The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-01 00:00:00

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had aco

ference with Viscount GODERICH on Thursday evening•
Viscount PALMERSTON and Sir JANZS
SCARLETT, the Attorney-General, visited Viscount D'l°
LET yesterday, at the Foreign Office ; the Marquis de FlAv
MELLA, the Portuguese Ambassador, had a conference vvia'
the Noble Viscount.

The Earl of CARLISLE visited the Marqo
of LANSDOWNE yesterday at the Home offic.

ST. JAMES'S PARK.—This morniug a le-
markably large silver, or Thames eel, was observed in al
shallow water on the north side of the canal, and niter,
considerable scrambling, was captured by one of the ell
cavators ; the fish which weighed between seven and sigh:
pounds, was immediately purchased by a gentleman prese°4
for five shillings, the fortunate captor seeming well pieta'''.
with the transfer.

At Galway Assizes, last week, the case e
breach of promise of marriage, in which Miss Ann Doyle'
of Galway, was plaintiff, and Mr. Hugh Clarke,
Loughrea, was defendant, came before a crowded Coltt,
and Jury. Damages laid at 5,000/. The lady is of *
respectable family and of considerable personal attraetioll.
—the fickle suitor, wealthy, but beyond the meridian e'
life. The Jury marked their displeasure of his bad taste,
and wept o 6 honour, by a verdict of 1,000/. and costs.
Mr. O'Connell led for the plaintiff, and Mr. North, M. r•
for defendant.— Tipperary Pres Press.

PRESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH.---At the
monthly meeting yesterday, there was little business o',
importance. Some conversation took place on the sub'
jest of the Presbytery's resolution to take under examine'
tion at their meetings in September and October, such
students within their bounds as intended to enrol than'
selves for the first time at Divinity Hall. The Moderato''
and Clerk were instructed to frame a notice of this resole'
tion to be read from the pulpits within the Presbyter,'
It was intimated from the Committee to whom the applies'
tion of the Scotch Church at Nassau for a pastor had beef'
referred, that although they had made some progress the,
were not yet ready to name a proper person to be seat out'
—Caledonian Mercury.
IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING.—TuesdaY,
a public Meeting of Delegates from all the various bodies
of Procurators in the Inferior Courts of Scotland, was held
in the Waterloo Rooms, to take into consideration the di{
ferent tables of fees for Procurators, Sheriff and BUrgh
Clerks, &c. recommended by the Cotnmission appointed
under the authority of the Act 6th of the King, and sub-
mitted to the Court of Session, for its sanction. John Grays
Esq. solicitor-at-law, Hanover-street, Edinburgh, was ap-
pointed Preses to the meeting ; and Alexander Brown, Esq'
solicitor-at-law, Bank-greet, was chosen Clerk. The whole
day was devoted by the meeting to the consideration of the
table of fees for Procurators,recommended by the Com mission •
The meeting did not sit down to dinner till eight o'clock.
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Clerks' fees. This caused an animated conversation, ire
the course of which all the speakers deprecated any rise in
those fees, and urged, as a general principle, that Sheriff
Clerks should be paid by fixed salaries and not by fees.---•
The Chairman was of opinion that the same mode of
ascertaining the proper amount of salary as was followed
with respect to the Admiralty and Commissary Clerks of
Edinburgh should be adopted by the Commissioners in
fixing the Sheriff Clerks' salaries. It being admitted, ag
expedient, that such gentlemen as had purchased their
offices should be permitted to exact fees during their in-
cumbency, but that future Clerks should be paid by a fixed
salary.— Caledonian Mercury. s

PROFESSOR H.—A certain Professor (not a
hundred miles from Aberdeen) is not more remarkable for
his writings on political economy, than for his frequent
total unconsciousness of what passes before him. His ab-
sence of mind is indeed so great, that his excellent spouse
once wagered that she would accost him in the street, in-
quire after the health of herself and family, and that be
would not recognise her. This actually was the fact. This
erudite lunariam was taking a solitary walk by the banks
of the canal in the neighbourhood of the city. Immersed
in cogitations far above this dirty planet, in he marches
into the canal, and had advanced within a yard of tha
centre, where he must inevitably have been drowned,
when an honest woman, washing clothes beh:ad him,
bawled out Come oot, come oot, fule body, or yell be
droon't." These warning sounds invading the tympanumof the professorial ear, had the effect of making him turn
right about, when he forthwith came to dry land. The
good woman naturally concluding him to be an idiot, re-
connoitred the bewildered sage with an air of great sym-
pathy and superiority, saying, " Puir body. ! atweel they
hae muckle to answer for that lets ye gaug yere lane."--•
Literary Gazette.

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