The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-26 00:00:00

ROYAL ASSENTS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
Sabbati, 24Q die Martii, 1832.
Mr. Speaker reported the Royal Assent—to Mutiny Act Con.
tinuance Bill—Marine Mutiny Act Continuance Bill—Tobacco
(Ireland) Bill—Postage (Ireland) Bill—Permits Bill—Subletting
Act Amendment (Ireland) Bill—Dublin Coal Trade Bill—Saltash
Floating Bridge Bill—Liverpool Cattle Market Bill—Liverpool
Revenue Buildings Bill—Sutton Pool Harbour Company Bill—
Leicester (St. Margaret's) Poor Bill—Paisley Gas Light Bill—St.
Helen': (Lancaster) Gas Light Bill—St. Luke's (Middlesex) Im-
provement Bill—Newport (Monmouth) Roads Bill—Brough
Ferry Roads Bill—Burford Road Bill—Windsor Road Bill—
Bromham and Olney Road Bill—Mytholm Royd Bridge Road
13:11—Doncaster and Bawtry Road Bill—Downham Market Road
Bill—Boroughbridge and Durham Road Bill—Panizzi's Natura-
lization Bill—Codwise's Naturalization Bill.

A Noble Duke, of no small dimensions, is said
to have hastened a recent catastrophe, by which considerable
inconvenience has arisen in the financial department of several
Club establishments. The great wealth of the Noble Duke re-
ferred to is unquestionable, but his love for some branches of
the Fine Arts, and his Bibliomania, have occasioned his Grace
to extend his purchases to a degree incompatible even with a
princely income.

Earl Spencer is going to have all his estates
re-valued, and the rent adapted to the present times—a noble
example, which will, it is to be hoped, be generally followed.
The Earl of Stradbroke has granted new eight_year leases of his
farms at a reduction rent suited to the times.—Worcester
Journal.

We can state, on unexceptionable authority,
that Lord Rolle will vote in the Upper House for the Reform
Bill. This was hardly to be expected, for his Lordship has
hitherto ranked amongst the uncompromising opponents of
that measure. As he, however, has good reason for abandon-
ing a fruitless opposition, are we not justified in anticipating
that the example will be followed by less distinguished aristo_
crats ?—Atlas.

GOOD NEWS FOR INSOLVENT M.P.'s.—lt
is understood in the House of Commons that Mr. Baring's Bill
to do away with the Senatorial privilege of Arrest for Debt will
be got rid of by a side wind, just as Lord Wyndford's Bill was
in the Lords by the Noble Fifer.—Age.

Sir James Campbell, of Ardkinglas (formerly
Sr Janus Callander), whose Memoirs are about to be laid
before the public, is the father of Mrs. Sheridan, wife of the
late Tom Sheridan, of eccentric and witty celebrity. An am-
ple experience of the world, derived from constant military or
diplomatic service in various countries, may reasonably lead to
the anticipation of much amusement in the work of Sir James,
who served during the greater part of the seven years' war in
Germany, as Aide-de-Camp to General Mostyn, visited most of
the German Courts, had familiar intercourse with Voltaire,
was a Member of the most celebrated London Clubs, the " Sca-
voir Vire," the " Pandemonium," &c., held the post of Secre-
tary to the British Embassy at Paris, on the eve of the Revo-
lution, journeyed extensively in the East, and was again mix-
ing in Parisian society during the allied occupation of France.

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Yesterday the despatches for Alatirasand China,
by the ship London, Captain Timothy Smith, were closed at the
East India-house, and delivered to the Purser of that ship.
Mr. Sheridan Knowles' Hunchback is a se-
rious drama, in which Miss F. Kemble will support the prin-
cipal female part; so that it will not be produced, as was sup-
posed, to run on alternate nights with Francis the First, but
after the public curiosity regarding Miss Kemble's tragedy
shall have somewhat subsided. During the whole of last week
the Hunchback has been in active rehearsal at Covent-garden,
and a notice was posted on Thursday, in the greenroom, re-
quiring the actors to make themselves perfect with as little de-
lay as possible. We remember to have seen something of the
piece when it was formerly at Drury lane, and we are glad to
hear that Mr. Knowles has since endeavoured to heighten, as
well as to condense, the: interest of the last act. It is a serious
experiment for Covent garden, but a much snore arduous one
for Mr. Knowles, in his capacity both of author and actor, to-
tally unpractised as he is upon the London boards. The
audience, or at least many of them, will have been prepared
by Mr. Knowles' Lectures for a slight brogue. If we are not
misinformed, he is a native of Belfast.

A " FINISH."—We have received the fal-
lowing statement from a source on which we can rely with
truth and correctness. On Tuesday last, a young gentleman
was induced to accompany a lady to a celebrated " Finish,"
in the immediate neighbourhood of Covent garden market,
where he remained some hours. On his being about to leave,
the following small account was presented to him :

Mr. --- £ s. d.
Champaign 8 8 0
Negus 0 14 0
Cigars 0 3 6
Tea.. 0 2 0
Broken glass 0 5 0

Total 9 12 6
It was no use to cavil at the items, nor, in truth, was the gen.
tleman in a situation so to do. A thirty pound bank note was
therefore given—in producing which the gentleman made a
most imprudent display of his being in possession of a much
larger sum of money. Luckily, however, Mr. Superintendent

Thomas got notice of his danger ; and having traced him to a
gin.shop in the neighbourhood, where he was in the midst of
all the swells of the place, prevailed on him to give up his
money, which he did to Mr. Thomas, to the amount of thirteen
hundred and forty pounds, in bank notes—every farthing of
which he would have been robbed of, a coach being at the door
to convey him to a place suitable for that occasion, had the
police Superintendent been ten minutes later. We should have
said that no changewas given him at the finish out of his thirty.
pound note—but he has since, by the exertions of the police,
received it.—News.

RAILWAY FROM LONDON TO BRISTOL.--
(FROM A CoßkEsecoNnExr.)—We understand that two civil
engineers of eminence, Henry H. Price and Wm. Brunton.
Esqrs. are busily occupied (under the auspices of some leading
interests) in making the necessary surveys for the above impor-
tant work. We hail with satisfaction the prospect of seeing
the metropolis, erelong, thus closely approximated to the Bris-
tol Channel and Western Seas, when four or five hours will
enable us to pay a morning visit to Bristol. Nothing can tend
more to increase and consolidate the power of the empire than
to give the greatest possible facility of intercourse between its
distant points. When the London and Bristol railway shall be
completed, it will be very possible, in connexion with the Irish
steat9-boats from the latter port, for cattle and other Irish pro-
duce to be conveyed to the London market within 3:: hours from
the time of shipment at Cork, Waterford, &c. ; and thus, at a
cheap rate, will the Londo❑ market be thrown immediately
open to the Irish agriculturist, at the same time that the Lon-
don consumers will be benefited in proportion to the greater
extent of country thrown open whence they may derive their
supplies. Liverpool, we understand, imports above 7,000 head
of live stock per week ; much of which is conveyed to Manches.
ter by the railway, and we may surely hope for a similar result
to the metropolis, when the direct communication is opened
with Ireland by similar means. In a political point of view, the
importance of the great work in question is too obvious to re-
quire a moment's comment. We need only state, that in case
of emergency, four to five hours will be sufficient to convey
any quantity of men or stores from our depots or arsenals near
London to Bristol, whence they will be ready to embark for any
point where they may be required, and we at once prove that
railways, judiciously constructed across the country, may be
made, ❑ot only the means of economy to the Government
(smaller establishments being necessary), but that they tend
more than anything else to concentrate and consolidate the
strength of an empire, and are an additional guarantee against
war and foreign aggression.

A TEARFUL DISAPPOINTMENT.—About
half-past one o'clock in the afternoon of Friday last, a chaise,
drawn by a pair of horses, and containing two ladies and a
gentleman, an officer in the army, arrived at the Old Angel
Inn, in this town, on a matrimonial trip from London to
Gretna. Before leaving the chaise, a carriage and four, the
occupants of which were the father of the fair runaway and a
Police-officer from London, drove into the yard. The father
immediately caught hts daughter in his arms, exclaiming " this
is my child:" The gallant soldier, taking off his hat, imme-
diately observed that he knew him not ; and stated further, in
proof of his honourable intentions, that he had brought another
lady from town as a companion to his daughter. Alter some
altercation, the young lady, who is about eighteen years of age,
was conducted by her father into a private room. The Captain
demanded admittance, which was refused by the police-officer.
A sti uggle ensued, and the gallant soldier proved the victor.
The lady was afterwards conducted to her father's carriage,
" like Niobe, all tears;" and after contriving to give, probably,
a ring to her lover, they drove off on their return to town;
and the disappointed soldier,
seeing that " the course of true
love never did run smooth," expressed his determination to
follow, which he immediately carried into effect. We under.
stand that another couple on the same errand, but under more
auspicious circumstances, passed through the town to Gretna
on the following morning.—Doaca,tti• Gazette,