The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-16 00:00:00

HAMBURG PAPERS. NORSEN HALLE, OCT. 1 i, HALF PAST 2 O'CLOCK•-- About 100 carts of new Marks Wheat have been taken for exportation this week, at 85 reis. Ottr consumers ' , ought none, but prime samples. Rye continues dull. In Rapeseed much business continues to he done in the in-erior. Linseed C dies are demanded, but there are none in the market. From the 28 , h ult. to the 4th inst., 18 cargoes of corn passed through the Sound. Seven were hound for British, six for Dutch. four for Swedish and Norwegian ports, and of one the destination was not known. Wheat, Anhalt, white red BO to 90 ------- Marks SO to 90 - Mecklenburg ---- Holstein -- Lower Elbe 6O to 73 Rye, Mecklenburgh 55 to (0 - Holstein - Petershurgh and Riga 65 to 70 Barley, Anhalt Mecklenburgh 4O to 44 - Lower Elbe 35 to 40 Oats, Mecklenburg Lower Elbe '2'2 to 26 The following is the quantity of grain imported and exported during the week : - - .... Lasts Imported. Lasts Exported, Wheat Rye 34 Barley Oats. O7 Pease 3( Beans S Rapeseed. 4 Futins.—A good deal of business was done to-day at the quotations. End of October. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 71% Anglo-Russian 9954 Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 18120 9 1 14 Ditto, ditto, 15.31 Ditto, ditto, 153:1.. Polish Bonds 119% Prussian Bonds, 18.32 Austrian Bank Shares 1907 Ditto Metalliques 93% Ditto 4 per Cent..... Spanish 3 per Cents. Ditto 4 per Cent 455 Dutch .25., per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents. 90% Hamburg . Reporter. HA NONER, OCT. '7.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has arrived here, after many months' absence, in good health, to the great joy of the inhabitants. His Royal Highness is now at the Palace of Al , nthellant. It is said that the new constitution (or fundamental law) will I), published with the collection of the laws on the 9th inst. We learn also that soon after the promulgation, directions will he issued for the election of the members of the Assembly of the Estates, in order that the new Assembly may he convoked, perhaps, in the beginning of December; for it is hardly neeessaty to observe that the old Assembly cannot he again convoked after the promulgation of the constitution. The Pr;nce of Hesse, Major-General in the Prussian service, .nd hrother to the Duchess of Cambridge, has arrived here from Berlin. STOCKHOLM, OCT. 4.—Count Von Wellorsted, Minis ter for P..reign Affairs, has returned to Stockholm• Thr Government has again assigned 50 000 dollars to defray the expenses of the quarantine establishment last year, and to provide for similar expenses this year. \VARSAW, OCT. 4.—Prince Paskewitsch, accompanied by the Adju'ants-General Prince Gorstchakow and Here, is gone to Bozese Litcuski, The troops that were dtawn together about Modlin are retiring, now that the reviews are over, to U eir usual quarters. NUREMBURG. OCT. s.—According to a ministerial script, hru knell rs are prohibited, under a penalty of 100 rix dollars, to send a ►manuscript to the press before they h see viven notice of the title to the Government, fiom which they are to receive the permi•sion to publish it. HANOVER, OCT. 9.—The Collection of the Laws con tains the following important documents :- 1. The Royal letters patent relative to the publication of the collection of the kingdom, dated Windsor Castle, Sept. 26, this year. 2. The Constitution itself, bearing the same date, as do all the following documents. 3. Royal letters patent relative to the general assembly of t► , e Estates. 4. Letters patent relative to the confirmation of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge us Representative of his Majesty, and the Viceroy of the kingdom of Hanover ; also respecting the countersigning of the Royal rescripts. 5. A proclamation dissolving the Assembly of the Estates, and convoking a new one. The patent for the publication of the Constitution con tains, in fourteen articles, the notice of some modifica tions matte by the King, in the project approved by the Estates. The reduction of the dolation of the crown is not approved, nor the resolution of the Estates respecting the employment of the army, Sac. The Hanoverian journdls positively contradict the statement of the Enelish papers, respecting an intended visit of the Duke of Cambridge to London. It appears, on the best authority, tbat no such journey is in contemplation.—hamburg Papers, Oct. 1 1. BERLIN, OCT. B.—The Baron de Charobrier, Coun sellor of Sate, the Rev. M. Guilleher, and Major Dubois, Deputies from Neufcbatel, left Berlin yesterday to return home. ST. PETERSBURG'', OcT. 2.—His Majesty the Em peror arrived at Zarskopiselo in good health, on his return home from Germany, on the 28th of September, at ten o'clock at night. His Majesty has conferred the order of St. Wladimer, of the second Class, on Vice Admiral Ricord, for his great services, especially as Commander of the Russian squadron in the Mediterranean. In consequence of the failure of the crops i❑ some of tl,e southern provinces of the empire, his Ala. jeaty, by an ukase, dated from Munchengratz, and addressed to the Senate, grants the imps.rtation corn, duty free, in the ports of the Black Sea, the sea, of Azoft, and of the Danube, as well as by land along the south-west frontier ; and has been pleased to extend this permission to all the ports of the Baltic and the White Sea, and along the frontiers of Prussia, so that, from this time till the let of January, 1835, the following species of grain, &e., shall he imported duty free :-11)e, Wheat, yellow Peas, Oats, Barley, Buckwheat, Millet, Beans of all kinds—not only in grain but as flour—and Groats, not excepting Pearl Barley and Malt. The re maining articles of the tariff on this subject to be still in force. _ _ On the 28th September, the Vere Champenoise, of 71 eons, was hunched, and the command given to Capt. Anjou. PRUSSIA/4 FUNDS—BERLIN, OCT. 8. St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent 97'4 Wu Pru•,ian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent 1033( Ditto .. .. 1q• - .2, 5 per cent.... 10334 Ditto, Bonds lB3O, 4 per cent.... 92 91 , 4 Exchange on London, three months 6 24% Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 10. VIENNA, OCT. s.—Fiv- per Cent.Metalliques. 93 7-16 ; Four per On t. ditto, 834 ; Bank Shares, 1,194 Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 10. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) (Before B. ROTCII, Esq., M.P., and a Bench of Magistrates.) Philip .Xelly was found guilty of stealing a pocket handkerchief, value 65., from the person of John H. Dowling, a solicitor, of Gloucester. It appeared that on the evening of the 6th instant, the prisoner was seen in company of another known pick pocket by the street keeper of Drury-lane, following the prosecutor. He saw the prisoner's companion take the handk.rchief and hand it to the prisoner. He went up and told the gentleman, and then seized the prisoner, from whose breast he took the handkerchief, which was identi• fled by the prosecutor. The CHAIRMAN said, that as the prisoner had before appeared at the bar, and had cuff red punishment which see med to have had no good effect, it was impossible that the Court could allow hint to remain in the country.— Sentenced to seven years' transportation. CMCES OF , T ,, CKS Tui• DAT AT ON). o'ci.orK• sank Stt CK I Per Cent. Red. —B5 c, 34 8 5% India Stock i:Per Cenr.Cons. B6N% Ditto Bonds 29 27 28 pm. !•4, per Cent. ( South Yea Stoci. Ditto Red 94 1 4 4 !Old Annuities..." - ‘jew 3' per Lent 95 14 5 ;New Ditto ........ ... .... 1 per Cent. A nn . 1720 — l3 per Cent. Ann. 175 1 .... I per Cent. 1826 Rank Long Ann. toe% Pyre I Ditto 500 45 43 pm Jan. 5, 186 , 16% 11-16 'Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859 - i Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1860 16 15-16 i Ditto Advertised lan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account — April 5, 1880 — India for Account __ Jan. 5. 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 9614 Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds ' 4 2 1 4 J Portuguese Bonds - 0 1, .'5 Ditto Account 0 0 14 j Ditto Account 7l 'razilian Bonds 6534 6 ; Reg.Scrip...l9N 19 14 54 pm. Ditto Account 6614 ; Ditto Act' 19 1 / 2 14 i /s % pm. Buenos Ayres Bonds — !Prussian Bonds —j Ditto Bonds, 182'2 Ditto Account ... 111.2 V, Chilian Bonds —Russian Bonds, 1822 Ditto Account —l Ditto Account 1 9 114 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account — Spanish Bonds, 1821 ,/, v v 4 Ditto Bonds, 18'24 ........:21 1 6 1 Ditto Ace. 2 1 104 Ditto Account llls¢ J Ditto Bonds, 1823 1954 Danish Bon 4 72 I!4 ' Ditto Account lg Ditto Account —,French Rentes, sp. c. —1 —c. Greek Bonds Exchange —f —c. _ ._,... Ditto Bonds, !8i25 --3 per cent. f —c. Ditto Account —j -- Fxchange —f —e. Mexican Bonds,s per cent. jDutch, 24 p. c 474N1i Ditto Account — , Ditto Account 47l Ditto, Rper cent '34% 1 Ditto, 5 p c...... ....... ..89.!iA Ditto Account 3s' Ditto Account 8404 Neapolitan — French Scrip 4y,,pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Alten Mining Company Xi Angio mex. min. .-0. kiss. at Si. pm ) £lOO Rolanos Mining Company £lso Brazilian Mining Company £s Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £215 Ditto National 2O Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 Cata Branca Mining Company l% British Iron Minin' Comnativ £so Columbizn Minim, Co. 'iss at 5/. pm.) 51% English Mii.ing Company 12% General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo Mexican Mining Co £4B Real del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) I nited Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm ) 40 Ditto New Sciip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company l7 General Steam Navigation Co. National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce provincial Bank of Ireland 2.5 132 4 11,4 12 13 1 4 10 4 1134 541 5 11V, £1 5 0 IN 51 13 4 1 , i%% 2% pm. 36!,, COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.f.' 12 3 Ditto, at sight ICS I Rotterdam U 12 3+ Antwerp 12 fi Hamburg 11.13 13 191 Altona l3 194 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 55 Ditto 2 U. 25 80 Bordeaux "5 85 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 1511 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 i Vienna, effective 11. 2M. 957 frieste do %lad rid 371,4 Mcliz 37 1 ,4 Rilboa 3arcelona 364i Seville 3 0% Gibraltar 47N HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nforning .. 34 minutes after 4. I Evening...ss minutes after 4. ;Irby z 4 4 vto.. 4. .• (oiler Y ESTERDA Y'S CONVICTION. 'Mr. ALLEY said he considered it was his duty, in joss tie to the unfortunate man (Palmer) who had been con victed yest er d ay , to say t h a t Sir Thomas Champneys had informed him (Mr. All-y) that be knew wahine of the man ; thatb y had b een b rou ght d o wn to the Court the prosecutor in order he to identify him, but on seeing him he had cone away, as ew e nothingabout him. It was neces s a ry that such a statement should be made, because by what fell from Mr. Adolphus last night, he bad no doubt been misinformed. The CHAIRMAN did not doubt but that Sir Thomas Champneys wa s statin g the truth wh en be made that statemen t to 3 1 r. A lle y , but the officer was th en i n Court who ha d the p risoner in custody ; he s t a t e d t h at be took him down to Kingston, where Sir J. Champneys prosecuted, and the very same man , had been sent ence d to two years' impris on ment. fie again stated that he did not doubt the impression On the worthy Baronet's mind was as stated, but an officer was much more lik,ly to have a distinct recollection of a circumstance of that na ture, which took place eight or ten years ago. That cir cumstance, however, had not influenced the Bench in the sentence they bad given. The COURT was engaged with several unimportant eases up to4be time of our reporter leaving. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINC;, OCTOBER 16, 1833. We understand that at the Court held this day at St. James's, Parliament was prorogued from Thursday, the 31st inst., to Thursday,the 12[h of December. We have just heard that in the storm of last night the Chain Pier at Brighton was blown down. We have this day to announce the very grati fying intelligence that Captain Ross and his crew are still alive and in safe.y! The gallant adventurer and his daring companions reached a whale ship in Davis' Straits, and may be daily expected in this country. We have yet little or no particulars of his perils or his for- tunes, but it may be inferred that his vessels were lost from the circumstance that he is said to have reached the Fury, and contrived by means of her boats to reach the Isabella whale ship, on board of which he now is on his return home. It is singular that we have a letter to•day from Captain BACK, who went last year in search of Captain Ross by land. If he perse vere in his arduous undertaking before news from this country reach him, Captain BACK and his companions are likely to be themselves in the predicament of those whom their chivalrous sympathy so nobly prompted them to relieve T. Since writing the above we have heard that Captain Ross has actually arrived, but we cannot vouch for its correctness. The French papers of Monday contain no news from Spain of an authentic character, but private letters assert that the Manifesto of the Queen caused universal consternation among t he liberal or Constitutional party without hav ing the effect of conciliating the Carlists. This is always the fate of half or hypocritical measures. Although Madrid preserved a gloomy silence, the funds went down 10 per cent., the 3 per Cents. having declined from 47 to 37. In the meantime the friends of Don CARLOS were busy at the work of revolution, and are said to have proclaimed him at Vittoria. Ac cording to the present accounts, M. ZEA seems to carry everything his own way. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARSi, OCT. 14. Five per Cents., 100 f. 25e. 50c. Three per Cents., 70f. 90c. 71f. National Loan, 100 f. 50e. Bank Actions, 1,700 f. Rente de Naples, 85f. 25c. Roman Five per Cents., 85. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 15. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 32. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 52z, , i. Belgian l oan, 1831, 893. Haytian Loan, 255 f. EXCUANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, 25f. 35c. Three months, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 25c. —court Authentique. We stated some time ago that the English merchants, trading with Egypt, had taken alarm at a report that there were, in the last treaty be tween Russia and Turkey, two articles which were calculated to shake the stability of the commerce between this country and Egypt. A paper of this morning gives, in a letter from Constantinople, an account of this treaty, from which it would appear that the merchants have taken alarm without cause, as relates to the letter of the treaty ; but the spirit of it is such that their apprehensions are not only justified as re gards Egypt, but also as to Turkey. The object of this treaty, on the part of the Emperor of RUSSIA, was evidently the subjugation of Egypt, in the first instance, and, secondly, the direct mastery over Turkey ; but if both cannot be accomplished, he will make either the instrument of his designs upon the other. We hear also, and we give credit to the report, that there are two secret art i c l es to the treaty still morei.outTsentosivtie interests e l totlied of herignityof merchants,thisthan country,alid inim those whi c h a published. sufficient T to oe rousepub li s h theed articles are, howev er , re ' indignation of the Cabinets of Great Britain and France, particularly that which declares that the Dardanelles shall, whenever Russia may please, be closed to the vessels of other powers. If there were no other grounds for insisting upon the annulment of the treaty than the general offensiveness of this article, that consideration alone would, we think, justify an immediate de• mand, even at the hazard of war in the event of refusal, for its revocation. When the triple treaty between Great Britain, France, and Russia, for the pacification of Greece was entered into, it was distinctly laid down by the Plenipotentiaries that neither Power should ever attempt to obtain, either as regarded Greece or Turkey, exclusive advantages over the other. This agreement was soon violated by Russia ; but when the treaty of Adrianople was concluded, Russia, not being quite prepared to defy France and Great Bri. tain, again recognized the principle. The last treaty between the Emperor NICHOLAS and the SULTAN, shows how far the principle has been respected. At the instance of Sir HENRY PARNELL, two returns were last Session ordered by the House of Commons to be made and printed, o f great interest to the financial reformer. One is a return of the quantity of certain articles which have paid duties of excise and customs for home consumption since 1828. The other is a return of the rate and net amount of the duties on articles being materials of manufactures, build. ing, shipbuilding, &c., the duties on British manufactures, the duties on articles of luxury, the principal direct taxes, the land tax, the duties on articles of food, and the taxes on capital. Under the first head is com prised about three hundred articles, yielding altogether a revenue of 4.525,0641., customs and excise duties, of which 2,925,7091. is on account of the customs, the remaining 1,599,354/. being levied upon bricks, tiles, soap, and starch, the only exciseable articles included under this head. Before entering into the next, one or two articles present themselves for remark in the long list before us. Our iron ware is one of our staple commodities, one in which it is impossible that foreigners can compete with us if we leave commerce in its natural state. Doubtless, by forcing our own population to eat dear food or perhaps, more stric ly speaking, forcing foreign manufacturers to eat cheap food, it is possible for us to raise up dangerous rivals in the iron trade just as we have in the cotton and wool trade ; but supposing us to act the wise part of raising the price of food to the foreign manu facturer, it is utterly impossible that he should ever compete with us in our iron trade. We are the great iron manufacturers of Europe, and have it in our power to continue so. One would think that one clear mode of keeping our trade was, to admit the best raw material at an easy rate of duty, wherever it might come from. What is the fact ? The duty on iron in bars or un wrought, from any British possession, is two shillings and sixpence per ton, which yields a revenue of 21 9571. The duty on iron in bars or unwrnught, from other places, is one pound ten shillings per ton, and the revenue it yields is just nothing ; in other words, the duty amounts to a profaition of good foreign iron coming into England, and an encouragement to its being carried to our rivals. Perhaps no very great quantity of foreign iron would come in under any circumstances ; but supposing that there were none, the fact only makes the enormous duty ridiculous as well as impolitic. Timber is another article on which the duties are pre- 1 posterously unequal. In some cases the dif ference between the duty levied upon Baltic, or, indeed, upon any other timber but that coming from the British possessions in America, is ten times that levied upon the last mentioned. Battens, for instance, of a certain description, comi ng from America, pay only one pound per 120, but coming from Prussia, or any where else, p l y ten pounds. Inequalities, almost equally glaring and equally injurious to the British consumer, occur in other denominations of wood, except masts and yards. In these articles the duty on Canada timber is only five times less than on that from every other part of the world. The duty on oars from America is only 19s. 6d. per 120, whilst from elsewhere it is 14/. 19s. 3d. Can we wonder at Prussia not being inclined to show our manufactures much favour, when we thus treat her raw pro duce ? Can we wonder at Baltic shipwrights building cheap vessels, when we thus force them to use cheap timber ? Were the trade in timber open, the price in the Baltic would r i se to the price in England, short only o f t h e cost of transport ; just in the same way as , when th e ' ports were constantly open (which they virtually were for many years), the price of corn at Dantzic was always within 12s. per quarter of the price in England, that being the cost of transport. Ministers endeavoured in the boroughmongering Parliament to modify this Canadian absurdity, but were defeated by a junction of the Tories, and what is called the Colonial party. As it is to be hoped that the interest of those who pay the taxes, the interest of the public of this country is in future to be consulted, and not that of Mr. GOULBURN or Mr. ROBINSON, we trust Ministers will shortly renew their at tempt to unshackle this branch of our commerce. Towards the end of the list we perceive another gratuitous absurdity nearly as great as that committed in the case of iron. There is an import duty of two pounds per ton on foreign coals. Of course it yields nothing, and, as we are exporters of coals, can have no effect whatever; but should it ever happen that a par ticular kind of coal was to be discovered abroad, twice as fit for our iron manufactures as that we ourselves possess, the duty would clearly cut our staple from under us. Were such things merely absurd, they might be passed unnoticed, but they unfortunately operate as examples abroad. In several continental states, for instance, a heavy duty is levied upon our coals, and how can w their e consistently o ln v interests la% ,r4ghat them a s acting against The excise duties on the British manufactures * As a proof of how slowly Governments, as well as people, acquire political knowledge, a curious fact may be stated with regard to this very article of coals. Some few years back a Company was formed in the Mediterranean to run a number of steam-boats between Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples, for the carriage of goods and passengers. The coals for the use of the boats had all to be brought from England, and what with freight, and what wish duty, paid on their landing at the several do pots, the price was rather heavy. The Company made representations of the advantage of the traffic, &c., in which they were engaged, to the different Governments concerned , and finally succeeded in obtaining, not a general reduction of the coal duty, but an allowance of a certain quantity of coals for themselves, on which they pay no ditty. of glass and paper amount to 1,316,5731. The Customs' duties on articles of luxury are set down at 14,059,155/. Most of the articles in this list have tolerably moderate duties on them. An exception to be regretted is in the article of currants ; but we trust that the expectation of a reduction, held out by Mr. POULETT THOM SON last session, will be fulfilled. The only other remarkable exceptions which yield a large revenue are the articles of foreign spirits and tobacco, and upon these, we must confess, we care little how high the duty is, short of offering too great an encouragement to the smuggler ; and we fear that the state of the population on our coasts sufficiently proves that at present the duty on hoth articles is too great. The duties of Excise, classed under the head of luxuries, are hops, malt, British spirits, sweets, tea, and vinegar, which yield altogether 13,819,4471. Tea, which yields 3,509,834/., will, under the new Act, come under the head of Customs. The greater part of the tea, and nearly the whole of the other articles here enumerated, are consumed by the middle and lower classes. The principal direct taxes, amounting to about 3,845,0001., are also, mostly, paid by the same part of the community. The land tax, the only one hearing directly upon our law-makers, yields 1,181,340/. The direct taxes on capital not invested in land, in the shape of legacy duty, is 1,223,008/ , of probate duty, &c., 800,451/. In this summary we have passed over the Customs' duties on articles of food. They are too important to be treated of at the fag end of an article like this, and shall, as they deserve, shortly have a separate notice. NOE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4B Genoa .5 70 Milan 91 Venice 47 Naples . 40!5 Palermo per oz. 120 y - z" Lisbon 5O Oporto 5l Rio Janeiro Bahia 3l Buenos Avres — Dublin, 21 days' sight — Cork BULLION, PER OZ. B. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 HI New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silverhars.standard 0 0 0 DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Miss ELLEN TREE made her first appearance here last night ai Letitia Hardy. in Mrs. Centlivre's gross Comedy of the Belle's Stratagem. She went through the part with retnrrkable grace, archness, and spirit, and was warmly applauded throughout. Mr. COOPER made hut an indifferent Doricourt. He is not mercurial enough fur the part His affected phrenzy was a very insipid, sober sort of thing, and made lirtle or no impre-sion. In every other respect the play was well cast and favourably received by a full house. The afrer piece of the iVood Damon was got up in very magnificent style. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's return of Grain is moderate, with a short arrival of Flour. The Wheat trade maintains Monday's quotations, but the sal, is not brisk. Barley is stiffer in sale. Beans and Pease without variation. Oats are in fair request at Monday's terms. In Flour no alteration. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. English I 2,890 qrs 2,470 qrs. 2,280 qrs. 1,960 sacks Irish Foreign 4OO THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have the gratifying intelligence this morning or the safety of Crptain Ross, after an absence of three :end a half to four years from this country, by the ship Clarendon, from Davis' Straits, which brings information that Cap tain Ro.s, of the Discovery, with his crew, were on board the Isabella, in Davis' Straits, having only lost three of his crew. No further particulars are as yet known, The French Pipers contain the will of the King of Stain. In the 19th clause, Ferdinand orders that twenty thousand masses •hall be performed for the repose of his soul. By the above papers it appears that several pro vinces in Spain are in a state of insurrection in favour of Don Carlos. It was reported at Paris, that an at tempt was made by the Carlists on Barcelona. The particulars have not arrived. At Ordiena, the second town in Biscay, the Carlists bad also sue c.-eded, under the direction of an ancient officer of the Queen's regiment; and it is further stated that the whole of Biscay had declared in favour of Don Carlos. Travellers who have arrived at Bayonne, from Madrid, state, that at Vittoria they were preparing for an insur rection. The postcript to a letter from Madrid, says that on the 4 h inst., iti the morning, placards were posted up at Madrid w favour of Doti Carlos, but the police immedi ately pulled them down. Letters from Perpignan, of the 6th inst., state that movements in favour of Don Carlos had taken place at Poyeeda and San crUrgell. Other infotmation from Bayonne, of the Sth inst., states that the whole of Biscay was in a very gloomy state, and that General Castanos had been defeated boire'boa, and part of his troops had gone over to the insurgents. Accounts from Liege of the 10th inst. state that a strong cannon .de was heard in the direction of Maestricht, which appears to confirm the report of some serious troubles having taken place in that Karr sun. The Courrier de Beige states that Marshal &mit has requested the Belglin Government not to oppose the Dutch in changing the garrison of Maestricht. A letter has been received at the North and South American Coffee•house from Buenos Ayres, of the 17th August. It relates entirely to the state of the different parties there, and ends by stating that S-nors Tule and tJ'arleche had that day accepted the office of Ministers. Trade was very dull, the communication with the interior being closed, owing to the rains. General Reres was with the army, in winter quarters—Exchange upon Eng land 64 to 6. Newfoundland papers have also been received at the above Coffee-house, to the 27th September. ST. JOHN'S. —On Saturday m:,rning arrived in the brig Ariel, after a short passage from Waterford, his Lordship, the Rev. Dr. Fleming. His Lordship was accompanied by four ladies of the order of Nuns. THE FUNDS. If we can credit the various statements in the French papers, in respect to the situation of Spain, it appears that Don Carlos's cause is greatly gaining ground, and we may soon hear of a civil war and much blood shed in that country; hut we are still in the dirk as to where Don Carlos and the French General have proceeded. The correctness of this information will be of imporance to ascertain, as it will point out to us the focus of operations as well as his great point de puis. A few days, no doubt will clear up this mystery. In respect to the affairs in Portugal, not having any fresh arrivals, we have nothing to add to the last accounts. By the express from Paris this morning, it appears that the Rentes come lower-71f. Should the insurrection in Spain make progress, we have no doubt that a French army will cross the Pyrenees. Consols, which left off yesterday 87 to opened at 86,1- to 87, for the Account, with little doing. Portuguese Scrip 191 to 20 prem. ; Spanish 21f to HALF-PAST ONE. We hear that the Queen of Spain, on the death of the King, sent a messenger to Don Carlos, acquainting him of the death of his brother, who immediately went into a great rage, saying that he was King of Spain, and desired the courier to leave his presence instantly. Consols continue steady at 87 for the Account, with little doing. Portuguese Scrip 191 1 premium; Spanish 21g. THREE O'CLOCK. Console for the Account, 87. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 14. —We note no improvement in our Cotton Market to day, the sales reaching merely 500 blgs, of which are -100 Pernams, i 1 14 I. a ICI I. ; 50 Maranhams, 11/1-I. a d. s per ,lO b d i. 8 ; d 50 . a b,OOO 1B bads .to 10! t d. ; 300 Bowed s , O r l eans , aboutlmports y es t er d ay an d to-day or more. ati The Inverness Courier says that the depth of Loch Ness, in the centre, is from 106 to 1!.5 fathoms, which is deeper than any part of the sea betwixt this and Norway. Its extreme depth has invested the loch with a peculiarity often noticed —it never freezes. A lady looking at some stockings in a dry good store inquired of the clerk, who was a raw lad, how high they came ? The clerk very seriously answered, " I never tried them on, but believe they will reach above the knee." The lode of copper lately discovered at Ta vistock still continues to afford every prospect of success in working. Being in the neighbourhood of the canal it belongs to the canal proprietors, and it is expected a shaft will soon be sunk and working commenced. LITERATURE. STANDARD NOVELS. No. 32. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. LoNnoN, 1833. We are not at all surprised that this romance has created an extraordinary sensation in Paris. It is admirably adapted to the taste of a feverish, imaginative, unsettled period, when the minds of even the soberest readers must be, more or less, in a state of considerable excitement. Victor Hugo is as much the creature of his age as the Elizabethan dramatists, or the wits of Queen Anne's time, were of theirs. He represents the fiery, headstrong, impassioned mind of young France, full of various promise, but possessing far more fancy than judgment, and feeling than reflection. In the style of his genius—as ex hibited in the singular tale before us—Vic tor Hugo hears no slight resemblance to the late gifted Maturin. Both riot to excess in a prodigal imagination ; both are prone to " tress pass on the verge of all we hate ;" both are ever in extremes, holding a chastised and equable judgment at arm's length, as if it were the bit terest foe to their genius ; yet both half redeem their errors by the stirring appeal they make to our common sympathies. If we were asked what was the predominant characteristic of Victor Hugo's writings—we know nothing of his dramatic efforts—we should at once reply—tenderness. This is more conspicuous than even his wonder working imagination. It throws a redeeming grace over the wildest extravagances of " Notre- Dame sheds a hallowed, softened lustre ove r its gloomiest and most offensive scenes ; recon ciles its inconsistencies ; imparts form and mean ing to its most vague idealities ; and brings its most unnatural characters within the common pale of humanity. This is the true province— the unerring test of imagination ; not to glitter in words and specious images, which appeal only to the eye or the ear ; but to arrest the attention, to feed the thought, to take prisoner the heart, and drag it, a helpless captive, at its triumphant chariot wheels. In the hands of an inferior artist, the two characters of La Es meralda and Quasimodo the Hunchback, would have been mere revolting impossibilities, calcu lated only to create disgust. But a powerful genius has presided over their creation, and care fully watched, and bid his readers, too, watch, comprehend, and sympathize with, their every thought and movement. Both are the creations of a poet—the dreams of a young enthusiast, whose range ofimagination is unbounded. Nothing can exceed the striking, poetic style in which these two characters are introduced to our notice. We see Quasimodo—the fierce, uncouth, one eyed, hunchbacked dwarf, a miracle of ugliness, and driven out with scorn from that world of which he feels he can never form a part—placed amid the congenial monsters—the sculptured abbots—the dragons and giants of the old cathedral of Notre-Dame, to whom his whole soul is taught to yearn in fondness, because they " never laugh in his face," and because he feel s the necessity of loving something. The bells of the tower in like manner are his best friends ; their music compensates him for the loss of man's speech, and melt, purify, and enlarge a mind that else were " duller than the fat weed that rots on Lethe's wharf." The cathedral and its only tenant, the Hunchback, are so mixed up in the reader's mind, that it is im possible to dissociate them. The cold, dim, spectral aisles of the one, sacred to stillness and melancholy, seem to be the legitimate abodes of such an unsocial spirit as the other. They are like mother and son, so thoroughly has the genius of Victor Hugo endowed both with life. Indeed every thing lives in his pages. His imagination has a principle of vitality about it, which Wordsworth only—though in his hands this rare faculty assumes a different form—can equal. Mark in the subjoined passage the un hesitating audacity with which he draws on the reader's fancy ! He bids you see, as well as hear, the cathedral harmonies of Paris ; and treads on the very verge of the precipice cf ab surdity, without once overshooting it. The description is fuller of life and splendour and power than anything modern literature And if you would receive from the ancient city an impression which he modern cannot produce, iisc , •nd the morning of some hi4h fes , ival, at sun-rise on Easter or Whitsunday, to some elevated point from which you may overlook the wh..le capital, and listen to the awaking of the bells. Behold at a signal proceeding from heaven, for 'tis the Sun himself that gives it, those thousand churches trembling all at once. At first solitary twinkles pass from church to church, as when musicians give no tice that they are going to begin. Then see, for at cer tain times the ear too seems to be indued with sight—see how, all of a sudden, at the same moment, there rises from each steeple as it were a column of sound, a cloud of harmony. At first the vibra'ion of each bell rises straight, pure, and in a manner separate from that of the others, into the splendid morning sky ; then swelling by degrees, they blend, melt, amalgamate into a magnificent concert. It is now but one m ass of sonorous vibrations, issuing incessantly from the innumerable steeples, which float., undulates, bounds, whirls over the city, and ex pands far beyond the horizon the deafening circle of its oscillations. That sea of harmony, however, is not a chaos. Vast and deep as it is, it has not lost its trans parency .. you see in it each group of notes that has flown from the belfries, winding along apart ; you may follow the dialogue, by turns low and shrill ; you may see the octaves skipping from steeple to steeple ; you watch them springing light, winged, sonorous, from the silver bell, dropping dull, faint, and feeble, from the wooden; you admire the rich gamut inces sant ly running up and dawn the seven bells of St. Eustacht ; you see clear and rapid notes dart about in all directions, make three or four luminous zigzags, and vanish like lightning. Down yonder, the abbey of St. Martin sends forth its harsh, sharp tones ; here the Bas tille raises its sinister and husky voice ; at the other ex tremity it is the great tower of the Louvre, with its counter-tenor. The royal chimes of the palace throw out incessantly on all sides resplendent trills, upon which falls, at measured intervals, the heavy toll from the belfry of Notre-Dame, which makes them sparkle like the anvil under the hammer. From time to time you see tones of all shapes, proceeding from the triple peal of St Germain des Prea passing before you. Then, again, at intervals, this mass of sublime sounds opens and makes way for the strette of the Ave Maria, which glistens like an aigrette of stars. Beneath, in the deepest part of the concert, you distinguish confusedly the singing within the churches, which transpires through the vibrating pores of their vaults. Verily this is an opera which is well worth lis tening to. In an ordinary way, the noise issuing from Paris in the daytime is the talking of the city; at night it is the breathiug of the city ; in this case it is the singing of the city. Lend your ear, then, to this trati of steeples the in beings, the eter na l murmur o f th e r distant quartet of the four forests placed like immense si r itonp ofle s human diffusefim nainte million over the whol e t h e b uzz o f h a lf a piping of the w i n d, t h e grave a nd organs on the four hilt of the horizon ; soften down, a. with a demi-tint, all that is too shrill and too harsh in the central mass of Bound...and say if you know auy thing in the world more rich, more gladdening, n i !i dazzling, than that tumult of bells ; thin that f u re6c` 3!: music ; than those ten thousand brazen tones breathe d , at once front floret of stone three hundred feet hig h ; that city which is but one orchestra; than that tymP'' rushing and roarin g like a tempest." Ihe character o f L a E smera ld a s t a nds 00t ft - 011 fine contrast to th a t o f Q uas i mo d o . She i s grace, gentleness, and purity—a lovely ide slis l „l yet rescued f rom th e i ns i p idi ty o f most characters, by her profound, feminine senei billt) l; Though reared in th e l a p o f i n di genc e, t hcnid f o companioned amon g th e p ro fli gates an d otit cs ' ia of society, she yet wanders abroad, like O' f s ber the forest of li ons , sa f e i n t h e armou r °I he innocence and s i m pl icit y. Y et , b eaut iful 0 9 I p character is, it is not without its draw-baci` s ' ai d is made to sh oo t u p on a so il t h at neve r C °.- ut have nurtured such a plant. It over-taxe s ° credulity. Sooner could a lily blossom °n o duig-heap, than a La Esmeralda thrive amo n g or e dregs and offal of society. Wh en ShaksP% 3 created his Miranda, he created also for he . 00 enchanted island—surrounded her with 6° o l' localities ; he would never have dresi pl te making her a tenant of Wapping. Yet it'; ei l such a sort of place that Victor Hugo has 0 his Esmeralda, an d com p e ll e d us to beliesl.oo even there, though daily familiarized to the degrading associations, she could be as trstlq innocent, and spi r it ua l, as a U na or a 101°,l'olt 'Phis inconsistency is the result of a mindir yet matured—not yet in possession of its unclouded energies. Victor Hugo's falleY s l l i indeed, as far removed f rom i ts full gr°l'.; as was Schiller's, wh en h e " w i tc hed , world" with his striking drama of the " 11° 4 hers." The t a re s s p r i ng u p toget h er witb , 1 wheat, in the e xp a n s i ve fi e ld s o f hi s inte l ' e :p Thus the same mind that created a Quasi l9 sl ; and La Esmeralda, has in the very sole created also a Claude F ro ll o — one o f Os l o . , garest, grossest, a nd mos t un i mag i nat i ve o f ch ef tern, without the slightest pretensions to orig l ice , lity—though p or t ra y e d w i t h out pro di g i o us lO re t i —being a sort of cros:s between Shakseo Lord Angelo and L ew i s ' s mon k A m b ro sio. ' lll presence of this disgusting personage perPe t ` l o mars the beauty and harmony of the scene' ta e comes like a chillin g c l ou d across t h e sto is ", e s of a summer day—is as i m p ert i nent an intr ils. o t as the wanton Chloe in Fletcher's () the,' perfect pastoral of the " Faithful Shepher ds 5 ;, Yet he is evidently a f avour it e w i t h t he out b wh o gloats over the ch ratter, and ct - ats'S i 1 0,4 full length, nervously solicitous that tl° t ik d single trait of grossness s h ou ld escape him' 0, yet this man w as th e creator of ESnler3ol and drew forth the gentlest beauties of s e ) merit from the bosom of even a Quasi° i befol r i tord e Kara !Peet / It 'lt 1 tine with , Tb th e pi Tl: e . 4glinat Such are the inconsistencies of genius., r We have said nothing of Victor Hugos o , soriptions of the o ld b u ildi ngs o f Paris. ',el are as full of subli m ity an d as full-info r io l with sentime n t as th e most i mpres sive of Mo rt ep architectural creations. His " Notre -agil e ' , A C$ particular, is a master-piece. The .4 thedral, with its dim spires and shadowy 81 S 00 stands frowningly out, like some huge gio t t ' ol o the canvass, striking upon our s e n ses t h a t 04 1 0 awe, which Congreve has so well described° s j e " Mourning Bride," and w hi c h D yer has us kel, in his " Ruins of Rome." In P as° s l of the purest and gentlest sensibility , 01 " Hunchback," as we said before, abouildg profusion. The epi , ode of the mother , ~0 6 even in her wildest d e li r i ums , k e pt the little :Po; of her lost daught er f or ever i n her b" 5 her phrenzy, which was suddenly cured bj lic r low, faint wail of an infant, which rernind e prig of the crie s o f h er own , un h ear d f or fifteen years ; the holy, undying affection that alo s A i e ser entertained for the only female who l' P b to addressed to him a wor d o f gent l ene ss ;" - ' 3 l / and a thousand s i m il ar p assages w hich 'l e 0 1. no space to enumerate, more than red o ": wildest extravag a n ces o f th e ta l e . Asa 11 5 ` 0 0 1° men of anothtr styl e o f exce ll enc e, we 0 110' point to the description of Claude ;;., headlong f a ll f rom th e t owers o f Notre of which for graphic energy and minuie lie flo b l detail, may vie with that thrilling one 11 1 30 1 6) Roy, wher e th e e x c i seman M or ris is bi into the depths of Lochlotnond. We el c % o o6 e observing that the Hunchback bids fair t i e% # a deep impression on th e publi c mind. its t o travagances will stimulate the vitiated aPP et so ollf the mere roman ce reader; w hil e it s bright'l,oo gleams of l ove an d b eau ty, i ts gus h es o f 5e1 15 , 1 t ciP its learned lore, and, here and there, its P le oe d insight into ch a r ac t er , w ill ma k e sure a nd 4 way with the select few. Joii; me te ,. t 4tn i th, Th e tilty SHIPPING INTE LLIGENCE—(THI— g DA FROM LLOYD'S. 1.111 freoP'o ' DEAL, OCT. 15.—Wind W.S.W. to W., — 4 ,0 4 01 11 squalls.—Arrived the Excellent, late Stepbeo9• tee' duras; Cecilia, Walker, from Oporto; and Ho n Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 15.—A heavy gale fron"11004 —Arrived his Majesty's ship Cordelia, froto Sailed the Soho steamer, for London. PLYMOUTH, OCT 14.—Wind W.S.W., fre ~ bl o4 rived the Adventure, Mill e r, from Memel. .„ 1 d i t FALMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wi n d S.W. to fOr breezes and squally.—Arrived off port the 11' 4 ;00 1 from Lisbon. Put back his Majesty's ship SP fr eo l Oporto and Lisbon, with mails. 01 ;Ili TORBAY, OCT. 14. —Arrived the Racer, IC A Buenos Ayres. be ° PADSTOW, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Ells QuLivebec. EurooL, Ocr. 14.—Arrived the 164 0 (,Y"; Carr, from Bombay ; Harriet, Mitchinson, frn o for l t ham ; Arethusa, from Barbadoes; Sir J. 1 3 e re yittl e V lin, from Montreal ; Jordison, Jordison, Irto nr ia, i Scipio, Grind ray, from Quebec; George Cann volpti; nell, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ;000°,04° Randall, and Ann Porter, Tobacco, from New CVO.: Emma, James, from Malaga; John, Rinord, frn7che ro m and Isabella, Decamp, from St. Petersburg b ,: th /04)o4; scalles, Fisher, from Bengal, sailed the 6 "To tam, by a piratical schooner in lat. 13. .1 . , a ioll‘o lle o 26. 20. W., mounting two 12-pounder s anu io,P;obe with about 50 or 60 men, apparently S p a s ight , taking nearly all the fresh stock a sail ho ve in s fo ' they hauled off. , e ARRIVAL OF CAPTAIN ROSS 1.1.' ibr STRAITS. 1 4.:/ . 41, has just j l u e s t t te p r a f: s •o e m d t te o i u t g li, h tredito;:i'is,;;;acitobry, it bi ugence of the safety of Captain Ross an d his 001.4 2 C 4 l . a o Erel t n t t i r. n ia( s icat o tl f ar oil, acid bringing the very d o i ire on board the Isabella, of Hull, andeticlarendea,/ id eked for daily. Captain Lyall, 01.6 cant sio °' loo l.ll been on shore yet; but we learn that d ti r o her i r .ivorhtiticnhahteelyhafdallpernocin ; eed i t t i ,ot to the wreck of the Fury, and o iitte w hale g b hinthseeaLcshbet'h' ,tt1 6 : 41 fla t t t i Ik tl i r l o P / o (4it 41 ' 4 11.4 Re 6