The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-20 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, DEC. 13.—The hurricane which raged
with such viols nc, the day before yesterday, in the even-
ing, did considerable damage. The ben rose along our
coast atmest to the same height as in the extraordinary
flood of February, 1825. At Rotterdam the waves of
the Meuse rose in such a manner, though it was the
time of low water, that they overflowed the quays in
several parts of the city, and inundated the ground-
floors of the houses and warehouses. The Great Mar-
ket and several streets looked like a vast pond.
Letters from Zienckzee, of the 12th, likewise state
that the hurricane did great damage there; that the sea
rose as high as in February, 1825, overflowed the
quays, and filled a great number of cellars; but speedy
exertions preserved the neighbouring streets from great
damage. The north-west side of the Great Tower was
overthrown by the violence of the wind. Happily the
fall.of this part of the building only damaged the roofs
of some neighbouring houses. Several dikes along the
coast are seriously injured.
DUTCH. FINANCE.

The Second Chamber of the States General has re-
ceived from the Minister of Finance a communication
relative to the payments of the instalment, of the loan,
and of the voluntary contributions. This communica-
tion is of the following tenor:—
Conformably to the preceding communication made
to the States-Genoral, the total of the capital of the vo-
luntary loan and of the free gift, decreed by virtue of
the law of March 6, 1845, amounts to— Florins.
For the loan

r the free gift, the sum of 1,843,221
florins, which, by Art. 19 of the same
law, represents a capital in the

loan of

6,144.069,93

117,000,930,98

The total amount of the subscription of
the late Kiug William Frederick, the
payments of which have been made
in five instalments

10,000,000,00

A letter from Zwolle, of the 14th, says—" We are in-
formed for certain that his Majesty the King was pleased,
on the 9th of December, 1845, to grant to Messrs.
Balkema and Company licence to construct an iron
railway in the following direction :—From Zwolle
(where the line joins the frontiers of Gver)ful), by
Hassels, Zuartluis, Meppel, Besten, Apen, to Groningen,
from which place there will be a branch to Delizyl, and
another to the new fort. The concession inclu,ies the
canalisation of the province of Dunthe, for which the
necessary plans are nearly completed, and it is probable
that the commencement of the works will not long be
delayed." It is evident how important this railway
will be to Overyful, and especially to Zwolle.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
walked in the vicinity of the Castle precincts for some

time this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken
an airing for a short time this afternoon.
The Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir Francis Simp-
kinson, and Mr. William Selwyn, Queen's Counsel,
forming a deputation from Lincoln's Inn, had an au-
dience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and were
most graciously received.
The Earl of Liverpool, G.C.8., is expected to arrive
this evening, on a visit to her Majesty.
The band of the Grenadier Guards will attend during
dinner at the Castle, and her Majesty's private band will
afterwards attend.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday, at Gloucester
House. _ _ _ _ __ _

A meeting was held yesterday mornine, at Lord John
Russell's residence in Chesham-place, gelgrave-square.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Earl of Claren-
don, Earl of Auckland, Viscount Palmerston, Sir George
Grey, the Right Honourable Francis T. Baring, the
Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, Right Hon.
T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Honourable Edward
Ellice, attended.
The meeting broke up shortly before three o'clock.
Mr. H. Tufnell, M.P., visited Lord John Russell
yesterday.
Mr. APLane, the American Minister, arrived in town,
from Paris, yesterday morning.
A handsome piece of plate, manufactured by Messrs.
Garrard, has just been presented, cn the part of her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, to the Baron de Gersdorff,
his Saxon Majesty's late Resident Minister in this
country.
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Queen's
Most Honourable Privy Council, expired at half-past
ten o'clock yesterday morning, at his residence in
Curzon-street. His Lordship had been ill for some
days past.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar.

THE LATE LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
The deceased Lord was the second son of James Archi-
bald Stuart, second son of John third Earl of Bute, K.G.,
who married, in 1736, Mary, only daughter of Edward Wort-
ley Montague. Colonel Stuart, on the decease of his mother
(Baroness Mountstuart in her own right), succeeded to her
Ladyship's great Yorkshire and Cornwall estates, and as-
sumed in January, 1795, by sign-manual, the additional sur-
name of Wortley, and subsequently inheriting the extensive
landed property in Scotland, of his uncle, the Right Hon.
Jamas Stuart Mackenzie, assumed, in 1803, the name and
arms of Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh. Mr. Wortley in early
life entered the army, and served in Canada and the Cape,
but having little relish for a military life he sold out
in his twenty-sixth year. In the year 1802 Mr. Stuart
Wortley was returned to Parliament, by means of his
family influence, for the borough of Bossiney, in Cornwall ;
but it was not until the year 1812 that he rose to any de-
gree of political notoriety. In the spring of that year
Mr. Perceval was assassinated, and the lengthened nego-
tiations, not very dissimilar from those now on the taris re-
specting the formation of a Cabinet, so utterly exhausted the
patience of the public, that the opportunity was thought a
good one for a rising young man like Mr. Stuart Wortley to
move an address to the Prince Regent, praying that he
"would form a strong and efficient Ministry." This motion
was introduced by a speech which every one acknowledged
to have been remarkable for its tons of honest independence
and high public spirit. Mr. S. Wortley continued to repre-
sent Bossiney till 1818. On the Ist of March in that year
Col. Stuart Wottley Mackenzie, the father of Lord Wharn-
cliffe, ended his days, and his son, the late Lord, succeeded
to his large inheritance. For Yorkshire, therefore he wa
returned jointly with Lord Milton, now Earl Fitzwilliam, at
the general election in the year 1818. In two years from
that period the demise of George 111. led to another election,
at which Mr. Stuart Wortley and Lord Milton were again
returned for the great county of York. and the subject of
this memoir continued to sit for that important elec-
toral district till the Parliament died almost a natural
death, on the 2d of June, 1825. In 1826 he was
raised to the peerage. In 1828, when the Duke of Wellington
succeeded Lord Goderich, Lord Wharncliffe took office under
the Noble Duke, and displayed much tact inbusiness. On the
introduction of the Reform Bill, by Lord Grey, in 1831, his
Lordship strenuously opposedthatmeasure on various grounds,
which he stated with great force and eloquence, and moved
an amendment for the purposeof throwing it out, but the Bill
was carried by a majority of 41. In 1834, during Sir Robert
Peel's short tenure of office, Lcrd Wharncliffe took the office
of Lord Privy Seal. In 1841, when Sir Robert Peel suc-
ceeded Lord Melbourne, the Noble Baron became Lord Presi-
dent of the Council, and continued in that office up to the
recent resignation.
On the formation of the Peel Cabinet in 1841 Lord Wharn-
cliffs secured the representation of that district for his eldest
son, defeating Lords Milton and Morpetb, the numbers on
that memorable occasion being as follows :—Hon. John Stuart
Wortley, 13,165; E. Denison, Esq., 12,780 ; Lord Milton,
12,080 ; Lord Morpeth, 12,031.
His Lordship is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon. John
Stuart Wortley, who has represented the West hiding of
Yorkshire in Parliament for the last four years, and whose
succession to the peerage will therefore lead immediately to a
new election in that county. The present Lord Wharncliffe
is in the 45th year of his age. He graduated B.A. at Christ
Church, Oxford, in 1821, when he was in the first class ma-
thematics, and second class in classics. About twenty years
ago he married the third daughter of the Earl of Harrowby,
by whom he has three sons and two daughters. His Lord-
ship is Lieutenant- Colonel of the South- West Regiment of
Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

The late Henry Iltid Nicholl, D.C.L., of the Cok
lege, Doctors' Commons, and of Upper Clapton, whose sudden
death on the 24th ultimo, at the early age of thirty-six, it
was our painful duty lately to have recorded, has died in-
testate, leaving personal property in England estimated at
90,0001., besides freehold and other property in Wales. Letters
of administration of his effects have been granted to his re-
lic, who, with his children divide the personalty, one-t The
freeholds the widow and two-thirds among the children. he
freeholds to the heir. at-law. The deceased was cousin to
the Judge-Advocate, the Right Islonourable John Nicholl
D.C.L., P.C. and M.P. for Cardiff.—Post.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.—
At a Special Committee Meeting of this Society, held at the
office, New Bridge-street, on Friday, the 19th in., Mr.
T. R. Elt in the chair, upon the motion of Mr. Edwards,
seconded by Mr. Hughes, 'it was resolved unanimously—
" That the thanks of this Committee are justly. due, and be
hereby given to the late Chairman, Mr. Lewis Junes, for
the able and efficient manner in which he discharged the
important duties appertaining to that office, during the past
year." At this and a previous meeting the following sums
were aw%rded—to Richard Walker, 33 G, one guinea, for
apprehending Edwin Spencer for robbing Mr. Major, White
apprehending Finchley, of a barometer; to Sergeant Thompson,
12 R, one guinea, for apprehending Michael Kerrigan, for
robbing Mr. Avery, Gibraltar, Deptford, of a watch ; to
William Humphreys, half-a-guinea, for apprehending Wit.
Liam Colcham, for robbing Mr. Hobbs, Spanish Patriot,
White Conduit-fields, of two pewter pots ; to Timothy
Wells, 83 V, one guinea, for apprehending Joseph Allen, for
robbing Mr. King, Cadogan Arms, King's-road, Chelsea, of
two pewter pots; to William Ling, 77 D, one guinea, for
apprehending George Thompson, ter robbing Mr. Stanton,
Victory, Oxford-street, of a pewter pot; to C. H. Rennoldon,
half-a-guinea, for apprehending Elizabeth Robinson,, for
robbing Mr. Rennoldson, Coach and Horses, Ray-street,
Clerkenwell, of a glass mug; to W. Millerman, 95 B, two
guineas, for apprehending William Davis, for robbing Mr.
Chandler, Ship, Milbank, Westminster, of two glasses; and
Sarah Ponsford, for robbing Mr. King, Coachmakers' Arms,
Belgrave-mews, Pimlico, of two pewter pots; to Inspector
Froud, M division, Samuel Brown, and Thomas Towerey,
237, one guinea each, for apprehending two men, for robbing
Mr. Wickens, Old Justice, Bermondsey-wall, of a cash-box
—through the exertions of the above-r.amed individuals, the
whole of the ;,roperty, nearly sixty pounds, was recovered,
and the thieves sentenced for ten years' transportation ; and
to Henry Todd, 221 G, one guinea, for app-ehending Elizabeth
Taylor, for robbing Mr. Hart, Duke of York, Liquorpond-
street, of a glass
ItAiLwAy PENALTIES.--AVE understand that tie
validity of the 7 and 8 Victoria it now on the point of being
tested. It is perfectly clear that the Registration Act has
not been complied with in many of its clauses. We hear that
men of high standing and respectability, being promoters of
companies themselves, have instructed their solicitors to sue
for penalties under the Act. We are prepared)o state, that
in several companies the provisional committees have ren-
dered themselves liable under the 76th and 77th sec.—Rail-
way Telegraph and Merchant's Advocate.
The Duke of Buccleuch will leave Montague
House early in the following week for Dalkeith Palace, , near
Edinburgh. The Earl of Dalkeith has joined the Duchess
an, then iotaton.