The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-21 00:00:00

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IIAMRPP.GH, JAN. 11. —London, 36. 2i.; 2 Cc 3,5. 11
PE TEIIBIIII.MGII, DEc. 31.--London, U. 27-32.

Arconnts front Stockholm of tho 411 i instant
(million that the Con,ineutal Gas Company of
London has concluded a contract kith the SWF.
dish Covernment, by which they are to have the
exclusive privilege of lighting that tity for 21
years, as well as all public establishment•, ficc.
The expences ref the undertaking are estimated
at tO,OOO Founds sterling.
The ball, annually given at the Fxclutuge nt
Stockholm on New Ytar's Eve, was honoured
by the presence of all the Royal Family, except
the Princess So PHI A. Who was confined by an in-
dispoaition, from H iii h is now recovered.
The company was e•tremely numerous, and his
ttliliesly and the whole Royal Family received
the most unequivocal proof of joy which their
presence inspired.

:Advises have been received from Callao to the
beginning. of October. Thy state • the arrival
there of the Achilles and .1 sia, ships of
war, on the 17th of September. On their ap-
proaching the harbintr Admiral Gutsc, with his
squadron, offered them battle, which the Spanish
Commodore declined. The Admiral was how-
ever unable, on account of the Weather, to pre-
vent their ► wer ng the port.
Letters from Havanna'', dated the 17th tilt.,
were received vs sterday, but contain no p)litical
intelligence. In consequence of an erder from
the Governor, all the subordinate civil officers in
every department of the administration had been
suddenly changed without any cause assigned—a
measure which appears to confirm what ha., been
before stated, that great suspicions are cuter-
tallied by the Spanish Government of the fidelity
of its own servants, as well as of the attachment
of many of the principal pet sons in the colony:—
It is evident that the tenure by which Spain hold;
the valuable island of Cuba is of the most preca-
riOns

The Princess SOPHIA vi•it(d his M FAT V
yesterday.
Mr. Sectetary CANNING has nrrieed at Glou-
cester Lodge, from the st at of the Earl and
Countes4 of Livtitroor,. at Coombe NVood•

The Society for Promo ing Christian Know-
ledge distritoned in the last ten year, 1,051,000
Bibles and Testaments, and nearly two millions
of Common Prayer and other religioua bound
books.

A Bill has been introduced Into the American
Senate, null hike read, nem. con., granting to
General La Fayette two hundred thousand
dollars six per cent..tock, and " a complete and
entire township of loud, to be located by the
PRESInuNT, on any of the public lands tl at re-
main unsold."

110attint.c le,'er from Dreux,
of the 14th, has the following di.taiis :—" A ma-
nufacturer in the neighbourhood of this to ..to had
married a lady of Rouen, who had one legitimate
daughter by a former marriage, and some other
children who are said to be illegitimate. The
latter being excluded by the law, the daughter
was the heiress of -100,000 francs ; and in Cii•P
of her death the property went to the mother,
agreeably to the father's will. Fur some time
past the child has not been seen ; one of
the workmen having quarrelled with the manufac-
turer, revealed the circumstance to the Magis-
tr:ttes. They repaired to the spot, accompanied
by a physician. They asked to See the children ;
the moth r replied they were still in bed ; the
Magistrates requesled to he led to their lwd-
roont,, and were c(mducted first to that of the
eldest daughter ; the youngest was asked for,
and the mother replied that she slept 'n the sNme
led as the eldest. This appeared not possible,
from the size of the bed, and all the other rooms
were examined. The mother passed by one with-
out entering it, saying site had not the key in her
pocket, but she soon afterwards found it, and
opened the room. A disagreeable smell was im-
mediately sensible, and, on entering it, a young
girl was discovered, about 13 years old, who was
a mere skeleton, pale and dry, covered rather with
vermin than clothes, and having no btd, but a li
wretched mattress placed beneath a window, se-
veral panes in which were broken. She had been
in this chamber for six months every day she
received a piece of bread hardly sufficient to ap-
pease her hanger. Several times she had been
obliged, she said, to d. ink filthy water ; and she
had neither choniise nor gown. The servahtq of
the house did not know of her existence. One
night the cook maid was terribly alarmed by
seeing a young thing, all covered with rags, dart
into her kitchen and carry Off a piece of bread ;
that morning she had received no ration, and her
door had fortunately been left unlocked. Roth
the husband and wife are closely confined.'.—
(Courier Fr uncut's.)

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