Star.
London, England, 1829-01-31 00:00:00

BRIGHTON. JANUARY 29.

The. Princesr AVOVSTA, lo.Aing remarkably well,
took a•cao riage airing yesierdar and this morning.
The blarebloness of DRlerla vidied.she l'rineese AbausTA. at
the Palace, yesterday.
The last names left at the Palace include theme 4.thtElvlnt
RICHMAN% Lord and Lady Wasoricurra, Miss SWAIM WlitTi.lti),
Miss CaroIine•WALDSGRAIIII. Mr. 111141 Mks LLOYD. the 11011.
and %lila DAVISON.

—Thellae-OlRtenmoso bas returned to Goodwood. The
Marquis and Marchioness of WiLLICILIT purpose lesTing us on
Saturday. Lord ELLENDOMOUGH was with us on Tuesday, but went
back to town yesterJay.
The, Fifth of the Ladies Patronesses' AA took place at the Old
Ship Rooms last night, but, owing w recent departures. it was not
quite so numerously attended as those of the' preceding occasions.
The company, however, could be but little short of 300.
ssso.o.o.

COUR CIRCULAR.

His.MAJESTY Will, it is expected, hold a Council on
Monday next, at his Palace at Windsor.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCI left their resi
dente in .Bushy Park yesterday morning, and proceeded to the
King's Palace at Kensington, where the Mehra, of ci..% SMACK
alighted, on a visit to the Duchess of Kane. The Duke proceeded
.to the residence of the Princess Auourra, in-the King's Palace,
St. James's, where his Royal nighties, was visited daring the day
by the Dike of Seem and Count Wilma— His Royal High-
ness left town in the afternoon on his return to Rushy, and called
at the'lOng's Palace at Kensington for his Royal Duchess.
The Chev tier de NEUMANN, the Austtiati Charge
d'Affaires, transacted bre.iness yesterday with the Karl of Awe-
nun, at the Mice of the Secretary of State (or Festiva Affairs.
PRIVY COUNCIL.
• The Lords of his Majesty's Honourable Pi ivy. Cou-
ncil assembled at eleven o'clock yesterday morning in
the Privy Council Chamber, Whitehall. These was •a
very numerous assemblage of their Lordships, tie ewe
which tame before them being one of considerable im-
portasee, via. the Petitiori agai-st the removal one
of the Justices of the Coast of King's Bench in Uirpt ,
Canada by the 1 cal authorities.
The Lords present were-4be Lord President of the Council, the
Lord Chierßaron, the Vice Chancellor, the Secretary of State for
the Colonial Department, the Judge 44 the Admiralty, the Judge
Advocate General, the Master of the Mint, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, the Vice President of the Board of :Dade,
and the Right Hon. J. W. Croker.- The King's Advocate. the
Attorney and Solicitor General, attended their Lordships during'
the hearing of this important case. Mr. Butler was the Clerk to
their Lordships in waiting.
Mr. HORNS addressed their Lordships at considerable
length for the appellant, J. W. Willis, Esq. one of the
Justicesof the Court of King's Bench in Upper Canada.
The Learned Gentleman entered very fully into the
Act of Parliament called the Canada Act, which was
passed for the government of that Colony and parti-
cularly cm that part a hich relates to the Judges, and
the power of the Governor and Council over them.—
The Act recites, that in case of the absence of the
Officer: of the Colony (including the Judges) with. ot a
reasonable cause, the Governor and Council shall have
the power of temosibg them from their offices. On the
26th of June last, the Lieutenant Governor, in the name
of the Governor, sent Mt. Willis his dismissal as ODE of
the Judges of Upper Canada. On the• next day, the
27th of June, the Council recommended so the Governor
to dismiss Mr. Willis. No doubt they bad discovered
that they had acted illegally; but if Mr. Willis was opt
removed from his office legally, he was not dismissed
at all, and was thertfoie as much a Judge of
:Upper
Canada as ever he was. .
The delivery of the Learned. Gentleman's...address lasted two
hours,
Dr. LUSRINGTON then Mae, and addressed their Lord-
ships on the same side, and -stated the" circomst slices
which had led to Mr. Willis dismissal to be these-;-
Mr. Walpole Willis was one of the of the Court
of King's Bench, in Upper Canada. Ooe of the Judges'
of the Coon was absent. Mr. Willis and a Puisne Judge
(Mr. Justice Sherwood) tat as the Court.. Onddiiagree-
ing in their opinions, the proceedings of Court wire
interrupted; and Mr. Willis was induce 1,. from this
circumstance, to consult the Act of Parliament under
which the Court is established, when, from the word•
log of a clause in the Act, which states that "the Chief
Justice, together with the two Puisne Judges, shall con-
atitsite the Court of King's Bench," he was led winter
that the Court could not legally be constituted without
the presence of the three Judges; and that theretote
Mr. Justice Sherwood and himself bad not the power
to sit in banco as a Court. He communicated his sen-
timents by letter to the Lieutenant Governor, General
Sir Peregrine Maitland. Mr. Willis was then applied
to, to select what causes could be tried by him as a
single Judge, but this he declined doing. Mr. Willis
received a letter from the Lieutenant Governor on•the
26th of June, dismissing him flints his situation. Dr.
Luthington contended, that supposing Mr. Willis's
view of the Act of Parliament to be incorrect, yet if a
Judge conscientiously believed that he had no right to
exercise certain functions, be could not fill those duties
without violating the oaths he bad taken; clod the mis-
interpretation. of an Act of Parliament was not a suffi-
cient groend fir the dismissal of a Judge. Respecting
the disputes mbich had subsisted between the Lieut.
Governor and Kr. Willis,' they were not teleran to the
case ; the prayer of the petition was, that his Majesty,
in Council would order Mr: Willis to be se-instated in,
his official capacity. •
'As three o'clock, Counsel were ordered to withdraw, and theta
Lordships remained in deliberation &boat halt an hour. The de-
cision was'isot known. - ' •
Tim ewe was not defended on the part of the Gavel:tenni
Council.

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