The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

Sir James Clark left Osborne yesterday for London.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at
the Foreign-oflico. The Ministers present were Lord J.
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis
Baring, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. tabouchere ,
and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat two hours
and a half.

Mr. Norman Macdonald, Governor of Sierra Loom.,
had tho honour of an interview with Dal Grey yester-
day at the Colonial-office, to take leave of his Lordship,
prior to embarkation to resume tho Government of that
colony.

Mr: French, M.P., had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Duwnirg-
street.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of tLe
Exchequer yesterday.
Mr. More O'lerrall had an interview yesterday with
Eaal Grey at the Colonial- office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Canada, and also from the
Governors of the other North American colonies.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The follow-
ing gentlemen hiving undergone the necessary ex-
aminations for diploma, wore admitted members ,of the
College at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on
the sth inst , being the first meeting this session:—
Messrs. George John Mittel], Tumworth ; Henry
Merrill Williamson, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire;
Richard Skinner Henning, East Brent, Somersetshire;
John King Maconchy, Dubli❑ ; Henry Tregelles Fox,
Dunmow, Essex; John Stream Armstrong, Belfast;
James Denholme, Pridie, Stockton, on-Tees, Duram;
J, ha Horsley White, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire; C.
Nathaniel 3l`Caull, Dublin; William Henry Tinney,
Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire ; and William Cowen
Stokestown, county of Roscommon,
WALTHAM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT.-Ti e annual
meeting of this society was held on Friday last, the sth
instant, in the Agricultural Hall, Waltham. Amongst
the company present were the Marquis of Granby, M.P.
(President for the year); E. B. Farnham, Eeq., M.P.;
W. F. N. Norton, Esq.; the Hon. W. H. Wilson, &c.
About ninety of the members sat down to dinner. In
the course of his address the Noble President asked his
audience—" Why is it, when both the quality and yield
of the harvest are above the average, that there is a
general gloom spread over this meeting? Why is it that
our hopes are damped—our spirits not the same as they
were three years ago? Why is it that your countenances
are overcast, and that even on this festive occasion we
have not the spirits we used to have? This question
must be put, it shall be put—(Loud cheers)—aye, and it
must Le answered too.—(Cheers.) We have heard many
plausible reasons assigned, but there are few persons
that have ventured to state the real arid plain truth.—
(Cheers.) I think the statement which I hold in my
hand will give the true answer. The quantity of wheat
imported during the last seven months (from Feb. 8 to
Sept. 12) is 3,344,239 quarters. There are some people
who would attempt to delude you into the belief that
the reduction of taxation is the remedy fur our distemper;
and I mention this to show that if there had been a fixed
duty of Bs. the taxes might really have been reduced
1,337,69.51.—(Cheers ) The total quantity of grain im-
ported in these seven months was 5,399,658 quarters;
and if there had been a proportionate duty on the other
kinds of corn (such as Ss. for oats, &c.), the revenue
would have gained 1,749,455/. That is my answer to
the question.—(Loud cheers.)" At the conclu,ion of
his speech the Noble Marquis insisted that all the
efforts of the farmers would be useless unless they got
back protection.
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The following promotions have taken place in the
Customs, consequent upon the decease of Sir Cuthbert
Sharpe, collector at Newcastle:—\V. J. Williams, col-
lector at Dover, to be collector at Newcastle. W. Wil-
cox, comptroller at Gloucester, to be collector at Dover.
W. Davies, comptroller at Douglas, Isle of Man, to be
comptroller at Gloucester. W. G. Beresford, comptrol-
ler at Dundalk, to be comptroller at Douglas. John
Daly, collector at Wicklow, to be comptroller at Dun
dalk. Mr. Freshfield, collector of customs at Ramsgate.
has been appointed collector at Ipswich,
in the room of
Lane, deceased. Mr. Bellamy, comptroller at Aberdeen,
to be collector at Ramsgate.
Mr. Preston, comptroller
at Rochester, to be comptroller at Aberdeen. Mr. Thcs.
Lee, comptroller at Drogheda, to be comptroller at Ro-
chester. Mr. Hughes, comptroller at Caernarvon, to be
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comptroller at Drogheda. Mr. James Mason, searcher
of the
port of London.
SuraastateramToNN,
avOigcaTt.ion CB.—Theompa
Company's
PeninsularshipE
u xin and
Oriental e
Captain R. W. Evans, arrived here at noon with ship.
letter bags of the following dates, which were her days
of
sailing ;Constantinople, September 19; Sm3rna,
September 22; Malta, September 26; Gibraltar, Octo-
ber 3. She brings on freight 16 packages of specie,
value 60,0001. sterling; 150 tons of figs, in drums; 33
bales of silk, 354 bales of goats' hair, 52 tubs of leeches,
25 cases of acamtaony, 1 case of Jarbois rats, 1 case of
ostriches alive, 60 packages of general merchandise, and
32 passengers. The Euxine has experienced very stormy
weather on her passage home. On the 27th ult. she
spoke her Majesty's steamer Dragon off Cape Bon, and
the screw steamer Bosphorus, 16 miles to the westward
of Cape Bon. On the 28th exchanged colours with the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
ship Illudostan (bound to Malta), about 30 miles to the
eastward of the island of Galita. On the Ist of October
signalled the brig David, off Cape de Gatte, and on tbo
4ch saw the Peninsular steamer Sultan, about 20 miles
east of Cspo St. Vincent.
DEATH OF THE FATHER OF FnAticE.—The oldest
man in France, M. Jean Baptiste Robillard, died on the
Ist of October at Fontenay, near Paris, at the age of
113 years, 4 months, and 2 days. He was born in June,
1736. Robillard retained the use of all his faculties to
the last moment.

Failures are with heroic minds the stepping•atones
to suocess.-41isa Cook's Journal.