The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

We learn that trade in Liverpool hae, within the last
few weeks, exhibited visible signs of improvement, espe-
cially in the West India branch.
The population of Tewkesbury is about 6,000, of which
we understand one-half stand in need of relief, being in
a state of the greatest distress.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
Intelligence was received yesterday from Guernsey at
Lloyd's of the wreck of the American ship Sherwo9d,
with a valuable cargo of cotton and tobacco. She struck
on a sunken rock in the Channel on Tuesday night, and
is supposed to have become a total wreck. All hands
(14 in number) were saved, and the vessel is reported to
be insured.

General Phipps, of the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich, died yesterday morning at his residence,
Woolwich Common. He was 81 years of age, and had
been a commissioned officer for the long period of sixty-
Iwo years.

LAW AND 'POLICE.
At Union-hall, Frederick Spiers, a man of respectable
appearance was ordered to find bail, himself in 1001., and
two sureties in 501. each, for taking improper liberties on
Wednesday night with Elizabeth Stout, chambermaid at
the Hero of Waterloo Tavern, in the Waterloo-road.
Two powerful men, named Roache and Sullivan, were
fully committed to take their trial for a highway robbery
in Tooley-street, attended with violence, on a gentleman
of the name of Hitchcock, eighty years of age. Roache
knocked him down with his own stick, and he was car-
ried in a state of insensibility to Guy's Hospital. When
he recovered he missed three sovereigns.
At Marlborough-street Police Court this day three
boys, the oldest only nine years of age, were charged
with attempting to steal from the shop of Mr. Stacey,
haberdasher, Pulteney-street, a valuable piece of silk.
One of them, screened by the other two, pushed in a
corner of one of the squares of glass while a cab was
rattling past, and was in the act of carrying off the
plunder, when a policeman, who had watched their
movements, captured the whole party. They were re-
manded till inquiry should be made respecting their re-
latives.
In the Prerogative Court, yesterday, Mr. J. 11. Hope
claimed to be administrator to his brother, who died in
1806, and left all his property (12,2811. Three per Cent.
Consols, and 6401. in money) to the Rev. Henry Welles-
ley. The will of the deceased, in his own hand-writing,
ran thus :—" In the name of God, amen.—l, Edward
Hope, give and bequeath everything I possess under the
sun to Henry Wellesley, who is the younger son of the
Marquis of Wellesley, who is the brother of the Duke of
Wellington." This was executed in 1822. Sir Herbert
Jenner pronounced for the paper, and directed the ad-
ministration to be delivered to the Rev. Henry Wellesley.
In the Court of Excise, Edward Stebbing, proprietor
of billiard-rooms in Cannon-street, was convicted on
three separate informations, of selling whiskey without
a license. The solicitor for the defence urged, in miti-
gation, the extreme propriety with which the defendant
had conducted the establishment for many years, and he
was fined 51 for each off,nee.
At Guildhall, this day, two men in the employment
of Messrs. J. Croft and Roper, the extensive tobacco-
manufacturers in Bartholomew-close, were committed to
take their trial 6n. robbing their employers of a quantity
,f tobacco, which was found on their persons as they
'ere leaving the premises yesterday.
COl-71Vr----PASFIXOINTABLE.

The Duke of Wellington left Apsley House yesterday
afternoon, for Strath fieldsaye.
Lord and Lady John Russell arrived at Bowood Park
on Tuesday last, and left on Wednesday morning for
Belgrave• square. They proceed to. morrow to Woburn
Abbey.
Lord Ashburton arrrived early in the week at Bath
House, from the Grange, Hants.
The Dowager 'Lady Holland left Woburn Abbey on
Monday for town.
The Earl of Lonsdale arrived at Cottesmore, Rutland-
shire, on Tuesday, from Lowther Castle.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset has been visiting Lord Hill at
Hardwicke Grange, near Shrewsbury.
Lord and Lady Howick came to town on Monday from
Earl Grey's seat in Northumberland.
The Duke ofCleveland is gradually improving in health.
Lord and Lady Palmerston, who have been in town
some days, leave Carlton House-terrace to-morrow for
13roadlands, Hants, where they purpose seeing company
during the Christmas week.
The Lord Chamberlain, Earl Delawarr, is expected at
Brighton shortly on an official visit to the Palace. -
Vicount Jocelyn arrived in town on Wednesday even-
ing from Dublin.l__

MISCELLANEOUS.
" Early on Friday morning last," observes a Worces-
ter Journal, "as the Bailiff of C. Randall, Esq., was
walking in the grounds, he heard an uncommon stir in
the hen roost, and saw perehed up among the fo As a
bird of prey making very free with the occupants of the
roost."—This bird of prey presents a lively image of a
Tory Premier sacking the hen-roost of the Treasury
When once such a ravenous biped gets in there, he never
fail to make free with everything he can lay his hands on.
An eminent M.P. (late of the Surrey Theatre), has,
we understand, gone down to the Scottish Highlands,
for a month's browning on the thistles-there.
We arc informed that the will of the late Chimpanzie
has been proved in Doctors' Commons, and 'that the bulk
of his African estates has been left to his nearest sur-
viving relative, a certain Hon. and Gallant Member of
Parliament.
" The spirit of discovery," observes a Morning Con-
temporary, " is at present very actively at work in Aus-
tralia."—The same spirit is also very actively at work in
England, where the people have already discovered that
the Tories are a set of humbugs, and their leader a
mere Quack-doctor !
The Times says, " it is rumoured that in the course
of the ensuing Session of Parliament, application will be
made for the establishment of no less than three new

Water Companies."—These CoMpanies, we understand,
are to be got up for the purpose of supplying the Tee-
totallers with water for their tea-kettles.

According to a calen'aion recently made, there are
ISO canals in ;'eat Britain, extending 2,682 miles,
formed at an expanse of thirty millions sterling.
It is not generally known that the name " Charing
cross" originated from the fluid epithets bestowed by
Edward the First on his beloved Queen, to whom no
less than 15 crosses were erected, and from the preva-
knee of the Frond' language at that time ; Chaths
hieing no more than a corruption of cliere Reyne, often
applied by Edward to his Qtleell, Of course, the cross
gave the name to the spot.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BRISTOL,- --• The
passeuaers by the Bridgwater mail train, due at Bristol
on Monday, at four minutes past two r.m., were thrown
into great alarm on their arrival at the unfinished
bridge over the Avon, near the cattle-market, by a fear-
ful crash, occasioned by the train coining in collision with
trainrails
ov eor of
which g thee- agg oti s, drawn on the same line of
passengers
train had to pass. One
of the conductors, seated on the rear carriage of the train,
was crushed, and appeared dangerously injured. Several
of the passengers were stunned and bruised. On in -
qniry at the station it was stated that an erroneous signal
/Very culpable inattention
at the beacon-staff was given.
was chargeable on some of the officials, or such a seri-
ous risk of life would not have occurred,— Wiltshire
Independent,,

Nothing can rouse them but an appeal to their appre-
hension—an attack on their self-interests. When they
find the storm blackening above their heads, and the
hand-writing coming forth on the. wall against them,
then possibly they may concede, to fear what they never
would have conceded to justice.
The Chronicle says, in reference to the vacillating
character of the Tory Ministry, and their constant at-
tacks on their Whig predecessors We do not mean
to say that the consistency of the late Ministers is a point
of no interest, to themselves or others. An honourable
character is dear to them, and they have a right to it.
But the fact of their inconsistency, were it proved, would
not feed the famishing, nor avert the decline of com-
merce, nor find work for the unemployed, nor close the
disruptions of the social fabric. It would not make Peel
an honest man, nor the Duke ofßuckingham a‘wise Mi-
nister, nor moderate the heat of a Stanley, nor restore
the maturity of a 'Wellington. Whig inconsistency,
were it ever so lucidly demonstrated, would not be a
Tory principle or a Tory policy, or, a Tory system of go -
vernment. The Tories have not been exalted to power and
office merely to lecture the public on Whig inconsistency
—And yet the Tories seem to imagine that they have been
exalted to power, fin• no other purpose than to deliver
public lectures on Whig delinquency. While they are
as blind as moles to their own defects, they are as sharp
as lynxes in detecting the deftcts of their predecessors.
Not a word do we hear from them of Reform, or of
schemes for ameliorating the present distresses of the
people ; but they are wonderfully loquacious on the sub-
ject of Whig inconsistency, just as if they themselves had
no glaring sins of this sort to answer fur.
In an article suggested by the present state of the
country, the Plymouth Journal, makes the following re-
marks:—" Sir It. Peel cannot be blind to the existence
of deep manufacturing distress, when he may himself
witness heartrending exhibitions of it within a short ride
from the seat of his own representation, nor can he be
deaf to the cry of the poor, when uttered by thousands of
the destitute. He knows, and he feels too, politically at
least, that something must be done ; the Government
must act. But he is a Conservative, and as such he is
pledged to a protective policy, and is sure not to adopt
any enlarged measures of ComMercial Reform."
Alluding to the late great Wiltshire Meeting, the
Wilts Independent remarks as follows :—We have
alluded to " bullies attached to the Tory party" having
been present. This is a fact. It is also a fact that these
bullies received money afterwards from leaders of the
Tory party. 'What their presence was desired for, whe-
ther on the pretence of " keeping the peace" they were
sent there to exhibit' their "yelling" powers,' or whether
it was expected their services would be required in a
different line, we cannot tell. To the eternal disgrace of
the party who sent them they were there.
The Dahlia Pilot observes, in reference to the con-
duct of the Irish Tories :—" The Irish Tories are still
that obstacle to Peel which he anticipated. It is said
there is a stagger in the insolent career of dismissals
from office, and that even the attempt upon public liberty,
in the person of Mr. Conner, has not found favour at the
other side. Peel is wise in attending to the suggestions
of the Liberal rather than the Tory press."
MONEY—TRADE—COIVIDTERCE.
On the Ist of February; 1841, 'the fare on the Can-
terbury and Whitstable Railway was reduced from
to 6d., alike to the benefit of the. public and the proprie-
tors, as will be seen from the following returns ;—From
the 10th of February to the 30th of November, -1840,
when the fare was 9d., the number of passengers was
9,388, and the receipts 352/. ls. 3d., and in the corres-
ponding period for 1841, when the fare was 6d., the pas-
sengers amounted to 23,619, and the receipts to 592/.
19s. 6d., being an increase of 150 per cent. on the former
and on the latter 68 per cent.
Between the Bth and 14th of December 134,8500 z. of
silver, and 2150 z. of gold were shipped at Dover for the
Continent.