The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-15 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS.

COMMILSARIAT DEPARTMENT, TREASURI
CHAMBERS, FEB. 1, 1831.
NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons de-
sirous of contracting to supply
71 hi BEEF and MUTTON,
:RapYLand
ist Is Forces in Cantonments, Quarters,
4441: 118,_ rracks, in the under-mentioned Counties and
p rd
Gloucester (includ-
kttow d)etcluHunding the ing the city of Bris-
b Of ger- tol)
(44.0,kbditc
Hams
Hereford
Be (includ- Hertford
c ,"
ti town of Hunts
41' t) Isle of Man
Isle of Wight
Billy) Kent (including Til-.
Ckvy)
Derrrlantl bury Fort, in the
bevYil County of Essex)
Ike
Lancaster
Leicester
rhar. Lincoln
tiofyli(:nclucling Middlesex
elldis)ive
of Monmouthrfi
IltbuCex
in-t,Y Fon) Northampton
i.,tarl several Counties in North Britain.
m the islands of Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey.
it; R:it the deliveries are to commence on and for the Ist
next ; that Proposals in writing, sealed
teive44,, d 'narked " Tender for Army Supplies," will he re-
ttfi" at this Office en or before Wednesday, the 2d day
rp 441 but none will be received after Eleven o'clock
day.
b.°Potals mutt be made separately for each County
d ,4tland, except for the Counties comprising North
It4ll Wales, all of which must be included in One
e(4
t; likewise the Islands of Alderney, Guernsey, anti
14,1)'; at also the several Counties in North Britain ;
41,4:1th Proposal must have the Letter which is an-
ti( to the Tender properly filled up by two persons
hitltty°," Property engaging to become bound with the
ttrii,.7ndeting in the amount stated in the punted
kttru'ata, for the due Performance of the Contract;
Proposal will be noticed unless made on a
felted " Tender, and the prices expressed in words
ket?lKth ; and should it so happen that during the
iyi,tnaaace of the Contract no troops shall be supplied
to lilt lae of the same, the Amount of the Stamps on the
1r44,,..4*et and Bond, paid in the first instance by the Con-
will be refunded to him.
bfCl:t• Printed Forms of Tender may be had at this
4844 between the hours of Ten and Four, and of the
4:44 Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and
trl and Persons making offers are particularly requested
6'erve; that th Supplies and Accounts are in future
v'a'le according to the Calendar Months.

(Northumberland ;in.
clucl,ng the town of
Berwick-on-Tweed)

Nottingham
Oxford
Rutland
(Salop

Somerset
Stafford
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex'
Warwick
Westmoreland
Wilts
Worcester
York
North and South
Wales.

NOTICE TO ARTISTS.
NI-41.4 Works of Painting, Sculpture, or Ar-
ehitecture, intended for the ensuing
.EXHIBITION„
Liy LOYAL ACADEMY, must be sent in on
Lky' the 4th, or by Six o'clock in the Evening of TUES-
IS;,,the sth of April next, after which time none can
be received.
1416,1 Regulations necessary to be observed tnay be oh-
'. tit the Royal Academy.
HENRY HOWARD, R.A. See.
'itir;:`''Y Possible care will be taken of works sent for
but the Royal Academy will not hold itself account-
case of injury or los.

DISSES OF THE SKIN.
IhtadsY Was publiEshA ed, the Thiid Edition, corrected and
enlarged, price A PRACTICAL TREATISE on the
15s. in board, of
their DISEASES of the SKIN, arranged with a view to
tips.
constitutional causes and local characters, and in-
Ivhitt'lig the substance of the Essay on these subjects to
~plan P
the Royal College of Surgeons awarded the Jack-
heoi rize.
By SAMUEL PLUMBE.
Surgeon to the Royal Metropolitan Infirmary for

Stet Children, &c.
tOci 4i* 1. Comprises those Diseases which chiefly affect
kcal 'figure the face, together with Ringworms of the
Stalled Head, &c.
NtePrcAy, Scaly Tetter, Dandriff, and other Chronic
aae,
tkr, -4"utions of a salutary influence on the Constitu-
-4 Eirl active character.
5, Itch, the Humid Tetter, Mercurial Eruptions.
Iythe'eorbutic Eruptions, Thrush, Purpura, Scorbutic
6, ;5, &c.
prl Ish Skin Disease, Warts, Syphilitic Psoriasis, &c.
t46-1,44d for T. Cadell, Strand ; and Mr. Blackwood,
-uUrgh.

4 Of whom may be had,
gem Essay on Ringworm of the Scalp, and Scalled
Third Edition, price 3s. Gd. in boards.
\'keein4ja Popular and Impartial Estimate of the value of
tl°H, price 3s. Gd. in board..
ISseril..Pslluuarrireb.e has removed to No. 7, Bedford-place,

i'-'`‘STIC IRON and WIRE FENCE,
itot, pleasure grounds, and ornamental walks,
4,441 1441e5, gates, verandas, balconies, galleries, and bed-
i"tftil' With every article in iron and wire, ornamental and
' inanufactured by CATO and SONS, 39, Holborn •
qitl)Posite St. Andrew's Church. The Nobility and
kr • are respectfully informed specimens are submitted
1441t5•51*etion. Wire work for libraries, aviaries, phea-
lh:e4l4) dairies, larders, and store-house windows. lan-
klnti hWire blinds, portable wire coops to protect phea-
4tt'l " rttry, &c. from rats and vermin. Noblemen and
411 favourin Messrs. Cato with orders will have
Ncirlatepds.withgpunctuality and despatch. Improved

` WEST INDIES.
111kIlLE ESTATES in the ISLAND of TOBAGO,
in the WEST INDIES, for SALE.
WitL.n‘j )3E SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUP,
Rilll l the Royal Exchange Coffee-room, Edinburgh, on
1-14ebars
the 9tk day of March next, at Two
Afternoon,
41,L ESTATES of ARGYLE and IN-
:!)ke 'ERNWE,
4 advantageously situated in the said
* 4)the
negroes, buildings, sad whole stock
on
I 41'11%41 rtatestinv
inventories of which
will be exhibited.
re 1111 RGYLE ESTATE consists in who's of about
ire •,;44reel acres of land, one hundred and fifty of which
pletur 114 d 6r elLteer one hundred in negro provision land and
44d about two hundred and fifty acres in mountain
Ish:4,4ltwood.
411rid4NVERAWE ESTATE consists of about nine
'r
eland fort ' lit acres; one hundred and twenty.
ii:lZstir-eere (Y•a-neesig and cultivation two hundred acres
tittui . and.negro provision ground, and the remainder
tlsated land of wood and brush.
1',4U1:11,r 44 Argyle Estate there are upwards of
xoenne
'teejt,,"" .netroes, sixteen mules, seventeen working o
are,
tle,,:l7lght pasture cattle, besides sheep. There
'itt'4"'ff-house and out-buildings, a set of works e.on-
•kise' tt mill with water-wheel, boiling-house, curing-
t,,tf Liter"hail rum-cellar, and mule-pen, besides many
9eis ites.
INterr,4 the Inverawe Estate there are upwards of one
Fitirt aki twenty negroes, ten mules, eighteen oxen,ld
Itet'san!",, besides sheep- and other stock. The bui
'4414
Uf a dwelling-housr,kitchen, and out-buildings,.
4riesslitl' water-wheel, and boiling-house and utensils,
8-house still-house with liquor-vats and rum-cellar,
i; Qoptlie-Pett, besides various other appurtenances.
;,-;441, of the inventories, and every requisite informs
144.$ be furnished by Moncrieff, Webster, and Thompi-
:,:4l',Vtßerasi,aob Palace-yard, Westminster ; 111‘Dougal ,
,Al‘,.. ragge, Solicitors, Parliament-street, Lon-
ell
~,gor, Alurrav, and M'Grigor, Writers; or
44:.1;y4 4l`Cioun, Glasgow ' • James and Laurence
Macmillan and Grant, W. S. Edinburgh.
j)-tt• NORRIS'S FEVER DROPS.
t 4S
Celebrated Medicine is allowed to be
„174tt 14','Perior to any other remedy in all cases of Fevers,
4ha:ht,'"te, S 1 Fevers, commonly called Nervous,
4tite 'ever, andawAg nd all those Disorders which
*lts obstr tedues, -a iration. In hot climates,
''"zzes andulte perspiration.
Complaints are very prevalent,
tr%41.:411Y in the Weetilanadaies al America, these Drops,
4144 stelletee successful experience, proved to be in-
did tea They rod •e perspiration in the must gentle
4144ner Pend at'tltrt giving the Patient the least
I°, tik:4_,'"te or tan' easinewals These Drops, gives agreeably
11,410;,Iirection in the 'several and distinct cases, not a
se has ever come to the knowledge of Dr.
haytie', 1,14 'which they have failed to cure. Purchasers are
o„rrie" „t° sbaer;e that the genuine preparation of
41.11 us, '-'rePe, will have engraved on the Stamp,
`414-ae Norris Moire." Mr. Norris Moore has vas-
Yk4ti ; :r•anl3eP S(St with Mr. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-
` Ste adli ger, Oxford- sti ee; e posite Bond-street,
117111; ng, t the entrance Oxford-street,
Exchange,
ries the ale of the above Medicine.
9d• 11s•, and in Family Bottles 221. each.
i?t,iettel.o M. ONLY.-- Public money ought tot' Dour
with the most scrupulous consciousness of
ihm e;rtiil.st is not the produce of riches only, but of the
pt th,Cg of labour and poverty. It is drawn even
tit
itterness of want and misery. Not a beggar
4, or •
sties Peri in the streets, whose mite is not in that
%.2'crt/er.

:No. 11,990.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The public will see, and perhaps with pleasure, that the
tax upon the transfer of property in the funds chiefly, for
there the offence was chiefly taken, is frankly given up
by the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer. If there
were nothing else in this but the indication of a ready dis-
position to comply, as far as possible, with public feeling,
we should hail the act with approbation. If Lord
Althorp were in error in proposing the tax,—of which a
retractation is not, in every case, a decisive proof,—it is
evident that he took the best means of informing himself ;
for he consulted the Governor of the B4nk, and was by
him assured that there would be no objection to such an
impost. It has been said that Mr. Horsley Palmer only
spoke in his individual character. That is true: Lord
Althorp did not consult all the Directors of the Bank of
England, nor those of the East India Company, nor of
the several Insurance Societies; but of an host he took
one who ought to be the best informed, and asked
his opinion on a private subject. What could he do more?
We are sorry we have so often occasion to speak on a topic
of faith and common honesty, and still find some unwil-
ling hearers. We do not know that a tax upon the trans-
fer of property—that is, its passage from hand to hand—
is a tax upon the property itself; at least the matter will
bear debating ; but we know that if the first had taken
place, the other would not have been long in following ;
and then, as a matter of public faith, how stands the
question of a tax on the funds? The country, for in-
stance, requires a loan, and it says to the forthcoming
lender—" If you will supply me, I will pay you so much
interest, without any deduction whatever ; and I will
never lay any tax or impost upon that interest, to assist
me in defraying my other expenses." The bargain is
struck upon those terms; and the interest, in the
confidence of that solemn engagement, is bought and
sold among thousands of different persons. How cau
the debtor, then, in the face of that engagement, dare to
tax the fund thus created and appertaining to his creditor?
It is, however, neither necessary or fair to dwell upon the
impropriety of a tax which has been candidly and promptly
abandoned. In order to supply the deficiency occasioned
by the withdrawal of this tax, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer will still keep the duty on tobacco and that on
glass undiminished : the reduction of the first could not
have made 10s. a year difference to the most inveterate
smoker and snuff-taker, and enough of it (in fact half)
would have remained to remunerate the ,:muggler : the
reduction of the glass duty would have been useful, as it
must have tended to improve that important manufacture.
As the intended reduction of the tobacco duty was
1,400,0001., and the estimated produce of the transfers
only 1,200,0001., we do not clearly see why the aban-
donment of the latter scheme makes it necessary, to pre-
serve the glass duties as well as those on tobacco.— Times.

The intelligence from Ireland cannot surprise any one
who has watched the proceedings of Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell, and who has had common sense enough to appre-
ciate the character of that mean and arrogant, but hence-
forth no longer formidable, or even troublesome, bully.
Looking at the recorded lives of Inca who have en-
titled themselves to notice by the mere pertinacity of their
endeavours to do mischief, it certainly does not occur to
us that we have ever met with one more distinguished
by the combination of those vices which render a
political adventurer at once an object of hatred and con-
tempt, than this same Ex-agitator of Ireland. The
moral merits of vanity and selfishness have served for
many year to put in motion that intellectual property
of the Learned Gentleman which was most worthy of
employment in such a cause—a sleepless and inde-
fatigable, but rather short-sighted, cunning ; while
another and not less conspicuous feature of the learned
gentleman's moral temperament--viz., his extreme aver-
sion to every sort of suffering in his own person, has made
him notoriously incapable of extricating himself, with the
least pretence to spirit or dignity, from those predicaments
(and they have not been few) into which his ambitious or
malignant impulses have betrayed him. In truth, had
not Mr. O'Connell's paroxysms of fury been followed, and
pretty severely though secretly punished, we guess, by
more than equivalent agonies of terror, he might have
gained a reputation which be need not now aspire to,_
that of being a desperate and somewhat dangerous intriguer
against the public peace. Mr. O'Connell, be it remembered,
in his Parliamentary office, or with his breakfast mob about
him, had things all his own way. Lord Anglesea's pro-
ceedings against him and his under-agitators were ille-
gal—tha proclamations were pure tyranny, substituted for
law, and in defiance of the Constitution, by barefaced

power ; and Mr. Stanley, if we mistake not, was to be
impeached, or something like it. Well, the learned per-
son was arrested, and had the satisfaction of abusing the
Magistrates for sending common thief-takers to his house;
but day after day he and his papers rung the changes on
the certainty that he would defeat the prosecution. Well

again—he demurred—an expedient, it was conjectured,
for delay ; but the project tailed, and he was suffered to
withdraw his demurrer, and to plead " Not Guilty," by
which means he would have a Jury to attest his innocence
and to trumpet forth his triumph over Lord Anglesea and
the \% higs. But Mr. Attorney-General Blackburne has got a
stern straightforward way with him. He is " a sort of fellow
that won't be denied." The Learned Agitator seems to have
an instinctive dread of measuring blades with this arch
thief-taker—the King's Attorney- General. The day of trial
approaches ; and how does the Learned Repealer of the
Union prepare for it ? Why, to be sure, he shirks—
there's no game in him. He " demurs," in plain Eng-
lish, to the combat. The sage—the Liberator—the ex-
pounder of the laws—the counsellor of the people.—
" Whatever you do, my well-beloved and tribute-paying
countrymen, obey the laws; listen to me—be ruled by
my advice—be led by my example—obey the laws, I tell
you ! fur thus, so sure as the sun shines at midnight, so
sure will you chase the vile Saxon from our shores, and
overthrow the usurped Empire of Great Britain." Alas,
for the patriot, the lawyer, and the sage ! He with-
draws the plea of " Not Guilty," as he had before
withdrawn the demurrers ; and what, then ? Why he
cries " craven," as all who thought any thing about
him expected he would do. He pleads guilty to that
breach " of the laws" from which he had interdicted the
people. He confesses to having himself committed that
breach " of the laws" which he told the miserable mob,
the deceived and pillaged populace, could alone prevent
" the repeal of the Union,"—that " repeal" without
which the " first gem of the sea" can never regain her
lustre. This revolutionist is now at length disposed of.
If the mob of Ireland cannot, or will not, see in its true
colours the robe of contempt which envelops him, may
the perverse idiots be plagued with O'Connell and his
gang, and their plots, and boastings, and pusillani-
mous flights from all real daoger, until doomsday :
we can invoke upon them no more appropriate curse.
Let the public judge what species of creature this is,
from the fact to which we have before adverted,—viz.
that Mr. Staunton, of the Dublin Morning Register,
is at this moment under prosecution for a libellous
letter, bearing the signature of "Daniel O'Connell" which
prosecution the Attorney-General bad promised to forego,
if the writer of the letter would declare himself! The
writer skulks, and the faithful journalist suffers. Yet
another fact. It is announced to the starving poor of
Ireland, that thole of them who had not subscribed to the
O'Connell tribute, by the collection of which at the chapel
doors the Sabbath and the place of worship were both
sonic timeago insulted—that the starving peasantry, we say,
may still have the privilege of paying up their arrear of
tribute for the benefit of him whose disturbance of the
peace and property of Ireland has chiefly caused the pre-
sent wretchedness of her people—it is actually published
in the Morning Register, that the 20th inst. is to be a
second tribute Sunday ! The plague of demagogues was
unknown to Egypt.— Times.

It is a curious fact, that the French Minister of Finance
and the English Chancellor of the Exchequer presented,
this year, their respective budgets on the same day,—
namely, Friday last. The amount of the estimated ex-
penditure, in both cases, is not very different, the English
expenditure being 46,850,000/., and the French
1,177,151,035 f., or about 47,000,0001. sterling. In
almost every thing else the points of contrast in the two
budgets are more remarkable than those of resemblance.
Our proposed supplies this year, for instance, vary very little
from those of the last. The expenditure in France, on
the contrary, has been raised more than 8,000,0001.
sterling, or nearly a fifth. The interest of the debt,
both fixed and floating, in France, together with the civil
list and all ether permanent charges, amounts only to
358,000,000 f., or somewhat more than 14,000,0001.
sterling, whereas ours exceeds 30,000,0001. Our sinking
fund is reduced almost to nothing, whereas the sinking