The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-02 00:00:00

DIA CONE.

H. Reynolds, KA., Seholsr of Jesus College, Oxford.
J. Griffith, 8.A., Jesus College, Oxford.
J. Jones, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin.

?MISTS.
J. V. Lloyd, 8.A., Scholar ofJ ma College, Oxford.
I. H. Pring, 8.A., Christ Church, Oxford.
J. Rowlands, RA., Magdalen College, Cambridge.

COBURG THEATRE.—A press of matter
and a variety of other circumstances have compelled us, till
new, to defer our notice of Mr. BOWES'S benefit, which
took place at the Coburg Theatre on Monday, Dec. 21.
The entertainments consisted of the popular Melo-
drame of Gilderoy, and one or two minor pieces. All
were admirably received with appl Luse, by one of the
fullest and nsost fashionable audiences we ever saw as-
sembled together. Such a sight must have been highly
gratifying to the feelings of this estimable young man, whe
has been always a favourite at the Coburg.
Lord GLENTwoRTH, it is said, will contest
the representation of the county of Limerick.—Cork
Mercantile Chronicic.

DUEL.—We understand that a meeting took
place ou Tuesday morning between the Hon. J. DI Y,
and J. B. G—RIZ, Esq., of —, near to Newland
13ridge-end toll, Peebles-shire. After an exchange of shots
the affair was amicably adjusted. —Edin. Even. Courant.

KELLY, who was afflicted with the gout, being
told that the gout ensured its possessor a long lease of life,
replied, " If it be so, I am sure the lease is held at a rack-
rent."—Nottingham Review.

lln order to guard against the accidents so
frequently occurring from the prevalence of fogs at this
season, many of the mail coaches have been fitted up with
a lamp placed under the coachman's footboard, the light
from which enables him to command a better view of the
horses than is afforded by the side lamps.—Berks Chroit.

LITERATURr.

TUE ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY AND OBITUARY

LoNi)oN, 1830.

This is a work of a useful but melancholy cha-
racter, being a register of those great men
among us who have died during the last year,
together with a short but adequate sketch of
their lives both public and private. Few gen-
tlemen should be without such a publication ; it
forms an indispensable addition to a good
library, as the majority of those whose biography
is sketched in it have been one way or other—as
all write now a days—either directly or indi-
rectly connected with literature. Among the fullest
and most efficient Memoirs in the present volume,
we may mention those of Sir Humphrey Davy,
and Mr. Terry the actor, in which last is in-
serted an able, but rather partial estimate of his
abilities by Sir Walter Scott. Major Laing is
another fair specimen of biography, in which
the writer has evidently made the most of the
few materials he had to deal with. One great
recommendation of this work is its freedom from
party or sectarian spirit. An unbiassed and
judicious estimate is formed of the public worth
of each particular individual.

THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday.)

Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.B. has left
this for Thurles. He is accompanied by Lieut.-Colonel
Ward, Quarter-Master-General, and the lion. Captain
Upton, 60th, Acting Aid-de-Camp.

The command of the Garrison has devolved on Colonel
Wornley, Artillery.
This morning the troops in Garrison marched out of
town on different roads, for the purpose of exercise.
Yesterday Captain Cairn's company of the 36th Regi-
ment, from Birr, arrived at Nenagh, and replaced Captain
Higgin's company of the 56th, ordered to Templemore.
Captain Cross's company of the 36th hare arrived at
Burris-•'kane from Birr.

The Colonelcy of the 48th Regiment is void by the
death of Lord Charles Fitzroy—be commanded it twenty-
five years.
General Sir George Don, Lieut.-Governor of Giraltar,
from the 36th, will be appointed Colonel of the 3d, vice
Sir Henry Clinton, deceased.
Lieut.-General Sir H. R. Sheaffe, Bart from the 49th
Foot, will succeed to the Colonelcy of the 36th Regiment
of Infantry, vice General Sir George Don, appointed to
the 3d Regiment of Feot.

The depot of the 12th and 91st at Derry, were in-
spected by Major-General Thornton, on Tuesday.
Lieut.-Colonel Smelt, of the 37th quartered in Ennis-
killen, proceeded to Dover, on leave of absence, on Sunday
last—the command of the regiment has in consequence de-
volved on Major Manners.
Capain Skinner's and Captain Cunningham's com-
panies of the 37th, marched on Monday last from Ennis-
killen to Omagh, under the command of Major Kell, to
relieve Captain Goldie's and Captain Massy's companies
who return to head-quarters. Capt. Wood's company re-
lieved Capt. Skinner's company at Swadlinbar. The
Grenadier Company marched on Wednesday, under the
command of Lieutenant Todd, for Sligo, to relieve Captain
Eastwood's company. Captain Costley of the Grenadiers,
who has had the command in Sligo for some time, in con-
sequence of Captain Eastwood's absence, will remain at
Enniskillen with his company. Captain Eastwood's com-
pany will return under the command of the Hon. Lieut.
Clements.

Major John Tyler has Rimmed the command of the
97th Reserve Companies at Waterford, vice Pattison ap-
pointed Lieutenant-Colonel unattached.
Lord Comhermere was well in his command at Cal-
cutta, on the 4th August, and was not preparing to return
to England.

The Commander-in-Chief has given directions that no
exchanges whatever shall occur in Regiments under orders
for service.

The late Lieut.-General William Fyers was 56 years in
the service, and for the last 18 years cooamanded the En-
gineers in Ireland.

- It is generally rumoured that a Military Brevet will ap-
pear early in the new year—to include Sir Henry Hard-
inge as Colonel, and Major Maling as Lieutenant-Colonel.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH ARMT FOX 1839.

Ist Life Guards, stationed at the Regent's Park ; Id do.
Hyde Park ; Royal Horse Guards, Windsor ; let Dragoon
Guards, Longford ; 2d do. Cahir ; 3d do. Coventry ; 4th
do. York ; sth do. Canterbury ; 6th do. Dorchester ;
7th do. Ipswich; Ist Dragoons, Manchester, 2d do. Bal.
lincollig ; 3d do. Sheffield; 4th do. Botnbay ; 6th do.
Dundalk; 7th Hussars, Newbridge; Bth do. Dublin;
9th Lancers, Nottingham ; 10th Hussars, Hounslow ;
I 1 th Light Dragoons, Bengal; 12th Lancers, Purshill
Barracks ; 13th Light Dragoons, Madras; 14th do.
Leeds; 15th Mussars, Brighton; 16th Lancers, Bengal;
17th do. Dublin ; Royal Waggon Train, Croydon ;
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, Ist battalion, Port-
man-street ; 2d do., Knightsbridge ; 3d do., Windsor ;
Coldstream do. Ist battalion, Dublin ; 2d do. Westmineter;
3d do., Ist battalion, Tower ; 2d do. Mews; Ist Foot,
lit battalion, Trinidad, depot Fort George, N.B. ; 2d do.
Madras, depot Tilbury Fort; 2d do. Bombay, depot
Shorrcliff ; 3d do. Bengal, depot Tilbury Fort; 4th
do. Newry; sth do. Galway; 6th do. Bombay, depot
Chatham; 7th do. Malta, depot Hull; Bth do. Dublin;
9th do. Belfast; 10th do. Zante ; 11th do. Corfu, depot
Wexford; 12th do. Gibraltar, depot Londonderry; 13th
d►. Bengal, depot Chatham; 14th do. Bengal, depot
Chatham ; 15th do. Quebec, depot Castlebar ; 16th do.
Cilon, depot Chatham ; 17th do. Chatham to N. S.
Wales ; 18th do. Corfu, depot Plymouth; 19th do. Tri-
nidad, depot Youghal ; 20th do. Bombay, depot Chatham ;
21st do. Mallingar ; 22d do. Jamaica, depot Tralee ; 23d
do. Gibraltar, depot Brecon ; 24th do. Quebec, depot
Carlisle; 25th do. Demerara, depot Edinburgh; 26th do.
Madras, depot Chatham ; 27th do. Grenada, depot Jer-
sey ; 2Sth do. Corfu, depot Cork; 29th do. Mauritius,
depot Devonport ; 30th do. Gosport ; 31st do. Bengal,
depot Dover; 32d do. Dublin; 33d do. Jamaica, depot
Naas; 34th do. Halifax, N. S., depot Mullingar ; 35th
do St. Lucia, depot Jersey; 36th do. Boir; 37th do.
Enniskillen; 38th do. Bengal, depot Chatham; 39th do.
New South Wales, depot Harwich ; 40th do. Bombay,
depot, Chatham ; 41st Madras, depot Dover Castle ; 42d
do. Gibraltar, depot Paisley; 43d do. Gibraltar, depot
Plymouth ; 44th do. Bengal, depot Deal ; 45th do. Ma-
dras, depot Chatham ; 46th do. Madras, depot Chatham ;
47th do. Albany Barracks ; 48th do. Madras, depot Deal ;
49th do. Bengal, depot Chatham; 50th do. Blackburn;
51st do. Corfu, depot Portsmouth ; 52d do. II ilifax,
N.S., depot Portsmouth ; 53d do. Gibraltar, depot Nowt ;
54th do. Madras, depot Chatham ; 55th do. Cape, depot
Chatham; 55th do. Boir; 57th do. New South Wales,
depot Languard Fort ; 53th do. Ceylon, depot Armagh ;
59th do. Weedon ; 60th do. Ist battalion, Limerick ; 241
do. Berbice, depot Portsmouth; 61st do. Ceylon, depot
Ballinrobe ; 62d do. Limerick ; 634 do. N. S. Wales,
depot Chatham; 64th do. Dublin ; 65th do. Barbadoes,
depot Spike Island ; 66th do. Quebec, depot Bayle; 67th
do. Che•ter ; 68th do. Fermoy ; 69th do. Athlone; 70th
Templemote ; 71st do. Montreal, depot Berwick ;
7241 do. Cape, depot Drogheda; 73d do. Malta, depot
Charles Fort; 74th do., Bermuda, depot Buttivant; 75th
do., Fenno}, ; 76th do., Templeno ; 77th do., Jamaica,
depot Clonmel ; 78th do., Ceylon, depot Aberdeen ; 79th
do., Montreal, depot Burnley-; 80th do., Corfu, depot
Sunderland ; 81st do., Fredericton, N. 8., depot Guern-
sey ; 52d do., Mauritius, depot Sheerness ; 83d do., Glas-
gow; 94th do , Jamaica, depot Cork ; 35th do., Malta,
depot Devonport ; 86th do., Barbadoes, depot Buttivant;
87th do , Manchester; 88th do., Cephalonia, depot Tra-
lee ; 89th do., Madras, depot Chatham ; 90th do., Corfu,
depot Fort Cumberland ; 91st do, Jamaica, depot London-
derry ; 92d do., Kilkenny ; 93d do., Antigua, depot Stock-
port ; 94th do., Gibraltar, depot Plymouth ; 95th do.,
Malta, depot Portsmouth; 96th do., Halifax, N. S., depot
Plymouth ; 97th do., Ceylon, depot Waterford ; 28th do.,
Cape, depot Clare Castle; 99th do., Mauritius, depot
Cork ; Rifle Brigade, let battalion, New Brunswick, depot
Dover ; 2d do., Malta, depot Devonport ; Ist West India
Regiment, Trinidad; 2d do., Bahamas; Royal Staff Corps,
Hythe.— United Service Journal.

SLIDES ON FOOT-PATHS.—An elderly gen-
tleman living near Leeds, last week lost his life through
the wanton practice of sliding on the foot-paths. Some
mischievous boys had made the ice before his house into a

and on his stepping off the door-stone, he slipped
backwards, and falling on the back of his head, fractured
his st;ull, and died immediately.--Nottingham Review.

800 SELLING ZUSINESS.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The outline t,i the publishers' resolutions for the
alleged regulation awl pur (;cation of the bookselling
business, sent you vesteethiy, was avowedly the re-
sult of memory. I had no better authority than a
very brief conversation with one bookseller '(on
whom, however, I could 11.1 y), who had read the
resolutions for the purpose of signing them ; and
not being conversant with the details of the 'trade,
and having taken no memorandum of a hasty con-
versation, some parts of the resolutions are defec-
tively narrated, and others were purposely omitted,
where I felt some doubt ; but being assured of the
correctness of the substance—feeling the subject to
be one of .vast importance to an immense number of
very meritorious individuals--and thinking that not
' a moment was to be lost —I forwarded that sketch of
the resolutions to you. I have since obtained, in
writing, an outline of the resolutions drawn up under
the clubbed recollections of three booksellers, who
have been obliged to sign the resolutions in self-de-
fence, but who nevertheless disapprove of them, a'
arbitrarily combining to shackle the freedom of
trade, and who contend that, if the booksellers
choose to sell at one or five per cent. profit, the pub-
lishers ought not to meddle with them since the said
publishers still get their prices. However, the cha-
racter of the transaction I shall not stop to discuss
here, but content myself with forwarding for your
consideration, and that of the public, such accurate
information as I have collected illustrative of this
curious proceeding. With that view, though I may
run the risk of some repetition while supplying some
omissions, I take the liberty of sending you ,a copy
of the booksellers' transcript of their account of the
publishers' resolutions. It follows :

SUBSTANCE OF THE REGULATIONS AGREED TO BY A

COMMITTEE OF THE LONDON BOOKSELLERS.

" At a Meeting of the London Booksellers, held
at the Chapter Coffee-house, on the 9th of De-
cember, 1829, for the purpose of securing the in-
terests of the bookselling trade, it was resolved—
" That the practice of underselling having grown
to an alarming extent, both by advertising new
books, or old books reprinted, considerably under the
regular prices, and also by the ticketting of books, by
which means great loss had been occasioned to re-
spectable booksellers and publishers, and serious
injury done to the respectability of the trade gene-
rally, it is highly desirable that measures should be
taken to check such proceedings as far as possible,
to excite throughout the trade mutual harmony and
confidence; to increase their respectability ; to pro-
mote cordial co-operation; arid to enable both pub-
lishers and booksellers to enjoy these profits to
which they are respectively entitled.
" That any retail Bookseller who shall sell new
publications, or old books re-printed, under the pub-
lication, price, either by advertising or tickesting
them at reduced prices, unless such books shall
have been abandoned by the proprietor, or the re-
mainder sold at a trade sale, when it is ascertained
that such bookseller persists in the practice after
he has seen these regulations, and has been admo•
nished of the evil of such practice, he shall have
his name erased from the list of Booksellers.
" That it shall not, however, be deemed an in-
fringement of this last resolution if, in cases of ready
money being offered, a reduction of 10 per cent. be
made from the publication price.
" That the allowance to Book Clubs,- Reading
Societies, and Literary Secieties, shall in uo case ex-
ceed 15 per cent.
"That it shall be equally an infringement of these
regulations for any Bookseller to supply another
Bookseller who is known to sell at reduced prices.
" That these rules and regulations shall come into
operation from and after the Ist day of Jan. 1830.
[" I thought they were Law' Publishers'
Law—when I sent you the former outline ; but it
will be perceived that they begin with the com-
mencement of the year.]
" That the names of Booksellers acceding to
these resolutions shall be left for signature at Mr.
Richardson's, Cornhil!.—[The rules aril regulations
are entered in a book, and the signatures follow
them; but, as previously stated, no Bookseller is
allowed to do more than to read them previously to
signing, he must take no copy or memorandum of
them.]
" That the Committee appointed in Nov. 1829
shall be a permanent Committee, to whom shall be
entrusted the power of carrying these resolutions
into effect.—[The Committee consist of leading
Publishers and great Booksellers; I omit names,
because the object is to let the system be known,
not to hold up individuals to any particular notice.
They may publish themselves, and a verbatim copy
of the resolutions if they please.]
" That the Committee on a review of these re-
gulations, are happy to see that they contain no-
thing but what is equally calculated to promote the
respectability of the trade, and to secure mutual
confidence.'

Then follow the signatures ; upwards of 750
Booksellers are stated to have subscribed to and
signed these resolutions.

The Booksellers put forth an answer; as yet it
has had but limited circulation; it follows :—it may
be viewed as
THE RETAIL BOOKSELLERS' DEFENCE.

a Booksellers,—Certain individuals have been
self-elected into a Committee, for the assumed pur-
pose of protecting the trade from the injurious prac-
tice of underselling; but with the apparent, if not
designed intention of annihilating the Retail Book-
sellers, sad to eventually engross the whole of the
new line to themselves. Who have been the under-
sellers ? The Wholesale Trade, with a few charac-
ters raised by their cupidity from obscurity, and to
their disgrace introduced to our trade sales.
" Had principle induced the late Meeting, the
trade generally would have been summoned, the
question fairly discussed, and a Committee formed
from among themselves, binding the whole without
objection in one common cause. Take the reverse;
—you are now defied and insulted with threats, that
without you comply with resolutions to which you
have never been a party, you shall be deprived of
the means of your support.
"From men intending well, the first resolution
should have been—that no wholesale house, under
any plea whatever, should sell except to the trade
alone any book or books under the full publication
price. This would have been justice, and have done
them no injury; for being in themselves the manu-
facturers (or by exchange of property, arid the me-
dium of trade sales tantamount to it) all the streams
must be supplied from the same source, and the
retailer having no opposition to contend with in the
publisher, would extend his speculations, and in-
crease his subscriptions to their works.
" Let us examine into the effect of taking off the
15 per cent, both to the wholesale and the retail
bookseller. One example will suffice for a thousand.
Robertson's Wor4, 8 vols. Bvo., sells for 3/. 45.;
deducting Os. 6J. i. e. 15 per cent., reduces it to
21. 14s. 6d., from which take off the trade price,
21. BA., and it leaves to the retail dealer a profit of
6s. 6d.

" This book costs, paper arid print, 1/. .ss. 4d.,
adding boarding 3s. makes it 1/. Bs. 4d., which nib-
stracted from 21. 14s. ed , the price charged to read-
ing societies, leaves a gross profit to the wholesale
house of 1/. 6s. 2il.

" Was the wholesale dealer confined to allow the
advantages of trade to the retailer only (and their
profits would be, as shown in the case of Robertson,
19s. Bd. on an expenditure of U. .ss. 4d.), it would
place them in a commanding situation for upholding
the respectability of the trade. But these resolu-
tions come With a bad grace from thoie whose prac-
tice it has been to deduct 25 per cent. from all

comers.
; " Custom has bang authorised an allowance of 25
per cent, to the retail bookseller (on folios, quartos,
law books, and most periodicals, the allowance is
only 20 per cent„—take off 15, and your gains are
five per cent.) a mach less profit than most nianu-