The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at-Windsor Castle.
It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert;
the Archbishop of Canterbury • Lord Wharncliffe, Lord
President of the Council ; the Lord Chancellor • the
Duke of Buckingham, Lord Privy Seal • Sir Robert
Peel, First Lord of the Treasury ; the iarl of Liver-
pool, Lord Steward; the Earl Dclawarr, Lard Chamber-
lain ; and the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse.
The Lord Chancellor had an audience of the Queen,
and delivered to her Majesty the patent creating the
Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.

The impression of the Great Seal was enclosed in a
silver case beautifully embossed with the Royal Arms,
which, with the patent, was placed in a box, lined with
white satin, and covered with crimson velvet.
At the Council the name of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales was ordered to be inserted in the
Prayers of the Liturgy after that of Prince Albert.
The Arms of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
were taken into consideration at the Council.

Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued, from
Tuesday, the 21st of December, unto Thursday, the 3d
of February, and a Proclamation was ordered to be is-
sued, summoning Parliament to meet on that day for the
dispatch of public business.
An election for a Scotch Peer was ordered.

Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. James Lord Wharncliffe be Lord Lieutenant of
the West Riding of the County Of York, his Lordship
took the usual oaths.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Sir Robert Peel, the Loll Chancellor, the Duke of
Buckingham, and Lord Wharncliife, left town to attend
the Council by a special train, which left the Paddington
terminus of the Great Western Railway at one o'clock.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town yesterday from his residence atliew, and paid a
visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
at Gloucester-House. In the evening his Royal Highness
went to Exeter Hall, and honoured the Sacred Har-
monic Society with his presence at their performance of
Handel's Oratorio, " The Messiah."
A meeting took place yesterday morning at the Home-
office, which was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Sir James Graham, and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, on a
special mission, transacted business at the Foreign-office
on Thursday.
Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales,
and also from the Governor of Newfoundland, were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
walked for some time on the terrace of the Castle.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Buck-
ingham, Lord Wharncliffe, and the Hon. William
Bathurst, took their departure from the Castle after the
Council broke up.
The Lord Chancellor, Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel,
Earl of Liverpool, Earl Delawarr, and the Earl of Jersey,
remain on a visit to her Majesty. It is expected that
Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Jersey will leave to-
morrow.
Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, and the Hon.
Mrs. Arbuthnot, will have the honour of joining the
Royal Dinner Party this evening.
By command of her Majesty, Mr. W. C. Ross, A.R.A,
had the honour to-day of painting a sketch of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales. The unfavourable weather
has prevented the Prince and the Princess Royal from
being taken their usual airings.
The Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot had the honour of joining
the Royal Circle at dinner yesterday. A military band,
as well as her Majesty's private band, attended at the
Castle in the evening.

FOOLERY AND FASHION.-In the " Journal
of a Residence in Great Britain," by two native Indians,
Nourogee and Merwangee of Bombay, which has been
lately published, occurs the following passage, relative
to the opera, where the authors went to see Taglioni
dance :—" Only think—one hundred and fifty guineas
every
night to be paid in England to a woman to stand
for a long time like a goose upon one leg, then to throw
one leg straight out, twirl round three or four times with the
leg thus ex tended,to curtsey so low as to nearly seat herself
upon the ground, to spring occasionally.. from one side of
the stage to another ; all of which jumping about did
not, on her part, occupy an hour ; and to get more money
for that hour every evening; than six weavers in Spital
fields •
(who produce beautiful silk for dresses) could earn
all of them, working fourteen hours every day, in twelve
months."—rWe do not wonder at the authors' astonish-
ment at this extravagant foolery of our English fashion-
ables ; but how much more would they be surprised—not
to say disgusted—if they were told that those who lavish
such vast sums on a mere dancing-puppet, cannot find it
in their hearts to contribute a single penny to relieve the
distresses of their own starving countrymen !

, . LITERATURE.
HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL. Colburn, London, 1841.
If this be not the best number of the " Comic
Annual" that its author has yet put forth, it is at
any rate among the best, which is no slight
praise, whenwe bear in mind how many exquisite
pieces of humour, in prose 'as well as in verse,
have appeared .in the " Annual." • The first
rhymed story, entitled " Miss Kilsmansegg, and
her Precious Leg," has already been published,
though without the illustrative plates, in succes-
sive numbers of •the New Monthly Magazine,
wherein it soon became a favourite with the public.
lt is a Clever bagatelle, but we do not rank it
among Mr. Hood's most fortunate efforts, for
there is evident throughout it a constant and
painful straining after effect; the lines, too,
move on heavily at times, and the humour is not
always sufficiently obvious. It has none of the
ease, spirit, or raciness of the author's mock-
sentimental ballads, though we cannot deny that
its satirical flings are frequently very felicitous.
" The Friend in Need" is a prose story, embel-
lished with several capital wood-cuts, one of
which, under the quaint heading of " Enough to
sicken a Dog," represents . a morose-looking
mastiff, evidently one of the old school, running
away with disgust from a litter of puppies, each
of whom is smoking an Havannah cigar with
the coolest and most complacent air imaginable.
The contemptuous look and upturned nose of the
old mastiff, who is evidently shocked at such an
innovation on canine propriety, are full of ster-
ling humour. Phrenologists measuring the head
of a murderer, who is seated in his dungeon with
chains round both legs, is a not less effective
plate. With w hat an air of smug self-conceit the
leading phrenologist of the party feels the ruf-
fian's head, accounting for his crimes, as one can
see at a glance, by the absence of some, and the
presence of other, bumps on his occupit ! The
Sheriff who is witnessing the scientific examina-
tion, wears the true official aspect; and his dull,
stolid, formal phiz does honour to the Shrievalty.
But the criminal is the most characteristic pot.-
trait. He is just the sort of fellow, with his thick
pug nose, short bull-neck, bow-legs, and great
swelling calves, that you would expect to see
standing beside your bed at midnight with a dark
lanthorn in. one hand, and a crow-bar in the other.
He was manifestly born for no other purpose than
to swing from an Old Bailey gallows, and furnish
the surgeons with a subject for dissection after
death. " None so deaf as those who will not
hear" is illustrated by an old maid, straight from
head to foot like a stick of sealing-wax, who is
turning with lofty contempt from some poor little
beggar-girls who are supplicating her for charity.
The withered old spinster has, it is ,plain to see,
long outlived all the charities of life, and has no
notion of being beset by such vulgar importuni-
ties in the public streets. Her nose tells you that
she has not yet taken the Temperance pledge,
and her eyes have a cantina, by expres-
sion that has been cultivated and brought to per-
fection at-the Tabernacle. We feel convinced,
infleed, that she is a rigid Methodist, one who
believes in the infallibity of Sir Atidrew Agnew,
and is averse to all Sunday baking and travelling,
except when they interfere with her own per-
sonal comforts. " A Screw Loose" represents an
elderly gentleman starting aghast with horror
from an enormous boa-constrictor, who has just
escaped from his den, and is rearing himself up
for a spring, not ten paces off his victim. The
snake, as we can see by his look of satisfaction,
expects to make a pleasant dinner off the old
gentleman, who cannot, however, at all reconcile
himself to the idea of being thus compelled to
administer to the epicurean propensities of an.
other. He looks sadly woe-begone, and his hair
stands erect on his head, like so many wire
strings. • We close our notice by an extract from
a " pathetic ballad" entitled " Pompey's Ghost :"
. 'Twas twelve o'clock, not twelve at night,
But twelve o'clock at noon,
Because the sun was shining bright,
And not the, silver moon :
A proper time for friends to call,
- •. Or Pots, or Penny Post ;
When, lo ! as Phcebe sat at work,
She saw her Pompey's Ghost !
Now when a female has a call • •
From people that are dead,
Like Paris ladies, she receives
Her visitors in bed :
But Pompey's Spirit could not come
Like spirits that are white,
Because he was a Blackamoor,
And wouldn't show at night !
But of all unexpected things
That happen to us here,
The most unpleasant is a rise
In what is very dear :
So Phcebe scream'd an awful scream,
To prove the seaman's text,,
That after black appearances,
White squalls will follow next.
" Oh, Phcebe dear ! oh, Phcebe dear !
Don't go to scream or faint ;
You think because I'm black I am
The Devil, but I ain't !
Behind the heels of Lady Lambe
I vvalk'd whilst I had breath ;
But that is past, and I am now
A-walking after Death !
" No murder, though, I come to tell,
By base and bloody crime ;
So, Phcebe dear, put off your fits
Till some more fitting time ;
No Crowner, like a boatswain's mate,
My body need attack,
With his round dozen to find out
, Why I have died so black.
"" One Sunday, shortly after tea,
My skin began to burn,
As if I had in my inside
A heater, like the urn.
Delirious in the night I grew,
And as I lay in bed,
They say I gather'd all the wool
You see upon my head.
" His Lordship for his doctor sent,
My treatment to begin—
I wish that he had call'd him out,
Before he call'd him in !
For though to physic he was bred,
And pass'd at Surgeon's Hall,
To make his post a sinecure,
He never cured at all
"The doctor look'd about my breast,
And then about my back,
And then he shook his head and said,
' Your case looks very black.'
And first he sent me hot cayenne,
And then gamboge to swallow,—
But still my fever would not turn
To Scarlet or to Yellow !
" With madder and with turmeric
He made his next attack ;
But neither he nor all his drugs
Could stop my dying black.
At last I got so sick of life,
And sick of being dosed,
One Monday morning I gave up
My physic and the ghost !"
1

FREDERICK THE GREAT and his TIMES.

2 Vols. CoThum, London, 1841.
There are many memoirs and scattered no-
tices extant of Frederick the Great of Prussia,
but we have never happened to meet with a
memoir so full and so every way satisfactory as
the present, which not only gives in detail the
leading features of the hero's political and mili-
tary career—for he was eminent alike as a soldier
and a statesman—but discusses also the charac-
ter of Vae remarkable times in which he flou-
rished ; and furnishes, in addition, biographical
sketches of his half crazed father, the First
Frederick, and his celebrated ancestor the Elec-
tor of Brandenburg, deservedly styled by his
subjects the most illustrious man
bey o"the
n d
all Great.
question
vas
of the age in which he flourished, and on which
in some d egree he stamped the impress of his
own character. Though a
againstgreat portion of Eu-
ropefi him ; and he
superior to hi.sownel;d
was arrayed in arms
Opposed in the
tbhyQugfohrchees
ilinVaisneasurably
frequently
was redwzied at times to such a state of despair
that he 1 nore than once, thought of ending his
tro übleseboyu
rsaugieciai ; suicide
3eet , in the end, his indo-
mitableperseverance vanquished all
obstacles; and at the termination of the famous
Seven Years' war, he was the only gainer, having
ussi
achieved the objectr for which he drew the
sword ; raised Prussia from
of a first-rate
State to the rank Power,
,and established his claims to the title of the most
consununate vt, • arrior of his age. The great blot
ort Frederick's escutcheon is undoubtedly the
active share he k
_ took in in conjunction with the
Empress Catherine—a despot capable of any
atrocit:7—in the partition of Poland. The ex-
cuses he made for this infamous act of wanton
spoliation, when it began to excite the indigna-
tion of Europe, are anything but valid, and
indeed serve, if possible, to aggravate the enor-
mity of the case. But Frederick, though he
appears to have found a gentle biographer in the
author of the volume before us, was always a
despot in his heart; and though he was laudably
anxious to promote his country's prosperity, yet
it must. be after a fashion of his own. When,
however, the circumstances of the times in which
he livec l, are considered, he may be pronounced
on the . whole a liberal and enlightened Sove-
reign; and when we think of him in connexion
with 46nis .the Fifteenth, for whom he possessed
the ' most hearty contempt, he shines with re-
doubled /usu.?. As a literary man—for Frede-
rick was tambitious of the character of an author,
as well a s of a soldier and a statesman—he dis-
played Brut very indifferent ability. His works,
which. tide voluminous, have long si •
nce descended

MORNING SUN

. to their just level; and if he is ever thought of at
all as a literatenr, it is chiefly by reason of his
friendship with Voltaire, who afterwards be-
came his bitter enemy, and, under the title of the
Xing of Bulgaria, has satirised his despotic
habits with the-severest acrimony in "Candide.' '
In the volumes before us, the fullest details are
given respecting Frederick, both as a man and
as a monarch. Every memoir, bearing on' the
subject, has been diligently ransacked ; the so-
cial and political peculiarities of France, Austria,
and several other European States, are also con-
sidered with attention; entertaining matters of
Court gossip are introduced; and the result is a
livelier and completer picture of the condition
of Europe during the greater portion of the
eighteenth century, than has yet issued from the
English Press. The opening chapter is the most
indifferent in the work. It is too vague, and
sketchy, and unsatisfying, and though aspiring
to the dignity of history, is anything but histo-
rical in its character. In the course of this
chapter the author expresses his surprise that a
witch should have been persecuted in North
Germany so late as the middle of the eighteenth
century, when he might have known, ou a little
consideration, that even at that comparatively
recent period, witchcraft was believed in through-
out the greatest part of the Continent, and per-
secuted accordingly. Re speaks, too, of the
German armies, at a somewhat earlier period,
being too often recruited from the dregs of the
population; unaware, apparently, that the Eng-
lish armies were thus recruited, through the vile
agency of press-gangs, as late as the year 1810.
Many a gaol-bird fought, and fought bravely
too, in the Peninsular war. On the whole, we
consider the present volumes the most entertain-
ing works of the sort we have read for some time.
They are not exactly history, for history deals
with the great outlines of particular periods, and
seldom deigns to notice their minor peculiarities;
but they are the next best thing to it, and are
about the same calibre, in point of literary abi-
lity, as Mrs. Thompson's entertaining Memoirs
of the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough. We
subjoin an extract, by way of sample of the
author's manner. He has been speaking of the
military jealousy of Frederick and his occasional
brusque manner towards his Generals :
Frederick, though a consummate judge of military
merit, showed himself, through his Whole life, but too
ready to affront even his best officers on what might be
deemed very slight occasions. Thus we have seen that,
during the second Silesian war, the brave Marshal
Schwerin, who had rendered the most important services
to his Sovereign, as yet inexperienced in military opera-
tionS, had fallen into disgrace, quitted the army, and re-
tired to his estates. Accidentally meeting his brother
at the Ridotto, soon after the conclusion of peace, the
King inquired—" What is the Marshal doing ?"—" He
is attending to the cultivation of his estates and the
management of his affairs, your Majesty ; for the rest,
he is quite well." " When you write to him, salute him
in my name," rejoined Frederick. "He is a great man,
but he is obstinate, and forgets that lam King." A
year afterwards, he invited the Marshal to Berlin.
Schwerin went, and was in the King's ante-chamber by
eight o'clock in the morning, just as his hussar was
taking in coffee. He sent in his name. The King gave
no answer, took up his flute, and walked to and fro for a
quarter of an hour extemporising. Laying down the in-
strument, he buckled on his sword, and then ordered
the Marshal to be admitted. He motioned the attend-
ant to retire. Of the conversation that ensued nothing
is known, but that it was at first loud and warm, gra-
dually subsiding till nothing could be heard in the
ante-chamber. Schwerin was in high spirits when he
left the King. who had given him an invitation to dinner.
Before the commencement of hostilities Frederick was
anxious to conciliate another of the trope' and distinguish-
ed leaders of his troops. Zieten, the dashing commander
of the hussars, had been for some time in disgrace with
the King. He, with many other officers, had early con-
ceived a jealousy of Winterfeld, because Frederick was
thought to honour him with his more especial confidence,
and frequently gave him commissions to which his rank
might be supposed not to entitle him. In 1745 he even
preferred a formal complaint on this subject to the King,
and accused :Winterfeld of doing him ill offices with his
Majesty. "Be assured," replied Frederick, " that I
have seen with great pain from your letter that you enter-
tain the idea that I have taken a dislike to you or am dis-
contented with your services. I beg you to believe that
neither the one nor the other is the case ; that, on the
contrary, I esteem you us a meritorious officer, and am
perfectly satisfied with your valour, skill, and fidelity.
But, if at times I give particular commissions to Winter-
feld to do this or that; according to my instructions im-
parted to him in Secrecy, I cannot stiffer anyone to inter-
fere in such matters or to tie my hands, especially as in
these cases there' is nothing that trenches on your rank
and seniority. I hope this' will make you quite easy on
the subject." . __ • . -

Zieten had in his n.:-4-iment many volunteers of dis-
tinction, in favour of v.-lvnn he was less -strict in regard
to discipline, anti this drew upon him the severe dis-
pleasure of the King. In the year 1753, a great encamp-
ment was forme.l near Spandau. Zieten was there with
his hussars. The regiment was advancing into the live,
preceded by the kettle'-drUms, which it had taken at
Katholisch-Hennersdorf. " You are good for nothing,"
cried the King, " back, behind the front !" After-
wards, at the special review, he upbraided the whole
regiment in the severest terms, and said that it was
composed "of rude unplaned clowns." In this man-
ner he continued to vent his displeasure. Zieten,
who was standing before the front with drawn sabre,
could no longer repress his indignation. Turn-
ing towards the King, and thrusting his sabre, rat-
tling with the vehemence of the action, into its scab-
bard, he said, in an emphatic tonc—" If then, in the
devil's name, we are good for nothing now, there was a
tune when we knew how to do our duty like brave men.
At that time, when we were needed, we were good
enough." " Yes," cried Frederick, quite as angrily,
" then you were good, now you are good for nothing
whatever." During the time the manoeuvres lasted,
Zieten never drew his sabre again, but remained in the
camp as a mere spectator.

THE WEATHER ALMANACK, 1842.
By P. Murphy, Esq.
This indefatigable weather-seer has, in the
" Scientific notice" for the year, introduced a
new• element into his system of calculating the
seasons and weather, namely, a barometer, not
30 inches, but 2,000 miles long. The reader no
doubt will be anxious to know the name of the
maker, in what part of the world it is erected,
and who the enormous giant is that, with an arm
one thousand miles in length, marks with the
sliding-pointer the rise or tall of the fluid in the
tube. Mr. Murphy shall answer for himself .
" Our barometer of the seasons," says he, "is
d les
tboo
herh time
the
and wk
eke oafr
en at u
elementsr e,
iin nv dh iosspee nhsaanb
ope-
rations; the tube of the barometer is no other than
the bed of the Nile, whose length, from Donga
to the Mediterranean, is estimated to be 2,000
miles." He then goes on to point out the con-
nection between the inundation of the Nile,
and the weather for the ensuing year, for
which we must refer to the Almanac all those
who are desirous to know whether a fair is
to be held on the Thames on the 25th of Ja-
nuary, or Windsor Castle is to appear like an
oasis" rising out of the waters on the day fixed
for the christening of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales. We are glad to see that Mr.
Murphy has,taken the hint, and given the pub-
lic something more than prophecies and discus-
sions on meteoric phenomena, unintelligible to
ordinary minds. The Almanac is now one for
general use, containing a good calendar, with
many of the lists usually given in such works,
and all sold at sixpence less than the price of
that extraordinary publication which stamped
his name with immortality.
T- w

-HE DISTRESSED SPITALIIELDS . SA-
VERS.--The Lord Mayor received in aid of the dis-
tressed Spitalfields' weavers, the sum of 101., as the con-
tribution of Mr. Russell Ellis, and 12/. 19s. 4id. from
Mr. Hicks, of the Bank of England, which had been
collected from various officers of that establishment, in
small sums, from Id. upwards.
The donation of 100/. in aid of the Spitalfields'
weavers, mentioned in a paragraph a few days ago as
baying been transmitted to the Lord May through Childs'
banking-house
nckiinrd g-tvoouod se bdriNou irg.h ha Vtltt.lo, was sent by Mr. Robert
,R medium.
During a recent trial before the Correctional
Tribunal at Verdun, it was shown that out of the 700
police, as being dishonest domestic servants employed within the town, 500 were
or
snSi r
A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Lyons,
iumndmeorraluspicion of the
on the 2d inst., at a little before eight in the evening, At
the same time, a shock was experienced at Vienne, on
the Rhone. No damage was done, but the
was stronger at the latter place than at the former.'euleikt
O N
Prime E T AG
Minister,E
—l'lhiase slitgiefitedlihoi
inten-
tion of receiving, on Monday next, at th
Chambers, a deputation from the Committee of RobTeHrtEPeeßl,Aalts
Treasury
of the Be-,
ronetage for Privileges with a representation of their
proceedings (approved of by general meet.
to their chartered and patented rights,
and whiehl have been
egs)' relative
confirmed by various Acts of Parliament,
subse-
quent Monarchs, since the Royal founder,
rights and privileges of the order are Cl' by which the
the sixth degree of hereditary nobility, early defined as
We have reason to believe thatthe
George Dawson will be the new Commissioner Right Hon.
the place of the late Sir George Henry of Customs, in
While Marshal Clausel was recently Freeling, Bart*-1:"L
he refused several public testimonials at Algiers
were offered to him ; but at a diner given
sympathy which
Rozey, Lieutenant-Colonel of the r given him by M.
a toast thanking the Marshal for ocal National Guard,
Algeria was proposed. The M his military services in
took occasion to observe, that if Marshal, in reply to it,
for him on the two occasion it had been impossible
s - when he was
General to develop the immense Governor-
which the colony possessed, it
germs of prosperity
it was only because the
means of doing so were *n
!ver placed at his disposal.
More fortunate than
added, "General Be,cre me in this respect," the Marshal
aud who is
talent, and energy,.vvill attain ' this object, we have every
reason to believe, unless the;t
bad will which I had always
to struggle again A cor a man of courage,
aes to neutralise his efforts asit
did mine.'

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

A letter from Paris, quoted by the Prussian State
Gazette, mentions a chart of the fortifications of Paris,
made by an officer of artillery, the son of the Vendean
Chief Stoffiet. This map is said to be extremely curious,
as showing the lines of fire commanding different quar-
ters of Paris and its environs. It pretends to prove that
the Palace at Neallly, the Tuilleries, the Louvre, and
the Palais Royal, with the road along the Champs Ely-
sees, are all safe from balls and shells.
The St. Petersburgh papers mention several shocks of
earthquake felt in the district of Nachitchevan, between
the Ist and Bth of May last, by which, however, not
much damage seems to have been done. On the 31st of
August a violent shock of earthquake was felt at Nijne-
Tahil, on the western slope of the Ural mountains, ac-.
eompanied by a brilliant aurora borealis.
The Minister of Commerce is collecting at the present.
moment materials for a legislative measure to modify the
present agricultural system in France, whereby land is
allowed to lie fallow one year out of three.

We have iweived the Madrid papers of the 29th ult.
There is no political news of much interest in them.—
The Evectudor, a Government paper, contradicts the
rumours of a commercial treaty having been negociatel
with England ; such. a treaty, it says, was never even.
thought of. "By moving the Custom-house line to the
Bidassoa from the Ebro," it acids, " it wishes to show
that it is independent 'nth of France and England."

A razia, oni a small scale, was executed at Bona on the
14th ult., when a column of 1,600 men, infanti:y, cavalry,
and artillery, under Major-General Bandon, went on to
the territory of the Beni Amer, where a subject of the
Spehis had lost his life some time before. Sixteen of
the natives were decapitated, and the cattle met with
were carried off.

The troops in the camps erected round Paris, for the
fortillmtions, have been dispensed from participating in
the works /ill March next, but still remain in their pre-
sent statio-ft.

Two melancholy accidents have recently occurred in
the fashionable world at Vienna. The Countess Ilies-
hazy was reading in bed, to which she was confined by
indisposition, when her taper caught the curtains, set the
bed in flames, and the unfortunate lady was so dread-
fully burnt, that she died next morning. On the same
day the Count Lugansky, of the Cuirassiers, was thrown
from his horse and killed.

" The Phalanstere established by Mr. Young, an Eng-
lishman, who is a passionate disciple of Fouler, in the
ancient Abbey of Citeaux, is mainly recruited from the
Jura," u-ays the Sentinelle of that department. M. Re-
verchon, of Chateau Chalon, Mayor of Gredisans, has
left off farming, and abandoned all his property to the
manamement of others,- to place himself at the head of
the labourers" in this new community. Madame Mig-
noret is at this time conducting her children to Citeaux,
and her husband leaves his Champagne manufactory to
take the direction of its external affairs. Many persons
of both sexes are about to follow."

It is stated that the expenses of the occupation of, an
6perations in Africa this year are estimated at 100 mil
lions of franCs (4,ooo,oool.)—Constitutiannel

COWES, ISLE OF WIG HT, Dm. 9.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
AWFUL SUDDEN DEATH.-Mr. French, a traveller in the
sail-cloth line, frees Crewkerne, Somersetshire, arrived at the
Vine Inn, Cowes, on Wednesday, apparently in excellent
health. After transacting business he took some brandy and
water, and retired to bed about half-pass ten o'clock, desiring to
be called in the morning at seven, at which hour the boots
knocked at his door and received an answer. On the gentle-
man not coming down at half-past eight, the chambermaid
knocked, but did not wait for an answer, as he had ordered
breakfast at eight ; and not appearing at nine, Mr. Roper, the
landlord, at half-past nine, himself knocked at and tried to
open the chamber-door ; not succeeding, be obtained the
asiistance of a locksmith to open it, when the unfortunate
gentleman was found sitting in a chair by the bed-side, partly
dressed, having a towel in his right hand, and appeared as if
he had just finished washing himself. A surgeon was imme-
diately sent for, but life had fled. An inquest was held before
Henry Sewell. Esq., Coroner, this evening, and a verdict of
'° Died by the Visitation of God," returne. The deceased
was about forty years of age.
FasntoNAmik INTELLIGENCE.-Sir E. Paget and family
leave Cowes Attie on Saturday morning, for town. The
Earl of Yarborough is expected at Appuldurcombe House on
Wednesday next, from Brocklesby Ball, to spend the Christ-
mas. Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., is expected at Cowes
to-morrow, to superintend some alterations in his new yacht,
the Flirt.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 6, 1841:
Passengers £6oB 4 6
Merchandize

Darlington, Dec. 8.

£1,122 10 10
1). O'BRIEN, Secretary.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROST THE MORNING PAPERS OF YEgTERDAY.
TIMES.—Mr. T. Wood, the Secretary of the Brighton
Railway Company, has absented himself from business,
and thrown up his appointment, by a formal letter to the
Directors. •He is understood to be no defaulter as far
as the Company's funds are concerned; but it is said his
embarrassments arise from speculations in the shares of
this particular Company, in which he had a large venture
for the rise.

Letters have been received to-day from Falmouth,
stating that the Braganza steam-packet, which set sail
on Monday last, was compelled to put back on the fol-
lowinm day. The mail was immediately put on board
the Express packet, which was about to sail at once. It
is, therefore, clear that the Braganza was disabled at
least for a time, and seine of the passengers have as-
cribed the misfortune to a defective state of the boilers.
On inquiry in the City, this, however, appears to be in-
correct, and that it was the stays, and not the boilers,
that were in fault. The passengers by the Braganza
are-all-to be transferred, free of further expense, to the
Tagus, which will sail next Monday.

letters fromvßerwick-upon- Tweed
received this morning state it as the report there that the
stoppage of the back of Batson, Berry, and Co., referred to
yesterday and before, was attributable to the large with-
d:'-awal of capital by one of the partners extensively em-
barked in the Greenland fishery and owner of several ships
in thetrdde. It is said confidently that there is scarcely a
single person in Berwick and the vicinity who will not
be more or less a sufferer by the failure of the bank.
The party alluded to yesterday -as having disap-
peared, and being in default in the Share Market, is ad-
vertised to-day by the Directors, as the Secretary to the
Brighton Railway Company, which has been so unlucky
in accidents of late.