The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A letter has been copied into some of the papers, professing to be addressed by the French Minister a t Madrid to his colleague at Naples, and affirmed —we know not by whom—to be authentic. The object of the letter seems to be to explain the policy meditated by the French Government towards th e Barbary States in the first instance, and, us oon neeted with them, towards Egypt and the Porte. Algiers is to be conquered, and, as a sine qua non, destroyed. The Pacha of Egypt is to receive as sistance from France in a projected attack upon the Dey of Tripoli, whose dominions, with those of Tunis, are to be delivered over to Mehemet-Ali, as Vicegerent of the Porte. The Viceroy is to civilize and improve these states; to abolish the slavery of Christians; to protect the dignity and rights of fo reign Ministers ; and to pay a considerable tribute to the Porte, which may enable it to discharge more readily the stipulated contributions to Russia. Such are the purposes—the ostensible purposes— which, on the alleged authority of the French NV nister in Spain, the Government of Charles X. has been contemplating, and of which it has now com menced the exccution, by means of the armament against Algiers. If nothing were to result from the prosecution of these projects beyond what they bear upon the face of them—if piracy were to be eradi cated beyond the chance of resuscitation, and law, order, end civility established beyond that of an un timely and violent end—if Africa, the disgrace and scourge of Europe, were to be verily and indeed ca pacitated for a full admission within the pale of knowledge and humanity, and all this through the disinterested interposition of the French Govern ment, not aiming at or effecting any further or less estimable objects—why then we would bid it at once, and the British Government would assuredly join us, that France should be permitted " oiler son train." But there has, unfortunately, been at times observable between the words and acts of that highly po lished family the House of Bourbon, some not igeonsiderable tendency to variance. It is not above Wilt dozen years since the humane expe dient of a cordon sanitaire was employed professedly against the approaches of physical disease, while the real terror turned out to be that produced by the possible contagion of institutions adverse to tyranny ; and the genuine purpose of the cordon sanilaire was to infliet a death-blow on civil and religious liberty, bought at a terrible expense of blood by a brave people, too honest to he other than credulous of so lemn protestations. The possibility that a design so noble and philosophical as that of blowing up Al giers for the sake of the human race, might end in rebuilding the fortifications for the convenience of a French garrison,' and subjugating the whole north of Africa for the glory of the French name—to say no thiog about the chief command of the Mediterranean, Such a bare possibility, we repeat, might induce the British Government to speak more bluntly to that of France than suits our respect for his Majesty King Charles. On the whole, we must impute the above-mentioned letter, if it be genuine, to the epeettlative and lively genius of an isolated French diplomatist, and as not by any means pledging or involving the Cabinet of King Charles the Tenth, to execute, or even to entertain, propositions which could not fail to sow distrust in Europe.—Times. It earl hardly be meant, notwithstanding what our correspondent of yesterday said, by the new' Bill for building churches, to allow the Commissioners to make a lodgment in any parish at will with one of their structttees, attach a district, out of the parish, to their erection, and rob the regular incumbent of his fees and dues, without his own previous consent, or that of the patron of the living, or both. This would be making church property free booty indeed; mid an incumbent, on witnessing such an intrusion of strangers into his parish, might well ask, in the words of Homer, " Are you come to trade with us as friends, or are you pirates, come to rob and plunder ?" - What - are ye. guests, on what adventure say. " Thus far ye wander through the watery way ? "Pirate*, perhaps, who seek through seas unknown, " The lives of others, nod expose your own." . . However, there is a passage at page 12 of the draught of the • Bill, which favours the supposition of our correspondent, wherein it is said, that " where any one shall endow a church or ehipel with's permanent provision in land or money,' he shall only need the consent of the Bishop; and that She patronage of suet church or chapel shall for ever remain in the founder and his descendants. This is entering a parish by bribery, in order to be allowed to rob by law. On the subject of attaching !twill districts to new eiturches, we would entreat the Legislature to consider, that though this or that parish may, from temporary causes, increase in population, yet the territorial extent remains the same, —that does not increase ; the cutting off horn it, therefore, or cutting out of it, a district, does not preeieely meet the evil complained of, and may proba bly maim a complete whole,—may mutilate a division a land which was made for wise purposes at first, and has existed unchanged for ages, during all the revolutions of a Government. It seems to us to be one step towards a division of the country into departments. The mother church of a parish may at last remain like one of those buildings on the coast,.which may be seen but cannot be entered, the encroaching tide having swallowed up all the country sound it. Indeed, otte of the provisions of the Bill as it now stands, is of a nature so ludicrously cruel, that we cannot help laughing though highly indig nant at it. it is no other than this,—that the Corn miseioners may make any new church or chapel the parish church, and turn the parish church into the district shush or a chapel of east.. Th ey may give the Squire's lady to Jobson the cobbler, and the Squire must take Dame Jobson, the cobbler's wife. This is too bad ! We observe that the Commis sioners have had five Acts before the present,--this is the sixth. 'Re deuce is in them ! They ought to be ashamed of themsel ves.—Times. Our readers will perceive, from the questions put last night by Lords Londonderry and Holland to Lord Aberdeen in the House of Lords, that though au i m men s e mass of papers respecting Greece has been laid before Parliament, yet some very impor tant ones have been purposely kept back. Among them are the conferencea which took place at Poros, and the despatches of our Ambassador at Constant-- motile relating to the mode in which the assent of Russia had been obtained to the giving up of two millions of ducats; at first claimed by her as compen sation from the Porte. Lord Aberdeen could not give any answer as to the copies of the despatches till he had bad time to consider how far the interests ofother Powers, as well as of this country, would be affected by them, The Noble Earl had of course quite forgotten the nature of the despatches, and it was proper to be exceedingly circumspect. We may infer the nature of the grounds of hesitation, how ever, from the silence observed with 'regard to a re petition of the question, Russia had abandoned so large a portion of the compensation merely in order so induce Turkey to concede what was demanded of her by the Allied Powers. Lord Hp!land said his object in asking for copies of the conferences at Paris, was to know whether the fullest information , would be afforded with respect to the disputes re lating to the boundaries of Greece; for having gone attentively through the mass of those papers already before the House, he really was unable to divine the reasons which had induced the Allies to change the boundaries of Greece, as settled by them on the 28(1 March; and as that change was one of a most important nature, he was most anxious to know the reasons which had induced tile Allied Powers to make it. Lord Aberdeen might berg have answered for the Allies, for to him alone is to be ascribed the b T eour of that singular change. Russia, of course did not wish it; and the French Plenipotentiary could not wish it. But Austria wished it • and whatever Austria wishes is, of course, sacred in the' , eyes of Lord Aberdeen. However, a short time till akar up this business.—Morning Chronicle. Dr. Phillimore brought the subject of the Law of Divoice before the House last night, in an able speech, which b-• concluded by moving, " That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, pray ing that his Majesty would be pleased to direct the Commission, now sitting to inquire into the Eccle siastical Courts, to take into their consideration the state of the Law of Divorce, the expence of ob taining a divorce, and to inquire into the best means of bringing such case under a legal jurisdiction."— The Law of Divorce is like almost every other thing in England—a lie. Fiction runs through all our institutions and all our practices. There is nothing in England which does not differ from what it pur ports to be. Into the cause of the prevalence of fiction in the institutions and practices of this country we will not now enter at present. The Law of Divorce does not form an exception to the general rule. The letter of the law is, that marriage is indissoluble. The reality is, that every man who can afford to spend 7001., and who has interest to procure votes, can set the law aside. " There was even yet (said Dr. Phillimore) canvassing for opinions and support for such Bills as were disgraceful even in a Turnpike Act. The next point he would men tion was the inequality of the law. Nothing was better established, as a principle of our law, than that it should be equal for all parties, for high and low, for rich and poor, and that was the case throughout the law, except in the law for divorce.—[We should like to see this de monstrated]. He had asked, a few days ago, the expence of a common Divorce Bill, which had nothing peculiar in it, and be was told that the expence was between 600/. and 700/. That was an expellee which no person in the middle and lower ranks of life could possibly submit to. What made it more galling here was, that if a man went act ass the borders into Scotland, or if his wife committed adultery there, he would obtain a divorce for 10/. or 15/." Sir Charles Wetherell observed, "If they were to allow all who had a small sum to spend the pri vilege of being separated a vinculo niatrimonii, it would follow, as a necessary consequence, that the lower classes, whose morals were more corrupt, and whose principles on these subjects were more lax than those of the higher classes (! !I) would be con tinually applying for divorces, while the facility of obtaining them at a small expence would increase the immorality of adultery, and indeed give encourage ment to the commission of that offence." Assum ing the correctness of Sir Charles's premises (though it be notorious that leisure and luxury are the great causes of irregularities of this kind, and that the poor are notoriously in all countries the least dis posed to adultery), we have here a remarkable in stance of the generosity of the higher orders. They know that divorces are a great evil, and yet they confine that evil to themselves, and carefully seoure the morals of the poor against the contagion to which they so expose themselves. In England every man generously abandons his own morals, or the morals of his own order, for the sake of guarding the morals of others. How grateful must the poor be to see the benevolent care of the higher orders with regard to them ! But why is the time of Parliament, which all admit is insufficient for busi ness of importance, to be occupied with tire dirty details of Divorce Bills merely because the parties happen to be Lords or rich persons ? Why, but because the money is of importance to a num ber of individuals of influence. Of the 6001. or 7001. expenses who receives the greatest portion ? We can conceive no other possible reason for not withdrawing the cognizance of Divorce cases from Parliament to a suitable tribunal. When the El lenborough Divorce Bill was before the House, Dr. Lushingtori exclaimed—" Would to God the Mar riage Laws were placed upon some solid basis— that some regulation were laid down, a deviation from which would at once entitle the aggrieved party to a Divorce, whether that party was of high or low degree; and mark me (continued the Honour able and Learned Gentleman) whether male or fe male." On that occasion, Mr. Spring Rice ob served—" There was no one who disputed that the present law was bad, and that the judicial duty which the House had just exercised must always be most imperfectly performed by them. The con elusion he took to be this—that if they allowed the Session to pass away without making any attempt to remedy the evil, when all admitted its existence, he thought they could not stand well with the country, nor could they be considered as having discharged their duty to their constituents." This was said on April the 6th. Last night, June 3d, the same Mr. Spring Rice " combatted the principles on which Dr. Phillimore had brought forward his motion ; denied the force of the argu ment which he had founded on the supposed in equality of the law for the rich and the law for the poor ; and maintained that the House was compe tent to the consideration of the subject of divorce when brought before it in particular cases." We may observe that there is nothing peculiar in this contradiction given by the Honourable Member to himself. We are not aware of his having ever ut tered one opinion which he did not contradict in the course of a month or two at most. We remem ber being much amused by the number of opinions he sported in the course of one month, on the sub ject of the effect produced on the labourers of Eng land by the immigration of the Irish. Perhaps it was this capacity for embracing all opinions, and changing them as easily as a coat, that pointed him out as a fit Under Secretary of State. The oppo sition, on the whole, was rather to the devolving the subject on the Ecclesiastical Commission, than to the principle of change being necessary. Mr. C. Wynn thought his Honourable and Learned Friend would have done well to propose at once a Bill upon the subject. A contemporary (the Globe), alluding to a recent case of bigamy at Union-hall, pays ; " In mussy cases of bigamy, not only do the criminals themselves, whose passions might be supposed to bias them, justify the con lust which is punished by law, but society in general does not visit either party with that obloquy which, with females in particular, falls, perhaps, too heavily in other cases. Another circumstance adds to the mistaken feeling of the public on this subject—the facility with which the higher classes arc enabled to free them. selves from those shackles which the poor man can only throw off with his life. If the husband, in the case at Union-hall, had been able to obtain a divorce (and be might have as good grounds to sue for one as in some cases that have recently occupied public attention), he would have been entitled to marry without fear of magis terial interference. If divorces for sufficient reason are al lowable in one case they ought to be so in another; and a poor man will never be convinced that he does wrong in doing what, if he were rich, he knows he could do le gally. If the right of divorce be just and reasonable, let it be extended to poor as well as rich, under regulations proper to prevent its abuse. If it has no foundation in reason or justice, let it lie equally placed beyond the reach of rich and paw% The poor criminal should not have it in his power to say, lam transported only because I had not money to carry a divorce through the House of Lords.' This is punishing an accidental circumstance connected with the crime, and not the crime itself. The real crime is the injury done by bigamy to the first and second wives, and to the nights of the female sex in general ; but by our law, it would seem to be the want of money." In these observations there is much force. We can conceive no circumstance to have a stronger tendency to destroy the morality of the country than the constant spectarsle of every tiring being given to property. The disposition to acquire is sufficiently strong, without the additicnal stimulants which are afforded in this country. Montesquieu observes, that in France hp could dispense with wealth : but that if he were an Englishman, he should never forgive himself if he did not obtain it, no matter how. In fact, poverty is a crime, and almost the only crime, in England. Bat is it prudent in the higher ranks to let this be so apparent Oil all occasions ? Why destroy all virtue and honour in tire body of the people, by constantly inculcating the lesson, that it once property ire obtained, the means ere unimpor tant ; and that he wino is rich may trample on all laws, divine and human ? We would have them pause in time. The examples constantly exposed to the eyea of ant instructed people, are making a deep impression on them. We can conceive no dan ger greater than that which the lessons taught ever) day ace calculated to produce.—Morning Chronicle. Several actions are still going on against the projectors of some of the Bubble Companies of 1825, who tiad to their cost the old proverb of " the biter bit" realised SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN o'CLOCK. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Whitehall, May 31, 1830. The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon, Charles Lord Farnborough, General Sir William Keppel, and Major-General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, to be his Commissioners for affixing , his Majesty's signature to in struments requiring the same. Office of Ordnance, June 3. Corps of Royal Engineers--Captain J. M. F. Smith to he Lieutenant Colonel, vice Smart, retired, March 16. Second Captain J. W. Pringle to be Captain, vice Smith, promoted, March 16. First Lieutenant H. R. Brandreth to be Second Cap tain, tice Pringle, promoted, dated March 16. Second Lieutenant S. H. Knocker to be First Lieu tenant, vice Brandreth, promoted, dated March 16. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Second Lieutenant A. H. Frazer to be Firtt Lieutenant, vice T. U. Walker, resigned. March 1. Second Lieutenant T. G. Marlay to be First Lieutenant, vice Dawson, deceased. April 11. Office of Ordnance, June 3, ISM Ordnance Medical Department. Second Assistant-Surgeon Henry John Lucas, M.D., to be First Assistant-Surgeon, vice Chisholm, placed on hdll-pay, Jan. 1. A. P. Mahon, Gent, to be Second Assistant-Surgeon, March 11. J. E. T. Parma, Gent. to be Second Assistant-Sur geon, March 11. Commission in the Oxfordshire Regular Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Oxford. Ensign C. J. Preedy, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Dal mer, deceased, May 7. Commission in the Worcestershire Regiment of Militia, signed by the Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Wor cester. G. Atkins, Gent. to be Ensign, May 30. Commission in the Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia, signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Forfar. Ensign J. Smith to be Lieutenant, vice Burner, de ceased, May 22. Commission in the South Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Salop. Lieutenant R. Burton to be Captain, vice Leighton, re signed. Whitehall, May 29, 1830. The Lord Chancellor bas appointed Edward Barry, of the city of Bristol, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, Nay 26, 1820. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Thomas Wiggins, of Sevenoaks, in the county of Kent, Gent. to he a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Ann and Thomas Rivers, Egbarn, Surrey, coal-mer chants. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Hussey, High-Holborn, hat-manufaeture. BANKRUPTS. C. Hollis, Upper Stamford -street, Surrey, engineer, to surrender June 11, at two, June 22, at eleven, and July 16, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Cole, Furnivul'a Inn, Holborn ; Griffiths, Monmouth. John Taylor, Carlisle, Cumberland, wine and spirit merchant, June 30, and July 1, 16, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Wigton, Cumberland. Mounsey and Gray, Staple-inn; Hodgson, Wigton. John Thomas, Shepton Mallet, Somerstetshire, vic tualler, June 18, 19, and July 16, at eleven, at the Mer maid Inn, Yeovil!. Williams, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, London ; Watts, Yeovil. Joseph Hobbs, Arlington-place, St. John's-street, iron monger, June 18, 25, at eleven, and July 16, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Patten and Smith, Hatton garden. Simon Metz, Gerrard-street, Soho, bill-broker, June 15, 22, and July 16, at el-ven, at the Court of Commis sionersr Westlake, Tavistoek -street, Covent-Garden. Henry Kain, Tyssen-place, Kingsland-road, commercial agent, June 11, IS, and July 16, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Stratton and Overton, Shoreditch. Samuel Salisbury, Liverpool, sail•maker, June 18, 19, and July 16, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Blackstock and Mince, Temple, London ; Deane, Liverpool. Ann Sellars, Manchester, chemist, June 21, at five, 22, and July 16, at the Bridge Inn, Little Bolton, Lancashire. Pendlebury, Bolton-le-Moors ; Hind and Johnson, Temple, London. Andrew Reid, Bishop Auckland, Durham, draper, June 15, 29, and July 17, at the Queen's Head Inn, Durham. Taylor, Clement's-Inn ; Marshall, Durham. Andrew Dobbie, Manchester, wine-merehant, June 17, 18, and July 16, at eleven, at the White Bear, Manches ter. Cole, Serjeant's-Inn ; Dumville, Manchester. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the Returns made in the week ending June 1, iv 235. sd. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. IM PE RIAL PARLIAMENT TIIIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five minutes past five. Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from the members of Dissenting Chapel in the city of Exeter, praying for the abolition of the punishment of death for. forgery. The Duke of 'RICHMOND presented a petition from the chemists and drnggists of Lynn, Norfolk, against the Medicine Stamp Act. Lord CALTHORPE presented a petition from Birmi►►gham, praying the I-louse to postpone the consideration of the King Edward's Free Grammar School Bill.—Ordered t' lie on the table. The Earl of WESTMORELAND presented a petieion from Jonah Barrington, praying to be heard by Counsel at the bar, and to have witnesses ex amined on his behalf.—The petition was read at length. Ibe Duke of WELLINGTON supported the prayer of the petition. He thought it was the duty of the House to adopt some measures, in order to give itself information on this subject. The Noble Duke sat down by moving that the further conside ration of this subject be' resumed on Monday se'nuight, and that witnesses should be summoned to attend on that day.—Agreed to. 'Fite Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a pe tition from a person named Eurdin, stating that he had for several years considered a plan for forming a National Cemetery, and praying that the Mould would take the subject into consideration. Several petitions were also presented by the same Noble Marquis from a parish in Dublin and Queen's County against the_Stamp Act; from a Branch of the . Provincial B an k o f I re l an d , aga i nst t h e pun i s h ment o f death for forgery ; frem Cork, against the Vestryßill, and the increased Duty on Spirits ; front Roman Catholics of Westmeath, against the Vestry Bill ; a petition from Skrene, against Tithes ; and a peti tion from the Mayor of Dublin against Taxation in general, and particula r ly ews against any increase of Duty on the N papers of Ireland. Witter serrn4o.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. H. DUNDAS presented a petition from co:- rain writers in Edinburgh, against the Scotch Judi cature Bill. Mr. A. ELLIS presented a petition from Mr. Ar nold, proprietor of the late English Opera-house, stating that he was sufferin g from the uncertain . ) , whether or not it was the intention of Govern ment to open a new street from Waterloo-bridge to the North-road, over the site of the late. Theatre. The Hon. Member wished to hear from the Noble Lord, the Chief Commi:ssioner of Woods and Forests, whether it was intended to open such a street. Lord LOWTHER said the Commissioners of Woods and Forests would not be justified in doing or than giving every facility to such an undertak ing, where it had to pass over property belonging to the Crown. Mr. HOBHOUSE expressed himself strongly in favour of such a street. The conversation then dropped. Mr. AGAR ELLIS presented a petition from Mr. Haydon, the historical painter, for a want of money for the encouragement of historical painting. CLYDE NAVIGATION. Mr. W. W. WYNNE brought up the Report of the Committee of Appeal on the Clyde Navigation Bill, stating that Mr. O'Connell, a Member of the Committee, had not attended, in consequence of which the Committee were obliged to adjourn their meeting without proceeding to business. The SPEAKER called on Mr. O'Connell for a reason for his absence. Mr. O'CONNELL said he did not leave the House until hull-past four o'clock this morning, and the fact was, he had overslept himself, and did not get up until after the hour appointed for the Com mittee to meet. He was very sorry for it. — (Laughter.) Mr. WYNNE said under such circumstances he should move that Mr. O'Connell be excused. Agreed to. Mr. CALVERT presented a petition from the parish of St. Olaves, Southwark, against the Irish and Scotch Pauper Removal Bill. He was very glad to hear from the Noble Lord who brought in tins Bill, that it was his intention to postpone it until another Session. After a lengthened discussion, in which Mr. IL Grattan, Mr. Sturges Bonnie, Lord Stanley, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Dawson, Sir George Phillips, Mr. Estcourt, and Mr. Palmer took part, the petition was ordered to lie upon the table. (LEFT SITTING.) AMERICAN PAPERS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. " Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee on Com merce, reported a Bill to amend the Navigation Laws of the United States, which was read twice, as follows : " ' A BILL TO AMEND THE NAVIGATION LAWS OF TIIE UNITED STATES. ` o f Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that whenever the President of the United States shall receive satisfactory infor mation of the existence of any law or decree of any foreign Government authorising the importation of the produce and manufactures of the United States into such foreign country, and all its possessions, at a rate of duty not exceeding► thirty per cent. on the ac tual value thereof, and at such times as the produce and manufactures of that country may be admitted into the United States on reciprocal terms; there upon the President of the United States ►hall issue his Proclamation declaring that he has received such evidence, and from and after twelve months from the date of such Proclamation, it shall be, and is hereby declared to be lawful to import itro the United States the produce and manufactures of such country and all its possessions, at a rate of duty not exceeding thirty per centum on the actual cost or value thereof. " Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the actual cost or value of the produce and manufac tures authorised to be imported under the provi sions of this Act, shall be ascertained and adjusted in the manner prescribed by existing laws ; and that all Acts, or parts of Acts, relating to debentures, appraisements, forfeitures, penalties, or remissions, applicable to merchandize imported under any Act now existing, or which may hereafter exist, shall be applied to the produce or manufactures of any coun try, admitted under the authority of this Act ; provided that no duty on any merchandize so im ported shall be charged on any nominal valuation, or on any sum more or less than the actual cost or value to be ascertained as aforesaid. " Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall cease in relation to any country and its possessions whenever the President of the United States shall have satisfactory evidence that the Go vernment of such country has, directly or indirectly, violated the spirit or letter of the reciprocal acts of the two Governments, by imposing internal taxis, excises, restrictions, or regulations, on the produee or manufactures of the United States, or shall in any way impose a higher duty on the same than thirty per centum on the actual cost or value thereof; and whenever the President shall issue his Proclamation declaring that he has received such evidence, the importation of the produce and manu factures of such country and its possessions shall cease, so far as such importation may be authorised by this Act; provided that it shall not be deemed a violation of the reciprocal acts of the two Go vernments for either party to levy internal taxes or excises, to impose restrictions, or to make regula tions of any kind, which shall apply equdly, and without discrimination, to the produce and manu factures of both countries and their possessions. " A warm discussion then took place. " Mr. Mallary opposed the Bill, which called up Mr. Cambreleng, who made some warm observa tions on the course which was what he called the aris tocracy of the country. He designated the aristo crats in the House as nabobs, masters who control the movements and the interests of the minority. The present Bill, he said, he had no wish to have discussed. " Mr. Mallary then replied with equal warmth. He declared that one who thus spoke of the aris tocracy and democracy of this country, knew nothing either of aristocracy or democracy. The manufac turing interests be defended, asserting that if they were not known to be identified with the agricul tural interests, the agriculturists of the country would not support them. He concluded with moving to lay the Bill on the table. " On the call of Mr. Martindale, the ayes and noes were ordered on the question. " The motion was then withdrawn. " Mr. Gorham then moved the indefinite post ponement of the Bill. " Mr. Cambreleng requested that the motion might be varied so as to make the postponement until the first Monday of January next. He made that motion, after complimenting the gentleman from Massachusetts upon the talent he had displayed nine years ago in advocating the principles of free trade. He hoped by January next to be able to bring back the gentleman to his old opinions. " Mr. Gorham said the gentleman must believe him to be most sincere, when notwithstanding the high compliment he had so undeservedly paid to him, he still most determinedly persevered in his motion. " The Speaker then informed the House that the hour had elapsed, and " The discussion was suspended. " The following account of the state of affairs in Mexico is from the New Orleans Bee. It repre sents matters to be in a state of horrible confusion and anarchy; more so, we suspect, than the precise truth will warrant. The writer is probably inclined with something of party spirit, and sees things through a discolouring medium. We give his statement, however, as we find it, leaving to the reader to make the proper allowances for its exaggerations. (From the New Orleans Bee, April 16.) " The following account of the State of Mexico was handed us by a gentleman who has resided for several months past in that country : " The Mexican provinces are in the most agitated state, and have been so for these last four months. " Several battles have been fought with little success on either side; the opinion is, that the present party will soon be out of power—at the pre sent moment Mexico is the most d Nipotic Govern ment under the globe. The constitution is treated as a piece of blank paper ; the military rules the people, both high and low, with an iron hand. " Persons are arrested and imprisoned by order from Bustamente and their officers, as suit their pleasure. " The finances are in the most deplorable estate. Some months ago the Government borrowed large sums of money from the merchants, for which they gave their paper, which paper was to go in payment of duties; but such is the dishonour and tricks of the present ruler, that they have broken their contracts, and refuse receiving their notes in pay ment of duties. " On the 2d of March, 1830, orders arrived in Vera Cruz, instructing the Minister of Finance (a Commissary-General), to receive only 15 per cent. paper in payment of duties ; so by this trick, the merchants have been swindled out of millions of dollars. " In the future, when a vessel arrives consigned to a person holding Government paper, they must pay the whole amount of duties in cash, with the exception of the 15 per cent, allowed to be paid in paper. All vessels arriving in the ports of Mexico must pay the amounts of duties on their cargoes 40 days after their arrival; the vessel bringing the goods is not to leave the port until the duties arelpaid. The prohibitions on cotton goods and brandies are taken off. This has not become a law, but both Houses unanimously agree it should be so; and the Vice- President, Bustamente, gives orders accordingly. At the present moment it would be dangerous to ship either cotton goods or brandy, as it is ten to one if they do not change their minds, reverse their order, and condemn the goods. " The Province of Yucatan has declared itself free and independent of the Mexican Republic, and will listen to no terms from Bustamente or his party. " Their Navy is nothing but a name ; having no armament, men, state, or money. Commodore Lopez, who has commanded in Vera Cruz for some time, has been broke, and now keeps a mountebank (or gambling table) for his support. " The famous General St. Anna lives at his country seat, like another Cincinnatus, and it is the opinion of all good Mexicans, as well as foreigners, that he is the only man who can save his country in its present state of anarchy and civil war. "By the last accounts from the city of Mexico, many assassinations had taken place; several of the members of Congress had been arrested and drag ged out of the Hall of Congress by order of Busta mente, the President, without any reason being assigned. " The fact is, Bustamente and his military use the Congress (which is made perpetual) as his tools and instruments of vengeance. In the different pro vinces, the Governors, Judges, and other civil officers of the state, are treated with the utmost contempt by Bustamente and his Commandant-Generals of the provinces; they act as accusers to J udges, imprison and condemn at their pleasure ; all power being taken out of the courts of justice. " L► Vera Cruz, the Commandant-General, Lan dero, formerly a pettifogging lawyer, is one of the most despotic chiefs in the country; his second in command, Castillo, is like himself, looking about with his military to see whom he can imprison and plunder; both these Chieftains are noted gamblers (keep tables) and stick at nothing to get money. " CIIILE.—The Baltimore Gazette acknowledges the receipt of Valparaiso papers to the 31st of Jan., by the brig Montezuma, which has arrived at that port. The town of Concepcion had been attacked and sacked during a counter-revolution, by a small party of men under General Novoa, who also killed the Intendant and a few of the inhabitants. The French Consul had obtained an apology for the in dignity with which he had been treated. " A rupture had taken place between Generals Prieto and Freire, and the latter had fitted out an expedition against the former, consisting of 800 men, who had embarked on board of six vessels, as it was supposed, for Coquimbo and Talcahuano. The papers do not come down to a date sufficiently late to develop the results. The editor of the Gazette presumes that a military supremacy of an odious character has taken the place of the state of unbri dled anarchy. " From Peru it is said that General Gamarra bud been elected President, and Fuente Vice-President, on the 19th of December. " FROM COLOMBIA.—We have been allowed to make the following extract from a letter, dated Car thagena, March 27, brought by the brig Montilla, but lately come to hand. It will show what pains are taken by the Bolivian party to keep the country in ignorance, and how much they are losing ground. "' My dear Friend,—The letter-bag of the Mon tilla was detained and examined by General Montilla two hours at the post-office, until orders were re ceived permitting the delivery of the letters. No thing was found to excite suspicion, except a box addressed to Senor M. This was solemnly exa mined, but was found to contain nothing but penny trumpets. The American newspapers I have read with avidity, just as a man, after long privation, would devour delicious food. I have shown them to many persons, and they have all received much pleasure front their contents, Bolivar's reputation in foreign countries is now almost extinct, for I have seen papers from England speaking of his character in the same strain—Down with tie tyrant I I send you no papers from this place, because they are useless. They do not say a word about the business of the day; and in fact we learn much more from you than you can from us. Much of the news from Venezuela was not heard of here until the A-- and Montilla arrived. This is sufficient to show you the state of ignorance in which this city is kept by the satellites of General Montilla. — Every post from Bogota brings some sorry news from Venezuela, and some such story as the death of Marino, the imprisonmer t of Paez, &c. The mem , hers of Congress employ their time in writing such things, merely to keep the small share of public opinion which has not yet forsaken them. A project for a Constitution has been admitted to discussion in Congress, and one may be formed by the middle of next month. But the question is, for what country is it to be formed ? Venezuela is separated for ever; or, at least, so long as General Bolivar shall remain in Colombia. His small force is not disposed to fight ; and the people are not willing to support a war which has no other object but the attainment of individual ambition, and the slavery of the country. " The only troops in this department are the battalion of Tiradores in Santa Martha, that of Apure in Rio Hacha, and that of Pichinclt, which left this city three days ago, to join O'Leary at Cuenta, but were ordered to Santa Martha, as some thing is apprehended from that quarter. About 200 cavalry left this city yesterday, to join the division of O'Leary at Cuenta. Poor fellow ! he has only 500 men with him ; and General Pinango, Gover nor of Merida, has intimated to him, that if he moves upon his frontier he will destroy him. This is the real reason for his not leaving his quarters ; and not, as the Bolivians pretend, because he does not know the result of the Commissioners from Congress. I think they will not obtain their hear ing. In a month or so the veil will be rent, and things will be seen in their true light. Our pacific General here (Montilla) says he is not for war, and that his main object is to preserve tranquillity. He is keeping a steady eye upon the game, to see which side will turn up trumps—he is a good gamester.' " We have before us a very energetic letter ad dressed by General Bermudez to Restrepo, Boli var's Secretary for the Interior, dated at Cumana, March 4. It has been published in Caraccas. The language is of the plainest and most forcible kind, against the monarchical scheme and Bolivar, and in favour of Venezuela." In the attack made upon NELSON'S boat, r :ar Cadiz, by a Spanish launch, containing 26 men, whilst NELSON'S boat contained but ten, his life was twice saved by JouN SYKES, by parrying the blows that were aimed at NELSON, and who at last actually interposed his own head to receive the blow of a Spanish sabre, which he could by no other means avert; thus dearly was NEL SON beloved by his men. Whenever an officer fails to win the affection of those who are under his command, he may be assured that the fault is chiefly in himself._Soutliey's Life of Nelson. STATE OF THE HOP PLANTATIONSI IN EAST KENT. (FROM A CORREIPONIAINT. The warm sunny weather in the early part May operated so beneficially upon the soil that tb plant, on its appearance, required immediate attef tion, and was found sufficiently forward for tu' usual process of tying. A vast number of the 10° i consequently, found employment, and tended t relieve the rates, which had become unusually bea from the severe winter. The fertilizing effects 4 the soft and full showers, with the now and thel intervention of warm sunshine, have since caused th vine to run up to the summit of the poles in sofo l instances, and few less th an s i x f eet i n h e i g ht, a vigour and healthfulness which has astouislie the planter, and partially subdued his fears by t h present flattering indications of an abundant cr o p The freqmnt heavy showers of the first w eek WI been of immense benefit, by washing off the destru ct tive fly or louse—but still enough of these inse ct remain to fill the grower with some appreheysil The lady-bird had al r eady m a d e i ts a p pearan ce, a 1 should warm weath er ensue , w ill e ff ectua ll y a id ti ll wishes of the planter, by ensuring the safety of plant before the vermi n can h ave attac k e d t he 1 40 The appearance of the crops, however, .independ ev of these attacks, is such as to warrant the hope t ba i the plant must sustain a more formidable osstill. ere it becomes muter:ally injured. Of the mart, hundred acres in th e v i c inity o f C anter b ury , the 'I. has attacked the whole. Upon some of the leave as many as 30 have been counted. I n the W eal the same unfavourable symptoms appear; but di evil seems to be confined to particular district! The partial decline of the market sufficiently cates the anticipations of an abundant crop; yel should cold flighty weather ensue, it would destro; the hopes of the planter by indurating the boo Unless this occurs, it may be confidently as serte there exists no ground for fear. THE MARKETS. HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 9'3 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£2 0 to •T , ' ' ' New New Meadow Hay p a Useful Old Ditto lO 5 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay.. ..... 315 Clover Hay 3 10 Oat Straw .£2 6to£2 10 I Wheat Straw... 210 :j u i A great, but, as to quality, indiffereat s 4 ply ; trade verY at Tuesday's prices. SOUTHALL MA It K Er.—June J. In our market of to-day which was rather short of I ' 3 Beasts, but otherwise tolerably well supplied, and li lt); derately well attended by buy ers , eac h ki n d o f meat met with a somewhat brisk sale, at the following prices P stone of 81b. to sink the offals : Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d 48. Oil. to 54 ' I Mutton - 3 6 4 6 Yor k -- 3 8 4 . . Lamb .. 5 .Od. to tls. Od. 01 ,1 The foregoing quotations are, Beef and Mutton 2d . t o 4‘14 Pork :Id. per stone higher; Lamb 4d., and Veal :Id. to l l stone lower than on this day se'nnight.—Beasts, 114; and Lambs, 3,535; Calves, 74 • Pigs, 55.—But a s mall proF f tion of the supply left the market unsold. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE W heat. Barley. Oats. I 13eisiii• Per Quarter. a. to s. s. s. a. to a . S. to .0 Blandford 59 29 23 - Brigg* 56 63 30 al 18 94 28 Cambridge— 67 99 22 Chard 56 70 30 3 , 4 24 30 42 Huntingdon 58 69 28 33 19 26 30 Long Sutton 56 66 35 37 18 35 • Louth 69 63 30 33 00 24 33 , v ; Lynn 5B 71 29 33 90 28 34 4 - 0 Newark 67 73 30 36 24 30 34 45 Nottingham 62 74 37 43 24 30 30 Peterborough 56 70 37 40 18 35 37 :0 Plymouth 59 71 28 34 22 27 33 411 Pontefract—...-- I 64 25 41 Sleaforil 57 66 06 35 17 96 37 4 4 Eltipinghain 62 70 30 36 18 28 3 4 t ,„i Wat ech 56 tid 23 28 24 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—June 2. We have had a much smaller supply of Grain to tb i i ! day's market than last Tuesday, b u t th ere was little o teration in the prices of any article. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 60Ib. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. ....... 2 435 5,. . t w 0 :38, 705: Barley, Norfolk and Sullblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire -- Grinding Beans —Mealing, Foreign 11 d. to Pat—English 141 to 13d. per Shelling ' 9s. to 35 5 . pet 14t-i Rapeseed, English, 27/. to 091 Foreign, —l. to —l. per LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—June 2. At this day's market, whi c h was numerous l y attend ? by country buyers, the trade with foreign Wheat W k brisk, at an advance of 2d. to SI per bushel. oats e % '/' perienced a decline of iel. per bushel, but in the value ° other articles there was little alteration. 5 ,1 I,VnEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx. Irish, White A 8 10 9 , 15 ., _— Red 8 a 9 " Foreign 9 0 10 5 OATS, English, Welsh, and !Scotch, per 4511) 3 7 3 0 Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter Sti 0 38 ° Scotch and Irish, per tiolbs. Feeding 4 5 4 0 Bram, English, per Imperial quarter 18 6 49 0 ----- Irish, &c. Foreign Pius's:, English, per Imperial quarter Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 4B 0 51 . Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 10 0 32 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter 'l4 0 36 ° MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending May 31. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. °ti Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls 'lrish, Fa. Sad Lo a :' l7l 28,565 4,200 3,804 6,010 1 1,246 101 ' BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. in Upper Gloucester-place, Dorset' square, the lady of Duncan Campbell, Esq., of a dauglite'.• On the 2tl inst. in Great Surrey-street, Mn.s T. SO"' derson, of a son. On the 3d inst. Mrs. Tegart, of Pall.lnall, of a still born child. On the 26th ult. at the Chateau Cordrran, n ear Foy Beaux, the lady of F. Cutler, Esq., of a son. On the 30th ult. at St. Helier, Jersey, the lady of f' Godfrey, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 3d inst. at St. Botolph Without, Bishopsgate , Mr. M. Meredith, of Liverpool-street, Broad-stret, to Mary Ann, daughter of J. Mansfield, Esq., of Johu-stree t ' Bedford-row. On the Ist inst. at Benenden, Kent, Wm. Peareth, of Usworth, county of Durham, Esq., to Katherine, fillb daughter of T. L. Hodges, Esq., of Ilemsted-place, iu the county of Kent. • Oa the 3d inst. at St. Marylebone, R. B. Boyfuani Esq., to Eliza, second daughter of J. Alli s t on , Esq., 91 Sussex-place, Regent-park. DIED. On the Ist inst. at Pirbright Lodge, Surrey, in her 68th year, Mrs. Stirling, widow of the late A' Stirling, E•q. of Drumpellier, Lanarkshire, and daughter of the late Sir Walter Stirling, of Faskine. On the 3d inst. at Highgate, Emily, third daughter o f R. L. Chance, Esq. On the 2d inst. Thomas Walker, the infant son o f Mr , Thomas Moseley, of Bedford-street,. Covent. garden, age d seven months. On the Ist rout, at Sidmouth, aged 76, the Rev. S' Clapham, A.M., Rector of Gussage St. Alichael, Dorset) Vicar of Christchurch, Hants, and of Great Ousebourne , Yorkshire, Chaplain to the Marquis of Cautden, and 0 0e , of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for ti e coun ty' 0' Southampton. EAST INDIA-DIED. At Calcutta, Jau. 12, J. Bruce, Esq. of Gl.az .eporet :wed 64 years. aged Calcutta, Jan. 13, Mr. W. Robinson, ages! 29. At Padang, Nov. 13, INlr. D. S. Steward, of a boi l ' fever. At Calcutta, Jan. 13, T. Swaine, Esq., Registrar the office of the Secretary to Government, General llc partment, aged 54, At Alangalore, Jan. 25, Capt. J. Watson, of the W l ' Regt. N.I. aged 44, of apoplexy. At Calcutta, Jan. 19, 11Ir. J. Wood, aged 24. At Calcutta, Jan. 6, Capt. W. Lumsdaine, Depot/ Commi.sary-General, aged 38. At Calcutta, Jan. 18, E. 3lolony, Esq. 11. C. Civi l Service, aged 35. At Cannamore, Dec. 9, En%ign C. R. Freese, 2 4 t h Regt. N. 1..... At the Neilgkerry Hills, Dec. 8, E. Jessop, Esq., M sistaut-Surgeon, Madras Establishment, aged 31. At Madras, Dec. 15, Mr. W. Roberts, Superintemh o of the Town Major's Otlice,aged 24. PRINTED AND PUBLIsHED BY MURDO YOUNG, I ' l THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. ---"' 6) Stl't Wmx Tts, ton- +arc. Cow Prin Thil of `tert , prim Rate Livi with Prin In I and comi Ss. i eqna terar pen( St a t e mult Pelft and /nen4 Liml "have ecutt a me ful o " adap cluei of gc of se Glob Ti Emil AR( N o . I Labe( th e 1 Few, Ni TR( of 0 the 1 Post of el CL A Scho RE!. M.D. 2 vol predi horn/ is the rnost vans