The Sun. — London, England, 1837-05-25 00:00:00

SP MIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS . . The former Church-rates Bill was no doubt carried — a majority of 116 ; and the majority yesterday Tar a•ning was only 5 ; but we see nothing in this at w'hich the Tories have any great cause to rejoice. Lord Althorp proposed to tax the people of the three king •doms for the purpose of keeping up the fabrics of the Church ; and h o w ever vulgar Sir Robert Peel may think the expedient of grant; from the taxes, and how ever averse the Tory landholders may be to have their estates exempted from the payment of Church -rates, it so happened that Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr. Goulburn, and all the Tories voted with Lord Althorp. The minority of 140 consisted ex clusively of Radicals. The present Ministerial mea sure contemplates no addition to the burdens of LW people—it relieves the Dissenters from an odious im post, by providing for the upholding of Churches by a new creation of property. By the contem plated change in the management of Church pro perty the incomes of incumbents will be secured to them, the rights of lessees will he respected, and ample means will ha obtained,• not only for *keeping up the fabrics of the Church, but for supplying the people with additional se;rritual instruction. Among other recommendations out* the Ministerial plan, its putting an end to the dis graceful jobbing of bishops and other dignitaries of the Church m Church property, to the detriment of their successors, is not certainly one of the least important. The Ministerial measure has been opposed by power ful interests. In the first place, the bishops and other dignitaries love to be themselves directly con nected with the administration of Church property, for the sake of the large windfalls constantly accru ing, of which no account is given to the estates. Then the whole host of persons connected with the present management of the estates have a powerful interest in its being continued. Then the lessees, though they know that bishops may run their lives against them, and that it would be imprudent to venture on expensive improvements, while by the fixed tenure which would be substituted for the ex isting leases their property would be greatly increased in value, entertain a secret wish to have no sharers with them in the benefit. The Tories, as a party never scrupulous as to their means, eagerly availed themselves of the present occasion, and the most disingenuous devices for defeating the Ministerial plan were encouraged by th em . Fi rst , a c l amour was raised that Ministers intended to demolish the Churches. This answered its purpose for a time, and clergymen were not ashamed to avail themselves of it, to obtain signatures to petitions against the abolition of Church rates. Then it was pretended that the additional pro perty called into existence by the measure should be applied in the first place to the supplying the spiritual wants of the people. It was, no doubt, somewhat re markable that the idea of supplying additional instruc tion to the people through the means derived from an improved administration of Church property never oc curred to the heads of the Church till became neces sary to discover objections to the Ministerial plan. But if any persons were s ; :mple enough to believe that the Tories really meant to make the Church property available for additio-,al means of spiritual instruction, they must have b . .:en completely undeceived by Sir Ro bert Peel on Tuesday night. This good was done by Mr. Andre - a . Johnston, whose amendment put the sin cerity of . the Tories to the test. The Right Hon. Baron e t said— " He could not vote for the Hon. Gentleman's amended resolution, and on this ground—that he expressed it as the opinion of the House, that funds might be derived from an improved management of the Church lands, and that those fund: should be applied to the religious instruction of mem bers of the Established Church. . • • He objected to the appointment of Commissioners ; he objected to the doing of that which might divest the Bishops of all interest in the lands. . • . And again, as to the interests of the lessees, he was not prepared to establish a proposition which might affect the interests of those persons without being in full possession of the subject, and exactly under standing how far the proposition was to go. He knew that the lessees were not in possession of a legal right, but then they had a very long tenure of the property ; besides, too, it was to be considered that the Commonwealth had failed in attacking this property—that it was regarded and treated as Property which could not be disturbed nor tamperoa With." The plain meaning of all this is, that Sir Robert Peel and the Tories care not one whit for the spiritual instruction of the people, but that they care for job bing. All the evils, and they are many, connected with the present management of Church property arc to be continued, from the natural love borne by the Tories to corrupt abases. " It was," as Lord John Russell truly observed, " a very great inconvenirac e that bishops who had only a life-interest in the lands slAuld, for their own private advantage, have taken larger fines, and then given the lands at low rents and upon, tong leases. Such things a bishop did for his own great advantage, and to the injury of his see The persons who made such leases enjoyed great advan tages from them, but they left their successors impoverished, unable, he would not say, to maintain the splendour of their station, but even that decent hospitality which became their station. There was another disadvantage, too, that fol lowed from the independent character of the Bishops then contended for—it was this : that front time to time the possessors of Church property had obtained private Acts of Parliament—Act s that had passed through both Houses —and by means of which the immediate income of the Bishops was improved, but the sees themselves injured. By such Acts of Parliament, too, the incomes of Chapters were improved, but then the future incomes of the Chap. tern were much diminisLed." The House cheered his Lordship when he alluded to these dishonest spoliations of the Church by the Bishops, arid well they might. Our readers have had some samples, in the admirable communications from " A Churchman" in the Chronic/e, of the mode in which, within the last half century, several princely estates have been created by private Acts of Parlia ment out of the property of the Church in this metro polis and its neighbourhood. The great objection of the heads of the Church to the Ministerial plan is, that it will put an cud to this system of spoliation, and that the public will benefit from.the better administration of the property. It is a great mistake to suppose that the Dissenters are the only parties who oppose Church rates. It was well observed in the course of the debate, that the Opposition was often the most successful when there were few or no Dissenters. The impost will -be a constant source of bicker ing in parishes ; and if Ministers should fail to carry their plan for putting an end to such an un seemly state of things, and also to the present disgrace ful state of jobbing in Church property, this would afford, no doubt, cause of regret to the country, but such a subject of triumph to the Tories as the Devil obtains when he prevents good from being clone. Mi liisters will of course proceed with their plan. It de serves success ; and if it do not ultimately obtain it, the country will know why. They cannot do what is; impossible. Those who object to Church-rates must be aware that Ministers are dependent on the opinion of the representatives of the people. If they wish Church-rates abolished, they must choose representa tives of their way of thinking on that subject. In the meantime, the Tories have succeeded in moriaskinL: themselves, and putting the people in possession of the little importance they really attach to religion.— • Moming Chronicle. The affairs of Ministers are beginning to assume, one towards another, a pretty level surface. Low as was their majority from the outset of the O'Connell Government, and such as seemed to afford them little chanee of surviving the first session, their numbers wr.4 all th e strengt h t h ey had. In argument they sthod at zero, and remained at that point still, immove able—as the wind of this unfortunate season at north vast. Latterly, however, there has been a rapid ap proximation between the above elements of Ministerial life. The arguments undoubtedly have not risen ; but through a process somewhat easier and more natural, the numbers have dropped to within 5 degrees of zero. This is a state of things to which some persons may appear uncomfortable. On a vital question (for such is manifestly, in the case of the Melbourne Minis ters, every question which involves, no matter how obliquely, an attempt to ruin the Established Church by the 'introduction of the voluntary principle)— but on a vital question, such as the substitution of a fund derived from plundering the clergy for the old Ra t law rterfiaceps.txtlrsouree of Chu rc h- ra t es , an d on Wednesday the 15th o f , ar 4 V/Aati, .:(I,*arlPapist votes against 250 Con 1:, ,_.2.,.\ -- , - \\ , -)f , 4 .._ik l , --:2:-.!•!)7 ~,,ii,...4--,-.. -.;, A.,),4;) ‹ ,.:„, c ,-.;, ) -•.- : •,,,. :,-.7,,, servativcs—that is to say, in a House com.poed of 527 Members (tellers included) they had a inAjotity, suf ficiently slender, of 23 votes ; b'et there were on that occasion 39 pairs, making the gross numbers who took part on that question, including pairs and tellers, 314 Whig-Papist-Radicals, and of Conservatives 291. Yesterday morning the Ministers and their Oiler: tt'tis tered, including tellers, 289: thc:r ,‘riends of the Church of England • , 2.8k 3 'anteing the anti-Church majority to the Mpectable modicum of exactly fiJ F votes There must be further taken into acevon't 41 pairs, which swelled the Whi,fr.4.?,t 4 ,l" . ai Papists to 310, four short of what 'amounted to on the 15th of March, while t l . - t(-.l'. T 1 pairs raised the Conservatives to 305. vac 14 above their former mnber---rod positive that thrie is no reactipt , favour of the Church of England'! All 'net', who knew the people had an inward coascisrejthess that such would be 0!€, I progress of national feeling in this countrr, I;Lna that such would, sooner or later, be t!'.e course of action within the walls of the !-?nnse of Commons. There is, therefore, as we I'aid in our last paper, an eitni, of the Church-rate quackery, under the osretiAtko Whig usurle the Irish Clitimh tohl.)-e4ry Measure ; there is also an end of Omit base fralnd niclt-named the Irish Corporation measure, ire o; ht length in the keep ing of the House of LoYds—there is a visible mid disgraceful end. Why, then, the question stares every man in the faee—what use has the British empire for such a Ministry ? Why should the practical and business-doing people of England entlure to be still plagued with a. band of impostors, who have nothing, to show for what they wring from the treasury, hut a tong catalogue of unredeemed pledges, who, spend the time of Parli ament , an d ex h aus t the patience of all reasonable men, in attempts to mangle every one ti our institutions ; while they leave no single good thing undisturbed, no recognized grievance impartially re dressed, and no importaut entroversy settled. It was for xonie time the project of these adventureca to re present the House of Lord. as an obstacle to all im provement ; and, in the autumn of 1835 they sent O'Connell through the north of England to feel the pulse of our countrymen and ascertain whether it would be sale or feasible to run a muck at that il lustrious body, and prevail upon Englishmen to abate it as a nuisance at the bidding of an Irish traitor, for the sake of carrying into effect those schemes which its existence would be sure to frustrate. The experi ment led only to defeat and mortification. The people of England showed plain enough that they preferred their own hereditary aristocracy to the success of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's Ministerial puppets. The Peers themselves have buckled on that armour wherewith the British Constitution provides them. They have gone forth to battle bold, and returned conquerors. The crestfallen and despairing Whigs have, therefore, been compelled to change their whole system of policy. No longer daring to wage , war with the Hou se o f Lords, or to push their schemes of mischief against Church and State in defiance of that great assembly of hereditary guardians to the monarchy, the Melbourne Cabinet have confined their views to the mere reten tion of the name of Ministers, to the receipt of their trimensal pay, the distribution of English patronage among thew own dependents, and the barter of Irish patronage for the Parliamentary support of O'Connell. For the country they have done nothing, and pretend not to do anything. They bring forward sham mea sures to amuse the ill temper of their partisans, and stop the mouth of revolutionary clamour. But that is all. They know that such measures will not pass ; and as for any in which the bulk of the nation would take an interest, they never dream of such un-Whig-like chi meras. With regard to this Church-rate question, it has perhaps been argued so fully as to relieve us from the obligation of opening it again ; but there are two or three points and persons touched upon in the course of Tuesday night's debate, which we may to-morrow feel it still our duty to advert to. Meanwhile, reader, be of good cheer.—Times. Ministers must now pursue a bold and decisive policy. It is not so much to the House of Commons as to the country they must look for support in the crisis which is approaching. In consequence of the electors of Great Britain not having the protection of the Ballot, the House of Commons is not a fair re presentation of the opininns of evot, portion of the people, much less of the great body of those who, excluded from the franchise, have no re cognised voice nor position in the legislative proceed ings of the State. This is sufficiently demonstrated by the result of the recent elections in Westminster and Bridgewater, without looking back for corroboratidh to Devon, and the numerous other constituencies which, in the last general election and since, have been either forced or seduced to vote against their conviction and their conscience. Never was a time when an Ad ministration, based on the principles recognized in the constitution of the present Government, might be more powerful and permanent than at the pre sent moment. To be thus strong and stable needs but an energetic adherence to the rule of policy which has already received the unequivocal sanc tion of the nations approbation. This is not only necessary to the strength, but to the political salvation of the present Cabinet. There must be no concession to enemies not to be conciliated but by a perfect sur render of all that is worth a struggle. No " letting I dare not, wait I would." The advances of the enemy must be boldly met and confronted by similar advances. If the Lords encroach, and the Commons waver, the extension of the suffrage, the shortening of Parliament, and the ballot, must be had recourse to in order to invigorate the representative principle. No matter how weak the Mi n i s try may at present be in one branch of the Legi.slature, and how powerless in another, while they unflinchingly abide by the people the people will abide by them ; and if they find it nece ssar y t o fall back u p on t h e country , as is more than probable, let them appeal to national sentiment on the grounds we have suggested, and th e y w ill fi n d a support w hi c h w ill enable them to advance in their goodly work of amelio rating our institutions, in defiance—aye, in very de rision—of a bigoted, despotic, oligarchic opposition. Morning Advertiser. Sir Andrew Agnew was in his glory at St. Stephen's on Tuesday night, on presenting a petition from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland i tt pe tition from Glasgow, and one from fiemt ether place in Scotland ; all praying for Ow insertion of a clause in Scotch Railways Bills, b prohibit travelling on Sundays. The pertinacity of the Sabbatarian lators, in restricting or suppressing the liberty of the subject, is equal to -their wrong,-headedness. The clause introduced hitt) tht Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, to prevent travellinc , by that conveyance on ,Stin. days, was carried in the - 'first instance by this ultra religious party, when the tit:)tion for the consideration of that P,,it was first brought forward. But on Thurs daly this clause was struck out, by a majority of 115 Kl. Not satisfied with this decision, Sir AndreW brought forward the matter again last night, and again moved, though he afterwards withdrew, the re admission of the clause. Can any thing be more vexatious than such a proceeding, unleas it bt, the general interposition of the same party with every thing that bears the shape of popular amusement and relaxation ? We arc quite disgusted while re adverting to the subject of this useless and mis= chievous cant. As " Cromwell said of Sir Harry Vane, the Lord deliver U 3 from Sir Andrew Agnew and the Sabbatarian Mawworms I" Had they their way, they would convert Christianity from a religion of feeling and of the heart, to a cold mockery of external lip homage and superstitious form. We protest equally against the profanation of the Sabbath as the Parlia mentary Cantwells, but we maintain that their proceed ing would tend to its desecration by defeating its pur pose of cheerf, :‘ 'relaxation and repose. Under th e i r • straight-waistcoat system it would become a day of restless espi onage , or o f v i n di ct i ve moroseness.• It would tear up by the roots the brotherly charity which is the vital essence of Christianity. In every way that we look at the question, as brought forward by these political Pharisees, we are equally and totally at va riance with them. We are not advocates for theo logical discussions in Parliament ; but we must say, that Mr. Roebuck completely disproved their Sectarian view ; first, by the express authority of St. Paul ; next, by the authority of two of the founders of time English Reform Church. Scriptural texts are as much against them as common sense and the daily evidence of facts. Let them prove, first, that the Mosaic ordinance against work on the seventh. day, has any thing to do ivith the Christian ordinance for keeping holy the eighth day. On that point the great majority of the Christian Reform Churches throughout Europe is decidedly .against them. The Romish Church is apainet e thcea; and all.ChriWan an tiquity agei'list them. But let us adMit; e fOte.th'e. sake of argument, that the Christian Sab bath was intended to ' . 's:'4l.;titt:ited for the Jewish seventh-da.y Sable, they would gain nothing by the. 't t .ditiission. The prohibition of the Jewish Sab bath was directed against household work. How do the Sabbathtarian ascetice s e e - 1 4 wal k this prohibition ? Let, t,hteil pi.eiant the enipldynient it the foretttyal 'mitt the hoiheanaida, the edtiks and the tradesmen of the rich classes iiay, When they have done that, we 41-lit that their vexatious inter meddlieteii, y be conscientiously religious. Till then shall consider it to be a mischievous imposture. According to Sir Andrew's view, the noel' !nee is not. to travel on the only dey t‘qtel - 1 lie can travel by the cheap and eevit s .t '''''''''''''' of the railway. This is reeve legislation against poverty. Why do not the Agnewitcs interfere with the travelling of the rich on a Sunday ? Why do they not prevent the mail-corkehee from travelling on a Sunday ? Why do they hot pre vent the throng of carriages which cities the Parks on the Sabbath day, and blocks up the access to the Zoologieal Gardens ? There would be some equity in this interference—sufficient in sonic degree to pal liate and cloke its litigious, vexatious, and mischievous character. When they have prevented the rich from making the eighth day a day of restlessness instead of rest, we will "applaud unto the very echo, which shall applaud again." But till they have stopped the con titual rattle of the dice in the West-end gambling houses on a Sunday—till they have silenced the inces sant wheels of the splendid equipages which crowd the parks on that day—till they have, put a stop to Sunday dinner parties, Sunday card parties, and Sunday con certs—till they have imposed rest on all the menial servants of the Aristocracy, and all the trading minis ters to their luxuries, we shall persist in opposing the measures of these fanatics, as measures directed against the poor, and tending to the immoral purpose of pu nishing poverty as the only crime. We shall oppose them, as we have done, " with all our soul and with all our strength." Let them make war on Sunday champagne and turbot, Sundae 100, and Sunday park assi g nations, as well as on Sunday tea-gardens an d Sunday steane-toaches ! Meanwhile, to their vir tuous me...ignation against Sunday shaving and Sunday heel dinners, we shall reply in the words of Sir Toby to Sir Andrew Agucdteek :—" Dost thou think that because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale ? Aye, by the rood, but there, shall, and gin ger shall be hot in the mouth too."—Morn. Advertiser. The dolorous tone of the Ministerial journals, in referenet to the " glorious majority" of five in favour of the Church-spoliation measure forms an amusing contrast. to the boastful flourishes of anticipated triumph with which the same journals formerly an nounced that grand project of the Whig-Radical Ad ministration for divesting the Protestant Establishment of ice national character, and robbing it of its nati ona l resources. All is not blank despair, however, with the Ministerial Journals. In the midst of their grief they endeavour•to extract a ray of consolation from consi dering that, if many who have not voted with the NE nisters had voted with them, the majority would not have been as small as it was. To the logic of this mode of argumentation we can offer no objection. It seems to us to be equally unanswerable and ridiculous. One of the Ministerial organs gravely affirms that it could 't name nearly a score of liberals that were ate sent without pairs, -although their avowed sentiments are in favour of the motion of the Chancellor of the Exehequer." Delinquent Liberals ! Content to re main in a state of political celibacy in the " pairing season," and choosing to remain out of the House pre cisely at the time when they ought to be in it ! There were the Ministerial leaders of the movement against the Church at their post. There were those banner• bearers in the camp of agitation. Mr. Spring Rice and Lord John Russell, ready to pour an over whelming force through the breach upon the citadel of the Protestant faith, and could have done it but for one reason. What was that ? Their men stayed away ! _The e - hod eev otorrreack for Liao Goa.- They had the fear of Westminster before their eves—they had the fate of Leader fresh in their recollection ; they knew that the chivalrous Burdett had thrown down the gauntlet for the Constitutional Monarchy and Church of England in the very centre and chosen region of me tropolitan liberalism, and there followed up his proud defiance by achieving a signal victory. The " score of Liberals," bearing all this in mind, allowed the Minis ters to run their foolish heads against a wall without their assistance. Their heads are thick enough, we know ; but, thick as they are, they cannot come in contact with the rock upon which the Church is built, without finding that they are not quite impenetrable. If we may believe one of our morning Contemporaries, the Gallant Colonel Thompson preferred a comforable dinner with the Mayor of Hull to a supperless night with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons. What a preposterous taste f "Are there," says that Ministerial mouthpiece emphatically, " are there any Dissenters in Hull? We wish Colo nel Thompson joy of the reception he will meet with from them ! That gallant gentleman set off last night to be present at a dinner, where he was to sit upon the Mayor's right hand—the Mayor of Hull's right hand ! We Venture to say that that worthy civic caw would rather have had his right hand cut off than find the gallant Colonel sitting upon it when a question involv ing the conscientious scruples of so large a body of his fellow -countrymen and fellow-reformers was at issue in the House to which he (the gallant Colonel) had been sent as a man of sense and discernment, able to see that when there was an idle dinner to eat, and an im portant vote, the last was the serious and necessary duty, not the first." Only think of Colonel Thomp son s scenting an " idle dinner" at some 150 miles distance, mid preferring the " good things" served out at the Mayor of Hull's right hand to the " good things" which the speeches of such irresistible wags as Mr. Spring Rice and Mr. C. Buller always con tain. It it quite clear that it was not at the " pump and ladle" Colonel Thompson chose to regale him self—lie had " sense and discernment" enough to avoid foraging in that direction, for he is an old cam paigner—" such cold refection suits not generous souls. DLit why did the patriotic Mayor of Hull, who, it appears, would rather thrust his right hand in the kitchen fire and burn it off, like another Mutius Sceevola, sooner than Colonel Thompson should " sit Upon it" fylitli he ought to be sittin upon one of th e back Treasur y b e nch es w aitin g tor th e division ;—why, we ask, did that patriotic iVlayor of Hull throw an " idle dinner" in the way of so keen a earnpaigner, just at the moment when lie ought to have fasted for the goed of his country ? We fear that, if Colonel Thotripiti he farina Ohl as a principal offender in this business, the riglashanded Mayor of Hull must be convicted of being an rteceesety before the fact to this dinner-eating delinqiiency 1 for: e cannot suppose the gallant Colonel was his uninvited guest. But a still more extraordieary reason is assigned in the same quarter for the smallness of the Ministerial majo rity. " Some gentlemen," we are told, " who had their yeomanry uniforms just fresh from their tailors, thought that nothing could be so essential to the welfare of the nation as the aforesaid uniforms' display." What this exactly means we do not pretend to know. We must refer for an explanation to the political tailor at Charing-cross, or the " three tailors of Tooley-street." Why Whig-Radicals, being dis posed to military manamvres, could not attack the Church in yeomanry uniforms, we cannot say. Surely the display of their uniforms need not have prevented the exhibition of their principles, unless they thought that any other campaign would be much less hazardous than one against the Protestant Establishment. It was only a few nights ago that Ministers succeeded, with great efforts, and by the aid of fifteen Whig placemen, in obtaining a majority of one against the proposition of limiting the punishment of death to cases of murder only. It is quite right that they who are the blind and obstinate conservators of a barbarous and unchristian code should be eager to destroy the national Establishment of the Christian faith. This last - unhallowed project has now been sanctioned by a nuLjority of five. Taking away the fifteen . Whig pla , ,eemen and the thirty-five " joints of the tail, wh r a se oath ought to have prevented them from voting on the question, Ministers would have been left In pretty considerable minority ;—but, as the thing stands, they must abandon their Church-plundering project, or be prepared for a speedy ejectment from their snug 4tiattefs tti Whitdgili : - - -Mornin4 Cto to feik2,F; offend those of our readers, if we permitted the mani festations of national joy which took place yesterday, and which it is this day our chief business to record, to reach, through our columns, the general eye of the obeli min of the tillited fllld 8c tlfe ro 4 ople of eVefy European *ithOtit expressing Our stn; '6o'e aid cdrdimil pOticipatiOd id all the sentiments kich slicli an dpcial is 6111CtilziiM fd iOlife: *Tester; day the Princess Victoria attained the age at by the well -considered and prudent determination of the Legislature, she is qualified to wield, with her own hands, the British sceptre: The epoch ig an , important one in the annals of Great Britain. And there is ►riiifiEi of loyal and of manly sentiment associated with it, which vindicates and claims a louder and more general burst of acclamation than its mere political importance would either warrant or sug o ‘test. The sex of our futdrd 80'ereign endears her to the nation, and would do so although Elizabeth had never lived ; yet the peo p le of England cannot forget th a t th e re i gn i n w hi c h digit country made the greatest advances in prosperity and _!ory was that of a female. Th e t en d er age o f h e r Royal Highness is another cirennistattect which makes her an object of peculiar interest to the country. The Princess Victoria is still a minor, but a minor liable to the misfortune—for such she and all the truly loyal and devoted of her friends would consider it—of being called to duties and responsibilities which masculine maturity might dread to encounter. But upon this occasion of festivity we gladly exchange these more se rious topics for others which inspire unqualified feel ings of gratitude and joy. Her Royal Highness the Heiress Presumptive has attained to the present im portant and interesting stage of her existence, under the guidance and protection of a watchful, affectionate, and judicious parent, who has laboured, and laboured not in vain, to fit her for the duties of the exalted station which (we hope at a period still distant) she is destined to fill, without having once occasioned to the country or to the Royal Family a feeling of apprehension or anxiety as to her disposition or her conduct. Whatever alarm has at any time been felt on her account has related solely to her health, and it is a source of great and general satisfaction to the country to know that in this respect there is no longer the slightest ground for ap prehension. All who have had the opportunity of seeing her Royal Highness must have perceived that within the last year the fervent wishes of a loyal na tion have, in this respect, been fully realised, and that whatever apprehensions may, at any period, have been entertained have been entirely dissipated. These are topics of congratulation in which the whole people of England, without distinction of creed or party, have a common interest and a common right. Whatever dif ferences may exist among us upon other subjects, in our feelings of loyal attachment to the Princess Vic toria, and of respect and gratitude to her illustrious mother, we are an unanimous nation.—Morning Post. It affords us much gratification to learn that Mr. Brown, the treasurer of the Booksellers' Provident Institution, paid 5,000/. into the Bank of England on Friday last, to be invested with the Commissioners for Managing the National Debt. A TRAGEDY IN TIIE WILDEMIPss.—On the 21st Bonneville and his party encamped amidst high and beet ling cliffs of indurated clay and sandstone, bearing the sent. blance of towers, castles, ehUreher,, and fortified cities. At a distance, it was scarcely possible to persitatic niteself, that the works of art were not mingled with these fantastic frtat's of nature. They have received the name of Scott's bluffs, frodi a melancholy circumstance. A murnher of years since, a party were descending the upper part of the river in canoes, when their frail barks were overturned and all their powder *p' led. Their rifles being thus rendered useless, they were unable W procure food by hunting, and had to depend upon roots and wild fruits for subsistence. After suffering extremely from hunger, they arrived at Larimie's Fork, a small tributary of of the north branch of the Nebraska, about sixty miles above the cliffs just mentioned. Here one of the party, by the name of Scott, was taken ill ; and his companions came to a halt, until he should recover health and Strength sufficient to pro ceed. While they were searching round in quest of edible roots, they discovered a fresh trail of white men, who had evidently btit recently preceded them. What was to be done ? By a foreed march they might overtake this party, and thus be able to reach the settlements in safety, Should they linger, they might all perish of famine and exhaustion. Scott, how ever, was incapable of moving; they were too feeble to aid him forward, and dreaded that such a clog would prevent their coming up with the advance party. They determined, there fore, to abandon him to his fate, Accordingly, under pretence of seeking food, and such simples as might be efficacious in his malady, they deserted him, arid hastened forward upon the trail. They succeeded in overtaking the party of which they were in quest, but concealed their faithless desertion of Scott; alleging that he had died of disease. On the ensuing summer, these very individuals visiting these parts in company with others, came suddenly upon the bleached bones and grinning skull of a human skeleton, which, by certain signs, they recognised for the remains of Scott. This was sixty long miles from the place where they had abandoned him ; and it appeared that the wretched man had crawled that immense distance before death put an end to his miseries. The wild and picturesque bluffs in the neighbourhood of his lonely grave have ever since borne his name.— Washington Irving's New Work, " Adventures of Captain Bonneville." On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the Old King's Arms (or Halfway-house), Kensington-road, on view of the body of Mrs. Hannah Shipton, who committed suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine River, Hyde park, under circumstances of a very afflicting nature. After the jury had viewed the body, the following evidence was brought forward :—Mrs. Georgina Dollin, of No. 3, Old Boswell-court, Lincoln's Inn-fields, a respectable looking woman, who was much affected, deposed that the deceased was her mother, and aged 64 years. The deceased was the widow of a serjeant in the army, who was killed in the memo rable action of Waterloo in 1815. She had for some months before her melancholy death lodged at No. 3, York -street, Westminster. Witness was in the habit of visiting her un fortunate parent, and had observed that she was very low spirited and dejected, which witness attributed to her mean; being very scanty. Witness saw her last alive on Tuesday, the day before her death, when she was in an unusually de sponding state of mind, and said she was sure she should come to want, and that she could not bear to take from witness and her young family. Witness had occasionally been in the habit of assisting the deceased to the extent of her means. She heard of her poor mother's death on the afternoon of the previous day. Several witnesses spoke to the deceased's de pressed state of mind for several months before committing the rash act. Charles Griffiths, belonging to the Royal Hu mane Society's House, Hyde-park, stated, that about five o'clock on the morning of the previous day, he discovered the body of the deceased floating in the Serpentine River. Wit ness got the body out : it appeared to have been in the water several hours. The thighs were tied together with a piece of black crape. Witness found nothing on her person. There were no marks of violence on the body. The Jury considered that the poor woman was in a distracted state of mind, and returned a verdict of " Temporary Derangement." In refutation of the calumnious and absurd asser tion that Mr. Hume and Mr. Leader were both, at one period of their lives, Tories, the Aberdeen Herald well observes : " First s in regard to Mr. Leader. This gentleman, at one time thought at standing for the Aberdeen burghs; but so far was he from courting the favour of the Tories, that he pub lished, in the Montrose Review, an address to the electors, containing sentiments as radically liberal as those he now pro fesses. Secondly, Mr. Hume took his scat in the House of Corrimlnt after the general election of 1818. Hansard says he was not hi thg previous Parliament, which lasted six years, and we know that he wns not in the one before that. His political life ever since is well known. He spoke, according to Hansard, thirty-three times during the session of 1819 ; and, in all his speeches, he displays the same love of public retrenchment and economy—the same attachment to unre stricted c.otnrnereial regulations—and the same devotion to reform which he exhibits now. He supported a motion by Lord A. Hamilton for burgh reform, more especially as re ferring to Aberdeen, and another by Sir F. Burdett for Par liamentary reform. In the latter instance he was one of a minority of 58 to 153 ; and at all times we find his vote re corded on the liberal side. Joseph Hume is one of the most consistent and deserving politicians of the day ; and it will require something more than the fabrications of two provincial journals to destroy his popularity." CHARD.---CHuRcH-RATE BlLL.—Many persons here who were at first opposed to, and petitioned against, the Government measure for the abolition of this grievous impost, are now, after candidly and honestly examining its merits, be come its zealous supporters. The lace trade of this town is declining rapidly. The time for work in future is to be re duced to six hours per day.—Somerset Gazette. The annual decorations of the taps took place on Wednesday. Although the season for flowore is bad, we be lieve the taps were as well adorned as in former years. The town was thronged with people and vehicles of all descriptions during the day. The Friendly Societies, with their bands, vi sited the different taps after divine service, and then proceeded to dinner; and cheerfulness, animation, and pleasure, reigned throughout the town. The style of one tap is a gothic arch, which rests upon two excellent worked columns upon an ele vated basement, surmounted by a beautiful Crown, with the letters W. R., on each side. In the interior of the arch is the following inscription in red letters upon yellow ground—" With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation." The design of this tap displays great taste, and the manner in which it is decorated reflects great credit on the conductors. The front is laid out with evergreens, with a fountain in the centre. —Derbyshire Chronicle. $ PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCK. THE FAMILY OF THE .A MS ITILN. NICE C 0 .t 1 I' AN I El: S, 6:c. &c. &c. CZARTORYSKI. . ----,-.7.-_ LOSIY.r, TUI-i,I)AY, MAY ')3. Numi;cx Oividend Price of r, CANA/ a. . pc! 1 , AI. Janus AVorrinicz, officer of the artiilPCl:oifiNthC:lcitti' t :s . . PoVisii army, is a;iont to pobiisli iiis work On the Dyi , f?!'l.rc,. Annum Paid. ar,re, iii l' dant! in Pi-fish -erio.l .al the Chlamic!e qf tfi e 1. 7 0, , 7 ~,„. ~,,:. ..., ~ .. .. , 'harn....Avera,t4e Int las. sh. ;: , 5 ' . ' , ',. a ' - t } • .-- ' -t- , - 0.:i, 4 r. :i l l: .... .1, , L.,)11 :Ott t- I ...- Of it 15 0 ,,, „,,,, z ,, ti , .........:\ ,crage i l it : i tl. s h. , : - . 0 i POhill Amyl-a/um, edited in Paris : tie suiiject 1,1, - ,,i ...:,":; ftd.71*6. , ;4 , ; ,, , • • - ter ::s :-- i,o , 's•7`o;tll.l,l.fitt•Cdny l, 'h Itie i 8000 !-164h. 9:. Os. giroingliam, i4t;..;•:'''+'; 7 ' , ', , , .../4..,,,1 &M. . 118 ' 4,000 " Since th e Cl rest and the only prospeets of !lite:0)1'1nel! Dim, ~, , d Liver Junci...:l•:::/''IN . ff';,1)( 1 3 1 solely rest on the future national insurrection, it is Geo u .I(o.sti. ,F,'',' ,. " iu I - - d • the present suspension of arins.4l: ......... firitlktewater and i'aunton .... , 400 41, Chelmer and 114:cl:water lOO5 sh. 300 161. Coventry lOO/. sh. 4.'4% .0 0„:. 1 '407,100 Average 311.25. 10,1. sh. P 1,41,1 41.... CS. qo,fftil .-• • - ~ lOol. sh. n4i - 11: .I.obir • • • - - • ~ ~ '(u!1. ;h. 2 I ,ofio 3,5751 3/. Eliest:k - :14 pli'•"/ ; 'Yest?4 - Are age, 133/. stl. 231 401. Erewash , ~,„7 „ ..,•••• - n'io/ e., i," 0 7, 251. Forth md Clyde A4ettfP: ' , ^1)1.,;. 4 ,.. .a. II oitl rq Grand ,Itinc."- - ..,,,,,' ,:, A. 2,82,8r0}1/' 4,. Ge,and Union It 111. 41.. 1.50',ii.,i,.,te ,i ~- , . ... ' • 1 ~g • I•2o,oisf. 11. per cent. Dir,t ntif...t ' 1 0 , 11• Loan lOOl. 3,0144 Grand Western • 0. - 0 ... .10' 1. sh all 1.1 600 13/. his. Pd. Glatte.rganshire, Averag t'!.... 172/. I3s. 441. 749 Ult. Grail tham - ..F.4,1. sh. 1:1! 1 ` . ! 1 1, 154 fluddersfit Id .... Average 571. 6s. tat e., 100 .... ::.!t , 1 , rosin„ II) Ish all pd. 23,3.28 1/. 2s. til,':':'., • r7l l Avon, Average 39/. Itis. 10d. sh. 2,31173 201. Leeds and 1,1',..5e001 100/. sh. 3151 13!. Leicester 1,897 4/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton.;:?e.er , i 3/. 10s. tiri 10/. Monmouthshire 0 8)/ ,oh. 150 1. 0/, Melton Mnivbray 100 1 g!, :.. 500 Z. Pit'lser aO 4 l Irwell lO O/. sh. 00 3,0' 11. I Os. 11 at',VlV,i9•4l:„-, . 1001. sh all pd. 217 17/. Neath 1 7811 3 , 11. Gatlin! . 9r/1 0 9 5/. Peak Forest A vtrage absent 7201. oh. 21,118 1 4 e. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331: (Es. o, : i. she 5,069 61. per c 1.4 1 11. i",.. oen d a l e Average S',/. ste. 500 8/. Shie.',•Thire /0.. Q. sh. 800 9/. Mi. Somerset 01,1 1 • t5O/. s 5, 3,000/. 4a per cent Ditto Lock Filitti ,7 80 ,t4 l2/. Ids. sh. 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester me", ......... 140/. sh. 500 or, Shrew,litiry me.....,1•251. sh. 3(10 0/. Stourbridge 3,647 21. ,s. S'trarford-on.Av,ii ...Average 791. 98. LA sh. 533 12/. Swansea.. i ri 1001. so. 3,702 11. t•s. Severn and Wye tiorl Railway...Av 35/. sh. 2,00 . 4sa. 321.105. Trent vet Mersey, 4 r'ls.,,. 1(101. sh. B,IIJ ~...... Thames ILI Medway-. AVM', 191.5,. rid. sh. 1,0005h.1 151 Warwick a id Birmingham . 1901 sh• i ,000 : 1 *h. i 9/40 11.. Warwal atti! Sapton lOO/. sh, 6,000 41. Os. Worcest o ant! illftningham...A v. 781.81. sh 5,000 225. Wilts at, a Berks .. ACerarse 671. 10s. fid. sh. 600 3/, Wyrley and Essington •sete 125/. sh I , JI ~,.., Wisbeach •ee l9s l. sh. 905 1/, Weir and Arun llOl, oh. DOCKS. 2,600 & i 3 C ere' ' 1,065 5 1, p. C. omm tat ...,.., . 100/. sh. 198,667.31. 6 per ct. East India ,,,,,,,,.. ~...S tock 3,233,31014 565. p.ct. London ,,,,,Stock Ditto Bonds • 1,330,000/. W. per et. 'West India Stock 2;204 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,732 4 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 500,003 43 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. DittO Bonds ter 10 years Shoreham Ittiliour 2.500 ..„ .... Deptford I'iot ..... .... 201. sh. 31. BRIDGES. 1,600 • VI. Mem inersinf i 50/. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Ohl Av. ti.ll. :Is. Sd. sh. 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, flier, of 7; per cent. 'lOl, sh. 5,000 ... Waterloo 5,000 18s. 8/1. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pd 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 60,000/. 55 per cent. Ditto Bonus 5,848 14s Vauxhall Average 70/. lOs. Ott. sh. AS-...1,11ANC1t• COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 80 50,000 [ s : ri e d r c i e 4l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. pd 123 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1004 Oh, 51. pd hi '4,000 11 per sh. Attar 50/. Rh. 5/, pd 131 1,200 fsh. 5/. Birmingham hire 20,000 4/ per cent. British Vire '2so/. sh. 50/. pd • 41 12,1(00 6/. per cent. British Commercial..., ..... ! -50/. sh. 5/. ix! 61 5,000 5/. percent. Clerical, 51edt al,&c. Life, 11;0/.sh. 12110 s pd 4 4,000 2/ lOs County 100/. oh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. eh. 1/1. pd 5-1 208 {5 per end. and 301 bs. l Economic 1.110 lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 273 2,271 22e, per cent. European Li' OO/. sh. all pd 21 50,000 21. Ditto, New ... SQL sh. 21. pd 11 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 1473 20,000 3/. Guardian lOOl. sh. _ 1 7;1 pd 33 40,000 6s. 6d. Hope , . 50/. sh. 51. pd 5-1 2,400 51. 7s. 6d. Imperial hire 500/. sh. 501. pd 121 7,590 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,458 19s. pry eh. Indemnity Marine.... 100/. sh. 8/. pd VI 2,020 31 IN Newt Fire 50/. sh, all pd 82 31. Ditto Life 79 10, 0 00 Ills. Law Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 26 5.000 10s. London, Vit..... ..... ......25/ sh. 121. 10s, pd 153 3,,P00 10s. London, Ship ...............251 sh. 12/. 10s. pd 153 30,01 a 5/, per cent. Palladium Lit: ........... .........50/. sh. 21. pd 21 8 s Od 50,000 Protector Foe 2Ol. sh. 21. lid 18s 6d 2,500 11. Provident late lOO/. sh. HI/. pd 20 100,000 5/. per cent. Rock Life 'W. sh. 2/. pd 63 689,2201 3/. percent. Royal Exchange „Sto,•k... 220 0,01"9 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sli. 51. pd 53 50,000 4 per cent. United Kinwiom Lite 2/ pd JOINT STUCK BANNS 25,001 ...... ... Alpic antiCsemn. of Ireland 25/. sh. la pd 14 5,000 Australaiia 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 5t ?Cpl.!, 10 per cent. Bank of nil mingliam • SC/. sh. 101. pd 1 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank . . 5O/. sh. 5/. rid ' 30,000 5 peer-ant. London and Westminster-100/ sh. 201. pd 3,000 4 per cent. lancaster 100/, sh. 20/. pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 eh. 10/. pd to No 73 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/. sh. 151 pd Discount 20,000 7 percent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 20,• CO National Bank of Ireland s"l. sh. 173/. pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. rh. 35/. pd 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 104 pd 6 ; 009 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/, pd PAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 11 iii' L l rl Bath 2O/. sh. 16/. pd 5,000 Beals)] 4Ol. sh. 161. pd A ,-,„ r 55percent.1 5, """ Land Bs. 58.,5 Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 10 pd 928 5/ 103 Birmingham 5O/. sh. 4,250 21 0 s Bristol 2O . sh. 1 , 500 :,,, 104 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 750 3/ fog Ditto, Now ..... ...........--.201. .h 18/. pd 2,471 5 per cent. flOgnton General 201. sh. all pd 4,000 4/. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 0231. pd 1,000 101. City of LOticlon lOO/. sh. all pd 1,100 6/. Ditto, Noe 4,000 41, 10s. Equitable rO,OOO 21 (;71 cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 800 N. per cent. :Tele of Thanet 251. sh 201. pd 2,350 61. per cent. Independent lO/, eh. all pd 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix .., 5O/. oh, 39/. pd 1,000 41. per cent. Rateliff 4,000 South Metropolitan 5 O/. sh. 19/. tai 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 401. pd 201 51, per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 All, leer gent Wakefield 12,000 34 Westminster Chartered ...... .... 4ll. sh. 6,000 12s. Ditto New . 511. A. 10/. pd 8(1 Yarmouth 20/. sh. 181. pd 'WATER WORKS. 1,800 Os. Birmingham 25!. sh. 25/. pd 1,434 61. East London lOOl. sh. 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 21. Kent „ 100/. sh. 372 10/. Liverpodl Ilootle 2201. sh. 1,500 2110 s NOV diver Loudon Bridge Water Annuities 6,486 I/ 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. Sauth London 100/. sh. 6,214. 311. West Middleseit ~...Average (13!. 12s. 9d. eh. 1,360 1 / 1 4, York Building Co. Letwee Prop 100/. ,h. IRON RAILWAY x; .-. IBl'ningham and Derby , ..... 10/. pd Birmingham and Gloucester ~...101 pd Birminglititn, Bristol, and 'chimes Junction Bristol and Exeter... 100/. sh. 19 IA Calcutta and Sauguf . 505 O. 21. pd Cheltenham and G. Westom...!oo/. eh. 71/. Clarence lOOl. sh. 100/. pd Commercial Blackwall 51)1. eli 21. pd Dublin and Kilkenny 100!. sh, 21 pd Eastern Counties '2sl. sh. 2/ p 4 Grand Juuetion 100/. sh. 501. p I Great North of England 7l pit 25, 1 700 Great Western ,0!,1 sh, 40/. pd 2,0 , 0 Ilartlepool 100/. soh. 1001. pd 8,000 Hull and , elby 5O/. sh. 51. pd 101104 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 7,100 Leeds and Selby 1,500 Leicester and Swannington -.50/. sh. all pd 5,103 10 per cent. 1 Averpool and Manchester...lo(l.sh. 100/. pel Ditto Quarter Shares O5/. pd London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 51 pd Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -201 sit. 11 pd Ditto ditto (Rennie)...sos sh. 01. pd Ditto ditto (Grind y)...100/. sh. 3/. pd London and Blackwall 5O/ sh 3/ pd London and Greenwich " 1 41. sit. '2O/. pd London and Biriningham -1005 ith, 85/, pi! London and Southainpton....so/. sh. 401,: pd London and Croydon 2C/. sh. 15/. p 4 London Grand Junction 5 /. sh. 3/. pd Manchester South Union 10c/. sh• W. pd North Midland 1001. sh. 15/. pd Norther and Eastern lOO5 sh. 3/. pd Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 85 pd South Eastern and Dover 7l. pd Stockton and Darlington 101'!. sh. Tharees Haven 5O/. sh. 2/, 10s. pd Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/. pd York and North Midland 5O . sh. 3/. pd MINES. Albion Clipper 5/. sh. 33/. pd A lten 15/. sh. 121. 10s pd Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pin.... 100/. sh. all ral Ditto Subscription 95/. po Bolinos Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm. 35/. sh. 00/ }xl Macaubas s Cocaes United 2 5/. sh 2:1,41. pc! Ditto St. John Del Rey 205 sh. 0/. pel Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 205 pd Ditto Scrip... le/. sh. sl. pd Brittah Iron 5Ol. sh. 50/ pd British Copper Cato Branca (11/. pd Candonga 7;l. pd 9,4 540 77 200 Afia 6,000 9,500 7,500 15,000 660 7,500 3,001 12,000 8,000 60,000 10,000 45, , 00 10,000 8,0 0 12,4100 10,000 3 per cent. 25,04)0 20, 4 00 7,000 12,000 ...... 10,0'10 2,000 28,000 1,000 (11. per cent. 0,00(1 1,400 6,001 M,OOO 4,000 1/. ss. 10,000 ..... 2,000 10,000 U. lOs 6,1) 0 11,000 10,000 10,001) .... ..... 20,00 6,000 10,000 1/. 8,500 2,.150 31. 20,000 6,155 3,000 11,500 aopo CopiapO - 2O/. sh 12i/ ixl Columinan, iss. 51. pm. English 121 14s. pd General Mining Association...2ol. sh. 15L pd Mexican Company 104. sh 540/. pd Pollicrou Consols Int sh k/. pd Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh. all pd flits. Scrip . Ditto New Scrip 5l pd West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd LITERARY 1 NSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs sh. London University 100/. sh. all pd Russell Tigs. sh. King' College lOOl. pd MISCELLA NEOUS. I0,0;10 Iss. Australian Agricultural....lo o /. sh 214!. pd 6,0u0 6/. per cent. Brit , sh American Land Company 2:SI. IA 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 241. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent ... 1/. Os. General Steam Navigation ...15/ sh. 13/. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock IL London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. Caoutchouc Company "5/. sh. 241. pd New Brunswick Land Company 414 pd 2,774 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. jai 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New INV. sh. 701. 1 , 0 4,000 10,000 1,000 1,500 iOO 15,000 2,000 8,000 I,P 12Fr 148 730 243 t2SO 4f 18f 151 118 161 ID "I 42 100 121 100 1t)! 241 19 11 13 12(3 (.5 12 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. APRIL 29, 1837. BANKS. 1,500,001 r. 61. p. et. Bank of Scotland 831. Os Bd. sh. all pd 19./. 2,000,0)(1. 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1581. 500,0)(1. 8 p. et. British Linen Company I OW. sh. z.ll pd 236/. 3,000,0 , W. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 176/. 1001. sh. 10/. pd 1511. 5. 5 j u ,. ) , ) 0 4. , e . 0 „ •.; Ilona' 2,0010001. 5/ p. ct. Glasgow Union 0 .5 15 1. sh. 50/. pd 68/. 4,000,001. 4 p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 3611. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 251,0005 h 6} p. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. I/. pd 211 s 100/. sh. 10/. pd 141 Os. 1 0;, , ( Co. of Scotland _AO/. sh. all pd 811. 0 1 6 5 1 i p L . ct. c t . Herculeslnsurance 50,000 6 p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd 15/. I 000 5 p. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 16/5s s : o a c: p. et. Edinburgh life 100/. sh. 10/. pi 14110 s 100,00 W 31 p. et. West of Scotland lOl. pd it to MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 ...... ... Edin. and Was Un. Canal.. .50/. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto Alloeared -961. sh. all pd 651. 5,100 5 per cent. Edinb...lood Stock Water.... 25/. sh. all pd P6l Carron hen Company 2501. sh. all pd 43/. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron l'ounocry 501. sh 3' l /. pd 441 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 161. pd Si. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/ sh. all ixl 561. 4,450 10 per cent. Glascow Gas 951 sh. all pd fil l 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 451. 1,206 Edinburgh ondDalkeithßailway...so/.sh. tol. 3.000 5 per cent. Equitable Loam Company 251. ob. 9i. pd 101. ben;, upon us, ,urtng press,.., _ o d r e n s ) p a s s s t c h n e t ia i that insurre w ctiat. its vicious organization, was the prit,(!ipal rock again st which The eakness of the Governme nt, arising from y po le r a ta d n t c o e aonfd. astlilppt:rt our attempts at shaking off the fortion yoke in 1350 wer e wrecked. Vie stood in need of a fixed and combining f67'° —of an emblem compreitensinle to our people at laic ; we stood in need of a centralization he aled by a Kilt dectitful expectation of assistance from abroad t o the enervating weed of factions foreign to our sod, were but natural consequences of' that want of foresight.. Tbc cit. , 4l and the most imperious duty of our position, in l ' o c e i cordanco with the sacred and national traditions ofthe of May, and with the universal feeling expressed Diet of the revolution,' required a 'Monarchial Govern; ment. Providence, to reveal, as it were, that the c ause lin s our country is not abandoned, has preserved amongst the illustrious family of the Princes Czartoryski. as in " Fur a century, in every patriotic effort, as well 4 rh , every disaster, we constantly find them foremost. "."„i' titer the nation by the memorable reforms of 1764 a nd I : ' h it/ brought back upon the safer path—whether the n'l' s ( nationality struggles and resists the destructive influence (); the partition of the country in 1792 and 1795_„hether portion of Poland is re-established by Napoleon in 180 G 1', 11 511 1812, or whether the erection of an independent P°llls kingdom is asked for by the European Assembly in 16 ) ,. by the —whether the nation rises in arms, as it did in 1 83° ' whether its shattered fragments prefer exile to spoilatoo bondage, in 1831, the Princes Czartoryski, descendants of a dynasty of our best hereditary Kings, the Jag ell°° , l s ; kinsmen of several of our elective monarchs, were el : lA ', the model of patriotic devotion, the living tradition of 111 narchy, and the symbol of independence. It was union' nate nate for Poland that, with all these claims to Royal aut,vt, rity, they were not invested with the title and power of To denounce, to stifle, or to paralyze Royalty in Polatnito to render a bad service for its regeneration, because in °, country it is the main and surest engine both of the , s %l i cess of the insurrection, and of the stability of a benoc.l.o Government. Let us, therefore, take care, lest byutoPlf theories we raise fresh obstacles to our emancipation. is the Czartoryskis were sometimes found in the vir° ll g' was because they were not rendered infallible." However problematical the develovnent of the il theories of a subjugated nation may appear , whatever vigto lance may be displayed by the conquerors, with the vie fiti stifle Polish nationality, and to banish the success 1 1, cause into the regions of dreams, it is impossiZlle to lc with indifference upon the subject before us, and whj eli c i of or may, in future become, the mover of the ntili t tut oppressed. The politics of Europe are not O t " - threatening storm, and despair is not always vvitbo:tt better time to come. The author of the book in question, a man of honour 11 "„ a gallant officer, is highly esteemed by his countrYrn°L. He is the nephew of the late Archbishop Woronil Primate of Poland, whose name has been mae inaninrt:. by the double high vocation he fulfilled with dign it f, a that of an apostle of the gospel, and that of an insP ° patriotic poet. 4 5 1 A GOOD JOKE.—For some months past a p-- residing in the town of Armagh contrived to do an exte° 6o o business with the Agricultural Bank, but finding that the be purposed coming down on him for the amount of some billing got cashed, he and his wife adopted a novel plan for 55 % 0 his affairs. They gave out that he had a malignant Col' $ ll4 in three days after he expired. A coffin was procure"' eh, filled not with the remains of poor John, but with mother e li d e; and word being sent to the priest that he would be int erre two o'clock, his reverence attended, and having to all aP.P„, C mice buried poor John, collected 71. of offerings; the dole solate widow, having a little property left belonging t° the greatly regretted husand, actually administered, and frel ° o pitiful story she made, the gentlemen concerned in exec els e the administration not only gave their service gratis, but e fe, raised some money for her, as poor John was a g eneral be vourite. A gentleman belonging to Armagh happe ned t rise in Liverpool about three weeks ago, and to his great stil bio , and terror observed poor John a short distance before up Having summoned up sufficient courage, he went up to ee'e• John at first denied he was the person, but on finding the g ot ! tleman would not be further imposed on, he confessed alit ei pe promised to pay as soon as able. When the gentleman cfrea home he went to the widow and asked had lie returned be Liverpool, on which she got very angry, asserting' t h3t ni so poor husband had died of two days' illness. The gentle ec it persevering in his assertion, the widow said if he wagi.tiil must have been his ghost. However, to settle the dige r 00 grave was opened, when it was discovered that the cent" only filled with clay. His creditors, we understand, p tb roo giving him a clear receipt for his cleverness, and he threet-bii to prosecute the priest unless he gives up the offerings, soul or body not being benefited by him. —Pilot. Th e AN IRISH ELECTION 200 YEARS AGO.'" Of freeholders assembled in Philipstown to elect knights for King's county, and some of the Irish having consulted teifire ther the same morning, attended the Sheriff to the ,„, S House between eight and niri o'clock, where, the writ 'P r of read, Sir Francis Rushe and Sir Adam Loftus ( an cest , (L r the first Viscounts Ely) were propounded by some of the 1.e",0 holders as the fittest men to be elected. But Philip O'D per , delivered to the Sheriffs two severai lists of names in who (he said) had given their names fol . " Sir John Oti°;iff, lan and Callagh O'Mulloy," whom they ,t2ad chosen a lre t bef and would have none othei-s; and upon delivering the lige 0 cried out " M'Coughlan and O'Mulloy I" The ot her sin.; the number of sixteen, gave their votes public!, for S i ; t he Rushe and Sir A. Loftus. The Under-Sheriff 'reee i , le papers, and made up the indentures for M'Congl", s '" „ iisOF O'Mulloy (haring the greatest number of names in ye, which indentures were accepted by the High ,Sherin t ,; d oe, notwithstanding, he returned Sir A. Loftus and Sir F.lO, alleging " that the greatest number of voices giver , P l ' t were for them." In which proceeding on the P a. t oe M'Coughlan and O'Mulloy we find this miscarriage- --tbat l e i gentlemen whose names were returned upon the list, disav° the same, and subscribed the other part. Some oth er 0 01 confessed he had set his hand to the list after the e lectin ° 1 1 0 done; and Sir Terence O'Dempsy being absent , gelebicb voice by proxy to the said Al•Coughlan and O'Nfulloy, //000 O'Mulloy could not speak English! a deficiency not une °l/I ffil g amongst the magnates of the land. —Barhe's HistorY ° Landed Gentry. ot A sale has been made at Rio, by public auctiltbe some chests of tea grown in the Botanical Garde. L o is „, , Logoa de Freitas, which sold for a very good price. luctiltv regarded as a proof, that tea might be advantageously vated in the country. w ho 3 0 , aP ( pont There is at present residing on Newton s at near Monmouth, an old woman named Parker, tamed the great age of 106 years. She is able to vf oith and down stairs and to converse upon general subjeCte lit her family. Her memory, however, is nearly gone, ~3 0 sb ° intervals she is imbecile. About five or six years 01 ir br, could walk a tolerable distance, but is now too feeb le to g bef ici yond her own habitation. She sometimes expresses he r " that she is never to die." —Merlin. C° T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, ~sroo7, London, informs the Public that he has fitted up THREE „oetiu; ROOMS expressly for the display of a large assortment of 5 7 t hot SILVER-EDGED PLATED GOODS. He offers them a o ti,4 low but fixed prices, which have been so successful in drawil4,lcOt attention to the WATCH, JEWELLERY, SILVER 'tattle,: and PORK and Silver branches of his trade. N.B. A ovo`t; containing a Detailed List of the Prices of Plate, Piateu,,,Jecl Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be foor• answer to a post-paid application. TH S. On the 23d inst., at the h B ous l e ß of her mother, the lady of th R. B. Bugess, of a son. On the 22d inst., at Stanford-hill, Mrs. Win. Walker' daughter. MARRIED. Gl: On the 23d inst., at St. Mary's Church, Cheltenhana, w boto Zeil, Esq., of Calcutta, to Elizabeth, third daughter or: , Wasley, Esq., of Cheltenham. : 101 : the i jiiief On the 11th inst , at St. George's, Hanover-squa re ' car , Bruce, eldest son of the Marquis of Aylesbury, to Mal third daughter of the late Earl of Pembroke. Augusta, On the 21st inst., Julia Augusta, second daughter of Iv 94 4 Esq., of the Royal g Mint. o rris On the 20th inst., Frederick Ralph, son of J . M. 11 fr. of Clapton, aged 2 years and 1 0 months. liter 0 1 On the 19th inst., Lucy Ann Holford, youngest daug 0 T. D. Johnson, of Clapham. 1 ° re On the 14th inst., aged 61, Thomas Preston, Esq" ° , oe Floyd, near Halifax. Afsr;' On the 20th inst., at Weston, Thames Dittcn, d °°l 'life of W. Speer, Es. Lod ° ' On the 22d inst., aged 11 months, John Thomas A , child of Mr. J. Olders'naw, of College-terrace, Isling,,l'on-str' On the 20th inst., .Ir. William Henry Field, of w' A 8 6, Finsbury, aged 35. e. ,losrf On the 19th inst., at Sutton House, near Noun IW O, George Suart, Eyq. Surref , .. f Ale%. ~, On the 16th inst., Eglantine Katherine, wife ° co w& Esq., of Liverpool. On the 18th inst., at Pentonville, Mr. Joshua. sid e ' of the Bank of England, aged 64. f Che a ,P Ws . ° On the 18th inst., Rosetta, wife of Mr. T. Bun n ' ( i . ) Mr. ' On the 12th • inst., a,f,-ed 80, Mrs. Farr, w idow ° Pl irlie. of Shacklewell. Ma' On the 6th inst., in St. Vincent-street, Glasgow, tr ot' doO' l ' son, Esq. Foriog 1 On the 17th inst., Mr. William Dins of t O il aged 28. • We i vius, y .1, ric On the 16th inst., in G Ilf d t ect Oda Guildford-stree t, or -s r p ce de Mr. Geo. Seddon, aged 4. Dune° On the 20th ult., at Gibraltar, Lieutenant .. Campbell, R.N., Lieutenant of the Port. . ___.--- -- 110. ; 0 4 13 earsoll,o' re London : Printed and Published by MURDoci,ia 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 1i,,,:2' c ' ir •f Middlesex.--Thursday, Mar at 10" THE SUN; LONDON', THEMSDAY; MAX 25, 1837