The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-23 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

A RETURN-of the NUMBER of NEWSPAPERS to which STAMPS were issued,
issued to Neiispaper4, in the Years ending September 15, 1836 and 1837, and the lit
distinguishing the Number issued to London Newspapers, to English Provincial News
Novspapi.:;-i reitpeetiYvtl'iapd ;1191/Otte- the Total Number and Amount each year; also, t
Duty received in each of Inc au6ve CE..I:IA;

and of the Number of Stamps
alf Year ending March 15, 1838;
papers, and to Irish and Scots'
;he amount of Newspaper Stamp

Ti
Year ending Sept. 15, 1836. 1 Year entiing Sept 15, 1837. Half-year ending March 15, 1838.
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-- Number Number Number Number Number Number
of of Amount of of of Amount of of of Amount of
News- Stamps Duty. News- Stamps Duty. News- Stamps Duty.
papers. issued. papers. issued. papers. issued,
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London Newspapers ....... 71 19,241,640 256,556 0 0 85 29,172,797 121,553 6 5 86 14,438,556 60,160 13 0
English ProYincial Ditto... 194 8,535,3961113,804 16 0 237 14,996,113 62,483 16 1 223 7,365,842 30,695 3 6
Scotch Ditto... .64 2,654,438 35,392 10 2 65 4,123,330 17,180 10 10 66 2,216,400 9,235 0 0
Irish Ditto... \7B 5,144,382 87,525 2 0 71 5" 203 967 16,263 311 62 2,620,181 8,197 8 5
397 136,576,056,443,278 11 2I 458 456,46,2071217,480 17 3 I 437 26,641,9791108,288 411
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WINDSOR-SUNDAY.

Northumberland, Lord Cliv,

&c., take great interest in pro-

Lady Eleanor Paget, eldest daughter of the Earl of Ux-
bridge, had the honour of being presented to her Majesty on
Friday last. The Earl and Countess, and Lady Eler.aor,
took leave of the Queen yesterday, and left Windsor for
London.
The Duke of Argyll and the Dean of Chester also left
yesterday.
Sir James Clerk, private physician to the Queen, arrived at
the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of an audience of her
Majesty.
Yesterday afternoon the Queen took a long ride, accompa-
nied by her Royal Mother, and attended by the usual suite.
In the evening, the singers belonging to the choir of Saint
George's Chapel had the honour of performing several glees
the presence of her Majesty. Afterwards the Queen's private
band performed the following compositions in the music
room :—Overture to Marie, Herold • Selection from Preaux
Clercs, Herold; Madrigal, Fair Rosamond, Barnett ; Die
Lleimeth Mange, Struass; Romance, from Robert le Diable,
Mayerbecr ; Duet, from Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti ;
" Cielo I it mio Labbro," Rossini.
This morning the Queen and her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, attended by their suites, went to St. George's
chapel. The service was King's, in F, and the anthem,
" Unto thee have I cried, oh Lord," composed by Mr. Elvey,
organist to her Majesty, the solo to which was beautifully sung
by Mr. Hill. The service was read by the Hon. and Rev. the
Dean of Windsor, and the sermon was preached by the Hon.
and Rev. Mr. Cust, canon in residence. Mr. Elvey presided
at the organ.
Ott Tuesday the Court will leave Windsor for Buckingham
Palace. The Queen will return to the castle the first week of
June, and will remain a fortnight, during which it is expected
the Queen will be present at the Eton montem and regatta,
and Ascot races.

noting this charitable abject.
The Duke and Ductless of Beaufort entertained a
select circle at dinner last evening, at their mansion, in Park-
place. His Grace arrived in town on Pilday, from Newmarket.
Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford are expected in
Eaton-square to-morrow, from Leamington Spa, accompanied
by their daughters.
•;.--Tfie Earl of Essex and his newly-married Countess
(late Miss Stephens) left Belgrave-square on Thursday, to
pass the honeymoon at Casbiobury Park, the delightful seat of
the Earl, near Watford, Herts. His Lordship is in his 82d
year, having been born on the 13th November, 1757. Her
Ladyship, who is about forty years his junior, acquired a com-
petence by the exercise of her talents as a vocalist, and re-
tuld from the stage seven years ago.

The Duke of Devonshire will leave Chatsworth to-
day for Devonshire House. Lord Leveson will return from
Paris the latter ,end of this week, to attend to his Parliamen-
tary duties.
The Duke of Argyll aa Miss Campbell have left
town for Crawley's Park Hotel at Norwood, where they will
remain until Wednesday next.
The Marquis of Bute has " bound himself and his
heirs to give a permanent endowment to the new church at
Rothsay of 751. a year."
Lord Suffield is about to give up the Gunton
hounds, having taken the Quorn hounds. It is not at present
determined who will manage the former excellent pack,
which has afforded such capital sport to the nobility and
gentry of Norfolk.
The Prince of Moscawa has written the entire music
of a new petite opera, in two acts, of which report speaks
highly.
Signor Gabussi has arrived in town from the Con-
tinent, having been engaged for the last few months in
completing a new Opera. He will remain during the season,
The manager of the Opera House, it is stated, in-
tends to enforce strictly his engagemements with the Italian
vocalists, by which they are restricted from singing at any
ether concerts than his own, without his permission.
We understand that John Shawe Stewart, E: q., is
likely to be appointed to the sheriffdom of Stirling, vacant by
the death of Sir J. Macdonald, of Staffa, the late Sheriff.

The Papal Nuncio appointed for Brussels has ar-
rived at Namur.

CORONATION PEERS.—We understand that Lord
Carew is one of those ;upon whom the honour of a British
Peerage is about to be conferred on the approaching solem-
nity of the Coronation. Lord Carew's station in the country,
his powerful family connexion, and extensive property, to-
gether with his long and faithful co-operation with the Whigs,
give him the strongest claims to such an honour from the pre-
unt liberal Administration.—Dublin Evening Poet.
To LONDON IN ONE DAY.—In consequence of
the opening of the greater part of the London and Birming-
ham Railway, the journey from Liverpool and Manchester to
London can now be performed in one day. Passengers who
go from Liverpool and Manchester by the Grand Junction
trains at half-past six in the morning, will arrive at Birming-
ham soon after eleven, and will have from that time till one
o'clock for dinner or business, when the trains will leave for
London, where it is expected they will arrive soon after eight
o'clock. And passengers leaving London by the half-past
seven trains will arrive in Liverpool or Manchester between
nine and ten in the evening. Thus a person leaving Port
Carlisle by one of our steamers at five o'clock in the evening,
will be in London next evening at eight o'clock—that is in 27
hours 1 The arrangements for the conveyance of the mails by
the London and Birmingham line, we understand, will not be
completed before the 7th of May, after which day the London
bags will reach Liverpool about ten o'clock in the morning.
Carlisle Journal.

Mr. EWART.—In the Dublin Freeman's Journal
it is stated, that if a vacancy occur in the representation of
Drogheda, by the elevation of the present Member to the
Peerage, Mr. E wart will assuredly be returned, despite Mr.
Dixon and Mr. Mahoney, the rumoured aspirants to the seat.
We have to acknowledge the courtesy of the Pro-
prietor of The Sun, in sending us a copy of Saturday's paper,
which brought to Macclesfield, on Sunday morning, an ac-
count of the verdict in the trial of Mr. Williams, for forging
a will, which was not delivered at the Old Bailey, Lendon, till
late on Saturday evening.—Macclesfield Courier.

A LAWYER'S BILL.—The Nottingham Review
of last week has a verbatim copy of a lawyer's bill in an unde-
fended action in a Court called the Peveral Court, in that
county, for 2/. ; and the costs (even as taxed by the protho-
notary) amount to 121. 4s. Bd. What would the costs have
amounted to, if this two pound action of debt had been de-
fended ? And what will the plaintiff have to pay his lawyer
for extra costs ? Talk of " the glorious uncertainty of the
law," indeed? Why, it is certain that if you go to law, pay
you must, win or loose.
LIBEL CASES.—Our experience of the law has
been rather peculiar. In three cases in which we have been
sufferers, the parties were the Mersey bankers ; Stretton, the
swindling parson, and the notorious Roger Whitehead.
Whether the bankers were hanged or transported we never
could learn ; but of the others, the one was hanged, and the
other transported. When Kinnear was in high feather in
Liverpool many years ago, he negociated one acceptance for
80,000/., which is now kept framed and glazed, as a memento
of those times.—Liverpool Mercury.
STEAM ENGINES.—To those who watch the pro-
gress of our ancient city in the accumulation of all the ele-
ments of prosperity, improvement, and extension, there can be
no surer sign of the fulfilment of their wishes, than the ra-
pidity with which steam engine after steam engine is put in
operation in every part of the town. Within the last few
years we have recorded the erection of at least a dozen of
those mighty implements of power, of various sizes and qua-
lities, and we have this week to add one other to the list, made
and completed by a native artist; and although of but com-
paratively small power, the fact is worthy of note, as marking
the progress of our city to that eminence and importance to
which we feel assured she is destined to arrive. On Thurs-
day last a small but very beautifal engine was set to work, for
the first time, in the brewery of Mr. Iredale, Water-street.
It was made by Mr. Sydney Hall, a native, and, we may say,
a self-taught mechanic, of very great abilities, who has exe-
cuted the work in a manner which will bear comparison with
the works of some of our most celebrated makers. The en-
gine pumps water, grinds malt, and performs various other la-
borious processes, which cannot fail to be most advantageous
to her spirited owner. Mr. Iredale treated a number of his
friends to an excellent dinner, with all the eteetras, on the oc-
casion ; and many a hearty bumper was quaffed to the success
of the " Svdney"—the name given by proper sponsors to the
-engine.—Carlisle journal,

It appears by the late adviees through the overland
mail, via Marseilles, from Calcutta, that the interest in the '
progress and promotion of a perfect steam communication be-
tween this country and India had not in the slightest degree
abated, and among the wealthier classes of the natives the ut-
most enthusiasm upon this vital and important subject conti-
nued to prevail. As one positive instance that the more re-
spectable native merchants are far from being apathetic upon
this great question, we subjoin the following extract from a
letter addressed by a very talented Parsee merchant of Cal-
cutta to James Barber, Esq., of thin city. After commenting
upon the valuable services of Lord William Bentinek, and the
gratification which his administration had excited in the
native population, and complimenting the gentleman to
whom this letter is addressed upon his pamphlet respecting
Steam Navigation, &c., the writer, D arkauath Tajore, pro-
ceeds to remark, in an earnest and flowery style, not unbe-
coming an Oriental writer—" That it is certainly remarkable
that an undertaking of this kind (steam communication
with Europe), notwithstanding its acknowledged utility, should
have been so long dormant. Whilst unity is admitted to be
power, your efforts towards the object in view, however humble
and insignificant in your opinions, will, doubtless, add to the
endeavours which have been made, and are still making, in
other quarters. Whatever steps the Government may have
hitherto taken for the amelioration of the inhabitants of
.India,
the present one, when brought to maturity, cannot fail to be
regarded as a particular boon conferred on us, as it will open
the door to the natives perfecting themselves in the work of
civilisation, by visiting with comparatively less sacrifice of time
the very land to the exiled sons of which thew are now so
much indebted fOr the little improvement they hare made in
morals and literature. When the enterprise is placed on a
firm basis, and it is. indeed, the greatest facility which the
conqueror could afford to the conquered for emancipating
themselves from the trammels of long-rooted bigotry and
prejudice, by the dint of local example, the aborigines, it' still
resisting the inducements to proceed to England, cannot but
be looked upon as the most inveterate enemies to their own
advancement in everything of a laudable nature. As for me,"
concludes this able yet enthuasastic native writer, " I shall
hail such a day with rapture ; though, if such a day should not
occur in all next year, I shall set out for your happy land, and
there, among other things, converse with you personally on
the advantages from the establishment of steam communica-
tion between two metropolises of such vast magnitude. '
The more we consider the principle of Sergeant
Talfourd's Bill for the regulation or rather protection of lite-
rary property, the more just and reasonable does it appear ;
and the whole history of literature is a commentary on the
hardship aid injustice of the existing law, which is, however,
greatly more favourable than the former Act.—Edinburgh
Courant.