The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-10 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, FEB. 8.

The KING, accompanied by the Duchess of Cumnita-
LAND, &c., took an airing yesterday in carriages. The
Royal equipage stopped in Regency-square, where the
Marchioness of ELY, who is the Lady in waiting on the
QUELW, paid a morning visit to Sir ROBERT and Lad)
WIGRAM. The KING proceeded on towards Shoreham
with the Duchess of CUMBERLAND.

The town is fast thinning. No less than fifteen carriages
and four left here yesterday. Many families, however,
remain, in order to be present at the party which will be
given by their MAJESTIES on the 15th.

Their 111AJE9ru9, it is said, will leave here on the
1 Sth inst., and will not stay till the 21st.
The fortunate winner of the splendid box raffled for at
the Dutch fair was the Duke of DEVONSHIRE.

The Civil 1
and appointed Si]
The following MI
Sir H. Parnell
Mr. Goulburn
Sir Robert Peel
Lord Althorp
Mr. Arbuthnot
Lord Morpeth;
Mr. Herries

.
Ast Committee
• HENRY PARNELL
.tubers compose the
Mr. Hume
Mr. F. Lewis
Mr. Baring
Mr. Banked
Mr. M. Fitzgerald
Sir E. Knatchbull
Mr. Ward

net on Tuesday,
the Chairman of it.
Committee :
Mr. Maberly
Mr. J. E. Littleton
Sir John Newport
Mr. H. Drummond
Mr. Palmer (Berks)
Mr. 'l'. S. Rice
Lord Lowther.

The following reductions have, it is said, been
resolved upon by the Ministry :L—Captain the Hon.
COURTENAY BOYLE, Superintendent of Transports; and
JOSEPH Tucxxx, Esq., one of the Surveyors, are to retire
from the Navy Board ; and Captain J. WOLLEY, Royal
Navy, Deputy Comptroller : and JOHN WEIR, M.D., are
to retire from the Victualling Board. No successors are
to be appointed to these vacancies, but the Boards are to
consist of the present members, with these reductions.

A messenger arrived on Tuesday at the town
residence of A. BARING, Esq., and stated that a valuable
farm upon that gentleman's estate in Hampshire had, at a
late hour on Monday night, been discovered on tire.
Every exertion was used by the servants and others to sup-
press the flames, but without effect, and the whole was
consumed. The fire is supposed to be the work of an in-
cendiary, which is rather extraordinary, as Mr. BARING
not only refused to appear against COOK, who attempted
his life, but, together with the whole of the members of
his family, signed the petitions in favour of the convicted.
Three tenants of the Earl of HARBOROUGH
lately waited upon Isis Lordship, humbly requesting that
he would take into consideration the great loss they bad
sustained amongst their sheep, and other difficulties of the
times, in order• that some reduction might be made in
their rents. His Lordship attended to their statement
with great affability, but informed them, that as his trades-
men's bills must be paid, and that certain repairs had been
made at his expence, he could not at present grant them
the relief they wanted.—Stamford Champion.

A paragraph has appeared in a weekly paper,
and copied into the London Papers, stating that a fracas
had taken place between the young gentlemen at the Pa-
vilion and the juvenile visitors, the details of which have
but one fault, and that is a bouncer—they are destitute of
truth. The matter so gravely alluded to was of a light
and laughable character, and totally unmeriting particular
notice.—Brighton Guardian.

BOROUGH OF LEICESTER.—If the exposure
produced by Mr. OTWAT Cava's Parliamentary returns ;
if the known and acknowledged expenditure of money in
his and Sir CHARLES HASTINGS' election, with all the
particulars of secret service money, and of that enlighten-
ing correspondence which ensued between Mr. OTWAT
Cava and the members of the corporation; if the
smothering of the elective franchise of the resident.bur-
gesses by the creation of 2,000 honorary non-resident free-
men ; if the number of charities, of large amount, at the
disposal of the corporation, the application of which the
town knows nothing ; if the sufferings of 5,408 indi-
viduals committed to gaol in the space of a few years, un-
convicted of any crime; if the increase in the charge upon
the borough in a few years from nothing to 400/. per
annum, and the further increase in a few years more to
4,0001. per annum; if the case of Mr. THOMAS FIELD-
ING, though not the last, nor the least of similar occur-
rences, will not stir the town to demand a Parliamentary
inquiry, nothing we can say can have that effect. We
hope we hare done our duty; but whatever course the
town may think right to adopt, our efforts shall nut be
wanting in so good a cause.—Leicester Chronicle.

BOROUGH OF SHAFTESBURY, AND THE
PATRIOTIC EARL GROSVENOR.—The Earl GROSVENOR.
appears to be acting a meet severe and impolitic part in
this borough, of which lie is what is called the " Patron."
Since the election he has served notices to quit on 33 of
his tenants who did not vote as they were expected, and
he is daily increasiHg the number by small degrees to
prevent any sudden effervescence of feeling. Of the
33 tenants who have already been served, 17 gave plum-
pers for the independent party, nine gave one vote to their
landlord's nominee and one to the independent candidate,
five gave plumpers to the patron's own nominee, and two
tenants are to be ejected for not having voted at all.
These last instances are perhaps unparalleled i❑ borough-
mongering history; the tenants are both respectable mem-
bers of the Society of Friends, one is Mr. Mutual., who
has lived iu his present residence for upwards of twenty
years, and has never voted against what is called " The
Property." At the late election he said he could not, in
his conscience, vote for his landlord's nominees, but that
he would certainly not vote contrary to his wishes, and
therefore did not vote. The other tenant to be ejected for
not voting is a Mr. Bavar RARE, a man of property and
of known uprightness; on being repeatedly sent for by
the agents, he presented himself at the poll and tendered
his vote for his landlord's nominees, but being required to
take the elector's affir►nation, he declared that he could
not without perjuring himself, as he should do it under
fear and intimidation, owing to the threats which had
been held out by the Earl's agents, and this lie considered
as an infringement on the freedom of election, and in effect
the worst species of bribery and corruption. Is it to be
wondered that the people cry aloud for Reform, when Peers
can thus legally punish electors for net submitting to be
perjured ? Or is it surprizing that the people lose all re-
spect for the aristocracy, when its most prominent mem-
bers thus lose all respect for themselves ? These proceed-
ings have produced a great degree of excitement at Shaftes.
bury, where a Reform meeting was held on Wednesday
last, for the purpose of making the facts of this Noble
Peer's " patronage" known to the Government and to
both Houses of Parliament ; and also for the purpose of
petitioning for the extension of the elective franchise to
the adjoining hundred, or for the vote by ballot, as the
only effectual protection which can be afforded to the elec-
tors.— Chester Courant.

A considerable sensation has been produced
in Horsham and the neighbourhood, during the last week,
by the arrest of several individuals, who, it is alleged,
were engaged in the tumultuous proceedings of the pea
santry in November last.—Brighton Guardian.
THE KING OF SWEDEN AND THE ENG-
LISH SPORTSMAN..-111r. LLOYD, our countryman, who has
so highly distinguished himself by his work on the " Field
Lports of the North of Europe," particularly as relates to
the dangerous chase of the bear in Scandinavia, has be-
come a great favourite, not only with the highest classes
of Swedish society, but at the Court of Stockholm. He
has had several interviews with his MAJESTY, has been
invited to the Royal table, and is just appointed Master of
the Skalls for Wild Beasts; a commission, equal to the
rank of Major in the Army, and giving the person who
holds it pot, er to call out a thousand men to the battue.
Mr. LLOYD'S volumes have been trans'ated into the Swe-
dish, Danish, and German languages ; and a second ani
enlarged edition has just been published in London.

WREXHAM.—On Saturday last a detach-
ment of the 53d regiment, consisting of thirty-two men,
b ua t
we thousand
are
ha tabsppof
y in
marched into this town from Chester. Rumour has con-
sequently
serious
riots
beents in
being able to state that they are not correct. The Ffrwd
colliers have declined working for the last three or four
the busyneighbourhood, in
circulating
days, having had a dispute with their employers respecting
wages; but their conduct, we are assured, is orderly and
peaceable. A good deal of dissatisfaction exists on the
subject of wages, which is said to have originated in the
non-performance of the promises :node by several mas-
ters to the men during the late turn out. It is difficult
to ascertain the truth; but one thing is quite certain,
that the working classes in the northern part of the
principality are generally in a very distressed condition.
Chester Courant.

It is with much satisfaction we hear that the
carpet trade at Kidderminster participates in the briskness
and impulse which appear from the accounts to pervade
the manufacturing Lousiness of the kingdom almost gene-
rally at the present period. Orders are numerous, and as
the masters are obtaining better prices, they share the
advantages thereof with their men, by
improving their
wages. The glove manufacturers at Worcester do not
complain of want of orders, but the price at which they
are tied down to execute them, and the advance that has
taken place in leather leaves them but a sadly inadequate
requital for labour bestowed and risk of capital.— Wor-
cester Herald.