The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-26 00:00:00

tion in 1829, risk becoming problematic and crca impcssib
in 1830.

" We I,av, the honour to be, B,te.*

" (Will Europe doubt after this where her independence
is to be struggled for or lost ? To talk of Russian designs
is now to quote history that is past rs a cause of action..
But when England and France Lave reckoned over their
comforts, feelings, passions, and wealth, and have decided
that these are worth defending against the curtailment that
Russia may impose upon them—when they have arrived
at this conclulion, they will, no doubt, be interested to
know where the particular point is that Russia finds diffi-
culty in paSsing, and I^ill be glad to obtain an indication or
it from her own lips.)
The following is the letter (same daiP) of Prince Lieren
to the Earl of Aberdeen, pub ►shed in the Parliainentary
papers presented to both [louses on the 30th of 511 y,
(Translation.)
TIIE PRINCE OF LIEVEN TO THE EARL OF ABERDEEN.
" Dover-street, June (13), 1829. ,

"My Lord,—ln answer to the questions which your ,Fx-
eellency did me the honour to address to me on the occasion
of the blockades which have been lately established before the
Gulfs of Enos, of Contcssa, and of Adramitti, by the com-
manders of the naval forces of his Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias in the Mediterranean, I am authotized to inform
you, my Lord, that the blockades to which I have alluded are
about to to raised V order of his Imperial Majesty; but that
the blockade of the Darticuelles, in which is comprised, as of
right, that of the Gulf of Sar,-q, will be maintained and made
applicable to the objects specifiKl at the period of its esta-
blishment.
" His Imperial Majesty flatters himself that these measures
will be justly appreciated,—that his allies wu End in them the
best pledge of the sentiments by which he is actuated,—aA
that he may, in his turn, c xpect from them on all occasions a
reciprocity of the disposition which he manifests towards them.
" I avail myself of this opportunity, &c.
"LIEVEN.

" His Excellency the Earl of Aberdeen, &c."

THE MARKE-T6-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GAR

)EN MARKET.
this day's maact, and the trade
week's prices :

There was a moderate supply tc
was somewhat brisk at nearly last

.. .
s. d. to s. (1.
Pot: toes (cwt.) 2 0 4 6
Ca'.l ages, White (12) 2 0 3 0
Ditto Red 1 0 4 6

11. d. to F. ti
Spinach (half-sieve) 6 30 I 9
Apples I d 5 0
Pears 3 0 7 0
Cabbage Lettuces 1 ti 2 t►
Mushrooms 1 6 3 0
Onionc
Sweet Oranges (100)
Seville Oranges ... 8 0 15 0
Lemons 5 0 12 0
Asparagus 15 9 29 0
Walnuts

I:itto Savoy
Endive 1 0 2 0

Norte Radish (bundle) 1 6 2 6
Celery 1 0 1 6
Carrcts 12 bunches) 5 0 7 0
"nirWps
Coleworts or Greeas 3 0 5 0
Leehs 1 6 2 0
Pine Apples (lb.)
For. Grapes (per lb.) 0 10 6'
English, Forced 1 6 4 0
Filberts 1 3 1 6

Span. Chesnuts (peck) 4 0 6 0
French ditto 3 0 4 0
Spanish Hazlenuts 4 0 6 o
Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0

.t per Load of 36 Trusses. )
RLAND.

HAY MARKETS.-(A
CU MBE
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow flay .£2 15 to £3 5
gew Meadow Hay 0 0 ll 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 10 3 13
Fine Upland Meadow and llye-grass Hay
Clover Hay 4 0 5 5
0..!. Straw £1 6to£l 8 1 Wheat Straw llO 112
SMITHFIELD

Lowland Meadow ay £2 15 to .£3
Coar.-e beiry 0
NQIV Meadow h.: 0 0 0
3 11/
Useful Old Ditto
land Meadow a.„;(1 Rye grass Hay . 3'15 4
Fine Up • 5 0 . Generally , . .. 3 15
Clever Hay (extra tine ..., 4 I
Oat Straw ...... ... X 1 sto :?.1 8 I 'Wheat Straw .. . 1 8 1 t
ji u:4 GERFORD.

Coarse Meadow Hay
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto .,
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clover Hay
Oat Straw £1 4toX 1 G 1 Wheat Straw .. lt; 110

The Monarch and • Soho Edinburgh !.eam-ships
have been making extraordinary quick passages during the
late heavy north-cast gales. The Monarch lft Edinburgh
on Saturday afternoon, and arrived in .the River on Mon-
day afternoon ; and the Soho started from Gravesend on
Sunday forenoon, and arrived at Edinburgh on Tuesday
afternoon.
About two years ago a young woman who had borne
a child-to a young man, hearing that he Was about to be
married to another, sought to revenge herself upon her se-
ducer by throwing a quantity of sulphuric acid on his face.
She was tried for the offence before the Court of Assizes of
Herault, and, although she confessed the fact, acquitted.
Another female, named Courriege, who declares herself to
be the victim of similar perfidy on the part of her former
lover, lately improved upon the example of her predecessor,
and, not content with wreaking her vengeance upon the man
'who had deceived her, extended it also to his bride and their
relations. Courriege met the young couple, attended by
their relations, in their holiday clothes, and threw sulphuric
acid at them. _ The liquid besprinkled the whole party, but
the bride and bridegroom escaped with sonie burns, and the
rest of the party with the loss of their clothes. Courriege
was arrakrned before the same Court of Assizes on the'2d
inst., -and acknowledged the act, but the Jury, afraid of the
e'l'ects of another acquittal, declared her guilty, bud the
Court: sentenced her to be imprisoned for four yest:s.,--
French. 1-f.74)er.
TILE IiECZNT GALES.—MARCATE, DEC. 21.
—There has been a ve;7 heavy gale blowing since Friday
evening from the north. cast. Our boats early this morn-
ing brought into harbour tlie schooner Tane, of St. Ives,
and about ten a. m. took an anchor and chain off to a brig
in the roads. About three p. m. the hoy Fol., of Mar-
gate, in making the harbour was strzick by a heavy sea,
which broke her tiller short off, knocking the man at the
helm overboard, who was, however, providentially saved by
clinging to a rope. The vessel was forced with destructive
violence against the square head, tearing away her bowsprit
and staving in her stem. It was expected she wcitdd in-
stantly founder, being completely ripped ; but by the praise-
worthy exertions of the crew she was ultimately run aslute,
by which the merchandise with which she was freighted re-
ceived little or no damage. This morning (Sunday), the
wind shifting snore to the eastward, a bark from Honduras,
laden with mahogany, which had been riding out the gale
in the bay with both anchors out, and her windlass upset,
slipped her chains and ran for the river. At half-past two
p. m. the Royal Sovereign steam packet, Captain Grant,
came into harbour, with about forty-six passengers. This
vessel left London on Saturday morning at nine o'clock,
but was afraid to venture out of the river till the gale
abated, affording her passengers the delicious treat of spend-
ing a tempestuous night on the water, and the luxury of a
wooden bed.—Kentish Chronicle.
NOItTII LEICESTERSHIRE ELECTION. The
day fired by the Sheriff for the election for the northern
division of Le!cestershire is Tuesday next, the 29th iest.
The only coviidee at present in the held is Lord Charles
Somerset Masosser:7, the brother of Lord Robert William
Manners, by whose o,eath the vacancy in the representa-
tion of the northern dincion of the county has occurred.
A mine of virgin via:silver has been lately found
in the commune of Peyrol tie Chateau, in the Haute

Vienne, France.
in front of Buck-
The office of V.7ootls and Foilnts have given orders
for those unsightly wooden rails that at,'
high= Palace to be removed, and an o.namental
similar to that in 171y:1! Park, crectO. Th:s is necessary,
to keep the horses .x.d carriages on the camage-road.
They have. also given instructions to have the 1:oot-path
paved from 13uckinghern-gate to Greet George-street. This
will be a great accommodation to the public, as in int
weather, from the great thoroughfare, it is nearly unpassable.
RAILWAY BETWIXT GREENOCK AND GLAS-
ooW.—The men of Greenock have lwads as well as those
of Glasgow, and they have taken up the project of a rail,-
way in thejnost f'ir- -
•Poaching i 9 carried' on A;igoron.siy in • Sail'r6n
Walden. The poachers go out in gangs of 9.0 or 30 in
the evenings, and commit great havoc in toe preserves. On
Friday night last several of them went to work on the
grounds of the Lord Mayor, at Lee House, Littlebury,
and, after having done a great deal of mischief, fired at his
Lordship's gamekeepers, when within about seven yards of
them. Their guns; it awarad, were loaded u'ith swan
shot, so that if the aim bad bee.': good the effect at so small
a distance would, probably, have been fatal.
Wednesday aftcrnoan, as.thc Rin,..Mr. Wilcox, of -
Hampstead, was descending from one of the Hampstead
stages in Totteuhran7ceurt-road, he was 71,:tacked by an
apopletic fit, and although every moans were resorted to, to
restore animation, by Mr. Brooks, to whose slap he was
conveyed, he died before he could be removed.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THE ELEPHANT
HoT7sl:.—This building has now received the considerable
personage for whose use it has been prepared.; but , al-
though it is by far the most „handsome and substantial
building in the gardens, and, nmong other, attractions, it
offered- to him was that of the Young female elephant which
had been previously conducted there, he resolutely resisted
all allurements, and turned his back on them. All the
powers of soft persuasion having been tried in vain, . cord::
and terror were at length applied, to the force of which he
yielded, and he now scams quite reconciled, and at home.
There is a contrivance, adopted for the warming of this
house which appears to be so novel, and at the same time
so simple and economical, as
inchesto merit particular notice.
A circular hole, of about ten diameter, Observed
in the fluor, at the bottom of which, at the depth ot' about
two feet, a -small but strong fire is seen burning. This
has a lateral vent in a horizontal flue, nearly 100 feet in
length, which is carried under the floor through the interior
of the building, and terminates in an upright chimney shaft.
This horizontal tine is in construction a common brick
drain. The dralt is produced by the downward pressure
of •the air on the vacuum caused by the ere, and as all
the smoke that rises is driven down through the fire, it is
there consumed, and adds to the heat evolved. This, beat
almost-wholly rises through the floor before the horizontal
:hie reaches the upright shaft, consequently none of it is
wasted. All the heat is distributed in the places desired to
be warmed.