The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

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LAII.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had a long interview yes-
terday with Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Secretary Goulburn.
Mr. John Gladstone has been appointed Under Secretary
of State for the Colonial Department. Mr. Gladstone had
an interview yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen, and after-
wards transacted business at the Colonial-office.
The Duke of Wellington attended yesterday at the Foreign-
office. His Grace was visited by Baron Ompteda, the Hano-
verian Minister ; M. de Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Mi.
nistcr ; and Count Seckendorf, the Prussia Charge d'Affaires.
A deputation from the City, including Mr. Alderman Vena-
bles, Mr. Alderman Harmer, and the City Remembrancer, had
an interview yesterday with Sir R. Peel, at the Treasury.
The Lord Chancellor visited Mr. Secretary Goulburn yes-
terday at the Home-office.
Lord Sandon, Mr. Hume, M. P., and Mr. S. Wortley, had
interviews yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen.
Earl Granville and the Right Hon. H. Ellis transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Antrobus, and a deputation from the Tea Trade, had
an interview yesterday with Sir Robert Peel.
Sir Henry Halford gave a grand dinner last evening at his
residence in Curzon-street. Amongst the company were the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, Mr. Secre-
tary Goulburn, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Right Hon. C. W.
Wynn, Lord Abinger, the Right Hon. Sir C. Tindal, and Sir
C. M. Sutton.

The party assembled at Lord Melbourne's seat,
Rocket-hall, is expected to separate to-day. The companion
of Sir John Hobhouse to the scat at the Noble ex-Premier, in
Herts, on Saturday, was Mr. Poulett Thomson. Lord John
Russell was to have been at the meeting, but his Lordship
could not leave Woburn, from indisposition. On dit : That
that the subject discussed by the distinguished party was the
course to be pursued by the Opposition on the meeting of Par-
liament.

Sir Henry Halford, as President of the College of
Physicians, gave his annual banquet last evening, at his resi-
dence in Curzon-street, which was attended by Sir Robert
Peel, the Right Hon. Mr. Goulburn, the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, the Bishop of London, Lord Lyndhurst, Sir Charles
Manners Sutton, Lord Abinger, and several other of the new
Reformers. The eating, drinking, and toasting being over,
the company adjourned to the rooms in Pall mall East to
assist in a conversazione, at which upwards of seven hundred
individuals were assembled. The Learned President gave a
lecture illustrative of the circumstances immediately attendant
upon the last moments of the leading members of the Royal
Family of Enteland, from the time of Henry VIII. to that of
the late lamented Duke of Gloucester. The object of Sir
Henry seemed to be to impress upon his auditors the fervent
attachment which had prevailed amongst the Princes of our
own generation to the Church of England ; and in this it was
admitted by all that he was erninentl; successful. The proof
of their attachment to, and consolation in, religion, was not,
however, by any means so convincing.
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THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ.—We are happy in
being authorised to remove the anxiety which our information
has occasioned in the friends and admirers of " the polished
and spirited Campbell." We understane, that he has been en-
joying with all a poet's ecstacy, the novelties of Algiers, and
the splendour of its neighbouring scenery, which he has fre-
quently explored in his rides among the hills amidst the mag-
nificence of the lofty palm and banana, and the luxuriance of
the vine, the fig-tree and the myrtle. He is recovered from
his illness, which was the effect of severe cold, and he returns
by way of Tunis, Sicily, Greece, Italy, to England, in the end
of the month of May.—Caledonian Mercury.
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On Wednesday last an important case was decided
by thy Mayor of Leeds, by which former decisions establishing
the right of Wesleyan itinerant and local preachers to exemp-
tion from turnpike tolls, in fulfilling their appointments, ac-
cording to the directions of their printed quarterly or half-
quarterly plans, were confirmed.—York Chronicle.
The Court of Directors of the East India Company
will give a sumptuous entertainment to Lord Heytesbury, the
newly-appointed Governor-General of India, to-morrow even-
ing, at the Albion Tavern. His Lordship, accompanied 133
his brother, Captain A'Court, R.N., has arrived at the Bur-
lington Hotel, from Heytesbury, Wiltshire, to make prepara-
tions for his departure for Calcutta. Lord W. Bentinck
cannot arrive in England till July, as he was not to leave
until March.

FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—A Queen's County
freeholder, named CasHn, residing at Ballyprophy, had his
house visited, by an armed party, on the eve of the polling,
and a notice posted, requiring him to vote for Lalor and Cas-
sidy, at the peril of his life. The party, the better to ratify
their threat, fired a bullet through his door.—Limerick Sen-
tinel.

By a decision lately come to at the Admiralty
would appear that the project for a steam communication with
India by the way of Egypt is about to be revived, with the es-
pecial support of the present Administration. Orders have
been given that a regular communication with Alexandria,
through the Mediterranean steam-packets, is to be kept, up.
A steam-vessel is to be in readiness at Malta for the arrival of
the mail from England, and start with the letters for Alexan-
dria, whence she will return immediately to Malta, bringing the
letters to go to England by the next packet. This arrange-
ment will be on foot on the Ist of March next, and will remove
one of the great impediments to the long talked of communi-
cation with India. It is expected that a Company will be
formed in Liverpool for this purpose.
In the Court-house of Trim on Thursday an affray
took place between Grattan and an attorney named Gibson, an
agent for Mr. Plunkett. Grattan told him he was a liar ;
Gibson replied and told Grattan he was a liar, whereupon
Grattan seized a hat, and violently struck Gibson in the face.
Gibson took up a hat and retaliated, by striking Grattan with
the hat also in the face. The High Sheriff here rose, and
told Mr. Grattan he would not allow him to commit a breach
of the peace or riot in his presence. Soon after order was
restored and the polling resumed. Mr. Gibson, it is said, has
lodged informations against Mr. Grattan for an assault.—
Dublin Evening Packet.
It has been determined, provided the Courts, &c. arc
ready for the reception of the Judges, that the ensuing Spring
Assizes for Lancashire shall be held at Liverpool. This ar-
rangement will doubtless be a very great accommodation to
the inhabitants of Liverpool, and is one which, we think, should
have been long ago effected ; but when we recollect that Li-
verpool is situated in the southern extremity of the county, and
when we bear in mind the immense expense which must be
incurred in bringing prisoners, witnesses, &c., from Lancaster
and the northern districts of the county, we cannot help sug-
gesting that the Assizes should be held at Lancaster also. By
adopting this course, we need hardly point out how great a
benefit would be conferred on suitors in general, and on the
county at large.
" TOUGH YARNS," by the " Old Sailor," Embel-
lished by the inimitable CRUIKSHANK.—" We congratulate the
lovers of wit, and the admirers of our British Tars, and the
literary commonwealth, with the possession of a volume, that
will tend, as did the songs of Dibdin, to foster that indomitable
spirit among our seamen, that has borne England triumphant
through a scene of dangers, over which no other nation could
have triumphed but England, nor England without her uncon-
querable navy."—Metropolitan Magazine.
ECONOMY.—The Bishop of Peterborough, during
the late suspension of the privilege of franking, caused an ad-
vertisement to be inserted in the Northampton Mercury, ad-
dressed to the clergy of his diocese, requesting them to ab-
stain from writing to him till the privilege was restored, except
in urgent cases ; and desiring them in such cases to write on a
single sheet, without enclosures.—Cambrian.
ANECDOTE OF JUDGE TAUNTON.—His Lord-
ship was very quick and smart at rapartee. One of the neatest
specimens of his talent in this department occurred at cham-
bers not long since. An attorney applied to enlarge a rule
for some purpose. It was granted. The opposing attorney
observed, that in the whole course of his experience he had
never heard of a rule being enlarged under such circumstances.
" I shall have the pleasure, then," said the Judge, " of enlarg-
ing the rule and your experience at the same time."
THE CHAPEAU DE PAILLE.—This chief-d'muvre
of Rubens was sold at Antwerp, in 1822, by public auction.
The occasion attracted crowds to Antwerp, and the inns were
so full that many persons could scarcely obtain lodgings. The
moderns, in this instance, surpassed the enthusiasm of the an-
cients. Never was such interest known to be before created
for a single picture. When it was brought forward by the
auctioneer, the bravos were loud and continued. The sale
did not proceed for an hour ; the biddings then commenced :
it was finally knocked down at 3,0001. It is now in the pos-
session of Sir Robert Peel.
The last census of Rome for 1834 gives the number
of parishes 54, 39 Bishops, 1,424 Priests, 1,857 men be-
longing to religious orders, 1,359 women of the same class,
598 seminarists or students in colleges, 32,522 families, 210
Protestants or Infidels without counting Jews, 108,553 fit for
communion, 41,460 unfit, 1,379 marriages, 4,454 baptisms,
3,480 deaths, 78,456 men, 71,560 women—in the whole
150,061 individuals. The increase of the last year over 1833
amounts to 96 persons ; in 1825 the population was only
138,738 souls; and in 1829, 144,541.
THE SPIRIT OF LITIGATION.—The spirit of li-
tigation was, perhaps, never carried to a greater extent than
in a cause between two eminent potters, Handley-green,
Staffordshire, for a sum of 2/. 9s. Id. After being in Chan-
cery for eleven years, it was put an end to by John Moreton
and Randal Wilbraham, Esqrs., to whom it was referred,
when they determined that the complainant filed his bill with-
out any cause, and that he was indebted to the defendant at
the same time the sum for which be had brought this action.
This they awarded him to pay, with one thousand guineas
costs.

MR. BULWER'S PELHAM.—The new and cheap
edition of this celebrated work, forming the commencement of
the improved collection of " Colburn's Modern Novelists," to
be published monthly, on the plan of the Waverley Novels, is
introduced by a remarkable preface, in which the author ex-
plains the objects which he proposed to himself in writing his
tale. "It struck me," be observes, " that it would be a new,
an useful, and perhaps a happy moral, to show in what manner
we might redeem and brighten the common-places of life, to
prove (what is really the fact) that the lessons of society do not
necessarily corrupt, and that we may be both men of the world,
and even, to a certain degree, men of pleasure, and yet do
something wiser, nobler, better."