The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-26 00:00:00

LORD MILTON'S ADDRESS.

By an error of the Press, " North Hamp-
shire" was yesterday inserted instead of North-
amptonshire, in Lord MILTON'S address to his
Constituents.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

Up to the present hour we have no arrivals of foreign
mails or ship letters. The news from Antwerp will now
be only interesting in respect to the articles of capitulation,
and the state in which the citadel has been found. We
have a report that General Chasse had made his escape.
The next subject on the tapir is, whether the King of
Holland will still continue obstinate, and refuse the inter-
vention of Prussia to make his peace with Leopold, and
give up the remaining forts on the Scheldt. We do not
suppose it will be long before this event will be ascer-
tained, for until then the French will have a motive for
not quitting Belgium.
The fall of the citadel of Antwerp has had an effect
on the Funds this morning, and the merchants in general
look more pleasant than they did a few days since, having
an approaching prospect that their commerce will soon be
revived with Antwerp.

The private letters from Brussels state that great num-
bers of the inhabitants and merchants, who had left Ant-
werp are on their return.

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which left off on Monday at 841 for the Ac-
count, opened at 84i, and soon after went up to 8511;

at present they are not so good, and may be quoted 8.5 i
for the Account. We do not hear of any news as yet from
Oporto.

In the Foreign Market Dutch Stock has also improved.
HALF-PAST ONE.

The expresses from Antwerp and Brussels are of the same
description of information as previously received—the
surrender of the citidal, with the exception of two points,
that the Dutch have destroyed their gun-boats which kept
up the communication between the citidal and the Tele-
de-Flandre to the number of 12 ; also, that an officer has
been sent to the Hague to acsertain if the King of Holland
will give up the remaining forts on the Scheldt, or stiffer
General Chasse and his brave garrison to remain prisoners
of war. We should imagine that his Dutch Majesty would
prefer to have General Chasse and his garrison at home
again, rather than retain the two or three battering
forts on the Scheldt. We shall soon know the result
of this mission.

Consols continue steady at 85k forthe Account. In
the early part of the morning a good deal was doing
owing to the Bears buying in their accounts.
The Foreign Market also remains steady.
A vessel has arrived from Oporto, which left on the
16th, a day later; but we do not hear that she brought
any particular news.

THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for the Account, 85/ I-.

CORN EXCHANGE—(THIS DAY.)--Yes-
terday being a holyday no return of the arrivals was pub-
lished ; but it is understood they are moderate. The
trade for every thing remains very dull, at our last rater.
AN AMERICAN " No PUFF."—The fol-
lowing paragraph, headed 1! No Puff," is from an Ame-
rican Paper :--" Ye disbelieving, come, and believe your
own ears and eyes: Music and penmanship each taught
in only one lesson of 81X hours !" The cunning Isaac
adds---,, Old system half price."

The highest price of bread in the metropolis
is 9d. for the 41b. loaf. There are bakers, who sell from
id. to 2d. below that rate.

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ROYAL MARINAS. 5---L- -.,,::,:'::‘ A-'.
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An order has lately been I,,ued by the Mhit-- 2-:,---11:-.69 ...-
directing that a field-officer of Royal Marines AiiuldMa
in future be employed on the different foreign sta-
tions to which there is El commander-in-chief. The
duty of these officers will be to inspect the different
detachments of the ships on the station, and report
on their appearance and efficiency as frequently as
circumstances will permit; to command at all times
v./hen on shore, either for the purpose of drill, review,
or on actual service before an enemy. All returns
will be made through them to the Inspector-zene-
nal, Sir James Cockburn, K.C.H., whose indefati-
gable zeal and exertions have tended to materially
improve this valuable corps. The necessity for this
arrangement will be obvious when it is known that
on many occasions, during the late war, bodies of
this corps were landed of from 500 to SOO men,
with no officer above the rank of a captain to corn-
tnand them.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, DEC. 24 AND 25.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W,
strong and squally.—Arrived the Mountaineer, Valentine,
from Teneriffe. The combined squadron remains.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 24 AND 25.—Wind S.S.W. to
N. W.—Sailed the Mangles, Carr, for New South Wales.
PLYMOUTH, Dxc. 23 Alin 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived
the Cato, Crossman, from Qiebec; Duke of Wellington,
Preeeia, from Denis; Elise and Maria, from Winterman;
Elizabeth, Cumming, from St. Petersburgh ; and his Ma-
jesty's ship Druid, from Portsmouth, bound to Lisbon.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 23 AND 24. E—Wind S.W. strong
breezes.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Tonkin, from Lisbon.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Blucher, Small-
wood, from Jamaica; Madison, Wood, from Virginia;
Hunter, Drysdale, from Quebec; Frederick, Westeotr,
from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Stevenson, Lawton,
f, um Seville; Adventure, Cuthbertson ; and Maria, Sead-
don, from Lisbon ; and James, Cook, from Faro. Off
port—Eleanor, from Miramichi. Sailed the Elizabeth,
Hill, for Bengal ; and Gipsey, Highlet, for Bombay.
Dom, DEC. 25.—Arrived off port the Hope, Ironey,
from Fernando Po.
DARTMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Nymph, Wat-
kens, from Cadiz, with damage, bound to Newfoundland.
LarmiNcrox, DEC. 24.—Arrived off port the Seal,
Brown, from Oporto.

The Trusty, Williamson, from Leith to London, was
on shore on the Main, near Harwich, yesterday, on her
beam-ends, and had been off water.
The Broughty Castle, from Leith to St. Domingo, put
into Harwich leaky.
The Waterloo, Coson, from Sunderland to Charente,
put into Grimsby leaky.
The Betsies, Westhirton, from Liverpool to Sunderland,
was driven on shore on the 13th inst. at the Isle of Skye.
The Montano, Gray, from Newcastle to New York,
put into Cork in distress.
The Swift, Charles, from Liverpool to Newfoundland,
put into Cork in distress, part of her cargo thrown over-
board ; out two months.
The Diana, Brown, from Yarmouth to St. Michaels,
put into Youghal—meets cut away during a gale on the
17th inst. in lat. 49, long. 14.

Lord Chancellor BROUGHAM has left town
for three weeks, on a visit of parental affection to his
mother, at Brougham Hall, in Westmoreland. He was,
we understand, accompanied by his brother, whose ex-
tremely delicate health will, we hope, be renovated by
change of residence and the advantage of his native air.
The Court of Chancery is closed until the 10th or 11th of
next January.

It is rumoured that the incumbent of a large
town in a southern diocese has been suspended from the
performance of his clerical duties, in consequence of his
having, without express permission from his Diocesan,
appointed a day of thanksgiving for the deliverance of his
parishioners from the late epidemic.
We understand that Sir DAVID BREWSTER.
has within this last week made two very remarkable dis-
coveries, which promise to be of some use to science. In
a new salt discovered by Dr. WILLIAM GREGORY, Viz., an
oxalate of chromium and potash, he has detected the ex-
traordinary property, that one of its images formed by
double refraction is of a bright scarlet, while the
other image is of a bright blue colour. In examin-
ing the pure liquid anhydrous nitrous acid, prepared in
the manner which is supposed to yield it in its purest
state, he found that the acid actually consisted of two se-
parate fluids, one of which was heavier than the other,
and possessed a much higher refractive power. When the
two fluids were shaken, they formed an imperfect union,
and separated again by being allowed to remain at rest.
What the second fluid is remains to be investigated. It
may perhaps turn out to be an entirely new substance.
Its physical properties are now under investigation....
Edinburgh Evening Courant.

A story is current in Chichester of a digna-
tary of the Church complaining to his Bishop that be
could not live upon his income (nearly 1,0001. a-year).
His Lordship is reported to have said, " You had better
be quiet; it is possible you will be compelled, ere long, to
live upon a much smaller sum.—Brighton Guardian.

King JOHN gave several lands at Kipperton
and Attirton, in Kent, to SoLoston ArrEFtemp, to be
held by this singular service—that as often as the King
should be pleased to cross the sea, the said SoLostow, or
his heirs, should be obliged to go with him, to hold his
Majesty's head, if there should be occasion for it; " that
is, if he should be seasick ;" and it appears, by the re-
cord in the Tower, that this same office of head-holding
was actually performed in the reign of EDWARD the First.
Three Venetians, whom the late Lord BYRON
brought with him into this country, were so dreadfully
attacked by ophthalmia as almost entirely to lose their
eye-sight. " What can we do with these poor fellows ?"
Said his Lordship, when he heard of their misfortune.
" Why," said Dr. L., " at the worst, we can set each of
them up as a Venetian blind 1"
THE APPROACHING SESSIONS. The
Westminster Sessions commence to-morrow ; the Middle-
sex on Monday; the London, on Wednesday; and the
Old Bailey, to-morrow week. The calendars are unusally
►ight.
" I have been trying all I can," said a cit on
the Spanish walk on 'Change to another, " to get out of
Don ANSELMO nx A. what is really the matter with the
King of SPAIN, and all I can extract is that it is some-
thing like water on the chest." " Well," answered the
other, " and what else could you expect after so much
pumping F"—The Age.
A letter of the Bth inst., from Rome, says—
"We have intelligence from Sicily to the 20th ult. The
alarm from the eruption had then begun to subside, the
mountain having opened in its side towards the sea.
Bronte was spared. Tke damage has not been so great as
we expected, and not a life has been lost."

The retail value of the gin annually consumed
in this country, amounts to nearly 20,000,000/.
In-
cluding the smuggled spirits, it is probably more. Here,
then, are the people of this country, and principally those
of the lower orders, taxing themselves to the extent of
nearly half the whole revenue of the kingdom, and that in
the consumption of an article which, in return for a mo-
mentary gratification, entails upon thousands misery of
every kind, including disease and premature death
Boston Gazette.
ATTEMPTED SUICID
morn-
ing, between 10 and 11 o'clock, a bargeman named Wii-
re.
LIAM CuLLEN, who was proceeding along the towing-
path of the Regent's canal, near to Maida-hill, observed a
very respectable•looking young woman standing in the
water up to her knees, and in the act of tying some
aboveonds sheber wadedwaist,
ftuhrinthgerrionutondthheewr
attehrro,autn;tilin a zit
when she staggered backwards towards the towing-path,
and fell ; the bargeman immediately ran up to her, and
found her lying on her back, entirely under the water,
but her head resting against the shelving part of the
bank ; her face was not covered more than an inch in depth,
he immediately drew her out, when he discovered that a
black silk handkerchief twisted in the form of a cord wan
tied round her throat so tightly, that it would in a few
minutes have caused strangulation. She was in a state of
insensibility, and was directly carried to the house of Mr.
Doomity, close by, who humanely rendered every assist.
ance in his power, and after some perseverance the
young woman was restored to state of consciousness.
From the account she was afterwards induced to give of
herself it appears that she is the daughter of respectable
parents, named TRUDE, living in Marylebone-lane, Ox.
ford-street, and baying admitted an improper intimacy
with a young man residing in the neighbourhood, she had
become enceinte, and, unable to bear the reproach of her
friends when it should be discovered, she had made up her
mind to destroy herself. She was taken home by hi r
father, who seemed deeply affected en these facts being
disclosed to him. —facewhYesterdaY
er