The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION•

COUiiT CI.tCULAIt.

WlNnsoa, Ftan Ruyal Highness ['dm:L. Al-
htteutleti by Colonel Bouverie and Lord Alfred
4W, Mr. George Edward Anson, anti Dr. Pretorius,
,
the ezete:se of skating on the lake FroErtnore this
ttierniew.
Hcr Maj,sty nit: her Royal 11;glin,:ss the Duchess of
lk 'tit have nut left the Castle to-day.
Mr. Byrne, the blind Irish harper, bad the honour of
pa
aYing l'iatiun' al airs before her Alajesty at the Castle
st evening.

tlia Excellency Monsieur Van de Weyer, the Belgian
gibil‘ters and Madame Van de Weyer, left their residence
;" Portland_ place Yesterday merning, and embarked on
'°ard a tteam racket for -Oaterl, en route for Brussels.
• Mr. Deouct, Secretary of Legation, nrri%ed in town on
ThurOny from the Continent, and will officiate as Charge
d'Affaires during the absence of his Excellency.
Baron de Boni queney, French Charge d'Affaires, trans-
, acted business yesterday at the Foreign office.
Thu Attorney-General, Sir Harry Verney, and Mr.
• ' lichee?, hart interviews with Lord JJlin Russell yester-
• day at the Colonial-otree.
• • Tho Judicial Committee of her Mi,je:ty'e Most Honour-
Ihle Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present
%ere, Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Justice
L.
4rr -um, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
• klessrs. Pemberton and Burge, Queen's Counsel, were
heard for the respective parties in an appeal from Jamaica,
Is Vidal v Girod." The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment
on the part of the Court, reversing the decree of the Court
• below.
Sir William-Follett and Mr. Edmund Moore, for the
a PPeant, were heard in " Magnus Smith v. the Judges of
Sierra Leone." Lord Brougham gave judgment on the
Part of their Lordships. that there were no grounds for the
order disbarring Mr. 0 Smith, and that there was nothing
Whatever in the proceedings, which in any way affected
his character.

MODERATE INTEREST.—The Batik of Eng-
land, establiilied about two years and u half before with a
capital of 140,000/ ; lent, in July of 1696, 200,0001. to
Day the Flemish troops, demanding 18,000/ for ihe loan,
Shen n one elm would take the Exchequer Tallies unaer
30 per aant.--Janies's Court and Times of IVilliam 111.
The Louth Tories, according to their own ac-
Tun, intend starting two candidates to oppose the Liberal
wientbera at the next election—the persons solicited for
this hopeless experiment are Mr. Skcffington Foster, son
of Lord Ferrard, and Major M'Cliutock of Drumear.
The first copy of Whishaw's new work on Rail-
waYs was purchased for his-Royal Highness the Duke of'
Sussex.

PRICES OP PROVISIONS, &C., AT CHUSAN.
'.Wines, beer, provisions, and groceries of all kinds, are
selling at a most exorbitant price, 200 or 300 per cent.
bore Calcutta rates. Fowls and ducks, at first so plen-
tiful, are not now procurable. Vegetables the
asrame,ex.
apt sweet potatoes, of which small quantities c
yamsgiven
some-
times to be had. The men have latterl had
as rations by the Commissariat, in the proportion of one
Poised each. Any Calcutta merchant sending
sions, groceries,
'he wit es, &c., would be sure of a ready sale
re on very profitable terms. Cloth fit for soldiers'
shirting, strong leather, such as is used for animunition,
Loots, fl !rinds, and warm clothing of all descriptions would
Ilk() bo eagerly bought up : the weather is already quite
cold enough for cloth clothes. Thermometer, 62 at sunrise,
. Ird at present in my tent at half-past ten a.m., only 63.
Three young men, who gave the names of
Grant, Wayler, and Lambourn, were taken before Sir
Henry Fletcher, a Magistrate for the County of Surrey, at
the Town hall, Kingston, on Wednesday, upon a charge
, l)6oss common utterers of' counterfeit corn, and with
s"ssvlnl4 defrauded a number of tradesman at Kingston and
we'ghbourhood. Miss Harris, a shopkeeper at King-
' ae-°dn'siljPosed that the prisoner Wayler came to her shcp
ed her to give him change for a shilling and she
Ihim a. sixpence, a four-penny-piece, and two-pence.
nd he handed her a shilling which she placed in the till.
Short time he again came to the shop, and asked for
tar,"Yveorth of cotton, and he threw down a shilling upon
that "ark part of the counter, and she picked it upend round
al it was counterfeit. She told him so, and he immedi-
a, i
snatched it from her, and ran out of the shop. She then
Coked in the till, and found that the former shilling she had
:"44 Was counterfeit, and she immediately marked it, and
headed it over to the police. Another shopkeeper at Kings-
on, named Wentworth, spoke to a similar proceeding on
nihe Part of Lambourn. This prisoner also succeeded
Passing one counterfeit shilling, and made a second
-.4enapt, when the fraud was discovered. Mr. Hull-
tts a cookshop-keeper, proved that the prisoner Grant
444, e to his shop and purcha ed some ox-cheek, and
tl'ill,' him with a counterfeit shilling, and he gave
M the change. Abort half an hour afterwards he re-
turned to the shop, and asked for the same quantity of
Or cheek, and he tendered him a shilling, which he dis-
covered to be a bad one, and told the prisoner so ;
illtd he replied that he knew it was a good one, and
tack it horn him and left the shop. Information
having been gives to the police of what bad taken
11,14ce they instituted an inquiry, and took the prisoners
into custody, and upon searching them they found a
tteat quantity of good silver and copper coin. The pri-
loners, who said they got their living by hawking memo-
ratidurn-books and 11x:1'er-boxes about the country, were
temanded, in order to give the police an opportunity to
it's,zak.e the necessary inquiries, and to communicate with the
-9,4l„...'eitej to the Mint. There is no doubt that the pri-
i°—* "aye laid the whole of the neighbourhood of King-
-1.21" and Richmond -under contribution, and that several
relth cases will be brought forward
_a,sainst them.
~.`3111"311. CHURCH OF Sr. BOTOLPH WITH-
ALDGAT6.—A Vestry Meeting of the Freedom and
~,.I)rd'hip parts of the pariah of St. Botoph Without, Ald-
eAte. was held on Thursday in the Committee-room, Cock
laid 11°0p-yard, Houndedith, for the purpose of taking
consideration the dilapited state of the parish church,
and to determine on what steps should be taken to-
Wards repairing the same. Mr. R. Coombes, Church.
• warde
was in the Chair. After a very violent dis-
relative to the obligation of the parishioners ge-
eradY to assist in the expenses incurred by the neces-
Itaq repairs, Mr. Wtight said that the church was in
uch a dangerous condition tht the minister was cor-
Palled to
suspend divine servicae. He moved, " That a
• Overseers be formed, consisting of the Churchwardens,to , and twelve parishioners, to employ a surveyor
take a survey of the church generally ; to prepare a
reeificatiou and to report the same to a tuture Vestry"
"-seconded by Mr. Chi istie. Dr. Hadlow moved an
aravtldreerit, " That whatever expenses arc incurred in
the repairs shall be defrayed by voluntary contributions"
seconded by Mr. Jones. A show of hands was taken,
"lid the Original resolution was carried by a very large ma-
•3I,IY. Dr. Hadlow moved two other resolntimis, one,
t" that the question be taken into consideration that day
h''el'e-rnonths," and the next, with a view to annul the
Vi,r,°eccdings of the Meeting, was, the previous question."
'e motions were lost by at least three to one, and, amidst
considerable confusion sod uproar, a Committee was ap-
Pointed to carry out the resolution passed.
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.—The official
returns of the sick in the different divisions of this force,
given in on Tsursday at Scotland.yard, were 11 sergeants
4"(1 144 constables, who were disabled from duty on the
4P!.lvious night : the total number of men being 4,350 of
ranks. and making an average of less than tour per
;te_ht• The above, although a larger proportion of sick
Eat usual, is less than might have been expected front the
!!verity of the season. It is to be taken into account
likewise, that, from the extension of the limits of the me.
I„t9olitan police, the force is 700 men stronger than at
less period last year, when the average sickness was much
t "I• The Commissioners have given orders to the coon-
divisiona that every indulgence consistent with the
theirubhc
duties easy.
, We are glad to observe that Colonel Ferguson
meeting with a Leal ty welcome in the Kiikealdy
nllTha• has had various meetings with the electors,
o seem to have been greatly pleased, both w ith his po-
"lice' sentiments and the frank way in which he expressed
them, It is presumed he will be allowed to walk the
C°Urge, as 110 other candidate has yet aispeared. —Seotsnian.
41)110 144T11 OF RAJAII SINGI! AND HIS SON.
aMahe- Raj ih Khurruck Singh, after a lingering
Painful illness, expired on the morning of the sth. No
6°°"er was the melancholy event made known to the Un-
hrOn, than the Rsnee‘iisur Koour, sister of Sirdar Mun-
CO Singh. expressed her firm determination to burn, and
4eeordingly about eleven o'clock of the same day she was
immolated with three of her hand-maidens. On the ter-
ination of the funeral the Court was proceeding to bathe
in the Ravec, tut in passing through one of ti e covered
totoways of the town, the crush of elephants cawing one
of the beams of immense weight to fall, it strm k Koonwur
Now-Nehal- Singh, the heir-apparent, on the head, and a
Youth, named Mean- Oadum Singh (son of Rajah G.,lab
iTlegh), who was on the Prince's elephant, on the loins.
in aduns Singh died immediately, but the Prince remained
an iaaansible state until ten o'clock at night, when he
! 2apired. The aspect of affairs in the Punjaub, as regards
1 4ernal p, lities, may be considered to be totally altered,
Out to its British ally the same friendly feeling is evinced,
11?rouch so, that it is believed the brigade will cross the
Putlege on the morning of Wedoesday next in progress to
oi,ahour,..—DeMi Gazette Extra, Nov. 11.
oFRR GREAT REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT
Rt's —The following Members of of Parliament and
Other distinguished leadirg Reformers have already an-
11hord their intention of being present on the occasion
1-4!• O'Connell, Esq., M. P. ; Sir William Molesworth,
Es t'. M. P.: Hon. C. Langdale, M. P. ; T. Dimcombe,
titll, M. P. ; T. Gisborne, Esq., M. P. ; J. O'Connell,
Thll M. P. ;J. T. Leader, Esq., M. : Colonel .T. P.
ampson ; W. S. Crawford, Esq. ; Dr. Bowring:
Warburton. Esq,, M. P. ; 'F. Wakley, Esq M. P.—
'Sheffield -trig.
On Saturday evening we were visited with a
Yainleat gale from the northward, which was accompanied
oe4rds morning with a slight fall of snow. The frost was
tin exceedingly keen. The gale continued with almost
feritted violence till Monday night, when it gradual!)
Mail On Monday morning the large brig, Sarah Jane,
Lei and. with mahogany. runt, and sugar, from Jamaica to
gnash' in attempting to make Leith harbour, refused to
..Teo/sver the helm, and
went on shore on the sands.ion.
no.,TON UNION.—At the weekly meeting of the
Board - of Guardians, hell at the Union wei !choose n
s„llQ..day, an order was read by the clerk, which had been
dismissal by the Pooowe,r-lawtheo Cnimissioners, auadthorising tbi
Missal of John H master, who h been eon-
. 'tete
d bvt he Magistrates in a penalty of IN. on the pre
r riot; • ataolav for cruelly ill-treatiog a female pauper.
t ontately aftor the termination of
Ayr,- A. •
the investigation on
LitdaYs Mr. Parker, the Assistant-Commissioner, de
'Patched a report of the case to Somerset House, for the
Zlll..llO.deration of the Commissioners, who at mica confirmed
geeision of the Magistrates, by commanding that tin
t 4114 er 1. IA be t 1:
2.0.11 u ostnisseu at the next meeting of thi.

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