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

COURT CIRCULAR.

Viscount Melbourne left town last evening for Panshanger,
Herts, the residence of Earl and Countess Cowper. The
Right Hon. Charles Grant had an interview with his Lord-
ship previous to his departure.
Despatches dated the 26th of August were received yester-
day at the Colonial-office, from the Governors of the Leeward
Islands.
Viscount Palmerston had a dinner party on Wednesday
evening, at his residence in Great Stanhope-street. Amongst
the company were Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Althorp,
Mr. Secretary Rice, Lord Auckland, Sir George Shce (En-
voy Extraordinary to the Court of Berlin), and the Russian
Charge d'Affaires.
Lord Auckland had an interview yesterday with Mr. Secre-
tary Rice, at the Colonial-office.
The Marquis Camden arrived in town on Tuesday evening
from Malvern. .

Lord Palmerston left town yesterday on a visit to
the King at Windsor.
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Lady Elizabeth Talbot has finished touring, and
has arrived at Troy, her Ladyship's romantic seat in Mon-
mouthshire.

Viscount and Viscountess Strathaven are arrived
from a Continental tour at the Denbies, the beautiful villa of
Mr. -Joseph Denison, M. P. for Surrey.
Sir Henry Peyton arrived in Griosvenor-place on
Wednesday from Swift's House, near Bicester, in Oxfordshire.
The worthy Baronet is among the few remaining members of
the Four-in- Hand Club.
The Marquis Conyngham arrived yesterday at Dud-
12y-house, in Park-lane, from Buckhurst;ball, near Windsor.
His Lordship came to town unexpectedly, to attend some im-
portant arrangements connected with his office as Postmaster-
G en eral.

Nottwoop.—The Evening Parties are very gay.
Cards or music every night at the Countess of Essex's, Mrs.
Lucy Manners's, and the Countess of Beverley's. Lady Ald-
borough was there, but left abruptly.
SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY.—Notwithstanding
this unfortunate individual is confined in Burming-Heath Lu-
natic Asylum, pursuant to an order from the Secretary of
State, there are persons in this city (Canterbury) whose in-
fatuated obstinacy still incline them to the belief that he is the
identical Lord Courtenay. But will our readers credit that
several poor persons are weekly paying sums of money, on
condition of enjoying certain small estates when the Knight
shall be " put in possession of Powderham Castle." This we
vouch for as a fact.—Kentish Chronicle.

We believe that we may now state that the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer's private tutor, Dr. Allen, is to be the
new Bishop. _ _

LORD BENTINCK.—By letters received here yes-
terday afternoon we learn that his Lordship, the Governor-
General is " alarmingly ill" at Bangalore. The public ser-
vants from the different bureaus who proceeded from this to
meet his Lordship, fur the purpose of aiding him in his
schemes of investigation and retrenchment, are, in consequence
of this untoward event, completely at a stand still. The
authentic source from which we have derived this piece of in-
formation cannot allow us for a moment to cherish a hope
that there is any misrepresentation of the distinguished perso-
nage's health, and sincerely must every friend of India grieve
should the melancholy anticipations of his medical attendants
be realised.—Bengal Hurkara and Vurtman.

KIND RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS MAJESTY.—
Sir Henry Wheatley, of his Majesty's Privy Purse, has trans-
mitted a handsome donation from his Majesty to an old sol-
dier, in remembrance of an act so long as 55 years ago, the
presentation of a set of colours to a newly raised regiment of
light cavalry, called the King's American Light Dragoons, of
whom the old soldier, F. Sturm, of Topsham, is now at the
present time the only man in the United Kingdom alive who
witnessed and shared in this particular honour. This most
gracious act of his present Majesty, this hale old veteran tells
03, will all his lifetime be remembered by a deeply-feeling
heart with the utmost gratitude and thanks towards a noble and
humane King—God bless him. In that regiment he lost his
left eye, and had his right shoulder and two ribs fractured ;
he is new nearly eighty years of age, and reads and writes
without glasses.— Western Luminary.
LIFE ON SHIP-BOARD.--Life is idle and monoto-
nous. I have lived upon prose since I have been on board : it
is the sea system, and I must yield to it. If you imagine that
there is any poetry in the life of a sailor, how greatly are you
mistaken 1 Nothing is more like a convent than a ship of war.
Every day resembles the one before ; each hour brings perio-
dically the same task ; there is no care for anything external,
and within, a profound reliance on the return of breakfast in
the morning, and dinner in the evening. One is sure, when
night comes, to find one's bed made, and on awakening in the
morning a change of linen. This uniformity might suit a stu-
dious life : but beware of it. The day drags on, and is wasted
on words and trifles. —Jacquemont's Journey in India.
Last night, under a warrant from that most efficient
Magistrate, Thomas P. Yokes, Esq., a party of the county
police proceeded to Ballyvistea, county Tipperary, bordering
the county Limerick, and apprehended there Mathew and
Daniel Molony, respectable farmers, charged with conspiring
and employing others to murder Thaddeus R. Ryan, Esq. of
Castlejane, in this county. The county gaol now contains
not only the actual assassin, but also the original conspirators in
this case. The Molonies were put out of possession of
some lands by Mr. Ryan, the object of their vengeance.—
The Lord Lieutenant has offered a reward of 1001. for the men
who fired at and severely wounded Thaddeus Ryan, Esq. of
Castlejane.—Limerick Paper.
DEPRECIATION IN THE VALUE OF SHIPPING.
—Some interest was manifested on Wednesday by merchants
and others, respecting the sale of the East India Company's
fine vessel the General Kyd, which since 1813 has been in the
Company's service. As however the privileges of the East
India Company have ceased, they have no further occasion
for the employment of this ship, and therefore it was offered
for sale. The General Kyd is 1,318 tons burthen, copper
fastened, with bolts of the best material. She was built at
Calcutta for the East. India Company's service, and has per-
formed nine voyages. The vessel has three flush docks, and
recently underwent extensive repairs and improvements. The
vessel being in excellent condition, might be almost imme-
diately employed in trade. The vessel was put up for sale to
a full attendance of the commercial and shipping interests, and
ultimately realised 9,1001. It it believed that the original
cost of the General Kyd, with her improvements, &c.,
amounted to 100,000/.—Morning Paper.
GAMBLING IN THE PUBLIC FUNDS.—The em-
ployment of pigeons is now understood to be fairly organized
to convey regularly the transactions of the Paris market in
time to effect business in this on the following day. Thus the
fall in Spanish stock which occurred in Paris on Monday was
known here on Tuesday, and immense sums were made by
selling on our high prices, and repurchasing at the depression
which the regular report of the Paris Market necessarily pro-
duces, without the slightest risk. All attempts to discover
the parties engaged in this notable scheme have hitherto
failed. From observations that have been made, however,
their plan is supposed to be to send the pigeons to within sixty
miles of Calais, express thither and across the Channel, and
employ the winged couriers again from Dover to London.
Many persons have been on the watch to gain an exact know-
ledge of the system pursued, and to frustrate it, if possible,
but without success. It has had the effect, we believe, of
curing some of our exclusive-information speculators of their
gambling mania, but will still be highly mischievous to those
whose trade it is as jobbers or middlemen, to transact profes-
sionally all business of that kind.—Morning Paper.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.—There has been a
considerable amelioration in the pressure for capital among
the mercantile classes in the city, and although the attempt
has been repeated to cause a renewal of the alarm felt a week
or ten days ago of a panic, it has failed. There have been,
however, one or two failures announced to-day ; one, it is
feared, to a pretty large amount, the unfortunate firm having
been engaged in the fancy trade. A rumour has also been
current of the failure of an important establishment connected
with banking affairs in the North of England, but we have
good reason to hope that the report is untrue, although it is
saidto be the fact certain bills drawn upon a London banking
establishment were returned—in consequence, however, we
are assured, of some informality. At all events, it appears
certain that the formation of the establishment referred to is
such, that its resources are more than sufficient to meet all
engagements upon it. And this is another instance, we think,
we may venture to state, of the impolicy of parties indulging
in their love of communicating information, the foundation of
which is based merely upon the rumour of the day. At all
times it is imprudent to throw out hints of the solvency of
banking or mercantile establishments, upon the authority only
of reports; hut• at the present moment, when the commercial
and trading interests of the city are fast recovering from the
excitement which recently prevailed, such conduct is doubly
reprehensible—in most instances these rumours are circulated
with avidity, in order to answer stock-jobbing purposes. The
statements in circulation relating to the produce of the revenue
for the financial quarter, which will close to-morrow, are of a
favourable character. The approaching period for the pay-
ment of the quarterly dividends, added to the payment of
.the
dissentients to the plan for the conversion of the Four per
Cents, which will commence to-morrow, must tend to afford
considerable relief to the commercial interests. The amount
due to the dissentients to the reduction of the Four per Cents,
is stated to be about 3,soo,oool.—Morning Paper.
Some -unpleasant rumours have been afloat to-day
respecting the failure of a joint-stock bank in Edinburgh,
having a branch also in Glasgow. The foundation of them is,
that the house in London conducting the agency for that bank
refused acceptance yesterday to their bills, and to-day it is
added, has also refused payment to others which have arrived
at maturity. On this latter point there is still sonic doubt :
and it has been stated this afternoon, in explanation of the
refusal to accept, that it arose solely from some irregularity in
point of form, which need not of itself affect the credit of the
establishment in Scotland. It is also said that the manager is
on his way to town to give the requisite explanations on the
subject. There is some hope, therefore, that the rumours in
question may prove wholly unfounded.—Morning Paper.
REEF OF ROCKS IN THE FIRTH OF CLYDE.—
In a former number we noticed the existence of a reef in this
Frith, which had not been laid down in any chart; and this
morning we received the following notice from Mr. William
Gibson, master of the schooner Robert, of Whitehaven, and,
for the guidance of strangers, we beg our contemporaries will
tranfer it their columns :—" Yesterday, on my passage from