The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-06 00:00:00

NEW PARLIAMENT.

EDINB UR
SCOTCH PEERS RETI
SIT IN PM
Marquis of Queensberry
Tweeddale
Earl o- f
Morton
- Elgin
- Selkirk
- Leven and Melville
- Home
Viscount Falkland

GH, JuNz 3.
URNED THIS DAY TO
ILIAMENT.

Viscount Strathallan

Arbuthnot
Lord Napier
- Colville
- Saltoun
- Belhaven
- Gray
- Forbes

REWARD OF MERIT.

We have seldom had to record, among dinner speeches,
:ny thing half so much to the purpose, or more creditable
ro the speaker, than the few words in which Sir Chap-
man Marshall, one of the Sheriffs of London, returned
hanks on his health being drunk at the late dinner of the
Patrons and Governors of the different charity schools of
the metropolis. The Sheriff's words were few, and well
worth repeating :
On the health of the Sheriff's being proposed, Sir Chapman
Marshall addressed the company in these terms, amidst loud and
reiterated acclamation :—" My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen, I
want words to express the emotions of my heart. You now see
before you a humble individual who has been educated in a
parochial school.—(Loud cheers.) I came to London in 1803
without a shilling, without a friend. I have not had the advan-
tage of a classical education, therefore you will excuse my de-
fects of language.—(Cheers.) But this I will say, my Lord
Mayor and Gentlemen, that you witness in me what may be
done by the earnest application of honest industry ; and I trust
that my example may induce others to aspire, by the same
means, to the distinguished situation which I have now the ho_
your to fill."—(Repeated plaudits.)
To call this eloquence would probably offend some of
our high flown, frothy, figurative orators. We will,
therefore, content ourselves with designating it as the
language of good sense; and especially as bringing forcibly
hack to mind that national characteristic of this country,
by which men in former times used oftener than they have
of late years, to rise by means of honest industry from the
lowest to the highest stations. We rejoice to see, that in
this it,te of mischievous speculation, when commerce and
gaming have become too nearly allied, there are still in-
stances of the way in which our merchants of old rose
from obscurity to rank, and from poverty to opulence.—
And we rejoice the more at such instances when we see
them, as in the case before us, unaccompanied by that false
pride which too often leids men who have been fortunate
in life, to forget both the origin and the means from which
their success has sprung.—Morning Herald.

iVe regret to say that we have just been in-
formed that Mrs. SIDDONS has been taken suddenly ill,
and it is feared that she will nut survive many hours.—
Morning Paper.

THE SILK TRADE.---We regret exceedingly
to state that some failures have occurred in the silk trade
in London within the last few days, one or two being
houses of the first credit. In all, two merchants, three
buying establishments, and a large broker, have been com-
pelled to suspend their payments. The trade is very dull.
—Leeds Mercury.

NEW BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.---A
Benevolent Association, it is stated, is on the eve of being
formed I.y the Sheriffs' Officers of the county of Middle-
sex, for the purpose of affording relief to the distressed
members of that fraternity. A wag observes that this
Association should be named " The Catch Club."

BRIGHTON LADIES.—It appears from the
census that the ladies are in proportion of nearly 21 to
17 to the male inhabitants of this fashionable watering-
place. The number, as at present ascertained, are—
Females, 20,975 ; males, 17,018:—Majority of females,
3,957. In 1821 the population amounted to 24,429, of
which the males were 11,019, females 13,410; an in-
crease in the population of 13,564 has, consequently, since
taken place.

The fine rains we have lately experienced, and
the very heavy dews which have fallen for the last few
nights, have been productive of the most happy effects
upon the crops. The grass lands are in very tine condi-
tion, and the hay harvest, which will very shortly com-
mence, is expecttd to be a highly productive one.—Dorset
Chronicle.

Au officer in the army, whose name has of
late engaged the public attention, has been dismissed his
MAJESTY'S service.—Standard.

A correspondent, who describes himself as
" an occasional visiter at the Zoological Gardens," asks if
some of the attendants there are allowed to learn their
manners from the Bears? and that, if so, Bruin hay the
advantage.

A TAME PIKE.—Mr. MooRE, Mill Oak,
Brenchley, has a pike in his fish-pond so perfectly tame
as to come to the edge of the pond and eat out of the
hand of any person presenting a worm. Our informant
last week not only saw the fish come and eat out of the
hands of different persons, but be himself also proved the
fact by presenting a worm, which the fists caught out of
his hand with avidity, and darted away to his retreat in
the bottom of the water.—(Maidstone Journal:
THE LIVES OF THE ACTORS.—The object
of this forthcoming work, by*Mr. GALT, is to furnish
literary portraits of the Actors most distinguished either
for adventures or talents, and to exhibit at once their
characteristics, both as men and as players, with such
.ketches of their biography as may render the work ac-
ceptable alike in the parlour and the library. It must be
admitted that no class of persons possess a stronger claim
to attention than the players who contribute so much to
enliven refined society.

LAFAYETTE'S SOI REES.—DUring the season
which has just closed at Paris General L A FAYETTE gave
weekly soirees ; these have concluded, and the patriot of
three revolutions has retired to the shades of La Grange,
his estite, a short distance from Paris. The receptions at
his soirees were con,lueted with true Republican simpli-
city. He occupied four apartments on the first floor in
the Rue d'Anjou, one of which was nearly filled with a
bed. Here might be seen, crowded for room, O'DILLoti
BA EROT, AlAuooix, General LAMARQUE, and many
eminent persons, destined, probably, to play important
parts in the affairs of their country. The ladies were
seated round the apartments; they were chiefly women of
talent, who had distinguished themselves as votaries of
the Muses, and for devotion to literature; among the
number was Mrs. OPIE, conspicuous by the neat trimness
of her drab-coloured silks.

We were, some time since, informed by a
highly-respectable gentleman that there existed a retularly
organised conspiracy amongst the Irish Tories to drive the
people into rebellion, fur the purpose of embarrassing his
AIAJESTY'S Ministers, and by so doing, perhaps, defeat or
put off the Reform Bill. Although our informant was a
highly-intelligent man, we absolutely laughed at him for
what we considered the absurdity of his imagining any
thing so monstrous. We have now, however, reason to
think the gentleman whom we allude to was perfectly cor-
rect in his staement, for the ramifications of the plot are
evidently breaking out in the counties of Carlow, Wexford,
and Waterford. In the county of Carlow people have been
turned out of employment by some of the gentry, in such a
manner and to such an extent as to render it necessary to
call a public meeting, in order, as says a resolution passed
at it, " to defeat the designs of those who would, through
selfish or bigoted motives, disturb the peace of the country,
by provoking the passions of the labouring population."—
IVuterford Chronicle.

LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR
THOMAS LAWRENCE.—The delightful letters of the late
President constitute one of the principal charms of this
Work—e.pecially those c. nnected with the late QUEEN
and the Princess CHARLOTTE, which will be read with the
most intense interest. The painter's correspondence with
his sister, with Mrs. WOLFF, Mrs. ANGERSTEIN, AESS
CROFTS, Mr. FARINGTON, Mr. LYSONS, and other per-
sons with whom he was intimate, exhibits all that warmth
of feeling, and all that originality which are the never
failing characteristics of a first-rate mind. The work is
indeed inestimable, as a record of one who had for years
contributed to the refined pleasures of our time, and who
has immortalized by the magic of his pencil the beauties,
the statesmen, and the learned of the commencement of
the 18th century.
The Reformers in Kent are so well pleased
with having wiped off the stigma that has so long attached
to them for returning a Tory as one of their county Mem-
bers, that a dinner to celebrate the triumph of Reform,
and the return of Messrs. HODGES and MILLS, is to take
place at Rochester, on Wednesday the Bth of June, to
which many of the principal liberals of the county are in-
vited. A very large room, the property of SAMUEL
BARER, Esq., the chairman upon the occasion, has been
fitted up, capable of dining 500 persons; and though this
number of tickets has been sold, such is the demand fur
them, that a public notice has been put forth, stating the
regret of the Committee that no more can be issued; in
consequence of which they now bear a very high pre-
mium. In the preparations, no trouble or expence has
been spared ; vocal and instrumental .music, banners, a
gallery for the ladies, and the most tasteful decorations
have been provided to give an eclat to the celebration of
this triumph.