The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1841.

the same period, did not amount to fuur hundred th9lsqu4
quarters, which, at the rate of 50s. per quarter, is under
the value of a million sterling ; whilst our importations
from ports in Europe were 6,365,000 quarters of wheat
and flour, which,- at the same rate of valuation, amounted
to 15 914„ 000 V

We not only pass by those markets where corn may be
had mi the easiest terms,- but we exchange our manufac-
tures at a disadvantage in order to obtain bullion to pay
for an article bought at the highest price at ports within
the influence of our low rates of duty. Seeing that we
imported nine milliOns of quarters of corn within a period
of four years, is it too much to suppose:that, the average
price of this corn was raised on us at least 20s„ per quar-
ter, by which means we have reckhiSslYthrown away
nine millions sterling of the resources of the 06untyy.
Mr. Salomons, like every person;' who treats
the same side of the question, points out an im-
mense mass of evils which 'result:from the pre-
sent law. For the whole of.,them, and fin., all
the evils which can be imagined of the same de.4
scription, free trade is, the .adequate remedy:,
nor has any person pointed out any evils further
than temporary ones, which would result from
having a free trade- ,in corn. Some land, it :is
supposed, might be thrown out of cultivation for
a brief space; -we might, it is said, be made 'de:-
pendent on other nations; both of which are
imaginary, and (were .they real) trifling evils,
compared to the dreadful misery inflicted by
the Corn-laws. The remedy for sliding scales,
fixed duties, &c., is a completely free trade,,
which has none of their disadvantages.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

BY THE QUEEN---A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA, R.—Whereas our Parliament stands pro-
rogued to Tuesday the twenty-first day of this instant
December ; We, with the advice of our Privy Council,
do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament
shall. be further prorogued, on the said twenty-tirst day
of this instant, December, to Thursday the
third day of February next ; and we have,
given order to our Chancellor of that part of onr
United Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare
Commission for proroguing the same accordingly ; and
we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare
our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament
shall, on the said Thursday, the 3d day of February
next, assemble and be holden for the dispatch of divers
urgent and important affairs ; and the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and the Kniglit.s, Citizens, and
Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required
and commanded to give their attendance accordingly,
at 'Westminster, on the said Thursday, the third day
,of
February next.

Giveiir at Our Court at Windsor, this tenth day of
December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year
of Our reign. GOD save the QUEEN.
BY THE QUEEN—A PROCLAMATION,
In order to the Electing a Peer of Scotland.

VICTORIA, R.—Whereas Thomas Earl of Elgin was
duly elected and returned to be one of the sixteen
Peers of Scotland to sit in the House of Peers in the
present Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and is since deceased ; in order
, to the electing another Peer of Scotland to sit in his
room, we do, by the advice of our Privy Council
issue forth this our Royal Proclamation, strictly
charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland
to assemble and meet at Holyrood-house, and Edin-
burgh, on Wednesday the nineteenth day of January
next ensuing, between the hours of twelve and two
in the afternoon, to nominate and choose another Peer
of Scotland to sit and vote in the House of Peers in
this present Parliament of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of the said
Thomas Earl of Elgin, deceased, by open election and
plurality of voices of the Peers that shall be then present,
and of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies
being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing, duly
signed before witnesses, and both the constituent and
proxy being qualified according to Jaw), and the Lord
Clerk Register, or such two of the Principal Clerks of the
Session as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his
name, arc hereby respectively required to attend such
meeting, and to administer the oaths required by law to
be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their votes ;
and, immediately after such election made and duly ex-
amined, to certify the name of the Peer so elected, and to
sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers
the electors, and return such certificate into our High Court
of Chancery of Great Britain ; and we strictly charge and
command that this our Royal Proclamation be duly pub-
lished at the Market•cross at Edinburgh, and in all the
county towns of Scotland, twenty-five days at least be-
fore the time hereby appointed for the meeting of the
said Peers to proceed on such election.
Given at Our Court at Windsor, the tenth day of De-
cember, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year of Our
reign. GOD save the QUEEN.

At the Court at Windsor, the 10th day of December,
1841, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.—Whereas by the late Act of Unifor-
mity, which establisheth the Liturgy, and enacts,
that no form or order of Common Prayer be openly
used other than What is prescribed or appointed to be
used in and by the said Book, it is notwithstanding pro-
vided, that in all those Prayers, Litanies, 4nd Collects
which db anywise relate to the King, Queen, or Royal
Progeny, the names be altered and changed from time
to time, and fitted to the present occasion, according to
direction of lawful authority : her Majesty was pleased
this day in Council to declare her Royal will and plea-
sure, that in all the Prayers, Litanies, and Collects for
the Royal Family, the words " The Prince of Wales"
be inserted immediately after the words " The Prince
Albert."

And her Majesty cloth strictly charge and command,
that no edition of the Common Prayer be from henceforth
printed but with this amendment; and that in the meantime,
till copies of such edition may be had, all Parsons, Vicars,
and Curates, within this realm do (for the preventing of
mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such Prayers
in their Church Books, according to the foregoing direc-
tions: And for the better notice hereof, that this Order be
forthwith printed and published, and sent to the several
parishes ; and that the Right Reverend the Bishops do
take care that obedience be paid to the same accordingly.
WM. L. BATHURST.
At the Court at Windsor the
Excellent Majesty in
the 10th day of December,
1841, present, the Queen's
Council,—her Majesty having been pleased to appoint
the Right Honourable James Archibald Lord Wharn-
cliffe, the Lord President of the Council, to be Lord
.
Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the west riding of
the county of York, his Lordship this day took the usual
Oathsoptis
oaprpAolilnetaeidantoce
and
be taken thereupon, instead of the
Supremacy.
G. [iTehitee
ofoflolocwtoinbger alrst,icllBe4slh:o_ull have appeared in the
DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 14, 1841.
The Queen has been pleased to nominate and appoint
Captains Edward Belcher, William Warren, Harry Eyrcs,
and Charles Anstruther Barlow, of the Royal Navy, to
be Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order
of the Bath.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Atkins
Hamerton, of the Honourable East India Company's
Service, to be her Majesty's Consul in the dominions of
the Imam of Muscat.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 11.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
Francis Wylie to the church and parish of Elgin, in the
presbytery of Elgin and county of Moray, vacant by the
transportation of the Rev. Alexander Walker to the
church of Urquhart.

The Lord Uhancellor has appointed Charles 0 vington
Ord, of Middlesborough, in the county of York, Gent., to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 10.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Lyon Foster,_ of
Hertford, in the county of Hertford, Gent., to be a Master Ex-
traordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WAR OFFICE, DEC. 14, 1841.
Ist Regiment of Dragoons.—Lieut. 3. Yorke to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major Owen, who retires ;
Cornet W. B. Barttelot, to be Lientenant, by purchase, vice
Yorke • T. Thoroton, Gent., to be Cornet by purchase, vice
Barttelot, Dec. 14.

10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Surgeon D. Murray,
M.D., from the 13th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice W. R. Rogers,
who retires upon half-pay, Dec. 14.
7th Regiment of Foot--Lieut. T. St. Vincent H. C. Trou-
bridge to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bernal, who retires,
Dec. 14.

Bth Foot—Ensign W. Bayly to be Adjutant, vice Holmes,
promoted, Dec. 14.
13th Foot.—W. F. Pounsett, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Scott, promoted; Assistant-Surgeon J. Robertson,
M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Murray, appointed to the 10th
Light Dragoons; I'. G. Scot, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Robertson, Dec. 14.
28th Foot—Lieut. H. H. Lake, from the 31st Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice T. Bunbury, who retires upon half-pay of the
54th Foot, Dec. 14.
31st Foot—Lieut. J. L. Wilton, from half-pay of the 54th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lake, appointed to the 28th Foot,
Dec. 14.
46th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. A. D. M'Bean, from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cowen, promoted to be
Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, Dec. 14.
92d Foot--Lieut. J. Cox to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Bayly, who retires ; Ensign J. C. Gordon to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Cox; C. Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice J. C. Gordon, Dec. 14.
2d West India Regiment—J. C. 111Therson, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Clarke, deceased, Dec. 14.
Ba EVZT. —Lieut.-Colonelhalf-pay Unattached,
to be Colonel in the Army ; Captain W. Fothergill, of the 50th
Foot, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 23.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 11.
Royal Regiment of Artillery— Second Captain E. F. Grant
to be Adjutant, vice Dupuis, who resigns the Adjutancy only,
' April 14.
Corps of Royal Engineers--Second-Lieutenant R. Burnaby
to be First-Lieutenant, vice Durnforcl, promoted, Dec. 7.
Commission by the Governor and Captain of the Isle of Wight.
}I. P. Gordon, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 25.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland.
Si: G. Musgrave, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 4.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Westmoreland.
Sir Geo. Musgrave, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 4.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
Cambridgeshire Militia—William Huntly Campbell, Esq., to
be Captain, July 1.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
Queen's Own Royal Yeomanry—William Briscoe, Gent., to
Rangers—Clumber Troop—G. H. Vernon,
be Cornet, vice Izon, resigned, Dec. 9.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.
3t
o°fSßE:lll:ruPteY• Gibson'
13a-
Unwin, deceased.
Mansfield Troop—E. Wright, Gent., to be Cornet, vice C.
Colvile, promoted.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
GeSnht.e,rwtote Fißrsatn Lieutenant, vice E.
FRANCIS SHERWIN, dentist, Bruton-street, Berkeley-
square.
BANKRUPTS.
masons, Harrow-road, to surrender Dec. 23,
C'thVe Court at twelve, and
JOHNSON, stone
Jan.
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