The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prir!ce.Albert walked in the garden
of Buckiigham Palace yesterday forenoon.
Viicount Melbourne had au audience of her Majesty

yeEterd

The' Royal dinner pi,rty at Buckingham Palace last
evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Earl of Clareadun, Earl and
Countess of Cowpe-, Earl of Uxhridge, Earl of Surrey,
Viscount Melbourne, Visccutt and the Lady Marianna
Alford, Lord Beaumont, the R;glat Hon. Thomas B.
Macau'ay, and Lord and Lady Hrllan&
The band cf ;he Royal Horse Guards attended during
dinn, r.

TLe Dschess of Gloucester visited ber Majesty 0..0
Queen Dowager ycsi'e'day at Mallberrngb Home.
The Duchess of Kest took an airing yesterday .in a
cart inge.
The Duchess of Gloucester vi,,ited the Duke cf Carn-
bi'ge yesterday at Cambridge House.
Sir Bruce Chichester, the Duke of Arg;ll, the Earl of
11.cl:ester, and the Earl of Moustcasbel, had iateivieus
mith the Marquis of Normauby yesterday at the Home-
office.

MR. CANDLISH AND THE KIRK

This Rev. Gentleman_bas addressed a letter to the Marquis
Of Normanbv on the subject of canceliirg his appointment to
the Chair oeßiblical Criticism ;n the University of Edinburgh,
in which he contends that the interdict of the- Court of Session
had no application to the duty he: was called upon by the
Church to perform in the-parish of Huntly.- Lord Normanby
has briefly replied to the latter in these words:—
. Whitehall, March 16 1841

Sir,—You will hardly expect that I should be prepared to
make any reply to yourself personally on the most important
matters on which you have urged your own views with so much
earnestness, and I should have, therefore, confined the acknow-
ledgment of the receipt of Your letter upon the present occa-
sion to the assurance that whatever course my sense of duty
--may hereafter induce me to adopt, under the circumstances in
which your recent proceedings have placed you, I am still dis.
posrd to think that, on the ground of pers nal qitalifications,
the appointment in question would be one likely to reflect
credit on the Government. But I cannot permit you to re-
main in the error under which you appear to be labouring,
when you state, "I took no step until 1 received notice from
the agents of the Church in London, to the effect that a cam-
munication had been intimated to them that my appointment
to the deanery, which was to be conferred along with the
professorship, had actually talc n place, and that it was
necessary merely to have it extracted in due form. lam
ignorant of the usual practice in such cases, and I
may have erred in concluding prematurely that the
matter was definitively fixed. At the same time I am
given to understand that had the agents for the Church,
instead of ccirre,ponding with me, proceeded at once to
act upon the message from the Home-office, the deed might
-hare been beyond recall." Whatever preparatory documents
may haie been in progress, it was perfectly understood that the
appointment had not actually taken place—that all was con-
tingent upon my final decision ; and, therefore, no communica-
tion haft been made to you, nor could there be any authorised
notification to arty party until her Majezty's pleasure had been
taken upon the recommendation of her responsible adviser.
Whatever passed between a clerk in the cffice and the agents
in the church could not have had the effect
y♦ou suppose of plac-
ing the deed beyond recall. I have. &c.,
The Rev. R. S. Candlish. NORMANBY.

CHURCH-RATES.

TO THE EDITOR. OF THF,' SUE.

_
SlR—This'day between twenty arid thirty pers,ns appeared
to summonses for the non-payment of a Church-rate. Most of
the indiiiduals are Dissenters, and have legal and religious
objections to the rate. The legal grounds of objection are-
1. The original Notice, which, as fixed upon the Parish
Church-door, convenes the meeting for granting a' rate, was
not, and could not be produced.

2. That the notices 'convening the parish were not affixed to
all the clods of the different churches, as required by 1 Vic. 45.
S. That no estimate was produced at the meeting for grant
ing the rate, though it was asked for. •
4. 7 hat the rate was asked for, :and' has been -applied to
other churches than for the use of the Parish Church.
5. 7 hat Lord Wartti Town' Hall and the Tory Library, and
other property, has not been included in the rate.
The same course will be adopted this year as in 1837.
Your•article on ' Obedience to Law's,'?' in Saturday's paper,
we intend to get printed off for circulation in, this town and
neighbourhood. Yours. respectfully,
Dudley, March 22, 1841. SAMUEL COOK.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, MARCH 23.—Wind this day at noon, W. S.W.,
fine weather.

DEAL, AIaRCH 22.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Jalnavan,
from Gibraltar; !Übe, Limerick.
PORTSMOUTH, MA acn 22.—Wird S.W. to W.—Arrived
_the Margeretha, Johanna, from Batavia.
Pty m 0 UTir, MARCH 22.—Wind S.-Arrived the Thomas
Rowell, from Gibraltar ;- put back Eclipse, for London; Argo,
Ilambro.; Magdelenai, Bremen.
FALMOUTH, MA 'RUH 21.—Wind S.W., strong gales and
squ•Ally.—Arrived the Firefly, Stone, from Smyina ; Six, Lon-
don, Bombay ; Express, Sunderland, • Algiers. Sailed the
Ranger packet, for Havannah; Express packet, West Indies ;
Prioress. Josephine, ' Rotterdam ; Brothere, Lewis,
London•; Asia. Patterson, Leith. A brig, with bC.wsprit and
part of forema,t standing, apparently abandoned, was passed on
the 19th, in lat. 47, lon. by the Six, Kirkos, arrived here.
DA wrmourn, MA RCH lii.—Arrived the Perthshire, Liver-
Tool, from Hzrlingen, with loss of fi retopma•t, &c ; Fecumsch,
Havre, Flo. icla ; tzavann-ah, Bottertlam, with loss of bowsprit.
COWES, M Ancii 2.2.—Arrived the Fercl;ina from Cuba.

PENZANCE, M.,Rcai 21.-Thc xe,sel reported ye tereay lost
rear the Lands End is supposed to be Dutch, and schooner
rigged, a piece of the flag wadied ashere, is pi esumed to have
• been red, white, and blue, horizontally, with a coat of arms,
parts cf two lions for supporters, apparently, in a white 'stripe,
with .a motto below, "Craigncz lionte."
HAIRWI:CI4 MAaCH 22.7-The Perseverance, from New-
castle to London, has been assisted in here with loss ef bow-
sprit and ten feet water in hold, having been in contact with
the Swift, of South Shiel&, and subsequently on shore on the
Cork Sand.

PORT TA LBOT,' MARCH 21.—The Mary, from Plymouth,
and John, from Hayle, are aground inside the Breakwater, hilt
expected off after discharging. '
Coax, 1 lAcca A rrived: the. JarroW, from Africa.
Sailed, the Royal Saxon, fOr'Port' Phillip. It came on to blow
a heavy gale at about nine p.m., yesterday, and con-
tinued all night. Sevin.al vessels stove, anddrove, and wind
blows very strong at S.S. W.
SUNDERLAND, MARC'S 21.—Arrived the Welcome-home,
Booth, from Cherbourg. Sailed the Sahis, Lamb, for Malta.
LYNN, Msacti 21.—Arrived the Six Huzzars to the Queen,
Ferriner, from Dunkirk.

HULL, MARCH 22. —Wind S. S. W., fresh gales. —A rrived
the Francesca Maria, from Amsterdam ; Eugene, Hanson,
Antwerp; Walkington, and Emerald Lie steamer, Rotterdam.
LivEaroor,' Maucir 22.—Win4 S.W. to N.W., fresh.—
Arrived the Avon' Robinson, from Laguna—sailed 6;h;
George Robinson, Lockyer, Barbadoes—sailed 17th • Pbcenix,
Shaw, and- Gondola, Renny, New Orleans; Amanda, Davis,
Savane.ah ; 'Jane and. Barbara, Oldman, Charleston ; Ocean,
Ilucle, Odessa; Powhattan, United States. Sailed the Martha,
Martin, for Tampico. The Ann Mondel, which arrived yes-
terday from Savannah," sailed thence -411. 29, and next day
,cricountereda heavy gale, lost sail bulWarks, &c., had the
cabin hall fill of water, and became very leaky, and put into
Grand Cayman to rei-air.

A large steamer, supposed the British Quren, from London
to New York, was spoken with on the 15th, in lat. 51, long.
21, by the Amanda. arrived at Liverpool.
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