The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-09 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL

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Her Majesty held a Privy Council on Wednesday after
noon at Windsor Castle. There were present at the
Council, the First Lord of the Treasury (Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone), Lord President of the Council (Earl de Grey and
Ripon), Lord Privy Seal (Viscount Halifax), Secretary of
State for the Colonies (Earl Kimberle , ay)nd the Lord
Chamberlain (Viscount Sydney). At the Council Mr. J. R.
Davison, Q.C., M,P. (Judge Advocate), was sworn in as a
Privy Councillor and took his seat at the Board accord-
ingly. At the Council Her Majesty's Speech, to be de-
livered at the opening of Parliament, was agreed to.
After the Council Captain Walker (Board of Trade)
had an interview with her Majesty, and received the
honour of Knighthood. Mr. Arthur Helps was Clerk to
the Council.

SERIOUS ILLNESS OF LORD JUSTICE
MELLISH.
Shortly after the conclusion of Hilary Term, Lord
Justice Mellish had a serious attack of the gout. His
lordship, however, regained his usual state of health atter
the few days of rest and quiet which the vacation enabled
him to enjoy ; but on Tuesday a relapse of the complaint
took place, and was of so serious a character that for a
time the life of the learned judge was almost despaired of.
Although a perceptible improvement has since taken
place, his lordship is now totally incapacitated from
work, and was, consequently, unable to take his seat in
the Lords Justices' Court on Wednesday, the first day of
the sittings after Hilary Term ; and it is feared that,
I even under the most favourable circumstances, his lord-
ship will not be able to resume his duties on the Bench
for several days to come.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND ON

THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland presided on Monday
night, in Dublin, at a banquet, the first of a proposed
annual series, in aid of the Solicitors' Benevolent Society,
and, in proposing the toast of " The Prince and
Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family,"
said that the toast possessed a good deal of additional
interest just now, because, at this moment, there was
pending an event which would cast the light
of natural affection upon the dull stateliness of ordinary
royal marriages. Upon two sides, the very high and the
very low, in this country—or in England rather than
here—there had been a good deal of observation, very
little justified, upon that coming event. On one side it
was said that this marriage w ou'.d interfere with the
social relations Hof classes in th's country, and on the
other side they had heard a great deal of hard, captious,
narrow, and ungenerous references to it. He did not be-
lieve that the nation responded to the one feeling or to the
other. On the contrary, he was of opinion that the great
good heart of the nation throbbed in sympathy with
those young people who had not been prevented
by the forms of etiquette from coming together as
man and wife. He believed that the broad, generous
heart of this country would be liberal in endowing the
Princess, who was about to be married to a person
beneath her in rank, but still of exalted birth ; that they
would endow her with an appanage not less, yet not more,
than should be given to a daughter of the British Sove-
reign. The Lord Chancellor, in giving subsequently the
toast of " The Lord-Lieutenant and Prosperity to Ireland,"
expressed a hope tbat the growing intelligence of the
people, the augmented toleration now existing in Ireland
for opinion on the one side and on the other, and the
increasing unity among them, would lay the foundation
for a moral and social prosperity such as they had never
seen before. In giving the toast of the evening, " The
Solicitors' Benevolent Association," he said it was
most desirable that the two branches of the legal profession
should stand in relations of amity and confidence towards
each other, It was true the two branches were not amal-
gamated, and he hoped they never would be. Were any
union of the two branches tried, he believed it would fail
signally as in America. Each had its own place and its
own rewards, although he confessed that of these the bar
bad the lion's share.

The Speaker arrived in London on Tuesday.
Convocation will assemble on Tuesday next in the
Jerusalem Chamber.
An Irish magistrate, censuring some boys for
loitering in the street, said, " If everybody were to stand
iu the streets, how could anybody get by?"
The Hon. Mrs. Norton is said io be engaged on a
work shortly to be published, " Lives of the Poets Laureate
of England."
GAZETTE NOTICES.—It is notified in Tuesday
night's Gazette that Earl Granville, her Majesty's Princi,
pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received
from her Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin a copy of an
Imperial order,_ annulling the Royal order of the 18th.
July, 1870, which exempted conditionally French mer-
chant vessels from capture. The Gazette also contains an-
nouncements of the appointment of Dr. Payne Smith to
the Deanery of Canterbury ' • of Mr. Reginald Palgrave
to the office of Clerk Assistant of the House of Com-
mons ; and of Mr. Archibald Milman as Second Clerk
Assistant.
BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM-
FouTiNo.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has
rendered it a general favourite. The Civil‘fservice Gazette re-
marks :—" By a thorough knOvtledge of the natural laws which
govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a
careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa,
Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'
bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS & Co., Homceo-
pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Caea6ine, a
very thin evening beverage.--Advt.