The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-24 00:00:00

RATING COTTAGES.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from the clergyman and
different officers of the parish of Enfield, praying the House
to adOpt measures for rating houses under 101. a year. The
petition stated, that in the parish of Enfield alone there were,
upwards of 700 cottages which were not rated at all. The'
Hon. Member also presented a petition from Fife against the!
monopoly of the Corn Laws, and praying for their repeal.
The Hon. Member trusted that the next Parliament would be;
more inclined to do justice to the people on this subject thanl
the present one had been.
Lord Hillsborough and Sir R. Musgrave took the oaths of,
allegiance and supremacy to the Queen.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD stated that if it was in-
tended to oppose the returns, which he had given notice to;
move for on Tuesday next, he should move them as an amend-
ment upon the readinr, of the first Order of the Day.
Lord D A LME NIP presented a petition from the Magis-I
'trates and Town-Council of Stirling, in favour of the Scotch
Municipal Reform Amendment Bill.
SUGAR DUTIES.

Mr. BARING brought in the Sugar Duties Bill, which
,was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on
;Monday.

Madrid Journals to the 15th inst., received to-da
Mr. BARING brought up the Report of the Committee on
y ,:
1-.;.- Ways and Means.—Agreed to.
i
add little if any interest to the news communicated nr! DUBLIN POLICE BILL.
We Papers of the 13th, alluded to in our columns or: Lord MORPETH brought up the Report of the Corn-
mittee on the Dublin Police Bill, which was agreed to, and
yesteraay. Senors FERRER. and CABALLERO weltl?the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday.
PII ultrigui i, to oust CALATB.AVA and MENDIZABAI BANKRUPTS' (SCOTLAND) BILL.
from their respective posts in the Cabinet, in order tor? On the motion of Mr. ROBERT STUART,
replace them ; but no person, save themselves and a few The Bankrupts' (Scotland) Bill was read a second time,
.eland ordered to be commit tAI on Monday.
of their partizans in the Cortes, seemed to think with
:, The lion. MEMBER obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
Any prospect of success. The 'capital was tranquil. erender valid certain acts done in the performance of duties in
..e..-- t'.7,lthe Court of Exchequer in Scotland by the Lord Ordinary en
The Paris papers of -Thursday arc unusually barren: ?,::the bills in the Court of Session, and for the better regulation
of interesting intelligence. In the course of the day of the Court of Exchequer.
P ÜBLIC WORKS--(IRELAND).
the Government received the following official news ofd. On the motion of Mr. BARING, the Lords' amendments
the progress of events in the Peninsula : ;Ito the Public Woi ks (Ireland) Bill were agreed
Z „ to.
" BAYONNE, JUNE
,1. 1 The House then went into Committee pro forma an the
" On tho 14th Cabrera was besieging Caspe, of which they Malt Duties and Excise Acts, and the report was ordered to
be received on Monday.
garrison and militia had taken refuge in the fort. Oraa',.
C..
marched to their succour.
HOUSEHOLD SL FFRAGE.
.
" Espartero being told that a Carlist expedition had passe Mr. HUME, upon the question of the adjournment of the
dl4-
the Ebro into Castile, left his quarters -for Solsona, which he Housg being put, stated that it Was his determination to perse-
was to have reached on the 20th. The divisions left at Pamf
kivere in his motion on Tuesday next relative to Household
Suffrage —( Cries of " Oh, oh.")
plum were ordered to take the same direction."
4 the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve till Monday.
" NARBONNE, JUNE 22.
" FORT LES BAINE!, JUNE 21.—0 n the 17th the Baron 4
de Meer, was with his troops in the neighbourhood of Sarrag-aij
and nt Cervera, whittler he had transported those Rounded F.
in the battle of Guisona. The Ca-lists occupied the banks of•-•
the Llobregos from Rihellos tl Cistelfollit and all the coun-h,
try to Solsona. Don Carlos quitted this town on the 19:11A
for Renga, leaving but the wou ided and two companies atg
Sk,hona.-

CORRESPONDENCE.

(COPY.) 1
Berkeley-square, June 20th, 1827.
My DEAR MOSTYN—III the present state of things, you will
excuse me for troubling you or the subject of county politics.
Hanmer called with me upon you this morning, and he isi
inow by me, ythile I write to request you to consider how
you can join with us in order to preserve the peace of the
Icounty ; and I frankly tell you, that we must depend upon
lyourinterest in the borough to effect this. Hitherto, I feel'
that I have been indebted to you for the absence of opposi-1
rtion ; but now, unless you exert your powers to the utmost, 1
lam sensible an opposition will be certainly raised against me.
Should that be the case, we have no alternative but to contest
the county; and you must be aware that great preparations
'have been made for this, and that in all quarters of the
!county the final step is all that remains to be taken. You'
have now sat for the county some, years, and we would
not willingly disturb peace and good neighbourhood by
a contest, if it can be avoided ; but as the only means of
preventing this, and of justifying ourselves to our friends for
not contesting it, is the security of the return of the sitting
Member for the borough, we feel certain that you will fully
appreciate our motives in requesting your most decisive as-
surance of doing all in your power to effect this. But we
must also positively assure you, that if through any circum-
stances whatever the •Conservative is not returned for the
borough, there is no course open but to contest the county
against you, for which everything is prepared. We will not,
however, permit ourselves to doubt that the exertions of
yourself and friends can prevent such a necessity.
Will you, therefore, have the kindness to consider this
matter; we feel assured that the motives under which we make
to you this proposal will be also our excuse, if, on accOunt of
the position in which we stand, we are obliged to request of
you the favour of a very early answer.
. Believe me, very sincerely yours,
STEPHEN R. GLYNNE. i

.11 Cave is a small town neir the c-mfluenc3 of the'''.
14Ebro and the Guadaloupe, about twelve Spanish
1
leagues below Saragossa. As it is on the right bankZ
of the river, all intercourse between CABRERA'S bandy-'
and the main body of the Carlists can be easily pre-t!
.. vented. The Carlist expedition said to have crossed,
the Ebro into Castile, must have consisted of the Bis-,
cavan rebels ccmmanded by GUIBALDE, left in Na-1
varre, to harass ESPARTERO'S rear, and keep up the'
courage of the deserted mountaineers. This band con-,
sistcd of no more than 4,000 insurgents, but well
inured to the fatigues of mountain warfare. They
finust have crossed the Ebro above Logrono, as
the passages lower down are_ too strongly guarded
„to be attempted by such a force. Cervera, oc-
,eupied by Baron DE MEER'S troops, is a forti-
fied town in Catalonia, about seven leagues from'
•''' Solsona, in the direction of -the Ebro. Ribelles and
Castelfollit are vil!ages on the Llobregos, lying between
•. Cervera and Solsona ; so that between the rear-guard
of the Carlists, and the advanced guard of the Chris-
., tinos, under DE MEEK, there is only a distance of
two or three leagues. We are surprised that the
Carlists have remained so long in occupation of Sol-
: sona without attacking Manresa and Vique—two very
important cities in the vicinity of their head-quarters.
Probably they have been waiting the progress of
events in Barcelona, which hitherto have been rather
, .
in favour of every scheme- which threatens the speedy
downfall of the Government. If we may be allowed
--.. to offer an opinion as to the ulterior designs of Don
CARLOS, from the progress of his route since he'
quitted Navarre, we, presume his object to be
the opening a communication with France by
'. one or more of the numerous passes of the
Eastern Pyrenees with a view to obtain supplies horn
;that country, and likewise to keep up a communication;
with the Courts of Rome, Naples, Sardinia and Rus-
sia. For this purpose Urgel offers more facilities than
,any other town on the Catalonian frontier—Figueras
alone accepted. The vicinity is peopled by a race of
-,. desperate contrabandists who subsist themselves by the
profits of an illicit frontier traffic, which France in vain
labours to prevent; and as these men delight in infrac,,
; tions of laws which they regard as tyrannical and op.'
pressive, they would not hesitate an instant to co-operate'
with the PRETENDER in establishing a line of coma
munication with Perpignan, or any other town on the
French coast of the Mederranean. Had the Catalans
evinced more enthusiasm in support of the PRETEN.
DER, he would have advanced upon Barcelona at the
risk of being again encountered by the British blue-
jackets ; but great as have been the disturbances in
that city, he is now convinced that it would be folly to
approach it.
There is no other news of any moment in the
French journals respecting Spain. In the form of let-
ters from San Sebastian, various falsehoods are pub-'
lished respecting the British Legion, to which, as We'
refuse all credence, we shall also -deny insertion. LI
is further stated by the same authorities, that the Eng-
lish merchants are stirring up the inhabitants of Bil.
boa to insist upon .the restoration of theirfueros
and that, in short, England contemplates establishing
herself as strongly along' Biscayan coast as she has
idone at Gibraltar. These ridiculous fabrications, dic-
tated by a mean spirit of national jealousy, occasion
great deal of mischief, by prejudicing the ignorant po-
pulation of Spain against the Englis. We are asto-
nished that respectable Parisian journals give inner-1
I,tion to such base calumnies, particularly as they must.
prove injurious to the cause of constitutional liberty.
Of domestic news we have only rumours on the ex-,
istence of the regicidal plot of which the details were'
given in The Sun of yesterday, and some loose con.;

• Lower Seymour-street, June 21, 1837.
MY DEAR GLYNNE,--TO a communication,. courteously in-'I
tended, no doubt, howeier expressed, I can do no other than
thank you for its frankness, and answer it in the same spirit.
If I rightly understand you, lam called upon to barter what,
interest or influence I may have with my friends connected'
with the Flintshire Boroughs to purchase your neutrality in the
County. In justice I cannot do this. I have not interfered,'
and I ought not to interfere, with the free exercise of the
Borough franchise, and I cannot feel it consistent with what
I owe to a large body of constituents, who have for so many
years honoured me with their support, to compromise their
ights to secure any advantage to myself.
Nominally representing a part only, I have sought, by an;
assiduous attention to the interests of all the inhabitants of
Flintshire, to merit a continuance of their confidence—flattered
with and proud of the support of the county, I have never pre-
sumed to dictate to or bias the free choice of the Borough con-
stituency ; and I have neither the vanity or arrogance to claim
the debt which you are pleased to acknowledge you owe me.
I assume not to know the intentions of the Boroughs with re-
gard to you ; and I have in no way, directly or indirectly,
aided to excite and arrange such hostile preparations against
you within the Boroughs as you say have been long (though
silently, no doubt) in operation against me in all parts of the
County, and now wait only your directing voice to give them
effect.

You are anxious not to disturb the peace and good neigh-
bourhood of the County. The harmony of the latter shall,
under no circumstances, suffer from any conduct of mine ; but
I crave leave to observe, that the alternative you complain of
is of your own seeking. No conduct of mine has provoked
the hostility you have declared. The menace and its motive
originate with you. These will best explain to the conatitu7
encies of County and Boroughs the position in which I stand,l
and they must decide between us.
I cannot make the sacred right of franchise the subject of
bargain.
Believe me, yours very sincerely,
E. -M. LI. MOST YN.
Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bart.

Mr. George Robins seems to have selected the'
very nick of time to dispose of estates within the sung little;
boroughs of Petersfield, Bridport, Stamford, and Ludlow,l
as the general election cannot by possibility be delayed morel
than six months.

Sales of land and villas (in consequence of the
vorable change in the weather) appear to have commenced in
!good earnest. Our readers will perceive by our advertisingl
columns, that George Robins has quite a field day at the New'
London Inn, on Saturday the Ist of July, when and where
'he offers to the monied men of Exeter, no less than five different
!properties, arid all of a very elegiblo description. Then again'
ihe presides in person on the following Monday and Tuesday'
'to St. Leonard's Villa, at which delightful retreat he sells all
the elegant furniture, pictures, china, and effects ; the villa
being offered for public competition on the preceding Satur-'
day.— Woolnier's Exeter Gazette.

ELECTION OF SHERIFFS.

GUILD H AL L-( THI S DAY.)

! According to ancient practice, this being Midsummer Day,l
a Common Hall was held for the purpose of electing two citi-
zens to serve the office of Sheriffs for London, and Sheriff of
Middlesex, for the year ensuing after the 29th Sept.
1 The favourite candidates were Mr. NlOntefiore, (one of the
executors of the late Mr. Rothschild,)and Mr. Carrel, the late
!office-keeper of Cornhill. The other candidates were those
(put in nomination by previous Lord Mayors, and the Alder-
tmen who have not yet served the office.
A Court of Aldermen was held at twelve o'clock, and at
tone o'clock the Lord Mayor, accompanied by Aldermen
i White, Lainson, Sir C. Marshall, T. Wood, M. Wood,
Cowan,C Wilson, and Harmer, the Recorder, Common Ser-
geant, and the Sheriffs Johnson and Duke entered, and com-
menced the proceedings of the Common Hall, by the Recor-
derstating what the Hall was called for. He and the Lord
iMayor then retired, in order to leave the Livery to their free,
._.clioice.

The COMMON SERGEANT then came forward and read the
list of those who were in nomination for the office, among
whom was the name of Alderman Johnson, but he had received
a letter from him saying that he was so ill that he begged to
be excused for the present year.
TIMOTHY CURTIS, Esq., a Governor of the Bank, then came
forward and said that they were met for the purpose
of exercising a most important privilege, and one which
required great eare—he meant the selection of Sheriffs.
!—( Hear.) It was a high and most important office, and re-
lquired a gentleman to fill it who was possessed not only of a
knowledge of the world and its affairs, but who could also feel
sympathy in the sufferings and misfortunes of his fellow-
'creatures. Such a man was his friend, Moses Montefiore, whom
the had great pleasure in nominating to fill the office of Sheriff.
SAMUEL GURNEY, Esq., banker, had great pleasure in se-
conding the nomination. Moses Montefiore was a man of
;great worth and humanity, and he was sure he would most
faithfully discharge his duty if his fellow-citizens did him
}the honour of electing him. It might be said of Mose:
4Montefiore that she was a man of clean hands—(Cheers)—a
/man of an honourable and honest mind.
t Mr. STEVENS proposed G. Carroll, Esq., as a fit cempa-
nion for the gentleman just nominated. Next year was likely
4to be an important one, and it was very important to have met,
of liberal principles in the office of Sheriff.
7 Mr. PRIOR seconded the nomination.
Mr. WILLIAMS spoke in favour of the nomination just made.
The respective names were then put up, and Mr. Monte-
fibre and Mr. Carroll were unanimously elected.
Sir James Shaw was then re-elected to the office of Chair-
41berlain, as were the Ale-conners, &c., and the Hall broke up.

ISUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETZ
OF FRIDAY, JUNE 23.

EARL MARSHAL'S OFFICE, CRAIG'S-COURT,
JUNE 24, 1837.
All Peers, Bishops, eldest sons of Peers, and Privy Coun-
cillors, who propose to assist at the interment of his late most
Sacred Majesty King William the Fourth, of blessed memory,
Hiich is appointed to be solemnized in the Royal Chapel o
Saint George at Windsor, on Saturday evening the Bth day of July
ic;xt, are requested to signify their intention by letter, addressed tol
me, at this office, on or before Friday next the 30th instant, in
order that the necessary ticket of admission may be transmitted to
lent= respectively.

NORFOLK, Earl Marshal.

EARL MARSHAL'S OFFICE, CRAIG'S-COURT, Juxr 24.
The Queen has been pleased to command, that the Great Of-
ticers of State, her Majesty's Ministers, and the Officers of tht
oyal Household, who assist at the Interment of his late Most
acred Majesty King William the Fourth, of blessed memory, do
ippear in their State uniforms, black waistcoats, breeches, stocking?,
kiid buckles, uniform swords with crape, and black feathers 11
!lheir hats.
The Bishops arc to appear in their rochcts ; and all Peers, eldest
sans of Peer, Privy Councillors, and others, who may not be in-
ludedv in ti e above regulation, are to appear in full dress black.
The Knights of the several orders will wear their .r espectivf
i,:ollars.

NORFOLK, Earl Marshal.

HORSE GUARDS, JUNE 24, 1837.
MEMORANDUM.
General and Staff Officers who attend his late Majesty's rune-
al, are to appear in the mourning prescribed by the General &-
ler of the 20th instant, for " Offiers on duty," with full dress
oats, sash, boots, spurs, and blue cloth trowscrs, laced according
o regulation.
By command of the Right Honourable General Lord Hill,
Commanding-in- Chief,
JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General.