The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-16 00:00:00

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LONDON,
- FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1837.

THE KING'S HEALTH.

WINDSOR CASTLE,

FRIDAY, JUNE 16.

The KING has had a good night, and the

symptoms of his MAJESTY'S disorder are less urgen
His MAJESTY is feeble, but his attention to busi

ness has scarcely been interrupted.
(Signed) ' HENRY HALFORD,
M. J. TIERNEY,
WM. FRED. CHAMBERS.
DAVID DAVIES.

It is with great pleasure that we lay before our readers
this day the annexed account of his Majesty's health,
which,, it will be seen, has undergone a favourable change.
Our correspondent, who has manfully told the truth from
the beginning, and who, by so doing, has effectually ex-
posed the stuff that official bulletins are made of, commu-
nicates this gratifing intelligence—gratifying so far as it
goes—in a tone rather of anxious than of confident expecta-
tion as to the result. Concurring with him most cordially
in the hope he has expressed, we cannot but participate
with him also in the apprehension that qualifies its ardour.
Certain it is, however, that the King is better. May it
still be our pleasing task to record that he is better and
better, until we can say that be is well.
WINDSOR, 11 O'CLOCK, THURSDAY NIGHT.

We rejoice in being able to announce that, contrary to
all expectation, and almost against all hope, his Majesty
has passed the last twenty-four hours in comparative case.
Whether this respite from his sufferings warrants a hope
of his eventual recovery, is more than we can say. We
have unfortunately too much reason to apprehend the con-
trary. The Court, however, seem to anticipate the hap-
piest result. The pony phaetons and saddle horses were in
full employment to-day in both parks, and all seemed as
gay and cheerful as though there was no fear of a relapse.
We earnestly hope their anticipations may be realized, and
that William the Fourth may yet live many years.
As a proof that his Majesty felt himself much better, it
is a fact—and a fact which has excited some surprise here—
that his first act to-day here was conferring the honour of
knighthood on his two medical attendants, Drs. Chambers
and Davies. They were suddenly summoned to his pre-
sence, and Sir Horace Seymour also, as a witness of the
ceremony. Sir Henry Halford did not arrive at the Castle
until- some hours after the ceremony had been performed.
Prince Ernest of Philippsthal arrived to-day from Brus-
sels, accompanied by the Hon. Captain Curzon. The Duke
of Sussex also arrived, and remained with the King nearly
three hours, when his Royal Highness returned to Ken-
sington Palace.

Up to this hour, eleven o'clock, the King remains in the
same satisfactory state.—Aforning Herald.

It is not in our power to state that there is any essential
change, since our announcement of yesterday, in the condi-
lion of his Majesty. All the communications we have re-
ceived concur, however, with the bulletin of the physicians,
in conveying the gratifying asEurance that since Wednesday
night the Royal patient has experienced some alleviation of
his sufferings.-111orniny I'ost.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY, 11 O'CLOCK, P.M.
A very general impression prevailed at Windsor this
evening that n great improvement had taken place in his
Majesty's health in the course of the afternoon.
It is known that for many years his Majesty has been
subject to an attack of hay fever, from vzhich he has gene-
rally suffered for several weeks. His present illness having
already extended over nearly two-thirds of the time to which
this attack has usually been protracted, hopes are cherished
here that the present change is the commencement of a
progressive improvement in the state of his health. It need
hardly be stated, that but for an impression that his Ma-
jesty's disorder is not of a character so serious as was origin-
ally supposed, even the most sanguine would reject The con-
solatory anticipations to which we have adverted, and which
we earnestly hope may prove to be not destitute of foun-
dation.—Times.

By the arrival of the packet-ship Sheield, at Liver-
pool, from the United States, we have received New
Yolk papers to the 27th ult. inclusive. Their con-
tents arc more favourable than in our most sanguine
moments we had ventured to anticipate. The mone-
tary panic had then in a great degree subsided ; and
among all classes a determination existed of maintaining
public credit. 2.'he small paper currency circulated
freely, though at first great individual objections were
made against the substitn.'2on of the paper promises of
civic corporations the silver coin previously cur-
rent This rneasuic had enabled the Banks to make
prena
t r,..•:ions for meeting the demands of their Euro-
correspondents by large remittances in specie.
The Sheffeld brought about 20,0001., the receipt of
which at Liverpool prevented the suspension of pay-
ments by a highly respectable house extensively con-
nected with the American trade. The New
York Journal of Commerce of the 26th ultimo,
states that specie would be shipped, off by all
the packets bound for Europe for several weeks to
come. It was then in the act of being conveyed in
large sumi from the Banking establishments in the
interior, and as soon as received at New York, was to
be remitted, the greater part to pay off' the demands
made upon the States by the merchants of England and
France. This would have the effect of keeping up
the price of cotton, the sale of which would enable
the Banks, then _rid of all foreign encumbrances, to
mime cash payments 'without loss to themselves or
great injury to the people.
But while too much praise cannot be bestowed on
the people of the United States for the promptitude
with which they have come forward to avert so awful a
calamity as that of national bankruptcy, it is not to be
expected that any decision on their part will enable
them to pass so trying an ordeal wholly unscathed.
In spite of all that can be done, the paper currency
will be depreciated in value by being made a
substitute for small silver coins, because it will
be impossible so to regulate its issue as only to meet
the exact demand for it ; and because, in -the next
place, the mote affluent will purchase specie with it
to hoard at advanced prices. The New York Globe
states as a positive fact, that the best bank-notes are
now ten per cent. below specie—the depreciation in

the nokiiinel 'Valbt i'estated from the panic ; an(
ttl"; ttro Ilumber of notes in circulation amounts to, one
hundred and sixty Millions of dollars,, the Ancrican
public has alreattii Ostaiea z kiss equal to fifteen mil-
l3he hundred thousand dollars. The liabili-
ties of the Suites to Great Britain alone are supposed
to exceed fifty millions of dollars, and tli,v2uc
met speed 4, at -.‘.•hateVel inconvenience to the Ame-
people. In the mean time sonic hcuscs must
go, and of course many will ,uff2.r in consequence,
though not to the extent at first apprehended. The
bubble speculators cannot much longer stand the se-
vere test to Aich they arc at .present subjected, and,
as a matter of course the aerial projects by which
they contrived to gull the public will be dissipated
by thn first breath of inquiry.
The more sober-minded Americans confidently trust
that the events now in Frogress will damp the rage of
all classes for over-trading and excessive speculation.
In a country where honest industry would ensure com-
fort and respectability, agriculture is shamefully ne-
glected in the pursuit of schemes for the amassing of
wealth without toil—at the cost of a credulous public.
This is most disgraceful in a moral, and most dange-
rous in a political and commercial point of view.
Speculation in the United States has degenertved into
a species of gambling which, unless checked, must
eventually ruin the moral character of the people.
Th's most fatal of commercial vices begets idleness,
fo t rsiml:rudence, encourages men to regard each other
as their prey, and after destroying every vestige of prin-
ciple, perishes with the unhappy country that suffers
it to take root in the hearts of its population.
Since the date of the last arrivals, the United States
Government has taken no very active part in the re-
moval of the difficulties,save by authorising the Collector
of the New York Customs to receive paper instead of
specie in payment of dues demanded by the Treasury.
As it was expected that a similar order would be ad-
dressed to all the.other Collectors, the news was hailed
as an important concession by the whole of the mer-
cantile body. It will certainly be productive of the
greatest advantage to all classes.
The advices from New Orleans are to the 19th ult.
They arc still more favourable than the accounts from
New York. Cotton was rising in price, and every
thing looked firm.

We trust the Batik of England will make every
effort to sustain the credit of such American Banking
houses as arc merely suffering from a temporary want
of specie. Most of them, now in the greatest difficul-
ties, are not only solvent, but affluent ; though the
circumstances in which the follies of others have placed
them render it impossible for them to employ their re-
sources in extricating themselves, save at an immense
sacrifice. These establishments ought to be sup-
ported as speedily as possible.
The Secretary for the Treasury has addressed the
following Circular to the various Deposit Banks
throughout the Union :
Treasury Department, May 18, 1837.
Sta,--As the painful informatio❑ has reached this Depart-
ment, through the public press, that your bank has suspended
specie payments, the object of this letter is to learn, officially,
if the fact has happened, and /o receive such explanations
concerning the reason for it, and the future course of your
business, as it will be apparent, are so important to this De-
partment to know, under the existing liabilities and relations
between you and the Government.
While, on the one hand, it is deemed proper that such in-
dulgence should be granted by this department to its former
fiscal agents, as they may request, consistently with the laws
and the present state of the Treasury, it must be apparent, on
the other hand, that nothing can be granted which is likely to
endanger the safety of the public funds, and other important
public interests.
The imperative provisions of the act of June, 1836, make it
the duty of this department to discontinue ordering any further
sums of public money to be placed with the deposit banks, af.
ter suspending specie payments. And hence you are notified,
that no more can thus be deposited in your institution, pro..
vided such a failure to redeem your notes has actually oc-
curred.

It is also made my duty, as soon as practicable, to select
other depositories, and place with them the money of the
United States in your possession, as well as the accruing
revenue ; but the department will endeavour to draw *ut
the funds in your hands by warrants and transfers, reasonable
in their amount and in the periods of their payment. Such
warrants and transfers, it is trusted, you will at all times be
anxious and able to meet, in a manner satisfactory to all con-
cerned ; not only with a view to fulfil faithfully your contract
and relieve the Treasury and its creditors from embarrassments
and losses, but to exonerate yourselves and sureties from con-
sequences equally injurious, inevitable, and unpleasant.
I trust, further, that you will continue to regard it your
duty, while any public Money remains in your possession, to
forward regularly all the returns and statements w hich are re-
qtured by your agreement—the mutual advantages from doing
y hick cannot fail to be obvious.

The department will also feel much obliged, if you will fur..
nish, as early as practicable, replies to the following inqui-
ries, in order that it may be in possession of such intelligence
from you, in an authentic form, as will be useful to the com-
munity and the States, and very material for regulating
properly the future measures of the Treasury. Those in.
quiries are :

Ist. Whether you expect to resume specie payments soon,
and what mode you propose to take fully and seasonably to
indemnify, secure, and satisfy the Government and the public
ereditors for any breach of your agreement and bond ?
2. Whether, if you do not expect to resume specie pay-
ments soon, any particular time for it hereafter has yet been
decided on, and what special efforts or arrangements you in-
tend to make for that very important object ?
I am, respectfully, your obedient Servant,
LEVI WOOD BURY, -Secretary of the Treasury.
To the Cashier of - Bank.

The Portland Cemetery Bill, which has already
passed through Committee in the House of Commons,
is appointed to be read a third time to-night. We
trust that this measure—which, by the bye, has not
been as vigilantly watched as it should have been—
will meet with a vigorous opposition, for it contains
several obnoxious clauses, and, among, them, one em-
powering, the Company to enclose lands in the parishes
of Hampstead and Marylebone, which will enable
them to take a portion of Primrose-1011 or the Chalcot
estate, and the open fields northward of the metropolis.
Now when we state that the lands thus proposed to be
enclosed are almost the only open spots now left: to the
inhabitants of the northern quarter of London, who
have from time immemorial been in the habit of resort-
ing to them for the purposes of fresh air and healthful
recreation—when we state this, we have, we think,
stated quite enough to induce eve!), Hon. Member to
-give the Portland Cemetery Bill his most uncompro-
mising Opposition. What new Cemeteries do we want
in the neighbourhood of London ? At this present
moment there arc not less than seven on the tapir,
Bills for which have either passed, or are on the
eve of passing, the House of Commons, just as
if it was the duty of Parliament to legislate for. the
Dead, rather than the Living I Sir ANDREW
Ac-
Nr:w's proposal for purifying our souls to the utter
discomfiture of our bodies, and forcing us into sanctity
by a stern process of starvation, absurd as it is, is not
half so absurd as this, which actually goes to deprive
the Living of the fresh air of the green fieMs, in order
that the 13ead may reap the benefit of a genteel and
picturesque burial-place I But the whole thing is so
ridiculous in theory, and so unjust in practice, that it is
impossible it can ever pass into law. The Metropolitan
Members must bestir themselves, and oppose it tooth
and nail ; hearing in mind that no Cemetery,
be it as comely even as that of Pere la Chaise, can
compensate the 'hard-worked mechanic or operative fur
the loss of those cheerful, airy, green fields which he
has been accustomed to ramble through from his
childhood. On Sundays, throughout the spring and
summer, Primrose-hill and its neighbourhood are
thronged by thousands of the labouring classes, who
in the gin-shop ; otherwise might be tippling and
yet now, forsooth, they are to be excluded from this
sylvan district, in order that the Dead may be buried gen-
teelly, and time revenues of a CompanY be benefitted by
such a handsome process of interment'. Between Sir AN-
DREW AGNEW'S Bill, which prevents him from eat-
ing or drinking on Sunday, and this new Cemetery
Bill, which prevents him from walking, the poor man
is like to have a blessed time of it !

We insert elsewhere .a letter from Mr. Cn (LDS, of
liungay, accompanied with an interesting Report of
the proceedings which took place a few days ago before
the Magistrates of Ipswich, when three Dissenting
ministers were summoncd for refusing to pay a Church-
rate. We may, in the first place, observe that we do
not agree with our respected Correspondent in his se-
vere strictures on the conduct of the Government with
regard to the Church-rate question. There is as little
good policy as justice in accusing Ministers of " vacil-
lation and indifference," when it is evident that they
have done not only a great deal more than they

THE SUN, LONDON, PIITD" JUNE M 1837.

13ELOI AN I. UNDS..43IttiSSELS, JUNE 14
Actual Debt, N per Ccnt.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. looli
Loan of Thirty Millions 9l
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent 9414
Society of Commerce, 4 S. per Cent l3l
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l3'.)
—Brussels Papers, June 15.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtaxsa, AWL: 5.
fire per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents
Bank Shares 1375
—.lllgcmeine Zcitung, June 11.

'would have deine if they had iiot been hearty in the
cause,. but iili that, tinder the bircunistances; it was
therh td do. Such reproaches cdming troth
Mr. Curr,Ds might lead to the belief that the Dis-
senters were diFatisfird With the .01.1 re which the,
Ministers have Oit-iied t ‘vhcl'etis the di
this is the truth. Nothing, we believe, is gained by
spurring a willing horse—except it be considered a
gain to prevent him from accomplishing his task so
soon or so .ell NS lie tt onid othetttios
The speeches of the Reverend Gentlemen wino
were summoned before the Ipswich Magistrates are
well deserving of the public attention, The injustice
and iniquity of the Church-rate systerri ai=e ?itt rad: in
their true colours, and we sincerely hope that
the example which these sturdy non-conforming
Ministers have set, in their resistance to this
abominable tax on the consciences as well as on the
pockets of the Dissenters!, will be universally followed.
Let the Dissenters suftl:r- the " spoiling of their
goods"—let them (as Mr. CIIILDS has nobly done)
even suffer the imprisonment of their persons " for
conscience sake"—they will by these sufferings ensure
the speedier triumph of their righteous cause.
In connection with this subject, and as affording
another specimen of the persecuting spirit of priestly
power in whatever shape it clothes itself, we beg the
attention of our readers to an article which appears in
another column, headed " fitawlin-.;. Case," and which
we have copied from the York Courant. Here a
Reverend brother, one JENKINS by name, first com-
mits an act of aggression by taking violent possession
of a,rate-book which did not belong to him, and be-
cause the book is snatched from his hand and restored
to its lawful possessor, the overseer, this meek and
humble teacher of Gospel charity—this weekly incul-
cator of ChriStian forbearance, in 'order to show his
flock the prac!ical difference between precept and
example—drags the ,restorer of the book into the Spi-
'lila] Court on a charge of " smiting," while others
who took his part, and spoke their opinions freely,
are lugged into the same holy office, to answer for
the heinous crime of " brawling in a Church I" Two
or three of JENKINS'S toad-eaters go before a Magis-
trate, and swear to the smiting and brawling ; their
depositions are transferred into the Ecclesiastical
Court, and without further inquiry—without the in-
tervention of a jury, or even the examination of a single
witness, the gentlemen against whom these iniquitous
proceedings were taken, are sentenced to be imprisoned
—they have actually been incarcerated in York gaol—
and to pay a fine of 3251. under the name of " costs."
We arc not sorry that this little ecclesiastical episode has
been introduced into the discussion of the Church-rate
question : for sure we are, it will not retard—
as episodes generally do—but forward the main action
of the piece. The wrath of the Rev. Mr. JENKINS
was kindled, because the flock which he feeds began to
think that Church-rates might be dispensed with, and
he imagined that the spirit of opposition to ecclesias-
tical extortion, which had found its way to his parish as
it has done to most others, would be quelled by the
thunders of ecclesiastical authority I Infatuated man I
The ideot who attempts to extinguish a conflagration
by pouring oil upon the flame is wise compared to him.

We direct attention to an interesting debate in the
House of Lords last night on the subject of affairs in
Spain. From the tenour of Lord MELBOURNE'S
speech we are justified in inferring that our Govern-
ment will shortly take measures for putting an end to
the sanguinary struggle that now desolates the Penin-
sula. This is the only wise and safe course.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Wednesday
have reached us. They contain no news—domestic
or foreign—of any interest. The Journal des De-
bats has an able article on the subject of the tele-
graphic despatches, published yesterday, confirming
the passage of the Cinca by Don CA RLQS—the drift
of which is to show, that unless the Madrid Govern-
ment bestir itself, the Pretender will succeed in esta-
blishing himself in Catalonia.

Brussels and German papers have been received.
The Belgian journals record the enthusiasm with
which the great majority of the electors crowd to the
hustings to vote for Representatives in the Chamber
of Deputies. This is a healthy symptom, and we
congratulate the Belgians upon its continued manifes-
tation ever since the late glorious Revolution. The Ger-
man journals publish advices from Moldavia and Walla-
chia, representing the inhabitants of these provinces as
in a state bordering upon open insurrection. The SUL-
TAN was expected to reach Constantinople in a few
days after having concluded his tour of observation.
The Prince of Bavaria had sent, as a present to the
SULTAN, two beautiful vases, which were to be pre-
sented to his Highness on his return by the Austrian
Internuncio.

CANT.—There's nothin I hate so much as cant, of
all kinds ; its a sure sign of a tricky disposition. If you see
a feller cant in religion, clap your hand into your pocket, and
lay right hold of your puss, or he'll steal it, as sure as you're
alive ; and if a man cant in politics, he'll sell you, if he gets a
chance, you may depend. Law and physic arc jist the same,
and every mite and morsel as bad. If a lawyer takcs to cantin,
its like the fox preachin to the geese, he'll eat up his whole
congregation ; and if a doctor takes to it, he's a quack as sure
as rates. The Lord have massy on you, for lie wont. I'd
sooner trust my chance with a naked hook at any time, than
one that's half-covered with bail bait. The fish will sometimes
swallow the one without thinkin, but they get frightened at
tother, turn tail, and off like a shot. The, Cod:winker ; or,
Sayings and Doings V Sam Slich.
The grand entertainments which were to have been
giver, by the Earl and Countess BroWnlow, in Belgrave-
square, on Tuesday evening, did not take place owing to the
continued indisposition of the King. Many other parties,
Which were to have been given by personages connected with
the Court, have been postponed from the same cause, which
has overcast the fashionable circles with gloom during the pre-
sent week.

PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRATION.—The time
for attending to the registration is very near. On the 20th of
June the overseers publish their notices, calling upon all wlio
are qualified to rote for county Members to put in their claims
before the 20th of July.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—A man in Ohio was
pursued lately by a black snake. All at once it occurred to
him, just as the reptile was preparing to jump at his throat, to
run round a small birch tree which stood in his paths as tight
as he could spring. He did so till he got the creature in snarl,
when, stopping suddenly, he threw back a somerset, and the
snake trying to follow him, tied himself up in a hard knot.
American Paper.

A piece of plate, of the value of 100 guineas, has
been subszribed for, and is to be presented to Mr. Waghorn,
in acknowledgment of his great services in promoting the im-
provement of the communications with India, a labour on which
he has been eecuiled, with little intermission, for twelve or
fourteen years. Among the subscribers appear twent) of the
first names in the city connected with the East India trade.
Mr. Waghorn has also been appointed by the East India Com-
pany their agent in Egypt, to manage the transmission of their
letters and dispatches.
During the last week Mr. Thomas Kirby sent from
York, to be shipped at Hull, far the use of the Emperor of
Russia, seven stallions and eleven brood mares. Five of the
horses are thorough-bred. The other stallions and the whole
of the mares are of the choicest coaching brted which this
country possesses.
LORD KENYON AND THE lIOUSE OF LORDS.—
This celebrated lawyer afforded a striking instance of the
same independence and intrepidity in a judge wriich the coun-
try is at this time witnessing with so much general satisfac-
tion in the Noble Lord holding the same high office. Lord
Kenyon having on some occasion stated opinions not very pa.
latable to some of the advocates of privilege, the then Earl of
Carlisle threatened to bring the, subject before the House ;
but before doing so requested the Lord Chancellor (Lord
Roslyn) to communicate with the Chief Justice upon the sub-
ject, urging him to attend in his place in the House and ex-
plain himself. This task the Lord Chancellor undertook, but
had scarcely hinted to Lord Kenyon the wish that he would
appear in his place for the purpose required, than the latter
instantly took fire at the suggestion, refusing it with disdain,
and adding, " Let them but attempt to touch a hair of the
head of the Chief Justice of England, and I will soon show
them what be is made of."

A gentleman, named Moore, residing at Compton,
near Wolverhampton, and who has attained the extraordinary
age of 105, has been backed for 501. to walk one mile, and
give 25 years to any man in England; that is, his opponent
shall have reached 80.

So many women have been murdered in the New
Norfolk district, Van Diemen's Land, without 'the accused
being brought to justice, that such kind of things make very
little stir, (Accept among the female portion of the community.
—Bent's News, Ja4; 7. •