The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-11 00:00:00

OAK BARK.

DEAN FOREST, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND
HIGH MEADOW ESTATE ADJOINING.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION.

By order of the Commissioners of his Alajetty's Woods,

Forett., and Lane! Revenues, -
By R. WHITE and SONS,
At the Bear Inn, in Newnham, io the county of Glouces-
ter, on MONDAY, the 17th of May, IMO, at One
o'clock. precisely, in several Lots,
THE BARK of Two Hundred and Fifty-
seven Oak Timber Trees, felled for the service of
the Navy; of One Hundred and Eight Oak Timber Trees
felled for Sale, amongst those felled for the service of the
Navy; of Two Hundred and Twenty-four Oak Timber
Trees, felled for clearing the old Stapledge Enclo.ure; and
of Ten Trees, felled far repairs on York Lodge Hill.

Also,
Abort One Hundred and Twenty-fire Tons of Copse
and ether BARK, on different parts of the Highineadow
Estate.

For a view of the Lots in Dean Forest apply to Mr.
Lablcham, Ellwoo I, or the different Keepers and Wood-
"'r"' and of those on the Ilighmea,low Estate to Mr.
Turnbull, 13raniand.

TYPHUVER.--We are sorry to learn
that this afflicting malady continues to rage in Greyrigg,.
cud we have been informed that three in one family of
the name of TODD, have died within these few days.—
,--Westmoreland Advertiser.

The memorialists have set forth, in striking but tem-
perate and respectful language, the evils resulting to the
commercial interests of this country from the measures
which Ferdinand of Spain has adopted, and still appears
to meditate, towards the infant republics of Americ i, and
principally towards the Mexican states.
The capital which has been embarked by British sub-
jects in commercial transactions with the citizens of these
new states, and in pecuniary assistance to their Govern.
ments, is calculated, as appears from the memorial, at
ne,rly 27,000,0001. sterling, of which little short of
10,000,0001. has been given to merchandise and mines.
When it is considered how anxiously England has always
watched ever the welfare of her subjects engaged in the pur-
suits of lawful industry, no matter how remote from their
native Lind may be the scene of thuir exertions, we con-
cur with the memorialists in the confidence they express
that his Majesty's present Government will not withdraw
the shield of British power and justice from -so numerous
a class of Englishmen, who have done nothing to forfeit
the protection due to them from their Sovereign, but that
the Ministers of Ferdinand will be told that they shall not
continue to harass private interests by a system of petty
aggressions assuming the character and pretence of war,
but utterly imbecile as regards the accomplishment of any
one object of fair and recognised hostility.
Ferdinand might as well invade the Moon as any por-
tion of America, but he may vent his spite in retarding
her advance towards internal tranquillity, civilization, and
wealth. lie may force the republics to keep up armies—
to commit unsafe power to military chiefs—to postpone
the commencement of useful undertakings—and to divert
to other objects the funds which would long since, but for
the menaces of Spain, have been appropriated to the dis-
charge of their pecuniary engagements. But these mis-
chiefs, we make bold to affirm, a British Government
ought not, by further forbearance, any longer to assist in
perpetuating. As for negotiating with Ferdinand, or re-
monstrating with, or importuning him, he and his Catna-
rilla make a mockery of all such forms. He and they
must be coerced ; there is no second mode of dealing with
a knavish Cabinet.

No answer in writing has been returned to this memo-
rial. A deputation from the Committee had an interview
with Lord Aberdeen upon it, in which he said Govern-
ment had lost no opportunity, and would lose none, of '
urging upon Spain, in a friendly way, the alteration of
her course of policy towards the new States of America;
that we must recollect that friendly means were the only
proper ones for us to use towards a friendly and indepen-
dent State ; that he thought what had passed regarding
Cuba had been very much misunderstood ; that he was
persuaded Mr. Canning had done nothing more than de-
precate any such project as that of raising the negro po-
pulation of Cuba ; and, finally, in answer to a question
put to him by one of the deputation, that Government
had no information whatever leading them to believe that
any attack, either from Cadiz or from Cuba, or any part
of Spanish America, was at this moment in contemplation.
The above-mentioned claims to the protection of our
Government are those of British subjects only : the claims
of Mexico are, in our opinion, equally strong, and have
been repeatedly alluded to in this journal ; but they in-
volve the question of Cuba, which we must take some
other opportunity of again submitting to the considera-
tion of his Majesty's Ministers.
To the RIGHT HON. the EARL of ABERDEEN, &c.
North and South American Coffee-house, April 14.

MY Loan,--1 am requested by the Committee of the South
American and Mexican Association to acknowledge, with their
respectful thanks, the honour of your Lordship's letter of the
12th ult., in answer to the representation of the Committee, on
the subject of the policy pursued by his Majesty's Government
in relation to the island of Cuba, and its effect on the new States
of America.

The Committee are sensible of the importance attached by his
Majesty's Government to all questions affecting the welfare of
the new States of America. They would therefore be very un-
willing to trouble your Lordships again on the subject, did they
not entertain a strong hope that his Majesty's Government may
be induced to interfere in a yet more decided manner, to put an
end to the evils-which the hostility o 4 Use .Court of Spain is in-
flicting on all persons engaged in intercourse with these new
States, without the slightest advantage in that country.
Twenty-one years have now elap ed since the warfare between
Spain and its late colonies commenced. At the beginning of
that period the Crown of Spain held possession of every post and
fortification throughout those extensive countries, and sustained
its dominion over them by a large military force. For many
years past, and at this moment, Spanish dominion and authority
there-have been wholly extinct ; not a soldier remains there in
its service, nor is there any portion of territory remaining over
which the Spanish Government exercises even a nominal autho-
rity or controul. . . _

No stronger additional proof can be afforded of the entire anni-
hilation both of Spanish authority end influence, in one of the
most powerful of those States, the Republic of Mexico, than the
fact that on the landing of a military force on its shores in the
month of August last year (which remained sonic months in the
country), not a single Mexican was found to join the standard of
the King of S.,ain.
The foregoing facts being beyond all controversy, it does ap-
pear to the Committee a great hardship that persons pursuing
their commercial dealings with countries which have so unequi-
vocally established their own independence, should be subjected
to the inconveniences which are thrown upon them by the conti-
nued and unprofitable hostility of the Court of Spain.
A constant threat of invasion, both from Cuba and from Spain
itself, is kept up, accompanied by demonstrations which call for
unceasing vigilance on the part of those against whom they are
directed, the consequences of which are in every way most inju-
rious to commercial intercourse. Large masses of military force
are kept up, which, by means of the enormous expence they en-
tail, exhaust the resources of the respective Governments, and
disable them from paying their just debts' whilst they sustain in
an undue prouortion the importance of military chiefs, and
greatly retard the advancement of political and civil institutions
of those countries. Ibe disorders of privateering and piracy are

perpetuated—each fresh alarm is the occasion for contributions,
in some shape or other, being levied on commerce—internal com-
munications are suspended—labourers are taken from the pur-
suits of industry (whether agricultural or mining) to join the
array, and all those interruptions are experienced which are so
injurious and often so fatal to commercial undertakings.
It is a circumstance not unworthy of remark, that since the
establishment of the independence of these countries, no insur-
rection has taken place in them that has not been effected
through the instrumentality of military chiefs.
If these evils were to be endured by reason of measures on the
part of the Spanish Government, tending towards any attainable
and legitimate object of its own, the Committee might hesitate
to bring them to your Lordships' notice, but they feel that they
are guilty of no presumption in asserting that the restoration of
the dominion of Spain over its former colonies is an event too far
beyond the limits of human probability to fall within any rational

computation.
The questions therefore would seem to arise,—for what unli.
mited period of time is Spain justified in interrupting the inter-
course of other nations with her former colonies ? Whether 21
years of warfare issuing in the manner this warfare has done are
sufficient to determine her rights ? If they are not determined
now, at what period they ever will be ? And whether Great
Britain, having many years since recognised these States, and
thereby sanctioned her subjects in dealing with them, is to be
expected any longer to submit to the injury she is now hourly
sustaining by the conduct of Spain ?
The amount of British capital involved in this subject may be
stated, at the lowest computation, as follows, viz. :
In trade with Mexico, Colombia, Buenos Ayres, Chili,
Peru, and Central America .f5,000,000
In mines in the above countries, principally in Mexico 4,800,000
In debts due by their respective Governments 17,000,000

£26,8',0,000

Large as this amount is, it derives additional importance from
the prospective consideration of the vast scope for commercial ac-
tivity which these countries present, not only to Great Britain,
but to other nations of Europe, including Spain herself. The
produce of the Mexican mines has been doubled since British ca-
pital has been directed to them ; a large population has been re-
stored to industrious employment; a taste for European manu-
factures is spreading amongst the natives, and nothing, in
short, is wanting to establish a steady, active, and beneficial in-
tercourse between these countries and Europe but a state of in-
ternal repose, which they never can enjoy so long as the hostile
attitude of Spain keeps alive all those elements of danger and
mischief which have been already enumerated.
The Committee, therefore, venture to express their humble
hope that his Majesty's Go, ernment may see it right to interfere
with the Court of Spain, either by the establishment of a truce
between the two parties for a term of years, or in such other man-
ner as may seem fit, so as to secure British 'subjects, carrying on a
peaceful and legitimate commerce, from a continuance of the in-
terruptions and grievances to which they are constantly exposed
by the continuance of an hostility on the part of Spain, which in
its practical effect is nothing short of a direct warfare on the fair
extension of British commerce.
WII have the honour
LLIAM THOMPSON,
Chairman of the South American and Mexican Association.

A report is in circulation among persons
seemingly well informed, which we give as it has reached
us, in expectation of an official bulletin to confirm or
qualify the following statement. A female, whose name
has been connected with the miracles at Port Glasgow,
►ha►i recently determined to exhibit the power of her faith,
the want of which alone she alleges to have caused the
cessation of miraculous powers in the Church. After all
the modes of solemn preparation, and the imposing tone
of authority assumed by her in commanding a little crip-
ple fellow to " rise up and walk," in the style of PETER
and Joww at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, insti.a. I of
walking, and leaping, and praising GOD for the heaven-
sprung gift, so far surpati-ing the alms he had expected to
receive, the urchin protested to the young lady, after an
attempt to comply, " as true as death I really canna, unless
you give me my stilts."— Glasgow Chronicle.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(LAST NIGHT).
The Earl of ELDON presented a petition from
the Grand Jurors of Denbia, against• the proposed
alterations in the Welch Judicature.
Lord ROLLE presented a petition from Devon,
praying that the punishment of death for forgery
should be abolished.
The Archbishop of YORK and Earl FITZWIL-
LIAM presented petitions from Halifax and other
places in Yorkshire, praying for the abolition of
Negro Slavery.
The Duke of MONTROSE, in presenting a pe-
tition from the county of Stirling against the im-
position of any additional duty on British spirits,
took the opportunity, as Lord Lieutenant of the
county,of expressing his conviction that, the slightest
addition of duty would be destructive to the British
distillers, arid prove an encouragement to smuggling.
Lord CALTHORPE, in presenting a petition
from the physicians and' surgeons of the West-
minster Medical Society, praying for some legisla-
tive • measure to facilitate the study of anatomy,.
would take an early opportunity of laying a Bill
upon the subject on their Lordships' table.
The Duke of NORFOLK presented a petition,
praying for the formation of an Institution for the
instruction of the deaf and dumb.

Lord KING presented a petition from the county
of Cork against tithes.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a pe-
tition from Warrington, against the East India
monopoly.
Lord DURHAM presented a petition from the
Ship-owners of Sunderland, complaining of distress,
and praying for an alteration of the Navigation Laws.
Lord DURHAM also presented a petition from
the seamen of Sunderland, praying for the abolition
of the practice of deducting a portion of their wages
for the support of Greenwich Hospital; and a pe-
tition from the Protestant Dissenters of South
Shields, praying for the introduction of a general
system of registration.
Viscount GODERICH presented a petition
from the Hop Factors of Sussex, praying for the
repeal of the Malt Duties.
Mr. Tomline, from the Treasury, presented re-

turns of the export arid import of coals.
Mr. Preston, from the East India Company, pre-
sented the Financial Estimates of the Company for

the year.
The Earl of MALMESBURY, adverting to the
notice which he had given respecting the neglect of
Mr. Jepp, the Acting Treasurer for the Western
Division of the county of Essex, to return certain
important papers pursuant to the orders of the
House, entered into a statement of the importance
of the papers, and of the various fruitless and unan-
swered applications which had been made to Mr.
Jepp for their production. Since he had called the
attention of their Lordships to the subject, however,
the returns had been made. He now moved that
Mr. Jepp be called to the. bar to account for his con-
duct.
The LORD CHANCELLOR accordingly'ordered
Mr. Jepp to be called in ; and on his appearance
asked him what reason he could assign for having
disobeyed the orders of the House ?
Mr. Jepp was extremely sorry for what had hap-
pened. Some of the papers he had had difficulty in
finding, others he had laid aside, but had forgot the
circumstance. He meant no disrespect whatever to
their Lordships, begged their Lordships' pardon,
and hoped the House would forgive him.
Mr. Jepp was-then ordered to withdraw from the
Bar, but to remain in attendance.
The Earl of MALMESBURY said that as the

papers in question had been produced, and taking
into consideration the contrite manner in which Mr.
Jepp had expressed himself, and the very proper
tone of his apology, he would merely move that
Mr. Jepp be called in, reprimanded, and discharged.
Mr. Jepp was accordingly re-called to the Bar,
and addressed by the Lord Chancellor to the fol-
lowing effect Mr. Jepp: You have been guilty
of a serious offence in disobeying the order of this
House; and for that misconduct you were liable to
be committed to prison. Having, however, ex-
pressed your contrition, the House has thought pro-
per to extend its indulgence to you, arid to order
that you be discharged; arid you are discharged ac-
cordingly."
Shakerley's Divoree Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed.
COMMUTATION OF TITHES.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY rose to
lay on their Lordships' Table a Bill for the Commu-
tstion of Tithes in England and Wales. Many ob-
jections had from time to time been made to the
mode in %vhich the incumbents of livings had ob-
tained their tithes. It had frequently beer: alleged,

and probably with truth, that farmers were in many
cases prevented from laying out capital in the im-
provement of their land by the existing arrangement
respecting tithes. Different modes had been pro-
posed for obviating the evils of the present state of
things. To any principle of commutation founded
on the extinction of tithes he should most decidedly
object ; but some means of effecting a voluntary
and temporary agreement between the parties con-
cerned might, in his opinion, be adopted ►with great
advantage. He was sure he might say that the
Clergy in general were very desirous of some such
arrangement. The Bill which he should have the
honour to lay on their Lordships' Table was founded
o►► the Act of a similar kind which had for some
time been in force in Ireland, and which he under-
stood had been productive of great good in that
country. What he proposed was, to allow parties
to enter into a composition in some caws for twenty-
one, in some cases for fourteen years, to be regulated
by the price of corn. His Grace here entered into
the details of the Bill respecting the appointment
of Commissioners for the purpose of carrying its
provisions into effect, by ascerta►ning the value of
tithes, and by making such arrangements as would
be most equitable with reference to all parties con-
cerned. He intended to provide, that in some cases
the parties should be at once empowered to name a
sum for which they would be disposed to compound.
With respect to existing modusses, he shrunk from
touching upon them, as it was a subject which had
perplexed many able lawyers; but he should be
happy to see that part of the subject provided for
in a distinct measure. His Grace concluded by
moving that the Bill be read a first time.
The Earl of ELDON had reason to believe that
a large body, both of the Laity and of the Clergy,
were of opinion that the Bill might be considerably
improved.
The Bill was then read a first time.
ABDUCTION.

The Bishop of LONDON postponed until to-
morrow his motion for the appointment of a Com-
mittee to ing,tire into the expediency of annulling
the marriage between Eliza itckson and Thomas
Buckstone.