The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-03 00:00:00

"A HAPPY. NEW YEAR."

110WEVER we may value past enjoyments, it
must be admitted that present hopes have a greater influence
than bygone recollections. There are some pleasing reminiscences of
the pig year which will sweeten tho events of the present. The
Odd Year, loaded with the precious fruit, of the earth, like a prOvi-
dent and ladustrious predecessor, has left us the legacy of good food,
which we hope, notwithstanding adverse circumstances, to have at a
cheap rate.

Reviewing the past year, we have the highest gratification in re-
cording our success, and expressing ear thanks for the vast amount
of patronage and support which our business in all fts departments
has received. We tkink it no presumption to say we have laboured
to merit the distinction we have gained. Business—practical, ener-
getic, constant, punctual, and unwavering—has been our daily ob-
ject. We have visited every market ; we have employed the skill
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gifted us; we have encouraged talent, and patronised industry, and
have made as our resources available to friends, patrons, and the
public, in presenting them with superior and fashionable Dress, at
very reasonable charges. We have received our reward in the innu-
merable instances of satisfaction expressed toward our business and
our manufactures—in the vast increass 0: our Trade in London, the
United Kingdom, the Colonies, and throughout the World.
The Ready-made Clothing Department has been publicly acknow-
ledged the boon of society, and an advantage to individuals and
families. Our ambition to furnish the best, most fashionable, and
comfortable Clothing, at the lowest possible prices, has met with a
most conspicuous response ; and we owe to our friends, patrons, and
the public, a grateful acknowledgment of success which has not been
equalled on sny former season. We have received the attention of
all classes and of all professions—our productions have been declared
the most popular, the most gentlemanly, the most comfortable, and
the cheapest. Our system of business, now universally known, has
keen as exten•ively praised ; and through the past Year, the cordial
congratulations we have received have been a source of satisfaction,
which we esteem the most brilliant triumph of Trade.
As Hatters, we have supplied elegant articles for the intellectual
developments of our fellow-subjects, and have neither contracted
their benevolent propensities by comfortless hats. nor, distorted
their apprehensions with exerbitaet prices ; but the best productions
of London and Paris have been transferred from our Establishments
to their proper places—the Heads of families and all the young hope-
fuls of a future generation.
In the Hosiery Department such encouragement has been expe-
rienced as has exceeded the most sanguine expectation, and at the
repeated solicitation of a vast number of patrons we have been in-
duced to add a Hosiery section to our Oxford-street Branch Establish-
ment. Being the largest Manufacturers of Shim is and Underclothing,
and having commercial transactions with every Nation and King-
dom in the World, we have the pleasure of offering ouch articles in
Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen as are not equalled for supe-
riority. variety, elegance, or cheapness.
Our Wholesale Clothing, ahirt, ard Boot and Shoe Business, for
which the most extensive premises are kept at our Cite Establish •
ment, has had the most liberal encouragement from Merchants,
Shippers, Captains, and others ; and we have the greatest satisfac-
tion in the uniform testimony which has been awarded to our pro-
ducticus from the celebrity they have gained in all parts of the
world, and the conviction that they have proved the most pro-
fitable investments which were ever made for the export or home
trade.
We most gratefully acknowledge the distinguished patronage which
has been conferred on our Branch Establishments at Sheffield and
Bradford, Yorkshire, where we pursue the same plans of business,
charge the same reasonable prices, and furnish goods of the same
fashionable and excellent order. Though every colony of the British
Empire has In it our patrons, Austraiia, that home of English in-
dustry, has a large and flourishing Wholesale Branch of our well-
known buetnels ; and we are persuaded that in every place that
business will always be worthy of the name and celebrity of E.
MOSES And PON.

However, as it is E. MOSES and SON'S custom annually to recapi-
tulate the progress of their business, and to express their good
wishes towa'ds their patrons and the public, they do so with an ex-
troordinary degree of pleasure at the commencement of the year
ISM ; satisfied that the name of E. MOSES and SON is identified
with gcod, fashionable, and chc.lp clothing ; that E. MOSES and SON
have tho greatest celebrity es Merchant Tailors, Hosiers, and Out-
fitters that there is not a :,ranch of business they profess, but in
it incbsfatigable perseverance enables them to succeed ; and in the
most animated hopes of securing numberless advantages to all
classes of patrons, and of preserving distinction and celebrity in all
nations, E. MOSES and SON most sincerely wish every body in all
parts of the world

A 11A,PIT NEW TEAR,

SPEECH OF TILE KING OP GREECE.

We have already given an extract from the
speech delivered by the King of Greece, on open-
ing the Chambers ; we now give the entire text of
that document :
" Senators and Deputies—After the painful trials
which we have just passed through, and which have
compelled us to defer your meeting beyond the period
at first fixed, let us return thanks to the Most High,
who has delivered us from a cruel disease. In addition
to the public misfortunes which have so deeply afflicted
our'heart, we have had to deplore the premature loss of
our august and well-beloved mother. The rpgv.tz to.ti-
fied on that occasion by all among you who were present
in the capital proved to us in a very consolatory manner
the part which the nation itself took in our affliction,
Well known circumstances, accompanied by deplorable
acts, have for some time past led to the interruption
of relations with a neighbouring state, and occa-
sioned material losses to the commercial interests of
both countries. My government has unceasingly de.
voted its attention to re-establishing these relations, and
we hope that, thanks to the sincere and kind operation
of the great powers, the allies of the neighbouring state,
and whose noble and generous sentiments in favour of
Greece have been strongly manifested, our desires will
be happily realised. In presence of the formidable
struggle which had broken out in the East, considera-
tions of a superior order, derived from the manifest in-
terests of the nation, as well as from a feeling of grati-
tude towards the powers alluded to have dictated to us
the declaration of a strict neutrality. In firmly adhering
to this system, we will neither permit nor tolerate any-
thing contrary to th e honour and true interests of the coun-
try. We keep up friendly relations with all the powers,
without forgetting that the paramount interest of Greece
is to draw from the springs of European civilisation
all the benefits which result from them for society.
Nothing, in fact, can be better suited to our situation, or
more powerfully contribute to the national glory, than a
good internal organisation, by the aid of the moral and
religious education of youth, of legislative and govern-
mental arrangements, having for object the development
of agriculture, industry, and commerce, as well as the
observance of strictest good faith iu all transactions,
either public or private. We feel a conviction that you
will eagerly give your approbation to all the measures
which my government will lay beforeyou for this object.
We especially call your serious attention to the bills,
which will be presented to you, relative to modifications
to be made in certain parts of the communal and electoral
law, and the necessity of which modifications has been
admitted by long experience. The organisation of a corps.
of infantry on a uniform principle promises the best re-
sults for the strength and discipline of the army. There
will be a bill presented relative to the engineers which
unites the scientific works of the army to the
technical works undertaken by the state. Brigandage,
which frequently desolates several points of the territory,
attacks not only the interests of honest and peaceable
citizens by compromising their lives, their honour, and
their fortune, bet also unjustly exposes the reputation of
the nation, which rejects with indignation the guilty acts
of a small number of evil-doers. You will, we are sure,
give your energetic support to the legal means which
will be proposed to you with a view to repress and extir-
pate so dangerous an evil.

"Deputies,—The budget of next year will be sub-
mitted to you. The grape malady, which for the last three
years has destroyed one of the most valuable productions
of Greece, and the stagnation of commerce and navigation
caused by it and by political circumstances,-have occa-
sioned a notable decrease in the public revenue, and at
the same time:imposes on my Government very consider-
doGoit wh;oh has bccit Oat, rciul6
cannot be filled up except by the regularisation of the
receipts, and the severe repression of every kind of abuse.
The powers who have guaranteed the loan this year
again furnished the funds for the payment of the interest
and the sinking fund of it. Relying on their friendly
dispositions, wo are convinced that they will not claim
anything beyond our strength. But, inspired by good
faith and national honour, we must, gentleman, in
our turn, endeavour to establish with them some ar-
rangement in the execution of which we shall observe
the most scrupulous exactitude. We recommend to
your solicitude the vote in a proper time of the budget
of next year, in order to avoid as much as possible the
provisional credits founded on that budget, and also to
vote the budget of 1856, which will be presented to you
in the course of this session. Bills relative to the finance
will also be submitted to yonr deliberations. It is in
contemplation to extend the system of taxation par
strenzmor to the greater part of the land now taxed by
valuation. The establishment of a fixed duty on cur-
rants will relieve the growers and dealers from the incor..
vesiences attached to the fluctuation in value. The
customs tariff, revised and completed on liberal prin-
ciples, will also call for your attention. The idea,
long entertained by the Government, of rendering
citizens landowners, will be at length accomplished by
the aid of laws offering facilities to those who owe
arrears to the Treasury for lands acquired by way
of dotation to citizens who have built houses on
ground belonging to the public domain, and to those
who wish to purchase portions of olive-grounds and
other perishable property of the state.

" Senators and Deputies,--At all times harmony and
confidence between the executive powers and the legisla-
tive bodies guarantee the success of public affairs ; but at
extraordinary periods like those in which we now live
such an accord becomes imperiously necessary, for it is
only by it that we can ward off the immense dangers
with which we are surrounded. We rely on your pa-
triotism, and we expect with confidence from the session
which is about to open results agreeable to our wishes
and to our hopes. It is thus that the Most High will
bless your labours. We proclaim the opening of the
second session of the fourth legislature."

TAMAR CONSOLS MINING COMPANY.—There was a
meeting this day of the proprietors of this company,
when a long discussion took place in respect to the
mismanagement of the affairs under the auspices of
Mr. Stainshy, whom it was eventually agreed to re-
move from the management, with several of the direc-
tors, by the votes of the whole of the adventurers then
present,