The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-09 00:00:00

ENGLAND.

Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth
Benett, J.—South Wiltohiro
Bewes, T.—Plymouth

James—Totness
Ewart, Wm.—Liverpool

Faithful], G.—Brighton
Fielden, John—Oldham

Hill, 31-._ D.-E-Itill

Hutt, Wm.-Hull

Jame's, \V.—Carlisle
Kennedy, J.—Tiverton
Philips, Mark—Manchester

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.
—Wednesday, before nine o'clock, the parks about the
castle were crowded with people (about 8,000) from all
parts of the family estates and neighbourhood. They were
regaled with abundance of malt liquor, beef, bread, &c.,
but spirits were prohibited. The preparations for the
funeral were on a scale of magnificence and splendour be-
fitting the rank and fortune of the illustrious deceased.—
Inverness Journal.

SPLENDID NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH.-
There is now being erected at Stonyhurst College, Lanca-
shire, the most magnificent place of worship, which the Ca-
tholics will have in the three kingdoms. It is supposed that
this church, or rather cathedral, will be completed in about
sixteen months hence. The style is Gothic, and the sup-
posed expense will be about 10,000/.—KendalChronicle.
THE RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH.
—The following anecdote may be relied on as authentic.
Mr. B—, proprietor of a Theatre, was in the room, and
witnessed poor KEAN'S dissolution, which be thus de-
scribes :

KEAN (dying)—Make baste, b,y ! bring me any
sword. Quick! I must not keep the audience waiting.
Bov (in attendance)—Law, Sir, you baint batting now!
Do have a little brandy and water.
KEAN—Aye—aye—bring my -staff and the plumes.
Mr. B--Why, Sir, you are nut acting now—you
are in your own bed.
KEAN—Ah! The play is over! Let down the curtain.
The play is over !—(Dies.)—Cheltenham Chronicle.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1833.

The business of the House of Commons last
night may be said to have mainly consisted in
doing nothing at all, some of the chief matters
that were to be discussed having been put off
till next session. Mr. E. L. BULWER'S re-
solution for the repeal of the stamp duty on
newspapers ; Major FANCOURT'S resolution

for the entire abolition of military flogging ;
Colonel EVANS'S motion to amend the Reform
Act ; Mr. VERNON'S to regulate the sale of corn
by weight instead of quantity ; Sir THOMAS
FREMANTLE'S to disfranchise the borough
of Stafford ; and Mr. HARVEY'S for a Se-
lect Committee on the Pension List, have
all been postponed till next session. The fact
is, as we stated some weeks ago, that the ap-
proach of partridge shooting is a signal for dis-
posing of all business, some way or other. For
several days past, temptations, almost irresistible,
have been held out in the newspapers for an
early prorogation. Paragraph after paragraph
has blazoned forth the fine state of the moors,

the number of birds, &c. ; and the consequence
will be, that by the end of the week there will not
be above 60 or 70 Members of the House of Com-

mons in town. The only thing that detains many
in town is the Bank Charter question. The
repeated postponements of the Committee, in
consequence of communications from the Bank
to Lord ALTHORP, have given rise to the ex-
pectation of the announcement of some impor-
tant change in the Bill, in order to facilitate
its progress through the House this session. At
the same time it is difficult to believe that both

the Bank and Lord ALTHORP would not
prefer abandoning the Bill altogether, and taking
their chance of succeeding early next ses,ion,
when more thick and thin Ministerial voters are
in London. Any very important change would
not place the Bank on a much better footing
than it is at present, and on that footing it can
be left simply by doing nothing at all. That
that course would be attended with great conve-
niences no man can doubt who looks over
the list of objections and amendments to
the Bill, discussions upon which Lord AL-
THORP will have to undergo. Out of four-
teen notices on the paper for tonight, no
less than eleven of them relate to this subject.
Two of these go directly against the principle
of the Bill, and will, we presume, be in effect
disposed of by one and the same debate. Mr.
GISBORNE has pledged himself to divide the
House upon the question of going into Com-
mittee this day six months. Two other of
the amendments are intended to retrench
the space within which the monopoly is to
operate. These, we should say, would at
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broughtsuccess.
Members for
within the paral3 zing circle, even though in
other respects supporters of the Bill, cannot,
surely, so far forget the interests of their con-
stituents as not to vote for their exclusion from
it. Three of the propositions, intended to be
brought before the House, aim at limiting
the legal tender of Bank of England paper to
notes of a somewhat high denomination. If
Ministers be able to carry the 8,11 at all, they
will certainly be able to defeat any amend-
ments of this kind, for they all amount to nullify-
ing the legal tender clause by a side wind.
Two of the amendments are meant to contract
the time during which the new Charter shall
endure. The observation we made upon the
last-mentioned species of amendment, may be
applied to this, for the arguments in its favour
are almost those upon which the Bill ought to
be thrown out altogether. The only argument
peculiar to this kind of amendment is, and we ad-
mit it to be a strong one, that the Ministerial
scheme is an untried experiment, and that there
exists no example of the working of such a
scheme in the financial history of any country.
This, however, will be little thought of by those
who carry the Bill, if it be carried at all. The
other notices are for placing several restrictions
upon the Bank, the most important of them
being that of Mr. POULETT SCROPE, to
move a clause to the effect that " The

Directors of the Bank of England being
by, this Act appointed to a high public
trust -- that of regulating the entire circu-
lating medium of the empire—should be di-
rectly responsible to the public, and be liable
henceforward to impeachment by either House,
of Parliament for any criminal neglect of
their public duty." Our hope, however,
is that the junction of Sir ROBERT PEEL
and Mr. HERRIES, with the constant sup-
porters of free trade principles, will be suffi-
cient to put a direct negative upon the legal
tender clause. This would, we think, lead to a
new arrangement being made with the Bank, for
although Lord ALTRORP says that he does not
consider that clause as so great an advantage to the
Bank, we fancy that corporation would tell him
a different story when it came to be excluded
from the Bill. Our readers require not to be
informed that we look at this as " a consumma-
tion devoutly to be wished."

Very important despatches were forwarded to
Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL, at Lisbon, on
Tuesday last. It is said, in quarters likely to be
well informed, that he has been fully accredited
to the Portuguese Government, and that the
recognition of Donna MARIA will immediately
take place. The objections of the British and
French Cabinets to the Regency remaining in
the hands of Don PEDRO will be strongly
urged ; but we are not at all surprised to hear
that no dictation on this subject will be used.

Some curious disclosures have already been
made by the Committee on the affair of Sir
JOHN KEY. It has been clearly proved, that
so far from any blame being attributable to Mr.
CHURCH, the Comptroller of the Stationary
Department, for not having reported properly
on the appointment of Mr. KEY to the office
of storekeeper, that gentleman did complain,
in very strong terms, of the impropriety of such
an appointment, and of the total unfitness of Mr.
KEY.

We understand that an article, which appeared

in a Sunday paper, relative to the cheeseparing
economy of certain Lords of the Treasury, and
particularly of their refusal to comply with the
recommendation of the present Secretary at 'War,
for the grant of a compensation to. a Colonel
JORDAN, whose leg was amputated in conse-
quence of an accident whilst attempting, in pur-
suance of his duty, to extinguish a fire in Liver-
pool, has excited considerable anger in a high
quarter, and that efforts have been made to trace
the article to its source. We think it would
be much more to the credit of the Lords of the
Treasury to avoid cause for censure than to lose
their time in endeavouring to discover who their
censors are. The case of Colonel JORDAN,
hard as it is, is only one of a great number
in which the same regard to economy, uncon-
nected with the justice of the claims, which
those Lords are in the habit of enforcing,
has been observed. They mistake the cha-
racter of the public if they imagine that
savings are desired at the expense of justice and
feeling. lhe public do not wish to withhold
from the honest servant, or the meritorious
officer, what is their due, and they are not to be
blinded to real extravagance by the display of
economies which are as paltry as they are un-
just. The Lords of the Treasury would obtain
more credit by looking a little into the malad-
ministration of affairs in high quarters, than in
descending to mean and parsimonious inquiries.
What merit, for instance, was there in the Trea-
sury orders which cut off a paltry supply of
paper and wax from the messengers of the
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