The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-20 00:00:00

cultural Interests. We are fully sensible of the
importance and utility of County Meetings ; and
the recent one at Hereford seems to have been
conducted with a degree of propriety and deli-
beration which must add weight to the opinions
expressed by the Freeholders. We have thought
it our duty to insert in this day's Paper a copious
report of the proceedings at the Anniversary
Meeting of the Reading Association for securing
the Purity of Election, which has occupied so
much of our space that we must defer till to-
morrow the insertion of the detailed accounts from
Hereford. We can only state for the present, that,
after the business of the Meeting had been
opened in a very able speech by Lord SOMERS,
the Lord Lieutenant of the County, a set of
Resolutions were proposed, which were read
by Mr. PATTERSHALL, and seconded by Sir
Hoskm. On the first Resolution being
moved by the former Gentleman, Mr. COBBETT
proposed that it should be set aside, and that
the• Meeting should adopt a Petition, similar to
that of Norfolk, with one introductory para-
graph, which was not in that Petition. This was
seconded by Mr. PeALMER, of Ballitree Castle ;
when another set of Resolutions were read by
Mr. Surrnres. 'Subsequently a Petition, diffe-
rent from Mr. Coneerr's, was proposed by Mr.
CHARLTON ; and Mr. PATTERSHALL having
moved to withdraw the Resolutions he had pre-
viously proposed, his motion was carried. The
Lord Lieutenant proceeded to put Mr. CHARL-
TON'S Petition as an amendment upon Mr. Coe-
aErr's Petition, which was carried in the affirma-
tive ; and the Meeting was dissolved.

The following Ministerial changes have, we
understand, been determined on.:—
Mr. BRAGGE BATHURST retires; Mr. VANSITTART
takes the Duchy of Lancaster; Mr. Far DERICK Rourxsort
is to have the Chancellorship of the Exchequer; and Mr.
usYassoN is to succeed Mr. RonigsoN as President of the
Board of Trade. Other changes will, of course, be necessary.
—(lltarning Chlonicle.)

Arrangements are made for the KING leaving
Brighton for London, a few days previous to the
day appointed for the meeting of Parliament, to
hold a Council, and to open the Session of Par-
liament in State.

On Saturday Mr. DANIELS, the King's Mes-
senger, left town with dispatches from the Fo-
reign Office for Paris.
The Gentleman appointed to the foreign mis.
sion at Madrid is Mr. Writ. TuaNER, one of the
principal clerks at the Secretary of State's Office
for Foreign Affairs. Mr. TURNER left town on
Friday night to proceed on his mission.
Mr. MATES, the King's Messenger, who left
London some (lays since with dispatches for Sir
Wm. A'Coun.T, our Minister at Madrid, had in-
structions to proceed with all speed first to Paris,
to overtake Lord F. SOMERSET there, with extra
dispatches for his Lordship.
Mr. ABERNETHY has addressed, it is said, a
letter to the Secretary of State, on the absolute
necessity of repealing the late Act of Parliament
which subjects Resurrection-men (as they are
called) to severe punishment for violating the
sanctity of the tomb. Under the present re-
strictions dead bodies are become very scarce in
London, and some of the dissecting rooms are
absolutely without an adult subject.

FROM PERNAMBUCO.—By the arrival, at Mar-
tha's Vineyard, of the schooner George, Captain
DOANE, in 33 days from Pernambuca, we under-
stand that that city was in great confusion, that
most of the European troops who were stationed
for the defence of the place had been ordered
home, and those who remained in garrison were
closely watched. The troops were under arms,
in consequence of a change having taken place
in the Government. A new President had been
chosen.

Accounts from all parts of the Continent con.
cur in describing the weather as extremely. severe at present.
In the south of
.France, a thing somewhat unusual, they have
had a very heavy fall of snow. In Switzerland, and in Italy,
the roads are nearly impassable from the quantity of snow on
the ground. In the north of Europe—that is, at Hamburgh,
Copenhagen, and Stockholm, &c.,—they are experiencing a
degree of cold 7or 8 degrees elow the Zero of Reaniur.
It is mentioned in a private letter from Mar-
seilles, that the Cornmander of a British ship of War was so
delighted with the intrepid bravery of the (heck Sea-Officer
Illruntri.rs, who had a second time blown •up the Turkish
Admiral's ship, that he had presented him with his sword, as
a tribute of his respect and admiration:
It is rumoured, that, with a vier to assist
Trade, a 'West India Company will be organised next Spring
in theßaltic.

His Serene Highness the Landgrave of Hesse-
liomburg, has recently contracted with Mr. Gold., the Banker,
of Frankfort, for a Loan of half a million of Florins about
50,0001. sterling.
The Court of Session met on Tuesday, after
the Christmas vacation, when Mr. JOHN HOYE presented his
MAJESTY'S commission, appointing him Solicitor-General for
Scotland, in the room of the late JAMES IVEDDERBURN7
Esct. and took the oaths and his seat within the Bar. 111 health,
arising, we hear, from over-study, prevented Mr. Hope from
presenting his Majesty's Commission earlier to the Court, as
it has been some time in his possession—( Edinburgh Courant,
Jan. 10.) _

1:11C ROYAL LIBRARX.—it is With the most
sincere and pleasurable feeling of congratulation that we an-
nounce the gratuitus presentation by his Majesty, of the
Royal Library to the British Museum. This patriotic and
public-spirited gift was accompanied with a letter to
Lord Liverpool, written by his Majesty's own hand.—
We honour the liberal and high-minded sentiments from
which this Royal benefaction proceeded, and the Nation,
we are sure, will estimate it as it deserves. The scholar and
the man of letters, every lover of literature, and every friend
of. learning, will in distant ages throw back their recollection
to the reign of that Monarch who thus gave them access to a
store of most curious and valuable works in all languages,
which private industry could never have collected, nor
individual opulence have procured.--It was only by A SOVE.
ItEIOX that such resources of erudition could have been added
to the public stock ; and we feel s pride as Englishmen, in
boasting such an act of munificence from George the Fourth.--
(British Press.)

In consequence of the late severity of the wea-
ther, the price of vegetables of every description
has risen at least one-third itt the Aeveral mar-
kets of the metropolis.