The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-10 00:00:00

Aermuda..

Windward and Leeward Islands 4,452
Jamaica, Bahamas, and Honduras

Total 8,536

An Act has been passed to continue in force
the present Insolvent Debtors' Act in Ireland for another year.
We regret that this opportunity was not taken to repeal that
"trernely criminal clause in the Insolvent Act, which owed its
origin to Lord Lindhurst. We allude to the clause which in.
earcerates all debtors in the first instance, without distinction,
and before the Court has pronounced thews either guilty or
innocent, Tie new Bill might have repealed the unjust clause
which snakes all debtors to retain the same amount of tools and
aPParel, without any distinction of trades or difference in the
number of a family.
Some idea may be formed of the loss sus-
tained by the public from the inefficiency of Lord Eldon as a
Judge, from a return laid before the House of Commons, of
the state of business in the Vice-Chancery Court. Lord Eldon
constituted this Court upon the ground of his being unable to
get through the business of the Chancery Court. Under Lord
Brougham, however, the Court of Chancery is adequate to all
its business, and there are but 108 causes ready for hearing in
the Vice-Chancery Court. This is about one twenty-fifth of
the number in Lord Eldon's day.
In consequence of the general complaint on
the part of the public of the unbearable and unsecable size of
our winter theatres, a project has been seriously entertained by
the managers, either of Drury-lane or Covent-garden (perhaps
both), for diminishing them, at least temporarily. We are told
that Beazley and other architects have been consulted upon the
subject, and they state that it is very practicable to lessen the
area in a manner which will enable the proprietors on any great
occasion, such a Royal visit, to re-enlarge the house with only
a few hours' notice.—Observer.
"To live With comfort, nay, almost to live at
all in the world, men must accommodate their habits and modes
of thinking to the changes which society necessarily under.
goes. The same rule applies to public as to private life ; and
as the Lords cannot hope to resist the changes which have pro-
duced a demand for Reform, or still less those which Reform
itself will inevitably produce, it would be the part of prudence
to do that willingly, and in time, which time, however unwil.
lingly on their parts, will be sure to accomplish.—Morning
Herald.

Mr. Galt's new tale, " Stallley Buxton, or
the School-fellows," seems to be, in some measure, founded on
the story of the Countess of Macclesfield and Savage the poet.
The hero of the novelist who has some time enjoyed a Peer's
title, is suddenly dispossessed, and thrown on his wits for sub-
sistence; and the whole of his strange career is depicted with
the startling resemblance to truth which peculiarly characte-
rises Mr. Gall's pen. _

Monday last died suddenly, at his residence,
Sible Hedingham, George Fowke, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the
Red. He attended divine service, both morning and evening,
on Sunday, and retired to bed in apparently good health, but
was taken ill about three o'clock in the morning, and was only
heard by Mrs. Fowke to exclaim "Oh my back," and instantly
expired. The cause is attributed by his medical attendant to
an affection of the heart.--Essez Standard.
A numerous body of thieves attended AIN
Irving's sermon in Britannia-fields yesterday ; and at the close
of the service, when the Reverend Gentleman and his friends
were about to depart on their way home, they found them-
selves so completely hemmed in by the light-fingered gentry,
that they could not move in any direction. Ultimately, how-
ever, they forced their way out of the field, and were followed
by the mob of pickpockets as far as Islington-green, when the
High-priest of the new doctrines, and some of his disciples,
jumped into a hackney-coach and drove off. Mr. Irving gave
notice on Sunday that he had been warned from the place
where he was then preaching by the proprietor of the field, and
that he should preach next Sunday in Islington-green. Many
profane people think that nobody profits so much by the Rev.
Gentleman's profane eloquence as the thieves.
•
HE YOUNG MOTHER'S Kiss.—First in
dignity is the kiss parental. This kiss is witnessed in its purest
and most amiable state in young mothers,--matrons so little
Bled from the free maiden bloom, that the stranger hesitates
'bluwshhiat class of feminity to rank them. They have the rich
to theng grace of the virgin, and her coy timidity, most like
serpentinearesses of a greyhound, insinuating by approaches of a
anticipat grace, yet ready to bound away, startled even by an
aware f r"Ponse. But in the midst of this softness we are
coneciou: grnwing dignity—a statelier bearing—a prouder
ing herald": and self-possession, not yet developed, but throw.
tempted to earns before it. A being, such as we have at_
which no c describe, bending over her first child with a love
o intense, so
reated being but herself can ever feel for another—
itsPut cheeks, chi, e. go utterly devoid of selhshness--bathing
which
aeart:hoeannot surpass
eye"' and brow, in a flood of kisses, is a picture
and heaven scarcely equal. If, at
inge 'of Zniutygt:.toofaelfdo'croes her devotion it is but a slight
Ind attaches to the f of littleness
graceful as
,to lose every alloy
;,,,reb Magazine. ""B.—ltesa# WI Kissing.— rail s Edon-

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COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked for
come time in Hyde Park yesterday.
Lord Maitland and a deputation of gentlemen from Scot.
laud had an interview with Viscount Althorp yesterday at the
Treasury.
Viscount Althorp, Lord John Russell, and Sir James Gra-
ham, visited Earl Grey yesterday.
The Minister from Buenos Ayres transacted business yes-
terday at the Foreign-office.
The Commander of the Forces and Sir James Graham had
interviews yesterday with Viscount Goderich, at the Colonial.
office.

Earl Grey entertained a select party at dinner on Sunday
evening, at his residence in Dowining-street.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.

On Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent Mr. Rayner is
amusing very respectable audiences by appearing " At Home"
in pieces written expressly for himself, and in one of which he
appears in several characters. On Wednesday and last Friday
evenings he went through two pieces, entitled The World as it
Runs, and Ilumphrey's Amours. The former, a ill Mathews,
was a trifle descriptive of a whimsical journey from York to
London, during which several laughable incidents occur; in the
latter he personates several characters. There were several other
entertainments, two of which deserve especial notice; Master
Frank Carberry, a boy about ten years of age, displayed very
considerable precocious talent in a monopolylogue called Dis-
guises, and in which he enacted several characters much to the
annoyance of an old gentleman who has just purchased a rural
residence, which the youngster wished to dispossess him of, and
in which he filially succeeds. A gentleman, an Englishman,
we believe, but bearing the cognomen of Signor Benesontag,
was most deservedly applauded as a ventriloquist and an imitator
of birds and beasts. The whole of the entertainments were
most favourably received. We observe by the Bills that the
spirited manager, Mr. Rayner, intends taking his benefit next
Thursday, and if there be any attraction in the names of Elton,
Osbaldiston, Sam. Vale, Edwin and Williams, to say nothing of
the fascinating performances of Mrs. Waylett and Miss Somer..
ville, Mr. 11. will have a bumper.