The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of Gloucester arrived in town on Saturday
from Brighton. His Royal Highness dined in the evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, at their residence
in Tilney-street.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria and
their Royal Highnesses' household attended divine service
yesterday, at the Palace at Kensington. The service was
performed by the Dean of Chester.
Lord Howard de Walden, Minister at the Court of
Sweden, arrived in town on Friday night from Stockholm.
His Lordship visited Viscount Palmerston on Saturday.

The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke
of Richmond, Viscount Althorp, and the Right Hon. C.
Grant, had interviews with Earl Grey on Saturday, at his
residence in Downing-street.
Despatches were received yesterday at the office of the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from the Earl of
Minto, Minister at the Court of Berlin.

The Commissioners of the West India Compensation
Fund have taken an office in Great George-street, where
their meetings will for the future he held.
The Lord Chancellor has left town for Brighton.

Sir J. Scarlett entertained the Duke of Gloucester and
a select party at dinner last evening, at his residence in
Spring-gardens. Among the company to meet his Royal
Highness were Lord Lyndhurst, the Master of the Rolls,
and Sir Henry Halford.

Earl Grey had a dinner party yesterday evening, at his
residence in Downing-street.
The Right Hon. Charles Grant entertained the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Pal-
merston, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East
India Company, Mr. Macaulay, M.P., &e., at dinner on
Friday evening, at his residence in Great George-street.

The Lord Chancellor, in consequence of at-
tending a Cabinet Council at Brighton to-day, did not
sit in his Court. He went to Brighton on Saturday
afternoon, and will not return till eleven o'clock to-morrow
morning.
Mr. Whittle Harvey, who has been some
time contending with the Benchers of the Inner Temple
on the subject of their right to exclude him from the Bar,
has at length acceded to the proposition originally made,
that his case shall be heard without any persons but the
short-hand writers on both sides. The hearing went off
the last time in consequence of the Benchers refusing ad-
mission to a number of persons who presented themselves
as the friends of Mr. Harvey. The question will now be
argued by Counsel on Tuesday next, at seven o'clock in
the evening, by Mr. Sergeant Wilde and Mr, Sedgewick.

A Cabinet Council (the first since the pro-
rogation) is appointed to take place this day, at the palace
at Brighton, at three o'clock. The Duke of Richmond
left Cavendish•square this morning, at eight, to at-
tend it. His Grace was accompanied by the Duchess,
who proceeds to visit the various branches of her family
now sojourning there. Earl Grey left his residence in
Dawning•street, on Saturday, on a visit to their Majes-
ties, and it is expected will return to-morrow. Viscount
Palmerston and Mr. Stanley followed yesterday, and are
expected to return to-morrow.
The rumour is revived that the Foreign
Secretary has it in contemplation to effect a further re-
duction in the salaries of some of our Ambassadors at
foriegn Courts. The average reduction within the last
three or four years amounts to about 20 per cent.
The States of Brunswick have resolved that
they will, at one of their early sittings, discuss a motion
for an address to the Government in favour of rendering
their debates public.
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It is rumoured that the expedition to the
North is to be attempted agai❑ by some of the parties who
have but so lately returned from their perilous voyage
with Captain Ross, who, it is also said, is to be nominated
as their future commander.

The mother of Marshal Bourmont is now in
London. His wife and the other females of the family are
in Paris.

Though that splendid coup-d'ceil, the last
scene of Gustavus, at Covent-garden Theatre, has cost
the lessee nearly 1,0001., yet there is every chance of its
being repaid, as there has been taken above 1,4001. in the
four first nights.

The Opera of Gustavus, at Covent-garden,
on Saturday next, will be followed by a new farce called
Scan, Mag.
THE OPERA OF " GUSTAVUS" A GROUND
OF NATIONAL QUARREL.-In the absence of other political
news in Paris, the recall of the French Ambassador from
Sweden, the Marquis de Saint Simon, bas become the
subject of conversation. Speculators not being permitted
to know the motive for this measure, have sought for and
found it. The recall, according to them, shows a misun-
derstanding between the two Courts, and the cause assigned
is curious enough. King John is said to have demanded the
withdrawal of Gustave; ou, le Bal Masque, from the
Opera, and the Vaudeville of the Camarade de Lit from
the Pailais Royal Theatre. This demand has been refused.

The London and Westminster Bank, for
some time announced as in progress of formation, is
likely to commence business shortly, and it is understood
to be the intention of the managers to allow a small inte-
rest on deposits, but only in the c se of those which are
to a certain degree permanent. They also contemplate
charging a commission to those who keep accounts will)
them, instead of requiring a balance left in their hands as
an equivalent for the trouble given. This would, they
conceive, prove a great convenience to some large class, •
of depositors, and have the additional advantage of secu-
ring them against all Times.
DECREASE OF DISSENT.—It is CODfi-
tlently asserted that the cause of dissent in this country is
not on the increase, but rather retrogading than other-
wise, as appears by the fact that many eminent minis-
ters of dissenting congregations have recently come over
to the Established Church—in several instances bringing
their hearers with them. The following is a list of
them :—The Rev. W. Seaton, formerly of Andover, now
of Wales; M. Anderson, formerly of Sandwich, now f
Sheverington, Wilts; R. Meek, formerly of South
Milton, now of Yatton, Somerset ; T. Witty, of Frome ;
Jacob Senegon, Hampstead ; J. Cottle, Axtnin,ter ; A.
Brotniley, Leamington ; J. Blundell, Mill Hill ; J.
Denham, Wymondley; W. A. King, Gainsborough ; J.

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Tucker, Axminster; and -- Calvert, Blackpool. Be. 1
tldes these, two others, Mr. Gibson, and Mr. Fielkhine ,
stely been seeking ordination from the Bishop of Exeter,-1
_.5424,. ind though it is stated they have at present met ' ' a
refusal, they will probably eventually be adniitted.e.... c.
•lesfield Courier. • `.,1,47.,..._
Lieutenant Daly, 7th hussars, now In G!as-
row, has just finished a match for 100/, of walking forty
miles a day ten successive days, which, notwithstanding
the unfavourable state of the weather, be performed with
great ease, completing the distance every day within twelve
hours, and without previous training of any sort. Lieute-
nant Daly bad only lost l lb. when the match was completed.
Doncaster Gazette.
Sir William Blizard, at the age of nearly 100
.rears, has tendered his resignation as surgeon of the Lon-
lon Hospital'
Late on Saturday evtn:li the Duke of De.
g
,onshire arrived in town, at his inai;:'ion in PiceallillYs
from his seat at Chatsworth, D .rbyshire, ant: yesterday
several of the Nobility and Gentry called at DevonsNr'.
House to make their friendly inquiries. The general
health of his Grace is improved, but the feebleness of one
of his krises still continues, but it is better than it was
some weeks ago.
It is confidently reported in military circles
that some decisive step must soon be taken by the au-
thorities at the Horse Guards to bring to a termination
the unpleasant relation now subsisting between the
officers of a Dragoon Regiment at present quartered in
'he south of Ireland and the Colonel of that corps.
The officers, it is said, hold no intercourse with the
Colonel, except upon matters immediately connected with
their military duties ; and he in his turn exacts from
them an observance of every formality which the strictest
discipline can warrant him in requiring.— Observer.
MECHANICS' TURN OUT. On Monday
last the whole of the workmen of 3,1,-sqs. Petre, engineers
and millwrights, of Rochdale, turned nut, in consequen .e
of an attempt to introduce what is called ad illegal a;)
psentiee.—Manchester Advertiser.
HORRIBLE MURDER NEAR BIRR.—A
reiiort has just reached us of a murder, which it is stated
o,curred on Wednesday lot, in the neigbourhood of Birr,
in the King's County. It nppe3rs that t vim gentlemen were
our shooting, and were accompanied by two peas tilts who
resided in the neighhour,ood. The latter had. unfortu-
nately for themselves, given evidence, a short time since,
in a criminal case, in tvhich a conviction was had. The
pir y had not proceeded far when they were surrounded by
't numb -r of armed men, who informed the gentlemen that
they had no cause for alarm, provided they did not interfere
to protect the it two informers" by whom they were
accompanied. An attack immediately ensued, when one
of the unfortunate men was murdered on the spot, and the
other so dreadfully wounded that his life is despaired of.
The gentlemen, it is stated, escaped uninjured.—Dublin
Evening Mail. _ _

The Birmingham Journal contains a long
account of the examination of some men belonging to the
Trades' Unions, charged with intimidating other work-
The defendants were bound over to keep the peace
for three months, finding sureties in 50/. each.
The universal success of the novel of " Godol-
phin" has now elevated that powerful work to the honnura
of a classic in the department of literature to which it
belongs. The mystery connected with its authorship
remains, though in many quarters it has been boldly
asserted that there is only one living writer to whom the
production could be attributed. Why he should choose
to " hide his light under a bushel" is not so easy to he ex-
plained. Was be apprehensive that he said too much
about certain influential coteries ? Did he fear that his
heroine was too palpably sketched? or did he imagine
that his design (a bold one, it must be admitted) would
be more safely and fully accomplished under the veil of
secrecy and disguise?
CAPTAIN Ross AND THE NORTH POLE
—An eminent land-valuer having on Saturday last wiih-
drawn from the public room at the Rein Deer Inn, in this
town, for the purpose of making some abstruse calculations
without being disturbed, found he bad " taken nothing by
his motion," as his privacy was soon broken i❑ upon by
the entrance of two countrymen, who commenced an ani-
mated conversation on the expedition of Captain Ross.
Upon this interesting subject, both, it would seem, bad
read much in the newspapers. " Strange clever fellow
this Csptin Ross is loik to be, nabor," says one. " Hey,"
replied the other, mun, varry,—l shouldn't a loiked
t' a bin wee him amang them oice burgs." " I nivver
reetly understood them oice burgs," said the former.
" Ho, mun, they're great lumps o' oice ommust as big as
a waggin load o' hay," " Worn't he t' furst as ivver seed
t' north poul ?" " Hey," replied the other, " bout (with-
out) it wur Holiver Cromwell, and some fooaks sed he did
and sum said be didn't." " Wor it like t' poul of a poul
Andra waggin." " Noa, mon, it wor mooar like t' spin-
dil o' Maister Tommy D—'s threshing machine; and
the say as haw t' world spins raond on't." " They say he
tutched it—naw, Billy, do yaw think that's loikly ?"
" Tutched it, hey, and brout a piece whoana wee him, and
they're showink it nah it' British Museum, at threepence
a piece—and I shouldn't wunder but they'll bring it dabs
t' Brayfit, when they're toired on't, and then weest see't
for a hopenny."—Doncaster Gazette.
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—CAPT. Ross.
—lllr. Hamilton, V.P., in the chair.—This meeting, the
first of the Session, was an exceedingly crowded one.
The paper read was a memoir of Captain Ross's discove-
ries, accompanied by a chart. At the conclusion of the
paper, Captain Ross himself entered the room, and was
very cordially received. The Chairman notified to Capt.
Ross that the Society's annual geographical premium had
been awarded to him by the Council. In making this
announcement, the Chairman paid a warm tribute to
Captai❑ Ross's zeal and disinterestedness in fitting out the
Victory for the voyage—to his courage, perseverance, and
sense of duty—to his skill in preserving life and health
in the inhospitable regions where he and his companions
(participatory in his tribute) were so long resident ; and,
finally, to the advantages which geography, astronomy,
and navigation would derive from his researches. Capt.
Ross, in returning thanks, took no praise for the past,
but in a manly style said he trusted his future conduct
would mark the sense he entertained of the Society's gift.
A hearty round of applause was then given to Captain
Ross ; another to Mr. Barrow, of the Admiralty. That
gentleman, in acknowledging the approbation, expressed
his strong belief of the existence of a water communica-
tion between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. A
third round was given in honour of Capt. Back and his
bold companions ; after which the company mixed in
conversation:—Literary Gazette.

The following announcement was made on
Sunday, the sth inst., at one of the parish churches in
Salisbury :—" Please to take notice, that Tuesday next,
the day of thanksgiving for the Papists' Conspiracy,
adurinted to be kept holy."
DEATHS BY POISON AT OFFONT.—A
most painful sensation was caused at Offton, a village
situate about eight miles from Ipswich, on Friday, the Bth
inet., by the discovery that a respectable occupier of land,
Mr. R. Minns, his brother William, his sister Susan (all
of them about 60 years of age), and Susan Minns, niece to
Robert and daughter of William Minns (aged thirty-seven),
Were suffering from the effects of poison, which had been
mixed up in a pudding, of which they partook at dinner;
William Minns and his sister are since dead. On Friday,
immediately after dinner, which took place about twelve
o'clock, and which consisted of a pudding, some pork, and
a few potatoes, the sister Susan was taken violently ill,
with excessive vomiting, and died in about three hours.
R. Minns and his niece were also affected in the same
manner and went to bed. While they were lying in this
alarming state, William Minns, who had been working on
the farm, came home and went into the house to get his
dinner. Seeing his brother upon his bed he asked him
what was the matter. Robert replied that they had
been all suddenly taken ill after eating their meals.
William asked whether there was anything the matter with
the victuals, and upon Robert's reply, " No, he didn't
think that there was," sat down and ate heartily of the
pudding. He then went to the stable, saddled a horse,
and rode down to Bricett, the adjoining parish, for a nurse.
He was gone rather more than half an hour, and on his
return he went into the barn, where a man named Piper
was at work, and said, '6 Piper, for God's sake go and
make a fire, for I am dying." He then went into the
house, and soon after to bed, where he continued in a very
distressing state till death relieved him from his sufferings
on Sunday morning. So potent had been the mixture
that'some fowls and two cats which came and fed at the
yard door, where one of the sufferers had emptied his
stomach, almost immediately died. The puddine, it sp..
nears, was made by the elder woman, Susan Mions, from
flour contained in a sack standing near the window at Vie
hack of the house. It is supposed that an entrance was
effected at the window on the previous night, and the
poison put into the sack.
Suspicion has fallen upon a
young man of loose character, wbo a short time since a _
maulted Robert Minns upon
the high road, and robbed im
t his purse, containing V. His. A coroner's inqi•est w s
,eld on the bodies of the deceased on Thursday. and as
adjourned till the next day (yesterday), when the jury
returned a verdict " That the deceased, William Minns
and Susan Minns, died from the effect of poison
adminis.
tered by some person or persona unknown."