The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WlNnson, MARCH s.—His Majesty rode out yesterday
morning, attended by Sir William Freemantle, in the Great
Park. Their Majesties attended Divine Service this•morning
in the private chapel of the Castle ; the Rev. Mr. Gossett
officiated. The Queen is expected to attend the service at
St. George's Chapel, this evening. The Rev. Mr. Gore,
Minor Canon in residence, will officiate. The service is
King's in B, and the anthem " 0 where shall wisdom be
found ?" (Dr. Boyce).
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their
Royal Highnesses' Household, attended Divine Service yester-
day. The service was performed by the Dean of Chester.
Mr. William Maury and Mr. Oxley, deputed by the Ame-
rican Chamber of Commerce, and the importers of tobacco at
Liverpool, and accompanied by Viscount Sandon and Mr.
Ewart, M. P., also by Mr. G. Evans, M.P., Mr. W. James,
Mr. Callaghan, M. P., and Mr. Thornely, M. P., had an in-
terview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
on the subject of a reduction of the duty on Tobacco.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Sa-
turday afternoon. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne,
the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Dun-
cannon, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Mr.
Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howick, and Lord Holland. The
Council sat an hour and a half.

Mr. A. Chisholm, Mr. C. Cumming Bruce, Mr. George
Sinclair, Mr. J. A. Stewart Mackenzie, Mr. W. F. Campbell,
and the deputation from the High Court of Scotland, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday,
in Downing-street.
_ _ _

The Hanoverian Minister and M. de Hummelauer trans-
acted business at the Foreign Office on Saturday.
Lord John Russell gave a Parliamentary dinner on Satur-
day evening, at his residence in Wilton-crescent, to Lords—
G. Lennox and Acheson ; Sirs—O. Mosley, H. Verney, C.
Blunt, and J. Wrottesley ; Messieurs—D. Barclay, R. Etwall,
R. Alston, J. Collier, F. Buxton, E. L. Bulwer, Townley,
Hutt, and C. Buller, and Captain F. Berkeley.
The Earl and Countess of Bradford have left Farrance's
Hotel to take possession of their new mansion in Belgrave-
square.

A deputation from some of the metropolitan parishes, ap-
pointed to obtain an equalization of the unredeemed land tax
in England and Wales, bad an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer on Saturday. The deputation included Mr
Evans, Chairman ; Messrs. Pugb, Wilks, Taylor, Marriott,
Hall, Moore, Ammarson, Holt, Lott, Scorell, T. Walker,
Tulow, Miller, Wagstaff, Barton, Tuck, Mayes, Lacey,
Crouch, Jones, Tolley, James Hall, Shape, W. H. Walker,
Burnett, Carrell, Forbes, Eden, Charles Warton, Thomas
Murphy, Drummond, Thomson, Grant, Smith, Brown, Tap-
ster, Stanuard, and Daniel Lamont, Hon. Secretary.

Lord L-Neson is at present residing with his rela-
tive, the Duke of Devonshire, at Devonshire-house.
On Monday last the Earl of Chesterfield came up
to town to attend the funeral of his aunt, the Hon. Mrs.
Arthur Stanhope, who died in Tylney-street the preceding
Tuesday, after two days' illness. His Lordship left Chester-
field-house on Thursday last for l3retby-park.
Lord Francis Egerton gave a grand dinner to a
party of the Members of the House of Commons on Saturday
evening. •
Lord and Lady Mahon will give a sumptuous din-
ner on Wednesday next, in Grosvenor-place.
Lord Duncannon continues indisposed in Grafton-
street.

Lord St. Helen's, who entered his 85th year on
Tuesday last, is, we are sorry to say, in a bad state of health.
The Speaker's Levee on Saturday on Carlton-
House-terrace was very numerously attended by the M. P.'s
at present in London.
Viscount Southwell, an Irish Catholic Peer, and
not the Earl of Kenmare, is expected to he the new Knight of
the Order of St. Patrick, in the room of the late Earl of
Fingal.
Lord Leveson is at present sojourning with his
uncle, the Duke of Devonshire, at Devonshire-house, Pic-
cadilly.
The Earl of Alnlgrave, who was expected to arrive
in town, from Dublin, before Easter, has postponed his de-
parture Gum Ireland sine die. The proxy of the Noble Earl
is in the hands of the Premier, it is said.
Earl and Countess do Grey, accompanied by Mr.
and Lady Mary Vyncr, have arrived at St. James's-Equare, for
the season, from Wrest Park.
The Earl of Yarborough is building'a new schooner
yacht, the lltstler, which is to be launched in May next.
The new Spanish Minister, Don Manuel d'Aguilar,
has taken a mansion in Win pole-street.
The Earl of Chesterfield came up express from
Butby, in consequence of the decease of his aunt, Mrs. Arthur
Stanhope, of Tilney-street, Park. lane.
The Countess of Essex has perfectly recovered
from her severs illness.
The naval Commander-in-chief on the North Ame-
rican station, Sir Peter Halkett, has just succeeded to the
baronetcy of his brother, Sif Charles Halkett, Bart., of Pit-
tirrane.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married, by spe-
cial license, on Saturday last, at St. George's Church, Ha-
nover-square, by the Rev. Henry Moore, Vicar of Rathcon-
nell, in Ireland, the Hon. James Hope, M. P. for Linlithgow
county, second son of the late Earl of Hopetoun, to Lady
Mary Frances Nugent, youngest daughter of the late Earl,
and sister to the present Marquis of Westmeath.
Lord Lynedoch gave a most sumptuous entertain-
ment yesterday, at his house in Stratton-street, Piccadilly, to
twenty-four General Officers, in honour of the battle of Barrosa.
The Hon. Mr. B. and Lady Harriet Baring, gave
a sumptuous dinner on Saturday, to the Duke of Devonshire
and a distinguished party.
Mr. Gaily Knight gave a dinner on Saturday last,
in Lower Grosvenor-street.
The Countess of Sandwich has issued cards for her
first party for the season, on the loth inst., in Carlton-gardens.
Sir Robert Peel entertained a numerous party of
Conservative Members of the House of Commons at dinner,
on Saturday eveninr, in Privy-gardens.
The Dowager Lady Cawdor entertained the Duchess
Countess of Sutherland and a select party at dinner on Sa-
turday, in Berkeley-square.
The Marquis of Lansdowne gave a grand dinner
party, on Saturday, at Lansdowne House, to the Foreign Am-
bassadors and Ministers and a distinguished party.
Mr. Powell entertained Viscount Canterbury, Lord
Lyndhurst, Count d'Orsay, Lord Allen, Hon. Henry Manners
Sutton, Messrs. Auriol, Knight, C. Greville, &c., at dinner
on Friday evening, in George-street, Hanover-square.
The Duchess of Northumberland, who was ap-
pointed governess of the Princess Victoria by George the
Fourth, is about to resign her functions--her Grace's eleve
being on the eve of attaining her majority.• The Princess will
be of age in May.
Last Saturday night, just after the doors of Madame
Vestris's theatre had been opened, and the people comfortably
seated in the pit, an Irish fruitseller ran after a gentleman who
had purchased a shilling's worth of oranges, and begged of him
to change a bad shilling which he (the gentleman) had paid
him. The Irishman having become abusive the stranger
handed the man a shilling, of the goodness of which there
could be no doubt, at the same time receiving back the
"spurious" piece of money, which proved to be an Indian
gold coin of the value of 1/. 15s.

We have received the painful intelligence, that Mr.
Davidson, the traveller, within fourteen days' journey of Tim-
buetoo, has been murdered. This event will produce a very
great effect throughout the scientific circles of Europe, as the
greatest hopes were entertained of his success.
KING'S THEATRE.—La Donna del Lago was
given at this theatre on Saturday for the debut of signora R.
do Angioli in the part of Elena, and Signor Deval in that of
Rodrigo. The other characters were allotted—Malcolm to
Miss F. Wyndham, nerto to Signor Catone, Douglas to
Signor Bellini, and Albina to Madame Castelli. Signora R.
de Angioli is not without judgment, and there are qualities in
her voice which in compositions of a quiet and unpretending
character may obtain for her some standing as a concert singer
—but for the stage, and above all for prima donna at this thea-
tre, she is altogether unqualified. In the songs she had not
power enough to contend against the orchestra, and in the
concerted pieces was overwhelmed with the other voices to the
destruction necessarily of the harmony. In Signor Deval
we cannot discover any talent for the stage, and should be
equally at a loss to assign to him any place in which he
might hope to appear to more advantage. His voice is
thin and powerless, and his manner cold and unim-
pressive. We have hinted how much Miss Wynd-
ham was benefitted by the comparison with her nominal su-
perior in rank ; we never heard her, whatever the cause, pro-
duce so much effect or sing so well. The music suited her,
and she was at home in it. Catone had his foil too on this
occasion, and stood more prominently than usual on the mu-
sical canvass. Bellini got through his part creditably, and
Madame Castelli discovered, as she usually does, notions of
good effect, without being equally successful in realizing
them. After the opera, the new ballet of Le Brigand de
Terracina was repeated, and went off with great spirit. Her-
minis Eslsler was encored in her pas seul, and Monsieur
Madille, one of the new dancers, distinguished himself, under
a quiet unpretending style, by much agility and grace. Du-
vernay was at home in her part, and as clever as usual. The
house was well attended, though not crowded, and there is
an evident disposition to patronize this theatre, it' the lessee
will but fulfil his share of the contract by providing genuine
attraction for his subscribers.

BURKE'S NEW PEERAGE AND BARONETA GE
FOR 1837.--The new edition of this splendid work has at
length appeared, and realizes in the fullest extent the antici-
pations which the lengthened period devoted to its revision
led us to expect. We have no hesitation in describing it as
the most complete and comprehensive work of the deicription
ever issued from the press; for it contains within its pages the
whole hereditary rank of the United Kingdom, ccmprising the
genealogical histories of all families of eminence, interspersed
with historical and biographical anecdotes of deep interest, and
detailing their wide spreading connections, generation after
generation, which embraces, as a matter of course, a great
proportion of the untitled gentry.
PARLIAMENTARY LOSS OF C RED IT.—The
jority for the- further exemption of Members of the House of
Commons from the law of arrest, will not get credit for their
votes among the fashionable tradesmen at the west end of the
town,

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1837.

Never was a measure more happily contrived to recon-
cile the conflicting views and angry passions of men in the
settlement of a great national question, than that which the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought before the Le-
gislature on Friday last. The country already breathes
more freely. The public mind is suddenly relieved from
that oppressive load of anxiety and apprehension under
which it has been labouring ; for what can be contemplated

with more anxiety, nay, with more dread, by all who have
the welfare of their country at heart, than the prospect of
seeing the community involved in a contest, the issue of
which none can foresee, and in the progress of which the
firmest bonds that hold society together—the bonds of
peace, brotherhood, and charity—are sure to be rent asun-
der ? From this greatest of all calamities an enlightened
Government, ever watchful for the public welfare, has pro-
vided a means of escape equally unexpected and effectual.
And how has this been done ? By sacrificing the interests
or prejudices of one party to those of another? By giving
a triumph to the Dissenter over the Churchman, or to the
Churchman over the Dissenter ? No—this would have
afforded no cause for public gratulation—but by relieving
the one from that which he feels to be an intolerable burden,
not only without imposing a single particle of it on the
other, but by actually putting him in a better position than
he was in before. The Ministerial measure extinguishes
Church-rates as a tax on the community, and provides for
the repair of the Churches and the maintenance of public
worship -within them, without making an inroad either on
the property or the principles of the Establishment. This
is the coils ummation which we devoutly wished for, but
which, we confess, we hardly expected to see realized.

We know that this view of the measure will not please
the Tories. We are prepared for the old cry of
" robbery," " spoliation," " sacrilege," and all the other
cant terms; which political hypocrites employ to serve
their own selfish ends. Indeed the cry has already
been rvised, as our readers will perceive from the
extracts -which we have given from the principal organs of
that tur'bulent faction, which must be put down before this
nation c: in hope to enjoy peace. It matters not what the
propositi on is, provided it come from the Government ;
that is r(tason sufficient to procure for it the hostility of this
nest of vi'pers ; and this hostility is always venomous in pro-
portion to• the excellence of the measure against which it is
directed, and to the credit which is reflected on the Adminis-
tration.

It must, however, be a source of infinite satisfaction to
the counC,ry to see how invulnerable by these " puny
whipsters". is the plan proposed by the Government for
setting at r( .st the great question of Church-rates. What can
even the 9:"imes bring against it but a few sophisms ? It
endeavours, indeed, to lash itself into fury ; but where is
the single t.) ring worthy of being called an argument which

it advances ? It calls the new measure a " flagitious rob-
bery." Ar id why? Because a source of wealth which does
not now es ist is called into being by the Legislature, and
applied tot the support of the Established Church. Where
is the rol Jbery ? Who suffers by this ? Who is
deprived gY f a farthing which he possessed before ? Not
one. The Times is fond of quoting authorities. What
will it say rto the declaration of its favourite, Lord STAN-
LEY, oa •this point? When that Noble Lord brought
forward ,e Irish Church Temporalities Bill, by which

an additional value was given to Church lands, it was
contended by Sir ROBERT PEEL and others, that this
newly created surplus should be given to the Church.
" No," said the Noble Lord, " I say to the STATE 1"
The Noble Lord was correct in his logic. The surplus
was entirely the creature of the State, and belonged
entirely to it. But how much stronger must this argument
be, in the opinion of all who look with horror upon any sem-
blance of an appropriation of Church property to secular pur-
poses, when it is applied to the present case. The cases are
precisely similar, as far as the creation of the fund is con-
cerned, but there is this difference in the application of it,
that whereas Lord STANLEY contended for a secu-
lar appropriation, Mr. SPRING RICE devotes the whole
to purposes strictly ecclesiastical—to the repairs of churches,
the maintenance of worship, the additional accommo-
dation of the poor, and to the augmentation of small liv-
ings. Can any man in his senses say—and be sincere when
he says—that this is a " flagitious robbery" of the Church,
or that it is not one of the best measures ever devised for
the benefit of the Church ?

The Times asks, " What do they (the Dissenters) mean
by telling us that every sect ought to pay its own clergy,
as well as keep its own places of worship in repair ? Is
not that a direct menace, that when they have once abo-
lished Church-rates, they will go for a confiscation of
tithe ?" Now, we will tell the Times, that there is
no menace whatever in this against tithe, which does
not in fact exist, and is therefore beyond the reach of
menace ; and we will state further, for the information of
our Contemporary, who luckily for the interests of truth is
not blessed with a good memory, that what the Dissenters
mean is exactly what the Times meant in 1834, when
it indited the following words :—" What are Church-
rates but the most nefarious exactions, when levelled
against our Dissenting brethren ? The ALMIGHTY
has left man's conscience free, and it is therefore a rob-
bery in the eyes of Heaven to extort from a man support
for that creed which he does not believe."

There have been one or two small Conservative festival s
held during the past week, and, among others, one at Beacons-
field, for the purpose of celebrating the return of Mr. HAR-
COURT for Buckinghamshire. We are surprised that the
Conservatives can muster up the courage to look festivity
in the face, at a period of tribulation like the present,
when desertions are of such frequent occurrence among
their ranks, and their faction is at the last extremity of
decrepitude. The late majority of eighty against them—
and on a question, too, on which they had put forth all
their numerical strength, and exhausted every weapon
-in the armoury of their logic—would, we should have
supposed, have sickened them of the very idea of a
festival. At Beaconsfield, however, it is but just to
observe, there was merely the name of the thing : the spirit
was wholly wanting ; for nothing could possibly be more
dull—nothing more disheartening—than the speeches deli-
vered by the Tory adherents of Mr. HARCOURT—say,
rather, of the Marquis of CHANDOS. There were none
of the usual boastines, or parade of confidence. The spirits
of the company were evidently at the lowest ebb ; and all
they had to say was, a few tame, common-places, in laud of
their newly-elected representative. How different this
from the Bucks Conservative oratory during the recess !
Then the faction was all hope and confidence. No sooner
should Parliament meet, than it would drive Lord MEL-
BOURNE from the helm ; annihilate the entire Whig
phalanx ; and instal itself snugly and securely in Down-
ing-street. The Conservatives put forth no such boasts
now. They hold occasional festivals, it is true, but the
heart of festivity is wholly inert, being paralysed, and past
the power of healthy action. It is Tor the Reformers to
rejoice now ; as for the Conservatives, the best advice we
can give them, is to put themselves into a state of sad and
solemn preparation for attending the obsequies of Toryism,
now at its last gasp.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been
received. The Mani!cur of Saturday contains the following
telegraphic despatch from Marseilles, dated March 2, half-
past four o'clock, p. m.

" The French Consul at Valencia writes that the 2d brigade
of the division of the Army of the Centre, destined to cover
the plain of Valencia, has ceased to exist. The officer who
commanded it has blown out his brains. The cavalry took to
flight ; the rest fell into the power of the enemy."
Upon this official communication the Constitutionnel of
the same evening has the following commentary :--
" The Telegraphic Dispatch, published by the Government,
might alarm the friends of the Queen of Spain if it were intel-
ligible ; but its obscurity; the vagueness of the statements, the
absence of names and dates, suffice to prove that it is of little
importance. It is doubtless one of those insignificant epi-
sodes so common in the Spanish Chouannerie, and which,
for what purpose we know not, endeavours are made to mag-
nify into important events."
The latest accounts from San Sebastian are to the
evening of the 28th ult. All is ready for the grand attack
apon the Carlists, which only waits for the co-operation of
EOPARTERO. Eight men belonging to the 6th Regiment
fell into the hands of a party 'of Carlists, as they were
straggling from their quarters at Lugariz, in the vicinity
of San Sebastian. They were without arms of any kind,
and after a desperate struggle five of them were taken and
carried to Hernani. The other three escaped. The five
taken by the Carlists were instantly condemned, and on the
25th were publicly shot in sight of the British troops !
We have received a communication from San Sebastian
relative to this affair, which throws great blame upon Ge-
neral EVANS ; but though from the pen of a British officer
we decline to publish it. In the letter alluded to,
General EvANs it charged with having sent the men to
father wood without their arms, and with not sending to
exchange them, which he could have done, when taken. We
would not easily give credit to a statement so much to the
discredit of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Westminster.

In Paris the only topic is the Disjunction Bill, which
continues to engage the Chamber of Deputies. Its principle
has been so fully explained in this Journal that we may pass
it over without further notice.

FRENCH FUNDS.-Psots, MARCH 3.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 65c. 60c. 55c. 50e.
Four per Cents., 100 f. 85c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 55c. 35c. 40c.
Bank Actions, 2,400 f. 2,395 f. 2,40011
Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 70c. 80c. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102% 102 102%.
Spanish Actives, 26U 14%.
Spanish Differes, 11,4.
Spanish Passives, 7%U.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103.
Belgian Society, 1,550 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 3171 U.
Hay tianaLoan. 365 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, -f. -c.; money, 25f. 32%c.
Three months, paper, -f. -c. ; money. 25f. 12%c.
-Coors Authentgaue.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Paats Marten 4.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 55c. 45e. 50C.
Four per Cent., 100 f. 75c.
l'hree per Cents., 79f. 35c. 30c. 35c.
Bank Actions, 2,400 f.
Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 700 65e.
Roman Five per Cents., 102% q.
Spanish Actives, 25% 26 25k.
Spanish Passives, 7 7% 7.
Brussels Society, 1.5601.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 50%%.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 31%.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
Onemonth, paper, -c. -c.; money, 25f. 32%c.
Three months, paper, -f.- C. money. •251. 12%c.
-Cours Authentiaue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 70c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 55c.
Bank Actions, 2,4006
Rente de Napless 99f. 95c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102 U.
Brussels Bank, 1,425 f.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 50%.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 31%.
Spanish Actives, 25%.
Spanish Passives. 7.
Miguelites, 11%.

Madrid Journals to the 26th ult. inclusive have been re-
ceived. Their contents are by no means of a satisfactory
nature. In Arragon, the rebel bands have been guilty of
the most atrocious outrages—scouring the country in all
directions, without fear of encountering a Constitutional
force able to offer them the least effectual resistance. A
band, four thousand strong, entered and sacked the town of
Utiel on the 12th, and afterwards proceeded to Mengla-
nilla, Iniesta, and Jara, which severally met with the same
fate. On the 18th, they were attacked near Bunol by
two thousand regulars, whom they put to flight at the first
charge, with the loss of several killed and wounded.
Against these hands, Brigadier LOPEZ marched from Cu-
enca on the 16th at the head of about three thousand
troops of all descriptions—infantry of the line, infantry of
the National Guards, cavalry of the line, and mounted Na-
tionals. Of the BRIGADIER'S success nothing was known
at Madrid up to the 25th ult.
Great complaints are made of the conduct of Senor
RonaiceEz VERA, the present War Minister. His in-
competence is now proved to have all but ruined the army.
Of the duties of his office he is as ignorant as a babe. His
removal is certain, but the difficulty is to find an efficient
successor. There is no lack of candidates, for in Spain
there is no appointment which every man does not con-
sider himself well qualified to fill ; but it would be a hard

task to select among them one man capable of conducting
the military affairs of Spain with ability. It is, however,
likely that Count ALMODOVAR will be selected as possess-
ing the largest share of public confidence.
Senor CALATRAVA, the Prime Minister, is labouring
under inflammation of the intestines. It is doubtful whe-
ther he will recover, so as to be able to resume the duties of
his office. This is a most severe blow to the QUEEN'S
cause, which never stood in greater need of his patriotic
services.

We regret to find that the most serious complaints
are made against the present administration of Senor
MENDIZABAL. For the last two months he has been
sinking rapidly in public confidence. The civil ser-
vants of the Spanish Government are all in arrear,
and it does not appear that any money is forth-
coming to pay them. In the Eco del Commercio of the
23d of February, we find the following official remonstrance,
addressed to MENDIZABAL, by the Minister of Grace and
Justice, at the instance of her Majesty the QUEEN REGENT.
We cannot doubt but that it was intended to be private,
and that it was only published when the Finance Minister
appeared to treat its severe but just strictures with utter
neglect :
" Most Excellent Sir,—Most painful is it to me to hear
the reiterated complaints of the heads of nearly all the tribu-
nals of justice, who, submitting with resignation to a state of
honourable poverty, and content to suffer the reductions in
their scanty stipends required for the salvation of the country,
nevertheless must have the means of subsistence, of which they
are totally deficient. The authority of their station forbids the
idea of their borrowing ; and yet, by an inconsequence in our
customs, the public, who exacts with reason a severe decorum
from those who axe entrusted with judicial functions, withdraws
its consideration when they appear with the outward signs of
misery. But, although they might tolerate misery so long as
they possessed the bare means of going on, however inadequate,
the absolute default of pay for many months obliges me to
notice their complaints with the determination of making their
voice heard ; for the evil has become so urgent, that if a re-
medy be not promptly applied, the tribunals one after another
will be closed.

The ministers and subalterns of the tribunal of Pamplona,
for example, have remained for eight months without pay ;
payment of the estimate of interior expenses of the tribunal
at least has not yet been commenced; the dependants already
begin to abandon the tribunal, nor can persons be found under
any circumstances to take their place ; so that either must a
remedy be found, or the tribunal will be closed without its
being possible for the presiding ministers, with all their zeal,
to avoid it. And your Excellency well knows that this state
of things is not peculiar to that Court ; there are many suffer-
ing under similar arrears. That of Madrid, even the supreme
tribunal, is seven months in arrear ; the department of the
Minister for Grace and Justice is also in the same situation.
It is not necessary that I should dwell upon the motives that
exist for not neglecting so respectable a class of functionaries ;
it is satisfactory to me to be able to state with confidence that
they will resist every trial, that corruption will find no entrance
into their virtuous breasts, although assailed by.hunger and
nakedness. But justice mill not permit that virtue should be
thus abused,nor does prudence consent to subject integrity to such
severe proof, especially when the neglect referred to extends to
subordinates, to whom are entrusted suits in which are involved
the security of the state, and the custody of persons capable of
endangering it. I have already said that the magistracy submit
with resignation to the evils of their condition ; and I venture
to affirm that they do not seek that preference to which the
rigour of their situation might entitle them, and that they will
be content to receive their stipends with the sane regularity as
is observed towards other classes, and with the deductions
which the state of the country during the continuance of the
wale requires ; the which, by Royal order, I bring under the
attention of your Excellency, that you may take it into con-
sideration, and adopt the requisite means for placing this de-
partment upon the same footing as others, and the magistracy
in the same situation as the other classes of civil functionaries,
giving me an account of your proceeding.
" Madrid, Jan. 31, 1837. (Signed) L ANDE R O."
On the 20th ult. the Cortes gave a grand dinner to Mr.
VILLIERSb the British Ambassador at Madrid, and Captain
MAITLAND of the Royal Marines, of which a full report
will be found in another part of The Sun, copied from a
Morning contemporary. Ambassadorial speeches at public
dinners are too rare not to attract attention, and we have
no doubt Mr. VILLIERS' conduct on this occasion will be
severely censured by the Tories. But his Excellency need
not give himself much uneasiness on that score. If for a
moment he departed from the strict rules of diplomatic
etiquette, the occasion well justified the aberration.
On the 24th ult., a draft of the Spanish Constitution, as
amended by the Committee, was presented to the Cortes.
It differs but little from the Constitution of 1812, which
recently appeared in our columns. It provides for a second
Chamber to be called a Senate, the members of which are
to be appointed for life. They are to be named by the
KING, out of a list prepared by the Cortes, containing
thrice as many candidates as there are vacancies, thereby
conceding to the SOVEREIGN a limited right of choice.
The Senators must be all above forty years of age, and are
not to exceed in numbers three-fifths of the Chamber of
Deputies. They must also be possessed of a sufficient
competence to be enabled to support their rank, without
dependence on the KING or his Ministers.

There is no other news of any moment in the Spanish
Journals.

Brussels and German Papers have been recived ; but
they contain not a word of news of any general interest.
The Belgian Chambers are wholly occupied with the
Budget for the ensuing financial year.

BELGIAN F UNDS—BRussELI, MArtmi -4
Actual Debt, 2Y, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent.
Loan of Thirty Millions... 921,/,
Loan et City, 1832, 4 per Cent 09%
Society of Commerce, 4 L. per Ccnt 134 %
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 136
Brussels Papers, March 5.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Fes. 94.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
- —Allgemeine Zeitung, March 1.
DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, March 3.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Anioi t Syndic, 444 per cent 1.1344 933,•4
Ditto, ditto, 3N per cent 7f% 771.
Commercial Company, .t!, i per cent 18514 18644
Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Lechange on London, One month l2
Two months

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

DEAL, MARCH s.—Wind N.N. E.—Arrived the Brothers,
from Swansea; and Crescent, from Liverpool. Off Dover
the Olive Branch, Ruffin, from Hamburg.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH s.—Wind N.N. E., fresh breezes.—
Arrived the Elizabeth, Whitmore, from Jamaica. The Avon,
Clarke, stranded near Fort Cumberland, has been got off, and
towed into this harbour.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 4. —Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Are.
thusa, from Jamaica, leaky ; crew sick.
JERSEY, MARCH 3.—Arrived the Mary, Price, Honduras.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Our arrivals this morning are the French, Ostend, and
Dutch mails ; with ship-lettersi from Jamaica, Honduras, and
Singapore of Nov. 1.
We extract the following from the Singapore Papers to the
28th October, received this day :
" The Manilla market has not been heavily supplied with
Cotton manufactures, and extensive sales of grey and white
shirtings, and fine cambrics, had been made at fair prices."