The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Church Commissioners held their --‘ •
day at the office of Sir P meeting yester-
There were orr-- Peel, in Downing-street.
bish..-"Lit the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Arch-
of YOrk, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Glou-
cester, the Earl of narrowly, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Secretary
Goulburn, and the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jermer. The
Commissioners were upwards of two hours in deliberation.
The Duchess of Rent and the Princess Victoria walked for
some time in Hyde Park yesterday.
Dispatches from the Marquis of Sligo, the Governor of
Jamaica, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
A Deputation from the Scotch Presbytery had an interview
yesterday with Sir Robert Peel.

THE SPEAKERSHIP.—Theodds at T.attersall's yes,
terday, were 2 to 1 for Sir C. M. Sutton, not p.p.—taken.
_ _

Sir Robert Peel will preside at the next anniversary
dinner of the noblemen. and gentlemen educated at Harrow
School, which will take place, as usual, at the Thatched-house
Tavern.

Sir William Geary, of Lowesby Hall, in this county,
on Monday last met with a serious accident in being thrown
from his horso, and dislocating his shoulder, while hunting.
He is, however, much better.—Leicester Herald.

Earl Nelson (brother of the hero of Trafalgar), is
dangerously ill, at his residence in Portman-square. Mr.
Vance, the surgeon, is in constant attendance on the noble earl.
LEGAL APPOINTMENTS FOR THE COUNTY
PALATINE OF DURHAM.-Sir Charles Wetherell has been ap-
pointed Temporal Chancellor of the County Palatine of Dur-
ham and Sadberge, in the place of Robert Hopper William-
son, Esq., deceased; Serjeant Atcherley, Attorney-General
to the Bishop of Durham, in the room of Sir Frederick Pol-
lock, recently appointed Attorney-General to the King; and
C. Cresswell, Esq., Solicitor-General to his Lordship, vice
Serjeant Atcherley.—Durham Advertiser.

Andrew Amos, Esq., Barrister-at-law, and Auditor
of Trinity College, Cambridge, is appointed Deputy Recorder
of the town of Nottingham.

The Right Hon. Lctia de Dunstanville, whose
death we announced ir, yesterday's paper, was one of the largest
landowners in *le county of Cornwall. His Lordship in early
life inhefited a fine paternal estate, which by good manage-
m;:et and profits derived from mines, was increased to its pre-
sent bulk. By his demise the ancient title of that name is
extinct ; but the barony of Basset, limited to him and his heirs
femzle, descends to his only daughter by his first marriage,
now Baroness Basset in her' own right. The entailed and set-
tled estates devolve on his Lordship's nephew and nearest male
relative of that name, John Basset, Esq. His Lordship mar-
ried secondly in 1824 the eldest daughter of the late Sir Wil-
liam Lemon, by whom he had no issue.

M. DUPUYTREN.—The life of this celebrated
French surgeon is, we regret to observe by our private letters
from Paris, despaired of.

Marshal Marmont has arrived at Genoa from Egypt.
Mr. Chantrey, the eminent sculptor, is in treaty for
the purchase of the Marquis of Westminster's landed estate in
the neighbourhood of Stockbridge.—Salisbury Herald.
Francis Robertson, Esq., at his late audit, returned
to his tenants at Chilcote, in Derbyshire, 20 per cent. ; and
has given 201. to the poorer inhabitants of the village, consist-
ing of 34 families, to be laid out in coals and flannel. -

ROMANCES OF MANY LANDS.—This work, which
has just appeared, comprises stories of Italy, France, Ger-
many, Russia, Switzerland, England, Spain, Bohemia, Ice-
land, Poland, &c., which have been selected on account of
their romantic and often mysterious incidents. Several of
them have already flirnished subjects for our most successful
dimmas. The idea of bringing together the popular stories of
all nations is very happy.

Yesterday a wardmote was held for the purpose of
electing an. Alderman in the room of Alderman Ansley, who
as senior alderman of the city became upon the resignation of
Sir Richard Carr Glyn the representative of the Ward of
Bridge Without in tbat Court. Cordwainers'-ball was crowded
upon the occasion, report having stated that an exposure of
ward intrigue and a strong contest would take place. At
3 o'f.fiock the Lord Mayor took the chair. Mr. Allen pro-
posed, and Mr. Nicholls seconded, the nomination of John
Lainson, Esq. Mr. Legge proposed, and Mr. Crocker se-
conded, the nomination of John Bradley Butterworth, Esq.
After a great deal of- discussion, of interest only to those in
the ward, Mr. Lainson and Mr. Butterworth both declared
that they would, if upon any occasion, through infirmity or
pecuniary loss, they should be incapacitated from performing
the duties of the situation, resign the office to the constituency.
The show of hands was then taken, and proved to be 10 to 1
in favour of Mr. Lainson, who was thereupon declared duly
elected.

The meeting of the East Kent Fox Hounds at
Waldershare was attended by the usual assembly of sportsmen
and others, anxious to witness the throw off, rather than at-
tracted by the indifferent sport generally met with on such oc-
casions. The number of horsemen in the field was upwards of
seventy ; and a fox being conveniently found in the adjoining
wood, he made a run as far as Dangdon, where he became the
victim of his pursuers in a pond, most of cavaliers being in
at the death.

O'CONNELL AND THE REPUBLICANS.--The
Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, in a late speech to the
anti-Tory Association, said :—" Your outrageous and high-
flying Republicans I could never find fit to be trusted upon
public questions.—( Hear.) They were mightily exalted upon
abstract questions, but when it came to a point of political li-
berty, they sunk their Republicanism in their pocket with the
weight of the money that would go along with it."

The Reformers of the Tower Hamlets have adopted
a plan which we should wish to see followed by, every district
in the metropolis. They have formed themselves into a society
of watchfulness, in order that they may, in case of any sudden
emergency, have their forces concentrated, and be ready to
secure the election of Reform candidates. They meet every
week at the Red Lion Tavern, Whitechapel, at seven o'clock,
on Tuesday evenings ; and in addition to the above objects,
their strenuous exertions will be used to promote Triennial
Parliaments, Vote by Ballot, Universal Suffrage, and a proper
registration of the borough and county voters.

Very contradictory accounts are afloat with regard
to her Majesty's being enceinte. Some of the best-informed
persons doubt the truth of the report.

An American critic in characterising Sir Richard
Phillips's " Million of Facts," asserts that " the work is a
third eye, a third hand, a sixth sense, a new lobe to the brain."
BENNETT'S WANDERINGS IN NEW SOUTH
WALES &c.—Our readers will thank us for pointing out a
book of travels which carries one rapidly and pleasantly over a
wide diversity of sea and land ; presents many objects of natu-
ral history, and traits of social peculiarity, well calculated to
excite and gratify our curiosity. The mass of facts which Mr.
Bennett has brought together, concerning the ocean birds in
particular, is highly curious. He made good use of his stay
in New South Wales, and performed long and laborious jour-
neys to different parts of the Colony, exploring the manners of
all classes of its inhabitants, rational and irrational. The chase
of the kangaroo seems to have found great favour with Mr.
Bennett ; and he sketches some scenes which might have de-
served to be immortalized by the pencil of a Landseer.—
Quarterly Review, February, 1835.

The girl-sailor, who was on board the Belfast un-
der the extraordinary circumstances detailed, is a native of
the county of Donegal ; her real name is Macdonnell, but she
went by that of James Atkinson, her sweetheart.

The Carnival at Rome is already formally promul-
gated by public ordinance, and the Pope has presented 7,000
crowns to the principal theatre for the free admission of the
public.

The reprints of the works of Rousseau and Voltaire
have greatly increased within a few years. Independently of
separate publications of their principal productions, more than
one hundred thousand copies of their works complete have
been sent into circulation in the course of the last ten or a
dozen years.

Washington Irving, who has finally left England
for his native country, has recently made a tour on the prairies,
which have never yet been described, or much visited by Eng-
lish people.
JUNIUS AND THE PRESENT MINISTRY.-The
sulijoined quotation, from Junius's letter to George the 3d.,
is so applicable to the present times, that it may not be unin-
teresting to those who regard that eloquent writer as an au-
thority on great political questions :—" Is it possible for you
to place any confidence in men who, before they are faithful to
you, must renounce every opinion, and betray every principle,
both in church and state, which they inherit from their an-
cestors, and are confirmed in by their education. Whose num-
bers are so inconsiderable that they have been obliged to give
up the principles and language which distinguish them as a
party, and to fight under the banners of their enemies ?
Their zeal begins with hypocrisy, and must conclude in
treachery. At first they deceive—at last they betray."

This morning the East India Company's quarterly
sale of saltpetre took place, consisting- of LOO tons • refraction
31, 4, and 4/ per cwt., sold at 263., 265. 6d., and 275. per
cwt. ; 10- tons, not refracted, fetched 19s. per cwt. The
whole went off with great animation.

ANCIENT REMAlNS.—Thursday last, as a num-
ber of workmen were digging on the right hand side of Bark-
by-lane, in this town, and lately laid out for building, about
three or four feet below the surface of the earth, they turned
up several perfect skulls, besides various other bones connected
with the human frame. The extraordinary size of the leg
bones plainly indicated the party, when living, to have been a
stout and no doubt hardy race of men. Several sets of teeth
were also discovered in a perfect state, but how and at what
time they were buried, history furnishes no record.—Leices-
ter Herald.

Two Turkish officers of high rank have arrived in
London. The sole object of their journey is to see and be-
come acquainted with England. They are from the interior
of the Seraglio, and hold rank in the Imperial Guard. One
of them, Azmi Bey, is son of the late Minister of Foreign
Affairs. The Duke of Wellington. who received them with
great courtesy, regretted they had visited London at so dreary
and dark a season of the year. One of them answered, " Since
we have been in England, we have keen daily seeing new
lights, and have IN reason to complain of the darkness of your
atmosphere,"