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

TliE SUN, LoN_DoN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER hi, is:3l.

( ADVERTISEMENT.)
SUSSEX INLIVSP:APERS,

(rrom the .lir'igidon Guardian.)
..
Some few weeks ago we published an extract, aftcting the
Sussex newspapers, from the Newspaper Stamp lieturns matte
to the Ilouse of. Common's iii ohediende to its oruer dated 30th
_Tune lest ; entt hi ao doing, we limited our extract to the first
five months of the half year which the return covered, and we
did so for two reasons,—first, because thi. limited f:'xtrt!.:.'t
,de presented the true state et NU as might 13e wltiiOut
being preci:Vi bt the relative circulation of the papers,—:.
31.!:;,,L1ty because we did not desire to accompany the pitt)iflitehtte-
tion by explanatory remarks, dittlititing the simplicity (
return. Withiii the last few days -however the return from
which We obtained an extract has been printed and circulated!
and we therefore, to prevent the public from being abused by
attempts which will he made to impose upon it by fallacious
cumbers, now give the six months' return, with such remarks
as we think nL'cessary to give Advertisers a full undcrstauding
of the matte. The full return, then, is as fillows:—
P.ellirn of the Number of Stamps issued by the Stamp Office,
for all Newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland, from Ist
January, 1,"37, to 30th June, both days inclusive, specifying
*a-A Newspaper by name, and the Number of Stamps issued
each month during that period to each Newspaper,
[EXTRACT.]
)837.

1837. Jan. 1 Feb. Al'areli.lApril. 1 May. June.
Brighton Guar,iian.. 8000' 4000 4000 8000 4000 4000
SIISM2X Advertiser ... 5000 I 5265 6500 3500 6500 5000
Brighton Gazette ... 5000-hlOOOO 5000 5000 10000
Brighton 4000 1 4000. 4000 4000 4000 4000
Brighton Patriot 6000 I ... 8000 I ... 8000 6000

Froth which the following results as the legitimate
yearly consumption of Stamps for the several papers.
Brighton Guardian
SUssex Advertiser
.... 63,530
Brighton Gazette 60,000
Brighton Herald
Brighten Patriot
Establishing the fact which we announced on the 19th of
July last, "that the Brighton Guardian had attained the
largest circulation in the county," outstripping its three
seniors. The Sussex Advertiser has been in being nearly a
century, the Brighton Herold 32 years, the Brighton Gazette
rather better than 16 years, and the Guardian only 10 years;
and it has now, as a reward of its incessant toils, its admitted
industry, and its proverbial accuracy publicly acknowledged by
one of its most determined political opponents, bees placed at the
head of the newspaper press of the county. This is a compli-
ment to which we are not insensible ; and as the Guardian
was the first to introduce a full-sized newspaper into Sussex,
and to lead the way in the improvements which have taken
place in the county in the getting-up of newspapers generally,
so we can assure the public, that none of its energies will
be relaxed by the marked favour with which the exertions of
its conductors have been honoured].
But we dare say that some interested parties will be found
to take exception to the annual computation we have made.
Nay, we have already seen a deception attempted upon the
public by parties who claim for our Tory Cotemporary a
yearly circulation of 70,000 ; and to expose this cunning fraud
upon the advertising public is our present purpose. The de-
ceivers say—that 35,000 stamps have beer, issued to the
Tory journal in the six months between the lstof January and
30th of June, that twice 35 is 70, and consequently that the cir-
culation of the Brighton Gazette is 70,000 in the year. Now
this seems very plausible ; but when the hocus pocus is ex-
plained, it will be found to be as incorrect as the idea that
" twice one and twenty and twice twenty-one" are one and the
same thing.
A moment's attentive observation of the above return will
satisfy every observer that the circulation of the Brighten
Gazette does not exceed 5,000 per calendar month ; for it will
be seen that although 10,000 stamps with its instinctive die
were issued in February, not a single stamp was issued for
it in the month of April; whence it is clear that the 20,000
issued to it is the first three months of the year sufficed or its
four months circulation, because till the fifth month has com-
menced, no fresh issue was made on its account ; and we are
strongly inclined to believe, for reasons which we will pre-
sently give, that part of the first three months' issue from the
Stamp Office remained to supply at least the first week of the
fifth month. But taking the Issue as the bona fide coNsumr-
Tion, it is clear beyond dispute that only 20,000 were used in
four months by the Brighton Gazette, and that another 5,000
issued in May supplied its wants in that month. If then not
more than 20,000 could be got rid of in four months, and the
next 5,000 answered all the calls for newspapers in May, can
any body doubt that the 10,000 issued in June was the supply,
for two months i In computing therefore the annual con-
sumption of the Brighton Gazette, the advertising public will
see the necessity of dividing the June supply between the
months of June and July; and in that case it will be, as we
have correctly stated it, 60,000, or 4,000 below the Brighton
Guardian.

But we are not sure that it is entitled to be ranked so high.
We have already shewn, taking for granted that it consumed
month by month the stamps issued for its use, that in four
months it could only have circulated more than 20,900 copies;
but for reasons which we will now state, we are strongly in-
clined to believe that it had not circulated the whole of the
' 20,000 in the four mouths, and that enough remained to work
off its first publication in May. The Ist of May this year fell
on the Monday, so that the 9,000 stamps issued with its in-
stinctive die in that month could not have reached Brighton
, till the 2nd. Now all persons connected with printing are
aware that paper before it is used for printing newspapers
requires to be well soaked in water for a very long time; and
we believe it is the invariable practice of our Tory contempo-
rary to wet down his stamps on the Monday, which is none
too soon. It fellows, as a matter of course, that stamps not
issued frem the head office in London till the Monday could
not be soaking in water in Brighton on the same day ; and as
a further necessary consequence, that the first publication of
the Brighton Gazette in May, namely Thursday the 4th, was
supplied from the stock-in-hand issued from the Stamp Office
in the previous March !
There is still another reason for supposing this to be the
case. Independently of the time being insufficient between
Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon, when the Brigh-
ton Gazette goes to press, for the paper to soak properly, no
newspaper proprietor since the institution of the instinctive
die, would risk the penalty of printing on unstamped paper,
by delaying till the 2d of the month the receipt of the stamps
which he requires for use in the afternoon of the 3d; and we
are therefore confirmed in the opinion, in which we have no
doubt all thinking persons will join, that in settling the circu-
lation of the Brighton Gazette at 20,000 for the first four
months of the present year, we are ranking it higher than the
absolute fact justifies. Supposing that it had only stamps
enough left from its March supply for its issue in the first week
in May, and allowing—which, when we see such tricks are
played, is scarcely justifiable—that it did consume the whole
of the 20,000 in the eighteen publications which, including
the 4th May, it has made since the comniencoment of the year,
we find that its actual annual circulation will be decreased to
something less than 53,000, leaving it 6,000 in the rear of the
Guardian, though it is its senior by six years.
What the motive of the proprietors of the Brighton Gazette
was in ordering a supply of 5,000 in March, when it is mani-
fest that they had the greater portion of their February supply
on hand, wo shall leave others to decide ; we will only state
the fact that a Tory Alombe-, who has since been kicked out
of the House of Commons by his constituency, moved earl) in
April for newspaper returns; but by some mistake the order
'of the House was limited to the Metropolitan Press. Had
the provincial issue been given at the same time, our 'lvry
Contemporary would have been decked in the borrowed plums
of having had 20,000 stamps in three months ; whence an an-
nual computation of 30,000 would have been trumpeted to the
world—with what honesty and approach to truth we leave the
public to declare. Whether our Tory Contemporary received
soy intimation from the Tory ex- Member for Belfast, we
know not; but it does seem curious that the consumption of
April should have been anticipated by the issues in February
and March ; end we fear, when the public come to remark
that the same mancouvre is repeated in June, without the
shadow of pretext, that it will be of opinion that something
like a settled design existed to act not only dishonestly to.
wards the pub ic, but to take a mean and dastardly advantage
of contemporaries whom these Tories dare not encounter on

even terms, and saying little for the honesty of their profes-
sions of att,ehment to that holy Religion which inculcates
principles of rectitude and honest dealing towards one's neigh-
bour.

Th• same remarks apply to the young Brighton paper. Its
first two issues lasted it four months, and 3,000 met all its
little wants in the fifth. Its last issue was clearly meant to
cover two months' demand.

. Besides the journals enumerated in the above extract, there
Is a thing got up and concocted between the Carlton Club
manufactory for country newspapers and certain Tories at
Lewes, which clamours to be included among the Sussex
newspapers,—a distinction, which, when we recollect its am-
phibious character, if we nusy so apply the term, we cannot
award to it. But it is Tory all over ; it is redolent of the
peculiar honesty and adherence to truth which has time out
of mind characterised that political party. The thing is sent
down from London, as the cook says, " done on one aide,"
after it has supplied some half dozen or more things of the same
genus ; and at Lewes it is then finished off. This offshoot of
the Carlton Club was first darted into this county on the 4th of
February is the present year, and the gentlemen who blow
the trumpet at this end of the line would fain persuade the
world that it has already outstripped the Brighton Gazette,
its like in politics, but its vast superior in every other
attribute that ennobles a newspaper. . They would fain
have the world believe that the Tories of Sussex, for.
getting the services rendered to their cause by the
Brighton Gazette for the last sixteen years, have set
it aside in favour of a thing which, when compared with that
Gazette as a medium of county intelligence and as evincing
the talent of its conductors, is contemptible in the extreme.
We cannot think so meanly of the Tories; they are prover-
bially_ good masters, and would not treat our contemporary of
the Brighton Gazette with so much ingratitude as to set his
tried advocacy aside for a thing of yesterday's growth. Upon
the advertising public the parties will not, we are sure, im-
pose, for they, like ourselves, will ba sceptical in believing that
a new publication in any part of England would at starting
outstrip a contemporary of its own political creed not deficient
in industry and zeal, while its own pretensions are of a deci-
dedly inferior character. The thing is too preposterous for a
mo ment's serious consideration, and whatever the hocus porus
of the unscrupulous Carlton Club may with its ample funds be
able to accomplish, no man who knows anything of active life
and of the county of Sussex will believe that half the papers
taken out by the Carlton Club party for the Sussex edition of
their paper ever comes into the county, or if they do, that they

The Guardian is supplied in parcels of 4,000 each.
The Gazette in NecIs of 3,000 each.

Are not sent back again to furnish the trunk-makert a the
metropolis, or applied to the more ignoble purpose of supply-
in" t.J11.. ~.-I.ciitstic cants of the Conservative gang.
tiaVc gald above that the thing is Tory all over ; of
this we will gite one specimen, and Ititit that coticlUde tr..
It preft;sses tb give the extent cif its Circulation ; and stat-
ing the nutnittir of startips isetied to it in the five months end=
ing 30th June, adds, " the I.,(idd tahn oki in January, for
No. 1, published 4th Feb , and consequently are added to
diq total 1" Sind Ac.!ordingly the 2,000 are added to the full
amount of gtantps bitted in the five months and represented
as the consOrnOlori of thlt peri nttf With true Tory
Honesty, Me parties lorget to reminu uldid tipeti ifiidtti they sec
to impose that as their first publication for July (on tae fist),
was printed in London on the 30th of June, a deduction
should .be made from that month's issue to the extent of the
Ist of July's consumption. Honesty is not however the
Tory's polity, and wtl see it verified in this instance ; for while
the parties in this cave make no allowance for the stamps used
by them in July, they claim to crowd into the Vehrusry issue
the-presious month's 2,000, thus producing an exaggerated
and false result.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.
THE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 9, 1837.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed
under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be made us*
of instead of the Great Seal of Scotland, appointing the following
Noblemen and Gentlemen to be Lieutenants and Sheriffs Prin-
cipal of the several under-mentioned shires and stewartries in
Scotland
Aberdeen= William George Earl of Erroll, K.T.
Ayr=;tientle•Ettri of Glasgow',
Argyll—George William Duke of Argyll.
Banff—James Earl of Fife, K.T.
Berwick—Alexander Earl of Home.
Bute—John Marquess of Bute.
Caithness—Alexander Earl of Caithness.
Clackmanan—William Earl of Mansfield, K.T.
Cromarty—Roderick Macleod, Esq.
Dumbarton—Sir James Colquhoun, Bart.
Dumfries—Charles Marquis of Queensbury, K. T:
Mid Lothians-Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch, K.G.
Elgin—Francis Earl of Moray, K. T.
Fife—Robert Ferguson, Esq.
Forfar—David Earl of Airlie.
Haddington—George Marquis of Tweedale, K.T.
Inverness—The. Hon. Francis William Grant.
Kincardine—John Viscount Arbuthnot.
Kinross—Right Hon. William Adam.
Kircudbright—Randolph Earl of Galloway.
Lanark—Alexander Duke of Hamilton, K. G.
Linlithgow—John Earl of Hopetoun. .
Nairn—Willi& Brodie, Esq.
Orkney and Zetland—Laurence Lord Dundas.
Peebles—Francis Earl of Weymss.
Perth—Thomas Robert Earl of Kinnoul.
Renfrew—Archibald Campbell, Esq.
Ross—Sir James Weymss Mackenzie, Bart.
Roxburgh—John Witham Robert Marquis of Lothian.
Selkirk—Henry James Lord Montagu.
Stirling—George Lord Abercromby.
Sutherland—George Granville Duke of Sutherland.
igton—Randolph Earl of Galloway.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCF, OCT. 6.
Ordnance Medical Department—G. T. Ferris, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Turner, deceased, Sept. 26.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.
King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Dunham
Massey Troop--H. Thornton, Gent., to be Cornet, •ice Jump,
resigned, Oct. 2.

Con-Imissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and of the City and County of the City of York.
South West Regiment of Yeomanry Caval. y—James Brown,
Esq. to be Captain, Aug. 27.
Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—George
Anne, Gent. to be Lieutenant; Edward Marmaduke Vavasour,
Gent. to be Cornet, Oct. 4.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
RICHARD BRIGGS, licenced victualler, Davies-street, Ha,
nover-square.
GEORGE SADLER, linen-draper, Carnaby- street.
THOMAS COMPSON, tanner, Halesowen, Shropshire.
JOHN ANNELY, coal-merchant, St. Woolas, Monmouthshire,

BANKRUPTS.
JOHN HENRY NAINBY, dealer in tobacco, Blackfriars-
te surrender Oct. 17 and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Hare,
Great James-street, Bedferd-row.
SAMUEL BULLEN, linen-draper, Norwich, Oct. 19, and
Nov. 21, at nine, at the Castle Inn, Norwich. Storey, Field-
court, Gray's Inn, London ; Mendham, Norwich.
WILLIAM ANTHONY AUGUSTIN WEST, crown and
flint-glass-manufacturer, Eccieston, Lancashire Oct. 20, and
Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Clarendpn Rooms, Liverpool. Ches-
ter, Staple Inn, London ; Barnes, St. Helen's.
ROBERT ELLIS, cotton-spinner, Preston, Lancashire, Oct.
25, and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Preston. Adling-
ton, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London ; R.
and W. Ascroft, Preston.
ROBERT FOULKES, linen-draper, Denbigh, Oct. 2.3, and
Nov. 21, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.
Makinson and Sanders. Middle-temple, London ; Atkinson, Birch,
and Saunders, Manchester.
THOMAS FOULKES, victualler, Bell-yard, Gracechurch-
street, Oct. 17 and Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basinghall-street. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ;
Davis, Charlotte-street, Bedford-row.
JOHN HICKMAN, hop-merchant, All Stretton, Shropshire,
Oct. 25, at one, and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the Shire-hall, Shrews-
bury. Anderson, Ludlow ; Wilton, Gray's Inn-square, London.
WILLIAM BARTLEET, needle-manufacturer, Redditch,
Worcestershire, Oct. 20, and Nov. 21, at eleven, at Dee's Royal
Hotel, Birmingham. Porter and Nelson, New-court, Middle-
temple, London ; Browning, Redditch.
JOHN LLEWELLYN, draper, Carmarthen, Oct. 16, and
Nov. 21, at ten, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen. Morris
and Jones, Carmarthen ' • Chilton, Chancery-lane, London.
THOMAS HOLLAND and WILLIAM ELLAM, sen, lead
merchants, Birmingham, Oct. 20, and Nov. 21, at twelve, at Dee's
Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Chaplin, Gray's-Inn-square, London ;
Richards and Motteram, Birmingham ; Fox, Ashburne.
JOHN CHAPMAN, junior, clothier, Frome Selwood, Somer-
setshire, Oct. 30, and Nov. 21, at eleven, at the George Inn,
Frome Selwood. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's-Inn, London ;
Miller, Frome Selwood.
CERTIFICATES, OCT. 31.
J. Swinburn, cabinet maker, Liverpool.
J. C. Gordon, dealer, Manchester.
H. Morgan, farmer, Builth, Brcconshire.
J. Shindler, butcher, 13rompton, Gillingham, Kent.
J. Whitehead, dyer, Park-street, Southwark.
J. Standen, victualler, Grosvenor-street, Middlesex.
R. Sears, engraver, Paternoster-row.
J. nudge, corn dealer, Corn Exchange, Mark-lane.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

A. Davies and W. H. Hobkirk, surgeons, Rushall and Pewsey,
Wiltshire.
H. Edwards and F. B. Williams, chemical-manufacturers,
I3read-strew-hill.
T. Bill, T. Procter, and 11. Child, china-manufacturers, Tun-
stall, Staffordshire.
Sarah and Maria Hendry, dealers in ladies' wardrobes, Great
Portland-street, Marylebone.
C. Roberts, G. England, and J. Simpson, brass founders, Lan-
caster.
J. 11. James, and R. M. Hodge, solicitors, Truro.
T. Horne, W. Horne, and J. Horne, jun., (so far as respects
the slid J. Horne, jun. ) coal-merchants, Southwark.
G. Hsghfield and W. H. Chapman, sail-makers, Liverpool.
C. Cleare and J. Shillito, lace and silk-warehousemen, Wood-
street, Cheapside.
J Amos, sen., and W. Amos, hop merchants, Evesham, Wor-
cestershire.
'l'. and J. Heatherington, provision dealers, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
W. Dawson and W. John-ion, coal-miners, Otley, Yorkshire.
R. and G. Philp, brewers, Linfield, Sussex.
T.' Capstick, sen., and T. Capstick, jun., coal-merchants, Man-
chester.
C. and E. Willis, watch dial makers, Liverpool.
A. Cochrane and P. Ivison, hat makers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
D. Lloyd and W. Roberts, leather factors, Leadenhall market,
London.

F. Edwards and B. Crouch, silversmiths, Cambridge.
T. Young and C. Holloway, linen- drapers, Uxbridge.
J. France, E. and M. Smith, carpet-manufacturers, Dewsbury,
Yorkshire.

G. Deadeye, J. T. and R. Fenton, and S. Jackson, woollen-
clot h-manufacturers, Hunslet, Leeds.
J. Fisher, E. Fisher, J. Fisher, .1. Orr, W. Orr, and R. Orr,
silk-spinners, Longroyd Mills, Yorkshire (co far as regards the said
J. Orr, W. Orr, and R, Orr). •

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amitermon C.F. 12 6
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2 U. 12 (
Antwerp...
ilaroburg. ..............ALB f3 14y4
13 14%

Paris, 3 days' sight _ ...
25 70
Ditto 3 Ms. A 0
.14Arscillei
3ourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M 154,
Petershusgh, ruble 3 Us. 10
Berlin
trienna, effective 11 '1 M. 10 15
rrieste......ditto lO 17
_....

31adrid 331,4

Cetdi z....
Bilboa ....
4arceluna

INGE.—(THIS DAY.)
iiibraltar
Leghorn "11%
Genoa 26 15
Milan '3l
Venice -46
Naples '9
Palermo per oz. 115
Lisbon 52%
Dann° 52%
Rio Janeiro.-- 26
Bahia 25
Buenos Ayres
Dublin, 21 days' sight I4
Cork !%
PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Portugal Gold, coin 40 0 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9
New Doubloons .... 0 0 0

miLe 34

New Dollars
.4126

Silver. bars. standard 0 4 11;

There is only one performer now living who per-
formed on the same stage with Garrick :—Bryne the cele-
brated harlequin in his time, and father of Oscar Byrne.
He is now in his 76th year, walks as upright as in his best
days, and enjoys all his faculties.
As Mr. Isaac Mossop, of High House, Gosforth,
was standing by a tree which a workman was felling, it
came down upon upon him and crushed him to death. Mr.
Mossop was seventy years of age, and highly respected.--.
Cumberland Paegnet.
A son of Dr. Lardner has been appointed to a
clerkship in the Commissariat Department of the Treasury.
--Observer.
The young Lord Coke, who will not be 15 years of
age till December, promises to be what his venerable father,
the Earl of Leicester, was some years ago, one of the first-
rate shots in England. The young Lord lately, in one
morning, shot 23} brace of partridges.
Joseph Hoast, a grenadier who served under Mar-
shal Oudinot in the campaign of the French Republic
against Austria, in 1799, has just returned to France from
Pesth, in Hungary, after an absence of 37 yeers. He had
taken service in an Austrian company, on his liberation
from the prisons of Pesth, where, according to his statement,
many of his military comrades were at the same time con-
fined.