The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-26 00:00:00

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THE PEEL BANQUET EXPRESS,

Oa the principle of " fair play and no favour," we give
the following from the Herald and Advertiser of this
morning :
We have no wish to aggravate the unhappy state of excite-
ment to which the Puddle-Dock Oracle, of Printing-house-
square; is liable, by reviving the recollection of " the biter
bit"—the cause of the mental rnalady,'which has led to the old
Sybil's malicious hallucinations. As long as she confines her-
self to that scurrility which is her accustomed and appropriate
weapon, her unclean alacrity in using it will not disturb the
equanimity of our temper. All we request of her friends is,
that, to prevent serious consequences, when the fit is upon her,
they will keep " brickbats and bludgeons" put of her reach,
with which, in the " fine frenzy" of lfer demncratic days, she
had no small practice.-111orning Herald.
We have been much amused during the last %rect.:. at a con-
test between our morning contemporaries relative to Ole ex-
, press of the Glasgow dinner to Sir Robert Peel. Thet,o can
be no queition but that the Morning Herald has outstripped
the Times and Post, and laid .before its readers in every great
town in the kingdom a report of the speech of Sir Robert
Peel be,':-we noon on Monday. It will be recollected that the
dinner took place or, Friday at Glasgow, and that the report
was circulated Arough all I,•arts of England upon the forenoon
of the Monday following. Ti; a Times and Post appear not to
understand this, but if they wore as well accustomed to
these matters as we are, they v:Tould at once understand
its practicability, and even the facility of its accomplish-
ment. We had ourselves an intention of doing the very
thing that has been accomplished by our contemporary, as a
gentleman belonging to that establishment can vouch for ; and
to show that we might flare done so, it is only neceessary for
us to say that we received our express of the dinner at '2Q mi-
nutes before two on Sunday morning,which would have given us
ample time to have sent it to all parts of the country. Having
said thus much, we have only to wonder at the virulent attacks

that have been made upon the Herald, for having given the
report to the public, out of London, at au earlier period than
the papers we have named. It has been alleged that the
Herald did not print in Londde,, and that they were, there-
fore, guilty of a fraud ! In what ? In having supplied early
intelligence by ingenuity and well-combined arrangement.
This is the head and front of their offending ! For our own
part we are not of that snarling disposition which would cause
us to quarrel with our contemporary, and assert that he could
not do that which was perfectly practicable, merely because
we did not choose to do it ourselves. We could have done

it. It was quite practicable. We received the report in
ample time—indeed as much as 16 or 18 hours before

it reached the Times or Post, but some circumstances oc-

curred which induced us to forego the advantage. We arc
not angry with the. Herald for what it has done, for, as far
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as we know, it dealt fairly by its rivals ; but we may be per-
mitted to ask who it was that meanly tampered, or rather, en-
deavoured to tamper, with our arrangements? Who it was
that had the villainy to assert, in order to defeat our arrange-
ments, that we were not to be trusted—that we would not pay
our engagements? We cannot look upon this as fair rivalry,
and we confess ourselves at a loss to conceive how any Man of
gentlemanly feeling could condescend to such means of de-
feating a rival. We are still more at a loss to conceive how
any man, encased in such a crystal dwelling, could for a mo-
ment attempt to wage warfare against those whose habitations
are not composed of such penetrable materials.—/Ifurning
Advertiser.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Fil.eiNC'E.

The Phare says," It is affirmed that all the arrangements
arc made that the 48th Regiment of the Line may set out from
Bayonne on the 10th of next montf, for Port Vendres, where
it will be embarked for Bona, in of der to participate in the
revenge which our troops mean to
.take at Constantine.
By that time the 48th will complete its battalions to the war
establishment, by reinforcements from the, regiments in the
interior.—Journal du Commerce.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Psnts, JAN. 21,
Five per Cents., 169 f. 15c. 10c. 2k.
Four per Cents., 101 f.
Three per Cents. 79f. 95c. 80f.
flank Actions, 2,315 f. 2,370 f. 2,375 f.
Rente de Naples, 98f. 80c. 70c. boc.
Roman Five per Cents., 102,4%.
Spanish Actives, 26% 27 26%31%.
Spanish Differes, 113.
Spanish Passives, 7%;13.
Belgian Loan, Five per Lents . 103.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents. 50.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 31% 32.
Haytian Loan, 375 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 251. 27.4 c.; money, 251. 271.2 e.
Three months, paper, 25f. 10e. ; money, 25f. 734 c.
Authemtsgue.
•

BOURSE, HALF-PAST POUR.—There was very little business
done to. day. The French funds rose a few centimes, in the
expectation of the Consols arriving better to-morrow from
London. The Spanish Actives remained pretty firm, and
were down at one time to 27. The new security called the
" Belgian General Society" was in great demand, and rose
from 1,550 to 1,570.

LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 30c.
—Three per Cents. 80f. sc.
Rank Actium, 2,375 f.
Rentc de Naples' 99f. sc.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Belgian Loan, 103.
Belgian Society, 1,570 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 32.
Haytian Loan, 375 f.
Spanish 'Actives, 26%.
Spanish Passives, 7%.
spmish Differes, VLi.
New Difrercs, 117;._

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 22.—A fact of the highest importance has
been stated to us. The administration of the city of Luxem-
berg has announced prosecutions against the purchasers of
forests belonging to the domains of the province, who do not
reside within the territory ( Rayon) of the fortress. It is even
in contemplation to prevent the proprietors from selling timber
till they have-paid the price to the Dutch Government.
should seem that the authorities of Luxemberg (the city)
have claimed the intervention of the German Confederation,
and required some detachments of Prussian troops to be sent,
in order to prevent the proposed felling of timber. This is
perhaps one of the subjects for which the Military Government
of Luxembcrg has applied to the German Diet, as the Jour-
rink announce.

We are positively informed that one of the encroachments
committed by the agents of the revolutionary Government of
Belgium of IN hich the military government of, Luxemburg
complains is, that the Custohi-house officers at Wasserbilligen
act a dreits de visite on articles coming from Prussia, and de-
signed for the garrison of Luxemberg. It is well known that
according to the treaties they are exempt from import duties.
The military government of Luxemberg confounds the droit de
visite paid to the officers, with the import duties which we paid
to the public treasury.—Echo du Luxemberg.

IT EI.UI AN 1 UNDS—Baussets, J!.x. i 74.
Actual Debt, 2!•i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, a per Cent. 10(1%
Loan of Thirty Millions ... 921,,,,,-
Loan of City, 1832.4 per Cent..... - 101,4
Society of Commerce, 4,, per Cent.
Bank of IlAgium, 5 per Cent 1:29
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 2.5.
pUTCII FUNDS.—ANISTE ROAM, JAN. 23.
Actual Debt, 2 ~., per Cent.
Do do. 5 p.,r Cent.
Amort Syndic 4 per Cent.,
Do. do. 34 per Cent
• •Commercial Company, 4k, per Cent IS4N,
New ditto
—Journal du Commerce d' /lacers, Jan. 25.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN 16.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
'Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1367;44
—Alli:emeine Zeitung, Jan. 21.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW.
J. Wi gfield, saddler, Smithfield
G.-Pettit, cart.Jenttr, notherhithe
J. Hinton, carpenter, Macclesfield-street Soho -2 1
W. Ponnycad, grocer, Rosemary-lane o I
W. Catton, plumber, Smthwark
J. 11. Yates, victualler, King-street, St. James's
11. 13enattar, merchant, Fish-street-hill 2 12

Yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock,
a decently dressdcl female, about 25 years of age, carrying
;an infant in her arms, was observed staggering along Hunter-
street, Brunswick-square, in a state of intoxication. She
had proceeded but a short distance when she fell with great
force on the pavement. The infant fell from. her arms, and
had its right thigh LrAen. The woman was found to be
insensible, and on being removed to the-hospital it was as-
certained that she had received a 'concussion of the brain.
The Irish Master of the Rolls was but icd on Satur-
day at Rathfarnham. The funeral was private, as requested
by the deceased. Some particulais of his will have transpired.
His eldest son, Sir Beresford M'Mahon, has been left
1,0001. per annum ; the second eldest SOU per annum.
Lady M`Mabon has a jointure of 1,3001. a year. The rest,
residue, and remainder of his property, amounting to between
200,000/. and 300,000/. is willed to the younger children by
the. second marriage.
• The tenants of the Duke of Norfolk carrying on
business in the Strand, have received an order to repair
their premises, by making new fronts to their houses. Seve-
ral of the leases have 'but a few years to run.
In the Bury St. Edmund's paper there is recorded
• the deaths of twelve persons, whose ages collectively amount
to 995 years.
Many of the late arrivals of corn from Ireland hav-
ing been many weeks at sea, and much • damaged on the
voyage, have been unsaleable on any terms.
The Emperor of Russia, by purchasing for his lega-
tion the Palace of the Dulie of Courlan'd, the last owner
of which was the. Duchess of Dino; niece of Talleyrand,
has become a eitizen of Berlin ; and the Magistrates intend,
in consequence, to present his Imperial
freedom
Majesty
freedom of the city. •

It haS been unanimously resolved immediately to
appropriate Sir R. Peel's munificent donation of 2001. to the
principal charities of Glasgow, as follows :—To the Royal
Infirmary, 103/. ; Deaf and Dumb Institution, 52/. 10s.
Blind Asylum, 521.10s.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
Monday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, an
explosion which caused considerable damage and destruc-
tion of property took place on the premises of Messrs.
Bentley and Co., shipbrokcrs, Rotherhithe. The explosion
was occasioned by the escape of gas from the pipes on the

pr-emises.
"Provincial Papers received this week teem with ac-
counts of the extensive spread of the prevailing influenza,
accompanied by numerous instances of its fatal results.