The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURgDAi, A

consumption of wheaten broads direct that the breald giVeirt
to the paupers shall be of a quality similar to that now ge-
nerally consuming by the independent labourers in the
district of this Union."'

In this passage there is a volume of instruction.
Grantham is chiefly an agricultural district, and the
words independent labourers mean agricultural
labourers. The agricultural labourers of Grantham
then, were forced by the high price of agricultural
produce in last November to have recourse to a
worse species of food than they had been accustomed
to use. They were compelled to deteriorate their
dear and wholesome wheaten bread by a cheaper
and less wholesome grain, which in its unmanufac-
tured and unfermented state is only used as the food
of cattle. That is a distinct and undeniable fact,
proving that the agricultural labourers of that spot
were injured by the high price of agricultural pro-
duce. But we find throughout the Report evidence
that this high price was " a source of difficulty and
distress" to those labourers. Colonel WADE, an
Assistant Commissioner, says of the southern
counties, that " there were subscriptions among
the rate-payers instead of an increase of wages," so
that the agricultural labourers who are to be be-
nefited by the Corn-laws, were only saved from
still greater distress than they endure, by charity ;
the rate-payers being agriculturists also, took that
means to prevent raising the wages to a sum cor-
responding to the rise in the price of food. Sir
JOHN WALSHAM, another Assistant Commis-
sioner, states, " that the poorer classes of the
North have experienced difficulties from the dear-
ness of flour and oatmeal." We are entitled to con-
clude, therefore, that the fact so distinctly ascer-
tained, of the agricultural labourers in the Grantham
Union, was common to the agricultural labourers
throughout the kingdom, all of whom suffered dis-
tress, and were forced to live, if possible, worse
than before, in consequence of the high price of
agricultural produce during the last winter. We
have no doubt that all the manufacturing labourers
suffered to some extent from the same cause, but
we have no such distinct evidence that they were
driven to use, as the agricultural labourers were, a
worse description of food.
But after it was ascertained that the agricultural
labourers of Grantham were driven by the high
prices to use barley instead of wheat, it was
perceived how incongruous it was to allow
the inmates of the workhouse—destitution being
the test of relief—to have a diet superior
to that of the " industrious, and independent
man and his family." Accordingly the Guar-
dians of Grantham passed a resolution to make
the bread given to the paupers at least as bad as
that generally consumed by the independent agricul-
tural labourers. By the rise in the price of agricul-
tural produce, therefore, the test of destitution itself
became lowered, or worse. A man must be unable
to get barley bread before he can ask relief ; and
if the price had driven, as the Corn-laws tend to
drive, the agricultural labourers to use only lumpers
for food, the impossibility of procuring lumpers would
become in England, as in Ireland, the " test
of destitution." It is perfectly clear, therefore,
with workhouses administering relief on that test,
and with Corn-laws forcing up the price of agricul-
tural produce, and impelling the agricultural la-
bourers to descend from wheat to barley, and fro ii
barley to potatoes, particularly under an unre-
stricted system of competition with the lumper-fed
peasantry of Ireland, that the standard of subsis-
tence, to say nothing of comfort, amongst the
agricultural labourers of England is becoming, and
must become, lower and lower, till they are reduced,
if the grinding system be continued, to the very
lowest condition to which human nature can be
degraded by scoutdrel laws.

The volume of instruction is not, however, yet
read through. It is an admitted fact that the
high price of agricultural produce, which forced
the agricultural labourers to use barley bread, tended
to raise the rent of the landlords. Farms rose from
10 to 20 per cent. in the market. One of the argu-
ments in favour of the Corn-laws is, that they keep up
the incomes of the landlords, and enable them to
give more encouragement to our manufacturers,
though perhaps they live or travel abroad. Thus the
law which forces the poor man to descend from
wheat to barley, and from barley to lumpers, enables
the landlord to sport an additional carriage, to keep
an additional opera danseuse, to travel with greater
magnificence through France and Italy, and to buy
more costly pictures and more elegant statues.
It is quite in keeping that those who make such
scoundrel laws should enforce the exaction ; as
they are not likely to find others heartlessly despi-
cable enough to be competent to the cruel task.
His Grace the Duke of RUTLAND, a great
landlord, and a great stickler for the Corn-laws,
therefore, very properly moved at the meeting
of the Grantham Board of Guardians, that the test
of destitution, when prices were high, and his agri-
cultural labourers could command only barley bread
by their wages, should be made worse. He pro-
posed that the bread of the paupers should be made
at least as bad as the bread of his labourers.
Glorious are now the occupations of England's land-
owning nobility I They make scoundrel laws to
starve the people, and they preside at parish boards
to carry them into execution. Erewhile when they
robbed with the strong hand, somewhat after the
fashion of TURPIN, like him, they had some of the
generosity of the fighting-man and the bold
thief in their composition. They gave to the
poor ; they were generous with the spoil ;
and if they plundered pedlar merchants, and
knocked on the head usurious Jews, they distributed
largesses amongst their folio wers, and won the fa-
vour and cheers of the commonalty. They plunder
still, it is true, but they go more cunningly and
cowardly to work, and plunder by means of laws.
Thereto they now add the worst vices of the worst
pedlar merchants and worst usurious Jews, whom
their ancestors made a merit of plundering, and they
preside at parish boards to make the poor diet of
the wretched pauper still poorer. Taking his Grace
the Duke of RUTLAND, the owner of Belvoir
Castle--and he is not the only Duke who presides
at parish boards—as the type of England's pre-
sent nobility—remembering that they are the authors
of the Corn-laws, there exists not, in this age of
civilization, another race of men so thoroughly
mean, despicable, and degraded.

As some of our Liberal Contemporaries, our Li-
beral Ministers, and many of their Liberal supporters
have begun to advocate summary jurisdiction by
one Magistrate without appeal, an increase of the
army, an extension of the police, and to place above
all other duties the preservation of political order
and the observance of political obedience, we hope
that they Will carry these principles out, and revise
their teaching and their latigua,Te. Hitherto they
have asserted that " liberty lends to life its lustre
and perfume ;" let them henceforth Write " Volice,"
instead of liberty. The " Liberty of the Press"
has been a standard toast ; henceforth let that be
changed to " Summary jurisdiction," as infinitely
preferable to preserve the peace and happiness of
society. The Whigs were accustomed to drink
" The People, the source of all power ;" we hope
this will be altered into " Obedience to a police the
first of all duties." " Freedom of industry" was
a cherished hope, now let the Liberals substitute
for that " Labour according to law." That every
man's house was his castle, and that he might do
what he liked with his own, were sentiments once
admired by the Liberal party, but now
it is thought preferable that the houses of publicans
should be accessible to the police, and a poor
ma❑ who can buy or breed a dog, must not yoke
it to a truck. There are a multitude of other
similar alterations, which we hope will be made,
hut these few specimens may suffice as an illustra-
tion of what is required.
As the present possessors of the name of Liberals,
who seem all to have run wild after the interminable
systems of meddling adopted on the Continent,
have not yet setticd amongst themselves how
far liberty should be sacrificed to political order,
devised by a few and for the interest of a few, we
respectfully request them to take this question into
serious consideration, and define the line where
liberty becomes criminal, and where political regu-
lation must be substituted for it. At present there
is great confusion on the subject, and a Libe-
ral Minister, or a Liberal Member of Parliament,
sometimes Pronounces in the same breath a glowing
eulogium on liberty, and on a law which puts an end
to it. A Liberal Journal, too, shall have one
leader expatiating on the advantages of extending the
police, and another abusing the Tories as the corrupt
rulers by terror. A defin►tion would prevent con-
fusion, and the best possible public instructor
would either cease to praise freedom, or cease to
then call for laws which subvert it.
If freedom be such a bad thing as Ministers
Members of Parliament, and Liberal Journals im-

ply it to be, by their eagerness to get rid of it, let
that be shown, and the moral judgment of the corn=
munity on this important point, on which, according
to them, it has so long gone astray, may be rectified.
This is due to the rising generation. Young men
are ardent, and, like SOUTHEY and a score or two
more apostates, very apt to be enchanted at the
name of liberty. A reform in the language of the
Press, such as we have indicated, may save many
youths from the double danger and disgrace of first
running counter to the principles of order, and to
the advice of their more prudent parents and
friends, and then of changing to the side of
regulation, persecuting those who have not, when
young, gone so far as they have towards licen-
tiousness, and who in mature life object to fol-
low them in the paths of tyranny. The Press
has not yet lost its privilege of being the
instructor of the people, and consistently with this
character it is quite unworthy of the Liberal Press
to write a word in favour of liberty, while it is ad-
vocating scores of measures each of which is a
fetter for some of its magnificent limbs. Their
liberty reminds one of the caricature of a free-born
Englishman with a . padlock in his mouth, great
burdens, inscribed priest-craft, law-craft, and State-
craft on his shoulders ; his legs bound so that
he can hobble along, but not run away ; and his
hands tied so that he can toil, but not knock any
person down.
Another advantage will result from our recom-
mendation. At present the so-called Liberal party
are without aim or object. Now if they can only settle
the value of regulations as compared to liberty, there
will be, as it appears to us, some tangible objects for
the Liberal party to aim at, and they may perhaps
succeed in rallying Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S fol-
lowers and the followers of Mr. FEARGUS O'CON-
NOR under one and the same standard. Then they
may all march togethei to put down the Tories,
and give all influence and power to our political
drill-sergeants.

The clergy are making large use of the admis-
sions of their opponents. Lord BROUGHAM, in
1820, was pursuing objects which made him dread
the hostility of the priesthood, and he then stated,
that to the " poor man a religious education may
be said, without a figure to be everything." The
Bishop Of WINCHESTER Says, after Lord
BROUGHAM, " a religious education is everything
for a poor man ;" crowds of priests echo the cry,
the laity believe secular things as well as spiritual,
on the assertions of the priests, and a religious
education being thus proved to be everything
.to the
poor man, a great multitude is resolved to assist the
priests in giving, as the one thing needful, and ad-
mitting no other instruction, education to the poor,
which shall be dirocted and controlled by the priests.

So Lord JOHN RUSSELL lately stated that large
masses of our population were " unhappily neither
receiving in schools nor in pl.aces of worship that
religious and moral instruction which is necessary
to knit together the inhabitants and classes of a
great_ country." The Reverend and eloquent Mr.
CLOSE, at a meeting at Cheltenham to promote
the extension of the Church, pounced on this sen-
tence, and very appropriately asked if it be not a
scandal to leave large masses of the people without
that number of priests who, according to Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, are the instruments, by their doc-
trine, of knitting together the inhabitants of a
great country. Religious education is of great
value, says Mr. CLOSE and his friends, to the State
as well as to the poor man, for it knits the classes
together and preserves social harmony. Can any-
thing so much deserve encouragement ? Mr. MAT-
THEW HENRY, writing under the fear of Popery, and
looking on the Church of England as standing
between him and the Inquisition, pronounced an
eulogiutn on the Church which Mr. CLOSE quoted
as the invaluable testimony of a conscientious
Nonconformist to the utility of the Church. But if
MATTHEW HENRY had lived to see the Church
more corruptly Papal in principle than the See of
Rome itself, and had witnessed it standing in the
way of all civil liberty instead of promoting it, for
which MATTHEW HENRY prized it, he would
have given a very different character of it. That
the clergy can seek after such crutches, and can
rely on them to keep them upright, is for us a sign of
their lameness, and that they are conscious
of their own defects. We shall quote a proof of
the assertion.

At the meeting at Cheltenham the Rev. FRAN
CIS CLOSE said that—

Referring to the second Report of her Majesty's Com-
missioners appointed to consider the state of the Esta-
blished Church, be showed from that document, to which
Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell had both affixed
their names, that the growth of the population had been
so rapid as to leave " a vast proportion of the people" des-
titute of the opportunities of public worship and Christian
instruction, even when every allowance was made for the
exertions of those religious bodies which were now in con-
nection with the Established Church. Taking into ac-
count all that had been done, and was now doing by
individuals, by Diocesan Societies, and by the Church
Building Commissioners, he came to this conclusion,
that the voluntary principle had not overtaken the want,
but had been outrun by the growth of the population.
i
In the metropolis, in 1841, there would in all pro-
bability, by be 600,000 souls, for whomnoch
2o
urc9hp,orovo ;
provi-
sion haveßiionrwmoiunlgdhamllo
13,e0e0n0
;mi dmlnc in Liverpool,
220,000. Refer-
e
Refer-
ring to the statement which he had already made in refer.
once to the Church statistics of the metropolis, and other
light which Dis-
e subject, the Rev.
populousa
uptlhaocreistleasndh a
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ththroewandudpitoionntahl
Chairman demanded, how any reasonable man could say,
that the voluntary principle was sufficient. " Surely upon
that vaunted principle, whether as exercised by Churchmen
or Dissenters, Ichabod,' might be written—. Thy glory
is departed.'
, who have been in the
institutions
ttfreiotutiiogneserof this country with reve-
rence, admiration, and awe, think when tkey visit their
shores, and find by inquiry on the spot, the actual, the ano •
malous state of things? Surely they must think they have
fallen upon degenerate days.
Now, had not the Reverend Gentlemen al-
allowed his eloquence to run away with him, he'
would have remembered that in these degenerate
days England not only enjoys the benefit of large
voluntary contributions to religion, we are inclined
to say almost unexampled contributions, but it has
had undisturbed the benefit of a numerous, opulent,
and learned Hierarchy. Her Universities have
been maintained in vast wealth ; in every parish
there is at least one priest, in many there are more
than one. In all her Cathedral towns there are
superfluous priests, and it is while England pos-
sesses a most extensive and the most opulent
priesthood which now exists in Europe, that
the gross neglect and the alarming social evils have
grown up with which Mr. CLOSE reproaches the
State. Such reproaches cannot be made to Ger-
many, where the priesthood is about one-tenth as
opulent as the Anglican priesthood, and where
their exertions are hardly assisted by any voluntary
aid. There no population has grown up discon-
tented with the State, untaught in any schools, and
unconnected with any clergyman. It is only in
England, with Universities almost exclusively de-
voted to the Church, such as only exist in Spain
and Italy, and with a most opulent -Hierarchy that
such a state of things exist; it is in England with
a Church domineering over weak Monarchs and
unwise Statesmen, not in Germany, where the
Church is completely the servant of the State,
that the most deplorable moral and poli-
tical anarchy, as described by Mr. CLOSE,
has arisen. Of that fact Mr. CLOSE and his
coadjutors are aware, and having no merit to
boast of, they hunt up the forgotten testimony of
MATTHEW HENRY, and console themselves by
the flattering sentences of Lord BROUGHAM.
What the voluntary principle can and does effect
in this country, may be seen by referring to an
article we insert from the Christian Spectator,
giving an account of the receipts or gatherings of
various institutions in this country, and never
was there a more magnificent sum collected from
the best but much abused feelings of mankind. These
vast contributions, however, most of which find
their way into the hands of one body of priests or
another, does not satisfy the insatiable rapacity of
this order of men, and their perpetual cry is, Give.
They call on the State to give ; they summon in-
dividuals to give, and they hold out their hands
and their hats and their anrons, crying, Give.
While their professed master would not worship
Satan for the whole world ; they adore only Mam-
mon, and complain of their GOD that he never gives
enough. The wealth of the whole world would
not satisfy them, for their desires, partaking of
their spirituality, are without bounds or limits.
The list of contributions to charitable purposes is
equally remarkable as an example of the munificence
and the credulity of the people, and of the calum-
nies of those whose avarice and ambition no gene-
rosity can satisfy.

The shameful course which the Morning Post
has pursued in the affair of LADY FLORA HAS-
TINGS has been generally and justly condemned by
the real friends of that Lady. Not only has this

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emArse been reprobated by the Liberal Press, but
the leading Journals of its own party have loudly
protested against it, as they saw that the interests
of the party could not fail to suffer from the syste-
matic attacks made upon the QUEEN, under a pre-
text too flimsy to resist the glance of the most
superficial observer. The Morning Post, how-
ever, fancying that it had got a good opportunity of
gratifying its spite against her MAJESTY and the
Ladies of her Court, would listen to no remon-
strance either from friends or foes, but has gone on

from day to day in its own way—parading the ex-
aggerated wrongs of Lady FLORA HASTINGS
before the public, usque ad nauseant ; and, equally
regardless of truth, of decency, and of the memory
of the
.deceased, making these wrongs a handle to
serve its own base purposes. It has, in short,
so completely overdone its task, that it has I
not only greatly diminished the sympathy which
the melancholy circumstances of this unfortunate
Lady's case had excited in the public mind, but, by
a natural re-action, has called forth remarks on
the conduct of the deceased which her friends must
wish had never been made. Our readers will
find, in another part of The Sun, an article copied
from a Contemporary, and written in a tone
which has been provoked by the injudicious con-
duct of the journal which has, unhappily, taken the
memory and reputation of Lady FLORA HAST-
INGS under its especial protection. We hare in-
serted it in our columns, not because we concur in
all the reflections which it contains, but that those
who call themselves the friends and defenders of
Ie departed Lady, may see the effects of their im-
prudence. Our Contemporary, it will be seen,
animadverts severely on the posthumous letter of
Lady FLORA, which has been published, applying
to it the epithet " coarse." This, we think, too
harsh an expression. We will not say that it was
characterised by coarseness, but this we will assert,
that if any one supposed Lady FLORA HAST-
INGS to have died of a broken heart, the letter in
question must hare completely dispelled the illusion.

The following account of the appearance of the plague
in Silistria, is extracted from the German Papers re-
ceived last night
BUCHAREST, JULY 18.—Positive information has been
received here, that the Oriental plague has really ap-
peared in Silistria. On the 7th of July a Turkish woman
died of it; on the 9zh a servant girl; and on the 11th a
Turkish boy. Several members of the family of the latter
are taken ill. The time of quarantine has been increased
from seven to ten days in the lazarettos of Gallatz and
Tournul. The disease is said to be in a mild form, and
as the Pasha of Silistria has had the patients removed to
an hospital out of the town, and most strictly enforces all
measures to prevent the propagation of the disorder, it is
to be hoped it will not spread.—Allgemeine Zeitung,
Aug. 23.

There is no domestic news of interest in the Paris
Journals of Tuesday. The following telegraphic dis-
patches were received by the French Cabinet on Monday
night :

" Bayonne, Aug. 23, Half-past Two P.M.
'IIIE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVISION

TO TIIE MINISTER OF WAR.

" Maroto and Don Carlos have moved in the direction
of Bilbao. Leon on the 16th burnt the crops in the en-
virons of Allo and Dicastillo. A great many houses were
destroyed. This was the cause of the retreat of Elio. The
revolted battalions were on the 22d at San Esteban. They
are traversing the Buten."
" BAYONNE, Auo. 25. —Don Carlos has arrived at Alsa-
sua. The revolted battalions are marching on Ulzama,
hoping to be joined by the other Navarrese battalions."
Letters from San Sebastian of the 23d instant state
that ESPARTERO entered Durango on the morning of
the 21st, and that the Carlists had totally abandoned
the province of Biscay. The strongly fortified posts of
Areta and Avacaldo were deserted by the Carlirts with-
out firing a shot. In fact, the war is now regarded as
at an end, provided the QUEEN'S Government ,knows
how to avail itself of the present peaceable disposition
of the people. The Apostolical faction cannot hold out
for a week after the Marotists are detached from Don
CARLOS, and the promulgation of a general amnesty.
The Courrier Francais draws the following far from
flattering picture of the way in which French trade is
at present conducted :
" Habits of piracy and fraud have been introduced into
French commerce, once famed for its honesty. M. Du-
chatel, when Commerce Minister, was obliged to denounce
in a public circular the shameful tricks practised by French
traders in South America. A day or two ago the Bor-
deaux Papers published a letter from Martinique, com-
plaining of the way in which the flour sent from France
was adulterated. The English buy our wines at Bordeaux,
and supplant French wine merchants not only abroad,
but even in Paris. Cloth we can no longer sell abroad,
since it is known that French manufacturers send
cloth without solidity, and fraudulent measure. Every
where and in every branch French reputation is discredited
by greedy men, anxious merely for momentary gain.
France keeps only the commerce of mode and fashions.
The speech of the President of the Tribunal of Commerce
proves how low commerce is fallen. The dividends in
bankruptcies have been but 15 per cent., on an average
for the last two years. In 496 bankruptcies the primitive
capital was not more than six millions of francs, or 2401.
per individual ; whilst the debts incurred amounted to 40
millions of francs. Thus the average that each of these
persons, with a capital of 6,000 francs, continued to spend
was 11,300 francs each year for six years."
A letter from Toulon of the 23d of August, says:—.
Yesterday and today orders for further armaments have
been received here. The Alger, the Marengo, the Majes-
teux, and three other ships of the line, which are not yet
designated, are to be armed on our part.
The telegraph has been constantly at work yesterday
and to-day. The maritime authorities have received by
this means the most pressing orders. An unexampled
activity is observed in the Arsenal and in the naval offices.
The Alger is going to be brought into the basin. The
Thetis frigate, the arming of which is nearly completed,
has gone to anchor in the roads.
The insurrection in the Carlist camp continues to make
some progress, Elio having been forced to go to meet Leon
who threatens Estella. The positions which he quitted
have been occupied by the insurgents of Vera. The Car-
lists have abandoned Durango. Maroto has caused the
Intendant-General of the Police to be banished.

We announced yesterday that Prince Aletternich had
recovered. To-day we learn the contrary.
The following is the bulletin of the 18th of August :
" The fever is mild. The Prince had passed a quiet
night, and the regular course of the disorder gives
grounds to hopo a speedy crisis."
It is said that the Prince has already received the
sacraments.— Constitutionnel.

VIENNA, AUG. 19.—My last favourable report of
the health of his Highness Prince Metternich was
as it seemes rather premature. He had yesterday the
fever during the whole oft he day, which however en-led
with a perspiration. since which the noble patient feels to-
day much relieved. The physicians flatter themselves
that the perspiration may have been the crisis of the dis-
order, and that the latter may be considered to be abating,
but this is not positively affirmed, as it cannot be ascer-
tained till to- morrow.

I am able to assure you that Lord Beauvale, and also
the Count de Aulaire, have received from their respective
Courts, full powers to confer together, with Prince
Metternich, respecting the affairs of the East.
Count Clam Martiniti, the European chief Aide.cle-
Camp, returned from Carlsbad the day before yesterday.
BOURSE.—PAms, TUESDAY, AUG. 27.
that Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
french 5 per Cents ll2 75 ... 112 75 ... 112 70 ... 1 2 75
3 per Cents SO 95 ... 80 95 ... 80 85 ... 8) 85
Bank of trance 2795 ...2793 ...2795 ...2795
Lai-01W Batik I.ooof. Sh lO6O ...lOW ...1060 —IWO
.5,000 f. Sh 5222 50
.`h
.5222 50 ...5222 50 ...52 50
Belgian 5 per Cents 103% ... 103% ._ 103% ... 103%
Bank 770 ... 770 ... 770 ... 770
Spanish Acive. " ... 211,4 ... 21 ... 211,i
Passive 471 ... 4% _. 4% ... 4';'l,
';ea, olitan
Roman lll/1, ... 10234 ... 102% ... 102311
RAILWAY SHAREn.
St. Germain
Versailles, rt. B 572 50 ... 58.) ... 572 50 ... 57.3
LB. 327 51 ... 330 ... 323 ...:127 50
Havr,
Montpellier to Cate 3BO ... 300 ... 3,0 ... 381
Strasburg to Bale 3lO ... 310 ... 3t2 50 ... 305
Seyssel (A)
ne..LettAN k.UNDS-13auatiELii. AUGUST 27.
Actual Debt, 25y per Cent.
llothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 1
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92
3 per Cent. ...... .. 71%
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent ll5
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 744
National Society

Brussels Papers, August 27.
DUTCII FUNDS.—AmsTmitoam, AUGUST 26.
Money. Bills.
AEllial Dlbt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Anion SvntlicMi per cent...... ............
Ditto, ditto, ny6 per cent BO4 81
Commercial Company, .1,.> per cent 172 1:71•X
Ditto (I5:12. and 1d33) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1537, 5 per cent.
Loan 1537, S I,er cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 02‘,
Two months
—Dutch Papers, August 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNa, AUo !.9
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Font' per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
1539
—4llgemeine Zeitung. August 21.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, Auousr 22.

_
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4,' per cent lO3 103!,4
Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per rent. 103!6 102 i
Mc/1.-Inge on London, three months..,
—Prussia's Slate Gazette, August 23.

Letters from Constantinople the 7th inst., have
been received, but they merely confirm the news previ-
ously communicated from the East, namely, the ac-
ceptance by the Porte of the mediation of the Five
Powers, and the continued tranquillity of the Ttirkish
capital.

The Madrid Gazette of the 21st instant contains a
Royal Ordinance announcing the resignation of Senor
ZIMENES of the Finance departm:,,nt and the appoint-
ment, ad interim of Senor F
rthoz as his successor.
The Chancellorship of
11.1 e Spanish Exchequer is at
present an affair of
trust. considerably more trouble than

A BrusF
dig paper of Tuesday
an Majesties states that the depar-
ture
,
of their Belgies for England, which was
to nave taken place on Monday, has been put off for

the present. The Queen of the FRENtiI ttnd her
daughter, the Princess CLEMENTINE, were expected tC
arriVe at Ostend on Monday.

We have received a very long letter from a friend
of Sir JOHN MILLEY DOYLE'S, with an ample manifesto
setting forth his political principles, and a note appended
conveying the modest request that we will assist Sir
JOHN by inserting the document. The very first arti-
cle of this profession of principles convinces us that it
may be interpreted to mean anything. It appears in-
deed to be a lame copy of the famous Tamworth
manifesto, which promised to redress all proved
abuses, and introduce all necessary reforms. What,
for instance, could prevent Mr. Manners Sutton,
the Tory candidate, from
i subscribing to the fol-
lowing' clause, which s the Gallant Knight's
political creeo, according to the testimony of his friend
CommtNus ?—" I ani a steady ond unflinching advocate
of Reform, where Reform is needed," but not the advo-
cate of change or revolution, under the idea that altera-
tion means improvement. Does Sir JOHN ,by. this mean
Tones
to divide also the Tory interest ? The one! are not
so easily gulled, we think, and are no doubt highly de-
lighted to find that he comes forward without the
slightest chance of producing any other result than da-
maging the interest of Mr. GissoN.