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

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Last night a❑ inquest was hell in the Board-room at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Mrs. Mar!raret Mar-
low, aged It), who was burned to death. Th 2 evidence of a
lodger in the same house, and that of the mother of the de-
ceased, induced the jury to believe that she had fallen asleep
while sitting over the fire, and that, her clothes having
lilted, and being without assistance, the melancholy result had
occurred. They, therefore, gave a verdict of " Accidental
Death."

Ythterday an inquest was held at the Swan Inn, Stockwell,
on the body of , Mrs. Mary Catterwood, of Augusta-1.1a,..e,
Clapham-road, who, being subject to fits, had, when under
the influence o' a affection of that nature, been burned to de tth,
in consequence cf her clothes catching, tire. The jury expressed
themselves satisfied, and returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."

Yesterday evening an inquest was held in the W..rden's
room of the Fleet Prison on the Lady of William Burnham
Blackwall, Esq., aged 59, who was committed to the prison
for contempt of the Court of Chancery. Mr. H. Mitchell,
surgeon, of Chancery-lane, deposed that he had attended the
deceased professionally in the prison for the last five months.
ll's complaint was water on the chest. Ile saw him last alive
on Wednesday morning, when he was in a sinking state, and
witness anticipated the worst results. Ills death took place
or, Tuesday evening, and was perfectly natural. The jury
expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a verdict of—
" Died by the visitation of God." The deceased was of
highly respectable connections, and for a number of years
was in the commission of the peace in the county of Norfolk.

FIRE IN BASING-LAN E.—ln conscqunce of a
report having gone abroad that Gerard's Hall Tavern was
materially injured by the fire which took place yesterday,
T. Younghusband begs most respectfully to inform his nu-
merous Friends who may have occasion to visit London at
the present season, that such repot is void of all truth,
as, on the contrary, the fire never did at any time entond
to the premises. T. Y. begs to acknowledge with grati-
tude, the kind proffered assistance of his numerous Friends
in the neighbourhood.
The Lords of the Admiralty have issued a circular
forbidding, the practice in the navy of sending midshipmen and
other young officers to the mast-head as a punishment.
It is currently reported at the East India House,
that Major-General J. L. Lushington, Colonel of the third
Madras light cavalry, will succeed to the deputy chair next
April.

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet
the 'lnwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom House
at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Tilt: SCOTCH MAIL.-Iry a letter from Mr. Wal-
lace, the Member for Greenock, to the Lord Provost of this
city, we learn then the principle of two direct mails from Lon-
don to Edinburgh and Glasgow has now been conceded, and
that there is evei y reason to expect that we shall have this im-
portant change carried into operation within six months. A.
second mail, direct from Liverpool to Glasgow, is much wanted,
and, we have no doubt, will speedily be established. Should
the Mo. Gentleman's anticipations be realised, a great boon
will be conferred on the mercantile community of Glasgow and
of the other towns in the west of Scotland.— 0/avow Courier.
M. Guillotine, the inventor of the horrible instru-
ment which bears his name, is said to be still living ; the story
of his having been decapitated by one of his own machines
being a mere invention.

REPRESENTATION OF HASTINGS.—On
day last the guests at Mr. Hollond's dinner were so numerous,
that they were compelled to dine at four different hotels-
Mr. Hollend starts for Hastings on the Liberal interest, in the
place of Mr. Howard Elphinstone, the gentleman who lately
travelled from this country to Nassau in the monster balle.on;
he is a Barrister.

PIt!CES OF STOCKS THIS 1).-‘1* AT ONE O'CI.Ot K.
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Just published, in Bvo., price Ios. 6d.
F 4 LEME NT S OF MEDICINE. Vol. I.—
ON MORBID POISONS;
With an Appendix on the Uses of the Bromide of Potassium.
By ROBERT WILLIAMS, M.D.

Trinity College, Cambridge ; Fellow of the Royal College of Phy-
sicians ; and Senior Physician of St. Thomas's Hospital.
B. Fellowes, Ludgate-street.

SOUTHEY'S COWPER, VOL. XI.

On Tuesday, the ith instant, will be published, Vol. XI., illus-
trated with Superb Engravings by Stocks and Goodall, price ss.
cloth extra,
THE LIFE and WORKS of WILLIAM
COWPER.
By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq.,
eLL.D., Poet Laureate.
• IF This Volume of the " Complete Works of Cowper," con-
tains the first portion of his Translation of Homer. Mr. Southey
gives the following reasons for adopting the First Edition in the
place of the Second, which all the reprints have been taken from :
" It is incumbent upon the present editor to state the reasons
which have induced him, between two editions of Cowper's Homer,
differing so materially from each other that they might almost be
deemed different versions, to prefer the first.
" Whoever has perused the translator's letters must have per-
ceived that he had considered with no ordinary care the scheme of
his versification, and that when he resolved upon altering it in a
second edition, it was in deference to the opinion of others.
" It seems to the editor that Cowper's own judgment is entitled
to more respect than that of any, or all his critics ; and that the
version which he composed when his faculties were most active and
his spirits least subject to depression—indeed in the happiest part
of his life—ought not to be superseded by a revisal, or rather re-
construction, which was undertaken three years before his death—
not like the first transition as a pleasant work, an innocent luxury,'
the cheerful and delightful occupation of hope and ardour and am-
bition—but as a hopeless employment,' a task to which he gave
all his miserable days, and often many hours of the night,' seek-
ing to beguile the sense of utter wretchedness, by altering as if for
the sake of alteration.

" The editor has been confirmed in this opinion by the concur-
rence of every person with whom he has communicated on the
subject. Among others he takes the liberty of mentioning Mr. Cary,
the translator of Dante, whose authority upon such a question is of
especial weight. . .

In support of this determination, the case of Tasso may he
cited as curiously in point. The great Italian poet altered his Je-
rusalem, like Cowper, against his own judgment, in submission to
his critics ; he made the alteration in the latter years of his life,
and in a diseased state of mind ; and he proceeded upon the same
prescribed rule of smoothing down his versification, and removing
all the elisions. The consequence has been, that the re-construc-
ted I'ocm is utterly neglected, and has rarely, if ever, been re-
printed. "

The publishers need not observe that no good edition of Cow-
per's Homer has ever appeared, and at this time not a new copy of
any edition can be had.
London 1 Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row.

HAMBURGH, FEB. 24, 1837.
ALL those having to remit to us 201., before the
15th of March, are requested to avail themselves of the next
mails, as else it might become too late for reaching us in due time.
HEINE BROTHERS.

A FULL REPORT

OF THE

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER'S

SPEECH

ON THE
ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES,

WILL BE GIVEN IN THE SUN
THIS EVENING.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Cock.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1837.

In the House of Lords yesterday, after the presentation
of several petitions regarding Church-rates, the Marquis
of LANSDOWNE moved " That all petitions presented on
the subject of education in Ireland be referred to the Com-
mittee appointed to inquire into the progress and operation
o: the new plan of education in the country."
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY reported that the barony of
Vaux was in abeyance, and that it is at his MAJESTY'S
disposal.

The Charity Commissioners' Bill went through a Com-
mittee, and was ordered to be further considered this day.
Their Lordships then adjourned.
In the House of Commons, after considerable discus-
sion, the Cheltenham, (hford, London, and Birmingham
Union Railway Bill was read a second time ; and sev4ral
other Railway Bills were also advanced a stage.
Mr. LanouctlEar: obtained leave to introduce, and af-
terwards brought in, four Bills for the better regulation of
the Post-office. The first was to repeal all previous Acts
relating to the. Post-office ; the second to regulate the Cri-
tninal Laws relating to the Post-office ; the third related
to the management of that department, and the Rates of
postage ; and the fourth to the privilege of Franking Let-
ters. It was stated by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, in reply to Mr. HumE, that it was the intention of
Government to introduce a Bill in a few days on the sub-
ject of placing the Executive of the Post-office in Com-
missioners instead of in one Postmaster-General.
Mr. HUME postponed his County-rates Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that he
wished to proceed with all possible dispatch to the second
reading of the Irish Poor Law Bill, so that time might be
gained for embodying amendments, and for its circulation
in Ireland before it went into Committee.
In reference to the course which was intended to be
pursued regarding the proposed measure on Church-rates,
the Right Hon. Gentleman said, that he would this even-
ing propose his resolutions on the subject in a Committee
of the whole House, and then put the House in possession
of the whole of the Government plan. This discussion
wouhl take place in the whole House.
ROBINSON brought forward ,his motion on the
S4.amp-duties on Policies of Insurance ; but, at the sugges-
`lion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, it was with-
drawn.

Mr. WALLACE moved for and obtained several returns
relative to the Sheriffs' Courts in Scotland ; the returns
relative to the Scotch Courts of Session, moved for by the
sar.ie Hon. Gentleman, were refused.
Mr. MACKINNON moved the revival of the Committee
on Turnpike Tolls and Trusts, for the purpose of consider-
ing legislative enactments to be recommended on the sub-
i c,c_c k but he withdrew it in order to mover for a Bill thereon.
~-----. Mr. s tViLiIAM ROCHE moved for some returns con-
). / "., --- •
(.....
~... k :fleeted with the late gunpowder explosion at Limerick ; but
'-‘..1,-.• ~it having been signified by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
`' , CHEQUER that Government were not disposed to succour
..,
the sufferers, he withdrew his motion.
4,':---:, Mr, DUGDALE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to pre-

vent the depredations committed by persons employed on
Railroads, &c.
Mr. WALTER persisted in postponing his motion for the
appointment of an additional number of Members to the
Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Act. The Hon.
Gentleman's retreat drew down upon him a shower of
ironical exclamation.
Mr. O'CONNELL brought in a Bill to amend the Law cf
Libel, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a
second time on Wednesday week.
Mr. HustE postponed his motion relative to the late
brevet till Monday, and stated that if he were unable to
bring it forward then, he should take Wednesday or Friday.
Mr. F. BARING brought in the Pluralities Bill, which
was read a first time.
Mr. JAMES obtained an order for a Return of the num-
ber of Notices for Commutation received by the Tithe
Commissioners for England and Wales, from the date of
their appointment to the first of this month.
The House adjourned at Ten o'Clock.

There is no Executive Department of the Government
of this country which stands in so much need of a thorough
Reform as the Post-office Establishment ; nor is there ally
Reform more necessary to the protection of the interests of
the commercial classes. Many were the obstacles, powerful
the interests, and strong the prejudices to be overcome, be-
fore the ramified evils of this department of the pulblic ser-
vice could be submitted to the consideration of Parliament
and the country ; but thanks to the indomitable perseverance
of the Hon. Member for Greenock, the laborious zeal of
the Commissioners, and the consistent energy of his MA-
JESTY'S Ministers, the evils of the system are not only
known, but remedies are prepared for effecting their total
eradication. The Bills brought into the House of Com-
mons last night for consolidating and amending the laws re-
lating to the Post-office, will, if approved of by the Legis-
lature, remove a mountain of abuses, which now nearly
overwhelm that establishment. The public revenue, instead
of filling the pockets of sinecure officials, dishonest clerks, and
fraudulent contracters, will find its way into the National
Treasury. In asking leave to bring in these Bills, Mr. LA-
BOUCHERE stated that the Acts or parts of Acts of Parliament
now relating to the regulation of the Post-office, amounted to
one hundred and forty-one ; and in seconding the motion,
Mr. 'WALLACE asserted that the laws upon this subject
were one hundred and sixty, or one hundred and sixty-four,
—he knew not which,—nor was it possible for him to deter-
mine which had been repealed, and which had not! Here
was a glorious field for the growth of the very worst abuses.
Who could hope to disturb the slumbers of official sine-
curism, or to expose the malpractices of peculating agents,
in despite of the efforts of a sort of privileged corporate
body, hedged in and protected by one hundred and sixty
Acts of Parliaments ! It may be contended that the ob-
ject of these laws was the protection of the public—not the
sheltering of the Post-office. This may be true, and yet
the effect be such as we stated it. Where laws are nume-
rous, conflicting, and but partially understood, they protect
the very abuses they were designed to remove. Every se-
parate Act, but the one under which the culprit is to be
tried, offers him a chance of defeating the great moral end-
of all criminal investigation. In a prosecution of the
Post-office under the present corrupt system, there is clearly
one hundred and forty chances to one against the public
prosecutor, and in favour of the Establishment.
Great praise is undoubtedly due to Mr. LABOUCHERE
for his unceasing, and hitherto most efficient labours for the
reform of the Post-office. There is, however, one passage
in his speech last night on moving for leave to bring in his
Bills on this subject, which sounds strangely, proceeding as
it does, from the mouth of an honest Reformer. The pas-
sage we allude to runs thus :
" The Government had long felt the necessity for such a
consolidation of the laws as was then proposed. He believed
the reason of the delay had been a fear on their part that as
the Bills must comprise every point relating to the manage-
ment of the Post-office they would lead to much discussion,
and would therefore interfere with the progress of the other
business of the House.—( Hear.) He had felt that difficulty so
strong that, notwithstanding his extreme desire for a consoli-
dation of those laws, he would not have felt himself justified
in introducing the Bills, had he not communicated with those
gentlemen who usually took part in the discussions relative to
the Post-office, and had their assurance that they would con-
sider them as Bills merely for consolidation, so that they would
not interfere with the important business already before the
House."

We know not what business of the House of Commons
a discussion on the abuses of the Post-office could interfere
with, to the detriment of the great interests of the country.
The extreme diffidence of the Government, and of Mr.
LABOUCHERE, to provoke a discussion on the removal of
such flagrant enormities as are detailed by the Commis-
sioners, is somewhat singular. There is much more can-
dour than political sagacity, in confessing such a horror of
clamorous opposition in the removal of es ils so enormous,
as to become intolerable to the country. It is this foolish
dread of provoking interference with the ordinary routine
of Parliamentary business, that leads to such bungling le-
gislation in every new session. Hon. Gentlemen are content
to spend their political lives in patching up old exploded
systems, rather than encounter the difficulty of getting rid
of them at once, and so preparing the way for an intelli-
gible legislative enactment. We want a consolidation of
the whole Statute Book ; and the Reformer who would
effect this, must boldly propose the abrogation of the old
Acts by hundreds at a time.
Besides the consolidation of the Post-office Laws, to be
effected by Mr. LABOUCIIERE'S Bills, the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER has agreed to some important changes as
regards the Metropolis. In the first place, all Newspapers
arc to be delivered free within the limits of the twopenny
and threepenny posts, as well as outside—and this conces-
sion is to be extended to the delivery of all Newspapers
within the towns in which they are published ; and, se-
condly, the postage for single letters, within the limits of the
present twopenny and threepenny London posts, shall not
exceed one penny. These are very important advantages,
and we doubt not the public will appreciate the exertions of
Mr. WALLACE, who was mainly instrumental in pressing
them upon the notice of the Government.
We quite agree in opinion with Major BEAUCLERK, who
attributed the now increase,:or rather decrease, of the Post-
office revenue to the high rate of postage. We are confi-
dent that if the postage on all single letters was reduced
one third, and double letters and small parcels charged by
weight instead of charging them as double and treble lettere,
the revenue from this department of the establishment alone
would be doubled in three years. As the Post-office is re-
gulated now, a stranger to the system would be led to sur-
pose that its real object was to prevent rather than to faci-
litate social and commercial intercourse. Thus if a parcel
is sent to us by the mail—no matter if its weight exceed not
five ounces—in addition to the ordinary expense of car-
riage, we must pay a servant of the establishment eight-
pence for leaving it at our office. II we want to send a
parcel we must pay twopence for having it hooked, and
when it reaches its destination the person receiving it is
mulcted in cightpence more for its delivery ! The effect of
such impositions as these is to force men to have recourse
to every expedient to supersede the necessity of a Post-
office Establishment ; whereas if the system were properly
and economically conducted, no person would risk letters
or parcels by any other mode of conveyance. The more
limited in their income among the middling classes now
seldom write at all, owing to the enormous expense of post-
age ; and the more straightened in circumstances never write
save when their letters are conveyed by hand. In these
instances much severe, but very unnecessary, mental suffer-,
ing, is inflicted ; and to this cause, trivial as it may appear,
might be traced the estrangements and misfortunes of thou-
sands of once happy families.
To be properly and efficiently conducted, the Post-office
must be able to challenge competition in the business of its
own department. When it can do this, and does it, then
will the public be without any just ground of complaint—
but unquestionably not before that time.

Mr. ROBINSON deserves great praise for directing the at-
tention of Government to the tax on Marine Policies, than
which there is none more detrimental to the commercial
and shipping interest's of the country. In consequence of
the tax on these policies, marine insurances go to foreign
countries—especially to Hamburgh, where at present the
greatest number are effected, it being of course the object
of men engaged in trade to get their vessels insured at as
&leap a rate as possible. The tax, therefore, operates
as a direct premium on foreign insurances, thereby de-
priving our countrymen, to a certain extent, of the
advantages which legitimately belong to them. On this part
of his subject the Honourable Gentleman well observed,
" The duty on Marine Policies inflicted the greatest vexa-
tion and restraint on the commerce of Great Britain, and it
was transferring the insurances to other countries. If Bri-

tish subjects were deterred from effecting them at home,
foreigners, on the other hand, objected also to effect them
in this country on any terms. It was perfectly well known
that such was the credit attached to the Underwriters of
this country, that foreigners would come in preference to
them if such a tax did not exist. But they had a repugnance
to do so under present circumstances, and they preferred
taking the advantageous terms which aro held out
to them at home, where there were no marine policy duties.
This duty was indefensible in principle, and it was it" prat
tice dwindling away in such a manner, as no longer to be
:in object to the Exchequer." Had Mr. ROBINSON urged
these unanswerable arguments at the time when Lord
CASTLEREAGH reigned despotic in the House of Commons,
he would have been accused of exhibiting " an ignorant im-
patience of taxation," and his motion would have been re.-
jected with contempt. The House, however—thanks to
the pertinacious resistance of the Tories to all rational
measures—is different now to what it was then ; and
accordingly the observations of the Member for Wor-
cester had their due weight ; the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER expressly admitting that the tax on marine
policies was a subject worthy of the serious conside-
ration of Government ; that he would therefore take
the earliest opportunity of giving it his attention ; and
if he could, would propose a reduction of the duty. While
on this subject, we may observe that the duty on fire in-
surances, which operates as a direct tax on prudence, is
one that omiht to be considerably reduced, for at present
the duty is mere than the, premium, which is perfectly pre-
posterous. If, however, this obnoxious tax must be con-
tinued, it ought at least to be so proportioned that the
poorer classes should pay little or no duty, and that the
burden should fall on the affluent, who are best able to
bear it. In a word, let all insurances under a hundred
pounds be entirely exempted from duty.

In another column will be found an interesting account
of certain proceedings relative to Church-rates at Plymouth.
We doubt not the Church-and-State men will be found to
have turned the excessive liberality of their opponents to
very good account. We say excessive liberality, for we think
it was carrying that excellent quality too far, to leave the
scene of operations in the possession of those who were sure
to abuse the generosity shown them. The Meeting alluded
to in the letter of our respected Correspondent was a
public one. It was called by the MaYon, and it appears to
us that having this character stamped upon it, it was the
duty of the Liberal party to attend, and take care that
the sentiments of the inhabitants of Plymouth were
fairly represented to the public, in the Resolutions and
Petitions there adopted. The appointment of a Chair-
man, too, was a point which ought not to have been left to
the minority. It is evident from the conduct of the person
selected by the Tories to fill this office, that he was capa-
ble of the grossest partiality. However let them misrepre-
sent matters as they please—the Press will let the public
into their clandestine doings.

We earnestly request the attention of our readers to an
advertisement in another part of The Sun, announcing a
public meeting, to be held at the Mansion-house next
week, in behalf of the destitute inhabitants of the High-
lands and Islands of Scotland. The LORD MAYOR, with
that readiness to promote charitable objects.which has ever
distinguished the Chief Magistrate of the City of London'
has consented to take the Chair on this interesting occa-
sion, when a deputation from Scotland, headed by the
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church, will
set forth the claims of their poor countrymen to public
sympathy and relief. We are afraid that these claims will
be found to rest but on too solid a foundation. We are
afraid that a case not merely of privation, but of absolute
destitution spread over a large district, embracing within
its range a population of upwards of 100,000 persons, will
be made out by the most decisive evidence. We know,
indeed, that this is the fact. The crops, from the bleak
and boisterous nature of the climate in the maritime parts
of the north of Scotland, are at all times uncertain and pre-
carious. The subsistence derived from this source alone is
hardly ever adequate to the wants of the people, and is
made up by the fish which are generally caught in great
abundance on the coasts. Both these sources of supply
have been in a great measure cut off this year. The crops,
particularly the potatoe crop, which forms the chief support
of the people, it is well known, almost entirely failed. A
great part of the corn did not ripen at all, and much of
what did could not be got in on account of the bad weather
which prevailed during the harvest months. From the
same prevalence of tempestuous weather during the winter
the poor inhabitants of these ungenial regions have been
deprived of their usual supply of food from the sea. From
these causes the bulk of the inhabitants of these districts
have been reduced to a state which it would be in vain for
us to attempt to describe, but which may be imagined by
those who will bestow upon the subject a moment's re-
flection. Nor are they only suffering the miseries of present
destitution,subsisting we are told, many of them, on the scanty
supply of shell-fish they can pick up daily on the sea-shore ;
but they have no hope of being able to provide the means
of future subsistence, save that which they derive from a
reliance on the benevolence of the public, for they have not
even seed to cast into the ground for the coining season.
So circumstanced, have not these poor people a strong
claim on the sympathy of the British public ? Every
heart that can feel for the hardships of honest poverty—
that san sympathise with the distresses of the miserable,
and, above all, every heart that rises in gratitude towards
the great Author of Good, for the enjoyment of worldly
prosperity, will answer that they have, and will come for-
ward with alacrity to relieve them from their alamitous
situation.

The Paris papers of Wednesday, received this morning,
contain no intelligence of any moment. The debate on the
Disjunction Bill, and the dangers to which it might expose
the Orleans dynasty, alone attracted any share of public
attention. The friends of the reigning family are either
greatly diminished, or their loyal ardour has greatly cooled
since 1833. We are assured the KING himself begins to
discover that he is in a false position, but that, notwith-
standing his great tact, he cannot better himself. France,
from one extremity to the other, is filled with distrust and
discontent.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Pints, MARCH I.
Five per Cents.. WA. loc. Isle. lie. 5:,•, 5,,
Four :nut a Ball per Cents. Iltif
per Cents., 10 (1. 85e.
rime net- I rms. we. 75c.
Bank Actions, 5,40‘2f. 50c.
Itente tie Naples, t)St 90e. 85c. ,Soc.
Roman Five per Cents., 113-2 N
Spanish Actives, 26%34, .
Spanish Difieres, lly
Spanish Passives, 716 lA. •
Belgian loan, Five per Cents, 153. "
Brussels Societe, 1,:',52f. .5•. c. •
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Portuguese Three per Cents. 3I
EXCHANGE UN LUNDUN,
One month, paper, —e.; money, 9.5 f. fltlyze.
'three mouth,', paper, money. I*2!sic•-
-i ours du//u net:, me.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., Ittlf.
Three pee t ent, -,of. 50e.
Bank Actions, .2,1021 tiOc.
Bente tie Naples, le3f. 7"ae.
Ruirmn Five per Cents., 10•2.,
Belgian Loan, 103.
Bruss,ls Bnk, 1,43-2 f. rioc.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 31:;.
Fpanish Actives, 2f;!.
Spanish Passives. 71,4.
New Ditleres, 11 Lg.

Madrid Journals of the •2lst ult. have been received.
The War Minister is so ill as to be obliged to leave the
business of his office to be managed exclusively by an Un-
der-Secretary. The Commissioners from the Cortes have
forwarded the most disastrous reports to the Government
respecting the discipline of the army, and the sentiments of the
officers. Gen. Es PAM Eno contemned their authority, receiv-
ing them as if he were the sole Dictator of the kingdom, and
General QeutoGA, if possible, treated them with even more
hauteur. They found the army of the latter completely
disorganized, which at once accounted for the success of
CABRERA. and his brigands.

The following letter is copied from the Times of this
morning, having been addressed to the Constantinople cor-
respondent of that journal.:—
" Sebastopol Quarantine, Jan. I, on board the Vixen.
" My Dear Sir—My letters from this of the 24th and 28th
of October gave a pretty full account of matters up to their
dates. The only thing that has since occurred is that we
English who were on board the Ajax have, in consequence of
an application I made to Admiral Stockeosky for that pur-
pose, been permitted to return on board the Vixen, where I
shall be more at ease, though sadly annoyed at the prospect
of living in the same cabin for 28 days (the quarantine time
fixed on) with the lousy Russian officer in charge, who, by
Captain Child's log-book, wore the same shirt night and
day from the 3d to the 22d of last month. In conse-
quence also of Captain Child's application to Admiral La-
zareff, we are getting Russian rations served out to us ;
but as these are only the fourth part of what English
sailors get, we shall be tolerably well off, so long as our
money lasts. The Ajax arrived in the roads last Wednesday
week, yet our quarantine has commenced only this day. This

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1837.

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