The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-26 00:00:00

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PORMI6Z,I,

The French papers of Tuesday last continue to be
barren of intelligence, either domestic or foreign,
that is calculated to excite much solicitude or interest
in London. They are not without some important
notices, however, in the shape of references to passing
events, which we have elsewhere transferred into our
columns. The condition of Spain, and we fear we
must add, the palpable intrigues of France in encou-
raging the lawless cabals that have led to it, draw
down a most indignant and impressive reproof from
the Nutiohal, to which not all the madness of party
spirit, and the intense hatred of England that
disfigure the lucubrations of that impassioned but
able journal, can withhold us from paying the tri-
bute of our respect. ISre concur with the writer in
his fierce denunciation of that execrable soldier-

tyranny—unqualified in its harshness, implacable in
its vengeance, reckless and unblushing in its means,
and its instruments—which now tramples in the vilest
dust of scandalous serfdom the once free and mighty
Spanish nation. The domestic misery.; the
official corruption ; the judicial venality ; the
shameless avarice ; the unbridled ambition ; the
lawless and sanguinary oppression which pa-
ralyse her energies, demolish her institutions,
consume her resources, and hand her over bound hand
and foot to the relentless intrigues of an infamous
Court and a contemptible adventurer; are among the
most hideous pictures that have yet been presented to
the world by the most demoralised and the least-
responsible of Governments. When we recur
to the brief but encouraging prospects which
the temperate and constitutional conduct of
Espartero held out to afflicted Spain, and
to her peaceful relations with the other European
powers, we are lost in astonishment at the duplicity
which can have elevated, and the shameful cowardice
which endures the domination of such a mere Prw-
torian guardsman as Narvaez. We do not trust our-
selves to express the feelings of humiliation with
which we recur to the ill-considered, prompt, and
overwhelming readiness with which our own
Ministers, the servants of a Constitutional Sovereign,
and a free and freedom-loving people—came forward
to record their recognition of that de facto usurpation
which had, by a scheme of unexampled treachery and
bribery, overthrown the most legitimate of conven-
tional Governments which a great people could have
installed into the temporary administration of mo-
narchical power. The downfal and abandonment of
Espartero the rise of Narvaez—and, still more,
the impromptu acknowledgment of his power
and functions by England, 'are chapters that future
history may expound ; but as to which, contempo-
rary authority is at present strangely uninformed.

00171 LT rads:Mout AM amt.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, remove to
Cambridge House, from the cottage at Kew, at the
clo'.e of the ensuing week.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Mar-
quis of IVorcester, who were called to town by the
unexpected demise of Lady Anne Culling Smith, left
Beaufort House on Tuesday, on their return to Bad-
minton.

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose are entertain-
ing a large party at Sulby Hall, the Noble Duke's
hunting seat in Northamptonshire.
'The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have a select
circle visiting at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are en-
tertaining a family circle at Barons Court, Tyrone,
including Lord and Lady Claude Hamilton, Lady
Henry Russell, lion. and Rev. C. Douglas, &c.
Earl and Countess De Grey are entertaining Earl
and Countess Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner,
and a small party, at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
The Earl and Countess of Albemarle are entertain-
ing a family circle at Quiddenham Hall, and are not
expected in Berkeley-square until the end of the en-
suing month.
The Earl of Harrowby, and Viscount and Lady
Francis Sandon, &c., are at, Sandon Hall, Stafford-
shire.

Earl Fitzwilliam has a large family party at Mil-
ton Park, near Peterborough ; Viscount and 'Vis-
countess Milton, the Hon. George Wentworth Fitz-
william, Mr. and Lady Mary Thompson, &c., are
staying at the mansion.

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On Tuesday night information was received at the
various metropolitan police stations of an extensive
robbery of plate and jewellery having taken place at
the house of Mr. Mudtlell, No. 6, Little St. Thomas
Apostle,Queen-street, Cheapside, the house having been
broken into during the absence of the family on the
night of the 13th inst. A reward of 301. is offered for
the apprehension of the thieves.

Oz Tuesda: afternoon a young woman of respec-
table appearance, attempts,d suicide by throwing her-
self off JJankside into the Thames, and as the tide was
high at the time, and no boats in sight, she would in-
evitably have su,!.•,eeded in her rash design, but for the
prompt and praiseworthy intrepidity of r. coalheaver,
named Stephens, who plunged in and succeeded in
grasping her by the hair as she was about to sink. A
boat having by this time come to their assistance, they
were taken up and brought ashore.
The dispute between the colliers and their em-
ployers iq the Ashton-under-Lyne districts has been
amicably arranged, the men having received an ad-
vance upon their wages of twopence in the shilling.
Coals have been raised in price one halfpenny per
cwt., which is thought by the manufacturers to be
most exorbitant.

Mr. Templeton is giving a series of musical enter-
tainments in Dublin, from the songs of Burns, and
other Scotch poets, and has been cordially and en-
thusiastically received.
For several days past a considerable number of
vessels, which have been windbound in the Thames
for upwards of a fortnight, have returned to the
wharfs and tiers, in order to get a fresh supply of
provisions, the stores which they had at sailing having
been wholly exhausted. The long continuance of
easterly winds has entailed considerable additional
expense on shipping.
A pension of 6001. a year falis into the Civil List
by the death of Lady Ann Culling Smith, sister of the
Duke of Wellington.

NEW YEAR'S-DAT AT WINDSOR CASTLE AND THE
TUILERIES.—A singular, and, perhaps, unprecedented
event, will take place on New Year's-day. The royal
table at the Tuileries, and the royal table at Windsor
Castle will both be supplied with portions of the same
prize ox, the first of the class at the late cattle show.
Mr. Minton, purveyor to her Majesty, having become
the purchaser, politely offered, through the French em-
bassy, to present his Majesty Louis Philippe with a
sirloin, a rump, and an aitch-bone, for his festival on
New Year's-day. The offer was graciously accepted,
and the immense joint, or rather combination of joints,.
for it is in one piece, weighing 44 stone, or upwards of
3501b5., will leave London on Saturday morning by the
General Steam Navigation Company's packet for
Boulogne, where it will be received by Mr. Minton's
agent, who will transmit it by express to Paris, so as to
reach the Tuileries early on Monday morning.
REMARKABLE OPERATION FOR THE CURE OF
CONSUMPTION.—The Medical Gazette contains a long
article from the pens of Dr. Hastings and Mr. Robert
Storks, surgeon, descriptive of a remarkable operation
for the cure of consumption, by the perforation of the
cavity of the lung through the walls of the chest. It
consists in making an opening between the ribs into the
cavity which forms in the lung during the latter stages
of consumption. The immediate effects of the operation
(which requires only a few seconds for its performance,
and which causes but slight pain) in the case in question
was the diminution of the frequency of the patient's
pulse, which fell in 24 hours from 120 to 68 ; freedom
of respiration which had been a very distressing symp-
tom ; loss of cough and expectoration, both of which had
been very severe. This operation, which has established
the possibility of curing this hitherto fatal disease, ap-
pears to have been completely successful ; the report of
the condition of the patient a month after its perform-
ance being, that he was rapidly regaining his fle._ll and
strength, whilst his respiration had become natural, his
pulse had fallen to 80, and his cough and expectoration
had wholly ceased. In the article in the Medical Gazette
the symptoms of the patient before and after the opera-
tion are all narrated at length by Dr. Hastings. The opera-
tion is described by Mr. Storks, by whom it was performed.
We have heard that this operation was tried many years
ago but with little success; the invaluable assistance to be
derived from the stethoscope in affections of the lungs
being at that time wholly unknown to its originator.
It is not surprising, therefore, that it should have
fallen into disuse when the surgeon had nothing to guide
him to the seat of the disease but pain and increase of
temperature.

THE HON. G. H. liuTcrirNsort.—At the meeting
of the electors of Tipperary, held at. Cashel, on Thur."-
day, the Hon. George Hely Hutchinson was unani-
mously named as a candidate by the itepeulers of that
county to represent them in the Imperial Parliament.
Mr. Hutchinson, our readers are aware, is at present on
the Continent, and this selection, therefore, must be
especially grateful to his feelings as hying made in his
absence—Cork Examiner.

WAKErtELD.—A meeting of the friends of free
trade was held in the Music Saloon, on Tuesday evening
last, to concert measures for putting on the country re-
gister as many free trade voters as possible. J. Michlo-
th waite, Esq., occupied the chair, and the meeting was
addressed by It. Cobden, Esq., M.P., J. Bright. Esq.,
M.P., and other gentlemen ; after whicn resolutions
were passed in furtherance of the above object.—Hal fux
Guardian.

INCENDIARISM AT WESTOE.—On Thursday morn-
ing lust, about hulf-past two o'clock, a tire was di4coye,ed
burning in an onsteud of Mr. Tony ,Waller's at Westof.
114-fore it could be got under, about twenty tons of hay
and a quantity (If potatoes were destroyed. From ap-
pearance, the fire nuut have been caused by an incen-
diary.—Tyne Mercury.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, DEC. 23.—We learn from Valenciennes
that the masters of iron ‘s orks in that arrondissement
have just had a meeting, and have determined thst.
they cannot sustain the competition with the masters of
iron works in the centre and south of France in the
present state of the manufacture. In consequence they
have resolved to apply to the Government, and to
solicit, if not the entire suppression, at least a redun'
tion of the import duties on Belgian coals and iron.
The Senate is still sitting. Yesterday, after the pre'
sentation of soveral reports, the general debate on the
project of law relative to the duties on corn was the
• order of the day, when the President stated that the
Minister of the Interior had signified a wish that the
debate might be with closed doors (in secret ennl"
• mittee). Some objections were: made, but in the end:i
the secret committee was unanimously agreed to, and
the galleries were cleared.
SMYRNA, Nov. 29.—The fatal measures which BO
suddenly abolished the quarantine for articles coming
from Syria begins to bear its fruit. It is affirmed
that the plague has broken out on board the ship
which arrived yesterday from Bey-rout. In 184'
Mehemet AR abolished the quarantine in his de'
minions ; on the remonstrances of the Consular AU;
thorities at Alexandria, he hastened to restore it, and
well knowing how little the Turks could be de-
pended on, he gave the supreme direction of it to the
representatives of the foreign powers. Would Abdal
Medschid act less wisely if he followed this example,
and does not Smyrna deserve as much care es tl'4/
King of the empire with a population of MAO in.
habitants, and which is the resort of so many men-of'
scar ?

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Chios, wholn the
Turks and Greeks had expelled from the island, has •
found a protector in Viscount Segure, the French
Consul-General here. Thanks to the firmness
influence which this distinguished officer has obtained
in a country where his colleagues have lost theirs,
he has succeeded in obtaining a finnan for the bisholh
and leave to return to the island on board Le Ct.°f
brig. The sight of the guns of this man-of-war Bag
silenced the refractory inhabitants.
The real state of Syria makes a frightful contrast
with what the Government publishes through it f
organs. According to the unanimous testimony °
travellers, that province is a prey to the most atrocious
robberies. Scarcely any communication can Ville
place even between places near each other,
except with the aid of a strong escort,
which is not furnished by the police or the
Government (these would immediately take flight at
the slightest appearance of danger), but by the tull:_1"
drives (?) of the country. The Bedouins, led by Abu
Gosh, infest the high roads, and no attempt Ihsi
hitherto been made against these banditti. Where
are the times when, under the protection of the ir°,,,°
yoke of Mehemet Ali, pilgrims and travellers COOlu
traverse this province alone and unmolested, •
now only weakness is striving for the mastery with
the most horrible disorder ?
From a letter from Alexandria, received to-day,
we see that an Englishman, who attempted to force
his way into a bath of the Turkish females, has taken
refuge in the house of his consul. Mehemet Ali has
intimated to the I3Tifish agent, that he will do Viell
carefully to conceal his countryman, for that if he 1
taken he will lose his head. (Our own letters, direct
from Egypt, make no mention of such a circumstance.)
Admiral Turpin has sailed for Athens. M. Lauti;Y:
the French Consul at Jerusalem, leaves to-day he'
France. M. Loeve-Weimars, French Consul ati3ar
dad, is said to he recalled.

SELDIAN FUND3.—Bausast.s, Dec. 23.
Actua Debt, 254 per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ............ ......« •-•
Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ... OS

Three per Ce
----- Thirty-seven Milli. as, ditto
(1141),

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Loan of City, 11143,70. '''' ************ lo'
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent,
lank of Belgium, Five per
Issue of 1841....
—2lrisseels

Papess, Dec. 2&
A Üb'l HI A N FUNDS.—Vtarma. D. 16.
Fi•e per Cents. Matalliques- ••••••••«••••••••••••••••••.
Four par Cents. .....,,,»,,

Three per Cents.
Bank
Shares

......... ea .......... •••••••• •••• •••••• 00
Loan, 1534
•••••••• Ditto, IMO ••••
Esterhazy's Loan

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126%

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or ..... 174,4
Gloggnits
Milan 1167%

Zeilsong, Dec. 31.

HINTS FOR CHRISTMAS•
I. Keep up all those old seasonable observances
which time has hallowed, which create good feeling
and fellowship, and which consist of those innocent
recreations in which the young join as actors, and
the old enjoy as spectators.
11. Be sure and decorate your house with holly.
Evergreens are Nature's promise of returning summer
and a fruitful season. The scarlet berries are pretty
and cheerful, and the prickly leaves are excellent
vi capons to drive away the blue devils, which, with
proper management, will become extinct at Christ-
MSS time.

111. Make up your mind to do some little ge:
every day. Farthings make pence pence shilctil
shillings pounds, and pounds a. rich man. f—ith
charities, in like manner, soon mount up. and -
care a good capital of happiness may be realized.
IV. Pay off every debt of kindness that:you are
able, and call in, by gentle remembrances, all thetilt
owing to you.
V. Be not content with giving your blankets and
coals to the poor. 'Warm their hearts with kind la"
guage, as their bodies with good clothing.
VI. Establish a court of equity in your heart'
wherein to pronounce sentence on any of those domes'
tic errors and crimes of which the law can take /I°
cognisance. Make your good sense the judge,, and
the wholesome commandments of Scripture youriurP
Examine and cross-examine the witnesses—listen t°
the counsel for the plaintiff (Mr. Feeling), and the
counsel for the defendant (Mr. Passion). You alroudYf
know the evidence, and if the jury return a verdict
guilty, lay a heavy fine on the delinquent, and bin,
him in heavy sureties to keep in future the morlb
peace which he has violated.—Allas.

TM! IRISII LINEN TRADE.—The following is the
latest report from Belfast!—The weavers being now e",
full work, the demand for yarns has been very stead,'
Prices have a downward tendency, as several apinnerg:
finding they could not realise the late advance, have cub
mitted to a reduction of lid. per bundle, and a further
reduction is generally anticipated by the manufacturers!
Heavy linens for the home trade are easy of sale, but
export goods do not realise first cost to the manufacturer
and have never been at a lower point, u regards prices,
than at the present moment.
Lord and Lady Campden have a family circi,,ef
staying with them, including the Earl and Countess
Erroll, and the Ladies Hay. Lord Kilmarnock. bar
Ladyship's brother, is on duty with his regiment, title
Rifle Brigade, in Nova Scotia.
WALKING MATCH FOR TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS 41
SIDE.—On Tuesday the ix mile walking match between
Pierce and Hall came off Year the Dog and Partridge
publie•house Bedfont. There was a -tolerable sprinkle
of spectators, and much betting took place the We'i
being backed "at even." They entered into the cutest
with spirit, and performed one mile in three minutes and
forty-six seconds. They contended without any advan-
tage on either side for five miles, when Hall showed that
the pace was too severe, and made strenuous efforts 14:°
keep up with his opponent. Pierce took the lead and
gained advantage, and came in the winner, beating it:
opponent by eighty yards. The six miles of road Were
walked over (fair toe and heel), by the winner, in ".
three minutes.

RUNNING MATCH FOR ONE HUNDRED roUNDS'-:
On Tuesday the long pending running match between
Stewart, of London, and Robinson, of Newcastle, ealue
off at Putney-heath, in the presence of a large concoureer
of spectators. Both men have acquired the fame e
being the moat superior runners of the day, and from
the amount of stakes and the heavy betting, the greatest
interest prevailed. The distance was 160 yarci6.
betting, 5 to 4 were laid on Stewart, and which were
readily taken. Robinson took a slight lead, which he
maintained for twenty yards, when his opponent cot°
up, and an interesting contest then ensued, both men
exerting every effort. When within thirty yards or the
winning mark Stewart passed his adversary, and rani.
a gallant winner of four yards. Very large sum* °
money were transferred on this occasion.
TIE WATERMEN'S STEAM-PACKET CostrANl.—""
The annual meeting of the shareholders of this comPleY
was held on Tuesday, at the London Coffee-house, on
Ludgate-hill, to receive the report of a committee ap-
pointed at a former meeting, to investigate the affairs of
the concern, to declare a dividend, and on other buil-
ness. This company, originally called into existellce
by the Woolwich watermen, has pursued a yerY
prosperous career, and during the first three years
of its existence dividends of 10 and 11 per cent. were
declared, a largo reserved fund was put by, and a dona-
tion of fifty guineas was given each year to that
admirable institution, the Almshouses for Aged, Pej
cayed, and Maimed Waterman and Ligktermen and
their Widows, at Penge. During the past year the
fares between Woolwich Greenwich, and London have
been considerably reduced, the competition has been 11_t
high-pressure point, and the very low prices at which
,
the Gravesend steamers carried passengers during tne
whole of the season had affected the interests'of the beiow.
bridge eon:puniest, and some of them are in a state of
bankruptcy. By
good management and erseverance
the Watermen's Steam-packet Company were, however,
enabled to declare a dividend of 5 per cent. on the
p
net profits ef the past year, and to keep a small re:
serve in hand. It was then agreed that a sum of
12,5001. should be raised by the issue of new shares, to
enable the company to increase the number of their
steamers, and carry on 'a regular quarter•of-an-hour
trade' (curing the summer months. A donation of 100 L
was also voted to the free watermen of Greenwich, with
a promise of further assistance. Watkins, one of them:
g
returned thanks, and :aid he ha.) the pleasing intelh
enee to communicate, that an lion. Baronet, disguttd
at the tyranny exercised towards the waterrnen had just
sent them a cheque for 2001. This intimation wise re-o.
ceived with loud cheers, and the customary vote
thanks to Mr. Robt. Charles (the chairman) was passed,
to which he expressed acknowledgments, and th
meeting separated!
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