The Sun. — London, England, 1836-10-17 00:00:00

i OREIGN- INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. a; n the OCT. 15.—A Carlist band has made an invasion Bay o f Al ca l a, i n the kingdom of Valencia. The ,onast-heguard were put to flight, their cannon spikecb rand their ammunition carried off. Two small vessels i Which were at anchor there, were not plundeted, at has been re ported, but compelled to put to sea in the middle of the night, and it seems that a landing was effected about the !lime time. A trincadore, of Alicant, has been sent to Valencia, and it is believed that the Alryon brig has been detached from the squadron of Admiral Hugon to that roast, where the English schooner, which sailed from Ca taJonia at the beginning of this month, is also cruising. It is said, that in the last Council of Ministers it was de "cided that the prisoners at Ham shall be removed to in firmaries. The marriage of the Princess Mary to the King of Napl es is said to be positively determined on. It is even added, that the Queen and the Duke of Orleans will ac company the Princess to Naples ; but as the King intends to celebrate the marriage with great magnificence, it will be put off till all fear of the cholera has disappeared. A letter from Bask, of the 7th, says—" This afternoon, at four o'clock, the Duke of Montebello passed through this City, on his return. to France." The amount of the receipt of the indirect taxes, for the first nine months of the year, compared with the receipts of 1834 and 1835, is published, by which it appears that the receipt this year exceeds that of 1834 by 33,180,000 E, and that of 1835 by 23,345,000E—J0urnal du Commerer, Oct. 15. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, OCT. I I. pine per Cents., 105 f. 20c. 15c. lee sc. Ftiur and a Half tier C en t s . 100 L 50c. !tour per Cents., 971. 90c. fhree per Cents. 77f 60e. 95c. 85c. 80c. Bank Actions, 2,270 f. 2,205 E 20:60f. Rente de Naples, 971. 971. 10c. 97f. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Spanish Actives, 22 21% 20%% 1 4 74. Spanish Passives, 6% 6. Belgian Loan, ve per Cents, 99% N. Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 521. 50C. EXCHANGE ON LONHON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ' - money, 251. 27'4c. Three months, paper, 251. 10 c.; money, 25f. Sc. -Claws Authentigue. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARTS, OCT. 13 Five per Cents., 104 f. 95c. 105 f. 104 f. 85c. 90c. Four per Cents.. 9Sf. Three per Cents., 77f. 55e. 60c. 50c. Rank Actions, 2,2551 2,250 f. /tente de Naples, 96f. 30c. 40c. 50c. Roman Five per Cents., 101%. Spanish Actives, 21% 20% 2'2% 4 • Spanish Passives, 6%4 %%%. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 32. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 5211 50c, Itaytian Loan. 3401. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. C , ne month, paper, 25c. 30: - .. ; money, 25f. 27%c. "Ihree months, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. Sc. -Cours Authentiauc. C13r,.. -,RsE' QUARTER TO F OUR .-Th e R enter, the Three per i_ nit , ell- S*, were very l ow thi s morn i ng at Tortoni, s-- / 7f. 35c., K the telegraphic despatches of the Moniteur gave them th"ne animation. The first price on the Bourse wus 77f. 50c. • e improved to 77f. 75c., but afterwards receded to 77f. e • The Spanish Active Stock opened at 21, fell to 204, but , again reached the price of 211. LAST PRICES.-Five per Cents., 105 f. -c.; Three PPei' Cents., 77f. 7 5c• ; Five per Cents. Spanish, -; Three er Cents. Spani s h, --; Cortes, -; C ou p ons , - Gueb " 41'es,.?•rds, -; Differes, 5:4 ; N ew L oan, -; Actives, 221 ; Pas -6a • Ducat.' , 97 -; Romans, 1011 ; Pedros, -; B e l •• _ glans, -; Dutch, 52f. 50c. ; aytians, 340 f. ; Mi -4 6ue ls, HI ; Brabant Bank, -; Belgian Bank, 22,i ; Con uation, -...c. ; ti e • tu e New Difieres, 10i; Five per Cent. Perpe lles, .... ; Royal Loan, - ; Three per Cent. Portuguese, 32. BELGIAN F UNDS-BRUSSELS, OcT. 15 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. ......... 99% Loan of Thirty Millions 93 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent lOO Society of Commerce, 44; per Cent. l4O Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 124 -Brussels Papers, Oct. 16. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, OCT. 7. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares --Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 12. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, OcT. 11. Bills. Money. D Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent. Ditto Ditto ditto 4 per cent. py 991, ditto 3 percent . Russian , per cents. Metal. P 95% An % 9 10 -FLussian Loan 10/ Puler Inscription, 6 per cent - - us , ..dan Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series - Ditto, Certificates - Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 5O 49% Ditto, 3 per cent. 33% 32% Dutch 234 per Cents. 52% Ditto 5 per Cents - Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 149% 148 1 4 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per c ents 72% '72 1 4 Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents. - Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents - - Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 24% 24% Greek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed by France 90 - EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAsinuitG, OCT. 7.-13 11 ; two months. S Teeltr,otm, OCT. 4.-Two months, 11 34.13 6 14 . BERT ;,N, OCT. 8.-Three months, 6. 22. " - •Hamburg Papers, Oct. 11. DUTCH FUNDS-AMSTERDAM, OcT. 14. Money. Bills. Actital Debt, 2% per Cent 5214 53 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Anion Syndic, 4y4 per cent. 94% 95 Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent 7 5 1/ 76 'Commercial Company, 4% per cent 170% 177% Ditto (1232 and I 833) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 071 i Two months -Dutch Papers, Oct. 15. SPAIN. (From the Madrid papers of the Bth i ns t.) th The Brigadier Don Francisco Xavier Osu na , exerc i s i ng onc milit ary command of Seville, writes under th e d ate o f e 2 d, that the band of Gomez having attacked the citadel Md toCordova, which is garrisoned by the National Militia, which also are the authorities of that city, was com v... telY rep u l se d ; S evi ll e was b e i ng p l ace d i n a state of de en"ce ; the Brigadier Osuna concludes by observing, that w ould sooner perish under the ruins of the town than Lick! to the re b e l s . * * * * The Marine Military Corn misto of,t4ont of M o t r il sen d s wor d un d er th e d ate o f the 29th :' e Ptember, th a t on th e f o ll ow i ng d a y all th e y oung men ` 1 1: 1 able o f b ear i ng arms would leave that place to proceed •towards Granada—Madrid Gazette. ,political c hi e f o f th e p rov i nce o f G rana d a , i n a l etter te , th e date of the Ist, after describing the movements of the tuQ l ba n d o f G omez, and of the divisions of Alaix and p gives an account of the extraordinary spectacle t o ' j e j:ted by that city. The measures necessary for the il--“ization of the militia have been effected as if by en oisaiintAtinent. They have with the liveliest enthusiasm fur e' themselves with arms, and such as could not obtain • eular arms have procured stakes to fight with. In all v o l ct iens are t o b e seen assem bli es o f men s h out i ng i n fa s,'",of the C ons ti tut i on , t h e Q ueen, an d the country. Th e aor si tien of horse s i s b e i ng e ff ec t e d w i t h great act i v i ty , Bonsß $ ° great i s t h e exc i tement, t h at 30,000 or 40,000 true Willi of Iberia w o uld, if arms cou ld b e f urn i s h e d t h em, is ,;"g'Y march from this place to the Pyrenees. This io;ntaecurate description and n o exaggerat i on o f t h e feel alltisßich prevails, and this circumstance has entirely balked ' projects of the rebels, who hav e now ta k en to fl ig h t . ,4.1/an e. in It racts from the Madrid Papers, received to the 9th ..sta ot. 'lll ° Madrid Gazette contains the following : << CA PTAINCY-GENERAL OF ANDALUSIA. of ( t ‘ f" h e alarming, though not official news, of the approach p os le rebel s with incredible rapidity to this district, corn xne to make use of the powers granted to the Queen or rot to the Captains-General by her decree of the 21st t act October, seeing that circumstances will not allow th,t% co nrse bein g h a d to ordinary measures. By virtue of t liate„ c ree I declare in a state of war the provinces of this ; and consequently all the established authorities c4te,l, nr ry into e ff ec t t h e or d ers w hi c h may b e communi ouot " 3 them by th e m ili tary power f or th e sa f e ty o f th e cito t, l 7,• '‘Vth a view to ren d e r these orders mo re effi °F orthLceY will b e su p porte d b y t h e p rov i nc i a l comm i ss i ons ` arma ment. s_ ' t !!0, Sept. 26." " C. ESPINOSA." it lfOr ib e ; ‘' 4 Ptain-General of Andalusia has sent a despatch n il th e n the Minister of War that Gomez entered Baeza to o , 2 49 1 of September. He further states, that in the is q the of of tne day of the 0 9th, he caused the 3d battalion ", e leti:;' a rine National Artillery, half a battery, 100 men t oe Nrug to the 3d regiment of Artillery, the cavalry of of the ati onai Guard, a corps of Carabineers, and a company ThoC Volunteers of Andalusia, to set out from Seville. u . te Ca 2; tni a - Gener a l intended on the following day to go h - ere t t - " ti a , where the National Militia of the province 4-41.8 nit t)asse nlble ; and from thence he would set out in Letter the rebels. —Madrid Gazette. t h i tit 9 n ,,s from Bel onte of the date of the 2d inst. state, t i ttee m en are collected in in the neighbourhood of that Qae t ll- " er the orders f General Rodil. The day before str , made a m ovemen t as f ar as C orra l d'Alma- T il 'ous d i . 9 0 , Fuentes, and Villa de Canes. The c Ar c he r l ° 4 of Villa Robledo is marching on Bonillo. 9)co o , est of Moya was defeated at Villa de Ilumo.— Th, 4, 4t ess4 aa b ri d Gazette contains the following Royal order, 'rior Y M. Mendizabal to the Minister of the b es ii i, i le ellent si r prey. Loaned ,- -The Intendant-General of Valladolid r tile that the commission of armament of that for den him, without a formal authority on vie Odi n . tht Part n Pose of the funds which he might receive, r 4;: ()r a t i te Ci.snms received for exemption from the ser oietlnts ; ,rowstosable National Guard, and from enlist fontit of the u t ireeted him not to receive in pay tlefj, eoll ecte , c es paper of any kind, seeing that the tsb e r i N th at or to be collected, are necessary to e ve Wh o , Pl a ce, the safety of which is threatened by the t o . i r t Y co ronlis n s a o ve passed the Ebro. T t is manifest that if n of armament and defence should assume 44:tetif . over the national resources, and should ly occupied by the situation of its own pro vince, all administration and all government would become impossible, and the efforts, as well as the sacrifices made by Spaniards to bring the civil war to a speedy conclusion, would be entirely thrown , b'etil'd it be pos- Sible to provide fdr the artily, 1' the Government had not at its distiosai ail the resources of the country ? How could the forcieri 1. pions, which afford us so much aid, and by which the imp or t an t t owns o f ;,b as ti an , Bilboa, and Santander are d e f en d e d , b e ra id? Finally, how can I con sent to be subject to the serious responsibility which I am liable to in the difficult situation I at present occupy ? Her Majesty the Queen Regent, convinced of these truths, has seen with grief the measures adopted by the commission of armament and defence of Valladolid ; and she, in con sequence, directs you to inform that commission, as well as every other in the kingdom, that the country trusts to their patriotism to procure whatever extraordinary re sources may be required, and that, moreover, it cannot be permitted that they should dispose of the ordinary means of the Government ; seeing that, in order to save the State, it is essential, not merely to provide for an isolated necessity, but for all the exigencies which result from war. You will also inform the commission of armament of Valla dolid, and every other which may adopt the same course, that it is not permitted to them to interfere with the duties of the intendants, or to impose on them an illegal respon sibility by directing them to disobey the injunctions of Go vernment. In consequence, you will order the commission to restore to the Treasury all the sums which have been drawn from it without the authority of the Government. I shall write to the Minister of War, or desire him to take every step necessary ; and I shall also enjoin the intendant of Valladolid not to pay away any money, on pain of dis missal, without the authority of the Government. Madrid, Oct. 3, 1836. " MENDIZABAL." SWITZERLAND. (Extract from the Swiss Correspondence of the Courrier Francais.) Austria appears inclined to blockade our country in the direction of St. Gall, the Grisons, and Tessin. She has military posts at Bregantz, Feldkirch, opposite Martins brucke, and is about to establish others on the Italian side of the Splugen. Heretofore, however, the passage of tra vellers and goods from Switzerland into Lombardy has not been interrupted, and Austria has treated us with more re gard than our old ally. She, no doubt, has good reasons for acting in that manner. Piedmont will, as usual, follow the example of Austria. and complete the line of blockade in the direction of the Valais, Vaud, and Geneva, when or ders to that effect shall have reached the Government from Vienna. Baden, Wurtemberg, and Bavaria, have as yet made no menacing demonstrations, but those States have it in their power to line with troops, in the course of a few days, the whole extent of our Rhenish frontiers, which they have so long blockaded with their Custom-house officers. Extract of a letter from Berne, dated the 11th inst.:— " Although the blockade of the French frontier is kept up with the greatest rigour, some few passports have been granted by the ambassador, as special favours. These ex ceptions have been accorded to persons of known charac ter who are foreigners, not traders, who have been made to point out explicitly the object of their journey to France and to give pledges as to their political opinions. Nothing, however, has occurred to assure us that orders will not be given to the French authorities on the frontier to treat all citizens of Switzerland indiscriminately in the same manner as the inhabitants of Basle Country already have been treated. Measures have been carried nearly to this length in the Prefectures of the Jura, which adjoin France, where the inhabitants who have lands in both countries are no longer permitted to go and gather in the harvest of such of their lands as lie on the other side of the frontier. Affairs are nearly in the same position in the cantons of Neufcha tel, Vaud, and Geneva." The Helvetic has the following :—" M. de Tschamm, the representative of Switzerland at Paris. writes that the present complicated state of affairs places him in a situation of doubt and difficulty. He does not quite understand whether his intercourse with the French Government is entirely at an end or not, or whether it amounts only to a certain degree of coolness. It is certain that M. Tschamm was not invited to the first diplomatic dinner given by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs ; nevertheless, a few days afterwards, Count Mole made him a formal visit by leaving his card. M. de Tschamm has, consequently, writ ten to the Directory for instructions. If the Directory and the Diet understood better the real interests of the Con federation, M. de Tschamm would be recalled, as well as his colleague at Vienna ; for neither of them are fully com petent to their missions, and simple Consular agents would conduct themselves better on this occasion." The Canton of the Grisons has adhered to the decision of the Diet in the affair of Conseil. There are now 13 cantons and a half belonging to the faction, who presumed to be so disrespectful towards the Cabinet of the Tuileries as to lay before it documents explanatory of the conduct of its diplomatic agents in Switzerland.—Helvetie. The opinion - of the French population bordering on our frontiers is favourable to our cause. Several respectable citizens loudly condemn the measures of their Government, in which they are sorry to discover a war of principles that would have appeared monstrous some years ago, on the part of a dynasty born out of a revolution. It would be time for the Vorort to have recourse to reprisals. The present state of things is detrimental to our carriers and merchants, while it favours the French carriers and mer chants, who can freely import and export their goods and merchandise.—llelvetie. Count Berthola, one of the refugees, who assisted in the arrest of Conseil, is in the hands of the French police, by whom he was not allowed to proceed to England. He is said to have made avowals quite at variance with his dis closures to the authorities of Berne. The French Govern ment intends to publish them in order to repel the facts im puted to M. de Montebello. It is to that circumstance cer tain Journals of the Camarillo have alluded since some days. It is equally asserted that the spy Conseil, having lately undergone a new interrogatory, contradicted that part of his former deposition which was offensive to M. de Montebello. With regard to the profession of spy, which he o,vns to have exercised, he expresses surprise at its being brought against him as a crime. Espionnage, in his opinion, is a salaried function, liko that of Ministers, Councillors of State, &c. To-day the chiefs of the principal commercial houses are to meet for the purpose of entering into the engagement of suspending all orders for French goods during the whole time the blockade of the Swiss frontier shall last.—Helvetic. BERNE, OCT. 11, 183 G.—" The Grand Council of this canton assembled yesterday for the purpose of drawing up instructions for the Deputies of Berne, for their guidance in the approaching extraordinary Diet. M. de Tscharner (President of the Directory) opened the business of the meeting by a speech in which he recommended that those instructions should be as general and as vague, or evasive as possible, so as to leave submission to the dictates of France optional, should no other means of reconciliation present themselves. After a debate and deliberation of I 1 hours, this proposition was carried by a majority of 131 to 80, but subject to ratification. " The three deputies for Zurich have been chosen. Among them is M. Keller, a member of the committee of the Senate which reported on the affair of Conseil. They are all opposed to concession ; but even were the Diet itself favourable to submission, the public voice and the public will would prove too strong for it, and prevent any derogation from our national attitude and independence." ITALY. ROME, OCT. I.—Yesterday morning, M. Thiers and his family left this for Paris via Florence. During his stay in Rome, M. Thiers presented his homages to the Holy Fa ther, and had several interviews with Cardinals Lambrus chini and Capaccini. It is inferred from this circumstance that the former President of the Council had been intrusted by King Louis Philippe with an important mission to the Court of Rome. The precipitate departure of the illus trious traveller has been occasioned by despatches received from Paris. M. Thiers visited all the ateliers of our first artists, and purchased a number of objects, executed by French painters and sculptors, who during his administra tion found in him a great admirer and powerful protector. The French artists, anxious to express their gratitude to the late Minister, gave him a serenade before his departure. M. Thiers appeared much pleased with this mrrk of atten tion. The fete of Don Miguel was celebrated on the 29th, in the palace of that Prince, and all his friends and partisans were admitted to the honour of kissing his hand. Letters from Naples announce that the Ministry was about to be modified. The Pope refused to accept the resignation of M. Rus poli, Auditor of the Chamber. A Committee of five Cardinals has been appointed to inquire into the griev ances of bhe prelate, and several public officers of the second order have been discarded, by way of appeasing the angry prelate, who has retired to his estate, with the intention of remaining there until the report on the affair shall have been made. He has, in the mean eime, sent back the seals of his office to the Ministry. The continual rains we have had of late have deluged several parts of the country, but particularly the valley of Foligno, which has sustained con siderable losscs.—Augsburg G azette. The ilngsburg Gazette gives the following of the Ist in • stant from Rome :—" Judgment has been pronounced upon the young Prince de Canino, but its nature is kept a pro found secret. It is said that he is sentenced to death ; but no doubt is entertained of his havin g a pardon granted to him by the Pope. The non-appearance of the young Prince before a public tribunal, and the secrecy in which the proceedings against him have been enveloped, are attri buted to consideration for his family. It is certain that the Austrian Ambassador, the Count de Lutzovv, has taken steps in his favour, by order of the Court of Vienna." TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 21.—Mr. Ellis arrived here a few days ago, on his way from Teheran to London. He stayed but a very short time at Pera, and has embarked in a Russian steam-boat for Odessa, whence he is to continue his route. His leaving . Teheran at this moment proves that the state of affairs in Persia is tot so alarming as has been supposed. The expedition against Herat, lately so much talked of, must be either a fable, or at least more distant ti . - - has been sn; ,l The evacuation of Silistria h' the Russians is completed, but the late commandant has left upwards of 100 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of ammunition, as a present from the Emperor to the Porte. The accession of the Grand Seignor was cele brated with great pomp, hut the illuminations were spoiled by the weather. Admiral Dandolo yesterday gave a grand dinner on board his ship to the whole of the diplomatic body at Constantinople, and on the same evening the Austrian Internuneio gave a ball. It is said that Ibra him Pasha is about to take the command in person of an expedition against the Curds, several bands of whom have made their appearance on the eastern frontier of Sy ria. It seems that these expeditions are undertaken only to exercise the troops and inure them to the fatigues of war ; as a few bands of Curds cannot excite any great alarm, and two or three battalions of regular troops are sufficient to disperse them. The capture of Sudschut Kale by the Russians has almost entirely put an end to the trade with Caucasus. We learn that a new treaty of commerce is in discussion between the English embassy and the Ottoman Government. The English fleet, under Admiral Rowley, arrived some days ago at Vourla."—Augsburg Gazette. " There is open war between the Ulemas and the Sul tan, and the irritation of the learned body has arrived at such a pitch that it will not listen to any reasoning. The enmity between them and the Sovereign is as great as that which existed between Mahmoud and the Janissaries. This state of schism cannot last long, and we are on the eve of a serious catastrophe. We may be expecting denunciations of the sword and the bowstring against the heads of the law and religion, for such are the Ulemas considered to be. These sanguinary measures must be followed by terrible consequences. It is said that the Ulemas endeavoured to excite the soldiers to an insurrection on the portrait of the Sultan being put in the barracks. 'When once a determined resolution to destroy the Ulemas is come to, there will be no want of ground for accusations against them.—German Courier. MONEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—lt is perfectly absurd to suppose that there is at this moment any scarcity of money ; the real stagnation is in consequence of parties being unable to get large paper subdivided into that representing smaller amounts. Just imagine the state London would be in it, on going to the butcher, to order a joint of meat, he were to say, " I can not supply you with less than an ox or a sheep ;" to the grocer for a pound of tea, you could get no less than a chest ; to the wine merchant, and you must have a pipe of wine or none at all—just in this state is the Money Market at the present moment ; Exchequer Bills, and large mercantile bills, are but as the ox, chest of tea, or pipe of wine. You have a difficulty in procuring the value of the Exchequer or other Bills in joints, or in other words, small Bank Notes. The only reason why the trader requires the services of the banker to discount his paper is, that having a bill for 1001., he goes to the banker to discount it, in order that he may pay 201. to one, 30/. to another, and 30/. to a third. Now if the following mode were generally adopted in trade, I feel fully assured that it would be the greatest service which could be afforded to it—viz., that where a party has to give his acceptance, that he shall not do so in one bill only, but that he shall accept different bills in such sums as shall be convenient to the party to whom he owes the money, so that the whole, of course, do not exceed the gross amount due. The party holding those small bills will be enabled to endorse them over to different parties, without the necessity of the banker for discount, and he will not have them in hand until presented for pay ment. lam perfectly aware of the very great prejudice among merchants to having their names to Bills of small amount, but I am sure when they perceive the immense benefit which will accrue to trade generally, as well as to themselves individually, that they will adopt the small bill suggestion, and sink their prejudices. It is an old saying, that " Pride feels no pain.' If the present mode of doing business be continued, the old proverb will be destroyed, and pride will feel pain. Another adoption tending materially to facilitate ex changes of commodities (trade is nothing more) would be the circulation of Country Bank Paper in London. You are well aware that no bank within sixty miles of Lond on is entitled to issue notes, but th ere i s no law to prevent its circulating notes issued more than sixty-five from London. I, or any other person, may pay away a country bank note in London to a tradesman, and there is no law to compel him to take that note to the London agent for cash ; he has the same right to pass it to any person willing to take it ; I say willing, because country notes are not a legal tender. Bankers are traders by law—they also may circulate country paper, although not issue their own. I would advise them that a public meeting be called of the merchants and traders of the city orLondon, to take into consideration the propriety of signing a declaration that they will receive such and such paper, not only of their customers, but from their bankers, and let such declaration be published with names attached—also let the shopkeepers display, as pub licly as possible, in their windows—" NOTES OF THE NA TIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND TAKEN HERE," or of any other bank or banks they may think proper. Anything in short which can be suggested to avert the crisis which must ensue, destroying the life -blood of trade, commerce, and private credit, if something instantly be not adopted to prevent, it should be minutely considered. If you deem the above worthy consideration, they are at your service for publication ; and should either one or both be worthy of being carried into effect, and be after wards found of public benefit, that public good will amply repay the few moments I have given up to pen them. Ilfracombe, Oct. 12, 183 G. I am, Sir, yours, &c., GORDIUS. DURHAM. (FROM • CORRESPONDENT.) Saturday Night, Oct. 15. SIR,—I beg leave to forward you this day's result of the registration of the Northern Division of the County of Dur ham. You will perceive that the Tories have got regularly floored, so far as the revision of this day has gone. The Liberals objected to 17, struck off 14, and esta blished 16 new claims. The Tories objected to 54, struck off 5 ! and esta blished 5 new claims. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) Drat., OCT. 15. _Wind S. S.E. to W. S.W.—Arrived from the River the Norfolk, Gatinlish, for Sydney ; Royal George, Richards, ditto ; Elizabeth, Whiteners, for Jamaica ; Vernon, Davis, for Madeira ; Camilla, Harding, for Jamaica ; and Chanet, Willis, for Demerara. The outward-bound have sailed, but since put back. 16th., N. N. E.—sailed the whole of the outward-bound again. Arrived from,.the River the Sea-Nymph, Smith, for Buenos Ayres; ',atone. Manson, for Cuba; Tryon, Pyhus, for the Cape of Good Hope; and Janet, Huinter, for Honduras. Arrived an d p rocee d e d f or the River, the Henrietta, Christian, from Zante. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 15.—Wind S. by E. to S. W.-16th, E. S E.—Arrived the Triumph, —, for Santander ; Childe Harold, Willis, from Bombay ; sailed his Majesty's ship Peak -and Inconstant for Plymouth; and James Cruikshank, Young, for Demerara. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 15. —Wind S. S. W. —No arrivals. Sailed his Majesty's ship Russell for the coast of Spain ; his Majesty's ship Minden, ditto ; and his Majesty's brig Scorpion, Westward. FALMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind S. S. W. to S. W.—Arrived the Ranger packet, from St. Thomas's—sailed on the 19th ult. Sailed none. Put back, the Gulf of Puira, with loss of bulwaik, &c. STANGATE CREEK, OCT. M.—Arrived the Jane, Patti- On, from Almndria. The Anne, from Roaen to Aberdeen, .vas on some rock near Dunbar—ere , a saved. The Adelin3, from Sunderland, was foundered on the 13th inst., near Robin Hood Bay--crew saved. The Union, of Yarmouth, was carried into Sarbro' on the the 14th inst., abandoned. _ The Triaud, for Sunderland, has been carried into port water-logged, and abandoned. The Emerald, for New York, was lost at Folsterbro' Reef. The Doncaster, Pritchard, from Mauritius to London, is totally lost off Cape Lagulias—crew and passengers drowned. Accounts have been received this morning at Lloyd's, from Davis's Straits. The Norfolk, Harrison, of Berwick, had got one fish ; the Clarendon, Kerr, of Leith, which has ar rived off Aberdeen, one fish and twelve of oil ; the Advice, Ducaars, of Dundee, one fish ; Princess Charlotte, Adamson, two fish and twenty-five of oil ; the Santander, Bruce, of Aberdeen, one fish and twelve of oil ; the Zelipse, Stoor, of Peterhead, three fish ; and Superior, Manson, one fish and twelve of oil. WASHINGTON IRVING.—We are at length able to announce that the new work by this fascinating writer, " Astoria," about which such general interest has been manifested, will be published to-morrow. No modern author, with the single exception of Byron, has attained so great and just a celebrity as the author of " The Sketch Book." The grace and purity of his style, his arch but refined hu mour, his good taste, and the real philanthropy which cha racterises his productions, have doubtless contributed to render him an universal favourite. " Astoria" will be wel come to all lovers of romance ; it will exhibit the powers of this celebrated writer in a new point of view, and will add a new triumph to Washington Irving, who is allowed to be the most distinguished living author. LOSS OF THE DONCASTBR. The Childe "Taroldc, Captain Willis, arrivel at a late hour this evening from Bombay, whence she sailed on the Bth of June, and from the Cape on the Bth Aug. ; this ship brings intelligence of the wreck of the barque Doncaster, Captain Pritchard (which sailed from the Mauritius for London about the 20th June), on the Reef of Agulhas, v, of the Cape of Good Hope, supposed Lily. when sad to relate, about 70 milea on the night of Sunday, the every soul on board perished. By a letter from Samuel Parlby, Esq., to the Hon. Col. Bell, dated Kleine River Valley, July 30th, 1830, it ap pears that the bodies of 19 women and children, and 32 men and boys, were washed on shore, and had been buried. The scene of the calamity is about half a mile to the east of the point on the coast on which the Jessie, Captain Win ter, was lost in 1829. Not a vestige of the hull of the Doncaster remains. A Hottentot, of the name of Hans Aventure, who was fishing on the coast, was the first person, it appears, who discovered some of the dead bodies that were washed on ashore from the wreck, and from him it was ascertained that the ship had been tett or twelve days standing on and off the shore, before the disaster hap pened, which must have been on the bight of the 17th in scant. The vessel was sometimes so near the shore, that the voices of the crew could be clearly heard, but this the residents of that part of the coast say is a common occur rence, when ships in passing Cape L'Agulhas are caught by westerly winds. The following names were observed on the covers of books and pieces of boxes, which have been picked up : Honourable Lady Colville, Russell Farm, Hertfordshire, favoured by Mrs. U-- (name obliterated), on the lid of a box ; Mary Jane Saunders, on a music book ; Miss M. J. E. Saunders. ditto ; George Woolly, jun., ditto ; Cap tain Walker, 99th Regiment, in a book ; W. Macready, Esq., Elston, Hertfordshire, favoured by (name obliterated) lid of a box ; Robert Saunders, Esq., South End, in a book ; Robert Saunders, Esq., Eltham, Kent, present from Mauritius, lid of a box ; A. Edwards, 1832, ditto ; W. Williams, surgeon, on a bottle : P. Dollar, in a 'book ; Quartermaster Sergeant O'Learney, 99th Regiment, on the lid of a chest ; W. Hughes, 29th regiment, ditto ; A. Hooks, Royal Irish Fusileers, No. 155 ; L. Michael Fear ' ney, sergeant 29th regiment ; soldiers' caps and buttons of the 87th, 29th, 99th, and Royal Sappers and Miners, &c. —From the South African Commercial Advertiser of the 6th of August. In another letter, dated Ist August, from the Civil Commissioner of Swellendam to his Excellency the Go vernor, the Commissioner states that the bodies washed on shore were nearly all naked. " Limbs and parts of bo dies, which appeared to have been fourteen or twenty days under water ; wearing apparel of all descriptions, and clothing with the regimental buttons of the 29th, 87th, and 99th Regiments, and Royal Artillery and Engineers, all much torn, and bags which have contained sugar, are con tinually coming on shore. The only clue to the names of the passengers, is a small memorandum-book, or journal, a little defaced, which I have reason, from comparison of dates and circumstances, to believe belonged to Dr. Page, of the Royal Artillery or Engineers, and it is there stated that the passengers were Captain and Mrs. Weir, of the 29th regiment, Lieutenant and Mrs. Walker, 99th regi ment, Madame Wiche and her daughter, Mrs. Saunders and family, Serjeant John Reid, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, and 17 invalids." It is an affecting circumstance that Mr. Saunders, the husband of the lady, who, with her children and servants, (numbering in all eleven persons), were lost in this ship, has been residing several weeks with W. Macarthy, Esq., of the Branch Bank of England in this town, anxiously looking forward to greet the arrival of his family.—Hamp shire Telegraph. THE LATE GALES. On the 11th instant the Marlborough, a largo merchant vessel, was wrecked at Torbay, near Plymouth, and Capt. Rutt and the whole crew perished. The particulars of the latter calamity are not yet known.—Liverpool Chronicle. The equinoctial gales continue to prevail ; on Monday night the wind blew a perfect hurricane, doing much injury both on land and along the coast.—Hampshire Telegraph. Notwithstanding the tremendous gales which have pre vailed during the week, we are happy to state that the men of war in the Sound, and the shipping in the different parts of the Harbour, have sustained no injury whatever. The hurricane on Wednesday night afforded the most decisive proof of the superiority of this harbour, as a roomy and safe place of refuge for shipping in dangerous weather. Six sail of the line, with the Fly sloop, Pantaloon, Partridge, and Scorpion brigs, and Diligence transport, besides several merchantmen, rode out the gale in perfect safety in the Sound, under shelter of the Breakwater, which being now advanced towards completion, after nearly '25 years of con tinued labour, is affording evidence of its great utility in protecting this harbour from the fury of the western gales. The stories circulated that the anchorage in the Sound is injured by the erection of the Breakwater, has been, in this instance, most satisfactorily refuted. The sea raged most terrifically outside the Breakwater, and the tide rose nearly as high as in the fatal hurricane of November, 1824, when 36 vessels went on shore, but it was remarked, that for two miles or more, inside that great national work, the sea presented a comparatively calm appearance, and it is now past all doubt, that treble the number of vessels might have rode out the gale in safety under the protection of that mighty bulwark, which is one of the wonders of the age.—Devonport Telegraph. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 15.—The North Star, 28, Capt. Vernon Harcourt, arrived on Wednesday from the South American station, with a freight of thirteen hundred thou sand dollars, principally from San Blas, on the north-west coast of Mexico, and en private account. She left San Blas on the 22d of April, Valparaiso on the 22d of July, and Rio Janeiro on the lst of September. The Pique, 30, Capt. Rous, sailed from St. Helens to day, followed by the Inconstant, 36, Captain Hayes, C. 8., from Spithead, which-went out of harbour yesterday, to join the squadron under Sir Charles Paget. The Pique, in her short cruise, from Wednesday morning to Thursday noon, experienced very bad weather ; and in a perfect hurricane on Wednesday night had to beat off Port land Bill, to prevent getting on shore ; when doing so the main-topsail blew out of the bolt-ropes, and her depen dence was upon her courses ; she was very wet, but under her lower sails clawed off the land to the satisfaction of her officers. Major Wright, with two captains, five subalterns, 15 ser jeants, 15 corporals, nine drummers, and 250 privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, embarked yesterday on board the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, to join our squ dron in the Tagus. The Nymph cutter arrived last night from Santander, with fifty invalids of the British Legion. The Scylla, 18, Commander Robb, commissioned in June only, has been found so defective at Plymouth, that she is ordered to be paid off, and her Commander, officers, and ship's company arc transferred to the Satellite, 18, which w►ll proceed to the West India station, as soon as ready. The Snake, 16,'is ordered to be paid off, and her Com mander (Warren) will commission the Serpent. The Athol, troop ship, came into harbour yesterday to be stripped, and examined for further service. The Ganges, late demonstration ship, is taken into the basin to be stripped ; the l'elorus sloop is also taken into the basin. The Greenwich, 74, is nearly rigged alongide the Dock-yard, preparatory to her proceeding to the East ward to be broken up, having been sold to Mr. Sedger of Rotherhithe, for 5,:3001. Mr. Brunswick steamer Will not leave Plymouth again until Monday next. At Spithead—Westminster, American packet. In Harbour —Britannia, Excellent, Royal George, North Stlr, Conway, Athol', Pluto steamer, Bracker cutter, Bar rossa transport. ArrorNTMENTS.—Lieutenant William Viner Read, of the Victory to the command of the Echo steam-vessel at Woolwich ; Lieutenant Hamond, to the Blonde ; Lieut. Cerroll to the North Star ; Mr. Mowbray, Midshipman,' from the North Star to the Harrier ; Mr. Barnard, Mate, from the North Star to the Harrier ; Mr. Bernard, Mate, from the North Star to the Blonde ; Lieutenant R. J. W. Dunlop, to the Winchester ; Lieutenant J. T. Layc, to the Fly, vice Campbell, to the Howe ; the Rev. Alexander Henry Small, to he Chaplain of the Victory, vice Ferris ; Mr. Justus B. Kooystra, extra Mate, Mr. C. R. Read, Midshaprnan, Messrs. H. S. Harvey, J. E. Parish, and H. F. Elliot, College Volunteers to the Conway ; Mr. Sholl, Purser to the Ordinary at. Chatham, vice Mr. Marsden, appeared to the Ordinary at Sheerness, vacated by Mr. Vallach, who has retired ; Mr. Beecroft, Master of the Blonde invalided from that ship and joined the Sul phur, as a Volunteer to assist in her surveys on the coast of Mexico ; Lieut. Henry Parry, to the Coast Guard Service. The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at the Naval College on Tuesday and Wednesday :—Mr. Charles Richardson Johnsen, Beagle ; Charles F. Gorton, late Cockatrice ; Ferd. H. Stevens, Hercules ; C. A. Isaac son, Bellerophon ; It. H. Risk, Pembroke ; C. Clavell, Astrea ; H. Charleton, Hercules ; G. A. Phayne, late Tribune ; E. Crouch, late Challenger ; J. F. Warre, late Jupiter ; W. K. Joliffe, late Al *trine ; W. H. Kennedy, late Preside n t ; H. S . H aw k er, l a te Sapphire. (From the DevonportTelegraph.) DEvoNronT, Ocr. 15.—His Majesty's ship Partridge, Lieut. Bisson, is ordered to proceed to Lisbc►n with des patches and supernumeraries for-the squadron. The launching of the Sappho, 14 guns, at this dockyard, which was to have taken place on the 24th, is postponed for the present. The Dido, a new ship of 20 pins, is comm!ssioned at Sheerness, by Commander the Hon. Dud ley Pelham. The Comus, Trincu!o, and Savage, at this port, are ordered for commission. In the ga!e on Tuesday last, the Royal Adelaide (guard ship) ported one arm of her mooring chain. The Pluto steamer sailed }'ester a}' for Portsmouth and Woolwich. is r ea dy f or The Incon s t an t, Bt3, Capti;:" John ill Y es ' sea ... 3 ortsmouth. Lieut. Edward Holland, Flag Lientenaij to Admiral Fleming, at Sheerness, is arp )inted to command Z!le Scor pion, vice Lieut. Robilliard. 'The order for paying off the Beagle surveying vessel at this port has been countermanded at the request of Capt. Fitzroy, and she is now to be paid off at Woolwich. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. E. Ommaney is appointed to the Pique, 'vice Lieut. Campbell, sick ; Lieut. Win. N. Read, of the Victory, to command the Echo ; Rev. Alex. H. Small to be Chaplain of the Victory ; Messrs. C. R. Read, Midshipman, and H. F. Elliot, College Volunteer, to the Conway ; Lieut. J. 'l'. Layc to the Fly, vice Camp bell to the Howe ; Captain Henry Byam Martin to the Charybdis ; Mr. J. A. A. Riddell, mate, to the Pluto ; Lieut. R. IV. Pelly, to be additional Lieutenant of the Wi nc l ie ,ter ; Mr. J. Macklin, Gunner, to the Conway. - , lictnaining . irt Adelaide, San Josef, Scylla, Hermes steomer, Beagle, and Devon lighter. In the Sound—Bellerophon, Vanguard, Pembroke, Her cules, Russell, Minden, Fly, Pantaloon, Scorpion, Partridge, and Diligence navy transpoil• At Spithead on Thursday—North Star and Athol. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. The squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Paget, have received orders to store and victuO for foreign service. This has given rise to much specula tion, but it is not understood that any other object is at present contemplated beyond a somewhat protracted cruise. Probably Sir Charles Rapt will visit Lisbon, and supply ships on that station with stores. There are not six line of-battle ships at present in the Tagus, as reported in the London papers, but the Hastings, Cornwallis, and Mala bar, will shortly be joined by the .Minden and Russell. if the French fleet of five or six sail of the line, under Admi ral Hugon, should remain in the Tagus, the British force in that quarter will probably be reinforced, as it has always been the policy of this country to have a preponderating force in that quarter.—Devonport Telegraph. The Pluto steamer, Lieutenant Duffill, arrived here yesterday, to take on board Ordnance stores for the North Coast of Spain ; she is professedly a bad vessel, and her engines ought to be turned over to a more efficient craft. She will take from this division of Royal Marines fifteen sergeants and nine fifers, who have been for some time ready for embarkation ; and will also take two sergeant.: : one bombardier, two drummers, and eighteen gunners of the Royal Marine Artillery, for the same destination.— Hampshire Telegraph. Yesterday 400 of the Royal Marines, and forty officers, embarked in a steamer from Woolwich Dock-yard, for Portugal. This force is to recruit the Marines in the Bri tish ships in the Tagus and Mediterranean. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. Newmarket, Sunday Afternoon. The only races which possess any importance beyond the moment are the Clearwell and Prendergast Stakes, the former being included in Tuesday's appointments, and the latter in Friday's. The field for the Clearwell is very short of public runners, as we do not find in it more than two that have in any way distinguished themselves, viz., Lord Exeter's Corban and Lord Chesterfield's Venilia, the latter having been de feated not more than a neck in the dead heat race of three for the July Stakes. Corban is also engaged in the Prendergast Stakes, and will have to meet Lord Orford's Armenia, the same filly that defeated him in the second heat for the July Stakes. The field for this race is also very poor in public runners, and from the nature of the other two year old en gagements in this and the Houghton Meeting it does not seem likely that much light will be thrown on the Derby till the Spring Meeting. The course is not in the most desirable condition, some tre mendous storms having fallen since the last meeting—one on Thursday morning was the most terriffic ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitant of the town. No arrivals as yet, most of the Nobility being at the different seats in the neighbourhood, pheasant shooting. The appointments for the meeting were given a few days since. ELLESMERE RACES.—TVEDYEsDA T. The Tradesmen's Cup, value 531., added to a Sweepstakes of 51. each ; three yrs, ist. ; four, Bst. 51b.; five 9st. ; six and aged, 9st. 51b. Heats, two miles. Mr. J. Stanton's Aratus, 5 yrs W. Jones 3 1 1 Mr. Thurlow's Fcarnhurst, 5 yrs Mr. Griffith's Saccharina, aged First heat won by half a length ; second heat won easy by six lengths; third heat won in a canter. The Hunters' Stakes of 31. each, with 50/. added from the Fund, for horses not thorough bred. Heats, two miles. Mr. Hughes's ch. f. by Astbury, 4 yrs, lOst ...... walked over. The Hack Stakes of 11. each, with 501. added from the Fund, the hacks not thorough bred, and foaled within twelve miles of Elles mere. Heats, mile and a half. Mr. Hampson na. b. m. by Champion, 10st. 51b...J. Barnes 1 1 Mr. Jones's Pheebe„ 4 yrs 2 2 Mr. Whaley's Sweet Lips, 5 yrs First heat won by half a length ; second heat won by three lengths. THURSDAY. The Ellesmere Tally-Ho Stakes of 31. each, with a Purse added from the Fund, for horses not thorough-bred. Heats, two miles. Mr. R. Farmer's Bilbury, aged, list. W. Jones 4 1 1 Mr. T. Hampson na. Lydia, 4 yrs, lOst 1 6 2 Mr. G. Harper na. ch. f. by Astbury, 4 yrs, lost 5 5 3 Mr. J. Senior na. Will-o'-die-Wisp, 6 yrs, list Mr. T. L. Oswell na. Polyanthus, aged, list Mr. J. Stanton na. b. g. by Welcome, 5 yrs, 10st. 71b 6 2 dr Mr. R. If. Hilton na. Ferryman, 4 yrs, lOst 7 0 0 Six others drawn. Even on 13ilbury. First heat a capital race, won by half a length ; second heat won by a length ; third heat won easy by half a length. The Galloway Purse, value 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 1 guinea each. Heats, mile and a halt. Mr. Holland's Moses, aged, ist. 111 b Eaton 1 1 Mr. J. Griffith's Cestardy, aged, ist. I Ilb Mr. Robvrts's Fanny, aged, ist. 111 b First heat won by a neck only ; second heat won by half a length, a beautiful race. Handicap Stakes, for beaten horses, of 21. each, with a sum added from the Fund. Heats, two miles, Mr. Thurlow's Fearnhurst, 11st walked over. NOTTINGHAM RAGES.- TIIN7SDA r. A Plate of 501., given by the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County for all ages. Heats, two miles and a half. Lord Chesterfield's Eva, 4 yrs, Bst. Blb 4 1 1 Mr. Johnson's Jupiter, 4 yrs, Bst. 1111) Mr. Sandeford's Daniel, 4 yrs, Bst. 12th 2 $ dr Mr. Houldsworth's Turban, 4 yrs, Bst. 91b First heat won cleverly, second heat won by half a head, third heat w•on by a length. FRIDAY. His 'Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for all ages. Heats, two miles. Mr. Bowes's Mouclig, 4 yrs, 9st. 41b Gen. Yates's Sylvan, 4 yrs 9st. 41b 2 2 - . Mr. Unwin's Goldbeater, 9st. l lib Sylvan the favourite ; beautifully and severely contested. NORTHALLERTON MEETlNG.—Turnsrmr, A Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sors. each, 10 ft., for all ages. Two miles. 7 Subs. Mr. Jaques's Burletta, 4 yrs, Bst. 51b Cartwright 1 Mr. Wrightson's Arcline, 3 yrs, 6st. I2lb 10 to lon Burletta. As•cline took the lead and made running to the last turn, where Burletta went up and defeated her easy by three lengths. A Stake of 20 son. each for two yrs old) colts, Bst. 51b. ; fillies, 61t. 21b. T. Y. C. Duke of Cleveland's Irenriade J. Lie 1 Mr. Skipsey's Slashing Harry...... .... Mr. Rhode's Conservative, by Voltaire 2 to 1 on Henriade, 5 to 2 agst Slashing Harry. and 3 to 1 asst Coneettative. Henriade made play for about a quarter of a mile when Consersative took the front., Henriade lying second, and Slashing Harry last ; in this order they went to the last turn, when Lye brought oat Ilenriade and landed him quite easy, but making an cheap of the others as to suffer Slashing Marry to get up within half a neck. Consecrative was only beaten by Slashing Harry by a neck. The Town Plate of 501. for maiden horses; three yrs, Bst. 71b. ; four yrs, 9st. ; fire, Ost. 41b. ; sia and aged, Ost. 71b. Heats, two miles. . Mr. Bowes's The Zegri Maid, :3 yrs ..... ............ Lye 1 2 1 Mr. Armitage's c. by Velocipede ........................ ••• 4 1 2 Mr. Heseltine's Spread Eagle, 0 yrs ...... ...... : 3 3 dr Duke of Leeds's b. f. Ilubina, 3 yes ........................ 2 4 dr Even on Spread Eagle, 3to 1 agst Zegri Maid. First heat won by half a neck. After the first heato tbto 4 n Zegri Maid. he T second heat won by a length. Aftr the sclond heat 2tol on Bartolozzi. The last heat won by half a length. STONE BLIOES.—Tur. .snAr. A Sweepstakes of 5 soil. each, with 20 added, was won in two heats by Air. Wo , s Lydia, beating two oth ers . od • The Publicans' Purse of 501. was won in two heats by Captain Ilunny's f. b y Pantaloon, beating Fearnhurst and two others. 'WEDNESDAY. The flack Stakes sere won by Fearnhurst, beating two others. The Town Plate was won by Mr. Dawson's Mountaineer. griIvTLATCAPPOINTAIENTS. The Swatrham Coursing Meeting will take place on the Bth of, November and three following (lays. Sir J. Flower's Harriers meet on Wednesday at Eccles—half s S aturday, Bridgeham-11. pas t 10. T he CI H. on Wednesday, at Sparkeford Bridge ; Siturday, at Arthur's Dei ' ' • , toe. Mr. Mum s Hounds on Thtirsday, at Eustori Park ; Saturday, at Weston Colville. Mr. Fretwell'a Hounds Tuesday, at Hawling Gate ; Thursday, at Wincheomb Town ; Saturday at Beckford Inn. The Brighton Harriers on Mondays at Patcham Wednesdays, at the Race Course • Friday, at the Dyke. The Btookside darriers on Mondays at 'Newmarket Hill ; Fri days, at Telscombe Tye—half-past 10. - ENTHUSIASM IN RACING.—M R r.Burns, under nineteen years of age, a son-of Mr. Burns, bootmak er, of Piceadilly, walked from town to Doncaster in three (lays to witness the week's racing, and returned in the same time. Mr. Stephenson has relnsed 1,000 guineas for the hire of Voltaire to his Alajenty's stud for two years. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A report of the proceedings at the dinner given to Mr, Spring Rice at Limerick on Wednesday last will be, found in another column. The satisfaction felt by the night Hon. Gentleman at the presence, on Stich an occasion, of so many influential gentlemen of the city to which owed his first introduction. to public life, wae very allowable. But Mr. Spring Rice seems to have been in such a good humour, that in his treat ment of friends and foes the shade of distinction is so very nice, that, like the poet, he leaves His peace with these, his love to those." Without being grumblers, people. may I,ell doubt whether the Right lion. Gentleman does not see everything in the political world coulenr de rose. For instance, the Tories themselves thought they had done quite enough of mischief last session ; but they will learn, to their no small surprils'e, from Mr. S. Rice, that they were merely the flies on t:.7e wheel, and that before they can afford a justification- to the " more eager class of Reformers," they must exert themselves to much more purpose than they have yet done. There may, for aught we know, be an irony in the information given by the Right Honourable Gentle man to the Tories, that they have altogether over-es timated their exertions to impede the progress of re form. There is a well-known fable of a man wino, being hit by a crazy fellow with a stone, gave hinr some money as an encouragement to repeat the expe riment against another, who as he anticipated, be stowed on the fool a hearty castigation. Mr. Spring Rice may, in like manner, wish to encourage the Lords to attempt what may exceed the measure of pa tience of the people. By telling them, " You must not mind what Lords Melbourne and Lansdowne and Holland in the Lords, and Lord John fluesell in the Commons, said in the heat of the moment respecting your opposition ;—the fact is, the only thing wonder ful is that we get so much from you ;—Gentlemen, you are really much better than you take yourselves to be r" —the Tories may strain a point, to obtain a certifi cate from Mr. Rice that they have conducted them selves like a vigorous and effective opposition ;—and then it remains for the people to show that they can relish the Right Hon. Gentleman's irony. But from the lecture to the more eager Reformers, which Mr. Rice couples with this correction of the error of the Tories, we are inclined to believe that the Right Hon. Gentleman was in good earnest : " They were told," he said, " that the Upper House of the Legislature would prevent it (appropriation), from being carried. Now he would speak with every respect of a co-ordinate, though he doubted its being a co-equal, b r ,2nch of the Legislature.—(Hear, and cheers.) He would s p ea k with respect to the power given to that House by the Consitution ; but if experience derived from the past was true, it i zroved that if the cause were right and just, and was support;d by the House of Commons, sooner or later it must be triumphant. They were aware that the House of Lords had opposed the Emancipation Act, the Reform Act, and the 'feat Act ; but the cause of liberty had been triumphant, and they had fought them all suc cessfully, and they would fight the Irish questions in the same way, and with the same resu:ts.—(Cheers.) But in order to gain the battle, they must uee the same means— they must use the same constitutional agency which they had used before, and not play the game of the Tories— and, by hunting after novelty, enable that party to re proach them as desirous to subvert the Constitution ; when by constitutional means all the good which they desired could be attained.—(Hear.) Sooner or later their object would be gained." Now, as Peerage Reform is an open question, we may combat Mr. Rice's opinion as a superannuated prejudice, as he combats the opinion of the Reformers as a novelty. In the beginning of last Session . he was quite . farouche against al who questioned the wisdom of the Peers : and we are pleased to see that his tone of admiration of the Peers is somewhat lowered. The Peers are not co-equal with the Commons—i. e., when two men ride the same horse one must ride foremost. The Right Hon. Gentleman's argument derived from the Emancipation Act, the Reform Act, and the Test Act, that there is no cause to despair of their Lord ships, proves a little too much. These !bre° measures were all passed by an unreformed House of Commons. The Reform of the Commons was unnecessary, if an unreformed House conceded those measures the pass ing of which is taken by Mr. Rice as a criterion of the fitness of an unreformed House of Lords for all essential purposes of legislation. Seriously speaking, we con ceive this speech of Mt. Spring Rice of a somewhat mischievous tendency, and we find ourselves com pelled, from a sense of duty, to protest against his undervaluing the differences between Tories and Re formers, as calculated to damp that ardour by which alone the exertions of the Tories can be defeated. It was very well for Sir Robert Peel to hold himself out to the people that he was as sincerely bent on Reform as the Ministers whom he succeeded ; but had the peo ple believed him, would they have made the exertions which restored the Melbourne Ministry to power ? Reformers must not be told that they arc fighting for shadows, otherwise the Melbourne Ministry will soon be a shadow. We consider Mr. Rice a much more dangerous enemy to the Ministry to which he belongs than Sir Robert Peel or the Duke of Wellington. A few such exhibitions of superficial declamations from members of a Reform Government would be enough to damp the ardour, if not destroy the hopes, of real Re formers. We tell Mr. Spring Rice that such a tone of tenderness towards political adversaries will not pass for an enlightened anxiety to maintain the kind ness of social life. Honeyed words, smooth and hollow phrases, may suit the taste end policy of those mild Reformers who watch the wind to guide by it their timid course ; but they will not and ought not, to satisfy honest Reformers when ap plied to a reckless faction, many of them unprincipled renegades, who obviously arc willing to hazard the peace and security of the realm, that by obstructing Reform they may regain the dominion of Toryism, and be enabled to plunder the public purse. We are very sceptical as to the Reform principles of those men who employ palaver to make the public content with what is done, instead of arguing the necessity of union and enerey to accomplish that which remains to be achieved. Who that claims to be an honest and good Reformer will agree with Mr. Spring Rice, who is re ported to have said, " England had long possessed those blessings which just and equal laws impartially administered, and the absence of religious factions a l wa y s presented. To the British Statesmen, there fire, in England little remained to do," &e. Such is your opinion Mr. Rice, is it ? We hope for the sake of England's peace and prosperity such is not the opi nion of a majority of your colleagues. We are not dis posed to underrate what has been done, and to bold it of little amount, but we value:. ite' chiefly as the earnest of much greaeer good. 'We 'AIM be amongst the pack who will ard en tl y b e found ''-blunting aft:novelty, ' in the shape of Peerage Reform---effective protection to the voter in the-exercise of theelective franchise against intimidation and persecutionrelief of the Dissenters from the payment.of church ratesan extensive reform of the law—and a- cheaper and ,- better admim'istration of justice, and many other mtosures of amelioration and improvement. We heartilyetoncur with Mr. Spring Rice in the vital ilnportancerofjustice to Ireland; and we consider 'that if' is not leSSethe duty than the inte rest of every, real' Reformer in Great Britain, as well as Ireland,- to endeavoili to attain that object. Well and trills. was it obsel'ved by the Right Hon. Gentleman, that -"lreland might be the strength and the glory of 'England ; but under the influence of mis rule it couldlre - to it but a esOurce of weakness—its bane, and itgeCalainity."—Mo.owing Chronicle. In humble imitation of Atr, Daniel O'Conn e ll, an d in zealous furtherance of the views announced two years ago by that disturbe r of the e reel M, Mr. Spring Rice (parva componere mag . nls) :digs had recourse to his agitation dinner, and his revolutionary speech. While adverting to thiS - characteristie exhibition, we protest against any such uncharitable inference as that our no tice is directed towards the" individual Spring Rice, Chancellor of the Exchequer; or our censure of the proceeding Levelled 'at one, Wini, whatever his private qualities niiiy be, he is in himself singly nothing more than a petty fraction of a vicious faction—an impalpa ble atom o(a brake poison,:Which cannot separate itself, and is not ':worth extricating, from the body to which it beliings e ; 'No ; amongst the unclean litter of the O'Connell sty, each is but,a sample and an organ of its fellows. When the monetary system of the em pire is brought into incalculable peril through a serie s of stubborn and stupid blunders, which every clerk in every counting-house laughs at, .while his employer, i i TIRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 IS3C.