The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-31 00:00:00

COU

LAR.

The Duke of Sussex returned to his residence in Kensing-
ton Palace, on Thursday, from Wales. His Royal Highness
paid a visit, yesterday afternoon, to the Duchess of Gloucester,
at Gloucester House.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove and
walked in Hyde Park, yesterday. morning, and in the after-
noon their Royal Highnesses again walked and drove in Hyde
Park.

The Princess Sophia Matilda visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester on Thursday. Her Royal Highness afterwards left
town for her residence on Blackheath.

Duke of Wellington, as Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports, presided at a meeting of the Commissioners of Dover
Harbour, at Apsley House, on Thursday, Mr. Jenkinson
( Deputy Warden), Sir Edward Knatchbull, M. P., Sir Henry
Oxenden, Sir John Brydges, Mr. Plumptre, M. P., and se-
veral other Commissioners were present. Mr. Walker and Mr.
Fordham, the Engineers, attended the meeting.
A Cabinet Cquncil was held yesteiday afternoon, at the
Foreign Office, which sat three hours in deliberation. It was
attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington,
and Sir Robert Peel, the Earls of Rosslyn, Aberdeen, and
De Grey, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Secretary Goulburn, Sir
E. Knatchbull, the Right Hons. C. W. Wynn, J. Herries,
and Alexander Baring.
Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes, had an interview with
the Earl of Aberdeen, yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household had an
interview with Sir R. Peel, in Downing-street.
. . .

General Alava, the Spanish Minister, transacted business
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town yesterday, from
Hatfield, Herts, the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury.
Earl Jersey arrived in town on Thursday night.

Earl de Grey's grand entertainment to day in St.
James's-square, is not a Cabinet dinner, though it is probable
some Members of the Administration will be present.

The Earl of Minto, the late Minister at the Court
of Berlin, with his Countess and family, are gone to Minto
Castle, his Lordship's seat in Roxburghshire. .The Noble
Earl's eldest son is pursuing his studies at Oxford University.
A public dinner was given to his Lordship's brother, the Hon.
Captain Elliot, a secretary to the Admiralty, on Tuesday last,
at Kelso, by his friends and supporters.
The Right Honourable the Ex-Judge Advocate
General (Mr. Cutlar Ferg,usson) is gone on a short conti-
nental tour.

Mr. Ellice is at present al; Naples, where he will
remain until after the meeting of Parliament.
The Lord President of the COuncil's (Earl of
Rosslyn) grand official banquet in Grosvenor-place. on occa-
sion of selecting the roll of Sheriffs, is fixed for Wednesday
next, preparatory to its being gazetted on Friday.
BELVOIR CASTLE.—EarI Jermyn and Lady Ca-
therine and Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond remain on a

visit to his Grace, but the other visitants, including Earl and
Countess Brownlow, Lord and Lady Manners, and Sir F.
Trench have left. Captain and Lady Emmeline Stuart
Wortley did not join the party this year ; they are at Brighton
for the winter. The Marquis of Granby is about to leave, to
resume his studies at Oxford, and subsequently his Lordship
will make the grand tour. The coming of age of the young
Marquis will be commemorated by great rejoicings on the

Noble Duke's estates next year.
'We have a file of Boston papers, which state that
Francis Ruez, the pirate, continued in a state of derangement,
had become very much emaciated, and kept the whole prison
awake by his incessant outcries. Mr. Cooledge, the Keeper,
had been slightly wounded by him whilst conveying some, ar-
ticles from his apartment, and the same afternoon he had
smashed to atoms the window-sash of his cell. The rest of

the pirates were greatly excited at his situation.
The Dukes of Hamilton and Sutherland have sent
in their adhesion to the present Ministry ; and all the Members
whom they can influence in the House of Commons, will also
support the Government. This puts an end to the expectations
of the Opposition, if they were ever seriously entertained, that
they would be able, successively, to oppose the election f Sir
Charles Manners Sutton as Speaker ; to carry an amendment
to the Address ; or to stop the supplies. Those were the
three measures which the Liberals have announced their inten-
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tion to propose as trials of strength : if they persist, on all w
they be most signally and triumphantly beaten. —York Chron.
The friends of John Humphery, Esq., and D. W.
Harvey, Esq., Representatives of the • Borough of Southwark
have determined to unite in a dinner on Tuesday, the 17th o
February, to celebrate the election of those two Reformers by
the borough of Southwark, as the first Members returned to
the ensuing Parliament. The dinner will be given at the
New London Bridge Tavern, at the Southwark side of Lon-
don Bridge, lately erected by Mr. Humphery at an immense
expense, the use of, which has been liberally given by that
gentleman for the purpose. The assembly room is capable of
accommodating four hundred persons at dinner. It will be
handsomely fitted up and lighted, at the expense of Mr. Hum-
phery, for the occasion. All the Metropolitan Members will
be invited, and it is, expected that this dinner, immediately
previous to the meeting of Parliament will have a good effect.
We have just learned that the large living in the gift
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, vacated by the sudden death
of Mr. Evelyn Sutton—St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet—
is to be given to a Mr. Moore, whose great qualification is, that
he is about to put one of Archdeacon Croft's daughters into
the Church, by making her his "spouse." Another candidate
is likewise in the field, a Mr. Salisbury, patronized by the great
Tory 'Squire Captain Cotton, and who is allowed by the con-
sistent and judicious Bishop of London to be non-resident,
from his living of St. Mary, Aldermanbury. We should like
to know if Mr. S. is competent to the duties of a large parish
like St. Peter's, how it is that for fourteen years his own
parishioners have not had the benefit of his services ? We
know that he is rich and independent ; consequently not on the
list of Bishop Blomfield's poorer brethren, who will soon find
a different measure meted to them. But another candidate is
the Rev. Dr. Masters, the present curate, who has increased
a congregation of forty to five hundred. But he is unfortu-
nately neither married, nor about to be marred, to a Bishop's
or an Archdeacon's daughter. The word " Destructive,"
which has recently obtained currency. is often misapplied. We
ask our renders who, in this and similar oases, are the Destrue-
fives ?—Morning Paper.
THE KING'S THEATRE —We understand that
this theatre will open towards the end of February, and that,
in addition to the talent already secured by Mr. Laporte, in-
cluding Mademoiselle Grisi, Madame Taglioni, Signor Rubini,
Monsieur Ivanoff, and Signor Lablache, other engagements
are pending with various eminent artists.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.—We are requested to state
that the following Works are now ready for delivery at the
various Booksellers in town and country,`viz. :-1. The cheap
and embellished edition of Mr. Bulwer's " Pelham," forming
the commencement of the new and select collection of " Col-
bilnl's Modern Novelists," publishing monthly. on the plan of
the Waverley Novels,-2. The lst.and 2d Parts (price Bs.
each) of the new and cheaper edition of Sir Jonah Barring-
ton's " Memoirs of Ireland," to be completed in six Parts,
with all the 40 Portraits and other embellishments of the ori-
ginal expensive edition.-3. The Bth Part, completing the
second volume of Mr. Burke's History of the Commoners of
Great Britain, a Companion to the Peerage and Baronetage,
with the Arms, and a portrait of' E. J. Littleton, Esq., M.P.
Thp And cheaper F4dition of the Life and Corres-
pondence of David Garrick, comprising upwards of 2,000
Letters from the most Eminent Persons of his time. Pub-
lished for Henry Colburn, by R. Bentley. Agents for Scot-
land, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh i for Ireland,
Mr. J. Cumming, Pnblin,
A doputatian at these Influential members of the
Tea Trade has been honoured by an interview with Sir Robert
Peel, on the subject of the mode of ascertaining the duty on
teas, and the mischievous effects occasioned by the present
scale of duties,
A l'sl Evv (JANDIDATE FOR MEDICAL HONOURS.
—A general practitioner, who, not being very particular how
he procures his patients, was lately in want of an errand-boy
to carry out his medicines, &e., and placed a placard in the
iYiliciow to that effect. A ni.an shortly afterwards made his
appearance, proposing his son to fill the vacant situation.
After a variety of questions had been answered satisfactorily,
the final one was put—" What wages do you expect?"—
" Why, Sir, I am not particular about that; as I should wish
his services to be considered an equivalent to his being taught
the business." His services were declined, Having the plea-.
sure of knowing 4 little of the being in question, we were not
surprised at-the father embracing such an opportunity, but
astonished at the refusal.—London Med. and Surgical Journal,
It is currently reported in political circles likoly to
be aware of the fact, that the immediate dispatch of Lord
Fitzroy Somerset on a mission, having for Its object the termi-
nation of the civil contest in hipain, has been finally and fully
resolved on. Among other propositions, it is said that an
annual grant of 150,000/. per annum will be offered to Don Car-
los, if he will waive his claim to the throne, with a reservation
in favour of his family, should the young Queen not leave
issue behind her.
1-g•P4x, PATTIOB.—Not long since, an eminent
lawyer, in the State of Ohio (North America), closed a pathe-
tic harangue to a jury in the following strain :—" And now
the shade of night had shrouded the earth in darkness;_ all
nature lay wrapt in solemn thought, when these defendant
ruffians came rushing like a mighty torrent from the hills
down to the abode of peace and happiness, broke open the
plaintiff's door, separated the weeping mother from the
screeching infant, and took away my client's rifles, gentlemen
of the jury, for which we charge only fifteen dollar.
SAFEGUARD AGAINST INFOIAMRS,—PenaI sta-
tops may ha necessary for the protection of, the revenue and
police, but we aro surprised at the numerous convictions daily
taking place at the public offices for the violation of the
Excise, Stamp, and Turnpike Laws ; espeeially as every one
engaged in the pursuit of either profit or pleasure might pro-
tect himself from the snares of the common informer by Pll.ll
curing so cheap a manual as the " Rook of Pe44s,t, Which
is an excellent dige4t of thp pgptiatau penalties to which the
-manufacturing; trading, and professional classes
are liable,
On Wednesday night, between cloven and twelve
o'clock, the following accident occurred to one of the carriage
horses of General Alava, the new Spanish Minister, residing
at No. 51, Portland-place :—lt appears the General's coach-
man, after setting down his master, on returning to the stablea\
in Queen Anne's-mews, Cavendish-square, with the carriage,
disengaged the horses from their harness, when one of them
icy
4i0,0 the other with such yi9lenco qi to lweAli 44, til.igik77.it
tiiip a o.eq sinc lithP4 gosst 4Act rtlleaS, Th°
coliplulAil liras O'hiiggd'te'put a period to the existence of the
suffering animal.