The Sun. — London, England, 1831-12-26 00:00:00

SIIIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. General Cockhum, in a letter in this day's Chronicle, which we have elsewhere alluded to, refers to his pamphlet published under the title of " Six Letters on subjects very important to England." In one of these letters the General enters on the subject of tithes. " In respect to the value of Church property (he says) I have not the means of knowing it with nice accuracy ; but from a number of tables and returns that have examined, and by calculations I had made by in skilful accountant, I am confident I am rather under the mark when I state that the en tire church property of England and Ireland, including Bishops' lands, Deans and Chapters, and ail the tithes, as yielding amongst them an income of at least nine millions a year ; and that the Bishops' lands, if out of lease, would be worth another, making ten millions a year ; but as the leases of these lands will not be out for 21 years, of course there would be a differ. ence to make, and which shall be noticed in its proper place. . . The value of gross pro duce, and on which tithe is charged, is calculated at the produce or actual value, viz.-200 millions a year ; but if only levied at a sixteenth, instead of tenth, and on 150 millions instead of on 200, the tithes amount to nine millions, besides Mi nisters' money in towns, on houses, &c. Of course I include Dean and Chapter tithes. These gentlemen have estates also, at least in Ireland, but of what value I know not ; we may, however, safely value them and tithes at ten mil lions annually, and the Bishops at one million, dropping the other 200,000. General Cock burn allows for lay impropriations three millions, and after deducting this, seven millions remain, which at fifteen years' purchase would produce one hundred and five millions towards the liqui dation of the national debt. He proposes that the clergy shall be borne on the national expen diture for two millions a year. Without follow ing General Cockburn into the details of his plan for making mother Church available to the public and the poor, we cannot help expressing an opinion, that the people of England and Ire land will not continue much Fonger to be the laughing-stocks of the world for the asinine pa tience with which they bear burthens which no other country would tolerate. In the second num her of the fifth volume of the Swiss Archives for Statistics and National Economy, just published, a statement is given of the revenue, population, &c. of eleven of the large and rich cantons, namely, Zurich, Berne, Lucerne, Basle, Soleure, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Aargau, Vaud, Ge neva, and the Grisons. The population of these eleven cantons is 1,446,000, and the whole of the revenues of the State, including interest on capital (for in Switzerland the Governments lend instead of borrow), and including tithes also, in the cases of Zurich, Berne, Soleure, and Aargau (of which the population is 787,000) amounts only to 7,232,000 francs, or little more than 300,0001. sterling. This sum pays the clngy, pays schools, pays the administration of justice, and a variety of other expellees, which in England are paid by the people over and above the taxes to the State. Out of this sum the Governments are continually saving, the in terest of which diminishes the burden on the people. The Swiss author justly congratulates his countrymen on their proud distinction of be ing less burthened by taxes than any other civi lized people. " It will hardly (he observes) be affirmed, that the low rate of taxation is in the ratio of the greater poverty of our country, for it may be assumed, without exaggeration, that, in several of our cantons at least, thOugh each individual pays on an average one-third or one fourth part only of the taxes paid by each French man, the wealth and the income of the Swiss is greater than that of the Frenchmen." What a se vere satire is conveyed in the following passage on the public men of a certain country, in which the members of the Privy Council alone share amongst themselves more than the double of the expenditure of Switzerland We see (ob serves the Swiss writer) that the wants of the Sate usually met by Governments are tolerably well provided for; that though many branches of public administration cost much less here than elsewhere, they are not worse discharged—nay, that, generally speaking, more money is ex pettleti here on many objects, as roads, schools, useful structures, &c., than in other countries. We see that for the most part unnecessary ex penditure only is retrenched ; the servants of the State are moderately, but sufficiently remune rated, and their number is not great ; ace know nothing of the lavish allowances which are so burdensome to other States ; nothing of expen (limn , which has merely ostentation for ob ject ; the salaries of all the men in place are far Jess in amount than the civil list of a Prince. Our Governments in all times have anxiously endeavoured to confine the yearly expenditure within the yearly income. This moderate expenditure, on as many important objects, is so much a stronger proof of a con scientious Administration, that from the na ture of things, it is evident that many institu tions must be proportionably more expensive in small than in large States." In speaking of rich and poor countries, a great mistake is often com mitted. Some countries are called rich because there are rich individuals in them, though the mass of the people are in a state of the greatest destitution. In fact, the wealth of the indivi duals is too often the cause of the poverty of the mss_ If the Swiss public men were to be as rapacious as the English Aristocracy, there would he a greater number of rich individuals, and the mass would be in a state of destitution. We were once particularly struck by an obser vation of the late Lord Redesdale in the House of Lords. A countryman, with exultation, re• marked to his neighbour, pointing to a bench o f Magistrates in Yorkshire, "there are two hundred thousand pounds a-year on that bench." This his Lordship thought, of course, highly honourable to the Yorkshire country man. In England the Aristocracy have suc ceeded, to a considerable degree, ill corrupting m the public morality, l%l' making people vain of wh a t ought to fill them with shame — that they have so long allowed themselves to be (loped into the no tion, that it is for their honour .304 glory they should be pillaged unmercifully to fattiNi sine curists, lay and ecclesiastical. What a pobic triumph to be taxed three or four times more than any other people ! to have colonies merely to gorge the spawn of the boroughmongers—to have Bishops enjoying the income of Princes, and Noble Dukes with estates equal to half a province, throwing their mothers on tile public in the character of state paupers ! We trust the day is not distant when Englishmen will feel a pride in protecting themselves from rapine and injustice, instead of being the most plundered of nations. The splendour which is derived from what causes the misery and privation of the mass of the people, will then be synonymous with national degradation. We shall close our observations with the following quotation from the Leeds Mercury of Saturday last. It cannot be too often dinned in the ears of the people, that many of the sufferings under which they groan are caused by the extravagant expenditure of a bad Government : " Our attention has this week been forcibly directed to the inquiry, how it happens that labour is so much worse rewarded in this old and opulent country than in the United States of America? It appears from the letter of one of our correspondents, that there is scarcely any such thing in the United States as the employment of young children in manufactories ; and the question arises, why should they be so employed here? There is also another question —.How does it happen that so many of our work-people are out of employment, or only partially employed, and that so many more of them, both in manufacturing and agricultural districts, are receiving so miserable a remune ration for their labour ; and this too in a country where there is abundance of capital, and of course so many means for employing the poor? We should be very glad to have an answer from Mr. Sadler to these questions. Our answer to them, however, we will give in the mean time. Young children are necessitated to work in the manufactories here, instead of going to school, because their parents cannot support them without that income which they derive from their labour. And why can they not support them? The answer is—because the wages of the parents are so small, compared with the price of the necessaries of life, that they will not supply the daily returning wants of their families ; and the cause of so many work-people being unemployed, so many partially employed, and so many unprofitably employed, is this —that the nation is burdened with an enormous load of taxation, occasioned by the extravagance and misma nagement of the Government of the last fifty years, by the borough proprietors having saddled all their dependents upon the State, and by the corn laws pressing upon the industrious classes, with a weight that is scarcely to be endured. If it be further inquired, how these evils are to be remedied, we would say, by pursuing exactly the op posite course to that which has produced them ; by a re formed instead of a nomination House of Commons ; by an economic instead of an extravagant Government, which a Reform in Parliament must produce ; by cultivating the arts of peace, instead of engaging in long and ruinous wars; by removing all monopolies prejudicial to the people ; and by either repealing the corn laws, or so mo difying them, that the people can have cheap bread. And after all this is done, it is still doubtful whether the middle and lower classes will not find themselves oppressed by the weight of taxation, and whether it may not ultimately be necessary that persons of property, both landowners, mer chants, fundholders, and others, as well in the Church as in the State, should make a general contribution, to extin guish a large portion of the National Debt—that moun tain which Mr. Pitt and his followers raised to so gigantic a magnitude, and which overlays and oppresses the country."—Morning Chronicle. The merciless slaughter, which is stated to have been committed in cold blood the other day, under the orders of the pious Nero of Spain, upon the unfortunate Torrijos and his ill fated followers, affords an additional proof to the many that have recently occurred of the exter minating vigour upon which modern despotism relies for the enforcement of its doctrines and the establishment of its power. How different was the example which the Constitutionalists gave when they overthrew the arbitrary power of Ferdinand, and gave liberty to Spain ! They spared the life of the tyrant, stained as he was with the blood of Porlier, Lacy, and other brave men, whose valour had assisted to raise him to that power which he wielded to crush the free dom of his country. They even allowed him to reign, and accepted his oath to the mainte nance of the Constitution of the Cortes, though he had given such signal proof of the perfidy of his character, and the ingratitude of his dispo sition, by overturning the former constitutional system, at the head of which he had been placed by the heroic patriots of the Peninsular war, whom he persecuted and destroyed. We con fess, with all our knowledge of the character of Ferdinand, and the positive manner in which the news from Gibraltar states that the orders to execute rorrijos and his followers were carried into effect, we cannot give implicit credence to such horrible intelligence, until it re ceives such authentic confirmation as leaves no longer any room for doubt ; for even the worst tyrants have sometimes deviated into cle mency from satiety of blood : and it is not long since that human sacrifices enough, one would think, had been offered to Ferdinand, near the French frontiers, to alleviate his terrors, or gratify his revenge. As to the fact of Tor rijos and his followers having fallen into the hands of the Spanish authorities at Malaga, there is no doubt ; but as to the circumstances which accompanied their capture, there is much discrepancy in the accounts. The communica tion from Gibraltar, dated December 13, which positively states that from 54 to 57 Liberals, who had surrendered, had been subsequently shot, affirms, that the patriots had evaded the vigilance of the police at that garrison, and con trived to effect a landing in Spain ; having been entrapped by Spanish emissaries, who carried on a correspondence with them for that purpose, and made them believe that if they effected a de scent on the coast they would be joined by the Spanish troops. The account is not credible, because we must believe Torrijos and his fol lowers, who were not without experience in en terprises of difficulty and danger, to be absolute fools if they could be duped by such a shallow and common-place contrivance, to place themselves, without any resource or reliance but their credulity in the patriotism of their countrymen, within the territory of the inexorable tyrant. The scenes which so recently occurred near the Pyrenees might have convinced the most enthusiastic devotees ofliberty that Spain was no longer the land where a few defenceless patriots were likely to inspire either troops or people ith admiration and love of chivalry and freedom. There is a very different version of this affair, which we could wish, for the honour of our own country, was not true. It •is stated by the In dicator of Bourdeaux, that the refugees, about sixty in number, being compelled by the authorities to leave Gibraltar, embarked on board two small French vessels, bound to France ;but the Spanish Government, which had long watched all their motions, ordered its Custom-house vessels to pursue and drive them on the Spanish coast. The French vessels perceiving, but too late, this infamous plan, in vain hoisted the Oa-coloured flag, protested that they were bound to France — that they had no hostile project against Spain and had no passengers but unarmed individuals. They were obliged to land their passengers, who were instantly made prisoners. If this account be true the whole case presents a most audacious insult to the flag of France, as well as an un heard of violation of the rights of humanity and the laW of nations, But how came our own authorities at Gibraltar to compel the unfor tunate refugees to embark, under the circum stances stated, and thereby rush into the nets which the enemy had spread for their lives ? We h o p e this pa r t of the tragic tale will prove untrue, but at all events it if; a case that ought to be inquired into in Parliament, more especially as it appears that a British subject has been put to d ea d ] , and his body, if t h e accoun t can be ere• dited, insultingly sent to the British Consul. of the capture, which Now the official account appeared in an Extraordinary Gazette pub lished at Madrid on Dec. 8, and w hich account is signed by j ean Antoine Menel, Prefect of Police at Algesiras, though obviously coloured to make the capture a ppear, as much as pos sible, a legal one, does r a ther confirm the state meat given by the Indicaleur than the account which would make it appear that the descent of the refugees on the coast of Spain was preme ditated. The Principal of Police says," In the night of the 30th of November quitted Gibral tar (in consequence of the persecutions which the revolutionists meet there) two vessels, con taining 50 of those men, without their knowing where they were steering fur; but last night a despatch informed us that the vessels of the coast-guard having pursued these two barks, succeeded in driving them on shore, when these perverse men landed at a place called Feran givola, where they hoisted the tri-coloured flag with cries of VivelaLiberte. In mycapacity ofCom mander of the Forces of Algesiras, I immediately despatched the necessary troops, and took every other measure for the capture and extermination of those revolutionists, which, I trust, will soon take place, on account of the excellent spirit of the inhabitants of those countries, and the en thusiasm of his Majesty's troops." Then fol lows a second despatch, dated the day after, giving an account of the surrender of Torrijos and his party at discretion ; and to this is sub joined a report that a courier had been imme diately sent from Madrid, with orders for the instant execution of the prisoners. The offi cial account, then, as taken from the Madrid Gazette, acquits the unfortunate Liberals of having landed in Spain in consequence of any preconcerted plan ; for it expressly admits that they were compelled to leave Gibraltar, and that they were pursued and driven on shore by the coast-guard Spanish vessels. Thus the Spanish authorities themselves forced the re fugees to land, for the purpose of having a pre text for slaughtering them. The hoisting of the tri-coloured flag, admitted by the official account, tallies with what is asserted in the Indi cateur ; and there is no doubt they hoisted that flag, not in defiance, but for protection—why else should they hoist the French flag in Spain, where it has never been popular ? Whether they cried " Vive la Liberte !" or not, we cannot tell, but it is not likely that, in their destitute condi tion, they cried out for any thing but the mercy that was denied them. If this statement be true, a British subject has been most foully murdered ; and, if so, we hope our Govern ment will not any longer, like that of France, truckle and crouch to the tyrant, who, by the wanton sacrifice of a British subject—of one who was under the protection of his allegiance to the British Crown—has inflicted upon the Govern ment and the people of England the outrageous insult of a coward ferocity. If the reported as sassination of Mr. Boyd be true, and if the wounded honour of the country be not vindi cated in an exemplary manner, the character of England must sink to the deep and degraded humiliation to which the juste milieu policy of the French Cabinet has reduced the French nation. But we shall wait for more authentic information, promising that, when we shall have possession of the whole of the facts, we will not desert a subject in which the honour, the cha racter, and the interests of England are so se riously involved.—Morning Herald. The subject of Irish tithe, to which recent de plorable occurrences, and the uncertain project of a feeble and incapable Government, have di rected public attention and anxiety in a remark able degree at the present moment, must be con sidered with reference to the legal rights and permanent welfare of the Protestant Church in Ireland—with reference to the interests and claims of the landed property of Ireland—with reference to the encouragement and promotion of improved modes of cultivation and the pro gressive application ofnew capital to agriculture— with reference, to sum up all in one word, to the real and lasting interests of the whole empire, and in no degree whatever with reference to the inclinations of the Catholic part of the Irish po pulation, who must be taught to content them selves with such advantages and privileges as they can possess in common with the aggregate of Bri tish society, and to forego the pursuit of fac tious and sectarian triumphs. It seems to us indeed that a grave error has been committed in referring to the consideration of Committees of the two Houses of Parliament the subject of tithe in Ireland, as a subject distinct from that of tithe generally, whether English or Irish, since this separation tends directly to foster the idea that in Ireland the change is complained of more justly than elsewhere, and that the Legislature may deal with it upon other principles than it would be safe and wholesome to apply to the case of English tithe. This idea is, we fear, already much too prevalent, although a very slight consideration of the subject may suffice to shew that it is entirely erroneous. Why should the Irish people he more impatient of tithe than the English ? If it militate against the progress of agriculture and the prosperity of a nation at all, it does so equally i❑ one country as the other. And if it be true, as the political econo mists teach, that tithe is a tax which enhances the natural or remunerating price of agricultural produce, then is it not plain that any proposal to remove or alleviate this burden in Ireland ex clusively is in substance a proposal to give to the agricultural produce of that country a bounty to the prejudice of the agricultural produce of England in the English markets ? Assuming for the sake of argument, although the fact is notoriously otherwise, that the greater part of the land of Ireland is the property of Roman Catholics, why, we beg to ask, should the Ca tholic landlord be more impatient of tithe than the Protestant ? What landowner, whether Ca tholic or Protestant, can allege that tithe is an imposition upon his estate, from which it was free when he, or those through whom he derives his title, acquired it? Not one. Then why should the impatience upon this subject of any landlord, whatever be his religious faith, be regarded with greater indulgenc e or respect than the fretfulness o f a ny other freebooter who finds himself impeded in his eager attempt to seize what never belonged to him Why, in the last place, should the Ca tholic tenant be more impatient of tithe than the Protestant tenant ? It is equally true with respect to both that if relieved from the claims of the Church,the claims ofthe landlord would be speedily increased to the full extent of the relief; while among the Catholic tenantry of Ireland, where the competition for land is more intense than in this country, it is morally certain that the ces sation of tithe would be followed instantaneously by a correspondent increase of rent. We despair of any beneficial result of the inquiries to be undertaken by the Tithe Committees, simply because the circumstances which have led to their appointment are of such a nature as to give the proceeding the air, if not the character, of a concession to popular violence, and of an at tempt to propitiate that enmity to the Pro testant Establishment which we believe to he at the root of all the opposition which the collection of tithe in Ireland has expe rienced. What hope indeed can any reasonable man entertain that peace and contentment will be the result of concession, when we have seen con-' cession follow concession only in each instance to be followed by some new demand ? When the temper in which the collection of tithe is resisted in Ireland shows that it is not so much the bur den as the object of this institution which excites opposition, what man in his senses can expect that any thing short of the subversion of the Protestant Church can pacify the malcontents ? And should our present liberal Government de termine, as they probably may, that the Pro testant Church is not too great a sacrifice to be offered up upon the fashionable altar of concilia tion, who that has meditated on the nature of mankind, or watched with an observant eye the progress of events in Ireland, can doubt that presently the legal toleration of Protestantism will be deemed an intolerable grievance in that country, and submission to the sway of an here tical Monarch an inexpiable sin ?—Morn. Post. When Lord Grey and others of his colleagues are asked why they have introduced the Reform question, their answer is, very naturally because it was unavoidable in two senses. 1. Because the country in all its parts,—England, Scotland, and Ireland—called out for it, and would have it, 2. Because, with reference to the Ministry itself, it could not have remained a week in power, and therefore must have thrown the whole realm into confusion, if it had not gratified the universal eagerness for real and fundamental Re form. Is the necessity diminished ?—has the public fervour cooled ?—would there be less danger from disajection and con fusion, if the people of the three kingdoms were now to be suddenly disappointed ? If King and Ministers were not convinced of the positive necessity under which they announced themselves to have acted on this great occasion, they must have been— what no rational creature will suppose them—not merely the falsest, but the most gratuitous and childish hypocrites. Knowing both the Sove reign and his servants to be honest, what fol lows ? That they will honestly and unflinch ingly go on with their work, and carry as a for mal law through Parliament that measure which has already become a law in substance, for the nation which Parliament but represents; inasmuch as the bulk of those citizens who constitute the nation have acknowledged a free choice of re presentatives to be that law of political action to which they have one and all sworn allegiance, and which they will not suffer to be violated. If Ministers act upon their own declaration, that the necessity for Reform was what overthrew their predecessors, and that upon the truth of which they themselves must stand or fall, they will then carry this indispensable measure of Re form. It will to that end be absolutely necessary to have a majority of the House of Peers. We believe that in favour of the essence of the Bill there have been few or no conversions in that assembly. Towards a disfranchisement of the fifty-six boroughs—a partial disfranchisement of the thirty boroughs—a fair and free election of Members for either of the great towns, or new boroughs, or even the counties—we apprehend the Tory Lords are at heart as inveterately hos tile as ever. This is our apprehension, founded on good authority. But various readings are in circulation as to the plan of campaign agreed upon by the Tories. They will not oppose the Bill in bulk, as is reported, but piecemeal. We believe it. They will not attempt what might scare their more timid followers, and insult the nation, as well as assault it openly ; they will therefore probably let the second reading pass. The clauses in Committee they will not let pass. They will nibble, and eat away, and undermine, and thus destroy, a policy in which timid and cunning men may be found to abet them, because there is no daring or flagrant peril on the face of it : they will be able to tamper both with their consciences and their nerves, hoping to blind others to the magnitude of the evil which they aim at, and lulling their own cowardice as to the magnitude of the risk which they incur. But it is not the less undoubted that the Reform Bill may be effectually ruined, for a season, by such artifices; and we act the part of friends in assuring the King and Ministers beforehand, that the British nation will not endure the disap pointment. Peers must be made, and it must he made known immediately, that there exists, what we are aware does exist, a determination to create them, or the present seeming repose of the public spirit—a repose proceeding from the yet undisturbed confidence of victory—will not remain much longer. As for calculations of what might or might not happen on a change of Ministry ! we trouble not ourselves or our readers with them—a Tory Ministry now would be a revolution. Those who manoeuvre for such a project are revolutionists of the deepest dye.— Times. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21.—His Majesty's ship Re venge, 76, Capt. H. Mackay, (destined for Lisbon) sailed yesterday for Plymouth to wait further orders. Lip uts. Robt. Parrey and E. It. H. Hallett, and Mr. William White, Second Master, went passenger, to join his Majesty's ship Asia, also Lieut. Flem ming, R.M. to join head-quarters at Plymouth. His Majesty's gun•brig Charybdis, Lieut. Craw ford, arrived on Thursday from the Downs. She wi I sail this day for the African Coast. His Majesty's steam-vessel, Confiance, Lieut. Belson, proceeded on Sunday to Rve, and returned on Thursday, after an unsuccessful attempt to tow the Adder watch vessel from thence to Copperas Gap, which broke adrift (owing to the violence of the weather off Beachy Head) and drowned one of the steamer's crew. The Emerald, tender to the R. , yal George yacht, sa il e d on Friday to the westward to cruize within the Wight, to enforce the quarantine regulations. His Majesty's cutter Cracker, Lieut. Roepel, sailed on Friday on a cruize. Maje•ty's brig Pantaloon, Lieut. Wm. Daw son, which was to have gone to Lisbon with dis p atches, has received counter orders, i.nd his Ma jesty's ship Revenge, it is understood, has taken them. His Majesty's ship Prince Regent, 120, flag-ship at Lisbon, is ordered home, and Rear-Adm. Parker will, it is believed, shift his flag to his Majesty's ship Asia, 84, which ship will remain in the Tagus. Capt. Hyde Parker is expected to bring home the Prince Regent. Commander Ellice of the Victor (late senior officer at Oporto), promoted to the rank of Captain,•is also expected home in this ship. The Prince Regent, we understand, has the eresipelas on board. The Pelorus sailed from Chatham on Wednesday lust. She has been restored to an 18-gun brig. The Layton transport, Lieut. Robinson, agent, arrived on Friday from Bermuda, with the head quarters of the 81st regiment, under the command of Major Maclean. She left Bermuda on the 4th inst. She brought passengers, Captain Gabriel, of his Majesty's ship Magnificent ; Lieut. Allen, of his Majesty's ship P a ll as ; Mr. Brown, master of his Majesty's ship Gannett ; Mr. Johnson, of the Me. dical Staff, and nine convicts, who have served their full time. The troops were disembarked yesterday at Gosport. The Manlius transport, Lieut. Thomson, Agent, arrived on Friday from Bermuda, with the re mainder of the 81st regiment, under the com mand of Capt. Hall. She left Bermuda in company with the Layton transport, on the 4th inst. She disembarked her troops yesterday at Gosport. The Amphitrite, transport, Lieut. Cooley, Agent, sailed on Monday for Woolwich and Deptford, with stores for those dock-yards. His Majesty's surveying vessel /Etna, Commander Belcher, was towed out of harbour on Monday by the Pluto steam-vessel, and paid advanced wages and mustered by the second in command at this port on Wednesday. She will proceed to the coast of Africa about Tuesday next, immediately after the termination of the Court-martial about to be held on a marine belonging to her. His Majesty's gun brig Brisk, Lieut. Butterfield, which put into Yarmouth Roads on Thursday week, sailed yesterday direct for the Gambia with de spatches. His Majesty's ship Childers, 18, Com. Robert Deans, arrived on Monday from the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena,'and Ascension, having left the latter place on the 15th of November, and the for mer on the 30th of October last. His ;Majesty's ship Warspite, 76 (bearing the flag of Rear Ad miral Sir Thomas Baker, K.C.B. Commander-in- Chief Of the South American station) Capt. C. Tal bot, and Maidstone, 42, Commodore C. M. Schom berg, C B. were the only ships at Simon's Bay, and the former was about to proceed to Rio de Janeiro in about ten days. It will be recollected that the Childers sailed from Spithead on the 21st of last June for Rio, with despatches for the Admiral; she arrived at her destination on the Ist of August, but not finding the Admiral there, she pro ceeded to the Cape, having made the passage, a distance of upwards of 3,300 miles, in the remark ably short space of seventeen days ; being at the rate of 200 miles a day nearly. When within ten m les only of the Cape of Good Hope, the wind suddenly shifted to the S.E., and after carrying a heavy press of sail for three days, such was the force of the current, that she was obliged to run for Table Bay, a proof of the necessity of ships keep ing well to the southward. On the arrival of the Childers at the Cape, the Admiral had sailed for Mauritius five days previously, and the Childers's foremast having sustained some damage, she deli vei ed over her dispatches to his Majesty's ship Tal bot, 28, Cept. R. Dickinson, C. 8., who immedi ately proceeded in pursuit of the Admiral. In four teen days afterwards, viz., on the 9th of September, the Childers sailed for the Mauritius, where she arrived on the 2d of October, finding there besides the Warspite and Talbot, his Majesty's ship Un daunted, 46, Capt. Edward Harvey, and Curlew, 10, Commander H. D. Trotter; his Majesty's ship Jasseur, 18, Commander Archibald Sinclair (the latter having effected an exchange into the Jasseur, with Commander Francis Harding, who went into the Warspite), having sailed a few days previously to Leyschelles. The Childers left the Mauritius on the sth of October, in company with the Admiral, arid the Warspite being reputed as a superior sailer, a trial took place between these two ships on a wind, in which the Childers had the advantage, but when going free, the Warspite was very superior. Both the ships now made the best of their way to the Cape, where the Childers arrived in the unusually short time of fourteen days. The Admiral arrived three days afterwards in consequence of the Warspite having kept 80 or 100 miles further South, by which she was exposed to baffling winds, while the Chil ders, by keeping more to the Northward, had the benefit of the trade wind longer, as well as of the current on the Hottentot shore. His Majesty's ship Algerine, 10, Commander the Hon. J. F. F. De Roos, and Badger, 10, Commander G. F. Stowe, had sailed some days previously for the Mauritius, the former with despatches for the Admiral (who had not then arrived) and the latter to order the Undaunted to the Cape. The Mauritius at that period is represented as having been perfectly tran quil, rendered so in a great measure by the neigh bouring Island of Bourbon having been subjected by the French Government to the same slave laws as our colonies. At the Cape of Good Hope, however great discontent existed in consequence of the late equalization of the wine duties, and which it was represented by some would ruin the farmers, but it was thought that the new arrangement would ulti mately be the means of ensuring the manufacture of wine of a better quality. All were well at the Islands of St. Helena and Ascension ; at the latter place his Majesty's ship Favourite, 18, Commander Joseph Harrison, was lying at anchor quite healthy. The tenders of his Majesty's ship Dryad, Com modore Hayes, C.B. tinder the respective coin mantle of Lieuts.Huntley and Ramsay, had taken two armed slavers, and the capture was represented as having been a very dashing affair. Lieutenant Ramsay had something of the same kind previously, for which it was expected he would be promoted, and it is to be hoped that Lieutenant Huntley may also be similarly rewarded. The Childers had baffling winds on the Line and in the trades, since which time she has had strong westerly gales. She boarded, near the Line, the Elizabeth, with convicts, all well, and subsequently the Prince Lee 800 and Catherine, merchant ships. Since the Childers left Spithead in June, being a period of six months, she has traversed a space equal to the circumference of the globe, or nearly twenty-one thousand miles. The Childers came into harbour on Thursday, to be refitted, and to receive a new foremast, her present one being sprung badly in two places, and obliged to be fished at the Cape. At Spithead—lsis, Charybdis, and aE•na. In Harbour—Victory, Britannia, Royal George, Melville, Madagascar, Childers, Raven ; Confiance and Pluto steamers; Pantaloon tender. PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Captain C. Builen, C.B. of his Majesty's yacht Royal So vereign, is appointed Commissioner of Chatham dock-yard.—Lieutenants George Caswell of the Victory, and E. 11. Kenney, arid Mr. George H. James Clerk, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Madagascar.—Lieuts. Robert Purvey and E. R. H. Hallett, and Mr. William White, second master, are aopoirited to his Majesty's ship Asia.—Mr. R. King, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Gannet.—Captain Hyde Parker, of his Nlajesty's ship Asia, Lieutenants J. \V. Purcell, and T. V. Watkins, and Mr. F. W. n. Sadler, master, all of the same ship, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Victory.—The Rev. C. W. Dodd is appointed Chaplain to his Majesty's ship Made gascar.—Mr. R. S. Stokes, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Ocean, flag ship at S!ieerness.—Mr. J . Bluett, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Alligator.—Mr. D. Quinton, Schoolmaster, is al;- pointed to his Majesty's ship Isis.—Mr. John Cun ningham, are appointed rgeo Surgeon, ti, adD to Majesty's his r. oltsraA st s i s ip ist ß ar r it i: Bri tannia,—Lieut. S Lieut. H e n r y C ourtenay i s appo i nte d to hi s A i r i ng e iae.o s ay —n :s ship Revenge, vice Bellamy to half-pay. —Mr. T. F. Cottam, and Mr. J. Johnson, Assistant Surgeons, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Mel ville.—Mr. W. Mowbray, to be Secretary's Clerk to Rear-Admiral Warren, in his Majesty's ship Isis. —Mr. C. Laing, Master Shipwright's Assistant, at Deptford Dock-yard, has been superannuated.—Nll. Backhouse, late Mate of his Majesty's ship .tEtna, is appointed to his Majesty's yacht Hoye' Charlotte.— Mr. Whi te (a) late Master of his Majesty's ship Victory, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Asia.— Mr. Brown, Master, of his Majesty's ship Caledonia, is appointed to command the Romney, troop ship, ordered to be brought forward with all expedition, at Plymouth.—Corn. C. Wyvell, of his Majesty's ship Britannia, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Victory, vice Ellice promoted. Captain Peter Richards is talked of as likely to have the Asia, vice Parker. _ . The following midshipmen have passed their exa urination in navigation at the Royal Naval College, viz. ;—Mr. George A. Shire, Mr. Thomas Fisher, Mr. Thomas Hornby, and Mr. John Ledwick, of his Majesty's ship Success ; Mr. James Fellows, Mr. J. S. Christian, Mr. F. C. Singleton, and Mr. 11. J. Harvey, of his Majesty's ship Madagascar ; Mr% J. M'Dougal, of his Majesty's ship Tribune ; \_..J J !Mr. G. Smythe and Mr. R. Hoops, late of jesty's ship Melville; Mr. George C. E. Ns his Majesty's ship Galatea ; Mr. T. Aldridge, Majesty's ship Shannon; Mr. Wm. K. \Tau% Mr. R. W. Arthur, of his Majesty's ship Isi Rear-Admiral Frederick Warr en, C. 8., his flag (blue at the mizen) on Thursday, on his Majesty's ship Isis, at Spithead, as Coma in-Chief on the Cape and African stations. will sail this day for her destination, taking spatches for the Commandant at the river GO accompanied by the Charybdis gun-brig, and P steam-vessel, which will form part of the Rear' mind's squadron. The Isis will receive on boo r t passengers, the Rev. 0. S. Harrison, and Mr. Liam Henry Emes, Second Master, to join his jesty's ship Dryad; Mr. Robert Stevenson, k tant-Surgeon, to join the Plumper gun-brig; tenant C. C. Dawkins, appoint e d t o hi s Maje ship Talbot ; Captain Grierson, of the Royal j gineers, for the Gambia; and several Krounien• their return to their native country, who " c brought to England in his Majesty's ship MO First Lieutenant Alexander Jervis, an d Stn Lieutenant Heriot,of this division of Royal 310', disembarked from his Majesty's ship Shannon, Chatham on Thursday last. The latter o fficer now on his march for these head-quarters, with detachments of this:and Plymouth divisions. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, DEC. 21.—Yesterday the King P sided at the Board of Manufactures and A gr icultut two Ministers, Alessrs. Coghers and de Theta, v il present. The King is going to Louvain to-mortoo't make a distribution of colours to different corps. d A Secretary of th e E ng li s h L egat i on an d t,'" f English Cabinet m essengers l e f t B russe l s yes ter / evening all for London. M. Delmortier, a Beig l ! Cabinet messenger, set out wi t h d es p atc h es f o r PV DEC. 22.—General Belliard, after having r , ranged the affairs of Antwerp, set out last night m: Paris, to be present at the d e b a t e on t h e l a w ofF Peerage. Messrs. de Brouckere, Osy, and Rittweger, fie turned yesterday from Calais, where they had beet i , negociate a loan. Yesterd a y, a t t h e c l ose o f t he 6 4°7 1 of the Chamber of Repr esentat i ves , t h e Presid e t r i i the two Vice-Presidents, Ales , rs. Gendebieui.‘i beau, Mary Legrelle, Lecl erq , an d some ot her tr i r si hers, were requested t o go to t h e res id ence or i e l Minister of Finance, whe re t h e o th er mem b e rs 4' assembled. A contract for a loan of 24,000;c11 of florins %vas there communicated to them, wi t ,",it request to make their communications on it, was to be laid before the Government for ral . 7 f i, tion during the day. The meeting broke up w .vf, an animated discussion of two hours. The tertn e j the loan were afterwards dis cu s se d in a Couric ii r e Ministers, and during the ni g ht t h e G over nmerit h , titled the contract with Messrs. R o thschild. 1. ; r ",,' had required a prompt answe r , an d t h e i r cour' 4 , who accompanied our Commissioners to Bru 6 Nc had orders not to wait any lon ger th an till raid" for the answer. IP 4 A Belgian cabinet messeng er was d es p a tched night to Calais. tr An extraordinary courier from England vol i be t ceieved yesterday by Sir R. Adair, and his despat c r led to a conference with Count Belliard. peri°o who are in general well info rme d assure u s che oo t , last despatches se n t by Ki ng Willi am to the uat ference are wholly contrary to peace. If We ° t o , believe these persons, th e Ki ng ' s d es p a tches r ° ! ,e elude as follows :—" P a rt of m y su bj ec t s , led by t o t spirit of rebellion, have succeeded in makirl, d i abandon a portion of my dominions. It is my re % to reduce them to order, and to make them t o tlo l turn to their duty. It is absolutely ne cessary to f my army should should engage the Belgians. soldiers should be defeated, then, and not till the', I will give ray assent to the treaty proposed to It* —The Independent. « lbe The Courier, repeating the news, says— fro st courier also did not come f rom E ng l an d, but: the Hague. It was Mr. Holmes; and We ° A ( f add, that soon after hi s arrival, Sir R. • n ' s c r, despatched Lord W. R usse ll to L on d on. O u r vernment has also despatched a courier to Lonri' b i 'jc Farther information enables us to state, I d General T. Sebastiani and Mr. His came to Bills! . on account of the demolition of the fortresses. io t DEC. 23.—The King went yesterday to Lor i ir where he reviewed several corps of troops, and r e , tributed five pairs of colours. His Majesty wa g o , ceived by the troops with the greatest enthusl o o . General Belliard has left M. di Talleny, e , , ecretary, as Charge d'Affaires during his absel' c o d. It is affirmed that Messrs. Rothschild have u f , vanced to the King of Holland a sum of morel I , fii2ient for his disbursements to the Ist of Jantlarr e ,, The King returned from Louvain yesterday e' t noon. tiet The Beige says, that the budget of the citls been sent to the Governor, and that there is° ". ciency of 800,000 florins. cls It is affirmed that the Conference has sign e ir new protocol, determining that the fortresses of bo il rienburg, Philippeville, Ath, Mons, and lerifi• • be dismantled. tb e The Minister of Wdr has to-day laid before de Chamber of Representatives the budget of O v a , partment for 1832, calculated on the war estalP l ment. It is 21,400,000 florins. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS• DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. o a t s . ][3e3 Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Carlisle 5B 35 22 flexham—...... 53 65 32 38 21 30 Morpeth 52 56 ,30 33 0 23 32 , 4 Penrith 63 1 34 02 Sheffield 61 ; 39 22 —7, V A , Winchester 54 60 32 40 22 24 4 "; 1 , "0 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. $. d. F. A. s. d. s. d. 5. Carmarthen—. 60 69 36 401 1 8 20 00 Coventry 70 90 48 54 36 40 5 6 Newcastle (Staff.) 90 93 64 66 34 40 53 6 Northallerton a 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 5 8 Stone--.. 8 - 9 90 65 69 36 40 76 40 Swansea -- ... 8 6 9 0 4 3 4 9 2 3 2 9 0 ° I" Warwick 9 0 10 0 4 6 50 2 2 2 6 7 a .0 Per 8011. A IJO Barnardcastle —.... 14 6 16 9 9 6 10 6 6 0 6 9 0 11 0 Durham 14 11 16 6, 90 106 56 80 96 100 Richmond 14 0 17 0 1 91) 10 0 50 7 10 v„ Stockton 14 0 15 31 9 6 10 0 5 0 7 0 0 '2„,../ WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Dec. 24 6,4 , Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufflilk -s. 555. to 5Rs. fin e 61‘. Lin. and Cam. -s. 535. to 595. fin e op -- Yorkshire -s. 565. to 595. fin e 6IY. - White -s. 595. to 6:35. fin e 60. - Foreign, Red -s. 455. to 535. fine aio White -s. -s. to -S. fin e Barley, Norfolk and Sutlblk Lincolnshire 3ss. to 30s. finf4lP - Yorkshire \Vold - Foreign -s. to -s. fin e 451. Beans, Small - Tick 395. to 40s. fine ov• Oats, Potato 24s. to 265. fin e :iiii• - Poland -s. 2'2s. to 255. fin e .2,5. 4 . - Friezland and Small -s. 20s. to 235. fin, e .,,pe• - Mealing l Id. to 12!4d. per 0 , 1 ",,J. Shelling 3is. to 365. dd. per 1, ; 0 1, Malt 358. 445. fine 465. per l i ,' it., Rapeseed CORNWALL MARKETS. , 0,, ratmo—Wheat (average) ‘22..3d.—Barley, 12s.—Oati, 'VII' ST. Ausreta.—Wheat, —s. to s.—Barley, --is. to 1.- -- os. to 9s. Od. . 50 BOOM Ix—Wheat (average) s. o,l.—Barley, I Is. 6d.- 030 " _... PENZANCE— W HELSTON—Whhea t, eat, 245. 235. to 245. .—Barley, liarley, I•2s lid —s. to 135." - ' ~ Os. to Ss. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to Od.—Pork, 31d. to 0J Butter, 13d. per lb. OP LtsKiAito--Wlieat, —s. Od. to s.—Barley, 83 • 641,-- ° 3O, to Bs. Od. occia ST. COLUMR—Wheat, 225. to 24s. —Barley, 1 1 s. to 1 2, . E And Mutton, 4d. to sd.—Veal, 4d.—Lamb. sd. __..... NINTLD AND I WILISHIM BY MUItDO YOUNG, A I Sim OF Inc, 11'2, STRAWD, LONDON. L Girl THE CO CORPC Ii.NCE hereby g be held at tl the 10th Januar Two in the Ai RECTOR of tl Anthony Ruele N.B. By an Year of hie late lon Will be pert Cot been p os . es s, Preceding, excep GENTLI clined to new ly-invented kllapterl to supi bulk, and to pre ttasity of a corn Made only ur eehei.malier Nt-paiti, duly B r Mr s . F t 4 dttenly 'ar t4 t ' riPs spa! to Ist Dec , t , 411 arounc "'ed, and c I have f. ,1 1 have tc tTs Evil. Viltg e fflca cahCholera Produce tp; " cl ,ence, of °P the r ,De Th e t‘N Colle g N lltr eyß n r • Field i: ( 1111 E xc. 24 "d Li on -urtin .ear attliff e ` t kPpi nt , . Air llll s. Bee h iPl aPe, r ' fi ge-3tr w orth kr. J. T. onel Agent , n 43 0 Ilik) /e oft 111 RTH S. On the 24th inst. at Chelsea, Mrs. Braithwaite, of a son..,d, On the 23d inst. at Twickenham-house, the lady of A. Cop , ' Jim., Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst. at Leeds, the Hon. Mrs. Dynely, of a On the 20th inst. at Weymouth, the lady of Lieut. - C o M. Brown, of a son, stillborn. MARRIED. f )1" On the 24th inst. at St. Marylebone , R. Norman, Esq., 0 . chester-square, to Caroline St. Barbe Brown. 0 11' On the "2.2 d inst. at Lymington , H ants, the Rev. S. Blict 8.D., of Cheltenham, to Anne, daughter of the late T. B e ' Esq., of the formerly place. DIED. se On the 21st inst. in Upper Seymour-street, aged:firs. tJ Meggott, formerly of Charleston, South Carolina. P ie On the 24th inst. at Bentonville, Elizabeth, relict of the J. Russell, Esq. of NValthanastow, Essex. On the 25th inst. in Upper Gower-street, J. Canceller, 41 , the 72d year of age.