The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1839.

LONDON :
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1839.

IMPORTANT FROM SPAIN.

TERMINATION OF THE WAR.

The following important news, received by the
French Government from Spain appeared in a third
edition of The Sun of last night :
Ttna Moniteur Parisin of Tuesday night has the
following important telegraphic despatch :

" Tfi SUB-PREFECT OF BAYONNE TO THE MINISTER

OF THE INTERIOR.

" On the 30th Don Carlos went to Lecumbery,
which proves that he is on good terms with Eliot.
On the 29th Espartero occupied the left bank of
Deva, Maroto and Simon Torre the right. On the
29th Lord John Hay complained Espartero had com-
promised the negotiation by too much precipitation."
" BAYONNE, SEPT. 2.
" Don Carlos has namcd E;uia Commander•in-Chief
ad interim."

The Monileur of Wednesday has the following :
" THE CHIEF OF THE NAVAL SERVICE TO THE MINISTER

OF MARINE.

" BAYONNE, SEPT. 3.

" They write to me from Passages, that a Treaty of
Peace had been concluded on the 29th between Maroto
and Espartero, subject to the approbation of the Cortes,
for the pacification of Biscay and Guipuscna. The follow-
ing are the principal articles :—Voluntary submission on
granting the Fucros ; the rank of the Carlist Officers to
be maintained ; and pensions granted to the wounded.
On these conditions the 2.5 battalions and 10 squadrons
of Maroto will lay down their arms."

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 6 P.m.
Letters from Constantinople of, the 17th state that
Mehemet Ali insists upon his own term=, although he
agrees to the mediation of the Five Powers.

W hether this news be correct or not we pretend
not to determine. It is, however, highly probable.
At all pewits, the war may be regarded as virtually
at an t4t. The following extracts from the French
Journals of Wednesday are confirmatory of the pa-
cific intelligence communicated by telegraph. Any
comment upon them would be premature :
The Sentinelle of Bayonne contains a letter from the
Spanish frontiers of the 30th uk, which states that Ma-
roto had proceeded with his battalions to Azeoita, and
the junta of Generals had been held, Martinez, the Se-
cretary of Maroto, went to the lines of Audoain, where
he had a conference of two hours with Lord Jahn Hay.
It was stated at St. Sebastian that an armistice of a
fortnight was to be concluded. On the 30th, dis-
charges of cannon were heard, from which it was in-
ferred that the armistice had been concluded, and the
bells were rung in the villages occupied by the Carli.t,. It
was said by the inhabitants, that they believed peace to
have been signed. The white flag was flying along the
Carlist lines. Some boats having hailed the Mazeppa
stt arner, which was proceeding from Santander to St.
Sebastian, informed it that it could enter the port if it
was in want of anything, as the peace was concluded.
The Courrier de Bordeaux gives the following as
authentic, from the Basque provinces :
" An important treaty has been concluded between
Espartero and Maroto, under the intervention of Lord
John Hay. At the moment when the signature of Don
Carlos was to have been affixed to the act of arrangement,
he tore up the written conventions, protesting against any
decision that might be come to, without his knowledge,
against the right of his Royal pretensions. This violence
was pro%oked by the last article of the treaty, which
pronounced the definitive exclusion and banishment of
Dan Carlos and the members of his family. All the
information which we receive concurs in giving as posi-
troctble arrangement entered into between Maroto,
from d ?Zariateguy, Simon Torre, Iturriaga, and Elio,
which it is inferred that the latter will not lose
sight of Don Carlos, and will prevent his joining the
little nucleus of the inthrg_ents at Vera, if he be capable
of such an act of resolir►is said that Espartero
has sent an aide-de-camp and that things
will rearain in suspense until his return. Maroto has
joined Espartero with eighteen battalions."

A controversy of some little importance towards
forming a right conclusion on the
effects
rent religions on the morality of mankind loiafsdbifreeen-
of late carried on between the Bishop of LONDO •
and Sir CHARLES FoRBES. The Baronet be.'
clan it, and it is the opinion of acute observers that
,
the Prelatehad the worst of the controversy. A
notice of the whole matter, now that the controversy
seems brought to a close, may not be unacceptable
to our readers.
The Prelate stated in the House of Lords on the
13th ult., that " It was notorious that so prevalent
was theirs (the Hindoos) disregard of truth, that
no testimony of a Hindoo would be received in a
Court of Justice, or could be relied on." He ad-
mitted afterwards that " individuals were to be
found amongst the more educated classes of Hin-
(loos. whose word mi,4ht be relied on." For this
assertion the worthy Baronet, who seems tired with
a praiseworthy zeal on behalf of a people amongst
whom he lived twenty-four years, and with whom he
has been in communication fifty-two
the Right Rev. Father i God, years, took
od to task, and de-

dared that he considered the character given by
th'e Bishop of the idolaters altogether undeserved.
Moreover he asserted that the Bishop would
not have so described them had he been personally
acquainted with them. The worthy Baronet
farther declared that he had perfect confidence
in the honour and veracity of the natives of India,
that they were scrupulous of the observance of an
oath, and he quoted Sir THOMAS MUNRO to
show " that were morals (civilization►) to become
an article of trade between the two countries, Eng-
land would profit by the import cargo." The Bishop
replied very politely to the Baronet, and justified
his assertion by the " conspiring evidence of the late
Lord TEIGNMOUTH, Sir JOHN MACPHERSON,"
the Bengal Government, and a crowd of other
persons, as quoted by Mr. THORNTON in his
work on India. Mr. THORNTON, being a Clerk
in the India House, who ascribes the love of
lying in the Hindoos to their idolatry, has a theory
to support, and jumps to a foregone conclusion.
In reply to the Bishop the worthy Baronet
quoted an equal crowd of witnesses, including
WARREN HASTINGS, Sir JOHN MA LcoLm,a:.l
the Marquis of HASTINGS, all of whom, according
to the Baronet, have borne testimony to the truth-
fulness of the idolators. The Bishop could not
rebut this evidence, and so he complained somewhat
querulously of Sir CHARLES FORBES publishing
the correspondence. The Baronet replied that his
first letter complaining of the error, in which
he manifested an intention of not allowing the
Bishop's assertion to go out to India uncontra-
dieted, was a sufficient intimation that he meant to
publish the correspondence. Of course, had the
Bishop come with honour from the field, having
fully established that the idolaters were as utterly
regardless of truth as he wished to make them ap-
pear, he would have seen the publication with
cheerfulness and joy : it was the well-established
contradiction which he took to heart, and at which
he fretted.

Yesterday another combatant entered the field,
and endeavoured to cover the Bishop's retreat by
quoting Lord TEIGNNIOUTFI'S words. But Lord
TEIGNMOUTII begins the passage quoted by affirm-
ing that " wherever idolatry is established there a
corresponding corruption of manners takes place ;"
and he concludes accordingly, that the Hindoos are
guilty of all kinds of vice, bringing no evidence of
the fact but a borrowed story. Now, all the parties
who depose on both sides being prejudiced against
idolatry, and most of them anxious to make out a
else against it, that they fail and establish the
fact that the morality of the Hindoos is as good
as that of Englishmen, the most moral nation, ac-
cording to our own showing, of Christendom, the
conclusion is, on the whole, favourable to the
idolaters.

What strikes us as worthy of being remarked on
this occasion is, that the Bishop of LONDON and
the whole body of the ultra-Protestant Clergy and
their followers made for many years, till facts
shamed them from their falsities, the same kind of
accusations against the Catholics as they make
against the Hindoos. Our laws for many years
were framed on the supposition that the oaths
of the Catholics were not to be confided
in, though with infantine simplicity, at the
same time, we guarded our institutions by
the respect of the Catholics for an oath. Even
now the M'GHEES and the O'SUL LI VANS, the
ILLPOTTS, and the BLOMFIELDS, are conti-
nually dunning into the public ears the assertion
that Catholicism, which is Christianity, is a source
of corruption of manners, and that no other reli-
gion is a safe moral guide than the sectarianism
they teach. From both examples the conviction is
forced on us that these gentlemen raise a false
clamour against the effect of other religions, in
order to make their own teaching appear exclu-
sively true and excellent. It suits their purposes
to excite a prejudice against Hindoo idolatry and
Catholic Christianity, and accordingly they calum-
niate both. Seeing in the state of our own popula-
tion no evidence of their beneficial teaching—no
positive proofs of the advantage they confer on the
nation—they endeavour to make themselves appear
white by painting others as black as possible. A
brief notice of some of their own acts will make
this fact more apparent.
Our Clergy pretend to teach the people, and for
that they receive an enormous revenue. If to
neglect such a solemn duty be vicious, no more
vicious race of men can be found than our Clergy.
The condition of our population is a standing con-
demnation of their conduct. Hordes of neglected
poor in all the cities and towns of the empire,
while the Clergy, who are paid to teach them, are
revelling in purple and fine linen, driving their car-
riages, and keeping a multitude of menials, speak
loudly against the morality of our teachers.
The controversy itself is no proof of goodness.
The sweeping accusation against distant people,
made on doubtful authority, for the evident purpose
of exalting the Church of England, is no evidence
of either honesty or charity. Humility is not to be
found in the Bishop's querulousness. As to the
love of truth belonging to his order, Lord RA DNOR

has more than once stated in the House of Lords
that perjury is habitually practised at the Univer-
sities. There is scarcely one subscriber to the
Thirty-nine Articles who does not evince a disre-
ga:d of truth. Repeatedly it has been asserted by
the public press, and never denied, that the majo-
rity of the priesthood made false returns of the ac-
count of their income. The Bishop is a
maker of Corn-laws, and therefore an habitual
plunderer by law. All his brethren being land
and tithe owners, profit by legislative plunder, and
praise it.

I The Bishop and his friends may say that these
are conventional immoralities by which no man
deceived, though many are plundered. We admit
it ; but when he bears such a strong testimony
against the Hindoos he ought to remember that
they are a long oppressed people,—oppressed by
many conquerors, and that the lies they may have re-
course to in Courts are the consequences of the habi-
tual deceit they are driver► to practise to escape oppres-
sion. These are amongst the Hindoos conventional
immoralities which deceive no Hindoo, and are per-
haps justified to them as a means of cheating their
cheaters. We enter into no defence of the Hin-
doos ; we dare say that they are as bad as other
men in their degraded political condition, but we
affirm that they are not worse than their arrogant
calumniators.
If we were to take the character of the whole
English nation from that of the priesthood preach-
ing one doctrine and practising another, and preach-
ing a doctrine which they do cot practise in order to
obtain the wealth they say they are commanded to
despise, receiving large emoluments for the per-
formance of a duty which they scandalously neglect,
would not the whole nation be set down as cozen-
ing hypocrites, whose word ought not to be relied
on—who pervert the most sacred functions to the
most uahallowed purposes, and abuse the most
important doctrines to their own worldly purposes.
Comparing the conduct of the priesthood with their
professions, a Hindoo would certainly describe us
as a nation destitute of truthfulness, and whose
word was not to be relied on. Looking at the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY heading the op-
position to education, a Hindoo would say we were
the enemies of knowledge ; and looking at all the
clergy rising in arms whenever a motion is brought
forward to extend the liberties and improve the
condition of the people, a Brahmin would be justi-
fied in describing us as the friends of intolerance
and the enemies of liberty. If he turned
his eyes to his own country, and remem-
bered under what pretexts territory after ter-
ritory had been taken from its native Princes, while
tax after tax was levied on the unfortunate people,
he would conclude, and with some justice we are
afraid, that whatever might be the vices and crimes
of the idolators, they were at least equalled, if not
surpassed, by those Christians of which the late
Lord TEIGNMOUTH and the present Bishop of
LONDON are some of the model men.

are lower in agri-
low of labour ; and they
One of the worst features in our society is the
wagescultute than, with the exception of hand-loom
weaving, in any other business. Such a well-
known fact leads to some instructive inferences, to
which we solicit attention.
Each individual strives to better his condition,
which is the soul of improvement. What is good
for the individuals of a community must be benefi-
cial to the society, which, like individuals, is bound
to improve its condition to the utmost. Farmers
bring up their sons to be manufacturers, merchants,
lawyers, doctors, &c.&c.,because they can gain
more in such occupations than in their own. The
apothecary makes his son a physician ; the attorney
breeds his boy up to be a barrister; the clerk en-

deavours to make his child a principal; because in
each of these cases the new occupation of the child
is considered more opulent, more respectable, or
more advantageous on the whole than the one fol-
lowed by the parent. Now we should like to ask
why society should not follow the same rule ; and,
wages being lower in the pursuits of agriculture
than in almost every other occupation, we wish to
know in what consists the policy, in what the wis-
dom, in what the justice of insisting on our people
being contented with the low wages of agriculturists
when the higher wages of mechanical and skilful
employments would, but for the law, be open to
them. It is a fact that wages, ilr almost all other
employments, are higher than in agriculture ; it is a
certain truth that, but for the Corn-laws, they would
be still higher in other employments than they are,
and where is the wisdom or the justice of compelling
the people to follow that which is the worst paid
occupation ?
We apprehend that it is a general truth, that the
older the occupation, the more it is over stocked
with labourers, and the worse it is paid. To till
the ground and to weave cloth by the hand, are
amongst the most ancient known trades of the
world, and they are the worst paid. Every new
occupation, which is of use to a community is of
necessity comparatively well paid, because there can
be but few persons acquainted with it. Engineers,
for example, and all the artizans engaged in making
and working steam engines, fitting up gas works,
comparing them to agricultural labourers, are re-
markably well paid. It may, therefore, be laid
down as a general rule, that the more modern the
business, other circumstances being equal, the
better it is paid. In our manufacturing ingenuity,
which is only commencing to develope itself,
England possesses an ever-growing fund of new
employments, which, as they come into opera-
tion, would give an ever-increasing scale
of wages to her people, balancing the ever-
decreasing influence of population. Doggedly,
stupidly, and most ignorantly, however, does the
Legislature, the paternal Legislature, the Re-
formed House of Commons of England, persist in
closing up this means of improvement, in shut-
ting out these new occupations, and in con-
fining our people, as much as possible, to the
most ancient occupation known, that of tilling the
ground. The landlords and the lawmakers will
not allow the nation to profit by the immense ad-
vantages which GOD has bestowed on it in the un-
wearied industry and boundless ingenuity of its
people. They do not, we believe, knowingly com-
mit this suicide, but they are blundering, ignorant,
and stupid, like the Irishman who cut off his own
head with the scythe in attempting to spear a
salmon.

Another remark which arises from this leading
fact is, that this old and badly paid employment, to
which our legislature persists in dooming our
people, is the most exposed to competition. There
are few Irish printers, carpenters, engineers, or
gas-fitters, who come to England ; the bulk
of the Irish are common day labourers, igno-
rant of any art but digging and delving, and
they enter into competition exclusively with
our agricultural labourers. The abolition of the
Corn-laws, which would encourage new occupations,
would diminish the means of competition with
our people. It would probably give rise to some
new arts in Ireland, and keep the Irish at home to
consume the food of their own growth. The con-
tinuance of those laws causes the produce of land
to be dear in Ireland ; sends the Irish ovei to Eng-
land in shoals, and brings those badly paid, igno-
rant, and unskilled labourers into com-
petition with the similar unskilled labourers
of England. Thus by ensuring a competition with
some of the worst paid labourers in existence, and
by confining our people to the worst paid occupa-
tions, the Corn Laws continually tend to degrade
the agricultural labourers of England, who are the
chief sufferers from both effects, to the lowest level
at which human beings can exist. Such seems to
us, without a particle of exaggeration, the result of
what our Squires boast of as the highest degree of
legislative wisdom.

vs. 4
When the QUEEN'S Ministers made die Ballot
an open question, we thought and said that they
acted wisely in making that concession to public
opinion. The grace of the boon was no doubt
somewhat impaired by the manner in which- it was
granted by some of the Members of the .Adminis-
tration. Lord Howmic, with that unhappy per-
verseness and want of discretion which, in 'a great
measure neutralize his not inconsiderabletalents,
asserted, in his place in the House of COmmons,
that his only reason for consenting td leave the
Ballot an open question was, that the object of the
Ballotists might be defeated. That declaration
was as imprudent as it was paradoxical. The
Noble Lord was not called upon to volunteer
a sentiment wnich bore on its face the stamp of
absurdity, and which appeared to the mass of the
people an offensive absurdity.

Had we entertained any misgiving as to the effect
of opening the question of the Ballot, the denuncia-
tions of the Tory Press against the measure would
have been sufficient to confirm us in our original
opinion. According to these watchful guardians
of our liberties, nothing could be conceived more
unconstitutional thin an open question. It was a
betrayal of the interests of the country—
downright treason to leave high points of
policy, which ought to be recommended or
resisted, on the same principle that requires
unanimity in a Jury, at the mercy of the individual
members of the Cabinet. There was, in short, a
great outpouring of Tory wrath against Ministers,
conveniently amalgamated with a total forgetfulness
—suppression at all events—of the fact, that open
questions had been the order of the day under
Tory Administrations, one of them being Catholic
Emancipation—the most important, we should say,
that statesmen in modern times have had to consider.
We were not aware, however, that the course
pursued by the Government in this matter
had been so pregnant with great results as
we learn from a Contemporary it has been.
" That movement," sajs the Timcs of yesterday,
" shifted the centre of their (the Ministerial),party
—nay, virtually dissolved the party itself. It
turned adrift a portion, and by far the most respect-
able portion, of the supporters of the Ministry.
'['here was no longer a middle body for the more
decorous Liberals to cling to ; each man must de-
cide for himself whether he would file to the• right
or to the left. In either case alike he lost the dis-
tinctive character of intermediate party, and took
more or less strongly the colours of Radical or Con-
servative." This is a nice bit of theory, and shows
clearly enough what the Tory party wished to have
been realized in practice. But every one who
knows the state of the case, knows that
there is not a word of truth in this representation.
What extravagance is it to talk of the dissolution
of the Liberal party in consequence of the Ballot
being made an open question ! So far from this
it strengthened that party, both without and within
the walls of Parliament. That it turned adrift the
most respectable portion, or any portion of the
supporters of the Ministry, is an assertion more
remarkable for its hardihood than its truth. The
Times would fain make the public believe that the
moderate Whigs are smitten with a horror
of the Ballot, whereas the fact is that none but
Tories look upon the Ballot with any edam.
All liberal men are as fully persuaded as the Tories
are, that, if any mode of voting which should en-
sure the freedom of the electors' will, were adopted,
the Liberal cause would be universally triumphant.
The supporters of Government have, therefore, no
cause to dread the Ballot, but the contrary. Those
of them who oppose it, do so on quite different
grounds from the Tories. They oppose it, not
because they distrust the power which it would
put into the hands of men, to whom the Consti-
tution has in fact already confided it, though they
have not enjoyed it, but because they are not
yet convinced that it would afford that protection to
the voter which its advocates affirm it would,
and are reluctant to depart from the established
system of open voting, which doubtless has some
great advantages, as long as a hope remains that it
may be toposs\i,bhleigse
that preserve that system. The
Ballot is so far froamrbieni somenga of the most criterion of extreme
favour ofit.
mode-
rateopi of n ion
s thein politics,\

We mentioned yesterday that the Committee of
the North American Colonial Association had
addressed a letter to Lord MELBOURNE, remon-
strating against the appointment of Mr. POULETT
THOMSON to Canada. The answer which the
Noble Viscount sent to the remonstrance has not
yet been published in The Sun, and its effects have

been so powerful that we now give it. His Lord-
ship wrote :
" Downing-street, Aug. 24, 1839.
" Sir--I beg leave to acknowledge your letter cf the
22d inst. I am sorry that the opinions which you have
been instructed to state, are entertained by a body of so
much weight and influence as the North American Colo-
nial Association ; at the same time, being entertained, I
feel that they could not have been more properly ex-
pressed ; and
" I remain, Sir, your faithful and obedient servant,

"Russell Ellice, 'Ffsq. " MELBOURNE."-
This calm and cool acknowledgment of Mr. H us-
SELL ELLICE'S power of properly expressing rue
opinions of his constituents made the Tories dancing
mad with vexation. They were like bulls stung by
a gad-fly, and went roaring with anger through the
metropolis and even through the provinces. The
produce of their wrath was that address to her MA-
JESTY, to which also we yesterday alluded, and
which a Mr. ROBERT CARTER, Honorary Secre-
tary to the North American Colonial Association,
sent round to the merchants of the metropolis marked
private and confidential. The Standard, however,
broke through the confidence reposed in it, and
published the address, making known to the public
the vexation of its own friends. The Tories in their
wrath have interfered with the prerogative in an in-
solent manner, and they are worse than the Chartists.
The latter only contend against absurd laws—the
former would set aside the QUEEN herself.

The result of the Cambridge election will not
surprise the public. It was evident from the very
commencement of the contest that the unprincipled
party who support the temporarily successful can-
didate were determined to stick at no means, how-
ever base, illegal, or unconstitutional, by which they
could carry their point. In corruption, intimidation,
and violence thel have, with a due regard to their
well-earned character, " gone the whole hog," and
gained a triumph,
which instead of being a cause of
congratulation, would make them blush if their fore-
heads were not cased with brass. The triumph,
however, such as it is, will be but of short duration.
So notorious has been the viola ion of the law, so
undisguised and general the bribery on the part of
the Tory agents, that not the least doubt remains
of Mr. MANNERS SUTTON being hauled over
the coals, and ousted from his seat by a Committee
of the House of Commons.

We turn with disgust from proceedings so dis-
graceful to the Town of Cambridge, and so dero-
gatory to the character of Englishmen, to the
events which have taken place at Manchester.
There, although there has been much of which we
cannot approve in the conduct of some who profess
attachment to Reform principles, the " rational"
Reformer, as he has been not improperly styled
in contradistinction to another candidate, has beaten
both the Tory and the ultra-Radical candidates.
The Tory papers, we observe, are comforting them-
selves under the defeat by comparing the small
majority of the Liberal candidate with the large
one of Mr. P. THOMSON at the last election, and
thence deducing their favourite doctrine of " re-
action." This consolation, like most other things
of Tory structure, is built upon a fallacious
foundation. The publicans, from resentment at
the Government for a supposed neglect of their
class interests, voted against their political senti-
ments, and in favour of Sir G. MURRAY. Their
votes, added to the majority of Mr. GREG, would
equal the majority of Mr. P. THOMSON. If
" re-action" means anything, it means a change of
political opinions. Where, then, is the re-action
in Manchester ? On the same principle, we pre-
sume, the Tories will calculate in their re-action
the votes of the Chartists, some of whom are said;
out of spite, to have voted for Sir GEORGE
MURRAY.

Letters from Constantinople of the 17th ult. have
been received to-day, together with Smyrna Jour-
nals of the 19th. The news they bring is very im-
portant. On the 15th the answer of MEHEMET
ALI to the note of the Ambassadors of the Five
Great Powers was received by the Porte. The
Viceroy not only insisted on his claims to the So-
vereignty of Egypt, Syria, and Candia, but declared
that he would not so much as treat of any settle-
ment of the question before the dismissal of
KHOSREW PACHA from the Councils of the
SULTAN. Upon this point he addressed letters
to the principal Members of the Divan, and to the
SULTAN'S mother. He had likewise sent agents
to foment an insurrection in Albania and Roume-
lia, but, according to one account, the French and
British Admirals gave directions for seizing the
vessels conveying them to the Turkish coast, and
sending them to Malta. On the 16th the Ambas-
sadors of the Five Powers recommended to the
Porte not to listen to the demand of MEHEMET
ALI for the dismissal of the Grand Vizier, and
rely with confidence on the joint protection
of their respective Governments. Admiral
STOPFORD had arrived in Constantinople
to consult with Lord PONSONBY, and hoisted his
flag on board the Carisfort frigate. The French
and English fleets were in the Dardanelles ready to
pass the Straits at a moment's notice. The French
fleet consists of seven ships of the line, one frigate,
a schooner, and a steamer ; and the British of ten
ships of the line, one frigate, three corvettes and a
brig. The general opinion at Constantinople was
that the pacific settlement of the affairs of the East
had become impossible. A rumour prevailed that
HAFIZ PACHA had arrived at Constantinople.

Brussels papers of Wednesday have been re-
ceived this morning. We copy from one of them
the following paragraph for the information of our
commercial readers :

The Ostend pilots have brought into the port a ship
which they found deserted at sea, and which belongs to
the port of London. The ship was dismisted, and the
captain's journal is signed some time before the acci-
dent, for the pilots found it in the morning, and the
journal was signed at midnight. This ship seems to
have come from the coast of America, for a quantity of
parrots was found on board. It is not exactly known
of what the cargo consists, because it has been thought
advisable to place the vessel under quarantine.
We learn from the journals of Bruges, that the ship
brought into Ostend, appears, by the papers found on
board, to be the English schooner, Gil Blas, Captain
A. H. Herbert, from the coast of Africa, bound for
London, with a cargo of palm oil, wood, coffee, &c.
The vessel having one of its masts broken and the net-
ting destroyed ; it is supposed that it was run foul of by
another vessel, into which the crew escaped, fearing that
their own would immediately sink.

The termination of the civil war in Spain, is the
principal topic of discussion in the French Journals
of Wednesday. The news they contain relative to
this subject, will be found in another article ; and
as for their comments upon it, they consist for the
most part of mere speculations, to which it would
be ridiculous to attach the slightest importance.
The Gazette de France states that the Emperor
NICHOLAS now treats his son-in-law, the young
Duke of LEUCHTENBURG, with the most marked
indifference. The Duke, it seems, having failed
to prevail upon the Court of Rome to grant
him a dispensation to bring up his children in the
Greek religion has signified an intention of adhering
to the instructions of the Roman Pontiff. Hence
the displeasure of the EMPEROR, which has already
deprived the Duke of all political consideration in
Russia. As matter-of-fact journalists, we cannot
help thinking that family squabbles about the edu-
cation of-children which may never have an exist-
ence are a little preposterous, even in Russia.
Letters from Vienna, of the 27th ult., mention that
the SULTAN had expressed to Count KZEMUSKY
his gratitude to the Emperor of AUSTRIA for the
promptitude with which his Imperial Majesty
offered his mediation for the settlement of affairs in
the East.

The French Journals, one and all, express dis-
pleasure at the manner in which Lord BROUGHA m
lauded the Duke of WELLINGTON at the Dover
Banquet. The Courrier Francais, the National,
the Presse, and the France, display a soreness upon
the subject of his Grace's victories, which is quite
ludicrous, To suppose that the banquet had for its
object either to insult France, or to detract from the
greatness and glory of that gallant nation, is pre-
posterous.
M. GUIZOT arrived in Paris on Tuesday. Mr.
uisß E
among N
son of the President of the United
the late arrivals in the French
capital.
The Moniteur publishes a Royal ordonnance, dated
the 27th ult., whereby certain ordonnances, relating to
VANSt States 3 ,
the rules for importing certain engines and machines—
to the import and export duties to and from the An-
tilles—to the carrying into execution the law of the
06th of June, 1836, concerning Corsica—and to the
measures adopted by the police on the Spanish frontier
—are renewed, and continued in execution, in conse-
quence of the Bill for converting them into laws not

having been discussed and passed during the last Ses- I
sion of the Chambers.

BOURSE.-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4.

First Highest Lowest Last
Prioe Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents l:2 40 ... 112 40 ... 112 20 ... 1 2 20
4 per Cents lO3 20 ... 1, 3 20 ... 10:3 20 ... 103 20
3 per bents BO 45 ... 80 45 ... 80 30 ... 80 30
Bank of trance 27SO ...270 ....27;5 ...2775
Latfitte 13.1,-k I.ooof. Sh lO6O —lO6O ...1660 ...1060
Belgian Bank 795 ... 795 ... 785 ... 785
C.nipons .. 45 ... 46 25 ... 45 ... 46 25
Spanish Ac ive. `.434 ... 25% ... 2434 ... 2434
Passive 6 ... 6% ... 6 ... 6
New licferre.l
Portuguese 3 per Cents
Neal °hull

RAILWAY SHARES. --
St. Germain
_590 ... 590 ... 590 ... 590
Versailles, IL B 507 50 ... 507 50 ... 560 ... 500
L B 325 ... 325 ... 317 :.0 3i9.5')
liavr.
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale .... 3,7 50 ... 307 50 ... 3'5 ... 3C5

ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS.
Seyssel (A)
.
Yarn (Maberly's)

BELGIAN 1. UNDS—BituseEze, SEPT. 4.
Actual Debt, 2M per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92%
3 per Cent. 71%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent —
Society of Commerce, 4 raper Cent ll5
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 75Y6
National Society .
—Brltssels Papers, Sept. 4.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 3
Money. Bills.
Aetna) 1)44, •2!4 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A o,,rt `radic,4M per cent...... ............
Ditto, ditto, :.N per cent Bl 81,4
Commercial Company, 4,, per cent 172 172%
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. lOO% 101
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 05
Two months
—Dutch Papers, Sept. 4.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, AUGUST Si.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4',, per cent lOl% 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 103% 102 N,
Exchange on London, three months 6 20M -
-Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 1.

UNDER-SECRETARYSHIP OF THE COLONIES.
—lt is reported, according to the Colonial Gazette, that
both Mr. Ward and Mr. C. Buller have been applied
to by Lord John Russell to accept the office of Under-
Secretary of the Colonies, and both have declined.
We doubt the accuracy of our Contemporary's in-
formation, and mention it that it may be contradicted.

Per Quarter. s. to s.
Bath • 64 80
bland/aril 61 72
Bridport 68
Chu(' L 6 76
Gloucester 72 75
Exe er l7O 84
Guildford
Newbury LS tO
Reading L 4 80
Salisbury 56 74
Shkrborne 64 75
SheptonMallet 711 74
Uxuridge

s. s. Is.to s.
32 42 28 25
38 i 2) 20
40 -
44 28 30
41 43 28 32
27 34,21 28
36 38 j3O 33
33 38 26 31
32 40i``25 32
31 4) 26 32
32 40 122 •30
42 20 30
37 43 23 22
39 42 ,28 31

a. to a
44 50
46 48

46 4S
41 43
40 -
42 44
40 46
39 46
38 50
36 42
44 46

Warminster,,,,,l 53 77
Winchester 6l 76
1 Yeovil 158 64

44 47

36 42

36 40

S. to a

DEVIZES CORN MARKET.
Per Sack. s d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. a. d.
First Wheat 3B 6 to 39 0 Oats 25 0 to 34 0
Second 34 0 37 1 Beans (per sack)... 19 0 45 0
Tlsird
Harley 35 0 40 c Bread (per ga11.)... 1 4 0

MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOC'K.

LIVERPON, COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. —WC have no
change to report in our Cotton Market to-day ; the sales
are 3,000 bags to the trade.

We have received the Mauritius Price Current, of the
28th May :
Exchange on London.—Government Bills, thirty days'
sight, Three per Cent. premium ; Bank B Ils, ninety days'
sight, none; Private Bills, six months' sight, three-and-
half per cent. discount.
Colonial Produce.—Sugar, no sales. Exports-
-68,371,304.
Total of the Revenue collected at the Customs,
30,3751. 133. 13-d."

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's
date, from which we copy the following from the East :
They write from the frontiers of Turkey, of the 19th
August, that a courier on his way to Vienna passed this
frontier. It is said that be is the bearer of despatches an-
nouncing tho acceptance by Mehemet Ali of the proposi
tion made to him, and that ho is satisfied with his family
inheriting the throne of Egypt and Arabia.
It appears certain that they expect at Constantinople
a solution of affairs which will F ecure a durable peace.
Accounts from St. Petersburg of the 25th of August
state that the harvest has failed in the southern parts of
Russia; this has prevented further speculations in grain,

WORSHIP-STREET-(THIS DAY.)

HARD CAsE.—John Rees, a man whose appearance be-
tokened great distress, was placed at the bar charged with
being destitute.
Policeman W. Walker, 42 H, said he met the prisoner
last evening, who came up to him and stated that he had
that morning been turned out of Bethnal-green workhouse
to seek for employment, which being unable to procure, he
had returned to the workhouse that evening and been de.
nied admittance. The witness then took the prisoner to
the workhouse, and the master stated that Rees had been
taken before the Board on Monday last, and had been
ordered tobc turned out, as the Board considered him capable
of getting his living. He had accordingly turned him out
yesterday morning, and refused to re-admit him.
In answer to questions from the Magistrate the prisoner
stated that he was fifty-two years of age, and was by
trade a weaver.

Mr. GROVE—You must go to work. Workhouses
were not built for people fifty years of age. If you are
caught again you will be sent to the House of Correction.
The prisoner was then discharged.
CONSEQUENCE CF VISITING THE FAIR —John Williams,
a decent looking man, was charged with attempting to
commit a robbery on the person of a man named John
Swanys, a hawker.
Policeman 118 11 said that Swanys gave the prisoner in
charge last evening, accusing him of attempting to rob him.
Swanys said the prisoner had put his hands round him,
but on his giving an alarm, the prisoner desisted. Wit-
ness said Swanys was very drunk, and was not now in
attendance.

Mr. GROVE animadverted on the conduct of the police-
man in taking a charge from a person in such a state, with-
out detaining him.
The prisoner said he was returning from the fair, and
overtook Swanys, who was singing and making a disturb-
ance, on which he touched Swaiip., on the shoulder, and
made some observations on his singing, when Swanys im-
mediately gave him in custody, charging him with attempt-
ing to commit a robbery.

—Mr. GROVE—That is the consequence of going to the
fair. That fair is the greatest moral nuisance in this or
any other metropolis.
. _

The prisoner was then discharged.
ENFORCING PROSECUTIONS.—Two boys named Baylis
and Martin, we, e placed at the bar, charged with stealing
oysters from a woman named Ward. It appeared that the
prosecutrix was not in attendance, nor did she intend to
prosecute.

- Mr. GROVE ordered a summons to issue, and said he
would issue a warrant if necessary, to enforce her atten-
dance.

On her appearance, Mr. GROVE said it was necessary
th pihlic should know that parsons giving others into
custody, and not appearing► against them, were liable
to an action for false imprisonment. By the New Police
Act Magistrates possessed the power of enforcing the
attendance of prosecutors, a power which he would exer.
cise, as it wos i.nposiible to put down pilfering if pilferers
were suEred to escape with impunity. The case was then
gone into, and Baylis was committed for seven days and
Martin was discharged.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, SEPT. 5. —W.nd 6. W.—Arrived the Rambler,
Hill, from Cadiz.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. s.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Ade-
laide, Granby, from Oporto. Sailed the Penang, Cum-
ming, for Canton ; Rose, Baylis, Cape of Good Hope ;
Mary and Ann, Blaxton, Valparaiso ; Cora, Melville, Rio
Janeiro ; Adventura, Toneca, Maranham ; Tyrone, Clark,
Jamaica ; Henford, Reburn, Cuba ; Volo, Bowden,
Hayti ; Constantine, Tensor, New Orleans; Superior,
Tucker, Mobile ; Leonore, Graves, Virginia; Westches-
ter, Furis, New York ; Palmyra, Cushing, Philadelphia ;
Portsmouth, Jones, New York; Virginia, Hussey, Alexan-
dria ; Eli Whitny, Dyer, Bombay ; Gay, New Orleans ;
Pearl, Fletcher, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Ganges,
Mitchell, ditto ; Oberon, Bannerman, ditto ; Harriet
Scott, Beynon, ditto; Hants, Neil, Quebec ; Loyal Bt iton,
Storey, Pictou ; Hannah Booth, Best, Malta ; Dalhousie
Castle, Humming-way, Africa ; Warrior, Wade, Lisbon ;
and Rcnnevalea, Wildes, Odessa.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind N. W. to W. S. W., fresh
breezes.—Arrived the Plym, Davis, from Smyrna; and
Freedom, Cox, ditto. Sailed the Alert packet, for Ma-
deira and Brazil; and Dart, Alai], Madeira.
HASTINGS, SEPT. s.—Arrived off port the Persia, Ste-
phens, from Ceylon, sailed the 13th May, Mauritius the Bth
June, and St. Helena the 13th July.
COWES, SEPT. s.—Arrived the George Washington,
from Bahia.

TORBAY, SEPT. 3.—Arrived the Alexander, Nicolls,
from St.:Petcrsburgh. Sailed the Rio packet, Dioch, for
Muscat ; Susan Crisp, Fleming, Cape of Good Hope ;
Robert, Starkie, St. Kitts; Janet Willis, Willis, Deme-
rara; Barron, Hall, Pictou; General Hewitt, Sellers,
Quebec; Ellen, Castor, Barcelona; and Giraffe, M'Ken-
zic, Malaga.
CREEK, SEPT. s—Arrived the Ellen Jenkinson, Walker,
from Trieste.

BRISTOL, SEPT. 4.—Sailed the Aberfoyle, Johns, for
Odessa.

CORK, SEPT. 3.—Arrived the Binam, Woolner, from
Smyrna.

SUNDERLAND. SEPT. 4.—Off port the Anne Elizabeth,
Cockerill, and Brown, Young, from Quebec.
ABERDEEN, SEPT. I.—Off port the Robert and Anne,
from Quebec.

SHIELDS, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Sophia Maria, Kueli,
from Kiel ; Liddell, Watson, Quebec.
HULL, SEPT. s.—Wind S. W. by S , fresh.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—Ion was revived
here on Thursday night, Miss E. Tree appearing in the prin-
cipal character. Nothing could be more correct than her con-
ception, nothing more perfect than her delineation of the
dlfficult and peculiar part she played. With that perfect
ienocetice and gentlenesss that belong to the temple-bred
boy, she has combined the firm, unfaltering accent, that
evidence of undeviating purpose, that belong to the ag: nt
of the gods; and withal there is that subdued air which
she knows so well how to assume, and by which she appea,s
in that perpetual presence of the power that urges lon on,
and at the same time depresses birn. She never departed
from the gentle calmness of the character, but at the same
time ever preserved an air as if mysterious voices spoke to
her from every co tier of the temple ; and when she publicly
invoked the gods, it was less as a mere mortal than as one
who, from a long fearful intimacy, claimed to be heard by
them as a right.
HINDU BELIEF.—The Hindu hell is a place
of punishment replete with the most terrific accompani.
ments. In painting its frightful features, all the fertility
of eastern imagination has been exhausted. The Scrip-
tures of Christianity are content with conveying to the hu-
man mind some conception of the misery and wretchedness
that await unrepented guilt, by calling forth the figures of
darkness unutterable; the tortures of a fire that is never
quenched ; the gnawings of a worm that never dies;
weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Brah-
rninic7.l books affect to describe the place of future punish-
ment with the minutest exactness; portioning the species
of punishment that there awaits the wicked, and the pe-
riods to which they shall be subjected to its penalties, pro.
portioned, of course, to the magnitude of their crimes on
earth. The universally-received doctrine of ultimate ab-
sorption of every thing into the Deity, precludes the belief
of the eternity of hell torments; and, according to the
orthodox creed, the most wicked and unholy are at length
so purified, and made perfect, as to be fit for this, the last
and happiest state of being—the annihilation of individu-
ality, and the utter and final extinction of all delusion ; in
one word, the destruction of the world of man, which is
delusion, and nothing else 1 Millions of years, however,
are allotted in the regions of Patala for offences of the
higher grade; thousands circumscribe the penalties due to
minor offences. But during all this term of trial and pro-
bation, the criminal is permitted again to return in another
form to the world of delusion, that he may be prepared.by
the better discharge, or otherwise, of the duties of his
new state, to approach nearer and nearer to its final destiny,
or to merit a still longer and more fearful purgation in
Patala. Such is the Hell of the Hindu ; it follows, that
the true Heaven of the Brahminical faith is absorption
into the Deity.—From Dr. Bryce'l Sketches of Native
Education in India,

DIVISION OF LABOUR.—Two old shipmasters
met the other day in a tavern at South Shields; and after
congratulating each other on the number of years they had
kept "above water," the discourse turned upon their respec-
tive merits as navigators, in the difficult voyage between the
Tyne and the Thames. " I should think," said one,
" that you and I know all the rocks and sands on the
coast ?" " You and I?" said the other : " you may speak
for yourself, but I've never gone near one of them, ex-
cept once getting too closely acquainted with the Good-
win sands l" " Very well," rejoined the former speaker,
" I've been on all the rest."—Gateshead Observer.

A farrier in the 12th Lancers, stationed in
Abergavenny, on Wednesday se'nnight, put a horse in a
gig to see how he would run in harness. It appears that
the horse had a sore back. Another farrier ran at his head
for some distance, and then got into the gig; the horse im-
mediately started off along the new road towards the Usk
Bridge, when, in attempting to turn him, the reins broke.
One of the farriers got out behind, but the other jumped
out at the side, and, unfortunately, broke his leg in two
places. There was also a little boy in the gig, who kept
his seat. The gig passed several waggons on the road,
but eventually the horse stopped, being knocked.up ; the
boy remaining in the gig unhurt.—Merlin.
EXTRAORDINARY (;ASE.—Some days since, a
vessel was recognised in Sunderland harbour, which was
known to have sailed from that port in October, 1836, and
has never since been heard of. The vessel is the schooner
William and Betsy, formerly of Perth, and late of Sunder-
land. She was the property of Mr. Stobbie, of New-
burgh, who purchased her from Mr. J. Gowland, of Sun-
derland, by whom she was lately recognised in Sunderland
harbour. Mr. Stobbie, who happened to visit Sunderland
at the time, together with Mr. Gowland and other persons,
inspected the vessel, and were satisfied as to her identity.
It appears that after she sailed out of Sunderland in Oc-
tober, 1836, a violent sturm arose ; several other
vessels which sailed the same tide were damaged ;
and one vessel, viz. the brig Oak, of Sunderland,
was lost, and all hands perished. The William and
Betsy was also supposed to have been lost, and all
hands perished. Mr. Stobbie had a son on board at the
time, who, together with the rest of the crew, have never
since been heard of. The certificate of register, under
which the vessel is now sailing, corresponds with the ori-
ginal register in the port where she was built (Kirkcud-
bright), tonnage, name, dimensions, and every other p an:
ticub,e, except the date, the former register being dated
Ism the present certificate bearing date 1829. She now
belongs to Liverpool, but the present captain and crew
have been only three months on board,- and profess to
know nothing of how the present owner came in to
posses-
sion. Information has been communicated to the Custom-
house officers, and also to the agent of the Insurance Com-
pany (who paid the insurance to Mr. Stobbie). The filed
register and the builder's certificate have been s ritten for,
but no answers have yet been received. t appears pro-
bable that when the vessel was overtaken by the storm the
crew perished, and she had been picked up at sea with the
papers on board, and taken into some obscure port and sold.