The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SIINDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
and the Royal Household attended Divine Service
this morning in the private Chapel within the Castle.
The Rev. William Canning and the Rev. Lord W.
Russell officiated.

The Holy Sacrament was administered to her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
Viscountess Canning, Hon. Amelia Murray, Hon.
Frances Devereux, the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount
Sydney, and Dr. Pnctorius.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, at-
tended Divine Service at the Parish Church this
afternoon. The Rev. J. Gore, Vicar of Shalbourn,
officiated. The Rev. Gentleman's text was the 10th,
11th, and 12th verses of the 145th Psalm.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the
Home Park this afternoon.

Yesterday her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort
enjoyed their usual early walk, and their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal were taken out.
Baron Van de Weyer went to town.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at
Gloucester House on Saturday. The Royal Duke
afterwards returned to his residence at Kew.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on
Saturday on a visit to Sir Robert Peel, at his seat,
Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.
Sir David Davis, M.D., arrived at his residence in
Park-place, St. James's, on Saturday, from Canford
House, Dorsetshire, the residence of her Majesty the
Queen Dowager. Her Majesty, we are happy to
state, is quite well.
A meeting of the Customs Revenue Commissioners
was held otjSaturday Gwyder House, Whitehall.
The Earl of Aberdeen left town, on a visit to Sir
R. Peel, on Saturday, at Drayton Manor.
The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel officiated, yester-
day, as Chaplain in Ordinary, at the performance of
Divine Service, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Duke of Leeds, the Earl of Errol, and Lord
Greive, were among the nobility present.
General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, visited the
Earl of Aberdeen onFriday. His Excellency also trans-
acted business, on Thursday, at the Foreign-office.
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The Earl of Ripon has left Leamington., on a visit
to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor.
Lord Stanley has left Lathom house, Ormskirk,
Lancashire, the seat of Lord Skehnersdale, for
Knowsley hall, Lancashire.
The Countess of Denbigh expired at her town resi-
dence on Friday night, about two hours after her
accouchement. Inquiries after the Earl of Denbigh
were made on Saturday and yesterday, in Eaton-place,
on the part of the Royal Family. The Noble Earl
was more composed yesterday.
Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of
Canada, were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office. Dispatches were also received on Saturday
from the Governors of Van Dicman's Land, the
Mauritius, and Gibraltar.

Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci left town on Saturday
on a visit to Sir Robert Peel, at Drayton Manor.

THE NEW GERMAN TARIFF.—We have great
satisfaction in stating, on the authority of several mer-
cantile gentlemen, all possessing excellent information,
that the new tariff of the German League will not
augment the duty on those fabrics which are so ex-
tensively made at Bradford, Keighley, and the neigh-
bourhood, for the German market, namely, the figured
goods—Orleans, merinos, alpacas, fancy lastings, &c. ;
and that the higher duty will only apply to the printed
goods, and the waistcoatings which contain a pattern
produced by a second weft. Such, at least;, is the in-
terpretation put upon the tariff by the official persons
who will have to carry it into execution. It would be
unjust and ungenerous if we did not add that the
letters from Germany award great credit to our Go-
vernment for their active exertions to prevent the
trade of this country from being injured. If Sir
Robert Peel would go a step further, and abolish the
Corn-laws, he would give a security to our trade
which it can never possess till that all-important mea-
sure shall have been taken.—Leeds Mercury.
EFFECTS OF THE TARIFF.-A gentleman, residing
not seven miles from Coupar Angus, who has all his
life long been a warm friend and admirer of Sir
R. Peel and his Tory measures, finding his pockets
and those of his constituents (being factor for a
number of Tory landlords) not a little affected by the
operations of the tariff, has allovsed his former love
suddenly to change into determined hatred; and to
•suCh a length has he carried his resentment, that, not
content with removing a full-length portrait of Sir
Robert, that used to adorn his dining-room, and con-
signing it to the lumber-room, has also had his gar-
dener employed for some time back in uprooting and
casting out every plant and shrub from the garden
bearing the name of Peel—nay, even those beautiful
dahlias and other sweet flowers and shrubs whose
gentleness and delicacy marked them out as fit objects
tobe named after Lady Peel—have all been destroyed
by stern command, that not a vestige may remain of
the hated name that is spreading such desolation and
ruin over the financial affairs of the country.—Dundee
Warder.

THE " QUARTERLY REVIEW" AND THE ANTI-
CORN-LAW LEAGUE.—For a long time the cry of
the Tory press was, that the Anti-Corn-law League
was utterly powerless and contemptible ; that its
members were few in number, despicable in talent,
and opposed by the great mass of the population.
Now, however, the tactics of the party are changed ;
the importance of the League is too manifest to be
denied ; and the Quarterly Review, the great
literary organ of the Conservatives, comes out with
an article of no less than seventy-one pages—all
written—no, not exactly written, but manu-
factured with paste and scissors—to prove that
the League is not only the " foulest and most
selfish," but " perhaps the most dangerous
combination of recent times." If all this ,is
true,—if the League is as dangerous as it is repre-
sented, and if no more formidable resistance can be
made to its schemes than that with which the Quar-
terly now treats its readers, the cause of monopoly is
desperate indeed. A more wretched thing of shreds
and patches, a more contemptible collection of excerpts
from newspapers strung together by trite and bald
remarks, establishing no more connexion between
them than that which results fromcontiguity—a more
pointless and inconclusive production altogether—
certainly never came under our notice. It is very
much like one of the articles of the Manchester Chro-
nicle on the same subject, expanded from a column
and a half to seventy-one pages, without an additional
atom of fact or argument, or, so far as we can discover,
even an additional falsehnod, to season the dull and va-
pid mess.—Manchester Paper.
CHINESE TROPIIIES.-1 he number of guns taken
by the British forces at Woosung amounted to 172,
mostly made of copper, and from 12 to 14 feet long:
The value of the copper guns taken at Chinhae
amounted to 10,0001., having been sold for that sum
at Calcutta. All the copper guns taken at Woosung,
and 34 others mostly 12 and 24 pounders, have been
shipped for Calcutta, but it is not yet known how the
proceeds will be applied, whether deposited in the
chest that belongs to the consolidated fund, or
awarded to the victorious soldiers and sailors, in the
shape of prize money. In addition to these, an im-
mense quantity of iron guns have been destroyed,
with other warlike instruments, from the three-
pronged toasting-forks, as the Chinese spears are
termed, to the formidable two-handed swords. The
surveying vessels attached to the British fleet pro-
ceeded up the branch of the river on which Woosung
and Chang-hae are situate, upwards of 40 miles
above these important cities, until they were assured
no other batteries or defences existed at that part
of the interior. The country through which this
branch of the river meanders is' described as
beautiful, and justly deserving its name of the
Flowery Land. It is described as like running up
he Thames, a well-cultivated plain meeting the eye
on both sides, having rice, corn, vegetables, and fruit
in abundance. The river is admirably adapted for
navigation, the surveying vessels having found 13
fathoms water at the highest part to which they had
proceeded, and where no European had ever been
before. On the banks of the river were observed neat-
looking farm-houses in detached spots, apparently poi-
sessing every comfort, and the whole appearance of
the land very different from the low swamps the Bri-
tish forces had met with in all the other parts of
China visited by them. The weather had become
suddenly dreadfully hot. Up to the 14th`of June the
heat ranged from 80 to 82 degrees in the shade, with
cool breezes at night ; but after that period it rose to
100 and 102 all day in the shade, and not a breath of
wind at night. In some degree to compensate for
this evil ice is to be had in plenty, the Chinese pre-
serving it to send out in empty fishing-boats, which
enables them to supply the inhabitants of large cities
at a considerable distance inland with-cargoes quite
fresh, and of excellent quality. The ice is kept by
the British for cooling the beer, and proves a great
luxury.
THE WEATHER IN THE NORM—The present sea-
son, in ninny things, has been one of the most extra-
ordinary we ever remember; six months of continued
drought formed a new feature in the farmer's calen-
dar, and perhaps it may be added, that the absence of
frost, at least night and morning, is equally rare so
late in the season. Flowers are still rife in the open
air, and if the present weather hold a few days longer,
it will be an easy matter to gather a nosegay at Christ-
mas. At Friars' Carse and Forest, on the banks of
the Nith, and adorned in common with Blackwood
with the finest reaches of our river, in its whole course,
the missel thrush has been pouring in profusion his
welcome notes ; and altogether, as regards openness,
the weather, were the weary fogs away, is more like
March or April than dreary December. Some, how-
ever, predict a speedy change, and ultimately a spell
of frost, as protracted, to say the least, as the late
blooming and beautiful back-end.--Dumfries Courier.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMIIER 19, 1842.