The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

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The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ccntains a repert
ar..l decree, of which the following are the concluding
attic'es:—

" 1. That the temporal measure of the Royal order of
thu 12th of January, 1834, admitting to conversion the is -
scriptions of the transferable debt of four and five per cent.
to bearer be immediately revoked. . _

" 2. That the definitions of the 16th article of the
Treaty of the 6th of December, 1834, be maintained in its
two parts---of converting the bonds to bearer into inscrip-
tions payable at Madrid, and changing the bonds payable
abroad for bonds payable at Madrid, and that there be im-
mediately prepared the necessary documents, that the
coupons of the Ist of May and the Ist of November be re-
ceived and exchanged for new documents of the date at
which they may L. forwarded."

REPRESENTATION OF MONAGIIAN.-Mr.
Lucas, the Tory Member for Monaghan, has announced his
intention of retiring from the representation of that county
on the dissolution of the present Parliament. Mr.
Lucas is a pru-lent man, and we believe he has come to
a very prudent determination. At the next election
an effort—we hope and trust a succesJul one—will be
made to rescue Monaghan from the abject and degraded
condition to which the Machievellian policy of the Wes-
tenras has reduced it. Lord Cremorne's zealous and dis-
interested exertions have placed the Reformers in a posi-
tion to vindicate their own consistency. Mr. Lucas is, no
douLt, aware of the fact, and, like the prudent man he is,
" makes a virtue of necessity."—Dublin Freeman.

S IGN I F ICA N T.—The Standard, alluding to the
retirement of Lord Hill from the Horse Guards, doubts
whether there is any foundation for such a rumour, but
adds, significantly, " If anything should induce his Lord-
ship to resign the post which he has filled with so much
honour and benfit to the country, it will be the state of his
heath, which has, we regret to learn, been indifferent for•
some time past. Globe.
TII E AUSTRALIAN PRESS.—With the com-
mencement of the present quarter considerable alterations
have taken place in the various departments of the Sydney
press. The Sydney Monitor, formerly published three
times a week, is now published daily ; the Colonist and
the Australasian Chronicle, formerly published twice a
week, are now published three times a week. Sydney
11,‘s in all seven newspapers—one, the Sydney Monitor,
published daily ; fife, the Sydney Gazette, Sydney He-
rald, Australian, Colonist, and Australasian Chronicle,
published three times a week ; and one, the Commercial
Journal, published twice a week. Melbourne has three
newspapers—the Port Philip Patriot, the Port Philip
Gazette, and the Port Philip Herald, each published
twice a week; making in all twenty-nine weekly publica-
tions now existing in New South Wales. Van Diemen's
Land is sadly behind her sister colony is this respect.
There are in Hobart Town only six journals, and in Laun-
ceston two journals, published weekly, making in all only
eight weekly publications in the whole colony of Van Die-
man's Land. South Australia has four newspapers—one,
the Southern Australian, published twice a week ; two,
the South Australian Register, and the Adelaide
Chronicle, published weekly; and one, the Port Lincoln
Herald, published occasionally. Swan River has only one
newspaper, the Perth Guardian, published weekly. New
Zsalaud, which may be considered an Australian colony,
has already two newspapers, published weekly, one the
Alew Zealand Gazette, published at Port Nicholson, and
the other the New Zealand Advertiser, at the Bay of Is-
ands. —Sydney Monitor, Aug. 12.
SMALL DEIiTS RECOVERY COURTS.—At
the late borough sessions held at Falmouth, by T. Painter,
Esq., the Recorder, the Learned Gentleman, addressing
the Grand Jury, stated that be had hoped to have brought
down with him the report of the Judges for the regulation
of the intended Courts of Record for the recovery of small
debts by civil process within their municipal limits. It
seemed, from what he had learned by letter and by per-
sonal application, that the Judges bad not entirely agreed
on the rules for conducting the business of such Courts.
Probably at the meeting of Parliament something definite
would be arranged.
Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone, begs
to say that the Spectacles he has now_ had some time in
use, have fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S.
and B. Solomons as to their excellence, and having found
so much comfort and advantage from their use far prefer-
able to every other kind of Glasses which he has been in
the constant habit of making use of for a great number of
years ; he, therefore, feels a pleasure in recommending
them to his friends. 13, Norfolk-street, Park-lane, the 6th
November, 1840 —Messrs. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King Wil-
liam-street, Bank of England, state that immediately
those newly- invented Spectacles aro placed before imper-
fect vision, every object becomes clear and distinct, and
the most minute particle is seen with distinctness, so that
the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant,
and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state.
Their Invisible Operative Voice Conductor, for deaf per-
sons, is not the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable
than having a piece of wool in its place; they give imme-
diate relief to old standing extreme cases of deafness.
These valuable inventions have also gained the patronage
of the Royal Family, and the unqualified approbation of
above four hundred of the principal members of the medi-
cal profession, and numerous individuals of high distinc•
tioa, who have been greatly benefited by their use. No
connection with persons of the same name. 39, Albe-
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liam-street, 134P1L of England.