The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of
joining the Royal Party at Claremont last evening, and
dining with her Majesty and his Royal Highness Princo
Albert. The Royal party consisted of Lady Portman,
Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Listowel, Hon. C. A. Mur-
ray, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and Dr.
Prwtorius.

The Duchess of Kent took a carriage airing yes-
terday. Her Royal Highness visited the Duchess
of Gloucester at Gloucester House.
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, at-
tended by Baron Knesebeck, left town for Richmond
on Thursday morning. Their Royal Highnesses spent
the day shooting in the Park, and in the afternoon re-
turned to Cambridge House.

Prince George of Cambridge left town at half-past
eight o'clock yesterday morning on a visit to her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager at Sudbury Hall.
Tile Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.

A deputation consisting of Joseph Somes, Esq., Go.
vcrnor of the New Zealand Company, Mr. Alderman
Piric, Mr. H. A. Aglionby, and Mr. James Robert
Gowan, Directors of the Company, had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Prussian Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Sir Colin Campbell, Governor of Ceylon, had an in-
terview yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Co-

Dr. Southwood Smith, Mr. Sanford, M.P., Mr.
John Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. Blount, had interviews
with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the
H ome-office.
Mr. Featherstonhaugh had yesterday an interview
with Lord John Russell at the Colonial-office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Dawagcr Duchess of Marlborough, in Park-lane,
from Blenheim, Oxon ; the Earl and Countess of Rosa-
lyn, in Grosvenor-place, from their seat in Scotland;
Lord Foley, in Portman-square, from a Continental tour ;
Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, in Brvanston-
square, from 1321voir Castle, the scat of the. Duke of Rut•
lard ; Lord and Lady Southampton, in Great Stanhope..
street, front their seat in Northamptonshire ; the Hon.
George and Lady Agnes Byng, in Eaton-square, from
Herts; Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart., in Eaton.squarc,
from Leamington Spa ; the Marquis of Granby, M. P.,
at ilia Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-strect; Lord Napier, at
ditto ; G. S. Harcourt, Esq., M,P., at ditto; Mr. and
Mrs. Staveley, at ditto; the Rev. George Hill, at ditto;
the Earl of Charleville, in St. George's-place, from Char-
leville Forest, his scat in Ireland ; the Right lion. Frede-
rick S"iaw, from Dublin; the Bishop of Rochester and
Lady Sarah and Miss Murray, from the Deanery, Wor-
cester ; Earl Fitzwilliam, at Mortimer House, from Mil-
ton House, near Peterborough ; Viscount Grimston, in
Grosvenor-square, from Ireland ; the Hon. George Rico
Trevor, M. P., in Stratton-street, from Brighton; Sir
Charles Lamb, Bart., and Lady Montgomerie, in Bond-
street, from Beaufort, Sussex ; Lady Elizabeth Fielding
and family in Sackville-street, from Laycock Abbey,
Wilts ; the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgecumbe,
from Brighton ; the Right Hon. L. Sheil, from Ireland;
the Marquis of Tweeddale, from Tester House, his seat
in Iliddingtonshire.

MORNING- EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM Till DAILY PAPERS CF. YESTEIIDAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Mr. Alcock seems to be maki:l-g way in East Surrey.
Last night ho addressed- a meeting of Liberal elec-
tors at the Grove-house, Camberwell. After hearing him
at considerable length, a resolution was carried by accla-
mation, " That Thomas Alcock, Eaq., from his advocacy
of the principles of civil and religious liberty, from his
avowed determination of voting for a repeal of the Corn-
laws, and in favour of vote by ballot, from his residence in
the county, and hia large landed estates therein, is emi-
nently entitled to fill such vacancy." Mr. Alcock has
been at some pains to state {that hs expectaticns are from
a repeal of the Corn-laws. He argues the question like
an indep-ndent country gentleman, whose estates are his
own, and not mortgagrd to Jews or Gentiles. To a man
who is merely a nominal receiver of rents for others
(and Sir James Graham—who exaggerated no doubt
....would have it that this character applies to nine-
tenths of the landowners of England), it is useless
to talk of the effect of the repeal as likely to be
more nominal than real. In vain you tell him that if he
loies something in what he or his tenant sells, he gains,
on the other hand, in what he buys. If the fall in prices
annihilate the balance of rent over the interest doe to the
mortgagee, he fights with desperation against the change.
But where a landowner really owes his estates, he will
put this question to himself—Can I really be ir.jured by
that which must add to the wealth of the country ? Sir
Robert Peel, when the question of Corn-laws was last be-
fore the House of Commons, tcld the landowners that
agricultural prosperity was the result of the prospetity of
our manufactures, and not of the Corn-laws. No laws
can create high prices without an effective demand, and
the effective demand is caused by the ability to purchase
which a prosperous state of manufacturing industry can
alone give. The Emperor of Russia might legislate till
doomsday without creating high prices in hia dominions
The Hungarian Diet can only prevent an abundant year's
corn from being a drug by such measures as may open a
foreign market for it.
(From the Globe.)

The Duke of Nellington's speech last year on the
China question produced no small dismay in the Tory
comp. The loud clamours about " buccaneering" and
the " opium war" were suddenly checked ; and, after a
few discontented murmurs, the parties settled down
into submission. Hail the Duke required more, those
n horn Ire permits to call themselves his followers, would
i.ave maintained the wholesomeness of opium, and the
tfficithey of the navy. They have again been thrown
into consternation by their " great leader's" speech on
the Address ; which, differing in spirit, taste, and ten-
dency from Sir R. Peel's, is highly conciliatory toward
France, without compromising the honour or lowering
the position of England. The Hon. Baronet was, as we
have Already taken occasion to observe, in a very diffe-
rent situation from that occupied by the Duke of Wel-
lingt :n. The Duke requires not the aid of party to
raise or to maintain his position ; hence he detaches
himself with ease from the feeble ties which bind him
to its objects ; rises with commanding grandeur and
errrgy into the purer regions of patriotism ; and directs
all his aims, with singleness of purpose, to the advance-
ment of his country in the scale of nations. Sir Ro-
be: t Peel, on the other hand, is nothing without his
party. He " lived, n oves, and has his being" in it,
arid from it. Deserted by his party, he would settle
down into mediocrity, without the power or prospect of
again occupying any considerable space in the public
eye, or exercising any beyond the most ordinary
influence over the affairs of nations. Hence the con-
cessions which the Hon. Baronet feels himself compelled
to make to 1113 party ; and the conflicts which are not
unfrequently visible in his speeches, between the prompt-
ings of his better genius and the hard service imposed
on him by those who, not without unmistakeable marks
of dislike and impatience, submit themselves to his
leadership. The different positions occupied by the two
personages explain the marked discrepancy of tone and
tendency in their two speeches on Tuesday night.
(From the Standard.)
We are at some loss to guess what will be the policy
of the Ministerial party in the Sesion just commenced.
We say, of the Ministerial Tarty, for as to the Minis-
ters themselves, it is easy to believe that they will do
nuthipe; if left to their own free choice ; but like " Col-
lector Snail—honest man—draw their salary and lash no-
body." With the party that supports them, how-
ever, the case is different ; they must be doing, and
doing something mischievous too, in order to keep their
position, each as an individual, or they perish as a party
—their name is " movement." Nothing but the turmoil
of popular excitement eau promise to keep afloat he
tribe of Wards, Gisbornes, Eccarts, &c., and the
rest, who have no personal claims, whether from talent,
services, station, or character, to distinguish them from
the commonest class of the vulgar ; and even such folk
as Messrs. Hume and O'Connell, who have worked their
ways up to a certain status, must keep moving, or make
up their minds to descend from the bad eminence to
which they have attained. The ministers are in
the condition of leaders of an unruly host, who
ace on one side that to advance is ruin, but on the other,
that their hungry and mutinous troops will not, and can-
not, stand upon their present ground. What is then to be
the object of attack this Session by the Ministerial party?
The Reform Bill, now the charter of Conservatism,
has successfully &feed-them, and grows stranger by
every day's succession, and by evert, new attack.
The Conservative principle. that resists violent change,
because siolcitt change is by itself almost the greatest
evil that can befal a country—this principle, by
which the R form Bill was so stoutly opposed ten
years ago, is now as firmly arrayed upon its side.
The BAllot, Universal Suffrage, and all the other
assaults upon the Parliamentary Constitution of 183,
are fast sinking, notwithstanding the support they
received from a divided Cabinet, and the system of
open questions. A significant hint, again, has been
given as to the danger of further hostile movements
agAinst the Church : the late resolution of the Lon-
don Delegates of Dissenters demonstrates that they
who arc best acquainted with the subject, feel that their
ranks are thinning, for to no other motive can be
ascribed their determination not to allow a census of
sectarians, even for the sake of getting rid of the pay-
ment of Church-rates. The Corn-laws then alone
seem to afford any safe ground for the movement.

(From the Courier.)
Although Lord Melbourne, so far as the Govern-
ment is concerned, declined yesterday to take any action
in the matter, we take it for granted that Parliament
must in some way or another interfere in order to settle
the very troublesome question which has arisen between
the Civil and Ecclesiastical Judicatories of Scotland, and
therefore we would remind our readers of the remarks
which we offered in the Courier so long ago as No-
vember 25 tatd 29, touching the Libel or Indictment
served upon the seven ministers of Strathbogie. We
do not know, of course, in what manner this Kirk
question may be brought before the Legislature ;
but the libel to which we allude his been pub-
lished in the Scotch papers, and circulated
over the country ; and is a document, as we long
ago proved, highly deserving the attention of every
man who values the interests of civil and religious liberty.
It broadly and unambiguously charges it as a crime
ecclesiastical against seven ministers of the Established
Church, that they obeyed the law of the land ; and the
Commission of the General Assembly, by sustaining the
relevancy of this indictment, has proclaimed that such
is the constitution of the Church of Scotland that a
clergyman may be punished by the highest spiritual
and civil censures, for paying respect to such decrees
of the Civil Courts as the Ecclesiastical may choose
at any time to taboo as " spiritual," and beyond the
secular jurisdiction to pass. We think it is quite
enough to state this flagrant and alarming fact, in order
toinduce some Member of either the House of Com-
mons or of Lords to MOVE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF
THE LIBEL AGAINST THE MINISTERS OF SFRATHBOGIE.

MONEY MARKET and CiTy NEWS.

(THURSDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—The funds have recovered from the
heaviness of yesterday. On second thoughts, it is acknow-
ledged that the explanation given by Lord Palmerston
must prove satisfactory to the folks across the Channel,
and this has made some people begin to think that they
had oversold themselves. The consequence has been that,
without any investments of importance, there have been
several repurchases of Stock to-day, which have caused
considerable firmness in the Market, and the quotations
have improved 4 per cent. on the closing price of yesterday.
The advanced prices brought from Madrid of the 19th
instant, with those received from Paris, have given a better
tone to the transactions in Spanish stock. Private adviccs
from Madrid hold out expectations that tho scheme for
cvpitalizing of the arrears was likely to be carried, and
that the rate of interest to be paid on them would be higher
than bss been looked for.

TIM E S.—By the annexed official notice from the Trea-
sury, which has been issued, it would appear that Dart-
mouth has been finally selected as the port of departure,
at least so far as the West India mails are concerned ;
and it is a prevalent opinion in the City that the Lords
of the Treasury intend gradually to send off the whole of
the ace mails from that port

"'Treasury Chambers, Jan. 23.
41 Gentlemen,---I am commanded by the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, that my
Lords having had under full consideration the report of the
Committee appointed to examine and report on the dif-
ferent harbours, and their merits as stations for the em-
barkation of the West India mails, and alsotheospeivreiiroanl
papers and memorials on the same subject, are of
that the selection of the Committee should be adopted and
that the port of Dartmouth should be selected as the port
where the West India mail shall be sent on board the
steamers. I am, Gentlemer, your obedient serrant,
"R. GORDON."
In Consols there were few bargains made, but the mar-
ket bore an improved tone.
Through a private source accounts from the Mauritius
to the 2-tth of October inclusive have been received, and
these state that Sir Lionel Smith, the new Governor, had
issued a circular to the Stipendiary Magistrates of the dif-
ferent districts of the island, with a view to putting a stop
to the constantly recurring desertion of their work by the
bands of Indians who come up to town to prefer complaints
against their masters, and whose abandonment of their
labours at that critical season of the year was a source of
serious injury to the planters. Ilowcver, it seems that
this had not at present worked the desired cf ':ct, for there
were still numbers of these labourers who came to Port

Louis cn the errand to prevent which this circular had
been issued.

The wool trade are in porsescion of a full statement of
the import and export of foreign and colonial wool at
London, Liverpool, Hall, and Goole, for the year endine
Dec. 31, 1840, and as a production of its kind this con-
tains some interesting matter. The total amount of foreign
wool imported into London was 42,263 bales, against
54,668 bales in 1839 ; and the total quantity of foreign
wool cleared for home consumption from the ship and the
warehouses was 12,862,288165., against 13 294,8361b5. in
1839. The colonial wool admitted free of duty was
24.992 b Jes, weighing net 6,240,5931 b. from New South
Wales, against 20,495 bales, weighing net 5,414,3591 b.
in 1839; 10,378 bales, weighing net 2,401,7281 b. from
Van Dicman's Land, against 13.618 bales, weighing net
3,187,1801 b., in 1839 ; 3,421 bales, weighing net
742,6041 b., from the Cape of Good Hope, against 3,252
bales, weighing net 689,4951 b., in 1839 ; 2,757 bales,
weighing net 922,1531 b. from the East Indies against 1,207
bales, weighing net 430,2781 b, in 1839; with sundries 25
bales, weighing net 4,5591 h., making a total of 41,573
bales, weighing net 10 311,6371 b., against 38,572 bales,
weighing 9,721,3121 b., in 1839. As far as Liverpool is
concerned, the total import of foreign wool, including
goats, was 45,180 bales, of which about 35,000 bales were
South American, against 53,658 bales in 1839; of this
there was cleared for home consumption 9,190,3931 b.,
against 9,800,7861 b. in 1839. The amount of colonial
admitted free of duty was 11,179 bales, net 2,947,4371 b.
(of which there was 1 645,5401 b. East India, 1,188,728:b.
New South Wales, 105,420. b. Van Dieman's Land, and
7.7491 b. Cape), against 8,955 bales, net 2,530.0321 h. in
1839. The import into Hull and Goole was principally
German, and made a total of 49,755 bales, against 54,424
bales in 1839. The clearance fur home consumption was
16 251,5171 b.. against 16,826 619:b. in 1339. The total
exports from London were 717,4051 b. against 531,7491 b.
in 1839, and from Liverpool 183,3631 b. against 68,4061 b.
in 1839, making a grand total of 905,7681 b. for London
and Liverpool, against 600 1551 b. in 1839.