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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDA AI7GUST 22, 18:i5. _ _.... ___ MAILS. Arrzved. Due. , Arrived. bee A rnved. I),ir. 1. Atnerieß......... 0 1 Vrance..-. ....... 0 0 Lisbon 0 4) Brazil__ 0 Buenos/1. - fres.- 0 0 Darnburg 0 0 Mexico 0 a rarthlgrma 0 0 1- 1011%ifil 0 0 Ostend a 1 Dublin a 0 Jarnaica • 0 . 0 Sweden..... ..... ..,0 0 Flaudp ,. 0 0 Leeward I.lands 0 1 Waterford 0 .....,—..—,. .ki IC --- Jl-1 V. A'rEit AT LONDON MUDGE TO-510R110 ..... :3•2 minutes atter 1. 1 Evening 59 minutes after 1. NATIONAL PROPERTY IN PORTUGAL. ACCOUNT OF PROPERTIES SOLD, BEING PART OF THOSE ANNOUNCED BY ADVERTISEMENT ON THE 30TH JUNE LAST. 'Nor. I - Properties. V alua tions.l Boug 1 . 1 t for. T. - looses in Run St. I azarn, Nos. 112 to 1191 Ditto, in Traves,a do riea, Nos. 11 to 14. Ditto, in Rua d.ls Janollas Verdes, No. 6:1 Ditto, in Travessa da Vcronlea (no Nos.). 'Ditto, on the road to lienefica, Nos. 561 A and 76:3 g Ditto, contiguous to the al:ore, Nos. :114 to 507 Ditto, ditto, NoA. :o's to 570 Ditto, ditto, Nos. f , 71 and 572. Ditto, ditto, No. 573 to 577 Ditto, in Rua de St. Ftar.ciseo -de Paula, No. 76 Ditto, in It. , a Nos. , 0 and 11 . Di!.;o, in ditto. Ditto, on the Plft side of the Convent of St. Irtincisen .;'a la, with an open 3,ard to Rua ;.divat, No. 1? •' 'Rua Oliva], Nog. 1.26 to I:11 Ditto . , in Rna. da Condessa, Nos. 33 to 37 : i hit J, in ditto, Nos. n'S to 42 a",.to, in Ru 1 des Oailt.gOS Nos. 6to 8 ',)itto, in d,ro, Nos. 17 to 1.1 I Ditt o , i n ditt o, Nos. .2S to 30 Ditto, in Rua das Pintas do St. Antan, Nos. 4 7 ritt - ', in Cal cada do Duque, 'Sol. 13 and 14 Diltu, in Beco Oa Ricardo, Nos. 13 and 14 Dick), in ditto, Nos. 17 and 18 Ditto, in Calc ada do Duque de !Aloes, Nos 35 and 36 . . itustic and Urban Farm, in 'Nal I Homes in lina.Dircita do &ato Antonio, Nos. 31 to 31 Ditto, in ditto, No. 39 Ditto, in ditto, Nos. 3t to 26 Di ;to, in ditto, Nos. 37 and 33 Ditto, in front of the Poplar-grove of the Convent of Beato Antonio, Nos. 6 to JA Ditto, in Travessa do Olival, Nes. i 'lnd 2 A Barrack in front of ditto, Nos. 21 An d Ditto, in the same place, Nos 23 to 28 Houses at Laveiras Ditto, at ditto Ditto, at ditto Ditto, a: ditto Ali(reis. e,k7ty X . O 1,(i.)0,0(x) 1,0t0,' 00 4( 0,0 0 200,CC0 400,000 35 0 ; I 0 50 ,1 , 4 V0 73'1,0.10 600,' 00 120; 0 95,500 £ 4 ,1 P,SN , 1,1 1),000 ~5(1:),114 0 2,1110,C00 SOO, 00 • 741(1,0'10 400,000 %OW Wit Ii .0,000 4 00"0 t.oO3rfo 1, , )00,0 0 900,00 cOO,OO 890,C;10 CO,OOO 700,000 2(X),0 0 '200,0 .2EOv op 600,0i0 500,0 n mo M it rei 9,41.3,0t1) :2,010,0 0 3,500,0110 550,0'. 0 6:0,0:0 (V 20,000 5 , 0.000 7 0 5, , I'o 790,0(10 1,211),0W 0 IJO,nOO 13 , ;,t (.0 8.200,14 , 0 3,2 ;1 ,0 0 2,810,1 01) 1,3111,1 00 1 0 '0,0 , 0 790,51:0 4,0 00 2,06 8000 It to ,5,f100 1,550:;00 ,215,000 I,3nty 00 1,351,(pi► 141,01.0 1,0 - 5,000 ‘201,00.1 2'22,0( 0 y 00 605, , 01 1,045,001 285,0 1 :0 5(11,t 00 1,39,56:?,1X)0 ISS, 4 8 1,500 Commission forming the Junta of Public Credit, July 30, 1835, JOSE JOAQUIM DE NORONHA FEITAL. C. - 2 1 ALE of NATIONAL PROPERTY in Por .3 tugal.—By authority.of his Excellency the Minister of Fi nance in Portugal, Notice is hereby given, for the information of the British Public, that SALES of the NATIONAL PRO PERTY are proceeding according to the subjoined list. These sales will proceed regularly. Payment for the said Property will be received in the Bonds of the nye per Cent. Stock, at par, or at 20 per cent., in money, an d th e remaining 80 per cent. by instal ments of five per cent. per annum during 16 years, the deferred payments being subject to an interest of two per cent. per annum. The Government will continue to publish the future series r.s their arrangem en t s for sales are completed. Office of the General Agency for Portugal, 8. No. 5, Freeman's -court, Cornhill, Aug. 21, 1835. Department of National Property. In fulfilment of the Carta de Lei of the 15th April last, it is an nounced that the following National Property will be, Exposed for Sale from the 29th of August forward, before the Commission form ing the Junta of Public Credit, with the view to the absolute sale, at 12 o'clock on the days hereafter named, and biddings which may be offered, according to the conditions of the said Carta de Lei, will "be immediately received. _ _ List the 4th.—On the 20th August next. Property of the Convent of Cor;,as Christi, in Lisbon. Nos. 1•..3 to 128, 4 lots, together valued at 28,000,000 Property of the Monastery of St.. 11ary, of the Vale of Mercy, of the Congregation of fst. Bruno, at Laveiras. Nos. 129 to 144, 16 lots, together valued at On the 3 1 . st of August next. Property of the House of the Holy Ghost, of the Congregation do Orotorio, at Lisbon. No. 145, 1 lot, valuer! at 7,800,000 Property of the House of the Congregation of the Mission de Ril hafolles, at Lisbon. Nos. 146 to 147, 2 lots, together valued at Property of the Monastery of St. Vincente without, of the Canons Regular of St. Agostinho, in Lisbon. Nos. 148 to 150, 3 lots, together valued at 12,300,000 Property of the Monastery of St. Mary of the Vale of Mercy, of the Congregation of St. Bruno, at Laveiras, Lisbon. Nos. 151 to 154, 4 lots, together valued at 4,506,000 Property of the Monastery of St. Mary, of the Order of St. Jero . nimo, at Belern . No. 155, 1 lot, valued at ... Property of the Convent of Our Lady of Penha de Franca dos Eremitos Calvados de St. Agostinho, at Lisbon. Nos. 156 and 157., 2 lots, together valued at Property of the. College of Our Lady of Estrella, of the Benedictine Monks, at Lisbon. Nos. 158, 1 lot, valued at List the sth.—On the 3d of September next. Property of the House of St. Camillo de Leis, at Lisbon. Nos. 159 to 166, 8 lots, together valued at .. 13,200,000 Prepay of the Monastery of St. Vicente without, of the Canons Regular of St. Agostinho, in Lisbon. Nos. 167 to 170, 4 lots, together valued at List the 6th.—On the 4th of September next. Property of the Convent of Our Lord Jesus, of Boa Norte, of the Eremitus Desalcos of St. Paul, in Lisbon. No. 171. one lot, valued at Property of the House of Beato Antonio, of the Secular Canons of St. John the Evangelist. No. 172, one lot, valued at Property of the Convent of St. Domingos, of the Order of Prega . _ . _ dores, in LisliOn. Nos. 173 to 187, 15 lots, together valued at List the 7th.—On the 7th September next. 24,550,000 Property of the House of the Holy Ghost, of the Congregation of the Oratorio, in Lisbon. Nos. 181 to 197, 10 lots, together valued at Property of the Chapel founded by Manoel Teixeira de Carvalho, in the District of CEiras. _ No. 198, one lot, valued at .. Property of the Convent of the Monks of St. Paul, the Ist in Lisbon. Nos. 199 to 201, 3 lots, together valued at List the 9th.—On the 10th of September next. Property of the Convent of the Most Holy Trinity, ;:n Lisbon. Nos. 202 to 203, 7 lots, together valued at Property of the Convent of Our Lady of Conception, of the Agos tinho Desalcos, at Grillo, in No. 209, one lot, valued at Property of the Chapel founded by Anton z .o Vieira d'Andrade, in Lisbon. No. 210, one lot, valued at Property of the Convent of EremitoF, Calvados of St. Agostinho, situate at Collegin'. k o, in Lisbon. Nos. 211 to 216, 6 lots, together valued at Property of the Convent of the - Monks of St. Paul, the Ist Hermit iri Lisbon. Nos. 217 to 219, 3 lots, toy ether valued at Commission forming thy, ; Junta of Public Credit, July 30, 1835. JOZE J P JAQUIM DE NORONHA FEITAL. Translations of the Official Detailed Lists may be obtained at the Office of the Geweral Agency for Portugal, 5, Freeman's -court, Cornbill. HAMBURG, AUGUST 7, 18:35. NOTiCE is hereby given, that the Tickets of the 6',ith HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, guaranteed by the HanfJurg 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 28th just. at 10/. will not be on sale between the 31st inst. and 2d September (on which latter day the Largest Capital Prize is to be .irawn), below LW. The undersigned Contractors decline, as usual, to take anv English orders for any thing less than a whole Ticket, the Corm- 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 ba:ik their remittance (as coming altogether too late, or . after an . ..dvaace in price), must lose no time in remitting 10/, HEINE BROTUErts. Direct, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg. P. S.—ln the last (65th) Lottery, the Capital Prizes came up to the following Tickets:— No. 2,328 sold in Ha Bancomarcs mburg . 100,0(X) :1,277 sold to Li - aerick 5,427 sold to iliga 30,000 1,620 sold ; Al Hamburg for account of a London house 20,000 3,451 sqd to Liverdool The Pr'izes of the Hamburg Great Lottery, are since the last Lottery payable without any deduction whatever, and at the present Exchaar;e Bancomarcs 55 are equal to 4/. Tim publication of Tau STN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 20 minutes past 3 u'doth. •---- c m ' . ' ',. 4 lr e - f ( ~ ..%1 ; • -AL, / ..._ 4, , .. zz i,- ,_,,,,,.. , ,k,,,,, ,_. ; . , ' „e .. , , ---,..... - --..-..,.. f ' zrk •'- ")I,:tir(+ LONDON, EVENING. AUGUST 22 '1835. SATUP, The question of the Repeal of the Stamp Duties was brought forward last night in the Commons by Mr. E. Bur, WER, in a speech, which, on the score of argument, left little or nothing to be desired. The Hon. Gentleman put the question on its proper footing when he said, " it was vain to talk of the liberty of the Press, if they confined the knowledge of it. It was taxed, and the people could not get at it. It was, however, observed that if they took off the tax, newspapers would be deteriorated in the market, and the revenue injured. Now he should contend that competition would increase the merit of literature. Give Ike people cheap information, and they would receive moral ' nolitical information. They would know the laws, and ' evils arising from ignorance. In proportion as - been taxed, it had.declined." Thinking and soundly on the subject, confessing al; that f.t was one of pressing importance, we cannot but express our regret that Mr. BULWER was prevailed on to with draw his motion. The very cogency of his reason ing, net less than the zeal which he displayed through- Out his speech, prepared us for his determination to press it to a division: Had he done 50, he could scarcely have failed to be successful, for the House was for the most part composed of Members ready to give him their stre: nuous support. But he has disappointed us not a little, by a display of what appears to us, under the circumstances of the case, very unnecessary discretion: Mr. Husr acted a far more manly part when he observed, that had he known the motion would have been withdrawn, he would not have seconded it, We may say the same of Messrs. WAKLEY and WARBURTON, whose speeches were charac- . terized by a sagacity and decision worthy of the occasion. The former gentleman, in particular, pressed the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER home ; in fact, left him wholly without the means of reply, when in answer to his remarks, that he feared the revenue might suffer by an immediate remission of the Stamp Duties, lie observed flat he had only to farm the tax, when he had no d0e. 1 .:,t that in the course of a few hours, he might be enabled to secure himself from all possibility of a loss. Mr. W!' . R.I3UP.TON was equally effective' in his arguments. " The Right Hon. Gentleman," be oh- . served, " had tall: - .ed of taking off the duty from one parti cular class, h a t he (Mr. W.) abhorred the notion of favour ing any particular class, and contended that all classes were here equally interested, inasmuch as all classes were now newspaper readers." As Mr. O'CONNELL is known to be just as favourable as Mr. WARBURTON to the remission of the Stamp Duties, he should have pursued the same decided course of conduct, instead of proposing the withdrawal of the motion, and thus leaving it entirely at the mercy of the Chapter of Accidents. But if Mr. O'CONNELL was to blame, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was still mere so ; for he, with an inconsistency amounting almost to the ludicrous, admitted the justice of the principle, even while he expressed himself afraid to act upon it. The re mission of the Stamp Duties was always a favourite Whig topic, yet the party has now been four years in office, and it. still remains where it was, when they first assumed the reins of Government. In 1831 'they made us the promise that some remission should take place ; four years have since elapsed, and still we are put off with the bare promise ! Nay, they even tell us now that, had they a surplus, they might feel inclined to rem;.. some other tax in preference to this newspaper one ; tliough at the same time they admit, indirectly, that they know of none that is more urgent in its nature, or that keeps up a more vexatious monopoly! They cannot allege that its remission will injure the revenue ; for it has been clearly proved that it will have quite a contrary effect. Why then do they hesitate ? We will tell them. From a mere habit of procrastination —a habit in which they have long in dulged, and which if they do not check it in time, will one day or other be the cause of their overthrow. We wish well to Ministers ; we have supported them, and will still continue to support them : but at the same time we are not blind to their failings, nor afraid to expose them. Whenever, therefore, we find them, as on the present occa sion, substituting a convenient expediency for justice, we shall not hesitate to speak our mind. We are independent alike of their smiles or their frowns ; for the cause we ad vocate is that of the people : it has no reference to Whig, Tory, or Radical, as our readers no doubt have long since perceived. It is on this principle that we have all along advocated the remission of the Newspaper Stamp Duty, which, by increasing the spread of political intelli gence, would benefit all classes equally ; and prove besides of inestimable benefit to a Ministry, which, like the present, is sincerely desirous, by resisting the domination of a fac tious oligarchy, to promote the welfare of the community. Lord J. RUSSELL'S remarks last night in the House of Commons, in reply to some absurd twaddle of Mr. HORACE Twiss, are deserving of every attention. The House heard them with the same delight that the country will read them. Ministers, it is clear, will show themselves equal to the crisis which is approaching. They will stand fast by the people, let the Lords grumble and thr , ,aten as they may. Nevertheless, we must not relax an instant in our exertions ; for Ministers have a difficult game to play, and are fully deserving of all the support that the people can give them. We subjoin an extract of Lord. JOHN RUSSELL'S speech which produced an electrical effect on the House :—" WE ARE THE SERVANTS," observed his Lordship, "OF THE CROWN ; WE bitE, AT THE SAME TIME, THE REPRE SENTATIVES or THE PEOPLE. We are here to repre sent the people, and to consult the people's interest. Ido not irnpute it as a fault to another branch of the Legislature, that, when legislative measures come before them, they have rot considered what was their duty with regard to thew,: legislative measures ; but I do say that, with respect to these legislative measures, and with respect to the voting the supplies qf money to the Crown, that this House is in full possession of those powers which any House of Con:nzons ever had I am not ready (and I will not submit to do so from any imputation which may be thrown out on the other side) to give up one single iota of the powers which are considered the undoubted and inde feasible rights of the House of Commons, to provide such laws as they think are necessary for the redress of grievances, and to vote such supplies as they may think in their conscience are best calculated to maintain the honour of the Crown, and to preserve the great interests of the country." It will be seen by a reference to our parliamentary report, that Mr. HUME presented a petition in the House of Com mons last night, signed by twenty thousand citizens of Dublin, praying for the removal of Mr. SHAW from the Rd cordership of that city, on the ground of political partisan ship, and neglect of judicial functions. The speech delivered by the Hon. Member for Middlesex was less marked by good taste, than valuable for the excellent principle which it embodied—namely, that the practice of vesting legisla tive and judicial functions in the same person is unconsti tutional, and subversive of civil liberty. The Right Hon. RECORDER attempted a defence of;,lsconduct—legislative and judicial—upon which we regret that we cannot afford space for comment. e, however, made one imVortant admission—he e[anfessed that, in his own opinion, . the duties of a Judge and a Senator were too much for even a per in of his distinguished ability. We have received the whole of the Paris papers of Thursday, together with advices from Madrid to the 13th instant, Certain declaimers in favour of the measures of abro gating the constitutional charter of Prance, recommended by the CITIZEN KING to his most willing slaves the Depu ties, took fire at some remarks made by us some four or five days since, in which it was stated, that unless the Madrid Cabinet succe&led in putting down the Republicans, his most Christian MAJESTY would, under some pretext or other, decline the observance of the articles contained in the Quadruple Treaty. What we knew, and announced as a fact, was regarded as a mere surmise, intended to in crease the popular detestation of the person and policy of the KING of the Barricades. The French Ministerial Journals will very shortly, however, save us the trouble of proving the correctness of the statement to which we have alluded. It is evident that something unexpected is about to take place, as their tone for the last eight days, in treating of the war in Spain, has undergone a complete change. There is no longer a parade of sympathy in fa vour of the QUEEN'S cause. The only matters dwelt upon are the atrocities committed by the Liberals, and the marches and counter-marches of the Carlists. The KING of the FREI , : en is evidently afraid that the war in the North will terminate in the establishment of a government in which the Republican principle shall predominate. Rather than sanction this, the KING of the FRENCH is prepared to vio -1 late any treaty —nay, be is prepared to send an army into Spain to• fight under the banner of Don CARLOS. Symp toms of this feeling already begin to be manifested in r►lmost every department of the Government. The telegraphic despatches from Bayonne, which, during the earlier stages of the rebellion in the North, were published in breathless haste, in second and third editions of the Ministerial Jour nals, are now suffered to remain for days togetherin tile office of the Minister of the Interior, before a sin gle copy of them is sent to the newspaper offices. For a tin Le the put 'lie re garded this as a proof of the partiality with whi ch the French authorities viewed the contest it) the Basque s. It was reported that only such• bulletiva n brought di4;leart. ening intelligence respecting the QUEEN'S cause were kept back, and that all of a favourable character were published he moment they were received. This report, though un true, was credited, and hence the recent change in the language of the Government organs, excited no attention in Paris. The CITIZEN KING has not succeeded so easily in blindfolding or baffling the vigilance of the Press of this country ; anti we are confident the present Government will adopt such measures as will prevent a violation of a treaty, intended to protect the liberties of Western Europe. The debates of Wednesday and Thursday in the Cham ber of Deputies, on the Bill for Abolishing the Liberty of the Press, arc not of such importance as to require from us more than a bare allusion to them. Tht Government is strong enough to carry all before it, and, in point of fact, only laughs at the threats uttered by the Opposition. — Another Revolution is inevitable. The Iralicateur of Bordeaux has the 4" "oaring : " The accounts which we ' ..ave given of the disturbances ':;". Spain are confirmed 14. v our letters. • in several provinces While the pcool, - c . f or reform, the.rower the Queen has been . no "where disregarded. At,nipoll (on the 10th) some rel-nmican songs were heard, but the convent was burnt and the churches pillaged, amidst cries of " The Queen for ever! The C'ountrytim ever !" The same h a pp ene d at B erga , a littl e town in Catalonia, where the Governor was obliged to take refuge with the troops in a fortified convent. Provincial juntas have been everywhere formed, and order restored. " There is no further news from Behobia. The Carlists have had enough of the lesson given them on the 13th, and have not since appeared. General Harispe arrived at St. Jean de Luz on the 14th, and was to go on the 15th to Behobia. The troops had orders to be ready for whatever might happen, and a small reinforcement of artillery has been sent from Bayonne." It said that M. de Rayneval has requested to LM recalled from Madrid, M. de Rumigny is spoken of as his successor, but M. de Rumigny is not agreeable to th e powers w h om a ll p a ins arc taking to satisfy. it is more probable that if M. de Rayncval should be recalled, there will be only a ch.dro de affaires at Madrid. Notice having been transmitted on the 15th of August, by the Prefect of the Department, to the Maritime Prefect of Rochefort, that a suspicious vessel had been seen on the coast, a light and well manned vessel, commanded by a Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp to the Admiral, was imme diately dispatched from Rochefort. We must soon be ac quainted with the result of the expedition, if the suspected vessel has remained on the coast. This event has given rise to a thousand conjectures, with which the name of the adven turous Duchess of Berri is uniformly connected.-21fessager, August 20. FrI.ENCH FUNDS.—PARts. At/atter 21 , , Five per Cents., 109 E .5c lOSE 95c. 9,:c. Four per Cents., WC 3'e. Three per Cents. W. be. 80c. 70c. Bank Actions% 2,02.5 E Rente de Naples, 96t: 85c:90c. Roman Five per Cents., 191 Itente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., Nth 1 ,4 SA. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 20g, 21 21 !l ova Spanish Loan, 045 9 Rente Pcrpetuelle d'Espagne, 3.5 34 4 4 31.: NXCIIANLIE ON LONDON. One month, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 52 c. Three Months, paper, —c.; money, '23f. 40e. Bocitst, THREE o'CLoCK.—Very little business is doing to-day, but the market is very heavy. The Three per Cents. are at 78f. 75c. sellers. The Spanish Securities are lowering daily. OCAILTER TO FOUR..Five per Cents., 108 f. 90c. ; Three per Cents., 78f. 65c. ; Fi ve p er Cents. Spanish, 34; Three per Cents. Spanish, 20 ; Cortes, 34 ; Coupons, 161-; 'Gueb hards, 351; Differes, 14; New Loan, 40; Actives, 40; Passives, 11; Ducats, 96 90; Romans, 1011; Pedros, —; Belgians, 102; Dutch, ; Hay tians, —l. ; prabant Bank, P. S.—The New Spanish Loan has fallen four per cent., towards the end of business. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Auc.. P.I. FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills. Money. Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto 4 per cent. — Ditto Bank Shares ,1325 1326 Anglo-Russian Loan 1 . ,554 105 Ditto, 5 per cent lOO L 0 li Paper ltucriptinn, 6 per cent. — Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th `:ears Ptittuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent B 6t4 864 Ditto, 3 per cent 56% 564 Dutch - .4., per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents — Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 74 q Notwrgian Loan of 1534, 4 pc r cents, Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cent' Ditto 4 per Cent. — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 42% PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, Aye. 15. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4j per cent. !01% 10,0,6 Prussian English Loan, 1e.30, 4 per cent 99% 99% Exchange on London, Two months 6 2N Prussian State Gazette. Aug. 16. In resuming our inquiry into the abuses of the Post Office Establishment, it is proper that we should pre cede it by the correction of a trifling error, which ap pears in our article of Monday last, on the Returns made to Parliament on this subject. We then . stated, that through the exertions of Mr. WALLACE, M.P. for Greenock, to obtain a reform in every branch of that department, a saving had been effected to the amount of fourteen thousand pounds a year, which saving, great as it appeared, was trifling compared with what would be saved to the country by the new contracts, which would be open to competition. Now we were correct as far as regarded the actual amount of the saving which had been effected, but in correct in leaving it to be inferred that this saving had not been made in the new contracts entered into by the Post-office. The fact is that our allusion to a fur ther saving had reference to the increased accommoda tion of the public, rather than to any diminution of the actual expenses now incurred, by the conveyance of the mails throughout the country. We were not aware that the new contracts had been entered into ; because we did not think that after the exposures that had been made, and the remonstrances that had been urged, the Post-office would have entered into any contract under which a provision was not made for the conveyance of the mails to and from London, and for the delivery of all letters and parcels as regularly on Sunday as on any other day of the week. We had imagined that no Postmaster-General of the present day would be found weak or wicked enough to sanc tion the continuance of a system which, while it assumes the garb of Sabbath sanctity, actually leads to increased desecration of the Sabbath—a system as insulting to the majesty of an Omniscient Deity as it is injurious to the interests of his creatures. It is a common and, in many instances, a well founded objection to the legal code of this country, that it extends a protection to the rich which it withholds from the poor ; or, in other words, that the law is for the affluent against the indigent. We object to it on other grounds. We protest against the existence of one law for London, and another for the provincial towns throughout the Empire. In London the arrival and departure of the mail coaches with the usual con veyances is forbidden on Sunday under the plea of Sabbath protection ; in the provincial towns the arrival and departure of such vehicles is never presumed to involve a breach of the Lord's day. In London no let ters are delivered to the public on the Sabbath, nor can persons for whom letters remain in the Post-office, ob tain them by sending m essengers , or goin g p ersona ll y for them ; in the provincial towns, certain hours are set apart on the same clay for the delivery of letters to all who apply for them. In London only the Go vernment mail-bag is made up on Sunday ; in the provincial towns, the whole of the correspondence is sorted, and the several bags forwarded with as much dispatch on the Sabbath as -on any other day in the week. The country may well ask how does this • happen, especially as we do not question the unity and omnipresence of Him who commanded the Sabbath to be kept holy ? Were the practice explained to a Polytheist, he would immediately presume that the in habitants of London worshipped a different God from the people of Dublin or Edinburgh. But before point ing out the cause and the effects of this difference, between the Post Office regulations with regard to Sabbath observance in London and the Proyincial capitals, we invite public attention to the fact that, in the Metropolis, there are eighteen Journals published weekly, which ate all classed under the head of Sun day Newspapers. Of most of these Papers an edition appears on Saturday in time for the post, which is fol lowed by another on Sunday morning, with all intelli gence up to twelve o'clock on the preceding night. Now; as the mails do not carry Newspapers from London on Sundays, the Proprietors of these Journals are obliged to employ conveyances to have them carried to Dartford, Hounslow, Barnet, Romford, Waltham cross,Ctoydon, and all the othea'oat-oilices in the vicinity of the metropolis, from whence they are conveyed by the mails to their several destinations. Now, mark the exquisite absurdity, as well as the barefaced hypocrisy of the Pos : srffice Sunday regulations, as exhibited in this single instance. As the Government mails must leave London on Sunday, and as all letters addressed to its officials must be delivered, the whole internal, and almost. the whole external machinery of the Post office. Establishment is /kept going with nearly the same uniformity on Sundays as on week days. The same number of hands, and nearly the same quantity of labour is employed, with this difference—that on week days the labour goes to forward the " . . ie cour. , -- . —.al, on Sundays to forward no interests The coaches leave London, it is true; but then, for disf tance of ten miles At least, they dre siadred kith tile Sabbath-desecrating weight of a Newspaper. What, however, would be a sin if committed in •St. Martin's- le-Grand, becomes a public duty at Croydon, Houns low,anl Barnet. Coaches, on reaching these emporiums of Sunday intelligence, have passed the hallowed boun dary, within which Post-office industry is an iniquity as unpardonable as a sin against the Holy Ghost. In the meantime the religious feelings of the community are shocked by the sight of private coaches running in every direction, in order that Sir FRANCIS FREELING may edify pious old ladies by the rattling of empty mails. Can there exist a greater absurdity than this? Could a system be established more likely to impress the people with contempt for all Legislative enact ments ? The breach of the Sabbath is made to con sist not in working only, but in the quantity and qua lity of the work done, and that too within a certain given distance. For example, it is no sin to deliver a letter to a Secretary of State—to drive a coach bear ing Treasury despatches—or to entail 'on others a ne •cessity of violating the Sabbath ; but it is a sin to deliver a letter to a simple Member of the House of Commons—to drive a coach laden with newspapers, • and tradesmen's letters—and to do that on Sunday in St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the same persons are prepared to do, and must do, on the same day at Croydon or Romford I This is theological hair-split ting with a vengeance. Now, why in the name of reason is this system suf fered to continue ? The transmission of newspapers and the delivery of letters on Sunday is with the public a work of absolute necessity. Wherefore, then, should it not be made so with the servants of the public ? Whatever it can do without violating a duty, it eau compel to be clone with an equal impunity from wrong. Above all, why should there be a division of labour on the Sabbath, more than on any other day in the week ? Or why should the weight and quality of the bur den be assumed, to constitute the crime of carrying it. Were the Post Office entirely closed on Sundays, there could be some reason shown against carrying on the public business on that particular day ; but as it is partially open, it is the duty of the Government to compel it to contribute towards the sanctity of the Sabbath, by discharging all,the duties in its department which are obligatory or compulsory on any portion of the community. Whatever diminishes the aggregate of Sunday labour—as public bakeries, &c. ; and what ever confines it to the recognized servants of the pub lic, by which all private scandal is avoided, promotes the peifect sanctity of the Sabbath, and its adoption is among the first duties of a Government impressed with a veneration for true religion. Regarded in the light of a source of revenue, we have no doubt but that the Sunday deli very of letters in London would lead to an in crease of nearly one-sixth in the income derived from this branch of the national Revenue. This is so obvious that we need not insist upon it. To attempt proving it by argument would be as idle as to paint a window in order to increase the light. To render such a measure as perfect as possible, it ought to be accom panied by a very large reduction of the postage duty. At present the rate of postage is so high as to deter thousands of persons from writing letters at all ; and those who do write occasionally are obliged, from its operation, to abridge their correspondence to a fifth of what it would be under an improved system. DANISH CLAIMS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR— A s a poor distressed mariner, one of the Danish claimants, I beg leave to appeal to you, as my last hope, to advocate our case, for I have reason to fear that the great ship owners in Parliament are indifferent to the sufferings of those who, like me, have been reduced to penury. lam one of a class of small shipowners who, in conjunction with my rela tions and friends, shared and commanded a small vessel in the Baltic trade in the year 1807. Plain sailor as I was, and am, I conceived, in consequence of the assurance which a friend of mine had received from the Lords of the Admiralty, that I might safely make my accustomed voyage to St. Petersburgh ; but I found, unfortunately for myself and others, that I had been deceived by the Admiralty, for the purpose of enabling the Government of that day to carry on what they considered a great political object, as, on my return, when running down for the Island of Bornholm, I was boarded by what I thought to be a pilot-boat, and taken there as a prize, by which I was deprived of my little all, and myself and crew detained as prisoners. Since then much has been the trouble I have had to undergo, and difficult the task to provide maintenance for my family ; but the hope that, ultimately, the justice which I conceived I was entitled to expect could not fail me, has helped me to bear with my fate. It is above a twelvemonth since I was told that Ministers had pledged their word to Parliament that justice had been done to all the claimants; but I now understand that Ministers deny that they promised to do more than indemnify those claimants for debts which they them selves might recover by an action at law, and which those who have been active did recover in the time of Lord Chief Jus tice Ellenborough.. Can you, sir, condescend to enlighten me on the subject? Some persons tell me that it is done to oblige the King of Denmark, as his subjects who still owe the money would prefer that our Government should pay it for them. Other persons say that a Mr. Parker, of Sheffield, having been promised that his friends and relations should be paid, had agreed to excuse the Minister from paying any body else. Thus you see how a poor ignorant man as I am is puzzled what to believe and what to do on the subject, while perhaps in another year I may be gone to my long home, and my family to the workhouse. Yours, very respectfully, A POOR SAILOR. We presume our correspondent alludes to the case Wolff v. Oxholme; Mauleand Selwyn's Report:S. vol. 4, p. 106. TILE HA rtvEsT.—The harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood. Several fields of wheat and barley were cut last week, and the weather has been most favourable for the reaping and housing of the grain.—Liverpool Times. YOUTHFUL HEROISM.—On Tuesday last, about eighty of the boys of Heriot's Hospital, enjoyed themselves in rambling over the hills near Harlaw, and afterwards dined in Fleming's Inn, on curds and milk. When loitering at the canal bridge, No. 10, waiting the arrival of one of the - light boats, by which they had gone out in the morning, and which bad been engaged to convey them to Edinburgh, a country boy fell inta the water. He had already sunk twice, and was in the act of disappearing a third time, when one of the Hospital youths plunged into the canal, and succeeded in re scuing the drowning boy. The young person wh o th us distinguished himself by his courage and humanity is William Mitchell, son of a mason, residing at the Water of Leith.— Edinburgh Courant. RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—III the week ending the 7th instant, no less than 14,588 passengers travelled the whole length of the line along the Liverpool and Manchester railway. This is exclusive of passengers going short distances, and of those proceeding by the Bolton and other branch rail ways. The following is the number of passeng ers a l ong t h e whole line; during the first seven months of the present year : January, 26,572 ; February, 2 4 ,17 1 ; March, 26,880; April, 3 1 ,3 90 ; May, 35,118 ; June, ,56,280 ; July, 54,642.—T0ta1, 255, 353, This number is also e xclusi ve o f s h or t di s t ances and branch railway passengers. The fares between Liverpool and the Isle of Man, . and Douglas and Liv erpool , have been greatly reduced of l h a ve some days been as l ow as 2 5 ., an d even l s ., a t which rates, howe v e r, it is impossible for the boats to pay. Th e consequence of the reduction has been that many thou sand persons have vis i ted the island, and that the boats have T at h e e , y owing to the sharp competition amongst the steam-boats, been crowded to excess. We understand they have several times taken or brought back as many as 300 passengers at a single trip.—Liverpool Times. Three of the State prisoners who recently escaped f r o m St. Pelagic, at Paris, arrived here last Sunday, in a French fishing-boat, having put to sea at• Fecamp. The mas ter of the boat, by way of doing a double str o k e o f busi ness,brought over some brandy at the sam e ti me , an d t h e con setqiuerae4 was G(iz t c h t eizure of his boat by the revenue officers:— .e ItV.PERIA.I., PAJILI AMEN' : THIS DAY, SATURDAY, At 22 • HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEA KER. took the Chair at ten rain:des past 12 c'eloek. Mr. MORE- O'FERRALL brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Dublin Police and Salaries of Justices' Bill. DOMINICA RELIEF BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill, in the Chair. The clauses were agreed to, and the,Bill was ordered to be re ported. STAMP ACT BILL. This Bill also went through a Committee, and rrts ordered to be reported. ORANGE LODGES. Colonel VERNER presented a petition from Sir Harcourt Lees, in favor of Orange Lodges. • , Mr. nu n v Div move the rejection of thd ; but be vonid submit to the House whether it ought to be recelVed, as it contained evitoiong disrespectful to the douse. Mr. SHARMAN crtAwFortn called upon the Government to iiaO'some lap to.ptit down such Associations as Orange Lodges. Mri SHAW=The petitioner certainly has very strong political feelings, but they do not elftend to individuals, and he is a most respectable man. He would not jet ify the language of the peti tion ; it might be rather warm, but he apprchcafted there would be no objection to it. Tice petition was then laid on the table. CORPORATION REFORM. Mr. T. ATTWOOD peeSetited g petition from Birmingham, stating that the petitioners approached the Hoot* with more con fidence than they had been accustomed to do in former 'ears; and that this etintidt. , net was increased by their conductin supportlitg just and hboai 106iniotiation: They thanked the House for having pasted the Municipal nefdrin eud they prayed them to stand firm, and on no account to suffer that gfeo, +And important , measure to be in any way mutilated.—( Hear, hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL was glad to hear that. the Hon. Mem ber had advised the people of Birmingham not to revive the politi cal Unions. He begged to eorrect a report of what had been stated last night, which had appeared in tile Morning Chronicle of that day, relative to the other House of the Legislature. He had not im pitted to any Member of the other House any political motives, or dereliction of duty, 114 hisite4 in the Report, but he had said that when Legislative measures cattle before- them, they introduced those alterations which seemed proper tit thetti.—(l-lear, hear.) He thought it the more necessary to make this correction, as at the present moment every speech, or letter, or observation, of his (Lord J. Russell's) would be taken hold of, and perhaps used to his prejudice and disadvantage. Mr. E. SHAW concurred with the Noble Lord in approvios of the advice given by the Hon. Member for Birmingham to his constituents: It was easier, however, to set the wheel of radicalism aphis, than td ArteSt its progress when it had been put in motion. Mr. WAKLEY observed that the contest now going en between the hereditary and representative Houses of the Legislature would inevitably terminate in favour of the latter.—( Hear.) He spoke of the House of Lords with all possible respect ; but he could tell them that a short time would show the danger of tampering with the measure of Municipal Reform note before them. Mr. RUTIIVEN wished to see a good and sound understanding restored between that and the other House. He hoped that House would pursue a calm and cautious course, to prevent any dange rous collision between the millions of the United Kingdom and a small party in the other House; but, at the same time, he hoped that House would not degrade itself by any concession of the just rights of the people, which would only precipitate the calamity they were all anxious to prevent.—(Hear.) Mr. SCHOLEPIELD said the meeting alluded to by his Hon. Colleague had been characterised by the greatest firmness of purpose, combined with the greatest moderation. He would not have al• hided to it At all, if it had not been for the uncalled-for observa dons of the Hon. and Learned Member for the University of Dublin. His Hon. Colleague had used the power and confidence reposed in him by the people with the greatest moderation and sound jUdgrtihit, sod had arrested their career, when perhaps they might have transgregted the bounds of discretion, and when no other person could have done so.-=( hear, hear.) Mr. TULK brought up Mr. Buckingham's East India Compen sation Bill, which was read a first time. Mr. MARK PHILIPS presented a petition from Manchester, signed by 6,400 persons, complaining of the hours at which the beer-shops were obliged to close. Shortly after one o'clock the Houge, on the motion of Mr. RUTHVEN, was counted out. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Aug. 21.—Wind S.W. to E.S.E.—Arrived the Dublin Lass, Silk, from Dublin; Alcyone, Goslin, from Swansea; Miss Wellesley, Stevens, from Grenada. Arrived from the River and sailed, the Christopher, Haye, for Quebec ; Asia, White, for ditto ; Ada, Simpson, for St. John's, New Brunswick.—Eight, wind S. S. W., with thunder and rain. PORTSMOUTH, A UG. 21.—Wind S.E. to E.S.E., fine. PLYMOUTH, Kuc. 20.—Wind W. FALMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind variable, light breezes and fine.— Arrived the John, Whalin, from Bahia ; and Andromache, An drews, from Bombay—sailed April 0. Off port the Dordecht Van Hassen, Welcoat, from Mulken. COWES, Aug. 21.—Arrived the Caraibo, Fell, from Valparaiso— sailed May 25. ISLE OF WIGHT, AUG. 21.—Arrived off port the Aurora, De Hoad, from Batavia ; Scornful, Skuthy, from Jamaica ; and Perseus, Bruce, from St. John's, New Brunswick. PENZANCE, Auc. 20.—Arrived off, the Forrester, Haffid, from Tobago ; Ulysses, Spilliker, from New York. HOLYHEAD, Auc. 19.—Arrived the John Higs, Heisse, from Bombay ; Elizabeth, Bentley, from St. John's, New Brunswick. HULL, AUG. 20.—The Clarkson, Hudson, from Restigouche, was lost on the shore last tide. The leak was occasioned by the anchor hulling her.-21. The Clarkson has hauled into dock again. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Valiant, Bragg, from erenada ; Ellen Brook, Redman, from New Orleans ; Pembroke Castle, —, from Quebec.—Off port, the Cicely, —, from Buenos Ayres ; Agenoria, --, from Bay Chaleur. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) T WELVE 0' CL CK. The Stock Exchange report yesterday afternoon, that serious dis turbances had taken place at Madrid, and that the Queen was obliged to leave her capital, is not as yet confirmed. The letters from Madrid of the 13th instant are silent on the subject ; but it ap pears by the express from Paris, this morning, that Spain is in a revolutionary blaze from one end to the other ; and the order of the day is, " Massacre the Monks, death to the nobles as well as to the rich ;jwith long live liberty." This state of things will require the strong interference of France, and we should not be surprised to hear, that ere long a French army will march into Spain. It is asserted that Don Carlos is directing all his efforts upon Castile. In consequence of these unfavourable accounts from Spain, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer deferring the appropriation clause last night, in the House of Commons, the Funds have taken a very heavy turn this morning. Consols, which left off at 891 1, for the Account, opened at 89} 8, at present they are 898 4. Exchequer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 4 6 ; Bank Stock, 214 q 151 4 . The Foreign Market is in a very sickly state, owing to the revo lutionary state of Spain. Spanish Bonds, which left off at 414, have receded to 331, a fall of three per cent., this morning ; Spanish Scrip left off at 18% discount ; it is at present 201 20 discount ; Portuguese closed at 87i ; they are now at 86 87 ; Three per Cents. left off at 55i ; they are now at 541 si, ; Colombian, 31 32 ; Mexican, 35 36. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent India Stuck Ditto - Pond.: . : , outti Sea Stott Id Ann uitiei New :nle per Cent. Annuities, DM_ Exch. Bills, -CIO P lB i 1 pm Ditto 54:0 IS 111 pm Ditto Small l'itto Commercial._ - pm. Ditto Advertise:l — pm. Bank Stock for Account India stock fin' Acc,uat. COMiols tOr Account f.,11% 6 pm. Bank Stock 3 ~e: ( ~r..t. Re i "0 1s 3 :), r t•p . 't. C0n5..,..... 8 9 % 34 35:2 i,, C,:i!, ... ' 94 Bi, D.tt. , ) ite , ...'...•....6 99;4 8% Near - ,.1!, , 4 per Cent. ...... 1;8 1 ,y% IA eAss,N;ted -- 4 per hurt. ibi w n t i.d - — Ilitii, Lcaig A • inzitie , toexpire Jan. 5, Igio 1 6 ,,i 7-16 t) •t. 10, NM — Jan. 5, IK' - in Jan. 5, , lEK) — Atini 5, ISAn - -- Jan. 5. 18711 — Omnium '%`, ki Mt pm. PRICES 01 , FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds .. Belgian Bonds lon% Da o Account .. .. Ditto Account 13 ra7i ban Bonds . !ntto Acroun, Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Acoo tnt ..... ...ti4 51 64 Ditto Account — ' Prussian Boot', : hilhan Bonds ..... .. 335,', Ditto Bonds, 1C , . , — Ditto Account .. • i Russian Bonds, 18.22 — Columbian Bon's — Ditto Account !" Ditto Acdount — Ditto :Metallic Columbian Bonds, :521:32 301 l 30i , Spanish Bonds 41 08t4 9 1 4 - 81.4 9Y, 'Ditto Account Dmish Bends Ditto Account Greek Bonds — !French, 5 per mit.— ...... —EI —c Datt. Bonds, 10"25 — , 4 per cent —l. —c. Dd to Account — ; 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 keer cent..., —'— Exchange —r. —c. Ditto Account, — f Dutch, 21 , 4 per cent. Ditto, ti per cent. ORO Account — Ditto, 5 per cent lO2 1.1„i Neapolitan — Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Pahl. Per Share. Bolivar Copper Mining Company Ditto Scrip 3 2% PRICES OF Iltitill STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUGUST 19 - 3 per Cent. Consols ,O Ditto Iteducea 3!:, per Cent. Stock...s. ¶; B l4 Ditto New, W3O 3 per Cent. Debentures AIR, .. . ... Grand Canal 'Deb.. 6 per cent DI Ditto, 4 per cent 6l,i Hibernian Hank - /$ City of Dublin Steam Co. lO6 National Insurance Company 30 . ...._ ... . . Bank Stock 2:231;; City Debentures, 4 per cent... SO% Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 2234 per cent 93 IA COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. Amsterdam C.F. t 2 S Ditto, at sight Rotterdam °U. 12 8 Antwerp l2 ii Horriturg M.B. 13 0 Altana l3 0 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto 2 Us. 26 0 Bordeaux F-ankfort On Maine, Ex. M 154% Petersliiiigh, ruble '3 Us. joi,f, Berlin Vienna, effective fl M. 10 11 Trieste ditto lO 12 Madrid Cadiz.. Bilboa Barcelona 'l7 Seville Gibraltar - - Leghorn 17t Genoa • '25 P 5 . Venice 47 vaples 40% Palermo per oz. 121 Li: bon Opoito Rio Janeiro 36 Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 clays' sight Cork PRICE or BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver. bars, standard 0 4 11% -HALF-PAST ONE. We have no further continental arrivals. Since the early part of the morning, there has been a re-action in the Foreign funds, which have had a very gloomy appearance. Consols may be quoted at 89:4; Exchequer Bills 18 21; India Bonds 6 ; Bank Stock 211 k ; India Stock 2541. Spanish Omnium Bonds, which receded to 34, are at present 39 , 1; Spanish Scrip 20 discount ; Portuguese 80; 3 per Cents., 53,; Colombian 301; Mexican 351; Dutch 53i 4%. - • THREE O'CLOCK Consols for the Account;.B9k.. TIIE WHEAT GM/P.—The Mark-lane Express, the best authority in such matters, says, " Reports are' still prevalent that the new wbCati - will be much inferior in quality to what is at present anticipated ; but that the extent of the deficiency in quantity will not be apparent to the farmer till the wheat is in the stark. From Liverpool this view of the harvest is corroborated, as it is stated that the reports of the :! wheat - crop are conflicting in the extreme, but - the tendeizcy is towards a short roduce," ), PARLIAMENTARY SUMAMRY. j n LORDS' yesterday the Royal Assent, by Commission, was given t o numerous Bills, and several other:: were ad vanced a stage. was some conversation on the schjeet of Australia, after which the Militia Staff Reduction Lill waE passed, and the House then adjouri:.4d. "In the Coll7.lnxe, the Sergeant-at- Artec informed tho House that, in pursuance Of the ' SPEAKER'S warrant, .he had endea voured to apprehend Colonel FAIRMAN; that he gone to his residence, where be was Informed that indi, -- idual ha qui!ted his hoslse about a quarter a an hour ; that he then sent his messengers to execute the warrant; that the: had been relieved at stated times, and that they still continled there; but the Colonel had not returned. Mr. TooxE pre- • sented a petition from Truro, expressive of the wanton and wilful . mutilations to which - they understood the Municipal Corporations Bill to have been subjected, and praying the House to stay the Supplies, or. the " Appropriation" of the same, until that Bill had received the Royal Assent. Mr. ~,".'",_ARLETT presented two petitions, complaining of intimida tion pra;,"`ised at the Kerry election. Mr. O'CONNELL said that so much cf the petitions as referred to hint was wholly untrue. Mr. ORD.:, es Chairman of the Committee ap pointed by . the House to inquire into the truth or falsehood of the allegations, declared that the tirst witness ex: mined broke down, and the charges which this person (Brownrigg) brought forward were by no means substantiated. Mr. HUE then presented a petition against the Recorder of Dublin, corn plaini.:g that by his political partizanship and attendance in Parliament justice was rendered an object of suspicion. Thic petition, it will be seen, elicited considerable discussion; eventually it was ordered to lie upon the table. The amend ments made by the Lords to the Militia Staff Bill were agreed to. Mr. S. EKE then postponed going into Committee on the Consolidated Fund Bill, till Friday. Mr. WinKs ex pressed his satisfaction, and said the " Appropriation" clause ought to be postponed until it was known what course the Lords would adopt. Mr. HOME ant: other Hon. Members, also concurred in the propriety of not pt . :sing any more money clauses,lintil the fate of the three great measures now in the , House of Lords be decided. This question, the deferring - or stopping the supplies, led to an animated debate. Mr. E. - L. Bui.wEtt then brought forward his motion for the reduction of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers, moving that the House re solve itself into a Committee on the subject. The CHAN CELLOR of the EXCIIEQUER conceded the principle, but he could not pledge himself as to the time of moving the reduc tion. A lung and . highly interesting debate ensued. Mr, BuLwEit withdrew his motion saying, " that as the GOVeftl-, rnent and the House had recognised the principle, it was wholly unnecessary to press the matter, at present, to a division." Leavewas given (on a division) to bring in a Bill to provide for the payment, by the EaSt India Companyof compensation. to Mr. BUCKINGHAM for /eases of properly occasioned by that Company's seizure of his Nowspaper, &07, &e.. COfhTCIRCITLAR. Witinson, AUGUST 21.—The King's natal day was cele brated here, both at the Castle and in the town. This morning a Royal salute ushered in the day, and soon afterwards the bells of the town and Castle assisted with their notcs of rejoicing. At 12 o'clock the troops fired a. feu de joie in the little Park, opposite the Castle, answered by the smelt artillery on the east terrace. Their Majesties, accompanied by the Duke, Duchess, Prince George, and the ,Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Princo Ernest of Hesse Phillipsthall, and the other guests at the Castle, viewed the proceedings from the Castle. The troops afterwards marched into the Quadrangle, to deposit the colours in St. George's Hall. Sir Andrew Barnard and Sir Horace Seymour ( Equerries to his Majesty) received the colours from the Ensign, and placed them in the middle window and the opposite space of the Hall. His Majesty, in the presence of his Royal and noble visitors, inspected the troops in the Quadrangle, the Foot Guards passing singly be fore the King. The Duke of Cumberland arrived at the Castle from town at two o'clock, to pay his congratulations to his Majesty- The Royal procession of thirteen phaetons and othercarriages, the attendants in their scarlet liveries, afterwards left the Cas- tle for Virginia Water, to spend the afternoon. The King and Queen, and one of the young Princes of Saxe •Weimar• rode in the first phaeton and pair, the Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge and Saxe Weimar, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and the other visitors, followed in the other carriages. The arrival of the party was announced by a salute frons the Belvedere Fort (near Virginia Water), under the con - mend of Sir Charles Thornton. Their Majesties and party return to the Castle to dinner. A grand deer was laid out in St. George's Hall. Covers were laid for 120. Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Hill, and some of the Of f icers of the Royal Household, sea, a party of the nobility arrived at the Castle in the course 01 the afternoon, to dine with their Majesties. The sports and pastimes at Bachelor's Acre concluded with a display of fire-works. The town was most brilliantly illu minated, and a dinner in honour of the occasion took place et the Town Hall. The Duchess of Gloucester arrived in town last evenin' from a visit to their Majesties at Windsor Castle. Her Royal Highness is staying at the residence of the Princess Augusta, in St. James's Palace. The Duke of Cumberland left town yesterday, on a visit to their Majesties at Windsor Castle. Lord Hatherton Mr. Clay, and Mr. Hartley, had an inter view (respecting glass) with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. Mr. Devonport and a Deputation had an interview yester day with the Chancellor of the Excheq;Jer. Mr. Buxton and a Deputation of the Avti-Slavery Society, had an interview yesterday with Lord Glenelg, at the COlo nial Office. LIMERICK.--The Reformers of Limerick have nobly sus tained their character at the present crisis. 11 , ,e petition agreed to on Saturday last received 7,000 signatures in less than five hours, and has already been forwarded to Lord Mel bourne fig presentation. It prays that the Municipal Rek-orill, Bill may be passed without the slightest mutilation in any' 0 ' its essential provisions. TWENTY-THREE PERSONS POISONED.--A I . IIC O painful interest has been excited at Gislingham, near Botes dale, by the discovery that 23 individuals have been suffering from the effects of poison, arsenic, mixed with flour, wbiclovo, made up into bread. The parties who partook of the bread , were industrious inhabitants of Gislingham, and their femilic 3 * Inquests have been held on such of the persons who have-fro' time to time eaten of the bread and died, and verdicts return 4, to the effect that the deceased came to their death by arsen ic mixed with bread, but bow or by whom it was so mixed is 0 0 ' known. Suspicion attaches to an individual. On Wednesday last the body of a young man wag exposed at the Morgue in Paris. On a sudden an elderly man rushed from the crowd, and the instant lie perceived the corpse, he exclaimed, "Itis he is my son I" and burst into tears. For three days the unhappy father had been seel;.- ing his son all over the city. Ile was his only hope, his only consolation. He was only 16 years of age, and alreadY he had succeeded, without the instruction of a master, in ac' t quiring a name amotwst the artists; I4vas in the habit 01 playing the guitar at the Jardin Turc. Orn Thursday last the young man, whcw. name is Lournin, met some brother artists, and played with them at billiards for a dinner, which he lost. The party dined, and when it was over, M. Laurain looked at his watch, found that he bad exceeded the hour for th": concert at the Jardin Z nrc, thereby incurring a fine of Iu francs. This second loss quite overwhelmed him ; he imp diately disappeared, and three days afterwards his body vra s found in the Seine. ' ( A DVERTISEMIttIT.) • _ DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND Foggs. Plated on Alt•er • Steel Blades.• Mode s t " Plain Ivory.handles, silver ferrules, rer dozen pair...X3 3 1i £8 IS Carved ivory handles, silver ferrules, per oozen pair 3in 6 9 9 ' o ' Plain pearl handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair... 44 it 11 11 Carved pParl handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair 5 6 12 1:2 0 King's patk•rn or Queen's pattern, silver handles ... 616 6 14 14 T. COX SAVORY, Working Gold and Silversmith, 47, Corn' hill, London. N. 13. A detailed i;.st of the prices of Silver Plate, Plated Good,. may be had gratis. . •••••• B Ili 3 1 B S. On the 18th inst ,at Ryde, Isle of Wight, the lady of 1110 0a4 Noel Harris, Esq., of a daughter. of On the 17th inst., the lady of John Budden Jeffries, Esq ., Carmarthen, of a son. _ . . . On the Itith inst., Mrs. Thomas Hewlett, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., in Middle New-street, Gough-square, C"` wife of Mr. E. H. Medlieott, of a son. On the 2d of June, at Symond's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, the . lady of Admiral P. Campbell, C.B. , Commander-in-Chief, of a s° i ! On the 20th inst., the lady of Dr. Stephen Hall, of Trinity' square, Southwark, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 18th inst., at Armagh, the Rey. J. F. Flaxen, to licl ee ' daughter of the late James Hay, Esq., of Edinburgh. On the 20th inst., at St. Pancras, James Ansley Hingest 4ll ; Esq., of Finsbury-circus, to Emma, youngest daughter of Jarn e Arbouin, Esq., of Brunswick-square. the On the 20th inst., at Clapham, Mr. Thomas \Tarty, of Strand, to Harriett, second.daughter of the late Mr. James MP — of Monument-yard. • • On the 20th inst at Leeds, Mr. James Lord, late of Rochrlalei to Emma, eldest daughter of Mr. William Northeote Walker, ° London. Cal' On the 20th inst., at Droxford, Alexander Beattie, Esq., C - I th e cutta, to Mary Anne Elizabeth Theresa, youngest daughter of late Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Griffiths Colpoys,K.G.B. , On the 20th inst.., at Baldock, the Rev. William Gould, 1% 1 .'1:4'. ofWhickham Durham, youngest son of the late Thomas Gcl u ' o f Esq., of Northaw-place, Huts, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter Vieris Pryor, Esq., of Baldoek. DIED. On the 19th inst, at her brother's house, Canterbury-row, l' ely nington, Surrey, Catherine Elizabeth Littlefear. ;‘ , a , On the 13th of Juno, at Accra, on the western coast of .A o. `" Mr. JoSeph Ridley. b e lle, On the 20th inst., in Park-street, Bath, aged 17,' Anne Ise youngest daughter of Francis Fcrd Pinder, Esq , of Watford. Ife„ r i :t On the 17th inst., at I3ridport, Thomas Colfox, Esq., in his year. On the 3d ult., at Kingston, Jamaica, in his 18th year, Levv ls ' son of Alexander Isaac, Esq., - of Hatcham-grove, Surrey. D., On the 17th inst., aged 76, the Rev. John Armstrong , 42 years Minister of St. James's Chapel, Hampstead-road, -On the 11 , th inst., at Hampstead, Mr. 2f,c' On the inz-t. 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