The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-31 00:00:00

DECEMBER.

1. ' A fire broke: out in the house of an upholsterer in
Tottenham-court-road, by which four persons were burnt
to death.

2. From accounts published it appears that in the course
of the last 25 years more than 2,000 persons have perished
from fire-damp and choke-damp in mines.in England and
Wales.

3 A meeting was held at the Freemasons' Tavern for
raising a subscription for the relief of the Irish Clergy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury was in the Chair ; and, at
the conclusion, subscriptions were announced to the amount
of 12,0001.

4. Died, near Liege, Lieut.-Gen. Lord Crewe, in the
66th year of his age.

5. Details of the trade of France with other countries,
drawn' up by the French Minister of Commerce; were pub-
lished. From these it appears that England, the most
commercial country in the world, stands the fourth, though
as regards exports to Franca, only the sixth, in the rank of
trade with that country, and that while England in 1834
imported French produce to the amount of 62,000,000
francs (2,500,0001.), France imported of English produce
to the amount of little more than a million sterling. The
general imports of France amounted in 1834 to 720,000,000
francs (28,800,0001.), and those of England to 41,000,000/.
The number of vessels which left the French harbours that
year was about 10,000, of which. 4,000 were French, and
the principal trade was with the United States, Saidinia,
Switzerland, Spain, and Germany.
8. Died, at his house in Grosvenor-place, Lieut.-General
Lord Hartland, Irish Peer, in the 69th year of his age.
A grand dinner was given at Edinburgh in aid of the
fund for the relief of the distressed Poles.

9. A Commission was appointed to inquire into the ex-
pediency and practicability of consolidating the different
departments connected with the civil administration of the
army.

15. A large meeting of noblemen and gentlemen con-
nected with agriculture was held at Freemasons' Tavern
for the purpose of forming a Central Agricultural Asso-
ciation.

16. A riot broke out at Ipswich, in consequence of the
adoptidn of the new Poor Law Bill by a number of parishes
of that town. It was soon put down by a troop of dra-
goons, without loss of life.
19. Died, at Frampton, Lieut.-General Sir Colquhoun
Grant, aged 73. He served under Sir John Moore and
the Duke of Wellington in Spain, and commanded a bri-
gade at Waterloo, where he had five horses shot under him.
21. Sir John Sinclair died at Edinburgh, aged 82 years.
He was the author of a variety of works on agriculture and
domestic economy, aad edited the Statistical Account of,
Scotland, drawn up by the Scotch clergy.
24. Mr. Botch gave in his• resignation as Chairman of
the Middlesex Sessions.

Died, at Tunbridge Wells, General Sir John Hamil-
ton, Colonel of the 69th regiment, and Governor of Dun-
cannon Fort.

25. Ten persons:were drowned while skaiting—seven on
the Serpentine River, and three in the Canal in St. James's
Park, by the breaking of the ice.
Mr. Simpson, for 38 years " Master of the Cere-
monies" at Vamiball Gardens, died.
26. A general election of Town Councillors, according
to the regulations of the New Municipai Reform Bill, took
place in all the boroughs of 'England.
A return of the number of christenings and burials
within the bills of mortality was published, making the for-
mer amount to 26,128, and the latter to '21,415, being a
decrease of 264 in the burials, as compared with the pre-
vious year.

29. The Message of the President of the United State 3
at the opening of Congress, on the 7th of this, month, was
published in this Journal. The President entered at
great length into the history of the dispute between France
and the United States, and intimated his determination not
to accede to the condition required by France before the
indemnity should be paid. He announced at the same
time the extraordinary fact that the National Debt had
beet► paid off, and that as there were no further use for the
offices of Commissioners of Loans and Sinking Funds, they
ought to be abolished ; he added that the country was in
the highest state of prosperity, and at peace with all the
world ; that the naval force in existence, not being ade-
quate for the protection of their commerce, ought to be
increased, and that measures must be adopted to prevent
the circulation of anti-slavery tracts, or, as he describes
them, "incendiary publications, intended to instigate the
slaves to insurrection."

The difference in the price of the British and Foreign
Funds at the beginning and end of the year is very trifling,
and does not require any particular notice.:

THE FOLLOWING ABSTRACTS ARE CHIEFLY FROM STA-
TISTICAL DOCUMENTS, PUBLISHED IN THE COURSE OF
THE YEAR 1835 :-

According to returns made by the French Government,
the produce of the indirect taxes for the first quarter of
1835 was 140,784,000 francs (5,600,0001.), or about
22,500,0001. a year ; and the estimated expenditure was
40,000,0001., leaving the sum of 17,500,0001. to be made
uprby direct taxation. The estimated expenditure of the
,United Kingdom for the same year, as given by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in his financial statement, was
44,715,0001., of which only 3,600,000/. net was to be raised
by direct taxation.
The number of merchant seamen belonging to the United
States, according to the Report of the Board of Directors
of the Boston Seamen's Friend Society, was calculated in
1835, at 103,000 men, of whom 50,000 are in the foreign
trade, 6,000 in the United States navy, and the rest i❑ the
coasting trade. The tonnage in 1831, amounted to
1,247,846 ; and that of Great Britain, in 183, to
2,634,577 tons.

There were, in 1834, 73 light houses on the French
coast, the expenses for which was estimated:at 8,0001.
a year. In the United Kingdom there were 105 public
'general lights on land, exclusive of 93 harb.our lights, - and-

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17 floating lights, which br;::15 in a gross annual revenue of
239,403/..; the expense of mainteOnce is 74,8321., and the
charge for collection 22,1351. ; making a net surplus of
142,4361. In the United States of America, no light dues
are imposed on their own shipping, the whole expense of
maintaining the lights being paid out of the Treasury and •
by rates charged on foreign shipping. •
The receipts of the Metropolitan Police for the year
1834, amounted to 218,141/., and the disburoments to
215,108/.

The number of vessels employed in the foreign trade
which entered the ports of the United Kingdom in 1834,
amounte4 to 16,548 ; .of 74Thich 11,678 belonged to the
United Kingdout and its depemicAcies—increase over that
of 1833, about 400.
The declared value of the exports for the .year was
36,54240001., being an increase of 2,000,000 on that of _
1833. The amount for 1835 has been calculated at
41,649,0001., of which nearly one-half (20,513,0000 con-
sists of cotton goods.
The annual saving accrued to the public by the conver-
sion of stock from :higher to a lower rate of interest, since
1822, amounted, in 1834, to 2,355,8451.
The quaff tits of malt made in the United Kingdom, for
the year, was million quarters, and the gross duty
5,149,2551. The dui; on hops was 330,0001.
The amount of deposits' in savings' banks, on the 30th
of November, 1834, was 15,ri.19,844/., being an increase
of about 2,000,0001. since 1832.
The amount of duty paid into the Stamp Office, in the
same year, by the Fire Insurance Companies, Ives 730,0001.
'and the amount of farming stock insured, but exetopt from
duty, exceeded 38,000,0001.
According to documents published by the Goverment
of the United States, the navy of that country, in the year
1834, consisted of 1 ship of the line in commission, 6 irs
ordinary, and 5 on the stocks ; 3 frigates in commission, 6
in ordinary, and 8 on the stocks; making a total of 12 ships
of the line and 17 friptes, exclusive of 23 sloops of war and
schooners, varying from 24 to 18 guns.
According to returns made by the Commissioners of Ec-
clesiastical Inquiry for Ireland, there are in that country
852,064 members of the Established Church, 642,356
Presbyterians,2l,BoB Protestant Dissenters, and 6,427,712
Roman Catholics ; making the total population amount to
7,943,940 persons.
The expenses of the post-office establishments in Lone-
don, Dublin, and Edinburgh, for the year ending the sth
of April, 1835, were—for London, 96,2341. ; Dublin,
18,394/. ; and Edinburgh, 9,735/. The number of indivi-
duals employed at each of these places was, respectively,
1,338,258, and 97, and the amount of postage collected,
660,4111., 70,3441., and 41,6801.

The amount of money expended for the relief of the poor
in England and Wales for the year'ending the 25th of March,
1834, was 6,317,255/. ; the expenses for suits of law and
removal of paupers, 258,6041.; and the decrease of expen-
diture, as compared with the preceding year, seven per cent.,
or about half a million sterling.
The total annual amount of the incomes of charities (as
far as yet ascertained) for education and other purposes in
England and Wales, was for the last year 748,178/.
In the course of the year ending the sth of January, 1835,
6,480,544 gallons of wines were admitted, for home con-
sumption, and the total of duty received was 1,765,6381., at
the rate of ss. 6d. per gallon, for all sorts, excepting Cape
wine, which pays a duty of 2s. 9d.
The total amount of foreign spirits admitted for home
consumption, was 1,412,411 gallons, and the duty received
1,588,1331., at the rate of 1/725. 6d. per gallon. •
Of colonial spirits • there were retained for home con-
sumption 3,454,707 gallons, producing a duty of 1,505,390/.
The number of gallons of proof spirits distilled in the
United Kingdom was 23,216,272, ,producing a duty of
1,198,3971., for expOrtation from Scotland and Ireland to
England, and from Scotland to Ireland, exclusive of the
Excise duty paid' in the countries where the spirits were
distilled, making the duty altogether amount to 5,253,5131.
The quantity •of tea imported into the United Kingdom,
in the season 1834-5, the first year of open trade, was
41,041,8431b5. The preceding year the amount was
29,592,3101b5. The importation of raw silk, from China,
had increased in a still greater proportion.
The quantity of tobacco imported in the fear ending July,
1835, was 88,500,0001b5, of unmanufactured tobacco, and
1,000,0001b5. of snuff and cigars, of which 38,440,0001b5.
came from the United States. The quantity retained for
home consumption was 21,483,0001 m., and the gross amount
of duty received 3,241,9851.
In 1834 the total importation of sugar was 4,743,414 cwt.,
and the duty received about 5,000,000/.
The number of factories in the United Kingdom for the
manufacture of cotton, flax, silk, and woollen goods, was
3,236 ; and of these 3,160 were at work. Total number of
persons employed was 355,373.
The number of steam vessels registered in Great Britain,
in July, 1835, was 397, and the tonnage 36,849 ; the num-
ber not registered was 84 ; and those building 46.
The sum received from visitors to the Zoological Gar-
den's, Regent's-park, during the year 1834, was 16,833/. 15s. ;
the total amount received since its establishment is 112,148/. ;
and the expenditure 102,235/.
The number of newspapers published in Europe in 1834
has been calculated at 2,148; those published in the United
States in that year amounted to 1,265.

ME. GRATTAN'S NEW WORK.—The new novel
from the pen of the distinguished aukhor of " Highways
and Byways," is entitled " Agnes ae Mansfeldt." Mr.
Grattan has been most happy in the selection of the histo-
rical epoch that he has so vividly illustrated. It is perhaps
the best proof of
.the mental powers which Mr. Grattan
posse,sses, that even when he digresses from his story, his
matter is still attractive. His reflections on national policy
—his views of society—his descriptions of scenery—his
portraiture of human passions and feelings, are all the
creations of a master-mind. The volumes must become
very popular.

The Jersey farmers are petitioning the States for a
prohibition of French produce, and for other measures to
protect the agriculture of the country. They especially
complain that the exportation to England of potatoes, which
are the principal agricultural produce of the country, is now
at an end, owing to the extensive cultivation of the root.—
Jersey Paper.
TIIE UNKNOWN AUTHOR OF MY AUNT PONTY-
rooL.—Rumour has been busy in the coteries of literary
gossips with the name of the author of this work, and the
gentleman himself appears really anxious by,, the preface for
the preservation of the anonymous. It is a clever produc-
tion, and one in which the excellencies are very numerous.
The author is not military, but nevertheless his descriptions
of battles are spirit-stirring, and his reflections upon them
such as would suggest themselves to a cultivated and en-
thusiastic mind. The work abounds with admirably drawn
characters, and we would particularly direct the attention
of our readers to one of the happiest of the author's crea-
tions—my Aunt Pontypool.
THE GA ME LAWS.--'There are at this time upwards
of fifty prisoners in the. Essex convict gaol for offences un-
der the Game Laws.

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