The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. Yesterday being the day on which the royal proclamation dissol v i ng the late Parliament directed the writs for ill!, election o f new Members to be returnable both Hoesea met Pro forma. ,At a Quarter-past Two o'clock the Lord Chancellor en tered the H ouse , and tookhi p s seat on the Woolsack. Th e other Peers present were—Lord Holland, Lord Glenelg, and Lord Foley. The Lord Chancellor then directed Mr. Pullman, De puty Ush er o f the Black Rod, to summon the House of 'Ammons to hear read her Majesty's ' Writ," issued under the Great Seal for the further prorogation of Parliament. Ina few minutes Mr. Rickman, the second clerk, and several other officers of the Commons appeared at their A esent Lord s hi ps , bar ( not a s i ngle Member of the Commons being ), when G The LO RD CHANCELLOR sa id—My L or ds and entl emen, her Majesty his been pleased to direct a writ to be issued under the Great Seal, for the further proroga tion of Parliament, which you syill now hear read. The Clerk of the House then read the Royal writ, which absolves all Peers, spiritual and temporal, Knights of the Shire, Citizens, ad Burgesses from giving their attendance s,t Westminster this 11th day of September, and commands tzlem to be present on Monday, 2d day of October next. The Lord Chancellor then declared Parliament pro- raßned until Monday, the 2d day of October next. The proceedings, which on ly occu pi e d a f ew m i nu t es , Then terrninated. i • The Peers did not wear the st a t e ro b es , as i s usua l on ? r mal prorogations of Parliament. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S—YESTERDA Y. THE ST. LEHER. The muster was uncommonly strong, and the betting, Whether we look at the amount laid out, or the changes that trheseuLted, highly interesting to those who are speculating on Ot. I.,!ger • thb excitement, in fact, coming as it did after t i2 ) _ r ig Period of inactivity, forcibly remind e d us of the olden news:. Before entering into particulars of the afternoon's busi. hs ould state that Mr. Forth's Emprise (the Grisette colt) %.e is declared not to start, having—at least goes the report ill°,llq amiss. Two or three parties, influenced by his race tho Goodwood Cup, had backed him to a large sum, and Zebterribly chagrined at losing their money without so much t i e , a Ying a start for it. To supply the vacancy made by this ,fetaration, and to give a numerical addition to the strength of field, Lord Exeter's lot (supposed to be confined to to 4-1 Dardanelles and Troilus) and Eg,eria were introduced. 3,000 tol2oo, and th e same odds to 75/., were laid against the lot ; 1 off ere d agst Dardannelles ; and 5,000 to 125, and 35 ha e i: in Ponies, betted ags t T ro il us . E ger i a, a f ter b e i ng ed privately to win a large stake, opened publicly at 24 to b. ; ,P l 4 at this price, at 22 to 1, and finally at 20 to 1, she was C e eked as long as any one could be found to bet the odds. av ,ing the debutants we will take up the alterations amongst 'avourites, and they ' will be found to possess no little im tiurttailice• Epirus opened at 9 and 10 to 1, and was imme ,t I e ll after backed so freely, that long before the room closed he 4 t 6 to 1, takers; the effect of this movement was to send den aecK Cardinal Puff, against whom 600 to 200 had previously 4 ) ,: ri la id; 800 to 200 was now betted, and then two or three t e : 3 to one, in fifties ; towards the close, however, he partially 4 to I r ed, two or three o f hi s f r i en d s h av i ng ta k en h eart , an d u 4 _ at the same time. 1,800 to 300 was taken about M Ma ango, o several bets at 7, 71, and Bto 1 about Henriade. ho t4n rose t o 12 to 1, and his companion Blakey declined to 14 4 1 ° , 1 . No oth er fl uctuat i ons wort h not i ce. A remar k a bl y da l' closed at a late hour as follows :- 4 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff—taken 6 to 1 agst Mr. B owes ' s Epirus—taken ag to 1 st Mr. Groville's Mango—offered 3 0 '" t° 2 agst Duke of Cleveland's Henriado---taken to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's slashing Harry—taken and after wards offered 1 2 to 1 agst Mr. Fox's The Doctor—taken & afterwards offered 12 t o 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan—taken 15 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken and afterwards offered 2 0 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Egeria—taken freely 2 0 to 1 agst Mr. Walter's The Prime Warden—offered 2 0 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland—offered 3 0 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dardanelles—offered to 1 agst Ld Exeter's Troilus—taken Ro bin to asst Mr. Osb a ld es t on ' s Bl a k ey T opp i ng — o ff ere d ‘‘obin Hood colt not mentioned. Bto I each betted agst *O f t Epirus, Mango, and Henriade in one bet. 300 even on m e e 6fielA agst Puff, Mango, and Henriade (odds afterwards on three "I). 250 to 100 agst Mango and Epirus, and two or 44.deeamall even bets on Henriade and Epirus, and Henriadc Mango. TheABERY P S urTWITH BACES._iir . . r. 'dernbers' se of 50 sovs.. with a Sweeps takes EDNESDA of 3 sous. k r. , each added. Heats, two miles. k r. ;larris's b. gr Barclay, 3 yrs .. . k r : , 1 1:liavles's — b. h. Alomus, 4 yrs Th t r armer's b. g. Bilbury, aged .. t oggerddan Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Heats, kr vs twice round. Ai . As. Davies's b. Mantua, 4 yrs )„ 4 ` Harris's b. g . B arc l ay, 3 yrs 2 2 A . ' Farmer's b. g. Bilb ury , age d 3 3 01 4 Galloway Stakes was won in two heats by Mr. Matthews's tty, aged, beating Mr. Evans's Cardigan Lass, 4 yrs. i t . , Sweepstakes, with 15 sovs. added, heats, once round and 14.' t!!ance, werebwon. In two heats by Mr. Monkhouse's b. m. Do- C e l i % ly . ris,., Providence, Mr. Astbury's b. m. Diana, 6 yrs ; Mr. aged, and Mr. Matthews's br. m. GIP -41, aged. THURSDAY. A Free Hand' of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. 1 1 Mr. r. 13. Davies's b, h. 4 yrs 2 dr Palener's b. tn. Mantua, 4 yrs A ir Hack, Handicap, with a Sweepstakes added. 1 1 • lionkhonse s b. m. Dorothy, 6 yrs p '2 2 Vrr. Astb!lry's b . m. Diana, 6 yrs 3 tv! • Rees s c h . h. Providence, aged Matth eweii br. se a m. Giy, g ed 4 dr 'l‘4) THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN OPENING OP THE PARL [AMEN T OF LOWER CANADA 4 OUR LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT.) COUNCIL-CHAMBER, AUG. 18. This day, at three o'clock, his Excellency tht.‘ Governor in-Chief came down in state to optti th.. §e:.tsifln of the Legislature, and being. stute4 tllloii Vile Throne, the As sembly was Balled q, and attending at the bar, his Exec! lefty . iletiVorea the fallowing speech : Gentlemen of the Legislative Council--Gentlemen of the House of Assembly—ln ebedltti . ee to the Royal com mand, signified t(3 tntt Through th e p r i nc ip a l S ecre t ary o f State for the Uolonics, I have convened you at this unusua' period, for the purpose of communicating to you the pro ceedings that, since your last Sesskti, haVe 'taken place if' the Imperial Parlietncht, and the resolutions that have been adopted on the affairs of this province. This course has been prescribed to me, in order to afford the House of Assembly, before that resolution which relates to the payment of the arrears now due for the civil service of the Government shall have assumed the binding shape of a law, an opportunity of reconsidering the course which, for the last few years, they have thought expedient to pur sue with respect to the financial difficulties of the province, and in the earnest hope that by the timely intervention of the Legislature, the exercise of the power intended to be entrusted to the head of the Local Government may he rendered unnecessary—a result, for the attainment of which her Majesty's Government would willingly make every ,sacrifice, save that of the honour of the Crown and the in tegrity of the empire. Since the receipt of the instructions which I have alluded to, the mournful intelligence has reached us of the demise of our late deservedly beloved Monarch. . Few kings have reigned more in the affections of' their subjects than William IV. The warm and lively interest he always took in every matter connected with the welfare of his Canadian subjects cannot fail to increase their feel ings of regret for their loss. The succession of our present gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria to the throne of the British empire, has not pre duced any alteration in the course that had been previously prescribed for my adoption. The Reports of the Royal Commissioners on the several subjects which came under their investigation during their stay in Lower Canada, having been laid before the two Houses of Parliament, a series of resolutions, ten in num ber, were shortly afterwards introduced by Ministers re lative to the affairs of this province, copies of which I shall transmit to you, in the usual way, at the earliest opportunity. The principa objects of these resolut . o Is are to de clare : Ist. That in the existing state of Lower Canada, it is unadvisable to make the Legislative Council elcetive, but that it is expedient to adopt measures for securing to that branch of the Legislature a greater degree of public confidence. 2dly. That while it is expedient to improve the composi tion of the Executive Chamber, it is unadvisable to sub ject it to the responsibility demanded by the House of As sembly. idly. That the legal title of the British American Lard Company to the land they hold under their Charter and r n Act of the Imperial Parliament ought to be maintained inviolate. 4thly. That as soon as the Legislature shall make pro vision by law for discharging lands from feudal dues and services, and for removing any doubts as to the incidents of the tenures of lands in free and common soccage, it is expe dient to repeal the Canada Tenures Act, and the Canada Trade Act, so far as the latter relates to the tenures of land in this province, saving, nevertheless, to all persons, the rights vested in them under or by virtue of these Acts. lithly. That for defraying the arrears due on account of the established and customary charges of the administra tion of justice and of the civil government of the prov i nce, it is expedient that after applying for that purpose such balance as should on the 10th day of A pril last, be in the hands of the Receiver-General, arising from the hereditary, territorial, and casual revenue of the Crown, the Governor of the province be empowered to issue, out of any other monies in the hands of the Receiver-General, such farther sums as shall be necessary to effect the payment of such arrears and charges up to the 10th of April last. 6th. That it is expedient to place at the disposal of this Legislature the net proceeds of the hereditary territorial and casual revenue arising within the province, and in case the said Legislature shall see fit, to grant a civil list for de fraying the charges of the administration of justice, and for the maintenance and unavoidable expense of certain of the principal officers of government of the province, and Lastly, that it is expedient that the Legislatures of Lower and Upper Canada respectively be authorised to make pro vision for the joint regulation and adjustment of questions respecting their trade and commerce, and other questions wherein they have common interest. Having laid before you an outline of the measures con templated by the resolutions, which were passed after full discussion in the House of Commons, by large majorities, in the House of Peers without a division ; I proceed, in obe dience to the Royal commands, to assure you that it was with the deepest regret and reluctance that her Majesty's Government yielded to the necessity of invoking the inter ference of Parliament, in order to meet the pressing diffi culties which other resources had failed to remove in the administration of the affairs of the province. Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,—The accounts showing, the payments that have been made since the close of the Session in March, 1836, out of the revenues at the disposition of the Crown, in part liquidation of the large arrears then due in respect to the civil establishments of the province, shall, as soon as possible, be submitted to you, with every explanation you may desire, and I can supply. I have likewise, in obedience to the injunctions I have re ceived, directed that an account of the balance of arrears, owing on the 10th of April last, for official salaries and other ordinary expenditure of the local Government, be made out and laid out before you, with the estimate of the current half-year ; and in recommending, as I do, most ear nestly, these matters to your early and favourable conside ration, 1 am commanded to express to you at the same time the anxious hope that the Governor of this province may not be compelled to exercise the power with which the Imperial Parliament has declared its intention of investing hint, in order to discharge the arrears due in respect to public services, for the payment of which the faith of the Crown has been repeatedly pledged. The chief object, therefore, for which you are now called together is to afford you an opportunity, by granting the requisite supplies, of rendering unnecessary, on the part of the Imperial Parlia ment, any further action on the Bth of the series of reso lutions to which I have alluded ; and it will, I can assure you, be to me matter of unmixed satisfaction, should you resolve to concede to the united voice of the British people, as expressed through the several branches of the Legisla ture, that which you have not thought it expedient to yield to the solicitations of the Executive Government alone. Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,—Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,—l ant farther commanded to ex press to you the earnest desire of her Majesty's Govern ment to co-operate with you in the removal of every obsta cle to the beneficial working of the existing Constitution, and in the correction of every defect which time and expe rience have developed in the laws and institutions of the province, or in the administration of its Government ; and I am also to assure you of a prompt attention on the part of her Majesty's Government to every representation which may proceed from you, tending to effect improve ments of this nature, calculated to strengthen the con nexion subsisting between Great Britain and Lower Ca nada, by the promotion of the welfare and interests of all classes of her Majesty's subjects in the province. At the time the summons was issued for assembling you on this day, I had every reason to believe that it would have been in my power to announce to you, as effected, those alterations which, you may gather from the reso lutions of which I have spoken, it is int tided to effect in the composition of the executive and legisla tive councils ; but the interruption occasioned by the demise of his late Majesty to the progress of public business in the Imperial Parliament, and the prospect of its early dissolution, have prevented the Ministers of the Crown from at once perfecting the measures they have in contemplation. These measures, therefore, arc not for saken, but only unavoidably suspended for a season ; and I trust, I shall at no very distant period be enabled to ap peal to the chans es introduced into two councils, as well as to the other salutary arrangements, as a proof of the sin cerity with which her Majesty's Government are disposed to carry into effect the intentions they have expressed on these points. Since the end of the last session several local acts have expired, and I would suggest for your consideration the expediency of renewing such of them as may hayed proved useful. I would, moreover, especially invite,your attention to the act s r: .l a ti ng t o th e di str i ct o f St. Francis, the dura lion of which is limited to the end of the session of the Pro vincial Parliament next after the Ist of May last. The severe distress which, in consequence of the partial or total failure of the crops, was experienced during the last winter i n severa l parts o f t h e prov i nce , i n d uc ed me, upon the urgent representation I received on the subject, and in order to avoid the approaches of famine, to grant r out of the public funds, that succour which the means of the suffering inhabitants were inadequate to afford. Nor did I hesitate in the pressin g emergency of the case, to as sume this responsibility, encouraged by the liberality you have displayed on similar occasions. In granting, however, such assistance, security was in each case taken for the repayment of the money so advanced, in the event of your declining to sanction the transaction. These advances amount in the whole to about 5,6001., for which, as well as for the sums I have issued for the preservation of the public works on the Chamhly Canal, and for the main- 11-1 E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1 37. • . tenaWee of estiablishmerit, I trust you w;!1 s'e no objection to grant an indemnity. Such of the docu ments and vouchers connected with these several disburse ments as are not already before you, shall be submitted to you with as little delay as pogsiblo; In cOnpinsion; Qentlemett; 1. Shall Orteat th4' determina tion to adhere to those principles which I laid down for my guidance when I first addressed yuu. They are cal . ulated, I conscientiously believe, to promote the real interests of the country, and to secure to all classes of her Majesty's Canadian subjects those rights, privileges, and liberties which the spirit of the Constitution was intended to impart, and which every friend to that Constitution is hound to Support and maintain' Castle of gt. Quebec, Aug. 18, 1 831. The Newfoundland House of Assembly met on the 4th ult., and elected Dr. Carson, a violent Radical, as itr Speaker. He was some time Ed tor of the Netcfoundland Patriot, The Legislative Sess'on o! New Brunswick was closed on the 21st ult., after passing the Civil List Bill, by his Excellency Sir John Harvey, which event was celebrated by the inhabitants of Fredericton by an enormous bonfire and other demonstrations of public gratification. The Assembly was prorogued, in the usual form, to the third Tuesday in September next. AMERICAN MARKETS. NEW YORK, Av). 24 SPECIE.—Amer can gold, 9 a 91 premium ; half dollars, 91 a 98 do. ; c,u 11 ter dollars, 71 a 8 ;Mexican do. 10 a 108 do; Spanish do. II a 12 do; five franc pieces, 1.031 d , Ilar, a 1.031 dollars ; s wercigns, 5136 dollars a —; doubloons, 7,25 dollars a 17.35 dolars ; do. Patriot, 16.85 dollars a—. We notice a sale of 1,000 Spanish Dollars at the Board this morning ,at 111 per cent. premium. The supplie of specie in market has become much,reduced ; the imports for some time past have been very trifling. The ship Equator, from Havre, arrived yesterday, brought 52,000 francs. The price of specie at New Orleans continued without any material change ; brig Gustave, from Havana, arrived 15th inst., brought a few small lots. Stocks have exhibited no change, of any moment, for the past ten days; there appears little desire for investment, and the market, consequently, remains depressed, and uninte resting. U. S. Bank closed to-day at 117+. A further advance on Treasury Drafts is demanded; the asking price being 6+ per cent. premium ; we hear of 6 per cent. having been refused. A Philadelphia Paper states, that from the suspension of specie payments, up to the first of the present month, the loans of the Banks of Philadelphia have been diminished one million seven hundred thousand dollars, and their circulation de creased, about one million five hundred thousand dollars. _ _ . . . , .. jority of the der; u racy throughout tile country . arc in Ia your of a disconnection of the fiscal concerns of the coon. try from banking institutions. The Manufacturers' Bank at Belleville, N.J., have made an emission of small notes, purporting to be redeemable in twelve months. HAYTI. (Itrom the 110.1Pytt Daily Advertiser.) We 110 e Proclathation of President Boyer, on the 20th Of July; in consequence of the embarrassments under peHol€ of that country :are labouring, from the depressed state of credit, and the .careity and dearness of the means of subsistence. This is ittriboted partly to the financial difficulties in foreign countries, partletil.itl the U n it e d S tates , an d part ly t o drought, which has a ffected the tlifr&ent parts of the Re public, and cut off its principal resourcei. FAIIINg AT Aux CAYES.—We have been politely 1,1- voufea Wit;i lAt^ f)i.;rtica) of letters from Aux Cayes, to the 18th July, from which we learn diat tl± irthabitants itt that time suffering severely for the want of proiliinns. A severe drotight prevailed in the Arrondisse men t of Aux Cayes, frotii CietalW las' or.sil ;About the middle of May, when a little rain fell. During the above period the fields in the Arrondissement presented the appearance or having been visited by a devouring fire. Such vegetation as es caped the drought, and on which cattle usually fed, was greedily devoured by the inhabitants. The people were almost reduced to despair when a few barrels of flour from Port au Prince reached the town, and were sold at 30 dollars to 32 dollars per bbl. On the 20th June there was not a barrel of flour in the whole city, and the inhabitants were again suffering severely, when two French vessels ar rived with succour. NEW GRENADA. EXCHANGES.—There was again but a small amount of bills offered on England for this day's packets, and the rate ad vanced. The sales were chiefly from 19 a 21 per cent. for private bills, and 21 a 214 per cent. prem. for Government bills. Francs 5,85 was obtained on Francs, and 44 cents. on Holland. Nothing was done on Hamburg and Bremen, for want of paper. In the price of specie, there is little or no variation. The amount of 250,000 dollars specie will pro bably go out in the packets leaving to-day. The IVestminster sailed on Monday, for London, took about the same amount. NEW-YORK MARKET, WEDNESDAY, 2 o'CLocx, r.u. We understand that General M'Afee, our Charge d'Af faires at Bogota, arrived at Philadelphia on the 13th inst., via Kingston, Jamaica, having left the former city on the 20th of June. At that time the country was perfectly tranquil. General Santander ceased to administer the Go vernment on the Ist of April, and following the example of Washington, had retired to private life, amid the plau dits of all the friends of republican institutions. Senor Jose Ignacio Marquez, his successor, the former Vice-President, was elected on the 4th of March last. The municipal duty on flour at Carthay,ena and Santa Martha has been reduced to two reals (twenty-five cents.) per barrel, and the next Congress contemplate a revision of their tariff, and a considerable reduction on the import duty. The question of abolishing the discriminating duties on the vessels of the United States; was brought before Con gress by Senor Miguel Sturnino Uribe, the former Presi dent of that body, and was ably sustained by him, and was lost by one vote only. The measure is gaining ground with liberal principles, which are marching on decidedly in New Grenada.— Washington Globe. MEXICO AND THE TEXAS. By the arrival of the schooner of war, Vandalic, com mander Crabb, at Pensacola on the 12th from Vera Cruz whence she sailed on the 3d inst., Mr. Robert Greenhow has arrived, who was sent out by our Government with im portant communications. Mr. Greenhow left the city of Mexico on the 30th ult., at which time all was tranquil, as far as publicly known. He states that Santa Anna was at Mango de Clavo, which contradicts the statement we published. It was received from so highly responsible and creditable a source, that we are at a loss how to reconcile the matter. Mr. Greenhow relates, that when about to leave Jalapa, at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 2d instant, a violent earthquak e occurred, which, on his arrival at Vera Cruz, he learned had caused much damage to the city, and pro duced the utmost consternation among its inhabitants, many of whom took refuge on board of the shipping in the har bour. The shock was felt on beard of the Vandalia, about which it occasioned much agitation of the water, and shook the chain cables. The Vandalia remained for twenty-one days at anchor in the narrow pass between the island of Sacrificio s and the main land ; and her crew enjoyed better health in that situation than at any other period of the cruise, although the yellow fever was raging in the city. There is no prospect of an invasion of Texas, and cer tainly not the remotest chance of success, if the attempt should be made. SAVANNAH. (Shipwreck—Fourteen lives lost. From the Darien Telegraph.) ST. SIMONS, AUG. 9.—A sailor, by the name of Abra ham Cote, who says that he is, as he believes, the only sur vivor of the St. Augustine packet schooner S. S. Mills, of 90 tons burden, bound to Charleston, and upset off Jekyl Island, in seven fathoms water, and all perished but him self. The melancholy disaster occurred during the gale on Sunday, the 6th instant, about eleven o'clock in the morn ing. There were on board twenty-five in all, among whom were one white woman, and two blacks, all drowned in the cabin. Mr. Cote reached the middle of Jokyl Island about an hour after sunset, on a spar. The last he saw of the wreck it was bottom up, and the Captain, Mate, and two other men in the boot, which was full of water. Soon after the boat passed by him with nobody in it. [We learn by letters received in this city, that among the passengers was a Catholic Priest of Charleston, and Mr. Joshua Hickman, whose trunk has been picked up on Long Island Beach, with clothing, and about three hundred and seventy dollars in Bank bills. We also learn from the same source, that the Cotton crop is ruined, and will not yield one-third the amount they would have done.]—Ed. Georgian, Savannah. DREADFUL HURRICANE. ST. THOMAS, Aua. 4, 1837.—The Hamburg ship Henrietta arrived this morning totally dismasted. St. Thomas is a scene of desolation ; night before last it blew a hurricane, the rain poured down in torrents ; almost every building is more or less injured, saving only those few that had flat roofs ; hundreds of houses are blown over, and some literally blown into thousands of pieces—the tiles and slate more or less gone from the buildings, and the streets strewed with fragments. The wind raged with the greatest fury at 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening, but lulled for half an hour, and commencing again blowing with great violence at 10 o'clock. I was aroused at 12 o'clock with the cry of fire ; the fire commenced in some stores of Mr. Stubles, adjoining W. P. Furness' house. Out of 36 vessels in the harbour, all but four have cap sized or sunk, or gone on shore. _ - - Only one ship and two schooners remained uninjured after the gale. Many sailors have lost their lives—sup posed to exceed over 100. The land treasury hospital is entirely destroyed, and four of the inmates killed. On the estates, almost all the negro houses are blown down. One letter says that the destruction was much greater than was occasioned by the hurricano of 1819. In the country great damage has been done.—Baltimore Paper. LIVERPOOL SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Monday, Sept. 11, 1637. SHIPS ARRIVED. Wind N. W.—high Water, ti o'clock p m.—Arrived the Arethusa, Whyte, from Barbadoes ; Pekin, Blair,- from Quebec ; Virginian, Harris, from New York ; Spencer, Spencer, from Tortola ; Pocahontas, West, from Philadel phia; Ganges, from Quebec; Octorara, Deacon, from New Orleans; and Jane, Wylie, from Africa. ENTERED FOR LOADING, SEPT. 11. John Lilly, for Africa ; Beatrice, Wicchelo, for Alexan dria ; Neilson Wood, Robinson, for Berbice ; Competent, Rhodes, for Bombay; Betsey Hall. Conker, for Buenos Ayres; St. Cloud, Coulburn, jun., for Csdiz ; and Laura, Doy, for Demerara. RUSSELL. LORD,—On the 19th of June last, I addressed p'ellr Lordship through the medium of " The Sun N , ews -11.7," with reference to the important subject of Law For a'. , I intended immediately to have pursued the 114111 e, but in consequence of the demise of the Sovereign f "8 in duced to defer my intention. Since that period vrel3h instances of the iniquity of the system have been de ri.e„.°l),e'L and I now hasten to call your attention to them, 44 i ttng the commencement of the present reign will be t en , quished by an efficient alteration of the present sy s- A casoccurred within my own knowledge a few w eeks . att. ' l nce, in which two individuals, whose names were lit 'fled to a Bill, were sued for 41. only balance thereof, d: (1 44 expense of 41.f0r two writs. It is true the solicitor re Mit (as a favour) 11., leaving then 31. costs on a d ebt f • ° ; and I know of an action now in progress for f o 41 which 41. expenses arc already incurred, and am in al.4°V by the solicitor they will be .51. more ere judgment the ,tle obtained. Such, my Lord, arc two instances of tr y tlisWraceful system which at this time exists in a coon -4,11. boasting of free institutions. I defy' the most bigotted ilb yt Q Ote of antiquated laws to support such a system upon 1t 41 . 1 i ng hike rational or argumentative grounds—such a ‘vorittnust be, in spite of contradiction, the admirer of the house, the best friend of the lunatic asylum, and the l tl "Ate of the prison. I submit, my Lord, that no such pee4thened course of proceedings—no such enormous ex- Ith• e iS necessary for the prosecution of an object, as that Poy 1 : 11 . 1 '?Vr exists, which ought not to be the means of im ",:;1"og all save those of the profession denominated 1.1 1 . 4 - r° (certainly " legal" robbers.) It may be argued ~,t , a ras ueh laws arc known to exist, and that parties should I , ll4r4t tit,:i_Bs,ttnsttheir operation. I reply, that as the sick unwilling patient of the physician, so is the un i4ll, n•te or oppressed man the unwilling subject of the ) =hip conceive I have now substantiated the necessity the e t !' exist s for an effectual " Law Reform"—established vetwitia that the greatest difficulty and uncertainty . subsists s°h em . Peet to the recovery of debts—the evil which must kJ, 'Toes arise to the plaintiff from the loss not only of th e "t't but enormous costs, which too frequently drives 114 f•"%rtunate debtor to become the inmate of a gaol, and 1 -e r , 4 l ° ,'i.lY the recipients of the parish fund. I entreat your s i tin tk 4 TP to let this important subject engage the delibera- S e : 4 the Cabinet : sure I am a change is promptly and N 4t 4t i'ely called for, and that it will be hailed by the wh.4lajority of the people as a change worthy the age thi . l e L h we live • I may have occasion again to revert to eolu,-,°?•ject• for the present I may add that there exists a 1 4/ - n :n the City for the recovery of debts from 40s. to C O expo-I , ' of f rom Bs. to `)Os ; but the public are wt. 4t, th • :e - • of eopr:ce of a ty rannica l an d vindictive creditor, 4041, „ -3 ' Put his debtor to the expense of 425. for a debt I am, my Lord, your's respectfully, . . I - I hb • - ------ ',J. H. S. °II r Ijr"IcANE AT SAVANNAH.—The American z 4.1 1 4 :1 N 'eeiyed yesterday mention that a destructive bu . r .; '''hv a - " 4 been . experienced in the middle of August . i1t~.4414h, and -.,eter other towns ot . furnish a copious account. At Savannah, it ap t:4 ,tt n.. Vt I ‘-' l "' 111 e n ced on the Ilth, about noon, and continued . w thel l - pl e daY with unabated fury. The destruction e to A tre b i- P. g Was very great, and numerous houses and stor j 1 8 i t t ' d awn• Lives have in some instances been lost. . 11 th:*Q - tarY's the effects have been also felt severely, and d 'IN ; ''tollis the crops were very much injured by thewi e n x., I ,t', tideli'e inundation of the waters. The devastation n. 41 • 1 ' de to st! t. John's, where the crops, it was said, were e it T HE 1 . ,) Yed. "ct5.......4,4?Ne.A.5TE1t GOLD CUP AND DONCASTER D u o I\i —eir4 L ife in London and Sporting Chronicle, f Rt. °x ‘eAs T E xT will contain a Splendid Engraving of the S r - eheA tit G °Lt. CUP, with full particulars of the Horses L''' Li t , -- r st er, the Latest Changes in the Betting, the s 147rtitlg—vnarliltt?PilEcY BY VATES, together . with the usua 1 P- ''sTE p eties, tile CRICKETERS' REGISTER , . AQUATIC 0 1(1. t l iet :e l . (l "e tr BS ' ' B `e, Bze. Price , of 4, B , _ell:s Life In Londoi!, ord er` reu E . t' -- "c.e. 170, Strand. 4 , 4 • Co :secure copies eariy ' 'e Oven to the Aguas. _. GENERAL PRODUCE. ASUES.—Pots are firm at 4 dollars 75 cents., an advance at 121 cents. ; 250 bbls. Pearls have been taken at 5 dols. 50c. COFFEE.—A fair business has been done during the past 3 days at a reduction of fa I cents, on all descriptions. Sales of 2,000 bags Brazil at 10 a 101 ; 2,000 Laguara, 10 cents, 4 mos. ; 500 Cuba, 9. a 10e. cash. COTTON.—The sales since our last include about 600 bales, at a further decline of of a cent. on all descriptions. The market continues without animation. FLOUR.—In consequence of light supplies, holders have ad vanced their demands 25c., which has been realized for small parcels. We quote Western Canal, 8 dollars 50 cents. a 9 dollars ; Southern, 9 dollars, and 9 dollars 50 cents. for new. GRAIN.—The demand for Foreign Wheat continues dull, though without any material change in prices. Sales have been made of new Va. and N. Carolina at 1 dollar 60 cents. a 1 dollar 624- cents. cash, and 60 days, establishing a reduc tion of fully 10 cents. per bushel. We observed no change in Rye—sales at 80 a 82 cents. for foreign and a small lot of old northern 871—no nen yet in market. Corn dull at 100 a I dollar 61 cents. MOLASSES-We have no change to report i■ this article. Inferior descriptions appear to be more in request. PaovistoNs—We reduce our quotations for Prime Pork, 50 cts. Sales having been made 16 dollars 50 cents, and 16 dollars 75 cents. Beef without change and the market in general dull and inactive. RICE—DuII at 4 dollars 121 cents, a 4 dollars 25 cents. SUGAR—The market has assumed more animation and firmness. The stock of White Havana is much reduced, and wanted. Sales have been made of 500 boxes Brown Havana at 8f a Sic., and 150 hhds. New Orlems at 6f a 61-4 mos. TEAS—Two small invoices, generally of fine quality, ex- Levant and Laconia, were offered this day. The prices ob tained were not so high as had been anticipated, good teas being scarce and in demand ; several lots were withdrawn. The Hysons brought 59 a 69 ets. ; Young Hyson 50 and 56 cts. ; Gunpowder 70 a 74 cts. ; Imperial 60 a 70 cts. ; and flyson Skin 33 a 441 cts. COTTON. SAVANNAH. AUG. 18.—Arrived since the 11th instant 1,741 bales Upland, and cleared for the same time for Liverpo o l 3,208 bales Upland, and 125 bales Sea Island, leaving a stock on hand inclusive of all on shipboard not cleared on the 18th instant of 4,328 bales Upland, and 963 bales Sea Island. Since our last we have experienced a tolerable inquiry for Up land, and up to Tuesday the prices obtained were a shade higher, subsequently a trifling reduction has been ceded to holders, and the market closed heavily. The sales of the week amount to 372 bales as follows : 20 at 9 71 ; 62 at 104 ; 23 at 10k; 56 at 10. i; and 89 sales of a very choice lot sold over 11 cents. NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 17. DAILY NOTICE OF TIM MARKET. SUGAR.—Prime, 51 a 6 cents. ; inferior, 4 a 5, moderate demand. Havannah white, 11 a 12; brown, 71 a 81, dull. MOLASSES.—On Levee, 25a 26 cents. per gallon, sales. On plantation, 22 cents., small sales. FLOUlL—Superfine, 12 a 12i, scarce, sales ; fine, 11,50 dollars per barrel, sales. COFFEE—Havannah Green, 11 a 12 cents. ; middling, 10 a 101; Rio, 11 a 11;f ; Java, 14 a 15, sales. LEAD.— Pig, 5 a— cts. ; Bar, 7 to 71 cents. per lb. TonAnco.—First quality, 5f a 6 cents. per lb. ; second do. 31 a crossed, 1 a2l do. ; sales. SALT.—Liverpool, clarse, 2,75 a 3 dollars ; fine 3 a 3 25 dollars per sack—.sales; Turks Island, per bushel, a cents. do. do. FREIGHTS—Cotton—To Liverpool, id. per lb. ; Havre, 11 cent. ; New York, cent. ; Boston, cent. Tonacco.--To Cowes and a market per hhd. 50s. 6d. ; Bremen and Hamburg, direct, bOs. ; New York, per 6 a 6.1- dollars ; Boston, 6 dollars. NEW COTTON.—A sample of Sea Island of the coming crop, grown at Fair Lawn, was handed us yesterday—its texture is fine, but staple not long. (From the C harleston Courier of August 14.) Extract of a letter, dated August 8, from a gentleman re siding near Darien, Gco.—'• I could, a few days ago, have given you very favourable accounts, from this'quarter, of the Rice and Cotton crops ; but alas I it is quite the reverse now. On the 6th, we experienced the most severe gale since 1824. The Cotton crops on the high lands have been whipped to pieces. On this place ( Island) the Cotton crop will be totally lost; and Rice has been four feet under salt water. I have done all that could be done by washing, but will not make half a crop. Fortunately, not much damage sustained in buildings, no lives lost, or persons injured." MONTREAL MARKETS.-There has been no increased acti vity in trade during the past week ; in fact it has been, if any thing, duller than the previous one. Ashes have advanced in price, sales having been made in parcels of 50 to 100 barrels at 255. 3d. for pots, and 28s. 3d. for Pearls—fur Small Bills 245. 9d. and 28s. Foreign Wheat has been retailing at 7s. Id. to Bs. per mi not, according to quality. In Provisions there is little doing—no alteration in price of Pork. Lard is in demand at 7d. and but little in the market. Butter is quite dull at 'Yid. f.,r best U.C. In Exchange no alteration. LIVERPOOL-MONDAY. UNITED STATES. The Virginia packet•ship, Captain Harris, arrived here to-day, after an extraordinary shoe t passage of 16 days, car rjing adviccs from that city to the 26th ult. This arrival brings further accounts, from New Orleans, to the 17th ; Savannah, to the 18th ; Charleston, to the 20th ; Balti more, to thei23d ; and Canada, to the '2oth. (From the New York Globe.) DISCONNECTION OF BANK AND STATE.—WC see the Democratic Presses, with very few exceptions, throughout the country, zealously advocating the separation of the finances of the Government from banking institutions. We ids° find resolutions to the same effect, adopted at Demo cratic mec tings in all parts of the country. The address of the Albany Republican Committee, which has been the subject of comment throughout the country, advocates this proposition clearly and strongly. At the Democratic convention in Washington county, New York, the following resolution, among others, alike in tone and spirit, was unanimously adopted : " Resolved, That we look forward to the day with cheer ing hopes, when the finances of the Government will be en tirely and for ever separated front all banks and banking institutions ; that we wholly repudiate the idea, that the fiscal operations of the Government cannot be effected v'it.hout the aid of such irresponsible instruments ; that we bdieve that the word has gone forth which will not return until an irreversible decree of divorce between the Treasury and these public depositories shall be pronounced by the • p :ogle." Resolutions, similar in tone and character have been adopted at democratic meetings in all parts of the country. In our minds, there ca❑ be little doubt, that a vast ma- CLEARED OUTWARDS, SEFT. 11. Arab, Marshall, for New Orleans; Adriana, Jones, for Her bice ; Forth, Glenn, for Gibraltar; Vroyr Anna, Laugliete, for Antwerp; and Isabella, Dearness, for Pilleau. SHIPS SAILED, SEPT. 11. None. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, SEPT. 11. Wind at Holyhead—Murning, W.S.W.; Noon, W. S. W ; Night, W. S. w. Off Holyhead, inward bound, the Trinidad Packet, from St. Vincent ; and Greyhound, from Bristol. Oil Voel Nant, inward bound, the Emily, from Ceara ; and Duncan, from Bombay. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, SEPT. 11. Our trade has been dull to-day, only 2,500 bags having been taken off the Market, but prices have not declined. 200 Pernam, 9i-; 200 Egyptian, 91 a 93-; 50 Maranham, 9; 100 Bahia, 8 a Bk- ; Remainder American. LIVERPOOL CATTLE-MARKET, SEPT. 11. The att en d ance at our C att l e Market this morning was very thin, owing to the Orrnskirk Fair taking place this day. The quantity of Beasts at market was large, and prices remain the same. The supply of Sheep was also good, but everything was dull and heavy. Lamb was to be found in abundance, but did not sell, al though the graziers were willing to submit to a little reduction. The Duke of Argyle, who has been seriously indis posed, is convalescent. VOLUNTARY CHURCH-RATE.—The churchwar dens are busily collecting the rate levied by themselves, af ter the refusal of the parish to sanction the impost. Thcy boast much of their success, and doubtless many contribute as a voluntary gift what they would not give on compul sion to such an o bj ect . A par i s h ma y no t b e t axe d f or religious purposes but with its own consent. This is the essence of religious liberty ; as the right of taxing the nation by the Com mons on l y, li es at t h e b as i s o f c i v il lib erty. W e rejoice in the issue of the struegle. A great principle has been established, and at the same time the moderation and temper of those who have been branded as friends of con fusion have been evinced.—Kendal Mercur y . Last ni g h t an i nqu i s i t i on was held on the body of Georg e Booth, who cut his throat in so severe a man ner with a knife which he snatched from the shop of a botcher in the Horscferry-road, Westminster, that he died from the effect of the wound. The jury, after hearing the evidence of the House-Surgecn of the Westminster Hos , pital, and the bov in the service of the butcher, returned a verdict of " Insanity." WEST INDIES.-HURRICANE. FALMOUTH, SEPT. J.— r ule Spey pa .I:et, Lieutenant James, arrived from the Leeward Islatids this morning ; she sailed from St. Thomas's on the Bth of August. This packet brings distressing accounts of the effects of the hur ricanes which were experienced at most of the West India islands ott the 26th of July and 2d of August. The following vessels were wrecked at Barhaloes iu tht first hurricane, and scarcely a vestige to be seen of them : Barques-...fichwatz, of Liverpool, with 43 hhds. of sugar; Elizabeth, of Liverpool, with 314 hhds. of sugar. Brigs—Sarah Trotman, of Liverpool, with 339 hhds. at sugar ; Corsair, of Liverpool, with 12.5 hhds. of sugar ; Harmony, of Greenock, with 220 puncheons of molasses ; Pacific, of Greenock, with 140 hhds. of sugar ; Pitscot t en, of London, arrived the day before with a general cargo ; Amulet, of New Brunswick, in ballast ; Elizabeth and Sir John Moore, of New Brunswick, with timber. Schooners--Wave, of Demerara; Janet, of Nassau ; Sir Henry Warde, of Berbice ; Messenger, of Trinidad ; Jane, of St. John's, New Brunswick ; Dame, of Halifax ; Ame lia, of St. Lucia ; Gleaner, of Antigua ; Jeune Camilla, of Guadeloupe. Sloop—Fortitude. A few of these were in ballast, but most of them were laden with flour, timber, &c. Ship Britannia, of Bristol, was driven on shore, with 7.50 hogsheads of sugar, and had seven feet water in her hold, but hopes were entertained of her being got off. Steamers Aloan and Tickler, mail-boats, driven on shore, but would probably be got off. At Antigua, August 2—Montrose, of Liverpool, with 300 hhds. of sugar, a total wreck. At St. Kitt's, August 2—Julius, of London, with 210 hhds. of sugar, a total wreck ; Michael, of London, upper tier of sugar, and would probably be got off; Eleanor mail boat, from the southward, mails lost except a few damaged bags. St. Thomas, August 2—Thirty-six vessels wrecked and sunk in harbour ; several lives lost ; a great number of houses entirely blown down, and every wharf in t'm is!and destroyed. Water Island had all the houses blown down ; cattle pe rished ; and M. Couprie, nephew of the proprietor, was carried a great distance by the wind, and the next morning he was found smashed to pieces. Passengers by the Spey—From Barbadoes, Mr. Hardy ; Grenada, Mr. Jephson ; Demerara, Mr. Newman ; Sr. Lucia, Mr. Muter; Antigua, 111% . : Trye. On freight ICO ounces of gold. The Lyra packet arrived at Barbadoes Silly 29 ; the steamer Carron arrived at St. Thomas August The Seagull packet, Lieutenant Parsons, arrived yestei day ; sailed from Vera Cruz July 1, Tampico 5, ant Ha vannah 8. On freight 320,000 dollars. Eight passengers. No news. _ . _ Annexed are extracts from the St. Kitt's and St. Tho mas newspapers respecting the hurricane : ST. KITT'S GAZETTE, AUG. s.—Early on Wednesday morning the wind blew strongly from the north, and indi cated the forthcoming storm, and about eight o'clock it veered round to the north-west, and shortly after to west, during which time it blew a perfect gale, throwing a tre mendous sea into the harbour, and threatening the de struction of every vessel in it. The barque Julius, of Lon don, droved from her anchorage about eleven o'clock, and was driven on shore on the rocks to the eastward of the port, and immediately became a total wreck. The mail-boat schooner Eleanor, which had arrived at too late an hour on the preceding night to land the mails, next followed, having parted, and was also driven among the rocks alongside of the Julius, and was instantly washed up. A part of the mail-bags only could be got out of her, and that with great difficulty, before she broke up, and some were lost in her ; those that have been recovered arc in such a state as to render them almost useless. The crews were saved by climbing over the rocks. About twelve o'clock the barque Michael, of London,- was driven on shore at the head of the bay, by the Pond, and imbedded in the sand ; all the crew succeeded in getting on shore, with the exception of David Wilson, a seaman, who was drowned. The sloop Crocodile, of Dominica, came on shore near the Michael ; and the sloop Gig, of Sandy Point, was driven among the rocks. The Julius and Eleanor arc complete wrecks. A survey was held on the Michael, which was to have sailed for London in a few days, and her cargo was being trans shipped to the Robert, which vessel, with the Hescone, of Quebec, and the Royal Adelaide, of Cork, rode out the gale. ST. THOMAS GAZETTE, AUG. s.—lt is almost impossi ble to describe the sad havoc occasioned on Wednesday evening, by the gale in the town, country, and ship ping, in the harbour only two or three square-rigged vessels having been able to keep their ground ; the others, with a number of smaller craft, having been driven on shore, sunk, or capsized. A great num ber of houses, large and small, have been entirely blown down and smashed to pieces ; and, with a few exceptions, every house in the town has been injured more or less. A great many of those covered with slates and tiles have been stripped almost entirely, others partially. Trees of every description have been rooted up, and every wharf in the island destroyed, The loss must be great, and much of it has fallen upon those who are the least able to sustain it. The gale had scarcely begun to subside when the alarm of fire was given about 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, and all was again confusion for a short time. The fire had a very threatening appearance for some time, but was stopped at no great distance from where it commenced. The original cause of it is not well known, as is usual in similar cases, but the consequences will be severely felt by many individually, the amount of property destroyed being considerable. Number of vessels sunk or otherwise destroyed, 36 ; remaining at anchor un injured, 6 ; 18 lives lost in harbour. The British brig Water Witch, Captain Newby, arrived off St. Thomas on Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock, but the wind would not admit of her getting into the har bour. She came to anchor outside, and rode out the gale safely ; she left Liverpool on the 12th of June. MUTINY AT TRINIDAD.—The West India papers ar rived yesterday contain the particulars of the mutiny at Trinidad in June, of which we have before heard :—lt appears that a number of captured slaves, sheer savages, had recently been incorporated into the Ist West India Regiment, and were lying at St. Joseph's. There then rose upon their officers, seized upon the ammunition, chased away the persons who in the first instance attempted to sub due them, and set fire to their barracks. Ultimately, when the Militia could be brought to act against them, they were subdued, with the loss to them of five killed on the spot, and six wounded. They then fled in parties to the woods and were pursued. Several of them were found there dead, four of them having strangled themselves, and others pe rished of wounds. Eight were unaccounted for. The number of the mutineers was 150, and their intention was to murder their officers. Colonels Bush and Jackson, With Licut, Gitreppe, distinguished themselves on the occa sion. So much were the mutineers strangers that it was necessary to seek out interpreters from among the former importations to communicate with them, and they were so difficult to find that the parley seems to have been unintel ligible, and could not be held when it might have saved life. The Guiana Chronicle treats the affair lightly, but at the same time condemns very severely, and very justly, the practice of incorporating such savages with the army, and entrusting them with arms for the defence of others. SPAIN. GENERAL ESPARTERO AND M. MENDIZABAL. LETTER OF THE COUNT DE LUCHANA (ESPARTERO) TO THE EDITORS OF THE ESPANOL. " The charges brought against me by General S.:O4SIC in the Cortes, on the 18th instant, require an answer from me even in the interest of the country. With that view I must first describe the situation of the army under the Mc..ritli- • zabal Administration. I assumed the command in the most critical circumstances. Some days- after I was obliged to fly to the relief of Bilboa. Destitute of re sources, notwithstanding my warm remonstrances, I was in the necessity of sending from Villarcayo a Cabinet courier to Logrono, to bring money from my own house. The subsistence of the army was by means provided for, and it was necessary to use all possible means in order to procure The soldiers their daily rations, which were seldom com plete. In that rigorous season the troops struggled not only against misery, but also against nakedness. Some re giments made that memorable campaign in summer trousers, and in general they were all exposed to the severity of the atmosphere. The orEcers themselves were in want of boots and shoes ; and the hardest heart would have been touched on beholding the blood which covered the soldiers' feet when we went over roads which mud and gravel had rendered impassable. Two hundred pairs of shoes only arrived from Santander. I demanded leather to make sandals, but I succeeded not., because the leather was too rough, and besides we had no convoys. Constancy got the better of e verything—victory crowned efforts so heroic, but the hospitals were afterwards filled with sick, and it was with sorrow that one saw those men whom the enemy's fire had respected tha victims of a com plete abandonment, without beds, food, or medicines. How many have been amputated—not owing to their wounds, but to their feet having been frozen ! Let the people of Cartoo Wedales, Portugalete, and Bilboa be questioned— . let those brave Englishmen who co-operated in the deliver ' ance of Bilboa—let Deputies Lujan, Arana, and Santa Cruz be questioned—they will all say what the soldiers had to suffer before they entered that town, and what dis organizatien prevailed in every part of the Administration. General Seoane himself was a witness of it. Those De puties should have undeceived the nation in the sanc tuary of the national representation.* They should have torn off the mask o f M. representation.; when tui ventured impudently to affirm that the army was abundantly supplied with everything. Let the Cortes demand communication of my correspondence, from the Irno tnent when I assumed the command to the period when I left the Basque provinces in pursuit of the Pretender. IA t the answers be at the same time communicated, and ht impartiality judge. I fear nothing. Thus ivill be con victed of imposture he that ventured to affirm that the ser vice of the army was secured ; thus fomenting the military rebellions which have recently followed each other, an l brought on the assassination of General Escalera and other superior officers. Thus will he avenged Generals whose dishonour has been sought, as well as the army which is shedding its blood for liberty and the Throne of Isabella the Second. " I am accused by General Sewn(' of the greatest crime that a soldier can be guilty of, for he pretends that I came to Segovia with my corps d'armee against the direct orders of the Government. I assure the Cortes, the Queen, the nation, and the whole world, that not only the Govern ment had not given me such order, but, seeing the capital threatened by the entry of the rebels into Segovia, they deemed my resolution a felicitous inspiration:, and repeatedly sent orders to accelerate my march as the enemy might make an attack from one moment to another. That General Seoane wrote to me is true ; but I know not whether he had been authorised to do it by the Government. He also came out to meet me, and drew an wed picture of the danger and scandal that my entry into Madrid might produce. The perfidy and venom which that part of Ge neral Scoane's speech contains will find a wholesome anti dote in a rational account-of that which passed. " In consequence of the Royal command I received to arrive by forced marches at Madrid, which was menaced, a brigade of my co tps-d'-armee marched in one day eleven leagues and a half, to reach Guadalajara'. Next day I took the road to Madrid, the only one leading directly to the enemy. Everybody knows the distance. I advanced with an escort, leaving the necessary orders respectinc , the cantonments which the troops were to occupy at about three leagues from the capital. Gen. Seoane met me a league and a half from Madrid and imparted his fears. I assured him that order would not be disturbed, adding that, if his fears were founded, it would be more dangerous still to remove the troops to a distance. The enemy, informed of my arrival, withdrew towards Segovia. Next day the troops entered their cantonments on the opposite side, in order to continue their march. My confidence in them in duced me to make them march off before their Majesties. None can tell better than the heroic people of Madrid whether the fear of General Scoane and of the Govern ment had the slightest foundation. " The enemy having again concentrated at Segovia, he was to be driven from that down into the Alcazar, in which Goi•ernment told me was fortifying himself. The troops were ord';'.red to march before the artillery I had demanded was ready. I was obliged to proceed through Aravaca without having received the guns as I should h ave wished, and all I could do was to recommend the chief of the staff to hasten the preparations.' With these facts before them I leave all impartial men to pronounce whether General Seoanc, who styled himself Espartero's friend, should have levelled against him insinuations as perfidious as false. It is seen that all my efforts have tended to leaving her Majesty in the free exercise of her prerogatives ; that I have meddled in no manner with the formation of the Ministry, and that I have taken no initiation in it, as insinuated by M. Seoane. Such a fault deserved not that officers be decimated, that their regimentals be torn off their backs, and that they be dragged through the streets of Madrid with a chain about their necks. It cer tainly behoves not M. Seoane to give me lessons of energy. By my firmness I have maintained, and, perhaps, improved, the discipline of the army, a discipline admired by our countrymen and foreigners in presence of misery and sacrifices which Spanish soldiers alone can endure. Would General Seoane have had nineteen or twenty officers shot, for such is the meaning of the word, " to decimate," that he uses ? Would he have given the rebels the strange ex hibition of the other officers carried about Madrid with chains about their necks ? He has said so ; but General Espartero was incapable of depriving the country of a large number of distinguished officers, brave and covered with glory. A transient error, without serious consequences, deserved not so exemplary a chastisement, inspired by an anger which had examined without facts or consequences. I have done my utmost to prevent a conflict. I had re fused to form part of the preceding Cabinet. I should have betrayed my oaths and conviction in joining the Cabi net to the detriment of the army, for I. would not have de manded the necessary supplies. if I ultimately gave way it waa to avoid greater calamities ; but after the organiza tion of the Cabinet I resigned, in order to apply myself wholly to the war. I shall now openly proclaim principles to which I have ever been faithful. It is my duty, the duty also of all Spaniards united by the noblest common inte rest to give our lives for the country, presenting our breasts to danger, in order bravely and energetically to repel our cruel opponents. We have a flag dear to our hearts ; we have sworn to be faithful t o it. Isabella and the Consti tution.' Let that be ou: motto. Proclaimed with enthu siasm and loyalty, that motto must render us Invincible and crush our enemies. (Signed) " Siguenza, Aug. '29, 1837." "Count DE LUCHANA M. MENDIZABAL'S REPLY TO GENERAL ESPARTERO. The ex-Minister, after expressing his astonishment at General Espartero having found no opportunity of making any observation in the course of various Cabinet Councils which lasted four hours, and of a conference of three hours with him (Mendizabal), says, " His Excellency talks of the pri vations of the army ; but it is surprising that, on the Mad, id Gazette publishing detailed statements of the supplies of all sorts sent to the army, he should not have caused them to be contradicted. It is astonishing that, on his recent pas. sage through Madrid, he should have declared that he wanted not 1,000 uniforms already packed up ; he demanded but 10,000 pair of trowsers, 10,000 pair of shoes, 50 uni , forms, 1,500 shirts, and 50,000 reals. That application was made in the presence of the Deputies, General Scone and • Don P. Infante, and the articles were forthwith supplied to him. All Madrid has been enabled to judge of the condi tion of his troops, notwithstanding their forced marches, and therefore it is not the point most insisted upon. " 'The Royal Horse Guards had received a fourth of its pay in May, when it arrived at Terrejon ; with those 500,000 reds the officers were satisfied until the 22d of the same month. The services of the troops were secured to the end of July. If the situation .of the country, the embarrassments caused by SQ desolatin4 a civil war, and the difficulties of all sorts that surround the Government, be considered, one must avow that the arrears were not considerable. Though military questions must not be hastily dis cussed I must say that, informed as he was every hour of General Mendez Vigo's position, of tha reinforcements reaching him, of the state of the capital, his Excellency might have preferred marching by Buitraip to taking the Royal road to Madrid, the only direct one, says his Ex vellency, to act against the rebels occupying Segovia. They would infallibly have been routed, or they would hive dispersed. Tile enormous booty raised by them in the rich and unfortunate province of Segovia would have fallen into the hands of our brave soldiers. No house would have been plundered—many interests now ruined would have been to a great degree protected—and the Car!ist Junta would not now be quietly establis,hed in Cas• t;l,-, dragging young men from their homes to increase the Pretender's army. " In such case also the division, covered with laurels, after having rendered such important services, would have been enabled to march to the plaia of Herrera, and prevent the reverse sustained by General liuercns' corps. Time was required to do all this. General Mendez Vigo would have been left to pursue the rebus. All denotes that the Pre tender would have reee:ved the severe blow which his Ex cellenespromised the Goverornent to inflict. If nothing of this hail happened the Count he Luchana furnishes data which explain in what quarter the blame must rest. Th e army and an impartial public will judge. " His Excellency imputes to me, indirectly or vaguely, other unfortunate occurrences which have befallen the array, and which lam the first to deplore. I repel his im putation with the whole strength of my sou; and with the calmness I derive from my conscience and my hcirt, 'anx ious only to behold the triumph of the national cause. " As a good Spaniard, an honourable citizen, a devoted patrot,• I deplore the evils arising from such explanations, but in those three respects I was bound to defend my wounded honour. I declare, also, that I repel all allega tion of party spirit and personal animosity in my differences with Count de Luchan:t. When his Excellency shall be free from his eminent occupations, and no longer invested with his high . office, be sh a ll ever find me ready to giro him such explanations as he may deem himself entitled to. For the present I have said enough to enable the nation to form an opinion upon so momentous a quecion. " JUAN ALVAREZ Y MENDIZABAL. " Madrid, Sept. 1, 1837. At a meeting of the Incorporation of Fleshers of Etlinburzb, held o n W e d nes d ay , it was una nimously re soived, 'on the motion of Deacon Wilson, seconded by Mr, Fountain, to subscribe ten guineas from the funds of the Incorporation towards the testimonial about to be Instotfed on Sir James Gibson Craig. Mushrooms are exceedingly plentiful in some parts of the country this year. On Thursday week, eleven hundred weight were sent by the boats from the neighbour. hood of Nerthwich and Nantwich to Manchester, to be :here co everted into ketchup,, On the previous Tuesday s) , ; hundred weight were sent from the same places. ' - Tito Town Council o e f Liv,!rpol 1 14 s appo i nte d a onemigrating inquire into the frauds an d i mpos i t i ons now o from th at port, to r: port aid to suggest such measures % Ats they may deem advisable for the prevention of such practices in future,"