The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-23 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Mr. Sergeant Tanur applied to the Court to have the
verdict gained in the C4SC of Firns e. Lewis set
aside. It was an action on a Bill (.f Exchange,
and the defence set up was the Statute of Limitation.
He therefore applied on the ground of the letters which
had beenc received within the time.
The letters having been read,
. .

The COURT gave it as their opinion that at the letters
did not contain an actual promise to pay that particular
sum, the verdict ought to be confirmed.

THE LEICESTER CORPORATION.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

This notable Corporation, which appears to out-
Herod Herod in its proceedings, has again signalized
itself by its folly and intemperance. On Thursday
last, at a session-dinner, the Recorder, Mayor, Ma-
gistrates, and Grand Jury, which is composed of
members of this erudite body, are accustomed to
dine together at the Crowns Hotel, after discharging
their respective ditties of Magistrates and Inquest-
men. On this occasion, after the cloth was removed,
the Mayor (who presided) called upon one of the
members to give a toast, which he politely acceded
to; but, " woe unto the sinner,"—he gave, " The
Duke of Wellington and his Majesty's Ministers!"
This was treason to their State, and a deadly
silence—as awful us the tomb of the Captdets—
pervaded the room. At length his Worship, recover-
ing his wonted reason, sympathized with his friends,
and gave, as an antidote, " Champagne to our real
friends and real pain to our enemies!" Mercy on
us! Was it not prodigious! for our Magistrates,
after awarding punishment to others for crimes and
misdemeanours, thus to descend from the judgment
seat and conspire to bring the
,King's Government
into contempt ? How dreadful must it be for his
Grace to know that he has incurred the displeasure
of the sapient Corporation of Leicester! These
are the conservators of the peace, indeed ! Men
covertly promoting sedition should not be invested
with the administration of justice, which is thus
liable to be tainted in its source, and has been per-
verted to serve electioneering purposes!
We hold it utterly impossible that justice, in the
hands of such Dogberrys as these, can be fairly
dispensed. They are self-elected, and it is sur-
prising with what assumption they rule over their
more intelligent neighbours. The obnoxious mem-
ber (Mr. T. Toone), with great propriety and spirit,
sent in his resignation the mat morning.

Dr. WARREN visited Mr. VESEY FITZ-
GERALD yesterday. The Right Hon. Gentleman has
experirneed a slight relapse. The answer to inquiries
yesterday was " Mr. FITZGERALD is not quite so we
today."

Mr. COURTENAY, the Vice-President of thei
Board of Trade, has left town for Berkshire.
The Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT has
arrived in town from a tour in Italy.
The real drama of life is often as replete with
change as the fictions of the stage. What will be thought
of the lady of a baronet, the sister of a baronet, who long
represented the Irish capital in Parliament, and one nearly
connected with the Peerage, making her appearance as
Lady Macbeth, in order to provide for a numerous family,
reduced to poverty by extensive Fpeculations on steam-
carriages? This we understand to be the fact such a
(Out must excite much interest.—Literary Gazette.

SIR THOMAS I, AWR ENCE.—TIIC following is
a list of the pall-hearers :—The Earl of ABEAREEN, Earl
Gowan, Mr. PaaL, lion. AnAlt ELLIS, Sir G. MURRAY,
Mr. CROKER, Mr. flawr DAVIS, the Earl of CLAN-
WILLIAM.

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCL—Twenty-eight
years ago the arts lost one of their votaries by the sudden
death of Mr. WILLIAM HAMILTON, R.A., a man distin-
guished alike for his virtues and ability, and who had long
enjoyed the friendship of the then Mr. LAWRENCE. When
the awful moment had arrived that it was found necessary
to solder up the leaden coffin, and when the undertaker's
man had folded the winding-sheet over the face of the de-
ceased—when the weeping frinds stood to gaze a last fare-
well—l was struck by the circumstance of Mr. LAW-
RENCE approaching the coffin, gently upholding death's
drapery, and, with inexpressible tenderness, replacing it
with all gentleness upon the face of his friend, as if he
thought it had been too roughly done. The action struck
me then as awfully interesting—it dwells, and has dwelt,
upon my mind as a thing .of yesterday.— Correspondent
of a Aforniny Paper.

NOVEL Fox CJIACE.—On Friday last the
Laune Club drew Bellview covert, from which they no-
kennelled a very fine fox, who afforded excellent sport for
several miles through the country; after which, in,order to
evade the pursuit of the hunters, Reynard brushed throm,d,
the streets of Killarney, the dogs in full cry after him,
followed by the gentlemen of the educe in full hunting
attire. This novel circumstance vas a source of con-
siderable amusement to the inhabitants of Killarney.—
Cork Cy' iiutitution,