The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-11 00:00:00

LAUNCESTON-AUSTRALIA.

The Launceston papers gives the following statement of
the value of imports and exports at the port of Launceston
during the quarter ended April 5, 1834 :

IMPORTS.

X. s. d.
Great Britain
New South Wales 5,261 4 8
Mauritius . . 2,679 15 6
Cape of Good Hope 435 12 0

Total Exports
EXPORTS.

Great Britain, Bark, 365 tons 2,875 0 0
Oil (Whale) "974- tons
Wool, 2,3001b5.,-539,960Ibs
Unenumerated

Total to Great Britain
New South Wales 1,005 0 0
Swan River
New Zealand l9l 0 0

Total Exports
Amount of duties received by his
Majesty's Customs, Launceston
quarter ending April 5 ... 4,501 2 3
Charges 460 16 3

4,961 18 6

SAVINGS' BANKS AND NATIONAL DEBT.—It
is an extraordinary fact that the number of depositors in the
Savings' Banks exceeds the number of persons receiving divi-
dends in the Bank of England in the proportion of 403,712 to
274,823 ; and of this number the half-yearly dividends of
33,609 are under 5/. each. If this class of small fundholders
be added to the number of depositors in the Savings' Banks,
they will form together a body of nearly half a million of per-
sons ; and if these be considered as members of families, at
the low average of four persons in each family, there will be
found two hundred thousand of a very humble class in society
who, in themselves or their immediate connections, have an
interest in the public welfare and in the permanent stability of
the existing institutions of the country, which cannot be en-
dangered without at the same time endangering their personal
and private property.
Few public characters have left behind them a more
interesting memorial of a useful and well-spent life than the
excellent biography of the late Henry Salt, Esq., a name de-
servedly known and appreciated, not only in his own country,
but also throughout the civilized world. His labours are inse-
parably connected with our most agreeable recollections of the
East, on account of the valuable and important discoveries
which, through his liberality and zealous co-operation with
modern travellers, have been effected in Egypt—a region to
which the attention of every one is at present directed, whether
in a commercial or political point of view, or as intimately asso-
ciated with Holy Writ.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 134.

An express from Madrid, bearing date the 3d inst.,
brings us a full report of the discussion which took
place in the Chamber of Procuradores or Deputies, on
moving the adoption of a Bill of Rights, the principal
clauses of which appeared in The Sun of Tuesday.
We then took occasion to speak of the Bill as excel-
lent so far as it went, at the same time observing that it
was wofully deficient in not providing for the exercise
of popular rights, so far as these rights ought to
operate in giving a being and a tone to the
Spanish Legislature. For example, it is not
enough to affirm that men shall not be obliged
to do any thing not commanded by the laws : it
ought also to be laid down how the laws them-
selves are be enacted, by whom they are to be framed
and executed, and by what authority the framers of
such laws shall enter upon the discharge of their high
and important functions. In a word, the franchise
ought to be first fixed, and made the basis of the new
Constitution. Now this the framers of the Spanish
Bill of Rights have entirely overlooked—their Bill
guarantees the freedom of the subject, the protection of
property, and the liberty of the press ; but it does
not provide against the enactment of laws in vio-
lation of the liberties of the people, and to which
laws, they must be obedient—it does not guard against
the imposition of taxes, to the utility or necessity of
which neither the people nor their representatives are
consenting—it does not define, or attempt to define
the Royal prerogative, or in what way the rights which
it recognizes are to be defended against the encroach-
ments of rank, and the abuses of power.

In these particulars the Bill is utterly imperfect, and
therefore, except as far as regards the inviolability of
the domestic hearth, the liberty of the press, and the
Urban Militia, the question is more about abstract
truths—of first principles—than of the proper appli-
cation of these principles in the Government of Spain.
The debate, which is extremely interesting, was
opened in the Chamber of Procuradores, on the Ist
inst., by M. TRUEBA Y Costo, The speech of this