The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-07 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND NISCIRI.I.4NEOUS.

BRIGHTON, FEB. 6.---Yesterday a Cou'ricil was tieja
at the Pavilion. There were present the Earl .of Har-
rowby, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Melville, Mr. Se-
cretary Peel; and Mr. Buller (as Clerk of the Council),
all of whom arrived in the course of the afternoon.
Mr. Secretary Canning was not present at the Council,
owing-to his continued indisposition.
The Council remained for some time in deliberation,
and:then broke up. The whole of the Ministers who
were
.present had afterwards the honour of dining with
his MAJESTY in the grand banquetting room, which.
was splendidly lighted up on the occasion. The •
dinner party consisted of 24 persons in the whole.
The invited company present, the first of the season,
included the Prince and Princess Lieven, the Marquis.
Palmella, Lord and Lady Lovaine, Lord Dudley and
Ward, and Sir John and Lady Ann Beckett.
In the evening His MAJESTY'S private band was
in attendance in the music-loom. It_ perforMed a
variety of favourite airs before the KING and his dis-
tinguished guests.
The whole of the Ministers who came down to the •
Council yesterday, have returned this morning to Lon-
don. A crowd of persons assembled in Castle-square,
when the Duke of Wellington's carriage drew up at
the door of the Pavilion.

The KINb is in excellent health; and it is fully ex-
pected will remain here .till April, perhaps longer.
Mrs. Coutts is among the arrivals at Brighton.

The Duke of Cambridge, it is understood, will be
appointed Colonel-in-Chief of -the 60th Rifle Corps, vice the lat,t
Duke of York.

On Monday the Eail of Liverpool arrived in town
from Bath, we are happy to say ranch improved in health.

Lord Bloomfield, the English Ambassador to the
Court of Sweden, was expected to set out for London, on leave of
absence.

The King of Sweden was to set out on the 24th
ult. to open the Norwegian Storthing in person.

M. de Villele, up to the Ist January, had received.
during the year, no less than 14,000 visiting cards. Decaiges,,
even in his greatest prosperity, never received more than 6,000
in the same time.

A correspondent observes, that the account which
appeared in moat of the newspapers, stating that Sir Francis Bur-
dett was laid up at his country seat, with a severe attack of the
gout, must have been incorrect, for yesterday afternoon he was '
seen walking in the Bird-cage Walk, St. James's Park, SCOW...
pauied by a friend, and then appeared in good 'health, and looked
remarkably well.
The Ministers of the Secession Church, who con-
stitute the Presbytery of Donegal, have petitioned the Lords and.
Commons of the Imperial Parliament against further concession%
to the Roman Catholic Body.

A numerous meeting of the Clergy of the Metro-
polis assembled at London House, in St. James's-square, yester-
day morning, when an Address of Condolence to his Majesty, on
the death of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, was drawn
up and agreed to. It will be presented to his Majesty by the
Bishop of the Diocese.
Lady Carrington lies so dangerously ill at Lord
Carrington's town residence, Whitehall, as to afford 'very little
hopes of her recovery. Her Ladyship, however, is of very advanced
age, as she is now constantly attended' by the fourth of her tee "
daughters, Countess Stanhope,' who is upwards of 52 years of age. .
The Hecla, Capt. Parry, intended for a voyage of
discovery to Spitsbergen, is completely fitted. Several. velooi-
pedes are taken on board. When the Peruvians first, saw a
Spaniard on horseback, their consternation was excessive; .and -
this, no doubt will be the effect when the Esquimaux behold an -7 •
Englishman on a 'Vao'cipede.—/Ifaidstone Journal.
Two steam vessels, the Alban and Carron, of 300
tons each, have just been launched at Deptford ; makings six re-
cently completed there for Government service._._.
Journal.

A few days since a gentleman of Exeter killed,- in
the Exminster marshes, 15 snipes at one shot and upon the wing.
The 16th bird fell, but rose again.
LODGING'S TO LET.—Sollle wag,, in consequence
of the gaol of Westgate being without prisoners, last week wrote
on the door " Lodgings to Let."—Maidstone Journal.
The quantity of wild fowl seen at Elmley Ferry, in
the Isle of Sheppy, on Thursday last, was greater than 'has been
known for a number of years. A person with a short gun, shot
15 ducks and 11 teal..--21faicIstone Journal.'.
The King's Theatre hos just had the good fortune
to engage Vestris, the dancer, who, it will be recollected, figured
at Vauxhall last season ; his debut will take place immediately.
The Guildford Theatre is, we understand, to •be
opened next week, on which occasion Miss Foote is announced to
play several of her most popular characters.
It is said in the dramatic circles, that Mr:' Thomas
Moore's new comedy wilt not be produced at Covent•garder
Theatre until after Easter, and that Mr. Charles Kemble and Misr
Chester have each prominent characters in it.

Dr. Franklin, speaking of a friend of his, who had
been a Manchester dealer, said, " that he never sold a piece of
tape narrower than his own wind."
An honest Hibernian, whose bank pocket (to use
his own phrase) had stopped payment, was forced to the sad ne-
cessity of perambulating the streets of Edinburgh two nights to-
gether, for want of a few pence to pay his lodgings; when, acci-
dentally hearing a persort talk of the lying:.in hospital, he exclaim-
ed, " That's the place for 'me!' where is it, honey ? for I have
been lying out these two nights past."

One day, as his Majesty's ship Minden was running
down the coast of 3laham, in the East Indies, the gunner, who
was famous for lung words or jaw-breakers, as Jack would call
them, pointing at the termination of a range of mountains,. called
the Ghauts, asked the Master, if " That 'ere was the exteemiaa-

Ilion of the Grids?" Shortly afterwards one of the Mids was
repeating to his meesmates, in the gun-room, this specimen of old
Wadds's orthography, who overhearing the story, and the laugh
that followed it, began to suspect that he had been guilty .of some
blunder ; so he thrust his head out:of his cabin door with the follow-
ing explanation ; " I tell ye what is is, young Gentlemen ; this
here's all a zaygeration of Mr. —'s to work upon your risablk
facillities. I never said no such thing; said, Mr. M—.—....r,. says.
I, do the Greets exterminate here ?" Upon another eeeasion.,„
when some of the Mids were talking of the magnifying powers of
different telescopes, the gunner remarked, that be had once seen
the Ay-lights of Jupiter through a telescope of a hundred horse
power.

The speed with which criminal trials are expedited
in Turkey is universally allowed. The accusation, the defence,
the summing up, as the infliction of the penalty, are most
alarmingly laconic. In one of the late .conintotion* at Constan-
tinople, three Chiefs of the Janissaries were arrested and carried
before the Vizier, when the following dialogue took place
Yes; be has
aainddycoltOthfeedd you,
ns. ' " What motive then indueed you
. clothed you. ?"—!
pi;aa\id,V7liirtaentdnefoaettdisp,e of complaint have you against my Sovereign
to revolt ?"—" Dec:x*o he wishes to destroy the corps of the
Janissaries." " You must be strangled." And strangled they
were instantly.

On New Year's Day a man named Stratton, re-
siding in a village near Bath, applied to the pariill.:oflii.rr for re-
lief for his wife, who had been suddenly seiiol with typhus fever,
and which terminated her existence in a fete days. During the
following week, Stratton. repaired to Bath, and after three days'
close application, contrived to gain the 'affections of another fair
one. On his return he waited on the clerk of the parish, de-
frayed the expellees of his late wife's funeral, and paid the fees
fur the necessary preliminaries to bringing home his future wife.
ionndmamyspaansy r
with. Chapman,
M:.
Last Sunday the banns were published.
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driving in his horse and gig between Turnhain-green
Houn-
slow,Chapman, the hioor seordt took fright,
of
avoidr t,
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jumpedt!t a fu 0
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Whitehead,
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both his legs; he was taken up, and immet
unhurt,
and such was the violence of the fall, that histe
unfortunately
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George's Hospital, Mr. Whitehead escaped

• SPIRIT OF - THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 1 their wigs and gowns %"—This single question turned the
whole matter into ridicule—a burst of laughter was heard
A meeting took place at Carlisle the Ist instant, for ion all sides, and Mr. Sheil never opened his lips again
. _
considering the, expediency of a revision of the Corn about the melo-dramatic assembly, and • the costumes and
Laws. The room was full—the persons present consist-
i "order:l of allocation." So it was with the " steam inva-
ing almost exclusively of master manufacturers and their . son speech—ridicule had killed what a state prosecution
.e litigationorni
winch takes place carder the
distressed journeymen. As we give below the resolutions ;map
revive.—na Herald.
adopted-by the meeting on the specific subject for which I The excessive
it was celled, it will not be necessary to do more than : Poor Laws, is a proof that the laws are either very de-
state, that in the course of a discussion as animated as was ' fective in themselves, or very badly administered. We
consistent - with a pretty unanimous concurrence in the
,i are inclined to think that both propositions are partly true,
same opinions, upon the mischievous effect of the existing 1 and that the imperfections which we have from time to
Corn Laws,the usual and now well-known arguments were time pointed out in the system are greatly aggravated by
employed against it. The resolutions appear to furnish a 1 its mode of execution. A principal cause of the litigious
tolerable summary of the 'most urgent grounds for its abo- I spirit with which parishes squander the funds collected for
lition, although among them a certaid painful class of evi- I the relief of the poor upon those who work the ma-
deuce to the magnitude ,of the evil, which was presented ' chinery of justice, arises from the admission which Judges
by the meeting, itself, will not be discovered—namely, the have given to nice and technical points of pleading and
pallid and hunger-worn countenances of the wretched argument, where they ought to be more ready to regu-
weavers' and their families, who crowded the lower end late their decision according to the real merits of the case.
of the room—and who, it seems, were born but to starve The County Magistrates, naturally enough, imitate the
for the imagined benefit of some of their wealthier fellow- example of their superiors ; they favour objections of mere
creatures. A foolish and boisterous attenipt was made by form, in preference to doing substantial justice. The con-
e working weaves:, who addreeaed the Chair, to mix tip sequence is, that a great proportion of parochial appeals
the question of universal auffrage with that of a free trade heard at Quarter Sessions are disposed of without any
in corn. - This scion of the Jack Cade school interlarded decision on the merits at all. This causes the party that
his discourse With denunciations against men of large pro- has failed to come into Court again to have the merits
perty, and succeeded in carrying by dint of numbers a re- investigated, without which, the question cannot be set
solution for pegliamentary reform ; but as many respect- at rest. The expence at all times is great enough, even
able gent.l'enrien declared their unwillingness to sign a peti- where the cause is most speedily determined; but those
tion ethich touched on any subject beyond that for the decisions which decide nothing cause justice to be sold at
consideration of which the meeting had been called, it was a most exorbitant price. We' are not advocating an abo-
finally settled, that the two petition! should be separated, lition of legal forms—we know that justice cannot be
and each receive the signatures of those who approved it. satisfactorily administered without some paeliminary forms
The following are the resolutioas : , to give the judicial power a regular possession of the
" 1., That this meeting continues to hold the same opinion of case, and there must be .also certain regulations ap-
tlfe extreme impolicy of the present Corn Laws, which has been plicable to the conduct of it, for the purpose of pre-
expressed at public meetings in this city on former occasions; and is of opinion that the stagnation of trade, and the venting disorder and confusion; but what we object to
extreme distress
is, the little and absurd bigotry to mere technical points ;
aggravated, by the exclasion of foreign corn.
in the manufacturing districts, have been in part caused, and much
whichi makes formality the paramount consideration, and
'
"2. That the distress complained of by the agricultural inte- substance only secondary. This inversion of the rules of
Teat, is attributed by this meeting, in a- great measure, to the right reason, as well as sound justice, is too prevalent in
Inctuations occasioned by the existing corn laws; which have all the departments of our law, but the mischief which it
also been gradually undermining the commerce arul manufactures occasions in cases relative to the maintenance of the poor
of the ce*itry,
is a peculiar burden to the community. When England,
' .3.. That the effect of our exclusive laws has been to destroy indeed, was in her " high and palmy" state, with respect
ile. tonsiderahle demand for the manufactures of this city which to resources, this evil was not much felt, but now, encum-
'ekiated in the-United States of .America, and seriously to reduce bered as all the classes of the country are by enormous 1
it in bthei'quarters of the world.
taxation, which it is necessary to keep up to pay the in-
''' 4:that the regular admission of foreign grain into this king_ taxation,
of the Debt, the unnecessary increase of the Poor
dam under such regulations as may be equitable to all interests,
would be a gradual, but derided relief to the depressed trade of the . Rates is a matter of serious importance. It is full time
to bring the subject of the mode of administering the law
country.:
" 5. That by thus enabling other countries to exchange .the at Sessions, or parish appeals, before the Legislature, that
surplus produce oftheir industry fur that of our own, this country it may be simplified, and that the expensive subtleties and
world encourage a mutually beneficial intercourse with every formal objections on which cases of this nature are now so
country in the world, to the unspeakable benefit of commerce and frequently decided may not be allowed to exclude the
manufactures, advantageous to agriculture itself, and favourable to merits. We hope to see much of the curious jargon
the beat interests of mankind.
called special pleading cut away from the process of law in
6'. That petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded general. It would make the administration of justice
;Ilion the preceding resolutions, be forthwith prepared, and left for sitititures with the booksellers, till this day week, when they more certain, more cheap, and in every way more satisfac-
Shalt be forwarded to the Lord Lieutenant of the county-, and the
tory
public at large,
than it is at present. Nor
Mrembers of the City, for presentation."— Times. would- the to the
profession of he law lose 110 much by the
change as it is at present apprehended, fora great portion
It excited no little surprise, that a motion lately made of society now abandon their rights, rather than incur the
at the Middlesex Sessions, " to admit the public during expenses of seeking redress under a system which makes
the diseussions apOn the County business," should have the success of the best case uncertain, on account of the
been negatived by- an overwhelming majority. No argu- multiplicity of technical forms, in which the substance of
meats were died against it, that were worthy a moment's the pleadings must be enveloped, and a mistake in any of
"a:Onstiidertition ; and all the Members of the Bench, distill- which may close the doors of justice against the most de-
kiiitaed either for talent, liberal opinions, or who were in serving claimant. But as the vice and evil of this system
circumstances wholly superior to influence, supported it; in parochial cases are the most urgent, the reform ought
still, it was lost, upon a division, by an overwhelming ma- to begin with that branch of our civil jurisprudence, and
jority I To be sure, it may be a very convenient thing to we are convinced the beneficial consequences of the ex-
have a rental of five millions a year, subject to your taxa-
tion, without controul. What a field for profuse ex pertinent would soon induce enlightened legislators to
pendi- make this amendment of the practical dispensation of Ma-
ture, jobs, &c. &e. ?—all to come out of the Ceunty Rate, tice universal.—lbid.
without inquiry—ewithout any knowledge, on the part of
the taxed of-the necessity of the levy; or, indeed, of the Both Houses of Parliament re-assemble to-morrow. Of
fact of its having been made, until the Collector calls for the various Notices of Motions, and Orders, which stand
his money, and threatens a distress in case of denial! It in the Order-book of the house of Commons, that of Mr.
iias bccurred, that there must be something rotten some- Canning, for taking into consideration the Laws relating
avhere, to account for this extraordinary decision at this day : when, even his Majesty's Ministers, upon many im-
to the Importation of Foreign Corn, is, unquestionably,
portant points, are disposed to carry reforms into execs- the most important. This inquiry, which was to have
lion--a pa ph in a Morning Paper of Monday, the
taken place on Monday next, will be postponed, as our
ragra
subject of which is now under investigation, perhaps gives readers are already aware, till the Monday or Tuesday fol-
C clue to the whole—will it not give a hint to Mr. Peel;
lowing; probably in consequence of the present indispo-
Or, if not, will not some public-spirited Member of the sition lowing; Probably
the Right Honourable Secretary, which might
have rendered it unsafe for him, thus early, to undergo the
Muse Of Commons introduce a Bill to admit the public
mental awl bodily fatigue of such a debate, or rather series
opon these occasions, when their interests are so nearly
concerned, seeing in what hands they may chance to be of debates ; for, doubtless, the discussion will be extended
confided.-21forning Chronicle. through several evenings. We shall not indulge in any
conjectures as to what may be the precise measures con-
If it be really intended by the Irish Government to pro- templated by his Majesty's Ministers. For obvious rea-
smite Mr. Shia for his speech relative to the extrava- sons, they have carefully kept their own secret; nor do
;gam and guilty enterprises of Theobald Wolfe Tone, it we believe that any thing will be positively known, till
does net say much for the dignity or wisdom of that Go- the moment when the details are formally submitted
vertnnent- State prosecutions ought never to be resorted to to Parliament. We feel, in common with every one
but when they are absolutely necessary to maintain the who has thought, or written, or spoken, upon this sub-
peace of society and vindicate the security of the Crown ject, that it is one of extreme difficulty, not so much
against the dangerous excitements or seductive example I with respect to any abstract consideration of its true bear-
of daring and ambitious men. But how could danger to ings, as with regard to the conflicting interests of the
the Throne or State be apprehended from such a speech parties who are anxiously looking to its decision ; and
as the one in question. If it was Mr. Shiel's intention still more, their vehement prejudices and excited passions.
to excite the people to acts of treason, we do not know We look forward, with confidence, however, to the tran-
that he could have adopted a better way of defeating his quillizing result of the measures., about to be proposed.
own propose than by making that speech. A wilder They will have undergone the ;calm and mature con-
flourish of glittering verbiage and puerile declamation, suieration of Ministers; and when once before the coun-
never appeared on the records of Hiberno-Gallic eloquence. try, they will further undergo that practical scrutiny, blt seemed to us rather a burlesque upon a French invasion, within, and beyond, the walls of. Parliament, whichoth is
than any thing else. It was unnecessary for Mr. Shiel, best calculated to give them a wholesome and healing in-
after making that speech, to deny that he had any treason- fluence, when they come into full operation. Our distin-
tible designs ; we could easily believe him; and it would guished Home Secretary is silently and indefatigably pur-
be a less tax upon our credulity to adopt the opinion, suing his laborious but splendid career of reforming the
that he spoke rather with a view to serve the Govern- Criminal Code. Among
the greatest benefactors of his
ment, than to injure it. A few more speeches of this na- country, whom past or present times have produced, pos-
ture must have extinguished himself and the Catholic As- terity will proudly record the name of Peel. Not only the
sociationifor ever. Ardent as the Irish population are, living, but each succeeding generation, will derive meal-
they have some shrewdness; and it does not appear to us, culable benefit in their persons, their property, and their
that the men who could make such speeches, or those who I lives, from the stupendous labours of this gifted States-
could listen to them, would long be considered as politi- I roan. The noble and elevated principles of English lay,
cians by any great portion even of that excitable commu- cleansed from the accumulated impurities of ages, will
nity. We are convinced that the Government could
riot shine out with renovated lustre; the channels of justice,
take a better mode of bringing the " Catholic Association" cleared of those obstructions which the tide of time, in its
into neglect and certain extinction than by letting them rolling course, had silently and imperceptibly created, will
alone. The thing was wearing -itself out. The endless be open to their source; the antiquated rust, and half re-
repetitious of the same stories, told almost in the Caine nerable dilapidations, which obscured and defaced the
words, cannot be endured for ever, either in a theatre matchless edifice of British jurisprudence, will be re-
or a debating-roora. It was clear that the Association was moved and repaired ; and the whole structure will gradually
dying the death of things in public life ~hat want variety— develope itself in the simple dignity of its harmonious pro-
it is variety that is the great public attraction. And we see portions. This, we predict, will be the result of Mr.
a strong illustration of this truth continually furnished by Peel's labours, if he have life and health, and official in-
the history of the stage---there even the first-rate actors, fluence, to complete them. In addition to the merely
after a few years, pall upon the public taste, and they are local measure of improving the police of parishes in the im_
under the necessity of disappearing from the public view mediate vicinity of the metropolis, we find he has announ-
for a time, by making trips to other countries, in order to ced his intention of bringing tinder the notice of Pasha-
regain the sweet welcome of popular applause. But in the mein this Session, as part of his great undertaking, the
Associations the actors and the drama were both fast following subjects:-1. Bill for consolidating and amend-
Wearing out—they wanted the stimulus of novelty. Is ing the Laws relative to Larceny, and offences connected
the Government resolved to supply it ? Some time ago therewith. 2. Bill for consolidating and amending the
Mr. Sheil felt so much the want of this novelty, that he Laws relative to malicious Injuries to Property. 3. Bill
suggested a" plaut for giving a fillip to public attention ; for consolidating and amending the Laws relative to
and this was, to collect the Roman Catholic Prelates, remedies against the Hundred. 4. Bill for consoli-
Priests, Friars, Barristers, Attorneys, Merchants, in Dub- dating and amending the Laws relative to Embezzle-
!in, in one grand tnelo-dramatie display, at a particular ments of Journeymen Manufacturers, and disputes be-
time, dressed in their_ appropriate costumes, and rang-c.l, tween Journeymen and their Masters. •5. Bill for Re-
es he expressed it, in their order of allocation." This pealing such Statutes as will be superseded by the
Frenchified exhibition was to take place, if we remember preceding Bills. Next in importance to these great na-
right, in the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Chapel; and tional questions- may be reckoned Mr. Wilmot Horton's
he described the effect of it in strains of the most lofty and notice, which stands for to-morrow week, for the appoint-
poetic prediction. . He even went so far, as to say that it ment of a Committee on Emigration. The Report of the
would make " Lord EldOn start from his seat," and carry former Committee, presented a mass of information upon
alarm and dismay into the British Cabinet. But how this interesting question, of rare and undisputed value.--..
was this absurd and theatrical piece of mummery put an There remains, however, much to be done, before any
end to, as an orator of the Association
said, " even be- legislative measures can be engrafted upon it; and we are fore it. was begun?"
.Was it by a state prosecution ? justified in anticipating that every thing which is neceee
No ;—that would have given the thing solemnity and im- sary will be done, under the superintendence of the en-
portanc,e. At-the conclusion of Mr. Shell's speech, and lightened individUal into whose hands the matter has for-
while his words yet " startled the imagination" of his tunately fallen, It is a sudden and whirling descent to
hearers, Mr. Lawless rose, and gravely asked ""if the pais from matters like those we have enumerated, and
Members of the Bar were to appear on the occasion in from the individuals with whose names they are connec-