The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

MORNING- ST l4'.

COURT CittCULAit

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at one
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Claremont Park.
Between twelve and one o'clock, the following mem-
bers of the late Administration arrived at Claremont :
Lord
_Cottenharni Lord. John Russell, Marquis of Nor-
inanby, Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Clarendon, Right
Hon. F. T. Baring, Earl of Minto, and Sir George
Grey. The following Officers of State also arrived :
The Earl of Errol, the Earl of Uxbridge. Lord Foley,
the Earl of Surrey,-the-Earl of Belfast, and Lord Marcus
Hill.

The Members of the new Ministry also arrived at
Claremont about the _same. time. There were present
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharn-
clifTe, the Duke of Buckingham, Earl De Grey, Lord
Stanley, Sir James Graham, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
Ellenborough, Earl of Ripon, Earl of Haddington, Mr.
Goulburii, Lord Lyndhurst, Sir Henry _Hardinge, Sir
Edward Knatchbull, Lord Eliot, Earl of Liverpool, Earl
Jersey, Lord Granville Somerset, Earl of Lincoln, Mr.
W. E. Gladstone, Lord Ernest Bruce, and Sir George
Clerk,
Lord Cottenham had an audience of the Queen, and
resigned the Great Seal.
- Te Marquis- of Normanby had an audience of her
-Majeity, and resigned his three Seals of Office, as one
of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
• -Lord John Russell and Viscount Palmerston had audi-
ences of the Queen, and resigned their Official Seals, as
two of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., had an
audience of,ltettilajesty, and resigned the Seal of the
County Palatine of Lancaster, and also the Seal of the
Duchy of Lancaster.
Thu Earl of Clarendon had an audience of the Queen,
-and resigned-the Privy-, Seal.
The Right Hou. Francis Thornhill Baring had an au-
dience of her Majesty, and resigned his official seal as
Chancellor- ofthe'Ex.chequer. '
The Earl of ;pinto had an audience of the Queen.
The Earl of Errol had an audience of her Majesty, on
resignir, his office of Lord Steward of her Majesty's
Household.
The Earl of Belfast, Lord Foley, and Lord Marcus
Hill, had also audiences of her Majesty. The above-
named noblemen and gentlemen, after their respective
audiences, immediately took their departure from Clare-
mont.

Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen, and
kissed hands on being appointed First Lord of the
Treasury.
The Duke of Wellington had an audience of her
Majesty.
Lord Granville Somerset accompanied by Mr. Danvers
Clerk, of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, had an
audience of the Queen, and took the oath of Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, and was presented by her
Majesty with his Seals of Office.
The Earl of Liverpool had an audience of the Queen,
and kissed hands on his appointment. His Lordships
received from her Majesty his Wand of Office as Lord
Steward of her Majesty's Household.
The Earl of Jersey and Lord Ernest Bruce had au-
diences of her Majesty, and kissed hands on their ap-
pointment to her Majesty's Household.
After giving these audiences, the Queen quitted the
Yellow Drawing-room, accompanied by his Royal High-
filess Prince Albert, and preceded by the Earl of Liver.
pool, the Earl of Jersey, and Lord Ernest Bruce, and
passed to the Corridor, where a Privy Council was held
shortly before two o'clock.
Her Majesty was pleased to declare Lord Wharncliffe
Lord President of the Council, and his Lordship took his
place at the Board.
The custody of the Great Seal having been delivered
to Lord Lyndhurst, his Lordship was sworn into office
as Lord High Chancellor.
The Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Liverpool, the
Earl of Leicester, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Eliot, and
Mr. William Gladstone, having been appointed Privy
Councillors, were sworn in of the Council, and took their
seats at the Board.
The Duke of Buckingham was sworn in Keeper of the
Privy Seal.
Sir James Graham, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Lord
Stanley were sworn as her Majesty's three principal Se-
cretaries of State.
The Earl of Ripon and the Right Hon. W. C. Glad-
stone were appointed President and Vice-President of
the Board of Trade.
Earl De Grey was declared by the Queen in Council
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Mr. C. C. G rev ille was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
The Council broke up at a quarter past two o'Clock.
The Earl of Listowel was the Lord in Waiting ; Lord
Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; General the Eon. Sir
William Lumley, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Wemyss,
Equerry in Waiting; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to
Prince Albert.
A dejuene was served immediately after the Council.
His Grace the Duke of 'Wellington left Claremont at
half-past two o'clock.
Sir Robert Peel, and the Noblemen and Gentlemen
attending the Council also took their departure for town
before three o'clock.
The new Ministers and Officers of State appeared at
her Majesty's Council yesterday in Court costume, the
Members of Orders of Knighthood, wearing their re-
spective Ensigns.
Yesterday morning at an early hour her Majesty and
Prince Albert walked in Claremont Park.
The Earl of Aberdeen, after his return to town yes-
terday afternoon, proceeded to the Foreign Office, and
transacted business.
Sir James Graham attended at the Home Office yes-
terday afternoon, after his arrival from Claremont.

THE CORN-LAWS AND THE

DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

LIST OF NEW PATENTS.
AUGUST, 1841.

Sin—The consistent and persevering manner in which
the question of a change in the Corn-laws has been fol-
lowed up by The Sun newspaper, deserves the thanks of
this country, as well as every other community. When all
was gloom and despondency, that subject was nobly sup-
ported by your independent and valuable paper. The
present scale of duties was carried by the Duke of Wel-
lington against poor Mr. Canning, and therefore he is
responsible for his act to this free and powerful country.
Common sense at once shows that a close and grinding
monopoly, on the most essential article of food of the
people, must be a fatal blow to trade ; and what would
become of this great country without it ? Could the
Noble Duke, or Sir Robert Peel, resist the suffering cry
of the people in 1830 ? The thunder-clap which then
frightened anti alarmed them, and shook the whole fabric
of society, may recur again with awful consequences. I
say, let them and the landowners beware before it is
too late. The mere triumph of party will not deceive
those who are exiles from their native land, those NN ho
have been ruined and are suffering from the crushing
effects of this hard and unfeeling law. If the day of
adversity fills on them, what mercy have they to expect
who have shown none ? Are we serfs, or freemen ? I,
as the father of a family, with thousands—l may say
millions—feel severely the pressure of this iniquitous
law, and yet lam of the middling class, and-well edu-
cated. I happen to know that the labouring classes are
generally being deprived of what few comforts they had
left, by deep and overwhelming distress. Can those who
have the luxuries of life, look on this appalling state of
society with indifference—are they aware of what Eng-
glishmen can do, when driven to despair ? I hope not
for their own sakes, as well as my own. I do not he-
sitate to say, that if this law is not at least greatly mo-
dified, six months will not pass without a crisis. No
one will deny that it is better that individuals should
suffer, than a nation sink. ThoSe who deride our gra-
cious Sovereign's Speech on the distress of the country,
and recommending attention to the Corn-laws, may live
bitterly to repent their error. Let us hope that more
just principles of taxation will prevail, before the work-
ing class stand up as one man, and indignantly demand
their rights as freeborn men who have been deceived.
The importance of the subject will, I trust, excuse my
requesting you to publish this letter.—l am, Mr. Editor,
Your obedient and humble servant,
AN ELECTOR.
P.S.—My letter on the election of the new Parlia-
ment, published on the 12th of July, 1830, in the Morn-
ing Herald, was followed by events sufficiently alarming.
I was then in Kent, and in the capital.
Plymouth, Devon, Sept. 1, 1841.

the lady.. Dr. Lewis alsO stated that this was in accord-
ance with his suggestion, and he considered the results
both accurate and wonderful. There are a great number
of trees in that burying-ground, much shrubbery, several
largo monuments, one of which has a vine upon it, and
what is more remarkable,' said Dr. Lewis, the light
from the street lamps would naturally strike upon my
own family tomb, which is numbered 22 !' The audience
were thrilled by this announcement, as by an electric
shock, so fearfully true were the results."
We have not space to extract all the instances
of a similar nature which occurred in the course
of these exhibitions, as we find them reported in
the same paper, and in the Boston Mail, and the
Boston Morning Post, of various dates, from the
Ist down to the 19th of July. The following,
however, related in the leading article of the
Mail is very curious, and equals the cases re-
ported by the French commission of 1826. The
subject in this case, it will be seen, is a boy.
" Dr. Joseph Dixon, of Taunton, a gentleman who
has been for some years a believer in animal magne-
tism, was next put in communication with the boy, and
carried him to his house in Taunton. The boy described
'he size and appearance of the house accurately ; told
'e number of steps, the colour of the door, and of the
a, the front entry; described the appearance of the
Voctor's study; and, on being taken into another apart-
ment, said he saw two ladies; that one of them was lying
on a bed, and was sick. New,' said he, they arc giv-
ing her something to drink Question by 1)r. Dixon—
' What is the matter with her ?' Ans.---' Oh, she has
something in her side.' Ques.—' What is it ?' Ans.—
' Oh, :it looks bad.' Ques.—' llow does it look ?' Ans.
It looks bad, and white—site is going to die !'
" These results were of such a fearful character that
Dr. Dixon became very much excited, and was unable to
proceed with the investigation. The boy, acting in concert
with his mind, sighed deeply, and soon fell into violent
convulsions, from which it was difficult to relieve him.

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" Mr. Dixon then informed the audience that the
boy's descriptions of his house were correct in the most
essential particulars. He said he had a daughter, about
eighteen years of age, who was sick, and the disease, it
was supposed, was an affection of the liver 1 This was
the most convincing experiment in ettir-voyance we have
ever witnessed."

A letter is published in the same papers
from a clergyman, said to be of high cha-
racter, named Dod, who states that he
found similar phenomena in a young lady of
his acquaintance, mesmarised by himself, in the
presence of her family, to whom he refers. A
curious letter is also published from a gentleman,
named Nymon, who appeals to his fellow citi-
zens whether he has not been known to them as an
avowed disbeliever in the immortality of the soul,
and declares that what he had seen at those exhi-
bitions has convinced him, after the most anxious
and scrupulous examination of all the facts,
which he believed at first to he solely produced
by imposture and collusion, that the " soul has
a separate existence from the body."
A Committee of twenty-four--eight clergy-
men, eight lawyers, and eight physicians of
eminence in Boston, and most of them sceptics
—was appointed to make the experiments in
private, and make a public report to their fel-
-1 low-citizens. They published a detailed account