The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord Melbourne transacted busines.s yesterday at his office
in Downing-street.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday
morning from Hastings.
The Rev. P. Moody had an interview with Viscount Mel-
bourne yeterday in Dowding-street.
Lieut.-Colonel H. D. Campbell, Wm. Allen, T. Barry,
W. W. Lewis, Esqrs., and CiTtain Abbott transacted busi-
ness at the Colonial Office ye,tcrday.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the Master of the Rolls,
the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., on Friday next, the first
day in Hilary Term, at Lincoln's Inn Hall.
A meeting of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt was held yesterday at the office of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. It was attended
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls,
the Governor of the Bank of England. and the Deputy Gi.-
vernor of the Bank of England. Mr. Higham, Secretary and
Comptrollor-General was in attendance.
The American, Turkish, Russian, and Austrian Ambassa-
dors transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Dopartment.
The Agent for the Cape of Good Hope transacted business
yesterday at the Colonial Department.
Despatches dated the 17th ult., were received yesterday at
the Foreign Department from Lord Ponsonby, the British
Ambassador at Constantinople.
Despatches from Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor
of Upper Canada, and also from the Governors of the West
India Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial De-
partment. _ _ _

Despatches, dated November 27th, were received yesterday
at the Colonial Department from Major- General Bouverie,
Governor of Malta ; and from Major- General Sir A. Wood-
ford, Governor of Gibraltar.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Depart-
meat, dated December 31st, from the British Ambassador at
Lisbon.

Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart., M.P. for this
town, has very kindly, in consequence of the high price of
wheat, advanced the wages of his labourers 2s. per week :
such advance to be paid to them from the 27th of October
last. Such an example is worthy of imitation.—Nottingham
Mercury.
Mr. Forbes, of Callender, has just added to his
already extensive estates the valuable one of Dunevan, an
acquisition that will secure a (Treat preponderance of votes in
the county of Stirling for the Conservative cause.—Berwick
Warden.

Lord Sandys has returned to town from a visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, at Easthampstead
Park.

The Marquis of Douro left Apsley House on Fri-
day, on a visit to his aunt, Lady Anne Culling Smith, at
Hampton Court Palace. The Duke of Wellington is
still at Strathfieldsaye.
THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—We are happy to
state that his Grace is far from experiencing the inconve-
nience represented from his recent accident. The foot on
which the books fell has necessarily swollen, and the Noble
Duke cannot put it to the ground without pin.
His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch's annual dona-
tions of 201. to indigent females, and 28 guineas to indus-

trious and deserving householders inLangholm, have been

received and distributed as usual.—Berwick Warder.

THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY.-It is said that the
extensive preparations being made at Ashburnham House
are for the reception of an illustrious month, r of the I mpe-
rial Family, who is expected in March. Count Pozzo di
Borgo will not be at the expense, which will amount to
several thousands. Two splendid carriages are being built
for his Excellency. Everything is to be completed by the
7 st of March.

The Marquis of Londonderry has liberally presented
the Wasleyans of Seaham with a site for a new chapel.
Earl Fitzwilliam had a fall from his horse whilst
hunting last week, which confined him for a day or two.
It was not of a serious nature, and his Lordship is much
better. We understand Lady Charlotte Fitzwilliam is also
gradually mending.—Doi)caster Chronicle.

The Countess of Fortescue has again resumed her
annual charitable purposes, by supplying scores of indivi-
duals with necessary apparel in and about her residence.
Her Ladyship's motto appears to be "liberality to relieve
a friend, and honour to conceal it," for her generosity and
tender feelings of humanity are practised without ostenta-
tion.—Devonport Telegraph.
The Earl and Countess of Durham entertained a
juvenile party yesterday evening at their mansion in the
Green Park.

The Earl of Chesterfield, Viscount and Viscountess
Beresford, Lord Macdonald, Countess of Essex, Count
D'Orsay, Lord Cantelupe, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Sir
Willoughby and Lady Gordon, Mr. Massey Stanley, Mrs.
Hope, and Mrs. Wombwell, were present yesterday morn-
ing at the marriage of Mr. Rowland Errington, to the
daughter of the Adjutant-General. The party afterwards
went to Sir John and Lady Macdonald's residence in Pall-
mall, where they partook of a sumptious dejeune a la
fourchette, soon after which the happy couple left town
for Tunbridge Wells.
THE ARMY.—A correspondent writes from Chat-
ham, that the number of recruits that have lately entered
the garrison in that town amount to 1,140. In the month
of December last no less than 400 were enlisted, being a
greater number than was ever known in one month before,
not even excepting war time. The recruits continue to
pour in daily from all parts of the country. At the pre-
sent time there are. exclusive of recruits, 1,700 men, in-
cluding marines, sappers and miners, and artillery. The
recruits for the East India Company, it is stated, do not
Come in nearly so fast as for the regiments of the line. In
every department the greatest activity prevails, and the
Drill Sergeants and Corporals have a laborious task in
drilling so many raw recruits. Many of the young men
appear to have enlisted from distress, which has been en-
creased in no small degree by the difficulty of obtaining
food in the agricultural districts, in consequence of the high
price of bread. Another cause for the increase is said to
be the reduction of the standard by half an inch.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCEr—It is intended to
increase the establishment of gentlemen cadets for the Or-
dinance service at Woolwich Academy, notice to that effect
having been given to the heads of the department. A de-
tachment of the 27th Regiment, at Dover Castle, consisting
of two sergeants and 100 rank and file, are ordered
to be in readiness for embarkation to join the service
companies of that corps in the West Indies. A detach-
ment of the 70th Regiment, at Nenagh, consisting of
Major White, Captain Durnford, Lieutenant Bigge,
Ensign Hackett, five sergeants, and 100 rank and file,
marched, on Wednesday last, from the depot, en route for

Cork, to embark for the West Indies to join the service
eampanies. The 36th Regiment landed at Halifax from
Bat badoes on the Bth ult. The following is the strength
of the force landed : Colonel Maxwell, Captains Trollope,
Nugent, Wyatt, and Carmichael ; Lieutenants Pratt,
Goodman, and Thistlewaite ; Ensigns Nugent and Bour-
dillion ; Quartermaster Hall ; A‘sistant-Surgeon Scott ;
27 sergeants, 10 drummers, and 389 rank and file. Major
Cross of this regiment, died at Barbadoes on the 12th of
November.
We understand that the Radicals of London are
engaged in dividing the metropolis into districts, for the
purpose of getting up a simultaneous and active political
agitation in all parts of it. One or more of their most
popular orators are to be appointed to agitate in each of
the districts until the day appointed for presenting the
People's Charter to Parliament shall arrive, and then it is
intended that the seventy or eighty Delegates to assemble
in London from the Radical Associations from all parts of
,the country shall be followed down to the Houses of Par-
liament by one of the greatest assemblages of the Workin
Classes ever known in London. The Radicals confidently
calculate that the " demonstration" they will be able to
make on this occasion will make a deep and permanent
impression on both branches of the Legislature respecting
the union which exists among the lower classes, and their
determination to obtain what they conceive to be their
rights.—Observer.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Edinburgh
Chamber of Commerce. on the Ist instant, a motion
was
carried by a majority of 16 to 3, appointing a Committer
to prepare a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, and
a petition to Parliament to be submitted to a future meet-
ing of the Chamber, praying for the abolition of the
Corn-laws.
MONTREAL.—A mercantile house in the city liat-
received, by the Oxfurd packet, New York, which arrived
yesterday, remittances in the usual course, up to the dal
of December 12th (twenty-six days), and the parties re-
mitting add—" Our lower province is again perfectly quiet.'

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We publish the following letter addressed by poor L. E. L.
to Mrs. S. C. Hall. It is one of the cheerful epistles which
came to this country along with the melancholy intelligence of
her; death, and is given to the public by her friend as an in-
dication of the (apparently) tranquil, and even happy, state of
her mind in her new position—and with a view to soften and
suspend surmises which may have painfully arisen out of the
vague and meagre evidence which has reached this country
on the subject of her lamented decease :
"My dearest Mrs. Hall—l must send you one of my ear-
liest epistles from the tropics, and as a ship is just sailing I
will write, though it can only be a few hurried lines. I can
tell you my whole voyage in three words—six weeks' sea-
sickness—but I am now as well as possible, and have been
ever since I landed. The castle is a very noble building, and
all the rooms large and cool, while some would be pretty
even in England ; that where I am writing .is painted a deep
blue, with some splendid engravings ; indeed, fine prints
seem quite a passion with the gentlemen here. Mr. Maclean's
library is fitted up with bookcases of African mahogany and
portraits of distinguished authors; I, however, never ap-
proach it without due preparation and humility, so crowded
is it with scientific instruments, telescopes, chronometers, lava-
meters, gasometers, &c., none of which may be touched by
hands profane. On three sides the batteries are dashed against,
by the waves ; on the fourth is a splendid land view ; the hills
are covered to the top with what we should call weed, but is
here called bush. This dense mass of green is varied by some
large handsome white houses, belonging to different gentle-
men, and on two of the heights are small forts built by Mr.
Maclean. The cocoa trees with their long fan-like leaves
are very beautiful. The natives seem both obliging and in-
telligent, and look very picturesque with their fine dark
figures, with pieces of the country cloth flung round them ;
they seem to have an excellent ear for music; ►ne band plays
all the old popular airs, which they have caught from some
chance hearing. The servants are very tolerable, but they
take so many to work. The prisoners do the scouring, and
fancy three men cleaning a room that an old woman in Eng-
land would do in an hour ! besides the soldier who stands by,
his bayonet drawn in his hand. All my troubles have been
of a housekeeping kind, and no one could begin on a more
plentiful stock of ignorance than myself; however, like Sin-
bad the sailer in the cavern, I begin to see daylight. I have
numbered and libelled my keys, their name is Legion,
and every morning I take my way to the store, give out
fl ur, sugar, butter, &c., and am learning to scold if I sec any
dust, or miss the customary polish on the tables; I am ac-
tually getting the steward of the ship, who is my right-
hand, to teach me how to make pastry ; I will report pro-
gress in the next; we live almost entirely on ducks and
chickens ; if a sheep be killed it must be eaten the same day ;
the bread is very good, palm wine being used for yeast,
and yams are an excellent substitute for potatoes. The fruit
generally is too sweet for my liking, but the oranges and
pine apples are delicious. You cannot think the complete
seclusion in which I live, but I have a great resource in
writing, and I am very well and very happy ; but I think even
more than I expected, if that be possible, of my English
friends. It was almost like seeing something alive when' I
saw The Buccanier' and "fhe Outlaw' side by side in Mr.
Maclean's library ; I cannot tell you the pleasure it gave me.
Do tell Mr. Hal that every day I find the Books of Gems
greater treasures, I refer to them perpetually ; I have been
busy with what I hope you will like—essays from Sir Walter
Scott's works, to illustrate a set of Heath's portraits ; I be-
lieve they are to appear every fortnight next year. Giveimy
kindest love to Mrs. Fielding and Mr. Hall, and believe me
ever, your truly aff:ctionete,
"L. E. (LANDON•) MACLEAN.
" I shall not forget the shells."
* You see how difficult it is to leave off an old custom."
[The name had been written "L. E. Landon ;" but the
word " Landon" was erased, and that of " Maclean" sub-
stituted.