The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 6

The following Lad the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty yesterday :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Hohenlohe Langenburg, their Serene ilighncsses the
Princess Adelai(la and Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe,
the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, and Sir
George Couper.
The Duke and Duchess of Terceira and the Earl and
Countess of Hardwicke arrived at the Castle this.after-
noon.
The following had the honour of dining with the Queen
this day :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Serena highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Hohenlohe Langenburg, their Serene Highnesses the
Princess Adelaide and the Prince Hermann of Hohen-
lohe, the Duke and Duchess of Terceira, the Lady-in-
Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Earl and Countess
of Hardwicke, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir
James Clark, and the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, who
arrived in the afternoon, on a visit to the Queen.
NOTEMBER 7.

The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, the Duchess of
Kent, the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Langen-
burg, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the
domestic household attended Divine service in the Castle
this morning. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke
were also at the service. The Rev. Professor Sedgwick
officiated.
Viscount Harding() is expected to arrive on a visit.

Sir H. Barron had an interview with the Earl of
Darby on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-
stunt.
Mr. Cunard had an interview with the Right Hon. J.
W. Henley, on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. Vis-
count Goderich had also an interview with the Right
Hon. Gentleman.

Dispatches were received at the Colonial•offico on
Saturday, from the Governors of Malta and the
Mauritius.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers
present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr.
Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malnansbury, Sir Joh❑
Pakington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. the Duke
of Northumberland, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the
Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, and
Lord John Manners. The Council sat three hours.

A Privy Council will be held at the Exchequer Cham-
ber on Friday, at two o'clock, to settle the rolls of
sheriffs for the ensuing year.
PULITICAL BANQUETS.—Lord John Russell has issued
invitations for a political dinner party on Wednesday
next, the 10th inst., at his residence, in Chesham-place.
Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli gave their political ban-
quets on the same evening. The Marquis of Bath and
Lord Dononghmore, the mover and seconder of the
Address in the House of Lords, and Lord Lovaino and
Mr. Egerton, the mover and seconder of the Address in
the House of Commons, will dine with the two Ministers.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

LwEnPooL, Sunday.—By the 11Jyal mail steam-
ship, Atneric.l, Shannon, commander, we have advices
from New York to the 26th ult., and from Boston to
the 27th, She has 100,000 dolls. in specie on freight.
The intelligence brought by the America is four clays
later than that by the Liverpool and Philadelphia
Steam-ship Company's screw-steamer, City of Man-
chester, which arrived in the Mersey at 7 o'clock on
Saturday morning. A. telegraphic summary of the
news by the City of Manchester appeared in our paper
of Saturday.
The America, on the 29th, at 9 p.m., passed a large
steamer, bound west, supposed to be one of the Col-
lins' line.

The most important item of news by this arrival is
the death of Mr. Webster, who expired at 3 o'clock
on Sunday morning, the 24th ult., at his residence,
Marshfield, near Boston. He had repaired thither
from the labours and cares of his official position at
Washington, in consequence of failing health, some
weeks before ; but it was not until ten days before
his decease that his medical attendants pronounced
his recovery hopeless. His last hours comported well
with his character and life. The funeral of Mr.
Webster was to take place on the 29th ult.
The Boston papers of the 27th states, that "upon a
post-mortem examination by Dr. Jeffries, it was
found that Mr. Webster died of disease of the liver.
The immediate cause of death was hemorrhage from
the stomach and bowels, owing to a morbid state of
the blood consequent upon the above disease:' Mr.
Webster was in the 70th year of his age.
Tus AMERICAN MARKETS.—It appears from the
accounts brought by the last mail, that there is little
doing in the cotton-market, and prices under the in-
fluence of favourable crop advices, had receded * to
cent per lb.; the sales for the week amounted to
5,000 bales. At New Orleans a very large business,
supposed to be on English account, was being daily
transacted, on the basis of 9i to sq for "middling,"
and freight d. to 9 -16 d ; sales averaging 8,000 to
10,000 bales. The weather still continued to be of a
very favourable character, and estimates generally
point to 3,000,000 bales as the amount of the new
crop. Flour continued in very active demand, and
was sold to the extent of 14,400 barrels—ordinary to
choice State, at 4 dolls. 50c. too dolls. 58c. ; super-
fine Canadian, at 4 dolls. 561 c. to 4 dolls. 624 c. ;
mixed to fancy Western, at 4 dolls. 561 c. to 4 dolls.
75c.; and common to good Southern, at 4 dolls. 68.1 c.
to 4 dolls. 874 c. Rye flour was retailed at 4 dolls.
25c. to 4 dolls. 500., and Jersey meal at 5 dolls. 521 e.
per barrel. Wheat favoured ,owners ; the sales
embraced 11,500 bushels of Western white, at
1 dol. Bc. to 1 dol. 9c., and 25,000 bushels of Cana-
dian ditto, at 96c. to 1 dol. 2c. About 2,500
bushels of rye changed hands at 84c. to 843. c., and
30,000 bushels of Western corn, at 75c. to 751 c.
There was a good demand for provisions, with the ex-
ception of pork, which was dull at 17 dol. to 15 del.
for mess and prime; beef, 9 dol. 50c. to 10 dol., and
5 dol. 25c. for country mess and prime; beef hams,
16 dcl. Lard and cheese were firm. The iron-market
%vas very firm, but operations were restricted for
want of supplies. 100 tons of Scotch pig had changed
hands at 31 dol. per ton. Freights were firmer; to
London 2s. 6d. per barrel was asked for flour, and
8 per bushel for grain.

was at first called Stevenstown, on the Merrimack
liver, in New Hampshire. Soon after hia settlement in
Salisbury, his first wife having died, he married Abigail
Eastman, a woman of morn than ordinary intellect, who
became the mother of Ezekiel and Daniel W( biter. She
eLs proud of her sons, and ambitious that they should
excel in public and private life.
Daniel Webster was born on the 18th of January,
1782, in the last year of the war of the revolution, at
Salisbury, in the home which his father hal established
on the outskirts of civii:zation. The early opportunities
for education with which Mr. Webster was favoured
were of course very limited, and when quite young he
was daily sent two or three miles to school, in mid-win-
ter, and on foot. The school, wbi,h was kept for only a
small part of the year, was of an indifferent character;
bat under these disadvantages he showed a great eager-
ness for learning.
"In May, 1796, Webster was taken by his father
to the Academy at Exeter, which had been endowed
in 1781 by the Hon. John Phillips. In this cele-
brated school he enjoyed the advantage of only a few
mouths' instruction; but, short as the period was
his mental powers were thus e.rly developed, and'
ho exhibited to his instructors evidence of his
superior intellect. After a few months at Exeter,
he returned home, and having passed his 15th
year, was placed by his father with the Rev. Samuel
Wood, of Boscawen. In six months, from February to
August, 1797, he completed his preparation for college,
under the instruction of Mr. Wood. This preparation
was, of course, imperfect; but the standard of classical
literature stood very low in this country at the close of
the last century.
"In 1797, Webster entered Dartmouth College, at
Hanover, New Hampshire, where, after four years of as-
siduous application to his studies, he graduated in August,
1801. Ho was not only distinguished for his attention
to his collegiate duties, but devoted himself to general
reading, particularly to English history and literature.
He took part in a small weekly publication, to which ho
contributed selections and original articles. He also
delivered addresses before the college societies. He
persuaded his father to send his brother Ezekiel to col-
lege, and during the vacations taught a school to aid in
furnishing means for the preparation of his brother for
a collegiate course.

" Immediately after leaving college Mr. Webster en-
tered the office of Mr. Thompson, of Salisbury, as a stu-
dent of law. Mr. Thompson was a lawyer of high
standing, and represented New Hampshire at various
times in both houses of Congress. While in the office
of Mr. Thompson, Mr. Webster accepted an offer to take
charge of an academy, at Fryeburg, in Maine, where
his salary was one dollar a day. He was able, by act-
ing as assistant to the Registrar of Deeds, for the
county, to earn enough to pay his personal expenses;
and, therefore, his salary was all saved as a fund for his
own professional education, and to help his brother
through college. During his residence at Fryeburg,
Mrn
o,s
Mr. Web,,scteormbmorernotwai
borrowed, and
In September,
for the
first time ,IrBeoa2d, Black-
stone's lea ck -re-
turnedto to Salisbury, and resumed his studies under Mr.
Thompson, in whose office he remained for 18 months,
extending his knowledge of law, besides giving much'
s
lime to general reading, especially studying the Latin
classics, English history, and Shakspero. He also read
Puffendorf's " History of England" in Latin.
" Being desirous of witnessing a more enlarged course
of practice in the law, Mr. Webster went to Boston, and
took up his residence there in July, 1804. Previous to
entering upon practice, he pursued his legal studies for
six or eight mouths in the office of the Hon. Christopher
Gore, a distinguished advocate, and afterwards Governor
of Massachusetts, who soon saw and spoke prophetically
of the talents of his pupil. In the spring of 1805, Mr.
Webster was admitted to the bar in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, Boston, and soon after returned to his native
State, and commenced practice at Boscawen, near his
father's residence. Judge Webster died the following
year. In May, 1807, Mr. Webster was admitted as at-
torney and counsellor in the Superior Court of New
Hampshire ; and in September of that year, leaving his
office in Boscawen with his brother, he removed to
Portsmouth, in conformity with his original intention.
Here ho remained in the practice of his profession for
nine successive years. He soon, with such men as Smith
and Mason, eminent in the profession, appeared in the
loading cases in all the courts. His practice in Now
Hampshire, however, was never lucrative, and, although
exclusively devoted to his profession, it afforded him
only a bare livelihood.
" During the excitement which prevailed previous to
the declaration of war with England in 1812, Mr Web-
ster participated in conventions of his political friends,
and in his speeches and essays displayed such extraordi-
nary ability that many of the prominent men of the State
wore anxious to see him in Congress. At the election
next ensuing after the declaration of war in 1812, he
was brought forward us a candidate for Congress, and
elected on a general ticket, in November, 1812. He took
his seat at the first session of the 13th Congress, which
was an extra session, called in May, 1813. A presenti-
ment of his ability had preceded him, and in the organi-
zation of the House he was placed by Mr. Clay, the
Speaker, upon the Committee of Foreign Affairs, which
was the leading committee in time of war.
"On the 10th of June, 1813, Mr. Webster delivered
his maiden speech in Congress, on a series of resolu-
tions moved by himself, relative to the repeal of the Ber-
lin and Milan decrees of the French Emperor. No full
report of this speech was preserved, but it took the
House by surprise, from the vast amount of historical
knowledge and power of illustration which it displayed.'
From this point commenced Mr. Webster's dis-
tinguished career as a public man. lie sat eight
years in the House of Representatives and nineteen
years in the Senate, and during the whole of that
period, by his great powers of eloquence, End his re-
markable abilities, he exercised an immense influence
over the domestic and the foreign policy of his coun-
try. He also established for himself a pre-eminent
position as an advocate. He is the second Secretary
of State in the history of the Union who has died in
office, and he is justly regarded by his countrymen
as entitled to a foremost rank among the statesmen
of the Republic.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1852.

tion, has given in his resignation. M. Dupin has
been written to to come to Paris, to take the vacant
place. Should M. Dupin refuse, the place will fall to
the lot of M. Troplong, first president of the Court of
Appeal of Paris ; and then M. Delangic, procureur-
ireneral at the Court of Cassation, will succeed M.
Troplong.
In consequence of the extravagant sums charged of
late at the Paris Bourse for carrying over shares and
stock from one settlement of the account to the other,
it is in contemplation to form a powerful company,
for the purpose of providing funds at each liquidation
to aid the legitimate operations of the money market,
so that Vae rate of interest for carrying over stock arid
other securities shall (not be more than 6 per cent.
per annum. Some of the most eminent bankers and
capitalists of Paris are spoken of as being at the head
of this plan.
The Prince President of the Republic came to
Paris on Monday from St. Cloud. He drove him-
self, followed by two grooms, and without escort.
The members of the community of La Trappe
(Loire Inferieure) having lately lost their superior,
were called on to pay considerable duties on the
transfer of their property. They determined to ap-
ply to the President of the Republic for a diminution
of the sum to be paid. The Bishop of Nantes having
giving them; his support, ~and the Prefect of their
department having applied to M. Billault for his aid,
this latter gentleman solicited the Prince to grant
two of the members, Father Eusebius and Father
Goias, an audience. This being agreed to, they went
in M. Billault's carriage to St. Cloud. The Prince
received them most kindly, and complimented them
on the good that their community effected. He then
entered into the subject of their coming to St. Cloud,
and was pleased to declare that their request should
be complied with. The fathers withdrew delighted
with their success.

Abd-el-Kader dined on Thursday at the Palace of
St. Cloud. After dinner there was a grand recep-
tion, at which the Ministers, the Ambassadors, and
the members of the great bodies of the State were
present. Yesterday, the ex-Emir paid a visit to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
It is said that Abd-el-Kader will leave Paris in the
early part of this week. He will return to the
Chateau of Amboise, where he will enjoy perfect
liberty. He will return to Paris to be present at the
fetes of the Empire.
PARIS BOURSE, Nov. G.—THREE o'CLocK.—The
market was very firm all day, and a large amount of
business was done for a Saturday. The Four•and-a-
Half per Cents. are 20c. higher, at 108 f.; and the
Three per Cents. 80c. higher, at 85r. 65c. Bank of
France shares are 15f. higher, at 2,995 f. Piedmon-
tese Fives were done at 100 f., in consequence of the
termination of the Ministerial crisis. The Belgian
Fives were I higher, at 1011. Railway Shares were
again a good deal negotiated, and a general advance
has taken place. Exchange on London (short), 25f.
20c.; do., (90 days), 25f. 7kc., money.

LATEST NEWS FROM PARIS.
(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
PARIS, MONDAY MORNING.
The Mouiteur contains the Senatus Consultum,
presented yesterday to the Prince President. Louis
Napoleon is Emperor under the name of Napoleon
111. The following proposition will be laid before
the people :
" The nation wishos the reestablishment of the impe.
rial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon, with here-
ditary succession in his direct legitimate or adoptive
line, and gives him the right to regulate the order of
succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family."
As the Emperor presides at the Senate the Prince
Jerome resigns the Presidency. The Senate is con-
voked for 21st and 22d November, the Corps Legis-
lative for 25th November.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON bTOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 6, 1852.
Charleroi and Erquelines,ls —Grand Junction of France
7 ye—Northern of France, 3714—Paris and Lyon., 31—Paris
and Rouen 41i3—Paris and Strasbourg, 37% —Paris, Caen.
and Cherbourg, 103,8—Rouen and llavre, 22%—Sambre
and Meuse, 10•3—Dutch Rhenish, 29.