The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-21 00:00:00

. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OP. COMMONS, APRIL 20. The SPEAKER took the Chair at half-past three o'clock. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL. The Imprisonment for Debt Bill was reported, and the fur ther consideration of the Report ordered for Wednesday, the 13th of May. The Bill as amended ordered to be printed. Mr. H. MAXWELL presented a petition from the county of Cavan, praying for a revision of the General Registry Act. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. The Marquis of CHANDOS gave notice that he should, on the 18th of May, upon moving the Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee of Supply, call the atten tion of the House to the distress of the agricultural interest, for the purpose of founding a resolution thereon. NOTICES OF MOTION. _Several Hon. Members postponed motions of which they bad given notice till after the recess. SABBATH BILL. Mr. POULTER postponed the Committee on the better observance of the Sabbath Bill from the 29th inst. to the 19th of May. NEW WRITS. Mr. F. BARING moved a new writ for Inverness in the room of the Right Hon. Charles Grant, who had accepted the office of one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Colonel SIBTHORP made some observations that were almost inaudible in the gallery, the purport of which was to object to so long an adjournment of the House as until the 12th of May. Mr. F. BARING then resumed his motion for the New Writs. For the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord Morpeth, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and had been appointed Secretary for Ireland. For the Burghs of Haddington, &c., in the room of the Hon. Robert Steuart, who had been appointed one of the Lord's of the Treasury. For Taunton, in the room of Mr. Labouchere, who had been appointed Vice- President of the Board of Trade. For Berwick-on-Tweed, in the room of Sir Rufane Donkin, who had accepted the appointment of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. _ For the borough of Sandwich, in the room of Sir Thomas Troubridge, who had accepted the appointment of one of the Lords of the Admiralty. Mr. F. BARING, in reply to the observations of Colonel Sibthorp, said that he did not think the House would, upon considering the difficulties which naturally attended first en tering into office, grudge the few days which the members of the new Government would have, after their election, to pre pare themselves for the business of the country ; and under those circumstances he believed the House would not object to the adjournment till the 12th of May. Colonel SIBTHORP had heard no reason why he should not persevere in his protest against so long an adjourn ment. He knew very well that it would be not merely three weeks, but several months before the Ministry were seated comfortably in their places.—( A general laugh.) When he looked to his Majesty's gracious speech, in which he promised so much relief to the agriculturists— (Laughter from the Ministerial benches)—when he looked to the state of trade, and considered that agriculture would be left without hope, trade without support, under the renewal of the fructifying system of the (for a brief space) restored President of the Board of Trade, who would doubtless open our ports to the inundations from foreign markets—(Laughter)----he thought it incumbent on him to raise his voice, and to object to so long a postponement of public business. It was most unwarrantable that such a stagnation of public business should be allowed, merely because twenty-three gentlemen wanted to start on a race, which he was pretty sure would be a hopeless one— spavined and broken-winded race-horses as he doubted most of them to be. (A general tlaugh.)—The Gallant Member then introduced what he described as the old saying, of "one boy saying he had not stolen an article, and another boy sayinc , he had not got it ;" but the text we could not collect. He had seen in the newspapers accounts that the Honourable and Learned Member oppo site (Mr. O'Connell) was the prompter and counsellor of the new Ministry.—(Laughter.) This was a circumstance which, if it were true, was to his mind most alarming ; and he trusted that it was not the case. He was co party man (shouts of laughter from the Ministerial benches); and in what he said, he was guided solely by public prin ciple. He by no means liked the countenances of the Honourable Gentlemen opposite—( Loud laughter from the Ministerial Benches)—he believed them to be the index of their minds—(Continued laughter)—and he should sedu lously oppose them in everything they might bring forward, from a full conviction that they would do nothing for the good of the country or the dignity of the Crown. He trusted the country would soon be rid of such a set.—(Laughter.) Mr. O'CONNELL said he admired the good humour with which the gallant Colonel had made his observations, and although there might be something very remarkable in the countenances of the gentlemen on this side of the House, yet be thought the gallant Colonel's countenance—( Laughter)—at all events, was as remarkable as any upon the Ministerial benches.—( Laughter.) I will not (continued Mr. O'Con nell) abate him a single hair—( Great laughter)—in point of good humour. It is pleasant, Sir, to have these things discussed in the good temper and with the politeness which characterizes the Gallant Colonel. Elsewhere they may be trs4ated in a different style. Men considered by the reso lution of this House as unfit to hold office may presume to talk of the Irish representatives in a manner highly unbecoming any Member exceedingly indecent—an indecency that would be unsufferable, if it were not ridiculous. Hear, hear.) There is no creature, not even a half maniac, or a half idiot, that may not take upon himself to use that lan guage here which he would know better than to make use of clsewhere.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") And the bloated buffoon ought to learn the distinction between independent men, and those whose votes are not worth purchasing, even if they were in the market.—( Loud cheers.) I thank the Gallant Colonel for the good humour with which he has introduced this, and if we are not to have him as a friend, it is pleasant to have him as an enemy.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. SINCLAIR then rose, but in consequence of the low and indistinct manner in which the Hon. Member spoke we could not hear very well what he said. We understood him to commence by stating that he could not help expressing his regret that the good humour the Honourable and Learned Gentleman had commenced with had not extended to the observations which he had made with reference to indi viduals in their places in Parliament.—(" Ohl ") He had al ways admired the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's endeavouring to avoid actual collision with individuals.—(Cries of " Oh, oh I") He had refrained from making any observations upon the structure of the Ministry until it should be completed, so as to be laid before the House in all the symmetry of its proportions. It must be admitted that consummate dexterity and admirable discretion had been displayed with reference to the choice of its materials ; but still it wanted the Colossal column from the Giant's Causeway.— ( Laughter. ) An HON. MEMBER of the Ministerial benches, but whose name we could not learn, rose to order, and said—l do not think the Giant's Causeway—(The remainder of the sentence was drowned in the uproar on the opposite Benches.) When the interruption had subsided, Mr. SINCLAIR proceeded to say that he believed that, as to the lonic column, if a trench were cut, the foundation would be discovered to be formed of the same materials. He then went on to speak, but in so inaudible a tone, that only detached sentences could be occasionally caught of what he said. He complimented the character of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. He prophesied that the present Govern ment would be destroyed between the Scylla of the Radical reefs and the Conservative Charybdis, for he feared that suffi cient would not be done by them to satisfy the Radicals, and too much to excite alarm in the minds of the Con servatives.—( Hear, hear.) He suspected, however, that an ominous and temporary conjunction would take place be tween the Wellington Mars and the O'Connell Jupiter, with all his satellites. [lt is merely conjecture whether the above remarks were made as repeated, so indistinctly and inaudibly the Hon. Gen. tleman spoke.] The appointment of the Election Committees, and such other business as was fixed for this day, were postponed until the meeting of Parliament after the adjournment. Mr. BULWER asked if the late Government measure respecting Ecclesiastical Courts was completed? Sir H. HARDINGE was unable to reply in the absence of his Majesty's late law officers. The motion for adjournment was then put and carried. IRISH CHURCH. Mr. SHEIL gave notice, that on the first day after the re cess that the House went into a Committee of Supply, he should move " That no person who should be appointed to an eccle siastical dignity should be considered to have any vested inte rest in it, which would entitle him to compensation in case it should subsequently be suppressed." Sir R. INGLIS stated that on the Hon. and Learned Member's making that motion, he should move that the oath he had taken should be read.—(Great cheering from the Op position.) COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. TOOKE moved that Committees on Private Bills should have leave to sit notwithstanding the adjournment. Several members suggested that the motion should be con fined to committees now sitting. Mr. TOOKE had no objection to adopt that suggestion, but he considered it hard on the promoters of private Bills, after bringing their witnesses to town, that they should be sub jected to the inconvenience of so long an adjournment. This observation particularly applied to the Great Western Rail way ; he would, therefore, move that that Committee should sit notwithstanding the adjournment. After some observations from Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Robinson, and Sir R. Vyvyan, Mr. Tooke withdrew his motion. The House then adjourned to Tuesday the 12th of May. The General Steam Navigation Company's Mail Packet, the City of Hamburg, from Hamburg, arrived off the Custom-house, at seven o'clock p.m. The Lord Melville, from Calais, arrived with upwards of seventy passengers. The Brocklebank, from Boulogne, which arrived about the same time, had a great many passengers on board. The Attwood also arrived from Antwerp. THE WEATHER.—The frost was so severe on Wednesday night, that clothes exposed to dry were frozen quite hard. At Morningside the thermometer fell to 20 deg., a very rare occurrence in the middle of April, and very trying to the constitution, especially coming so suddenly after such genial spring weather as we have enjoyed for some days past. On Thursday we had showers of snow.—Edinburgh Chronicle. A fanner died a few days ago at Jegun, in the south of France, having nearly completed his 105th year. POPE'S WORKS. Ist of May. THE SECOND VOLUME of POPE'S WORKS ; with a new Life, Notes, and Critical Notices on each Poem, by the Rev. Dr. CROLY ; Original Letters, &c. The HOMER is not included. To be completed in 6 vols. at ss. each. " Of Dr. Croly's fitness for the task he has undertaken, there can be but one opinion. Himself a scholar, a critic, and a poet, we have a right to anticipate all the illustration of which the author is now susceptible; and what is done in the first volume fairly ful fils this expectation. The memoir, though excessively severe on Warburton, contains many just remarks. The embellishments are very appropriate. "—Literary Gazette. " We rejoice to see the ' Bard of Twickenham' in his present attractive and popular form. We do not know that the editing of Pope could have been placed in better hands than those of Dr. Croly. The annotations and criticisms on the poems are judicious, and aid the reading of the text materially. The illustrations are of a superior order : the getting up of the work is perfect."-- Monthly Mag. " This is a handsome work. Dr. Croly has written an agree able memoir : the narrative is consistent and clear. But it is not by a new memoir alone that this edition courts our notice ; there are notices and notes to each poem. To trace the history of every piece—intimate where he found inspiration in others, or saw with his own eyes, or versified, as he did in many instances, the pass ing events of polite life—is a labor worthy of such an editor as Croly."—Atheneeum. There are occasional passages in the Life of deep and eloquent remark. The edition is very elegantly prepared."—Examiner. Printed by A. J. Valpy, and sold by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the New Comedy, entitled PATRICIAN AND PARVENU. Sir Osbaldiston de Mowbray, Bart., Mr. Warde; Percy de Mow bray, Mr. Cooper ; Sir Timothy Stilton, Knight, Mr. Bartley ; Dick Moonshine, Mr. Harley; Ruby, Mr. Webster. Ellen Rivers, Miss Lee; Mary Stilton, Miss Taylor ; Miss Sally Sanders, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with the Original Domestic Drama, called THE NOTE-FORGER. John Brasstoun, Mr. Warde; Diana Brasstoun, Miss E. Tree. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be performed Auber's Opera of LESTOCQ ; OR, THE FETE OF THE HERMITAGE. Lestocq, Mr. E. Seguin; Count GolotTkin, Mr. Giubilei; Dimitri Mr. Templeton. The Princess Elizabeth, Miss Shirreff. After which the entirely Original Melo-Drama, called CA RI,MILHAN; or, THE DROWNED CREW. Carlmilhan, Mr. Bennett ; Magnus Spiel, Mr. Cooper; Uda, Miss Taylor. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 25 minutes past 3 o'clock x , c PRICES In STOCKS 'IIW Sank Stock 3 per Cent Red. 91 144% per Cent. Cons 92 14% per Cent -- Ditto Red 9 8 44 Pa Sew :1',4 per Cent. • DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK New 5 per Cent India Stock 254 Ditto Bond: , IS 20pm. South Sca Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151 - Exch. Doti, £l,OOO 36 37 pna• Ditto 500 36 37 pm. Ditto Small '6 37 pm. Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised pm. Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Account ••• 92% ~ . [Assented - Spec Cent. Dissented — Bank Long Annuitiesto expire Jan. 5, !N6O l6; 10 Oct. 41859 16% 11-16 • - Jan. s;lBfie Jan. 5, ISSO April 5, 18.80 Jan. 5. 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bends THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds . 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(Issue IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 2 6 % led at 51. pm ) 20 43 1 ,4 20 24 icrip 3 514 id . ~. , Ditto Macaubas Cocaes Bolivar Copper Mining Company, S National Provincial Bank of Englan HIGH %' ATER Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 9 minutes after 10. Evening 39 minutes after 10 ;P: 3, - 1,- (=-• - PA i, : '''') 45tw ,f)`•_,- ~ ' '',,,1 47 "-c,l - 'l , tA / 7- ; 1 , -NW..,..... ti , j 7; ;; ; „_-4.1 --•- -- 0-. 3 -, ,, ,t,-3,.-:',-:- Tb).? LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1835. SUN OFFICE. Quarter to 3 oClock. An Express has arrived from Madrid of the 12th inst. The Cortes have agreed to the Minister's plans : 800 convents are to be suppressed : the proceeds to go to pay off the internal debt. There are other finan cial plans of a favourable character. VALDEZ has departed for the Army. This information has improved the Spanish Stock to 694 4,-; Spanish Scrip, 9 premium. The subordinate departments of the Administration are proceeding towards completion. Last night writs were moved for the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord MORPETH, who, as we stated last Sa turday, is to be the Secretary for Ireland—for Had dington, in the room of Mr. ROBERT STEUART, one of the Lords of the Treasury. This appointment must be highly flattering to the Reformers of Scotland, for Mr. STEUART is one of the staunchest and most public spirited champions of the good cause of Reform, and as such will be returned with acclamation by his enlightened and liberal constituents. Writs were also moved for Taunton, in the room of Mr. LABOUCHERE, who, instead of being Secretary to the Admiralty, as formerly stated, has accepted the double office of Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint, for which his business habits eminently qualify him. The Electors of Berwick-on-Tweed will have another opportunity of testifying their cordial approbation of their late consistent and talented Representative,--by returning Sir RUFANE DONKIN, to fight the battles of Reform under the banners of a sincere Reforming Mi nistry. Nor will the Electors of Sandwich be slow in following so good an example, by re-electing Sir T. TROUBRIDGE. The other writ was for Inverness shire, in the room of Mr. GRANT. The additional appointments which have taken place are Admiral Sir W. PARKER and Sir T. TROUBRIDGE, Lords of the Admiralty; Mr. CHARLES WOOD, Secretary to the Admiralty; The Duke of ARGYLE, Lord Steward of the Household ; The Earl of ALBEMAII LE, Master of the Horse ; The Marquis WELLESLEY, Lord Chamberlain and— The Marquis CONYNGHAM, Post-Master General, as we originally stated in The Sun, on Saturday. It is fresh in the recollection of every body to what shifts the Tories were driven to find out something like a plausible pretext for the abrupt dismissal of the Melbourne Administration in November last. The only thing they could allege as having led to so extraordinary a proceeding, was the unexpected death of Earl SPEN CER at the premature age of fourscore years, and the consequent removal of Lord AL THORP from the House of Commons, where it was said his presence was absolutely necessary, not merely to the well-being, but to the very existence of the Ministry. He who could believe that Tenterden Steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands, might put faith in such a pretext—no one else could. Yet, though the trick was seen through, and the miserable subterfuge a thousand times exposed, the hireling retainers of the Court have continued to reiterate the falsehood up to this very moment. How will they now contrive to extricate themselves from the difficulty in which they are involved by the re-construction of the MEL BOURNE Cabinet ? By what twisting, and writh ing, and slipperiness, will they attempt to crawl out of the dilemma, in which Lord MELBOURNE has placed them by forming an Administration of which Lord SPENCER forms no part ? We are really curious to ascertain this point, and we hope some of our Tory contemporaries will gratify our curiosity. We are also anxious to know why it is that there appears so little sympathy between the leading Mem bers on the Tory side of the House of Lords, and an evening print generally supposed to concur with their political views. When Lord ALVANLEY got up and catechised Lord MELBOURNE respecting the terms the Noble Lord had made with Mr. O'CONNELL, there was nothing but exultation on the Opposition benches. A glorious triumph for Toryism was anticipated, for the only answer which it was supposed the Premier could give. Lord BROUGHAM ' S interference to dis suade his Noble Friend from answering questions put in so disorderly a manner, raised expectation to the highest pitch, when lo ! out comes Lord MELBOURNE'S re ply, which stated, that he had made no terms with O'CONNELL—that he had had no com munication with the Learned Gentleman I What a contrast was then perceptible between the countenances and the speeches of Noble Lords. Not a Tory Lord or Lordling but was overjoyed at the most satisfactory answer of the Noble Lord, while the pre ternatural elongation of their visages gave the lie to the words they were uttering I Lord MEL BOURNE'S answer to the mighty Duke of BucK INGAAM was, we are sure, quite as satisfactory, when he declared in his own straightforward, manly way, that he and his colleagues were determined to carry into effect the late resolution of the Commons, respecting the appropriation of the surplus Church property in#lreland. The notion that the Tories entertain of office may be gathered from a cursory remark that fell, quite un consciously, from Col. SIBTHORP last night. In opposing Mr. F. BARING'S motion for an adjourn ment of the House to the 12th May, the Hon. and Gallant Colonel took the opportunity of observing that. " it would require many months before the new Minis ters would be, what he called, comfortable in their places." The word " comfortable" is Tory all over. It is associated in the minds of the faction, with the snug, easy days of borough-mongery, when the chief duty of those who then occupied the Treasury Bench was, to receive their quarter's salary, and instruct their subservient majority how to vote. Office by them never was, and never will be, accepted with any view to promote the public interest. They never looked on it in the light of a serious responsible charge, under taken for the benefit of others ; but solely to further their own personal convenience. Provided they were " comfortable" in their births, what mattered it how the people might be incommoded ? It was the duty of the governed to submit--of the governors to make themselves " - comfortable." Things are altered now-a-days, yet still, we see, the old ideas clinging, like burrs, to the minds of the Tories. When, therefore, Colonel SIBTHORP re joiced that the Whigs would not for some months to come, be " comfortable in their places," he only ex pressed the notions of his party, as to what should be the legitimate condition of a Ministry. He could not imagine that men took office for any other cause than to make themselves " comfortable;" and was of course in extacies to hear that the new Government was likely to be seriously inconvenienced by their novel and most unaccountable disinterestedness. Thus much for the Hon. and Gallant Member's Tory definition of office. Come - we now to a sample of his logic. " Trade" he observed, by way, we pre sume, of justifying the proceedings of the late Minis try, " was never so bad as now ; agriculture was without hope, commerce without support " Granting this to be the case, who are to be held responsible for such disasters ? The prospects of the' country were flourishing enough when the Whigs quitted office; in November ; if then - they be row blasted, it is clear that none but the Tories can have been the cause of it. Yet Colonel SIBTHORPE urges the ill-success that has confessedly accompanied their Government, as an ex press argument in their favour ! " Call you this backing your friends ? A plague on such backing I" So says FALSTAFF to Prince HAL, and so with equal truth may say the Tories to Colonel SIBTIIORPE. It is a thousand pities that the Honourable and Gallant Member for Lincoln cannot be prevailed on to hold his tongue. He never opens his mouth, but to let drop some nonsensical remark or other. And the worst of it is, he is always talking. His folly does not blossom, like the lilac, once a year, but once a day. It is ever in full flower. Last night he was more than ordinarily luxuriant in his show of absurdity. As if it were riot enough for him to ape the logician, he must needs affect the wag. "He was no party man," he observed, " but he must say he did not like the countenances of the gentlemen opposite, for he be lieved them to be the index of their minds." Now really the Gallant Colonel is the last man who should talk in this way ; for if the face be the index of the mind, his mind has no great cause to boast of its index. The latter being a mere blank, it is manifest, on his own showing, that the former cannot be much better. We regret these lavish displays of jocularity on the part of the Hon. and Gallant Colonel, quite as much as his best friends can do, but at the same time we must confess that we are by no means surprised at them ; for gentle dullness ever loves a joke," which is the reason, we take it, why he is so inveterately ad dicted to the facetious. Mr. O'CONNELL retorted on Col. SIBTHORPE in a smart but gentlemanlike spirit, and alluded to a certain " bloated buffoon," who had taken on himself to be sarcastic at the expense of the Irish Members, in a way that must cut right to the heart of the fat jester. This brought forward Mr. SINCLAIR, who having no thing severer to urge, accused the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin of being a giant ; and proved at the same time that he was no David to grapple with the Goliah. The House adjourned at an early hour, being no doubt ennuyed with the nonsense that had monopolized its time, to the exclusion of graver matters. We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday. On Saturday the debate in the Chamber of Deputies, on the American Indemnity Bill, was brought to a close ; the Bill itself being carried by a majority of two hundred and eighty-nine votes against one hun dred and thirty-seven. All the amendments proposed by the Opposition were rejected. The Bill carried remains precisely as it was presented to the Chamber by the Committee, with the exception of an article, which was not oppos . ed by Ministers, to the effect that no part of the debt shall be paid till the Government of the United States shall have offered an apology to that of France for the offensive passages contained in the PRESIDENT'S Message to Congress. We stated yesterday, that the Bill would not pass without such a clause, and the result has not proved us ignornnt of the feelings paramount in a French Legislative Assembly. After the Bill for the payment of the twenty-five millions of francs was passed, two new amendments were proposed—first, that the debt should bear no interest ; and again, that it should only commence bearing interest from the day on which the Bill was carried. Both these amend ments were lost, so that in point of fact the debt, in chiding nearly three years' interest, exceeds thirty millions of francs. The only difficulty that now remains is the obtain ing from the American Government the apology de mandcd by France. This difficulty does not so much arise from any hesitation on the part of President JACKSON to remove whatever unplesant impres sions may have been made by the objectionable passages in his message, as from the fact - that Congress is not now sitting, and it is questionable whether he could take any further step in this business without the joint concurrence of the Senate and the House of Representatives. By an Article in the Con stitutional Charter, Congress must meet at least once a year, but as the meeting is fixed for December, another year must elapse before the question, be finally settled, unless the PRESIDENT were to summon an extraor dinary Session. This he may do whenever he is of opinion that the safety of the Federal Union would be endangered by a contrary conduct. And here again two difficulties present themselves. The first is that in the States of Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, an d Indiana, which re turn forty-eight Members to the House of Representa- tives, the elections will not close before the month of August ; and the second is, that in the month of May there will be an election for the Presidency, so that if General JACKSON be not re-elected, the apology, how ample soever, will not sound so soothingly in the ears of Frenchmen. However, we heartily congratulate France on the conclusion to which the Chamber of Deputies arrived on this very important measure. The real grievance is now removed, and we feel confident that the Go vernment of the United States will not be wanting in endeavours to promote an a%nieable arrangement, wherever the question turns on, a point of mere eti quette. Whatever might be, the motives of the Republican party in opposing this Bill, we are very sensible that the Ckh\rlists who supported them, including their presea r (leader the Duke of FITZJAMES, intended to prom'. 't the commencement of a war which they imagined NN% lead to the recal of the exiled branch of the Bourbtn fainilp.Hapu;:lY for the country, the Ministers tool a proper positron with respect to this Bill from th,„; commencerarmt• They well knew that France would'in nothino by a war n o hazardi 0 with the United State. They Yvcre sensible that even if they could evade tti \ , 3aymee - I t o f the debt, and at the same time escape the WI e 4ience of a disastrous war, the character of Franc ( would suffer to a greater extent, than would Imt cof'f'ers by the payment of a sum fifty times as great as.that de manded. They acted wisely from the Arst with re spect to this single question, and we congratulate them and the country upon their success. It is probable that Mr. LiviNosT ONE who still continues at Paris, will now return to Washington, to give an account of all that has passed to the PRESI DENT. Nor is it likely that he will again visit Paris as Ambassador from the United States. The publica tion of his dispatches by order of the: Congress, has exposed his opinions of the French Government too fully to render his presence extretnely - agreeable, either to Louis PIIILIPPE or the leading ;members of his Cabinet. There is no other intelligence of any importance contained in these Journals. The preparations for the trial of the prisoners are nearly at au end. Brussels, Holland, and German papers have been received, but their contents are unimportant. ST. PETERSBURGII, APRII, 3.—ln the course of the second six months of the year, 1834, the produce, of the mines of gold and platina were as follows GOLD. Poods. lbs. Talmucks Mines belonging to the Crown Mines belonging to private persons ,_.. 75 38 681 • Total PLATINA. Mines belonging to the Crown ... . . 0 13 0 Mines belonging to private persons .. Total In 1834, the population of St. Petersburg amounted to 441,376 inhabitants, viz. males 288,766. females 152,612. The population of Moscow of the Greek religion, from 1834, presents the following result :- 13i aTus.—Males Females .. 4,141 Total DEATHS.—Males Females Total Excess of Deaths —Journal of St. Petersburgh, April 4. An earnest desire to co-operate in all labours for the advancement of the public interest, induces us to call attention to an advertisement, in another column, for the establishment of a Company, which shall have for its object the supplying the inhabitants of this - vast metropolis with pure and wholesome water. The names of the gentlemen who compose the Provisional Committee are too well known—too closely associated with upright honourable conduct, and a willingness to advance the best interests of the community—to coun tenance a suspicion that this project deserves to be ranked with the various schemes daily set on foot either to obtain a short-lived notoriety, or, as is more commonly the case, to sacrifice popular credulity to the cupidity of needy adventurers. This is a great matter in an undertaking so important, and so abso lutely necessary to the preservation of public health— for we believe it is now generally admitted that without undergoing some chemical process, the water with which the capital is supplied is impure, and consequently cannot be drank without injury even to the best con stitutions. But the purification of water by means of filters, must, of necessity, be confined to a very small quantity of what is consumed daily in private families ; whereas, the poorest classes, who are constrained by their poverty to drink simple water, cannot even afford to provide themselves with filters, so that they are under the necessity of injuring their own health by the use of a necessary but unwholesome beverage. We, of course, mean to cast no reflection on any of the established Water Companies of London. We know that they have done all in their power to procure a. supply of wholesome water ; but the source being impure, and no other being deemed adequate to the demand, it was impossible for them to remedy the evil of which the public has so long complained. For the particulars of the plan about to be adopted by the New Water Company, we refer to the Prospec tus—copies of which may be had gratis—and for the plan itself, we direct attention to the Advertisement, to which we referred above. Whether the project be or be not practicable, is a question of which we have personally no knowledge, but undoubtedly it is too important not to be allowed a fair trial, and if found . to answer, to receive from the Legislature every en couragement. The evils which must arise to an over grown population—such as that of London—compris ing thousands of wretches in the last stages of destitu tion and disease, from the use of impure water, are incal culable. Most of the distempers that shorten human life may, for aught that has yet been discovered to the contrary, originate in the use of filthy and putrid water. One of the great causes which must recommend this Company to the support of the humane and the bene volent, is the consideration that the benefits arising from its success must extend, in a very considerable degree, to the poor and the indigent. It is not like a Wine company, or an Indigo company, or a Banking com pany, where the persons more immediately benefitted are the shareholders. The persons most interested in the purity of water are those who are most under the n ecessity of drinking it in a simple state ; and here, as i n all other eases, " virtue is its own reward," for . by preserving the health of the poor, the Ns calthier classes are themselves freed from the apprehension of contagious diseases, generated by unwholesome food. Indeed, when we consider what pains have bolt takeil. t the sufferings that have been endured, and tlie iminensi t sums that have been hazarded in speculations for the increase of some luxury, of no advantage whatever to; the great mass of society—when we reflect upon the human ingenuity that has been expended in plans for the encouragement of a trade in drugs deleterious in their effects on human life—when we enumerate the vast regions that have been explored in search of some toy to serve as a plaything to the sons and daughters of opulence and ease—we are really astonished to think of the little that has yet been done towards supplying our humbler fellow-beings with those absolute neces saries of human life, which Providence has placed within the reach of the meanest of his creatures. We are, however, rejoiced to observe that Mi world begins to grow less selfish ; and that almost every man, even in advancing his own fortune, has a constant regard to the general interests of his species. THE SUN, LONDON, TVESDAY, APRIL 21, 1835. R ~ ~_ i ECCLESIASTICAL USURPATION. Mr. J. L. Livingstone has published a very inte resting pamphlet, in which he has called the public attention to some highly important matters intimately connected with Church Reform, which seem hitherto to have altogether escaped notice. Mr. L. has made it appear, by the clearest evidence, that the Church is, and has long been, in the possession of much patronage and great revenue, to which it has no just title, and by the usurpation of which individuals have been defrauded of their rights, and the public put to an enormous expense. The first part of the pamphlet refers to the subject of patronage. By certain Acts of Parliament passed in the reigns of Charles 11. and Queen Anne, the Church patronage in the hands of Irish Catholics was taken from them, and vested in the Crown as trustee, until such patrons or their heirs should conform to the Protestant religion. The English Catholics were, in a similar manner, and on the same conditions, divested of the Church patronage held by them, and their right to present to Livings was transferred to the Universities as their trustees. Now, many of the heirs of the Catholic patrons, thus conditionally de prived of their undisputed rights, have conformed to the Protestant religion. The condition of re-instate ment has, therefore, been fulfilled, and the trusts have ceased and determined, and all that is incumbent on the claimants to do, in order to be restored to the ex ercise of their suspended rights, would seem, in com mon justice, to be to prove their descent and their conformity. But no, say the Irish Bishops and the English Universities—to receive and to give up are very different things. We have no relish for the refunding system ; it is neither founded on ecclesiastical principles, nor consistent with ecclesiastical practice. These consci entious trustees insist on being ousted according to the most approved method. The law is open to the claimant ; let him resort to it. It happens, however, that the legal process by which the patron may regain his right, would cost him from 2,0001. to 3,0001., a greater sum than the patronage in many cases is worth. Mr. Livingstone proposes that a Com mission, or a Committee of the House of Commons, should be appointed to investigate the claims both of those who now exercise, and of those who seek to recover, the right of presenting to those livings, and to prepare an Act to re-invest the real patrons with the rights and privileges enjoyed by their ancestors. Mr. L. has taken the opinion of eminent Counsel,whose authority confirms his own views, both as to the justice of such claims, and the mode by which it is proposed to substantiate them. The second part of Mr. Livingstone's Pamphlet re lates to a much more important subject. Before the Reformation the Pope received from the English and Irish clergy the first fruits and profits, for one year, of every benefice in England and Ireland. When Henry VIII. had seated himself in the Pope's Chair, these first fruits and profits were transferred to him by Act of Parliament, with the additional grant of an annual payment, amounting to one-tenth of the value of every benefice in England and Wales, from an Archbishopric downwards. The Chancellor of England and the Master of the Rolls were empowered and directed to ascertain by every means in their power, from time to time, the just and true value of the said Archbishoprics, &c., and heavy penalties were incurred by those Ecclesi astics who should dare to enter upon possession of their Livings without first satisfying the King's claims. The revenue thus derived from Church Property, we may remark, was not appropriated to purposes strictly Ec clesiastical, as the modern phrase is. The King spent the money as he pleased, for the doctrine of in violability, as regarded Church Property, found no favour in his sight. The revenue thus accruing to the Crown from Irish livings was, by an Act of Parliament, passed in the reign of Queen Anne,appropriated to create a fund in perpetuity for providing glebe houses in that country where there were none, and for augmenting such Livings as were in adequate to the decent maintenance of the incumbents. It would appear that the Commissioners appointed from tune to time had been rather remiss in the duty assigned them, of ascertaining " the just and true value of all and singular the Archbishoprics," &c. ; and, somehow or other, it was more satisfactory for the payers of first fruits to continue to pay according to the value of their livings in the good old days of bluff King Hal, than to have the bother of periodical valuations in these later times. In the year 1812, however, two gentlemen were ap pointed Commissioners, in order to receive the first fruits in Ireland, and to examine into the present value of Irish benefices. These gentlemen (Messrs. Glass cock and Mason) met with no assistance, in the execu tion of their office, from the clergy. They were opposed tooth and nail, by Archbishops, Bishops, Archdeacons, Deans, Rectors and Vicars. Complaints were lodged at head-quarters against their mode of proceeding, and our Tory rulers threatened to withdraw their Commission if they should persevere in executing it. What loss the public have sustained from the shameless manner in which this branch of the revenue has been managed, may be gathered from the following extract : " By a Parliamentary return, which was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10th May, 1833, it appears that the net income of the archbishops and bishops of Ireland amounted to 128,8081. Bs. 3 d. ; by a similar return of the same date, the net income of the deans, &c., is stated to be 2,2051. 6s. 71-d. ; and in the Mirror of Parliament of the 12th of February, 1833, Lord Althorp is reported to have stated the net income of the beneficed clergy of Ire land to amount to 600,0001. per annum—a statement which was founded on the same data and information from which the above returns were framed, and which was col lected and arranged under the direction of a Royal commis sion, composed in part of several dignitaries of the Church. Thus the net income, profits, or fruits of the Established Church in Ireland, by the admission of the hierarchy and clergy themselves, amounts to 731,0131. I4s. lid. per annum; while, by another return ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30th March, 1831, it appears, that during a period of eighteen years the entire sum paid by the dignitaries and clergy of this Church, as the amount of the first fruits or first year's profits of their respective benefices, was only 9,9471. I ls. 3d. Now, allowing fourteen years as the aver age extent of each incumbent's continuance in his benefice, and supposing them to have paid, as their first fruit, that sum which, in the patentee's and his law adviser's (Mr. Allen's) opinion, was the true and just, whole and entire yearly values' of their respective benefices, the above-mentioned sum of 731,013/. 14s. I Id. would have been twice paid to the re ceiver, making a total of 1,462,0271. 9s. 10d. during the same period of time in which the above sum of 9,9471. 11s. 3-id. only was collected according to the nominal values, thereby leaving a balance of 1,452,0791. 18s. 60 due by the le ierarchy and clergy to this fund, or rather to the public, who have bete taxed to that amount to cover their default. " By another return, ordered by the House of Commons to ti b le be printed, 26th of January, 1832,. it appears that within same perion of eighteen years, several Parliamentary goats:. amounting to 465,387/. 3s. 4d. were made to the trustees first fruits in Ireland, to supply the deficiency in thakte 0. and besides these large grants of the public money, theke has been, to meet the same deficiency on the part of thefirst fruits !Viand, heavy taxation imposed on the people, under the dent ) ; illation of vestry cess ; which, if taken at an average °' , 000/. per annum, would, during the said period, amount t? , 1 ,.?, I I, 0,000/. : so that, within the short space of time for %chic these calculations have been made, it appears the country 121 s been altogether taxed to the amount of 1,545,3871. 3 s. 4d. Jur purplises for which these first fruits' fund was expressly ar. propriated, and which, if properly collected and carOd ', managed, would have been quite adequate to meet every sary and reasonable expense of the Church, without calling °1 : 1 ' the country to contribute any thing towards its support: an, though, on the face of the foregoing calculation, the ainounb of the true and real first fruits, or first year's profits, falls a little short of the sum with which the country was taxed ; yet it is to be observed, that the trustees had other funds of considers' ble amount at their disposal, such as bequests, componsa ti° for suppressed boroughs, &c., which would have more than a have supplied the difference between those two items, at t have rendered it altogether unnecessary for those trustees to have drawn on the public purse, either through Parliament or otherwise." So much with respect to Ireland. In England the neces same course seems to have been pursued, but the los s to the public has been much greater, as, in addition t° the first fruits, the annual tenth of the value of all b e ' nefices not under 501. per annum originally granted, as we have said, to Henry VIII , was set apart in the reign of Queen Anne, under the name of " Quee n 6 Anne's Bounty," for the augmentation of the li vin g s of of the poorer clergy. The provisions of the Act , a of Parliament have been altogether disregarde d, and the result is thus stated by Mr. Livingstone : be " By a return ordered by the House of Commons to f printed, 20th May, 1830, being ' An Account of all S ures t he of Money paid into the First Fruits Office, Temple, during s ten years last past, by the several Archbishops, Bishops , peap i Archdeacons, and Prebends of England and Wales, ',, n a ., which said Money has been paid into the Receipt of his t A. jesty's Exchequer, it appears that the sum of 16,6 63 /. 145• ucs only was received ; but .as the above do not cornP r o f the whole of the beneficed clergy liable to the paYinentat the first fruits, it has been ascertained that the arn°-/ thereof does not, on an average, exceed between 4,01; and 5,0001. per annum. The annual amount of tv tenths paid is only 9,4581. Is. 51-d., and these sums a re e ; certain persons considered to 13 - e, and arc taken and 'a ceived, as the just and true value of the fi r st-fruits an d tenths of all archbishoprics, bishoprics, &c., in England _ Wales. By . a report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical g ' e a venue Inquiry ordered by the House of Commons to be Pr int t he on the 26th of July, 1834, it is reported that the amount o e . ' a t annual revenues of the several archiepiscopal and oPisc°llo, sees in England and Wales, if 180,46., the amount of the '4 a veral cathedral churches and collegiate churches in Eug r ial l i ns and Wales, together with the separate annual revenues of ca' several dignitaries and other spiritual persons, members cll o f thedral or - collegiate churches, is 350,8611., the nurnb e i r e a benefices in England aed Wales is ten thousand seven hu g 1, and one, the income of which is reported to be 3,253,67,d1 making the total amount of Church property in Eg l The 3,784,985/., which, it is submitted, ought, according t ° ig the statutes, to be considered the just and true first-fruits, pet stead of being 4,000/. and 5,000/. as before stated. 1 ; 1 %4 amount of the annual revenues of the above, after deoa l- pn th certain fees, &c., is stated to be 3,491,19 d, the on e " be part of which, viz. -349,1191. it is also submitted she,,u,' it considered the annual tenths to be paid into Queen 11- . : at Bounty, and nat the nominal sum of 9,4581. Is. 50. `' - present paid for tenths." Tr , this very im• dilet is a' 'ended pam teresting correspondence lt betwee p n the author and 1 1 ;' e , Goulburn, late Secretary of State for the Home portal; partment. COL. SIBTHORPE and the TWO . " THREE MINISTERIAL RACE-HORSES. RESPONDENT FOM A COR.) Yesterday the r a c i ng season began. The entries throngtall°ol the country are numerous and indicate no falling off in a t a i ment to our national sports. We use the word nation the visedly, convinced of the correctness of its application jil t°. b . : widest sense. The race and its accompaniments aPPe ar I so engrafted in our habits ; and the phraseology of the turf,l.6l its-Actual pursuits, not unfrequently furnish forth the f abri f ed our senators most admired orations. We often find the tye language of the stable selected in the senate. Wi ti f u r stancing that powerful harangue made in May, just aite-dr Epsom meeting by Lord Stanley, in which he evinced e ( Vir t found a knowledge of that extremely difficult question, the ble-rig, felicitously illustrating his arguments with the lte - r0 the booth, and bringing the most extensive knowledge 0 go *. knowing ones" to bear on a subject before supposed to be betty sively possessed by the professional blacklegs or regtsspfl ing men of the heath and the hells—without resting 0 1 1 t"„ effort of Lord Stanley, whick changed the Cimmerian ness of St. Stephen's, to the light of a heavenly Pt t y o r re ; as bearing us out in the assertion that our senators gee%, materials of their best speeches in the stables, we beg faie to our Parliamentary columns of this day. Let such fedi readers as are sceptical just read Colonel SibthOrP 'S where splents and spaying, bone and blood, brokeo - , c hn whistlers, and roarers, constitute the elements out of Wm. ipt g : formed one of the most powerful addresses to the judge:lod the collective wisdom that was ever heard within the * c hi t)! the House. The most eloquent and impressive paseag e , - tibe ° Hon. Member's speech, however, was where he de s " 0 8 , 28 ministerial racehorses starting for a country stake s oe# dwelt with most felicitous force on the " start,," 00 0 with his subject, as his imagination describe(' ed irate at " Tottenham corner," and his fervid eloquence glo b ,, pea r the sublimest enthusiasm when he saw them getting tbs .i home"—because he then knew that every one of t heill s ;oe w whole twenty-three, would break down. This certainlY,sopeo be a coincidence unprecedented in racing annals ; but P it ' i psf it will, we are assured—we would lay our lives on it. also seem strange that no riders are mentioned— that norl, looks (but its only a delusive appearance) as if the m u l l :: t ge`; race-horses were to have it all their own way. and t rube ll. bourne would be the winner at the approaching St. P te ' meeting. A ace Notwithstanding, however, the unquestionable an r o litiv 'talents of the gallant Colonel, both as an orator and a l l grel prophet, we are bound in frankness to declare w,l t "cbi t , deference, our doubt that he possesses all those qualitio'd qualify him to be " the councillor and controller" of 14° A r alli fj , bourne and his ministry. An allusion, no doubt unf one ; , Tb ill-natured, was made last night by Mr. O'Conne ll tti l, 116 t Colonel," having been let out for hire. We disbelieve b 11,4 because he would not perhaps make a useful haeripol simply because no person would hire a hack that e v h e er b e e t' knew was a hack, and an old one besides. Whtbt " safe" we do slot know ; but when on his legs last o . lg Ha y ;lP:, looked very bad, and seemed to indicate a fall. liVe vi asked whether he stumbles—whether he is free frosticoil whether he is sound—and a variety of other qu estions W t b s t° payment as well rig paces ; to which our only answer is ' do not warrant him in any respect. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) oCPI CITY, TWELVE 0' a We have few arrivals this morning ; one French In ~,r the express from Paris, one Dutch, and one Hamburg dye The Dutch mail brings the funds 21 per cents 4 • tl" e s ' lower, 55 13-16 ; Five per cents., 102. By the Hamburg mail we have the Vienna prices , sba r Five per cents. 102, Money Bills 101 4 ; Ba nk Of 1,333 ; Money Bills, 1,334. tio o The above mails do not bring any political inf orMa importance. 0 1 ° The express from Paris states that the Frenc h -11 Tortoni's were Three per cents., 82. 1; TUC FUNDS. The funds continue steady. Consols, which left ig 9Js day at for the Account, opened at, this m orn o ti Exchequer Bills, 36 37; India Bonds, 90. btiof ai , l o , The foreign market left off yesterday exceedingli and the favourite speculations were in South Arnerica_A rities, particularly in Colombian Bonds, which reacroorlo; owing to previous reports, which are not confirmed th f ing. Spanish Bonds, 68-k ; Spanish Scrip, pre° . ' tuguese, 994 ; Columbian, 541. 0 14 / I HALF-PAS a t t Consols have continued the whole of the morning a for the Account, and 924 for Money. 31 3 , 4 The Foreign Market continues to e very buuYa lit 'l: 6 "; improvement in the morning's prices. Spanish Stuocioblii Portuguese 991 ; Spanish Scrip 84 prem. ; C ge% i nc c 541 55; Dutch Two-and. a-Half per Cents., 59'.,11; St 45 46 ; Exchequer Bills 36 37; India Bonds 20 ; 2161; India Stock 258. CL O°P THREE 0,-- Consols for the Account, 921 Sfi d „•ef IRELAND.—With feelings of mingle d Lio n Abp indignation, we have to record the cruel perse cti-i ii 4o o heartless and abandoned men .in many parts of the c °- P"its inflicting on the unprotected and virtuous ten antrY "e tD unprincipled and virulent tyrants, whom Provideecilla 00,4 anger, has permitted to scourge the people, have' d 0, t o, disregard of consequences, established a reign s ; ellj t e throughout the land, which, if not speedily p at ifice teit must have the effect of overturning the soma' eu t i q t he gether. One would have thought that rack reri,id parsons, proctors, and absentees, had already gl a n d.s° t he people to the utmost pitch of human endurance. " sa ve ve o deed they had ; any other people under Healieth. e brr is , patient and long-suffering Irish, would long since the if out into wild anarchy, and buried in one conlre °ri $5 ; to selves and their tiger-hearted tormentors. An" i ni est with the demon-purpose of stimulating the excb ' ph renzy, the whips hitherto employed have been t il l re r i ance t , forscorpions, wherewith to scourge and lacerate, l'ilateriv to the oppressor become a positive virtue...-. „ i e so' Chronicle. t for io t STATE OF TRADE.—The cotton mark s° ba t back has been unusually active, and we uude i rst r oodc Such is the 4. 0 -:"Do e w o the manufacturers are all very busy. new machinery, that one large house in that line , ju r ot t shire, has as tinily orders as it can execute in t he years.—Liverpoot Chronicle. I 1 A