The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-17 00:00:00

The following is the answer of General Dibbets

" Maestricht, June 11.
" Sir,—l have the honour to inform you, in reply to
your letter dated yesterday, No. 4,930, that the regula-
tions of the Convention of London, of the 21st of May
last, as far as they concern the free passage of the Meuse,
for the purposes of commerce, have been carried into exe-
cution ever since the 6th inst.

" I beg you to accept the assurance of my distinguished
consideration.

" The Lieutenant-General-Governor of the Fortress,
(Signed) " DIBBETS.
" P. S.—From Journal de la Belgique."
The Chamber of Representatives continued to-day (the
14th) the debate on the election of M. De Bohr, which
was declared valid by a majority of 52 to 33.
M. Bohr accordingly took his seat.
The Minister of Finance then read a statement of the
grounds fuonr c se edv et
hr aal h t changes ges
Governmentma
in t
wh
lßt?ued gaebt
able
ft
018p3r03:
pose those of 1834 as soon as those of 1833 are agreed to.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs then made a commu-
nication to the Chamber. After having briefly recapitu-
lated the facts which have occurred since his last commu-
nication, he read the letter accompaning the late treaty, in
which letter the Plenipotentiaries of France and England
require the Belgium Government to engage on its side, not
to recommence hostilities, snd to leave the passage free be-
tween Maestricht and Holland on one side and Maestricht
and Prussia on the other. After observing that tke late
treaty puts Belgium in possession of most of the advan•
Cages of that of 15th November, 1831, and that it has
permitted a reduction of our expensive armaments, the
Nlinister read a note of the Belgian Government in

MUNICH, JUNE I.—His Majesty the King, accom-
panied by Counts Van Paumgarteu and Pozzi, and his
physician, Dr. Menzel, set out yesterday on his journey to
Colombella, near Perugia. His Majesty is expected to
return in six weeks.
RIGA, 14tH (26rx) Max.—The Emperor Nicholas is
expected here on the 4th June (N.S.), to review the.
troops assembled in the environs. He may, perhaps, not
stop more than a day here, but his presence will have a
salutary effect in all directions. How partially do foreign
countries, blinded by prejudice, judge of the Emperor,whose life is devoted to his duties, and to the welfare of
his empire, whose heart is always open to every feeling of
the man—the head of a family—and the father of one
hundred nations in his immense empire ? New resolutions
are expected to alleviate the situation of the Poles its
Foreign countries, and to facilitate the return of their.
restless countrymen, provided they belong to the kingdom
of Poland and not to the incorporated provinces. Thus
we learn that negotiations (already much advanced) have
been opened with Prince Adam Czartoryski in London, to
whom the Emperor is personally well disposed, and
whose participation in the events at Warsaw certainly
'lid not arise from ambition and selfishness. Neither
Pulavy nor any other of his possessions in Poland
has been confiscated. As the history of the Polish insur-
rection, which Dr. Spazire has written (as it is alleged
from the written and verbal communications of Polish
officers), has been introduced here by the booksellers (At
least a few copies), the persons who received them imme-
diately communicated them to the Governor-General and
the principal Staff Officers, and excited only a feeling of
regret that such a tissue of falsehood, combined with a few
facts, should be announced to the Germans as an historical
work. It has been resolved to complete, from authentic
documents, a true history of the unhappy contest, and
thereby to refute all misrepresentations.
COPENHAGEN, JUNE 8.—His Majesty set out this
morning on his intended journey.
SVe learn from Agger, in Jutland, that the late storms
from the north-west have entirely choked up with sand
the channel, which the storms in 1825 had opened at
Lympold.
HAMBURG, JUNE 11.—The Journals contain lamenta-
ble accounts of extensive fires in various places, among
which are the following :—On the 18th May, in the town
of Zolkiew, near Limburg, in Gallicia, consisting of 700
houses ; 250, with two convents of the Dominican and
Basilian monks, were burnt to the ground.
On the Qd of June a most dreadful conflagration de-
stroyed a considerable part of the town of Reichenbach, in
Voigtland. About 530 houses are supposed to be de-
stroyed, and about 200, including those in the suburbs,
remain standing. The two churches, the post-house, and
other public buildings, were wholly consumed. The in-
habitants amounted to between 5,000 and 6,000, of whom
a large proportion have been obliged to take shelter in the
barns outside the town and in the neighbourhood. A
servant girl, only 15 years of age, is arrested on suspicion
of having wilfully caused this fire, by throwing live coals
among some hay.

On the 26th of May, 306 houses were burnt down at
Izikszo, in Hungary.
On the 2d of June, twenty dwelling-houses, and twenty_
four other buildings, were destroyed by fire in the town of
Osterode in Hanover.

Ou the 29th of May, 100 houses were burnt in the
little town of Hotzenplotz, in Austrian Silesia.
In the night of May 28, forty-four barns were burnt
down at Grabow, in Mecklenburg Schwerin.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

HAMBURG, JUNE 11.-13 1236 ; two months, 13 11.
PETERSBURGH, MAY 31.—Three months, 10 35.64.
BERLIN, JUNE I.—Three months. 6 26%.
VIENNA, JUNE I.—Three months, 953.
STOCKHOLM, JUNE 4.—Ninety days, 14 6
—Hamburg Papers. June 11.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORNSMOUTH, JUNE 15.—The Snake, 16, Commander
Robertson, sailed this morning for South America ; the
Satellite, 18, Commander Smart, will proceed to the same
quarter to-morrow.

- The Pallas, 42, Captain W. Walpole, arrived at Antigua
on the 121 h of May from Jamaica ; the Dispatch, Com-
mander Daniel, sailed from Tortola on the 11th of May
for Barbadoes; the Victor, 18, Commander Russell, ar-
rived A Barbadoes on the 3d of May from Antigua ; the
Marquis of Huntly transport is arrived at Barbadoes ; the
Jackdaw left Madeira for Jamaica the Bth of May.
The Hon. Captain Greville, in his yacht Xariffa, was
at Barbadoes on the sth of May, having arrived there from
Cowes and Madeira the day previous.
Letters from Fernando Po, dated Jan. 21, announce the
removal of the Victualling Establishment at that island to
Sierra Leone, and the sailing of the Pluto steamer, with
J. Salter, Esq., the Agent Victualler, and family, for the
latter place, together with the Charybdis, which ship con-
veyed also part of the establishment.
The Britomart, 10, Lieut. H. Quin, arrived at Ma-
deira on the 26th of May. She has on board Sir J. Jeff.
cott, the new Judge of Sierra Leone, who shot Dr.
Hennis in a duel at Exeter.

The Serpent, 16, Commander Symonds, is destined for
the West India station.

The Volage, 28, Capt. G. Martin, C. 8., will go out
of harbour on Monday, and will shortly sail for the Me-
diterranean.

The Challenger, 28, Captain C. Fremantle was paid off
on Wednesday, and recommissioned today by Captain M.
Seymour, for the South American station.
The Clio, 18, Commander Onslow, will be paid off into
ordinary on Monday. _

The Sparrow cutter, Lieutenant Riley, sailed to-day
with despatches for Lisbon. The Sylvia cutter was
commissioned to-day by Lieutenant J. Henderson.
The Forte, 44, is ordered to take charge of the
Pyramus convict and receiving ship, going out from Ply..
mouth to Bermuda, from whence the latter, after dis-
charging her convicts, will proceed to Halifax to remain
as a receiving ship.
Two Dutch men of war brigs, the 13raak and Panther,
put in here by stress of weather on Wednesday, and sailed
again yesterday; the former to proceed to the West Indies,
and the latter to cruise in the Channel. The Nebalania,
Dutch man of war brig, passed by on Tuesday, bound to
Cadiz, having on board as a midshipman the young Prince
of Orange.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Michael
Seymour, Lieutenant Seagrim, and Mr. J. P. Sarjeant,
purser, to the Challenger; Messrs. George Wodehouse,
Dacres, and J. H. Murray, midshipmen, to the rank of
lieutenants; Commanders Digby Marsh, A. H. C. Capel,
John 'Caine, C. H. Seale, Charles Smith, and John Hud-
son, to the Coast Guard Service ; the appointment of
Lieutenant J. D. Baker to the Forte has been cancelled ;
Lieutenant Nardenskisld, of the Swedish Navy, to be
borne on the Donegal's books as a mate ' • Lieutenant J.
Read to the Coast Guard ; Mr. David Kerr, assistant
surgeon at Deal Hospital, to the Britannia ; Mr. John
Westwood, clerk, to the Cockatrice packet; Mr. 0. B.
Scott, schoolmaster, to the Malabar.
The following mates and midshipmen passed for lieute-
nants on the 11th instant, at the Naval College :
Mr. G. N. Broke, late Philomel ; Messrs. W. P. Jame-
son and J. R. Dalvell, Talavera ; Mr. D. C. Disney, late
Sulphur; Messrs. S. 0. Wooldridge, G. B. Dewes, J.
Gordon, late Sparrowhawk ; Mr. J. C. Pitman, St. Vin-
cent ; the Hon. K. Stewart, Serpent ; Mr. C. R. Barn-
her, Excellent; Mr. G. Blanc, Donegal.
The following midshipmen passed their examination for
seamanship, on board the Victory, last week:—
Mr. C. Bramber, P. A. Allen, Hon. Keeble Stewart,
and H. H. N. Mottley.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
The Nimrod, Commander Lord Ed. Russell, sailed
yesterday afternoon for Oporto.
The Ringdove sloop will be launched next Tuesday, at
this dock-yard.

The St. George, 120, it is expected will be ready for
launching early in July. The Waterloo, first-rate, will be
launched at Chatham on Tuesday next.
The Scout, 18, Commander Hargood, sailed on Satur-
day for the Mediterranean.

The summer cruising squadron, it is said, will, this
year, be under the command of Rear-Admiral W. H.
Gage. They are expected to visit Cork about the end of
next month.

Ships arriving from foreign stations, when ordered to be
paid off, are in future to land their provisions.

In the Sound—Scout.

When a Chinese wife is enceinte the hus-
band hires a musical band to entertain her, that the child
may be of a harmonious disposition. In Europe ladies in
that situation are sometimes said to give themselves airs
:nough without such assistance.

7 fn 0,37191 .1.,T!077i79fr7cc,
FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-SITTING OF JUNE 15

M. Benjamin Delessen took the chair at a quarter past
one. After the proses verbal had been read and adopted,
reports were brought up recommending the adoption of
several bills of private and local interest.—Ordered to be
printed.
The Chamber then heard reports on a number of peti-
tions, none of which presented any features of general in-
terest except the following :—The committee proposed to
pass to the order of the day on a petition praying for the
impeachment of the Ministers, whose responsibility was
involved in the arbitrary detention of the Duchess of Berry.
M. Coulmann reminded the Chamber, that in passing
to the order of the day on former petitions relative to the
Duchess of Berry, it bad expressly declared that its inten-
tion in so doing was to avoid mixing itself up in the il-
legality of the proceedings, and to leave the whole weight
of the responsibility of them on the Ministers, to whom it
properly belonged. The present petition was different,
inasmuch as it was a direct appeal to the constitutional
power of the Chamber to impeach Ministers who had vio-
lated the laws, and the Chamber ought not to commit it.
self by passing to the order of the day upon it. He there-
fore proposed that the petition' should be deposited in the
bureau des renseignemens.
The Chamber, however, by a large majority, passed to
the order of the day.—(Loud murmurs from the extre-
mities.)
A petition from a citizen of the United States, praying
to be allowed certain sums due to him for supplies fur-
nished to the French troops in St. Domingo in 1791,
gave rise to a long and unimportant discussion. Several
hon. deputies entered into details of the hardships of the
petitioner's case, but the" Minister of Finance urged that
the existing laws barred the claim, and that the Chamber
could not erect itself into an exceptional tribunal to take
cogniz inee of spicial claims of this nature, for if it did, it
would soon have time for nothing else. The Chamber
passed to the order of the day on the petition.
A petition from some printers who bad been deprived
of their brevets when the number of printers was dimi-
nished, praying to he readmitted to the exercise of their
professions, was referred to the Minister of Commerce, i❑
spi'e of the opposition of M. Auguis and other deputies,
who urged that the Minister bail no administrative power
on the subject, and that the petitioners could only be re-
lieved by a legislative enactment revoking the regulations
under which they had been deprived of their brevets.
Marsh tl Clausel gave notice that he should, on Monday,
address questions to Ministers as to their intentions rel s-
tire to the colonization of Algiers.—(Applause from the
extremities )
M. Felix Girod (brother to M. Girod de l'Ain), a
recently elected deputy, took the oath and his seat.
When our reporter left, the Chamber was about to
commence the discussion of M. de Schonen's proposition
for the payment of the creditors of the late civil list.

(From Galignanes Messenger of Saturday.)
The Constitutionnel has the following :—" Sultan
Mahmoud is said to be occupied in reorganizing the Otto-
man army, and repairing the losses it sustained during the
late war with Mehemet Ali and his son Ibrahim. Count
Orloff and the other Russian officers are consulted daily
by him as to the system of forming regular troops, which
be prefers to all others. On the other hand it is asserted
that the French Ambassador, Admiral Roussin, has offered
to send officers of every species, and particularly of
engineers and artillery, to firm a military school at
Constantinople, and affird the Turks instruction. Ac-
cording to the present plans of the Sultan, the Ottoman
army is to he compoied of twenty regiments of infantry,
of four battalions each, amounting together to 80,000
men ; ten regiments of cavalry of 1,000 men each ;
four regiments of artillery, and a regiment of pioneers
and bombardiers A picked corps is to be formed at Con-
stan•inople, to do the duty of the city, like the French
gendarmerie.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 11th inst. communicates
the following letter of the 23d ult. from Constantinople :
—.." The momentary ascendancy. of Admiral Roussin has
had no other effect than to excite the Russian Plenipoten-
tiaries to greater efforts, in order to recover their lost
ground, and they have been successful. The Sultan ap-
pears to look up to Count Orloff as the only person from
whom he may expect counsel and support in the present
perplexed state of affairs. Some serious discussions be-
tween the Reis Effendi and. the Count took place before the
Porte put herself under the protection of Hussia. The
French diplomatists erred in believing that a combined
demonstration by France and England would suffice to
gain his point, as it were, at one blow, The influence
of Russia, which, but a week ago, b-gan to abate, appears
now to he more powerful than before. Lord Ponsonby
and Admiral Roussin had intimated to the Porte that
their Governments considered themselves' bound to main-
tain its independence, and afford it the aid requisite to that
end. In consequence, the two Cabinets intended to send a
considerable force to succour the Porte in case of unfore-
seen events, and prevent its ruin. The force would con-
sist of a French and English squadron, to be stationed at
the entrance of the Dardanelles, and remain there until
peace with Mehemet Ali should be perfectly restored, his
army withdrawn behind the Taurus, and the auxiliary
corps returned to Russia. Admiral Malcolm, joined by the
vessels under the command of Rear-Admiral Hugon, had
orders to tike his station before the castles of the Darda-
nelles. This communication could not remain long con-
cealed from the Russian Plenipotentiaries, who soon de-
manded of the Reis Effendi an explanation respecting an
offer which appeared little calculated to answer the bj.ct
in view, and only increased the obstacles to peace. They
also hinted to tie Porte that it would be a proof of dis-
trust of the Russian Cabinet, which the Emperor Nicho-
las did not deserve, if the Porte were to accede to the pro-
posals of France and England, and admit their fleet into
the Dardanelles. This case appears to have been antici-
pated ; for it is said that Count Pozzo di Borgo some time
ago de'ivered to the French Cabinet a memorandum, decla-
ring that the entrance of a French squadron into the Sea of
Marmora was likely to lead to the most dangerous colli-
sions, and that it would therefore be considered as a hostile
proceeding against the Russian flag. The French Govern-
ment. it is added, acknowledged the dangers that might
arise from the meeting of considerable forces of both na-
Sinus, and assured the Ambassador that such a meeting
should not take place. The Porte is acquainted with all
these circumstances, and will oppose to the utmost a mea-
sure which might bring war within sight of the capital.
We learn that, in consequence of the urgent representa-
tions of Count Orloff, the Sultan and his Ministers have
positively declared their intention of not admitting the
French and English squadrons into the Sea of Marmora.
The Hatti Scheriff to inform the public of the conclusion
of peace has not yet appeared ; the apprehension of a re-
newal of hostilities is consequently not entirely removed.
The Russian troops near this capital perform grand ma-
avres twice every week, which are always attenr:ed by
an immense number of spectators. The Russian troops
in the Principalities have taken their station on the fron-
tiers of Turkey, close to the Danube." The same paper
quotes Metalliques 5 per Cents. at Vienna, on the 6th,
94 11.16 ; Bank Actions, 1238.
. .

By a royal ordinance, of the 10th inst., an end is
put to the existence of martial law in the four depart-
ments and arrondissements in the west, %Odds- had--been
proclaimed.
The Temps contains the following particulars of the
result of the late journey of the Viscount de Chateau-
briand to Prague:—" The Viscount de Chateauhriand
met with the most gracious reception on the part of
Charles X., and was the object of the kindest attentions.
In his conversation with the ex-King, the Viscount spoke
of the intention of the Royalists to go to the elections,
notwiths'anding the oath required of them, provided his
Majesty saw no object:on to it. According to what we
,learn from persons likely to be well informed, Charles X.
replied to the Viscount—' The question which you submit
to me is a mere matter of conscience ; and if I jtulge it
by mine, it appears to me improper for the Ro)alists to
attend the elections, since an oath is required of thew,
which would render them guilty of perjury towarils their
patty. I shall, therefore, not approve of the conduct of
guise who shalt act thus, but, at the s.me time, I shall
be far from entertaining any harsh feelings towards them.
There are cireumstances in politics in which sacs ;flees are
to be made even by conscience, and each one, in this case,
is the sole judge of his actions. However, as they will
be acting in the interest of their party, and being placed
on the political stage, they are better able to judge what
is to be done. I can advise them nothing on this subject.
I shall only repeat to you that I would LI, t vote, ,:nd that,
nevertheless, I shall not censure such as mav (Item it
their duty to do it. It appears that the legitim itistq,
finding, in this language of the ex-King, an ass, tit to what
they think it their duty to do in the interest of el ell- cause,
have decided that the Royalists shall present them elves at
the elections."
A lett,r of the 10th instant, from Toulon, a, nounces
that accounts have been received from Malta, sta!ing that
great activity prevails in the docks of that islaro,. Four
frigates and one ship of the line are being fitted t ut. A
steam-vesel, from Gibraltar, bad announced to tie French
Admiral that sixteen vessels were in that port waiting for
four others to proceed to the L. vent.
The Temps has the following :—" If we may give
ecit to a r. p,:rt which appeats to us to be wni! founded,
"species of cohvention has been come to to to een the
a reach Government and the-King of Naples, according

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1838.

It is reported this morning in political circles.
that the Tories have been very active at Court
during the last two days, in endeavouring to
alarm the mind of the KING, by directing it
under their own peculiar bias, to what they are
pleased to call the indications of revolutionary
feeling, in the columns of the daily Press. That
wholesome admonitory strain, which the real
enemies of revolution feel it their duty to use,
and for which Sovereigns would be grateful if
they were left to the free exercise of their judg-
ment, is represented as the signal of convulsion ;
and, fixing upon the present Ministers as the
immediate prompters of the articles which have
appeared, the Tories hesitate not to tell his
MAJESTY that he must put down the freedom of
the press if he wishes to preserve his throne.
We do not believe that the KING is so much
under the influence of the Court faction as to
fall suddenly into the delusion which they attempt
to put upon him ; but when we consider the
avowed political sentiments of most of those
who. are honoured with his familiarity, and who
know full well how much easier it is to bend
the mind of a superior in a moment of convi-
viality than at any other time, we have some-
times our fears as to the result of their intrigues;
and these fears are increased by the well-known
fact that the members of the KING'S family in
whom he appears to take the greatest interest
are those from whom the people have very little
favour to expect.
It is become a duty to warn the KING of the
danger which he would bring upon himself by
following the counsel of the Tories; but in do-
ing this, discretion should be combined with
boldness, and remembering what the KING is
reported to have said immediately after his
accession to the Throne, when he happened
to stop before the portrait of CHARLES 1.,*
we should attempt to defeat the machinations
of his irresponsible advisers byappealsto his good
sense.

• Most of our readers will probably remember the anecdote
which was in circulation at the time alluded to. It was said that
the King happening, whilst attended by several of his courtiers,
to stop for a short time opposite the portrait of Charles 1., pointed
to it, and said, " I will take good care not to follow in the steps of
that foolish man." The anecdote was never contradicted, and is
generally considered to have been founded on truth.

It is stated in a Morning Paper of this day,
that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT will be called to
the House of Peers in the course of the week,
and that Sir HENRY PARNELL has been in-
vited to stand for the representation of West-
minster in such an event. It is quite true that
Sir HENRY PARNELL has received an invitation
of the nature alluded to, the independent
electors of Westminster considering that it would
he impossible to select a man of greater political
integrity ; but it is right to observe that the
friends of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT persist in
asserting that he will not accept the Peer-
age. Whether this may be an election
ruse to serve Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE,
by keeping his opponents inactive, re-
mains to be seen. The invitation to Sir
HENRY PARNELL was made on Friday last,
and Oil Saturday Sir HENRY gave his decisive
answer to it. He thanked the electors ot

Westminster for the honour which they had
done him, but informed the gentlemen who
waited upon him that his gratitude to the
electors of Dundee would not allow him
to accept the flattering one which he had re-
ceived. Our Morning Contemporary mentions
a Mr. RAPHAEL as a candidate for West.
minster. We could name a dozen others who
have offered themselves, and each of whom would
have a better chance than Mr. RAPHAEL. The
electors of Westminster will take care to return no
man who would not prove an efficient colleague of
their present active and upright representative,
Colonel EVANS. The Earl of DUNDONALD,
(Lord COCHRANE) has been applied to. The
Gallant Sailor replied, that nothing wouhl give
him greater pleasure than to represent the inde-
pendent constituency of Westminster, but that,
as a Scotch Peer, he could neither sit, in the
House of Commons nor the House of Lords.

A definitive treaty was entered into on Friday
between M. COMTE, the Director of the French
Postes, and M. PIRON, the Sub-Director on
the part of the French Government, and the
Duke of RICHMOND on the part of our Go-
vernment, for a daily communication by post
between London and Paris. The whole of the
details have not yet transpired. We are able,
however, to state that the postage must be paid
in both countries, as hitherto, before the letters
can be forwarded. The contrary was proposed
by M. COMTE, bot was not acceded to by the
Duke of RICHMOND. The new arrangement
will, it is expected, commence next week.

The last accounts from Oporto state that
there was a probability of the Marquis of
PALMELLA and SYLVA DA CARvALHO
acting together in the Ministry of the Regency,
if M. DA CARVALHO would consent to give up
Messrs. FREIRE and XAVIER, two of the
present Ministers, who arc obnoxious to the
British and French Cabinets, and with whom
the Marquis of PALMELLA objects to act.
The report that Marshal SOLIGNAC intended
to retire, and that he would be succeeded in
the command-in-chief by General SALDANHA,
gained ground ; but in the event of the Marquis
of PALMELLA'S joining the Ministry, SO-
LIGNAC would, it was believed, remain as
Commander-in= Chief.

We are sorry to learn, by a letter from Oporto,
that Admiral SARTORIUS is seriously indis-
posed. He has not only become exceedingly
thin in the body from the effects of his coin-
plaint, but his legs are swollen to an alarming
degree. Under these circumstances, it is not
improbable that he will resign into the hands of
Captain NAPIER the command of the Consti-
tutional fleet.

A calculation has recently been made of the
influence of the Tory Bishops in the House of
Lords, by which it appears that they do not
command less than 40 votes, including their
own. This is not to be wondered at, when we
consider the moral power which their office gives
them over the minds of many of the lay Peers.
We frequently find that men, who in early life
were remarkable for their laxity in religious
matters, become in old age equally remarkable
for the opposite extreme, verifying the old adage,
“. In age a bigot ; in youth a fool." Over the
minds of such individuals, the priesthood in all
countries have a direct control. How far this
may be the case with our Right Rev. Prelates,
and those who hang their consciences on the
peg of other men's righteousness, it is not
for us to say. Supposing, however, the cal-
culation alluded to to be correct, we may
be permitted to doubt the propriety of allowing
the Bishops to remain in the House of Lords.
By amending the legislature as regards them, we
might not, indeed, get entirely rid of their political
influence, but it would be much more rarely ex-
ercised than it now is, if they were removed from
a place in which they consider it necessary to
exert that influence for the preservation of their
own seats. If they had no direct motive for in-
terfering with politics, they would have no direct
motive for attending to their religious duties,
and they would bring less discredit upon the
Church.

A Parliamentary paper, moved for by Mr.
SPRING RICE, has just been laid before the
House of Commons of a nature highly con-
soling to the balance of trade politicians. It is
a return of the official value of the exports and
imports of the United Kingdom for the two last
years. The return for the year ending SJ) of
January, 1832, distinguishes the countries from
and to which the exports and imports are made;
that for the year ending sth January, 1833, does
not, only giving the totals, on account of' the long
time it would take to make out the details. The
totals of the two years stand thus ;—Official
value of the imports into the United Kin,adom,
for the year ending January, 1832,49,727,1081.;
of the exports, 71,431,491/. In the year end-
ing January, 1833, the official value of the im-
ports fell to 44,586,2411., whilst that of the
exports rose to 76,071,5721. Those who think
that the annual balance of exports over imports,
shows a receipt of so much in hard cash, which we
bank up for 'emergencies, must feel highly tie-
lighted at the result thus exhibted. 1f the fancy
pleases them we should be loth to disturb their
enjoyment ; but we must still do two things—
first, recommend Miss MARTINEAU'S " Snoek
and Vanderput" to their consideration ; and,
second, beg them to inform us what has become
of the millions of balances we have had in our
favour for many years past ? The increase in
the exports of the last year above-mentioned, is
shared in tolerably equal proportions between
our own manufactures and colonial produce, the
exports of foreign and colonial produce in the
the year ending January, 1832, having been
10,745,126/., and in the year ending January,
1833, 11,044,8691., whilst the exports of Bri-
tish and Irish manufactures and produce were,
in the corresponding periods, 60,686,364/., and
65,026,702/. The country with which we have
the greatest trade is the United States of Ame-
rica. In the year ending January, 1832, the
amount of our exports to that eldest of our
offspring was 12,596,173/., and of our imports
from her 8,970,342/. Our next best customer, as
far as exports are concerned, is Germany, which
takes from us 9,473,6271. worth of produce, of
which 7,667,1471. is the produce and manufac-
tures of the United Kingdom. The value of
our exports to India and China is 6,947,600/.,
and of our imports thence 7,920,182/. At the
present moment it may be interesting to state,
that our imports from the British West Indies
amount to 8,448,839/., whilst our exports
amount to 3,988,286/. We shall be glad to
see a detailed account for the year 1832, similar

to that thus given for 1831, in order that we
may be able to form a judgment of the causes
and effects of the increase of our exports and
diminution of our imports, from a knowledge of
the countries with respect to the trade of which
the change has taken place.

The following is the only extract in the Ger-
man Papers received this morning worth notice
CARLSBAD, JUNE 3.—The Duchess of Angouleme has
been about a fortnight drinking the waters of the new
spring. Her appearance can only excite sorrow, and as
she avoids every thing in dress and appearance that might
di,tinguish her as a Princess, the sight of her in-
spires painful feelings. Chateaubriand came here from
Prague and stopped a few days. The young Duke
of Bordeaux is said to be also here. Whether Charles the
Tenth will go to Toplitz, as is generally affirmed here,
seems, however, to be uncertain. At all events, prepira
tint), are making for the removal of the whole royal family
from the Hradschin, at Prague.

We have before us a printed Bill purporting
to be for the amendment and consolidation of
the Acts relating to the observance of the Lord's
Day. We presume that this is the Bill which
Mr. PETER, the Member for Bodmin, ob-
tained leave to bring in some time back ;
but were we to guess at its author, from the
nature of its provisions, we should have been
inclined to ascribe it to St. ANDREW AGNEW.
They are not quite so outrageous in their character,
hut their principles are exactly the same—viz.,
those of intolerant bigotry and oppression of
the poor. We have read the Bill carefully,
and are entitled to say that there is not one
clause in it which will bear hardly upon a man
of property. The whole venom of the con-
cocters of this precious affair is directed against
the poorer classes of the community. The Bill
begins by repealing certain former statutes
passed for the protection of the Sabbath,
which have for the most part become obsolete.
Among those which have not, however, are
certain Acts allowing fish to be sold on the
Sunday. This permission the bigots of the
day wish to abolish : the fish may stink, and the
poor creatures who live by its sale may starve for
aught they care. All work, labour, buying and
selling, is prohibited on the Sunday, under a
penalty which may amount to 5/. It is next
enacted that no boats or carriages, used for
the conveyance of goods or parcels, shall
travel between the hours of nine in the
morning and six in the evening on Sunday.
We thought we had obtained here a prin-
ciple we could understand ; but it is overturned
in the next enactment, forbidding carriages car-
rying passengers only to commence a journey be-
tween the hours of eleven and one, and three
and four. On what imaginable principle
this rests we cannot divine. Had we believed
the Jewish law to apply at all, we should have
thought that it was just as bad for a coachman to
carry a passenger as a parcel. Steam-boats
are not mentioned ; so that their navigators
comes under the sweeping terms of the first
clause, prohibiting all persons from pursuing
their ordinary callings. It is needless to go
through the other absurdities of the Bill ; but it
closes with one which, if rightly interpreted,
would do away with the effect of all the others. All
" works or cases of piety, charity, or necessity," are,
exempted from the operation of the Bill. It
would be difficult to name a work that is not
one of necessity.

We direct attention to the news from Con-
stantinople, as regards the reported conduct of
the Russians with respect to the French and
English fleets being preven►ed from entering the
Dardanelles. If this be true, Russia has ac-
complished by treachery what she has failed to
gain by force.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

One of the recently fixed intermediate sessions com-
menced this morning at the Clerkenwell Court-house, B.
ReTCH, Esq., M.P , presiding as chairman.
The number of persons in the calendar is 285, but the
charges for the most part are of a venial kind. There are
four persons who have been committed by Mr. Halls and
Mr. Minslull, from Bow-street, on a charge of " unlaw-
fully exposing to sale and selling divers publications calcu-
lated to bring religion into contempt, and with intent so to
do." There are also several for assaults of a nameless
character. The soldier who was committed for want of bail
for the alleged transaction to which Mr. W. Bankes, M.P.,
stands accused as being a party, will not be tried here, the
application of Mr. Bankes having had the effect of carrying
his case into the Court of King's Bench.
The Grand Jury having been sworn, the Chairman
briefly addressed them. Not the slightest allusion was
made by him to the late transaction in Calthorpe•erreet.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have nu foreign arrivals this morning of any ccn-
sequence, and, indeed, in the present critical state of our
own affairs foreign politics are not much sought after.
In consequence of an expected great majority against
Ministers in the House of Lords this night on the Local
Courts B 11, the Funds have been greatly agitated this
morning, and Consols have receded upwards of half per
cent. They left off on Saturday at Sq. for the Account,
and opened at 891 i, at which period some sales of
Stock were effected, which soon caused a general alarm
in the Market, and the whole House turned sellers, when
Consols immediately receded to 881. Alter which a
lit
reaction took place, and they were again done
89 to k for the Account, at which price they are at prese
but the Market continues agitated, owing to a belief that
Ministers will not be able to, maintain their places for any
length of time—in fact, that an important crisis is ap-
proaching for a grand struggle of power between the Tories
and the Whigs, -
It is reported that accounts are in town of the arrest of
General Lemos by the order of Don Miguel, for having gone
on board an English vessel to have an interview with General
Saldanha. It is also stated that General Solignac has re-
proached General Saldanha for having communication
with Lemos without his consent. -
~,,it ,
Charlestown papers, to the 22d May, have been
received at the North and South American Coffee-
house, but they do not contain any news.

HALF-PAST ONE.
The alarm which prevailed in the esrly part of the
morning at the Stock Exchange, begins to subside.
Consols, which receded to SSi for the Account, have
since improved to 89i : at present they are 894.
A vessel has arrived from Lisbon and Oporto called the
Dee, but the dates she left are not as yet ascertained. It
is reported she brings accounts that the cholera at Lisbon
still causes great ravages. From Oporto we do not hear
any news of importance, but letters have been received of
the Bth from the city, which do not mention the arrest of
General Lemos by Don Miguel. In the Foreign Market
Dutch Stock is rather better ; in other Securities little
doing

THREE 0' CL 0 CE.
Consols for the Account 89k.

By especial desire of his MAJESTY, a Go-
vernment steam-vessel is provided for the conveyance of
Princess LIEVEN, the two young Princol, and suite, who
are expected to leave town to-morrow for Hamburg, and
thence to St. Petersburgh.
Emigration to America continues very brisk.
Since the dep ,rture of the Corsair, which catriel out to
Canada 151 respectable passengers, chiefly from Lanark•
shire, and wl.o were estimated to possess among them
nearly 40,000/., the Tamerlane has sailed for Quebec,
with upwards of 300 emigrants, mostly in comfortable
circumstances.— Greenock Advertiser.
On Friday last a treaty was concluded be-
tween the Postmaster-General of England and M. Costrx,
Director-General of the Post Administration in Fiance,
assisted by M. PIRON, the Sub-Director. General, for a
daily transmission of letters between the Enl•lish and
French metropolis. This treaty was sent t . Paris on
Saturday to be ratified, and will take effect immediately
after its ratification. We shall probably soon have some-
thing more to say on the eubject....Morniny Paper.

IMPERIALPARLIAMENT

THIS DAY. MONDAY, JUNE 17.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after 12 o'clock.
Several private Bills were forwarded a stage.
Sir E. WILMOT presented a petition from the Bir-
mingham School of Medicine, against the Apothecaries Act.
Mr. PRYME said, that when the Bill came under the
consideration of the House, be should move that the be-
nefit proposed to be extended by it to the Scotch Univer-
sity, should also be extended to the English. He would
not include the Irish, as that was more particularly the
province of the Irish Members.
Mr. HEATHCOTE presented a petition from the vic-
tuallers of Plymouth, against the Beer Bill.
Mr. WILLIS presented a petition signed by 1,100
friends of the British Sea Service, complaining of the non-
existence of a maritime code, with respect to seamen in
the merchants' service, which subjected them to the most
severe privations, no provision being given to them in their
old age. The petitioners suggested the establishment in
the metropolis of some place to which those unfortunate
seamen might have resort, and where they might be
guarded against the imposition to which they were now
liable, and where also the naval and East India service of
the country might have recourse when seamen were
wanted, and prayed the House to :Appoint a Committee
for the purpose of taking the subject into consideration.
The Hoe. Member did not anticipate that the subject
could be taken into consideration during the present session,
but if no other Hon. Member brought the subject under
the consideration of the House in the course of the next
session, he should think it his (hey to do so.

Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON said this was a code
that had been long a desideratum in the legislatinn of this
country. Both as Captain and as Admiral he had often
been called upon to act both as judge and jury by men coming
to him and complaining that they had been ill-used, while at
the same time the masters would make a similar statement
against the men.—(hear, hear.) It was most important
that there should be a code of laws upon this subject that
the officers, whose duty it was to hear and decide
upon such complaints, should know what particular rule
they were to adopt for their guidance. Whenever the ques-
tion should be brought forward, he would give all the assistance
to the House in his power.
Mr. WILKS presented a petition from the proprietors of the
Liverpool new burial ground, praying that the registry of
burials might be made legal evidence. The Hon. Member
then presented petitions from the Hosier Lane-street Congre-
gation in Reading, with respect to the registration of births and
marriages.