The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.

'BEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. PEAS.
IS Oa Is Od Is Od Is Od is Od Is Od

QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK.
Wheat, 85,115; Barley,_lo2,lo3; Oats, 20,009 ; Rye, 38; Beans,

4,445; Peas, 2,007 quarters

SHERIFFs' COURT —( THIS DAY.)

(Befo:e Mr. Under ,Sheriff BURCHELL.)
SMITH V. ROBERTS.

WEDDING GARMENTS —The plaintiff is a tailor in
Old Broad-street, City, and dtf ndant is a gentleman
residing at Layton, E,sex. The action was brought to
recover the sum of 71. 16s. for a suit of clothes.

The plaintiff's attorney stated the case, from which
it appeared that defendant went to the plaintiff's
shop and stated that he was about becoming a votary
of Hymen, and was anxious to appear in appropriate
costume, and was measured for that purpose. The
fit was admitted to be unexceptionable, and the nuptial
ceremony took place, but on the bill being presented, de-
fendant said that it was no joke at all to pay extra for
wedding dresses, and, considering he had been over-
charged, refused to pay. He did not now appear to de-
fend the action, and a verdict went against him for the
full amount as a matter of course.
The other cases were on bills of exchange, undefended.
SOUTHWARK QUARTER SES-

MAGAZINES.

NEW MONTHLY.

Almost the oldest of the unegazines, the New
Monthly promises to be one of the most brilliant fa-
vourite s among the list of our popular periodicals. It
commences the second half of the nineteenth century
with unusual spirit—insomuch that the current num-
ber for January premises very largely for the deve-
lopment of the powers of its contributors. These
contributors possess the advantage, moreover, in ad-
dition to their own innate abilities, of being marshalled
under the experienced and indefatigable editorship of
William Harrison Ainsworth, himself one of the most
successful romancists in our literature. Foremost of
course, for a variety of reasons, among the contents of
the New Monthly are the concluding chapters of the
biography of Sir Robert Peel, by the Very Reverend
the Dean of York—chapters abounding in egreeab!e
anecdote, and yielding shrewd annotations on the
career of that great and lamented statesman. The
motives attributed to Sir Robert in his a Ivocacy of
free-trade doctrines are deserting of especial con-
sideration. Interest will he felt likewise
in the memorial incidentally introduced of the first
baronet of the family. The allusion made afterwards
to the rebuilding of Drayton Manor House assumes an
air of attraction, as hen it is remembered that the illus-
trious departed reposes in the little country church of
Drayton Bassett. Admirably and justly does the
Dean of York, in the eleventh chapter of the biogra-
phy, deignate the late Sir Robert " the Mectenas of
his age." The subjoined paragraph comprises an ex-
cellent epitome of the more prominent features in
this great man's character. Now that he has been
taken from us his memory possesses a mournful as-
pect of fascination. Responding to this sentiment of
public regard for his illustrious relative, the Dean of
York observes :

" Sir Robert Peel was a pious Christian, a firm be-
liever in revealed religion, scrupulously attending public
worship and encouraging private prayer. He was ex-
emplary in all domestic duties, a dutiful son, a kind
husband, an indulgent father; brave, gentle, placable,
honourable, true; and all these in the highest degree.
Had he, then, no faults? Nothing in this world is per-
fect; but the faults of Sir R. Peel wet e the almost ne-
cessary consequence of his position iu the world. He was
cold, unfriendly, proud (no wonder!). He was se fish—
no, not selfish, as coveting the blessings of others, but he
seemed doomed to live by himself and for himself. His
great talents, his extensive learning, his immense wealth,
his high station, raised him above the common race of
mortals. He stood like a statue on the top of a lofty
column, for men to gaze at but not approach."
An anecdote about " Bishop Tomline and the Boiled
Hare" is delicious. " The Boiled Hare" is the sou-
briquet of a sermon, so called from its text, " The
slothful man roasteth not that which he took
in hunting !" With reference to the subsequent
paper entitled " The Russians in 'Wallachia," we may
remark that it condenses into the compass of some two
dozen pages a lucid and masterly narrative of recent
proceedings in the Danubian Principalities—uncloak-
ing the evil policy of the Czar and doing full justice
to the course pursued throughout the transactions by
the Ottoman Government. The writer is evidently
possessed of full and accurate information, and his
familiarity with his subject enables him to convey in
a few sentences a fund of valuable information. After
the terrible books of Sir Francis Head and of Sir
Charles Napier, revealing beyond the possibility of a
doubt the fact that England is but inadequately
guarded from the accidents of invasion—it becomes
somewhat refreshing to listen to Mr. Jolly Green's
" Gallant Appeal to the Ladies," in which " the
fun of the thing" is exhausted by this facetious pen-
and-ink caricaturist. Other justifications of the
second title of the IVew Monthly—namely, " the
Humorist"—are given in the current number for
January. Besides the " Gallant Appeal to the La-
dies," by Mr. Jolly Green, we have a Cornish legend,
entitled " Tregagle," by Father Poodles, P.P.—a
trifle of the most ludicrous description ; a droll con-
tinuation of Soapey Sponge's interminable " Sport-
ing Tour;" and a very ludicrous conceit, called " The
Norman Dentist," by the practised hand of Dudley
Costello. Reviews of more than usually pretentious cha-
racter are numbered amongst the principal articles of
the New Monthly for January. "Tasso," being the
first half of a clever biographical and critical effusion
on the great celebrant of Jerusalem, is the chief of
these reviews, and bears out the reputation of the ma-
gazine for discriminating judgment and refined scho-
larship. The Rev. R. Milman receives from the band
of the reviewer anything but a crown of laurels, the
meed of panegyric being yielded exclusively to the
American biographer of the poet (Richard Henry
Wilde), for his work on the " Love and Madness of
Torquato Tasso," a theme and title reminding
us of the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft's book,
also called " Love and Madness," and re-
lating to a different poet, Thomas Cbatterton. Another
work excellently well reviewed is the exquisite vo-
lume recently published by the Messrs. Longman—
"The Lyrics of the Heart," by Alaric A. Watts.
To all magazine readers we commend " The Spectre
Haunted," an enthralling contribution by Cornelius
Colville; and to all historical students we commend
as earnestly the paper on " Don John of Austria
and the Duke of Guise at Naples." Besides these
articles we might enumerate others, but we content
ourselves with the foregoing as sufficient to show the
veracity of our remark at the outset of the present
notice, that the New Monthly affords additional pro-
mise of maintaining its high position amongst the
most estimable of our periodicals.

FRASER.
There is wailing in the Protectionist camp, and a
furbishing up of the old abusive epithets, even as there
was in 1846 ; but Fraser, not Peel, is now the
cause of the lamentation, and the object of the hue and
cry, for Fraser, the heretofore high Tory Fraser, high
Church Fraser, high Aristocracy Fraser, high Protec-
tionist Fraser, bath quitted the Protectionist camp, and
inaugurates the commencement of the second half of
the nineteenth century by a declaration, clear, distinct,
and explicit, of his belief in the truth of the doctrines
taught by political economists, more especially din
that of free trade, and, like all new converts, he carries
out his principles to their utmost possible extent,
denounces the Poor-law as a " pernicious protec-
tion to British idleness," and calls for its
destruction. At the close of a retrospect
cf the " First Half of the Nineteenth Century,"
Fraser makes his new profession of faith in the fol-
lowing terms :
_

" Iu the belief that much of the ushery which we all
bewail is due more to individual misconduct than to
systematic attempts at oppression—duo partly to the
mistaken kindness of the rich, partly to the depraved
habits of the poor—we were the first to raise our voices
against the sin of indiscriminate almsgiving and the crime
of begging, and we have stood almost alone in our oppo
sition to a poor-law, and yet we have not formally en-
rolled ourselves amongst the political economists, nor
given in our adhesion to the dcctrines of free trade. The
time, however, seems to us to have arrived when every
honest man, and every honest organ of public opinion,
should make its confession of faith. Accordingly we now
announce our own acceptance of the bold measure of the
lute Sir Robert Peel as a fait accompli, and devote our-
selves to the advocacy of such reforms as that new system
Ault seem to have rendered necessary. The repeal at the
so-called protection to British industry ought, we are
convinced, to be followed by the destruction of the far
more pernicious protection to British idleness."
Thus doth the cause of Protection, alias of wholesale
robbery, lose advocate after advocate—
" Friend after friend departs,"
and the most talented always go the first. The Pro-
tectionists may already be considered a party without
leaders, they will soon be a party without organs,
with no liberte, little fraternite, but egaliti of
ignorance the most crass, with Air. G. F. Young as
Lord High Everything.
" That deep-mouthed Bcaotian, Savage Landor,"
_ _ _ _

TtiE SUN,

AMER !CAN NE WS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 1.

By the American mail steamer Arctic, Captain
Luce, we have advices from New York to the 21st
ult. The Arctic was telegraphed off the Ormeshend
at two o'clock, but owing to the lowness of the tide
and a heavy gale, did not arrive until evening. She
brings 100,000 dolls. in specie on freight.
According to the advices by the Cherokee steamer,
arrived at New York, with over 2,000,000 of gold-
dust, and a fortnight's later intelligence from Califor •
nia, the cholera was raging with great violence. The
deaths at Sacramento city averaged about 80 a day.
The disease also prevails at San Francisco, causing
great stagnation to business.
The steamer Tennessee, which left San Francisco
on the 15th of November, had arrived at Panama,
with 1,500,000 dolls.; and the Antelope wit'
150,000 dolls. in gold-dust, and a large amount in the
hands of passengers, was at the port.
The Herald's accounts state that business in San
Frenci,co was at a stand still, and that the prices of
provisions were very high. Miners, it is said, had
done very little, all the dams having been carried
away. Improvements were proceeding rapidly. The
California papers mention the fact that agricultutists
were flourishing, and that many persons had begun to
cultivate in censcquence. The rainy season had not
commenced.

I❑ the United States Congress we notice that a
motion had been made relative to the expediency of
requesting the President to give notice to Great Bri-
tain as to the discontinuance of the United States
squadron on the African coast.
Her Majesty's ship Herald was at Honolulu on the
19th of October.

We have advices from Kingston, Jamaica, to the
12th ult.

The cholera had quite subsided at Port Royal and
St. Catherine's. In Kingston the cases were few, and
the hospitals contained few patients. In the country
districts, however, it was raging violently, and num-
bers were being carried off.
The details are very distressing. Great efforts
were being made to relieve the sufferers from cholera
at Kingston. .

The Royal Mail steam-ship Conway had not arrived.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
' NEW YORK, DEC. 21.

Money Market—No material change has taken place
in the Stock Market since the Asia's departure. Penn-
sylvania Fives have improved. The demand for foreign
exchange has not been active, but rates improved—on
London, 1104 ; Paris, 5 10 ; Amsterdam, 41k. The
money market has been favourably affected by the receipt
of gold from California. The Courier and Enquirer
notices with regret the rapid advance of silver coin,
caused by the steady demand from Eur, pe. The incon-
venience, it states, is beginning to be felt by all trades,
and that not one of the orders for export can be excuted.
Owing to the high rates for exchange, the next Cunard
steamer will take a considerable amount of specie.
Cotton—Talbot's Circular says " that since our last,
per Asia, on the 17th ult.' the market has assumed a
decidedly firmer tone, and resales have been made of
parcels bought during the panic at se. to ic. advance.
On the 18th 1,400 bales were sold at, the advance of In.
noticed in our circular of the 17th; on the 19th 800
bales, at a further improvement of ie. to 40.; and to-day
600. The quantity on sale is very light, and sellers are
firm; holders in general prefer to wait the Africa's ad-
vices." _ _

Tobacco—As usual at this season of the year the
market was rather quiet, but firm. Some 50 hhds. of
Kentucky leaf were sold at 9c. to 13c., and 40 hhds. of
common at Tic.
Iron-110 tons of Gartsherrie Scotch pig sold at 19
dolls. 62ic., and 500 tons ditto at 19 dolls. 75c. cash.
Flour—The market for some days past has been buoy-
ant, and prices tend upwards. The supplies by the
canal and river have ceased for the season.
Grain—Holders of wheat arc firm. Red Genessee
sells at 11*.
Freights to Liverpool are firm. Cotton, 3-16; flour,
Is. 6d.; grain, 4to 4i; heavy goods, 20s. To London
—tobacco per barrel, is. 7i I.; turpentine, 21.; oil, 252
gallons, 205.; measurement goods per ton, 275. 6d. to
305.; heavy goods, 20s. to 30s. To Havre—cotton spare
bales per pound, lc.
Shipping—The Lord Sanflon and the Abbeylands,
from Liverpool, and the Koophandt, from Antwerp, at
New York. _

-----
De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer, dated
Kingston, December 12, sass---
" Our market wears a slightly improving appearance,
consequent on the almost total cessation of the cholera
in the city. The dealers seem to come forward rather
more freely than has been the case for the last six or
eight weeks. Business is, however, confined for the
most part to Kingston, there being little trade with the
outports, in consequence of the prevalence of the cholera
i❑ the rural districts. All the accounts from the interior
represent the disease a spreading with a degree of vio-
lence c quaky fatal to human life and the prospect of the
estates, people not being induced to work, panic-
stricken as they are by the prevalence of the epidemic."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 1.

The Queen's New Year's gifts to the aged, infirm,
and deserving poor of Windsor, Eton, and Clewer,
were distributed this morning about ten o'clock, in
the Riding School, in the presence of her Majesty
the Queen, and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert.
Her 111,jesty and the Prince were accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and
the Princess Helens, and also by his Excellency the
Chevalier and Madame Bunsen, the Marquis of
Douro, and Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended
by the Lady in Waiting (the Marchioness of Douro),
the Maids of Honour in Waiting (the Hon. Caroline
Cavendish and the Hon. Caroline Dawson), the Lord
and the Groom in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie, Colonel
Francis Hugh Seymour, and Mr. Birch.
The selection of the very numerous objects of the
Queen's bounty had been made under the superin-
tendence of the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, her
Majesty's domestic chaplain, and the clergy of the
vicinity. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley and the
clergy of Windsor, Eton, and Clewer, were present
on the occasion.

Directly after the entrance of her Majesty and the
Royal party the distribution commenced—blankets,
calico, and flannel ci ere distributed ; and also the fol-
lowing provisions—meat, bread, potatoes, and pud-
ding. Coals were also dispensed.
Her Majesty and the Prince, with the Royal Chil-
dren and their distinguished visitors, then took their
departure, and the recipients also quitted the Riding
School.

A Serenade in honour of the new year was per-
formed at seven o'clock this morning beneath the
windows of the Royal apartments by the band of the
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, under the direction
of Mr. Tutton. The following pieces were per-
formed :
The Heavens are telling Haydn.
March from " La Juive '
Galatea, dry thy Tears

God save the Queen
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot•
ing this morning, accompanied by the Marquis of
Douro, and attended by Lord Camoys, Colonel Hen.
C. B. Phipps, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Royal dinner circle this evening included
his Excellency the Chevalier and Madame Bunsen,
the Marquis of Douro, and the Right Hon. Sir
Francis and Lady Arabella Baring.
After dinner a performance of music took place
in the Castle in the Waterloo Chamber. The Queen's
private band was in attendance, and was strengthened
by a number of additional performers of eminence.
About half past nine o'clock the Queen and Prince
Albert, accompanied by their visitors staying at the
Castle, and also by a select party honoured with in-
vitations for the evening, entered the Waterloo
Chamber.

bath vindicated his right to the epithet, by
publishing in this month's Fraser, five scenes
on the subject of the " Cenci," which ne-
cessarily provoke a comparison with Shelley ;
and for poets of the Landor calibre, such compari-
sons cannot but be dangerous. An article (the first
of a series) on the " Commerce of Africa" is well
worthy the study of our manufacturers, merchants,
and commercial diplomatiats ; the writer proves that
there is a large market for our manufactures in the
interior of Africa, that the natives are anxious to
procure them, and have the means of giving us in
return commodities which are most valuable in the
European market, and of which they are willing to
dispose; that thus allithe eletnents of an extensive
commerce exist, but that the commerce has never
been developed in consequence of our own errors—
errors which may, and we trust will, be
speedily corrected. Another paper of great com-
mercial interest is the article on " Railway Companies
and Railway Law," which we commend to the at-
tentive perusal of every railway shareholder, and of
every Member of Parlament. Slovenly as
all our legislation has been, unjust as
too much of it is, the Railway code
may be considered as uniting in itself the maximum
of slovenliness to the maximum of injustice. In ad-
dition to these articles we have a pleasant gossiping
memoir of the A 1.16 de Vuisenon and his times
(those times "so pleasant, yet so wrong," those
wicked, witty times " when Louis XV. was King,"
and Voltaire, and Panard, and Piron were the wor-
shipped of French society), a gossip about Christmas
Books, notices of the \\Tullis of Thackeray and of
Robert Bell, besides sundry tales and divers poetical
contributions.

The musical performances comprised the following
pieces :

Overture—" Struensee"
Adagio (Sinfonia A)
.. 1 Alendelssohn.
Presto Salterello ••
Turkish March—" Ruins of Athens" Beethol en.
Fugue in C .. Mozart.
After the above pieces had been played, the band
of the Coldstream Guards and the band of the Royal
Horse Guards attended, and jointly with her Ma-
jesty's private band, performed Beethoven's "Battle
Sinfonia."

CHEAP RE-ISSUE OF PM'S' DIARY.—'-The first
monthly volume of the cheap re-issue of Pepys' celebrated
Diary and Correspondence" bas just sneered. The pub-
lication is to be completed in five volumes, at 6s. each, and
there can belittle doubt, that in this copular form, the work will
meet with an entirely new class of purchasers. " We un-
hesitatingly characterize this Journal (says the Edinburgh
Review) as the most remarkable production of its kind which
has ever been given to the world. Pepys' Diary makes us
comprehend the great historical events of the age and the
people who bore a part in them, and gives us more clear
glimpses into the true English life of the times than all the
other nienlorutifi of them that kayo come down to our own."

The entire performance was under the direction of
Mr. Anderson, the Master of the Queen's private
band.

The following had the honour of receiving invita-
tions :—The Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies
Murray, General and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Lady
Emily Seymour, the Provost of Eton and Hon. Mrs.
Hodgson, Cul. llon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps and Miss
Bathurst, Colonel lion. Charles and Miss Grey, Sir'
George and Lady Couper and Miss Couper, Rev. Dr.
Hawtrey, Col. and Mrs. Bouverif, the Commanding
Officer of the Coldstream Guards (Colonel Paget),
Mr. Birch, and Mr. Glover.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in at-
tendance at the Castle yesterday (Tuesdai), and per-
, formed the following pieces during dinner
Overture and selection front "Robert le
Diable"
Quadrille, " Great Exhibition"
Doetto, " Thou art the support of thy
Father," Joseph
Waltz, "Rose dt.. Alai"
Prince Arthur's March E. Loder.

Mr. Humphrey Brown, M.P., attended at the
Home-office yesterday to defiler to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department for presentation to
her Majesty, the memorial from the clergy and laity
of Tewkesbury against Popish usurpation and
doctrines.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands And the Governor of Malta.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

QUEEN'S THEATRE.
It is customary at this period of the year for then-
trical managers to produce some novelty in the shape ,
of pantomime or spectacle, and we are glad that the
frequenters of this little ternpe of the drama have not
,been disappointed in that respect. The lessee has
brought out a pantomime—and if length of title be
any criterion of its merit, it ought to be, and indeed
is, an exceedingly good one. It is entitled Cinderella
and the Fairy Glass Slipper; or Harlequin and the
Silver Lily, the Naiads of the Golden Grot, and
Fay of the Magic Fountain. The nerve of Cinderella
is familiar to us from early recollections, and it is
therefore unnecessary to give the plot in detail.
The opening is, however, very effective; all the prin-
cipal members of the company were on the stage in
the early scenes. The acting and singing of Miss
Farrell, as the Fairy Fiction, deserves especial com-
mendatioa. Miss Hamilton appeared to great advan-
tage as the Prirme. The transformation takes place
at the fitting on of the " magic slipper," and the fun
commences. Mr. Harrison is the Clown, Mr. Manse!.
Pantaloon, Mr. Au:brook Harlequin, and bliss C.
Gibson a most agile Columbine. The harlequinade
was of the usual character, full of e!rver hiss at the
passing follies of the day, combined with scenic effects.
The audience were kept in continued merriment from
first to last ; and ultimately went home in excellent
humour with themselves and highly pleased with the
entertainment.