The Sun. — London, England, 1833-09-28 00:00:00

porium." But here again you have been mis taken. I have told you, over and over again, in the columns of the Morning Chronicle, that you would be so. I knew that M. Verstolk was sent " as a blind ;" that the King of Holland and the Prince of Orange continued to write to their agents and partisans in Paris, at Brussels, and at Antwerp, not to imagine that he (King William), would ever sign a treaty with Leo pold ; and I knew that he (William), had sent money and instructions e verywhere, how to act on his behalf, to his well-paid and zealous re presentatives. Still, my Prince, you pursued the same tone of assurance—wrote home over and over again the same declarations, that all would be speedily settled—still the Belgian stock went higher and higher, and at last the Five per Cent. Belgian Loan was at par. There has been a fall since then of four or five per cent., but it is even now some thirty per cent. too high. You know, my Prince, that the 18th July, and then the 17th August, and then an early day in September, were all fixed for the final settlement ; but now the Dutch Minister has gone back to the Hague for instructions — the Conference of London is dispersed among the partridges—the affairs of Belgium are as far off an arrangement as ever—and you have taken your leave of the Court of St. James's, perchance never more to return. There are not a great many persons in the world who have a right to laugh or to crow at this denouement; but at least 0. P. Q. is entitled to do so ; for, during the nearly three years of negotiation which have taken place, he has never once said the affairs of Belgium are about to be finally settled. The Chronicle has not repeated the foolish reports, and the yet more absurd predictions of the Globe and the Courier; but when almost all the Paris and the London press have contained some paragraph assuring their readers that the affairs of Belgium were approach ing a final settlement, I have said, no, there will be no treaty signed between Holland and Belgium, and there will be no real arrangement until the Belgian provinces shall be reunited to France. And now, my Prince, allow me to condole with or to congratulate you on the results of your three years' diplomatic negotiations to lose Belgium to France, and to maintain it at all risks and hazards what you are pleased to dig nify with the title of an European peace. The King of Holland was told months ago not to sign anything, not to promise anything, not to concede anything, but to wait for a Conference or Congress of Sovereigns which would be held in the month of August or September. Though the Citadel of Antwerp was taken in January, we have arrived very nearly at October without any settlement, and none you will have, for the Congress of Munchengratz will at least have directed King William to obtain more delays, by refusing to make any more concessions. And here permit me to ask you one question —will you advise your own Government, and will the British Minister of Foreign Affairs counsel the King of Great Britain, to make war against Holland, to invade Holland, blockade Holland, conquer Holland, depose the King of Holland, and occupy militarily, and that for a considerable portion of time, the interior and the capitals of Holland, in order to compel King William to sign a treaty with the son-in-law of Louis Philip, and with the half-nephew of the King of Great Britain and Ha nover ? I doubt it very much ! Yes, I doubt it very much, indeed ! And yet, un less this counsel be given and followed, I am as certain that the King of Holland will never sign that treaty, and never come to any arrange ment, as I am that error is not truth, and that vice is not purity. Besides which, let me ask you another question. Do you believe, if your advice were given to this effect, that Louis Philip would follow it ? Do you think that the lovers of peace and commerce, above and before everything, would risk a general war in Europe, even for his son-in-law ? Or do you think that the Courts of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, would submit quietly to see the King of Holland dethroned, and perhaps a Stadt holder appointed in his stead, for the sake of securing the permanence and stability of what they look upon as a revolutionary Government ? No, no, my Prince; this Belgian question is a war question, a thorny question—a question you cannot, and will not, get over by negoti ation or conferences ; and if you and Lord Palmerston are bent on maintaining Leopold at Brussels, both you and he must make up your minds to draw the sword. Thus, my Prince, at the end of three years, you are the victim of a series of duperies, and duperies practised upon you with insolence and impunity, because it was known, and given out from the commencement, that your mission was to preserve peace— that your Government would not go to war—and that, come what would, the counsellors of the King of the French would not, and could not, prevail on him to adopt any other than a peace-seeking and peace submitting policy. Your mission, then, has been a complete failure. Europe is just as much in a state of uncertainty as to the future as she was when you first went to London. Europe is just as indisposed to disarm as she was in 1830 ! The German Confederation will not suffer the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to belong to Belgium ! The German Confedera tion is about to alter the German constitutions, and render them less liberal ! And the German Confederation is preparing to interfere in the affairs of Switzerland ! Your mission then has failed, and neither France nor Belgium owes you either gratitude or honour. But, m y Prince, if war must after all be made about Belgium, how much better would it be that it should be so made in the interest of France, to the advantage of the Belgians, and with a view to the final settlement of the question, than that it should be entered into merely to serve some dynastic interests or some personal ambition ! ! ! How much better, then, if war must be made about Belgium, that it should be so made to secure the re-union of the Belgian pro vinces to France, than that it should be declared merely in favour of King Leopold, who never can assure to Belgium either permanent peace, prosperity, or happiness. You know, my Prince, Aat now, even now, Belgium desires to become French ; and you know that Franc e entertains the same wishes and hopes. If, then, there must be a war, in order to settle the Belgic question-- if the King of Holland has been only eajolinc, and laughing at you for the last three years , and means to carry on his system of duping still farther, and to the end ;—and if, as I maintain, King William will never sign the treaty with King Leopold, which is required of him, why, just and the name of all that is national and w ise, and necessary, do, pray, be the dupe no longer in the machinations of those who have laughed at you so long—but in the event of a war about Belgium becoming inevitable, let the first object of that war be to re-unite those provinces to France.—l add no more, but that I am, my Prince, your obedient servant, 0. P. Q. FRENCH PAPERS. From Galignani's Messenger.) The Courrier Francais contains the following :-- "According to intelligence of the 20th instant from Toulon, which has reached us by express, the autho rities there have been warned, by letters received from Tuscany, against fresh attempts on the part of the Legitimatists. Some time ago the well-known steamer, Carlo Alberto, made its re-appearance at Marseille, and brought communications from the Legitimatists, which were quickly circulated in the south. At the same time it was reported that the Vendeans, enlisted under the banners of Don Mi guel, Bourmont, Clouet, Larochejacquelin, and others, had caused it to be announced in the de partments of the Pyrennees, that their intention, either in case of victory or defeat, was to fall back on the French Frontier, in order to stir up an in surrection, whilst the Countess de Lucchesi Palli should attempt to land at a favourable point of the coast of Provence. A steam-vessel was at the same time seen off the coast of Algiers. Its owner, who said he was on an excursion of pleasure, touched at Oran, and had an interview with an officer of rank, known for his devotedness to the old dynasty. All these facts, although publicly known, did not excite much attention, because the projects which they revealed appeared so absurd that no one would be lieve them. At present these acts of madness are proved by several almost official facts. The Emu lation sloop-of-war was despatched on the 18th inst. for the Gulf of Spezzia, with orders for the Perle sloop to watch the armaments of the Legitimatists in the ports of Tuscany. The following circular was at the same time addressed by the Maritime Prefect to all his Chefs d'Administration : " Toulon, Sept. 17. " Sir,-1 informed you this morning of the tenor of two letters which I received last night by express from the French Consul-General at Genoa, containing details of the movements of the Duchess of Berry, and her steam vessel Carlo Alberto. Although the report of the fresh attempts of the Countess Lucchesi Palli is entitled to no serious attention for the present, yet it is prudent to be on our guard against any future hostile attempts on her part. I have consequently directed the several civil and military authorities of the five maritime departments on the Medi terranean to watch strictly all the internal and external communications of that coast. You, on your side, will call upon the Commissaries of the classes of every quarter of your arrondissement, to co-operate by every means at their command, in these measures of prudence, concerting with all the functionaries and agents whose duty it is to concur in them. You will recommend to these officers to render you an exact account of every important occur rence connected with the object of this letter, with which they may become acquainted, and to those of the quarters on the west of Toulon to send an immediate report to the Minister." In consequence of this circular the Commissary- General has written to all the Commissaries of Classes of the sth Arrondissement, prescribing the most energetic measures to be taken for watching the movements of the Duchess of Berry, and what- ever may take place on the coast. All the prud'hommes have been Is ritten to, desiring that the masters of the fishing-boats should be instructed to keep a constant look out. The following is the circular of the Chef d'Administration " I request the Commissary of Classes at " * *to fulfil by every means directly within his own province, or which he can obtain from his relations with the civil au thorities, the intentions of this present letter (that of the Maritime Prefect). The better to excite the vigilance of the fishermen, it may be well to promise a liberal re ward to all who by their keeping a good look-out may contribute to disconcert any culpable attempt, or tend to afford any valuable information in the public interest." The Anti de la Charte gives a letter from Mans which says—" If we may give credit to the reports in circulation, a general insurrection is on the point of breaking out in the departments of La Vendie, the Maine et Loire, the Mayenne, and the Ssrlhe, at the head of which are to appear the Duchess of Berry and Henry V. Bourmont, with his adven turers, is to return from Portugal and take the chief command of the legitimatist bands. Henry V.is to be proclaimed King at Rennes, where, or in its neigh bourhood, this Roi des Buissons will establish his seat of Government for the present, and thence issue proclamations to all France. In the mean time, as the Chouans are in want of arms, they take them from all the sportsmen they meet, saying, We have need of them for September 28."' The Augsburg Gazette of the 21st instant quotes INletalliques, .5 per Cents. at Vienna on the 19th, 91 31-32 ; ditto 4 per Cents. 82; Bank Actions, 1,190. The Geneva Gazette gives the following, dated Liestall, Sept. 20 :—" We have just received the important intelligence that the Diet has this day de cided that Basle Country shall not only be freed from contributing towards the expenses of the inter vention, but moreover shall be indemnified by Basle Town for the loss and damage occasioned by the aristocratic soldiers on the famous expedition of Liestall. We are not yet acquainted with the de tails of this resolution, but we know positively that the Diet, rather than display too great severity, has determined that a large portion of the expense shall be borne by the Confederation." FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, SEPT. 26. Five per Cents., 102 f. 25c. 20c. Three per Cents., 75f. 40c. 35e. National Loan, 102 f. 10c. Bank Actions, 1,7151.1 Rente de Naples, 90f. 95c. Roman Five per Cents., 89%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 16%. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40%. Royal Spanish Loan, 82%. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., CB%. Belgian Loan, 1831, 96. Aliguelite Loan, 50%. EXCIIANGF. ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25E 50c. ' • money, 25f. 45c. Three months, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, 25f. 35c. —Ours %Jut& nape. There is still extant in the family of Strick land, of Sizergh, in Westmollaud, according to Mr. Burke, in his valuable " History of the Commoners," a Bnll granted in the 10th of Henry VI., by Pope Eugenius IV., to Sir Thomas de Strickland and Mabel his wife, being a license for a domestic chapel and portable altar. The seal of lead is in very fair preservation, about the breadth and somewhat more than double the thickness of half-a-crown, with a cross on one side, and underneath " Eugenius P. P. 1111. ;" on the reverse two faces of venerable old men, and, above, the letters "SPASP E." Ihe Renovaleur, after referring to the pre sentation of his letters of credence by M. de Ludre to Don Pedro, as Charge d'Affaires of France, and mention ing a rumour that a Minister Plenipotentiary was ex pected at Lisbon says—" We ate able to state the follow ing on the subject :—' Baron Mortier was chosen to fill the function of Minister to the new Constitutional Government of Portugal as soon as Don Pedro took possession of Lisbon. The Baron being then in the country was sent for to Paris , , but before his arrival de spatches had been received from the north, which changed the intended arrangements with regard to Portugal. Baron Mortier was informed that he would be charged with the proposed mission at a later period, but that at present it was not necessary to depart, and consequently, after a few days, he returned to the country.' DEATH BY STARVATION.-011 Monday an inquest was held in the Court-house of Maryborough, to inquire the cause of the death of Daniel Molloy, up wards of '7O, who expired the previous Friday night in a ditch in Rusleighan, near Maryborough. It appeared that the deceased was turned out by his relatives, with whom he resided near 20 years, and was refused admission into any other house; he lay for 29 days and nights previous to his death in the open fields, where he was left to perish by his unnatural relatives, in a populous vicinity. The dea th at R o,,jury, after a t e di ous i nvest i ga ti on , re t ur n e d the following verdict We find ei gb that an, i the n t h said Q u Daniel een,s camel n o t y yon:h t by his e l , 13th o f S eptem b er, 1833, from emaciation, and prev i ous out an d exposure of his air ; where he was suffearbeadn,tiop person remain n a fbr ditch w e weeks inks theprevious open to his death, destitute, and friends, viz abandoned, and forlorn, by his re latives Tie Whelan, Elizabeth Whelan, Margaret Whelan, Daniel e u ti t c ' e . e ; ssa an i d we in the Thomas Forau, James Foran, sen., and James Fora l3 n ral of opinion that the persons aforesaid ar ' e j ar death of the said Daniel Molloy, ;" upon which . r t they committed by the Coroner to the county gaol._l;,7l:lZ Times. T HE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, FOR OCTOBER, 1833, Will contain, among other interesting Papers :—The first of a Series, by the Author of Highways and Bye-ways, entitled "My Travelling Acquaintance ;" also the first of a Series of Sketches by Miss Mitford, entitled, " Inhabi t ants o f a Country Town."—The late Mr. Tardy, a Sketch, by the Author of Paul Pry—The Ruined Laird, a Tale, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton—Seasonable Ditties, No. 2, by Thomas Haynes Bayley—Paganini's Fiddle—The Con clusion of Mr. Grattan's Reminiscences of the late Edmund Kean, &c. &c. Orders for the Magazine should be sent to the Booksellers by the 28th to insure its delivery on the Ist of October. Published for H. Colburn by R. Bentley, New Bur lington-street. ARMY AND NAVY. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL , AND NAVAL AND MILITARY MAGAZINE, FOR OCTOBER, will contain the following Interesting Papers:— The Crisis at Waterloo—Sir Hussey Vivian, in Reply to Major Gawler—The Shipwreck—French Privateering in the West Indies (concluded)—Sketches of the War of the French in Spain in the year 1823—The Loves of the S dlors, No. I.—Miseries of a New Member of the Yacht Club—Nautical Astronomy—On Mechanical Power, and the Neglect of the Scientific Mechanicians—A Visit to the Field of Agincourt—Memoirs of the Services of General Sir James Affleck, Bart. ; Major- General Nathaniel Black ss well, C.B. ; Major-General Browness—Correspondence from the principal Ports and Stations—General Corres pondence—Repart of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Army and Navy Appointments—Commu nication of the Duke of Wellington to Lord Hill—Stations of the Army, &c. &c. Published for H. Colburn, by R. Bentley, New Bur lington-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The announcement of the death of Lady, the wife of Colonel _Sir R. Armstrong, was inserted in The Sun on Thursday. qr b tt tt - LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1833; Every body has read the fable of the boy who called " Wolf ! wolf !" so often, that at last, when the wolf really came, his cry obtained no belief. This has been the case with our official cotemporary on the Belgian question. He has cried " Settlement, settlement," so frequently, that if to-morrow he were to renew the cry he would not be believed, even though it should be the truth. We do not think, however, that there is much probability of his becoming a veracious oracle on this point for at least a year or two. The King of HOLLAND is either as skilful as he is obstinate, or he has very weak opponents to contend against, for at this moment the Belgian question is as distant from settlement as it was twelve months ago ; and if appear ances are to be credited, the Dutchman has stolen a march upon the Downing-street sages, and has hit upon a scheme for the procrastina tion of the affair which is worthy the brain of a METTERNICH, and would have been creditable to a TALLEYRAND in the brighter days of the TALLEYRAND school. The official papers in France and England have from time to time declared that the Allied Sovereigns had no in tention of making the Belgian question a point of discussion in their Congress ; and, therefore, that the Dutch Sovereign, abandoned to his own resources, would be compelled to yield. Lord PALMERSTON had repeated this so fre quently that he had almost begun to believe it himself; and even M. de TALLEYRAND re garded the question as virtually settled, the Allied Powers having declined taking any part in it except through their Plenipotentiaries, who had been instructed to hold a language very favourable to Belgian interests. But the Allied Sovereigns are men of exquisite feelings—full of humane ideas, and most anxiously alive to #to calls of the oppressed. They divided Poland because they thought the Poles would be much ' more happy under their paternal rule than under a Sovereign of their own. They pacified Greece because the struggle for liberty was attended with circumstances afflicting to their humane and generous hearts. They paid for the expedition of the Duchess de BERM to La Vendee because their delicate nerves were shocked at the rude and vulgar rule of a Citizen King ; and now they will turn their attention to the pacification of Bel gium, according to their own enlightened and benevolent views. The King of HOLLAND, good man, has assured the Allied Powers that he has no desire to regain the possession of Bel gium for himself or his family; but that, having received so many complaints of the present Go vernment of Belgium from the wealthiest and most respectable portion of his late subjects, he is bound, by a consideration for their welfare, to solicit delay, in order to afford an opportunity for inquiring whether the Belgians can be happy or prosperous under the present dynasty. In con nection with this representation from the King of HOLLAND, a very clever piece of intrigue has been got up. Several of, the Belgian Orangeists, after long and close communication with the Dutch Ministry, have been sent on a mission to the Allied Sovereigns, and to their re presentatives here and in Paris, with instructions to describe themselves as deputies from large numbers of the Belgians, anxious for a restora tion of the benignant sway of the King of HOL LAND. The representatives of the Absolute Powers at this Court, have given a very cool reception to the deputies who have presented •. themselves ; for, whatever might have been the wishes of those diplomatists, they had no other course to take ; but the benevolent and enlight ened trio, who are met in Congress to determine on the future government of Europe, may, with ,heir accustomed kindness, be more considerate towards the Belgic Orangeists, and the delay which the King of HOLLAND desires may be granted. The protocols which the sages of Hanover-square and Downing-street have pre pared for the information and amusement of an admiring posterity, will therefore form only the first part of the National Diplomatic Library; and if it should please Providence to spare for a year longer the life of the virtuous and vene rable TALLEYRAND, we may have to thank him and his protege Lord PALMERSTON for an other waggon-load of those bright effusions of diplomatic skill which have excited the envy of a NESSELRODE, and astonished the sagacity of a METTERNICH. The Miguelite partisans in the City have spread very gloomy accounts for the Constitutionalists, of the news brought by the Orestes from Oporto. According to them,General STUBBS was in hourly danger of an attack, and Oporto and Lisbon were to fall at the same time. Our own let ters, which are of the 17th, are, however, of a very different character. Nothing had been heard of the troops of MIGUEL, which were said to have reached Santo Fryso, Valongo, &c., with the intention of attacking Oporto, and not less than 3,000 volunteers had entered the city, and offered their services to General STUBBS, its brave and able Governor. The garrison were in the highest spirits, and Sir THOMAS STU BBS had well provided against attack, being well seconded by Colonel PAULETTI, who has the command of the engineering department. It has been determined to make use of the Aliguelite lines at Villa Nova, turning the guns from the city, and to take the whole of the suburb within them, continuing the lines from the east of the Serra round the hills to the sea. Many stands of arms had been found, and upwards of one thousand had been forwarded to Lisbon, together with much ammunition of all kinds, of which large quantities were daily found on both sides of the river. The letters hold out no idea of an attack, still less any fears for the result, should the rebel troops dare to advance. It was understood that some two thousand troops of the line, including cavalry, had been marched across the Douro, on their way to join the army under BOURAIONT, in front of Lisbon. A highly flattering letter of thanks had been voted to Lord GEORGE PAULET, of his Majesty's ship Nautilus, signed by every British subject at Oporto, for his attention and solicitude for their interests and safety ever since his arrival in the Douro. The French papers of Thursday, and the Gazette de France, and the Messager des Chambres, dated yesterday, mention that it was generally reported in Paris that the Conference at Munchengratz was at an end, and that the Emperor of ItusslA had passed through Breslau on his return home. The Chouans still con tinued to be the cause of great public uneasiness, as they were beginning to bestir themselves just as actively as ever in La Vendee. Apprehen sions were entertained that the Duchess de BERRI meditated another landing in France, and the greatest vigilance was in consequence exercised by the different local authorities along the entire range of the coast of Provence. The Carlo Alberto steamer, in which the Duchess was last year conveyed to France, had arrived at Marseilles, and the Ministers of Marine and the Interior had issued orders for her being rigorously searched and seized, should circumstances arise to warrant such proceeding. The Messager des Chainbres says that she new title which the Emperor of AUSTRIA is about to assume, is that of " Protector of Italy." We wonder that such a stickler for legitimacy (even down to the minutest matters of etiquette) as his Austrian Majesty, condescends to assume a title once borne by that arch usurper OLI VER CROMWELL ! One would suppose that the very phrase would stink in the nostrils of all true Legitimates," as being associated in their minds with "heresy, rebellion, and schism." The news from Spain, as respects the KING, is, that his: health is much improved, and that he takes airings every day in his carriage with the QUEEN. The cholera is still very prevalent, and has now extended to Ayamonte, Seville, Oliveira, and Badajos. The Spanish priests were everywhere making the greatest exertions to dispose the minds of the people favourably to Don CARLoS. These mischievous, meddlesome fanatics preached openly, in all the small towns and villages, that " Don MIGUEL must be supported, because, if he were overturned, Don CARLOS would quit Portugal and be compelled to proceed to Italy." The And de la Charte quotes an absurd extract from a letter from Mans, to the effect that it was reported, that a general insurrection was about to break out in the departments of La Vendee, the Maine et Loire, the Mayenne, and the Sarthe, at the head of which were to appear the Duchess of BERRY, and that Young Hopeful, HENRY the Fifth. As for BOURMONT, he was to hurry away with a select band of brigands from Portugal and as sume the command of the Carlist awkward squad! A society was established in 1830, called the Labourers' Friend Society, under the patronage of many high names. Its object is :o ameliorate the condition of the labourer, and it proposes to effect its object chiefly by disseminating infor mation on the advantages of the allotment and cottage garden system, which consists in letting to the labourer, at a fair rent, such a quantity of land as he (with the help of his family) can cultivate by spade husbandry, without neglecting his ordinary employment. The report of the poor law commissioners having shown the ultimate futility of the allot ment system, a member of the society has thought it necessary to put forward a defence of it, and of the merits of the poor laws. The premises advanced in the sheet before us, and circulated by the society, are these : " As every agricultural labourer requires a certain quantity of food in the course of the year, which must be produced from an adequate portion of land, the object of the Cottage Allotment System is, to enable him at a fair rent to occupy sufficient land near his dwelling to raise this supply, which he can do at a much less cost than if he were to purchase it from others, for the following reasons, viz., that the labour be employs costs him nothing, the expense of buying and selling are saved to him, and, as is proved, he will raise a greater quantity of food front a given portion of laud with little or no waste than is done by the farmer on a larger scale. It is nothing more than the application of the principle of steam conveyance, machinery, and railroads (viz., to bring the producer and consumer closer together), but in a greater degree, as it unites both in the same person, the agricultural labourer actually producing at home the food that he consumes. In consequence of the agricultural labourers having to buy their food instead of raising it themselves, it costs this country five or six millions a year more in feeding them than there is any occasion for, as they could raise their food at nearly half the price they now pay for it." The mistake in principle here committed is in supposing that men progress by doing every thing for themselves. The producer and con sumer of any article being one and the same person, is as infallible a sign of a backward state of society as a great subdivision of labour is of a forward state of society. Perhaps, if every man in the country were engaged in pro ducing food, our own soil might be made to produce more than it now does ; but then we could produce nothing else but food. Every man, to be in the perfect state the writer of the above would bring us to, must be his own smith, his own carpenter, and his own tailor, because " the producer and consumer would be brought closer together." To make us retro grade to that extent is impossible, but every partial success of attempts to make us do so, is, pro tanto, a mischief. No experience the Society has yet had can overthrow the arguments deduced from the experience of others against their system. We select the following frotn a list of instances of the success of their plan, given by the Society : NAMES OF PLACES. COLERNE, WILTS. GRANTS. RESULTS. In 1818, twenty.nine acres of Tenants and theirfamilies ren land left in bust for the poor, dered all honest and respect and being under the care of able; have been kept free from the clergyman, were divided parish relief, and become the amongst thirty families, in farmers' best labourers. Land portions according to their greatly improved by thespade size, some of one and others husbandry. of half an acre. WORTHING, ST. LAWRENCE WOOTTON, and MONK SHERBORNE, near BASINGSTOKE. GRANTS. RESULTS. In the years 1830, and 1832, in The Cottagers are grateful, these parishes, 120 acres were punctual tenants, and all agree let to 180 cottage tenants, in in saying this system is the pieces varying from 40 rods to best friend they ever had ; acres, at the same rent as a they are all better off than farmer pays, with the addition they used to be; they are rising of rates and tithes. in the world; they see it pos sible, by their own exertions, to raise themselves far above pauperism, and they are ex erting themselves accordingly. This may be all very true, and we doubt not that it is ; but we must recollect that each of these 200 labourers so provided for have fami lies. When their children grow up, they will, unless the check of education previously step in, marry as soon as they feel inclined to do so ; and why not ? The parish is bound to main tain them or give them allotments of land at such rents as they can pay. One generation, then, at least, doubles the claimants for allot ments, and each claimant has just as good a title to the indulgence as his father had before him. It is clear that if the thing went on ano ther step we should be precisely in the situation Ireland now is, precisely in the situation that a great part of France now is, as much of Swit zerland and Savoy now is. The organ of the Society says— " The stumbling-block to the prosperity of Ireland has been created by this course of proceeding, viz., the land has been let and underlet at enormous rents, then culti vated in one crop, and that of potatoes, which is not only most ruinous to the land, but also to the occupier,by only giving empl o y men t d ur i ng one p er i o d o f the year ; it is then left to the management of agents, while the own • ers of the soil, and natural protectors of the labourer, are spending the revenues of these lands in foreign countries." Here is an enormous mistake. The land being let or underlet at large rents, has nothing to do with the question. If any thing, a heavy rent is a check upon the badness of the system ; but it is clear, that the only effect of lowering the rent, that is, of reducing the landlords' share of the produce, would be to allow of one subdivision more, and a slight addition to be made to the mass of human misery which now cumbers the soil. The fact of potatoes only being grown, does not touch the principle of the question, which would remain just the same if none but the least exhausting crops are grown. The fact is, that all attempts to guard men against their own improvidence must fail. Legis lation may, and ought, as far as possible, to guard them against evils of extraordinary occurrence, but evils of every day occurrence, the remedy for which is in their own power legislation cannot guard them against. If men's fingers are cold they must remain so, unless they can buy gloves. If there be food sufficient in an island for only say a score of people, ne device will make two score have a bellyful. Y" may feed the second score, but it must be at the expense of the first. The writer of the par r before us talks of landlords having it in the ir power to throw labourers out of employment an d therefore starve them if there were no poor; and he adds : " On these considerations hinges the merits of the poor laws, the object of which is to compel the rich t ° employ the poor, or in default of such employment I ° contribute to their support, which of course must be the ) in idleness ; the latter has unfortunately been very gar rally the case, and is the chief cause of the dernoralisati ° of our peasantry ; therefore how absurd it is to lay 141 , blame on the poor laws, when these laws distinctly lin to the landlord, employ your poor, or we will tax Y° l/ for their support, and this tax has been submitted t° , rather than do that which it is the object of these laws t ci f effect; the fact is, the tax has not been severe enough; I it had been more so, employment would have been soon° found, and we should have heard little or nothing o f pool rates." It is rather a new doctrine to promulgate that the tax of poor rates is not heavy enough. We should like to hear what those landlords would say to it, whose entire rents have been swill" lowed up by the poor rates. There are men i° different parts of the country whose fathers bought estates with the produce of their indus' try, but who are now reduced to beggary, 1 1 c 4 by any fault of their own, but because they have been obliged to allot out the rents to every man less provident than themselves. The allotting out of the land is rather les s ( absurd than the allotting out of a portion °' its profits, because it obliges the party t° whom it is allotted to till it. If that party is farther pleased to pay rent for a time, the absur . dity experiences another slight diminution ; bu t in either of the two last cases the crisis is only postponed, and that crisis is when the claimants upon land or the rental of land, become so nu' merous as to leave the landlord nothing. It t England, where the law allows the labourer tci f be as improvident as he pleases at the expense 0 the landlord, the problem has been solved by th e latter, in all cases, having been impoverished- --i° many, reduced to ruin. lii Ireland, the i g noranc e and consequent improvidence of the people, no having the landlord's rent legally to fall bac l upon, is solving the problem in another fashion' Mr. O'CONNELL tells us that thousands nually die of starvation ; whilst other accounts tell us that more thousands are beginning t ° refuse to pay rents, as they have for some tinle, refused to pay tithes, which are, after all, but rent under a different name. efficient remedy r a e v m e eurged for againthe evilsa n d which actually a t t a u t a t i e o s n i 1 1 , 1 : in Ireland, and which threaten this coun tr y , the introduction, by means of education , of the . same habits of providence and foretho u g ht among the lower classes which exist a mong middle and upper classes. The cottage ment system may be a good inintroduction t° education and the gradual abolition of the p° if ic laws in this country ; but it will never of itS e permanently ameliorate the condition of th e labouring population. 8 DAY AT ONV O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock ................. Ditto Bonds pm. South Sea Stock ............ 91i 'Old Annuities.. ......... ... 'New Ditt0................. »• '3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, £1,000...... 44 45 pm. Ditto 500...... 44 45 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — pm Ditto Advertised .. ....... pm. Bank for Account ......... India for Account ......•. Cons. for Opening ....... ..W , 4 14 PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stccit - 3 per Cent. ltei'. ... . - 3:per Cent. Cons. SSii% 3}6 per Cent. - Ditto Red - New 334 per Cent. 3 Per Cent. Ann. 1726 I per Cent. 1826 Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5,186 e - Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 .m...1 Jan. 5, 1880 - Aprils, 1880 - Jan. 5. 1870 - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 96 3 4 Belgian Bonds 9414 Ditto Account Q4W Brazilian Bonds 694 Ditto Account 69% Buenos Ayres Bonds 25 Ditto Account 9 4% Chilian Bonds ... 25 Ditto Account 25 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account _ THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 20 , Portuguese Bonds ...... 4.‘ Ditto Account 76 Reg. Scrip.... ...... 19% 1 ,4 % pm. Ditto Acc 19%Th pm. Prussian Bonds ................ Ditto Bonds, 1822 ...... 10114 ,Russian Bonds, 1822 lOl% 1 Ditto Account ............... 102 New Loan 102% ISpanish Bonds, 1821 ......21N Ditto Account 22 1% Ditto Bonds, 1823 ......... Ditto Bonds, 18 - 24 22% 3 Ditto Account 22N 3 Danish Bons 74 ►~ Ditto Account 741,4 Greek Bonds 32 Ditto Bonds , 1825 Ditto Accotint — French Rentes, 5 p. c. 1021 Exchange ...... 2.51 60c. —3 per cent....... —c. Exchange ...... —f Dutch, 2 1 p. c ................ 48 y, ay e Ditto Account 48% Ditto, 5 p. c ............. 94%14 ' Ditto Account ......... 94% 5 ,04 Franch Scrip .............. 45.2 pm. Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Account '714 Ditto, 6 per cent 36 Ditto Account 36 Neapolitan 94N raicits OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE o'cLocr• Paid. Per Share, Alten Mining Company £4 /4 Pm. Anglo Mex. Min. t . o. kiss. at 51. pm ) £ lOO 11 Bolanos Mining Company £l 5O 125 Brazilian Mining Company £s 138 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 5814 Ditto National 2O 231,i Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 Cata Branca Mining Company lsl 414 British Iron Minim , Comoany £so 27 Columbian Minim, Co. 'iss at 51. pm ) 5114 125, English Mining Company 1254 2756 General Mining Association . Hibernian Mining Co Mexican Mining Co. £4B Real del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) I_ fitted Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scrip 5 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector I ns 'trance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co. l3 National Provincial Bank of England 5 Rio Doce Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 1B.; £1 7 0 4 34 2 pm. 36 PRICKS OF IRISH STOCI Bank Stock Consols, 3 Der cent. - Gov. Stock, 3g, per cent 95%1 Ditto, New per Cent Gov. Deb. 3% per cent BB Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4D. c. - Arrived. :s, DUBLIN, SEPT. 25. i St. Patrick lnsur.(perShare Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings ,NGE YESTERDAY. COURSE OF EICHA Amsterdam C.F 12 3 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam U 12 31 Antwerp 12 7 Hamburg M.S. 13 12,t, Altona 14 121 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 CO Ditto 0 U 25 75 Bordeaux 25 90 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 152 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective fl. 2 M. '9 59 Trieste ...... do To o Madrid 3714 Cad►z 37 t s Gilboa Barcelona 36% Seville 36% Gibraltar 47 ►,4 Leghorn 4B Genoa 25 80 Milan 91 Venice 47 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 120 Lisbon Oporto 5O Rio Janeiro Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight — Cork BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 101 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver bars, standard 0 4 Ilf Due. )Arrived. ......... . O America 0 0 Hamburg 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward islands ... 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Malta ... 0 1 France ... 0 0 Sweden O Guernsey Sz Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. hforning...2l minutes after 2. I Evening...3B minutes after 2. Due. IN 59 60 13 1 ,4 16 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOOO 3 New York Papers to the 4th of September , and Silo gapore, to the 19th of April, have been receiv ed at t North and South American Coffee-house. (From the New York Papers.) g lejt' MExrco.—A letter from Tampico, dated 4th Alcor says that heavy seizures have been made by the house, of cotton yarn. The cholera is subsiding in S I""eig° NEW Youx.—There were 278 arrivals from ports during the month of August last. l a st Arrivals from Mexico of the 7th of Aug. state.t- - by contending armies were near the city, but no ba ttle been fought. 'o o There was some reason to believe that an ins°, sober had taken place among the negroes in the Island °' and that from 400 to 450 bad been taken and shot' (From the Singapore Papers.) 9, , Of op Yesterday the Zion. Company's schooner .- 4 ,,,11° 19 rived from Penaug and Malacca, having the R i g" - the Governor Ibbotson on board. s 0 )14 The American ship Cashmere arrived at tterice, during the week from Boston, being the fourth vessel from the United States that has called he a few months, for the purpose of obtaining produce' (From the Normandy Gazette.) h i t, e The following has been received this morning o rdev e French mail :—" If we are correctly informe d, t h have been sent by the telegraph to Toulon , for , col ; 0 disposable ships in that port to put to sea, and tha.',.og, siderable force, both in men and ships, are asses:,oo is supposed, they are destined for the coast of Nor, e llpti, e le At Paris a report prevails of an approaching ' l ° o o 4 of the Chambers. They are to be convoked in 0; 0 he of November, when the budget will be discus seu a3 ' e rP which an ordinance will be issued for their I L° dissolution. o p TILE FUNDS. lo ot g To the present time we are without arrivals ; 4 01, 0 a single ship letter has come to hand ; consequ'bd;il are exceedingly dull in the City. Although see arrival yesterday of ship letters from Lisbon. u„ tbft hour their contents have not transpired. .„.ars According to the Madrid information, it a P r Bourmont has despatched a division of his WI 1 Oporto, while he remains blockading Lisbon' 0; 0 61 Consols opened at the same price they left off' for the Account. Nothing doing as yet. 01: AP HALF- P S 6 'e Accounts from Monte Vied state, that Borne he 0/ b ip have taken place between that Government a nd t ie' os of his Britannic Majecty, on account of an Pn bie P lW having entered that port during the nights sor e ' Oo rs determined the Ministry to adopt a general m e t er t beroii in future not a ship of any description shall eliewitliii,b• after sun-set ; and should any ship not col Y u en b r ed order in the fi rst instance, they are to be fire to be b og out ball—if they do not bring to, they ar e has upon with the guns loaded. This me asure , the notified to the various Consuls. ol ; 000 y, We have no arrivals as yet from Portt% v ll l 00 0 6 African steamer and the Royu/ibt are expenteu the i Aec , o lio Consols continue heavy at 884- to I fo r sc rip with scarce a bargain doing. Portugues e L 0 C j‘. heavy at 198 prem. REF °'Cf-- nsols for the Account, 8871 Co . CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CL°CI%):4-.11, Ditto OW Ann.q. .... ...-•,,,,, Ditto New Alin . ''' , 4 5 , l', l o , Ex. Bills, ; ''''''' • 4,1. 1,01. Ditto 517,0 '' Ditto Small.. ''''''' „„ 1 Bank St. for Ace.. ... .. fr iliduttitoatlSllsto:ncalcdss..t..o...e;;',....::::::::',',l r t Consols for Opg ..... ........ ,2 I n dia Sr. for Op g ifri Prussian, Per c s c ",r ceo, qi Russian Bowls, P ...... ::, ? ,i0 r l ij a N g ns e ., Ditto, IVletallriec..e.Ni,.. . .., 0 ...., Spanih, 5Pe ...... 1 . 6'1 1 :60c , Ditto, 18`23• .... ... ............ _,, French 5 per Cent.... 7,4""? Exchange ....... : . . ..... 1 French 3 per L e nt ••• v• Dutch, 21 per cent....,..,,„, Pitt°, 5 Per ee Ut " . Ditto, Beg. Scsii p er ct....e.n...,t ..1,:.,4 ipoif Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 pet Cent. Cons BBl 3! per Cent. I Per Cent. .. . „ New 3; per Cent 964 4 per Cent lO4 Long. Ann. to expire Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l7l FOREIG: Austrian, 5 per cent 97 Belgian, 5 per cent 94* Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 25 Chilian, 6 per cent es Columbian, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824 Danish 741 Greek, 5 per cent 3B Mexican 6 per Cents, 1825 .36 Ditto 6 per Cent.. 1825 ...... 3_ 5 1 Peruvian 0 per Cent.......... 1 fr ui 1 Pui %Oa lip, Cal Se( Il t4 4, , '11„ •c,