The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-17 00:00:00

THE MINISTERIAL /OR,Gr4IOI ON
THE KING OF PRUSSIA..

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—The leading daily organ of the Ministry-
this morning contains an uncivil attack upon the
King of Prussia; whose intended visit to this
country is evidently viewed with jealousy and
dislike. _ .

Ought not this to, be sufficient for a hint
to the Anti-Corn-law League or whomever it
may concern, to take such measuresas upon counsel
shall be found best adapted to the case, for issu-
ing a respectful Address to the Royal guest,,
which whether it reach his eye directly or
through the intervention of other eyes, shall
constitute a Manifesto on the question of Free
Trade as it involves the common interests of all
nations and governments?
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON-.
Blackheath, Jan. 15, 1842.

•
• TRINIDA.D.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
5r s In looking to The Sun for light upon all sub-
jects of public interest, I have read your articles upon a
recent publication by Mr. Barnley, of 'Trinidad, which I
had found at one of my. clubs, and had hastily perused.
Finding your abbreviation of its contents somewhat dif-
ferent from my first impression, I have again referred to
the work, and am convinced you have hardly given it
full consideration I confess I doubt the propriety of
adopting his suggestion about the " ransom ; ' but many
of ,his observations ani facts appear to me to prove that
bad government is 'not confined to our home territory,
but that the colonies have a most ample share. And
surely.we ought to encourage free emigration to those
countries in every way that is unobjectionable. We certainly
do riot, as you allege, give the compensation money, and
pass the Act of Emancipation, merely for the benefit of I
the negroes ; but in the hope that it would prove a suc-
cessful measure, and an example to all slave-holding na-
tions. That the negroes in our own colonies have derived
great advantage, and have conducted themselves in a
praiseworthy manner, is clear ; yet it is equally evident
that if the Southern States of America are to consider
our example in the present stage of the experiment,
they will find no reason to expect more than half crops by
following it ; and such a prospect cannot ba very invit-
ing. It does seem possible to get free people from
several parts of- Africa ; and, further, that we have as
goOd land for them to cultivate as can be found any-
where ; moreover, those who havd connexion with some
of the colonies where captured Africans have been
landed, are very positive in asserting that they have
been immediately useful as steady labourers.—Yours truly,
Jan. 14, 1842. A FRIEND OF FREEDOM.

REDUCTION OF THE RURAL

POLICE.

NOTTINGHAM, JAN. 14, 1842.—A meeting of
the Magistracy of the county of Nottingham was
held at Southwell, fourteen miles from Notting-
ham, yesterday (Thursday), to consider upon
the practicability of disbanding the Rural Police
in the county. At a previous meeting, a Com-
mittee of sixteen Magistrates had been appointed
to consider upon its working, and they met at
Mansfield, when their decision was that it had
not worked well, according to their expectations,
but their Report was kept secret. The meeting
at' Southwell was to consider of their Report, and
inSpite of the dreadful inclemency of the weather,
there was a large attendance of Magistrates.
Among, those present were the following :—his
Grace the Duke of . Newcastle, John Evelyn
Denison, Esq., M.P., Henry Gaily Knight,
Esq., M.P., and Colonel Wylde.
The recommendations of the Committee at
Mansfield were—That it was expedient to adopt
a general system of police in the county, and
that the present three of 1 chief constable, 8
superintendents, and 32 constables, be reduced
to 16.eonstables,• eight of which number to be
mounted, and to patrol the Petty Sessional dis-
tricts occupied by the eight on foot.
After much discussion it was finally decided
that the force be reduced to 1 chief constable,
3 superintendents, 5 sergeants, and 24 constables,
all at less salaries.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
The contract for the entrenchment and masonry of
the Fort of Cbarenton, to be executed during the pre-
sent and two following years, has just been awarded to
M. Gamier Larget, of the-Quai Valtny, at 2c. 10c. per
cent. below the price fixed by the Minister of War.
We learn from Limoges that the whole of that part
of the country is covered with snow. The southern
mails for that town, and particularly those from Nismes
and Montpellier, were, on the 3d and 4th inzt., nearly
15 hours behind time, on account of the slippery state
of the roads and the prevalence of dense fogs.
According to a Toulon letter, in the Commerce, the
cold there has been so intense that several convicts were
killed by it while at work.
During the last year 292,000 passengers were con.-
veyed by the railroad between Amsterdam and Haar-
lem.. The total receipts, including luggage and mer-
chandixt-, were 136,698 florins or 336,7451.
A grocer of the Rue St. Avoye, named Marteau,
was yesterday fined 3,000 f. by the Correctional Tribu-
nal for having left open in his shop, in the keeping of
his shop-boy, and not under lock and key, a certain
quantity of Prussian blue, and for selling soma of it
without entering in his books the name of the buyer.
Petit and Dufour, who, in execution of the sentence
of the Court of Peers, had been sent to Mont
St. Michel, have been brought back to Paris in
consequence of the late revelations of Quenisser, Co-
lombier, and Just Brazier. They arrived at the Pre-
fecture of Police on Monday night, and will be ex-
amined when two other of the convicts who have been
sent for are come.

A garde champetre of St. Maur, near Paris, went
out two mornings ago with a friend of the same com-
mune to shoot thrushes, when by some unfortunate ac-
cident the trigger of the garde's gun was touched, and
the t-hole charge was lodged in one mass in the loins of
his companion, who lingered in great agony for four
hours, and then expirel. The garde was so overcome
with grief that he has nearly lost his reason.
The wife of Baucheron was definitively brought to
trial yesterday for robbing the woman Livet, with whom
she lodged. The latter, who had been at length found,
appcired in the Court and proved the
_facts, stating that
the prisoner had returned to her a few days after the
theft, arid acknowledged it, but pleatied her poverty.
The prisoner maintained that the things were pawned
with the consent of L;vet, but the Court, discrediting
ber statement, condemned her to eight months' impri-
sonmcnt.

A person at Huez, in the Isere, being at the point of
death, the Cure was called in to administer extreme
unction. An assemblage of about 100 people attended
to witness the soh musty in the chamber of the dying
man, which was on the Ist floor, and several more re-
mained in a room below. From the weight upon it the
floor of the sick chamber gave way, and tell with all in
it to the ground. About 20 persons were severely in-
jured, of whom one died instantly, and eight are in im-
minent danger. The Cvre had only slight contusions,
and the (I)ing man escaped unhurt.
The Album of Arles, in the Bouches du Rhone, gives
tho following instance of generous conduct A
farmer, who had long held a large quantity of land
under a distinguished family residing in a distant de-
partment, was completely ruined by the late inundations
of the Rhone. His losses amounted to 33,0001., and
his share of the indemnity was no more than 1 532 f.
Of this the Receiver of land-tax claimed 1,500 f. as
arrears due to the Got ernment, and 31f. were retained
for the tax called personnel, so that one solitary franc
alone was paid to the unfortunate farmer. The un-
happy man owed an arrear of 36,000 f. rent to his land-
lord, whose agent threatened to sue for the amount.
As his only chance of escaping utter destitution, the
farmer set out on foot to lay his case before his land-
lord, and accomplished the distance, which was no less
than 130 leagues. The Count de C--, the landlord,
received him with kindness, heard his melancholy tale
with feeling, immediately released him from all the at-•
rear of rent, cancelled his old lease, granted him another
at a rednced rent, and on such advantageous terms that,
in sic he may be said to have made his distressed te-
nant a present to the amount of upwards of 42,0001.
The cf,f,•ct of joy produced by this great and unexpected
liberality was so strong, that the object of it fell ill, and
for some dais his life was considered in clanger."

MA RYLEBON E VEST RY.—On Saturday, at
the usual weekly meeting of the Vestry, it was agreed,
on the motion of Mr. Gomm, that the poor in the work-
house should, on the day of the christening of the Prince
of Wales, be treated to the same luxuries as on Christ-
mas-day. Mr. Joseph moved that the out-door poor, up-
wards of 6,000 in number, be also on that day of general
rejoicing supplied with the means of festive enjoyment.
The motion was opposed by Messrs. Gomm and Kirlyon
on the ground of the want of precedent, but was eventu-
ally carried. It was also agreed; on the motion of Mr.
Foster, that a holiday should, -on the happy occasion, be
allowed to all the poor persons in the employ of the pa-
Jish, without any deduction being made from their wages.
Mr. Clapp then moved that all the poor-rate payers who
had distress warrants in their houses for the non-pay-
ment of rates should be exempted from the payment of
these rates. The motion was lost, Mr. Gibson having
carried, by 17 to 11, a motion for proceeding to the next
1 tufness of the day.

`Thirty-three tons of sugar, made from potatoes
premises in pr.
were lately seized in some
-East, where more thanintwcee
St. George's-in-the Prince's-square,
manufacture of that artiele,nwyhicmhen
were at work in the
is
sold by the grocers with a mixture of the East India
produce. All the men pretended extreme ignorance as
to whom was their employer.
A seizure has just been made of an illicit distil-
lery, on a large scale, carried on by one of the leading
wine and spirit merchants at the east end of the town ; it
was fitted up in the most expensive style, the stills
being upon .the French principle, made of iron, with
copper linings, and there were 20 vats, each capable of
holding 700 gallons, and about 20 tons of molasses in a
state of reparation for distillation, and 9CO gallons of
molasses' wasl It required 14 vans to remove all the
article 6 t 9 bef t fajesty's stores.