Yesterday at two o'clock,...
The Times, 1824-01-29T00:00:00

Yesterday at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was beld at the Foreign Office, which sat upwardls of thlree hours, the Council not breaking up till past five o'clock. The lengthened deliberations of the Cabinet were supposed to be relative to the state of the W17est India Islauds. Yesterday Mr. IVynon gave the ainual great Cabinet Dinner, so called, as, in addition to the Cabinet Ministers., the Great Officers of State and other official gentlemcn are invited for the purpose of arranging the Roll of She. riffsfor England for the present year. This annual meet- in and entertainment is generally given by the Lord Pre- sident of the Council: the reason supposed wvhy the Earl of Harrowvby does -not give the dinner upon this occasionl is, that the noble Earl's famnily and household are not ar. rived in London yet from his Lordship's, country seat.- Coutrt Circular. Charleston papers to the 23dult. arrivcd yesterday. The chief topic of interest iu Carolina and the other soutbern states, is the approaching election to tlic Presidential chair, which must be vacated b~y Mr. MIonroe.in the year I825. General Jackson and Mlr. Crawiford are represented to be the candidates on one of whom thc choice is likely to fall,and both have their partisans aniong the publicjournals, which occasionallv insert articles setting. forth their claims to the high distintLion. A ludicrous instance of the puff' indirect for General Jackson. appears in- the Charleston Cor'zer ot'tihe 20th of December. The writer begins by noticing the ra:e occurrence of the planet Venus becoming' visiblt to the naked eye-at noon.day, which had attracted much star-gazing on the day preceding; after.-vhich. he proceeds to explain the phenomenon on astronomical prin- ciples3 showing that:it arises frem the plauet being at once in a north latitude from the.sun, and in its greatest elonga- tion, which concurrence ho discovers cin oily take place once in eight years. He then remarks-" May we not infei from the comcidence of the number, that this bright star -may be an auspicious harbinger in the South, of the next eight years' Presidency ?" This onnen for the success of the.General,who has a remarkably,forbidding countenance, dediuced from' the. planet Venus, auid indeed the whole cha.' acter. of the puff, renders it too'choice 'a m6rciaa not' to find'its way across the Atlantic. . The annliverSary of the birthof his"Royalffighniess the' lDake of Suasex, Grand' Master of the fraternity of free aid -Ac., ceptedMahsons was'on Tuesdlaycelebiatedaby a.nunerous assembly.I of the Craft at Yreemhro'3Tavern. . On -Tuesday forenoon, athlialf-past ten- o'clock, the re-i mains of the Bishop'of Iichfield and C3oventry wore reiuoved, vith greatfuneral ponp, from his house at PRichmond, Surrey; for-inter". merit in the beanerv of-Lichideld The etfin:ias covered'with'kkh. silk purple-velvet, and eleganitlviatudded with it famiture; on the- lid of- the cotin was a. hands&u&6 gilt plate,-with-the foUowing.in- scription :_'. The Rikht-WEon. James, Eatlof. Cotwalhis"Bishop of Iichfield end Coventry, and 'D f Turain, died the20th of' January, 1824, in the 81st year of hisiage.'.' The bdy W35 conveyed~ in a' hcarse with six horses, and followed by three mournifg coachcs with siK Borses each, the whole richly caparisoned] with vervet. c.- vering and rich plutues of-ist,ich.festheri, vith faml escpteheo's' and arrworia1lbearmngs, and preceded by a man onhorseback, bearing the coronet.ona nv vet cushion, uncovered,' and attended by. two pages, followvdby 14 men on horsebackwith black '.oaks and. scarves. 'Next'the mnnurning-coaches were-his Lordship' carnag with six hriq5, which will pri6ed the whole of the iva. Sevqral private arriages fgllowed' a,tioDnwhich were those of thC ?quiz of StaiFbrd, the'Dowager i)NcbessofRichnd, ViscountSidmouth, the Archbishop of Can3terburyi the-Bishop ofl;coln, the Bishop of Winchester, &c Theftineral'rQacliedSti Alban son Tiesday, aid- ivill arrive-t Lichlfeld to-day. - It is said- that Dr.'Hall will -succeed to the Deanery of- Durhara; which became vacanit by th6 recent death of the Honour- able Janues Corpwallws, D;C. L., Iord Bihop of LichfiNd -aid .Uavmatry. . .- ' - '