The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
This mmning an application was made to the
Court of King's Bench,in'''the case of the King, at
the prosecution of Henry Grattan, Esq., M. p.
versus Majoi"Edgew-orth and Mr. Montgomery, by
the Solicitor-General, . Mr.• Doherty, for a criminal
information ogainst 'the defendants, for sending the
plaintiff a hostile- message. • •
The, SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated the facts contain-
ed is Mr. • Grattan's affidavit, and which.were nearly
to the same effect as have already been detailed to the
public. He also Mentioned that. Mr. Grattan knew
nothing* of the publication affecting Major Edge-
worth's-later, until Mr. Montgomery called on him
with a hostile message, to he personally responsible
for it.
The CHIEF JUSTICE asked was the alleged libel in
the• Freeman's Journal stated in Mr. Grattan's
The *(4..taToo,GT,,,NRRAI,
.in
_reply, said it. was
not, as Mr. Grattan did :not. ennaider, him Self per-
sonally responsible, although he .was legally: so, f 01:
every thing that appeared In his newspaper.
Mr. CROMPTON and Mr. MILLS followed on the
same, side. .The first gentleman alluded to the
newspapers, in which many persons were
concerned who knew nothing at all of the machinery
of the press, who, therefore, would not be deprived
of the power of filing a criminal information. He
trusted. their Lordships would not establish a rule to
deprive newspaper proprietors from having such a
redress by law.
The CHIEF JUSTICE should make no rule ; but
Mr. Crompton might if he pleased apply in another
form.

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MARCH OF
MIND.—The following lines
ha7e been lately added to an epitaph on a matron at Craven,
Tis an exqnisite specimen of what poets term the flone of

genius
" She was a good-mother, and a virtuous wife,'
" A faithful friend all the days of her life :
" For her last tribute paid to me,
" f wet this tomb to cover she."
Manchester Mercury.
On Sunday morning, while the master of one
c,f the rife packets was indulging himself with a solitary
walk
over the sands, he discovered something which asto-
nished and puzzled him nearly as much a.s the " print of
the man's fuat"Upoo the sand did ROBINSON CRITSOF.
This was neither more nor less than his own red-hounhad
pocket-hook, which the good easy man had,
some lf
hoar before, left snugly locked up in his own cabin, the
key of which was still in his pocket. And what was
equally surprising, though not quite so problematical, was
tae fact, that said pocket-book identified by witness con-
tained at parting a good bundle of bank-notes, which had
now taken to ttwmselves wings and ,fled away. The hue
and cry was raised instanter ; a send for police-officers,
and a, search of certain persons were talked of, which no
doubt might have led to a differentfinaie than what fol-
luved, had not the -whole of the money been returned in the
interim by the same teneeen hand who hail carried it away.
—Seotaman, .
LoCKS or LAND Butps.—During the late
heavy gales of northerly winds, immense flocks of land
birds have been driven from the higher latitudes, upon the
southern shares '-of
.Scotland. The keepers of several of
the light-houses repreierif them as hovering about the lights
like bees round their• hive when disturbed." Cpwards
ef 400 starlings, blackbirds, .thrushes, larks, and wood-
cnks, and amongst these. two large owls,, have been caught
by the light-keepers at the Bell. Rock, which afforded
:;:hem sport end good cheer for a time. -":!the same species
f birds were l 0 in great numbers at the lights of May
4of birds were
The keepers of the latter station say
and Buchannese.
of the best of them—Scotsman.
they kept 22'dozen
CHURCH DICNITARIES.—As many persons
are at a loss td comprehend accurately what situation in
to ve thedignity,
y
following &finition and 07.01
is any. ecclesiastical situation obeys that of an ordinary
Doctors of Di-
parish Priest. consequently all Bishops,
Di-
vinity, Deans, Arciuleacons, Chancellors, Bachelors of
vinity, Canons. and Prebendaries (where there are no
(anons), are considered Dignitaries, and.are aflosved inde-
pendently of their official robes, a. short black cassock pr
frock under a coat.—Leeds Interligencer.
STATE OF TRADE.—We are averse to the
absurd practice of attempting to depict the daily fluctua-
tions hi trade and manufactures. We are justified, how-
ever, in stating symptoms of general depression when they
b nelerceptible, and therefore do not hesitate to say,
that not only in Leeds, but in Bradford, fluddersileld, &c.
considerable slackness of business prevails. The shop-
keepers in this town are more particularly remarkable for
their complaints of the dulness of trade, and among others.
'
murmurs tolerably deep if not loud, begin to be audible.
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The truth is,' that whenever thedemand for goods relaxes,
the netiessitY.of continuing to
view in of preventing manufacture, even with the
jury t he machinery and loss in set-
ting it to, ork afterward t
- ip, accumulates large stocks,
leading in their turn to glutted.
It would indeed require „ohstarkqs and heavy prices.
take off the progreasiVe supplies furnished
demand to
turin° districts. Shoal, thererore,met by the mannfae-
. markets deci.ne
iotea,tl of advancing, the result is obeiefeo
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