The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-09 00:00:00

RITE OF SUTTEE IN INDIA.

The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy
Council held a meeting at eleven o'clock on Saturday
morning at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to resume
the bearing of the Appeal from the Hindoo inhabitants of
India against an Order of the Govet nor-General of India and
the Supreme Council of Bengal abolishing the rite of suttee.
The Lords present were—the Lord President, the Lord
Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, the President of the
Board of Control, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the
Paymaster of the Forces, Earl Amherst (formerly Gover-
nor-General of India), Sir L. Shadwell, and Sir II Ea'te.
Mr. Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst attended
as Clerks of the Privy Council.
The Raja Rammohun Roy was present.
Mr. Sergeant SPANYIE resumed his address on the part
of the East India Company, in support of the power pos
eased by the Governor and Council to issue the Order in
question. At the conclusion of the Learned Sergeant's
address,

Dr. LUSHINGTON rose to reply on the pert of the ap-
pellants, and pointed out the spirit of discontent which,
according to the evidence of those most conversant with
the feelings and customs of the Gentoo nation, would be
excited should their Lordships sanction this interferenc
with one of their most sacred rites. Dr. Lushington
concluded his arguments at three o'clock, when Counse'
withdrew.

Their Lordships afterwards remained a considerable time
in deliberation, and will submit the result to his Majesty
in Council for his approbation.

ARMY PRIZE..MONEY.-An officer who
served under the Duke of WELLINGTON during the Penin
sular war, and entered Paris with the army, and received
his share of the Paris prize-money, states that the Duke of
WELLINGTON'S share of that prize-money amounted to
60,0001. being equal to that of 50 General Officers, 143
Field Officers, 666 Captains, 1,818 subalterns, 3,158 ser-
geants, and 24,000 rank and file. .

Chatsworth, the superb mansion of the Duke
of DEVONSHIRE, soon after the prorogation of Parliament,
will be honoured by a visit from their MAJESTIES, who,
i❑ imitation of Queen ELIZABETH, whose progresses are
recorded by the poets of that period, intend to sojourn for
a short time at the mansions of the various nobility in
their way to Chatsworth. The statues, busts, and pic-
tures purchased by the Duke during his late visit to Italy,
are all deposited within the house or in the grounds. Sir
JEFFREY WYATVILLE has just finished some additions to
this mansion, which have been going on for a length of
time.—Court Journal.

Speaking of the masquerades in Dublin,
Sir JONAH BARRINGTON says, "it was the custom for
the mob on these occasions to stop every carriage, and de-
mand of each person, what's your character ?' I was
dreadfully tired of them in the street on the night in ques-
tion, but fairly put into good humour by the jeu desprit
of a mob man, who opened the carriage-door. After l
had satisfied him as to character, he desired to know
' where I was going ?" Shut the door,' said I. Ah,
but where are you going ?' I was vexed—' I am going
to the Devil,' said I. Ougb, then, GOD sand you safe,'
replied the blackguard."
The Duke of WELLINGTON has written—we
do not say" caused to be written," for there is internal
evidence of the composition being his own—an answer to
the address of the merchants, bankers, &c., of the city of
London, in reprobation of the late violence offered to his
Grace's person. We have no objection io the world to
such an address, because there never was an outrage
offered to any eminent man in this country, under all its
circumstances, more ungrateful, cowardly, and infamous.
But the part of the subject open to animadversion is the
general nature of the noble Duke's reply. There is not a
Tory topic of the last two years that his Grace has not
contrived to press into the service on this occasion, as—
" inflammatory speeches of gentlemen of influence,"—
" publications of a licentious press,"—and, above all, tl,e
" Political Unions," upon which last the Duke vents h's
oligarchic powers of vituperation with extraordinary pro.
lixity—and no wonder. The Political Unions en ibled the
people to cooperate for the overthrow of their oppressor,.
The Political Unions, in fact, carried the Reform Bill, and
the Duke is naturally enraged at them. But if he mean,
that the Political Unions had any thing to do with tl e
ruffian spirit vi hich indulged itself in attacks upon his or
any other man's person and property, then his Grace must
be by far the greatest ignoramus to be found in all Pic-
cadilly. The noble Duke indeed says, that now tl e
Reform Lill has passed into a law, it is his duty to far-
litate " its execution by every means in his power." 'd t'
are sure that his Grace will act upon that salutary convi, -
tion. But his long protests and answers are much to I e
deprecated. They look as if he was turning Doctrinaire
his old days.—Times.