The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-29 00:00:00

CHANGES.

Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager Adelaide, and suite, from
Naples, in Ler Majesty's ship Hastings, for Malta, for the win-
ter season ; the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Percy Greathead, from
Florence, for Rome ; Lady and the Misses Bagot, on a visit
to Lord and Lady Maryborough, at Deal Castle, near Kent,
from Dover ; the Dowager Marchioness of Northampton, at
Brighton, from a visit to Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Dickens, at
their seat, Stoke, near Chichester ; Hon. Lady Murray, and
Mrs. Adderley, at Brighton, from a tour; the Hon. Captain
William Byng, at Portsmouth, to join the service companies
of the 29th Regiment ; the Earl of Ilchester, at Windsor
Castle, from his seat seat Melbury House, Dorset; Lord St.
Vincent, and the Hon. Miss Jervis, at Bath, from his Lord-
ship's seat Aston Hall, near Stone, Staffordshire ; the Earl of
Liverpool and Lady Louisa Jenkinson, at Paris, from a tour in
Switzerland ; the Earl and Countess of Hopetoun, and the
Misses Macdonald, at Paris, from a tour in Italy.

Lord Adolphus Fitzelarenee has returned to St.
James's Palace, from a visit to the Earl of Stradbroke, at
Henham Hall, Wangford, Suffolk, where a shooting party
assembled.

Lord Cantilupe has arrived in town from Brickhurst
Park, Kent, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Delawarr.
Sir Richard Bulkeley Phillipps, M.P., has left town
for Shugborough, Staffordshire, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Lichfield.

DEATH OF LADY MARY ALATIIEA TALBOT,
DAUGHTER OF TUE EARL OF SHREWSBURY.—The Morn-
inq Post announces the demise of this lady in France. The
melancholy intelligence reached Paris on the 25th. The
lamented lady was in her 24th year.
It is said that Lord John Russell will leave Cashio-
bury Park in a few days for the Continent, where he will
remain for some weeks.
Between four and five o'clock this morning a violent
thunder storm passed over the metropolis. The lightning
was uncommonly vivid.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family,
Earl of Home, Viscount Emlyn, &c., left Montague House,
Whitehall, on Tuesday, for the Continent, in a suite of five
carriages.
The Earl of Chesterfield has arrived at Chesterfield
House, from Abingdon Abbey, Northamptonshire. The
Noble Earl has recovered from the effects of his late fall.
The Earl of pinto, accompanied by Sir Charles
Adam, left the Admiralty yesterday for Portsmouth. His
Lordship returns to town to-morrow evening.
The Countess of Cardigan, who arrived in town
tin Tuesday, left Carlton House-terrace this morning for
Canterbury, to join the Earl of Cardigan, who is quartered
in that city with his regiment.
" \Veekes, the Irish comedian," says a letter from
the north, dated Nov. 25, and received at our office lest
evening, "is now lying at Perth from the effects of
ight
coach accident, and is not expected to survive tL.Le n,
mortification having taken place.--Gatesheoul robserver.late
DRUrty-LANE TIIEATRE.—.The I,essee of Drury-
Lane Theatre ha; announced Ilosslr.':
Tell for Monday Iv t. -‘As this great work of
the Italian composeT bas .5 celebrated opera of
Aever"
tak en et b
greaeen performed in this
country! INh'.ll7,nn has t pains to introduce
it la a mana,. -
worthy of the high station which it holds as
a musical production. There is every prospect of its turn-
ing out a successful experiment.

IRELAND.

The Irish papers have been found sometimes, perhaps
without any news. TheDublinEveningMailof Monday, how-
ever, has a inorceaux, which, if not over full of an informing
spirit, must at all events ee considered of a somewhat
curious character. We are told by the Mail,._that the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is to be removed. The
announcement is given thus :
" REMOVAL OF LORD NORIVIANBY.
" We can state, on competent authority, that the Mar-
quis of Normanby will take his departure from this ill-fated
country, to which his government has been a curse, within
six weeks of this day. If the system is to be continued
under the management of Captain Drummond, who is by
many degrees the worse person of the two, it were just as
well that the Marquis should remain."
MEETING OF THE PERCURSOR SOCIETY.—On Mon-
day last the adjourned meeting of the Precursor Society
was held at the Corn-Exchange, for the purpose of receiv-
ing the report of the Committee previously appointed.
Peter Purcell, Esq., in the Chair. After the business of
handing in subscriptions, reading letters, and admitting
members, Mr. O'Connell came forward, when the cheer-
ing with which he was, as usual, received, had subsided, he
delivered an address of which we subjoin a short summary.
He began by saying, that, as Chairman of the Commit-
tee appointed on the last day of meeting, it was his duty to
bring up the reports on the questions which were submitted
to that Committee. The first was a reply to an address
from the Radicals of England, which was received from
Mr. Lovett, the Secretary of the Working Men's Asso-
ciation ia London. Mr. O'Connell expressed his disap-
proval
of the contents of their address, and charged those
from whom it emanated with ignorance of Ireland. He
intended to reply to the address in a tone less unfavourable
than he was now disposed to adopt towards them ; for theyhad
been preaching up revolution and the shedding of blood. Mr.
O'Connell then proceeded to admit that he was obnoxious
to the charge of confounding all classes of Radicals together
and imputing to them doctrines that were held only by
the deluded followers of his own countryman, Feargus
' O'Connor—whose recently delivered harangues the Hon.
Gentleman attacked. Mr. O'Connell drew a just distinc-
tion bttwecn " Feargus's eloquence," ignorance, and vio-
lence, an4;lhe good sense of the Birmingham Unionists.
" The people of Birmingham," added be, " have it this
day in their power to make the distinction between honest
and Tory-Radicals, by declaring their opinions in favour
of either resolution. If they go with Feargus, we carinot
in too strong language reprobate their conduct, and ex-
press our disgust at it. If they go with Salt and Ed-
monds, and others of that class, then we can proceed
upon a resolution already adopted by our body. We can
then join with those who observe the law and preserver
order, and who seek for a legal right by no illegal means."
Mr. O'Connell concluded by moving that " the Committee •
have leave to sit again, and report upon the address to
the Radicals of England at an adjourned meeting of this
body to take place on Thursday next."
Mr. Ray then read the rules agreed upon for the general
organization of the Precursor Society.
Mr. O'Connell again presented himself and said—Such
Sir, are the rules and regulations upon which our Society is
founded, and upon which it shall be conducted—there is
nothing ambiguous or doubtful about them—they, in a
word, embrace justice to Ireland from the Imperial Parlia-
ment, and no more. And if an alternative shall arise here-
after, no man in existence shall be able to say that our ex-
periment to obtain that justice was not full and complete.
After some remarks on the necessity of making the
Union complete,
Mr. O'CONNELL said he would acquiesce in the Union.
" Many timid people are alarmed and say that it is not jus-
tice for Ireland, but a Repeal that we are looking for ; but
I here now pledge myself, in the face of my country, and
my constituents, that if the English Parliament do use jus-
tice (and, as I have said, what we want is easily understood)
I will acquiesce in the Union."
At the conclusion of the proceedings Mr. O'Connell
moved an adjournment to Thursday (this day).