The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, L'ON'DON, TUESDAY EVENING, sEPTEMEER s, !Pin

so many and such terrible afflictions; the tranquillity
which was preserved even in those awful moments, in
1845, when they shut themselves up in their hovels
to despair of human succour and to die ; the un-
repining submissiveness with which, according to
the language of the Parliamentary Blue Book, on the
Relief of Distress in Ireland, page 225, they "actually
subsisted on food made from the wash' of a starch
yard, food but indifferently suited for pigs"—all these
circumstances are an ample testimony of the capa-
bility of this poor peasantry for better things. "If
the next crop fails us, it will be the end of the world
with us r said a labourer to Captain PERCIVAL, on
the 25th of last May. Feeling thus intensely the pri-
vations to which they were abandoned, these simple-
minded people still continued amenable to the na-
tional Legislature. Cherishing the domestic affec-
tions more sedulously, perhaps, than any other race
upon the surface of the earth, the peasants could be-
hold the sufferings of their wives and children with-
out resorting to violence for their alleviation. A few
sacks of meal and pollard were, without doubt, car-
ried off from the waggons and the storehouses, but
the depredation was committed by parties of habitual
depravity. A bullock or so was occasionally tre-
panned, but the abducter was invariably some one
blessed with a notoriously bad reputation. Assassi-
nations, and mutilations, and murders were of no
unfrequent occurrence, but those dastardly sins were
attributable more to distinct associations, as the
Rockites, Molly Macguirism, Ribbonism, and the
like, than to any affinity to bloodshed on the part of
the collective community. We can confidently un-
dertake to say that many eminent virtues have been
evinced in an eminent manner by the Irish peasantry
during their grievous and protracted privations.
Patience and long-suffering, gentleness of heart in
the %ids t of every conceivable temptation to brutal
force and ruffian depravity, forbearance under
the most insolent neglect and subordination,
when goaded on to insurrection by hunger and
disease! These beautiful instances of submission to
the decrees of DIVINE PROVIDENCE are a testimony of
that natural piety and that innate generosity of dis-
position, which, if suitably responded to, would in-
sure, not only the happiness of themselves, but the
greater prosperity of the whole empire. Even when
charging at Waterloo and in the Peninsula to the
sound of " Garryowen," Irish bravery was never
more signally demonstrated than during these months
of provisional and pecuniary destitution. Assuredly
the Legislature and the landlords should correspond
to these virtues in the population : such national
merits should not pass unrewarded, much less be
followed by an abandonment to death either by
inanition or contagion.

We have already expressed our sentiments very
explicitly on the Government grant of 50,0001.; we
have maintained that such a stunted bounty is al-
together inadequate for,the relief of a quarter of even
the existing destitution, and that, consequently, it
w ould be but a paltry corrective to the vastly extended
destitution which time must necessarily develop. On
this particular we can now, however, rest perfectly satis-
fied. The, Ministers, for their own sales, for the sake
of the nation, and,for the sake of humanity, will have
a reservation in case of any extraordinary emergency.
Nothing need be dreaded from the apathy of the
legislative officials. We must now turn with an
anxious and scrutinising interest to the efforts of
the Irish landlords fur the assuaging of the
miseries of their tenantry—those landlords whose lia-
bilities and crippled resources have been so graphi-
cally delineated by Lord MOUNTCASHELL. Let them
be astir for the sake of their own fair fame, and of
their own fair fortunes. The time has arrived
in which they may wipe away the remem-
brance of wholesale evictions and retail
illiberality. Let them avail themselves of
so excellent an opportunity of rendering their
names popular, of attaching to themselves a devoted
and enthusiastic race, and thereby of materially im-
proving their neglected possessions.
The Irish can be as intensely grateful for benefap-
tions as they have already proved themselves intensely
patient under privations, or as they may prove them-
selves intensely outrageous under a long-con-
tinued abandonment by their natural and national
protectors. One of their priests, on seconding a
vote of sincere thanks to Sir ROBERT PEEL, at a
meeting held at Mallow, on Wednesday, declared
iish vocabulary, he could not find terms strong
enough to E xpress his sense of gratitude to that great
and good man!" Let the Irish landlords imitate the
generous example shown by Sir It. PEEL in his public
capacity, and they will be rewarded with similar gra-
titude from an industrious and peaceful tenantry !

The Hon. Member' for Limerick, the ex-martyr of
the cellar, is determined to convince the public that
he has not relinquished one single particle of that ob-
stinacy that induced him—not only in opposition to
the advice ofevery single one of the Irish Members with
whom he had been in the habit of acting, but in
spite of the urgent entreaties, the anxious prayers of
their veteran leader—to force a collision with the
House of Commons, and peremptorily to refuse the
slightest concession. Ho saw that a considerable
majority of the repeal party, all those blessed with
the slightest portion of common sense, depre-
cated the course he had adopted, and that if
he escaped a vote of censure at Conciliation Hall
it was only because the Irish are a warm-hearted
people, who do not readily abandon the cause of a
friend, and who will be influenced by the heart to
pass, sub silentio, that which must in the strongest de-

gree be condemned by the head. The Hon.
Member had calculated on a considerable sensa-
tion being excited, which should vibrate through
the land from Cape Clear to the Giant's
Causeway, which should arouse the strongest feel-
ings of indignation throughout the nation ; and that
during his martyrdom he should (as one of the
Young Irelandsentry expressed it) act the king, re.
ceiving in regal state the deputations which would
certainly crowd in to wait upon him with addresses
from admiring and sympathising thousands. But in
vain was the hope. In vain the sojourn in the cellar--
the refusal to partake of generous fare—the protest
against Saxon ale—the stern resolution against wine ;
all failed in procuring him the sympathy that he
coveted, in exciting the commotion that he desired.
It is true that a few of the very young gentlemen,

who had sufficient leisure to afford a visit to the

Saxon metropolis, visited the 'cellar, and in some
degree calmed by their condolence the disappointed
feelings of the martyr; and that the same persons
alio attempted to obtain a vote of the Association
approving of his conduct, and encouraging him
to persevere in his opposition to the orders
of the House. But, alas ! these exertions were
in vain. The people, who would gladly have
supported him in any legitimate contest, in anything
founded on reason which could possibly prove bene-
ficial to his country, could not join him in his wild
and ridiculous attempt. He took up a false, an un-

tenable position, and he could not expect that any
sober-minded person woulddo battle on his side, when
he so foolishly refused to withdraw from the unequal
contest. Hence the feeling of gratitude on his part,
the determination to support the Young Ireland
party when they, in turn, should be guilty of conduct
as absurd, as supremely ridiculous as his own. Hence
his withdrawal from the Association when a check
was interposed, and language, by which the entire
body might have been seriously compromised if it
had been patiently heard, was put an end to. Hence
his refusal to accept the proffered reconciliation, to
avail himself of the bridge of gold prepared for his re-
turn by Mr. O'CONNELL. 116 vanity has suffered a fear-
ful shock ; his self-opinion has been sadly assailed ; he
thinks it better " to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.'

He must be "null/ secundus"—he prefers to presile
over the councils of Young Ireland to being even the
second in Conciliation Hap. He has sulkily retired
to Cahermoyle to await the course of events, and he
has recently been cheered by an imposing demonstra-

tion of the physical force repealers of the county
Limerick, who headed, we regret to say, by several
Roman Catholic clergymen, waited on him for the
purpose of presenting addresses from the repealers of
Rathkeale and Newcastle. The Hon. Member gave
a detailed account of the causes which led to his
secession from Conciliation Hall, of the differences
that arose in the Association : these, according to Mr.
O'BRIEN, were occasioned by different causes—first,
as to the propriety of the Association pronouncing an
opinion in support of himself, in his struggle with the
House of Commons, in which (as he stated) the ma-

jority yielded to the minority; secondly, as to
the propriety of repealers accepting or
holding office under the Whig Government ; and
lastly, respecting the .Dungarvan election. These,
according to Mr. O'BRIEN, are the real differences
that have occasioned the spit in the repeal camp, and
not the question of physical force. This is the man-
ner in which he strives to persuade himself that he is
still justified in his conduct.

The chief foundation on which the Association was
erected was, that its objects Ivere to be attained only
by moral force—by the strength of public opinion.
On this distinct pledge and understanding many of
its members joined its ranks; and it was by a strict
adherence thereto alone that the co-operation of
others whose aid would be most desirable could be
hoped. The sagacious leader could trace to that prin-
ciple the various triumphs he had obtained, the vic-
tories he had achieved. He gained, by peaceful
means, successes which could never have been won
by force. During his entire course his great diffi-
culty has been to curb and control the ardent and
impetuous feelings of the people. It was easy to
excite them, easy to goad them on to any
pitch of enthusiasm, to induce them to brave
any dangers, to undergo any privations ; but
to keep down the excited passions, to prevent any
outbreak that would effectually destroy the prospects
of a peaceful and bloodless victory, that was the task
that required extraordinary powers indeed, hic labor
hoc opus est. It could only be done by the constant
affirmation of the principle, by instantly putting down
any person, whoever he might be, who would speak
even of the possibility of an appeal to arms, a re-
course to physical force. It was not the persons who
could give expression to the feeling that were to be
feared, men who really mean fighting and are not al-
ways speaking of it, and imagining cases when they
would be called on to do so, but it was the ignorant
multitude on whom these harangues might have the
most injurious and demoralizing effect. He was,
therefore, right in at once checking their utterance in
the Association, and in getting rid of those who infringed
the fundamental rule of the society; and in the with-
drawal with them or Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN we really
think he has experienced no great loss.

On the 24th of August Cardinal Grzu addressed
a circular to the Governors of the Provinces of the
Roman States, callinir on them to adopt measures
calculated to improve the religious and temporal
condition of the poorer classes. The document
states, that the POPE beholds with the utmost
pain the quarrels, thefts, and other misde-
meanors constantly recurring throughout the Pon-
tifical States ; that the chief cause of this state of
society must be found in the idle life which
the younger portion of the population are
accustomed to lead, and in a want of proper
instruction to prepare them for gaining an honest
living by their industry. His Holiness, in con-
sequence, in addition to his wish to see education and
habits of industry generally disseminated throughout
his dominions, proposes founding without delay an
establishment at Rome for the education of a certain
number of boys belonging to the working classes
throughout the states, so that they might be, in the
first place, removed from the spot where they
were likely to Contract bad habits ; and in
the next, might form a nucleus of well-in-
structed, noncommissioned officers, calculated to
suffice for the army required by the State. His Ho
liness calls on the governors to apply to all persons
under theirjurisdiction, particularly the bishops, mu-
nicipal magistrates, and provincial councillors, for
suggestions to forward this scheme, and to indicate
the best mode of raising the funds necessary for car-
rying it into execution. The circular, in conclusion,
calls on the governors to avoid mere theoretical
recommendations, and to confine themselves as much
as possible to practical matters.

Madrid papers of the lit have arrived.
The Heraldo gives the following bit of special
pleading as an answer to the article in the Espanol,
which we published in our paper of yesterday, on the
subject of the MONTPENSIER marriage, which the
Espanol contended would be a violation of the funda-
mental laws of Spain and of the treaty of Utrecht:—
" The spirit of the treaty concluded at a time when
the condition of Spain was very different from what it
now is, was never to unite on one head the two crowns
of Pro v‘on anti SZnnin in nrdior nnt,t, dittnrh tilts nrlu •;_
was g►ven than in the present day ; but could that
circumstance now occur even with the consent
of the two nations ? Certainly not. Could the
Duke de Montpensier ever be the common bond of this
re-union, impossible in our age ? Certainly not ; for even,
which God forbid, should her Majesty have no heirs, the
Duke de Montpensier would not be, as husband of the
Princess who succeeded to the throne, King of Spain, but
simply hu,band cf the Queen ; and in order tur him, in
that I osition, to inherit the throne of France, there
must be such a succession of deaths that their improba-
bility even prevents their entering into any human cai-
culation. But, suppose for a moment that this extreme
improbability were to happen, it would be then only, and
not before, that the Duke de Montpensier might be
called on to keep the engagements by which his family
were bound. This is too evident to make it neces-
sary to insist further on it. We mu-t, however,
establish that it cannot be deduced from the spirit of
the treaty of Utrecht that the Queen, or the imme-
diate heir to the throne, cannot contract a marriage
with a prince of the house of Orleans. We may say as
much of the literal sense of the treaty. The application
made by the Espanol of the article of the constitu
tion is but a play upon words, consisting in a forced
and absurd interpretation which it is sought to give to
the word exclude.' We admit that the treaty has now
all its primitive strength. But is that the law of which
the constitution speaks ? Between a law properly so
called and a treaty ti ere exists a very strong difference.
The first is a document purely domestic, obligatory only
for individuals belonging to the same political associa-
tion, without application to any other nation; the second
is the international law; which mutually, binds different
nations, which treats them as the simple law treats indivi-
duals. There is, therefore, an immense difference between
the meaning of these two words ; a difference such as
cannot give rise to any equivocation, fur it would be as
absurd to call the law of Utrecht'—the treaty which
bears that name, as to apply the word treaty' to the
law on the press. The law is too explicit in its language
to confound ideas so completely distinct. If, in a docu-
ment so important as the constitution, it had been wished
to make the exclusion insisted on by the Espanol, it
would have said, 'Those who by the law, or by treaties
are excluded,' and it would not have spoken simply of
the law. It is impossible to admit that in this word can
be generally understood treaties. But there is more.
The treaty of Utrecht cannot now have the primitivb
force, and a blind obedience to its clauses cannot be de-
manded. After the revolutions which have succeeded
each other in Europe the law of succession is changed.
When, not long since, we wished, on the faith of that
treaty, to make a demand from England which it did not
suit her to grant, the reply was that the treaty had fallen
into desuetude, and that i:s clauses could not be dis-
cussed. But we do not wish to place ourselves in such
an advantageous position. We grant that the supposi-
tion of our adversaries is true, and that the treaty is the
law of which the constitution speaks, and that this treaty
is now in its full force. Even in making this immense con-
cession we do not fear being able to maintain that the article I
of the constitution is not applicable to the present case.
The constitution speaks of Princes against whom the law
imposes the punishmentof exclusion— Princes whom, by a
logical consequence, cannot aspire to the marriage in ques-
tion, because the law cannot open indirectly the road to the
throne to one whocannot arrive there by a direct and lawful
one. It is only by doing violence in an absurd manner
to the clear and explicit meaning of the article of the
constitution that he who has renounced is excluded by the
law. It may be replied to us, it is true, in the last place
that he who renounced the succession is excluded from it,
although the sense of these two words be distinct ; but,
by urging this illogical reasoning further one would be
forced to maintain that all Princes who are not called
to the succession of the throne are excluded from it, and
that consequently our Queen and her family could only
marry their cousins, Infuntes of Spain. That the Duke
de Montpensier or any other Prince cannot be called to
the succession, because they have renounced it, for a mo-
tive founded on special questions which have disappeared
with the age to which they belonged, as has been the
case with the treaty of Utrecht, is what may be sup-
ported by false reasoning ; but to deduce therefrom
that these Princes are excluded by an article of the con-
stitution would be an absurd consequence which not only
does not hold goad before logic and common sense, but
before the simple signification given to words in the vo-
cabulary of the language. In torturing terms in this
way they may be made to say anything."
This concluding observation is completely ap-
plicable to the reasoning of the writer in the
Herald°. Never was there a more flagrant attempt
at torturing terms in order to get up some show of a
reply to an adversary. The arguments of the Herald°
are so completely identical with those of the French
papers on this point as to lead to the suspicion that
they are all the coinage of the same mint. In the
meantime the opposition to the MONTI'ENSIER mar-

riage is daily waxing stronger among the
Spanish people, and General NARVAEZ was
on Sunday dispatched post-haste from Paris
to Madrid. It is said that on the QUEEN'S

marriage a general amnesty will be published for all
Spaniards of all politieul opinions, the only excep-
tions being Don Cennos and his sons. El Tiempo
confirms the news published yesterday of the resig-

nation of M. ISTURITZ, and of his appointment as
Ambassador to England; and the Esperanza repeats
the statement, that there had Leen serious explana-
tions on the subject of the MoNTPENSIER marriage
between M. ISTURITZ and Mr. BUINVER.

The Spanish army is henceforth to consist of
ninety-six battalions of infantry and ninety battalions
of reserve.

The Heraldo announces the discovery of another
plot to disturb the peace of the capital, which being
interpreted means that it would be exceedingly con-
venient to the employers of the Herald() to make cer-
tain illegal arrests, and that it is their intention so
to do.

Damn]) Boma, SEPT. I.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 351 for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 22i
cash; Passives, 6i; Coupons, 20i cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Spanish marriages are commented on in all
of them. The Ministry and Court of France look
upon the marriage of the INFANTA with the Due DE
MONTPENSEIR as un fait accompli, but many persons
believed that both Great Britain and the Northern
Powers would protest against such an union. In
allusion to the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht,
which would probably form one of the grounds of
such a protest, the Journal des Debuts, in reply to
the article in the -Espanol on the subject, says :
" A Madrid journal, the Espanol, opposed to the
marriage of the Infanta with the i)uke de Montpensier,
calls to our recollection that by the treaty of Utrecht,
conchided in 1713, a public act is annexed, by which
the family of France and the family of Orleans renounce
the Crown of Spain, which might have descended to
them under the Salle law. •
" We do not see how this document can be considered
as an ob-tacle to the marriage of the Infanta of Spain to
one of the sons of the King of the French ; it would not
even have been an impediment in the way of an union of
the Queen with a Prince of the house of Orleans, for
the order of succession to the throne could not in any
way be changed by either the one or other of these two
alliances."
The Commerce and the Courier Francais both
controvert the argument of the Espanol ; and the
Siecle, which enters fully into the subject, says—
" It is well known that the of ject- of this celebrated
document was to prevent the re-union of the crowns of
France and Spain. It results front it, not that a French
prince cannot marry a Spanish princess, but that he
cannot claim the crown of Spain in his own right. It is
the same for the princes of Spain with regard to the
French crown. But to arrive at the throne by the right
of male succession, and to become the husband of a
princess who occupies the throne in her own right,
founded on the ancient law of the Goths, and renewed
by the Cortes, are things essentially different. The
Espanol, which brings forward the renunciation,
forgets that it is a corollary to the establishment of
the Salic law in Spain. If it ever suited France to
establish that her crown might be filled by females, a
French Queen would be perfectly at liberty to espouse
a descendant of Philip V., provided that Prince was
not King of any other country. The renunciation is
inapplicable to the Duke de Montpensier; his wife is
heir presumptive to the throne or Spain; she may be-
come Queen of that country; but unless by the ex-
press wish of the Spaniards, declared in a sovereign
form, the husband of the Infanta Luit,a would not
even have the guardianship of his children. It would
be difficult in good faith to bring forward the renun-
ciation against the Duke do Montpensier in the event
of his claiming the regency during the minority of his
son or his daughter; fur the regency, although it em-
braces the functions of royalty, is not royalty, the
essential character of which is perpetuity."
The Quotidienne, the Legitimatist organ, also denies
the validity of the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht.
" If," says the Quotidienne, " the treaty of Utrecht
still subsists, with its co:isequenceF, the lawful King
of Spain is CHARLES VI. ; but if it has been done
away with by the revolution of 1833, how can it be
now adduced against the descendants of PHILIP of.
Orleans ? It must either protect the Count DE
AIONTEMOLIN, or open Spain to the Duke DE MONT..
PENSIER. But we know from experience that re-
volutions care but little about being consistent."
Thus all parties in Fiance seemed agreed to treat
the treaty of Utrecht as a dead letter.
'I he Republican National seems to enjoy the pros-
pect of a squabble among crowned heads and Mi-
nisters
of State, and laughs, after its own sneering
fashion, at the intrigues and counter-intrigues of the
diplomatists of both sides :
" The double marriage," says that paper, "which
diplomacy has concluded in Spain, occupies at this
moment the entire press of Madrid, of London, and of
Paris. We admire the efforts which are• ever made
when the people are suffering to exaggerate the im-
portance of Court affairs. Well ! of what conse-
quence is it whether a young woman is called Infanta
or Madame Montpensier ? Is the world, perchance,
p-oinrs to china z•-•„,7,--ii, rnonarentcal intrigues to the
proportions of those grand events which produce new
ideas amongst society, which give a more rapid rotation
to the fortune of nations, and which cause the axis on
which they turn to sink? Do we still live at that
period of history when a royal alliance set Europe on
tire, and disturbed during many years its security
and its international relations? There is not, at
this moment, a single potentate, however elevated
or powerful he may imagine himself, 'who could
cause any material alteration in the general position of
kingdoms because it pleased himself to marry or to
marry his children. Let us not, therefore, give this
affair a degree of importance which it does not possess.
The only manner in which it regards its is that it pro-
duces the propagation of a species with which we might
dispense. It was Frederick the Great who first used, at
Potsdam, a phrase which has been frequently repeated
---.‘ There is nothing more easy to replace than a
prince.' The phrase still continues true, and for that
reason we will not complain of those menacing mar-
riages."

A circular has just been addressed by some of the
Opposition Members of the Chamber of Deputies to
the electoral body, calling on the Liberal electors to
form permanent committees "to fight the battle of
the registration courts," so as to enable that party to
regain its lost ground. It is signed by M. 0. BARROT,
IRLTA,EN,NEand
its
LEON
NERDG G. DE BEAUMONT, and
Object is thus de-
scribed by the Constitutionnel:---
EIERM.DALITI,EA::

" This circular is not a programme; it is an energetic
invitation addressed to ad shades of the Opposition, to
act everywhere with ensemble, to form permanent com-
mittees, to examine the lists, and to keep the public
mind in a salutary state of agitation. The Government
wish to put the country to sleep, to close its e) es on
its great interests, to divide among a small number
of families the direction of the Government, to cor-
rupt public manners in order to extinguish patriotism.
The Opposition wishes to keep France awake, to inces-
santly excite generous sentiments, to combat corruption,
and to introduce the representative system into the na-
tional habits. For this object, the committees of the
Left Centre and the Left remain constituted and active
after the general elections, and it becomes all good
citizAls to imitate their example by organising perma-
nent committees, and taking, within the limits of the
laws, every possible part in the political affairs of the
country."
The name of M. THIERS is not attached to this
circular, and it is rumoured that an intrigue is in
progress to bring about a coalition between M.
'limas and M. G MOT.

Orders have been sent to Brest to prepare three
corvettes, the Allier, the Somme, and the Loire to
take 1,600 troops to Otaheite.
The Ministers have determined that the sentence
on JOSEPH .HENRY shall be carried into effect.
The Chamber of Commerce of Havre have received
the following announcement from the Minister of
Commerce :

" I have received notice from the Arni,ter of Foreign
Affairs, that the Russian Government has suspended in
its ports of the Baltic and of the White Sea, as well as in
those of the Black Sea and of the Sea of Azof, the appli-
cation of the ukase of the 19th June, 1845, as far as
relates to French shipping arriving from the ports of
France situated on the Atlantic and on the Channel. I
pray you to communicate this fact to the merchants of
your town."

Thero was nothing done in the French Funds on Sunday.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Ma.asEmLits, SEPT. 2.—Marseilles and Avignon, 912 f.
50c.; Northern, 710 f.; Paris and Lyons, 525 f.
LYONS, SErr. 4.—Avignon and Marseilles, 925 f.; Nor-
thern, 718 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 530 f.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUA IeTE I: TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 0,000
bales, ineludieg 1,000. American on speculation. The
market was very firm, and full prices were realised.
American, 4d. to 54d.; Surat, 2,000 bats, to • ;
Pernams, 6d. to 6,k41.; and Egyptian, ss'-d. to 7io. per lb.
Shares were dull again:
The information announced in The Sun of last even-
ing, of th.e resignation of M. Lturitz, has given very
considerable dissatisfaction here. He has been long
known as a financier, and desirous, too, of keeping good
faith with the bondholders. It -is not likely, even
should he come here as ambassador, that he can do
much good for those who have strong claims upon
the Spanish Treasury for tic/y:aces made to it.
The writers of the private letters from
Madrid appear to take very little interest in the paper
warfare which is going on upon the subject of the
proposed marriage between the youngest son of Louis
Philippe and the Infanta. One thing is certain, that
whether the marriage take place or not, the foreign
b-Indholders will nut be a bit better off than they are
now. But it is argued in some quarters the al-
liance may have the eff ct of increasing the
stability of the Queen of Spain, and that under French
euidence and advice the revenues of the country may be
further developed. Radically bad, however, as are the
the whole fiscal arrangements of tie Spanish nation, it
is extremely doublul whether for yearS to come any
such improvement can be made as may yield bent fit to
its foreign creditors. The example set by Portugal of
repudiating a portion of our obligations, will not be
lost sight of probably by the Finance Minister of
Madrid. The more the decree of the Government referred
to yesterday in our City article is considered, the
stronger are the feelings of disapprobation expressed re-
specting it. The only wonder is, that any persons
should invest money in the stock, even at the present
reduced value. It is too much to be feared that the in-
fection of repudiation, for which the Americans have
made themselves so remarkable, will now . not only be
carried out by Portugal but by Spain.
There are no late Colonial arrivals in the City to-day.
The Consul market has been heavy to-day, at 96k for
the Account, and at 95i- for Money. Exchequer-bills
are lower. Bank Stock has improved to 210.
Portuguese Bovrds are heavy at 41 to 42, Spanish Ac-
tives at 26i j, the Three per Cents at 38-4-, and Brazilian
at 88.
There is not much business doing in Shares to-day. ,
CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. •••...
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns.,..- 96%1/OAI4 96%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 95% 9-7/ )
..8
New 314 per Cent. Annuities 9.9%N.4 98%
LongAnnuitiestoeipireJan.lB6o 10 7-16% 7-16 10 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 1014 104
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO% 1-16 10 1-16
Endia Stock 260% 2601/,
Consols for Account... 9514 1/4 061/8
i±.xchequer Bills, 1,0004, I%d 17 13 pm; 10
Ditto 5001. ... 17 —— pm. 13
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK PRICE-
89 88 88
90

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Small

Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent BS%
?el exican, 5 per Cent. 1846 -
Ditto. Account 26%
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 411 h
Ditto, Account 4l 42
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. -
Ditto, Account 26%
Ditto. 3 per Cent -
Ditto, Account ...... ........ 3BN% M
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. - 5934
Ditto, 4 par Cent. Certificates - 94%
PRICES O. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
.lILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ()NE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen -
~9%,
Amber., Nott , Boston,
and Eastern Junction 23..... 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrash l% -
Aylesbury and Theme.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 2%
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 -
Ditto New 17% -
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birk,enLead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June._ 234.
Boston, Stamtd, & Birm. 225. -
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto;-New .. 5 -
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ..-
Bristol and Liver. June . 2%.....:
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...... . 21/: - ••• •••••
Ditto Extension ... .. 21,4
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% • •••
Central E.-ent 2%.*.... -
Chester and Holyhead 27% - , .. ...----- ..
Churnet and Blythe 2
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 - •
ClydesdaleJurction l5 -
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages -
Cork and Killarney ... 21/2
Cork and Waterford ... 1% -
Cornwall -
Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% - ...... ........
I 'erby and Crewe......... 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Het-
ford, and Slieffd. June. 2%
fly...et-Mgr-oil-sr- ,--7-4 ... . -
Ditto (Restrick's)...... 511...... - -
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast June. 10 - •• •••
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine - .....
Dublin. and Galway.- - 4 -
Dundalk & Enniskillen 7i, -
EastemCounties 141. 16e....... 227(3 %...,
Ditto New lO/. 16s. - .. ....
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d -
Ditto ditto. No. 2. - GI. 13s. 4d -
Do., York Extension.. 1os.
EastDereh'm andNor'eh 1 -
Eastern LTnion 35 .. ... -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 834 -
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 11l -
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%...... -
East Lancashire -
East Lincolnshire - ... --
East & West of England 1%3-- -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... -
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121(.12 . ...... -
Ditto, New - - ..,
Edinburgh & Northern lO -
...
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 7 % - ...
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% - ...
I?,xeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 514 - ...
Glasgow, Kilmer., & Ayr 50 - ...
Ditto, New - ...
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.) - ...
Glouc.,Abeiystwith, and
Central of Wales 1 ....,... -
Goole, Doncaster, &c.
Grand Union (Notting.
and Lynn -
Great Eastern &Western 2%....„ -
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Great Munster 2%
Great North of Scotland 2% -
Great North of England-100 229
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New .
Ditto, New
8511,4,
Great Western
Ditto 14 Shares 5O
Ditto 14 Shares lO - ••
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 5 ... -
Harwich and Eastern
Counties Junction ... 2 -
Gull and Selby 5O
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares 25 50%
~.
Invernessand E1gin...... 2 ..... -
Ipawich & Bury St. Um. 9 - ••1
Do., do, and Norwich 2% - ..
Irish Nol th Midland ... 1% -
Killarney Junctions ll/4
Kendal and Windermere 11/_ -
Lancaster and Carlisle... 4.5 -
.00. New -
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Braitord
Leeds and Carlisle -
Leicester & Birmingham 225. - •-• ...... ~..- -
Leicester and Bedf.frd... 225.
Leeds end Dewsbury ... 17% -
Leicester and l'a m w.. &c. 425. -
Lpool., Dinchstr, & New-
castle Junction -
Liverpool and Bury ... 14 .. ... -
London and Blackwell. 16/. 133.4:i. 8 7 ;y,
Do. New
..
Ditto Extension - ...
5 ...... - .
London and Brighton
Ditto, Fifths - -
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. -
Do. Gearan. 5 per cent. 9 - ... .
Landon and Greenwich 12115. 4d -
Do. Preference ...18/178 2d -
London, Hounslow, and
Western - •• ••
London and N. 11'estern100 204 203..
Do. Quarters . . 2
Do., no., New Shares.. -
Ditto Fifths -
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 121,4 -
Do., New 14 Shares
(b- JO - -
DO. 40/. Stn..-es (L.M.) 6 -
Lend. & S.Western 411 6* 10d -
Do. New Consul. Bths 40 -
Do. New - ..
Do. New -
London and York
2% ..... 2% 2.
Do. % Shares -
London and Windsor . 1%... .. -
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ... '........... .. 2%...... -
Lordonderry-&Coleralne 12%...... - ...
Londondeiry and Ennis-
killen 12% ...... ....t. ..............
Lyrn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 -
Ditto % Shares
Do. Quarters 2
Do. Fifths ' •
Do. Sixteenths
... 6 q .^-
Do. Extension 42s. ...... 2% p... 2% p
Manchester and Birmin
Do Quarters (A ) - 6 Do. Quarters (II) - ••• ..... ••...
--
De. Quarters (C) 1 ...... 834 B%
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock , 423. IIA p l% p

85%
261/8
421/i
42%

26%8
3S

38 i%

dis

1 5 :%4

1%

134

~~-).i~
.S

214

-
IS%

10
'''''' ••• • • •• .

146
83
22%

5 0 %

-
704

7%

6214
-,-

22%

-

26

1634
13%

i Manchester, Birm., and
Mould Junction .....
Manehest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 1 'Ai
1 Dlid litho HY) ......139 140
Do. fifths 2 ...
Do. New
1)o. Itirm.. and Derin If 0 ...
Mid!nd & East. Counties VA..—
Mid IA nd Great Western
Irish
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction
Do. New
Newcastle and Berwick 15
Do. North Shields ... 25
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo
Newport & Abergavenny 21A
Newry and Enniskillen 4% — •••
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston ... - ~. 1%.. ...
Norfolk 100 132 134
Do. Half Shares
Do. Tenths
Do. Extension.
North British ... ..... ... 25 ...... 37% 38
Do. Half Shares
Do. Fifths .. ..
Do. Carlisle Extens. 11.1 i 4%
North of Norfolk
Northern and Eastern 5O
Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 1211 —
Do. New
N. Kent & Direct Dover 2% — ...... ....
North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 3%3/q p
North Wales
Northern and Soothe/a
Connecting
Northampton, Be+ inury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham & Mansfld.
Oxford, W4ircestn-, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1
Portsmouth Direct 3% —
Preston and Wyre
Do. % Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Richmond lO
Rugby, Leamington,and
War wick
Scottisf, Central
Do. New 9V2 , ,
Scottish Midland lO
Do. Extension 2% ......
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek
Potteries, andCrewe 1%...,..
Sheffield & Manchester 100
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Do. Lincolnshire June. 114 —
Do. & Great Grim,,by. 10
Do.. do. Extension 425. .... % dis
Shrewsbury and Birm... 21/..... 2% -% ...-
Shropskire Union - IA 4 dis ...•
Sinews., Wofveihainp.,
&S. Statiordslt. thine. 21/
Sligo and Shannon l% - .
South Devon--
South Midland 425.
South & Midlands June. 425. - ...
South StaffordshireJunc. 21/2
Sonth Eastern & Dover MIA .
Do., No. 1.. 26
Do., N(...2.
Do., No. 3
Do.. No. 4
StAlban's,'Hatfield,and _
Hertford Junction ... 425. —
Staines and Richmond... 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 23% —
South Wales ..... ... 5
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 ••• ...... • •
Taw Vale Extension ... 2
Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke 514
Vale of Neath
Wakefield, Pontefract, &
Goole
Warwickshire & London 42s — .
Warwick and Worcester 425.
Waterford and Kilkenny 8 —
Waterford and Limerick 22%
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Düblin
Wexford, iv aterford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley ••• 2
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 42X2251. ......
--234% p
West Cornwall
WestLondon,Old Shares 20
Wexford and Carlow ... 21/
Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mOuth
Worcester,Hereford,Ross,
and Gloucester 42s. .. ... ••••
Worcester, Tenbury, and
Ludlow ...... .... . . 2%
Worcester,Warwickand
Rugby
York and Carlisle 23% SA3/4••• •....•,
York and North Midland So —
Ditto 1/ Shares .. 25
Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25 -
Do. Selby 3O
Do. Extension
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension

36 !/11,:?

~. 134

.. .33/4 P

2% -

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

_ __ _. _. _ __ .. __ ....._
Anglo-Belgian • 4 —
Barbadocs - 1
BoiWatot. 'lt St edit€rran. '
Bordeaux. Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 ... --
Do. ( Espelete's) . 2 .... . I ',i ! ...
Calais, Dunlirk, and West
Flanders
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour ....... ....... . 75.......
Callao, Lana, and Pacific
Coast
Central of Spain ... .
Ceylon ss.
Demerara 2l/2 ....
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish 6
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Eastern Belgian Junctn. 21/2 —
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4
Great Indian Peninsular ss. ... —....
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 314
Italian and Austrian 3
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1
Jersey
Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... - 1
Luxembourg. 4
Lyons and Avignon
Madras

-

.. 8

II••

••• .

Madras, Nellore, and
Arcot % _
Madrid and Valentin.... 2 ... ~
Mauritius ..
Namur and Liege
Nn of France Constituted 5 ...... 13%
North Jamaica... ...... ... 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 '
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d —
Paris ScLyonseonstituted 5
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen ' .. 20
i'aris and Strasbourg
Const:i.uled
.....
Boner -Id H

214
13%

Al an- _avre ...... 90
Sambre and Meuse 8 • •
Strasbourg and Bale
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tours and: Nantes Con-
stituted .... ..... 5
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
der], and Hasselt.. 8
Trinidt d
West Flanders ...... .... 6

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
British North American 50
Colonial 25
Commercial of London 20
London Joint Stock
London & Westminster. 20
National Prov. England. 35
National of Ireland 22% — .........
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Union of Australia ..... 25
Union of London lO

MINES.

Real dcl Monte Unregd.

5%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING..(THIS DAY)
LONDON, SEPT. B.—Wind S., light breeze, and fine clear
weather.
DEAL, SEPT. 7.—Wind S. to S.S.E.—Arrd. Eliza Thorn-
ton, New Orleans ; Persia, Boston, and sld. for Rotterdam.
Arrd. from the River and sld. for Halifax, Wright, Calcutta;
Lord Stanley, Spence, west coast of Africa; Calliope, Scott,
Quebec. Steam schooner, with blue flag at the main, No. 3,
westward ; steam schooner, with red flag at the main,
white ball, No. 3, Belfast; Albion, Ware, Quebec; Helen,
Hadden, Sc. John's, New Brunswick.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—Wind W. to S.S.W.—SId. Marl-
borough, Webb, Calcutta.
OFT TORBAY, SEPT. 3.—Erromango, Robinson, Montreal,
for London ; Amelia, Mugginboy, New Bedford, for Ham-
burgh ; John, Ross, New York; Catalina, Bramban, Itabana.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Eclipse, Pa-
tagonia, for Hull.
PENZANCE, SEPT. 4.—Arrd. Industry, Pearson, Quebec.
PORT TALBOT, SEPT. 6.—Arrd. Sun, White, Quebec.
ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, SEPT. I.—Sld. Joseph Anderson,
Gray, St. John's.
IIAyLE, Sm. 4.—Arrd. Ono, Williams, Quebec.
SWANSEA, SEPT. 4 —Arrd. Thomas Baker, Douglas, Quebec.
LLANELLY, SEPT. 4.—Arrd. Planter, Wood, Quebec.
ThNDY, SEPT. 6.—Arrd. Caroline, Laws, Quebec.
Livia:root, SEPT. 7.—Wind S.W. to N.N.W. and N.N.E.
—Arrd. John Tomkinson, Hutchinson, Cuba; Elsinore,
Proctor, New Orleans; Cornelia, French, New York; Mary
Shield, Kelly, St. Stephen's, New Brunswick. Sailed, 7th,
Earl Bathurst, Primrose, Demerara; Nicholas Biddle, Knight,
New York; Leuconia, Porter, New York; Hottinguer,
Bursley, New York; Belmont, Grant, St. John's, New
Brunswick. Off pert, Mattakerset, Mobile; Laurina,
GRANGEMOUTII, SEPT. 4.—Arrd. Hartlepool, Mann,
Quebec ; Elizabeth and Ann, Wright, Quebec.
LEITH, SEPT. 4.—Arrd. Exporter, Robinson, St. John's.
BIDEFORD, SEPT. 2.—Arrd. Sappheras, Brown, Quebec.
BERWICK, AUG. 31.—Arrd. Thomas Wood, Fairley,
Quebec ; .A nnandale, Pengilly, St. John's, New Brunswick.
YARMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Arrd. the Scio, Prince Edward's
Island; Melvine, Stanson, Prince Edward's Island; sth,
Argus, Steward, Quebec; all for London.
GUERNSEY, SEPT. 3.—The Sir William Collings, arrd. here,
was in contact with a large brig off Cape La Hogue, and re-
ceived some damage.
STROMNESS, SEPT. 3.—The Majestic, Stone, from New-
castle to Quebec, has put in here with rudder head damaged,
after being as far as lon. 31. W. The Clyde, McAllister, has
put in here with bow stove, and must discharge to repair,
having been in contact with the brig Mantura, Nain, 31st
ult j. off Cape Wrath.
CLYDE, SEPT. 3.—Ski. Southampton, Flint, Wallace, Nova
Scotia; sth, Vermont, Percy, New York.