The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Baron OrlrrEnA, the Hanoverian Minister and
Sir JOHN MACDONALD, the Adjutant-General of the
Forces, had audiences of his MAJESTY on Wednesday, at
St. James's Palace, previous to the KING'S departure from
town.

The Dutch Plenipotentiaries, Baron VERSTOLIC and
Mons. DEDEL, had interviews with Viscount PALMER-
STON yesterday at the Foreign office.
The Duke of RICHMOND and the Marquis of WELLES
LEY visited Mr. Secretary STANLEY yesterday at the
Colonial-office.

The Chevalier & VIAL, the Spanish Minister tran-
sacted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.

The Marquis and Marchioness of SALIS-
BURY are arrived at Childwall Hall, in Lancashire. This
fine old baronial residence was in the possession of the
Gascoigne family in the time of Henry the Fourth. The
Marquis of S ilisbury became possessed of this estate in
consequence of marrying the heiress of that ancient house.
The MARQUIS OF WELLESLEY.—It has
been asserted that the appointment of a nobleman a
second time to the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, as is the
case in the recent appointment of the Marquis of 'WEL-
LESLEY to that high office, is an unprecedented circum-
stance ; but this is not the fact. The late Earl TEMPLE,
father of the present Duke of BuctiNGHAm, was sworn
into the office of Viceroy in Dublin, September 15th,
1782, and was afterwards succeeded by the late Duke of
RUTLAND, after whose death the Noble Lord, when
Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, was re-appointed Viceroy, and
took the oaths before the Lords Commissioners accord-
ingly, on the 16th of December, 1787. At that time
the salary of the Lord Lieutenant was 25,0001 a year,
and afterwards it was increased to 30,000/. per annum,
hut reduced to 20,000/. during the Administration of the
Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND. So that the salary of the
Marquis of WELLESLEY will be 10,000/. less than it was
when he formerly filled the office of Viceroy.—Morning
Paper.

The Bishop of CHESTER, for the Bishop of
Dtrattiot, who, we regret to announce, is indisposed,
held a confirmation in Bishop Wearmouth church, on
Monday afternoon, when upwards of 600 young persons
of that parish and of Monkwearmouth were confirmed.
His Lordship also confirmed in Sunderland church, on
Tuesday morning, 359 young persons ; and on the after-
noon of the same day about 800, at the parish church of
Houghton-le-Spring. At each place his Lordship deli-
vered an excellent address to the young persons assembled,
impressing upon them the inestimable value of a moral and
religious life.— Cumberland Pacquet.

Drury-lane Theatre will open on the Ist o:
October, not, as stated by mistake, on the let of Septetn.
ber.

COLLEGE.—We are sorry to observe that
the town council has given its sanction to the raising of
the Matriculation fee from 10s- to 11. We cannot help
thinking that this step is most injudicious, and that the
interests of the University would have been better con-
sulted by the abolition than the increase of the fee. The
present fee of 10d. has, we know, always been paid with
much reluctance, for the great majority of students, never
availing themselves of the privilege of the library, regard
the fee in no other view than a tax.—Echnburgh 'Weekly
Chronicle..

MEETING OF THE PORTUGUESE MER-
CHANTS TO ADDRESS DONNA MARIA. - Yesterday
a highly-respectable meeting of the merchants and
others connected with Portugal was held at the North
and South American Coffee-house, for the purpose of
considering .the propriety of addressing the young Queen
of Portugal on the occasion of the visit of her Majesty to
this country, and to congratulate her on the present state
of the Constitutional cause. M. Vauzeller in the chair.
Senhor Mar:co moved an address to the young Queen,
and another to the Duche-s of Braganza, which were
unanimously adopted, and the following gentlemen deputed
to present them. M. Vanzeller, Senhor Marico, Senhor
Lima, Senhor Neves, and Senhor Vizeu. The proceed-
ings were conducted in the Portugues language, and with
national forms; the address to the Queen will be printed
on rain in a splended style.

NEWBURY ARCHERY FETE, SEPT. 11.--.
The last of our archery fetes took place yesterd iy at Ben-
ham House, and presented a most delightful and elegant
spectacle. The company began to arrive soon after one
o'clock—the ladies dressed in the same costume, white
and green ; the gentlemen chiefly dressed alike, in green
coats, with emblematic devices on their buttons. At five
o'clock the company retired to a sumptuous collation.
After dinner the archers resumed their sports, and did
not leave off until dark, when the back room was thrown
open, and dancing commenced to Weipert's hand. The
company did not separate until a late hour, highly grati-
fied with their amusements.

LAW REFORMS.—A correspondent of a
Morning Paper complains of the absence of Judges from
chambers during the present vacation, and of the conse-
quent expense of persons who are arrested being o);iiged
to take their bail to the residence of any of their Lord-
ships. He suggests that the Judges' clerks should be
made Commissioners for taking bail as wen as for swear-
ing affidavits, because it is only at present a fiction to
suppose that the bail are sworn in the presence of a Judge,
the whole being done by the clerk, who receives a fee of
6s. Sd.

TfIE CHOLERA.—The metropolis having
been declared by the medical inspectors to be free from
cholera, the Lords of the Council have directed the Com-
missioners of the Customs to issue clean bills of health on
and after the 19th instant. The accounts from all parts
of the country state that that mysterious disorder has
almost wholly ceased.

The mother of the young VIALA,
immor-
talized by the Decree of the National Convention, which
gave to him a place in the Pantheon, and more especially
by the chant du depart of Chenier, has recently died at
()rage, in the 80th year of her age. She outlived this
son forty years. The fourth son has since died, having
volunteered in the Imperi it Guard, and perished in the
disastrous campaign of Moscow.
TITLES.—If men were to consider their own
dignity as men, they would spurn at titles, and look on
them as nick-names. Titles and orders, it is true, are
harmless things, but they produce a kind of foppery in
the human character that degrades it; talking about 1"
blue riband, like a girl, and shewing its new garter, like
a child.— TrusLy's Memoirs.
On Friday last a meeting of the Society of
Royal British Bowmen took place at Condover Park,
near Shrewsbury, the beautiful mansion of E. w. Smythe

Owen, Esq. In addition to the members of the society
(all of the first rank), about two hundred of the nobility
and gentry of this county and the principality were pre-
sent, bes'il-s a countless assemblage of respectable persons
from this town and the vicinity, who were admitted into
the elegant demesne to witness the skill of the archers.
More than two hundred of the society and guests, inclu-
ding Lord Hill, Sir Watkin William Wynne, Bart., Sir
Rowland Hill, Bart., and members of the principal fami-
lies in Shropshire and North Wales, partook of the re-
freshments provided in the tent ; and Lord Hill, on
proposing " All Friends round the Werkin," took occa-
sion to mention how partial his Majesty was to all re-
membrances connected with the county of S clop and the
principality, in which district the Society of Royal British
B3wmen was formed and continue to flourish. His
Lordship also proposed the health of Sir Watkin William
Wynne, introducing it with an appropriate compliment.
The toast was greeted with much applaus,, and the
worthy Baronet returned thanks with great feeling. Miss
Anna Kenyon, of Cefn, won the first Society prize;
Miss Eyton, of Llywn Onn, the s,cond Society prize ;
and Miss Fanny Kenyon, of Cefn, won the Bracelet given
by Mr. Llyod, of Raghat.—Salopian Journal.
COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN MORTALITY.

—At a late meeting of the Academie des Sciences, in
Paris, M. Moreau de Jonnes read an interesing paper, the
object of which was to show the relative number of
deaths in the different parts of Europe—one of the many
instances of the nice statistical calculations which our
neighbours are in the nabit of making. From this it ap-
pears, that in the Roman States and ancient Venetian pro-
vinces 1 in 27 dies annually ; in all Italy, Greece, and
Turkey, 1 in 30 ; in the Netherlands, France, and Pros-
ail, 1 in 39 ; in Switzerland, Austria, Spain, and Portu-
gal, 1 in 40 ; in Russia (in Europe) and Poland, I in 44 ;
in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, 1 in 45 ; in Nor-
way, 1 in 48 ; in Ireland, 1 in 53 ; in England, 1 in 58 ;
and i❑ Scotland and Iceland, lin 59. Thus, it appears,

that of the whole of Europe, in Italy there is the least
chance of life, or of its long duration. The average of
deaths yearly in Europe, out of a population of 210,000,000
is 5,256,000, which is equal to one-fortieth of the whole ;
this, however, varies unequally between the North and the
South. The former have but 1 death in 44, while the
latter have lin 36. Out of 1,000,000 of inhabitants the
deaths amount to 22,701 in the countries situate north
of France, and 27,800 south of France, or a difference of
50,000, equal to 1-200th of the population. M. Moreau
de Jonres thus shows that the northern climates favour
the duration of human life. The author of the paper had
also made calculations tending to prove that the proportion
of mortality is diminishing, which fact is confirmed by the
return in several great cities, proving incontestably the
material ameliorations which have taken place in the great
cities.

TOBACCO USED AS STORES ON BOA RD OF
GREENLAND SHIPS.-Tobacco, for which there is a great
demand on board ships engaged in the north sea fisheries,
is constantly so injured by the frost as to become uefit for
consumption without going through a process which is
impracticable at sea, and which Custom-house regulations
have hitherto prohibited when the vessels returned to port.
The Lords of the Treasury have now, upon the representa-
tion of Mr. Hutt, the Member for Hull, consented that, on
the return of the Greenland ships, the tobacco on board
thus damaged may be delivered for the purpose of re-
manufacture, upon a bond being entered into by the
pieties to return the same into the warehouse within a
limited period, for subsequent reshipment as stores. Di-
rections have been given to the Commissioners of Customs
to this effect.—Newcastle Journal.

The marsh, like other places, has felt severely
the effects of the gale. Sheep and cattle have been driven
into the ditches ; many trees torn up by the root; large
branches broken off from others, and the vegetable world
exhibiting more the appearance of winter than autumn.
The gardens have also suffered greatly.—Kentisla Gazette.
The Indicateur, of Bordeaux, has the fol-
lowing A few days ago the inhabitants were treated
with a spectacle which has not, we believe, been exhi-
bited since the days of the Romans, though their expecta-
tions were not fully realised. M. Ducos bad promised
them a combat of ferocious animals, and brought out into
a❑ open arena at Bel Air a tiger, a hyenze, and a leopard,
which were attacked by dogs. The tiger, however,
seemed to take more notice of the collar and chain by
which he was held, and the state of subjection in which
he had been long kept had evidently extinguished nearly
all his natural ferocity, for he seemed determined not to
exert himself, and the severest attempts of the dogs to
irritate him could rarely force him ev.n to show his fangs.
The hyenas did not make a much greater display of his
savage nature ; but on being pressed too close, he con-
vinced the dogs that he would be a terrible enemy, if free
from his chains. The great interest of the day was the
leopard, whose graceful as well as rapid movements at
tracted universal admiration. He was attacked by six
dogs successively, four of whom he instantly rendered
incapable of r turning to the assault. There were about
a thousand spectators, and amongst them some, though a
very few, ladies. Every precaution to prevent mischief
was taken, and not the slightest accident occurred."

Captain Fraser, who was employed by our
Government to perform an extensive tour through the wes-
tern coasts and isles of Scotland and the north-west coast
of Lewes, observes, that there is an equal abundance of all
sorts of fish in the ocean surrounding the west coast of
Britain and Ireland with that which is found in the
northern seas, but that the natives cannot go fir from
land in their hookers or open boats to capture them, being
destitute of the means of providing larger boats. He says
that in a voyage of three weeks, to and from Ireland, not
less than 32,000 cod were delivered in London ; that no
the coast of Down there are plenty of turbot, soles, plaice,
cod, whitings, haddock, seatrouts, gurnard, mackerel,
skate, &c. Some assert that the depth of water of these
fi•hings is from 30 to 40 fathoms, others 20 fathoms ;
and where the bottom was muddy, cod, ling, and bake
could be caught in abundance; but where the bottom
was sandy he met with no success. Captain Willy, who
commanded the cutter in which Captain Fraser sailed, that
he might prove the Nymph Bank fishing, vood out at
sea, and came to a bottom of flinty pebbles and shells,
when, in the space of two hours, he caught 203 of the
largest fish he ever saw, consisting of cod, ling, and hake,
as also abundance of skate and bream. He maintains
that a fishery could be established here as productive as
that at Newfoundland.—Edinburgh Evening Courant,

O❑ Saturday a boy about ten years of age,
son of a labouring man called Best, who resides at
Fletcher's-bridge, near Bodmin, was found hanging to an
apple-tree near his home. The deceased was sent from
home the day before for the purpose of gathering fire-
wood in Cardingham park, sad it is supposed got into
the tree fur the purpose of faking some of the apples; he
had with him a rope; which he used for the purpose of
tying up the wood; and which he usually carried by tying
one end loosely round his neck, and coiling the other over
his shoulders. It is supposed that in descending the tree
the oil of the rope got entangled in one of the branches,
and on his attempting to jump to the ground he was
suspended and strati;led. The body was allowed to re-
main as it was found until an inquest was held, when the
jury, after making the neceseary inquiries, returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental death."—Plymouth Chronicle.

The merchants of Liverpool seem disposed to
abridge extensively the Government packet establishments.
Fur a long time past the packet-ships from hence to the
principal ports of the United States have almost entirely
superseded the Post-office p ickets to that part of the
world ; and, for the last ten years, the system has been
extended, with equal advantage, to the eastern coast of
South American. During that period nearly 300 vessels
have been despatched from hence to Rio Janeiro in the
packet service, averaging one in twelve days through the
whole term, which have sailed with a punctuality not
exceeded by the Post.office packets. The ships are a fine
Flue, well found in every respect, and make their passages
in a short time ; often in less than the vessels on the
Falmouth station. The four last arrivals there come un-
der this description, having severally made their passages
as follows :—The George Canning, in 46 days ; Colom-
bian, 46 ; Statesman, 55; and Margaret, 48 days.
The packet-ship system is rapidly extending, and will
shortly embrace every country with which this port is in
extensive connection.—Liverpool Albion.

We are sorry to learn that the patriotic Mein.
ber for Greenock, Mr. Wallace, has suffered a severe loss
in the stranding of one of the Leith and London smacks
in the late gale. Mr. Wallace's servant having charge of
all the important papers connected with Mr. Wallace's
law reform proceedings, a complete set of the Journals of
the Houses of Lords and Commons, books, and an immense
quantity of private property, was on board the ill-fated
vessel, and we are sorry to say he was one of the sufferers
—his body having been washed ashore. As imperfect
accounts of the wreck of the vessel have been received,
we are unable to sta'e whether there is any probability of
any of the cargo being saved. Hopes are entertained
that, as Mr. Wallace's property was enclosed io very
strong boxes, made expressly for the purpose, they may
eventually be saved from the wreck ; but if they are lost,
the loss, we are assured, will be irreparable, and the
country, as well as Mr. Wallace, will have occasion to
regret the accident.... Glasgow Clovnicl"