The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-23 00:00:00

" TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT.

" May it please your Royal Highness,
" We, the Dean and Canons of her Majesty's Free
Chapel of St. George, within her Castle of Windsor,
heartily desire to approach your Royal Highness with
our respectful congratulations on the Birth of a Prince
of Wales; an event which has awakened a feeling of
heartfelt joy through all classes of her Majesty's subjects.
" We are very sensible how much this important event
must have affected your Royal Highness's feelings, and
we are aware that we cannot better testify our own on
this occasion than by heartily praying to Almighty God,
that, for a long succession of years, the Throne of Eng-
land may afford, in your Royal Highness's descendants,
an example of all that is great and good, that you may
long witness in the persons of your Royal Daughter and
her august Consort the model of conjugal and parental
happiness."
Her Majesty's Royal Bounty was distributed on Mon-
day and Tuesday last to 900 poor and aged persons, who
received five shillings each. The recipients are recotn-
mended by persons of known respectability.
The Royal Gate Alms was also distributed to 168
persons, who received each thirteen shillings. This
ancient charity was formerly distributed to the poor at
the gate•ot the Royal Palace to the above number of per-
sons, who each received sixpence per week ; but the
bounty has,"Within the last century, been consolidated
into two payments of thirteen shillings each, at Christmas
and Easter.

The distributions were made by Joseph Hanby, Esq.,
Secretary and Yeoman of the Almonry, under the im-
mediate orders of the Lord Archbishop of York, the
Lord High Almoner to her Majesty.

Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon for his
seat Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Right Hon.
Baronet travelled by the London and Birmingham Rail-
way, and left the terminus in Euston- square by the two
o'clock train.

Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Sir James Graham left town yesterday on a visit to
her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

POWER OF REVOKING THE. LI-
CENSES OF HACKNEY-COACH PROPRIETORS.
The following circular, in which the public are in some
degree interested, has been sent round to the several
Magistrates of Police

" Stamps and Taxes, London, Dec. 18, 1841.
" Gentlemen—lt having been represented to the Com-
missioners of this revenue that great inconvenience has
been occasioned to the officers of the Metropolitan Police,
in consequence of hackney-carriage proprietors being
frequently not to be found at the places registered at this
office as their residences, I am desired to acquaint the
Magistrates that the Board have the power of revoking
the licenses, and recalling the plates, of hackney-carriage
proprietors under such circumstances. If. therefore, the
Magistrates will direct that a communication be made to
this office of any cases of this kind that may in future
occur, the Board will institute the proper inquiries whe-
ther the party is carrying on the business under a false
name or address, and will revoke the license if it shall
he found that such is the case ; so as that persons may
not continue proprietors.of hackney-carriages who cannot
be reached in the event of their committing any infrac-
tion of the law.

"I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, yonr most obe-
dient servant, "CHARLES PRESSLY."

ALMANACS FOR 1842

THE BREWERS' ANNUAL ALMANAC, 1842.
By George Amsinck, Long-acre.
This Annual will be found useful to publicans
and brewers, as it furnishes numerous statistical
tables respecting brewing, distilling, and the
quantity of malt wetted by the brewers of Lon-
don and its neighbourhood, for the foul-years
ending October 10, 1841, with a full account of
the number of brewers, victuallers, and beer-
sellers in the United Kingdom, stating the num-
ber of each class who brew their own beer, and
the quantity of malt consumed by them during
the year 1840. The compiler, naturally indig-
nant at a paragraph which appeared in the pa-
pers, headed « Great Decrease in the Consump-
tion of London Porter," satisfactorily explains,
the matter. It appears that the superior quality
of the malt last year accounts for the deficit in
the quantity wetted, that the houses that brew
porter only are scarcely down at all, and that as
the new malt is sadly deficient in quality, the
London journals will have an opportunity of stat-
ing in large characters next year, " Great In-
crease in the Consumption of London Porter."
He does not, however, attempt to deny that
there has been a considerable falling off in the
use of ale in London, as well as the quantity ex-
ported. This circumstance can excite no sur-
prise, as generally speaking the London-made
ale is the worst in the kingdom.

THE POOR MAN'S COMPANION, 6.c.
flobson, Leeds; and Cleave, London.
This is a Political Almanack for 1842, showing
the amount and application of the taxes raised
from the industry of the working classes, and
containing much information for them, and some
also that may be useful to those born only to
consume their productions. Among other statis-
tical tables, it gives a summary of the resources of
Great Britain. A comparison between the produc-
tive and unproductive:claFses, and long and instruc-
tive answers to the question, " How are the taxes
applied ?" " The Cost of the Church," and the
" Black List," may also be perused with advan-
tage. "The English Church," says the com-
piler, "is very dear, much more so than any other.
It is computed that the sums paid to the clergy
of all other Christian Churches for ministering to
203,723,000 persons, amount only to 9,849,000/.
while the clergy of England and Ireland pocket
10,886,1521."

A Correspondent of the Debats, at Cairo,
states that
the Turkish Governor of Aleppo has been driven out of
that town by the inhabitants, on his attempting to levy a
tribute.

ELECTION &F COMMON COUN-
CILMEN.
_CORDWAINEfiIiewmp.
A CLERGYMAN- A' COITSCILMAN.

Mr. LEGGE proposed Mr. Thomas George. Williams
to succeed him, a gentleman who, had formerly repre-
sented the ward several years.
Mr. LucK seconded the nothination.
Mr. HENMAN stated that Mr. Williams, being a Rev.
Divine and the pastor of a chapel, he,,thought it rather
inconsistent that the Rev. Gentleman should seek a secu-
lar office of this description, unless to become the chap-
lain and instructor of his colleagues in religious matters.
Besides, he doubted the legal qualification of the Rev.
Candidate to represent them.
Mr. WILLIAMS stated that he had been 18 years in the
ward, and there was nothing against his moral character.
He was out of business, had erected at-his own expense
schools for infant children, and devoted his time and
money to them.—(Hear.)
Mr. LEGGE—The question is, has Mr. Williams a suf-
ficient residence in the ward?

This question being replied to in the affirmative, Mr.
Williams was declared duly elected, as were the five old
members—Mr. Deputy Muddell, Mr. Croucher, Mr. Lott,
Mr. Joyce, and Mr. Jolliffe.

A long discussion then arose about the salary of the
ward beadle, which had been considerably reduced by
City reforms. Mr. Beton, an old and respected inha-
bitant of the ward, had quitted his trade to become the
beadle, and it appeared to the wardmote hard, that, in
his declining years, his salary should be so reduced as
to afford him a bare subsistence. A gratuity of 301. was
ultimately awarded to him.