The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-25 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Chroiricle.)
Lieut.-Colonel Brandreth, commanding Royal Artillery
in this district, is appointed to succeed Colonel Brough at
Halifax, and Major Slade, of the Royal Engineers, is also
appointed to the same command. Lieut.-Colonel Roberts,
R. A., from Woolwich, succeeds Colonel Brandreth in this
district.

Captain Smith succeeds Captain Walker in the Royal
Engineer department in this district, the latter being ap-
pointed to Dublin.
On Thursday last, at 11 o'clock, Major-General Sir
James Douglas, K. C.B. after a very short notice, arrived
at Clare Castle, and made his half-yearly inspection of the
Depot of the 37th regiment.
Lieut. Willis, of the 37th, who lately returned from the
service companies of his regiment at Jamaica, has joined
the depot of his regiment at Clare Castle.
Lieut.-Colonel Alanscll, Brigade Major of this garrison,
and his lady, are on a visit to Captain Travers, Leemount,
county Cork.
The Brunswick transport, from London, arrived in Cork
herbour yesterday, to embark the 83d regiment for Halifax,
Nova Scotia.

A transport is daily expected at Cork to embark the
depot companies of the 58th regiment for Devonport, when
the depot companies of the 22d proceed to Hull, and the.
53d depot companies from that to Plymouth.
The sth Dragroon Gaards are to be inspected by Major-
General Sir Edward Filakeney this day in Dublin. The
3d Dragoon Guards,. from England, cccupy the quarters of
the sth in about a fortnight.
The King's Dragoon Guards occupy the following quar-
ters :—Head-quarters, Dorchester, Colonel Sir G. Tees-
dale and Major Maxwell, Captains Tysson's Handley's, and
Dames's troops ; Chichester, Captains Evans's and Mor-
ris's under command of Major Delaney; Weymouth, Cap-
tain Manning's ; Winchester, Captain Martin's; and Trow-
bridge, Captain Wilson's troops.
Captain Wathen's troop of the 15t11 Hussars were billeted
in Athlone on Thursday last on their march from Gort to
Dublin.

SALE OF BIBLES IN BRITAIN.—TiIe
number of Bibles sold annually in Scotland is rather
above 60,000 ; viz., about 36,000 at 2s. wholesale ;
25,500 at Is. 10d. ; and from 3,000 to 5,000 at 6s. 6d.
The number printed annually in England by the King's
printers and the two Universities is about 240,000,
making in all about 300,000, exclusive of about as
many Testaments, and a large number of Prayer-books,
Psalms, &c.

It may be added, we think, with safety to
what was said yesterday respecting the reduction of
the 4 per Cents., that the measure is actually resolved
on, and that this result arises mainly from the convic-
tion that the claims for West India compensation are
likely to come in so slowly as to form no impediment
to the operation. This has been already pointed out
as the chief obstacle in the way. There may be some
misinformation on this head, in the way in which it is
now said to have reached the Treasury, but such re-
presentations having been made, and by men who have
a claim to be listened to, there can be little doubt that
Lord Althorp will act upon it, falling in so entirely,
as it does, with his own views of reduction and eco-
nomy.— Times.

OLDHAM. WEDNESDAY EVENING,
APRIL 24.—The Coroner's inquest on the body of Ri-
chard Bentley, who was shot in the Union attack on
Mr. Thomson's factory, have this day, after having
been locked up twenty-seven hours, returned a verdict
of Manslaughter against Isherwood and Donelly, the
former as principal and the latter as an accessary ; and
the coroner issued his warrant for commitment to Lan-
caster Castle. Most of the factories are again in full
work ; and the military are leaving the town.
The memoirs of the late Mr. Salt, his
Majesty's Consul-General in Egypt, will be laid before
the public in a few days. The long official residence
of this gentleman in Egypt enabled him to acquire
more knowledge respecting that ancient and interest-
ing country than fell to the lot of any other individual.
His house was the resort of travellers of all nations,
whose researches were greatly aided by the, informa-
tion derived from him. Such were Belzoni, Burck-
hardt, Caviglia, and Bankes, of each of whom many
original particulars and anecdotes are embodied in the
memoirs. But none was enabled to amass the know-
ledge of the country possessed by Salt, and the forth-
coming will, therefore, in all probability, surpass, in
value and interest any modern work extant on Egypt
and other parts of the East.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 23.
—Our cotton market still continues in a languid state.
The sales to-day are from 1,000 to 1,200 bales, chiefly
American descriptions; from Bd. to 80. Orleans
up to 9d., and 100 Sea Islands, 144 d. to 19d.
LI VERPOOL CORN-EXCHA NGE, APRIL 22.
—At our Corn-Exchange this morning there was a
middling attendance of the trade and small show of
samples of fine grain. In wheat there was a moderate
demand by the dealers at an advance of Id. to '2d. per
701 b. on the prices of this day week, 6s. 6d. having
been realized for best Irish. Flour was in more re-
quest at full prices. Oats met a very fair sale at an
improvement of ld. on last Tuesday's currency, the
finest parcels of Irish fetching 2s. 9d., and fair 2s. Bd.
per 451 b. Meal was taken off briskly at 9d. per load
advance. Malt was held for rather more money. Bar-
ley for malting and grinding was 2d. to 3d. per 601 b.
dearer, and very little now here. Beans and Peas
were 2s. to 3s. per quarter higher and free of sale.
EXECUTION OF FOUR CONVICTS.—The
painful spectacle—painful as it is rare—of the execu-
tion of four criminals at one time was witnessed in
the front of our city gaol on Saturday last, in the pre-
sence of about 6,000 spectators. The unfortunate ai.d
miserable sufferers were TV. Nailor, T. Riley, .1.
Carr, and J. Mason. Nailor was a stone-mason, 38
years of age, and was convicted, on satisfactory,
though circumstantial evidence, of an attempt to as-
sassinate Mr. Wilkinson, a manufacturer, at Staley,
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by shooting at him from behind a wall. Riley was a
young Irishman, only 20 years of age, and was con-
victed of cutting and wounding William Fidler with a
reaping-hook, at Stockport, on the 15th September.
C.rr,
young cutting man,
ton, at a public-house at Haslington. Mason, who is
likewise young, being but 22 years of age, and whose
countenance, as forbidding as his crime, was horribly
disgusting, was indicted for the wilful murder of
as, also
convicted a
of
Hannah Woodward, who was enceinte by him, at Mar-
ple, near Stockport. At half-past one o'clock the
fatal bolt, with great difficulty and after
repeated at-
tempts which shook the malefactors, was drawn. Carr
and Mason appeared to die instantaneously. Nailor
was convulsed for a short time ; but Riley, in conse-
quence of two cross-beams being erected, to each of "
which were tied two of the culprits, was necessarily
placed more forward than is usual, and when the scaf-
fold on which he stood was knocked from under him,
his feet fell upon some of the frame work, and he there
struggled for some seconds before he got disentangled,
and his punishment was consequently much protracted.
The execution of malefactors, within the short
space of a fortnight, is, we believe, unparalleled in the
historyof Chester...ahater Courant.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1834.

The KING has invited the Spanish and Por-
tuguese Ministers to Windsor Castle. They
go to-morrow, and will stay some days. His
MAJESTY thus affords proof of his hearty ap-
proval of the quadruple alliance, which is now,
we trust, firmly established, and will be long
maintained. If Russia, Austria, and Prussia
endeavour covertly to strengthen their connec-
tion, or to disturb or weaken that of the friends
of representative governments, it is satisfactory to
find the reforming KING of the free people of
England employing the most prompt and effectual
means in his power of showing to his people and
to Europe his determination to countenance and
strengthen that alliance, which forms the best
security, not alone for the tranquillity and im-
provement of the separate states of which it is
composed, but of Europe and the world. We
trust and believe that Spain and Portugal will
soon be rid of the disturbers of their peace, and
if without the anned interference of England
and France, so much the better ; but the
Usurpers in both countries may be assured, that
if they persevere in the unprincipled and un-
patriotic course they have hitherto taken, and
consequently the aid of England and France
should be called for, neither of their sovereigns
will allow their allies to be insulted, or their
country to be laid waste by marauders.

The Austrians are excessively uneasy at 11
the presence of the Poles in Switzerland,
and are moving heaven and earth to get
rid of them. " A guilty conscience needs no
accuser." The Poles have been deeply wronged,
and those who have joined with their cruel op-
pressors in depriving them of peace, freedom,
and security in their own land, are apprehensive
of the day of retribution. The Poles are brave,
accustomed to arms, and, perhaps imprudently,
ready to join with or lead the disaffected in all
countries. If they would unite and form a
colony in the New World, as the persecuted of
this country did in the days of the Stuarts,
those who have injured them might, at no dis-
tant period, find reason to regret their loss.

The Repealers have produced but one argu-
ment yet for the repeal of the union, and that is
to be found in the length and dullness of their
own speeches. The debate is again adjourned,
but will, we trust, be closed to-morrow morning.

There have been some fresh disturbances in
Naples, arising out of a dispute between a
gees d'arme and a Sicilian soldier. The
authorities interfered. Above twenty persons
were wounded on both sides, and three killed.

We are happy to perceive by the report from
the Court of Chancery this day that Ministers
have decided on throwing open the Court of
-Common Pleas to the bar generally. The
wonder is that so obvious an improvement
should him; been so long delayed. By this

measure the public will derive great advantage
from a mote speedy access to justice ; for
the pressure of business in the King's Bench
will now be considerably relieved, and the griev-
ous, expensive accumulation of remanets, at
the end of every term, be entirely swept away.
Really Ministers deserve well of the country
from their anxiety to effect every practical im-
proveme-lii In the administration of the laws,
that, after all, is the poor man's best pro-
tection.

The Allgemeine Zeitung states, that the
composition of the new French Ministry is
much approved at Vienna, and the funds rose
in consequence of the news that no change would
take place in the policy of the French courts
having arrived by express from Frankfort.

- -
VIENNA, APRIL 14. —Metalliques, Five per Cents., 97i ;
Ditto, Four per Cents., 88% ; Bank Shares, I,242.—All-
gemeine Zeitung, April 19.

The French Papers of Wednesday contain
nothing of moment. It appears that some an-
ticipations of disturbances in consequence of
the procession of our trades' unions had been
formed before the accounts of the peaceable
termination of the affair had reached the
capital.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Panis, APRIL 23.
Five per Cents., 104 f. 20c. 25c.
Three per Cents., 78£
Rente de Naples, 94f. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 95%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 27‘,1 28.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 42.
Royal Spanish Loan, 84%.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 68%.
Belgian Loan, IRli, Five per Cent., 97%.
liaytian Loan, 27ef.

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 324 c.
Three nionths, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 23f. 20c.
—Court Authentique

The Commissioners of Stamps, after long
hesitation, and the rejection of repeated advice
from Magistrates, have at last adopted the only
rational plan, as the law now exists, for check-
ing the sale of unstamped newspapers. They
now lay informations against the printer and
publisher, not, as formerly, against those half-
starved and half-clad individuals whom these
men made their tools, and who were generally
in such a state of destitution as to prefer impri-
sonment and martyrdom to freedom and starva-
tion. It was evident to all but the Board, that
no prosecution of such men, however rigid or
often repeated, couldput a stop to the offence ; be-
cause, while poverty exists, and such temptations
are held out, persons will alwaysbe found ready
to join in a breach of the law. It would be better
if the stamp duty on newspapers were abolished
altogether, but while it remains it is the boun-
den duty of the Government to enforce it, and
protect the fair trader against the smuggler and
public robber. It is indeed monstrous that
while some daily journals are forced to pay the
Government between 2001. and 3001. a day for
stamps and advertisements, publications, in
all respects the same, should have been
so long allowed to issue from the press
with impunity. If the law is bad, repeal
it, but while it exists, give not one class
advantage over another, to the injury not only
of individuals, but the diminution of the public
revenue. The stamp duty might be reduced
one-half, and the amount of the revenue
doubled, if all periodical publications were rated
in fair proportions. Exemptions are claimed
for Reviews, Magazines, and Literary Ga-
zettes, all of which are read exclusively by the
rich, and those that can well afford to pay,
while newspapers, read as much by the
poor as the rich, are subjected to a tax
equal to the price of the paper, the
cost of printing, and the profit to both pro-
prietors and newsmen. It is, in fact, a pre-
mium in favour of wealth. The higher and
middling classes derive as much amusement I
from the reviews of works of art, from novels,
and sporting magazines, as the poor derive from
the reports from police offices, coroners' in-
quests, or any news of the day ; and it is, there-
fore, not only absurd, but partial and unjust, to
tax one class of publications and exempt the
other. It never can operate as a check on
agitation or sedition. In times of excitement,
nay, at all times, the law is evaded, and if the
people labour, under oppression, and conse-
quently are hostile to the government, there
never will be any lack even of stamped pub-
lications to excite them to mutiny. If the
stamp duty were abolished, and a moderate ad-
dition made to the duty on paper, the collection
of the tax would not only be more certain and
impartial, but the revenue would be increased,
and all classes placed in this respect on an equal
footing. Ministers must see, from the ano-
malous state of the law, and the unceasing and
successful attempts to evade it, that some cor-
rective measures are absolutely necessary.