The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

No. 17,236,j LON DoN ,
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mernmassegoar, arpoceirsiows,..mou'a,
1:1 OPAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET,
NEWCA.STLE-ON-TYNE.
C r.I.ARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his
BROTHER TRA.VELLE RS to the above Bstablishment, which
has recently been newly furnished and laid oat expressly for a Com-
mercial Hotel.
The COM3fERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly
fitted in the NORTH, it Is hoped will be found complete in every
respect.
The BED•ROO]i3 (Sixty in number) have been furnished in a
style which must ensere the approbation of all visitors.
Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all times have SHOW ROOMS without any extra charge.
The Musicilalt, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room
are all attached, and under the same management.
Tito Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle.

SCArtucernrcal.--11LACKSMITIFS ARMS COMMERCIAL
AND FAMILY HOTEL, QM- EN-STREET.
JIfRS. ENNOS, from London, having entered
upon the above-mentioned old establishment, respectfully
solicits a continuance of the patronage of commercial gentlemen
awl the public in general, recently enjoyed by her predecessor, the
late Mr. Ruddock.
Mrs. Ennos haying made some alterations In the }louse, and pro-
vided a choice assortment of wines and spirits, beg to assure those
gentlemen who may favour her with their support, that every
attention will be paid to their comfort.
Good stabling and coach-houses.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F.
Holmes, Esq., Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine
o'clock, except Saturday Evening. TWO LECTURES by Dr.
BACHHOFFNER—one on the Laws of Nature, in reference
to tile important subjact of SANITARY MEASURES; the other
on the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI-
CAL PROPERTIES of a JET of STEAM will be exhibited, with
Novel and highly Interesting Experiments, Daily at Two and at
Eight o'clock in the Evening. The ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS
wor'led. The WORKING MODELS, explained. DISSOLVING
S. The CHROMATROPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER,
with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING under
WATER, &c. &c.

Penna.- the
Annual Policy Bonus in, nent Re- Su
Asm sured
Age. g Pro- taken addition Bonus in duction of may bor-
miurn. out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on
Premiums. Policy.
£ s. d.i X a d. £ a. d. X a. d.
r 1837 243 9 3112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10
£ S s. d. 1838 218 4 8' 99 8 10 15 13 5 445 0 0
60 1000 74 3 4 1839 192 1 101 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1
1840 143 5 10 66 8 4 9 19 1 346 2 3
1841 138 14 2 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4
1842 111 6 81 49 18 0 7 10 4 247 4 5

THE REGISTERED SYRIAN PALETOT is
prepared in every colour, for selection, at Meurs. SWAIN
and CO.'S, Court Tailors, 379, Oxford-street. Price 21.

not speak here as an Utopian. The views I express
here now are the views which first made me ac-
quainted with the people or Lancashire out of my
own business—l mean as the author of certain pam-
phlets twelve years ago. These were the views I had
then. Free trade has only been a labour of love with
me, that I might carry out those views ; and I believe
we are fast tending towards the time that the whole
community will be brought to the conviction that it is
not by warfare, not by armaments, not by brute force,
that the interests of the country can be advanced. I
want us to hold out not the nettle, the stinging
which diplomatists have held out to foreign Powers,
but the olive branch in sincerity. —(Loud applause.)
And if we do so, our moral influence will be such,
you may depend upon it, that the rest of the world will
be glad to follow your example." Mr. Cobden went
on to say that there was not a country on the globe
that was not groaning under the cost of its war es-
tablishment. It was not a popular expenditure.
" I have a high mission for England and English
statesmen, I want England to take the lead in a
partial disarming of the great European powers. In-
stead 'of sending diplomatists to contest, to quarrel
with them about the marriages of boys and girls, or
squabbling over an invitation to dinner, I want us to
send our diplomatists to those countries, and say we
have been pursuing a wrong and foolish course; we
have been building more ships of war ; they have
been doing the same in France. France has increased
her army; Prussia, Russia, and Austria have done
the same; you would all have been on the same level
if none had taken this step. Now, instead of in-
creasing our armies, let us agree to a pro rata reduc-
tion of them.--(Loud applause.) Was there aught
Utopian in this ?" asked Mr Cobden ; "it is common
sense." After a few other remarks, the Honourable
Gentleman sat down, amid loud and continued ap-
plause.
Mr. RATHBONE seconded the nomination. •
Mr. HENRY began by returning his sincere thanks
to the gentlemen by whom he had the honour of
being proposed and seconded. He considered it no
small honour to have been proposed by that distin-
guished philanthropist who had so nobly, through
good report and evil, advocated and established the
principles of free trade, upon which he (Mr. Henry)
now stood before them.—(Loud applause.) When he
resolved to stand for this division of the county, he
determined not to palter with the constituency in a
double sense. He had therefore stated, what he now
begged to repeat, that he was the friend of civil and
religious liberty in the largest acceptance of
the term—favourable to the utmost diffusion
of education, without regardto sect or party
—an advocate for the utmost extension of
commercial freedom, and for the abrogation of all
monopolies and exclusive privileges.—(" Hear, hear,"
and loud applause.) These principles, he believed,
were becoming the sentiments of that great
constituency; and if it were their pleasure to
send him to Parliament, his votes and efforts
there would be constantly directed to carry those
great principles into effect.--(Loud applause.) They
necessarily implied the passing of just and equal laws;
the enlightenment and moral improvement of the
people; the abrogation, as he said before, of unjust
monopolies; ithe admission of the principles of free
trade ; the cultivation of peace and goodwill; the
practice of rigid economy in the public expenditure,
and the honest endeavour of the Legislature to im-
prove the condition of the people.—(Loud cheers.)
He believed there sentiments were rapidly becoming
the opinions of that great and enlighted constituency.
He referred, as a proof of this, to the absence of that
fierce opposition which the principles he enunciated
would at one time have inevitably called forth. The
fact was a compliment to their own good sense and
intelligence. The people were becoming tired of
party politics, and applying the same principles of
good sense to public matters which governed their
conduct in private affairs. Mr. Henry concluded by
referring to the kindness and courtesy with which he
had been received in the various districts which he
had visited.

Several parties in the room then put to Mr. Henry
a number of questions, all of which ho answered to
their evident satisfaction. He avowed himself against
the exemption from legacy and probate duty which
agriculturists enjoy ; in favour of an extension of the
suffrage, and in favour of secular education uncon-
nected with religious instruction. In answer to a
question whether he would vote for an abolition of
church rates, Mr. Henry said he was of opinion, in
regard to religious matters, that every denomination
should support itself. The answer called forth loud
applause.

The HIGH SHERIFF having asked in the usual way
if there was any other candidate to propose, and no
answer being returned, be declared, followed by loud
cheers, that Mr. Alexander Henry had been duly
elected.

Air. HENRY returned thanks.
Mr. W. BROWN, M.p., addressed a few words to
the audience, and, after a vote of thanks to the High
Sheriff, duly acknowledged, the meeting broke up.

TRAVELS IN TILE GREAT DESERT OF SAHARA.—
Wo are requested to state that this new work by Mr.
Richardson (the celebrated African traveller and philan-
thropist) is published this day by Mr. Bentley (Pub-
lisher in Ordinary to her Majesty) in 2 vols. Bvo., with
numerous plates, price 305., and may now be had of all
booksellers.
Mr. Buckingham's tour in Scotland has been at-
tended with the greatest popularity, as the Scotch
papers contain the most flattering notices of his lectures,
which have been attended by audiences exceeding 1,000
in number, notwithstanding the unfavourable circum-
stances of a depression in trade, extensively prevailing
sickness, and most inclement weather.
The new novel, entitled " Leonora," in 3 vols., is
published this day by Mr. Colburn. Also, now ready-
2. Town and Country, by Mrs. Trollope, author of
" Father Eustace,"
3 vols,--3. The Hall and the
Hamlet, by William Howitt, 2 vols.-4. Eustace ; or,
The Stage of Lite, by T. J. Serle, Esq., 3 vols.-5. The
Jesuit at Cambridge, by
Sir G. Stephen, 2 vols.--6.
Evelyn Harcourt, by Mrs. Gascoigne, 3 vols.-7. The
Modern Orlando, Bvo., 69.-8. The of War, by
Captain Grant, 4 vols.—Also, a second edition of
"Zenon," by the Rev. R. Cobbold, 3 vols., 21s. bound;
and, by the same author, new editions of " The His-
tories of Margaret Catchpole and Mary Ann Welling-
ton," each in 1 vol., with illustrations. 10s. 6d. bound.
[ADVERTISEMENT,]-.--ARRIAGE FREE.—Families
residing in the country are supplied with Teas and
Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities not
less than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any part
of England. Orders must be accompanied by a remit-
tance, or if a reference be made in London, payment
will suffice on receipt and
of prices and samples free, on application to G. T. Man-
sell and Co., wholesale tea-dealers, 2, Bucklersbury,
Cheapside. approval of the goods. A list

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
HOLLOWAY'S PILL% AND
OINTMENT—RIIEUMATISDI.--In the West Indies where
, this excruciating complaint is very prevalent, and the
severity of the disease is much increased by the na-
ture of the employment of the inhabitants, no remedy
has been tried with such excellent results as Hello.-
way's pills and ointment. All persons afflicted with
rheumatism should have immediate recourse to those
invaluable medicines which are so certain and safe in
their effects. They are also equally efficacious (fre-
quently when every other remedy has failed) in the cure
of all descriptions of wens, tumours, unnatural enlarge-
ments, and glandulous swellings,ebnyt all
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FlRE.—Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, an
extensive fire happened at the Chancellor's Head, Carey-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The family had retired to
bed, but a strong smell of burning wood induced Mr.
Smith, the landlord, to proceed
-own stairs, when he
discovered the contents of the bar in flames. An alarm
was raised, and two of the Royal
Society fire-escapes
from St. Clement's and Blackfriars stations were soon on
the spot, as also several engines. Plenty of water was
procurable, and by the assistance of those present, the
fire was arrested in its progress, not, however, until the
stock in the lower part of t
No premises was destroyed,
and the building damaged. Nothing was known of the
origin of the fire, but Mr. Smith is insured in the
Licensed Victuallers'-office.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.---The arrivals from
the United States of packet-ships sailing
subsequently
to the Bth instant will be looked for with much interest,
as they will probably bring President Polk's annual
message, which would be delivered at Washington on
the 7th. The ships expected from New York are the
Ashburton, packet of the 6th, which would await the
arrival of the message, and the West Point, packet of
the llth.—Judging from the rapid passages which the
packet ships have d lately made across the Altantic, the
former vessel may be expected to arrive in the Mersey
at the close of the week.—Liverpool Albion of yesterday.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN ScoTLALD.—The fol-
lowing movements are expected to take place in a few
days before Christmas :—Depot 72 Highlanders, from
Cork to Paisley ; depot Ist battalion Royals, from
Paisley to Glasgow ; Ist battalion 718 t Highland Light
Infantry, from Glasgow to Edinburgh Castle ; Ist
battalion 76th Regiment, from Edinburgh Castle to
Portsmouth, for eminbarkation for Corfu.—Edinburgh
Witness.
AYRSHIRE IgoN COMPANY, DALRY.—The fur-
naces of this company,
which had been smothered for
about four days, were re-kindled
on the forenoon of
Monday, since which time they appear to be carried on
with their former spirit. This circumstance has in a
great measure dispelled the gloom which was becoming,
manifest amongst
the inhabitants. Their recommence-
ment is the more opportune when the state of the town
and neighbourhood as regards disease is taken into ac-
count.—Ayr Advertison