The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-25 00:00:00

CHANGES.

The Duke of Bedford, from his house in St. James's-square,
for his seat, Woburn Abbey ; the Earl and Countess of Bective
and family, from Mivart's Hotel; the Hon. Bertie Percy and
family, froin ditto, for the North ; Thomas Lister Parker, from
ditto, for Oxford; the Hon and Rev. E. S. Capel, from ditto, for
Kent ; the Hon. William Keith, from ditto, for Edinburgh ;
Lieutenant• Colonel D'Este, from ditto ; Captain and Mrs. Ves_
terme, from the Royal Hotel, for Brighton ; Messrs. Salor and
Lynch, from ditto, fOr Ireland ; Colonel Downinan, (rain Fen-
ton's Hotel, St. James's-street, on a tour; William Holmes,
Esq. from ditto, for Brighton ; Miss Dulaney, from the Berncrs
Hotel, for Brighton; Dr. Yates and Mrs. Yates, from ditto, for
Brighton ; Le Chevalier d'Almeida, from Marshal Thompson's
Hotel ; Mr. and Mrs. Redhead, from Nottingham-place, for
Norfolk • Mrs. General Skinner, from Chester field-street, May.
fair, to Richmond.

His Majesty will hold a Court this day at
Windsor.

Summonses were issued on Monday evening
by desire of Mr. Secretary Peel, for the holding of a Cabi-
net Council yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street. A quarter before two o'clock was the time
named for the meeting of the Council, but the Ministers
had not assembled till past two o'clock. Those present
were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, Earls
Bathurst and Aberdeen, Lord Ellenborougb, Mr. Secretary
Peel, Sir George Murray, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, and Mr. Herries. The Solicitor_
General, the King's Advocate-General, and the Solicitor-
General for Ireland, were in attendance in the office dur-
ing the sitting of the Cabinet. The Ministers concluded
their sitting about half-past four. The Council, it was
understood, would have been held on Monday, had not the
engagements of some of the Ministers prevented their being
present on that day.

A meeting of the Commissioners for the re-
duction of the National Debt was held yesterday at the
Treasury. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the
Bank of England and the Chuntellor of the Exchequer at-
tended. Mr. Highatn, the Secretary to the Commissioners,
was also present.

Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador,
had a conference with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at
the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Zr. Huskisson had an interview (by appoint-
ment) with Sir George Murray yesterd4y, at the Colonial-
office, Downing-street, which lasted for an hour and a half.

A deputation from the silk-manufacturers of
London, Macclesfield, and some parts of Cheshire, attended
at the office of the Board of Trade at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, for the, purpose of having a conference with
Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, the President of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Fitzgerald, however, having to attend a Cabinet Coun-
cil about that time, the conference did not take place.
READING CoAcHEs.—Mr. Hone's Read-
ing coach is engaged from London, through Reading, to
Oxford. Gentlemen intending to support Mr. Peel, and
wishing a conveyance by that line of road, are requested to
apply at the Committee Room.

In the summer of 1798, when the King's
troops, after successive discotnfitures, were wholly driven
out of the county of Wexford, and the insurgent armies
had military possession of the country during a month, not
a single Protestant house of worship was destroyed. Be-
fore the close of the subsequent winter, the Orangemen
had burned every Catholic chapel in the district, save that
of the town of Wexford.—Dublin Evening Post.

The Essex Assizes commence On Monday,
the 9th of March, at Chelmsford, before the Lord Chief
Baron and Mr. Baron Garr ow.—Suffolk Assizes on Friday,
April 2, before Lord Tenterden and Mr. Baron Vaughan.
—Colchester Courier.

In the library at Lambeth Palace is the shell
of a land-tortoise, brought to that place about the year
1623, which lived in the year 1730, when it was killed
by the inclemency of the weather ; a labourer in the garden
having, for a trifling wager, dug it up from its winter re-
treat, and neglected to replace it, a frost, as is supposed,
killed it. Another tortoise was placed in the garden of
the Episcopal-house at Fulham, by Bishop Laud, then
Bishop of that See, in the year 1628 ; this died a natural
death, anon 1753.4. What were the ages of these tor-
toises when placed in the gardens is not known.

IMPORTED.
Same pc--
This riod last
year. year.
18'29

Bags, &c. Bags, &c.
Liverpool 123,829 71,046
London 8m3.3 3,526
Glasgow 3,665 6,280
Total exported in 1820
Same pet iod 1928

EXTORTED.
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'Previous-
ly this
Tear.
Bags, &c.

6,0-29.
6,556.

Bags, &c.
3,739
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147

The venerable Bishop of Salisbury has taken
up hit residence at Rockstowne-house, Southampton.
It is stated that any Russian subject may ad-
dress his Sovereign through the post-office, with an abso-
lute certainty of his letter reaching the hands of the Czar
himself.

In opening a new grave in South Leith
church-yard, a few days ago, a cannon-ball of considerable
size was dug up, much corroded from the time it had lain
in the ground. This, in all probability, would he dig.
charged from one of the English howitzers, at the siege of
Leith, during the Regency of Mary of Lorraine.—Ediu-
burgh Paper.

The discovery of the means of destroying
slugs, by strewing common salt upon them, belongs to Dr.
Rousseau, who having thrown a small quantity of that
substance on a plank in his garden, covered with those in-
sects, all that came in contact with the salt perished.—
London Magazine.

AN IRISII INIETIIOD OF RECOVERING
SMALL DEBTV. —A worthy son of Hibernia hooked him-
self for London, with ten pounds in his pocket. Being
asked the purport of his journey, he replied, that four years
ago a man owed him fire pounds there, and he thought it
high time to go and collect it.

A NEW METHOD OF RESTORING DROWNED
PERSONS TO ANIMATION.—A Highlander of the name of
Donald, belonging to Arran, was taken out of the sea some
time ago apparently- dead (being one of the crew of a fishing
boat upset near Bute), and carried into Port Bannatyne,
where the rubbing system was put in practice with great
vigour, the feet of the patient being placed close to a large
peat fire, kindled as usual in tke middle of the floor. At
length, every person who could he got became completely
tired of rubbing him, and it was generally agreed that life
'ens certainly extinct; but they thought it might be as
well to keep the body befme the fire for some time, that no
chance might be lost. There, accordingly, the poor man
lay—but as he was not in a condition to complain, the
people of the house never once adverted to the state of his
extremities, which had been all the while exposed to the
heat of the fire—until signs of animation began actually
to declare themselves, at the distance of two or three
hours. It was then discovered, to the great horror and
astonishment of all parties, that the man's feet were li-
terally roasted—and, however much the circumstances
may have contributed to his restoration, there can be no
doubt that he must be a cripple for life.— Glasgow Her.