The Sun. — London, England, 1836-08-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The ally of the Times, Mr. Whittle Harvey, has been getting up 'a meeting of certain of the discon tented guardians of the parish of St. George, in South wark. We have received information as to the ma chinery of this meeting from correspondents of respec tability, from whom we have received assurances that no reliance whatever can be placed either on the co lourings of the speakers, or upon the reports of the meeting, as given in the Times. The abrupt com mencement of the report in the Times of Thursday, Meeting in the Borough," without the usual state ment as to the numbers who attended, or as to the place where the meeting was held, is a concealment of the real character of a public-house society, held in a dirty obscure court in a low neighbourhood, in a place where the Rev. Robert • Taylor once held forth, and where but two or three hundred inhabitants of the pa rish (containing a population of about forty thousand) could by possibility attend. The meeting was of the character of other clique meetings, to which we alluded the other day. No doubt we shall have other meetings got up by the same influences, and where the Times possesses exclusive information, they will be paraded as " Meetings at Shoreditch," with the omissions of the numbers, and with assertions of the high respectability of casual assemblages who un dertake to represent the opinions of the great body of the rate-payers. The meeting at which Mr. Harvey presided was distinguished by the circumstance of three of the guardians, who had gained office as candidates undertaking to perform their duties, and who, as offi cers, were bound to carry into execution the new Act, having been among the most intemperate of the speakers. We are informed that these personages, who contended so vehemently for the discretionary power of the guardians, omitted to specify, as one of the acts of interference of the Commissioners with the . self-government, that they, or rather their assistant Commissioner; Mr. Mott, the other day disallowed charges for the feeding of these said guardians at the workhouse, at the expense of the parish. The speakers when dilating on the necessity of keeping up an out door expenditure, omitted also to state, that, whilst the Commissioners, after their mode of interfering with the self-government and discretion of the guar dians, had ordered that supplies should be obtained by open contract, they (the guardians) had en deavoured to thwart the order, by providing that the paupers should be relieved by tickets for the pur chase of bread from the bakers in the neighbourhood. In many other respects the statements of these officers were equally incomplete; and a judgment may be formed of the spirit of truth which presided from the declaration of the Chairman, that " never had a measure been introduced with more studied secrecy, or carried through with more studied caution." The studied secrecy of the only great measure that has ever been preceded by complete expositions of all its principles, of which upwards of 20,000 copies were circulated throughout the country ! ! Whether the circumstances of these meetings, and of the petitions and memorials which have been got up on the sub ject, have been made in studied secrecy or not, we will not pretend to say ; but we do say, it would be useful if they were communicated, and mole generally made known. For example, the Learned Member's speech in the House of Commons in support of Mr. Walter's motion against the Commissioners' order made upon a local board of farmers acting as guardians, for the discontinuance of the allowance system, was founded upon a petition from. this board of guardians in Southwark, whose incipient practice of taking refreshments at the workhouse was at once disallowed. That board consists of eighteen members ; some of the most respectable of whom, we are assured, disapprove of these practices, and are de sirous of carrying into full effect the provisions of the Act. We have before us a statement from a corres pondent, who represent that this petition was sud denly proposed at a meeting at which nine only of the guardians were present. The meeting was held at night. At half-past ten o'clock two pots of ale were ordered in, of which most of them partook, and the Chairman and another guardian took out their cigars and began smoking. One of the guardians soon after wards moved that the further consideration of the peti tion be adjourned sine die, and the result was as fol lows : For the presentation of the petition For the adjournment Did not vote.. The objectino , guardian then mov e d, on accoun t o f the lateness of the hour (eleven o'clock), that the further consideration of the petition should be ad journed until that day week. The division was the same on this question as on the last. The objecting guardian observed that he thought that when cigars were introduced it was time to leave off' business. We suppose the petition was wanted, and it was certainly presented immediately afterwards in the Hon. Mem ber's magniloquent style, in which he declaimed against the Commissioners and the principles of the Bill as an interference with self-government, and asked why the rate-payers should not be left to manage their own affairs ? From the remissness of the rate-payers in another Board of Guardians there are members who have been known to go there " fresh" after the day's business, or, in other words, drunk. It is appre hended that the Commissioners, to prevent these scenes, will order the meetings to be held in the day time. This, we learn, has excited offence ; and a meeting will be held at which the harsh operation of the Act upon the poor, and especially a remonstrance against the reduction of the parochial dietary, will be the subject of debate. We do not know how it happens that in all these instances, where there is so strong a dread of interference, the dread is solely on ac count of the poor. A memorial was a short time ago presented from the parish of St. Peter, Cornhill, " professing" to be from inhabitants of the parish, and drawn up out of concern for those who were infirm and past labour, who were perfectly satisfied with the administration of the poor-laws by their fel low.parishioners. A few days ago, however, at one of the vestry meetings, a rude hand was laid upon this self-government by one of the parishioners, who, on investigating the accounts, found exemplifications of the self-management, of the character contained in the subjoined bills :-- " ST. PETER'S-UPON-CORNHILL. " LONDON TAVERN. Dinners Port... ......................................... . ClSherry ............................ ........... aret ................... Champagne .................. Burgundy ................. Brandy Waxlights Waiters 0 10 6 ............. 0 6 0 Total ....... ...... .£l2 6 0 We believe there were six persons here to partici pate in this self-management. ,‘ ST. PETER'S-UPON-CORNHILL. " PLOUGH INN, BLACKWALL. Dinners Port Sherry Champagne Claret Brandy Tea and Coffee Oa £3 12 0 Besides coach-hire for six persons." Now, if we have been misinformed as to any of these items, or of any of th e f ac t s we h ave s tated, we shall , upon receiving corrections, properly authenticated, in sert them, without followinc, the practice of a Con temporary, a n d charging for b. them as advertisements. If the parish officers of St. Peter's send them to us, we will insert (gratis) the particulars of their last pic nic at the. Woolpack tavern. The statements of the cases of alleged cruelty of the operation of the new law we have no doubt •will be found to be about as trustworthy as the statements referred to in the copy of the letter inserted from the vice-chairm a n of the Gloucester union. The guardians generally are pos sessed of a wide discretion—a discretion, indeed, far too wide not to be often improperly exercised in the way of profusion. For, the most part these guardians consist of the most eminent of the rate-payers. Their dis position to profusion in the expenditure of otherpeople's money, and to undue indulgence, which was the vice of the old system, can scarcely be at once changed. It is not in human nature. The rules of the Commis sioners, which ought to be strict, for they may be sure in the execution of their stringency will not be in creased, are in reality the most indulgent to the infirm where indulgence is needed ; and the aged and infirm pauper receives much more comfort in the new work houses than could be obtained in the cottage by the parents of the poorer rate-payers. But on this subject we have not time to enter. We would guard the re spectable rate-payers against allowing themselves to be misrepresented by pot-house juntas, and against giving credence to proceedings got up by , factious agents. We think some blame is due to parties who see the truth who do not come forward and manfully develope the proceedings and motives of the assailants of the measure. A large proportion of the boards of guar dians, both in town and country, might profit by the example set by the Weymouth board of guardians ; nor ought the Commissioners to allow the public to be misled.—Morning Chronicle. We supposed, and not unreasonably we think, that the Ministerial writers would have given us an oppor tunity of noticing more of those by-blows to Protest antism in Ireland which they dealt after the example of the "great blow" of their master, the Prime Minister, and which we parried yesterday in noticing their cri tique on " the opening" of the Popish Cathedral at Tuam. That representation, however, it seems, is not worth a second notice ; and it has been allowed to dis appear from the stage like a condemned farce, or the decided failure of " a first appearance." But the de duction from the exhibition, got up, we suppose, for the aid and edification of Ministers ? What has be come of the deduction, which was, that the Irish Pro testant clergy had neglected their duty, with a covert insinuation that, after all, Popery was better than Protestantism ? Alas ! that, too, has gone the way of all fiction, without even a Whig-Radical Swiss with an onion to his eye to seem to weep over it. For our selves, however, we cannot pass over so lightly this disgraceful attempt to degrade Protestantism and to ca lumniate at the dictation of Ministers that clergy which has already been robbed with connivance of the Govern ment. The charge against the Irish clergy is, that had they not neglected their duty, there would have been more Protestants in Ireland than there are now. Our an swer has been, and is, very plain. Test the accuracy of the charge by the extent of the way the State has been able to make, and comparing the progress of the Government of the King with the advancement of the religion of the Church, it will be certainly seen, that whatever blame may attach to Great Britain, our fel low countrymen in Ireland have chiefly to thank them selves for the fact that they are not more faithful sub jects and better christians than we hope one day yet to see them, notwithstanding the machinations of the Whigs. We showed yesterday how disturbed and troubled had been the condition of Ireland from the conquest of the country until the Union; every one re collects, unhappily, what its state has been since ; and no man, however warped by irreligion or radicalism, can fail to see that if the State, with all its appliances, could hardly maintain itself, the parochial clergy, with out protection for their persons, and for that .pit tance which was and is, almost insultingly, called their " property," could not possibly prosecute their sacred calling, except at a degree of danger which rendered what they have done a glory to them, while the reproach that they have done no more covers those who make the reproach with dishonour, and brings into fuller and better light the services the clergy have ren dered, by forcing an investigation into the trials, suf ferings, and labours they Lave undergone in the pro secution of their perilous, but we are sorry to say, their thankless ini.:esion, at least, thankless in quarters where it should be Lest appreciated. Do people talk of the ignorant peasants of Ireland disregarding tire mire faith of Protestantism as a thing of wonider ? Let them look at a Protestant Prime Minister bringing in a Bill, which he confesses to be a Bill " to give a heavy blow and a great discouragement to Protestantism in Ireland ;" let them watch the labours of this Mi nister in the disgraceful work of undervaluing, libel ling, and slandering the ministers of the Protestant faith in that country. We have indeed fallen on evil days when such a Minister is not, on the moment, hurled from the eminence he dishonours and disgraces (as assuredly h e w ill b e a t l ast ), and wh en th e expecting placemen and pensioners at his beck and call dare to join in ribald chorus to the song of triumph their master sings, not only over the oppressed ministers of the national faith, but over the false and fleeting prospect his distempered and destructive dreams have fashioned to his view of the subversion of the faith itself. The case of Ireland is so simple and so plain, that he who runs may read it. With regard to the State, there is the " repeal of the Union,"—in abeyance for the present, it is true, but upon what condition ? Why, upon this condition —that such power shall be given to the demagogues as will enable them to effect the repeal of the Union virtually now, so that after the lapse of a few years they will merely have to go through the form of dis memberment with ease and with impunity. They tell the Government plainly, that if it will not concede this power by instalments, the cry of the Repeal of the Union shall be raised at once, and the dis memberment of the empire effected without delay. The ultimate object is not—never has been—con cealed. The whole and sole question is, whether Government will enable the Repealers to effect that object by degrees, slowly but surely ; or whether, superior to threats, and plucking up honesty enough to declare the truth, and Act as the emergency requires, it will refuse to put weapons into the hands of those who proclaim before they receive them that they will use them against the idiots wh o f urn i s h t h em ? S o is it also with regard to the Church. It is pretended that, for the present, the Papists will be satisfied with robbing it of 70,0001. or 80,000/. ; but both in Par liament and out of Parliament their organs have over and over again explained that they will be contented with nothing short of the utter abolition of tithes— that is to say, of the total destruction of the Church. They say, that if you will not suffer them to plunder the Church piecemeal by the sanction of law, they will lay violent hands on its revenues in spite of the law. Thus, both spiritually and temporally, the party which Government fosters and supports in Ireland proclaims rebellion, not reform. We shall be told, of course, that Government will satisfy the demands of this dis loyal faction to a certain extent only. We answer that they will yield enough to make the expul-. sion of their King and of the Church, which is impossible at present, not only practicable, but easy, by and by ; and that they will do this wilfully, with malice prepense, with the foresight and knowledge of the consequence of their treasonable concessions. As a specimen of the open manner in which the de signs of the Irish Destructives are proclaimed, take the following passage of the last letter addressed by Mr. Sharman Crawford to his constituents on the sub ject of the Irish Tithe Bill :—" If the late Bill would really have satisfied the demands of the people of Ireland, then, indeed, they would have been right to accept it. If they only wanted the surplus, this point was acknowledged by the Bill; but recollect what the surplus means—that every single Protestant must first be provided with a clergyman out of the tithes. If you want total relief, I will put it to the candour of any one of you,wheth er thi s Bill wou ld no t have been a bar rier against your future demands ? If you had ac cepted this Bill this year, would your petitions for total extinction have received the smallest respect next yea r ; an d i f not next year, what interval of time is to el a p se you would ' befo re y our contract wou ld exp i re , b e f ore again b ecome f ree agents, to ins i st upon your rights ? --Times. We were not wrong when w e y es t er d a y sa id th a t th e claims of the Polish refugees w fore a British public in have already taken up the 111. Our Contemporaries subject,ud not be brought be as the sure prelude of a displ half of these poor starving foreigners, v.o and that we reaard ay of benevolence on°be ners, commensurate with the exigencies of the case. Wher e th e grea t in terests of humanity are involved , the peopl e o f Eng land, infinitely to their credit , know no disti nct i ons o f party or political feeling. Wherever they see real dis tress, they hasten, under the influence of the noblest emotions, to administer relief. In the present case, however, over and above the abstract claims, which, as human beings, these famishing Poles have on our sym pathy and aid, they have the peculiar claim of being sufferers in a most righteous cause. Why are these men in England at this moment ? 'What induced them to quit their own country, where all of them had comfort able homes, and where many of them moved in exalted and affluent spheres of life ? What but their noble and resolute resistance to one of the most grinding and debasing systems of tyranny recorded in the annals of modern Europe. Had they submitted to bear the brand of slavery on their foreheads ; had they consented to walk in chains ; had they crouched beneath the frown of . their Imperial Oppressor ; had they, in one word, ignobly agreed to compromise the character of their country, and committted treason against the great rights of mankind ;—had they done this when required to do it by the" despot of St. Petersburg, then they would not, at this moment, have stood in need of relief from the people of Great Britain ; they would have been still in their own country, enjoying all the necessaries, and, in many cases, the luxuries of life. And have not people, who could make such noble sacrifices for their rights and liberties, as these unfor tunate Poles have done,—have not such men peculiar claims on the generous aid, in the hour of their need, of the English nation? We share with them that ardent love of freedom which prompted the noble resistance they offered to the Northern Nero when he marched his serfs into their country, -to trample them selves and their Constitution under foot. We have often- at public meetings, and in the intercourse of private life, given expression to our admiration of their conduct. Let not that expression be confined to words merely—let it be given in action also, when it not only asserts a great principle—the principle, namely, that a nation ought to resist the will of a tyrant—but in volves in it the discharge of the most sacred obliga tions of humanity. What is wanted is a beginning in the good work. Let only a few individuals head the subscription list, and the example will, beyond all question, be immediately followed by people of all shades of politics throughout the empire. It cannot be that these poor creatures, for want of a little timely relief, shall be suffered to perish in our streets. That, indeed, would be a lasting stain on our character both as men and as Britons. But such a thing can never happen. In a few days, we are confident, we shall have the grateful task of recording the commencement of a subscription on behalf of these noble-minded, though unfortunate, Polish refugees, which will in a few days more be sufficiently large to secure them from the horrors of starvation.—Moriiing Advertiser. The friends of Poland have published a manifesto against Lord Melbourne and Mr. Spring Rice, imput ing to those Ministers cruel and unfeeling parsimony towards a certain class of the Polish refugees in this country—a parsimony which they deem the less ex cusable that it is in manifest repugnance to the inten tions of the House of Commons, which, during the Session just concluded, granted to his Majesty a sum of ten thousand pounds, " for the relief of the Polish refugees now in this country," without distinction. Lord Melbourne and Mr. Spring Rice refuse, it ap pears, to admit to any participation in this benevolent fund such of the refugees as have arrived in this coun try subsequently to the date, not of the vote of the last Session, but of a similar vote passed in the Session before the last ; and by this refusal the humanity of the'country and the intentions of Parliament are frus trated with respect to about 100 of these ill. used and wretched persons. And what is the pretence for this bar barous economy ? Not the insufficiency of the fund. No such excuse is alleged ; and the Committee of the friends of Poland expressly say, that the fund is not insufficient. What then ? The apprehension entertained by Lord Melbourne and Mr. Spring Rice that the extension of the national charity to such Poles as have arrived since the original grant " may act as an invitation to Poles to flock here from every part of Europe." Our readers will ;mite with us in admira tion of these generous and liberal-minded Statesmen, when they are informed what the scale of allowance is which they "apprehend may prove so irresistibly at tractive. A Polish General receives the magnificent pension of 15s. per week ; an officer of inferior rank gets 10s. per week; and the private Polish soldier is permitted to luxuriate on the abundant revenue of ss. 3d. per week. These inducements "to flock here from all parts of Europe" it must have been impos sible to withstand, and the British people can never be sufficiently grateful to Lord Melbourne and Mr. Spring Rice, for the statesmanlike caution, foresight, sagacity, and vigilance which they have displayed upon this important occasion, and by which they have protected the country from being overrun and impoverished by foreigners—especially by foreigners so very foolish, as to have expected that Liberals —in possession of power arid wealth—would mani fest any sympathy with Liberals in , :poFerty and exile. The anxious care of - Lord Melbourne and Mr. S. Rice to protect the country from the apprehended swarm of hungry invaders is the more meritorious that no circumstance had arisen peculiarly calculated to excite their patriotic alarm. At the period of the grant of last year there were four hundred Polish re fugees in England, and the increase in their number, notwithstanding the powerful attraction thus presented to them " to flock from all parts of Europe," amounted to one hundred at the utmost ; and of these, the greater part, with a magnanimity and disinterestedness which must appear wholly preternatural to Lord Mel bourne and Mr. S. Rice, seem entirely to have over looked the dazzling temptations of the Parliamentary grant. The Committee positively assert that these one hundred new refugees were forced here against their will—some by the French Government, which seems to share the liberality and prudence of Lord Melbourne and Mr. S. Rice, and some by the Govern ments of Prussia and Austria. The Committee be lieve this statement, no doubt ; but Lord Melbourne and Mr. S. Rice regard the matter with the keener glance of wise and exp er i ence d St a t esmen . I t wou ld not have been proper, it would not have been charac teristic, in them to indulge in such generous and romantic credulity. How could they have answered it to the country had they foolishly permitted themselves to be seduced into the persuasion that the several sums of 155., 10s., and ss. 3d. per week had not " acted as an invitation ?" Everybody knows that Mr. Spring Rice is a man of principle, and in this affair of the Polish refugees he has given another splendid proof of it. On being pressed upon the question, whether the hundred refugees last arrived were to starve, he said, and said most truly, that " it was a question of prin ciple," modestly adding, " it must be referred to Lord Melbourne." Who that knows the Right Hon. Gen tleman can fail to imagine the air of philosophic gravity, the show of official deference to his official superior, the condescending tones and attitudes of cons c i ous im portance, the smirk of entire self-satisfaction with which he pronounced the words, " Gentlemen, this is a ques tion of principle, and must be referred to Lord Mel bourne. Upon great and vital questions of national policy, upon "questions of principle," it is fit that the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer should think alike ; and accordingly it was found that in this matter Lord Melbourne and Mr. S. Rice were entirely of one mind—they concurred "upon principle" in the decision that the- hundred Poles should be left to starve. It is, we must admit, a great thing for the British people to have men of such en larged v i ews , o f suc h stern integrity, and of such un bending firmness, at the head of their affairs. We entirely concur, therefore, in the tribute of praise to Mr. Spring Rice with which the Polish Committee conclude their statement, regretting only that they have not included in their compliment the equally meritorious Lord Melbourne. " Such," say they, "is the policy of a Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and great, doubtless, will be the gratitude of the natron when it finds that by starving 100 Poles he has enriched it to the amount of something like a quarter of his own sa lary."—Morning Post. The Quadruple Treaty and English interference have borne glorious fruits in Spain ! From the mo ment that Lord Pahnerston intermeddled in Spanish affairs, for the support of the juste milieu system of Christina's Government, we predicted its doom. It had enough to contend with in the vigorous hostility of the Carlists ; but the officious friendship of our Fo reign Secretary was still more ruinous. The juste milieu has vanished like a " bubble," that has burst. The standard of the revolutionary principle has been carried from Malaga to Madrid, and floats over the cradle of the innocent Isabel. A grim idol, miscalled " Liberty," besmeared with gore, is set up to be wor shipped with the horrid orgies of a drunken and fero cious populace. The Queen-Regent, torn from the side of her paramour, Munoz, has been compelled to prostrate herself before it, and to try, by thus honour- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1836. ing the democratic symbol of terror, proscription, and blood, to propitiate the " Majesty. of the people 1 . - The accounts which we published yesterday, from our private Correspondents in Madrid, have put our readers in possession of the whole details of the tragic history, which began with the revolt of the soldiery at La Granja, and left off, but did not end, with the pro clamation of the Constitution of 1812, at Madrid. A dreadful episode in that tragic history was the cowardly assassination of the Captain-General Que sada, by those " brave Urbanos," who, while he had arms in his hands, dare not venture to look him in the face ! He met the fate that many have met ' who have served with stern and uncompromising fide ' lity a spiritless or profligate Sovereign. - If the Re gent had not, in the critical moment, delivered him into the hands of his enemies, by deposing him from the command, his single courage and energy would have completely crushed the revolutionary faction in Madrid. Indeed he had, by facing the revolutionists ' boldly, disconcerted all their movements, and proved them to be as arrant cowards as any that crawl on the face of the earth. The " brave Urbanos," who ga thered their blood-stained " laurels," not in manly conflict with the Carlists in the field, but in storming the monasteries and butchering their peaceable inmates, fled every where from his very looks as he traversed the streets, either alone or with one or two of his orderly dragoons. But when stripped of his com mand—the victim of perfidy—they found him un armed and defenceless, then, indeed, their swords that never were in fighting order, were found to be sharp enough for the work of assassination, and for the savage mutilation of the murdered remains! Such are the patriots who march at the head of Peninsular civilization—such are the regenerators of Spain ! The savage that scalps his fallen enemy wields his tomahawk in battle ; but when did the " brave Urbanos" of Madrid ever face an enemy in the field ? A Journal, very hostile to Quesada and his party, gives, among other instances, the following trait of the heroism of the revolutionary populace of Ma drid. The writer, having described the instantaneous effect which the energy of Quesada had in quelling a revolt of the regular troops, goes on to say—" The Captain-General (Quesada) dismounted, and remained nearly an hour, giving directions for strengthening the position. Upon going away, he took the compromised troops with him. Some people who had been allowed to assemble cried Muera Quesada' (death to Que sada), as he turned his back. He instantly turned raund and faced them--they all fed tvith precipita tion. In like manner, in traversing the streets, when a similar cry was raised from a window, or a spectator, he always halted, and looked towards the place from whence the voice came. The hatred against him is so great, that it was thought nothing short of assassina tion could result from the manner in which lie ex posed himself in the streets, sometimes only attended with a couple of orderlies—he went to the different parts of the town where the public feeling was mani festing itself, and always dispersing the groups in the same manner as at the Puerta del Sol." We then have an account of his having advanced upon 500 of the " brave Urbanos," who had fortified themselves in a Church, and with only 100 men compelled them to surrender, within five minutes, without shedding a drop of blood. While in this manner one brave and loyal soldier crushed the revolution by his single prowess, and kept Madrid for the Queen, the mother of Isabel, terrified out of her wits by some drunken soldiers, who, obeping the secret orders of more cau tious conspirators, broke into her palace of plea sure at La Granja, betrayed the only heroic cham pion of her cause to his enemies, and, by displacing him from the command, signed his death-warrant ; thus giving the Revolutionists the triumph and the revenge :lkh their own courage could never have won. What will these scenes of disgusting perfidy, cowardice, and crime result in ? As Parliament is not. sitting, Lord Palmerston cannot be asked to g ive an answer to such a question. H e w h o m i xe d up the fair fame of England with such atrocities as this Spa nish contest displays has much to answer for. In the mean time, let us hear what one of our Madrid Cor respondents says on the subject. His remarks are worth the attention of our readers. The public know that on the question of Spain we have all along taken a view which events have confirmed. Our Correspon dent says— " The Constitution of 1812 may now be said to rule the kingdom of Spain. Established for the second time by a military insurrection, this form of government, in every re spect unsuitable to the character of the Spaniards, cannot prove of long duration. The Presidents of every Constitu tional Junta in the country are military men, and, with scarcely an exception, the most unprincipled persons in the nation. Nor are the other members of these Juntas more deserving of public confidence. Composed for the most part of indigent employes and petty lawyers, who endea vour to gain, in a day or week of revolution, the fortune which their slender talents could never procure for them in peaceable times, their first measure has invariably been the imposition of heavy contributions. It were idle to say that the sums thus raised have been made use of for the benefit of the State. The most vexatious hardships, the most un just persecution, the most shameful robbery, and the direst oppression, form the catalogue of the labours of the Consti tutional Junta of Andalusia. Men, however commendable their conduct may have been during life, however sincere their admiration of rational liberty, if rich, are suspected of Car lism, and heavily fined—jf poor, they are not unfrequently' cast into a loathsome prison, and forced to herd with com mon malefactors. Such are the auspices under which the groundwork of Spanish regeneration has commenced. On the 25th of July Malaga began the revolution by the assas sination of the military and civil Governor of the town ; and in Madrid the idolized Constitution was proclaimed on the 15th of August, and celebrated by the murder of General Quesada. But even the vile populace of Malaga—the very galley slaves let loose for the occasion—respected the dead bodies of the victims. To the people of Madrid—of the heroica villa of Madrid—it was reserved to hack and mangle the corpse of a brave General, and again exhibit to Europe the horrible barbarity of a scene similar to that represented in Barcelona on the sth of August, 1835. And can such a system, originating in bloodshed, and sup ported by the most cruel exaction, find favour in the eyes of the Spanish people ? A momentary enthusiasm may exist amongst a part of the people ; but, like that of the past year, it will flicker for a while, and then totally disappear."—Morning Herald. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS. TOM-HOUSE, AUGUST 26. The London, Pearson, from Rotterdam; Harmonia, Neil. son, Havannah ; Mary, Cordier, Antwerp ; Neptune, Haacks, Ostend; Newcastle, Dukes, St. Petersburgh ; Friendschaft, Peppemar, Workum ; Liverpool, Goudridge, Gibraltar; Dorothy, Tully, Archangel; Kent, Tune, Boulogne ; Tronby, Smith, Riga. ENTERED OUTWARDS IN CARGO, Auo. 26. The Imperator, Seager, for Stettin ; British Sovereign, Brown, Sydney; Parmer, Brutate, Mauritius; Four Brothers and Four Sisters, Jackson, Rouen ; Giraffe, Corbin, Rotter dam ; Gulnare, Hughson, St. John's, N.B. ; San Antonia Magdelena, De Barterracker, Bilboa ; Wharfinger, Cousens, Rotterdam; Astrea, Palmer, Constantinople; Charlotte, Wills, Calais ; James Cruickshank, Young, Demerara; Red man, Flint, Trinidad. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, Auo. 26. The Isabella, Hart, for Launceston ; Star, Usher, Rouen ; Ocean, Edgar, Demerara; Dry a d e , Ki p li ng, S t. H elena; Louisa and El isabeth, Carter, Konigsberg; City of Ham burgh, Whittingham, Hamburgh ; Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, Ostend ; Giraffe, Corbin, Rotterdam ; Charlotte, Wills, Calais ; Fame, Larringer, Havannah ; Queen Adelaide, Fox, Havre. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Auo. 26. The Laurenham Maria, Glochurn, for Norway; Matilda, Valtz, Memel. ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, quo. 25. The Endymion, Hutchinson, from Quebec; Laura, Pratt, Hamburgh; Dundee, Rohl, Memel; Black-Eyed Susan, Watkins, Constantinople. ENTERED FOR LOADING, Aua. 25. The Richard Mount, Waytt, for Constantinople; Tour, Elsineur ; Harisa, Malaga; Albertina, Delsroot, Rotterdam ; Ann, Wainright, Malaga; Cupid, Stralsund. CLEARED OUTWARDS, Aua. 25. St. Patrick, Bruen, for St.'John's, N. B. ; Oporto, Martin, Oporto; Milledgville, Po r t er , N ew Y or k ; Frederica, O s . tend; Egidius, Den Duyts, ditto ; John Taylor, Luce, New York ; Actif, Vanderbrook, Ostend ; Alex. Sovin, Ohrt, St. Petersburgb ; Arno, Murray, Malta; Ann, ditto; Mary, Mills, Quebec. SAILED, Auo. 25. The Superb, Fish, for Baltimore ; Nestor, Losh, Jamaica ; Saracen, Buckley, Gibraltar; Ajax, Heirn, New York; Eliza, Ostend; Promis e , Shearer, Quebec; Reliance, Ada ms , Per nambuco ; Hebe, Thomas, Gibraltar. TELEGRAPHED. Off Holyhead, outward bound, the Schwartz, for Demerara. We lately mentioned a very destructive fire in Hun gary. A more recent letter informs us that another conflagra tion has since consumed 150 houses at Sezedin. —French Paper. PitICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS ASSURANCE COMPANIES, Scc.&c. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG. 26. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. Shares. Annum. Paid. e Share. r 1,760 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham....A.verage 971. 18s. sh. 162 1,182 61. Ashby-de-le-'touch Average 1131. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 5 1,005 51. Brecknoct. and Abergavenny 150'. sh. 90 8,000 1-16 sh. 91. 2s. Birmingham, 1-16th share 811. & 711. 206 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l2s/ sh. 100 pd 301 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64 400 41. Cheliner and Biackwater 100/. sh. 102 ...... 500 471. Coventry 1001. sh. 4,545 Croydon Average 31/. 2s. 10d. sh. 2,060; 4!. Os. Dudley lOO/. sh. 600 71. Derby , 100/. sh. 20,000 3,575 4 1 231 401. Erewash 1001. sh. 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 4401.165. sh. 11,500 12/. Grand Junctio - .... ...1001. sh. 2,8491 1/. Grand Union 1001. sh. 1.500 Grand Surrey lOO/. sh. 120,0001. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. 3,096 Grand Western 600 131. 12s. Sid. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 749 10i. Grantham l5Ol. sh. 6,233 11. 10s. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 63. sh. 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 25,329 11. Kennet a.nd Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10d. sh. 2,897; 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 545-1 101. Leicester 14 0!. sh. 1 , 8 97 11. 10s. Leicester and Northampton...Avet 6.31. 10s. 2,400 91. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 50 101. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 3,000 1/. 18s. Macclesfield 1004 sh. all pd. 247 171. Neat h 1004 sh. 1,786 30/. Oxford 100/. sh. 2,400 44 Peak Forest Average about 78/. sh. 21,418 I2s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. Bd. sh. 5,569 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 8.5/. sh. 500 8/, Shropshire 1i.54 sh. 800 9!. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 45,000!. 5 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 700 361. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 500 111. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 300 8!. Stourbridge 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 79/. 9s. 93. sh. 533 131. Swansea 100/. sh. 3,762 11. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 2,604 sh. 32!. 10s., Trent and Mersey, I share 100/. sh. 8,149 Thames ~ . ..'ll,l Medway...Aver. 19!.55. Bd. sh. 1,0005h.7 ic ,.. Warwick and Birmingham 100/. sh 1,000,45h.5 '''"' 9SO ito. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 6,000 4/.os. Worcestar and Birmingham...Av.7B4 Bs. sh. 5,000 20s. Wilts an.A Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. 83. sh. 800 3/, Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 126 Wisbeach lO5/. sh. 905 1/. Wey and Arun 110!. sh. DOCKS. 2,600& 3 3p. c. Commercial 100/. sh. I ,06515 h 498,607 V. 5f per ct. East India Stock 3,8,3101/. 50s.p.ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 51. per ct. West India Stock 2,20.5 21. 19s. Bristol 68,3241. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1.352,752 4 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Shoreham Harbour 2.500 .... .... Deptford Pier .01. sh. 31. pd BRIDGES. 1,600 1/. Hammersiniti 5O/. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 63/. 2s. Bd. sh. 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7f per cent. 5O/. sr,. 5,000 5,000 11. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. (101. pd 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New DRIP of 7l 401. pd 60,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bomb 6,000 14 Vauxhall Average 704 10s. 3d. sh. ASiURANCI , COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ lOs Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 50,000 E 5 l a ' i n r d 7 s n . t i Alliance,British& Foreign 1001. sh. 1011. pd 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5!. pd 24,000 11 per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 5/. pd 1,200 }sh. 5/. Birmingham Fire 0 50/. sh. 55/. pd 20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 9 50/. sh. 501. pd 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 504 sh. 5/. pi 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Me.11.:31,&c. Life, ICOLsh. 12/10s pd 4,000 21 10s County 100/. sh. 10/.lxl 40,000 __ ss. _ Eagle 5O!. sh. 5/. pd 10001. sh. 250/. pd 375 2,,,, "' land sper3 o c l e b n s t. . l 2,271 514 percent. European Li i • Economic Li it: 20/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 2/. pc! 1/.12s 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe . Stock 158 20,000 5/. Guardian lOOl. sh. 271/ pd 35 40,000 Fire 5 p et.? 501. sh. N. pd 6 [Life 8 p ct. j Ho p e "' 2,400 51. 7s. 6d. Imperial hire 500/. sh. 50/. pd 1253 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 11)01. sh. 10/. pd Hi 15,458 10s.6d.'per sh. Indemnity Marine 11'0/. sh. Si. pd 17 2,020 31 lOs Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 3/. Ditto Life 10,000 16s. Law Life 3,900 London, Mr,: 9 31 sh. 12/. 103, pd 15 31 000 Loncleii, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 15 38,0 41 U. per cent. Palladium Lite 50/. sh. 21. pd 217 s 68 250,00) Protector Fire "01. sh. 21. pd 19s 68 2,500 1/. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. IN, pd 19 1 100,000 Rock Life 00/. sh. Si. p d 7 089,220. Si. per cent. Royal ExcliAige Stock._ 225 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pc' 5-1 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life "1. p d JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 Agric. andComtn. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 Australa.ia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Bil in ingham 5O/. oh. 10/. pa 10, 000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. Si. pd 30,000 4 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 20/. pd 2,000 ' 25,1*0 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 10/. pd 50,000 71 per cent. Manchester mid Liverpool] Discountl xl 1001. oh. 15/ 20,000 6 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 20,000 ii per cent. Provincial Bank of I reland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 20,. CO i per cent. National Bank of Ireland -s'l. sh. 121)/. pd 10,000 5 per cent. Nation: 'Provincial Eng. -.100/. sh. 251. pd :9,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 6,000 71 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 500 I/ 70 Bath 2Ol. sh. 16/. pd 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 5,( ,,, c5/.per cent] Ditto Provincial .20/. sh. 19 pd '"" tand Bs. ss. 928 5/ 100 Birmingham 5O/. sh. 4,250 '2l Os Bristol 1,500 Brighton 201. sh. 750 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 4/, Continental Cansolidated lOO/, 62y. pd 1,000 10/. City of Loudon lOO/. sh. all pd 1,000 6/. Ditto, New 4,000 41.10 x, Equitable .... 4214 pd 10,000 51. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. SOO 5/. per cent. Isle of Diana 9 5/. sh. 20/. pd 2,350 61. per cont. I ndependent 3O/. sh. all pd 9,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix.... 501. oh. 391. pd 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. 80/. pd 4,080 South Metropolitan 50/. sh. 1711. pd 8,200 51. per cent. United General' 501. sh. 46/. pd 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. oh. 400 81. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 12,000 31, Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto, New , 5(l. sh. 10/. pd . eco Yarmouth 201. oh. 181. pd WATER WJRKS. 4,800 Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 4,433 6/. East London lOO/ oh. 4,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 2/. Kent 100/ sh. 388 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1,500 2/ 10s New River London Bridge Water Annuities 6,486 1/ 154 Manchester and Salford lOOl. oh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 8,400 W. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 98. oh. 1,300 I/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 2,900 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 5l. pd 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 15,000 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 21 pd 660 Calcutta and Sauzur 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 7,500 Cheltenham antsO. Western...lool. sh. 21/. 2,000 Clarence lOOl. oh. 100/. pd 12,000 2,500 19s. Forest of Dean 501.p4 . 28' Grand Junction 1001. oh. 40/. pi 107 Great North of England 2l. pd of 25,C00 Great Western IOW. sh. 20/. pd 371 2,000 9,100 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. Si. IA 4 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 100/. sh. 5/. pd 181 7,100 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 120 1,500 . Leicester and Swannin g t on . ..50/. sh. all pd 48 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo/.sh. 1001. p 4 285 Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 61 10,000 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...201. sh. 1/. pd 16,000 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...sol. sh. - 21. pd 01 B,o<lo Ditto ditto (Cundy)...lool. sh. 2/. pd 0; 1%000 London and Dover 50/. sh. 1/. pd 01 30,000 London and Gravesend ...201. sh 11. pd 0; 20,000 3 per cent London and Greenwich nO/. Sli. '2Ol. pd 23; 25,000 .... ..... London and Birmingham lOO/. sh. 601. pd 135 20,000 London and Southampton ....501. sh. 251. pd 251 7,000 12,000 London Grand Junction 501. oh. 24 pd 11 10,000 North Midland lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 10; Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh. 31. pd 21 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 84 pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover "Ipd 1,000 61. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 9,000 6,000 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 3/. pd 01 4,000 10,000 .... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd 5 Ditto Subscription .25/. pd 5 2,000 Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 1421 10,000 31.25. Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 35/. sh. 20/ pd 261 6,010 Macaubas e s Cocaos U n it e d 251. sh. 22/. pd 9 # 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 811. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copp er C ompany 201. s h . 2 0 1 . pd 14t 10,000 .......... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. Si. pd 84 20,000 British Iron 50/. sh. 50/ pd 18 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 3jl. pd Si Cata Branca 61/. pd 7 Candonga 7;l. 181 74 10,000 Copiapo 2O/. sh 121/ pd 20 8,500 Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 31. English 121 ICs. pd 22 20,000 General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. 151. pd 111 6,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh. WV. pd 1 3,000 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 8/. pd 8 11,500 Real del Monte Unregistered lB Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 135 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm..... 40!. sh. all pd 31 Dittt. Scrip at Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 4 West Cork 50/. sh. 501. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 ......... London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 201 1,500 ......... London University 1001. sh. all pd 241 iOO ......... Russell 25gs. sh. 8 King' College 100/. pd SO MISCELLANEOUS. 1...L.L.J....,................ 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural 100/. sh. 2CII. pd 41 6,000 ...er ...... British American Land Company .. la pd 15 10,000 61 .per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh.. 2:3/. pd 39 200,000 54 per cent. Upper Canada Loan lO3 City Bonds, 4 per cent lO3l 1 5, 0 00 11/ General Steam Navigation ...151. s h. 13/ . pd 271 104 per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 14 London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 75!. sh. 19 New Brunswick Land Company 28!, pd 251 2,754 51. p er cen t. Reversionary Interest 5 0c ...1 00/. sh. 100/. pd 131 2,633 5/ per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 451. pd 811 4,000 10,000 Van Die.ner.'s Land 100!. sh. 171. pd 131 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, AUG. 1, 1836. BANKS. 1 , 500 ,0 0. N. 64 p. ct. Bank of Scotland S 3/. Os. Bd. sh. all pd 2041. 2,000,00(1. 5f p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1721. 500.0001. Bp. ct. British Linen Comp an y 100/ . s h . a ll pd 2456. 3,000,0061. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1821. 5,000,0001. sp. ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd Mil. 2,000,0001. 4/. p. ct Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 631 . 4,000,0001. 4p. ct. WesterURANCE n ntSco COMPANIES.tIand 2001. sh 301. pd 391 ' INS 250.0005 h. 6-1 p. ct. Scottish Union 201. sh. 1/. pd 26s - ,50 0 sp. ct. ,Hercules lOOl. sh. 101. pd 131155. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland -.101. sh. all pd '7l 15s. 5 0 , 000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 15/. 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. wt. pd 1610 s 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 1410 s 100,000 • West of Scotland ..... • .................. 101. pd 1010 s MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Edit). and Gfas. Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 224 Ditto Allocated .. ... . . 9 6/. sh. all pd 6.5/. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb;Joint Stock IVater 25/. sh. all pd 394 Carron . lron Company 250/. sh. all pd 4504 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh. 38/. pd 354 10,000 3 per cent. Ed inburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. /W. IA 7 t il . 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251 . sh. all pd 8::4 4,450 per cent. Glasgow Gas 254 sh. all pd 601. 150 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 4W. 1,200 5 per cent Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...so4st ) . 3,000 51 per con 80/. Equitable Loan Company 251. sh. 91, pd 104 PA RLTAIITENTAIIy ADULTERATION OF BREAD. This Act which comes into operation on the Ist of October, repeals the several Acts now in London, and ten miles beyond the Royal Exchange. Bread may be made of any size and weight—Bread to be sold by weight, and in no other manner-- French rolls and fancy bread excepted. Bakers to use avoir dupois weights, and no others; penalty for using false weight s 101. Bakers delivering b rea d b y cart , to be provided with scales and weights. Bakers convicted of adulterating bread to pay a fine of 101., and have their names and places of abode advertised in the newspapers. Bakers adulterating flour or meal to pay a fine of 201. Bread made of mixed meal to be marked with the capital letter M. Magistrates and peace officers, by warrant, may enter and search bakers' pre mises, and seize and carry away adulterated flour, meal, &c. ; penalty for obstructing search 101. Ingredients for adultera ting bread, flour, &c., being found on a baker's premises; subjects him to a fine of 101., and the like sum for every subsequent offence. Offences occasioned by the wilful default of journeymen bakers subject them to fine or imprisonment. Bakers not to make bread or rolls on the Lord's day, or sell bread or bake pies, &c., except during certain hours. Bakings may be delivering till half-past one, and not later, on Sundays, under the penalty of 205., half of which shall go to the in former, who shall be allowed 3s. for his day's expenses. One moiety of all other penalties to go to the informer, and the residue to the overseer of the poor. No baker, miller, or mealman, to act as a Justice of the Peace under this .Act--- penalty for so acting 100/. Penalties may be levied by dis tress ; and, in case of non-satisfaction, the party may be com mitted to hard labour for a term not exceeding one month. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, AUGUST 26, 1836. Ist Regiment of Foot--Ensign D. G. A. Darroch to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Jones, who retires ; E. C. Mullen, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Darroch, Aug. 26. 35th Foot—Ensign T. G. Harding to be Lieutenant, by POr" chase, vice Peirse, who retires ; J. T. Crosbie, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Harding, Aug. 26. 65th - Foot—Lieut. M. H. Warren, from half-pay 43d Regiment , to be Lieutenant, vice Taylor, appointed Paymaster to the 78th Regiment, Aug. 26. 67th Foot—Lieut. C. A. Dean to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stewart, appointed to the 77th Regiment ; Ensign G. W. Nicoll§ to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dean ; H. Collette, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Nicolls, Aug. 26. 77th Foot—Brevet Major G. Stewart, from 67th Regiment, to be Captain, vice Raines, who retires, Aug. 26. 78th Foot—Lieut. M. G. Taylor, from 65th Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice Chisholm, deceased, Aug. 26. 80th Foot—Lieut. J. Smith to be Captain, by purchase, vic e Browne, who retires ; Ensign W. H. Bradford to be Lieutenant , by purchase, vice Smith ; C. H. M. Kelson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. vice Bradford, Aug. 26. 86th Foot—J. H. Thursby, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smyth, promoted in the Ist West India Regiment, Aug 26. Ist West India Regiment--Ensign J. R. C. Smyth, from the 86th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hierlihy, who retires, Aug. 26. CROWN-OFFICE, AUG. 26, 1836. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT• BOROUGH OF SHEFFIELD—John Parker, Esq. BOROUGH OF WARWICK—The Honourable Charles John Can ning, in the room of Major-General the Honourable Sir Charles John Greville, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. BANK OF ENGLAND. Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 31st of May to the 23d of August , 1836, inclusive, published pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, cap. 98. _ LIABILITIES. ♦SSETS. Circulation £18,061,000 Securities £29,345, 000 Deposits 14,796,000 Bullion ... 6,325,000 £32,857,000 Downing-street, Aug. 23, 18 £3,670,000 DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. PHILIP GANS, cotton-spinner, Manchester. BANKRUPTS. DAVID JONES, auctioneer, Liverpool, to surrender, Sept. 17, and Oct. 7, at one, a t th e Cl aren d on R ooms, Liverpool. black stock, Bunce, and Vincent, T em pl e , L on d on ; J ones, Liverpool. CHARLES EVANS, banker, Manchester, S e pt. 9 an d 12, an d Oct. 7, at the Commi ss i oners ' Rooms, Manchester. Hampson, Manchester ; Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford. row, London. GEORGE COLLIER, mercer, Wellington, Shropshire, Sept. 12 and Oct. 7, at eleven, at the Temporary Shire-hall, Shrews bury. Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; Nock, Wellington. BENJAMIN MARSHNIAN CROOKE, draper, Cheltenham, Sept. 6 and Oct. 7, at three, at the Star Hotel, Cheltenham• Parker, St. Paul's Chureh.yard ; Williams, Cheltenham. THOMAS BOWDLER, perfumer, Shrewsbury, Sept. 12 and Oct. 7, at eleven, at the Temporary Shire Hall, Shrewsbury. Parker, Taylor, and Rooke, Gray's Inn, London; Dukes atnd Sony Shrewsbury. DIVIDENDS. 411 74 27; 20 9 At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Horn and R. Jackson, rectifying distillers, Red-cross-street, Southwark, Sept. 15, at half-past twelve—F. Stockwell, chemist, Uxbridge, Sept. 16, at half-past eleven —G. Mayor and S. Dove, spice merchants, Little Distaff-lane, Sept. 18, at one—W. K. Briden, surgeon, Brunswick-square, Sept. 19, at half-past eleven — I. Pemberton, brushmaker, Worcester, Sept. 19, at half-past eleven .—E. Erichsen and A. B. Callender, corn factors, Mincing-lane, Sept. 22, at half-past eleven—W. A. Warwick, wine merchant, Romford, Sept. 22, at half-past twelve. In the Country. W. Hughes, hotel keeper, Cheltenham, Sept. 16, at eleven, at the Star Hotel, Cheltenham—A. and J. Plank, woolstaplers, Can terbury, Sept. 22, at twelve, at the Guildhall, Canterbury-- 7 : Middleton, cotton manufacturer, Li ver p oo l, S ept. 20, at twelve, ' the Clarendon to Rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES—SEPT. 16. W. H. Alexander and C. B. Richards, hardwaremen, lIPPe r Clifton-street, Finsbury —T. and E. Wootton, horsedealer' Wimeswould, Leicester—W. White, cabinet maker, Aston, Bo' mingham—J. Meyer, ware houseman, Houndsilith—J. lodging housekeeper, Brighthelmstone—E. Markland, chenus t, Great Yarmouth. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. White, R. Barker, and G. Harrison, _paper manuf ac turers' Egremont ( so f ar as regar d s J. White)—F. artlett and B. Bud' den, li nen d rapers , B r id port, D orset— A . S idebottom and S. .., • Fletcher, cotton spinners, Rochdale, Manchester—A. Clark and T' Cross, milliners, Jermyn-street—M. Platow and W. F. Fergus' engineers, Poland-street, Oxford-street--R. Kay and J. Barlow' rectifiers, Manchester—R. Wall and R. Kent, linendrapers, chester—P. Earnshaw and C. Kirby, attorneys, KnareaboroughP Yorkshire=E. Phillips and J. Crampton, beer merchants, Lower Thames-street--E. Teague and P. Luke, sculptors, Redruth, Corn . wall—S. Blumfield and J. Fagg, music sellers, Kingston-upon' Hull—J. and J. Morri s , j un ., an d J. M orr i s, s l ate d ealers, stock port, Cheshire—N. Hooper and G. Jewry, brushmakers, Ken t " street, Southwark—W. Fugill and J. Millet, quarrymen, Gloucee' tershire—H. and R. W. Elliot, and R. King, earthenware fluo r facturers, Ouseburn, Northumberland; J. Gurney, sen., and 1 1 . Gurney, spirit dealers, Old-greet-road. - . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. JOSEPH CLARK, innkeeper, Brigend, Perth, Sept„ 2 and 16, at one, at the Taylor's Inn, Watergate. " ADVENTURES OF BILBERRY THURLAND."-77' This humourous story, so long announced, will be published in a few days, illustrated by numerous characteristic eng_ca" ings. Some specimens of it h ave appeared in Thies AO" gazine, thus introduced :—" It has been :our good fortune to fall in with a singularly racy story, under the title of Bilberry Thurland.' It is a kind of Beggar's Opera,' or prose ' Jolly Beggars,' with much of the minuteness of Crabbe, the so ul ' truth of painting, and no lack of that peculiar power which is termed English. In order to introduce the work into the Ili voured circles of 'Jacob Faithful,' we thus announce it. skilfully delin ea t e d, t h e humbler walk of life possesses both , terest and entertainment for the general reader, and kno w ; ledge and i ns t ruct i on f or the moralist and politician. r l ch , • is a work, in f act , w hi c h C ra bb e might have written, a n d Hood must approve." The Manchester Musical Festival commences on th e '. 12th September, and continues five days. The performenet are to consist of sacred oratorios at the Collegiate Church the mornings, an d gran d concerts and fancy dress balls , 1 the evenings. Th e fi rst voca l and instrumental talent in I , , world is enga ge d, consisting of Malibran, Caradori, Asset"; Mrs. Kny ve tt, Mi ss Novell°, and Mrs. Shaw ; Brehm,' Be nett, Machin, Phillip s , Terrail, Ivanhoff, and Lablache , .. vocalists ; and Cramer, De Beriot, Mori, Lindley, Dr a g ° ; netti, &c., are am ongst t h e i nstru mentalists. Sir Geo r g Smart conducts the Festival. The " Creation" and " Me 4 siah" will be p er f orme d ent i re, and the selections are f ro m th e best composers of the day. (ADVERTISEMENT.)--E IGH T- DAY CLOC to strike the Hours and Half-hours, Five Guineas each. Thq Ate in elegant cases, about 7i inches high, suitable either to stand et bracket or ma n t e l-pi ece , an d are W arran t e d, at T . COX S' VORY'S, Working Goldsmith, &c. &c., 47, Cornhill, Londoll:4 N.B. A pamphlet given gratis, containing a detailed lie al prices of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, &c. &c. BIRTH. On the 24th inst., at Barnes-terrace, the lady of R. MootiO t Esq., of the Scots Fusilier Guards, of a daughter. _ MARRIED. Oa the 25th inst., at Easton Lodge, Essex, J. Robert Ives, ..,r1;.: of Corpusty, Norfolk, to Emma, second daught er o f Vi sco unt ivIN nard. sq. , On the 23d inst., at Eccles, Lancashire, T. C. Geldart , of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, and Fellow of Trinity Hall , bridge, to Eliza, daughter of Thomas Cooke, Esq., of Gorse near Eccles. M A. , On the 23d inst., at Buckingham the Rev. J. Grahami. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Rector of uf sls o o, Northamptonshire, to Eliza, daughter of the late R. N l°° Esq., of Airy Hill, near Whitby, Yorkshire. Was , On the 13th inst., at Woburn, Beds, Mr. W. E. Free to Harriette Baker, eldest d aug ht er of H. T. AtterburY, n both Woburn. DIED. ev in H .0 0 An n . t t ‘h h ve e h2 2 a o 4t mt t h ha n i i n n, s sE t t .. s , g o . f, Lieutenant , his age, J. J. L. Margary, Esq., tihnetQheee2e2nleyneareyalor I.o2ce_rosi , aged 14, Anne Harriet, youngest daughter of St. John's Wood. Es4•P On the 24th inst., in Tilney-street, Arthur Stanh o p e, aged 84. On the 2d i nst., at Pentonville, Maria, the eldest daug hter of the D. At Willink, E. Maiden College, Blackheath, Mr. John Isaac C ossart, fates of Clement's-lane, Lomard-street. tais Sir On the 24th inst., at Llanelly, Glamorganshire , CaP „ d for Christoph er C o l e , R. N., K . C . B. , Colonel - of Marines, a" many years M.P. for Glamorganshire. los bells' On the 20th i ns t., a t Li verpoo l, age d 17, Margaret fourth daughter of T. Forsyth, Esq. Raman, r f r*°. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOue causdl 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in of Middlesex.