The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY,-EVENING EDITION,-FEBRUARY 25, 1839

conclude that the gallant defenders of England are
amongst the worst treated and worst paid people in
existence. The Americans give no more, however,
than they can help, and probably the same rule is
followed here ; but here the number of Tersons
offering their services is so great that the liovern-
ment is enabled to keep down the pay of officers to a
level with that of the upper servants of Noblemen.
If this be so, less zeal on the part of our people to
serve in the Navy will insure them greater rewards,
unless it should then be resolved to press officers as
well as men.

bb said no Ringer to exist. More than half his troops had
ilready abandoned him, the remainder, about 1,300 in
number, not having received the pay which was promised
them to-day, have committed this act of desperation. Mu-
nagorii is at this moment in a house on the Frencb side of
the river; and must be supposed to be deeply afflicted at
what is passing before hisyees.—Constitutionne/.
The publication of the despatches, which the Govern-
ment has received from Admiral Bradin, by the Dunois,
and which it has kept back for some days, is impatiently
expected.—Courrier Francais.

PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.

A Vestry meeting of the above parish took place tl.is
day, to consider the propriety of electing paid collectors of
tor rates for the parish. The Chair was taken by Mr.
LEWI.S.

A proposition to appoint paid collectors was, after much
discussion, carried by a majority of 23 to 3, and the Meet-
ing separated.

THE MARKETS.- (THIS DAY.)

,
BOURSE.—PARIA, SATURDAY, FEB. '23.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price,
French 5 per Cents
3 telr Cents 7B 5' ... 18 05 ... 75 55 ... 75 65
Bank of trance
Latfitte Bar k I,ooof. Wl. 1017 50 —.1017 50 ...1017 s') ...1017 50
5,0(4f. :h.—. 5175 ...5175 _5172 50 —.5171 50
Belgian 5 per Cents lOO ... 1011 ... 100 ... 00
:3 per l ents 6B 50 ... OS 50 ... 68 LO ... 68 50
Belgian Bank 560 ... 560 ... 555 ... L6O
Coupons
S auish Ac ive 19% ... 19% .. . 19% ... 1 44
Passive 4% ... 4%
... 4% ... 4%,
Neapolitan
.....
Roman

CORN EXCHANGE.

In the past week the arrivals of most kinds of English Grain
were small, of Irish Oats good, and of Foreign Wheat considerable.
The prices of Wheat and Barley had an upward tendency during
the week. This morning there has been a small fresh supply of all
descriptions of Corn. There was so little fine English Wheat for
sale that our millers purchased such readily at 2.5. per quarter ad.
vance on last Monday's terms; other qualities, also, rather dearer,
as also fine Foreign Wheat, but the middling sorts, of which the
supply almost entirely consisted, sold slowly at their former value.
Barley of good quality Is. per quarter higher, other kinds un-
varied. Beans sold slowly at last prices. Boiling Pea; very heavy ;
Grey Peas find buyers on previous terms. There has been a fair
d.,2inand for Oats at the same rates as last Monday. The supply of
Flour was moderate, and for ship parcels, rather more mousy was
obtained.

The General Assembly of the Estates of Hano-
ver met, pursuant to Royal convocation on the
15th inst. Hardly had the Deputies taken their
seats before symptoms of an approaching struggle
between King ERNEST and his loyal subjects be-
gan to manifest themselves. All was quiet till the
Royal messages were read, when M. Meyer, Deputy
for the city of Hanover, gave in his resignation, and
at once quitted the Assembly. Next M. KELLER,
Burgomaster and Deputy for Hameln, rose and pre-
sented an address from his constituents against
the abrogation of the Constitution of 1833.
There being but twenty-eight members pre-
sent, no business could be done, consequently
the Chamber rose. On the following day a few
Deputies met, but enough could not be got together
to form a House. The Members of the Senate,
being more tractable, assembled in sufficient num-
bers, but we are yet without any report of their pro-
ceedings. In the meantime it seems that the KING
is determined to carry matters with a high hand.
The Hanover Gazelle of the 15th., the day of
the meeting of the Chambers, contains a Royal
Proclamation respecting the Constitution of
the kingdom, of which we subjoin an outline from
the Hamburg Papers, received last night :

RAILWAY SHA' E..
St. (?ermai ,
Versailles, It II .. 5;7 59 ... 1,37 00 ... 537 51) ... 5.7 50
L.B. 143 ... 150 ... 143 ... 115
Charleroi ... 450 ... 450 ...450 ...450
Routn
trasburg to Bale
ASPiIALTES AND BI 1 U .:ENS.
Seys,el(Eng'ish)
Galvanizzd Iron

PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP.

Wheat, Red (01d)... s. —s.

Beans, Small (new) 43, 44s

White (tild) —s. —s.
--Red (IS3S) 62s. (ss.
--- Fine 665. 68s.
•--- Superfine 70s. 745.
—Wh to 68s.
Fine 'Os 725.
--Superfine 75s SO,.
--Foreign free 66. N.R.
Rye 42s 455.
Barley .36,. 42,
Grinding 36s nBs.
Making 40, 45+.
Malt .Ms. Fss.
Fine New
Pease, Grey, New .355. a h.
Maple New . 37s. :313,.
White 40s. 42s
Boilers 425. 41s.
ARRIVALS +31., GRAIN IN LC
V, heat. B
I :1,1i451r5. ll,

(old) 4O 48..
Tick (new) 34, 35
(old)
Harrow (new) 37-.58s
(old) 435. 45s
Brank
Oats, Feed
New . 25 29:.
Poland —s --s,
New 25.30;.
Potatee 28 30s.
.30s.
Scotcn 2B
--- Irish ... 20 .28s.
Flour Town ,per sack).... 00,65 r ,
seccnds 36 .
North Country 54..56 .
Bran ll, 12
)NDONDURING LASF WEE},
Carley. Oatb.
,705 qrs. 10,227qrs 5,557 acks
20,!55
5,160 8,874 brls.

Madrid Papers of the 16th instant have reached
us this morning. On the previous day the Ultras
of the Cortes and their friends dined together, to
the number of eighty, before returning to their re-
spective provinces. Several toasts were drunk in
honour of the QUEEN, and Constitutio❑ of 1837 ;
and, throughout the evening, the greatest harmony
prevailed among the guests. The Government is
in the greatest want of money, while the army is
clamorous for the payment of arrears due to it.
Two priests were executed for treason, on the 7th
instant, at Santiago ; one of them being in his 80th
year ! Can any cause prosper, which sanctions the
perpetration of such an atrocity ? Establish a Con
stitution, by the judicial murder of a poor old Ec-
clesiastic, in the 80th year of his age I

English
lr's
ForciAn

Ernest Augustus, by the Grace of God, King of Han.
over, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of
Cumberland, Duke of Brunswick and Luncburgh, &c.
In order not to leave our faithful suljects in doubt and
uncertainty, respecting the motives of our resolution, in
regard to the Constitution of our kingdom, we have be..n
pleased to issue the following further declaration.
The legal representative Constitution of our kingdom
was settled by the Royal letters patent of 7th December,
1819, and uas carried into eff, a on the 29th of that month.

We have received a file of St. John's and New
Brunswick Papers to the 29th of January. On
tile 15th the Provincial Legislature was opened by
a long speech f►om the Governor, in which his
Excellency congratulates the Members on the
growing tranquillity of the Canadas. The Boundary
and Coast Fishery questions are noticed, but in
terms which can only be understood by a reference
to voluminous reports, to be laid on the table of
the House of Assembly.
Agreeably to notice, the House of Assembly resolved
itself into a Committee of Supply, on Wednesday, when a
grant of 1,0001. for the relief of the sufferers in the Ca--
nada, was passed. The scene in the Assembly in passing
the vote was unprecedented. The Chairman of the Com-
mittee in reporting it to the House, stated that it was an-
nounced by three hearty, to} al, and sympathetic cheers,
in which every Member of the House, as well as the spec-
tators in the galleries, heartily joined.
The Legislative Council have unanimously and heartily
concu red in the vote. A Joint Committee was ap-
pointed to wait upon the Lieutenant-Governor, upon
which his Excellency made the following reply :
" Gentlemen—With the highest satisfaction I will
give immediate effect to your wishes, as respects the reso-
lution, so wo:thy of the high character of this loyal Pro-
vince, and the moral effect of which is not to be calcu-
lated. " .1. HARVEY, Lieutenant-Governor.
`• Government-House, Jan. 24."

The concluding Act of the Vienna Congress of the
15th May, 1820, an organic law of the German Confe3e-
ration, served as a guarantee to this Constitution, for this
law enacts that the representative Constitutions actually
existing and. reorganised invalid, cannot be allowed except
in a constitutional manner. The Constitution of the 7th
December, 1819, underwent some changes in a constitu-
tional manner in the course of time, and till the year 1833.
But the change made on the 20,h September, 1833, was
entirely destitute of the constitutional form. The pro-
clamation then proceeds to show that the Constittri,n
of 1933, was ab nrigine invalid on the ground which has
been repeatedly adduced, that it was not agreed upon in
the manner prescribed by the Constitution, by the King
and the Estates, but that the draft approved by the Es-
tates, and sent to the King for his satisfaCtion, had been
changed by his Majesty's sole authority, in many essential
points, and had beer. carried into effect without the con-ent
the Estates to those changes having been obtained. That
Constitution, therefore, had not been obtained in
1833, in the manner prescribed by the law of
the German Confederation, consequently the new Consti•
tution and the General Assembly of the Estates according
to it did not stand on a legal foundation. This assem-
bly did it is true pass on the 17th Dec., 1833, a vote of
thanks for the Constitution of 20th September of the same
year, but the assembly had not the power to remedy a
nullity in which its own powers were included.
Party rights are out of the question, it does not relate
to a dispute on the limits of the powers of the Crown, and
the Estates. We are far from any intention to trench on
the well acquired rights of the Estates.
But it is our supreme duty to watch over and establish
the legal relations of our kingdom. A Constitution null
in its origin, could not give our faithful subjects the legal
security necessary for their welfare. A return to the
forms of the representative Constitution of 1819, the only
one which we could consider as resting on a legal founda-
tion, could not but be our most urgent duty as soon as Di-
vine Providence had confided the government of the
country in our hands. We have hereby exercised our own
rights and performed our own duty. The proclamation
then proceeds to show, that besides these preliminary
grounds of nullity, his Majesty finds in the contents of the
Constitution which he has abolished material defects, which
equally authorise and justify his interference to remedy
them.

Oa Friday at one o'clock the Legislative Council went
up to Governmeut House with their Address in answer
to the Speaker, which was an echo of the Speech ; to
which his Excellency was pleased to return the following
answer :

" Mr. President, and Honourable Gentlemen,— I re-
quest you to receive my sincere thanks for this very grati-
fying Address, and for the assurance which you have given
me of your readiness to co-cperate with me in the ad-
vancement of the measures to which it has been my
duty to direct the attention of the General Asstmbly of
the Province."

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

The House sat to day, to hear Scotch Appeals. The
Peers present were—rPhe Lord Chancellor, Lord Pohl-
more, and Lord Falkland.

GORDON AND OTHERS V. DUNNETT AND OTHERS.

Their Lordships were occupied the whole day with the
arguments in this appeal from the judgment of the Court
of Session. The question in the case related to a debt
due from Kenneth Fraser to bis partners, and the facts are
totally devoid of any interest except to the parties con-
cerned.

These were inadmissable infringements of our organic
rights and violation of the principles laid down by the laws
of the Confederation of the indivisibilty of the Sup-eme
power of the State. The proclamation then orders a
discussion of the several points alluded to.
A Message to the Assembly of the Estates, likewise
dated the 15th, declares that the draft of the Constitution
presented last year is withdrawn, and that the Constitution
of 1819 alone is to be considered in force.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.

WREATH V. RAVF.NSCROFT. -EFFINGHAM HAZARD.

Mr. JAC,B, with whom was Mr. K. PARKER, applied in
this case on Saturday for the dissolution of the injunction
which was granted by his Honour a few days since, restrain.
ing the defendant from publishing the third number of a
monthly publication entitled Effingham Hazard. From the
statements of the plaintiff it appeared an arrangement was
entered into between him and the defendant, a printer and
publisher carrying on business in Took's-court, CurAtor-
street, by which it was stipulated that the plaintiff should
write and the defendant publish, in monthly parts, the
work in question. The defendant was to have 21. a sheet
for writing the work, but provided it obtained a
good sale, that sum was to be increased to 41
sheet. The first and second number had been published,
but the plaintiff refused to furnish the defendant with the
manuscript for the third number, unless his demand of 4/.
a sheet for that number was paid. The defendant refused
to pay 41., alleging that the agreement was only for 21.
The plaintiff refused to furnish the copy for the third
number, and the result was that the defendant
employed another person to write the wolk. In
this state of things an application was made ex-parte
to the Court for an injunction, which, having been granted,
was now sought to be dissolved. Upon the case coming
on, on Saturday, it was ordered to stand over till today,
in consequence of the defendant attempting to read affi-
davits of which he had not given notice.
Mr. K. BRUCE, upon the case being brought on this
morning, objected to its proceeding on the gr and that the
defendant having been gtsetted as a bankrupt on Friday last,
his interest had passed to his assignees, and it would be
unjust to proceed with the case it, their absence.
His HONOUR considered he should act unjustly towards
the absent if he did not hear the motion, and ordered
it to proceed.
Mr. JACOB and Mr. K. PARKER were then heard, in
support of the dissolution of the injunction.
Mr. K. BRUCE and Mr. KEENE opposed the application.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR, without calling upon Mr.
Jacob to reply, gave judgment. The case was one of a
singular description, and upon the best consideration that
he could give to it, he did not think he should be justified
in continuing an injunction, which restrained them from
publishing that in which it was clear the plaintiff had no
copyright, and for the illustrations of which, from the
whole evidence in the case, it was clear the defendant had
paid. The injunction must therefore be dissolved, but,
considering the obscurity of the case, the Court would re-
serve the consideration of the costs.

The Republican horror with which the Royal
Grand Master of the Orange Lodge conspirators
professes to regard a violat►on or neglect of the
minutest Constitutional form, is in all consc►enca
sufficiently amusing. But in his excessive zeal for
the independence of the Estates of his kingdom, he
has overlooked one important consideration, and
that is, that it is not competent for him to abolish
a Constitution voluntarily accepted by his Royal
predecessor and the Estates, and tacitly recognised
as binding by the German Diet. To assume the
functions of the Diet is sheer presumption, and as
only one of the three Estates of the kingdom, he is
constitutionally powerless without the consent of
the others.

Advices from Constantinople of the 30th of
January announce that the British Ambassador,
Mr. APNEIL had finally left Persia on the 3d of
that month, having previously given orders to Co-
lonel SHEE and the other British officers in the Per-
sian army to proceed to Bagdad, there to await fur-
ther orders. Mr. M'INIELL, Sir H. BETHUNE,
and Major FA RRANT, proposed travelling to Eng-
land by way of Georgia. It does not appear
from these accounts that the prospect of a
rupture with England has at all discon-
certed the Persian Court. The SHAH regards
us as too distant to give him any uneasiness,
and unless by favouring the claims of another
Prince to the Musnud, our Government is not
likely otherwise to trouble itself with his Adminis-
tration. This, however, would be a very easy
matter, as ZILLEH SULTAN and the three Per-
sian Princes who recently visited England are now
at Bagdad, watching the first favourable moment to
raise the standard of rebellion. Trade was very
brisk, and the purchases of English goods by Per-
sian merchants very extensive.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have
all been received. Being occupied with the elec-
tions, they are only interesting to local readers, to
whom the subjects of Provincial politics are now
all important. They state, in common with the
Brussels Papers received to-day, that the Belgian
Ministers at the Courts of Vienna and Berlin have
received their passports, and that all diplomatic in-
tercourse with Belgium ceases for the present. The
following extracts from the French Journals include
the little news they contain likely to interest the
public on this side of the Channel :

" Messrs. Frederic de Coninck and Co., of Havre,
have received from the Minister of Marine the following
reply to a demand lately addressed by those gentlemen to
the Ministry : . _

" Paris, Feb. 20.
" Gentlemen,—l have received the letter you did me
the honour to address to me on the 14th inst.

" I had anticipated the recommendation of the
merchants, by adopting suitable measures of precau-
tion, the moment I was apprised of the project of
the Mexican Government (to issue letters of !barque).
I issued orders for the immediate establishment of
cruisers in the /neighbourhood of the Azores, outside of the
straits of Gibraltar, off Cad z and Lisbon, along the whole
coast of Portugal, and near the landing places in France.
" Those orders will soon be fully execute:l, and I have
reason to hope that French merchant vessels on their home-
ward passage will not be exposed to the depredations of
the privateers whose armament is announced but some of
which have hitherto made their appearance anywhere.
" ROSAMEL,
" Vice-Admiral, Minister of Marine."