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Ist, with Views of Keswick and Mr. So:ithey's House, Ex, engraved by hinder, after Creswick, Vol. 111. of QOUTHEY'S POETICAL WORKS; containing-, amongst culler New Poems not before published, the entire DEVIL'S WALK (of which nut more than one-third part has hitherto found its way iuto print), with a Preface, giving the true Account of its Origio. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Oa priee k., E j oll D BROUGH A M'S SPEECH on IV PRISONNIENT for James Ridgway ancl Sons, Piccadilly. Also, no, ready, LORD BROUGHAM'S SPEECH 'on the BUSINESS 01 PARLIAMENT. STAFFORDS' PATENT SAFETY COACH, WHICH CANNOT BE UPSET. TO COACH PROPRIETORS AND COACH BUILDERS. lIISTAFFORD. tiir Patentee of the new Coach, • IN il GRANT LICENCE` for the USE of his INVEN TION to be APPLIED to STAGE, and ail other Coaches and Carriages. Tenders for the bulding NEW COACHES, or AL TERING OLD ONES, (of the present dangerous construction) rnsy he addressed forthwith to the Patentee, at Gray's Repository, Earl- st Ye et, Black rri rs. N. !t. Offiecs wanted in either of the following thoroughfares, viz., St. Martins-le-Grand, Che tpsido, Ludgate hill, or Fleet street. No letters received unless post-paid. .The publication of Tuft SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three 0' Clock. ,7A-4;144 1 7-I,N „i v q" j , 1 1 - 1- .l ' )1. 4 LONDON : TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1337. I i the House of LORDS, yesterday, the Loan CHANCELLOR real a Message from her M ijesty, brought thither by Viscount MELBOURNE, intimating the necessity of making further pro vi-ion for her Royal Mother, the Duchess of KENT. The Messege was ordered to be taken into consideration to-day. Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions for placing Negro Ap prentices on the same footing as Emancipated Negroes. Slavery, and Slave Education, formed the subject of a short discussion. The Duke of CLEI ELAND then presented a petition from Sunderland, praying the insertion of a clause in the Municipal Corporations Declaration Bill, by which Jews should be en titled to the same privileges and rights which were conferred on those for whom the measure was expressly framed. The House of COMMONS met at the usual hour. Mr. FIELDEN presented a petition from the distressed hand loom weavers of Manchester, and gave notice of his intention to found a motion upon it. Petitions were also presented in favour of the Ballot ; for the adoption of Mr. Hill's plan of Postage ; and a variety of other subjects. In answer to a question from Mr. LEADER, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that Lord GOSFORD had expresssed a wish to resign the Government of Canada, and permission had been given him to return. The Government of the Colony would in the mean thud devolve upon Sir JOHN COL BORNE, but no successor had yet been appointed. Among the notices of motion was one given by Sir F. BURDETT, that soon after the recess he would move for an in vestigation into the unfortunate circumstances in Ireland at Rathcormae, and another by Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR that he should upon the motion for the appointment of Committee upon the Pension List, move that the name of the Hon. Member for Southwark ( Mr. Haevey) should be inserted, if not named, and if it appeared that there was not a pre ponderance of Members who had voted for inquiry, he should move that names be substituted from those who had been fa vourable to inquiry. The Message from her MAJESTY, en the subject of pro viding for the Duchess of KENT, having been read, Lord JOHN Russam., who had appeared at the Bar with it, gave notice that he will this day move that it be taken into consi deration. Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR. in reply to Mr. WALLACE, stated that it was not his intention to proceed with his Bill for the Abolition of Lay Patronage in the Church of Scotland, as the subject had been taken up by the General Assembly. Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR asked whether any measure would be brought forward respecting Irish tithes, and was informed by Lord Jome RUSSELL that such a Bill would certainly be brought forward after the recess. Atter some other business had been disposed of, it will be seen that the House went into Committee on the Civil List Acts, when the sum of 385,0001. annually for the support of the Royal Household, together with the additional sum of 10,0001. for the household servants 7 was granted to her Ma jesty ; and also an annual sum, as pensions on the Civil List, to the extent of 1,2001. a year. The resolutions will be reported to-day, and a measure will be founded upon them which will be discussed on Friday in a Committee of the whole House. Mr. Hume gave notice on Friday, that he should upon the motion for going into Committee upon the Civil List Bill, move that the Officers in the Lord Chamberlain's, the Lord Steward of the Household, and the Master of the Horse's offices, be reduced to the standard of the period from 1786 to 1792. In reply to an Hon. Member, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated his intention to move that the House should, on the 16th Feb., go into Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill. Mr. FIELDEN then called the attention of the House to the recent disturbances at Bradford, on the occasion of the intro duction of the Poor Law Amendment Act, and moved for a return of certain correspondence connected with the subject. Mr. WAKLET seconded the motion, and expressed a hope that every one at Bradford, or elsewhere, who felt himself ae•grieved, would forward his complaints to the Committee which was now sitting, to inquire into the operation of the Poor Law. Lord JOHN Russimr, had no objection to the production of the returns, subject to certain alterations which he would pro pose. After a short discussion, the motion, as amended by Lord J. IZussriLL, was agreed to. The LORD ADVCATR obtained leave to bring in two Bills relating to the Jurisprudence of Scotland. Mr. NVALLacs called the attention of the House to the pe titon of Mr. Jones, complaining of dilatory proceedings in the Ccrart of Session in Scotland. After some observations on the subject by the L ORD A DYO - carrE, the House (at eight o'clock) adjourned. The intention of the Poor-law Bill is, to prevent as much as• possible, the lazy pauper from subsisting - upon the industry of his neighbour ; its leading fea ture that the pauper shall not be better clad and fed, 01.1 have more of the good things of life than the bonest labourer, who struggles to be independent of ptrblie charity, The measure works well, but only in one direction. .We opine it should operate at two extre, 'nes of society. There is the tattered pauper and the titled pauper, and the former justly complains that his order has been made most partially the sub ject of legislative e xperiment, which denies him the pleasure he would have ex p erienced in sittin g down :.nth patrician blood to the workhouse soup and gruel had the law been impartial. We cannot discriminate between the pauper who subsists upon the parish-rates And the pauper who subsists on a pension from the Civil List or Consolidated Fund. They are both useless mouths in society—both subtract from the earn ings of the industrious labourer ; and we hope to see by the end of the present Session the principle of the Poor-law Bill brought to bear impartially upon the pension pauper and the poor's-rate pauper. The work house has been made the test of indigence, and if we have indigent Peers, indigent Dowagers, indigent Squires, and Honourables, let the overseers of their respective parishes offer them the shelter and fare of the workhouse. Oh, the vulgar proposal 1 These people have sensibilities, fine-strung nerves, exquisite perceptions of gentility. What a hideous proposal And then what a loud cry would ascend to arouse the Tory manes of your Castlereaghs, Pitts, and Dun dases, against the Vandal Radicals who propose to draw aside the curtain that conceals all the disgusting deformities of the Pension List, and to hand over the delicate lordings and ladies to the tender mercies of the parish beadle ! If Giles Scroggins and Molly Brown be compelled through indigence to apply to the over seer, that officer never enquires into their sensibilities and nervous constitution, but inducts them to a stall in the workhouse. Giles and Molly may have as much repugnance to workhouse fare and a workhouse wel come as Lord Pedigree or the Honourable Mrs. Fitzroball. Molly might feel squeamish at the sight of the gruel, but the Honourable Lady would abso lutely faint. It was remarked in some public document lately, that pauperism in some families is hereditary, descend ing from father to son, and accumulating at each descent with all the certainty it would derive from the law of primogeniture. We believe there is great truth in the remark, and we could point to the Pen sion List in corroboration. Some family names have been fixtures on the list for the last 150 years. Your aris•ocrat c nae Hes stick to it like burs. There is a wondrous tenacity of existence in that direction— an astonishing perpetuity of ancestral excellence. A certain Noble Duke receives a pension from the Post office revenue, not for any greatness or goodness of his own, but his ancestor was a great General some 130 years ago, and none of all the descendants of this great General have felt shame to pocket the public money upon the plea of their ances tor's services. We wonder if the same great General had been corvieted of selling the army stores, whether his posterity would have been equally fond of making an annual indemnity to the public ? Again, we find the gentle names of Lydia and Julia, Jemiwa and Grizzel, figuring on the list, because the mo ther's aunt's cousin's sister-in-law's neicc, of the said Lydia, Julia, Jeinima, and Grizzel was attendant on one of Queen Charlotte's Ladies of the Bedchamber. Some such names clus:er prettily on the Pension List. We have of ten ben struck with the perfect similarity of the Pension List system, with the administration of the Poor Laws under which is, now happily for us, the " old system." It was not uncommon, before the law was amended, for shopkeepers to get rich on the plunder of the paupers; and paupers have been known to accumulate money by practising deception, and plun derirF the poor's-rate. Stich paupers thought the new Poor-law harsh. Such was Lord A lthorp's opinion, in 1831, when a revisal of the Pension List was talked of. Here is his language :—" At the same time it would be a harsh measure to overlook on this present occa sion that which has been the uniform usage on all for mer settlements of the Civil List. Pensions on the Civil List have always hitherto been considered to be granted for life." "It is more than probable, therefore, that parties, relying on an adherence to an invariable custom, have made family settlements and pecuniary arrangements of various kinds, with all of which his Majesty must necessarily interfere, should these pensions for the first time be refused." This is pre cisely the language held by the paupers in certain dis tricts before the New Poor Law came into operation. They talked of " family settlements and pecuniary ar rangements." We know a case in the parish of Cran brook where a pauper built a row of cottages, and named them " Providence Cottages." Truly there was as much providence in the old Poor Laws to this pauper as there is providence in the Pension List for patrician spinsters. No doubt the pauper had made family settlements, and heartily cursed the harsh Poor Law Bill, that put an end to his system of plunder. In the meantime, before the meeting of the Com mittee, we suppose that the Chancellor o f the Exchequer will be fully occupied in reading the indignant epistles of poor Lords and Ladies resigning their pensions, and the sweet-scented supplicating notes of ancient spinsters and needy bachelors implorin g his protection. We sus pect that Ministers would not have had such a large majority on Friday night, if some of the Opposition Gentlemen of more sensitive morals than the Member for North Wilts had not left the House, lest they should be accused as sitting in judgment upon their own cause. The deep interest taken by Lord BROUGHA NI in the social and moral condition of the emancipated negroes, reflects the highest credit upon his Lordship both as a consistent Reformer, and a Peer of Parliament. Were it not for the vigilance of such persons as his Lordship, it is possible that the emancipated negroes would be losers, rather than gainers, by the Act of the Imperial Legislature, placing them on a footing of equality with their late masters, despite of the efforts of the Government to the contrary. In the House of Lords last night Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Bap tist missionaries residing in the western part of the island of Jamaica, praying that steps might be taken for placing the apprentices on the same footing as the emancipated negroes in Jamaica, Antigua, and all the British Islands adjoin ing—in supporting which his Lordship well ob served, that Seventeen millions of the Compensation Fund having been paid by England, it was time to inquire whether the receivers of that money had per formed that part of the agreement which alone gave them a just claim to it. We trust a subject of such importance will not fail to attract the notice of the country, and that those who so long and so zealously laboured to eradicate Negro Slavery will: not he con tent with having done so merely in name. Having engaged to pay twenty millions of money, for what we were entitled to demand without the payment of a shilling, we are not now to be made the dupes of a set of unprincipled planters, noted only for their cruelty, arid their systematic opposition to the will of the mother country. Sir G. SINCLAIR is a perfect riddle. We cannot understand him at all, nor do we believe that he un derstands himself. He is constantly playing a game of political see-saw ;is this moment an ardent Re former ; the next a flaming Tory. Last night, for instance, after making son3e liberal and judicious re marks on the subject of the proposed Committee on the Pension List, he suddenly veered about, and brought all the small guns of his oratory to bear against Ministers—for no other reason that we can discover, than that they were not sufficiently imbued with Tory notions of R eform, as regards the Irish Church. This incon sip ;tent course of conduct— this halting between two bull dies—is exceedingly un worthy of one who aspire 3 to be a statesman, and cannot fail to damage his c haracter for political trust worthiness and sagacity. 1 Sir GEORGE must make himself conspicuous, let it b e either as a Tory or as a Reformer; but' let him not a t tempt to combine the two discordant characters. It it: surely no subject of boast for a man to realize Falsta ''s description of one of his silliest associates, that he is neither, fish, flesh, nor good red herring ; a ma nknows not what to make of him !" The changes which are about to take place in the Government of the Canad as do not speak favourably for the line of policy which :the Ministry adopted last year towards the Lower Pi.° vince. Lord GOSFORD, from what passed in the I louse of Commons last night, is heartily sick of the. business, and has received permission to resign his nation. Sir FRANCIS THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1837 HEAD is also on the move ; and as he is a man of great activity and dispatch, will probably return with as much expedition as he went out, so that we shall not be surprised to hear of his ar rival within a few days. The Government will thus have the advantage of speedily communicating with him in person, on the state of both Colonies. Variousreasons have been assigned for the removal of the Governor, and Li e utenant-Governor, but they appear any thing but satisfactory. The statement that Sir FRANCIS resigns, because he thinks the salary insufficient, is too absurd to require refutation ; and Lord GOSFORD, on his arrival in Canada, found his situation as irksome as it could possibly be up to the latest date. One would have expected, therefore, that when the great trial came, he would have been anxious to meet it with skill and courage. There must be other reasons for the changes besides those given to the public. Possibly the Government at home thought the one functionary went too fast, and the other too slow, and are prepared to pursue a middle course. We have no doubt that it is their anxious wish to pre vent the inhabitants of the two Provinces from coining into collision, and that they will make, every sacrifice consistent with honour and safety, to prevent such an awful calamity ; and we therefore trust that they will not deem it too late to reconsider that obnoxious resolution which has brought affairs in these provinces to such an alarming crisis. The whole authority, in the meantime, devolves on Sir JOHN COLBORNE, and as he is well acquainted with the state of public feeling, and has the character of being a prudent and skilful officer, he is probably as well qualified as any other individual to restrain the fury of the two parties still the Government make an other attempt to effect an amicable arrangement. There can surely be no truth in the report (probably circulated by the Tories), that Colonel ARTHUR is to be sent to Canada. If a firebrand were cast into a barrel of gunpowder, what would be the result ? Ever since England attained to any degree of eminence as a commercial and manufacturing nation, she has been af flicted with periodical stagnations of trade, and prostrations of mercantile prosperity. It is only of late years, however, that these visitations have become ruinously frequent, and their mischievous effects deep felt and extensive. It has been alleged that there is something in the nature of things which renders great enterprise incompatible with perfect stability, but the more general belief is that fluctuations and reverses are solely attributable to the defects of our monetary system, and the errors in our fiscal regulations. The former especially have been much dwelt on, and there is every reason to expect that they will form one of the most important topics of Parliamentary discussion during the present session. It is highly necessary therefore that the attention of the Press and the public should be directed to an examination of the various schemes of amoiioration which have been propounded, so that if the dangerous step of " tampering with the currency"—dangerous, but we be lieve absolutely necessary—be resolsed on, it may be taken in an enlightened spirit, and with good prospects of a final settlement of the question. For our own part we are not insensible to the benefits which the present p::pr money system has conferred on the nation, by developing industry and affording to the in genious and trustworthy the means of rising above penury ; but when we reflect oa the disasters of the past year—the utter ruin of hundreds of our most respectable merchants, and the misery and starvation of thousands of our most in dustrious mechanics-em cannot help looking back with some feeling of regret to the times when, if there was no great facility for the extension of credit to those deserving of it, nor ready opening for tile enterprising poor, neither vies there any excessive stimulant to the thirst for gain, nor much uncertainty in the returns for how st industry ;—to mite it alternately flag under discouragements and re ' verses, and overstrain its efforts beyond all reasonable limits, by the excitement of riches corning suddenly within the possibility of attainment. The sober, even-paced ongoings of trade in former days—when the eydent eye and the diligent hand of the to 'chanic secured to him with to lerable certainty the common necessaries of life, some little leisure, and an easy mind ; and when probity and ordinary I prudence in a merchant or manufacturer generally guaran teed to him a moderate and steady return on his capital, have not been forsaken with unmixed advantage for the more rapid and extensive, though less uniform and regular march of modern speculation. We have at the same time forsaken the frugality, the moderation of desires, and the settled tranquillity with patient pains taking habits of our fathers: Instead of b. ing content, as they were, to add penny to penny and pound to pound deliberately following out methodical life-long plans for thriving in a humble way, and all the time taking intervals for a wholesome recrea tion ; we use the whip and spur to make a headlong dash all at once for wealth, or wear ourselves out by incessant ap plication to an all-engrossing game of trade, to the neglect of health, case, economy, and many of our social and do mestic duties. But regrets are vain ; we are embarked on the stream, and must of necessity go whithersoever it leads. It is the duty of all wise men, however, without foolishly seeking to stem the torrent, to endeavour to guide it into a safer and more useful course. Paper money and its concomitant some degree of speculation must exist—nay, it is well that they should exist ; but may not the evils of an unlicensed issue of the former, and a consequent unbridled indulgence of the latter, be remedied by the adoption of some sound principle of banking and currency, whereby both may be preserved within due bounds, and made to minister to the healthy demands of trade and commerce ? We have before us a pamphlet published some months ago, by TAIT, of Edinburgh, which has not yet attracted that notice which, as a clear and philosophic inquiry into the evils of our monetary system, and an original and ingenious project for amelioration, it justly deserves. Its title is, " Monetary Reform—a project for rendering paper money independent of the precious metals and invariable in its value, in three letters, by WILLIAM Caoss." Without either pledging ourselves to the views of the writer, or avowing a belief in the practicability of his scheme, we think we cannot do better than lay a brief outline of the contents of the pamphlet before our readers. In the first letter Mr Cnoss, adopting the views of an able writer in the Quarterly _Review, gives a clear and forcible exposition of the effects of an increase or decrease in the quantity of money in circulation in raising or low ering the price of goods, and concludes thus : " Seeing, then, that besides the ordinary or relative fluc tuations in the prices of commodities, which are inseparable from the nature of demand and supply, and harmless as re gards the great interests of society, there is another kind of fluctuations which manifests itself in general rises and depres sions of prices ; that these general fluctuations are caused by disturbances in the proportion between money (whether in trinsic or representative, that is, whether metallic or paper money) and tho mass of goods of all sorts estimated and ex changed by means of it ; that such proportion is liable to be disturbed by alterations in the supply of goods brought to mar ket as well as by changes in the productiveness of the mines, and by the over-expansion or undue limitation of the issue of paper money ; that a depression of the measure of value, whether caused by a superabundance of the standard money, or an over-issue of the paper currency which represents it, or by a falling off in the supply of commodities, operates unfairly to the loss of all whose incomes consist of fixed sums of money, because they cannot therewith obtain so much in commodities as formerly ;—seeing, too, that every elevation of the stan dard, or change in the proportion of commodities to money, which gives an increased value or scarcity to the circulating medium, is in the same degree disadvantageous to all who ' have fixed sums to pay out of the returns obtained for industry and the employment of capital; and that such fluctuation, by always inflicting unmerited loss on the one hand, and confer ring undeserved advantage on the other:makes trade a lottery, industry uncertain of reward, haflieS the calculations of prudence, and introduces an element of instability into all prospective pecuniary a rrangements, alike fatal to the permanence of en dowed institutions, and subversive of the principle of fore sight which in s my m a i t nd pr , o i v rr id e i s n is g tib fo le r , t t h h e at f s u u t e u h re d ; etr th im e en co ta n l el m u u si t on an. worth of money ought ne ver to be allowed t o t a k e b ti e o c n o s m iu es t , he place if they can possibly be prevented. In other words, an invariable standard of value should be adopted, if it be, by any means attainable." In the second letter Mr. CROSS reasons justly, that as the quantity of commodities produced or brought to sale must be liable to continual variations, tho only mode of preserving a due proportion between the quantity of money in circulation and the amount of property and goods to be measured by that money, and thereby rendering the gene ral average of prices steady, is to subject the circulating medium to regulation ; diminishing or augmenting it so as to keep it always in the same relation to the varying quan tity of goods. " To effect this purpose," he says, " it would be necessary that there should be some rule whereby it might at all times be known exactly whether the money in circulation had a tendency to scarcity or superabundance. If lam not mistaken, the gene ral state of prices would afford such a rule. If the general average of the prices of commodities exhibited a tendency to fall, it would be plain that money was verging to a scarcity ; or if, on the contrary, prices were generally advancing__ becoming somewhat higher in the aggregate—there would be evidence that, to the same degree, there was too much money in circulation. " As an index for ascertaining the state of prices, a list should be carefully made up of all or a number of the prin cipal articles of trade, such as wheat, iron, coals, wool, cot ton, flax, sugar, tea, and the precious metals, with the average current price of each. Let the list comprise as much of all these articles put together as may be worth at the time any round sum of money—say 1001. or 1,000/. Let the propor tions of the several commodities to each other be determined and fixed in the list, as nearly as can be found practicable, according to their iCiative importance in the market—that 12, in proportion to the gross value of the entire quantity con sumed of each kind of article respectively within a given ter ritory—for instance, the United Kingdom. Thus, if it be found that all the wheat consumed in Great Britain and Ire land in a year costs generally almost four times as much as goes for coal, or wool, or cotton, and more than seven times as much as goes for iron, these things must be taken in the same proportions, however small or great may be the scale on which the list is constructed. " The following list is constructed on the proportions now laid down, assuming them to be near the truth, but with slight deviations, for the sake of keeping the different articles in in tegral quantities, wherever this could be done with only a trifling change in their exact relative proportions. The sums arising as the value of the whole quantity entered of each dif ferent article in the list, at its respective price, are extended into the ordinary form of money columns, and added together to exhibit an aggregate amount :- - Of average British Wheat l9 qrs., at 445. 6d. per qr. £42 5 6 „ Coals 24 tons, at 10s. Od. per ton, 12 0 0 1r0n..... ......... 21 cwt. at 110 s. Od. „ 515 6 West India Sugar 2 „ at 535. 6d. per cwt., 6 1 3 9 Baltic Flax 1 „ at 48s. Od. „ 2 8 0 British Wool l6O lbs. at ls. 4d. per lb. 12 0 0 American Cotton . 236 „ at is. Od. „ 11 16 0 Of medium Congou Tea 30 „ at 2s. Id. „ 3 2 6 Of standard bar Silver. 12 oz. at 4s. 'lad per oz. 219 5* " " Gold 5 dwt. at 775. 9d. „ 0 19 5* £lOO 0 34. The abbe list is made up at the prices current about the beginning of 1835 ; and, as 19 quarters of wheat were then, on an average, worth 42/. bs. 6d., and the specified quanti ties of coals, iron, sugar, &c. respectively worth 121. 51. 15s. 6d. and 6/. 13s. 9d., wg p may suppose that, owing to the continual fluctuation of prices, the relative value of these commodities would be considerably altered by the Ist of January, 1836. The 19 quarters of wheat might then be worth more or less than 421. ss. 6d. ; the 24 tons of coals, more or less than 12/. ; and so of all the other articles ; but they might alter relatively and yet remain the same in the aggre• gate. Some of the items on the list might, in 1836, be above the prices they bore in 1835, and others below the value they then held, and yet the whole list, with new prices, might amount, when added, to just about the same sum of 100/. And I presume that this would be the case, and that any great fall in the value of one commodity would exactly be balanced by the corresponding rise of another, or by the partial advance of several others, if the circulating medium—the paper or me tallic money—bore just the same proportion to the quantity of goods exchanged for money, or estimated by it in the course of transfer from hand to hand, and had neither become more scarce nor more abundant; but that the general sum would have fellen somewhat below the 1001. Os. 31d. of 1825, if money happened to have become in any degree deficient, and would have risen proportionately above that amount were the cur rency more expanded at the latter than it was at the former period, even had there been no change in the relative value of the different commodities." . Mr. CROSS next proceds to show that such a list care fully made up would truly indicate whether the circulating money had a tendency to scarcity or abundance ; and to prove from the example of the grain averages in the Lon don Gazette, Bankers' Circulars, and other commercial do cuments, that the regular and accurate publication of the Est he suggests is perfectly practicable. Here, then," be says," in concluding this part of his sub. jcct, " is a rule by which it might always be seen whether there was too much money in circulation or too little. If such a list were carefully made up, and the prices of the dif ferent articles in it regularly altered to correspond with those current in the general market (the quantities being constantly fixed), every increase of the sum total of the prices would give proof of a superabundance, and every falling off in thet would indicate a deficiency of the circulating miedium. But this would not avail in nny country which. might hap- pen like the United States of - America, to adopt the absu policy of discouraging the circulation of paper money, and rely for its prosperity on the fancied infallibility of a me tallic currency; far it is not possible to regulate the quan tity of gold or silver that shall circulate in a country by a ny interference of authority, without, at the same time, altering their value. Possessing intrinsic value, these metals fluctuate in price, like all other commodities, according as they are much or little wanted compared with the supply of them. Consequently, they cannot be procured when scarce except by being enhanced, nor disposed of when too plentiful otherwise than by reducing them in price, and, therefore, can not, as money, be steady in value. ."I'he same objection applies also to paper motley, founded on gold or silver. Such a currency cannot be expanded or contracted as may be required, because, being necessarily made payable on demand in metallic money, the issues of notes must bear a certain proportion to the bullion or coin in reserve to answer all demands likely to be made, else the paper cannot be maintained at par with the metallic money ; and, it being impossible to secure always the necessary stock of gold and silver, for the same reasons that a currency wholly metallic cannot be kept at any pitch which may be essential to the steadiness of its value, no paper money founded on it can be properly under control. This is exemplified strikingly at present in the wcrking of our own Monetary System. Our notes are payable in gold on demand, and the Bank of England, which issues them, is very much drained of its usual stock of coin and bullion. The consequence is, that the Bank has been obliged to conti act its circulation of notes to a great extent, and the commercial and manufacturing interests of the country have been sacrificed for the time to this necessity." Both of the existing sorts of currency being in the opinion of the author objectionable, he proceeds, in the third letter, to describe a kind of money, which he ima gines would answer every requisite purpose : " Let the Government, at some definite period, abandon the employment of Bank of England paper-money, and, on the authority and in name of the nation, issue notes of the value at the time, really and nominally, of one pound sterling and upwards, in disbursements for the interest of the na tional debt : for the pay, victualling, and clothing of the at my and navy ; for salaries, pensions, and all other items of public expenditure. Let these notes have their value se cured, not by being convertible into gold or silver on de mand, like other paper money, but by being made a legal tender in the discharge of all debts contracted, previous to their being issued, in pounds sterling ; or contracted subse quently, in the general terms which may be adopted for the standard money, such as pounds standard, or standard pounds, and in payment also, of course, of taxes, excise duties, fines, and all other contributions to the national treasury. The times appointed for the collection of the public revenue, and for making payments on account of the public service, would require to be arranged on such a plan as would provide against the chance of any derangement of the circulation. Every considerable flow of money to the Treasury, from the taxes, customs, and other sources of revenues, would need to be regu lated so as to happen only when there was also a flow of the regular expenditure from it, that would preserve the currency at its proper level. " It is this which, in my opinion, would afford a species of currency susceptible of the most accurate regulation for the preservation of its value unchangingly ; for, being of paper, it could be increased, without trouble or expense, to any re quisite degree ; and, neither the precious metals, nor any other particular commodity being demandable for it, its cir culation could be maintained to any necessary amount, in dependent of the circumstances which often occur to render a contraction of convertible paper money unavoidable, even when such contraction is productive of the most grievous disas ters. The average list of prices already described (and which may be termed the Moneymeter, or anythinc , else ex pressive of its use as an index of the currency) being open and intelligible to every body, would enable not only the Government who issued the proposed paper money, but the public who gave it currency, and whose interests would be liable to be affected favourably or otherwise according as it happened to be managed, to know when it might require expansion or contraction. And the Government, or issuing party being re presentative and responsible, durst never betray the public in a matter in which the interest of all could so easily be seen. This is an affair in which there could be no delusion or misap prehension. The rule for judging of good or bad manage ment would be simple and evident to the mechanic as well as to the merchant, and might easily be taken cognizance of by men of every station." The writer then combats the objection that this would be a revival of the sort of currency which came into existence after the Bank Restriction Act of 1797, by showing that it would be so completely under:regulation as never to run any chance of being depreciated by over issues. He does not contemplate the necessity of prohi biting the issue of notes by Joint-stock Companies:— . The issue of paper money by private bankers or Joint stock Companies, even if freely allowed, would naturally be superseded by the Government paper, at least to the extent of the public expenditure, since, in all its payments, the Govern ment would have an opportunity of putting its own notes into circulation in preference to all other money. But, whatever quantity of currency might be required beyond this, to keep the circulation at its proper pitch, might safely enough, as far as I can see, be left to be supplied by the notes of private or corporate banks, with the stipulation only of this condition, that such notes shall be payable on demand in the Govern ment or standard money. " This, I should suppose, would be a sufficient provision against the circulation being deranged by any excess of private notes, and would preserve inviolate that individual freedom which can hardly be icterfered with or invaded without caus ing mischief to ensue, excepting where the finger of justice points directly and plainly to some necessary restraint or pro hibition. But if the issuing of notes by private individuals or companies must be prohibited, the circulation of Government notes might be made sufficiently abundant, even when the or dinary public expenditure of money might happen to be too little for the currency, by making extra issues towards reducing public debt ; or, in countries happily free from such incumbrance, these issues might be applied to foster education, or to effect general improvements of any kind." The following belongs rather to the detail than to the principle of the plan It is a consequence from the principle already stated that the value of each note or bill of this projected currency would not, after the first establishment of the system, be referable to any fixed quantities of gold or silver like the pound sterling, in which, while the nominal worth remains the same, the real value is always shifting with variations in the exchangeable value of the commodity. " The worth of the unit I propose, or the standard pound of this system, would be a centesimal part of the aggregate list of commodities, if that happen to he made only loot., or a thousandth part, if the list embrace an aggregate of 1,000/. " The quantity of these notes, then, being at all times re gulated so that the same number of them shall always be worth, or capable of purchasing, all the commodities in kind nd quantify incinded in lit, and worth neither yrin-c nor less, the value of a ,tand,trd pound will remain invai;able, while the quantity of gold or silver, or any other single commodity, which it may command in the market, will be changing as often as such article may be scarce or abundant, or much or little in demand." Such is the substance of Mr. CROSS'S project, necessa rily divested of most of the facts and arguments by which he supports its importance and practicability. We trust, however, that we have quoted enough to induce those or our readers who take an interest in this all-important sub ject to procure a copy of the pamphlet, and give the author the benefit of a fair and consecutive perusal. The whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday have been re ceived. On the Bth inst. the Duke of NEIIOURS landed at Havre after a most perilous passage from Africa. His Royal Highness was suffering from the fracture of his left arm, which rendered him unable to endure the motion of a carriage. On the 25th ult. the Phare steamer, appointed to convey the Duke to France, left Gibraltar, whither she had been driven by the stormy state of the weather. The next day she was forced to seek shelter in Cadiz, and on leaving that port nearly foundered in doubling Cape St. Vincent. While walking the deck at Oporto the Duke fell heavily on one of the port-holes and fractured his left arm at the elbow. On leaving Oporto •a fire broke out in the coal-room, and was with the greatest difficulty extinguished, but not before the consumption of the fuel on board. A fresh supply of coals was obtained at Corunna, after which the Phare put out to sea, and was driven into Falmouth Roads. The next day a violent storm compelled the Captain to seek shelter behind the Dike of Cherbourg ; so that the Phare was a whole fortnight in effecting the passage from Gibraltar to Havre —a distance usually sailed by vessels of inferior power in four days. When the Duke's arrival at Havre was com municated to the Government, the QUEEN, the Princess CLEmElsroma. of Orleans, and the Dukes of ORLEANS and AUMALE, set out from Paris to receive him. The Moniteur of Sunday has the following official an nouncetnent : " Baron de Keenneritz, the Extraordinary Envoy and Ple nipotentiary Minister of Saxony, was admitted on Saturday to a private audience of the King, to whom he handed letters from his Sovereign in answer to the notification of the marriage of Princess Marie of Orleans with the Duke of Wirtemberg. Similar letters were also presented to Louis Philippe, on the part of the Queens of England and Spain, by Mr. Aston, Plenipotentiary Minister of her Britannic Majesty ; and Count Campuzano, Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of her Catholic. Majesty." Letters from Semlin of the 24th ult. state that Russia is doing all she can to prevent the establishment of the Servian Constitution. Prince DoLconouxt, who has been for some on a secret mission from the EMPEROR to Prince Almoscx, appears to have succeeded in sowing the seeds of bitter dissension among the leaders of every party. In conducting these intrigues Russia receives the secret sup port of Austria, who hates Constitutions; and who is willing, at any risk and in any quarter of the world, to assist in overthrowing them. Russia is equally active in extending her influence in the East, and unless checked will soon be able to number Persia among the provinces subject to her sway. In the mean time fresh levies are ordered to recruit the army in Circassia, the EMPEROR having vowed the subjugation of all the independent tribes occupying that country, with a view of anticipating a future appeal to arms. The Journal des Debals publishes a letter from Pest of the 25th ult., announcing the great excitement occa sioned by prep irations for the election of the Archbishop of KARLOWII Z, chief of the Ilung.irian Greek Church, under the Constitution granted to Hungary by Mailia THERESA. The number of electors is 75, of whom one third are Churchmen, one-third Nobles, and a third, Officers in the Army. As the members of the Greek Church have greatly increased, the EMPEROR has been petitioned to treble the number of Noble Electors. PA ars, DEC. I.—A letter from Havre of the ninth says : " Our Chamber of Commerce met yesterday to consider the question of iron rail-roads, to which so little attention has hitherto been paid. The Members of the Assembly appointed Mr. Reilly President of the Chamber of Commerce, and M. Ferrere to go to Paris and take the necessary steps to obtain the line from Paris to Havre." The Journal du Havre says:—" The Chamber of Com merce has decided at one of its late sittings, as tine Chamber of Commerce of Havre had done before, that the permission to export sugars ought not to be granted to our colonies." The Journal du Havre of the Bth says—" Yesterday 25 Captains of merchantmen met at the Captains' Club,' to di.- cuss the question relative to the re-exportation of the sugars of our colonies. Several of the persons present at the meeting spoke, to show the reason which should induce the Captains to reject a faculty which would tend to annihilate the last re sources of our national navigation, and to break the commer cial compact which still binds the colonies to the mother coun try. After having favourably received this manner of stating the question, the Captains decided unanimously, not only that there was no ground to admit the proposal relative to expor tation, but that even in case the colonies should solicit this privilege, France, both for its own interest and theirs, ought to oppose any concession of this kind." A letter from Vienna, of the 26th November, in the Franco nian Mercury says :—" It is now decided that the Govern ment will not contract any loan this year. The financial accounts offer the most satisfactory results ; all the expenses are provided for, and it is long since the finances of this empire have been so flourishing."—Le Commerce, Dec. 10. From the north of Spain the latest advices are of th 6th inst. ESPARTERO had then given orders for another attack on the Valcarlo lines on the 7th, in order to open a direct communication with France. The Carlists were then in readiness to receive him, having anti cipated his intended movement in that direction. In Estrernadura and La Mancha, the Carlists are esta blishing themselves in such numbers, that it is doubted whether the Government will be able to dislodge them during the winter. They have seized Guadaloupe, and opened a foundry in it for the manufacture of arms. It is likewise supposed that they will attack Almaden, in order to possess themselves of the quicksilver mines, now mort gaged in the House of RontscHun. Advices from Constantinople, of the 15th ult., announce the sudden death of PEnTIFF PACHA, after having drank coffee with. EMIR PACHA, Governor of the Capital. According to the current rumour, the coffee was substituted for the sack, and though not so silent, was altogether as effective a method of getting rid of a functionary, whom England would neither see in office, nor Russia in disgrace. By the same arrivals we learn, :,that the Russian Army south of the Kouban was flying before the Circassians, and that eight Russian vessels had recently been shipwrecked on the Circassian coast during the late boisterous weather. Parliament, it is understood, will adjourn on the 22d instant, and will not meet, after the Christmas holidays, until the Ist of February. On Tuesday last, one of the boilers of the Haswell colliery exploded, by which means several of the workmen were severely soalded. We understand that the recovery of some of them is very doubtful.—Sunderland Herald. Mr. Morrison, the late Member for Ipswich, whose absence from the House of Commons is felt as a great loss, is gone down to Sudbury, and has every chance of being elected for that.borough. SMITHFIELD CLUB DINNER.—The anniversary dinner of this excellent Society took place yesterday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn fields. The tables were laid for 300, but from the unexpected presence of a greater number of gentlemen than had ever at tended on a similar occasion, it became necessary to arrange a separate apartment from the Freemasons' Hall, where the banquet was served to accommodate nearly a hundred extra visitors. Amongst the most conspicuous personages present were, besides Earl Spencer, the President of the Club, the. Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Scarborough, Earl Talbot, Lord Wm. Lennox, Viscount Maidstone, Sir Owen Pell Col. Sibthorp, M.P., C. H. Hindley, Esq., M.P. Hillyard, Esq., Messrs. Grantham, Smith, Senior, Baker, Wilmot, and many other distinguished agricultural gentlemen. Recollecting the Show of Roots at the Bedford Conservatory, Covent-garden, last year to be very superior, we have been induced to pay it another visit ; and we beg to assure our agricultural readers that some of the finest speci mens of Turnips ever grown are now to be seen at that place, particularly Purple-top Swede, several of which, as we under stand, were exhibited at the Highland Society of Scotland's recent meeting at Dumfries, and from their magnitud e and handsome shape attracted the notice of every one present. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, YESTERDAY. —We have had rather an animated demand for Cotton to-day. The sales are estimated at 5,000 bags of all descriptions, and chiefly to the trade, at a slight advance on our quotations of Friday. SPAS OF GERMANY, AND THE CELEBRATED SPAS OF BATH. It is curious that two circumstances should now be operating simultaneously—a str on g recommendation, by the public Press, of the German Spas, particularly of Baden, whereto our nobility and gentry throng, and the deca• dente of the medicinal Hot Springs of Bath. Alas, for the far-famed city of King Bladud and Beau Nash ! The prin cipal source of its fame and attraction seems rapidly d ec li n i ng , and that owing to the lit i g ious spirit of the Town Council, who appear determined that their newly-ac qu i re d powers shall not rust for want of using in some way or other. The admirers of Bath will regret to learn that there is every pro bability of the Hot Springs being enti re l y l ost. A recent visitor to that town informs us that, ab out two years s i nce , a brewer there, while sinking for a supply of cold water, hit upon the chief source of the Hot Springs. Finding, however, th a t the public Baths were prej u di ce d, h e cons id e rately . pro posed to resign the Spring in exchange for a moderate supply of cold water. Unfortunately, the Town Council, instead of displaying_ a correspondent feeling, preferred going to law ; and, hence, while th ese ill- t i me d procee di ngs have been pending, the Hot Springs have almost dwindled away, pre senting a wretched instance of party spin it and private pique. One set of Baths is w h o ll y c l ose d— anot h er partially ; and so embittered have th e litigants become, that while they quarrel there is every chance of the grand origin of the celebrity of " the Bath" being irremediably lost. PENSION TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have been highly amused at the moral strain ea sumed by the Tories, particularly Lord Stanley, in the debate on the Pension List Committee. It is quite a farce to bear such people talk of justice !—such a word was never known, or even heard of, during the Tory mis-Government. ad; mire Lord Stanley talking so loudly about questioning naval , and military officers or their widows conce rning their pensi ons or circumstances, and that Lord Grey, or his Government. would have sooner (tile Premier cut off his own right hand) retire from office, than suffer such an indignity 0 be offered to those who had fought and b led for their country. Now, Sir, will the country believe that this self-same gentleman assisted as one of Lord Gre y 's Government, in doing the very act he now holds 11 1 3 as being so unjust and dishonourable; for Sir James Gra ham, during the time he was First Lord of the Admir a lty ! caused a regulation to be made to this effect : —ou the death of a naval officer, the widow must make oath her husband has not left her in independent circumstances ; if oth erwise, she would not be entitled to a pension, although the said office r , had, during the whole of his naval life, paid a p ro p ortion this his pay, or rather had it taken from him, to support thi Pension Fund. I know an instance of a Captain's widow, whose husband had left her in comfy rtable circumstances, being refused a pension on that account, although he had been tie-. wards of thirty years a Post Captain, and had lost his rig in arm in his country's battle. An Admiral's widow, who has been sixty year s at see, fighting in his country's cause, must go before a Magistrate, and make oath that her husband had not left her 2,0001. Magi she can receive a pension, and what is worse than all, this same gentleman, with Sir James Graham, deprived that bard, working class of sailori, the warrant-officers, of their widows pensions, who died after that period. Captain Wood talkedie.l very high tone about justice, and a relation of his , who ha been appointed Vendue Master at Malta—that is, in plain -Eng l‘iyshhe, whether e p r u thhliicsawuocrttiho worthy rela tion H e did d d n o a t n tell h o t u b r e ,s H d o u u ty se , of Coi ns an C s u t ino °n ? : , dn° on a cask in the public market-place, and sold the merc hen '''' goods by crying, Going, going, gone l" No, no, this be left out; he only stated his relation took a cruise out to MaltAg' and not liking the knockdown business, returned to Eng iell and being a near connexion of the immortal Castlereaiih , re : signed his appointment for the trifling pension of 1,0001. Pe'e' annum, while the Admiral on the same station had to r tire, after fifty years' fighting and buffetting the ocean' on about 4001. Trusting this will open the eyes of e Honourable Committee appointed to enquire into the Pene h l List, and that they will not be too nice in their enquir ies, "II mete out the same justice to the high as the low, and that ut a unworthy subjects may be struck off, is the hope of r constant reader, Dtc. 11, 1837. BEN BOWLINE• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin —My attention has been directed to an error in Y° ll.r Parliamentary report on Friday last, in which I am stated have presented a petition complaining of the Clergy of N% verhatnpton ; the petition I presented was against a ClergYlll 1 residing in Northamptonshire, and who is in no way connecte! with that town. Will you do me the favour to notice thls error. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Monday, Dec. 11, 1837. C. P. VILLIERS._ [The mistake originated in consequence of the confusion 1111 the House at the time the petition was presented.—ED: Sus'i LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA DEAL, DEC. 11.—Wind N. E. moderate.—Arrived Err: the River, and sailed, Henry Angus, Smith, for Havannan Maitland, Baker, Gibraltar ; Mary, Ridgway, for Malta. PORTSMOUTH, Duc. 11.—Wind PLYMOUTH, DEC. 11.—Wind E. FALMOUTH, Dzc. 10.—Wind E. N. to E.N.E. fresh breezes, and fine. —Arrived the Spey packet, from Halifax'- sailed 14th ult. Sailed, the Cireass'an steamer, for Glasgow' DOVER, DEC. 11.—Arrived off port, the Brilliant, fro' Dublin. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Arrived the Salame, from Messina. Off port, the Cosmo, Canning, from New Yo rk ' OFF SALCOMBE.—The Arnold Rosens, from COpenhag en• CLYDE, DEC. 10.—Arrived the Clansman, Scott, f ro 111 Bay Chaleur. ROCHESTER, DEcr 11.—Arrived the Castle Eden, B° °l4 from St. Petersburgh. Arrivals in the River.—The Gratitude, Scott ; Chas e ' Ritchie; Russia, Waterflecht ; British King, Hill ; Chatha m ' Duke ; Catherine, Glasgow ; Magnet, Page ; Mary, Essig' ; Eleanor Taylor ; Auxilia, Patterson ; Rokeby, Elder • SoPe rior, Tindal ; Warblington, Benson ; Fides, Steward; W es ' toe, Potts ; Fair Isle, Miles, Houghton. HALIFAX, NOV. 14.—Arrived off, the Sarah, Ewing fro m Demerara ; was boarded h) a piratical brig on the Bth ult. , ' ll lat. 28, long. 64, which took from her some provisions. The Sylph, of and for the port of Demerara, was spoke 3 with by her Majesty's ship Comus, and was proceeding Bermuda, having been run foul of by a barque ; carried aw B f bowsprits, damaged bows, &c. The Canton, Garbutt, from Gasp to Great Britain, 01/ wrecked on Brian Island previous to the 14th ult. The Chonqua, Jenoen, from Rio Janiero, put into Plyrnoll with damage leaky, having been in contact with a Swedi sh brig from Stockholm to Marseilles. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) -.J.-- CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We extract the following from the Halifax papers receive(' to the 14th Nov. " MILITARY MOVEMENTS.—The first division of the 85t , 1 , 1 will, we understand, march for Windsor, where it will em ber* for New Brunswick ; the second division, under Mae . French, will follow in a few days. The Company of t " e same corps at Cape Breton is to be immediately called in' and will probably proceed to New Brunswick. The detac: ment at Prince Edward's Island is to be reduced. The wh ole of the 43d regiment now in New Brunswick will march t ° Quebec, as soon as the necessary arrangements are made." We are sorry to learn that the yellow fever has malej t appearance at Bermuda • all intercourse between her Nl ' jesty's ship Cornwallis and the shore has been prohibited. We subjoin the annexed from Prince Edward Island paP er° received to the Bth of Nov. : int s " On the night of Friday last a pretty sharp frost se t which continued for thirty-six hours. For ten days previl the weather, with brief intervals, bad been wet and storinY• 0 We have very few arrivals this morning ; a mail'fr° , Halifax, by the Spey, which sailed on the 14th of Noverobtair' with the usual foreign mailr, and neither brings news of portance. THF, FUNDS. • There was no animation during the whole of yesterdai. the Consol Market, and money was rather scarce for 01 '; mercial purposes. It is expected it will continue in the P P ' state C until after Chistmas. onsols closed t r 93i buyers for the Account ; opened 4 ' l ! morning at the same price. Exchequer Bills, 47 49 Pr e°. India Bonds, 27 29 prem. ; Bank Stock, 204+ 205. 2o f In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active closed at 191 t 0 e d opened at the same ; Portuguese closed at 291 to 30, oP e ,„," e • at the same; Three per Cent s ., 191 20, opened at the Brazilian Stock improved to 79+ 1, opened at the 98 _,70 South American St oc k s c l ose d h eav y. M ex i can declin c is 21 281; Colombian, 241 251 ; P e r uv i an , 20+ 21 ; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 541. 406 There was some activity display e d i n th e Share M I and an advance in the prices took place. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLO - ,er We have no furth e r arr i va l s , nor i s t h ere any ° c o, - esi' to the present hour. The American packet-ship dent is expected to-morrow ; her dates will be of the 2 " . fa Consols, which were in the early part of the mornieg o er for the opening, have improved to 93/ buyers. Ex c n, Bills, 47 49 ; India Bonds, 27 29 ; Bank Stock, 2 04 t he In the Foreign Market there is no material a lteration i es o, prices. Spanish Active, 191 20, with Coupons ; Portuguvi, 291 30 ; Three per Cents., 191 20 ; Dutch TWO -3 2 81. Half per Cents., 541; Brazilian, 79f 80; Mexican, 2 8 osi A great deal of business is doing in the Brighton SS shares, which have improved to 31 per share. nek THREE O'CL - Consol; for the Aceottnt, 931 rre_A P LADIES' SECOND-HAND GOLD ‘ ,A GOLD NECK CHAIN, GOLD SEAL and KEY, ar e " o ute'" in case complete, for Fourteen Guineas. The Watch is l o in , 2° to perform correctly, jewelled, and with gold dial. The ce conl 1 1 4 yard long; Seal and Key of the best description. 1" 5 : e fitted hand Watches suitable for the occasion are obtained, they s o with Key, Seal, and Ring, and also with Gold Neck Gl ll T' f ielv e. ' to form sets above described ; and, consequently, a Set, 1113 times several sets, are constantly for sale. T. COX SAVORY'S, o ,o l ' Watchmaker, Jeweller, and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, IRTHS. a sos' On the 7th i ns t., in Tavist B ock-place, Mrs. S. Hainest f ,°' e Cos' On the Bth i ns t . , at E ast -hill , W an d swor th, Mrs. G. v• ming, of a daughter. f th e At Mount St one , S tone h ouse , Pl ymo uth, on the 7th ins"' lady of Ctan C. ulkelev, of a son. On the ap Bth i inst., B at Lotighton, Bucks, the lady of the Rev. I. O Athawes, of a son. - r e, M tg. On the Bth inst y in Upper Norton-street , F itzro y -W Tomkns, 9thof a son . : On the inst' in Torring ton - squa re, Air. Jam es paYen9°'. Welch, of a son . ' Lady On the 9th i ns t., i n York-place, Portman-square, L __-----''' beth Haworth, of a daughter MARRIED. .-. o( On the 9th inst., at Hackney, John Minton Courtauld, D't.'sq., Booking, Essex, t o S a rah, second daughter of Wm. liroralcY,'-" of Stamford-grove, Upper Clapton. vll At Walcot Church, Bath, on the 7th inst. William fie n T' 000 binsun, Esq., Captain in the 72d, or the Duke of A lb a ny, to Highlanders, only son of the late Sir W. H. Robinson, Georgiana, of third daughter of Rear-Admiral Buckle. On the 6th inst., at Chatham Church, Henry Mans .% Elrso. Guernsey, surg eon, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the . late . Mouat, Esq., Lieutenant, R.N., of Gibraltar -place, On the 7th inst., at Brighton, William Balding, Esq . ' f the is t9 ing C as tl e , Kent, to Julia Elizabeth, second daughter o hattier:cool., Henry Martin, Esq., of Sidmouth, Devon. DIED (110 0 At Edinburgh, on the 7 th inst., airs. Deans, mother ms —• Dunclas, R.N., ALP., and sister to the late Lord ant _ At . L uc k no w, on the 24th Ream last, Lieutenant c olonel Dome, commanding the 4d At Bengal Native lola° eldest son of Captain J. Dovvie, Camberwell. You IG af N London : Printed and Published brffiai nlD r aad, 30 V. C oal 112, Strand, at The Su n Office, No. 112 ,St of Aliddlesex.—Tuesday, December 12, 1837.