The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR.

POST OFFICE.
WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LONDON LETTERS,

THROUGH THE GENERAL POST. ---
Four Weeks, ending Jon. 29, 1846.
Corresponding period of 1841 4,683,073
Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839 1,543,375
Increase since 1841, an the Four Weeks' Letters 595,778
Ditto, 1839; ditto
TITROUGH TIIE DIST' 'C rosT.
Four Weeks, ending Jan.- 29; 1842 1,919,630
'Corresponding period of 1841 1,835,640
Ditto, as nearly as can be given, of 1839. .... .
Increase since 1841, on the FourWeeks' Letters 83,990
Ditto, 1839, ditto 852,272

te NO CORN-LAWS !" NO BREAD
TAX I" FREE TRADE I"
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Srn,—l read in one of your Numbers of last week the
excellent letter of "An Operative," and your own most
appropriate and forcible'commentaries thereon, recom-
mending the people of the metropolis to form along tha
line of the Royal Procession on the day of the opening
of Parliament, namely, Thursday next, the 4th of Feb-
ruary, and to open her Majesty's ears and eyes to a sense
of the distress of her attached subjects of the middle
and productive classes, by a well-sustained cry, of the
above expressive declarations—" No Corn-laws "No
Bread Tax 1" " Free Trade !"
It is of great importance :hat the people should thus
express themselves to their beloved and attached Sove-
reign, whose ears their condition cannot otherwise reach,
for it requires no art of supernatural power to divine
that her Majesty's present Ministers, and those persons
whom they have placed around her Majesty's per-
son, take especial care to keep all the know-
ledge possible from her of the calamitous and
heart-rending distress which the accursed Corn and
Provision-laws, and other restrictions on trade, have
brought on the united kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland. It is also of great importance that the cry
should be raised in the presence and hearing of the
King of Prussia, who is to accompany her Majesty to
and from the House, and whose Ambassador at the Court
of London is, by all accounts, a mere eatspaw in the
hands of her Majesty's present Ministers. His Ma-
jesty will thereby have oral and ocular testimony
of the state of feeling in England in favour of free trade,
and of the distress which the want of it has brought
upon the British people. He will learn from it, also, a
salutary lesson of the deplorable effects of the iniquitous
English Corn-laws.
Let the people then, Mr. Editor, muster strongly along
the whole line of the procession, and as their Majesties
go to and return from the House, raise their voices in a
firm, continuous, and respectful manner to their be-
loved Sovereign, from whose attachment and feeling
they may hope for much—who has always shown a will-
ing readiness to redress their grievances, and alleviate
their sufferings, when represented to her ; and whose
good sense will indicate to her, without the necessity of
Ministerial explanation, the-quarter for which those
declarations are intended, and that the laws which could
call forth such a demonstration from her Majesty's de-
voted, suffering, patient, and loyal subjects must be bad,
and ought to be totally and immediately abolished. Once
more then, Sir, and in conclusion, let the cry be—" NO
CORN-LAWS!" your Majesty. "NO BREAD TAXI'
" FREE TRADE!" And may it hereafter be said
Along the,line the signal ran,
And England owns that ev'ry man
That day had done his duty.
Honouring you, Sir, for your steady and able advo-
cacy of the interests of the people, and hoping that you
will, from this date, up to the meeting of Parliament,
continue to remind the people of their duty to themselves
on this subject, and of the hour at 'which their Majesties
are to go to the House,
I remain, your grateful and obedient servant,
ONE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.
London, January 31, 1842.

Another Cabinet Council was held at the Po-

• reign-office yesterday at three o'clock. At this Council
the Royal Speech on the , opening of Parliament was
; finally agreed upon, previous to submitting it for her
Majesty's approbation, at the Privy Council to be holden
for thaturpose.
Sir James Graham, and the other Ministers
who were on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle,
arrived in town early yesterday morning.
TRADE. WITH SOUTH AMERICA.—We have
been favoured by one of the first mercantile houses in
this town (of Conservative politics, by the way), with
the following extract of a letter from Pernambuco, dated
9th December, 1841, and received by the ship Manches-
ter, which sailed from that port on the II th ult., and
has just arrived in Liverpool :—" Pernambuco, 9th De-
cember, 1841.—1 t is a strange circumstance that we
have only four English vessels in harbour ; and not for
one of them is there cargo to be had. The Swedes,
Danes, Austrians, &c., seem to be monopolizing all the
carrying trade, to the exclusion of the English, who,
until lately, have managed to compete with them suc-
cessfully. At this period of the year, there never used
to be less than 20 English vessels in port. A revision
of your tariff, so as to enable us to send you our sugar,
is absolutely,. requisite, if British shipping is to maintain
its position in these ports." Here is another proof of the
imminent danger in which British commerce is placed in
various parts of the world ; and,. if we would try to ward
it off, we must lose no time in setting about the work,
by'greatly liberalizing our tariff. Strange it is that the
shipowners, whose interests are thus sacrificed in the
first place,-should, as a class, rank themselves with the
monopolists.—Manekester Guardian.

`WINDSOR, MoN a-»-.—The Queen and Prince Albert,
both morning and_ evening, have enjoyed pedestrian
exercise in the Home Park, Terrace, and Slopes.
- The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have
been taken out to-day on the Terrace.
The King of Prussia and suite left the Castle this
morning at 12 o'clock for Londdn, via Slough. Im-
mediately before leaving his Majesty sent, by the
hands of one of his suite, to the Hon. C. A. Murray, the
munificent donation of 100/. to be distributed among the
deserving poor of Windsor, which has been handed to
the Rev. Mr. Gosset, the Vicar.
The arrivals to-day are the Earl and Countess De la
Warr, and the Ladies Elizabeth and Mary West, and
the Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish.
• The following visitors took their depaature.to-day :
The -Chevalier Bunsen, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Duchess of Buc-
clench, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Earl of
Liverpool, Earl of Jersey, Earl of Aberdeen, Earl of
Ripon, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Viscount Villiers,
Sir R. and Lady Peel, and Sir J. and Lady Graham.
Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs.-Anson, • Mr. and Mrs.
Harcourt (St. Leonard's Hill), and Mrs. Bouverie, will
have the honour of joining the Royal Circle at the Castle
at dinner this evening.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Wednesday) at Buckingham Palace, at half-past two
o'clock, at which her Majesty's Speech on opening the
Session of Parliament, will be arranged and agreed upon.

His Majesty the King of Prussia, attended by M. le
General Natzmar, le Baron de Humboldt, le Comte
de Stolberg, M. le General de Nenmann, M. le Conseil-
ler von Muller, le Baron Meyerinck, M. le Docteur
Grimm, and M. Frederic, and also by the Earl of Hard-
wicke, Lord in Waiting; Captain Meynell, Groom in.
Waiting ' • and Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry-in Wait-
ing, took his departure from Windsor Castle yesterday
for town, travelling by a special train on the Great
Western Railway from Slough to Paddington, where
his Majesty arrived shortly before one o'clock.
Part of the King's Suite,' after accompanying his Ma—
jesty to King's-cross, proceeded to Buckingham Palace.
His Majesty visited Newgate, and after inspeetingythet,
prison, drove through Whitechapel, followed' hy: the
Lord Mayor, to Upton, where hit Majesty partook-of a
dejeune.
His Majesty arrived at the residence- of the King- of
Hanover, in St. James's Palace,- froni:Upton;: at .a quar-
ter past five o'clock, attended-by the Chevalier Bunsen,
his Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court; the Earl of
Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting; M. le General de Neu-
mann, and other Gentlemen of his Suite, followed by
Captain Meynell, Groom in Waiting,. and Colonel Ar-
buthnot, Equerry in Waiting. - -
The Earl of Liverpool, Lord -Steward,of the Queen's
Household, arrived soon afterwards, and had an audience
of his Majesty.
His Majesty left St. James's twenty-five minutes before
six o'clock, to honour Drury-lane Theatre with his pre-
sence, attended by his Suite.
His Majesty returned at a quarter past eight o'clock'
from the Theatre, and again left at the expiration of
twenty minutes for Stafford House, attended by his
Suite, and the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting, to
honour the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with his
company at dinner.
The King was habited in a dark uniform. (with silver
mountings), that of one of the Reginientt of Prussian
Horse Guards, and wore the- Ribband and Badge, and
also the Star of the most noble Order of the Garter. The
Nobleman and Gentleman of his suite also wore their
respective uniforms.

, . .
His Majesty and part ofhis suite slept at Buckingham
Palace last night.
The following Gentlemen of his Majesty's Suite will
reside at the King of Hanover's residence in St. James's
Palace during his Majesty's stay in the metropolis :
le Baron de Humboldt, M. Muller, le Baron- Meyerinck,
M. le Docteur Grimm, and M. Fre'deric.
The King has honoured Mr. Benjamin Wyon with the
first sitting for a medal which is to commemorate his
Majesty's visit to this country.
His Majesty's household removed during the day from
Windsor Castle to the Metropolis.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of
Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset and
Colonel Jones, honoured the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland with their company at dinner last evening.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex honoured the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with his company at
dinner yesterday evening.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
went last evening to the party at Stafford House:
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham,
Lord Fitzgerald, the Earl of Aberdeen, and the Earl- of
-Ripon arrived in town in the morning from Windsor
Castle, and attended the Council. The other Members
of the Cabinet were also present. t,-inb all
The Council sat three hours.
.L The Russian Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Capt. Duncan and Mr. M'Doual had interviews with
Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-offlee. -
The Sheriffs' Dinner, to settle the roll of Sheriffs fur
the present year, to which all the Cabinet Ministers, and
the great Officers of State of the Queen's Household,
had been invited, was given by Lord Wharncliffe, as
Lord-President Of the-Council, last evening, at his resi-
dence in Curzon-street.