The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-06 00:00:00

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tinent for three years ; the Earl and Countess of JERSEY
will leave in a few weeks ; Earl GOWER. is expected to
depart about the same time, as also the Earl of WARwicx ;
the departure of the Earl and Countess of CHESTERFIELD
is also again spoken of, but not yet fixed, we .believe ;
Lady CHARLOTTE GREVILLE is alsd named as awing the
intervie l absentees from the fashionable circles of the
metropolis.

DEATH OF LORD Lordship,
who had been for several weeks past seriously ill, expired
the night before last, at his residence in Dover-street.
His Lordship was Baron of OCKHAaI, and succeeded to
the title on the death of his father in 1793, and married,
in 1804, HESTER, daughter of HuGH, Earl of FORTESQUE,
by HESTER, sister to GEORGE, Marquis Of BUCKINGHAM.
His Lordship was in the 58th year of his age, and is suc-
ceeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, PETER
(now Lord KING), who attained his majority in January
last. His Lordship has also left several daughters.

Great preparations are making at Hanover
Lodge, Regent's-park, for the Countess of DuNnoNatc's
(ci-devant Lady COCHRANE) grand dejeune and fete
champetre on Saturday next. A temporary pavilion has
been erected, and the grounds are laid out with great taste,
almost rivalling the adjoining demesne belonging to the
Marquis of HERTFORD.
The Princes ALEXANDER and CHARLES of
Salms, or Solms Braunfels, now in this country on
a visit to their illustrious relatives, are the issue of the
marriage of the Duchess of CUMBERLAND and Prince
FREDERICK of Solms Braunfels ; the elder of the
Princes (FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY KASIMIRGEORGE
CHARLES MAXIMILIAN), is in his 31st year, and the
younger, Prince ALEXANDER FREDERICK Louis, is i❑
his 26th. Solms is a county of Germany, in Wetteravia,
lying west of Upper Hesse. The House of Solms is di-
vided into several branches, the principal one is Braunfels,
which was raised to the princely rank in 1742. The
decayed castle of Solms, the seat of the ancient Counts, is
seated on a hill, one mile east of Braunfels, the present
capital.

On Thurday Mr. THOMAS STEELE was
arrested in this city by Tllomas P. YOKES, Esq., magis-
trate of police, on informations charging him with having
uttered and published a false, scandalous, and malicious
libel against the Government, a few days previous, in a
speech which we apologized for not inserting last Saturday.
Yesterday Mr. STEELE was held to bail at the police-office
in this city, to answer the prosecution of his Majesty's
Attorney-General in the above case at the ensuing summer
assizes for thecity of Limerick.—Limerick Chronicle.

THE CHOLERA.—It becomes our painful
duty to state, that ,his direful calamity has again come
among us. Within the last few days, there were suddenly
carried off by it, among several others, Mrs. BAILLIE, wife
of Mr. BAILLIE, organist ; Miss OLEPIELD, and the
daughter of Lieutenant FAR'iA NT, of the 54th Regiment,
now on recruiting service in this town. There were 20
cases on Thursday last, and how many there may he up
to the present time we are not enabled to say.—.Kilkenny
Paper.

EX-SHERIFF PARKINS.—By the accounts
from New York, we learn that on the application of the
friends of Ex-Sheriff PARKINS, a Commission of Lunacy
had been granted by Chancellor WALWORTH, to examine
the state of his mind. D. S. JONES. and C, GRAHAM.
Esqrs., and C. PERKINS, and J. HEARNS, Doctors of
Me licine, had been named Commissioners. The applica-
tion wBii made by T. G. FLETCHER, Esq., solicitor for
the petitioners.

We have received New York papers to the
11th of May. The following is an account received from
Alexandria, May 7, of an outrage committed on President
JACKSON :-.." I (says the writer) walked to the wharf
with a friend going to Richmond, and there found R. B.
RANDOLPH, a lieutenant who had betn dismissed the
united States service, with whom I walked into the cabin
of the bolt, where we found a great many office-holders,
office-bunters, epaulettes and swords. RANDOLPH walked
up to the President, his (RANnotartes) right hand in a sling,
when the President appeared disposed to take him by the
band. But RANDOLPH said, Sir, lam a cripple in this
hand, and the other I cannot present to you, because my
name is RANDOLPH, the victim of your unrelenting per-
secution for four years.' Sir,' exclaimed the President, ' I
know nothing about it.' RAisnoorx replied, I have your
signature in my pocket, and have nothing left but to return
the compliment, and pull your nese'—which he did with
.but little effort. Whereupon an officer struck him with
a sword sheathed ; Mr. POTTER, a clerk in the Treasury
department, gave him three severe blows with the handle
end of an umbrella, which was followed up by many
other blows, which brought RANDOLPH to the ground,
when he received many mote blows until his friends kept
off the assailants, got him on his legs, and puled him
from the boat on the wharf; when there, a stout man
caught him, held him by the uncrippled hand, striving to
raise a mob on the wharf, or carry him back on board to
he murdered; but a friend and myself prevented him
from striking RANDOLPH, when came up and col-
lared the redoutable, who then relinquished his hold, and
RANDOLPH, without a hat, and his coat in tatters, walked
up to the tavern, borrowed a horse, and left the district."
THE COAL TRADE OF THE TYNE AND
WEAR.-It affords us great pleasure to state, that the
taking off the Dutch embargo has already produced a fa-
vourable effect on the coal trade of the Tyne and Wear.
Several vessels have within the last day or two been char-
tered with c"als from Newcastle and Sunderland for diffe-
rent ports of Holland, and we hope this renewal of inter.
course will sensibly lessen the depression under which the
coal trade of this district has been labouring for sometime
past.— Tyne Mercury.

An event occurred yesterday morning at the
lime-works of Messrs. ALEXANDER DOVE and Sun, near
House-hill, which has excited the deepest sensation in that
neighbourhood. It appears that the entrance to the coal
and to the lime-works is by one shaft, from which the
lime-work is at the greatest distance. When the colliers
were brought up on Thursday night it was not known by
them but that the people engaged at the lime-works had
ascended before, and it was not till next morning that a
man and two boys, who worked at the lime-works, were
discovered to be missing. When the colliers descended
yesterday morning in quest of them, they beheld PETER
THOMSON, with a son of 12 years of age on his bosom,
lying near the bottom of the shaft, and another son of 14
years, a few paces distant, all three lifeless and cold!
From the information that has reached us, it would appear
that some fires, kindled to create a draught, had caught
one of the pillars which supported the roof, and gave out
such smoke as caused the death of the three unfortunate
individuals above-mentioned. The agonized feelings of the
widow, in beholding herself bereft, at one stroke, of her
husband and her two sons, will be more easily conceived
than described.—Paisley Advertiser.
SUICIDES FROM DECAY IN TRADE.—On
Tuesday, an inquest was held at the Bridge House, Bo-
rough-road, on the body of Mr. W. Km(Hair, aged 52,
formerly an extensive brewer in the Borough. He was
compelled to relinquish his brewery about a month ago
fr,on a falling off in the trade, and he had since been
living in lodgings with his wife and four children. His
nris!ortunes preyed on his mind, and on Tuesday morning
he was found hanging by a rope from the staircase.—
Verdict—lnsanity. An inquest was held the same day at
St. Bytholomew's Hospital, on the body of Mr. J.
LEACH, aged 48, formerly a grocer, in Norton Falgate.
About five weeks ago, be became a bankrupt, since which
his spirits had been much depressed. On Friday morning
be got into a backney-couh in Pickett-street, and told the
driver to take him to Cheapside. On opening the door,
the driver found him weltering in his blood, having cut
his throat with a razor. He died on Monday. Verdict—
Temporary derangement.

An in
quest was held on Tuesday at the
Plough Inn, Kensall Green, Harrow-road, on the body of
Mrs. MARY ROSEVEAR, aged 52. The deceased was the
widow of a toy-maker, formerly in an extensive way of
business, in Goswell-street-road. Some years ago she was
compelled to have a leg amput ited, and to wear a substi-
tute of wood. On Friday afternoon, about three o'clock,
she was seen walking along the banks of the canal at Ken-
sall Green, for many years her favourite place of resort,
and she accosted several children at play, patting them on
the cheek and giving them halfpence. Shortly after Mr.
Wow), a painter, was passing along by the canal with
one of his journeymen, when he saw what appeared to be
the body of a woman floating. He urged his journeyman to
go in, the canal being only tour or five feet in depth there,
but he refused. At this time the wooden leg was
considerably above the surface, and Mr. WOOD observed,
that if it were really a woman, she must have a wooden
leg, a circumstance rather uncommon with that sex, and
said he almost doubted whether it was notone of those things
which farmers stick up in the fields to scare away the
crows. The journeymau said he did not like to be made a
fool of, and refused to go in, and two other young men
who came up also refused. While they were standing
there, the body gave a sort of " twitch" round twice,
which Mr. WOOD told the Jury he had afterwards no
doubt were the last expiring struggles of the deceased. A
barge came up shortly after, and the deceased was picked
up. It appeared that she hail lately been in great distress.
_.Verdict----" Found drowned."

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

If it be any satisfaction to our Tory friends,
or any high tribute to their fame as prophets, to
announce to them the quantum of success they
have recently met with in embroiling the rela-
tions between his Majesty and his Ministers, we
shall have infinite pleasure in doing so, by
simply stating, in a few words, so much of the
result of yesterday's audience at Windsor as
transpired in society yesterday evening. Lord
Grey and the Chancellor went to Windsor at
half-past seven, yesterday morning, and returned
to town about five. .Nothing, it is said, could
be more gracious, kind, or cordial, than the re-
ception experienced by those two Ministers from
their Sovereign. We can even venture to aver
that his Majesty decidedly approves the answer
to the address, as agreed upon by the Cabinet,
and, within a few hours, it may perhaps be
known how far his Grace the Duke of Welling-
ton concurs in applauding its pithiness and wis-
dom. We have good reason to believe the fact that
his Majesty's confidence in his official advisers,
and his disposition to support whatever measures
they, on their constitutional responsibility, may
recommend to him under difficult crises—such for
instance, as the present—are altogether unabated.
The Tory Peers, therefore, ought to look before
them cautiously. If they mean to escape that ex-
treme alternative which, after all, may be the
euthanasia of their miserable party—that which
they used to describe in derision as a " swamp-
ing of the House of Lords," but by which no-
thing more is meant, really, than a swamping of
the Toryism of that body,—if they, in truth,
hold that discreet and laudable desire, they will
demean themselves in a different manner from
the exhibition of last Monday. But it is said,
shall the House of Lords have no independent
power ? Must it exercise no free agency but
what is allotted to it by the nation ? Are its
constitutional prerogatives nothing ? We an-
swer deliberately, that as against—that is to say,
above—the opinions of the House of Commons,
ascertained by its votes, and those of the coun-
try generally, ascertained through the accustomed
channels of meetings, petitions, and the public
press, the powers and prerogatives of the House
of Lords are absolutely nothing. In every com-
munity there must be supreme power somewhere,
our constitution, for the ordinary purposes of
government, places it in King, Lords, and Com-
mons. But even as among those three powers
themselves there must be practically and sub-
stantially (although ostensibly there cannot be)
supreme power somewhere. Practically, there-
fore, it does exist : there is no power in this
country which can maintain a struggle even for
a twelvemonth against the Commons of Eng-
land, within doors and without, the first of
which holds the purse, while the second fills
or starves it. On great emergencies only need
such a manifestation of the national will be
exhibited or ought it; but it is always in
the hands of the House of Lords to produce
the emergency, and this is one such occasion ;
for, be it recollected, we have not the Portuguese
question now alone in jeopardy. The same
perverse means which have been brought into
action upon it may any day of the year be em-
ployed to fling into confusion the Bank question
—the East India question—the West India
question, upon which the Duke of. Wellington,
no longer ago than Tuesday evening, displayed
such stupendous ignorance and incapacity,—the
tithe question, upon which the Bishops may well
be expected, after Monday last, to signalize
their modest forbearance. All these, or any of
them, may be decided by a majority of factious,
place-hunting Lords, in a way the most adverse
to the votes of the Commons, to the wishes of
the Crown, and to the resolute will of the entire
nation. Then let us ask in our turn the ques-
tion, shall the House of Lords be the dominant,
paramount, supreme, and bestriding power?
Shall it be a mere Venetian senate ? Next comes
collision—that collision which the Duke of
Wellington, with his Portuguese and West
India fatuity upon him, invokes with an earnest-
ness almost approximating to religious, acting as
if he thought that " it cannot come too soon."
His Grace has held, at Apsley-house, a meeting
—a muster we ought to have said—of the more
obtuse and unflinching Tories, where it is said
that he avowed his preference of the plain desig-
nation " Mr. Wellesley" to being what he at
present feels himself—a member of an assembly
subordinate to the House of Commons. Why,
what then ? Would " Mr. Wellesley" be of
necessity a much worse man than " Duke of
Wellington ?" This is a mistake of the Duke :
a dukedom is a distinction, a privilege, and a
trust, as respects the country ; its chief charac-
teristics are the obligations annexed to it. If
the Duke sees only one side of his crimson coro-
net, viz., the ornamental side, and forgets the
duty side, all we can say is, that with every
possible sense of what is due to his immortal
military services, and to those which, within
these four years, he has performed as a states-
man on one great question, the Duke of Wel-
lington may become " Mr. Wellesley" as soon
as he pleases, and with little loss to others or
to himself. It is not among either the rights or
the obligation of a Peer to overlook every inci-
dent of a public question, but its tendency to-
wards, and influence over, his own accession to
office. Once more, we would respectfully but
earnestly admonish the Peers, that if they be
anxious to avoid a sudden afflux to their numbers,
they will coalesce with the nation, not separate
from it, much less offer violently to resist it. Their
Lordships would even now indeed have no just
cause to complain, were the King to call up a
legion of Commoners to Parliament, seeing that
they have placed Government more than once
in a position of much difficulty and embarrass-
ment, since it is the resistance of that assembly
which has prevented Ministers from making
many of their measures more liberal, from the
fear of having them thwarted and thrown out by
the Lords. The Bishops should beware; they
have been warned to put their house in order ;
but if they first throw the kingdom into dis-
order, we doubt whether they will have time to
act upon Lord Grey's admonition. It is cer-
tainly intolerable that these (quasi religious)
functionaries should, because the present is not
an Holy Alliance Government, be so assiduous
in swelling every anti-Ministerial majority. The
cure for faction in temporal Peers is by au ad-
mission of more : the cure for intrusion upon
temporal questions on the part of spiritual Peers
may, perhaps, turn out to be, not by admission,
but removal. At all events, Ministers may
reckon boldly on the support of their Sovereign,
which is, notwithstanding the political and social
means in constant exercise, at once sincere, de-
cided; and immoveable. The Ministers are,
:ndeed, nobly supported by the King and the
Commons. Let them, therefore, pursue their
course with calm determination. We havt
learned that the Duke of Wellington, though
ue went part of the road to Windsor yester-
day, went in fact to Odihani, where his Grace