The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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BRIGHTON, TuEsnay.—This morning, at 10 o'clock, Prince
Albert drove out her Majesty in a pony phaeton, attended by
Colonel Wylde on horseback, and two outriders. The royal
party proceeded up the Marine parade to Kemp-tcwn, and from
thete to Brunswick square, and returned to the Pavilion soon
after 1.4,4141ek..,..-- . .
M. Medd, the Netherlands Minister, has arrivel at the ra.
vilion on a visit to her Majesty.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales took an airing in
the gardens of the Pavilion this day.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by
his Highness, Duke Ferdinand, took a carriage airing this morn-
ing. They afterwards promenaded on the Chain Pier for some
time, and walked through the Marine Palate and the principal
streets to the Palace.

Her Majesty had not left the Pavilion for her usual airing in
the afternoon when this account was dispatched.

Her R.,yal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited Irer
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough 'louse.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the
Duchess of Gloucester at Gkucester House.

Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint James Espinasse,
Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Recorder of the City of Rochester.
Mr. George Scovell, Lieut.-Colonel Prosser, F. G. S., and
Mr. George Palmer, Directors of the Guarantee Society, ac-
companied by their Solicitor, Mr. Samuel Cotton, had an in-.
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
M. Moreno, the Minister from Buenos Ayres, had an inter-
view yesterday with the Earl of Aberdeen at the Foreign-office.
The Chairman of the Excise, and Mr. Dehany, Solicitor of
the Excise, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer in Downing-street.
Baron Brunovv, the Russian Minister, and the Spanish Ali.
ulster, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign. office.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resin
dente in Downing-street.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Watson and family left France
Hotel yesterday, for their seat, Rockingham Castle, Northamp-.
tonshire.

COUN AN CURRENCY.—We are importing from
40,000,0001. to 50,000,0001. of goods every year, consisting of
silks, cotton, coffee, and the like, and yet we never hear of it drain
of gold to pay for these articles, because we export our mauufac—
tures in exchange; but when we have to import corn we hear of
large draws of gold fro.n the country, the effect of which is to em—
barrass our manufacturers. The law for importing corn, diffbring
from the law which regulates every other article, produces these
convulsions,—The Struggle.

The following declaration appeared in the Prussic:at
' State Gazette of the 1I th instant :—" Several journals have lately
spoken of the projected fortifications on the right bank of the Vis_. tula, in a manner which shows that they are ignorant of the real
history of these matters, for they represent the project as entirely
isolated, when, in fact, it is part of a general system. Soon after
the peace of Paris, when the Congress of Vienna defined the limits
of Prussia, it was resolved to adopt one system of defence for the
whole monarchy. As early as 1816 the late King commenced the.
preparatory works, and the plan for the defence of the Rhenish'
Provinces and Posen being completed, the King has ordered the
like works to be done in the Eastern Provinces, as his Majesty an,..
nounced in the late sitting of the Diet of the Provinces of Prussia'
DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.—WC are happy to he ab'e
to note some improvement in the state of matters in Paisley.
Since our last notice about 500 have been taken off the relief
fund, and an equal number may be expected in a few days; still
the prospects are very gloomy. The whole of the funds do not.
' amount to more than 5001., a sum which will not cover the ex-
penditure of more than two or three days. At present, therefore:,
it is a grave and important question how the thousands, wholly
dependent on the Relief Committee, are to be fed, and the peace of
the community preserved ? The number of unemployed in Pije.
ley is 14,273; including the other part of the upper ward. 1G,934.
—Glasgow Argus.
On Wednesday and Thursday evening the effigy of
Sir Robert Peel was paraded through this town, accompanied by:,
what is termed a rough band, comptised of tin kettles, horns, &c.,.
after which it was burned at the top of the town, amidst the exe-
crations of the multitude.—Somerset County Gazette.
The Duke of Northumberland has lately purchased,
at an enormous price, certain lands close to Berwick-upon—
Tweed, which will place, it is said, that borough entirely under
his control.
" Why don't you hit one of your own size ?" an
the tenpenny nail said to the sledge hammer.
STATISTICS OF SPEED.—The sloth is by no meal's
a small animal, and yet it can travel only fifty paces in a day; a.
worm crawls only five inches in fifty seconds ; but a ladybird can.
fly twenty million times its own length in less than an hour; era
elk cats run a mile and a half in seven minutes; an antelope a mile
in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater
than that ; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour; and a
Canary falcon can even Ay 250 leagues in the short space of six.
teen hours. A violent wind travels sixty miles in an hour; sound,.
1,142 Englisn feet in a second.—Bucke.
13Ar.t, FOR THE RELIEF or THE SPITALFIEII/5
WEAvEas.--Last night a grand dress and costume hall, in :id
of the distressed Spitalfields weavers, took place in WiEs's
Rooms, King-street, St. James's. The destitute state of many
hundreds of the Spitalfields weavers rendered some effort orr
the part of. the general community necessary for prese4 relief,
and the success which attended the recent ball in behalf of the
Poles suggested the probability that a similar entertainment
for the relief of our own perishing countrymen might bo pro-.
ductive of a similar result. Under this impression, a number
of the more opulent tradesmen at the West-end formed them—
selves into a Committee of Management. The Committee
comprised the names of Mr. Burn, of Sackville-street ; Mr.
Cobbett, of the same place; Mr. Firmin, Strand; Mr. Pores,
Piccadilly; Mr. Peat, Piccadilly ; Mr. Pearce, Long-acre ;
and upwards of a dozen other gentlemen, equally reTectable,
and as warmly actuated in the prai,eworthy cause. Had th.e•
ball been under the most aristocratic t.atronage, we doubt_
not.
have would have succeeded better—certainly the ball-room could
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dresses were magnificent in the extreme, and the coup
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
• GLOBE.—The arguments on the Ministerial side of
the Corn-law question will go down to posterity, if in-
deed they go down at all, as the most monstrous monu-
ment ever reared by class-ignorance on class-interest.
We say this quite dispassionately ; for, in truth, we do
not think greatly better of some of the arguments put
forward in succession on our own side of the question.
There is a sort of Spanish arrogance and superiority in our
own conceit over other nations, occasionally displayed on
both sides, combined either with strutting airs of inde-
pendence of foreign supplies (at the very moment when
so many are cloaking starvation in threadbare garments),
or with swelling boasts of becoming the sole workshop
and factory of the world (at the very moment when rival
manufactures are every where meeting us in neutral mar-
kets)—there is, as it seems to us, a blindness to realities,
and a grasping at unrealities, which, to our apprehension,
are amongst those symptoms which mark the decline of
nations. Strike out all the nonsense from the speeches
on both sides about depending on nobody for our food,
and supplying everybody with our manufactures—strike
out all this arrogant nonsense, and groundless assump-
tion—and what will be left ? Few of the sentences
which call forth cheers; but all the common sense of
the subject.
The sort of pretensions which the landed interest set
forth as entitling them to exclude commerce would.
justify a State-inquisition into their mode of ma-
naging their estates. We are, forsooth, to depend
upon nobody but upon them for our daily bread.
Why are we to depend upon them ? Ilow are
we to be assured that they have an interest in providing
us with abundance, or, if they have, that they act on it ?
Our simpler forefathers did look after every man's fields,
and every man's barns ; and if, with our vast population,
we are statedly to depend on home growth, we must look
after them. We must see that this landlord does not
sacrifice to political interest the encouragement (by
granting leases and otherwise) which he owes to has
tenantry, in order that they may have a motive for im-
proving cultivation to the utmost. We must see that ano-
ther does not devote to embellishment or amusement the
ground that is wanting for the supply of increasing
numbers—that he does not withdraw a- rood of ground
from arable which is fitted for it. In • Edward the
Sixth's days, and earlier, these were deemed matters
for royal proclamation. Our ancestors deemed the
gross produce as deserving attention as the net produce
of the soil, and abundance for the people at a cheap
rate, as " remunerating prices" for the farmer. We
may smile at their simplicity, but we have followed the
worse part of their precedents. We have legislated ex-
clusively for prices, and cared exclusively for rents.
STANDARD.—Lord Aberdeen's presentation of the
Treaty ratified between Prussia, Austria, Russia, and
Great Britain, for the suppression of the slave trade,
calls attention to a subject of some serious consideration
—serious, not merely as respects the object of
this Treaty, but the state of feeling upon the
Continent of Europe. It is probably known to most
of our readers that this Treaty is little more
than an act of adhesion by the other Great Powers
to a former Treaty ratified between Great Britain
and France eleven years ago, and which, of course,
is still in force as regards the nations parties to it.
A few years since, however, Great Britain and
France agreed to invite Prussia, Austria, and Russia, to
enter into the common engagement ; these Powers
promptly :acquiesced, and .a new Treaty, comprehend-
ing the Five Powers, was agreed upon, Great Britain
and France taking the initiative. This is the Treaty,
the ratification of which by Four Powers was an-
nounced last night by Lord Aberdeen ; but the name of
France is still wanting—of France, who would yield no-
thing !,y the Treaty which she has not already yielded
eleven years ttgo and who was herself one of the
movers in the transaction. Upon reasonable grounds
this hesitation of our neighbour is difficult to be ac-
counted for. It is not pretended that Great Britain has,
with respect to France, or to any other country, abused
the opportunities afforded her by the 'Treaty of 1831.
And there is not the least ground for suspicion that the
French Government, or the high-minded and generous
people of France, have a wish to protect the traffic in
slaves. Acquitting Great Britain, therefore, of having
given cause for hesitation on the part of France, anti as
freely acquitting France of any sordid motive in hesita-
ting to ratify the Treaty, we must, we fear, ascribe that
hesitation to a feeling from which even high-minded and
generous men are not always free—a feeling cf jealousy.
COURIER.—'The principte of putting feeding ques-
tions to the Members of the Cabinet, with the view Of
extracting information as to the precise nature of the
measures in preparation, or such replies as may enable in-
genious speculators to guess at them with any degree of
certainty, we look upon as extremely objectionable, and one
that ifyielded to would be lAtended with the greatest incon-
venience and injury. Mr. Stewart last night had the
modesty to inquire of Sir li. Peel what might be the
particular articles of foreign produce alluded to in the
Queen's Speech, the duties upon which it was intended
to modify.; and knowing, as he must in the present state
of the discussion on the corn question, how unpossible it
must be for Sir R. Peel to name any specific day for his
general financial statement, he was unreasonable enough
to demand an explicit answer on the subject. All,
however, he took by his pumping questions was a
reiteration of the assurance before given, that he would
make hi 4" -financial statement and disclose his reme-
dial measures with regard to the present unsatis-
factory state of the revenue at the earliest possible
opportunity. .The government has, in our opinion,
exercised a wise disc,-retion in holding hack till after the
Easter recess the poor Law Commission Continuance
Bill, a bill which, we are extremely happy to believe on
the assurance of the Home Secretary, will be in its elm
s-meter AO make-shift; but a fall and complete measure on
the subject, and one that will contain many important
modifications of the existing law. What these modifi-
cations- may be we have no means of ascertaining ; but
we do
,most sincerely hope that they. will be of such a_
nature as the friends .of humanity, and the advocates Cy:
the rights of the poor of this country to substantial relief
can approve.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 22.
MEMBERS BET UR:UM TO SERVE IN Tux PRESENTPAALIAMENT.
Borough of Bandonbridge—The Hon. Francis Barnard,
commonly called Viscount Bernard, of Castle Bernard, in the
county of Cork, in the room of Joseph Devonshire Jackson,
Esq., who has accepted the office of Solicitor-General for
Ireland.
County of Cornwall (Western Division)—Sir Charles Le-
mon, of Carclew, in the county of Cornwall, Bart., in the room
of the HoR. Boscawen Rose, commonly called Lord Boscawen
Rose, Low Earl of Falmouth.
Combined Counties of Claekmannan and Kinross —Major-
G eneral William Morison, Companion of the Bath, in the room
of the lion. George Ralph Abereromby, who has accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 5.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Wm. Hasle-
wood, of Bridgnerth, in the county of Salop, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 9.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Henry Gem, of
Moor-street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the Iligh Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 17.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Maxwell Ed-
monds, of Onndle, in the county of Northampton, Gent. to be
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
EDWARD RAWLINSON, share-broker, Lancaster.
WILLIAM HOLMES, silk gauze manufacturer, Cheapside.
SAMUEL LEWIS LAZARUS, coach-proprietor, Jer-
lnyn-street, St. James's.
RICHARD FROST BURTON, coal-merchant, Hack-
ney-wharf, Cambridge-heath, Middlesex.
BANKRUPTS.

JOSHUA DARWIN GANl:hci, victualler, Brydges-
street, Covent-garden, to surrender March 3, at two, and
April 5, at one, at the Court, of Bankruptcy. Pennell, of-
ficial assignee ; Heatheote and Holman, Coleman-street.
CHARLES VANDERGUCHT, silk-mercer, Quadrant,
Regent-street, March 8, at half-past one, and April 5, at ele-
ven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchurch-lane,
official assignee ; Hogard, Paternoster-row.
GEORGE DONALDSON, watch-maker, Pall-mall, West-
minster, March 9, at two, and April 5, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Drake, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
JOHN PILLING, innkeeper, Lancaster, March 9 and
April 5, at one, at. the Royal Oak Inn, Lancaster. Mayhew,
Johnson, and Mayhew, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn, London ;
Blackhurst and Son, Preston.
EDWARD HARPER, grocer, Steeple Claydon, Bucking-
hamshire, March 8, and April 5, at ten, at the George Inn,
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Aplin, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
SETH FLITCROFT, ironmonger, Liverpool, March 4,
and April 5, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
Tattershall, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London ; Hoole
and Marples, Sheffield.
JOHN PARKES HOPE, builder, Atherstone, Warwick-
shire, March 4, at the Bull Inn, Nuneaton, Warwickshire,
and April 5, at the Three Tuns Inn, Atherstone, at twelve.
Baxter, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Baxter, Atherstone.
JOHN PARSONS, maltster, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,
March 2, and April 5, at twelve, at the George the Fourth
Inn, Nottingham. Parsons and Benn, Mansfield ; Deane,
Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
JOHN M'LEAN, merchant, Liverpool, March 12, and
April 5, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.
Holden and Clarke, Liverpool; Walmsley, Keightley, and
Parkin, Chancery-lane, London.
JOHN DAVIES, oil merchant, Liverpool, March 15, and
April 5, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Holden
and Clarke, Liverpool ; Walmsley, Keightley, and Parkin,
Chancery-lane, London.
JOSEPH BANKS and JOSEPH BURGESS, drapers,
Manchester, March JO and April 5, at twelve, at the Commis-
sizere-roorns Manchester. Willis, Bower, Willis, To-
k ho
use-yard, London; Barrett, Ridgway, and Ford, seMan-
JAMES COCKBURN, merchant, New Broad-street,
March 4 and April 5, at eleven, at the. Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, Copthart t official assignee • Wylda, Rees,
Huniphry, and Wyld•e-czirl,
JOHN SMITH, so' ill? lege. hill, Queen-street, Cheapside.
ner, Bond-street, March 3, at one,
and April 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher,
official assignee ; Stephen, Size-lane.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruplcy, Basinghall-street.
H. C. Carter, carpenter, Hammersmith, March 17, at half-
past eleven-W. Nash, tea dealer, Budge-row, City, March 17,
at one-J. Laidlay and G. Turner, composition candle makers,
I"eltham, Middlesex, March 17, at half past twelve-J. Nichol-
son, carpet-bag manufacturer, Southampton-court, Holborn,
March 17, at half-past one-R. Alexander, bookseller, Great
Coram-stueet, Brunswick-square, March 17, at two-T. I.
Woodin. victualler, New-cut, Lamb,4ll, March 15, at twelve-
J. Overton, coach plater, Queen-street, Grosvenor-square,
March IS, at twelve-W. M. Nobbs, Muuday's hotel, Maiden-
lane, March 16, at two.
In the Country.
W. Williams and J. Jackson, timber dealers, Liverpool,
March 24, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpoca_G.
Turk, saddler, Cheltenham, April 20, at one, at the Royal
Hotel, Cheltenham-J. Griffin, upholsterer, Dudley, Worces-
tershire, March 15, at twelve' at the Swan Hotel, Wolver-
hampton-E. Foster, grocer, Sheffield, March 18, at one, at
the Town-hall, Sheffield-W. Durrant, wharfinger, South-
wick, Sussex, May 2, at two, at the Town-hall, Brighton-R,
Ball, shopkeeper, Olveston, Gloucestershire, March 22, at two,
at the Commercial rooms, Bristol-G. Peach, wooistapler,
Northampton, March 17, at twelve, at the Goat Inn, North-
am...pionJ. W. Green, ship builder, Dartmouth, Devon:lire,
1"Irell 17. at one, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth-W. Wil-

Hams, cattle dealer, Cowrrne, Herefordshire, April 16, at
twelve, at the Black Swan Inn, Hereford—G. Taylor, steam-
engine manufacturer, Manchester, March 24, at ten, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—E. Proud, grocer, Sun-
derland, March 16, at twelve, at Horner's Hotel, Sunderland—
J. B. Carey, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, March 16, at one,
at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—A. Clapham, soda
manufacturer, Gateshead, Durham, March 13, at twelve, at the
Bankrupt Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
CERTIFICATES—MA act! 15.
E. Turner and J. Ogden, iron founders, Leeds—E. S.
Boult and T. Addison, stock brokers, Liverpool—W. Walker,
fustian manufacturer, Manchester—J. Jackson, grocer, Bury,
Lancashire—T. Ward, plumber, East Dereham, Norfolk—J.
T. Scott, estate agent, Milton, Kent—J. Pigg, carpenter,
Norwich—C. Schofield, timber merchant, Kingston-upon-
Thames.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
R. Perring and W. T. Bonand, printers of the " Leeds In-
telligencer" newspaper—S. Hole and J. Harrison, maltsters,
Strangeways, Lancashire—J. and B. Gardner, ironmongers,
Banbury, Oxford—W. Wake, sen. and W. Wake, jun.,
builders, Totford-place, Neckinger-road, Bermondsey—J. and
E. Wood, cotton spinners Blackburn, Lancashire—D. Turner
and W. Moore, drapers, Liverpool—G. Snook and T. Turner,
maltsters, Wellington—R. S. Boughton and J. Hall, tailors,
Finch-lane, Conihill—J. R. Todd and A. H. Bosanquet, wine
merchants, John-street, Adelphi—R. Jones and G. Poulson,
tobacco manufacturers, Liverpool—T. Best and J. Townsend,
pocket-book makers, Birmingham—W. U. Buee and C. C.
Eyre, surgeons, Turnham-green—R. Almond, B. Clarke, and
J. Tayleur, coal masters, Liverpool (so far as regards R. Al-
mond)—J. Hepworth and S. Robson, stuff merchants, iron-
monger-lane, City—T. Hare and W. Lock, jun., merchants,
Weymouth, Dorsetshire—A. Best and J. Townsend, wine
merchants, Greenwich—M. Weavers and S. James, milliners,
Carlisle—B. Ciceri, P. Ciceri, and A. Ciceri, wire- workers,
Eyre-street-hill, Leather-lane—W. Munk and W. Wheaton,
ironmongers, Honiton, Devonshire—P. T. T. Stubington, T.
T. Stubington, and W. Stubington, builders, Winchester—J.
Melson and J. Kerman, South Park-farm, Bletcbingley, Surrey
—S. and T. Blackney, smiths, Chiselhurst, Kent—W. Smith
andJ. Moss, millers, Upminster, Essex—T. Minett, W. Mi-
nett, and J. T. Minett, millers, Oswestry, Shropshire—G.
Palmer and G. W. Beckwith, ship brokers, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—T. Taylor and J. S. Pickering, meat salesmen, Rose-
street, Newgate-market.

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