The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-21 00:00:00

SW,tiiiARY OF NEWS

AND
Vublit Optntott.

" Who runs may reed.'

FOREIGN.

Our private letters from Paris announce that M.
Casimir Perier has been appointed Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to Hanover.
The Moniteur publishes a table of the production
and consumption of home-made sugar since the com-
mencement of the season 1842-3, showing the situa-
tion of the manufactures at the end of the month of
November, 1842, and the duties levied on the article
during that year. The former amount to 400 ' • the
quantity of sugar manufactured to 2,266,000 kilo-

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grammes, and the duties to 1,889,000 f.
The Regent of Spain has issued a decree, pro-
viding that none of the inhabitants of Catalonia who
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had repaired to France, no matter for what motive,
since the 15th ult., shall be permitted to return to
Spain without a judiciary investigation of the cause
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of their migration.
It is reported, says the Frankfort Journal, that the
King of Hanover intends to visit England after the
marriage of the Prince Royal, for the purpose of coti-
stiltino• his former physician Sir Henry Halford, his
confidence in German physicians having diminished
considerably since the death of Stieglitz.
We learn from Coburg, Dec. 13, that the Heredi-
tary Princess has been attacked by scarlet fever, but
that hopes were entertained of a prompt cure.
Riraat Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador at the Court
of Austria, arrived at Vienna on the 11th instant,
and had a conference with Prince Metternich the fol-
lowing day.
The postal convention, between Austria and Saxony,
for an uniform rate of postage, will come into opera-
tion, says a letter from Dresden, on the Ist of April
next.

The Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt has con,

ferred the Grand Cross of the Order of Philip the
Generous on Baron C. M. Rothschild, son of Baron
Charles de Rothschild.
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Chronicle, in reference to the honour conferred
on the French Consul at Barcelona, says—"We are
acquainted with the secret of M. Lesseps' hasty pro-
motion to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour.
This was the special and personal act of the King; ; an
act which his Ministers durst not gainsay, though they
thought it rash. And we could designate a house and
a society of French Ministerialists, where this coup de
tete of Louis Philippe was stigmatised as rash and un-
constitutional. The fact is, that the whole affair of'
• Barcelona, and of the general movement intended in
Catalonia, was known to the French Court, and un-
known to M. Guizot. It was managed by the French
Home-office and its agents, unknown ;to the French
Foreign-office. The French frontier police played a
notable part in the business. The French telegraph
sufficiently spoke the hopes and mortification of Gene-
ral Castellane. M. Lesseps did his bidding with zeal,
and he was rewarded for it. Having here touched upon
• a subject which we do not often permit ourselves to do,
viz., the personal interference of King Louis Phi-
lippe in politics—we cannot quit it without expressing
regret, profound regret, to find a monarch, so pacific
in the early days of his reign, now abandon himself,
towards its close, to a succession of schemes, any one
of which is enough to set Europe on fire. One of
these schemes is the absorption of Belgium by France,
first, in a commercial sense ; but this merely is a
prelude to political absorption. Whilst all French
statesmen stand aghast at such hardihood and at its
consequences, the King, and the King alone, pressed
it, careless and defiant of risk. The same restless and
quarrelsome spirit actuates Louis Philippe towards
Spain. He has a personal hatred for Espartero, a
hatred which he is determined to indulge by every means
and at every hazard. And if the Liberals are fools
enough, and influenced enough to fan French jealousy
of Spain, and to aid him in his design, Louis Philippe
will go the length of a military invasion of the Peninsula.
Two or three times has he been on the point of dis-
missing M. Guizot for interposing, like Talleyrand of
old, his grave and dissuasive counsel in this matter.
If Louis Philipp was the personage five years back
to be most depended on for keeping peace, there is on
the contrary, now no potentate more likely to break
it. The loss of the Duke of Orleans, instead of ren-
dering him more circumspect, more careful of the
prospects of his dynasty, has infused a kind of des-
perate current into his thoughts, which his oldest
friends are puzzled to account for. Of recent Spanish
news the French Ministerial papers assure us, that
the Republican Terradas keeps up his band in the
Lampourdan, and that Colonel Prim is endeavouring
to raise the Campo de Tarragona. It is, perhaps, for
the purpose of intercepting the daughters and family
of Captain-General Van Halen, that the French
Consul despatched them to so safe a place of refuge."
The _Herald says, in an article on prison discipline :
—" While the Magistrates of Middlesex are congratu-
lating each other upon the prospect of a considerable
reduction in the cost of prosecuting and punishing
crime, the Magistrates of other counties are bewailing
its rapid increase, and casting about for devices to
arrest it. This proves, if such a maxim of every,
day life requires proof, that the best management is
always the cheapest. In the House of Correction for
Middlesex, the prisoners enjoy comparative plenty,
but they also, in a still greater degree, enjoy good
health. In the same prison an able practitioner, whose
liberal salary ensures his constant attention, keeps dis-
ease at bay by being ever present to grapple with it, while
in Gloucestershire the periodical visits of a medical
officer at ten pounds a year—and ' surpassing rich' at
twenty—cannot prevent it from running riot ; and
the miserable savings which accrue from the fre-
quency of deaths do not compensate for an ever-
crowded sick-list. It is the same in diet, in disci-
pline, in everything connected with the economy of a
prison ; for parsimony is not always economy in a
prison, any more than it is elsewhere, to say nothing
of the penny wisdom and pound folly of first convert-
ing a casual pauper into a criminal, and then render-
ing him, by the emaciating regimen of a prison, a help-
less pauper for life. The present penny is saved to
the county rate, and the pound ultimately paid out of
the poor-rate."
We take the following from the Post :—" The re •
presentatives of the deceased faction which, under the
name of Whig was, during its lifetime, so long a
nuisance to the country, feel a moody, melancholy
satisfaction in witnessing what their disturbed ima-
ginations take for'symptoms of dissolution' amongst
the triumphant Tories. Because Conservative
journalists assert and exercise the right of thinking
and speaking for themselves on questions affecting the
political vitality of the empire, it is coolly alleged that
Government must be on the brink of ruin—that its
supporters are disorganised—disaffected—on the eve
of open rebellion' against Ministers. Sheer imper-
' tinence all this. Conservative journalists cannot rebel
against a Minister to whom they have never owed
any allegiance, except that which was demanded by
the principles to which they believed him friendly.
Their remonstrances against such portions of his po-
licy as do not meet their approbation are more ho-
nourable to him, and to them, than could be any mere
servile indiscriminate adulation, that should look to
what was to be, instead of to what ought to be. The
independent tone of the Ministerial press proves, on
the one hand, that the Government of the day, if
mistaken in some of its measures, is honest and con-
scientious in its adoption of them—else why maintain
the ' even tenor of its way,' malgre the not unfre-
quent expressions of dissatisfaction that proceed from
its sincere friends; and, again, there can be no more
telling testimony to the general character of the Ad-
mikistrAtion than the frank and manly support of
those, who, by the strong and emphatic manner in
which they condemn whatever appears to them to be ob-
jectionable, must clearly evince that soul-felt con-
viction is the actuating rule by which alone they are
influenced."

The Times contains the following observations :
" There is something not at all unamusing in the
enormous variety of suggestion, abuse, menace, and
sarcasm, of advice, economical, legal, agricultural,
and scientific, with which the brains of the unhappy
farmers are at present being bombarded. People
who know about as much of farming as the agricul-
turists do about spherical trigonometry are discharging
nostrum after nostrum in stunning succession upon
the heads of these devoted classes. Poor men!
they have quite enough to do in speculating on
that great revolution which has already taken
place, and the greater one which is rolling down
upon them to sweep off those restrictive laws on
which they rely for protection to their industry.
Long leases, large farms, new manures, two-horse
ploughs, fresh enclosures, wholesale drainings, and a
host of other specifics, are shot forth at random by
any writer or speaker who has education enough to
read the leading article of a Scotch newspaper, or
the title 'draining' in a penny eyclopmdia. A lite-
rary gentleman who has never realised sixpence from
an acre of his own, or, it may be, has never been far
enough from Mile-end to have seen with his own eyes
the piece of machinery commonly called a plough,
thinks himself quite competent to lecture the whole
host of practical agriculturists of England upon the
muddiness of their brains, the clumsiness of their ex-
pedients, their lack of enterprise, and misdirection of
capital. Long leases are one great specific by which
the English farmer is suddenly to be inspired with all
the sharpness and energy of a Manchester manufac-
turer—which are to make him feed up his horses,
lighten his ploughs, and import bone-dust."

MONEY-TRADM- CO3OTMERCE.
A numerous meeting of the advocates of free trade
was held last night at the Marquis of Granby
tavern, Grosvenor-square, when it was resolved to
form a branch association to be called " The South
Audley-street Anti-Corn-law Association."

LAW AND Po=oz.
The Admiralty Court awarded 1,2001. and costs

yesterday to the crew of three fishing smacks, for
salving the Louisa a French vessel, which was found
abandoned in the North Sea, with a cargo and pro-
perty to the amount of 4,0001.
The sum of 851. which had been awarded as pro-
•
portion to the captain and crew, out of the sum of
5001., and the rest to the owners, for salvage services,
done by the Copeland steam-tug to the Beulah, off/
Dover, was adjudged, upon a re-application, to be,
divided rateably among the first parties, according to
the amount of wages received.

TINE ARTS.
A meeting of the members of the Living Model
Academy took place on Monday evening, among
whom were W. Collett, M.P., W. Etty, R.A., &c.
The Report of the state of the Society's funds was
highly favourable, and votes were passed to employ a
sum of money towards making a variety of improve-
ments for the future comfort of the models.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
The annual Christmas speeches were delivered yes-
terday at. St. Paul's school, by the senior pupils. Sir
Robert Inglis, M.P., and several persons of dist
tion, were present. The Latin lyrics by Mr. Brien,
and a Latin prose translation from Hume's History of
England, by Mr. Vincent, gained the prizes.
THEATRICAL.
Miss Murray, whose decease was stated in The Sun
of yesterday, first appeared at the Olympic during the
management of Madame Vestris. During the seasons
of 1833-4, she joined the Covent.garden and Drury-
lane theatres, then under the direction of Mr. Bunn,
and subsequently the Queen's Theatre, in the lessee-
ship of Mrs. Nisbett. Miss Murray then retired, and
did not again appear in public till the last season at
Covent-garden.
pOlTELT—rAsszoNiumx.
The Duke and Duchess of Leeds left the Clarendon
Hotel, yesterday, for Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
The 11Iarquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are
expected at Dudley House, Park-lane, before the end
of the next month, for her Ladyship's accouchement,
from Baron's Court, Strabane.
The Marquis of Northampton has left town for
Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire.
The Earl of Charleville has returned to Charleville
Forest from Dublin.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have arrivLia
visa
and Genoa from Paris, whence they proceed, via
and Lucca, to Rome, where they intend to winter.
Earl and Countess Cadoan and the Lady Augusta
Cadogan have arrived at Rome, and after the carnival,
purpose going to
The Earl ofYarborough intends residing at APP111"
dercombe during the Christmas holidays.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave Carlton-
house-terrace, to-day, for Broitdlands, the Noble V is-
count's seat, near Romsey, Hants, with the intention
of passing the holidays there.
Baroness North and family have come to town from
Col. North's villa at Putney, and will remain in Ar-
lington-street until after Christmas, when they go to
W roxton Abbey.
Sir J. Copley, Bart., has arrived in town from Ap-.
puldercombe, the seat of the Earl of Yarborough at
the Isle of Wight.
?MISCELLANEOUS.
A meeting was held at Glasgow on 'Wednesday, at-
tended by a number of influential noblemen andh
gentlemen, for the purpose of taking steps towards the
e erection of a marble statue to the memory of the
Mr. Kirkman Finlay. A committee was formed in
furtherance of the object.
Accounts from all parts of the country state that
the crops of wheat promise to be much earlier than
usual next year, and productive of a very
plent
har vest. iful

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY)
LONDON, DEC. 21.—Wind N.W., light and hazy.k
DEAL, Dm. 20.—Wind S.W. moderate.
Stratheden, for Sydney. Bell'
BRISTOL, 20.—Arrd. Lood Collingwood,
and Ganges, Corkan, Quebec ; Surprise, Hill, New'
foundland ; Mayflower, Fay al.
SHIELDS, DEC. 18.—Arrd. Adelina, Chambers,
—Pt bank
Quebec. Sld. Bella Lucia, Rio Grande ; Louise
Sophie, Brazil.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 20.—The True Love, from Mall:
ritius to Amsterdam, has been surveyed, and must
dischare.
PORTSgMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W.--Arrd• God"
froy, Hamburgh for Monte Video ; Rapid, London for
Jamaica ; George Stewart, ditto, for New Orlean and
DARTMOUTH, DEC. 20.--Arid. Amity, Ferris/
Vulture, Gilbert, Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W.N.W.---Arrd.
Emelie, Fleusberg, for St. Thomas.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Wind W., fresh breezes. 7.
One of the West India steamers, homeward-bound, 15
off port. Sld. Royal Tar packet, Gibraltar.
On HOLYHEAD, DEC. 19.—Hannah, of Working-
ton, Quebec, with loss of boat, bulwarks, &e.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 20.—Wind N.W., moderateal.--
Arrd. Star, Clementson, Macao, sld. Ist ult.; Ml,
Hawkins, Demerara; Wanderer, Dixon, Naracaibo
sld. Oct. 24; Scotland, Merryman, New Orleans and
Savannah ; John. Jardine, Horton, Richebucto, with
part of cargo thrown overboard, having been ashoro
on the bar; Aberdeen, Duffy, and Auckland, A.tkinss
Quebec—sailed 23d ult. ; Indian Chief, Montreal.
KINGSTON, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Cleveland, Man,leY'
Cape of Good Hope. Sid. Harmony, Monkey, 11-c"
rald, Mexican packet, and Plata.
CORK, Dm 18.—Arrd. Caledonia, Robinson, 31"
maica ; Bravo, Brown, Miratnichi; Welcome, Jackson,
Newfoundland ; Ocean Queen, London for Mauritius.
pearCe
WHITEHAVEN, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Alexander,
Bermuda and St. John's, N.B. Sld. British Queen
Kennedy, Antigua. -
ASCENSION, OCT. 22.—Arrd. Hindustan,
Moresby,
Southampton.
Jacobs
OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, DEC. 17.
Marrina, Vanderwoord, Surinam for AmsterdamAmsterdamGlasgow, Somerville, Quebec.
PENZANCE, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Agnes, Nassau.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCLIESTER.--TVESDAI.
DERBY.— 8 to 1 agst British Yeoman, 20 to 1 AO
Murat, 25 to 1 agst Aristides (t), 30 to 1 agst Winesour
(offered), 30 to 1 ag3t Progress colt, 40 to 1 a&st Anl°'
Prop
rino (t), 40 to 1 agst Sirikol, 40 to 1 agst Black
(t), 50 to 1 agst Chesterfield (t), 50 to 1 agst St. Aralen-
tine, 50 to 1 agst Everton, 50 to 1 agst Oxygen
50 to 1 agst Languish colt, 50 to 1 agst Dump
G•
(offered), 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot, 15 to 1 agst Sir
Ll'
colt (0,
Heathcote's lot.
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MR. GREENWOOD, THE MAWS"
TRATE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV:
SIR—As I have always found you foremost in am
cause of the oppressed, you would do me. (and 1w 1
sure many others) a favour by informing me ho
could forward my mite to- the widow whose s on No.'
so cruelly and unjustly imprisoned by
wood, for endeavouring to obtain a livelihood in an
honest way. Can there not some means adoptna_
by which the public can express their indignationbof
this " man dressed in a little brief authority ?" toy
does not he fly at higher game, and not condescendn
visit with his magisterial vengeance a poor forlor_
a widow
child, the only son of his mother, and she
Manchester, Dec. 20,1842. ANTI-TYRA
rT;ho
[Send it to Clerkenwell Police-office•
the a-
mother now has not the support of her son,
gistrate probably would be happy to receive c"tri-
Mr. Greene:
butions to keep her out of the workhouse.]

CORN-LAWS.
PROTECT THE IVIANUFACTITRER !!
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. _s
defiance of the long •winded artici.ae
"against a free-trade in corn," and still more, of tnri
short-sighted views of the monopolists, I vvilldi
deavour to put a case, parallel at least in absur. Y 9
to that stated by a orn-grovver," in your Evening
Edition of the 19th instant : 1 of
I am a manufacturer, and have a large st°°-
oods on hand unsold, owing to the operation of th. e
French tariff, which led to a glut of linen Yarn' in
our home markets. Prices of course declined UT.
inendously in cloths as well as yarns, and 8113'
consequence, suffering a loss of twenty-five per dear
on every sale of my goods. Therefore it is as el,
as mud that I have a right to be so " protected" LI
Acts of Parliament, that I may obtain from the On'
sumer the same price for my goods now, as two
years or ten years ago ; and the loss of one-fourth
part of my property bem prevented.
I a, your Constant Reader, SIS
Manchester, Dec. 20, 1842. MANCUNIEN

STRANDED WINE.—One hundred and forty-II:
hogsheads of claret (being about 700 gallons) havd
been picked up between Jury's Gap and Dover, ane
lodged in the store-houses of the Lord Warden. Sl°,
of the claret is of superior quality. It is suppose"
have formed part of the cargo of a polacre-rillge
vessel, from the circumstance of a mast and rigging
belonging to such a description of vessel have also been
.
picked up. As yet no part of the wine has been claimear
The marks can be ascertained at the Custom-house i
Dover, and possibly the owners or consignees rnaY
come forward.—Dover Telegraph. the
TuE HINDOSTAN STEAM-SHlP.—Letters from -
commander and some of the passengers of tn,V
va&
steamer, have been received in town, dated Oct. 2:4,
off the Island of Ascension, advising their arri
there, all well. The Hindostan, after replenishing
her stock of fuel there, by taking on board a quantqa
of patent fuel from the Government store, quart
proceed to her next stage, the Cape of Good lloPel
and thence to the Mauritius, Ceylon, Madras, an
d'
Calcutta, steaming the whole distance from England
to India via the Cape of Good Hope. She is ex-
to
at Suez from Calcutta, &c., on Feb. 1.
INCOME-TAX.—At the meeting of the New
Council on Wednesday, Mr. W. A. Mitchell gave
notice that he would move—" That the Council 617
petition Parliament for the total and immediate repeal
of the Property and Income-tax."—Tyne Alercial•