The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-15 00:00:00

HAMILTON.

(From the Glasgow Courier.)
The following letter has been received by Robert Hen-
derson, Esq., as acting chief magistrate of Hamilton, from
the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, to whom the constitutional
address of that burgh had been intrusted for presentation
to his Majesty. It will be seen from the tone of Lord
Stanley's letter, that he is most friendly to the recent Mi-
nisterial changes, and the Administration to be formed will
(though he should not be a member of it) receive all the
support of his name, rank, influence, and talents

4. Trentham, Dec. 7.

" Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge your very flatter-
ing letter of the Ist instant, with the address to the King
which accompanied it. The letter is couched in terms which
cannot but be satisfactory to His Majesty, and I cannot
refrain from saying how much I am gratified at finding, so
admirably expressed, sentiments so entirely in accordance
with my own. As lam not likely to have an opportunity of
presenting it in person to His Majesty, and as I know of no
Peer now in London who is more likely to have that honour,
I have transmitted it officially to his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, as Secretary of State for the Home Department, with
a request that he will lay it, in the usual manner, at the foot
of the Throne. I beg to add, that I am highly gratified at
having been the person fixed on by the Council as the organ
through whom they should transmit this statement of their
~pinians.
_ _ _

" I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" STANLEY."

EASTERN ATIIEN/EUM.

On Friday evening last about 110 members and friends
of the Eastern Athenaeum Literary and Scientific Institu-
tion sat down to an elegant dinner, provided by Mr. Love-
grove, at the West Indian Dock Tavern, Blackwell ;
W. CLAY, Esq., M.P., one of the Presidents, in the Chair.
After the routine toasts had been drunk, the CHAIRMAN
proposed " Prosperity to the Eastern Athenaeum." He
said that be had heard of the commencement of the So-
ciety, and subsequently of its progressive prosperity, with
very great satisfaction. He regarded it as likely to confer
vast benefit upon the great community which he had the
honour to represent.__` Cheers.) Not only was it an agree-
able place of resort affordet: •-fa the members, but constant
opportunities were given for inter's!'hanFe of sentiment.
Each member had the, privilege of referri7. to a more ex-
tensive library than he individually possessed. treat, in-
deed, were the advantages held out to the younger i-.7em-
hers. Gibbon had said that every man who is destine(l to
arrive at eminence, and who desires to benefit his fellow
men, should recollect that there are two kinds of education
—that acquired at school, and that attained afterwards.
He need not observe that the latter was the more impor-
tant. If when a young man leaves ccllege he neglects to
nstruct himself, he will still be an exceedingly ill-informed
It was upon such grounds as these that the institu-
tion was one of high importance, enabling the members to
partake of the higher and purer intellectual pleaSures, leav-
ing no sting behind, increasing in intensity with lapse of
years.—(Cheers.) The love of study and acquisition of
knowledge will always benefit an individual for every occu-
pation in which he may be engaged. He (Mr. clay) had
often beard with dissatisfaction of the supposed difference
between practical men and theoretical men. Habits of
mental discipline enable a man to generalize, classify, and
apply the results of his observations. It had been absurdly
asserted that a man of letters was never a good man of
business. The toast was received with unbounded accla-
mation.

rnan.

Mr. COATED observed that such a society as this was
calculated to lead a man away from debasing pursuits, and
guide him to honourable distinction. The time was fist
approaching when not wealth, nor title, but zeal, talent,
and industry would be the grand distinctions of society.
In times of political excitement, it was delightful for
fellow-countrymen to meet together on neutral ground.—
(Cheers.) After powerfully eulogising the merits of the
two Presidents, Mr. Clay and Dr. Lushington, Mr. Coates
proposed their healths.
Mr. CLAY, in returning thanks for himself and his col-
league, observed, that it would not be necessary for him to
reiterate the sentiments which he had expressed at an earlier
part of the, evening. Praise had always one happy effect
upon honourable minds : it induced the desire to deserve it.
The CHAIRNIAN having proposed the healths of the
Vice-Presidents,
Dr. MITCHELL acknowledged the compliment. He re-
commended such a society as the Eastern Athenxum to
all young men, as that in which they could derive the least
possible evil, and the greatest possible good. One pound
per annum spent in this way would go further than fifty
pounds in any other mode. It had not been the pleasui e
of him (Dr. Mitchell) to enjoy that conjugal happiness
which many then present did ; but literature had filled up
his time in a manner by no means disagreeable. In what-
ever occupation of life a man might be placed, his em-
ployers would be always more satisfied with him, and have
more confidence in him, if he were a man devoted to litera-
ture than otherwise.
Mr. KNIGHT, one of the Vice-Presidents, also returned
thanks.

The healths of the Trustees, the Treasurer, and the
Honorary Secretary, having been announced from the chair,
they severally expressed their thanks for the honour paid
to them.

The SECRETARY proposed " the Ladies," a toast which
was drank with enthusiasm.

The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the healths of the hono-
rary members, observed that he had met in classic history
with the wise saying of a philosopher, who observed that
being himself a man, whatever related to a man interested

him." When this country was at enmity with nearly all
the world, the disciples of literature every where felt to-
wards each other as fellow-creatures. One of the honorary
members of the society, and who was also the President of
another institution of importance, was present, and knowing
how ready he always was to promote pursuits which tended
to enlarge, to soften, and to honour mankind, he (Mr.
Clay) would conceive the pleasure which he experienced in
attending and witnessing the successful efforts of the Eastern
Athenaeum.—( Cheers.)
Mr. J. P. TIJOMAS assured the meeting that they had
over-rated his powers in electing him an honorary member.
At the same time he declared the intense anxiety which he
felt for the success of truly-useful literary societies. Pub-
lic bodies like the one which he had the honour to meet,
would produce immense moral results. He hoped that they
would assist in abolishing the horrors of war, and establish-
ing the blessings of peace.—(Cheers.) It was the object
of the Eastern Athenaeum to substitute education, know-
ledge, and refinement, for vulgarity, sensuality, and igno-
rance.—(Cheers.) A toast had been entrusted to him,
which he felt it very difficult to render justice to. The
Chairman was then placed in a most enviable situation—
mixing among his constituents—presiding over a splendid
intellectual symposium—receiving those applauses which
were so justly due to him—and delighting and glorying in
the progress of knowledge.—(Cheers.) He then proposed
the health of the Chairman, which was received with the
loudest acclamations.

Mr. CLAY rose to return thanks. He was most happy
to meet the gentlemen present at an assembly where the
names of Whig and Tory were lost, and where all were
zealous for pure national good. Liberty, education, and
commerce walked hand in hand together. The laurel which
shone around the heads of Bocaccio and Petrarch flourished
in a commercial country.—(Cheers.)
Not the slightest circumstance occurred to disturb the
harmony and conviviality of the meeting.
The members amount to 250. The library contains aboat
1,000 volumes.

Captain Ross (now Sir John Ross) is, we under-
stand, to receive the honour of the third class of the order of
the Bath.--Naval and Mißtas7; Gazette.
• On Saturday night T. Harper, a private of the
Grenadier Guards, while on duty in Hyde Pail.:; heard the
screams of a female, and immediately afterwards a l'eavY
plunge in the Serpentine river. He proceeded in the direc-
tion of the cries, but could perceive no object. On being re-
lieved from duty he gave information to the Royal Humane
Society's men, who, after dragging the water for some time,
brought up the body of a young woman between fifteen and
seventeen years of age, remarkably tall, and very respectably
dressed in a chocolate-coloured silk bonnet, lined with white
silk, a white swansdown ruff round her neck ; a black silk
gown, a large Cashmere shawl, and Cameron plaid cloak,
lined with cotton, with silk collar, and gold clasps ; she had
also yellow silk gloves. On searching her person there were
found inserted in the lining of the bosom of her gown two
leaves, which appear to have been torn from a school copybook,
each being signed at the bottom " Sarah Elizabeth Oliver,
Brighton, Sussex." She appears to have been a handsome
girl. There was not the slightest mark of violence on the
body, which remains at St. George's Hospital till an inquest
can be held on it.

MURDER OF AN INFANT. —Saturday morning
about half-past nine o'clock, as a labouring man, named Miles
Cunningham, was on his way from Paddington to Hyde-park
Corner, he observed a basket lying near Harpur's fields, in a
deep hole by the side of the road. He informed policeman D
72, who on opening it found the body of a fine new/4 born
female infant. Mr. Webster, a surgeon, in Connaugat-ter-
race, to whose house the body was taken, gave it as his opinion
that the child had come unfairly to its death.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN ST. JAMES'S PART:.—
On Saturday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a
dreadful accident occurred in St. James's Park to Archibald
Fergusson, Esq., a gentleman residing in York-terrace, Re-
gent's Park. The unfortunate gentleman was ret,'arning to his
residence on horseback, followed by his groom, w hen, riding
at a very quick rate, his horse stumbled by treading , in a stone,
and Mr. Fergusson was instantly precipitated over 1 'is head,
falling w ith tremendous violence on the ground. His I.\ca was
dreadfully lacerated, his right shoulder dislocated, and h.ls arm
broken below the elbow. A conveyance being procures it he
was removed in it to his residence, attended by a surg:oll,
being in a dangerous state.

ARRIVALS 4.1, GRAIN IN I.ONDDN DURING LAST WEEK.
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Clay — 1910 __ 1,0
Dartmouth ..... 2 7 _
Colchester... 7.2 213 431 376 4.5 In"
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; Leigh - 6
, .I,,iti,, .„,...„ 128,1 :d'i 10 2,1,1 62 12 .0
N:s - et, - - 62 _ 37
Hastings lll —.— 2.1
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lies estott
Lynn 1545 1900 459 773
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Yarmouth --. 14.'5 35= 19= 34 181.1
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D imiee - B'2 ( 369 I 12
Inverness— ...... is: 1140 __ ..._
Loit li ... ... ......... 5. 12 --
Montrose ...... ... 13 1 --
--- -- --
13939 2.038 82: 12576 20 I .552 519 12219
IRISH
Cork r 22 837 543 __ ....
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Waterford
FOREIGN
Guernsey
tiamburg ... - .....
Stu! 13.21d0i ing -
Coa,tways — 508 200
————
Total

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SMITHFIELD MARKET.

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This day's supply of beasts was, even for that of the great
Christmas market, great, and, though it (lid not embrace so many
prodigies as that of last year, its general quality was good. The
supply of each kind of small stock was rather limited. The trade
throughout wns exceedingly dull. With Beef and Veal, except a
few very superior Scots, at their Friday's currenoy, at a depression
of from 2d: to 4d. ; Mutton 2d per stone, with Pork at .barely
stationary prices.
riticxs rER. STONE OF BLE. TO SINK THE. OFFAL%

s. d. to s d s d to s. d
Inferior Bests
Second quality ditto.-- 2 6 210 Second quality ditto. 2lO 3 2
Prime large (men 3 S 3lb Coatss.w.ollfil ditto 3 8. 310
Prime Scots. &c.
Lar;:e coarse Calves 1 2 4 0 large Hogs . 2 8 3 2
Prime small ditto .. 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers...._.. .... 8 6 3 5
Suckling Calves each ...12 i 26 t, Quarter old Pigs each, 8 u 12 0
SUPPLY, AS PER. CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Beasts. Sheep Calves. ; Pig-s.
4,500 21,130 I 150 1 550
about ISt 0 of the 13,asts taint up the St. Alban's road ; about 1200 up
the other noitht rn roads; 41,nu1 WO tiEClnding tri,l) rrw.b the vvestiern
and midland districts . atatut 200 from ;.:Gf folk. Siinbih. Esses. and Cam:
bvidgeithire ; alseit 250 from I: rot and Sittisex.; and most of ther:emainder
from the marshes, &c. in the neighbourhorwl of London.

.DENI-1 A Li. MARKETS.
by the Carc.tst,

NEWGATE AND LEA
At per stone, I -
s d to s d 6 d tos d
8(.4, inf -rior
—. middling - middling 2 8 3 0
---• prime large ... ...... 211 3 2 -- prime 'I H. a 8
prime small— ..... . 3 0 3 8 Pork, large 2 0 3 0
Veal