The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-04 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 4, 1832.

At about half.past one o'clock, this day, his
MAJESTY arrived at St. James's Palace, escorted
by a party of the 9th Lancers. Shortly after
his MAJESTY held a Levee. No Privy Council
was held, and the KING left for Windsor.

An extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet
Ministers was called at nine o'clock, last night,
at the Foreign-office, which was attended by
the LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl GREY, Lord
GODERICH, Lord MELBOURNE, Lord HOL.
LAND, the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT,
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Mr. STANLEY.
The Ministers were in deliberation till two o'clock
this morning, when the meeting broke up.

Colonel DA VIES repeated his motion last
night for an Inquiry into the State of the Glove
Trade. As the pulse of both Houses had been
felt upon the subject, the gallant Member could
not have had the slightest hope of any possibility
of success ; and we regret, therefore, that he
should have added his weight to the Anti-
, Reformers in their system of annoying Ministers
, by useless motions.

The Anti-Reform petition from the Univer-
sity of Oxford was presented to the House of
, Lords last night by Earl BATHURST. Feuds
and schisms in a cloister are proverbially venom-
ous ; and we understand that broils of ludicrous
acrimony sprung out of the difficulty of selecting
a person fit to do justice to such a petition.
. One Doctor of the cowl preferred Lord BEx-
LEY, another Lord ELDON, a third Lord
SIDMOUTH: the hero of the Rolliad was named;

id a very satrap among the doctors, declared

that none but a Bishop was fit for such a duty
Factious objections were made to all such no-
minations. One Nobleman was pronounced
silly, another never had been wise, a third was
sneered at as a dissenter, and a fourth was set down
as corrupt, whilst a learned Professor confessed
that nothing could now be esteemed which ema-
nated from a Bishop, and to trust such a petition
to a Prelate would be to hang the jewel in a
--'s snout. The metaphor was orthodox, but
it was trite and not well applied. The choice
at length fell on Earl BATHURST. The oracles
of the Delta-hat (for even the Bishops have dis-
carded the wig) often put a journalist in serious
dilemmas; and we must confess ourselves foiled in
our attempt to Pronounce whether the virtue
and sagacity of Oxford be most dis-
played in the petition or in the selection of Earl
BATHURST to present it. A sacrifice of con-
venience and interest to principle is always
estimable, and all men must praise these petitioners
who, to use their own language, have left " the
sanctuary of academic seclusion," to instil into
a stubborn and stiff-necked generation that wis-
dom which has been cast off by all persons above
the age of the pinafore. There may be a few
people in seclusion not altogether academic
in whom the Oxford petition will inspire
a joy adequate at least to the dissipation of the
cholera. We can fancy some aged maiden sister,
or venerable widow of a petty curate long in
his grave, reading the Oxford petition under the
porch of an alms-house. To the mind's eye
the spectacles are dimmed with tears, and
to the mind's ear, the old lady is now
saying, " Charming just for all the world
what my good old man used to say !
how overjoyed he would be, could he rise once
more and read such wisdom from his own Uni-
versity !" The intellects of the desceuvre class of
the University are, in one sense at least,
not of this world, although in another
they are very worldly. The classic lore
of these wise petitioners has taught them
that the Capitol was once saved by the cackling
of the geese ; but we must confess that our learn-
ing supplies us with no precedent of an empire
being benefited by the humming of the drones.

In a recent number of The Sun, we analysed
the Parliamentary return of Colonial Pensions,
with a view to solve a problem of all others the
most useful to be solved by the English people
—the extent to which fraud and impu-
dence can be carried by a Tory Government.
We little imagined that the Parliamentary
return of pensions at home would display a cor-
ruption equal to that which triumphs with im-
punity in the colonies. We thought that the
incessant vigilance of such men as Mr. HUME
and Sir HENRY PARNELL, with the terrors of
the Press, would have deterred even the most
corrupt of our departments—the Treasury—
from very flagrant grants ; but in this we have been
egregiously mistaken. Opening what are termed
the Miscellaneous Services, the first pension is
that of a Mr. GEORGE HARRISON, who
retires upon 2,2001. a year, having enjoyed
a place of 3,800/. a year, with a patronage
which had enabled him to provide for all his
relations, and even to give thousands a year (for
we believe we may speak in the plural) to the
son of a domestic. This Mr. GEORGE HAR-
RISON has provided for one relation in the
Treasury, a brother he has converted into a
Commissioner of Excise, a sister's husband
into a Consul at Madeira ; and another
sister having married a Mr. BULLOCK, we
find that the second pension in the miscella-
neous estimates to be 1,2001. a year to a
Mr. E. C. BULLOCK, whether a relation we
cannot say. In the language of the Ame-
ricans, we should have pronounced a place of.
3,8001. a year, with a power of providing for all
kith and kin out of the taxes, to be " a very pretty
considerable nation good sort of a thing we guess,"
and too good a thing to require a retiring pension
of 2,2001. per annum. The Treasury contin-
gent account is a sort of sacred documen ,
which political antagonists, from delicacy, never
pry into ; and yet we are old enough to re-
member when 'Mr. TIERNEY, a man pretty
well hardened to jobs, considered that
the Treasury had so over-stepped the modesty
of hallowed customs, that he was no longer re-
strained from exposing the contingent account
in the House of Commons. His chief objec-
tions were to a gift of 5 0001. to this Mr. LIAR-
nisoN, for his faithful services, and to a gift of
about 5001. to a clerk for doing the duty of
Mr. HARRISON during his repeated absence
from service.

We next find a pension of 1001. a
year in this department to a Mr. HESLOP,
whose father for a very long period possessed
the richest living in England—the parish of
Marylebone, divided at Dr. HESLOP'S death into
five extremely rich district parishes. A little
further on we find a pension set down to
a young gentleman, v,ho has always been
reputed the natural son of a Royal Duke,
not the most liberal or popular of the sons of
GEORGE the Third, of pious memory. Next we
come to Mr. GRAN. PENN, who, after doing
the State some service for only four and a halt
years, at 1,000/. a-year, retires upon an annual
pension of 550/. A few names lower in the
list we find Mr. RICHARD PENN, with a pee.
sion of 7501. per annum. This we suppose is the
" poor Richard," of proverbial economy and hard-
working prudence so celebrated by Dr.FR A NK LI N,
of Pennsylvania. In page 8, we find four gentle-
men who enjoyed 1,850/. or 1,5001. a year each,
and after only eight years of service, they retire,
two upon 750/., one on 6001., and one on 500/
a year, " as long as he shall be unprovided for."
We think these gentlemen very well provided
for. This reminds us of the last will and
testament of an old Peer, who was replete with
the wisdom of the North. The late Earl of
GALLOWAY left all his sons chargeable upon
their eldest brother, the present Earl, until he
should provide for them by places under Go

T. A. RAYNSFORD, Deputy Registrar.

THE MARKETS -(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

This week the arrivals of all kinds of Grain are unusually
small; but the weather appears so very genial, that our buyers
manifested very little spirit in making purchases. More money
is asked for most descriptions of Gain, but are is so little doing
that we cannot note :any improvement in prices. Flour is un.
altered.

♦RRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
Englifh 1,353 qis. 432 qrs.
-
Foreign

Oats. Flour.
67 qrs. 65 isacks.
brie.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S

DEAL, APRIL 3.—Wind S.W —Arrived and sailed
for the river the Arab and Recovery tranTorts.
KINSALE, APRIL 2. Arrived the Mary 13rade, Gleaves,
from Pernamhueo.

DOVER, APRIL 3.—Arrived off port the Corsair, Wea-
therhead, from the Cape of Good Hope.
BRISTOL, Amt. 3.—Arrived the King George, Ward-
Law, from St. Michael's.

HOLYHEAD, APRIL 2.—Arrived the Huskisson, Nl'Leod,
from Liverpool, with loss of bowsprit, &c., main-mast
sprung, and hull much damaged, having been in contact with
an American ship, name unknown, hound to Charleston.
LivEarooL, ArRIL 2.—Arrived the Philetus,
and Lexington, Covert, from New Orleans; Eizabeth,
Callender, and Brenda, Bradford, from Ch irleston ; and
Lochiel, Lopez, from Charente. Off port the Cordelia,
from Bengal ; Hermitage, L •wis, and Sarah and Caro-
line, Woodberry, from New Orleans ; Oilethorpe, Sos-
tere, from Savannah ; and Ai iel, from La Guayra.

Arrived at the Cape of Good Hope the Diligent, Arvoy,
from Bordeaux ; and Lady Gordon, Harrall, from Singa-
pore.
Ai rived at Charleston the Retrench, Cooper, from
Liverpool.