The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His MAJESTY left town, attended by Sir H. TAYLOR.
;it a quarter past six o'clock on Wednesday evening, for
Windsor.

Despatches were received yesterday at the C
from Lord AYLMER. the Governor of the Canadas.
Vi,coutit Aurnour and Lord JOHN RUSSELL visited
Earl GREY yes erday.
Mr. CRANMER will lead, and Mr. W. KNYvErr wil;
con 'net the Choral Fund Concert.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND entertained the Directors
of the Concert of Anci,nt Music at dinner, on WAnesday
evening, at his residence in St. James's Palace. Among
the party were—the Bishops of EXETER and BRISTOL,
Lords KENvott, CAWDDR,ArId BURGHERSH. His Royal
Hieliness, .iecompanied by his guests, and attended by
Lieutenant Baron LINSINGEN. afterwards honoured the
,vening's performance in Hatiover.square.
The Ducf-ess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA walked
and drove in th • Parks yesterday.
Viscount GODERICH had a long interview with Earl
GREY, on Wednesday morning, at the Treasury.
. . .

Prince TALLEYRAND, M. DEDEL, the Dutch Special
Plenipotentiary, and the Belgian and Brazilian Ministers,
visited Viscount PALMERSTON yesterday, at the Foreign-

Mr. W. BOLLING, M.P., Mr. T. OSWALD, M.P., Mr,
R. POTTER, and Mr. WILSON PATTEN, M.P., had aeon.
lerenee with Viscount ALTHORP yesterday, at the Treasury,

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CENTENARY COMMEMORATION OF

DR. PRIESTLEY.

On Monday, the centenary of the hirth of. Dr. Priest.
ley was celebrated at Freemasons' Tavern, where 150
gentlemen, comprising some of the most eminent scientific
personages in the kingdom, sat down to dinner. Dr.
nglon preside ; on his right and left we observed Mr.
Lubbock (Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal
Society), Mr. Hatchett, Di. Bostock, Dr. Daubeny,
Dr. Roget, Professor Cumming, &c. &c. There were
also present—Count Funchal, Sir George Cayley,
Mr. George Wood, M.P., Mr. Halliburron, M. P , Mr.
piiiiips, M.P., Mr. Havire., M.P., Mr. D. Gaskell, M.P.,
Mr. W. Smith, &c.
After dinner, and the usual toasts—

Tile CHAIRMAN rose to pi opo,e The. Memory of Dr.
Pr e-tley." Dr. Babington, we regret to say, spoke in so
extremely low a tone that it cv.ita next to impossible for its
(though we were conveniently placed) to catch more than
part of an occasi inal sentence. We understood him to
allude to the valuable discoveries 01 Dr. Priestley, and he
mentioned art occurrence which took place under his (Dr.
Bibington's) own observation in the neighbourhood of his
late residence (Aldermanbuty), in which the principles of
those discoveries were rendered available in saving the lives
of two individuals who had lost the power of respiration
in consequence of sleeping where charcoal was burning.
The next toast was " The Memory of Dr. Priestley's
Coadjutors deceased," a long list, tne Chairman observed,
beginning with Black anti Cavendish, and ending with
Davy and Wollaston.
On " the Univasity of Oxford and Dr. Daubeny" being
drunk,
Dr. DA URENY returned thanks.
On " she Un.versity of Cambtide and Professor Cum-
ming.' being drink,
Pi oh- ssor CUMMING returned thinks.
('n " the Rapti Society, the_Duke of Sussex, and Mr.
Lubbock" being drunk,

Lusitocic returned thanks, and stated that but fur
indisposition his Royal Highness would have attend. d.
This compliment to Dr. Priestley was grati'ying to the
Royal S..ciety, for he had been one of its member-, and
its transactions were the depositories of his discoveries.
The society had not been unmindful of the great merit
of Dr. Priestley's discoveries, for one of his papers, on
the properties of air, had gained the Copley medal. It
contained the analysis of atmospheric air, and the experi-
ments relative to the receiving touristic acid over quick-
silver.

On the health of Mr. Farad .y being drunk, in con-
junction wi.h the Royal Institution,
Mr. FARADAY eulogized the properties of Dr Priestley's
mind, which was altogether free from that prejudice which
of en hung about acute and ingenious men, and which
influenced not only the judgment but the senses. Dr.,
Priestley had attained his great discoveries by laying aside
all preconceived. notions, and following up the latest idea
which experiment had proved. He acknowledged himself
indeiit,d to Dr. Priestley in the course of study and ex-
periment he had puisueil.
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Mr. J. TAYLOR, in returning thanks on behalf of the
Smeatunian Society of Civil Engineers, gave an interests
ing account of the connect:on of Dr. Priestley with that
society, as well as of his early literary and scientific history.
He reht d a variety of facts showing his wonderful ac-
tivity and application of mind. He became a tutor at a
dissenting academy, where he taught Hebrew, Greek,
Latin, French, and Italian, besides astronomy. In one of
his visits to London he proposed to Dr. Franklin to write
a history of electricity, arid in le-s than a year he pro-
duced that history, though he had perpetual occupation
with other pursuits. In some of his experiments on car-
bonic acil gas, he conceived that water might be impreg-
nated with it ; he communicated his idea to the Admiralty
and to the College of Physicians, and the result was, that
he published his discovery in a shilling book (for he was
always ready to give the public the full benefit of all his
discoveries) and those who drank 'soda water were indebted
for it to Dr. Priestley.
Similar compliments were paid to other individuals and
societies, and Were acknowledged on their behalf by Mr.
Hatchets, Dr. Bostock, Mr. Guillimard, Dr. Turner, the
Hey. John Currie, Mr. A. Atkin, Dr. Roger, Mr. Chit
dren, and Mr. Pepys.
The health of Mr. John Finch, the grandson of Dr.
Priestley, was drunk.
Dr. PARIS proposed the health of their venerable Chair-
man, Dr. Babington, which was suitably acknowledged
front the Chair.

„
LONDON HUSBANDS.—The series of original
paper, entitled ” Cu. ious Customs of the County of Mgd-
ales.x," which, we understand, are to be commenced in
the April Number of the" Court M.ggeziae," report attri-
buteS to the pen of its accomplished Editor, the Hon. Mrs.
NottTON. The theme-of the Ent paper is a most singular
one—" The Invi,ibility of London Husbands."

The East India Company's ship Macqueen,
arrived off the Lizard on the 2501 inst. ; she sailed from
China on the 19th of November. The Duchess of Athol
arrived off Du tmouth on the 26th inst. ; she sailed from
China on the 28th of November ; from the Cape of Good
Hope on the 24th of January; and from St. Helena on the
sth of February.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH
27.—The sales of cotton are estimated at upwardsof 1.500
bales : there are reported 200 Brazil,. in B.hias. a► Sid.,
.nd Maranhains, 9.1. to 981. ; 200 Egyptians, 91.1. to
lop.; 100 St. Domingos, 7 d. ; and about 1,000 in
American desFriptions, from 7d. to 91
NOVEL MODE OF SNUFF-TAKING.-A
worthy veteran, residing not a hundred miles from Bre.
con, rose early one morning recently, and hastened
procure a supply of his favourite stimulant, which, on his
retup. be plared on thetak,.le. Soon afterwards the fa-
mily were stifling. The hearth was clean, the fire clear,
the k tt e down to boi', and every prepar ,tion made for
breakfast. The good wide, thinking she perc ived an
ounce of coffee, placed so conveniently to her hand, won-

tiered what magic had caused her husband to be so (Intl
silally attentive ; but the appetites were too eager to admit
of time being wasted in comments, so the contents of the
packet were speedily put into the coffee pot, and the in-
viting bev.•rage was soon seen smoking in the breakfast
cup•. After sundry wry faces, and maledictions uttered
against the adulterators of the berry, the old m in, bay.ng
a keener nose than the rest, discovered his loss, and loud
were his bewailings that a week's supply of his only corn-
fort—snuff, had been so carel.-ssly converted into a break-
f ist powder_ As for the rest of the party, warm water
and eme,ies were sp-edily in request to cleanse their sto-
machs of the impurity, and to protect them from appre-
hended chol ra morbus Warwick Advertiser.

DENNIS COLLINS, the old pensioner who
thr.-w a ston,- at his MAJESTY, is ordered to he transported
tnr lite—so that the poor old man will we the satisfaction
of being once more on the element on which he passed •o
many years of his life. During his confinement in Rending
gaol his personal appearance had urpiergone consider-tide
alteration. He had become considerably stouter, and his
rough, hard-looking, weather-beaten countenance had as-
sumed a florid complexion and a plumpness which destroyed
much of the to irked character of his features. His dress,
since his conviction, was most grotesque, all the right side
of it being of bright yellow, and all the left side of a purple
brown. His wooden leg (a new one, worn for the first
time on his trial) was painted sky blue, and, to complete
the tout ense►nble, lie wore a blue cloth cap, with a red
border and a white tassel on the top. The yellow and
purple brown is the prison dress, worn to detect those who
escape ; the rest is according to the taste of the wearer.
STRoUll.—The inhabitants of this town have
been thrown into a state of considerable ferment from the

following cause. The parish of Stroud is a perpetual
curacy, which has been held for many years by the Rev.
Mr. SEAGRAM, but the duty has been performed for about
30 years by his curate, the Rev. Dr.WILLIAms, a gentle-
man who, from his religious zal, piety, and exemplary
conduct, is held in the most universal respect and affection
by the whole of the parishioners, consisting of upwards of
S 000 persons. The Rev. Mr. SEAGRAM, in consequence
of having been preferred to another living, vacated that of
Scrou I, and the Bishop of the diocese (Gloucester) was
requested by the parish to appoint the Rev. Dr. WILLIAMS
to the vacant perpetual curacy. Instead, however, of
complying with the request his Lordship presented it
to a young clergyman, the Rev. T. Poweee, who notified
to the Doctor that his services would not be required after
the 2511 March. As soon as this fact became publi
known, the greatest sensation was produced ; petitions were
prepared and forwarded to the Bishop, staring the injury
which would be done to the cause of religion by superseding
a venerable clergyman, who was so unprecedenteilly be-
loved by his flack, who had officiated in the parish
church for 25 years, and whose means of subsistence
fur himself and a family of ten children would be thus
taken away, and conjuring his Lordship to re-consider
the eubj-et. These remonstrances failing of effect, a com-
mittee, consisting of the principal inhabitants of the town,
has been formed ; it has been decided to dispute the right
of presentation by the Bishop, there being reason to believe
that the power is vested in the parishioners, only that it
hae been disused for some years. Subscriptions to the
amount of many hundreds of pounds have been alrei,dy
tendered, for the purpose of bringing the metier to issue;
which, at present, waits the opinion of a gentleman leaned
i• the law...—Monmouthshire Merlin.