The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-28 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE. (Concluded from Tile Sun of yesterday.) IDOLATRY IN INDIA. PoYNDER rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, relative to the compelling the Com pany's military servants to attend end take part in the idolas. trous worship of the natives of In(lin. The Hon poprictor then read portions of a despatch sent out to India by the Directors on this sl.hject, dated Feb. 25, 1833, in which it was expressly stated that henceforward the Company's ser vants should not interfere or take part in any of the customs or religious observances of the natives of India, or take or collect any moneys as fines or offerings, or derive any emoln znent from permission given to the natives to perform those ceremonies. It was strange that after the directions given in 1833, relative to the abolition of the pilgrim-tax, that ihry had not been productive of any result, but on the contrary had been treated as a mere dead letter, and with absolute contempt. After mailing extracts from several other documents, the Hon. Propietor said the time would shortly arrive when the pilgrim-tax must be abolished. He then moved the resolution inserted in yesterday's Sun. Mr. HANKEY seconded the motion. Mr. MARRIOTT said a few words in favour of it. A PROPRIETOn suggested the propriety of withdrawi ng the motion. So important a question ought not to be de cided in so thin a- Court. After a rery long discussion, Mr. POYNDER replied ; but before the question was put, Mr. WEE:I3°N proposed an amendment, simply calling upon the Directors to pledge themselves to carry into effect their own resolutions of 1833 with all prudent and prat;, livable expedition. Mr. Wecdon's amendment was then put, and the Court divided. Sir C. Forbes and Mr. Crawford were appointed tellers. The numbers were— For the amendment Against it Majority :against the amendment —l5 The original nb , tion was then put and negatived. The Court then adjourned. BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—Yesterday, a little before three o'clock, an individual named Jamotte, was arrested on the race-course, just as he was taking from his pocket a pistol, which it was thought he intended to fire at General Hurel, when he was passing, surrounded by his staff. We abstain from adopting any of the various reports that were circu lated till a legal investigation shall have been made. The races were very brilliant—their Majesties were present.— Courrier Beige. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 25.—The Independent has the follow ing article : — Half an hour before the arrival of the King at the plains of Monplaisir, Colonel Rodenbach was conversing near his Majesty's gallery with the chief of the general staff of the army, when he perceived pretty near him a man in a blouse, whom he recognised as the person named Jamotte, who has already been several times before the police of Brussels for acts of extravagance, and was more recently arrested at Laeken for expressions which indicated unsoundness of mind. This man, making a motion which seemed to de note that he was armed, Colonel Rodenbach rushed upon him and seized him by the collar and the arm. Several police officers immediately came up. Jamotte was searched, and a loaded pistol being found upon him, he was delivered to the gendarmes, and conveyed to a place of safety. By order of the Attorney-General he has been removed to the Wards for lunatics in the Hospital of St. John, to be examined by the physicians of that establishment. He is destitute of all means of subsistence, and has long been in a state of vagrancy. His Majesty has given a private audience to Mr. Coop mans, Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty the King of Denmark.. BRUSSELLS, SEPT. 26.—The Moniteur publishe t , the programme of the ceremony of opening the iron railroad from Termonde to Ghent ; the fetes begin t') morrow, the 27th, and continue till the 2d of Octob':r. PESTI!, SEPT. 15.—We receiv,.7, daily from Servia more and more lamentable accounts of the spreading of the plague in that country. It has already approached the Hungarian frontier's, and we are under serious apprehen sions on that account. The sanitary cordon on the Aus trian frontier is considerably strengthened, and it is re ported that several b a tt a li ons of the trocps in the camp 11.n.° are ordered to the frontier, to reinforce the cordon. We hope that the navigation of the steam-boats will not be stopped. Linz, SEPT. 18.—His Imperial Highness the Archduke Palatine arrived here on the 16th from Ems. On the arri val of the llfaria Anna steam-beat, Baron Puthor, Di rector of the Steam Navigation Company, had the honour to wait on his Imperial Highness who regretted that he could not defer his departure to Vienna so as to make the voyage on board the steam-boat, which is to leave to•mor row, His Imperial Highness looks well, and his com plexion has recovered its colour, and the Archduchess The resa, who seems to have vigour to recover from her long sufferings since she set out on this journey, has on her countenance few traces remaining of her illness. CARLSRUIIE, SEPT. 20.—The famous pedestrian, Men sen Ernst (a Norwegian, and formerly a seaman), who has been known for many years as the most indefatigable and rapid walker, and especially celebrated for his tours from Paris to Moscow, from Munich to Greece, and from Con stantinople to India and back, has arrived here from his last expedition with all his pedestrian faculties unimpaired, of which he will give us a specimen to-morrow, Mensen Ernst intends for his next grand tour an excursion through Africa front its north c,,ast to the Cape of Good Hope. nEi GI AN UNDS—HausscLA, SEPT. 125. Actual Debt, per Cent. RothschiM's Loan, 5 per Cent. tm.y, Loan or thirty tilsllione .......... Lean of City, 18.^,2 4 per Cent 99% Society 01 Commerce, 4-,per Cent 1:39.4 Bank 01 Belgium, 5 per Cent lll4 Pritssels Papers, Sept. 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.— VIavNA, Seer. IS. Five per rents. Nl.talliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank. titsar , l3Si --.lllg , nrine Zeitung, Sept 12:i Milt II FLINIIs- i sISTURRA . 01, Sem. 23. Y 11 neslls. -„-r,,::-„-r,,:: th-' , . 2 , „e, per '..iit l 3 ', 21 :43 ;.,lure:, Ditto, ditto 3 per cent. 1"44 1014 ~ort :elie, 4 per eCTI , ... oitto, ditto, 134 per cent 75!.4 76 Comoiercial Company, 4.. per c..nt l3 . 162 1 4 Ditto (1 , :12 and 1813) 5 per cent. Loan Met, 1. !er cent. Ditto 14.57, 6 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 0754 Two month.; ------- The ;Val lachian Courier announces that the Sultan has conferred on Moldavian vessels the permission of navi gating the Black Sea under the .Moldavian flag. On Friday night his Excellency' General Count Se bastiani, the French Ambassador, arrived at Dover by the .Rollal Geor,,e steam-vessel from Boulogne ; his Excellency rcnujncd for the night at the Ship Hotel, and the follouing morning set off for Lolldo n under a salute from the guns at the heights. It has generally been the understood cuitom, if not the 1.4 w of nations, that the person and pro perty of Amhass:ldors are held sacred ; the Douaniers, who have a pretty good nous in matters of contraband articles. fancied that his Excellency's baggage was not purely offi cial, for on searching the two carriages of his Excellency, who is ;tot a smuggler, nearly 1,000 pairs of kid shoes and a (ill Amity of blond lace fell into the hands of the Philis tines !—Kenlish Gazelle. The Queen Dowager intends to leave Bushy Park for the marine villa engaged for her Majesty at Hastings on the 10th of October. The Queen and the Duchess of Kent, and the Royal suite, intend to quit Windsor Castk. for Brighton on the 4th of October, and remain there until the ith or Sth of November, when her Majesty will return to London for the purpose of being present at the grand festi val -it Guildhall or. Lord Mayor's day. The shzreliolders of the Zarskoye-Selo rail-road, near St. Petersburgh, held their first meeting on the 28th ult. From the Report it appeared that the works were proceeding with the greatest activity, and that the line to Zarkoye-Selo and Pawlowsk would be open the early part of September. The capital of 3,500,000 rubles had been nearly exhausted, and it was rcAlved by a very large ma jority, to authorise the ,iirectors to contract a loan of 1,300,000 rubles to 'complete the work. Lieutenant- i.ieneral Baron Von Hugel, Governor ofw StuttF:at, and broth er to th e W urtem b erg Mi n i ster of War; died at Stuttgart on the 15th inst. !NE cifoLERA IN SictLY.—From the 7th of June to the 6th of Aukust the number of deaths amounted to 2 3,546. Till the Ist of July an account was kept of' the I lurnhltr of eases ; but after that the disorder raged with 'ugh tuty that it was scarcely possible to register even the litaths. At the first appearance of the pestilence Paler mo contained 200,000 inhabitants, including strangers. Abottt 40,000 fled, so that if the deaths are considered rah respect to" the 160,000 souls that remained it ap pears that In two months more than the seventh part or the whole population died, Of the higher classes and church dignitaries 120 fell victims ; among these were Marchese Ariale, President of the Supreme Court of Ap peal, and the celebrated Abbate Scina. Of the parochial clergymen of Palermo only on e h as surv i ved, and of the nuns of the convent of Martorana not one remains alive. In the environs of Palermo—at Termini, S:,•racusa, Flo rida, and A vola—great excesses have been committed, par ticularly at Syrncusa. The latter town will be visited with just punishment ; it will cease to be the principal city of the province, the tribunals, and the civil and military au thorities being r emo v e d t o Noto ; the very name of the province is to be changed, and to be henceforth V al:e di Note. Th e c h o l era o f 1837 w ill cer t a i n ly remain for' ever memorable in the annals of Sicily.—Suabian Mercury. CHURCH-RATES IN LINCOLN Ti;e pro-Church -rate party in the parish. nf Mary - Wigford—who, be it known, are atrMnt the i:vorst and most contumacious caemik:-er the tThurch possesses—have met with a complz.tte overthrow during the past week, after a two days' poll. The Liberal parishioners, who almut ftmi• months since rejected a rate, but at Ow %ritt' time hand - - sornely tendered their vohintary tontribUtinnS in aid f the necessary contingencies ; on this 'e 4 ,..;taSibti determined not to submit to the !,ruke attempted to he imposed upon them 1 and notwithstanding the new Vicar and his lady had made an active canvas, and tried all per suasives to get the poorer parishioners tta aitl in taking. their Dissenting brethren, the proposition l'or a tWttipetit* d rate, moved by M r . Sh arman at seconded hl•Mr. Seeley, senior, was met by an arneudatent for postponing the qucstioa for a twelvemonth, and upon a show of handy was nEga . - tived by )b to 19. This decis'en induced the warden to demand a poll, which iturnediatelV enettn6need, and wa s k ept open t ill t h ree o s elork en the . 'follo4wing day. Previous to the polling an examination of the items pre. posed to be chat-ged in the rate took plum and artiong others which drew forth some reniatits, Was one of 11. I Is. for visitation fees ; this turned out to be for guttling l thh Vicar and ChurchwaAlens expecting die and bottle wino each out of the ro eto of the rate-payers—all, of enurso, for the glory. of God and the due maintenftnen of the establishment ! It was also noticed, during the dis cussion, that the Vicar's Ch...irchwarden, who had been most zealous in his advocacy of the rate, and the necessity of supporting the church, had deserted his cellttAgtit and the vicar, and left them to fight the battle alone ; but upon enquiry as to the cause of his absence, an amply stiff• cient excuse was given —he had gone to Doncaster Races. He, however, returned in allhaste en the Wednesday, and hurried to the church to give his vote just ,five minutes after the poll had dosed. , It is but justice to observe that the vicar,--although he is blamed (and perhaps de servedly So) for again agitating the question when there was a notice upon the book postponing it for a twelve month, and when he knew that the opponents of the rate had offered to subscribe voluntarily, —yet that he conducted himself in the chair and during the polling with a proper degree of courtesy, and at the close acknowledged that the advocates of the rate were fairly defeated. The numbers were announced to be—for the rate 48 ; against the rate 74 ; majority 2G.—Lincoln Gazette. A Church Rate has been postponed for nine months at Fislitoft, near Boston. This is indeed showing the progress • of public opinion, when this impost is overturned in rural villages, where the population is small and the influence of the squierarchy and parsons great ; and shows most clearly that the days of Church Rates are numbered.—lbid. The Middlesex Grand Jury have returned true bills of indictment for nuisance and misdemeanor, in keeping common gaming -houses for unlawful games of chance and hazard, against Charles de Boos, Barnaby Barnett, Joseph Barnett, Robert Irish, and Edward Russell, of Albemarle street ; George Coleby, William Leach, Henry Oldfield, and Robert eroft, of Regent -street-circus ; John Russell, John Briggs, Robert and Charles Arnold ; also against Montague Hart, of Piccadilly. The Court has granted warrants against the defendants, who are each to enter into personal recognizances of 1001., and two sureties in 501., with 24 hours' notice, to appear and take their trial. Some excitement has been created in the neigh bourhood of Bromley under the following circumstances:— The gamekeeper of Mr.. Wells, formerly member for Maid stone and a magistrate of Kent, discovered in a wood adjoining Bickley-park, which belongs to Mr. Wells, a gown, a shift, a pair of shoes, a pair of stays very much stained with blood, and also a quantity of long hair, clotted with blood. The discovery was immediately communicated to Mr. Wells, and that gentleman gave information of it to Mr. Gould, high constable of Bromley, and the acting magistrates for the district. It was at first supposed that the clothes had belonged to an Irishwoman who bad been violently treated on her return from hop-picking ; but on closer inspection it was found that the stays were very good and evidently belonged to a person in comfortable circum stances. At Cottingham, on Sunday week, on the premises of Mr. R. Locking, a hive of bees swarmed, which were hung in a laurel tree, and afterwards taken and placed in a hive. The bees appeared very healthy and strong, and the mother stock equally vigorous. Several persons expe rienced in these matters witnessed the sight, and declared that never in their knowledge had bees swarmed so late.— Hull Observer. As a badinage upon the bad play of some cricketers who have lately been sadly beaten, their opponents give out that they have lately received two challenges, one from eleven Greenwich pensioners with one arm, and the other from eleven Chelsea pensioners with one leg. The identical ship in which Captain Cook circum navigated the globe is now lying at New York. She was originally called the Endeavour; but, after passing through many scenes and changes, now goes by the name of the Rubens. The wreck of the Medway Steam Ship, which took fire on a voyage to Gravesend a few weeks since, and was run ashore at Northficct, was sold yesterday at Lloyd's as salvage, by order of the Directors of the Norwich Union Assurance Company. It was stated that she was about 210 tons, builder's measurement, with two forty-horsa power steam-engines, of the best construction, but slightly injured, the after part of the vessel burnt. Included in the sale were the chain cables, two anchors, masts, sails, cordage, and stores, all now lying at the Dry Dock, Lime house. The auction produced no more than 1,5101. for the whole. The exercises at the Camp of Compiegne have been greatly favoured by the late fine weather, and the troops have been on the field every day. On one, the infantry, with the dismounted artillery, performed manoeuvres ; and on another, the cavalry and horse artillery. On Wednes day the whole of the troops had a grand field-day, to prac tise the sham fight which is to take place in the presence of the King, the plan of which has been laid down by the Duke of Orleans himself. On Saturday the men were amused with foot-races and leaping over bars placed for the purpose ; and a picket of the 16th Light Infantry was prac tised iu pitching and striking the newly-invented tents of Captain de Courtigis. In eight minutes the soldiers had piled their arms, laid down their knapsacks, and raised their tents ; and three minutes more were sufficient for their being again struck, and the men ready to march. On Sun day morning there was a general inspection of each regi merit in front of its own ground. At twelve there were horse-races for three prizes, given by the Duke and Duchess, which were won by Captain de Chautty, of the staff, Lieu tenant Edgar Ney, of the sth Hussars, third son of the late M ars h a l , and Lieutenant Lucotte, also of the .sth Iluss ors. Thursday afternoon, a serious accident took place on the Paisley and Renfrew Railway, under the following circumstance s :—Messrs. Barr and Brown, the contractors who formed the Railway, were passengers in the train to Renfrew, and having had business in that burgh, they were desirous of getting into the town without going round by the wharf on the Clyde ; presuming, therefore, on their inti macy with the Railway, they hail the temerity to leap off one of the carriages, near the Renfrew-road Tunnel, when the train was nearly at full speed. Mr. Barr got out safely, but Mr. Brown having fallen on taking the leap, one of his legs lay on the rail, and was run over by both of the wheels of the close carriage behind, and had the bone, from the calf of the leg to near the ancle, shattered to pieces, and so severely injured, that immediate amputation bad to be resorted to.--Glasym Chi onicle. We have just seen a little lithographic engraving entitled the " Importance of Punctuality," which is pub lished by C. Ingrev, and from the nature of the subject, which he who runs may read, bids fair to obtain popularity. Berrcer was attacked with apoplexy on Saturday last, and serious apprehensions were entertained for his life. We are happy to learn from the Quotidienue, that he is now considered to be out of danger. GOOD EXAMPLE.—Lord Leveson, M.P., has be come a subscriber to the Tee-total Temperance Society of Morpeth, of which place his Lordship is the representative. Beethoven was eternally quarrelling with his domes tics, whom lie would swear at constantly, nay, sometimes drive them in a body front his house. In dress and appear ance he looked like a beggar—in manner sulky, or spiteful, as it suited his humour. He would call people names as they passed him in the street, and tell them of their faults in public assemblies ; being deaf he was regardless of their expostulations or censures. His laugh was more like a ' scream, and he gave utterance to it in defiance of place or circumstance—yet lie was much to he pitied. His manner towards his servants made them dislike him, and in revenge they thwarted and cheated him. He was mistrustful of every one ; consequently had no friend to watch over his comforts and cheer his solitary state. He would frequently walk out alone in the fields, and several times sitting down to compose and write, had fallen asleep and remained there through frightful storms which drenched him to the skin, and confined hint to the house for days afterwards with se vere colds and fevers.—lllusical World. On Tuesday night, about half-past eight o'clock, as Mr. Jackson, watchmaker, of No. 10, Norman-street, St. Luke's, was in his chaise with Mrs. Jackson, passing along the Hampstead-road from Hampstead, the horse sud denly became restless, and, on a cabriolet passing the off wheels of the chaise, came in contact with the off-wheel of the cabriolet. Upon being disengaged, the animal started off at a gallop, and ran upon a bank, the effect of which was to upset the vehicle, and fling both Mr. and Mrs. Jackson out. The latter, who was very aged, was taken up in a state of insensibility. She was again placed in the chaise, when, on being rsmoved into the house, she almost imme diately expir e d. • PRICES OF SI ocrts II•tok Sloct' ••• • '' • ' - • t pct Co '.. ( it. Cons o 3 per Cent ........... Ditto Red._ New 35i per Cent (.0 k N2SV 5 r•or Coq.. • 83,11 k I.:.V!ig , ctpire 181i0 . . • '• Oct. 10 Act) • `;iii. 5, WO" Jan: 041n;n....... Aprii ..•• ...... Jan. 5, ...... ••• Omniu.n PFtICVM OF POHETON FIII4OB AustriAh ENOt tie7giAlt Dittb Brazilian Bondi Ihtto Account .., ... . .... B ienos A rre g B on d s ‘ ... Bonds . Ditto A ccouri. C)ltunbian Bends, 'AZ ......, Ditto Account Tivii Etriltl3 • Ditto Account .. ...... Greek 80nd5 . ...... Ditto IP:nth. 19 1 0... 44 , FAtt3 .keeount Alex :can Bonds, 5 per cent — Otto Account Ditto, ft per cent. „, A ) 1 Dltto - Atnullt Ncapctlit PRICES OF SHARES THI, T,tf!s ItT Dw ottl.t)C,X; PCi•Uizili Banda ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Acc not Ditto New Bonds pi+tn D 9.!., Ditto, 3 per i,ent. 2O 130:1;14 ..... ...... I`'• 2 2 Ditto Account ..... L)itto Metallic Spfttilin Bettis Dittb Attoutit Ditto Bonds, ...... Ditto Aeeennt Pfe.,*h, 4 per cent. —t. —e. 3 per cent.. ExThange Dutt , h, Q Aol` Otsfit ............52h 3 Ditto Aceaunt Ditto, 5 rcr cent 10274 %N Ditto Accou-, $ AT or4E WeLon Per Share la cd 63/. Ins. 6d. antiM'Al tlii'lt'g Aiiikiation... rt, i del Monte Mining Co., Register Ditto Unregistered United Mexican (issued at )/, pm.) Ditto Scrip • . ii .. Ureat V, estern Railway Company hs London and Greenwich ;railway Compsny go London and Southampton (NOW) INIWaY I London and et...Vann Railway Company 2O DWG Scrip 2 Manchester and Birmingham Railway ........ ....• 5 N •rtti Midland Railway Company t ondon and Westmin s t er B an k 2O _____. - 4,, 3 %14 1::% 204 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER 26 3 . ier Cent. Consols Ditto Reduced Ditto" 4 per cent.... ......... ... - 1 ,4 per Cent. Stock -9SI Hibernian Bank - oitto New, 18.10 ......... ...... 981 !City of Dublin Steam Co. - 3-4 per Cent. Debentures VI 'National Insurance Co - BATA Stock.... ............. ...... 19714 ;City Debentures, 4 per cent - Royal Canal Sto c k . ...... ...... 3-1% I Ballast Office Debentures, 4 rand Canal Stock - I per cent. - MAILS. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due.` 0 America......„.. 0 1 France 0 0 0 0 Guern. Er Jersey 0 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 C4rthagena...... 0 0 Holland ..... 1 1 Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica I Flanders Arrived. Due 0 Lisbon 0 0 Malta Mexico 0 0 Ostend 0 0 Sweden Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rning........44 minutes after 1. I Evening 4 minutes after 2 THE SPECTATOR of of NEXT SATURDAY, (the 30th September), will begin PRACTICAL MEA SURES. The First Number will deal with the CIVIL LIST and its Pensions. 9, Wellington-street, Strand. NOW READY, In 3 vols. post Bvo., MISS LANDON'S NEW NOVEL ETHEL CHURCHILL; •Or, THE TWO BRIDES. A STORY of the REIGN of GEORGE 11. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. To be had of all Booksellers. The publication of Tim SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. ,?. Irr Ii 'il - 7- 7 7 t. ,- • . --t'''''`A'c4, 7 1c):1 4... -;‘, ~~t,~ ~~~tc.:_ Tt Vie antu. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 28, 1837. The affairs of Lower Canada are hastening to a crisis. The bitter fruits of the injudicious policy which we have been for some time maintaining to wards that Colony are ripening fast ; and the result, unless a retrograde course be adopted, will be, and that at no distant period, the loss of our Canadian possessions. We are, in fact, play ing over again the very game by which North Ame rica, " the brightest jewel in the British Crown," as Lord CHATHAM justly called it, was violently separated from the dominion of Great Britain. The exact limits of the authority of the mother coun try over each of her Colonies it would not, perhaps, be easy to define. How far that authority is to be carried must depend upon the circumstances of each individual Colony. But we think it will not be de nied that the interest of the Colony, not that of the mother country, is the main principle which in all cases should be the guide of those who have to adminis ter Colonial affairs. A Colony may be said to resemble a child. While young and unable to take care of itself, it must depend upon the care, and be regulated by the experience, of its parent ; but during the whole progress of rearing, the leading principle in both cases should be the same, namely, to prepare the child for the duties of manhood—the Colony for the exercise of independent powers. This appears to be the order of nature, and any deviation from that order can never end in good, but will always bring along with it its own punishment. Now what is the treatment which we have pursued towards Canada ? Has it been kind ? Has it been consistent ? Has it even been rational ? It will no doubt be said by those who are for upholding the dominion of the mother country, in its most arbitrary and repulsive form at all hazards, that great benefits have been lavished upon Canada—that she has been a favoured, if not a spoiled child—and that having proved ungrateful she ought to be made to feel the rod, and to be brought back to submission by force. Now in answer to this, it is sufficient to say that Ca nada has done nothing but what she had a perfect and unquestioned right to do, and what, if those Statesmen who gave her a Constitution knew what they were about, they must have foreseen she Would do. The represen tative body, or Assembly of Lower Canada, enjoy the privilege of stopping the supplies. Does any one question this privilege ? None ; it is admitted on all hands. Well, the Assembly have thought proper to ex ercise a privilege, which could never have been intended to lie dormant. They have stopped the sup plies, and the senseless cry is immediately set up that this is an act of rebellion against the mother country ! The Canadians, it is sagely argued, had no right to stop the supplies for such purposes. Is there any limitation then expressed to the exercise of their power? We say, none. The discretion rests entirely with the Assembly ; and to find fault with them because they have acted up to the spirit as well as the letter of their Constitution is eminently ridiculous. The Assembly of Lower Canada say that the Se cond Chamber of the Colonial Legislature, or Legis lative Council as it is called, as at present constituted, is not calculated to promote the interests of the country ; and that it ought to be remodelled on a plan which will identify it more with the general feelings of the people, with whiek it has no sympathy. Is this an unreasonable demand ? What is it that has obstructed the march of reform at home ? Is it not the very thing complained of by the Canadian Assembly ? With what face then can a Go vernment which laments the inefficiency to which it is re duced, by the obstinacy and factious untractableness of an irresponsible Second Chamber, refuse to the Cana dians the demand which they have made for deliverance from the same evil whigth paralyzes its own Legislative exertions—particularly when it can be done so easily ? There is neither sense nor consistency here. By an announcement which appe ars in another part of The Sun of this day, it will be seen that the Re formers of Gateshead and the surrounding populous districts, have resolved to publish a new weekly news paper, under the title of the " Gateshead Observer ; and Newcastle, Durham, and Northumberland Adver tiser." Such a publication was much wanted ; for the Reformers in the north, especially in the vicinity of Newcastle, have hitherto been far too much disunited, the consequence of which has been a vast increase of Tory influence in that quarter. But the present projected journal will act as a wholesome check upon that unscrupulous, intriguing faction, by bringing Re them b e tt er formers more together, and making DAY Ay ONE O'CIY,O{. 4!1/;-1 . 4 ' • ....; ...... :.;,, - htto ; , ,z:th Sea Sock Old Annuities IsT - w Ditto 3 -P" 00 1}. 'Ann jtt 47 4t tnn. Ijitto 5!X'.....:: 47 49 pm 'Ditto RiCCo ,'lrir,rp rcta) • " _ Ditto Sank btocl for Account.— --- Ir.d.ta Stock for Account - ConsolF for Acconnt C Pae;ll other'S syititnents ; it !lasi there= fore, ottr most earnest wisheB for itt3 ,Xfiv are sure will be placed beyond a doubt, if it only be persevered in with spit it, The Prospectus—which, h=ytile; oyei is viliti,eb tfid; ttt a condensed and pdinted stylesitysi " holisehold stiffidge; . iii i hirlisfrithis i vole tik !Allot ;; ociptioft of Church -rates, and of every politicSi 61 t i account of religious differences of opinion ; the right dl Pailiakiebt fH apptioptiate the surplus of the Church revenues to purposes of the. State, and the rieeasity of immediately acting upon this principle ; a large and efficient systetri of national eflueation; a thorough re form of the law, by which its severities inaV be nkritd, its imperfections abolished, and its expenses dimi nished ; perfect equality of municipal and all other tights in every division of the empire ; the restriction of the Bishops to their religious duties ; and a Reform of the House of Lords, enabling it td hartttonite with the Constitution, instead of endangering its existence— these are the great principles upon which the Gateshead Observer will be conducted." Thus recommended, we will not permit ourselves to doubt for an instant of the final success of this speculation. The Reforms which it proposes to support are precisely those. of which we stand most in need, and which are consequently fast growing in favour with the community. Would that such a journal could be established in every county, city, and town in the empire ; for it is by means of a free Press —and that only—that the march of Reform can be accelerated, intelligence disseminated, and that sworn foe to all national improvement, the Tory faction, be trampled under foot. We are glad to see from the closing paragraphs of its prospectus, that the Gateshead Observer will bind itself to no party. Ministers it will support, so long as they deserve con fidence, and identify themselves with the people ; but no longer. It will denounce the slightest appearance of vacillation, or of compromise with the enemy, and urge the " pressure from without," not less as the best bulwark of a Reform Government, than as the dearest privilege of a free people. As these are the principles on which we ourselves have always acted, abjuring all ideas of party, and making common cause with the community at large, for whose benefit alone—and not for the furtherance of their own personal interests—Ministers are called to the helm of State, we hail with delight the establishment of such a journal as the Gateshead Observer, whose success or failure will be a test or otherwise, of the sincerity and earnestness of the Reformers in its neigh bourhood. The only intelligence from Spain since yesterday is contained in the subjoined telegraphic despatches, which appear in the French papers of Tuesday. These despatches add little or nothing to our previous informa tion as to Spanish affairs. The high road from Madrid to the northern frontier is in possession of the Carlists, and we must wait until the ordinary communication is restored before we receive accounts from the seat of war, on which we can safely rely. The effects of ESPARTERO'S dilatory operations are now' felt, and to the unpardonable blunder he committed in not hurrying directly to Segovia when he learned that ZARATIEIGUI had surprised that place, may be attributed the embarrassment and disgrace under which the cause of the QUERN is now labouring. The Car lists have now possession of nearly all Arragon, the capital and almost the whole province of Old Castile, and a considerable part likewise of New Castile. These successes are the immediate result of the timi dity, the sluggishness, or the treachery—perhaps of all these united—which have marked the operations of the Commander-in-Chief. Matters have now come to that pass that the whole of the disposable troops must be withdrawn from the northwestern parts of the kingdom in order to reinforce the army that now covers the capital, for which service it is by no means adequate. St. Sebastian, Fuentarabia, Bilboa, and other towns, in defence of which so much blood, native and foreign, has been shed, and so much treasure expended, are thus to be left to the fate which the tender mercies of the Carlists may have in store for them. " BAYONNE, SEPT. 24, Half-past Five, p.m. " On the 6th, General Carondclet had established his head-quarters near Haro, awaiting General Ulibarri to march to Burgos. Pamplona and the Ribera would thus be re duced to themselves. " The Madrid couriers to the 19th are again missing, and the Saragossa journals to the 21st, say nothing new : yet it is believed that the junction of Zaratieiguy with Don Carlos, towards Alcala and Guadalaxara is certain." " BAYONNE, SEPT. 24, Half-past Eight, p.m. " MADRID, SEPT. 20.—Espartero has had a partial en gagement with the Carlists, who have retired upon Renera and Tendilla, on the right bank of the Hcnares, at twelve leagues from Madrid. " Oraa was, the day before yesterday, at Huete, moving upon Guadalaxara, to effect his junction with the General in-Chief. Zaratieiguy occupied Valladolid on the 18th. A motion, the object of which was to have it declared by the Cortes that the present Ministry did not enjoy their confidence, his been rejected by a majority of three votes in this day's sitting." " BAYONNE, SEPT. 25, Eight a.m. " The Madrid courier is still due, but an English diplo matic courier, who has arrived by the cross road, left Madrid on the 20th. He announces that the Carlists occupy Gua dalaxara, and that Espartero is at Alcala and Madrid, with the divisions of Lorenzo and Oraa. Madrid was tranquil." " BonnEaux, SEPT. 25, Half-past Two a.m. " The Madrid couriers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th, have not arrived ; nevertheless, advices from that capital of the 16th announce nothing of importance, unless it be that in the sitting of the Cortes on that day Espartero made oath to the Constitution." There are no new arrivals from Portugal. The fol lowing arc extracts from the French Papers :- PAras, SEPT. 25.-The expedition against Constantine is perhaps already terminated. There is no reason to doubt of the success of the enterprise. Provisions, means of con veyance, every thing, in short, has been prepared in the greatest abundance. All that was refused to Marshal Clausel has now been given to General Damremont.- Gazette de France, Sept. 26. Our accounts from Bona are still no later than the 15th September. Information of some importance had been re ceived from Constantine. The bastion on the east has been cut through. This bastion formed a bridge from the city to the ravine. Thus the city has become impregnable on that side ; there would be a dreadful butchery of a column that should enter that defile. All the houses joining the ramparts arc abandoned, and those that look towards the gate are loopholed and fortified. Ditches have been dug in the gateway itself, and we shall be obliged to construct a bridge to get at the city. Th e wor k s w hi c h h ave b een e xecuted, and those now in progress, show that Europeans direct the defence of the place. The Bey endeavours, nevertheless, to gain time till the rainy season, and in this respect lie is favoured by the number of our sick, and the delay of the arrival of the expected reinforcements. The Turks seem to have tripled .their numbers in the troops of the Bey. There must have been a landing somewhere, for there is regular infantry in considerable numbers, as we could observe in our last sallies.-Le Commerce, Sept. 26. FRENCH Ft/ NDS.-Ps SEPT. 26. Five per Centi, 108 E 40e. 35c. 23c. 30c. Four per Cents., lOU. Three per Ccots. 79f 70c. 65c. 55c. Hank Actions, 2,435 f. Bente ce Naples, 11 81. 3^c. 40c. 30c. • Roman Five per Cents., 101 100 h 101. Spanish Actives, 20 204 4. Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian Loan. Five per Cents., 1044. Brussels Society, 1,665 E Belgian Bank, 1,46uf. Portuguese Three per Cents. 25%%%. Dutch Two and a half per Cents.. 53. Hanna' Loan, 370 f. EXCHANUE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 474 c.; money, 25f. 45c. 'three months, paper, 25f. 30e. ; money. 25f. 311 c. -Corrs Aullien!i2ue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 10Sf. 35c. Three per Cents. 791. 55c. Bank Actions, 2,435 f. Roman Five per cents., 101. Belgian Loan, 1044. Brussels Society, 1,b65f: Belgian Bank, 1,460 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 25%. Spanish Actives, 204. Spanish Passives 4%. Haytlan Loan, 374. The purveyorship of turtle to her Majesty has been graciously conferred upon Mr. Waud, of New Bond-street, who has, in conformity with established usage, taken the customary oaths of allegiance, and been duly sworn i t) to fulfil the duties of the appointment. 2% 21, 3 65S COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (Tins DAY.) There is nO4 6oia fide, businesi doing in our mercantile markets generalij', e d licit little of a private kind: There is nothing particularly lively, and speet!Ai.ors have paused in their operations. They are not, however, atterriplikty to tpaliie, but hold for higher prices. Most articles of mer cliat.lite etnitintie Oral in their quotations. The chief of the hitsinesk doing is in kast and West India produce. The impgrts of the pelt of iiotidOn cohtinue slender, though thej 41'4 a little larger than they weft', We t nowt at this season expect null j te6re vessels. We have - no fresh West India produce added to one stock, and but very little East India ; the principal being 7,000 bags of Mauritius Sugar. The siott of ibis article previous to this additiotl rrAs greater than at the same period !aft year. There still contiuttr.s a considerable deficiency in tiie vtoel4 of British Plantation Sugar. From the North the principal iteitit ore 8 400 bars U~vhtlish Iron, ar.d 40,000 Archangel Mats. But little Tallow, and little Irish produce. We have a great many titthli..l sales for this week, so far as it has already advanced. Those looked forward to with in tettst beyond this week are those of Cotton and Indigo. liinds of raw and refined Sugars continue quiet. The purchaser; are all consumers, and our last quota tions are unaltered and very firm. COFFEE —MI kinds continue languid, owing to their corn paratire high prices, and yet there is no avmptom or their being lower. Jamaica, of qudity from middling to good middling, frtehes 102 s. to 118 s. There arc inquiries after Foreign Coffee, but to transactions of moment, as the holders will not bring it forward. For Tea, the holders continue to ask an advance on sale prices, but cannot obtain them. They are drat, however, in their demand. SPICES. —More business is doing in Pepper and Pimento than in any other spice. Prices of all are firm. Speculators are not so eager after Pepper as they were. INDIGO. —The demand is slacker for all kinds, but prices are unbending. There is a brisk business doing in Hides and Skins, but the large stocks prevent prices from advancing. Tallow continues languid at 395. 6d. to 395. 9d. for P. Y. C. on the spot. Loowoov.—There is more doing in Jamaica at 61. to 61. 10s. Hors. —To-day there was less doing, but yesterday's prices were maintained. The duty is 180,0001. SILK.—In East India descriptions a good business is pass ing for consumption, and prices are looking up. Italian sorts are not brisk. TIMBER.—For both Canadian and Northern Timber there is a brisk demand just now, and prices are inclined to advance. METALS.—Spelter is flat at 131. Nothing fresh' in any other description under this denomination. COALS.—The arrivals are small; the business doing slen der ; and prices without any alteration worth notice. On..s.—Both Seed and Fish are flat, but prices are unal tered. There is a large sale of Southern to-morrow. FOREIGN COMMERCIAL. We have to-day accounts from Berlin up to the first days of August. Commerce is stated very dull, owing to the high prices of all export articlea preventing orders to be executed, and the few transactions that are going on are as the season advances only to complete the cargoes of vessels bound to the North of Europe. Importations are in abundance, and diffi cult of sale. The quotations for Sugar were, white 2,200 to 2,000 rees per arroba ; brown, 1,600 to 1,400 rem Coffee is very scarce, and mostly all fine descriptions in the hands of ex porters; the nominal quotations were 4,200 to 4,000 recs. Cotton held at 6,500 to 6,000 nes. In Hides rather more business is reported to be doing, and considerable sales were effected. Rio Grande dry at 180 to 200 teas per Ib; Bahia ditto, 150 to 160 rees; and Bahia dry salted at 115 to 120 rees. Ex change on London, 30d. per mille ree. The accounts from Havre for Cotton are rather languid, and the sales amounting only to a few hundred bales, the New York packet of Ist instant not yet having arrived, but being hourly expected, business was paralysed, and the buyers kept back. Sugar and Coffee was quiet, but no alteration in price" noticed. In Holland, and at Antwerp, the markets are quiet; in Sugar and Coffee little doing, but the holders generally firm, and no alteration in prices; Seeds for crushing in better de mand at improving rates. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The accounts received from Manchester this morning are of a favourable nature respecting our home trade, and no symptoms of want of confidence is experienced. Both the country and London houses have been buying exten sively ; but there is a suspension of large purchases of yarns for shipment, and it is thought that much will not be done in that article and twist, until after the German fairs. CITY REGISTRATIO-N-THIS y• (Before .M. M r YLNE.) Nothing of publ;e int4vest occurred in this Court up to the time of Our leaving. (Bcfoic Me; CrAIG.) Mr. CRAW this morning gave iudgeinent in the ease of • d in tfaimnt of the name of Calf. 111 r. Calf, who re side St. Botoiph, Ald ga t e , h a d been . in :wear seven qua!:ltearss poor-rates, and in June lest it appeared that he, as tvel s also i n arrear, everal other individ ua l s in that parish, . summoned before the overseer, 1 eaurchwaydens, and ot i nent of the r parochial officers, to show cause why the l a fees due from them should not he enforced Mr. Calf attended, and stated that he W as u e n n ; able to pay the full amount of the r ates, e t Th e same time offering to pay a portion of them. of amount of the rates due was 275., and Mr. Calf /ered to pay 16n, by two instalments of Bs. each, which 57 he paid within a fortnight afterwards . . The collector, fin ing that 16s. was just the amount of the last gave Mr. Calf receipts for those rates, but no rceriP for the two first quarters, which amounted to I Is. Se ral questions arose in this case, first, whether, inasmuch the remission was not for any particular rate, but for Ph_ r _ tion of all the rates due, the sum paid ought not to be eh,"_ siderecl as a payment in satisfaction of all the rates le.irt which the party had been summoned, a od if s° ,' was urged he must be considered its having u e ," l secone b r excused the payment of part of each rate. it was contended that if Mr. Calf was excused PaYi n g h t i o e l rate, he must be considered as hating received Per he 's r , relief within the meaning of the Reform Act, and disqualified from voting : and thirdly, it was contenuee that Mr. Calf, before he could be entitled to have quart.ert placed on the list, must pay all rates that may at anY tim i d have become due from him. On the first point he slie u give no decision, not being able to say whether the soh r c e l; ceived by the parish officers ought to be apportioneeluO°. the whole seven quarters, as his opinion on the third r i m raised would decide the question of whether the claim cht o be allowed. As to the second point, the inclination ef t opinion was, the remission of a portion of the rates wes 7 1 , such a granting of parochial relief or alms e s ca w they'hi his n t a i e de within the meaning of the Art. Upon the third il a bat tion he had reluctantly come to the conclusion ra t: , the Act of Parliament peremptorily demanded all due, at whatever time, or for whatever period, for thirst'be liaises in respect of which a party claimed to vote , m I paid before that claim could be allowed. It might bard 00 that that construction of the Act would press very :),, parties who from misfortunes had not been able to p a Y ": due at a remote period; but that was the Only, constru% e he could satisfactorily to his own mind put upon tha t cla l s e of the Act ; otherwise a party might have his name no Ia registry year after year without paying any rates at all' io some parishes a poor-rate was only made once a y ear ' d o others not so often ; an d su pp os i ng a y e arly rate to be maid between the 6th of April and th e 31st of July, it " , t hat u not be necessary that an individ ua l s hould have P aid e rate before he would be entitl e d t o vo te, and if he were asked whether he had p a id th e ra t e d ue on the 6th o f .A ra e . a' he would reply, " No, ther e w a s no ra t e th en clue." It B PP ear therefore to him that all ra t es , w h enever due, must be pal before a party could have hi s n ame pl ace d on the registrY and therefore Mr. C a lf' s na me mus t b e expunge d from the lists. , gr. Mr. HOLMES—Then a m It o un d ers t an d, Sir, th a ' he Calf cannot have his name pl ace d on th e registry u ntil pays the balance of I Is. due from him ? a Mr. CRAlG—Certainly. Th e sum i s ve ry Sma ll ' a m ts have no doubt that rather than be deprived o f his Mr. Calf will pay it. Mr. ROWCROFT admitted it was a hard case, but th e Act M of Parliament must be attended to. Alefi Mr. TIJOU said the decision would give rise to eD litigation, because searches would be made as far back es twenty years for the purpo se o f see i ng w h e ther all the olt had been paid or not. that Mr. ROWCROFT trusted that among the alterations - would be made in the Reform Act, a clause would be ja r°. duced to provide for cases of this kind. INSOLVENT CGURT_(rllis DO') (Before the CHIEF COMMiSSIONER.) The COURT this morning disposed of several cases whic..ll., were unopposed, the facts of which were or a totally u" interesting character. ti .e Mr. John Frederick Archbold, the barrister, an d , o n author of several eminent law works, applied his petition to be discharged. jab Mr. C. JONES, on the part of a creditor named e and a Mr. James Phillips, in person, opposed the disch arge Of the Learned Insolvent. behalf of Mr. COOKE and Mr. WOODRUFFE appeared on bells' the insolvent. Arch,The facts connected with the insolvency of Mr.rr bold appeared to be these :—ln the year 1831 he nla u i , e i - e b assignment for the benefit of his creditors under l'" tep the copyright of several of the legal works w r t by Mr. Archbold were devoted to te benefit cl yesterday' creditors. Since then the Learned Insolvent written three other works, the profits of which, cording to the provisions of the deed, would b e OP T- , priated for the benefit o f hi s esta t e . By the deed it vi a " also provided that Mr. A rc hb o ld s h ou ld give up two-thi rds of his income (which at that time was extremely handsonic); to his creditors ; and by this arrangement Mr. Archboi: was in hopes of paying all his credit ors in full. With tb i exception of the two creditors who now opposed the vent's discharge, all his other creditors had signed the de et and expressed themselves perfectly satisfied at the eou r , s i . adopted by th e i nso l ven t. M r . Philli ps was a creditor Oh. a small amount arising out of law proceedings. Mr' Arc bold, s ome y ears ago , rented chambers of a Symond's Inn, for which be had been sued for dotiTee rent. The trustees under the deed had Pa id t debt and costs ; and there was at present a Pabalanc© duo to Mr. Phillips, arising from further proceedil: which had been taken against the Marshal of t h e Queen's Bench for an alleged escape. Mr. Phillip-intotlje 0 , peared anxious, in opposing the insolvent, to go whole of the litigation. He stated that he made his ° ,..P, n P i c i sition upon public grounds, and not against Mr. A"' personally. with Mr. Broad Mr. Archbold stated that he had been harassedcc law proceedings by Mr. Broad up to his death, and in then to the present period by Mr. Phillips. ~„o i rY On the part of the other opposing creditor, an "litgr. was instituted respecting the deed ofassignment ; an Jones stated that he was satisfied that Mr. Archbold greatly beneritted his estate. der After some further discussion, Mr. Archbold was °r :o be discharged. • LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS niC S( ' ) weeded DEAL—Wind E. N. E. moderate.—Arrived and P r°c 'ear o for the river, the Brightman, Nockles, from Quebec. 0 B a r• down the river and proceeded, the Ceylon, HurrY,,,,, t ,,b e ll, badoes ; Clio, Rnssignol, for the Mauritius; Planet, ivic - fo lct for Cadiz ; Casilda, Meaariv, for Tencriffe; Amy , 'Are' for Newfoundland ; Harriet, Richards, for Corunna; `" Rutherford, for Trieste. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 26, Wind E.-27, E. fresh. allY• FALMOUTH, SEPT. 26.—Wind E. f r esh gales and giu ribv BRISTOL, SEPT. 27.—Arrived the Haaleet, from C°Pe gen ; Ceres, Hammon, from Memel. „, 6'ol, LIVERPOOL, Se.PT. 26.—Arrived the Dunlop, Gons-P Campeaeliy; Scipio, Stevens, from St. Petersburg. fro m port, the Augusta, Boctcha, from Stralsund; Eleonora, Gothenberg. The Edward, from Carupeaebv , andvo th - tvre, from St. Petersburg, have not arrived as reported Castors► terday. WATERFORR, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Helen , from Memt.l. toG C: nd o o : n u w. , Ai S:PT. iii. Arrived the Rainbow, Oakley, °d-5-11 B ELE &ST, SEPT. 25.--Arrived the Thame s (steamer), , v SEPT. 25. —Arrrivc" 4 the Fortuna, Rhubarth, from Memel. Tulloch, 000 NEWRY, SErr. 25.—Arrived the John'i‘, - St. Petersburgh. ABERDF ' '-' -EN, F - .rr. 25.—Arrivcd the Amp from Dantzic. j b., fro 01 SrocKToNt , SEPT.,‘, 26.—Arrived the Aspasia, 0 Richibucto. , t: HULL, SEPT. 26.—Arrived E • k • V nselow , " mig cit . , a , ' s port, GREENOCK, SEPT. 25.—The Jane, IVPlntosb, of ta— ff by which w• assi sts 0 as on shore in Whiteby Bay, has been asst the Coast Guard. hit-ite, . Brcbeck, from Da n n v i e a . licto S nr r irn e e T st . 2 1 7 t y,oonntlgi,hi.ein_23t,hdeiriltsitv.er, the Star, Bait , C° e 5 Sara y l; H e n aA — n ß A a S"tia* Ben' The ry Bo ' n . e Q rs l o " n oo D d u , n ri dru a m rid Mary, Stevens from Riga; Sceptre; Fox, from Roussolci Stettin u ; .fr ."l o .l m ainstori, Piatdt,Bel:ust, was on from St. Petersburgh ; 114 `' . Liverpool :Or VESS ELS Cork , SPOKEN WITH.—The David, CampouchY to the t , he . GulPh , and Charlotte, Bremen to New York, on • 30 arrived at Liverpool. The Earl of Cad --'--'"-- ------ ogan is enjoying his fa " tirit s: Thesport, salmo n fi s hi ng , i n the River Tweed. The Count° retti 0 and the Ladies Au g u s ta and Honora Cadogan ill t r ii, tis to town from Berden Bridge the latter e nd of next month. Married yesterday, by licence , at the New As a. lem Church, Cross-street, Hatton-Garden, according °_ t rites of that church, and under the au thority of the recent Act of Parliament (6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 85), Jolla C' t f Chambers, Eq., of Jamaica , to Louisa F ran cis Di b bin 'a, Chiswick. The ceremony was performed by the Rev . i s . Noble, minister of the church, in the presence of reg_i trar of marriages for the Holborn union, who took a rel i ll e thereof, as prescribed by law. This is the first tiMe t._ . services of the registrar have been required in this distrit; and this also, we are informed, the first marriage whi ch hs been solemnized in England among the members o f tha t church by their own ministers. THE FUNDS. There being no arrival this morning of consequence causes us again to be very dull in the city. Consols which closed yesterday at 92 for the Account, opened this morning at 92 to 94 ; Money, 918. Ex chequer Bills, 47 49 prem.; India Bonds, 48 50 prem.; India Stock, 260. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 193- f, with Coupons ; without, 18 1 1 ; opened at 19f, with Coupons ; Portuguese closed at 394, opened at same ; Three per Cents., 26 ; Mexican, 284 291 ; Colombian, 231 26 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 HALF-PAST ONE. The Dutch papers have arrived, bringing the Amster dam prices of the 26th inst. as follows :—Two-and-a-half per Cents., 52 9-16 ; Five per Cents., 101 ; Spanish,lB. Both the British and Foreign Funds continue in a state of inactivity. Consols have been doing this morning at 91i for Money, for the Account, 92 to ; Exchequer Bills, 47 49 ; India Bonds, 50. Spanish Active, 19i, with Coupons ; Portuguese, 394 , Three per Cents., 26 ; Mexican, 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a half per Cents., 52i 53. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 92i. Mr. Peake, we understand, :takes his benefit at the English Opera House to-night, which is the last of the season ; and as the bill of fare is most attrac- tive, we have little doubt that he will be honoured by an overflowing audience—a compliment no more than his due, for he is one of the ablest and mast expe rienced dramatic writers of his day. The late Sir Egerton Budges is said to have writ ten in the course of one year no less than 2,000 sonnets. The Earl of Yarborough, in the Kestrel cutter yacht, is still on a cruise off the coast of Spain. His Lord ship is expected shortly at Cc. , "es, to lay up. The Earl and Countess lie Grey are receiving a select circle at Newby Hall, Yorkshire. Captain =and Lady Mary Viner have arrived there on a visit. The Marquis of Quecnsbury is recovering very fast "corn his recent serious indisposition. _ The Sons-Prefet of Bayonne is to be dismissed, on account of the distractions of the telegraph. Monsieur le Sous-Prefet reminds us of a certain personage in " Gil Blas," who was whipped for the offences of his master's son.—Corsail e. On Monday morning a gentleman (name unknown) was unfortunately drowned at Ramsgate whilst bathing ; the sea was very rough, and it is supposed he was seized with the cramp, as be seemed perfectly helpless though rot out of his depth. His cries for help were truly heart-rend ing, but before assistance reached him he had sunk to rise no more. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. .The demand for Cotton continue* moderate, and the market dull, but no further alteration to notice. The sales to day are from 1,200 to 1,500 bags ; 120 Ceras and Pernams at 81(1. a 9A4d. ; 80 13ahias, 7d, to d. ; 50 Egyp tians, 90., and the rest American, at qd. 70, per lb. Yesterday a public dinner was held at Chalk Farm Tavern, Hampstead-road, to celebrate the triumph of free dom and independence by the return of Benjamin Hall, Esq., to represent the enlightened borough of Marylebone in Parliament. The room was decorated with laurels and appropriate devices, and over the chair was displayed the pink colours of the representative, as also the Union Jack, as an emblem of the wish to cement a union of all classes of Reformers in the borough. The chair was taken ac cording to the unanimous wish of the assembly by J. E. Hovenden, Esq. The Magistrates cf Gottingen have published a proclam a ti on , to state that the King of Hanover had charged them to express how much he had felt gratified by the reception which he had met with from the inhabitants, on the occasion of the Secular Jubilee. His Majesty left 600 dollars with Dr. Ebell, to be distributed among the poor of the city. STRIPPING.—On Sunday last, about four o'clock, a child on returning from a walk with its mother, lingered a little behind her while she was ascending a stair in Castle street, where they reside, and was decoyed to Hope -street lane, by a boy, who induced it to accompany him by a promise of sweetmeats. The little miscreant then took the child into a cart and stripped it of its trowsers, a flannel petticoat, and a band. On Wednesday, a similar offence was perpetrated also by a boy, in a close in the High -street. —Edinburgh Advertiser. The Collector of Customs at this port is said to have received on Friday last the sum of 20,0001. for duties on foreign wheat.—Tyne Mercury. At Sheffield, and el,cwhere, the Reformers have gained largely at the revision for the 'West Riding, and in fact floored the Tories, who, out (>1284 objections, only es tablished only five ; whilst the Reformers, out. of 149 objec. tions, established 84. As far as the revision for the %Vest Riding has yet gone, at Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, and Wakefield, the Reformers have sustained 337 objec tions, and the Tories only 175, though the objections made by the latter were more numerous. Messrs. John and James Stuart Wortley, together with eight of their immediate re tainers, lost their votes in the village of Wortley through in fo r m ality.—Hull Observer.