The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-16 00:00:00

POLAND. utter more than a year of expectation, the Extraordinary Tribunal, comp ose d o f R uss i an generals and magistrates of Poland, and instituted for the purpose of trying the principal actors in the Polish revolution, has at last pronounced judg tient. It is far more rigorous than it was thought it would be. T he members of the Government are condemned to death, without excepting even the Generalissimo Shrzynecki, though he only formed part of the C ounc il i n extraordinary cases. No noti ce i s taken of the second Generalissimo, Prince Mi chael Radziwill. This indulgence is attributed to the inter cession of the Court of Prussia, to which this Prince's family is related. The Venerable Vincent Niemojowski is the only member of the Government now in the country to whom this barbarous sentence applies. All the rest have sought refuge abroad. Thi s heroic old man is, then, the onl victim left for the tribunal ! y On the publication of the sentence Prince Paskewitsch, the Russian Viceroy, caused Niemojowski to be brought before him loaded with chains, and proposed to him to implore the Emperor's clemency, but the noble old man disdainfully re jected this counsel. We know, however, from an authentic puree that P r i nce P askewitsch asked the Emperor's pardon r Niemojow s ki, attr ib ut i ng his obstinacy in refusing to ask f or it himself to mental alienation, the consequence of the sufferings he had endured in his dungeon. The same sentence condemns to death all those filling public situations before the revolution who took part in the Regency of Zakroczym. The catalogue of these is very large, for it c ompreh en d s t h ose Deputies who were enlisted among the e u e b o l r ie din f a unctionaries. Th e ki n d o f pun i shment varied also to the degree of culpability. Some were to perish by the sword, others by the gibbet, and the Judges have stretched their barbarity so far, as to order the previous muti lation of those youths who ga ve th e s i gna l f or t h e revo l ut i on by attacking the Chateau de Belvedere. stroTnhge arrival of C ount R ozn i ec ki i n our town has produced a sensation. Prince Paskewitsch received him with Marked coldness. It seemed as if he regarded his presence tonsarsaw as a mar k o f t h e Emperor ' s distrust, for his func of Senator in the department of the Affairs of Poland should have detained him in St. Petersburgh. This opinion seemed so much the better founded, inasmuch R z a is nd, oh gzanyliencki enjoys th e en ti re con fid ence o f t h e E mperor, been chief of the high police, he is in a situation ° l . ..even cont ro lli ng i n an effectual manner the acts of the Prince's Government. Since the departure of Count Witt, whose influence at Court so powerfully counterbalanced that of the Prince, no surveillance could appear to him so disagreeable as that of ,Count Roznie c ki. I t was generally perceived that the Prince v egan to lose his own confidence; many administrative and financial measures proposed by the Council of State, which is but the organ of the Lieutenant, had not obtained the Empe or's sanction. It is impossible to attribute this change on the Part of the Monarch towards the Prince, whom he had invested w ith full powers to act in regard to the affairs of Poland, to a nY other source than the revival of the influence of the Ger- P a rth represented a t C our t b y t h e E mperor ' s f r i en d, Ge neral Benkendorf. The visit of the hereditary Prince of Prussia has powerfully eoutributed to augment the influence of this coterie, to the eases of of whom he always refers whenever the necessity a rl les of adopting some political measure of high importance, o ' l l ' especially when a war appears inevitable. The confidence ar P Monarch reposes in this party, which is the rival of the Istocratic party, is the result of its comprehending among its number s men of distinguished talent and high intellectual FiaPabilities. But the crisis is no sooner over than he abandons a s much for his own preservation as in deference to the , eal etis distrust o f th e oppos i te party. The Russian aristo taleY willi ng l y consent to the Emperor's making use of the ei it of foreigners in times of diffi cu l ty , but it can never look oil without despite and see t h em s h are in times of peace the ;.? i ence of th e M onarc h , to w hi ch they claim the exclusive ii;gen.,,t• n In such a c on j uncture o f c i rcumstances the pos i t i on o f ; us sian monarch is b o th d e li cate an d d angerous, f or h e .s ,27are that more than on ce th e hi g h no bili ty have summarily ethueniirshel ambitio .the n. sovereigns who invad e d t h e i r r i g ht s an d woun d e d SENTENCE OF DEATH AGAINST PRINCE ADAM CZARTORYSKI. br After having dwelt upon the different motives of the charges y e ,.,.buL against the five members of the national Polish Go luZlient, M. Poklenkowski, the General Procurator, conti of i mPeacliing th e P r i nce Ad am C zartorys ki, P res id ent as i‘at Govr_roment. o T he ease of Prince Ad am C zar t orys ki," h e sa id , " i s suc h th at l i 'mply of it se lf s till more culpability. The high station ais i te .. e o. Prince held in his country, the eminence of his birth, bents fortune - and ex t ens i ve connex i o n s, hi s accomplish have and talents. w hi c h h e was genera ll y k nown to possess, : e , ',loved to be the princip a l cause t h at at t h e moment th e lctalon broke out the conduct of Prince Czartoryski was ek,:dle of upon by many as an exampl e f or i m i ta ti on b y t h em — an Pr o l which he unfort una t e ly gave b ut too unequ i voca l a % % 44 when, b e i ng e l ecte d h ead of the soi-disant national Go ph in hi s s p eec h a dd resse d to the two united Chambers, Izi al .lZ e 2 8th of January, he expressed his thanks for the high e n , of confid ence p l ace d i n h i m, and was at the same time po w :_ r aging his countrmen to maintain, to the utmost of their f, the cause of the y insurrection. W,,,tt is thu s t h at i nd i viduals whom fortune has been favouring , ti on 7, i te in sure their influence over the masses of the popttli!- do ty. "eonie the more culpable by abandoning the path of their 4 1 : T hese, no l ess t h an the holding the office of President of to,3,rdisant national Government of Poland by Prince Czar agairire of th emse l ves su ffi c i ent to esta bli sh a c h arge With '` him pur suant to t h e 24t h art i cle of the penal code, even It ravating c i rcumstances, " & c. Patriot 4 k an thwn that the sentence passed on that illustrious s at of death. MADRID. , ' I MBER OF PROCURADORES.-SITTING OE THE 7TII AUGUST. PLAN OF FINANCE. Ilav SPEECH OF COUNT TORENO. th Q lng asked Catharine 11. how t sh o e nd h er a t d a contrived t s o o fi v n e d .. r t i 'eans of carrying on her grea If we had fol -1 !'ll answered me, By always calculating. ladC:'d this example, I should not now have had to bear the so th s our nince administration.. Let us hope that the th e 're hue of the latter will from day to day brighten . u folliliP of our august Queen Regent, who is laying the ti_ tion of an epoch which promises et t b o a b vi e n n e. o less memorable The indisput- ST ti tat created in the North by C iii/r°olof the zeal of her Majesty for the happiness of these Is fE ° ln pike:s, for th e esta bli shment of order in the finances, which soul of all good government, is our presence in this 13 to ed ' a fact Which will bring about a regular and well under -4111,re s Ystem of receipts and expenditure. tes Publicity being th, t jilt with the existence of the Cor . , it is impossible 11 ,age l , ere should be lasting disorganization in the ma `lov,,."t el the state. It would be impossible surprise,thatthe 4s I,C4lllellt or the nation should be taken by JON': should now be, by the enormous deficits and un ttate,'n burdens. I shall divide into three parts the ir st *"ent of the finances I shall lay b . efor9theCortes : to il l , t he state of the treasury and its deficits,the way liol e et t hem, and the settlement of the foreign debt, as the clo sei l tl ,, earls (providencia) to arrive thereat, and as being closely fly enolinected with bo . th. .2. The presumable future state gar 4aariceS which will give us specific reasons for the NIP B ' and savings' which may be made, as also tor x the_ n re a: tioB,,and the examination of each Then.post, and de th bt e e i kic a ,' the a dministration. 3. int . ernal and the those ' means. shal l to face it (moraj, and how to improve tvliiQh n?ention a new modification of the C ve ustoms duties, I l act' i ,' wi th the natural advantages we possess from the ro °Y ri l l-ns °f our soil and our industry, will reduce smugglingwwill tiv Q e i an a of 4 well organized system of collection, and 0 1_ thetj.Fleater facility to our commercial relations. Each___ . f I , ll c /11 ."°Jeets is of the highest importance ; and I shall b r ri t :g t 4 o.d' a °ll.re after the other, under the notice of the Co rtes. s. V I °I -Y a li t shall limit myself to the first. It is the most pain -qit 1 ,, - ; 'i for 1 must make a statement of the enormous dee tanst -'ll weighs upon us, and of the great sac . rifice n s s i w sts t he dnediately make to meet them. -h ears at the end of December, I Th B33 is ; doeffiethemextrta oethexPenses caused by the civil war, and the aug-en re de for art nl ; and, finally, of the large sums annually t 444 cl- °r t he foreign debt, which, if justice was done o the r r late r jo raltl rt e d a of the holders of the loans approved ofby the k es ;kre e , Would amount to so high a sum, that our present od i a. lear „"2 v , °ll ld be insufficient to meet it. Next, to produce "gat is m'uerstanding of the deficit, it is necessary to state the situation Of the treasury. I'lle t ,_ SIT UATION OF THE TREASURY. Rials Vellon. Tothe°,rll:eeeifpts of the Crown (including those of til t li mi t ,. ~ und) have averaged, in the five years 715,319039 e44.'ne 31st Dec. 1833 klaties--For payments toindividuals, 'led of e4Penses of e,. Cal e 4.• management, 11 - 8. . e‘ion, average of five olta44stife:O.u.i **** f.e.ci ** and payments to "',kir" rers ••• ***** elud ed le lse 14 several ;'rin=, 4 thei r a __ ur;oturces of income, Ile, o w 'uo ..................... . - i be -Ln s net in come. Ris. 583,344,634 4Nltlirzty to that expenses e° n e fo titn ' a te of ........................................ in pensesofmtlte Alonay 1831, and I,,,l.pierefort the.... .. out the. year ....... .... . 1, !p i a ite,is. deficit for . iiiii ........ ......... of the fol luene differe-- 2. . I „etti e alld nee between the liquidated produce of ttide itiereoe presumed ordinary expenses . fo r td to i' °f 2,225 carabineers of the coast in '. otil'qpl,4,„ereexiastar7ztm.ydanncde the sum necessary 19,016,667 t Thar l'ol'ien,_g Fund, which has amounted since Z.. to the eati iiia r e e, said estimated expenses, to .... ...... 20,768,635 l itt e o a t ist la s u t vtetr.aerdinary expenses :of the war 'or th alst AV comber Ise, oll, e. sam e ),,,), ....................................... Avlat , ?sti„, l 81 k bs _ n traordinary war expences for the e tc'untps of the year, conformably to the lia, biltitster 04,1Anister at War has delivered to the . tat(' t ° the Tr ait " Ye t i Ulat m e__ See, the 31st Dee, 1830 ......... y,411.78, (crecilt)enses, resulting from the loan pe I kl9 t o ?)B,?!the Royal Treasury, in the five i.a kli 1 ,N 3 ..................... : .............. whioll defi"n deficit to this day 336 , 2 64,666 k.. e.all . ri tt li b„. t haviilitaYkbe increased li; . y. ........ lici - u - iaa . tion of June, ''' Iner e oni... t' ue.eri yet communicated to the ministry, eased, friaed in the statement. The deficit will further and considerably so, by the acknowledgment of 32,718,418 38,454,872 10,801,215 131,974,505 79,440,200 29,204,562 31,418,337 73,827,680 30,789,830 51,798,755 lie loans contracted, out of the kingdom, by the ancient Cortes, which are not less sacred than the others, if', however, this debt is not comprised with all the foreign debts in the settlement I shall propose hereafter. What I have stated must be included in the sum of sixty millions rials, advanced at Paris by Messrs. Rothschild, for the payment of the six months' dividend on the foreign debt—a sum which will be reimbursed by a part of the advance of 100 millions of rials, which Messrs. Arodin and Co. have promised to procure to the Spanish Government in the course of four months. The other 14 millions, which the Government has disposed of with the consent of Messrs. Rothschild, will gradually be reim bursed, as has already been partly done. From what has been stated, it would appear that, exclusive of the ex penses of the war, the Treasury would owe 201,813,597 rials for the sums exceeding the receipts brought for ward from year to year. This is a deficit which will be doubled in the course of the present year, if efficient means are not taken to diminish it. To remedy this evil, it is necessary to increase the revenues of the Cron, and to lessen the expenses of collection and of the public service. The investigation of these means will be the chief topic in the discussion of the Estimated Budget of 1835, which will, as I have informed you, follow the present. It will suffice, for the present, for me to say, that if I have well-founded hopes of an increase of resources, from the administrative means I am engaged in carrying into execution, such a result can be neither so immediate nor so speedy, as our wants require. When public tranquillity shall be restored, I flatter myself with the hope, that next year our liabilities will be limited to the real amount of our ordinary resources. Former Administra tions had adopted the system of covering the annual deficits by loans contracted abroad. In this way, the loans progres sively increased, and the interest and the sinking fund of the foreign debt from 1823 to this day have risen to the sum of 134,526,146 rials, It follows that if justice was done, in like proportion to the h o ld ers o f th e C ortes ' anter i or l oans , the State could not bear such an augmentation.. If I could reconcile it to my own principles, and to the system of publicity we are entering upon, I should oppose for some time longer any revelation of the state of the Royal finances ; and, perhaps, by •concealing it, I should more easily get means for the current year ; but such disloyal conduct would deepen the abyss into which the creditors of the State would for ever fall. Such conduct would not be useful even to the Government, since it would be exclu sively for the loans on their agents, as may be seen from the results of the foreign recognised loans. The con tracts since 1823 have amounted to 2,919,454,666 rials, which have been reduced by the sinking fund out of the same loans, to 2,544,406,657 rials. The produce of this enormous debt has been 739,595,254 rials ; and deducting from this sum the charges of the commission and the sinking fund of the loans of 1823, no more than 269,681,313 rials of the sums have been paid into the treasury. Such is the desolation presented by an enormous debt contracted at a time of profound peace. The lesson given us by the past shows us what is proper to be done for the future, which consists in a strict economy, and a better system in the administration. With the one or the other we shall be able to arrive at that balance of the receipts with the expenditure of the Royal Treasury, without which no Government can be secure, or enjoy consideration. But as the advantages of this system cannot be immediately obtained, and cover the deficit which exists, it is urgent that we should at least be on a level with our wants, and to foresee the other deficiencies which may accrue from the war, and the expence we are already called upon to make in consequence of that terrible scourge, the cholera. An imperious necessity, in fine, obliges us to settle all the foreign debt in such a way, that while we successively pay it, the nation may have time and facilities, by regaining its strength, to religiously fulfil its engagements with all its creditors. The conse quence of another system would be but to injure and to de ceive those who have confidence in our word, and to bring on a catastrophe which would be the more disastrous, as having been for a long time preparing. Better times will arrive, and foreigners will be forced to acknowledge our foresight, our good faith, and the equity of the Cortes and the Governmen This measure will be followed by the authorization which ask for, for creatlng;esources ;—extensive powers, it must be admitted ; but indispensable, when the deficiency and the cir cumstances in which we are placed are considered ;—powers which will be used but successively, and when the public wants require it ; and which are such as to show, that the like will not be again required. In fine, if the means asked for are great, great also will be the possibility of restoring quickly peace to this kingdom ; and near will be the day'iwhen the expenditure may be balanced by the receipts. Under all these circumstances, I present for the consideration and approval of theCortes,the following decree, which will meet all that I have exposed in this report. 1. All debts contracted in foreign countries by the Government at different periods, and espe cially the loans effected either before or after the year 1823, are a debt of State. 2. The liquidation of all this debt shall immediately take place, and as the liquidation proceeds, provision shall be made for the -payment of the interest. 3. All this foreign debt shall be divided henceforth into ac tive debt and passive debt. Its conversion into active and pas sive debt shall be effected in equal proportions. The accumu lated interests of the ancient foreign loans shall be reimbursed by inscriptions of the passive debt. 4. A new 5 per cent. stock shall represent the active debt, into which shall be con verted that part of the ancient foreign loans comprised in the active debt. 5. The active debt shall consist in the first place of the debt bearing interest which the Government may here after create ; and, secondly, of that part of the ancient debt mentioned in article 1, which is to participate in the payments to be applied to the active debt. 6. The passive debt is corn posed of that part of the debt mentioned in article 1, which shall not have been converted into the active debt. The obli- gations of the passive debt shall bear no interest, provision shall be made for their subsequent sinking and reimbursement. 7. All bonds and securities which now represent the foreign debt, shall be exchanged against new securities within eighteen months from the promulgation of the present law. The Mi nister of Finances shall take the necessary steps for effecting this conversion, in London, Paris, and Amsterdam. After the above-named delay, all such bonds and securities of the foreign debt as may not have been presented for exchange, shall ipso facto be annulled. 8. A sinking fund of - 4- per cent. per annum on the • amount of the new stock shall be provisionally applied. 9. The sinking fund shall be exclusively applied to the active debt; but when a certain portion shall have been redeemed, whose amount shall be hereafter determined, the redeemed portion Shall be annulled and replaced by an equivalent portion of the passive debt, thus converted into active debt, and, con sequently, participating in the payment of the interests, and in the sinking fund. 10. No change shall be made in the part of the foreign debt created to meet the demands of the French Treasury, and for English claims, which are founded on the treaties concluded the 30th of December, 1828, and the 28th of October, 1829, neither shall they be included in any of the preceding dispositions. 11. The Minister of the Finance is authorized to contract a loan of 400 millions of effective rials (100 millions of francs) destined to cover the deficit in the Treasury, and to meet extraordinary necessities. He shall contract this loan on the best conditions which may be offered to him, and which may present the most guarantees. 12. The Minister of the Finances is hereby authorized to create a Five per Cent. stock corresponding to the amount of the loan, and to assign to it a sinking fund, which shall be fixed upon the bases established by Art. 8. 13. The Minister of the Finances is charged to make such regulations as the execution of the present law may require, and to give it extensive publicity." The cholera at Madrid diminishes. On the 29th ult. there died 1,100 people, but at present the mortality is only about 200 a-day. DUBLIN. In addition to the four Parliamentary Bishops, necessa rily absent on legislative business, the Irish Church desiderates the Primate, who generally passes every winter at his house in St. James's-square ; the Archbishop of Tuam, now at Cheltenham ; the Bishop of Cloyne, Ibidem ; the Bishok• of Clonfert and Killaloe, at Bath ; the Bishop of Kilmore, in Yorkshire ; the Bishop of Kildare, in Scotland ; and the Bishop of Ossory in Devonshire ; Is it wise, just at this particular juncture, to give such a practical acknowledg ment that the Bishops are not among the working Clergy of Ireland ? The business of the Church goes on excellent well without them ; but they would not thank any one that said so. All Connaught is depending on one mitre, and that covers an old and not very healthy head. Yet I will be bound to say, that the Protestant Laity are as well pro vided with spiritual food, as if the Archbishop of Tuam and his other suffragan were imbibing the waterp of the Shannon. The Protestant people of Ireland, in general, do not know their Bishops. They see them occasionally at Confirmations, and read about them in the newspapers when Privy Councils sit, or when great dinners are given at the Castle. But the intercourse between those Right Reverend Princes and their lay subjects is restricted within a very high and consequently a very narrow circle. It may be different in England, but here nobody is considered fit company for a Bishop who is not accustomed to sit at table with the nobility. The Catholic Bishops know their flocks, and arc known by them. Few men of that commu nion with any pretensions to gentility, but can boast of having entertained their Bishop at- dinner. Respectable farmer s and persons in business have often reckoned Doctor Doyle among their guests, in the days of his highest re nown, when he would have been a worthy guest at the board of a King. But for a shopkeeper to think of asking a Protestant Bishop to dine with him ! Lord bless us— who ever heard of such a thing ? None but wild enthu siasts, who wish to recall the days when an Apostle laboured with his own hands at tent-making, would remindthe Apos tolical order of our Church, how St. Peter took up his e with s "considered one Simo n a t anner. " I assure you, Mr. Editor, a condescension in a country town, (in Dublin they are less squeamish) for even a poor half starved Curate to break b read —out of Church—with any person in business. But for lawn-sleeves to contaminate themselves among " mechanical salt-butter knaves," and to smell punch, were a dereliction of dignity which no esta blishment could survive. But I am waxing heterodox, which I should not wish to do ; mid must the re f ore stop short. More of their Lordships anon. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—By the late commu»i cations from the Cape it appears that thirty sheep of th South Saxon breed have been imported there from New Wales, and sold at prices averaging 171. 13s. 4d. each. This is a high price, and will tend to extend the commercial inter course between the two colonies, which has been increasing for some time. GLOUCESTER ELECTION. (From a Correspondent.) The chairing of the successful Conservative candidate, Mr. Codrington, took place at Gloucester, on, Friday, the 15th inst., but strong doubts are entertained as to his ever taking his seat in the present Parliament. The prorogation occur ring on the very day of his being chaired, renders it impossible in the present Session ; and before the next, little doubt is entertained that such proof of di.squalffijing facts may be adduced as will render his return any thing but secure. His Tory partisans, not content with securing a majority on the poll, have since evinced the liberality of their spirit by with drawing their custom from all tradesmen who dared to obey the dictates of conscience, and vote for Mr. Tracy Leigh. Strange disclosures have already been made, and every hour seems to render the seeming mystery of Mr. Codrington's triumph less and less mysterious. CHELTENHAM, AUGUST 15. At ten o'clock last night the merry peal of the joy -hells an nounced the arrival of bis Royal Highness the Duke of Glou cester, who, accompanied by Colonel Higgins, Major Boydd, and Sir Robert Wilson, has taken up his residence for some weeks at No. 1, Lansdown-place. His Royal Highness entered the Montpellier pump-room at an e ar l y h our t hi s morning, and was received with every mark of respect by the numerous residents and visitors assembled there; the celebrated band of that establishment saluting the Duke with the national anthem. The accession of visitors of rank and fashion during the past week has been more numerous than at any former Trut of the season ; and houses calculated for the accommodation of large families are in considerable, requisition. The quadrille ball at the Montpellier Rotunda last evening was a very gay and brilliant affair ; and the musical prome nades which are occasionally held in the delightful gardens in front of the pump-room are extremely popular. Extensive improvements are making in the gardens, which form the favourite resort of the fashionable world. The concert at the Assembly-Rooms on Wednesday evening, in which Grisi, Tamburini, and Ivanhoff appeared in Chelten ham for the first time, was most numerously attended. There were upwards of five hundred of our resident nobility and gentry Present ; and never was an audience more gratified. They had a second concert this afternoon at the Rotunda, which was likewise very successful. Amongst the fashionable arrivals of the week are his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, the Marquis of Worcester, the Archbishop of Tuam, the Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord and Lady Gort, Lord Lindsey, Lady Waldegrave, Hon. J. Dutton, Hon. Mrs. Talbot and family, Hon. R. Trevor, Hon. H. Moreton, Sir C. B. Codrington, Sir P. Ross, &c. THE OPERATIVE BUILDERS' UNION AND MESSRS. COMBE AND DELAFIELD, In the True Sun of last night, there appeared an advertise ment from the Central Committee of the Operative Builders' Union, assuring their brethren that they are not "convinced of their error" by the mere contradiction of Messrs. Combe and Delafield, and that "justice must be done to the operatives." On behalf of those victuallers who are connected with us in trade, "we also require justice." When assertions are made and contradicted, the truth must be on one side. To prove our anxiety for the attainment of this, we hereby offer to pay the Operative Builders' Union, or to any public charity, .5001., if it can be proved that we have ever been connected with Messrs. Cubitt, or any other builders, otherwise than as em ployers ; or that we have in any one instance interfered in the contention between the masters and their workmen. COMBE, DELAFIELD, and CO. Castle Street, Long Acre, Aug. 16, 1834. FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SiTnNo of Auo. 14. D9in . in the chair. The election of M. de Laboulie, named at Marseilles, in order to allow the honourable deputy time for the production of the papers, &c., proving his eligibility. Admitted—Messieurs Bassieres, Gravier, and M. Sauget, who was nominated in the Ist and sth Electoral Colleges of the department of the Rhone, having made his option for the former, the sth Electoral College will have to name a new deputy. The ballot then commenced on the address, the several pa ragraphs of which were voted yesterday. The following was the result : Number of voters 295 For the adoption of the address 256 Against it 39 The address was adopted. The following are the names of the deputies chosen by lot to present the address to his Majesty :—Messieurs Girod, de Daunant, de Sevry, Gaetan de la Rochefoucauld, Aubert, Glais-Bezoin, Royer Collard, Dclaborde, Chevaudier, Ar mand, Bourdeau, Demonts, Alphonse Pcrier, Etienn e , Vi g i er, d'Oberlin, Gauthier d'Ugerche, Rivicre de l'Arque, Blin de Bourdon, Tueux, d'Harcourt. The Minister of the interior addressed a few words in a low tone to the President, and the latter immediately announced to the Chamber that his Majesty would receive the Deputa tionon Saturday next, at 12 o'clock. The President submitted the following question to the Chamber :—" The department of the Loire Inferieure (as stated in a former sitting) had named four deputies not resi dent in the department, instead of three : the deputy who was to retire was consequently to be chosen by lot ; and the ques tion now before the Chamber was, whether that mode of deci sion should be immediately adopted." The decision on the question was adjourned, and the Cham ber passed to the order of the day. The admission of M. Mathieu (previously adjourned) was opposed on the ground that the. Hon. Deputy h a d not pro duced the papers, &c., proving his possession of the property constituting eligibility. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Ave. 14. Five per Cents., 106 f. 105 t. 90c. 60c. Four per Cents., 91f. —c. Three per Cents., 75f. 10c. 74f. 90c. 83c.. Bank Actions, 1,755 f. Dente de Naples, 92f. 60c. Mc. 70e . Roman Five per Cents., 947 i 4. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 314 00;4 30, Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 30 28 2'734. Royal Spanish Loan, :814 48 4714. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 411 47 453 i. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, p :per, 2 E 2/;.6c. ; money, 251 25e. Three months, paper, 25f. 15c.; money 25f. 12, , sic. —fours Aulhentigus. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, Aun. 13.—A letter from Ostend, of the 11th, says:— " The number of strangers of distinction who are now here for sea bathing is considerable. Visitors too are coming from all quarters. The last steam-boat from London brought 103 passengers. " Their Majesties have been out this morning in an open carriage, followed by several others, but without attendants or escort, to examine the port, the basons, &c. Their Majesties went on board the fine American ship the Dalmatia, which they greatly admired. " The Chamber of Commerce of this town has had the honour to be received by his Majesty. In its address the fol lowing sentiments were expressed. " Belgium, independent and neutral, has no reason to fear that it will be cut off from the number of the maritime nations of Europe ; but it is imperatively necessary for it to replace those of its ships which lately hoisted a foreign flan-. It is, however, its interest to employ for this purpose only its own resources ; the vessels which have ceased to belong to it were built in its territory, and it possesses within itself the means to supply their place. " It would be a fatal insinuation to pretend that Belgium ought to complete its mercantile navy with vessels built in other countries ; the country possesses in abundance men and materials to equip ships; and your Majesty Al not allow the Belgian flag to be hoisted in wretched barks and vessels, made of fir, which might be had at a low price in the environs of the Zuy-der Zee and the Baltic, while the dockyards of the king dom were idle, and a crowd of artizans and workmen forced to leave their country, in order to find employment. " There is another doctrine, the propagation of which would be mischievous. Belgium, it is said, having no colonies, can not trade directly with the Indies. This assertion is refuted by facts : the Belgian flag is seen in every sea. The eman cipation of many colonies, and the free ports of others, enable all nations to take part in general commerce. " In the present state of things it has become advisable that the Tariff of Customs should inipose different duties in favour of goods imported under the national flag, and that exportation be wisely encouraged by a drawback ; this combination would promote the welfare of all the provinces of the kingdom. " People talk, Sire, of the necessity of protecting the mer cantile navy by means of ships of war. Allow merchants and shipowners to confess to your Majesty that they consider such support as vain show. I ‘ . There are local interests, the prosperity of which affects that of the kingdom; the fisheries are of the number, they have need of protection. " It would be also desirable that the whole fishery should be protected as in the neighbouring States." The address contained some Other suggestions, His Majesty replied— " I have been satisfied, Gentlemen, with the lucid manner in which the Chamber of Commerce of Ostend has in its va rious writings defended, without partiality to local interests, the general interests of commerce ; I will examine the points that you have stated to me. You may depend on my doing every tiling in my power to encourage commerce." A judicial investigation -is now on foot respect* the dual between Messrs. Canty an d C amp i on a month ago. Several witnesses will be examined, strong wh om we h ear ar e Count Cornelessen and M. Forbes.---Brussels Papers, Airy" 14. ••••••••••••11. On the d o o r o f a reading-room in the to% vii of Killarney is th e following notice :--None but member.; or strangers are admitted. ROYAL ASSENTS. COURT CIRCULAR. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, Veneris, 15 die Augitsti, - 1834. ) The Royal Assent was given to Consolidat e d F un d (Appropria tion) Bill, Customs Bills, Church Temporaliti es A ct A men d ment (Ireland) till, Vines and Heetyveries (Ireland) Bill, Courts of Equity Process Bill, Tithes Stay of Suits Bill, Warrants of Distress (Ireland) Bill, Sale of Beer Act Amendment Bill, burghs (Scot-. land) Bill, Royal Burghs (Scotland) Bill, Registration of Voters (Scotland) Bill, Post Roads (Ireland) Bill, General Turnpike Act Amendment Bill, Trading Companies Bill, South Australia Colo nization Bill. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. £8,875,795 1,612,887 Stamps and Taxes, August 8, 1844. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STOCKTON RACES, Auausr 14. THE SUN ; LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1834. His Majesty, atended by Sir Herbert Taylor, arrived in town shortly before one o'clock yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. The Duke of Cumberland visited the King at St. James's. The King held a Court at one o'clock, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Secretary at War, the Master of the Mint, the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, the Lord Steward, and the Master of the Horse. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which the above named Cabinet Ministers and great officers of State wero pre sent. The King's speech, on closing the session of Parlia ment, was agreed upon. His Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor and the Marquis of Lansdowne. Colonel Mackinnon, the Field Officer in Waiting, made a report to the King of the effective state of the three regiments of Foot Guards. The King afterwards went in State to the House of Peers to prorogue the Parliament. Soon after 2 o'clock the State procession was arranged in the following order :—A carriage (drawn by six bays), containing Sir Thomas Horsley Curteis, Exon of the Yeomen Guard, and three Gentlemen Ushers to the King ; the second carriage (drawn by six bays), conveying Master Graves, Page of Honour, Colonel Hill, Silver Stick in Waiting, General Finch, Groom, and Sir Wathen Waller, Extra Groom in Waiting; the third carriage, in which were the Clerk Marshal, the Controller of the Household, the Treasurer of the Household, and the Keeper of the Privy Purse: this carriage was drawn by six white horses; the fourth carriage (drawn by six black horses) contained the Master of the Robes, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting, and the Lord Steward. Then the state-coach (drawn by eight cream-coloured horses), preceded by the King's Marshalmen, two and two, twelve of the King's footmen, two and two, and a party of the Yeomen Guard, two and two, in their coronation costume, and carrying their partisans. In the state-coach were his Majesty, who wore a naval uniform, with the Star, Riband, and Jewel of the Order of the Garter, the Earl of Gosford, Lord in Waiting, and the Master of the Horse. Messrs. Smith and Gardner, principal officers of police, walked by the side of the coach. A detachment of the. Life Guards :escorted the royal procession to the House of Peers. The King returned to St. James's Palace at a quarter be fore four o'clock. Mr. Lewis, the Senior Gentleman Usher, received His Majesty. Sir Frederick Roe was also in attend ance at the Palace. The King's guard were on duty in the principal court-yard with the band cf the regiment. " Ged save the King" was played on His Majesty leaving and re turning to the Palace. The King gave audiences yesterday afternoon to Viscount Melbourne and Viscount Duncannon. The Duke of Gloucester attended by Sir Robert Wilson, Colonel Higgins, and Capt. Boyd, left Gloucester-house, on Thursday for Cheltenham. The Duke of Sussex, accompanied by the Duke of Nor folk, paid a visit yesterday afternoon to Earl Grey, at his residence in Downing-street. The Right Hon. Charles Grant gave a grand dinner on Thursday evening, at his residence in Great George-street, to Sir Jasper Nicholls, Sir Robert Campbell, General Shaw, Captain Chesney, Mr. Lindsay, Mr. Stuart Mackenzie, and other gentlemen connected with the East Indies, to meet the Governor of Bombay. The Postmaster-General had an interview yesterday with Viscount Althorp, at the Treasury. PRIVATE AND JOINT STOCK BANKS. An Account of the Aggregate Amount of Notes circulated in Eng land and Wales, by Private Banks and by Joint Stock Banks, and their Branches, distinguishing Private from Joint Stock Banks, between the 29th March and the 23th June, 1834, from Returns directed by 3 and 4 Will. IV. c. 23. • Private Banks Joint Stock Banks A 10,518,682 JOHN WOOD. PL YMO UTH and DEVONP OR TRA CES, Aua. 14, A Handicap Plate of 1001. Heats. once round and a distance. Mr. Finch's Cecilia 1 1 Mr. Wreford's Pounce 2 dr Mr. Peel's Changeling 3 3 Mr. Taunton's Coronet Mr. Trelawney's Frog threw his rider. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added, for horses nol thorough bred, was won in two heats by Mr. Nattle's Edgar, beat ing Colonel Gilbert's Conrad, and two others. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added, for beaten horses, was won in two one-mile heats by Terror, beating Cyclops, Spon dee, and Disappointment. Two-year-old Stakes of 25 son. each ; colts, Bst 31b. ; fillies, Bst. T.Y. C. 7 subs. Duke of Leeds's Actaeon Mr. Bowes's b. c. by Actaeon Mr. Attwood's Adrian Mr. Jackson's Tormentor 4 Three others not placed. A fine race. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, p.p., for 3-yrs.-old. 3lile and half. 3 subs. Mr. Fox's Mrs. Oakley Mr. Orde's Lilly of the Valley Mr. Chilton's b. f. by Remnant Sweepstakes of IO sovs. each, and 2:i added. Two miles. 7 subs. Mr. Fox's The Count Lord Chesterfield's Theodore Duke of Cleveland's b. c. by Longwaist :3 Two others started. LEWES RACES, AUG UST 15. , The Town Plate of 70/, Heats, the New Course. The winner to be sold for 2001., &c. Mr. Shelley's King of Trumps 4 1 1 , Mr. Dockeray's Trickery Mr. Shackel's Pumpkin The County Plate Plate of 501. (winners to carry extra,) mile heats, winner to be told for 80 sovi. was won in three heats by Mr. Coleman's Dr. Sewell, beating Mr. J. Messers's Florence, Mr. Brown's Fawn, and Mr. Ricardo's Ellen. EAST LOTHIAN YEOMANRY RACES, Aua. 9. Officers Purse. Two mile heats. Mr. W. Hood's Billy O'Rourke 1 2 Mr. Brodie's Jenny Rintherout 2 dr The Lord Lieutenant's Purse. Two mile heats. Mr. Gray's Prior 1 1 Mr. A. Sawers's Dick Members' Purse. Two mile heats. Mr. Lee's Die Mr. John Hood's Little Davie 1 2 3 Mr. Kellie's Major 3 3 2 Mrs. Hunter's Purse. One mile heat. Mr. T. Hood's Bob 1 1 Mr. J. Hood's Helen Macgregor 2 dr Mr. G. Hood's Soreheels Mr. J. Millar's Maid of the Mill Troop Race. Two mile heats. Mr. A. Sawers's Schedule A Mr. Dudgeon's Sir W a lt er Mr. T. Hood's Sister to Betsey Kyle 2 2 3 Mr. Bredie's Jenny Rintherout RACES A UG UST. ro COME. Morpet h Lichfield Abingdon Leicester Dover Doncaster Shrewsbury Oswestry Upton.upon.Severn Brecon Lincoln Heaton Park \Valsall Wrexham Newmarket 'Beverley Leominster Burt -on-Trent Oxfo Exeter Aberystu ith lioches.ter, &c Tunbridge Wells Burnley Newport Paguel Egham cs :l taao e nr, r iit e nre f bor o br : iu d. ..... Yarmouth .. .... Northampton Weymouth 23 30 SEPTEMBER. Pontefract Warwick Western Meeting Dorchester Ashford Beccles Carmarthen DEAL, AUG. 14.—We lament to say, that on the arrival of the Dover Castle steam-paCket from London last night, one of the passengers, a young gentleman about 17 years of age, fell down and immediately expired on the deck. The vessel was instantly stopped, and a doctor procured, who forthwith announced the vital spark had fled, and the vessel proceeded for Dover with the body on board. Arrived this morning his Majesty's ship Vernon, Captain Kerbie, from Portsmouth, and proceeds d this evening to Sheerness to be paid off. BURGLARY AND SUICIDE.—We have just time to notice in our last week's paper, that the warehouse of Mr. Newsome, ribbon-manufacturer, of Warwick-row, had been broken into on the previous.night, and a large amount of pro perty, consisting of silk and ribbons, taken away. In the course of the morning of last Friday, some circumstances occurred, which caused suspicion to fall on a weaver of the name of John Crockford, residing in Spon-street, and by 11 o'clock he was in custody of the constables and detained in a public house,vvhile his premises were searched, the result of which was to confirm the suspicions already entertained, of his having a guilty knowledge of the robbery, if not the actual thief; he was then taken before the magistrates, and underwent an ex amination which ended in his committal to gaol for further hearing. This was about two o'clock on Friday, and was all that was publicly known till the following morning, when the prisoner Crockford was found, about half-past six o'clock, by the turnkey, suspended by the neck in his cell, perfectly cold and lifeless. It appeared that the deceased had tied his neck-kerchief and pocket handkerchief together, one end of which was looped through a piece of , tape fastened to the bars of the cell window, and the other end made secure by putting two or three times round his neck ; by the position in which he was found he must then have placed himself on his bedside under the window, and slid off, being almost in a sitting posture, with his back resting against the bedstead.— An inquest was held at the court-house in the afternoon, before John Carter, Esq., Coroner, when several witnesses were examined, and the jury, after more than an hour's con sultation, returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity.—Lei ',leer Journal. OCTOBER. Carlisle Richmond Nottingham Newmarket Northallerton Caledonian Hunt Newmarket ROYAL NAVY IN COMMISSION. (From the United Service Journal for August.) Actaeon, 26, Capt. Hon. F. W. Grey, Mediterranean /Etna, sur. v. 6, Corn. W. Arlett (act.), coast of Africa African, st. v. Lieut. J. West, particular service Alban, st. v. Lieut. A. Kennedy, West Indies Algerine, 10, Lieut. Com. G. C. Stovin, Chatham Alligator, 28, 'Capt. C. R. Lambert, East Indies Andromache, 28, Capt. H. D. Chads, C. 8., East Indies Arachne, 18, Corn. J. Burney, West Indies Astrea, 6, Capt. A. King, C. 8., Falmouth Beacon, sur. v. Corn. R. Copeland, Mediterranean Beagle, 10, Corn. R. Fitzroy, South America Belvidera, 42, Capt. C. B. Strong, West Indies Bermuda, yacht, Capt. Sup. Sir T. Usher, Kt., C. B. K. C. H., Bermuda Blonde, 46, Capt. F. Mason, C. 8., South America Brisk, 3, Lieut. Corn. J. Thompson, coast of Africa Britannia, 120, Capt. P. Rainier, C. 8., Mediterranean Britomart, 10, Lieut. W. H. Quin, coast of Africa Buzzard, 10, Lieut. W. C. Burbidge, Portsmoth Caledonia, 120, Vice-Admiral Sir J. Rowley, Bart. K.C.8., Capt. T. Brown, Mediterranean Canopus, 84, Capt. Hon. J. Percy, C. 8., Mediterranean Carron, st. v. Lieut. Com. J. Duff!, ditto Castor, 36, Capt. Right Hon. Lord J. Hay, Nor° Ceylon, 2, Lieut. J. G. M'Kenzie, rec. ship, Malta Challenger, 28, Capt. M. Seymour, South America Champion, 18, Corn. Hon. A. Duncombe, Mediterranean Charybdis, 3, Lieut. Corn. S. Mercer, coast of Africa Chatham, yacht, Capt. Sup. Sir J. A. Gordon, K.C.8., Chatham Childers, 16, Corn. Hon. H. Keppel, Portsmouth Cockatrice, 6, Lieut. Com. W. L. Rees, South America Cockburn, 1, Lieut. 'Com. C. Holbrook, Kingston, Lake Ontario Columbia, 2 st. v. Lieut. Corn. B. Albine, particular service Columbine, 18, Com. T. Henderson, Sheerness Comus, 18, Corn. W. P. Hamilton, North America Confiance, st. v. Lieut. Corn. J. W. Waugh, particular service Conway, 28, Capt. H. Eden, South America Cruizer, 16, Corn. Jas. M'Causland, West Indies Curacoa, 26, Cap. D. Dunn, East Indies Dee, st. v. 4, Corn. W. Ramsay, Plymouth Dispatch, 16, Corn. G. Daniell, West Indies Dublin, 50, Capt. Right Hon. Lord J. Townshend, South America Edinburgh, 74, Capt. J. R. Dacres, Mediterranean Endymion, 50, Capt. Sir S. Roberts, Kt. C.B. Mediterranean Espoir, 10, Liet. Corn. C. W. Riley, Falmouth Excellent, 76, Capt. T. Hastings, Portsmouth Fair Rosamond, sch. Lieut. Corn. G. Rose, coast of Africa Fairy, sur. v. 10, Corn. W. Hewett, North Sea Favourite, 18, Corn. G. R. Mundy, Mediterranean Firefly, 3, Lieut. J. M`Donnel, West Indies Firefly, st. v. Lieut. T. Baldock, Falmouth Flamer, st. v. Lieut. C. W. G. Griffin, Falmouth Fly, 10, Corn. P. M'Quhae, West Indies Forester, 3, Lieut. G. Miall, coast of Africa Forte, 44, Capt. W. 0. Pell, West Indies Gannet, 16, Corn. J. B. Maxwell, West Indies Griffon, 3, Lieut. I. E. Parlby, coast of Africa Harrier, 18, Corn. S. L. H. Vassel, East Indies Hastings, 74, Rear-Admiral Sir W. H. Gage, G. C. H., Capt. H. Shiffner, Lisbon Havannab, 42, Capt. W. S. Badcock, Sheerness Hornet, 6, Lieut. F. R. Coghlan, South A mer i ca Hyacinth, 18, Corn. F. P. Blackwood, East Indies Imogene, 28, Capt. H. Hart (act.) do. Investigator, 2, sur. v. Mr. G. Thomas, Shetland Isis, 50, Rear-Adm. Warren, Capt. J. Polkinghorne, Cape of Good Hope Jackdaw, sur. v. Lieut. E. Barnett, West Indies Jaseur, 16, Corn. J. Hackett, Metiterranean Larne, 18, Com. W. S. Smith, West Indies Leveret, 10, Lieut. G. Traill, Lisbon Lynx, 3, Lieut. Corn. H. V. Huntley, coast of Africa Madagascar, 46, Capt. E. Lyons, Mediterranean Magicienne, 24, Capt. J. H. Plumridge, East Indies Magnificent, 4, Lieut. J. Paget, West Indies Malabar, 74, Capt. Sir W. A. Montagu, K. C.H.f Plymouth Mastiff, 6, sur. v. Lieut. T. Graves, Mediterranean Medea, st. v. Corn. H. T. Austin, partic. service Melville, 74, Vice Adm. Sir J. Gore, K.C.8., Captain H. Hart; East Indies Nautilus, 10, Lieut. W. Crooke, Lisbon Nimble, 5, Lieut. C. Bolton, West Indies Nimrod, 20, Corn. J. M`Dougal, Mediterranean North Star, 28, Capt. 0. V. Harcourt, South America Ocean, 80, Vice- Adm. Sir R. King, Bart., K. K. 8., Capt. E. Barnard, Sheerness Orestes, 18, Corn. H. J. Codrington, Portsmouth Pearl, 20, Conn. R. Gordon, West Indies Pelorus, 16, Corn. R. Meredith, coast of Africa Phcenix, st. v. Corn. R. Oliver, particular service Pickle, 5, Lieut. Com. West Indies. Pike, sch. Lieut. Com. A. Brooking, Plymouth PiqUe, 36, Capt. H. J. Rous, Plymouth Pluto, st. v. Lieut. T. R. Sulivan, coast of Africa Plymouth, yacht, Capt. Sup. C. B. 11. Ross, C. 8., Plym. Portland, 52, Capt. D. Price, Plymouth Portsmouth, yacht, Adm. Sup. Sir F. L. Maitland, K.C. 8., Portsmouth President, 52, Capt. J. M'Kerlie, West India and North American Station Prince Regent, yacht, Capt. G. Tobin, Deptford Racer, 16, Corn. J. Hope, West Indies Racehorse, 18, Com. Sir J. E. Home, West Indies Rainbow, 28, Capt. T. Bennett, West Indies Rapid, 10, Lieut. Corn. F. Patten, South America Rattlesnake, 28, Capt. C. R. Drinkwater, Portsmouth Raven, sur, v. 4, Lieut. H. Kellett, coast of Africa Revenge, 78, Capt. W. Elliott, C. 8., Mediterranean Rhadamanthus, st. v. Com. G. Evans, West Indies Ringdove, 16, Com. W. F. Lapidge, Falmouth Rolla, 10, Lieut. F. H. H. Glasse, Portsmouth Rose, 18, Corn. W. Barrow, Sheerness Rover, 18, Com. Sir G. Young, Bart., Mediterranean Royal George, yacht, Captain Right Hon. Lord A. Fitz clarence, G. C. H., particular service Royal Sovereign, yacht, Captain Sup. C. Sullen, C. 8., Pembroke Royalist, 10, Lieut. R. N. Williams, Lisbon Salamander, st. v., Corn. W. L. Castle, particular service Samarang, 28, Capt. H. C. Paget, South America San Josef, 110, Adm. Sir W. Hargood, G. C. 8., G. C. H., Capt. G. T. Falcon, Plymouth Sapphire, 28, Capt. Hon. G. W. R. Trefusis, Portsm. Saracen, 10, Lieut. Corn. T. P. Le Hardy, Lisbon Satellite, 18, Corn. R. Smart, K. H., South America Savage, 10, Lieut. R. Loney, Halifax Scorpion, 10, Lieut. Corn. Nic. Robilliard, Plymouth Scout, 18, Corn. W. Holt, Mediterranean Seaflower, 4, Lieut. J. Morgan, Portsmouth Serpent. 16, Com. J. C. Symonds, West Indies Skipjack, 5, Lieut. W. H. Willes (act.), West Indies Snake, 16, Corn. W. Robertson (b.), South America Sparrowhawk, 16, Corn. C. Pearson, South America Spartiate, 76, Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C. 8., Capt. R. Tait, South America Speedy, 8, Lieut. C. H. Norrington, on a cruise from Ports mouth Spitfire, st. v. 6, Lieut. Com. W. H. Symons, Falmouth Stag, 46, Capt. N. Lockyer, C. 8., Lisbon Swan, 10, Lieut. J. E. Lane, Sheerness Talavera, 74, Capt. E. Chetham, C.B. Mediterranean Thalia, 46, Capt. R. Wauthope, Chatham Thunder, sur. v. Com. R. Owen, West Indies Thunderer, 84, Capt. W. F. Wise, C. 8., Mediterranean Tribune, 24, Capt. J. Tomkinson, Chatham Tririculo, 16, Corn. J. R. Booth, coast of Africa Tweed, 20, Com. A. Bertram, West Indies Tyne, 28, Capt. Lord Viscount J. Ingestrie, Medit. Vernon, 50, Vice Adm. Sir G. Cockburn, G. C. 8., Capt James Scott, North America and West Indies Vestal, 26, Capt. W. Jones, West Indies Victor, 16, Corn. R. Russell, North America Nictory, 104, Admiral Sir T. Williams, G. C. 8., Capt. E. R. Williams, Portsmouth Viper, 6, Lieut. L. A. Robinson, Falmouth Volage, 28, Capt. G. B Martin, C. B. Mediterranean Talbot, 28, Capt. W. F. Pennell, Plym e outh Wasp, 16, Corn. J. S. Foreman, West Indies William and Mary, yacht, Capt. Sup. S. Warren, C. 8., Woolwich Winchester, 52, Capt. E. Sparshott, K. H., Chatham Wolf, 18, Corn. E. Stanley, Plymouth Zebra, 16, Com. R. C. •M‘ Crea , Chatham. PAID OFF SINCE OUR LAST PUBLISHED LIST. Alfred, 50, Capt. R. Maunsel Asia, 84, Capt. P. Richards Malabar, 74, Capt. H. S. Markham SLOOPS OF WAR COMMISSIONED AS PACKETS. Names Lieuts. Stations Briscis, John Downey Brazils and Buenos Ayres Eclipse, W. Forester Goldfinch, Edward Collier Lapwing, G. B. Forster Lyra, James St. John Mutine, Richard Pawle.. Nightingale, G. Fortescue Opossum, Robert Peter Jamaica Pandora, W. P. Croke Leeward Islands Pigeon, John Binney.... Brazils and Buenos Ayres Plover, William Downey Jamaica and Mexico Reindeer, H. P. Dicken Renard. George Durnsford Rinaldo, John Hill (a) Brazils and Buenos Ayres Seagull, 6, Lieut. J. Parson Fitting Sheldrake, A. R. L. Passingham Leeward Islands Skylark, C. P. Ladd Jamaica Spey, Robert B. James do. Swallow, Smyth Griffith Tyrian, Ed. Jennings REPROOF.---Choose a fit time for that reproof which effective benevolence demands. If a failure have taken place on the part of any individual towards you, avoid men tioning it at the moment, for nothing you can say will cause that not to ha ve h a ppened which has happened. The tendency of your observation will naturally and necessarily be to pro duce suffering on his part, and that ill-humour towards you, which is the result of his suffering. If a similar occasion is likely to occur, then, and then only, just before the occasion, if you see a prospect that your interposition will be of use, is the time for re-calling to his mind the former failure. The effect will thus be influetitial at the moment when it is wanted, and all the intermediate suffering will be spared. But remem ber, that of useless reproof pure evil is the consequence—evil certain and considerable, in the humiliation of the re proved—evil contingent, in the loss of h is amit y , alpiderstthine ex posure - posure to his enmity.—London Journal. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The second session of the /Worm Parliament was yesterday prorogued by his Majesty in person. The Speech from the Throne, after a brief review of the foreign relations of the country, which are described as most satisfactory, proceeds to the consideration of our domestic affairs. Of all the numerous questions, the consideration of which ha 3 made the session so •pro tracted, two only are specified by his Majesty—that of the Amendment of the Poor Laws, and the Establish ment of a Central Court for the trial of offences in the metropolis and neighbourhood.. The Speaker, in his address to his Majesty in the name of the Commons, dwelt chiefly on the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, " which had occupied their serious and anxious atten tion almost from the beginning of the session " With out wishing to underrate the importance of the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, and the Bill for the Establish ment of a Central Court in the metropolis, we cannot help thinking that this brief enumeration, coupled with the allusion to the extraordinary duration of the ses sion, is no very high compliment to the Reform Par liament. Too little has been done. The absence of the statues of Brutus and Cassius on a memorable occa sion, only reminded their countrymen more forcibly of the last of the Romans. The Bill for the Admission of Dissenters to the Universities, the Irish Tithes Bill, the Coroners Bill, the Bill for the Emancipation of the Jews,-ought to have formed a subject for con gratulation in the Speaker's Address, and the Speech from the Throne. The omission only drew attention more forcibly to the House of Lords. The Royal Speech points our hopes from the next session, to im provements in our Jurisprudence and in our Municipal Corporations. It would not have been gracious to have attended to the measures which this year have been rejected by the Lords. But the nation has neither dope with these measures nor with Lords. If we wish that Reform shall not be a mockery—if we wish to rescue the House of Commons itself from the contempt of the nation, we must have no more protracted sessions with one act. But we have no reason to expect more from future ses sions than from this, so long as the House of Lords, in its present shape, is interposed between the representatives of the people, and the conse quences of their acts. 'We say nothing of the defects with which the Commons are themselves chargeable. Their arrangements for the dispatch of business are bad, and must be improved. They must have their course chalked out at the beginning of tile session, by which means they may assign such a limit to the dis cussion of measures as their ....rgAative importance de mands. But defective as their arrangements are, the nation has been baulked of what they have actually done. Their labours have been nullified by the Peers. What the whole of the consequences of the rejection of one of the measures may be, we would rather not attempt to predict. One consequence is certain—the destruction of the Protestant Church of Ireland, in all that regards its temporalities, and the beggary of the Clergy. May the endeavour to enforce the law pro duce no other results ! When, however, we reflect that the magistracy of Ireland are chiefly Orangemen, we are not without our apprehensions as to what may follow from attempts to enforce the law. We are the more inclined to anticipate mis chief, when we ask, why was the Tithe Bill re- . jected ? The Dukes of Cumberland and Wellington would not surely hasten the downfall of the Irish Church and doom the clergy to beggary for nothing. They must have counted on something more than this —they must have had more extensive calamity in view, by way of consolation for the destruction of their friends. The people of Ireland would do well to be ware of their enemies, and to avoid, above all things, playing into their hands. But to return to the con stitution of Parliament. The Lord Chancellor in vain racks his ingenuity to reconcile us to the Lords, as a check on the crude legislation of the Commons. We do not deny, indeed we have often ourselves pointed attention to, the defective constitution of the House of Commons, as a legislatiVe body. But we may have a check on the Commons which shall not be an ex tinguisher. The nation must not be trifled with. It is easy to joke about knocking bills on the head. But who is insulted by this knocking bills on the head ? The greatest and most enlightened people in the world. And who are they who dare to insult this great people ? We will assume Lords to be equal to Commoners in point of intellect—that is, that three hundred Lords are equal to any other three hundred educated individuals in the country. In any body taken at random, ten per cent. is a very fair allowance for the sensible men. This would give us about the number of the thirty tyrants of Athens— as the absolute masters of the people of England. And what are their other titles ? The income of the - --------- -- House of Lords, as we have often st a t e d, d oes not ex- ceed two millions per annum. There may be thirty of the body who have not incomes exceeding 10,0001. a year. The whole property of the Pecrs does not equal a fraction of the property of the inhabitants of the single town of Manchester. We have in the comparative poverty of the Peers an intelligible motive for their anxiety to uphold all that is corrupt in the institutions of the country. But stupid will the people of Eng land he, if, with the experience of the House of Lords, and the evidence of the direct interest their Lordships have in misgovernment, they remain longer with their hands folded. Municipal Corpora tions ! And why are we -to expect that the Lords will consent to the purification of municipal cor porations any more than the purification of the Church ? No, no, we must not allow ourselves to bEt fooled with baseless hopes. The constituencies throughout the country must employ the interval be tween this and next Session in communing with their representatives on this great national want—a re-mo delling of the House of Peers. This is the sine qua non ; and a Reformer who does not see that, with the _ _ House of Peers, as at present constituted, nothing is to be done, is a driveller. There are various ways of effecting a change by legal means. Let it always be borne in mind that the House of Commons hold the strings of the public purse. Money is the only intel ligible power in our days. By a judicious system of defensive warfare, through the purse, the Tory Lords may be reached. The public money should not enter the pockets of a Tory Lord, or any man connected with a Tory, till they are sufficiently cured of their ob- stinacy. We have not time nor space at present to enlarge further on this subject. But the hint will, we have no doubt, be caught at ; and when Parliament next meees, we are mistaken if the House of Commons do net display a very different spirit from that which they have shown during their last Session.—Morning Chronicle. The King's Speech, or rather the Speech of the King's Ministers, delivered from the Throne at the close of the Session, is as laudatory of the proceed ings and policy of the existing Cabinet as such speeches usually are. If the historian of England's destinies drew his materials from such documents, he would have nothing to record but the praises of our States men and the wisdom of their plans. The acts of every party in succession that held the reins of power would supply only themes for encomium. Their undertakings —whether legislative, diplomatic, or political—would all be excellent of their kind. In short, the whole of the volumes of England's Chronicles, compiled from King's Speeches," would be a series of glorious re collections—a narrative of wise designs and happy achievements--a mass of panegyric. - Let us look at things as they are, and not as it suits interested poli ticians and their flatterers to represent them. Whatever temporary advantage political fallacies may produce to those Statesmen who consider skilful deception the best part of the science of G o vernment, it is always the interest of the public to know the truth. Whatever the Speech contains, the Ministers who composed or advised it, are responsible for its contents. With every respect for the personal virtues and exalted character of the Sovereign, we must take leave to treat the royal Speech as a Ministerial document just as the Whigs used to do when they were out of office. We will not, indeed,. go so far as a Noble and Learned Member of the plesent Cabinet did on one occasion, who, in criticising a Royal Speech, said he would take the liberty to " tear it t o tatters:: Though truth ought to be spoken to the Throne as well as to the people, we think it not the worse for being spoken in the lan guage of courtesy. The Speech in the outset states I 1 l e t t r set!