The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND left town yesterday morn-
ing,. for the seat of Prince LEOPOLD at Claremont. The
Duke, Prince LEOPOLD, and a select party, spent the day
shooting i❑ the neighbourhood of Claremont.
Count FLAHAur, who has recently arrived in town from
Paris, on a special mission from the King of thy FRENCH,
had a long interview yesterday with Earl GREY at the

Treasury. -
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign Office, which was attetided by Earl GREY, the
NI midis of LANSDOWNE, Lord DURHAM, Vi-coont MEL-
BOURNE, Viscount PALMERSTON, Viscount ALTHOKP, the
Light Hon C. GRANT, and Lord HOLLAND.

The Council sit in deliberation two hours. The Earl
of CARLISLE was absent from the meeting, having left
town for Brighton, in or•►er to be present at the grand
e itertainment given by their MAJESTIES last evening.
The Austrian, French, and Russian Amliassadorg, and
the Prussian Minister, were engaged in conference for
some hours yesterday aft'rnoon, at the Fi.r.•ign Office, with
Viscount Pa riIERSTON.

The American Minister had an interview 'yesterday
with Viscount Patmessxot., at the office of the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs. . . .

Viscount PALMERSTON and ViSCOURt GODERICII visit d
Earl GREY yesterday at the Treasury.

The LoKD CHANCELLOR entertained the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER and a select party to dinner yesterday
at his reshience in Berkeley-square.
Earl GREY had a dinner party la•t ivening at his resi-
dence in Downing.strret.

SIR JAMES SHAW AND MR. ALDERMAN
WAITH'MAN.-Sir JAMES SHAW obtained the civic dig-
nity of an Aldermanic gown in 1798, when he was elected
fur the ward of Portsoken. The worthy Alderman is a
native of Kilmarnock, and was created a Baronet of the
United Kingdom during his Mayorhlty in 1809, with re-
main4tr to JOHN &taw, E.q., of NVhitehall-place, Sir
JAMES being unmarried, and as the worthy Baronet, evhz
is in the 67th year of his age, still continues single, hit
nephew, Mr. JOHN SHAw, is expected to succeed him'
his title and estates. The worthy Baronet's honourabl
opponent was elected Alderman of the ward of Farringdon,
without in 1818, and, at the general election in the same
year, was returned to Parliament as one of the Represen-
tatives for the City. In 1821 he served the office of
Sheriff, and that of Lord Mayor in 1821.

The infinite vicissitudes that chequer the soi-
dier's life have perhaps been nowhere pontttayed with
better effect than in the work of a SrAff Officer beating'
the title of " The En4lii.h Army in France," which has
just reached, we perceive, a a. coed edition. It com-
prises a journal of adventures co=nnected with the Battle of
Waterloo, and with the subsequent events down to the
period of the occupation of France by the Allied Forces._
The miraculous escapes, the wild episodes, the odd stories
and odd c:onpanionsti:ps, the humours, the wild exploits,
the alternations of generosity, and selfishness, incidental to
a military career, are all narrated with an animation :hat
tills our fancy with the obj,cts depicted ; and " grim
visaged War" is nia.le to minister to our entertainment in
a thousand various ways.

On Thursday last the gentry and principal
iah.thitants of the Cinque Ports and the towns in their
vicinity assembled at Rye, for the purpose of discu,sing
the subject of Reform in Parliament, and agreeably to a
;ooil old English custom they prepared C.:ems:dyes fir the
discussion by a good dinner. Ihe dinner was given at the
George Inn, in that town, and more thin 200 hundred
gentlemen sat down to it. CHARLES HicKs, Esq. was
in the chair ; and among the company were—Col. Evans,
B. SMITH, Esq., candidate for Rye; J. FRAZER, Esq.,
candidate for Hythe; SHIRLEY, Esq., candidate for
Winchel-ea; Dr. RANnot.ru, &e. Various resJhations
were passed, and it was finally resolved that they would
communicate with tEe different ports as soon as possible,
after the Ministerial plan of Reform should be laid bef•rc
the House; and that the next meeting should take place at
Romney.

The woollen cloth and wool trades continue
brisk at Huddersfrld, and the markets, generally, wear an
aspect of improvement.—Leeds Intelligencer.
The late fires at Swindon, it has been ascer-
tained, were caused by four of the servants of Mr. WI
LIAMS. and the discovery has occasioned very considerable
surprise—the motives by which they could have been
actuated to the commission of such a crime being involved
in mystery, in consequence of the strict examination which
they were subjected to by the Magistrates, who have been
indefatig 'hie in endeavouring to trace the mischief to its
soul ce. JOHN SWATKINS, a labourer under Mr. WIL-
LIAMS, and living in his house, has, by a confession,
acknowledged his own share in the transaction, and also
implicated three of his fellow-servants, namely, Tit ostAS
TIMMINS, THOMAS LLovn, and THOMAS WILCOX ; and
they h ire all been committed to our county gaol, for ti ial
at the next Assizes. The Magistrates, we understand, are
still pursuing their investigation into the circumstances of
the case.— ►Wolverhampton Chronicle.

AFFRAY ON 'CHANGE.-Yesterday afier-
neon the attention of the merchants and others frequent-

ing the Royal Exchange was drawn to other matters
than business. At about a quarter past four o'clock,
when the Exchange was very much crowded, great con-
fusion arose in consequence of a cry being raised of " A
tight !" All eyes were directed towards that part of the
Exchange usually occupied by persons in the tallow and
oil trades, and it was found that two of the merchants
were engaged in a personal conflict. Eager inquiries
were made as to the cause of this unbusinesslike pro-
ceeding, and the following was stated as the reason which
had led to high words, and then blows :—One of the
parties, a Mr. S—, sold to Mr. B—, some time since, 20
tuns of oil, to be delivered at a future period. The tran-
saction occurred before the receipt of the bad news of the
failure of the Greenland fishery, and since the period of
the bargain and the time of delivery oils rose 261. per tun.
The seller for tome time put off the delivery of the goods,
though repeatedly urged to fulfil his engagements by the
bayer. Yusterilay Mr. B— again called upon Me.
to deliver the oil, and publicly stated the nature of the
transaction. This so enraged the seller that he struck the
first blow, as is said, which led to an exchange of blows.
The officer who attends the Exchange was called to pat t
the combatants, and great confusion prevailed. Ulti-
mately peace was restored. In consequence of the rise in
oils within the period when the bargain was made and
the time fixed for delivery, the loss to the seller, if the
contract was fulfilled at present, would be above 500!.
The subject was much discussed among the trade, and
but one opinion prevails upon the subject.

A journal entitled l' Avenir began to be pub-
lished in Paris after the revolution in July. It is con-
ducted entirely by priests, the chid* of 'whom is the Abbe
DI LA MENNAis. The Abbe and his followers belong to
that fraction of the Catholic church which exalts the
power of the Port; above all temporal authority. lie,
therefore, during the reign of the BouanoNs, called for
severe laws against heretics, and opposed the rights of the
Galilean Church as a kind of heresy. Since the revolu-
tion he has endeavoured to ally the most exalted claims of
the spiritual power with the broadest principles of popular
sovereignty. As the clergy cannot now direct the policy
of the st,te in France, he thinks that he could increase
their power by making them inlependent of it, and there-
fore proposes that they shall be supported by the offerings
of the faithful instead of the ways and means of the bud-
get. But this is not the only singular notion of the learned
Abbe. Hs has found out that none but Catholics are
lovers of liberty, and cites the example of Belgium, Ire-
land, and Poland in proof of his discovery. Ireland is
',laced in the Marne category with the other two states, not
only in its spirit of liberty, but in the certain issue of its
supposed rebellion, and O'CONNELL is eulogized to tl:e
skies as its brave, loyal, and patriotic liberator. This

jumble of doctrines and principles i 3 not a little amusing.
The Able, who is for the universal monarchy of. the
Poet:, can have no sympathy with revolt, unless such a
revolt as Popes former:y sanctioned. In the three cases
where he extols the Catholics for their spit it of revolt, he
found them subjected to rulers of a different faith. Hrocc
the Poles, the Belgians, and the mobs of O'CONNELL,
derive all the merit of their resistance. Were a Protestar,t
people to resist the despotism of a Catholic GovernmetT,
the Abbe's ideas of their merits would ne longer be
same.—Times.