The Sun. — London, England, 1837-10-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS• In the fifth volume, just published, of Mr. Leek hart's delightful " Life of Sir Walter Scott," a biu graphv which possesses the rare merit of exhiLiting, without disg,uise or reservation, the actions, character, and views of the subject of it, we find Sir Walter, in a letter to Lord Montague, dated March, 1822, laying down what may be considered as the Tory creed. " I can nat ;" he says, " look forward to these as settled times. In the retrenchments proposed, Government agree t u di m i,,F6 their own influence, and while they con. tribute a comparalve trifle to the relief of the public bur dens, are making new (4 1 ;:cconients among th, , se w_ ho, for interest's sake, at least, were .their natural ae4herents. In this they are acting weakly, ar;:1 trying to OQthe the unsatiate appetite for innovation, by :hroveing down • more their outworka, as if that which renders at,.`c. secure and easy would diminish the courage of the as' FailantA. Last year the manufacturing classes were rlaing, this year the agricUltural interest is discontented, and whatever temporary relief either class receives, will, indeed, render them quiet for the moment, but not erase from their minds the rooted belief that the Government ar:d Constitution of this country ate in fault for their emteerrassments." On the Tory prin ciple this is unanswerable. The Tories, like Bishop Horsley, consider that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and the only popu lar Constitution they recognise is what is called vir tual representation—that is, the semblance of repre sentation, obtained by limiting the franchise to persons in necessitous or dependent circumstances, capable of giving no trouble to those who conduct the Govern ment. The Tories would allow to the people no in fluence on the Executive. With them Government oight to be conducted exclusively for the benefit of the governing classes ; and such a Government is strong proportion to the amount of tire funds at the dis poeal of these classes compared with the means left in the possession of the productive classes. Hence the army and navy, the law, the church, the di plomacy, the various branches of home and colo nial adininistrati , e , can never be too amply pro vided for in the estimation of the Tories. Sir Walter Scott saw what Lord L verpool and the Duke of Wel lington did not see—that a Tory Government cannot be an economical one, as its object is not the welfare of the people, but the welfare of the governing classes. There is no doubt an extreme limit to taxation ; that is, when it is carried so far as to strike at production. An enlightened Tory would no doubt carefully guard against what would in effect be destroying the hen that lays the golden eggs. But he would not on the mere principle of consulting the public welfare consent to reduce taxes and to retrench expenditure. This is at once admitting the right of the people to have Govern ment conducted for their benefit, and not for the bene fit of the governing classes, and every concession to that principle weakens the latter and strengthens the former. Hence the general dislike among the Tories of Lord Liverpool and of the Duke of Welling ton. The Standard, which well understands the principles of Toryism, has more than once dis claimed Lord Liverpool and the Duke of Wellington as Tories, arid treated Sir Robert Peel as a sort of re negado from his first Tory principles. The Reform Bill gave a severe blow to Toryism, for it threatened to give the people a direct influence on Government through their Representatives in the House of Com mons ; and this would in time introduce the new prin ciple of conducting the Government, not for the be nefit of the aristocratic classes, but for the benefit of the people. The Tories, however, aware of their dan ger, soon saw the necessity of makin g great exertions to avert it. The struggle is conducted on their part with energy. They see that if they do not succeed in defeating the principle of the Reform Bill, and restoring virtual Representation, public utility will be the test by which every act of Government will be tried. They may he said to play for a deeper stake than the people. The man of 20001. a year, with a large family of sons and daughters, looks to a large public expenditure as the means of obtaining incomes for the sons and for husbands to his daughters. On the other hand, the share of benefit to an individual of the productive classes from saving is not such as immediately to appeal to his interest. On great occasions he is influenced by enthusiasm and elevated principles ; but on ordinary occasions he is too apt to be apathetic. But we do not despond. Tl-,e wave of Reform, though it may appear to ebb, will, on some great occasion, flow once more, and the experience of the few last years will not be thrown away. The next effort in the way of Re form will go much further than the last ; and we look confidently forward to the time when the power of the people will be placed on so secure a basis as to deprive Tories even of the hope of being able to defeat the representative principle by bribery, intimidation, and all the host of sinister means now resorted to by that party. The Reform Bill has added prodigiously to the difficulties of controlling the people, arid the prin ciple of that Bill will one day destroy Toryism.— Morning Chronicle. There were inserted in the Times of yesterday two publications bearing forcibly upon the state of Ireland and on the character of Lord Mulgrave's Govern ment. One was a letter from the experienced and ju dicious pen of Mr. Eneas iVlacdonnell ; the other a series of observations on the late iniquitous and fright ful order of the Lord-Lieutenant, for putting the great majority of the Queen's subjects out of the protection of the civil power—a force raised and paid for no other lawful purpose than to be a safeguard of persons and property against illegal violence. It is justly re marked by Mr. Eneas Macdonnell, that the attack upon the subscription for supporting petitions against such Irish members as there is solid ground for be- I;eving to have been wrongfully returned to this present Parliament, embodies in the very essence of it a defence of the priests, which is worse than no defence at all. The Ministerial Papers are quite furi - ous in their de nial of the O'Connell tail in this House of Commons being indebted for their transient victory over the constitutional candidates to any interference of the Itomish priesthood. Very well. How, then, will the priests reconcile such an assertion with their own repeated attempts at an apology for, or, we ought to say, their avo;ved boasts of, the zeal and activity of that interference, on the ground that the rights and interests " of the people of Ireland called for it, that " justice to Ireland" exacted it of them, that it was the bounden duty of the spiritual pastors to enlighten the consciences of their flocks upon the nature and magnitude of the debt they owed to their " country ?" &c. Here we have in a thousand instances the priests themselves vaunting their own public services, on the single argument of a public and overruling necessity ; not venturing, be it observed, to deny the charge of their seditious, overhearing, and unspiritual tur bulence—for indeed they could not, the fact was and is too notorious—but exulting in it, and piquing themselves on the success of it. Here, however, there is a contradictory plea set up, sacrificing the veracity of the priesthood to the alleged respectabi lity and independence of the new tailmen, who, we are assured, have come into Parliament by virtue of their own personal popularity or influence, and with no cid whatever from the Popieli Clergy. If the Ministerial newspapers, therefore, tell truth, and are jusifled in declaring that the O'Connell partisans now in the House of Commons represent the lay constitu ency of Ireland a p ar t f ro m the Priesthood, it proves the non-existence of any such danger to the " politi cal interests of the people of Ireland" as that which the Priests pleaded in their own justification, and the gratuitous wantonness of their intermeddling spirit. If, again, the returns were not obtained through guy unlawful intilnidation or other malpractices by the Priesthood, what evil can arise to them from that sub scription fund, against which they rail so lustily ? If no injustice have been committed on their side, what have they to fear from the justice of a Parliamentary Committee ? As for the wisdom of the furnish Priests in their notorious excitement of the multitudethroughout Ireland during the last half century, much cannot be said. It is manifest that they have at length overshot their mark, and produced in the Protestant mind of Gritain Britain that retributive sentiment now so nearly universal, which places an impassable bar to any fur ther encroachments by Popery ou the rights of civil and religious freedom, making allowance for all the help they can borrow from a Ministry base enough to be their slaves. Circumstances of a more personal nature than any connected with the above statement of the , Irish question, prove (we lament to say) the utter indifference of the Mulgrave Government towards yen the shadow of decency in what regards its sub- Connell. There has lately been much serviency to 0' verbiage expended by Lord Morpeth touching the in expediency of retaining on the bench, magistrates who lay under the suspicion of political partiality. We see how that fastidious doctrine acted in the ease of Colonel Verner. Let us now see how it acted in another somewhat conspicuous case. Lord Morpeth was a Member of the fat-famed " Intimidation Committee," which sat in the summer of 1835, and of which some (not unwholesome) use was made in the Times a few months afterwards, Before thee Committee was brought a respectable police magistrate, who : I .^:±lieZl in the most solemn manner that he had heard with his ;Iwn ears Mr. Daniel O'Connell announce to t h e i n h a h',:ente 9f Tralee that he would have " a Death's head ruie 4 eros.bones printed on a pt...ANL and posted on the door of ailV Catholic who voted tor the Knight of Kerry." Lord Morpeth was, we say, a member of the Committee before which that evidence was given. He must have known the fact ; it was known to the entire kingdom ; the evidence was ordered to be printed in August, 1835 ; and in October, 1835, the very Daniel O'Connell against whom the said ferocious barbarism stood recorded was actually made by the very same Lord Morpeth, and for the first time in Daniel's life, a justice ofthe peace fir Kerr!! Oh what a circumspect, scrupulous, impartial Go vernment is that of Lords Mulgrave and Morpeth ! Cassidy's promotion was a joke to this. Two other facts, bearing upon the different " justice" measured out to Protestant loyalists and Popish rebels are men tioned by our intelligent correspondent. Ist. His de claratinn at a public dinner at Drogheda that he " would rather sec the waters of the Boyne again run red with Irish blood than bear to be insulted and degraded as they (the Papists) were." Was this, or was it not, some few degrees more savage than a recollection of the self-defensive " battle of the Diamond ?" It happened last December. Was O'Connell removed on account of it from the Commis sion of the Peace ? Say, was he, oh, just Lord Mor peth ?—say, Mulgrave, the virtuous, "gravis, castus que vir ?" 2d. In his letter to the people of Ireland, not a month old, Mr. Daniel O'Connell denounced the House of Lords as an enemy " to the people !" declared the utter hopelessness of relief from a British (that is, the united) Parliament—that is, that to obtain relief Ireland must look to a successful rebellion. Say again, oh impartial, virtuous, and pure Lord Mulgrave, have you for either or both of the foregoing atrocities written an announcement to Mr. Daniel O'Connell that you will recommend to my Lord Chancellor Plunket the expunging of the name of Daniel from the Commis sion of the peace ? If not, what are you, my Lord Mulgrave, but a false pretender to impartiality, and a secret coadjutor of that conspiracy of which Mr. Jus tice-of-the-Peace O'Connell avows the object to be a forcible dismemberment of the British empire ? The second matter which we began by proposing for the consideration of our readers was .an official order, of which Colonel Shaw Kennedy has been outraged by being made the vehicle, prohibiting the police from giving aid to individuals on their premises without being paid for it k y the parties themselves, and then only in cases of " urgent necessity." It follows, therefore, that however urgent the necessity, or immi nent the peril to the Queen's peaceable subjects, indi viduals or their families who are destitute of means to pay and subsist a portion of the constabulary force shall receive no particle of protection from it ! ! ! Great Heaven do Englishmen live to see this day? No protection ? Why, then, what say all writers on civil government ? Why the answer is, then— no allegiance. If Lord Mulgrave will not suffer the. force paid by the people to interpose for the preservation of the people's lives and properties, or for the maintenance of the Queen's peaCe, what title has Lord Mulgrave to be defended by the people—on what plea dares he demand their alle giance—by what pretext will he dare to pre vent them from associating for their own defence— reduced, as by his arbitrary and infamous decree—re duced as civil society now is—to a state of nature ? We maintain that, for this act alone, among 500 others which call for impeachment—for this alone Lord Mulgrave is impeachable ; and we pray that he may he impeached. We know he will be, if there exist a single spark of public spirit in the Imperial House of Commons. What ! to consign every poor Loyalist in Ireland, by one stroke of the pen, to un restricted massacre ? Is it not a proclamation that every Protestant in the island, who has not wherewithal to hire mercenaries for the garrison of his dwelling, must make his peace with the rebel ruffians, by aban doning the religion of his ancestors, and turning Papist on the spot. Numerous iniquities have been perpe trated under Lord Mulgrave's Government, but a crime like this is unheard of in the annals of any civi lized power.— nines. At the time when we were exerting ourselves day after day to remove from the statute hook the penalty of death for the crime of forgery—a penalty not more barbarous than ineffective—the admirers and upholders of an exterminating system of penal law, falsely called justice, not finding themselves competent to grapple with our arguments, had recourse to the easy and familiar expedient of the dishonest supporters of a bad cause, and misrepresented our motives and endeavours -in favour of an efficient reform of that and other branches of the criminal law by ascribing them to a principle of - false humanity, which merged all regard for the public interests in sympathy for the offender whose life the law demanded. Upon ignorant and unthinking minds, and also upon some of the better informed, to whom the judicial destruction of human life had. by familiar usage appeared to be an indis pensable part of a system of civilised justice, such misrepresentation, often and boldly advanced, had a certain effect. It was not without difficulty that we dissipated the delusion thereby created among certain classes of society, and showed, to the conviction of all whose eyes were not wilfully closed against the truth, that the admirers of punish ments of blood were, in reality, the advocates for an in effective system of law, while we, who wished to purify tine statute book of this enlightened and Christian country from the stain of their barbarism, were the promoters of a system of penal legislation more certain and uniform in the punishment of guilt, and conse quently more effective fur the protection of the public. The penalty of death having at length been removed from every species of forgery, to repress which it had been practically found to be utterlv inoperative, and a more moderate and reasonable punishment substituted, we did expect that such punishment would be applied to all cases of proved guilt, where there were not very extenuating circumstances, without any relaxation what ever being admitted out of a feeling of favour or affec tion, political connection, or respect of persons. Greatly surprised were we to observe that in a case reported in the papers of a forger, of respectable connections, con victed on the clearest of all possible evidence not long Len since at the Old Bailey, an intimation was given from the bench that there would probably be a commutation of the sentence. We allude to the case of a young spendthrift, called Williams, who led what is called a " fashionable life"—that is, a life of luxury and folly—for some time at Worthing, and other water ing-places, upon the strength of forged checks— forged upon a wealthy uncle of his, resident in Waleg. Whether the sentence has been commuted according to the intimation we know not. It was, in our opi nion, a case in which the sentence of the law ought to have been carried into full effect—a case for the hard labour and degradation of a penal settlement. We are reminded of this case now by the occurrence of another as similar as possible, in which the mus tachioed and cigar-smoking swindler committed his frauds in the same manner, and lived on the produce, like the former culprit, dashingly at watering-places, with his mistress and his coach...and-four. Is this case, like the former, also to be con6iderell one for merciful mitigation of the legal punishment ? If ,:313 # we need not wonder if imitators of the crime are mul tiplied.—Morning Herald. The Ministerial journals insist that nothing can the justify the subsc r ip t i on i n a id o f I r i s h e l ect i on peti lions but the co nv i c ti on t h at h bourne majority, as it appears upon O t h'eCro:t returns IVl ir D e m i - Ireland, is a packed and fraudulent majority. VV entirely dissent from this opinion of our Ministerial ciun that a considerable proportion of the Irish 0- Contemporaries. There are strong grounds for suspi t2rial niajor:ty in the present House 0f , C0r , .. _ been falsely and fraudulently ram- mons have . cion, we contend, is quite en ,- ied. This suspi - but to demand the to-- ,ugh not merely to justify „lost efforts of honest and con cpro herert: v d a bs u h satisfac tory absolute o ceaion investigation isu ch of in order to s ecure th e m ost stitutional aca t s h e entire conviction w hi c h e fo t r ru ti t l h at . more naturally follows a tudi mvestigation of facts than precedes it. 'r • Ins doctrine is evidently advanced from the stron g desire to check inquiry— scarcely a desire w hi c h w ill obtain credit for disinterestedness, and the expression of which aught to produce, and in all probability will produce, an effect precisely the reverse of what is iutended. We can very well afford, however, to con cede this point, although it be a gratuitous concession to the O'Connell party. The full conviction which is required as the condition of justifiable interfe. rEnce ought generally to follow rather than precede investigation ; but the rule, though general, is not universal. There are cases, and that of the Irish elections we take to be one of them, in which the fullest conviction of iniquity and falsehood may arise without a regular investigation, from notorious circum stances, and the well•known character, means, and purposes of the parties concerned. It is probable that a very general conviction exists in Great Britain with respect to the true character of the Irish returns, and we should he quite content that the amount of the subscription far securing " justice to Ireland," in a matter so important as the genuineness of her repre sentation, should be only in proportion to the diffusion and strength of this conviction. We acquiesce, with out hesitation in the precept conveyed by the O'Con nell journal, that those who really doubt the fact of a considerable number of the Irish returns having been fraudu!ently and illegally obtained, should withhold their subscriptions until they are convinced of the fact, but, in compensation we say, (and this compensation will be as ample as it is reasonable and just) let all those who have no doubt remaining upon the subject subscribe liberal!). now. Nothing better than this need be desired by those who are most anxious to swell the amount of the subscription.—Morning Post. Stronger and more definite in language than the ad dress a few days since published, as that of the As sembly of Lower Canada, is the document really ap proved by that body, in reply to the speech of Lord Gosford on opening the Canadian Parliament. The address already published was proposed, but after a long .discussion rejected by a majority of 48 to 32 in favour of that which we this day lay before our readers. If the first or proposed address confirmed the anticipa tions which we entertained of the probable conduct of the House of Assembly, that which subsequently re ceived its sanction carries out these anticipations to a still further extent. It evinces still greater indignation and repugnance against the course of policy indicated by the resolutions passed by the British Legislature ; and, in fact, expresses as forcibly as diplomatic or sen atorial language l can express, a determination to oppose, a l'outrance, the meditated assault against the rights and liberties of the Colonies. In the calm, de termined, and dignified language addressed to the Go vernor-General, we recognise a striking resemblance to those temperate, but immovably resolute remonstrances made by the States of the present American Union, at the time of the dissensions which ultimately dissevered them from the central Government ; we trust that it is not precursory to a similar catastrophe, but that a just and conciliatory policy on the part of Great Britain will, in affording scope to the development of the nascent liberties of the Colonies, render the consummation of their freedom not only consonant with, but accessary to the advancement of British interests. First expressing their desire to discharge their duties to the people, the Canadian representatives address the Governor-General as follows : " We are, then, bound by our duty frankly to declare to your Excellency, under the solemn circumstances in which we are placed, and after full and calm deliberation, that since the time when we were last called to meet in provincial Parliament, we have seen in the conduct and proceedings of the metropolitan government and of the colonial admi nistration towards this country, nothing which could re establish in the people the confidence and affection which the long and fatal experience of the past has almost de stroyed ; but that, on the contrary, every recent event has tended to efface what remained of these feelings, and to consolidate, in opposition to the liberties, interests, and wishes of the people, the colonial oligarchy factiously com bined against them, and the hitherto unbridled and uncon trolled sway of the Colonial Ministers in Downing-street." Such language as this, sustained by such truths, needs no commentary. Again, in reference to the Re port of the Royal Commissioners it is observed : " We are bound especially to notice in the reports in question, as far as they have comae to our know. ledge, one essential and paramount contradiction which pervades every part of them, and forms their es sence. It is, that while they admit the reality of the greater portion of the abuses and grievances of which we have complained, the Commissioners do not recommend their removal and the destruction of the causes which had pro duced them, but an act of aggression against this House, which has denounced them, and the absolute destruction of the Representative Government in this province by the illegal and violent spoliation of the public moneys of the people, by the Ministers or by the Parliament ; whereas it was the duty of the Commission and of the Mother Country to assist this House in the entire removal of these evils, and in rendering their recurrence impossible, by re constituting the second branch of the Legislature by means of the elective principle, by repealing all laws and privi leges unjustly obtained, and by ensuring the exercise of the powers and legitimate controul of this House over the internal affairs of the province, and over all matters rela tive to its territory, and the wants of its inhabitants, and more especially over the public revenue raised in it." But the most important part of the address is to come. It is that wherein, after commenting upon the tendency of the resolutions of the British Senate, as subversive of all legitimate and constitutional controul over their executive government by the colonists, and establishing corruption, intrigue, and pillage on the ruins of their liberties, the Assembly states— " It is our duty, therefore, to tell the mother country, that if she carries the spirit of these resolutions into effect in the Government of British America, and of this province in particular, her supremacy therein will no longer depend upon the feelings of affection, of duty, and of mutual in terest which would best secure it, but on ph)sieal and ma terial force, an element dangerous to the governing party, at the same time that it subjects the governed to a degree of uncertainty as to their future existence and their dearest interests, which is scarcely to be found under the most ab solute Governments of civilised Europe." To pers!rere in resolutions in defiance of opinions go energetically expressed, and based on principles so uni versally supported by the more enlightened portion of civilized man, would be an act of despotism and folly completely at variance with the general character of the present Administration. We therefore confidently state our conviction that in the approaching Session a policy will be pursued differing from that of the past, and in proportion to that difference more calculated to allay discontent in the colonies, to cement and conso lidate their connection with the parent state, and pro mote the interests of both countries—Morn. Advertiser. LORD HADDO.—The Aberdeen Constitutional, a Tory print, records at great length, and with sufficient pomp, some festivities which took place at Haddo House, on Thursday last. It appears that Lord Haddo came of age on that day, and that his father, the Earl of Aberdeen, took that opportunity to entertain at dinner the whole of the tenantry of his extensive estates. The German men of science during their visit to Prague have been treated to7"ix concert, at which an English Lady, Miss Adelaide Kemble, is represented to have p.ir ticula+ly distinguished herself. RAILROADS.-It is not generally known that by the acts of Parliamot, giving the Companies the right to form railroads, a rig, has been preserved to the public to use the railroad on the payment of certain tolls fixed by the Company. Under these circumstances any private indivi dual, or Company, may set up trains and locomotive engines for the accommodation of the public, on the payment of tolls to the railroad Companies.—Worcoster Journal. The Moniteur Beige contains a Itoval Ordinance, by which his Majesty, ccnsidering that it is just and useful to recognize the generous devotedness of persoa who have exposed their lives to zaps that of their fellow-creatures, order; medals of silver, or silver gilt, of the value of 25, 3 0 , 40, 4 ;0,50 francs, and two of gold of log francs, to be given to about 60 individuals, who have rescued persons from imminent danger of drowning, Thu Minister of the Interior is authorised to give the persons in quest i on e i t h er the nieci,7.l ,or the value in money, or a smaller medal and the remainder in inoupi, as they may prefer, -ACES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 3. Number Dividend Priee of per CANAIS, per ibsres. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97/. 18s. eh. 1:15 1.142 41. Ashby-de-le-'Louth Average 113/, eh. 65 (,2011 Basingstoke lool.lh. 5 005 5/, Brecknock and Abergavenny 150. oh. 100 1,000 1.165 h. 91.64, Ilirmingham, 1.16 th share 41. & 711. 220 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Juncts.,l2sl Eh. 100 pd 26 (309 , , Bridgewater and Taunton ...MN, oh. all pd 64 400 4t, Chcliner and Black water ....., ....... ~100/. eh, 102 500 481. Coventry " 1 0/.Bh, 700 4,545 1 .....“, Croydon Average 311.28.10 d. oh. l 20 6 4 41. 06, Dudley lOO/. sh. 8* 600 71. Derby I lOO4 sh. IFS 20,000 3,575; 3/. Ellesmere and Cheater Average 1331.5ta. 79 231 - 401. Erewaah 'OOl. tn. 700 1,297 281. worth and Clyde Average 4q3/.1 n.. sh. 610 11,900 12/, Grand Juncr - lull. sh. 200 g,e494 14 Grand Union„ . 1001.01. 25 1,500 ..... ... Grand Surrey 10 ,1100/. 44. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 70 d,r190 Grand Wetiern 600 13/.125. 941. Glaranrgansltire. Avenge Exist 172/. !dr. 4d. P3O 749 404. Grantham P,138 Ct. os. Illlddersiit-10 Average 571. roi.. rd. ah, :47 I; wl ......... Ken 4itztozi . 10 , ) ,h all pd. 10 25,32; 11: as. Kennet i nil Avon, Avenge 30/. 113 s. 100. sh. 241 20978 2t/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sib. 510 5451 131. L,icestcr l4Ol. s h. 225 1 .897 41. 104. Leicester and Northampton... Aver '4l/. us. 88 2,400 Ili/. Monmouthshire lllO/.sh. 193 150 10/, Melton Alowbray 100/. sti. 200 f. 130 25/. Mersey and Irweil 3,048 11. 10s. Macclesticl ' lOOl. sh all pd. 52 217 17/. ' Neath 1,750 30/. Oxford lON. sh. 52.5 2, ino 5/. Peak Forest A vel.ge about 7SI. sh. 104 1,111 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. FA. s.h. l:..1 5,6419 61. per cent. r.ochdale tverage BW. sh. 1 0 5(10 81. Shropshire 1'251. sh. 13/ 800 9/. tOs. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 150 3,600/. 44 percent. Ditto lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 11/ 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. oh. 243 300 91. Stourbridge 3,647 2/. 1 .5. Stratford-on. A volt ...Average 701. 9s. t4l. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea 100/. sh. 231 3,7t;2 11. 154. Severn and Wye anal Itailway ...Ar 35/. sh. !61 2,601 at,, 32/. 10s. Treat and Nlersey, 4 share lllOl. sh. 560 8,119 ... ...... Thames .n,l Medway... Aver. 191.55. 9d. sh. 2 1,0005h.1 ~, Warwick a.lO Birmingham . 100/. sh 265 1,000111,. j '''' 943 I 1 ~ Warwick and Napton lOO/. ah. 185 6,000 4/.os. Worcest 1 ants Birmingham...A v. 781.85. sh. 1-41 5,000 255. Wilts art Berko .. Average 671. 10s. Eld. sh. 22 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 ....... Visbeach .,.1051. sh. 45 905 1/. Wey and Arm, llOl. sh, 2'4 DOCKS. 2 ' 6 " ?3p. c. Commercial 100/. sh. 55 1,06. - ilsh j E 1.1.1,0570/. 0 per et. East India Stock 1104 3,23:1,310g 565. p.ct. London Ditto Bonds 99 1,380000/. 41/. p. et. West India '2.209 W. 19s. 11ristll 41,1,314/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts .... ll3 1,352,751 41 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 92f 500,00:1 4; per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds fur 10 years 99 Shoreham 11:,i Lour 2.500 ease •••• Deptford Pim 2Ol. sh. 3/. BRIDGES. 1,600 l 's. Ilammerstu.ti 5O/. sh, 221 7, '231 Southwark, Old Av. ('dl. 2s. Sit. sh. 2 1,701) 11. 15s. Ditto, New, 01'71 per cent. ...... ....50/. sh. 141 5,000 Waterloo 5,000 18s. 3d, Ditto, Old Annuities of V/. 6Ol. pd 19 5,000 16a. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 161 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto 13011tii llB 5,11145 14a Vauxhall A v , rage 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 17 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 4, 1837. Pr' AS';URANCE COMPAN':ES. 2,000 3110 s Albioia ----- - &TO/. sh. 501 pd 8) 50,000 {sLe d r c i e . n c t.l 5 Alliance, Ilritish & Foreign 1001. sh. 101/. pd 121 50,0110 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51 pd 5.1 24,000 11 per sh. Atla. 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 13:! 1,200 ish. 5!. Birmingham 1 ire 2501. sh. 551. pd 1071 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 42 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. Si. pd 6 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Melt al,&c. Life, ICul.sh. 12110 s pd 4 4,000 21 106 County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 200 t 5 per cent and soi b j Economic Lite lOOOl. sh. 250/. pd 375 2,271 225. per cent. European LI, • 2Ol. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New . 201. sh. 21. pd lf 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 145 20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. ah. '2741 pd 93 1.0,000 6s. tici. Hope 50/. oh. .51. pd 51 2,400 51. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001 oh. 501. pd 1214 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10g 13,158 4/. percent. Indemnity 51:aine 110/. sh. St pd 161 2,020 3/ lOs Kent Fire.... 50/. sh. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life. 79 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 26 5,000 1 0s. London, Fir, 2il sh. 121. 105. pd 151 3,900 10s. Londe - a, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 151 30,0 A Si. per cent. Palladium Lite 50/. sh. '2l. pd 21 8s Od 50,00 d Protettor Fite 0 0!. oh. 2/. pd :15,0d 2,500 1!. Provident Die 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/. pd lif R 50,2201 51. per cent. Royal Excli...hge Stock... 225 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 54 50,001) 4 per cent. United kimg. loin Life _____ 2/. pd JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 S per cent. A gric. and Cumin. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Aust rala , il 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 58 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5(l. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 le per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. Si. pd 14 30,000 5 per cent. Lomlon and Westminster-100/ sh. 20/. pd 211 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 30 '25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 23 50000 '7/ per cent. Manchester and Liverpool / 1001. sh. 151 pd 20 Discount 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 251 pd 27 20,000 Provincial ii ink of 1 reland 100/. sh. 25/. p 4 40 20,' 01 National Bank of Ireland s"l. sh. 17y. pd 13 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. —lOO/. sh. 351. pd 33 :0,000 Gloucester.; hire 5O/. sh. 101. pd 20 0,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AN I) COKE COMPANIES, . . _. - -~ -- - - - -- •- - --- 2,500 1/ f,s 6.1 Bath 5,000 British 4O/ sh. 161. pd 21 5,000 [airTel e l3sess.l Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 19 pd 221 926 5/ 10s Birmingham 1,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 3; lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 11 750 31 Ills Ditto, New 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/ sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated lOO/. 62V. pd 85 1,000 101. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 181 1,000 61. Ditto, New ... lOOl. sh. 60/. pd 112 4,0(11) 41.1115. Equitable ... 10,' 00 21 per cent. Imperial 81/0 51. per cent. I , le , I' Thaoet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 20 2,3:,0 61. per cent. ' n.lependeut 3O/. sh. a'l pd -48 i 0,0.0 31. per cent. Phrenis .. 5O/. sh. 301. pd 22 1,000 4/. per cent. ltatcliff: ..... .......... ............ 100/. sh. 80/. p 4 57 I,olro South I“.etropontan s'l. Bh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 46/. pi 25 210 5/. per cant. Warwick 50/. sh. 50 4110 10/. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 421 12.000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New . 'V 1. all. 10/. pd 81 BGO Yarmouth. 201. sh. 18/. pd 9 _.....--- ...._.____ WATER wan Ks. 1,800 9s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/ pd 211 1,4:14 61. East London lOOl. sh. 140 5,500 2/ 10s Or ow Junction .... Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 52 2,000 2/. Kent lOOl. sh. 43 372 1111. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 3.8 1,500 2111. Now River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 0,186 1/ 15s Nlnochester and Salford 1,000 4 per cent. S.,uth Lon.lon lOO4 sh. 8 I 8,294 31/. West Nliddlesex ....Average 631. 12$. 3d. sh. 80f 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. .... lOO/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. _:. 6,000 ..... .... Birmingham an .1 Derby l5l. pd 84 9,510 Birmingham and Gloucester ICI pd 1; 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 04 15;00 Bristol ant Exeter 100/. sh. 10 pd 4 060 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 0i 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western-100/. sh. 741 5 3,009 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001.. pd 40 12,000 9.000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 2 4 pd (4 60,000 Eastern Counties 4 5/ rh. 31. pd 04 Grand Junction 100/. sh. OA pd 185 Great North of England 7l. pd 54 25,038 Great 'Western MO/. sit. 55/. pd 654 2,0.* Hartlepool 160/. sh. 100/ pit 100 8,000 Hull and s'.clby 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 04 10,004 Leeds and Manchester 100/. sh. 51. pd 14 2,100 31 per cent. Leeds and Selby... ~., lOO :di. 44 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ...,513. sh. all pd '7O 5,103 I 0 per cent. Liverpool and Manchestcr...lo(l.sh. 1001. pd 202 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares ' l 5/. pd 61 36,000 London and Brighton Si!. sh. 51 pd 14 12,000 London and Blackwall 504 sh 31 pd ot 20,000 9 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. ids. 20/. pd 154 35,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 904 pd 144 . . Ditto Quarter Shares 51 pd 2n/ 20,'00 London and Sinahanyton .....01. sh. 45/. pd 29 Ditto ditto New , ~ ,ll. pd lit' 7,000 ......... London arid Croydon Trunk 2(1. sh. 24. pd 14 7,006 Ditto Scrip 141. sh. 21. pd 5j 12,000 London Grand Junction 5 1. sh. 5/. pd 2 11),0,x) M , ncheiter and 13irmingham W.3h. 51. pd 3 North 'Midland 1001. sh. 151 pd 121 Northe'u and Eastern lOOl. sh. /1/..pd . 3 2.001) Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 24 pd 2d, , ;00 ...... .. South Eastern and Dover . 71. pd at I,°oO 111. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 o,oolt ... ...... Tnao , es Haven 5Ol. sh. 24 10s. pd 01 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pd 01 01,000 York and North Midland 5O . sh. 31. pd 01 ... 1111 N ES. 1,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 30. pd 1:2 4,000 IL ss. Alien 151. ill. 121. 10s ?d jai Donn ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. W. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd 3 Ditto Subscription 'l5/. pa 4 2,001 1 0 1. 80l +nos 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian imp. iss. 5/. pm 51. uh. 90!. pd 50 0,0 0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 25/.sh '231/. pd 6 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Hey 201. sh. 9/. pd 21 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd 5 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 101. ch. 81. pd 6 20,001 British Iron 5O/. sh. 501 pd 311-1 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 41/. pd li Cata Branca.... 91. pd 7 Candong4 7.1. pd 61 10.000 1! Copiapo 2Ol. sh 1211 pd 10{ M 14,500 ... - ComPian, iss. 51. pm. 1 ) .,A50 31. English l2l ICs. pd '22 20,060 General Mining Association...2ol. sh. 15/. pd n 0,155 Mexican Co!npariy 1001. sh. 55, , ,/, pd ( j i 3,000 Pollierou Consols 101. eh 81. pd 2 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 134 Ditto Loan Notes 1501.1x1 112/ 30,005 ..... .... United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd 2,1 Dit• L. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 1 West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY I NIS lITUTIONS. 1, 500 000 1, Lond•oi University 100/. s h , a ll pd 231 700 Russell Tigs. sh. 9 King' College lOO/. pd 28 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,1100 Iss. Australian Agricultural....lool. sh 2fl l l. pd 34 6MO 41. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 11 10:000 6/ per cent. Canada Co:ndany. 1001. sh, 24/. pi 31j 200,000 5!. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 9B City Bonds, 4 per cent ....... ......... 10: 15,000 I/. 6s. General Steam Navigation ~,151, )h, 1:31. po 24 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock .2 . 000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms Av. 75/, sh. 19 8,00 0 ...... .., Caontelionc Company . ...... -251 st. 2i/, pd 1/ New Brunswick L 41.4 Compa!sy 43/. pd 11 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary lnterestSoe.„loo/, sh. 100/ . pd 125 .;,1 y ; 51. per cent. l)itto New 100/. sh. 701. sal SO 4:0(10 fti•lt•l, '1 hamea l'iirMoliim, 501. sli. 411 pd 5 10,000 6s. Vat) his aet.'s Land. 10(11, alt. 17/, pd 10 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. SEPT. 23, 1837. HANKS. • , ..,0() 00 4. 61 p. ct. Ball% 01 ccotland 93/. 6s Bd. sh. all pd 19 11. 2,c00 OX-!. 54 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 156/ . ' f , 0 0,0%./. is p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. :d1 pd el• - •/. 3 ' 000,01X1. 6 /. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. oh. 1001 . p d 1701. 5.0+5i0,0000 , •.. c,.\ :Ilona! .lOO /. l h. 10/. pd 161. o one!. CI p. et. GielsUOW Union ~,.„.• ;404 4 1 1. MI. pi Gi; 4 4 : 0 00,00/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 301. pd 3711. INSURANCE COISIYA.NIES. 25' .000 sh. 61p. ct. Scott'sh Union 201. sh. 1/, pd 26s - ,503 61 p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 131 15s. 1,5 ,00p sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland -.101. sh. all pd 111. Aim 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 15/. 10100 s p. at, Caledonian fire.,, rt.. 10 1% 0 .0;• 10f. pq 1 8 1 °4 5, 0 0 0 6 P. Ct. PlOl4OlOl 1 0 - poi.n-r::.10 6 1. 44 ' 1,, 04 PI hi la 4 100,000 3i p. pt, VVest ol Senti4Bß ... .....,.ner..-.1 Wt. fid c‘ OP muit:rm,A,Nt6lYA. • • 4,310 ...... ... Eslin. and I_llss un, Cal - W."501. oh. all pd 221. Ditto Allocated „Pi. di, all pd 65/. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb.:Joint stack Water.... 251. sh. all pd 341 . Carron Iron Company ......250/. s h. all pd 45/. 2,0000 h 1 4 PPT cfmt. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh 38/. pd 440 xO,OOO 3 (ter ptmt.. Edinburgh Sa Loith Qiass.., i{ll. sh. 161. pd 0 4,:,00 14) i,or cent. E',/liiiburgh CoLd fi; t :i l, 4.;450 1 0 pPr Pent. (4 4 4 / 9 w Ci'as -• • -•251. s h. ail pd ri 15 0 if Par klut• 1,e114) 044 1 G 55 .' '. - '1....201.01). all pd 444 1,205 Edinburgh and DalkeiSitallway...soLsh. bbl. *OO 5 per peat. .Aiuita4ble Loin Company.“4s l .o. 0 1. Pd 104 (ADVERTI&FMENT SUSSEX 'NEWSPAPERS. (From the Brighton Guardian.) Some few weeks ago we published an extract, affecting the Sussex newspapers, from the Newspaper Stamp Returns made to the House of Commons in obedience to its order dated 30th June last ; and in so doing, we limited our extract to the first five months of the half year which the return covered, and we did so for two reasons,—first, because the limited extract to made presented the true state, as near . al might be without being precise, of the relative circulation of the mem.- secondly because we did not desire to accompany the publica tion by explanatory remarks, disturbing the simplicity of the return. Within the last few days however the return from which we obtained an extract has been printed and circulated; and we therefore, to prevent the public from being abused by attempts which will be made to impose upon it by fallacious numbers. now give the six months' return, with such remarks as we think necessary to give Advertisers a full understanding of the matter. The full return, then, is as follows;---. Return of the Number of Stamps issued by the Stamp (Mee, for all Newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland, from !at Januarp 1537, to 80th June, both days inclusive, specifying each Newspaper by name, and the Number of Stamps issued each month during that period to each Newspaper. LEXTRACT.] 1837. Brighton Guardian . Sussex Advertiser Brighton Gazette Brighton Herald.. Brighton Patriot wh: Jan. Feb. 8000* 4000 5000 5265 5000-r 10000 4000 4000 6000 .. I March. April. 4000 8000 6500 3500 5000 4000 8000 .11ay. June. 4000 4000 4000 6500 5'.'00 5000 10000 4000 14000 3000 6000 aim which the following results as the legitimate computed yearly consumption of Stamps for the severaltapers. Brighton Guardian Sussex Advertiser Brighton Gazette 60,000 Brighton Herald • 45,000 Brighton Patriot Establishing the fact which we announced on the 19th of July last, "that the Brighton Guardian had attained the largest circulation in the county," outstripping its three seniors. The Sussex Advertiser has been in being nearly a century, the Brighton Herald 32 ) ears, the Brighton Gazette rather better than 16 years, and the Guardian only 10A- years; and it has now, as a reward of its incessant toils, its admitted industry, and its proverbial accuracy publicly acknowledged by one of its most determined political opponents, been placed at the head of the newspaper press of the county. This is a compli ment to which we are not insensible ; and as the Guardian was the first to introduce a full-sized newspaper into Sussex, and to lead the way in the improvements which have taken place in the county in the getting-up of newspapers generally, so we can assure the public, that none of its energies will be relaxed by the marked favour with which the exeitions of its conductors have been honoured. But we dare say that some interested parties will be found to take exception to the annual computation we have made. Nay, we have already seen a deception attempted upon the public by parties who claim for our Tory Cotemporary a yearly circulation of 70,000 ; and to expose this cunning fraud upon the advertising public our present purpose. The de ceivers say—that 35,000 stamps have been issued :to the Tory journal in the six months between the Ist of January and 30th of June, that twice 35 is 70, and consequently that the cir culation of the Brighton Gazette is 70,000 in the year. Now this seems very plausible ; but when the hocus pocus is ex plained, it will be found to be as incorrect as the idea that " twice one and twenty and twice twenty-one" are one and the same thing. A moment's attentive observation of the above return will satisfy every observer that the circulation of the Brighten Gazette does not exceed 5,000 per calendar month ; for it will be seen that although 10,000 stamps with its instinctive die were issued in February, not a single stamp was issued for it in tee month of April ; whence it is clear that the 20,000 issued to it in the first three months of the year sufficed for its four months circulation, because till the fifth month has com menced, no fresh issue was made on its account ; and we are strongly inclined to believe, for reasons which we will pre sently give, that part of the first three month s ' i ssue f rom t h e Stamp Office remained to supply at least the first week of the fifth month. But taking the ISSUE as the bona fide CONSUMP TION, it is clear beyond dispute that only 20,000 were used in four months by the Brighton Gazette, and that another 5,000 issued in May supplied its wants in that month. If then not more than 20,000 could be got rid of in four months, and the next 5 000 answered all the calls for newspapers in May, can any body doubt that the 10,000 issued in June was the supply for two months ? In computing therefore the annual con sumption of the Brighton Gazette, the advertising public will see the necessity of dividing the June supply between the months of June and July; and in that case it will be, as we have correctly stated.it, 60,000, or 4,000 below the Brighton Guardian. But we are not sure that it is entitled to be ranked so high. We have already shewn, taking for granted that it consumed month by month the stamps issued for its use, that in four months it could only have circulated more than 20,000 copies; but for reasons which we will now state, we are strongly in clined to believe that it had not circulated the whole of the 20,000 in the four months, and that enough remained to work off its first publication in May. The Ist of May this year fell on the Monday, so that the 5,000 stamps issued with its in stinctive die in that month could not have reached Brighton till the 2nd. Now all persons connected with printing are aware that paper before it is used for printing newspapers requires to be well soaked in water for a very long time; and we believe it is the invpriablo practice of our Tory contempo• rary to wet down his stamps on the Monday, which is none too soon. It fellows, as a matter of course, that stamps not issued from the head office in London till the Monday could not be soaking in water in Brighton on the same day ; and as a further necessary consequence, that the first publication of the Brighton Gazette in May, namely Thursday the 4th, was supplied from the stock-in-hand issued from the Stamp Office in the previous March There is still another reason for supposing this to be the case. Independently of the time being insufficient between Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon, when the Brigh ton Gazette goes to press, for the paper to soak properly, no newspaper proprietor since the institution of the instinctive die, would risk the penalty of printing on unstamped paper, by delaying till the 2d of the month the receipt of the stamps which he requires for use in the afternoon of the 3d ; and we are therefore confirmed in the opinion, in which we have no doubt all thinking persons will join, that in settling the circu lation of the Brighton Gazette at 20,000 for the first four months of the present year, we are ranking it higher than the absolute fact justifies. Supposing that it had only stamps enough left from its March supply for its issue in the first week in May, and allowing—which, when we see such tricks are Played, is scarcely justifiable—that it did consume the whole of the 20,000 in the eighteen publications which, including the 4th May, it has made since the commencement of the year, we find that its actual annual circulation will be decreased to something less than 68,000, leaving it 6,000 in the rear of the Guardian, though it is its senior by six years. What the motive of the proprietors of the Brighton Gazette was in ordering a supply of 5,000 in March, when it is mani fest that they had the greater portion of their February supply on hard, we shall leave others to decide ; we will only state the fact that a Tory Membe-, who has since been kicked out of the House of Commons by his constituency, moved early in April fur newspaper returns; but by some mistake the order of the House was limited to the Metropolitan Press. Had the provincial issue been given at the same time, our Tory Contemporary would have been decked in the borrowed plumes of having had 20,000 stamps in three months; whence an an nual computation of 80,000 would have been trumpeted to the world—with what honesty and approach to truth we leave the public to declare. Whether our Tory Contemporary received any intimation from the Tory ex-Member for Belfast, we know not; but it does seem curious that the consumption of April should have been anticipated by the issues in lebruary and March and we fear, when the public come to remark that the same manceuvre is repeated in June, without the shadow of pretext, that it will be of opinion that something like a settled design existed to act not only dishonestly to wards the public, but to take a mean and dastardly advantage of contemporaries whom these Tories dare not encounter on even terms, and saying little for the honesty of their profes sions of attachment to that holy Religion which inculcates principles of rectitude and honest dealing towards one's neigh bour, The same remarks apply to the young Brighton paper. Its first two issues lasted it four months, and 3,000 met all its little wants in the fifth. Its last issue was &early meant to cover two months' demand. Besides the journals enumerated in the above extract, there is a thing got up and concocted between the Carbon Club manufactory for country newspapers and certain Tories at Lewes, which clamour to be included among the Sussex newspapers,—a distinction, which, when we recollect its am phibious character, if we may so apply the term, we cannot award to it. But it is Tory all over ; it is redolent of the peculiar honesty and adherence to truth which has time out of mind characterised that political party. The thing is sent down from London, as the cook says, " done on one side," after it has supplied some half dozen or more things of the same genus ; and at Lewes it is then finished off. This offshoot of the Carlton Club was first darted into this county on the 4th of February in the present year, and the gentlemen who blow the trumpet at thi s en d of the line would fain persuade the world that it has already outstripped the Brighton Gazette, its like in polities, hut its vast superior in every other attribute that ennobles a newspaper. They would fain have the world believe that the Tories of Sussex, for getting the services rendered to their cause by the Brighton Gazette for the last sixteen years, have set it aside in favour of a thing which, when compared with that Gazette as a medium of county intellige..ce and as evincing the talent of its conductors, is contemptible in the extreme. We cannot think so meanly of the Tories; they are prover bially good masters, and would not treat our contemporary of the Brighton Gazette with so much ingratitude as to set his tried advocacy aside fora thing of yesterday's growth, Upon the advertising public the parties will not, we are sure, im pose, for they, like ourselves, will be sceptical in believing that its own politic a l creed not deficient a new publication in any part of England w ou ld at start i ng outstrip a contemporary of h t industry and zeal, while its own pretensions are of a decis dedly inferior character. The thing is too preposterous for a moment's serious consideration, and whatever the /toms pocus of the unscrupulous Carbon Club may with its ample funds be able to accomplish, no man tglin tirlows anything of active life and of the county of giussex will believe that litlf the papers taken out by the Carbon Club party for the Sussex edition of their paper ever comes i n t o t h e county, or 11 they do, that they The Guardian is supplied in parcels of 4,000 each, The Gazelle in parcel* of 5 ; 000 each% are not sent back again to furnish the trunk - m akers of the metropolis, or applied to the more ignoble purpose of supply' ing the domestic wants of the Conservative gang. We have said above that the thing is Tory all over; of this wo will give one specimen, and with that c onclude :-- a t. It professes to give the e xt e nt of its circulation ; st.- ing the number of st am p s i ssue d t o it in the five months end ing 30th June, adds, " the 2,000 taken out in January (0( No. 1, published 4th Feb and consequently arc a dded the total ;" and veordinal i y thc 2,000 are added to theNIA amount of stamps timed ut the live months and repreiVte' as the consumption of that period But with true Tory honesty, the parties forget to remind those upon whom th e y sec to impose that as their first publication for July ( on the let),! WAR printed in London on Mr. 30tA of June, R deduct* should be made from:that month's issue to the extent of the Ist of July's consumption. Honesty is not however 0 0 Tory's policy, and we see it verified in this instance' for Ishii° the parties in this case make no allowance for the stamp. Wle d by them . 41 July, they claim to crwd into the February issue the previous month's 2,000, thus producing an e xaggerated and false result. 1. ni Agreeably to arinual practice, the pix, or quaiitY - the silver plate assayed and stamped at the Edinburgh i 4 : l say office, during the year 1836-37, was, upon the 2 9 ta ult., tried by the Ass a y e r o f th e I nco rporation of Gold smiths, in presence of the Court of Wardens, and the ogle was found to he of the standard appointed by Act of Par' liament. The letter was ordered to be changed to F. old English, for the ensuing year. TEE-TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.—A public meeting- of the Tee-Total Abstinence Society was held on Wednesday evening la , t in Bristo-street Church—Rob ert Guest White, Eqq., late High Sheriff of Dublin, i n the chair. The Rev. J. H am ilt on , an d ot h er gen tl e men, ad dressed the audience ; an d a t th e c l ose o f t h e me eting LIP" wards of one hund re d names were enrolled.—Scotsmari. A man named Moore was told, on Saturday last, that a bailiff and broker were in his house, at Burton Joyce , executing a distringas for his unpaid rent. "Pa broker them," said the man, getting up fr om th e sca t w hi c h he bat, been occupying at the public-house, and went home, wh ere ' seeing the men at their wink, he took up one of the bee hives, full of bees, and threw it into the room, shutting th e window. Both b ro k er an d b a iliff; unprepare d f or t his on"i mode of settling rent, rushed from the premises, o f which Moore took possession. —Chester Gazette. L. E. L.'s, NEW NOVEL.—We are delighted to observe that to Miss Landon's charming novel of " Churchill" has been assigned the post of honour in Athencezint, with a due tribute of acknowledgment to th L " talent of the g ift e d authoress. We find," says the editor, in the prose w r iti ngs o f Mi ss L an d on the same wara4h! of feeling as in her verse. The language only is change d i the genius that pr om pt s it i s t h e same. " T h i s ne w !W e i as we have alr e ady i n ti mate d , i s a story o f t h e reign .° George 11., in which all the personages of the perio d di ' . tinguished for w it, l earn i ng , an d fashion, figure on the scene' We pronounce that it will become the favourite book of the season. DEATH FR OM A RSENIC .— C o ' On Monday a r , roller's Jury wer e summone d to i nqu i re i nto t h e d ea th Ol k. young woman,aged 20, na me d Jan - e. Saunders, at 13ue land Newt on . Th e de cease d h a d caught a violent co ld as got wet in her feet, froM which she suffered a very vio/aar attack of rhctirnatistia in the leg and hip. Her went to the mother of- Mr. Wm. Williams, to whom sb related the young woman's illness, and from whom s he ic e; ceived two calomel pills and some salts and germ*, %l b cr were taken by the deceased ; after which Mrs. Taylor, N" Williams's housekeeper, called and tidministered to he r some simple applications. Mrs. Williams, in the coarse of the day, having seen her medical attendant, Mr- Fo s ' induced him, as an act of benevolence, to see the -young woman, which he did, and directed his apprentice, Niche l ! s , l a youth of 17 years of age, to make up four of calomel opium, and antimony, and six powders of nitre, colchicum' and jalap, which were taken by the decease& w ho afl er i wards complained of violent pains in the stomach se d a nd cane. bowels. The deceased declared she was dying, her family about her, to whom she gave a religious adninel; ton as to their future life, stating her con fid ence she was m othe e going to happiness. She also sent for a young rn u a a who had been paying his addresses to her, but who "a been absent for three weeks, and whom she asked to follow her remains to the grave. Between eleven an ek twelve o'clock, on t h e f o ll ow i ng morning, she died. `'nd a post mortein examinati on , th e b owe l s w ere 1. " - , in a h ea lthy s t ate, w i th the exception of ' few inc h( ' nearest the stomach, which were much inflamed, and con tained a po r ti on o f a w hi te pow d er, which, On be i ng teste d ' die proved to b e arsen i c , an d to h ave b ee n the /We e Th e cause of her de a th. Th e d ecease d was not enc i en te. . 5 Coroner, in su mm i ng up t h e case to t h e Jury, gave it as ' l a opinion that the deceased had poisoned h erse lf wilfully , an that she had tak en th e arsenic for some improper Po r Pe se. before Mrs. William s ' s housekeeper. or Mr. Fox's aPP; a - v n e tice had administered an y me di c i ne to her. He also it as his opinion th a t s h e h a d ta k en the poison because '.1.1 hed been neglected by h er sweet h eart ; And ifth e j ur y thotti"- with him, however painful their duty, they must bring i O ,l verdict of felo de se. In concluding his remarks, he decll ; .re d his belief that the p aren t s o f t h e un f ortunate g i r l h a d ca used much to be suppressed th a t m i g ht h ave con fi rme d his a; their opinions as t o th e fa cts , an d t h at t h ere was lot„ shadow of an imput a ti on on e ith er M rs . T ay l or or the Y o°) b Nicholls, who had compounded the medicines ordered hi Mr. Fox. The Jury, after a lengthened delibration , ic turned a verdict " That the deceased died' from ar ser f r , being ad m i n i s t ere d to h er , b ut w h en, or i n what ma"), does not appear." This verdict was accompanied by a bi t t r compliment to Mrs. Williams and her housekeePe r ' their benevole nce t o th e young woman.—Dorse t Conn'Y Chronicle. LONDON- CONVEYANCES.--Withim the ltmttS the threepenny post there are 850 short stages and °l ti l i t . buses plying. These make on an average about 'T o , journeys a day, which, with a complement o f ten P cixy , sengers to each, at a fare of 9d., produces 2,550/. Pe r to or 31. for each vehicle. On the road from Paddingtonot the Bank there are very nearly 60 omnibuses, taking,, ab r , r 2501. daily in sixpences. Between the Angel at s a l l ton and the Elephant and Castle there are 17 p ot buses' plying ; to Blackheath from Charing-crog , hides, principally omnibuses ; from Piccadilly to 1 3 ; 003 wall, 41 ; from Chelsea to Leadenhall-street, 2 7 ,;,„ to the Bank to the Edgeware-road, through Holborn, au d. Hampstead, 19 ; and to Hackney, Homerton, Clapton,r of monton, and Kingslend upwards of 120. The nu nb l e s26, hackney coaches and cabs in the metropolis was , " e 0 91: ex:.ctly 1,1.50, producing to Government a reve e tp6.s. 29,392/. In 1828 they were 1,200, and, in 1830, ore producing a yearly duty of 32,0001. The n umber a" d e is sent licensed is 1,797. The number of complaints n 35 0 14. two years, at th e diff erent police offices of the was--against the drivers of hackney coaches al sho rt 2,048 ; aginst the drivers or cads of omnibuses a e f the stages, 1,488 ; total, 8,536. In about two-thirds o entire cases the offending parties were convicted and As as in sums varying from I/. to 31., sometimes rising as 12 1, 0 11 5/., in very aggravated cases. Of these charges' 12 0 3 11, 1,600 were heard at Boat-street ; and at the To fu- Southwark, only 15. 11° . HORIZONTAL FLAT WAT-_ o ffered with accurately finishedlewelled movements, warranted, a" s pried in Silver cases, price Five Guineas each ; or in Gold c as : j e wel' Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker ler, and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. • N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in metropeabh 5r....:- - - BIRTH • • eof wßay, Maidenhead, a y On the 1.1 inst., in Gros • a daughter. On the 30th ult., at tl • * L d Phillinaor , • e lb ° On the 2Sth ult., at Clipsto le House, Northanytonslur , lady of C. Hogg, Esq., of a ion ' lenor-p ace, Ai rs. Mrs. Jo • On the 3d . t • ins ~ inGreat Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Aldridge, of a daughter. )0 11 On the 9th2 nit.,Nthe lady o f Cal at . ettlestone near Ryde, 11. 11. Wyatt, R.N of ' a daughter. On the 1 ' .' st inst., the lady of Erydges Drered Esq. , ° •-- , . IR. Barclay, of aVT M a r t . Lambeth Bowden,e r is Ma O rk n B th ro e26 , th Es u q l . t. , , of at n I:3 l e:L:ke ß b r a h ru ll a p,iit M.D. of ,Bermondsey, to Charlotte Elizabeth, only (bug On the l6th ult. ,R. forriss, On 0 the -Bth ult., at St. 'Mich "5, Ili *hgate, Mr' — 4 3 ; I ° ' Kent, James I'" of of Bath, to Elizabeth, onl davhate:l[oDCf Church, Kent, of .•' 43- ,er. On the 30th tilt of Itilperton. Fuller, of East Hagh ' ourne, 83, to Sarah, widow of . of J. Harris, of Blackman -street, Borough On the 3d inst., at St. Pancras Chu . rch, John Clegg , E i si V ii r Olq Bank, Eccles, near Manchester, to Elizabeth Stuart , on (v e st, o c f h l: r e c y h t , e . s b i u i r r .. , y ,_ j_ to n s : r l i thh s s e fiS la Pue ton: lif riery. viving daughter cf Mr. Edward Ahnes, of Somers•place Euston-square. ___-------------. In Sloane-street, on the , D d l ii E lst D .:Mary le o f th 6 Rev. James CI , son. f IV' On the 29th ult., at Ty Mawr, B consbire, Fanny. wife 0 H. West, Esq. re . s T ick, On the 29th ult., at Cheltenham, a , ed 64, Thomas 31°3 Esq., of Bush, Pembrokeshire. Av ner On the 29th ult., at Monckton rarieigh House, aged 2 , l 9 'peure - Elizabeth, wife wife of Wade Browne, Esq., d lest ' daughter of Edwar" an -e father, Esq. E 'lO Ei l l'' On the 2d inst., at Clapham-common, William still,t in his 80th rear. On the "26th ult., at Grosvenor-place, Matgate, Thr,ul meets Eyshain, Esq., aged 74. coon, 011 the 30th ult., in Provost-street, floxton, Mr. Wl' ro und. upwards of 37 years connected wit h Bunhill-fields Boris - city-road, aged 66. ley, fate e nal •I On the 30th ult., at Harpenden, Herts, Mr. Georg of Cannington, Somerset, aged 88. n i . S. g* On the 29th ult., at Cheltenham, Aura, wife of the ..°-• Bernard. uel Il doll/ On the 2d inst., at Dalstot,.: r i s e, agetl7B.3ll• ,3 Rttherdon, late of Bloonag':,d-street • ______----- -- r; jo------ o f PI; London; Printed and Published by MURDO Y0111"3' the caul 112, Strand, at The SIM I.lffice, No. 112, Strand. of Alitidics94,—Wydnevday , October 4, 101.