The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-20 00:00:00

The events which within the last three Months have occurred in Turkey have brought to light a highly momentous fact—a fact which Russia justly foresaw would follow as a necessary consequence of the later acts of her policy in this country—the schism between the Sultan and his people. The protection of Russia has appeared to him a more secure foundation for his throne than the one on which during six centuries rested that of his predecessors. But by this act of madness he has overthrown the pillars on which rested the strength of his administration—the allegiance and respect of his subjects, without reflecting that the Power which promised him assistance in the hour of need has contracted this engagement because it insured it the faculty of governing the ()tonlan : . Empire by. him, and so much placed him under.Russio.s controul, that a single act of disobedience on-his part would, if: thought convenient, be punished-bi his overthrow. The army has already given unequivocal signs of its , determination to disobey the orders Of . the Sultan, and in the remotest province, as well as' in the capital, the unanimous feeling of the people is, that as a creature of Russia, the Sultan has forfeited his.rights to be the ruler of Mahomet's followers. The ,mine is ready—a spark, from whatever quarter it .comes, instantly will cause its explosion. How far this state of things is satisfactory, the Kings of England -and France who have declared it, of course best know. The English fleet left Vourla on the 10th instant. After a few days' cruise it is to return to the same an chorage, and remain there till the arrival of the steamer, which is expected from London about the lat ter end of this month. The French fleet has not yet been heard of. The stagnation of trade has never been greater than at present—not only no sales are made, but no money L. -1.4-I —A r• the bazaars. The great scarcity of cash and the quantity of paper in the watket have caused the rate of exchange to decrease considerably— from 98 to 94. At Smyrna it fell to 91. After the expiration of the season when exports are purchased for the markets of Europe, it will rise again, to meet the limited wants of drawers and the larger demands of those remitters who did not ship fruits, silks, &c., and invest the funds of their employers. The mea sures taken -by the Turkish mint's bankers have ren dered commerce an important service, by putting a stop to the sudden fluctuations to which the exchange is liable. It is thought that in consequence of the con trol they possess, it will not rise for some time above 98, and certainly never become on a par with the value of the gold and silver currency of the empire. The Persians, who since the plundering of the cara van by the Kurds have not been able to pay any por tion of their debts, have entirely lost the credit they once enjoyed in the market. Several of the Greek establishments are in consequence in the greatest em barrassment. Some of the merchants who went to the fair of Baly kesser have already returned. According to their ac counts, it has been more dull than usual. We are without news from Syria, for we do not con sider as such the absurd reports, forwarded to the Smyrna Journal by his correspondent at Rhodes. Government here continues sending ammunition to Iconia. A powerful impression, I understand, has been produced on the Sultan's mind by a note for warded by Redschid Mehemet Pasha to the Divan, in which this General exposed, with much sagacity and dearness, the chances which, in the event of the re newal of hostilities with Egypt, would be in favour of and against the Sultan's army. The conclusion he sought to impress on that council is, that peace must be maintained. It is confidently said that the army is to spend the winter at Iconia, and that if hostilities are to be renewed, it will not be before next spring. The ravages of the plague are alarmingly increas ing.—Morning Paper. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 17. 3 per Cent. Consols 905 Grand Canal Deb, 6 per cent. 91 3 % Ditto Reduced 89% Ditto, 4 per cent 6274 3% per Cent. Stock 985 Hibernian Bank 22 Ditto New, 1830 3% per Cent. Debentures 90% National Insurance Company 2614 Bank Stock 224 City Debentures, 4 per cent... 79% Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 255/ per cent. 93% CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 23. Since M. Boutenieff's return extraordinary activity and bustle of business have reigned in the bureaux of the Russian legation. The presence of their former leader seems to have recalled into life the dormant zeal and energies of the host of dragomans, agents, and spies in the pay of Russia, and gifted them with a courage that bids defiance to the dangers of contagion, and an activity which no fatigue can exhaust. At every hour of the day they are to be seen at the Porte, at the Palace, at the Arsenal, at the Seraskier's— here, furtively entering the house of some of their most influential partisans among the Turks,—there, in a mysterious and impressive manner, carrying on con versation with a member of the Divan. Messengers are despatched after messengers, steam-boats after steam-boats; in one word, the population of this capital have hourly before their eyes indications that some event of the highest consequence to Russia is forth coming. In support of this conclusion are brought the following facts :—Provisions to a very large amount have been purchased and laid in store by the agents Russia has appointed in every district or town of any importance in Roumelia ; numerous cargoes of provi sions have been sent from Eupatoria, Kaffa, Tagan rock, and Odessa, to Silistria and other fortresses on the Danube. Apprehensive lest the three years' stock of provisions Wallachia and Moldavia are bound to keep should not suffice for the maintenance of their populations, the humane Consul-General of Russia has been instrumental in causing the exportation of corn from the provinces to be prohibited. This mea sure, in justice it must be observed, is to remain in vi gour only till the approach of the season when the freezing up of the Danube, and the tempests on the Euxine, render navigation impracticable-1. e., till the return of the spring. Fresh troops have been marched into Bessarabia and the Crimea, the whole of Russia's maritime force in the Black Sea is ready, and additional fortifications have been erected to defend the entrance of the harbour of Sebastopol. The denouement of the Russian drama's plot is evi dently drawing nigh, and the actors who are to take part in its last act are preparing to make their appear ance on the scene and invite Europe to the plaudite. BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS. BRUSSELS, OCT. 16.—Her Majesty the Queen of the French and the Princesses of Orleans, with their suite, ar rived at the Palace of Laeken yesterday evening. His Ex cellency Lord Minto, Ambassador of the Court of Britain at Berlin, arrived the evening before yesterday, in this city, coming from Berlin, and on his way to London. He alighted at the Hotel de Belle Vue, with his family and a numerous suite, in five carriages. The Polish Refugees who receive relief from the State, are now distributed between Ghent, Ypres, Bruges, Liege, and Namur. BRUSSELS, Our. 17.—A journal has announced that the Duke of Wellington has lately made an application to eGovernment respecting the dotation which was settled n him by the Government of the Netherlands. ' This statement is entirely incorrect, as we can affirm that no claim of this nature has been made on Belgium. 'The same journal mentions a salary said to have been allowed to the Duke, as Chief Inspector of the fortresses of Belgium. The Duke never did inspect these fortresses otherwise than in his character of General-in-chief of the army of occupation in France, and consequently he never could have received on that account pay from the kingdom of the Netherlands.—Moniteur Beige. The Courrier Beige says, " The Courrier Francais is ill informed when it believes that the Duke of Wellington has parted with the estate settled on him as Prince of Waterloo. The truth is, that a long time ago (that is, seven years be fore the revolution of 1830), he sold all the timber growth on about one-half of the land that was given him, and that this half has since been converted into arable lands, and let to several private persons. This oper a ti on , cons id er i ng th e good quality and the situation of this, land, has certainly in creased the revenue of the estate, but this is the only change that has been made." The Queen of the French and the P r i ncesses are ex pected at Brussels to-day to visit several establishments. A Deputation of the Chamber of Commerce of Yp res and Courtray had the honour to be admitted to an au dience of His Majesty the day before yesterday at the Palace of Laeken, and to present to him a memorial on the plans for the junction of the Haine with the North sea. The Deputation afterwards waited on the Minister of the Interior. The Nouvelliste of Limburg lately said that some Dutch soldiers had come into the Belgian territory, and broken the windows of a house into which admission was re fused them. On this occasion Colonel Brialmont, Go vernor of Venloo, has written a letter to that journal, in which he announces that a complaint having been made to the Dutch military authorities by the captain com manding the Belgian troops on the frontier, the two Dutch soldiers who committed these excesses had been put under arrest, as well as the subaltern officer who on LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1834. The moments which immediately follow the passing of any very extraordinary event, or the termination of any memorable catastrophe, are ill adapted to the prosecution of inquiries into the origin of the one, or the means of profiting to the greatest possible extent by the example of the other. The public mind is taken by surprise under such circumstances ; and the judgment, which would extract the wisest lessons for the future from the misfortunes of the past, if allowed time to deliberate, bows to the dictates of passion, and gives currency to the strong ebullitions of feeling when pressed for counsel in cases of unwontedly urgent emergency. Hence it has always happened that the world has at one time lamented as irreparable losses what at others were found to be radical defects in the social system ; and even where injury was sustained to a very great extent, it has afterwards become a question of difficult solution how a much greater good could have been effected, had such an injury never happened. The burning of St. Paul's Ca thedral was, at one time, considered the greatest calamity that could possibly happen ; and yet had such an event never taken place, very possibly Sir CHRISTOPHER WREN would have never bequeathed to the world the most magnificent religious edifice on the whole earth ; and dreadful as was the great fire of London, we are sure there are few who know the im provements which followed that fearful catastrophe, who would rank it among the greatest calamities, taken in the abstract, that ever happened in this country, though such was the opinion of all contemporary writers. We believe the same will yet be said of the destruction of the Houses of Parliament ; which, except for their venerable association with much that is great and good in our past history, were remarkably inappropriate for the purposes of legislation in the nineteenth century. Of the members of the House of Commons, nearly one half were without any accommodation whatever within the walls, and we ourselves have seen crowds of members shut out on divisions on most important questions, owing to the impossibility of being able to enter a house crowded to . suffocation. During the debates on the Catholic Relief Bill, the Reform Bill, the Anti slavery Bill, and O'CONNELL'S motions respecting the repeal of the Union, and the Irish tithe ques tion, several Members of the House of Commons were prevented from voting, by reason of the thronged, or rather packed state of the House. This inconve nience, which must have frequently affected the votes of Parliament, could not be avoided in a house des tined to receive six hundred and fifty-eight persons, when, in point of fact, it only afforded accommoda tion for the reception of four hundred. Although the House of Lords was something better off in regard to room for the accommodation of the Members, still every person who visited it, must have been struck with the want of any appropriate place for the recep tion of distinguished visitors. Even the Mem bers of the House of Commons had net a seat ap. propriated for their use, and during the long, and often prosy debates, it was not unusual to see the Repre seatatives of the British nation, squatted in anything but dignified positions round the steps of the throne ; looking more like a gathering of privileged schoolboys than like an assemblage of Statesmen. Although the persons who hitherto complained of inadequate accommodation in the now destroyed Houses of Parliament, more particularly the House of Com mons, dwelt principally on the unhealthiness of crowd ing so many persons in chambers too confined, and ill ventilated ; yet we may here observe—we trust with out offence to any party—that the personal injuries sustained by the Members were not the worst effects produced by the smallness of St. Stephen's Chapel. The country was the great sufferer, many of whose representatives were shut out from discharging the duties for which they were appointed, simply because there was no place for them to occupy in the Councils of the Nation. The heat and loathsome effluvia 'of the House frequently overcame men of weak and deli cate constitutions, who in all other respects were the best fitted to take part in the discussions then going forward, and important resolutions were often lost., and motions of questionable utility carried, because the persons could not be present who best understood the nature of both. In point of fact St. Stephen's Chapel was only suited for a legislative chamber for the old boroughmongers, where the members might be said to take their seats for life, and so in time become proof to. the effects of an atmosphere not unsuitable to the deeds performed in it. It was quite large enough in the olden times, when to compel attendance in Par liament required the full exercise of the royal power, and even subsequently when men purchased their seats there, and attended just so often as suited the con venience of the Minister. But the Reform Bill de stroyed this system, and, with the downfall of the system, created a necessity for an enlarged House of Commons capable of receiving, and worthy of contain ing, the representatives of a great and free people. And now that we have recovered from the shock of the late awful conflagration, it is time that we should call public attention to the plan that ought to be :adopted, to more Levait 41,0 already tained. The old Houses of Parliament are now in "ruins—" Peace be with them," and let their memory only be preserved. In the erection of new ediflees let there be no attempt at resuscitation. Let us never again be offended with the sight of incongruous and useless masses, without even the consideration of an tiquity to redeem their imperfections. We are past the season when such houses could be desirable. Eng land is not the country she was in the reign of the Tudors ; her habits, her customs, her principles, her tastes, her amusements, are all changed, and it is high time that her public structures should be made to cor respond with her altered condition. In the erection of the new Houses let the greatness of the nation be con sulted, and let them be made to correspond with it. The House of Commons ought to afford accommodation for a thousand members at the very least, with appro priate benches for Members of the Royal family, and of the House of Lords, for the reception of foreign ambassadors, and strangers of distinction, as well as for the public press, and the public generally. Let the new Houses of the Legislature be built without a thought of the absurd and lying presumptions which every person lau s ;hed at, while every person was pre sumed to respect them. The legislature can no longer talk of its privacy from public inspection, nor will the nation longer countenance the falsehood of no stranger being present at debates to which hundreds had the SPEAKER'S order of admission. In France the right of the public to be present at the debates, in :the Cham bers of Peers and Deputies, forms an article of the charter of 1830, and now that the debates of the British Parliament are published daily with the tacit consent of both Houses, it is both useless in point of form, and im moral in practice to talk of the secrecy of such as semblies. It will be therefore absolutely requisite in building the new chambers to appoint places which shall be exclusively appropriated to the accommodation of Reporters, and to the reception of the public gene rally. As to the sticklers for economy we beg to tell them, that the cheapest way to build a house is to build it in such a manner as will destroy a necessity of altering or enlarging it. The most expensive erections are always those intended to be temporary : the money sunk in them is lost, and the ground is but encumbered by them. We can never have the old Houses of Par liament, and therefore it ought now to become our study to erect better, There is one thing, however, which we wish to call attention to before dismissing this subject for the pre sent, and that is, the appropriation of apartments within the precincts of the new Houses to the offices of the Establishments. Now to this we are decidedly opposed, as well on account of the danger to the buildings from fire, as to the residence of private fami lies within edifices which most especially are the property of the public. We have other reasons too, of a more delicate nature, which we will not urge on this occasion. Public men are hardly free agents when continually surrounded by juvenile claimants for appointments ; and it is " too bad" that the country should always suffer because it was too generous in the first instance. We understand that the new houses will be erected as near the site of the old, as the alteratittls which must be effected in their site will admit. No situation could be better chosen, provided the whole of those houses near to the ruins of the House of Lords, and all the old buildings down to the river be cleared away. Again, we say. as we must build Chambers for the Legislature —as Mr, HUNIE'S motion has been carried beyond the extent contem plated by the 11 . 91 19t ,g 4 1* Gentleman,..-l e t us, in the that day commanded the guard on the frontier, and also that the damage done by them was immediately.paid for. The Colonel adds that the most perfect tranquillity pre vails on the frontiers, and that the navigation of the Meuse up to Mook is as free as possible. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRITSSELS, OCT. 17. Actual Debt, 24 per Cent 52 Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 99 Loan of the City, 1832,4 per Cent 971 DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 15. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. A,nort Syndic, 4 per cent. 91% —Brussels Papers, Oct. 18 BERLIN, OCT. 9.—The Dorpat Journal announces, as a private communication from St. Petersburgh, of the 23d September :—" The shares in the fire-office fell yesterday to 1,000 rubles (they were on the 20th at 1,045 rubles), in consequence of the news of another fire at Tula, by which it is said 1,000 houses were destroyed." RIGA, OCT. I.—The winter seems destined to set in early. The evening before yesterday the roofs of this city were covered with hail two inches deep, and to-day we have had a considerable fall of snow. The thermometer is at zero. ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 4.—His Majesty has ordered that Prince Dadian, son of the deceased Regent of Alingu lia, shall have the title of Serene Highness Prince of Min gulia, but that, as brother of the present Regent of Min gulia, this title is only personal to himself, not hereditary. Privy Counsellor Tatescheff, our Ambassador at the Austrian Court, has returned to Vienna. In consequence of an brder from the Emperor, the Mi nister of Public Instruction set out for Moscow on the l st, to examine both the University and the other establish ments subordinate to the department of Public Instruction. STOCKHOLM, OCT. 7.—CHOLERA REPORT.—Cases, 7,822 ; recoveries, 4,158 ; deaths, 3,269. On comparing these numbers with those of the preceding report, it is considered that the disorder is nearly over. Yesterday only three persons died of it. GOTTENBURG, OCT. B.—On the 4th of this month, the town of Wenersborg was almost entirely destroyed by fire. VIENNA, OCT. s.—The intercourse between the Orisons and Austrian Italy, is replaced on its old footing. HAMBURG, OCT. 13.—The Saxon post-office at Leipzig has given notice of a late communication from the Imperial chief post-office at Vienna, that there is no regular post between Vienna and Turkey, except to Constantinople, Smyrna, Thessalonia and Seres, and therefore letters to any other place in Turkey run the risk of laying a long time, or perhaps being entirely lost, in one of these four cities, unless they are directed to some person resident there, to be forwarded to their destination. OCT. 14.—Letters from Leipzig of the 10th say, that on the 9th, in the afternoon, a fire had broken out at Auers back, in the Vocgsland, and that when the news came away, the fire unhappily was still raging, and had already de stroyed 100 buildings. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, OCT. 14.-13 9 ; two months 13" N. BERLIN, OCT. I I.—Three months, 9.13 i. BREMEN, OCT. 10.—Tu o months, CO 3. Sr. PETERSBURCII, OCT 3—Three months, 10 47 64. :"TOCRIIOLM. Ocr. 7.—Two months, 12 14 —Hamburg Papers, Oct. 14. CLAUSENBURG. SEPT. 20.—A deputation of the Es tates of Transylvania is appointed to go to Vienna to re quest of his Majesty information respecting the oath to be taken by the President and the three Prothonotaries, and at the same time to thank his Majesty for his gift of 100,000 florins for the relief of the poor peasantry in Tran sylvania. VIENNA, Oct. B—Five per Cent. Mctalliques, 99k; Four per Cent., 90a ; Bank Shares, 1,260. OCT. 9.—Five per Cent., 99 7-16 ; Four per Cent., 904 ; Bank Shares, 1,264--Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 14. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock o : 7. 1 16 , 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 9l % 1 3% per Cent. — Ditto Red. 9874 9 New 3% per Cent. lOO 993, 100 4 per Cent. C Asse " ted — tuissented — Bank Long Annuities to expire Jan. 3, 1 860 l7 1-16 Oct. 10, 1859 — Jan. 5, 1860 — Jan. 5, 1880 — April 5, 1880 — Jan. 5, 1870 — New 5 per Cent India Stock Ditto Bond, l7 20 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151 — Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 30 40 pin, Ditto _ 500 39 40 pm Dittn Small Ditto Commercial pm Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Account 91 1 1/4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds — Belgian Bonds — THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Dit o Account Portuguese Bonds 9'•2s/y Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds B3 ;,; 3 Ditto Account ..)S3 N 3 N , ! ‘ 3 N 3 • Prussian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 774 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Milian Bonds Ditto Bonds, 18•2: 4 Russian Bonds, IS2') Ditto Account Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1821 3114 Ditto Account 3IN D4tiish Bond& Ditto ACCOMIL — Greek Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 5t 3% 416 1 4 Ditto Account 53% 4% 1% Ditto Bonds, 1833 Ditto Bonds, Ins — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. -- 4 per cent. —f. --c. 3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange -4. —c. Dutch, 2'4 per cent. Ditto Account 524i Ditto, 5 per cent 9856 7 Ditto Account Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent 4l Ditto Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per share. Bolanos Mining Company l5O 130 MAILS. ....... Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arnved. Due. 0 America...— .... 0 2 France 0 1 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 1 Guern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 1 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland I Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 1 I Flanders HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 59 minutes after 3. I Evening 16 minutes after 4. MR. H. BULWER'S " FRANCE." ANEW AND REVISED EDITION of this Work is in the press, and will be ready in a few days. Orders received by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. 8, New Burlington-street, Oct. 20, 1834. THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1834. name of the nation,- erect an edifice worthy of the greatness, the glory, and the freedom of the British people. Mr. O'CONNELL has addressed another letter (we believe the fourth) to Lord DUNCANNON, in which he tells his Lordship that he has been most grievously deceived in every expectation he had formed of him ; and that unhappy Ireland has no longer any thing to hope from his administration. The letter is in Mr. O'CONNELL'S usual manner, in culcating moderation in terms calculated to call forth all the fiercest passions of his countrymen. Towards the close of it, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman avows himself a " DUR II A MITE," and has thus, within the short space of one month, boxed the political com pass ! Four weeks ago he was a Ministerialist ; three weeks ago he was a half-Ministerialist ; two weeks ago, h e was a Neither-This-nor-That-ite ; and now he is a Durhamite. The last change has been evidently brought about by the Rent, which always influences DANIEL'S autumnal tom-fooleries. Not one spark of sincerity is there in any one thing he says or does on po litical matters. He is sincere only in his desire to squeeze as much money out of his countrymen as lie can. For the next two or three months, we may expect to find him throwing all Ireland into agitation by his Repeal phillippics, till the Rent being all got in, he will moderate his tone, and let the great question drop till the following autumn, when the same farce will be repeated—but, we trust, not with the same success. By the vehe mence of Mr. O'CoNNELL's last letter, we take for granted that he looks to a more than usually large in crease of Rent. We always judge of his hopes on this score by his epistles, which are long or short, tame or ferocious, just as the Rent bids fair to turn out well or ill. It is now looking up—at least we judge so from the heading which Mr. O'CONNELL has affixed to his present epistle—viz., " HURRAH FOR REPEAL ! ! ! Wild Irish cry ;" but which would have been far more in character if " Rent" had been substituted for " Repeal." We have received some interesting particulars on the subject of the recent encroachments of Russia ; we will treat of it, if we have time, to-morrow. The project of the law for the responsibility of the Portuguese Ministry will be read with deep interest by all who delight in the progress of good go vernment. No document could be framed offering a surer test of the zeal, ability, and upright con fidence of the QUEEN'S Ministers. PALMELLA has acted nobly on this occasion ; and his enemies may well blush when they peruse this record of his talents and consistency. We will again glance at the main features in this law in the course of a day or two. Paris Papers of Saturday have been received, from which we learn that the Spanish Cabinet is beginning to feel the consequences of the vote of the Deputies on the debt ; and that what we predicted respecting the trouble the Ministers would meet with in raising the loan of 400,000,000 of reals is actually coming to pass. The money is now wanted—so much wanted, that unless it be forthcoming, TouENo states that he must resign in a month, and yet not a real can be had, except on terms which the Ministry cannot comply with. The lesson Ton.Exo taught Franc. has had the proper effect, and he now begins to see the truth of the old adage " Honesty is the best policy." The news about Don CARLOS is not important, and will be found in the extracts from the French Papers. The following is from the Papers received this morning : PARIS, OCT. 18.—The seven Ministers yesterday at tended altogether a Council at the Palace. This circum stance had not happened before for nearly two months. The Council sat till past four o'clock. It is said to have been determined in the last Council that the affair of the April plot should be continued, and the discussions imme diately opened. We may, therefore, expect that M. Pas quier will shortly officially announce this decision, which, for the present at least disposes of the question of an am nesty.—Quotidienne. The question of the tariff is a subject which engages, in an extraordinary degree, the merchants and manufacturers in the town to attend. The Assembly,by an immense ma jority, declared in favour of maintaining the prohibitions. Yesterday, at 11 o'clock, Count Apping, the Austrian Ambassador, and Lord Grenville, the English Ambassador, had together a pretty long conference with M. de Rigny at the office of the department of Foreign Affairs. The Memorial Bordelais of the 15th Oct. says :—" An extraordinary courier coming from Spain passed through yesterday. It is affirmed that he is the bearer of a mes sage addressed by the Queen Regent to the Chamber of the Procuradores, in which message several of the late acts of that Chamber are formally blamed. There is every appearance that the news of the taking of Bilboa was an invention of the Carlists. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 14th says, that the town had been at tacked on the sth by the insurgents, who had been re pulsed. The same paper says—" It was expected here the day before yesterday that Eraso and three French had been shot by order of Zumalacarreguy, for treason. We consider this news to be unfounded.—Messages', Oct. 18. It is finally arranged that Viscount Fordwich, eldest son of the Earl and Countess Cowper, and nephew to Viscount Melbourne, is to be the new Under Secretaq of State for Foreign Affairs, in the place of Sir George Shee, appointed Minister at Berlin. The Speaker has taken up his temporary residence at the hospitable mansion of Mr •James 13aillie, the:Member for Bristol, in Seamore-place. Lady Manners Sutton and her daughters remain at Brighton. The Duke of Rutland's library, at Belvoir Castle, has been recently arranged, and its costly tomes placed in clas sical order by it *onlineVtli hitilibpbto. That librart. contains same rare illuminated missals, and many of the niosl Vatriable autograph letters that arc to be found in any other private li brary in the United Kingdom. Prince Esterhazy's rental, admitting it to be two hundred and thirty thooatid Win& sterling tier annum, arising from hit t,rst principality in lllmsary, i te4Fertheles§ SAO to iai`ithiS dedtiction;, Many of toeth arising from the lavish expenditure of his late father, and others, from the magnificent and princely style in which his Highness sustained his diplo matic honours whilst he represented the Court of Austria in this country. In a few yell* however', should the Prince elioOse to "husband his resources," he must be one of the richest noblemen in Europe. B E RKIIAMPSTEAD, OCT. 17.—Our Annual Ball laSt night had, as usual, to boast of the attendante pf a host of distinguished fashionables. Lord drimsidii Wit Sto*Ard on the o ccasion, and we need scarcely add that it was a mos t dd lightful Ball. Among the numerous visitors we noticed, with l at e partieS, the Dowager Marchioness o f S a li s b ury , C ountess I.lridgewatei . , Earl of Clarendon, ROIL Mr:,. Baden, Hon. Mrs. Grey, and the Member for the County. CIIATS WO tiafti iioiv aide does not eicced twenty visitants. They rise early, to enjoy the sports of the field. The evenings are pa§sed. with music and cards. The Duke of Revonoiii:e *ill kite this iirip6rb Chateau on or alight the lath of next month for gemptown, &Hid int9riding to sojourn for the winter. His Grace received letters from his sister; the Countess G i r s anville, on Thu rs d a y ; all were well. ClioLatA BOAiiii A COVVRIT SHIP.—We lately mentioned the removal from the Norfolk to the Lady Kennaway, of the convicts w h o h a d b een s hipped on board the former, iri.Patttlitnil4 ritenSitatoft , tiff their trangpdrtation to Now South Wales; The Lady tennaway, a few days since, dropped down to th e roa d ste d , . b ut, t h e c h o l era br e aking out writing the ariviet§, *a§ Obliged rin gattirday etening to r e turn tti her Mriner moorings, and to put on shore at Haul bowline a number of tho se affected. At one period the mor tality threatened to be considerable, no less than five individuals having died in one day, but in consequence of the judicious arrangements adopted by Dr. Trevor, who fortunately hap pened to be down h ere at the time, the malady, we are happy to say, may now b e regar d e d as com pletely checked. The Doctor has had a co ns id era bl e number of the healthy convicts removed back to the Norfolk, and the clothing of all burned. The bedding is also di rec t e d to be burned, and both vessels will then be properly f um igated, so that we hope there will be no danger of any recurrence of the disease. Nearly all those d convicts were shipped in England, and ITT Peen on boar since June.:— Cork Southern Reporter. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, OCT. 19.—Wind W. S. W. moderate—During the whole of Friday night and yesterday, it blew very hard in squalls from the N. W. Last evening it moderated, and to wards daylight, it became calm ; since which, a breeze has sprung up from the W. S.W. The homeward bound sailed for the River this morning. The Greyhound and several others cast anchor in cables, off Margate and the North Fore land during the gales on Friday and Saturday. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Mountaineer, from Quebec ; and Ed ward of Scarborough, Whiteley from Quebec in 30 days. The Water Witch, Gibbs, from London for Terceira, remains with the Colonist, Hector, Millicent, and others, outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 18.—Wind N.W.—OcT. 19. Wind S. S. E. to S. W. squally.—Arrived the Planter, Doeg, from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 17, 18.—Wind W. to N.W. strong and squally. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 17.—The Collingwood, Hookey, for Cal cutta, put back. MARGATE, OCT. 19.—Arrived the Navarino, Paynter, from Gijou. Off port, Sarah, Hudson, from Faro. DOVER, OCT. 19.—Arrived off port, the Frances Charlotte, Smith, from China; Royal William, Smith, from Calcutta; and Wellington, Forster, from Miramichi. COWES, Oct. 19.—Arrived the Jeanette, Pearce, from Canton ; sailed sth Aug., from Anger 20th June, and from St. Helena 23d Aug. DARTMOUTH, OCT. IS.—Arrived the George Sutton, Archer, from Labradore, with damage, loss of boats, &c. Part of the cargo thrown overboard. FALMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Wind W. N. W. to N. N. W. strong gales. OCT. 18.—N. N. W. to W. N.W. fresh gales.—Ar rived the Lady Mary Pelham, Packet, from Halifax, sailed Ist inst. ; his Majesty's ship Scorpion, from Lisbon, sailed sth inst. ; Falmouth Packet, Shugg, from Malaga. BRISTOL, OCT. 19..—Arrived the Mayflower, Headly,— and Ann, Richardson, from Quebec. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 18.—Arrived the Lord Abercromby, Main, from Bahia; Princess Victoria, Paul, from St. An drew's, North Britain ; Samuel, Jameson, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Aid-de-Camp, Merle, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Snowden, Grunnell,—Sarah Ann, Knot, from Restigouche ; and the Grace, White, from Virginia. Off port the Wilsons, from Demerara. _ HOLYHEAD, OCT. 17.—Arrived the Heborn, Higgin, from Quebec. 11 , lIITEHAVEN, OCT. 18.—Arrived the Medway, Whilan, from Quebec ; and the Superb, Atkinson, from Memel. AYR, OCT. 17.—During last night it blew heavy gales from the N. W. The Mary, Williamson, from Shetland to Belfast, was driven on shore to the north of this harbour, but was expected to be got off without damage after discharging her cargo. The John, M'Culloch, from Newry to Glasgow, having lost anchor and cables in Whitney Bay last night was driven on shore to the south of this harbour this morning and is discharging. BRIDLINGTON, OCT. 18.—The Oak, Simmons, having com pleted her repairs and been reloaded, sailed to-day. The Car lista, having lost fore-mast, was taken in tow by a revenue cutter, and proceeded to the southward. The New Prospect, Knox, for Savannah, is on shore near the Leasowe Light House—crew saved. The Eliza, Davison, from Boston to Leeds, was driven on shore inside the Spur; cargo landed, with damage. The Atlantic, Paverton, from Seaham to London, put into Aldborough on the 19th inst., having lost her anchor. Her windlass has been repaired, and she proceeded. The Hope, from Glasgow to Newry, has put in here, with her pumps choked and cargo partly damaged. The Janet, Bruce, put in here very leaky, and with loss of main sails, ece. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM -HOUSE, OCT. 18, Sovereign, Warner, from Guernsey ; Waterwitch, Steny, Denia ; British Queen, Miller, Quebec. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, OCT.IB. Harlequin, Corbin, for Calais ; Galatea, Henderson, Tri nidad and Barbadoes ; George the Fourth, Waugh, Madras, Calcutta, and Canton ; New James, Ormond, Cape Coast Castle; Hermerun, Leslie, New York; Fogg, Bayley, St. Michael's ; Harriet, Marier, Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent ; Hellespont, Longridge, Constantinople ; Florville, Mitchell, Valparaiso ; Retrench, Turney, Barbadoes. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGOES, OCT. 18. Ann Petley, ✓ Sinclair, for Lisbon ; Harlequin, Corbin, Calais; Union, Hedde, Calais; Batavier, Dunlop, Rotter dam ; Prince of Waterloo, Page, Ostend ; Union, De Jonge, Ostend ; Hanna, Collerman, Randers ; Enterprise, Thomas, Oporto ; Providence, Stone, Guernsey and Jersey ; Neptune, Simmons, Berton ; Gleaner, Duckels, Amsterdam ; Jane Lockhart, Colford, Dominica ; German, Arnold, Hamburg. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, OCT. 18, William Nazeby, for Medemblick ; Defiance, Bahr, Bor• deaux ; New Grove, Brown, Van Diemen's Land. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Ardgowan, of Piketown, the 22d ult. off Cape Ray; the Ford, Palmer, for Quebec, and George Lockwood, Liver pool to Quebec, off ditto ; the Adelaide, of Llanelly, for New foundland, the 30th, in lat. 37., long. 43., by the Mary, ar rived at Liverpool. The Isabella, Belfast to Quebec, the 16th, out 18 days, by the Druid, arrived off Margate. The Orion, of Dundee, for Bahia, the 12th inst. in lat. 48., long. 8., by the Eliza, arrived at Ramsgate. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are two French mails, one Ostend, and one Hamburg ; one Lisbon, by the Scorpion, of the sth of October, which is not of so late a date as the letters and papers received by the Royal Tar of the 12th inst. ; a Halifax mail, by the Lady Pelham, sailed on the Ist of October. Halifax papers to the 30th of September, Prince Ed ward Island to the 24th September, Bombay papers to the 12th of June, with New Brunswick papers have been re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house. (From the Halifax Papers of the 29th of September.) The New Brunswick papers state the appointment of the Honourable Ward Chipman to the situation of Chief Justice of the province of New Orleans, vacant by the death of Judge Saunders. HEALTH OF THE TOWN.— We feel no uncommon de gree of pleasure at offering our fellow townsmen our hearty congratulations upon the great improvement which has taken place in the health of the town. The harvest is proceeding rapidly, with an abundant crop, and a great deal has already been secured. (From the Bombay Papers.) The Right Honourable the Governor and suite left on Friday evening for Poonah, at which place his Lordship arrived on Sunday morning. We regret to state that on Sunday morning the cholera broke out in Fort St. George Barracks. The report of the murder of Major Passmore, and other British officers, lately attached to the suite of Abbas Mirza, has reached Calcutta, but it is not generally believed. The Prince Edward Island papers and the New Bruns wick are void of the least interest. They are chiefly filled with West India information of old dates. The express from Paris this morning is not of much im portance. It does not bring any official dispatches from Bayonne relating to the war in Spain, or any later dates from Madrid than previously received, of the 9th instant ; but according to the French Ministerial papers we are in formed by information from Bayonne of the 9th instant, that General Lorenzo has been appointed Commander-in- Chief (per interim) of the Spanish army of the North, and that order prevailed in all the corps of the Queen's troops. It is stated from Madrid that no satisfactory offer has as yet been made for the Spanish Loan. The information by the Royal Tar, from Lisbon, of the 12th inst., is of a very satisfactory nature. It appears the young Queen is following the same system of reform as lief fttther commenced previous to his death. 100,0001. has arrived by the above vessel as a provision for the Por tuguese dividends, and a great quantity of paper money was to be burnt at Oporto and Lisbon. Saldanha has been deprived of his office as Chief of the General Staff. This will cause jealousy and intrigues in the Cabinet. THE FUNDS. We have numerous arrivals this morning, except ing from Madrid, which at present are mostly sought after, to ascertain the debate and result of the House of Pew, at Madrid on the Cortes Bonds, as Spain will be in jeopardy without a loan, and Toreno's cry is, that money, and nothing but money, can save her. This mournful con fession to the various loan-lenders now at Madrid hag inspired them with hopes that they will obtain a better tiatOain, and accordingly hold off making the contract until the Spanish Ministry are glad to come to their terms. Nevertheless the Spanish Stock, which left off on Satur day at 53H, opened at 54 to 4 1 , as the speculators are fully aware that Toreno will get no loan unless he offers better terms for the Cortes Bonds. Portuguese Stock has improved, owing to the favourable accounts from Portugal ; it left off on Saturday at 82i opened at 83f, and at present may be quoted 83i 8. The young Hebrew has restored the 3,000 Spanish Bonds to the owner, which he took the liberty of making off with on last Friday. HALF-PAST ONE. Spanish and Portuguese Stocks, which had a lively ap pearance in the early part of the morning, are not so good at present. Spanish, which reached 541 to receded to 54 ; at present they may be quoted 54 to 1. Y Portuguese Stock which was 8318 has since declined to 841, owing to a report of a new loan for Portugal, of one million ster ling, which at present does not gain credit. Consols have been during the morning at 91 to 1 for the Account, with little doing in them ; for money 91 to ; afterwards got up to 9111. THREE 0' CL 0 CIC. Consols for the Account, 911-1. The Assistant Commissioners, under the Poor Laws Amendment Act, have not yet been appointed ; but we hear that Sir Francis Head and George Gulstone' Esq., of Co ventry, will be amone the gentlemen selected for that impor tant office. OLD COURT. ,0. • Eizabeth Robinson was indicted for stealing a er:red Upon the prisoner being placed at the bar , it was dise"ietr that the witnesses for the prosecution were not in : w it ' dance, and the Common Sergeant instantly ordered recognisances to be estreated, and the prisoner to bed charged. The Learned Common Sergeant said he to make no order respecting the delivery of the property prosecutor. Robert Jones was indicted for stealing a mare, th e r perty of William Arnold. t he The evidence against the prisoner was conclusivecv mare being found in his possession directly after the rou had been committed. coos The Jury, after some hesitation, stated that the y not agree upon their verdict, and wished to ask the Pr' in what manner be became possessed of the propert9.o 0 The COMMON SERGEANT observed that they k ud ts right to ask the prisoner any questions ; it wa s for PP give an explanation of the manner in which he got it. o r,o The Jury still intimated that they could not agr ee the verdict. The COMMON SERGEANT said, if the Jury had s e t i o fit. sonable doubt, the prisoner was entitled to the bend The Jury, after some further consultation, retur verdict of—Guilty. e. Charles Morris, Wm. Stock, and Stephen Sow' k 0 11 bargemen, were indicted for a rape on Elizabeth Ce° 'dick the Bth of September last. There was also another lijoit,o ment against the prisoners, charging them with ae se i Elizabeth Cook, and stealing from her person a 010' 100., her property. The facts of the case are totally unfit for pub fir The prosecutrix was under examination when °W. porter left. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Sergeant ARABIN. ) to Rodolph Lenhardt, a German, was indicted for sotber a purse containing eleven sovereigns, the property All German, named Henrick Croog. lea 111 The prisoner and prosecutor were tailors , and resl4lo the same room at Knightsbridge. Their plac e of w°,jre' about half a mile distant, and they usually went out:ctobe ; turned together. On the evening of the 6th of un the prisoner left his work earlier than usual, an d 0 0 04 secutor returning to his sleeping room he missed th e the which had been in his trowsers' pocket. He 00 prisoner to a tavern in the neighbourhood of Soh 0 4 : 0 40 which the prisoner was in the habit of resorting teg , was there found with the money in his possession. hill The evidence was explained to the prisone r throu e s medium of an interpreter, and in his defence he stattbore, he was in the habit of paying all expenses, and was 3 % 0 , 1 by the prosecutor to go to the box where the 121°-0017, for that purpose. On the evening in question h ell Stp ri taken the money in his pocket to show that he was''' . and intended to bring it back at night. • dr The Learned SERGEANT summed up, and had h is ' vations explained to the prisoner by the interpreter. riscoe The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty , an d the floral', was sentenced to three months' imprisonmen t aod bour in the House of Correction. George Smyth, Cannon Hensby, and William Joriettsol4 indicted for stealing nineteen yards of Merino from of George Webb, linendraper, 19 , Shoreditch. „norm It appeared by the evidence, that Smyth all ( ' 6 th P- • went into Mr. Webb's shop on the evening of the_ n, b . l, tober to purchase some trifling article, and were 9; person looking through the window, to carry of t„utiej, of Merino ; the two other prisoners were w aiting A , the three prisoners were afterwards found b y a nor drinking in a public-house in Castle-street, SP ° ise about ten o'clock on the same night. The Jury found Smyth Guilty, and acquitted tl'e:sif' two. Smyth, although only 13 years old, had been Pa in custody, and the Learned Sergeant sen tence to t o seven years' transportation. 10 ° of Robert Cuthbert was indicted for stealing sis P f saws, and other carpenters' tools, the property ° e ff ployer, Joseph Coxen. eater The prisoner was a journeyman in the prose, 46 ployment ; on the 9th of October the articles h3.,00, were missed, and they were found to have heel two or three places by the prisoner.—Not After a suitable admonition from Sergeant A- 11 prisoner was discharged. The Grand Jury having been previously 4 twenty-one persons against whom no bills had bee . , 0 0 0 were brought up and discharged. Their names D:;,,e ',ete lows : Sophia Billington, John Pierce, c a th ar lie`•_ _ her Anne Pitt, Eliza Hutton, Charles Shorter, Rich s , g;:,0 John S. Faulkner, John Conway, Daniel Jon S^^''''" Cooper, James Nokes, John Mars, James g ° " -- . l o l ;eba lv- Brown, Jamcs Young, Sarah Manly, Henry John Williams, John Coulson, and William 13°' SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS W C) These Sessions commenced mornigat hef og iB° ?e ell;. tdsc Grand hi.rde t iaesyo n ns,ue c dccsd E ha ij ß taue , i rinrg E eydme s edi q .r, this character,a. w , ‘c,ii C Hotn h h get a foat i ei r rielnv m oesanon a sui n tessth , sow,e a roobr n nfr‘n d ,nattmi a lhii tieefohsunel of frißned ordinary sn n srt na c hr h enpeyar nor e i sc f ca t i r: s o:rite:n i p ... n oitt i oi c , 100 : r; their labours ; that, however', wa e s re per w haps tb r e i r as tlie,s e n s t el tr would have the honour of addressing them , ' ° " l , o ti e- 0 01 6 sions were the last that would be held before the . 1 1 t et e Criminal Courts' Bill came into operation , i • ; 113 5 Vi . : the jurisdiction from Quarter Sessions in au casee ye3l;ot r f eatm t a i n o y n e n a p s n e the law awarded a greater punishment than se v 1 / 1 4 e igu t ° 0 meg istra w orS to t that used to come on there ; however, he had " te s 0 ' 0 , n s wthoeulsdutbhjecreetfofrreoninowthgeo to th i e beeo g e i tile, various offices, and their opinion was that the d, a nd fle the Grand Jury would be very little less e l e f e re. A ll' 3 their gaols would in future be as full as ° e l , w ell , 0 10 trusted that the Bill would be found ton°,r otr°l),,ijor greatly reduce the crime which abounded i tri, e ue cale"be and its neighbourhood. None of the cases in u; so a 1 j p, required from him any special n otice, the r n°r b e for e saw many upon the Jury whom he had often or their experience would be most useful. mor ning I° 01 l The Court was occupied the whole morning wit a 0 plication made by Mr. Chambers, for the settiegiuo, .., indenture, and the return of a part of the pr w ir, ap ptlP appeared that the apprentice, Michael Sinbold, ~a1,1.A The ap prentice 1 / 17 .._. s t io ao triecceeclivteodl\alprr.eßmoiusemllyof, iasocih.emist, in September butstated that his master behaved kindly boys tw".400,4, but that afterwards he sent away his errand r ro .oeig ries, &c., and did not teach him any g e him, and o nce to s u - c oo him perform all the work —that he mathdinhilligothle cb r o uitoe —also that he frequently can , ~ a soni t gree as to make him require the attendance or tii f heal the wound. Mr. JEMMETT appeared for the master, most insulting and inco lay io 0 the complainant was a . h and usually ,bils boy ; that he would learn not nothing • ''in the elaY , " j till ten, and sometimes one o'clock col a nd r s r t e igi t .h ec li t i 4l B :l m aster had to open the shop, and attend to it., phis .0 hearing Bencha r ing a te u w i I h e o d l et the e a s i ; c t :v at v ordered a return of 301. of the premium. 0 0 cel i ce ed pied After three very e hours), ----------- the ypat e n the tly It is not true that the soldiers broke e!,tivi of the Speaker's house during the fire. hingeee Oil upon the occasion. the good order and regularity of the conduct oPh PRIVY COUNCIL—(THIS DAY.) DESTRUCTION OF BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. The Lords o f th e P r i vy C ounc il m et to-day, one at o'clock, for the p ur p ose o f i ns tit u ti ng a n inquiry, an d for 0 f the examination o f w it nesses , into the origin and cause the lamentable conflagration of both Houses of Parliament. Among the Gentlemen who entered the Council ber, we noticed Lord Melbourne, the Marquis of Camd en ' the Earl of Mulgrave, the Speaker of the House of mons, Sir James Graham, the Lord Chancellor, Mt'. Li votetar Fergusson, the Earl of Rosslyn, Mr. Spring Rice , Auckland, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Abercromby. f cannot give our readers any account of the examination 0, the witnesses, as everything was conducted wit h close' doors. The Attorney-General was in attendance to Or mine the witnesses. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY•) (Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.) IN THE MATTER OF RICHARD MEE RAIKES. A meeting of the bankrupt's creditors took place this day, for the purpose of proving debts and appointing Igi; signees. The attendance was not very numerous , and ty, amount of debts proved, with the exception of one, ye" trifling, being chiefly those of servants in the bank ru P t's tablishment. f the Mr. TILLIARD, a solicitor who appeared on behalf °• 0 • ' firm of Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., state d that tilb, firm held various securities of the bankrupt, and he lied %, tained an order of the Court of Review, allowing the veto rities to be taken at the sum of 15,0001., with lea prove the residue of the debts. hicb The COMMISSIONER requested to see the order, Iv was handed up to him. A 1)1 Debts to the amount of 8,0001. were then prover, bo Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., and the lion. Thornton Leslie Melville, one of the partners of that OP'" was appointed sole assignee etici It was expected that the bankrupt would have attend 'the meeting, but he did not make his appearance. OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAT) SECOND EDITION. Just ready, revised and corrected, in 3 vols., post Bvo. , II E L By MARIA EDGEWORTH. E N Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street. "' ~* Orders received by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. _ EI)1