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LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, ATT"GUST 14, 1838.

The Parliament is not likely to be prorogued till Friday.

In the House of Lord..s last night Lord DENMAN took
the opportunity of 6,, third reading of the Canada Decla-
ratory and Inde7:unity Bill to state his opinion on the
conduct of cord DURHAM'S ordinances, and on a
Bill of T..ndemnity. He did not hesitate to say
that 'Ale ordinances were illegal and indefensi-
ble. Lord DENMAN'S opinion will of course have
great weight with the country, and with Lord
DURHAM. Like ourselves, he admitted that Lord Dun-
HAM'S intentions were good, but he contended that the
Noble Lord had assumed a power never contem-
plated by the Act. The circumstance of threatening
the men with death should they return, he described
as a rash and monstrous proceeding ; but, however tare-
lessly and improperly the ordinances may be *;:orded to
give that impression, we have always be..n inclined to
suppose that the true interpretation Ili that part of them
was, that the men would then,after Trial, be liable to all the
penalties of death ; and we excuse that part of the
ordinance to ourselves and the public by describing it as a
mere idle threat, intended to appease the cravings of the
Orange faction for vengeance. After Lord DENMAN'S de-
claration we must, of course suppose that we were mistaken,
and that this part of the ordinance was unwarranted.
We must distinguish, too, the case of those persons who
were on the spot, and who voluntarily, as is said,
submitted to deportation, and those who, being at a
distance, could not be questioned on the subject, and
yet were exiled. This circumstance, together with
misdescribing some persons, and using wrong names,
in such an important o.ocument, argues a degree of haste
and inconsiderateness which, perhaps, justify the severe
remarks of Lora DENMAN. We believe still that Lord
DURHAM meant well, but after Lord DENMAN'S speech,
we are constrained to express a doubt of the pru-
dence, tie care, and the legal knowledge of his advisers.
Lord DENMAN spoke out against Bills of Indemnity, which
are, as we described them a few days ago, ex post facto
laws, which legalize that which the law says is an injury.

We understand that Mr. POULETT THOMSON'S Trading
Companies Amendment Bill stands for a third reading in
the House of Lords this evening. Our confidence in the
vigilance of the Hereditary branch of our Legislature
when the questions before it relate to trade, is, we must
confess, not unbounded ; but we nevertheless hope that
those Noble Lords whose efforts are always directed to the
promotion of the commercial interests of their country, will
unite with Lord BROUGHAM, and rid the world of this
wretched Boar.] of Trade abortion. It has not even the
merit of being a bad Bill to amend a worse ; for to say the
least, it is more compli-..ated, more obscure, and more pal-
pably absurd than the original Act of which it purports to
be an amendment,

There are two questions connected with the Corn laws
about which we shall very dispassionately, we hope, say a
few words to-day ; the first is the incidence of tithes, the
next is the dependence which free trade in corn, it is
wo.,ita produce on other nations.

It has been generally said, and instily believed, that the
tithes fall on the consumer, to hom they enhance the- pice
of corn. But this is only true when the supply is limited.
If corn could be brought into the country perfectly free, it
is clear that the tr:itithed corn of Prussia, Poland, Scotland,
and other c0.,-,ntries, would so reduce the price as to make,
the tithes wholly and solely a deduction from the land-
lords' rent. It is to avoid this, and throw the burden of tha
tithes on the ccnsumers of bread, that the landed interest so
teraciousiy insist on maintaining the Corn-laws. But for those
laws the whole expense of the Church Establishment would
be borne by the land owners ; with those laws that expense
is thrown on the bulk of the people. The squires we sup-
pose will say that the Church is for the whole people, and
the whole people ought to bear the burden of it. But the
squires will pardon us for dissenting from their opinion.
The squires, or the landed aristocracy, are and have been the
great law-makers for the land, and they have imposed on us
and maintained the Church as a political instrument to keep
the people politically subservient. A hierarchy of priests is a
natural adjunct of an aristocracy of sqult es. The former
ranged, rank above rank, much like the Squires, Baronets,
Barons, Earls, Dukes, &c., necessarily preach the advan-
tages of an aristocratic form of Government ; and as
the servant and the aid of the aristocracy the Episcopal
Church is established and maintained. However useful it
may be to the masters of our rural population, the
Establishment is not desired by a great majority of the
inhabitants of our towns, and is not needed by them. But
through the Corn-laws they are all taxed in order to pay
for that which is set and kept up chiefly for the purposes

of the landed aristocracy, and is useful only to them. Now, '
we contend it is unjust in the law=making aristocracy to
compel the people, by the Corn-laws, to pay for
that which is a rne -e instrument to accomplish
their own selfish political purposes. If they will,
however, persist, because they acrjat the Church a
necessary political instro';:ient, to tax the whole community
to maintain Instead of giving up 'their estates to s'.)
va!uahle a servant to them' they must hear with all the
odium and the Irtn'd names which their unjust conduct neces-
sarily calla forth. If, for the sake of the Churoh, they will
degrade and ruin the aristocracy In the tinblic estimation,
and make it justly be described es the most rapacious body
that ever existed, they roust take the consequences.
The other point we shall advert to it our dependence
on other nations for food. Now food is neces,arily the
product of every country, and such co-n as we consume
is the growth of all Europe and of a great part of America.
Poland, Russia, and the United States, France, Spain,
and Germany can all supply us with corn, and the
ports of the Baltic, the Black Sea, and of
the Seabord of the wide Atlantic, all offer us an
easy means of getting supplies of food. It is clearly
impossible, therefore, that the supposed dependence caused
by free trade in grain, could ever be of the least injury,
either politically or in a manufacturing point of view, since
the whole world can supply us with food. This theory is
amply confirmed by experience. There happens to be a
small portion of Europe, which is, like England, a
great maritime, commercial, and not an inconsiderable
manufacturing State. Into that country, which does
not grow corn enough for its own people, corn is, and
has long been freely imported; and who, we should like to
know, ever heard of any injury accruing to Holland from
this state of dependence ? Famine and dearths are, we be-
lieve, less known there, than in any part of Europe, and
the price of corn in the markets of Amsterdam
has for many years been remarkably steady, while
our markets, under the present nicely contrived scale of
adjusting duties, have twice varied, in six years,
a hundred per cent. The assertion, therefore, that
the Corn-laws preserve us from dependence on foreigners
and keep prices steady, is one of the least founded asser-
tions with which cunning rogues ever attempted to gull
simple fools.
But if our landed politicians and their advocates are
really alarmed at our people being dependent on the in-
dustry of foreigners, and do not with disgusting hypocrisy
pretend an alarm which they know to be unfounded,
how must they tremble at the state of our cotton manufac-
ture ? Connected with that there are not less than three
millions of our people dependent for their daily bread, and
three-fourths of them would be thrown idle to-morrow if the
United States were to stop our supply ofcotton. Here, in fact,
is a large mass of our population altogether dependent on
the cotton grown in one foreign country—for not one of our
squires or farmers would feed a cotton manufacturer unless
he had some nice lace veils or printed cotton gowns to
give to the lady or the matron in exchange for the food ;
and if that supply of cotton were stopped, the three
million persons engaged in that manufacture would be as
surely exposed to ruin and starvation as if all the squires and
farmers were to refuse to supply them with one grain of corn.
With our present cotton manufacture extending through
every branch of our commerce, giving vitality to our shipping
and supporting our machine makers, to have that all de-
pendent on the industry of the inhabitants of the United
States, and at the mercy of that one Government, is a la-
mentable condition to which, with a free trade in corn, we
could ntver be reduced for food. It is idle, therefore, to
terrify us with a threat of dependence arising from free
trade in corn, and to shut our eyes to the actual depend-
' ence arising from a free trade in cotton.

The Newspaper Press is deeply indebted to Lord
BROUGHAM for the boon which he has conferred upon it,
in doing away with that monstrous provision which
had found its way into the Imprisonment for Debt
Bill, and by which the Proprietors of Newspapers
were compelled, under severe penalties, to publish all ad-
vertisements of schedules sent to them—no matter how
long—at the rate of 3s. a piece ! The Noble and Learned
Lord brought the subject under the consideration of the
House of Lords last night, and insisted on an immediate
remedy being applied to this grievance—a grievance of the
extent of which some conjecture may be formed from the
circumstance that it is possible for a number of attornies
employed under this Bill to fill a Newspaper with their
yard-long schedules ; and if there should not be room to
insert all, to levy penalties for those not published at the
time directed by them.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, though he quite disapproved of
the clause, seemed to think that no great hardship would be
inflicted on the Press between the time when the Act comes
into operation and next Session of Parliament, when a le-
gislative remedy would, as a matter of course, be provided.
Lord BROUGHA m,how ever, shewed that on the Act coming into
operation, there would be a ruinous influx of advertisements ;
while, if the slightest mistake occurred in printing the
advertisements, so that there should be any thing that could
be construed into a misdescription, the parties imprisoned
would leave to remain in gaol till the error was corrected,
and might come upon the publisher for damages.
After the difficulties which stood in the way of amending the
clause—which is a principal one of the Bill—had been consi-
dered, Lord BROUGHAM solved the problem in a most effec-
tual and expeditious manner, by laying a piece of paper on
his knee, and in the space of three or four minutes drawing a
Bill to repeal the obnoxious enactment, which was actually
read a first time then, and will be read a second time to-day
There, perhaps, never was such an instance of promptitude
in legislation.

Our readers will perceive from our report of the Parlia-
mentary proceedings last night, that the Dean and Chap-
ter of Westminster have refused to allow a statue to Lord
BYRON, by the celebrated TIIOPWALDSEN, to be placed in
Westminster Abbey. If ever there was a man whose ge-
nius entitled him to this posthumous distinction, it is Lord
BYRON. If we examine the list of those who have
adorned English literature by their talents, we shall not
find, in the illustrious catalogue, a single name more con-
spicuous than that of BYrtoN—none who, at the age
of thirty-six, left behind him such ample and enduring
memorials of literary genius. Yet the statue—the mere
effigy of this ornament of his country—is denied ad-
mittance among those of his compeers, because, forsooth,
the Dean and Chapter of Westminster choose to think
that he was not of the orthodox faith. Shame upin
such narrow minded bigotry ! It would disgrace the most
ignorant cloister of monks in the most ignorant and bar-
barous age of our history.
The House of Commons is to take up this subject to-
night, and we trust a lesson will be read to those reverznd
dignitaries which they will remember as long as they live.

We copy from the Chronicle of this morning a very im •
portant letter on the subject of the distress in Shetland, to
which we invite the attention of our readers. Without
expressing any "pinion upon the question at issue between
the London and Northern Committees, we can hardly sup
pose that any impartial person, after reading this letter,
will venture to express a doubt as to the prevalence of
famine in the Shetland district. For our own part, we
believe that many members of the London Committee have
been grossly imposed upon by persons who are so extremely
sharp-sighted as to fancy they perceive even in the allevia-
tion of the greatest human misery, incontrovertible evi-
dence of political jobbing.

We find no important political intelligence in the Paris
journals of Sunday. Letters from Tunis of the 26th ult.
announce the arrival of Admiral GALLOIS' squadron in
that port. The ships were so stationed as to be able to
defend the entrance of the Goulette against fifty war ves-
sels. One of the writers expresses his confidence in the
rough handling which the Turkish fleet would receive, in
the event of attempting to enter the port of Tunis.
M. FABIIICIUS, the Dutch Envoy, has quitted Paris,
where, it appears, he had resided in a diplomatic capacity
for thirty-seven years.

Letters from Hanover of the 6th inEt, intimate an in
tentien on the part of King ERNEST to visit England, in
order to constt t the Duke Of CAMBRIbGE upo❑ some
some questions connected with the administration of tl.e
Government. On that day the complaint of the seven
expelled Professors was formally received, and ordered
for trial in the Royal Chancery of Justice. The pre-
vailing opinion was that tl.e Cabinet would be defeated,
unless the Kao ventured, by another of his unconstitu-

tiunal and illegal decrees, to_ quash all further pro.

ceedings.
The only news of any moment from Spain will be
found in the subjoined extracts from the French Journals
The Infant Don Francis de Paula has arrived at Paris with his whole
family. Part of the apartments in the Hotel Galiff
Saint Germain, has been fitted un At oe raubourg
'""11%-. ,says the S;nt-in-etiego),n'ar.
rivedllat Bayonne thrte days ago, accornpanied by one of hill aides-de,camp,
r eat
dese xppyernesneefiosr
of
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We learn that Mademoiselle (Novelle, who was becoming more and
more feeble-, has been removed from the prison at Charivaux in a post_
chaise, to be conveyed to the central institution (la Maison Centrale) at
Montpelier. She was accompanied by a physidian,—Constitutionnel.
The fears that were felt for the festilts of the harvest in the north of
France have happily proved premature. Though there have been abun-
dant Mitts none of the crops have yet been impaired by them. The
barley harvest is but just begun, and if the weather continues as it has
appeared to promise for the last two days, the harvest will be as good as
can be desired.—Echo de la Frontiere.
A letter from Ax (Arriego) of the 24th July, says:—" A band of
Carlists, composed of thirty persons, has established itself beyond l'Hos.
pitalet at the entrance of the port (i.e., the mountain pass) of Andorre;
it plunders passengers and interrupts all communication. Nine couriers
have stopped here, not daring to proceed. Our trade suffers severely by
this state of things, and one of our most respectable merchants has been
obliged to go to Foin to obtain from the General commanding
the sub-division an order to the troops, who are all stationed
within forty paces, to escort goods and travellers. It
is absolutely necessary that such robberies should be put a stop to. The
Valley of Andorre is a republic under our patronage; nothing would be
more easy than to prevent it from being a nursery of Carlists and high-
waymen."
The Lcipzic Journal says that is is reported that Count Luchesi Palli,
husband of the Duchess of Berri, will be employed in the Austrian ser-
vice in some advantageous but unostentatious post. The reception of
the Count at the Imperial Court, and the narrow circumstances of the
members of the elder branch of the Bourbon family, give probability to
this report.—Le Commerce.

By the Iberia steadier, which arrived at. Falmouth on
Sunday, from the Tagus, we have received advices from
Lisbon of the 7th inst. They bring a despatch from the
Commander of the Bth military division, GOMEZ FONTORA,
to the Minister of War, dated the 29th ult., announcing
the capture of the Miguelite Chief, REMECHIDO, whose
daring exploits in the Southern Provinces have been so
long the subject of almost every communication from Por-
tugal. REMECHIDO had 248 men, mostly deserters, with
him when he was taken ; and, as might be expected, from
his daring character, fought desperately. Of his band
fifty-six were killed on the spot, the remainder escaping.
owing to the thickness of the woods and the approach of
night. The QUEEN'S troops only lost three men killed out-
right, butseveral were slightly wounded. It was reported t hat
REMECHIDO would be tried by a Court-martial and shot.
More likely the Government will spare his life, provided he
can be brought to give such in'ormation as may lead to the
suppression of the Miguelite plots of which he was the
prime mover.
The new elections of the Cortes were fixed for this
day. Very very little doubts were entertained respecting
the success of the Ministerial candidates. The men of
moderate opinions prepared to abide by the Constitution
were all in favour of the policy of the SA DA BANDEIRA
Cabinet. The influence of the Carlists was supposed to
be rapidly declining, while the Miguelites are quite dis-
pirited by the capture of REMECHIDO and the dispersion
of his band. Should SA DA BANDEIRA prevail, England
may confidently anticipate the early adoption of a more
liberal commercial policy.

A DIVER.—On Monday, between the hours of
three and four, Prince's-street and the banks of the river on either side
down to Cumberland-basin, Bristol, were crowded with people, who had
gathered to witness the " great and wonderful novelty," as the handbills
expressed it, of a sub-aquatic excursion by a person of the name of
Joseph Orchard, described as " the celebrated diver." The time for
commencing the feat was announced to be two o'clock, but from some
cause or another it did not begin till one hour and a half after, and then
from Cumberland-basin, and not Prince's-street, as in the bills. The
man was dressed in a waterproof tight dress and a helmet-shaped cap, to
which was attached a pipe; a boat accompanied him, from which he
descended by means of a ladder; the boat then rowed on to some dis-
tance, when, as he phrased it, he'• gratified the public by showing him-
self," and again descended : this was continued up to Prince's.street
Bridge, where he concluded his aquatic trip. It can easily be ima-
gined, that from the nature of the feat, little could be witnessed by
the spectators.

Poor Dan O'Connell is sadly treated by his friends
and foes at home. Father Gabby O'Malley ridicules him, the Re-
gister talks of his sophisms, and the Mail accuses him of bad spelling,
whilst the Catholic Bishops leave him to Providence. If anything
were wanting to prove him an honest man it were this. If he went
through thick and thin with his countrymen, he would be their idol,
and how few men could renounce this ? The worse they treat him now,
the more bitterly will they bewail him when he shall be no more. His
great crime is, having changed his mind several times on the subject of
Poor Laws. Fools never alter their opinions, and rogues never ac-
knowledge it if they do, otherwise there would be no dupes among poll.
ticianamaSilurian.
LEIPZIG AND DRESDEN RAILWAY.—The works
on this railway are rapidly approaching towards completion; and every
additional step made in opening farther portions of the road to the loco-
motiVes and trains for passengers and goods, increases the enthusiasm of
the population in favour of the railway system. At the Leipzic end, the
opening was to be made on August 31, as far as Wuraen, 3% Saxon, or
21 English, miles ; and on July 19, the Dresden end was opened for 2
Saxon, or 12 English miles—leaving about 40 miles yet to open._
Railway Times of Saturday.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.-21 dreadful suicide took
place yesterday evening in the Harrow read, Paddington. As Mr.
Cooke, a gentleman living on his fortune, was walking in front of his
house, he was accosted by William Johnson, a tailor out of work, who
resided in the immediate neighbourhood. Johnson stood in conversa-
tion on general topics with Mr. Cooke, for about a quarter of an hour.
He then suddenly exclaimed, " I won't stand it any longer,--I can't, I
can't! My family can't starve—they must have bread!" And drawing
a large clasp knife from his pocket plunged it into his side, and, before
Mr. Cooke recovered sufficiently from his surprise to prevent him, drew
it across his throat, cutting it open in a dreadful manner. The unhappy
man immediately fell to the ground. Mr. Cooke bound up the wounds
as well as he was able, and sent immediately for a surgeon, but before
he arrived Johnson was a corpse. The want of work, and the conse.
quent distress of his family, is the only reason that can be assigned for
this rash act. Johnson was a hardworking sober man, and was much
respected by his late employer. He has left a widow and six children
to lament the irreparable loss.
A WELSH PEDIGREE.--At the late Pembroke-
shire Assizes, a country girl during her examination as a witness, being
asked whether she bore any relationship to one of the parties in the
cause, replied, " no, not at least for nine generations."— Cambrian.
LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.—The
Committee of Investigation into the affairs of the London and Green-
wich Railway, have now given in their Report, from which it appears
that the management of the undertaking has now passed into other
hands, from whose business habits, and known independence of charac.
ter, the Proprietors have, we think, every reason to anticipate the most
favourable results. Nothing but gross mismanagement could have
brought that short but important line into the position in which it has
of late been place. But of those who are now officially dead it would be
useless to speak, the more especially that little can be said to their ad.
vantage. Our hopes of future good are strong.—Railway Times of
Saturday.
DESTRUCTION OF A RHINOCEROS.—Some short
time ago intelligence was received on board one of the Company's pilot
schooners, cruising off Saugor Island, at the mouth of the river Hoogly,
that a rhinoceros has latterly infested the neighbouring villages, and that
the animal had destroyed several of the native ryots. A beast of this
kind is seldom seen in this quarter, though it is impossible to ascer-
tain how numercus they may be in the interior of the island, or in
the sunderbunds contiguous to it. In consequence of this information,
Lieutenant Souter, and a Mr. Lewis, an officer in the pilot service, agreed
to put, if possible, a stop to any further mischief there might arise from
so tot midable an enemy being suffered to remain at large; and, as they
were aware that neither muskets nor rifles would have any imme-
diate enact on the horny mail of the animal, they provided themselves
with two six pounder earronades, which they contrived to convey
into an adjacent portion of the jungle, close to a large tank, which the
beast was in the habit of nightly frequenting, in order to slake his
thirst. There was one track which he favoured, leading down to one
of the sides of the tank. Having directed the guns to a par-
ticular spot in this path, loaded with grape, they, by
means of a rope ladder, ascended a soondrec tree, situated
on the opposite side, from which position they cculd conve-
niently command an opportunity of discovering, by the aid of
the moon's light, any animal there might pass that way. Having
waited patiently for more than two hours, they beheld a huge
beast coining down the defile, when Lieutenant Souter de-
scended by the ladder, and, waiting a favourable opportunity
of bringing one of the guns to bear upon the beast, applied the
fuse to it, and discharged the contents in a volley at the object.
After some minutes they cautiously reconnoitered the spot, but
could discover no signs of their has ing done execution, and
consequently returned that night to the vessel. In the morning, how-
ever, attended by a company of Lascars, and some natives of the neigh-
bourhood, they repaired to the scene of the last night's excursion, and on
adv.-dicing some little way into the jingle they detected the beast appa-
rently reclining at the base of a soondree tree. Not quite satisfied that he
was dead, they ascended an adjacent tree, and discharged their rifles at
him, bat finding that he remained motionless the Lascars ventured to
approach nearer to him, when they pronounced him lifeless. On exa-
mination it was found that three of the shot had penetrated deeply into
his body. Being too cumbrous to remove, they cut a few strips or
thongs from the hide, which they brought away, and took to Calcutta as
trophies of their success in ridding the villages ofso formidable an enemy.
STEALING A CAT.—Monday John Pritchard was
charged with stealing a cat, the property of Mr. Jones. Legal gentlemen
were employed by the parties, and the charge occupied the magistrates
a considerable time. The complaint was grounded upon the 7th and
Sih Geo. IV., c. 29, sec. 31, which enacts, that if any person shall steal
a (lag, beast, or bird, ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, such
offender shall pay over and above the value of the animal stolen, any
sum not exceeding 201. ; for a second offence the thief may be impri-
soned for twelve months, and publicly or pi irately whipped, In this
case theme was some discussion as to whether a cat came under the term
"best," which point was decided by a reference to the dictionaries of
Johnsen and %Valker, both of whom deine a beast to be " an animal
Ais'inguithed from birds, insects, fishes, and men." It appeared that
almost evary cat in the neighbourhood had been stolen, and the remains
of the ono in question were found in a cub of several ferrets kept by the
accused. Whether the animal wee killed before being given
to these
fierce little creatures, did not appear. Pritchard Wag fined la 3, 6d.._
Hereford Journal.
A gentleman made application at Bow-street yester-
day to know if the Magistrates could punish the parties curiected with
one of the London and Westminster steamboats for refusing to land pas-
sengers from a boat which had become fixed in the middle of of the niece
The passengers had been compelled to employ wa_
tb,3:rirsioemn etnebasilt:eutchti:n. m ashore. The magistrates said they could not Mier.
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Derbyshire Chronicle.
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MONEY AND COMMERCIAL Ni

CITY (TUTS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have received Gibraltar Chronicles to the 3d of Anglist. They
do not contain so late ne*s as we have by the French Papers frorri the
theatre of war in S,,"^

Coiirse of Exchange at Oibraltar.--Private Bills on London, 90 days,
50e to 50t. Premium on Spanish Pillars{ dollars, 1-lit to 1 per cent.
Malta Papers have been received to the 26th of July.
(FrOm the Papers.)
We haVe again the satisfaction of secitig Iti our port the flag of the
Commander-in. Chief of her Majesty's naval forces. Besi,lds the Prin.
cess Cheirlotie, We have now in harbour the Budney, Atia, Vanguard,
Pembroke, the frigates Barham, Castor, brig-of-war IVasp, and the
steam-vessel Bhadamanthus.
TIIE TRADE or Sicim—The following is a notification from the
Minister of the Interior : _ .

" His Majesty the King having considered that in consequence of the
produce of sulphur having increased in his Royal dominions beyond the
Faro, by about 300,000 centars beyond the quantity usually required to
supply the foreign markets, the price of the article is so low that some
proprietors of sulphur mines find it better to allow them to remain
idle, while others fear the imminent destruction of their fortunes;
with a view to apply a prompt remedy to so serious a misfortune, and
desiring, at the same time, to expend a great part of the profit which
may be derived from a well regulated trade in sulphur; has been pleased
to approve of a contract which has been made with the company of
Tai x, A y rani , and Co."