The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-29 00:00:00

manyßoyalists to the measure, and they are told,as '
a reason why they should not oppose it, that two
hundred and three members of the Ministerial
majority in the last Chamber have been ,appoint=
ed Presidents of the Electoral College, which
enables them to cause,themselves to be re-eleeted?
Another assurance, which will not sound very
constitutional to British ears, is, that 46 every
whom power will second the efforts of the
Royalists." Such ell unblushing avowal, which
would invalidate an election in this country,
proves that although France may possess the
outward form, she is still a total stranger to the
spirit of fres and constitutional institutions.

[nerrism PRESS.J
In the absence of any other intelligence of
moment from the Continent, a Bayonne latter
of the 20th December may be read with
some interest ; the picture it presents of the
state of Madrid, and the entire situation of
Spain, is a fearful and appalling one : civil
fury, murders, and rapine, now desolate every
part of that hapless country ; in the capital
the people are starving ; all the roads are
filled with banditti, and even in the midst
of Madrid nightly burglaries are constantly
committed. M. Ouvrard, the great contractor,
among others, was robbed of his entire
wardrobe. No .amnesty has yet been passed ;
and the prisons, remain full, except when the
" Manoles" of the town clear them by breaking
in and murdering the prisoners. Di Borgo, the
Russian Ambassador, passed through Bayonne on
the 19th, with a splendid suite, on his return to
Paris. The rumour circulated that his mission
was successful, and that he had procured from
Ferdinand and his wretched Ministry the cession
of the Balearic isles. This, however, we do not
believe. Russia could give no equivalent for
such a cession, and it would not be the policy of
this country or France to surfer that ambitioui
Power to obtain so dangerous a footing in central
Europe.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Two measures of much public interest, and
closely connected with each other, have been
adopted by the French Government. The one
is, a great addition to the French Peerage—the
other the dissolution of the Chamber. From the
first it is quite clear that the Cabinet entertains
plans of great political importance—beyond even
the septennial project--to be carried through, the
new Seisien, and to which formidable opposition
was expected. it will be observed that the
new creation of Peers includes 27. Besides
these, an Ordonnance has been issued, by which
the dignity descends in the families of eight living
Peers, in whom, having no direct heirs-male, it
would otherwise have become extinct. .Thus the
Government gains in the Chamber of Peers an
accession of 37 votes altogether. is not, how-
ever, in that Chamber only that the new crea-
tions answer the designs of the Ministers.—
Some of the new Peers are leading Ultra De-
puties, who have been found intractable, and
who might be still tome refractory in the course
of the next session, when thew measures. shall
have been proposed. Among these is Pd. Leine,
Deputy of talents and great influence, who, in a
former Adthinistration, 'occupied the Department
of the Interior. A suspicion may be entertained
not favourable to the independence of some of
the new Peers, from II provision of the Ordon-
nance, which-declares that their proving the pos-
session of property to the amount of 12,000
francs in pensions on the Civil List, or out of
the Public Revenue, shall be a sufficient qualifica-
tion. Previously it was requisite to prove the
possession of a private fortune to that amount. It
is not stated whether the pensions are or are not
to be during pleasure. In either case, a Peer
with no other fortune than his pension, is not in
a position the most favourable to his freedom, or
even to the maintenance .of his Legislative
dignity.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Dec. '27.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
J. James, J. A. James, and W. Seddon, Liverpool, ship
builders.

BANKRUPTS.

J. 'Durant, New Nichell-street, Bethnal-green, silk-manu-
facturer, to surrender, Jail. I, 10, and Feb. 7, at twelve, at the
Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. James, Bucldersbury,
Ch upside.
C. Niven, Holborn-bridge, oil-broker, Jan. 3, 10, and Feb.
7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. ,
Lay, Grove, Hackney.
W. Bryant, Bristol, tailor, Jan. 0,10, and Feb. 7, at one,
Commercial the Couercial Rooms,Bristol. Attornies, Messrs. Evans
and Shearman' Hatton-garden; Mr. saunders, Bristol.
J. Hassell, Little -Guildford-street, Surrey, timber-dealer,
Jan. 3, 17, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Cominiasioners
London. Attorney, Mr. Black, Clifford's Inn. • •
W. Bates, Oldham, Lancashire; cotton-manufacturer, Jan.
5, 8. and, Feb. 7, at two, at the White Bear Inn, Manchester,
Attornies, Mr. Whitehead, Oldham; and Messrs. Milne and
Parry, Temple,'London.
E. Bhmt, Cornhill, optician, Jan. 3, 10, and Feb. 7, at
twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornics, Meagre,
Knight and Eyson, Basinghall-street.
J. Thornas, Leicester,' linen-draper, Jan. 3, 10, and Feb. 7,
at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners, London. Attorney,
Mr. Wilkinson, New North-Street, Red Lion..squitre, and Ar-
lington.-street, Camden-town.
DIVIDENDS.
Jan. 31, C. J. Tribandino and P. Oodeftoy, Cleveland-
greet, Mile-End, silk-dyer-Jan. 20, T. Bedson and R.
Bishop, Aston, Warwickshire brass-founders-Jan. 20, J.
Grafton, Lapworth, Warwiekshire, tanner-Jan. 23, J. Fitton,
Gosport, Southampton, dealer-Jan. 20, W. Dallas, Cushion.
court, Old Broad-street, merchant-Jan. 23, J, Green, Bed-
, nail, Worcestershire,. malteter-Jan. 29, .1. Burn, Lothbury,
merchant-Jan. 17, ti. Lewis, London, merchant--Jan. 17,
W. Paternoster; Rochester, innholderep2Jan. 27, W. Owen,
Islington, stsge-master-Jan. 20, J. Silver, Size-lane' Incr.
chant-Jan. 17, T. Barker and F. Iludson, Stratford, Essex,
brewers-Jan. 17, A. Slater, Cuddington, Cheshire, corn-
dealer-Jan. 30, J.' Travis, Oldham, Lancashire, grocer-
Jan, 20, J. R. Cuifley, Ipswich, maltster-Jan. 17, J. Taylor,
Shoreditch, corn-cbandler-Jun. 20, J. Coldman, Brighton-
place, New Kent-road, carpenter-... Jan. 23, W. Atkin*, Chip-
ping-Norton, Oxfordshire, seedsman.
CERTIFICATES, JAN. 17.
J. Williamsont Withingtion, Lancashire, dealer-J. White,
Prince's-street, btotey's-gate, Westminster, upholder-S. W.
Birks, Thorne, Yorkshire, mercer-D. M'Clreene, Fenchurch-
street,. merchant-J. Tee, Hemsworth, Yorkshire, shopkeeper
-E. Barker, Exeter, druggist.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVE!).
C. Duplex*, jun., anti F, Bowring, Rope-makers-street, Fins-
bury, brokers- D. Hiatt and A. Ilenhani, Shiplake-mills, Ox-
fordshire, paper-makers-J. Ellison.and R. Stewart, Liverpool,
shipwrights-7H. L. Lomas and J. Lidwell, Shorn, Kent,
farrners.T. Pemberton, Birmingham, and .1. Alb-port, New
York, imerchanta-J. Rutter and D. M. Wealthy, New
Bond-street, ustisie-sellers-W. Ford and J. Boyle, Kingston-
upon-Hull, wine-merchants-H. Blaniug, And W. B. Addis,
Gloucester, pin-manufacturers--J. Hackney and J. , Wroe„
Mancheater, paper-stainers--T. P. Gilmour, and It. Mac-
donald, Liverpool, commission-merchants-E. Whettnall,,H.
Dion, and J. Willison, Regent-street, Weitminstil, lace-ma-
nufacturers-J. and J. Wilatimith, Nottingham, and T. Watts,
RussiX-court, London, lace manufacturers. , ,