The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-27 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

VIENNA, DEC. 15.—The post from Constantinople
ot the 26th has arrived. The only news of interest is the
declaration of Mehemet Ali, that be will pay the tribute
due to the Porte, and he bas btetn with the arrears. He
has also remitted to 'Constantinople a surplus of three
million of piastres for the private treasury of the Sultan.
Under existing circumstances this was very desirable for
the Porte, but less in a pecuniary than in a political point
of view. We have received intelligence to-day of the
intention of the British Government to send several ships
of the line to the Mediterranean. The exchange was very
active in consequence, and several important fluctuations
took p'ace. At the close, little variation was apparent,
but a consideruble fall in the funds must take place if the
threats of the English journals are executed, and serious
collisions ensue. A Russian courier has left this place for
St. Petersburgh. We learn from Odessa that several
ships of war are fitting out in the ports of the BlLck Sea, a
proof of a fixed resolution to be ready to meet events. The
commercial world is in the mean time no ways uneasy as
to the interruption of peace, hoping to see these dif-
ferences between the Great Powers speedily arranged, and
a general disarmament follow.

VIENNA, DEC. 16.—Five per Cent, Metalliques, 94
21-32 ; Four per Cent. 84k; Bank Shares, 1,223 2-5.
AILYNICII, DEC. 15.—M. Thein, a printer at Warzburg,
and his journeymin, Linz, have been brought to the prison
here. He published the Warzburg Volksblatt, edited by
Dr. Eisentnann, and is said to be otherwise implicated
with the Doctor. In the affair of Counsellor Behr and
his son, who are also in the prison here, the papers of the
sentence passed by the Court of Appeal at Landshut have
been sent to the superior tribunal here. Dr. Schutz, who
was condemned by the Court of Appeal to sixteen years'
imprisonment, for distributing seditious writings, but
acquitted by the superior court, and who was subse-
quently imprisoned on another charge, is said to be
acquitted, and to be set at liberty. Among the
persons imprisoned for political offences, who are said to
be 60 in number, is a Polish officer. Several of the
prisoners are allowed to walk for an hour every day in the
courtyard of the prison, and the students who are in
confinement, if they do not all enjoy this favour are al-
lowed the use of books and candles. Besides the rigour
with which the new regulations on passports and the
police with respect to foreigners are enforced, all violations
of the regulation respecting " permits to reside," and the
removal of persons not born here, who cannot prove that
they possess sufficient means of subsistence, are most strictly
enforced. Some poets have lately fallen under this regula-
tion. With respect to the granting of passports to come to
our capital, instructions will shortly be sent to the proper
authorities, by which the influx of persons, especially fe-
males, in search of service, is to be checked.
Many Swiss continue to arrive here, to enlist in the
troops for the Greek service. At this moment the re-
cruiting again goes on well. Most of those who apply
are young men from other countries, especially from the
north of Germany, Austria, and the German provinces of
France, and also from Poland. They are all required to
produce, besides the usual certificates, proof that they have
complied with the laws relative to the conscription in
their own country, with regard to promotion and all
other particulars; they are on the very same footing as
the Bavarians, and according to the promises made, one-
third of the subalterns among the volunteers who have
already marched are foreigners. About 500 men will
march at the end of this month. One great inducement
to go to Greece is the hope of a final settlement in that
beautiful country, which holds out much better prospects
than emigration to America.—Nurernburg Correspondent,
Dec. 19.

STIJTTGARD, DEC. 18.—The editor of the Stuttgard
Zeitung—the oldest of the Wirtemberg journals—
founded in 1757, announces that it will cease to appear at
the close of this year.
The Suabian Mercury has a letter from the Polish
frontiers, which says, " Our neighbours the Poles seem
at length to accommodate themselves to their fate. The
peasant who took part in the whole revolution, without
properly knowing what he wanted, feels at last that he is
in no case a nobleman, and that his fate is much better in
peace than in rebellion. He is in some distress, on ac-
count of the bad harvest, which may have been partly
caused by the neglect of agriculture during the years of
confusion. The people are everywhere full of the praise of the
King of Prussia. His conduct towards the Polish refu-
goes, who lately sailed from Dantzic for North America,
was at first not believed, especially as evil minded persons
bad misrepresented it. But now the truth could no longer
be doubted, the respect for that sovereign before enter-
tained, by many became universal.—Frankfort Papers,
Dec. 21.

RAMSGATE, DEC. 25.—Nothing can exceed
the splendid eight the Royal Harbour now presents.
Three hundred ships detained by contrary winds are now
sheltered within the noble piers, and, being Christmas.
day, all have hoisted their colours and decorated their
ships; consequently upwards of five hundred flags of all
nations are now flying. and, as the sun has shone for about
half an hour very brilliantly, it is indeed beautiful. The
pier at this moment is crowded with many fashionables
who make this place their winter residence—the Countess
of Astaburnhani and daughters, Lord Radstock, Lady and
family, Sir Howard Douglas, Lady and family, Sir James
Lake, Lady and family, Sir W. Curtis, Lady and family,
D. C. Cooper, Esq , Lady and family, the families of
Gosling, Carleton, Dash wood, &c., so that Ramsgate is
becoming a most fashionable place. Five foreign steamers
came in on Sunday, not being able to get into Dover.
Three o'clock—Since I have began writing the wind has
chopped round to N.N.E., blowing stving.

Major-General Sir Anaos Norcott left town
on the 25th instant, on his way to Plymouth, for the pur-
pose of embarking on board his Majesty's ship Cruiser,
which is to convey him and his suite to Jamaica. The
General was accompanied by his son and Aide-de-Camp,
Mr. Norcott. We understand the delicate state of Lady
Norcott's health prevents her Ladyship an.' her daughter,
Miss Norcott, from accompanying the gallant General.

From some official returns recently made up
it appears that the total amount of poor rates raised in
England and Wales during the year ending March, 1832,
was 8,622,920/. 45., being an excess of 343,7121. 10s.
beyond the amount raised during the preceding year. The
total amount of money expended for the relief of the poor,
and not for other purposes, during the year 1832, was
7,036,9681. 10s., being an increase of 238,0791. Ifs.
beyond the sum expended for the relief of the poor during
the preceding year.

Dr. Ryan, in his Lectures on Population and
Marriage, mentions a Frenchman, aged 99, who married
a tenth wife, and was a father at 102, and Thomas Parr,
married at 102, and was compelled forty-eight years after-
wards to appear in a white sheet at one of our churches for
an amour. This venerable man outlived nine Kings of

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.-46 No mere
description can convey a true idea of the contents of the
volumes published under the above title. The workman-
ship excels the material. Important as are the views
which the author takes, they are less remarkable than the
vigour, force, and vivacity with which he impresses them,
and the power with which he makes old things appear
new, or places familiar and accustomed matters in a light
so striking as to suggest considerations which never before
presented themselves. It is superfluous to recommend
the work to general perusal. Every capitalist who is
puzzling over the mystery of shrinking profits with increas-
ing natural wealth, every embarrassed landlord, every
honest senator, every intelligent elector, every man, in
short, who either directly or indirectly may have an in-
fluence on the matters upon which it treats, should read,
or rather, should study it. If the volumes do not change
his opinion upon the subjects they review, they will at
least modify his ideas, or check his presumption.".—
Spectator..

There was a turtle, weighing above two cwt.
taken a few days off Castlehaven, in the west of this
county. It was hooked by some fishermen who had never
seen such a fish before, and who were unwilling to make
acquaintance with it. The party who was for taking it
into the boat was so strongly opposed by his comrades that
he was obliged to content himself with taking a turn of a
rope round his prize, and to tow it into Castle Townsend,
where, notwithstanding the unfavourable opinion enter•
Lined of the external appearance of the fish, which some
carried so far as to say that it was " the Devil himself,"
the offer of thirty shillings had a quick effect in removing
the prejudices of the fishermen against their captive. It
is a remarkably fine young turtl, and was despatched
without loss of dine to this city. It is a very rare occur-
rence to find turtle in those seas; but fish are migratory
and whimsical rovers, and possibly the lovers of good
living may have more windfalls of this sort to regale on
in good time.— Cork Herald.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1833.

The arbitrary suspension of three advocates
by the French Government, as a punishment
for the zeal with which they conducted the de-
fence of the twenty-seven prisoners lately ac-
quitted in Paris, will produce, we trust, a deep
and lasting impression on the French people.
The speeches of the counsel in reply to the
application of the Advocate-General for their
suspension, contain sentiments the publicity of
which will do much injury to the Government,
independently of the effect which must
be produced by the abominable display of
tyranny in their suspension from their profes-
sional avocations. What an anomaly it is to
see twenty-seven persons acquitted by a jury of
a charge levelled against their lives, and yet their
counsel deprived of the means of subsistence by
the despotic mandate of the Court, merely for
having laboured to prove that their clients were
not guilty! We extract from the speech of
one of the counsel the following passage. The
French Government may call the suspension of
such a man from his professional duties a degra-
dation. In our opinion the only degraded
persons are those who commanded and pro-
nounced the decree of suspension.

" I blush (slid M. Michel), but it is not with shame.
It is with anger and indignation. Condemn me, gentle-
men, if you please ; I respect the Magistracy, for without
it the law could not have i's course; but I respect one
thing more than the Magistracy, more than authority of
every kind,—l respect truth. Yet, Gentlemen, for respect-
ing truth, you are about to condemn me to a suspension of
my professional avocations. For respecting truth you are
about to commit an act of tyranny against an individual,....
an act of outrage on society. But, Gentlemen, although
you may make yourselves the degraded instruments of
those who would deprive me of the means of subsistence,
I shall nut be obliged to beg for support, and if I
were to do so, it would be from those whose lives and
honour I have saved, and I should thus be richer than the
advocates of the King gorged with the munificence of their
master.

" Gentlemen,—The future lies in the breast of God.
Afirabeau said to the Parliament of Provence, a day will
come, when what is now impure will be purified.'
Suspend me then—deprive me, if you can, of the means o
obtaining bread. We are in a sad period—let us wait for
better days. Boast, if you please, that you have struck
my name from the list of advocates, but be honest
enough to add, that you did so at a moment when I had
traveled sixty leagues, leaving my family and my private
affairs to protect the lives of twenty-seven victims of per-
secution, and at a moment when those persons had bee❑
acquitted by the justice of their country. This is the
legacy that I will leave to my children—a legacy of which
they will be more proud than of any other portion of their
fortune. Happen to me what may, it will be a glorious
reflection for me to have been placed on my own defence,
on the day following that when I successfully defended
the virtuous Argenson, who had left his elevated position
to mingle with the people, and calm their sufferings. The
hour of justice will arrive : I wait for it with patience,
but with confidence."

Such sentiments as these, bearing the evident
impress of sincerity, do honour to the individual,
and rescue the French character from the dis-
grace with which the Government seems anxious
to cover it.

The story of a joint note having been sent by
the British and French Governments to the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg!), appears to be in
general circulation in the City. This note is
said to contain the ultimatum of the two Go-
vernments ; but ultimatums now a days are of
little importance, considering how many we have
had on the Belgian question. It is perfectly
absurd to think of ultimatizing the Russian Go-
vernment. The proper course would be to send
a fleet to the Dardanelles to take possession of
it, as a precautionary measure, disclaiming, of
course in diplomatic language,.
RUSSIA. It is all suspicions of
the integrity of the Emperor of
clear that the SULTAN cannot protect himself,
and why should not Great Britain and France
stand forward to protect him ? It need not
be avowed in doing so that the object is
to guard against the encroachments of Rus-
sia, for we may assume, if we please,
that the Paella of EGYPT has evil designs
upon the SULTAN, and therefore that protection
is necessary. If the Emperor NicHoLits should
take possession of the Dardanelles it will be on
that ground, and why should we not take the

NEWG ATE AND I.EADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. (1.
Beet, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 6 210
- middling 2 4 2 6 - middling.. 3 0 3 4
prime large 3 2 3 6 - prime 1 8 4 0
- prime small... 3 4 3 8 Pork, 1arge............ :3 6 3
Veal 3 8 5 0 -small 4 8 4 6

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have no arrivals as yet of consequence, and the
express from Paris is of a meagre description. The
accounts from Spain are still of a contrary nature. It
appears that the large bodies of Carlists, when attacked by
the Queen's troops, disperse into the mountains, and re-
assemble again in other parts of the country, as will
appear by accounts from Bordeaux that Zabala, after his
defeat, had again assembled from 5 to 6,000 men, and put
himself at their head; also that General Valdez had under
him a force of equal number, and better disciplined, and
was marching to attack the rebels.

We understand, that on the 6th of December a
joint note from England and France, stating their
ultimatum in respect to the Turkish affairs, was
despatched to St. Petersburgh, an answer to this note
is anxiously looked for by our Government ; but it
is the opinion of the well-informed that the answer from
tie Russian Cabinet will be of a favourable description, as
Russia cannot act until the spring.

THE FUNDS.

The Funds have not that bright appearance that they
had a few days since. The preparations which are still
going forward by Russia, both naval and military, in the
Black Sea and the adjoining provinces, have some weight
on the British market. Consols, which left off yesterday
at 90 to for the Account, opened at S9i to 90, with
little doing as yet.

In the Foreign Market Portuguese Stock is heavy,
owing to the affair of Count du Taipa not being adjusted ;
Spanish, 231- 1; Portuguese, 56}

HALF-PAST ONE.

The Funds had a heavy appearance in the early part of
the morning, when Console were done at 891 for the
Account; since which a reaction has taken place, and
they are 89 90, with little doing.
Private letters from Lisbon state that a Spanish army
has entered Portugal ; we suppose it is to
force Don
Miguel to negotiate, to put an end to the civil war in
that country.
In the Foreign Market, Spaniel), 231 4 ; Portuguese,
56k ; Brazil, 67i ; Dutch, 49 ; Five per Cents,
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols fir the Account, S9i 90.

TATTERSALCS.—The room was thinly at-
ended yesterday, and there was no betting.

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE.—Mr. Golding Bird,
the General Examining Surveyor of Excise, has recently
made a very large valuable seizure at Islington. Having
received some indefinite information, he continued, for a
length of time, to keep a sharp look out, and ultimately
succeeded in discovering an extensive factory for the illicit
manufacture of soap, of which article he seized no less
than three tons, together with coppers, boilers, and
working apparatus, upon a large and superior scale. It
is not long since Mr. Bird made a similar seizure at
Kineland,

THE THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.

In lieu of the old established Pantomime, a new splen-
did spectacle, entitled, St.• George and the Dragon, or
the Seven Champions of Christendom, was produced et
this Theatre. The piece, it seems, has been got up wrier
the express superintendence of Mr. Ducaow, who, in the
conduct of the plot—if such is term can with propriety
be applied to a series of desultory incidents which have
been thrown toggher, without order or connexion, for the
mere purpose of affording a vehicle for gorgeous shows, &e.—
has followed the famous old nursery legend with tolerable
fidelity. It would be scarcely fair to criticise the dialogue of
a piece which pretends to no higher distinction than that
of being a showy spectacle. We shall, therefore, piss it
by, just simply observing, by the way, that the conversa-
tions in the first act, which takes place between an old
woman of Coventry, and her daughter Kate, on the
subject of St. George's transcendent merits, might very
3 ifely be omitted—a remark which we may extend to
many of the pointless flippancies which come tripping off
the tongue of HARLEY, who, as Torn, the Coventry
tinker, the English Knight's Esquire at Arms, was very
easy and good humoured in a part which he must have
felt was every way beneath him. Mr. Docaow, of
course, was the hero of the evening, England's champion,
St. George, whom our national traditions have metamor-
phosed into a high_born warrior, endowed profusely with
every Christian and chivalric virtue ; whereas, George of
Cappadocia, (such is the rightful name of our heroic
tutelary Saint), was a confirmed scamp and swindler—a
sort of cross between a Jonathan Wild and a Robin Hood
—of whose pranks Gibbon gives some very amusing de-
tails in one of the later volumes of his history. One would
suppose England must have been sadly off for Saints
(whatever she may be now) when she took such a vaga-
bond as this, as the representative of national honour.
But let that pass. Though th George of last night
was a fine, lusty, British ',Warrior, who thought
nothing of killing a dragon, big enough to bolt
himself and his horse at a gulp ; scampering up and down
a cataract with all the ease of a practised equestrian in
Pall-mall ; and climbing up a pyramid, by way of stair-
case, into an Fgyptian city. Mr. DUCROW (lid all this
with remarkable grace and agility; and fortunate
it was for him that he contented himself with " Doings"
instead of adding " Sayings" to th3m, for his voice by no
means rivals the music of the spheres, either in sweetness
or clearness of melody, as was somewhat ludicrously
evinced when he came forward to announce the repetition
of the piece. The following is a list of the characters in
the drama, together with a programme of the scenery :
St. George (the Champion of England), Mr. Ducrow';
St. Andrew (the Champion of Scotland), Mr. Duru,et ;
St. Patrick (the Champion of Ireland), Mr. Baker ; St.
David (the Champion of Wales), Mr. Fitlingham ; St.
Denis (the Champion of France), Mr. Hatton ; St.
Anthony (the Champion of Italy), Mr. G. Woolford ;
St. James (the Champion of Spam), Mr. Cohen ; Tom
of Coventry (Tinker, and afterwards St. George's Squire),
Mr. Harley ; Hugh Broadhones, a " Lusty Farrier," Mr.
Bedford ; Sycorax (a Fiend), Mr. Howell.
Pages, Harpers, Knights, Dancers, Farriers, Sailors,
Fiends, &c.

Kalyba (the Enchantress), Mrs. Vining; Dame Durden
(a wealthy Villager), Mrs. C. Jones; Kate of Coventry
(her Niece), Mrs. Fi'zwilliam.
Ptolemy (King of Egypt), Mr. G. Bennett ; Almador
(King of Mexico), Mr. Diddear ; Major (High Priest of
Memphis), Mr. Thompson ; Sardan, Tempthos, and
Melchis (Herdsmen), Messrs. Younge, F. Cooke, and
Cathie.

Priests, Citizens, Soldiers, Herdsmen, Spearmen, Cap.
tires, Peasants, &r.

Princess Sthra, Miss E. Phillips ; Letha (the Herds.
man's Daughter), Miss H. Cawse.
The following is the succession of the Scenery :

Scene I.—Abode of the Enchantress.
Scene 2 —The Grotto of the Senses.
Scene 3.—Enchanted Cavern of the Six Champions.
Scene 4.—View near Coventry in the Olden Time.
Scene s.—The Farrier's Fcrge.
Scene 6.—The Brazen Pillar on the Seven Roads—
Andrews.
With tic departure of St. George fee Egypt, and a grand
old English Cavalcade, consisting of the Authorities of
Coventry, Knights, Squires, Ladies, Pages, Men.at.

Arms, Traders, Minstrels, Morris Dancers, &c.
Act 11., Scene I.—Palace of King Ptolemy, in which
will be introduced a Grand Divertisement, with Prepa•
rations for the Marriage, and Sacrifice of the Princess
Sabra to the Dragon.

Scene 2.—Banks of the Nile.
Scene 3.—The Herdsman's Hut.
Scene 4.—Pathway leading to the Valley.
111 r. Stanfield's Grand Egyptian Diorama, commencing
with—

Scene s.—The Great Cataracts and Dragon's Haunt
by Moonlight, with the celebrated Traditional Fight be-
tween St. George and the Dragon, terminating in the
Defeat of the Moaster, carried on through the Excavated
Temples of Ghirsheh. Caverns of Abou Samboul.
A--
cent of a Pyramid. Distant View of the City. Interior
of the City, with the Grand Triumphal Entry of St.
George and the other Champions into the Temple of
Memphis.
Our readers will find in the above a very fair sample of
the style and character of the piece, whose main (indeed
whose only) recommendation is the magnificence of its
scenery and processionv. St infield has here played his
part to admiration. The moving Diorama, especially the
views of the excavated Temples of Ghirsheh, and of the
distant city of Memphis were as impressive in their way
as it is possib!e to conceive. The numerous processions
too were full of gorgeous splendour ; the last was the
best, and together with the coup d'ccil at the end of the
piece, where horses and horsemen and soldiers, and
kings and princes and princesses were all grouped together,
filling up the entire length and width of the stage, were
the means of saving the piece. When the few defects
and awkwardnesses necessarily incident on the first repre-
sentation of a spectacle like this, are removed, we have no
doubt it will become highly popular, and have a long run.
We understand that it has cost the enormous sum of
6,0001. ; if this be really the case, Mr. Bunn deserves
the highest praise for his spirit and perseverance as a
caterer for the public amusement. We should not omit
to mention the horses and zebras, who showed themselves
excellent actors ; as also did the dragon, who died as game
as Richard the Third, and required to be thrice struck
with St. George's enchanted sword, before be would
consent to give up the ghost.