The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert walked this morning iu the grounds in the
vicinity of the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went in the forenoon to
enjoy some shooting in the Royal preserves. The Prince was
accompanied by the Dukelof Buckingham and Sir R. Peel, and
was attended by Mr. George Edwkrd Anson. The Royal
party afterwards returned to the Castle.
Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort promenaded in the
afternoon.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and her Royal
Highness the Princess Alice, took a carriage-airing to-day.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal. went out with the
Queen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene High-
ness Prince Albert of Saxe Weimar, and the Lady in Waiting
on the Royal Duchess (Lady Fanny Howard), will join the
Royal Dinner-party at the Castle this evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge returned, on Thursday afternoon, to their residence at
Kew, from Glouces'er House.
Lord Wharticlille, Lord President of the Council, has issued
invitations to the Cabinet Mini-tern, and the Great officers of
Sate of the Queen's Household, to a paint din er, on Altai-
day, the 29th lost., at his Lordship's residence, Curzon- street,
On this occasion the roll of Sheriffs fur the present year will
be arranged previous to being submitted to her 111.ijesty in
Council.

Mr. Charles Franks, Sub-Governor of the South-Sea Com-
pany, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
yesterday, at his official residence in I)owning•street.
Nlr. Cheatham and Mr. H. Ellis had interviews with Lord
Stanley at the Colonial-office yesterday.
A deputation of the licensed hackney carriage proprietors,
with Mr. J. 0. Philpott, their secretary, had an interview
with the Under-Secretary of State, at the Home-office, yes-
terday.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Cromptroller-General of the
Reduction of the National Debt Executive department, had an
interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. C. D. Archibald had an interview yesterday with Lord
Stanley at the Colonial-office.
BUCK Ft URST PA lOC, SUSSEX.—On Thursday, the 18th
instant was married, in the pa ish church of Withyham, near
the ancient seat of the Sackvilles, the Lady Elizabeth Sack-
ville West, eldest daughter of the Earl and Cuur.tess Dela-
ware, to Mr. Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Lieutenant
in the Scots Fusilier Guards, eldest son of Lord and
Lady William Russell, and nephew of the D ike of Bedford.
The ceremony was performed by the lion. and Rev. Reginald
Windsor Sackville West, the Rector of the parish, and brother
of the bride, in the resence of the Earl and Countess Dela-
ware, Lord Wm. Russell, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and
Countess Amherst, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, the
Earl of Verulam, Lady Jane Grimston, Viscount Cantilupe,
the Ladies Mary and Arabella Sackville West, the Honour-
ables Mortimer, Lionel, and Wm. Edward Sackville West; the
Hon. and Rev. Henry Napier, &c. &e.
The bride was attended to the altar by the Ladies Mary
and Arabella Sackville West, Lady Jane Grimston, and Miss
Mary Seymour, as bridesmaids.
Atter theceremony the wedding party returned to a dejeuner
at l3uckhurst Park, and shortly alter the bride and bridegroom
left for Knole Park, in Kent; the seat of the Earl and Countess
Amherst, where they will remain till Monday, when they pro-
ceed to pass the remainder of the honeymoon at Bourn Hall, in
Cambridgeshire, the seat of Earl Delaware.

INCREASE OF THE NATIONAL DEBT BY THE
CHANGE m CURIIENCV.—A Correspondent has favoured us with the
following calculation, by which it will be found that the redoubted
" farmers' friend," Sir Robert Peel, has contrived to nearly treble
the amount of the debt, owing by his said friends, to the owners
of the 800,000,0001. of property sunk in the public securities :
There were given, on an average, for the Three per Cents. 561. of
the paper money, which, with corn, if worth 10s. per bushel, were
112 bushels of corn. During the past year the said Three per
Cents. have averaged in the public market 971., or with corn dur-
ing the same period, averaging 6s. per bushel, 323 bushels of corn.
For this increase in their burden, and decrease in the value of
their produce, the farmers are principally indebted to Sir Robert
Peel's Currency Bill of 1619, and his grand financial measures of
1842. Well may the poor farmers say, " Save us from our FRANCE.
Mends.'
IMPROVEMENTS IN PINILICO.—The demolition of CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.--SITTING or JAN. 18
the White Horse public-house, belonging to the Crown, has been The Order of the Day was the adjourned debate upon the
deferred until next month, in order that the magistrates' license first paragraph of the Address.
may be obtained for another house in Stafford.row. It is under- An amendment had been proposed by M. Gustave de Beau-
stood that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests will cause a mont, to the effect that after the words, "The institutions
shrubbery to be planted on the site of the White Horse and ad-
that it has bestowed upon itself," the last phrase should be
joining mews; the epee thus obtained is not to be thrown into the
suppressed, and replaced by the felbwing :—" We hope that,
road. The house at present impedes the view from the Royal Swiss fortified and completed with wisdom, they will ensure to the
Cottage, in Buckingharn.gardens, of St. James's.park. country the benefits of a Parliamentary Government—that
Government which has been confided to our hands, and which
VICE-ADMIRAL SIR ROBERT LEWIS FITZ- GERALD, we ought to maintain in all its integrity and purity."
K.C.H.—Another fiag.oflicer is removed from the Navy List, by Another amendment has been proposed by M. Bethmont,
the death of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Robert Lewis Fitz. that in the first paragraph, instead of the words, " The agri-
Gerald, Knight, K.C.H., which took place at Bath, on Wednesday cultural interests rely upon the solicitude of the Adminittra-
last, in the 69th year of his age. Sir Robert entered the Royal tion," the words should be adopted, " Call for the solicitude of
Navy in March, 1786, was made a Lieutenant 21st of February, the Administration."
1794, and in that rank was on board the London, and took part in Before commencing the proceedings of the day, the Pre-
Lord Bridport's action off L'Orient in 1795. He was made a Corn- sident remarked that, in order to avoid future misunderstand-
mender on the 13th of February, 1797, and was promoted to his ing en the subject, it would be as well to abstain from remarks
post rank on the 24th of Dec., 1798, for his gallantry when in such as had fallen from M. de 'I ocqueville the previous day re-
commend of the Vesuvius bomb, in which he assist at the born- lative to matters such as public instruction, which, although
bardment of Havre, and in the destruction of the erench frigate
applying to the interior situation of the country, formed the
Confiante, of 36 guns, in that year. He obtained his hag pro. subject of another part of the address. After some further
motion as Rear-Admiral on the 2d of June, 1825, and as Vice. remarks upon this subject,
Admiral on the 12th of November, 1840. He was nominated a M. Gauthier de Rumigny commenced-the debate by deny-
K.C.H. on the 18th of January, 1835. Sir Robert was on the
ing that the financial and industrial situation of the country
half-pay of a Rear-Admiral. , S
was in 30 prosperous a state as had been alleged by the Ali-
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE, K
OF ING WILLIAM nister of Commerce. Taking in hand the published statistics
COLLEGE, ISLE OF AIAN.---I have this moment received in- of export and import duties, he vindicated the truth of his
formation from the Very Rev. the Principal of the College, assertion.
of this lamentable occurrence, which took plaee on Sunday This speech finishing the general discussion upon the first
morning, between two and three o'clock. The whole of this and second paragraphs, they were agreed on.
splendid and extensive building has been totally destroyed The discussion then opened upon the amendments proposed
with the exception of the Vice-Principal's house. There were by Messrs. Alonnier de Siscraune, Bethmont, and Gustave de
about sixty boys sleeping within the college at the time, who Beaumont.
who were obliged to escape in their night-shirts, but lam happy Al. Bignon, one of the Committee, proceeded to oppose the
to say that not a single accident occurred. The building is wording of the Address by asserting the prosperity of the
insured in the Sun-office, also the Principal's property, the country, and the progress makin by the commercial interests
more valuable part of which is saved, though a large quantity of France. g
has unfortunately been destroyed. For the present the boys i AI. Bethmont spoke at some lengths on the depression of
are billetted at the masters' houses and with different neigh- I various manufactures, and particularly of linens, and entered
bourn. The Principal, the Rev. R. Dixon, has been kindly into a lively picture of the misery of the lower classes at vari-
affirded shelter with his family in the house of the Governor. ous periods on account of the periodical decline of different
Rooms near at hand have been engaged by the Principal, and manufactures. It was with this state of things, he said, that the
the school was to commerce again on Thursday last. The Government ought to occupy itself more fully and deeply.
Principal's lady was happily, at the time the time the fire took 1-le called for public lust itutions for the support of the miserable
place, at Douglas, where she has been for a short time under working classes, and for a law regulating and improving their
medical treatment for i I 'health. The walls of the college are position. "1- he institution of the Prudhommes, as it existed at
standing, and riot much injured. The cause of the fire is attri- Lyons, he considered, in spite of the difficulties presented by
buted to accident, as far as at present known.—Correspondent the organisation of such an institution, ought to he established
of a Morning Paper. in Paris. 7•h(. orator 'hen continued by supporting the wording
Jalnts Metlie•on, Esq., M.P. for Ashburton, has of his amendment. The agriculture of the country, be said,
purchased from the Seaforth family the island of Lewis, one of the did not rely upon the solicitude of the Government. It had no
largest islands in the Hebrides, with a population of 15,000, arid mistrust of it; but certainly no reliance, and, on the contrary,
included in the county of lions, The porebalc money Was 190,0001. bad reason to complain much of its indifference. The pro-

firesin agrieniture was not in proportion to that it made in all
other countries ; and this inferiority in France he attributed to
the want of any wise direction given by the Government to
the already existing institutions in favour of the agricultural
interests.

The Minister of Commerce followed, and after pointing out
the proportionate increase in the prosperity of the country since
the year 1817 up to the present time, proceeded to prove that
the Government had not been either negligent or indifferent
in its efforts for the prosperity of the agricultural interests, and
that it had not drawn more favour to other branches of the
Administration than to agriculture, but that it endeavoured to
give an equil attention to all the different branches of com-
mercial progress. The Minister then went on to enumerate
the various steps taken by the Government in various parts of
France to the advantage of agriculture, and state the discou-
ragement that its advances had met from the conseils-generatur
in various places. He announced that the Government was
about to propose some new Bills connected with the internal
interests of the country, among which were a Bill about
atents, and another about the lierets, or conduct-books of the
w. rking classes, and the regulation of the position of the manu-
facturing populace. In conclusion, the Minister, taking up the
words of the amendment, repulsed the idea of and indifference
on the part of the Government, and said that the country
might rely upon its solicitude.
M. D'Arblay mounted the tribune amidst loud cries, de-
manding that the amendment should be put is the vote, and
supported the amendment in a speech respecting the financial
position of the country, which met with but little attention
from the Chamber.
M. Gremlin endeavoured to speak amidst loud cries of
"Divide," and with difficulty obtained a hearing amidst very
general marks of impatience.
The amendment of M. Bethmont and M. Monnier united, to
the effect that the agricultural interest called for further solici-
tude of the Government. was then put and declared not
adopted, after two doubtful trials.
The amendment of M. Gustave de Beaumont was then
brought forward and supported by that gentleman. He called
the recollection of the Chamber to the address of the year 1840,
which established the principles of a Parliamentary Govern-
ment, and called for its support in all its purity and integrity.
The Minister of the Interior rose to reply, and stated that
perfectly agreeing with the principles announced by N. de
Beaumont, he objected only to the manner in which it was pro-
posed as a means of opposition to his Cabinet, and as expressing
a want of confidence in the principles of that Cabinet.
Billault stated that, in fact, the principles of the Ca-
binet were not those of the Government of 1840—that the
principles of the Cabinet were not Parliamentary. During its
three years' administration it had been in a constant state of
parley with the Chambers, and not of concurrent progress.
The orator then continued to give instances of the constant
opposition and want of accord in the different railroad projects.
In the sugar question the Government had proposed its system
as the only one to save the interests of the country, and yet
withdrawn it. Even in its interior, he said, the Ministry was
I not in agreement with itself. In the treaties of commerce,

also, it had no unity of principle ; sometimes inclining to th•
treaty with England, sometimes with Belgium, interrupting
negotiations to renew them. In most of its acts it had
found itself so often at issue with its own majority, that it
had been forced constantly to withdraw its own proposition.
As au instance of this this vacillation and incapacity to
execute its own projects, the orator then instanced the
plan of establishing a Council of State, which, in spite
of the promulgated ordinance, it was obliged to suppress, after
having supported it as a necessity of the dynasty and its security.
After an attack upon the Cabinet, upon several other points, on
account of the uncertain system of proceeding, the oratorlturned
to the majority to demand a reason of their conduct towards the
Cabinet under such a.position. The use of the Ministerial in-
fluence, on the one hand, and the exercise of solicitation for
Ministerial favour, on the other, were then subjects of the Hen.
Deputy's attacks. All these evil influences, he said, were used
in all the different elections either of Deputies or of National
Guards, Municipal Councils, &c. This system was the cause
of infinite evil, and would be the ruin of the country. Various
instances (which M. Bitlault then gave) were adduced as a proof
of these assertions. The orator then concluded with a resume
of his previous assertions.
M. Gasparin then rose to reply to allusions made to himself
in the previous speech, and the orator was left still speaking
when our reporter left the Chamber.

SUGAR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The West Indians and the Morning Post say that
the producers pay the duty imposed on the sugar consumed its
this country ; the former roundly asserts it—the latter, during
the month has, in a variety of ingenious articles, adduced to
the satisfaction of its peculiar class of supporters, abundant
testimony that its view of the question is correct. Had the
practical knowledge of the Morning Post kept pace with its
theoretical notions, it would have strengthened its argument
by avowing that in the sugar market the contract of sale is
ever made out to the buyer at the duty-paid price. Indeed, se
very particular are the West Indians upon this point, that even
when the duty is not required to be paid at all—such as when
the sugar is sold for re- exportation, or when for removal merely
from one bonded warehouse to another—they invariably insist
upon the contract note being made out at the full or duty-pal"
price, showing their willingness either to pay the duty or
be responsible for its amount. After this, who can
doubt whether the producer or the consumer of the
sugar satisfies the Custom-horse demand ? It is true
that some people have been silly enough to suppose that
the-business is so transacted, in order that the merchants
'may obtain, a commission on the amount of duty as well as on
tho price of, the sugar—stuff and nonsense I The truth is the
ihrest Indians are determined to prove to the world that in
their sugar transactions they either do, or are prepared at all
times to pay the duty. Now the annual amount of the sugar
duties exceed four mill ons .terling. Only think, Mr. Editor,
how the nation for many years past has been the fleecing. its
unfortunate sugar producing colonists ! It is surely high time
that they should be exonerated from the pressure of this tre-
mendous burden, which may be done in such a manner as not
only to secure our colonists from this awful charge, but at the
same time to punish those obdurate slave-holding Brazilians'
who have treated our exertions, in favour of general emanciPr
tion, with so much contumely. Let us buy their sugar, and ni
so doing compel them to subscribe, as the West Indians have
already done, to British revenue—for remember the West
Indians have said, and the Morning Post has proved, that the
producers pay the sugar duty.—l am, Sir, yours obediently,
Liverpool, Jan. 13, 1844. A GROCER.

THE LAND COMMISSION.
The following letter from the Member for Kilkenny spPes
in the Freeman's Journal of Thursday :
" Court of Queen's Bench, Jan. 1n44.
1.7' —that I
" Dear Sir,—Will you kindly oblige me by stating b
have received a communication from the Secretary to t.;:
Land Commission, to the effect that the Commissioners ill"
not adjourn their inquiries for the whole session of Parliament'
but merely until Mareh, and that they will either in that
month or the next proceed on their intended circuit through
Ireland.

1 take this means of answering the numerous letters I have
received on the subject, and am happy to be able to announce
to my correspondents this change from the original intention
of the Commissioners.—Your faithful servant,
" JOHN O'CONNELL."

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS,—The number of
deaths continues to decrease, being, for the week ending Jan. IC.
929, or four fewer than on the previous week. Deaths from small-
pox are on the increase, twenty persons having died of that diseases
twelse of whom had not been vaccinated. The number of violent
deaths amounts to ten. In the western district, 138 persons died
during the week ; northern, 155; central, 178; eastern, 189 ;
southern, :239—making the aggregate number of deaths 929, out
of a population (census of 1841) of 1,915,318.
Tue Marquis of Anglesey has granted two acres f
land, in a romantic and beautiful situation, as a site for the eon-
templa'ed new church at Llandisilio, towards the funds for melt'
ing which 3601. have been already subscribed.
The Marquis of Breadai bane, the Marquis Of
Queensbery, the Earl of Mansfield, the Earl of Rosebery, the
Earl of Strathmore, Sir John Hope, Sir John Campbell, Mart'.
38th Regiment, Earl Cathcart, &c., attended the anniversary Meet'
ing of the Highland and Agricultural Society o f Edinburgh, on
Tuesday, when the Duke of Richmond was elected President tor
the ensuing year, and the Earl of Manfield Vice-President.
FEVER AND SMALL-Pox IN THE AIETROPOLIS.--.
These two disorders are still very rife in several districts of the
metropolis, particularly at Battlebridge, and many other of the doe
and confined districts in the immediate neighbourhood of the New'
road. The number of czses admitted to the Fever Hospital '4
Battlebridge shows a great average increase of this disorder citin%
the present and the whole of last year.
A SELF-TAUGHT Musici AN.—James Hogg, the
celebrated " Ettrick Shepherd," had a genius for musiesa
well as for poetry. He composed the melodies to some of his
own songs : they are original and full of expression, and have
taken a place among the national strains of Scotland. VI
Hogg's reminiscences of his own life, in his letter to Sir N:
Scott, he gives an interesting account of the manner in 'chic,'
in the humble station of a poor shepherd-boy, he contrive'',
without assistance, to pick up the only education he ever re**
eeived. His account of his juvenile musical studies is curious
and characteristic i—ss When fourteen years of age I saves
five shillings of my wages, with which I bought an old viel'3';
This occupied all my leisure hours, and has been se.l,
favourite amusement ever since. I had commonly no spent
time from labour during the day ; but when I was nut
over-fatigued I generally spent an hour or two every. rtig
in sawing over the old Scottish tunes ; and my bed being a',
ways in stables and cow-houses, I disturbed nobody but
self and my associate quadrupeds, whom I believed to be greLf.,
delighted with my strains; at all events, they never e 7
plained, which the biped part of my neighbours did frequent Y'
to my pity and utter indignation. This brings to my remen';
brance an annecdote, the consequence of one of these nocturna'
endeavours at improvement. When serving with Mr. Sc°,l:
of Singlee, there happened to be a dance one evening, at b'e;
a number of the friends and neighbours were present. be,i%
admitted into the room as a spectator, was all attention to the
music ; and on the company breaking up, I retired to my stable
loft, and fell to essaying some of the tunes to which I had hcee
listening. The musician going out to a short distance frog
the house, and not being aware that another of the
same craft was so Igioar him, was not a little surprised when the
o
tones of my old viblin assailed his ears. At first he took it fr
the late warbles of his own ringing through his head : but, on
a little attention, he, to his horror and astonishment, pereeilej
that the sounds were real, and that the tunes which he s
beer, playing with so much skill were now murdered by oti;e,
invisible being hard by him. Such a circumstance at a
dead hour of the night, and when he was unable to disqrs
from what quarter the sound proceeded, convinced him
st
once that it was a delusion of the devil ; and suspecting„,
intentions from so much familiarity, he fled precipitatelY
the hall, speechless with affright, and in the utmost perturrt.
firm, to the no small mirth of Mr. Scott, Who declare
he had lately been considerably annoyed by the same disco
sounds."—Dramatic and Musical Review.

BIRTHS.
On the 17th inst., in Cambridge-street, Hyde-park: the 4'll
of C. P. Lochner, EN., of Doetor's-Communs, of a son.
eat.
On the 17th inst., at Great Marlborough-ctreet, Reg
street, the lady of Air. Henry L. Keeling, of a son.

MARRIED.
At St. Mary's Church, Lambeth, Mr. Thomas John crig.:
gun, of Fenchureh-street, to Eliza Jane, third daughter of
H. \V. Lepine, Cheshunt 'College Booms, Bloomfield-street.ant
On the ith inst., at Mioenden Church, the Rev• 13r): •
13urgess, 8.A., to Elizabeth Sohia second daughter of 10
tain W. F. Arnold (late 19th Lancers), of Little Missen
Abbey, Bucks.

DIED.
On the 13th inst., in Belgrave-square, the Countess Dowager
of Clare. S. J.
On the 13th inst., at Brighton, Mary, wife of the late
Smith, Esq,
daub
of gr
On the 14th inst., at Hastings Sarah, only d
George Kendall, of Urper Homertnn, aged 17. Count
On the 1.-. th inst.,' at Downside
Mazzinghi, aged 79. .ngtotir
On the 16th inst., at Church street, Stoke Dios',
Sparks Alolin, aged 86. hill, Ft•
On the 16th inst., at Woodbine House, Haverstock-
Budd, Esq., of the Stock-Exchange, aged 68

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