The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-13 00:00:00

PRIVY COUNCIL.

A.Privy Council was held at two o'clock yesterday after-
noon in the Court of Exareqirei., at Westminster Hall, for
the purpose of nominating persons to fill the office of
Sheriff for the several Counties in England during the en-
suing year. .
At the time appointed the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER entered the Court, in his splendid robes of office,
followed by the Privy Councillors in their order of prece-
dence, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the LORD PRESIDENT of
the COUNCIL, the LORD PRIVY SEAL, the LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE Of ENGLAND, the MASTER of the MINT, the LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE of the COURT of COMMON PLEAS, and
the LORD CHIEF BARON of the EXCHEQUER. Their
Lordships took their seats on the same bench as the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who, in virtue of his office,
presided in the Court. The Judges appeared in their
state robes; the LORD PRESIDENT and the LORD PRIVY
SEAL were in full dress, the former wearing the insignia
of the Order of the Garter, the latter those of Knight Grand
Cross of the Bath. The puisne Judges of the Courts of
King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the Barons of the
Exchequer, in their state robes, followed the Privy Coun-
cillors into Court, and took their stations round the table,
!knead' their Lordships.
The formula of the customary oath, in Norman French,
having been read by an officer of the Court, and adminis
tered respectively to the Privy Councillors and Judges, the
business of the Council commenced, by nominating per-
sons for the county of Bedford. Mr. Secretary PEEL en-
tered the Court soon after the proceedings hid commenced :
the usual oath having been administered, the Right Hon.
Secretary took his seat on the Bench with the other Privy
Councillors. ' The proceedings were then resumed.
An officer of the Court read the names of the three per-
sons nominated on their Lordships' list last year for each
of the counties of England, one of the three being that of
the High Sheriff for the present year. The Judges in
whose district the different counties while on the circuit
were situate, rose as the counties were named in alpha-
betical order, and stated to their Lordships the result of
their inquiries while on the circuit as to the eligibility of
the persons nominated to serve the office; also the various
excuses which had been offered by numbers of the parties
as grounds of exemption in several instances, supporting
the alleged excuses' by the testimony of good authority as
valid. A great variety of causes were pleaded as grounds
of exemption : several that their circumstances were not
such as to enable them to support the expense,—ill state
of health in one instance incapacitating the individual from
attending to business for several days ; nervousness, from
bereavement in a family ; having no freehold property in
the county, merely leasehold. Most of the excuses were
ordered to be taken into further consideration at another
meeting. One cause of exemption, that of holding a com-
mission in the Militia, was allowed ; as was that of hold-
ing a commission on full pay in the First Life Guards ;
but that of being a Colonel in the army was over-ruled.
The plea of smallness of income was rejected on the sug-
gestion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, as being too indefinite.
Where no alteration was made in the list of last year,
the Judges added but one name to supply the deficiency of
the Sheriff of the present year, but whe❑ any or both of
the excuses were allowed, they nominated individuals,
making three for each county.
When the alterations had been completed, an officer of
the Court read the entire list, and the Court then adjourned
at half-past three o'clock.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE came
to town yesterday morning from their residenCe in Bushy-

park. The Princess SOPHIA visited their Royal Highnesses
at their residence at the King's Palace, St. J imes's ; the
Duchess and the Princess proceeded in the afternoon to

he King's Pala:e at Kensington, to pay a visit to the Du

chess of KENT. The Duke of CLARENCE subsequently

joined the party after leaving town, on his return to Bushy.
The Russian Ambassador, accompanied by
Count MaTucEwiTz, had a conference with the Earl of
ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Saxon
Charge d'Affaires had an interview with his Lordship yes-
terday.

Earl BATHURST arrived in town on Wednes
day night from his seat at Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

The Earl of ABERDEEN returned to town
yesterday morning from the seat of the Marquis of SA LIS..

BURY, at Hatfield, Herts.

The Marchioness de LOULE (her Royal
Highness Donna ANNA DE JESUS MARIA, Infanta of Por-
tugal), sister to his Majesty the Emperor of Br. Am., ar-
rived on the 241 instant, at Ostend, accompanied by the
Marquis de LOULE, her husband, and the Countess de
VILELA FL-011., who is going to- Terceira to htr inrsband:
The PortUgue,:e .-emigrants of Ostend had the honour of
being presented to her Royal Highness on the 3d inst.,
and were received by her with great attention and kindness.

The elevation of Mr. BOLLAND to the Bench
will, it is supposed, leave the COMMON SERJEANT with-
out any competitor for the Recordship of London.

A letter recently received in Bristol states that
the Rev. Mr. WOOLFE, the converted Jew, who married
Lady GEORGINA WALPOLE, on his arrival in Palestine
having commenced preaching the Gospel, some of the
Jews represented to the Paella that they had received
letters from their brethren at Amsterdam that the pious
missionary was come amongst them for the purpose of con-
verting the Jews and Mussulmans to Christianity. Upon
which it is added his Highness caused him to be arrested,
and the bastinado to be inflicted after the eastern fashion.

On the 28th ult. the Senatus Academicus of
the University and King's College, Aberdeen, unani-
mously re-elected the Right Hon. Viscount ARBUTHNOT
Lord Rector for the ensuing year ; and ROBERT W.
DUFF, Esq., of Feteresso, JAMES URQUHART, Esq., of
Meldrum, CHARLES RANNERMANN, Esq., of Crimonnoo-
gate, and JOHN GARROCIC, Esq., of Heathcot, Assessois
for the same period.

DOWTON, it is said, receives from Mr. DA..
VIDGE at the rate of SO/. per month, his present engage-
ment at the Coburg being limited to that period. Ame-
rican KEANE, alias the black Roscius, has obtained an en-
gagement at Covent Garden ; previously to playing there,
however, he 'makes his appearance for one nig t. at the
Haymarket, which is to be open a night for tire benefit of
HENDERSON, and some pantomimic performers of celebrity ;
KEANE plays Othello on the occasion.
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Miss COVENEY, since the termination of her
engagements in the North, has been performing also with
the most flattering applause at Birmingham. She com-
mences her engagement at Bath on the 15th of this month,
and opens as Mandane in Artaxerxes.

Mr. WILD, the late lessee of the West Lon-
don Theatre, has taken the Olympic Theatre, and opens
it, with RIME for his stage-manager, and the principal
part of his old corps drarnatique, on Monday week. Mr.
VINING, of the Haymarket ; Mrs. WATnErr, A. LEE, &c.,
are to try the West London as a speculation, and it will
open early in December, but not under their auspices—not
as a joint stock concern, as formerly stated in some of the
Papers.

•
A new piece, from the pen of Mrs. GRIM-.
sirowg, has beelfread• at the Surrey, of which green-room
gossip speaks highly ; that old favourite of the public, Mr.
RAYNER, is the hero. Another piece has also been turned
off the stocks for the Surrey ; it is written by the author
of that popular piece, Black-eyed Susan, and is expected
to have a run.
The following curious and ingenious calcula-
tion is given in a late German publication of the hundred
most populous cities in the world. These are Jeddo, in
Japan, 1,680,000 inhabitants ; Pekin, 1,500,000 ; Lon-
, don, 1,300,000 ; Hans Isehen, 1,100,000 ; Calcutta,
900,000 ; Madras, 817,000; Nankin, 800,000 ; Congo
"schen, 800,000 ; Paris, 717,000 ; Walt Chaos, 600,0001
Constantinople, 597,000 ; Benares, 530,000 ; Kio,
520,000 ; Su Ishen, 500,000 ; Houng lichen, 500,000,
&e. The fortieth in the list is Berlin, containing 193,000 ;
and the last Bristol, 87,000 ; Among the hundred cities,
two contains a million and a half, two upwards of a mil-
lion, nine from half a million to a million, twenty-•
three from 200,000 to 500,000, fifty-six from
100,000 to 200,000, and six from 87,000 to 100,000.
Of these one hundred cities fifty-eight are in Asia, and
thirty-two in Europe, of which four are in Germany, four
in France, five in Italy, eight in England, and three in
Spain ; the remaining ten are divided between Africa and
America.

PUN.—A punster, during
dinner,
How
aTmOosKt
ilnLe(LmvA,nient animal. The art of dis-
comfiting a punster is this :—Pretend to be deaf, and after
he has committed his pun, and just before he expects
people to begin to laugh at it, beg his pardon and request
him to repeat it again. After you have made him do this
three times, say, "0 ! this is a pun—l believe." I never
knew a punster venture a third exhibition after such treat-
ment. It requires a little nicety so as to make him repeat
it in proper time. If well done, the company will laugh
at the punster, and then he is ruined for ever.