The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR..

The Duke and Duchess of CniwarnLANn entertainrd
th e Austrian and French Arablts,adors, the 13:auodau
Ali-
nister, and Baron Bur.ow, and a select party, at (Loner, on
Thursday, at their residence at Kew.
A Cabinet Council was held ycs.tei day afternoon, at the

Foreign.office, which NV:I9 attended by the Lour, CHAN-
CELLOR, Earl GREY, Lord DURHAM, Vifit:litHit9 MEL-
IiOURNE, PALMERSTON, Gonxatcx, and ALTHORF, the
Earl of CARLISLE, the Right CM-taus GRANT
Lord HOLLAND, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Duke ~f R'cg.
MOND, and Mr. STANLEY. The Court sat about four
hours in deliberation •

Prince TALLEVRAND, tl'e French Ambassador, had an
interview with Viscount PALMERSTON, after the breaking
up of the Council.
Mons. MORENO, tl,e Minister from Buenos Ayres,
transacted business at the Foreign-office, on TF:ur•day.

Prince LtEvEx, the Russian Ambassador, and Princess
LIEVEN, left town on Thursday, on a visit to Earl and
Countess CowrEa, at their seat, at Pensanger, Herts.
The conference of the 'Ministers of the Five Powers on
the affairs of Belgium, held at the Forein-office, on
Wednesday evening, lasted till two o'clock on Thursday
morning.

Mr. POULETT TnomrsoN, the Vice-Pre4dent of the
Board of Trade, has left town for Brighton.

The Saint-Sitnonians are going to send InlS-
-4ionaries to Lcndon. Poor John Bull ! he has hJai a visit
from the cholera morbus already.—Figaro (French.)

The game commitments under the new Act,
in the county of Hants, have more than doubled those under
the old, as appears by the following extracts from a Report
presented to the Quarter Sessions last week by Sir THOMAS
BAILING. "Exclusive," says this report, "of the twelve
men to be tried for murder in the affray at Strathfieldsaye,
and several other prisoners to be tried for night-poaching,
there have been committed to the Bridewell, from the Ist
of September to the 31st of December, 1831, no fewer
than 97 persons for offences against the Game Laws, being
rather more than double the number of the prisoners com-
mitted for the same offences, and during the Lime time in
the preceding year, which was only 47. Oxford Journal.
MILITARY COURT-MARTIAL.--A HU-
MANE SENTENCE.—A Court-martial has been held at the
King's-mews Barracks, Charing-croes, composed of the
Officers of the 3d battalion of the Ist Regiment of Gre-
nadier Guards, to try JOHN PEARCE, a private in the
hattalion, belonging to the 4th or Lieutenant-Colonel
THORNTON'S company, for absenting himself from his
duty, and making away with his regimental necessaries.
Lieutenant-Colonel BOLDER() acted as President of the
Court-martial. The charge was fully proved against the
prisoner, and the Court found him Guilty. Yesterday
morning (Friday), after the battalion had mustered at the
usual place in the King's-mews, the prisoner was brought
out from his place of confinement, and Captain STAN.
MOPE, the acting Adjutant of the regiment, read over the
minutes of the Court-martial. The sentence of the Court
was, that the prisoner be placed in solitary confinement
for twenty days in such place as the Commanding-officer
may think proper to direct. The prisoner was then taken
back to his place of confinement. It is worthy of remark,
that not a single soldier belonging to the 3d battalion of
the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Guards has been flogged
during the last year, an example worthy to be followed.
A RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE.--At the War-
wickshire Sessions, STEPHEN GEORGE Wimrs was ar-
raigned on a charge of assault on the person of ELIZA
BAILEY, a girl about twelve years old, with intent to
commit a rape. Mr. HILL conducted the prosecution, and
its briefly stating the case to the Jury, said he believed the
prisoner was a preacher of what he called the middle
faith. Prisoner—l am High Priest of the United Inde-
pendent Trinitarian Church. Mr. HlLL—Very good ;
but as we are told all faith must be judged of by its works,
the prisoner's, he expected, must be submitted to the same
test. He should call the prosecutor to prove the assault.
The witnesses were then called, and the indecent assault in
question proved. When called upon for his dot•nce, the
prisoner said--Gentlemen, I was passing through Binning-
' ham on my way from the kingdom of Wales to France,
after forming many classes and a small church in the new
faith, when I happened to go down the street where the
little girl lived, distributing tracts and carols, not, how-
ever, connected with any particular religious creed or sect,
but bought indiscriminately at the bookseller's for sale. I
knocked at the door where this little girl lived, and she
answered me, and I acknowledge to have saluted her, but
as to have committed any indecent act, in her presence, I
utterly deny it. Now, 1 will ask, can it he imagined that
I, who go about to promote virtue, should be the father
of vice? I am exceedingly sorry to have been charged
under these circumstances, but it is probably ordained by
Providence for the wisest and best of purposes. I have
been endeavouring to establish a branch of our United In-
dependent Trinitarian Christian Catholic Church.—
(Laughter.)—l must now, gentlemen, leave it entirely: to
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tube s candourotime o r andnot generosityll
I might have been slightly inebriated ac the time, r I
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slightest recollection of attempting to commit a,mault
e,:nquirod to:
which I am charged.—Tbe Jury a
few minutes, And returned a verdict of Guilty on both
know human nature is weak and frail, but I buys not the
nottosasya7thlh. eitt'rsallanni;ogsfsoilli:.Te
counts; and the prisoner was sentenced to be kept to hitt
Labour t,r one year in the Hausa of Correct ,on.