The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-24 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (From Galignani's Messenger of Monday.) The Augsburg Gazette of the 17th instant has the fol lowing of the 10th, from Vienna :—" By the fire at Neu stadt, 600 buildings including three churches, became a prey to the destructive element. The number of persons who suffered amounts to 9,000, many of whom have lost everything they possessed. The loss of human life has also been great : the number of victims has not been ascer tained, but they are supposed to be about fifty. The im mense damage may be easily conceived, when it is remem bered that this town is an important commercial depot, con taining manufactories of every kind. Combustible materials are supposed to have been designedly laid in different parts of the town at the same moment." The same journal has the following from Constantinople, under the date of the 26th of August :—" Many persons are of opinion that the Syrian affair is not at an end, that the present tranquillity is but momontary, that the insurgents secretly cherish their original pretensions, and are silently preparing to extort by violence that right which is now denied them. Mehemet Ali returned to Alexandria with but a small suite : he was labouring under great depression, and gave orders for all his disposable force to be sent into Syria, in order that offensive operations might be resumed as soon as Ibrahim had recovered from an illness under which he was suffering. at St. Jean d'Acre. At the same time a new levy of re cruits was ordered to a greater extent than was ever before known. These facts, with others of like import, have been extracted from the correspondence of the consular agent to an Ambassador residing in this capital. The Porte has received similar communications, and has also obtained information from the late theatre of war, pur porting that public feeling is in a state of great excite ment, that the Syrians continue to arm themselves, and brand such of their countrymen as traitors who ven ture on establishing friendly relations with Mehemet or his son before their just rights had been granted. The rival tribes have also entered into bonds of fraternity, and are now in a condition to bid defiance to the power of Mehemet. Within these few days preparations have been renewed in the arsenal for fitting out the fleet, which, it is said, will set sail for the purpose of counteracting fresh supplies of troops from Alexandria,—a perilous experiment, when it is remembered that the English squadron lies off Vourla, and seems to be only waiting for the movement of the Turkish fleet against the Egyptians in order to strike a decisive blow, and render it unfit for future operations." According to a private letter from Bayonne, dated the 17th instant, " Captain Iturria, with two .companies from the garrison of Elisondo, surprised, on the morning of the 13th, Don Xavier San Esteban, a Carlist agent, Madame Eraso, and four other persons, who were at Valcarlos ; but having passed through the Aldudes, the French gar rison stationed at that point claimed the prisoners, and conducted them to St. Jean Pied-de-Port. On the 13th, Zumalacarregui placed fifty men and sixty horses at Carascal, three leagues from Pampeluna, in order to prevent the landing of any provisions at that town. He arrived on the 15th at San Esteban, where he col lected all the rations from the Cinco Villas. On the same day Captain Don Leon Iriarte arrived at Irurita, with 100 men and three horses from Pampeluna. The Carlists from the Bastan appeared also on the same day at Elisondo, having taken flight after the last action. Yesterday 500,000 francs were sent hence to General Rodil. After the last affair four officers of the sth Carlist battalion of Navarre were taken and immediately shot, by order of Ge neral Rodil. In pursuance of an order of the day issued by General Rodil, fifty-two families, belonging to Pampe luna, have been sent to Foria and Saragossa." The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of Bayonne of the 18th inst. has the following extract of a letter from the frontiers of the 16th :—" We have nothing new except that the day before yesterday the insurgents attacked Tolosa, and were repulsed by the garrison, which made a vigorous sortie. The loss of the Queen's troops was three or four killed, and twelve or fourteen wounded. A cadet taken prisoner was executed on the spot. It seems that the insurgents experienced a great loss in killed and wounded. Other bodies of Carlists are said to have again entered Berra." A letter from Geneva of the 18th inst. says :—" Orders have within these few days been received at the French frontier to examine most strictly all persons coming from Switzerland, and particularly from Geneva. Inhabitants of Geneva alone are admitted at Ferney and Saint Genys with passports from the authorities of this town. A report has been spread that the Duchess of Berri is at Friburg, but it is totally unfounded. The fact is, that attention has been awakened by an extraordinary agitation amongst the legitimatists who have been resident at Friburg, several of whom have sold the property they had purchased in that canton, and removed to Geneva or Lausanne. The Bernese Government conceives that it has caught the thread of an aristocratical conspiracy, which was to have broken out simultaneously in several communes of the canton, and chiefly in the ci-devant bishopric of Basle." The following is from the Observateur Suisse of Berne : —" All the contingents of the cantons assembled at the camp of Thoune broke up on the 14th instant, and re turned to their respective homes. A party of them, com posed of men from Vaud, Berne, Thurgau, the Grisons, Argau, and other cantons, passed a night at Berne. The Prusso-Neufchatelise, however, thought it best to form a party distinct from the rest, and returned to their princi pality incog. by cross-roads and by-paths. In all other respects the most perfect harmony prevailed, and no un pleasantness occurred at the camp, except that which was occasioned by the men of Neufchatel wearing the Prussian cockade and medal. By way of ridicule, the other soldiers, and particularly those of the smaller cantons, suspended potatoes and radishes to their button-holes, and those of the Vaud and Berne copper pieces of five batz each, to repre sent the Prussian medals." Extract of a letter, of the 6th inst., from Naples : " Leon Sebastian of Spain and his consort, who are ex pected here, are believed to be coming to endeavour to effect a reconciliation between our King and his sister, the Queen Regent of Spain. Don Miguel has invited several officers of the English navy, resident here, to join him in an expedition against Don Pedro, which is preparing in Hol land, but hitherto his overtures have met with nothing but refusals. The King has been much displeased by libels on his private life, published in the Gazette de France, and has consequently very much limited his evening parties, be lieving that the author of these articles had been admitted to them. The eruption of Vesuvius has much diminished. We are, however; still in a state of apprehension, for Salva tore, the noted cicerone of the mountain, predicts another explosion much more violent. The lava has reached within a mile of Scafati, a small manufacturing town on the Parno, and had well nigh interrupted the communication between Castellamare and Nola. 300 families have been driven from their houses, and have lost the whole produce of their lands. The Government has granted them a temporary relief of 5,000 ducats, but this is not one-hundreth part of their losses. The King has been twice to visit the scene of destruction." - The Augsburg Gazette, of the 18th instant, has the fol lowing extract of a letter from Vienna, of the 11th in stant :—" A widely-ramified conspiracy has been discovered at Constantinople, the object of which was to get rid of the Sultan. It is generally supposed that Mehemet Ali is the secret instigator, for considerable sums of money have been found upon the persons of those implicated. Many arrests have taken place, and a commission of the Porte has been sent to Broussa, to inquire into the facts, and bring the conspirators to justice. - A camp of Turkish troops is aout to be assembled in the neighbourhood of Koniah. Several regiments of a newly organised militia have been ordered to join it. The formation of this corps is similar to the Na tional Guards or Landwehr of other countries. The move able regiments are to be assembled once every year for mi litary exercises. This camp seems principally to be esta blished as a corps of observation for Syria."—The Gazette quotes the funds at Vienna, on the 13th—Metallics, 5 per cent., 99 ; ditto 4 per cent., 88i ; Bank Actions, 1,238. The Berlin State Gazette quotes the funds on the 15th, 4 per Cents. cash 99, paper 99k. Extract of a letter from Alexandria, dated August 6 : " It is supposed here that Mehemet Ali, in taking rein forcements of troops in Syria, only followed the impulse of the Anglo-French policy, which fears that this important province may fall again under the dominion of the Porte, and indirectly under that of Russia. It has been consi dered that the aggrandizement of the Ottoman empire would be virtually the aggrandizement of that of Russia. The culminating point of the Anglo-French policy consists in founding, in the teeth of the Ottoman empire, and with its ruins, a power half Oriental, half European, which could be set in opposition to the Porte, or rather to Russia. Colonel Campbell, an English diplomatic agent, followed Mehemet Ali in Syria. It appears that the revolt was in a great degree put down by money. The Pasha, it is said, drew from his treasures large sums, with which he bought over the chiefs of the insurgents. He also borrowed of the European merchants, with whom he was running accounts. At the same time that he was buying over the chiefs he caused several villages to be sacked, in order to strike terror into the country. What is certain is, that Ibrahim Pasha has been extricated from his difficult position—that the insurgents have returned to their respective homes, and abandoned the defiles of their mountains—that in forty days Mehemet Ali returned to Alexandria, with six of the notables of Jerusalem as hostages. The works for barring the Nile are being carried on with activity. From 15,000 to 16,000 men are employed ; the number will be carried to 100,000 and even 120,000. This operation will triple the territorial wealth of Egypt. This country has hitherto produced 400,000 quintals of cotton ; henceforth it will produce 1,100,00 or 1,200,000. The overflowing of the Nile in the present year proceeds in the most desirable manner., The harvest of cotton will amount to 200,000 qUintals, but they will all pass into the hands of the mer cho who have glade advances to the Pasha. The ad -411k)..1 ;id it THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1834 vances of the merchants almost always consist in articles of commerce, on which they realize a considerable profit. The house of Briggs has gamed from .50 to 60 per cent. by the supply of steam-engines, the greater part of which are not employed at present. The Pasha will find it difficult to extricate himself if he continue this system. There is nothing permanent in a state without a good financial system, and this is what is wanting to Egypt." Accounts from Smyrna of the 13th ult. state that the Duke of Ragusa was in that town. It was supposed that he would go into Syria and Egypt. BOURSE, 'SEPT. 22.—The business at the Bourse was at the commencement very brisk. The 3 per Cents. were done at 76f. 30c., but afterwards a sort of gloom hung over the market ; twice the price declined to 76f. 10c., but got up again to 76f. 60c., heavy. No news nor reports afloat. This uncertainty created some uneasiness, and well informed people foresee in this week a very great fluctuation. The Spanish 5 per Cents. are 35 ; 3 per Cents., 25. Very little business doing. Cortes, 42. FRENCH FUNDs.—Pa kis, SEPT. C 2. Five per Cents.. 1,05 f. 10;f. 90c. 7 c. Four and a Half per Cents., 100 E se._lojf. Four per Cents., 92f. 20c. Three per Cents., 76f 26c. 20c. National Loan, 104 f 75c. Bente de Naples, 93f. 5 . c. Roman live per Cents., 1.4% 95. Rents il'Espagne, Five per cents., 42 41. 7. Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents , 26 , A, 25% Royal Spanish Loan, 32!!, 3 1 . Rents Perpet. d' Espagne. ive_per Cents., 26% 34%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 100%. Haytian Loan, 9.62 f. 51t. c6t , f. EXCIJANGE ON LONDON. 'ne month, paper, —4. —c. ; money, 251. 35c. Three months, paper, —c. ; money, 25f. 2.5 c —t 0.. rs Authentique. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, SEPT. 11.—The fire at Neustadt was still greater than was at first believed here, and several hundred persons lost their lives in it. The post from Constanti nople of the 26th August has arrived, but brings little news of importance. Letters have been received here by way of Genoa, the contents of which are very unfavourable to the Queen of Spain ; the writers believe that it will be wholly impossible for her to maintain herself in the Government, and she will be forced to yield either to Don Carlos or to the ultra liberal party. The Queen herself is represented as not insensible of the danger of her situation. Many fa milies of distinction have emigrated to Italy from fear of the civil war and the cholera. VIENNA, SEPT. 13.—Five per Cent Metalliques, 99 ; Four per Cent, 881 ; Bank Shares, 1238.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Sept 18. INSPRUCK, SEPT. 10.—Her Majesty the Empress Maria Louise, Duchess of Parma, travelling under the name of Duchess of Colorno, arrived here yesterday on her return from Vienna to her own dominions, and proceeded this morning early on her way to Italy. The building of the fortress near Brixen (a league from it) is carried on with great activity. Astonishing works are already seen on both sides the road. An immense num ber of workmen, chiefly soldiers, are employed on them. A camp of long wooden barracks serve for the habitation of the workmen, as well as of the officers who have the direc tion of the operations, and affords an interesting sight, es pecially in the evening, when all is lighted up. The door open, you see the robust forms of the men, dressed partly like soldiers, partly like labourers, busy in preparing their suppers. The neighbouring public-houses are likewise full of soldiers. In the rooms, the officers of all arms over their punch in the open air ; the men regaling themselves ; everywhere noise and bustle ; the image of war in the midst of peace ; and in this respect an attractive sight. Further down, following the course of the impetuous Ersack, we come to another equallyimportant scene of active operation. We mean the enterprise of the Italian company, which makes new roads, renders rivers navigable, and made an offer to contract for building the fortress at Brixen,which the Government did not think proper to accede to. It has now purchased the extensive forests at the foot of the Schlerngebirg, intending to fell them and convey the timber to Venice. It will clear the whole tract, leaving only the trees of certain dimensions for future growth. The broken rocky bed of the Ersack is now being made fit, by sluices and dams, for floating down the rafts, and sixteen saw mills are employed in cutting up the fallen giants of the forest. These works, and the greatest part of the workmen, chiefly Italians, who are settled there with their wives and children, now animate the rude and gloomy valley, called the Kurtersweg, where the awful silence of the scene was formerly broken only occasionally by the monotonous tones of the postillion's horn passing along the otherwise unfre quented road. Though there is no backwardness in doing justice to the enterprising spirit of these Italians, the principle of performing such public works by contract is in general not approved in this country. The contractors generally aim at enriching themselves, and the work done is seldom such as it ought to be. Even the great road over the Wormserjock is not very well spoken of in this respect. It would have been made in a more solid and judicious manner by the government than it has been by the Italian company. The' country about Inspruck, which is especially visited by the sirocco, has suffered from it this year in an extraor dinary degree. " The warm-wind is coming" say they with the clouds of dust which are seen rolling on at a distance. Most people feel head-ache, lowness of spirits, and inclina tion to vomit. This however is transitory, and is at an end when the direction of the wind changes. The grand re views near Verona will be extrentely brilliant, and will attract visitors from far and near. The epidemic dysentery which prevailed in some parts of the Unterinnthal has almost wholly ceased.—Frankfort Paper:, Sept. 18. PORTUGAL. The following articles appear in the Lisbon Gazette to the 13th inclusive : QUELUZ, SEPT. 10.—His Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza has not had a very good night ; however, since his departure from the Palace of Ajuda for that of Queluz he has had some relief, and is in a more satisfactory state, according to the account of his chief physician. SEPT. 11.—His Imperial Majesty had a better night, and during the day experienced an alleviation of the unfa vourable symptoms under which he laboured. SEPT. 12.—His Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza passed a very good night ; he has experienced a considerable improvement in the state of his health. His Imperial Ma jesty has daily received in his chamber some of the Minis ters—on the 12th the Conde Mordomo Mer, and soon af terwards the Baron de sa da Bandeira, Peer of the king dom, and I. A. Y. Mendizabel ; and at night the Minis ters of War, Finance, and Marine. Her Most Faithful Majesty and the Duchess of Braganza continue to enjoy good health. LISBON, SEPT. 10.—In the fourteenth Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Sen. J. F. Ferreira de Castra pro posed a project of law, which be supported, before reading it, on the principle that whoever had served the usurper ought not to serve the Queen, which he enforced in a long speech. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alien Mining Company £9 11N Anglo Mexican Milling Company (iss. at 5/. pm.) 100 EN Ditto Subscription Rolanos Mining Company l5O 120 Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Issued at 51. pm.) 20 33 Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O 21 Ditto Scrip lO 10!6 Ditto St. John del Rey . lO 7 Cata Branca Mining Company 4% 6 5N British Iron Company 5O • 29 British Copp,r Comp ny Columbian Mining Ctrnp.iny (issued at U. pm.) 53% 10 , 4 English Mining Company l2g 21 Hibernian Missing Company lO 334 Mexican Mining Company 49% 4 ReAI del Monte Mining Co., Registered 11/. 108. 6d. :33 - Ditto Unregistered 2 9'4 United Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . ... .... . Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company lOO 198 London and Birmingham Ilailway Company l5 15 London and Greenwich Railway Company 7 Bii 4 Australasia Bank lO . 10 Australian Company Canada Company General Steam Navigation Company London and Westminster Bank National Provincial Bank of England Provincial Bank of Ireland Rio Doce Company Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Co) 2f;;,‘, , lB 13 5 15 1••••• 00000000 ••• 25 Impany l5 PROJECT OF LAW. Art. 1. All individuals belonging to any Corporations whatsoever who, with them, requested the ex-Infante Don Miguel to declare himself King, or afterwards took the oath to him in their collegiate capacity, and also all persons in office who signed the rebellious Act of the so-called Three Estates of the Kingdom, or continued to serve after the said ex-Infante declared himself King, or even, not then serving him, accepted from him any title, decoration. or employ, shall be considered as having renounced the titles, decorations, or employments which they held before, without being able to found on them any right whatever. Art. 2. All employments hitherto conferred on indivi duals circumstanced as in the preceding Article shall be considered as provisional, and without any permanent effect ; and if for eminent services, or other weighty reasons, they were appointed to offices from which they cannot be re moved, their seniority shall begin to be reckoned only from the date of their appointment. Art. 3. All enactments to the contrary are revoked. In the Sitting of the Chamber of Peers on the 9th a Royal letter was read, addressed to the Duke of Palmella, in which the Duke of Braganza, as Regent, confirms to him the post of President of the Chamber of Peers, which the Royal letter of the 14th of August had given him provi sionally. The Duke de Palmella expresses his deep sense of gra titude for this nomination, desiring to use it only to fulfil to the utmost of his power all the duties it imposes on him. THE YACHT CLUE.—The Dauntless yacht, ac counted the pride of the fleet, 91 tons burden, was purchased by the Hon. Captain Greville last season, at a sum approach ing 6,0001. He subsequently added the armoury, and fitted up the principal cabin in oak. This added another 1,000/. She is now considered one of the finest and handsomest sea boats in the service; and by way of illustrating this fact, it is only necessary to add, she has beat every thing that has pre tended rivalry with her in the yacht fleet, either off, or on a wind. She is about to change hands a second time, we per ceive, and with this intention is now floating like a duck in the Southampton river, to be seen and admired by the fashionable folks now congregated there, waiting the arrival of George Robins on the 4th of October, when he officiates at the Dol phin Hotel. It will be a fine opportunity for an amateur of nautical propensities to make his first essay ; she is sure to win, and will be a prize to any one ; for, with a good helmsman she may defy the fastest, and is to be sold at any price that is of fered for her at the sale. Captain Goble (the skipper of the Dauntless) is most anxious for the opp ortunity of bein g matched against any thing in the club, and is constantly to be seen on board. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—We have had a good demand for Cotton to-day ; the sales amount to about 6,000 bags, at full prices for American descriptions, and id. to id. per lb higher for Brazilian ; of the above 1,000 bags were taken on speculation. • LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1 it 34. The only intelligence from Spain received this morning has been the accounts furnished by the Cor respondents of French Papers, on the Spanish .fron tier, and the rumours afloat respecting the despatches which arrived in Paris from Madrid, by the couriers of Monday. It is however stated on good authority that M. DE LA ROSA and his colleagues have experienced several new modifications since the pas sing of the Bill of Rights. During the sitting of the Procuradores on the 16th inst., it is reported that TORENO . S motion for taking the report of the majority of the Finance Committee into consideration was negatived, and that the priority of discussion was given to the report of the minority. Now, it will be remembered that the minority recommended the recognition of the whole of the debt, and therefore the defeat of Ministers on this oc casion would seem to augur the adoption of a liberal and just policy by the Chambers. The debate is said to have been carried on with great heat, amounting almost to personal recrimination. The Ministers were denounced as apostates to their prin ciples, a charge which they heard not with equanimity. We expect arrivals every hour from Madrid, stating the result of the debate, which is reported to have been resumed again on the 17th. Since writing the above we have learned that an express has arrived in the city, stating, that the Cortes had adopted the report of the Committee on the Cortes Bonds, and that on the 17th they had agreed to acknowledge two-fifths of the French debt. The Guebhard loans were under consideration. Trinidad Papers have been received this morning to the Bth of August, the contents of which, we regret to say, are of rather an unfavourable character. It appears that sometime previous to the Ist of August the slaves had declared that they had not the slightest intention of working after that day for their masters, and declared that the King had freed them ; but that the Governor, in conjunction with their masters, had imposed the term of apprenticeship. In consequence of these demonstrations four companies of the Local Militia were ordered to hold themselves ready. The morn ing of the Ist of August had scarcely dawned when the appren tices were found moving into the town in numerous groupes towards the Government-house, having come to inform his Excellency of their determination not to work. His Excel lency first, and subsequently Captains Hay and Mac Kayne, two of the new Justices from England, explained to them the conditions and the penalty of disobedience, but these were not only disregarded, but these functionaries most grossly in sulted and set at defiance. The mob becoming more turbulent the militia was ordered to muster, and the whole corps was soon under arms. A company of the 19th Regiment was also sent for. Thus matters continued until evening, when the Governor, on quitting the Government-house, was again most grossly insulted. Accounts were also received from the districts in the neighbourhood of Port of Spain, by which it appeared that the gangs of negroes there had also ceased to work, but had exhibited no symptoms of violence. At night the Negroes dispersed, but pickets and patrols were placed round .the town. On the following morning there was a repetition of the scene of the preceding day, and seventeen of the most violent were arrested and condemned to stripes and hard labour. Finding this state of things continue, Captain Hay at length read the clause in the Royal Orders declaring the assemblage of three or more Negroes a mob ; but this being unheeded, a body of cavalry, with two pickets of infantry, were ordered to clear the streets, which was done without accident. During the whole of the day parties of negroes kept advancing into town, but as they formed but a small part of those missing from the Estates, it was supposed that they were meet ing in some unknown spot. On Sunday all passed off tranquilly ; but on Monday, the 4th, the mob returned as be fore, and the authorities began to act with vigour, sixty being arrested, of which thirty-three were condemned to hard labour and to be flogged. The sentence was executed on the sth, but the criminals evinced no contrition, and were encouraged to endure their punishment by the negroes assembled round. When the accounts left, the negroes were still scattered about, but the advices from Naparima and the most populous quar tern had become very favourable. The negroes do not appear to have been armed. We have received by express the Paris Papers of Monday, together with the Gazette de France of yes terday. There is no domestic' intelligencg in these journals, and the only report from Spain is the arrival of three couriers from Madrid, who reached Paris on Monday, but the contents of their despatches have not yet been made public. The Carlist Committee, at present sitting in Paris, is reported to have sent an AustriLi officer to Don CARLOS, pray ing him to despatch letters to the Three Great Northern Powers, soliciting their active interfe rence in his favour, of which letters the said officer would be the bearer. The Committee also recom mended the removal of Don CARLOS'S family from England to Nassau, where the sister of Prince PAUL of Wurtemburg had offered her residence for their reception ; or, in case the family would not accept the invitation of the Princess, the King of PRUSSIA would accommodate them with one of his MAJESTY'S palaces. For the reports in circulation in Paris respecting the progress of the civil war in Spain, we refer to our extracts from the French papers. Wherever the new Poor Law Amendment Bill has been brought into operation the results have been such as to realize the best anticipations of the advocates of its principles. Already has it effected a reduction of one shilling and two pence in the pound, in the parish rate of St. Luke's Chelsea—an immense saving when it is considered that the Act has only come into operation a few weeks. This is the opinion of the overseers, who anticipate a much larger reduction when the whole of the provisions of the Bill are acted upon, without, in the slightest degree, trenching upon the comforts of the real and legitimate objects of parochial relief. In his speech at the Edinburgh dinner to Earl GREY, Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, when alluding to some projected improvements in the law, said " it is ex ceedingly gratifying to me, that in the toast which has been given, my name should be coupled with legal re form. To this cause have I devoted the chief labors of my life, and to this chiefly, I trust for a reputation, if I ever shall achieve one, in which my children may take a pride." There is no spur like ambition—well directed ambition we mean, for otherwise, it is a source of weakness rather than of strength—to carry a man gallantly over every obstacle ; and we are glad therefore, to find the Attorney General here avowing, in the most explicit and forcible terms, that the one great object of his ambition ever has been, and ever will be, to hold a foremost place among the legal Re formers of the day. Where there is a will, there is a way, says the old adage ; and Sir JOHN CAMPBELL having the " will," will be at no loss to find out the " way." He has acuteness—industry—skill—prac tice ;—every requisite, in short, to enable him to suc ceed in the cause to which he has so earnestly devoted himself. He is no maudlin sentimentalist to sit down and weep, because the chances may run for a time against him ; no, he is fully aware, from past experience, that no prize worth having, was ever yet gained without a world of anxiety and lab Our. "It may be thought," says he, " by the inexperienced, .that legal reform is an easy task ; but they little know, who never tried, what it is to encounter the opposition of individuals, and of classes of men, who have an in terest in the perpetuation of abuses, or the honest pre judices of the ignorant and the bigotted." The hos tility of such men is, indeed, to be dreaded ; never theless, fore-warned is fore-armed, and Sir JOHN CAMPBELL being already acquainted with the exact nature and stubbornness of the opposition that he is likely to encounter; knowing well that the mean and the selfish will strive to way-lay and deal him a knock-down blow in the dark ; while hosts of the more honest but obtuser bigots will meet him face to face, and dispute every inch of his road, is by this very knowledge of his:enemies' tactics furnished, with the best means of circumventing them. It is a worthy cause to which he has wedded himself ; for what can be worthier or nobler,what more suited to the character of an enlightened statesman, than to bring help to the op pressed, and visit the oppressor with retribution ; to make the poor man's heart leap with j oy, to feel that he too, when wronged, can obtain as speedy and as full a measure of justice as the proudest noble in the land ; to humanize the mind, and improve the morals of the people ; and bind 'the whole social system together with ,a firm and indissoluble cement? Of late years, our laws have been remarkable only for being at variance with the spirit of the age. While the latter has kept slowly moving forward, the former have stood stock-still, encumbering and thwarting social improvement at every step of its progress. True, some few legal amendments have been made within the last ten years, but much yet remains to be done ; and to no better hands can a full and efficient legal reform be entrusted, than to those of the LORD CHANCELLOR and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The Report of the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons in February last, to inquire into the various sinecure offices under the controul of the Crown, with a view to their gradual and total abo lition, has been printed. It is an important document as exhibiting how much the present Administration has done, during its tenure of office, to relieve the country from the charge of supporting persons in affluence who render no equivalent to the community ; whilst the really useful members are, in many instances, suffering from extreme destitution. The Government has cer tainly not been idle, and it is but just to say, that the example was set it by previous Administrations °Since the year 1810. At that period the number of sine cure offices in the United Kingdom and the Colonies, including those appertaining to the Royal Household, was two hundred and forty-two ; now the total number existing is one hundred and eight, of which eight can not properly be called sinecures, as they have duties attached to them which are executed by the holders in person. The whole number is therefore reduced, within the last twenty-four years, to one hundred offices, all in a fair way to total extinction, which will be effected by the death of the present patentees ; or where the offices are not held by patents, as soon as the Government can compensate the holders of the con demned offices for their private interest in them. Nor has the diminution in the number of offices been made, without effecting a still larger proportionate reduction in the national expenditure under this head. In 1810 the amount received by sinecurists was 297,0951., which is now reduced to 97,8031., or thereabouts. _ This is much in the great march of economical improvement ! and we believe the Government are pre pared to hazard every thing to complete what has been thus begun. All that is wanted is time, and the continued confidence of the country. Many of the sinecure offices, now in the course of extinction are a disgrace to the country, and will not be continued an hour longer than they can be safely abolished. It is high time that those whose names are synonimous with feudal bondage were banished the nomenclature of Bri tish functionaries ; nor will any consideration other than that of effecting the public good at the least possible sacrifice of individual interests, be allowed to delay this most desirable event. Although the Committee in their Report, appear to have given much attention to the subject of their en quiries, still we must object to the vague manner in which some of the recommendations are put. Take as an example the following extract from the body of the Report : " No. 18. Chief Proclamator of the Court of Common Pleas. 25. Receiver-General of the Seal Office. 27. Hereditary Chief Usher of the Exchequer. 55. Grand Falconer of England. 65. Principal Usher and Doorkeeper of the Ex chequer. 87. Constable of Hillsborough. " Your committee have not considered it as falling within the limits of their inquiry to sift the legal validity of the separate patents under which these offices are held. They have treated the patents as constituting in themselves a full apparent title to the holders of the various offices, to the extent and on the conditions specified in each several grant ; but without intend ing to add any sanction or confirmation to such patents as might prove disputable, or to pronounce any opinion on the legal and constitutional principles by which their validity ought to be determined. But, inasmuch as doubts have been started before the committee, as to the validity of patents granted to extend beyond the life of the granting Sovereign, your committee recommend that measures should be taken for ascertaining whether those doubts are well founded." We confess we cannot discover the grounds of this great delicacy in the expression of the opinion of the Committee. We do not .understand in what consists the authority of the House of Commons, if it can only depute powers to trouble the surface of the stream, at the same time it professes to sound its depths and shallows. We maintain that the Committee was as much called upon to pronounce an opinion of what it considered a breach of the Constitution, as the highest legal functionary of the State, were the same question officially propounded to him. Moreover, why take any part of the duty out of the hands of the Govern ment, if the inquiry was to be left in any respect imperfect ? The Committee was invested with full powers to call for whatever assistance it might think proper. Persons, papers, patents, appointments, were all at its disposal, and why therefore leave any thing to be done? But this is one of the greatest evils attendant on sitting Committees. Half the business is only done, the members get tired and will not attend, and the conse quence naturally is, that the whole is to be done over again the next or second session. The report, however, with a few trifling drawbacks, is extremely satisfactory, and reflects great credit on the government. As we before observed there is no party in the state, no matter by what name they may be called, more truly anxious to effect the total abolition of every sinecure office under the crown than the pre sent ministers. The people are beyond the extreme point in civilization and moral improvement, at which such proceedings could be tolerated, as the continuing to be taxed for the support of titled and patent privileged idlers, who have nothing to give the com munity from whom they receive everything, but the example of their conduct, and even that is more frequently calculated to corrupt the public morals than to improve them. We are, however, very far from saying, that compensation ought not to be made to the holders of sinecure offices, whenever their abolition takes place. We would not be guilty of a breach of public faith to any individual, whatever might be the nature of his appointment. The State is able to act justly by itself, without in flicting the slighest suffering on any of its members, farther than may be occasioned by the prevention of positive injury. We consider it useless to publish the Report of the Committee at full length, as it has all ap peared before in The Sun, in the reports of the debates on the Pension List. Much of it, besides, would not be read, as there is nothing in it either new, interest ing, or instructive. The only really important matter contained in it will be found in the following table ex tracted from the Report : Your Committee have prepared the following table, which will show the progress which has been made in the abolition of sinecures : 1810. t i 1834. Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Prospective E mo l ument Prospective Say. Emolument ir.g by Aboli_ Say. of existing tog by Aboli. o f existing t' & Sinecures tion , &c. pro- Sinecures. I°n'clecf.do r.r vided for. vi ------ ----- England --.-- X 178,051 £11,93.5 X 6 I,' 69 £';6,6 i 8 Scotland 2 - t,t 01 14,9'22 14,303 Ireland 743,433 16,3 2 19,002 10,968 —____. ---- ------- -- Total .... .C 279496 , 89,347 I x ,v 4 -13 i X 81,994 The House will perceive, from this table, that the amount of sinecures, for the ultimate abolition of which no Parlia mentary enactment has provided, is already reduced from nearly 200,0001. per annum, as it stood in 1810, to less than 17,0001. per annum. We have every reason to believe that the country will be well satisfied with the earnest they have re ceived of the determination of the Ministry to do all that can be done to effect a reduction of the public burthens, to improve and extend our commercial rela tions, and to refo rm a ll a b uses ar i s i n g from a misap propriation of the national finances. But it is both unreasonable and ungenerous to expect that all this can be done in a moment. Evil ought to be removed without unnecessary delay ; but some care is necessary to prevent the infliction of still greater evil. PRICES OF STOCKS THE Yank Stock 3 per Cent. fled. 3 per Cent. Cons. V 054% 34 per Cent shut Ditto Red New 334 per Cent.... . .. 9BY, 9 Assented 4 per Cent. f Di ented shut Rank Long Annuities te ex pire Jan. 3, 1860 shut (pct. 10: 1859 shut Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 — April 5, 188.1 Jan. 5, 187.) — PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 1 2% Belgian Bonds !ay 4, Ditto Account ' Brazilian Winds 73% Ditto Account V% Buenos Ayres Bonds 3l Ditto Account 299. Chillian Bonds 33 Ditto Account N I I4, Columbian Bonds 9 .5 14 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 ' 13 2 Ditto Account ll2 Danish Bonds ls'' % Ditto Account Greek Bonds - Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account 3 144 Mexican Bonis, 5 per cent 2 3 1°,1 Ditto Account 3O Ditto, 6 per cent. 413 Ditto Account 4,/ Neapolitan 95% DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent • India Stock `2 , 2V, 3 , 4 Ditto Bond .... l6 17 pin. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per-Cent. Annuities, 1151 -- Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 43 41 pm. Ditto 500 43 44 pm Ditto Small l4 46 pm Ditto Commercial -pm. Ditto Advertised pm. Bank Stock for 0pening......... 223 India Stock for AccounL ..... • Consols for Account 9014 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Peruvian Bonds .......... ....... Dit o Account 274j PoT4ugueseßonds Ditto Account M.. _ Ditto New Bond• Bll4 2 1 2 Ditto Account 131 1 A 2 IN •2 Prussian Bonds lOl I' Dittu Bonds, 182 4 Russian Bonds, 1822 lO4 Ditto Account 104'4 Ditto Metalilc 10216 Spanish Bonds 51 3 4 24 , 414% Ditto Account 5l q 2% Vh, 14 Ditto Bond', 18.13 4.1 Ditto A ccount French, 5 per cent. ....105f. —c. ---- 4 per cent. ... --f. —c. 3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange 2sf. ' sc. Dutch, 2 1 .4 per cent. Ditto Account ..... Ditto, 5 per cent Ditto Account COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam Ditto, at sight ....... ...... 12 44, . Rotterdam 2 .. 12 t Antwerp l2 5 Hamburg M.B. 13 13 Altona 13 It Paris, 3 days' fi ght ,:.: 25 50 D'tto 2 Us. 25 80 Bordeaux Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 152 Petersburgh, ruble .3 Us. In Vienna, effective fl 2M. 10 2 Trieste' ditto lO 3 Madrid 30% Cadiz 'l"!4 Bilboa Barcelona .. Seville 34; Gibraltar 47 ,NGE, YESTERDAY. Leghorn aS Genoa 25 SO Milan Venice 47 Vaples Palermo per oz. 121 Lisbon 57.4 Oporto 58% Rio Janeiro Mkt. ...., Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 3,1 Cork l%, PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 I oreign Gold, in bare 3 17 9 New Doubloons New Dollars Silvers bars, standard 0 0 o HIGH IN ATER AT I.ONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 31 minutes after 6. I Evening 5-i minutes after 6 HEINE, BROTHERS, in HAMBURG, beg to inform the Public, that no time is to be lest in ordering the Tickets still desired for the next Great Lottery, which will be drawn on the FIRST OF NEXT MONTH, and that persons experiencing any difficulty in the transmission of 113 Banco Marks, or 8/. 10s., w►ll, upon remitting a 'fen Pound Note by one of the first Mails, receive an order for the balance of 1/. 10s., together with the Ticket. Hamhur, sth Sept., 1834. P. S.— The largest prizes are Marks 150,000, 60,000, 30,000, 25,000, &c., &e. THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. ti l ~ trr V t ' ~ CJ~ Zhie ~`-~~~ FINE ARTS, We have been favoured with a sight of one of the embellishments of the forthcoming Number of the Court Magazine, which is a portrait of the Marchio ness of Tavistock. It is by no means one of the best we have seen in this periodical, though the exe cution is above common-place. The satin sleeves looped up with pearls, have a very rich and lustrous appearance. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) John Price, the driver of a. Bath and Bristol coach, was charged, before Mr. HALLS, with assaulting a police con stable while in the discharge of his duty. The complainant had been stationed at the corner of Wych-street, to regulate the coaches and carts going that way, in consequence of the pavement of the Strand having been taken up. The defendant drove his coach down Wych-street, when he ought to have gone down Holywell street ; the policeman caught the reins, and stopped the horses, when the defendant got off his box, and after abusing him, caught his collar and tore his coat. Daniel M'Donald, who resides in Wych-street, saw the whole affair, and represented the conduct of the defendant as very violent. . _ The MAGISTRATE said he was determined to protect the constables when they acted properly. He fined the de fendant in 3/. and costs. The money was paid, and the defendant discharged. THE TU RF. — TOUCHSTONE.—We are assured that the Marquis of Westminster's bets on his own horse did not exceed six hundred pounds. Sir W. Wake lately let on lease twenty acres of low marshy ground, in the neighbourhood of Walthamstow, at 5/. per acre, for the cultivation of water-cresses for the London market. Invaluable works of art, amongst the rest many .Murillos, are said to have perished in the destruction of the Duke of Grenada's palace. CHEAP PORK.—The pig-market is at the present moment so overstocked, chiefly by importations from Ireland, that six sound pigs were sold in our new cattle-market on Thursday for 6s.—Bristol Mirror. MIDDLESEX INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before B. Rorer!, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.). ROBBERY BY A CAB-DRIYER.—Gcorge C ot ausey wasnn.:, di prope rt t he his tor stealing several valuable books , th e the his master; Mr. Hawdon, a cab proprietor. Among rks property were several elegantly bound editions of the wo of Byron and Swift, and Colburn's edition o f the British Poets. a The prosecutor employed the prisoner as the driver , night of one of his cabs, and having access to his m aster s house, be took advantage of that and comm itted the rob bery in question. The prisoner said in his defence that his master 111100 d him no wages, and required him to bring home i he earned. When he took the property w ob he was greatly n want of money, and intended the moment he could place it. He pledged the property for the p ur p ose of taming money. The prosecutor, on being re-called by the Chairman: gr stated that he boarded the prisoner, and that hall is af ment with him was, that he should pay himself out of his nights' work. When that agreement was made, the Pre.'" cutor told the prisoner that he did not require hi weo brir in a certain sum each night, but he was to do as l f ie r could for him, and then he might do as well as he cal la , e ‘ himself', so that he did not distress his (the prosecutor) horse. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Cin addressin th Jury, s tated that it was one of the HAIRMAN great inconvenien g cies e of midnight legislat;a that measures of importance were often deferred, among them was a Bill for the regulation of the driverisau har , cabs. The hour of three o'clock in the morning d , its rived before the Bill could be discussed in its order, .;)"the author wanting to get away agreed to postpone it t wer e next Session. The consequence was that the Pn,hl,,ie P ra left completely at the mercy of these men. 1"e for ; u r prietors had no power over them whatever, their posing they were to drive into the yards wit h f t he cases filled with stolen property, the roprie cab dare not touch it, for the roan as the P law Ow :rot could prevent him from doing so. Nor could he P r i:t e he the driver from going out of the yard with the g°,l,° maa following morning. If he attempted to do s°, them e to might laugh at him, and say, " I amgoing to take the office," and if he did not do so, the miter(l,so dare not complain at the office ; for if . 11 , e ; „, d1 m th o a n t strous were the provisions of the existing , t he the proprietor would in that case have to PO wa g tor o d value of the goods himself. The sooner the 13 `_ c , a iati amended, and these fellows placed under proper ret r prig the better ; he would not suffer the character of tu e bo old soner's fraternity to influence him in the judgment he Should sat pronounce, and would therefore only sentence him °f that months' imprisonment and hard labour, twelve weeks ° ti me period to be spent in solitary confinement.— ecuto, !lts the prisoner was in the employment of " le conduct was v • ery irregular ;he came home when he P t oe his horse was frequently jaded to death, at the sat° o we stating that he only received a few shillings.ln eonsequ , eis set' of this conduct the prosecutor dismissed him from vice. After he had left, some duplicates were fon nu na ( or cealed in a hay-loft, and on making inquiry at we re e During the brokers he discovered that the articles pledge" ' vi a on' property. On the prisoner being taken into c ust the Pr° s ok' steal snuff-box and other property belonging to tutor were found in his possession. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--.ITHIS D l.) (T in M d LIZ I V E 'S.) tbe DEAL, SEPT. 23. Arrived r ,fr f 'r ev ita; river, and sailed, the Zenobia, Owen, for 113- bire ; Harmony (brig), for Dublin ; Apollo, Randall, for 1 3 e r ma Cumberland, Hastie, for New York , and I‘ l3 l, the (schooner), for Cape of Good Hope.• Arrive d 'Pia; river, and sailed, the Robert Qua le Bleandale, from 0 0 h ne l9 ' Lively, from Constantinople ; a y nd , Jane (sc oo el Palermo. Arr i ' T 60 PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Wi n d S.E. to -- -- Wu , from London, the Owen, for C a p e an d Calcutt a ; I,_ f o to Gray, Gray, from Legh o r n ; an d I r i s , Marlbo,rotre'ao,r' Cardiff, leaky, bound to Lond on . Off port, til e from Valparaiso. tll ` ' c PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 22.—Wind E.—Arrived ou port, apouin, Lenounice, from Pernambuco. Ar riVe‘ i FALMOUTH, SEPT. 22.—Wind E. moderate .',„Fiq his Majesty's ship Na u til us f rom Li s b on ; sailed On VP inst. Off port, the P erseverance , M a tthewson , " Nova. HASTINGS, SEPT. 23. Arrived the Mary m id °e39l)r from Bourdeaux. potli °lll LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the St. Pe ter ' from Borga. Arti tH PORTLAND, SEP T . 23.—A rr i ve d o ff port, t"" Binney, from H avanna h, an d t h e V en us, 131115 ' Leghorn. ,cioa (1\ The loss of the Willi am Pi tt , from Leghorn , 3 is C° n• the Vice-Consul at Malaga, on the 20th inst ant ' tradicted. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) f ijOe l( 00 CITY, TWELVE d Can r . b Newfoundland Papers to th e 29th o f August' an d Se Papers to the 2d of April, h ave b een re ceived a t '- and South American Coffee-house. (From the Newfoundland Papers.) amber The Legislative Council assembled in their Cha r° ; bs t t two o'clock on Tuesday, agreeably to proclaet 3ti , ° ,%rg e , ° 3 not having been informed hy s age - of th e b , business for which the General Assembly es had i "- th en g e ; together, an adjournment sine die took lace, an t he ov i :i n , to tl i , ie : r ly bers of the House did not assemble of the Speaker ; upon whose arriva ' l (which is, j, 11 " petted) no further delay, we believe, will take PLac-. : 5 s ou ;‘, (From th e C an t on P a pers.) f by 1,15 The present Mona rc h i s genera ll y spo ken ° Prio ri °' or jects in terms of high commendation. The Pe is rl- np iest, e reign, however, is considered not eof the 'tar 5 ' 1 ; 1 :5, prosperous, as he has not experienced one WO . la r oug' i i• he has filled the dragon -seat. Inundations,' c e c °ll. tamines, insurrections, and other calamities, ' a t o, nually occurred in his vast dominions. ed etiver, Letters dat e d O c t o b er 23 , 18 3 3, h av e reac - ch iet stating that Si r G eorge S taunton i s appointed a s alar ) , e , intendant o f th e B r i t i s h tra d e i n Chi na , wit h keni le :at 10,000/. p er y ear , t h e Ri g h t H on . Holt Abel, re th' r cond, with 5,000/. p er annum, an d M r . Lahe ac " e with 4,000/, per annum. COMMERCIAL REMARKS.--IMPORIS I .s goil)g ctO°3 COTTON.—W C und ers t an d th e co nsumPt loll ' steady : prices are supported. been comp la' - , of OPlUM.—During th e p as t wee k there ha s 01'- plete stagnation in the market : the dealers want of funds. XPORTS. remains for R w A h vv i c h S I t L h K e , The Company litt l e have clos ed arrivals this Exchange . on Supreme G over n ment. y arrn, ;."--e is n elitt d l E e that is of inferior citi clo e s m d an their Tr f eas : o lio eo r : do t a l : 4 b s ii . ls gd ° .' 1 3 th e: w m eai refer e s, fe w; o th ur th r dollar'. A o'o ol ts on a l re inserted . in contents e ead e e x r p s express from Paris. Vi e wer , t ° morning, are the liisb:o3l7ctil:ieciiri Spanish Stock ano th er part o at 51i 52, since which it , s hr or FUNDS. ..,,, ro ing 0 r o t. opening this ,"" . 5 i to I ; 0, 81 Consts continues it has improved to o f yeSt e tuguese Stock little doing at presen price maintainstt.ead steady h a e t le , a o v i in i g:o ff to , . t w ith HALF' PA for A" We have (1 S' 3 ' l ust' seen a letter at the North an of Ag A rican Coffee-house from Trinidad of the 6th deay. statingforfive that d the Militia of that island bad been an ‹ea roe: number ays, owing to the positive refusal of tir[ot ti: to work , for the Aseicooon; v. e, and at the reading of the proclarna lion 4 gr e.: Governor,. he was hissed and hooted by the''theM. i'gogelt _ hena N de v e ere arrested, and about fifty of ac coun t ie wnie i h ol no . .v n h e ad eff b e e c e t n u c p o o m n mthitered.. When the }l O/ It is confidently stated on 'Change that an oy i r r t s o th e t arrived from Paris, bringing information from Ma r the 14°5 18th inst., stating that the Cortes had a dopted i _ A O O, on the Cortes Bonds on the 16th, and on the 17tiq t , ilia. two-fifths of the French debt. When the th eexpresst Abe were discussing the Guebhard's Loans. information, Spanish Stock, which was 51i went up t 0 bee o Owing to to Portuguese 811. In Consols scarce a bargain h done, and may be quoted 901 I. 00' THREE 0' CL Consols for the Account, 901 i. ---- V ili.4 • .of - - *--__------"-------------- P R OTESTANT CHURCH IN FRANC, fr ott s'l Philippe having placed the ant i q ue chapel of the cb.A e t b s r St. Germain en Laye at the disposal of the in lls i! i fi French Protestants residing in that town, it was opeo' great form for public service on the 14th ult. LIP S ‹ THE SIMPLICITY OF PA.STORAD . c op-,' GENTLE SHEPHERDS.— The London pickpockets2r.: Soo; dered to make the best shepherds in the colony 05ostri°11" Wales), as it suits their naturally idle habits ; the in I , o lol' labourer cannot endure . he very wearisome and lazY e e 4 av ment of looking after sheep ; the petty larcener soo° tit B b : tached to his woolly charges, and the sheep, no ci° e Ae d wit natural instinct, to him thus the animals are teo",,, the some degree of care ; but the regular workman, tietes7joi occupation (unless incapacitated from a more active! i j - tbe ment, by age or accident), seldom takes any intereo_ therc.: valuable property entrusted to his care • the former ar' , ,, t beir fore to be preferred. The shepherds, ' when tend'e„,isti flocks in the pasturage while away their leisure ti fiderin - facturing coarse but durable straw hats.—Bennett'sif a