The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-08 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

TIM HAGUE, Nov. s.—ln the sitting of the
Second Chamber of the States• General, on Monday,
the 4th, a royal message was received with a project
of law relative to the excise on salt. In the sitting
of the Second Chamber to-day, the Committee of
petitioners made, through M. Tetting, a detailed
report on a very great number of petitions, all
relating to the proposed tariff of import, export,
and transit duties. The report was ordered
to be printed, and all the petitions to be laid on the
table. A report was then made by the same Com-
mittee on many petitions of a different kind.
The Dutch Railway Company publishes the ac-
count of the number of travellers, and the receipts, in
the month of October, 1844 : Receipts
Number of travellers, 50,054
Previous amount..... 515,956 468,167

Total ..
BERLIN, OCT. 31 —Mensen Ernst, the celebrated
Norwegian pedestrian traveller, who, according to
many journals, died on a journey in search for
the resources of the Nile, and was buried
near the cataracts, is come to life again. According
to the Journal of Aix-la-Chapelle, he has lately
arrived in India, and has performed the journey from
Constantinople to Calcutta and back on foot in fifty
days.
'HAMBURGII, Nov. 2.—The number of ships that
passed the Sound in the month of September, 1844,
was—

From the North Sea. 1,445
From the Baltic

2,671

Of which the English was—
From the North Sea
From the Baltic 315

668

THE EARL OF ELLENBOROUGH.

His Lordship reached Winehcomb on Wednesday-,
on his way to Southam, his seat, near Cheltenham.
He was received by the yeomanry and people of the
neighbourhood, and an address was presented to him
by the corporation, congratulating his Lordship on
his return from India, and paying a high compliment
to his exertions for the relief of the poor in that dis-
trict. His Lordship made the following reply, which
would do honour to " Young England":
" Gentlemen,—lt is extremely gratifying to me to
receive from you these kind congratulations on my
return home.

" I shall have great pleasure in renewing my
friendly acquaintanc with you all, and in co-ope-
rating with you in measures for assisting our poorer
neighbours in their honest endeavours to maintain
their families in independence and in comfort.
" In this favoured district we have before us the
bright example of the poor themselves, in their con-
stant kindness towards each other.
"In our intercourse with them we become ac-
quainted with some of the most respectable of men ;
and the future must bear no resemblance to the past,
if we encounter a single instance of ingratitude. On
the contrary, whatever we do will be estimated by
theta beyond its merits.
Thus encouraged we will proceed in our accus-
tomed course, and endeavour to draw still closer the
bonds of mutual good-will which happily here unite
the proprietor, the tenant, and the labourer."

SCOTCH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
EDINBURGH.—The municipal elections for this city
took place on Tuesday, but there being at present no
subject of general or local interest under discussion
calculated to divide public opinion, the occasion
comparative quiet. There were, never-
keen contests in three of the wards,
but, turning'ss they did on points of personal pre-
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pre-
ference rather, than on politics, the interest was
chiefly confined to the parties more immediately con-
cerned. The Council will now consist of twenty-
seven Liberals and six Tories. As Churchmen and
Dissenters, the numbers will probably stand thus :
Dissenters, 24; Churchmen, 9.
LEITH.—The elections went off very quietly, there
being contests in only two wards, and these not upon
political grounds. The candidates were all Liberals.
GLASGOW.—The elections have terminated in the
return of ten Liberals, not a single Conservative
having ventured to come forward. This absence of
any attempt at opposition is seemingly owing to the
lukewarmness of the Conservatives, consequent on
their mistrust of Sir R. Peel's policy. Party-spirit,
however, has very much abated in this quarter of
late from various causes, and the polling which took
place to-day excited little of the interest which usually
accompanies a contested election.

Lord Colvill has left London for his seat at Cleish.
Lady Colvill passes the winter at Ochiltree, and
visits Baden in the spring.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived from
Germany late on Monday night, and yesterday went to
Brocket-hall, on a visit to Viscount Melbourne. Lord
and Lady Beauvale and Viscountess Jocelyn are staying
at Brocket-hall.

The Great Britain steam-ship will make one or
two experimental trips down Channel, and then proceed
to London,

THE NELSON DISPATCHES AND LETTERS.—In
answer to the numerous inquiries on the subject. we are
requested by Mr. Cclburn to state that the Second
Volume of this work will appear early in January next.
MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, " YOUNG LOVE."
—" Young Love!—a more fascinating title for a novel
could not, by any possible chance, have been hit upon,
nor, in the hand of a practised writer like Mrs. Trollope
—acquainted, as she is, with all the working: of the
human passions, physically and morally, on different
constituted minds—could it prove otherwise than rich,
and varied, and startling in its development. The work
abounds with the most keen and caustic satire. Amongst
the characters may be particularly mentioned two re-
markably amiable and good sort of people, Colonel and
Mrs. Dermont, the " great ones" of the village, who
never differ and quarrel upon any subject, and, con amore,
unite their forces to spoil their only son and heir,
Alfred, the hero of the tale, whom they regard as the
most beautiful and wonderful of God's creatures. The
heroine, -kmf.lia Thorwold, is a magnificent, full-blown,
aristocratic beauty—a perfect mistress of all the arts of
deception, and a vindictive plotter in the bargain. Con-
trasted with her is the gentle, yet acute and intelligent
Julia Drummond, the ward of Colonel Dermont,h ara.ndt:
the fellow pupil of Alfred. There is also an obstre
porous old maid, Celestina Marsh, passionately, vio-
lently, furiously in love with every young man she
meets. And then, besides numerous others, is a Mrs.
Stephens, a young married woman of forty—rich
some, intellectual, literary, philosophical, and Yank, =e-
bitten, who has converted (or, as Scrub, in the play,
would say, perverted) her youthful husband, a clergy-
man of the Church of England, to Unitarianism. Nor
must her friend Mr. Hollingsworth, pork-butcher, tripe
and wine-merchant, &c., an American of great literary
endowments, just arrived from the United
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the London and Brighton Railway since Friday last is
productive of much convenience to the public. In
accordance with the Act of last session, the carriages
are enclosed from the weather by wooden slides ; and
the fare is only one penny per mile. The seats run from
end to end, like those of an omnibus. One great advan-
tage arising from the new train is the arrival of the
morning papers an hour and a half earlier than hitherto.
The papers are now in hand by ten o'clock.—Brig hton
Gazette.