The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-15 00:00:00

COWtT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert walked this morning in the Home Park.
Afterwards his Royal Highness rode to Swinley, at-
tended by Viscount Sydney and Sir Edward Bowater,
where, as is usual at Swinley, the Royal party had
most excellent sport. Lord Rossmore (late Hon. Mr.
Westenra) had the honour of joining the Prince and
his suite at this sport at Swinley. The Royal party
returned to the Castle to lunch.

Viscount Canning took leave this morning,
Tier Majesty and the Prince rode out in a pony
phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the
Viscountess Canning, Hon. Amelia Murray, Hon.
Colonel Grey, and Sir Edward Bowater. On the re-
turn of the august party from their drive, her Majesty
and Prince Albert walked for some time in the garden
of the East Terrace, the afternoon being very fine.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister, and Madame
Van de Weyer, arrived to-day at the Castle, on a visit
to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Fanny Howard, and Sir George Couper, will join
the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening.
The party is also expected to include M. and Madame
Van de Weyer, the Earl of Liverpool, the Viscountess
Canning, Viscount Sydney, the two Maids of Honour,
the Groom and the Equerry in Waiting on the
Queen, and the Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert.
Covers are laid for sixteen.

Her Majesty's private band and the band of the
Foot Guards will attend at the Castle this evening.

General Alva, the Spanish Minister, visited the
Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The Attorney-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
A meeting of the Customs' Revenue Commission
was held at twelve o'clock yesterday, at Gwydyr
House, Whitehall. Lord Granville Somerset, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and other Commission-
ers attended the meeting. The Commission sat some
hours.

Sir Henry Hardinge has left town for his seal
South Park, Penhurst.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer had an interview
with Sir J. Graham yesterday, at the Home-office.

LONGEVITY IN MANCIIESTER.—In the midst of
much exaggeration and misrepresentations as to the
assumed unhealthiness of Manchester, as a place of
residence, and especially as to the vitally destruc-
tive effects of the employments of our operatives,
it may be worth while to place on record such
facts as the following, which we believe may
be relied on. On Saturday last, there met
accidently, at the shop of Mr. David Appleton,
hairdresser, Ashton-street, London-road, five per-
sons, all inhabitants of Manchester, namely, three
men and two women, whose united ages amount
to four hundred and twelve years! The age of the oldest
man is 87 years ; and he is truly entitled to be ranked
as one of the labouring classes, as he has spent no less
than 57 years of his life in the service of one firm,
in whose employment he has filled various subordinate
offices, including that of watchman of the premises.
The next of the party to this patriarch, in point of
seniority, is another working man of 82 years ; he is,
and has long been, a hand-loom weaver. The third
man is aged 81 years, and he too is a hand-loom weaver.
One of the women, aged 81 years, is the wife of the
weaver of 82 years ; and she also pursues that occupa-
tion when she can obtain work. The fifth individual
of the party is a poor widow of 81, who nurses
children for a livelihood ; her subsistence being eked
out by the aid of some little parochial relief. All
these individuals, then, are of the poorer working
class ; and they all live within half a mile of each
other, all within the town of Manchester, or, to be
more exact, within the townships of Manchester and
Ardwick, but all in the town, none of them residinge
sufficiently in the suburbs to b said to have a rural
habitation.—Manchester Guardian.
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a policeman of the R division,"'„ and subsequent mar-
riage of the parties at Woolwich church. On inquiry,
it appears there is not the slightest ground for as-
serting that such a marriage took place at Woolwich
Church, and, if that part of the report is proved to
be incorrect, it is probable the whole story of the
elopement and marriage is equally without founda-
tion. At all events, one circumstance is certain—the
policeman of the R division, said to be one of the parties,
still performs his duty at the Dock-yard, as if no such
fortunate occurrence had taken place as to become
the husband of a young lady of great beauty, with a
fortune of 5,0001.

BISHOPRIC Or ST. ASAPII AND BANGOR.—The
union of the two sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, which
will take place unless that portion of the Act 6 and 7
Wm. IV., relating to the subject is repealed, meets
with strenuous opposition. A highly respectable and
numerous meeting was held last Tuesday at Carnar-
von, when petitions to Parliament were agreed to, in
which, after pointing out the increased necessity for
episcopal superintendence, the petitioners say—" The
Bishoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor have been, from
very ancient times, endowed with funds solemnly de-
dicated to the maintenance of the Church in North
Wales ; and they cannot feel it consistent with the
interests of religion or with the demands of justice, or
even with the report of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners, to unite these sees in order to divert a portion
of these funds to the endowment of a Bishopric in a
district unconnected with Wales, and one of the
wealthiest in the empire."
FLATTERY OVERDONE.—The Commerce observes,
that " M. Thiers, the great planner of the Church of
the Madeleine, has carried his love of flattery so far
as to decorate the niches of the church with statues
of saints, the patrons of the numerous family of Or-
leans. At the gates are placed the statues of St.
Louis and St. Philip, in the interior those of St.
Mary and St. Aurelia, patronesses of the Queen, and
St. Raphael, patron of the Duke de Nemours. If
the temple of the Madeleine has been elevated to the
glory of God, it was likewise intended not a little for
the glory of the Orleans family."
DUBLIN, DEC. 12.----This day the usual half-yearly
meeting of the proprietors of Bank Stock was held in
the Bank, the Governor in the chair. In announcing
the usual dividend of 4 per cent, for the half-year
ending the 25th instant, the Governor regretted he
had to state that in order to enable the bank to pay
the dividend it became necessary to draw on the
"rest" to the effect of 15,0001. ! This announcement
caused great consternation amongst the holders of
Bank Stock.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF BAR-
CELONA.

The following are the proclamations published by
the Captain-General and the political chief of Cata-
lonia, addressed to the inhabitants of Barcelona :
" BARCELONA, DEC. 4.
VAN HALEN'S PROCLAMATION.

"In the morning of this day Barcelona submitted
to the legitimate Government. The authors and chief
participators in the scandalous sedition which has
spread consternation throughout this province, and the
entire nation, shall be tried and visited with all the
rigour of the laws. The industrious Barcelona, I
pledge myself, shall not become again the theatre of
sanguinary conflicts, nor shall the laws be again
trampled under foot, nor shall the Constitution sworn
to by the nation be attacked.
" The good sense of the Catalonian people will in-
duce them to resist the machinations of the enemies
of their prosperity, who, blinded by ambition, pre-
sume to sow in this classic soil of liberty, disorder and
anarchy, in order to prepare the introduction of
despotism. Catalonians ! be watchful and on your
guard against seduction and perfidy. Prevent the
hoisting again of a banner which has entailed such
disasters on your country, and place entire confidence
in the zeal of your authorities, and particularly in
that of your Captain-General."
On the sth General Van Haien issued the following
order:—
" It being indispensable for the good of the service
to know and appreciate the conduct observed since the
15th ult. (on which day the insurrection commenced)
until the present day by the military of all ranks and
the officers of the Government who have not followed
the army, in virtue of the powers confided to me I have
ordered and decreed—
" 1. That the military men of all classes and ranks
who took the oath to the revolutionary Junta, or par-
ticipated in the revolt, shall present themselves to the
military Governor of the place, or to the Chief in com-
mand of it. Those belonging to the navy shall pre-
sent themselves to the superior Chief of that depart-
ment. Public functionaries of all ranks, who have
done the like, shall appear before their respective
chiefs—those belonging to the Home Department,
before the Political Chief of the province ; those within
the jurisdiction of the Financial Department, before
the Intendant of the Rentes ; and those attached to
the Department of Justice, before the Regent of the
audience.
" 2. That the individuals mentioned in the preced-
ing article be tried by a court-martial, which is to be
installed on this day.
" 3. That those of the above-mentioned classes who
shall fail to present themselves within the precise space
of 24 hours, shall be shot, if arrested after the expira-
tion of that delay.
"4. That the owners of the houses in which those
individuals shall be found concealed shall likewise be
visited with the same penalty.
"5. That the military men of all ranks who, with-
out having recognized the Junta, or taken any part
in the insurrection, remained in the place after the
24th ult., when, in consequence of my application,
the revolutionary Junta gave notice to such as wished
to join the army that they were at liberty to do so,
shall likewise present themselves before the military
Governor. Public officers, in similar circumstances,
shall present themselves before the authorities of their
respective departments, as stipulated in the Ist article.
"6. That the individuals comprised in the sth
article shall, for the very act of having remained
among the revolters, be deprived of their offices, at
the same time that they shall be held to prove satis.
factorily that it had been impossible for them to quit
the place, after the authorisation granted by the Junta
on the 24th ult."
This is followed by a list of the officers who were
to compose the military commission (court-martial),
and which was to be presided over by Brigadier Jose
Munoz.
The following, of the Political Chief, is dated the
sth :
" Inhabitants of the province of Barcelona—Your
political authority addressed you on the 19th ult., and
placed before you in the most faithful manner the
events which took place in the unhappy days of the
13th and 14th. When I published that manifesto the
rebels had not hoisted any standard ; the revolutionary
Junta had contented itself with putting forth a few
general ideas, taking care to conceal their real inten-
tions. On the same day the Junta half threw off the
mask, and uttered seditious cries against the Cortes
and the invincible Duke Regent of the kingdom ;
against him who possesses more civic virtues than any
other man; who has sacrificed his repose and shed his
blood in a thousand combats for the defence of liberty
and your rights ; who, forgetting the habits of military
command, which are most frequently necessarily arbi-
trary, subjected himself to the precepts imposed by the
fundamental law of the State, leaving his responsible
Councillors to act. Citizens of the province of Barce-
lona, may, those who will succeed to this loyal and vir-
tuous citizen, in the supreme command of the nation,
have the same respect for our fundamental law, and
defend with the same constancy and enthusiasm the
rights of Spaniards. The cry of rebellion against
legislative and executive power raised by the Junta,
which at that time represented only a miserable
mutiny, was the prelude of a frightful revolution, the
true object of which it sought to conceal, and soon
laying aside all hypocrisy, and casting off the mask, it
raised its standard, and made its war cry, Long
live Christina,' a name cherished in other days, when
the vices and the ambition of Christina were not
known to us, but now a name of horror and dread,
as it recall to us the idea of re-action and of dis-
astrous scenes, which could only lead us to despotism.
Who would believe, people of Barcelona, that at the
name of Christina—the mother of our innocent Queen
—were about to commence theft, pillage, assassinations,
and a more frightful anarchy than could be met with
in a nation of savages ? You have seen this, you have
suffered it until convinced that your ruin was certain ;
with the aid of the alcaldes and your most honourable
citizens, you threw off the yoke imposed upon you by
a vile rabble, whom you disarmed in delivering up this
fine city to your legitimate authorities. When the
Government and the Captain-General saw you exposed
to the most abominable anarchy, after the non-accom-
plishment of the promises which you had made to
them, and convinced of the imperious necessity of sub-
jecting this unhappy town to the empire of the laws,
and of thus saving the majority of its inhabitants,
then with grief depicted in their countenances, for
they are Spaniards, they ordered that the town
should be fired upon, but the shots re-echoed pain-
fully in the hearts of the besiegers, and they seized
the first pretext to put an end to the bombardment.
The authorities, who had been ill-treated in person and
property, and the troops who had seen their innocent
comrades and beloved chiefs bite the dust, have en-
tered the town not as conquerors, but as brothers,
and have only thought how they were to remedy evils,
and assure the liberty and welfare of every one ; very
different from those who, flying like cowards from
the punishment that awaits them, have flung them-
selves amongst the populations of the coast, exciting
anew the flames of discord, purchasing aid to continue
disorder, and seeking to seduce the masses in order
to persuade them to second the Carlo-Christino move-
ment. Mistaken and ill-intentioned men, who have
been now so terribly undeceived when your intentions
were known, you were at once abandoned, and the
National Guards of all the towns of the province
have replied to your cry of war by that of legal order
and submission to the Government and the autho

rities. Profit by this severe and salutary lesson, and
hide your heads if you still retain any sentiment of
shame ; and if you desire to be restored to power, wage
E noble and honest war, by legal, honourable, and
t‘NParliamentary means. Already you have attempted
o insurrections--that of Oct. 7, 1841, and that of
Nov. 13. What have you obtained ? You have demo-
ralised the people, covered the towns with mourning,
and caused a destruction of pr.operty. You have encou-
raged a party which,
Rrepveunlbulir.icaenri,maes you
style yourself Moderate, hags itself
shown calling
us it l possessesitoatninecondt
a single virtue, and has for patrimony e
vice. Read over again the plan of o
in the Republican° journal, which kept on
explaining
it until the very day it was put in practim
' then at beholding that image of the cap of liberty and
e
that bell, of which the industrious inhabitants of Bar-
celona will not easily forget the call to sedition. This
plan, the author of which has been expelled from the
Spanish soil as unworthy of his country, came from the
other side of the Pyrenees. You had justly abandoned
the hope of beholding the virtuous and enthusiastic army
abandon their constitutional colours, and you for the

first time appealed to the masses. New and terrible
disappointment! You have gathered, as fruits of
your attempt, only contempt and ridicule. Inhabi-
tants of the province of Barcelona, let this mass of
unhappy circumstances occurring in the capital be

always -a lesson to you. Remain faithful to your
oaths to the Constitution. Remain faithful to our in-

nocent Queen, and to the regency of the invincible
Duke of Vittoria during her minority. Distrust the
snares of the Carlo-Christino Republican party;
be submissive to the Government and the lawful au-
thorities; second their efforts to restore public order
in this fine capital ; the exceptional state in which it
is placed shall not be prolonged beyond what your
welfare and necessity require, and shall only be felt
by the enemies of your felicity and repose; the pa-
triotism arid generosity of the authorities placed at
your head give you the assurance of this fact. Your
political chief, " JUAN GUTIERREZ."

MESMERIC OPERATION.—In addition to this extra-
ordinary feat in surgery (Mr. Ward's) we have to
add that an operation took place in this parish on the
19th of August, when a medical gentleman, to cure a
contraction in the knee joint, put a female in a mes-
meric trance, and while she was in that state divided
the hamstring muscles without her being conscious of
the circumstance; and we are happy to add that the
individual now walks with facility.—Hampshire Tele
graph.