The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-14 00:00:00

LOWER CANADA.

Quebec papers to the 18th October, and Montreal to
the 21st October, have been received at the North and
South American Coffeehouse.

The Montreal papers do not contain any information of
importance.
(From the Quebec Papers.)
MONTREAL, OCT. 13.—1 n consequence of a snow storm,
which commenced yesterday morning, and continued with-
out interruption all the day, the communication with La-
prairie was cut off.
The number of emigrants to Oct. 15, 1836 ... 27,678
Ditto ditto ditto 1835... 12,335

Difference in favour of this year...... 15,443

AMERICA.

(From the New York Papers received to the 25th ult.)
" NEW YORK, OCT. 24.—The money-market has been
exceedingly tight for three or four days, and the effects have
been as many have predicted—there have been two or three
considerable failures. The Regency at Albany and the
branch here are in trouble at the present state of things ;
the distress falls heavy on the Regency banks. A meeting,

it is said, of merchants and others, who are connected, di:
rectly or indirectly, with Government, has been held here
and in Albany, in conclave with Mr. Butler, the Attorney-
General, who has left or is on his way to Washington, the
object of which was to induce him to use his influence to
have the Treasury order eased up. Stock is rather depressed
in all descriptions ; there is a slight decline. United States
Bank, however, advanced to 115 ; Delaware, ; Morris,
88. Money was not so scarce as it was supposed it would
be among the brokers.
" We have a rumour that the President and the Mexican
Minister have had a serious dispute about the occupation of
a part of the Mexican territories by the American army
under General Gaines. The Mexican Minister demanded
that they should be immediately withdrawn, which the Pre-
sident, with one of his emphatic oaths, said it should not be
done, but that the army should retain its position. Where-
upon the Mexican Minister demanded his passport. Timid
people see in this measure the prospects of a war with
Mexico, and perhaps difficulties with England, or at all
events that the ocean will swarm with privateers under the
Mexican flag, who will have a fine harvest on our unpro-
tected commerce. We hope the story may prove incorrect.
The truth of it, however, will be ascertained when this ar-
ticle reaches Washington ; if untrue, it will be denied.
" TEXAS.
" The New Orleans Bulletin, of 0et..5, has the follow-
ing interesting item :

ColonelC. P. Greene, of the Texian army, passenger
by by the Independence, arrived yesterday from irelasco,

Texas, reports to us, that the day before sailing an express
arrived official from General Rusk, at the head-quarters of
the army, stating that Captains Carnes and Tell, the com—
missioners, who had been detained and imprisoned in Mata—
moras, had just arrived in the camp, making their escape
_ _

from close imprisonment. They state the Mexican forces
to be at that time, the sth of last month, 1,600, that Ge-
neral Bravo had been appointed to the command of the
army, and General Valencia second ; that Bravo was to
have taken up his march with large reinforcements for Ma-
tamoras, and that the reinvasion of Texas would soon after
commence.

" Colonel Greene, of the Texian army, was in good
health and spirits, npon the La Baca river. .General Rusk
had just recovered from severe illness. Generals Greene
and F. Houston were in good health.'
" In addition to the above, the same paper gives the fol-
lowing from Quintana, Sept. 19, taken from the Texas Te-
legraph, of Sept. 21 :
" The Independence is here, and has no provisions ;
she was chased by two Mexican brigs, the Archimedes
and Privilegro ; and says, that 4,000 Mexicans are on their
march for Texas.'
" The returns of the elections have not all yet come in
from the army.
" The Texas Tele,raph positively denies the assertion
made by the .New &leans Bee, that l'oo soldiers who had
deserted from General Gaines' army to the Texian army
had been refused by the latter to be given U.
" The Postmaster-General is taking every means to
organize routes, and to establish a connexion ►vith those of
the United States.

(From the New Orleans Courier, Sept. 30.1
" By a decree of the Mexican Government, all the Mexi—
can _ports have been declared free and open to Spanish
vessels.

" By a passenger in the schooner Halcyon, from Mato
mores, whence she sailed on the 19th instant, we are in—
formed that there were 4,000 Mexican troops in that place,
who were daily paraded and drilled. Among them are
some efficient corps, but by far the greater part of them
were destitute of clothing and shoes, and had a very mi-
serable appearance. General Urrea, their commander, had
been ordered to the capital by the Government, on the
alleged ground of misconduct, and an endeavour to exciter
the troops against the present, in favour of the Federal
Government of 1834.
" He still, however, keeps the command, on the ground
that the Government is indebted to him for advances of
money made to pay off the army, and he is well liked by
the soldiery.
" General Valencia, or Bravo, was expected to super..
sede Urrea, who would then repair to Mexico, and it was
expected would disprove the accusations made against him.
" We are also informed that the merchants of Matamoras
were apprehensive of a general pillage if the troops should
revolt.

" About the last of October, or early in November, it
was supposed the Mexicans would march against Texas.
" A party of the Texian troops had made a descent on La
Bexar, and taken possession of the place. Those of the
inhabitants who were disposed to join them were allowed
to take off their goods and chattels, and those friendly to
Mexico ordered to leave the place immediately, and have
their property confiscated.

The affairs of Mexico are represented as being in a
bad state, the treasury so exhausted that money could not
be raised to pay the troops, who, it was feared, would re-
volt in consequence, and then adieu to Texas!'"

EAST INDIES.
Madras Gazettes are received to the 17th of July. These
papers state :—" Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock,
a slight shock of an earthquake was felt in a part of the
town of Madras—it was but of momentary duration.
" We learn from a gentleman just arrived from Grumsoor,
that the troops which are now in camp are.still suffering
greatly from the effects of the climate, and that the mor-
tality among them has been very considerable. Nothing of
importance has occurred, and the weather has been for the
past week extremely hot—the partial showers
.during the
w
evening have had the effect of cooling the night r. There
is at present a great dearth of matter of local as well as
general interest in most of the Presidencies.
"The powder magazine at Dum-Dum was struck by light-
ning, and blew up with a tremendous crush. It is sup-
posed that not much damage has been done, for the powder
room contained only eighty barrels."

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The accounts from Ireland, we are happy to say, re-
present the uneasiness with respect to the banks has
in a great measure blown over. We can only repeat
the advice we gave on Saturday, to those on whose con-
duct at this crisis so much depends—beware of preci-
pitating matters from a selfish determination to get rid
of difficulties coute qui coute. We all exist by confi-
dence, and when once confidence is shaken, no man or
body of men can be pronounced safe. The following
article in the Standard of Saturday cannot be too se-

verely condemned :
" FROM A CITY CORRIMONDENT.)
"< I understand an order in Council will be issued this
evening to stop payments in gold at the Bank.'
" [We give this because it has been forwarded to us by a
respectable party. We do not believe it.]
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a long interview
this morning with Lord Melbourne, at the Treasury. The
Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England
afterwards visited the Right Hon. Gentleman in Downing-

treet.
It is said that Lord Melbourne paid a private visit to
the Bank yesterday.
" To return to the surmised Order in Council, we do
not suppose such a measure to be as yet necessary, but the
reverse ; and when necessary it is impossible that any Mi-
nisters can be so mad as to let their intention be known
beforehand." _

If the Standard disbelieved the absurd rumour for
warded to it by a respectable party, it ought not to
have inserted it at'all. What would be thought of a
person stating that such or such a banker was reported
to be on the point of failing, but that we do not be-
lieve it ? The very mention of such an injurious re-
port, for which there could be no foundation, was
highly culpable. The whole of the story about the
private visit of Lord Melbourne to the Bank would
be ridiculous, were it not mischievous, from being
mixed up in the same paragraph with the supposed
Order in Council to stop payments in gold. In fact,
if Lord Melbourne had paid a visit to the Bank, why
should such a visit be connected with an Order in
Council to stop payments ? The Bank hold a large
amount of Government securities, which can only
he sold at a heavy loss ; and the law in Ireland, by
being defective with regard to making Bank of Eng-
land notes a legal tender, is found to, cause consider-
able inconvenience. We have heard it observed,
that the defect of the law with regard to Ireland
ought to be remedied by an Order in Council--
and it is not improbable that this suggestion has
been blunderingly confounded by some one for an
Order in Council to stop payments in cash. As to
the malicious remark in the Standard that such a
measure as an Order in Council to stop payment in
gold is not as yet necessary, we have no hesitation in
saying that Ministers never dreamt of any such order,
and that under no circumstances would they consent
to it. If in the panic of 1825, when the Bank coffers
were all but drained, Mr. Huskisson told it to expect
no aid from Government, the present Ministry would
not, under circumstances by no means calculated to
justify any well-founded alarm, countenance any in-
terference between the Bank and its creditors. The
truth is, that the fear is now from a too rapid influx
of gold, in consequence of the sauve qui pent proceed-
ings of the joint-stock banks. By unnaturally depress-
ing the price of commodities, through the contraction
of the issues of paper, gold will flow to this country as
a matter of course. It is thought by many persons of
good judgment in such matters, that the Bank of Eng-
land ought rather to temper than to accelerate the
monetary revolution now in progress. But be this as
it may, there will certainly be no occasion for an
Order in Council ; and were even the influx of gold,
on which we calculate with certainty, not to take place,
the Bank could always, by selling Exchequer Bills (at
a heavy loss, no doubt) prevent a demand for gold by
contraction its issues. However absurd the article in
the Standard is, it is still calculated to do mischief at
this time. We observe that a Sunday paper (the
Observer) says :—" The f)bject of the Standard and
the Tories is clear—to embarrass the Government
coute qui coute, whether by a run on the Bank to
paralyse all commercial transactions of the country, or,
by exciting the paupers to an insurrection, to put the
empire in flames—the Tories trusting to confusion to
reap some private benefit for themselves." Though
we cannot acquit the .Standard of culpable levity, we
can hardly think so ill of the Tories in general as that
they would encourage a commercial crash, from the
selfish motive here assigned. That would be madness
with a vengeance l—illorning Chronicle.
Our voluinhious correspondence from Dublin will
command attention at such a period as the present,
although we are not sure that it throws over the affairs
of Ireland, or the proceedings of those who are usu-
ally most active in disturbing them, any very novel or
unexpected colour. It will be observed that Mr.
Daniel O'Connell has once more taken the field, and
that if affliction have had any sensible effect upon him,
it is not, unquestionably, that of softening his asperity,
or restraining his disposition to violence or threats.
His demands are as audacious and insolent as ever ;
his declamation is frothy, reckless, and inflammatory,
for which, among other motives, the approach of the
" rint" day is manifestly one, and the necessity of
administering a strong stimulant to the munificence
of a million of Irish paupers another. The two most
noticeable points in the long speech delivered by this
incendiary at the Association are, Ist, his enumera-
tion of the several sine quibus non for " the people
of Ireland"—viz., the " total abolition of tithes,"
(not the commutation, be it remembered—not the
appropriation clause, which that poor, shallow, self-
complacent hypocrite, Lord John Russel, proposed as
a measure which would" pacify" Ireland !). No such
thing as that will " pacify" Mr. Daniel O'Connell
—no longer any appropriation clause for him. .He
goes at abolition, or nothing. Then there follows the
Popish Corporation Bill ; next, universal suffrage, and
the ballot 1 The Peers, for this time, escape un-
stricken : on that matter there have been remonstrances
the fruit of which will be seen by and by. 2d. His
assault upon Lord Plunket—a broad unmitigated out-
rage upon the Lord Chancellor of that Whig-Radical
Government, which the agitator pretends as a whole
to eulogize. Whether this is in the best taste, or with
the happiest grace, after just emerging from a bitter
personal conflict with the Learned Lord, of which the
object was to see who should get possession of a good
large loaf, and a considerable fish, in the shape of an
Accountant-Generalship of 1,2001. a year, it is not for
us to determine. The report is, that a certain Han-
nibal Plunket has been defeated in this fight, and that
it is Mr. Fitzsimon, the son-in-law of the Agitator,
who has played Scipio Africanus. At all events,
Lord Plunket must, if he had not been blinded by the
sordid appetite for office and its appendages, have an-
ticipated what he had eventually to look for at the
hands of Mr. O'Connell. His Lordship used to
speak in Parliament with much inveteracy against
all attacks upon the Church—indeed with more te-
naciousness of what many moderate Conservatives
used to call the indefensible parts of the Church
Establishment than any other politician. The property
of the Church was above all things precious in Lord
Plunket's eyes. Yet here we find him the humble
and slighted fag-end of a Ministry, which came into
office distinctly as destroyers of the Church, and
slaves of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, against whom, if we
mistake not, the Learned Lord has before now deli-
vered himself of no scanty portion of censure from
his place in both houses of Parliament. The Learned
Lord, therefore, but meets his deserts. Perhaps it is
from O'Connell's lips that an intimation is meant to be
conveyed to Lord Plunkett of a readiness on the part
of Lords Melbourne and John Russell to dispense
with the services of the present Lord Chancellor for
Ireland. We do not know that any other portion of
our Irish letters calls for immediate remark. Should
it turn out that Mr. O'Loghlen has actually refused
the succession to the vacant seat in the Exchequer,
Mr. Richards having, in the mean time, been appointed
Attorney-General—for all which there is precedent in
the case of Sir W. Home—it will be apparent that
some claim put forth by the Learned Gentleman, con-
tingent on circumstances in fittnro, has been resisted
by the Whig Administration. As, for instance,
O'Loghlen /oquitur," You must let me take the
place of Baron Smith, with succession to a Chief-ship
when it falls vacant." Lord J. R., respondent—" You
shall have the seat on the Exchequer Bench ; but fur-
ther, Le Roi s'avisera ;" upon which O'Loghlen
sulks, and exit. We do not say that such things have