The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Gloucester continues in an improving state-
Her Royal Highness received visits yesterday from the
Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and the Princess
Sophia, at Gloucester-house.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria visited the
Princess Augusta yesterday, at her residence at St. James's
Palace.

Monsieur Falck, the Ambassador from the Netherlands,
Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador, Monsieur Mo.
reno, the Minister from Buenos Ayres, and Monsieur Bourke,
the Danish Charge d'Affaires, transacted business with Viscount
Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign.office.
A Deputation of the London Bridge Committee, including
Alderman Venables, Alderman Wood, Mr. Jones, Mr. Tyrrell,
the Deputy City Remembrancer, and Sir Robert Smirke, had a
conference with Viscount Althorp yesterday at the Treasury.

The Duke of Bedford's distribution of the
proceeds of game killed in Bedfordshire preserves, amounting to
300/. and upwards, has supplied the poor in those parishes with
fuel, blankets, and warm clothing during the winter.—County
Chronicle.

The Duke of 'Wellington, and a large party
of Nobility opposed to the Reform Bill, have had a meeting, at
which it was resolved to oppose the second reading of the Bill.
The Noble Duke, however, has given his approval to a plan of
Reform proposed by one of his party. A new Bill, drawn out
by a young Barrister, at the request of some of the moderate
Anti-Reformers, is in circulation, but it has not been adopted
by the Anti-Reform Peers generally ; and it is not yet decided
what specific measure shall be proposed to the House of Peers,
by way of amendment on Lord Grey's measure.—Court Journal.

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A meeting of the Shareholders of Covent•
garden Theatre took place yesterday in the saloon, when the
proposals made by the proprietors for the protection of their
interests were received with the most general approbation, and
eventually carried. The Duke of Bedford made a most liberal
proposal to forego a considerable amount of interest on a claim
for money advanced some years ago to aid the property, which
was received with acclamations. The utmost good feeling
prevailed, and the shareholders showed the most cordial desire
to aid the exertions made by the proprietors, not only with a
kind feeling towards them, but with a view to protect the in-
terests of the performers and all others dependent on the thea-
tre, as well as to show their sense of the exertions made by
Mr. Kemble and his family at all times to aid the success of
the national drama.

Mr. TRELAWNEY, whose novel called " Ad-
♦entures of a Younger Son " is now before the public, is the
gentleman upon whose life an attempt was made a few years
ago in the cave of Mount Parnassus, and whose heroic conduct
in Greece made such an impression at the time on the public
mind. The character of Zela in the novel has been pro-
nounced equal to the Myrrha or the Haidee of the author's
friend, Lord Byron.

We hear, with feelings of pain and regret, that
a Reverend Divine of the Establishment expired on Tuesday,
in Horsham gaol, whither he had been conveyed for an incon-
siderable debt only a few days previous. The deceased, we
understand, was a Doctor of Divinity; and was ♦isited a day
or two before his death by his wife and children, at parting
with whom he was greatly affected. He is said to have died of
a broken heart.—Brighton Hcrald. _ _

We regret to have to announce the sudden
death of Mr. Brownlow, uncle to the excellent Member for
Armagh. Ile dined on Tuesday evening, apparently in good
health, at the Kildare-street Club, and had scarcely finished
dinner when he fell from his chair senseless. Medical aid was
Immediately procured, and the patient bled, but to no purpose.
He lingered, insensible, till yesterday morning, and expired
about ten o'clock.—Dttblin Freeman's Journal.

NAPOLEON AND THE ENGLISH.—Napo-
Icon retired to Malmaison at the suggestion of Fouche, and
made up his mind to seek an asylum in England. " Like The-
mistocles," said he, " I will throw myself on the hospitality of
my great enemy—the British people." This idea took such
possession of his imagination, and he repeated it to others and
to himself so incoherently, that Sieyes exclaimed, after leaving
his presence, " L'Empercur esi fou."—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet
Library. Life and Reign of George Ir. Vol. 111.

SHEERNESS.—At a public meeting of the
principal inhabitants a resolution to the following effect was
adopted :—" Inasmuch as Sheerness is one of the greatest naval
arsenals in this kingdom, and contains a population of 10,000
souls, and is the only place in the United Kingdom, of its
magnitude and importance, which has not, or will not, have
the privilege of sending Members to Parliament, agreeably to
the present provisions of the Reform Bill—Resolved that a
petition be presented to the Houses of Lords and Commons,
praying that the Isle of Sheppy may be placed in schedule C or
D of the Reform Bill now pending in their Honourable
Houses." It was further resolved that the Duke of Sussex be
oolicited to present the petition to the House of Lords, and
Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. to the House of Commons.

TITHE MEETING.—The work of good and
effective agitation progresses as the best and almost sanguine
patriot could desire. Two important meetings will be held on
Sunday next; one at Athy, and the other of the parishes of
Balloon and llathoe, in this county. At this important period
each individual, from the highest to the lowest, has a duty to
perform, and he who should be found sleeping on his post
should be stigmatized as unworthy—he should be branded
" Tithes," and denied any communion with his fellow country.
men.—Carlow Post.

If a certain number of the clerks in the Post-
office can find time to become newspaper venders, the public
will naturally infer that there must be more cats than can be
wanted for catching the Post-office mice; or, in other words,
that the establishment should he reduced in the proportion that
these unofficial labours bear to those which the public services
require from them.

The well-known Peter Wysozki has not been
put to death ; but was long since conveyed to the fortress
of Bobruisk, which explains his sudden disappearance from
Warsaw. Nineteen of the messengers and four of the senators
are conned in the Carmelite monastery in Warsaw. Vincent
Niemejowski, and Count Olytar, the deputy of Volhynia, are
also in confinement here. The report of the death of the
former arose from his name being confounded with that of a
young officer who died some time ago, and who was one of
those who forced their way into the Belvedere palace on the
day of the revolution. It is reported that all these persons will
shortly be tried by a Court-martial, and that Wysozki will be
brought from Bobruisk to Warsaw. None of the Polish Ge-
nerals conveyed to the interior of Russia have yet been sent into
Siberia; they are, it appears, distributed among the many small
places situated some hundred wersts behind Moscow, as
Wologda, Jaroslaw, and others, where they have to maintain
themselves, and are subject to no personal restrictions.
During their stay in Moscow, many of them were hospitably
received, even by Russian military officers. Count Lubienski
was the only one whom the Emperor ordered to be brought be-
fore him : after severely reprimanding him, his Majesty gave
him permission to return to Poland.—German Paper.
GRAVESEND NEW PIER.—A Bill is now
before Parliament for giving authority and means for erecting
a pier at Gravesend, at which the public may land and embark
without the inconvenience or expense of wherries, to convey
passengers between steam-boats and the shore. As 120,000
persons annually go by these packets from London to Graves-
end, it is a question of considerable interest to certain large
classes who reside in the metropolis, and petitions have been
numerously signed in favour of the measure by the mechanics
and artisans, to whom an easy, cheap, and transient relaxation
from labour is of the greatest consequence. At present each
person has to pay fourpence for being put from the packet on
the landing-place, which is an unreasonably high charge, for
the boats contain eight persons, and the fare demanded is,
therefore, two shillings and eightpence for conveying them
about fitly yards, subject to delay and the accidents incidental
to the difficulties that persons find, who are not accustomed to
moving in small boats. The watermen object to the pier, be-
cause it will interfere with their easy and overpaid labour, but
provision is made for them to some extent, by the Bill, and
this is treating them more justly than they can pretend they
were treated by the superiors of their own fraternity-, when
landing wharfs were provided at London, without any compen-
sation for their alleged losses. At the same time the mechanics
and the humbler classes, in this great town, must be considered
as having a paramount claim in a matter so affecting their in-
terests, inasmuch as the preservation of their health is the se-
curity for their labour, upon which the maintenance of tens of
thousands depends.

„ .
SMUGGLING.—A proclamation,uated White-
hall, March 2, was inserted in the Police Gazette yesterday,
stating that ” Whereas it has been represented to the King that
divers large bodies of armed smugglers have lately been felo-
niously assembled on different parts of the coast in Kent and
Sussex, to assist in the landing of uncustomed and prohibited
goods, and violent attacks made upon the officers and men of
his Majesty's Coast Guard service and Custom-house officers, in
which attacks several have been killed and wounded And
whereas it is necessary to put an end to such outrages, and bring
the offenders to justice, his Majesty's pardon will be graciously
extended to all persons so assembled (except those who have
actually conunitted violence upon the said officers and men)
who shall give information against their accomplices. The
following rewards also are offered, viz. :—A reward of 1,0001. to
any person who shall discover, or cause to be discovered, any
person or persons by whose agreement spelt companies were so
illegally assembled in the actual perpetration of any such
murders. Of 5001. for the discovery of any person armed with
fire-arms, or other offensive weapons, who assembled to the
number of three or more, for the purpose of running such un-
customed and prohibited goods. Of 2001. to any one who shall
discover, or cause to be discovered, any one or more of those
concerned in running such goods. The rewards to be paid by
the Collector and Comptroller of Customs at the port of Rye,
upon conviction of the offenders."

CANNON FOUNDERY.—During the 18th
century iron.foundery became almost indentified with casting.
of cannon. The consumption of cast iron as well as of brass,
in the article of ordnance alone, during our wars in Belgium,
with America, and arising out of the French revolution, was
beyond all conception enormous. This branch of home trade,
having Government for its especial patron, enriched many in-
dividuals, who, if a pun might be allowed, may be said to
have become founders of families as well as of guns. Of this
class may be mentioned the respectable house of Walker, at
Masbrough, near Rotherham, where this business was for
many years carried on with unprecodehted success.—Dr.
Lardner's Cabinet Cycloptrdia, Vol. XXI. Iron and Steel
Manufacture, in 1 vol.