The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—After an ineffectual at-
tempt to get-up Channel, the Cambridge, 78, Captain
Barnard, returned to her anchorage at Spithead yes-
terday, and this morning was brought into harbour
and safely moored. It will be recollected that
she has on board about 80 tons of valuable
marbles, which were shipped in the blediter-
raneaii; with which she was ordered to proceed
to one of the Eastern ports. The Commander-
in•Chief, however, has, upon his own responsibility,
directed her being placed here; and, considering the
advanced season of the year, and the difficulty as
well as risk in navigating so large a ship into the
Medway, it cannot be doubted that he has. evinced a
sound discretion, which may also in its results have
a beneficial effect. on the interests of this port—so
much neglected and so severely made to suffer by the
present Conservative Administration. Of late almost
_every ship and vessel, upon arrival from foreign ser-
vice, has been ordered away, either to Plymouth or
to the Eastward, for the purpose of being dismantled
and paid off.
As the Cambridge has been very nearly her three
years in commission, there seems every probability
of her active services being no longer in requisi-
tion ' • in which case the inhabitants of Portsmouth
will have a fair turn, for which they will entirely
have to. thank the present gallant and highly dis-
tinguished Admiral, Sir Edward Codring-ton—per-
haps the last act of generous consideration which he
may have, the opportunity of showing them.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.
Last evening at six o'clock, an inquest was held in
the Board-room of St. Thomas's Hospital, before
William Payne, Esq., the City Coroner, on the body
of Charles Augustus Wentzell, aged three years and a
half. The deceased was the son of a fisherman, living
in Little Thames- street, Greenwich, and on the after-
noon of the 18th of last month, while standing before
the fire to dry his pinafore, which he had spilt some
broth over, it caught in a blaze, and, communicating
0 the rest of his clothing, he was burnt and scorched
in a most dreadful manner before the flames could be
extinguished. He was brought to this hospital, and
lingered until Tuesday last, when his sufferings were
terminated by death. Verdict—" Accidental Death."
FATAL ACCIDENT. - A second inquest was held
,
before the same Jury, on the body of Mary Walker
aged 67 years, who met her death by being run over
by a cart, loaded with half a ton of h,orse-hair, in
Lombard street, on the 7th instant. The cart be-
longed to Mr. Phillips, of South-crescent, Finsbury-
square, cabinet-maker. The deceased's death was
caused by internal injury. She expired on Tuesday
last. Verdict—" Accidental death.

We have -received- the second number of a new
paper started last month at Boston under extraordi-
nary circumstances. Oar readers will recollect the
legal decision by which it was pronounced that a
slave-holder might seize and repossess himself of his
runaway slave in any of the free States, without trial
—that is to say, without affording the party seized
an opportunity of showing that he was not
the slave pretended. Gndar this decision, a re•
spectable inhabitant of Boston, named George
Latimer, has been arrested and imprisoned at Boston
by the agent of a Virginian, whose name is James
Gray, and the whole city has been electrified by this
transaction. Not only have immense and thrilling
public meetings been held, but, in order to make a
more powerful appeal to public sentiment, a new
paper has been commenced, entitled the Latimer Jour..
nal and North Star, devoted wholly to this matter.
The details of. .Latitner's ease are promised in the
next number of the Journal, and we shall eagerly
watch for them.—Anti-Slavery Reporter.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-At a meeting of the Zoolo-
gical Society; held on Wednesday, Professor Rymer
Jones in the chair, several interesting communica-
tions were read from corresponding members re-
specting some .new species of animals and bird
which were now being forwarded to England for
the Society's menagerie. Among them was a new
kind of bird, from IS Africa, called pulih,
species of mocking-bird, so melodious in its note, that
when the natives would pay an orator or a poet the
highest compliment, they say, "he is a perfect pulih."
A large collection of mammalia from South Africa was
announced as having been 'resented to the Scei ,ty by
its President, the Earl of Derby.
A great and rapidly extending impression in favour
of free trade is undoubtedly made. It has reached
the quarters which might he supposed most impene-
trable. The meeting of every agricultural association
brings fresh illustration of the change. Still it must be
7.:.emerahered that all this tales place uneer pressure.
13ut let this energy subside, and trust to the truth
'Treading itself; let this purpose be suspended or
relaxed, and we should probably hear little more
of. conversions.
,Protection would again be the
charter toast of agricultural dinners, and the theme 14'
their after-dinner orators. The Escotts and Aclands
might become backsliders. Sir Robert Peel would
have no difficulty in shifting his -flag to the maintrast
of monopoly ; and again might the House of Commor s •
at, the very mention of Corn-law repeal, rind- with the
The steam mutt be kept
yells of scorn and defiance.
up, or there will be no advance. The efficacy of
the propelling power is exhibited; it were mildness to
turn it off, or to dream of its abatement. The effect
is already produced;proportionally ; try more of it.
anticipation of the 50,0001. Fund has been a wonder-
fe I enlightener. Conversions multiply with subscrip-
tions ; they will increase yet more with the applica-
tion. And the progress is in a geometrical ratio.
Light, once kindled up, radiates in all directions.—
Anti-Bread-tax Circular.

To-morrol.v will be published:.Bvo., 10s. 6d. cloth, the Second

Edition of
,AYS of ANCIENT ROME. By the Right
_La Hon. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.

London : LonAknan, Brown, Green, and Longmrns.

EDITED BY THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ.
In a few days,
FREDERICK THE GREAT,
HIS COURT AND TIMES. _

The Third and Fourth Volumes, completing the Work.
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Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo.,
A D A M BR O W N,
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By HORACE SMITH, Esq.,
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Now ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., with Portraits, 21s. bound.
MEMOIRS OF
T HE LITERARY LADIES
OF ENGLAND.

By MRS. ELWOOD.
" A work of grew- merit. The first biography is that of
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; the last, that of Airs. Maclean,
better kn.iwn al Miss Ltndon ; it thus comprises our Blue
Stockings from the commencement of the last century down to
the present. Each biography is marked by good taste and ex-
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the individual, and yet sufficient narrated of the latter to in-
terest and instruct."—John Bull.

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THE POOR-LAW SYSTEM.
On the the 31st of December, with the Magazines, will be
pub!isled, with Illustrations by a distinguished artist, No. I,
Price One SHILLING (to be completed in twelve Monthly
Numbers),
E S SIE PHIL LIPS;
Or, THE PARISH GIRL.
BY MRS. TROLLOPE.
Authoress of " Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy,'' Sce•
the object the author has had in view in the composition
of this work has been to call the attention of her reaLlers to the
absolute necessity of some alteration in the law which at pre-
sent regulates the maintenance and management of the poor.
Her conviction of its tyranny and injustice, of the impractica-
bility of enforcing i,s provisions with uniformity, and of the
cruel hardships which are inflicted on the poor by the attempt
to enforce them, is strong, and she conscientiously believes well
founded."
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Kingdom.

BET 1" S It A unparal-
leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage,
has been attended by is natural consequence—the excitement
of envy in every branch of the Spirit trade. Hence, each suc-
ceeding year brings to notice .competitors, whose announce-
ments, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge
upon the public notice articiet, whose only distingnislaing fea-
ture is their vast inferiority to the Patent Brandy.
It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such
attempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are
again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured
only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St.
John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at
Eighteen :•11iilings per Galion, of the highest legal strength.

THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY
DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED
by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains
MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £OO, £lOO,
£llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £tsoo, £too, £l,OOO,
£f .500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together
to x:72,170 sterling.
Direct fur PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH-
OUT DELAY, to
HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH,
Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK.

BROTHERS having remitted during a
very short time very large amounts of Money Divi-
dends to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland;
Dividends of i'5,0001., 18,0001., 9,0001., 5,0001., and 3,600/.
to London; 3,6001., 8001., ant 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,600/.
to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3.6001. to Halifax ; 1,2001.
to Porthleaven Harbour ; 900/.' 700/., and 6001. to Liver-
pool ; 900/. to Hull ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/.
and 600!. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham-
shire ; 7001. to Colne, Lancashire; 600/. to Cork; and 600/.
to Bradford, &c.. &c., they beg to call the attention of those
desirous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching
EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua-
ranteed by the Government.
This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more
than 25,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain
Money Dividends of 1/. and upwards.
One Share, 11. ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 31. ; four
Shares, 4/. ; five Shat es, 51. ; six Shares, 6/. ; seven Shares,
71. ; eight Shares, Bi. ; nine Shares, 91. ; ten Shares, 10/.
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at Lubeck. . _ _ _ _

The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis,
upon addressing a line to Heine Brothers.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 16,

Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST.
Alonso, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr.
Vandenhoff ; Antuniu, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, r. C.
Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste-
phano, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff ; Ariel, Miss
Rainforth.
To conclude with Auber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or,
THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W.
Harrison ; Alphonso, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ;
Fenella, Miss Bailin.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
!ow, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-stnet ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mail.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 16,

Will be repeated the Comedietta of A CURE FOR LOVE.
Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrove,
Esq., Mr. Bucicstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone
Raymond; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford; Miss
Ritterton, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews.
After which, THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay,
Mr. Charles Mathews ; Dowager Countess of Tresiliav, Madame
Vestris. _

To which will be added, the Petite Drama of SUZANNE.
Simon Swallow, Mr. Buckstone ; Suzanne, (an Orphan),
Madame Celeste.

To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's last New Farce, flailed
A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr.
Buckstone ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe ; Mary, Miss Mattley ;
The Unknown Female, Miss Connor ; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs.
W. Clifford.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 16,

Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER-
CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters
by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Wright, Maynard,
Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan.
After which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU
KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith,
Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Faucit, and Miss Murray.
To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled
ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford,
Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche
Giubilei.

To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and
CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss
Murray.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
'ix, commence at seven o'clock.

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THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, 57 : Noon, 53.

BAROMETER, 30.22.-WIND, S.W.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
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