The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1841.

COURT,4CIRCULAR.
-WINDSOR, HONDA-Y.- The Queen and Prince Albert
walked on the Terrace of the Castle fur some time this
morning. Afterwards his Royal Highness enjoyed the
sport of pheasant shooting at Belvidere, attended by
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater.
Her Majesty and the Prince again promenaded on the
Terrace in the- afternoon.
The Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Liverpool
arrived to-day at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
The Hon. and Rev. E. S. Keppel took hii departure
this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. John
Lucas with a sitting for a full-length portrait on Saturday.
The Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, and the Hon. Mrs. Ar-
buthnot, will have the honour of joining, the Royal Din-
ner party at the Castle this evening.

A deputation from the South Australian Banking
Company had an interview with Lord Stanley yester-
day at the Colonial- office. The deputation consisted of
G. F. Angas, Esq., G. Davenport, Esq., and J. R. Mills,
Esq., Directors ; and Mr. E. J. Wheeler, Manager.
Foad Effendi, Turkish Charge d'Affaires, accompanied
by Mr. Salame, her Majesty's Oriental Interpreter, paid
a visit on Sunday last to Admiral Sir Robert Stopford,
at Greenwich Hospital, to inspect the magnificent bril-
liant Nishan Efftekhary (Decoration of Honour , and
Merit), and the Jewelled Sword, the blade of which
alone cost about 12,000 piastres, sent by the Sultan as a
mark of his Imperial Majesty's regard and approbation
of the important services rendered by the veteran Ad-
miral in the late Egyptian and Syrian affairs.
The Agent for Jamaica had an interview yesterday
with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office.
The French Ambassador, the Russian, Prussian, and
Austrian Ministers, transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office.

Colonel Dawson Darner had an interview with Lord
Stanley at the Colonial-office yesterday.
The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council sat yesterday. There were present the Lord
President, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Mr.
Justice Erskine.

The Queen's Advocate concluded his address for the
appellant, in an appeal from the Prerogative Court,
" Charles D_ Bare and Thomas Mayhew, the execu-
tors named in the will of Thomas Rainier de-
ceased, dated 20th January, 1836, v. Ellen Elwyn,
wife of William Brame Elwin, sole executrix and resi-
duary legatee in the will of the deceased, dated 17th
September, 1837." The testator was formerly of the
Albany, in the city of Westminster . subsequently of
Capecure, Boulogne-sur-Mer, and died in Lower Gros-
venor-street, in the parish of St. George Hanover-square,
the 30th October, 1837. • -

Sir Thomas Wilde followed on the same side, and con-
cluded his address at four o'clock, when their Lordships
rose, Lord Brougham announcing that the Court would
be adjourned unto the Bth January.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.

BAD LAWS SHOULD BE RESISTED FOR THE
SAKE OF THE Law.—They vitiate all law and make it
the object of abhorrence. To secure obedience to the law
it must first be made just. What reasonable being could
have the heart to inflict a punishment on a man for not
obeying an unjust law ?
PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES.— The
relative strength of the two parties.will haVe undergone
some alteration during the recess. At the last session,
the Whigs had a clear majority on questionsof a purely
party character of upwards of thiity. :The dissensions
between Congress and the Executive on the subject of a
bank, the change in Georgia from the resignation of
t!lree Whig Members, and the election of two -democrats
in Mississippi, render it a matter of doubt, whether the
Whig party proper will have an available majority in the
House of Representatives. This circumstance increases the
difficulty of predicting the course of Congress. It seems
probable that Mr. Webster's permanent aherence to the
President, will bring sufficient strength to the Adminis-
tration to give it the controul of the legislation in both
houses. In such an event, if the scheme of finance re-
commended by the President shall be of such a charac-
ter as to receive the support of the democrats, it will be
successful ; but if the ultra WThigs are able to retain the
ascendancy in either house, the Executive projet will be
thrown out.—. New York Herald.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING, QUARTER-
PAST EIGHT.—The packet-ship Europe, from New Yprk,
is now due, but has not yet made her appearance. -The
wind, which has blown for some time from the westward,
changed yesterday, and enabled about 200 vessels to go
to sea (amongst which were about sixty ships for foreign
ports), to all parts of the globe. The packet-ships Eng-
land, Garrick, and Royal Sovereign, for New York • the
Susquehana, and Octarara, for Philadelphia, also left the
port, after a long detention.
FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON
THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—On Sa-
turday afternoon an accident of a frightful nature, and
which terminated with fatal consequences, took place on
the line of the London and Birminghath Railway, at a
place called ChEddington, a few miles below Aylesbury.
The up third class, or goods train, had 4,rrived ithin a
short distance of the station, and the train had not
yet stopped, when a man named William Gilley,
foreman of the plate layers of that division of the
line, who had come up as a passenger, imprudently
jumped out of the train. The unfortunate fellow,
not being aware that anything else was approach-
ing, instead of jumping off on the same side as the
station, did so on that next the road, at which mo-
ment the York passenger train was coming up at the
rate of at least 30 miles an hour. Before • poor Gilley
could reach the ground he was caught in the back by
the buffer of the engine by which the York train was
being drawn, and with such fearful violence was the
shock, that his body was seen by the guards of the
goods train apparently to fly to a considerable distance.
It had not reached the ground the second time before
his body was again caught, and hurled forward by the
front of the engine, the driver of which endeavoured to
stop the speed, but was wholly unable to do so before
the central train, consisting of nearly thirty carriages,
had passed over him. The guards of the goods train in-
stantly ran to the spot, and notwithstanding the dread-
fully shattered appearance of his body in every part, life
was not then quite extinct, and he lireathed for a few
seconds after. The body of the unfortunate man, who
was 28 years of age and single, was conveyed by the
goods train on to Aylesbury.
ASH TON-IN-MACKERFIELD ANTI-CORN-
LAW ASSOCIATION.—We are happy to state, that the
above Association, though recently formed, can now boast
of upwards of 400 members ; and this, too, in a village
like Ashton, where Tory power is so strongly displayed,
speaks loudly of the feeling which exists relative to
the Corn-laws. We wish" them every success.—Bolton
Free Press.

ABSURD SCALE OF RAILWAY CHARGES.—
Nothing can be more inconsistent than the present mode
of charging for goods by the Great Western Railway_
for instance, a parcel of 831bs, costs more than one of
851 b. ; 1131 b. is charged the same as 2 cwt. A tea
dealer in Bridgewater received two chests of tea per
Great Western and Bristol and Exeter line, the charge
for the two was exactly the same as one he had the week
before, which was only half the weight, namely, 801 b.
The ompany are losers by this foolish plan, as it is the
custom of retailers in the country to order their London
dealers to send several small lots to one house, where
they are made into one package.
It is still a subject of regret to many who hare
the welfare of the profession warmly at heart, that the
late promotion of Flag Officers did not go down to Sir
Charles Napier, as this would hardly have included a
dozen officers under 60 years of age, and all and every
one must admit that we ought to have Admirals under
this standing for active duties where physical energies
arc required. That this did not take place we are con-
vinced was not the fault of the Board of Admiralty, but
was caused by the Chancellor of tho Exchequer's econo- '
mical views, which alone prevented the promotion gene-
rally being as extensive as could have been desired.—
Naval and Military Gazette.
We are glad to hear that the officers of the Com-
missariat are likely to participate in the advantages of
the late Brevet. We trust that a similar reward will be
bestowed upon the Medical Members of the United Ser-
vice. Their activity, zeal, and intelligence, constitute a
strong claim to the distinction in question. To promote
the Commissariat at the expense of the Medical officers
of the Navy and Army, would be an act of cruel injus-
tice, and an insult which we are convinced the present
Government will never sanction.—United Service Gazette.

The torrent of bankruptcy and distress in this
locality rolls on with accumulated force. Another of
the largest lace houses in the town has been uprooted by
the storm, and will necessarily bring down a number of
smaller establishments along with it, throwing the
workpeople out of employ, and fearfully increasing the
general distrust and anxiety which pervades every branch
of trade and commerce. Bankruptcies, insolvencies, and
compositions with creditors, are constantly occurring,
and confidence and credit have received a blow which
has made them stagger and reel, so as to add to the
general stagnation of business on every hand.—Notting-
ham Review..

FEELERS.—A report has appeared in the Lon-
don papers, that the Government has determined to bring
forward a meaPure for an 18s. duty when corn is at or
under 545., to fall one shilling for every shilling that the
price rises till it reaches 685., when the duty is to remain
fixed at 4s. We look upon the scheme as an insult to
the people, and as such we hope it will be treated. Let
not our friends waste a word of argument upon such de-
vices, but exert themselves with renewed vigour for the
total and immediate repeal of all taxes upon the neces-
saries of life.—Anti-Bread Tax Circular.
DEATH OF DR. BARCLAY.---•It is our painful
duty this week to record the death of Dr. Barclay, mi;
nister of Kettle. The Doctor was in the 93d year of
his age, and died father of the Church, having been or-
dained to the charge of that parish on the 14th of May,
1778. He was a man of high literary and scientific at-
tainments, and enjoyed to the last the very highest de-
gree of respect and esteem, not only from his parishioners,
but from his co-presbyters. Dr. Barclay was father of
the celebrated Captain Barclay, who died in 1837.
Fifeshire Journal.
The late Eail of Westmorland was always
anxious that proper care should be taken of his horses.
A few days before taking to his bed the last illness, his
Lordship was driven to his stables, when he ordered all
the horses to be brought out separately, and trotted up
and down before him. Although totally blind, bis Lord-
ship was very partial to equestrian exercise, which he
enjoyed in the riding school attached to the Pavilion,
her Majesty having granted the privilege to the ve-
nerable Earl.

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WESTMINSTER ABBEY DESCIIIDEI) BY AN
AMERICAN.—There is a great nuisance connected with
Westminster Abbey, growing out of the fact, that, through
the week, one cannot get into these churches without
paying for it, while on the Sabbath the admission fee is
taken off. They therefore constitute the most important