The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

F the aramentary Returns.)
A Return of t (
herom NumberP ofli NEWSPAPER STAMPS at
One Penny and One Halfpenny issued to the several News-
papers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist De-
cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive ; specifying
each Newspaper by Name, and the Number of Stamps issued
each Month during that period to each Newspaper.

EXTPACT.
LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS.
The Sun... Dec. 1837 102,000
Jan. 1838 lll,OOO

Feb. 1838 96,000
Mar. 1838 lll,OOO

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Standard... Dec. 1837 78,000 420,000
Jan. 1838
Feb. 1838
' Mar. 1838 lOO,OOO

883,000
Globe ...... Dec:, 1837 72,000
Ja.), 1838 90,000
Feb. 1838 72,000
MAr. 1838 72,000

- 306,000
'courier..... Dec. 1837 31,000
Jan. 1838 39,000
Feb. 1838 83,000
Mar. 1838 33,000

136,000

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HIGH
.WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
MI% ...... 15 minutes after 1 I Evening .... 43 minutes after

AIR. COOPER'S NEW STORY OF THE SEA.
Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
1-110 MEW A RD BOUND;
OR, CHASE.
By J. FENIAIORE COOPER, Esq.
Author of " The Pilot," " Red Rover," " Water Witch," &c.
" This work is entit;ed to high praise."—Spectator.
" Written with great spirit and good feeling."—Times.
" This may be ranked amongst the best of Mr. Cooper's stories."
A most spirited and interesting narratiiterary Gazette.
, In this Story of the sea Cooper bursts upon us like a giant re-
Treshed. Never has his pen been more successful."—Globe.
"In every respect quite equal—in some decidedly superior—to
"Y Preceding story by the same author."—Post.
`• Never do we recollect readino- so exciting a description f
iturrieane, and of its effects on a 'ship driving towards a lee shoroe."a
----Naval and Alilitary Gazette.
ne
" Cooper's pictures of nautical life are, without exception, the
!tst that can be produced. The present novel is, in some re-
`lit:cets, the best he ever wrote."—Dispatch.
Even with the recollection of "The Pilot' pressing on our
13th:.'.1ghts we feel little hesitation in declaring that Homewardt is the best of ail its author's stories of the sea. The in-
s'rest never flags • ' and the tale progresses at the rate of ten knots
Zu hour. Captain Truck is as original as Long Tom Coffin. It
rnoquestionabl;,'the best novel thlt the season has produced."—

Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
puudcation of THE SUN NEWSPAPER COI7II7IC7ICCd this day
. .

at 15 minutrs past Three o'Cloch.

' •
ric74,
)7:4

(17-17 d) e
+

WITH WHICH
" THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
NV2I)NESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1838.

correspondent writes to us to claim the insertion of a
i_ttle explanation relative to the Rev. Mr. HANDLEY, which
_
willingly accord. In our Journal of Monday we said—
the nut after the murder was committed, and the desperate character of
lon •
tak atm and his deluded followers wls known, were proper measures
etl to "secure and separate him from them ? The military was sum-
4074,rand Mr. Handley made a feeble attempt to address Courtenay's
Our correspondent supposes that this passage implies a
depreciation of Mr. HANDLEY'S exertions, and he says—

" The Rev. C. R. Handley is the Vicar of
lierne Hill, the parish in which Francis's house and the osier bed are
sttiated. This Rev. Gentleman did not lose a moment in repairing to
e t after he heard of the proceedings. The murder of the eon-
t_tablpeto
took place about‘ six o'clock in the morning. About twelve Mr.
„"andley, accompanied by his brother, Major Handley, repeatedlyex-
-I°tted his parishioners to leave the murderer to his fate. His exh or.f
-4,tiens were not stopped by the discharge of a pistol ai d me at himsel
a his
brothb-r • he afterwards approached the rioters near enough to
byl name several of his misguided flock. He, the Rev.
3fLi has the satisfaction to know that several heard and
:Fb-,ed his injunctions, and left their tyrannical leader before the fatal
ter 44/ took place. This reflection will, no doubt, amply console him
the animadversion cast upon his name by The Sun."
We had not the slightest intention of depreciating the
Proper and humane exertions of Mr. HANDLEY, and the
epithet " feeble" was meant to apply to his single, and,
except by his brother, unaided effort to induce the fol-
-1
4'wers of COURTENAY to leave him, which none of the
laagistrates imitated or seconded. It was feeble, not in re-
lation to ,his charity, zeal, and good will to prevent
bloodshed, but in relation to the object to be achieved by
the means, at the disposal, and under the direction of the
Magistrates—the Rev, Mr. HANDLEY not being one—and
ia relation to what they were bound, in our opinion, to
Perform 'before they hurried forward the soldiers and their
twit assistants to the bloody affray. We meant no slight
1° Mr. HANDLEY, who alone, with his brother, of all the
Persons concerned, seems to have had any charitable and
humane consideration.
But there is one fact stated by our correspondent, and we
can assure the reader that his authority is altogether unex-
ettePtionable, that very much confirms our view, and tends
iir"glY to condemn the precipitation of the magistrates.
Llays, several of
.111 r. Handley's mug-laded flock " heard
ie; °6e,yed his injunctions, and LEFT their tyrannical leader
e 1 e the fatal affray took place." Is not, there-
the presumption justified that more of them would
left hint, had time and opportunity been allowed them ?
at has been proved in evidence that they stood much in awe
eonivresev ; and thus it becomes a question of great
111°41ent what time was allowed these deluded men to profit
Mr• HANDL 'Sgood advice. About twelve o'clock
the
advice was given • about three o'clock, according to
the evideece given before the magistrates at Feversharn,
:affray took place. Now three hours, without
tkilamg either hunger or weariness to operate, was
e too short a period to try the full effect of
1,," advice and remonstrances which had in seve-
illa` instances been in that short time beneficial. We
siBted on Monday on the propriety of making such an
41)Peat
• to
after the military were present, and the
eepos the men
tart ,sihatty of escape pointed out to them, but the mili.
1,, 4, `'ldnot arrive at the spot till some time after the ex-
Oations of Mr. HANDLEY ; and it appears from the evi-
-44e0 that they ithmediately went to take COURTENAY.
;;effort whatever, after the arrival of a force sufficient to
I:tIlre the mep, was made to induce them to surrender.
slatiYhtwereeede. not even asked, but were set upon and
legale are not lawyers, and do not pretend to speak with
that accuracy ; but we apprehend that the law requires
toladt,lefore men be arrested on a warrant, they must be
1143 s "tat the person arresting them is a proper officer who
it,uell warrant. Did the followers of COURTENAY re-
e'et-e any such information ? We believe that they did
4
'v; h,et were expected to have as complete a
41 on as the Magistrates that they were crimi-
S' and were to surrender, as a matter of course,
asi,„elte appearance of the soldiers, even without being
lyliCu' There is one circumstance, however, which ad-
Dar,. °I at least a doubt favourable to ComereNee's Co.llln-
Iliel"s• MeAns, the constable', deposed on the first -
tehst' that he saw WILLIAM PRICE, WILLIAM BUR-
(tvtoi 'Nouns MEARS, tdias TYLER, and several others
Nelynen his brother was murdered.) After the murder he
ti'ained warrants against WILLIAM COURTENAY, WIL-
Nik)(1,1)111cEi WILLIAM BURFORD, and THOMAS MEARS
t:;:i s-IL for the wilful murder of NICHOLAS MEARS.
individuals then were the only persons charged with
on thtChe Crime, and before the Magistrates set the soldiers
the , whole body, they were bound, we think, to inform
misguided men not so charged, with the crimes of their
.4"
te Panions, and to require them, in the name of the law,
th'ineive them up to punishment. It is possible, for any
betn'' we see, that only the persons just mentioned might have
},ave t:ognizant of the murder ; the rest of the party might
therefore,
at the moment somewhere else, and it appears to
te 'lure, that in calling in the assistance of the mili-
tc,to execute the warrants, due care was not taken of
lives o Several of her MAJESTY'S subjects..
zsgainrid here we must be permitted to protest strongly
has bst °lle implied error in most of the statements. It
fulien said over and over again, that COURTENAY and
• e the military, and the imercs-
Wea.
' eti generated that lie sought• the fight.
re ut he
m the osier bed into the wood—he hid himseß lf, as

" More than once we have expressed our opinion upon this subject,
and the profound indignation which we have felt at seeing the flag
of Portugal used to cover cargoes of men, who are treated and sold
as brute beasts! Horrible thought! Litrnal shame to the Govern-
ment which is unwilling to put down such scandalous proceedings!
Why should not one of those griping l'erri, who in our African posses-
sions employ their authority to protect this base traffic, which it was
their duty to suppress, be brought before the tribunals of justice ? We
know not how to answer this question ;.but we know that it cannot
be answered without injury to the honour of the Portuguese Go-
vernment. That treaty ought to be concluded, because the fulfilment
of obligations contracted by Portugal, the wishes of the civilized world,
the national honour, and the dignity of the Portuguese Sovereign, all
require. it; but an adverse fate has not consented to its definitive com-
pletion, or, rather, a hidden hand, which is employed here in the ser-
vice of a great nation, and which opposes everything calculated to give
honour and stability to the representative system, which it is sought
to bring into discredit and render hateful, has been raised against it.
" Ministers of the Queen of Portugal! attend to the true interests of
the country ; learn to view them as they arc, and not as they are 're.
presented by a crafty and fraudulent diplomacy, which, in order to
alienate from us the sympathies of a generous nation, leads you to a
precipice; t nd, in the quality of Ministers of the Revolution of Septem-
ber, do not allow it to be said of you with respect to the slave trade,
and the difficulty you make of putting it down, what was said by the
profound historian of Tiberius, ' imperium flagitio aequisitugs nem°
unquant boats art ibus e.rcrcuit.' "

it were—and thither he and his followers were pursued by
the soldiery, and the " great number of persons" who went
to assist the constable. If he struck the first blow at Lieu-
tenant BENNET, on which some doubt has been thrown, it is
clear that the fight was not of his seeking, Lat that he only
struck after he had been come up with by the military, and was
at bay. He and his followers, seeing the advance of the
soldiers, might suppose they were to be slaughtered, not
apprehended, and the courage they displayed might bo that
of despair, resolved to sell life as dearly as possible. It is
an error to suppose that these men sought the fight, and
we must exonerate them from the additional guilt of wan-
tonly assailing persons in authority.
There are one or two other current mistakes which we

must notice. At first it was stated that the followers of
COURTENAY were men of bad character, corrupted by
smuggling and sundry vices. To-day we arc told by the
reporter of the Times, that—
" I was shown the houses of several of the prisoners, and found some
of them to be in a situation of life much more respectable than I was
at first led to believe. Miles, one of the prisoners liberated yeiterday,
resides in a neat cottage, which he built himself, on a little liktrm which
is his own property. His son resides near him, in one much like it.
For another of them forget his name) his master had built a snug
little place, in which he permitted him to reside rcnt.free."
They were cot smugglers then, but decent respectable

peasantry and little farmers. Another statement is that

this affair grew out of the Poor Law ; on the contrary, it
secms to have had its source wholly in fanaticism. Of the
person last mentioned in the above quotation, it is said—
.

" But his wife would never let him rest until she persuaded him and
his son to join Sir William. Indeed, in this parish the people took
the infection of fanaticism a!mo3t naturally, and bitterly indeed are they
now ruing the effects of it."

There is also this passage in the Times of to-day :
" The mention of this lad's name reminds me that his mother, the
wife of Mr. Shepherd's bailiff, is said to have done more than any
person in the parish to foster and encourage the belief which she her-
self entertained, that Thorns was our blessed Redeemer and Saviour.
So steadfast was she in her belief, that when, after the battle in the wood,
a neighbour went to tell her "the awful news" that Thorns was killed,
and her own son wounded, she would not credit the information. " Sir
William killed !" said she, " no, no, you can't kill him ; it is not
the truth ; it is not possible." The reply to her was, "It is the truth,
and it is possible." She again asserted that it was not possible. Again
the reply was, " It is possible, and it is as true as that your poor boy
has got a shot in his thigh." Then, and not till then, would she credit

that her son was hurt. But as to Sir William she still remained in-
credulous, saying, " Mind, three days will show you and all the world
what Sir William is. When that time is elapsed, you will see whether
he is ha that which he professes to be."

The unhappy occurrence then ha I its source altogether in
fanaticism, and the women were the chief agents in propagat-
ing and festering the delusion. Now these circumstances
of the deluded men being of a quiet and respectable
class, and being under the influence of the women,
ought to have been known to the Magistrates and
Clergyme❑ of the neighbourhood, and seem to us to de-
prive the hasty attack made under the guidance and direc-
tion of the Rev. Dr. POORE of every kind of justification.

If neither the Poor-law nor smuggling, but fanaticism was
the origin of the calamity ; and, if no man in his senses
can say that there is not Church enough at Canterbury and

its neighbourhood, it becomes a serious consideration for
our Statesmen, under the present demand for new Churches
and more endowments, whether the State will tillingly
lend its aid to fanaticise the people ? The so-called saints,
with their Sabbath Observance ails, &c. &c., who make
continued efforts to foster in the minds of the people gloomy
superstition, will, we hope, after this lamentable example
of their too great success, permit their fanatical ardour to
be restrained by considerations of prudence.
The Herald says, because no Magisterial order was
given to fire, and as the Coroner's Inquest has returned a
verdict of justifiable homicide, it considers no Magistrate
responsible for all the bloodshed. We differ from our Con-
temporary. The Coroner's inquest did not inquire into
any of the antecedent circumstances of the case, and its
verdict was founded on the evidence that the militaryyacted
under the orders of the Magistrate, and that dot civil
power was insufficient to quell the disturbance. Its verdict
completely exonerates the military and the constables, but
no investigation has yet taken place into the conduct of
the Magistrates. The nation will require a solemn inquiry
into that at the hands of its representatives. Be.sides, one
party to the inquiry, the helpless, deluded peasantry, the
chief of them having been shot, was not heard at that in-
quest. From the whole nature of the case, the inquiry by
the Coroner was necessarily er parte, and though we do not
cast the slightest censure on the verdict nor expect, so far
a s concerns the soldiery, that it will ever be impugned, we
believe that so far as concerns the magistracy—the public
the Court of last appeal—will never consent to return a
verdict of justifiable homicide.

We have much pleasure in directing the attention of
our Anti-Slavery readers to the following article on the
subject of the rejection by Portugal of the British Anti-
Slave Treaty, translated from the Correio, a Lisbon jour-
nal,of the 30th ult.—the day of Lord Howmin DE WAL-
DEN'S embarkation with the unratified Treaty for England.
It is gratifying to know that the conduct of the Portu-
guese Government
.upon this question is opposed to the
moral feelings of some portion of the people, and that by
the more intelligent the disgrace which it must reflect upon
the national character is rightly appreciated :
" We have reason to believe that the project of treaty, which was
on the point of being signed between the Portuguese and English Go-
vernments, in order to put an end to this infamous traffic, has not been
definitively concluded.

Much indignation, real or pretended, has been thrown
away upon those parts of Serjeant TALFOURD'S Copyright
Bill, to which it has pleased certain persons to assign a
retrospective operation. We have, however, remarked,
that a guarded silence has been maintained by those itarsons
on what we cannot help considering as a radical defect in
the prospective operation of the measure. Publishers, and
those who advocate their interests in opposition to those
of authors, assert that the price given for a copyright will
scarcely, if at all, be affected by the proposed extension of the
term ; that is to say, that a publisher will give rib more
for a copyright after the passing of the Bill than he would
do at present. If this be really the case, it is the, duty of
the legislature to take care that the benefit which it in-
tends for authors and their families be not di-
verted from them, and engrossed by the publishers.
If, as the latter allege, the extension of the term will not
bring with it an increased price of copyright, then the
result must be that authors will be just where they were
while the public will be deprived of the privilege which it
now enjoys in the reversion of literary works at the end of
the existing term, the assignee or publisher alone profiting
by the, alteration of the law. To secure, there-
fore, to authors and their families the full advantage
which it is the object of the Bill to confer upon them, it is
obvious that a clause must be introduced restricting the
assignment of the copyright to a portion, say a third or a
half, of the whole term granted to the author! Without
some such provision as this, the Bill, as it appears to us,
will not only fail of its object, but do more harm than
good. At the same time we are ready to allow
that in cases where the author had parted with his copy-
right, and had therefore no legal claim upon the publisher,
he has frequently received additional remuneration when
the profits of the work were greater than had been anticipated.
But while we willingly bear testimony to the liberality of
some of the metropolitan publishers, whom it migkt be in-
vidious to name, we must protest against one class of
men being left to the generosity, or rather mercy of another,
when the law ought equally to protect both.

New York papers to the 13th ult. have been received
today. They contain no political news whatever. The
Banks were discounting liberally, and the inland exchanges
were improving. In Connecticut cash payments bad teen
partially resumtA, and the Bankers of Michigan were
paring to follow the example of the Wall-street 'capitalists.
The United States Bank Shares were quoted at IIG on

The following brief extracts are from the journals :

FRENCH FUNDS. —Ems, JUNE 4.
Five per Cents.. 109 f. 50c. 65c. 70c.
Four per Cents., 11/21.
fhtce per Cents., Sl': 40e. 35c. Mc.
Bank Actions, 2,7301.
Nolte <le Naples, 10If.
Roman Five per Cents., 101 1011,g1t!i.
Spanish Actives, 22',1.1•
Spanish Passives, 4%.
Belgian• Loan,
Belgian Bank, 1,,341. 50c 1,1301. 1,13`21.50 .
Portuguese Loan. Three. per Cents. 25yi%...
ri2ytian Loco, 450 f. 4171. Fe.
EXCHANGI, ON LONDON.
O MOllth, paper, 2.3 f. 40c.; money, 25r 40c
Three months, p, per, 25f. 30 . ; money, 95t.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 1101.
Three per Cents., Slf. (Cc.
Bank Actions. 2,73;f.
Romans, 1011/6.
Belgian Loan, 10244.
Belgian Bank, 1,4321. Mt.
Portugue:e Three per Cents., 25%.
Spanish Actives, 2,%.
Spanish Passives. 4%.
tivytian Loan, 4471. LOc.

Mi,oelon)
:,4e:. ;1)11;
_ _
Actual Debt, 2,4 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Mom t Svndic,4ki per cent ' SS 1-)5,,2
Ditto, ditto, I.N per cent 79% En
Commercial Company, 4'.:, per cent 187,/, 188
Ditto (P;3•2 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan VA 4 per cent.
Ditto P 37. 6 per cent.
AUSiItIAN FUNDS.—Vinsme, MAY `26. 4
Five per Cents. Matalliques
Fora per Cents ..
Three par Cents.
B..rk Shares WO
-.8
—4llg-en:eine Zeitung, May 31.

the 10th, but the next day they fell A- per cent. For other
details, and particularly a Message from President VAN
BUREN relative to the state of the Treasury, we refer to
our City article.

Monday being the feast of Pentecost, and consequently
observed as a holiday of tile first class in all Catholic
countries, only four French Journals—namely, the Na-
tional, the Constitutionnel, the Courrier Francais, and the
Commerce appeared in Paris on that day, and these we have
received in due course. Their contents are of very little
interest. In the Chamber of Deputies the Budget of thn
Minister of Public Instruction was under consideration,
and as might be expected, gave rise to long discussions re-
lative to the progress of general education in France. The
IXputies were at sixes and sevens about the relative im-
portance of languages, living and dead, and a knowledge of
the physical sciences, as suited to the wants of modern
society. Some were all for the dead languages ; others
only for the living ; and a few for no language at all, save a
knowledge of the mother tongue. The same difference of
opinion prevailed with respect to science.. The great mis-
' take of the French Deputies is in attempting to separate
the necessary branches of a course of instruction which, in
the constitution of scholastic intelligence, are inseparable.
To the formation and culture of a mind of a high order, a
knowledge of the principles of physical and moral science,
and an acquaintance with the riches of Grecian, Roman,
and Oriental Literature, are equally necessary.
Advices from Naples represent the people of Calabria as
in a state bordering on open rebellion.
The reviews in Prussia have been attended with several
calamitous accidents. The assembled Sovereigns, among
other warlike amusements, • ordered Spandau to be be-
leaguered in form, and defended by a garrison forbidden to
capitulate. After several days the town was carried by
storm, with a due observance of all the rules of war ; but
unfortunately not without loss of life, and the infliction of
many grievous bodily injuries. When will Sovereigns
cease to purchase pleasure at the expense of the lives of
their subjects?

The Commerce Bclge, in its Number of Saturday, contains the fol
lowing article :

" We arc able now to affirm that the 13eIglan Cabinet has been called
on to proceed to the execution of the treaty of 15th November (the
treaty of the 24 Articles).

" We may add, that the King has caused a note to be presented to
France and England, in which he remonstrates against the tardy agents
of Holland to the treaty, declaring, that what was possible in 1831, is
impossible in 1838.

" The journey of M. Van Praet is connected with this protest; and
as the Paris Journals announce that he has had an audience of Louis-
Philippe, there is no doubt that Leopold's private Secretary is sent to
demonstrate the necessity of a modification of the 24 Articles with
respect to the territory and the debt.

" M. Van Pratt was expected back from Paris last night."
FRONTIECS OF SPAIN.—A letter from Arneguy of 26th May, says—
" I hasten to inform you that the Carlist Brigadier, General Zubiri,
who commands at Eurguete and on the Line, has narrowly escaped
being assassinated by his soldiers, who mutinied against him. He
managed to save himself by flight, together with his son, carrying a
few things on his back. This affair is connected with that series of in-
surrections which appear in all the districts occupied by the Carlists.
I expect further details, which I will send you."
A private letter from Logrono, of the 27th May, has the following :
" P.S. A courier who has this moment arrived states that Dc,i Carlos
is making a show of attacking Mandareia, but that it has been decided
in his Council that he shall endeavour to press into the Asturias. This
news has been sent to the General in-Chief."—Le Commerce.

German and Dutch Papers have arrived this morning,
rom which we make the following extracts :

BERLIN, May 25.—Professor Braun, of Bonn, who was far some
time at Rents, with Professor Elvenel, of Breslau, on account of the
differences respecting the doctrines of the late Professor Hermes, has
b3en for some days here. The statements lately propagated by several
German journals, that the Pope has lately again reverted to the subject
of the Hermesean doctrines, and suspended his former resolution, is of
course unfounded. On the other hand, we learn from the most autho-
ritative source that the sentiments of all considerate and impartial
persons at Rome itself have by no means been expressed against the
Prussian Government; but that, on the contrary, it has numerous ad_
vocates, especially when they have been made acquainted with many
errrors in the Roman official papers, and that they duly appreciate and
sincerely regret the ivjudicious conduct of tome over zealous friends
of Rome in Germany.

VIENNA, Max s:s.—Her Majesty the Archduchess Maria Louisa,
Duchess of Parma is expected to-day at Schonbrunn, where she will
prolong her visit till the departure of the linperial Courts at Milan.
Accounts from Semlin announce that in consequence of the general im_
provements of the sanitary state of the Turkish provinces, the time of
quarantine on the frontiers of Servia is again reduced to ten days. I\l.
Von Michanovich, the Austrian Consul at Belgrade, has arrived here
from that city.

FRANKFOItT, MAY 9.7.—The Austrian General Von Rodetzki, who
is appointed President of the Military Committee of the German Con-
federation in the room of General Von Weldcn, is expected to arrive
here on Tuesday. It is reported that Prussians are collected in the vici-
nity of Treves, and the objects of this measure is to cover, in case of
any disturbance, the fortress of Luxemburg, where great exertions
have been long making to strengthen the outworks.

ROTTERDAM, JUNE 4.—His Excellency Count StrogonotT, Ambassador
Extraordinary from the Emperor of Russia, arrived here yesterday with
his lady and suite, on his way to London.
Prince Christian of Steawig Holstein Glucksburg is appointed by the
King of Denmark to represent him at the coronation of the Queen of
England.
The lleveu de Bruxelles contains in its last number a long representa_
tion by M. Dumortier, the object of which is to prove that Belgium
ought to oppose the treaty of the 24 articles.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMiTERDAM, TUNE 4.

Madrid Papers of the 28th ult. have come to hand.
On that clay the Duke de FEZENZAC, the new French
Ambassador, was to present his credentials to the REGENT.
His Excellency had previously communicated the speech in
which he wished to address her MAJESTY,. to Count
D'OrAtAA. It is said that the speech, though full of
bright anticipations of the future, and saying as much as
could be said on such an occasion about the sympathy of
France with the Constitutional cause, does not contain
the least allusion to the Quadruple Treaty. Count
D'OFALIA, as President of the Council, and Minister,
pro tens, of Foreign'Affairs, drew up the REGENT'S answer.
It re-echoes the glorious anticipations of the French Mi-
nister, without touching upon any other topic.
In the Cortes the immediate subject of discussion was
the Tithe Bill. This is legislating by anticipation.
Legislators less sanguine than the Spanish Deputies would
allow the Tithe question to stand over till the conclusion of
the war ; but the Spaniards are always doing what they
might leave undone, and leaving undone what they ought
to he doing.

There is very little news of any importance from the
north of Spain. Two reports were in circulation : accord-
in, to one, the King of PRUSSIA was about to join the
Quadruple Alliance, and recognise Queen ISABELLA 11. ;
the other stated, that in the course of the present month
Don CARLOS would receive a hundred millions of reals,
part of a new loan advanced by the great Northern
Powers. The following extract from a letter from Log-
rono, dated the 27th ult., includes the only rumours from
that quarter worth adverting to :
.. Espartero arrived yesterday at Viana with all his cavalry ; and
Buerens, with his division of nine hundred men, has received orders
to come to this town. It is supposed that Espartero has received
orders from the Ministry to attack Estella. Alaix, having driven the
Carlists from Santa Barbara, has taken possession of this point with two
battalions, to open a road on Estella. On the 24th fifty soldiers of the
2d battalion of Navarre deserted with, arms and baggage to Lodosa.
A courier, who has just arrived, announces that Don Carlos is threat-
ening an attack on Mendavia, and that he has decided on trying to
pass into the Asturias. The execution of Urra, the condemnation of
Zaratieigni to death, and that of Elio to perpetual imprisonment, has
excited great discontent among the Basques, They dare not execute
Zaratieigui, for fear of a geher::l insurrection, and they have
him a pardon if the malcontents will return to their duty. Don Carlos
has been advised to put to death the whole family of Munagorri, but
Villareal represented to him that this sanguinary order would for ever
alienate his party from him."
We have no account of the recent movements of ESPAR"
TER° and the Genet'als of the Army of the North. Small
bands of Carlists• have re-appeared in Catalonia. offered

Yesterday William Toner, master of the Indiaman
Mount Stewart Elphinstone, appeared at the Thames Police Office to
answer the charge of stabbing William Truss, a seamen on the high
seas. From the complainant's own statement, however,
it,appeared that
the stabbing occurred on the 15th
of October last; during the voyage
out, and that the charge might have been preferred before the British
autism ities iii kdia ; iu copsyqueuce of wl,it,li circumstance Mr. Ballan.
tine and Mr. tircenwood concurred in refusing to hold the Captain
to bail, leaving the complainant to bring his case, should he think fit,
before a Jury.

Hurt, JUNE s.—Arrived off Port, the Thomas, Steer, Oporto,

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, MS.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DnAL, JUNE s.—Wind, S.S.W., fine.—Arrived and proceeded for
the river, the Lord flungerford, from India; Thames, Wolfe, from
ditto; Sarah, Whitesides, from Bombay; John Perie, Matthews, from
Trinidad; Simon Taylor, from Jamaica. Came down from the river,
Pusey Hall, Ware, for Quebec; Litherland, Hawkins, for Barbadoes ;
Anne, Burgess, for Tobago; Rambler, Hall, for Cadiz.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE s.—Wind S.S.E. to W., flue.—Arrived off port,
the Morley, Evans, from Canton ; R:chmond, McLeod, from Calcutta.
Her Majesty's schooner Pincher, which upset and sunk off the Owers in
last March, has been weighed and brought into this harbour.

PLYMdUTH, Ju4n 4.—Wind S.—Arrived the Mary, Bond, from
Messina; Sutton, Baron, from Hamburgh ; off port, James Patterson,
from "Sydney, New South. Wales.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 4.—Wind S.S.W., moderate breezes and fine.—
Arrived off port, the Mary Bulmer, Cant, Mauritius; Ferma, De Souza,
from St Michaels. Sailed the Royal Tar, Ingledue, from Vigo, Oporto,
Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE s.—Wind N.N. W., moderate. Arrived the Isa-
bella, Rymer, from Paraiba; Ocean Queen, —, from Campeachy ;
Harvest Home, Kenn, from Portebello ; Mary, Gill, from Barbadoea ;
Adeline, l)onne, from Mobile; Lucills, M`Lellan, from do.; Phcebe,
Rethsay, from Savannah ; Amelia, Itivington, from Philadelphia; Re-
public, Williams, from New York; Lady Keith, —, from Alexandria ;
Caroline, Hamar, from Dantzic ; Hilda, Surr, from do.; Prosperity,
Gabrahn, from do. ; Langholf, from do. ; Hod-ming, Ahoens, from
Wismar ; Neptune, Voss, from Rostock; Fredrens, Minde, from Co-
penhagen. _ . .

JERSEY, JUNE. 3.—Arrived the. Marlborough, Keaton, Honduras.
Gtosmt, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Cumberland, Fogwell, Lisbon.
OFF HOLYHEAD, JUNE 3.—The Horatio, late Collins, Sierra Leone.
OFF WICKLOW, JUNE 3.—The Greenhow, from Charleston.
DUBLIN, JUNE 4.—Arrived off Port, the Preciosa, Forth, from Me-
n& ; the Britannia, (steamer) from London.
CORK, JUNE 3.—Arrived off Port, the Voadoz, Musquitor, St. Übca.
SHIELDS, JUNE s.—Arrived off' Port, the Sophie, Hall, Licata ; the
William Shand, Potts, from Lisbon.

SOIMIWOLD, JUNE s.—Arrived off Port, the Justinian, Eden, from
Memel.

.The Lucinda (whaler) was wreck:.d off New Caledonia, previous to
the 17th of February.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.
-We have received Sydney Papers to the 16th February; also New
York Papers to the 13th May.
The President sent a message to the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives, on the condition of the Treasury :
" I submit to the consideration of Congress a statemenitrepared by
the Secretary of the Treasury, by which it appears that the United
States, with over twenty millions in deposit with the States, and over
fifteen millions due from individuals and banks, and from the situation
in which these funds arc placed, are in immediate danger of being ren-
dered unable to discharge, with good faith and promptitude, the various
pecuniary obligations of the Government.
" The occurrence of this result has for 501112 time been apprehended,
and eflo; is made to arrest it. As the principal difficulty arises from a pro.
hibitior, in the present law, to re-issue such Treasury notes asmight be
paid in before they felldue, and may be effectually obviated, by giving
:II? Treasury, during the whole year, the benefit of the specie amount
originally authorized, the remedy would seem to be obvious and easy.
" The serious embarrassments likely to arise from a longer continu-
ance of the present state of things induces me respectfully to invite the
earliest attention of Congress to the subject which may be consistent
with a due regard for other public interests.
" May 10, 1838." M. VAN BUREN."

After the above message there is a long statement from the Treasury
Department, with a statement concerning some final embarrassments
which were likely soon to happen unless averted by early legislation.
Exchange on London, 61 to 7 ; Bank Shares, 116 i.
_ -

From the Commercial List, May 12 Exchange.—We continue

the previous quotations for Eurcpezm Bills. Nothing of importance
has been done since the sailing of the packet of the Bth inst.
The above papers were received by the ship Republic (not a packet
ship) at Liverpool.
The following is the substance of the important Treasury circular, ex.
• • "' _ _

libiting the embarassments of the Government. It states that the diffi-
culties have arisen in consequence of the deficiency in the public
revenue. The Act of October last authorized the issue of Treasury
notes, and over five millions and a half of them have been paid in as
duties, though none fall due until November next. As these notes
could not be re-issued, they were entirely useless to defray the large ex.
penditure made chargeable upon the emission. Instead, therefore, of
having from two to six millions of dollars available, there were only
564,9.34 dollars availabf,. During the present year duties have been
paid in money only to the extent of one-fourth the.usual amount. The
Treasury had to meet an expenditure of two millions monthly, and in
April of nearly three millions. As more than four millions of Treasury
notes are still outstanding, and as the Banks generally have not resumed
siccie payment, it is probable that the greater portion of the
Revenue will, for same time, be paid by these unavailable Treasury notes ;
a; no power, exists except in Congress, to recall the deposits from a e
banks,' or the sums due from postponed Custom-house bonds. It is ma.
Direst that the Treasury department is exposed daily to be deprived
of the whole of its available money, and the credit of Government,
,at home and abroad, most injuriously affected. Congress could arrest
these results by removing the prohibition to re-issue the notes which
may have been prematurely paid in, or by allowing an issue of fresh
notes. By the adoption of either of these measures the anticipated
cmbarassments in 1838 can probably be obviated.. If neither of the
measures proposed be approved by Congress aka very early day, it will
be impossible to preserve the national faith unbreken, and to avert the
injuries with which the public service le threatened.
(Signed) LEVI WOODBURY.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are short arrivals this week of most kinds of grain, also of
Flour; what little is doing in the Wheat trade supports Monday's prices,
Barley and Beans remain as last reported. Boiling Peas are cheaper ;
Grey unaltered. Oats support their last quotations, with a slack de-
mand. There is not much doing in the Fiour trade this week. The
weather has again become cold.

Who %t.
English I 1,020 qrs.
Ir:sh
Foreign

1,950

ARRIVALS.
1 Barley. ' Oats. Flour.
4,(31)0 qrs 2,130 qrs. 1,550 asks
7,710
. 7--

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Supplies of all kinds of meat good, but the demand rather languid ;
quality middling; prices unaltered from those of Saturday last. Beef,
2s. Gd. to Os. Gd ; Mutton, 2s. Gd. to 3s. 8d ; Veal, Ps. Gd. to 4s. Gd. ;
Pork, 3s. to 4s. (id. ; Irish, 3s, to 3s. 4d. Poultry plentiful, trade
dull, and prices rather dull. The following are the quotations of each
of the articles enumerated. Goslings, 3s. Gd. to 4s. 6d.; Chickens, Is.
Gd. to 2s. 6d. ; Fowls, 4s. to 7s. ; Pea liens, I Os. ; Pigeons, Gd. ; Dot-
terells, 2s. ; Ducklings, 2s. lid. to 35.; Guinea Fowls, ss. ; Rabbits, Is. ;
Leverets, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Eggs abundant, and prices rather lower,
4s. Gd. to ss. per 120; Plover Eggs, Os. per doz.

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Trade was good to-day, and so was the supply. I'rices reasonable.
Turbot, 4s. and ss. to 15s. and 205.; Soles, 9d. and Is. to 3s. and 4s. per
pair; Cod very scarce; Mackerel, 4d. to Sd. each; Whiting, 3d. to 6d.
each ; Haddock, 4d. to Rd. each ; Lobsters, Is. to 3s. and 4s. each.