The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-24 00:00:00

List.

Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Adam, the Governor .
of Madras, is daily expected to arrive in England. Lord
Elphinstone is expected to start from Portsmouth in a fel/
days.

Lord Yarborough is convalescent.
The Countess of Carlisle left Grosvenor-place yes•
terday, to join the Earl, at Castle Howard, in Yorkshire.

Captain and Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley have,
left Wharncliffe House for Wortley Hall, where Lord and
Lady Wharncliffe are expected to arrive from a visit to the►r
Majesties at Windsor Castle.

The Russian Countess Lozerwichoff and suite
have returned to town.

ALTONA, AUGUST 20.—0 n the 17th, in the
afternoon, died, at Louisenlund, his Serene Highness the,
Landgrave Charles of Hesse, Field-Marshal, Governor 0'
Holstein and Sleswick, &c., in the 92d year of his age. THE CARLTON CLUB.—The members of this In'
stitution have removed to a temporary residence in Dover'
street, to which the furniture has just been removed, where the
Club will hold its meetings while their new house in Pall-mar
is undergoing important alterations and improvements. 11
expected to be ready to receive the Club about January nell•
The County Polls Bill was robbed by the Lords
the only clause that was of much value in it. They took the
oyster out, and left the shell. It seems to be the pleasure 01,
the Lords that the people should run the gauntlet of all the
corruption and violence that can be got up by a two day'sp°l
Among the higher monetary circles of the City, al
uneasy feeling has prevailed these few days on the subject L.].
the foreign exchanges, which gradually decline, notwlthstano_
ing all efforts made to sustain them, and under circumstance'
which, according to ordinary calculation, would not scent ,t,o
.
warrant such a state of things, inasmuch as trade is so decd
edly prosperous as to leave, separating commercial affairs from
all others, a clear balance in our favour. The scale can 014
have been turned the other way by those large banking °Peri/
tions which have brought into this country an inundation
foreign securities, more particularly from the United State':
which has gradually brought on the decline in the exchanges'and is carrying off our gold with great rapidity, and to a lart,
amount. The situation in which the administration of `„t
Bank are placed, is becoming, therefore, a very unpleas,';
one. Their object and policy must be to lessen the cirell_e,
tion, and make money scarce, which they might perhaps !lea
complish, but for the engagements into which they have 010,1_,
with the joint-stock banks in the country. However dear tol.
may make money in London, they cannot alter the terms
their contracts in the country ; and as the money issued that:
soon finds its way up to London, when the rate is raised, re
the
ters soon re-adjust themselves to the same level. 0°
strong
whole, there is a very general expectation of some srr.
measures on the part of the Bank, within a very short perlod,

—Times.
EAST CUMBERLAND.—Mr. Marnire having c°
&It
cepted a Commission under the new Act for the Cotesu° At
of Tithes, retires from the representation of the county Awe
requisition to Mr. James will be presented to-morrow, "'Mr.
(the Carlisle Journal) have every reason to believe that
week
James will accept the requisition, and that we shall nest we
have to announce him as a candidate for East Cumbencianor
and that on the following week we shall have the pleas—clog
congratulating the yeomanry of East Cumberland on posse-live
one honest Representative. Whether the Tories will te,l,, we
to show fight we know not. They talk of doing so; r"-e-verf
suspect it will end in talk. In the mean time, boweve.,r's- rev
step should be taken to meet a contest. Desperate me"
times fight desperate games, and it certainly would 11? only
were It
prise us to see the Tories venture upon a contest,
•
for the purpose of throwing expense upon their opponents k
they have any such scheme in contemplation, they may tatbe
for their consolation, that in spite of all they can do, elf.
beral Candidate will be returned free of expense to him'