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same as those which had been used two hundred years back, with a divided population On the one hand, and he much feared, an unwilling eovernment on the other. Let the Church follow in their footsteps dauntlessly and persever ingly, and he hart no doubt that the position she assumed would, sooner or later, compel the Government to do jus tice to tl'!r cause. He would touch upon two or three The first was, that in certain quarters the people reeested even from the most general idea of a Commission. There was, however, no ground for very violent alarm on this point. The Commission for the Highland churches was still in existence—a Commission to which, after the excitement of this question had passed away, he trusted the Lowland churches would be transferred. When they asked for money, Government had a right to see that their allegations were correct ; and when their application was granted, Government had a right to see that the money was properly applied. The second objection was, that the Cors,mission were directed to inquire, not into the amount of instruction afforded by the Church only, but into the in struction afforded by the Dissenters also, and this had been considered as having been dictated by the alarming and dan gerous principle that, wherever the voluntaries had provided religious instruction for the people, whatever the nature of their tenets might be, there an establishment was uncalled for ; and, if an heretical sect shoUld provide means of reli gious instruction commensurate with the wants of a whole people, then an establishment might be altogether dispensed with. The Church might protest against this principle—in deed, he should be happy if they did se.—but he hoped they would not resist the inquiry. It was his firm conviction that if this branch of the inquiry had resulted from error, then the inquiry, if honestly conducted, .was the readiest means to dissipate the error. If an erroneous principle had led to this practical measure there was nothing so likely to rectify that principle as the issue of the inquiry. He then came to the question of pastoral superintendence. He had no doubt that this question, though clumsily and unfelici tously expressed in the Commission, was intended to refer to the extent of the machinery rather than to the fitness of the men who wrought it. If there are indolent or care less pastors among us it is not the Legislature we would apply to, but we would take the task of correcting them into our own hands ; and the question is not whether the Clergy are remiss, but whether they are not too few—not whether they are ill qualified for their task—it is our province to look to that—but whether the task is not above their strength, and requires an enlargement of the apparatus, and an addition to the number of labourers. The State is not bound to make up for individual deficiencies ; they are not bound to build ano ther chur c h b ecause th e i r p as t or h as no t suc ceeded in filling the church already existing ; nor were the people to throw away their money by buildingchurches, except when required by the exigencies of the population, and then the Government were requested to pay the Clergyman appointed to minister; or, to express the matter more plainly, after they had made a present - of a church to the families of a district, they asked the Government to make a present to the same fami lies of the means of sustenance to a Clergyman for that church. This was the legitimate inquiry which the State was about to enter into, and he did not think there was any aggression intended to be made on the independence of the Church. There was one point in the letter of Lord John Russell to the head of the Commission which he saw with delight and hopefulness. It was that the Commissioners were to inquire only into those cases where the deficiencies were alleged. The best vouchers for this deficiency were, that the people had come forward with their one hundred pounds, and even their one thousand pounds, to meet them. This would be a'piecemeal inquiry, and, like true students of the reductive philosophy the Commissioners would de scend from their own theories and prejudices into the indi vidual realities of the world at large. He would not, for the world, that the Church should oppose a barrier in the way of this inquiry. He. had laboured twenty years to persAde the rulers of the land and the civic authorities to come and see, with their own eyes, the moral destitution of thousands of the population, and to .convince themselves. that, for the relief of this destitution, nothing but a terri torial and endowed establishment would suffice. It would be the cruelest of all things if anything should be said or done by the Church which would give the Government a •pretext for dissolving the Commission, which, he feared, many of them would rejoice to he furnished with. He wished to put them in such a situation that they must either do the Church justice, or that she might expose their in justice, and put them most flagrantly in the wrong. It was beyond his imagination to conceive by what. arts of sophistry the most active and ingenious hostile inquirers could escape from the detaPs which he was ready, nay, anxious to lay be fore them. He eared not how ignorant the Commissioners were, if they were honest, and he had no reason to believe them otherwise ; and he hoped that everywhere they would be received by the friends of the Church with perfect good temper and perfect good manners. Nothing could minister a more outrageous . triumph to their enemies than the furnishing Government with a pretext for recalling the Comm:as:rm. He called upon the Church to sur render all their tastes end likings—to give up their dearest partialities —to coecede everything .but their principle - 3.. Their enemies cried out that they were afraid of the . Com- . mission. This lie denied, and asserted that the fear was entirely on ti of :er entirely Let the Church', therefore, swallow the pill—it would do her good, though her enemies bad contrived in many ways to nialte it a nause,. - :tis and a I ter one. If the CommiFsion was to be brol,:en up, let ii not be their act ; l e t it nu t 'Je s:tirl that the Church wee fro in the light or esti ; but rather that that li L ;111 was smothered by her enemies. Dr. CooK said that they had core them the instructions given to the Commissioners appointed with respect to the Church, and any additional instructions or private explana tions might give them satisfaction as individuels, but they were never to be put on a level with the document itself issued by his rtdajeety. One set of men might interpret in one way, and another in another, but it was from its own intrinsic merit; that the Commission of the Assembly were to form their opinion ef it. Could he (Dr. Cieolc) have brought himself to the belief that there was nothing in these instructions hostile to tie Church, be would have been most desirous to have been silent in regard to it, and would have exercised the warmest hopes of the beneficial effects resulting from , it ; but, after considering it gravely, it did appear to him that there were involved in that docu ment principles and manims which, whatever were the inten tions of its frarner , , and he imputed nothing to them, would prove most prejudicial to the national Church ; and, enter taining that impression, he would consider that he had little imbibed the spirit of the noble fathers of the Church—little appreciated the manly stand which in the days of peril they lied made for the cause they venerated—if he should have shrunk from any responsibility or danger in order to do what he could do to preserve to the people of Scotland what had been the glory and blessing of their land. There were two or three points to which he would shortly direct their attention, and he would then use the freedom of sub mitting to this venerable meeting the motion which it ap peared to him to be proper to be adopted. The Church had gone to the Government, naturally requesting that ad ditional accommodation should be given for religious in struction to the increased population of Scotland. One of two things might have been expected from this application —either that the Government might have said there was no occasion at all for ,ranting any Commission or giving anything to the Church; or a Commission might have been appointed to inquire into the specific claim made by the Church. But, in answer to the application, there came out a Commission, which had for its object to get an enu meration of all the religious accommodation that existed in the country. What was this to the Church of Scotland? What, suppose it should be found that, taking the Dissent ing meeting-hOuses of Scotland into account, there would be sufficient accommodation for the people, what would that be to the Church as a national Establishment if there was not sufficient accommodation for their own people within their own churches? Was it to be said that they were to drive from the Establishment those who desired to remain in it, and compel them to go to other places, and receive instructions from other pastors ? In this point of view nothing had been done favourable to the views of the'Church in answer to the application. It might be said that there was plenty of accommodation, and Government would not interfere further in it. Government considered a religious establishment as a great system of preventive jurisprudence. It adopted it because it spread religious and moral improvement among the people, and led them to discharge their duty as good citizens. This was implied in the principle of an establishment, and it fol lowed as a clear deduction that it was the duty of the Le gislature who had so founded it to render it efficient, and to do everything that could be done to promote the pur poses for which it was intended. What was the consequence if they should carry out this principle ; it would just come to this, that it is a matter of no moment whether there was an Establishment at all. It would be holding out a boon to those who did not belong to it to say there was no occa sion for it ; and would they not thus be giving their ene mies an opportunity to exert themselves, and to build churches on speculation, and endeavour to alienate the affections of the people belonging to the Church ? Apply this generally, and they would come to this, that there was to be no Establishment at all. He (Dr. Cook) did not quarrel with any man holding that opinion ; what he would press on the Assembly was this, that it was an opinion into which the devoted adhe rents of the Church could not go. They must raise their voice. against it, otherwise they would commit felo dc se, and inflict a wound on that noble fabric which it should be their duty to maintain. This point laid in a narrow compass. If there is no Establishment at all the principle of it requires that those who belong to it should never for amoment shrink from defending its principles. I agree with one remark of my Learned Friend, that whatever con cessions we make there must be none of principle. We Must stand forward and steadily, and in doing so we reflect on no man, but we do what every honest man and conscien- tious believer in the excellence of the Establishment is by principle bound to do. I think in the deliverance to be given we are called on to enter our solemn protest against any such maxim as this. The next point I would shortly advert to is that of pastoral superintendence. An expla nation of this was given by my Reverend and Learned Friend ; but we must take the words of the instructions to the Commission itself, and that there is some need for adverting to it is plain from the fact that a different in terpretation has been put upon it elsewhere. We have heard of the Metropolitan Presbytery of Scotland taking it up in this sense, and maintaining, nevertheless, that this was in perfect harmony with the principles of the Church, and supported even by the confession of faith. lam al most astonished that my Learned Friend (Dr. Lee) should have thought so, as I was astonished at some of the sentiments ascribed to him in the public prints. There is no doubt that the civil Magistrate, i. e., his Ma jesty, is entitled to know whether the Establishment is an swering those great purposes for which it was instituted ; but will it be gravely maintained by the framers of the Westminster Commission that this was to be done by the instrumentality of men some of whom might be decided enemies of the church ? The spirit of our fathers would have broiled with virtuous indignation at this. It is com petent to the King to call a Synod—to assemble an ec clesiastical body—and to be present among that body, to watch over its proceedings : and, if satisfied that the body is corrupt, he may take the means which to him seem good to remedy it. But this is a very different doctrine, indeed, to that which would give the King the power of 'examining into pastoral superintendence. I believe the Government had no intention to give that power to the Commissioners ; but we must, guard against it, and it is our duty to protest against such a part of the instructions to the Commissioners. Dr. Cook then impressed on the Assembly the importance of the present deliberations, and the importance of the conclusions which they had come to ; and it would depend upon these conclusions whether they were to give new organs to the Church, or introduce into it that secret poison which might spread slowly but surely, and be ultimately the means of bringing the Establishment to destruction. Dr. Cook concluded by making the fol lcwing motion : " The Commission of the Assembly having maturely deli ' berated on the_ instructions to the Royal Commissioners for inquiring .into the means of religious instruction and pastoral superintendence afforded to the people of Scotland, express their deep regret that his Majesty's Ministers have not been pleased, in consequence of the judgment of the last meeting of the Commission of the General Assembly, to make any change in the composition of the said Royal Commission ; and where as that Commission, from its authorising the Commissioners to inquire generally into the opportunities of religious worship, the means of religious instruction, and the pastoral superin tendence afforded to the people of Scotland may be, and has been, interpreted as at variance with the principles and polity of the Established Church, and as calculated to weaken or to over throw it, particularly as it seems to involve in it a principle sub versive of this and all other Ecclesiastical establishments, viz.— that whenever religious instruction and pastoral superintendenc e are found .to a certain extent afforded by any sect or denomination whatsoever, then the services of an Established Church are not required, and may be dispensed with. The Commission of the General Assembly publicly and solemnly protest against whatever has such a tendency, and declare that they consider it to be the sacred duty of the Legislature to support and pro tect the National Church, and to secure accommodation and religions instruction to the people of Scotland, so that they may attend regularly upon Divine ordinances, and may profit by the pastoral exertions and superintendence of its ministers. With a view to these most important objects, and under the I:rotestation herein contained, they approve of such members of the Church as may be required to do so by the Commis sioners nominated by his Majesty, furnishing accurate informa tion as to all statistical matters, and also approve of all Church Courts allowing inspection of, or giving extracts from, their records, of all entries relating to the same matters. It being clearly understood that the Commission of the Assembly hold that it is. not competent to the Commissioners to put to indi vidual members any quesions relating to the dcc:rine, worship, government, or discipline of the Church." The Rev. Mr. PAUL, of Tullynestle, seconded Dr. Cook's motion. Sir J. G. CRAIG said great complaints had been wade of the terms in which the instructions to the Church Com missioners were couched ; but upon those instructions he would take the liberty to say that the complaints arose from the conduct of the Church itself, because the appli cation for endowments contained the very words which had been complained of. The objection, therefore, if there was any grotind for it, ought to be made against the depu tation of the Church, and not against Ministers. Nay, more, Dr. Chalmers had complained that on their arrival a London all discussion was foreclosed ; but though he mentioned the fact, he forgot to dwell on it—that Sir 'Wil liam Rae, and those acting with him, who claimed to en tertain especial affection for the Church, had moved for tile appointment of a Commission. The deputation had agreed to that Commission ; they gave in the words of the motion made by Lord John Russell, and which was .-,greed to unanimously by the House of Commons ; and the terms of that motion were implied in the instructions. If, t!:en, objections arose to the instructions of the Commission, the answer was that the individual words were furnished Church. Those words might be wrong ; but the Go vernment was not to blame for adopting them. Then, as lo the terms of the motion made by the Rev. Doctor, he . (ousidered it as a protest against doing what was never in tended'to be done. It might be right to guard against the po:3Sibility of a mistake, but let them look, at the terms of instructions. Three times over it was mentioned the means" of religious instruction, &c. There was not a word about inquiring into the doctrine and discipline of the Church 7 ---a thing which could not be intended, and which never was intended. He would again repeat that if there was any error in the instructions to the Commission, that error lay with the Church. He would not enter into the clerical discussion which had been started, but would con fine himself to protest against the hue and cry which had been raised against Ministers. He concluded by referring to the Commission for the Irish Church, where there was much difficulty, arising from the heat of party spirit, and yet a plain statistical inquiry had been conducted there without objection, and such an inquiry might as easily be conducted here. Mr. BUCHAN, of Kelloe, distrusted the Commission ; his distrust in them would never be altered till he saw them set about their task in a manly, honest, and straightforward manner. There were many other things to cause him to distrust the Government and their Commission. Among other things be could not but lament that this Protestant soil should be polluted by such an impious man as Mr. O'Connell without one gainsaying- word on the part of the Government.—(" Hear, hear," and " Order.") A brief discussion ensued, when Dr. LEE objected to that part of Dr. Cook's motion which declared that it-should not be competent to answer any questions regarding the government, doctrine, and dis cipline 'of the Church, because he thought all such ques tions entirely competent, and added that he would divide the House if these words were retained. Mr. BRIDGES would second that motion. He held that the Church had a twofold character. It was a Church of Christ besides being an Established Church ; and it was this before it was established, and it was this at a subse quent period, during the persecutions when prelacy was established. In that capacity it was totally independent of the State, and in no respect accountable to it, or sub ject to its inquiries. But it was also an Established Church, receiving endowments and benefits of various kinds frOm the State, and in that capacity it was bound to answer all inquiries instituted by the State with a view to ascertain whether it was answering the ends or which it was established. And these heads referred to by Dr. Lee were exactly what the State was interested to inquire into. It had been said that all such inquiries must be made not by Lay Commissioners, but by means of the Church itself. ne did not think so. True, the State could do no more than inquire ; it could not control or regulate, but it could inquire; and having inquired, it might recommend matters for consideration to the Church, and even in an extreme case, such as the Church of Ge neva, if it found the Church wholly corrupted, as an Act of Parliament had clothed the Church in the land with the character of an Establishment, so another Act might strip it of that character. Therefore he urged that, while inde pendent, as a Church of Christ, of King, Lords, and Com mons, the. Church was not entitled as an Eliiblishment to refuse information on any of the points in question. After a great deal of conversation Dr. Lee was urged not to divide the house at so late an hour, and he con sented, merely stating his dissent. Mr. J. W. MACKENZIE entered his dissent against the expression of regret with which Dr. Cook's motion com menced. With these exceptions the motion was carried unanimously in a sederunt consisting of 85 Ministers and 70 elders. Dr. COOK again rose, and briefly proposed the following resolution : " That the Commission of the Assembly encourage the Committee on Church Extension to persevere in the prosecu tion of those important statistical investigations in which they have hitherto been engaged, and more especially in those dis tricts which are being attached to the recent chapels of ease, and the newly-erected churches, that all grants from the As sembly's fund may be proportioned to the exigencies of the respective localities for which they shall be required. And aware that, notwithstanding all the attempts which have been made to diminish or disguise it, there is a vast extent of real and most affecting ecclesiastical destitution in the land, which even with, arid more especially without, the aid of Govern ment, will require the aid of many years of the most strenuous exertion and liberality, ere they can be fully supplied. The Commission of the General Assembly make an earnest appeal to the Christian benevolence of the people of Scotland, and call upon them, at the season when the adversaries of the Establishment arc so intent upon its overthrow, to attest, by their subscriptions and their sacrifices, their attachment to the Church of their forefathers, and their hearty co-operation with THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. THIS EVENING will be presented the New Grand Spectacle ; with New Scenery, Music, Dresses, &c., called MANDRIN ! Produced under the sole direction of Mr. C. J. Matthews. Principal Characters by Messrs. 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With an Appendix, containing the LET TERS of the PARTIES, and other Papers exhibited in the cause. • By ROBERT JOSEPII PHILLIMORE, B. C.L., Student of Christchurch, in the University of Oxford. London : Saunders and I3enning, Law Booksellers, 43, Fleet-street HAMBURG, SEPT. 23, 1335. 71 - EINE BR OTHERS, CONTRACTORS _Ca_ for the STATE of HAMBURG'S GREAT LOTTE RI:,:s, beg to inform the Public that the Drawing of the 66th Lottery having terminated to-day, Tickets of the 67th Lottery ‘vilt begin selling at £8; say Eight Pounds next week. • The Two largest Prizes of the 66111. Lottery came up to the fol lowing Tickets!— Bancomarcs, No. 8,673 a whole Ticket, with the motto " Tieing Mothers, remit to Liverpool" 4,555 a whole Ticker, with the motto " Lots of Luck to Edinburgh" A printed authentic List of all the Numbers and Prizes, will ep pear in a few this. 100,000 nn+ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1835. At a dinner given at Aylesbury, on Saturday, by the farmers and agriculturists of the county of Buckingham to the Marquis of CHANDOS, some account of which will be found- in another part of this day's Sun, the Noble Lord expatiated at some length on his strenuous efrorts last session to procure a repeal of the malt tax, which he said he should still continue to keep con stantly before the eyes of the Legislature ; and then proceeded to comment on the impoliey of insisting on a Reform of the House of Lords. " When I see," observed his Lordship, " one House of Parliament censured, and even sentenced to destruction, because it does not agree in opinion entirely with the other, I think that is a course contrary to the principle of the constitution, and by adopting which the Legislature can never ensure confidence or respect from the people. Are we to change the House of Lords ? Are we to make them dependent on the Commons ? Are we to deprive them of liberty of thought, of action, and of speech ? It must be the wish of every disinterested man to see both Houses of Lords and Commons independent, and free from all external influence and intimidation ; and I hope I shall never see the principle sanctioned that the Lords must be deprived of their independence, if they do not agree always in opinion with the House of Commons." These are mild and plausible terms enough, but no one can mistake their import. Under pretence of being a friend to moderate measures, the Noble Mar quis advocates the irresponsible supremacy of the House of Lords. He would not even have it " cen sured," so thoroughly convinced is he of the superior sagacity and patriotism of the majority of its members. The Representatives of the people, he thinks, may err; but the oligarchy is infallible, and should be obeyed as such. Sentiments like these may be suited to the me ridian of St. Petershurgh, but here they are out of date. The experience of a protracted and arduous Session has convinced all rational men that the two Houses can never work well together in their present state, and that, therefore, in either one or the other, a material change must take place. Now, it is scarcely to be expected that the country will be willing to return to the old boroughmongering system ; it follows, there fore; that a reform must take place in the Upper House. And the sooner this is brought about the better, even for their Lordships themselves; who are at present placed in a false position, and labouring under a weight of public odium, from which nothing but an alteration in the hereditary system of Legislature can rescue them. It is idle in them to imagine that this alteration is a mere matter of talk on the part of the people. We can assure them that it is impressed on the mind of the country with all the weight of a solemn conviction, and will be one of the very earliest questions mooted next Session. It gives us pleasure to state that Mr. COKE, one of the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1835. the ,effort which the Church is now making, for the moral and religious well-being of the population." The resolution passed unanimously, and the Assembly separated at half-past eight o'clock. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Rank 5t0ck.......... :3 per C ist Co it. con on: 903 1 90% pi, Cent. Olttn Red. New niti; 9 Sn 9 New 5 per Cent Bin:, Long,A»nuiticiitoexpire Jan. 5, ISM 01:. Itl , IR - 41 J 5, IWO 5, IFiSi April 5, 1t3740 Jan. 5. 1870 Omnium 37q pm. PRICES Or• FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 3 , : , lgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 8. 11.4 5 Ditto Account Buenos Aytcs Bone: Ditto Account Chi Man Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bor.ds . Ditto Account 'Columbian Bonds, !S•?1 3.2% Ditto Account' Dmish Bonds .I)itto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1335 Ditto Account -- Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 27% Ditto Account Pitts), i; per Cent. I;ittl Account Neapolitan ! 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( 4 - ‹ 6r ' 4 24 : ..1• : .. - ‘) P i"iCZ Pft • :1`,1* ( 4, re most eminent and experienced Statesmen of the day, ' and whom no one will suspect to be otherwise than a sound, Constitutional Whig, advocates a Reform in the House of Lords with quite as much zeal, and far more manliness, than the Marquis of CHANDOS op poses it. " Gentlemen," observed the veteran Patriot at a public dinner lately given to him at Yarmouth, " let us look at the House of Lords. Is it not a fact that, for sixty or seventy years, there has hardly been an independent man placed in it? The truth is, that House wants sifting, and a Reform in the Lords has become as necessary as ever it was in the Commons ; for in their opposition to all good measures, they have only shown their ignorance." These, be it remembered, are not the random sentiments of a mere raw, mob orator ; but the fixed, deliberate convictions of a gen tleman of the highest standing in the country, con nected with the Aristocracy by the two-fold ties of ancestry and marriage ; associated for upwards of half a century with all the most illustrious Whig States men of his day—the friend of Fox—the bosom friend of GREY—and possessed of immense influence, not less by his established character and long political ex perience, than by the vast extent of his landed pro perty. Now that we have got a Statesman like Mr. COKE fairly on the side of the people, we can afford to laugh at the opposition of such a temporizer as the Marquis of CHANDOS, even though he be backed by the eloquence of that fat Cicero, the Duke of BUCK INGHAM. We have received the French papers of Friday and Saturday ; their contents will be found in our fourth page. The following are the prices of the funds on Saturday :- FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, OCTOBER 2. Five per Cents., 109 f. 90c. 25c. Four per Cents., 9Sf. 20c. Three per Cents. Sif. 40e. 50s. 55e. 6k. Rank Actions, 2,105 f. Rente de Naples, 118 f. 75e 10e. Roman Five per Cents., 101. Heide d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 344. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 204 90. RentePerpet.d'Espagne, Fire per Cent., 3:2 1 4 elgian Loan, Five per Cents 106%. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 59 59 , A 3 1.4%34. EXCHANciet ON LONDON. One month, paper, -c ; money, Oil 50c. Three months, paper, 25f. 33c. money, -f. -c. -Corers Authentiaue. FRENCH FUNDS.-Psars, OCTOBER a Five per Cents. 103 f. 20c. 25c. Four and a Half per Cents., 101 f. 40c, Four per Cents., 00f. Three per Cents., Slf. 6Cc. 55c. 65c. 60c. Bank Actions, 2,001 f. Rente de Naples, 08f. 90e. 80c. 00c. Roman Five per Cents., 103. 12er:re Pt rpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 32. Dente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 20 19N% 20. Rente Pcrpetuelle d'Espagne, S 1 . Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 11.3.74. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents , 58. Portuguese Three per Cents 59 •‘, -74 1 ,0 • Dutch Two end a Half per Cents., 551. 50e. 55e. E7CCHANGS ON LONDON. o,e month, paper, - f. -c.; money, 25f. 50c. Tkree mouths, paper, 251. 353. ; money, -f. -c -, 0 Cl .luthentivic. BOURSE, THREE o'CLocK.—The 3 per Cents. French re main steady with a firm market; money is abundant, and stock scarce. Rumours of different sorts in circulation have not the least influence on the market, arid there has been very little business or fluctuation in Spanish securities. QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 45c. ; Three per Cents., 81f.:70c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 314 ; Three per Cents. Spanish, 10, 1 ,-; Cortes, 32; Coupons, 171 ; Gueb hards, 3V 4 1 ; Differes, 134 ; New Loan, 891 ; Actives, 40 ; Passives, 12 ; Ducats, 99 10; Romans, 103; Pedro', 88; Belgians, 1031; Dutch, ; lindens, —f. ; Miguel!, 19i ; Brabant Bank, _ ; Belgian Bank, 11. The experience, and the events of every day strengthen the conviction on our minds that France is on the eve of another Revolution. The blind ambi tion and unrelenting cruelty of the KlNG—the haughty, confidence and unconcealed apostacy of his Ministers—the avowed insignificance and open pros titution of the Chamber of Deputies—the slavish sur veillance and political imbecility of the Chamlier of Peers—and the listless unnatural apathy of an intel ligent, excitable people, comprise the jarring elements of events which may yet drive the Orleans dynasty from the soil of France. There is nothing in which links greater cause for suspicion—nothing by which danger to Kings is more surely prognosticated—than the seeming indifference of a nation which has once enjoyed the blessings of freedom, to the rivetting of the fetters of the Royal despotism. Excessive calm ness is as much a presage of danger in the political world as it is in the physical. Nature seems to hold her breath before a hurricane ; nations to sleep before revolutions. The people of France know their rights, and know the nature and extent of the power which dares to withhold them. They know that both the legislative and executive functions of the nation are usurped by the KING ; they arc sensible that the Electoral Colleges throughout France are the puppets of the Ministers of Justice and the Interior ; and they are as convinced as we are that the principle of re presentation in France is not recognised out of the charter. There is no mockery so great as the exer cise of the elective franchise in France. The great bulk of the nation can exercise no controul over their pseudo Representatives. By the complicated ma chinery of Electoral Colleges, and the classification of voters, the humbler class of small agriculturists are completely deprived of the elective franchise. Besides not a day passes in which the subdivision of property in France does not effect the disfranchisement of whole families. The qualification of an - elector of the lowest class is as high in France as it is in an Eng lish borough ; whereas in point of real importance the vote of an English borough elector is of more conse quence than ten votes of the same class of electors, according to the graduated scale established in France. Nothing can be more absurd than a high rate of elec toral qualification in a country where the rights of primogeniture arc legally abolished. Every subdivi sion of property must diminish the number of legal qualifications, and consequently place the exercise of the franchise in fewer hands. By this means an ads tocracy of freemen is formed, which, under the opera tion of the cause which produced it, is narrowed into an oligarchy, ever disposed to prostitute itself to the pleasure of the Crown. This has not escaped the attention of the French people. They know well that, as a nation, they have no more to do with the election of the Deputies than they have with the choice of the Magnates of Hun gary, or the Members of the Aulic Council. The majority of the late Chamber was too notoriously the creature of the Ministry to escape even the notice of foreigners. Of four hundred Deputies, nearly three hundred held pensions or appointments, nav a l, null tary, magisterial, and judicial, u n d er th e C rown . Th ey were regarded by the Court and the Cabinet as the legislative tools of the President of the Council ; and so well known was their bonded subservience, that their most atrocious acts excited no feeling beyond surprise at the punctuality with which they obeyed the behests of the Cabinet. The natural result of this is that the people of France have lost all confidence in, and all respect for the present Government. They see and feel that they have been betrayed, and they look forward to the hour when they shall rise en masse—rise in arms, and avenge their wrongs in the face of Europe. Their passiveness is not the result of apathetic indifference to the evils of oppression ; it arises from a consciousness of their own power, and that they have only to rise and shake off the fetters with which Lou is P HILLIPPE is endeavouring to shackle them. F rance w i t h h er intelligence -- her psi ;iceaxlpperoiweneer_e---hherer vastwe a resourcesl wealth--her lier moral_ and her energy—her to free England, never can be enslaved— never can be governed except through t h e med i um o f opinion. No act of the L eg i s l ature can deprive a nation of its knowledge ; and France must l ose h er ' s , before she will bend submissively to th e yo k e o f L ouis roxini proximity PHILLIPPE. The suppression of the Freedom of the Press, and the Abolition of the Trial by Jury will acce lera:e instead of retarding the revolutionary movement. We have received papers from the West India Co lonies to the end of August ; they contain nothing of any interest whatever. The expression of discontent occasioned by the dissolution of the Jamaica House of Assembly, and the repeated manifestation of a mean, sordid spirit of dissatisfaction with every measure which has for its object the good of the slaves, is unhappily the every-day theme of almost all these colonial news papers. Ditto Bothls 6 4 2 prii Slutk Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151... -- Exch. Bills, 1:1,1100 15 11 16 pm• Ditto 500 15 l 4 16 pm. Ditto Small l5 14 16 pm pm . Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised {'• Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Account THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ' Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds ; Ditto Acrlunt Ditto New Bonds ggiA %!t!. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Ditto Bonds,lB3' Russian Bonds, iS2'.2 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic — 'Spanish Bonds 42.74ii4 3 1 4 Ditto Account 4 2 34 3 % Ditto Bonds, 1831 39•M , A 40 1 4 Ditto Account — French, 5 per cent. —c. —c 4 per cent. f. —c , 3 per cent. ()Si.* —, , Exchange "sf: f. 0 . ,. 'Dutch, 2!..i per cent. Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent.... ICO IA Ditto Account NAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. A rnved. Due. 0 America 0 2 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Cluern.&JerFy 1 0 Malta 0 Bueno3Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carth:gcna 0 1 Holland 0 0 Osten , ' 0 2 Dublin - 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 2 Flanders SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, OCT. 3.—Wind W. S. W., moderate.—Oct. 4., wind W.—Arrived the Thetis, ---, from Jamaica; Eli zabeth Frith, Briard, from Virginia ; Eliza, Davidson, from North America; Cadiz packet, White, from Cadiz; Ad venture, Quick, from Girton ; and 'Eliza Williams, Barnes, from Waterford. Arrived from the River, and remain with the outward-bound, the Alexander, Leeds, for New Orleans ; Topaz, Henry, for Barbadoes ; .St. Kilda, Barnes, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; Recovery, Green, for the South Seas ; Boadicea, Wright, for Hobart Town ; Governor •Har court, Batty, for Sydney ; Mermaid, Spearman, for Barbadoes ; Dart, Ormston, for Madeira; St. Lawrence, Welch, for New York ; Cognac packet, Spittal, for the Mauritius ; and Valley-field, Swinton, for Cadiz. The George, Oppenheim, for St. Helena, has sailed. Several of the outward-bound are g ettin g under weigh to the - westward. STANOATE CREEK, OCT 4.—Arrived the Henry Alexander, Pike, from Naples. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. '3.—Arrived the Laurel, Moore, from Savanilla ; Isabella, Campbell, for Demerara; Callista, M‘Lean, from Pictou ; Vestal, Kelly, from Miramichi; Pa cific, Cozer, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Corsair, Potts, from Quebec ; and Lady Annabella, —, from Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 3.—Wind E. moderate.--Siilcd his Majesty's ship Jupiter; Zenobia, Owen, for Coromandel; Bayes and Duke of Argyle, Bristow, for Calcutta; Tigris, Owen, for Ceylon ; and Palmyra, Loader, for Bombay. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 3.—Wind S. E. FALMOUTH, OCT. 2.—Wind N. W. to W. S. W., moderate breezes; OCT. 3, N.E. to N.W., ditto.—Arrived the Stan mer packet, from the West Indies—sailed from St. Thomas's on the 31st August; and Truin, Grieves, from Gibraltar. Sailed the Hibernia, Gillies, for Madras ; and Sabina, Alie jos, for Cadiz and Manilla. The Nehemiah, Hutton, bound to —, put back to Fal mouth previous to the 2d instant, having struck a sunken rock —cargo discharging. The Manchester, Kyle, bound to Liverpool, put back to St. John's, New Brunswick, previous to, the 6th ult., with damage, having struck on a rock. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Jamaica papers to the 25th August, Demerara to the 15th August, and New Brunswick to the 6th September, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. (From the Jamaica Dispatch, Aug. 24.) The colony is now in a most deplorable condition. The headstrong Lord Sligo, in dissolving the House, has left us without the semblance of a Legislature, or the means of raising one shilling. to meet the exigencies of the country, or to sanction the payment of the current expenditure. The despatches of Lord Glenelg to the Governor of Barbadoes state his earnest hope that the Assembly will pass'a Police Bill co-existent with the duration of the apprenticeship system, to which no fatal objection can be made ; for until that part of the regulations for the government and protection of the apprentice labourers has been completed, his Alajcsty in Council will not be able to declare that the Colonial Legislature have fulfilled the conditions upon which, by the 16th and 14th sections of the Slave Abolition Acts, the right of their constituents to participate in the Cot& pensation Fund must depend. This despatch was sub mitted to the House of Assembly by Sir Lionel Smith. The despatch of the 21st of August states that the dissolu tion of the House of Assembly has excited throughout the country the regret and astonishment of every man who regards the rights of property, and values the integrity of official statements. 'The expenditure of the Police is 66,9441. 17s. Od. For clothing, 76,6781. 3s. Bd. The Demerara papers are filled with various proclama tions, circulars, and orders in council, revoking and annulling part of the Colonial Abolition Bill, relative to the appoint ment of three special justices for each district of the colony, by limiting it to only one in future. Another is a proclamation from his Excellency, by which the commissions of all the unpaid special justices are annulled. The New Brunswick papers are entirely void of interest. Private, letters are in town from Madrid, of the 24th ult. stating that M. Mendizabal is, in good health and high spirits; and was going to convoke the - Cortes on the 25th or 26th instant, after the , Administration was completed, which was not clone at the above period, owing to General Alava not having arrived, but was expected the next day. THE FUNDS. Consols which left off on Saturday at 901 for the Ac count, and 901 for Money, continues buoyant, and opened this morning at' WI for money, and 90i 91 for the account. The firmness of the Market may be attributed to the price of the French Funds coming higher from Paris ; also a report prevailing in the above capital that accounts had been received from Toplitz that the Emperor of Russia had proposed to Austria and Prussia an intervention in Spain to restore tranquillity to that country, as well as the adjustment between Holland and Belgium; At present we deem these reports as on dit. Omnium, 31 4, prem. Exchequer Bills, 13 15 ; India Bonds, 1 3 ; Bank Stock, 2111 1 4 21. The Foreign Market has a firm appearance ; Spanish, which left off on Saturday at 42/ 3, maintaining. that price ; Spanish Scrip 18/ 17/, disc. ; Portugdese, 881 ; 3 per Cents., 57i- 58k. HALF-PAST ONE.. Since the early part of the morning an improvement has taken place in Consols, owing to the Commissioners for the West India Compensation having purchased about 100,000/. Consols at 91 ; at present they may be quoted 91 to f for the Account, and for money 908 ; Omnium 4/ preen. ; Exchequer Bills 14 16 ; India Bonds 2 4 ; Bank Stock 2111 2121. There is also an improvement in the Spanish Securities. Spanish Bonds, which were in the morning 421, are at pre sent 43+ tot ; Scrip 17/ dis. ; Portuguese 881 ; Three per Cents. 574 58+ ; Colombian 321 33 ; Mexican 371 381 ; Dutch• 2/ per Cents. 548 We understand that an assay has been made of the Ame rican gold coin, which has proved to be from to 4 per cent. inferior to the English. THREE 0' CL OCK Consols for the Account, Al to i. THE COMET.—The comet was readily discovered this morning, the 3d instant, situated in the direct line of the two stars of Gemini (Castor and Pollux), and about twice their distance apart, and one-half more, in the di rection towards the zenith. With these instructions, the most ordinary observer may readily find it ; its brightness being not quite equal to the Pole star, it is easily seen with the naked eye as a small star. With a small pocket tele scope, of a power of thirty, the coma or tail is plainly seen enveloping the body ;it has a dull yellow tint. It will soon move away from the above place ; but there being no stars of equal appearance immediately about it, the stranger may easily be made out. Letters from Genoa were received on Saturday to the 25th of September. The following is a copy of the bulletin issued by the Board of Health since the former advices :—Sept. 19, 32 cases, 13 deaths ; Sept. 20, 14 cases, 6 deaths ; Sept. 21, 20 cases, 6 deaths ; Sept. 22, 23 cases, 9 deaths ; Sept. 28, 18 cases, 16 deaths ; Sept. 24, 11 cases, 11 deaths.—The total number of cases from the commencement of the disease is 4,098, and of the deaths, 2,069. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A 'warlike scene occurred at the Petty Sessions of Raheny yesterday. Dr. J a, late Ist Royal Dragoons, had summoned Mr. Thomas W—sh, a retired midshipman of the Royal Navy, but now a limb of the law, for a trespass committed by the dog of the latter. In the course of his defence, Mr. W— used some expressions rather annoying to the feel ings of the old dragoon, who intimated his intention of sending a military friend to his learned naval opponent. The latter, with a spirit more suited to the toga than the topmast, required the Magistrates to bind over the military medico to keep the peace, which was accordingly done.— Dublin Register. CARNARVONSIIIRE BOROUGHS.—For the bo rough of Bangor the Tories objected to 34 voters, and sus tained 15 ; the Liberals objected to 18, and sustained 10 ; there were 5 Tories and 7 Liberals added, leaving the strength nearly as before. At Conway one on each side was knocked off the 101. list, and 13 scot and lot were placed on the list who had not been on before for the Tory interest. We understand that the overseers of Conway . have committed some acts which are likely to be investi gated before another tribunal.—C'arnarvon Herald. Tuesday afternoon, while the Earl of Harewood's hounds were out, a serious accident befel the huntsman ; when leaping a wall he was thrown from his horse, which fell upon his breast and caused sech injuries as to place his life in danger. The Noble Earl manifested great solici tude, and despatched a messenger to Wighill-park, to re quest a conveyance. Mr. York forwarded his own car riage, into which the poor man was lifted, and was thus conveyed to Tadcaster, the Earl of flarewood supporting his head all the way,.—York Courant. THE REGISTRATION-(TIIIS DA-V.) CITY OF LONDON. (Before Mr. CRAIG.) The Court sat at half-pai't nine o'clock, when the LCarn ed Gentleman gave judgment in the case of Mr. John Alphooso Doxat, which appeared fully in The Sun of Friday last. He disallowed the claim, on the ground of want of proof of occupation. The claims of Mr. C. Davidson and Mr. Mason, which were made under preeinly similar circumstances, were also disallowed. Mr. John Foggo claimed to have his name put on t e h Register, as occupier of the house No. 1 2 , Chatham-plac e. The claimant proved that he was Secretary to the E uro p ean Assurance Company, and occupied the house i n ques tion in that capacity. He had possession of the first floor, except for two hours a week, when the Board of D irectors met in it, He was rated for the house, but the Co m P anY paid.the rent and taxes ; he was a proprietor, but did not occupy the house in that character, but as Secretary. Mr. CRAIG doubted whether the claim was good ; but as the case was one, the decision of which would affect se veral other cases, he would defer his judgment till theY were before him. INSOLVENT COURT.-(THIS DAY•) This was the last day of the sittings of this Court pre' vious to November. Benjamin Hustwayte, who stated that he btal carried. on the trades of a bricklayer and tobacconist in White low street, Norton Folgate, was brought up on his petition t° be discharged. - The insolvent was opposed in person by two creditors, named Peake and Wilson ; to the first of whom he owed upwards of 141. money lent, andto the latter 2 01 . for rep,. of a house in White Lion-street. From the statements 01 these gentlemen it appeared with respect to Peake, to * 4Olll the insolvent owed 141., he first of all gave him a good bah which he afterwards changed for one that was good fer nothing. As to Mr. Wilson, the insolvent had rent ed 0 house from him, for which he had refused to pay a ny rent , and had had the impudence to demand 51. to give up passer sion. Mr. Wilson gave the insolvent 21., and got posses' sion of the house. After this, Mr. Wilson received a note from the insolvent in high-flown terms, concluding by el' pressinc , a hope' that they would be better friends than ever ' , Mr. Wilson said that the insolvent had represented himse: to be a hard-working man, but he was sorry to say he lia° found no work in him. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER, on adjourning the cas e °I the insolvent to tin 13th of November, said that it was against his nature apparently to act honestly. He had one° bfore been through the Court, and he hoped that M r ' Wilson would be careful in future not to allow his goo d nature to be imposed upon. THE WEATHER—EARLY SNOW.—On Monday' morning last, the high mountain of Ben Wyvis, in Res' hills, inthis county, shire, allot the Strathglass presented their summits covered with snow. It is scarcely tWe months since last winter's stock disappeared from their, surface, and we suppose it still lingers in the clefts and hollows, untouched by the sun, whence it seldom alte", gether departs. The new coating is earlier than usual by six or eight weeks. The season, indeed, proves ceri i unpropitious for the harvest. Almost constant rains an; stormy winds have staid the hand of the husbandman, ail': must have injured the grain, in some cases unshorn , but generally cut and standing in the fields.—lnvern ess Courier. A meeting of the inhabitants of Devonport was held on Friday, on the subject of applying for a charter of ineor poration under the new Municipal Act, when a further ad' journment took place, to allow time for an inquiry into the a probable expenses. It is probable that a petition for - charter will be resolved on.—Devonport Independent. There is now living at Rustington, near Littl e a Hampton, a person named Richardson, who is in the 1 02 year of his age, in the retention of all his faculties. A curious circumstance lately occurred at Gest i " the Jura. One of the National Guards of Verney was O a ; demned to twelve hours' imprisonment, and his despair a: being exiled for so long a period from his home was so gr ea t that he would not go to prison without being accompan° by his wife, his two children, his cat and dog, who ac ear dingly were all very gravely escorted thither by two gen ) darmes. e PROVIDING FOR THE WORST.—The Journa - Calais states, that an inhabitant of Southampton has re: cently been amusicsr himself by filling 14,000 bottles Wit; 6,000 copies of an abridgment of " Universal H istory' The bottles, well corked and sealed, have, by his order' been placed in deep cavities in the icy caverns of Gre be land, in the hope, should a partial destruction of the g lebe again ensue, that they may survive the wreck and e nlighte a s future ages, who would otherwise be ignorant cf the eve,c. t e which have come to pass in this world. It is not stated j e what language this bottle-conjuror has chosen to the knowledge of the present race of mankind. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE MOON.-r-r ie t Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday acknowledges the reee'P of a number of American newspapers up to the 2d SeP t ' which, in addition to the " Lynch Law " proceedings , O rr tain a most elaborate account of a series of most maraca., p eeserr dinary discoveries alleged to have been made at the Cal° of Good Hope, by Sir J. Herschell, with a gigantic tel er , cope, of whose construction a circumstantial descrip tiea given, in which the writer has displayed an intimate quaintance with optical and mathematical science. Sir vd: Brewster, Dr. Andrew Grant, and Lieutenant Drumm tie the present Under Secretary of State for Ireland, are non to figure conspicuously in the detail of these astonishin, discoveries, which the American editor professes to c°, l) e ) ; from a supplement alleged to be annexed to the last nunluue of the Edinburgh Journal of Science, but for which t ' European readers of that journal will look in vain. Le The town of New Lanark, with the whole of tP extensive works in it, are about to be lighted with gas. - de , COLBURN'S MODERN NOVELISTS.—Th e sign (which, - we observe, is on the eve of being carried ire effect), of re-issuing in weekly shilling numbers the elie l '„ works of fiction already contained, and to be contained, 7, the above-mentioned collection, is certainly a most WIPP/ one. Such a Library of Entertainment, beautifully e ge ; bellished, and thus placed within the reaeh of all classfeor of readers, must set all competition at defian ce ; for what lover of entertaining literature can hesitate k, possess himself of the best fictions of Bulwer, t Gleig, Ward, James, Horace Smith, and others of gree t celebrity, when he can gradually do so at the t r ifling . c°:, in tr of one shilling per week ? The first work to be duced on the above new plan, is Mr. Bulwer's " Pelhan i : which is announced to appear in six weekly numbers, tb o enabling the purchaser to obtain that famousproduct° complete for six shillings. The following is an extract of a letter from dated May 4, 1835 :—" Since I last wrote to you we Pa t our long-promised visit to Alipoot, and were delighted c"'A our trip. We remained four clear days there , and h!" splendid sport. Our party consisted of Sir R. W. flort7 Captains Rogers and- Kelson, and Messrs. Mann , ' and myself. The first day 11 elephants were bagged, 10 second 9, the third 8, and the fourth 4, and one young one taken alive, besides one shot the first day by a nigger. 4, the above, Rogers shot 16, Elliott 6, Kelson 5, I\l ol° lo t and his Excellency 3. I was the only one who could ;if, claim a tail. I never saw such a splendid country---;,„ ferent from anything I had ever seen in Ceylon, and cle'ee like an English park on an immense scale. If we saw e rg elephant, we saw, on a low calculation 200, but fte says 500. We had four different breakfast bungalows, ele four or five miles from the sleeping-places. We were °or each day at day-light, and hunted and shot our way to eig.he the breakfast places, attended by an army of bowmen. 'id numbers of spotted deer were quite incredible- 1 a ft e r have no conception of it. We had famous galloping _i p them with greyhounds. Rogers and myself rode down ;el, including two bucks, in one hour and a half. His EX Lis lf lency had a narrow escape with his life, being furie.ni. charged by a rogue elephant, near a place called Dahtnre There had been a Moor man killed a day or two 1 7 , Our arrival, by an elephant, at the village of and the people requested Rogers to go out and sh ° , ° co ra' as the beast was quite close to the bungalow. f -e t i o n• ingly out sailed Sir Robert and Rogers in one (1: 1 1 . 1 Mann and Kelson in another, and Elliott by hims o 4 ,14 did not go out. Sir Robert and Rogers took the boat path, and saw the brute in a thick thorny jungle at 8 c o, nine yards' distance. Sir Robert turned round to Ite 6 oo , Kattabto hvi; and asked, in a whisper, if he should fire. At th at , c oo ment the brute rushed out in the most furious wa 3 r ( g ht can imagine, bearing every thing before hire, Ids down on his Excellncy ; and when within fo ur Y the of him, received the contents of Sir Robert's rifle ( 7 T oo st pound) in his forehead. Rogers fired both barrels a O l at the same instant, but only succeeded in turning ic os leaving him with a slight headach. We bad the Pi e wo re there, armed with their bows and arrows. They arc Thel like monkies than men, and are dressed au nature]' of were horribly frightened when I approached them (Ince gray horse, as they bad never seen one before. Their rolled was very curious—perfectly savage. They tossed an" _ co ck themselves about like so many finds, and became e/"lvere ingly excited ; and, all of a sudden, every one of thetlL, on their backs, as if by magic, with their limbs (1c1 "..a as if in the last agony. We had archery for prizes, a'retich markably good practice the Cingalese mode of it ; oring better than the Nedahs, but the l a tter excel at a ry The shot, and, I am told, bring down their deer very often' o ible. colony is extremely healthy, and we are as g a y as 11000 The pearl fishery has enriched the treasury to the 3 iii p f nearly 40,0001." ivEs