The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-09 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1842.
TIIURSDAY.—A Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, li ft, for
foals of 1839 ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst -11 b ; the produce of
mares that have bred a winner of the 2,000 Guineas, Grand
Duke Michael, Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger Stakes, to carry 71b
extra, those by untried stallions, or out of untried mares, al-
lowed 31b. D.M. —Mr. T. Kirby's ch c by Muley Moloch,
out of Miss Thomasina (h untried)-111r. Sadler's bl c Barrier,
brother to Bulwark—Mr. Sadler's ch c Defyer, brother to De-
fender—Duke of Grafton's ro e by Jerry, out of Oxygen—Mr.
Thornhill's h c by St. Patrick, out of Shoveller—Mr. Thorn-
hill's b c by Emilius, out of Mendizabal's dam—Lord Exeter's
c by Reveller, out of Green Mantle—Lord Exeter's c by Beiram,
out of Datura (untried)—Duke of Portland's c by Bay Mid-
dleton, oat of Mantz (allowed 31b)—Mr. C. Wagstaff's c by
Plenipotentiary, out of Careful (la untried)—Mr. Wreford's c
by Taurus, out of Victoria—Lord Albemarle's b f Dorothea, by
Dr. Syntax, out of Miss Tree—Colonel Peel's cby the Colonel,
out of Heuer (allowed 31b)—Captain Williamson's b f by
Camel, out of Fanny—Captain b f by Camel, out
of Albania (31b. )
FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1842.

MoNDAT.—Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for foals of 1839,
out of mares that never bred a winner ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies,
Bst 31b ; those by stallions which never got a winner allowed
Sib. A. F.—Duke of Grafton's ch f, by Ishmael, out of Balance ;
Mr. Biggs's c Eleus, by Elis, out of Miss Badsley (h unt) ;
Lord Exeter's cby Beiram,' out of Datura (hunt) ; Captain
Williamson's b fby Camel, out of Albania; Mr. Combe's fby
Touchstone, out of Harmony (31b.)

GOODWOOD, 1842.
FIRST DAY.—Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, for (now
yearlings) colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 21b, to run at 4 yrs old.
The King's Plate Course, about three miles and a quarter.—
Lord G. Bentinck's ch c Mustapha; Lord Kelburne's b f by
Jerry, dam by St. Patrick ; Lord Lichfield's bro to Phosphorus ;
Lord Eglinton's ch c Zamiel ; Mr. S. Herbert's ch c, by
Emilius, out of Nanine ; Mr. Wreford's b c by Sultan, out of
Margellina ; Lord Exeter's c by Sultan, out of Velvet; Mr.
Greville's b c Jack Sheppard; Lord Westminster's Van Am-
burgh ; Lord Westminster's b c by Glaucus, out •f Bertha;
Mr. Goddard's b fby Emilius, out of Wild Duck ; Lord Ches-
terfield's b c by Ishmael, out of Arcot Lass.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Mr. De Winton's hounds will meet on Monday, at Rhyds_
pence ; Friday, at Handvils--at half-past ten.
The Northumberland and North Durham hounds, Monday,
at Roddam ; Wednesday, at Long-ridge ; Friday, at Coldstream
Bridge ; Saturday, at Fenwick Wood—at half-past ten.
The Tickham hounds Monday, at the Squirrel, Stockbury ;
Thursday, at Whitehall—at half-past ten.
The Brookside harriers Monday, at Newmarket Hill ;
Thursday, at Telscombe Tye—at half-past ten.
The East Kent hounds Monday, at Swanton ; Wednesday,
at Brabourn Coomb; Friday, at Acrise Mill.
Sir T. Boughey's hounds Monday, at Chillington ; Wed-
nesc,ay, at Knighton ; Friday, at Stretton--at half-past ten.
The Findon foxhounds Monday, at Ashurst ; Wednesday,
at Erringham.
The Eamont harriers Monday, at Penruddock ; Wednesday,
at Dacre—at ten.

The Bodenham hounds Monday, at Bodenham Bridge—at
half-past nine. _

Vie East Sussex hounds Monday, at Sheffield Park ;
Thursday, at West Dean ; Saturday, at Clayton Holt.
The Whitehaven harriers Monday, at the Towce ; Wednes-
day, at Gosforth Scholl House--at half-past nine.
The Warwickshire hounds Monday, at Charlecote ; Tuesday,
at Mitford Bridge ; Thursday, at Snowford Bridge ; Satur-
day, at Swacliffe—at a quarter before eleven.
Major-General Wyndham's hounds Monday, at Bexley Hill;
Wednesday, at Sladeland ; Friday, at Greif ham—at ten.
Mr. Tudway's hounds Monday, at Butleigh Wootton ;
Wednesday, at 13inegar ; Friday, at Holbrook.
Mr. Farquarson's hounds Monday, at Piddle Wood.
Mr. Hellier's foxhounds Monday, at Tiles Hill ; Friday, at
Badley Clinton—at half-past ten.
The Cottesmore hounds Monday, at Witchley Warren ;
Tuesday, at Owston Wood; Thursday, at Grimsthorpe Kennel
—at a quarter to eleven.
Earl Fitzvvilliam's hounds Monday, at Ashton Wold ; Wed-
nesday, at Old Weston Windmill ; Thursday, at Castor Hong-
lands—at ten.
The Earl of Yarborough's hounds Monday at Beelsby ;
Wednesday, at Melton Low Wood; Friday, at Plyborough
Hall—at eleven.
Duke of Buccleuch's hounds Monday, at Minto ; Tuesday,
at Mellerstain ; Thursday, at Kelso Bridge ; Saturday, at
Lauder—at half-past ten.
The Cambridgeshire hounds Monday, at Caxton Gibbet ;
Friday, at Potion Wood—at half-past ten.
Mr. Drake's hounds Monday, at Charndon Common
Tuesday, at Weston Peat Pits ; Thursday, at Waddesden
Town ; Saturday, at Lower Shacborough Village—at half-
past ten.
The Ludlow hounds Tuesday, at Pedlar's Rest; Friday,
at Burrington Hays--at ten.
Mr. Musters's hounds Tuesday, at Thurgarton Hall ; Thurs-
day, at Flintham Hall ; Saturday, at Stragglethorpe Cross-
roads—at half-past ten.
Mr. Foljambe's hounds Monday, at Barnby Moor ; Tuesday,
at Grove ; Thursday, at East Markham ; Friday, at Gringley
--at half-past ten.
Mr. Leeche's foxhounds Tuesday, at Worthenbury ; Friday.
at Overton Bridge—at ten.
'the Litton staghounds, Wednesday, at Southara—at half-
past eleven.

(FRIDAY EVENING.) •
CHRONICLE.-I'he suspension of specie pay-
' ments by the American banks still occupies a large
share of public interest, and the effect which it will
produce upon the
.Bank of the United States becomes
a subject of importance. Unqualified statements of its
insolvency have been put abroad in a leading morning
journal, which will'thus have extensive circulation ; and
it has become, therefore, necessary to enable the public
to form a correct judgment for themselves.
Nlte have received from the Agency here a statement
of the affairs of the esteblishment as at Ist October,
IS 9, which we now make public ; and, presuming that
i: correctly represents the whole liabilities of the esta-
blishment and its branches, we have no hesitation, in
ziying that it ought to remove all doubts as to its
perfect ability to meet all its engagements.
The statement is as follows :
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, oCTOBEk 1, 1839.
Cr.
Bills discounted D. 29,437,182 77
Bills of Exchange 4,298,812 72
Bills receiveable

Total of discounts
Loan to the State of Pennyslvania
Stock accounts
!bonds and mortg ges
Real estate D.878,670 20
Banking-houses 446,003 96

1,334,674 16
Bonus, expenses, 3,•,!. &c.... 369,538 43
Balance due by State Bank agencies 7,740,993 60
Balance One by State Banks D. 5,132,566 96 •.
Notes of State Banks ... 2,196.613 63
Specie... 1,045,273 74

8,374

E 54 33

D. 72,178,244 53
Dr.
Capital stock ...
Actual circulation of notes 4,038,717 24
Post-notes
Discount, exchange and interest
Dividends unclaimed
Profit and loss D.3,021,389 32
Contingent fund 150,435 37

3,871,724 69
Agency, London. &c. &e.
Bond to the United States 1,986,589 04
Interest on ditto
Foreign Exchange
Balance with branches
Deposits

D. 72,178,244 53
Tie above balance sheet shows of assets 72,178,244
dollars, and the liabilities to the public are 32,306,520
dollars, exhibiting a clear surplus capital of 38,781,724
dollars, including the guarantee fund.
Tim balance sheet no doubt includes as assets
35,000.000 dollars of bills, and 17,000,000 dollars of
stock accounts, and it may be said that in this way credit
is taken for a large amount of questionable securities ;
but, making every fair allowance for bad banking, it
proves most plainly the undoubted stability of the esta-
blishments, and that the 77»zes newspaper acted most un-
warrantably in alarming the public mind in its money.
article of to•dav, by asserting that it was in a state of
bankruptcy. It is possible, in so severe a time of
monetary pressure, that the shareholders may suffer in
some d,:gree, although the large amount of the Rest, or
guarantee fund, provides them with a very powerful
safeguard ; but, as to the public, we consider that the
state of the balance sufficiently shows that they are
perfectly safe from any ultimate loss.
The English funds arc rather better to-day, but there
has not been much business transacted. Money con•
tinues very much in demand, both in the house and
out of doors, although towards the close of business it
seemed to be somewhat easier. The opinion to-day is
that, while•' the state of things in America will have an
adverse effect upon the holders of cotton goods, for the
reasons• which we stated yesterday ; yet it must induce
the Americans to ship large consignments of cotton to
this country, which will bring down the price of the raw
material, and enable our manufacturers not only to re-
sume working full time, but also bring down prices to
such a level as will induce the continental merchants
to sand their orders, so as to give a briskness to our
markets, and thus, causing a detaand for exports, pro-
duce a favourable result upon the continental exchanges.

TIMES.—It is found unusually difficult to convey
to the public any precise account of the impression pro-
duced in London by the failure of the United States
Bank. A common observation is, that because it has
not been followed by any decline in the English funds,
it is a matter of very trifling importance ; but the two
things hive no connexion with each other ; and could
the notion once be got rid of that the embarrassments
which the event may create in various quarters, sud-
denly cut off from what was held to be a certain re-
source, must lead to extensive sales of stock to meet the
emergency, our funds ought to be higher, rather than
otherwise, in consequence of this failure. An occurrence
so distinctly foreseen as this has been does, indeed, sel-
dom produce any effect at the time of its becoming
known, but it may be ,remarked further, that a vio:ent
depreciation cannot happen in any foreign security with-
out bringing suddenly a large increase of capital for in-
vestment in the English funds, " the horse," as the late
Mr. Rothschild use to express it, " which never had a
fall," and reconciling people in general to that low rate
of interest, which, in speculative times like these, is
alone compatible with safety. The ruin of the United
States Bank will not only put out of the market its own
stock, notes, bonds, and every form of abortive paper
creation of its own, but will almost, if not quite, in an
equal degree, place under interdict the whole flood of
American rubbish termed " securities,". which, under
the supposed protection of that bank, have been pouring
in upon us for many years past. Of a great proportion
of them the fate is already sealed, and with respect even
to the best, the holders must, for the most part, be con-
tent to await the issue, as few will be found willing to
take their places in adopting them for investments.
Hence the disposable means of the country id( go. to
a much greater extent at least, to more safe and legiti-
mate investments, which will acquire in their value a cor-
responding degree of benefit.

POST.—The view taken by the moneyed interest to-
day of the prospects of the United States Bank of Penn-
sylvania has not been by any means less favourable than
yesterday. The best proof that can be adduced of this
is to be found in the improved price that has been given
for the shares of that establishment, sales of them haV-
ing been effected in the course of the day at 161.175.6 d.
per share, which is more, by the fraction, than could
have been obtained for them on the first arrival of the
Liverpool. We always quote from the New York
journals on financial subjects with caution, because it is
i well known that the American press is, to a great ex-
tent, subject to improper influences, and this is accounted
for on the principle that almost every newspaper esta-
blishment in the Union is supported by' the banking in-
terest. The United States Bank of Pennsylvania has
made many enemies by the amazing power which it has
exercised in all the leading cities of America, and
the effective opposition it has given to the anti-
social measures of the Government at Washington, who
;from the most perverse and inexplicable course of policy
they have been pursuing, would appear to have had no
object so much at heart a: the total annihilation of com-
merce. Several violent phillipics have been launched
against the Bank from time to time, even in its prospe-
rity, and now that it has unfortunately fallen into ad-
versity, and been comp,,Ped to take the initiative in a
renewed suspension by the banks of specie payments
throughout the land, their exultation has no bounds.
They have become perfectly rampant. We are glad,
however, to see that there are exceptions to this discre-
ditable line of conduct. We have already said that the
mercantile letters from Philadelphia speak confidently
of the ultimate resources of the United States Bank ;
and the following extract, which we make from the New
York Courier and Enquirer of the 19th ult. (the day on
which the steamer left New York), is not merely en-
couraging to the shareholder, but it forms also an agree-
able contrast to the mass of newspaper ribaldry which
has been published on the other side the Atlantic on the
subject of the late suspension :
" In the first moment of excitement, growing out of
the suspension of this institution, we were prepared to
see the mass attach undue blame to its direction, its
officers, and its general management ; but, now that
there has been time for reflection, it does not argue well
for the intelligence of our city to persevere in this in-
justice towards an institution which in all periods of
public calamity, and at every derangement of our mo-
netary affairs, has fearlessly thrown itself into the breach,
and, without the necessary consideration of self, boldly
and efficiently sustained the commercial and other great
interests of the country. We all know that the very
d
embarrassment under which the Bank of the
States now labours arises solely from it
to protect the country against the was laudable efforts
to ruthlessly
s
waged upon the currency ; and, under such circum-
stances, even if it were far less prosperous than it at
present is, the great good ithas heretoforete very renderedpersons
country should not be forgotten by
who,
of all others, have been most benefited by the public-spi-
rited administration of its affairs. But there is no
reason for believing that it is in the disastrous situa-
tion some interested persons would have the public
believe. When it suspended, in 1837; in common
with all the banking institutions in the country, no one
' supposed for a moment that it was bankrupt ; nor does
it by any means follow that because our institutions are
happilyin a position that enables them to continue spe-
cie paments,
all those which have suspended are less
solvent than in 1837. The temporar dishonour of its
bilis by a banking house Paris has been, we are aware,
used by the interested and designing as evidence of its

HERALD.—The accounts which we received from
the United States yesterday have not by any means had
so serious an effect upon the commercial and monetary
interests of the country as many parties anticipated.
It appears that the caution used, of late, by the Bank
of England was warranted by circumstances. That
caution was naturally misstated by the country banks
of issue ; and the result .has been, to a certain extent,
something of a healthy influence over our Money Mar-
ket. The prospect of any great renewal of trade with
the United States for some time to come is necessarily
doubtful.
The Money Market for commercial purposes con-
tinues to suffer under considerable pressure, yet the
pressure is light, compared with what it mig-ht have
been, bad not the leading banking interests PI the
country adopted.the caution to which we have alre,ldy
referred. _ _

We have much reason to know that confidence has
increased in the Bank parlour. Their late proceedings,
indeed, would seem to have been a matter of public
necessity, arising out of a bad system of currency here,
and one infinitely worse in the United States. ludePd•
we have no doubt that the late operations of the liglk
have been founded upon sound principle, so far as thy'
welfare of the commercial interests of this country are
concerned.

The long and heavy unadjusted accounts between
the commercial interests of this country and of the
United States must now be decidedly arranged b tore
the trade between the two countries can be established
upon a fair system. Our merchants and foolish capi-
talists are becoming ,iek of the paper securities of the
United States, founded upon a single standard of gold,
depreciated by alloy - below its nominal value. Toe re-
sult will, therefore, be that' the commercial and public
debts of the United States must be sett!, d in 'Rao)) or
a healthy representative of the precious metals. Tiiis„
of course, for along time, must bring, bullion to
Bank of England, and .as the means to au end we
trust that good will be effected.

By the official returns of the actual of bul-
lion from the p,riod between the 31st Of Oeto)ci• to
the 6th of November, it appedrs that gold in coin are
320 ounces, and the silver in coin 110,400 ounces.

SUN.—We are glad to state the Fortign Exchanges
took afavourable turn this afternoon, moat of the r.tes
closing at an improvement on those realised last post-day.
This rise, though slight, is taken as an indication that
the export trade is increasing, as it was not the result
of any large operation on the part of the Bank of Eng-
land. The latest rates of the Exchanges were as fol-
low :—On Paris 25f. 60c. to 25f. 67in. ; on Amster-
dam, 12.34 to 12.4 ; on Frankfort, 150-. 4 ; on Ant-
werp, 12.3 4 ; and on Hamburg, 13.94 to 13.10.
The American walk on 'Change was fully attended
this afternoon, and we are happy to state that confidence,
which was partially checked on the receipt of the news
from New York, has almost entirely revived. There.
was not, however, much business done in any description
of goods, nor can a revival take place for some time to
come. In cotton there was scarcely a sale made to-day.
-The West India produce markets are firm. The
tea sales concluded this afternoon. Of about 64,800
chests Put up, 34,400 were actually sold. Prices were
2d. to 3d. per lb. above those of the October sales.
The Stock Market closed rather briskly this after-
noon; and atitnproved prices. Consols for Money rose
to 90h- 4 ; for the Account to 90i buyers ; and Exche-
quer Bills from 12s. to 14s. discount. India Bonds
were still heavy at 14s. discount, and Bank Stock at
179 L

Spanish Stock rallied this afternoon to 271 ; Portu-
guese Five per Cents. to 314 s ; the Three per Cents.
to 22 ; and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. to
52. In the other Bonds there was not any alteration
on the prices in the early part of the day.
Sh;.rcs were dull. Great North of England at 24
discount ; Brighton at 14 discount ; Greenwich at
discount ; and the Manchester and Leeds at 5 premium.
British North American Bank Shares have been done
at 1 discount ; and Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares
at l 8 premium.

TRADE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
—As Commissioners have been appointed by France
and England to treat, for the purpose of placing the
import duties affecting the trade of both countries on a
more liberal and equitable footing, the relative position
and value of their mutual exports and imports furnish
interesting matter for inquiry. The official Custom-
house tables, as given in the Commerce de Paris, show
that the imports from England into F nee have nearly
doubled from 1834 to 1837, white, on the other hand,
the exports from France to this country have been al-
most stationary during the same period. The compara-
tive tables, which have received very general circulation,
stand as follows :

Imports from England Exports from France
to France. to England.
YEARS, FRANCS. FRANCS.
FRANCS.
1834
1835
1836
1837
The chief article of British exportation to France is
hemp and linen thread. Imports from Eq.land of hemp
and linen thread :

Kilogr., 21h. each.
1834
1835
1836
1837
'Fite importation of British linen has also increased ;
in 1837, it had reached 475,000 kilogrammes.
YANKEE ADVERTISING.—Most Englishmen
are amused with the specimens of American advertising
which occasionally come under the eve. The following
is not amiss :—" Anthony Macdonald teaches boys and
girls their grammar tongue ; also, geography, terrestrial
and celestial. Old hats made as good as new." There
can be no question, that if Anthony is able to perform
all that he here covenants to accomplish, he is a univer-
sal genius No man not possessing the most versatile
talents, could unite in his own person the somewhat he-
terogeneous qualifications requisite for teaching boys
and girls their grammar league, also geography, terres-
trial and celestial; and making " old hats as good as
new." To be instructed in " celestial geography," by
which Anthony, we suppose, means the geography of
the heavens ; generally called by other people,astronomv,
must be a very great matter ; but as the old world
goes, especially in Jonathan's land, we shrewdly sus.
pect, that if Anthony can actually, according to promise,
make " old hats as good as new," he is likely to drive a
somewhat • brisker and more profitable business that
way, than in teaching the young idea how to shoot ; the
Americans being notorious for their "shocking bad
hats."—WaThs and Wanderings in the World of Lite-
rature, by the Author of" The Great Metropolis."
A HARD CASE.—An American Paper contains
the following brief but serious complaint :—" One of or
subscribers has stopped his paper because we refused
to insert an obituary, two columns in length, of a child
of his which died at the:age of two months. We should
have had no objection to have published a short obituary
of the infant, but what would our other readers have
said to two mortal columns ?" It was, doubtless, a
most unreasonable thing to request the insertion of so
voluminous an obituary ot a child, which only reached the
innocent age of a couple of months ; and the fact of the ,
father stopping his paper, because it was refur-t, only
shows with what queer customers our Yarike.. brethren
of the press have to deal. We are sorry, however,
after all, that our friend of the broadsheet, on the other
side of the Atlantic, did not, as a matter of curiosity,
publish this two-column obituary : and we beg so give
the father of the infantile deceased due notice, should
this meet his eye, that if he only send the obi-
turav to us, we shall take care that it graces the
What we are curious to know is, where: or
fctnriol.ioiilgiitui,hrt,thnse of some of our metropolitan journals,
nws.ere not parTictilarN,-
uld.
how this exemplary parent possessed himself of I
materials respecting his infant out of cou
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attached attached to " nurse" and to " pap ;"
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father thought them worthy of particular mention in the
case of' his child. We wish we had not seen the above
paragraph ; it has inspire.d in us a consuming curiosity I
to see the two columns of infantine biography. The
best memoir ever written, of any plelosopher, states-
man, or warrior, would not, to our minds, prove half so
attractive.—Walks and Wanderings in the World of
Literature, by the Author of " The Great Metropolis."
ENORMOUS SEAL.—A great seal was taken, on
Friday last, near Dublin, by a boatman named Talent.
While fishing with a line and bait-book, he saw the
creature sporting on the waves,
ant manfully pulled his
boat towards him. Having approcked near encagh,
bteoridoyr:fi:„te antdheen m,
bbryactehde
in
he, in a rude way, threw a rope over :1)4 prey, which ae-
eidietnstneolloyse theca foreughtunpdaertr
otfhethaeu
force of his oars, dragged the struggling animal after his
boat to shore, a distance of more than two miles, where
it died immediately .cfter being stranded. It is eight
feet Ling, nearly .six in circumference, and weighs tip
wards of .500 lbs.—Northertt lrhig,

The Post announced on Thursday that the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL is li&cely to succeed Lord

£24,178,010
762,770,000
f
That is, the nation owes aboubton7t63ovmeinllti7ur millions
four
for which
the public creditors receive a
and a quarter of interest per annum, Would those
lc yield to the
creditors be damnified, in the smallest degree, if
feallinthtoe
light stocks, as they are termed, were
sstopeekrhcoelndte.r,staotekth,
eintimsuecohf ratioa ae
a precseldyual
q
amount of dividend to that which he receive before
conversion,would
precisely
conversion? Certainly not. Would the public
creditor be in any way injured if the quantum of a Five
per Cent. Stock; given in exchange for his 100/. Consols,
should be vendible in the market for precisely as much
as his 1001. Consols would have commanded ? Cer- '
tainly not. As the security would be the same for the
i Five per Cent. Stock as for the Three per Cents., can ,
there be a .loubt that the rate of interest being increased
from three to five per cent., the value of the Five per I
Cent. Stock would augment in exact proportion to
the increase of interest ? Certainly not. Whilst, 1

The news from Spain is highly important. The
Madrid Gazette of the 31st ult., publishes a Royal
decree accepting the resignation of the War Minis-
ter, General ALAIX, on the plea of ill health, and
appointing as his successor, ad interim, General
FRANCISCO NARVAEZ, Captain-General of New
Castile, and one of the most inveterate babblers in
the Chambers. Previous to the resignation of
ALAIX, old PEREZ DE CASTRO and his colleagues
also sent in their resignations, so that the REGENT
found herself on the 31st with only the Bobadil
NARVAEZ to direct her councils. The casual
reader of Spanish intelligence must not confound
this NARVAEZ with the Brigadier-General of the
same name, who so gallantly signalized himself in
the pursuit of GOMEZ, and was afterwards exiled
at the instance of ESPARTERO for conduct far
from equalling in rashness the first official act of
the new Minister. The REGENT wished to dis-
solve the Cortes, but though the members of the
late Cabinet would have rejoiced at the accomplish-
ment of such a measure, as securing to them the
enjoyment of power without responsibility, they
shrunk from the odium, no less than the clanger of
advising it. Not so the long-sworded and longer-
winded NARVAEZ. He at once advised a proro-
gation as a preliminary step to a dissolution, and
first appeared in the Chambers in his new charac-
ter, with the Royal decree for proroguing them in
his pocket. Accordingly at the sitting of the
Chambers on the 31st ult. General NARVAEZ,
after taking great credit to himself for all the vir-
tues usually laid claim to by Ministers of the Crown
in every part of the world, produced the decree,
which he read, proroguing those bodies to the 20th
of November. While the new Minister was read-
ing his decree in the Senate, the Deputies, in
anticipation of a dissolution, adopted by a ma-
jority of 90 votes to 3, the very significant resolu-
tion—" That Spaniards are not bound to pay
taxes, nor any kind of loan, or subsidy of any
description, unless such shall have been previously
voted and authorised by the Cortes, agreeably to
the 73d article of the Constitution." What
e first
fruit
im-
portance the new Minister may attach to this
resolution we know not, but it was certainly no
pleasantoffering to make to his Royal mistress as
thof his councils. Out of doors the
prorogation of the Chambers excited general dis-
content. The funds declined, and the political

DEAL, Nov. S.—Wind S. S. E., fresh.—Arrived the
Vernon, Milner, from Madeira. Sailed the Alert,. Lewis,
for St. Michael';.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. B.—Wind S. S. E. _Arrived the Hes-
perus, Jackson, from the River Bonny ; Aurora, Gordon,
Denia ; Montagu, Catania ; Diana, from Mediterranean.
Sailed the Margaret Elizabeth, Joer, for Port-au-Prince;
Monongahela, Johnson, Philadelphia ; Columbus, Crop-
per, New York ; Killermont, Africa. Off port—The
Leone, Palermo ; Margaret, Sophia, Wakefield, and Re-
solution, from Quebec • Albion, Alexandria.
RAMSGATE, Nov. B.' Off port, the Eliza, Kallery, Riga.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 8. Wind S. W. to S. S. E.—Arrived
the Peace, Blornfield, from Vostizza.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 7.—Wind N. W. to W. S. W., fresh
breezes.—Arrived the Star packet from Halifax—sailed
20th ult. ;IWilliam Hutt, Fleming, for Taganrog.
PENZANCE, Nov. 7.—Arrired Wave, Edwards, Malaga.
SCILLY, Nor. 7.—Off port the David, Tucker, from
Demerara ; Elizabeth Mary, Malaga.
BRISTOL, Nov. B.—Arrived and sailed the William
Thompson, Roberts, from Jamaica ; Juvenna, Block,
from the Canaries.

APPREHENSION OF PICKPOCKETS.—This day a
number of notorious pickpockets and juvenile offenders
were brought before Mr. Gregory, the sitting Magis-
trate, charged by several police constables belonging to
the A and B divisions of police, with being suspicious
and notorious depredltors, and others with picking
pockets and attempting so to do. A number of them
were cuminitteu, utid,r the l'unce Act, us rogues and
vagabonds, for three months, and ethers for trial. -