The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-17 00:00:00

CHURCH REFORM. (From the Times.) The first great ecclesiastical reform demanded by the national feelings, and promised by the Government, has been a financial reform. The nature of the fund by which the parochial clergy of England and Ireland have been, and are to be, supported, is to undergo a complete modification. But it is also requisite, not only that the nature of the fund should be modified, but that so far as is practicable, the remuneration of a parish minister should be propor tioned to his toil, and that where there is no labour there ought to be no remuneration. This argument settles the question both of pluralities and of sinecures ;—no bishop or other patron should have power by law to appoint to one living a clergyman who already bolds another, and where there is no duty to be performed,—that is, in the case of every sinecure, the income which has hitherto been enjoyed by an idler ought at his death to be seques trated into the hands of whatever commission or board is henceforth to receive and distribute the ecclesiastical revenue, applying the sums thus rescued from corruption to the increase of small livings and of curates' salaries, to which laudable and sacred purpose other funds drawn from similar, but more fruitful sources, should with equal strictness and might with more extensive benefit be made subservient. The attention of Parliament should also be directed to the enormous income of Deans and Chapters. The re venues of these overgrown and sluggish corporations, which are allowed by nearly all the world but their own members to be of more than questionable usefulness, go to the support of some ten or a dozen persons in each diocese, whose sole professional duty consists in chanting the service, and otherwise officiating in the cathedral church on Sundays, bolydays, &c. Now, in the first place, whatever be the cause of it, religious worship in a cathedral is scarcely ever attended by more than one in twenty persons, as compared with the congregation in the next parish church. Yet the apparatus of dignitaries, of all names and sorts, shows an excess of ten to one at least over the clergy of one parochial place of worship, while the accumulation of revenue at their disposal is often as fifty to one. _ _ We presume that there are no true friends of the Church who would object to a different application of such riches, viz., to the purpose before referred to, of helping out the poorer and more laborious clergy—that is to say, after first allotting a sufficient fund to the maintenance of the cathedral in full repair, and to the support of whatever useful charities have any lawful claim to a share of the corporation revenue, to a crumb or two from the digni taries' table. But there is one head •f abuse in the appropriation of ecclesiastical revenues, which is by far the most revolting of the whole. We are not, as we have repeatedly shown, inclined to make the church a subject of superfluous exasperation or derision, or to commit the extravaeance of attempting parallels, for which their exists no fair foun dation, between its primitive history and its actual state. We do not, therefore, challenge the comparison, so frequent with zealous and possibly very pious and excellent, though we think inconsiderate, persons—between the poverty of St. Peter or his brother apostles, and the Archbishops of the 19th century; but we do ask in a spirit of honest good-will towards the reformed Church of Eng land, is it seemly—is it in character—is it conducive to the kindly influence of religion under any form of Christianity—that an English Primate should possess a revenue of more than 20,0001. per annum ?—that he should in one year, besides that extravagant revenue, be suffered to catch a windfall in the shape of fines on leases of little less than 100,000/. ?—that the gloomy though gilded walls of Lambeth should witness a gorgeousness of pomp, luxury, and worldly grandeur, in all those laboured ceremonials by which man pretends to exalt his head above his fellows, such as is unheard-of in the Vatican ? We say nothing of the personal dispositions, which may be mild, and humble, and charitable—nay, overflowing with Christian meekness and benevolence, by which Dr. Howley may he distinguished, or any of the primates who bad preceded him. What we complain of is, that the primacy is in itself a principality,—that its revenues are all but royal,—that its modes and habits of existence are, by prescription, such as Wolsey, were he alive, might in his moods of most elated arrogance, have affected—that, finally, the condition of the Archbishop of Canterbury is, by reason of the prodigious income annexed to it, a shame to that reformed Church, whose discipline, doctrines, and spirit all refuse to countenance such an ungodly accumu lation of earthly treasures, in no manner characteristic of, or conducive to, the furtherance of religious ends, but drawing down a host of envious and adverse feelings upon our whole establishment. Look, again, at the See of London, with its generally admitted prospect of becoming, at no distant period, if its finances remain unmodified, worth 60,000/. per annum. The See of Ely, and the riches heaped up within it,—we say nothing of its admi nistration under the present liberal, disinterested, evan gelical, and beloved diocesan,—are a crying disgrace to the Church of England, and would be reprobated in that of Rome. Durham is another enormity, so isWinchester, so is York. There is no just reason to be alleged for the prodigious wastefulness and scandal of these episcopal revenues. The highest officers of the civil, judicial, or military adminis tration, have nothing to compare with them. Why should the First Lord of the Treasury—a removable minister—have no more than 6,0001. per annum, when there are ecclesiastical functionaries, irremovable, with considerably more than 20,0001. ? The Primate of Ire• land was discovered a few months ago to have a net in come of more than 15,0001. a year. The public have no cause of complaint against that Prelate any more than against the Bishop of Durham, for the use he has made of his splendid income, which, we are told, has bee❑ liberal towards the destitute, and munificent towards the church : so here again we guard ourselves from all impu tations of being actuated by hostile feelings against indi• viduals. But Parliament has declared the income of future " Primates of all Ireland," shall be something aht rt of 10,0001. per annum. Even this is too much by at lout a third; 6,0001. a year would be more than abundant. The Archbishop of Canterbury ought to be cut down to 10,0001. per annum ; York to 8,0001. ; Durham the same ; and London to perhaps as much. All other Eng lish bishoprics ought to be fixed at a maximum of 4,000/. The sees ought to be more equalized, as to business and trouble. Such a diocese as Chester ought to have some of its work turned over to a less occupied prelate ; and no translations, as we have already said, ought to be endured, save only to Canterbury and one or two other prelacies. When there was nothing to be got by Parliamentary sub serviency in the way of promotion, the reverend brethren might perhaps be less unwilling to vacate their baronies in the House of Lords, and to confine their mental activity to the superintendence of their diocese, to an interchange of kindness with their parochial clergy, and to an exhibi tion of conciliatory and edifying examples to their nn longer declining flocks. For Irish Bishops 3,000/. a year would suffice, and for the Archbishops of that country twice the sum. This, however, in conclusion we can aver, that the commutation of tithe is hardly looked to throughout the kingdom with more earnest anxiety than the recall of the &shops to their proper character and station. No church reform can pretend to be complete, and none will give satisfaction to the people, without it. REMARKABLE SUBMARINE DISCOVERY. --.Acnong the occurrences which have been transmitter: by tradition to our neighbours in Gower, is an account of the wreck of a homeward bound Spanish galleon, laden with dollars, on Rhosilly sands, near the Wormshead, shortly after the conquest of South America by the Spa niards—that the crew without giving information of the nature of her cargo, sold the wreck for a trifle to a Mr. Thomas, of Pitton, who not being aware of the value of his purchase, or from some other cause, took no pains for her recovery—and that she shortly became completely im bedded in the sands. Nevertheless, suspicion always existed in that part of the country that she must have had on board some valuable articles, and about 26 years ago, in consequence of the sand having drifted very unusually, part of the wreck, in a very decayed state, became visible, and a quantity of dollars, with some old iron and pewter was dug up from some depth in the sand. The late Mr. J. Beynon,of Pitton, having failed to prove, by any written do cument,the purchase of the vessel by his ancestor (the above named Mr. Thomas), Mr. Talbot, of Penrice Castle, as Lord of the Manor, became entitled to the property, but who generously refused to accept of it, and consequently srany of the inhabitants were much enriched by this for tuitous circumstance. The spot where the vessel struck heinj only open at four hours' ebb tide, and the sand baying i2turned to its old quarters, the money-hunters were obliged to desist in their attempts, and all hopes were abandoned of any further booty from that source. During the late gales, however, the sand having again shifted out, ' the spot was once more resorted to, and the recovery of a very large quantity of dollars has been the result, some bearing the date of 1631, others further back. The cir cumstance has created a very peculiar interest in the neighbourhood, and as it is not likely the present Lord of the Manor, C. R. M. T albot, Esq., will deviate from the precedent of his respected father, it is to be hoped the neighbourhood, which is very poor, will be considerably I.enefited by this occurrence.-- Cumbrian. PRICKS OF STOCKS Till :5 DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. Bank Stccx 0 12 114 New 5 per Cent. ....... ..... Far Cent. Red 8 8 1, 8 14 %% India Stock 3F. :r Cent-Cons. ......37% 4,14% Ditto 80nd5..., ..... ... 25 23 pm. 36 per Cent. South Sea Stock ; PS Ditto Re 3 96%%% Old Annuities ... E 34 New3l4 per Cent. 95% % % New Ditto — 3 oer Cent. Ann. 1126 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 4 rcr Cent. 1826 IC3 % Ex. Bills, £1,00...47 48 46 pm. R Ink Lor g Anr to expire Ditto Jan. 5, IESO 16 15-16 Ditto Small 47 48 46 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 — , Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, 1860 16% Ditto Advertised ......... pm. Jan. 5, 1380. Aprils, 10 lndia for Account Jan. 5, 1871 Cons. for Account ... 894 9 ~,i PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds ..—... ..... 98% !Portugues 8 ;Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds , ; Portuguese Bonds 'p i Ditto Account F3 i Ditto Account 53% Brazilian Bonds fS I 4 j Ditto New Bonds 57 78 8 Ditto Account CS% f Ditto Acconnt 5714 8 % Buenos Ayres Bonds — !Prussian Bonds 102% Ditto Account 21% Ditto Bonds, 1822 lO2 Chilian Bonds — Russian Bonds, 1822... IC3 %ii Ditto Account 23% ; Ditto Account. 163% Columbian Bonds 19% j Ditto 111 10 3 34 Ditto Account. — Spanish Bonds, 1821 ‘ , 34% Ditto Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account 22 i Ditto Bonds, 1823 ......20%% Danish Bon , - " . 13l , Ditto Account 20% Ditto Accr wit 733¢ French Rentes, sp. c. —f. --Z. Greek Bonds .-- Exchange ...... —f —c. Ditto Bonds, 1825 29 —3 per cenL . ..... 161. 50c. Ditto Account.... Vexican Bond., 5 per cent.9.93¢ !Dutch, 21 p. c 494 % Ditto Account ( Ditto Account 49%4 ___ Lit o, 6 per cent 3B I Ditto, sp. c. 94% D:tto Account N I Ditto Account 94% Neapolitan...—. ............. 89 French Scrip 4% pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £7 8 Angio Mex. Min. LA). k iss. et V. pm ) £lOO 9 Bolanos Mining Comnany £l5O 140 Brazilian Min;ig Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. 51 , 0. Co. (iss. et 51. pm.) £2O 6156 Ditto Nr tt0na1.....—........ Ditto St. John Del Rey Crta Branca Mir , ng Company 3% 6% British lion Min;no Comnanv £so 30 293 Co'vmbizn Minnis Co. '1.3 :L 54 pr.) 51►% 12% Engiish Mining Comnany 12% 25 General I‘l;n:ng Association.. l2 8 1 A HibeTnian M ling C 1... Mexican Mining C). Berl del Monte Mining Co.— (unreg. , On ted M'S.. Ain. Co. (iss. t 4. pm.) 40 11% 12 I tto New Sci "n . _ • 5 AP: Ince Fire I 1.1.-i nee Comp lO Proteztor 1.1 -ar.-r ce Cmr -). ~.. £2 Australian Co. ...• . , 26% Canada Comnany General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce F:ovincial Bank of Ireland 25 - 14 3 1 lit X 1 5 6 2134 31( 1 % 2 39 PRICKS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 14. Bank Stock 213% iSt. Patrick lnsur.(perShare Comols, 3 per cent Gov. Stock, ;;N, per cent. 95% . National Ditto — Ditto, New I per Cent. Hibernian Bank Gov. Deb. 3! percent.... 88 3 4 ProNincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock 40 ;2 Royal li:sh Mine Grand Canal Stc li lmperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent. — Miffing Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4D. C. -- !Commercial Buildings Due. lArr;.ved. Arrived. Due. O America 0 0 Hamburg 0 O Brp , il O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Cartliagena 0 0 Leeward islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Malta . 0 1 France 0 0 Sweden 0 O Gue•nsev &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning.. 9.3 minutes after 7. I Evening...4S minutes after 7. NEXT WEDNESDAY. MARTIN and CO. beg to i►►form their Friends and the Public, that NEXT WEDNES- D AY all the PRIZES of £15,000 .ZIO,OOO £5,000 £3,000 £2,000 &c. &c. WILL BE DRAWN. In the FIRST GLASGOW LOTTERY, MARTIN aid CO. Sold No. 404 a Prize of £lO,OOO, and No. 1835 the last Prize of £21,000, at their Fortunate Offices, 8, CORNHILL, and 86, OXFORD-STREET. rb f 11114 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1834. The Paris papers of Wednesday arrived this morning. They contain no news of interest. There are private letters, however, which state that General QUESADA, the Captain General of Castile, had positively made to the QUEEN REGENT a representation similar to that o General LLANDER ; the reply to which was, that the QUEEN would take the matter into con sideration. QUESADA, so far from having been rebuked for his conduct by the QUEEN, has, it is said, had conferred upon him a Castilian title. The Marquis de las AMARILLAS has been, it is said, directed by the QUEEN REGENT to form a new administration, of which he was to be President. M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA was to be the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. DE REMISA, Minister of Finance or of the Interior. MM. BURGOS and ZARCO DEL VALLE were also to have office ; and the Cortes are to be convoked. Such is the state ment of the private letters which have been re ceived. We cannot, of course, vouch for its correctness. The road between Vittoria and Irun is again open. The French Funds are rather heavy. The following are the quotations of Wednesday : FRENCH FUNDS.—Paais, JAN. 15. Five per Cents., 104 f. 75c. 84c. Four per Cents., 92f. Three per Cents., 75f. 30c. 35c. Bank Actions, 1,697 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 91f. Isc. Roman Five per Cents., 91%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 18►4. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 38%. Royal Spanish Loan, 79%. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 61. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent, 974. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 25c. Three months, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f. 10c. —Cours Authentiaue. The internal situation of the country presses so heavily upon every reflecting mind, that we trust the public attention will not be diverted from it by any external circumstances whatever. We have been too apt to concern ourselves with the affairs of others, and have been too negligent of our own. " Quenz Deus wilt perdere," &c., is an observation made two thousand years ago. It is equally just at all times. Providence acts by means, and it is only when we have done everything which we can do in the situation in which we are placed, that we can leave the event to Providence, and place our reliance upon Him who never has forsaken the de serving. But to sit with our arms across, and to open our mouths in the expectation that manna will drop into them from heaven, is a mockery of the ways of Providence. Ne vertheless, this is pretty much what we have done. With the exception of the year 1825, and the short time that the Duke of WELLING TON was in power, there has not been a speech from the throne since the year 1816 to the pre sent time, in which the distresses of the country h a ve not been alluded to, coupled with some such expressions as the following, which occur in the speech delivered by his late MAJESTY from the throne on the 25th of February, 1826, forming an humiliating commentary on th e Royal Speech, delivered on the 3d of February in the preced►ng year:—" His MAJESTY con " fidently believes that the temporary check " which commerce may at this time expe " rience, will, under the blessing of Divine " Providence, neither impair the great sources of " our wealth, nor impede the growth of national " prosperity." But while distress, particularly agricultural distress, was admitted by our Go vernment generally to prevail, and has increased ever since 1815, no inquiry has ever been made, no consideration has ever been given, to the causes of such general distress. It was distress, in truth, which produced the cry of reform. The people attributed the distress they felt to faults in their representation (as they unques tionably were, and still are). The Duke of WELLINGTON denied distress, and negatived reform. Lord GREY, alike incapable, or un willing, with his predecessors, to examine into the causes of the general distress, caught at his Grace's denial of reform, and bottomed his administration upon it in opposition to the Duke of WELLINGTON, who contended that our Constitution should not be changed, be cause as it then existed it was the most perfect that the world had ever seen. Lord GREY gave us uniformity of elective franchise in destruction of the variety of the modes whereby Members had been sent to the House of Commons, which, in the opinion of Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, and others of the best Whig writers and speakers, constituted the chief excellence of the British Constitution. But what good has Lord GREY'S reform done with reference to the general distress ? Has distress been removed, or can it be removed by his reform, or any reform in the representation ? The time has now arrived, when the causes of the distress which has prevailed and increased during eighteen years of peace must be investi gated and removed, and no occurrences abroad must .be suffered to divert us from the task, which it is the peculiar duty of Ministers to perform. This journal has not been wanting in this respect. It has distinctly told them that the causes of our distress are legislative restraints upon our home industry, which we have pointed out, and again desire to press upon their con sideration. There is one article in the Westminster Review of such importance that we cannot forbear dis tinctly calling the attention of our readers to it. We allude to an article entitled " Short Parlia ments," in which we find elaborately discussed a question, which will most undoubtedly soon be brought before the public. The only way in which Ministers, or in which the Tories, whose side they seem to take upon questions of further Parliamentary Reform, can ward off the continual agitation and speedy triumph both of the ballot and of shortening the duration of Parliament, is, as the author of " England and America" justly urges, by legislating in some degree as if they really existed. They wish to avoid the danger of giving perfect freedom of voting to men whose education does not, they think, render them fit judges of many matters which they would urge upon the House. Let them, then, act as the people would act, being educated, and having the full power which would be given them by Universal Suffrage, the Ballot, and Annual Par liaments. The writer of the article in the Westmin ster Review compares the acts of triennial Parlia ments with those of septennial duration, and the comparison is certainly not in favour of the latter. After the restoration of CHARLES If., the first Parliament he summoned sat for 17 years, and contained 178 Members in the KING'S pay. It restored prelacy; it ejected 2,000 non-conforming clergy; it restored Bishops to a place in Parliament ; it repealed the Trien nial Act, in short, "it abrogated the most valuable rights of freedom and conscience which the people had wrested from tyranny during a san guinary contest of more than thirty years." The doings of septennial Parliaments since the Revolution, the wars for the support of tyranny and the maintenance of patronage, the debt they have accumulated, the corn laws they have passed, the taxation to screen themselves and grind down the industry of the country they have imposed, are they not felt by us all as consequences of the encroachment on popular rights made in 1716 ? But much as we are inclined to agree with the Westminster Review in what it says upon this subject, there is one illustration it gives of the advantages of short Parliaments as compared with long, in a great measure founded upon a fallacy. " In the reign of King WILLIAM,'' says the Reviewer, referring to the acts of the House of Commons in 1698, when triennial Parliaments existed, " 7,000 men were reckoned a sufficient standing army for Great Britain, and 12,000 enough for Ireland ; in all 19,000 men for the United Kingdom.—At present there are demanded for Great Britain 30,000 men, and for Ireland about 26,000, making in the United Kingdom a force of 56,000, or 2,000 more than were thought necessary by Parliament for carrying on the wars of King WILLIAM against Louis the Fourteenth in the zenith of his power, and. almost three times as many as were thought necessary as a peace establishment in the time of the same Sovereign." Now, this is not altogether candid or fair. The writer omits, in his comparison of the state of the country at the two periods to which he refers, to notice one or two very important distinctions which bear directly upon the question. With respect both to Ireland and England, it should be re membered that their population is now four or five times as great as it was in the reign of WILLIAM 111. ; so that if the number of in• habitants in the United Kingdom were compared with the soldiers maintained in each at the two periods, the proportion of the latter would be found to be less now than it was formerly. But, putting this fact entirely aside, every military man knows (and, therefore, are we the more surprised at seeing this fallacious argument in the Westminster Review), that the thirty thousand men kept up in Great Britain are not so much wanted for the service of Eng land and Scotland as to supply reliefs to the troops on foreign stations. At present such is the extent of our colonies that a man becoming a soldier almost passes a sentence of perpetual banishment on himself, for the probability is that he will spend 20 or 25 years abroad. The reason is, that we have not troops enough at home to relieve the regiments in foreign service oftener. Whether this great hardship might not be lightened by making certain regiments (the household troops) that now constantly stay at home go abroad in regular rotation, or whe ther the colonies, under proper management, would not cheerfully pay the expenses of all the soldiery they might want, are other questions. All we would do is to show the absurdity of raising a cry against the numbers of the army because they are not as low as they were under totally different circumstances. The advocate of short Parliaments has a case which ,does not require to be bolstered up by fallacies like this,—a case that must eventually triumph and which can only be prevented from triumphing, nay, speedily, and perhaps with some degree of danger, by Par liament as at present constituted, doing as it would do if frequently elected by the free voice of the people, uninfluenced by fear or corruption. Intelligence has been received from Portugal of the blockade of the port of Faro, in the Algar ves. _ No communication has yet been received at the Portuguese Embassy from our Govern ment respecting the proposal for sending troops to Portugal. It is understood that no decision on the subject has yet been come to. We have this morning received Dutch, Ger man, and St. Petersburgh Papers, from which we have given extracts. An article from Berlin states that Austria and Prussia are doing all in their power to prevent war between Russia and the British and French Governments, it being feared that such a war would very materially in jure their own commerce. The merchants and others interested in the receipt of newspapers and small parcels from foreign countries, having remonstrated in vain with the Post-office authorities against the rigid enforcement of the law by which captains of ships are compelled to deliver these parcels to the Post-office of the port at which they arrive, and the enormous charges of the General Post office upon such parcels, contemplate a petition to the Legislature for the removal of this op pressive regulation. In a recent article on this subject we mentioned several instances of the in jurious effect of the law against the transmission of foreign newspapers and letters by private hand, and more particularly of the unnecessary severity with which it is enforced by the Post office Authorities ; and, to-day, we find the following in a Morning Paper : " The following parcels of newspapers from the United States of Americi were brought to the North and South American Coffee-house this morning, from the London Post office, viz.:— Parcel No. 1, weighing 27 3 4 ounces —2, 19 y, - -3, 7 % —4, 1 Total 56 % ounces. " These parcels arrived by the private ship Susquehanna at Liverpool. The demand of the London Post-office for delivery was 211. ss. The captain of the American ship charged nothing for bringing them from Philadelphia to England. " Hail the Post-office regulations permitted the commer cial agent at Liverpool to send them by coach, they would have arrived in London twelve hours sooner, and the whole charge would have been 3s. 2d. Such facts furnish their own comment. The importance of intelligence from the United States was never greater to commercial men than it is at this moment, the dispute between the Bank and the Government there having produced a species of panic in the mercantile and money transactions of the country." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK We have no arrivals of the least consequence to the present hour, with the exception of the express from Paris, and that is of a very meagre description. The National French paper states that a courier has arrived at the Spanish Ambassador's at Paris, who left Madrid on the 6th inst. Great agitation prevailed in the above capital, owing to the information re. ceived from Catalogne, on which the Queen had a consultation of M. Rayneval ; and it was expected she would demand the interference of France, but the measure found great opposition in the Cabinet. THE FUNDS. We are still in great anxiety in the City respecting our Go vernment interfering in the affairs of Portugal. Conflicting opinions prevail on the subject, but nothing certain is known as yet. The great activity which has prevailed for these few days amongst our Ministers gives a suspicion that some impor tant events arc on the tapis; and our first-rate speculators are somewhat alarmed, as it appears they are not in the secret at present, which causes them to be very shy in their operations. Consols continue very heavy this morning. They opened at the price they left off; 89 4 % for the Account ; soon after they were done at 89 % ; at present they are 89 %, to m. The Foreign Market is in a stagnant state—nothing doing as yet—and the prices nominal. HALF-PAST ONE. No doubt many questions will be asked from whence we derived the important article we gave yesterday, re specting the project of an alliance between France and Russia in the reign of Charles X., which has already caused some inquiries in the City; therefore, to satisfy the curious, we can inform them that it comes from a work of the Tuilleries, called Deux Ans de Regue, and there is no doubt of its being an official article, and put into circulation for the purpose of showing the former intentions of the Russian Go vernment. We can state that the French Government will not be in need of a loan, as the Bank of France has offered to assist them with 100 millions of francs ; also that a change of the Spanish Mi nistry will take place, and that Zea Bermudez will be out of the new Ministry. The express from St. Petersburgh is of a favourable descrip tion ; some anxiety is expressed for information from Portugal, as it is expected we shall hear of some important event. Consols still continue heavy at 89 1 / 4 for the Account, owing to the affairs of Portugal and the report of Earl Grey going to resign. In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing; the prices are much the same as yesterday's quotations. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account 89k. DEANERY OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL (SCOT LAND. )-We are extremely happy to learn that this office has been bestowed on the highly respectable Professor of Divinity in Glasgow College, Dr. Macgill.— Glasgow Courier. SURGICAL OPERA TION.-A short time since, a boy in Hartford, near Northwich, bad his thigh ampu tated close to his body, for the removal of a most formida ble disease, called " Fungus Hematodes," which involved the whole limb. The operation was performed eight months after the disease first commenced, and the weight of the limb, from its enormous magnitude, was computed to exceed that of his whole body. He obstinately refused to undergo the operation, until frequent discharges of blood and approaching death at length induced him to submit. —Chester Courant. Brocklesby, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Yarborough, has been lately the scene of great festivity. On New Year's Day a large party of ladies and gentlemen sat down to a most sumptuous dinner, and amongst a great number of excellent dishes the most conspicuous were a noble baron of beef, a boar's head, and a pie of large dimensions, containing a goose, three turkirs, four hares, a variety of other game, &c. His Lordship's splendid and massive service of plate was in requisition on the occasion, which for richness of execution and splendour of appearance may be equalled, but cannot be surpassed by any in the kingdom. A large epergne in the centre of the table was singularly splendid and beautiful. The poor neighbours were not forgotten at this genial season of the year, his Lordship having, with his usual liberality and kindness of heart, ordered a plentiful supply of beef to be distributed amongst the workpeople and dependants on the estate, for their Christmas dinner.... Stamford News. COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) CALLINGWORTH V. GRUNDY. The LORD CHANCELLOR stated on taking his seat at half past ten o'clock, that this was a case in which Mr. Kenyon Parker had made an application arising upon the 13th or 14th sections o f the late Ch ancery Act of Parliament, and the word special in the 20th new order, in consequence of a difference of opinion between the Ma s t er of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellor. His Lordship had had a great deal of conversation with those Learned Judges both y esterday and this morning, and after fully considering the sections of th e A c t o f P ar li amen t, th e y had come to the judgment that the jurisdiction of the Court was not excluded. The 14th section, which alone could be con tended to takeaway the jurisdiction, only took it away according to the construction to be put on the 13th section. It was only with reference to the 13th section, and the subject of it, that it could be argued the jurisdiction was removed from the Court and exclusively vested in the Master. The question then was, what was it that that section gave to the Master ? The first ground on which it might appear the jurisdiction in theCourtwas confined to special applications, and not to applications of course, was the introduction of the words " hear and determine." It might be said that those words more accurately and properly described any thing than applications of course; nevertheless, if it rested there his Lordship would by no means have been satisfied that that defined the subject matter of application to the exclusion of matters of course; but then the latter part of the section a went u n p o o n t t only he w t h o o a l p o p i l t i c w a a t i s o n cl s o aorf the e o u j r u s e r i b s d u i t o t t i o o n o t o h f e r the m a c t t o e u r r s t , was not taken away. It was not necessary for his Lordship to enter into the arguments that might arise upon the terms of the 13th Section, or what might be said with respect to the wording of the 20th Order. The 20th Order had been framed with a view to meet this construction of the Act, and if that con struction had been wrong, it would have been necessary to alter the terms of the new order. The more natural and rational view to be taken of the whole, the one best calculated to meet the convenience of suitors, the cheaper and more economical con struction, was the one the Court had expressed ; therefore the learned Counsel would take his order to amend the original question, being whether the Court now had jurisdiction to en tertain a petition for an order of course to amend, whether that application ought to be made to the Master. THE KING OF SPAIN V. MACHADO. The part heard arguments were resumed in this case, after the mentioning of one or two little things of no import. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His HONOUR, the Master of the Rolls, this morning took causes on further directions and costs, which presented no feature of public interest. Having despatched all the business in the paper, the Court rose before one o'clock. VICE CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY.) TILE NEW ORDERS. His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR, on coming into Court this morning, at half-past 10 o'clock, stated that he had been consulting with the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls upon the question raised with respect to the point whe ther the Judges of the Court had jurisdiction to order what were called motions of course, in respect of time. The matter stood in this way :—By the 13th section of the Act it was provided, that all applications for time to plead, answer and demur, amend and enlarge publication, should be made to the Masters ; then an appeal was given in the case of a total or partial refusal of the application ; and afterwards it was pro vided by the 14th section, that no orders on such appli cation should be made by any of the Judges of the Court ex. cept upon appeal. After consideration, the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and his Honour, were of opinion that jurisdiction did remain with the Judges of this Court, upon applications in the nature of motions of course for time. In future, therefore, the Court would entertain as it had formerly applications for time which were merely of course. Mr. HINTON begged to call the attention of the Court to another difficulty that had arisen in the Registrar's Office with respect to another of the new orders. He had lately obtained several orders for opening biddings, which the Registrars had considered as money orders, and charged the fee of 2/. 10s. which was allowed. The Learned Counsel apprehended that it was never intended such orders should come under the deno. mination of money orders. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, he would consider what the Learned Counsel had stated, and give his opinion upon it. Sir E. SUCHEN said, that with respect to the orders for time the only difficulty would be whether the orders could be con sidered as valid, except upon a proper application, and then the question was whether by implication, the 14th section did not seem to take away the jurisdiction. The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed, that having heard that the Master of the Rolls had expressed an opinion contrary to the one entertained by him upon the subject, he had considered it but just and proper that the thing should be settled ; but as it turned out that the Master of the Rolls had expressed no such opinion as had been attributed to him, the point never having been brought before him, all that had now been done was merely to determine the point with regard to the current business. The Judges of the Court entertained the opinion his Honour had stated ; that opinion, however, did not bind the gentlemen of the Bar, any member who might think it wrong being at liberty to argue the point. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN said that it was not likely that the point would be argued until some question came before the Court with respect to the process, but the moment the process came to be executed then the parties would come to the Court and object. Mr. WILBRAIIAM wished to know, for the information of the bar, the precise nature of the order of course in which such application could be made as the Court had alluded to. .. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN said that the bar considered the time was already limited; there were two periods, and if after that anything was done a special application would be necessary. His HONOUR observed, that an application was made to him the other day for six weeks' time to answer, and it was stated to him that the party was entitled to a greater time as a matter of course. Mr. CUING stated that, in that application, the bill was filed antecedent to the new orders. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN thought the question was not as to mo. tions of course, but as to the retrospective operation of the Act, whether it applied to bills filed previously. His HoNowt said when the case came before him he would consider the subject. He would look into the case referred to by Mr. Hinton, and state his opinion upon the point. The subject then dropped, and the Court proceeded with cause petitions, between 200 and 300 of which are set down for hearing before his Honour. Up to the period of our Reporter leaving, none of the petitions which had been heard possessed the slightest public importance. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.) Mr. Justice LIVFLEDALE took his scat alone at ten o'clock, in order to swear in the two Grand Juries for the two districts of the county of Middlesex, before whom bills were to be pre sented for offences to be tried in this Court. After the Grand Juries had been sworn in, His LORDSHIP addressed them as follows :—Gentlemen of the two Grand Juries, I understand that there is nothing likely to come before you of such importance as to require much comment from me. I have no doubt you are sufficiently acquainted with your duties to know that you should be par ticular in examining as to the degree of credit due to the respec tive witnesses who may appear before you. There is one class of offences which of late has very considerably increased. I mesn indictments for conspiracy. Within my recollection, the number of those indictments has increased to three or four times as numerous as they used to be ; whether that fact arises from a greater increase of that species of offence, or that prosecutors now brought cases forward that used not to be brought forward formerly, I cannot say—certainly there is a greater increase. You will be particularly attentive to see that the charge is suf ficiently made out by the evidence. Although the form of the indictment must charge two or more persons with conspiracy, it is not necessary to prove the parties being together when any one act was done, because in many cases that might be not only difficult but impossible to prove. If it should appear that each took such part in the illegal act so as to lead to the fair and proper inference that they all acted in concert, although they might not be proved to have had any particular meeting, the charge would be supported. There is another class which I will mention, I mean cases of perjury. You are probably aware of the rules of law upon those cases. One person's oath is in law considered as good as that of another person, how. ever creditable the one may be, or however little entitled to credit the other may be ; and though on an investigation one may consider the credence due to one witness in preference to another, yet it is aprinciple of law that one person's oath was as good as another person's ; therefore it is that two witnesses are necessary to convict another person of perjury. If, however, there is only one witness and any documentary evidence or other corroborative circumstance to support his testimony, that would be sufficient to justify the finding of the bill. With these few observations I dismiss you to your duties. After the Grand Juries had left, the LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice TAUNTON, and Mr. Justice PArrEsoN, took thei r seats. ..... The Court then proceeded to hear arguments on special cases. GRAHAM V. BARRAS. This was an action on a policy of insurance on the ship Castlereagh. It was tried at the last Spring Sittings in Lon don, by Mr. Justice Alderson, and a verdict found for the plaintiff for 1001., subject to the opinion of the Court upon a point of law, which was made into a special case. By the terms of the policy the vessel was subject to th e ru les o f the " Liberal Prem ium Club," one rule of which imposed a warranty that no vessel should sail on any voyage to foreign parts, after the Ist Sept., provided that the vessel was ready for sea, the time of sailing being the time of cle a ring at the Custom-house . In t his caso tAhuegvuessts,eal at which atitintehehCerusctoremw we re engaged, but not on -house, Dublin, on the 31 s t board. On the Ist of September, she dropped down the Liffey to a place c a ll e d the Pigeon House, an d she did not leave there to proceed on her voyage until the 2d of September, after which she was lost. There were several q uesti ons of a minor o d n es t c h ri e pt l i s o t n w , butas a sa iling within the terms of th e pol i cy and of t h e main one was whether the l eav i ng Dublin the rules of the Liberal Premium Club. Mr. ALEXANDER addressed the Court on behalf of the plain tiff', and Mr. W A TSON on behalf of the d e f en d ant. T he i r Lordships delivered their judgment seriatim, and were of opinion that the mere dropping down the Liffey on the I s t of September was not a sailing in the terms by which the policy bound the parties; and, therefore, they ordered la . m ent to be entered for the defendant. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) BROWNE V. WOODMAN. Mr. PLATT stated the case. The parties were engravers, !!" siding at Camden-town, and the presVnt action was for thef t i: sum of 41. 10s., for w ork performek according to agreeta i l i The jury had perh a p s h ear d o f a p u bli ca ti on called the BaP . Magazine, which, like other periodic a ls of th e d ay, w as oP to mented with plates. Th e d e f en d ant emp l oye d t h e plaintiff to do a portion of a pi c t ure o f t h e R ev. M r. N ibb s, a Jool', preacher, who had been imp r i sone d b y th e aut h or ities o _, charge of sedition, and had consequently become some °. celebrated. It is a common practice with engravers to et: ploy one person to do one portion of a plate, and another to 7 0 another portion ; and in the p resen t case t h e plaintiff $Ol, do the face and the out line of th e coat, M r. W oo d ma n o' of dertaking to finish the coat himself. There was a balanc e the old account due to Mr. Brown, by Mr. Woodet Per to fonn the ed amounting to 31. 10s. 6d., and when Mr. Brown had comple'" his portion of the plate, he sent it home to Mr. Woodloa n _,' demanding the amount of his contract, and the old balan c e Instead of money, the messenger, who was plaintiff's brok e r ' received abuse and opprobrious language. The defendant a,,, a e n p d i :d in t t h if e rh p ad late, but the plaintiff refused to deliver it Ul' , i i course, as he had not been paid. It was clearly the law, th at ,. n :h tisfactorily proved for the amount claimed. jury,his c h on e t w ra as ct, eu a r n i d rled tha r t u r w h o e u ir ld vero n, Mr. John Browne, brother to plaintiff, a harp manufactur er _; deposed to having dema n d ed the amount of the contract the old balance. Mr. W oo d man said he was a scoundrel, • would not pay him. .. . . - Henry Robinson, an engraver, was examined, to prove tb o e value of the w or k per f orme d , an d i ts likeness to the orlg ol 4 picture. On his cross-exam i na ti on , h e stated, that it Wu,' take about four d ays to f i n i sh the plate, but the work done 1"" well worth 41. 10s. Charles Wass, a pupil of the defendant, and residing in I ' l6 house, deposed, that he had called upon the plaintiff for plate and picture, but plaintiff would not give it, as it was P h , finished. This was before plaintiff's brother called withs plate. Mr. Woodmm had agreed with Mr. Browne that l ' e 4 should finish the drapery and theface, and have it ready by 20th of April. On the evening of the 15th of April witness d e e, vered a notice from Mr. Browne to Mr. Wood man, t h e p urP"t A which was that if the plate was not ready by th e 20th of AP; Mr. Woodman would leave it upon plaintiff's hands would be useless to him. When plaintiff's brother came t _7 A following day Mr. Woodman asked to see the plate, and 1 !: he would pay for it if he approved of it. Plaintiff's bror,l at first refused to show it, but he at length showed the poi and defendant said it was unfinished, and refused to pay for I t, James Mollison, an engraver—The head of proof she° him appears unfinished, and not in a fit state for pub liC ;, tion. Two or three days could finish it completely, and head could be finished in a day. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, who was for the dgendant• C..; tended that he was entitled to a nonsuit, the work not ha"' been completed. The Court assented, and the plaintiff was nonsuited. SPRING CIRCUITS. The Judges met yesterday morning, and c h ose th ei r Sp y Circuits as follows : _ va N u O gh ß a t'GLK—Lord Chief Justice Denman and Mr. yit MIDLAND—Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice tledale. HOME—Lord Lyndhurst and Mr. Justice Caselee. WESTERN—Mr. Baron Bayley and Mr. Justice BoaanqUei• OXFORD—Mr. Justice Parke and Mr. Justice Patteson. NORTHERN—Mr. Justice Taunton and Mr. Justice Alder"' NORTH WALES—Mr. Baron Bolland. SOUTH WALES—Mr. Baron Gurney. DEATH OF LADY LYNDHURST. Shortly after one o'clock to-day, a French courier, w-- ldl Calais only last evening, arrived in a post.chaise and four be Westminster Hall with a despatch from P ar i s , annou ncing t ,, decease of Lady Lyndhurst at Paris the day before yeste The Lord Chief Baron, who was hearing arguments in ere in the Exchequer Chamber, retired into his private room. receive the courier, and appeared deeply affected on ascertt;• ing the melancholy tidings. The Court was instantly brno up, and his Lordship set off for Paris. Her Ladyshilh . whom his Lordship was strongly attached, died as we unders from inflammation after having miscarried, and that fors v'd time she had been so unwell that nothing but the necessitlo His Lordship's attendance in London during Term, could b y .w induced him to leave her. She was daughter of Brunsdell, Esq., and the widow of Lieutenant-Colonel CDSp Thomas, formerly of the Ist regiment of Foot Guards, 70 was killed at the battle of Waterloo. She was marrica o Lord Lyndhurst on the 31st March, 1819, and has, we beli e left behind her two daughters. DUTCH, GERMAN, AND ST. PETER' BURGH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, JAN. the accou nts :that we ree ir agree that the rivers, as well in Germany as i n our coal have been falling for some days past, that the dikes, &c., b s . t i sustained no further damage, and that the present opportit, is very diligently employed to repair the injury already d u ' and to strengthen the weak parts as much as possible. At Cologne, where on the sth January the Rhine had iv to 27k feet on the Scale, it had fallen on the 12th to 181 fee S ; oo According to an official list, the Royal Navy consiste u i4 the Ist of January, 1834, of two ships of 84 guns, six of• 1 of 64, 3 of 60, 16 of 44, 7 of 32, 12 of 28, 4of 20, 10 of ' 4of 14, 1 of 12, 1 of 9, and 2 of 8 guns, 2 armed St! Boats, and 4 transports. His Royal Highness Prince Frede of the Netherlands, is Admiral, and Colonel-general ; tb: are 4 Vice-Admirals, 7 Rear-Admirals, 26 Captaio o 2, Captain-Lieutenants, 71 Sub-Lieutenants, 171 Second I•"' 4 tenants, 89 Cadets of the first class (among whom is Royal Highness William Frederick Henry, Prince of Netherlands). The Commissioner at Bois-le-Duc, for relieving the ° I ferers by inundations in North Brabant, has already ' able to afford some assistance to the inhabitants, had been obliged to quit their habitations. (From the Handelsblad.) THE HAGUE, JAN. 11.—On Thursday evening a courier sent from the Department of Foreign Affairs here, it le i w posed with despatches for Berlin and Vienna. It is said di, ' Count Van Limberg Stirum, Secretary of Legation, at Bet' is the bearer of these. In general the officers in that deg went are very busily engaged in consequence, it is said, of " from the London Conference. DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 14. _ Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 4914 to 5 1 . 1 Amort Syndic, 4% per cent BK to 88% to- ---4 Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent. per ies 1 7 6 n cent . r . c .. e . n .. t 7N to 71% 94% to 9 5 piVoluntaryDitto, ditto, tt o, Loan, 3lA Ditto, 1833, 5 per Cent. Exchange on London l2 05 Ditto. two months l2 0 —Dutch Papers, Jan 15. ST. PETERSBURGII, DEC. 30.—His Excellency 1 48° sfaison, ambassador from his Majesty the King of the FreP has just arrived in this city. • - ~. pulation of the kingdom of Poland amounted in 1 63 t, WARSAW, DEC. 15.—According to the official lists, Wl' 3,914,666 souls, viz., 1,933,390 males, and 1,981,275 fell , '" with respect to religion, there were— Catholics 3,236,513 Greek Religion 106,936 Lutheran Reformed (Calvinists) 3,815 Jews 384,017 Various Warsaw had 121,868 inhabitants, being 6,613 fewer that , 1827.—5 t. Petersburgh Journal, Dec. 31. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, JAN. 9. St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. ..................... Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent.... MN; 103 Ditto ...... ... 1824 5 per cent.... l 03g 10 3 , Ditto, 80nd5... ......... 183 U, 4 per cent... 91% 91 7 7 Exchange on London —Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 11. ti t BERLIN, DEC. 7.—The statement of the difference rel.!, to the frontiers o f P o l and and Silesia, made in the Allge ov , Zeitung, is said to have had a great effect here, and will, : bably lead to th e resu l ts that t h e t erm i nat i on o f t hi s unti e sant business may at length be brought about, when it has as certained that what is stated in the Aligemeine Zeitt4 oo o the general opinion of the public. This conclusion 0 beenßussia, 1 _ more to be expected, because it may be presumed, fronl ' love of justice that still distinguishes the E mpe ror 1 l between irregularities Russia, that orders have already been given to yield, to make good the all points whenever the right is on the side of Prussia, in or,: of injustice of the former Rep u blic of Poland.—FrankT Papers, Jan. 11. BERLIN, JAN. 5. ij_nuTstbiece caused by t tw differences and England, must e n g a g e the attention of the public) w ~' s h o uld matters come to extremities, it is hardly p ro b a ble ,' Prussia will act any other part than that of mediator. If the commerce of England and France suffers D ,b i war , that of other states will suffer equally PrLi bit or y measures, and the most burdensome W U r i ,' who employ them, and the open door which Ellr, possesses in Hanover cou ld not be closed without a civil W s% Germany. We hear th a t A ustria and Prussia do their tart': to remove all causes of dispute from which they expect ruil' w consequences. p erSieevbeerragl, near years s t h eago borders a P t f i s the h Ambassador he w d i as s a p a p t t e e % ;d o the ascent in his chaise, and notwithstanding all that was d; it was impossible to discover any trace of him. A ske l ,, has just been fou n d i n a mar l e pit, w hi c h, by it s dime os ' , d appear to be that of this unfortunate nobleman. This d Lord Bathurst, whose daughter, a few ye a rs since, riding day at Rome, was lost in the Tiber. lie secretly aided tl insurrection in the Tyrol.— Nut emberg Correspondent, JO. FRANKFORT, JAN. 7.—M. Oesaita and his son are go ne o Vienna to represent the special interests of Frankfort at, Congress, and a favourable result is anticipated from his V, known diplomatic talents ; his presence at Vienna is the If, necessary at this moment, as the new Prussian treaty of merce occasioned several innovations which are prejudice' the trade of Frankfort.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 11. LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, JAN. 15'' The market has been flat today. The sales are estiao l at 1,000 bags.