The Sun. — London, England, 1836-05-20 00:00:00

has become absolutely necessary for the consolidation of a real union between both countries, and for the advance ment of good government in each. See what the real state of the question is. In Scot land the corporations had become close monopolies ; the rights of all were usurped by a few, and peculation and every abuse were secured by the total absence of responsi bility or publicity. In England the corporations were not such strict mono polies ; but they were equally corrupt, and perhaps more actively mischievous. In Ireland the corporations happily blend all the evils of both systems.. They are close and exclusive as the Scotch, monopolizing and corrupt as the English, but they add the hideous feature of religious animosity and exclu siveness. They poison at the source, and render partial the administration of the laws, which is fancifully called in that country the administration of justice. They are hot beds of peculation, fraud, and bigotry. Injustice and per jury are their handmaids. The Scotch corporations bad some defenders in the Houses of Parliament. The English corporations had more than one advocate to soften down the general cha racter of monopoly and corruption. But the Irish corpo rations could not find one single person in either House of Parliament sufficiently audacious to utter even one word in mitigation of the universal sentence of condemnation pronounced upon them by ail that is wise and good in both countries. H there were a real union between the two countries, what would have been the consequence of such a state of things ? Why, that the Legislature should have pro ceeded in the first instance to remedy the greatest evil, and to reform the Irish corporations. The English and Scotch could then have been easily, and would have been expedi tiously, regulated. But what has been done ? Recollect that we are in a state of union forsooth. This has - the Union produced. Ist. The Scotch corporations have been reformed to a very considerable extent, and the people of the Scottish towns have been, as was just, let into the administration of their own affairs. idly. The English corporations have been partially, and to a subStontially good effect, though not sufficiently, re fermed, and the people have been in a considerable degree let into.the management of their own affairs. idly. The Lords have utterly refused to reform the Irish corporations. They admit that those corporations are too vicious to be allowed any longer to exist ; but then they turn round upon the people of Ireland. and they offer us this base, this atrocious insult—they state that we are unfit and unworthy to manage our own affairs. They insolently degrade us beneath the people of Scotland and of England, and they laugh to scorn the just indignation that boils in our blood, and almost bursts into action at this gross, this unmerited, this tyrannical insult. Bat let me restrain my natural and just abomination of this outrage ; let me calmly and coolly remind the people of England that the Scotch have reformed corporations—the English have reformed corporations—and the Irish are denied reformed corpora tions !! Is this TztE UNTON !—I ask every honest Englishman if this were the state of the facts :—if the Scotch had ob tained municipal reform, if Ireland had also obtained a si milar reform, and if municipal reform was not only refused to England, hut that the Lords told the people of - England, insolently and audaciously told the people of England,qbat they were unworthy and unfit to manage their own loyal affairs —if that were so, what would be the answer ? , Why the answer your ancestors gave to Charles I. and to James 11. .L--a revolution. Englishmen I despise not us in. Ireland if we are not prepared to follow the e:: ample you set us. Put be con vinced that We will not tamely submit, neither will we acquiesce at all in this insulting wrong. Our course is oh- ‘IOIIF.. Ist. We will have Lord Lyndhurst's Bill kicked oat. No compromise—no submission—the Lords have com meneed the eoli!sion—they have taken their choice to rest that collision !'ipoa the insulting iniquity of refusing corpo rite yeform to Ireland. "We only follow in their track by throwing - out the Bill, and join issue with" them to the eon ry. 2dy. We appeal to the people of F. - iv:land for aid and ;istance : « are entitled to that aid and assistance. In i:cople of Ireland I call upon you for that the name of tl aid and assistance. idly. I will appeal to the people of Ireland—they are stomed to my cry of peaceable agitation— •' Hereditary Bolidsmen, know ye not Who would be free, thernselves must strike the blow r The agitation must and will be re-organised. We cannot, and we will not, submit to the execrable tyranny and in suitiag injustice of the Lords without using every effort to obtain the complete reform of that assembly. Ireland must have reformed corporations, as England and Scotland have—or the House of Lords must be reformed—or the Union dissolved. To these points I want to direct the attention of the British people. The reform of the Lords is the ONE POLI- TicAt NECESSITY. You cannot hope to extend the right of suffrage. Why? Because the Lords would reject the measure. Therefore reform the Lords. You cannot hope to shorten the duration of Pairament. Why ? Because the Lords would reject tile Bill. There fore reform the Lords. You cannot hope ror the protection of the ballot. Wily? Because the Lords would extinguish the Bill. Therefore Telorm the Lords. _ _ You cannot see justice done to Ireland, or- our corpora 'Eons reformed. Why ? Because the Lords have, with an insalting mockery, disfigured and degraded the Bill. There fore, I say, reform the Lords. The Lords illtreat England—despise Scotland—insult Ireland. Therefore reform the Lords. It is idle to expect, you cannot expect, to ameliorate - your institutions—to lessen your burdens—to correct your expensive and absurd judicial establishments—to do justice to the Dissenters—to reform the temporalities of the Church—or to consolidate the Union on the broad and firm basis of mutual and reciprocal rights and liberties—until you have first reformed the House of Lords. Let me be understood. Ido not seek to abolish the Peerage. Ido not require to take away the prerogative of creating Peers from the Crown. Ido not desire to press the organic change beyond the actual necessity of the case. Let the House of Lords remain, but let no Lord be a legis. .iator unless he be also a representative Peer. In other -words, let the reformed House of Lords consist of 120 Peers, elected by 120 districts of as nearly equal popula tion as possible, into which the UNITED KINGDOM could be easily divided. I have had occasion to remark, that in point of principle, or even of name, there is not any novelty in my proposition. There are at present Scotch Peers and Scotch representa tise Peers. There at present Irish Peers and Irish repre sentative Peers. Let there be also English Peers and _English representative Peers. There would be, indeed, this difference in the principle of election. The electors would be different, but 'the eligible would be the same.. I pray the English people to observe that I am in the •exact performance of the pledge I have given—namely, to -try to the last the experiment whether Ireland can be well governed by the United Parliament. It is in the obser vance of that pledge that I call for your assistance to re form.the House a Lords. That House, in its present state, is the great obstacle to the good government of Ire land ; in fact it is, in its present state,an invincible obstacle to such government. I defy any man to deny this fact, that the enemies of Ireland have a majority, a decided majority, in the House of Lords, a majority not to be influenced by argument. There is Lord Winchilsea, a well meaning man—so much the worse, because the founders of the Inquisition were probably well-weaning persons, but their handy-work was not one bit the less bad on that account. The Duke of Newcastle is another leader of the anti-Irish party ; poor anan ! well-meaning !—be it so—but as impervious to logic as a door-post. Lord Londonderry, another leader—not a well-meaning man, nor an ill-meaning man, but a man of no meaning at all. The commander-in-chief of the party is Lord Lyndhurst upon it, oh fie!!! I could endure indignity to my country perhaps from almost any other person—but coming from such hands as these! Fie upon it ! oh fie! !I The , materials of the majority in the Lords against Ire land could not well be worse than they are ; but of what importance is that ? They arc all powerful for mischief— impotent of good. The same majority diminishes or disfi gures every measure useful to England—they destroy ',everything useful to Ireland. To this then should every well-wisher to Ireland tend. .7o the reform of the House of Lords the attention of every real and sincere Reformer should now be turned. Th ere may be some calling themselves Reformers, but who are Tories in their hearts ; and there may be others who . es ie , ,aedly play the part of Tories ; and both these classes nay se ek, therefore, to turn the attention of the friends of reed, nn to other topics fr om the one thin necessary—the& reform of the House of Lords. There are men who either cannot see or who will not see that the present object of the leaders , of ti.e majority in the Lords is to supersede the Commons in their right to controul the appointment of the Ministry_ The question narrows itself to the single point whether or mot, the reform of the House of Commons is to be useless farevery practical purpose ? It is indeed, quite clear that suds reform is an useless mockery, if the Lords, ivho before the, Reform Bill governed the nation by and f•airough their nominees in the House of Commons, shall r- ow govern the nation directly and by their own personal or , -d irresponsible power. It is well to ly.r:n2 - , the question forward in its distinct and intc •Ilie-ible shape. The Reform Bill was intended to take from the Lords the power of controul and direction of pub lic a Efairs exercised by them, by their nominees being a great In ajority of the M embers of the House of Commons. ci The Reform Bill intended to transfer that power from the Peers to the people by their representatives. But the Lords say no—we must still be the dominant power ; and to work they go—decidedly and indecently using that power to destroy every useful and valuable measure. This is despotism—passive in appearance—active in reality —no abuse shall be corrected—no improvements , made—because the Lords will the contrary. This species , 'of tyranny is, perhaps, the very worst. It is a many headed monster. One tyrant may be shamed into modera tion by the universal voice of the people ; but the name of this tyrant is " Legion ;" and the members of the Legion keep one another in countenance. There is but one remedy—break up " The Legion"— Reform the House of Lords. Till that is done, British liberty is but a mockery and a name. Irish oppression and misrule are immoveable—and we Irish hare but this alternative Ieft—REFORM of the LORDS-or REPEAL Of the UNION. I have the honour to be your faithful servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. S int So.ck ... - 2l2k; (India Stoek.... ........... ~........ :3 per Cent. lied . 01% 00% I, Ditto Bonds 3 11 , M. .$ per Cent Cons..., 91 3 74 •"' 1:U i Swuth Sea Stock 1! , 4 per Cent '191.4 : Old Annuities - Ditto lied gS✓, 4 7 / 0; New Ditto — New M,:, per Cent lutP4 % '.'z i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 --.. New :i per Cent —I I Exch. Bills, .4.:1,000 l7 15 pm. Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire ' Ditto 500......... 15 17 pm. Jan 5, it- 1 40 15 13-IG% I Ditto Small Oct 10, IMSO 15 11-Rii Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan 5. 1W 16% 131 Ditto Advertised — No• Jan. 5. 10 —l Bank Stock for Account — April 5, 1854' — India Stack for Account ..... .... 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Erelling mitilltiS after HAMBURGH, Apm, 1836. 1 - 1 N approach of the Drawing of the 68th HAM 1 / 4 ( 4 y BURG GIIEAT LOTTERY, published and drawn I), authority, and under guarentee of the State of Hatriburg.— HEINE 1.111 OTHERS, in Hamburg, the .Contractors, beg t ref.zpitu:ate tlw Capital Prizes above 5001., which they sold up& whole tickets to England, Scotland, and Ireland, during the lam seven Lotteries. • Gist Lottery, sold to Edinburgh £3,000 Do. Do. London . 1,000 6.2 a Do. Do. Beverley 611 i 'o. Do. London 61th Do. Do. Aberdeen Do. - Do. Liverpool 65th Do. Do. Liriierick Do. Do. A Hamburgh house for ac-1 1 ~0 . 0 count of a Loudon house. J ' 3 Do. Do. Liverp00l 66th Do. Do. Liverpool Do. Do. Edinburgh 67th Do. Do. Porthleaven Harbour . Do. Do. Edinburgh 750 The publication of Trw. SUN NF,wspArEn commenced th:s da at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock , cse &"" ),1 \ • ,',<> r(i 1r I) 111 4T"'\''filtrat LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1836. Mr.O'CONNELL has again set all the Tory Journals on the qui vire, by his "Letter to the People of Eng land," which appears in another part of The Sun of this day. Out fair Contemporary, the Morning Herald, in particular, is quite frolicsome on the subject, caper ing and kicking up her heels, in a manner perfectly astonishing in a gentlewoman of her years. But she was always a lively old lass, though apt to be some thing peevish at times ; and on the present occasion, instead of letting fly a volley of hard, splenetic words at DANIEL, she is quite forbearing towards him— indeed we might almost say, coaxing. " There are those who obtain alms through charity, and others who extort them by compulsion," is all she can find it in her heart to say against the Agitator ; which leads us to infer that, notwithstanding her affected dislike, she entettains a secret penchant for him, which ono day or other may furnish occupation for the " gentlemen of the long robe." But if the Morning herald be frisky and forbearing, cracking jokes, instead of foaming at the mouth, not so the Morning Post, which sets to at O'CoNNELL with all the zeal and gusto cf a coal-heaver. And indeed we do not wonder at our Contemporary's choler, for there is that in DANIEL'S letter which is admirably calculated to drive the Tories to distraction. He no longer minces matters, or uses the honied words of supplication to the Lords ; but boldly sets them at defiance, and tells them that they shall be reformed in spite of themselves. " I will speak my mind freely," says he, " the Lords have scandalously, insultingly—l will add, because it is true—basely violated their pledge, and broken their contract. There is then but one remedy. Reform the House of Lords. Irish oppression and misrule are immovable, and we Irish have but this alternative left—Reform of the Lords, or Repeal of the Union." This is bold, uncompromising language ; but not a bit too much so. The Lords have brought it on themselves, for by their amendments to the Irish Cor poration Bill, they have deliberately stigmatized the whole Irish community as a set of lunatics, unfit to be trusted with the management of their own affairs. Nay, they have even done worse. They have told them that they are a degenerate people ; and that though it may be perfectly right and proper to do jus tice to England and Scotland, yet that Ireland must be treated differently, for she is a conquered, semi barbarous province, and must be legislated for as such. It is against these monstrous insults that Mr. O'CONNELL protests; and we have not the slightest doubt that his letter, vehement as it is, will meet with the approbation of nine-tenths of the English com munity. More especially, will, his proposal for reform. mug the Lords be received with marked favour. He here touches a chord to which every true Reformer will respond. Their Lordships have of late shown themselves so decidedly hostile to every species of ra tional improvement ; so inveterate in their resolution,. not only to stand still themselves, but to prevent every one else from moving forward, that the people have become heartily sick of them, and all but unani mous in demanding their prompt reformation. It is at THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1836. this crisis that the letter of Mr. O'CONNELL appears I —a letter which will rouse all the best feelings of . Englishmen, and agitate Ireland from one extremity to the other. Deeply, however, as we may regret this agitation, one thin; must be borne in mind, nam el y , that it is the House of Lords that has occasioned it. They are the real agitators. But for them Ireland would be perfectly tranquil ; but they must interfere in matters of which they know little or nothing—for what does Lord LYNDHURST know of the internal state of the sister-kingdom ?—and must, therefore, be prepared to pay the penalty of their head-long officiousness. We hazard little in predicting that the hurricane is brewing which will soon shake the Upper House to its foundations. The debate of last night in the Commons is full of angry omens. We see by that, that Ministers will silnd firm to their reso lution of rendering " equal justice" to Ireland ; and that they will be supported by a large and pledged majority of Reformers. On this point, the manly speeches of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. SPRING RICE leave us nothing to wish for. What then remains for the House of Lords, but submission ? But they will not submit. So much the better, for then they will bring to an immediate settlement a question whiCh might otherwise have been put off for years. Sir G. SINCLAIR, we perceive, was singularly verbose last night in his praises of their Lordships which is a thou Sand pities, for he never shows to such advantage as when he is holding his tongue. His speech, from the first sentence to the last, was a mere farrago of pert common-places, got together with ma nifest difficulty, and smelling strongly of the lamp. He assured us, forsooth, that we should find the House of Lords " unflinching and invincible ;" but forgot to remind us that the people were equally stubborn, and, as late experience has shown, "invincible," when once they have directed their energies to the accomplishment of a particular duty. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, as might have been expected, expressed himself in that jesuiti cal strain, so characteristic of the Guard of the Derby Dilly. He would, and he would not, stand up - for Reform. He would, and he would not, endeavour to effect a compromise between the Lords and the Com mons. And this he called, doing his duty ! This trimming, huckstering, policy, he considered worthy of a statesman at a crisis like the present Out upon such double-tongued, Janus-faced politicians, who stand coquetting and vacillating between two sets of motives, like a certain animal between two bundles of hay. If Sir JArvIES desires to stand well with the people, let him at once hoist the colours, either of Whig or Tory, but not set sail under a neutral flag. Meantime, we advise. his Comitituents to keep a sharp look-out on tim ; and the same advice we would extend to the whole elective body, for the times are such as to de-• land the exercise of all their energies. To a question put by Lord STRANGFORD last night, in the House of Lords, respecting the Timber Duties, Lord GL ENELG, replied that Government did not intend to propo:ie , ,any alteration in these Duties this session of Parliament. - The Noble Lord also de nied that any engagement had been entered into with Foreign Powers which would in the least interfere with the free discussion of the question, when it should come under the review of Parliament ; but stated that the measurement of deals was under consideration. We had, in consequence of what fell from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER some time ago, indulged the hope that some diminution of the enor mous duty now levied on European timber would have been effected this year. The duty on Canadian tim ber is, we believe, 10s. per load ; that on Baltic tim ber, 555. ; and the benefit which the British public derive from this state of things is, that they are obliged to pay a high price for a very inferior quality of an article of universal consumption, and have at the same time the gratification of seeing their manu factures excluded from the whole of the north of Europe, while those of their rivals are admitted. We have advices from Bayonne to the 15th inst. CORDOVA has entered Mondragon, and made him self master of Onate—so long the Head-quarters of Don CARLOS. This town is very insignificant, and was not defended by the Carlists, who fled at the ap proach of the enemy. The Vanguard of the QUEEN'S army has taken possession of Bergara, another Carlist garrison. Don CARLOS is at Villa Franca, where he is assembling his troops, with the intention, it is said, of giving battle to CORDOVA. There will certainly be some fighting in a few days, as CORDOVA cannot remain longer inactive without perilling the command of the army. Nor is inaction less terrible to the PEE TENDER, whose troops already begin to murmur, and some of his corps have actually mutinied, rending the air with shouts of " ISABELLA for ever I" His only staunch followers are the battalions of Biscay and Gui puscoa—hardy mountaineers, who will stick by him to the last. The rest are mere mercenaries or robbers— fellows who care for nothing beyond the privilege of plundering, and committing all manner of depredations with impunity. Lord JOHN HAY is resolved not to miss any sport within reach of a gun-boat. Accordingly he has ordered the fleet from Santander to Berme°, where it will be nearer the theatre of war. He will thus be enabled to render prompt assistance to Bilboa and St. Sebastian, and likewise to co-operate with the Chris tinos in their attack upon Palencia and Lequietio— now in the hands of the Carlists. MENDIZABAL has remitted to Bilboa eight millions of francs for the support of the army in the North ; one million to General MINA, for the troops under his command ; and a like sum to the Spanish Ambassador at Paris, for the expenses of recruits to join the French Foreign Legion. This well-timed supply will greatly contribute to allay that spirit of discontent so dange rous in the ranks of an army which may be hourly summoned to meet the enemy. The QUEEN'S army in the North is now estimated at 90,000 men, all well armed, and in a tolerable state of discipline. From such a force, we are- justified in expecting great mili tary achievements. The Bill for abolishing private lotteries in France was carried in the Chamber of Deputies before the close of Monday's sitting by a majority of two hun dred and twenty-eight to twenty-one. This important measure will afford nearly as much protection to the people, as a law for closing the gambling-houses of Paris. Some objection was made to the heavy penal ties attached to breaches of the law ; birt the Members who supported the Biil well observed that private lot teries differed in • nothing but the name from robbery without violence, and, therefore, it was the duty of the Legislature to put them down effectually. We quite agree with the majority of the Chamber in this view of the case. The profits derived from pri vate lotteries would enable those who carry th em on to pay moderate penalties, which would operate merely as a heavy license, whereas the infliction of penalties proportioned to the whole value of the offender's pro pel ty must always act as the most effectual engine for the repression of crime. Of course, we are not here confounding laws for the repression of lotteries with excise enactments. In general we believe that nothing can be worse than the protection of any branch of ex cise duties by very heavy penalties, as they defeat the very object they were intended to attain; but then be it remembered that the offence was created by the law Not so in the case of lotteries. They are in them- selves immoral, and therefore they ought, under all circumstances, to be vigorously and effectually repressed. The Paris Papers of Wednesday contain little else of any importance. In the course of Tuesday's sitting, the Chamber of Deputies passed the Vicinal Roads' Bill, and the Bill for the punishment of French sub jects in the Levant. On Monday night, at twelve o'clock, Louis PHILIPPE, accompanied by the Prince de JoiNviLLE, his third son, left Paris for Fontain bleau, whence he returned on the following night about the same hour. The Paris Ministerial prints dwell with rapture upon the reception given to the Dukes of ORLEANS and NEMOURS by the King of PRUSSIA. Even the CROWN PRINCE, to whom their visit was at first far from being welcome, has vied with his Royal relatives in entertaining them after the most princely fashion. General HARISPE has addressed a letter to General EvANs, congratulating him on his gallant defeat of the Carlists before St. Sebastian. We may regard this as the act of the French Government, and, therefore, highly complimentary to our brave countryman. We are surprised that his services have not called forth some testimony of Lord PALMERSTON ' s appreciation of conduct so honourable to this Government as a Member of the Quadruple Alliance. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MAY 19. Five per Cents., 10Sf. 107 f 95c. Four per Cents., 101 C 50c. Three per Cents. 82f. sc. S2E Bank Actions, 2,295. 2,2821. 50c. Rente de Naples, 102 f. 95c. 85c. 80c. Roman Five per Cents., 102% %. Spanish Actives, 46 1 4 46. Spanish Differes, 22%. Spanish Passives, 14% 1 4. Belgian Loan, rive per Cents., 11 , 2%N. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 54!-;,%. Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 55f, 50c. Haytian Loan, 407 f. 50c. EXCHANOtt ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 40c • money, 251 3714 r. Three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 25f. 25c. —Cours Authentique. BOURSR, QUARTER TO FOUR.—No alteration in the state of the market has taken place to-day. No business has been done. The Three per Cents. opened 82f. 20c., and are now 82f. 15c. Spanish Active Stock opene d at 41, but de clined to 46. Portuguese Securities are much offered. The Three per Cents. (Portuguese) have been done at 541. LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 10c. ; Three per Cents., 82f. 15c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb hards, ; Differes, 16k ; New Loan, ; Actives, 46 ; Pas sives, 14+; Ducats, 102 90; Romans, 1028 —; Pedros, ; Belgians, 1024 ; Dutch. 58f. 50 c. ; Haytians, 407 f. 50c. ; Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 19 ; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 22a; Five per Cent. Perpe tuciles, —; Royal Loan, —. In the Brussels Papers, received this morning, we find the following paragraph, to which we respectfully solicit the attention of our Government :—A letter from Frankfort, of the 14th May, says—" The letters from St. Petersburg announce that TAL DE BARANTE, the French Ambassador, has become the object of the greatest attention. He is invited to all the private parties given by the Court, and accompanies the EM PEROR in his excursions ; whereas Lord DUREIAM does not seem to enjoy the same regard." For the present we shall abstain from offering one word of comment upon this extraordinary c ommunication. To Lord PALMERSTON we look for an explanation of it. By the Virginian, arrived at Liverpool, we have New York papers to the 25th, and Quebec papers to the 17th of April. The Mexican Envoy at Washing ton has published a bulletin, dated the Ist of April, declaring that his Government will not recognize any debt contracted by the Government of Texas, or any alienation of land or other property made by it. The most horrible accounts arc received in the United States from the theatre of war in Texas. General SANTA ANNA has issued orders to his army to give no quarter where the slightest opposition is offered and to butcher indiscriminately all children above ten years of age. The account of a general engagement between SANTA ANNA and General HOUSTON was daily expected. The Quebec journals merely announce that the ultra liberals of Upper Canada have failed in their endea vours to stop the supplies. THE PRESS CONTROVERSY. (From the Age.) • • With this extract from our able Contemporary, The Sun of Friday last, and the resolutions of the General Meeting, which are annexed, we might be content to leave the Times to blunder on in its accustomed vituperative course of falsifi cations and infamous attempt at delusion. The apostate and the traitor are synonymous scoundrels, who are alike despised and abhorred by honest men of all parties. There is no Old Bailey counsel who will not attest the proverbial truth of the ingratitude of thieves. To save the neck of one of these va gaonds from the halter, to obtain a commutation of his sen tence, or to ingeniously abuse justice by obtaining a verdict on the minor offence when the evidence fully warrants a capital conviction ; or, in fact, to do anything less than obtain his ac quittal, is to make him your enemy for life. This is precisely the situation of the Times—they intended to practise a gross fraud upon the Chancellor of the Exche quer—they succeeded in doing so upon Lord Lyndhurst and Mr. Goulburn ; and because they could not do so upon their Contemporaries, they work themselves into a windy rage, and mistake the squeak of their fetid trumpetings for awful peals of terrific thunder. If Mr. John Walter wished to preserve an appearance of character, or to have his property properly represented, why did he not attend these meetings of the press in person, and not send his thick-headed dolts and dum mies to render himself contemptible in the eyes of his more respectable Contemporaries. It is enough to make a Quaker kick his mother, to hear these political pie-men of the Times pretend to character and veracity. What ! the fellows who play at pitch and toss with State questions—who shy a brown to determine which side they shall take—and who would hustle their colleagues ! For ourselves, the shaft thrown by the Times is regarded by us as a " telum imbelle sine ictu." It is a sufficient reply to the base insinuations of that degraded journal to point to the resolutions passed in approbation of the Chairman and Com mittee's conduct throughout the whole negociation—,an appro bation which the representatives of the Times, who were pre sent at the passing thereof (a fact ably commented upon by the Advertiser, Ledger, Courier, and Sun), tacitly assented to. Would it not have been the manly, and proper, and straightforward course, if they had that opinion of the Chair man which they put forth with such malice on Thursday, to have stated it to his face on Wednesday before the assembled delegates of the Press, instead of concocting their slander in the secret recesses of Printing-house-square? But no they dared not. On the contrary, as the Ledger of Saturday states they admitted— " The resolution that was passed in approbation of the con duct of the present Committee, and did not offer the slightest opposition to it, indeed was passed nem. con. And that the admission so honourably made by those Representatives, that they had not taken the most proper, manly, and straightfor ward course,' was so made before any resolution had been pro posed, and was not consequent upon any portion of the pro ceedings of that day, as the Times would make it appear. The gentleman who expressed his own, and, as it now fully appears, the opinions of the other three dissentients, declared he came to the meeting prepared to do so. We place, then, against the unwarrantable assertions and misrepresentations of the Times, the testimony of its own recognised agent, and of those gentlemen with whom on this occasion he acted in concert." If this body of evidence be not all powerful, as old Horace says,— Nil intra est oleam, nil extra est in nuce duri which hard nut we leave the Times to crack. The fact is, the Times, in not entering their protest or lordly " dissen tient," attempted to practice what Ariosto calls the '6 dolce inganni" upon the public ; but as we have exposed this at tempt at deception, we shall now quit the subject. As the French proverb has it, " Le jeu n'en rant pas la chandelle," perhaps. The Times may chew the cud of our remarks with what gout it pleases—it may laugh at them if it pleases; be it so,— Per multum risum poteris cognoseere stultum ; and with that reflection we leave the Thunderer floored, the slanderer unmasked, and the cheat detected 1 SUPPLEMENTAL SWINDLING.— The double sheet practice originated with the Times; who intended by that, and other equally unfair means, to crush their rival the Morn ing Herald. Double sheets a re of ver y recent origin, and have always been justly considered a great nuisance by the public. They are, moreover, a gross fraud upon the revenue and the a d ver tiser—in the first instance, by imposing an additional weight of carriage upon the Government ; and secondly, by the trick of reserving advertisements for two or three days to enable them to make what they term " a grand display," when they are printed in close columns, en masse, in a Supplemental sheet, where the distribution of news is carefully excluded; consequently, it is never read, but usually cut off and consigned to very opposite purp os e s from those which the deluded adver tiser had right and reason to expect.— The Age. The Bishop of London's late dangerous illness was, we hear, brought on by excessive fatigue in attending to his numerous arduous duties ; and though his Lordship is appa rently in a gradual state of recovery, a long period of retire ment and repose will be essential to the complete restoration of his health. EPSOM RACES (THIS DAY.) THE OAKS-BY EXPRESS. The Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three years old fillies, Bst. 41b. each. Mile and a half. The second to receive 100 sovs. out of the Stakes. 98 Subscribers. Mr. Scott's Cyprian Mr. Houldsworth's Destiny Won by half a length. 12 started. Left 10 to 4 o'clock. BRUSSELS PAPERS. MAY 18.—The Bishop of Leon, accompanied by his Chap lain, and Baron De los Valles, Aide-de-Camp to Charles V., have arrived at Frankfort. The average prices of Wheat and Rye, for the second week of May ( Monday 9, to Saturday 14), were 15f. 48c., and 10f. 49c. per hectolitre ; the import duties are therefore 37f. 50c., and 21f. 50c., prospectively, per 1,000 kilogrammes. Madame Adelaide and the Princess Mary leave Brussels to day to return to Paris. BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, Mar 17. Actual Debt, per Cent. Itothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 10144 Loan of City, 15.99., 4 per Cent IHT/, Society of Commerce, 4t; per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ll4 —Brussels Papers, May 18. GHENT, MAT 18.—The German Journals tell us that the French Princes on their arrival at Berlin, paid a visit to the Queen of the Netherlands, who is now on a visit to that Court.—Messager de Gand, May 18. VIENNA, MAY 16.—His Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand of Este, will go to-day or to-morrow to Lemberg, where he will stay only two months, and then return to Vienna to accompany the Court to Prague. Since the beginning of May, the vineyards and orchards of Austria, which were very forward in consequence of the fine weather in April, have suffered much by hail and frost. VIENNA, MAY 10.—Five per Cents., 103 11-16 15-16 ; Four per Cents., 99i ; Three per Cents. , 75 7-16 9-16 ; Bank Shares, I,36Bl.—Allgenzeine Zeitunq, May 15. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the French, Ostend, and Dutch Mails. We have likewise ship-letters from Calcutta of the 16th January, and from New York of the 25th April. A New York paper of the 22d April has the following com mercial remarks : " STOCKS.—We hardly know what to say about our Stocks to-day. There is very little change. Buyers hold on, and appear confident that Stocks will improve ; while sellers think it impossible for them, with the present scarcity of money, to maintain their present prices. Which side is correct, time can only determine. United States Bank is firm at 120 ; De laware is rather dull at 92, though there are pretty large sales. " Many persons are quite at a loss to account for the great embarrassments now felt by the whole community on this pros. sure of our monied operations. If the situation of our city, compared with what it was twelve months since, was duly ap preciated, the wonder would Le that the pressure is so light. Our loss by the fire has taken from our active means at least 14 millions of dollars ; the withdrawal of the branch of the United States Bank, 10 millions more ; and incidental to that, in deranging our exchanges with the country, we may say the loss of the 10 millions is equal to the loss by the fire. Then the withdrawal of the small notes lessens our Bank facilities certainly 3 millions more ; to which is to be added, Western and Southern Stock bought and held in this city within twelve months, of at least 3 millions more ; and last though not least, the cause of the pressure is the 10 millions of surplus revenue locked up in our deposit banks. Here we have a total of 40 millions of dollars taken out of our active means ; and, as we said above, the wonder is, that our commercial community have been able to bear up against this most calamitous state of things." The British Market continues inactive to tLe present hour, and Consols may be quoted at the closing prices of yesterday, 911- 92 both for Money and Account. Exchequer Bills, 15 17 ; India Bonds, 2 4 ; Bank Stock, 2121 2131 ; India Stock, 259 260. In the Foreign Market there is a heaviness in the Spanist Active Bonds ; done at 451 46-1 ; Passive, 13-4- 14-1- ; De. ferred, 224 23 • Portuguese maintains the leaving off prices o yesterday, 86,-1 ; Three per Cents., 544 ' 4 l ; Columbian 321 4 ; Mexican, 35 36 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents. 574; Five per Cents. 101',i 102. HALF-PAST ONE. Montreal Papers have been received to April 19. They have the following : HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, APRIL 11.—The Speaker has just announced to the House of Assembly the receipt of an official communication from his Excellency, informing the House that the Legislature will be prorogued to the 20th inst. The weather has become, since our last, more like the season, and the last snow has rapidly disappeared ; but great masses of ice still encumber our streets. The ice upon the river St. Lawrence made a movement yesterday. Since the early part of the morning both the British and Foreign Funds l=ave become heavy. Consols have receded to 91h both for Account and Money; Exchequer Bills, 15 17 ; India Bonds lower, 13 ; Bank Stock, 2121 ; India Stock, 259. In the Fordgn Market Spanish Active is heavy, and lowered to 454 ; Passive, 13; ; Deferred, 22:1 ; Portuguese also re ceded to 86 ; Three per Cents., 54 ; Colombian, 321 ; Mexi can, 34}; Dutch Two-and-a Half, 56 1 a 57. In Shares the Market is very heavy, and little doing ; Brighton fallen to 91 premium, and Cundy's to 1 discount. THREE O'CLOCK. Within this half hour the Spanish Active Bonds have fallen nearly 3 per Cent., in consequence of various reports afloat, such as Cordova going over to Don Carlos, and Mendizabal having resigned. We have made every enquiry on the above information, but cannot as yet trace it to any authentic source. Spanish done at 43i. Cause's for the Account, 914 THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. ---- - - - Burnsut FUNDS. Bank Stock 21 2 , A', Omni um — pm. 3 per Cent. Red 9d% India Stock 3 per Cent. Cons 9lli Ditto IZonds ......... ............ 7 - ) pm• ly v per Cent. 9941 South Sea Stock 312 tier Cent. Red 93 %8 Ditto Old Annuities . New i per Cent 100% Ditto New Annuities — 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented — Ditto 500/ l7 pal. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/ l7 pm. Jail 1860 15' 53 Bank Stock for Opg. Oct IMO l5 11-16 India Stock for Act. Jan. 1360 l6 Consols for Act. Mr. Hall Dare, M.P. for South Essex, died last night at his seat in Essex. THE GREENOCK ADVERTISER.—Our respected Scottish Contemporary charges us with having, on Saturday last, published intelligence from Canton, which appeared long before in his columns. We believe such to be the fact, not because we know it to be so, but because such is the statement of our Contemporary. The article was written contempora neously with the arrival of the Canton Papers in London, but the crowded state of our columns obliged us to delay its inser tion. This we should not have done had it contained any an nouncement of importance to our readers. CAPTAIN BRENTON'S NAVAL MEMOIRS.—We congratulate the public on the announcement of a new and improved Edition of this important work, comprising the " Naval History of Great Britain, from the year 1783 to the Present Time," in Monthly Parts, beautifully illustrated, the first of which is to appear with the Magazines on the Ist of June. It has been justly observed, that it has been the mis fortune of the service that its history has generally been writ ten by men who wanted the indispensable requisites that can only be acquired by professional habits, local knowledge, and constant observation. Captain Brenton, on the contrary, one of the oldest officers in the service, bore a part in many of the more important scenes he describes, and enjoyed the intimacy of most of the great actors who figure in his narrative, parti cularly that of Admiral Cornwallis, Lord Howe, Lord Nelson, Sir Hyde Parker, Rear-Admiral Campbell, Lord Gambier, Sir George Cockburn, Admiral Sawyer, etc. RETURNING FROM THE RACES AT EPSOM.— Yesterday evening vast crowds collected in Grosvenor-place, Hyde Park-corner, the Swan Tavern at Stockwell, and at the Elephant and Castle, Kent-road, to witness the folks return ing from the races. Vehicles of every description, from the " four-in-hand drag" of the Baronet down to the humble dog's meat cart of the costermonger, continued to pass through a line of spectators, from four o'clock in the afternoon until midnight ; and those remarkable for their grotesque appear ance were greeted with shouts of laughter and cheers. The most remarkable equipage was a cart drawn by four dogs, who appeared to have been admirably trained for the road, for they stepped out with the regularity and precision of mail-coach horses. The faces and garments of the sporting folks were so covered with dust that they had the appearance of persons em ployed in a flour-mill. If the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had been stationed along the roads to Epsom, they would have found ample employment. Some of the wretched horses belonging to the cabs and hack ney-coaches seemed ready to sink on the road from pain and exhaustion as they were whipped along. The horse of the cab No. 415 dropped dead within a few paces of the Elephant and Castle, after having travelled at express rate to and from the course with three persons. The number of pedestrians was much less than on former occasions. Almost every one that could pay had clubbed to engage a vehicle, and so great was the demand that not a single horse or coach could be found dis engaged in town. Since Sunday the prices charged for horses and vehicles have been enormous. It is said that an extensive livery-stable proprietor has been paid 40 guineas for a barouche and four for yesterday. All the public-houses along the line of road were crowded, and money exchanged owners to a large amount, as the names of the winning horses arrived. About eight o'clock a coach and four, with outriders in plain live ries, containing a young lady and gentlema n, said tobe the Prince and Princess of Capua, drove through Stockwell, and crossed Vauxhall-bridge, at a rapid rate. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—The Court sat yester day to hear appeals, in some of which the decision of the Ma. gistrates, particularly as to licenses and illegitimacy, swerecon firmed, and others went off on points of form andencY of notice. The list having been o nce gone insufficiency ofthrough at the unusually early hour of twelve o'clock, the Court adjourned to Thursday, the 25th instant, when a very numerous attendance of Magistrates is expected, in order to testify their opinion of the refusal of the Noble Secretary for the Home Department (Lord .John Russell) to r atify the appointment of Mr. Ser geant Adams (as salaried) Chairman of Sessions of the great Metropolitan County of Middlesex, IRELAND RETURN OF MR. O'CONNELL FOR KILKENNY. DUBLIN, MAY 18. — O ' Co nnell was returned yesterday for the ancient and important ci t y of Kilkenny. Mr. Kenny Purcell, the conducting agent for the Liberator, started with the Sheriff's return , fo r Dublin, at half-past twelve, an d r e a ched the Post-office here at twenty minutes t o seven o ' c lo c k. Our readers are awar e that the English mail is closed at a quarter-past six, so that this extraor dinary effort on the part of Mr. Purcell unluckily failed to realize its object—viz., to effect the arrival of the return in London on Thursday, by which means O' Connell would have been enabled to take his seat on that day. He will, however, be sworn in as representative for Kilkenny on Friday, before the House rises f o r the recess. The malice of his enemies will have kept him just four days out of the House. Mr. Purcell's exertions on this important occasion have been of the most active description. He left London on Saturday evening, and reached Kilkenny on Monday ; started from thence at the hour above stated, and per formed the journey to Dublin, withou t the advanta,ge of perfect previous arrangements, in about six hours, being at the rate of thirteen miles an hour, stoppages included. The election terminated on Tuesday last b y the triumphant and unopposed return of Mr. O'Connell. It began at eleven o'clock, and ended in ten minutes. Not a moment therefore was lost in unnecessary talk. All the arrange - ments were completed in a manner that reflects infinite credit on the patriotic citizens of Kilkenny.—Dublin free man's Journal. THE WEATHER.—The long continuance of dry Ivather t in this quarter, is beginning to disquiet th e farmers, no al ways remarkable for their extreme contentment. For se veral days past the sun has been hot , and for p art of tile time the wind has been cold and parching. Wi t hi n the last few days, the wind has changed to the south west, without however those moist influences heretofore its uniform at tendants. Since the change to this point from the north, the dews have been copious and refreshing , and the c ro p s that are above ground look well. The plougbing for late potatoes has been rendered difficult by the hardened state of the earth. We understand much rain has fallen in London since the commencement of our unusually dry a nd hot weather.—Cork Herald. PADSTOW BRE AKWATER AND PLYMOUTH AND PADSTOW RAILWAY COMPANY. Having just obtained the cop of a Reort, said to be matte by, " the Engineer, Surveyor, and Secretary,' to the Committee 01 the above Company, in which they have ventured to make sein e remarks on the " Duke of Cornwall's Harbour and Launceston and Victoria Railway Company," in the hope, no doubt, thereby! if possible, to prejudice the minds of ill-informed persons on th e subject, I think it incumbent on me to make some few observations in reply, and at the same time to disabuse the minds of stranger s who unwittingly may have formed any favourable opinion of this attempted Padstow scheme. But first I would ask the p rom of it, who is the " Engineer" by whom the Report was m ad From their present prospectus and advertisements it appea rs the have no engineer. It is true in a former prospectus they statedy; that Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Rennie were their engineers, but both those gentlemen have since withdrawn, and, as I haPPIS to know their reasons for so doing, it seems fit that it shou r be publicly known. Sir John Rennie withdrew in conseq uence his being connected with the Duke of Cornwall's Harbour Com' pany, as our consulting engineer, considering, it probable that the!: plans might interfere with ours : but Mr. George Rennie had °!,` free consent to continue their engineer, and his resignation did r in fact take place until after he had sent down one of his assistant! to Padstow to examine the spot, and it is believed he return ed Vitt` 'an unfavourable report, since it has not been published. it 11 1 _ 2 Y/ therefore, be fairly inferred, that his withdrawal is to be as criben solely to his bad opinion of the project. The projectors of the Padstow Breakwater are now unable to announce any eng ineer as being connected with their undertaking. Of Mr. Ilarnes , their surveyor, I know nothing further than that I hear that he is a 10 11 " noising young architect, but he evidently promises more on tlie pre sent occasion than he ever will be able to perform. To proceed with an examination of their report in the order in which it appears, I would first refer to the Breakwater, which the y to make across the Dunbar (or, as it is most prop e " ). called in all the old charts, Doom-bar) Sands ;—an ominous e arn " truly, when they admit that forty vessels have been wrecked ler it within those few years, especially in connexion with the a",:: joining bay, still called " Hell Bay." On this fatal sand b a111 " studded with the masts of vessels now imbedded in its all-absorb ing bosom, do the wise architect and secretary, also th e office of engineers, intend constructing a breakwater. 'But here, they have reckoned without their host. They have not stopP, to inquire what would be the effect of such an erection, even 1' it could be accomplished, on the country in general. Th e y have kept out of sight a most important circumstance, or perhae r it did not occur to them, that the whole of the interior 4 1 , the country, for several miles up the river Camel and on each side of it, is now supplied with sea sand for manure froa this very sand-bank, and that if their breakwater were made, the n ' sands of agriculturists would be deprived of that manure on ach,il' their success chiefly depends. At present there are nearly 100,m: tons of sand carried annually from this bank, and yet it does n Ol appear to diminish, in consequence of an equal quantity being con" stantly accumulated by the action of the tides. The effect of 01 breakwater would be, to prevent the admission of the sa.nsWit,.haan therefore in a few years the supply would be exhausted. - t then, would become of all the farmers in the district? When s e " would they obtain manure ? Is it to be supposed that the l aws ' owners will quietly look on, and see themselves and their tenan t "' ruined? Will the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway Company suffer themselves to be deprived of the profits which they now obtait,l, from the conveyance of nearly 30,000 tons of this sand per a nnum. I am confident they will not ; and, in confirmation of this, it %IA yesterday in my presence stated, by a landowner from the neirt bourhood of Bodmin, and who is a Director of that Railway C pany, that one million sterling would not be a sufficient comp ens'' tion to the country, for the loss they would sustain by the !`.feet of a Breakwater in that position. Will any persons, after this expOi le ' be found so foolhardy as to embark in this wild project—to sink their money in this sand bank ? If so, its doom may easily be foraseen., 4l Now let me call the public attention to the Company 0 1 ! which I have the honour to be connected, and of which I glory, being the projector. lam happy to be enabled to state that It merits have been sifted by a Committee of the House of Comnict i ;' and by them the Bill was yesterday unanimously approved of. John Rennie has also made highly favourable report on the ciency of our plans and estimates, fully corrobora'.ive of the o PIA , nion of Messrs. Hopkins, our engineers. Admiral Sir Edviar; Codrington was a member of the Committee who reported on °on Bill, and put many questions to our witnesses in reference te t. harbour we propose making, the answers to which are highlY, e s a- o f factory. He was also pleased publicly to state that the acial? t i f our entrance, 250 feet, will be abundantly sufficient, and th at A more than ether harbours where there is a greater run of tick , ' o f pilot who has had twenty years' experience of the coast wa & one 0 our witnesses, and he satisfactorily proved that our harbour, ber proposed to be constructed, will be the best and safest that co l a it made on the whole coast, accessible at all times of the tide ; I °oo may be added, that it will afford accommodation for more than vessels of the largest class usually navigating those seas. t hose The projectors of the Padstow Railway affect to doubt_thiga facts, and represent it as an important feature in their under""" o ata that it will connect the market towns of Plymouth and Dev.geni the and they state that we shall merely connect Launceston. - I" - four facts are, that they intend terminating at Saltash, which is or miles from Plymouth and Devonport, and moreover on tlw oi 0 11 posite side of the river Tamar, whilst we have d.eterrailn p e a extending our railway from Launceston to Plymouth 2nuoloas vonport, going into one or both of these important and P ° V auo towns. A railway is also about to be made from ours at A' satsa • completingceston to Exeter, thereby an uninterrupted railway s''root munication from the metropolis to our harbour—an imP c .',„g advantage, especially as our harbour is certain of bee°ll3",-,-,ade packet station to Ireland, and an intimation has already been 1-rorn. by a Bristol merchant that he will establish a steam pa cket „ oso , Bristol to our harbour as soon as our works are construc ted! a „ sa e,. shall then supply the interior of the country, and even 131P—have' and Devonport, with Bristol goods ; but in our Prospectus whe W illi made no calculation for the very great additional traffic Ish i , c , es or naturally arise from the construction of these extended fin! Railway. We have merely reckoned with reference to ourrPorni tbe' undertaking, and we have reason to believe that of itself, f, opa present population and state of the country, it will yield cent. per annum on our capital, and, consequently, whefn_gitebeasuacalio lines are completed, very considerably more. Besides th _l3; it ly and weighty objection I have stated, none whatever can Pk,a to exist to the formation of a safe Harbour at Padstow, or inoe , 90 a dozen such harbours on that dangerous coast, where they !caratter much wanted, could it be accomplished; but it may become a• an o f a of serious inquiry in alfuture session, whether the constructon Railway nearly parallel to ours, and having the same object . i",„ T in , i i s a of opening a direct communication between the Bristol and Channels, will ever receive the sanction of Parliaments GEORGE ROSS, 's 1 1313°tir' Managing Director of the Duke of C ornwall Launceston and Victoria Railway Company' 3, Copthall-buildings, 19th May, 1836. 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