The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, Vast as are the benefits which the Reform Bill, provided it gets fair play, is calculated to confer upon the country, the condition must be per formed,—the Bill must get fair plat,—or the people of England are cheated at once of their most reasonable expectations and of their most valuable rights. That the Tory faction should have endeavoured to frustrate the objects of the Reform Bill by rejecting or distorting it s b est judged provisions, while it was yet before Par liament, is nothing wonderful ; and that the same party should now, after it has become l a w, attempt, by pettifogging quibbles and sly ma mceuvres, to throw difficulties in the way of its natural and regular operation,—to disgust elec• tors with the detailed formalities affixed to the establishment of their novel qualifications,— and to deter liberal candidates, by threaten ing them with enormous expense,—such things are all within the scope of troubles and an ttoyances, which prudent men, acquainted with party proceedings in this country, could scarcely fail to anticipate. But there are other dangers which ought not to be overlooked, which are likely to be more fatal, from the sub tlety and treachery of their character, and from the likelihood of their taking the friends of Re form by surprise. These risks do not proceed from without,—they are not the work of public enemies to reform,—they are not to be found in the armoury of open party warfare ; and yet they surround us on every side, and if not exposed to the constituency in all parts of England, and pre pared against by timely precautions, there is no conjecturing the extent to which the composition of the new Parliament may he corrupted through their influence, and the labours of two arduous and exhausting years defeated. One of these dangers arises from the sloth, indifference, or :selfishness of many of the new electors them. selves,—copholders or leaseholders, undoubt edly qualifi e d as such under the Bill, but in• capable of voting upon their respective qualifica tions, unless, if objected to by individuals in an Averse interest, they have gone before the Com missioner and proved their claim to the franchise. In several parts of the country the Tories have tried, and are still trying, this game of spnula tive perverseness, offering the most impudent objections to the best ascertained qualifications, and taking their chance that the persons objected to will, from indolence, ill-humour, or other causes, decline coming forward to establish their elective rights, especially if they have to travel a considerable distance ; thus, so far as in them lies, leaving the decision of the county contest to the old constituency, which it was the pur pose of the Reform Bill to control by an in fusion of younger and better blood. The con duct of such electors cannot be too severely re prehended. They abandon the duties which their hardly acquired constitutional power has entailed upon them, deprive their reforming countrymen of the benefit of privileges which were given to be exercised for the good of all, and betray an imbecile, abject, and unmanly dis position. Every man who has obtained a right of 'voting under the Reform Biil ought at once, and at any inconvenience, to hasten now and put that right beyond all question. The trouble need never at any future time be repeated. The liberal electors are those to whom we address our selves, for we are bound to confess that among the Tories there e xi s t s li t tl e , if an y, of suc h luke warmness or infirmity of purpose. To the liberal electors, theta, we say most earnestly, go at once, and every where meet objections, and have your votes passed by the commissioners. But there is another mischief besetting the Reform inte rest, and that is internal division. More than one complaint is made that in places where the canvass of reformers has already been suctess folly completed, and where the return of reform candidates would, by the application of a little common sense, public spirit, and mutual for bearance, be secure, some selfish and meddling quack interposes, and raises the pretensions of a yet unheard-of individual, which if partially sup ported can but serve to split the strength of the country party, to let in some Tory enemy through the rent thus foolishly or maliciously occasioned. Bath seems to be a case in point. Tnat city, meaning the self-elected Corporation of it, was for a considerable time represented by a Lord of a Tory family, as colleague to Col. Paliner. The more expanded constituency un der the new bill has been for three months past canvassed by Mr. Hobhouse, brother to the worthy baronet Secretary at War. Mr. Hob house is a gentleman resident at Bath, a tho rough, steady, and enlightened reformer. He is supported by th e great bulk of the reforming in terest in that city, by the two members for West minster, and by Lord Grey's Government, so far as its influence extends. We have said that it is three months since Mr. Hobhouse came be fore the Bath electors, and that he is a staunch friend of reform and of liberal Government. It is likewise known that a strong and inveterate corporation or Tory faction exists at Bath, quite ready to profit by any act of impolicy or iniquity among the professed friends of reform. What then must be thought of some amongst the latter, or rather of one individual amongst them, when we state that he has just gone to Bath for no object, inconceivable as it may appear, but the evil one of breaking down the Reform interest, of dividing the house of good government against itself, and so far helping, what yet he will, we trust, be unable to effect ? This man is Mr. Joseph Hume. It may be another of his blunders. He may not be conscious of designing mischief, or agree that it is mischievous to play the game of the Tories, but if the pushing and interloping gentlemen had been bribed for it. he could not more directly and infallibly promote the cause of Toryism against that of the people of England, than by setting off for Bath, and making a speech at a partisan meeting there, in favour of Mr. Roe buck, a gentleman of whom the city heard no thing before, and who (albeit an harmless per sonage in his own sphere, for any thing we know about him) would probably, as Member for Bath, be no more than a tool or faggot. in the hands of the Member for Middlesex. The latter would doubtless have small objection to come forth in the Reform Parliament, as chieftain of a convenient junta of his own, a circumstance attaching more personal weight than has here tofore appertained to that Hon. Gentfetnan.— This is no time for Mr. Hume'..s•crooked and intractable crotchets. He has no right to impair the public strength employed:honestly in support of reform. If Mr.,'Hume has prevailed upon Mr. Roebuck to pledge himself to the further ance of certain political projects, it may be a solid motive for the Member for Middlesex to recommend him, but none, upon the fate of it, with the Bath electors to vote on bAtitili* of Mr. Roebuck. Mr. Huthec,howFvezy'does not limit his protecting care to Bat?i He is represented in some of the papers to be about escorting Dr. Bowring to a town in Lancashire, the seat which the said Doctor is essaying to appropriate. unto himself. Mr. Hume and Dr. Bowring, it will be recollected, were partners in the business of a certain Greek loan, and can back each other's explanations, when called upon by the constituents of Bolton.- But Mr. Hume had better be ready with a reply to questions, which cannot fail to be put to him, when he mounts the hustings of the metropolitan county, respect ing his recent conduct at Bath. Can it he pos sible that any portion of the electors of Essex have lent an ear to Mr. Alexander Baring ? for we understand it is true that he has the modesty to ask for their suffrages. There .is not in England, whether old Tory, or renegade Whig. a politician whom we deem it more the duty of every English elector to discountenance, for his offensive, insidious, and unprincipled votes, as well as speeches, (for they were often opposed, though never right) on the reform question, than Mr. Alexander Baring. He comes too as the antagonist of Mr. Western, a gentleman whose integrity, consistency, and general conduct in Parliament, for a period of near 40 years, al though we differ from him on one or two ques tions, it is impossible not to admire, and would be ungrateful, on the part of his countrymen, to forget. No, no, Mr. Baring, money will not do all things, much as you are indebted to it. You must not be member for Essex.— Times. Before we enter upon the task of exposing in detail the numerous fallacies, in. regard to ex change operations, which pervade the evidence taken by the Parliamentary Committee of last Session to inquire into the principles and prac tice of banking, we will point out the cause of the contraction of the currency; in doing which we shall also show the cause of the prevailing perplexity and embarrassment which pervade all the active operations of the empire, banking in cluded. We have before us an account, not yet published, showing the extent of the external commercial transactions of Great Britain with each of the 32 different parts of the world, with which accounts are kept by the Government, in each of the last 50 years. In each year since 1813 the results are exhibited in comparison with the quantity of corn, which formed part of he imports; the average price of w heat, the amount of taxes, expenditure of the Government, and of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt, and the relative value of manufac tured products in each year. Since 1826 there is also exhibited the quantity, in weight, mea sure, or tale, of every article given and received o and from each country ; and the mean com mercial price assigned to each article, whereby he actual amount of the transactions is deter mined, and all the doubt and equivocation which heretofore prevailed in regard to official values is dispelled. By these accounts it appears that down to 1793 the exports and imports bore an kpproximation to each other ; and that the whole , •)f the external transactions of the country were mutual and beneficial to all parties concerned in them, both individually and in the aggre 2ate ; but with the commencement of the war in 1793 the exports began to exceed the imports both in quantity and amount, and continued so •o do, in an increasing degree, down to the close the year 1815, during which period of 23 years the exports to Europe, Africa, the Ame icas, and the foreign West Indies, exceeded the imports from thence to the amount of 330,000,000/. ; from the East Indies and China, and from the British West Indies, the imports ;_.xceeded the exports thereto by about 100,000,0001. ; but, as there was no involution 4 transactions between the East Indies and China, and the British West Indies and the rest )f the world, on British account, to any extent - 0 affect the question, that excess of import had ro hing to do tawards equalizing the excess of .xport to Europe, America, &c. Now the com inon•place notion is, that if a nation exports nore than it imports, the difference is equalized by bullion, gold, or silver; and this baneful fal itcy pervades the whole of the evidence on the Bank question. But so far from 330,000,000/. excess of export from 1793 to 1816 having been qualized, either in the whole or in part, by the excess of export was augmented by the further exportation of bullion to the unout of 50,000,0001. to 60,000,000/. It will 're in the recollection of every person who has 'ived through the period of 1793 to 1806 that every guinea of the 112,298,9331. of gold coin ed from 1663 down to 1815 had totally disap peared from circulation, while the whole supply if coin and bullion remaining in the Bank of England on the 28th of February of the latter year amounted to only 2,036,910/.: the aggre ._;ate excess of value given or exported in the 23 years, including bullion, may therefore be egarded as approximating to 400,000,000/.- 1 value to be given away (which is what the case, as so far stated, amounts to) so seem ingly preposterous as not to deserve a moment's further attention. But, if our readers will give hemselves the trouble to bestow their attention to the elucidation which it is our intention to submit to them, they will not only find that seemingly preposterous disparity reconciled, but it will lead them to a solution of all the pre-- g vailin embarrassments and dangers which they portend. Now, by an account presented to Parliament in 1822 (vide p. 803, Vol. V. of Parliamentary Papers of that Session,) it appears ;hat in the same 23 years-1797-1815—there was raised by loans, and the funding of Exche quer, Navy, and other Bills, 618,163,587/., out of which 188,522,3401. was applied within the same period to repurchase part of the Stock created for the total sum raised, leaving a net amount of 429,641,2471., for which a net amount of 22,737,3711. of Annuities were created. We next find, by other accounts, that while these two operations of an increasing excess of export, and of funding, were going on, there was also another, of a new and important character, in corresponding activity—a creation in different parts of the world of bills on the British Go vernment. Official accounts represent that in 1793 there were so drawn bills to the amount of 2,785,2521. ; in 1794, 8,335,591/. ; in 1795, 11,040,236/. ; and, in 1796, 10,149,916/. ; in 1814, 26,405,028/. ; and, in 1815, 20,128,118/. For the intermediate years we do na find any official account, but for the years 1807-1813, the amounts annually must have been equal to those of 1814-15 ; so that it appears in the .ag gregate of the 23 years, 1793-1815, British Go vernment bills, to an amount equal to the excess of export during the same period, were drawn in different parts of the world, which bills equalized the mercantile account ; whiie a corresponding sum at home was converted into permanent An ti u hie's, as before stated.—Morning Herald. In our late observations relating to the renewal of the Bank Charter we endeavoured to show, upon general principles, the danger of departing from the present monetary system in the existing position of 'the country, and we think that we may boldly refer to the evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons to' prove that there is no necessity for it in conse quence of the conduct of the, Bank. On., the' contrary, whenever the Directors have been left 1 to themselves they have acted with due cau tion, and that circumstances over which they had no control forced them into their embar rassments in 1826. By one rash act of a reck less Ministry everydepartment of the complicated machinery of that vast establishment has been thrown open to public criticism ; and we assert that its most violent opponent cannot lay his finger upon any one point of the evidence and say there is malversation, or imprudence, or a want of due precaution. The dead weight, and the arrangements- that have at different times been entered into between the Government and the Bank, have, in their due course, received the sanction of Parliament ; and we put them beside the question, because, allowing in its fullest ex tent all the censure that can be lavished upon the Directors for their share in them, it can only amount to this, that two patties equally capable of acting and judging far themselves entered into certain bargains, and one of those parties has had the best of the bargains. We state this hypothetically, and we think in all fairness of dis cussion we may now dismiss this part of the ques tion, which has at various times given rise to so many loose assertions. We will now address our selves to that part of the evidence that has been so much carped at by a portion of the Journals, which relates to the panic of 1825, and the accidental dis covery of a box of 11. notes, which saved the Bank from destruction. The great bulk of the notes which were at that time issued were not " Godsends," as they have been called, but had been deposited by order of the Directors, when the small-note circulation ceased to meet any emergency, and that emergency arose probably much sooner than was contemplated. But it does appear to us a matter of comparatively small importance under what circumstances these notes were produced. They performed their function ; and the true question is, could the Bank by any foresight or prudent manage ment have prevented the panic of 1825, or did they by any improvidence produce or as sist in producing it ? There were various causes that induced a spirit of speculation in 1823 and 1824. The recognition of the indes pendence of the South American States, and the incessant announcement of national prosperity from the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the day, the present Lord Goderich, given in the most extravagant terms, in language bearing the stamp of official authority, as unmeasured and thought less as could have possibly escaped from the most irresponsible and isolated Member of Par liament, were the most prominent. The country was thus placed in a peculiar situation. After a long and dreary war it was expected that the blessings of peace were fast flowing in upon her ; the riches of South America were opened to her view, and an exhaustless trade was to be the immediate consequence ; whilst a Minister of the Crown was encouraging the delusion. The country bankers at that period were placed in a position of some difficulty and tetnptas Lion. With their own small-note circula tion still at their command, they were pressed by their customers for accommodation to meet the new demands that the spirit of enterprise and speculation had created, and in Lancashire, where a small-note circula tion did not exist, the deficiency was made up, according to the evidence of Mr. Smith, one of the Directors of the Manchester Joint Stock Bank, by bills of exchange that were discounted with the utmost freedom. It was in November, 1824, that the Bank first had an intimation of a demand for gold, mid consequently of an alter atiou approaching in the rates of the exchanges ; but the speculation still proceeded, and country bankers, by yielding to the desire of their cus tomers for excessive issues, gave effect to it. It soon became apparent that the mills and manu factories which had been erected were not of ne cessity required, high prices here, unnaturally produced, forced the cheap mcrchandize of the Continent into this country, and as rapidly forced out our sovereigns. Every market of the Con tinents of Europe and America were glutted with British manufactured goods, and then it was that the country circulation, which is influenced by prices distinct from the working of an unfa vourable commercial exchange, interfered with the London circulation. The Batik of England was in perfect security until a simultaneous call was made upon it by the country ()tinkers, who had all over-issued themselves, and produced a crisis that no prudence could guard against. The action of the Bank with regard to its circulation, according to Mr. Norman's evidence, had been steady from .January 1822, to April 1824, the period of the most active speculation, and then an increase only took place in it by reason of an excess of bullion in the hands of the Bank. It was an increase on bullion, and the advance of notes for bullion is an operation independent of the control of the Bank. We must now quit this subject for to-day, believing that, if we were even to stop here, we have said enough upon it to show that the Bank had no share in the panic of 1825, but in relieving it, and causing it to bear as lightly, as possible upon the com mercial body.--Morning Post. By the arrival of the Parker, Captain Besein, from Demerara, we: have received Papers from that colony to the sth of August. Up to that period the colony was tranquil. Considerable interest had, however, been excited among the colonists from the following occurrence :—Some time since a proprietor had been brought before the assessors, consisting of twelve gentlemen, form ing a sort of Jury, the President standing in the situation of Judge, charged with ill-treating a slave. The assessors, not thinking the evidence sufficient to bear out the charge, acquitted the accused. The President upon this expressed himself in strong, and, indeed, it is said, such insulting language, that nine of the assessors re fused to sit in the Court again. The Presi dent upon this fined them 1,500 guilders each, which they refused to pay, upon the ground, as put forth in their statement, " that they were seriously injured, and because they were adopt ing measures for having all the circumstancs laid before his Majesty in Council, every effort with the constituted Legislative authorities ofthe colony having failed to procure relief, and even the com mon right and privilege of an interdict having been denied, to bring the case into a judicial position for ultimate appeal, if necessary." The Presi dent, upon this refusal, immediately put in an execution upon certain of the properties of these gentlemen for the total amount of the fines, which was seventeen thousand and one guilders, and filially, on the 20th July, put them up to public auction ; but such was the public feeling, that not a single bidding was made—the asses sors themselves, to avoid the property continuing under the control of the President, buying it in for twenty thousand guilders, the surplus over the fines being to cover the law expenses. The affair appears to have excited considerable inter - est among the colonists, the parties being some of the most respectable. Among the residents Lean, B. J. Hopkin son , there,' Messrs. J. M. -U. J. Bach, H. Halkett, J. W. Abony, W. Ur quhart, E. Bishop, T. S. Mewburn, and A. Simpson, being assessors, whose property has been thus taken in execution.—Morn. Chron. We are glad to perceive from an article re qpecting the transmission of the Hamburg mail, That the Post-office authorities, of whom the Duke of Richmond is the chief, have at length been pursuaded to take into their consideration the convenience of the public in their arrange ments for the conveyance of letters and news. The principle on which that important public department has hitherto been managed, has been the very reverse of that which ought to have guided its arrangements ; the object having al most invariably been less to serve the public than to serve the revenue, and not to make any ar rangements for the accommodation of the com munity, unless there was a certainty of an addi tion to the former accruing from them. The better plan would have been a perseverance in the principle on which the post-office was originally established—namely, to accommodate the public in the first place, and let the revenue take care of itself in the best way that it could ; for it is rot, be it observed, with the transmission of mercantile letters, as with other matters on which taxes are imposed. There may be an imme diate loss sustained by the Government in the Post-office revenue upon them, and yet such an Indirect gain from the greater import and export of goods, consequent on the increased facility of communication, as more than to counterba lance it. The facility and rapidity of communi cation, especially between places such as Ham burg and London, where an important trade in various articles is carried on, operates, in fact, like a reduction of duties on the articles ex ported and imported, and is one of the most im portant subjects to which the attention of the Government of any country can be turned. Where trade does exist it increases it, and where it does not, it has a direct tendency to create it. We trust, therefore, that the Duke of Richmond . will not only afford every facility to the publi6 in the communication with Hamburg, but that he will also direct his attention to the necessity and utility of similar arrangements with other parts of the Continent.—Morning Advertiser. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) Poicrsmourli, SErr. 15.—His Majesty's steam-ship Dee, Commander Robert Oliver (b), will proceed to the river on Wednesday, with the Alban, steam-vessel, for the purpose of having her engines repaired. His Majesty's ship Conway, 28, Captain Eden, arrived on Friday night, from the West Indies. She lert Havan nal' on the 18th of August. The following came passen gers invalided :—Mr. W. E. King, Master of his Majes ty's ship Magnificent ; Mr. W. H. Dobbie, Mate of his Majesty's ship Gannet; Mr. William Reid, Mate, and Mr. E. G. Triggs, Master's Assistant, both of his Majes ty's ship Ariadne ; thirteen invalided seamen from the ,quadron ; and six natives of Western Africa ; Mr. B. Lloyd, Clerk, !ate of his Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk, dismissed from the service per sentence of a Court Martial; three privates of the 56th Regiment, ,ind four privates of the Second West India Regiment ; and a considerable quantity of baggage belonging to Earl Belmore, late Go vernor of Jamaica. The Conway arrived at Port Royal on the 27th of July, where she landed Earl Mulgrav-, the new Governor and suite, and Lord Seaford. She sailed thence on the Sth of August, and from Havanna!' on the 18th. His M ijesty's ship Ariadne, 28, Captain C. Phil lips, was at Jamaica, Senior Officer, and refitting after the hurricane which she experienced off the Bahamas, on the night of the 6th June, in which she was nearly lost. His Majesty's ship Victor, IS, for whose safety great anxiety has been manifested, escaped the devastating effects of the hurricane, an I was left cruising in the Bay of Fundy, with his Majesty's ship Racehorse, Arachne, and North Star. His Majesty's ship Winchester, Flag-ship, was at Halifax. The Conway is expected to come into harbour to-mort ow, to he refitted, and to receive a new forem at. His Majesty's ship Dryad, 42, Commodore Hayes, C.B. and Lightning, 18, Commander Dickinson, were paid off on Thursday, the former into Ordinary, and the latter under orders to be re-commissioned. The Lightning has been hauled alongside the Sheer hulk, and her masts taken out, preparatory to her being docked to undergo some repairs. His Majesty's cutters Seaflower, Lieutenant J. Morgan, and Sylvi i, Lieuten int T. Spark, will proceed shortly to Jersey, to afford protection to the English oyster fishery. The orders for his Miyesty's cutter the Raven, to pro ceed to the coast of Africa, to rejoin his Majesty's ship /Etna, surveying vessel, have been suddenly counter. manded, and she has received instructions to proceed to Gibraltar, where she will be joined by the /Etna, and both will then proceed together to Lisbon, to strengthen the squadron of Admiral Parker, fur whom the Raven will take, out important despatches. The Raven sailed at 3 o'clock yesterday. The Sylvia, transport, received on board ,it this port, in addition to those she took in at Sheerness, sixty male con victs on Tuesday last, under the medical charge of As sistant-Surgeon Jewell, R.N. who is proceeding out to join his Mijesty's ship Winchester. She will sail the moment the wind shall come fair. The Georgina, male convict ship, left Deptford on Wednesday last for this port, to receive on board 184 convicts for New South Wales, under the medical charge of Dr. J. Hal, R.N. She may be expected here the moment the wind shall shift. Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm's squadron is daily expected here from Cotk, when it is reported the Done gal, 76, flag ship, will be paid off and recommissioned to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, fur the South American command. It gives us the most sincere pleasure to be able to state that the reports of the loss of his Majesty's ship Vmctor were incorrect. By the C,,nway, which arrwed on Friday from the West India station, we have received this gratifying intelligence. At Spithead—Conway, and Sylvia transport. In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, and Excellent ; Doe and Alban, steamers ; Seaflower, Sylvia, and Raven, cutters. PRO3IOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Mr. W. G. Field, late of His Majesty's ship Winchester, and Mr. B. Chet wood, Mate of his Majesty's ship Castor, are promoted to the rank of Lieutenants.—Mr. Baird, Assistant-Surgeon of the Lloyd Hospital at Haslar, is appointed Assistant Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Bitannia.—Mr. J. Adams is appointed Clerk to his Majesty's ship Ariadne.—Mr. G. Blane, College Mate, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Donegal.—Messrs. J. Nott and W. Anderson, Clerks, are appointed, the former to his Majesty's ship Mynx, and the latter to his Majesty's ship Winchester.—Mr. J. Cleverly, late gunner of the Philoniel, is ordered to be borne on the check at this port.—Mr. J. R. Gage, Carpenter, of the Hazard, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Lightning, vice Janes, who goes to the Hazard.—Lieut. C. Moss is ap pointed to the Coast Guard station, at Sittingbourne.— Mr. G. King is appointed Surgeon to the Naval Hos• pital, at Haulbowline Island, Cork. Six privates of the Woolwich Division of Royal Ma rines were yesterday relieved from the Sylvia transport at Spitbead, by the same number of men from this Division, under the command of a sergeant ; and the former were tried by Court Martial on the same day, for highly insub ordinate conduct. On Thursday last Second Lieutenant Daratt, of this Division of Royal Nlarines, and Second Lieutenant Atcher- Icy, o f th e Plymouth Division of the same corps, with two sergeant. , , one corporal, and forty-four rank and file, dis• embarked from h is Ma je st y's ship Dryad, lat e ly arriv e d front the coast of Africa. That intelligent individual, Mr. Thomas Waghorn, who has so ably advocated the object of steam navigation be tween England and India, and who, it will be recollected, made a journey overland from London to Bombay about two years ago, charged with despatches, and ascertained the pract i ca bility, usefulness, and safety of a regular courier esta blishment ria Egypt and the Red Sea, was among the candi dates who passed the requisite examination for a Lieute nancy, on Wednesday se'noight, on board his Majesty's ship Victory. Mr. W. is the author of several pamphlets on the subject of steam power as applicable to the purposes of navigation, and has suggested several improvements con nxted therewith, particularly a must for steam-vessels, a model of which has been submitted to the consideration of the Board of Admiralty. His high acquirements in this particular branch of science seem likely to obtain for him the notice and patronage of their Lordships; for which he is also qualified by the completion of his full period of servitude in the Royal Navy. On the occasion of the paying off of his Majesty's ship Lightning, on Wednesday, the petty officer. and seamen presented to their worthy Commander Dickinson, an ele gant sabre and appendages, together with a pair of hand some gold epaulettes, as a token of their esteem for his officer-like and gen lemanly conduct towards them during the three years and four months they were under his com mand ; and at the same time they presented handsome and v,luable rings to the First Lieutenant Fowler, Mr. Pope, Master, and to Mr. Fllenherhassett. Seventy of the sea men afterwards dined together at the True Blue, nolv.re g eat harmony prevailed. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) Tne Royal Frederick, 120, will be laid down on the sl p in this dock-yard, from which the Neptune, 120, will be launched on the 27th inst. Three eighty-gun ships, upon the plan of the Surveyor of the Navy, are ordered to be laid down immediately. In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Excel'eut, Dee and Alban steamers, Seaflower and Sylvia cutters. At 'pithead.—Conway and Sylvia transports. Extract of a letter, dated Sinton's Bay, Cape of Gtotl Hope, 23d June, 1832 :—" The only ship of war lying here is his Maj-sty's ship Curlew, bearing the flog of Ad miral Warren, and which is now under orders to sail fur Algoa Bay ; the Adlniral's fl ig will, during her absence, be kept flying ashore. The Isis, Talbot, and Undaunted, are at Mauritius; the two former are soon expected here; the Talbot will, from hence, proceed to the S .uth Ame rican station, to take in treasure, and vill thence sail to Eng'and. The Ganges Indiaman will sail in a day or two fur England ; she came in here to land passengers, and has got all her cabins filled ; she brings no news. The brig Osbarn, S. Keen, Master, is now in the Bay, and will also sail for St. Helena and London in a .few days. This vessel experienced a very heavy gale of wind off the Mauritius, when she threw 200 bags of sugar overboard. The brig Welling ton, W. Robinson, master, is also in the B.y, from Liver pool, with 150 Irish settlers, the scenes of drunkenness and fighting amongst whom exce ds any thing before ex perienced here: when England s•nds such samples out to visit her slave colonies, let nothing more be said about improving slaves,—our slaves at the Cape would nut he seen in the streets with such worthless wretches. The only other vessel in the Bay is the schooner Rapid, John Ross, toaster, bound on a sealing and whaling voyage. We have bad very fine weather this season, and rains, I believe, have fallen genet illy all over the colony, so that we may expect a fine harvest. This colony has not as yet been proclaimed a free port, although we have the King's Order in Council published in the London Gazette, to say, it will he so ; it is expected to be published on the last of this month—it will do great good for the Cape." (From the Devonport T'elrgraph.) PLYMOUTH, SETT. 15 —The Cockatrice went out of Harbour into the Sound on Thursday. The Fisgard, 46, was taken into dock on Tuesday, to be inspected, and her defects made good. We understand that the Statira, 46, and Tigris, 46, two frigates of the largest class, now on the stocks in this dock yard, where they have been in complete frame for five or six years, during which their timbers have been well seasoned, are ordered to be taken to pieces. About two years since they were thrown out one foot beam, and their sterns have been altered twice. Hie Maj-sty's ship Britannia, 120, Capt. Rainer, ar rived from Lisbon on Sunday. She left the fleet off the Tagus on the 3.1, when things in that quarter remained in statu quo. She will he docked imrnedia•ely, to have her bottom inspected, having been aground, by which it is supposed her copper and false keel have received some trifling damage. This fine ship has been greatly improved by the alterations she has lately undergone, and, according to all reports, is a match for the Caledonian on every point. The latter, though increased in power and stability, by her extende I beam, is now no longer the crack sailor of the fleet as in former times, when she used to take the shine in all weathers out of the " Mercuries " of the Mediterranean squadron. His Majesty's ship Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. G. Dacres, tender to the Royal George yacht, arrived from Oporto on Saturday, but brings no news, later intelligence having been received by the Hermes steamer. We hear that the Vernon, 50, and Castor, 36, will shortly be paid off. The Andromache, new 28-gun frigate, arrived on S:I• t Hay from Pembroke. The Winchester, 52, Capt. the Right Hon. Lord Wil liam Paget, was expected at Halifax on the tat inst. from Saint John's, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. From the former place she was to convey part of the Rifle Bri gade to Halifax. The Winchester was to remain at Hali fax until the Ist of November, and then to proceed to Ber muda, where she was to be stationed until relieved. S e was very healthy. DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, SEPT. 13.—Soon after the return of the Prince Field-Alarsbal to the camp from the Hague, orders were issued by him for the second division of the army to leave the comp at Ryen on the 12th and 13th, to go again into cantonments about Eindhoven, where the Duke of Saxe Weimer will have his headquarters. Orders have been given to some battalions of militia from the for tresses to hold themselves in readiness to march. The frontier on this side (that is near the camp) is almost wholly without Belgian troops. In the several villages there are not 1,000 men ; but it seems that reinforcements have been received at Diest. To day there is to be a grand review of artillery in the camp at Ryen. The mines laid by the miners are to be sprung, and the works taken by storm. The Princes are to be present. . . . . . The Board of Health in Sweden has declared that all places and ports on the coasts of France, Belgium, Hol land, and East Friesland, from the frontiers of Spain to and including the Elbe, are to be considered as infested with the cholera. Bots-Lx.Duc, SEPT. 13.—The reason assigned for breaking up the camp at Ryen this week, which is sooner than was expected, is said to be that some movemen►s have taken place among the Belgian troops, and that they are collecting in very great force about Hasselr. In conse quence of the breaking up of the camp at Ryen, some movements take place among our troops, which seem to indicate that it is thought advisable that we should be con tinually on our guard, and the troops kept as much as possible together. (From the Staats Courant.) . , HAGUE, SEPT. 14.—The Belgians having resumed the prosecution of their works directed against the citadel of Antwerp, and its communications along the Scheldt, Ge- neral Chasse has been obliged, from time to time, to make serious remonstrances to the Governor of Antwerp, and to inform him that the fate of that city depends entirely on the manner in which the Belgians proceed with respect to the citadel. " Already in the month of July it was necessary to warn the citizens of Antwerp,• wl►ich appears from the documents which we published at the time (the letter of Captain Koopman to the Foreign Consuls at Antwerp) : it appears from those documents, on the one hand, what concern General Chasse felt for the peaceable inhabitants and foreign merchants, in case he should be compelled to commerce hostilities against the city, and, on the other hand, that the Governor of Antwerp gave the opinion, that there was no intention whatever on his part of be ginning hostilities against the citadel. It appears from the following documents, that the Belgians have again began to erect new works against the citadel, and that General Chasse has again not failed to seriously remonstrate. " ' Head-quarters, Citadel of Antwerp, Sept. 11. " ' To his Excellency the Minister of War at the Hague. " ' Sir,—Continuing my report of the 10th inst., I have the honour to inform your Excellency that the opera tions of the enemy have been confined to cutting two em bra%ures in the right flank of the county guard, before the bastion left of the Beguin gate; and so far as we can dis cover, one cannon has been placed there. I have also the honour to enclose a copy of my letter sent yesterday to the Governor of Antwerp, to which I have received no answer Ido not believe, however, that the enemy will pay any attention to my demand, and it is therefore highly pro bable that I shall soon be obliged to commence hostilities. " I have the honour further to state, that a similar communication has been sent to his Royal Highness the Fiel4.Marshal, the General of Infantry Commander-in- C:►ief of the citadel and his Majesty's naval force in the Scheldt before Antwerp. " ' Baron CHASSE.' "To Colonel Boson, Governor of the city of Antwerp. " Sir,—l have olis:rved with extreme surprise that you continue to plant cannon against the citadel, and that the fortifications of the city towards the citadel are so !thered and aimed that they form a line of batteries directed against my position. " i have hitherto remained a quiet spectator of these works, but as this very morning cannon have been planted on the right flank of the counter-guard of the Beguin-gate, and as the works have been expressly altered with this view, I feel myself called upon most solemnly to prot es t against this new vio!ati on of my rights. My whole con duct since I have been h e:* must have p roved t o you and to the inhabitants of Antwerp that I have no h ost il e in tentions with respect to that city, unless I a m compe ll ed, and that my sole object is to remain in quiet Poss es si on o f the citadel. Tile notice wLicli I have lately given to the foreign c on s uls at Antwerp proves that 1 will und e rtake nothing EDINBURGH CORN MARK: We had a large supply of all kinds the sales in general were rather heavy. Wheat. Barley. oats. First FOs Od 36s lid 28s 01 Second sBs Od 32s Od 24s Od 'Mini— 4ls Od 29s Od 22s 4d Beef, per lb. Veal. !:T.—Sept. of Grain Pease. 311 0.1 33s 0.1 3:13 0.1 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Os. 31(1. to Os. 6tl 04 0 6 O 6 0 8 O 4 0 6 O 6 2 6 a 6 39 0 O 9 0 0 O 4 0 0 Pork Lamb, per qr. 1 fallow, cwt.... 37 Quarter') Loaf Potatoes. 1711 b. EDINBURGH MEAT The supply of Oatmeal at thi; sold heavily, at last week's price; Per Sack of 2801 b 1 mit First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 14 0 13arleymeal 1 10 0 Peaseineal 1 5 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. l3s GLASGOW CORN Our Grain market continues dul Wheat, per 24011). s. d. s. d. British, old 23 0 to 30 01 to-day, and new Canada, free O7 0 29 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 0 Scottish 27 0 2)) 0 Irish Beans. 31s Od 334 0, eal D 2, Fresh Sutter, lb. 5.1(.1. to Is. Od. Salt 0 9 0 10 Ditto, per e.% t. 0 0 74 0 Eggs, per doz. 0 9 0 0 OatStraw(kp'.)lo 0 11 0 Wheat 1)itt0...10 6 11 0 Barley Ditto « 0 0 9 0 Hay, per 5t........... 0 8 I 0 L MA ItK ET, —Sept. 11. is day's market was large, and Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 0 Second ditto Barleyincal 0 1 1 0 reasemeal 155.-3 d. 20. —Ppail 24+ MA It K E F.—Sept. 12. . . . . ill, with little alte;ation in prices. Oats, per t1641b. s. a. s. d. Irish l4 0 to 16 0 British — 0 -- 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401 b l5 0 10 0 Flour, per2Bolb 4B 0 50 0 CORNWAI.I MARKETS. 'lmmo-Wheat (average) 2is. 125.-Oats, Ss. Od• ST AUSTELL-.4V heat, to 245.-Barley, -s. to 133.-Oats, (1,. to 93. Od. PENZANCE-Wheat, 235. to 255.-Barley, to 135.-Oat , , 0, to 9s. Od.-Beef and Mutton, sd. to 511.-Pork, Od. to 44.-• Butter, 10d. per In. LA uNcEsTo N-Wheat (average) 9.15. Od.-Barley, I Is. 3d.-Oatit 7i 0.1.-Beef, &1.-Mutton, Bd. LtskEsao--Wheat, -s. to 21s. 13s. 6d.--Oats, Os. to Ss. 0.1. Boom Dr-Wheat (average) 225. (M.-Barley, 13s. 01.-Oats, Ss HELSTON-'Wheat, 225. Od.-Barley, 11s 6d. ST. COLUMB-Wheat, 245. to 255.-Marley, 12s. to 138.--Beer , and Mutton, sd. to 50.-Veal, 41 , 1.-Lamb, sd. MINING I N TELL' GENCE. Tons. Cwt• Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Itedruth last Thurday '2,383 0 Quantity of fine Copper Average Produce....,, 7% 0 Amount of Sale, 14,1021.45. &I.—Average Standard. 110/. 14s. Od. Yesterday evening, about hair -past 5 o'clock, a poor half-famished woman, very shabbily dressed, was observed standing in a dejected state, hiding her face w ith her hands, on the strand or causeway leading to the river opposite the Penitentiary at Milbank. The poor creature clasped her hands together apparently in much despair, and then plunged into the water, and instantly disappeared be neath its surface. Some watertnen, .who were a t a dufr tance at the time in their wherries, pulled towards the spot, and seeing the clothes of the unhappy creature flost the her. roost Afterabject dies tress had driven ber to mike the dreadf ul attempt, tha t somewhat int!, they caught hold of them and pulled her. into the. boat, in a state of considerable exhaustioo.., She was 111' at intiv conveyed to St. Margaret's poor-house , w h et e she was p , itt olied recovered, site a s t h t e en . t t i a o t n ed pa . she had not tasted fo od for several da y s, a nd that parrichial relief had been refused her,although she h a d represen ted truly the extent of her miseries ; that h er m i nd beca me di,t r acted as night approached, not h av i ng a place to s l e eP in ; and that, whilst i n that disordered state, she had com e tidhat to to the resolution of putting an end to her distress. The poor creature still rem tins the work6use, till an uPP" • tunity occurs of removing her to her parish settlement._. BIRTHS, daughter. On the 14th inst. in Old Millinan.street, Etedford.row, 141.6. of J. Louis Mieville, Esq., of York " g F r ,Ot ed en, e itt r i i ie c eg k eli D s, tt u h, s f i i ipn u as r rik. f hoe a f lasaodny. MARRIED. On the 15th inst. at St . Giles ' s, Camberwell, Mr. Henry te ne t ton, ton, of Upper Tham es -street, to Anne Earnshaw, only daug''" of John Ellis, Esq., of Peckham Rye-common. D On the 15th i ns t . i n the 81st y IED. t ear of his age, Thomas Farra - , Esq., of Ludgat e . street, and Norwood, Surrey, and late the "- spccted Deputy of Castle Baynard. Car On the 14th i ns t . at Wrinted.court, in Kent, in the 75th yi, of his age, William Cooke, Esq., one of his Majesty's Coun s " p and a Bencher of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's.inn. On the 11th i ns t . at Crescent Beatord, Captain James Haig, formerly resident many y ea r s in Indi a , in the 65th year of hi.s a c . On the 31st ul t . a t L ausanne , J em i ma , w if e o f Colonel Sir remiah Dickson, K.C.B. t O , of scarlet fever. On the 6th inst. armonde.lodge, Sion-hill, Bath, C Roberts, Esq., aged 84, late of his Majesty's Receipt of Excheto On the 14th in s t. in Highbury.place, of scarlet fever, T ll `;/ Wilson S tratten, eldest son of the R IV I Rev. James Stratten, of .' vale, in the h2th year of his age. ve ctere: On the 13th inst. Charles Christopher Smith, of Bel road, Lambeth, eldest son of Charles Smith, of Paternoste.rtv,, On the 16th inst. at Camber Well, in the 68th year of Ms • Benjamin Mills, Esq., many years at Lime-street. .. ii niant On the 14th inst. at Leighton &Award, Bedfordshire, Robinson Lawford, Esq., aged 56. EsOqn, Well -street, Hackney, st.Gt•orge aged the 30. yliongest son of Wi lliam On the 14th inst. after a long illness, Miss Hunt, of Nib PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUN 1 - 4 ; AT SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. against the city, without some provocation on your part, or Unless superior orders should make it my duty. tt In renewing this declaration, I am, at the same time, obliged to inform you, that I roust in future consider as a provocation to hostilities the preparation and the erection of works, and especially the planting of cannon against the citadel and its communications with the river. Tne fate of the city and its bombardment will, therefore, depend on the security and peaceable po'session of the citadel, the command of which is confided to me. " I can, therefore, no longer stiffer new works to be erected within cannon shot of the citadel, nor any piece of artillery to be planted within cannon-shot of my works; and I have the honour to inform you that if, notwithstand ing this notice, you should continue your works and arma mrnts, I shall be obliged, after giving you one Lour's no tice, to destroy them by force ; and if after that you: offen sive works should not yet cease, I shall begin the born. bardmenf of the city, in order, by all the means in my power, to secure the peaceable possession of a military po sition, the defence of which is entrusted to me, leaving the resp,nsilaility of so deploi able a measure to the person whose conduct shall have provoked it. " Such, Sir, is the frank and explicit declaration of toy intentions. I venture to flatter myself that tkis COMMU !IIea t;011 will induce you to withdraw the cannons which have been placed on the batteries since yester.'ay, and to ordrr that all such works shall henceforth cease. " The General Governor of the citadel of Antwerp, " 13 iron CHASSE " According to a report received to-day from the citadel o Antwerp, General Chasse had not yet received any an swer to hi:4 letter to Colonel Boson : how ver, the enemy had not undertiken any works whatever. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 14. Actual Debt, 2% per cent 43% to 44 Amon Syndic ' 4 per cent 73% to 73N Ditto, ditto, 3 1 4 per cent. Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 96 to 96 Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent 82% to 83% Exchange on London l2 20 to 12 17 5-10 Ditto, two months In these thrre days we hare had 97 new cases of 'cho lera, 52 deaths, and 48 recoveries. At Diden the dis ,irder still prey ills to a great extent, but is diminishing.— Dutch Papers, Sept. 15. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Batley. s. to s. s. to s. 59 32 60 80 36 44 62 70 34 35 59 al 68 42 55 61 32 35 s.d. s.d. s.d. s.(l. 60 76 36 40 70 90 48 54 !70 96 64 66 70 93 36 46 98 99 56 60 73 79 36 39 90 100 46 50 140 22 0 9 0 100 150 2 220 90 100 17 3 21 0 9 4 10 0 146 18 0 9 6 100 Per Quarter. Carlisle Hcxham Morpqh Pen;ith S!iettield lVinchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen...—. Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton 5t0ne..,......, Swansea Warwick — Per 8011. Barnardeastle.....—. Durham Richmond --- Stockton ----. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Sept. 14. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sullblk -s. 575. to fits. line 6.35. Lin. and Cam. -s. sfii. to 60s. fine 621. Yorkshire -s. 565. to 60s. fine 625. - Whit , -s. 58s. to 6.35. fine 655. - Foreign, Red -s. -s. to 455. fine 60s. White -s. -s. to -s. tine 625. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Lincolnshire 3's. to 335. fine 40s. - Yorkshire Wold 36s. to 395. fine 40s. - Foreign Beans, Small - Tick 3:35. to 355. tine 36s Oats, Potato 2ls. to 235. fine 245. - Poland s. 20s. to 225. fine 245. - Friczland and Small -s. 18s to 21s. fine 225. - Mealing lod. to 11 1 4 d. per Stone. Shelling "4s to 275. Od. per Load. Malt • 345. 435. fine 465. per Load. Rapeseed. 221. Os. 241. Os. 261. Os. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Aberdeen —.— Berwick—. Coldstream C.lpar Dundee --... f nvcrncss. K else K irkaidy— Perth The size Beans. Wheat. I Batley 50 58 40 5) 46 50 68 71 60 72 60 62 57 60 26 50 40 45 58 61 of the mi 23 28 20 23 23 95 30 34 31 35 28 30 30 32 20 22 27 39 28 al zstire val It ►anneal. 30 31 34 39 22 24 22 23 27 29 29 30 23 30 23 30 23 25 45 48 26 30 'hoot the ceuntri• 46 --. 43 44 Oats. 17 21 15 20 m 18 21 22 18 21 20 24 16 17 25 32 21 25 iee throui Oats. s. to s. 22 28 21 25 23 22 24 s. d. s. 14 d. 19 36 40 36 39 33 40 38 47 20 24 22 26 68 74 50 73 58 90 54 70 41 -- 34 37 42 46 s. d. d. 00 00 5 6 60 56 59 56 60 62 66 no 00 73 76 0 0 11 0 10 6 12 0 86 90 00 00 Beaus.