The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-15 00:00:00

IN NAVAL UNIFORMS.

Viscount INGESTRIE, Sir THOMAS COCHRANE, Captain
DUFF, Sir E. NAGLE, Captain VASSAL, Sir WILLIAM
BALL, Hon. Captain ANIOW, Sirl'uLTExEY BIALeoLIt.

IN COURT DRESSES.

Earl of WINCIIILSEA, Sir JAMES MACGREGOR, Sir
WM. GRAHAM, Lord BAGOT.
Several of the Heads of Clans were absent, and others
were out of the Highland habit.
Laurel leaves, the woodbine, and oak, were worn;
golden wheat ears; and particularly branches of oats, em-
blematical of the food of the hardy Highlanders. A vast
number of massive gold and silver ornaments formed the
bordering of the dresses, and particularly those worn by
Turkish Suvra was, of whom there were many, but we
could not procure their names. As usual, there were
many attempts to gain admittance in plain habits, but the
Ladies were inexorable. The rooms were inconveniently
hot, and the crowds after midnight put an end to the
dancing.
The Assembly broke up at four o'clock.

DALT/11-I. A NE THEATRE.—SHAKSPEA RE S
Comedy of the " Taming of the Shrew," was revived last
night at this theatre, fur the first time, we believe, for fifty
years. Miss AvTON performed the past of ththerine,
with much spirit awl judgment. BaAIIAM was tame in
Hortensio. The music was indifferently good, with a
pleasant touch of drowsiness about it.
TEST AND CORPORATION ACTS.---The
Rev. ROWLAND HILL, in the course of his sermon on
Sunday last, took occasion to allude to the repeal of this
Act ; he compared the present day of toleration with the
time of Many, when the fires were kindled in Smithfield,
and, " blessed GOD that he had lived to see the repeal of
this abominable Act, which required you to take an oath
that you had received the Sacrament before you could hold
any worldly office," and, in a most emphatic manner, ex-
claimed "and with the almost unanimous consent of the
Bench of Bishops! Goo bless their Lordships, and may
they have more and more grace given them, to enlarge their
hearts still further, and may they be enabled to work out
their own salvation with fear and trembling !" and, raising
his voice still higher, continued—" bless the Old Gentle-
men ! I wish they ;nay preach themselves to death ! !
.—it is one of the most glorious deaths they can die, whilst
engaged in the work of their Lord and Master." The
writer was present, and heard the Rev. Row Lawn HILL
last evening; he is between eighty and ninety, but has
faculties as good 14'4 ever, and almost as vigorous in me-
mory.

SMALL NOTE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Mr. Editor, SUNDERLAND, MAY 10.
I herewith transmit you the copy of a petition to the
legislature, on a subject which titiqUeetionahly engages
very great attention in the nortnetti counties of Englandi
at present ; I mean the small note currency.
Situated as this country is, I hesitate not to say, it will
be a ruinous measure to prevent the issue of one pound
notes, south of the Tweed, while the community on the
northern side are permitted to retain that circUlation..—
Why, I ask, is a decided advantage to be given to Scotland
SCotland is an integral part of Great Britain, and nothing
mire. it would seem to amount to the utmost obliquity in
reasoning, td say, that leo attention was dire to the Welfare
of ten millions of Englishmen, than to two of Scotsmen.
Though we " Southrons" cannot enlist the redoubtable
author of " Waverley" in our cause, common sense, and
what it; due to the commercial peace of the country, shoUld
influence Ministers to act at leati with fairtiesi oti the Pre
sent occasion. But that cannot be, if the Scotch mer-
chants and manufacturers are to escape that change in
price by means of an unfettered circulation, which is sure
to devolve upon us less-favoured Britons, who have to
support an exclusive gold currency. His Majesty's Go-
vernment should look to this in time; for there certainly
never was a greater anomaly in political economy than to
have a gold currency in one part of the kingdom, and a
paper currency in another.
The highest praise is due to the He* Member for
Northumberland, (Mr. Bell) for the truly luminous and
masterly manner in which he delivered his sentiments in
the House last Monday evening, on this very interesting
question. He said—and be said truly, " that it was not
in the coal trade alone that a paper circulation of a small
denomination was necessary—the lead mines the iron
works and glass works of Northumberland, (etiarn of
Durham, it may be added,) could scarcely be carried on
without it. Believing, as he did most sincerely, that the
suppression of the one pound notes would cause serious
difficulties to the commercial world—that it would paralyze
the energies of the former and the merchant—that it would
deprive them of the means of fair and honourable specula-
tion, he trusted his Majesty's Government would think it
right to attend to the warning voice of practical and ex-
perienced men like the petitioners, (alluding to the petition
from the Chamber of Commerce, Newcastle, deprecating
the withdrawal of the one pound notes), and would be
induced to forego a measure fraught with so much evil."
If I have quoted somewhat freely from Mr. Bell's speech.

I have done so because the Honourable Member has ac-
quitted himself in the most able and statesman-like man-
ner upon the occasion alluded to; and I would strongly
recommend to his Majesty's Ministers, to re-consider
matters before they make up their minds to confer a boon
upon our Northern neighbours, which they seen► disposed
to deny to the more important part of the empire.

(COPY.)

TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED,

The Petition of the undersigned Merchants, Traders, and
other Inhabitants of Sunderland, Bishopwearmeuth, and
Monkwearmoutb, in the Ceunty of Durham, and their
Vicinity,
HUMBLY SHEWETH,

That by an Act of Parliament passed in the Session of
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the period for
the circulation of promissory Rotes, payable to bearer, under
the value of five pounds, will expire on the fifth of April,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
That a very large proportion of the circulating medium
in these towns and neighbourhood consists of a currency
of local one pound notes, which is attended with con-
siderable advantage to the public.
That your Petitioners admit, that previous to a check
being placed on country bankers by their being obliged to
pay their notes on demand in metallic currency, a strong
temptation was held out to an excess in the issue of paper
of that description ; yet your Petitioners, in justice to the
bankers of the northern counties, are bound to declare, that
at no time has the issue of bank notes in this district
exceeded what the nature of the trade rendered absolutely
necessary.
That your Petitioners having experienced the greatest
facility in carrying on trade through the medium of one
pound notes, feel themselves called on humbly to express to
your Honourable House, their alarm at the consequences
of their suppression, and to deplore any change in the cir-
culation; being fully impressed with the conviction, that
without such assistance it would be extremely difficult, if
not impossible, to effect the payment of wages, and other
smaller interchanges of trade.

That besides the inconveniences which must be felt by
the retail traders from a suppression of the one pound
notes, your Petitioners beg leave to point out the difficulties
which would arise in the payment of wages to the seamen
and keelmen, but more especially to the miners and others
employed in the various extensive collieries and manufac-
tories on the river Wear, in which concerns the wages arc
paid Weekly, or once a fortnight, in sums from one pound
to two pounds, or thereabouts; and some individuals pay
not less than from four thousand pounds to five thousand
pounds in a fortnight. The consequence of which is,
that a very considerable portion of the paper circulating in
the district consists of local one pound notes.
That the great distance of your petitioners from London
renders the transmission of gold extremely inconvenient
and expensive, besides being attended with considerable
risk ; and your Petitioners humbly submit, that it would
be a harsh and unmerited restriction upon their trade, to
be deprived of the benefits of a local circulating medium,
which affords them so great facilities of commerce, when
in Scotland, only seventy miles distant, no such restriction
exists.

That so long as gold can be demanded for the paper
currency, your Petitioners feel no apprehension from an
over issue of one pound notes, being convinced that the
circulation of small notes affords the greatest facility to
commerce, and the suppression of them would cripple
their trade, and be highly detrimental to their interest and
that of the public.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your
Honourable House will be pleased to take the premises
into your serious consideration, and repeal the Act of Par-
liament which limits the circulation of notes under the value
of five pounds to the fifth of April, 1829.
And your Petitioners will ever pray. &c.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE gave
an elegant supper on Tuesday night to the same Royal and
distinguished party who accompanied their Royal High-
nesses in their visit to Astley's Amphitheatre, on their re-
turn from that theatre. There were also► present the Earl
and Countess of CASSIUS, Sir JoHN, Lady, and Miss
GORE; Mr. KENNEDY, &C.

Prince GEORGE of Cumlaerland, attended
by Sir GEORGE QUENTIN, visited the Cavalry Riding
Establishment in St. John's-wood yesterday. Col. TAYLOR,
the Commanding Officer, caused the troops to perform a
variety of evolutions before the Prince.

The students of the University of St. Andrews
have presented the Rev. Dr. CHALMERS with a copy of
WaLeoN's " Polyglott Bible," and CASTELL'S " Ileptaglott
Lexicon," in testimony of their admiration of Dr. CHAL-
MERS'S talents, and cf their gratitude fur the zeal with
which he has laboured to promote their improvement.
It is understood that the Protestant Dissen-
ters intend to commemorate the successful issue of their
late application to Parliament, by a Public Dinner on an ex-
tensive
ofdse' scale, at which they hope to be favoured with the
companyheir Friends in both Houses of Parliament,
through whose
effective exertions and support this great
national m
accomplished.
We
have ensureg hasat been
pleasure in quoting the following
r e
from the Times, with the sentiments of which we cordially
agree. None is more deserving of that public support, which
we trust he will receive, than Mr. ERERS:-..." We have heard,
accidentally,
of an intended benefit at the King's Theatre,
o be given
to Mr. Eaxas, the late manager, Mr. EBERS
t having ruined himself by the perilous enterprise of con-
ducting the Opera, deserves something more than mere ex-
pressions of regret for his losses. Pie took the Opera when
nobody else would take it—when it was, in fact, shut
np for want of a manager. Ile conducted it for seven
yeas, and whatever imperfections may be charged on his
management, the fault of illiberality cannot be imputed to
him. For this he deserves well of the public—of the
the lovers of the opera, for Opening the Theatre, when, had
he had not done so, it might have remained shut until the
lawyers had eaten the doors off the hinges—of the owners
of the private boxes, then held on lease, whose property
would otherwise have been not worth a farthing. A
good deal has been from time to time said—more, indeed,
than we believe is at all well-founded—of the proneness
of those who take pleasure in the arts to disregard the
former ministrants to their tastes when no longer capable
of catering to them. The experiment of Mr. EBERS'S be-
nefit, if made, will at least afford an opportunity of re-
butting this common-place : we should, indeed, be sorry
to find it also a truism. If this measure is to be proceeded
in, we say let it be done quickly, and do not let an osten-
sible benefit be made a merely nominal one by being post-
poned to the fag-end of the season. Do it while the town
is full, and it may be done to purpose, or not at all."