The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-24 00:00:00

By the Re.v. HOBART CAUNTER, B.D.

With Twenty-two Engravings, from Drawings by the late
WILLIAM DANIELL, Esq., R.A.
" It contains no fewer than twenty-two plates of Indian scenery.
architecture, and natural history, all after drawings by the truthful
and chaste pencil of the late William Daniell."—Metro. Meg.
" The engravings are executed in the highest style of the art."—
Monthly Mag.

" Admirable engravings of admirable subjects."—New Monthly
Magazine.

The work is outwardly richly appointed, and embellished with-
in by engravings from twenty-two drawings, from the vast collec-
tion of the late W. Daniell, R.A., executed, for the most part, in
the ♦ery best manner. " a * Lieutenant Bacon skims the
surface of that sea of Oriental literature which Caunter fathoms to
the bottom."—Oriental Herald.

" Mr. Cauntcr excels in historical narrative, and the graphic
delineation of reality. * * Daniell, the best Oriental artist
we ever had."—Court Mag.
" Tilt's Oriental Annual attained to its high and established cele-
brity when conducted and supplied by the very persons whose name
gives a title to this."—Monthly Review.
"No artist has hitherto approached Daniell in depicting Indian
scenery."—Sunday Times.
Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane.

T. HILL, Mesheal Bookseller, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket,
has just publishes
IVEW EDITIONS of the following interesting
LI and important MEDICAL and SURGICAL WORKS:—

No. 1., price 2s. M. _
A PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GE-
NERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment,
and Cure. By a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon-
don, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary.
. _

Ns. 11., price 3s.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE en the TREATMENT and
CURE if STRICTURES of the URETHRA ; wherein is re-
commended a New and Improved Method of Treatment, its effi-
cacy being illustrate) by a variety of highly interesting Cases. By
C. B. COURTENAY, M.D., 42, Great Marlbereugi-street.

TI., price 4s.
An HISTORICAL and PRACTICAL TREATISE on SY-
PHILIS : Its Varieties, their Treatment, and Curs. With con-
cluding Observations on an Improved Alode of Treatment adopted
by the Autismr for the Cure of Gonorrhea, and all Urethral Disor-
ders. By C. E. COURTENAY, 42,Great Marlborough-
street.

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also furnished, and specimens shown, by WALTER BERDOE,
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oPORTO.—A Parcel of very superior OLD
PORT WINES, in quarter pipes, imported expressly for
private families for this season's bottling. They are strongly re-
commended, and will be delivered in any part of London, duty and
every (ixpense included, at the under-mentioned prices:—
Per quarter pipe, 20/. and 2.3/. ; per dozen, 335. and 365.
lIENEKEY and COAIPY.,
Gray's-inn Wine Establishment, 23, High Holborn, London.
Note.—Also a few pipes of the above, at 801. and 921.

BETT'S PATENT BRANDY.—To guard the
Public against being misled by the numerous imitators of
the Patent Brandy, and to assure them of the utter futility of all
attempts to rival that celebrated article, the Patentees need only
state that tho peculiarly wholesome properties of their Brandy--
attested by many eminent Chemists, and frequently published since
its introduction in 1829—are secured by Patent Right, which, in
itself, forms a sufficient guarantee, if purchasers be careful to esta-
blish the identity of the article.
The only Establishment of J. T. Betts and Co. is the Distillery,
No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street, where the Pa-
tent Brandy may be had, either pale or coloured, in quantities not
less than two Gallons, at Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon,
for Cash on delivery.

Nn. 9, HALF MOON-STREET, PICCADILLY,
And *2, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY,
MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM
FOR FILLING DECAYED TEETH,
LOOSE TEETH FASTENED,
AND LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED.

Monsieur M ALLAN and SON, Surgeon Dentists, .40. 9, Half Moon-
street, Piccadilly, and 324 Great Russeil-street, Bloomsbury, continue to
restore DECAYED TEEM with their MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM,
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out pain, heat, or pressure, and FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether
.rising from age, neglect, disease of the Gums, the use of Calomel,
or any other cause. They have also discovered a NEW COMPOSI-
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or causing any incumbrance, and even on GUMS of the most tender
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LIGATURES are used, and they 'NATCIi the ORIGINAL TEETH
in point of shape and Colour. GUARANTEED for MASTICATION
and ARTICULATION. In consequence of their improvements in the
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A single Avtiticial Tooth
A Set 5
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A Set of Mons. Mallan's Incorrodible Teeth, hiehly
finished in the first style. 2O I 0
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BENJAMIN DAWSON'S LOZENGES.
THESE oelebrated Lozenges, for the cure of
Coughs, Hoarseness, Sore Throats' and for removing the
tickling sensation which often accompanies Colds, and to mitigate the
vehemence of soughing, still maintain the highest reputation. They are
an elegant and safe composition, and peculiarly pleasant to the taste, and
MT be freely taken by persons of all ages and at all times.
Messrs. Dawson and Watlock request the public to observe, that unless
the llama " Benjamin Dawson, Bath," is engraved on the stamp which
accompanies each Box, the Lozenges are not genuine; it is the more
necessary to observe this caution, as many persons substitute an article
called Bath Lozenges, which is far inferior in quality to the genuine.
Ask for Benjamin Dawson's Lozerurea. Price Is. NA. Sold by E.
Edward., 07, Paul's Cluirch.yaru; banger, 150, Chandler, 70, Ox.
ord-street ; mos.:Dealers iu Medicine.

IRELAND A PARADISE.—Your stupid English-
man retires to bed after his daily labour is ended. Your
livelier 111ilesion then only lays himself out for pleasure,
and betakes himself to shoot at a Justice of the Peace, or
still better, to amuse himself with a too-roo among the
Peelers. Do you go out to dinner ? Calculate at being fired
at when returning. Do you require a physician ? The odds
are that the honest doctor is qualified for a patient himself
before he leaves your lawn. Do you delight in hunting ?
You will find the monotonous period of waiting at the
cover-side agreeably diversified by the occasional whistle
of a musket-bullet from some ambushed Rockite ; and
if you venture to send a horse out to be shod, your
groom returns solus to acquaint you that the quadruped
is no more, and that the gentleman who dispatched
him sent you his regrets that he was so unlucky as to
miss yourself ; but by the assistance of the Blessed
Lady—for they are a pious and religious race—he hoped
to be more successful on a future opportunity. Are you
fond of a quadrille ? Ascertain before you attempt your first
chasm; that the ball-room windows are bricked up, and a
guard of honour stationed at the door. Are you, unfortu-
nately, a parson ? Insure your life to the uttermost farthing
you can raise—arrange your affairs—perfect your will—
and, if you be curious in posthumous renown, prepare
your epitaph ; then demand one-thirtieth of your tithe, you
arc a dead man to a moral certainty, and your heirs, execu-
tors, and assigns secure of opulence within a fortnight.—
Maxwell's Wild Sports of the West.
It is in contemplation to erect a new light-house at
Calais, 200 feet high, im the room of the Tour du Guet,
which stands only 120 feet above the level of the sea. The
precise spot of the new building is not yet decided upon,
but a Commission has been appointed to select the most
eligible position.

BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON AND SPOTING CHRO-
NICLE.—The subscribers to this Journal who obtained their
papers through Mr. Lancaster, of 25, Fleet-street (late
Messrs. Dean and Moakes), are respectfully informed that
on Saturday last the usual number of copies were not had,
and in consequence many subscribers must have been dis-
appginted. Copies of Bcli's Life in London, of December
23, can bo had all the week at No. 170, Strand.

MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
CHRONICLE.—The appearance of the English Stock
market on the whole is much the same as yesterday,
although Consols have sustained a slight depression ; but
indeed business of any moment may be now said to be sus-
pended until after the holidays. Consols left off at 934
to for the opening, and Exchequer Bills at 635. to 655.
premium. India Stock is shut, so that there is nothing to
ascertain the feeling of moneyed men connected with India
as to the news from Bengal.
All kinks of Foreign Stocks are heavy, and most of them
have undergone a depression, which is more especially
marked in Belgian, the last price of that security being 971
to 681, a further fall of one per cent. since yesterday.
Spanish Active left off at 16 to h ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 2e4 to 291 ; ditto Three per Cents., 18i. to 194 ;
Dutch Five per Cents., 1008. to ; ditto Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 544 to 7- ; Brazilian, 761 to 771 ; Mexican, 22
to 03 ; Colombian, 254 to ; Peruvian, 15} to 16i , and
Chilian, 25 to 26.
Shares are wholly without change or interest. Birming-
ham old remains at 74 to 76 prem. ; ditto, new, 23 to 24
prcm. ; Southampton, old, 44 to 45 per share ; ditto, new,
19 to 20 prem. ; Great Western, 10 to 11 prem. ;Leeds
and Manchester, 18 to 20 prem. ; Birmingham and Derby,
10 to 8 dis. ; North Midland, par to I prem. • Midland
Counties, 1.5 to 14 dis.; Brighton, 3i to 'dis ; and
Blackwall, 2 to 14 dis.
The ports have now been opened for an entire week, and
yet the arrivals of foreign corn have been exceedingly
small, while it is estimated that not more than the trifling
quantity of about 10,000 quarters remained in London to
be taken out of bond. The prices yesterday were even
rather higher at Mark-lane, and the corn factors very gene-
rally expect that a further considerable rise in all de-
scriptions of grain may be expected in the spring ; for it
is already ascertained that the deficiency of the home
harvest has been too large to allow of its being made
up by the limited importations of foreign corn which
now are expected. In addition to the prohibition
of the recent exportation from Belgium, the closing
of the ports of the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies
is considered by the corn-factors to be an important pro-
ceeding with reference to the trade, as the harvest in that
part of Europe has been superior to that of some other
countries, and considerable supplies might have been ex-
pected from Sicily, if the ports had not been suddenly
closed, to the extent perhaps of 200,000 quarters, the crop
of last year being about 5,000,000 quarters. There is now
scarcely any country from which corn can be imported, ex-
cept from Russian ports on the Black Sea ; and this state
of the corn trade has led to veryremarkable views of the work-
ingof the Corn-laws, in so far as the system isso much defended
on the ground of rendering us "independent of foreigners ,"
for some of the factors at Mark-lane remark that we are
precisely, on the contrary, "dependent" on the very foreign
power to which England would the most strongly object to
be under the necessity of resorting for supplies of the necessa-
ries of life ; for should the Emperor of Russia think proper to
imitate the policy of the King of Naples, and close the ports
of the Black Sea against the exportation of grain, our foreign
supplies must almost entirely cease for the next six months.
So far, therefore, as this absurd system of Corn-laws is in-
tended to render us " independent of foreigners," it is clear
that we have become dependent upon the despotic govern-
ment of Russia, which, by an imperial ukase, could now at
any moment refuse us supplies of food, and could thus
contribute most materially to the domestic and politi-
tical difficulties of England, in a manner which the Govern-
ment of this country must assuredly consider worthy of
consideration, with reference to that boasted attribute of
the Corn-law system which renders us " independent of fo-
reigners" for supplies of corn. Indeed the very merchants
are becoming apprehensive of purchasing corn in the despotic
countries, for the entire value of the property is at the
mercy of Governments, which, without notice of any des-
cription, could suddenly prevent the cargoes from going out
of port, and thus the English speculators might be ruined,
without the right of resistance from our own Government.
An instance of this system has occurred at Naples, where
cargoes were just on the point of leaving when the decree
appeared for closing the ports, and the loss to the purchasers
m7y be very considerable. No such consequences oould
possibly be witnessed if the trade in corn were regularly
thrown open, for the grain could be grown in so many na-
tions, and the stocks would always be so abundant, that no
particular country would have any material influence over
the supplies, and our boasted "independence of foreigners"
would thus in reality be secured.

The Message of the President of the United States has
not produced any effect in the city, either in a political,
commercial, or financial point of view.

TIMES—The accounts from Bombay by the overland
mail come down to the Ist ult., and we have therefore
another tolerably expeditious delivery of letters, by the way
of Egypt, of fifty days. It is material to notice this, as
every instance of success strengthens the preference already
given to that route for the regular communications with
India, and should stimulate the exertions of all concerned in
the arrangements to bring them up to the greatest possible
degree of perfection. Besides the declaration or manifesto
of the Governor-General, the papers do not bring anything
of importance. Owing to the extent of the military prepa-
rations for the expedition to the northward, Bombay pre-
sented an unusually animated scene. The Semiramis steamer
had arrived from Vingorla, bringing the 18th Regiment, and
it is remarked, that "in a few days more we shall hardly
have standing room in Bombay, if we may judge from
the increasing mass of little white pyramids which
are stretching across the esplanade on every side." The
Coate, a vessel carrying the expedition against Aden, had
been spoken with at sea by the Berenice, and supplied with
provisions. She had made only ten miles in the previous
24 hours, and was then 200 miles from Aden, so that it
was feared the troops would arrive much out of condition.
The Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta, with a view to
remedy the inefficiency of the Bombay steam arrangements,
was about to send in a proposal to the Government to
despatch the new steamer, the Enterprise, with the De-
cember packets, direct from Calcutta to Suez. Adverting
to the great benefit to the merchants from Mr. Waghorn's
arrangements for expediting the mails, the Bengal H 147,
kern of the Bth of October remarks, that but for the arrival
of his May packet in London on the 9th of July, the
indigo sale wouldofhtahvee bweacent farof Ipesrsopfaervoufareafbliltei.es
scooemz:
tphlaroinusg, it seems,hthetoo speedy departure of the steamers, instead
of waiting a few hours for the coming up of the French
mail, but it is very rare that any necessity of the kind arises.
The Newaub of Moorshedabad died on the 3d of October.
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ton market was rather more animated than at the last ac-
counts, and a good deal of curiosity was evinced as to the
result of the speculations known to be going forward at
Liverpool. A public notification bad issued from the Trea-
sury at Washington that the remainder of the indemnity
money had been received from France, and that all par-
ties entitled might receive their proportions of arrears on
application.

POST.--The Message of the American President, on
the opening of another Session of the Congress, does not
seem to have quite answered the expectation of our City
readers. Mr. Van Buren certainly speaks in a more sub-
dued tone of the banking interests of the Republic, but then
he still clings to his old hobby, the Sub-Treasury scheme,
a measure which has been over and over condemned by
every respectable merchant and banker in the Union, and,
as regards his allusions to the interference of American
citizens on the Canadian frontier, the general idea appears
to be, that he is needlessly circumspect, cold, and formal.

HERALD.—The lengthy address of the American
President, which has been the subject of so much antici-
pation, has not created the sensation which was expected.
It is considered here to be an ill-digested document,
abounding with prolixity but wanting pith or anything of
the statesman which the Presidents of the hydra-headed
republic are so wont to assume. The allusion to the re-
bellion on the frontiers of Canada is considered satis-
factory, though there is no boldness in the tone by which
that disgraceful affair, on the part of the United States'
scamps,
is repudiated. The boundary question is also held to
amount to little more than a milk-and-water equivocation
on the part of the President. The reference to the in-
creased stability of the commercial and banking system
of the United States, of which Mr. Van Buren assumes
that his monetary policy has been the cause,has been nothing
more than a subject of ridicule here, inasmuch as nothing
but the energies of the people enabled them to surmount
his destructive monetary and financial decrees. Beyond
this we need not allude to the inaugural address of the
President of the United States, since it has been amply
treated of elsewhere.