The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-30 00:00:00

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THE KING.—On Wednesday Lord MANS-
FIELD had au audience of the KING, on which occasion his
Lordship presented some petitions. This morning the
Earl of ELDON had a long audience of his MAJESTY.
The object of the Noble and Learned Lord's intet view was
the presentation of petitions. It lasted from half-past
twelve till four o'clock. Mr. CHANTEY has placed a very
fine bust of his MAJESTY on the landing of the Royal en-
trance which leads to the corridor, and the corridor itself
has been lately adorned with a new bust of the Duke of
WELLINGTON. The Rev. Dr. BLOMBERG arrived at the
Castle to-night, and will officiate to-morrow in the King's
closet. The private band have orders to attend tomorrow
night. The KING remains in good health, but there
has been little company at the Castle in the course of the
week.—Windsor Express, saturday.
On Saturday morning, about half-past ten
o'clock, the Earl of ELDON arrived at the King's Palace,
'Windsor, from London. The Noble Earl notified to the
Page in waiting his request to have the honour of an
audience of his MAJESTY. His Lordship was admitted
into the presence of the KING soon after 12 o'clock, the
KING being particularly engaged at the time of the arrival
of the Noble Earl. This is the first interview the Noble
and Learned Lord has had of his MAJESTY since his re-
signation of the office of Loan CHANCELLOR. The
audience lasted near four hours, during which time the
Noble Earl presented to the KING sixty petitions against
the Bill in Parliament for removing civil disabilities from
the Roman Catholics. At twenty minutes past four o'clock
the Earl of ELDON left the King's Palace, on his return to
London.

Yesterday the Duke of CUMBERLAND and
he Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the Princess AUG CSTA.
His MAJESTY received despatches at his
Palace at Windsor, on Friday night, from the Duke of
WELLINGTON.
Mr. Secretary PEEL visited the Duke of
WELLINGTON on Saturday at the Treasury.
On Saturday night a King's messenger was
sent off from the Foreign Office to Naples.
The Lords of his Majesty's most. Honourable
Privy Council had a meeting at eleven o'clock on Saturday
morning at the Council Office, Whitehall. Those present
were, the Lord President of the Council, the Chief Justices
of England, Lord MANNERS, and Sir GEORGE ROSE.
The following cases of appeal were set down for hearing
before their Lordships :—" APTarvy and Co. v. Dawson,"
from Demerara ; " Advocate-General v. executors of Ame-
chand," from Bombay ; " Maitland v. Gerrard," from
Lower Canada; and "Barrett v. Barrett," from Jamaica.
Of these, the two first only were argued before their Lord-
ships. The consideration of these causes occupied their
Lordships till half-past four o'clock, when they adjourned.
NT. BERMUDEZ, the Spanish Minister, and
Baron Bueow, the Prussian Minister, had interviews with
the Earl of ABERDEEN on Saturday, at the Office of the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Earl of ELDON arrived this morning, at
half-past two, at the White Hart tavern, in his carriage
and four. The seats of the carriage were stuffed with pe-
titions, which, to judge from their weight (for they re-
quired a strong fellow to carry them up to the Castle),
must needs have been on tie Catholic question. His
Lordship, it is stated, had an appointment with his MA-
JESTY at eleven, but he was not admitted in the royal pre-
seence until an hour and half after that time, after which
he remained closetted with:the KING until four. His Lord-
ship appeared to be in very good health and remarkably
well pleased with the result of his visit. After leaving the
Castle-yard he proceeded on foot to his carriage at the
double-gates, followed by a number of the inhabitants,
who testified their respect by plaudits and waving of hats.
TVindsor Express of Saturday.
The KING is said to have been highly amused
at the Duke of WELLINGTON'S relation of the affair be-
tween himself and Lord WING HILSEA last Saturday
morning ; so much so, that on his Grace's concluding, his
MAJESTY indulged in a hearty laugh.__ Windsor Express.
The following conversation is stated, upon
pretty good authority, to have recently taken place between
the First Personage in the State and the greatest and 'Host
favoured of his Ministers :—" I was not aware, ARTHUR,
that MURRAY was so superior a speaker. I thought him
a gallant and a clever fellow ; but, until this same Catholic
Question, I did not know that lie was a finished orator."
The reply of the PREHIER was to the following effect :
" I feel great admiration, but no surprise, at Sir GEORGE'S
speech. I knew him to be one of the first, if not the very
first soldier in Europe; and I also knew, that if they could
only contrive to draw it out of him, he could speak quite as
well as he can fight." No wonder that the speech which
gave rise to such commentaries in such quarters should be
the subject of general conversation and eulogiutn.
We understand that the whole of the sum of
214,000/., which has been lately granted by a vote of the
House of Commons for Windsor Castle, was not intended
to be applied to the carrying on the works, but that a great
portion of it is reserved to pay for thefurniture and fitting-up
of the King's state apartments.—Windsor Express.
ELECTIONEERING HOAX.— During the
late contest for Newark, a person waited upon a physician
of great eminence in London, and informed him be had
been sent express to request his immediate attendance on
a great northern Peer, who had been taken seriously ill
on the road to London ; a chaise and four was ordered,
and the messenger saying lie must return with the physi-
cian they set off together at full speed. lOn reaching
Newark the messenger made an excuse for a temporary
absence, but not returning as expected the physician be-
came impatient, and on inquiry it was discovered his com-
panion had, in the interval, given his vote at the hustings,
and immediately quitted the town on a coach that was
passing through, leaving the indignant and astonished
M.D. to proceed north, or to return to London at his
leisure.

It is said that the gentlemen of the long robe
are likely to have something to do in the ensuing Term, in
a case which will excite some interest, na•nely, between
Mr. COOIILAN, proprietor of our theatre, and Mr. BONN,
the lessee of the Dublin theatre, and Mrs. WAYLETT, for
breach of engagement on the part of the latter, who agreed
to perform twelve nights in this city, but subsequently
broke it off. Miss FOOTE has left Mr. BUNK, the Dublin
lessee, at Cork, and complains that she, au unprotected
female, has been oppressed and harrassed by his agents, and
refused a benefit. —Limerick Chronicle.
Our eleven o'clock coach brought in as whim-
sical a lead this morning as ever paid inside fair. Among
the company were two or three Irish Catholics, headed by
Mr. O'GoE3tAN, the " Liberator," who sat cheek-by-
jowl by the Rev. Mr. TURNER, who is well known for
his staunch Anti-Catholic principles. Upon the coach
getting .‘ off the stones," the Irish orator and the Rev.
Divine happened very naturally to light upon the one
question which is generally represented as possessing such
universally absorbent properties, and which, in this in-
stance, engrossed the attention of the company until their
arrival in Windsor. We understand the question was
handsomely debated, eliciting unusual powers of reasoning
on both sides, and that the gentlemen parted with a
mutual good opinion of each other's sound sense and mo•
deration. Mr. O'GoEstAri, after his arrival, had an in-
terview with the Marquis CONTNGIIAM at the Castle,
which lasted for nearly two hours. The orator and his
friends were afterwards escorted to the Castle-inn by
Mr. O'REILLY, where they partook of refreshments.—
lVindsor Express.

One of the Brunswick Papers, which piques
itself upon its obstinate resistance to truth, in whatever
shape truth can approach it, has called upon the Loan
MAYOR to resign his seat in Parliament, on the ground
that he had violated the promise which he had made to his
constituents at his election, not to vote in favour of the
Catholics. Now it happens, unfortunately for this invi-
tation, that the Loan MAYOR made no promise whatever
upon that occasion, as the proceedings at the hustings will
testify. It will he remembered, that Alderman Woon
distinctly pointed out to the Livery that Alderman T7IO3IV-
SON had given no pledge of the sort. But the Brunswick
print knew better than Alderman Woon, or the electors,
or the LORD MAYOR himself, each and all of whom are
aware that no such promise was mark. It can scarcely be
necessary to mention, that the advice which accompanied
the mis-statement is not likely to be attended to, under all
the circumstances.

NATURAL HISTORY.—Last week, a hen
belonging to Mr. W. Lucns, Bridge of Allan, near Fal-
kirk, laid an egg, which having been slightly boiled, and
served to breakfast, was bound to contain a common white
pea, quite sound and uninjured. The ingenuous disco_
veer of this ovarial pea being anxious to ascertain whether
it might not still retain its vegetating power—set it in the
garden, and was agreebly surprised on finding that the
genial influence of the spring weather had actually induced
a healthy shoot to spring forward, seemingly quickened
from the novel transit it bad undergone.—Scotsman.

CATHOLIC QUESTION.

(From No. I, of the Aberdeen Observer.)
The concessions to the Catholics are not propo-
sed on account of any prediliction for their religion,
but with a view of terminating those unhappy dis-
sensions which have so long prevailed in Ireland ;
and whatever difference of opinion may exist as to
the policy of the ►neasure, the design must be ad-
mitted to be laudable. It is, on the other hand,
not opposed, at least, by the intelligent part of the
community,because it is either consistent with justice
or Christianity to impose civil disabilities on account
of religious opinions, but from the dread, that, if
equal rights were granted to the Catholics, they
would, by the industry and cunning of their
priests, re-establish their religion, and act the
same persecuting part as their ancestors. It is as-
serted, that their principles are unchanged, and that
they will never be satisfied until they obtain pos-
session of the church-lands, which they consider
were unjustly wrested from them at the Reformation.
Now, supposing that these are the wishes of the Ca-
tholics, the question, and the only question, worth dis-
cussing is, will the proposed measure have the effect of
making their system the national religion of this
country ? When the Catholics had the ascendancy
they could not preserve it, and how an insignificant
minority will obtain possession of power does not
very clearly appear. Protestants term the Catholic
religion idolatrous, and maintain that its doctrines
and practices are contradictory to common sense ;
from such a system of religion, then, what is there
to dread ? By the light derived from the transla-
tion of the Scriptures, the unjust pretensions, and
domineering spirit of the Catholic religion were
made visible, and, by the force of truth, it was
overthrown by Protestants, amidst persecution, and
under the most unpromising circumstances. The
same causes, therefore, which operated to overturn
that system of religion, will, it is presumed, for ever
prevent it from regaining the ascendancy in this
country. It is exceedingly injudicious to admit,
that granting the Catholics equal rights will
subvert the Protestant religion; for it is a
tacit admission, that it cannot stand upon its own
merits, if unsupported by exclusive privileges.—
Great alarms about the subversion of each of the Na-
tional Churches in this Island, were expressed at
the union of England and Scotland. The Presby-
terians were opposed to the Union, from the appa-
rently well-founded dread, that the hierarchy of
England would be extended to Scotland, to the de-
struction of their religious establishment ; while the
Episcopalians, on their part, considered that their
church would be subverted by the sixteen Presbv-
teriau Peers and the forty-five Members of the
House of Commons about to be introduced into
Parliament. These fears have passed away, and, as
respected Scotland, they were certai►►ly more natural
than the alarms expressed on the present occasion.
The inhabitants of this part of the country have a
religious establishment of which they have reason to
be proud ; and therefore it is not to be wondered at
that they should be jealous of any measure which
they may honestly believe tends to its subversion

It would be found, however, that if any attempt
were made by " Italian priests to tithe and toll in
our dominions," that all parties would unite, and
with the undaunted spirit of their forefathers, suc-
cessfully resist such an encroachment on their righis
arid privileges.