The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Princess Augusta honoured Lady Caroline Waldegrave
with a visit yesterday, at her residence in Curzon-street. The
Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, and a select party, dined with
her Royal Highness yesterday.
The Prince of Orange left town on Saturday for the Continent.
The Cabinet Council held at the Foreign Office on Sunday night
was attended by the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with the
exception of Lord Holland.
The Ministers remained in deliberation till a quarter past twelve
o'clock.

Sir Murray Maxwell (the Governor of Prince Edward's Island)
had an interview with Viscount Goderich yesterday,-at the Cola
nial Office. _ . _

Mr. Justice Halliburton, and Mr. Archibald, the Attorney-
General of Nova Scotia, transacted business yesterday at the Co-
lonial Office.
The Prussian Minister visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday,
at the Foreign Office.
Despatches were sent off by an Italian courier last evening for
the Hon. General Ponsonby, the Lieutenant-Governor of Malta

COBURG THEATRE.-Mr. A. R. BOWES,
the box-book-keeper, has his benefit fixed at this entertain-
ing and popular theatre for to-morrow (Wednesday) night.
A gentleman more deserving of public patronage than this
young man we do not know. He is ever attentive to the
accommodation of the audience, and is consequently held
in general esteem by those who frequent the Coburg. On
the present occasion lie puts forth a snore than usually at-
tractive bill of fare. Talent—experience on the part of
the performers, who have kindly come forward to volun-
teer their services, and variety in the pieces announced for
representation—these are the grounds on which Mr.
Bowls rests his claim to public patronage. We have
little doubt he will be honoured by the attendance of a
crowded house. -

COVENT-GARDEN.—MiSS F.KENIBLE made
her appearance here last night for the first time in the
arduous character of Lady Constance, in Ring John.
The performance was for her own benefit, and a more
crowded audience it was never our fate to see. The
character of Constance, though among the most beau-
tiful on the stage—and one in which Mrs. SIDDONS
achieved so much popularity—is remarkable for its bre-
vity, and presents a singular instance of the part of the
heroine enduring only to the third act. The most cele-
brated speeches are the reproof to Austria, that which
she delivers sitting on the ground, and the lamentations
for Alfred. In each of these three, however, Miss
KEataLz fell short of our expectations, and the reason of
her failure was evident. The sentences were too la-
boured. The tones, whether of grief or indignation,
were invariably prolonged to a degree that produced any
effect but that contemplated by the actress. We are too
limited in space to enter into minute criticism, and must
therefore conclude for the present with the hope that Miss
Kasrsra's personation of Constance may improve by re-
petition. With the merits of WARDE'‘ King John and
KEMBLE'S Faukonbridge the public is already acquainted.
The farces of A Day after the Wedding, and The Om-
nibus, both admirably acted, and some introduced songs
by Miss INYERARITY, Miss HUGHES, WILSON, and
KEELEY, enhanced the attraction of the evening.

•
A Portrait of COOPER, the celebrated No-
velist, will embellish the April Number of the New
Monthly Magazine. Among the distinguished literary
men of the present day whose Portraits are now succes-
sively appearing in the above mentioned popular Periodical,
there is not perhaps any one respecting whom public cu
riosity is so much excited as to the author of the " Pilo!,"
" Red Rover," Bcc.
EXECUTION.—JOIIN SAMSON and GEORGE
WESSON, alias BRISTOL BILL, on Saturday morning un-
derwent the extreme sentence of the law on the drop at
the back of the County Gaol at Winchester, SlNsom
was convicted at the late Assizes of setting fire to Mr.
Bucictasn's farm and premises at Hound, on the 9th
Dec. 1828: and WESSON of an atrocious highway rob-
bery.

REFORM AIEETINOS IN SUPPORT
HIS MAJESTY'S MINISTERS•

MIDDLESEX.
Yesterday, in pursuance of a requisition to the She
of London and Middlesex, who instantly and with alaV
complied with it, a meeting of the freeholders of hit,“
sex was held at the Mermaid, at Hackney, for the I!rP,
of adopting resolutions for the support of bis Mars

Minisers in the great measure of Reform.
par,ao
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL and Sir WILLIA.
presided on the occasion. rpieltP
Mr. Serjeant PELL rose to move the first of tbe
tions. He was, he said, an entire, absolute, and "tit is
lifted friend of that Bill which Ministers had brouggoo
for the correction of the abuses in the Comm loot
of Parliament. These abuses the people had endured tbo
and patiently—he would not say toe patiently, but.nt
ha endured them so log that they could nw enduretbe
_O4
to take r lo
nod longer.—(Loud chneers.) On that night T the ee,
reading of the important Bill was appointed
On the event no man could tell what might baPrur:foice
every county, town, v.llage, and even cottage,' "' fool
cried aloud that Reform was necessary, and that itel
the people must have.—(Cheers.) It was now 0.11
on
Lours since he was called upon to second a resalutlised
the subject at a great meeting at Cambridge. He (16,4ee,
the promoters of that meeting as some of the nu","wease
table men in the county—some of them men of 0, Os
wealth, others of them clergymen, !mashers 0100
University, of the very highest talents and lea rbe
Le e to
Alter some observation@ upon the resolutions shout_Lf of
proposed, which went to cut down that bitter PP"d
profligate times, the rotten borough-system, the
Serjeant said he had had the good or the bad fort:, A
hear, amongst other gentlemen who opposed Refvf;sl
gentleman named Twiss.—(Loud laughter.) Air'
he understood, had, like himself, professionally 3P,Psiityer
in Westminster-hall,—where, by-the by, be luml roper
heard that learned anti-reformer,—and had thought P
il the
to cast in his place in Parliament reflections ortbe ii
middle classes of 'society. (Mr. Byng---,4 Aye, I'll:, oy•
now very sorry for it.") He (Serjeant Pell) 0311-" br
in answer to that attack, that if -he had to look f°1:11i0(
nest English heart, and could not find it is the. be
classes, he could find it nowhere—(Loud clieete).•7 be
trusted that when Mr. Twiss next read his it' e'
sbtt
would, instead of c isting censure around him Ulf:dr to
unexceptionable part of the community, endelt"l4
learn the great rule of "Da unto others as 01101,
they should do unto you."—(Cheers.) A more ts-ga 01,
state could not be conceived than would 'be the
the country if the Bill should be thrown out on the
reading. If that were to take place, it would be -113eir
Intel}, necessary for the people to put a curb uroula
feelings.—(Loud cheers.) God only knows Whi* -
happen if the present Ministers were removed. flog' 1°
Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE, having been called i;sostl
second the resolution proposed by the Hon. and 800
Serjeant, said the measure introduced in the lower
of Parliament by his Majesty's Ministers, under the peel
authority, was such es ought to satisfy and tranquilLi°ool
classes of his Majesty's subjects whose judgments
biassed by personal interest or party politics.
Mr. FITCH supported the resolution.
Mr. C. SHAW LEFEVRE, M.P., moved the sect); It
solution. He said, that if the Bill were to pass ;O-0#
it would br ;her chr -of the sigh' tbe p Ale
P

Je another charter of the rights o,
It would unite the people with the aristocracy, 011,0,
a great influence to the middle classes.—(Lood
Mr. WHITBREAD seconded the resolution. ...I Or
Mr STEVENS, of Bishopsgate, proposed the thy-1'
lution. Ks
Mr. BYNG then rose to address the meeting. •of.
deratood, that as late as Saturday last, at a meeting JO
opponents of the measure, it was the euggeoti°Pl,o Or
leading man, that the second reading should 01 006
posed, hut that the great attack was to be roau.,„eialbe
Committee. He hoped that nothing would laucfo"44
Ministers to resign. It was impossib'e for anY roe'
ment to exist now without a people, who were detz.gi
to have what they were entitled so.—(Loud cheer'
Mr. Wilks, Colonel Jones, Mr. Williams' sle,
Hall, and Mr. Hume, the Member for the COPT"
addressed the meeting, and the resolutions wets
mously agreed to.

Aof
TO THEEDITOR OF THE SUILvs
SIR,—A petition concerning the Reform Bill wasrloigo
carried through the Senate of the University of Caln,,bio
majority of 48 to 29 in the Senior House, and 43 to Yis is t$
nior House. The irregular and surreptitious mannefe4 04
this petition was got up has been already cornmunirabOUlS
Times newspaper, and is, I doubt not, by this tiraet
public. Of the petition self I have not yet been able
a copy; but, after hearing it read, it was utterly in' OlStr
collect from the words of the precious composition it:eoittl;111
it was a petition against the Reform or against the picroco,
sentative system. The principal feature in it is an, ,
the.suffrage being in the hands of persons of "small
an objection not very creditable to the feelings of 07., Add,
duals in the University who, much to their own rre, iltal."
nour, have raised themselves from that very class o r4e,
of small property" to great University distinction .L
ments ; but an objection, whether directed against 1104,00
holders, or against apprenticeship freemen, p9tivw„.Zepa
Mr. Horace Twiss, we leave its authors to explain. I;:irerosli
admitted defects in the representative systemObe
of making changes which time and the altered WOO A. 400,
society rendered necessary. So far it was for Reiss
er?
prayer it entreated the House to proceed ; so far it A* it SP
of the progress of the Bill now before Parliament; .Pcb, Ay
the Honourable House to proceed with caution, w „basevioLOs
tainly a delicate way of insinuating that the Learnt'. Ise—,o
trusted the discretion of the Hon. House, and solve aoo2
pressions, scattered here and there throughout th,ecoilo
showed a variety of incongruous objections to the
Bill. Against this mongrel offspring of an unnattiPronc!
tifty.three Members of the Senate red6rded their voteesrp
the heads of Caius and Corpus, the Professor of 104 01. A lei
the great majority of the Fellows of Trinity College% sr•
well known and well tried friends of the cause of civ+ .
gious liberty. I am, Sir,
Your obedient servanti. 554,4‘
A MEMBER OF THE

Cambridge, March 21.

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