The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-01 00:00:00

DECEMBER.

1. The Queen of Portugal was married by proxy at Lisbon
to the Prince of Leuchtenberg, son of Beauharnais, formerly
Viceroy of Italy, and a sister of the King of Bavaria.
2. An official account of the duty on Hops for the year was
published. The total duty for 1834 being 329,9361., and ex-
ceeding that of last year by 57,0581.
4. Twelve young women were drowned in the Medway from
the up-setting of a boat in passing from Sheerness to the Isis,
50-gun ship.
6. The Rev. Edward Irving died at Glasgow, aged 43.
7. A violent hurricane committed considerable damage in
the Mersey. In the course of the night the Vixen, revenue
cutter, with the Captain, four men, and the Captain of a ship
from Canton on board, was swamped, and all perished,
10. Sir Robert Peel was appointed Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and some days after First Lord of the Treasury, and
the Duke of Wellington Foreign Secretary.
13, After six days' polling, the rate-payers of Birmingham,

by a majority of 4,976, refused to assess themselves for the
church rate',.
15. A list of the new Ministry appeared in the Gazette.
16. M. Rouen, the editor of the National French news-
paper, was tried by the Chamber of Peers for a libel on that
assembly, in having declared it incompetent to try the men
concerned in the riots at Lyons. After a powerful speech
from his Counsel, Mr. Carrel, he was convicted and sen
tenced to be imprisoned for two years, and pay a fine of
10,000 francs (4000. The sentence was deemed severe,
and public feeling strongly excited in consequence against
the Peers.

17. A meeting of the Buckinghamshire Agricultural Asso-
ciation was held at Aylesbury. Upwards of 800 persons sat
down to dinner. The feeling was unanimous for the repeal of
the malt tax, and supporting the present Administration.
18. Sir Robert Peel, in an address to the electors of Tam-
worth, announced the principles on which the new Ministry
intended to act. They may be summed up in these words,
" The correction of proved abuses and real grievances—the
maintenance of peace—the fulfilment of existing engagements
with Foreign Powers—strict economy, and a just and impar-
tial consideration of what is due to all interests—agricultural,
manufacturing, and commercial."
An affray took place at Castle Lyons, county of Cork,
between the inhabitants and a party of soldiers employed in
the collection of tithes, in which 13 of the former were killed
and a number wounded.

20. Accounts were received of the death of Seth Ali Schah,
King of Persia.
23. A grand dinner was given at the Mansion-house to his
Majesty's Ministers ; and on the same day a numerous meet-
ing was held at the City of London Tavern, and another at
the London Tavern, to vote resolutions relative to the change
of Ministry. 74About this time Alexander Chalmers, the bio-
grapher and political writer, died, aged 76.
27. A return of the number of deaths in the metropolis,
from Dec. 10, 1833, to Dec. 9, 1834, was published, making
the total number 21,679, being 4,898 fewer than those of the
preceding year.
30. The first Reformed Parliament dissolved by proclama-
tion, and a new one summoned, the writs for which arc made
returnable on the 19th of February. The previous Parliament
was dissolved on the 3d of December, 1832, and the new Par-
liament met on the 29th of January, 1833. It consequently
bad existed for one year and eleven months.
This year has been remarkable for the high temperature of
the weather. In the course of the summer, the thermometer
often ranged between 75 and 82 of Fahrenheit, and on the
30th instant, it stood at 53 in the shade at noon.

It is also remarkable for the progressive rise which has taken
place in most Securities, both British and Foreign, as exhi-
bited in the following list in round numbers :
January 1, 1834. Dec. 30.
Consols
Bank Stock
Belgian Bonds
Brazilian Bonds 67
Portuguese Bonds ... 56
Cortes Bonds 23
Dutch Fives
French Fives 104

CHRISTMAS SUPPLIES.—The Liverpool market
was never better stored than it was on Christmas Eve. One
steamer from Ireland brought no less than fifteen tons of pluck-
ed geese, which were sold at from 18d. to 3s. each. It is
estimated that there were not less than eight thousand turkeys
in the markets I

EXTRAORDINARY FRUIT TREES.—The Old
Abbey Garden of Culross contains two rare specimens of
trees little cultivated in this country, at least for their fruit,
though both are well known in England. These trees are a
mulberry and medlar, and are considered the largest and oldest
of their kinds in Scotland. The medlar is grafted on a white
thorn, and at two feet from the ground its stem measures seven
feet two inches in circumference, its height is sixteen feet, and
the area of its branches thirty-six feet. The stem of the mul-
berry measures five feet ten inches at the surface of the
ground ; three feet above, it measures four feet one inch ; and
six feet high it measures three feet nine inches ; its entire
height being eighteen feet. The area of its branches is thirty-
six feet. Both trees are supposed to be about two hundred
years old, and they are every year loaded with fruit.—Scottish
Paper.

• The public will be glad to hear that another naval
novel, by the popular author of" The Life of a Sailor," is just
published. The whole arcana of a man-of-war has been
already most amusingly developed in recent works of fiction,
but shore readers have yet to learn the peculiar mode of life
on board a piratical craft, and the strange events to which
such a vessel is liable. The gallant Captain to whom the
world is indebted for the sea-story above-mentioned must have
seen in his varied experience much of the marauding cruizers
alluded to ; and accordingly has given in his new tale, called
" The Unfortunate Man," some extraordinary disclosures con-
nected with them.

THE NEW WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT.—
Many respectable tradesmen carrying on business within the
district of Worship-street police office applied to Mr. Twyford,
the sitting Magistrate, to ask his advice bow to act in order
that they might comply with the Act of Parliament for the re-
gulation of weights and measures which comes into operation
this day. It appeared that the applicants had used due dili-
gence to endeavour to get their weights and measures re-
s:amped according to the Act, waiting at the office of Mr.
Strother, the appointed inspector of the district, from eight
o'clock in the morning until after two in the afternoon, on Sa-
turday and Monday, and aftei all did not get their weights
stamped, there being hundreds of persons in waiting. Mr.
Strother's office was thronged to excess all day long, and
there were many hundreds of tradespeople placed in the same
predicament as the applicants. Mr. Twyford said that the
Act came into force too early, and in cases where it appeared
that due diligence had been used to comply with it, he had
made up his mind not to commit for a month to come, and as
the Legislature had not given sufficient advice, he thought
that no Magistrate would enforce the law immediately, excep t
where there appeared to be wilful neglect.

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