The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-31 00:00:00

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Vie cast and nearly the whole of the south of S?ain, with a
small army, and levied Inr.7e- contritteiw4s is ith little int' rrur„
tion, arrived in safety at Dura9g-e, teaviog- his troops, tt.' the
numblr of 4,000, at °Muria.
19, ,`sir M. S. Stewart, M. P. for R..'nfrewshire, died at
Edinbur,7b, Coed 49.
23, Air. r.barles Kembie, the last of a family long justly
dramatic performances, quitted the stage.
celebrated for o.' cir
24, A fall of stn;'4' commenced, which continued for some
days, anti blocked up roads in most parts of the kingdom •
so completely, that on the 27th, at eight p.m., all the mails,
with the exception of two, we,'n. due. Such a violent snow
storm has not occurred in England siace 1814. It has caused
great damage and loss of life in some places. At Lewes an
avalanche from a cliff destroyed a number of houses an d buried
the inhabitants in the ruins. The storm was equally sewere at
Paris and in the north of France, but the cold was not in tense,
the thermometer scarcely descending more than a few degrees
below freezing.
27, The King of the French, while on his way to open the
Chambers, was shot at near the Tuileries by a young man
about 20, who with two others was instantly arrested. The
King escaped all injury, but the Duke of Orleans and the
Duke of Nemours, who sat by his side, were cut in the face
by the fragments of the coach glass broken by the shot. His
Majesty proceeded without further interruption and opened the
Session with a Speech from the Throne, in which he congra-
tulated the two Chambers on the prosperity of the country,
the peace of the world, and the renewed relations of amity
between France and the United States and Switzerland. He
lamented the deplorable state of the Peninsula; the painful
losses which the French army had sustained in Africa, and the
renewed attempt ma,Je on his life. After expressing his de-
termination to fulfil the conditions of the quadruple treaty, and
adverting to the late amnes, he informed them that the in-
come for the last year exce'etled the expenditure, and asked .
their concurrence in important measures which would be pro-
posed for the improvement of the country. He was hailed
both by the people in the streets and by the Members in the
Chambers with loud acclamations.

The following abstracts are chiefly from statistics
published in the course of the year.
The declared value of British and Irish exports for the year
1833-36 was 47,372,270/., and for the previous year 41,64.9,191/.
being an increase of 5,723,779/. The increase since 1827 ex-
ceeds ten millions.
The official value of the imports for 1835-36 amounted to
47;463,609/., being about half-a.million less than those of the
precedjng year. Of the imports cotton forms one-fourth of the
whole, and of the exports it forms nearly one-half, the total
value of cotton manufactures and cotton yarn exported having
been 22,099,7331. The amount of the exports of all sorts to
the United States in 1835 was estimated at 10,568,000/., being
mofe than treble the amount of produce exported to any other

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State.
The toZ.'ll amount of taxes raised in the United Kingdom for
the year encibg October, 1836, was 44,460,8001., a sum nearly
equal to the wh.'lc of the imports for the year. About one-
half of the revenue is raised from the Customs (20,167,0001.),
the gross receipt of which at the six principal ports was as
follows : __ _

London ......... £11,7-73,616
iverpool 4,272,847
L
Bristol
D 918,801
ablin
888,
Glasgow
H
Hull ••
The number of British vessels from forei.jn countries enter-
ng these ports in the year ending Jan. 5, 1,836, was as fol-
Lows :--London, 3,786 ; Liverpool, 1,973 ; Hu2l, 891 ; Glas-
gow, 400 ; Bristol, 295 ; Dublin, 212.
From a return made to a Committee of the House of
Com-
mons from the books at Lloyd's, it aears that the number of
vessels wrecked or stranded in the years 1816, 1817, and 1018,
was 1,114; and in the years 1833, 1834, 1835, it was 1,573.
The number totally lost in the same years was respectively 49
and 81 ; and the number of persons drowned in ships named,
was for the same periods 1,700, and 1,714.
Returns have been made by the Director of the Customs in
France, showing an increase of imports in 1835,
as compared
with those of 1834, amounting to 50,000,000 of francs, or
nearly 2,000,0001. sterling ; and an increase of exports to the
amount of 4,000,0001. sterling. In 1834 the gross amount of
imports, in value, was 28,000,000 f. ; and in 1835 it was
30,000,000 f. The exports for these years were, .-espectively
25,000,000-f. and 32,000,000 f.
From returns published this year it appears that the
?lumber
of savings banks in France has increased in a most extri:ordi-
nary degree since the abolition of lotteries. Within the last
three years the deposits in Paris had tripled the number of de,
positors at the close of 1835, being 65,359, and representing
a capital of more than a million and a half sterling. The return
states the number of savings banks in the provinces to be 204.
The number of christenings in the metropolis for the year
1836 amounted, on the 13th of December, to 26,255 ; and the
number of burials to 18,229, making a decrease of 3,386 on
the year. The decrease on the previous year was only 264.
The number of vessels built in the United Kingdom And
British Plantations, and registered in the year 1835, was
1,250 ; and the tonnage 174, 433.
The number of vessels (exclusive of the coasting trade) be-
longing to the United Kingdom and the Plantations, at the
same period, amounted to 25,511 ; tonnage, 2,783, 761 ; and
the number of men 171,000.
The number of ships* which passed the Sound itl 1835 was
10,255, of which 2,472 were British. In 1632 the numbers
were 12,202 ships of all na,!-ions, and 3,330 British.
The total importation of st:jar from all parts, in 1835, was
4,465,524 cwt., and the gross duty 4,783,013/. The gross duty
for 1836 was 4,947,6701.
The total quantity of tobacco andsnuff imported in 1835
amounted to 25,819,0001b5., of which there were only
295,0001b5. of snuff and cigars. The duty amounted to
3,223,6841.
The quantity of spirits imported in 1835 was 4,765,706 gal-
lons of spirits ; distilled in the country, 24,710,208 gallons,
producing a net duty of 8,140,0001.
The quantity of wine imported was 6,640,000 gallons, and
the net duty amounted to 1,691,0001.
The number of quarters of malt made was 4,102,878, and
the gross duty 4,925,1121/.
The total number of prisoners committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court, in the year 1836, was. 27,229 of
whom 697 were females. Eighty-nine were convicted of ca-
pital offences, but none capitally punished, all the sentences
having been commuted into imprisonment or transportation.
In the course of the last nine years capital punishment has de-
creased in the metropolis in the following proportion :—From
1826 to 1829 there were 63 persons executed ; from 1829 to
1832, 16 executed ; and from 1832 to the end of 1835, two
executed. Not one has been executed in Londor, this year.
In the course of the year most of the public Funds have been
considerably depreciated. The following list exhibits the
value of the principal Securities at thelB3s close of
and tile two years:—
6
3 per Cent Consols
Belgian Bonds
Brazilian
22
Colombian
Mexican
Portuguese B2 ......... 44
Spanish ..
10119
Dutch

Despatches, dated Nov. 30, were received yesterday
morning at the Foreign Department from Lord Ponsonby,
at Constantinople.
Dospatches, dated the 17th inst., were received at
the Foreign Department from the British Ambassador at

Madrid.
Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the
Foreign DepaYtment for the Chaise d'Affaires at the Court
of Persia, and for Lord Durham, at Petersburgh.
l
The Austrian Ambassador and Prince Nicholas
Esterhazy will leave town on Monday writ for Belvoir

Castle.
DGwager Lady Vernon has caused a large quantity
of coals td be distributed amongst the necessitous poor of
the neighbour;.‘ood of Macclesfield.
Sir Edmund ,74.nd 'Lady Filiner have been entertain-
ing their numerous tenantry at the ancient abode of the
Filmer family, Little Charlton, Kent.
Mr. Southey is expectod at Helston about the.
Der-
indle of next week, on a visit to his nephew, the Rev
S went Coleridge.
Lord and Lady Masryborouzh. have arriveda-
yille-row, from a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strat-
fiellsaye.
We understand that Sir Richard Bulkeley has an-
nounced his intention of reigning
for the County of Anglesea, his scat in Parliament
lint', that Mr. Meyrick has de-
clared himself a candidate on the Tory interest. Colonel
James Hughes, a brother of Lord Dit.orben, and one of the
Vegas, are talked of as candidates on the'
at all events a Liberal will certainly Liberal side ; but
come fo.rward to contest
the County.
TRIBUTE TO DELTA.---We are happy to
record
this tribute to a gentleman on every action of whett:e life
grace and honour wait. We have more than once refered
to Mr. Moir's biographical notice of the lute Sir John Sits.
clair, published in the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture.
The family; of the late Sir John have done credit to them-
selves, as well as to Mr. Moir (the Delta of Blackwood's
Magazine), by presenting him with a silver salver of ele-
gant workmanship, bearing the following inscriptithe fa-
on :
" Presented, as a token of esteem and gratitude by
mily of the late Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart., to II
M. Moir, Esq., the able and faithful biographer of their re-
vered and lamented parent.-Bth Dec., 1836."
That noble institution the Seamen's Hospital sn•
ciety affords at this time a comfortable home on board the
Dreadnought to two hundred and twenty sick and disabled
seamen of all nations, when the nature of their employ is
considered, and the disastrous shipwrecks along the coast
which have been so numerous of late, it cannot excite stn•
prise that the hospital ship is so full.
On the Isth .Tan. the Burgeois Gentilhomme will
be represented at the Comedic Francaise in Paris, being the
anniversary of the birth of Moliere. All the theatres in
the French capital will send deputations to assist at the ce-
lebration, and the receipts will be devoted to the erection
of a monument to Molicre.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 28.—The
demand for Cotton to-day has been only to a moderate ex-
tent. The sales 2,000 bags without change in prices.