The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Ministers of the Conference adjourned their meet-
ing on Monday evening for two hours. Their Excellen-
cies afterwards reassembled, and continued their delibe-
ra.ions for several hours.

The Belgian Mini,ter visited Viscount PALMERSTON
yesterday at the Foreign office. Viscount ALTHORF had
also an interview with his Lordship.
About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Prince LUMEN, the
Russian Ambassador; Boron 13ut.ow, the Prussian Mini-
ster ; the Barron DE MARFUIL, the French Minister ; ti'
Baron DE WESSENBURG. the Austrian Minister on a spe-
cial mission ; Count MATuszEwic, the Russian Minister
on a special mission; and Baron DE NIEUMANN, the Aus•
trian Charge d'Affaires, assembled at the Foreign-office,
and resumed the Conference with Viscount PALMERSTON.
Their Excellencies adjourned at 6 o'clock.
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The Master of the Horse transacted business at the
Treasury on Monday.
AaarvAL.—Viscount ALTHORP, on Monday evening,
from Northamptonshire.

The LORD CHANCELLOR will resume the
business in the Court of Chancery on the Ist of Novem-
ber, which is the first seal-day of the term. Motions will
be heard on the 2d, Bth, 15th, 22,1, and 26th ; petitions
on the 3d ; rehearings and appeals on the other days 01
the week. The VICE-CHANCELLOR will also resume his
sittings on the Ist of November. His Honour will hear
'notions on the ssme days appointed by the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR ; petitions o❑ the 3d ; pleas, demurrers, excep-
tions, causes, and further directions, from the sth to the
23d inclusive, except on the days appointed for motions
and petitions, and short causes on the 24th.

Mr. ROBERT GOURLAY, whose eccentrici-
ties excited so much attention some years ago, and who,
we believe, was held to bail for threatening to horsewhip
the present Lord Chancellor, has offered himself as a can-
didate for the representation of Fifeshire. In the begin-
ning of Mr. GOURLAY'S address he says—" Since the Re-
form Act requires no qualification, and being advised b)
Counsel that any one may sit in Parliament, even for a
county, I now offer myself as your Repre9entative." Hr
concludes as follows :—" My property—a mere pittance—
being out of my hands, and having no where to lay my
head but for friendship and forbearance, I would require
5001. a-year for the due performance of services, which, I
am sure, would be readily contribu'ed by the public at
large, were lelected by you."
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-As an additionafe.vidence of the growingsenti-
ment in favour of the ballot, we may refer to what fell
from several of the speakers at the North Walsham dinner
last Wednesday from Lord SUFFIELD, Mr. COKE, Mr.
KER, and Mr. PALMER. Mr. COKE said that it was the
conduct of such men as the Duke of NEWCASTLE which
had first shaken his opinion on this subject ; of that Duke,
who had not only ejected a number of his tenants because
they were opposed to him in politics, but even the
poor milliners were the objects of his vengeance who had
made cockades for the opposite party ! Mr. COKE
said that, formerly, no one had been more hostile
the ballot than aimself ; but since it was notorious
that honest people had been deprived of their livelihood
because they gave a conscientious vote in support of their
political principles, he had begun to alter his opinion.
Here we may observe that Lord SUFFIELD, adverting to
his own conduct towards his tenantry, said, if they adopt
the same line of politics as myself, they never have no►
ever will find it obtain for them any personal advantage,
and if they do not, they have never felt it to be a personal
disadvantage to them. His Lordship appealed to many of
those around him who knew the fact, for the truth of his
declaration.—East Anglian, Norwich Paper.

ERRATA.—There were two typographical
errors in Dr. ELLIOTSON's introductory lecture at the
London University, which appeared in this journal yester-
day. The sth and 6th paragraphs should have been one,
so as to have run thus :—" One would naturally imagine
that where the largest mass of people was collected,
where the greatest accumulation of talent and information
existed, where the means of instruction were the most
abundant, and where the liveliest activity prevailed, in that
spot would he seen, &c." In the last sentence the word
immediate is twice printed for individual.
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Extract of a letter from St. Petersburg, dated
September 18:—" The Custom-house warehouses, not-
withstanding the additions made to them, are still inade-
quate to the purpose of housing all the bonded good..
Large parcels of Havannab and Brazil sugar continue to
be piled up in the open space called the square."
It was reported in Chili, that the jewels of
the Temple of the Sun, which, at the time of the conquest
of Peru, the natives had concealed from the Spaniards.
have been lately discovered near the Cerro de Pasco ; the
value of them has been calculated at 180,000,000 f
dollars. By this is meant, of course, Buenos Ayres cur-
rency, in which the dollar is valued at 7d. only, but that
would still make the value amount to an enormous sum.

Among the papers appended to the report of
the Bank of England charter (which contain much cu
rious information), is an account of the licenses granted in
each year to country banks since the year 1808. It appears
that the number granted in the last year was the lowest
of any period since licenses have been granted, being 636.
The number in 1809-9, was 702 ; the highest number
was in 1813 14, viz. 910. From 1814 the number de-
clined rapidly, till in 1817 it fell to 752. It subsequently
rose to 809, the number granted for the year from October,
1825, to October, 1826 ; it fell in the next year to 668, anti
it has remeined very steady till the last two years, when it
has been further reduced to the number we first stated.
The number of commissions of bankruptcy issued against
country banks has a!so much varied. The years in which
these bankruptcies have Leen most numerous were the fol-
lowing :—ln 1793, 22 ; in 1810, 20 ; in 1812, 17 ; in
1814, 27 ; in 1815, 25 ; in 1816, 37 ; in 1825, 37 (ot
which 30 were in the month of December) ; in 1826, 43
(of which 33 were in the first three months, making, with
Dec., 1825, 63 in four successive months) ; in 1830, 14

We stated our belief a short time ago, that
Government had some measure in view on the subject
Burgh Reform, and this proves to be the case. In a re-
cent address to his constituents at Ayr, Mr. KENNEDY,
now a Lord of the Treasury, says, " Among the many
evils in the old system, the removal of which is in
contemplation, I may, with propriety, refer to one which
has long occupied my attention—l allude to Burgh Re-
form. This measure is part and parcel with what we
have already gained, and follows it as a natural consequence.
No delay is at all likely to arise, as foreseeing that its
enemies might, under the cloak of a deficiency of informa-
tion, find =leans to retard its progress in the ensuing
Parliament, I took the liberty of moving that a mass ot
information be procured so as to prevent delay, and I
trust it will have the desired effect. Mr. KENNEDY
hints at another improvement likely to be productive of
much advantage and accommodation to the putelic, namely,
that of making the Sheriffs go on circuit through
their counties. "It occurs to me (he says) that much
benefit might result, and much trouble be spared to all
parties concerned, by the Sheriff making a circuit of hi•
county, and holding Courts at several stations. This
proposition requires mature deliberation, and such it will
receive from me before it comes under the consideration
of Parliament." Hitherto, in this country, the accom-
modation of the public has been held subordinate to that
of official persons. The Court of Session, for instance,
shuts shop for four months at a time, and during that
period, justice, in its highest capacity, is deaf as well as
blind ! When there are ten cases arising in a country
town and its vicinity, how much easier and more rational
is it for the Sheriff and his clerk to convey themselves to
the place in a post-chaise, than for forty or fifty indivi
duals, parties, agents, and witnesses, to travel many
miles to the capital of the county, and perhaps maintain
themselves there for some days? The administration of
justice needs to be overhauled in all its departments.—
Scotsman.

A clergyman, not quite a hundred miles front
this place, preached a most edifying discourse on " Conte
and draw water out of the wells of salvation, without
money and without price." On the following week some
of his parishioners took the liberty of drawing water front
a very fine spring-well in the parson's garden, at which
the learned divine was not a little nettled. Being re-
minded by the intruder of his text and sermon, the Rev.
Gentleman replied, " You may draw as much water as
ye like from the wells of salvation, but if you come here
again, and take my water, I'se send a bullet through you."
—Edinburgh Evening Post.
BRIEF EPITAPH.— Dr. WALKER, among
other things, wrote a work on the English particles, and
this caused him to get the very short and pithy epitaph—

" Here lie Walker's particles."

SMOKING OUT THE CHOLERA. -- Some
professional gentlemen from Inverness, having occasion to
visit Cromarty last week, were seized at the entrance to
the town, and told they must go to be smoked for the
cholera, as they came from Inverness. They were accor-
dingly conveyed to the sea side, till they arrived at a wooden
shed, where they were obliged to take off part of their
clothes, wash themselves with a preparation of chloride of
lime, and then enter a place strongly impregnated with
sulphur and other ingredients, where they were locked up
until half suffocated. Having undergone this salutary and
rational process, the Invernessians were allowed to dress
and depart,..../nrerness Courier.