The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-05 00:00:00

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The Attorney-General brought up the petitions of the inha-
bitants of York, of the agents of the East India Company, and
of the President and Directors of the Welland Canal Com.

pany.

Upon the motion of Mr. Ralph, Messrs. Attorney-General
and Hamilton were appointed a Committee to search into pre-
cedents, and report whether the message of his Excellency the
Lieutenant-Governor, relative to the sufferers in New Bruns-
wick, while a bill for their relief is pending before the Houses
is consistent with its privileges.

Mr. Hamilton moved, that it be resolved, that an humble
address be presented to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Gover.
nor, acknowledging his Excellency's Message respecting the
civil rights of certain of his :;lajesty's subjects in this province,.
and to assure his Excellency that the House would not fail t 9
take the matter into its most serious consideration.
Upon the motion being put, the House divided—For them.
Lion, 13—Against it, 12—Majority, 1.
Messrs. Matthews and Thompson were appointed a COM.
mittee, to draught an address pursuant to the above resolution.
and report the same.

The address having been reported and adopted by the House,
the same gentlemen were appointed a committee to carry the
address up to his Excellency.
Mr. Hamilton then moved that the House resolve itself into
a committee to-morrow, to consider the above question.

" Post-office, Halifax, Nov. 7,1825,
" Notice is hereby given,
that after the 31st of December
next, 10s. fid per annum must be paid upon all newspapers fos.
warded through this office to any part of the Withal 119/41
American provinces."

The negociations for the conclusion of a Com-
suercial Treaty between France and England are
still going forward, and we believe, we may add,
to this information which we gave in our Paper
of Saturday last, that the terms have been
arranged, and every difficulty adjusted that
was at all likely to prevent the accomplish-
ment of this wisp and important measure. We
hope soon to hear of tire definitive ratification of
this Treaty, for a more accceptable document could
hot be laid upon the table of the House of Com-
alhns in the approaching Session, and we believe
It will be no less agreeable to our Continental

neighbours than to ourselves.
England and France thus united, the Peace of
Europe may then be said to be consolidated, and
Placed on a basis which ensures its preservation.
litia will give time for the recovery of our
"ergiet, and the reduction of that immense
debt, which" hangs like a dead weight and
411 oppressive incumbrance in the rising pros-
PPrity of the nation, and cannot but be
regarded as more than an equal set off
t° any advantages the greatest commercial
'xertions can bring us. In whatever way
tins subject is beheld, the fact that the nation
()%yea 810,000,0001. cannot be lost sight of ; its
*irPcta are visible in every quarter of the coun-
trys and we believe the late panic in the
City is more immediately connected with it
ii
144 is at present supposed. We trust the same
4itacity which has for some years past marked
the
, Councils of the Nation, will soon be directed
Lto this point ; and sure we art a remedy will
t
be found to pnllinte, in the first instance,
ill" afterwards remove an evil, whose magnitude
l
I° immeasurable that we laugh in our misery
st the
apparent utter hopelessness of even a par-
Cure. It is not to be supposed, how-
eve_
i) that England alone is to be benefitted
y the continuance of Peace. France knows and

Peels that her interests are at stake, and require
repose as much as those of the Uuited Kingdom.

Ilamburgh Papers received this day contain
further details of the death of the En►peror
ALEXAND En., and of the illness which occasioned
it. It is now quite clear, that the Emperor wtts
permitted to die in a natural way, and that the
illness which carried him off was a bilious fever.
An attempt is made in these Papers to account
for the alleged appearance of the name of the
Grand Duke NICHOLAS in the Royal Prussian Ca-
lendar as heir presumptive to the Russian Throne,
by saying that the statement appeared in the
Ordinary Calendar, printed at Frankfort on the
Oder, and not in the Royal Prussian Calendar, as
had been supposed. An inquiry is going for-
ward as to the origin of this error, anti by the
report we shall be able to judge of the value of
those inferences which this circumstance has► oc-
casioned.—We have made the following extracts
from these papers:—

ST. PETERSIIIIRGII, DEC. 17.

Her Majesty the Empress mother has been agreeably sur.
prised by the return of his Imperial Highness the (hand Duke
Michael from Warsaw, who hastened to her immediately on
receiving the news of the death of the Emperor Alexander. His
Majesty the Emperor Constantine was at Warsaw, in good
health.

As soon as the oath to the Emperor Constantine had bee ►
taken in the Church, first by the Grand Duke Nicholas, then
by the Council of the Empire, the Synod, the Ministers, the
principal Officers ofState, the Generals and Colonels of the He-
giments of the Guards went to receive the oath from their men.
The colours having been brought out, each regiment was drawn
up in a square, and took the solemn oath as faithful subjects to
his Majesty.
The St. Peter:burgh Gazelle corrects an error of the Press.
The late Emperor died not of the yellow (vibe's), but of the
bilious (gal/en) fever.

HAscaunait, DEC. 30.

Letters from St. Petersburgh of the 17th say, that the Em-
peror Constantine was expected there that day, but letters
from Warsaw of the 19th say not a word of the Emperor's
departure from that city.
According to other letters, his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Nicholas would go to Warsaw to have a conference with
the Emperor Constantine.

Mr. Clews, a British Cabinet Messenger, passed through
Berlin on the 28th, on his way from London to St. Petersburgh.
BERLIN, DEC. 97,

The literary paper called the Conversation:4l" No. 288,
of Dec. 13, (published by Brockhaus, at Leipsig) informs the
public, that in the Royal Prussian Calendar, the Grand
Duko Nicholas is stated to be successor to the throne of
the Russian Empire. From inquiry, instituted in conse-
quence of this statement, it has been discovered that the source
from which that erroneous notion was derived, and which
according to the Conversationr•blatt, leaves no doubt of
its authenticity, is not, as was falsely stated, a Royal Prus-
sian Calendar, but the ordinary Calendar, printed and publish-
ed by Trnwitsch and son, at Frankfort on the Oder. What
has caused this mistake, and to whom the blame is to be at-
tributed, is the subject of a strict investigation.—(Mutt
Gazette.)

The Archbishop of Posen and Genssen died on the 20th ult.
at Posen, aged 04 years.

STOCKHOLM, D=C. 20.

The Gazette of the 17th, gives notice of six weeks Court
mourning for the Emperro Alexander, the melancholy news
of whose death was brought here on the 16th, by a Courier
from St. Petersburgh. Count Lowenhjelus, and Lieutenant.
General Baron Biornstierna, will be sent from our Court to
congratulate the Emperor Constantine on hi► accession to the
Throne.

Our new Tariff will be published at the beginning of the

year.

DAIIIIIIROII, DEC. 29.

We can give from an official source the happy news for the
friends of humanity, that, besides the Commercial Treaty be-
tween Greet Britain and Brazil, a separate treaty between the
two Powers has been received in London, by which Brazil
engages entirely to abolish the foreign slave trade in four years,
dating from the ratification of the treaty.—(From the Borten
Hall List.)

r.XCHANOE4 ON LONDON.
lIAMBUIIOII, DEc. 30.-34. 9.; 2 Us., 34. 6.
ST. PETERSDIIROIN, DEc. 16.,10. 1-16.
LEtEsto, Dr.c. 25.—Three months, 6. 16.
n DEc. 26.—Three months, 6. 241.
VIENYA, DEC. 24.—Three months, 9. 46.

The Lisbon Gazelle from the 10th to the 19th
Dec., received this day, have no political news.
The following is the only extract we were enabled