The Sun. — London, England, 1831-06-14 00:00:00

iltt the rear of the Russian main army. The steps taken by the Polish Provisional Government, the Polis a Diet, and the Polish troops, with regard to the Russo-Polish provinces, are more important even than their own rising against their Imperial op pressor. They have decreed that the brethren of the ancient kingdom who declare against the Czar shall be considered as their fellow-citizens, — shall be accepted intc their political union, and shall be assisted and protected by every resource at their command. They have sent corps of their army to provoke insurrection and to assist the insurgents, and they have addressed to them proela mations-in which they are invited to make 'common cause with the new government for the restoration of their national existence to its ancient extent. They thus declare to Russia that they will not be satisfied now with those concessions witts which they would have been contented before they drew the sword,—that instead of restoring the rights of 4,000,000 of people, the Imperial Government must admit those of 12,000 or 13,000,000, and that, in fact, Poland must be itself again, as before it came under the satires of the partitioning despots, at least so far as the Russian portion (or lion's shore) is concerned. No negociation can thus he opened for the re-establishment of Polish independence, which shall include any proposition to separate the recent . kingdom of Poland from the Polish provinces bounded by the Dwina and Dnieper, now incorpo rated with Russia. Such an extension of the king dom would constitute under a good government (and the Poles would no longer think of their con federacies, their elective monarchy, or their liberuw veto) a power that would balance the western or European portion of the Russian empire, Will the Emperor Nicholas ever accede to such a proposi tion, or will the Poles accept of less. Will lie con sent to see vassal provinces erected into a rival mo narchy, or will they agree to separate tlieniselves from those whom they have excited to join them, and consent to be so weak as to be overpowered and subjugated any moment he pleases? In thin qu!stion is involved long wars and exterminating battles, or—European interference.—Tiencs. The Cashio troop of yeomanry have had their colours presented to them by the Countess of Veru lam. Her Ladyship pronounced no doubt what was written for her : but in this speech we have the first threat of violence on the part of the yeo manry. Her Ladyship is made to say, that the country " has other and nearer dangers to avert"' (than that of foreign invasion) " in the restless and innovating spirit of the times, and it is from the miseries that may be produced by this that we" (the country)" look for your" (the yeomanry's) " protection." The " restless and innovating spirit of the times" indicates itself in the Reform Bill. This is what the speech must mean, for ail view to change centres itself in that measure. It is from that Reform Bill, then, that her Lades ship's friends, the ultra-Tories, look for protec tion to the yeomanry ! Peaceful politics! We subjoin the account from a provincial paper:— " On Monday last the Cashio troop of yeomanry met in St. Peter's-street, St. Alban's, to complete the number of days' permanent duty, and for the purpose of having the colours presented to them. The troop formed and marched through the town to Gorhambury-park, the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Verulam. On their arrival they went through the various military movements in a soldier like and orderly manner, and made a very formidable -tap pearance. The colours were presented by Lady Verulain, who appeared in an open carriage-and-tour, and accom panied by her amiable daughters, and drew up in front of the corps; on presenting the colours, her Ladyship spoke as follows Gentlemen, I feel much pleasure in pre senting to you this colour, and more especially as you have done my son the honour of choosing him for your commander. Ido not expect that in these times of pro mised peace, you will have to settle the broils of nations on British ground, but we have other and nearer dangers to avert in the restless and innovating spirit of the times ; it is from the miseries that may be produced by this that we look for your protection. Gentlemen, it is the cha racteristic of a British yeoman to be brave and loyal. Under these impressions I place this colour in your bands, persuaded, that for your own, your families', and your country's sake, you will keep it unsullied by dishonour.' The colour was then received by the proper officer, and her Ladyship drove through the ranks, followed by several carriages, containing families of distinction, all of whom expressed their high opinion of the good order and dis cipline of the corps. After which his Lordship, with his usual hospitality, and in the most friendly manner, invited the troop to cline. Stables were provided for the horses, and the dinner was set out in the splendid entrance-hall, and consisted of every substantial and delicacy consistent with true British hospitality. The wines were of excel lent quality, and served in great abundance. After the cloth was drawn, his Lordship, who sat at the head of the table, proposed ' The King,' with three times three; Our most gracious Queen Adelaide,' The Navy and Army,' and various loyal and patriotic toasts. The glass circulated merrily, and every member of the troop seemed satisfied to be a soldier."— Times. If the magnates of distant corporations cannot carry all things before them on the hustings, in the election of Members of Parliament, or cannot en sure the certainty that their favourite member, when chosen, will be able to make good his ground against those troublesome persons called petitioners, they do, it must be confessed, take ample revenge on uch of the King's subjects as pretend to the anti , orporate privilege of free agency, whether in the rendering of votes er the expression of opinions, by exercising pugnacious and rather outrageous super intendence over the public peace. The " loyal and affectionate" corporation of Carmarthen—sore, we lament to say, at the present aspect of the Reform question—have made a war of proclamations, but in a very termagant manner, and in sesquipedalian English, upon the refractory lieges of the said town, for " perambulating the streets, " disturbing public tranquillity,' " fancying" that they felt " disappro bation or hatred," seeking " victims for their licen tious waywardness," and other felonies of the like burglarious nature : to all which the simple answer is—make the most of your time, my fine fellows: it is almost ever with you.—Time:. The recent disturbances in Wales, and the pro ceedings in the North of England, are a warning that ought not to be neglected. The distribution of the population of England in large masses in the manufacturing districts, without any cement to bind together workmen and employers, powerfully de mands the attention of all who wish well to their country. We have been much struck with a small pamphlet, which we have just received, entitled "An Inquiry into the State of the Manufacturing Popu lation, and the Causes and Cures of the Evils therein existing." The writer is himself, he tells us, " friendly to manufactures, and extensively engaged in them ;" and he is not, therefore, to be suspected of a " wilful exaggeration of the evils he laments." His observations have principally in view the cotton-manufacture, in the form in which it exists in the towns of Manchester, Bolton, Blackburn, Bury, Rochdale, Stockport, Stayley Bridge, &c. The picture which this manufacturer draws of the condition of the labourers in the cotton-manufac ltire\ts tr u l y appall i ng. H e com b ats t h e argument of .Ir. IsliC ulloch in favour of the hea l th o f manu facturers, derived from the comparative mortality of agricultural and (he Raymanufacturing fars) districts : As they a r . a t tli abl es of longevity and mortality can be relied on, h r tend l to prove that manufac tures are unfavourable to But we do not think that in a discussion of this keilfltdh.h are entitled to much consideration, for this simple reas t o eY many others), n co ( rn amot.' ib g ewith a' great that a great number of deaths is healthy d istrict th, in which degree of general health ; and that orPleat than another the deaths are numerous may be more if the prevalent diseases where they are less frequent, of an acute kind in the first instance, andof ase"re a chronic ',attire in the second. To exemplify this : ‘• By far the larger proportion of the diseases to which agriculturists are subjects, are either cases of rheumatism or of acute inflammation. Inflammatory fevers, the con. stint effects of exposure to the inclemencies of the weather, are frequently and rap idl y fatal, especially where the patientis in circumstances which preclude him from that degree of warmth, comfort, and unremitting attention, which,. in such cases, are indispensib le. Acute inflammation, so fre quent in country districts, which chiefly attacks those of robust and plethoric health, if not speedily suppressed by prompt and vigorous measures, is, most generally, fatal. Casts of this kind require immediate medical ail, which,l In the country, is seldom to b e pocuted without consider-' pcopte; ; but hitherto mi . ) , thing has been jobbed. able delay, and often . d oes no t arr i ve till a ll assistance is The time, however, is at length arrived when we un availing. These considerations make it obvious that must all of us put our shoulders to the wheel, or we deaths laity be frequent and sudden in agticultural districts, shall all of us he exposed to dangers which we shud while by far the greater proportion of the living are in the full enjoyment of hettlth an d s tr e n g th. der t'o contemplate.—Morning Chronicle. "In manufacturing towns the case is widely different. This day that session of Parliament commences, Few, if any, die from want of rre•dict.l assistance. They to the conclusion of which every oat' looks with are supplied with every aid. v-..hich skill or charity can be- anxiety for the restoration Of the people's rights, and stow. But the diseases which prevail are of a nature, he which, withoat suddenly destroying life, or even shortening ' t establishment of the peace, tranquillity, and it trsterially, depriv e it of health and enjoyment, and P" of the country sPe'ritYon a more durable basis render existence itself little else than a chronic malady. 'than we could hitherto have boasted of. After a The disease which we Pod by Tar the most frequent among sufficient number of Members have taken the cus those engaged in roannfactures is a species of Gastritis, ternary oaths, the 'election of a Speaker will be pro or chronic inflammation of the membranes of the stomach, needed ;with : and on Monday next his Majesty will or a morbid irritability of that organ which has been formally open the session of Parliament, in person, termed Gastralgi , ::. ! ' This fact has been stated to us by a Speech the which, tinder existing several medical gent!emen, and is folly confirmed by a re- by from throne, circurstanees, cannot fail to be a matter of the f:rence to the records of niapensaries.t" Their diet in ill-adapted to the preservejon of highest interest. In the mean time, while we know health, and from the manner in v:liich the females that the Reform Bill will be brought forward with out the slightest delay, and that there is no doubt ar'e brought up, thert '.s no such thing any where o f i ts b e i ng, carried triumphantly through both as domestic trorniort or domestic economy among Houses of Parliament, various rumours are afloat re- them, Their wages are, he says, amply sufficient specting the course which is subsequently to be pur to supply them with a solid and substantial food, sued, the principal of which is that an adjournment, were they well laid out. We are astonished that, and not A dissolution, will be resorted to immedi where there is so much manufacturing ingenuity, ii'':ely afterwards. There is but little question that there should be so little ingenuity in thnt 'Most im- the adoption of such a course could not be productive portant manufacture, the preparntitn of food. Res- of great harm, if, indeed, of any, on the eve of a taurateurs, one should thitlk, might receive encou- dissolution, and an appeal by the Members of the ragement to dispi:,•.‘,- their ingenuity in preparing House to their constituents; but, on the other hand, nwritive, und at the same time palateahliii dishes, it tiqust strike every one as a highly ridiculous ar for tiee irritable stomachs of these unfortunate ener- rangement to proceed with the discussion of the vated bein g s. After reading the Following melon- public business under a false system of representa choly account of the s"ste 'a the children of the ma- tion, when the same business might be gone through nufacturers, see ',:, almost tempted to wish, for the by a Reformed Parliament of the people's choice. sake of honvini t y, that the mortality were even No, no—we do not believe in any arrangement of greater among them : the kind. The Bill must be passed,—that's flat,— . " The fourth cause of the ill-she/11th which prevails and the money Bills must be passed, and something lamong the manufacturing r Oputation may be traced to the will, no doubt, be said and done respecting Ireland ; injurious influent which the weakened and vitiated con- but as to anything else, we believe we must wait stitutien of the women has upon their children. They for a new Parliament. It would be highly desirable ate often employed in factories some years after their mar- that the Bills of the Lord Chancellor, for the im riage, and (hiring their pregnancy, and up to the very provement of the administration of justice should period of their confinement ; which all who hare attended pass •• but we fear there will not be time to go to the physiology of this subject know must send their off 'i spring into the world with a debilitated and unhealthy through them, anti that the Ministers will be obliged frame, which the circumstances of their infancy are ill- to put them off to another Session, in consequence of ralculated to renovate ; and hence, when these children the impossibility of prevailing on Members to remain begin to work themselves, they are prepared at once to sue- in town for a sufficiently long period.—Morning climb to the cavil influences by which they are surrounded. Advertiser. " In consequence, also, of the mothers being employed from home, their children are entrusted, in a vast majority of cases, to the care of others, often elderly females, who have no infant family of their own ; and most of whom, having in their youth had their children nursed by others, have never formed those habits of attachment and assiduous attention to their offspring, which could alone afford a probability of a proper care of the children committed to their charge. These women often undertake the care of several infants at the same time ; their habits are generally It cannot be denied that the anti• Reform faction labour in their vocation with a steadiness and zeal which, but for its want of principle, it might not be amiss for the Reformers to copy. There are, how ever, some portions of their tactics which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. A person on the brink of losing his life may safely catch at a straw to save it ; but it does not follow that for the sake of self- preservation he should endeavour to sink another who is placed in equally perilous circumstances, either directly or indirectly,—he has no right to in vent falsehoods, nor to resort to a system of bullying which might endanger the life of his neighbour as well as his own. We make these observations partly in consequence of the gross falsehoods which have been propagated of late by the Tory party to the prejudice of their opponents, and partly in con sequence of the numerous attempts which the former have lately made to involve the latter in a species of warfare which gives no testimony either to truth or falsehood. A singular case of this kind occurred the other day, as testified by the columns of a cotemporary, in which Lord Thomas Cecil was plaintiff, and Mr. Tennyson was respondent. We regret that we have not room for the correspondence, which is of an unique character, and the tenour of which would have amply satisfied the public respect ing the degree of frenzy and desperation to which the members of the Tory faction are reduced by the slightest allusion to their " invasion of the people's rights ;" but we cannot quit the subject without paying a just compliment to the gentlemanly con duct of Mr. Tennyson, and the judicious firmness with which Colonel Maberly interfered to prevent a duel, on a point respecting which the latter had only exercised a proper and just " freedom of speech." If Members were to be called in ques tion for words such as those uttered by Mr. Ten nyson, all but the silent Members would be shot in a month.—Morning Advertiser. indolent and gossipping : the children are restless and ire table, from being deprived of a supply of their natura' food (as, when the mother suckles them, they can only perform that duty in the intervals of labour) ; and the almost univers practice among them is to still the cries of the infant by administering opiates, which are sold for this purpose under several well-known and popular forms. The quantity of opium which, from habit, some children become capable of taking, is almost incredible, and the effects are correspondingly destructive. Even when the infants have a healthy appearance at birth, they almost uniformly become, in a few months, puny and sickly in their aspect, and a very large proportion fall victims to bronchitis, hydrocephalus, and other diseases, produced by want of care and the pernicious habits we have detailed.— We may mention also that spirits, particularly gin, are frequently given when the infants appear to suffer from pain in the bowels, which, from injudicious diet, is very common among them." The writer thinks that the condition of the ma nufacturer milht be rendered more supportable by shortening the hours of labour. What a picture he gives us of the state of these wretched beings. " At present (he says),in the cotton trade at least, which is already restricted by law, the hours of work generally extend from half-past five or six in the morning till half past seven or eight at night, with about two hours' inter mission, making in all about twelve hours' clear labour. This we would reduce to ten hours (if such a measure should be rendered practicable and safe by a removal of all taxes on manufactures and provisions) ; and we again express our conviction, after regarding the subject in every possible point of view, that till this measure is adopted, all plans and exertions for ameliorating the moral and do mestic:condition of the manufacturing labourer, can only obtain a very partial and temporary sphere of operation. We say this with confidence, because, in every project of the kind which we have been enabled to form, in every attempt for this purpose which our personal acquaintance and habitual intercourse with the rople could suggest, we have been met and defeated by the long hours (ab sorbing in fact the whole of the efficient day) which the operative is compelled to remain at his employment. When he returns home at night, the sensorial power is worn out with intense fatigue ; he has no energy left to exert in any useful object, or any domestic duty ; he is fit only (or sleep or sensual indulgence, the only alternations of em ployment which his leisure knows ; he has no moral elas ticity to enable him to resist the seductions of appetite or sloth ; no heart for regulating his household, superintend. ing his family concerns, or enforcing economy in his domestic arrangements ; no power or capability of exer tion to rise above his circumstances, or better his condi tien. He has no time to be wise, no leisure to he good ; he is sunken, debilitated, depressed, emasculated, unnerved for effort, incapable of virtue, unfit for everything but the regular, hopeless, desponding, degrading variety of la borious vegetation or shameless intemperance. Relieve him in this particular, shorten his hours of labour, and he will find himself possessed of sufficient leisure to make it an object with him to employ that leisure well ; he will not be so thoroughly enervated with his day's employment ; he will not feel so imperious a necessity for stimulating liquors ; he will examine more closely, and regulate more carefully his domestic arrangements ; and, what is more than all, he will become a soil in which the religious philanthropist may have some chance of labouring with advantage. We do not say that a reduction in the hours of labour would do everything, hut we are sure that little can he done without it ; it is indisperfsible as a preliminary treasure." But the most alarming part of this state of things is, that there are no connecting ties between masters and labourers. There is no intercourse between them. " The masters and their men (he observes) occupy two distinct spheres of living, to the mutual detriment of both. They are bound together by no ties beyond those of pecuniary service ; and when these are broken or suspended, the state of things ensues which has lately been alarming and inflaming the whole of the south of Lancashire, and spreading doubt and dismay throughout the kingdom." lie adds, that " unless some cordial, faithful, vigorous and united effort is made on the part of the influen tial classes, to stem that torrent of suffering and cor ruption which is fast sweeping away the comfort and the morals of so large a portion of our poorer countrymen ; and which, if not checked, will soon send them forth upon the world desperate, reckless, ruined men—ruined both in their feelings and their fortunes ; unless some such effort is made, and Oral speedily, there are silent but mighty instruments at work, like an evil that walketh in darkness, which ere long will undermine the system of social union and burst asunder the silken bonds of amity which unite men to their kind." He calculates the number of those who directly or indirectly derive their sub sistence from the cotton manufacture (the most un healthy of all), at four millions. One of the first objects to which a Reformed Parliament ought to direct its attention is a system of education for the people. Some of the German States have set us in this respect an example from which we might profit. Education is compulsory, on the principle that individuals ought not to be at liberty, by with holding education from their offspring - , to throw on society beings insufficiently prepared for the dis charge of their several duties. There are in this country immense funds for the instruction of the See a va l ua bl e P a p e r, by Dr. Kay, in the second Numbe r of the' North of England Medical and Surgical Journal.' " t We may he re o b serve, also, that epilepsy appears to be snore frequ en t ; and among the manufacturing labourers than' 1 in other cla sses that varicose en l argemen t s o f the veins, and ulc ers o f t h e among them, in consequence of e t x ho t eit t •t ies ' a ,.. ec h id eti n i t e s, their are common so large a portion of the day. of o bl i ge obliged to stand wounds heal slowly ; and all their diseases, ell or surgical, are characterized by a deficiency of ir e " net.g i ; in the system." The Great Council of the Nation assembles this day, and although a short period will of necessity he devoted to business of mere routine before the awful question of Parliamentary Reform can regu larly come under discussion, this is the day which history will mark as the epoch of the meeting of that Parliament, by the decision of which the fu ture weal or woe, prosperity or declension, of the British Empire is to be determined. We have called the question an awful one, not in the spirit or tem per of partisans, but under the influence of a feel- Mg, which must, we think, be common to all men whom the spirit and temper of party has not utterly deprived of reason. The same language should be our were we even as much convinced of the ne cessity of a new construction of the Legislature as any of our contemporaries. It must he the language of every man who is qualified to understand the very terms of the question. What is it to construct anew the Legislature of an extensive empire like that of Great Britain,consisting of a multitude of parts,diver sified in their several interests as they are widely sepa rated by their geographical position? It is to call into play a variety of impulses and feelings, with respect to which we have no experience, and of which neither the direction nor the momentum can be the subject of accurate calculation. It is to place the great masses of society in a new position with re spect to each other—in a position which, fur any experience we can have to the contrary, may lead to strife rather than to harmony, to destruction rather than improvement. It is an experiment which once begun must pursue its full course, and upon the ultimate success of which depends the wel fare and happiness of myriads of human beings for countless ages. The questions which the new Par liament will have to discuss, then, aro not whether abuses have existed in the British Government, or whether the Constitution of the Legislature has been free from anomalies, incongruities, or defects; but whether, admitting the existence of these prac tical abuses and organical imperfections, they have risen to such an enormous and mischievous height as to warrant, with a view to their correction, an experiment of which every man fit to take any share in such a discussion must see the danger, and whether the specific experiment it is proposed to try be that which presents the best chance of success, and guards most cautiously and effectually against the dangers inseparable from every such experiment ? It is not by the influence of personal or party feelings—it is not by the recollection of a popular clamour, artificially excited, ephemeral, already ex tinguished—it is not by any reference to pledges, unconstitutionally extorted and given upon the hustings, in the presence and under the terror of furious mobs—it is not by deference to the personal wishes of any individual, however exalted, even if the wishes of the most exalted individual of the realm could (which is impossible) be authentically and constitutionally known, that any conscientious or intelligent man will be guided to a decision upon the great and awful questions we have described. — We have been led into these remarks in conse quence of the suggestion of some of the more ardent of our reforming contemporaries, that the Speech by which his Majesty will open the Session of Par liament ought to contain some very striking and pe culiar expression of his Majesty's personal wishes with respect to the Reform question. The sug gestion is no doubt a very foolish one. This, how ever, does not diminish the probability of its adop tion. The Speech of his Majesty, whatever it may contain, will be the speech of his Constitutional Advisers, who may, by resorting to any unusual ex pedient of this nature upon the present occasion, diminish, but certainly cannot increase, the confi dence of Parliament in their discretion, in their in-. tegrity as Ministers of the Crown, in their fitness to sway the decision of the Legislature upon a question the most important in its consequences which perhaps a British Parliament ever had to con sider.--Morning Post. S ECON I) EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. :11E LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Si. Jarnes'A Palate, Jun 6 8 1831. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Colonel Stephen RemhatA Chapman, of the Royal Engineers, Governot and Commander.in-Chief of the Bermudas. Whitehall, June 14. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, granting unto Ad miral Sir Thomas Foley, G.C.B. tine offices or places of Rear- Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Admiralty thereof, and also of Rear-Admiral of the Navies and Seas of the said United Kingdom, in the room of the Earl of Northesk, deceased. Foreign-Office, June 14. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint John Henry Mandeville, Esc'. formerly Secretary to his Majesty's Embassy at the Court of Lisbon, to be Secretary to his Majesty's Embassy at the Sublime Ottoman Porte. War Office, June 14. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet:H. F. Bonham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pyrke, who retires ; G. A. F. Quentin, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bonham, June 14. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Lieu tanant C. W. Ridley to be Lieutenant and Captain, by pur chase, vice Jodrell, who retires ; Ensign B. Coulson, from the ”Sth Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant by purchase, vice Rid ley, June 14• 4th Regiment of Foot—A. Nicholson, Gent., to be Ensieh, by purchase, vice Stanhope, who retires, June 1 t. 70th Foot—H. C. Whally, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dott, promotted. June 14. 72d Foot—Capt. Watts, from half-pay Unattached, to be Cap tain, vice D. M'Lean, who exchanges, receiving the difference, June 14. 08th Foot—J. Rainier, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coulson, appointed to the Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards, June 14. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—R. Newnham, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Horton, appointed to the 58th Foot, June 14. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. EDWARD DA RKE, Stroud, Gloucestershire, maltster. WILLIAM SMITH, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, grocer. PA NK RUPTCY SUPERSEDED. SAMUEL STONE, Austin-Friars, broker. BANKRUPTS. ..... _ JOHN WESTON, sen. and JOHN WESTON, jun. Old Bond-street, tailors, to surrender, June 21, 2S, and July 26, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Wilde, Rees, and Hum phry, College-hilL W ILLIAM BYE R LEY, Bucklershury, eating-house- keeper, June 21, 2S, and July 26, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Bennett, Scot's-yard, Bush-lane. JEREMIAH BURROUGHS, Mile End-road, Middlesex, merchant, June 17, 24, at twelve, and July 26, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Nicholson, Dowgate-hill. JOHN HARPER, Monmouth-Cap, Langua, Monmouth shire, Jue 23, 24; and July 26, at ten, at the Bpwling-geen Inn, Hereford. Church, Great James-street, Bedford-row, London ; Pateshall and Bellamy, Hereford. JAMES STOCKMAN, Portsmouth, watch-maker, June 21, 25, and July '26, at twelve, at the Royal Oak Inn, Portsea. Corn pigne, South-sqare, Gray's Inn ; Tayler, Portsea. ROBERT EDMONI), Bridlington-quay, Yorkshire, inn keeper, June 23, at six, 24, at ten, and July 26, at twelve, at the Britannia Inn, Bridlington-quay. Williams, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn ; Taylor, Bridlington. ROBERT NICHOLSt IN, Rise, York, dealer, June 30, and July '26 ' at eleven, at the White Hart Tavern, Kingston - upon - Hull. Itoser and Sons, Gray's Inn-place, Gray's-inn, London; England and Shackles, Hull. MATTHEW BROWN, Gateshead, Durham, publican, June IJ, and July 6, '26, at eleven, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Shaw, Ely-place, Holborn; Cro zier, Newcastle-upon-Tvne. JOSEPH WILLIAM WOOLLEY, Hanover-terrace, Re gent's-park, furnishing iron-monger, June 17, at eleven, :24, at ten, and July 26, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Mark, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. JOHN HENRY SKELTON, Chandos.street, Covent-garden, warehouseman, June 21, ES, and July 26, at ten, at the Couot of Commissioners. Wilde, Rees, and Humphry, College-hill. THOMAS ASH\VOIITH, Rochdale, miller, June 24, at three, '25, and July 26, at nine, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Woods, Rochdale; Norris, Allen, and Anthony, John-street, Bedford.row, London. JOHN SHURY, Charter-House-street, Charter-House-square, Middlesex, printer, June 17, at twelve, '24, at eleven, and July '6, at twelve, at the Court of Commiss!oners. Saward and Wa terman, FurnivaPs-Inn. .1011 N BOAST, Trinity-square, Southwark, apothecary, June 24, at twelve, 28, and July 26, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Watson and sons, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. WILLIAM STEVENS, Clare-street, Clare-market, linen draper, June 17, 24, at eleven, and July 26, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Hardwick and Guest, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside. PETER JOHNSON, St. Mary-Axe, wine-merchant, June 21, at twelve, 28, and July 26, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Whiteley, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury. THE FUNDS. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CI Consols ... . — Ditto for Account 83k Brazilian Bond‘ 52 4 Buenos Ayret3 Chilian Ditto — Columbian, 1824 USING PRICES. Danish Grvek, 1825 — Mexican, 1825 391, Peruvian Russian ...... 92 3 : Spanish l6 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 12.—His Majesty's ship Re. venge, 76, Captain James Hillyar, C.B. went out of Plymouth harbour on the 3d instant, and having been paid wages in advance sailed on the following day, for this port, where she arrived on Sunday. His Majesty's ship Alfred, 50, Captain Robert Maunsell, sailed from Chatham early on Saturday morning, the 4th instant, saluting the Commander in-Chief as she left the harbour, for this port, where she arrived on Monday last. His Majesty's steam-vessel Confiance, 2, Lieut. H. F. Belson, put into this port on Saturday from Woolwich, and afterwards proceeded for Plymouth, and thence to Falmouth to take out the next mails for Cadiz and the Mediterranean. On his Majesty's ship Alfred arriving, in sight on Monday, a number of yachts at Spithead and in harbour got under weigh, and accompanied her to an anchorage. One of the schooners heat the Alfred considerably in working up from St. Helen's to Spithead. Among the yachts we observed, the Arundel, his'Grace the Duke of Norfolk, who has been cruising at Spithead during the week; Hehe, Corbett, Esq.; Campedora, Williams, Esq., and several others. The William Harris, transport, Lieut. Stevens, agent, arrived on Wednesday from Rio Janeiro, bringinir as passengers Lieut. Stockwell, of the Royal Marines, Commandant at Fernando Po, for the re-establishment of his health ; Messrs. John and Richard Lander, the enterprising African tra vellers, who have at length solved the problem which has so long remained in obscurity, viz.: the termination of the river Niger; four invalids from his Majesty's ship Warspite and Seringapatam ; eight distressed British subjects; and returned stores from the squadron in the Pacific and at Rio Janeiro. The William Harris sailed from Valparaiso for Rio on the llth of January, leaving there his Majesty's ship Seringapatam, 46, Captain Hon. W. Walde grave (a). His Majesty's ship Eden, 26, Capt rain W. F. W. Owen, was expected at Val paraiso about the 22d of February from Co quimbo to take the remainder of her freight on board for England. The French frigate, Caro line, bearing the French Commodore's flag, was also at Valparaiso. An American corvette had sailed a few days before for Callao. The William Harris a rrived at Rio on the 7th of March, and sailed again for England on the 20th ; the NVarspite, the Ad miral's ship, was the only King's ship there. The French frigate Hermione had left Rio a few days before with a French Commodore to relieve the present Commodore at Valparaiso. His Majesty's ship Clio, 18, Commander J. J. Onslow, was at the river Plata, on her way to join the squadron in the Pacific. On the day the William Harris left Rio, they were informed that a complete change in the Alinistiy had taken place ; all the Portuguese but one had been dismissed and their places supplied by Brazilians. This arrangement appeared to give very general satisfaction, and seemed but ill calcu lated to prepare the way fur what has since occurred in that cou ntr y . Lieut. Stockwell, Comman dant at F(1-flit:trio Po, embarked on board the Willi am Harris, on the 20 th of February, at Rio, i taken a passage in the Carnarvon, from Fernando Po to Rio. The colony of the former island con sisted at that time of J. Beacroft, Esq. acting Su perintendant, Dr. Creichton, Ensign Smellie, of the Royal African Corps, Mr. James Beattie, Com tnanding the Pam:him, colonial schooner, and about 750 emancipated slaves, natives of various parts of the coast of Africa, who were employed in cutting t h e timber and clearing away. The Colony was healthy, not having had any serious illness for some t i me . They had only lost two or three men during the last eight months. Orders had been received from England to build a large victualling store, offi cers' quarters, &c. The former had been commenced previously to Lieutenant Stockwell's leaving. The ed board o l i t T e t i r s , r s i f r a r s o . a m t L R l a , l i e j o ( r i , n e having n e l nl o i r, m o ' a l :r (cd) which there l c r th e e theylC \i a i a a a r t :-; atter reached in a merchant-vessel from the coast of Africa. These enterprising individuals embarked on the Niger at Yaoorie in two canoes, accompanied by ten negroes, from the co a st, o n September 19, 1830, continuing their course downwards, with a view of discovering its termination. On each side of the river the banks were densely populated and in a high state of cultivation, the natives being ex ceedingly civil and respectful. As th e y p r o c e e d e d down the course of the river, they observed, how however, a great change, which daily became more remarkable in the habits and appearance of the people, and towards the end of October, on their progress towards Kirree, the conduct of the natives towards them was wholly changed, their customs, manners, religion, and institutions being different, and the men being much less civilized, and of a fe rocious disposition. The travellers, however, reached Kirree on the sth of November, a town situated on the banks of the river Nun, which after wards turned out to be one of the openings of the rive r Niger into the Gulf of Biafra. Although they had experienced petty annoyances from the natives, some time prior to this, they had met with no se rious interruption to their progress, but here they were attacked by a large party in a fleet of fifty canoes, well manned, from the Eboe country ; the men being armed with bows and arrows, muskets, swords, and other European weapons. The travel lers' party, being so small and insignificant as com pared with their enemies, found it useless to at tempt resistance, and were taken prisoners and their canoes sunk. They were then carried to the capi tal of the Eboe country, to the King Obie, and were confined several days in a house, when they were ransomed by a native trader from the coast, into whose hands they were delivered with a view of being re-sold at a profit. The Captain of the Tho mas, a Liverpool palm oil vessel, named Lake, then entered into an arrangement with the native trader, arid agreed to purchase them fer the value of twelve slaves, and having persuaded their then possessors to give up the elder brother, John, after a farther period of ten days, by means of promises which it appears he never intended to perform, succeeded also in obtaining possession of the younger brother Richard. The master of the Liverpool vessel shortly after liberated them both, when they resumed their travels, and by following the course of the Nun four teen days, had the good fortune, on the 15th of No vember, to pass into the Gulf of Biafra, which, to gether with the Bonney, New Calabar, Del Rey, and other rivers, opening into the same Gulf, have been found to be the mouths of the Niger. The William Harris had a long and tedious passage of eighty days from Rio, having experienced some very fresh breezes off the Western Islands. The Wil liam Harris will be refitted in this harbour, and will sail in the course of a fortnight with the remaining companies of the 47th Regiment for Leith. At Spithead—Caledonia, Prince Regent, Done gal, Wellesley, Revenge, Asia, Alfred, Briton, Bar ham, Pearl, Brisk, and Wasp. In Harbour—Spartiate, Royal George, Samarang, Rattlesnake, Tweed, Childers, Victor, Charybdis, Recruit, and Columbia steamer. Vice-Admiral Sir E. Codrington, G.C.8., re turned from London on Tuesday evening, and hoisted his flag (white at the fore) on board his Majesty's ship Caledonia, 120, Captain E. Curzon, C. 8., as Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's ships and wea sels now assembling at Spithead. Sir Ed w ard's flag had been previously hoisted and struck on board his Majesty's ship Donegal, 78, Capt. John Dick. Rear-Admiral W. Parker, C. 8., struck his flag pro tempore, on Wednesday, and departed for Lon don, returning the following day, and re-hoisted his flag (blue at the mizen) on board his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, 120, Capt. J. W. Dundas, as se cond in command of the squadron at Spithead. His Majesty's ship Childers, 18, Com. Deans, (recently arrived from Lisbon) came into harbour on Tuesday, to have her rudder inspected and some trifling defects repaired. The departure of the squadron, under the orders of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.8., will take place on or about the 20th instant. The squadron will consist of the following ships :—Ca ledonia, 120 ; Prince Regent, 120:; Asia, 84; Re venge, 76 ; Donegal, 76; Talavera, 84 ; Wellesley, 74 ; Barham, 50 ; Alfred, 50 ; Curacoa, 28 ; Pearl, 20, and the Brisk gun-brig. Several officers on half-pay will be permitted to embark on hoard the different ships, to improve their professional knowledge. PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.--Admiral Sir Thomas Foley, Bart., G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at this port, is appointed Rear-Admiral of England, vice the late Admiral the Right lion. the Earl of Northesk, G.C.8.; Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, late K.C.8., is appointed a Knight Grand Cross, vice the late Earl of Northesk ; Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew, late K.C.8., is appointed a supernumerary Knight Grand Cross ; Vice-A . d mind Charles Ekins, late C. 8., is appointed Knight Commander of the Bath ; Rear-Admiral Thomas Baker, late C. 8., is appointed Knight Commander of the Bath ; Lieutenant Frederick Rog ers, of his Majesty's ship Ganges, and Lieutenant W. Shep heard, late of his Majesty's ship Samarang, are pro moted to the rank of Commander; Commanders C. Hutchinson, Henry Drury, and Wm. J. Cole, are appointed to the Coast Guar d Service, vice W e iss, Sharpe, and Campbell ; Li eu tenants S. Jackson, R. Taylor, E. Wylde, J. Lester, W. Finch, J. Burnett, R. Poole, C. Autridgc, Chapman Wise, R.N. Kelly, R. L. Stephens, R. Purchac, A. J. Mann, W. Congdon, P. Ralfe, and W. Aldred, are ap pointed to the Coast Guard Service; Lieutenant Robert H. Elliot is appointed to his Majesty's ship Briton, vice Codrington , appointed Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.B. ; Lieutenants W. Smith and J. C. Fullarton are ap pointed to his Majesty's ship Samarang, as is also Mr. G. T. Moxey, Surgeon ; Lieutenant Francis Gray is appointed to the Ordinary at Chatham, vice Dunlop : the Rev. W. Johnson, late of his Majesty's ship Semiramis, is appointed Chaplain of his Majesty's ship Stag; the Rev. E. Pettman, late of his Majesty's ship Gloucester, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Dublin, vice Ferris, sick; Mr. H. Baillie is appointed Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Astrea ; Mr. J. Wilson, (b) is appointed Surgeon at tvl appointedi Victor, Island ctor, vAi Assistant-Surgeon so f iGsthiab iAscensionnssto-Aisiriair; Majesty's setoy s lr V Lieutenant os . hf N iph J B s. . Majesty's‘iNa v Marshal A r s i d i s ap pointed gsehis p Shepheard, promoted; . PROMOTIONS LieutenantJ. Rattlesnake, S a c p l p e o tk i o t e f d h A e g s e nt of th e C a th er i ne t e \e.'ar vice (redden rb i e ci s es , t A r i a A n ß sp iN o i r : t s ; ._ Lieutenant\V. ai)d,Be Lester is appointed Agent of the Cygnet, transp or t ; M r . St a rk is appointed POlrNTvAelt ietifeln EN L Tn o 'l t N A T ila : i iE to.i.coio • R i o n i tr i re L e corps, and Torrens, is pr omo t e d t o the rank and appointed to Chatham Division, vice Snow, whose melancholy death we noticed in last week's Herald; Captain and Brevet Major R. S. Wilkinson, of the Portsmouth Division, is appointed a Pay Captain at Plymouth, vice Torrens ; First Lieutenant J. Nicholas, of the Plymouth Division, is promoted to the rank of Captain and appointed to the Portsmouth Division, vice Wilkinson ; First Lieutenant E. W. Churchill, of the Woolwich Di vision, is appointed to the Plymouth Division, vice Nicholas; Second Lieutenant R. Wright, of the Royal Marine Artillery, is promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, and appointed to the Woolwich Division, vice Churchill ; Mr. J. D. C. Lamont, is appointed a Second Lieutenant at this Division ; Mr. J. Brown (a), is appointed Assistant -Surgeon of the Woolwich Division. His Majesty's ship Talavera, 84, and Curac oa, 28, are daily expected at this p o r t to join thet..qul dron under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir L. Codrington. Extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated April 15, lately 1831 :—" The following movements have taken place in the ships on this station. The Sp arr owhawk, Captain Ma y ne, arrived on the I lth inst. from Santa M artha, and sailed a g ain on a ,rise on the I Ith ; and the Hyacinth, Captain ,Jackson, on the same day from Carthagena ; the packet brig Pigeon, Lieutenant Nutley, arrived from Cat thagena on the 12th, and will sail to-morrow on her return to Falmouth ; the Rose, Captain. Pdkiogton, from Santa Martha on the 14th; the Grasshopper, Captain Erskine, from Porto Ca-"% br 110 this morning. The Kangaroo, Lieutenant Allen, sailed on a cruise on the 12th. The follow ing vessels of war remain in Port Royal harbour Blanche, 46, Commodore A. Farquhar; Magnificent, receiving. the convalescent ship, and victualling depot, 10, Captain R. M. Jackson ; Grasshopper, IS, Captain J. E. Erskine ; Hyacinth, 18, Captain ii..lackson ; Skipjack, schooner, 5, Lieutenant W. Short land, and Speedwell, schooner, 5, Lieutenant W. Warren. Commodore Farquhar has informed the authorities here, for the information of the mer chants, that the Grasshopper will sail from this port on or about the 23d inst. for Belize, Ornoa, Truxillo, Tampico, Vera Cruz, the Havannah, and England, so tdat you may shortly expect her home. Sir Wm. Cotton, attended by his Adjutant-General and Aide ' da-Camp, reviewed the 81th Regiment, in the Barrack -square of Spanish Town on Sunday morn ing, the 10th inst. He arrived in the square at six o'clock a.m. and was received by Major Nicol and his gallant corps with presented arms. The General complimented Major Nicol upon the good st:tre of discipline of the regiment, which certainly presented as fine au appearance as any regiment which has been here for many years. Mr. Alexander Aikman, the proprietor of the Royal Gazette, died at hi, e.itlenca, on Monday last, in the 48th year of his age. The Bishop, with his Lordship's Secre tary and Registrar, H. Lipscomb, Esq., landed from the Winchester on the Bth, and proceeded with the Rector, Curate, and Churchwardens to the pa rochial school, where they commenced an examina tion (lithe pupils, eighty-three in number. On the following day they continued their examination, after which has Lordship expressed himself much gratified at the attainuterits of the scholars, arid paid a high compliment to Mr. Evans, the master, for his zeal and diligence. His Lordship also testified his ap probation by leaving 201. to be distributed to the most deserving among the boys. His Lordship afterwards confirmed thirty-four persons at the Church, and at four o'clock p.m. rc-embarked on bord the Winchester for Montego Bay and Lucca, at both of which places his Lordship intends to per form a similar ceremony. A Savings' Bank is about to be established at Montego Bay for the de posits of slave,." Extract of a letter, dated Kingston, Jamaica, April 16th, 1821 :—A case came on in the Surrey As , ize Court Jamaica, on the 1 lth inst. before Sir W. A. Scarletr, the Hon. John Mais, the Hon. J. R. Jackson, and Maurice Wrest, Esq. which has ex cited considerable interest here, and a summary of the details will perhaps be interesting to you. The Attorney-Gerund opened the case by stating it was an indictment against Mr. William Bruce, for a libel upon Mr. Lambert, a Lieutenant in the Navy, con tained in a letter which had been transmitted by the former to Lord Melville. The letter was dived August 2, 1830, when Lord Melville was first Lo; d of the Admiralty, and charged Lieut. Lambert with having submitted to be branded in the Jamaica Courant and Pa//ic Advertiser of the 17th of Nov. 1829, (of which Paper Mr.'Bruce is the Editor) as a wilful liar, without taking any steps to rescue his character from the imputation which attaches to sut h an accusation, and went on to state that Lieut. Lam bert had been carrying on btp•iness as a merchant for eight or nine years, and it was therefore possible that his dealings in the articles of soap, lard, butter, candles, &e. might have blunted the finer feelings of the gentleman. The letter was not only sent to Lord Melville, but was di,tributed by Mr. Bruce in all parts in the shape of a circular. On the receipt of the letter, Lord Melville immediately forwarded t I e communication to Vice-Admiral E. G. Colpoys, Comroander-in-Chief on the station, then at Ber muda, by whom it was with other documents for warded to Commodore A. Farquhar, Captain of the Blanche, and a copy was immediately transmitted by the Commodore to Lieut. LatniJurt. Mr. Bruce, it is understood, was dissuaded by several respectable merchants from sending the letter to Lord Melville, hot he disregarded their advice. The case in support of the indictment having been gone through (iind which lasted the greater part of two days) and Mr. Tuckett having been heard in defence at considerable length, the Attorney-General was about to reply, when the Chief Justice said it was unnecessary and proceeded t ) pronounce the folloWing sentence : \Vdliam Bruce, you have been convicted, upon the clearest evidence, of a false and malicious libel on the prosecutor, Mr. William Lambert. The pub lication which you put forth, and which was in the form of a letter to Lord Melville, the then first Lord of the Admiralty, was calculated to injure, most seriously, the character of the prosecutor, both as a member of this community, in which he resides, and as an officer in his Mdjesty's Navy. We are satisfied that the spirit of misrepresentation and de tiac•ion which has so long prevailed in this island, is the most prominent evil of the time. It strikes at the root of all confidence—it is calculated to awaken all the worst feelings of the heart, and to check and destroy every mild and kind affection. This being cur conviction, it is imperative upon us to visit your offence with due reprehension. The judgment we are about to pronounce will afford you leisure to re flect on the conduct you have pursued ; arid if you reflect upon it calmly and soberly, you will not fad to see the propriety of betaking yourself, when you again enter the world, to some respectable and honest calling, instead of indulging your bad passions, and administerieg to the bad pas , ions of others.— The sentence of the Court is—that you, Wm. Bruce, do pay a fine to our Sovereign Lord the King, of one hundred pounds ; that you be and stand com mitted to the common gaol of this county, there to remain, without bail or mainprize, for six calendar months, to be computed from this day, and that, at the expiration of your said imprisonment, you do enter into your own recognizance to our Sovereign Lord the King, in the sum of one hundred pounds, for your good behaviour, for twelve months, and that you be and stand further committed until such fine be paid, and such security given." The Surrey, male convict ship, is fitting at Dept ford, and will call at this port to convey from hence `2OO male convicts to Australia. The Lord Lindoch Strathfieldsaye, male convict ship, is fitting at Deptford for convicts, to New South Wales. The Lnrkin, male convict ship, arrived at Chat ham on Saturday last, for the purpose of embarking convicts for New South Wales. The Britomart transport is fitting at Deptford for Fernando Po, Col. Nicols, the late Commander tncre, will, we believe, take a passage in her. BIRTHS. On the Ilth inst. in Charle4-street, Berkeley-square, the Zion. Mrs. H. Itamsden, of a daughter. On the Bth inst. at Reading, the lady of the Rev. F. Valpyi of a son. On the 13th inst. in Fitzroy-square, the lady of W. J. LysleYs Esq., of a son. On the I"th inst. at Somerset -cottage, Camberwell, Mrs. W. Broad-street of ° a n da ti t ' i e g Burn, of a daughter. •11 hter.buildings, the lady o f J. 0• On the 10th inst. Behrends, Esq., of a son. inst. at Waltham stow, the lad y of J. T ho rp, Esq. , On the 12th inst. in Harley-street, the lady of J. Lautour, Esq. of a daughter. On the I"th inst. the lady of J. Coekerell, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 9th inst. at King Somborn e , H ants, M r. J. Puna, of Stockbr id g e, to Mary, only daughter of Mr. Riding, of Up- Somborne. On the llth inst. at Newington, Mr. Wm. Chandler, o f the Mi nor ics, to Matilda , second (laughter of J. S. Esher, Esq., of Newington. DIED. On the 10th inst. at Longbridge, Warwickshire, in her 47th 'ear, in a tit of apoplexy, Aun, the amiable and beloved wife of John Russell, Esq. banker, of Warwick. t On the 13th in s t. M rs. J . Watson, with o f J . W a t son , E sq ., o I-ark-street, Westminster. On the 11th inst. Mr. I'armeter, of Aylsham, Norfolk, in the tr.th year of his age. On the 12th inst. Mr. W. Browning, jun., of the Secretary's office, West India Dock-house, aged 45. On the Hth inst. at Salter's-buildings, Walthamstow, G Wilson, Esq., aged 70. On the 10th inst. John Greenwood, Esq. of Halstead, Essex. I•RINTL'D AND PUBLISHED BV MURDO YOUNG, AT Til° .`.UN OFFICE', 11's, STRAND, LONDON. UN] N` ' the Al - lutions which Ten p ?.Ist ii übsolnl R' Prii Ludo Jest p .' Ni P' CIPA AMP To work siders cour.F village hides religit if any 1.01 and .1 UNDI l'ol LIRE On tl in irk a. sod been feattn tnuni, Fi Nam he ho Om) send Life enabl addit size li , hei not 14111 eha war Cat th prc I sl