The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

COUR!' CIRCULAR..

The Queen and Prince Albert promenaded in Clare
mont Park yesterday morning. Prince Albert after•
wards went out shooting, attended by Colonel Bowles
and the Equerry in Waiting. •
Sir Robert Peel left Claremont yesterday morning for
town.

The Bishop of Oxford to k his departure from Clare-
,nt 3 esterday.
Their Ito) al Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Prineesc Royal, and the Princess Alice, were
taken their accustomed pony and .alking exercise in
Claremont Park yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held at half•past two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office.
The Ministers present wen. Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
,3urcletich, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Aber-
deen, Sir James Graham, the Right lion. W. E. Glad-
stone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of
Ellenborough, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Grantille Somer-
set, the Earl of Lincoln, tlte Earl of Dalhousie, the
Right Hon. S. Herbert, and the Earl of St. Germans.
The Council sat three hours.

Sir Robert lied arrived at his residence in Whitehall-
gardens yesterday morning, from Claremont. Sir James
Graham. visited the Right lion. Baronet.

Mr. Wickhatu, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
)esterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.

SIR PETER LAURIE AND JOSE PI

A DY,

The following was handed by Alderman Wilson to Sir
Peter Laurie, at Guildhall :

Mr. Alderman Wilson—The occasion of my writing is
this :—Through the malice of Sir Peter Laurie I am
daily insulted in my own house. To-day two men, at
least six feet high, came here demanding a return of
twenty shillings, and before I could asct main whether it
was due or not, they laid hold of me, threatening vio-
lence, and obliged-me to call out murder, they fastening
the door ard the windows. As soon as they found help
coming they ran away ; and last week one Joseph Lay
remained wilfully there on the premises, shouting and
threatening my li'e, before I could get a constable, who
thrust him out with great difficulty. Be so good as to
teach Sir Peter, if he has cause to see me, he must go
to a proper Court. I am not in the City jurisdiction,
and his publishing his hostility unlawfully may be pro-
motion of murder. I have known even a Quaker to
dye with a poker or carving-knife in his hands when at-
'arked by a murderer—vide Symonds and Hoddesdon,
Herts.

Yours respectfully,

J. ADY.

The ground of our dispute is his detention of my books.
Tyers now has them, and if he will persist that he has
wilfully destroyed them, Sir Peter is rich enough to
pay.

PLOW MONDAY.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor and
Aldermen held " a Court" at Guildhall, for the purpose
of receiving presentments from the several ward in-
quests, and swearing in special constables, but not for
the transaction of general business. Many of the pre-
sentments complained that numbers of inhabitants, in
wholesale business and in affluence, continued to neglect
to take up their freedom. The presentments were or-
dered to be taken into consideration on a future day.
LICHFIELD.--It is stated that Lord Waterpark
will come forward for the representation of this city on
the Whig interest, to supply the vacancy which has oc-
curred by the elevation of Viscount Leveson to the
[louse of Lords, by the death of Earl Granville. Lord
Waterpark is a near relative of the Earl of Lichfield.

The Duke of Beaufort will come to town, from
Badminton, on the 21st, to dine with the Conservative
Peers, at the Duke of Wellington's that evening.
The Bishop of Carlisle has quite recovered from his
recent severe indisposition.
By the demise of Earl Granville the families of the
Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Burlington, the E4rl
and Countess of Carlisle, the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, Hon. W. S. and Lady Caroline Lascelles,
/lon. Colonel Cavendish, Hon. E. and Mrs. Howard,
are placed in mourning.
The new First Lord of the Admiralty will, it is un-
derstood, commence his duties in a day or two. Recol-
lecting, as we well do, the general feeling of the army in
India in favour of the Earl of Ellenborough, whilst he
filled the high station of Governor-General, and which
feeling we had occasion so frequently to notice, the navy,
we confidently furetel, have every reason to hope that
the same liberal and just measures which gained for his
Lordship such universal commendation from their mili-
tary brethren, will be, in like manner, evinced towards
the profession over which he has now been selected to
preside.—Nacal and Military Gazette.
LORD MORPEIII.—We have the pleasure to state
that this Noble Lord has given his honoured name to a
document prepared by the Peace Society, recommending
addresses from merchants and other classes in this coun-
try to similar classes in the United States, in favour of
perpetual amity, and the reference of all points of mis-
understanding to the arbitration of disinterested parties.
—Leeds Mercury.
EXCISE CASE.--A case of considerable importance
came on for hearing before the county magistrates at
Rochester, at the instance of the supervisor of Excise
for the Rochester division. The information was laid
under the 56th Geo. 111., chap. 58, sec. 2, which subjects
the party on conviction to a penalty of 2001. Robert
Batten, supervisor of Excise, stated that, on the 27th of
November, accompanied by George Varley, an officer of
Excise, he visited the house of John White, the defendant,
a retailer of beer on the Brook at Chatham. They found
on the stairs a can, containing about six quarts of a mix-
ture composed of sugar and salt, which they seized, being
a forbidden article, but sometimes used for adulteration, as
a substitute for malt and bops. The defendant, in reply
to the charge, stated that he was pensioned off and in-
valided home from her Majesty's ship Castor, then in
China, about 18 months ago, in consequence of a com-
plaint under which he then and has ever since laboured,
and that the mixture in question was only a part of a
preparation from a prescription given him in China, and
which he had been in the habit of taking daily for his
complaint. A witness who resided in his house deposed
to the truth of the statement. The defendant also pro-
duced a certificate from a medical man in the neighbour-
hood, to the effect that he was in the habit of using this
composition for the relief of his complaint. The de
fendant was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 50Z