The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-09 00:00:00

NORTHAMPTON, JULY 8.

The Commission was opened here yesterday, and the busi-
ness of the assizes commenced to-day. Mr. Justice Allan
Park presiding on the criminal side, and Mr. Justice Taunton
on the civil. There are eleven causes entered, and twenty-
seven prisoners for trial. In neither county is there business
of any importance, save the trial of some persons for breaking
the windows of Mr. Grimshaw, who kept the Flying Horse in
this town,'at the election of Sir Robert Gunin, in 1832. The
indictment has been several times preferred, but is now ex-
pected to be sued.
On Mr. Hill's appearing in court this morning he was
warmly congratulated by the learned Judge on having ob-
tained his Majesty's gracious patent of precedency.

Lord Dalhousie, on Monday, took the oaths and
his seat in the House of Lords.

Mr. Pendarves, M.P., has been approved by his
Majesty as Recorder of Falmouth. The Corporation sent up
two names to the Home Office for approval ; the other name
was Lord Wodehouse, whose late father was Recorder.

Sir Peter Laurie and his family are about to visit
Vienna, Rome, and Naples, but will return to England early
next spring.

The appointment of Col. Commandant of the
Royal Engineers has become vacant by the death of Major-
General Pilkington.

Yesterday it was determined by the Portuguese
merchants resident in London to promote, by public subscrip-
tion, the Portugal fund for the erection of a monument at
Oporto, in commemoration of the patriotic exertions and per-
sonal courage of Don Pedro.
THE ARMY.—Lord F. R. Somerset's list of
visiters yesterday morning included the Earl of Caledon,
Major-General Le Mesurier, Sir W. B. Proctor, Sir William
Summerville, Colonel Anderson, Colonel Daubeney, Colonel
Sir M. M'Creagh, Colonel Horton, Colonel Rolt, Colonel
Eckersley, Colonel Cooke, Colonel Young, Colonel Tayers,
Sir John Morris, Major Ratcliffe, Major Thornhill, Major
Reed, and about 40 other officers. General Lord Hill, as
Commanding-in-Chief, will hold a levee to-morrow at the
Horse Guards.

The opening of the English Opera House is fixed
for next week. The opening piece will be an operatic
drama, founded on Mrs. Sheridan's story called " Nourjahad."
Mr. Serle is to be stage manager.

Mr. Laurent, the late enterprising lessee of the
Italian Opera, will take a benefit at the King's Theatre on
Monday, the 14th of July, and Mademoiselles Taglioni and
G. Grisi, and Rubini, Tamburini, and Ivanhoff, and all the
strength of the company, will appear. Mr. Bunn has kindly
offered the assistance of the Drury-lane and Covent-garden
company, and Perlet will perform, positively for the last time,
in a favourite French piece. This representation is likely to
be fashionably attended.

The profits arising from the Musical Festival will
amount to about 8,0001., to be divided among the following
institutions, according to their rank :—The Royal Society of
Musicians, the New Musical Fund, the Royal Academy of
Music, and the Choral Fund.

The members of the Choral Orchestra at the late
Royal Musical Festival at Westminster Abbey, have deter-
mined to present a handsome silver-gilt quart tankard to J. T.
Harris, Esq., as a token of their esteem, and as a memorial
of their sense of the great ability displayed by him on that
occasion.

The Bishop of London, attended by Prebendaries
Hale, Watts, Parker, and Wodsworth, held a visitation at St.
Paul's Cathedral, on Monday morning, which was most nume-
rously attended by the city clergy; an appropriate sermon was
delivered, from the text " Be ye wise as servants, and harm-
less as doves," by the Rev. Dr. Russell, Rector of Bishops-
gate; after which the Bishop, attended by his clergy, delivered
in the chapel of the cathedral, an admirable charge, in which
he adverted to the evils of non-residence and pluralities, and
the unequal distribution of the ecclesiastical revenues, the
rights of the clergy to those revenues, and the just appropria-
tion of them without spoliation. From the whole tenor of the
charge, it was apparent that the Bishop of London sees " the
signs of the times ;" and that if the abuses now existing in
the Church were timely and judiciously rectified, the establish-
ment would have no cause for fear or apprehension from its
most vindictive opponents.—Morning Paper.

The library at Munich is said to be one of the
richest archives in Germany, and to be one of the greatest
libraries in Europe, the number of books being about 600,000,
exclusive of duplicates, to which 5,000 or 6,000 volumes arc
annually added. There has lately been a vote come to by
the Chamber of Deputies at Munich, to grant 200,000 florins,
to enlarge the building, and make it suitable to the vast col-
lection. At the same time it also resolved, that henceforth
a copy of every work printed in the kingdom must be de-
livered to the library.
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Died at Cheltenham, on the 24th of June, John
Aldiss Roper, Esq., aged 27, who for several years moved in
the most abject poverty ; but owing to the death of an uncle,
residing in India, he came into possession of upwards of four
hundred thousand pounds. This upright man immediately
used every means to find out those persons who had given him
credit, and has paid several indigent tradesmen their debts,
with compound interest upon them, residing in the metropolis.
The principal part of his fortune he has left to the daughter of
a fruit-saleswoman, living in the vicinity of the Borough-
market, on whom his most ardent affections were placed. The
rest of his property he has bequeathed to his brother, an in-
dustrious artisan, living in Lambeth.
HENRY SALT, ESQ.—The task of writing the
life of his Britannic Majesty's late Consul-General in Egypt,
has been undertaken by one in every respect qualified to do
justice to the memory of so enterprising and honourable a cha-
racter. Mr. Halls, his intimate friend through life, has, by
the assistance of several distinguished individuals, been enabled
to lay before the public the present Memoirs, which are con-
nected and arranged in so admirable a manner that the reader
can trace, with infinite satisfaction, the whole career of Mr.
Salt ; whether during his voyage to Abysinia as Lord Valen-
tia's secretary, his subsequent embassy to that kingdom on the
part of our Government, or his residence in Egypt as British
Consul, for filling which important office he was peculiarly
gifted. Mr. Salt was not only an extraordinary man, in the
sense in which that term is commonly understood, but his life
was one of unceasing activity, of varied adventure, and per-
manent public usefulness. The present is, without excep-
tion, the most interesting biographical work which we have bad
the good fortune to peruse since the appearance of Lord Col-
lingwoed's Memoirs.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. .Mr. George Gor-
don, farmer, Ballater, Aberdeenshire, was at Leith in the
beginning of the week, on a visit to his friends ; and on Wed-
nesday evening, while proceeding up Leith Walk, for the pur-
pose of going off with the coach in the morning, he fell down
and died instantly. The deceased was in his sixty-third year,
and was in excellent health up to the hour he was thus sud-
denly deprived of life.—Edinburgh Paper.