The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-29 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1836.

Sebastiani had an audience of the King, who at two o'clock
held a Council of Ministers, after which the Marquis de
Dreu± Breze was received by his Majesty. The Countess de
Rigny had the honour of being received by the Queen.—
Monikur.

Yesterday, at one o'clock, the sixteen young couples of the
twelve arrondissements of Paris, and the arrondissements of
Sceaux and St. Denis, to whom the City of Paris has granted
dowries, proceeded to the Hotel de Ville, where, in the
Throne-room, the Minister of the Interior and the Prefect of
the Department signed their contracts of marriage. The
Secretaries-General of the Minister and the Prefect, the
Mayors of Paris, the Sub-Prefects and Colonels of the Na-
tional Guards of the rural arrondissements, and the Mayors
of the communes to which the couples belong, were present
on the occasion. The Prefect delivered a suitable address to
the parties, in which he informed them that the Queen had
sent wreaths of orange blossoms for the brides. The Secre-
tary-General then called over the names of the couples, and
the contracts, presented by the two city notaries, were signed
in succession.—Journal des Debats.
FRENCH FUNDS.--Palus, JULY :27.
Five per Cents., VW. 55c. 80c 75e.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 9oc.
Three per Cents. 80f. 50c.
Bank Actions, 12,7.. f.
Herat. de Naples, WOE 40c. 50c cic.
Roman Five per Cents., 10244 10.1.
Spanish Actives, 37N 1,.8.
Spanish DifTercs, 16.74
Spanish Passives, 11%N
POrttlgtle,C Loan, Five per Cents., 78l(.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 49.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 56f. :ioc. 56.t1
Haytiau Loan, 39011

EXCIIANGP: ON Immolx.
One month, paper, 25t: 32}ie. ; money, 251. 323 C.
Three months, paper, 25f. Jac. ; money, —f. —c.
—Caurs Aulhentique.

BOUHSE, QUAkTER TO FOUR.—In the beginning of the
Bourse the Rentes were brisk at 80f. 55c., but they have
since receded to 80f. 40c., buyers. Spanish Active Stock
opened at 381, but has also fallen to 371, sellers. Some re-
ports unfavourable to the Spanish Queen's cause, which have
been circulated with great perseverance, are supposed to have
occasioned the decline.

LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 85c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 45c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, 13;1; New Loan, —; Actives, 38 ; Pas-
sives, 1 q-; Ducats, 100 50 ; Romans, 103 ; Pedros, 7;81 ;
Belgians, —; Dutch, 56f. —c. ; Ilaytians, 390 f. ;
Migucls, 16 ; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differcs, 10; Five per Cent. Perpe
tuellcs, —; Royal Loan,

NEW POOR LAW AMENDMENT BILL.—ST.
MARISN'S-IN-THE- FIELDS. —This morning, at eleven o'clock,
pursuant to public advertisement, a meeting of the Members
of the Boards of Guardians and Unions within the Bills of
Mortality, took place in the Vestry-room of the Church of
the above parish, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, for the
pnrpose of taking into consideration a Bill, introduced by Lord
John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the
House of Commons, entitled " An Act to facilitate the Admi-
nistration of the Poor Laws in England and Wales." The
meeting was very well attended. On the motion of Mr.
Staunton, Mr. Churchwarden Hudson was unanimously
called on to preside, and on his taking the Chair,
observed, that in his opinion it would be unnecessary
to enter into any dirussion on the merits of the Bill, as Lord
John Russell had stated last night in the House, that he with-
drew the same. After a long debate, Mr. Henry Simpson
moved the following resolution—" Resolved that as Lord John
Russell, having announced in the House of Commons his in-
tention of not persevering, this session of Parliament, with a
Bill entitled An Act to facilitate the Administration of the
Poor Laws in England and Wales,' this meeting do adjourn
sine die." Mr. Cuff seconded the motion, which, after having
been submitted by the Chairman for approval to the meeting,
was carried unanimously. Thanks were then given to the
Chairman, who, having briefly acknowledged the compliment,
the meeting separated.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE BISHOP BRAMSTON.—
On Wednesday a solemn dirge was performed at the Roman
Catholic Chapel, St. Mary's, Moorfields, for the Right Rev.
Dr. James York Bramston, late Vicar Apostolic and Bishop
in the London district. The altar and all the prominent parts of
the chapel were hung with black on the occasion, including
the Bishop's throne in the sanctuary, over which an escutcheon
was placed with the armorial bearings of the deceased, and
the coffin, containing the body, was elevated in the centre,
surmounted with the mitre and crozier, and surrounded by
wax-lights. The service consisted of the office and mass for
the dead, celebrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths, suc-
cessor to the deceased bishop, to whom he was coadjutor,
another bishop, Dr. Kyle, of Scotland, and between 70 and
80 priests disposed about the bier, and by whom the choral
portions of the service were chanted in the plain Gregorian
style. The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr.
Hearne. The deceased, who died in the 74th year of his age,
was stated to have been of a very respectable Protestant
family in Northamptonshire, and having been educated for the
bar, was articled to Mr. Charles Butler, the Roman Catholic
counsellor, and he practised for several years as a convey-
ancer. Having become a convert to the Roman Catholic
religion, however, he devoted himself to the priesthood, and
went to the English College at Lisbon to study theology.
When ordained, he was appointed one of the chaplains at the
chapel in St. George's-fields, and in 1827 succeeded Dr.
Poynter, as Bishop of the London district, in which he had
previously acted for several years as coadjutor, by the title of
Bishop of Usula. At the conclusion of the service yesterday,
the body was deposited beside the late Bishop Poynter, in a
vault beneath the chapel, with the following inscription on the
coffin :—" lilustrissimus et Reverendissimus Dominus Jacobus
York Bramston, Episcopus Usulensis et in hoc districtu Lon.
dinensi, Vicarius Apostolicus. Obiit, die xi. Juli, 1836. Re-
quiescat in pace." The heart, however, had been extracted
from the body and inurned, and shortly after the funeral, was
conveyed by Bishop Griffiths to the Catholic College in
Hertfordshire, to be placed beside the heart of Bishop
Poynter, who was President of that College.
BRUSSELS, JULY 26.—The average prices of
wheat and rye, during the third week of July (Monday the 18th
to Saturday the 23d), were, wheat 151. 91c., and Rye 10f. 6c.
per hectolitre, and the import duties 37f. 50c. and 21f. 50c.
respectively per 1,000 Killogrammes. The Minister of Fi-
nance informs the public that the total amount of the subscrip-
tion to the Loan of 30,000,000 f. amounts to 691,0731.,
which gives a proportion of 0,043,41 per share, that is to say
43f. 41c. per 1,000 francs. E. d'HumiT, Minister of Finance.
—Brussels, July 26.--VIENNA, JULY 19.—Five per Cents.,
104 k ; Four per Cents., 100 ; Three per Cents., 75,-1; Bank
Shares, 1,354.
On Thursday arrived in Papa Sound, Orkney, the
sloop Jean Black of Rothsay, from Iceland, with three tons
of cod. Reports the fishing is almost a total failure and a loss
of twelve French fishing vessels, with sixteen men in each, who
all perished with the excption of one boy.—Scots Times.
POOR LAws.—Thc Kent Herald, in its vigorous
opposition of the New Poor Laws, requests us to state that
Canterbury is not under the controul of the Poor Law Com-
missioners, and that it cannot therefore be adduced as evidence
that the Poor Law Amendment Bill works well there. Giv-
ing up the case of Canterbury, we are still abundantly borne
out, by facts, in the assertion, we before made, namely that
" the Poor Law Act Amendment Bill is spoken of as working
well in all parts of the country."
One of the most remarkable memorabilia of the
weather this season was the fact of Ben-y-gloe, and the higher
range of the Braemar mountains, having received a fresh and
ample covering of snow on St. Swithin's Day. On the after-
noon of that day a severe storm of thunder and lightning passed
over the Highland districts, and carried off every trace of the
unseasonable xisitant.—Perth Courier.
The Poor Laws Amendment Bill is spoken of as
working well in all parts of the country. At Canterbury, the
city and county poor-rates, which in the year ending
July 1, 1834, were 8,7451. Is. 6d. in 1835, were reduced to
7,1631. les. I Id. ; and in the present year, they are only
6,0561. 15s. Id.
MALTA, JULY 4.--A report is current here that
it is the intention of his Majesty's Government to send out to
this island Commissioners to examine into the nature of the
grievances complained of by a few individuals, who, about
twelve months ago, raised a cry against the British Govern.
fluent of had faith, mal-administration, a disregard of the rights
of the people, and even starvation, for thirty-five years past.
The inquiry which Lord Glenelg then ordered to be instituted
in Malta was in a great degree frustrated by the refusal of
these gentlemen to come forward and prove their accusations.
Their assertions being made through the means of the press in
England, were of that gratuitous and unfounded nature which
some people do not hesitate to indulge in when out of the
reach of immediate confutation. The boldness of these at-
tacks, however, it seems, has induced the present Government
to enter upon a vindication of the British Crown and nation
by agents of its own; and the measure is not, perhaps, an un-
wise one, provided competent persons be appointed to this re-
sponsible duty. It will be of no service to send out men as
Commissioners who are wedded to some favourite theory of
political economy or government. They must be men of en-
larged views, and willing, as well as capable, to compre-
hend the interests of more than one class of society.
Although Malta is a small place, it requires, perhaps,
more care and patience, on the part of the Government,
to discriminate the real wants of its population, than
in larger countries, where the lower orders are more
ready and able to speak out for themselves. The most im-
portant question the Commissioners will have to consider, will
be the corn trade. It is well known that the Maltese islands
are of solid rock, whose surface is but partially cultivatable,
producing nothing without great labour. The population is very
numerous, and two-thirds of their subsistance must be im-
ported from abroad. But it is the opinion of many that a
free introduction of the produce of other countries would, in
times of plenty, ruin the landholder and the labourer and for
the protection of these, the sole interests of the islands (for
there are no manufactures), a duty is levied upon corn im-
ported, when under a certain price. This, and an excise duty
on wine and spirits, are the principal taxes paid by the people.
The custom duties are very moderate, and scarcely affect the
lower orders, whose manner of life is very simple, favoured by
a mild climate. There are no direct taxes, no land tax, no
municipal or assessed rates, no poor-rates, the necessitous and
aged being relieved by the Government, from certain fund° set
aside for that purpose ; in fact the tax-gatherer Is unknown in
Malta—a happiness which most countries may envy. Now,
whether the revenue can be raised by a pump less repulsive
than a tPC IIPAP rpm, whipht while it is general in its opera..
tion, serves to protect the landholder, and gives employment
or whether the prineiett,l classes should be left
to 1/,‘:
to shift for themselves,(ine pretend, are Questions of (jeep
• •
interest for the people of Malta,
The wheat harvest has already commenced in Corn-
wall, and Mr. Pollard, of the parish of Egloshale, cut a fine
field on Monday last,—Devonvort Telegraph,