The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-09 00:00:00

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COUR! CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty held a Privy Council at three o'clock yes-
terday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended
by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the First Lord of
the Treasury, the Secretary of State for the Home Do-
partment, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the
Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, and they
Lord Steward.
At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be furtl.er
prorogued front Thursday next, the 10th instant, unti'. the
2tith of January, and a proclamation %,as ordered ter be
I issued summoning the Parliament to meet on the 2.6t1y of
January for the dispatch of business
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Cou.l-
- in waiting.
The Court was attended by the Vice-Chamberlain, thes
Marquis of Hcadfort, Lord in Waiting, and Lord HailLi
Gold Stick in Waiting.
The Marquis of Hcadfort and the Hon. William Cow—.
per have succeeded Viscount Torrington, and Mai )r thew,
Hon. George Kcppcl, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting;
on her Majesty.
Lord Frederick Beauclerk had an interview with Vie-
count Melbourne yesterday in Downinf.,,strect.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Canada, and also
from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council met yesterday, and re,unied the Appeal
from Bengal, " Ghirdarce Singh v. Koslabul Singh."
Judgment was deferred.
An appeal from Bengal .‘ Jearin Doss Saboo v. Shah
Kuber ood Dcen," was opened, but was not finished when
the Court rose.
The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice
Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Ad-
miralty Court. Sir E. H. East sat as a Privy Councillor.
The Hon. W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.

TILE WINDOW TAX.—A numerous public
meeting of the members of the Window Tax Rtival
Committee, and of the householders of the parishes of
Paddington and St. it.larylebone, was held last night at O*
White Lion Tavern Edgware-road, Paddington, for the.
purpose of adopting the most effective means to obtain es-
repeal of the window tax. Several resolutions were
adopted, denouncing the tax on windows as most optima.
sive,and that the late survey deserved reprobation, as being
arbitrary and tyrannical. These resolutions, however,
were carried by a small majority only, the Chartist offer-
inq all the opposition in their power to " a middle class
measure."
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In the Laboratory department of the Royalrsenal,
fuses, and they are assisted by large detachments of tile
Royal Artillery in this work. Many experiments weft*
made last season at Deal, with various kinds of composi-
tion, to simplify this important mode of communicating
fire to the centre of shells, amongst which Mr. Marsh's
plan is deserving of notice from its effective and certain
operation. It is so constructed that it causes the shell
explode in one-half of the time required by ?the! methods,liquid
as it
and acts in such a manner as to form a floating
floating of its
burns inwards, thereby preventing the
ells wor' e expeti.
the others are liable. One hundre s
ort of the re-
THE PARLOUR TABLE-BOOK. mented with this season at Deal,
.but the rep
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SEA.—If a piece of wood,
The selections in prose and. verse of which this PRESSURE OF TIlEb
forcd down to a great depth
Miscellany is made up, evince taste and judgment which floats on the watreer,of
be forced
surrounding liquid will be
suit has not yet been made public:
on the part of the compiler—we allude more par- into the sea, the
ticularly to the prose, for which some of the and so increase its
down Into.
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ships,a: tSiwy ihni bleb have foundered in
sterling authors. in the languag
under contribution. Among those from whose face. Hence f thethe timber
ocean,
we find one of our never rise again to thuerne surfs
under
fnatebeiet
works extracts have been taken,
likef,epsearwt
old favourites, Sir Thomas Browne ; but the ex- withtimpunity, plunge toa
hcnulddenpotht nthe sdea, but
i7ich are sunk near
certain
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tracts, though excellent of thcir kind, are too short; there is a
tlimit beyondieh li i whichoh je
ct. For the samee
instead. of a mere paragraph or two, we should have ffesrsx
able there is a depth below which fishes cannot live.
been indulged with the whole of the last sublime Tipley have, according to Joselin, been caught at a dept
chapter on " Urn Burial ;" and that fine passage at which they must have sustained a pressure. of eighty
descriptive of the effects of street and tavern music; tons to each square foot of the surface of their body....
which may be beets in the " Religio Medici," The l Tyne Mercury.

GERALDINE.
Dolman, London, 1840.
A republication► of a novel written a few years
ago by a lady who has since, we understand, founded
a convent of Sisters of Charity. The tale appeals
rather to the sympathies of Catholic than Protes-
tant readers, though such is the genuine spirit of
Christianity, wholly unmixed with fanaticism, which
pervades it, that it will find admirers among all sects
of sincere Christians.