The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-29 00:00:00

CLAIMS OF MR. BUCKINGHAM. - TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S LR, —Precious as your space now is, I implore you to give insertion to the enclosed ; but even if you refuse me, or turn Whig, I will respect you as long as I live, for supporting our down -trodden friend in that hour " when bad men hutlier press." Allow me to call myself your obliged friend, EBENEZER ELLIOTT. TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN !—ln The Sun of Thursday last, which brought us the shameful intelligence that the just and recog n i ze d c l a i ms of Mr. Buckingham for compensation from the East India Company have been negatived by a Reformed House of Commons, the Editor, while he does hithself honour by expressing his surprise at this decision, consoles us with the assurance, that those claims, being founded in justice, must ultimately be allowed. • Assuredly they will ; but not until we obtain triennial Par liaments, the ball o t, an d h ouse h o ld su ff rage ; f or t h e ev il doings of the aristocracy in the Colonies are of such friyhy'ul extent, that if a precedent for Compensation were established, Government would be overwhelmed with similar claims, the record of which five hundred folio volumes would be insufficient to contain ! This horrible reason why such a precedent should be esta blished is, I fear, the true reason why Mr. Buckingham has been defeated. Yet how so, if our Radical friend, Mr. Roe buck, opposed him. The Tories, I have often thought, must be clever fellows, because they have invented a new name for rascality ; I know not whether the Member for Bath means to d o as much for Whiggism, but I already suspect he will have 1 M Occasion. Perhaps Mr. Roebuck is aware that the claims of oppressed talent and honesty, though often delayed, have been known to pay good interest. If the merchants of this country. have scarcely a clearer right to their debts receivable than Mr. Buckingham has to co mpensation from the East India Company, to his children, if not to him, their bread will be restored, or justice is dead in heaven. But what is to become of him in the meantime ? He IRISH PROTESTANT CHURCH-ITS PROPERTY AND ESTABLISHMENT. In Ireland, sixteen Protestant Bishops are endowed for a Church that includes less than one-tenth of a population of eight millions, of which six millions and a half are Roman Catholics. In England, twenty-six Protestant Bishops administer to about six millions, out of a population of eleven millions. In Ireland, no Bishops receive less than 4,0001., and some have 15,0001. a year. . In England, several Bishops receive only 2,0001. or 3,000/. The revenue of the Irish Sees are derived chiefly from estates, and only a very small part from tithes. The following statement of the number of statute acres of Profitable Land annexed to each See, is from a Report to the King, made or. the Ist of March, 1833, by Commissioners appointed to inquire into the temporalities of the Irish Church : Acres. l Acres. 1. Armagh 2. Dublin ... 23,926 10. Meath 20,266 3. Tuam .. 4. Cashel 5. Derry.... 39,621 13. Cork .. 6. Down 7. Elphin 8. Kilmore. 28,531116. Limerick LANDS OF ABOLISHED SEES, VESTED IN PUBLIC COMMISSIONERS. Acres. 12,482 Acres.' 17. Ferns 18. Killala 18,567121. Clonfert 19. Waterford ...... 13,189 22. Raphos* (* Only the Town-parks of Raphoe given in the Return.) Acres. Profitable Land annexed to the Sees, exclusive of the -- Estates of Raphoe, not specified in the Return 485;880 Glebe Lands, returned in March, 1831 Wastes, belonging to the several Sees, except Raphoe 183,715 Total THE SUN, LONDON, IVION DAY, FEBRUARY 29, MI; will indemnify their landlords, if the surplus of that revenue which has been heretofcre exacted from them shall be appro priated to the support of Public Schools. They would indeed be dull in comprehension, if they did not perceive that it is preferable to reserve some hundred thousands of pounds in their own hands, than enjoy the expectancy of hearing that a small fraction of their money has been saved for public uses. And in reserving the whole fund to themselves, they at once promote their own interests, and accomplish a great national retribution. ORANGE LODGES. COPY OF A LETTER FROM HENRY MAXWELL, ESQ., M.P., GRAND SECRETARY OF THE ORANGE INSTITUTION, TO THE COMMITTEE IN DUBLIN. London, Feb. 26, 1836. My dear Friends,-1 transmit to you by this post an ad dress to the Orangemen of Ireland, signed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, as Grand Master of our institution, and by several of the influential members 01 our body. I also send a copy of his Royal .Highness's letter to me, enclosing a communication which his Royal Highness received this morning from Lord John Russell. In accordance with the sentiments expressed in our address, I feel it to be my duty (painful as it is) to resign the situa tion of Grand Secretary of the Orangemen of Ireland, and to recommend the immediate dissolution of our loyal body. I trust my conduct and principles are sufficiently well , known by those with whom it has for so long a time been my privilege to act a brother Orangeman, as to render it unnecessary for me to assure them, that in ceasing to be a member of the Orange society I shall ever retain unaltered and uncompromised those principles of devoted attachment to all that still remains of our once glorious Protestant con stitution, and those principles of genuine loyalty to the Throne, which have always been the distinctive marks of the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland. Believe me, my dear friends, with the most cordial senti ments of regard and affection, your's very sincerely, HENRY MAXWELL. The measure proposed by the Marquis or Anglesey, is the only one capable of restoring public order. Let that be speedily adopteil. Sell all the lands of the Church. Invest the proceeds of the sales ;—and let the investments be prin cipally in public improvements, on the security of local rates, that Ireland may have the full benefit of the capital. Apply the interest in paying the present Bishops' stipends equal to the annual value which they have publicly affixed to their sees ; —and appoint lower incomes for a few successors. Pay ade quate but moderate incomes to a sufficient number of the resi dent and competent parochial Clergy; and give pensions to the remainder. Devote the residue of the fund for promoting education. Abolish tithes, and ministers-money, absolutely. And then provide for a revision of the local taxation on lands and houses, by giving the tax-payers power to elect Juries or Boards for making and applying equable assessments for the purposes to which all local taxes, except Ecclesiastical Tithes, are now appropriated, and for compensating families whose property has been invested, under protection of the law, in purchasing Lay Tithes. LONDON EAST INDIA AND CHINA ASSOCIATION. On Saturday a numerous Meeting of merchants, agents, shipowners, and others interested, met at the City of London Tavern for the purpose of establishing an association, having for its object the protection of the general interests of the trade with the East Indies and China. St. James's Palace, Feb. 26, 1836. Dear Sir—l enclose you, as Grand Secretary of the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland, a letter which I have received this day from. His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, Lord John Russell, which I request you will make known to our brother Orangemen in Ireland, together with an address from myself, as Grand Master, and other official and distinguished met bars of the institution. Your's very sincerely, Elt N E ST, Grand Master. To H. Maxwell, Esq., M.P. Amougst the gentlemen present we noticed Messrs. J. Horsley Palmer, Bates (of the firm of Baring, Brothers, and Co. ), Samuel Gregson, Wra. Scott, W. Crawford, M. P., G. G. de H. Larpent, John Small, Thomas Weeding, Jas. Walkinshaw, &c. &c. On the motion of Mr. S. GREGSON, seconded by Mr. W. SCOTT, - _ ciples that I have ever professed, - and that I shall endea vour, in the humble sphere in which I move, to be the watchful guardian of their rights and interests. I beg to subscribe myself, with perfect truth, their sin cere friend and servant, ALEXANDER PERCEVAL. To the Acting Secretary, &c., Dublin. LISBON AND GERMAN PAPERS. LISBON, FEB. B.—The Elective Chamber will shortly enter on the discussion of the project of law No. 145, the object of which is the r,:form of the tariff of duties in all the Custom houses in the kingdom, and to regul4te the duties in the whole kingdom,-a sut,jrct of the greatest importance, and necessary on account of thirregular manner and the want of uniformiq in levyint; these duties hitherto. u no longer young; he has a family ; and plundered as he has be en of his early and hard-earned means of living, how is ho to liv e ? The cost of bringing his claims before Parl i ament - This Session cannot •be less than five hundred pounds. Why ( lid not Hobhouse permit the humble and reformed Commons to decide upon them last year ? Is it not enough to deny Mr. Buckingham justice, without inflicting on his honourable Poverty ruinous expenses ? Or is Sir John determined that we shall never forget the Honourable Company ? No m a t ter. Th o peop l e o f E ng l an d w ill not consent to b e deprived of Mr. Buckingham's services in Parliament. If 200 petitions have been sent in favour of his claims, there is public virtue enough in the nation to subscribe a sum of Inioney for the purchase of an annuity sufficiently large (and it need not be large) to lift him above the sneers of the enemies of free trade and the people, in or out of Parliament. We have now an opportunity of refuting the assertion so scornfully blade by an Honourable Gentleman in the honourable and re formed House, that we are always ready to petition, and never to Pay. Surely the representatives of commercial constituen f,lek---the Hindleys, the Strutts, the Ewarts, the Thorneleys, te Scholefields, the Brothertons,"the Hutts, the Potters, the !entineks, the Listers, the Stricklands—will support subscrip " nns in th e i r respect i ve b oroug h s , t o secure a d ecen t compe tency ~ to a man who has lost fifty thousand pounds, with all prat it might have made, and spent two-thirds of a most active lira in fighting for mankind their great battle of commercial l ' e rtY ; a man who has done more for free trade than any ot:,er man now living ; a man who has been the suffering in sltvrinilent of G o d i n g i v i ng t o I n di a an unfettered press, and 110 has opened for us a new market in the East, ten years, at least, before we could have obtained it without his assistance. Oh that it depended upon the navy to decide whether Mr. n ekingham should have an independent crust in the evening of his troubled day ! There is not a British seaman, in any Part of the world where our bannered cross is flying., who id not gl a dl y g i ve a mon th' s p a y t o " Th e Sailors' Friend," t he great, the eloquent, the down-trodden, yet still uncon quered and victorious, advocate for the . , abolition of flogging and impressment- The people of Sheffield have at this moment before their ey,es, in one of those deadly strikes, of which the corn mono ii`nY is the fruitful parent, a powerful reason for concluding that We have not one friend too many in the House of Corn -411, ° ''s• When I was a lad, there were neither strikes nor Z" , s. If a man left his master in those days, they parted With breakino. hearts. But we had then no anti-profit laws ; Merchants avd manufacturers could afford to stock goods ; 2 41 , 1 d When the orders came, they were executed out of - T e ir. But we have now a law which , restricting food, child it cannot restrict numbers, causes every additional b ,7 to subtract something from the national rate of ; so that no merchant or manufacturer can now afford 10 keep goods in stock, for there is not five per cent. gross I "fit on them ; consequently, when the orders come, the goods are all to make, and as time is an ingredient in the pro duction of a ll use f ul things, strikes and un i ons, i n t h e presen t ' t ine of the law, are inevitable, whether they succeed or not. _ And will th e art i sans, t h e manu f acturers, t h e merc h an t s , o f rs e ° e commercial Sheffield—will the ELECTORS of Nottingham, by o Zhig to aid such men as Mr. Buckingham, when trampled uni — p io li t the enemies of free trade and the nation, give effectual vslio;;;'; to laws whi c h declare, " That trade shall quit .our Vito ."-- laws which, converting the principle of population a curse von s h all , compel the workman to say to the widow, " Thy bound net work 1"—to the orphan, " Thou shall not be t o th tipprentice r—to the virgin, " You shall not marry I" S ur master, " Your orders shall be executed in Germany ?" sti r Y'l"eY will not aid the rancour of party vileness, by the au fa i r i PoPular desertion, and giving Mr. Buckingham's inj osti n g s tLe consecration of ingratitude, make them sacred to e aPabl ar e Ce ' a monument for ever of the deeds which monopolists „ e o f -Meg o f d psrpetrating at home or abroad, and their advo reppe. afending, in that honourable assembly which is said to of __vent, not the palaced paupers, but the self-supported men Great Britain. What It /rat th is the loss of workmen's wages, and merchants' profits, th e destruction of our cotton or file trade, compared with iineuk'timate consequences of those laws, which, if they con eat: will drive all trade from this country, and produce a o!tro e such as never yet has been witnessed under heaven, i i ',can ° ,of horror, a Niagara of blood If the workmen of ot gland wit:h for good and steady wages—if the masters do w ea l n t t end to remove their capitals to other lands—if the h ed , t nY Wish to live in peace, and the peaceable to die in their At,:,;,they take good care that the service of such men as aept!illloeflibinregalicrn in Parliament shall not be thrown away for fal SellOO w Countrymen, I am he who never yet told you a d Sheffield, Feb. 27, 1836. EBENEZER ELLIOTT. RITISH AUXILIARY LEGION. 1111 0 „.. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) ivt7sE D INGS OF A BOARD OF OFFICERS, HELD FOR THE P OSE OF INSPECTING AND REPORTING UPON THE ‘° .liZS AND INTERIOR ECONOMY OF THE -- REGIMENT The Board, after a minute examination of the books of the it ,, a Regiment, is of opinion that a culpable want of accuracy bi;; l l s t systematic arrangement appears to have existed in these wi th ,', 'which are above stated to have been produced before it, That exception of those of the paymaster. 'at the extreme inaccuracy which pervades the Companies' ti• gers,, and other books, could not have existed, bad the Corn %ending Officer exercised that superintending control ,over which it was hi s p ar ti cu l ar d u ty t o h ave d one . That the Board is satisfied, from the statement of Lieut.- Colonel that he had many difficulties to contend with, In_...r_e!pect to the total inexperience of many of his officers, but Fin it cannot but be of opinion, that every circumstance called ~r 4Y riously on a Commanding O ffi cer to keep a watchful su verntvndence over everything connected with the interior tt :p • c ") . of the Regiment; and particularly in respect of the eit r u nts a the men irregularity in which is at all times cal di aed t o produce the most serious injury to the welfare an d soiplin e a a corps (Si g n ed) Brigadier-Gen. M'D OUGA L L. Lieut.-Col. CHURCHILL, 3d Regiment. Lieut.-Col. SWAN, sth Regiment. Brevet Lieut.-Col. HARLEY, 9th Regt. Major SHAW, 10th Regiment. Lie n th AEMARICS OF THE LIEUT .- MINIMAL. • L ie e subject of the opinion of the Board, in which the ~n 2 lt•-Gene ral fully concurs, he will abstain from any com tZt, b eyond the expression of his hope and belief that the n ;21 er nin command o f th e - Regiment will use every 11°11_oe ow r to establi s h t h at system of organization an d di sc ipline in 7,,,ltegiment, whi c h i t so much stands i n nee d o f Head -quarters, Vittoria, Jan. 15, 1836. IRELAND. .. - rAT E op Tim COUNTRY —The calendars prove beyond dis- P e i ri t - e t .: n e s comparatively tranquil condition of the country. The sizes opened on Monday in the town of Drogheda, which . a Population of over 15,000 souls ; there were only thr ee cases of felony to be tried, and one or two misdemean- Z ur s• The Lord Chief Justice, in addressing the Grand Jury, wogratulated them very warmly on the tranquillity of the proportion of the cases to be tried at Trim, hadn . th eir A r v is a e st i n the service of law processes for the recovery ' tithes, and may be classed under the head of common assaults. al Reform from Belfast, not to be included in the Munici viiitteform Bill, is in the hands of Mr. Tennant. t h e ' NI " HIGH LIFE. TITHES.-The recent outrage in 11 ,,,,,ftY of Wexford, has been mentioned in Parliament, and th come the subject of legislative inquiry. It appears that arn e ' O l 3 lO were ready to pay their rent ; but without the c eu- - t claimed for tithe a receipt would not be given, and a !eizure Was the consequence. Corn, furniture, & c. (includ lIIC the bed, table and coffee-pot of the parish priest), 14raouriting in value to about 100/., were sold for a few pounds . 1 ° The agent. It appears that the Sub-sherifr—or rather the IRlividual - who filled that office until Mr. Derinzy's appoint the el lt as High Sheriff—was present, and took an active part in „Proceedings. A coal of fire having been procured from a gelghbouring cabin, one stack of corn was disposed of after ,be rnost approved manner of the Kent incendiaries, The re 11.'ainder, with the priest's furniture, would, in all prebabil;ty, qa% .shared the same fate, but for the remonstrances of Chief stbie Kelly, of Enniscorthy, and of the officer who corn idt 4 a. military party in attendance. The See Lands are now let at low rents to the families of former Bishops, and other tenants, under leases which the pre sent Bishops may renew or not, at pleasure ; and the tenants may be evicted, or be required to pay the full rent value of the lands, on the expiration of existing leases. The whole of the Church Lands, if properly managed, would let at an aver age rent of at least one pound an acre, and yield an income far more than sufficient for the Church Establishment which the Irish Protestants require. By the Census of 1834, there were found to be in Ireland, 7,943,940 persons, of whom 6,427,712 were Roman Catholics ; 642,356, were Presbyterians • 21,808, were Quakers, Baptists, and other Disenters ; and only 852,064, were Protestants and Wesleyan Methodists, whist' latter sect being deducted leaves 752,972 actual members of the Protestant Established Church. Yet this Protestant Churcliof 752,972 members, being less than a tenth of the whole population, is provided with an Ecclqiastical Establishment, at the expense of the nation, which has had assigned for its maintenance—nearly, eight hun dred thousand acres of Land—Tithes of a:ricultural produce, the composition for whick now amounts to 555,0001. a-year— Ministers-money in Cities, amounting to 10,0001. a-year—Fees on Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials—Rents of Seats in the Public Churches—with a Parochial Assessment for providing Church requisites, and building and repairing Churches, a charge on the community which was largely augmented to sup ply deficiencies in the First Fruits Fund, caused by false valua tions of the incomes derived by the Bishops and Clergy. And, notwithstanding its great revenue from all these sources, it has obtained since ISOO, in Parliamentary Grants-595,3771. for the building of Churches, superadded to Church rates '•— 336,881/. for the building of Glebe-houses;-1,105,8691. for educating poor children in Protestant Charter Schools, to sus tain the Protestant Church and check Popery ;-101,991/. under the pretence of discountenancing vice ;—and, 170,508/., for Biblical Schools in connection with the Kildare-street Pro selytising Society,—in all 2,310,6271. ;—while Loans for Churches and Glebes have also been given, to the amount of 324,6231. a great portion of ,•.'hich sum has not been repaid,— forming a grand total of Too MILLIONS AND A HALF. But this is not all. To sustain th. career of the Protestant Estab lishment, the nation has had to support a special standing army of no less than 15,000 men, in excess of the military force which would be necessary if an Irish Church Militant did not exist. So that the Church of 752,972 Irish Protestants,—(not even a tithe of the whole population,)—has cost the Nation Upwards of TWO MILLIONS A YEAR. The income of the Church Establishment of Scotland, with congregations containinr , about 1,600,000 persons, in a population of two millions and a half,—ls 269,033/. from all sources. In Belgium, containing a Catholic population of four millions tile public provision made for an Archbishop, five Bishops, various Dignitaries, the College of each Bishopric, and the re pair of Churches, amounts to 434,800 francs ; and 2,828,100 francs are paid to the parochial Clergy—the whole being only 130,5161. a-) ear. The incomes of the Bishops and Clergy of the 6,427,712 Irish Roman Catholies,—derived from voluntary contributions, Easter dues, sacramental offerings, and burial fees,—form a total under 1100,0001. a-year.-4-[vidence of Dr. Doyle, and Dr. O'Kelly, Roman Catholic Bishops, before a Committee of the House of commons, on the State of Ireland, in 1825.1 Let us now review the detail of the Irish Protestant Church. By the Report of the Inquiry Commissioners appointed in 1834,-4 appears that there are 2,348 parishes in Ireland, forming 1,385 Protestant benefices, 478 of which are- Unions. In one Union, Kilcooly, there are ten parishes, yielding in comes to a single incumbent, and one of them is six miles, and another ten miles, from the rest. In the Union of Ballymakill, there are nine parishes, yielding incomes to a single incum bent, and one of them is twenty-seven miles from the church. And in the Union of Burnchurch there are fourteen parishes, also yielding incomes to a single incumbent, and three of the parishes are stated in the Report to be " at opposite extremi ties of the county of Kilkenny, many miles from each other, and from the body of the Union." There are in Ireland, it appears, forty-one Protestant bene fices, in which there is not one Episcopalian Protestant ; ninety nine, containing less than twenty Protestants ; and one hun dred and twenty-four, containing only. from twenty to fifty Protestants. Were the 752,972 Church Protestants distributed equally over_the 1,385 benefices, there would be in each onl y 5 43 of them,—men, women, and children, or about 120 families. Were the Catholics similarly distributed, there would be in each of those benefices 4,641 of them, forming at least 1,000 families. It appears by one of the tables in the Report, that seven benefices, containing in all only sixty-two Prote stants, have not one church, or one resident clergyman—and yet are liable to tithe composition, amounting to 2,8881. a year. Another table presents fifty parishes, whose revenues amount to 11,8971. a year. They contain 527 Protestants (not three families to each), and forty-two of them are without a resident Clergyman, and forty-one without a Church. There are eight parishes of the diocese of Cloyne, which contain only 173 Protestants, and the Tithe Composition amounts to 4,8601. In the diocese of Emly united to Cashel, there are only 1,246 Protestants :—yet Tithe Composition, amounting to 7,969/. a year, is exacted for seventeen Benefices, ten of which are without their Rectors, and in five of them Divine Service is never performed. Nothing but tho presence of a great army has hitherto maintained such a system as this • but now, even the military power of the British Empire has become incompetent to uphold it. The time for modification and half measures has passed, and the law and authorities, incapable of subduing the hos tility of millions, are compromised by their association with a system, which the millions resist as a national injustice, and a memorial of conquest, confiscation, and persecution. LORD STANLEY, The MARQ. of ANGLESEY, When acting as a Minister of the While Lord Lieutenant of Ire- I Crown in Ireland, resolved, a . land, - proposed, in a letter to all hazards, to secure to the Earl Grey, which by a strange Church a full equivalent for accident has been published to Tithes, and to maintain its gor- ' - es country, that Tithes should genus and redundant Hierarchy be abolished as a source of reve in the possession of princely do- nue for the Church. mains. His desire was to see the whole By one law, far this object, he of the Church Lands, Palaces, placed the whole country under and Glebes, derived from the a compulsory Composition for State, transferred to Public Tithes, extending to pasture Commissioners. The lands to tracts, previously exempt, and be sold, except a few acres an even to labourers' gardens ; so nexed to such Palaces and Glebe that many thousand families, houses as might be necessary for never before called upon for such the future. . The proceeds of the a tax, were now charged with it. sales to be invested for the sup- And then it was enacted, that port of the Church and Schools. the tax should become a perma- Then, an equable substitute for irrit charge on inheritances— Tithes to be collected, and ap (the design being to associate it plied in maintaining Schools, in with Rent, to which it is no contributing to the support of snore analogous than any outlay the Poor, and for other public of farmers that enters into the purposes. cost of production and the price By the Marquis of Auglesey's of food)—this charge to be paid plan, a fund of several millions by the Landlords, and to be would be raised for the Church, exactedby them with their rents. from lands which now support By another law, he abolished only a few Bishops, and form Church rates, vested a Fortion part of the support of a small if the Church Lands in Corn- number of the parochial Clergy, missioners, and provided for the • and of a large number of useless abolition of a few of the surplus ecclesiastical functionaries. And Bishoprics. But this law has the lands would b e transferred to idi- Lands, the great bulk of the Church absolute pro;;rietors, with a as formerly, in the sole rect interest in their improve power mp ve power of individual Churchmen, ment, and full p ower t.o give and their successors, to be still leasehold rights u n d er which the mismanaged and wasted, with- utmost capability of the lands out a sufficient stimulus to the would be developed—at once in- Incumbents, or security to the creasing the means of subsistence tenants, for promoting improve- for the community, and enlarg - ments ; when by a judicious aping the sources of employm en t propriation of all the Church for the working classes. property, the Lands might be so It would, which is still more enhanced in value as to supply important, establish contentment means for supporting the whole and peace in Ireland ; and the Church Establishment, public income, which is now ex- These measures have failed. pended in supporting a special Hostility to Tithes has become army of at least 15,000 men, for a great public principle ; and upholding the Irish Church, blood has been copiously shed, would be available to the Legis and property largely wasted, but lature in abolishing taxes, or un to render this principle still more dertaking great works of national national and triumphant. utility, The Administrations which the Irish Church has successively destroyed, have, in struggling to secure a redundant revenue for its redundant Establishment, endangered all the real pro perty in Ireland. The landlords are required to pay the tithes, and make reprisals ; but the occupiers of the land are resolved to resist the indemnity, and to punish the landlords if they at tempt to enforce it. Thus the proprietors of the soil, already surrounded with difficulties, are placed in a new dilemma, to Y iise money for a church which has other resources lying almost waste, that are available and superabundant ;—and a pretext is • supplied, which may be used, if the struggle be not speedily 1 • terminated, to promote and cover most ruinous designs, It is quite illusory to expect that the occupiers of the land Mr. WILLIAM CRAWFORD, M. P., was unanimously called to the Chair. He was much gratified to find that they should have a union of merchants formed, by which those measures which were now in prggress, relating to the trade of their Eastern dominions, would be looked after. It was then pro posed to establish an Association, to be called " the London East India and China Association," to which all gentlemen interested in that trade in London would be equally eligible. The proposals for the formation of such a society having been agreed to, it was proposed to appoint a provisional committee, who were to consider the amount of subscription which may be required to meet the necessary expenses of. the Associa tion, to select an efficient Secretary, to draw up rules and regulations for the government of the Association, and to report thereon to another general meeting.—( Hear, hear.) With regard to the proposal of its establishment he would then merely say, that they had already the signatures of fifty of the first firms in the metropolis in its favour-4 Hear, hear), and he had no doubt but that they should ,speedily be in pos session of ample funds to effect the objects they had in view. Those objects, he would shortly state, were to facilitate the communication with his Majesty's Government on all questions affecting the interests of the trade in which they were em barked, and to facilitate their means of becoming at an early period acquainted with the proposition of any measure in Parliament or elsewhere, when it might be of importance that they should adopt some plan either to counteract its effect, or in its support.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. JOSHUA BATES proposed the first resolution :—" That an Association be formed, under the description of the London East India and China Association, for the protection of the general interests of the trade with the East Indies and China." After what had fallen from their excellent Chairman upon the subject, it was not necessary for him to offer any com ment, beyond expressing his conviction that incalculable good must arise to the trade in general by the formation of such a Society. Mr. J. HORSLEY PALMER seconded the motion, and referred to instances in which the Association would be highly useful in removing present inconveniences in carrying on the trade. The tea trade were endeavouring by memorial to obtain con cessions as to the payment of duties, and had had on Thurs day an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the subject. The memorial ran thus : " London, Feb. 15, 1836. " My Lord,—We, the undersigned merchants, importers, and consignees of tsa, feel ourselves.under the necessity of drawing your Lordship's attention to the operation of the Act passed at the close of the last Session of Parliament regulating the duties upon that article. " That Act equalizes the duties upon all qualities and de scriptions of teas, and conies into operation on the Ist of July next. The understanding of the merchants and importers is, that all teas of the Bohea character then in bond will be sub ject to 2s. Id. per pound duty. " From the best calculations which can be made, taken from the stock in warehouse, it may be stated that the quantity of Bohea tea which will remain in hand of the first year's free trade importation will not be less than 5,000,000 pounds weight on the 30th of June next, and that the import of the same quality,, in the second year of the five trade, will not be less than double that of the first year, or about 10,000,000 pounds weight, making a total of 15,000,000 pounds weight, upon which the importers will be under the necessity of paying, on or before the 30th of June next, the duty of ls. 6d. per pound, or be afterwards subject to pay the new rate of 2s. id. per pound, notwithstanding the universal impression arising from the explanations of the Members of the Committee, who had various interviews with Lord Grey, Lord Althorp, Lord Glenelg, Lord Auckland, and the Right Hon, C. Poulett Thomson, in February 1834, upon the arrange ments for the regulation of the free trade then about to com mence, that the importers of such teas would be protected against any future equalizaticn of the duties, until due notice should be given of the alteration. " The lateness of the period last year, at which it was offi cially announced by his Majesty's Government that the duties would be equalized, put it out of the power of the importers to countermand their orders for the Bohea qualities to be sh:p-. ped from Canton in the present season, a large proportion of which was purchased by contracts entered into in China in May and June, or previous to . those periods. " A merchant's_ operations, under the long-established bonding system, arc regulated with reference to the cost of his imports, and the charges of importation in bond ; it therefore becomes next to impossible for him, in the case in question, to pay in advance a duty of Is. 6d. per pound, equalling twice the amount of the import value (which duty has neve r f ormed any part of the calculation), and amounting to upwards of 1,000,000/. sterling, upon an article almost unsaleable, from the apprehended effect of the new duty on buyers. " We may confidently assure your Lordship that the im porters are now selling the description of tea to which we have alluded from 35 to 40 per cent. loss upon the prime cost, and if the payment of the duty be enforced in July next, that loss must be increased on the part of those who do pay the duties, almost to the annihilation of the property, before it can be realized, by the accumulation of the very greatly increased interest and charges, while to the parties who either cannot pay the duties, or may judge it most prudent in the choice of evils not to do so, it will be a virtual withdrawal of that pro tection, in the full faith of which his imports were regulated. We beg further to represent to your Lordship, that in the present depressed state of the market for this quality of tea, it i s important that even the desperate alternative of export to the Continent should remain open to us ; while the duty of 23. Id. would annihilate the property, as regards a sale in this country. " In order to abate this serious evil, and feeling confident that His Majesty's Government can have no wish to anticipate the revenue, to the severe detriment of the merchant, we earnestly entreat your Lordship's attention to this our repre sentation, in the hope that your Lordship will consent to place Bohea tea u p on the same footing with all other toas, b y post ponement of the receipt of the duties thereon, until cleared fur home consumption, and that the same may be liable to the duty of Is. 6d. per pound only, if imported prior to the Ist of July next. " As the granting of this request will be in no way preju dicial to the receipt of the revenue in the accustomed manner, we feel' confident that your Lordship will see the justice of our request, and by acceding to it, avert the ruinous losses which must otherwise fall upon the merchants, arising entirely from the lateness of the period at which the determination of made known. HisMajesty's cn " We have honour to be, with respect, " Your Lour Lordship's most obedient humble servants, Palmers, Mackillop, and Co. Daniel and Dickinson. Basin; Brothers and Co. Morrison, Cryder, and Co. Thos. Wilson and Co. . Rawson, Norton, and Co. Forbes, Forbes, and Co. Thos. Dent and Co. Marjoribanks and Ferrero. Thos. Heath. Gregson, - Melville, and Co. Thos. Weeding. Colqiiboun, and Co, Lyall Brothers and Co. Ilenry Templer. Crawford, Colvin, and Co. Walkinshaw and Co. Fletcher, Alexander, and Co. Archibald Hastie. Charles Cocktrell and Co. Scott, Bell, and Co. Hunter, Gouger, and Co. F. and C. E. Mangles. Reid, Irving, and Co. " To the Right lion. Lord Viscount Melbourne, &c." The resolution was carried. Mr. H. LARPENT moved the second resolution, " That all merchants, shipowners, brokers, and others interested in the trade to India and China, should be eligible to become members." The resolution . ' was seconded by Mr. SMALL, and adopted. Mr. WEEDING moved the next resolution, appointing a pro visional committee, and referred to the fact that the King's re presentative at Canton had resigned, to accept a situation in the finance department of the East India Company. The resolution was seconded by Mr. WATKiNs, and adopted. Thanks were then returned to the Chairman, and the meet ing adjourned. ‘eranneceh ofe ster Mrs.- st -- - ANOTHER PLATE ROBBERY. — O II Saturday even ing last a quantity of valua bl e p l ate was s t o l en from the resi dic table, reMeta,cdoAniaanlde,heastverri_dsociwu•alraed,y,coricissiisdtiinngg at of 49, dessert, and tea-spoons, and various articles of plate. Infor mation was given at the station-house, Marylebone-lane, when Thomson, serjeant of the D division ; attended, and after mi nutely inve s ti gat i ng the prem i ses , an d exam i n i ng the persons in the house, was of opinion that the robbery was committed by some one inside, and he accordingly took James Newland into custody. He w as ta k en b e f ore Win. Shutt, Esq., at the I'vlarylebotm Office, and after a long examination, was re manded till Friday next, to give the officer time to make further inquiries, Whitehall, Feb. 26, 1836. Sir—l consider it to be my duty to transmit to your Royal Highness as early as possible the printed votes of the House of Commons, containing an address on the sub ject of Orange Lodges, and other similar societies, together with His Majesty's most gracious answer. I presume it will not be necessary to take any further step to bring to the knowledge of the society of which your Royal Highness is Grand Master, the contents of these documents. I have the honour to be your Royal Highness's obedient bumble servant, _ _ _ J. RUSSELL. To his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. St. James's Palace, Feb. 26, 1836 My Lord,—l have received your Lordship's letter, with the enclosed printed copies of the resolutions of the House of Commons, containing an address on the subject of Orange Lodges and other similar societies, together with his Ara jesty's most gracious answer. Before I had received your Lordship's communication I had already taken steps, in con junction with several official and distinguished members of the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland, to recommend its immediate dissolution, in conformity with the loyal principles of that institution. I have only to add, I shall . take immediate steps to dissolve the Loyal Orange Institution in Great Britain. I have the honour to be, your's sincerely, E RN E ST. To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION IN IRELAND. Dear Brethren,—Thela;CfeWltours have been fraught with acts of momentous importance to our loYal institution. The situation of those members of the Legislature in whom you have so long reposed confidence has been one of extreme difficulty as regards long-cherished feelings and at tachment, which we should have felt insurmountable had we not bee n i n ti ma t e ly acqua i n t e d w ith th e sp i r i t o f reli gious and political subordination which has ever been the distinctive feature of our bond of union. We have now no need to remind you that the foundation of that union has been strictly Scriptural—exemplifind in the short sentence—" Fear God—honour the King," and havin g hitherto experienced your unshaken steadiness du ring successive trials of no ordinary character, we now con fidently appeal to you. We have been placed in a most painful position—viz., either to advocate the continuance of an institution op posed not only by our enemies, on account of our religious and political principles, but also by many of our most emi nent and Conservative friends, who are of opinion that se cret societies should be discontinued. Under such circum stances the attempt to prolong our existence by adopting a violent course of opposition might have exposed our selves and you to that which we have never laid ourselves open to—" a suspicion of conditional loyalty." Our se cond course was to state, that if our strong remon strances with the present advisers of his Majesty did not avert the injustice that was threatened to our loyal body, the King's will, constitutionally expressed, would be obeyed by us in spirit as well as to the letter, and that we would s ubmit, as we bad often done, to any obloquy in asser tion of the true Christian basis of our social compact. Could we hesitate for a moment as to our course of duty ? You know the result, and to give full effect to this state ment, we offer our advice and admonition. The attention of England is fixed upon you, and, hu manly speaking, you are to determine the fate of Protes tantism in Ireland. Friends and enemies expect your de cision with almost equal interest—the adversary hoping that some manifestation of intemperance will place you within his power—friends confident that you will be found equal to the difficulties of the occasion, and will give a crowning assurance of the pure faith and loyalty by which you ever have been distinguished. We cannot, and do not, attempt to disguise from you that the address voted by the House of Commons was not called for by the state of Ireland, or by any demerits in our insti tution. We cannot say to you that the dangers to meet which the Orange Institution was framed threaten us no l o nger; or that you must not as we feel it a painful task to relinquish an association justly endeared to us ; but we can tell you that an opportunity has now been given you which should not be lost—the opportunity of manifesting a dutiful re , s e and to the feelings of our gracious Sovereign, and offering to his Majesty a proof of steadfast attachment, of which we are persuaded he will never be forgetful. The severe duty has devolved on us of recommending that, in the spirit of the generous devotedness which has always characterized the Orange Society, you now di sso l ve it. The sacrifice is great ; and we will not conceal from you that attendant circumstances may render it more painful. You may have to endure the taunts of the malignant, and to resist the temptations of those who, for their own dark ends, would provoke you to indiscretion ; but the reward is also great. You will release your Sovereign from embar rassment ; you will disappoint the malevolence of your ene mies ; you will win for yourselves the approbation of the wise and good, and silence, by one heroic act, the slanders which have long been circulated against your reputation. • Receive, brethren, the advice an admonition in the feel ing in which they are offered, and with them the pledge that your confidence shall not be abused. Anticipate legisla tion ; relieve the Sovereign from the necessity of enforcing 52V , 1T measures against you. To the renown you had pre % iously well earned, of being ready at your King's command to encounter every danger and endure every toil, add the still higher honour of renouncing all feelings which be would discourage, and even the institution in which you have found such effectual protection. Show your bre thren in England that you are patient as much as re• solved—that your principles of rcligien and loyalty are not of a nature to fall away in the time of trouble and rebuke. Show them that the lessons of Christian en durance taught by the instruction and example of the per secuted ministers of the Protestant Church have not been learned in vain, and be encouraged by a confident trust that the King and people who came forward so nobly to sustain those afflicted men under their temporal privations will never desert the high cause for which they are suffering, or forsake you, who will have' thus proved yourselves worthy to be permitted by an allwise Providence to rank amongst its most faithful champions. ERNEST. A. PERCEVAL, M.P. THONIOND. 11. MAXWELL, M.P. , ELY. J. YOUNG, M.P. BANDON. M. ARCHDALL, M.P. LOFTUS. • R. H. PL UN K ETT, M.P. MANDEVILLE, M.P. C. HAMILTON, M.P. T. JONES, M.P. BERNARD. E. J. COOPER, M.P. J. CREIGHTON. • E. S. HAYES, M.P. H. STEWART. COLE, M.P. H. H. BERNARD. W. VERNER, M.P. M.' O'SULLIVAN. A. H. COLE, M.P. London, Feb. 25, 1836. COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED BY COLONEL PERCEVAL. TO THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE GRAND COMMITTEE OF THE ORANGE INSTITUTION IN DUBLIN. • London, Feb. 26, 1836. ,My dear Si r ,—l n accordance with the declaration ma de by me in the House of Commons on the 23d inst., and in cempliance with the spirit of his Majesty's message , I feel myself ca ll e d upon to res i gn my o ffi ce of Grand Treasurer of the Orangemen of Ireland, and to withdraw f r om that loyal but calumniated body. . . In m a ki ng t hi s communica ti o n to the grand committee, I . beg you will assure them, one and all, that I do so in the discharge of the most painful duty ever im p osed on me. It is a source of consolation to 111:2 to state that the members of our Orange Institution now in London p ie te t s i t n i : n n t im ß o ri u: . as to the course we have thought it prudent to. pursue. God grant f or our corm-non good that our friends in Ireland may coincide in our views. I have only to add, that, I shall ll4ntakn and uphold to end those " In order that the securities belonging to the nation, which are already destined, or which may in future be destined, for the consolidation and extinction of the public debt, instead of being depreciated, may preserve or increase their value, and that their produce may be applied in the way indicated by law, I have judged it proper to decree, in the name of my illustri ous daughter, the Queen Donna Isabel 11., as follows : " Article L In each provincial capital a commission n ill be formed, composed of the Intendant, of a member of the provincial deputation elected by it, and of a commissioned ad min•strator of the extinction funds. " 11. The functions of this commission will be— " Ist, To take cognizance of the securities, claims, duties, and shares of whatever kind which have become the property cf the nation, as proceeding from the monasteries, convents, and similar establishments, already suppressed, or which may be suppressed, and to take care that the funds of the said esta blishments, their produce and appurtenances arc, and continue to be, applied as prescribed by the laws, decrees, and orders already existing, or which may in future be called into existence. " 2i. To take care that the said funds and assets which may still be subsisting under the charge of the nation, in con sequence of their public sale and adjudication not having taken place, shall be let, or otherwise rendered productive in such manner that they may sustain no deterioration, nor fail to yield what ought to be fairly expected from them. 3d. To take care that the cultivators and tenants, or all persons who may have the usufruct of the properties and assets, not only fulfil all the clauses of their stipulations or contracts, but that they do not abuse their right of usufruct, by sacri ficing the future produce of the predial property to present advantages derivable from their leases. " 4th. To take care that the urban landed property be not abused or deteriorated, examining with deliberation and scru pulousness such works and repairs, the omission of which might deteriorate their just value at the time of sale. . " sth. In fine, to develope with an enlightened zeal every means whereby may bet maintained in the greatest possible va lue property the destination of which is of-so much importance to the State. " 111. The commission will communicate to the Govern ment monthly, through your department, the obseruations it may deem suitable for securing the objects specified in the foregoing articles, but without meddling or interfering in, or dictating.measures which may relate e=ther to the administra tion of those properties or to the collection of their rents or profits, or to the conversion of the one or the other ; because, in the character of mere curator or conservator, the commis sion must abstain from interfering with the functions of the officers of the public treasury, over whom there is constantly impending the responsibility of their respective duties, and who cannot elude or diminish that responsibility under the pre text of the transactions of the commission. You will thus un derstand this decree, and do what is necessary for the fulfil ment of the same. " (Signed by the Royal Sign Manual.) " In the Pardo, Feb. 15, 1836. " To Don Juan Alvarez y Mendizabal." MADRID, FEB. 19. —The refusal of M. Isturiz to become a member of the Administration is no longer a matter of doubt ; the former President of the Chamber of Procuradores ex pressed his sentiments in the society of a number cf friends. yesterday evening, and in so decided a manner to leave no uncertainty upon this point. The elections continue to attract general attention. The Ayuntamiento, composed of those paying the highest taxes, has been sitting,isinee nine o'clock this morning, for the pur pose of proceeding with the appointment of the electors. It appear ceitain that Mendizahal will be elected by the city of Cadiz. By the unanimous assent of the National Guard of Malaga the rank of Commandant of the third Battalion of that force has been conferred upon the directing Minister. The delay which has taken place in publishing the law relative to the set tlement of the debt has led to variouslnterprctations.prejudi eial not only to the Ministry but to the course of the Spanish funds. Upon this subject the Espanol newspaper of yester day contained some very severe remarks, under the head of " Exchange ;" In fact, the Minister thought it necessary to reply to them, and for that purpose sent for M. Goicochea, in spector of the Exchange ; the result of this interview was, that a notice was posted up at the Exchange, intimating that the Ministry had by no means lost sight of its promised plans with respect to the acknowledged debt. In fine, M. Terrer had another conference with M. Mendizabal upon this important subject. A good deal of business was done on 'Change. The debt (without interest) remains at 15. • The following letter, written by an individual whose situa tion enables him to know what he relates, seems worthy of public attention at the present moment : " OPERATIONS OF THE REBELS.—LAHRONO, Fan. 10,-- " It will not be surprising if the Carlists should boast of the great forces which Don Carlos is about to employ for invading the Asturias, Castile, Arragon, or perhaps the Moon. I will explain to you faithfully how th e ma tt er s t an d s . Eguia, with a ssrong division and several pieces of artillery, occupies Balmaseda, and, it is said, will march on the Asturias. Villa- • real is in Miesta, and though it is not stated whither he in tends to direct his march, I believe he will turn out a mere bugbear. Eguia is watched by 2,500 Portuguese, with 300 cavalry, who are at this moment in Reinosa. General Manso is marching on the Encartaciones with 4,000 men, and the divisions of Generals Espeleta and Espartero are marching to render assistance at the point to which Eguia is directing his forces. It is certain that the plan of the rebels is to divert the attention of the General-in- Chief; but the General-in-Chief will not suffer his attention to be diverted, and he will doubt less complete the important measures he has projected, of which some have already begun to be realized. The march of the rebels on Arragon is one of the gre& measures on which the Carlists found their hopes, but there •is no likelihood of its being practicable-Ist, because they have boasted . of it i for a very long time ; 2d, because they have not sufficient force to effect the invasion ; and 3dly, because the chief singled out for commanding the enterprise is Villemur, who, as you arc aware, is already turned of 80 sears of age. lam not one of those who regard this war as unimportant ; on the contrary, it has always appeared to me too protracted and obstinate to be regarded with indifference. But, at the same time, I affirm, that, judging from the manner in which the forces are disposed, the greatest benefit the rebels can confer on us is to sally from their retreats in great masses, and the greater the better. Should the projected invasion of the Asturias ever take place, you will speedily see that my opinions have riot been formed at random, and I close this letter by sayingi would to Heaven that the invasion were realized !" The 'Stock-Exchange has -been chiefly occupied v..ith its interal disputes, and the conduct of the committee.. The resignation of the eighteen members has not been declared; but the names will be made known this day, and on Thursday it is expected th'at the naw elections will take place. Those who have resigned are eligible to be re-elected, and, as many of them are highly valuable to the house from their habits of business and long experience, a belief prev , :i ts that the whole of them will not be set aside on account their participation in the recent unpopular decision. rue vote of thanks referred to yesterday, as signed by 10d . members, was net, we understand, to the minority of . thq tommittee, but to . those members of the house who hay brought about the pre sent, dissolution of the committe;,, by resisting the order to re fund in Lakeman's affair. The price of Consols has amain ad vanced .4- per cent., and the market altogether appeared strong, although husta . est was very limited in it. The last p ice for money was 911 to 1, and 91i to 92 for.the account. Exehe quor Billswrere last marked at 20s. to 225. premium.— Times. ' • commissioN o LUNACY. , -BRIGHTON, FEB. 27.—A commission of lunacy was opened at the Town-hall this morning by Thomas Partington, C. Cooper, and F. H. Esqs., to make inqui r y as to the state of m i n d o f Captain William Henry Rowlls of Preston, late of the 14th LightD Dragoons. There was no oppos i t i on to the inquiry, the commission for instituting which had been granted on the pe tition of Charles Rowlls, Eiq., brother to the unfortunate lu natic. Mr. James, as counsel for the petitioner, stated that the unfortunate object of the inquiry was a gentleman of in dependent fortune, and 42 y ears o f age. lie had been educa ted at Cambridge, and on leaving that University, entered the army. After serving at the battle of Waterloo, the un fortunate gentlem an ret i re d to l i ve upon hi s ow n property , leading a wry idle and luxurious life, the deplorable result of which was his present imbecile state. Captain Rowlls being called i n t o th e C ourt, was as k e d severa l Chief Commi ss i oner , b ut questions by the appeared quite incapable of .udnd him a the m . Up on hi s withdrawal, the Jury declared a lunatic w i t h o ut l uc id i n tervals, and declared it as their opi nion he had become so from July Ist, 1834. : i., ! ~ F i s r. wi.„.ce. :1 7,. , • = .: ...r: ~ 1 4 .< -- - - 7 -- Qrs. Qrs. 7 , ru. Ors_ Qrs. Qrs. o``• I" ." AL.:borough CO _ , 675 - - - 78 ICS 1 17:1 I H., z...n Bridlington .... • - - - 20 - - - -- Bridp _ o:t - 150 125 -- - - - L .... ... _ ;386 - _ - - _ I:, - - - - 40 Dartmouth . 1 - 60 -._ ( t . :. ' . i r t. t : •,i(l er... I I 7 7 ' • - 3 ,'4 1 14 C ;( 1 ) 1 1'. 1.5 :3 i -- _...- 3 3 2 1 5 8 2 ) R -- , 7 4 1 1 5 7' 7 1 ;"t l.virii - 31 _ ~, 103 1, ( 11, idUll - 800 449 ;214 1 x:.ter - - 87 - - _ _ 33 C3ainsboroubli : - - .4 1 - , - _ - - 4 !Nit'. - - - - 1 - 1 - - 7 30 Ipswich - - 2,1 _ 6. . k4 t...,nt - 418 lo; 910 Loweauft - - 1.: , 5 - - - _ 1 5J y L l 3 o m n e 2::0 1-0 - 403 - - _ I 1 , 7 Newhaven ...... - - - - - - - 2,41 l'o.:19 Rye ll. - - - - _ 6I i uttliwi;la - 20 22) _ _ _ 1, -- ..... Sp.:Ming .... - - 050 - - :,: . 9 _ ..t ,, ektoo - - - - - - - t!.ot, Teignmouth - - 50 - - - _ _ WA., Wisl e.:el; - - 5• , 7 _ - _ _ W odbridge - - 40 .2,1 200 Va , moulll - - - _ 6:5 Aberdeen - I , io ft 13. m - 4 1 -- - 1414 - - - I - , Prwiek . - 170 .... 232 CO - - i •;) Grangemouth-. - - L.,. _ _ _ _ , - 1 V121:::,5... . Di - 5 -..• 25 - '-- - - L ith - - 80 12 - _-- - - - 1 . _.- - __ 91!'6 5015 2136 ' 6152 GO 22.137 .1319 1 8.215 111.1SII t'orlt - .._ _L° 1952 - -- - - Duldin ..... . . - - -7 532 - - - - , ;id .vay - . - - 101.1 - - - - Kilrush - 1504 - - - - vVatorloTO - - 1 2));! -I - - - - I - V0n7,11411.... - 1 - - 10 - 8 - - FOREIGN Ki 1 5 I - 1 7,..- Total AGGREGATE QUANTITIES OF OTHER KINDS OF rut.sE. rat. , s, 33 •_•.;;lst ed,11:1-qaperieed,0-11rank,11 Mustard.2o-9.( es, 716 SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply to this day's market was not great, aul the trade was dull, at the following ruicEs VEII. STONE Or BLI3. TO SINE THE OFFA LS. „ _ , _NE Or 81.13.. TO SINK T 1 S. ri.tos.d s 0, to s .1. Inferior reasts •' 4 2 ti Infetior Sheep '' S 3 6 :•-ecoml quality ditto 219 3 :"..' Second quality ditto 3 3 3 I() Prime large Oxen 4 4 4 0 , Cuars,..w..olled ditto .... 4. 6 4 ~. l'•'ime Scot 3, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 4 5 2 large Hogs • 'i i, 4.! Pi toe email ditto s..tekling Calves each —l4 u :.*, , 1 01 Quarier 01 l'igs etch 10 u 11 0 SUrrLY, AS Pt other oortr•e ru :. s; SPAIN. REPORT TO THE QUEEN REGENT. " Senora,—The vote of confidence which the Cortes granted to the Government of your Majesty provided that the nationd property already applied•should not be diverted from its legi timate object, or, in other words, that it should henceforth be applied to the consolidation and extinction of the public debt. " It is not enough for the fulfilment of this charge that the destination of the property should not be altered, but that it is indispensable studiously to guard its preservation and fructi fication, in order that the produce may amount as high as its nature will permit. " The Government has not been inattentive to any of the means which, guaranteeing the national creditors, may justify the confidence the nation has placed in it ; but, desirous that the zeal of its agents should be aided and stimulated at the same time by the corporations established to watch over and promote the well-being of the people, it deems it very advan tageous that there should be formed in the capitals of each pro vince a junta or commission, whose functions should be limited to promote with the greatest solicitude the preservation and possible increase of the mass of property which now belongs to the State, constituting a sacred mortgage for the national, debt. " This resolution, Senora, is besides a necesvry conse quence of the grand principle of publicity and regularity, from which the Government does not wish to depart in the remotest degree, and which it is so necessary to maintain, in whatever concerns the public interest and the securities due to the creditors. With the view, then, ofcarrying out this principle, I request your Majesty to'deign to grant your Royal approba tion to the decree which . I have the honour to present to you. " At the Royal feet of your Majesty, "JUAN ALVAREZ Y MENDIZABAL. • " The Palace, Feb. 15, 1836." • FEB. 9.—The last sitting but one of the Elective Cha.nber was one of the largest, but also one of. tire most stormy and confused that we have witnessed, and which we should not speak of had ire not yesterday seen the spirit of party return to employ all its stratagems, as if wilfully to embarrass and obscure the clearest qUestions, and to excite doubts which the Opposition Deputies certainly do not entertain , but which they make Ilse of as weapons in this Parliamentary warfare. We say that the Opoosition Members do not entertain these doubts, for i n the sitting alluded to, many of them attacking in the debate the third addition of the Committee of Finance, which was to authorise the Government to issue bills to the amount of 12,000 contos, bearing - interests at 10 reis per day in each 100,000 reis, receivable only in-the pul,;lic departments, and redeemable by the produce of the sale of the Lizuras, after a long debate, and a highly coloured picture of the French Re volution and its assignats. voted for the addition, which they had so tenaciously opposed. • • FEBRUARY 13.—The report 'of the Ecclesiastical Cern mittee on the best means of providing for the clergy has been discussed by the Elective Chamber, and decided by a vote that the clergy shall be paid by the Treasury ; the measure, how ever, is only provisional.—lisban Diariodo Governo to 13th February inclusive. COBLENT . Z, FEB. 22.--:The Rhine and Moselle Journal says—" Several Newspapers lately contained the intelligence that Princess Swartzenburg died lately at Neples, in an en: fertunate Planner. According to the communication which we have received, this " unfortunate` manner" was, that the Prince one evening-, seeing the Princes; engaged in an ani mated conversation with an Englishman, .drew a pistol, and shot her on the spot. Prince. Adolphus Von Swartzenburgh is the head of the principal line of this house. He was born on the 22d of May, 1799, and sxcceeded his father on the 19th of December, 1833. Princess Eleanore is a daughter of Prince Moritz Lichtinstein—was born the 26th December, 1812, and was married on the 23d of May, 1830. Two chil dren by this marriage are living, born in 1832 and 1833." VIENNA, FEB. 19.—CommercialJetters from Bitoglia, say that the Turkish troops, amounting to 14,000 men, returning from Albania, are quartered in that town,' and that it is re ported they will remain therelialf nyear..• Among the plans for iron railreads,the most important is for one from Tienna_to Trieste. VIENNA, FEB.. 19.'-5 per CSnt.' /Meal. .103 i; 4 per Cent. 94- ; 3 per Cent. 75 ;.i3ttninSbares, I,366.—Allye nieine Zeitung, Feb. 24. )UTC/1 FUN 'Money. Bills. 10.1ki in:3 ki 9:13,4 79 3 ,i EO e. nt 11 2 ,4 132;4 it cent. • month • l2 15 Iwo months Art" ,‘ O) per Cent. Cci cent. DA! o, ti;t1"o, isr.r cep' Crnn•nerciai Co!nimuy, 4 Ditto (r- , 31 and i 833) 5 p I:XChali:;C ell 1.0t13312, 011:. —Dutch Papers, Fels. *Z7 , PRUSSIA N FUNDS.-14:nr.ot, Fr:. Is. tills. St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per'em -." t ... lO2 . Pru,si An Eng,h , h L:an, 1330, 4 per cent 10i% Ex , ong , ( . 1: Loi,lon, three months 6 4 3. —Prussian State Gazette, Feb. 23. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, 1 - 4i3. IS. Five per Cents. Alctalhques Four per. Cents &ink . Shares —Alliffineine Zeitung, Feb. - .L. BELGIAN FUNDS, IlaussEts, FEB. 2t. Actual th•bt, '4,,: per Cent. Rothschild's Loin, 5 p.,r Cent. 10:4 Loan of City, 1332.4 per Cent. 9 1 1 4i tlociety of Commerce, 4 , •:, per Cent ' Bank of liAgium, 5 per Cent ll4 --Brussels Papers, Feb. 28. Nlnney wo; 1 ; TIIE MARIi.ETS-(THIS DAY). coaN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of descriptions of Grain last week were goon, and the return of Flour was considerable. The trade throughout the week was firm for every article. This morning the fresh supply of every kind of Corn was adequate to the general demand. Most of the runs of Wheat came to-day in tender condition ' • such samples that were dry fully obtained last week's terms ; other qualities are reported rather lower. Barley, if fine and stout, sold freely at last week's rates; other kinds met a slack demand at former prices. Beans, if dry, are rather dearer, other qualities have no variation. Pease of both sorts are unvaried. The demand for Oats continues good, and the best descriptions have obtained rather more money this morning. . The flour trade is not brisk at the late advance, as the bakers are represented as having purchased forward. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. %'h eat, Red (uld) -- White (old) - Red 15:1.5 Fine r"is. 41F. Beans, Small (new)... .. --F.—P. 4.'s. 43,. — (old) -S. —s, !'l3. .56 , . Tick ;new) .... 32 CAs, :333. 403 — (old) , ..v2i. 4.15. Harrow (new) lis.:'). (01d)......... -10 s. 42s 44;. Prank , ft"s :14s (;ats, Feed t?ls `. - :: , i 5.l Superfi e —Wla to Super ... 3;s. Bailey -- Grinding --- Malting , 2tls Poland Gls 2 Potatoe . --- Scotch ''os. 21s, '5 , 9.7 4. 2;. s, -- Flue New Pe.,:5 , .2, Grey, Nev -- Maple lie 80i1er5..... ARRIVALS LIF GRAIN IN &,. - Irish !6- I.Fs t3s 32, Flour Town ;per sack) 265. 38s. 11, - Seconds :14: 355. 3ls. - Nialll Country "Ss :o'. 1 - • (Br= 9 10.. LONDON DURING LAST WEEK "ROYAL DECREE STATEZ.LENT Calves. Pitts 20 4:10 Alban's real ; ut •_'?l up huh I from tlic , v.. - ester. _ E,sex,;:ll,; Sussex ; and finest et• the remaind,?r ithoy.rllno;i of London. the St Idltki e.;!1 bout !-Ilfrov t 11 Oar! ile3, &C. its thr ne NEWG ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Careasi. s tl. to s d s d to s 0 . ..... .., 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferiQr :! 8 ' 210 - middling 2 ik , 3 ' S 4 '2 ;-; 8 310 Pci - k, targc 1 4 - 4 0 3 8 5 0 I --sroall 4 4 4 8 ?e,f, - prtme largo - prime slim( Veal • . NEWCASTLE,- CORN MARKET—Feb 27. • We 'ma an abundant supply of Wheat from the farmers , to day, little - in coastways; the whole sold readily, at ail advance of ls. per quarter. There was also a large supply of country Oats, which met a ready sale, and fine samples for seed may be noted a shade dearer. Barley in fair supply, and fine samples find buyers at former prices ; but middlin'g and inferior p ar cels are dull sale. s low sale. Fine Rye in more demand. Beans aed Pease in large supply, without variation in price. Flour, a brisk sale, and 2s. per sack dearer. New. ... 29t. ...... —5..... ..... 295. —s. . • r ....... —s 42 Wheat, Northidt.tierlanit and Stott , an: Sec, ....... i•orcign .............................. ••• Rye, Norf...ik and Sutiolk .................. 29..32s ....... —s. — S. Foreign ............................. ••••'9 ....... Earley, Malting. :erfoik and S.ALP• Lk...••••• • — 8 - —.F.. --• Grinding and ...... Malt, Nor'ulk and ........... ;Z.; Beans, Small .................... ............. __ s. Tick .................................. Pease, ................. ................. • ........................... Ga'. Ncrttiumb,rlai)d, Potato 2 .... 22,3. ~ 19s. 2;3 !... I'leur 6,101.) j 335. 35. A le:ter from PerpiLnall, of the 23d hist., says that in stating that P r in ce Charles of the journals have been tarot,' Naples has gone to England, fOr we are- enabled to assert that he has taken the road to Madrid. He travels under the name of O'Connor, and, by this incoy Nilo, resided seven or days at the Hotel d e l'E-ope, in this town. The yo un g Prince is of a fine ~n eight -ne figure and ag,-eeable countenance , and haa with hint a person of between forty and forty-five years of age, who went by the name of Patrick O'Ccnnor, and passed of his father. Of th e party was a youni,,[andhaodsome lady ot about twcitty-three or twenty-five; wl,o..iilewise.bor.e the riaMC , or in the s.eam- O'Connor. They embirkedat. Po:t,,nedre,_ . , . -• ~ :vt-Ined th6rgo to Madrid. pac4et El Bakal., for Dareekn,., , . at a ach ,arly p er . r wer e The by ;boa ie the st 3.. of an te, sy )1 as • nf e ttO l lion . their :o fes' \ ' il k t of r t" 193' ' ..• nt''' e 1 tots e n c le oY or' tt [Vl e 'l'