The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-26 00:00:00

WINES.

CAM—Hitherto this year 187,739 gallor.s, againse
204,603 gallons, which were cleared for home consump-•
lion durii g the same period in the last year, showing a
decrease in the quantity used this year us compared
with the same time in the last year, of 10,864 gallons,
being within a very small fraction of nine per cent., of
more precisely, eight and ninety-eight hund.-edths psi
cent., or one-eleventh proportion of the the total T4O-
- consumed in the previous year.
CLARET, CHAMPAGNE, and BURGUNDY, and calf
other French wines collectively, up to the present time
this year, 239,172 gallons, against 270,738 galloon, on
which duty was paid for home consumption within :the
corresponding portion of the last yew:, showing a de-
crease in the quantity used hitherto this year, as coal
pared wi'h the same time in the last year, of 31,5661
gallons, being thirteen and one-ti:th, very nearly per
cent., or exceeding thirteen and nineteen hundredths
per cent., and a falling off in the proportion f one gallons
in every seven and a halt gallons on the wuole quantity
consumed in the preceding year. _

M A DEIRA.-1-iithorto,- this year, 8-1.018 gallons.
against $4,083 gallons on which duty ;via paid for
home consumption within the parallel dates 11i the last
year, showing, contrary to the above two de, ariptions
of trines, a very trilling and insignificant decrease,
n:nountini,r,-"to rin more than seventy galena, b. log a
small fraction more than eight hutalred per cen.%, Al
compared with the whole. quantity consumed is the Th the
tune in the last scar, 1839.
PonT.—Up to the present time this year there hart
been duty paid on 1,593,017 gallons against 1,714,115
gai!ons which were cleared for home consumntion during
the corresponding period in the last year, showing a di-
minution in the quantity used hitherto this year, as
compared with the same time in the.lasi year o 1121,098;
gallons, lining seven and a minute fraction exceeding
six-tenths per cent., and in the proportion of one ,;allow
in every thirteen and one-sixth gallops less cons.atinca
this year than up to the same date in the last year.
Huc IC, and all other Rhenish wines, hitherto ft is
}ear, 44,091 gallons, which, compared w.th 45,957 xkti-,
lons, the quantity cleared for home ecnsumption up to
the similar period in the last year, shows a decreases
this year of 1,866 gallons, being nearly four and a quar-
ter per cent., or, more exactly, tour and twenty-throe
hundredths per cent. ; and a failing oil' of one gallon in
every twenty-three and ttvo.thirds gallons on the total
quantity confirmed during the same time in the pre-
ceiling year, 1839.
SHERRY, and all other wines of the growth and
produce of Spain, of whatever denomination, duty bss
been paid for home consumption in the port of Leedom
since the beginning of the present year up to tins time
on 1,586,735 gallons, against 1,591,518 gallons, width
were cleared for home ute during the corresponding
period in the last y ear—showing a diminution in the,
consumpti,at hitherto this year, as compared with the
8•.100 time in the last year, of 4,783 gallons—being less
than one-third per cent., or more accurately, a very
sand! fraction exceeding thirty-hundredth. per cent, and
in the propot tine of one gallon decrease in every three
hundred and thirty gallons, on the total quantity coat-
sumed in the last year 1839, up to the s ime period.
\VINES of all other descripions, collectively, not
otherwise onumerated, nor particularised, nor included
in any of the above classes, duty has been paid for
home consumption since the Ist day of .January of the
current year, up to the present year on 209,669 gal-
lons, against 203,754 gallons, which were cleared for
home use during the corresponding period in the last
year, 1839, showing an increase in the quantity of mis-
cellaneous or non.enumerated wines, hitherto, this year,
as compared with the same time in the last year, of
5,915 gallons, being a very minute fraction, exceeding
two and nine-tenths, or ninety-hundredths per cent. on
the total quantity consumed.

AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.-A newspaper Cor-
respondent says—" Going the other day into me cellar,
for the purpose of drawinc, some ale, I was much surprised
at seeing three immense rats sitting on one of the barrels,
putting their tails down through the Lung•hole and atter.
%iard: sucking them. Thee had taken this ingenious me-
thod, as the hole was so small and the ale too low for them
to get at it by any other means." ,
PRIME MINISTERS.—The subjoined list ot,
Prime Ministers of this country since the cornmeneemen
of the reign of George the Third, will convey some idea
of the changes to which cur Constitutiond Government is
subj,et :—Earl of Bute, May 29, 1762 ; Mr. Grenville,
April 10, 1763 ; Nlirquis of Buckingham, Juiy 12, 1765;
thu Duke of Graf!on August 2, 1766 ; Lord North,
Januaryo, 1770; the Marquis of Rockingham, March
3 Lord Bhelbourne, July 13, 1782; Duke of
178, ;
28,
Portland, April —, 1783; Mr. Pitt, December 27, 1782;
Mr. Addington, March 17. 1801 ; Mr. Vitt, May 15,
1804; Lord Grenville, Feb. 11, 1806; Duke of Portland,
March 3, 1807; Mr. Percival, Dec. 2, 1803 ; Lord
Liverpool, June 9, 1812; Mr. Canning, April 24, 1827;
Lord Goderich, September 25, 1827 ; Duke of Welling-
ton, January 25, 1828 ; Earl Grey, Novemb,,T 2.-
), 1830 ;
1
July
18, 1834 ; Sir Robert Peel,
and Nrlcount Melbourne again,
2
April 18, 1835.
I;e'ece°lulinbter Melbourne,6
: 534 ; J

CONSTANTINOPLE, D EC. 2.—The Marchioness
was presented to the Sultan last Monday.
ofta i,IL o\n\a.d.,,oinkne,dscreo,r7
She VC s r. . '
pawed on the occasion by the lady of Cap-
er Walker Pac"ia, .as he is now generally
styled, and both of them were very graciously received.
To Mrs. Walker his Majesty spoke iii tee most flattering
terms of the services of her husband. wh,..m he looked
upon, he said, as the right arm of his navy. Captain
Walker has since his retry n been presented with a magni—
cent snuff-box in briilimits. Ihe jewellers of the Sultan,
are 110 W employed ii the making of a gorgeous diamond.
necklace for her Majesty.
DEATH OF THE REV. DR. CORMACK OP
ow .
church,oe,. k
STow.-00 Sabbath last the Rev. Mr Brydon officiated
in the church of St
1 who had entered the goodtilesel7clacietii,nwra. C
om
brse ravca
to drop his heath on his breast, and was immediately borne
1 During
in
out spparcntly in a faint. We lament to add, that Lefort,
the set vice was cor.eimicd, a tote was handed to the
preacher, and toad by bin, to the conw [;anon,
c announcing.
that their esteemed pastor had expired, which produced, as
may he supposed, a deep sensation._Edinburgh Paper.
The il!uminations at Wnidsor on Wednesday
evening, in honour of her 3,loijet,ty's visit to Windsor, were
tip.Al a more extentive scale than has been witnessed in
that town (with tie exception of the evening of the
Queen's marriage) for many years. There was scarcely u
house in the town that did not tliplay
the loyalty of its
occupant in oil or gas.
'The Marquis of Northampton, t7colopanied h\
Lady Marianne Coxipton and Earl Compton, have rr.
turned to Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, for the Chris
mas holidays. A select family circle will ti;:sentble at tb
splendid scat during the festive season.