The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

(From the Supplement of the Madrid Gazette, March 14.)
rmv.kt. OFFICE OF THE SINKING FUND.
The director of this office, in pursuance of provisions of'
the Royal Decree of' February 26th last, and of the Royal
order of the 12th inst., has determined that the admission
of the notes of the documents of the public debt in the
three species, viz. non-consolidated vales, current debt with
paper interest, and the debt. without interest, which com-
prehends all the credits liquidated and acknowledged up to
February 20th of the present year, brought forward for the
benefit of the consolidation, for which purpose it has estah-
lis!led the following rules :-
1. From the 15th of March until the 15th of May in-
clusive of this year, there shall be presented and delivered
in the Royal Otlice of the Sinking Fund the notes and
numbers of the non-consolidated vales, and of the docu-
ments of the current debt with paper interest, and debt
without interest, of which each individual is possessor, speci-
fying the partial amount of each species of stock, and the
total amount of each note.
2. The notes must be double (according to tl.e practice
in the presentation of docurrents) for the payment of the.
interest of the debt, and the numbers placed in order pre-
cisely after the plan laid out by th;s office, of which a copy
will be put up at the Exchange, and at the entrance of this
establishment. The Director being aware from experience
bow necessary it is, for proper speed, that the parties in-
terested should arrange their notes according to the esta-
blished model, has resolved that they will not be admitted
in any other form, and that those not presented in these
terms shall be returned, for which purpose they shall be
printed and published.
S. The persons interested shall express, in separate
notes, 'the species of documents in which they wish to
receive the amount consolidated, whether in transferable
inscriptions, or in inscriptions to the bearer, conformably
with Article 20 of the said Royal Decree.
4. Notes containing the number of the documents of the
three specified stocks, mixed up together, or those men-
tioning various species of the consolidated debt, will not be
received, as they must be presented totally separate.
5. Neither will the numbers of documents belonging to
distinct persons be admitted mixed up into one note ; they
Must be made up separately as belonging to each person or
corporation, even if the amount to be consolidated is united
in one note, in virtue of different powers.
6. The notes shall he presented, signed by the parties in-
terested, or by persons legUly representing them, which
must be done by a special power, authorizing them compe-
tently, if they have not already authorized the officers of the
Royal sinking fund.
7. After the 15th of May, the period fixed for the pre-
sentation of thg aforesaid notes, non. • will be admitted ;
this being in accordance with Article 9 of the said Royal

Decree. -
Madrid, March 13, 183 G.

The Rev. Gerald Wellesley has been presented to
the Rectory of Strathfieldsaye by the Duke of Wellington,
vacant by the cession of John Bastard, the last incumbent.
PRIVY COUNCIL.—TIIE PIX JURY.—A very
numerous meeting of the Privy Council was held yesterday at
the office of the Controller-General of the Exchequer, White-
hall-yard, for the purpose of swearing in a Jury of Goldsmiths,
denominated the Pis Jury, to examine the state of the gold
and silver coinage of the realm. Amongst the Privy Coun-
cillors present were Lord Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Howick, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir John Newport, the Right Hon. C. Fer-
gnsson, &c. Twenty-four gentlemen, members of the Gold-
smiths' Company, were empanelled. Mr. Brook, of Cheap.
side, was appointed Foreman. The Jury having been sworn
to assay the gold and silver coinage, and report to his Majesty,
the Lord Chancellor made them the usual address. The
Foreman of the Jury suggested that the trial of the coins
should be made at Goldsmiths' Hall. Their Lordships saw
no objection to that proposal, which was accordingly agreed to.
One of the officers of the Mint stated that formerly the Master
of the Mint used to sit at the board, although he was then on
his trial. The Jury were then directed to proceed with their
duties, and report the result to the Lord Chancellor, to be laid
before his Majesty.
THE STANMORE TREASURE-TROVE.—An in-
vestigation was held before Mr. Stirling the Coroner, at the
Abercorn Arms Tavern in Stanmore, on Wednesday last, for
the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances connected
with the finding of a considerable quantity of foreign coin, as
described in the newspapers some months ago. This inquiry
was held on the authority of a prescript from the Treasury in
pursuance of an ancient law, which devotes all treasure, for
which no owner can be found, to the King, in part of his
Royal revenue. Mr. Maule attended on the part of the
Treasury, and Mr. Robson on the part of the Duke of Buck-
ingham, who is Lord of the Manor, and after a long investi-
gation, in which nothing beyond that which has already been
laid before the public, the Jury returned a verdict of treasure-
trove upon so much of the money only as was found on the
Monday; and consequently, that which was found on the
previous Saturday was abandoned' to the finders. It is
said,
we know not how truly, that in the whole, nearly 4,000/. has
been dug up. which this
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The swamp m
pile was so judiciously built has for several weeks been ancle-
deep with wet, clayey mud, with here and there interspersed
puddles nearly a foot deep. To those whose daily occupations
compel them to go through theark on foot, wading through
the miry pool that has overflown the public paths, the incon-
venience must have been rather severely felt. Much of this
public nuisance is occasioned by an attempt—now, it is be-
lieved, at an end—to drain the marsh in this Palaee
stands—an instructive monument of a King's whim, of a
Government's subservient sycophancy, and of the ease with
which the People, even in those recent days, suffered them-
selves to be plundered, and their hard earnings forced from
them by the unprincipled and profligate Ministers of a sen-
sualized and spendthrift Prince.
At the Middlesex Adjourned Session, yesterday,
Mr. Sergeant Adams was elected Chairman, in the room of
Mr. Retch. The numbers were—for Mr. Sergeant Andrews,
38 ; for Mr. Sergeant Adams, 53. Majority for Mr. Ser-
geant Adams, 15.