The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-04 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS' BILL.

On our return to the gallery, we found that the
House had resumed the adjourned debate on the
further consideration of the report of the above Bill.
Mr. HUNIE said, that the ecclesiastical courts
were nests of sinecures ►vhich ought to be abolished.
He should therefore oppose the farther progress of
the measure.

Sir J. NICHOLL said that the Hon. Member
was altogetLer misinformed on the subject. As to
sinecures, certainly his office %vas not one; and with
resi;ect to salary, the Judge had none, he was paid
by fees. The fees paid in the Court now were the
same as were paid in 1734, and were extremely light
upon individual suitors. The highest fee was 7s. 10d.
and that was the fee fur sealing an administration.
It vas only in the aggregate that the fees were large,
In the case of the late Mr.Farquhar, the Judge was
occupied for a fortnight reading the evidence; the
argument of Counsel lasted four days ; the Judge
was occupied four hours in delivering his judgment,
—and for this the Judge received a fee of 1/. having
previously received the fee of 7s. 10d. on sealing
the administration.—( Hear, hear.)

Mr. A. DAWSOisi observed that the ecclesiasti-
cal courts called for reform; the stalls of the Au-
gean stable required cleansing.
After a few words from Mr. PEEL, Mr. J. WOOD,
and Mr. TRANT,

Mr. HUME persisted in. dividing the House;
when, there appearing to be only 22 Members pre-
sent, an adjournment of course took place at a Quar-
ter to Eleven o'clock.

LIST OF THE MINORITY

ON TUE MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD'S MOTION ON PARLIAMENTARY

REFORM.—JUNE 2.
That there exists a class or description of Boroughs commonly
ca►led close or decayed,' in which the returns of Members of
Parliament are notoriously capable of being effected by the
payment of motley in the way of purchase, and frequently are
so effected ; and also another class of Boroughs, i❑ which the
Elective Franchise is vested in so few Electors, that the re-
turns are capable of being effected by the payment of money
in the way r f bribes to individual electors, and frequently are
so effected."
Benett, John
Brougham, Henry
Brougham, James
Buxton, T. F.
Birch, J.
Carter, J.
Cave, It. 0.
Calvert, N.
Clive, K B.
Cradock, Col.
Crompton, S.
Dundas, Hon. T.
Dawson, A.
Ebrington, Viscount
Gordon, It.
Guest, J. J.
Hohhousc, J. C.
Howick, Lord
Hume, Joseph
The following resol
a division That
continuance of such
of this House, destrt
prejudicial to the besi

Moberly, J.
MArjoribooks, S.
Maxwell, J.
Nfonck, J. ft.
Osborne, Lord
Pelham, J. C.
Pendarvis, E. w.
Philips, G.
Prothcroe, Ed.
Robarts, A.
Sebright, Sir John
Smith, W.
Thomson, C. P.
Waithman, Aid.
Warburton, H.
Webb, E.
Whitmore, W. W.
Wilson, Sir R.
Whitbread, S. C.
lution was then put, al
the existence of sucl
practices, are disgrace
ictive of the confident*,
t interests of the count

Wood, Alderman
Wood, John

TELLERW.
IBlandford, Marquis
O'Neil, Augustus
PAIRED OFF.
Nugent, Lord

SUIT OUT.
Coke, I'. W.
Cholmeley, Sir M. J.
Da. ies, Col.

Fazakerley, J. N.
Palmer, C'. F.
Price, R.

Ridley, Sir M. W.
Sykes, D.
Tavi,tock, Marquis
Wilbraham, G

Ind negatived without
Boroughs, and the
,ful to the character
'e of the people, and

LIST OF THE MINOR

IN FAVOUR OF MR. FANE'S MOTION FOR A NEW WRIT TO THE BO-
ROUGH OF EAST RETFORD, PARLIAMENT HAI !NG DECIDED
AGAINST TRANSFERRING THE RIGHT OF ELECTION TO THE TOWN
BIRMINGHAM...-JUNE 2.
Astell, W. Encombe, Lord
Batley, C. H. Euston, Earl of
Baring, W. B. Greene, T. G.
Brougham, Henry Houldsworth, I'.
Bernal, It. Howick, Lord
Bright, H. Hume, J.
Buxton, T. F. Flobliouse, J. C.
Cust, Hon. P. F. Lumley, J. S.

Scott, Hon. J.
Scott, lion. W.
Spence. George
Sebright, Sir J.
Stewart, J.

Sibthorpe, C. D.
Tullamore, Lord
['almost', lion. F.
Thomson, C. P.
Vivian, Sir 11.
Wigram, W.
Wood, John

Carrington, Sir E.
Cave, R. 0.
Cholineley, Sir M.. 1,
Dickinson, W.
Duncannon, Vise.
Dundas, Sir R.
Dawson, A.
Davis, T. H.

Lam'),4i-lon. U.
Illarjoribanks. S.
Nugent, Lord
Oxmantown, Lo►d
Ponsonby, Hon. G.
ps, G.
Robarts, A.
!Sykes, 1).

'MUMS.
Duneombe, Hun. W
Fane, Hon. H.

On Saturday morning orders were received on
board his ',Majesty's ship Gloucester, 71 guns, Captain
STEWART, guard-ship at Sheerness, to be got ready for
sea, and sail to the Great Dore, to wait for further
orders. It is expected she will sail this day —Maidstone
Gazette.

When BELzoNt's widow erected tke exhi-
bition of the Egyptian Tomb modelled by her husband,
she opened it the day previous to the public exhibition,
for private inspection. Amongst those who attended was
the late Dr. You xc, the antiquary. A titled lady, a
Leader of the ton, seeing Dr. Youxc standing in the tomb,
came up to him with a quick step, and exclaimed, " Come,
Doctor, explain everything !—tell us all about it !" " Oh,
'Madam," said the Doctor, bowing, " this is a place to
make learning modest."

When :Madame MARA and her husband
(who was a celebrated violoncello player) were at Berlin,
it came to the ears of FREDERICK, at whose Court they
were retained, that MARA had been beating his wife. In-
deed, she bad been prevented from appearing before his
31.4.7E5ry in consequence of the unseemly results which
her husband's discipline had produced upon her flee. On
this occasion the K ING sent for MARA, and having severely
rebuked him, said, " As you are so fond of healing,
Signor MARA, you shall have enough of it;" and be
bent him to one of his regiments for a month,
compelled him to act in the capacity of a drummer.—
Court Journal.

DIPLOMATIC ETIQUETTE.—The presence
of a French Duke of Royal blood in London has given ris!
to some awkward coutretems ; inasmuch as the represen-
tatives of the two great Emperors at the Court of St.
James's, considering it infra dignitatum to yield to that
Prince their right of presidency, have uniformly declined
to meet him at the grand dinner parties given for the pur-
pose of welcoming his Highness to this country. We have
heard that this is orthodox doctrine, and in consequence of
it that Prince L- lately absented himself from a Royal
dinner, wishing to avoid every chance of being placed in
a situation to ceder le pas to the ducal guest. Prince
who attended on the occasion, probably from not
knowing better, was obliged to give way to the Royal
Duke, and thus the representative of an Emperor was
made to follow the representatative of a collateral branch
of a Royal family. Prince L- saw his error when it
was too late, but has since made amends for it, and imi-
tated the example of his better informed colleague.-- Court
Journal.

THE STAGE.—There are few professions ili
which persons retain their mental and bodily vigour
longer than in that of the Stage. We know not to
what exactly to attribute it, but the fact itself defies con-
tradiction. Perhaps it arises from the absence of the
cares and anxieties which attend the pursuits of other
professions, and from the happy insouciance by which
actors and actresses are frequently characterised. Let us
look, for instance, at Drury-lane and Covent-garden :
There is Mr. Jos-es, now more than fifty years of age,
playing with all the gaiety of eighteen; BRAHAM, who
is getting on for sixty, as fresh in voice, person, and
manner, as when he was forty; and You NG, also nearly
sixty, who, although he no longer looks young, is as
young in his profession, as to vigour and energy, as when
he was thirty. There is HARLEY, too, no longer a
chicken in years, yet like a frolicsome kitten in his acting;
and GATTIE, who lass been old GATTIE these twenty
years, as young on the stage now as when the name of
old, from the range of characters which he fills, was first
given to him.—Then, at Covent-garden we have CHARLES
KEM BLE, nearly sixty years of age, as young and as
green as when he first delighted the town in Romeo,
and still " an improving actor ;" and Fawcrer, a little
worse for wear, but still vigorous, and as leste on the stage
as a man of forty; and then old BL SCHA RD (old BLA N.
CITA RD these thirty years), as juvenile in appearance as he
was twenty years since, and as good an actor as ever ; and
Mrs. DAVENPORT, who, though she plays the old woman,
is as gay anal as fresh as a young one ; and Mrs. GIBBS,
who is—but we will not ssy how old—still playing the
chamber-maids with as much sprightliness as ever. We
might carry the list still farther, but these names aro suf-
ficient for our purpose. We may just allude, however, to
our old favourite ELLISTON, at the Surrey Theatre, who,
after a course of good living which would have killed any
other man than a stage actor, is playing the Rangers and
Doricourts with as much ease and freedom as when the
town ran after him some thirty years ago. Really the
old age of these persons is, indeed, a green one. How
different from that of the Pvrrs, the CoarNawas, and the
WELLINGTONS ! Who would not be an actor ? Who
Would ben Minister ?

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1829.

It is confidently rumoured in well-informed

quarters that an offer has been made to Lord

ALTIIORP to join the Cabinet—and that a nego-

elation is at this moment on foot for that pur

pose. There are other rumours afloat con-
nected with this affair, which we do not feel our-
selves at liberty at present to notice.

A desultory debate took place last night in
the House of Commons on Mr. F. BUXTON'S
motion for copies of certain papers connected
with the state of the Slaves in the Mauritius,
and the Report of the Committee ap-
pointed to enquire into the condition of the
Slaves in that island. Mr. F. BUXTON
stated, among other things, in justification
of the necessity of his motion, that the Slave
Trade had been carried on in the Mauritius
under the government of Sir R. FARQUHAR.
This called up Sir R. FARQUHAR, who stated
that he courted the strictest investigation into
his conduct. Mr. BUXTON'S motion was ulti-
mately agreed to, after some strong remarks
by Mr. BROUGHAM on the subject of a late
atrocity, with regard to the treatment of a female
slave that took place in the West Indies, the
perpetrators of which were reported as being in
their general conduct humane and praiseworthy!

The Nuremburg Correspondent of the 27th
of May has been received this morning, from
which we extract the following :

Faoat THE DANUBE; MAY .41.-IThe report published
by some Journals of an intended levy of recruits in the Rus-
sian empire, in the proportion of eight men to 500 souls,
may, with the more reason, be pronounced to be unfounded,
as no event has hitherto occurred, or is to be expected,
with any degree of probability, which could give ground
for so enormous a levy, which would be truly alarming
for the peace of Europe. The losses which the Russian
army sustained in the last campaign are- pretty nearly
ascertained. The levies of recruits which have since beets
made arc sufficient to make them good two or three fild,
even if we take into consideration the amount of the new
levies, which usually takes place berore the recruits are in-
corporated with the army. As for contingencies that
may be expected, the occurrence of such is by no means
so urgent that to provide against them Russia should he
reduced to such an expenditure of strength and money, the
replacing of which would, at all events, be very proble-
matical. With all due respect fur the philanthropic
notions, which deserve some regard on account of
their source, we cannot look on the present campaign in
any light but that of one of the usual wars with Turkey,
which the northern neighbours of the Ottoman empire
have waged against it for centuries past, and there is every
reason to suppose that this is the view taken of it by the
great European. Cabinets, who therefore will indeed by no
means relax in their endeavours to restore peace in the
East, but will probably not be induced to risk still dearer
interests, so long as the object is not worth the means, or
till no other choice is left. We therefore believe that we
may assume two things—first, that the war will continue
this year, and next that the Russian armies, whatever
confidence we may entertain of their brilliant exploits, will
not obtain those almost supernatural advantages, with
which some writers, who forget that wishes and hopes do
not always become facts, flattered themselves last year to
their own great disappointment.

The Prussian State Gazette of the 29th
May, the Austrian Observer of the 24th, and
Brussels Papers of the 3d inst. have been re-
ceived. The Greeks have taken the castle of
Romelia, and Missoloughi was expected to sur-
render. The English naval force was collecting
at Corfu, whither Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM
was proceeding with the rest of his fleet :-

TURIN, MA v 26.—A Cabinet Messenger, who arrived
to-day from Naples, has brought the happy news of the
safe arrival of our august Sovereign in that capital.
FLORENCE, MAY 18.-Colonel Heidegger, in a letter
from Napoli of 2d April, confirms the accounts of the
advantages gained by the Greeks in Livadia, under Gene-
ral Church. The Castle of Romelia surrendered on the
26th to the President's brother. Missolonghi was on the
point of surrendering. The President writes that the
'1 urks have addressed to him their sincere thanks for the
conduct of the Greeks, and the strict execution of the
capitulation.
(The Brussels Papers are chiefly filled with details of
the King's visit to Antwerp, and other cities of the
kingdom.)
wAasaw,lllaY e5.--The coronation took place yes-
terday with the greatest pomp, and amidst the joyful accla-
mations of the people.
VlEti NA, MAY 24.--We learn from Corfu, that in the
night of the 8.1 May, the IViudsor Castle and Wellesley,
arrived there in six days from Syracuse. Admiral Mal-
colm was expected at Corfu with the Asia, and two other
ships of the line, and several smaller men of war, and it
was supposed that he would sail with the ships assembling
there to the Levant. Some think Admiral Malcolm will
go from Naples to Zante, at which island all the other
ships would meet, and then proceed together to the
Levant.

German Papers of the 29th May say that
Lord HiATEIBURY is making great exertions

for inducing the Russians to raise the blockade
of the Dardanelles. It is said that 120,000
Russians are to pass the Danube :

TRIESTE, MAY 22.—A ship has arrived here in e!evrn
days from Navarin, tv:iere there were still suite ships of
war, ch7efly French. It is sail, that Smyrna is blockaded
by the Russian squadron, and that it has warned off fm ty
ships with provisions, and sent them to Syra and the Morea.
_ _

FRONTIERS OF POLAND, 3ar 10.—It is slid there
hate been active negotiations between Lord Heytesbury
and Count Nesselrade respecting the blockade of the Dar-
danelles; that his Lordship, by order of his Government,
requires the raising of the blockade, as injurious to the
commerce of all Europe with the Levant, and unauthorised
by the Treaty of the 6th of July, or in the subsequent ar-
rangements. Count Nesselrode is teported to have an-
swered, that the state of war existing between Russia and
the Porte, and the wish to induce the latter to yield to the
proposals of the Allied Powers, and thereby restore peace
to Europe, had necessitated the measure and justified its
continuance. That the Emperor had nothing more at
heart, than to join in the efforts of England and France to
effect a desirable peace in Europe, founded on the former
treaty, and as far as is compatible with the honour and in-
terest of his empire.
BUCHAREST, 11IAV s.—Our new campaign is opened.
According to the Russian accounts 120,000 men are to
pass the Danube. The troops look very fine. The Turks
are said to be strengthening all the approaches to Silistria,
for three 1 .agues round. Shutnla seems impregnable, it
cannot be approached till eleven outworks are taken.—
Numbers of workmen are employed in making the ways
over the Balkan passable.

The only feLture of novelty in the French
Papers is the following, which Don MIGUEL
would be most happy to subscribe to :—" A
report is in circulation of a projected marriage
between the Duke DE CHARTHES and the
Princess of Brazil, called Queen of PORTUGAL.
It were much to be desired that this marriage
should really take place, for then the little
Princess would be excluded by the very positive
laws of Portugal from all claim to the throne
of that country."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JUNE 3.—Wind W.N.W. to N.W.—Ar-
rived the Clarence, from India; Flora, Barrett, from
London ; and Arn, from Jamaica. The Marchioness
of Ely has sailed for the River.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 3.--Passed the Juliana,
Corbett, from Calcutta, sailed the sth of May.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 2.--Wind N.--Arrived the
Active, Clemens, from London.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 2.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
Bramble, from Lisbon.

LOWESTOFFE, JUNE Severn, of South
Shields, on passing these roads this morning, was
thrown on her beam ends, and carried away both
top-masts.

TIIE FUNDS.--(TIIIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The fineness of the weather•has drawn more per-
sons to Epsom Races than for a number of years
past, and in consequence of which a number of our
City speculators have deserted the Stock Exchange
to be present at the sports of the day. Consols
opened this morning at the same price they left off
at yesterday, 88t for the account; Three per
Cent Reduced, 87i fi-; at present there is no busi-
ness doing, and it is expected that little or no fluc-
tuation will take place during the day.
Nothing doing in the Foreign Market.

Three .per Cent. Consols, shut; Ditto for July 23,.
881. i; Three per Cent. Braced, 811 ; Three and a
half per Cent. Reduced, 96i 1 ; Four per Cent., shut ;
Ditto, 1826, 103. 4 ; India Stock,
.229 30;. Bank
Stock, 211 12 ; India Bonds, 55 '7; Exchequer Bills,
66 70 prit. ; Scrip. 31. pm.
FOREIGN.-,-Brazilian, 574 ; Buenos Ayres, 26 7 ;
Chilian, 19 20; Colombian, 17 ; Danish, 65i 6;
Greek, 141 15i-; Mexican, 211 ; Peruvian, 12 13:
Portuguese, 43 4; Russian, 96i 4 ; Spanish, 9i

TWO O'CLOCK.

The Consol market continues inactive, and Con-
sols have remained at the opening price during the
whole of the morning, 88j 1 for the Account; but
in Exchequer Bills some business has been done,
and a purchwe of from 80 to 100,000 has been
effected.

'e have received the following account from
Trieste, from good authority, of the 21st May,
stating that the Corfu packet had arrived there,
bringing dates of the sth May, by which it appears
that two sail-of-:he-line had arrived, and two more
were on their way fiom Malta. It was reported
that these four sail-of-the-line were to take on board
four regiments, and convey them to Poros ; but
other reports add that they were to be sent to the
Dardanelles.

By accounts from Frankfort, it was reported on
the 'Change at Vienna that the Persians had pene-
trated into the Russian territories, and had taken
two forts by a coup de maia.
Money is not quite so scarce to-day as yesterday,
and can be obtained for 4 per cent.
In the Foreign market there is not much business
doing. Colombian Bonds have receded. Brazil
maintains yesterday's prices. In other Foreign Se-
curities little doing.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for Account, 88i 4.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 88 Danish 651
Do. for Ac. 88i a Greek, 1825
Brazilian Bonds .57 Mexican, 1825
Buenos Ayres Peruvian 12
Chilian Do. Russian 96
Columbian. 1824 Spanish