The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

M. De Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Minister, and
M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, transacted business yester-
day at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
M. de Bacourt, the French Charge d'Affaires, Sir John
Hobhouse, Sir John Newport, Mr. Hume, M. P., aad Mr.
Cleghorn, had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Rice
at the Colonial-office.

Viscount Althorp arrived in town yesterday afternoon from a
visit to the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood, Sussex.

Mr. Secretary Rice visited Lord Auckland yesterday at the
Admiralty. . _

The Right Hon. James Abercromby has arrived in town
from Northamptonshire.
_

Mr. Colquh-oun transacted business yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office.

The Attorney-General transacted business yesterday at the
Treasury.

Sir John Hobhouse has arrived in town from the North.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel took their departure this
morning for Calais, in the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's packet Lord Melville. The Hon. Miss Bowis, and
Mr. Fordyce and family, also left this morning for Rotterdam,
in the Company's mail packet London Merchant.
The Hon. Colonel Francis Wm. Grant of Grant,
M. P. for Morayshire, has come forward in the most handsome
manner and taken shares in the Stotfield and Lossiemouth
harbour to the extent of 5001., thus showing his desire to en-
courge public improvements connected with the borough of
E lgin. --Aberdeen Observer.

A monument to the memory of the late Duke of
Sutherland is about to be erected on the summit of Benvragie,
a mountain in the parish of Golspie, county of Sutherland.
The monument is to be erected by the tenantry on the estate,
and will be 75 feet high. —Aberdeen Observer.
LORD CLONMEL.—This nobleman, taking into
consideration the depression of the times, has, we learn, gene-
rously and humanely come forward to the relief of his nume-
rous tenantry, by making a reduction of one-eighth in their
rents. Gratifying in very deed is the task to public journalists,
of recording such splendid acts of disinterested patriotism and
honourable conduct.— Tipperary Free Press.
Signor and Madame Garcia gave a grand Concert
at the Rotunda on Saturday morning last, assisted by Mr.
Sapio, Mr. Conrad Boisragon, and Mr. Lacroix, a pupil of
Signor Garcia, in the vocal, and Mr. Bauman and Mr. Pio
Cianchittini in the instrumental department. And on this
day Bochsa and Mori, with Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, and Mr.
Boisragon, gave a concert at the same place. —D üblin Free-
man's Journal.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A Court of Aldermen
was held y esterday at Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayor,
sixteen Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and City Officers were present.
Precepts for the ceremonial and procession on Lord Mayor's
Day next were ordered to be issued. The Sheriffs reported
the state of the prisons.
Several of the French papers state that many of the
superior officers of the National Guard feel themselves to have
been greatly slighted in not having been included among the
numerous visitors invited to Fontainbleau.

Mr. Morier has dedicated his new Turkish Ro-
mance " Ayesha, the Maid of Kars," to the travellers in the
East, to whom he observes :—" It has frequently occurred to
me that a tale of no common interest might be formed from
the adventures of those who have explored the countries in
which the scene of the following narrative is laid." Who, in-
deed, that is at all conversant with Eastern life and manners,
but must recognise the truth and beauty of Mr. Morier's de-
scriptions, as given in this new story, independently of the
romantic adventures with which it abounds? " Ayesha " will
increase the high reputation of the author of " Zohrab."
We copied yesterday from a morning paper, an an-
nouncement that Mr. Charles Phillips, the celebrated Irish
barrister, had been appointed by Lord Brougham to the situ-
ation of Public Prosecutor, under the Central Court Act,
with a salary of 2,0001. per annum. In looking into that Act,
we find no mention so much as made of any such office ; and
conclude, therefore, that this announcement must at least be
premature ; and that neither the office nor the salary can have
existence till both have received the sanction of Parliament.

Saturday last, when the Morning Star steamer was
off St. Andrew's Bay, on her passage from Dundee to New-
haven, the captain observed a hawk in keen pursuit of a lark ;
the passengers watched the movements of the birds with great
attention, until the lark finding itself exhausted sought refuge
among the passengers. The hawk, determined not to lose its
prey, perched itself on the rigging, ready to pounce upon its
victim, if it should leave its asylum ; but the captain took the
bird under his protection.

FIALLEY'S COMET.—Seeing in your paper an
extract from a New York paper, stating that Halley's comet
was visible in the constellation Taurus, I beg leave to state
that that comet will not be visible to this planet previous to
August, 1835, and that its nearest approach to the earth will
take place on the 6th of October, 1835, when it will be nearly
vertical in this latitude, and will be visible in the evening, in
the constellation of the Great Bear, never setting for several
days.— Correspondent of a Dublin Paper.
Hancock's steam-carriage is now undergoing the
only test that will satisfy the public of its utility—actual re-
gular work upon the road. The road taken partakes of every
variety of rough and smooth, hill and dale, paving, flint, and
metal, with vehicles, horses, and pedestrians of every grade ;
through all this he has continued his career daily for the last
two months. Mr. Hancock began his experiments in 1826,
and his experimental carriage " Infant " was the first steamer
that plied for hire on the common roads, in Feb. 1831 ; since
then he has built five others. _

At Fareham, on the 3d and 6th instant, the thermo-
motor rose to the extraordinary height of 123 degrees, at
which height the index having reached the bulb, the subse-
quent increased heat, if any, could not be ascertained.
The Frankfort Postanzpt Journal states that a
young lady, 20 years of age, residing near Dresden, had been
bled to death by the bite of a leech. These animals had
been applied to the throat upon medical advice. One of
.them having filled upon an artery, the bleeding was so pro-
fuse,,ald all attempts to stop it so unavailing, that the young
lady expired.
The number of voters in Herefordshire is 4,970 ;
last year it was 4,944. The number in Cambridge town is
1,581 ; last year it was 1,456, and in 1832 it stood 1,499; of
this number 70 are freemen, they were in 1832, 79. In Wol-
verhampton the borough voters are 899. Brecknockshire has
1,898, an increase over last year of 102. In Kidderminster
the number of voters is now 361 ; in Rochdale borough, 767.
The votes allowed this year in Leeds are only 85 out of 606 ;
the total diminution in the borough, from the number last year,
is 667. For the borough of Greenwich and its precincts, the
number of voters in 1833 was 2,464, in 1834 it is 2,520, show-
ing an increase of 56 over the last year. Great complaints
have existed generally of the neglect of the overseers to pre-
pare the lists required by the act.
There is scarcely a Middlesex or Westminster
Session that we do not hear of bills of indictment preferred
and found against persons for keeping gambling-houses, but
we never hear anything farther about the matter, unless such
bills are found when presented by parish authorities. It would
bc' a wholesome alteration in the law if means were devised to
oblige parties to come into Court, who should not be permitted,
by juggle or compromise, to defeat the ends of public justice.
If the sums extorted for any given year from individuals, by
the threats of common informers, could be ascertained, and
made the aggregate amount, it would astound and astonish
the public.
THE QUARTERLY DIVIDENDS.—The dividends
on the several portions of the public debt, the transfer books
for which have been closed for some weeks past, commenced
paying at the Bank of England yesterday morning, and there
was a greater pressure to receive the interest among the holders
of Stock than is usually the case on the day fixed upon for the
first payment. The interest now in course of payment has be-
come due upon the following Securities :—Three per Cent.
Reduced Annuities, Bank Stock, Three-and-a-Half per Cent
Reduced, Three and a Half per Cent. of 1818, the Four per
Cent. (not Reduced), Long Annuities, and Annuities for a
term of years, there were also in the course of payment the
dividends on South Sea Old Annuities. The transfer books for
Bank Stock were re-opened yesterday for public transfers, and
the remainder of the transfer books which have been shut for
many weeks will open on the following days :—the Reduced
Annuities on the 22d instant, for the Three-and-a-Half per
Cent, Reduced on the 23d, for the Three-and-a-Half por
Cents. of 1818 on the 17th, for the Four per Cents. on the
22d, for the Long Annuities on the 20th, and for Annuities for
a term of years on the 23d instant. The transfer book of Old
South Sea Annuities re-opens at the South Sea House on the
22d of the present month.
POLITICAL PERSECUTIONS IN GERMANY.—
The proceedings against the political offenders are carried on
with great zeal ; and it is said that some persons, who were
far from being suspected, were compromised by the investiga-
tions, as by the confessions of the prisoners. It is supposed
that there are from 2,000 to 3,000 persons at this moment in
Germany accused of pretended political offences. Some groan
in prison for months, others for years, and all are at last libe-
rated as innocent.

NUMBER OF CHILDREN ABANDONED IN
FRANCE,—From official accounts it appears that in the year
1819 the number of children abandoned was 99,346; in 1820,
102,103 ; in 1821, 106,000 ; in 1822, 109,000 ; in 1823,
111,000 ; in 1824, 116,749; and in 1831, 122,981. During
the last-mentioned year the expense of nursing and maintain,
ing these children was 8,725,845 francs, about 350,0001.
There have been no accounts made up since the year 1831.
A cellar belonging to Mr. R. Battley, merchant-
tailor, south Shields, having been of late much infested with
rats, and he being desirous to rid himself of such unwelcome
visitors, set a steel spring trap. On looking to it on Friday
last, what was his surprise when, instead of finding a rat cap-
tured, he discovered only its two eyei, left fast to the teeth of
the trap ; on the following day a rat was killed in an adjoin-
ing coal-cellar, minus its organs of sight !—Durham Chro-
nicle.