The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-24 00:00:00

WIND SOR.-FRIDA Y.

His Majesty took carriage airings yesterday, both morning
and afternoon, in the Parks. The Duchess of Gloucester ac-
companied the King to day in his carriage. The Queen rode
out on horseback yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester is
expected to leave the Castle at the end of next week.
His Majesty, it is expected, will go to town on Wednesday.

His Majesty's portrait, in his royal robes (by the
President of the Royal Academy), has been placed in Dublin
Castle. Some years ago the President painted a fine likeness
of the Sovereign when Duke of Clarence, which was exhibited
in the Royal Academy.
On Sunday the King of the French went to Ver-
sailes, and visited the works in the Palace, accompanied by
Count de Lowenhielm, Minister of Sweden and Norway, who
afterwards dined with his Majesty at Neuilly. Count de
Wetterstedt, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affaires, was to
have been of the party, but was prevented by severe indispositon.
The Prince and Princess Galitzin, after sojourning
at Bath for a few days, proceeded on a visit to the Duke of
Beaufort at Badminton.

The marriage between King Otho of Greece and
the Princess Amelia of Oldenburgh is to be solemnised at
Munich on the 3d of October.

The Prince and Princess of Capua were on the
14th inst. at Bastia, in Corsica, whither they had arrived five
days before, on board the Napoleon steam-boat. They had
been visited by General Tiburce Sebastiani and the English
Consul, and were to depart shortly for Malta, where they in-
tended spending the winter.
The Hon. G. Berkeley, M.P., has brought to bag
up to the 22d of September, with one gun and a brace of
pointers, five hundred head of game, all but one-and-twenty
brace of which were partridges.
The Hon. MrS. Arthur Stanhope intends passing
the greater part of the winter with her daughter and son-in-
law, at their seat in Warwickshire.

The Speaker and his lady proceed from their seat,
Stubbing Court, Chesterfield, to visit the Duke of Devonshire,
at Chatsworth. The Right Hon. Gentleman, when he was
M.P. for Caine, was auditor to the extensive estates of the
Noble Duke in England and Ireland.
Col. Le Breton, Major Fordyce, and Capt. Pole
are gone to the North, to join the fashionable sportsmen now
assembled there.

Mr. William Holmes only accompanied the Duke
of Cumberland across the water, and returned the next day.
Since that period Mr. Holmes has been in London.

It is said that J. Mackenzie, Esq., only son of Sir
James Mackenzie, Bart., of Roseburgh House, Ross-shire, is
shortly to be united to one of the beautiful daughters of Lord
Viscount Maynard.
The Marquis of Lansdowne visited the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday morning, at his office in Down-
ing-street.
Lord John Russell, the Accountant-General, and
the Chairman of the Excise, transacted business yesterday at
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Office, in Downing-street.
The Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief,
the Adjutant-General, and Mr. Bernard, the Agent for the
Cape of Good Hope, transacted business yesterday at the Co-
lonial Department.
Baron Koudener, the Russian Minister at Wash-
ington, who is at present sojourning in town, is likely to be
succeeded by Baron de Maltita.
The Kendal Mercury states that the health of Mr.
Barham, M.P., is such as to leave not the least hope of his
ever again resuming his Parliamentary duties.
Mr. Charles Wood, Secretary to the Admiralty,
proceeds from the seat of his father, Sir H. Wood, Bart.,
Heckleton Hall, to attend a public dinner, which is to be given
to him and Mr. Protheroe, on the 30th instant, at Halifax.

In consequence of Sir William Alolesworth's late
letter, announcing his intention not to come forward for East
Cornwall in the event of another election, it is said the To-
ries there are striving to get up a requisition, calling on Lord
Eliot to come forward as their candidate.

Mr. William Wordsworth, jun., son of the poet,
is one of the candidates for the Secretaryship of the Birming-
ham and Derby Company.
Mr. Beaumont's house at Hyde Park-corner is at
last finished, and when furnished will be one of the most
beautiful mansions in the kingdom.
Mr. P. Thomson has been on a visit of some days
to Lord Ducie, at Woodchester Park, whence the Right Hon.
Gentleman proceeds to Clifton. _ _

W. S. Blackstone, Esq., M.P., and J. Heaton,
M. P., have left Leamington Spa for London.
Mr. North, M.P., continues indisposed at his seat

Esq

Norfolk.

Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Sheridan arrived at their seat,
Frampton House, near Dorchester, on Tuesday afternoon last,
together with their daughter, the infant heiress of the estates.
The principal Club-houses are undergoing renova-
tion and improvements, preparatory to the return of the several
members from the country.
SHERIFFS' STATE CARRIAGES.—The splendid
state carriages of Messrs. Duke and Johnson, the Sheriffs
elect, have been for some days past objects of considerable at-
traction at the builders', Powells, of Old Bond-street, where
they are now to be seen. Both Sheriffs belong to the Spec-
tacle-makers' Company. Sheriff Duke's carriage is a superb
equipage of a copal blue colour, with the City arms and those
of his Company beautifully emblazoned on the doors and quar-
ters ; the family arms intermingled with the rose, thistle, and
shamrock, palm-branch, and laurel-leaf; the interior decora-
tions are en suite. The carriage of Mr. Sheriff Johnson is
equally splendid ; it is of a maroon-colour, with the arms
richly raised in silver.
We are informed by the parties who sent a parcel of
newspapers to Birmingham, on Saturday last, upon which a
charge of postage to the extent of 2751. was made, that it con-
tained no posting nor hand bills, but merely a schedule of con-
tents, which was pasted on the canvass paper. The fact shows
how necessary it is to be careful in the transmission of news-
papers.—Morning Paper.
The German papers say, that the judicial inquiries
commenced in Brunswick immediately after the burning of the
Palace, in 1830, are nearly brought to a close, and that they
implicate several persons in office.
THE SELF-ELECTED CANDIDATE FOR WIGAN.
—Mr. Wilkins has undertaken the patronage of the very
parties he before assailed. He is the crack orator of the Not-
tingham and Lancashire Conservatives and the intended Re-
presentative for the town of Wigan, in the Tory interest. The
good people of Wigan will be honoured by this amphibious re-
presentative, if they will give him their sweet voices, and the
dramatic ex-editor and ex-radical of Lincoln will doubtless be
a very distinguished evidence of the intellectual judgment of
the electors of Wigan, of which we shall have great pleasure
in congratulating them—when they accept of the honour in-
tended to be conferred by this great talker on both sides,—
who, since 'his exit from Lincoln, has most appropriately
adopted the calling of a barrister, and will no doubt make
Wig-an a convenient stage whereon he may exhibit his apti-
tude of playing " Orator Puff with two tones to his voice."—
Lincoln Gazette.

MY GRANDMAMA V. " MY UNCLE."—The gos-
sips of Romford have been furnished with matter for nine
days' chat, by the fact of a young lady having quitted the
roof of her grandmama without leave or license, and thrown
herself for better or for worse into the arms of a pawnbroker
of the town. Miss was the daughter of a deceased iron-
monger, but her heart was made of neither steel nor marble,
and having once melted before the soft whispers of her
" uncle," all the lectures and frowns of her grandmama
essayed in Vain to redeem it. The consequence was, that on
Wednesday night, just as slumber began to lay his downy
fingers on grandmama's eyelids, the young lady was taken in
—that is, into a chaise and her lover's arms—and away they
whisked to have the twain made one. No doubt, says a wag
at our elbow, the husband will find an addition to the number
of his pledges.—Essex Herald.
CLARA NOVELLO.—TIic cause of her quitting
Paris arose from the ccclessiastical establishment being broken
up, at the breaking out cf the last revolution, in 1830. The
governess of the female pupils, being alarmed for the safety of
the young people—particularly for Clara, who was a foreigner,
and a favourite with her, applied to a friend of the family to
receive her little charge. She was, in consequence, hurried
through the turbulent streets, meeting, in her progress, the
wounded and dead who were being conveyed from the field of
strife. The horrid novelty of the scene produced so strong
an effect upon her nervous system, that, upon her arrival at the
destined asylum of her friends, she sank into a sleeping stupor
in which she remained thirty-six hours; and thus, in all pro-
bability, was providentially saved from an attack of brain fever.
—Musical World.
So far as the Yeomanry of East Cumberland arc
concerned, they have declared, in the most unequivocal man-
ner, that if a change in the Constitution of the House of Lords
is found necessary to ensure the fruits of the Reform Bill, they
are prepared to deal with the Tory Peers after the fashion in
which, in 1830 and 1831, they dealt with their pocket bo-
roughs.— Whitehaven Herald.
Owing to some differences betwixt masters and men
in the tailoring trade, there is at present a strike. It appears
that the masters have formed a Union to destroy the men's
Union, and will employ no one who belongs to it, which is the
cause of the quarrel.—Leeds Advertiser.
The Hue and Cry of Thursday contains the fol-
lowing particulars of a most daring highway robbery. On
Saturday last, as Mr. William Mead, a gentleman re-
sidingi harn
near Aylesbury, was riding on horseback
towards his home, he was stopped within a short distance of
alv
Bielston by five men,
t leoenns evening
who sprung from a hedge by the road
side, and having cut the reins, two of the fellows dragged him
from the saddle to the ground, while their companions plun-
dered him of a red morocco pocket-book, containing notes to
the amount of 75g., as also 5/. in gold and silver, with which
they made off across the fields and escaped,

SCOTTISH CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The Pulpit of the Scottish. Church, London Wall, is
at present vacant, and as it is of much importance to Scotch-
men residing in London, that the choice of the future mi-
nister be such, as may prove more creditable for ability and
popular qualification than many that have been made of
late years, may I request the favour of your giving this a
place in your Journal, as it may be the means of leading to
such a contest of talent, as will terminate in a more satis-
factory appointment than may otherwise be come to.
Many of those who have been educated as Presbyterians,
and who, of course, are much attached to that simple and
rational form of religious observance, have been so mortified,
on coming to the metropolis, at witnessing the glaring in-
competency manifested in the pulpits of their oven denomi•
nation, as to be under the necessity of resorting to Dissen-
ters, and in many instances, of becoming fixed members of
their communities. They have no other choice—it is their
only alternative ; but it is one which would not be thought
of, did merit and not party influence determine the selection
of their ministers. As for the Church of England, with its
enormous abuses, Popish formularies, unintelligible creeds,
diversity of garments, and a routine of worship, savouring
more of priestcraft than of Scriptural authority, I trust
there are few of my countrymen who are found to counte-
nance it. It is fit only for those who are more fond of dis-
play than of common sense, and who consult their Prayer
Books more than their Bibles.

As it will not be long before a decision be come to, at
London Wall, I feel desirous that the present vacancy be-
come known, through your columns, in Scotland, in order
that candidates may have an opportunity of offering, and
the congregation of making, an eligible and satisfactory
choice. Could this be effected, it would be one step to-
wards raising the Presbytery from its present powerless
mediocrity, and if followed up in future appointments, of
placing it in a condition to gain the respect, and promote
the well-being of their fellow-countrynien.
Your obliged and constant Reader,
Sept. 23, 1836. SCOTUS.