The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-02 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1836.

Had Lord STANLEY'S motive in bringing forward his
motion last night really been what he professed it to be, a
sincere and disinterested desire to settle the Irish Tithe
question, he would assuredly have taken a different course
from that which he pursued, and have framed his plan on
different principles from those which he laid down in his
speech. He would either have introduced a Bill embody-
ing his views before the day fixed for the second reading
of the Government measure, or he would have waited the
result of that reading, and have introduced it afterwards.
In either case he would have experienced no opposition
from his MAJESTY'S Ministers. But this straight-for-
ward, bona fide mode of proceeding, did not suit Lord
STANLEY'S purpose. It would have occasioned no
embarrassment to the Government, and might perhaps not
have reflected upon the Noble Lord so much of that noto-
riety which he clearly loves, but of which he has of late
enjoyed but a small portion. To an ambitious mind, par-
ticularly if that mind be of a small calibre, it is worse than
purgatory to be shelved. A man who looks for considera-
tion from the public must keep himself before the public
eye. If he is in Parliament he must not content himself
with taking part in the ordinary routine business of the
House—he must now and then make a dash, or he will be
set down as a person of perhaps decent mediocrity, but of
whom nothing great is to be expected. To answer the ends
which Lord STANLEY had in view, it was necessary that
his Bill should be a party measure ; and to give it the
more eclat, hp proposes to introduce it as an amendment
upon the second reading of a Bill, the great principle of
which, though repeatedly declared by the House of Com-
mons to be essential to the satisfactory settlement of the
question, it entirely scouts. To say that Lord STANLEY
has any hope that his motion will meet with the concurrence
of the House, would be to rate his understanding lower
than even we are disposed to do. He knows well its
fate ; but he seizes the opportunity of making a long speech
--which is also an exceedingly dull one.
The subject, it must be confessed, does not afford much
room for brilliancy; and Lord STANLEY was evidently not
in a sparkling vein last night. Not a single original
thought can we detect in the speech from beginning to end.
It consists wholly of the matter of former discussions, hashed
up without the usual quantity of that smart seasoning which
the Noble Lord is in the habit of mingling with his dishes. He
exerted all his power to shew that there could be no surplus,
after the Irish Clergy were sufficiently provided for ; but he
fixed the number of the Clergy and the amount of their in-
comes as it suited him, without once considering that it is the
duty of the House of Commons to look to the interests of the
7,000,000 of Catholics, whose consciences revolt from the
support of a religious system from the doctrines of which
they differ, and which it is attempted to bind upon their
necks, for the benefit of an insignificant minority of the
people of Ireland.

We observe by the notices of motions given in the
House of Commons on Tuesday last, that Sir CHARLES
KNIGHTLEY i 5 to appear in the debate upon the CHAN

CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S Stamp Duty Reduction Bill,
which goes into Committee to-morrow, as the champion of
the " great unwashed." We wish the Hon. Baronet all
imaginable joy of this self-assumed accession to his many
other claims to a scrofulous popularity. But as his
object is to render it impossible for the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER to take off the Duty on News-
papers, by diverting the surplus of the revenue to
the relief of the soap manufacturers—we trust that
in the debate, he will take no unfair advantage of us by an
undue exhibition of foul linen. We protest against any at-
tempt on the part of the Hon. Baronet to enlist the sympa-
thies of the House, on the side of more frequent wash-tub
immersions, by appeals to the feelings or the experience of
any Hon. Gentleman. All we desire is that the question
may be fairly stated, and we are confident that complete
success will crown the labours of the advocates for untaxed
knowledge.
But to speak more seriously, the conduct of Sir
CHARLES KNIGHTLEY on the question of Stamp Duties,
has been shuffling, contemptible, and inconsistent through-
out. When he before gave notice that he intended
moving, as an amendment upon the clause in the Bill
for reducing the duty on Newspapers, a clause substi-
tuting the reduction of the Excise duty on Soap, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER-with that fairness and
candour which have marked every stage in his official ca-
reer—offered him an opportunity of bringing forward his
motion in a substantive form, and so resting the
question of reduction upon its own merits. This
offer the Honourable Baronet has chosen to de-
cline ; and, after withdrawing his former motion,
he now comes forward to renew it in an altered guise, with
no other view in the world than that of embarrassing the
Government. He knows.right well that his motion will be
rejected, and he knows too that if carried it would confer
no benefit whatever upon his pet client—the agricul-
tural interest. The agriculturists trouble their heads—
about as much as the sweeps do their faces—with soap ; and
the advantage of the reduction, such as it would be,
would accrue entirely to the commercialists. Not so
the reduction of the Newspaper Stamp Duty. This
reduction would extend its moral influence to all parties—
to the inhabitants of town and country. Nor is it now in
the power of the Legislature to uphold the infamous taxes
on knowledge. The reduction of the Newspaper Stamp
Duty is no longer merely optional with the House of Com-
mons ; and those who would persuade that House to sub-
stitute any other tax for an impost so odious, as more op-
pressive, can have no other object in view than the disso-
lution of the Cabinet.

Mr. CLAY was on Tuesday evening under the necessity
of postponing his motion till Friday, for referring the Peti-
tion of the Shipping Class of Danish Claimants to a Select
Committee, owing to the very late hour to which the discus-
sions on the previous motions bad been protracted. We regret
this delay the more from the certainty, as there was so full
an attendance of Members, that the motion would havo
been carried ; but we feel confident, from the clear and de-
cided merits of the case, that if Hen. Members will en-
deavour to be present to-morrow, ample though tardy jus-
tice will be done to the claimants.

Two letters, officially addressed by the Earl of Dun-
HAM, our Ambassador at the Court of Russia, to Mr.
GISBORNE, his Britannic Majesty's Consul at St. Petersburg,
will be found in another part of The Sun, under the head
of " Our Relations with Russia." We are happy to
learn, on the authority of the Noble Earl, that the Emperor
manifests no disposition to disturb the peace of Europe.
But England must not suffer herself to be lulled into a
false security, by diplomatic assurances of Russia's love of
European tranquillity, and especial regard for the lasting
friendship of this country. We know that while our affairs
at St. Petersburgh arc managed by such a straightforward,
honest, and clear-sighted statesman as Lord Dunt-tAm, we
arc safe—not certainly because such is the will, but such
the interest, of NICHOLAS.

The inhabitants of the extensive counties of Essex,
Suffolk, Norfolk, &e., will be delighted to learn that the
Eastern Counties' Railway Bill, was last night read a third
time and passed by the House of Commons, after a long and
diligent inquiry. In fact the immediate advantages of this
line of Railway arc so evident, that our only wonder is the
projectors did not apply to Parliament seine years ago.
But better late than never. We presume it will pass
through the House of Lords in about a fortnight or so.

A report addressed by the Spanish Cabinet to the
,QUEEN REGENT, in which an attempt is made to explain
the motives which induced them to advise the dissolution of
the Cortes, has been forwarded to us from Madrid. It is a
worthy counterpart of Her MAJESTY'S unintelligible address
to the Spanish nation, of which a copy appeared in our
paper of yesterday. I STU RIZ proposes that the Procuradores
shall be elected according to the provisions of the new Electoral
Law, which has not yet received the assent of the Procercs,
or of her Majesty the QUEE N. This is certainly a bold step ; and
one too which the Peers cannot acquiesce in without voting
their Chamber a nuisance. The QUEEN also must be blind
indeed, if she perceive not in the course recommended by
the Government a precedent the most dangerous that could
possibly be established. Ministers talk of the sacredness
of laws, and in the same breath give orders for dispensing
with the most sacred constitutional usages, to the manifest
peril of the Crown and Peerage ! We cannot crowd our
columns with such nonsensical trash.

The following important telegraphic despatch was com-
municated to the French Goy ernment on Tuesday evening :
" Official intelligence of the 25th from Vittoria, announces
that on the 24th the Carlists hsd attacked Cordova in his posi-
tions of Arlaban with the greatest obstinacy till ten o'clock in
the evening, but had been repulsed throughout the whole line.
On the 25th the Christinos entirely destroyed the fortified
works of the Carlists, as well as those of Villareal of Alava.
The loss of the Carlists has been considerable ; that of the
Christinos has been 250 men killed and wounded. On the
27th the Carlists' head-quarters were at Escoriaza. Those of
Cordova were on the same day at Ulibarry de Gamboa.
"On the 25th, Madrid was perfectly quiet. The news
from the provinces was all very good.
" General Bernelle has been named Commandant of the
Corps of Operations of Nhvarre. This corps is composed of
the Foreign Legion, and ten battalions, and four squadrons of
Spaniards."

Brussels and German papers, the former to the 31st, thelat-
ter to the 28th ult., have%been received. The Belgian Senate,
by a majority of fifty-seven votes to eight, has adopted the pro-
ject of law for cashiering officers wantonly engaging in duels.
The German journals state that the Commercial Tariff of
1825, agreed upon between Russia and Prussia, and now
expired, has been reduced for four months. The following_
extract is important.:—
BOTOSCHAN, MAY 14.—Since the beginning of this month
a considerable corps of Russian troops, which is estimated by
some persons at above 20,000 men, has entered our princi-
pality. In particular it is affirmed by eye-witnesses that on
the Bth of May 10,000 men, under the command of General
Murazieff, with a park of artillery (which perhaps, to avoid
exciting a sensation, was conveyed by night) passed through
Jassy. Both this, and another column of the same strength,
which entered our territory by the bridge near Leowd, and
which marches by another route, are said to be going to Silis-
tria. We cannot conceive the necessity of relieving a gar-
rison of 4,000 men by such a large body of troops, especially
when the evacuation of that fortress has been officially an-
nounced as near at hand.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday contain no intelligence of
importance. The Moniteur publishes advices from Ma-
drid of the 24th ult. Up to that time the tranquillity
which reigned in the capital had not been disturbed. The
accounts received by the Government from the Provinces
were also stated to be generally satisfactory. At Seville a
person, named AVILENETE, who was reported to have been
sent from Madrid to excite insurrection, was seized by
General ESPINOSA. On searching him for concealed do-
cuments, a large sum of money was found upon his person.
Such is the substance of the official intelligence contained
in the Alioniteur. We need scarcely add that the parti-
culars of the tale of the seizure of the political incendiary,
AVILENETE, is a piece of mere gossip, unworthy of the
slightest consideration.

We have no confirmation of the report of CORDOVA'S
victory over the Carlists on the 23d. The rebels evacuated
Passages without fighting. On the contrary, the Carlists
lay claim to a victory over CORDOVA, in which they assert
that they made 4,000 Christinos prisoners. The exaggera-
tion on both sides is so great as to deprive them equally
of credit.

PARIS, MAY 31.—Yesterday General Allard was sent for
to the. Hotel of the Foreign Department, where news from
Egypt had been received in the evening. It is affirmed that
the conference was highly interesting with regard to our fu-

ture policy. It has been known for some time past that the
Russian Ministers paid the greatest attention to General Al-
lard, and that memorials on the several provinces of Persia and
India had been communicated to the representative of Lahore.
It is now added that the Cabinet of London has taken umbrage
at the connection which France seems inclined to form with.
the Prince of Lahore, and that whether from commercial or
political rivalship, explanations have been demanded by Lord
Palmerston. Something incidentally dropped by Count Pozzo
di Borgo at London, has alarmed England, on a pretended
understanding between France and Russia to make use of
General, Allard and the resources of the two Powers to raise
up more obstacles against English policy in India. All these
reports may not have the importance that is attributed to them.
The propensity for action so torments the President of the
Council, that it may be believed he plays politics as M. Jour-
dain talked prose—without knowing it.—Journal du Com-
merce.

The Gazette de France was seized yesterday morning.-
21lessager, May 31.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MAY 31.
Five per Cents., 107 f. Src 55c. 90c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 25c.
Three per Cent,. 81f. 65c. 75c. 70c.
Bank Actions, 2,‘230f. 2.,275f.
Rente de Naples, 10L:f. 50c. 45c. 50c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10214%.
Spanish'Actives, 40% 41%3,04:
Spanish Differes, 19.
Spanish Passives, 12 117, 121,4%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 102%.
Haytian Loan, 370 f. 365 f. 362 f. 50c.
EXCHANGE ON LONHON.
One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25t 37%c.
Three niont lis, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 25c.
—fours Authentique.

BOURSR, QUARTER TO FOUR.—This morning the Three per
Cents. were done at 81f. 52-ic. ; but owing to its being to-day
the answer of options, the bargains have raised the price to
81f. 70c. The continuation is at 25c. •

Spanish Active Stock is better, owing to a report of Cor-
dova's having reached Mondragon. The price opened at
40i, and is now 41i buyers.
LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 1071. 95c. ; Three
per Cents., 81f. 70c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish,—; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, ; Gueb-
hards, —; Difleres, 14i ; New Loan, —; Actives, 41i ; Pas-
sives, 12,i; Ducats, 102 60 ; Romans, 1021 --; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 102 i ; Dula, —c. ; Haytians, 3621. 50c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 191 ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 19; Five per Cent. Perpo-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.

New York Papers to the 4th of May inclusive have been
received. They bring no intelligence of importance from
Texas, and the Indian war in Florida is scarcely noticed in
them. We are obliged to postpone the publication of ex-
tracts from them till to-morrow.

THE FUNDS.-L(THIS DAY.)

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Our arrivals this morning are the French aid Ostend mails,
with ship-letters from Madeira, St Vincent's, and New York.
A Leeward Island mail also arrived by the Lapwing, from
St. Thomas ; sailed on the 18th of April.
The Buenos Ayres British Packet of the 12th of March
makes the following important addition to the Custom House
Tariff :

"Art. articles from foreign ports which may be
transhipped or re-shipped within the Capes of this r:s2r, and
imported into the province, shall pay one quarter more than
the duties which correspond to them by the Custom-House
Tariff.
" Art. 2.—This arrangement shall not take effect until after
the 30 days which the said law establishes."
The above decree caused a great sensation in Monteviedo.
The oriental Governor has addresses a strong remonstrance
on the subject to the Governor of Buenos Ayres.
By the Lafaljetle, which arrived last night, we have received
a Charlestown paper of the 27th April ; but do not find in it
any thing late from Texas.
We learn from Montreal, of the 27th April, that in conse-
quence of the sudden movement of the ice of the St. Lawrence,
. the masses became piled up at the Iceland Wharf, presenting
an appearance of awful grandeur, totally destroying the large
stone store of Mr, Tracy, and also the distillery.
A Montreal Paper of the 27th April says that the Currency
Bill had been rejected by the Legislative Council of Upper
Canada. His Exevileney had further pros ogued the Pro-
vincial ParliamAt to the 30th May.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Montreal
Constitutional Association, held on Friday, Bth April, a reso-
lution was passed--" That it is expedient, in concurrence
with the Quebec Constitutional Association, to call a con-
vention. or general meeting of delegates of the petitioners
from all parts of the province, with the least possible delay,
for the purpose of expressing the sentiments of the loyal and
well-disposed, and determining on the measures to be adopted
in the present crisis; and that the election of delegates in and
f r the districts of Montreal and Francis, shall be held simul-
taneously on Monday, the 30th day of May next."
A New York Paper, of a recent date, just received, has the
following :—" We understand that Santa Anna has effected
a loan of six millions of dollars with some branch in New
Orleans, to carry on the war against the Texeans. Distress-
in, news has reached us of the horrible massacre and butchery
of the entire commend of Colonel Fannin, by the monster-
Santa Anna and his forces. Colonel F. commended the
Georgian battalion.

CeTlF.ols opened this morning at the leaving-off prices of
yesterday, 92A- for the Account ; 91i- for Money. The Ascot
races has rather thinned the house, and consequently very little
doing.
Exchequer Bills, 12 14 ; India Bonds, par. 2 disc. ; Bank
Sack, 210 - 2111; India, 256-1.
In the Poreign Market the Spanish Active coming higher
from Paris has had the effect to improve the Market. Spanish
closed yesterday at 391 40 ; may be quoted at 40. -j} ; Pas-
sive, 111- 12; Deferred, 18f 191; Portuguese, 81,1 cx-dig. ;
Colombian, 291 301; Mexican, 323- ; Dutch Tno-and-
a-Half per Cents., 561 57.

HALF-PAST ONE.

The follor..ing notice has just been posted up :
" The Governor and Company of the Bank of England do
hereby give notice, that on and after the 2d inst., they will be
ready to receive applications for loans upon the deposit of Bills
of Exchange, Exchequer Bills, East India Bonds, or other
approved Securities ; such loans to be repaid on or before the
liith July next, with interc3t. at the rate of 4 per cent. per
annum, and to be for sums of not less than 2,0001. each."

We have a telegraphic despatch from Vittoria of fighting
on the 24th and 25th inst., by which it appears that Cordova
was attacked by the Carlists, whom he drove back from
Ariaban' and destroyed their works. Upon the whole it ap-
pears that Cordova has made a retrogade movement ; instead of
advancing on Mondragon he has retreated from Arlaban to
Gramboa ; by this circumstance we suspect that Cordova must
have been severely handled by the Carlists.
Consols may be quoted at 921 for Account ; for Money,
91i. Exchequer Bills, 12 14 ; India Bonds, 1 discount, 1
premium ; Bank Stock, 210} 211 ; India Stock, 2581.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds, 40i 41A-;
Passive, 11* 12 ; Deferred, 181 19 ; Portuguese, 814 82 ;
Three per Cents., 531; Dutch, 561 57 ; Colombian, 301 ;
Mexican, 333.•
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 92i
UE FUNDS.—CI
BRITNH
Bank Stack n1034
1 per Cent Red 91
3 per Cent Cons 9-3
ly4 per Cent.
Mi per Cent lied 9B s
New 13% per Cent 100%
per lent. Assented
Disgenteil
Long Annuities to expire.
Jan 18n0 l5 11-16
Oct !KO l5 1,-16
Jan. MO l5 15-16
FO ltEl

,USING PRICES.
FUNDS.
Omni,nn — pm
India Stock 259
Dltto Pond, .....» 1 Ir.
South Sea Stock
. .

Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annual:- 851,4
hx. Bills, 10.4)/....
Ditto 50! l4 pp,
Ditto 50ft/ l4
..ni.
Bank Stock for Opg.
'Luba Stock for Act.
Consols for Act. q'n,4
FUNDS.
nrtuguese Bonds, S per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto B2
Prussian. 5 per cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent......
Ditto. Consolidates) 401,E
French, 5 per cent ... ...... —f. —,.
Exchange
French, 3 per cent —l. —c.
Dutch, 72, per cent. 57
Ditto. 5 per cent. ...... .....-- —10134

Austrian, b per cent —
Belgian, 5 per cent —
Brailian Bonds ..
Unen,ts Ayres, 6 per cent. —
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent. —
Ditto, Is3l
Danish, 3 per cent 76%
Greek Bands, 1625,5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent. —
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825
Peruvian, 18.25, 6 per cent -
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway f3 i
Calcutta and Saugur Railway
Commercial Blackwall Railway
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 5
Great North of England Railway lii{
Leeds and Manchester Railway
London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's)
London and Brighton Railway (Cundy's)
London and Dover Railway
dLondon and Gravesend Railway
Northern and Eastern Railway
South Eastern Railway .
Thames Haven Railway Company 2%
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'clocl
List.

BRICKLAYERS' STRIKE.—Most of the building
operations in this town have been at a stand during the week,
in consequence of the builders refusing to accede to a demand
for increase of wages. The demand notified by the men to
their employers, on leaving work on Saturday, was four
and sixpence a day, instead of four shillings, the previous
price of labour. The hodmen, and other subalterns of the
brick and lime fraternity, have joined the strike ,• these latter
demanding threepence per diem additional to their previous
wages.—Sheffield Mercury.
A very melancholy accident occurred on Thursday
last, on one of the Earl of Lonsdale's pits near Distington.'
The pit had lately been sunk to coal, and the quantity of water
produced being very great, all the operations had been sus-
spender' to allow the water to be drawn off by the pumps. No
fire or other noxious damp had ever been observed, a strong
current of air being always found at the foot of the shelt when
the men were employed there. On Thursday the engine had been
stopped to allow some necessary repairs, and a man called
Leeson was suspended for several hours in the pit, about 20
feet from the surface, repairing the tackle-folds of the pumps,
when about four o'clock he was heard to moan, and a man
named John Stainton, looking hastily down, observing that
Leeson had fainted, immediately slid down the rope to assist
him. George Patterson, the engineer, who had charge of
the repairs, happening to reach the place at the same time,
instantly followed him, but bad not descended so far as Lee-
son, when both he and Stainton lost hold of the rope and were
precipitated down the shaft. Leeson was then drawn up by
the rope (being so tied in the loop, that although insensible,
he could not fall), it being evident that the shaft had suddenly
become charged with choke damp (carbonic acid gas). It
required several hours to displace the choke damp sufficiently
to allow persons to descend, and the last body was not reco-
vered until four o'clock the sgxt morning. Inquests were held
during tla day, and verds of " Accidental Death" re-
tuna-.Carlisle Journal.'