The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-10 00:00:00

THE FUND.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1837.

In the American Journals to the 20th ult., received
yesterday from Liverpool, we find a string of Reso-
lutions, which Mr. ADAMS has given notice that
he will submit to Congress before the expiration
of the present extraordinary session. Our present.
business is only with one of them, which is sup-
posed, by politicians on the other side of the
Atlantic, to glance obliquely at the mischievous colo-
nial policy of Great Britain, as regards the govern-
ment of the Canadas. We may be told that nothing
more is meant than the mere settling of a disputed
boundary. Such is the general conviction here, but
a different opinion prevails in Washington. The fol-
lowing, is a copy of the resolution alluded to :

" Resolved that the President of the United States he
requested to communicate to this House, so far as the pub-
lic interest will permit, the correspondence between the
Government of the United States, and that of Great Bri-
tain relating to the north-eastern boundary of the United
States, since the Message of the late President to the Se-
nate of the United States of the 15th of June, 1836."

Witnout wishing to attach to this document more im-
portance thas it deserves, we nay be allowed to observe
that they are the best friends of the Ministers who point
out the faults they are committing or allowing to be
committed ; and, where it is evident to the whole world
that their authority is used to inflict misrule over any
portion of the Commonwealth. at home or abroad, it is
the duty of their friends to make the same known to them,
in the hopes that the corrective may be applied before
it is too late. It is with much sorrow we are com-
pelled, by a sense of duty, to point out where gross
misrule exists, which all the observing world knows—
which the Reformers regret—hut which the Tories re-
joice at, as it must stop for ere; the complaints of the
Whigs against misrule in the Colonies, if ever the
Tories should come into office. The conduct of the
Colonial Government, especially in Lower Canada, is
advancing by rapid strides towards despotism ; and the
Governor, Lord GOSFORD, seems, lry his education in
Ireland, when the Orange System was rank, and the
Orange chiefs were oppressing their Catholic neighbours,
to have learned to follow their example in misrule. We
really hope that Lord MELBOURNE will, whilst he has
the power, stop those tyrannical proceedings which arc
perpetrated under his authority and sanction, although
we, who know his liberal disposition and principles,
are confident that such unconstitutional acts as those
of Lord GOSFORD in Canada are the offspring of the
unnatural Tory system now acted upon by the Colonial-
office. It is not to be forgotten that the Colonial-office
had the countenance of Lard JOHN RUiISELL last
session is pass its tyrannical, rtsotutions in the
ncitise of Commons against Lower Canada, aided by a
large majority of r.'nfit house, who must now look back
with shame ay,a
withregret at their own proceedings
in sui;ort of such acts. The House Assembly of
of
TdoWer Canada has scouted these resolutions of Lord
joHN RUSSELL, and laughed him to scorn for pro-
piing suelt raoiutionary measures as he has done.
£he people, in every part of the Province, have met, by
public notice, and approved of the proceedings of their
representative,: in rejecting any advance in the way of
coercion until their grievances shall be redressed; and we
Ire confident that there is not a good Reformer in the
United Kingdom who does not approve of the patriotic
conduct of the Canadian people. Instead of being
terrified into submission by the overwhelming majority
of Lords and Commons against them, the Canadians
speak out plainly, and in a manner not to be misunder-
stood. They resolve and declare " that government

is instituted for the benefit, of the people—that the
doctrine of non• resi:;iatice to arbitrary power is slavish—
that it is their right to meet and to discuss whatever
rdath to their privileges and rights "—and, that
they, if they cannot obtain good government,
will only remain subject to England until there be an
opportunity of rising in arms to throw off the yoke of
England. In their public papers they inform the
people that - the Government of Canada have tried to
suppress all adverse eXpressions of public opinion—
have dismissed magistrates, judges) and officers who ,
have ventured to state ith opinion in opposition to
the tyrannical proceedings of the Lieutenant-Governor.
We hear much of organic changes being dangerous in
England, and such words are found in the neotith of
Lord JOitli RUssELL on all nUasions, when he
wishes to stop substantial reform ; hut we must ask
his Lordship whether any Radical ever has proposed
in Parliament an inroad on constitutional rights half
so great or tyrannical, as he proposed in the last Ses-
sion against the Constitution of Lower Canada ? He
and his colleagues need not now be surprised to learn,
that these resolutions have been spurned and rejected,
as they deserved, by every Reformer in that Province.
It is somewhat singular that the Orange party in
Canada, for whom his Lor4ship and the late House of
Commons were acting, have not approved of the inroad
his Lordship has made, because it was so violent. We
have before requested our readers to consider the
dispute existing at this time between Lower Canada
and Great Britain, as in reality the same as has ex-
isted for ages between Ireland and Great Britain. A
small clique of Englishmen have in reality possessed
themselves of all the offices, and of all the political
power and profit in Canada—they refuse office to the
Canadians—they refuse them honours—they refuse to
pass any laws but such as will favour the few, and
enable them to share more and more of the public
taxes—of the public lands, and of the public offices,
amongst themselves and their relations I ! These
worthies call themselves Constitutionalists, and they
have all the political power in the Executive and Le-
gislative Council, and in every respect are situated in
Canada as the Orange faction were in Ireland before
Lord MULGRAVE'I3 Government. The Colonial
office in London supports these Constitutionalists in
all their public and private acts of plunder and mis-
rule against the people, and leave the grievances
and complaints of the people unredressed and un-
attended to. It is to every inquiring mind matter of
very serious reflection, that the Reform Ministers in
England should be professing to sympathise with the
Irish Catholics against the Orange domination, whilst
they support the Canadian Orangemen, and all their
oppression in Canada, against the Canadian Catholics.
In England and Ireland Officers of Militia, Lords
Lieutenant, Meritbers of Parliament, and Magistrates,
attend public meetings, end express their opinions
freely on any and on all public measures, or of any
act of the Ministers, public or private (and we know
their language and epithets are none of the mildest),
without the fear of Lord MELBOURNE or Lord JOHN
RUSSELL taking any severe measures against them, to
deprive them of their Commissions, or even of express-
ing their disapprobation of such language. We have
seen a Lord Lieutenant, in Norfolk, denounce the
Ministers as Revolutionists, acting with and aiding
Papists and Infidels to overturn the institutions of the
Government. We have seen Officers in the army and
navy, militia, and Members of Parliament, attending
public meetings, and denouncing the Ministers by
every opprobrious epithet ; but we have not heard of
any of these being dismissed from their Commissions.
Not so under the Whig Governor of Lower Canada.
He has issued proclamations, forbidding the people to
meet and question the conduct of the Executive ; and
he has cashiered officers of militia, judges, and magi-
strates, who have attended those meetings ! We never
expected that a Member of Parliament would have
been dismissed from his Commission in the militia, for
attending a public meeting of the county he repre-
sented ; but such are the pranks now playing by the
Whig Governor of Lower Canada, and so disgraceful
to the Government. 'We do, indeed, express our sur-
prise at such conduct from Lord GOSFORD, who so
long witnessed the reign of terror in Ireland ; and we,
moreover, do express our surprise that Lord MEL-
BOURNE can give his sanction to such acts. As for
Lord GLENELG, under whose orders all these acts of
oppression are committed, we are, in charity, disposed
to think that he does not know of them.

The following extract from the Canadian newspaper
will show what is going on there. It is an account
of a public dinner of 517 persons, to do honour to the
militia officers of St. Denis, who have been dismissed
by Lord GOSFORD

HONOUR TO THE DIiMISSED MAGISTRATES AND
MILITIA OFFICERS.
A public dinner was given on Monday last, at St. Denis,
to the Magistrates and Militia of that sectio❑ of the coun-
try who have been lately dismissed by Lord Gosjbrd, for
supporting the rights of this colony. Fire hundred and
seventeen " good men and true," sat down to dinner. The
nnmber on the ground was estimated at seven hundred.
The greatest possible indignation was expressed against the
head of the Administration. Lord Gosford has not yet
seen the end of the storm he has aroused in this province.
It will netr be allayed until he s mils down the St. Lawrence.

One extract will also show the way that this system
of terror is workinA- in that province ; and we ask her
MAJESTY'S Ministers what they expect from such a
system ? Matters have come to a fine pass when gen-
tlemen who desire to hold Commissions in the militia
of Canada arc to be deemed in
-famous. Think of
that, Lord MELBOURNE!

THIS IS THE WAY THE TERRORISM wonxs!
The late dismissals from the Magistracy and Militia, by
Lord Gosford, are producing very good fruit on the River
Chambly. In the county of Richelieu, the people are in-
sisting that all the remaining officers of Militia (Magi-
strates there are none, now), should throw up their Com-
missions, as they consider it a disgrace to serve under the
the present Government. One unfortunate Captain has
hesitated to accede to the public wishes. The consequence
is that he has been honoured nightly with a Charivari,
which it is determined to keep up until he obeys. At the
dinner the other day, at St. Denis, it was, we understand,
solemnly resolved, to hold any man it fitmous who would
hereafter accept a Commission in the Magistracy, or
Militia, from the present head of the administration. The
intention is seriously entertained in several Counties of this
District, by the Canadians and the other Reformers, to
throw up, en masse, all the Commissions which they now
hold in the Militia and Magistracy, and to let the Gc-
vernment get along the best way it can without the aid of
the people.

But the following correspondence with Mr. A MIOT,
Member of the 'louse of Assembly in Lower Cana:la
for the County of Vercheres, will better explain how
wild and tyrannical the pranks of a Whig Governor
can go :

►'IVOGREtsB Or THE REIGN Or TRRLOR.
Correspondence between the Civil Secretary and Pierre
Amiot, Esq., J.P.

Chateau St. Louis, Quebec, Aug. 8, 1837.
Sir—The attention of the Governor-in-Chief having
lately been called to a report, contained in the Vindicator
newspaper of the 26th of May last, of the proceedings
of a meeting held on the 15th of the same month, in the
County of Vercheres, at which it is reported that you
have taken an active part, and at which resolutions have
been passed, the object of which was a violation of the laws
which it is your duty to respect and maintain, I have re-
ceived his Excellency's orders to address you, as holding a
Commission from the Crown, that you inform me if you
wore or were not present at that meeting ; and, if you were,
I must ask you if you have any explanation to offer in your
justification.---I have the honour to be, &c.,

(Signed) S. WALCOTT, Civil Secretary.
Pierre Amiot, Esq., J.P., Vercheres.

MR. AMIOT'S REPLY TO THE ABOVE.

Quebec, 18th August, 1837.
Sir—l received your letter of the Bth inst. at the mo-
ment of my departure for Quebec. This is the reason that
I have not answered it sooner. Be so good as to inform
his Excellency that I did attend the meeting of the county

cf Vcrcheres, which took place a long time ago, to wit., on
the 13th of May last ; and in doing so, I considered I was
exercising one of the most essential rights of a British sub-
ject. Convinced that his Excellency has no right to ask of
me any explanations on this matter, I do not pretend to
give him any.

I s'-all confine myself to remarking, that as representa-
tive of the county of Vercheres, I believe it to be may duty to
take an active part at a meeting, the ol?ject if which was,
to protest against a flagrant violation of one of our consti-
tutional laws of the highest importance, and whit_th by ac-
cepting the trust of my constituents, I formally pledged
myself to maintain in all its integrity. I have the hquvur
to be, &c,

PIERRE AMIOT.
S. Walcott, Esq..
CIVIL SECRETARiIh Ia.IOINDER TO MR. AMIOTIS
Chateau St. Louis, Quebec, Auguot; 1.837.
SIR—I have the orders of the Governor-in-Chief to ac-
knowledze the ft etAiit of your letter of the 18th ;;;.i int, in
which you admit that you assisted at the meeting holden in
the county of Verchcres, on the 15th May last, whilst you
refuse to give those explanations which the Uovernor.in-
Chief demanded of you in your quality of Justice of the
Peace. It appears that smuggling, as well as other doc-
trines of ai illegal nature, was distinctly recommended at
this meeting. His Excel!ency cannot admit the expression
and propagation of those doctrines as forming any part of
the rights of a British subject. Under these circumstances
his Excellency must conclude that you approve of, and par-
ticipate in, the sentiments which have been emitted at the
meeting to which I have alluded. In confequence,he would
be shrinking from his duty, as head of the Executive Go-
vernment of this province, if he permitted you to continue
figuring in the magistracy or the militia.
Your commissions will consequently be forthwith an-
nulled.-1 have the honour to be, &c.
S. WALCOTT, Civil Secretary.
Pierre Amiot, Esq.
We ask Lord JOHN RUSSELL, does he mean to
meet Parliaments and expect to have the support of
sincere Reformers, if he sanctions such disgraceful
proceedings as these, and also of other acts equally
disgraceful, to which we shall recur? How can our
colonies prosper ? How can peace exist under such a
system of tyranny and. misrule ? How can they do
otherwise than weaken Great Britain ?

By the arrival of the Tagus steamer at Falmouth,
on Sunday, we have received advices from Lisbon of
the 4th, and from Oporto of the sth instant. The
Tagus touched at Vigo on the 6th, to take on board
the Duke of TERCEIRA and family, whose arrival in
London is hourly anticipated. Since the date of the
last arrivals, several important events have taken place
in Portugal. After the surrender of the Chartists,
the Cabinet took occasion to remind the QUEEN of
the vote of the Cortes of the 31st of August, for dis-
missing SA LDANHA and TERCEIRA from the mili-
tary service, and praying her MAJESTY now to mark
her approbation of the result of the conspiracy, by
depriving them of their rank. The QUEEN actually
refused—refused to deprive of their rank, officers
under a sentence of banishment for high treason !
After expressing their surprise at a decision which
proclaimed to the nation the Royal participation
in the Charterist rebellion, the Ministers in a body
tendered their resignations, which were accepted. The
QUEEN has ordered the Viscount SA DA BANDEIRA
to form a new Administration ; and until he cast suc-
ceed, the late Cabinet has charged itself with the ma-
nagement of the public business.

The conduct of the QUEEN, in refusing to cashier
SA LDA NHA and TERCEIRA, was equally dangerous
and impolitic ; and Esc recommend the Cortes to adopt
such measures as shall ensure the carrying of their re-
solution of the 31st of August into immediate effect.
Queen DONNA MARIA has yet to learn the duties of
a Constitutional Sovereign. Left to herself to adopt
the councils of her husband and courtiers, she
would soon ruin the country, in addition to depriving
it of every vestige of freedom conferred either by the
Charter or Constitution.

After a debate of four days, the Cortes have re-
solved to establish a second Chamber, with a view of
rendering the Portuguese institutions as uniform as
the habits of the people will admit of, with those of
Spain. A division took place on the question, when
the advocates of a Senate triumphed by a majority of
64 against 16 votes. But the grand point remains to
be settled—namely, whether the Senate shall be ap-
pointed for life by the Crown, or elected by the people
for a certain number of years. Such an extension of
the prerogative of the Crown of Portugal as the nomi-
nation of a Senate, we shall not advocate during the
reign of Queen DONNA MARIA ; and we have but
little doubt that the Cortes will see the question in a
light different from that in which we view it. A So-
vereign capable of conspiring against the constitutional
liberties of her people—of openly violating her own
solemn oaths—of kindling a civil war in the heart of
her kingdom, and doing all in her power to saturate it
with the blood of her faithful subjects, is not fit to be
entrusted with the uncontroulcd and irresponsible
power of appointing the second branch of the consti-
tutional Legislature

The Cortes have confirmed to Admiral NAPIER
LiS original pension of 6001. per annum for life, in
requital for his ►services. This is very handsome,
considering the impoverished state of the National
Exchequer. We trust an equal tneed of justice will
be extended to General BACON and his gallant com-
panions in arms, and hitherto in neglect.
The following order of the day purporting to have
been addressed to the army by Viscount : NTAS,
appeared in the Anti-English Journal the Nacional
on the 30th ult. :

" The 18th of September., 1837, in every respect equal
to the Ist of December, 1640, shows the world that Por-
tugal still produces heroes ; since if the one gave to our
valiant ancestors their independence, freeing-, them from a
foreign yoke, and making the country a great nation, the
other shows the state of our enlightenment, because it
makes us recover our ancient immunities, despising the
infamous policy, and the dangerous influence of the gold,
by which the Cabinet of a powerful nation that, by its insu-
lar situation, makes subjects of every one, seeks, as it has
done before, to corrupt our patriotism, and call us to obey
its caprices as it might do to a colony which it had con-
quered."

Our Ambassador, Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN,
lost not an instant in calling the attention of the Go-
vernment to so infamous an attack upon England.
The Ministers protested their ignorance of the whole
affair, assuring his Excellency that they had never
directly or indirectly sanctioned the publication of any
document reflecting in other than the most friendly
terms on the policy and conduct of Great Britain.
This did not satisfy his Lordship, who insisted that
this declaration should be made public, and likewise
that the order of the day should he officially de-
n _unwed a malicious forgery—both of which terms
were complied with, when it was seen that his Lord-
ship was really in earnest. Were such a tone always
employed by our Government in Portugal, we should
not have so often to complain of the insolent conduct
of the Portuguese authorities, The same observation
applies with equal force to the course pursued by our
Government in Spain.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Sunday have
been received. Their contents are quite unimportant,
with the exception of an article in the Courier
Francais relative to the military strength of the Bey
of Constantine which appears to have been greatly
exaggerated. We quote it for the information of
such of our readers as take a lively interest in the re-
sult of the African expedition t---
Advises have been this day received respecting the
forces of the Bey of Constantine, which prove that there
has been great exaggeration in almost all the information
hitherto published, and among others in the Arab letter
which has been published.
The Aga's camp, according to the advice', does not
reckon 8,000 cavalry, and the Bey's itself has not 5,000.
It is calculated that Achmet has not assembled round his
standard 9,000 2avalry in all.
" The soldiers shut up in Constantine may amount to

4,000, but they were far from being all of them Turks, as
has been said. There are not a thousand ; the remainder
are Moors, Koulouglis, and Arabs. The old Algiers lin-
nissaries—these come from Tunis in spite of the prohibi-
tion==-and those sent from Tripoli, amount but to a few
hundreds. We have heard, indeed, that others have been
lately landed at Tripoli, no doubt to proceed to Constan-
tine ; but all accounts rate the men landed at only between
seven and eight hundred men, and they cannot yet have
reached the Bey!s edibi3:
Notwithstanding his efforts; it does obi appear that
Acbmet has gathered a siiilidient OW-fillet big gannets for his
artillery ; such of his pieces as have proper earrlitges are
few in number, and he trusts very little in that means of re-
sistance. lie hopes above all that the march of our troop;
will be delayed by the difficulties of the ground, the cuttings
which he has caused to be made in all directions, and even
the bad season, which approaches. Such is the whole
secret of his late negotiations.
As for the foot soldiers composing the bulk, not the
strength of his army, it is iitiiineible to calculate their
number ; they are Kabayles, whose numbers increase or
decrease according to circumstances, and who make war
for their own account. A more important point is that of
knowing with whom the intermediate tribes will side. If,
as we may hope, the cholera do not re-appear—if the
weather continue fine, and some success mark our first
marches, it is probable that those tribes will at least oh-
se a neutrality.

According to a correspondent of the Constitutionnel,
Don CARLOS is in a dying state. The following is
an extract from that Journal of Sunday :
We have received a private letter, which announces an
important fact. Though it comes from one of our corres-
pondents, whose information invariably proves to be correct,
we think that the news requires confirmation, on account of
its importance :
" MAnalu, SEPT. 80.—The disorder after the Carlists retir-
ing from the capital is a fact too notorious to require me to
speak of it ; but a piece of intelligence which comes to us
from good authority is that Don Carlos is on the brink of
the grave. The fatigue of an incessant flight, and grief at
the failure of his plans, has impaired his health to such a
degree that it is necessary to carry him in men's arms, and
in the moment of the most urgent danger to have him sup-
ported on his horse by fire or six of his attendants. Persons
vrho are about him despair of his being able to live till he
arrives in the Biscayan Provinces, where he intends to take
refuge."

The death-bed of the PRETENDER, if he be not al-
ready dead to every feeling of remorse, cannot fail to be
terrible beyond conception.
The following extract from the Ultra-Royalist organ,
the Gazette de France, we leave to speak for itself.
The French Legitimists will never forgive England for
having been the first Power in Europe to congratulate
France on the success of the Revolution of 1830 :

The following fact, which we extract from a private
letter from London is of the greatest importance, because
it contains the first disclosure of the policy of England
with regard to our possessions in Africa.
This fact calls for an explanation from the Government.
It is necessary that people should know whether in fact
England does not recognise Algiers as a French possession.
These explanations may enable us to appreciate the con-
duct of our diplomacy, and they may perhaps assist us to
comprehend the manner by which our affairs at Algiers
have been directed since 1830 :
" A French vessel came to take in a cargo of coals for
Algiers ; the English Custom-house officers demanded a
duty of four shillings per ton ; the captain appealed to the
treaty of navigation between England and France, which
stipulates a reciprocity, and according to which there was
no duty to pay, because he was going to convey those coals
to a French possession. The Custom-house officers on the
spot answered that he might apply to the Commissioners
of Customs at London. The Commissioners have decided
that he must pay the four shillings. because Englaad did
not consider Algiers as a French possession."—Gazette de
France.

By the Eleanor, LAIDMAN, letters and papers have
been received this morning horn Calcutta to the 3d of
June.

The plague, according to the latest advices, still
prevailed extensively in Marwar, but its malignancy
had considerably abated.
A great action had taken place between the Aff-
ghauns and Sikhs on the Ist of May. It commenced
by an attack made by the Sikhs under the command of
HURREE SINGH NULWA, on the fort of Jumrood. A
breach was made in the walls, and HURREE SINGH'S
force attempted to storm it, but were driven back with:con-
siderable loss. HURREE SINGH received two sword
and one gun shot wound, and fell fighting. He ap-
pears to have behaved very gallantly, and is reported,
when dying, to have told his attendants not to men-
tion his death until they had deposited his body in the
heart of the enemy's citadel. The Commander of the
Affghauns, MAHOMMED UFZUL KHAN, was also
killed in action. Seven thousand men on both sides
are said to have been slain ; the victory was dearly
purchased by the Affghauns. The Affghauns had
since commenced a retreat.

The following are the only extracts which we can
give to-day

Ave.—We understand that authentic intelligence has
been received from the capital of Ava to the 2.-Ith April,
to the effect that the Prince of Tharawadi has gained the
entire ascendancy, and taken on himself the administration
of the Kingdom. The capital had been invested and taken
by the Prince's force, and the revolution was complete ; it
appears to have been fortunately marked by an absence of
bloody executions. Combining this with the intelligence
that the Prince's flag was flying at Rangoon, it is clear
that his authority is now very firmly, and widely esta-
blished.

The British Residency was safe, and had been duly re-
•pected.—Calcuule Courier, May 27.
FIRES IN CALCUTTA.—During the last week, the fires
in Calcutta have been far more destructive than for many
years past. The extreme drought which has rendered every
thing combustible, may in part account for these extensive
fires. Still, however, there is reason to suppose that some
incendiaries must have been at work. The following ac-
count of them we extract from our Contemporaries :
No less than twenty deaths occurred on Thursday.
Three within the town, and seventeen in Moonshee's
Bazaar. The latter number all in one house, which
was situated in the centre of a bazaar, surrounded with
straw out-offices. The building was pukah, and the
different bazaar people immediately ran for protection
there, when in an instant the whole of the houses round
about were in flames, and in a short time the building
came down with a crash. The property destroyed must
be great. Many gentlemen have suffered, some of them
all that they are worth. Mr. Reed had his own house
burnt to the ground, with all his furniture. The value of
the property destroyed he estimates at 30,000 rupees.
Mr. Hayes, Captain Forth, Mr. Fabian, Mr. Augustin, and
Mrs. Rebello had their several houses partly burnt ; also
Baboo Bissonath Mooty Loll had several of his pukah
houses destroyed. The number of huts within the town
burnt yesterday is as follows, viz. :
Gooreeab Tulloh llO
Puddoopooker 5OO-1 boy and an
old woman burnt to death.
Taultulla lOO-1 man do.

Mirzapoor and Moocheepara 1,000
From the latter place the fire crossed over the ditch,
burning Moonshee's bazaar and proceeding in a straight line
to the new canal, where its progress was arrested. .
We hear that the engines returned at four o'clock in the
morning, having been employed 16 hours. Captain Birch,
Mr. McCann, and the police constables were out all that
time and exerted themselves. We further hear that the
superintendent saved the life of an old woman, by running
into a house blazing at a fearful rate. He first threw him-
self into a tank, with a blanket, anti then run in, and in a
few moments after was observed coming out with the old
woman under his arm. He then threw himself a second
time into the tank and landed safe with his burden.
At the fire across the water two women were burnt to
death, one of them in the family way.
Another destructive fire broke out to-day in Short's
Bazaar, which we hear:consumed about 500 houses. We
will give particulars on Monday.—Engl. Apr. 29.
FIRES.—Four large fires have broken out to-day in So-
babazar, Mirzapore, Brijotollah and Jaun-bazar. There
were also one or two fires in Calcutta yesterday, and in the
Cantonments at Barrackpore, the lines of the 73d N. I.
are reported to have been entirely burnt down. In all di-
rections the most grievous distress has been produced by
these extensive conflagrations.—Cul. Cour. Apr. 29.

We had the pleasure of noticing lately a splendid
entertainment given by the Reformers of North Devon
to Lord EBRINGTON. That entertainment was the
occasion of eliciting from the Noble Lord a speech
which, judging from the abuse since poured upon the
speaker by the Times, must have been very galling to
the Tories. Lord EBRINGTON, whose character
and talents must give authority to every thing
that he litters, paid some high compliments t°

the Q.U.Et:N's Ministers, and stated his fixed
determination tosupport them in their Irish policy,
which he considered the only policy by which Itch;id
could be tramptilliied, or even preserved an integral
part of the empire, utterly regardless of the cry that
might possibly be raised that he was d joint of the
" O'Connell tail." Berein lies the secret of the:;r-
rilous attack made upon his Lordship by the apostate
organ of Toryism. It has been in the cootant habit
of twitting every Member of the House of Commons
that vvaS desirous of doing justice to Ireland, with
being nothing else than the subservient tool of Mr.
O'CoNNELL—ready to do his bidding on all occasions,
and at sill hazards. It is possible that the fear of this
accusation may have had some effect upon the minds
of timid men, and that the base purpose of the Times
may have been answered to a certain extent, Lord
EBRINGTON, however, is tfiJi a man of that stamp.
He spetiio the sentiments too of the Whigs in the
House of Commons, and it is therefore doubly dis-
tressing to the Times to find its favourite weapon of
assault set at defiance, and the decided course of the
moderate party announced by the man who may, more
justly than any other, be called its leader. If we re-
member right, there was a time when the Times wished
" there were 500 EBRINGTONs in the House of
Commons."

The EBRINGTON dinner has given birth, we pre-
sume, to what was intended to be a similar manifesta-
tion of respect on the part of the Tories to their
representative Sir T. D. ACLAND. This trumpery
affair—for such it was, notwithstanding the importance
attempted to be given to it by some of the Tory or-
gans—took place at Barnstaple last week. We wish
the North Devon Tories joy of the exhibition which
their Member made of himself on this occasion. If
their intention was to prove to thq world that they
have been careful to avoid the imputation of send-
ing a representative to Parliament who would set
the Thames on fire, we can assure them they have
succeeded to a miracle. A more satisfactory proof of
this could not possibly be afforded, than the speech
delivered by the Honourable Member at this fes-
tival. For example, when Sir T. D. ACLAND
attempts to explain his views of the course which
the New Parliament ought to pursue, we find
the following luminous winding up :—" lle (Sir
T. ACLAND) however, saw little hopes of that good
Government being attained, unless moderate men on
both sides could be brought to lay aside mischievous
extremes." Such is the strain in which the blundering
Baronet goes on from beginning to end of a speech by
no means deficient—in length.

Our readers will find in another part of the Sun of
this day a report of a dinner given yesterday to Sir
SAMUEL WHALLEY and Mr. HALL by the Re-
formers of the borough of Marylebonne. At this
dinner both the Hon. Members took occasion to con-
gratulate the company on the perfect unanimity that
prevailed among the Liberal electors of the borough,
thereby refuting the slanders that the Tory journals
have been circulating for some time past with so much
zeal and activity. Sir SAMUEL WHALLEY observed,
"It could not be denied that the Reform party
were weaker in this Parliament than they had been in
the last ; but this circumstance was far from making
him despair, as it would teach the people a great moral
lesson, that it was only owing to the want of the
Ballot." This is just the light in which to regard
the results of the late elections. Had the Ballot been
then in existence the Tory faction would have been all
but extinct in the House of Commons. It is a ques-
tion therefore that cannot be too often brought before
the public eye.

It has been stated by an Evening Paper, " that her
MAJESTY has signified to the Council of the King's
College that she takes a warm interest in the pros-
perity of the institution, and has commanded that her
name shall be recorded as its Patroness." We do
hope that her MAJESTY takes an interest in the pros-
perity of that and of every other establishment for edu-
cation, and we hope that under her auspices a system
of education, comprehensive enough to include all
classes and all sects, will soon appear. In the mean-
time we express our doubts that her MAJESTY would
go out of her way to give preferable countenance to
• an institution which was established in opposition to
the London, now called the University College, and
thus inflict an insult on the University. We will
not believe that her MAJESTY'S advisers, some of
them original supporters of the London University,
would recommend such an insult as her MAJESTY'S
patronage to the King's, and the passing by the Uni-
versity College, would be. We have rejoiced at the
establishment of both Colleges in the metropolis, where
they were so much wanted, and we wish them both
to prosper ; but, if a preference is to be given to
one of them, we must say that the University Col-
lege, which admits all sects of religionists, deserves
the patronage of a liberal SOVEREIGN in preference to
the King's College, which is the place of education
for one sect or class of Christians—namely, those of
the Church of England. It is by its rules an exclu-
sive establishment, and therefore can only benefit one
class of the people ; whilst the University College ad-
mits all ^nd benefits all who choose to attend. We
again say, that we will not believe that her MAJESTY
has acted on such limited and narrow grounds as to
prefer the exclusive and pass by the liberal institution.
We think such statements as that which we ❑ow notice
from an Evening Paper ought not to be made unless
correct ; and that we do not believe.

It is currently reported in Vienna that the Aus-
tri in Government intend in the course of November to
publish an official account of the revenue and expenditure
of the whole monarchy. The merit of this important inno-
vation is attributed to Count Kolowrat.

During the Emperor of Russia's stay at WO3-
nesensk, on one occasion, the bands of all the regiments
encamped for the manoeuvres were united, forming en
orchestra of upwards of 1,500 performers. They then exe-
cuted the loyal melody, " God preserve our Emperor," and
the effect is described as surpassing all conception.
The Cracow Gazette contains a resolution of the
Senate by which the 7th and 11th articles of the Constitu-
tion of the Republic are changed ; and by another resolu-
tion of the Senate an additional article is appended to the
Constitution, on the subject of the administration of the
police.

On Saturday morning a gentleman named Rollins,
of No. 10, Dudley-grove, Camberwell, cut his throat with
a razor. Death immediately ensued. No cause is as-
signed for the commission of the rash act.
MELANCHOLY AND SUDDEN DEATH.—A tall
gentlemanly person, who has lodged for some time at Mr.
Josling's, Red Lion, London-wall, was this morning found
dead on his bed, deluged in blood.
We are authorised to state that the correspondence
which took place between Lord Dundonald and Mr. Henry
Brooks, whose name appeared in one of our recent police
reports, related exclusively to a loan of 30/. requested by
the latter, upon the allegation this sum was required as a
deposit in consideration of an excellent situation he was
about to obtain—the Noble Lord had wished him success.
but it was success in obtaining the lucrative situation of
which he had spoken.—Morning Paper.
Our excellent Bishop (Dr. Copleston) is still la-
bouring under severe illness.—Merthyr Guardian, Sept. 30.
The well-known Joseph Wolff, in his unceasing
wanderings, has again reached India ; much altered, it is
said, for the worse in bodily health, and for the better in
spirit and demeanour. He had suffered severely from fever
in Sennaar and appeared milder and much less impetuous
on hie return to Bombay, than he was when, two or three
years ago, when he left it.—Bengal Hurkeru.
A melancholy death occurred last week, in the case
of a child at Murrayshall, in the neighbourhood of Perth.
The tea-kettle having been taken off the fire, the infant put
its mouth to the pipe, and sucked out the boiling liquid,
which caused almost instant death.--Edinburgh Evening
Courant.

CI 1 ELVE O'CLOCK.
Ti e Gibral!,:r Clireilielc of the t>th of September has
tic f
Gaudasa, so lately relieved he a column from Catalo
was again besieged, aiid closely pressed in on the 1001-
All the fountains are without the walls. and the inhabitants.
(tare not drink the water, as the be&egers poison it.
e?cry night."
Accounts from the coinof S:eily of the 7th inst. arc
m
of a favourable nature. Palermo was said to be nearly
free from Cholera ; Messina entirely so, but in Catania it
was still raging frightfully.
Advices from Aticona, via Corfu, state that the town
and port are in good ; but the accounts received
through this channel of the progress of the cholera at
Rome are far from satisfactory.
Advices from Smyrna state, that from the 9th to tile
21st ult. only twenty cas,s of the play had "curred'
o
and that from the last mentioned date to the sth inst., no
symptoms of the disease had appeared.
The Coifit Gazette announces the intelligence of an
earthquake which took place in the island of Zante on
3d instant, at nine o'clock in the morning, which damaged
almost every house in the town. The shock lasted lalf a
minute, and was followed during the day by three oihers
less violent.
The Lisbon Papers, to the 4th October, bring the news
that on the 2d instant the Cortes decided, by a majority of
64 against 16, in favour of two Chambers, and on the fol-
lowing day the Cortes occupied itself in organizing the
the
second Chamber. All was tranquil at Lisbon. private
letters from Lisbon, of the 4th instant, state it was probable
that the whole of the Portuguese Ministry would be changed
very soon.

THE FUNDS.
Although very little business was doing in the course of
yesterday, owing to the absence of the Hebrews from the
Stock Exchange, nevertheless Consols closed firm at 92-1
e
for Money, and for the Account, opened this morning at th
slme ; Exchequer Bills, 51 53 prem. ; India Bonds, 53

; Bank Stock, 2121.
cried
Spanish Active closed at 201, with Coupons, and op
at the same ; Portuguese closed at 394 ; Three per Cents.,
m-
-25f ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 53i ; Colo
bian, 2G4 ; Mexican Bonds, Five per Cents., 24.
HALF-PAST ONE.
Extract of a letter from an officer of the old Bsh
Legion, dated September, 1837 :—" I am just informed
that General O'Donnell is on his way from Madrid, with
money and bills for the Legion ; and when he comes be
will be a little surprised to find half his Legion, with 14
officers, all murdered. They had a severe action yesterday
(Sept. 13). I went out to Andoaine, about ten miles from
this place (San Sebastian) to see it, and had left Andoaine
to go to a height to have a better view, when in less than
10 minutes our men were surrounded by about 3000 Carlists,
and all from the cowardice of a Spanish regiment. I have
just learnt the fate of five officers and about thirty soldiers,
who defended themselves in the church of Andoaine, the town
where the action took place. These poor fellows were ing-
duced to surrender under the promise of the enemy givn
them quarter, and quarter they gave them, with s!
vengeance. They were all taken to Tolosa, situated
about six miles from Andoaine ; and, at the back of the
Convent in that town, were brought out on the folio"
ing morning, and were murdered in the follow
ing manner, with the other poor fellows looking °°'
They were brought out, one by one, by four soldiers, tvc°
in the rear, who with the butt end of their muskets
beat out their brains, and the other two in front, stick"
ing them with their bayonets ; and the women, who
were equally if not more inveterate, pelting them wit"
stones. The remainder of our poor fellows were mur-
dered on the ground. We have lost about 150 Eng-
lish soldiers, and about 400 Spaniards ; this loss as
occasioned by two Spanish Regiments running away wwith:
out firing a shot. General O'Connell has just returee?,
from Madrid, and has brought nothing but promises. 45"
soldiers, and 119 officers of the old Legion are now remain"
ing without any means of getting to England."
Up to the present hour both the British and Foreig?
Markets are in an inactive state, and up to 12 o '
only one bargain in Consols was done for money.
Report says that there will be a considerable defieleneYd
in the revenue this quarter ; it is singular it has not ba
any effect on Consols.
Ex-
Consols are at present 92i Money, 921 Account ;
chequer Bills, 50 prem. ; India Bonds, 52 prem.; 1".'3
loetc

Stock, 2601.
In the Foreign Market the news from Lisbon bas not
had any effect on the Portuguese Securities, 394 ; 'fl "
per Cents., 254 ; Spanish Active, 20h, with Coupons.
Nothing doing in any other foreign Stocks.
771111111 0' IL 0 CA.;

Consols for the Account, 92i.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Salk Stock Omnium 0-714
3 per Cent. Red. 92% India Stock .. 52
3 per Cent. Cons 92% Ditto Ltonde ..,... ............... .•
.....,
3y., per Cent.
...,
3; per Cent. Red 100% Ditto Old Annuities .............
New 3% per Cent. 911% Ditto New Annuities .........•••
n,,
1 per Cent. Assented . Ex. Bills, 10(1)1 2%d, ... 50 P
Dissented Ditto 500/ 50 P"'"
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 501
Jas. 1860 l5 q
Oct 1850
Jan. 1860 Consols
tit:
skallo
iStock
tStockfosac.rk
Aff. ooc rrt . OA pc gt . ,
~
~
..
..
.. :
............ 2. .
..
2:
FOREIGN
Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent
44
DpPnoitritsouslgauss Bppeorint
tcd0e5.:1.5...p...e....r.....c...e...n....t....7;
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent .........
COilian, 6 per cent ! Ditto, Metallic ..............«,•••. 20 i,.
Colombian, 6 per cent
_-
Ditto' 1834
__c.
Danish, 3 per cent 7. LA ' French, 5 pet cent .........
..t: _-c.
Greek Bonds, 1825,5 per cent — Exchange ............... .. •••
....! --c•
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....., } Dutch, 2i per cent. ....... ••"": 191
eerovian, 1525. 6 per cent..,. 1 Ditto, 5 per cent ..... ..... ••• •
SHA RAS 142
London and Birmingham Railway
London and Southampton (New)
South Eistern and Dove" Railwa y
e' 180.1
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One 0
List.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT.
There has been rather more enquiry for Cotton to-daY,
about 2,500 bags sold, but no change in prices sinne
day, and the market still continues dull. The operation.
are 150 Pernams at 9d. to ; 130 Bahias, 7id., to spa
250, Carthagcnas, sbd. ; 400 Surats at 3d. to 54d•' ,„
the American, :from W. to 7,1-d. per lb. 200 Surats hat'

been taken for export. ket
The General Steam Navigation Company's pac ea
Neptune, with the Hamburg mail of Friday last, arPrsl
off the Tower yesterday morning, after a passage c"
hours. of
We have to announce the death of the Queeilio
Delhi, Begum Moomtaz Mebel. on the 03d instant, fr op

a paralytic stroke,
her returnfrom celebwria'iteilnigsetlitze;dl\
pebraularrnistdll:::alp6pt leittip:: S.(liti4g:cftn'ce
days April
A
fashionable upholsterer in
coming
purPolm'eiserum.—DeMi Ga'letit''
ev(
first stage. on his wa,
counts. eaving
aydefitocitof2;ollo,ooo francs in his de"
He had taken a cabriolet to conduct him to the
Brussels, and on the i .„,
edriver of tlirelalbl
land ofr trig,
dismissedri
theotll teetf,rcaaoLbintri
his
sleehrt
teat nuhdrann,pkfrroouucpnetedi d
ae.
ofdp
o toc;
.blolok laving on one' of the cushions, and prop the
very
brought it to the Commissary of Police, when, from ''a
papers found therein, it became sufficiently evident int'''-v
the gentleman had no intention to return. to France as
his creditor t
hurry. It was, however, some consolation to wtin
that the pocket-book contained bank-notes the an to
of 100,000 francs. a wran
On Tuesday Lord Morpeth arrived at ,—°; er
Castle, and on Wednesday- accompanied by h's sg-sti:,
Lady Dover, Lord Clifden', Hon. Leopold 4-garvi—s: visaed
Hon. Mr. and Lady Caroline Lascelles, and 501°' :,i- tthe
Dungarvan. An immense number of' Pers"s in-- the
and escorted
cortege between Gowran and Dungarvan,
noble party into the latter town. The Iles'. Mr• Ridge, n
on the part of the inhabitants, addressed his Lordship,
~ „au ts
improveliiis
stated how grateful they felt for the many
making on the estates, and for the desire evinced by his
the
Lordship and relatives to ameliorate the condition 0' .04
people. Lord Morpeth, in his reply, expressed his °ft lig,
to assist in promoting the welfare of the country. 14°' it .
he said, could more tend to make Ireland hapPY thon
ob..
continuance of that peace which, he was delig-hted t
osva
serve, now prevailed. Notwithstanding the obstacles thre
__A
in.n their way, he was sure the Government would sue ,e,o`;
i accomplishing those measures for the success of which
every true friend of Ireland was anxious, as they would era
theof
the
of securins, the permanent peace and Pr•°slLord'
.. country, After some further remarks, hl!_ an
ship concluded by thanking them for their attention.sLed
respect. The multitude then accompanied the disting_VT_Ded,
party as far as Kilfane, whence they proceeded to w.,° ,„,0
LordshiP will 6,
stock, the residence of Mr. Ti h His gG. pan
from Woodstock to Besborough, the seat of Lord
cannon.—Kilkenny Journal. -tainted 1°
We understand that the Commission app--- ~.,
_ in cam'
into the condition of the hand-loom weavers Iv . _,......
mence their labours about the beginning of November
Manchester Guardian. sun
The Dowager-Duchess of Leeds expired on
severe
night, at her residence in Grosvenor-street, after a se„v.v,o
illness, of short duration. Her Grace was Mistress oci_iPat
Robes to the Queen Dowager. Ella was daughtdike
Thomas Anguish, Esq., and was married to the late 14
in October, 1788, being his second wife. Cotgl'
At a late meeting of the Gloucester Town re,
cil, it was resolved that the suit now depending i,", he
gird to the will of the late James Wood, Esq., shotra_t;
pr .secuted with zeal, and an additional grant of one tfluta,
~ n I pounds from the Corporation Funds was voted +
that purpose.