The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council
will hold a meeting at four o'clock this afternoon, in the
Council Chamber, to resume the examinations of witnesses in
to matter of the late fire at the Houses of Lords and Corn-
Summonses were issued yesterday to the Privy Coun-
cillors to attend the meeting.
Viscount Duncannon has arrived in town from Ireland.
His Lordship visited Viscount Melbourne yesterday, at the
Treasury.
Monsieur de Hummelaur, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household, the Earl of
Mulgrave, and the Hon. William Bathurst, Clerk of the Privy
Council, had interviews yesteiday with Viscount Melbourne.

mons.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

James Foster, Esq., and Mrs. Foster, at Marshall Thomp-
son's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Reynolds Solly, Esq., Mrs.
Solly, and family, at ditto ; Madame de Bosset, at ditto.

DEPARTURES.

The Marchioness and the Ladies Cornwallis, on a visit to

Lord and Lady Jemima Elliott, at Port Elliot, Cornwall;
Sir George and Lady Grey, from Eaton-square, for Brighton ;
H. Lambton, Esq., M.P., from Dover-street, on a tour ;
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Macfarlane, for Brighton;
Vice-Admiral Sir Graham and Lady Moore, for ditto ; Sir
Thomas and Lady Sheppard, for ditto ; Sir William and Lady
Fremantle, from Stanhope-street, for ditto ; Rear-Admiral
Sir Courtenay Boyle, for Bath ; Lady Augusta and Miss
Cotton, from Cadogan-place, for Plymouth ; Lady Dungar-
von and family, from Henley-upon-Thames, on a visit; Lord
and Lady Torrington, for Bath ; Lady Robert Seymour, for
ditto ; Admiral Fitzgerald, for ditto ; Lady Bateman, for ditto.

The Duke of Northumberland is perfectly restored
to health after his long illness ; and we also hear that it is the
intention of the Duke and Duchess to return to town imme-
diately after Christmas.

The Princess of Beira, with the family of Don
Carlos, has removed from Hanover-square to the Marquis of
Sligo's, in Mansfield-street, Portland-place, for the purpose
of being nearer to the gardens of Park-crescent.

The Duke of Devonshire's mansion in Kemp-
town-crescent is ordered to be prepared for his reception by
the 15th of November. His Grace will pass his Christmas
there. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol and the La-
dies Hervey are also expected next month at their Kemptown
residence, from their seat, Ickworth Park, Suffolk.

Lord and Lady Suffield and family have left Vernun
House, Park-place, to pass the winter at Brussels, wheie his
Lordship has taken the spacious Hotel of the Prince de
Chimoi. Lord S. was the Nobleman blunderingly styled by
the Brussels papers Marquis of Stafford, Ex-Viceroy of Ire-
land. The report of the contemplated marriage of his Lord-
ship's son, the Hon. Edward Harbord, with the Hon. Miss
Gardner, is not likely to take place for the present.
Lord John Russell is expected to return to his re-
sidence at Whitehall, to-morrow, from a visiting tour to
Howick Hall, Chatsworth, and Lord Carlisle's seat of Castle
Howard, in Yorkshire.

Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, K.C.8., returned
from Scotland on Tuesday, and immediately resumed his
duties as Admiral Superintendent.—Hampshire Telegraph.

The Parliamentary costs of passing the Act for the
Southampton Railway, appear, by a published account, to have
amounted to nearly 20,0001.
We understand that the arrangements in which so
many workmen are busily employed in fitting up the old
Houses, are but for a temporary purpose, as immediately after
the Lords and Commons assemble they will adjourn to more
convenient places of meeting.

One of the Paris Papers makes the following re-
mark on the destruction of the two Houses of Parliament,--

" Apres tout ce qu'il a fait, it ne fallut rien moins que l'in-
cendie du Parlement reformiste, pour le faire rougir
ADVANTAGES OF THE WYRE AS A HARBOUR.
—The project of a railway from Preston to the mouth of the
Wyre and improvement of that harbour being now undergoing
discussion, it may not be deemed unworthy of remark, as a
proof of one of the advantages which the harbour possesses in
regard to facility of ingress over many others of great com-
mercial importance, that on Wednesday, the 15th inst. a large
outward-bound brig ran completely into the harbour for shelter
at four hours' ebb, without anything to direct her course up
the Channel, except the present very imperfect marks, viz., a
staff or perch, and buoy, the former of which is only a few
hundred yards distant from, and the latter at the entrance of
the harbour itself. It may also be observed, that whenever
the wind is adverse or unfavourable for entering the Wyre
there is the equally safe and commodious harbour of Peel, al-
most directly to leeward, lying about ten miles N. W. of the
mouth of the Wyre, which is accessible at all times of the tide,
and to which vessels inward-bound can repair for shelter, and
there remain in security until a favourable breeze springs up
for bringing them across the Bay, instead of being obliged to
incur the labour and risk in stormy weather of lying-to or put-
ting to sea again, from which so many unfortunate casualties
occur to vessels that have been within a few miles of their
destination.—Preston Pilot, Oct. 25.

The arrangement of the collection of Parliamentary
records and other national works presented by the House of
Lords to the Chamber of Peers has just been completed at
the Palace of the Luxembourg, by Mr. Leary, librarian to
their Lordships. Nothing, we understand, can exceed• the
gratification expressed by the Duke de Cazes and the other
authorities of the Chamber, at this really splendid commence-
ment of an interchange so truly national. The value of the
gift may be said to be accidentally enhanced by the danger
which the original, unique, and valuable collection has just so
fortunately escaped from the' fire in London. We are con-
cerned to learn, however, that the prudence of Mr. L., which
contributed to its preservation by the removal of the entire
collection from the library to the Committee-rooms (in con-
sequence of workmen being employed in repairs) a day or two
previous to his leaving London, for Paris, has not terminated
so favourably with regard to his private property. It appears
that his apartments in the House of Lords have been in the
confusion totally ransacked ; and that in plate, furniture, &c.,
4,5001. would not replace his loss ; it is quite true, as before
mentioned, that his agent, who had strict injunctions to renew
the coming payment on his insurance in September, which
had been for some years so effected through him, neglected to
do so ; the sum directed was, however, for 1,0001., not 6001.,
as stated. These untoward events, have not, however, pre-
vented him from completing his duty in Paris most satisfac-
torily ; and the recent arrival of the Marquis of Lansdowne,
one of their Lordships' Library Committee, has enabled him
to conclude the interesting arrangements between the two
Houses in a manner the most gratifying.—Galignani's Mes.
A mode of doing business which has recently grown
into use among the London bankers is supposed to diminish
materially the amount of bank-notes in circulation, and to les-
sen consequently the danger to which the Bank of England is
exposed in the event of any run upon it. The practice alluded
to is this :—Most of the bankers at the west end of the town
li ive agencies among the city banking-houses, and the bankers
of both districts, or at least the major part of them, have ac-
counts with the Bank of England. Thus a party having a
large sum, for example, to receive at Coutts's, which he means
to invest or to pay away in the city, has the offer, which is
generally accepted as more secure, of a cheek on the city agent
instead of bank-notes, which check after all is passed pro-
bibly to some other account at the Bank of England, and the
whole series of transactions takes place without any actual in-
terchange, properly speaking, of money. Immense sums are
now daily passed from one hand to another in this way ; the
private banker is released from all necessity of keepinga large
supply of money in the house, and business transacted, which
is its great recommendation, is placed altogetller beyond the
reach of fraud or accident. This serves to explain also the
prodigious deposits which by the late official returns appear to
have accumulated in the Bank, on the strength of which, and
in their confidence in the continuance of the system, the Direc-
tors venture to keep so large a general circulation of Bank
paper afloat. If this confidence should be miscalculated, and
many persons are of opinion that it is, the consequences to them-
selves may become at some future period very serious icdeed.
Windsor Fair commenced on Friday under the most
favourable auspices. A skirmish took place in the Acre be-
tween the Eton boys and the pig-drivers, in consequence of
the Etonians playing some pranks with the pigs, in which the
boys were worsted, the drivers giving them a sound thrashing
with their whips, and clearing the Acre of their presence.
With the exception of the above the fair passed-off very peace-
ably. The fair was the largest known for several years.—
Windsor Express.
A striking illustration of the facilities afforded for
the transaction of commercial affairs by the present accelerated
modes of conveyance is presented in the following facts :
One day last week a gentleman of Bradford set out from his
house at five o'clock in the morning, for the purpose of
transacting some business at Hull. He went by coach to
Leeds, a distance of ten miles ; from Leeds to Selby by the
railway, a distance of twenty miles ' • thence to Hull by the
steam-packet, fifty-seven miles. At Hull he executed the busi-
ness on account of which he set out, and left Hull by the
mail for York, where he arrived in the evening, a distance of
forty miles ; thence he proceeded home to Bradford, by the
mail, thirty-four miles further, and arrived in his own house
again soon after midnight, having performed a journey of 161
miles in one day, besides the time occupied in stoppages and
business.—Leeds Intelligencer.