was
the Lord in Waiting, Sir ANDREW BARNARD the Equerry
in Waiting, and Sir EDMUND NAGLE the Groom in Wait-
ing. An elegant dejeune, was prepared for the Ministers
on their arrival from town. His MAJESTY entertained the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earl
BATHURST, the Earl of ABERDEEN, Mr. Secretary PEEL,
the Earl of CHESTERFIELD, and Sir Was. FREMANTLE,
to dinner in the evening.

Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD passed an un-
favourable night on Wednesday night, and was not so well
yesterday.

SCOTS APPEALS.—It is understood to be
quite settled that Lord WYNFORD is to hear Appeals next
Session. His Lordship, indeed, was raised to the Peerage
last summer, on an implied condition that he should give
assistance as Deputy-Speaker in the House of Lords ; and
he is in many respects well qualified for this important
station, being unquestionably a man of high talent, ready
elocution, and known professional experience.—Edinburgh
Advertiser.

It is supposed that Mr. ALEXANDER, the
Editor of the Morning Journal, and the other persons
connected with the paper, who were found guilty of libels
upon the KING, the CHANCELLOR, and his MAJESTY'S
Ministers, and also the House of Commons, will be brought
up for the judgment of the Court on Monday next. Mr.
'Veins, the solicitor for the Treasury, was in consultation
with the ATTORNEY-GENERAL on Wednesday morning for
a considerable time. Some reports say that they will be
brought up on Tuesday; but as Mondays and Thursdays
are the judgment days, it is most probable that the Court
will not break through the rule on this occasion.—Morn-
ing Advertiser.

County Meetings thicken on us as the meeting
of Parliament approaches. Mr. JAMES, late Member for
Carlisle, at th e Cumberland Meeting on Tuesday last, of
which we give a report, avowed boldly that he " was for
low prices, low rents, and low taxes. He should like to
know who ever heard of the farmers or of the people of
England being injured by low prices in any former age ?"
" To attempt to cure the evils we were enduring (he
said) by again resorting to a depreciated currency, would
be committing a double injustice, producing increased
confusion by a second alteration of existing contracts. He
hoped never to see the day when a Minister of this coun-
try should have again to resort to so base, so vicious a
system of finance. Look at that state of things which
enabled a country, during a long, a wasteful war, to enjoy
what was called prosperity ; and which, after fifteen years
of profound peace, left thousands and tens of thousands of
the people in want and rags--living upon twopence a-day,
or dying at our doors in hunger and starvation. . .
The Duke of WELLINGTON had said, during the last
Session of Parliament, that to return to a depreciated cur-
rency would not only be attended with injustice, but go
far to endanger the existence of the State itself. With the
Premier he fully coincided." As one of Sir JAMES
GRAHAM'S constituents, he called on him to insist on the
remission of taxes—" it was his duty to oppose all grants
for the building of Palaces—to stand forward and boldly
denounce such scandalous extravagance committed at a
time when the people were starving."—Morning Paper.

The respected relict of ROBERT BURNS,
who, we are happy to say, still enjoys tolerable health,
and is spending most tranquilly, and in all comfort, the
evening of her days, received last week a well-written
though most singular letter, in which the author, after
many apologies, expresses himself to the effect, that she
would be good enough to prepare, wait her own hands, a
Scotch haggis, and address it to the care of the post-
master of Dairy, so that the said precious compound might
arrive in time to grace the anniversary meeting of a Burns'
Club, which was to be held in a certain town in Ayrshire.
The writer farther states, that there is no coach that runs
to the town or village in which he resides, and as we
know of none that travels from Dumfries via Dairy, we
presume he meant the haggis to be sent by post.—Dum-
fries Courier.

SHERIDAN ON HIS KNEES.—When SHE-
SUDAN lost his election for Stafford, his friends were as-
sembled for the purpose of dining after the fatigues of the
poll, when no host was forthcoming to preside at the not
very festive board. Amongst the party, however, was a
very fascinating young lady, who had taken great pains in
forwarding the interests of the defeated candidate, and who
was so much moved at his mishap, that like another
Niobe, she was melting into tears at the failure of her
favourite, when he unexpectedly entered the room. Being
made acquainted with the cause of the fair mourner's sor-
row, he fell on his knees before her, and breathed forth the
following gallant impromptu :
" Oh ! what will become
Of me, a sinner!
I've lost my election,
My heart, and my dinner !"

THE FRENCH OPERA.—The representation
given last night at the Royal Academy of Music, for the
benefit of the poor, was as brilliant as it was productive.
The accounts have not yet been balanced, as free gifts con-
tinue to arrive momently from persons who could not at--
tend. The receipts may already be estimated at upwards
of 50,000 francs-2,0001. sterling. The presence of the
KING, of the DAUPHIN, the Duchess of BERRY, and the
whole of the ORLEANS family, added to the brilliancy of
the meeting—the object of which was beneficence. Inde-
pendent of this motive, which acts so powerfully upon
French hearts, the presence of four first-rate talents
formed an additional attraction. Mesdames SONTAG,
CINTI, MALIBRAN, HEINEFETTER, proved such a constel-
lation as will not be soon again beheld. Mademoiselle
SONTAG has gloriously terminated her dramatic career in
Paris. The public called for her with much anxiety after
the curtain fell, and many chaplets were thrown down at
the moment of her re-appearance. Blessed were the
dilettanti who had it in their power to attend, for they
may one day exclaim, " I, too, was present at the repre•.
sentation of the 24th of January, 18'30 !"—Journal du
Commerce.

The small pox is very prevalent at Welling-
borough : many have died, but we cannot learn that any
have died who had been vaccinated, although a great
many instances have occurred, where those who had the
cow pox have taken the small pox.—Drakard's Stam-
ford News.

NOVEL EXHIBITION OF A STEAM OMNl-
nus.—On Wednesday afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, an immense number of persons assembled in Os-
naburg-street, Regent's-park, and the New-road, to wit-
ness the exhibition of a new invented steam Omnibus,
which proceeded from Mr. BRAITHWAITE'S manufactory,
in Albany-street, Regent's-park. The steam-apparatus is
in the front, in a machine something similar to a light
cart, guided by two men and an engineer ; and the Om-
nibus is attached to it, with a boy to attend on passen-
gers, in the usual manner. The Omnibus was filled with
passengers. The velocity with which it proceeded along
the roads was surprising, passing every other vehicle that
attempted to compete with it. There were several gen-
tlemen on horseback, and they were compelled to keep
their horses on the full gallop to keep up with it. From
the general appearance, there cannot be any doubt of its
answering in every respect; and there is a great advantage
by the machine containing a plentiful supply of coals and
water. From the speed with which it proceeded, passen-
gers could at any time leave Paddington, and reach the
Bank in a quarter of an hour. —From a Correspondent.

THE TITHE SYSTEM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

•Sts,—The last Number of the Quarterly Review is
ominous in more respects; than one; I invite your atten-
tion to the following passage in an article on Tithes
" It is most desirable that no arrangements should he
made for the commutation of tithe upon land, tending to
weaken, either in the minds of the Parishioners, or of the
Incumbent himself, the impression that his professional
emoluments constitute a compensation for the due dis-
charge of his professional functions; and that without
the strict fulfilment of this condition, he has, neither in
equity nor in honour, any title to the profits of his benefice."

You will observe, Sir, that this article is written in de-
fence of the Church, and in vindication of her claims to
tithes; the admission is therefore made by an unwilling
witness, and it amounts to this, that where the Clergy do
not reside (residence being clearly one of their professional
functions) they have no claim in equity or honour to pro-
fessional remuneration. The question, then, for the
public, is, how is this duty to be enforced ? and if not en-
forced, bow is the payment to be resisted ? 1 despair of
any remedy from the Bishops; pluralities, and non-resi-
dence have grown up under their fostering care. But the
interest at stake is too important a one to be neglected,
and I wish, through your columns, to put it deliberately
to the country, whether the Legislature should not at length
be called upon to interpose its authority between these
unjust claims of the Church, and the just rights of the
people ? Let every parish, where no Clergyman resides,
petition Parliament to be exempted from the payment of
tithes to the absent Clergyman, and let us then see how
Parliament will deal with the question.

Your obedient Servant,
AN ENGLISH PROTESTANT.
January 26, 1830.

ETON BOYS NEGLECTED.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—You are a great practical Reformist, and you
will do the rising generation a service by the insertion of
the following letter in your Paper, as it has for its
object an improvement in the system of education at our
great National Seminary of Eton ; for if the masters adhere
to the usages begun centuries ago, and will not keep pace
with the improvements of the age, it will cease to be the
great landmark that we have so loiag looked up to; and
on enquiring of the curate of my parish, he informs me
that in the examinations for prizes at the University of
Cambridge, the Eton men rarely are successful, and
that it is notorious how inferior they are in that classical
knowledge for which the last generation was celebrated.
Your's, PHILO.

TO THE REV. Da. KEATE, HEAD MASTER OF ETON.

SIR,—My son went into the 6th form a year ago, and
on examining him during the holydays I was grieved to
find that he had made no progress in his learning, and
I almost thought he bad retrograded, and on a minute in-
quiry I found that during the last half year he Lad been
only called up twice to construe his lesson, and so small
is the chance of it that he rarely Went prepared, and lie
believed it was the case with most of the boys ; and my
son added, "We cannot lose our places." Surely this
security to an idle boy, and the want of encouragement to
ati industrious one, is a great evil, and might be corrected
by occasional examinations, and if the classes were smaller,
this temptation to go up to lessons without preparation
would be much diminished. I know you have the cha-
racter of Eton much at heart, and will take in good part
what proceeds from a good motive, and as I hope the
College will soon enable you to retire from your labours,
by bestowing on you some signal mark of their approba-
tion, you will leave Eton not merely great in numbers, but
greater still in character.
Yours, faithfully and truly,
Kent, Jan. 25, 1830. p.

DUELLING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—l have read with much interest a communication
on the subject of Duelling from a clerical correspondent.
I differ, however, from the benevolent clergyman, and am
inclined to think its utility in a worldly point of view can
be easily defended. In framing the ingenious project of a
Court of Honour, I do not think your correspondent has
sufficiently taken into account a motive which often forms
a portion of the incitements to personal insult and ag-
gressi,A.

- A motive which often has a large share in inciting
one man to insult and challenge another is this—a hope
and expectatio❑ that the insult may be inflicted without
involving the insulter in personal danger. One coward
threatened another with a horse-whipping, who answered,
" you and I know very well whom we may horsewhip."
The effect of the court of honour would be the multipli-
cation of insults belonging to this class. There are many
men who, if they knew an apology was the only reparation
which could be exacted for their aggressions, would be
much more lavish of those aggressions than they are now,
that the reparation required is to suffer a pistol to be dis-
charged at them.

With regard to the few notorious duellists I consider
them to be fools, they are pests to society, and are con-
tinually interrupting its harmony, because in their stu-
pidity they imagine that honour is a word of such limited
signification that it means nothing more than a disregard
of personal danger. These vain blockheads fancy that as
their affairs of honour accumulate, their reputations ascend.
Nothing can be more absurd than such a notion, ard the
miserable beings who entertain it should, by common con-
sent, be kicked out of the society their idiotic conduct die-
turbe.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A MILITARY OFFICER.

Jan. 19, 1829.
*,,,* We shall be happy to hear again from our sensible
and spirited Correspondent. —Ed. Sun.

SHAM NAVAL BAT TLES.