The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-31 00:00:00

Tit E ENING

OF

P ARIA A 'AE NT.

"In the summer and autumn of the past year
the United Kingdom was again visited by the ravages
of the Cholera, but Almighty God, in His mercy,
was pleased to arrest the progress of mortality,
and to stay this fearful pestilence. Her Ma-
jesty is persuaded that we shall best evince
our gratitude, by vigilant precautions against the
more obvious causes of sickness, and an enlightened
consideration for those who are most exposed to its
attacks.

"Her Majesty in her late visit to Ireland de-
rived the highest gratification from the loyalty and
, attachment manifested by all classes of her subjects.
Although the effects of former years of scarcity are
painfully felt in that part of the United Kingdom,
they are mitigated by the present abundance of food,
and the tranquillity which prevails.
"Her Majesty has great satisfaction in con-
gratulating you on the improved condition of com-
merce and manufactures. It is with regret that
her Majesty has observed the complaints which
in many parts of the kingdom have proceeded from
the owners and occupiers of land. Her
Majesty greatly laments that any portion of her sub-
jects should be suffering distress. But it is a
source of sincere gratification to her Majesty
to witness the increased enjoyment of the necessa-
ries and comforts of life, which cheapness and plenty
have bestowed upon the great body of her people.
" GENTLEMEN OF TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
"Her Majesty has directed the Estimates for
the year to be laid before you. They have been
framed with a strict regard to Economy,
while the efficiency of the various branches of the
Public Service has not been neglected.
" her Majesty has seen with satisfaction the
present state of the Revenue.
" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" Some of the measures which were postponed
at the end of the last session, for want of time for
their consideration, will be again laid before you.
Among the most important of these is one for the
better Government of the Australian Colonies.
" her Majesty has directed various measures to
he prepared for the improvement of the condition of
Ireland. The mischiefs arising from paity processions;
the defects of the laws regulating the relations of
landlord and tenant ; the imperfect state of the Grand
Jury Acts; and the diminished number of elec-
tors for Members to serve in Parliament ;
will, together with other matters of serious conse-
quence, form the subjects of measures to be sub-
mitted for your consideration.

"her Majesty has 19arnt with satisfaction, that
the measures which have been already passed for the
promotion of- the public health are in a course of
gradual adoption; and her Majesty trusts that
both in the metropolis and in various parts of the
United Kingdom, you will be enabled to make
further progress in the removal of evils which affect
the health and well-being of her subjects.
" The favour of Divine Providence has hitherto
preserved this kingdom from the wars and convulsions
which during the last two years have shaken so many
of the States of the Continent of Europe. It is her
Majesty's hope and belief that by combining liberty
with order, by preserving what is valuable, and
amending whdt is defective, you will sustain the
fabric of our institutions, as the abode and the shelter
of a free and happy people."
Their Lordships adjourned during pleasure.

MONEY anti COMMERCIAL
CITY, ONE O'CLOCK.
The sales of CctOn at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, a which 1,500 sore taken on
speculation, and included about 4,000 American, 2,000
Pernam and Maranham, at 61d. to 71(1.; 100 Bahia, at
60. to 70.; 100 Egyptian, at 7d. to 7V.; and 200
Surat, at 40. to ,qd. per lb.—ln ItAilway Shares only a
limited business was done, at rather lower quotations.
There are no colonial arrival'.

The Frankfot t report of the 28th inst. quotes Austrian
Meta Hies at 85/, and Spanish Three per Cents. at 291.
At Amsterdam en the 29:h inst. the Home Funds were
rather firmer ; Dach Twc-and-a-Half par Cents.
55 7-16. ,

In the funds there Las been some flatness, owing to a
sale or two for money, Consols hale ranged from 961,
to 96 for Transfer, and Hi to 96-i for Account.
Mexican are 29 to and Spanish Three per Cents.
361 to 37.
Shares generally are much the same. The North
Stafford report is thought more favourable.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD HALLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ended Jan. 27, 1850:—C. and 11. Main Line,
9981. ss. 3d.; Mold, 71/. 6s. ld.; steam-boats, 691.
16/. his—TotiO, 1,139/, as, Id.

HER, NI AJESTY'S
SPEECH..

Parliament was opened this day by Commission.
The House of Commons having been summoned, the
Speaker, accompanied by several of the Members,
appeared pt the Bar of the House of Lords, when
the Lord Chancellor read the Royal Speech Ls
follows :
"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
" We are commanded by her Majesty to assure
you that her Majesty has great satisfaction in again
having recourse to the advice and assistance of
her Parliament.
" The decease of her Majesty Queen
Adelaide has caused her Majesty deep
affliction. The extensive charity and exe
plary virtues of her late Majesty will always render
her memory dear to the nation.
" Her Majesty happily continues in peace and
amity with Foreign Powers.
" In the course of the autumn, differences of a
serious character arose between the Governments
of Austtia and Russia on the one hand, aad the
Sublime Porte on the :other, in regard to the treat-
ment of a considerable number of pers'ans who, after
the termination of the civil war in Hungary, had
taken refuge in the Turkish Territory.
" Explanations which took plaQe between the
Turkish and Imperial Governments have fortunately
removed any danger to the Peace of Europe which
might have arisen out of these differences.
" Her Mlijesty having been appealed to on
this, occasion by the Sultan, united her efforts
with those of the Government of .France, to which
a similar appeal had been made, in order to assist
by the employment of her good ninces in effecting
an amicable settlement of those differences, in a
manner consistent with the dignity and indepen-
dence of the Porte.
"Her Majesty has been engaged in communica-
tions with Foreign States, upon the measures which
might be rendered necessary by the relaxation of the
restrictions formerly imposed by the navigation laws
of this country.
"The Governments of the United States of
America and of Sweden have promptly taken steps
to secure to British ships in the ports of their re-
spective countries, advantages similar to those which
their own ships now enjoy in British: ports.
"With regard to those Foreign States whose
navigation laws have hitherto been of a restrictive
character, her Majesty has received from nearly all of
them assurances which induce her to hope that our
example will speedily lead to a great and general dimi-
nution of those obstacles which previously existed
to a free intercourse by sea between the nations
of the world.

LITERATURE.
THE PETREL; or Love on the Ocean.
q y ls.
Tale of tire Sea. By a Naval Officer. `" it) t
:.,cii has its especial and its general ncl,„filioed
E Novel 6 an- divided into almost innumerable c airset
Lnon.g tht m all the navel novel holds a Pr°''' go
place, .11 the estimation of the general reacter,irep
,11.1,1,1m1 ers a large multitude of peculiar adrs..,hici
re is something fascinating in the therne
,rori
takes us awhile from the narrow circuit of
oferw go
associations to lead us " o'er the glad Waters ,or
dark blue sea." There is something in tbe very
ganization of the little world on board shiP land'
Possesses a charm for the most unsailorlike .4,0
Would 5'.00.
lubber. Even he "whose soul
wave," if actually
ti; to
oer the bounding
damned to voage thereon, delights in ilnaglagr . the
wander "far as the breeze can be.,B of the
billows foam," and in fancy to dare the Perlis All
hurricane,v,, or face the boarders of the eneinihire a
~,s-o. are desirous of such adventures have Lihe
ittsorious opportunity for encountering then3:sues iti
stormy way' the Petrel of this narrative Pif, 'and
strl tau
9t of
way undaunted by elements'
defiant of mortal foes. At the opening ef the
there three volumes, we learn that— tebect bl
'The little Petrel had been suddenly diall - pdial
the Commodore of a cruiz" quadron in the d the
Ocean,. to search the Motznagmgique Channel'
,7rtgue,
itrchirelago to the northward of it, for pirates,_odereu
rumour having reached that officer of vessels
ill% drat
and gi" hat
and crews maltreated in those seas ; and, -h:sidert--,
believing the report, he felt it his duty t° e°,--voli th''
our outward-bound East Indiamen frequentt knownt,
route, which circumstance being geonilloorlitt4
offered a powerful temptation to marauders: of pisoi
Petrel, therefore, towards the close of a 01112 old sail
ships of the
months' duration, was hastily completed wit lorgel
provisions and stale remainder biscuit from watts°
squadron, it being A j 0 fiber
fresh
provisions, of both of which she stoourts of
need, might b ' e reality procured in mai/ Ps •
hat
extensive route." ~ i OW ;a
Thus •
provided the Petrel sets out on behis-clespts,;-,
perilous enterprise. She is commanded al for.l
Daunton, a man eminently well qualfil'e irit I°-
presumed that. esl
responsiblei. position. His nobility of sPoosiel
kindliness of heart are manifested on Eon/ hoe °
on none more beautifully than in the closing,_e petrel,
i his career. Herbert, the first lieutenant of
tn,_ Darla
Sorseice, ite
s the hero of the story, and the gentle
is the heroine. Of their history, Whichitbatl
second title to the novel, we shall °nil s'igoleate
sentimental interest is not diminished, but °Ted sitiri.
exaggeto
,rnotbett
by the very natural and in nowise
ner in which the various feelings of the filth; Which
and daughter are described. The scene 1 isirAh's
the trembling Mrs. Darcie confides :node i$
secret to her father does not read like an e di) ivar I -!if ne.
, rather resembles an event in
novel • it or
eridstie-'
And The to say this is to express no mean eenjlej, sedbi
retrbi, work,
various perils encountered by the
the other vessels incidentally mentioned in
al effete
are described in a very interesting on yijeatfi
manner; and necessarily so, for it will brainbe vilncgo
all who turn over these p that the „,.e theren'i
planned the intricacies of the angaeustical trialgell..o6loos °A-a
peculiartfp for
ret.
tvblockadeb.
indescribed has before now executed siretrge oil
'''i
the title-page is Admiral 1' hwho coill°1•„ to Ow
is er, ~ daitioe 5 the
wee d
Alexandria in 1840. In A
various characters described are happily ake ee ipteres,
imaginationtbhienelitee vroeefs tbAu attached
readerst
that inotfl reality.e the, ,
Naval
to the nantie3l t bed, srit
italthough the story is not one of very ingSerhle'd
is a pleasing narrative, agreeably to" tadi've"tabe
"Petrel"S
oucffih
caev tr'll, 1
ar :.bi
ue- e:eriecto.is
itt
well to introduce a variety of sea adventnirtibisg;i6
marked some passages for extract, one ue„sh—tbeo°,,,t
striking of the ship upon a coral reef, “ vvi."—the O'be
alarming
exception, perhaps, of a severe earth(Pllibe', ctn.;
arming and perplexing sensation thaverfol de,
imagined ;" and another, containing a evoiog ciej;
scription of a narrow escape from an ir°Pet, of goes
astrophe (Vol. HI , page '214), but wall" ni of l'a
.compels us to omit them. The stratoge— of •
a ge fief)
pirates in luring their enemy within l'itijeotic-d
retreat
gun concealed on the shore, a A to:tot sr
was impossible, and the enbse'doe, 'hti
lantryfi of Herbert and death of Mul-tboug"b
aaremtiorabbelyfounndarirnattehde.
pages of
thteruthful 0 cab
admirably .fettel bid
.„ search)
will repay the reader for the time spent 1-; erecall
tOr them. There is one which is full of tg'poll '"
wisdom ; alluding to a man who, "bland cl--- to
points, felt even luxury a bore," it is obserroJello
"The cup of true enjoyment is but °' in 11/°rl
ctbaapnaciittyis acnaalcuhleatewdhototriheosldt,o befocracuesetleiorseprnieceistilill
blindness sees not its limits, only wastes `
fluid."

-ad ri
,/f.tor
ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL• n erni
Another instalment of this clever itoreet
periodical serves to confirm our favoura" eloPs io
sion of' its merits, while it tends also to del.tiesoi.
snore strikingly than heretofore the capterQft
gifted editor for the conduct of such an ,eboati'l
rEelsipzOnsCirillitieiss
the management of her weekly miscelial, dt,.)r
manifestlydevoli,iog uponsustaihneerd,
in (I))riertjao....joboyO.lo3.,,,
reflection that her success has been ahead,' 0 $l,
tinguished and that her work is alresqvoicall
advanced. Asa journalist she evidences ato
her f,ressl
into
of being no longer a novice :
into the movements of its new exercise withi_no`looso
facility ; her having entered upon a second
,0064 e,
manifested quite as distinctly by the mareluaiale:o7,
tone of the different effusions, as it is Pr°crtioallte
so many words by the mere business adireotigetiol
At the close of each number, too, we are gthe 13,,,° to
observe that she still continues' giving „codinato,
column of "Diamond Dust"—thereby 04900
each part a kind of fringe or tassel
Several of the sententious sentences iete
a under
world t hoaft
meaning,appropriate
and h eoatdhienrgs
sarree frreaPlehrt ;1;1
the ineffable graces of poetry. Altoge;iis,
evidence a large and most a preciative rea;ila inlet
her rhythmical contributions the editor:is% os
tigable ; and, needless to say her verses are
marked by an incontestable Gerli/Ij3tinch'ir
agreeable are her verses on "Receiving a a es to
heather,. Gorse, and Fern ;" consolingiv 1
rating are those entitled, " There's a Silvera d °yid
Every Cloud ;" felicitos are the lines hftre' for
Again"—being rhymes for ycung rea7,, this roto
sweetest. and best of all her contributions •leosVoes
tion of her journal—to our thinking, apries,fte
the stanzas addressed to C. C. in t'lm-tbe Yizgiits
commemorative of "Our Rambles by onts, ',"hets
Besides her own charming poetic froga/' ith °t n'
Conk graces the pages of her miecellenY 5:c000100
f venous merit from the pens of differeabot Yettioa
tors. Some of these are really excellent', .gioaler
scarcely comparable to the prose papers, .I),,rejv laps.
selected. Among the latter we recnigrjs
ample, our old favourite, poor Torn -1-I°-hsr 0-051
Peck's Pudding." Stories, essays, and ot`'he
laneous articles alternate throughout nittees lietof
which are sprinkled also with critical a'tbeps'oil
cativo of considerable taste and acumen °ll,
mtofa ri
its reviewer.
acaeinelTburciaihet
eldvi
instruction
editor
d tco altogethertri,ona s
un
it
i"
ent
c slot is°ovigile
to p
affords entertainment. Under the admira-ovedv"ot,
it is still c.,fiteeale
hitherto with materials for information or a'
l
THE lIAND-BOOK M 0 for e
o,
Mr. Bohn's very excellent " librariesteditiol3-091
most part, present us with new and cheap before,' 0
already. popular works. The voluiner.hroft,,t it
which forms part of the " Scientific 1-41"orlrh'isiti
.however not only to some extent a new vvto O°PO of
is almost unique of its kind. It professes
" the most complete directions for plaYinge,sh Ptiheo6
skill and science yet presented to the Eng-1.6501V,
Its great predecessor, Hoyle," says the ad"auttiorire
" for more than half a century the only r
i.„"t in
~eh
has now become obsolete or inipe!le gatet•
spect to several of the principal inert
t.Ol
and more likely to mislead than Amy
ea
The want of a comprehensive and ptly to
manual of this description having frequeinEd Iv'
pressed on the publisher, he detert J
i 0 0
undertake it, and confided the task to iosylfoor
Carleton." The'" Handebook of Games" he,gisto
consideration of Whist, which is divide Woe
parts. Three of these are revised editions eyes. 00
rections of Hoyle, Matthews, and Descletoo.,
fourth is an original treatise by Mr. et; d claie.o
article. on whist fills nearly two Minn-, direed-10,6,
printed pages ; hence the minuteness 011:11e
may be easily surmised. Piquet, Qua,cl_,ll,o;lsl„ttiore
Vingt-un,Rouge- et-noir, and more than b" Ore
games are described with interesting partical ftsgateabe
also Backgammon, Draughts, Billiards/ .o'eci 'e,
and American Bowls. Chess is not contain elle it
list. It is hardly necessary to do more,thogoes ;id
rate the contents of the " Hand-book of exeeb,tie
cannot fail to find a welcome wherever theeniag
effect of games of skill and science in sharP•ee 11405,
intellect and giving exercise to the reflectures foe
ties is duly appreciated. The publisher
direct
II 4,
in the advertisement, that the various dire judge
been submitted to numerous coniPete: cecaPeol
and he further adds, that this volume ha presSL
nearly two years in passing through the
of ftic",(;ey
has occasioned a very considerable outlaf,ben 0.1 it
circumstance by no means surprising I!_e, whic big
sides the abundant and valuable rnatern.%oertiee
contains, and when we bear in mind. the cnr(ote,
references, examinations, cogitations,
reasPeot
.sttej,
bons required to bring it to its P_eo sebna ere,
The chapters on Whist, we are told, were
~st plof_ce,
while at press, to several distinguishedirolosecettio
and many notes have been appended u
IthorshiP of
Mr. Bohn claims for himself the al eoraPer
Mtn° lop sore
article on Billiards, which he says,
from Mr. White's celebrated work, hasboe be_ourg.
tensively altered and corrected as to. d in ."iied
1.
almost a new treatise. Ile has dignity:4P
piling it, the assistance of severaln craw
players, and also of A.', r, Ihgroto I -