The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL' S—YESTERDA Y.
THE ST. LEHER.
The muster was uncommonly strong, and the betting,
Whether we look at the amount laid out, or the changes that
trheseuLted, highly interesting to those who are speculating on
Ot. I.,!ger • thb excitement, in fact, coming as it did after
ti2)_rig Period of inactivity, forcibly reminded us of the olden
news:. Before entering into particulars of the afternoon's busi.
hs ould state that Mr. Forth's Emprise (the Grisette
colt) %.e
is declared not to start, having—at least goes the report
ill°,llq amiss. Two or three parties, influenced by his race
tho Goodwood Cup, had backed him to a large sum, and
Zebterribly chagrined at losing their money without so much
tie ,aYing a start for it. To supply the vacancy made by this
,fetaration, and to give a numerical addition to the strength
of
field, Lord Exeter's lot (supposed to be confined to
to 4-1 Dardanelles and Troilus) and Eg,eria were introduced. 3,000
tol2oo, and the same odds to 75/., were laid against the lot ;
1 offered agst Dardannelles ; and 5,000 to 125, and 35
haei: in Ponies, betted agst Troilus. Egeria, after being
ed privately to win a large stake, opened publicly at 24 to
b.; ,Pl 4 at this price, at 22 to 1, and finally at 20 to 1, she was
Ceeked as long as any one could be found to bet the odds.
av,ing the debutants we will take up the alterations amongst
'avourites, and they' will be found to possess no little im-
tiurttailice• Epirus opened at 9 and 10 to 1, and was imme-
,t I ell after backed so freely, that long before the room closed he
4t 6 to 1, takers; the effect of this movement was to send
den
aecK Cardinal Puff, against whom 600 to 200 had previously
4),:ri laid; 800 to 200 was now betted, and then two or three
te:3 to one, in fifties ; towards the close, however, he partially
4 to I
red, two or three of his friends having taken heart, and
u
4_ at the same time. 1,800 to 300 was taken about M
Maango,
o several bets at 7, 71, and Bto 1 about Henriade. ho-
t4n rose to 12 to 1, and his companion Blakey declined to
1441°,1. No other fluctuations worth notice. A remarkably
dal' closed at a late hour as follows :-
4 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirus—taken
ag
to 1 st Mr. Groville's Mango—offered
30'" t° 2 agst Duke of Cleveland's Henriado---taken
to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's slashing Harry—taken and after-
wards offered
12 to 1 agst Mr. Fox's The Doctor—taken & afterwards offered
12 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan—taken
15 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken and afterwards offered
20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Egeria—taken freely
20 to 1 agst Mr. Walter's The Prime Warden—offered
20 to 1 agst Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland—offered
30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dardanelles—offered
to 1 agst Ld Exeter's Troilus—taken
Robin
to asst Mr. Osbaldeston's Blakey Topping—offered
‘‘obin Hood colt not mentioned. Bto I each betted agst
*Oft Epirus, Mango, and Henriade in one bet. 300 even on
mee 6fielA agst Puff, Mango, and Henriade (odds afterwards on
three "I). 250 to 100 agst Mango and Epirus, and two or
44.deeamall even bets on Henriade and Epirus, and Henriadc
Mango.

TheABERY PS
urTWITH BACES._iir
. . r.
'dernbers' se of 50 sovs.. with a Sweeps
takesEDNESDA of 3 sous.
kr. , each added. Heats, two miles.
kr. ;larris's b. gr Barclay, 3 yrs

.. .
kr: ,11:liavles's—b. h. Alomus, 4 yrs
Tht rarmer's b. g. Bilbury, aged ..
t oggerddan Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Heats,
kr vs twice round.
Ai. As. Davies's b. Mantua, 4 yrs
)„4` Harris's b. g. Barclay, 3 yrs 2 2
A.' Farmer's b. g. Bilbury, aged 3 3
014 Galloway Stakes was won in two heats by Mr. Matthews's
tty, aged, beating Mr. Evans's Cardigan Lass, 4 yrs.
it., Sweepstakes, with 15 sovs. added, heats, once round and 14.'
t!!ance, werebwon. In two heats by Mr. Monkhouse's b. m. Do-
Celi% ly. ris,.,
Providence,
Mr. Astbury's b. m. Diana, 6 yrs ; Mr.
aged, and Mr. Matthews's br. m. GIP-
-41, aged.

THURSDAY.
A Free Hand' of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. 1 1
Mr. r. 13. Davies's b, h. 4 yrs
2 dr
Palener's b. tn. Mantua, 4 yrs
Air Hack, Handicap, with a Sweepstakes added.
1 1
• lionkhonse s b. m. Dorothy, 6 yrs
p '2 2
Vrr. Astb!lry's b. m. Diana, 6 yrs
3
tv! • Rees s ch. h. Providence, aged
Mattheweii br.
se a
m. Giy, g
ed 4 dr
'l‘4) THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN

OPENING OP THE PARL [AMEN T

OF LOWER CANADA 4

OUR LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT.)
COUNCIL-CHAMBER, AUG. 18.
This day, at three o'clock, his Excellency tht.‘ Governor-
in-Chief came down in state to optti th.. §e:.tsifln of the
Legislature, and being. stute4 tllloii Vile Throne, the As
sembly was Balled q, and attending at the bar, his Exec!
lefty .iletiVorea the fallowing speech :
Gentlemen of the Legislative Council--Gentlemen of
the House of Assembly—ln ebedltti.ee to the Royal com-
mand, signified t(3 tntt Through the principal Secretary of
State for the Uolonics, I have convened you at this unusua'
period, for the purpose of communicating to you the pro-
ceedings that, since your last Sesskti, haVe 'taken place if'
the Imperial Parlietncht, and the resolutions that have been
adopted on the affairs of this province.
This course has been prescribed to me, in order to afford
the House of Assembly, before that resolution which relates
to the payment of the arrears now due for the civil service
of the Government shall have assumed the binding shape
of a law, an opportunity of reconsidering the course which,
for the last few years, they have thought expedient to pur-
sue with respect to the financial difficulties of the province,
and in the earnest hope that by the timely intervention of
the Legislature, the exercise of the power intended to be
entrusted to the head of the Local Government may he
rendered unnecessary—a result, for the attainment of which
her Majesty's Government would willingly make every
,sacrifice, save that of the honour of the Crown and the in-
tegrity of the empire.
Since the receipt of the instructions which I have alluded
to, the mournful intelligence has reached us of the demise
of our late deservedly beloved Monarch. .
Few kings have reigned more in the affections of' their
subjects than William IV. The warm and lively interest
he always took in every matter connected with the welfare
of his Canadian subjects cannot fail to increase their feel-
ings of regret for their loss.

The succession of our present gracious Sovereign Queen
Victoria to the throne of the British empire, has not pre-
duced any alteration in the course that had been previously
prescribed for my adoption.
The Reports of the Royal Commissioners on the several
subjects which came under their investigation during their
stay in Lower Canada, having been laid before the two
Houses of Parliament, a series of resolutions, ten in num-
ber, were shortly afterwards introduced by Ministers re-
lative to the affairs of this province, copies of which I
shall transmit to you, in the usual way, at the earliest
opportunity.

The principa objects of these resolut.o Is are to de-
clare :

Ist. That in the existing state of Lower Canada, it
is unadvisable to make the Legislative Council elcetive,
but that it is expedient to adopt measures for securing to
that branch of the Legislature a greater degree of public
confidence.

2dly. That while it is expedient to improve the composi-
tion of the Executive Chamber, it is unadvisable to sub-
ject it to the responsibility demanded by the House of As-
sembly.

idly. That the legal title of the British American Lard
Company to the land they hold under their Charter and r n
Act of the Imperial Parliament ought to be maintained
inviolate.

4thly. That as soon as the Legislature shall make pro-
vision by law for discharging lands from feudal dues and
services, and for removing any doubts as to the incidents of
the tenures of lands in free and common soccage, it is expe-
dient to repeal the Canada Tenures Act, and the Canada
Trade Act, so far as the latter relates to the tenures of land
in this province, saving, nevertheless, to all persons, the
rights vested in them under or by virtue of these Acts.
lithly. That for defraying the arrears due on account of
the established and customary charges of the administra-
tion of justice and of the civil government of the province,
it is expedient that after applying for that purpose such
balance as should on the 10th day of A pril last, be in the
hands of the Receiver-General, arising from the hereditary,
territorial, and casual revenue of the Crown, the Governor
of the province be empowered to issue, out of any other
monies in the hands of the Receiver-General, such farther
sums as shall be necessary to effect the payment of such
arrears and charges up to the 10th of April last.
6th. That it is expedient to place at the disposal of this
Legislature the net proceeds of the hereditary territorial
and casual revenue arising within the province, and in case
the said Legislature shall see fit, to grant a civil list for de-
fraying the charges of the administration of justice, and for
the maintenance and unavoidable expense of certain of the
principal officers of government of the province, and
Lastly, that it is expedient that the Legislatures of Lower
and Upper Canada respectively be authorised to make pro-
vision for the joint regulation and adjustment of questions
respecting their trade and commerce, and other questions
wherein they have common interest.
Having laid before you an outline of the measures con-
templated by the resolutions, which were passed after full
discussion in the House of Commons, by large majorities, in
the House of Peers without a division ; I proceed, in obe-
dience to the Royal commands, to assure you that it was
with the deepest regret and reluctance that her Majesty's
Government yielded to the necessity of invoking the inter-
ference of Parliament, in order to meet the pressing diffi-
culties which other resources had failed to remove in the
administration of the affairs of the province.
Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,—The accounts
showing, the payments that have been made since the close
of the Session in March, 1836, out of the revenues at the
disposition of the Crown, in part liquidation of the large
arrears then due in respect to the civil establishments of
the province, shall, as soon as possible, be submitted to you,
with every explanation you may desire, and I can supply.
I have likewise, in obedience to the injunctions I have re-
ceived, directed that an account of the balance of arrears,
owing on the 10th of April last, for official salaries and
other ordinary expenditure of the local Government, be
made out and laid out before you, with the estimate of the
current half-year ; and in recommending, as I do, most ear-
nestly, these matters to your early and favourable conside-
ration, 1 am commanded to express to you at the same time
the anxious hope that the Governor of this province may
not be compelled to exercise the power with which the
Imperial Parliament has declared its intention of investing
hint, in order to discharge the arrears due in respect to
public services, for the payment of which the faith of the
Crown has been repeatedly pledged. The chief object,
therefore, for which you are now called together is to afford
you an opportunity, by granting the requisite supplies, of
rendering unnecessary, on the part of the Imperial Parlia-
ment, any further action on the Bth of the series of reso-
lutions to which I have alluded ; and it will, I can assure
you, be to me matter of unmixed satisfaction, should you
resolve to concede to the united voice of the British people,
as expressed through the several branches of the Legisla-
ture, that which you have not thought it expedient to yield
to the solicitations of the Executive Government alone.
Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,—Gentlemen of
the House of Assembly,—l ant farther commanded to ex-
press to you the earnest desire of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to co-operate with you in the removal of every obsta-
cle to the beneficial working of the existing Constitution,
and in the correction of every defect which time and expe-
rience have developed in the laws and institutions of the
province, or in the administration of its Government ; and
I am also to assure you of a prompt attention on the part
of her Majesty's Government to every representation
which may proceed from you, tending to effect improve-
ments of this nature, calculated to strengthen the con-
nexion subsisting between Great Britain and Lower Ca-
nada, by the promotion of the welfare and interests of all
classes of her Majesty's subjects in the province.
At the time the summons was issued for assembling you
on this day, I had every reason to believe that it would
have been in my power to announce to you, as effected,
those alterations which, you may gather from the reso-
lutions of which I have spoken, it is int tided to
effect in the composition of the executive and legisla-
tive councils ; but the interruption occasioned by the
demise of his late Majesty to the progress of public
business in the Imperial Parliament, and the prospect
of its early dissolution, have prevented the Ministers of the
Crown from at once perfecting the measures they have in
contemplation. These measures, therefore, arc not for-
saken, but only unavoidably suspended for a season ; and
I trust, I shall at no very distant period be enabled to ap-
peal to the chans es introduced into two councils, as well as
to the other salutary arrangements, as a proof of the sin-
cerity with which her Majesty's Government are disposed
to carry into effect the intentions they have expressed on
these points.
Since the end of the last session several local acts have
expired, and I would suggest for your consideration the
expediency of renewing such of them as may hayed proved
useful. I would, moreover, especially invite,your attention
to the acts r:.lating to the district of St. Francis, the dura-
lion of which is limited to the end of the session of the Pro-
vincial
Parliament next after the Ist of May last.
The severe distress which, in consequence of the partial
or total failure of the crops, was experienced during the
last winter in several parts of the province, induced me,
upon the urgent representation I received on the subject,
and in order to avoid the approaches of famine, to grant
r out of the public funds, that succour which the means
of the suffering inhabitants were inadequate to afford. Nor
did I hesitate in the pressing emergency of the case, to as-
sume this responsibility, encouraged by the liberality
you have displayed on similar occasions. In granting,
however, such assistance, security was in each case taken
for the repayment of the money so advanced, in the
event of your declining to sanction the transaction. These
advances amount in the whole to about 5,6001., for which, as
well as for the sums I have issued for the preservation of the
public works on the Chamhly Canal, and for the main-

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tenaWee of estiablishmerit, I trust you w;!1
s'e no objection to grant an indemnity. Such of the docu-
ments and vouchers connected with these several disburse
ments as are not already before you, shall be submitted to
you with as little delay as pogsiblo;
In cOnpinsion; Qentlemett; 1. Shall Orteat th4' determina-
tion to adhere to those principles which I laid down for my
guidance when I first addressed yuu. They are cal. ulated,
I conscientiously believe, to promote the real interests of
the country, and to secure to all classes of her Majesty's
Canadian subjects those rights, privileges, and liberties which
the spirit of the Constitution was intended to impart, and
which every friend to that Constitution is hound to Support
and maintain'
Castle of gt. Quebec, Aug. 18, 1831.

The Newfoundland House of Assembly met on the 4th
ult., and elected Dr. Carson, a violent Radical, as itr
Speaker. He was some time Ed tor of the Netcfoundland
Patriot,

The Legislative Sess'on o! New Brunswick was closed
on the 21st ult., after passing the Civil List Bill, by his
Excellency Sir John Harvey, which event was celebrated
by the inhabitants of Fredericton by an enormous bonfire
and other demonstrations of public gratification.
The Assembly was prorogued, in the usual form, to the
third Tuesday in September next.

AMERICAN MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Av). 24

SPECIE.—Amer can gold, 9 a 91 premium ; half dollars,
91 a 98 do. ; c,u 11 ter dollars, 71 a 8 ;Mexican do. 10 a 108
do; Spanish do. II a 12 do; five franc pieces, 1.031 d ,Ilar,
a 1.031 dollars ; s wercigns, 5136 dollars a —; doubloons, 7,25
dollars a 17.35 dolars ; do. Patriot, 16.85 dollars a—.
We notice a sale of 1,000 Spanish Dollars at the Board
this morning ,at 111 per cent. premium. The supplie of
specie in market has become much,reduced ; the imports for
some time past have been very trifling. The ship Equator,
from Havre, arrived yesterday, brought 52,000 francs.
The price of specie at New Orleans continued without any
material change ; brig Gustave, from Havana, arrived 15th
inst., brought a few small lots.

Stocks have exhibited no change, of any moment, for the
past ten days; there appears little desire for investment, and
the market, consequently, remains depressed, and uninte-
resting.
U. S. Bank closed to-day at 117+.
A further advance on Treasury Drafts is demanded; the
asking price being 6+ per cent. premium ; we hear of 6 per
cent. having been refused.
A Philadelphia Paper states, that from the suspension of
specie payments, up to the first of the present month, the loans
of the Banks of Philadelphia have been diminished one million
seven hundred thousand dollars, and their circulation de-
creased, about one million five hundred thousand dollars.
_ _

. . . ,
..
jority of the der; u racy throughout tile country. arc in Ia
your of a disconnection of the fiscal concerns of the coon.
try from banking institutions.

The Manufacturers' Bank at Belleville, N.J., have made
an emission of small notes, purporting to be redeemable in
twelve months.

HAYTI.
(Itrom the 110.1Pytt Daily Advertiser.)
We 110 e Proclathation of President Boyer,
on the 20th Of July; in consequence of
the embarrassments under peHol€ of that country
:are labouring, from the depressed state of credit, and the
.careity and dearness of the means of subsistence. This is
ittriboted partly to the financial difficulties in foreign
countries, partletil.itl the United States, and partly to
drought, which has affected the tlifr&ent parts of the Re-
public, and cut off its principal resourcei.

FAIIINg AT Aux CAYES.—We have been politely 1,1-
voufea Wit;i lAt^ f)i.;rtica) of letters from Aux Cayes, to the
18th July, from which we learn diat tl± irthabitants
itt that time suffering severely for the want of proiliinns.
A severe drotight prevailed in the Arrondissement of Aux
Cayes, frotii CietalW las' or.sil ;About the middle of May,
when a little rain fell. During the above period the fields
in the Arrondissement presented the appearance or having
been visited by a devouring fire. Such vegetation as es-
caped the drought, and on which cattle usually fed, was
greedily devoured by the inhabitants. The people were
almost reduced to despair when a few barrels of flour from
Port au Prince reached the town, and were sold at 30
dollars to 32 dollars per bbl. On the 20th June there was
not a barrel of flour in the whole city, and the inhabitants
were again suffering severely, when two French vessels ar-
rived with succour.
NEW GRENADA.

EXCHANGES.—There was again but a small amount of bills
offered on England for this day's packets, and the rate ad-
vanced. The sales were chiefly from 19 a 21 per cent. for
private bills, and 21 a 214 per cent. prem. for Government
bills. Francs 5,85 was obtained on Francs, and 44 cents. on
Holland. Nothing was done on Hamburg and Bremen, for
want of paper. In the price of specie, there is little or no
variation. The amount of 250,000 dollars specie will pro-
bably go out in the packets leaving to-day. The IVestminster
sailed on Monday, for London, took about the same amount.
NEW-YORK MARKET, WEDNESDAY, 2 o'CLocx, r.u.

We understand that General M'Afee, our Charge d'Af-
faires at Bogota, arrived at Philadelphia on the 13th inst.,
via Kingston, Jamaica, having left the former city on the
20th of June. At that time the country was perfectly
tranquil. General Santander ceased to administer the Go-
vernment on the Ist of April, and following the example
of Washington, had retired to private life, amid the plau-
dits of all the friends of republican institutions.
Senor Jose Ignacio Marquez, his successor, the former
Vice-President, was elected on the 4th of March last.

The municipal duty on flour at Carthay,ena and Santa
Martha has been reduced to two reals (twenty-five cents.)
per barrel, and the next Congress contemplate a revision of
their tariff, and a considerable reduction on the import duty.
The question of abolishing the discriminating duties on
the vessels of the United States; was brought before Con-
gress by Senor Miguel Sturnino Uribe, the former Presi-
dent of that body, and was ably sustained by him, and was
lost by one vote only. The measure is gaining ground with
liberal principles, which are marching on decidedly in New
Grenada.— Washington Globe.

MEXICO AND THE TEXAS.
By the arrival of the schooner of war, Vandalic, com-
mander Crabb, at Pensacola on the 12th from Vera Cruz
whence she sailed on the 3d inst., Mr. Robert Greenhow
has arrived, who was sent out by our Government with im-
portant communications. Mr. Greenhow left the city of
Mexico on the 30th ult., at which time all was tranquil,
as far as publicly known. He states that Santa Anna was
at Mango de Clavo, which contradicts the statement we
published. It was received from so highly responsible and
creditable a source, that we are at a loss how to reconcile
the matter.

Mr. Greenhow relates, that when about to leave Jalapa,
at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 2d instant, a violent
earthquake occurred, which, on his arrival at Vera Cruz,
he learned had caused much damage to the city, and pro-
duced the utmost consternation among its inhabitants, many
of whom took refuge on board of the shipping in the har-
bour. The shock was felt on beard of the Vandalia, about
which it occasioned much agitation of the water, and shook
the chain cables. The Vandalia remained for twenty-one
days at anchor in the narrow pass between the island of
Sacrificios and the main land ; and her crew enjoyed better
health in that situation than at any other period of the
cruise, although the yellow fever was raging in the city.
There is no prospect of an invasion of Texas, and cer-
tainly not the remotest chance of success, if the attempt
should be made.

SAVANNAH.
(Shipwreck—Fourteen lives lost. From the Darien
Telegraph.)
ST. SIMONS, AUG. 9.—A sailor, by the name of Abra-
ham Cote, who says that he is, as he believes, the only sur-
vivor of the St. Augustine packet schooner S. S. Mills, of
90 tons burden, bound to Charleston, and upset off Jekyl
Island, in seven fathoms water, and all perished but him-
self. The melancholy disaster occurred during the gale on
Sunday, the 6th instant, about eleven o'clock in the morn-
ing. There were on board twenty-five in all, among whom
were one white woman, and two blacks, all drowned in the
cabin. Mr. Cote reached the middle of Jokyl Island
about an hour after sunset, on a spar. The last he saw of
the wreck it was bottom up, and the Captain, Mate, and
two other men in the boot, which was full of water. Soon
after the boat passed by him with nobody in it.
[We learn by letters received in this city, that among
the passengers was a Catholic Priest of Charleston, and Mr.
Joshua Hickman, whose trunk has been picked up on Long
Island Beach, with clothing, and about three hundred and
seventy dollars in Bank bills. We also learn from the
same source, that the Cotton crop is ruined, and will not
yield one-third the amount they would have done.]—Ed.
Georgian, Savannah.
DREADFUL HURRICANE.

ST. THOMAS, Aua. 4, 1837.—The Hamburg ship
Henrietta arrived this morning totally dismasted. St.
Thomas is a scene of desolation ; night before last it blew
a hurricane, the rain poured down in torrents ; almost every
building is more or less injured, saving only those few that
had flat roofs ; hundreds of houses are blown over, and
some literally blown into thousands of pieces—the tiles and
slate more or less gone from the buildings, and the streets
strewed with fragments. The wind raged with the greatest
fury at 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening, but lulled for half an
hour, and commencing again blowing with great violence at
10 o'clock. I was aroused at 12 o'clock with the cry of
fire ; the fire commenced in some stores of Mr. Stubles,
adjoining W. P. Furness' house.
Out of 36 vessels in the harbour, all but four have cap-
sized or sunk, or gone on shore. _

- -
Only one ship and two schooners remained uninjured
after the gale. Many sailors have lost their lives—sup-
posed to exceed over 100. The land treasury hospital is
entirely destroyed, and four of the inmates killed. On the
estates, almost all the negro houses are blown down.
One letter says that the destruction was much greater
than was occasioned by the hurricano of 1819.
In the country great damage has been done.—Baltimore
Paper.

LIVERPOOL SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Monday, Sept. 11, 1637.
SHIPS ARRIVED.

Wind N. W.—high Water, ti o'clock p m.—Arrived the
Arethusa, Whyte, from Barbadoes ; Pekin, Blair,- from
Quebec ; Virginian, Harris, from New York ; Spencer,
Spencer, from Tortola ; Pocahontas, West, from Philadel-
phia; Ganges, from Quebec; Octorara, Deacon, from New
Orleans; and Jane, Wylie, from Africa.
ENTERED FOR LOADING, SEPT. 11.
John Lilly, for Africa ; Beatrice, Wicchelo, for Alexan-
dria ; Neilson Wood, Robinson, for Berbice ; Competent,
Rhodes, for Bombay; Betsey Hall. Conker, for Buenos Ayres;
St. Cloud, Coulburn, jun., for Csdiz ; and Laura, Doy, for
Demerara.