The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We shall look with considerable impatience for the next intelligence from Spain. That un happy country (as we formerly intimated) can scarcely be expected to settle down into tran quillity without a struggle of parties and dynas ties, but it seems to us most probable that there will be no immediate movement in favour of Don Carlos—no insurrection —no revolt—no civil war—though the French Carlist papers assure us that the apostolical vassals of his Royal Highness are prepared in every province to pro claim his accession. The title of the young Queen, on the other hand, has already been pro claimed, and a large body of the nobility and clergy have sworn to maintain her rights. The Regency acting in her name is in possession of the Treasury—is placed in the seat of dominion —is served by a well-organized Administration, which has for a year been obeyed, while the King was incapable of holding the reins of power in his own hands—has a numerous army at its command—and is supported by the most active and enlightened portion of the people. These are immense advantages, even though the principles of the Regency, and the rights of the Infant Queen, had been more equivocal or disputable than any apostolical logic can prove them to be. When we add to these advantages the instant recognition and cordial encouragement of the two most enlightened and most powerful nations on the face of the earth, we shall bring such a mass of re sources, and of influence in favour of the new dynasty, that all the hosts of rebel fanaticism can scarcely be expected to shake it. Let us turn the medal, and we everywhere see disor- ganization, want of leaders, want of arms, wan of resources, and want of unity. Don Carlos is in Portugal, and cannot even correspond with his partisans except through the authorities of his rival. Calomarde, who with other official conspirators last year, when they believed Ferdi nand in his dying agonies, or rather dead, had traitorously prepared to rob his daughter of her crown, and to place it on the brow of her uncle, has been banished to France, where he still resides, while his accomplices are in different fortresses, or at large under strict surveillance. The faction of Don Carlos in the monasteries, in the convents, in the chapters, among the Bishops and the secular clergy, though powerful to aid a military force, or to maintain by their contributions a war already commenced, cannot alone erect the standard of revolt over the cru cifix. We know how feeble they appeared in the Army of the Faith, and with what facility Mina swept their grotesque cohorts from the Spanish soil into the neighbouring departments of France in 1822. At that time it was known that Ferdinand was hostile to the constitution which he had sworn to maintain—that he had dis patched messengers to all the Holy Alliance Courts to preach a crusade against the Cortes for the rescue of royalty,—that at Verona the conspiracy of crowned heads against the popular rights of Spain had been consummated,—and that 100,000 French troops were to pour down at the approach of spring from the Pyrenees on the ill-starred defenders of the new order of things in the Pe ninsula ; and yet nothing effectual was done by the priests, no success was gained against the cause of Spanish freedom, till the French actually passed the Bidassoa, and in their triumphant march dispersed the inferior military force of the patriots. Here was treachery in the chief of the Government against the cause of his people— here were a clergy more fanatically adverse to existing and projected reforms, because more alarmed for their effect on their own interests, than at present, when conservative doctrines are proclaimed in the first accents of the new Re gency,—here were parties even with arms in their hands, with chiefs accustomed to lead them, with foreign encouragement, with a military chest supplied from abroad, and with a sure asylum in a neighbouring country on the contingency of a defeat, and yet no progress was made in the anti-revolutionary cause till the white flag of France waved on Spanish ground. In the present crisis, it is plain that circumstances are not so favourable to the success of Don Carlos as they were then to the success of his treacherous brother. The Apostolicals are not menaced with such ruin, nor are they supported by such aid. France is now entirely changed in her political attitude towards the Peninsula, and though the Russian, Austrian, and Prussian Ministers may dislike the principles of the new Regency as much as those of the Cortes, yet neither they nor their Sovereigns can give direct encouragement to the rebellion of Don Carlos. The new Government should, however, learn that it can only maintain the disputed title of a minor and a female against the claims of a prince of mature age, whose rights to the throne were never doubted till within the last three years ; who was only cons'dered as running his life against his elder brother, and not against that of two infant nieces, and who has since tried to gain by popular flattery what he lost by a Court decree—that it can only maintain, we say, such a title by interesting the great body of the nation in favour of the new reign by popular reforms and liberal alliances. It should immediately re solve to march with the spirit of the age—to make common cause with the popular party in Portugal, and to court a more intimate con nexion with France and England. One other important act it might perform, without in curring any loss, and even with the contingency of considerable profit. For ten years past Spain has not had a corporal's guard in the whole of her former American colonies. These colonies have sprung up into independent states, recog nized as such by all Europe, with the exception of their ancient Spanish masters. No idea of a re-conquest could now enter the brain of anybody but a maniac. Let the new Regency and the new reign, then, be signalized by a dis play of justice and generosity, which will at once raise the character of the Spanish Government, and procure it grateful allies, having congenial sentiments, instead of bitter enemies, with old rancours, on the west of the Atlantic. Though a rec ognition could cost nothing to the young Queen, because it takes away from her, it would be of considerable benefit to the internal quiet o f the new states, one faction of which some times persecutes ano ther, under the v a i n p retext of punishing or eradicating prejudices in favour of the mother country and of colonial bondage. But Spain would herself be the greatest gainer by the too-long delayed recognitio.n. She would e open new markets to her increasing trade,—sh would present a wider range for the enterprise of her impoverished citizens,—and she would acquire an additional title to the confidence and the friendship of England, which only took the lead in acknowledging the new independent re- publics of Spanish America, after offering her :he honour and the advantage of the first move.— Times. We call the attention of our readers to a communication from a correspondent, in another column, on the subject of our crown colonies. This is a question of more importance to the people of this country than is generally ima gined. That the colonies can only protect themselves from ahrises by means of local assem blies, will hardly be doubted in the present day. It is quite impossible that functionaries in remote quarters of the globe should ever be kept in check by the authorities here. It is remarked by the great historian of British India, Mr. Mill, that the trial of Warren Hastings made it evi dent that whatever the conduct of a functionary in any of our colonies, he might count upon impunity wtth the utmost confidence here. But the people of our colonies are not the only sufferers by the abuse of power in them. It must always be borne in mind that in proportion to the mis-government is the expense entailed on the people of England. A host of rapacious functionaries provided for in the colonies, and carrying with them from this country all the extravagance of London fashionable life, create, of course, discontent ; but this discontent is not alone felt by the colonies—the people of England must now pay large sums to coerce the disaffected. Thus the evil acts and re-acts. Our colonies are in fact kept up for the ' sake of the abuses—for the sake of furnishing incomes for the connections and toad-eaters of the nobility, who cannot be disposed of at home The greater the abuse in the colonies, the heavier the expense to England ; and the heavier the expense to England, the greater the abuse in the colonies ; for the two are identical. There must be a power to correct the evil on the spot, otherwise it will go on augmenting. Rapacity is the never-failing ac companiment of British rule. The moment we obtain a colony from the Dutch, Spaniards, or French, salaries are decupled, and fees are in creased in the same proportion. This is a monstrous evil, and can only be controlled by giving to the influential men of the different colonies a control over their local expenditure. We have no hesitation in saying, that we should look on a determination to withhold charters from the colonies as a determination to mis govern. But we will not presume so ill of Ministers as to suppose that they would in the colonies belie those principles to which they have given effect at home. " We have lately had occasion to call the attention of our readers to an article which appeared in our columns of the sth uh., on the question of giving charters to the Crown Colonies, now that the great point of Em incipa• lion 11.. s been carried. We thought then, with the writer of this article, that the time was come for this boon on the part of the conqueror. " It would, perhaps, be invidious to make any selec tion or distinction in this respect—those Colonies who had possessed something like an independent Constitution, or House of Assembly, under the present Government, so as to regulate the revenue and expenditure, would most probably be satisfied with the restitution of tho.e powers founded upon the ancient principles, but accommodated to pre,tent circumstances. Indeed, we do not see how Government could safely go further. We would not be understood to mean that there was absolute danger in conceding more. While the question of slavery or non-slavery was pending, great excitement naturally prevailed, and must have been most loudly expressed where there was the greatest freedom ; therefore the chartered colonies naturally took the lead. That perturbed spirit, it is to be hoped, is now at lest, and the opposition has evaporated harmlessly through the safety valve of their Constituent Assemblies. " We shall return to this subject soon, but we are glad to perceive, from the late communications from the Mau ritius, that there was no foundation for the reports which gave rise to the Governor's proclamation, respecting the secret depots of arms in that colony, though we do not blame his precaution. " Indeed all our accounts from the Crown colonies in general lead us to believe that they will, by their conduct in the great change now to be made in their social relations and institutions, under the authority of Parliament, show that they are worthy to be intrusted with their own inter nal regulations and economy in some simple form of local legislation."—Morning Chronicle. There are those, we are aware, who would persuade us that the contest which has been going on in Portugal is one which need but little interest the people of this or of other countries. Such persons must, however, be very shallow reasoners, and still shallower observers of the signs of the times. If the contest were merely one between the two brothers, Pedro and Miguel as to which should hold the crown upon the same terms, then, indeed the issue might be one of' little, if any, interest to the rest of Europe ; but, connected as it is on the one side with the cause of universal despotism, and on the other side with the existence of free in stitutions in countries which have, and which have not hitherto enjoyed them, the success of the Queen's cause, and the expulsion of Miguel from the seat of his usurped authority, is an affair which must come home to the hearts and wishes of all those who inhabit that cradle of freedom, which Great Britain happily still is, except, in deed, that small part of the British people, who, with motives and with notions which it is diffi cult to fathom or to reconcile with any principles of right feeling or common sense, profess to see in the march of freedom a degree of dangcr which unhappily that of despotism does not pre sent to their view. The evident union of ob jects which exists between the great Nor thern Powers of Europe, the Carlists of France and Spain, and a small party in this country to whom we have alluded, leaves no doubt on which side in the Portuguese contest the friends of freedom must range themselves ; or if any doubt could exist, the very fact that Bourmont and La Rochejacquelin are to be found in the ranks of the Portuguese despot, would furnish undeniable evidence that on the soil of Portugal, at this moment, the liberties or the chains of great part of the civilized world are contending for. Nor can it be other than a mortifying reflection to every Englishman that, in this conspiracy against public freedom, some names are to be unquestionably found enrolled, which, to be found in such an association, carries with it a degrading mortification, which every honest mind would be happy to escape from. In private life it is said, with truth, that every man's honour is in his own keeping—in public life, there are men whose character and whose honour belong to their country, and whose reputation cannot be tarnished without that country, and the very page of history, partaking of the stain. We are not so ena moured of Whig Government, as to wish to see its reign perpetual. We would much rather see an extinction of all parties, or rather au amalgamation of them for the public Eo t u o d a • hßatil almost i ( f )syt t o ll w eepr unparalleled,ar ty t a r i careerved to ofd drop p the reins of per petual exclusion from would confirm their offic(e)i. doing could not tsothan by take more effectual means siding with the cause of despotilin or wherever else it is to be found. The Portugal, i d scribable infatuation of this is such, ' that n it e i: necessary to live in the times in which the scenes are acting to give credence to the mortifying fact that the one great name which has, by its unex ampled prowess, laid prostrate the most gigantic despotism which the later ages of the world have ever witnessed, would assist in establishing another, the success of which, were it possible, would crush the very germs of liberty wherever they exist, and bring back again to benighted Europe a long age of darkness. Such, then, being the issue at stake, it is in vain to tell us that any feature of such a contest can be for a moment a matter of indifference to the people of any part of Europe, least of all to any portion of the British nation. The success of Miguel in Portugal would, it is clear, be the triumph of the enemies of freedom every where, as his defeat will, we trust, prove the overthrow of the hopes and expectations of those whose insane and unnatural object it appears to be that the world should retrograde and not advance ; and whose mad ambition it is to throw back man kind into that state of mental and corporeal vas salage which it has been the work of ages to rescue them from.—Morning Herald. We fully expected that the Ministerial jour nalist who could so far sport with the feelings of the public as sneeringly to say on Monday evening that " we had become extremely scep tical on the subject of Bourmont, but that he had no objection to anybody's spinning hypo thetical cobwebs," would last night have consi dered himself bound to produce same confirma tion of the several facts which he had asserted, viz., Bourmont's secession, and his departure, as well as that of the Infante Don Carlos, for Spain, and also the proclamation of the latter in Toledo. These four facts the Globe asserted on Monday evening, and there are accounts in town from Madrid to the 29th ult. at night. Now we ask him, has he or any one else in London received a confirmation of any one of the abcve four assertions ? We have made careful inquiries at both ends of the town, and know of a few letters from Madrid, of the late date above mentioned, and yet not one of them even hints either at Bourmont's withdrawal from the King of Portugal's service, or any movement on the part of the Spanish Infante. Under date of the 24th, and in some of the Lisbon letters brought by the African, mention is, we have before acknowledged, made of Bour mont's withdrawal ; and other letters, equally entitled to credit, add that the origin of the re port was British, meaning that it arose out of a certain intercourse which some British naval officers had with the Miguelites, and this cir cumstance is also repeated in letters written on board of one of the British ships of war ; but if this story rests merely on an on dit, or on the fact of the Count de San Lourenqo having opened a letter addressed to Marshal Bourmont, which letter, it was well known, related to the embarkation of certain wounded French officers in a British packet, we very strongly suspect that those who first spread the report in Lisbon have been hoaxed. The communications in question with the British officers took place at Sacavem, about five miles above Lisbon, whither the for mer went in their boats. Bourmont, from the 12th, had fixed himself at Campo Grande, where he attended to nothing but the organiza tion and exercising of the troops ; and Campo Grande is not more than three miles from Lis bon, a little inland, and not on the water's edge. Lumiar, where the King had his quarters, is a mile nearer to Sacavem, and the Count de San Louren'o, the War Minister, was conse quently with him ; and to them it is therefore pre sumable that any correspondence from Lord W. Russell or Admiral Parker would be re ferred and more quickly answered. As to the assertion of the Infante Don Carlos' departure for Spain, it rests on authority equally slender. Abrantes, where his Royal Highness has been for some time past, is twenty-two and a half long leagues from Lisbon. By what privileged con veyance, then, could our contemporary know any such circumstance ? As to the Infante s Pro clamation in Toledo being known in London on Monday the idea in itself is ridiculous, unless the ceremony took place before his brother's de mise. Toledo is twelve and a half leagues south of Madrid, and it would take some time for the news of the King's death to get thither and back, independent of the preparations for the ceremony. Toledo is supposed to be favourable to the claims of the Infante Don Carlos, and on this account that ancient city was, perhaps, men tioned ; but does our contemporary suppose that the Spanish Government, better informed upon these points than he or his monitors can be in London, had not taken their precautions on that particular spot ? We think that when our con temporary comes to reflect a little, and consults his geography, he will see that it is he who has been spinning hypothetical cobwebs rather than ourselves. We are not unmindful, we repeat, that the circumstance of Bourmont's with drawal is mentioned in English letters of great weight and authority, which makes us, in the absence of details, the more cautious in giving a positive denial to the fact ; but the authorities alluded to are not infallible. We have openly stated our reasons why we disbelieved the as sertion, and argued the point in the face of nearly the whole of the London Press, and we now assert that the grounds of our disbelief are materially strengthened by the silence of Madrid letters of the 27th, 28th, and 29th on so im portant a point as the withdrawal of the French officers. The Courier, however, outstrips the Globe. Our zealous contemporary last evening ' expresses himself thus :—" We have to day heard, on good authority, one fact which we did not previously know, confirmatory of part of the news brought by the African steamer. When the African called off Villa Franca several French officers who had left Don Miguel's army made applications for a passage on board that vessel to England. The applications were refused." So far our contemporary ; but where, in the name of heaven ! does he imagine Villa Franca is situated, when the African could call off there on her way to England ? Villa Franca, our con temporary will find, if lie turns to his map, stands on the Tagus, six leagues above Lisbon ; and was that the route which the African took on her way to Falmouth ? The idea is as ori ginal as that of a French man of war ascending the Tagus with a view to bombard Elvas ! Really if poor Bourmont's secession is to rest on such flimsy grounds as those adduced by either the Globe or the Courier, his friends and ishers may be p er f ect l y at ease. A s to the fact mentioned by the Courier, in the para graph above quoted, we are enabled to set him right from information of rather a more positive kind than any we have relating to the French officers, subsequent to the 20th. A passage in a British packet was never refused to any of them, sick or wounded, who appli e d. Quite the re verse. In the action of the sth two or three French officers were wounded, and there might be a few others who had suffered fiom the climate, and found it necessary to come to England or France for medical aid. On their behalf Bourmont applied direct to Ad- miral Parker, and we have every reason to believe that in the most handsome man- ner the latter arranged the matter with the Pedroite authorities. The Captain of the packet in such a case, therefore, would scarcely make an objection. We do know that on the strength of the arrangement so made one wounded French officer proceeded direct to Lisbon. At the lines he was met by two Pedroite officers, and by them politely and considerately conducted to the Caes de Sodre, or Black Horse-square Stairs, where he was put into a boat and went on board of either an English or French vessel, and, if he did not come in the packet, it was not because the Captain refused to receive him. He did not take boat at either Sacavem or Villa Franca. If we mistake not, the negotiations (exclusively English) which took place respecting the embarka tion of a few sick or wounded French officers, gave rise to the whole story of Bourmont's seces sion, in like manner as the overtures or advice conveyed by Colonel Hare to the Royalists led to the report that the latter had offered terms to the holders of Lisbon. This matter, however, will soon be cleared up by the arrival of another packet ; but, in the meanwhile, we most sin cerely hope that the Royalists will not be so squeamish as they have hitherto been. They now know the views of their enemies in their fullest extent. They have had specimens of their delicacy. Why, then, not lay before the world Colonel Hare's overtures, Capt. Napier's correspondence, and the negotiations regarding the embarkation of a few wounded and sick French officers ? These papers would make pretty pendants to the " intercepted letters," of which we have heard and seen so much. Capt. Napier's letters would, perhaps, be the brightest gems in the whole collection, if what we have heard of them is true ; therefore it would be well to produce them.—Morning Post. We give insertion, in another part of this day's paper, to two letters on the subject of the associations which are now forming, or in the progress of formation, to resist the direct pay ment of the assessed taxes—or rather upon an article of ours upon the subject some time ago. The one comes from Mr. Savage—the other from a well-known and valued correspon dent. Both are criminatory of the opinions which we have expressed on the subject ; but both also, we think, have totally mistaken their spirit and object. That spirit was that it was more just, proper, and agreeable to the Consti tution of the country to obtain the repeal of the obnoxious assessed taxes by legal and consti tutional proceedings, in due time and at a proper season, than to resist their payment when their levy had been authorised by the constitutional authorities of the country, and there existed no ground to hope that their immediate repeal could be effected—and not assuredly, as appears to have been imagined by our correspondents, that we deemed associations for obtaining their repeal to be either illegal or improper, or un called-for. Associations of all kinds, whatever may be their objects, are, in every case, a species of ultima ratio, to which recourse is only had by reasonable people when all other means of ob taining redress have failed—they are only to be encouraged, and patronized, and supported, when there exists such constitutional ground for their formation ; for what, in fact, are all associa tions, having for their object the promotion of arrangements in opposition to the views of the Legislature and of the executive, but a sort of imperium in imperio—an under species of go vernment, which would control the proceedings of that to which the powers of the state have been delegated. Now we are prepared to contend that although it may be, and is, perfectly lawful, and Just, and proper, on the part of the people, to obtain the repeal of the assessed or of any other taxes that may be obnoxious to them, either by petitions or by associations—and that when these have utterly failed, they may, with equal justice and propriety, resist their payment—yet that no case has been made out to justify, in our opinion, the adoption of the ultima ratio — the refusal to pay the taxes. A portion of these taxes is, unquestionably, most oppressive and most injurious; and another portion is most unequally levied ; but we put it again to both our correspondents, whether the appeals hitherto made to the Government and the Legislature have been so frequent, so numerous, and so utterly hopeless as to the result, as to justify the adoption of resolutions, whose object is disobedience to the laws of the country—whose example is pregnant with danger—and whose fruits may be employed for the vilest purposes ? Let the repeal of the taxes be obtained, if they be obnoxious, and let associations be formed for that purpose, if it seem meet to those who pay them, for there is nothing in such conduct which is not strictly constitutional ; but the determination not to pay taxes which have been so long submitted to with comparatively little murmuring whose collection has been sanctioned by the Legisla ture, and whose repeal cannot be obtained until Parliament has again assembled for thedespatch of business, is a very different thing, and does not, by any means, appear to us to be war ranted by the circumstances of the case. What is there in the character of the pre sent Government to induce us to despair of obtaining the repeal of these taxes ? Nothing that we are aware of. It may not have marched to the redress of grievances and the abolition of unjust taxes, with all the alacrity and rapidity which could have been desired ; but, on the other hand, have not all its measures in both respects had the good and the relief of the people at heart ? What other Government that is known to any of us, has done so much for the cause of popular right and popular relief, as that which we now possess? With all its errors and failings, it is the best. We owe to it the Reform Bill—a boon which ought to make some atonement for errors in other respects—and we owe to it a greater reduc tion of unnecessary places and uncalled-for taxes than we have ever bee n i ndebte d for to any other body of men. What reason, t hen , is there cominge to the conclusion, that resistanc e t o the nt of the assessed taxes is the only mo d e for of obtaining their abolition ? Is not the cha racter of the Government itself, evidenced as it is by the most satisfactory experience, a suf ficient guarantee that the wishes of the public w ill b e complied with as soon as t h e meet i ng o f have given to his Majesty's unity of submitting to it Parliament the shall al opportunity )ort t h e propriety of the repeal o f th e taxes in ques tion ?--Since writing the above, we have received reports of various meetings in different parts of the metropolis, in all o f which a resolution o f passive resistance h as b een agreed to. We miniter s have read them with pain and regret ; and we cannot but deplore the consequences which their example as a precedent, must entail upon the country. We war with thew, however, no more. We have expressed our opinion, and they have expressed theirs. We wish well to the object they have in view; but we cannot but condemn the means resorted to for accom plishing it.—Morning Advertiser. BANKRUPTCY COURT, OCT. 8. (Before Mr. Cotrlmit•sioner ME RIVA LE.) A meeting of the creditors of Mr. Thomas I. Dimsdale, cornfactor, was held to-day, for the further proof of debts and the final examination of the bank rupt. The Court-room was very much crowded by persons in the corn trade, as well as creditors, to hear the proceedings. An application was made to the Commissioner for the restoration of a bill of exchange, drawn upon Sir Thomas Champneys for 5001., which had been lodged as a collateral security for bills held to the same amount by the client of the applicant on the bankrupt, but which had been disbursed. Mr. M‘Leod, the solicitor to the estate, said two sets of bills had been given for the same debt, and the question was whether the official assignee should give up that or Sir Thomas Champneys. The Solicitor for the creditors said he could not consent to the bill being given up unless it was dis tinctly understood that it should not be hereafter a burden to the estate. Mr. Commissioner MERIVALE said be could make no order on the subject. The Court of Review might be applied to on the subject. The solicitor of the holder of the first set of bills complained that, if the bill was not given up, there could be no remedy against the party on whom it was drawn. The COMMISSIONER intimated, that if an arrange ment could be come to upon the subject, and an offer made to Mr. Belcher, the official assignee, he would advise him how to act. This suggestion was adopted. The proof of debts then proceeded, but the amount proved during the day was not considerable. The statement made by the bankrupt as to the accounts is as follows :—The debts amount to 30,000/. ; to advances on goods 29,0001.; amount of goods on bond (consisting of corn, &c.), 38,000/. or 39,000/. The total amount of debts is stated officially at 60,0004, and the liabilities to 12,0001., while the total available assets are not more than 2,000/. The COMMISSIONER asked the assignees if they were satisfied with the accounts handed in by the bankrupt ? The assignees replied that they were quite satis fied with the accounts; there was nothing irregular, though, as the Court would see, the balance showed a very heavy loss. They could only deplore that such was the case ; but they felt bound to say there was nothing that appeared unfair in the accounts. The bankrupt then passed his final examination, and the further proceedings were adjourned. OLD COMMISSIONS. The Commissioners are following up the plan adopted some time since in calling for the proceed ings in old commissions which have not been finally wound up, and in many instances with the most beneficial results to the creditors. This day Mr. Town appeared, pursuant to a summons, to deliver in the proceedings of an old commission, issued against a Mr. Bunn, and he stated in reply to ques tions from Mr. Commissioner Merivale, that the proceedings had been lost. The commission was a very old one, but there were moneys now in hand, and recently it had been discovered that the bsnk rupt had become entitled to freehold property in the West Indies. A power of attorney had been sent out to render the property available, and the other necessary steps for the benefit of the creditors would be adopted. The Commissioner then appointed Mr. Kitchener, the official assignee, to inspect the accounts, &c., for the benefit of the creditors. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON RIARKETS. (From the" London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR.-We stated on Tuesday last a further reduction of Is. per cwt. in the prices of Muscovado Sugar. The Market during the remainder of the wtek was very dull, and the prices still declining : the estimated sales for he week were 1,800 hhds. and trs. The stock of West In dia Sugar is now 55,558 bird.. and trs., tieing 6,862 more than last year. The stock of M iuritius 87,032 bags, being 44,769 more than last year. Toe delivery of West India is 2,249 WI ls. and trs., being 980 less than last year. The delivery of Mauritius is 4,680 bags, being 2,067 more than the corresponding week of 1832. The Market this forenoon is again very dull ; the estimated purchases this day are only two or three hundred hhds. and trs. ; the prices are again a shade lower than on this day week. In the Refined Market I ost week the stock was very low; few parcels were offering for sale, yet such was the state of trade that a reduction in the prices was submitted to, particularly in parcels suitable for the home consumption : the holders of tine Crashed were still asking 355., and were refusing the offers made at 345. and 345. 6d. In the Refined Market there is no alteration this afternoon. MAURITIUS SunAß.—The prices of Mauritius Sugars again fell Is. 61 a 2s. last week; Brown 525. a 545. ; Yellow 555. a 575. EAST INDIA Sum.—The sales of East India last week were too inconsiderable for enumeration. FOREIGN SUGAR —The only sales of Foreign Sugar worth reporting were good White Havannah at 345. 6d.; and fine Yellow at 275. Average price of Sugar 1/s. 14,. 24d. per cwt. COFFEE. —Jamaica and other British Plantation Coffee fell 3s. to 4s. per cwt. last week; East India fell ls. 6d. to 3s. per cwt. ; Foreign Coffee was nominally at previous prices; fine ord. Jamaica sold 91s. 6d. a 925. ; low mid dling coloury 93 , .. a 945. ; mid. 995. a 100 s. ; good mid, 112 s. ; fine ord. St. Domingo 665. ; Havannah, ord. to fine ord., 565. 6d. a 65a. 6d. ; good ord. green Ceylon 63.. a 635. 6d. ; ord. to good ord. Sumatra 545. 6d. a 565, Yesterday, and this forenoon, there is a great im provement in the demand, on account of the large sales of Coffee in Holland having gone off with more spirit, and at higher prices than what hid hen generally expected. There were no public sales of Coffee this day except some African. The purchases of Coffee, by private contract, this afternoon, are 2,000 bags Havannah 645. a 69e. ; the inquiries we have noticed continue, and the Market cer tainly looks more firm. Cocoa.—The demand for Cocoa continues suspended ; two parcels offered at public sale last week met with ❑o offers whatever; they were both withdrawn. Roar, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS —The Rum Market continued very dull last week; the buyers evinced no dis position to purchase, they expect much lower prices, but the holders do not press sales ; the purchases reported are quite inconsiderable. In Brandy or Geneva there is no alteration. TALLOW.—The Tallow Market was very heavy last week, and the prices were a shade lower. The Market this afternoon is still dull. The deliveries are very ex tensive. TunrENTINE.—The small lot of rough last arrived sold at 134. TEA.—Waiting the declaration for next sale (which is to be out to-morrow) there is no change in the Market. LAC DYE.—The efforts made to depress the prices of Lac Dye have succeeded ; tho Market is dull and the prices are lower. SlLK.—Considerable sales have been effected in China Raws, at afraid' advance. Brutias have risen another 3d., and , the pri ces o f I ta li an are f u lly s upported. Thrown Silks continue scarce. FRUIT.—We mentioned on Tuesday last that the holders of Zante Currants had advanced the prices to '7Bs. ; and Patras to 80s. On Friday, by public sale, 150 small brls., 10 qr. brls., 5 cases New French Prunes 525. a 565. ; 709 qr. chests, 1,490 small boxes, 1,172 cartons, 1,053 hall ditto, 672 quarter ditto, New Imperial French Plums, the quarter chests sold at 701. a 855., small boxes 85e. a 1151., cartons, &c., 5/. 10s. a 91. Is., pert sold. SPlCES.—Spices were dull last w eek and lower ; Pi mento and Pepper sold at the red uctio n of id. to id. per lb. ; good quality Pimento we nt off at 4 id. a 4,11. ; haif heavy dusty Pepper at 4id• , good half heavy clean at 44 , 1. a 41d., mid. white 64 : d. and 6y. ; mid. qu a lity C ass i a Lignea 83s. 6d. a 84s. ; first quality Nutmegs 7s. COTTON.—Tbe Cotton Market has been very heavy ; the few sales last week were of the urd. descriptions, which sold ad. to -id. per lb. lower. OiLs.—Common Oils have declined during last week 1/. to 21. per tun. At public sale on Friday last South Sea Oil of fine quality sold at 211. a 22/. per tun. Some old Greenland Oil sold at 211. naked. Further arrivals from the Straits confirm the first accounts, and it is thought the fishery will produce about 15,000 tong* Other Oils firm, with a good deal doing. SALTPETRE.—SaItpetre is heavy ; the last sales are Alid• to 911 refraction 364. 6th and 375. CocHiNEAL.—Cochineal has been very heavy, on ac count of the recent considerable arrivals. By public sale" this day 89 bags Cochineal, from 3d. to 9d. lower, an d chiefly bought in '7e. 7d. a 9s. 6d. Rice.—ln Rice there is no alteration. , 'I • COUNTRY CORN MARKEL'S DURING THE WEEL Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Bea ng !... ..............-- Per Quarter. ---- s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to / 5 Boston 4B 55 26 32 26 22 36 A Gainsborough 57 34 18 - - 4 - Grantham .*.... 52 58 36 41 17 25 37 I n Grimsby 46 55 23 32 16 20 38 p 110rnca5t1e........... 44 54 20 24 15 20 36 44 Lincoln S'pilsby 446 50 26 32 16 20 40 '0 Stamford 42 58 27 34 17 23 33 A A York— 4B €0 26 32 14 22 36 _____..."'" NORWICH. Oet. 5. Wheat (per qr.) «. 44s 545. 58s. Beans (per qr.) 28s. S*: Barley 20s. 9.65. 2Ss. Pease, Grey _ oß t i. Oats 20s. 248. 265. Flour, fine (per sack) 41±...:11....6• Wheat, whit, CANTERBURY, Oct. 5 575. to 633. —s. to -- 46 48s. to 6os. Old —s. to -- 6 265. to 329. Grinding.. 229. to 21 0 . 20s. to 255. Old—.—.— 209. to 2€ o . 3ls to 355. --A. to 30s. to 363. Grey...—. 30s. to al", Barley, Maltißg -- Oats Beans Pease ..,...........,..........,... MANCHESTER, Oct. 5. Wheat, per 701 b. Ss. Od. to Bs. 2d. Red ls. 94. to Se. 54. Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 6 Oats 3 2 3 Beans, per Imperial quartcr Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 5 0 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 3B 0 42 Flour, per Sack of 2Solb 4O 0 46 IRISH MA' DUBLIN MARKET N( RKETS. DTE..—FRIDAY, Oct. 4. From To Averag e ' 2,356 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 21 0 27 0 „ 6 268 Bel e 592 16 stone 12 9 14 0 13 2,142 Oats 12 stone 8 3 13 6 9 12,245 Cwt. Flour 9 stone 5 0 20 0 ; 1,167 Oatmeal.— 8 stone 8 0 13 0 10 Sold to Bakers only. 9,429 Cwt. Flout Average price of Wheat and Flour 43, 4d. per sack. Receipts of Flour, 14,9105 Sales of Do. 122.45 IA Thirds,.... from 53. Od, to iSs• Firsts, from 18s. Od. to WS. .Seconds, from 14s. Od. to 17s. IA PRICE OF BREAD. Bd. I Half !uartern Loaf. CORK MARKFTS.—Oct. 5. Wheat (per 20st.) Barley (per 16st.) Oats (per 14st.) .. 8 8 10 2 Flour (per cwt.) 5 0 19 0 Oatmeal (per cwt.) 0 0 10 0 Beef, sd. to hd. ; Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Veal, 6d. to Bd. i Pork, 2d. to 21d. ; Fresh Butter, Ild. to 12d. per lb. PRICE OF BUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Coyntri• First Quality Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth '76s. 71 64 CLONMELL MARKETS.—Oct. 4. Per Cwt. s. d. & d. s. New Butter 72 0 to 74 0 Hides (raw) 34 Oatmeal 11 0 0 Bacon Pigs 03 Rendered Lard.-- 0 40 0 Heads 20 Per Bag. O 34 OfFlour, Thirds 25 O 32 01— Fourths 14 Per Barrel. O 11 01Coals Barley. .. Per Stone. 21 13l Tallow (rough) 5 71 0 01Potatoes ..... 0 Per Pound. O 1 21Mutton ....... 0 3 0 41Veal 0 - 665. 61 NS d. 0 o 0 to 96 .0 95 o tl 0 o n Flour, Second -- -Household— Rapeseed 20 0 13 ( 5 ) 6 Bee Wheat 1 Oats. 0 Fresh Butter 1 Beef 0 6 (/‘ 6 0 ti 4 g 6 5 KILKCNNY.—Butter 765. to 78s. per cwt. ; Wheat 23,„ to r .o , per barrel ; Flour 12s. to 39.5. per bag; Oats Bs. to 10s. Por n 5,1 , rel ; Barley 19.5. to 13s. ; Beef 4d. to 54. per lb. ; Mutt° to ;id. ; Potatoes 4d. per stone; Coals ls. Od. per cwt.; 000 Pies 265. to 275. Od. per cwt. MARKETS. d , l M A ItKET.—Oct. Oats. Pease. 21s Od 32, lid 19s Ikl —s Od i 18s Od —s 0d a market,464 whereof l —0 Grey. 21. 15s. al. 9-12ths. N - 75: Bea o 335 30. 1 3, 3 4 '26' old' were c Beans. 344 Oci 33s N ... A 32.:d SCOTCH HADDINGTON CO Wheat. First 64s Od Second sss Od Third There were 509 qrs. Barley. 32s Od 29s Od 27s Od of Wheat it 45 Unsold. Aver: DALKIETH COR.. MARKET.--. 00- Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Pease. First fits Od 30s 64 22s Od 31s I)cin, Second s4s Od 2,3 s Od 20s 0d 33 uu Third 3os Od 20s Od 180 4d 82s Uti MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Oct. 10. a. DIVIDENDS. J. Monkhouse, tavern-keeper, Ragnigge Wells Tavern ...... a t B. Bovill and Co., corn-factors, Catherine-court, Tower-hill 11; H. Barwise, tailor, Great Newport-street ........................... SIR JONAH :BARRINGTON'S MEMOIRS tji IRELAND AND THE UNION.-6‘BiaCkWOOds M ag azies 4 ° • the present month gives some highly curious extracts ft ° lO the above work, but it would - he impossible from tbv ii extracts to form any adequate notion of the interest a i ;e , importance of the work itself, which exhibits such * r ot , ture of the state of that country, from the year 17800, to the period of the establishment of the Union in if., o f as should be studied by all who desire the prnsP ell , i 'p the Irish people. At the present period the work 00, Jonah Barrington will be perused with singular ad va g'"so as the best source from whence light can be thrown 0, momentous question of the Repeal of the Milo. Globe. - INDECENT OUTRAGE.-otl Wednelir most disgraceful and unprovoked attack was wade At t he ling on the man who had acted as executioner 00,00 morning of the same day. He came from Edinburgh the days previously, and, intending to return by one e t ie steam boats, was proceeding to the shore through i fta 4 lf hill, when he was recognised. A crowd soon th e and followed him till he reached some gardens ne ar $lO bridge, in one of which he took shelter, to eseee t iale' vengeance of the low, disorderly mob, who, by this Ole became quite outrageous. They pursued him ir ltti to te' l garden, where they got hold of him, and struck and 6 00 4 .0 him. Seeing that his life was in imminent peril, he t. v iol a desperate effort to escape out of their hands, and °rob+ succeeded, he ran towards the river, followed by t he t r, who showered stones after him, several of which 600 him. On reaching the river, he plunged in , and tier, towards the opposite side, where, fartunately , 8 p itev happened to be standing, who not only aided httn ting out of the water, but rescued him front the c r i, who no sooner saw their •ictitn swimming tower,. ijge' opposite side, than they crossed the river by the P r IP and would, in all probability, have taken the ats° 'll ,„ r ior, had not information of the outrage been early ee ° ; 0 0 .1 1 / cated to a number of the High Const a bles, wt..° proceeded to the spot, drove off the crowd, and ee ll re j the man to the gaol for safety. It was at first fe g , IP° had been so alarmingly injuied as to endanger his shameful as the affair has been, there is now no to fed tU apprehend that it will terminate so disgracefully parties concerned in it —Stirling Journal. On the 7th inst., Mrs. Bin ney, BIBTHS. s inoec wife of the Rev. A' A Kennington.common, of a son. D 00 0 : rn n ne ett t h: h :E e sB 4.: hh d , onn i f n : tat s : t :d . ,taahuteagt the hatdoery , io,. the lady of J• O " a f rs c o y n r a i g l e j „ . °lt 0' lady of the Rev. J. S. Halifax, of a daughter. ea' ' street, Strand, solicitor, of a son. 0 On the sth inst., the lady of James Saumarez Jep lisa of a son. MARRIED. Mau rice V et" On the 4th inst., at Henllan, the Rev. Richard . 3 fe, c or nor, eldest son of John Bonnor, Esq., of Bryn Y bighshire, to Rose, youngest daughter of the late Ir'• ster, Esq ,of Skibo, Sutherlandshire, North Britain. p. ptr On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Ilanover-scl ua Vfl e 'dl . Bishop, Esq., Captain of the 7th Dragoon Guard,. e t o yi only child of the late Lieutenant Markland , of ° lv , 10, 13 ment, and granddaughter of the late Sir Ed. Nigh ° P 3 of Kneesworth Hall, Cambridge. 'tl ,, lO C h 9° 9 On the Ist inst., at Bridlington, Yorkshire,.r 0 -' o f t h e surgeon, St. Mary Axe, to Sarah Anne, daug hte „ r ,lo , f ol d ' ... John Swaby, Esq., of Spurtree, in the Island of It. e lee On the ;Nth ult., at St. Barnakas, Isle of Man , to P cock, Esq., of Itathineyle House, Queen's Cow-4f.; goo, only daughter of Major John Ormsby, of Ballygrenon, Limerick. DIED. WS , ford , On the 6th inst., at Christ's Hospital, Heti ft °l". Ferry, in her 57th year. f a idston' On the 4th inst., at Sutton Lodge, near 3 r oe Wright, Esq. ,delt oe On the sth inst., Mr. Thomas Bromley, f 11 " Goswell-road, in his 76th year. CaP tsi" At Manchester, Eliza, widow of the late Elam. ch. OP' areenv ii , On the 9.9 th Mrs. Elizabeth Fox, 0 . - of the Isle "• On the 6th inst., Robert, eldest son of the late f Ce Coles, of Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square. 0 On the 3d inst., Ann Millard, sister of Mr. Dul lar d , wainers'-hall. vs 0 , 1 PRINTED AND PUDLINDED BYAlllltOOl° SUN OFFICR, 112, STROM, t 11° 111161 : 144411 '3 i ie t tit k i I4 d li b o of lic ?"" n E Capt L " One n th e ru for most pi ett t o R c fo und , sh o w, . . la