The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

( From the Madrid Gazette.),
" ROYAL DECREE.
" It having come to my knowledge that in some of the
ports of Europe vessels are being loaded with the view of
conveying arms, warlike stores, and ammunition to the
faction which disturbs the peace of these kingdoms, and
excites the people against their legitimate Sovereign, and
one of our first duties being to maintain the public tran-
quillity and the security of the throne, I have thought pro-
per, in accordance with the indisputable right conferred on
me by the duty of self-preservation, the laws and constantly
observed practice of nations, to decree, in the name of my
august daughter, as follows, without prejudice to the means
adopted for the defence of the ports and coasts, and in ad-
dition to the regulations contained in my Royal Decree of
the 21st of August last
Art. 1. The coast of the North of Spain, from the Cape
of Finisterre to the Bidassoa, is declared to be in a state of
blockade.
4, Art. 2. All vessels acting in contravention of the pre-
ceding article will be subject to the penalties established by
universal maritime custom in such cases.
" Art. 3. My first Secretary of State will communicate this
Royal Decree to the diplomatic agents and consuls of my
august daughter, in order that proper publication being given
to it, no one may allege ignorance of the fact.
" Art. 4. My Secretary for the Navy Department will see
that all proper instructions and orders are given for the due
and exact fulfilment of this decree.
" El Prado, September 16, 1834.
(In rubric with Royal Sign Manual.)
" To the President of my Council of Ministers."
(From the Abda.)
The Finance Committee, appointed by the Chamber of
Procuradores, states in its report, that the credit of Spain
does not depend on the acknowledgment of the foreign debt
(contracted by the King's Government) ; its credit will
solely depend on the guarantees of order and stability,
which the system of progressive liberty, which must be fol-
13wed, will produce. All this may be Very true ; still we
shall gain nothing if the bankers of Europe look at the
question under another aspect, and on reading the report
of the committee, though it should be approved of by the
Chamber, come to the conclusion that the throne was in
in danger, and public order seriously compromised in Spain.
We greatly fear that this would be the result of their re-
flection, and that they would refuse to lend us a maravedi.
The man who does not pay his debts, being able to do so,
is reputed a cheat, and will never meet with any one willing
to relieve him in distress, let him promise what he will.
Is it not evident that her Majesty's Government will ac-
quire such a character, if it should refuse to recognize the
debts contracted by the deceased Monarch, without alleg-
ing the want of means, but simply declaring the nullification
of the contract ? And when is it that such a course is pro-
posed to be taken ? After the Government, with the full
knowledge of the faulty origin of the debt, and all the vices
which may be alleged against it, has actually ratified
and recognized as valid and obligatory the payment of the
interests due for the last half year, in spite of its straitened
circumstances. The heir who accepts the inheritants, and,
being informed of the debts of his predecessor, pays the
interest due on them, cannot afterwards allege ignorance of
them, or declare their nullification, in order to avoid the
payment of the capital in due time, or the interest until
the capital is discharged. The Government of Isabella
11. is in this condition. It is the successor of one which
the whole of Europe acknowledged, and which Spain
obeyed without dispute. The original defects, now alleged
against the foreign debt, were notorious.
The shameful intrigues which have been disclosed in the
course of the debates were known to the Queen Regent's
Government when it paid the half year ; though it appointed
a special commission to examine the operations respecting
the loans of the former Government, and published the
decree of appointment officially in the Gazette. What
excuse then can it find for itself, if it should say that now
it does not acknowledge the obligations recognized before,

under the pretext of alleged vices and intrigues ? A
highway robber stops a traveller, and forces him to sign
an order for money, and the robber endorses it, and
gives it another ; and thus it goes into circulation, and
passes from one hand to another. The time for pay-
ment having arrived, the holder applies to the person
robbed for the value. Is there any law in the world
which would authorize that individual, who, after having
recovered his liberty, did not choose to declare that the
order was obtained from him by force, to refuse the pay-
ment of it ? Is there any tribunal which would absolve him
from the responsibility ? The position of the Government is
identical with that of the man who is robbed ; and accord-
ing to the plan of the Committee, its arguments must be
the same. According to such an hypothesis, what would
the Government have to say for not acknowledging the
validity of the loans, and for not paying the holders of the
bonds ? It would allege the violent origin of the loan, and
the criminal use which was made of it. The holders and
endorsers would reply, that it was not their business to
examine the base motives and unjust causes which induced
the Spanish Government to emit the negotiable effects of
the loan. Being free from the compulsion, which you
now allege, you have not protested against it in time ;
not only have you not protested against it, but you
have ratified the primitive obligation, by paying the inte-
rest that was due. Why do you not complete the
payment ? You are unjust ; you wish to profit by
other people's money ; you outrage public morality.
With respect to order and stability, it is probable that
the bankers would say, what kind of order can we be
sure of? What stability for a Government like that of
the Queen's, to which the representatives of the
people, by whose intervention it must govern the country,
declare only a few days after being assemled by the Queen,
that the Government of her father, from whose edicts she
derives her right to the throne, was since the year 1823 a
tyranny enthroned by the aid of foreign forces ; who de-
signate by the title of interregnum of the constitutional sys-
tem, all the time which has elapsed from that period ; who
reserve the epithet of legitimate de facto and de jure, for
the constitutional Government ; who invoke against a
solemn treaty, contracted with a friendly Power in the year
1828, a decree of the Cortes, who expired in 1823, and who
solely recognize as valid the debts contracted by that Go-
vernment. It will also be to be feared, that they will con-
sider as the prevailing opinion that which is maintained by
certain periodicals, that the present system is a continua-
tion of the constitutional system ; and it will not require
much argument to prove that they, guided 'by appearances,
would think that the Queen's Government was a reac-
tionary and violent Government, and was about to offer
the spectacle of a constitutional Government, that is to say,
of a Government regarded with aversion, by the moderate
power of the State, and in respect to its dignity considered
as imcnominious. We are confident that the Estate, seeing
the dreadful wound which the approbation of the report of
the Committee would give to our credit, will reject it in
totality.

LISBON.

SITTING OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

SEPTEMBER 19.

The Minister of Finance said, that as it had not been
possible for him to attend the Chamber at the commence-
ment of this day's session, he now asked leave to read the
project of law on the sale of national property, which he
yesterday promised to bring forward to-day ; and the Vice-
President having granted leave, he read the following
PROPOSITION.

Art. I.—From the present moment are declared to be on
sale all the immovable property, of whatever nature it may be,
and the privileges which belonged to the Holy Patriarchal
Church of Lisbon, to the Basilica of Santa Maria Major, to
the extinct house of the Infantado, to the extinct corporations
of Religious Regulars, to the crown lands, and all other pro-
perty which is now incorporated among that which appertains
to the crown, or which may hereafter appertain by virtue of
decree or of sentence passed in a court of justice.
§ Those edifices are excepted from this enactment which
the Government shall destine for the public service, or for the
preservation of works of antiquity or master-pieces of art, as
. likewise those which deserve to be venerated as monuments of
great deeds, or national epochs. A report of these shall be
published with the necessary anticipation.
Art. 2. The sale of this property shall take place either
in the Court (Lisbon), through the medium of the Tribunal
of the Public Treasury, or in the provinces in which it may be
situated, as may best suit the public exchequer. And the
same forms and solemnities shall be observed as in the sale of
the national property, with the modifications declared in the
following articles.
Art. 3. The price of the property sold by virtue of the pre-
sent decree shall be paid in policies or titles of the national
debt which receive interest from the junta of public credit,
and the bonds of the national and foreign loans contracted
by the Government since the year 1823. These titles and
bonds shall be received at their nominal value, whatever may
be that which they bear in the market. The titles and bonds
issued in the name of the usurping Government are not in-
cluded in this enactment, nor are they recognised.
Art. 4. In payment of the said property shall also be
received-Ist. The titles which shall have to be given
for indemnization of the rents of houses and property se-
questrated and confiscated, actually received into the
Treasury. 2d. The titles of indemnization for losses
and damages arising from the extinction of the rights of the
fisheries of the kingdom, abolished by the decrees of the
6th of November, 1830. 3d. The titles of indemnization
for the loss of the rent of the commanderies of any of the mi-
litary orders, regulated according to the method established in
the decree of the 30th July, 1832, deducting the value of the
property which shall continue in the possession of the respec-
tive commanders (commendores), conformably to the 10th ar-
ticle of the same decree. 4th. The title of salaries and pay
allowances, grants and pensions, due and belonging to indivi-
duals who have remained faithfully to the Queen and the Con-
stitutional Charter. sth. The titles of donations granted, or
that may be granted, for eminent services rendered to the same
cause, confirmed by the Cortes. 6th. The titles of paper-
money spoken of in the 4th article of the law of the 23d of
July of this year, as is therein determined.

Art. 5. To facilitate to the industrious classes, and to per-
sons of small means, the possession of the national property
mentioned in the Ist Article, payment for the said property
may also be made in ready money, for the fifth part of the price
of the property sold • the remaining four-fifths being payable
in sixteen equal instalments in the space of sixteen years.
Art. 6. When the sales are effected in the form of the pre-
ceeding article, the purchasers shall sign bills or obligations
for the amount of the instalments, the value of each of the ob-
ligations or bills which they shall sign being equal to the
amount of the corresponding instalment, with an addition of
two per cent. per annum interest; this interest shall be
reckoned from the day the sale takes place to that on which
the said bills or obligations become due.
Art. 7. All the landed property that can be divided without
diminishing its value, shall be divided into the greatest num-
ber of parts possible.
Art. 8. Each of the parts into which such landed property
shall be divided, agreeably to the foregoing article, shall be
put up to sale separately.
Art. 9. The Municipal Chamber of each district shall pro-
ceed to nominate a committee of agriculturists, which shall de-
signate the national property devisable in its district.
Art. 10. This committee alone shall be competent to make
the division conformably to the 7th article, keeping principally
in view the division of those estates, on which there is water,
and where, for this and other causes, a population can be es-
tablished.

Art. 11. All persons, whether natives or foreigners, who
shall desire to acquire property by virtue of the present decree,
shall present a requisition to the Prefecture of the respective
province for the valuation of the property designated. This
operation shall be carried into effect immediately after the pre-
sentation of such requisition.

Art. 12. The valuation of the property being concluded,
the applicant shall be at liberty, either by himself or by his
attorney, to present himself to the respective station, furnished
with the competent deed, and to require its being put up for
sale by auction, assigning a term to take the same at the price
of the valuation, in case no higher bidder should offer.

Art. 13. The conditions expressed in the preceding article
being complied with, the Tribunal of the Public Treasury
shall cause to be announced in the customary form, the day
and place fixed for the sale of the property designated by the
applicant. These auctions shall commence on the Ist day of
October of the present year, in order that the several modes
of payment specified in the fourth article, may be duly ad-
justed, so as neither to defraud the parties interested, nor dimi-
nish the number of bidders, to the prejudice of the public
finances.

Art. 14. It remains at the will of the purchaser to select
whichever he may please of the forms of payment declared in
articles 3,4, and 5 of the present decree. This selection
shall be expressed at the time of the sale ; and it shall not be
afterwards permitted either to alter or to modify it. The price
of the property sold shall not depend on the mode of payment
—all being reputed equal.
Art. 15. The sales that shall be made by virtue of the
enactments of this decree, shall be free from (the duty de-
nominated) siza, and the property thus sold shall pass to the
purchasers exonerated from all and every burden anterior to
the act of sale, except that of obligations arising from
emplqteittic contracts. The Government shall pay, through
the Tribunal of the Public Treasury, all the debts legiti-
mately due on the property of the regular orders incorpo-
rated in that of the nation upon presentation of the legal titles
of these obligations, and compliance with the other necessary
formalities.

Art. 16. When payment of the property mentioned in the
antecedent article is agreed to be made in the form of the sth
article, the property so sold shall be specially mortgaged to
the National Exchequer until the entire fulfilment of the con-
tract. It shall be thus declared at the time of the auction,
and in the title that shall be given to the purchaser to enter
upon the possession of his property.
Art. 17. The decrees of the 6th November, 1830, 28th
November, 1831, and 30th July, 1832, are rescinded, so far as
they are in opposition to the present decree • as well as every
other legislative enactment or provision to the contrary.
JOSE DA SILVA CARVALHO,
Minister and Secretary of State of the Affairs of
Finance, and Deputy to the extraordinary
Cortes of 1834.
Lisbon, 17th September, 1834.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING.
MONDAY, SEPT. 29.

Newmarket, Sunday Afternoon.
The principal Stakes to be decided in this Meeting are the
Grand Duke Michael, St. Leger, and Hopeful. For the first
named Sir M. Wood's Flatterer is the favourite ; his preten-
sions rest on having run a respectable second to Glencoe for
the 2,000 guineas Stake, and being in the present instance op-
posed to bad horses (he also ran for the Derby, but was amiss,
and was beaten off a long way) ; next to him is Lord Orford's
Paris, whose puhlic running is not of a very promising charac-
ter. Besides these two, Lord Lichfield's Altamont, the Duke
of Grafton's Olympic, General Grosvenor's Dick, Lord Ches-
terfield's Alexis, and the Duke of Portland's Agatha colt, are
spoken off as likely to run ; Bentley is doubtful, and Victor has
paid. For the St. Leger Sir M. Wood's Charivari is the fa-
vourite, his races here in the spring and for the Drawing Room
Stakes having shown that he can stay a distance ; Shilelah has
sweated, but it is not known whether he will start. Plenipo
will not run ; he is gone to Horseheath, and put out of training
till next year ; much difference of opinion prevails as to his de-
feat at Doncaster, the public attributing it to foul play, and the
Newmarket people to his having been short of work ; Mr.
Batson, we believe, is under an impression that his horse was
drugged. The Hopeful Stakes has a good entry ; it includes
Kate Kearney (who carries 61b. extra for running the July
Stakes); Eva (51b. extra for running the Lavant Stakes at
Goodwood) ; Waresti, winner of the Two Year Old Stakes
at Goodwood; Madame d'Jeck, who ran a close second to Eva
in the July Meeting; and fifteen others. There are no other
Stakes of importance to betting men.
Very few arrivals having taken place as yet, the majority of
our regular visitors having proceeded from Doncaster to Hea-
ton Park Races, which did not finish till Tuesday. The course
is in excellent condition, and the weather fine ; appearances,
however, indicate rain.

APPOINTMENTS FOR TO—MORROW.
The Trial Stakes did not fill.
Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs. each, p.p. ; for three yrs.
old colts, Bst. 71b. , and fillies, Bst. 31b. A. F. 27 subs.
Mr. Ridsdale's b. f. Celeste
Lord Lichfield's b. c. Altamont
Mr. Sowerby's gr. c. Malcolm
Mr. Osbaldeston's b. f. by Cricketer, dam by Partisan.
Duke of Grafton's ch. c. Olympic
Duke of Grafton's ch. f. by Sultan—Prudence
Mr. Greville's b. c. Zethus
Sir M. Wood's ch. c. Flatterer (Clare c.)
General Grosvenor's Dick
Mr. Dilly's Viator
Mr. Dilly's Myrina
Lord Exeter's ch. c. Lumber
Lord Exeter's c. by Redgauntlet--.-Ada
Lord Chesterfield's Alexis
Lord Chesterfield's Neddum
Lord Chesterfield's Constance
Lord Verulam's f. by Mameluke—his Brocard
Duke of Portland's c. by Catton—Tragedy
Duke of Portland's c. by Tramp—Manto
Duke of Portland's c. by Tiresias--Agatha
Mr. Yates's ch. c. Bentley
Mr. Mills's b. c. Old Bill
Mr. Hunter's gr. c. Morotto
Lord Oxford's b. c. Paris
The Holt Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for two-years-old. New
T. Y. C.
Mr. Nevill's b. f. Amadilla
General Grosvenor's f. by Phantom—Maresfield's dam
Duke of Grafton's Florin
Lord Orford's f. by Whisker—Elizabeth
Lord Jersey's f. by Partisan—Henrica
Lord Chesterfield's f. by Emilius—Surprise
Mr. Mills's Miss Patch ( Sister to Kate)
Duke of Rutland's bl. f. Flame, by Lamplighter
Lord Berners' b. f. by Lamplighter—Sister to Bull-dog
Mr. S. Chifney's br. f. by Whisker—Dromedary's dam
Lord Exeter's f. (dead) by Lamplighter
Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each. T. Y. C. 3 subs.
Colonel Peel's Lochinvar, Bst. 121 b.
Mr. Greville's Gondolier, Set. 71b.
Mr. Crosby's Non Compos, Bst. (not here).

Newmarket, Sunday Night.
The Grand Duke Michael Stakes (to-morrow).
The following are expected to run, all the others having
paid forfeit :
Lord Lichfield's Altamout, Sir M. Wood's Flatterer, General
Grosvenor's Dick ; Duke of Grafton's Olympic, Lord Orford's
Paris, and Mr. Yates's Bentley.
Flatterer is the favourite, but no odds quoted. ; offers to take 4 to
1 about Bentley, not p.p.
ARRIVALS.—Duke of Rutland, Earl and Countess of Chester-
field, Earl Jersey, Lord Robert Manners, Captain Byng, Mr. S.
Stanley, Mr. C. Greville, Mr. C. Wilson, Mr. Worrall, Mr. J.
Mills, &c.

HEATON PARK RACES, SEPT. 26.
The St. Leger Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., and five only, &e.,
with 10 added by the Club, for three yars. old. Mile and a half
Handicap. 5 subs.
Mr. Johnson's Smedley Lely, 3 yrs 1
Lord Wilton's b. f. by Figaro—Jenny Sutton
Count Matuszevic na. br. c. by Camel
Won by a length and a half.
Match, 100 sovs., h. ft. One mile.—Mr. Osbaldeston's Swing
(owner), beat Mr. Thompson's Duvernay. Won easy.
Match, 50 cove., lOst. each. Two miles and three quarters.—
Mr. Batty's Tallyho (Mr. Sirdefield), beat Mr. W. H. Hornby's
b. h. by Antonio. Won by three lengths.
A Gold Cup, value 200 sovs., given by the town of Manchester,
with 20 sows. for the second horse out of the stakes, added to a
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft. St. Leger Course.
For four jrrs. old and upwards. 25 subs.
Lord Uxbridge na. Giovanni, 6 yrs, list. 61b 1
Mr. W. C. Uxbridge
na. b. h. David, 5 yrs, 1 Ist. 61b. 2
Lord Wilton's b. h. Chancellor, 6 yrs, 12st. 101 b 3
Mr. J. Barge, jun., na. Catherine, 4 yrs, list. 41b 0
Mr. White na. Pestilence, 5 vrs, lOst. 131 b
Count Matuszevic na Languish, 4 yrs, 10st. slb
Mr. Osbaldeston's Swing, 5 yrs, lOst 0
Mr. Houldsworth's Titus, 4 yrs, 9st. 101 b 0
Won by a head.
The Claret Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft. One mile. (Handicap).
Three Subscribers or no race. 5 subs.
Mr. Hobson's David, 5 yrs, 11st. 91b
Lord Chesterfield na. Brown Stout, 6 yrs, 10st. 71b 2
Mr. Townley's Westport, 5 yrs, list. 71b
Won by three lengths.
A Free Handicap of 5 sovs. each, for the beaten horses, with 25
added by the Club. One mile. 16 subs.
Loo Choo, 9st. 31b
David, 12st. 121 b
Lottery colt, 9st. 61b
Won by a head.

LINCOLN RACES, Sera. 26.
A Gold Cup, or Piece of Plate, by subscribers of 10%0Vs. each, the
surplus in specie, for horses of all ages. 13 subs.
Mr. Hickman na. The Mystery
Mr. Walker's Consol 2
Mr. Golden na. Louden 3
Pz. Willis's br. g. by Young Filho 4
Match, 50 gs. each, h. ft. Two miles.—Mr. Taylor's ch. g. by
Johnny Raw, beat Mr. Parkinson's b. g. by Henderskelf.
The Noblemen and Gentlemen's Subscription Purse of 70 gs., for
horses, &c., for all ages. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Gascoigne's Zohrab....
Mr. Watmough's The Page

1 1
2 2

BRECON RACES, SEPT. 25.
The Member's Plate of 50 sovs. Heats, one mile and three quarters.
Mr. Gough's Lely
Mr. Powell's Termagant
Mr. Tyler's br. f. by Lusborough 3 dr
The County Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, heats, one
mile and a half (4 subs.), was wen by Mr. Maybury's Spree, beat-
ing two others.
Handicap Stakes of 3 sovs, with 20 added. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Morris's Polly Hopkins 4 1 1
Mr. Tylur's br. f. by Lusborough 1 3 2
Mr. St. George's Charley 3 2 3
Captain Pole's Curtsey 2 4 dr
The Hurdle Race, 11 sovs each. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Maybery's Pembroke
Air. Peyton's Frolic...
Mr. Weyman's Tally-ho

WALSALL RAGES, SEPT. 24.
The Gold Cup in specie, by subscription of 10 sovs. each. Three
miles and a distance. 5 subs.
Mr. Beardsworth's Independence walked over.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each, with 20 added, for horses not tho-
rough bred. Heats, two miles.
Mr. T. F. Sharrat's Buffalo
Captain Lamb's Vivian
Mr. Ongley's Donnington
A Sweepstakes of 5 son. each, with 25 added. Once round. 6 subs.
Mr. Beardsworth's Brother to Derby 4 1 1
Mr. Tomes's b. by Bedlamite
Mr. Warren's Shalot 2 3 3
Mr. Peel's Rutland
Mr. Jones's c. f. by Pantaloon dr
SEPT. 25.—The Member's Plate of 50 SOY& for horses of all ages.
Heats, twice round.
Mr. Beardsworth's Longwaist 4 1 1
Mr. Giffard's b. f. by Tramp
Mr. Tomes's b. c. by Bedlamita
General Yates's Juliana
Mr. Evans's Shelah
A Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 20 added.
Heats, once round. 4 subs.
Mr. Holloway's Coquet..
Mr. Evans's Shelah
SEPT. 26.—A Cavalry Stakes of 50 sovs. each, by subscription.
8 subs.
Mr. T. F. Sharratt's Jeck Ketch
Mr. Brown's Lady Emma 1 2 2
Mr. Chawner's Mouse Trap .. 3 3 3
Mr. Hawkins's Jerry 4 4 4
Mr. Edwards's Duke fell

2 1 1
1 2dr

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
The Burton Harriers meet on Wednesday at Dirty Gate.
Mr. Portman's Hounds meet on Saturday at the Down House_,
at 11.
The Cleveland Hounds meet on Thursday at Guisborough Park
—.at half-past 10.
The Sinnington Hounds meet on Friday at Sinnington—at 9.

HUMAN STRENGTII.—FrOriI the results of experi-
ments made in Portsmouth dock-yard, ih driving and pressing
in large iron and copper bolts, a man of medium strength,
striking with a mallet weighing 18 pounds, and the handle of
which was 44 inches long, would start a bolt about one-eighth
of an inch every blow. It required a pressure of 107 tons to
press the same bolt down the same quantity of space, but a small
additional weight pressed it completely home.
HAVING COMMAND OF THE RAINSO—John Bax-
ter advertises in the Star Guernsey newspaper, that he will be
glad to let a house, with " bedrooms, kitchen, apical:7d sup-
ply of rain-water, and other conveniences."
A woman at Earlsbeaton, named Susan Gibson,
who has borne twins twice before, was confined on Wednesday
of three children, and all are " as well as can be expected.'...
Halifax Express.