The Sun. — London, England, 1837-07-12 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock. .•••• 20 9 1A India Stock 255% 3 per Cent. Red......... ........91 1, 0 1 4 Oitto Fonds 42 44 p,, , . 3 per Cent. Cons ..... 90% 1 90A% South Sea Stocl 336 per Cent..„......- 99 4 la Old Annuities - Ditto Red...-.............. 98747, V% New Ditto New 3% per Cent.. 98 %% 3 ner Cent. Annuities, 1751 — New 5 per Cent... ..... ...-........ Exch . Bills, £1, 01 A ) 43 45 42 44 p m. i Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire !Ditto ..... -...•-••• 500 44 45 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 ... ..... ~. -14% 11-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10. 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 14% 7-16 , Ditto Advertised pm Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880.— - India Stock for Account 26 31 Jan. 5, 1870.................... -- Consols for Account ..... 9: 2 4ii i ii Oranlum .. pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chillian Bonds Ditto Account ..... Columbian Bonds Ditto Account .. 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Due 0 L4ton 3 ' 0 Malta 0 0 Ogtend 0 0 Sweden 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rning.........16 minutes after 9. f minutes after 9 EVANS AND LEADER WE S TMIN ST Elt ELECTION CENTRAL COMMITTEE. . . The Tories boast of cajoling the Liberal electors into the pro mise of one of their two votes for Sir George Murray. A pro mise on the part of a Liberal elector, so fraught with mischief to the Reform interest, is scarcely to be conceived. A vote divided between the Tory and one of the Reform candidates, can have no other effect than that of injuring the Libel al cause. The same tactics, on the part of our political enemies, lead them to persuade the Liberal electors to plump for one of the Reform ea ididates. Tne effect c f such vo ing by our Liberal friends may ue the return of the Tory candidate. 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When o.7ce the Railway ir-incirle is universally in motion commerce will be trebled—and young men entering on business, at the! age y 21, will have seen as much of the world, and consequently become better and more intelligent citizens,, fur all the great purposes ofVe, as their great great grandfathers did at the advanced age of four generations. Know ledge is power—and a Newspaper contains every species of useful knowledge in the most attractive form SUN Newspaper Office, 112, Strand, London. ERRATUM.-1n the notice of Colonel Shaw's 3Lmoirs in The Sun; of yesterday, the word " Angler" occurs for " Augur." The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. abuse, slander, and calumny which had ever been urged against the LORD LIEUTENANT since his first arrival in Ireland," and which his Lordship advised his Noble Friend not to condescend to notice, charged Earl MULGRAVE— _ _ . With entertaining Mr. O'CONNELL at Dublin Castle t. 2. With restoring Sir R. NAGLE to the Commis- 1 sion of the Peace and the Sub-Lieutenancy of the county of Westmeath, and appointing Mr. SHIEL to the Commission of the Peace for the said county — both appointments having been made without the con sent, and against the will of the said Marquis. 3. The liberation of prisoners recommended to mercy by the Judges. 4. And lastly, the appointment of Catholic Sheriffs in counties where Protestants would have been found willing to charge themselves with that office. Well might their Lordships indulge in the exercise of their risible faculties at the gravity of such charges against her MAJESTY'S Irish Representative. But it appears the Noble Marquis was not prepared for such a scene. The merriment of his audience an- noyed him excessively ; and, in a burst of passion, he protested that he would never enter Dublin Castle, till it was purged of the political contamination caused by the residence of Earl MULGRAVE within its walls. This was too much for the object of his abuse. His Lordship joined in the Ministerial shout of derision with which the incensed Marquis was greeted. We tive observation, not by a sanguine temperament influ encing a weak understanding—he has seen no cause to abandon the convictions which he held on his first entrance into public life. What he was in 1817, he still continues to be in 1837—the friend, but not the flatterer, of the People—the champion of their just rights, but not the fosterer of their caprices or pre- tudices. to the Established religion ! This charge is well handled in the excellent reply which Mr. STONOR has published, from which we quote the concluding paragraph : " Had fairness guided this attack, he could without difficulty have discovered that my speeches and conversation have always asserted the very reverse of hostility, and on this prin ciple—that no sincere advocate of religious liberty can feel hostility to the religious tenets of his neighbour. Her Majesty's declaration in favour of religious liberty, so pro minently put forward in Mr. Ashhurt's letter, contrasts curiously with his practical interpretation of it ; and the public aro now informed, for the first time, that reli gious liberty is perfectly compatible with political ex clusion on account of religion. lam before the public as a supporter of the Queen, and the principles avowed in her declaration, with as much sincerity as any Tory can claim ; with this addition, that I support her Majesey's Government also. This is the real contention between the Liberals and Tories, and the strength of the former in this County may well account for the bitterness with which any advocate for them is assailed. t"4 , Zhe LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1837. In the House or Lords yesterday almost the entire sit ting was occupied (we had nearly said wasted) by a discus sion upon matters and points which have already been dis posed of, but which were again brought forward last night under cover of a motion, made by the Marquis of WEST MEATH, for certain returns relating to Ireland. The Noble Marquis's motion had manifestly no other scope than to af ford his Tory Compeers an opportunity of discharging all the offensive inculpatory artillery they could command against Lord MULGRAVE and his Excellency's government of the Sister country. It will be seen how sorry a figure the Tory malignants made, and how signally they failed in establishin g any charge that detracts from the distinguished merit of the services which the popular Viceroy, under the MELBOURNE Administration, has not only rendered to Ire land, but to the United Kingdom at large. No opposition was offered to the production of the Re turns moved for. ......_ ........._ ..,.. In the House of Commons the business was of a routine character and almost wholly without political interest. That distinguished pink of the Tory Peerage, the Marquis of WESTMEATH, entertained the House of Lords last night with the exhibition of his puny and impotent opposition to the policy of the present bene volent and popular Chief-Governor of Ireland. The chivalrous attack of Tom Thumb on the great toe of the giant displayed not half the heroism—half the reckless disregard of overwhelming odds in the encounter—ma nifested by the Noble Marquis in entering the lists against the Earl of MuLGRAvE, supported only by two such politically dwarfish bottle-holders as RODEN and GLENGALL. The trumpery charges preferred against the Noble Earl's Government by the represen tatives of the Irish Orange faction" are in truth so many evidences of the liberality, justice, and clemency of his administration. The Marquis of WESTMEATH in a long, rambling speech, which Lord BROUGHAM described as a diatribe, " entering on every topic of _ , \1774 4-y give the Noble Marquis's observations in continua tion. They unmask the man and the faction repre sented by him : " The Noble Earl laughed, did he ? Let him recollec that he had introduced as a guest within the walls of tha castle a man who had been convicted of a most serious offence against the laws, although for that offence he had not been punished. Let him recollect that he had introduced a man who had calumniated and reviled members of the family of the Sovereign of these realms. Let him recollect that he had in troduced a man who, by his expertness and chicanery, had in vented a system to ritter away all the boasted security of the Reform Bill, and bad appropriated, by shameful practices, one-third of the representation of Ireland to himself.—( A laugh from Earl Mulgrave.) Was the Noble Earl still amused ? Could he deny it? He (the Marquis of West meath) defied him to do so; but be would tell that Noble Earl further, that, in his opinion, so long as that man re mained with his head on his shoulders, all those individuals who perished in 98 were murdered. That was his sincere opinion, and he was not to be deterred by the amusement which it afforded to the Noble Earl and those on that side of the House from stating fearlessly his opinion.", Contempt for the opinions of the Noble Marquis alone must have prevented their Lordships from de nouncing the gross irregularity of thus incidentally, but directly, permittting a charge of high treason to lie made against a Member of the other House of Par liament. The Marquis of WESTMEATH has here dared to place Mr. O'CONNELL on a level with con victed traitors—with criminals whose lives have been forfeited to the offended laws of their country. He even declares the death of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to be necessary to sanctify the previous operation of the Irish law of high treason. Now it was disgraceful on the part of their Lordships—if indeed they were not silent from contempt—to suffer such language to be addressed to them by any Mem ber of their body. But charity and common sense point to a contempt for the opinions of the Noble Marquis as the legitimate inference to be drawn from their Lordships' toleration of such rabid buffoonery. Earl MULGRAVE found no difficulty in defending his administration of the Government of Ireland. He at once referred his calumniators to the tranquil state of that country ; and rested his defence on the im proved condition of the inhabitants, and his uniform practice of being guided in the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy by the recommendation of the Judges and other great officers of the Crown. The action of a galvanic battery would not have operated more spasmodically on tile nervous system of the Earl of RODEN than (lid Lord MULGRAVE'S reference to the tranquil state of Ireland. It was probing the Orange ulcer to the bottom. Accordingly, the instant the Noble Earl got on his legs, he thought it incum bent on him to account to their Lordships for such an unparalleled political phenomenon as the tranquillity of Ireland. His mode of doing so was certainly not felicitous. " The Noble Earl," said he, " has talked of the tranquillity of Ireland, but how is that tranquil lity preserved ? The law is not put in force ! Tithes are not paid !" Was there ever such an admission of the monstrosity of laws—of the accursed operation of a tithe system ? Never, certainly, within the me mory of man. We have heard many reasons in support of the necessity of enforcing laws, but never before did we hear it urged as a reason for maintaining their exe cution that tranquillity would result from allowing them to fall into abeyance. And then that " blood-stained impost" too, has, by its non-collection, tended to the present unprecedented pacification of Ireland. This is indeed dreadful ! But thanks to Earl RODEN, we are now happily possessed of the secret by means of which we can always fill Ireland with crime, bloodshed, and violence. We need only insist on the maintenance of the existing laws—there must be no reforms, remember —enforce the collection of tithes, and there will be no falling-off in the annual harvests of sedition, blood and murder. Sectarian hatreds will flourish, and feuds multiply in constitutional accordance with the prece idents established by our ancestors for the Government of the Irish Papists. Perhaps one of the objections most characteristic of the Tory faction taken to the Government of Lord MULGRAVE, was that wherein the Earl of RODEN denounced the specification of the creed and faction of criminals in the Lord Lieutenant's proclamations for their apprehension. By proclaiming the faction of the criminals the Lord Lieutenant had deprived the Exeter Hall saints of hundreds of opportunities of traducing the religion of the Catholics, by making over to them the gross amount of the Irish gaol returns, and particularly of proving, after the fashion of Donna INEz, the analogy between fratri cide and auricular confession. But as the Lord Lieu tenant—very inconsiderately we presume to think—has promised to depart from his wonted practice in this particular, we shall soon again hear the Tory calum nious and lying association of crime and Catholicism. Earl MULGRAVE may well continue to laugh at the virulence of the faction from whose blood stained oppression he has happily relieved seven millions of her MAJESTY'S subjects. Ireland is truly grateful to him, and her blessings will give immortality to the memory of his wise, just, and bene volent administration. He has served a people who know how to appreciate his services—who cannot, if they would, forget them—and he has established for his SOVEREIGN a Throne in the hearts of her Irish subjects. In a word, Earl MULGRAVE has realized the hopes of the friends—the fears of the enemies—of Ireland. There is no Statesman of the present d a y w h o ranks higher in the estimation of the intelligent por tion of the community, than Lord DURHAM. H e i s an intrepid, unflinching Reformer, but within the limit s of the Constitution : ambitious, but with a ge nerous purpo3e in his a mbition—namely, to be distin guished am o ur, his countrymen as the advocate of their interests through good report, and through evil report. Many eventful years have rolled away since his Lord ship first entered the political arena ; the hand of grief has pressed heavily on him, and lie has seen those go before him to the tomb who—in the ordinary course of Nature—should have been his sur vivors ; but neither age nor affliction have had power to diminish his ardent zeal for Reform. Acting always from principle, and not impulse — guided to his conclusions by sober thought and atten- How different in this respect is Lord DURHAM from Sir FRANCIS BURDETT ! For nearly forty years of his life, the Hon. Baronet was not merely an ener getic Reformer, but a democrat in the extreme sense of the term. Nothing would satisfy him but changes of the most levelling character. He was for Universal Suffrage—Annual Parliaments—for any thing, in short, and everything, that might procure him the ap plause of the mob. That ameasure was impracticable, was with him no objection ; but, on the contrary, a main ar gument in its favour. He would cure the diseases of the Constitution, by destroying the Constitution itself ; and go tilting at wind-mills, not because he did not know better, but because he knew no way so likely to fix the attention of the public. A rage for notoriety was at the bottom of all his grand schemes of Re form ; and when he found O'CONNELL beginning to attract a larger share of public attention than him self, mortified self-conceit threw him into the arms of the Tories. Had Sir F. BURDETT been like Lord DURHAM, a Reformer from the conclusions of a shrewd and observant intellect, we should never have witnessed such a humiliating change as has lately taken place in his opinions. He would have remained con sistent to the last ; for, however it may be with mere impulses, the convictions of reason never change. The recent conduct of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT— which, by-the-bye, did not come on us like a surprise, for we were prepared for it—if it teaches us to be dis trustful of those who profess the most loudly, should also teach us to appreciate the more highly those who have always acted up to their professions. Lord DURHAM is one of these. He has never halted— wavered—or falsified his professions in one single instance. His sentiments—.as we find them expressed in a letter addressed to the electors of North Durham, which will be found in another part of The Sun—are precisely those which he held when, as Mr. LAMB TON, he was foremost among the Reformers in the House of Commons. He has nothing to explain away —nothing to recant—nothing to apologize for. " My principles," says he, " are what they have ever been, and are neither changed nor modified. I wish to rally as large a portion of the British people as possible round the existing institutions of the country—the Throne, Lords, Commons, and the Established Church. Ido not wish to make new institutions, but to preserve and strengthen the old. Herein lies the difference between me and my opponents. Some would confine the advantages of those institutions to as small a class as possible. I would throw them open to all who have the ability to comprehend, and the viour to protect them. Others again would annihilate them for the purpose of forming new ones on fanciful and and untried principles. I would, I repeat, pre serve them, but increase their efficiency, and add to the number of their supporters." His Lordship here gives the true definition of Reform, and in so lucid and simple a manner that he r►who runs may read. He would throw open the institutions of the country to all " who have the ability to comprehend, and the vigour to protect them ;" in other words, he would break up the system of privileged classes— that system which it has been the darling policy of the Tories to establish for years and years past. Lord DURHAM has no notion of a Reform which is merely to place the Whigs in office, and eject the Tories ; his views are far more comprehensive ; he considers that the people have a fair claim to a share in its advan tages ; and that the Reform which benefits the Few, while it neither injures nor improves the- condition of the Many, is a mere mockery. We cordially co incide with his Lordship in this view of the ques tion ; and feel, with him, that now or never is the time to act upon it. The QUEEN, as he justly observes, " has placed herself unreservedly in the hands of a Liberal Government ;" let us then prove to her by our conduct during the approaching elections, that the choice she has made of Ministers, is the choice also of the country. We have the means fully in our power. The Carlton Club may bribe, and its agents spread their delusions throughout the country, still the people have quite strength enough to enable them to resist, and triumph over all these malign influences. The tide is setting in so hard against the Tories, that however much one may deplore the use of unprincipled means to promote any object, one cannot be surprised at the use of such means in the present crisis of their fate, by those who have, at no time, been very scrupulous about the character of their actions, provided a tern- porary purpose was answered. The Tories of Oxord shire, it would appear, have no desire to be distinguished above their brethren by a course of proceeding more conformable to the dictates of honour and the laws of morality. They arc determined that as far as they are concerned, the maxim that " the end justifies the means" shall not fall into abeyance. Mr. STONOR, a gentleman of high character and of large property in the county of Oxford, has, it is well known, come forward as a candidate in the liberal interest. The real objections to Mr. STONOR are his popularity with the electors, and the certainty of his being returned one of the representatives of the county —a certainty founded on the fact, that considerably more than the half of the electors have already pledged themselves to support him, although he has not yet finished his canvas. What, then, do the enemies of our free Constitution—the inveterate haters of civil and religious liberty in every shape—what do these Oxford shire Tories do, but set up the cry of " No Popery," in order to damage Mr. STONOR, who happens to be a Catholic ! The trick is too stale to have any effect except with the most ignorant class of the com munity, to which class very few, if any, of the elec tors of Oxfordshire belong, though there is a Univer sity in the county. Yet the attempt, feeble as it is, and fruitless as it will prove, shows that the weapons of bigotry would be used without any compunction, could hands be found to put them into. The leader in this crusade of persecution is one WM. HENRY ASHURST, an obscure person who can find no other mode of obtaining notoriety for himself than by inventing and circulating calumnies against his neighbours. This respectable champion of Toryism, who has found ready channels for his slanderous im putations in the provincial organs of that party, of which he is so ambitious of becoming a chief orna ment by first proving that he is a dab at the dirtiest work, has published a letter, in which he accuses Mr. STONOR of being " an enemy to the Constitution," without once quoting —no, that would not do—a single expression, written or oral, ever used by him. " You are an enemy to the Constitution," exclaims this aspirant after Tory exaltation—" you found fault with the House of Lords, Mr. STONOR—it is true you did not say you wished to abolish or even reform the Peerage ; but at a public dinner you took upon yourself to disap prove of their proceedings, and no one could do this snless he were an enemy to the Constitution." Such is the logical process by which Mr. W. H. ASHURST manufactures an enemy to the Constitution ! Then comes another charge that Mr. STONOR is an enemy to the Church ; and this charge is made out in a similar manner. Mr. STONOR is not accused of any overt act of hostility to the Church—it is merely presumed, that being a Catholic, he must be an enemy Much praise has often been bestowed on the Duke of WELLINGTON for straightforward conduct and a want of every thing like chicanery and crooked policy as a Statesman. Now, considering the position he holds in society--the great name he has acquired by his public services abroad—and the reverence he is looked up to by a vast number of his countrymen—and, consequently, the motives he has for preserving the strictest integrity of character, perhaps there are few political men who have so little to boast of in that respect. His singular conduct in the House of Lord s within the last ten days cannot fail to remind the pub lic of proceedings towards the close of CANNING'S life, and during the crisis of the Reform Bill, but little calculated to raise him in public estimation. He re fused to join CANNING'S Administration, because CANNING supported the Catholic claims ; yet within a year afterwards, if not at the very moment when that Statesman was brought to an untimely grave, by the base desertion and cruel hostility of his former colleagues, he had made up his mind to grant more than CANNING ever proposed. He resisted Reform in Parliament, and declared that the measure introduced by the GREY Administration would render it impos sible for any Ministry to conduct the affairs of the country, and lead to the destruction of its institutions, yet was ready to adopt that very measure, or a more liberal measure, according to Lord ELLENBOROUGH, on being allowed to resume the reins of Government. For the last two years he has denounced in similar terms the Irish Municipal Bill and the Irish Tithe Bill ; yet within these few days, and on the eve of a general election, he turns round, and avows himself ready to join with Lord MELBOURNE in settling these questions, and in giving the Irish all the rights and privileges of Municipal government, its in England, through the means of popular election. We will not say what was his object, but such a statement affords to all the waverers an ex cuse for joining the Tories, and it will enable that party at the election to tell the people that WEL- L INGTON will carry out safe Reform even to a greater extent than MELBOURNE. Now let the public only reflect on what has occurred in the House of Lords since that declaration was made. Every measure that had for its object the improvement of the Parliamentary or the Municipal Reform Acts has been rejected. Last night, at a late hour, even the slight amendments made by the Commons to the Municipal Act Amend ment Bill were ne g atived without a division, and from what fill from WELLINGTON in a former part of the evening, we may rest satisfied that the same fate awaits the Parliamentary Elections Bill on Thurs day. The Tories profess to give their adhesion to the Reform Bill, yet, though proved beyond a doubt that in some ruts of Ireland it is impossible to poll all the electors within the time specified by the Reform Act, and, that without some remedy, great numbers would be disfranchised, the Duke of WELLINGTON would not consent even to an additional polling place. Such, Irishmen, is the species of Reform you may expect from a Tory Government, and such arc speci mens of the straightforward, ingenuous conduct of the Duke of WELLINGTON. We are delighted to learn that the " National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society," projected by Mr. LA MIE MURRAY—to the general importance of which we recently took occasion to direct public attention— is in a fair way of being established under the most favourable auspices. No institution could be devised better calculated to confer a solid advantage upon the provident among the middle and productive classes of the community ; and the names of all the gentlemen connected with it are so many sure guarantees for the safe, honourable, and judicious management of the funds of the shareholders. As the objects of this Society are detailed at considerable length in the prospectus, which appears in our advertising columns, it is not necessary for us here to do more than express an entire and cordial approbation of the principles upon whicli it is proposed to conduct its operations. Of these that which makes the advantage to the assured contingent on misfortune during lifetime is of the ut- most moment. Not one individual in forty of those whose industry constitutes the wealth and power of this coun try possess an income which would justify themselves or their families in assuring their lives, subject to a forfei ture of the assurance, in the event of their failing at any time to pay the annual premium. The income of such persons, whatever it may be, is for the most part contingent upon constant personal exertion ; and as the most regular in their lives and industrious in their habits cannot tell the moment when either of these may fail, it would betray presumption rather than parental solicitude and foresight to stipulate for any advantage, on the faith of the payment of a sum to be made annually during life. Benefit and Benevo lent Societies are unquestionably productive of great advantages to the poorer among the working classes ; but they hold out no inducement to the more thriving class of tradesmen to join them. What is wanted is an institution based and conducted on principles enabling the Directors to extend to a numerous, res pectable, and unobtrusive class of society a part of the advantages of their own provident economy in early life, without subjecting them to the mortification of exposing their poverty to the insulting gaze of all who may have known or heard of them under more pros perous circumstances. There are thousands of trades men tottering on the verge of ruin to whom a few hundreds of pounds—suddenly and secretly obtained —would be social salvation. The same may be said of commercial clerks, of gentlemen depending upon their literary exertions for their support, and of all those persons, the limitation of whose means confine them within that nondescript circle which separates the wealthy middling class from the industrious poor. The majority of those moving in this circle are by education, habits, tastes, and feelings, opposed to any parade of their privations—sometimes to the bare acknowledgment of their poverty. They can never make sure of being always in a condition to pay the annual premium upon a life policy : on the con trary, they are often reduced to the greatest straits for a temporary supply of money to meet unforeseen exi gencies ; and they are frequently lost when the smallest assistance, timely administered, would have saved them. Another improvement—and a most valuable one it is--upon the present Life Assurance system, is, the specification of the sum which can be borrowed upon each policy. By giving security to a trifling amount, a sum equal to two-thirds of the e ntire pay ments made may be borrowed, without forfeiture of any advantage derivable from the policy. Now, under the present system, no specific sum can be raised upon any policy. Borrown:g con policy is not inaue to depend upon the sum paid, but upon the sum assured for, and the age and infirmities of the assured—a i LET TER FROM THE EARL OF system which bears with undue severity upon those DURHAM TO TIIE ELECTORS OF NORTH DURHAM. who stand in the greatest need of indulgence. The National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society is an institution which promises to confer inestimable advantages on half-pay officers, clerks, authors, artists, persons connected with literature in every department, civil engineers, respectable tradesmen, and all those who have to depend for subsistence on lucrative but precarious employments. By holding out in ducements to them to save, it will encourage them to cultivate habits of economy, and to become in all respects better men and better members of society. They are now reckless because they have it not in their power to make a provision for their fami lies, and likewise because they have no opportunity of ascertaining the ultimate value of petty savings con tinued for a long series of years. The establishment of the Society now under consideration will open a new prospect to this most respectable and most worthy class of persons ; and we prize their understanding too highly to suppose that they will be tardy in availing them selves of it. We, of course, are quite well aware that the institution will be open indifferently to all—that all classes may avail themselves of the benefits which it offers ; but in directing the attention of the public to its details, we, for the present, confine our remarks to its applicability to the wants of the respectable, well educated, unobtrusive, poorer middling class—a class for the cultivation of whose habits of economy, and the providing for whose silently endured wants society has hitherto made no provision. London, July 8, 1837. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receiptt of your communication of the sth instant, in which you inform me of the proceedings of the electors of the Northern division of the county of Durham, at the meeting held on that day, and express a desire to ascertain my sentiments on the subject then brought under their consideration. The whole of the Paris papers of Monday have been received. They contain no domestic news of the slightest interest. The Government had just been made acquainted with the following telegraphic intelli gence from Spain : " BAYONNE, JOLT 9.—Espartero was on the sth at Espejo, marching towards the valley of Mena : he was joined by 400 horse, arriving from Madrid. It was said, that after passing the Ebro, Don Carlos would proceed to Cantavieja, stop there, and make it his place d'arrnes. The division of General Buerens, 10,000 foot and 700 horse, entered Saragossa on the sth, to join Oraa in lower Aragon. Oraa will thus have 20,000 The Catalonians remain in their province, and the Baron de Meer also. Another dispatch from Perpignan of the 9th, merely states that the Baron de Meer was at Tarraga, when Don Carlos passed the Ebro." _ _ _ The duece is in it, or there will be some real figh ig very shortly. Cantavieja is a large town i Valencia. FRENCH FUNDS —Paine. Aim( 10. Five per Cents.. 110 f. 5c 109 f. 95c Four and a HaUner Cents. 102 E 10c. Four per Cent., 100 E 20c. three per Cents., 79f. II c. sc. Bank Actions, 2,405 f. 2,402 f. 50c. rtente de Naples, 97f. 70c. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Spanish Actives, 22% 23. Spanish Passives, sq. Spanish Differes, Belgian Lean, Five per Cents, 102%. Belgian Bank, 1,420 f. 1,4171. 5Pc. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 46 Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 26% 27. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 5`2%. EXCHANOK ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 47%c. ; money, 251. 45, Tyree months, paper, 251. 27% c. ; money, 25f. 25c —Coors Authentiaue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 110 f. 25e. Three per Cents. 79f. 20c. Bank Actions, 2,402 f. 50c. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Belgian Loan, 102%. Belgian Bank, 1,417 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 27%. Haytian Loan, 295 f. Spanish Actives, '23. Spanish Passives 5%. New Differes, 9. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 52%. rIA MBURG BORSEN HALLE, JULY 7. Bills. Money, Austrian Metaviques, 5 per cent. Ditto tit to 4 per cent Di , * _ ditto 3 per cent. Litt() Bank Shares 1372 1370 Anglo-Russian Loan 10 5 1,E 105 Paper Inscription, 6 per cent Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates rortuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 46 Ditto, 3 per cent 27% 27 Dutch 2% Per Cents. Ditto S per Cents — Polish ilonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 152% 152% Anglo-Danish Loan, 0 per cents 7l 70% Norwegian Loan of IEO4, 4 pct . cents Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 1 Greek 4 per cents. 1633, guaranteed by France 93 92% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMMIRG, JULY 7.-13 11 ; two months. 139 1 ,x. ST. PETF.R.SBURGII, JUNE 30 —Three months. ivy, Cont,rtasts. JUNE . B—Three months, 5 2. Bgirt.irr. JULY 4.—Three ii,nths, 6. 21%. STOCKHOLM, JUNE 30.—Two months, 12 16. —Hamburg Papers, July 7. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all sorts of English Grain are small, but from Ireland and the continent many vessels with Oats conti nue to arrive. The \Vheat trade remains firm at Monday's prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease are unaltered. There have been limited sales of Oats to-day, at no alteration :in value, Flour comes sparingly to market, and the trade can take c. the supply without difficulty. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Flour. E nglis h Irish - .360 I 0,040 9 - I , ,eign 6:',o -- 10,220 TILE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CI7'Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK. An overland dispatch has arrived from India, by which Calcutta Papers have been received to the 14th April, and the Price Current of the 15th April. The Price Cur rent states :—" Our produce market, which has been in fluenced during the last and present month by the great pres sure in the Money Market, owing partly to the absorption of much of the native capital in speculation, and the general disturbed state of trade in China, particularly in regard to opium, has received a further check by the intelligence re ceived on the 12th inst. (overland) of the continuance of the pressure upon the Commercial Market at home. These ac counts would have had much more distressing consequences , had the public not been informed that Government had yielded to the solicitation of the Chamber of Commerce, and had de termined to re-open the Treasury for advances against con signments to England. " Ortum.—The Market is nearly in the same position as reported in our last, being chiefly supported by local specu lators. " Twisr.—The market has been moved by an active demand since our last, and sales to some extent have been made ; prices are improving. Exchange Bills on her Majesty's Trea sury, 30 day's sight, 2 to 21." Information was rec eived in the course of yesterday of ter noon of an extensive failure of a house at Trieste—sugar re finers and general merchants and extensive shippers to New York ; but it is not expected that their London agents will be great sufferers by the event. THE FUNDS. There is no great difficulty in obtaining money on good bills—it being more plentiful since the dividends are paying. Consols, which left off yesterday at 924 for the Account, opened at 924 ; for Money 90i 91; Exchequer Bills, 43 to 45 prem. ; India Bonds, 43 to 45 prem. ; Bank Stock, 209 to 210 ; India Bonds, 258 259. Spanish Active closed at 211, Ex Coupons, opened at 21k- ; Passive, 54,-; Portuguese, 434; Three per Cents., 271. HALF-PAST ONE: Consols, which were in the morning at 92/- for the Ac count, have receded to 92, owing to a heavy sale in that Stock for Chancery to the amount of about 60 or 70,000. Exchequer Bills, 43 44 prem. ; India Bonds, 42 44 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2094. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active reached 924, with the Coupons, at present 21+ ex-coupons ; it has a more bright appearance than for several days past, owing to Don Carlos's plot at Madrid having been discovered. Portuguese, 431 ; Three per Cents., 271 ; Russian, 109+; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 52. A failure has just been declared in the House. There is no news respecting commercial affairs in the City and we have no further arrivals either from France or Spain. THREE 0' CLOCK. Consols for Account, 04. Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, who had been taken to America in a French frigate, after his unfortunate en terprise at Strasbourg, has arrived in London by the packet the George TVashington, from New York. As he was not bound by say engagement with the French Government he hastened his return to Europe on receiving the news of the dangerous illness of his mother, the ex-Queen Hortense, Duchess of St. Leu. The Prince alighted at Fenton's hotel. The balloon, belonging to Mr. C. Green, which ascended from the Surrey Zoological Gardens, in the presence of upwards of 25,000 persons, the largest number assembled for some time, descended at Ashley Park, the seat of Sit Henry: Fletcher, at Walto n-on-Thames. Mr. H. Green and Mr. E. Spencer were the voyagers. The ascent was majestic. The mac hine passed over Vauxhall Gardens, twice over the Thames, along the Western Railroad, and descended at ten minutes after eight o'clock in Ashley Park, adjoining Oatlands, the seat of Lord Francis Egerton. Mr. C. Green accompanied the voyagers to the lake, and superintended the arrangements for the ascent. The Gardens at the time of th e a scen t pre sented an animated appearance. The combi ne d a tt rac tion drew a vast assemblage. The editor of the Exeter (American) News having been imposed upon by some w i c k e d wag, echo forwarded him a PHI ior of 9. mar . iav has givcit zictice it !! in future deem all matrimonial notices unauthentic, unless accompanied by a large slice of bride cake. In the first place, the nomination of a candidat* should be the spontaneous act of the electors, and ought not to arise from any influence or recommenda tion of mine. Secondly, a recurrence to the poll ought to be dependent on a strict examination of the registra tion returns. If the result of that inquiry gives you, as you state, a majority of 700 votes, or even a cer tain majority of a lesser amount, you ought unques tionably to enter into the contest, and you shall have every support that I can constitutionally give you. On whichever side rests the majority, it ought to be wholly, not partially, represented. if it is Liberal, by two Liberals ; if Tory, by two Tories : for I am decidedly opposed to all compromises tending to place the repre sentation in political abeyance. This is not a moment when supineness or apathy carp be tolerated. On the energies and determination of the Liberal party, in all classes, depend the destinies of the empire. A most glorious opportunity now presents itself of strengthening that great cause of Reform and amelioration to which we have beers so long devoted. A new reign has commenced.. Our Sovereign, with all the cordial confidence of an open heart and generous feeling, has placed herself unreservedly in the hands of e. Liberal Government. Let us by our exertions justify that step, and add to their means of efficiently serving her Majesty. Let us unite round her throne all that is good and wise and patriotic in the empire. Let our watchwords be, The Queen and Liberty I The Queers and the Constitution I The Queen and Reform ! Whatever principles are most dear to us, most deeply implanted in the hearts of the people of England, may be, without reservation, identified with the name of the Sovereign. Educated by one of the best and wisest of her sex, her illustrious mother, our Queen knows that no throne is so secure as that which is based on the affections of its subjects—no crown sits so lightly or so gracefully as that on which are harmo niously blended the liberties of the people and the pre rogatives of Monarchy. As for myself : As you have done me the honour, by desire of the meeting, to ask my advice, I will tell you candidly what my views are. They are what they have ever been, and are neither changed nor modified. I wish to rally as large a portion of the British people as possible around the existing institutions of the couu try—the Throne, Lords, Commons, and the Established Church. Ido not wish to make new institutions, but to preserve and strengthen the old. Herein lies the difference between me and my opponents. Some would confine the advantages of those institutions to as small a class as possible ; I would throw them open to all who had the ability to comprehend them, and the vie gour to protect them. Others, again, would annihilate them, for the purpose of forming new ones on fanciful and untried principles. I would, I repeat, preserve them, but increase their efficiency, and add to the number of their supporters. I have often stated the modes by which, as I imagine, that efficiency can be most readily produced ; but I have ever accom panied those declarations, as I do now, with the an nouncement of my determination never to force them peremptorily or dogmatically on the consideration of the Government or the Parliament. If they are (as in my conscience I believe them to be) useful and salu tary measures—for they are based on the most Ml plicit.confidenee in the loyalty and good feeling of the people—the course of events, and the experience of every day, will remove the objections and preju dices which may now exist, and ensure their adoption, whenever they are recommended by the deliberate voice of the people. This, i❑ a few words, is my political creed ; and no one can look • for my co-operation or support on any other grounds. It has been my ruling principle throughout my political life to endeavour to bring all classes—especially the middle and lower—within the the pale of the true, not the spurious Constitution. I have ever wished to give the latter an interest i n the preservation of privileges which exclusion would no longer render obnoxious to them ; to make them feel that whilst the Crown enjoyed its prerogatives, and the upper classes their honours, they also were invested with privileges most valuable to them ; and, moreover, that all, separately and collectively, rested on the com mon basis of national utility. I remain, Sir, with great regard, Your most obedient servant, Russell Bowlby, Esq., &c. DURHAM. , ff _ _ The Queen held a Privy Council this afternoon at St. James's Palace. The Queen received the City address this day, after which there was an investiture of the Order of the Bath, followed by a Privy Council. Prince George of Cambridge came to town yester day fi om the Queen's Lodge at Bushey Park. His Ro . al IliglineEs paid visits to the Royal family and to Prince Erncst of Hesse Phillipsthal. The Duke of Sussex entertained Prince Ernest of i-lesse Phillipsthal and a select party at dinner last evening at Kensington Palace. Prince Ernest of Hesse Phillipsthal dined with Earl Brownlow on Monday evening at his residence in Bel grave -s quare. The Queen gave audiences yesterday at Kensirgton Palace to the Earl of Minto and Lord Belhaven. The Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Minto visited Lord Melbourne yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to return to-day from Cambridge, in time to attend the Privy Council at St. James's Palace. Admiral Sir Robert Otway is re-appointed cne of the Grooms of the Bedchamber. The Duchess de Beira and the children of Don Carlos were, on the Ist, at Salsbourgh. SUITES OF EAR-RINGS, NECKLACE, AND BROOCH.—A variety in the latest taste, ♦arying in price from 101. to 201. the Suite, are arranged in the upper Show Room for selection. They consist of Pearls and other real Gems, Amethyst, Topaz, and other stones. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N.I3.—A Pamphlet, containing a List of the Prices of Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., at Islington, the lady of Mr. W. Oldershaw, of a (laughter. On the 7th inst., Mrs. Wm. Dean, of Mnswell-hill, of a son. Mrs. W. Collins Smith, of John-street, Adelphi, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Beddington, Surrey, Mrs. Geo. Engstrom, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Guildford-street, Russell - sq uare, T. Messiter, Esq., of a son. W war On the 10th inst., at althamstow, the la d y of Ed the lady of Edward Wigram, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. Atat the house of Sir Robert Wilmot, B ar t., R a lph Howard, Esq., DI. P" to Lady Fraser. the 11 t h inst., at Twickenham Church, th e R ev. Ri c h a rd Burgess, Brighton, Rector ,ofUpper Chelsea, to S op hi a, daughter of the l ate On S. Greatheed , Es q ., of Landford Lodge, Wilts. On the 7 th inst. , at Leatherhead, Thomas Dickins, Esq., of Vale-lodge , to Caroline Beaty, youngest da ug ht er o f Wm. Stanley Clarke, Esq., of Elm-bank. ilitonOn the 6th inst., at Stockton, Harry Farr Yeatman, Esq" eldest son of the Rey. H. F. Yeatman of Stock House, Dorset shire, to Emma, only (laughter of Harry Biggs, Esq., of Stockton House, Wilts. At Great Ealing Roger Chancy the only surviving son of the late Lieut.-C o l . Gillman, of the 76th Regiment. On the 7th inst., at Brighton, Edward, eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. E. J. Turnour, M.A., aged 35. He was formerly a Fellow o f S t. J ohn ' s College, Oxfor d . On the 9th inst. Edward Victor Leopold Parish, youngest son C. Parish, Esq., of ' Blackwall, and late midshipman of her Majesty's ship " Tyne," aged 18. On the 6th inst., at Ampthill House, Bedfordshire, Joseph Mor riss, Esq., aged 62. On the Bth inst., Lydia Boutcher, niece of Mr. S. Darnell, of Hill-street, Peckham, Surrey, aged 48. On the sth inst., at Everton, near Liverpool, aged 73, Ann, re lict of the late Nicholas Waterhouse. On the sth inst., at Forfar, N. 8., Margaret Ure, relict of John Adam, Esq., surgeon, Forfar. On the 9th inst., at Cave Cottage, Turnham-green, aged 2 2, Louisa, wife of A. M. Reboul, Esq., and daughter of John Bent, Esq., of Oat-hall, Lindfield, Sussex. On the Bth inst., aged 71, Mr. Edward James, of Bexley-place , Greenwich. On the Ist inst., at Beckley Rectory, Sussex, the Rev. Henry Hodges, 81. A., only surviving brother of Thomas Law Hodges, E q. , M.P., of Homsted, Kent. On the Ist inst., at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Eularia Mar garet, youngest daughter of Major-General Dickson, K.C.8., in her 14th year. Prutk,:: aLd 311AI1O 1OU:1X-, ol 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112. Strand,in the cou u tY of blidcllesez..—Wednesday, July 12, 1837. 94 95e THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1837