The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-06 00:00:00

ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY AND OBITUARY

FOR 1834.

The following anecdotes from the manuscript journal of
the late John Heriot, E,q., the Comptroller of Chelsea
Hospital, are given in the 18th volume of that valuable
work the Annual Biography end Obituary for 1834:-
4' One day, at a large dinner party, at which his late
Majesty, then Prince of Wales, was present, a gentleman
sitting near to Dr. Mosely, the physician of Chelsea Hos-
pital, to whom he was a perfect stranger, abruptly asked
the Doctor what wine he thought best for general drink-
ing. ' Sir,' said Mosely, very gravely, 'in my house
port, but in yours, claret.' The Prince applauded the
reply, and enjoyed it vastly."
" Admiral Lord Viscount Keith died lately at his seat
in Scotland. He was writing letters after breakfast, and
had written one to his brother-in-law, William Adam,
Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court at Edinburgh,
which he had enclosed in a frank, but not sealed, as he
intended to add a letter to his daughter. While writing
the letter, however, his Lordship dropped down dead in a
fit of apoplexy. It was necessary to announce this event
to Mr. Adam ; and the person who did so put his letter
into the cover which was found on the table; and thus,
to save sixpence, the deceased Nobleman was made to
frank an account of his own death !"

•' A curious circumstance occurred a day or two ago
in the Royal Military Asylum. The Rev. Mr. Clarke,
the chaplain, had a.catalogue of the exhibition of the Royal
Academy, which be had lent to the Adjutant, Captain
Lugard. Mr. Lawrence, the assistant-surgeon, intending
to go to the exhibition, sent to borrow Mr. Clarke's cata-
logue. Mr. Clarke, who was much occupied at the time,
hastily wrote upon a slip of paper " Let Mr. L. have
Exhib. Cat.' Captain and Mrs. Lugard were both from
home, and Miss Lugard, knowing nothing of the catalogue,
thought Mr. Lawrence wanted one of their cats. A kitten
of theirs had died a few days before, which Miss Lugard
much regretted ; but she had the old cat caught and put
into a hag, and sent to Mr. Lawrence. That gentleman's
astonishment may be conceived when his servant brought
him home a bag with a cat in it." •

CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION

INQUIRY.

(Mr. Woodthorpe's examination continued from The Sun
of Saturday.)
The city day police was 'nazi:dished by an order of the
Court of Aldermen. The principal committees of Alder-
men especially appointed annually are—the police com-
mittee, the committee of privileges, the committee rela-
tive to the state of gaols, the committee on charitable
gifts, the committee of law charges, the committee for
general purposes, the committee relative to Emanuel
Hospital, and the committee of livery cloth. The busi-
ness of this litter committee was to superintend the gra•
tuitous and annual delivery of certain quantities of black
cloth to certain great officers of state, to the Chief Justice
of the King's Bench, and he (Mr. Wondthorpe) got a
piece of it.--(A laugh.) This custom was a very ancient
one, but he cored not trace it out to its first origin ; in
these standing committees three Aldermen form a quorum,
and seven is the full number; in the outer Court the
Aldermen do not sit for corporation purposes ; it is
entirely a court of justice.
Mr. Scott (clerk to the Chamber) gave evidence relative
to making persons trading in the city take up their
freedom. The first process fur compelling persons trading
in the city to take up their freedom is by inquiring of the
inquests of the several wards, who report by presentment
to the Court of Aldermen the names and addresses of the
individuals ; this is accompanied by an order that re-
ferred to the Chamberlain to summon before him those
persons trading in the city, not being free thereof ;
on receipt of this order by the Chamberlain, he
directs a notlee to be served by the Clerk of the
Chamber on every person so reported, to attend on him
on a particular day ; on that day the several parties
are heard and show cause why they neglected to
take up their freedom, when the Chamberlain makes
an order on each case as circumstances require. The
foreman of the inquest of each Ward attends the Cham-
berlain on each hearing; in many instances it appears that
parties so summoned are entitled to their freedom by pa-
t' jalopy, servitude, or by having served the King ; then
the Chamberlain gives time (two months) to complete
their freedom. A second summons is entered if the parties
do not appear; and if they do not attend the second sum-
mons, a third summons is issued, and if they do not
appear then, a prosecution is directed against them by the
Chamberlain. The inquests do not now generally return
wholesale tradesmen. This claim has been allowed to a
certain extent, and when they made out that they were
solely wholesale traders, they were not proceeded against.
Mr. Woodthorpe here alluded to a Report of the Com-
mon Council respecting the exemption of wholesale traders
from taking up their freedom, in which it was set forth
that when the office of " foreign trailer" existed, a non-
freeman or " foreigner" as be was then called, selling
goods to another non-freeman, would he liable to the pe-
nalty of having all the goods so sold confiscated. He (lid
not think that obliging persons to become freemen added,
at present, to the character or respectability of the city
traiiesmen. All actions brought against trading non_free-
men were in the name of the Chamberlain, but any free-
man could institute them. Five pounds is the penalty
imposed on a person trading in the city without being a
freeman.

Mr. Scott observed, that the advantages of being a free-
man were, that he was not obliged to contribute to the
expenses of Magistrates and Judges, which, in the shape
of a county rate, would be one shilling and three pence or
one shilling and four pence a pound on his rental. These
expenses were paid out of the freemen's funds. By residing
in London, and being free of it, he was exempted from
personal service in the militia.
_ _ _ .

- Mr. Dillon remarked that those fines for not taking up
one's freedom were peculiarly galling, since they chiefly
fell on the poor tradesman, whilst the rich wholesale
dealers were exempt from them. An instance or two of
the hardships of them was cited.

At half-past four o'clock the inquiry was adjourned to
Monday.

The railway in progress of formation between
Dublin and Kingstown, a distance of six or seven miles,
will be opened in the summer of the present year. The
principal proprietors are, it is understood, some benevolent
and spirited Quakers.

DEC. 31.—His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the
Netherlands arrives! here yesterday afternoon, on his re•
turn from Berlin.
The Staats Courant of to-day contains various parti-
culars respecting the state of the dikes and of the rivers,
the risings of which have done considerable damage in some
places, and caused much alarm for the consequences.
We hear that several departments of the Administration

have received a circular, desiring them to deliver an accu-
rate account of all the retrenchments that may be made
in each of then, in order to fulfil as soon as may be prac-
ticable the promises male by the Government to the
States-General.

Some time ago M. Dedel announced officially to the
London Conference that the Cabinet of the Hague bad
made the required application to the German Diet to
obtain its consent to the territorial arrangement respecting
Luxemburg. It seems that the answer to this official
notice has hitherto been in vain expected here. This, and
especially the expected assent of the Confederation and the
collateral branches of the house of Nassau to the proposed
arrangements, were the chief and indeed indispensable
preliminaries to the resuming of the negotiations. It is
said that all the members of the Conference, and our
plenipotentiary also, are provided with entirely new
instructions, as those which they had before necessarily
require to be modified, in consequence of a change of
opinions, and of some events, among which we may
probably reckon the mission of Prince Von Schwartzen-
burg. We have every reason to believe, that as
soon as negotiations are resumed, and if no fresh obstacles
are thrown in the way by the two allied Powers, our
affairs will go on well.
ST. PETERSBURG'', DEC. 14.—His Majesty the Em-
peror is expected here to-day from Moscow, accompanied
by General Benkendorff.
The Turkish Ambassador not having been yet pre-
sented at Court avoids appearing in public; it is supposed
he will be presented to the Emperor immediately on his
Majesty's return. The expense of his residence in Russia
is defrayed by the Imperial Treasury. We learn that
Prince Soutza, the Greek Ambassador, will shortly leave
us to return to his post at Paris.
A London paper said lately, that the violent animosity
of the Russian Government towards England now
manifested itself in the journals; that the Moscow Ga-
zette, for instance, bad affirmed that the next peace
between England and Russia would be signed in Calcutta;
and added, that this threat was not a mere boast but a
project, the means of executing which had long occupied
the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. We are not initiated into
the secrets of the Russian Government, but while we
greatly doubt the existence of such a project, we cannot
refrain from assuming, that no animosity towards Eng-
land is anywhere to be perceived in Russia, and that
neither the Moscow Gazette nor any other journal has
contained the smallest article that could give occasion to
such a falsehood. It is well known that several speakers
in the English Parliament have indulged in the most
odious attacks on the Russian Government, but which
we may be convinc:d are not approved by the better
portion of the English nation, with which we are in
friendship. Here we are content to laugh at the empty
invectives of those Parliamentary speech:s, and entertain
no rancour towards England, which, on account of its
commercial interest, is certainly not inclined to a breach
with our Government.

The satire of the London papers is one of the many
ignoble means that radicalism employs to mislead public
opinion in respect to Russia.
DRESDEN, DEC. 19.—A storm resembling a hurricane
visited our city yesterday. Everywhere the streets were
covered with tiles and ruins of chimnyes ; many sentry-
boxes were thrown down.

LEIPSIC, DEC. 20.—The day before yesterday a dread-
ful storm raged here from 5t07 in the evening. Chim-
neys and tires were thrown into the meets ; a whole roof
of zinc was lifted from a large house, and carried with the
ratters over a court-yard on to the roof of an,,ther
4hiewas =AO by it,....T.rta_art,..curn np.tsy the mew
carriages overturned, and great damage dune to some
country houses.

BERLIN, DEc. 22.—A litter from St. Petershurgh
says that changes have been several times made in the
choice of the persons who are to go to tbe Continental
Congress at Vienna, and that it was not yet positively
determined who would be intrusted with that mission.
BORSEN-HALLE, DEC. 17, HALF-PAST 2 P.III —Busi-
ness was done to-day in nearly every description of stock,
in most of them at advanced prices.
Discount 4 per Cent. End of December.

A liglo-Dani.sh Loan, three per cent 69A
Anglo-Russian 98%
Russian inscription, 5 per cent., 1821 934
Ditto, ditto, 1831 1;1%
Ditto, ditto, 1832.
Certificates 92
Polish Bonds 124%
Prussian Bonds, 1832
~
Austrian Bank Shares 1226
Ditto 4 per Cent...... 84%
Ditto Metalliques 95
Spanish 3 per Cents.
Ditto 4 per Cent 4534
. ._ .

Dutch Is 2 per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents 917.1,
Hamburg Reporter.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 2.—Yesterday the diplomatic body,
the deputation of the Senate, the Court of Cessation, &c.,
presented their compliments to the King and Queen on
the new year.
The speeches spoken on this occasion contain for the
most part only the several compliments to the King and
Queen, and the Prince Royal. Only those of the Chief
Presidents of the Court of Cassation and the Court of
Appeal at Brussels, as well as that of the Minister of
War, deserve notice, because they touch on political
questions.
Mr. Clews, a British Cabinet Messenger, passed
through Brussels yesterday on his way from Vienna,
with despatches fur London.
ANTWERP, Jan. I.—We have had a dreadful night,
and we are assured that the storm has done much da-
mage along the dikes of the Scheldt. Several ships were
drifting yesterday evening. Two Americans and a Nea-
politan were in danger of being thrown un our coast, and
escaped only by a miracle.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 3.—M. Lehon sets out this evening to
return to Paris. The balls given yesterday_ at Court
were extremely brilliant.
The accounts from Liege and other parts of the country
speak of the damage done by the rising of the Meuse and
other rivers.

The Moniteur publishes the budget of the War Depart-
ment, which is fixed at 38,281,000 francs, and the law on
the budget of the Finances.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, JAN. 3.
Actual Debt, 21A per Cent.
Itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 95 ►4
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, 1833, 4 per cent.
--Brussels Papers, Jan. 4.

TIIE HAGUE, JAN. 2.—The accounts received to-day
of the state of the rivers say that the water continued to
fall, but they mention many particulars of the damage
done by the late storms to several dikes.

The Breda Journal announces the death of Major-
General Wideman, governor of that fortress, on the 30.6
of December.

DEC. 31.—Last week Mr. Jerningham paid a visit to
M. Van Zuylen, to inform him that, according to a
pliva.e letter from Lord Palmerston the conferences would
not be resumed till after the consent of the German Con-
federation and the collaterals of the House of Nassau
should be officially declared ; thereupon he produced a
copy of a letter from the Principal Secretary of State to
Lord Minto, English Ambassador at Berlin, in which he
was directed to say to M. Ancillon, " that the notion of
the Prussian Government, that the disputed points in the
Dutch and Belgian question sh.aild be confidentially dis-
cussed at London, was founded on a misunderstanding,
and that nothing of the kind could he undertaken till
matters were brought to the point of maturity, which had
been long since determined by the Conference. This
confidential letter to Lord Minto is said to be written by
Lord Palmerston, in his usual imperious and absolute slle.
AMSTERDAM, JAN. 3.—We receive from all quarters
accounts of the ravages of the late storm, especially of
that on the 31st of December. The accounts from
Germany are likewise filled with statements of the damage
occasioned by hurricanes, and by the rising of the rivers.
A letter from Friebourg on the ErzAtbrie says, that the
storm of the 18th of December had torn up by the roots,
or thrown down, 40,000, mostly the finest trees, in the
forest called the Tharanderbosch.

Actual Debt, 2Y2 per Cent. - 50 to 504
Amort Syndic, 4!:i per cent BS44 to 894
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 1034 to 10314
Ditto, 1.8.32, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 13, 5 per Cent.
Exchange on London
Ditto, two months l2 02 5-10 to 12 0)
—Dutch Papers, Jan 4.
ST. PETERSBURGIT, DEC. 18.—His Majesty the Em-
peror arrived here on the 14th from Moscow, in good
health.

WARSAW, DEC. 22.—The Saint's Fete (or Saint's day)
of his Majesty the Emperor and King was celebrated with
great solemnity on the 18th. The Prince Governor dis-
tinguished the day by an act of clemency,—viz., by giving
entire freedom to fifty persons convicted of having parti
cipated in the late criminal attempts to excite rebellion
in the kingdom. They have also received permission to
return to their homes.

BERLIN, DEC. 27.—The Prince of Orange and his
son have set nut for St. Petersburgh. The dreadful
storm of the 18,h raged most furiously on the Elbthal,
particularly the Prussian part of it. The damage done in
the forests of Count Torgau is immense. Who'e woods
of the finest trees are overthrown, and thousands of
people are employed in cleating them away. In the circle
of Torgau alone it is estimated that the number thrown
down by the wind is to the value of 150,000 dollars, as
much as is usually felled in five years. The oldest oaks
could not withstand the storm, and the roads are every-
where blocked up by the fallen trees.
WARQAW, DEC. 24.—We learn from an authentic
source that the new levy of recruits will not amount to
more than 3,700 men in the whole kingdom of Poland.
This proves that nothing more than the usual conscrip.
tion, and a very moderate one, being only one man for
1,000 inhabitants.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Dec. 31.-13 7N ; two months, 13 6.
BERLIN, DEC. 28.—Three months, 624%.
ST. PETEESBURGH, DEC. 17.-10 41-64.
STOCKHOLM, DEC 20.—Ninety days, 13.
CHRISTIANA, DEC. 18.—Three months, 59.
—Hamburg Papers. Dec. 31.

HAMBURG, DEC. 31.—BORSEN HALLE, HALF-PAST
Two.—The rise in London has given great firmness and
animation to our stock market.

Discount, 3% per cent. End of December.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent.
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian Inscriptions, 5 per cent., 1820 93t4
Ditto ditto, 1831 9114
Ditto ditto, 1832 91:4
Ditto Certificates
Polish Bonds
Prussian Bonds, 1832
Austrian Bank Shares 1230
Austrian Metalliques 95
Austrian 4 per cent. B5
Spanish 3 per cent. • 3B
Spanish 4 per cent 46
Dutch 2% per cent.
Ditto 5 per cent 92
The English mail of the 27th arrived at Hamburg on
the 30th December.