The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-23 00:00:00

pretences—for that is the alpha and the omega of the
Repeal project. Bat although, as we have seen, ;t
finds no favour, yet it has produced a world of mischiJ,
and appears likely to produce more. In the first pLce
it has contrived to preserve in unimpaired distinctness
the broad line of demarcation between different sections
of the community, first drawn by the penal laws, and to
maintain in full and vigorous malignity the mutual and
animosities:cherished on either sideLof that dividing line ;
and next, to divert men's minds and attention, who had
the will and the power to promote measures beneficial
to that country, from a consideration of its condition
under the disheartening conviction that, propose what
they would, and exert themselves as they might in the
furtherance of wise and salutary reforms, there was at
work a principle of mischief which would baffle and
counteract them all. It is upon Ireland itself that the
frantic project of Repeal exerts such a baneful influ-
ence ; and therefore it is that we rejoice to find men—
such men as the Earl of Shrewsbury and Mr. Sharman
Crawford—cominv forward to denounce it as fraught
with mischief to the best interests of that portion of the
Uniten Kingdom.

Sir James- Graham had a long interview with
Sir Robert Peel this morning, at the Right Hon. Baro-
net's residence in Whitehall-,gardens.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town
yesterday afternoon for his seat, Betchworth House, near
Dorking. The Right Hon. Gentleman is expected to
return this evening.
THE NEW COURTS OF CHANCERY.—Work-
men are now actively engaged in erecting Courts for
the sittings of the two new Vice-Chancellors, appointed
under the Administration of Justice Act, for expediting
the business of the Court of Chancery. Ihe site se-
lected is Old square, Lincoln';. Inn, at the back of the
Lord Chancellor's Court.
CONVERSION OF LORD AND LADY HOCLAND
TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH.—W e rejoice to announce the
conversion of Lord and Lady Holland to the (Roman)
Catholic -faith, which gratifying event took place in.
Rome the latter end of last month. In connection with
such a circumstance, it is highly interesting, that the
intelligence has been brought by a young English gentle-
man, who went abroad a Protestant layman, and returns
I a Catholic priest.—Curb Examiner.
We understand it is very piobable that Lieut.-
General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Military Secretary at
the Horse Guards, will be shortly appointed to the go-
vernment of Madras.
Major-General Sackvile Hamilton Berkeley
succeeds Major-General Sir William Gomm in the com-
mand of the troops at Jamaica ; and Sir William will
succeed Sir Charles Napier in command of the Northern
District of England. Major General Berkeley served
at the capture of Surinam in 1804, the Danish Islands
of St. John and St. Croix in 1807, and of Martinique in
1809, including the siege of Fort Bourbon. The delay
in filling up the vacant command of the Northern Dis-
trict has arisen from the Horse Guards waiting the
receipt of a communication from Sir W. Gomm.
SINGULAR FAC r.—A few clays ago, a woman
residing in the village of Stevenston, who had for some
time been affected with a sesere swelling in the thigh,
applied to Dr. Brown, of Saltcoats, in order to get the
pain alleviated. After minutely examining the swollen
part, the doctor commenced to operate, and succeeded,
after considerable labour, in extracting a sewing needle,
about an inch and a half long, which the patient had
swallowed nearly 30 years ago.—Caledonian Mercury.