The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

A Cabinet Council was iieid yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office, which was attended by the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl GREY, Lord
DURHAM, ViSCOUD'S MELBOURNE, PALMERSTON, GODE-
RICH, and ALTHORP, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the Duke of
RICHMOND, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Mr. STANLEY.
The Council broke up soon after 5 o'clock. Mr.
CHARLES GRANT and Lord HOLLAND were absent from
the meeting; the former had not arrived from Inverness,
and the latter is indisposed.
Admiral Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM transacted business
yesterday at the Admiralty. Sir PULTENEY was expected
to leave town list night for Portsmouth.
Prince TALLEYRAND, the French Ambassador, arrived
in town on Sunday night. His Excellency had interviews
resterday with Earl GREY at the Treasury, and with
Lord HOLLAND at Holland house, Kensington. The
Prince also transacted business yesterday at the office of the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Prince LIEVEN
paid a visit to his Excellency.
The Minister from Buenos Ayres transacted business
yesteril,y at the Foreign-office.
The Baron DE NIEUMANN, the Austrian Charge
d'Affaires, had an interview with the Russian Ambassador
at Ashburnhatn-house, yesterday.

Sir EDMUND CARRINGTON, formerly a
Judge in Ceylon, and recently Chairman of the Aylesbury
Sessions, is the person, it is now said, who is destined to
succeed Mr. CONY'', at Hick's Hall.

The Warrior, Buss, from the Society Isles
(68 days), arrived at Rio on the 29th of July; picked up
the crew off the wreck of the English ship Science, con-
sisting of 15 persons, lost to the south of Van Diemen's
Land.—Falmouth Packet.

The English newspapers, we observe, are full
of wild surmises and inferences respecting the affairs of
the late Sir WALTER SCOTT. A paragraph quoted from a
magazine into the Times says, with most unjust and ab-
surd sarcasm, that Scotland will permit Abbotsford to be
brought to the hammer to satisfy the creditors of the il-
lustrious deceased. The truth is, there will be no need
for either Scotland or England interposing to prevent
such a catastrophe. Of the debts included in Sir WAL-
TER SCOTT'S trust deed of February, 1826, 21,0001. re-
main unpaid, exclusive of interest; including all other
debts, the expenses of his journey, death-bed, Sze., the
whole does not exceed 30,0001. Now, such are the pros-
pects of further profit from the cheap edition of his
writings, that the family are enabled to come forward and
offer to the creditors upon the trust the whole sum still
due, deducting interest, which, there is no reason to
doubt, will be accepted.—Advertiser. [The above, we
believe, is strictly correct. Our contemporary adds, that
Sir WALTER'S family may even be enriched by his writ-
ings if Parliament grant a renewal of the copyright ; and
this may also be true, but it depends upon too many con-
tingencies to enter into calculations at present.] Scotsman.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.—In our last we men-
tioned, on the authority of a cotemporary, the idea of the
extension of the copyright of Sir WALTER SCOTT'S works
to fifty years, so as to provide for the family. Our actual
friends of the press, both here and in London, have in all
these well-meant effusions run too fast. They do not stop
to ask Sir WALTER ScoTr's family if the plans in view
are agreeable to them—and they seem to be ignorant of
what is well understood here, that Alr. CADELL, the
bcokseller, is the proprietor of coo-half of all Sir WALTER
SCOTT'S works, which, we think will, he an effectual bar
in the way of any application to Parliament, such as is
pointed at and sagely calculated on.— Scotsman of Saturday
In consequence of a requisition on the part
of a number of our citizens, a,ldressed to the Honourable
the Loan PROVOST, requesting him to call a meeting for
the purpose of considering the propriety of erecting a
monument in this city to the memory of Sir WAITER
SCOTT, his Lordship has appointed Thursday next, the
19th instant, for such purpose, in the Town Hall—a
day which, we trust, will, by the resolutions then adopted,
be ever memorable in the annals of this city.— Glasgow
Courier.

The funeral of Mr. HARDY takes place on
Thursday. Mr. PRITCHARD is to furnish mourning
coaches at 245. a piece, to be paid for by parties of six or
four, as the gentlemen may agree. The coaches are to
start from the house of the undertaker, and proceed to
Charing-cross, there to meet the procession from Pimlico
at 1 o'clock. The persons who intend to walk are to
assemble in front of the Mews at Charing cross, and fall
into the procession five abreast at the same time. The
funeral is then to proceed by the Strand, Fleet-street, St.
Paul's Church-yard, Cheapside, Old Jewry, Coleman-
street, and to Bunbill-fields, which it was estimated
would occupy more than two hours. Private carriages
were also included in the arrangement. Circulars are to
be issued to such as are known to the Society. Mr.
MINT suggested that one shou'd especially be sent to Lord
ELDON. Mr. WOOLLER thought the suggestion a very
proper one. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has intimated his
intention to attend, and a number of other public charac-
ters are expected to be at the funeral. Mr. THELWALL
(the only survivor of those who were tried with Mr.
HARDT) is to deliver an oration over the grave of his
deceased colleague, and another will be spoken by the Rev.
Mr. Fox.

The brother-in-law and friend of the cele-
brated QUIRoQA, Don JUAN VAN HALEN, a proscribed
Spaniard, who took a part in the days of Brussels in
September, 1830, and whose conduct then procured him
the epaulets of Major-General, obtained on Thursday a
special audience of King LEOPOLD. Placed in inactivity by
the Provisionary Government, he claimed of his MAJESTY
to be reintegrated in the active ranks of the army. The
interview lasted upwards of an hour. It is not precisely
known what was said on either side, but it appears that
every thing went off to the great satisfaction of the Gene-
ral, for he, I am told, said to several of his friends " I
have just passed some delightful moments, and perhaps the
happiest of my existence." Some days ago he was given
to understand, th ,t if he would content himself with the
command of a brigade, under General NIELLON, he should
immediately be employed; but be refused that offer with
some warmth, saving he could not accept it without de-
scer.ding from his position as General of Division.
General VAN HALEN is the same who published, in 1826,
memoirs drawn up by M. CHARLES ROMER, one of the
chiefs and perbap3 the finest character of our revolution,
at that a period a lawyer at the Court of Liege, and co-
editor with M.M. LEBEEAU and DEVAUX, of the Politi-
que, an opposition journal.

CHICHESTER, OCT. 13.—We experienced
much boisterous weather in the early part of the week,
particularly on Sunday morning, about 7 o'clock, when
the gale was at its height, and has left marks of its ravages
between here and Arundel. A fine elm, at the dairy-
house of Mr. W. FIELD, at Rumbold's Whyke, was
snapped off at 12 feet from the ground, and the head driven
rolling across the meadow, until stopped by a strong fence.
Trees, ricks, and buildings were damaged in every part
of the neighbourhood, although the fury of the storm
appears to have been more severely felt in the parish of
Walberton. Here a fine conservatory, belonging to
RICHARD PRIME, Esq., was totally demolished. A barn,
the property of G. HALSTEAD, Esq., and a machine-
house, were in one minute levelled with the ground, as
was also a group of seven large elms; an ash pollard, with
a large limb, driven from the trunk with a great portion
of the same, was, in sight of several spectators, taken
into the air, and carried entirely over a field of ten acres !
A barn at BiLstead, about a mile distant, in the exict
direction of the wind from the above scene, was completely
cut asunder, the dooms and centre roof being scattered
about, and the two ends remaining entire. A barn of
Mr. J. COOTES, at Middleton, was blown away, and five
wheat ricks had their tops blown off, and a great portion
of their sheaves scattered in, atoms. The aggregate esti-
mate of damae sustained is to a considerable amount.
The thunder and lightning at Arundel, and to the east-
ward, were of the most terrific description.—Portsmouth
Herald.

BIDEFORD AND OKEHANIPTON RAILWAY.
—Mr. R. Horiuns, Civil Engineer, has just published
on elaborate report on this undertaking, which has re-
ceived the sanction of a numb ,r of gentlemen in the north
and west of the county, and from which it appears that
the total length of the railway from the Cross Parks, Bide-
ford, to Bridestowe, will be 31 miles, and the total esti •
mated expense 84,6251.—Falmouth Packet.
We are sorry to state that the cholera has con-
siderably increased at Dumfries, Edinburgh, arid some
other parts of Scotland within the last fortnight. We un-
derstand, that in some of those plac,s this augmented ac
tivity came on immediately after the discontinuance of
gratuitous supplies of food to the poor had taken place, a
measure which the exhaustion of all the funds which could
be received by charitable contribution, as well as of that
received by the authority of the Privy Council, unfortu-
nately render unavoidable.—Medical Gazette.
Detachments, consisting of twelve officers and
about 110 rank and file, from the under-mentioned depots,
at present stationed in Scotland, it is expected, will embark
at Newhaven, this day, on board a steam-ship for the
Thames, preparatory to joining their respective head-quar-
ters, now on foreign service:-Ist battalion Ist Royals,
for the West Indies; 25th foot, King's Borderers, ditto;
42d Royal Highlanders, for Malta.