The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His AIAJESTY held a Chapter of the Moat Noble Ordi
of the Garter at St. James's Palace, yesterday, at foLr
o'clock, for the purpose of electing his Serene Highness tl e
Duke of BRUNSWICK a Member of the Order, his Serene
Highness being rendered eligible under a statute -pas,4 d
about thirty years since, by which the Sovereign has power
.o admit the descendants of GEORGE H. without forming
a part of the number which the Order. is limited by the
original statutes.
The following Knights arrived at the Palace about half-
past three o'clock :—The Duke of CUMBERLAND, the Duke
of SUSSEX, the Duke of GloccrsTaß, the Duke of
NORTHUMBERLAND, the Duke of DORSET, the Earl of
WESTMORLAND, Marquis CAMDEN; the Duke of BEAU.
FORT, the Earl of LoNsnALE, the Duke of MoNTRosE,
the Duke of BEDFORD, Earl HARDWKKE, Marquis ;'Er._
LESLEY, the Duke of RICHMOND, the Duke of DEVON-
SHIRE, Earl BATHURST, Marquis of HERTFORD, and Earl
GREY; and haying robed themselves in the splendid robes
of the order, the Garter Principal King at Arms had an
audience of the KING, to take his MAJESTY'S commarZa
respecting the holding of the chapter. The Knights then
formed themselves in procession, according to their ral k,
the Sovereign being I.st. On reaching the Th•one-room
(where the chapter was held), the KING seated himself at
the head of the table, round which the Knights were
ranged. The Duke of BRUNSWICK was then duly elected
a Knight of the Order, and was accordingly introduced by
the two Junior Knights (Errl GREY and the Duke of
IlenyoßD), when his MaJesry invested his Serene High-
ness with the insignia of the Order, afrer which the KING
and the Duke embraced.

The QUEEN, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, the Princess
AUGUSTA, the Landgravine of firsst HOMBURG, the
Duchess of SAXE WEIMAR, and their Ladies in Waiting,
were present at the ceremony, and sat to tht. left of the
KING. There was a state chair on the right of the KING
for the Duke of BRUNSWICK.

The officers of the Order present were the Bishop of
WINCHESTER, the Prebve, the_pean of 'Windsor, the Re-
gistrar, Sir GEcinnE NAvut, Garter Principal King-at_
Arms, and Sir THOMAS TrkWHIT, Usher of the Black Rod.
The Bishop of SA TAMMY, the Ch ineelor of the Order,
was absent through indisposition.
His MAJESTY afterwards held a Court, which was rr.
tended by the whole of the Cabinet Ministeis (except P;,.
count PaLstespros), the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Vie.
count COMBERMERE, as Gold Stick in Waiting-. &c.
His Mail:saw held a Privy Council, when the KING'•,
speech, to be delivered on opening the Session of Parlia-
ment this day, was taken into consideration, and agreed
upon.

- A Proclamation respecting the precautions to be observed
to guard again‘t the cholera motbus was ordered by his
MAJESTY in Council to he isvued.

The Hon. WILLIAst BATitt7ltSTat'ended as Clerk of the
Council.—The Couit then broke up.
His MAJESTY gave audiences yesterday to the Duke of
NORMIUMBER.I.A ND and the Marquis of CHOLMONDELF.Y.
At a quarter plst five o!elock the KING, eccminpanied
by the Countess of EititoE. Lord FREDERIcK and LORI
ALGUSTCS FITZCLARENCE, left town fur the purpose of
honouring Loid and Lady RArENswoßTit with .his com-
pany at dinner, at their residence at, Fulham. The
QuEaN, accompanied by theNicheas of SASE AVErmAR
and the Duke of BRUNSWICK, hit in an open carriage.
The Duchess of CAMBRIDGE anti Prince GLoßcr., and
Princess A Et; usrA of Cambridge, also left town fur Fulham.
The Deputies from Belgium waited on Prince LEopoLo
yesterday, and had a conference with his Royal Highness.
Viscount PALMERSToN had an audience of the Prince
y(sterday.

Grind Parliamentary dinners were given last evening
by Earl GREY and Viscount ALTHARP, at their residences
in Downing-str, et ; by the former as First Lord of the
Treasury, to it party of Peers, hutteott,rs of the present
Administration ; and by the latter, as Aliniqerial Leader
in the [louse of Commons, to- a patty of thirty Members
of the Lower House.

The KJNu's Speech on opening the session of R,rlia-
ment, as agreed on by his MAJESTY in Council, was stated
by the Noble hosts to their respective partieS. The guests
at both dinners carne in full Court-dress.
The party at Earl Gar.r's consisted of his Royal.Hig,ll.-
ness the Duke of SussEx, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the
Dukes Of NORFOLK, DEVONSHIRE, LEINSTF.R, BErecto,
and RieitaloNn ; Marquisses Wri.LitsLtnr, CLaNkleaunr,
and LANSDOWNE Earls ALBEMARLE and AloaLr.v ;
Viscounts GODERICH and GIIANVILLE ; Lords Pt es-
Kv.rr, ERSKINE, DuaitAm, and AuctmaNn.
At Viscount ALTHORP'S there were present, the Earl of
BELFAST; Viscounts DKFCANNON, PALMERSTON, and
Howler. ; Lords NUGF.NT Sod Jolts RUSSELL, the Lori
ADVOCATE of Scotland, the JUDGE ADVOCATE-GENERAL,
the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, E. STANLEY, and Sir
JAMES GRAHAM ; the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR-
GENERAL; Sirs J. Al AcmiN ALI), J. AIACINTOSH, IL
PARNELL, J. JOHNSON Messrs. E. BARING, lir. or
VILLIERS, BERNAL. PELHAM. CREEVEY, TENNYSON,
ELLICE, S. RICE, G. LAMB, C. WOOD, R. GEosVF:Solt.
THOMPSON, and SmITH.

Sir R. PEEL gave a grand dinner last evening, at his
residence in Privy-gardens, to a large party.
Prince TALLEYRAND, the French Ambassador, had a
long conference with Viscount PALMERSTON yesterday,
at the Foreign Office. The Spanish and Neapolittra
Ministers, and the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires, visited the
Noble Viwount yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held at a late hour on Sunday
night, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the
whole of the Members of the Cabinet except Mr. STANT.). .
The Cannel' broke up at one o'clock in the morning.
The Commissioners of Imiuiry from Ceylon had a PON-.
ferenee with Viscount Gour-mcn at the Colonial Offica
yesterday, for the first time since their arrival in town.
Viscount GRANVILLE transacted business at the Foreign
Office yesterday with Viscount PAusizaszost.
Mr. STANLEY, the secretary of State fur Ireland, ar-
ri.ei in town yesterday from Dublin, Mr. STAN LEY
visited several of the Cabinet Ministers.

Sir MURRAY MAXWELL, recently appointed to the Go-
vernment of New Brunswick, died on Sunday after a short
i

Viscount and Vi-,eountess GAGE entertained a large
party at dinner yesterday, at Giantow's Hotel.

DEATII OF LORD TORRINOTON.--GEORCE
BYNG, Viscount Torrington, died on Saturday evening, at
his seat, Yates Court, Kent. His Lordship was i❑ the
64th year of his age, and had risen to the rank of Vice-
Admiral of the White. His Lordship had for some time
past been suffering from a lingering and painful illness.
He married first in 1793, ELIZABETH, daughter of PHILIP
LA NWHEAD, Rig., by whom he bad only one daughter.
His second wife, to whom he was married in 1811, was
daughter of Sir Roagar BARLOW ; by her hehas GEORGE,
born 9th of September, 1312, now Viscount TottansG-
TON, and three or four other children. The young Vis-
count is, it will be seen, a minor. The retnains of the
deceased nobleman will be interred in the family burial.
ground at Southill, Bedfordshire, near that of his relative
theunforrunate Admiral Brsc.

WYKE-1-10USE.—On Saturday last the annual
examination of the pupils educated by Dr. JAMISSON, at
Wyhe-house, took place before several gentlemen who had
distinguished themselves at both Universities. The sub-
ject on width his first class was examined, were the
" Anabasis of Xenophon," the "Medea of Euripides, '
the 6rst ;ix books of Euclid, the first and second part o f
Algebra, and plain Trigonometry. The questions sub-
' mitted to them on these stit,jects, and to which they were
requested to return written answers, contained tO,att
much of difficulty as those which freshmen are usually re-
quired to answer at the close of their first year's nsidence.
in the University. The answers which the examiners
received differed, of course, very materially in point of
merit, but, upon the whole, were such as to he no less
creditable to the talents of the pupils than to the skill,
and attention, and assiduity, of Dr. JAMIESON and his
coadjutors. In the course of the morning several speeches
were delivered by the young men, some from the "Medea
of Euripides," ethers from the " ..Eneas of Virgil ;" and
it was evident from the alteration of tones with which
they were spoken, and from the variety of gestures by
which they were aocompanied,' that they not merely re-
peated the words, but entered fully into the sense of the
original authors. The proceedings of the day were ter-
minated by Dr. JAIIIESON awarding prizes, consisting of
medals and books, to those of his scholars whom the
examiners thought most worthy—and the to otter in whiela
he congeatulated tho successful and exhorted them to per-
severance was nut less dilightful than the friendly and
almost paternal kindness with which he implored the un-
successful not to he disheartened by their failure, but to
consider it a stimulus to greater exertions during the next
half year.

Extract of a letter, dated Pembroke, June 10,
1831 :—" Among the novelties splen of here at present,
is the accidental discovery of a pigment resembling and
possessing the properties of umber, both in a raw and
burnt state. The Government amhorities have c used
some experiments to he made with it, the succe.isfol resu't.
,f which, it seems, is likely to introduce it as
l ant
ti_irt.t.7,i,ettir..,2
consumption in the King's Dock-y:sr.ds,
(t.:hoamoruYegmht:t:rtlipbe;speextrttellyneoscrierth,:aili,srai:R....:":pininag—ci.4rsato,h;:tiocistli:i.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

His Majesty, .who dissolved the last Parliament
in person, opens the present with the same form to-
day. This will be an important Parliament in out
hi•tory ; its pro'eedings, therefore, merit every at-
tention. If the schoolmaster have been abroad,—if
instruction be diffused,—let it appear. It has been
hitherto usual with public writers to address classes
and denominations of men, but we scorn this prat.
tire now. It is the cause of the people which is
about to be discussed; it belongs to the people to
watch the proceedings. Whoever can read a Paper
in which is contained a report of the Parliamentary
debates, let him have it in his hand at least once in
the twenty-four hours. If he can be persuaded by
reasoning, that the work of legislation were better
carried on by the nominees of a few Peers and a
few borough-hucksters, and that the people of Eng-
land have nothing to do with the laws but to
obey them, when emanating from so respect-
able an authority, let him subject his will
to that reasoning. But if he thinks that
the people have a right really to choose their
own representatives,—if he thinks they have any
concern in making the laws which they must obey,
—then let him observe who would wrest that right
from them, and upon what pretexts. We again,
therefore, summon the people to attend to the pro-
ceedings of this, perhaps an uni-session, Parliament.
There has never been a more important era in our
history since the time when the last William was
ail: anted to the thrcue. It was customary for the
Ministers of the Crown to allow the Speech from
the Throne to be read at the Cockpit the evening
before it was delivered to Parliament. This prac-
tice has been for many years discontinued ; but
WA) is the prominence of the particular events or
facts which call for notice in such a document,
that we think we can venture to predict the chief
topics which it will embrace. It will probably
state, that as Parliament was dissolved to take the
sense of the country on the all-engrossing subject
of Reform, the new Parliament is recommended to
consider the best and most effectual mode of effect-
ing it, preserving the constitutional authority of
both Houses, the just prerogatives of the Crown,
and the liberties of the people. Adverting to fo-
reign affairs, the Speech will most probably state,
that notwithstanding the civil commotions which
have occurred in different parts of Europe, and the
great contest carrying on in Poland, his Majesty has
a confident hope that peace will he preserved to this
country. As the only concluded diplomatic event
which has taken place since his Majesty addressed
his last Parliament is the transaction by which sa-
tisfaction was demanded and obtained from the
present ruler of Portugal, we need scarcely say
that his Majesty's Speech will embrace that
topic. It will at the same time announce, that not-
withstanding this extorted act of justice, his
Majesty has not yet seen meet to renew diplomatic
relations with the Government of that kingdom.—
In looking to our foreign relations at the present
erisi, we have not only to guard against the chances
of war, but the invasion of disease. The Speech
will therefore, no doubt, allude, though in measured
and prudent terms, to the precautions taken respect•
ing the cholera morbus. On the subject of Belgium
his Majesty cannot announce the termination of any
arrangement. He will, however, refer to the con-
ferences now sitting in London for the affairs of that
country, and will state the principle by which the
conduct of his Government on this occasion has
been guided. That principle, adopted by the Con-
gress, is riot one of intervention in the internal con-
cern! of other states. It has nothing to do with
their mode 9f government, or the election of their
Sovereign. The conferences pretend only to inter-
fere with Belgium to the extent of affording secu-
rity to other countries, and protecting existing trea-
ties against violation. Coming from our foreign
relations to our domestic condition, his Majesty will
describe the disturbances in Ireland, and congratn.
bee Parliament that, however much they were to be
regretted, they had been repressed by the rigorous
exereiw of the existing law, without the necessity of
having recourse to the Legislature for the assistance
of new enactments. In introducing the subject of
the late distuebances in England, his Majesty will
state the well-known fact, that they are in no degree
connected with any political discontent, and
cannot be ascribed to political causes. The dis-
tress in Ireland will demand a similar notice, and
his Majesty will declare that no means at the
disposal of his Government have been neglected to
alleviate ita; severe pressure. He will, therefore, re-
commend the subject to legislative attention, and
invite Parliament•to consider it with that mature de-
liberation which its importance deserves. Such, we
believe, are the principal topics which will figure in
the spe,ch of the King, addressed to his Parliament
assembled on so momentous an occasion, and vigi-
lantly observed by an attentive but a confiding na-
tion. When we consider the circumstances in which
the last Parliament met, and those which surround
us at present, we see so many proofs of the ameliora-
tion of our condition, both as regards our external
relations and our internal state, that we look forward
to the commencing session not only wills hope but
with confidence.—Times.

It is understood that Earl Mansfield is to lead
the Opposition of the House of Lords during the
present Session, and that he will this day move the
Amendment to the Address. Lord Mansfield will
be sufficiently zealous in his opposition, we have no
doubt ; but it yet remains to be seen whether his
abilities correspond to his zeal. In the House of
Commons doubts are not unreasonably entertained
of the zeal of Sir Robert Peel as an Anti-Reformer.
The doubts have their origin in the opinion that he
is too sensible a man to continue longer a strurygle
egainst the determination of the country. No Gene-
cal can fight without soldiers ; no politician can
struggle without the support of at least a section of
the people. But in this case the struggle is
between the whole nation arid those who have
an interest in plundering that nation. A selfish
and interested motive can be assigned without
much difficulty to every opponent of the Bill. Sir
Robert is young and rich, and ambitious ; and he
cannot afford to shelf himself with the incurables,
It is very well for Lord Mansfield, of whom few'
ever htard out of his own circle, hellue his exhibi-
tion nn the day of the Prorogation, to acquire a
little distinction by an extravagant and fruitless op-
position ; bat Sir Robert Peel has already earned
for himself a reputation for ability az a Statesman;
and it would be sheer folly in him to lower himself
to the level of the Londonderrys, Mansfields, &e.
We some time ago copied an able article front the
Scotsman, tracing the want of principle of Sir Robert
Pee!, in common with Burke and every public man of
note in this country, to our oligarchical ascendancy.
No man can be an Englki: Minister under an Imre.-
formed Parliament and an honest manat the same dine.
It would be unfair to try Sir Robert by a standard
different from that by which other public Mi2ii are tried.
The fault we have hitherto found with Sir RoLert
hasof honesty.
rather a want of tact or taste than a want
By affecting more sincerity than nieces-
Lary when speaking against conviction, he in some
measure hurt the ontot!r iwopre of his audience, for
this implied a belief
The Hoouse
zlofohC:whenCommons a
1,
ln
their want of penetration.
have an expressive inter-
jection,
andlember cants a little be-
yond the fair allowance
reasonably on their credulity. draws somewhat un.
itY. There is a due mea-
sure in whining as in etythi
„will he tolerated in the House :T.; Thing
else.e
i.
to deceive the country, but not if h,m let merelyt
y wishesappear
goo openly that he thinks he is also
the House. In a eystem like
ourq,c"-ftvii-ang
on corruption and rottennees hi Churchi and
State, honesty has hitherto bean out of the
question. It is in the leanings of & Ilinister,l
when he can afford to manifest them, that we ought
to look for his character, and we think that the
leanings of Sir Robert have generally been praist,-
worthy. We certainly can discover no sympathy
between him and Lords Mansfield and Londonderry,
and we shall be sorry to see him lost among theM.
Under a Reformed Parliament Sir Robert will make

a good Minister; and afrer that measure has bean '
carried, there ought to be some such indulgence•
shown by Statesmen towards the errors of each other
as is shown by gentlemen in Australia with respect
to that part of their respective lives passed in thi.
country. 'Where no man could be honest, it is not
worth while quarrelling about the degrees of disho-
nesty. When public men are emancipated from the
influences which, under an unreformed Parliament,
they cannot venture to disregard, they may dare to
do their duty to their fellow-citizens with impunity.
—Morning Chronicle.
A Monmouthshire Paper undertakes to lecture us
for contending that an inquiry ought to take place,
before the regular tribunals, relative to the dreadful
transactions by which so many lives were lost at
Merthyr-Tydvil. The writer, like an advocate of
more zeal than discretion, in attempting to show
that the fatal events at Merthyr ought to be buried
in the silence of that grave in which the victims of
civil tumult now find rest, furnishes additional argu-
ments for inquiry. The first specimen of his logic
•s as fellows :—" According to all accounts that
have been published of the late riots at Merthyr.,
there never was a case of civil bloodshed in which
less of legal or Parliamentary investigation was re-
quired. We are not prepared to state officially why
the proper officer omitted to hold an inquest on the
unfortunate beings who fell in the affray, but we are
informed the bodies were all taken away by the
friends of the deceased, and bnried in unconsecrated
ground. To search for and dig up the bodies might
have exasperated the people, and it was therefore a
very proper exercise of discretion, on the . part of
the Coroner, to let them remain quietly in the graves
to which they have been consigned. If the rela-
tives of the deceased have any complaint to make,
let them ask for investigation, and we are quite sure
it will he courted by all against whom even the
shadow of an accusation can be produced." Now,
what is the reason there never was a case of civil
bloodshed in which less of legal Parliamentary
investigation was requited ? Because, says the
writer in the Monmouthshire Paper, " we are not
prepared to state officially why the proper officer
omitted to hold an inquest on the unfortunate beings
who fell in the affray." So because he can give us
no official, or, in other words, Ito account which can
be relied upon as correct, of the ch eumstances which
led to the death of the " unfortunate beings" who
perished by the fire of the military, therefore there
ought to be neither a legal ❑or a Parliamentary in-
quiry. From these premises we should have drawn
exactly the opposite inference—namely, that such a
case was one especially deserving of both legal and
Parliamentary investigation. We are quite sure
that if half the number of the King's subjects, ac-
cording to the lowest account of the casualties of
this transaction, had fallen by the tire of the military
under the Administration of Lord Castlereagh or
the Dulne of Wellint-tton, the cry for both legal and
Parliamentary inquiry would have resounded from
the Land's End to John o'Groat's House. The
writer in the Monmouthshire Paper attempts to be
facetious on a question which relates to the slaugh•
rer of about 20 of his fellow-creatures, and the
mangling of about three times that number. We
are as little dieposed to envy his feelings as to
imitate his exempla. It is quite possible, as Swift
aye, to be a " lively animal and a dull roan ;"
but we are cut prised that any being who
hears a human form, however low his ambition to
shine as a wit may be, should euppose lie found
matter of merriment in the tragedy of Merthyr-
Tydvil. When he condescends to be serious upon
so melancholy a subject, the Monmouthshire Editor
charges us with not having paid common attention
to the " accounts published in our own Paper," by
which we " would have seen that, on the day pre-
-1 ceding the fatal affray, in which so many lives were
lost, the Magistrates were unable to prevent the
spoliation of Mr. Coffin's house, and the other ac►s
of outrage then committed, and, under these circum-
stances, they were compelled to send for the mili-
tary." We have published various accounts, and they
all differ, both as to tl:e amount of life lost, and the
causes in which the fatality originated. It is conse-
quently necessary that the public should have some
authentic account of this sanguinary affair, and
how can they have it unless through the medium
of a legal or Parliamentary investigation) ? It is
only such an investigation that can put the question
at rest, both as to the number of the sufferers, and
the causes which led to so dreadful a catastrophe.

It is said that the friends of the parties do not like
the dead bodies to be disturbed, and it might ex-
asperate them if the Coroner had them disinterred
fcr the purpose of inquiry. This is the first occa•
sion on which we ever head it gravely stated in
England that private feeling was to be a bar to public
justice. There is a duty due to the public in all
such cases which supersedes every prirate feeling;
otherwise even murder would be rarely punished.
If the destruction of life at Merthyr-Tydvil was a
matter of absolute necessity, surely it can be legally
proved. We only call for Mat proof.— Morn. Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 20.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WARD.

This case arose upon an information filed for an
account of the rents of leasehold property, and to
have a lease for 500 years given up to be cancelled.
Dr. Triplett, by a settlement in December, 1668,
vested in trustees the rectory of Hawleigh, in Nor-
folk, and the advowson and the manor called Fish-
ponds, &c., to hold upon trust, out of the rents to
pay 201. a-year to his sister for life, and after to her
children equally, and after their death to pay to the
Dean and Chewer of Westminster the said 20/. to
maintain four of the most worthy schola,s of West-
minster at the University, and out of the same rents
'o pay 15/. and 5/. to the poor of two several pa-
rishes. Two questions were raised. The first whe-
ther the trusts to pay to the testator's sister and
for the other purposes was to be taken as a gift
of the whole of the property for charitable pur-
poses, or only a gift of 201., leaving the residue
to other purposes. The second question was,
whether the advowson was included, the defen-
dant contending that an advowson cannot be
given for charitable purposes; and if it be not in-
cluded, that then it was in the testator's heir-at-law.
Great difficulty exis'ed as to the point whether
an advowson can or cannot be given to charitable
purposes. His Lordship agreed, that if it could
only be made profitable by means of simoniacal deal-
ing, it would not pass ; but then that must be shown.
He saw that it might be used in two different was
without simony. It might be sold, toties quoties,
while there was a plenarty as far as the next presen-
tation; and it might be sold out and out at once,
and the monies applied for the purposes of the
charity. The authorities, however, pressed his
Lordship so much upon this point, that he should
abstain from disposing of that part of the question,
and he invited the gentlemen of the bar to furnish
him with any authorities upon the subject. The
opinion he had come to upon the other part of the
case was, that there was a gift to the trustees of the
whole, not as a tesulting trust, or as it would have
been if the case had been slightly different, but for
charitable purposes. His Lordship was not one who
would strain the meaning of words in favour of
charities further than their obvious signification, and
against the representatives of the families of the
founders. Here the words were, that the gift was
to no other use titan that specified. Was there any
beneficial interest intended or expressed to the trus-
tees? Certainly not. Nothing could have surpri-ed Dr.
Triplett mote than to hear that John Needham, his
trustee, should have made a lease, or rather an alie-
nation, for although it purported to be a husbandry
lea: e, it was fora term of 500 years, to his own son-
in-law, at the same rent which was payable in
1668, although a great rise had taken place in the
value of land. And this was done by Mr. Need-
ham for his own benefit, because he was bound to
pay his son-hi-law 1,2001 , which was released in
considerstion of this lease. A more bineefaced breach
of trust was never practised. As against the per-
sons claiming under the trusts it was clearly void,
and there was enough in the deed to exclude the
heir-at-law, and to admit the rights of the Crown
and of the charities. His Lordship then adverted
to the cases relating to this branch of the law, and
expressing his intention of deciding the point relat-
ing to the advowson, said the appeal must be dis-
missed, and the decree of the Master of the Rolls
affirmed.

OUR7' OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 20.

EGIII. V. HARMAN AND ANoTHER.

In this case, :viiich Was not concluded yesterday
when we went to Arts=, the plaintiff was nonsuited.

PERRY • . TIIE MARQUIS 01, LONDONDERRY.

This was an action against the Marquis of Lon-
dotal:Try to recover 15S1. 4s. l id., the amount of a
plasterer's bill, for work clone at his Lordship's
house, in Park-lane, several years ago. The plain-
tiff, after making out and delivering his hill to the
defendant, made an assignment of the debt to
Messrs. Henning and Co., of Northumberland-street,
Strand, and the defendant had notice of the assign-
ment. The present action was brought in Perry's
name, for the benefit of Messrs. Henning.
The assignment and notice having been proved,
Mr. F. POLLOCK, en the part of the defendant,
proposed to refer the question of amount.
Mr. KELLY, for the plaintiff, observed, that a re-
ference had been proposed on the part of the plaintiff,
some months ago; but he had no objection to Mr.
Pollock's propo-al,provided it were understood there
should be no delay.
Mr. POLLOCK said there was no desire to protract
the payment.
Lord TENTERDEN would give a certificate to au-
thorize the signing of final judgment within ten days
after the amount should have been settled by the
arbitrator.
A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff, sub-
.jest to a reference.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Juxi:
ULLITHORNE V. IRMILTON.
This case, which was not concluded yesterday
when we went to press, was ordered to be referred
to a Gentleman at the Bar.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

MANSION-HO USE.

Yesterday, whir Alderman COW:IN was officiating
for the Lotd Mayor, Alderman Scales entered the
Justice-room, for the purpose of advocating the cause
of a coal-meter, whom he considered to be an active,
honest, but oppressed man. The case, however,
had been postponed to another day, and
Alderman Scales, addressing the Sitting Alder-
man, said that he bad a particular favour to ask,
although not at all in the habit of asking favours.
Alderman COWAN—Pray in what case can I
oblige you ? Alderman Scales—l perceive by the
newspapers that some of tha- intelligent and most
patriotic body, the Common Councilmen of the City
of-London, feel so great an interest in my concerns
as to come to the determination to take my disputed
case into their hands —(A laugh.) Now it was not
my wish at all to be indebted to that most en-
lightened band of patriots in the settlement of my
little difference with the Court of Aldermen, al-
though perfectly aware of their affectionate regard.
—(L;w:hter.) I am, therefore, most anxious to
remain in the hands of the Court of Aldermen, and

I trust that the matter may lie between them and
me, and without the intervention of those worthies,
who hove quite enough to look after the good of the
rest of mankind.

Alderman CowAN—ln what way can I act so as
to enable you to effect your object ? I do not think
it lies exactly wititin my jurisdiction. Alderman
Scales—l wish you to be so good as to represent to
the Court of Aldermen tliat I do not desire the aid
of those benignant and disinterested gentlemen who
:eirim to feel my wrongs so acutely.
Alderman CowAN—I do not think that it would
be proper in me to make a communication of the
kind to them as a body.
Alderman Scales—Why, the fact is, that the pa-
triots are in want of a new committee, in order to
give them an opportunity of gratifying their cele-
brated propensities. All their committees are closed,
not even the Royal Entertainment Committee is any
longer in existence, and they are as hungry as East
India sharks, and long for an inquiry into Alderman
scales's affair with the Court of Aldermen, in order
to put the city of London to an expellee of another
thousand pounds. It is there their kindness and
consideration lies.

Alderman COWAN felt that, as an individual, be
should not be justified in mentioning the request of
Alderman Scales to the Court ; but he thought the
Court would take due notice of a written communi-
cation on the subject.
Alderman Scales felt thankful for the information
in what manner to act under the menaced friend-
ship of that singularly enlightened and disinterested
band of patriots, the Common Councilmen.
It is believed that Alderman Scales will write to
the C,,urt of Aldermen on the subject.
Mr, 14;chard Taylor has, it is ssid, given notice

of a motion in the Court of Common Connell, rela-
tive to the expence of the proceedings against Al-
derman Scales, and intends. to move that such ex-
pence be defrayed by the individuals foro►ing the
Court of Aldermen.