The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-19 00:00:00

EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq.
Who will commence, with the Number for January,
THE GURNEY PAPERS,

Among numerous other Distingtf
Miscellany, Mr. Colburn
Author of " Tremaine."

fished Contributors to this popular
is the pleasure to announce,
Leigh Hunt, Esq.

Authors of " The Rejected Ad-
dresses."
Barry Cornwall.
Haynes Bayly, Esq.
S. Beazley, Esq.
Laman Blanchard, Esq.
J. B. Buckstone, Esq.
Thomas Campbell, Esq.
Crofton Croker, Esq.
B. D'lsraeli, Esq.
Ebenezer Elliott (The Corn Law
Rhymer).
Mrs. Gore
Mrs. S. C. Hall.
Benson Hill, Esq.

Douglas Jerrold, Esq.
Miss L. E. Landon.
Miss Mitford.
Sir Charles Morgan.
Lady Morgan.
The Hon. Mrs. Norton.
R. B. Peake, Esq.
J. R. Planche, Esq.
John Poole,_ Esq. (the Author of
" Paul Pry.")
Hamilton Reynolds, Esq.
Leitch Ritchie, Esq.
The Author of " Glances at
Life." •

1 N. P. Willis, Esq.
And the Editor.

The New Publication announced by Mr. Colburn under the title of
THE HUMOURIST,

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hoped, of strengthening materially the very high position which
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Kingdom.

Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the
Foreign Department for Lord Ponsonby at Constantinople,
and for Lord Durham at St. Petersburgh.

THE SECOND GEORGE.—I have not given the
character of this Prince. The fire of his temper appeared
in every look and gesture, which, being unhappily under
the direction of a small understanding, was every day
throwing him upon some indiscretion. Ile was naturally
sincere ; and his pride told him that he was placed above
constraint, not reflecting that a high rank carries along
with it a necessity of a more decent and regular beha-
viour than is expected from those who are not in so
conspicuous a light. He was so far from being of that
opinion, that he looked upon all the men and women
he saw as creatures he might kick or kiss for his di-
version ; and, whenever he met with any opposition in
those designs, he thought his opposers insolent rebels to
the will of God, who created them for his use, and judged
of the merits of all people by their ready submission to
his orders, or the relation they bad tohis power. And in this
view he looked upon the princess as the most meritorious of
her sex, and she took care to keep him in that sentiment
by all the arts she was mistress of. He had married her
by inclination ; his goodnatured father had been so' com-
plaisant as to let him choose a wife for himself. She was
of the house of Anspach, and brought him no great addi-
tion either of money or alliance ; but was at that time
esteemed a German beauty, and had that genius which
qualified her for the government of a fool, and made her
despicable in the eyes of men of sense—l mean a low cun-
ning, which gave her an inclination to cheat all the people
she conversed with, and often cheated herself in the first
place, by showing her the wrong side of her interest, not
having understanding enough to observe that falsehood
in conversation, like red on the face, should be used
very seldom and very sparingly, or they destroy that inte-
rest and beauty they are designed to heighten. Her
first thought on her marriage was to secure to herself
the sole and whole direction of her spouse ; and to that
person she counterfeited the most extravagant fondness for
his person ; yet, at the same time, so devoted to his plea-
sures (which she often told him were the rule of all her
thoughts and actions), that whenever he thought proper to
find them with other women, she even loved whoever was
instrumental to his entertainment, and never resented any-
thing but what appeared to her a want of respect for him ;
and in this light she really could not help taking no-
tice that the presents made to her on her wedding were
not worthy of his bride, and at least she ought to have had
all his mother's jewels. This was enough to make him
lose all respect for his indulgent father. He downright
abused his Ministers, and talked impertinently to his old
grandmother, the Princess Sophia, which ended in such
coldness towards all his family as left him entirely under the
government of his wife.—Lord IVharncliffe's Lady Wortley.

PORT WINE.—The Diario do Governo contains
a very curious decree, classifying and regulating the expor-
tation of wines from Oporto, in the programme of which
document the Minister of Finance states, that the wine
which is usually exported to England being of superior and
medicinal quality, and subject to an excessive rate of duties
in England, excludes the introduction of the second qua-
lity into that kingdom, but that it may find a market in
America ; and, being inferior to that exported to England,
ought consequently to pay less export duties. The provi-
sions of this decree, founded upon the Minister's report,
are-Ist., that the first quality of wine, usually exported
to Great Britain, may henceforward be exported to all
parts of the.. world ; 2d, that the second quality can only
exported to America paying the same duties (12,000
reis per pipe) as paid by the superior quality, the casks to
be branded with the Custom-house mark " second quality ;"
and 3d, that half-the duties shall be refunded on proof of
the same being landed, when exported in foreign, and two-
thirds if in national, vessels. Thus, whilst the liberty of
exporting the first and second qualities of port-wine extends
to America, the first quality only is allowed to be exported
to England, thereby not only placing Great Britain on a
less favourable footing than America, but absolutely.regu-
lating Englishmen's tastes, and the sort of wine they are to
drink at their tables.

BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At a meet- I
ing of this Society, held at. their rooms, 11, Johri-street,
Adelphi, on Thursday, Dec. 15, J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S.,
the President, in the Chair, several members were elected,
and donations to the library, museum, and herbarium were
announced, and thanks ordered to be returned. The
meeting was numerously attended, comprising several
ladies, members of this society. The Secretary read a
communication from Dr. M'lntyrc, F.L.S., on the plants
growing spontaneously on and about Warley-common,
Essex. He stated, the common itself is an elevated
and gravelly plain, with two or three ponds on its sur-
face, and a branching bog near its northern end. These
ponds and. boggy hollows, as well as the shady lanes and
watery ditches towards Brook-strect and Brentwood, teem
with interesting botanical specimens. He also stated.that
the number of genera of which he had seen specimens, ex-
ceeds 340, including ten genera of ferns. Now all the British
genera of the same kind, that is, pliwnogamous plants and •
ferns, do not exceed 480 ; so that we have nearly two-thirds
of this latter number on a superfices of less than two miles.
The number of species found altogether—ferns, 23; mono-
cotyledmies, • 136 ; and dycotyledones, 346 ; the whole
amounting to 701. A communication from Mr. Dennes,
confirming the habitats of some rare plants found round
Deal, Kent, as mentioned in Mr. Watson's" New Botanist's
Guide," was also read. Some remarks were then made
by Dr. Macreight, F.L.S., and the Curator, upon the ne-
cessity of sending specimens to the museum and herbarium,
with their names and localities affixed to them. The Pre-
sident announced that the rooms of the Society would be-.
open from seven to ten every Monday and Thursday even-
ings, for access to the library, &c., when the SeCretary end
Curator had kindly offered to attend. It was also an-
nounced that the next meeting would take place on Thurs-
day, 'January 5, 1837, when a communication, accompanied
by a plan of the plants found wild in Battersea-fields, will
be read by the Curator, Daniel Cooper, Esq., author of
the " Flora Metropolitana," &c.
Several learned professors of the unknown tongue
have entered upon a crusade of absurdity, and are labour-
ing hard to make progress in the highways and byways of
Essex. Strange mutterings are heard at the corners of
our streets, and we shortly expect to find our children
asking for sugar-plums in the " Babylonian dialect." Nay,
more ; a chapel has raised its head in the neighbourhood of
this town, but slim and slight withal, for, as the congrega-
tion confidently_ expect to be carried away in a cloud, or
the next high wind, which is much the same thing, they
have wisely built their ark on the travelling system.—
Gibe/Pt:Ara Oro/tick,

GLASGOW CORN M
A moderate business doing in Gi

I A It KET.—Dec. 14.
krain ; little alteration in prices.

,
Wheat, ii.er 240tb, s. d. s. il .
Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. s. 11.
British, old 34 oto3G 0 Irish 23 0U25 0
--- new
Canada, free, 34 0 36 0 Beans, per 2601 b.
Irish
Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish' ' 25 0 27 0
English 0 0 Pease, Scottish ..... 23 0 27 0
Scottish 25 0 29 0 Oatmeal, per 140 lb ... 20 0 25 0
Irish

CORNWALL MARKETS.
(Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.)

Wheat. Barley. - Oats.
s. d. to B. d. s. d. to a d. L d. to 1. 6:
Truro .....
I lelstone
St. Austell 0 20 6 0 9 6 0 8 6
Bcxlmin
Liskeard .............
Launceston 0 10 6 0 9 0 0 0 0
Camel ford l6 0 19 0— 0 10 0 7 0 8 0
Penzance l9 0 21 0 0 11 0 0 9 6
MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Qrs
Quantity of Copper Ore sold 3 460 21 0
Quantity of line Copper 263 14 0
Average Produce 7%
Amount of Sale, 24,841.. 17s.0d.—Average Standard, 130/. ss. Od.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW.
J. Mathews, tallow-chandler, Long-acre 2 at 12
S. H Jonas, sugar-refiner, Wellclose-square 2 10
G. Jerinyn, haberdasher, Oxford-street
E. Bowler, hackneynsan, Dorset-square

The most alarming apprehensions are felt for the
safety of Lieutenant Stephens, of the Coast Guard, and four
of his men, who put to sea in a galley yesterday week, from
Copperas Gap, with the intention of rendering assistance to
the tender bf the Stork revenue cutter, which was dismasted,
and have not been heard of since. It was between three
and four o'clock when they pushed the boat off, and dark-
ness soon came over them ; there was a somewhat heavy
swell, but the sea was not particularly rough. Intelligence
of the arrival of the cutter at Portsmouth has reached
Brighton, but no tidings of Lieutenant Stephens and his
men, who, it is feared, are all lost. What renders the cir-
cumstance more distressing is, that Lieutenant Stephens
and two of his boatmen have wives and families, who are in
a dreadful state of suspense.—MornineY Paper.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 17.
IN RE THE NEWARK CHARITIES.
On the motion to confirm the report of the Master, ap-
pointing new trustees to the charities of Newark,
Mr. BIRD was instructed to pray that the matter might
be referred back to the Master with regard to three of the
charities, in which the corporation merely possessed a
power of distributing the funds in conjunction with others,
and among them in one instance of the vicar of the parish.
An intimation from the Court in the shape of a direction
might have the effect of stopping much expensive legislation.
The LORD CHANCELLOR had no power to make any de-
claration on the subject. All that the Act directed him to
do was to appoint new trustees in the place of the Corpora-
tion ; and, that being done, the Court had no further juris-
diction.—The report was then confirmed.

ROLLS COURT, DEC. 17.
GLYNN V. HOUSTON.

This cause came before the Court on a demurrer put in
to a bill for a discovery. The bill was filed by the plaintiff,
a British merchant at Gibraltar, against the defendant,

Lieutenant-General Sir William Houston, the Governor-
General of that possession. The bill stated, that in No
vember, 1831, the defendant caused Lieutenant-Colonel
Meyer, his. military secretary, with a guard of soldiers, to
go into the dwelling-house of the plaintiff, under the
text of searching for the celebrated General To7,;:jos, to
blockade it for several hours, to prevent the 'lnmates from
coming out, and that when the ni.",,intiff himself at-
tempted to go out in his own JP:wfui avocations, and for
the purpose of inquiring 0-ay he was thus detained a pri-
soner, a sentinel at tt'.e door levelled his musket at him,
and said he would shoot him on the spot if he came
out. The bill then stated that Gen. Torrijos was not in
the plaintiff's house at the time the search was made ;
that the plaintiff had written a letter to the defendant,
wishing to know his reason for committing the alleged as-
sault, and that in answer he received a letter from the mili-
tary secretary, saying that he was not in fault, and that he
was only doing his duty in obedience to. the. Governor's
orders. The plaintiff had since brought his action in the
Common Pleas to recover damages for an assault and false
imprisonment, and he now, by his present bill, sought for a
discovery of the books, deeds, letters, documents, and
other papers, from which the truth of his case would appear.
To this a gemeral demurrer had been put in, which, now
came before the Court.

Mr. PEMBERTON appeared in behalf of the defendant,
and Mr. RICHARDS -on that of the praintiff.
His Lordship the MASTER of the ROLLS, after several
observations respecting the form of the demurrer, said that
he at present entertained a very strong opinion upon the
case, but he should look through the cases cited at the bar,
and express his final opinion• on Monday morning.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 17.
WALTON AND OTHERS V. CAMPBELL AND ANOTHER.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, as the as-
signees of Brown and Dawson, bankrupts, to recover
from the defendants the amount of a bill of exchange
for 7Q01., which came into their hands on the day hiler the
bankruptcy, and which bore the indorsement of Messrs.
Leland and Bullen, bankers at Liverpool, from whom the
defendants received it, with a knowledge at the time that
the bankruptcy had taken plan, and the, question was,
whether they (the defendant...) had a legal right, under such
Circumstances, to retain the bill as a set-off against a debt
due by them to the estate of the bankrupts, or whether the
Liverpool bankers whose endorsement was erased from the
bill ought not to be liable for the amount.
Mr. &Want WILDE contended that the transaction
was not bona fide on the part of the defendants.
Mr. ALEXANDER said that the defendants had a clear
right to retain the bill as a set-off against the sum which
they owed the bankrupts, even admitting that they knew of
Messrs. Brown and :Dawson's insolvency when they took
the bill.

Lord-Chief Justice TINDAL- said that the only question
in this ease for the jury to`consider was, whether they were
satisfied that the defendants had received the bill in the or-
dinary course of business, or whether they were aware, at
the time of the bankruptcy, and received it as a set-off
against their debt, and with a. view also to hold harmless
tho bankers at Liverpool, by whom it was indorsed. The
jury would consider the answers given by one of the defen-
dants when examined by the Commissioners of Bankruptcy
upon the subject.
The Jury found for the plaintiffs—Damages, 7001., the
amount of the bill.

Mr. ALEXANDER said that his clients were very anxious
that their motives, with respect to this bill,should be fairly
understood, and he, therefore, hoped that his Lordship
would allow him to move for a new trial, on a future
occasion.

Lord Chief Justice TINDAL—Ou what ground, Mr.
Alexander:

Mr. ALEXANDER-With great respect to your Lordship,
on the ground of Misdirection to the jury.
Lord Chief Justice TINDAL-Oh, by all means.
always glad to have my decisions reviewed.

I am