The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-04 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF THE COURT

_.,2% TES (ENGLAND AND WALEN)—The amount of
all rates (other than Poor-rates) levied in England and
Wales, iu the year 1843, (as shown by a large Par-
liamentary volume, printed and issued on Friday), was
1,575,573/. 153. 10d. Of this, 1,531,150/. 12s. Bid. was
levied in England, and the rest in Wales. Of this
sum, 254,0681. was the amount received from Church-
rates in England. and 8,601/. in Wales. The total amount,
other than for the relief of the poor, expended in 1843 was
706,304/. in England and Wales. Of this total, 12,045/.
were the amount of registration expenses. During the same
year there was expended out of the rates levied in England
and.jWales 301,620/. for gaol expenses and maintenance of
prisoners; 314,698/. county expenses; 69,390/. for coroners;
561,655/. county-rates; and 279,512' for the administration
of justice and prosecution of prisoners.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS FOR GLASGOW.—An at-
tempt is about to be made to establish industrial schools in
Glasgow, for which we would bespeak the hearty co-opera-
tion of all sections of the benevolent public. Thousands of
youth, of both sexes, are daily roaming the streets, receiving
no education, living by begging, oftentimes the companions
of thieves, and eventually filling the prisons and peniten-
tiaries,--Scotch Reformer's Gazette.
SALMON FISHING.—After the spate subsided which
followed the breaking up of the storm in the early part of
last week, there were several successive days of excellent
takes of salmon in the river. At the North Inch station
thirty large fish were caught within twenty-four hours, and
at most of the stations down the river, the fishing was nearly
as successful. At Stockgreen, in particular, there were some
large hauls. On Monday twenty-four boxes were shipped
for London, which is a good cargo for this period of the
season, although February on the whole has been greatly be-
low an average, owing to the closing of the river from ice.—
Perth Courier.
We regret to learn that his Grace the Duke of
Argyll is indisposed at his seat, near Inverary, Argyleshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Loris are staying with the
venerable Peer.—Caledonian Mercury.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police in Paris, gave
judgment on Saturday, in a prosecution against Madame
Hahnemann, widow of the deceased Dr. Hahnemann, the
homeopathist, on a charge of practising medicine without
being legally qualified, The defendant had urged in her
defence, that she was assisted in her practice by twe qualified
physicians, and had herself obtained a diploma for a foreign
college of medicine; but the tribnnal, finding from the evi-
dence that the two physicians were subordinate to Madame
Hahnemann, and the foreign diploma which she possesses
gives her no right to practice in France, without a special
authorisation to that effect, declared the defendant to have
violated the law, and condemned her to pay a fine of 100 f.,
and the costs of the suit.
EFFECTS OF NEGRO EMANCIPATION.—The slaves
constituted formerly the wealth of the planters; now, as free
and remunerated labourers, they are the &nil of our island
commerce, and as such are the wealth of the merchants.
Let us look back at the commercial revolution which has
taken place in Trinidad since the dawn of freedom. The
signs of comparative wealth among the labouring people
everywhere appear. The great change of their condition has
greatly stimulated trade of every description. Mechanics of
every class have increased a hundred fold among the lower
order of society; these are rapidly rising into respectability
and wealth, and promise at no very distant day to act an
important part in the internal trade and affairs of the colony.
In consequence of the possession of money by the people, our
island imports have increased to a surprising extent, in the
course of a few years.— Trinidad Spectator.
DIETARY FOR PERSONS SINKING FOR WANT OF
FOOD, OR AFFECTED WITH DYSENTERY, ARISING FROM
WANT.— Recommended by Sir Philip Crampton, one of the
very,_ highest medical authorities in this or any other coun-
try, for the information of persons to whom the distribution
of supplies of food may be intrusted. The following preps.
ration has been found eminently serviceable in such cases:
—l. Rice.-2. Sago.-3. Arrowroot; of each a pound.-4.
Candle Alba, a coarse and cheap kind of cinnamon, and a
valuable tonic, half an ounce. Boil slowly in a sufficient
quantity of water, until the whole is reduced to a thickish
jelly; sweeten with lump sugar. and season with port wine,
in the proportion of two table-spoonsful to each half-pint of
the jelly; add, when diarrhsea or dysentery is present, thirty
drops of laudanum to the quantity of jelly consumed in
twenty-four hours by an adult. An infant under one year
old should not take more than two drops of laudanum three
times in the course of twenty-four hours, at intervals of not
less than four hours; five drops every six hours may be
considered as an average dose for a person from ten to twenty
years of age. This direction is offered for the information of
those who may not be within the reach of medical advice.
Tapioca, or barley, may be substituted for arrowroot,ve
when the latter is not easily to be procured.—Dub.in En
Mail.
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SPIRITS AND SlLic.—An account, moved
Mr. Cardwell, shows that the quantities of spirits eonntnetreedd,fioynr
home consumption in the United Kingdom6sa4m
gallons of
1846, to 2,683,515 gallons of rum,
brandy, and 40,266 gallons of Geneva—againstl.sls, 2,469,485
tsallons of rum, gallons of brandy, and
15,536 ga!lona of Geneva, in Since 1842 the an-
nual consumption of spirits appears to have increased
as foroars, viz., rum, 585,220 gp,telalons ,• brandy, 432,865
The silk gallons; and Geneva, 25,677 gallons.
manufac-
tures of India imported in 1816, amounted to 187,174 pieces,
the manufactured stuffs of Europe (altogether) to 17,9331 b.;
the silks or satins (broad stuffs), to 119,7281 b.; the silk ri-
e or crape ribands, to
buds, to 195,7001 b ; the
34,7701 b.; and the broaclvelguvaetz stuff's, to 25,6161 b. The
quantity of Indian silks exported from England in 1846
and that of European stuffs
amounted to 471,817 pieces;Thevalue of theßriitisllsilk manufactures,
&c., to 24,8971 b.
exported from England. amounted, 0 a 1846, to 807,677 L,
against 766,405/. in 1845, and 590.185/. in 1842. The quan-
tities of raw silk imported into the United Kingdom amounted
in 1846, to 4,390,0081 b., against 4,354,69611). in 1845. The
quantities of British spirits brought to charge at the Excise-
office in 1846 amounted to 21,106,697 gallons, against
23,122,588 gallons in 1845, and 18,841,890 gallons in 1842.

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FOR OSBORNE HOUSE.
Yesterday morning her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the
royal infants and suite, left town fur Osborne House
via the South-Western Railway. Shortly before ten
o'clock the magnificent carriage, erected specially for
her Majesty's use, was placed on the line. Three first-
class carriages were also in requisition for the use
of the household, and the directors of the company
' who attended her Majesty to the termination of
the journey. A carpet was placed over a por-
tion of the platform railed off for the reception of
her Majesty on her passage to the carriage. On this
several of the directors were assembled. At ten o'clock
precisely, a carriage, containing some of the domestics
came up, and within five minutes after, her Majesty,
escorted by a body of Lancer., arrived at the station.
The first carriage contained the Queen, Prince Albert,
the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Wales; the others
contained the Lords and Ladies in Waiting, the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice and
Helena, and several members of the household; within
five minutes after the train was in motion and proceeding
on the journey. We are happy to say that her Majesty
and her Royal Consort looked extremely well, and that
the Princes and Princesses also appeared in good health
and spirits.

SOYER'S CHEAP SOUP.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—For those who have the chance of procuring a
(ew potatoes once a week, they may be used with advan-
tage in the following manner:—
No. 3. POTATO SOUP.
Having prepared tie soup according to recipe No. 2
(already published), when nearly done, wash half a pound
of potatoes, pick out the black •pots, if any, and cut them
in small dice, put them into the soup to boil for twenty
minutes, or a little longer, until done; then put a quarter
of a pound of common flour into a stewpan, moistene
with a gill of cold water, so as to form a liquid pasted
stir it in the soup
.quickly with a spoon; let it bot
another five minutes, and the soup is ready, and will
strongly taste of potato, the short time of ebullition pre-1
ser►ing all the aroma of that inconstant root.
Having promised to make my receipts public, for the
benefit of the laborious class of society, I think that if a
roan could treat his family once a week with a food
called potato soup, each member of it, who had previously
fed on that root, and who are now nearly deprived of that
food, would worship the day of the week when such a
luxury should be displayed on their humble table.
No. 4, PEI SOUP.
Have a quarter of a pound of fat bacon, if none, take
leg of beef, veal, or pork, cut it into dice, peel and slice
two good sized onions, or three small ones, fry them
with the meat until lightly brown, then add half a pound
of vegetables, either carrots or turnips, well washed, but
not peeled, also leeks, or any other vegetables, which
you fry gently; then add one pound of yellow peas, pre-
viously soaked some hours, and eight quarts of water,
three ounces of salt, half an ounce of brown sugar; let
the whole boil gently for two hours, stirring it now and
then. Put into a stewpan half a pound of common flour,
mixed into a liquid paste, quite smooth, with cold water,
and pour it into your soup, stirring the contents with a
wooden spoon, so as to mix it well; boil again a quarter
of an hour, and serve.
Since I gave publication to my two first receipts, I
found that all those soups, if made the day before, and
warmed up the day following, they not only are much
improved in quality, but also in quantity, merely re-
quiring to be warmed slowly, and stirred now and then
before using.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Reform Club, Feb. 27. A. SOYER.
I R,

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
A more appropriate theme could scarcely have been
selected for the opening article in a political periodical
than the', afforded by the " Character and Career of M.
Guizot." And it is appropriate in a lamentable manner,
seeing that it is elicited by the odium excited against the
Prime Minister of France by his dishonourable and un-
principled conduct. Never had a statesman risen from the
people with fairer opportunities to render himself the idol
of his fellow-countrymen by his patriotism and the ad-
miration of foreign nations by the decision and rectitude
of his policy. Those opportunities have been squandered
away. Guizot is now utterly beggared in reputation. As
an historian, as a journalist, as an orator, he possessed a
deserved fame ; as a statesman, as a diplomatist, as a
minister, he has acquired a note very little removed
from the infamous. So let it be ! Let the ruins of that
once enviable celebrity be the everlasting beacon of his
successors ; let the opprobrium with wich he is now
universally regarded be a warning to the selfishly ambi-
tious. From the masterly contrast given by M. Corme-
yin, under the soubriquet of Timon, of Guizot and Thiers,
we would, did an opportunity present itself, give copious
extracts, but we shall content ourselves with reviewing
the recollection of that final and mournful exclamation
in the " Livre des Orateurs"—" Both" (meaning
Guizot and Thiers) " humiliating spectacle I wrought
furiously for the dry bones of office, concealed
within the red morocco portfolio, and then after
this noble struggle, the victor goes and licks the
feet of his master !" It is this deplorable subserviency
to the wishes of Louis Philippe, however much those
wishes may be opposed to the interests of the nation
that have rendered both of these eminent and gifted
men so little honoured abroad, and so feebly seconded
in France. William Carletorecommences another story,
now that his powerful fiction of the " Black Prophet,"
is completed. The present is entitled " O'Sullivan's
Love ; a Legend of Edenmore." Remembering the mag•
nificent Hermes Hymns, as rendered by the poet Shel-
ley, we are somewhat amazed at the temerity of Mr.
Kenealy in attempting another translation of " Homer's
Hymns to Herm es." The learning of this admirable
classical student, and his graceful facility as a metrical
translator, have redeemed him, however, from the simple
charge of rashness. Mr. Kenealy has drank deep
draughts of poetry from the numbers of the old Grecian,
and he cheunts the story of Mercury and his wily doings
in melodious rhythm, with a cadence of full and beau-
tiful melody. " Irish Records," being a national subject
of peculiar importance, will be perused with interest. We
cordially rejoice in the tone of the critical article upon "Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton's Lucretia," and we do so from
the peculiar honesty and vigour with which the review
is penned. The writer stigmatises with indignation the
attempt which is being made just now to "run down"
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and expresses his conviction
that the press in so doing is in error. One passage we
must quote. "We have, says the reviewer, " all our
countrymen's love of flair play; and if his (Sir E. B. L,'a)
literary reputation is to be run down, let it be in fair
and manly combat, by men of education, thoughtful,
serious men, who are competent to form an opiuicn, and
not by the random stroke of insignificant scribblers, and
the senseless vituperation of mercenary critics, whose
daily bread, perhaps, depends upon the countenance of
the journal, in the columns of which they are paid so
much a line for their venal abuse." Strong as this lan-
guage is, it is in a very great measure justified by the
monstrous and indecorous course taken by certain
divisions of the press in regard not merely to Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton but to another illustrious and
extraordinary writer, we allude to Mr. Charles
Dickens. In the very zenith of their fame, while
their intellects are most vigorous, and their
genius is acknowledged not merely by multitudes
in England, but throughout Continental Europe, and
beyond the Atlantic, a sudden onslaught is made upon
the literary reputation of each. We have all heard of
Aristides. The inference is obvious. It is satisfactory
to think that these abusive attacks, even if tripled in
volume and frequency, would prove altogether ineffectual
in diminishing the admiration of the judicious million
for Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and especially for
Charles Dickens, than whom no writer ever enlisted or
deserved more of the affections of the people. With a
hideous likeness of Mrs. James Gray, and one or two
biographical sketches, the magazine is completed.

THE ECCLECTIC REVIETV.
To those who have nut paid scrupulous attention to
the involutions and sinuusities of the French diploma-
tists in their recent peninsular contrivances, the paper
called " The whole Truth on the Spanish Marriages,"
will prove a convenient retnembrancer. To every one
elseit will be worse than superfluous. We are heartily
fatigued with the repetitions of the old disgusting story
which have been published again and again usgtte ad
nauseant. It was remarked by one of the Parisian press,
that the articles written on one day about a single docu-
ment on the Spanish correspondence, would form three
octavo volumes. Wo believe the calculation to have been
no exaggeration, and regarding it as only partially correct,
we must come to the conclusion that all that has been
written upon the question since the famous midnight inter-
viewbetween Isabellaand the Afroneesadoministers,wolild
form a very respectably siz d library. Notwithstanding
this, another article and another ccmes like the spectral
kings before Macbeth, until we are nearly as demented
as the Thane of Cawdor and Glammis. " South :—lns
Biography rad writings," is a change so agreeable :hat
it almost soars into the lively by. comparison. The
paper upon " Railways, their Consolidation and Govern- 1