The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-02 00:00:00

LONDON,

SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, IS3G.

It will be seen by the returns to-day that the elcc,
tions of Aldermen and Mayor in the different Municipa
towns are proceeding favourably for the Reformers.

The Times, of this morning, in an article that
lireathes the very dialect of despair, frankly assures
the Tories that not a hope is left them, except such
as they may derive from a close attendance in Par-
liament during the Session. He exhorts them,
therefore, as they valne their own and the people's in-
terests, to lose no opportunity of voting against the
Government ; and more particularly, to " stand by
their Parliamentary leaders, not merely on the first
day, or during the first week of the Session, but
throughout it, from February to the end of July." If
this be all the encouragement that our Contemporary
can hold out to his party, times must indeed be bad
with that party. Let the minority muster as they
may, they can do nothing against a majority, which
the result of the late Municipal elections will make
more compact, more determined—aye, and more nu-
merous too—than ever. Yet in this poor minority lies
the Tories' sole hope. Why, the fool who built his
palace on the sands, never built it on a rottener
foundation ! Not a syllable does the Times let
fall about the feelings of the country being. entwined
with those of the Conservatives :—this, he feels,
would be too great an outrage on the common-sense
0
of even his admirers ; he therefore rests his sole hope
of ousting the Government on the firmness of a Tory
minority. We can look upon our Contemporary's
article in no other light than as a virtual begging of
the question—as an indirect acknowledgment of defeat
—as a proof that he has scarcely faith even in the
Chapter of Accidents, but feels at heart that the party,
whose interests he has so disastrously espoused, is, at
the moment of his writing, in articulo mortis, and
that nothing can save them but a miracle. Meantime,
the advice that he has tendered to a Tory minority,

The whole of the French journals of Thursday
have been received. The Chambers met in a legisla-
tive capacity on Wednesday, when the Nine Commit-
tees, or Bureaus, were appointed, and the Presidents,
Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries for the ensuing year
elected. In the Chamber of Deputies two hundred
and seventy-eight members took their seats. The
whole number of Deputies is four hundred and fifty-

nine. In the Chamber of Peers only seventy-seven

members were present, not including thirty-one new
Peers created since the last session of the Chambers.
The election for the President in the Chamber of De-
puties ran as follows :

Candidates.
M. D upin
M. Lafitte
M. Sauzett

M. Martin (Du Nord) ...
M. Mau,guin
11. Royer Collard ...

Votes.
164
34
34

After the usual scrutiny had been made, M. D uPIN
was declared duly elected President, and M. SAUZETT
obtained the office of Vice-President. The Chamber
then adjourned till Thursday, when the preliminary
arrangements were made for commencing the business
of the session. In all that has yet taken place, every
thing has happened as Ministers intended. There
has been no collision ; and from what we have been
able to learn on the subject, the Republican party in
the Chamber of Deputies is weaker now than it has
been at any time since the accession of Louts
PHILLIPPE.

There is no intelligence of any moment from the
North of Spain in these journals. If the current ru-
mours may be credited, the Carlists have suffered se-
verely in the North, since the last arrival of MINA in
Catalonia. The winter has set in with much severity
in the Biscayan provinces, so that the armies arc
obliged to confine themselves in a great measure to
their quarters. Heavy falls of snow and rain have
succeeded each other so rapidly, that, in the course of
a few weeks, most of the main roads were so broken
up as to be rendered quite impassable.
The PRESIDENT'S Message had not been received
in Paris on Thursday

PARIS, DEC. 30.—After having given the enormous mass
of reports which have been circulated, and were inserted by all
the journals respecting a pretended plot said to have been de-
feated yesterday, we must say that only one person was ar-
rested in the street yesterday, and that he has been released.
We will add that M. Bergeron has not been arrested, and that
it is very extraordinary, that not one but two deputies, should

have come with suet a piece of news to Change without be-
ing certain of it.

DEC. 31.—The Moniteur has nothing to-day in its official
part but one of the ordinances already published in the Bul-
letin des Lois.

It is said that M. Basquie: is so weakened by the short ill-
ness that he has just had that it is impossible for him to resume
his functions as President of the Council of Peers in the pro-
ceedings which will shortly open.
Among the projects of law which arc to be presented to the
Chambers in this Session, is that for four great iron Railroads,
viz., from Paris to the Sea, from Paris to Lille, from Paris to
Orleans, and from Paris to .Toulon. It is thought that this
project.will be followed by another, the purpose of which will
be a modification of the Tariff of Customs, which will reduce
he import duties on rails and prices, so that they may be fur-
nished at a lower price than at present.
The Armaments at Cherburgh continue ; great exertions
are making to equip the Genereux. At Brest eighteen per-
manent Companies have jest been formed for the division of
crews of ships of the line, with the seamen of the classes of the
levy. The recruits of the levy of the class of 1834, who are
expected in January, will be added to them.
The ffcrmione was to go into the road on the 31st, and on
the same day to take on board the whole crew, composed of
121st, 122 d, 123 d, and 124th permanent Companies. —Mes-
sager, Dec. 31.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Psnts, DECEMBER 31.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 4,3 c. 45c. 25c. 30c.
Four per:Cents., 99f. 60c.
Three per Cents. SOf. 35c. 30c. 40c. 45c.
Bente tie Naples, 971'. 85c. 80e. 65c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%N.
Spanish Actives, 49.4 50 49%.
Spanish Differes,:2s.
Passives, 16,.i
Royal Spanish Loan. 33W•
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 101.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 1334.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents,"sl3i,
Dutch Two and a half per Cents , 56f. 6Oc.7fc.
Haytian Loan, 4201.

EICITANOR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —e.; money, 23t 52.4 e.
three months, paper, 15f. 37 c.; money, —L
—Court Authentique.

BOURSE THREE O'CLOCK.—The Three per Cents. have
again improved to-day ; they opened at 80f. 40e. buyers, and
got up to 80f. 60c. The Spanish stocks opened better than
they are at present. The Passive was done at 16i, but re-
ceded to 161. The rise of the 3 per Cents, is owing to the
state of the market, it being the end of the month, and the
liquidations of options to-day.
QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 55c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 50c, ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, 25 ; Gueb-
bards, 381; Differes, 18k; New Loan, —; Actives, 49-;
Passives, 161 ; Ducats, 67 95 ; Romans, 1011 ; Pcdros, —;
Belgians, 1011; Dutch, 56f. 70c. ; Haytians, 4201. .—c.;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 14 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 25 ; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles,

The Orange fraternity, seems to have plucked up
heart of grace from the inspiring missive which came
lately from Berlin. Several re-unions have • taken
place since its arrival ; and .dinners commemorative of
grand historical events are celebrated in the journals
almost every day. A double anniversary was kept on
the Friday before Christmas, in memory of two
achievements—the shutting of the Earl of ANTRIM
out of Londonderry in 1699, by the Rev. Mr.
WALKER, and the expulsion Of DANIEL O'CON-
NELL OUt of the Royal Exchange in 1834, by the
Rev. Mr. M'CREA. It is a day markable with- two
white stones ; and the Calvin Lodge, an institution
mated and begotten by Mr. M'CItEA himself, had
a special and two-fold jollification thereupon. The
speeches which are uttered at these meetings are, for
very special and no doubt good reasons, presented to
the general reader in a much abridged and mitigated
form. The only part of their symposims which seems
to retain its entirity is'the list of toasts ; from which,
however, a shrewd guess may be made of the nature
of the sentiments broached between the bouts. At a
late feast of one of the principal Lodges, a hint was
given to the Presumptive-Heiress to the Crown that
she must conform to the views of the Orangemen, if
she expects any allegiance from them. Her health
was given, with the following qualification :—" The
Princess VicToniA-----may she remember the grounds
aniLksLmore faithful to

Prin.

eiple than her uncle
The Calvinists, the other day, were less insolent
towards her Royal Highness, for they omitted her
natne altogether, and embodied all their devotion to
the secondary members of the Royal Family in an act
of homage to his Imperial Highness the Grand
Masttr We subjoin the order of their toasts ; the
wordmg of which, though ludicrous, displays the
glistening scales of the traitor lurking under the roses :
—" Our Gracious SOVEREIGN, the Son of GEORGE
the Just."—(The honours.) " The Royal Rose of
Europe—QUEEN A DELA IDE."—(Cheering.) "The
Noblest ,Subject in the British dominions—Our Im-
perial Grand illaster.----( Three-times-three.)
The Glorious Memory and other routine Pledges
Collowed, and then came a fancy, for which much
should be forgiven to the Calvin Lodge :
" The CREW on the quarter-deck of the ship Con-
stitution. CUMBERLAND ! --RODEN ! !--E NNIS-
KILLEN ! ! NCHEL SEA ! ! ! I"—A. most fit and
appropriate designation THE ORANGE CREW !
In vino veritas. Meet it is that so factious a Cabal
should be known by a title which may transmit the
names of its leaders to posterity.

We have also before us an address from The Walker
Lodge to Mr. DEANE, the gentleman whom the
Lord Lieutnant in Council would not suffer to be
Mayor of Cork, because he is the Master of an Orange
Lodge. It is a long, canting, sanguinary production,
such as might have emanated from an Old Covenanter
grafted upon an Irish Methodist. " The Brethren,"
as these fierce fanatics style themselves, declare that
their words are inadequate to express their, ,feelings, but
" suffice it to say that we agree in sentiment with all
the addresses which have so deseryedly poured in upon
you from all quarters, and that were it possible, our
voices would be raised louder than any." This ex-
ceeds the urbanity of Dogberry himself, who, had he
twice more tediousness than he possessed, could find it
in his heart to bestow it all upon the Duke. But Mr.
DEANE better deserves such an offering, for he repays
it in kind. -" The Protestant cause," say these inade-
quate linguists, " is the cause of posterity : let us
therefore cement, even with our blood, bulwarks which
they will value and maintain. * * * *
Having thus performed, however feebly, a public duty,
allow. us to pray the God of all Grace to give you
wisdom so to walkin this life, that when He cometh
you may not be found wanting, but that he may give
unto you a crown of life which fadeth not away—that
one of those mansions (quere Mansion Houses?) may
be ready for your reception, which no one can then
dispute your title to, for those mansions are a purchased
possession."

To all this sickening stuff, disgusting by its mixture
with factious hate and malice of the most obvious tru •
culence, Mr. DEANE, who is really no fool, replies
with much complacency that he " has lived long enough
not to be surprised at any of the fantastic tricks played
by party men when dressed in a little brief authority, '
and takes comfort from the observation which he takes
from " the signs of the times—that the performers of
those fantastic tricks (such as his exclusion from the
unpurchased and of course unpurchaseable mansion of
Cork) will have but a brief authority." But the best
security those performers can take for prolonging their
authority is to go on as they have begun, and refuse to
place any trust, or delegate any power, to such party
men as Mr. DEANE. They may infer from his un-
worthiness before his rejection, and the furious and
unbridled hostility which he now vows against the
principles of the Government, how little reliance is to
be placed on any of the tribe, and how implacable is
their enmity to all the plans and designs of a liberal,
wise, and just Administration.

We have learned with deep regret that four more
unfortunate individuals were drowned this morning in
the Canal in St. James's Park, while amusing them-
selves by skaiting. It is really strange that the dread-
ful occurrences of Christmas day have not had the

effect of preventing persons- from venturing upon the
ice, and still stranger that they have not induced the
Humane Society forcibly to prevent skating on the
Canal and the Serpentine River. It is very absurd
to call that humanity which suffers foolish and insane
persons to peril their lives without any object, merely
that it may employ, itself in resuscitating them. What
are the magistracy and police about, that they -do not
prevent these suicidal accidents ? They have the
power of preventing this cruel sacrifice of human life ;
and we call upon them to do their duty as magistrates,
and as guardians of the lives and properties of
the people. Men have no more right to drown
themselves voluntarily than they have to sacrifice their
lives by steel or gunpowder ; and when the conse-
quences are certain, it is criminal to suffer them to peril
their existence by skaiting. We cannot withhold
blame from the directors of the Humane Society. They
are ever at hand when their assistance is not wanted ;
they are ready to resuscitate when life is gone for ever ;
but they can never be found when preservation, not
cure, is principally necessary.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, Jaw. I.—Wind E. S.E.--Arrived the Newgrave,
Brown, from Madras ; and the Angra, Miller, from Cadiz.
Sailed this morning the Hooghly and Lushington, for the
River. Sailed for the River the Prince George, Creed, from
the Mauritius.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind S.S.E. to E. with rain and
snow.

FALMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind variable, light breezes.—
Arrived the Alarm, Warren, from Zante. Off port the Man-
kein, —, from New Yoilt, leaky, &c. ; and the Ocean,
Field, from Demerara. Sailed his Majesty's ship Water
Witch, ' for the Cape of Good Hope.
' CLYDE Dac. 30.—Arrived the. Arkwright, --, from
Savannah.

SLIGO, DEC. 30.--Arrived the Mary Read, -, from
Cumberland ; and his Majesty's ship, Lady Nepean, Griffiths,
from London.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK.
Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 25th Oct., and Madras
to the 9th August, have this day been received it the North
and South American Coffee House.

The Cape papers of the 24th say,—" We are happy to
learn that tranquillity has followed the peace concluded
with the Caffre Chiefs and thektribes. The hostile parties,
by which the frontier districts were harrassed to the last mo-
ment of the war, have retired to their own country, and the
Caffres are generally returning to their homes, and are re-
suming their usual occupations. Mucomo and Tyalruce are
both at King Williams' Town, and are treated with civility
and kindness by our officers. The Fingaes have suffered se-
verely, and arc now in distress. Their services are offered to
the colonists under the contract, in the terms of the 49th Ordi-
nance. Colonel Hare, with his, . Regimental Staff, and two
Companies of the 27th Regimertt, will proceed immediately to
Graham's Town. The loss of the sheep by the late severe
weather, on the frontier, is .estimgted at 12,000. -The Go-
vernor has shUt up for a time all the wine and brandy shops in
Graham's Town. During the last week,- for five or six days,
we had at this end of the Colony a violent gale from the S. E.
At Greenpoint several trees were torn up ;by-timroots, and
houses unroofed. At Stellenbosch the gale was. most, severe,
and considerable injury was sustained. We have not heard
that the shipping sustained any damage."
Cape of Good Hope Papers of the. 17th October give a
melancholy account of the wrecks occasioned by, the late gales
in Angola Bay. They add, "of our affairs in the new province
we cannot say much with certainty. The settlement of the
Jengoes in the neutral territory, it seems, has beau broken up;
and the people have dispersed themselves inall directions, and
some are said to have returned to their old masters. The
Caffres learned with consternation how their chief, Hentza,
and his subjects were being thrown by the approach of the
British forces. The Jengoes seized the opportunity of
making a demonstration in favour of liberty; and with all
their masters and cattle committed to their care, to the amount
of 22,000 head, the put themselves under the protection of
his Majesty's representative.
" Numerous reports of disasters have reached us from various
quarters. Of the flocks of Messrs. Maynard and Co. 670
sheep perished ; of Wainwright's 600. There is- a long list
of many other persons' flocks having also met the same fate.
Great numbers of cattle have also died. The great Fish
River rose to an unusual height, aucLiblitialDaSiable.l:Qr_
rp.l days." c"; 9,1 0,11111 firirdleOtAssi”.*
THE FUNDS. y .

Consols, which left off yesterday at 621 for the Account,
opened at the same price this morning, since which they have
been done at 924 with little doing. Exchequer Bills !.3
15 ; India Bonds 2 3 ; Bank Stock 212 213.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 504, at
present 501- ; Portuguese rather heavy, owing to their
coming lower from Paris ; Five per Cents. 841 ; Three per
Cents. 544 ex. div.
The Express from Paris brings liadrid dates of the 24th
ult. No news of consequence.

HALF-PAST ONE.
We have no further arrivals to the present time, or any spe-
culations of consequence doing in the British market.
Consols May be quoted at 01-1- for the Account during the
morning :---Exchequer Bills 14 16 ; India Bonds 34; Bsnk
Stock 212} 213 ; India Stock 250} 257 i.
voulrnittehesple'courleaigtition—mairtkreeta,chSepdanso3h-ik;
a t present 50p.„
Active continues the,la-
Ppr-
tugutse 8 ti; Three per Cents.,.s4::it ex. dividend ; Colom-
bian 323-; Mexican 38} ; Dutch 2i, per Cents:, 54k; Five
per Cents.,.ditto; lO2f.
THREE OCL 0 CK.
a 4.

Consols for the Account, 92;
THE FUNDS.—CI
BRITISH

USING PRICES.
FUNDS.
I'ank Stock
3 per Cent llctl 111,!" India Stock
3 per Cent Cons Ditto Bonds .... 4 pm.
3i-, per Cent. - — South Sea Stock
11!,2 per Cent Red 9934 Ditto Old Annuities
New t' per Cent ' 101 Ditto New Annuities
I per Cent. Assented
Dissented — Ditto 500/ l6 p:,.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 50,1 pi I,m.
Ja.s. 18,1 i I
t; et 1850 l6 3-13 1-ailia Stock for Act.
Jun. 1801 ....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent — F:ictuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
tieltdan, 5 per cent lOl% , Ditto, New Ditto B3
Brailian Bonds
Buctios Ayres. 6 per cant — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent—.
Gillian, 6 per cent
Colombian, Si per cent.
Ditto, 1824 :33!i Ditto, Is3l —
1/anish Bonds. — ' French, 5 per cent
Gree% Biids, 1tt.15.5 per cent. Exchangtz
3 -
' •
Mexican, 5 per cent. - —t. 'N' e
Ditto, 6 per cent , 13.25 ....... 3iiil4 ' Dutch, 11, per cent
Occur a:o, 1825, 6 per cent. ... 2.5'.% 1 Ditto, 5 per cent......... .....,•-10'2'.3i

ACCIDENTS IN THE FOG.—Thursday afternoon,
during the dense fog with which many parts of the metro-
polis were visited, the neighbourhood of Tottenham-court-
road, particularly that part adjoining the end of Oxford-
street, was so completely darkened, that for upwards of
20 minutes, not an object was discernible at the distance
of two yards. Between three and four o'clock, while the
fog was at the thickest, a lady named Hilton, residing in
Great Guildford-street, Russell-square, was crossing Tot-
tenham-court-road, near to the end of Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, when she was run against by a cab, the shaft
of which struck her on the shoulder, and knocked her
down with great violence under the horse's feet, when one
of the wheels passed over both her arms and across her
breast, causing severe and extensive laceration, and shock-
ingly fracturing the bone of her left elbow. Mrs. Hilton,
after receiving some assistance on the spot, was conveyed to
her residence in a hackney coach, and but slight hopes are
entertained of her ultimate. recovery. About the same
time Mrs. Gresley, of No. 25, Albany-street, Regent's-
park, was crossing the New-road, near to Trinity Church,
when she heard a vehicle approaching her, but could not
distinguish in what direction it was coming, and in her
anxiety to get out of the way, she ran directly in front of
a horse drawing a heavily laden rubbish-cart, which knocked
her down, and one of the wheels passed over both her
legs. She was conveyed home in a state of intense suffer-
ing, and her life is considered in the greatest danger.
NATIONAL FEsTI vITIEs•--.The revels of merry
England are fast subsiding into silence, and her many cus-
toms wearing gradually away. The affections and frivolities
of society, as well as its more grave and solemn pursuits—
the exigencies of fashion and the tongue of the pedagogue,
are alike arrayed against them, and, one by one, they are
retreating from the great assemblies where mankind " most
do congregate," to hido themselves in remote solitudes and
rural nooks. In fact, that social change which has enlarged
and filled the towns at th© expense of the country, which
has annihilated the yeomanry of England, and drawn the
estated gentleman from the shade of his ancestral oaks, to
live upon their produce in the haunts of dissipation—has
been, in itself, the circumstance most unfavourable to the
existence of many of them which delight in by-ways and shel-
tered places—which had their appropriate homes in the old
manor house or the baronial hall. Yet do they pass lingeringly
away. Traces of most of them still exist, and, from time to
time, re-appear even in our cities and towns ; and there are,
probably, scarcely any which have not found some remote,
district or other of the islands, in which their influence is
still acknowledged and their rites are duly performed.
There is something in the mind of man which attaches him
to ancient superstitions, even for the sake of their anti-
quity, and endears him to old traditions because they are .
old. We cannot readily shake off our reverence for that
which our fathers have reverenced so long, even where
the causes in which that reverence originated are not very
obvious, or not very satisfactory. We believe that he who
shall aid in preserving the records of these vanishing ob-
servances, ere it be too late, will do good and acceptable
service in his generation.—Hervey's Book of Christmas,