The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-12 00:00:00

hey have betrayed the trusts reposed in them

This sensitive delicacy is visible throughout the
whole document. The shrinking from " ques-

ons which directly tend to impugn their con

duct and motives, and thereby to degrade their
authority, and destroy their influence in the
town," is an exquisite piece of affectation. It
beats hollow the reserve and bashfulness some-

times put on by the " unfortunate girls" brought up
to Bow-street. Their refusal to be examined
on account of the great " temptation held out to
perjury, by inviting all persons of whatever class
character, or conduct," to give evidence, con-
tains one of those singular admissions which the
most cunning of the light-fingered gentry some-

times unwarily make, but which we were cer-
tainly surprised to see made in the deliberately
penned resolution of such old stagers as the Lei-

center Corporators. The sentence to be sure,
rather obscure, but it cannot be doubted that the
Mayor and Aldermen meant to include them-

selves amongst the parties liable to commit
perjury, for otherwise the declaration amounts
to saying, " We will not give you a correct

account, because your plan of examining every
body will expose you to receiving false accounts,"
an absurdity of which we cannot suppose evon

l'ofy Curporaciaii builty.

We recommend the paper to the notice of our
readers, for there can be no doubt of its being
brought in evidence before the higher tribunal
which will sit in judgment upon the corrupt
practices now sought to be hidden from the in-

vestigation of the active Commissioners appointed
by the Crown.

The gross personal abuse of the Commis-
sioners is only a proof that those gentlemen have
faithfully and boldly discharged their duty.
Tory calumnies are now too common and Iran.

sparent to be mistaken for even the shadow o

truth.

Lord and Lady Hovvick are on a visit to Sir
Joseph Copley, father of her Ladyship, at Sprotsborough,
the seat of the Baronet, in Yorkshire. Mr. and the Hon.
Mrs. Copley, who accompanied Lord Yarborough in his
voyage to Cherbourg with the yacht squadron, have also
arrived on a visit to the Baronet from the Isle of Wight.
Lord Howick, not having any official duties to call him
to the metropolis, will make some stay in the north.
THE ROBBERY AT ASIIBURNIIAM-HOUSE.
—The property stolen belonging to Prince Paul Lieven
was deposited by him in a writing-box (not an escrutoire)
i❑ his room when he went to bed, and whe❑ he got up
on Wednesday morning he found it broken open. The
money missing was about 60 sovereigns, and not 150, as
before mentioned. No discovery has yet been made.

BUXTON, OCT. B.—A continuation of the
finest weather has caused us a considerable accession of
arrivals :—Duke of Devonshire (third visit), Marquis and
Marchioness of Ailsa and party, Col. Warneford, Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Warneford, Sir NV. and Lady Heygate, Miss
Hunloke, Mr. J. Hunloke, Sir Thomas Dyer, Lidy
Gordon and the MArchesa Spinato, Lieut.-Colonel
Bowyer, &c., &c.

LONDONDERRY.—Tuesday, the Commis-
sioners proceeded to business in he Conrt-house. The
Mayor, George Hill, Esq., Sir R. A. Ferguson,
and James Gregg, Esq., Chamberlain, were examined as to
the charters of the corporation. 7. C. Beresford, Esq.,
agent to the Irish Society, was called on to produce an
account of the revenues of the Society, the several sums
they had paid, &c. This he th,elined (I,,ine, without
permission of the Society.—Belfiist News Letter.

LEITH.—We understand that on the arrival
of Mr. Murray, our respected Member, in town, a dinner
is to be given him by his constituents here. A requisition
is at present in course of signature to carry the above
object into effect. Such marks of confidence and esteem,
at once do honour to the constituent and the constituency.
Mr. Murray is expected in town before the 25th inst.,
dbout which time the dinner will tike place.—Scolsman.

THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.—One of the
finest dancers in Europe is said to be the present Empress
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year, either with the select members of the household, or
at the sta e baths of the Imperial Court. Her Majesty was
the Princess Royal of Prussia, fur whom was invented the
popular pas of the Galope, a dance now interdicted to the
Empress by the physicians of St. Petersburgh.
ANTIQUITY.—The labourers employed in
excavating the new approach to the town of Falkirk from
the east, upon Friday last discovered a rudely hewn stone
with certain characters cut. upon it, which was at first
supposed to be a Roman relic, from the spot where it wio.
tOund, being only about eighty paces north from Graham's
Dyke. It appears that it was embedded about Bor 9
feet beneath the surface of the hill, called Cl,ddin's Brae,
and in shape it perfectly resembles one of the baliesters used
in supporting the flit stones in churchyards. Upon one
-Me are the letters 0 C T 0 and A —l D, with the dat,.
531 It is no doubt of Christian origin, but how such
an object came to be deposited in the situation where it
was found, after the lapse of thirteen centuries, is rather
unaccountable.

in the Spring of 1815. He then joined the Army of
Wate,loo as Aide-de-Camp to Sir William Ponsonby, who
was killed in the first charge ; Colonel Evans then joined
General Pack, and was appointed his Aide-de-Camp ; and
obtained his Lieutenant-Colonelcy along with the others
who were recommended for their gallant conduct on that
memorable day. Colonel Evans has been three times
wounded, and has had six horses shot and sabred under
him."

Our readers are aware that the Municipal
Corporation Commissioners gave the refractory
corruptionists of Leicester a week to repent of
their determination not to make confession of
their misdeeds ; but it will be seen by the ac-
count of the Leicester Herald, the Conserva-

tive organ in that town, quoted in another
colum❑ of The Sun, that they have refused to
take advantage of the locus penitentice offered
them. Nay, more; they have absolutely perpe-
trated the folly of committing the reasons of
their refusal to paper. This precious document
is nearly as curious as Prince SouTzo's letter
to the Greek bondholders ; but differs from it
in this, that it excites more laughter than indig•
nation. One is the proclamation of a highway
robber out of the reach of justice ; the other is
the blustering of a pickpocket just being caught
by a policeman. The resolutions of the Con-
servative Corporation of Leicester amount to a
good rating of the Government for having ad-
vised his MAJESTY to issue the commission
under which they are required to render an ac-
count of their stewardship. They do not like,
forsooth, that their documents should be exa-
mined by persons hostile to the corp oration, for
fear that questions may be framed which will
extract grounds to assail their character and pro-
perty, and induce a belief, of course false, that