The Sun. — London, England, 1835-08-24 00:00:00

THE FRENCH KING AND THE PRESS. (From Roebuck's Pamphlet of yesterday.) Louis Phillippe, King of the French, finds the Press ex tremely troublesome. He therefore hates it as cordially as the London pickpocket hates a Metropolitan policeman. In this hatred his French Majesty's Ministers fully participate. Accordingly, they determine to put down the object of their most unholy aversion. The means by which they design to accomplish this end is a Penal Law of uncommon severity. This law first lays down, in vague and general terms—so that any construction can be adopted by a subservient Judge—what the French King and the French House of Lords do not like to have said of them, and then it inflicts enormous penalties, in the shape of fines and imprisonment, upon those who write what is forbidden. . Now, mark what clumsy workmen these same Frenchmen must be. Why do they not take a lesson out of our book ? They should not inflict enormous fines. Fines are ob noxious. Besides, it is an open and direct attack upon the Liberty of the Press, which is more obnoxious still. The French Ministry should have consulted Mr. Spring Rice. He would have explained to them—" in an impressive speech, ex ceeding two hours and a half in length"—that there is nothing like a fourpenny stamp, as a means of preventing the mass of the people from dabbling in the affairs of their betters. He would have reasoned as follows to the French Minister who consulted him : " You cannot, surely, desire to deprive your Respectacle Classes' of the privilege of reading papers, and of having papers written for them ? All you can possibly wish is to check the vile habit of reading, which, I am sorry to say, is rapidly spreading, both in your country and in mine, among those who would be better occupied in attending to their work, and in conducting themselves lowly and reverently towards their betters ! I see, you nod assent. Well, then, all you have to do is to raise the price of the newspaper be yond the reach of those whom you desire to exclude. This done, and you may depend upon it all those seditious Repub- Iran writers, whom you are now proposing to make martyrs of, would either starve, or would (and this my experience tells me is more likely) adapt their lucubration to the more limited class of readers—in other words, to the ruling few. Once accomplish this, and you will require no Penal Laws against the Press. You will find it your most useful instrument— your most obsequious slave. For a confirmation of what I say, look at our Press. They all write for those who can afford a seven-penny paper. The people have only one stamped paper on their side, and that is dragging on a lin gering existence for want of buyers. It is true that some of the Conservative Press seem to be against the party in power. They desire the places we have got. But whenever a ques tion arises between the Aristocracy and the People, we know that both the Whig and Tory sections of the Aristocratic Papers will unite against those troublesome Radicals, whom the Tories hate nearly as much as we do. Indeed, not being compelled to conceal their hate, as we are, they seem to hate them more. " Should you introduce a measure of this kind, all you have to do is to swear it is a purely financial question—that you want money, and that you must have it, and that on that ground alone you propose a stamp of eight sous. If there be any show of opposition in the Chamber, cite the case of England. Whatever peculiar beauty of our Con stitution it may be the reigning fashion to admire, attri bute it boldly to the operation of the Stamp-duty on News-. papers. This done, and I pledge myself that the 50,000 readers, which some of your Daily Papers, I am told, enjoy, would immediately dwindle down to some 6 or 7,000 of the richer class. This is not all the ackantage you would gain. The tone of the Papers would change with the limitation of readers. Articles would be written to please the dominant few; and, as I said before, you would require no penal law against Republican writers, simply because no Republican writers could gain a livelihood. " In this country we are pestered with breakers of the law, who are now become so numerous and so openly encouraged, that we dare not prosecute them. It is a long time, however, before the People can bring their minds to such a course, and although the Unstamped Press is now our greatest curse, and will, before long, succeed in destroying the Stamp-dute, be assured it is a thing of slow growth. Thus, yen, and the several Ministries which may succeed you, will enjoy, at least, half a century of freedom from the annoying meddling of the People in the affairs of the Government. You will of course be somewhat troubled with petitions and deputations, but no thing is easier than to put them off. Promise them anything to quiet them, and it is easy to explain, as we call it, when the time for performing., or rather for breaking, the promise shall have arrived. This is my plan, and I .find it invariably suc cessful." This is the kind of advice the P:ench Miai7ter would have get fri honc. - ;t Cl)anfzlior of the Exchequer. The sci;erne has been triad in thi; count 7, an has succeeded the heart's content of the Ari,toeri!7y, for half a century. A fool-penny Stamp is a rr LW, which must rt-e Fvientine gag than A ponal •rtti-ic f-om it everity. CArLISLT IVOE •ccom ETE,To.--A inc,: - q-,nz, of flip inta.tbitailts of this:.::; is to be held t the Cornmols to reject till Cc Lords. Thu. Dill as it now stx- is in this town with the utmo , :t disgust, and by ai le-teaths of the inhabitants .ruu!c,' eveninz, to petition c.1%.11 - ion BA!, as Itered t be received as a curse forced upon tl which they have long anxi , risly soug WEST ii.tprzG MEETING .T,ecds .fercury, that . ss:,:visition, at the heed of which stands the honoured name of Sir Francis Lindley Woor!, Bart., the father of Reruns.: in Yorkshire ; and the leading Reformers of Leeds, Bradford, iluddersifold, lislifax, Wakefield, Shef field, have either alrcaiy signed it, or are prepared to do so. The meeting is to be held 0:1 Monday, the 31st August, at Wakefield. nit r. 3 a I.);esginfr o,: e ec by the SEIZURE FOR CHURCH RATE t.-Several ;mem bers of the SJciety of Fri nods were summoned before the ma gistrates, on Thursday last, in default of payment of Church rates for the parish of Edgbaiton, heretofore such persons have suffered their property to be taken from them and sold by private contract, to discharge ecclesistical demands, they no.v feel that the time is arrive:'. when it is no longer ex pedient to conceal from public view tb . .?full operation of the means by which the Ecc!csi. , isticl Church is suported—they now require that the goods, when seized or, behalf of the Church Establishment, be sold by public auction. As mem bers of the Establishment, we regret that it should not be spared that further degradation in the opinion of its friends, ad that insult and triumph f(om enemies, which the imposi -02 of a rate upon Dissenters for its Luppoi:t, at this time brings on it. ir mingham .I.9urnal. OUTRAGE.-011 Wednes:!av, the 12th ir,s;t., Mr. Thompson, the advocate of Temperance Societies, went into an inn at Seaton to procure lo•igings for some friends, and en being observed by some who were drinkieg there, they forced him into a nor,. and attempted to force brandy into his mouth, tore his coat ;::f his back, and emptied a spittoon upon him. In the affray :IL.. Thompson's head was b . ruised, which afterwards caused deli; lam, his wrist dislocated, and he was so severely handled as n t to be able to leave his room for several days, and he still con: aues in a very weakly state.— Shiehls Observer. On the evening of Thursday last, a quantity of land at West Grimstead, principally covered with heath and furze, was discovered to be on fire, several acres of which were burnt; and had it not been for the 'timely assistance of the people in the neighbourhood, the extensive timber-yard of the Earl of Radnor would, in all probability, have fallen a prey to the de vouring element. —Wilts Herald. The furze on Dartford &era was on fire in two or three different places yesterday afternoon, and had occasioned considerable alarm. It was not known whether the fire had been occasioned b' accident or design. There was a runimr that several persons had been severely injured in endeavouring to extinguish the flarnes.—li - entish Observer. POVERTY OF PRCVINCIAL THEATRICALS, OR THE INGENIOt'S MANAGEII.—A sheriff's officer, who had been delegated by a London attorney to arrest a provincial manager, writes, in the following terms, an excuse for the um-execution of the writ entrusted to him :—" I have not been able to arrest him, nnr do I think that I shall. There are other wan.ants out against him, and executions from the Court of Requests, besides a magistrate's warrant, all of which ho eludes. He has made himself very secure in the theatre, where he lives altogether, and never comes out except on Sundays. The theatre has been several times searched, but there are so many trap-doors in most pans of it, which are always kept in readi ness for him, and there are secret places with sliding doors, which render his being taken impossible ; added to which, he cannot be surprised. The last time I grabbed him was about two months ago : I then had three warrants agjnst him, and I was very nearly four months almost constantly watching for him before I could take him." " DURHAM TO WIT."—As a well-known musi cian of the name of R—i, belonging to Durham, was plodding his weary way home on a dark night, the following mishap befel him :—Having drank too freely of the juice of the grape, be missed his way and strayed into a field where a bull was grazing : the animal, at hearing a rustling noise, roared out--the fiddler directly answered " too high I" The roar was again repeated, when he replied " too low !" but the words were scarcely uttered, when he was suddenly seized by the beast, and tossed on the other side of the hedge. The " man of the bow" then good nataredly said, " D—n your eyes, you may be a musician, but you are no gentleman." The above was heard by a person who chanced to be on the spot at the time.—Sunderland Herald. CONSEQUENCES OF INTOXICATION.--An inquest was holden on Saturday, before Mr. Baker, at the Lon don Hospital, on the remains of Mr. John Donovan, late a captain in the West India trade, who died in that institution on Thursday, in consequence of fractured ribs. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who had latterly, in con sequence of some disarrangement of his affairs, indulged freely in the use of drink, returned to his residence in Alfred-street, Stepney, in a state of intoxication, and being of an extremely irritable and ungovernaele temper when in this state, he, without any apparent cause, struck and knocked down one of his sons. During the violence of his passion, and in making a second blow at his son, who was endeavouring to escape from his vengeance, he fell against a card table, and fractured three of his ribs. He was taken to the hospital on the follow ing day, and lingered in the greatest agony until Thursd a y evening, when ath put an end to his earthly sufferings. -After the medical student who had attended on the deceased had sworn that the fractured ribs Ive , e tho cause of death, the Jury retuned a verdict of " Accidental death." PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. . Bank Stock 215 14 , 4, New 5 per Cent — 3 Der Cent Red .. 80 , 5 90 89% India Stock ....M1 3 per Cent. Cons. 89i4 Y. % Ditto Bond: 5 7 pm. 3li per Cent. — South Sea Stock — Ditto Red 98% 9 804 , :id Annuities New 3% per Cent 4 per Cent CA Assented — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151._ -, . . ' Wifsented ... Bank Lomy. Annuitiesto expire Ditto 500 20 22 pm. Jan. 5, 1800 Oot. in. 1W — Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, IFmi'' IN Ditto Advertised pFa. Jan. 5, 18S0 — Bank Stock for Acc oun t — April 5 IIK; — India Stock tbr Account — Jan. 5. 1870 _ Consols for Account...B9% q 5.2 Omniuln 9 11; Pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Betrian Bonds THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds 8334 Ditto Account Ditto New Bond. , 95 4 5 Ditto Account ......... 4 5 Prussian Bonds Ditto Accoun. Brazilian Bonds . Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chillian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds ... SC.% Ditto 80nd5,1822 Rust:lan Bonds, IS2 - 2 Ditto Acccunt ,Gll Ditto Account — Coittmbiali Bonds, 1521...30 i 30 14' Ditto Account 3O j 6i l 3 4 Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Greek Bonds — Ditto Bonds, 1:15 -- Ditto Account — Mexic•in Bond_:. 3 lots cent 24% Ditto Account — Ditto. Si per cent. 35 4 ►,Q NU. , Account — Neapolitan — Ditto Metallic — 'Spanish Bonds 37% 6 75.', 7 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1534 35 45 IA 4l.i Ditto Account — French, 5 per cent --- 4 per cent.... —f. —c. 3 per cent. r —c. Exchange — f. —c. Dutch, 2% per cent. Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per ceu* loliii% Ditto Account — I'RICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mexican Mining Company (iss. at 51. pm.) 100 5'34 Brazilian Imperial M!ning Co. (Issued at 51. pm.) 20 Ditto Macanbas Cocaes 2O I 6 Polherou Consols Mining Company PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUGUST 21. 3 per Cent. Consols 59% Grand Canal Dar, 6 per cent. 91 Ditto Reduced .. 901-‘ Ditto, 4 per cent ............. ... BON 3 , 5 per Cent. Stock 97% Hibernian Bank • 22% Ditto New, 19.29 3 1 4 per Cent. Debentures 917,, National National Insurance Company 39 Bank Stock 223 I City Debentures, 4 per cent... SO% Royal Canal Stock. - Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock 221 41 per cent- Ml.4' MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 2 Franc.......... . 0 0 Lisbon 1 1 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres.— 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Cartllageria 0 1 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 2 DuLlin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 2 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT I.ONDON 1;i IDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 6 minutes after 3. Evening 0 4 minutes after 3 CHINA HALL PUBLIC HOUSE, ROTHERHITHE. 110 BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, Pursuant to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in the Causes of PORTER v. LEFTWICH, and PORTER v. DUNN, with the approbation of Sir GIFrIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the Court, by Mr. CRAFTER, the person appointed,by him for the purpose, at the China Hall public-house, aforesaid, on FRIDAY, the 28th day of August, 1835, at Three o'clock in the afternoon pre cisely, A LEASEHOLD MESSUAGE, called China Hall Public house, with Tea-gardens and Out-buildings, situate on the Lower Deptford-road ; Five Messuages in Cape Trafalgar-place ; Four Messuages, called the Pavilion or Cape Trafalgar-place ; Eight Messuages in Providence-place ; and a Messuage occupied by James Dunn, all nearly adjoining the Public-house, with a ground-rent of 31. per annum, and the Half-penny Hatch, and producing together a yearly rental of about 2061., exclusive of the Hatch, and which will be sold in one Lot. A LEASEHOLD MESSUAGE occupied by Edward Grace, and Four Messuages, called the Barn or Shoulder-of-Mutton Field, near the above, producing yearly about 451., and which will be sold in another Lot. And FIVE LEASEHOLD MESSITAGES in Dudman's-court, Grove -street, Deptford, producing yearly about 401., which will be sold in another Lot. Particulars may be had (gratis) at the said Master's Chambers in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; of Messrs. Thomas, Jones, and Sons, solicitors, ghlman-place, Bedford-row ; Mr. Sandom, solicitor, No. 3, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, City, and Deptford, Kent; Mr. Arthur Davis, solicitor, Deptford; and of the said Mr. Crafter, No. 4, Stamford-street, Blackfriar's-road ; and the premises may be viewed by permission of the tenants. HAMBURG, AUGUST 7, 1835. OTICE is hereby given, that the Tickets of the . 66th HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, guaranteed by the Hamburg State, that begins drawing on the 12th and 13th inst., ARE NEARLY ALL CLEARED OFF; and that Tickets warranted undrawn, selling between the 14th and 25th inst. at 101. will not be on sale between the 3lst inst. and t.,)(1 September (on whieh latter day the Largest Capital Prize is to be drawn), below 15/. The undersigned Contractors decline, as usual, to take any English orders for any thing less than a whole Ticket, the Corres pondence for single shares being too troublesome, and not worth the postages. Persons remitting 10:. without delay, will receive an immediate answer by return of Post; but those who would not feel pleased to receive back their remittance (as coming altogether too late, or after as advance in price), must lose no time. in remitting 10/. HEINE LaOTIIER S. Proth,-rs, in Hamburg. P. S.—ln the last (65th) Lottery, the Capital Prizes came up to the fell:ming Ti:±etv— Bancomarcs. No. '2,313 sold Hamburg 3.27 T T..irnerick 50,000. ,4 , 27 so!d tr‘7a ,G20.<2;.1 ~ r nV),trf; for account of a London :oust n,.151 .?,rd to Li' . 20,000 . 10,000 TU. Pri7,: of th , .! i4aral ,, rg- Great Lotter - , are since the" last Lottery payable without any ~ eduction whatever, and at the present Exchang , itanar—ires c), - , are equal to 4!. The pubr,76rtion of TTIR Styx - P".7-I‘vspAPER Co7lll7lCnced this dap ci 50 inbuites past o'clock. -.". ~ : ~~~ &~ ~~,~~ :~~•~~/~ ~~ ~ 1f -v LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 24, 1835. The more we consider the question, the more we find cause to reg,ret the withdrawal of Mr. BIJLWER'S motion for the Repeal of the Newspaper Stamp Duty, especially as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S pledge—for so we believe he calls it—on the subject, is by no means so specific or satisfactory as Ave could have desired. He does not grapple with the question boldly, but seems as though he were anxious to back out of it. We have read his speech on Friday night with considerable attention, and, notwithstanding its apparent frankness and plausibility, can come to no other conclusion than that it is a virtual begging of the question. He abandons his high vantage ground of the moral and political benefits that the Re peal of the Newspaper Stamps would confer on the country, and treats it solely as a matter of fi nance ; and thus treating it, thinks that he fairly disposes of the question, and silences all objections by stating that he is not in a condition to make " experi ments." Now, this, to say the least of it, is a very injudicious remark, for Mr. SPRING RICE must be .ell aware that, as a Whig, he has been doing nothing but make " experiments " for the last four years and upwards. Had a Tory talked in this strain, we should not have been in the slightest degree surprised ; but for a Whir, "and something more," like our present CHA N CEL LOR of the Exc lIEQUER, to profess a delicate horror of" experiments," is not only grossly inconsistent, but sets us upon reflections by no means favourable to his cha racter for straightforwardness and sincerity. We regret ;o be compelled to hold this language, but Mr. S. RICE has left us no alternative. He led us to suppose not only that he was warmly in favour of the Repeal of the Stamps, but also that he would take the very first favourable opportunity that presented itself of repeal ing them ; and yet when this favourable opportunity does occur, and it is shown bay cad the possiHity of denial that the " expriment," so far from injuring, will in reality beneilt, the Revenue, and wll moreo - ',.er be attended with the utmost, benefit to the people, by furnishing them with sound political knowledge, and thereby enlisting them among the supporters of enlightened Government ;—when the question is thus brought fairly and fully before him, how does. he act ? Why, ' flings it overboard without hesitation and without remorse, by stating that he is not in a condition to make " experiments I" With every disposition to put the most favourable construc tion on it, we can look on the discussion of Friday night in no other light than as a juggle. If Mr. Bur. wr R. did not intend to press his motion to a divi sion, he ought not to have brought it forward at all, for it was' of far too much importance to be taken up and then let drop, merely because it did not suit the convenience of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER to pay the fitting attention to it. In thus speaking our mind freely on the subject, we are far from intending to cast reflections on Ministers generally ; our remarks are strictly confined to Mr. SPRING RICE, whose shrewdness and plausibility we may admire, but whose straightforwardness we are bpi° C::rlisls THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1835. for the payment of fines and expenses, by whomsoever instituted FRENCH FIJNDS.-Paeis, AUGUST 21. Five per Cents., 109 f. 108 f. 93c. 90c. 95c. It9f. Four per Cents., 98f. Three per Cents., 78f. 65c. 60c. 79c. Bank Actions, 2,025 f. Rente de Naples, 96f. 70c. 60c. 70c. Rom; Five per Cents., 101%. ' Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 20% 21. Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 31 3.3 1 4. Belgian Loan Five per Cents., 101%. Pori uguese Loan, Five per Cents., 87. Three per Cents , 53% EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 25r. 52 1 4 c. Tltree months; paper, f. -c. ; money, 25f. 41. c FRENCH FUNDS.-Psam, A uousT 22. Five per Cents., 109 f. 108 f. 95c. 90c. 85c. 70c. 55c. lota and a Half per Cents., 'Ulf. 85c. Four per Cents., WE 30e. Three per Cents. 781. 70c. 75c. 70c. 50c. 40c. Bank Actions, 2,0342,025 f. Rente de Naples, 961.9. c. 97f. 96f. 50c. Roman Five per Cents., 10114. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 21 19% 18%14 %. Royal Spanish Loan, 31. Heide Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 33;6 32 3134 30g 30. Portugue=e Loan, Five per Cent., 86. Portuguese Three per Cents. 51 53%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, -f. -c. ; money, 25f 52%c. Three months, paper, -f. -c. money, 25f. 40c BOURSE, THREE o'CLocx.-This morning at Tortoni's the Three per Cents., were at 78f. 90c., with a very brisk market. At the opening of the Bourse, however, they declined to 78f. 75 c., till half-past 2, when a sudden fall took place. Several brokers having sold a lucre quantity of stock, it was reported that expresses from Madrid of the 16th had arrived with bad news. The Spanish Government, it was added, had declared that j? was impossible to dispense with intervention ; on this the Three per Cents, fell to 78f. 30c. Spanish stock looks down, and it would be very difficult to find a purchaser for any considerable portion of that stock. QUARTER TO FOUR.-Five per Cents., 108 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 78f. 35c. ; Fi ve p er C ents . Spanish, 30; Three per Cents. Spanish, 18,X, ; Cortes, -; Coupons, 14 ; Gueb bards, 34; Differes, 13 ; New Loan, 37 ; Actives, 361 ; Passives, 10k; Ducats, 96 65 ; Romans, 1011; Pedros, 36 ; Belgiang, -; Dutch, ; Haytians, --f. ; Brabant Bank, T New, 'York Papers to the 31st of July, have beet 'et•Tive ', at the North and South American Coffee. house.' -' hey bring advices from Mexic o t o th e effect that several of the South American States are prepay ing to mist the Dictatorship of Gen. SANTA ANNA. German and Brussels Papers have - been received. The Helvetic, a Swiss journal, says the presiding Canton has received the assurance that Wurtemburg will take pact in the negotiations for fixing the com mercial relations between Switzerland and the States of Southern Germany. When Baden, Wurtemburg, and Bavaria acceded to the German Commercial Union, they reserved for themselves a right to con clude with the Swiss Confederation a treaty of com merce on bases approved by the other contracting , - parties. Vi E NI.!A ' Ana UST 16—Five per Cents., 1021; Four per Cents 93i Bank Shares, I,32s.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 19. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussaLs, Am. /22. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , Rothschild's Loan Five per Cent lOO% Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 98% . Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 123 Bank id' Belgium, Five per Cent lll — Brussels Papers, Aug. 23. DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 21. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 541,4 54N Loan (1830) 5 per cent. A mutt Syndic, 4% per cent 934 94 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 78% 781 i Commercial Company, 4':„ per ctmt loB'i ICBI4 Exchange on London, One month l2 22%. Two months —Dutch Papers, Aug. 22. Madrid papers, to the 15th inst., have been re ceived, together with private letters from. the same capital. We are informed by the latter that the QUEEN'S Government has recognised the independence of the South American States, although the decree to that effect is not yet published. The extreme Liberals in Madrid are daily growing more restless ; and it was feared by Ministers that an insurrectionary movement would have taken place on the night of the 15th inst. Happily, however, the people remain peaceable ; and as the Government has resolved to summon the Cortes to its assistance, it is probable that measures will be adopted to check the spirit of insubordination which bcqins to display itself in all popular movements in the capital. SPANISH EXPEDITION. ARRIVAL. OF GENERALS EVANS AND ALAVA. Extract of a letter from a Naval CMicer on board the Spanish steamer frigate, Isabel IL, dated Santander, 17th instant : " We left Plymouth on Monday morning last, and ar rived oil Santander on Wednesday evening. On Tuesday we took General Evans to St. Sebastian and Bilboa. There is a move on the board in which we are to co-ope rate. Two steamers have arrived, one yesterday from Scotland with 450 men, and one to-day from Dublin with 330—a1l fine men. The crew gave entire satisfaction. Lord John Hay dined with us yesterday on board, and spoke very highly of the state of the vessel." RAMSGATE.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the Princess Victoria, are expected here about the 21st September. Albion House, and some of the houses adjoining in Albion-place, have been taken for two months from that period. Chisholm of Chisholm, M.P., has arrived at his seat, Erchless Castle, in this county.—lnverness Courier. The General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet, the Britunnicus, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Cus tom•house, at nine o'clock, 24th August, A. NI. The accounts from the Yorkshire moors represent the sport as very indifferent. The birds have hitherto been scarce, and are said to be unusually lean, which may be mainly, if not entirely, attributed to the long continuance of dry and sultry weather. CLERGY BILL.—The Liverpool Clergy Bill has been withdrawn from the Notices of Motion in the Votes of the House of Commons. We have reason to believe that Lord Sandon has withdrawn the notice, after having ascer tained his inability to carry this obnoxious measure.—Liverpool Chronicle. Merthyr Tydvil and its neighbourhood have been visited by a very severe thunder-storm, by which nearly one thousand panes of glass were broken in Mr. Thompson's hot-house at Penydarren Place, arid the consarvatory at Mr. Russell's was almost wholly destroyed— Carnarvon Herald. FATAL PUGILISTIC CONTEST.—Saturday an inquest was held at the White Hart, Edgeware, on the body John Mcad, aged twenty-seven, who was killed in a pugilistic encounter with a man named Henry Cobb. The deceased was employed on the premises of Mr. Wilson, of grockley hill. A quarrel ensued between some of the men, and at length the deceased and Cobb commenced fighting. They had three severe rounds, when the deceased fell and expired. It appeared that Cobb was a harmless man, and averse to fight ing, but was goaded to it by being struck by the deceased, and the jury returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. A farmer of Trowbridge has tried on an acre of land, the effect of planting wheat about a foot apart. He last year had eighteen sacks from an acro and a quarter; and from one acre of land which he has this year planted in the same way, he expects twenty sacks of wheat. He has tried in this manner tho red straw Laminas and the Taunton whie wheat, and has found them both doubly productive ; on this principle, two pecks of seed are sufficient for an acre. In the winter there was scarcely the appearance of a blade, Lut when the spring advanced, farmerced,theetrhnis thatopib;,eganif p to lolntoaklad eighteenlmuriantly inches bealtl a a p n a d rt st re n w . ould have a still better crop, and he means to try this next year. Foxes have multiplied Wonderfully in some parts of Ayrshire of late, and their creaghs on the poultry yards have been sorely felt. In Croy Glen, on the south side of the Doon, a large band of these wily depredators have fixed their head-quarters, whence they issue and commit sad havoc in the neighbouring poultry-yards. This is rather an unfavourable hunting country, in consequence of the superabundance of cover, otherwise the great number of foxes would afford a few days' occupation for the Ayrshire hounds. —Ayr Observer. EXECUTION OF JOHN PLUMLEY.—Monday morning this unfortunate man underwent the final sentence of the law at Ilchester, having been respited from the previous Saturday. Shortly after eleven he ascended the scaffold, at tended by the Under Sheriff, E. Coles, Esq., the Rev T. Roberts' Dissenting Minister of.this city, an d t h e o ffi cers of the gaol. He appeared comparatively firm, and acknowledged with great regret his offence, stating that he had done it while in a state of intoxication, and attributed his disgraceful death to his frequenting beer-houses. He expressed much anxiety on account of his wife and family, who he trusted would be taken care of after his death. A prayer having been offered up, after the lapse of a few minutes the fatal bolt was drawn, and the wretched man died almost instantly without a struggle. The number of spectators assembled was not great, at no time ; exc eeding 600, who dispersed immediately on the termination of the praceedings.—Zath Herald. means inclined to idolize. As to the conditions which in the very distant event of a Repeal of the Stamp Duty, he proposes to attach to it, namely, protection of copy-right, this, however good in essence, has little more to do with a cheap Press than with a dear one ; indeed, of the two, one would suppose that the latter most needed protection. But the truth is, the whole discussion was a mere subterfuge ; and Mr. SPRING RICE has certainly not consulted the interests of the Ministry to which he belongs, by giving a shock to public opinion at the very time when it was most essential that he should have strained every nerve to conciliate it. Before we conclude, we must not omit to notice the very brief and. unsatisfactory way in which those among our contemporaries who are averse to the Re peal of the Stamp Duties treated the discussion. They did not content themselves with abridging, but abso lutely burked it. One Journal, in particular, dis missed it in three quarters of a column ! The speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in the House of Commons, on Friday night, harmonizing as it did with the manly tone assumed by the leading men of the party which speaks the sentiments of the country, has occasioned a mortal alarm among the Tories of all ranks and descriptions. The stoppage of the Sup plies had never once entered into their calcula tions. The thought had never even crossed the brain of the subtlest and most far-reaching of their politi cians. Their majorities in the House of Lords were overwhelming—so much so that Lord BROUGHAM remarked on one occasion that he should as soon think of carrying the House, their Lordships and all, on his back across the Thames, as of dividing on an amend ment. The absence of some of the liberal Peers— arising from the known hopelessness of the issue of a contest in which the argument was on one side and the numbers on the other—the excitement pro duced upon the feeble minds of their Lordships by the extravagant antics of the Knight-errant of Toryism at their bar, and the delusions which they so greedily swallowed from the mouths of the disinterested town clerks—all these things begot 'in their noble noddles a most fatal hallucination that they were to have it all their own way. They had it indeed all their own way in their own house. There they lorded it without control, and their imaginations wandered not beyond its pre cincts. They had neither eves to see, ears to hear, nor hearts to understand what was going on out of doors. While the country was rousing itself—while the people, indignant no less at the disappointment of their hopes, than at the insult offered to their re presentatives, were assembling all over the kingdom in numbers, and with a promptitude, of which there is no example, - except in the agitation which cowed the usurpers of their rights into the passing of the Reform Bill—they in their lordly wisdom were slashing away, hatchet in hand, at a Bill hardly less entrenched in po pular favour than was that great measure. They are now beginning to awake from their dream of delusion. They now begin to see that they have a second time subjected themselves to the humiliating necessity of yielding to a power which they sought to subdue—of surrendering against their will that which they ought io have conceded with a good grace. Their leader, their chosen champion, the renegade whom they have set in the front of the battle, is now, it is said, going about asking his friends—if such a man can be said to have a friend—sshether he his not gone • too,far? He asks the question too late. He and the, anti-nat onal ju7na, of which he is at present the misera rable tool, have gone too far—not for the safety of, the Biil—for that is beyond the reach of their enmity— but for their own. They now read in the ind:g nant remonstrances, or, which is to them a still mote alarming sign of the times, in the ineffable contempt of the people, the doom which awaits them, and which, out for their obstinate folly, they might have averted. The people now feel that their only hope is in their own exertions, manifested through their Representa tives. Upon the manner in which the men whom they have entrusted with the guardianship of their rights now act, it will depend whether we are to enjoy a peaceful renovation of our ancient institu tions, so as to adapt them to the circumstances of the times, or collision with those who represent only themselves, the path of improvement will be clear and open ; national amelioration will advance with a steady pace, and will develope itself in the increased happiness of the social body. Should the Lords prevail, their triumph would be the signal for the commencement of a struggle, the consequences of a convulsion which must endanger and may over throw them. On the decision of the House of Commons, we say, this most important of all ques tions depends. If the representatives of the people are firm in the support of the people's will—as we doubt not they will be—in the approaching which, whatever the issue might he—and that is not doubtful—all good men must deplore. We have received the whole of the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. Letters from Madrid to the 17th inst. were received in that capital on Saturday morning, in which it was stated that the Spanish Ca binet had unanimously resolved to demand from France a prompt armed intervention, in fulfilment of the Qua druple treaty.' Despatches from TORENo were also re ceived by the Duke de FRIAs, the purport of which were believed to be the same as that of the private let ters addressed to particular members of the French Go vernment. It is reported that the events in Catalonia and Saragossa have produced such a sensation at Ma drid, that almost:all the Grandees of Spain, the princi pal functionaries, both civil and military, have resolved, in case France rffuses to intervene, to join the party of Don CARLOs. Now all good patriots know, on the contrary, that the true remedy in the midst of all these events can be no other than the convocation of the Extraordinary Cortes, and the adoption of the measur.s which they may propose. M. MENDIzA BEL is ininatiently expected, because 11,1 is known to much in favour of this measure. The minister, Don G A It- CIA lIERREROS, is said to participate in this opinion. On Saturday at noon Lord GRANVILLE, the Duke DE FRIAS, and some other diplomatists, bad a pretty long conference with the Duke DE BROGLIE at the Foreign-office. M. GUIZOT was present. The Foreign Legion left Palma on the 15th, for Tarragona. M. MENDIZABEL arrived at Bordeaux on Monday evening. On the 18th a steam-boat conveyed him to Pauillac, where the Meteore was waiting for hi m . The Spanish Consul accompanied the Minister to Pauillac, where every thing was prepared to receive him in a manner suited to his rank. On Friday and Saturday several petitions were pre sented to the Chamber of Deputies against the pro ject of law for abolishing the liberty of the Press. The general impression is that they will have no effect upon the Chamber, which scruples not to set public opinion at defiance. By one of the amendments pro posed by the Committee, and adopted by the Chamber, no daily journal can appear before the proprietors have lodged . the sum o f e i g h t th ou sand po un d s o f ready money in the I , 4 i n tla) the Government, as a sectrity CHANCERY COURT--(THIS DAY.) The Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal sat to-day in Lincoln's Inn Hall, for the purpose of giving several judgments. IN THE MATTER OF CHAMBERS, A BANKRUPT. Their Lordships gave judgment, in this case, which has occupied so many days in argument. The case came be fore their Lordships upon two petitions of the elder Mr. Chambers, praying that the Commission of Bankruptcy which had issued against himself and his son, in 1825, as bankers, might be superseded. The grounds on which the petitions were presented were, first, that there was no Act of Bankruptcy ; secondly, that there was no petitioning ere. ditor defendant ; and thirdly, that there was a want of trading. The First Lord Commissioner, after going at considerable length into the facts and circumstances of the case, which have been so repeatedly before the public, stated it to be the opinion of their Lordships that an issue should be directed to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas, to ascertain the validity of the Commission against the elder Chambers. RICHARDS V. WOOD. Their Lordships also gave judgment in this case, affirming the order of the Vice-Chancellor, and dismissing the appeal with costs. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. HARRIS. . In this case their Lordships dismissed the information without costs. STOCKER V. STOCKER. Their Lordships gave judgment in this appeal, affirming the judgment of the late Master of the Rolls with costs. CLERKENWELL SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The case of the King v. John Rutter, alias Count De Ruter, John Jay, and Wm. Cleaver, for keeping a gaming house at No. 6, St. James's-square, having been called on, it appeared that only two of the defendants, Jay and Cleaver, were in attendance. Mr. PHILLIPS, who appeared for the defendant Rutter, said be bad an affidavit of the defendant's attorney, and also the medical certificate of Mr. Wooldritch, of 45, Haymarket, setting forth that the defendant Rutter was extremely ill, having been attacked last night with violent diarrhoea. The medical gentleman was in attendance, and could be examined upon oath if necessary. Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the prosecution, hoped such a trick as the present would not impose upon the Court. He hoped the medical man would make an affidavit, as that was the only ground on which the Court could postpone the case. Mr. PHILLIPS hoped the Court would examine Mr. Wooldriteh. Mr. ADOLPHUS prayed the Court to estreat the recog nizances. The estreat had been suspended upon the ex press understanding that the defendant should be in at tendance that day. He believed the illness to be all pre tence and fiction. Mr. PHILLIPS said the recognizances could be as well estreated on the adjournment day as then. Mr. 'ADOLPHUS—It is a complete attempt to turn the Courts of Justice into gambling tables, and let gamblers play their tricks upon them. Mr. PHILLIPS would suggest that the parish surgeon should be sent to the defendant's lodgings in the Hay market, and it could then be ascertained whether or not he was really ill ? _ _ _ After some discussion Mr. PHILLIPS suggested that the trial should be postponed till Friday, when he would un dertake that the defendant would be in attendance. Mr. PRENDERGAST—How do we know that the diar rhoea will be over then ?—(Laughter.) Mr. Wooldritch was then sworn to the truth of his cer tificate, and in answer to questions from the Chairman, he stated that, in his opinion, the defendant was labouring under severe illness. It was then arranged that Mr. Rice, the solicitor for the prosecution, Mr. Dignum, the solicitor for the defendant, and two medical gentleman, should see the defendant, Rutter, for the purpose of satisfying the Court that the defendant was unable to appear. The trial will come on, it is understood, on Thursday. THE FUNDS.-('THIS DAY.) . CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. New York Papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house to the 2d of August. THE MISSISIPPI OUTRAGES.—The New Orleans Pa pers received by the steam packet, furnish copious details of the horrible and disgusting outrages which have been recently committed in Vuksburg, and other places in Missisippi. It is difficult for the mind to conceive that such horrid scenes should take placp in a civilized country. The proceedings at Vuksburg, grew out of the conduct of gamblers, but those in Madison, Hinds, and Livingston, originated in the discovery of an intention among the blacks to murder the white inhabitants, led on by the Abolition Preachers. FROM HAVANNAH.—Papers from Havannah to the 17th of July have been' received in Philadelphia. The Diario Mercantile of the last date contains no particular- ac count of the insurrection which took place among the blacks at that port, on Sunday, the 12th of July, but publishes the sentence and decree of the authorities, by which six of the ring -leaders were tried and convicted ; the sentence was that the parties be shot in the Park, and their heads cut off and publicly exposed. The agents of the Spanish Government have received a letter from Lieut.-General De Lacy Evans, dated Santan der, August 17th, where they arrived all safe, and without having met any vessel. Lieut.- General Evans, after hav ing reviewerthe troops, will proceed to St. Sebastian, on the 20th, to arrange matters for the opening of the cam paign. THE FUNDS. Our continental information this morning is of more in terest than for several days past. At Paris the Spanish funds have receded 3 per cent., in consequence of the revolu tionary movements at Madrid; and the demand of the Spa nish Government for the immediate interference of France, by marching an army into Spain, has also had an effect on the British and Foreign Funds. Consols, which left off on Saturday, at 89. 1 - 2 for the Ac count, opened at 891 Js, with a heavy market ; and the same for money. Omnium, 2 premium ; Exchequer Bills, 20 22 ; In. dia Bonds, 4 6 ; Bank Stock, 214 5. The Foreign Market is also exceedingly heavy, owing to the gloomy state of Spain. Spanish Bonds, which left off on Saturday, at 39, have receded to 861 ; Spanish Scrip closed at 201 ; they are at present 23 22 discount. Portuguese left off at 86 4 ; they are now at. 841 ; Three per Cents., 53 54 ; Colombian, 30 31 ; Mexican, 34 35. HALF-PAST ONE. Montreal Papers to the 29th, and Quebec to the 26th July, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. (From the Montreal Papers.) Flour was in considerable demand yesterday, and sales were effected of 35 barrels: superior] at 31s. 6d. ; 535 barrels fine at 265. 3d. On Saturday the Quebec Committee of Trade presented a farewell address to Lord Aylmer, to which his Lordship replied, " That he thanked them very sincerely for the ex pression of their regret at his approaching departure from the country, by the Committee of Trade, a community for which he ever shall entertain sentiments of esteem and regard." Newfoundland Papers to the 26th ult. Lave been re ceived at Quebec. In consegnence ,of a representation from the commercial body, his Excellency the Governor has decided on abolishing the quarantine regulations in that island. The quarantine establishment at St. John's has• been broken up. . It appears that the spirit of discontent has broken out, and was raging violently in Newfoundland. The Quebec Papers are filled with English news. In the early part of the morning, the funds had rather a gloomy appearance ; but since the information of the ar rival of General Evans at Santander, and his immediate commencement of the campaign, with the retreat of Don Carlos into Biscay, no doubt fearing to be attacked by the English and Spaniards in his rear, this has caused an improvement in the Spanish Funds. Spanish Bonds, which were in the morning 36, are at present 39} ; Spanish Scrip was 23 discount, now 22 discount ; Portuguese 85 ; Three per Cents., 53,1 ; Colombian, 30i ; Mexican, 34f ; Dutch 2f per Cents. 53i. Consols have continued steady during the morning at 89 f for the Account, with little doing. Omnium, 2k premium. THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account, &9 THE FUNDS.—C . LOSING PRICES. BRITISI Bank Stock 214$¢ 3 per Cent. Red. 89% 3 per Cent. Cons 89% lh, per Cent. S. per Cent. Red 9S% New 3% per Cent 98% 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented ' Long Annuities to expire Jai. 1860 l6 17-16 Oct 1859 FUNDS. Omni im 2% pm. India Stock 2t3 Ditto Bonds 7 pm South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities ...... Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1000/.... Ditto 5001 O2 pm. Ditto SUP! 22 pm. Bank Stock for Opg. India Stock for Act. Consols for Act. HINDS. Jan. 1860 l6', 1 OREIGI Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent lOO, Br zzilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Columbian, 6 per cent.. Ditto, 182 t.. Daniell • Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent £ 3 l4 Ditto, Now Ditto 86% Prussian. 5 per cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.' -- Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 393j Ditto, 1834 37 French, 5 per cent 12x(•:,:inge irench, 3 per cent —t. -- .•., Dutch, 11 l per cent. ..,••., Ditto, 5 per cent,. .. ...,,, , 101% 30.7 i 76;i Greek Bonds, 1&2:i. 5 per cent. Mexican, 5 per cent., 1625 243 Ditto, 1625, - 6 per rent 35 Peruvian, 0 per cent, - LITERATURE. THE CAREER OF DON CARL OS, SINCE THE DEATH OF FERDINAND VII : BEING d CIIAPTBR INT THE HISTORY OF CHARLES V. BY HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP, THE BARON DE LOS YALLES. London : R. Bentley, 1835. This work belongs no more to history, properly speaking, than a laudatory funeral oration does to authentic biography. It is a panegyric on the loyalty? the prudence, the firmness, the courage, the patience, the integrity, the magnanimity, the suavity, the gen" tleness, and the mercifulness of Don Carlos, by a de voted follower of his fortunes, sharer of his dangers , and general assertor and defender of his political prin ciples. Like the illustrious Carthaginian Gen oral, M. Auguet—by virtue of the kingly prerogative of. Don Carlos, now known by the style and title of Baron de Los Valles--was but a child when he bent his knee before the altar of despotism, and vowed never to be reconciled with its sacrilegious despoilers. This vow he has most faithfully kept up to the present hour. Louis XVIII., Ferdinand VII., Charles X., Don Miguel, and Don Carlos, have had all and each his sword drawn in their service when combatting the enemies of absolute monarchy. He glories his devotion to Kings, whom he regards as so many personifications -of the Deity on earth. The Baron De Los Valles is none of your timid, time serving Tories, who profess such principles only be cause they consider them the safest ladder to wealth., and honours. On the contrary, he has proved hha - ° self on all occasions indifferent to even the hope of a reward, beyond the pleasure which he derives from as sisting to stem the tide of liberal opinions which are now innundating Europe. To expect an impartial detail of the recent events in Spain from such a writer, would indicate anything but a knowledge of human nature, under the influence of inveterate personal and political prejudices. Viewed as the work of a declared enemy of liberal principles , and a sworn partizan of Don Carlos, this volume will be found wonderfully interesting. The part of it which narrates the residence of Don Carlos in Portugal, his ar rival in, and departure from, England, his flight through' France, and his re-entrance into Spain to dispute the possession of sovereign power with Queen Donna Isabella, is quite as romantic as a fairy legend. We read it with unmixed pleasure. The following anecdote of a meeting between Don Carlos and King Louis Phillippe has not before been given to the public :---, " It was eight o'clock at night when we entered the travel ling carriage. The streets of Paris displayed that brilliant and animating aspect they always present on a fine summer's evening; the approaches of the place Louis XV were co vered with elegant equipages proceeding at a rapid rate to wards the Champs Elysees and the Bois de Boulogne ; young men on horseback, and pedestrians, added to the scene an ap pearance of festivity, which strangely contrasted with the thought that absorbed the mind of the King, to whom I pointed out the spot where, forty. one years before, had rolled the head of Louis XVI divested of its crown. I was remarking to mY august travelling compahion that from the scaffold of the m artyr King, to the model in painted canvas of the obelisk of Luxor, upwards of twenty projects of monuments bad followed each other in succession on that ensanguined spot, and that no edi fice could be durable on a soil which appeared doomed to be cursed with sterility. " ' Revolutions," said the King, ' can only do the work of destruction ; they possess not the germ of reconstruction ; je my native land, they have shaken, in the space of a few years, that Spanish monarchy so strong and powerful, and hale plunged the country into the most cruel anarchy.' " Our carriage was at this moment detained by a species or pleasure car covered over with a cloth awning. I cast niY eyes upon the car, to see who were the illustrious travellers for whom our postillion gave way, and I recognized Louis' Philippe and his family proceeding to Neuilly. I quickly pointed him out to the King, saying—' Look before you, Sire, and behold your august cousin, the King of the French, wh° comes to wish you a happy journey.' Charles V. hastened to look at his worthy relative, who erroneously fancied that some one was bowing to him, and raised his hand to his royal grey hat, graciously lowering it to the ' Spanish Majesty ; Queen Amelia, and the Princesses her daughters, vied in courtesy with their father. The King laughed heartily at Louis- Philippe's salutation, and whispered to me—' My worth! cousin of Orleans does not suspect that I am traversing his do minions without his leave, and am preparing to tear u p, with the point of my sword, his treaty of the quadruple alliance.' " This occurrence suggested serious reflections to the King the meeting presented so much singularity in its contrasts , that Charles V. was struck with it. The two principles re presented by Charles V. and Louis-Philippe, coming, as it were, in contact on the very spot where the revolution had struck, at a King's bead, presented a spectacle which w h o lly a b so rheu the mind of Charles V; I drew him out of his meditation by cheerfully saying to him How fortunate, Sire, is Louis-Phi lippe; his salutation was made with too good a grace not to be a favourable omen to you; it is a fortunate presage of the success of our journey.' I spoke the truth, for no sinister ac cident happened to us." From the arrival of Don Carlos in Spain, the Baron De Los Valles finds nothing to relate but a continued series of triumphs over dastard rebels. Not a single engagement is mentioned in which the Carlists were not victorious. Virtue, generosity , loyalty, and valour are all represented as belonging elt' elusively to the Carlists ; cruelty and cowardice to tbe Christinos. Still many of the details excite the liveliest interest; and few general readers will, after opening this volume, be disposed to lay it aside before every line has been read attentively. It is embellished with portraits of Don Carlos and his celebrated General Zumalacarreguy. We shall conclude our notice of this very partial , but at the same time very interesting Volume, with the following account of the singular habits and strange military career of the curate Merino, one of the firs t who unfurled the banner of rebellion in the North Don Geronimo Merino, better known in Old Castillo by the name of Cura de Villaviado (the Curate of Villaviado)' rose from a very obscure family. His parents sent him t 0 learn Latin at the College of Lerma ; but he bad scarcely reached the fourth class, when they ordered him home, and sent him to keep watch over their goats; he continued the life of a herdsman until the death of the Curate of Villaviado . As no one was found to replace that priest, he was advised to enter the service of an old Curate of Cubasrubias. After taking lessons for six months, Merino entered into holy or tiers, under his preceptor's guidance. " Merino is only fifty-eight sears old. He is five feet two inches high, but is blessed with vigorous health, notwitil standing the apparent weakness of his frame. His features Al e strongly marked, his eyes large and deep sunk. No man woe better calculated to bear fatigue for any length of time ; he neither smokes nor drinks wine ; he eats very little, and only sleeps fifteen minutes in the twenty-four hours. Whilst in the field, he always sleeps on horseback, or close to his horse, which is always ready saddled. Those who are under Merin° orders have never seen him pass a whole night amongst thern' The moment the sun has set, he halts his men, orders tbelP to encamp at a spot which he pants out, and followed by $ single servant, be leaves his troops, plunges three or four , leagues into the forests, and only appears at sunrise the next daY' 4, It is a matter of indifference to Merino, whether his troo? be in uniform or not. He allows each man to dress as be pleases ; and as for himself, he is clothed in the most wretched garb, and covers his head with the poorest hat. When be en ters any town, he is only recognised by the beauty of 11 , 15 horse. His warlike wea p ons are a sa b re , a p a i r o f piste'" which he carries in his pockets, aed a very small blunderbus s ' He fills it with sixteen or tweenty shot at a time; he general keeps his powder in th e h o l s t ers o f hi s sa ddl e . Wh e n obe to fight, he takes a handfull of powder, which h e pl ac es in ,11„ barrell of his blunderbuss, and in order to fire it off, is oblige d to place it under his right arm, and to hold the extremity °' the barrel with his left hand, in order to resist the shock re duced by the explosion of this terrible weapon. " Merino is personally brave ; he is also a fortunate man t and if it be not impossible to seize his p e rs o n, th e task is least a very difficult one. He has always two ho r ses in t% train, the finest perhaps and the best managed in all Castile• He has so accustomed them to proceed at an equal pace, Ke r r however swiftly he may be riding, they always keep togeth L e r ; and gallop as if they were one and the same body. WPhe Merino feels that the horse he has been mounting is tired, leaps upon the other, without standing at all in need of slacken ing, their pace. He thus escaped from the Lusitanos, who' under the order of Aymer, defeated him at Palenzuela, at to commencement of 1823. " The space of forty leagues which separates Burgos fr° Pj a Madrid, is one of perfect safety f or hi m . H e ca n overo l a every town and village within it, having no other escort ti t four men, and yet not i ncur th e s li g ht es t d anger , nor ollev. with any other enemi es th an th e troops sent in pu r suit of bins'and the facility with whi c h h e e l u d es them is become prover bia l " When Merino wages war, he seizes upon couriers, ant whatever effects appear to him to belong to the Governanc e , against which h e i s con t en di ng ; b u t if any one o f his I, commits the slightest robbery in the house of an indisid i r it . who, whatever may be his political opinions, hits been i c sive, a public execution is the certain forfeit of his ail , Atsoldiers are strictly f o rbidden to commit any act of bery or plunder. 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