The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TA 7'TERSALL' S—Y*STERDAr.
•
DONCASTER ST. LEGE:L.
The settling for Ascot Races occupied so much of the
afternoon that little time was left for betting 8 to 1 was
taken about each of the following four in one bat—Gladiator,
Wedge, Elis, and Trapball. The highest offer agaillst Gla-
diator was 6to 1, and this was not made eureently. The fol-
lowing were the only horses mentioned:-
6 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Gladiator
8 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Trapball—taken
8 to 1 agst Colonel \Vestenra's Wedge
8 to 1 agst Mr. Blakelock's Black Diamond - take 10 to 1
14 to 1 agst Mr. Bird's Redshank—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Allanson's Vulture
TIIE DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot, Brother to Bay Middle:on and
Flare-up—taken
15 to 1 agst Captain GardimesPhantasma colt—taken
Tim Phantasma colt was purchased at the sale of his Majes-
ty's yearling last year. The dam was purchased into the Royal
stud at Captain Grant's sale, and sold out of it for forty pounds I

The Duke of Devonshire will retire after his next
fete to Kingstown, where his Grace is ordered to repair during
the hay season by his physicians.

. • . . .
The Duke of Wellington's annual fete, to be given
by his Grace on the 18th instant, to his Majesty and the Ge-
neral ()lacers engaged in that memorable conflict, will be on
the usual scale of splendour. All the magnificent gold Ind
silver plate, also splendid china, given to his Grae-, by the
Courts of France, Spain, Portugal, and Belgie:,„, will be ex-
hibited on the occasion. His Majesty, fir several years back,
has dined with the Duke of Wellin:lon on that day. The
Prince of Orange,. who will rem.-in in England purposely to
be present, the Marquis of A-Igleiea, and Lord Hill, are now
the only survivingGeneD:ls in the British service who were
engaged in the 114 --

IDREATESUD ATTACK ON KING LEOPOLD.—
Jamotto was tried yesterday, for threats against the King.
Tho prieonor read a long memorial in his defence, in which he
endeavoured to excuse his conduct, and to show that the in-
cendiary letter did not contain direct threats against the King.
With respect to the dagger found in his possession at Lacken,
Jamotte said that it was to destroy himself, in case the King
should not give a favourable answer to the petition which he
was endeavouring to present. The Court, after consulting
for a long time, acquitted Jamotto of the accusation of threat-
ening the King, and condemned him to a fine of 25 francs, for
carrying a prohihited weapon.—Brussels Paper, June 3.
DUKF4 OF GORDON'S FORTUNE.—The
1u 0 oP Richmond will, we understand, succeed to about
ao,ocay. a year, after so much land is sold as will clear off all
encumbrances on the estates, subject to a yearly payment of
2,0001. a year to his Grace's mother, the Duchess Dowager,
who was the Duke of Gordon's eldest sister. The Duchess
of Gordon is to have the house in Belgrave-sqaare, and
Huntloy Lodge, in Aberdeenshire, which the late Duke oc-
cupied -before his father's death.
_ _

Fit NT.—Mr. Alderman Wood, by his 'Teem he_
cession of fortune, under th will; of his namesake a tlou-
cester, enjoys a rare oi yartunity of immortalizing his r.drile. It
is well kujwn that the Alderman, same short time back, p.u-
mulgmed a plan for the general improvement of London,
ANnnit other things, by throwing open Waterloo and South-
wark bridges toll-free to the public; erecting a new street
from the Mansion House to Southwark bridge ; straightening
the upper end of Holborn, so as to effect a direetjunetion with.
Oxford4treot ; and executing divers other plans of unquestion-
able utility. And all this and more the Alderman calculated,
(it is not known by what process) might be done at an outlay
of only 800.0001. ! By a turn of fortune's wheel the projector
of these mighty alterations has this «um at his disposal ; and
how could he more gloriously display hi‘:"eivie patriotism than
by carrying into etiect his magnis!zent ideas for changing the
whole aspect of the metreoo,ns over which he twice presided
as Lord Nlayor? be feared, however, maugre his own
estimate, that lee would arrive at the bottom of hisurse some
time hec,en be had got tattle end of his trifling undeprtaking.—
F. y..___ahcAc,„ie, Magazine.
enurse of next week the Lord Mayor will hold
Qourt of Conservancy for Middlesex and Surrey, and the
jury and their friends will be entertained with a .swan-hopping
excursion up the Thames. On these occasions the entertain-
ment might be said to commence in the morning and end at dusk.
The Oxford Herald of Saturday says—,, It has
been confidently reported in 'the University this day that the
Dean of Salisbury.( Dr. Pearson) will be the new Bishop, and
that Dr. Hampden will sueeeed to the Deanery of Salisbury."
DOVER, Jti, s.—The Prince of Capua, with his.
lovely equmr-1 and suite, arrived at the Royal York Hotel yes-
terday evening, and embarked this day at one o'clock on board
the Britannia steamer, Captain Bushell, for Calais. In the
absence of the usual salute from the heights—of a guard of
honour—and of Colonel Arnold, the King's Aid-dc-Camp,
the presence of the Royal party created a most li,zoly sensa-
tion, and attracted a vast concourse of spectators:. To all ap-
pearanee a happier couple there cannot he.
We are hppy to petme everywhere a growing
liberality towards the elaima of our Jewish fellow-subjects to
participate in laulitioal privileges. A, public meeting has been
held al t.l:l(iorland, and a petition in their favour uanimously
adopted.
We have been wondering for some months as to the
where-about and what-about of Mr. Buckingham, M. P., who
has sunk into sudden obscurity. We 1; arn that he has been
patriotically employed in an int,;-esting exercise, and he is
said to have ascertained-'.l,tat the fourteen largest gin-shops in
the metropolis v":e visited in one week by 143,4,13
1,.08t5-93 "'Len, 18,391 children—in all, by a 89,437-
versons.
“e 7, now calculating the number of ships of w,%, that might
float in the gin these people swallowed. —fitOrning Paper.
NICE CALCULATION.—One of the official assig-
nees to the Bankruptcy Court has lr.ioly declared two dividends
on an estate, the first being to tho amount of eleven-sixteenths
of a penny in the pound, and the other a farthing and a half.
Among a great number of loaded and sword canes
seized at the public places, was a very handsome ebony stick,
ornamented with gold, and enclosing a dagger, which was
found at Musard's concert. It was claimed by M. Berryer,
the deputy, but the officer refused to deliver it up.—Galiyaani's
Messenger.
A gentleman named Cunningham. residing at Ly-
mington, Hants, who has been staying a few days in town,
had his pocket picked, in Covent-garden Theatre, on Thurs-
day night, of' a pocket-book containing bank-notes to the
value of 640/. Also on the same night, a gentleman named
Mansergh was robbed of a valuable silver watch while passing
through the box entrance of Druiy-lane Theatre.
DEA TlL—While Lully was directing in
a church a " To Deum," he let slip his baton, which fell on
Lis little too. From this accident, it is said, originated an in-
flammation, that caused his death. What could have been
the construction of the baton a that time (1667), to produce
so lamentable an effect, is not clearly stated ; probably a kind
of flail, a weapon which at this day would be of the utmost ser-
vice in many an unsteady orchestra, provided the conductor
had the right of thrashing right and left. In the biography
this cilakposer are many traits showing his love for his own
, compositions. One day he passed a church, in which he heard
one of his okra airs, to which sacred words had been put. At
the conclusion, he piously ejaculated, " Pardon, great God,
hut Mix air I did not compose for nee.—Musical World.
TIIE ABBOTSFORD SUBSCRIPTION.—A meeting
of the Committee elected to raise a public subscription to
secure Abbotsford, with its librar and antiquities, as an
heir-loom to the descendaots of Sir Walter Scott for ever,
took place at Mr. Marroy's, Albemarle-street, on Monday,
whet?, ttorc) MaLou was called to the Chair. The Marquis of
N°lll44lAPtQoa Sir Watts Trotter, Mr. Adam, Mr. Merritt,
and other gentlemen, took part in the proceedings, which ter-
rainatod in a resolution to summon the general.body of sub"
soribr.rii, lay before them a statement of the amount'rc+iized,
and propose its application to the object for which it wits "
leeted. Thanks tivere thee voted to the noble Chairoaan.
the Committee adjourned,
Ili ISt? MUNICIPAL CORPOII A'"
.Front ail parts of the country

• REFORM.-
receive accounts of the' pro-
ne prosperity and tramp:ditty are dis
. endangered by the unprovoked conduct of the
..,,ocracy, who, in the exertion,of their irresponsible power,
are got only driving headlong to their own ruin, hilt exposing

grey i or agitation. - "
tubed and

the country to a similar fate. We have already given accounts
of meetings'..vhich took place at Newcastle, Worcester. Tana-
ton, Leicester, and other places. The Irish papers are filled
with details of similar meetings of the counties of Lcutb,
King's Conty, Wicklow, Cork, Tipperary, Roscommon,
Corlow, Wexford, Kerry, &e. There have also been nume-
rous assemblages to petition at Cork, Thniles, Ilolpeross,
Clonoulty, Carsick-on-Soir, Galway, Waterford,
Ballast, Armagh, &r. an'! in :,--cotlanti, Glasgow, Edinburgh,
and other places have met. The Peerc, have lighted a flame
which they will do well to extinguish while they can. The
petition from Belfast—the Protestant city of Belfast—is signed
by 9,703 persons, the mayor of this, the stronghold of the
Orange faction, in the chair. At all these meetings the most
firm determination to be governed " by equal laws" was ex-
pressed.
Lord Grey and Lord Holland became Il2mbers;
the Westininster Ref,)rin Club, in Pall-mall, last week.

BISHOP OF ere re.gret to state that
the B:shop of Lanka has suffered such a relarvie within these
few dnys as to create great alarm among his fricirls. His
Lor Ishii), we learn from private communicatior, took an
airing at Fulham, on Monday last, %Olen one of his carriar
hones proving violently restive the Bishop was compelled to
alight, and for a few moments to assist his servants in restrain-
ing the animal. The sad effects of this excitement was a re—
petition, on his return home, of those spasms to which his
Lordship had been subject in his recent illness.--"Vorthampon
Herald.

MR. WILLIS'S LAST POPULAR WORK.--.TIM
Inklings of Adventure contain some of the most beautiful sk-Aches
that ever appeared in the English language. • " From ~-rave
to
gay" the au:ll°r passes -s•ith the facility and the magic of an en-
chanter, and is equally successful in exciting the sre.e. or in call-
ing forth the tear of these who arc not ashamed t.l weep. We
must no lolger regard him merely as an Arneri•zari author, but
receive him among tlye small aid select few whose reputations
are European, and wnase writings will lieu after them.
A correspondent says gooseberries and currants have
not been so plentiful for many years past as they are at the
present season, more particularly the fernier (which are sel-
ling at a very moderate value), notwithstanding the extraordi-
nary and unfavourable weather with which we were continually
visited during the early part of the spring.

A shocking accident occurred last week in a lane
near Towcester. A family, who travelled in a cut, consisting
of a man, his wife, and two children, were resting for flit.:
night ; the woman was gone to ,the town for some neces,a-
ries, leaving the man and children with the cart ; the
thinking her long, went after her, :caving the children, one a
boy about ten years of nge,- and the other a girt about Sixteen
months old. Meanwhile the boy had put the little girl to
bed, and feeling cold, he lighted a fire in the stove ; in doing
which he set fire to the cart, and there being no one near, it
was burnt to the ground. The boy managed to get out, but
the infant perished in the flames.Buc;sWerald.
It is a well ascertained, but rattier unaccountable
fact, that notwithstanding the amazing increase of late years in.
the manuracture of steel pens, there lots not been the slightes4
falling oil in the extent of the quill trade. —.Mechanic's 2lfo.
gazine. _ _

✓ A man, on Inv cJ. • m I night, committed suicide ay Ric,
extraordinary circumstances in Charlotte Street, Fazrov-
square. He had some time since become er.amoured
of a female residing in Oxford-market ; subseqw,n..ty went to
New York to ameliorate his circumstances, "stroceeded, re-
turned to England, and again went to-rence'nia addresses;
but finding that the object of his love ha'', the mean time
married another, he became gulte despe.raf_e, and conducted
himself in so violent a mane's that a police officer was sent
for. As soon as he loyal a policer-.an was coming after him
he pulled a pistol fro-at his pocket, shot himself through the
head, and fell dead to the group',,
EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE OF PRO-
PERTY.:__A few days since. the Royal George East Indiaman
arrived in the St. Katharine Dock with a large arid valuable
cargo of silk goods aid tea from China, and she completed
the delivery of her cargo on Wednesday evening, when fifteen
bales of silk, the net value of which exceeds 3.5001, were
missing. Art inquiry was immediately instituted, and the:
Thames Police have since been actively employed in endea-
vouring to clear up the mystery in which the case is involved.,
but without success. All the lightermen employed in cleari-„g
the vessel have been questioned, and there appears no reason
to believe that they were instrumental in removing tbr, stolen
property. Various reports are in circulation, some
inferring
that the goods were concealed in lighters beiteat', other pro-
perty, and others that the vigilance of tb.a geae-keepers was
defeated, and the bales carried away in c.arts, Mr. Evans, an
officer, however, it is said, is of opinir.,n tkat the abstraction of
the silks must have taken place in Chi-.,a.
Mr. Woodhouse, of Carr'inpion-street, possesses a
green parrot, which was broirt.4l3., ten years ago, by his son
from Vera Cruz. On Sa.,,ar-4,
ty last she laid an egg, about
the size and colour of a Prllet's. Ten days previous she ap-
peared indispoied, in '4ll probability occasion by a difficult ex-
pulsion from the er:4.-pipe or oviductus. The surface of the
shell is evidently thickened from the 'same cause, by accumu-
lated concrete, *The coldness of the climate renders the pro-
duction of all ,egg, in one of these birds, an accidenal circum-
stance-HY'Jttlizohani Review.
STA-zE of TRADE.—The accounts 'from Manches-
ter, ar.ld the other towns largely engaged in cotton manufac-
tures, are of the most satisfactory character. It is known
'that the stocks of yarn in this country are reduced to a very-
low ebb; and there is little doubt, from the caution with which
our German customers have for a long time past been making
• th,dr purchases, there is an almost equal scarcity with them.
Within the last fortnight or three weeks, after the ma-ket had_
suffered its lowest depression, an advance of id. per lb. has
taken place in yarns of all descriptions of fineness, and all the
spinning mills arc in full activity at the improved rates. The
looms are all kept fully employed, in a large degree, for the
American market.

LLANELLY.—The trade of this port is rapidly in-
creasing. There are now upwards of 5,000 tons of shipping
in the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company's Dock,. all V,
which are to be loaded with Lla.ngennech coals. There ir..o
three vessels of 400 tons register and upwards, for Boratriy ;
the remainder are for Fernando Po, Johanna, and various
other places on the coast of Africa, tip the Mediterranean,
&c. Most of the coal is for the steamers belonging to the East
India Company.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
A MUSICAL APPLICATION OF A B.JNDLE OF
STICKS. —Every one, we presume, is acquainted with the little:
instrument called "the harmonica," the tone of which is
produced by pianoforte hammers striking upon ,lips of glass.
A Monsieur Sankson performs in like manner with two small
sticks, of the length and dimension of a lead pencil, striking-
upon a number of simple pieces of dcPl,, and elicits from them a
tone almost as brilliant as the well-known musical snutT-box.
The pieces consist of three octaves connected together by a
string, and laid upon a table, elevated upon small bundles of
straw. The invention is by no means a novel one ; for mutt-
years ago, in the first exhibition of curiosities at the Egy,i-
tion-hall in Piccadilly, we remember seeing an imperfect 'in-
strument of the same eoustruction, which was brought Isom
one of the South-Sea i,dands, and under each key was sus-
pended a eoeol-nut shell to act as a sounding-board. If,
however, there be not any novelty in the invention, M. Sank-
ton will a stc no common surprise in the listener to Fts per-
formatie'.:; for he plays several airs (waltzes and Polonaises)
with ;Astonishing rapidity and brilliancy of execution. We
understand that he will shortly exhibit yhis talents before the,
public.—Musical World.

REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF FosTERI
KINDNESS IN DUMB ANIMALS.—ME. John Britten, of Tirix-
worth, Northamptonshire, has at this moment a small black
Scotch cow, which constarztl'i and effectually suckles. three
cade lambs with as much 'er.re and affection as Cr they wr re her
own oinpring, and is (~.lowed about by the lambs with us muck
regard as if she
the same 'awl been their natural dam. The, vicar of
had a ewe died a short time after weaning a
couple of iambs ; but, notwithstanding the loss of tlia mother,
the 'iambs seemed to thrive upon grass in company with the
rest or the flock. On watching them more closely, however,
it was discovered that all the ewes permitted the little orphans
to come and suck them in succession, although some of them
had two lambs a piece of their own to supply. What lessors
of kindness and benevolence may we derive from observing the
actions of the brute creation !—The Agriculturist.

A highly interesting account has lately been given
to the Geological Society, by Mr. Murchison, of the dis-
covery of fossil fish in the new red sandstorm of Tyreee, iu
Ireland, being the first discovery of such relar.ins in that par-
ticular stratum, though they were known 're exist in others or
the group to which it belongs. The part of the formation in
question surrounds arid includes a small c•Jal-field, but reposes
for the greater part upon mountain limestone. The sandstone
consists of many distinct beds, which have evidently been de-
posited at different and widely separated periods of time, since.
some of the lower exhibit on the upper surface the marks of
the rippling action of the water, and must, therefore, have
long presented an exposed surface to a calm scr... It in the
lowest beds, 25 or 35 feet below the surface, that the fishes
are found.

About five o'clock on Saturday afternoon as the
Greenwich Railway train was returning to town from Deptford
they bad proceeded only a very short distance hcforc a steam-.
pipe burst, and all the passengers (a large portion of whom
had been to Greenwich to eat white bait) had •to wal to
London Bridge before they could obtain any assistance, as the
omnibuses at the end of the station wQre taken to convey pas-
sengers by the turnpike road to Deptford. The railway was.
very dusty, and the unfortunate pedestrians bad a hot walk, to
their great annoyance.
AN EARTHLY PARADISE.—In the parish of St.
Mary de Grace,
race, loutahteer iii:latciewoicewnoticehtlift)
olloauneyekstienra,
;fitneorer
is
neither churole
nor
tiea744ffeelrearigly.man, lawyer, or doctor living in the. parish.—,
MR. ELLICE.—Noth;bg can be mott barefaced
T,:.:y than the pretended regard of ths Tory papers .
par .- fr • theTobeeirs'dithjrlough
presented.
Tent '
interest.; of the " Ra4icals of Cov;r7.4sty..;ot
• .0- however, is too palpable and au u .eut ob-
p. ,
staunch R
the transparent disguise in e;laiich. it is
.hecome coat-holders
kfortners" to-
.. the litdicals of Coimot.ey 'anti the (-6 s . .t is to set
cl'i'llNk '44 tAA o).',Ar poextets during gether by the emv4,. tio,ai, th
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..gister, of -March last, gives a•list of seventy-nine stallions,
in different parts of the United States, among which aro the
f)11w, log, imported from this country :—Apparition, Autocrat,.
ilariefoot, Claret, Chateau Margaux, Consul, .E:nancipation„,
Heigefo;dr Luzborougb, Leviathan, Lapdogkligtirgrave, Mer-.
Rowton, Sarpedon, St. Giles, ShahspearA, '!rangy, and
Young- Tffl ruo. Is it not possible that, at some future day,
we may have to go to the United States to purchase same or'
the stout running lasting sort ?

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HAMBURG, MAY 27, 1836.
fIN the EVE of a RISE in PRICE and on AP-
vl/4.5 PROACH of WEDNESDAY, 22d JUNE, tiv. First Day
of Drawing of the 63th HAMBURGH GREAT LOTTERY,
HEINE BROTHERS, the CONTRACTORS,
request those, desirous to purchase at the first Price, to
LOSE NO TIME
in ordering by one of the Mails reaching this before 15th JUNE.
To those, whoSe • remittances of £lO, ,£2O, or £3O, reach them
before 15th June, HEINE BROTHERS will on executing the
order return £2, £4, or £6, (viz. Two Pounds on each Ten
Pound Note) by return of Post. Orders fer more than Three
Tickets must be declined, there not being Tickets enough remain-
ing unsold to allow them to attend to orders greater extent.
Orders for less than a whole Ticket will also not be attended to.
DIRECT to HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURG.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1836.

A meeting took place at the Foreign Office this
day of the Members, supporters of Government, when
the following was agreed upon as to the Lords' amend-
ments of the Irish Corporation Bill
The total and absolute rejection of Lord LYND-
HURST.S amendments.

Corporations to be given to certain large. boroughs,
(Lord JOHN RUSSELL named 12, Mr. O'CONNELL
proposed 16) but the absolute number not yet fixed
upon.
The other boroughs to be compelled to adopt the pro-
visions of 9th Geo. IV.,,which will give the 5/. house-
holders the control over the rates and expenditure.

The meeting was most unanimous.

The Ifouse of Commons last night sat in Com-
mittee on the Bill for the Registration of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages. The object of this Bill is
nut sectarian, as it has been represented by those who
are anxious to keep a wall of partition between the
Churchman and the Dissenter. So far is this from
being the case, that the end and aim of the Bill are to
establish a system of registration on a truly Catholic
plan, which, overlooking all the narrow distinctions of
sect, shall provide a national remedy for a national
evil. We say a national evil—for what can be a
greater evil to a nation than that one half of the people
should have no legally recognised means of ascertaining
or substantiating their rights of inheritance to property?
The Dissenters, it is true, feel tire grievance the most,
but the members of the Church, many of whom must,
in the nature of thinns, be connected with Dissenting
fanlilies, come in for their share. For all the evils
attending the present imperfect system, this Bill pro-
poses an adequate reale:ly. It takes the registration
out of the hands of the CleroT9 and makes it altogether
a civil process, with this important amendment, that
instead of baptisms, as heretofore, and these, too, con-
fined within the pale of the Church, the birth of every
child in the kingdom will, in future, be recorded.
Marriages and I,:aths will also be registered without
any offence to the feelings of those Who now object, at
least in the case of marriage, to the interference of the
Clergy of the Estahlished Church. As to deathe,
hitherto no register of these has been kept. In the
parochial registers will be found a list of the burials
which hare taken place in the parish churchyard,
and that is all. It reqoires, howver, but little reflec-
tion to sac that an accurate register of deaths is in
many respects highly important, and we observe with
satisfaction that provision has been made to insert in
the register the following particulars :—The day, name,
sex, age, place of birth, and rank or profession. To
make the register emeoletc, it has been suggested by
the Rev. Mr. YATEs, who has written an ingenious
pamphlet on the subject of registration, that the disease
of which the person has died should alSo be inserted—
a suggestion which we think well deserving the atten-
tion of the Noble Lord who introduced the Bill.
Nothing occurred in the Committee worth men-
tioning, except, psrhaps, that Mr. Gour,rxrlN
lui -
took die stage of the Bill, and delivered a homily on the
principle of the measure when the House was engaged
in its details. The Right lion. Gentleman could not
reconcile himself to the idea of a child's being baptized
without receiving its name at the same instant ;
though he did not condescend to show the House what
connection there is between the civil act of nomencla-
ture, and the religious rite of baptism. We thought
the representative of a learned University had been
Letter instructed, if not above such a vulgar prejudice.
`We can assure him, that had his name never once
been mentioned at the baptismal font, he would have
been civilly, legally, politically, parliamentar:ly, and to
all intents and purposes, the identical HENRY Gout.-
}:URN that he is at this present moment.

A writer in the illornin:; Post is exceedingly angry
witit os for saying on Saturday that the second read-
c' Tithe Bill was carried by a greater
majority thad It(a* er before sanctioned the great
pripcipie d apps n• n. We are disposed to make
SLaief.allow:ance CAl:re; ill humour of a defeated par-
tis-an-L-it is the prat of the losing gamester to
14Cqiit temper -414'419,'"4?
= • -:
Me hylbr?!
- ,s

the scribbling coxcomb who

does the espistoiary for our Contemporary, are, we
allow, not worth much consideration ; vet we cannot
help noticing the disingenuous way in which he tries
to prove that there was really no increase in the ma-
-1.2 11 p:r.
1.2 14 1.0. JOTILV On this occasion. There were 37 last year,
12 14 Kn.
I>m• says he, and there are hut 39 this ; and tile two
tt '
additional votes are entirely the effect of cha.-ice.
9,-,% Now since the division of last year, the Liberals
---- have lost and the Tories gained five votes—viz., two for
cre.ocK
Dublin, one for Oldham, one for Belfast, and one for
= Northampton, which makes a difference of ten in the
account ; so that, as the Morning Chronicle justly ob-
serves "if the -Ministerial majority were only 27, the
index of the feeling of the House as originally elected,
would not have undergone any change." It must
also he noticed that two Members who voted for the
appropriation principle formerly, were on this occa-
sion absent, without pairing off. Nor ought it to be
forgotten, that there was a much fuller House when
the question was decided last session— all which
things being taken into consideration, it is pretty clear
that we were warranted in our statement. The scribe
to whom we have alluded comforts himself and his
readers with the reflection that the question is not yet
finally settled, and that there is another branch of the
Legislature whose consent must be asked and obtained,
implying, no doubt, that the House of Lords, of which
he may be a member for ought that we know, will
throw out the Bill. Let them do so. They will only
put another nail, probably the last one, in their own
coffin.

It will be seen by the table of Newspaper Stamp
Returns in another column, that The Sun is now
the leading Evening paper in circulation—a fact to
which we beg to point the attention of Adver-
tisers. For this honourable distinction we make no
vain-glorious swagger, as some of our Contemporaries
in their day of triumph have done ; but we do return
the public our best thanks for their friendly patronage,
which we hope still further to merit, by renewed
exertions. Without boasting, we may be permitted to
say, that in the cause of Reform, and the advocacy of
liberal principles of Government, The Sun has
been conducted with more consistency, enterprise,
and expense in expresses, than all its rivals put
together. And this, too, in the face of obstacles
with which the public are but too well ac-
quainted. But for these, The Sun would long since
have occupied the position it now enjoys, while it has
been its fate to prove the saying of the poet—

" Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd;"
but the day of reward has at length arrived, and it
shall be our solicitude to improve it.
The following is an extract from the Stamp Offic(
Returns for the months of March and April :—:

Sun 136,000
Globe and Traveller
Courier 70,500
True Sun, and Weekly True Sun 58,500
Shipping Gazette 13,000

We extract a clever article from a Sunday Contem-
porary, on the subject of the motion made by Mr.
HUTT last week, relating to the Customs. This is a
department which requires great reform, as even Mr.
HUNIE was astonished at the exposure made by Mr.
HuTT, as to the easy manner in which the Commis-
sioners transact their business. Much credit is due
to Mr. HCTT on this occasion ; and we believe that,
independently of his public services, this gentleman
has done more good to -the port of Hull, than any
Member who represented that place for many years.

The Paris Papers of Sunday bring no intelligence
either from the Spanish capital, or the Northern Pro-
vinces, of a later date than the accounts received yes-
terday. The sudden departure of CoRDOVA to
Madrid, and his instructions to his army not to act on
the offensive before his return, will enable the Carlists
to direct all their energies against the British Legion.
On the 31st ult. the centre of the British lines was'•
attacked by two Carlist battalions. The insurgents
had hardly showed themselves when they were so
vigorously assailed by the Legion that they took to
their heels almost without firing a shot. At the same
time the Carlist troops stationed at Irun prepared to
make themselves masters of the Behobie bridge. For
this purpose they constructed a raft, upon which they
mounted three gins, one a twenty-four pounder, the fire
of which was to be directed on some covered worksraised
by the Christinos near the Bridge. Unfortunately for the
insurgents, General HARIsPE was quickly apprised of
what was going forward, and just as the raft was
launched he sent orders to General NOGUES to take
possession of it. The Carlists, though much more
numerous than the French, offered but a poor resist-
ance ; and the raft with the guns, and a boat contain-
ing a large quantity of powder and nearly two hundred
halls, were tal:en possession of by the French, and re-
moved forthwith into the French territory. This move-
ment deterred the insurgents from making any further
attempt to recover possession of the Bridge.
The accounts received direct from Bayonne are
dated the Ist inst. Oa that day General EVANs was
making preparations to drive the Carlists from Fon-
tarabia. He appeared confident of success, as did the
whole of the troops under him. The Carlist Gene-
EGUIA, was at Ernani, from whence
it was supposed that he would march at the
head of all his forces, and in the absence of COR-
DoVA, overwhelm the handful of troops with which
the gallant EvA NS is now constrained to maintain his
conquests. It is not to be denied that the Carlists
have now an opportunity of striking a grand blow.
By the intrigues of CORDOVA,. and the folly of the
IsTuR tz Cabinet, the army is now scattered without
a leader, and the only. successful General that has yet
espoused the cause of the QUEEN, is left at the head
of a handful of fatigued foreizners, to defend himself
against the whole concentrated action of fifty thousand
men, led on by a General of distinguished ability.
But notwithstanding the fearful odds against him, Ge
n
.
erra EVANS was, on the morning of the Ist instant,
quite confident of success, as he then knew of what
stuff his men were made.

On Saturday the Police discovered a poxder manu-
factory in the Rue Dauphine, Paris. They found in
the house ten thousand balls, with materiel sufficient
for making twice that number. Several persons have
been arrested in consequence, and it is expected that
:mother regicidal plot will be found to be at the bottom
of this illicit manufactory.
The Paris Papers persevere in lauding the change
in the Spanish Cabinet, and itii auguring the eventual
triumph of IsTintrz. The new President of the
Council will undoubtedly go all lengths to maintain
himself in power.
PAntv, JUNE 4.—Count Appony and Count Pahlen Lad
each a long conference yesterday with the Minister for Foreign
Affairs. The Austrian Ambassador remained with the Minister
from eleven to half-past twelve.
According to reports in the Chamber, the Government has
received information that the chief of one of the States situated
in the Gulf of Mozambique, by birth a Frenchman, ind a Ge-
neral under the Convention, who was condemned to death, has
appointed France heir to the territories that he has conquered
by his arms and the wisdom of his Government. We are
tnst
o
as-
sured that at the latt?,rhopairst oifiothoetiGieorvetrhnamn
n the of
revolutionary the
R
e-
this Prince,
,
offered to recognize the supreme domi-
nlreaioatdinocrrlßss
of France, qn condition that he should govern over
the establishment in the gulf of Mozambique. lie al so pro-
posel a treaty of commerce on the basis of the most cordial
friendship.• The Minister of Marine of that time did not think
fit to accede to the proposal. Since the revolution of July some
Frenchmen of Madagascar have resumed that project, and M.
Laurence, it is said, is proposed as Plenipotentiary of the King
of the French, to receive the inheritance of the Princess, who is

called Rebuska. • The Atalante is intended for the ex-
pedition. It is affirmed that-the Government will appoint a
'Viceroy of the country, retaining the present forms of adruinis-
tratioa, and will be content with a tribute, which is valued at
no less than two mibions and a half of picols.'
PARIS, JUNE s.—The illonitear has no official news this
moining. The President of the Council and the Minister of
Marine had a long, conference " yesterday. Among the ques-
tions discussed were, as we understand, tim alhirs of Greece
and- the differences with Alcrocco. Greece, it is said, is in com-
plete insurrection, end the news could no longer remain con-
cealed. Morocco had to expiate its new breach of faith, and
the perfidy of its manoeuvres in our dispute with the Arab
tribes, among whom it sends its banditti scattered in all its
provinces, and whom it has assembled on our frontiers. How-
ever, the President did oat dissemble that an expedition
against Morocco could not precure for us a satisfaction pro-
portioned to the expense that it would occasion. It is aframel,
therefore, the Colonel Delarue. Aid-de-Camp to Marshal
\iaison, and a superior officer of the navy, have orders to pro-
ceed to Tangiers, or even to Fez, to demand satisfaction.--
Messayer, Jane 5.

We have received, via Liverpool, New York Papers
to. the 9th ult. On the Gth, Congress was engaged
in the discussion of a Bill, appropriating the sum of
1,000,000 dollars for the defence of the Western
frontier. As the exact boundary between Texas and
the United States has not been fixed, it was appre-
hended that the Texeans, if hard pressed by SANTA
ANNA, would cross the frontier, and that it would be
necessary to provide against their pursuit by the
Mexican General, or the Indians, whom he has insti-
gated to make war on the Texean population. General
GAINEs had received orders from the PRESIDENT to
watch the frontier, and to resist any attempt made by
SANTA ANNA to cross the frontier by force of arms.
Throughout the United States public sympathy is in
favour of the Texean struggle, nor is there the least
doubt as to the popularity of a declaration of war
against Mexico. Many Members of the Senate se-
cretly wish that SANTA ANNA may do something to
justify a declaration of hostility on the part of the
United States, as the independence of Texas, if not its
connection with the Federal Government, would be the
inevitable result.
The Indian war in Florida still continues, although
the Seminole Indians cannot now muster a thousand
warriors. In the middle of April General SCOTT was
at Tampa Bay, at the head of five thousand men:

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Montreal Papers to the sth May, and Quebec to the 30th
of April, have been received this day. The Montreal papers
say that a long letter from Mr. Papincau to Mr. Bidwell,
breathing nothing but treason and rebellion, was laid upon the
table of the Upper Canada Assembly, just as the Lieutenant-
Governor was about to prorogue the House.
One of the Montreal Papers just received has the following
passage We received last evening (27th April) the
speech delivered by Sir Francis Bond Head, on closing the
Session of th,l Upper Canada Legislature. Like all the do-
cuments which have proceeded from his Excellency, it is
marked with an openhearted frankness and candour that puts
most legislative documents to the blush. The close reasoning
which distinguishes it, the impartial eXamination into the af-
fairs of the country which marks every sentence, and the
minute details into which it enters, will be found, notwithstand-
ing its extreme length, sufficient reason to warrant a perusal,
and we are sure it will obtain from every impartial man the
character of being a public document of uncommon merit.
The speech itself is four columns in length.
Prince Edward Island Papers, to the 13th April, have been
received. We extract the following. :
" CHARLOTTE TOWN, APRIL 12.--In the House'of Assembly
yesterday, the Speaker informed the House that he had re-
ceived a communication from Mr. Papineau, Speaker of the
House of Lower Canada, transmitting a series of resolutions
of that House, and an exposition of the extent and nature of
the reforms demanded by the people of Lower Canada, in the
hope that the Assembly of this Island would co-operate with
the representatives of that province, in procuring a better
colonial system of government. The resolutions referred to
were laid on the table."

Cape of Good Hope Papers, to the 9th April, have been
received. They contain an account of the damage sustained
by vessels in the port, during the late hurricane, at Mauritius.
Canton Papers have also been recieved, to the 3d February.
COMMERCIAL REMARKS. COTTON. Much activity has
existed in the market during the last week, and most of the
cargoes have been disposed of; but without any material im-
provement in price. The sales have amounted to about 8,000
bales.

OrruM.-Very• few transactions have taken place until yes-
terday, when there were inquiries for Patna and Benares, with-
out affecting the price. Malwa has been sold at 610 dollars.
Turkey dull sale.

Trade. as usual at this period of the approach to the Chinese
new year, is very dull, and we have no observation to make on
any particular article.
(From a Jamaica Paper of the 2.3 th of April.)

" Whsether our House or Assembly will be -further pro.-
ragued, or called together for the dispatch of public business,
we know not ; but it has been stated that Lord Sligo has de-
clared, that unless he is supported in his desire to dissolve it,
that he shall retire."

THE FUNDS

Consols opened at the closing price of yesterday, 91k for
the Account ; Reduced, 90,1 k. Exchequer Bills, 12 14 ;
India Bonds par, 1 prem. ; Bank Stock, 210 211 ; India,
259 260.

Ir. the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which closed yes-
terday 40i 1, are at present 40s ; Passive, 11K 12} ; De-
ferred, 181 4 ; Portuguese, 81i ;,t ; Three per Cents. 521
534 ; Colombian, 29! 30 ; Mexican, 33 34 ; Dutch, 561 57;
Five per Cents., 11014: 4.
HALF-PAST ONE.

We have no further arrivals up to the present time, and
most of the French Funds are heavy, with little doing in them.
Yesterday an eminent Broker purchased largely in Spanish
Active, although it had a very heavy appearance—report says
it was in consequence of some negociations on the tapis with
M. Mendizabal, to endeavour to get him to join the Isturiz
Ministry, Much speculation prevailed on the journey of Cor-
dova to Madrid—the cause still remains a mystery.
Consols have been during the whole of the morning at 92. k ;
Exchequer Bills, 12 14; India Bonds, par. I prern. ; Bank
Stock, 2101 211 ; India do., 259 260.

The Foreign Market is inactive. Spanish Active heavy at
401 : Passive, 11i 12i; Deferred, 18A- ; Portuguese,
811 :1-;
,Three per Cents. 521- 531 ; Coloai.bian heavy at
30; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent,.. 581 57.

THREE; O'CLOCK.

Consols fur the Account, 92,1.

The Bishop of London's serious relarme was occa-
sioned by one of his horses having been taker with the " stag..
geri," which so affrighted Mrs. Blomfield that his Lordship
stopped the carriage, and in his exertions to extricate her, ex.
posed himself to a cold north wind, that struck to his abdomen,
and created fresh inflammatory action. His Lordship continues
in a very precarious state. . _

EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE.—The Conn
of Directors have adopted a regulation by which an officer after
serving three years in India, zmd producing requisite evidence
to prove that he was incapacitated from further service by loss
of health in that country, may retire on the half-pay of his
rank. The intelligence will afford unmixed pleasu're to the
army, and we believe that other improvements in the retiring
regulations have been determined upon.
. _ _

-The following letter was lately addressed .try Mr.
flume to a distinguished member of the Jewish persuasion :
" Bryanstone-square, June 1, 1836.
" MT DEAR SIR-The cause I take up in supporting the
snbseription of Mr. O'Connell's election expenses, is that of
general
been
e No man,
nmlb-taeonfmlo,dreirn,i
noarsnurol
puiptnoor u
ft ,ort
rreitli
religious
oectilvt t-icanrs
tdsytrt(e)holacii gn
moreioou,scloisbi erty.
ne
of
al
-lend headed the public petition in favour of Dissent:l-s. lie
stood firm in behalf
ii last
sd tsioloitg.t
htathreioyn ;lite
iatenet
them refer
oratenifoyenr.tdoubto
the
bursthad
i,ted
Mr.
•
Oi'nCotinine elrnl
" I therefore thank you for sour assistance; but express a
hope that every friend of religious liberty, be he Israelite or
Protestant, will consider the struggle we are making in that
behalf. " Believe yours, &c.,
"O
TEA THADE.--YesterdjaySaFitePrilnootinU, l‘alE•ti
TH c-
E
potation from the merchants and others connected
tV1::
the thisre.
important branch of the trade, waited upon tl.e Chancellor of
the Exchequer, for the purpose of receiving a reply
presentations made on behalf of the trade, et an interview held
on Saturday, to induce Government to extend the period for
clearing bohea teas in bond, beyond the commencement of
next month, when the change in the duties will take place,
at the present rate of duty. Much disappointment was ex-
pressed on 'Change yesterday afternoon, when it was com-
municated to the trade that no answer had been returned to
the deputation. The East India coimd.patnoy2'sd.qpuearrtlebr.l;yilsvaalner
which commenced on Wednesday last, amounting to four
millions of pounds, finished yesterday, As compared with
the prices realised at the March sales, Fokien bcheas sold at
21-d. per lb. higher ; low congous, l
kays, hyson, 21d. to 3d. per lb.; and fine congous, went
off at 3a. per lb. lower than at the previous declaration. The
public sales of free trade teas will commance on Wednesday,.
and, with the quantity announced for the ensuing month,
will amount to nearly 60,000 packages. The quantity of teas
delivered last week for home consumption, amounted to about
509.0001b5.
RIIYME WITHOUT REASON.—Saturday's Bucks
Gazette contains the following paragraph :—" Sheep-stealing
has been very prevalent in this county for some time past. A
sheep was lately stolen from a farm at Tempsford, Bedford-
shire, and the next morning the shepherd found the following
affixed to the gate:—
" Sir, your mutton's very good,
And we are very poor;
When we have eaten ;Wits up,
We'll then conic and fetch some more,' "

NOTE. ---The Papers m
foregoing 7eturn, being
and in whose names the S
plied for each Paper cam"

r 8,5(111

larked (b ), and inserted together in the
winted and published by the same persons,
;tamps were taken out, the number sup-
Lot be distinguished.
CHAIMES ROSS, Registrar.
Ips and Taxes, May 16, 1836.

Newspaper Office, Sta

LITERATURE.

HISTORY OF BRAZIL. 2 Vas.
Smith. London. 1836.

A gentleman named Armitage is the author of this
work, which sets out from the period of the arrival of
the Braganza family at. Buenos Ayres in the year
1.808, and concludes with the abdication of Don
Pedro in the vear 1831. The volumes have been
compiled wit!, great care, and vast expenditure of time
and labour, from state documents and other original
sources, and are intended to form a continuation of
Southey's History of Brazil. Some such work has
long been a desideratum in our literature ; for, as Mr.
Armitage justly remarks in his preface, " there is no
country with which the relations of Great Britain are
so extensive, and yet of which
.she at the same time
knows so little, as the empire of Brazil." According
to our author's account, this extensive country pos-
sesses immense resources, which have hitherto been
but imperfectly developed, in consequence of the long
and distracting predominance of faction. Of this bane
to all countries, we have in these, volumes the most
minute and interesting details ; for Mr. Armitage, who
has been long a resident in Brazil, does not speak
from books, or from hear-sav, but from his own per-
sonal experience—from the convictions of an intelli-
gent and inquisitive mind. We have read his history
with considerable attention, and are not less pleased
by the variety of his research, and the multiplicity of
his practical details, than by the unforced grace of
his style, and the strictly impartial character of his
deductions. The episodical portions of his history,
relative to Lord Cochrane, are replete with interest ;
and he furnishes us with some curious particulars—
which, we suspect, will be new to the majority of our
readers—respecting a Brazilian plot for the assassina-
tion of Don Pedro. We give an extract descriptive
of the situation of this Prince when, on the departure
of his father, Don John, for Portugal, he assumed
the Regency of Brazil :

" Don Pedro was at this period in the twenty-third year of
his age, and was father of two children, Don John Carlos,
Prince De Pcira, and the Princess Donna Maria de Gloria.
lie was of a handsome person, his manners were frank and
affable, and his disposition, though capricious, was enthu-
siastic. Many essentials for popularity he certainly possessed :
how far he was otherwise qualified for the fulfilment of the
high functions imposed upon him, will best be seen in the
sequel. One of his first cares, after the departure of the
King was, as far as possible, to check that growing spirit of
disunion between the Brazilians and the Portuguese, which
was daily becoming more and more evident ; for which pur-
pose he crave frequent banquets, to which the military offi-
cers of both countries were indiscriminately invited. Here
both parties made their appearance, dissembled their resent-
ments, feasted together, and left each other as irreconcileable
enemies as ever. The situation of the Prince was certainly
one of some difficulty. On one hand, the manifest intimacy
existing between him and the officers of the auxiliary division,
after, as well as before, the revolt of the 2lst of April, be-
came highly offensive to the Brazilians ; whilst, on the other,
the Ministry of the Count dos Arcos, who was suspected by
the Portuguese of being more strongly attached to the inte-
rests of Brazil than to these of the mother country, proved
equally displeasing to these praetorian supporters of the au-
thority of Don Pedro. The administration was also in finan-
cial difficulties. The preceding government had left an
empty treasury, and the national bank was, from previous mis-
management, so much impoverished, that it was on the point
of suspending its payments. A rigid and inflexible system
of economy was thus an object of supreme necessity ; and,
principally through the influence of the Count dos Arcos,
who was possessed of both tact and energy, it was carried
into effect, as well in the domestic establishment at San
Christovao, as throughout the various branches of the admi-
nistration. Many decrees exhibiting a lively interest in the
public welfare were also published, and several oppressive im-
posts abolished; yet these demonstrations were, it must be
owned, regarded by all parties with suspicion rather than
gratitude :being, it was feared, no more than schemes for
popularity, hazarded for the purpose of again cementing the
tottering edifice of absolute power.
" In the mean time the election of the Brazilian deputies
for the Cortes of Lisbon was completed. The bases of the
Portuguese Constitution were also received in Rio de Janeiro,
where, on their arrival, though they were regarded by all par-
ties as founded on just and reasonable principles, yet the
Prince resolved to postpone the convocation of the authorities
who ought to make oath to them, until he should receive in-
telligence of the events succeeding to the entry of his most
Faithful Majesty into Lisbon.
" This delay not only gave rise to much dissatisfaction
among the Portuguese party, but very materially tended to
confirm their apprehensions that, the Prince, in conjunction
with the Count dos Arcos, might yet annul all that had
hitherto been done, and re-establish, or rather continue, the
old syttem."

EA'CYCLOPiEDIA BItITANNICA.
VOL. XIII. PART I.
Black. Edinburgh, 183 G.

We have so often spoken in terms of merited praise
of this Encyclopxdia, which has the rare recommenda-
tion of being superintended by Professor Napier—
one of the ablest men of science of the age—that we
need say little more on the present occasion, than that
the Number before us shows the same careful attention
to details, and wealth of various knowledge, that cha-
racterised its predecessors. Many of the original ar-
ticles are evidently from the pons of first-rate writers ;
among these we may enumerate the elaborate disquisi-
tions on the " Law of Nations," on " Legislation,"
on the " Liberty of the Press," and on the " Law of
Libel." The best essay is that on the " Liberty of
the Press," which is marked by a sound spirit of phi-
losophical sagacity, and is, most probably, the pro-
duction of the learned Editor himself. It gives us
pleasure to hear that this Encyclopwdia still keeps up
its extensive circulation, and the high character it has
ever maintained in the literary' world. The maps and
the other embellishments of the Number are executed
with singular skill, and a copious index is attached,
which greatly facilitates reference.

WOOD LEIGIITON-3 Vors.
Bentley. London. 1836.

These volumes, which are from the pen of as ac-
complished a female Writer as any of the present
day—we mean, Mary Howitt, of Nottingham—are
very much in the manner of Miss Mitford's admirable
sketches of Three-mile-cross. There is the same
quick apprehension of the picturesquethe same mi-
nuteness and poetry of detail iu the description of our
soft, sylvan English scenery—and the same love of
looking back to the good old times, when the peasantry
danced round the May-pole, and put sixpences into
their shoes, to defend them from the midnight assaults
of the fairies. In one respect, however, Miss Mitford
is greatly superior to Mary Howitt : she pourtrays rus-
tic character with more heart-felt relidt, and draws out
its racy touches, with a more delicate perception of
humor. We like the descriptions better than the por-
traits, in these volumes, though the last are not with-
out their redeeming points. Had we space, we would
extract the dainty sketch of an "Autumn in the Forest,"
but we must defer doing so to some more leisure day.

(nom the Sp fetator of Sunday last.)
The Commissioners of Customs have, perhaps, greater
power of obliging private friends, and annoying those against
whom, fur any cause, or no reason, they may happen to have
a grudge, than :my other body or men in the country. It is
the knowleo-e of this fact, and the fear of giving offence,
which restrains many who suffer from their caprice or neglect
of duty, from preferring their complaints against these impor-
tant persons. We have repeatedly heard individuals exclaim
in private against their idleness and insolence ; but until Tues-
day last, when Mr. Hutt called the attention of the House of
Commons to their dilatory and capricious mode of getting
through business, we do not remember to have seen any pub-
lic charge against them. We do recollect, however, not very
long ago, the rice C...;tninissioners petitioned Raliament to in-
crease their salaries from 1,2001. to 1,4001. a year—and that
was a suspicious circumstance ; as gentlemen who were ov,r-
worked would probably find 1,2001. a year sufficient ; idlers
arc generally those who require most money. Besides, there
is mottling in the position of a Commissioner of Customs that
requires a large outlay or expensive establishment. . We were
not surprised, therefore, to learn from 'Mr. Hutt, that these
Commissioners take a holyday on Saturday, never condescen-
ding to hold a Board on that day, and by no means regularly
on Mondays. Here is the reason why 1,200/. year, is not
enough for them. Mr. Dean, the Chairman. we learn, has
been exceedingly active in paring down the pittances of the
subordinates ; he has no compassion for clerks—low fellows,
who are obliged to work on Saturdays. But Mr. Dean had
better look to himself and his eight colleagues—too many by
half a dozen for any useful purpose. Mr. Hume has given no-
tice for a return of the number of days on which they were in
attendance on their duties last year ; and we hope that they
will be made to account for every day's absence satisfactorily,
or else be docked of so much salary, on the same rule that they
would apply to their clerks.

The ta.ct is, that the Custom-house department wants over-
hauling, fully as much, we understand, as the Post-office ever
did. An active investigation should be instituted into its con-
stitution and proceedings—the Commissioners' mode of dis-
posing of their extensive patronage, and matters of that de-
scription. Mr. Hutt may perform essential service to the
community, and especially the commercial portion of it, by fol-
lowing out what he has so well begun.

ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

GREENWOOD V. TAYLOR.

The remaining exceptions in this case were heard to-day,
but the arguments bad not concluded when we went to press.
The question respected certain policies of insurance effected
on the life of the late Duke of York.

KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)