The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-22 00:00:00

EVENING EDI lON. THE CHILDREN OF THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. the most proper means for that purpose ; and lastly, hereby revoking and making void all other will and wills by me at any time herebefore made, especially one I made for the same purpose at Berlin the fifteenth day .f September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and which I here annul, because I think this will made by myself, in my own country, will have more sure and certain effect, which quiets all anxieties I may have on this head. In witness whereof I, the said testator, Prince Augustus Frederick, have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first before written. (Signed) AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. (L. S) Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the be fore-named testator, Prince Augustus Frederick, as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names as wit nesses, at his request, in his presence, and in the pre sence of each other. (Signed) (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) The following has been addressed to us from the southern capital, and is written, we presume, by the gcnt'eman whose letters in reference to the same sub ject have already appeared in The Sun:— " TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL. SlR—Although I differ from you in politics to a considerable extent, yet I cannot but admire the per severance, temper, moderation, and talent which you have displayed in all your strictures upon the question of the Duke of Sussex and his children ; and I cannot feel otherwise than proud that that question was first raised, and continuously prosecuted by an Irish Jour nal, opposed to his Royal Highness in politics, but con ducted throughout with respect for that eminent and distinguished personage. " This question is one of deep, of paramount in terest, not only to the partiesimmediately affected, but to the members of the Royal Family, the lovers of monarchy, the supporters of legitimate succession, to all the aristocracy, and to every loyal s u bj ec t i n t h e land. It has already occupied much of my attention —and this will not be the first time (should you con sider this letter worthy of publication) that my thoughts have appeared iu the columns of a newspaper, in re ference to this subject, more than one London ed;tor having c ondescended to print m y l e tt ers . You certainly have made a powerful case on be ha". of Sir Augustus and Mademoiselle D'Este ; but pardon me when I say that there is a marked differeece between an appeal to the sympathies and one to the judgmeat of the public. The success of the one de pends upon the excitement of the passions—that of the other upon the conviction of the reason ; and, I must further add, that those (amongst them myself) who are prepared, and who have already gone great lengths in yielding themselves to the justice of the claims of these children, as so eloquently urged by you, have cause to complain, when anything like unfairness or want of candour, no matter however adroitly con cealed or disguised. appears to influence your mind, or direct your pen. The moment you become a personal partisan you cease to be a public instructor ;' and men will be cautious how they receive your general as ecrtions, or rely on your documentary evidence, should this impression once gain ground. " As for instance, the Evening Mail of the 6th inst. contained a garbled extract—(l assure you I do not mean the phrase offensively)—from one of the most, if not the most, important document that has yet appeared in reference to this extraordinary affair, namely, a pas sage from what is alleged to have been a will and tes tament' of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. " Now, Sir, I put it to you, in fairness and in can dour, whether, if the whole document be in your posses sion, the whole ought not to have been given ; and I ask you, upon the same principle, whether the public has not a right to know why, and under what circum stances, and with what object and purpose that will was made—who was, or is, its depository—whether the ori ginal be still in existence, and how it found its way to your printing-office ? " These are simple questions which, if they be capa ble of satisfactory answers, will do more to remove the doubts of those who are still sceptical, and to confirm the opinions of those who think this royal marriage legal, and its offspring legitimate, within even the mean ing of an abominable and unnatural statute, than any thing that has yet appeared upon the subject. " I have the honour to be your obedient servant, " Cork, July 13, 1840." " JU S T US." The foregoing is evidently the production of a law yer ; and as we regard the queries it contains as some thing in the shape of " personal interrogatories," we shall proceed to answer them with the same spirit of " fairness and candour" in which they appear to be put, and with a similar observance of technicalities, as though they had been regularly exhibited in a cause, and officially propounded to us by an Examiner of Court. To the first interrogatory—" Is the whole document (the wili) in our possession ?" We answer—Yes. To the second interrogatory—" Has the public a right to the whole ?" Answer—lt has. To the third interrogatory—" Why, and under what circumstances, and with what object or purpose, was that will made ?' AnsWer—The will was made with the view—as is set forth in the document itself—of annulling a will of similar intent executed fifteen months previously in Berlin ; under the impression, as his Royal Highness emphatically states, " that a will made by himself in his own country, would have more sure and certain Iffect—and to quiet all anxieties he might have on that ' head." And, in order the better to accomplish these " sure and certain effects," and to add greater weight and solemnity to the document, every word of it is in the proper hand-writing of his Royal Highness himself —copied, no doubt, from the draft prepared and re vised by his legal advisers. It may not be considered as" matter pertinent or irre levant" to state here, that the will was exeeuted within a few days of nine years after his Royal Highness's marriage with Lady Augusta Murray. It would thus appear to have been not the consequence of any sudden outbreak or passionate excitement ; but a mature, de liberate, and well considered act of justice towards his wife and child ; and that it was executed in the presence (amongst others) of the chaplain of the Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the throne. To the fourth interrogatory—' poetory ?" Answer—We believe there were two parts executed —one lodged in the Bank of Messrs. Coutts and Co., the head of which firm was appointed one of the execu tors ;—the other deposited with his dearly beloved, and lawfully wedded wife, the Lady Augusta —amongst whose papers it was found after her decease by her son Sir Augustus D'Este, in whose possession the original remains. JAMES YORKE, Barrister-at-Law, of Lincolnii-Inn. T. B. CL kRKE, Chaplain, &c., to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. C. CUPPAGE, Warwick-street, Golden-square. As we are in somewhat of a communicative mood to. day, we shall give even more than our c orrespondent Justus requires, and more than some im.:gine to be in existence. It is a correct copy of a letter addressed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex to his child, and superscribed, " To his dearly-beloved son, Prince Augustus Frederick"—written thirteen months after the execution of the foregoing will, and on the occasion of the boy entering on his seventh year : January 13th, 1801. Endyntion, off Cape Finisterre. My dear Son,—To-day begins not only a new year, but also a new period of your life, for which you ought to feel particularly grateful to your Creator. This you can only do by a virtuous and good conduct—which, at your time of life, consists in an entire confidence in God Almighty, in a dutiful submission to your parents and masters, and in being diligent at your studies, avoiding idleness es the mother of all vice, which is the only thing you ought eternally to hate. At seven years old, you are no more a child, but a boy—therefore you must put all childish things away ; thus by degrees you will grow up a man—which is a good Christian, a useful member of society—to the sa tisfaction of your fond parents. In hopes of this, I pray to the Almighty to take you under his all-powerful protection—that he may graci ously please to guard you from all danger, and keep you in the right path of virtue. God bless you, my dear son—thus writes your truly affectionate father and friend, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. (Address.) To my dearly beloved Son, PRINCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, Num. 40, Lower Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, London. _ . _ This is a beautiful composition ; it breathes a true nobility of soul, and evinces all the paternal anxieties that might be supposed to awaken the sensibilities and actuate the feelings of a Christian parent and affec tionate father. In reading it we can hardly refrain from imagining that we hear the young and ardent parent repeating to his child the lessons of piety and virtue which his own childhood had imbibed from the instructions of the most pious and domestic Prince that ever swayed the British sceptre—his own respected and beloved father—the good, the venerable George the Third ; and, without reference to public transac tions, we feel constrained to say that, au fond, the Duke of Sussex must be a good man; no man with a bad heart ever could have written such a letter. If recent events harmonise not with those early sentiments, it must be that his ear has been abused—that he has been acting under some mistaken sense of duty—some mysterious illusion of an unnatural conflict between his domestic affections and his public obligations. Here is a specimen of our better nature, of which one may well feel proud. Here is a breathing of love, and truth, and religion—of virtue, and of honour, and of conscience—a noble and well•becoming outpouring of the heart from a father to a son. Away with the cold etiquette of Courts—the for mal technicalities of law ; a truce to appeals to Sove reigns, and remonstrances to Ministers. Let Augustus of Este approach his father, bearing that letter in his hand. His life has been a life of honour—one without stain or reproach. He need not, like the Prodigal, stand afar off ; nor in shame and trepidation approach his father's dwelling. He can fearlessly cast himself at his Royal feet—(may it be but the forerunner to his being clasped to his Royal bosom)—he can exclaim, " Oh, my father, you prayed, and prayed fervently, that the Almighty might teach my youth the necessity of virtue and good conduct. You taught me the holy maxim, which you learned from your fathei, of placing an entire confidence in Almighty God—you impressed upon my mind the precepts of steemission to my parents and my masters—diligence in my studies—an avoid ance of idleness. Here I am, arrived at man's estate— review my conduct and my actions. The advice given by the affectionate father and the friend, when I yet stood upon life's threshold, has not been lost. My beast and my pride is, that I have so deported myself as not to be considered unworthy of being called your son." Could such an appeal as this, and coming from such a son, and recalling such a document, be neglected or withstood ? Either the letter we have quoted is a rank forgery— which we know it is not—or it presents the most awful specimen of heartless hypocrisy ever recorded, which we are unwilling to believe —or, finally, the Duke of Sussex is a good man labouring, as we have supposed, under the effects of ill advice, and an awful, but, we trust, temporary delusion, as to an imaginary conflict between his moral and domestic duties, and the neces sities which, as a prince of the blood Royal, his public condition imposes upon him. We can conceive of no State necessity whatsoever arising out of the circum stances now under consideration, which could or should interfere with the claims of nature and justice in the case before us. Under this impression we conclude ; and we fancy we have given our Correspondent, Justus, reason to agree with us, that in our recommendation as to the result of " an appeal to the heart," there can be no difficulty in giving a satisfactory answer. In our fourth page extracts in reference to this sub ject will be found from the Brighton Gazette, Hull Ad velliscr, and Age. The following is from The San of Monday evening, received this day. Our Contempo rary has put the question on its rigl.t basis. Need we say how heartily we concur in the opinion so wisCy and so eloquently expressed—" that the sooner reparation is made to these injured and persecuted children, the better it will be for the character of the Duke of Sussex, the honour of the Royal Family, and the credit of her Majesty's Ministers ?" [Here follows an article from The Sun of Monday last.] ." Who was, or is, its de- To the fifth and last interrogatory—" How did this document"—(it should be copy)—" find its way into our printing office ?" Answer—Good Mr. Justus, that is our secret. We plead slur prerogative and decl'ne to answer. Here, however, is a true copy of the document itself ; and until the authority of the original be disproved— (which we know to be impossible), it must stand as and for TILE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HIS POYAL HIGH NESS PRINCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, Executed in London, 12/4 December, 1800. This is the last will and testament of me, Prince Au gustus Frederiek, sixth son of George the Third, King of Great Britain, Franc, and Ireland, &c , &c., now residing in Lover Grosvenor-street, number forty, in the parish of Se. George, Hanover-square, in the County of Middlesex ; which I make and publish this twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, in the manner following. That is to say, it is my will and mind that all my just debts and funeral expenses be first paid and discharged out of and from (From the Watchman.) my personal estate. That my wishes and intentions in We are of opinion with our Contemporary, from tie disposal of the remainder of '‘tnY property may un- whose columns we have extracted the following article, doubtedly take place, whatever unforeseen events may an opinion, indeed, which we have more than once ex yet follow, and in the discharge of that ditty which I pressed before, that " the subject to which it relates is feel incumbent on me, I think it requi s it e an d joss f or entitled to the gravest cocsidcration ;" and for that, as me to declare in this my last will that I was so- well as for other reasons, we have felt it to be our duty Ismnly and duly married to Lady Augusta Mur. occasionally to bring it under the notice of our readers. ray, second dad ;titer of the Earl of Dunmore \V were, we believe, amongst the first of the public nit the fourth day of April in the year of our journals in this country which did so, after it had been Lord one thousand seven hundred end ninety-three, at introduced into the columns of the Dublin Evening the city of Rouse, and in the Inn commonly known by th e Mail, ajournal distinguished for its powerful and un name of Sarmiento, where my aforesaid wife then resided compromising advocacy of sound constitutional princi with her mother, Lady Dunmore, and her sister, Lady plea. Oa nestle:so:lnt we are the mare gratifi e d t o Virginia Murray ; and also that for greater security, find so many pens now employed in favour of the recog and not from an apprehension of the first being in- nition of claims equally sanctioned by justice, religion, sufficient, I again performed the ceremony of marriage and sound policy, as are those of the estimable with my said wife, at the parish church of St. George, children of the Duke of Sussex,—claims of the Hanover-square, in the county of Middlesex, by virtue righteousness of which none can, or, at least, ought of banns published in the said church on the fifth day to be, more _sensible than his Royal Highness of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand himself. We cannot therefore, allow ourselves to seven hundred anti ninety-three : and that notwith- think that he will, much longer, allow any iufluenee standing a decree has since passed the Court of Doc- whatever, so to control his better judgment and feel tors' Commons to declare my maniage unlawful and ings, es to prevent hiM from doing what, we venture void, yet I feel myself still not less bound by every to state, it is his duty to do, no less from a regard to obligation of law, couscience, and honour to consider her to his own fame, than it is that he may meet the as my lawful and undoubted wife in every respect, as reasonable e x p ectations of a lar g e and rapidly increas if that decree h a d ne ver t a k en p l ace, and tat I con- iee portion of the community ; and that is, to ask shier and ever shall acknowledge our son Augustus from the same source, from which a ducal coronet Frederick (who was barn after b o th t h ese marriages) flowed to Lady Cecilia Unde rstood, those social dis and of whom she was deiivered by D r . Thynnin tinctions for his offspring Sir Augustus and Madernoi- Lower Berkeley -street, number sixteen, in the parish sae D'Este, to which their birth entitle them, which of Mary-la-bonne, as rn ) true, legitimate, aml lawful distinction the Duke of Sussex has so solemnly and son, but that no dispute ever hereafter may arise, so repeatedly declared to be their undoubted birthright. as to frustrate the disposition of property I here make From the manner in which the press has taken up this in favour of my wife and child, I avow? and declare question it is quite obvious to us that it cannot long that in whatever capacities or situations the laws remain in its present unsettled state. It is now before may view and place them, I give and be- the public. A decided oeinion, or rather a host of qucath my property to them, and to them alone, in the opinions, favourable to the children of the Duke of manner and proportions as follow, that is to say, to my Sussex have been loudly and candidly expressed. The said wife Augusta I give and bequeath the full use and subject must come under the consideration of Govern enjoyment of all my estate and effects of what nature or I m en t ; for we conc ur in the opinion which has bee.' kind soever they be, for and during the time of her na- expressed by o th er s, diet it will become the im p erative c tural life ; and after her demise , I give and bequeath duty of Sir Augustus D'Eete to act for himself and the said property to my before-mentioned son Augustus his sister, by app ea li ng to the first Minister o f the Frederick and his heirs for ever ; and lastly , I nominate I Crowe, an d through him to the Crown itself, against the as guardians to my child, and executrix and executors cruel proceedings which have been so long adopted to of this my will, my wife Augusta, my brother George wards them, if his Royal Father should refuse to take the Prince of Wales, the Right Hon, Francis Earl of initiative in a m a tt er i n wh i ch honour, justice, an d goo d Moira, and Thomas Coutts, Esq., Banker. In case it faith urge him to act with decision, -rigour, and prerne shwld so happen that the Prince of Wales should die titude. before my son attains the age of twenty-one years, then I The following is the arti c l e re f erre d to ! I app o i n t my b rot h er F re d er ick Duke of York and Al- " The condition in whi c h, b y hi s marriage w i th La d y ll bany, and P r i nce Bi s h o p of Osnaburgh, to be executer Cecilia uggin, his Roil Highness the Duke of Sussex and guardian to this my will, in his place jointly with has thought fit to phiee himself before the country,. is my wife, Lord M o i ra a n d Mr, Coutts ; and if Lord s° very peculiar, and so nnte - -:vorthy, as to impel us to Moira should die before th e a f o resaid period of my son's c onsider whether his childre n , b y his marriagefirst majority, I app o i nt hi s G race Arch ib a ld D oug l as H a - with Lady Augusta Murray, should not b e regar d ed as ! milton, Duke of Hamilton, as executor and guardian en titl e d to a position much more important and in to my son in the pl ace o f t h e said Earl Mo i ra, j o i nt l y w i t h ; t ere sting than is generally accord e d to t h em. my wife and the Prince of W a l es or th e Duke of York, l "We call his Royal Highness's union, with L a d y as the aforesaid circumstance may render, begging them to • Augusta Murray a marriage,' because it was solemn accept these trusts to maintain and support the rights ized equally as regularly, end far more publicly, th an of my child as my lawful and legitimate son, and to has been his alleged marriage to Lady Cecilia Buggin, superintend and undertake the care of his education, which is unsupported by any proof of its having ever which I wish to be the best and most liberal possible ; taken place, beyond assertion. If, therefore, Lady leaving it to th,:i r wisdom and friendly zeal to choose Cecilia Buggies (or rather the Duchess el Inverness) is THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 lB4O. received at Court as the wire, why are not Sir A 11.11301 d'Este and his sister received as the children of the Duke of Sussex ? And the rather so, since, as we remarked above, they stand in a peculiar position: In case of anything happening to the Prince Royal of bHanoVer, wh a t i s t o p reven t Si r Augustus d'Este from King of that c ountry? ecoming " An Act of the English Parliament contro:s the suc cession to the throne of these realms, but it could not control the succession to the Electorate, now the king dom of Hanover. The marriage of the Duke of Sussex to the Lady Augusta Murray might be, andindeed must be considered, legally void, quoad Great Britain, but quoad no other country. We are aware that during the life-time of William IV., Sir Augustus d'Este applied to the Senate of Hanover for a recognition of his claims to royal rank, and that his application was refused to be entertained on the ground that the conti.igency which mi g ht r ender this discussion necessary had not arrived. But s hould this prevent Sir Augustus at once assuming the style and title of a Prince of Hanover ? He is the Eon—as far as that country is concerned—the legal royal son of the King's brother, and, failing his cousin and his issue male, heir to the throne. " This is the inevitable conclusion, from considering the position of the Duchess of Inverness at Court. It she be the wife of the Duke of Sussex, thsn also was Lady Augusta Murray his wile ; and then also, as re gards Hanover, is Sir Augustus d'Este his legitimate son ? If Sir Augustus d'Este is not so, then is there no legal union between the Duchess of Inverness and the Dul,e of Sussex, and the elevation and presence at Court of her Grace is a bitter mockery. " We have been led into these reflections by an extra ordinary passage from the most solemn of all docu ments to which man can be supposed to set his seal— particularly when such be executed under the impres sion that he is on the point of quitting life, and render. ing in another world an account of his actions in this— we mean that written deposition known as a " last will and testament. " We really think that this subject is entitled to the gravest consideration. COURT OF EXCISE-TUESDAY. (Before Sir JOHN MORTLOCK, Chairman ; the Hon. BERKELEY PAGET, and THOMAS HARRISON, Esqrs.) ADULTERATION OF BEER—HEAVY PENALTIES.— John Hudson, of the Curriers' Arms, New Church court, Strand, appeared to answer an information, charging him with adulterating his beer. Mr. John Garey, a surveyor of Excise, stated that he went to the defendant's house on the 17th of June to examine the beer. On tasting it, witness found it much adulterated. A person named Hartley was acting as landlord, who denied that anything but finings had been put in. On searching the cellar, witness found a parcel containing two pounds of burnt sugar. Witness then sent for Golding Bird, another officer, and they took samples. The defendent, on being spoken to, admitted the beer had been adulterated, but said it should be discontinued ; at the same time charg ing the blame on Hartley. The COURT reminded the defendant that ho was liable for the acts of his servant, and fined him one hundred pounds. William Kemp, of the Seven Dials, Great St. An draws-street, Seven Dials, was charged upon a similar information, found guilty, and fined one hundred pounds. COMPROMISES WITH THE COURT.—lnformations which had been laid against Hezekiah Lane, of the Three Lads, Minories ; John Charles Hudd, of the Canning's Head, Sydney-street, Commercial.roa.d ; and Jabez Ashton, of the White Hart , Fetter-lane, for adulteration of their beer, were withdrawn, in conse quence of the defendants having petitioned the Court, pleading guilty to the offence, and paid the penalties. In the case of John Charles Brine, of the Black smith's Arms, Backchurch-lane, Whitechapel, who at a former sitting was fined one hundred pounds for adul eration, the Court in consideration of his poverty re mitted the penalty to 201. COINCIDENCE BET WEEN THE PULSATION OF THE HUMAN BODY AND THE HOUR OF THE DAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-The coincidence between the hour of the day and the pulsation of the human frame may be unknown to many of your readers, and as it is illustrated by a very simple experiment, which any one may put to the test, perhaps you will allow me a fraction of one of your co lumns, in order to call their attention to it. Seat yourself at a table, having placed your elbow on the table, attach a piece of metal (say a shilling) to a thread, hold the thread between the points of the thumb and first finger, and allow the shilling to hang suspended in the centre of a tumbler glass: the pulse will imme diately cause the shilling to vibrate like a pendulum, and the vibration will• increase until the shilling strike the side of the glass; and snppose the time of the expc►imcnt be that hour at which I am writing—between half-past six and half-past smell o'clock—it will so strike the glass seven times, and having done so, lose its momentum and return to the centre. If you hold it a sufficient length of time the experiment will be repeated, but not until a sufficient space have elapsed to convince you it is most complete. I need not say the thread must be held with a steady hand, otherwise the vibratory motion will be counteracted. At whatever hour of the day or night the experiment be made, the coincidence will be found the sane. Should any of your scientific readers dispute the fact, you are at liberty to furnish them with my real address, when I will hand them a sketch and explanations that will satisfy them. I am, Sir, your daily reader, Manchester, July 17, 1840. SECRETARIUS, INSURRECTION IN SYRIA. (From the Journal des Debuts.) We have received from a distinguished inhabitant of Beyruth a letter containing interesting details of the revolt of the mountaineers of Mount Lebanon and Anti- Lebanon. The following is the letter of our Correspondent : " BEYaUTH, JUNE 11.—After the revolt of the Druses of Hauran two years ago, and after the loss of an army of 15,000 men, Ibrahim Pacha, not being able to subdue the insurgents, cunningly sought to ac complish his object by turning the Christians against them, as mountaineers habituated to guerilla warfare. You know the issue, the pardon granted to the rebels, and the honours which were obtained by Chebly-el•Bc rean, the promoter and leader of the revolt. In re compense of the important service then rendered to the Pacha by the Christians, Mehemet Ali issued a firman granting them 24,000 muskets, and pro mised that the impositions upon them should not be heavier than those taken by the Sultan. The arms were for them, for their children, and their children's children, according to the expression employed. The Christians, like all the mountaineers, having been dis armed after the Egyptian possession, received this mark of confidence from him whom they were accus tomed to consider their legitimate Sovereign, with un equivocal demonstrations of joy and gratitude ; it made them for some time forget the exactions by which they were oppressed. The public works and imposts under which the unfortunate inhabitants of Le banon groaned, weighed them down more and mare, and we watch with grief the march of misery. The outskirt towns became daily crowded with ber,rs from the mountains. Some European usurers took ad vantage of their wants, and deprived them even of the bread destined for their progeny. They lent the unhappy peasants certain sums, on condition of the delivery of the coming harvest of cotton, corn, &c., giving them not more than half the real value, and snaking them pay interest at the rate of from 40 to 50 per cent. 'Pie harvest arrived ; the debtor was unable to pay the quan tity stipulated ; the quantity deficient was valued ac cording to the price of the day, and their creditors compelled them to sign new contracts on the same foot ing for the coming year. " The poor wretches saw the gulf into which they were plunging, but they were obliged to pay the im positions, or to suffer the lash. They chose rather to die of hunger than of blows, and this it was which rt. duced the mountaineers of Naplouse, Nazareth, Sze., to such a state of misery, that the Consuls wrote that whole villages were deserted, the people escaping to the mountains where they actually lived upon grass. The system of solidarty,' as it is called, by which each man is responsible for his neighbour's impost, and one vil lage answerable for another, reduced the population to an extreme of wretched.,ess perfectly incredible. Their despair may be imagined at the time when news arrived in Syria that the Christians in Egypt were enrolled in the National Guard. The professors of that faith had always been exempted from military duty of any kind. The entire population of Syria instantly fled to the mountains, and this enormous migration was effected in a single day, and there they remained until they learned that their fears were premature. They gra dually returned to their homes, and tranquillity was nearly restored, when the Government published that most absurd and impolitic order, which required the inhabitants to deliver up their arms, and t 3 pay the impositions for seven years in advance. Stupefaction succeeded this act of madness. The mountaineers long expected to be driven to ex tremities ; they fraternised with the Druses, their sworn enemies in religion. Reserves were posted in ail the churches, and when the Egyptian Government threw off the mask, the priests, who had secretly prepared for revolt, spoke out, and boldly. From the evangelical pulpit they summoned the people to rise. Th e same pet sons who had so often invoked God's curse on the Druses and the Motualis, called them their children, and prescr ibed to tie Christians, in the name of the Saviour, to look upon them as brothers. The explosion took place on the ::oth of May. " Under the pretext of the plague which 'prevailed at Damascus, the Governor of Beyruth had that same Gay ordered that a cordon sanityre of 300 or 400 troops should surround the town, to stop communica tion with the exterior ; the mountaineers saw in thi s measure, which appeared contrary to policy, the de sign of excluding them from the town, and to hinder them f rom k now i ng - w bo worked against them for the rising of the national guards. At eleven at night of this same day, spies announced to the governor, Mali (flout Bey, that the peat.ants intead , ed 0 attack the cordon in a few hours ; he imiiiediately ordered the troops that formed it to re-enter the town ; he thus saved them from massacre ; for the mountaineers came., as the spies had said, and returnesl from thence, finding nobody. Since that there has been nothing heard of the cordon. Th e next d ay 500 ver y ill-armed mountaineers attacked the Lazaretto, that is situated half a league from the tower ; from our ter races we saw the assault they fruitlessly gave to this edifice, which was defended by 200 soldiers ; the fol lowing day they again repeated, w ith ou t success , the sa me attack. The design of the insurgents was to take the soldiers, and to oblige them to deliver up to them their arms, of which they have great need, for they want all kinds of them. This is the weak side of the rebellion ; lead is also very scarce. These poor people reserve their fire, and only use it when their aim is sure. As for powder they make it themselves. The attack of the Lazaretto caused the (loath of ten indi viduals, killed on one side or th e ot h er. Si nce t h at time the number of insurgents who are at our gates is increased to nearly two thousand ; they are en camped at three quarters of a l eague f rom the town, on the other side of the river of Beyruth. All the villages of Anti-Lebanon have revolted, the government posts are all intercepted, and the despatches read. The rebels show the greatest respect for all that b e l ongs t o th e Europeans ; the English posts of Damascus and Aleppo, which had a great deal of corn with them, have been convoyed by the insurgents, in order that nothing should happen to them. From stage to stage, the conductors c h a nged, until they arrived at th e i r destination. What is remarkable in this is, that the p oor peop l e want b rea d , having lived for some time on herbs. They have had t h e good fortune to take a convoy of flour belonging to the Government ; among the sacks were some for the English Consul. As soon as it was known, they de sired him to send for them, and remitted them un touched to his janissary. There afterwards arrived for them 150 camel loads of corn, which the insurgents of Balbac sent them as a present ; t e lli ng t h em , t h a t as soon as these provisions should be at an end, they should let them know, and they would renew them. The insurgents from hence have sent a circular to all the European Consuls, warning th em to provide their convoys with a safe conduct, and th a t protection and support should be granted to them, which has taken place. All that belongs to us is escorted from one band to the other of the insurgents, who arc also scattered so as to embrace a great deal of country, to their desti nation. Yesterday they sent word to the French Con ;ul to appoint a rendezvous, saying that they had some hing very important to communicate to him. He re 'used to accede to their request. " The day before yesterday the steam-boat Nile ar rived at Seyde, with despatches for Mehemet Ali ; im mediately Ali Bey, the spy imposed by Ibrahim Pacha on Soliman Pacha, with the rank of aide-de-camp, at tached to his particular service, set out for Ebteldin, the residence of the Emir Bechir (the Prince of the Mountain), who despatched yesterday his son, the Emir Emin, on a mission to the insurgents, to induce them to retire, promising them that their arms should be left them, and that they should only be subject to the ordinary impositions. They answered him that they had learnt not to trust to the promises of Ibrahim Pacha, who basely massacred, in 1834, those who at Naplouse, at the time of the revolt of that country, had made him prisoner, and who had restored him his liberty on his parole, after having obtained a promise of amnesty, and that their demands should be granted. This unfortunate precedent i; not of a nature to inspire great confidence in the word of a Sovereign : the chiefs of the insurgents also, who went a few days since to take an oath in the church of St. Elias, the patron of the country, either to throw off the yoke of Egyptian 'tyranny or to die, appear decided not to accept any accommodation. They will hold out, they say, till the European powers engaging in this affair cause to be granted to them, under their security, that which they ask, so that they may be interested in the maintenance of those: rights which themselves have stipulated for. This reasoning is very just, for it is certain that Ibrahim Pacha, taken un awares, would grant to them temporarily that which they desire, and would afterwards matte them pay dearly for their acts of insubordination, when separated and at the moment when they least expected it he would crush them in detail. " Their pretensions are extravagant and inadmissi ble ; they demand that the 24,000 muskets which were granted to them by Mehemet Ali at the time of the war of Hauran, and of which they have only re ceived 12,000, should be completed ; that the im positions shall not be heavier than those collected by Abdallah Pacha ; that Egyptian soldiers who desert their standard should be free amongst them, and not liable to be pursued as deserters. This claim has not the shadow of common sense ; for if they obtained the confirmation of it, soldiers who dislike a military life would all soon be with them. They desire also to be exempt from the conscription, from the works, and from many other things too long to enumerate, and which render all arrangement impossible. Troops are expected every moment. Beyruth contains only one thousand five hundred men. The insurgents knowing this, reckon on returning immediately on their arrival to their mountains, where no earthly power can reduce them. They will obstruct the roads, intercept the communications, and expect the French, whom from generation to generation they call upon, to come and take possession of a land which belongs to them, since it was theirs in ancient times. The recollection of the Crusades is transmitted as a tradition, and Druses, Motualis, Christians, all hold the same faith. How will all this end ? No one can tell. One thing is cer tain, that no chief directs, ostensibly at least, all these movements. I believe, however, notwithstanding all they say, that they are secretly under the directions of some Europeans. The Jesuits, who have seve ral colleges on the mountain, cannot be strangers to this affair. There is, amon g these active an d st i rr i ng men, one person, Father R_____, a proscribed Pole, who entered into this corps after the ruin of his country, which he had served in a military capacity up to the moment of its dismemberment. This man, of a pro digious activity, is in every part of the mouatain : some times in one district, and sometimes in another. His talents, his honourable character, the services which he has rendered to the country in propagating instruction, justifies the confidence and respect in which the moun taineers hold hire, and the ascendant which he exercises over their minds. Two Frenchmen, established at Youk, have entered into the revolt, which, however, cannot be really serious until the Princ e o f the Mountain shall have declared himself in favour of it, which has not yet taken place : he seems, on the contrary, to be doing all that depends upon him to stop the revolution. This is tile principal reason which makes us con sider the result as uncertain for the insurgent's. This bl a man—who exercises a wonderful influ ence over all minds, and who is the subject of a species of adoration, for durin g his long career, notwithstanding t of Government, h e h as a l ways re i gn e d as lire e changescief ; of the Mountain —h as a ki n d o f i nst i nct i n he has never been deceiv e d, a n d h as revolutions always managed to declare for the party with whom the power remained. The balance would always in cline in favour of that side for whom he should declare himself. If he continues really attached to Mehemet Ali, it is to be presumed that he will succeed in planting disunion among the different faiths of the revolted ; t hi s sc hi sm onc e excited, and the insurgents opposed to each other—dl is at an end. It may be, perhaps, iet tofor they have the misery which i d sin ul cu accomplish, minonfo rtleir principle of alliance, which makes them feel that at any prise things must be changed. " P. S. A corvette is just arrived from Alexan'iria with despatches for the French Consul. Lett:‘rs from Tripoli announce that the population of the nei4hbour ing mountains are ready, and only wait for the signal to rise. The report is current in town that at this moment a man, who has anticipated the English post, has announced that the city of Damascus has revolted. We have no time to verity the fact, for it is two o'clock, and the steam-boat leaves at three. The Emir Emia has just set out again to announce to his brother that the insurgents have refused to follow his orders, and that they insist on the conditions of which we have spoken above, which they will have guaranteed by the European Powers. They are now giving themselves up to very noisy rejoicings on account of the expected arrival of the 11 rillanle, which they say is to bring them succours of provisions and support. They believe that Europe will protect them." --- SPIRIT of the PUbLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPRRS CF THIS DAY. Those Loyetit a a t ou te --....--_ (From the Morning Chronicle.) eprenve , the or ators of the Dublin "rixire.tion, threaten to turn I?epcalers, if their C ancient m eropo l v of plunder and domination shall he dis turbed by the L e ei s l atu re. " Perhaps , in t he l o n g run , " says M r : --- Than; on, the butche r. at their last q iierierl y assembly, " Mr. O'Connell and I don't differ so much, if our views were truly and hones tl y ex p ressed." In wh at pa light Mr. O'Connell may be disposed to view this 6'oi compliment we know not : but it, is net the first time that the same boasted pillars of British connection have declared themselves ready to join him in the read attempt to dissolve it. In 1832, when Mr. Secretary Stanley reluctantly brought in that stingy measure of Parliamentary , Reform for Ireland, which even then " his poor heart would fai n d eny, b ut d are no t," and which he has lat e ly made so d es p erate an d pro fligate an effort to destroy, the worthies of the D u bli n corporation swore mosthorribly that th e y would flkg British connection to the winds, the mement it cease d -to protec t the abuses by which th ey flourished. O ne o f t h e i r Sh e riffs led a considerable see tion of R epee k r , in the guilds, and Lard Roden himself did not disdain to present their petitions to the House or leordA, and vouch for the respectability of the subscri bers. Since Oiet period, men of Lord Roden's party hive denounced the bare proposition of a repeal a; iin act of constructive treason ; but it 9,,errls that in the revolution of the Tory wheel, the s ame top i c o f a _lita ion has A:0111C round again ; and although no Con- s:rvative leader of sminence has yet given countenaece to it openly, there are not wanting individuals of high rank, to put sues malcontents as orator Thompson on the back, He is honoured, by his own account, as the confidential correspond.:nt of a peer of Parliament, " whose consis tency of principles (we presume he must mean Lord West meath) is only equalled by his love of country ;" and the noble law-maker has Vouchsafed id pour his lamentations into the private ear of Mr. Thompson, deploring the judi cial blindness of the great leaders of the party, whom his Lordship conceives to be specially demented of Provi dence for their own destruction. (From the Times.) It is not orten that we have the happiness of cordially agreeing with the Globe ; but we beg to express our full and entire concurrence in the following sentence, which introduces an article upon the Farnham Rectory Bill, in the Globe of Monday evening:—" The true character of politicians is seldom more clearly illustrated than by the discussion of what are denominated Church questions and, from the frequency with which they have recently come before Parliament, the nation has been sup plied with a pretty safe test in forming an estimate of public men." There is a certain class of public men (and we suspect the gentleman who does Church matters for our Contemporary may be reckoned among them) of whom this is peculiarly true. The type and representa tive of the genus is our old acquaintance the "Friend of Humanity," who laments with so much pathos over the wrongs of the knifegrinder, till his client shows a dispo tition to test his professions of regard by asking for some thing like a substantial benefit. The effect upon the " Friend of Humanity" is instantaneous. He " kicks the knifegrinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a transport of universal philanthropy and republican enthusiasm " These are the men who have ever been the loudest in cla mouring against the Church. Their lamentations over the destitution of the neglected people, their indignant de clamations against the riches of the superior clergy, their preference for the poorer clerical establishment of Scotland, their taunts against the Church as the obstinate opponent of every attempt to reform her abuses, ,have been most eloquently sounded in our ears. And, to say truth, there was some foundation for part of this clamour; there was really much destitution, augmented in ;no ;inconsiderable degree by the default of the Church herself ; she had been a bad economist of her moral and temporal resources ; and of this she is now sensible, and in many ways and on divers occasions comes to the Legislature and asks for assistance to enable her to carry into effect wise and just and liberal plans of improvement. And how is she met by this most honest and virtuous class of Reformers? All their sym-- path)/ for the destitute Church population, all their admi ration for a moderately endowed clergy, all their indigna tion against the abuses intended to be removed, evaporates for the time being, or rather is merged in their more in tense indignation at the prospect of seeing the embarrass ments of the Church removed by her own hands. That the Church should dare to reform herself, is the greatest of all possible abuses. (From t h e Morning Post.) It would save - a vast deal of trouble if Noble Lords and Right Hon. Gentlemen who have the direction of her Ma jesty's Government would learn to know their own minds as well at the commencement of a Parliamentary Session as they begin to do at its close. It is quite consolatory to see how ready Ministers now are in both Houses of Par liament to do what the Opposition deems necessary. Why not have shown the same docile alacrity some months ago? It is not long since Government people, and Government Journals, scouted the terms upon which the Duke of Wellington and Lord Lyndhurst pro posed to allow the Irish Corporation Bill to pays. The knowing Globe, by the way, was particularly sure that the Government in the House of Com mons would never consent to the alteration in the qualifi cation clause, made by the House of Lords. A different tone now prevails. Lord Duncannon is very anxious to do whatever may be deemed necessary, and even to bring in a measure for arranging the compensation and boun dary clauses. It might have taught all children and pupils a wholesome lesson of docility had they seen how readily the Minister not only testified his anxiety to do every thing that was agreeable, but also the gratification with which he learned from Lord Lyndhurst where he would find a documentary guidance to those provisions which " a large number of their Lordships would be pleased to see adopted." We doubt not that these documents will now be very carefully attended to. ( From the Morning Herald.) The attempts made by Lord John Russell and Mr. Fox Maule to defeat Mr. Fitzroy Kelly's bill in the whole, or in part, have as vet had no other effect than to afford ad ditional proofs of the deplorably impotent condition of a Government that marches4with " reform" on its banner to obstruct the progress of improvement. No reform is more necessary than, that which would extract from those laws which affect public morals the spirit of an unreasoning and imbecile vengeance, and supply its place by reasonable and corrective punishment. The principle of such a reform the friends of Romilly" cannot compre hend. It is beyond the power of their feeble capa cities. They would keep laws written in blood on the statute book long after the adverse power of public opinion has paralysed their execution. They do not see that laws threatening terrible penalties, but which dare not be enforced, are the bane of that reverence with which it is desirable the people should regard the law. During some years past not one of the capital laws which Mr. Kelly wishes to modify, with a solitary exception, has been carried into effect. But then it is possible that Lord John Russell and Lord Melbourne may suppose a time will come when those laws can be revived in practice ; for if they do not, their opposition to their removal from the statute book is utterly objectless. That time, we can assure them, will never come. It is true, an occasional victim may be precipitated into eternity ; but every expe riment of the kind will only heighten the public hatred of the Government and the general disgust at its proceedings. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (TUESDAY EVENING.) TIM E S.—lt appears by:a return made of the transactions of the Bank of France for the year 1839, that the average of specie exceeded that of the circulation by 14,000,000 f., and that a dividend was nevertheless made to the propri etors of 14 per cent. for that year. These facts are worth all the argument in the world on such a subject, and a more complete answer could not be put forth to the ad vocates of our own rotten, and therefore unprofitable, paper system. It is much to be desired that some friendly hand would bring this document uni?er the notice of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on banking affairs ; the Palmers, Normans, Loyds, and all of that race, could not bear up for an instant against it. By the advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 429 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 13.7, and the exchange at Hamburgh on Lon.. dor. at short being 13.64, it follows that gold is 0.35 per cent. dearer at Hamburgh than in London. The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10d. the ounce for standard; gold, gives an exchange of 25.35, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25.271, it follows that gold is 0.30 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1061- per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23 40 per cent , it follows that the exchange is 2 82 per cent. against England. There was a fair supply of paper to-day on most foreign places, but, as there is still a strong demand for bills ge nerally, the rates of exchange have not at all improved. The Joint-stock Bank Committee have received a com munication from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which he promises to introduce into the Bill now passing through Parliament to continue the Act authorizing joint_ stock banks to sue their shareholders civilly, the clause which is now in the Irish Banking Act, and which enables such banks to sue their shareholders criminally. This is the clause the introduction of which was desired by the deputation that waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer a few days ago. A letter received from Rio de Janeiro, dated May 23, brings the exchange at 30J., and states that a motion to declare the Emperor of age immediately had been lost by a mjority of one in the Smate„ By the usual official return publis'Acd by the Customs, the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London to Foreign and Colonial Ports was for the week ending the 16th inst. as under : Ounces. Gold bars, Hamburgh ... 243 Silver coin, Belgium 6,629 Silver coin, Hamburgb 2,500 Silver coin, Rotterdam 32.000 Silver coin, Alogadore lO,OOO POST,—The position of Spain is melancholy to con template. With a debt, estimated by different autho rities at from 186 to upwards of 200 millions of pounds sterling, an annual expenditure of seventeen millions, an income of no more than seven or eight millions, and a Government composed of a set of men weak in intel lect, and who are intent only upon filling their own pockets, what can become of her? The means of raising money for public purposes are so nearly exhausted that fresh loans are no longer procurable, as we sec, upon any but the most usurious and degrading terms. The discus sions which recently took place in the Cortes, ou the sub ject of the further creation of bonds, prevent a view of affairs that must have filled the mind of every prudent Spaniard with apprehension. The army, which cannot be disbanded for years and years to come, must still be provided for. The claims of the civil officers, a hungry, as well as, from all accounts, most numerous class of persons, are claims at least equally urgent, equally unsusceptible of postpone ment, and, with a deficit of eight or nine millions sterling annually to deal with a credit wholly annihilated, the country cannot fail—we arc willing to stake our veracity upon the event—to become once more a prey to internal dissensions. Of the respectable minority who opposed the last application of the Minister to the Cortes for their authority to emit more bonds, several of the Deputies expressed themselves in a manner to shoW how sea. sable, how fully alive they arc to the impending danger. " If," said one of them, "if the country, in an epoch of peace, finds itself with a deficit of six or seven bua!red millions, will it be necessary to resort to a ruinous system of credit, or will it be better to reduce the expenees to that degree that the revenue me)? cover them ?" " I much doubt," observes another, speaking of the ordinary revenues. " that 700,000,000 reels can be raised, but I suppose they may amoent nearly to that, with an augmentation of 170.000,000 to be imposed ie an extraordinary war con tribution." Mendizebal, speaking to the same point, remarked that, between the income and expenditure, there appeared, according to the figures assumed in the cool o! of the debate, to be a deficiency of 1,000 millions. Senor Surra, in a lone and argumentative speech, repudiated the old hackneyed plea that has been put forward for the dio_ graceful condition of the finances. "It is now," he oh serves, " a century and a half since the expenditur e . of the nation has been mace to squire with the income." Even Mendizetal holds out no hope of escape from bankruptcy, if the fatal measures of the Government are to be persevered in. Its allusion to the mot tgages of the national property lie says:— " At the very time that the Government solicios of th e Congress power to augment our debt more than 2 009 nail_ ions, it allows the nnortgge upon which the debt of the State rests to be undermined ; interests due have been lef unpaid ; but a sufficient fund of redemption in the sale of aCs national properties was created. If these national proper , INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—GOODWOOD, 1840. , tics disappear, what is left to the creditors of the State? Handicap for the Goodwood Cup of 1839: Eyes to weep over their misery." Hetman Platoff, 4 vrs, 9st 71b—Epirus, 0 yrs, 9st 51b--Are - We attach no particular importance to the sentiments tic (h h), aged, Bst 121b—Euclid, 4 yrs, Bst 121b—Clarion, 4 declared by this individual. He is very probably ce- yrs, Bst 81b—The Dey of Algiers, 4 yrs, Sat Sib—Retriever, 4. operating with the jobbers of Paris end London, and all yrs, Bst Sib—Deception, 4 yrs, Bst blb—Mus, aged, Sat 61b-- that he says is to be received with many grains of allow- • The Potentate, aged, Bst 511)—Melbourr e, 4 vrs, Bst 4lls—Tbe ante. Every word he utters aopcars to us to have re- I Corsair, 4 yrs, Bat 31b—Abraham Newland, 6 yrs, Bst 31b , — ferencc to the foreign stock markets. It is never to he Be gg nman ' 5 3."' Sat 3115—Romulus, 4 yea, bst—Peitonjen Boinan'ee 5 .rs 84—Nubian, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b—Io, 4 )rs, forgotten that this is the man who, in 1836-7, came among us like a thief in the night, and by a series of secret opt- _7st Pit ' Don 3 can ' ter, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b Wardan, 3 yrs, 7st —Bellona, 5 yrs, 7st 12111—The Mountain Sylph, 3 yrs, 7st 811) rations, abstracted from us a million an d a h a lf o f gold, in _Barabbas, 4 yrs, 7st B,b—Muley Ishmael, 3 yrs, 7st 711,--- exchange for his bar krupt certificate;, and bringing down Welfare, 3 yrs, 7st Slb—Wee Willie, 5 vrs, 7st 511s—Capote, 3 the Active Bonds from 56 to 17, the latter being the price yrs, 7st 41b—Grey Milton, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Confusionee 4 yrs, in November, 1836• _ist 21b—Glenlivat, 4 yrs, 7st— Willesden, aged, 7st-I:lessens , There is no occasion for us to continue the controversy 3 yrs, 7st—f, by Lamplighter, out of Spinning Jenny. 3 yrs, with the Morning Chronicle. It is enough for our purist—The Currier, 4 yrs, 6st 121b—Forlorn Hope, 4 yrs,6stl•2 ll) pose to say that Santillon's admission of two sales of Gambia, 3p s, 6st 121b—Nicholas, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Cassandra , the new issues of stock, of which he gave th' prices, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Iris, 3 yrs, Est 61b—Hellespont, 3 yrs, 6st 41b— evenf, by Priam, out of Rowton's dam, 3 . yrs, 6st 21b—Remedy a' while he was praying the authorisation of them by 6st 21b—Half-caste, 3 vrs, tist—Ca los, 3 yrs, sst. the Cortes, was an act for which he ought to have been Y rs ' GOODWOOD CUP WEIGHTS. impeached, as, in fact, he would have been in any other Harkaway, 6 yrs, lOst—Don Juan, 5 yrs, 9st 41b—Q 0 country than Spain. Minus, 5 yrs, Oat 41b—Lanercost, 5 yrs, Oat 21b—Euclid, 4 yrs, Oat llb—Dey of Algiers, 4 yrs, Bst 121b—St. Martin, 5 yrs, Sat 131b—Bloomsbury, 4 yrs, Bst 121 h ......Charles the Twelfth, 4 yrs, Bst 121b—Zolarab, aged, 121b—The Corsair, 4 yrs, Bat I 01b—Hetalan Piatoff, 4 yrs, Bst 101b—Lincoln, 6 )0 , Sat 10th—Retriever, 4 yrs, Sat 81b—Pestonjee Eonsanjee, 5 yrs, Sat 71b—Bcggarman, 5 yrs. Bst 518—Tamburini, 4 yrs, B' t blb—Adrian, 6 yrs, Sat 31b—Wisdom, 6 yrs, Sat 3115—Th o Recorder, 4 yrs, Bst llb—Oroonoko, 4 yrs, Sat. lib—Deception , 4 yrs, Sat 11b—Tag-rag, 4 yrs, bst lib—Conservator, 5 Yr b 7st 121b—Lord Vernlam's filly, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—St. ArideeW , 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Galewood, aged, 7st 51b—Huckster, 6 yrs' 7st 51b—Danebury, aged, 7st 51b—Melody colt, 3 yrs, 7st Dreadnought, 3 yrs, 7st 41h—Welfare, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Roma" his, 4 yrs, 7st I lb—Darkness, 3 yrs, 7st—Amurath, 3 y r s, 6st 131b—Confederate, 3 yrs, Est 131h—The Jovial Bachelor, 3 yr s s 6st 101b—Solace colt, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Naworth, 3 yrs, Est Sib —Spinning Jenny, 3 yrs, fist 91b—Pocahontas, 3 yrs, 6st 61b-- - Grey Milton, 3 yrs, 6st 51b—and Zalima, 3 yrs, sst 131 b. These weights are made up to Tuesday morning, but are subjec t :o alterations from running at Cheltenham and other places. The following notice has been published by the Stewards or these races:—°• It is particularly requested by the Stewards that the proprietors of horses will give the earliest possible lir telligerce to the person appointed to weigh the jockeys of their intention of starting for each rece, and when such declaratir has been made that they will on no account withdraw them. The Steward's Cup will be run for after the Harkaway CUP' the winner of which is to carry 51bs. extra. CHRONICLE.—We do not allow the smallest weight to the argument assigned by Mr. W)llie for relieving the sequestration of Don Carlos, nor do we believe that the Powers of Europe will dart , to interfere to do anything so monstrously unjust to the constitutional cauz,e as to claim the restitution of his property. Ile has been the cause of wide-spread bloodshed and murder. lie sanctioned the infamous Durango decree ; and if he be allowed to ex pend the remainder of his days on a small pension, to give him leisure to repent of those butcheries, be should be thankful. On referring to the published Report, we observe that Senor MendizAbal (co mean authority on this subject . ) makes the debt in all bearing interest, including the three years drawn deferred up to the present year, amount to 5,500 millions of reals, or 58,000,000/. (foreign and in ternal), besides 900 millions reals of Deferred Debt. It appears, according to Senor Mendizabal, that the ex ternal and internal debt of Spain, of all classes, does not amount to much more than 100,000,000/. sterling, which agrees substantially with Mr. Henderson's statement. And when we see that Mr. Wyllie differs so essentially in his estimate of the foreign debt from those given by them and the others, who so fully agree and arc confirmed, we arc led to conclude that his estimate of the internal debt is not to be depended on. Neither do we think he will derive any lasting support from the loose figures given as guess work by the Spanish authority, relative to the internal debt, which were never intended by him, we have reason to believe, for publication. CRICKET. GRAND MATCH BETWEEN A BRIGADE OF GUARDS AI D ROYAL. ARTILLERY.—A grand match was played on "%Woes' day last at the Barrack-field at Woolwich between the officer° of the Foot Guards and the Royal Artillery. The weather Was beautiful; and if we may judge from the number of spectator °, the match excited considerable interest. Towards evening the fine band of the Artillery gave add;tional attraction to the scene, and the field was graced by all the beauty and fashion e the neighbourhood. The game commenced at twelve o'cloo by the Artillery going in first ; and four o'clock struck be, fore their wickets were lowered to the alarming score of 21 runs. The Guards in their first innings could not e ta° against the fine bowling of Lieutenants Harenc and Ilunel , and only succeeded in scoring twelve runs. The second O . ings followed their first, when their batting was more euc cessful ; and, at seven o'clock, when the stumps were dravah the score amounted to seventy-one. The batting of Aleo rg ; Mundy and Gambier, who scored eighiy-five and forty-fo u r on the part of the Artillery, was vety fine, as was also that of Mr. Oswald, of the Guards. At half-past seven the cotaba ants repaired to the splendid mess-room of the Royal A rtl .; lery, where the Guards were hospitably entertained by the e brethren in arms until early the following morning. The 1. % turn match, we understand, will be played at Lords the ensuing season. early HERAL D.—Although Mr. Henderson's whole state ment with regard to the debts of Spain, is prepared with a certain pretentiousness of authority, as derived from official sources, and prefaced by a rather ambitious display of historical reference to the origin of Spanish debt in remote periods, it will not be difficult to show how greatly he must be mistaken in his estimates, and how frail, or per haps intentionally deceptive the particular sources on which he has relied for information. It is true that some small portion of the enormous debt was extinguished from 1822 to 1823, whilst the Cortes still remained in power, by purchases of national domains, for which both classes of debt, though on different conditions, were admitted in whole or part payment. And it may be assumed, moreover, that since the restoration of the Cortes, that is since 1834, another small portion has in like man ner been absorbed. But Mr. Henderson will not be pre pared to contend that all the difference between domestic debt as then stated, and that estimated by him now, hes been absorbed and expended in the purchase of national domains put up for sale by the constitutional Governments of the two periods. A supposition so monstrous would imply that somewhere about one hundred millions ster ling of paper debt had been invested and converted into national property by the holders, during those two terms of one and five years. Assuming for ame • ment such to be the case, what becomes of his waste lands, woods and forests, &c. &c., on which he builds so confidently now for payment of interest and redemption of the whole debt home and foreign. The value of these for Spain, according to authorities cited by him, was calculated, and a large calculation it is, at 123,000,0001., of which, taking for granted the premises of the extraordinary reduction of the domestic debt operated in that way, about five-sixths, or to the extent of some 100,000,0001. would already have been disposed of, leaving one•sixth only remaining for the consolation and security of the unfortunate creditors now. It is not necessary to discuss further propositions so preposterous. But it may be safely inferred from the report to the Cortes in 1822, which is an irrecusable document, that the estimate of Mr. Wyllie comes vastly nearer the truth, if it do not embrace the whole truth, than that of Mr. Henderson, taken from parties interested in suppressing, or not authorised to exhibit, the whole of the information and documents in their possession. For the present more than enough has been said perhaps to show how far distant from the real truth must be the cal culations of Mr. Henderson, and how much more probable and approximate those of Mr. Wyllie. The juggleries and iniquities of Spanish finance and Spanish loans are however so hard to be traced and so difficult of exposure, within the limits of one or two articles, and confined to one special branch only of the almost interminable labyrinth, that it will be expedient to return to the subject more than once to be able to obtai❑ something like a comprehensive view of the bearings of this intricate question. ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB. uers The grand match for a silver salver, given by the merom of this distinguished club, will take place on Thursday oe x i c , the distance being from Greenwich to Gravesend and bas` "; The contest is not confined to boats belonging to this club , is open to all gentlemen's yachts sot exceeding twenty-six too • The following have been entered t Yachts. Tons. Owners. Widgeon 2O ...... Snook and Cassell, Zsq rs. Ada Gazelle .. Yea Gnome ... 25 Meesom, Esq. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE' ARRIVALS. Mrs. Scott Murray, in Cavendish-square; Lord a n t Lady Galway, at Coulson's Hotel; Colonel Murraff4, Thomas's Hotel; George Holyoake, Esq., at ditto; f d miral Lord Aurelius B eauc l er k, Vi ce -Ad m i ra l Sir Jo West, Sir Frederick Wetherall, Mr. and Mrs. Wil li n B- 0 Wyndham, at the Burlington Hotel ; Mr. and Mrs. Y Horta, at ditto; Lady William Somerset and family. - DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady Romney, and Lady Charlotte Marsk i l for the Mote House, near Maidstone ; Sir Richard Hams Bulkeley, for Liverpool; Mr. and Mrs. Octao; Wigram, for Dover ; Sir John Rogers, from Steve ns Hotel, for Devonshire • Sir Charles Ekins, for De v°ti' shire; Hon. Mrs. Hood, for Whitley Abbey, near Co vel l try ; Mr. E. J. Cooper, M. P., from Farranee's Hote for Markrea, Sligo ; Mr. Joseph and Lady Charlotte II ley, for Appuldercombe ; Lady and Miss Kinlock ;J . , Talbot, Esq , M.P., for Wexford ; C. A. Walker, E. M.P., for Belmont House; Hartopp, Esq., and fa 01 11; for Dover; Sir Brook Taylor. on a continental tour ; Earl of Kenmare, from the Clarendon H o t e l, for Kil ls. ; ney; William F2X Talbot, Esq., for Laycock Abbey; r, Hon. Captain Charles Forester, for Dublin ; Lord „; gerald and Vesey, for C oun ty L out h ; t h e H on . J a tr Sandilands, for Ipswich ; the Archbishop of Dublin , Dublin ; Mr. Round, M.P., for Frankfort-on-the- Maiti Lord Decies, for Brighton ; the Hon. Percy Moreton , r f ,,, Sussex ; Sir James Lyon, for Kent ; Lord Gray, for fauns Castle, North Britain ; the Russian Colonel 1/ ° .,' from Crawley's Hotel, for Paris ; Lo r d Willi a m MOW"' for Hemel Hempstead, Herts. SUN.—The state of the weather is exciting lively ap prehensions as to the probable result of the harvest, and this naturally begins to influence unfavourably the value of bills on the principal Continental cities, and more especially the grain ports of the north of Europe. What the Directors of the Bank of England will do to keep themselves in a sound position, in the event of any ex tensive imports of Foreign corn, we almost shudder to think of. This afternoon the rates for bills were all lower, being as follows :—Paris 22f. 50c. to 55c., Ams terdam 12 2 to 4, and Hamburgh 13 84 to 4. The Funds closed rather better. Consols at 91i for money, and 12 for time ; Exchequer Bills at 275. pre mium, and Bank Stock at 1744, while India Stock rose to 255. The New Three-and-a Half per Cents. were 991 to 1. There was a disposition to effect sales in most of the leading Foreign Securities, the consequence of which was a reaction of prices. Spanish Bonds were ato 1 per cent lower, the decline being from 24 to 278 27i. The Passive Stock was heavy at 65, and the Deterred at 13 to 125. Portuguese New Five per Cents. fell to 35i and 351, and the Three per Cents. to 238. The South American Bonds were very little dealt in. Chi ian brought an advance to 381 to 39. Colombian were heavy at 275, and Brazilian at 80. Austrian Bonds touched 111, Russian 1161, and Prus sian, in which sometimes not a transfer is made from one year's end to another, were brought to market, and realized 108. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were worth 531 to 53k, and the Five per Cents. 1021 to 1038. The Railway Shares were all lower in the morning, but subsequently rallied a little. Great Western were quoted 38 ; New, 17 ; Birmingham New, 261 ; Man chester and Leeds, New, 151 ; South Western, 205 to 185; and Blackwall, 21 to 25 premium. Brighton Shares realized 71 ; Northern and Eastern, 74 ; North Midland, 8s ; Eastern Counties, 61 ; and Bristol and Exeter, 24.1 discount. Hull and Selby were at par. British North American Bank Shares were 3 discount. UNEMPLOYED WORKING ML OF PAISLEY. DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSVI' Ij „i Yesterday, at two o'clock, a deputation, consisting .; Mr. Hastie, M. P. for Paisley ; Mr. Oswald, M. Glasgow ; Mr. Ward, M. P. for Sheffield ; Mr. Si ni ri son and Mr. Henning of Lond o n ; an d Mr. Barr ag o Mr. Crawford of Paisley, w ere rece i ve d by Lord I° 4 Russell, at the Coloni a l O ffi ce, on behalf of fro working men of Paisley, w h o arc at presen t in a it ': of great destituti on , an d w h o h a d su b scr ib e d a me ho rial to Lord John Russell, as Colonial Secretary, t° number of thr ee th ousan d, pray i ng f or a f ree pa ssage t New Zealand. s' The Deput a ti on were i n t ro d uce d by Mr, bas . ,„ o : aad Mr. B arr state d t h e case on b e h a l f o f t h e 1 101 1 rialists. H e sa id t h at i n consequence o f t h e daily a crease of the working population of Paisley, ° go the progr ess o f mac hi nery , t h e supp l y o f l a b ou r now ' co exceeded the d eman d i n P a i s l e y—that ; li te were conseque n tly l owere d, an d t h e popa l3 , was reduced to a state of extreme d esti tution ig that Chartism an d ot h er po li t i ca l d octr i nes had lo i l o g occupied their a tt en ti on as a means o f imPr °l- e d their condition, but that latterly they had tnr° o their attention t o em i gra ti on , w hi c h i n hi s opiain ° ,, vi e r a more natural and more e ffi c i en t reme dy for he''', - , ( 1 ing their condition. Th a t a t fi rs t th ey h a d direen-v their attention to Canada, b u t fi n di ng that art . ',; plication for free passages to Canada had ' e p and hearing most excellent accounts o f New ',To land—accounts which had been confirmed by is statements of friends of hi s o w n w h o h a d gon e to sd s t with their young famili es i n N ew Z ea l an d, as the fi l e c ,' country and most sa l u b r i ous c li mate on t h e ea rth, 7,, r , had resolved on going there, provided Government e°74 tained the proposition of their going thither and of 1 33 4 e r the expense of their passage out of any funds raised e'',, r e from the actual sale of lands, or on the faith of fi d e - 0 sales of land in New Zealand He said, further, ."; some remedy was immediately necessary, a nd he it fr o , plored Government to interpose on behalf of the m e- r d rialists. He read letters from Mr. Speirs, the f' ° , Lirutnant of the County of Renfrew—Mr. 11 1, v , toun, M.P. for the County—and Mr. Sheriff Do . „iia of whom Mr. Barr said he trusted his Lordship t" 0 o f pardon him for saying, that under the wide can°P l , o o Heaven a better hearted man did not exist, ° l ' j o y whose statements were better entitled to conside ra- e and credit with his Lordship—that all of these f n - p s o tlemen, and many others, had ex pressed a - - ,(1 that Government would listen to their clairsto,°-t, that they would succeed in their object. lo f ac er l ° ' every influential individual in Paisley supported . t. ,a claim, and for his part he could not c ancel c ; case where Go vernment cou ld come forwar d and r-ive der their po wer f u l ass i stance, more for the advantti not only of the memorialists but of the at large, because the foundation of a e' v ls augmented the shipping trade, and c reated 03 , new market f or B r i t i s h manu f actures . H e had c c h o here at the e arnes t request o f t h e Memorialists, ".0g unff,rtunately could not afford the ex p e nse of ee ° ,, / themselves ; and h e f e lt th a t it was a d u ty to re t T i r o s with their request, for there was no denying the fac t n e their c onditi on was suc h th a t some thi ng m ust be O ul a by Government ; and in what way Government ° lli a aid them, except by transferring their industry to 5° °°a of our colonial possessions, where land is cheap labour dear, he did not see. With these observi tti° oo he loft the case of the M !:norialists entirely 10 o r hands of his Lordship, satisfied he would do what. c or . was in his power to obtain the relief they stood SO gently in need of. dna Lord John Russell said the subject of emigr a e >. generally was under the consideration ef Governmen.ol that it was probable a measure would be introdoc.ch early next Se-sion embracing New Zealand, w,.. ) . %t would meet the case of the Memorialists, but wi, t ' ° ,,at the sanction or authority of Parliament he di" - c c! s::fa • what Government could do. Mr. Ward o r g i , Lord John to los e no tim e i n b r i ttg i ng i n such a sure, and both Mr. Oswald and Mr. Hustle o°`_. it li would receive th e i r b es t sup p or t. Th e folk . '" b ai t which the Deputation left Lord John Itussell was, " 00 her Maj:,• s ty' s Govanhient is favourably iocli o cd to claims of the memorialists. • IRISII REPEAL ASSOCIATION. ( Abidged from the Dublin Evening Post.) At a repeal meeting, held on Friday, at the Corn Ex change-rooms, Mr. O'Connell said :-.-Let me say one word about myself. It is said that Government ought to offer, and I ought to accept, a judicial office. I never will.—( Loud cheers.) It was offered to me before by Lord Norrnanby ; every person knows that I rejected it then ; my thorough conviction is, that Ireland wants nee more now.—(Cheers.) Of course it has not been offered to me a secend time ; it would be idle, because the prin ciple on which I rejected it before still actuates me ; it is this, that I had taken too decided a part in Irish politics ; there was so much of the partisan about me, that I could not go on the bench of justico with a purity that would not be suspected. The bench should be beyond any suepi cion ; my attack on the bench formerly was, and in per spective is, that partisans would be placed on the bench of Justice, if the Tories came into poser. How could I accept a judicial office, when I found fault with the prac tice of putting partisans on the Bunch, and making Judges of them ? hi condemning them, I would condemn my self out of my own lips. I would be condemned and found wanting, for I, a partisan, could not fill a place on the Bench, when I condemned the partisanship of others. ( Hear.) N r person that knows me, I trust, would be lieve me capable of that baseness, for I could not ascend the bench purified from such suspicions. Yet, if this mo tive did not actuate me, I would equally refuse office, for this simple reason—it vney be vanity or pride that causes. the feeling—hut I think at the present moment, I am wanted by Ireland,—(Cheers.) If I were to retire from the political arena before you had another leader that woeld possess your confidence, there would be individual rivalry to posses; the place I would vacatemhich w:•:uld prove detrimen tal to the interests of Ireland. I have met those trials,and they are gone through. I have survived them, and I still, thank God, possess the confidence of the people.—(Cbeers.) And is not that a proof of the spirit with which the people of Ireland will struggle for their rights? Is not their con fidence in me, undeserving as I may be in point of talent, but not in point of hitt grity—is not their confidence in me one of the most useful mane of obtaining for Ireland her rights,—( Hear, hear, and cheering.) Does it not give a concentration to my efforts and a strength to my moral arm, and am I not made an important personage in coesequenco of the confidence the people of Ireland have the goodness to repose in me ?—( Cheers.) Perhaps I em saying too much.—( Cries of " No, no," and loud cheers.) I owe it to the people of Ireland to say to them--whoever deserts them, I never will.—( Loud cheers. ) I now conclude by once again, from this place, addressing my voice to ail Ireland—to the aged, who have seen whet Dublin was when it hal a Parliament sitting in it, when four hundred or five hundred carti.locs reotled through the ft , ects day, a:A the inmate s - o'f those cenriages spent their in comes iA Dublin, amongst the trading and working people ; —I would address myself to the middle-aged, who wit nessed the struggle by which we obtained religious freedom arid perliamentary reform ;_I would address those more early in life, who know how limited the Reform Bill is when appled to Ireland, and who see the Corporate Re! - o- en Bill that the h e perial Parliament threatens to offer 1.14 ; _ I will then turn to the young blood .of Irelend, and corn . jure them to be worthy of tlieir gt-.!edsires, who achieved the i n d e pendence of the Irish Parliament in 'B2--•,f tl eir s i res — w h o obtained emancipation hr '29—and tell them that to them remains the glorious task of ;thieving the Repeal of the Union....-(Greatat chocring.) The Earl of Mount Edo.ecumh On IVl o 9°7r . took the oaths a n d hi s sea t i n the ' flco.e of ' Lords, 5 : 044 ° -the tint time in Pa r li amen t a ft er th e d e ath o f his tithe r ') ico , la:e itylatk Singicton, , whose demise, at Sunninghill, we announced on Monday, W" ltYv of the ce l e b ra t e d Ch ar l es first Marquis Cornwallis, nor-Gcne ra l o f I n di a , h av i ng married his Lordiihip's 0 " 1 Y rlr v ving daughter, Lady Mary Cornwallis, November, o f t he Singleton, who formerly held the office of storekeerr ordnance and other official appointments, was in his VI I ' ye .; J EVENING EDITION. SPORTING I '4TELLIGENCE. E' Jan Lend( I I At; ING Office ! d ay, tl from t boadr, Caine 3. Esq, Not are tb Thurs meet from t HU. E API . 6 , Mra tions 1 •-..-_____ on th place T. pledp On To- u) 9 -.en and $ HRAN IDIVI Direr 1 Who SELL sons ( 1 taav PEG OUT Overt Th, mai his hai MUT Kz *lll and s The D; Ili I tub ( Mel; rote for t , Lure. Ball a Th