The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-17 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION.

In the name of his Most Excellent Majesty William the
Fourtbrof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, King, by his Excellency Major-General Sir William
Nicolay, Knight, C. B. K. C. H., Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of the island of Mauritius and dependencies, &c. &c.
Whereas, in consequence of his Most Excellent
Majesty's disallowance of the Ordinance, No. 1, of 1832,
the penal laws, orders, and regulations in force before its
promulgation, resume their full operation and effect among
which are the laws, orders, and regulations, respect-
ing the holding of public meetings, forming societies
and associations, and preparing and presenting col-
lective petitions. And whereas his Excellency the
Governor is informed that there exist cert tin societies
and associations, known by the name of Colonial Com-
mittees and Agricultural Societies ; and that they conceive
themselves sanctioned either directly or tacitly by the Go-
vernment. His Excellency does hereby expressly with-
draw any and every sanction and authorisation whatever
that may have been at any time heretofore granted for
forming any such Committees and Societies, or for their
holding meetings or convocations under any name or
designation whatsoever.

And his Excellency does further by these presents an-
nounce his determination to cause to be duly and strictly
enforced the laws, orders, and regulations bearing reference
to the holding of Public Meetings, forming Societies,
Committees, or Associations, and the preparing and pre-
senting of Collective Petitions.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
Done at Government House, Port Louis, this 10th thy
of September, 1833. By his Excellency's command,
GEO. F. DICK, Colonial Secretary.

Some of our Ultra Tory friends, with more
zeal than discretion, are continually crying out
at the present Government for its love of pa-
tronage and its extravagance, although its only
real offences, in their eyes, are its abolition of
useless places, and curtailment of public expen-
diture. It is ludicrous to see them one day
lamenting the fall of a hundred sinecures, and
the next boiling with indignation at the creation
of one necessary office, all forsooth on the
score of economy. Here is the last number
of the Old England, for instance, has devoted
a full column to a detailed vituperation of Mi-
nisters, because they have resolved that India shall
be better governed than it hitherto has, and that
by the removal ofthe nuisances bequeathed to them
by their predecessors, they incur the unavoidable
expense of brooms. The Augean stable of In-
dian abuses is threatened with a thorough clean
out, and the Old England forthwith—does
what ? Show that there are no abuses ? That
the old system of Government wants no change ?
Not at all ; but calls out at the expenses to be
incurred, and charges the Ministry with corrup-
tion for incurring them. Under the system of
1813, says our contemporary, the Government
of Bengal cost only 53,800/., whilst under the
system of 1833, it is to cost 20,6001. additional.
He does not attempt to show that the additional
expense is not a necessary one, and for the
plain reason, that he knew the whole evidence
given before the Select Committee of last year
established its necessity. The two items which
occasion the increase are 9,6001. for a fourth
Member of Council, with qualifications and
information of a character acknowledgedly not
possessed by the other three, but which were
essential for the good government of Bengal,
and 12,0001. for the new Presidency of Agra.
There is a decrease in the salary of the Governor-
General of 1,0001. per annum. The main
cause of the increase is the creation of the
new Presidency. Any one in the slight.
est degree acquainted with Bengal, will
be able to inform our Contemporary that the
necessity of some separate head of Government
for the western territory of that province has
long been severely felt. If he will take the
trouble of referring to the large blue books re-
lating to India, laid upon the table of the
House of Commons last Session, he will find
that Mr. MACKENZIE and others distinctly
recommended the very arrangement which Minis-
ters have now adopted. In order, however, to
reconcile him if possible to a departure from the
expenditure of 1813 by the Whigs, we would
remind, or inform him, that the other expenses
of Bengal have vastly increased since 1813, and
that under the sway of his beloved Tories. In
the Appendix to the Military Report of the
Committee, he will find at page 196 a return
showing the number and expenses of the troops
in the three Presidencies in every year since
1813. By that it appears that the army, which
cost in 1813 seven millions odd, in 1830 cost
nine millions odd. The military expenses could
not be kept down, because the necessity of in-
creasing the number of the troops was one
which could not be postponed. The proper
government of Bengal has been postponed as
long as it can, and now that it can be postponed
no
olong longer,
the change is attended with an
additional expense of 20,0001., a piece of ex-
travagance which quite shocks the new found
economy of our Conservative friends. The Old
supposedakw
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salaries of the
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Law Commissioners, and the expenses of the
Canton establishment. With regard to the first,
we will only say, that it has been long a matter
of just reproach to the Conservatives that some
attempt has not long since been made to form
some code of Indian law, or establish some
mode of administering justice, which should
prove a blessing, instead of a curse, to the un-
happy natives, whom necessity drives to our
courts of law. Hardly any expense can be

conceived too great to secure the services of
individuals competent to discharge this task.
With respect to the last point touched upon by
our contemporary, we will only express our
satisfaction at finding that he praises the Court
of Directors for saying to Mr. C. GRANT,

among other things—
" The Court earnestly entreat that you will he pleased
to bring under the consideration of the King's Nlinister*
the propriety of equalizing the duties levied in Greai
Britain upon the produce and manufactures of India
with those of other parts of his Majesty's dominions.'

We thought our Contemporary too strong an
admirer of West India Slavery, to sanction for a
moment the idea of equalizing the duties on
sugar. As to the talk about restricting and
burdening our trade at Canton by the imposition
of the seven shillings per cent. duty, it sounds
rather strange from a writer who advocates the
continuance of all the burdens and restrictions
upon our trade at home, which are so mischiev-
ously checking our industry.

The poor shipowners, whose property does
not pay interest, who are annually incurring
heavy losses from the reciprocity treaties which
prevent their vessels being charged with heavy
discriminating duties abroad, feel so strongly
the distress the shipbuilding trade would ex-
perience were they to cease ruining themselves,
that they have been good enough to resolve to
go on as before. Several of the Northern
papers contain the following statement
There are now building on the banks of the
Wear fifty-six vessels of from 150 to 600 ton
burthen." The poor shipowners ! how disin
terested, when they are being ruined by the re-
ciprocity treaties.

The race has begun for the production of
Scribe's Comedy, Bertrand et Raton, at some of our
London Theatres, major or minor. It is in the hands of
four of our dramatists of greater or less celebrity.

The Victoria Theatre will close on Thursday,
and reopen after Christmas. The novelties after Christmas
are :—A Farce, in one act, from the pen of Mr. Collier,
entitled The Blacksmith, or a Trip to Gretna ; a Play,
by Serle ; a Drama, in two acts, by Mrs. Charles Gore,
called The King and the Cobbler ; and a new piece from
the pen of Sheridan Knowles. The Pantomime is in a
forward state.

The Ottoman [Woniteur of the 2d ult. states,
that in July last the Sultan having gone to see the pieces
of cannon presented to him by the King of England, said
to the British officers present, that he took the greatest
interest in a good maritime organization, and the imposing
force of a fine fleet; that he had recently visited the Rus-
sian squadron brought to Constantinople by particular
circumstances, and was lik.wise desirous of seeing the
English fleet stationed in the Mediterranean, but was
obliged to deny himself this satisfaction, beciuse neither
the interests of the British Government nor those of his
own empire would allow the entrance of that fleet into
the Dardanelles.

The father of the late Mr. Kean, the trage-
dian, about whom the theatrical public seem entirely
ignorant, the writer of this paragraph well remembers.
He was, during two or three seasons, one of the chief
pillars that supported the debating society at the Mitre
Tavern, in Fleet-street, in conjunction with the late Chief
Justice Dallas, Sir W. Garrow, Horne Tooke, Mr. Perry,
Hewardine, and his friend poor Jenkins, the reporter, who
died a year or two ago in extreme poverty. The!wall was
at that time clerk to Impey, a respectable solicitor in the
Temple, and a regular attendant at the debating so-
cieties then extremely prevalent. He must have a vivid
recollection of Kean's father, who was a handsome, dark
young man, with floe flowing hair, and a most intelli-
ligent countenance. He was a very interesting, elcquent,
and effective orator. Mitre Tavern, Coach-makers' Hall,
a Great Room in Bartholomew-lane, the Great Room in
Spring-gardens, and a Room in the Haymarket—the ad-
mission sixpence each—which was divided amongst the
speakers, after paying for the bread and cheese and porter.
The Right Hon. W. Pitt was a constant visiter at these
debating societies, although he never spoke. He was al-
ways accompanied by the late Mr. Perry.

GRAND MATCH FOR 50,000 NAPOLEONS.
—This match, which was alluded to in the papers of last
week, and in which the challenge of a Frenchman to play
for 25,000 Napoleons aside was accepted by the proprie-
tors of the Athenrum Club-house, in St. James's-street,
Messrs. Bond, was finally arranged on Friday evening, after
a good deal of discussion. The French speculators were
desirous of playing in private, but Messrs. Bond took
exceptions to this, on the ground that suspicions might
arise as to the bona
,fide character of the transaction, and
therefore stipulated that the affair should be decided on
their own premises, in the presence of a select number of
friends on both sides, to be admitted by tickets. To this
the " foreigners" at last acceded, with an understanding
that they might appear incop.—a privilege granted to the
friends of Messrs. Bond, if they are equally fastidious.
The preliminaries thus adjusted, the whole of the money
on both sides was exhibited—a most tempting amount.
It was then arranged that the play should commence this
evening, each party choosing an umpire, who, if they
disagree in the course of the play, are to select a referee,
whose judgment is to be final. Great interest is excited
among the speculators of all ranks, some of whom in the
higher circles, it is understood, will, as agreed, attend in
masks or other disguise.

Of the 10,000 shares required to carry the
Bill for the two sections of the Great Western Railway,
for which application is to be made in the approaching
session through Parliament, between seven and eight thou-
sand are already subscribed.—Birmingham Journal.

DOING BUSINESS.—A man servant, on a
farm in the neighbourhood of Brecon, was married on
Monday last to a female residing in the same house ; on
Tuesday be forsook his wife ; on Wednesday stole a cow
near Abergavenny ; and on Thursday was sent to Mon-
mouth county gaol for the offence.
_

The summits of the Malvern and adjacent
hills, were, this morning, partially covered with' snow,
and there was a slight frost during the night; but, judging
from the season, so far as it has gone, the predictions of the
weather-wise that the present was to be a long and rigor-
Otis winter do not appear likely to be verified.— Worces-
ter Herald.

SCARLET FEVER.—WC are told that this
disorder in its malignant state has been raging in Man-
chester to a great extent ; and we have been given to un-
derstand from undoubted authority, that in November
last past, not less than five hundred and eighty children
were buried in the new burial ground, Rusholme-road,
who had fallen victims to this epidemic.—Stockport Ad-
vertiser.

The new coach from Exeter to Falmouth, by
Camelford, Wadebridge, and St. Colamb, commenced
running on Tuesday last ; and being the first that bad
come by that route, it was welcomed at the towns with
much eclat, many hundred persons assembling to greet its
advance. At St. Columb, a subscription has been set on
foot far placing twenty lamps in the main street, and
which is considered to be preparatory to lighting the town
with gas. We learn that it is in contemplation to establish
a rail-road from St. Columb Porth to the Gorse Moor; a
measure that would be of essential benefit to thatim-
portant part of the county.— West Briton.
STATE OF TRADE IN PAISLEY.---AVe
have never bad the satisfaction of noticing the trade of
Paisley in a more flourishing state than at present. Dur-
ing the last four months, the plain middled shawls of
various descriptions, and sewed-on-borders, have given
place entirely to others of rich and expensive description,
figured all over, and finished in the loom. Indeed the
plain work of almost every description has been on the
decline for some time past, and those workmen who are
unwilling to change from it are obtaining labour with
considerable difficulty; but harness work, in great variety,
is readily obtained, and is gradually extending still further
over the country. This alteration in the nature of the
work has been seriously felt by those engaged in several
departments, though to the great portion of the population
it has proved highly beneficial. The shawl sewers, in
particular, have suffered severely, and the greater part of
them have been obliged to turn their hand to something
else. In the light silk line the same briskness has not
prevailed that is usual at the season, owing entirely to the
late advance in the price of the material, but even in that
branch trade cannot be considered bad.— Glasgow In-
telligencer.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, DEC. 16.--Wind W.S.W. to S.W., strong, in
squalls all day. Five, r. rt., it blows a gale from S.W.
—Arrived the Maria, from Mogadore. The Elizabeth,
Richards, from Philadelphia to Antwerp, slipped her an-
chor and chain, and proceeded to Ramsgate.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 16.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W., a
heavy gale.—Arrived from the river the Sippings, Free-
man, for the Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon ; and Lord
of the Isles, Highton, for Madras and Bengal.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind W.S.W,—Arrived the
Alert, Capperston, from Wyhurg; and Fanny, Drum-
mond, from London, for the Mauritius.
FAtmouTu, DEC. 15.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breezes.
—Arrived the Superb, Baxter, from Cadiz.
MARGATE, DEC. 16.—Arrived off port the John
Sachlen, Weshart, from B.lfast.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Princess Victoria,
Thomas, from Cork ; and the Magnet packet, Harvey,
from Newry, very leaky.
PENZANCE, DEC. 15.—Arrived off port the Herstiller,
Vanderwind, from Rio Janeiro.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Superior, Tyson,
from Virginia; Agenoria, Wbireway, from Newfound-
land ; and Achille, from Palermo. Sailed the Hellas,
Scanlan, for Bombay.
GREENOCK, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Arcadian, Auld,
from Charleston ; and Divina, Tait, from Riga.
NEWRY, DEc. 14.—Arrived the Neptune, Brown,
from St. John's, New Brunswick ; and Oak, Richie, from

WATERFORD, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Lady Leitrim,
Clement, from Newfoundland.

YARMOUTH, DEc. 16.—Arrived the Arthur, Rester,
from Pillau.

WHITBY, DEC 15.—Arrived off port the Freeland,
Midgley, from Africa.
MILFORD' DEC. 15.—The Sybil packet, from Holy-
head, on the 13th instant ran foul of an East Indianian,
and lost figure-bead, bowsprit, &c. ; she staid by the latter
two hours.

YARMOUTH, DEC. 16.—The Richard and Ann, Bur-
gin, from London to Wick, has put i❑ leaky, having been
on shore. The Jane, Poole, from Boston, in working
through these roads this morning missed stays and was
driven on the beach, but is expected to be got off after
being lightened.

The London steamer, from Hamburg to Hull, was as-
sisted into this harbour yesterday by a smack, with damage.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S.

The room was thinly attended yesterday. Great anxiety
was manifested in two or three quarters to get on about
Shilelah and Delirium, 16k to 1 was taken about the
former; but, although offers were made to take 20 to 1,
nothing was done on the latter. Bubastes was backed at
7tol at the finish, and retains th“ call of Bentley. No-
thing was said about the Oaks till just before the close of
the room, when Rosalie had the call of the Yorkshire
filly, and there were offers to take 14 to 1 about Forth's.

THE DERBY.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Bubastes
7 to 1 agst Mr. Yates's Bentley
12 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Plenipo
16 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Shelelah
t." 2 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Delirium
No others mentioned.
OAKS.
17 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Rosalie (taken)
71 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Cotillon
13 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Louisa
STEWMAKET OATLANDS, P.P.
55 to 20 agst Chantilly and Claret (taken)

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND.

Supply rather limited, trade dull, and prices barely stationary.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10
New Meadow Hay 3 10 4 4
Useful Old Ditto 3 15 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 4
Clover Hay 4 0 5 0
Oat Straw £1 6to £1 8 1 Wheat straw... 1 8 110

SMITHFIELD.
Supply short, trade very dull, and prices as last quoted.
Coarse neavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5
New Meadow Hay 3 5 4 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-grass Hay .....
Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s o... Generally
Oat Straw ... £1 4to .£1 6 I Wheat Straw 1 8 1 10