The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-25 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS. BRUSSELS, SETT. 21.—Her Majesty the Queen of the French' will arrive at Brussels in the beginning of October. M. F. de Lisle, Consul-General of the Republic of the United Provinces of Rio de la Platas, in the kingdom of Belgium, has received his letters of Exequatur, dated Sep tember 16. The Government of the province of Antwerp has just voted the sum of 12,000 francs, which will be employed in giving splendour to the ceremony of delivering the iron cross to those on whom it is conferred. The Magistrates intend to add something to the above sum. The steam-carriage was landed at Antwerp on the 19th, in the presence of a great number of spectators. It weighs 4,000 kilogrammos (8,000 lbs.), and we are assured that it will travel 15 miles in an hour. A letter from Ghent, of the 20th of September, says, that the cholera in the prison in that city is much abated. The cholera has now broken out in the city of St. Bernard. We are assured that the loss sustained on the exchange at Antwerp by the fall in Spanish stock, amounts to about thirty millions of francs, which must seriously affect the in terest not only of the great merchants but of persons of small fortune, who placed faith in the Spanish Government. The Magistrates of Maastricht have announced that the fair will not be held this year. This is the fifth time this notice has been given. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 22.—Great preparations are making in the Church of St. Gudule for the funeral service to be performed there to-morrow : the orchestra is very nume rous. Brussels is already crowded with strangers, who ha% e arrived to witness the fetes on the anniversary of the days of September. It is even now impossible to obtain accom modation in any of the hotels in the city. A letter from Antwerp, of 21st, says Mr. Crumer, one of the persons banished in April, who was arrested at Antwerp some days ago, was taken from prison this morning at four o'clock and conducted to the Dutch frontier. He was es corted by four gendarmes, and followed by a carriage, which it is said he declined making use of. The Moniteur of to-day contains the following royal decree : Article I.—M. Zuchmann is discharged at his request from the post of Governor, ad interim, of the province of Antwerp. M. C. Rozier, late Minister of the Interior, will resume his functions as Governer of that province. Article 2.—Baron de Stassart, Governor of the province of Namur, is to fill the same post in the province of Brabant. Article 3.—M. Joseph Lebezu, late Minister of Justice, is appointed Governor of the province of Namur. Article 4.—Baron de Coppin, Governor of Brabant, is ap pointed Governor of the province of Luxemburg. Article 5.—M. J. B. Thorn, Governor of the province of Luxemburg, is to be Governor of Hainault, in the room of M. de Puydt, who is authorised to allege his claims to a pension. Art. 6. Baron do Lamberts Cortenbach, Governor of East Flanders, goes in the same quality to the province of Lim burg in the room of M. Hennequin, who is authorised to allege his claims to a pension. Art. 7. Viscount Charles Vilain XIII., Minister of the Chamber of Representatives, is appointed Governor of the province of East Flanders.__ . Messrs. de Puydt and Hennequin (mentioned in the above decree) are appointed Knights of the Order of Leopold, as a recompence for their long services. The Courrier Beige severely blames all these nominations, changes, and dismissals of Governors, which it says " show that we have decidedly attained the era of Government by the King alone, of the complete annihilation of the will of the Ministry. It is impossible to account otherwise for these oc casional dismissals and appointments of public functionaries without any known reason. These favours granted to the warmest defenders of uncontrolled power, by a Ministry into which the old championeof the public liberties have just entered—these dismissals of zealous officers, who enjoy the public confidence, and filling their places with men who arc courtiers and nothing else."—Brussels Papers, Sept. 24. TRIESTE, SEPT. 12.—We expect, at the beginning of next month, the Chevalier Prokesch Von Osten, Austrian Ambassador to the King of Greece, on his way to Napoli: We hear that he is gone first to Bavaria, to confer with the King on the future line of conduct of the Greek Govern ment, and especially on the means of neutralizing the foreign influence, which is constantly acting in secret, to the incon ceivable injury of the Government of Greece, and by which the party spirit of the Greeks, instead of being allayed, is constantly fermented.—Allgenteine Zeitung, Sept. 19. 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 Si. 10s., will, upon remitting a Ten Pound Note by one of the first Mails, receive an order for the balance of 11. 10s., together with the Ticket. Hamburg, sth Sept., 1834. P. S.—The largest prizes are Marks 150,000, 60,000, 80,000, 25,000, &c.. &e. ORIGINAL LETTER OF COLERIDGE. " Wo is me! that at forty-six I am under the ne cessity of appearing as a lecturer, and obliged to regard every hour that I give to the permanent, whether as poet or philosopher, an hour stolen from others' as well as from my own maintenance ; so that after a life (for I might be said to have commenced in earliest childhood) —a life of observation, meditation, and almost encyclopedic studies, I am forced to bewail, as in my poem addressed to Mr. Wordsworth-- Sense of past youth and manhood come in vain, And genius given and knowledge won in vain, And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all Commune with Thee had opened out—but flowers "11 Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier, In the same coffin to the self-same grave. Wo from without, but well for me, however, from within, that I have. been more sinned against than sinning.' My lectures are, though not very numerously, yet very respectably attended—and as respectfully at tended too. For no small portion of the former lam indebted to the favourable notice taken of them in the ; and, occasionally, in the New Times and Morn ing Chronicle. My next Friday's lecture will, if Ido not grossly flatter-blind myself, be interesting, and the points of view not only original, but new to the audience. I make this distinction, because sixteen, or rather se venteen, years ago, I delivered eighteen lectures on Shakspeare at the Royal Institution—three-fourths of which appeared at that time startling paradoxes, which have since been adopted even by men who at the time made use of them as proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind—all tending to prove that Shakspeare's judgment was, if possible, still more wonderful than his genius ; or rather, that the contra. distinction itself between judgment and genius, rested on an utterly false theory. This, and its proofs and grounds have been, I should not have said adopted, but produced as their own legitimate children —nay, the merit given to a foreign writer, whose lectures were not given orally till two years after mine, rather than to their countrymen, though I dare appeal to the most adequate judges—as Sir G. Beaumont, the Bishop of Durham, Mr. Sotheby, and afterwards to Mr. Rogers and Lord Byron, whether there is one single principle in Schlegel's work (which is not an admitted drawback from its merits) that was not established and applied in detail by me. Plutarch tells us, that egotism is a venial fault in the unfortunate, and justifiable in the calumniated ; yet, I should not have done this violence to me, but that Mr. Words worth, for whose fame I had felt and fought with an ardour that amounted to absolute self-oblivion, and to which I owe mainly the rancour of the Edinburh clan, and (far more injurious to me) the coldness, ne glect, and equivocal compliments of the Quarterl,y Re view—has affirmed, in print, that a German critic first taught us to think correctly concerning Shakspeare." —From the Canterbury Magazine. • We regret to announce the death of Spagnoletti, the veteran leader of The orchestra at the King's Theatre, from an attack of apoplexy on Tuesday afternoon last. SUBTERRANEAN PA SSAGES.—The discovery of a passage beneath Eltham Castle has revived many hale-for gotten stories of these darkened labyrinths. Such a passage is said to exist beneath the gate of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenivell, extending by one branch to the vaults of St. James's Church, and by another to Canonbury-house, Isling ton, formerly a favourite residence of Queen Elizabeth, and another at Aldgate. A somewhat improbable rumour is afloat of Lord Plunket being desirous of exchangin g th e L or d Chancellor ship of Ireland for the English Mastership of the Rolls. At a late contest at Melksham, relative to making a church-rate, the Quakers were unanimous and earnest in their opposition to t he Established Church, whil s t th e Wesleyan Methodists almost as unanimously took the other side. UNINHABITED LEASEHOLD PROPERTY LIABLE TO ASSESSMENT TO THE POOR-PATE. - At a vestry held at Ilfracombe on Monday last, it was contended that leasehold houses, producing a beneficial interest to the landlord in a ground-rent, are liable to assessment to the Poor-rate during the whole term: when uninhabited, the leaseholder becomes, in law, the occupier, and as such is subject to assessment : that the lessor receiving a direct interest from a ground-rent, is exempt from assessment, but that the lessee is liable in right of occupation. LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, SEPT. 23.—We have had a good demand in our Cotton-market to-day, both from the trade and speculators. The sales amount to 5,000 bales, in many cases at an advance of id. on yesterday's prices; 360 Bahias have been sold from loid. to 1 lid. ; and the remainder in American cotton from 7d. to 00., and 100 Orleans, lod. An instance of the advanced state of the " march" was observed the other day on a letter in a neighbouring Post office, bearing the following direction :—" To mispeach fcr wider petney at the weet sheet opinginn."—Boston Herald. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1334. Madrid Papers of the. 17th instant have been re ceived by express. They are particularly interesting, from the report they contain of the speeches delivered in the Chamber of Procuradores (Deputies) on the 16th, on the motion for discussing the report of the Finance Committee. The debate was not concluded on the evening of the 17th, consequently the conclu sion to which the Chamber have come is not yet known to us. This discussion was carried on in rather an acrimonious spirit, the Ministry being by no means consistent with itself in the expression of its opi nions. The principal speakers were the Marquis DE MONTEVIRGEN and Count TORENO. The former spoke in terms of severe censure of the conduct of the Government, asserting that the members had evinced neither a correct knowledge of public affairs, nor a capacity for public business. He maintained that the war was continued, either through the ignorance, or by the connivance of the Ministry, who were in pos session of abundant means of extinguishing it when ever they were so disposed. These are his own words : Has it been, then, from want of money that this war has not been concluded? Has it been through want of money that so many generals have allowed themselves to be superseded, and compromised their military honour ? Has it been for want of money that the Minister of War has been obliged to impose penalties on the officers who refuse to join their regi ments ? Has it been for want of money that while the nation is paying for upwards of 100,000 men, there are not sent 20 or 30,000 to the 40,000 men already there ? Is it for want of money that the Urban Militia is not in a state to allow the whole army to proceed to the insurgent provinces ?" This speech, which was delivered with great earnest ness and energy, was loudly applauded by the Chamber, which would seem to infer that these interrogatories would not admit of an answer in the affirmative. But be this as it may, we are certainly of opinion that the Spanish Cabinet is much to blame for not having taken more effectual measures to crush the rebellion. If the statement of the Marquis DE MONTEVIRGEN be correct, such a Cabinet ought not to be suffered to exist for a single hour, nor axe we certain that by the fundamental constitution of the kingdom, the Members might not be impeached for treason against the state. Such, tit least, ould be the fate of a Ministry in this country daring to withhold supplies voted for the extermination of a rebellion. The speech of the Marquis DE MONTEVIRGEN called Count TORENO on his legs, whose answer to the charges preferred against himself and his colleagues was a sad specimen of what we so often witness in the conduct of public men—a proper sense of what ought to be done, conjoined with a kind of vacillating timidity which shuns its performance. In one respect, how ever, his speech was truly satisfactory. He opposed the Report of the Majority of the Finance Committee, contending that Spain was bound to discharge the whole of her debts, if she had the means of so doing ; and that in default of the ability to meet all the just demands made upon her, she had no right to sacrifice exclusively one set of creditors for the benefit of another. He contended that Spain was not in a condition to discharge her debts in full, and that that alone was the reason of his proposing a reduction of the interest on the whole of the loans, which, without sacrificing the claims of any class of creditors, would relieve Spain of much of the burthen which now oppressed her, whilst at the same time it would prevent invidious jealousies among the bondholders by placing all on the same level. Our readers know with what earnestness we opposed TORENO'S plan, on the ground that Spain had abundant resources within-herself of discharging all her pecuniary obligations both at home and abroad; and we are bound to say that the only point at which we are at issue with him is on this question of capacity or incapacity on the part of Spain. TORENO says— " The nation is justly responsible for the entire debt. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1834. 1, as one of the Cabinet, would ,recommend its total liquidation, were there any legitirdate means of so do ing ; but there 'is not a sufficiency of resources, and therefore I propose that we enter into a compromise with the public creditor,•so as to treat gall claimants alike." This is, in substance, TORENO'S language ; and our sole disagreement with him, is in holding that the Spanish nation is as powerful to pay her debts as he says she is willing, if having the power. But hear TORENO'S own statement of the difficult position in which the recognition of the debt would place Mi- Princess as an amiable and accomplished woman, and we cannot but regret that she was doomed to witness the downfall of her family through the mad ambition of her husband. 'The rumours which have reached Paris, respecting the progress of the war in the provinces, will be f oun d i n our extrac t s f rom th e Indicatcur of Bayo nne , and Galignani's Messenger. The con dition of Spain is really horrible at the present mo ment. A trio of Agitators are now at work in Ireland. Three Furies, with their attendant imps, have super seded St. Patrick, St. Bridget, and St. Columb-Cille, in the guardianship of the island of primeval sanctity. O'CONNELL in the South, MARCUS BERESFORD in the north, and in the centre, (mirabile clictu !) Corporal COBBETT, Editor of the Register, Member of Parliament for Oldham, and Criminator in Ordinary of his Majesty's Government. The latter is the great centre of attraction at the present moment. He has imported his Gridiron for the purpose, no doubt of roasting the Orangemen ; not that he loves them less, but because he fears O'CONNELL more, be neath whose banner he has taken shelter. The Dublin papers announce, in flaming paragraphs, the commence ment of his career of glory. Already are the walls of the city placarded with announcements of his determination to deliver three lectures a week for the edification of the wondering inhabitants of Dublin. But the Lectures are not to be de livered gratis ! No, no ; that would not be like COBBETT. Box, pit, and gallery prices are on a scale which shows the motives of the man. GOD help Ireland, if she. has no better friend than COBBETT to direct her. But we will return to the subject to moiroW, and that in a way in which none will mistake our opinions of such trickery. The Poor Law Amendment Bill, as we stated yes terday, begins already to work well in several of the parishes about town, and it must soon operate benefi cially for agriculture. It will enable farmers to get their work better done, and to obtain more work for their money. But it will not restore to farmers the capital of which they have been deprived by the opera tion of the Corn Laws, which have prevailed since 1815. Though the present law is fast tending to leave landlords without rent, and will ultimately leave them without tenants, still they pertinaciously cling to it. Nevertheless, in process of time stern necessity will do that which observation and reflection ought long ago to have effected. In the mean time, how ever, land-owners are eager for a measure, which tithe owners until lately resisted as obstinately as land owners still resist any modification of the Corn Laws. Whatever may be said for a Bill to commute tithe not having been carried in the last or preceding Ses sions, Ministers will be without excuse if such a Bill be not passed in the ensuing Session. But a proper Bill remains still to be prepared. The Bill which was not proceeded in last Session is more indefensible than the Bill which was abandoned in the former Session. It is manifest that the right course is to follow the commutation upon voluntary ar rangements. Every tithe-receiver knows what he has received, and every tithe-payer knows what he has paid, in the last seven years. The means of making a voluntary arrangement are thus within the power of all parties.' It should, therefore, be provided that a majo rity of the proprietors of any parish may make an agreement with the tithe-owner for the commutation of their tithe, and if the minority will not also agree, then the expense of the compulsory part of the pro ceeding should be thrown upon the minority. If all refrain from coining to an agreement, then the expense must fall upon all. But it is not enough to ascertain, by agreement or otherwise, what each tithe-owner is henceforth annu ally to receive, and what each proprietor is annually to pay. It is further necessary that the commutation, though paid in money, should be a corn rent. Means exist in England for this purpose similar to those which have been long practised in Scotland, with benefit and satisfaction to all concerned. There the stipend of a clergyman is fixed at so many chal ders of victual, convertible every year into money according to the fiar prices, which are struck in the month of February in every year, by a jury under the direction of the Sheriff of the county. So in England, weekly returns of prices being made from every corn market in each district to the comptroller of corn returns, the means exist in the office of that functionary which enable him to strike the average price of corn in every district in every year, say preced ing every 25th day of March, and it only remains to enact that he shall notify such prices in the Gazette in the month of April in every year, and that the quantity of corn ascertained to form the living of every clergyman, and the portion of that quantity of corn charged upon the land of every proprietor, shall be convertible into money every year, according to such prices ; by which the money payment to be received and made every year will be readily and easily settled with certainty in all time to come, by the operation of the Bill itself. The advantage of a tithe corn rent, thus convertible into money every year, becomes manifest, when it is considered that the average price of wheat in the last year was under 48s. per quarter, and in the year 1832 the average price exceeded 665. per quarter. The ad vantage is not less apparent that when the charge is once made upon the land according to a portion of corn in place of a portion of money, it remains always made without the necessity of any subsequent altera tion or fresh charge, or any change of charge whatever. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR entered the House at two o'clock, immediately after which the Commons was sum moned to hear his Majesty's Commission for the further prorogation of Parliament read. One of the clerks of the House of Commons shortly af terwards a ppeared at the bar, when the Royal Commis sion was read , p roro g uin g the Parliament to Thursday, the s were, the Lord Ch ance ll or ( w h o, we e looking ext reme l y we ll after h i s Duke of Ar g yl e , an d L ord Auckland. were glad ie f ge lr O canc e oi t t mo o tu b mor ec s ,ps?eoterinxlc Commissioners v INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT.-THIS DAY. IN THE OF THE PETITION OF THE HON. GEORGE lIENRY TALBOT. -- This case stood in the cause list to-day for hearing, but at the sitting of the Court the officer of the King's Bench Prison, informed the chief clerk, (Mr. Massy) that the Hon. Petitioner had been discharged out of custody by his detaining creditor, a tavern-keepe r . The petitioner is the brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and heir-presumptive to that dignity. It is understood that an arrangement will be effected with all his creditors. His schedule filed in Court, exhibits debts to the amount of 25,8 4 9/. 3s. 10d., for which he had received consideration. They had been incurred from April 1827 . The Hon. Petitioner has an income of for life, bein g th e i nterest o f 60,00 0/. tioL Ls and CH ADWICK J ONE S were i ns t ruc ted 3,2 1‘ 0 1 44, 5r a 5 - . y N ea i r c , to oppose, and Messrs. COOKE and Wooonom were re tained to support, the petitioner. PRICES OF STOCKS THI: sank Stock _ _ 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. ')o%q, t‘. per Cent shut Ditto Red. shut New 3; ) per Cent ...99 S 7 9 1 4 874 4per Cent. Assented shut f Disaented shut I.3ank Long A tinuilies toexpire Jan. ' 3, ISM shut yet In, 1859 stwt Jan. 5, IFGII rpi :3-16 Jan. 5, 111 — April 5, IF*lO — Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bends 102% Belgian Bonds 9 9 li Ditto Account...... 99% Brazilian Winds DUI() Account 78% Buenos Ayres Bonds 3 Ditto Account oezo Milian Bonds Ditto Account ftl!i Columbian Bonds ‘2s Ditto Account 2; Columbian Bonds, 1821 32 Ditto Account ...... ... 32 % 144 2 Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds - Ditto Bonds, 192.1 3l Ditto Account 3 ,14 Mexican 80110 . 5. 5 per cent 29.4, Ditto Account nn Ditto, 6 per cent 41% Ditto Account 4 ''l4 Neapolitan lts!4 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alton Mining Company .£9 111 Anglo Mexican Mining Company (iss. at W. pm.) 100 RI Ditto SubFcription Ilolanos Mining Company Brazilian Imperial binning Co. (issued at 5!. pm.) '2O :VS Ditto Macaubas Comes .20 9.1 Ditto Scrip lO 10 1 4 Ditto St. John del Rey .. lO 7 Cata Bran a Mining Company , 4 , g 6 5 , :s. . ---- ----------- - British Iron Company British Copper Comp ny . 2 Columbian Mining Company (issued at 51. pm - ) --- 53!i English Mining Company 1254 Hibernian Mining Company .., lO Mexican Mining Company 49' Ite.il del Monte Mining Co., Itegistered 3tl. I 4. 6d. Ditto Unregistered United Mexican (issued at td. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . L:verpool and Manchester Railway Company lOO London and Birmingham Railway Company - 15 London an Greenwich Railway Company 7 Australasia Bank lO 714 10.4 ‘2l 3 4 33 :1029!4 Australian Company Canada Company IS General Steam Navigation Company l3 London and Westminster Rank 5 . • National Provincial Bank of England Provincial Bank of Ireland Itio Dace Company 2 Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company l5 193 14% Sib PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT 2.2 3 per Cent. Cc:lsola 89% Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. 9. 1 ,4 Ditto Reduced llO4 Ditto, 4 per cent 6 3 ,4 33; per Cent. Stock 97% Hibernian Bank Ibtto New, 1830 v., per Cent. Debentures 14.1 National Insurance Company `!CIA Back Stock 224 Cil y Debentures, 4 per cent... SO Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 2SX pe- cent. 9:1% MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America.......... 0 I France 0 0 Lisbon .. 0 0 Brazil 0 1 Guern.&Jersey 0 0 hlalta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg...—. 0 0 Mexico . 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland 1 0 Ostend 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden... 1 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford ... '.. 0 HIGH %ATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORHOW. Morning 15 minutes after 7. Evening 47 minutes alter 7 THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. 4), • ". P"'' e17.1. 4 -` , . • • - 04 . • r ~~~ ~~~-~ DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK New 5 per Cent. India Stock OF:9:4 31, Ditto Bonds . I7 15 pm. South Sea Stock. Old Annuities .... New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...• Exch. Bills, X 43 44 pm. Ditto 500 .. 41 44 pm. Ditto Small •46 44 pm Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank Stock for Opening India Stock for Account %4 314 Consols for Account 9.o's shut TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. I Peruvian Bonds Dit o Account 273i Portuguese Bonds B ol ,' ..._ 4 Ditto Account . Ditto New Bonds RI% 2 I 1 5 :, Ditto Account ...St% 62 iwli% Prussian Bonds Ditto Ponds, 1522. IZthsiaii Bonds, 1822 104 Ditto Account 104,4 Ditto Metalilc 1022 Spanish Bonds 5144 4 % 4 1 4. 4 Ditto Account «....':3 e% 4%%'4 Ditto Bonds, la 13 5l 14 Ditto Account 5l 2 French, 5 per cent. - f. --c. , . 4 per cent. — f --c. —.3 per cent. —l. —c. Exchange f. —c. Dutch, 9!;, per cent. Ditto ACeOunt 1.0 Ditto, 5 per cent. Ditto - Aciaount .. nisters : " The Minister of Finance, before entering on any other part, spoke of recognising the foreign debt as an operation which ought to precede every other, because we cannot have recourse to any extraordinary means in the matter of which we are treating, nor lay hands on foreigners, and on that account it was necessary to see what was to be done with the foreign debt. It is known that the Exchange of London is one of the principal markets, and it has hitherto been closed to us : that of Paris is full of Spanish funds; consequently, without treating for the former debt, it would be impossible to make any operation, or to realise any loan. Hence the Minis ter began here ; but the gentlemen of the Commission have begun by proposing that so much shall be given to the Minis ter, and afterwards they are to liquidate the foreign debt. It is known tharthe debt of the Cortes exceeds, by eighty mil lions, that of the State, and that the remainder would exceed 300; consequently the 200 millions given would not even be sufficient fiir this. flow can the Government, if it has to carry-on this operation, attend to all the demands of the mo ment with the 200 millions offered to it?" It is not sought that Spain should do more than she has the power of doing in a moment. The creditors are not impatient for their money. They will be con tent whether the principal or interest, or both, be left unpaid for a time, provided the Spanish Government will guarantee the payment as soon as it has the power of doing so.. Nay,. there would be no difficulty in raising another loan, even supposing that there was not a penny of the old debt paid, provided foreigners saw a disposition to. act honestly on the part of Spain. But where is the church property which has been confiscated for the benefit of the State ? Where is the immense wealth of the Holy Inquisitors ? And what hinders the disposal of the Royal domains ? The answer to these questions is partially given by TOREN°, and we request the public to pay attention to it : I only know, Gentlemen, three means of supplying the Treasury—by contributions, or by the sale of national pro perty, or by loans. As to contributions--is there any Procu rador who would now burden the people, I do not say with three or two hundred millions, but even with one hundred mil lions ? Would it be possible to raise such a sum - without its producing the most fatal consequences ? As to national pro perty. In the first place this is destined to a very sacred ob ject, namely, the interior debt, which has been much neglected, and which deserves the greatest respect. But even sup poing that we would withdraw it from so interest ing an object, and that it was as extensive as it may be conceived in imagination, can it be imme diately realized ? Who would purchase such property at a high price ? No one ; because whatever abounds in the market is depreciated. Thus the second means would produce no result, and it would be attacking one of the interior burdens to which the attention of the Chamber is due. As to a loan, the Marquis de Montevirgen said that there are other means, but he has not indicated them, nor is it possible by any la boured calculation to discover them. As to the system of Pn ticipating, it leads to great disorders, which the Government has endeavoured to avoid. The present Government frankly declares that it will always oppose such a method." Here the foreigner is let into the great state secret. Spain has resources, but they are sacred to the pay ment of—herself ! All must be kept sacred to that first and greatest object. The crown property—the church and abbey lands—the gold and silver plate which enriched the shrines of the Dominican saints— the jewelled ornaments of overthrown altars—the paintings—the sculpture—the statuary—the every thing convertible into money, must be kept for home consumption ; while the lamentations, regrets, and state acts of contrition are exported for the benefit of the duped foreigner. This is the real point after all. The truth has slipped out, and the world may now see of what stuff Spanish honour, honesty, and principle, are made. With respect to the two other means of raising money here spoken of—namely, increasing the public burdens, or mortgaging the revenue—we have nothing to do with them, and of course leave Ministers to shape their course after their own fashion. It is quite early enough to talk of them, however, after the second means has been tried and found wanting. But will the people pay any regard to ToßENo's statement of the inadequacy of the Crown and Church property to meet all the demands made on the country? Can he tell what price the property will bring before a proposal has been made for disposing of it ? The fact is, the whole has very much the appearance of a swindling transaction, and will terminate disgracefully to Spain, unless she adopt a very different course. Before foreigners are told they will not be paid, let the public property pass under the hammer, and then England and France will know the precise data on which the Madrid Cabinet grounds its future proceedings. It is curious that TORENO himself should admit the principle upon Which this reasoning is based, at the very moment he avows his determination to act in opposition to it. He is by no means blind to the dangers which threaten a breach of public faith, nor dead to the feelings which should invigorate a great people on such an occasion. He says : " Let us undeceive ourselves, gentlemen. It is impossible not to perceive that if we decide according to the recommen dation of the Commission, we shall give a terrible blow to our credit. England would necessarily say, Spain is in a crisis, because, if we must speak with frankness, if the party who now holds the reins of the nation should be obliged to succumb, would its acts be recognized by that which would succeed it ? There are some who would answer no ; and, in that case, how would our credit stand ? I say then that the nation ought never to come to decisions of such a nature till driven to them by necessity." Here he admits .z he. danger which stares him in the face, and while he condemns the report of those who advocate a system of national swindling, why has he not the honesty to declare at once for the recognition of the whole debt ? Why talk of compromising public faith at all, when thus sensible of the appalling consequences of wholesale bankruptcy ? `We have some other observations to make on this debate, which we reserve till the entire report reach us. What the results will be we cannot tell, but in all pro bability the Ministers will be again beaten. The re cognition of the Cortes Bonds we think may be re garded as certain, and perhaps a per centage of twenty to forty allowed on the French Royal loans, including the whole of the Rentes Perpetuelles and Guebhard Stock. This seems evident from the declaration of Toren° : " The Government, therefore, after having examined the three parts of which the opinion of the Commission is com posed, can only repeat that it will oppose coming to a vote, unless it be previously decided that the foreign debt be taken into consideration. The Government must also say that it is necessarily bound to reject the opinion of the majority ; and it will add, that it adopts that of the minority in its first article." This skimming betwee❑ wind and water will never do. If the Government would be honest and consis tent, and base its proceedings on principle, let it adopt the recommendation of the minority not in the first Article only, but altogether. This the world will un derstand, and appreciate. The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have been received by express. Their contents are not im portant, being principally taken up with detailing the afflictions of Don CARLOS, in consequence of the death of his wife. Reports speal.: of the deceased MIDDLESEX INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS. (Before B. ROTCH, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.) The Court was occupied the whole morning with parish appeals, the greater number of which possessed no points of any public importance. THE NEW POOR LAW BILL.-THE PARISH OF MILE END OLD TOWN V. THE PARISH OF SIIOREDITCH. _ _ _ Mr. PRENDERGAST, who together with 11I;.C1.ARKSON, appeared in favour of the appellants, stated that he believed that the Court was called upon in the present case to ad judicate for the first time under the new Poor Law Bill. The appeal was brought by the parish of Mile End Old Town, against the parish of Shoreditch, for the remo val of a pauper from• the parish of the respondents to that of the appellants. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Prendergast, that a female named Ann Cotterell, born of Irish parents, but a non resident of that county had, since the Poor Law Act Amendment Bill came into operation (4th of August) gave birth to a bastard child, which 'had been removed from the parish of Shoreditch to • that of Mile End Old Town. By the 71st section of the new Poor Law Act, every bastard child born after the pass ing of the Act should follow the settlement of the mother till it was 16 years of age. As according to the provisions of that Act the father, mother, and child might all be re moveable to Ireland, the question was whether the re moval to the parish of Mile-end, Old Town, was right, or whether it ought not to have been to Ireland the birthplace of the father and mother of its parents. Ac cording to the old law, the settlement of the child was the place of its birth, but under the new Poor Law Bill, the settlement of the child was that of the mother. Mr. ADOLPHUS appeared for the respondent, contending that the removal was a correct one. The •CHAIRMAN said that the present case was one of the greatest importance, not only to the public, but to the right construction of the new Poor Law Act. It appeared to him that the provision in the Act, authorising the removal of children to the birth place . of the mother's parents could only apply to children that had no settlement whatever by birth . or otherwise. On the whole, it was his opinion, the mother, although born of Irish parents, had a settlement in this country, and, therefore, if he was right in that, under the new Poor Law Act the child would be entitled to the settle ment of its mother, and the order appealed from would be correct. Mr. JESSOP differed from the Chairman, considering that the child had acquired no settlement whatever in this country, in consequence of the mother having one. Mr. BENNETT considered, that as the child had acquired the benefit of the Poor Laws of this country, could not be removed to a country where no Poor Laws existed. After some further arguments from the bench, The CHAIRMAN stated that he thought it would be bet ter, as the case was of such importance, that it should be argued before the Court of King's Bench. MANSION HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas. Payne, a very respectably dressed man, was re examined before the Lord Mayor, charged with stealing a coat, value 21. 25., the property of Mr. Johnson, an auc tioneer in Gracechurch-street. William Abell stated that he was in Mr. Johnson's Rooms yesterday, between eleven and twelve o'clock. He saw the prisoner there ; he tried on a coat, a black surtout, the same as the one produced ; he waited in the room for ten minutes after he first put it on ; he then walked off with it, leaving his old one in its stead. Mr. HoBLER—Did it seem to fit I Witness—Very well ; he walked about, and I expected he was going to ask me how it fitted him. Mr. Johnson—lt might fit him well enough, but it would not at all suit me. Thomas Cope, a porter with Mr. Johnson, received in formation of the robbery from the last witness, and followed the prisoner, whom he took in Lombard-street, with the coat on—he found his old one when he went back to the room. Mr. Johnson identified the coat as his property. The Prisoner said he had been visited with compunctions of conscience, and was returning to the rooms with the coat when be was taken into custody. The Loan MAYOR said if he could persuade Mr. John son of the truth of that story, he might get off, otherwise it would be his (the Lord Mayor's) duty to commit him for trial, and he must then tell his story to the Jury. Mr. Johnson said he had been robbed to an enormous extent, and he was determined to put a stop to it if pos sible. He would pursue the present case as far as he was able. The prisoner was then fully committed to Ncwgate for trial, and the parties bound over to prosecute. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Jane Barns, a middle-aged woman, who was charged, on Saturday last, before Mr. MINSHULL, with various acts of swindling, was again placed at the bar to-day. The office, we noticed, was more full than usual, and on the prisoner being brought in, there was quite a stare amongst the per sons present, and many of them at once recognized her as an old acquaintance, by cries of " That's her, that's her !" The Police constable F 153, gave some further evidence, but requested some time in order to have an opportunity of completing a more serious case against the prisoner, of which he had received infermation. There were upwards of 30 persons to present charges against her ; but the MAGISTRATE remanded her till this day week, and requested the whole of the complaining par ties to attend on that day. The woman, it appears, on a late occasion, at Maidstone, was a principal witness against two of her sons, who were convicted of a robbery in the house of Mr. ArnoLl, at Gravesend. She left a very unfavourable impression upon the minds of all present, from the careless manner in which she behaved on the trial. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS At per Load of 36 Trusses'. CUMBERLAND. Coars • heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £ 3 15 to ..£•, 0 New Meadow Hay 4 5 4 10 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Myer Hay Oat Straw. .... ...... El Bto £ I lo 1 Wheat Straw 1 11 1 16 SMITHFIELD Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay XS 10 to .£3 15 New Meadow flay Usefol Old Witte Fine Upland Me ,dow and Rye-grass Hay Clover Hay extra fine ......./ 5 10 Generally ~ ..... 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw ...... ...i 110 to 1 1 14 I Wheat Straw . 1 14 I 16 HUNGERFORD. Coarse Meadow Hay £3 10 to .£3 V New Meadow Hay 4 0 4 lo Useful Old Ditto 4 0 4 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover Hay 3 13 5 10 Oat Straw £1 10 to XI 12 1 Wheat Straw THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, - TWELVE *O'CLOCK This moment New York Papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house to the 24th of August : " Board of Health, Aug. 22. " The Board of Health report, that since yesterday, at twelve o'clock, there have been reported by the physicians twelve cases of cholera, of whom six have died. " Resolved, that in consideration of the favourable re ports this day made to the Board, and believing that the expectations may be entertained of a continual decline of the disease, this Board will adjourn to Monday next." The Spanish Market is again alive this morning ; Spanish Stock, which left off yesterday 52i opened at 52i, soon after were done at 534, afterwads reached 54, at which price they are at present ; Portuguese, 82. Consols opened at the leaving off price of yesterday, with nothing doing, as the chief speculations are in the Fo reign Market. HALF-PAST ONE. Spanish Stock still continues the speculation of the day. In the early part of the morning it was at 524, since which it has taken a start and reached Mi. Portuguese Stock 814. Consols seem at present to be fixed in price, as scarce a bargain is doing, and they have continued the whole of the morning at the opening price, 90ai for the Account. THREE 0' CL 0 CA. Consols for the Account, 90a 1. A boatman, whose name we have not heard, met with his death on Saturday last, at Lyme Handley, in a very melancholy manner. He was engaged as steersman, and, having to pass through a swivel bridge, another man belon g i ng to the crew got off the boat to turn the bridge. Whilst on the bank the steersman amused himself by ladli ng water w i t h i his hand upon hs comrade, who jokingly cried out , " Y ou ca nnot reach me. " Cannot I," replied the steersman, "but I soon will," and took hold of a gun which lay in the - cabin, with an intention, as is supposed, of merely frightening his companion. Unfortunately the muzzle of the gun was near the steersman, and in drawing it towards him something caught the lock, and the gun exploded, lodging the contents in the poor man's left breast, who loudly cried out, " Oh, Lord ! murder, murder I " and shortly afterwards expired. These facts were sworn to at a Coroner's Inquest, when a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned.—lllacclesfield Courier. A fatal duel took place in the Bois de Boulogne on Saturday, in consequence of a quarrel, which took place on the Boulevard, in front of the Café Tortoni. One of the comba tants received the ball of his adversary in the head, and died immediately, in the arms of his seconds. Napoleon had a French cook who undertook to dress a fowl for his Imperial Majesty's dinner in a different manner every day, for a whole year; he fulfilled his promise, and succeeded in gratifying the Emperor's palate in three hundred and sixty-five different ways, every one of which was perfectly unexceptionable. 1 , FINE ARTS. THE COVENANTERS. This engraving is executed with Mr. Bromley's usual skill, bnt we think he might have chosen a more worthy, certainly a more popular, subject. The paint ing which he has selected is by no means such as , from its merit, is likely to become very generally known, and so create a demand for the engraving. In all its essential features it is lifeless and common-place ; though the back-ground, and especially the sentinels perched on the top of the distant mountains, are well conceived and boldly executed. But the Covenanters are sad failures. Their besetting defect is, that they arc not Covenanters at all ; but merely a group of placid, orderly Scotch peasants and small farmers, listening to as placid and orderly a field preacher. The truth is, Mr. Harvey had but all imperfect notion of the sort of beings he undertook to paint. Of their dauntless energies—their stern, cold, enthusiasm----their pride—their vindictiveness —their sufferings ;—of all that lends expression to the coun tenance, and stamps " mark and likelihood" on the figure; he evidently knew no more than just what he may have hastily read in the pages of some Scot-, tish periodical. Methinks " Old Mortality" mig ht have helped him to a better conception of hi subject than he has here shown. He might a t least have learned from that splendid tale, how to draw a Macbriar, and been furnished with hints for a Burley that man of iron nerve and muscle. Instead of which' not a gleam of the true spirit is there among all his host of Covenanters. The preacher is clearly a proser, and of the most quiescent character, and we are much mistaken ifa great portion of his congregation do not think so too' The daft, smiling " chiel" who handles a pike, loo ks as if he would be much more at home in handling a pitchfork ; and the armed man who sits leaning on a claymore might, from the expression of his face, be mis taken for a French cuirasseur. The womankind are lit tle better. There is nothing of that dogged fanaticism about them, which Manse Headrigg evinced in su ch perfection, when she preached herself and her seal Cuddie out of house and home. These defects ho" ever apply to the painting. The engraving 01 ° 1 everywhere great judgment and pains-taking. LITERATURE. FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS 04 ° f THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. LoNDox. Murray. Mr. Murray has acted wisely in republishing th ese delightful legends in his " Family Library." N o can doubt their genuineness, for the true Irish imr ess is on them all, though we doubt not, Mr. Crofton Croker, for obvious reasons, has been tempted to colour them a little. Those who desire to know 0, what strange motley materials Irish humour and Iris': fancy are made up, will find their curiosity more ben gratified by a perusal of this little volume. Here theY will find samples of rich drollery and melting pathos.; the fantastic mixed up with the real, and the ter rible with the ludicrous, in a way that beggars all descripti on ; and sets all imitation at defiance. Talk of the legends the old countries ! There are none comparable to t°. old Milesian ones—none that approach them in hoar nation—none that come near them by many degre es 1 rich humour, and that peculiar absurdity w hose very breadth and quaintness almost amount W genius. Our English fairies, though laughi rle o and mischievous little creatures enough, yet are ST and common-place compared with their brethren on t he _ other side of the channel. Such mad pranks as these last imps play off ! Such original—such irres istible powers of roguery as they d eve l o p e I Why, e veo Puck himself never showed half the wit, humour , i n ; vention, or ingenuity of the " Cluricaune ;" and his will back the " Merrow” or dancing crab, with cocked-hat on, against all the elves, warlocks, 0r gnomes that ever played tricks with travellers in the meadows, glens, or mountains of Scotland, Germany', or Norway. An Irish fairy looks for all the world like an English fairy drunk ! There are limits to the areh drolleries Of the one. Those of the other kno w /10 hounds. The peasant character of Ireland is ln°re fully laid open to us in these light, un pretend in .c!, legends, than in all the ponderous and elaborate i serLations that have ever yet appeared on the "stlbi ee The Irish peasant cherishes faith in the national sir perstitions, because, in their mingled humour , g r tesqueness, fancy, pathos, and absurdity, lie ree°g; nizes the qualities of which his ow n motley char net is made up. They are the mirrors in which he see himself reflected. A work like this, therefore, en lb°- dying, in a characteristic manner, all the floating P ° : pular traditions of Ireland, i s some thi ng better th 3 r a work of mere amusement : it is one calculated to se us thinking—one from which the philosopher may ther the soundest materials of wisdom. The v° ll.llll i is neatly printed, and embellished with a variety wood cuts. Some of these are capital. For instan e the figures of the two dancing crabs on the sea -sh°re : who are sticking their legs (arms) a-kimbo, and Pi rouetting each on one claw, exhibit just that langn is " l e d and self-satisfied spirit, which has so often overpower us in John Reeve's Cupid ! SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) SEPT. 24.—Wind light light River, and s (F ai l l t e O d N , f DEAL, SE for Bombay. An Austrian brig from t i ll ' e LO L D p 's e l ror Alexan- - A ',, r i ri rq v u e ! from the 1 din. hunt, andTrvieasrfieabalen.d--a ,Th.,ht from the westward, passed for - Loomndon.--Five 1::,000c;"dia breezes from the N.E.—The American brig ' sail po ed n cor sAUT Übes.SIOLH, SEPT. 24.—Wi n d S.E A rr : e d On Plawgworth, Nesbitt, f rom Onega. Sailed his "e s t ' 3'. 94 i v f - ship Zebra, for the Cape of Good Hope. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Wind E., strong an d _i s9 ; l3l , lY : :4 Arrived his Majesty's FALMOUTH,Water s Gibbs, EpT. squally.—Arrived_ the 2 S 2 ta .— r, fro s m hip m V al i a c g tozia, from 0..., a% Nish, from tos E t .S p .B oin ., il f lF r ic e iof s e. ll sh a ir rid e l PENZANCE, SEPT. 23.—Arrived off port, Jam aica. from Ancona, and LadyFitzherbert r , o F m erries , f t r i e 'me BRISTOL,SEPT. 2 4.—Arrived the Ada, and Stephens, Honduras an d Princess Charlotte, Pike, Stephens, f . rom Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 23.—Arrived the Ellen G G er u m ;t: Blundell, from Oporto. Off port, the Sarah, L a an Virginian, Harris, from New York. CLYDE, SEPT. 0 2. Arrived the Ariel, Nichol , from Trinidad. LOND E O R N F , D SEPT.PT 24.—Arrived the Resolution, Sigswick° from Limerick. WAT OR , SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Diana, pales from Opo r t o . CoRK, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the James Lyon, Turner' from Antigua. BELFAST, S EP T. 22Arrived the Iris, Shaw, fr om . London. HULL, SEpT.22.—Arrived the Pinnet Margaretta,Briak, from Kiel. JERSEY, SEPT. 21.--Arrived the Maria, Le Bas, from Gibraltar ; and Minerva , Le Breton, from Dantzic. L EI TH, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the William and Ann, Scotland, from Archangel. WHITBY, SEPT. 23.—Arrived off port, tb© George, Day, from Miramichi. LYNN, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Isabella, Stewart, from Stettin. ----------- .--- cis In Wharfdale, and the oth er dales and highergroun. , ve of Yorkshire, a great quantity of corn is s till in the fiel d" though nearly all cut. We ha o nly heard of a few instareg in which it has bee n dama g ed b y the late rains, and we op . e the present fine weather will enable t he farmers to secure $ l l the crops.—Leeds _Mercury. A horrible crime was committed a few days since ti.t Saint-Clair, near Gourney. One Gaspard, against svhomsl proceedings for separation was instituted by his wife , rec eive,.oo information that t h e cause was decided in her favour. Furire_ a t the news, lie loaded his gun and s hot her. H en are e then .01 loaded, and blew out his own brains. Four chil orphans by this twofold crime. -%g r,4 , t t [ 44 „ er 'At h-st: