The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of Cumberland and the Duke of Sussex visi!ed
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester-house.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked for
some time in Hyde-park yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office, which was attended by all the Ministers in tol.a.
The Council remained nearly three hours in deliberation.
M. de Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Minister, visited
the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Foreign. office. Sir John Rae Reid and a numerous deputation had aninter-
view yesterday with the Right Hon. Alexander Baring at tie
office of the Board of Trade.

Mr. Buxton had an interview yesterday with the Ear) of
Aberdeen at the Colonial-office.

The Marquis Camden visited Mr. Secretary Goulburn yes-
terday at the Home-office, and also visited the Duke of Wel-
lington at the Foreign-office.
Despatches were sent off on Thursday evening from the Co-
lonial-office to the Governors of the North American Colonies.

SIR F. BURDETT.—It having been said in some
of the evening papers that Mr. de Vear had received a letter
from Sir Francis Burdett, stating his intention of coming to
town for medical advice, in consequence of a tumour in his
face ; Mr. de Vear desires us to state that his letter from Sir
Francis was dated the 18th of January, since which he has
good authority to believe that Sir Francis's disorder has ceased.
The late Countess of Fingall was sister to the late
Malachy Donelan, Esq., of Ballydonelan, one of the most
ancient Catholic families in the county of Galway. Her Lady-
ship was in her 69th year, and the venerable and afflicted Earl
has exceeded 74 years ; he will, indeed, have to sustain an ir-
reparable loss, their happy union having existed upwards of
forty years. Her Ladyship's remains are to be conveyed to
Ireland, for interment at Killeen Castle, county Meatb, in the
vault of the Plunket family, of which the venerable survivor
is the head.
LAW BRIBERY.—In the reign of Queen Elizabeth
it was the custom for persons of landed property to bribe at-
tornies not to be mischievous. The account of a steward to
a nobleman, which is deposited in the British Museum, has the
following item :—" Gave an annuity of 101. per annum to an
attorney, to stop him, as he was a title bringer, and solicitor to
encourage a claimant."
THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.—In our last we
stated that the Dukes of Sutherland and Hamilton had sent in
their adhesion to the present Government. We first saw the
announcement in a London paper ; and our own information,
from a private source, led us to believe that it was correct.
We have, however, this week received the following note from
his Grace the Duke of Sutherland :—" The Duke of Suther.
land, having observed a statement in the York Chronicle that
he had sent in his adhesion to the present Administration,
thinks it right to acquaint the editor of that respectable journal
that he is not aware of any circumstance authorising such a
statement.—Feb. 1, 1835."—York Chronicle.
CASTLE BAYNARD WARD.—An address (beau-
tifully written on vellum by Mr. Challenor) has been presented
by the electors-of the above ward to Mr. Robert Slade, on his
retirement as one of their representatives in the Court of
Common Council, recording the unanimous thanks of the
electors for the zeal and ability with which he discharged the
duties of the office for the long period of 47 years, and expres-
sive of the high respect and esteem in which he is held, not
only by themselves, but by the citizens at large.
The Bank of Ireland will lose about 8,0001. a year
by the order of the Lord Chancellor just issued, for converting
the moneys in Bank belonging to minors and lunatics into
Stock.—lrish Paper.
O'Connell is at work in Ireland sowing rancour
and ripening it fast into rebellion. He has just made a dis-
jointed speech to a pack of ragamuffins whom he styles the
" Anti-Tory Association." The topics resorted to by the agi-
tator were abuse against the excellent and public-spirited gen-
tleman Mr. John Latouche, which was evidently the compound
working of mortified vanity and malignant hatred—high praise
of electioneering priests of Kerry—vindication of the death's..
head and cross-bosses' atrocity—and a more than usual quan-
tum of virulence against the editor of the Times. But the
grand overture to this performance was " Repeal of the Union,"
" the blessings of a domestic Government ;" and it is this wild

beast, who exists only to tear out the vitals of the British em-
-pire, that the Whigs of England, the King's ex-Ministers,
and their partisans, are leaguing with hourly for the overthrow
of the King's present advisers, that jointly with O'Connell, the
destroyer of the united kingdom, they may ensure to his Ma-
jesty the loss of his Irish crown, and to the British nation a
mortal enemy at their threshold.—Times.
Last week the workmen employed in excavating a
vault at the Abbey discovered a tessellated pavement, which
they unfortunately mutilated, and sold the fragments to the
curious for small sums.—Bath Chronicle.
An evening school, for educating the young chim-
ney-sweepers of Brighton, has lately been established. A large
proportion of those now in Brighton attend it regularly, and
evince the greatest desire to obtain instruction.
In an action brought by an editor of a daily paper
in this city, the principle has been established, that persons
continuing to receive a periodical, without paying up arrear-
ages and giving notice to the editor of a wish for its discon-
tinuance, are liable for the price of the same as long as it is
sent. This is in accordance with common honesty, as well as
common law. There are those who at first make the small
price of a periodical an excuse for delaying payment, and then,
after receiving it for years, make the largeness of the amount
an argument with conscience for delaying payment altogether.
—New York Observer.
BEWARE OF CHRONOLOGY.—I would be guarded
in my chronology from the circumstance of a choleric Mile-
sian, in whose company I lately had the misfortune to dine,
insisting upon parading me because I saw cause to demur to
his assertion that "it was Bradshaw, the regicide, who mar-
ried Miss Mary Ann Tree, of Covent- Garden Theatre."—
" Juan," in the Sporting Magazine.
The new work of fiction, entitled " The Heir Pre-
sumptive," from the pen of Lady Stepney, contains some ex-
quisite lyrical pieces, which scatter some additional beauties
through these very interesting volumes. These will be soon
appropriated by some popular composer.
FRENCH CRITIQUE ON MILTON.—Milton is a
tedious barbarian, who writes a commentary, in ten books of
rumbling verse, on the first chapter of Genesis. He is a slo-
venly imitator of the Greeks; he disfigures creation, and,
instead of producing the world by the fiat of God, like Moses,
sets the Messia to bungle at tracing out, with a pair of com-
passes of celestial manufacture. He spoils Tasso's hell and
devils, and makes Satan a casuist in divinity. Upon the whole,
the " Paradise Lost" is obscure, whimsical, and disagreeable.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, FEB. s.—The
market continues in a cheerful and healthy state ; prices are
steady, and the sales have been 3,500 bags. The holders
bring their Cotton very fairly on the market, and this en.
courages buyers to take their supply the more freely.
One of the Old Clyde Shipping Company's steam-
ers, the Active, in coming up the river on Thursday afternoon,
struck the ground, which caused her to make so much water,
that, beLre she could be run ashore, she sunk. She had a
considerable quantity of goods on board at the time of the acs
cident.—Scottish Guardian.
ELOPEMENT.-01 Friday morning an attached
couple (Mr. B—, of B—, and Miss L—, of C—
L—), who were in search of wedded bliss, were overtaken
by the young Lady's father at Kilroy's Hotel in Galway.
The parties are highly respectable.—Connaught Journal.
A deplorable event took place on the 21st ult. at
Romans, in the Isere. Two soldiers of the 6th Regiment
were disputing in a public-house about the quality of a dagger.
One of them, in a state of complete intoxication, offered to lay
a wager that the other could not pierce his coat with it.
" Done," said the other, who was also drunk, and immediately
plunged the weapon up to the hilt into the body of the former,
who fell dead upon the spot. The murderer was imme-
diately taken into custody.—French Paper.
Two gentlemen, one a Spaniard and the other a
German, who were recommended by their birth and services
to the Emperor Maximilian 11., both courted his daughter, the
fair Helene Scharfequin, in marriage. This Prince, after a
long delay, "fie day informed them, that esteeming them
equally, and not being able to bestow a preference, he should
leave it to the force and address of the claimants to decide the
question. He did not mean, however, to risk the loss of one
or the other, or perhaps of both. He could not therefore per-
mit them to encounter with offensive weapons, but had ordered
a large bag to be produced. It was his decree that which.
ever succeeded in putting his rival into this bag should obtain
the hand of his daughter. This singular encounter between
the two gentlemen took place in the face of the whole Court.
The contest lasted for more than an hour. At length the
Spaniard yielded, and the German, Ehberhard, Baron de Tal-
bert, having planted his rival in the bag, took it upon his back,
and very gallantly laid it at the feet of his mistress, whom he
espoused the next day. Such is the story, as gravely told by
M. de St. Foix. It is impossible to say what the feelings of
a successful combatant in a duel may be on his having passed
a small sword through the body, or a bullet through the tho-
rax, of his antagonist ; but might he not feel quite as elated,
and more consoled, on having put his adversary " into a bag ?"
CoNDoßs.—Just before turning off' from the beach,
we came to the recent carcass of a mule, upon which seven
large black-winged ruffle-throated condors, and a crowd of
buzzards were feasting. They allowed us to approach so near,
that, had we been provided with arms, we might have shot
them as they rose slowly on the wing. These mammoths of
the air frequently destroy small animals. They sometimes
form a circle round a sheep or goat, and, spreading out their
wings, approach till they strike their prey. The first stroke
of the beak is aimed at the eyes ; if the animal cry, they seize
the tongue with their talons, and then, falling upon him, de-
vour the body, even to the bones. In the country they are
caught in the following very singular manner :—A pen is
is formed of high palisadoes driven into the ground, and a fresh
carcass put into the centre.—lt is left alone. In a short time
the condors who scent their food for miles, descend into it ; and
while feasting, the peones, armed with clubs, and the body and
limbs well protected with hide, enter the enclosure, and com-
mence the work of destruction. This bird cannot rise without

running thirty or forty yards, which the limits of the pen will
not allow, and they are clubbed to death, not, however, with.
out making resistance, and occasionally inflicting very severe
wounds upon their pursuers.—
Three Years in the ,Pacjfic.