The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

LORD STOURTON'S LETTER.

The following appears in the Leeds Mercury :
" Gentlemen—Whatever controversy has arisen as
to the moral causes, or the precise extent of the present
,distress, none can exist as to its prevalence at the pre-
sent period, in a most calamitous and alarming degree.
This distress pervades wide districts, and prevails in some
with an intensity I have never to my mind seen equalled
in this kingdom, covering our roads with artizans in search
of employment, and exhibiting itself in our towns under
appearances the most calamitous and frightful. Failing
harvests both at home and abroad have aggravated these
national calamities; and a murrain among our cattle, con-
sequent in all probability on rainy reasons, has placed
milk, one of the great resources, and with tea, almost
necessaries of our labouring people, nearly out of their
reach. Wars in the east of the globe and pecuniary em-
barrassments in the west, have combined to extend the
evil. Among so many concurrent sources of distress,
one ray of brightness has beamed upon us : and that
it should not only gild the palace, but shed its
lustre on the cottage, is the main object of
these observations. Not, Gentlemen, that I should
not have deemed the aspect of our wide-extended dis-
tress more than sufficient ground for extraordinary
exertions in behalf of so much suffering: for seasons of
great urgency in peace, as in war, demand and justify their
peculiar sacrifices. Yet it must strike every loyal and
thinking subject, that no offering to the Deity can more
propitiate his mercies, both in favour of die Sovereign
and her infant son, than an extensive—l would fain add,
universal contribution of the wealthier classes at this
doubly inclement season, towards alleviating the suffer-
ings of his creatures. That such an effort should be
both powerful and availing, I know no better channel
for advice and co-operation than your valuable columns.
Without colour of party or of creed—without one word
of controversy or crimination, I am willing to believe
that all will equally concur in a wish to mitigate the lot
of suffering humanity, if not in the mode of compassing
so salutary an end.

Whether this object may be best accomplished by
some great county movement, carrying its influence
through the land, with a weight due to its own import-
ance, and still more due to the ends it would attain ; or
whether any other suggestion shall be adopted equally or
more efficient, I willingly abandon to superior,
as well as more experienced minds. Of this, how-
ever, I am convinced, that in an empire, where, in
our own times, a milliard of money has been ex-
pended to strengthen the sinews of war, one million
at least might be attainable to add vigour to those best
and strongest sinews of our country in peace as in war,
viz. :—the happiness and contentment of an- industrious
and moral people. Exposed to great fluctuations from
our very artificial condition, we may be called upon by
prudence to meet extraordinary pressure by extraordi-
nary aid.—Qui ciao dat, his dot, is my motto.—l remain,
Gentleman, your obedient humble servant,

STOURTON.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY. - The Queen and Prince
Albert walked for some time this morning in the Slopes
and Little Park. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, also took walk-
ing exercise this forenoon on the Terrace of the Castle.

The Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Exeter, and
the Earl of Rosslyn, took their departure from the astle
this morning.
The Hon. Amelia Murray and the Hon. Harriet Lister
have arrived and succeeded Lady Caroline Cocks and the
Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish, as the Maids of Honour is
Waiting on her Majesty.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town yesterday from his residence at Kew, and visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Glou-
cester House. In the afternoon his Royal Highness re-
turned to Kew.

Monseignore Capaccini, Under-Secretary of State of
the Papal Government, on a special mission, Inter-
nuncio to the Court of Lisbon, was presented to the
Earl of Aberdeen, at the Foreign-office, by the Baron de
Moncorvo, Portuguese ➢Minister.
A petition was yesterday presented to her Most Gra-
cious Majesty, very numerously signed by Merchants,
Clergymen, Traders, and inhabitants of the Metropolis
and its environs, praying for the commutation of the im-
posts on Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall bridges,
for the benefit of the public.

Dr. Heller, Member of the Royal Academy of
Medicine, Paris, lately communicated to his Society,
that in Greece it is a practice to observe the tongues of
those persons who have been bitten by dogs, because at
the end of eight or nine days there appears' on each side
of the tongue, and near the under part, pustules called
lysses by the Greeks. These pustules contain the
whole rabid matter, and immediately they appear they
are cut out and the wounds cauterised, which prevents
hydrophobia.
TYE LORD STEWARD.—The chief officer for
the civil government of the Court is the Lord Steward,
always a member of the Privy Council. His authority
is important, having the sole direction of the Royal
household below stairs, and the control of a numerous
train of inferior offices ; his power extending over all the
officers and servants, except those of thq chapel, cham-
ber, and stable. He is Judge of all crimes committed
within the Court or the verge. He receives his charge
by the delivery of a white staff or wand, the symbol of
his appointment. The present Lord Steward is the Earl
of Liverpool. His Lordship was born the 29th of May,
1785, and succeeded, as third Earl, upon the decease of
his half-brother, 4th of December, 1828.

ALARMING FlRE.—Yesterday morning, a few
past twelve o'clock, the family of Schobell, Esq., a
gentleman residing at No. 4, Lownde's-square; Knights-
bridge, were thrown into a most extraordinary state of
alarm and excitement by the discovery of the upper part
of the splendid mansion being on fire. It appears that
the servants were proceeding upstairs to bed, when they
found the upper part of the house enveloped in a dense
smoke. On one of them entering one of the attics, the
flames burst forth; an alarm was immediately raised, and
messengers instantly dispatched for the aid of the engines.
On entering the premises the firemen found that the fire
had burnt through the flooring of the attic into one of
the best bed-rooms on the second-floor, and the flames
were making great progress. By the great exertions of
the firemen they succeeded in extinguishing the fire, and
preserved the splendid mansion and furniture, before any
extensive damage was sustained. It is not known in
what manner the fire could posssibly have originated.
It proved a fortunate circumstance the family had not
retired to bed, otherwise the consequences would have
been attended, perhaps, with fatal ones.
A ROBBER KILLED.—Late on the night of
Saturday week Mrs. Allsop, wife of Mr. Allsop, of
Rowley, near this town, thinking she saw a light in an
old mill nearly adjoining the house, in which a quantity
of potatoes were stowed, awoke her husband, who, ac-
companied by his son and a servant-boy, went to the
building, and on entering found two men, one of whom,
named Hunt, immediately struck at Mr. Allsop with a
fork he had in his hand. Mr. Allsop being armed with
a poker, returned the compliment by a tremendous blow
on the head, which, fracturing the skull, laid the robber
dead at his feet ; the other intruder surrendered at dis-
cretion. A Coroner's inquest has been held upon the
body of Hunt, but was adjourned for the purpose of ob-
taining further evidence.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
THE DISTRESSED LETTER-PRESS PRINTERS
IN LONDON.—On Wednesday evening last a sermon
was preached in the Church of St. Michael's-le-Belfrey,
York, by the Rev. T. Myers, M.A., on " The Religious
Influence of Printing," from the text Proverbs ch. 18,
v. 21. A collection was made after the sermon, the pro-
ceeds of which will be devoted to alleviating the dis-
tresses of the unemployed letter-press printers in London.
Leeds Mercury.
NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—We are
happy to find that the price of shares in this great public
undertaking has of late considerably advanced, a fact at
which we are not at all surprised, considering it is one of
the great arteries through which the traffic of the North
of England flows, and which will become still more ex-
tensive when the projected Darlington and Newcastle
Railway is completed.—Leeds Mercury.
It is rumoured that a serious fracas has taken
place between the Premier and the amiable Earl of Car-
digan, respecting the Lord Lieutenantcy of Northamp-
tonshire, vacant by the Earl of Westmoreland's death.
The gentle disciplinarian, being a very large landed pro-
prietor, we have heard the largest in the county, assert-
ed his claim to the office; but the wily Premier, though
he contrived to invest hs opponents with the peculiar
credit that flowed from retaining his Lordship in a reg.i-
ment, after his competence for command had been %el
fully established, was by no means desirous of securing
for himself the merit of placing him in a position where
the mild Nobleman might find a wider field for the ex-
ertion of his benignity. The application was accordingly
refused, in terms unctuous, but decided; and the refusal
so ruffled the usually placid character of his Lordship's
temper, that Sir Robert Peel was obliged to manoeuvre
in order to escape the rising storm. But the " peculiar
art," for which Lord Stanley has given himcrehdit,rditds
utlandabsire to
been
ot
not desert the Premier on this occasion. By a dexterous
stroke of management the Marquis
transferred from the Lieutenantcy of
of Exeterß
that of Northamptonshire, and the Earl of sCardigan
having no estates in the former county, Sir Robert has
thus escaped from the delicate dilemma. Whether the
good-natured Peer is equally satisfied with the arrange-
ment, we leave our readers to infer.---ChrOnirle.
MORE FRAUDS.--.
the affairs of Mr. Howe, Mo
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was obliged some time ago to compound for his difterenees
with the house.
the dishonest conductmajesty's
of a person holding her
defalcations arose chiefly from
commission in the navy It appears that the per-
son alluded to authorised. Mr. llowe to purchase
Spanish Stock for him to the extent of 120,000/.
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This was unfortunately done without security, andi
to principalprovide forhewas We
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17 per cent., and
notice the transaction for the 7,0001.
a decampinglossof upwardsfe r Calais,o i.
purpose more particu-
larly
of putting people upon their guard, because
We have before us a letter from the party by
.whom
Mr. Howe was so scandalously duped, containing
an order to another broker of respectability to pur-
chase for him 100,000/. of Spanish Actives, with the
coupons, at the market price of the day, he (the broker)
picking them TIP
for him as quietly as possible, and fur-
nishing a note of the cost so soon as the operation should
be completed. individual had obtained an introduc-
tion The
to the party. addressed before he retired to the oppo-
site coast, and it is fortunate, therefore, for the latter
that he should have received, through the disclosures
made in Mr. Howe's case, some intimation of the cha-
racter of the former.—Post.
The Tribunal of Frankfort, before which were
brought a number of workmen, arrested in the course of
the autumn upon a charge of belonging to political asso-
ciations, has acquitted most of them, and condemned the
remaining few to imprisonment for ten month§.

SABBATH OBSERVANCI%
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU
Sift,—lt is only this moment that I have re-
ceived your paper of the 20th, or "J. S. (Bays-
water)" would have had an earlier notice of his
Sabbath letter, at least, with your permission.
I add such notice underneath. H. PRICE.
Needwood Parsonage, Burton-on-Trent, Dec. 92.
" J. S. (Bayswater)" seems, by his remarks on
my letter, to forget as fast as he reads, and before
he can take up his pen to reply:- Ills observa-
tions, also, on the Sabbath question, are alike
inconclusive.

He is astonished I cannot find a Christian Sab-
bath in the words—" At evening, being the first
day of the week, when the doors were shut for
fear of the Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the
midst of them." And I am equally astonished
that any one should Think he can and does find a
Sabbath in such words! But J. S.'s aptitude.for
finding a Sabbath is, indeed, wonderful ! . He
can pick one up (Luke xxiv.) under the feet of
the two disciples returning from Emmaus, them-
selves never dreaming of a Sabbath-.day being so
near them on the first day of the week—return-
ing from Emmaus, to which they had gone from
Jerusalem that very morning. How is it -that
these two disciples were breaking the very first
Christian Sabbath, if it was one, almost before
our Lord was well-risen from the.dead? Front
Acts i., 12, we learn that a Sabbath-day'sjourney
was about a mile ; and here we find two dis-
ciples, on the very. first supposed Christian Sab-
bath, on the very day of our Lord's rising from
the dead, taking a walk of nearly sixteen miles,
being, according to St. Luke, three-score fur-
longs distant, which Josephus thus confirms :
" A.aikaoVc CCZE XII nay lEfoo-oAvp-wy crrcamc
EE7covlcc," about 71 Ehglish miles! But what
makes it certain that these two disciples were not
dreaming of that first day of the week being a
Sabbath, is the fitct that they did not at that mo-
ment believe that their Lord was risen from the
dead! ! ! J. S. is alike inconclusive in every
other part of his quotations and reasonings. A
feebler opponent no one could desire ! But I
have no desire for one of any kind. My object
is not polemical. A great, and generally very
ill-understood, subject is now afloat. It has been
set afloat to oppose arbitrary and tyrannical pro-
ceedings, attempted to be founded on THAT OA.
CHEM WORD which, rightly interpreted, will be
found, of all writings in the world, to present
the most powerful barrier against tyranny and
oppression of any kind, whether civil, eccle-
siastical, or spiritual.
As my aged opponent seems to be, from his
own account, between ten and twenty years
older than myself, now, also, an old man, I
gladly sheathe my sword, tenderly throw my
shield over him, and carry him with only one
wound, which could not possibly be avoided,
to Sir Andrew Agnew, who, perhaps, may be
glad of-so experienced a warrior, and who may
sedulously nurse the healing of his wound, pre-
paratory to thture combat. But J. S. may as
well be told (as old age, though timid, is some-
times obstinate) that if he be again met with in
the same field, he must not expect to be again so
tenderly handled.

SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR SE-
VERN STOKE.

Early on Sunday morning last, a man named Richard
Kinton, was found lying dead on the turnpike road
about five or six miles from Worcester, on the way;
Tewkesbury. On his shoulder were marks as though a
waggon had passed over him; but, from other appear-
ances on his body, suspicions were raised that something
else had a share in his death, upon which a labouring
man, named Tippin, who resides, with his wife and three
children, in a garret at Severn Stoke, was apprehended.
On Tuesday an inquest was held by Mr. Hughes, at the
Boar's Head Inn, Severn Stoke; and the following facts
elicited:—

----____
John Chivers, van driver from Cheltenham to Wor-
cester, deposed that he met with the deceased at the
Bear, Tewkesbury, on Saturday last, and, as he said
he was going to Worcester, witness agreed to take
him there, although he said that he had no money.
They walked along the road by the side of the van until
they reached the seventh milestone frym Worcester,
when Chivers got into the waggon, and left deceased in
care of the horses. Chivers shortly afterwards fell asleep,
and awoke about the fifth milestone from Worcester,
when he missed the deceased, and hallooed after him ;
they went on till he had reached the gate about a mile
out on that road, and acquainted the gatekeeper and,
subsequently, two policemen with the circumstances.
Superintendent Manton, who apprehended the pri-
soner, found on him a knife which was clearly identified
by the landlord of the Blue Bell as that which he had
seen in the possession of the deceased, and he also found
a whip, which was identified and owned by the van-
driver. _ _ _

Superintendent Craig also searched the prisoner's
lodgings, and found a smock-frock with marks of blood
on it; and in reply to his inquiries, the prisoner said he
found the knife on the turnpike-road ; and yesterday
morning he discovered a small quantity of tobacco in the
prisoner's room, wrapped in a piece of the Worcester
Journal, a very singular coincidence, if it be accidental,
for Mr. Wagstaff, the landlord of the Blue Bell, gave the
deceased a small quantity of tobacco, on Saturday even-
ing, screwed up in a piece of the Worcester Journal
The prisoner, in his Aefence, accounted for the posses-
sion of the tobacco by saying that he had purchased it
at the Barley Mow, the landlord of which is in the
habit of wrapping his tobacco in old newspapers ;-
as to the knife he had picked it up on Sunday morning,
between Hill Croome and Severn Stoke, as he was
taking a (log to the former place. He confessed that he
was at the Albion, in Worcester, on Saturday night, with
three other men, two of whom are named Powell and
Stanton ; and he said that on his way home he met a
man at Smallbrook, with some one sitting on the shafts.
The whip, which was produced, he stated he had never
seen before. The smock-frock he said was marked with
blood from a sheep's head which he had bought from
Mr. Green, of Kinnersley, on the Bth instant.
The inquest was then adjourned till to-morrow
(Thursday).— Worcester Journal.

Lord Rolle has given 2,000/. to build a new
bridge across the rive Torridge in connection with the
proposed new road to Little Torrington.— Western Lu-
minary.
A LOCK-JAW FROM THE PRICK OF A PIN.
—Yesterday morning, Mrs. Mary Peacock, residing at
No. 14, Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, was admit-
ted into the Middlesex Hospital, having been seized with
a locked-jaw. It appears that she had been washing some
linen last night, when she accidently ran a pin into her
left thumb, which has occasioned lock jaw.
LORD CHANCELLORS.—The three Chancel-
lors who have held the seals of office longest are, Lord
Ellesmere, twenty years within a few days ; Lord Hard-
wicke, twenty years and nine months ; and Lord Eldon,
during the two periods of his being in office, twenty-five
years within a few days.
Louis XlV.—The appetite of this monarch
was so remarkable, that, we are informed, he used fre-
quently to eat at dinner four plates of soup, a whole
pheasant, a partridge, a large plateful of salad, mutton
with gravy and with garlic, two good slices of ham, and
luep.Gyrztez_dazTahte thoerieGnetanlerastlearmoesrt-offfiorceG,
Gib-
raltar, a plateful of pastry, besides fruit and sweetmeats.
Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.--The folio wing notice
rAlinlastratril:nu'l,st -I
alts,
Indian Mails of the 31st, via Falmouth." " The Over-
land Mail to India and Egypt,
of
made up here on the 4th of January, e Bri-
tannia, for the American Mail the 3d of January,
1842, via Liverpool.
The Correctional Tribunal of via Marseilles, will beanuary, 1842. 'The
of several persons, arrested as
Hautes Alpes, has been days on the trial
Gap, in the
employed three in
the
dis-
turbances at St. onnet, in the beginning of September,
participators
to short periods
in opposition to the census. Sixteen prisoners were
brought to the bar, and all were sentenced
small fines.
We observe that the new Roman Catholic
of imprisonment,- from five to twenty days, or else to
cathedral now in progress of erection in St. George's-
fields, S ey, is fast approaching a state of completion,
and from its magnificent seteyatleofanychimitecotiFec;
ad-
ready furnishes a most
s in that repully improving neigh-
public institution
from which the expenses
bourhood. The funds . .
dition to the effect prodaugrced
.by the otherr: ssipnrendid
are derived, is the receipts at
the Old Chapel ilidningthe London-road, where those who
appreciate sac building
d music will find an admirable treat on
On that occasion a solemn High Mass
of the new
Christmas-day.
•
and now includes some of the most distinguished vocal
will be sung The orchestra has been greatly augmented,
sful musician Mr. George Stansbury.
talent of the day, and is under the leadership of that suc-
cesTHE COURTESIES OW WAR.—In the midst
of the firing, a white flag being seen hoisted, in the town,
hostile preceedings were instantly suspended, - and on a
boat proceeding to the shore, the Indian mail, which had
arrived by way of Bagdad, was handed to the officer with
Suleiman Paella's compliments to the Admiral. The
latter, on his part, immediately forwarded a warm letter
of thanks to the Pacha, and accompanied it with a pac-
ket of foreign wine, which had been seized in an Egyp-
tian vessel directed to Suleiman. Fire was then at once
resumed.—Hunter's Expedition to Syria.
A GENUINE WOMAN HATER.—" Pray, Sir,
will you never marry ?" said a fair girl to a brown old
bachelor. " Ahem ! why—l don't knew—yes—madam
—I might get married, perhaps, if it were possible to get
married to anything but a woman. —Richmond Star.
Two men, known to have been before in the
bands of justice, being seen on Thursday last at St. Pierre,
near Calais, were suspected to be those who on the night
of the 29th ult. made the attempt to murder the widow
Boulanger at Beau Marais, as we have related, from
which she fortunately escaped. Gendarmes sent from
Calais in search found and brought them into the pre-
sence of the poor old woman, who has clearly recognised
them both. One is 31 years of age,'named Pierre tiillot,
and the other, Francois Grindal, is only
21. They are
committed for trial. ,
A melancholy accident occurred at La Rochelle
a few days back, where, a fire having accidentally broken
out in the nursery of a gentleman's house, his two young
children were so dreadfully burnt before assistance could
be given, that they expired within twenty-four hours in
great torment. .

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