The Sun. — London, England, 1836-10-15 00:00:00

OF TfiIiPUBLIC JOURNALS. The avowed and the only object his Majesty's Mi nisters had in view when they, consented, agreeably to the declared will of the House of Commons, and the no torious desire of the nation, to engraft the appropriation clauses on the Irish Tithe Bill, was to facilitate the adjustment of that long and violently agitated question, by conciliating the favour or assuaging the hostility of the Catholic tithe payers, and thus to secure their in come to the Clergy of the Established Church. They felt the impossibility of settling the question amicably, and therefore effectually, without making some con cession to the feelings of those—the great body of the Irish people—who are burdened with the maintenance of an immense ecclesiastical establishment for the ex clusive benefit of the clergy of less than 1-10th of the population of the island. They saw no middle course between moderate concession and a fierce system of co ercion which must end in convulsion, perhaps in the dismemberment of the empire, undoubtedly in the ruin of that domestic peace which enriches England by fostering commerce and enables her to defy foreign foes, being secure in her internal tranquillity. To this pass did the obstinate bigotry of the Tory party bring matters. The clergy must perish, or civil war must be waged in defence of tithes, or the hostility of the people to that impost must be softened down by a prudent c ompromise. The Tories preferred the se cond alternative, though they lacked the means to carry their plan into operation ; and in the mean time doomed the clergy to starvation, or an unseemly war of latitats and rebellion-ruffianism. Lord Melbourne and his colleagues adopted the third and only feasible course. They proposed to give the tithe-payers, in other words, the Catholic population, an interest in the perpetuity of the tax, by appropriating any surplus of the ecclesias tical revenues -which should remain, after suitable provision had been made for the spiritual instruc tion cf the Protestants of Ireland; to the admirable purpose of national education without distinction of creeds. It -was not intended by the flamers of the Ministerial. Bill to divert a shilling from the pockets of the clergy, until their wants were first amply provided for. The first charge upon the aggregate sum of ecclesiastical revenues was to be the suitable maintenance of the Protestant clergy. And when this purpose was fully accomplished, then, and only then, -was the appropriation principle to come into operation. The children of the peasantry were to receive none of the blessings of education through the revenues o:f the Church, until the Ministers of the Church were first adequately remunerated for their spiritual labours. But sinecures and pluralities— those monstrous abuses of the present ecclesiastical po lity, were to be swept away ; and idle clergymen, who 'had no flocks to tend were not to be perpetuated at the expense of the poor, and to the great disgrace of religion, while thousands were hungering for instruc tion, or for more substantial aliment. By this most desirable reform, Ministers took care to secure a sur plus, while they infused a spirit of usefulness and po pularity into the Established Church.. Their plan 'Was, a., we all know, reeisted factiously by the Tories, and defeated, on the plea: that, forsooth, the principle of appropriation recogelzed in the Ministerial met.- Sure was fraudulent and sacrilegious. It was de 'dared by the Tory Peers, including almost ail the mitred Lords, to be a robbery of the Church and a Sa crilege to appropriate a farthing of its unchristianly enormous revenues to the education of the poor. In the beginning, the abstract right of Parlia ment at all - to interftre with the revenues of the Church was boldly .denied. This objection, however, soon fell to the ground. It was based upon a dange rous geoulidworit. • If Parliament had no right in the 19th century to hitt:l-fen: with the property of the Church, neither had it a right to do so two centuries ago ; and thus vanished the title of the Protestant Church to its bishops' lands and tithes. The Tories felt the force of this answer to their absurd objection : and, prudence overcoming fanaticism, the right of Parliamentary interference was conceded, and its exer cise assented to in the enactment of the Temporalities Act, which abolished ten bishoprics, together with the . church-rates, the abolition of the latter being an ac tual appropriation, to the - merest lay purposes, of sonic 60,0001. a year of the former revenues of the Church. A new objection was then raised : indeed, the appro priation clauses involved a sacrilegious plunder of the clergy. Such was the pretext of the Tory Peers for ruining the Bill by which Ministers hoped, and with good reason to effect • a satis factory adjustment of the tithe question I Was this plea valid ? Did the Cabinet of 1835, for the first time, recommend an appropriation of a portion of the revenues of the Protestant Chnrch in Ireland to the purposes of national education ? Turn ing to the statute-book, we find an Act of Parliament —tile 12th of Elizabeth, chap. 1, which is entitled an Act for the erection of Free Schools. The intention and object of the framers of this Act are to be ga thered from the following words of its preamble, to which we intreat the reader's attention : " For as much as the greatest number of the people of this your Majesty's realm (Ireland) bath of long time lived in rude and barbarous states, not understanding that Al mighty God bath by his divine laws forbidden the manifold and heinous (haynous) offences which they spare not daily and hourly to commit and perpetrate, nor that he bath by his Holy Scriptures commanded a due and humble obedience from the people to their princes and rulers, whose ignorance in these so high points touching their damnation proceeded] only of lack of bringing up the youth of this realm either in public or private schools, where through good discipline they might be taught to . avoid those lothesomc and troublesome errours. - It may therefore please your Excellent Majesty, and be it enacted (sec. 1.) by your Highness, with the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this pre sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that there shall be j'ro»z henceforth a free school within every diocese of this realm of Ireland, and that the schoolmaster shall be an Englishman, or of the English birth of this realm, and that the Lord Archbishop of Ar magh, the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, and the Lords Bishops of Meath and Kildare, and their several succes sors for ever, shall have the nomination, institution, and appointment of the schoolmasters within their dioceses from time to time for ever ; that is to say, every of them in his own diocese, and that the Lord Deputy, or other Chief Governor or Governors of this realm, for the time being, shall have the nomination, institution, and appointment of all and singular the schoolmasters, in and for all and singu lar the other dioseses of this realm, the four dioceses before named excepted, from time to time for ever ; the school house for EVERY diocese be built and erected in the princi pal shire -town of the diocese, where school-houses be not already built, at the cost and charges of the whole dio cese, without respect of freedoms, by the desire and over sight of the ordinaries of the diocese, or of the vicars-gene ral, and the sheriff of the shire ; and that the lord-de puty, &c., with and by the advice and consent of the same, shall, according to the quality and quantities of every dio cese, appoint to and for every schoolmaster such yearly Pension, stipend, or salary, when none is already ap pointed, as he, with and by their advice, shall think conve nient—whereof (of the salary) the ordinaries (bishops) of every diocese shall bear yearly, for ever, THE THIRD PART, and the parsons, vicars, prebendaries, and other ecclesiastical persons of the same diocese shall pay yearly for ever THE TWO ()TITER PARTS by an equal contribution, to be made by said ordinaries. The second section charges the Crown livings with their quota of these expenses. Now, can anything be more plain than the meaning of this Act of Parlia ment ? Did it not clearly and distinctly impos e a di rect tax upon the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland, for the purpose of national education ? Did it not appropriate, in precise terms, a portion of the ecclesiastical revenues to the same purpose—that of edcuation, which the framers of the Tithe Bill of last session had in view ? Here, then, is the Protestant Elizabeth—the zealous patrols of the Reformation — the fierce foe of Catholicism—setting the prec ise example which Lord Melbourne and his colleagues are denounced as infidels and sacrilegious robbers foi imi tating. The Duke of Wellington, Baron Lyndhurst, Lord Stanley, and the other leading opponents of the recent measure must have been aware of the existence of this statute of Elizabeth. What will be thought of their honesty in denouncing Lord•Morpeth's Bill as a „robbery and sacrilegious spoliation ? But it may be said that the late measure proposed the diversion of the Protestant Church property to Catholic uses ? So did the 12th of Elizabeth. The phraseology of that statute leaves no room to doubt that the free schools were intended for the education of Catholics ; for we are not to suppose that the Protestants would be ac- cused of that ignorance and of those " haynous" crimes which are laid to the charge of " the greatest number of the people" of Ireland in those times. Besides " the greatest number of the people" of that realm were unquestionably Catholics in the days of Elizabeth. Furthermore, the only personal limitation specified in the statute is that which obliges the school master to be an Englishman or of English origin. Hence it is palpable that the Queen and her Parlia ment provided for the education of the Catholics of Ireland out of the revenues of the Protestant Church. Nor are we at liberty to infer, from the wording of the statute, that the education which its framers con templated was sectarian. There is no allusion to creeds, no mention of Protestantism to warrant the supposition that the system of education then set on foot was merely religious or exclusively Protestant. On the contrary, the context goes to prove that general education, without distinction of creeds, was the object aimed at by the rulers of that period. And are the present Liberal Administration deserving of reproach for following the useful precedent set by Queen Eliza beth ? She was never suspected of a design to re establish Catholicism upon the ruins of Protestantism; yet it has been seen that she appropriated largely from the revenues of the Protestant Church to promote edu cation among the Catholic peasantry of Ireland. After this we do not expect to be called upon to repel charges of sacrilege or robbery from Lords Melbourne, John Russell, and Morpeth, merely because they wish to facilitate the collection of tithes, to save the Established Church from ruin, to pacify Ireland, and to diffuse the blessings of a moral education among the people. — Morning Chronicle. Of the manner in which the Scotch Municipal Bill is working in the fangs of the northern Radicals and Dissenters, the reformed Town-Council of Edinburgh have recently furnished an instance, which we verily believe is without a parallel, except in the conduct of those Popish legislators who, in broad violation of their oath, are endeavouring to the top of their bent the subversion of the Protestant Church. Several months ago, when pointing out the dangerous power committed by that Bill into the hands of dissent (which, in its political bearings, is neither more nor less than repub licanism clothed in the forms of religion), we men tioned, that to invest Dissenting town councillors with the privilege of a vote in cases where the appoint ment of clergymen to Established Churches devolved upon Municipal Corporations, was manifestly to arm them with a mischievous weapon for stabbing the na tional religion ; inasmuch as it afforded them an oppor tunity of filling up vacant benefices with the most feeble and inefficient incumbents, which the ingenuity of sectarian spleen could ferret out. But while we felt strongly fortified in this objection, both on account of its abstract' reasonableness, and especially on the ground that since Dissenters (with the exception of a few non jurine• Episcopalians and Papists) did not exist in Scotland till the year 1734, they are neither the parties by whose suffrages such Corporation patronage was originally meant to be exercised, nor less tainted with that enmity to the Presb) terian establishment, on ac count of which Popish patrons are to this day dis qualified by law for issuing a church presentation within its pale ; still, with all this force of argument to bear us out, we refrained at the time from any lengthened expostulation on the subject, because we did not believe that the partisans were yet born who could lend themselves to the actual perpetration of evils, the very atrocity of which disposed us to treat them as mere improbable contingencies. This, we adinit, is strong language. - Whether it be warranted or otherwise, by the recent conduct of a majority of the Edinburgh councillors (into whose anti• church conspiracy, we regret to say, a respectable Conserva tive has in this instance been betrayed as an unin tentional abetter), the sequel will sufficiently show. Let our readers attend to the facts. The want of church accomodation in that quarter is so noto rious and urgent, that a number of the inhabi tants, being utterly hopeless of any seasonable or ade quate supply front the perfidious Government who, as mere expedient to shelve the question, appointed a " Royal Commission of Inquiry," have contributed voluntarily a sufficient sum to build several new churches in the city or suburbs, especially for the benefit of the poor. Among these, the intended edi fice at Greenside, within the extended royalty, has been surrounded with a suitable parochial boundary, defined by the proper authorities ; and on the applica tion of trustees nominated by the subscribers, it was arranged with the Edinburgh Councillors, who are under an obligation, by Act of Parliament, to build certain additional places of worship, that the church in question, with the patronage thereof, should be as signed and made available to the Town Council, as a partial fulfilment of their parliamentary obligation, provided that by allowing a double charge (then vacant) to be henceforth served by only one clergyman, the clerical stipend released by that alteration should be permanently transferred to the new parochial erection!, All this was amicably settled with the concurrent as sent of the municipal and ecclesiastical authorities ; but not without the further understanding, that the Greenside trustees were to have the privilege of nomi nating two or more clergymen, from among whom the council were to elect the future pastor of the church. Of course the appointment of a minister capable of at tracting a neglected population in a new locality was an object of paramount importance to the success of such an experiment. And so entirely did the council recognise their understanding with the trustees in reference to that appointment, when it suited their purpose to do so, that the precipitate application of the latter in favour of a highly popular clergyman, whose removal from a crowded and influential congregation to an unformed one in a poorer district was expected to inflict a serious injury on the Church establishment in Edinburgh, met with their immediate and unani mous sanction. It subsequently turned out, however, that the clergyman in question declined the appoint ment. Then came the fuller development of the anti establishment intrigue which we are now to comment upon. The Greenside trustees, on whom it devolved to submit the names of other candidates for the new charge, nominated three clergymen of approved popu larity and character, taking care to intimate with suffi cient explicitness the name of the gentleman who (though not to the exclusion of the others) was the object of their more immediate preference. But mark ye, —either of the three would have formed an important reinforcement to the establishment cause in Edinburgh. It became, therefore, a point of sectarian policy not only to reject the whole of them, but to fill up the vacancy by appointing a person, who, without disparagement to his amiable character and book-learning, is notoriously deficient in the moral courage, dignified presence, con stitutional energy, and popular address, which are in dispensable in the present day both to attract a congre gation, and to cope with the coarse and insolent bearing which Edinburgh voluntaryism exults in. No doubt this manoeuvre involved a tremendous sacrifice of the most important interests to mere party zeal, but not too great to intimidate the Radical and Dissenting councillors. They have boldly and basely carried it. With the pretences that they rejected the able clergy man whom the subscribers and trustees expected to be appointed, because he is alleged to decline co-opera tion with the Dissenting preachers who are leagued against his church, and that some of the council majo rity who have effected this indecency are members of the establishment—with these pretences we have no further concern than to congratulate the rev. gentleman on the persecution he has been subjected to for his con sistency ; while, as far as regards the Radical church men who have assisted in it, we tell them plainly " an enemy Math d one thi s ," b e their pretext what it may. Only observe, too, how their treachery to the Green side trustees evinces their determination to damage, as far as may be, the national establishment in general. Subscriptions a re go i ng f orwar d i n most o f t he prin cipal towns in Scotland for the purpose of providing that additional church accommodation which Govern ment, in spite of their professions, seem determined to withhold ; and one great incentive to this benevo lent zeal is, the confidence entertained by subscribers not only that efficient clergymen shall be appointed to the new churches, but that in all such appointments the recommendation of t heir managing committees shall be listened to with re spect. Now, by showing the subscribers that their confidence in this respect is wholly unfounded, and that the churches built with their money shall not for certain be supplied with the clergymen they approve of, the anti-establishment THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1836 party in the Council have done everything in their power to give " a heavy blow" to the cause of church extension, and to make this Greenside affair available for discouraging the liberality of the public. But, connected with the specimen we have now given of the precious working of the Scotch Municipal Bill, there is one remaining consideration in which the public in this part of the kingdom are more particu larly interested, and which has been our chief motive for noticing the matter at all. The Edinburgh cor porators who have perpetrated the atrocity in question are bankrupt qua corporation, being indebted to the Treasury and to individuals about half a million of money. They are begging and boring the Chancellor of the Exchequer not only to cancel their public debt, but to help them to pay a composition to their private creditors. Now be it observed, that one important item of the corporation revenue consists of the sea rents in the city churches, amounting annually to thou. sands of pounds. It is quite clear, then, that to ap point popular clergymen who shall prove attractive to the inhabitants, and productive to the corporation funds, is the bounden duty of these municipal insolvents. But no, their licentious party liberalism must have its bent, pay for it who will. They must show their hatred to the church establishment by fastening upon it a very worthy, but as we are advised, a very unsuit able minister. They must show their fitness for the honest and economical management of the city re sources by making an appointment which, in the anti cipated event of failing to attract pew-payers, will oc casion a loss to their corporation of several hundreds a-year 1 And yet these are the worthies who will have the assurance to ask creditors to forego their claims, and the country to pay their debts.—Times. We have only one fault to find with the Dissenters. In all that concerns their social and religious duties — in all that concerns their private respectability and their public spirit—in all that concerns the discharge of their functions as individuals and as citizens of a free community, their conduct is generally unexceptionable, and they have established the highest and justest claim to the good estimation of the whole nation. But we have one grave accusation to make against them— one serious grievance of which to complain. They have, we admit, sacrificed on many occasions (and the sacrifice is most honourable to them) their interest, as a section of the community, to the interest of the entire body. When the great grievances of the Test and Corporation Acts pressed most heavily upon them, they willingly exhibited the extent of their patriotism, by postponing the redress of that grievance to the re dress of the penal laws which pressed upon the Roman Catholics, Catholic emancipation being pronounced at that time by public opinion the paramount object of ' Reform. Again, they were equally willing, with honour , able self-devotion, to sacrifice their just claims to the redress of other grievances, (which were partially redressed during the last Session, or still remain to be redressed) to the paramount necessity of that union among all Reformers which was requisite for the pur pose of carrying the great measure of Parliamentary Reform. Some things have been done in their favour lately by the Government—which it must be admitted owe to them a large debt of obligation, both for their original arid - continued support ; but they have been done unsatisfactorily and incompletely. Nevertheless it was possibly the best step for them to accept those measures, incomplete as they were, as the best they could get—or, at all events, as instalments of better— rather than cavil with their political friends about the extent of their mutual obligations, and thus by ill-timed dissention play a cat d into the hands of their ever vigilant and office-hankering enemies. But we cannot invent the same excuse for them, on the subject of the great grievance and nuisance of the Church -rates, nor for the supineness during so long a period under which they have submitted to this infliction. This indeed forms the only ground of accusation we haveto make against them. We doubt their eight to have made the long compromise which they have to the evil principle of Church rapacity on this essential point. Evils are con firmed by sufferance—claims are obliterated by endu rance—titles vitiated by prescriptive custom. Even if they have the right to sacrifice their own claims to mistaken views of their duties, as loyal subjects, or of public tranquillity as well-disposed 'citizens—thc ques tion is, whether they have the right to compromise the great cause of civil and religious liberty. This is not a sectarian but a universal questiori, and one in which every individual in the nation, of every sect, vocation, colour, and creed, is as much interested as they them selves. It is again, moreover, questionable whether they possessed a right to sacrifice the religious opinions of their body, (which if they are not conscientious opinions are worth nothing whatever), to any views, of private expediency or even of political advantage. It must be recollected that the reasons why the three denomina tions of Dissenters object to the payment of church rates are conscientious and religious, as much as they are political or financial. If they be not conscien tious and religious, then there exists no reason for their separation from the Church, or for the existence of the very name and substance of dissent. Heaven knows, they have quite suffi cient, in a social point of view, to complain of as regards the church-rates. It is quite a suffi cient grievance that the) should have to pay forty shillings in the pound, where the minority cf the reli gious community only pay twenty shillings, for reli gious instruction. It is quite a sufficient grievance that they should have to pay for their own clergy— their own churches—their own church repairs—and their own charitable and educational endowments— without having to pay for all the claims under those heads which are made upon them by a church to whose tenets they are opposed. It is quite sufficient grievance, we say, in a financial point of view ; but it is in the light of an outrage offered to conscience that the church-rates ought to be considered by the Dissenters. They ought to be equally so considered by them as they have invariably been considered by the Society of Friends. If, however, we have had hitherto reason to complain of the supineness of the Dissenters—(and we have thus frankly expressed our complaint)—we shall shortly have no longer grounds for complaining. In conformity with a previous intimation which we gave our readers, we have now the gratification of stating that this great and influential body are resolved in fu ture to substitute acts for words, and immediate deci sion for equivocal procrastination. The Provisional Committee of a Church-rate Abolition Society is already in operation, and has resolved on calling together a public meeting in London, next Thurs day, for the purpose of organizing throughout the country, a firm, peaceable, and consentane ous passive resistance to church-rates ;—to establish a local association corresponding with the metropolitan society—to nominate representatives of the local dis tricts to the town convention—and to raise a fuild for defraying the expenses of both the local and the ge neral opposition. Most glad are we to record this re solution of the Dissenters—most cordially do we con gratulate them upon this necessary determination ; and on the well-considered and well-organized means they are about to employ for giving it practical effect. Above all do we rejoice that there is to be no more talk " about and about" this most vital question of civil and religious liberty. Deeds are about to be sub stituted for words. In extreme cases, such as the church-rate question is now become, this in fact is the only mode of grappling with their difficulties, and bring ing it to a termination. In these cases men must leave off praying to Jupiter, and apply their shoulders to the wheel. It is by confronting the evil manfully, that it is to be put down. When things are at the worst, as the proverb says, they are likely to be mended ; and passive resistance to the church-rates, such as the Quakers have long submitted to, is the worst that the Dissenters have to fear. It was when the Roman General burned his ships behind him, that he prepared for and secured his victory.—Morning Advertiser. T HE PRINCE OF CANINO'S MEMOIRS.—The appearance of " The Prince of :Canino's Memoirs " the first volume of which has just issued from the press, will create a great sensation in the literary and political circles, embracing, as it does, that memorable era when the whole of Europe was convulsed by a moral e a rth qua k e , and its dynasties changed by . one mighty spirit, and minutely de tailing the causes which led to such t remen d ous effects. It will prove an invaluable adjunct to the history of modern times, and no library can be complete without it. LIVERPOOL C O TTON-MARKET, OCT. 13.—Our cotton-market has been flat to-day ; about 4000' bales have been sold. No alteration in prices. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 14. Price Number Dirltlend of per CANAL S . per Shares. Annum. Paid, Share 1,760 7 pet cent. Ashton and RagesOldham....Ava 971. 18s. sh. • 165 1,184 6/. Ashbyare-le-touch .. ....... rge 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 5 1,005 5!. Brecknoce an d Abergavenny 150 e sh. 90 8,000 I-l6sh. 91.25. Birmingham, 1-16 th share 814 & 711. 206 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...105 4 sh. 100 pd 301 600 . Bridgewater and Taunton --lOW. sh. all pd 64 400 44 Chelmer and Dlackwater 100/. sh. 10 , 500 471. Coventry 100/. sh. 725 4,545 Croydon .... Aver age? 31/. 2s 10d. sh. 3 2,0604 41. Os, Dudley lOO4 sh. 78 600 71. Derby 100/. sh. 120 20,000 3,5754 231 401. Erewash 1001. sh. 400 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde .......Average 4(10/.16s. sh. 600 11,500 12/. Grand Juneti on ..- • ...1004 sh. 212 2,8491 11. Grand Uni on 1001. sh. 25 1,500 Grand Surrey 1001. sh. 120,000/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/. '75 3,096 Grand Western lOO4 sh. all pd 19 600 13/. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10s. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,239 1/. lOs. Huddersfield Average 571. Os. 6d. sh. 32 100 25,328 11. 2s Kennet and Avon, Average 391. 18s.10d. sh. 211 2,597; 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 510 5454 104 Leicester l4O/. sh. 149 1,697 1/. 10s. Leicester arid Northampton... Aver 834 10s. 78 2,400 9!. Monmouthsh ire 100/. sh. 200 50 10/. Melton Mowbray 1004 sh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 583 3,000 1!. 18s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 54 247 17/. Neat li 100/. sh. 325 1,786 30/. Oxford 100/. sh. 5811 2,400 4/ . Peak Forest Average about 781 . sh. 104 21,41 S I2s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. les. Bd. sh. 17 5,609 6/. per cent Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 117 500 8/. Shropshire 1251. sh. 140 800 0/. me, Somerset Coal 1504 sh. 160 45,0004 5 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stck lO/. )os. sh. 114 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 690 500 114 Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 245 300 8/, Stourbridge 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 79/. 9s. od. sh. 53 3 533 13/. Swansea 1110/. sh. 2 3,762 14 Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 171 2,6001 tin. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share 100/. sh. 574 8,149 I ' Msh i 154 • Warwick aad Birmingham 1001. sh 276 I,oolsh. 980 194. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 216 6,000 41.05. Worcest , r and Birmingham._ Av. 754 Bs. sh. 81 5,000 20s. Wilts an, Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 181 800 31, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 106 0 , 0 Wisbeach 105/. sh. 45 905 1/. 0 Wcy awl Arun llO/. sh. 22, DOCKS. 2,600& 5lO c. Commercial 100/. sh. 1,06515 h • ' 19 - ;,667;/. 51 per ct. East India Stock 3,238,31014 50s.p.ct London Stock Ditto Bonds ,380,0004 5/, per ct. West India Stock 0,'..0.1 2!. 198. Bristol 68,3244 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1.351,752 4 per cent. St. Kat hatine Stock 500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bond , 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds wr 10 years Shoreham harbour 2.500 ........ Deptford BRl Pier DGES. 201. sh. 3/. pd 1,600 1/. Hammersmei 5O!. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old Ar. W 4 2s. Bd. sh. 1,700 1!. 15s. Ditto, New, 01'71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 5,000 Waterloo .. • lOO/. sh. 5,000 11.25. Ditto, Old Annuities of ii/. 6O/. pd 5,1100 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd (10,000!. 54 per cent. Ditto Bonds 6,000 1/. Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. ASsURANCe: COMPANIES. '2,000 Si 10s Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 50,000 [5 IstenraTt.l Alliance,British& Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. lid 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. pd 24,000 4/ per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 5/. pd I,°lBl ;31. 51. Itirmingliani lnc O5 O/. sh. 55 /. pd 20,000 . 4! per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 12,000 61. per cent. Brit,sh Commercial 50/. sh. 5/. pd 5,000 V. per cent. Clerical, Medi al,&c. Lite, 1001. sh. 12/ lOs pd . 4,000 2/ lOs County 106/. sh. 10/. pd 40,000 ss. Eagle 0 per cent.l 10001. sh. 2501. pd 200 /and 30/ bs.s 2,271 814 per cent. Eurepean Li.•• 204 sh. all ltd 5U,+)00 Economic 1.ii..: 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. '2l. pa 1,000,0001. 7/. per ct. Globe 20,000 5/, Guardian lOO/. sh. 2741 pd 40,000 Fire 5 p a. - Hope... tr.` ite 8 pct.} 50/. sh. 5!. pd 6 2,400 5/. 7s. Od. Imperial I•ir,., 500/. sh. 50/. pd 1254 7,500 95. Imperial Lite 10,158 120. per sh. Indemnity Mai Me 110/. sh. 8/. pd 17 2,020 3/ lOs Keet Fire 501. sh. all lid 92 3/. Ditto Life 79 10, 1 '00 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 104 pd 29 3,900 London, tic • "51 sh. 12/. 10s. pd 15 31 000 Lontlen, Ship "51 sh. Pl. 10s. pd 15 30,000 Ti. per cent. Palladium Ur., 50/. sh. 2/. pd 218 s Od 20 0 ,001 • 2,000 11. Provident lents lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 19.' 100,000 Rock Life 'O/. sh. 91. pd 7 040,020/ 51. per cent. Royal Exch-ti,ge Stock-. 226 0,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO4 sh. 5/. pd 5 50,00 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 Agric and Cumin. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd , 5,000 A ustrala i s 4O/. sh. 401. pd 10,0141 10 per cent. Bank of Be toingliam 'ir 1. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... . 531. sh. 5!. id 30,000 4 per cent. Loneon and Westminster-100/ sh. 20/. pd :1,000 Lancaster 100/. sh. 20/. pd 05,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 10/. pet 50,000 74 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/, sh. 15/ pd Discoun' 2 1 .1,000 6 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh, 25/ pd 20,000 b per cent. Provincial Batik of Ireland-1004 sh. '251. pd 00, 1;0 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland 5O/. sh 1014 pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. - 1004 sh. 25/. pd :0,000 11) per cent. Gloucestershire 50 /. sh. 10 /. pd 6,000 - 71 per cent, Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 500 I/ is Bath 0 0/. sh. 164 pd 5,000 British ... 404 sh. 164 pd [s4percent 5000 Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd , and Its. 55.1 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 4,20,0 '2l Os Bristol 2o' sh. 1,500 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 750 Ditto, New 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General • '2Ol. sh. all pd 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated lOO/. 6214 pd 1,000 10/. City of London lOU sh. all pd 1, 0 00 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 60/. pd .1,000 4/. 10s. Equitable .. 10,100 51. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. SILO 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 3Ol sh. all pd 9,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix .... 501. sh. 39!. pd 1,000 4/. per cent. Itateli(l' 1004 sh. 801. pd 4,01'0 . South I'letroiinlitan 5 O/. sh. 194 pd 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 104 lel 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 84 per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 12,000 3/. Westmioster Chartered 6,00) 12s. Ditto New 5 ll. sir. 10/. pd 860 Yarmouth 20/. sh. 18/. pd WATER 'WORKS. 4,600 Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 4,133 64 East London lOO/. sh. 4,54)0 2/ lOs Grand Junction ....Average 411 130. 43. sh. 2,000 2/ Kent 100/. sh. 3 , 1 S 104 Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1,500 2/ lOs Now River London Bridge Water Annuities 6,496 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 1,000 31. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9(1. sh. 1.360 ,11 Us York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1004 sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 2,500 ......... Aylesbury 2O/. sh. 1/. pd. 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 5/ pd 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 15;00 Bristol and Exeter lOO/. sh. spd 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 7,5110 Cheltenham and G. Western...loo4 sh. 2 3 / 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1004 pd 12,000 2,500 19s. Forest of Dean 5O!. pd Grand Junction 1001. sh. 40/.0a.1 Great North of England 24 pd 25,001 Great Western lOO/. sh. 20/. pd 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1004 pd 'l,lOO Hull and Selby 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 10,00) ...... ... Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 7,160 Leeds and Selby lOO sh. 1,501) Leicester and Swannington -.504 sh. all pd 5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo4 sh. 100/.0 Ditto Quarter Shares ou . p d 10,000 .....:-... London and Brighton lOO4 sh. Si pd 45,000 ..... ~.. ; Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -.20/ sh. 1/. pd 16,000 ' Ditto ditto (Rennie)...so/. sh. 2/. pd 8,0:10 Ditto ditto (Cuntly)...lool. sh. 2/. pd 12,000 ..... ..•.-. London and Blackwell 5Ol. ,h. 3/ pd ..... Londmi and Dover 5 0 / , sh. I/. p d 30,000 ..... . ... ~.. London and Gravesend 2O/ sh 1/. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 'O4 sh. 20/. pd 25,000 ...... ... London and Birmingham IOW. sh. 60/. pd 200 , 00 7,000 London and Croydon 2C/. sh. 13/. pd 12,000 •••••»•• London Grand Junction 50/. sh. 2/. pd b 1,090 Manchester South Union 1004 sh. 2/. pd North Midland lOO/. sh. 5/. pd Northern and Eastern lOO/. sh. 3/. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50!. sh. 84 pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover 024 pel 1,000 61. per cent Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 5O sh. 14 pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5L sh. 3/. pd 4,000 Alten 15/. sh. 121. 10s pd 10,000 ......... Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 2.51. pd 2,000 Bolanos r 150/. sh all pd 10,000 IL lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. Si. pm .35/. sh. 'lO/, pd 6,01'0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 251. sh. 23i/. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. BF. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd 10,000 ...-.... Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 8/. pd 20,000 British Iron 50/. sh. 50/ pd 8,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 311. pd Cata Branca 64/. pd Candonga 7ll. pd 10,000 IL Copiapo 2O/. sh 121/ pd 8,500 Columbian, iss. 51 . pm. 55/. sh. 551. pd 2,850 31 English 121 10. s. pd 20,000 6155 3,000 Polberou Consols 101. sh. 8/. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 30,000 United Ilexican, iss. 2 pm..... 40!. sh. all pd Ditto- Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork 501. sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1, 000 1500 ... ...... London' University 1001. s h. a ll pd , 700 King' College 1001. pd MISCELLANEOUS. . .. 10,6 a iss. Australian Agricultur;l 100/. sh. 2W. pd 6,000 British American Land Company ... 18/. pd 20010:000 000 6 per cent. Canada Company 103!. sh. 231. pd 5 1 i per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,00 0 iv. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 1 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 0 ,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. '75/. sh. New Brunswick Land Company 9 81 pd 2,754 M. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 9,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 45/. pd 4,000 10,000 Van Die. aer.'s Land 100/. sh. 17/. pd LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, OCT. 11, 1836. BANKS. 1,500,0014 11. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 831. 65. Bd. sh. all pd 2044 2,000,0 X/. 54 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 16714 500.0J01. Es p. ct. 'latish Linen Company 100/. sh. all pd 24741. 3,000,000/. W. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1004 pd 1.31 5,000,000/. sp. ct. National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 1541, 2,00 x,OOOl. 51. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 67V. 4,000,0001. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 37/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. 6i p. ct. Scottish Union 20/ sh. 14 pd 27s 7,5 00 sp. ct. Hercules lOO/ sh. 10/. pd 14/ Os, 101%000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10/. sh. all pd 171155. 50,000 6p. ct, North British 200/. sh. 10/. pd 13 L 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 1610 s 5, 00 0 6p. et. Edinburgh lafe.. lOO/. sh. 104 pd 14/ Os 100,000 , MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 ... Edin. and G!as. Un. Canal 501. sh. all pd 20 ! Ditto Allocated 9fs/. sh. all pd cu . 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb."JMnt Stock Water 25 /. sh. all pd 384 Carron Iron Company ......`l5Ol. sh. all pd 4501 . 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundory ......... 50/. sh. 3q. pd 411/ . 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass ....201. sh. 16/. pd 71/. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all p 0 6144 4,450 per Cent. Glasgow Gas ' , M. sh. all pd 811 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal (las 201. sh. all pd 40/: 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkeith ltailway...so/.sh. 654 3 , 000 51 per mt. Equitable Loan Company 251. sh. 91. pd 106 FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. FOREIGN OFFICE, OCT. 13, 1836. A dispatch, dated Sept. 24, 1836, has been received by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from Mr. Villiers, his Majesty's Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid containing a no tice, of which the following is a translation,respecting the erection of a new lighthouse at San Sebastian. NOTICE TO NAVIGATORS. Light-House at St. Sebastian ( Guipuzcoa. ) The ancient light-house at the port of San Sebastian, placed at the summit of Mount Igueldo, has been suppressed, and is about to be replaced by another light-house at the brow of Mount Orgullo, which forms the eastern part of the quay of that port, and where the Castle of La Mota is situated. The new light-house lies at 43 deg. 19 min. 33 thirds north lati tude, and 4 deg. 17 min. 57 thirds east longitude of Cadiz, at the distance of less than a mile to the east of the ancient one. The light itself will stand 221 feet above the level of the sea. It will be constant, and not an intermitting light, but sufficiently bright to be distinguished on clear nights, without moonlight, from a distance of above fifteen miles. - It will be lighted for the first time on the evening of the 14th September next, and will continue to be so every evening till the 3d May following ; and it will be lighted, during the same period, in each succeeding year. Madrid, August 26, 1836. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, OCT. 12, 1836. This day the Count. Sebastiani, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of the French, had an audience of his Majesty upon his return to this Court : To which he was introduced by Lord Viscount Palmerston,•his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and con ducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt., Master of the Ceremonies. WAR- OFFICE, OCT. 14. 18th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon D. M'Kinlay, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Davies, who retires ; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon C. Cowen to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M'Kinlay, Oct. 14. 35th Foot—Staff-Assistant Surgeon A. Gordon, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Milne, placed upon half-pay, Oct. 14. 43d Foot—Major W. Beresford, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice E. G. W. Keppel, who exchanges, Oct 14. 55th Foot—Lieut. J. Forbes, from the 75th Regiment of Foot, to Captain, without purchase, vice Sinclair, deceased, Oct. 13. 75th Foot—Ensign J. M. Brown, from the 93d Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Forbes, promoted in the 55th Regiment of Foot, Oct. 14. 82d Foot—Lieut. H. B. H. Rogers, to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Green, who retires ; Ensign W. F. W. Martin, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rogers ; F. W. Diggle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Martin, Oct. 14. 93d Foot—Gentleman Cadet F. H. Crawford, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brown, promoted in the 75th Regiment of Foot, Oct. 14. 94th Foot—Gentleman Cadet W. H. Kirby, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Vaughan deceased, Oct. 14. HOSPITAL STAFF. To be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces—A. Mackintosh, Gent., vice Ledingham, appointed to the 24th Regiment of Foot ; Sept. 30 ; J Morrison Gent., vice Cowen, appointed to the 18th Re giment of Foot; S. Currie, Gent., vice Gordon, appointed to the 35th Regiment of Foot, Oct. 14. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. Royal Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia—Wm. Taylor, Esq., to be Captain, Oct. 1. , Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry—M. Lyon, Gent., to be Cornet, vice T. Chowler, resigned, Oct. I. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Gloucester Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Fairford and Ciren cester Troop—T. Pettat, Esq., to be Captain, vice Barker, re signed, Sept. 23. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire. West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—A. G. Leth bridge, Esq., to be Captain, Sept. 24. North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—M. J. Hig. gins, Gent., to be Cornet, Sept. 30. BANKRUPTS. GEORGE TOPHAM, coal-merchant, Richmond, Surrey, to surrender Oct. 25 and Nov. 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Mur ray, London-street, Fenchurch-street. JOHN BENNETT, bookseller, Three Tun-passage, Newgate street, Oct. 26, at one, and Nov. 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bowden, Walter, and Reeve, Aldermanbury ; John son, Bassinghall-street, official assignee. GEORGE RICHARD NAYLER, grocer, Exmouth-street, Spafields, Oct. 21, at two, and Nov. 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. M'Duff, Castle-street, Holborn ; Goldsmid, iron monger-lane, official assignee. JOHN ROBBINS, woollen-draper, Portsea, Oct. 22, at ten, and Nov. 25, at twelve, at Totterdell's Commercial Hotel, Portsea. Wimburn and Collett, Chancery-lane, London ; Lea, Portsea. WILLIAM MAY, merchant, Fenchurch-street, Oct. 27, at twelve, and Nov. 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Templer, Shearman, and Slater, Great Tower-street. WILLIAM THOMPSON, HENRY LEONARD, and RI CHARD BROOKHOLDING DAWES, factors, Ashted, War wickshire, Oct. 22, at eleven, and Nov. 25, at twelve, at Ra denhurst's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London • Wills, Birmingham. THOMAS PHILIPS BIRKS and GEORGE GRUNDY, oil of vitriol manufacturers, Bury, Lancashire, Oct. 31, at eleven, and Nov. 25, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Appleby, King's-road, Bedford-row, London ; Parker, Bury. THOMAS HOLT and ELI HOWARD, cotton-spinners, Birtle cum Bamford, Lancashire, Oct. 27, and Nov. 25, at three, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Potter, Manchester. ISAAC KNIGHT and JOSEPH MARTIN, corn-merchants, Lancashire, Oct. 27, at three, and Nov. 25, at ten, at the Commis sioners'-rooms, Manchester. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, London ; Claye and Thompson, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. H. Payne, grocer, Rotherham, Yorkshire, Nov. 7, at half-past twelve—W. and R. Dodds, grocers, Leadenhall-street, Nov. 4, at one—J. Laidley and G. Turner, composition candle makers, Fel sham, Middlesex, Nov. 7, at half-past eleven—J. Taylor, picture dealer, Pall-mall, Nov, 4, at eleven—E. Rawlings, tanner, Bexley, Kent, Nov. 7, at twelve—E. Ashenden and T. Baker, brick makers, Sittingbourne, Kent, Nov. 4, at one—J. Hill, woollen draper, Cheltenham, Nov. 4, at two—W. Poole and V. Thomson, victuallers, Surrey Theatre Coffee-house, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars-road, Nov. 4, at three—R. Flaxman, carpenter, Fetter- , lane, Nov. 4, at half-past two—C. Austin, banker, Luton, Bed fordshire, Nov. 5. at twelve—A. Anderson, brewer, Philpot-lane, Nov. 5, at two—J. Cook, miller, Deptford, Nov. 4, at one—T. W. Willows, fishmonger, Fleet-street, Nov. 4, at twelve—C. Baker, distiller, St. John-street, Clerkenwoll, Nov. 4, at one—J. Mitchell, wine merchant, Brighthelmstone, Nov. 4, at one—W. Jennings, victualler, St. Alban's, Nov. 4, at twelve—R. Lund, Bridlington, Yorkshire, Nov. 4, at eleven. In the Country. M. Fischer, merchant, Leeds, Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds—W. Hawkins, timber merchant, Nottingham, Nov. 10, et eleven, at the Peacock Inn, Nottingham—B. M. Brook, draper, Cheltenham, Feb. 10, at two, at the Star Hotel, Chelten ham-C. Holt, baker, Coventry, Nov. 11, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry. CERTIFICATES, Nov. 4. T. Parkin, ship broker, Hatton-court—R. B. Mann, linen draper, Parliament-street, Westminster—R. James, bone dust ma nufacturer, Chalkside, Cumberland—W. B. Lilly, coal merchant, Birmingham—A. J. da Cunha, merchant,' Warnford-court—T. Eames, dyer, Pendleton, Lancashire—R. Park, underwriter, King ston-upon-Hull. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. B. Hack and T. Smith, curriers, Chichester—J. Conacher and J. Miller, woollen drapers, Crawford -street, Marylebone—J. C. Sommers and J. Mutter—M. A. Burrough and A. Milhouse, boarding-housekeepers, Margate—J. Hays and R. Wood, cotton spinners, Lodge Mill, Lancashire—J. Robinson and S. Raingill, commission agents, Manchester—H. Hicks and T. A. Stephens -W. Matney and Co., stationers, High Holborn—T. Cooke, sen. and T. Cooke, jun., tea dealers, Loughborough—J. Terrell and Co., attorneys-at-law, Exeter—H. King and J. Phillips, brass founders, Drury-lane—T. Parker and Co., edge tool manufactu rers, Birmingham—J. Brown and Co., linen merchants, Bristol— T. Brown and Co., timber merchants, Commercial-road, Lambeth (as far as regards G. M. Bird. ) PRICE OF SUGAR.. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the 11th day of October, 1836, is 445. 3d. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. A seizure of 114 tubs of contraband spirits and four men was made off the Isle of Wight on Friday by Mr. Ellis, commander of his Majesty's revenue cutter Victoria. The men were seen to throw the tubs overboard, but were not captured until after a long chase. A CAT UNDER SEAL.—In the baginning of the present week seals were put, according to the law of France, on the house of a mare/mule de nouveautes at Paris, who had failed. In the course of a daylor two after the neighbours were disturbed by the mewling of a cat, which had unintentionally been left in the house. Justice could not be infringed upon. The seals could not be re moved. The cat must stay in and starve. At length their compassion suggested the expedient of passing some suste nance through a hole, which was done. Soon after, on application to the proper authority, he ordered the tempo rary removal of the seals, and the cat was set free.— French Paper. According to a late census it appears that the popu lation of the European parts of Russia, amounts to 47,592,429 souls, and that of the Asiatic portion to 1,827,963. , On Sunday morning last, at an early hour, an oyster smack lying at anchor in Erith Bight, a few miles below Woolwich, was run foul of by the Soho steam-ship, going down the river, and rendered a complete wreck,;the bowsprit and mast having been carried away, and the decks of the vessel torn up. The crew of the smack, who were below, ran up in a state of great fright on hearing the crash, and it was for some time expected that she would sink. She was, however, taken to Billingsgate, where her cargo was discharged, and the smack has been since taken into dock. It was very dark when the accident occurred. A very respectable family at Wells has been plunged into the deepest distress, by hearing that their son, about thirteen years of age, had hung himself at the house where he was at school, near Shaftesbury.—Bath Chronicle. A boy, about six years of age, named James Clewer, son to tha groom of Henry Budd, Esq., at Branshott, in Western Sussex, recently met with his death in a very singu lar manner. It appears the child was seen about five o'clock !n the afternoon, playing in his father's garden, and net hay. ing returned by dusk, his mother repaired to several houses in the neighbourhood in order to find him, but without success. His father at length was sent for, and search being made in the garden, the boy was found lifeless iu an apple-true. It appears that the poor little fellow, having climbed the tree to gather an apple, had slipped in coming down, and his neck b e ing forced in between three small branches, forming a tri angle, he had no power to extribate himself, and thus was choked, 109 i P 5 116 87i 102 1011 20 11 is 15 291 13 241 '2O 9 50 22f 49 10 9 2f Is Of I'# 125 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE C US. TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 14. The Adventure, Phillips, from Malaga; Ramona, Bridge, from Rotterdam; William Jolliffe, Middleton, from Cowel Calam; Princess Victoria, Brocke, from Antwerp ; Exchange , l , from Jersey ; Violet, Perriman, from Lisbon. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, OCT. 14. The Mary Laing, Shaw, for Honduras ; BataYier, Dun lop, for Rotterdam; Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, for Ostend; James, Parl, for Bahia ; Tam O'Shanter, Laurence, for Grand Canary; Caledonia, Whittingham, for Hamburgb; Eliza and Jane, Hart, for Honduras; Thetis, Partridge, for Jamaica; Prince of Waterloo, Page, for Ostend ; Rose, Bayley, for Demerara; Resource, Rosecamp, for Jamaica. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, OCT. 14. The John Bull, Corbin, for Hamburgh; Earl of Li ver p oo l ' Lomax, for Ostend ; Thames, Barclay, for Jamaica ; Gi raffe, Major, for Rotterdam ; Alexander, Fethers , for Ros tock ; Undaunted, Howe, for Jamaica ; Pilot, Moore, for Cuba; Grove, Tannion, for St. Vincent's ; Attwood, Stran nack, for Hamburgh. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, OCT. 14. The Doop Gastmere, Vonder Zee, for Worcum ; Lamle, for Gravelines; Asia. Wilson, for Cadiz and Gib raltar ; Azans, Warner, for Dram. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, OCT. 13. The Patriot, Nichols, from Malaga; Cove, from Gibraltar; Sir John Franklin, Corner, from Quebec ; Thomas Dougall, Brown, from the Mauritius ; Noma, Cooper, from Archvgel• ENTERED FOR LOADING, OCT. 13. The Eliza Sanders, Bulley, for Alexandria; Mary Jone s : Fishley, for Buenos Ayres ; Halifax, M'Cleary, for Halifax, Calista, Bradley, for Honduras ; Trafalgar, Jackson, for New Orleans ; Emigrant, Petrie, for Savannah. CLEARED OUTWARDS, OCT. 13. The Bootle, for St. Thomas's; Alexander, Stewart, for Jamaica; Olive Branch, Frink, for Gijon; Captain Ross , Morton, for Halifax ; Eve, Tate, for Monte Vido ; RuP id ' Thomas, for Jamaica ; Pauline, Perrie, for Ostend; Jupiter, Kraft, for Elsineur; Rapid, Simpson, for Bahia; Galt, Har riet, for Mobile ; Catherine, for Ostend. • TELEGRAPHED. Wind W.—Off point Lynas, inward bound, the Green borough, faom Quebec; Mary Catherine, from Quebec. The following was yesterday received at Lloyd's " Coast Guard Office, Oct. 13, 1836. sir,—l herewith transmit for the informationof the Com mittee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's a copy of a letter from Captain John T. Warren, R.N., Inspecting Commander of the Lynn district, reporting the particulars of the assistanc e rendered to a Norwegian brig, named Maria Bergethe, on the 11th instant, by the crew of the Coast Guard station at Ched cock, when only two of the crew were saved. (Signed) " S. SPARRSHOTT, " Deputy Comptroller-Genera l. " W. Dobson, Esq., &c., Lloyd's." " Lynn, Oct. 12, 1836. " Sir,—l beg to state that yesterday morning, between four and five o'clock, it blowing very heavy from the S. S. W. , a Norwegian brig, named Marie Bergethe, of Drontheim, came on shore close under the cliffs at Chedcock, it being abe e " , half-past five, before any one could get near. her. Men the tide ebbed a little, every possible assistance was rendere d by Lieut. Payne, chief officer, and the men under his o rders. Out of a crew of five persons in all, the mate and one m an were saved, the Captain and two drowned. Every attention was paid to the poor sufferers, and they still are at the watch' house, as there is no Swedish or Norwegian agent here to take charge of them. I desired Lieut. Payne to get them lodged in the village until your decision is made kne w ''' . They are entirely without money, but a chest with sotoe clothes has been picked up. The vessel was a perfect wreck; her whole broadside being forced out, and her cargo, consist ing of salt, with everything else, was washed out. She 1185 from Oporto, bound to Dronfiteim. Every exertion has beell made to save as much of the wreck as possible. One sill a cask of wine, about five gallons, was wash e d as hore, an a stowed in the watchhouse. The Comptroller of the Custom s of Bridport attended, and I beg to state particularly thatsgr. Wild, Lord of the Manor, rendered evey assistance, both Per" sonally, and with his waggons and horses. The bodies o f to° men were picked up in the course of the day. (Signed) " JOHN. T. WARREN. " Inspecting Commander. " To the Comptroller-General." On Saturday last a gentleman from Glasgow, commercial agent, of the name of Hay, and who put up .; the Harrow Inn, having staid out later tha n usual, an' there being something in his appearance which excited th e suspicions of the landlord, information was given to 4116 watchmen, when they proceeded to their stations to e ndea' your to discover him. Shortly after, the watchman in th e , meadows observed a great quantity of blood near the hea t ' of the Middle-walk, and drops along the road. These 'l e i followed, until at the opening leading into the west-sib George-square, he found the unfortunate man sus pended 1 1 the neck with his handkerchief tied to th e l a t c h of a.bobe i : r door in the lane. He appeared to be so determined on ` e destruction, that his feet went below him, and his knees. ° I ; the ground. It appeared from the quantity of blood net 1113 first 'served by the watchman, that the unfortolaw gentleman had first gone behind one of the trees ; i n th e walk, and there cut his throat with a penknife, which O s afterwards found upon his person ; he had then walked 00 few yards, after which he made a second incision ; but fee' ing neither of these might terminate fatally, he walked t° the lane, where he completed his suicide as we have e' r scribed. When found there were several pound no tes i e t his pockets, with a watch and other articles. It is said th e t embarrassed circumstances were the cause of this rash ae —Edinburgh Courant. The coal-works in Ayrshire, especially those situat ed t in the vi c i n ity o f th e sea - ports on t h e coast, are at preseP o r in a s t a t e o f grea t act i v i ty . Th e hi g h pr i ce an d sear ei , ti for Glasgow coal has cre a t e d an un p rece d en t e d denaana f o r Ayrshire coal, and great quantities of it are now taken 10 markets which were formerly supplied by the co al-0 4 ' 1 i, around this city. Vessels fr o m th e Hi g hl an d s , and I ; ° A the Lochs Gair, L ong , H o ly, an d Fi ne , use d to l oa d Aw n - 0 the Broomielaw as return cargoes, but these vessels a rc I 'l s , forced to go down in ballast, an d ge t th e coa l a t Salteg` p a or any of the other ports, as th e Ay rs hi re coa l i s p lentl i a v io cheaper than at Glasgow. Owing t o th e grea t d e ananu learn, that although the west coast coal is still Lowe price than at our coal-works, the p r i ce p er t on i s daft,' t o may say, on the advance. It is difficult to get vess els o load coals at the ports in Ay rs hi re , an d th e conseque, e o j. have been, that all hands engag e d, e ith er i n m i n ing, l e , t o ing, or sailing, connected with th e coa l t ra d e h a ve fPbbis advance of wages, and still the cost o f thi s i n dispeat o t article is far less when exported from Ayrshire than ' O l the Glasgow district. This has opened up a new chapvf for the disposal of the Ayrshire coal, that will matil l ' ill t be hurt the Glasgow coal-merchants at a future time, is ip west-coast coal has been found to be equal, and, in ma r e Y,, ot r stances, superior to Glasgow coal, and h as b ecom e a T' n jo, rite in many places on the coa s t, as we ll as t h e flie lP3 ' —Glasgow Evening Post of Saturday, t ot By recent arrivals from H o b ar t T own i t a p p ears et the Abel Gower merchant ship was in imminent a ,i t o, from the same rocks of cora l, i n d'E ncastreaux St i. ; l ;ip. which proved so fatal t o th e G eorge t h e Thi r d convict ' b eg Fortunately it was daylight, or every soul must hav e o ger lost. Surely a bu o y s h ou ld b e p l ace d to i nd i cate t he a 3 , to the many vessels now frequenting Van Diemen's Le° --- (ADVERTISEMENT.) it $ NEW SILVER WAIT— V , Round, mith elegant Shell-pattern edges. A l• 41 ' Plain Centres. . s. d. Chased Centres . r • Silver Waiter, 8 in. diameter Sil v er W a it e r Si n. diamete , 1 4 . 12oz. a 95.... 5 8 0 W a it er , a SS. 6c).; ; g 1 Ditto 10 ditto, 20oz. aN. ... 9 0 0 Ditto 10 ditto, 20oz. a 95., "u ,D. 40 11 Ditto 18 ditto, 86oz. a 9s. —.38 14 0 Ditto 18 ditto, 86oz. a 9s. ; . feel" Also a variety of Second-hand Waiters, varying- in pnc- i g 6s to 7s. 6d. per ounce. tb, 41. T. COX SAVORY, Workin Goldsmith and Silversnl Cornhill. London. ____,...__•-•4 BIRTHS. f F re On Sunday, the 2d inst., a t Halsneasl P aT k, the la d y derick Willis, Esq., o f a d aug ht er . TO' On the sth inst., at Putney Rectory, the lady of the Re l. O slm Patteson, of a son. Joseph On the 13th inst., i n Bridge-road, Lambeth, Mrs• t vey, of a son. )(nig" On the 13th i ns t., i n H er tf or d -street, the l a dy of v,,0 jun., Esq., of a son. --------- not' MARIED. On the 11th inst., a t th e Pa r ish Church, Rochdale, J0hni1,,,.-Ittene ley, Esq., of Bi rc h H ouse , t o E mma, e ld es t daughter of ly Frir Royds, Esq., of Greenhill, Lancashire. On the 11th inst., at Harborne Church, Murraya . 1 . '.. Esq., of the 12th Royal Lancers, to Letitia only daughter Unett, Esq., of The Woodlands, Warwickshire. ~ as w bort , loo Mr. Robert Stone, of Bermondsey-street ant/ a t o eldest son of R. Stone, Esq., of Hi-street, ttsfr Ellen Pratt, King-street, St. James's. , p Thus' 4 - 4 rist On the 13th inst., at All Souls', Langham-P,,.a e- ,,,' ~r i ne N'''''' mead Parry, Esq., of Sutton Courtney, Berks, to Na"'' of eldest daughter of R. Miles, Esq., of Harwell, Ber l " 6 We' C Harr' la On the 11th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Mr. -. s el/1 1 • Great Marlborough-street, to Miss F. Chittenden, of smith, ,1r On the 12th inst., at Exning, Suffolk, the Rev. 8 ' ~`_l l. ol of /' Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Minor LA' , to Barbara Ann, eldest daughter of R. Robson, Esq' tb, 01 DIED Marylebone, • fl - oldsW er On the 10th inst., at Herne-hill, Mr. Thomas the Commercial-road, Lamb e th, a„, ,, •ed 80. a clia btsr Lately, at Pau, Aglae, w if e o f Comte de Rosanbo, an of Comte and Comtesse de Mesnard. On the llsh inst., Maria Jordor„ wife of James Phil li l * 94 .4. 1 ' On the 6th inst., at - tfastings, iferb e ' - ' of Bedford-street, Covent-garde- , On the 12th inst., at Hervey-upon-Thames, George RodOr Esq., of the Treasury, aeT:i 58. - of sets .g.Sli buildings, New K.. t laged On the 10 '-n -row , t.. 5 inst.,at Richmond, Mrs. , London, An ° ga tr ieet' ( On the 11th inst., in Woburn-square, aged 70,,,, _ late ._ relict of the late John Forster, Esq., of tipper 1, - , ni' Fitzroy -square. -mot"„ id 1 '1 % ; ttfff I .,•••BI ,,AMMMIIMMISMII.IIIIaNW _.____,_ ,---. ------... "ij _..fl, Wm. Metcalfe, I:sq., London : Printed and Published by MURDO IY, the o'- 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strap of Middlesex.—Saturday, October 15, 1836.