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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1835.

in knowing. The Budget is the great topic of con-
vetsation in Madrid—by no means the most inviting
one for foreigners. The QUEEN is at present in the
capital, and taking every opportunity of appearing in
public and acquiring popularity. The hostile meeting
which was expected to take place between M. MAR-
TINEZ DE LA ROSH and the Conde de los NAVAS, in
consequence of some expressions used by the former in
a debate in the Chamber of Procuradores, and which
were understood to apply personally to the Count,
has been prevented, by M. M. DE LA ROSA having
consented to express his regret for the offensive expres-
sions in the same place in which he used them. This
was done, and so the affair has terminated.

Monday next is fixed for the nomination of the
Members for the City of London. The polling com-
mences on the following day, when we hope the electors
will place the Reform candidates so high on the poll as
to make the election decisive. Let tho Metropolis first
set a proper example, and the country, throughout its
entire length and breadth, will be sure, promptly and
unhesitatingly, to follow it.

The appointment of the Earl of WILITIN to the
office of Lord-Steward of his Majesty's household,
is certainly not one which will give any additional
eclat to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Administration. In-
deed it is " a load that would sink a Navy,"—much
less such a crazy, leaky vessel as that on board
which the Right Hon. Baronet has chosen to embark.
Lord WILTON, am an Ultra-Tory, is only equalled in
the rancour of his zeal by Lord STORNIONT. In
Lancashire during the last two years, he has taken
every opportunity of figuring at dinners and public
meetings, as a thorough-Taxed hack of the ELDON
school, of passive obedience and divine right. In point
of intelligence and liberality, he is at least half a cen-
tury behind the age, though, luckily, hie powers of
mischief are limited by the very ordinary powers of
his mind. How can a Ministry be expected to stand,
in stirring days like the present, when such men as
Lord WILTON are deemed worthy to form a part of
it ? Sir ROBERT PEEL must have been sadly put to
it for colleagues, when he ventured on a choice like

this—a choice which the country will not receive with
execration (for hatred implies fear), but with shouts
of ridicule and laughter. The Administration is now,
we suppose, completed. Will it last three months ?
Will it survive the debate on the Address? Will

it even venture to meet Parliament ? Judging from
the tone of querulous despondency that prevails
among the despots abroad (who, of course, aro
deep in its secrets), and of indignation, which
is the one predominant feeling in this kingdGm,
we should be strongly tempted to say that the Ides of
March will be as fatal to Sir ROBERT PEEL, as they
were to Csar.

ST. LEONARD'S—DEc. 30

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and Princess
Victoria continue in the enjoyment of perfect health. Their
Royal Highnesses drive out daily, and always walk on the
Promenade for some time. _ _ . __ .

On Sunday the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prin-
cess, attended Divine Service at the parish church. The
Dean of Chester and the Rev. Mr. Randolph officiated.
The Duchess of Kent has resumed her dinner parties,
which had been suspended in consequence of the Duke of
Gloucester's death, and her Royal Highness had a select as-
sembly on Monday evening, and will have another on Thurs-
day. A grand ball that was to have been given by her Royal
Highness to the visitors and residents here and in the vicinity,
has been postponed.
Our Christmas ball was attended by upwards of 17!) fa-
shionables, and dancing was kept up with much spirit till a
late hour in the morning.
On Sunday last the body of Lieut. Gilley, R.N., whose
death took place a short time since, with five of the Coast
Guard men, whilst in the act of attempting to save the crew
of a vessel wrecked off here, was discovered on the sands,
and within a quarter of a mile of where the melancholy event
occurred. His remains were attended to the grave by many
of the respectable inhabitants of the place, who evinced the
deepest sympathy at the untimely death of a young awl gal-
lant Officer. The body of one of the Coast Guard men has
since been picked up near Hastings.

THE FUNDS -CI
BRITISH
Bank Stook
3 per Cent. Red 9l
3 per Cent Cons
341 per Cent.
3 per Cent. Bed 99IA
New 3,4 per Cent lot!
4 per Cent. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
Ja.o 1860
(ct
Jan. IP'B

16 13.16

1.0 EIG

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent 97'
Brazilian Bonds

Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent —
Chi!;an, 6 per cent 34
Co!urniaan, 6 per cent.
Ditto, 18:!-I 32!L
Danish

Greek Ilonds, 18•?5, 5 per cent.
Mexican, 5 per cent , 1825....
Ditto, 1825, per cent.
Peruvi4n, ti per cent

JOSING PRICES.
FUNDS.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds 20 pm
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 10,04....
iit to 5011/ till pin
Ditto ;Ain/ 41,. pm
Bank Stock for Act. .....
India Stock tor Opg. '2 8
Consols for Opg. (.2

FUNDS.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent Sfi
Ditto, New Ditto Sti37,
Prussian. 5 per cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. WI3,',
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent s3!a
Ditto, 1823 —
1 rench, 5 per cent
Exchange
French, 3 per cent —f. —c•
Dutch, 23 per cent. '3!;;
j Ditto, 5 per cent ..... . PIY,‘4

The venerable Earl of Eldon will be in town on
Monday next. The mansion in Hamilton-place is completely
finished.

Earl Cadog,an has given up his residence in Park-
lane, and is about to remove from the Green Park Hotel to
that extensive edifice, Queensberry House, next door to Cam-
bridge House.

The coming of age of Lord Brome, eldest son of the
Earl of Cornwallis, was celebrated at Linton Palace, Kent, on
Wednesday last, by a variety of festive enjoyments. A grand
dinner was given to about eighty of the Noble Earl's tenantry
at Cranbrook.

The Town Council of Hamilton, at a special meet-
ing on Friday last, voted the freedom of that burgh to Lord
Stanley and Sir James Graham.

The Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, and Sir Charles
Manners Sutton, have left town for Cambridge, to canvass the
electors for the University.

The Earl of Wiltonr the new Lord Steward, has
always maintained Conservative opinions, his father, the Mar-
quis of Westminster, being a Whig.
We are informed that it was not Sir Thomas Trow-
bridge, but Mr. Marriott who had declined for Sandwich.

The Bishop of Durham has subscribed the splendid
sum of five hundred pounds in aid of the fund now raising for
the purchase of the " Allan Collection of Minerals," which it
is desired to secure for the Museum of the Durham University.

Lord Ernest Bruce, who has been appointed one of
the new Lords of the Bedchamber, is announced to have gone
to Marlborough to secure his re-election for that borough.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—HiS Grace is ex-
pected at Belvoir Castle on Monday next, when the Duke of
Rutland will give his annual splendid fete to all the rank and
fashion of the county, to commemorate the anniversary of his
natal day. Lord Forester, the Hon. General Upton (who is
slowly recovering from the severe accident he sustained while
shooting at Bakewell), and the Hon. William Howard have
been among the recent visitants at the Castle exclusive of the
family connections.
The workmen in the new House of Lords have al-
ready erected the framework for the Throne. The walls
of both Houses will be covered with canvas, stretched and
painted. This will prevent the damp which would arise from
plaister, &c.
The Members of the new Parliaments were formerly
sworn in on the day the writs were returnable, and the day
after by the Lord High Steward in the Long Gallery, but as
it was destroyed by the late fire, the ceremony will probably
take place in the Library in. February next.

The Brighton election is fixed for the 7th, West
Sussex for the 13th, and East Sussex for the 15th of January,

A half-yearly General Court of Proprietors of
Shares in the Canada Company was held yesterday at Ca-
nada-house, St. Helen's place, for the purpose of receiving a
report from the directors relative to the affairs of the corpora-
tion, and to declare a dividend. Charles Franks, Esq., the
Deputy-Governor, took the chair. The Deputy-Governor
stated that sales of land by the company in the present year,
up to the 15th of November last, amounted to 64,000 acres,
which was a small falling off as compared with the sales of
the previous year, but there had been some improvement in
the prices obtained. The directors proposed that a dividend,
at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, on the capital paid up,
should be paid to the shareholders for the half-year which was
about to close. The dividend was agreed to. The Deputy-
Governor stated that Mr. Jones, one of the company's com-
missioners, who acted in Canada, had arrived in town, and as
the information he had was of much more importance than
that the directors could give, he suggested that the report pre-
pared by that gentleman should be read. The report of Mr.
Jones was then read, and gave great satisfaction.

His Majesty's Proclamation dissolving the Parlia-
ment has arrived, and the liberal metropolitan journals are
earnest in their calls upon all Reformefs to bury minor differ-
ences of opinion--and join heart and hand in the cause 1 For
our own parts, we will content ourselves with exhorting the
electors, both for this borough and for the county, to exert
their calm, unbiassed opinions—to judge the future from the
experience of the past. And then there can be no doubt but
the result of the elections will be favourable to Reform 1—

Cheltenham Chronicle.
On Tuesday last a most numerous gang of the
swell mob attended at White Conduit-house during the meet-
ing of the electors of Finsbury to hear Messrs. Duncombe and
Wakley, and committed several daring robberies. Mr. Abra-
hams, a constable in his own right, of Islington, who attended
the meeting to look after thieves, was himself robbed of 14s.
from his trouser's pocket. Several gentlemen complained at
the entrance of having been robbed of their watches and
pocket-books, containing money, &c. Three notorious
fellows, known by the appellations of " the Elephant," " the
Lion," and " the Jackall," were seen lurking about the tavern
prior to the meeting, attired in fashionable style ; and when
the candidates were quitting the place after the meeting, a
tremendous rush took place, in which the thieves made a
plentiful harvest.

NEW YEAR'S EVE.—To end the old year mer-
rily, and begin the new one well, and in friendship, were
popular objects in the celebration of this festival. It was
spent among the labouring poi tion of our ancestors in festi-
vity and frolic by the men, and the young women of the village
carried from door to door a bowl, which they offered to the
inhabitants of every house they stopped at, singing rude con-
gratulatory verses, and soliciting small presents. Young
men and women also exchanged clothes, which was termed
mumming, or disguising ; and when thus dressed in each
other's garment., they went from one neighbour's cottage to
another, singing, dancing, and partaking of good cheer.
EFFICIENCY OF THE NEW POLICE.-011 Tues-
day night about eleven o'clock, one of the new police disco-
vered that a house in Paradise-row, Islington, was on fire. He
immediately alarmed the inmates, and afterwards sprung his
rattle. The other policemen on duty in the Holloway-road
did the same, and in a very few minutes about a dozen po-
licemen were assembled, ready to render any assistance that
might be required, and one started off on horseback to pro-
cure engines from town. Engines were brought from the
nearest station (Islington-green) within a quarter of a hour,
but owing to the active exertions of the police, assisted by the
neighbours, the fire was got under, the first floor only being
burnt. The activity of the police on the occasion was deserv-
ing of the highest praise, for had there been a delay of only
a few minutes the,house must have been burnt to the ground.
Several of the gentlemen who assisted in extinguishing the
fire afterwards thanked the superintendent of the N division
for the prompt assistance afforded by the police on the occasion.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT TENBY, SOUTH
WALES.—On Saturday evening last, the 27th inst., as the
passage-boat which plies between this place and Caldav
Island, was returning to Tenby with the labourers of C. Ky-
naston, Esq. (many of them bringing their hard-earned weekly
wages to relieve their families), she was struck at the back of
St. Catherine's rock by a heavy sea, and instantly sunk, and,
melancholy to relate, every soul on board perished. The ac-
cident was observed from the shore, and boats instantly put off
to their assistance; but long before they could reach the spot
the boat and every thing else had disappeared in the foaming
ocean. By this dreadful event thirteen men and two young
women met a watery grave. The following is a list of tho
kufforers ;—Joseph James, John James, William James, Tho-
mas Thomas, John Harris, Richard „ermyn Joseph Lewis,
Thomas James, Thomas Thomas, father, William Thomas,
son? Thomas Thomas, William Jermyn, John Jermyn, Susan
Hay, and Sarah Roblin. We would hope that those distressing
particulars will meet the eye of the benevolent and the charit-
able, the friends of the widow and the fatherless, as seven of
the former, and twenty-two of the latter have to deplore their
melancholy loss, and are left totally unprovided for; and any
donation for their relief will be thankfully received by the
liitcc9r of Tcnbl, the Rev. Dr. Humphreys,