The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-02 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.

JOHN JOHNSTON and .JAMES JOHNSTON, tanners,
Perth, Sept. 3 and 17, at one, at the Star Inn, Perth.

liAmisURG PAPERS.

HAMBURG, Arc. 29.—0 n Tuesday evening his Majesty's
steamer the Lightning, Captain Allen, arrived at Hamburg
with his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland and suite
on board.
Before leaving Liebenstien the Queen of England presented
200 ducats to the Town Council of Meiningen, towards the
erection of a school-house for female children, the old building
having for some years past been in a ruinous condition. Her
Majesty requested this gift to be considered as a testimony of
her gratitude for the cordial reception she had experienced in
her native city. To the town of wasunggen her Majesty pre-
sented 100 ducats, which are likewise to be expended in-the
erection of a school-house.

Two cities in Russia have again been nearly reduced to
ashes, the city of Kremenezug, in the Government of Pal-
lawa, and Elizabethgrad, in the Government of Chesson. In
the former 93, and in the latter about 300 houses were burnt ;
and even St. Petersburg itself, according to the last accounts,
was enveloped in clouds of smoke, occasioned by an extensive
conflagration in the neighbouring forests.
BORSEN HALLE, AUG. 29.—1 n Wheat there has been little
doing this week, the holders of the small parcels still afloat
demanding higher prices, when, as it is known that large sup-
lies may be expected as soon as there is water enough in the
river. Rye is higher owing to the small amount of arrivals.
Barley and Oats are also firm, with a short supply.
FUNDS, in general, less animated; Spanish Securities' have
experienced a farther decline to-day, though there was rather
an increased demand for them.
Discount, 34 per cent. End of August.
Anglo-Danish Loan; three per cent 7oif
Anglo-Russian lOO3
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1620
Ditto, ditto,lB3l
Ditto. 1E00,183° 94
Certificates 954
Polish Bonds - 1293.
Prussian Bonds, 183'
Austrian Bank Shares I22S
Ditto 51etalliques Viiti
Ditto 4 percent. —.
Ditto 4 per Cent. (1834)
•
Spanish 3 per Cents 21%
Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and > ons)
Ditto 4 per Cent. -39
Dutch *4.2 per Cents.
494
Ditto 5 per Cents
Lli
Portuguese Regency
—Hamburg Reporter, Aug. 29.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAmnunn, AUG. B'4'; Iwo months, 13 N.
CHRISTIANA. Aug. 20,—Three months, 6 80.
BERLIN, Aug. 26.—Thrce months, 6 26,
ST. PETERS:SWUM, A-Vo 4.—Three months. 10
Srocutotm, AM. t2.—Two Maths, 122 a

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1834.

We have received by" Express the whole of the Paris
Papers of Sunday, the Messager des Chambres and
the Journal de Paris of yesterday, together with in-
telligence from Madrid, dated the 25th instant. The
Parisian Journals, as usual, are taken up with long
accounts of royal and rebel marches, military move-
ments, " and all that sort of thing" *in Spain. Be-
tween Saturday morning and yesterday so many as
three despatches were received in Paris from Madrid,
in which it was officially announced that General
RoDir, had entered, and swept the valley of
the Bastan, with three columns, which severally
arrived at Louhaire, St. Estevan, and Lezaca,
on the 27th and 28th ult. ; that the troops under
RoDIL then proceeded to Roncesvalles, where Don
CARLOS was stationed with three companies, who
immediately fled in the direction of France, leaving the
QUEEN'S forces in quiet possession of the entire dis-
trict. We of course neither do, nor can vouch for the
correctness of these statements. Half of what is re-
ported respecting the war in Spain cannot be relied
upon, as a great part of the information is fur-
nished by the correspondents of the French Jour-
nals, who, of necessity, must depend upon what-
ever they can glean from stragglers and run-
aways from the army, and Bobadils among the officers,
whose past exploits are, according to their own ac-
Lutritta, a CllOU3alla LIII4J morc -chivalrously valorous
than the projected conquests of SHAKIPEA RE'S- Cap-
tain and his some twenty coadjutors. Old women too,
are nowsmongers, for lack of less marvellous chroniclers
of the devastations of war ; and hence, perhaps, two-
thirds of the battles that are reported might, without
any sacrifice of truth, be attributed to the toothless
love for military glory, and the trumpetings of that
g6ddess who " vires acquirit eundo."
The cholera still continues to rage in various parts
of Spain. It has recently broke out at Saragossa and
Ildefonso. The number of victims to this terrible plague,
hitherto mostly unknown in Europe, is very considerable.

The arrivals from Madrid add little to the accounts
given in the French papers, respecting the affairs of
Spain. The only topic which at present engages the
attention of the Chambers is the settlement of the debt,
and how much of it ought to be considered binding on
the nation. The greater part of the members are believed
to be favourable to the adoption of a very liberal view of
so much of it as was contracted with foreigners, though
a very large number indeed are for the rejection of all
but the Cortes Bonds. Our opinion of the justice of
Spain paying off, at any sacrifice, the whole of the debt,
by whomsoever contracted, was so strongly and fully ex-
pressed in The Sun of yesterday, that we consider it
unnecessary to say more, than that we hold it impos-
sible for, any circumstance, save that of inability to
pay, to cause us to deviate from the sentiments we
have already expressed on that head. Spain cannot,
without- ruin to herself, refuse the payment of her
debtS, vvhether contracted by King or Cortes—whether,
contracted for the purpose of liberating or enslaving
her people. The very men who are now members

of the Chambers were most of them as active and as
efficient members of society in 1824, when the Royal
loans-began to be projected and contracted, as they are
at this moment, and that was the time for them to have
protested against the unconstitutionality of the acts of
FERDINAND. Besides, they must reason in sheer ig-
norance
of the mercantile, world, if they suppose that by
refusing to recognize the Royal loans, they can inflict
suffering on the bonaficle loan-contractors. The money-
jobbers—the men who open their coffers at the call of
a Government—are too cunning to be caught in snares
thus carelessly set. They take good care that the
suffering and the loss, whatever they amount to, shall
be borne by merchants actively engaged in trade, and
industrious citizens, who scramble up something by
way of a sheet-anchor in distress, which they imme-
diately invest in the funds. This forms the great
secret of national debt, and includes the great danger of
touching it with a dishonest hand. And yet how few
of those who rave about a national bankruptcy, seem
to understand the smallest particle of the details and
ramifications of this great question ? How few seem
to be at all aware that an act of national bankruptcy
would only trench upon the luxuries of the rich,
through the intermediate ruin of the whole of the indus-
trious classes and small capitalists of any -country in
which such an act would be perpetrated ?

We have received various communications from
COrrespondents,- stating, that in our remarks
.of Mon-
day and `Wednesday last, on the evidence and reports
of the CoMmittees on the private business of . the
House of Commons, we omitted noticing an important
part of the abuse which exists in that branch of the
business, and which is the impropriety of allowing the
clerks of the House to continue to solicit Private
Bills, and to act as agents for parties promoting and
opposing them. Mr. GUEST'S Committee of 1833
strongly objected to this practice, yet nothing seems to
have been done towards its correction, although
it cannot fail to surprise all those who have
attended or have any knowledge of Committees
on Private Bills, (except the_ persons imme-
diately interested in the jobbing part of it), to
see the time of many of the clerks of both Houses
chiefly occupied in acting as agents for and against
Private Bills. They not only do this, but use their
influence with Members to vote on the side which
they are feed to support, instead of attending to the
proper official duties of their situations, for the per-
formance of which they are well and even extrava-
gantly paid out of the public purse, and that too for
giving those facilities and that information to the pub-
lic for which they, in addition to their salaries, charge
exorbitantly as private agents, and thereby increase
their incomes in some cases beyond the salary
of the Speaker, and even of the Prime Minis-
ter I Indeed, *the length to which this practice has
been allowed to be carried on is not only highly preju-
dicial to the fair course of this branch of the business
of the House, but also disgraceful to the enlightened
character which a Reformed House ought to establish
and uphold. The abuses of a similar description
which existed at the Custom-house, at the Post-office,
and at the Colonial-office, have all been done away
with ; but the irregularities and corruptions which
exist in their own House seem to be the last which the
Hon. Body of Representatives of the nation think it
necessary to reform.

The slightest attention to the affairs in the East
must have convinced any one that the treaty entered
into on the month of May last year, between the SUL-
TAN and the Pacha of EGYi'T, was only of a tempo-
rary nature, and would be broken by one of the parties
on.the first convenient opportunity. Both were alike
adverse to the terms, and yielded to them from neces-
sity. The PORTE yielded because she saw no hopes
of contending with the army of IBRAHIM PACHA
after the battle of Koniah, and MEHEMET ALI
was forced to stop short in his career of victory,
because he despaired of fighting Turkey, backed, as
she then was, by a Russian fleet and army. Since that
period, however, he has not been idle. He has quelled
the insurrection in Syria ; and, by yielding to the
wishes as well as the prejudices of the inhabitants
of the newly-ceded provinces, has rendered them so
far favourable to his Government, that in all pro-
bability his army will be allowed to march against
the SULTAN without hindrance. And what will be
the result ? Precisely the same as that of the contest
in 1832. Neither the army nor the fleet of the SUL-
TAN has the slightest chance of success against the
veteran army and well-equipped fleet of the PACHA of
Egypt. The former are inferior in almost every re-
spect, but more especially in officers and discipline, to
the latter; and nothing but the blind rage of the SUL-
TAN, encouraged by the insidious designs of Russia,
could force him to try again so unequal a contest. If
the two powers were left to themselves, IBRAHIM
PACHA would be on the shores of the Dardanelles
in six months, and in less than that period after-
wards would make himself master of Constantinople.
Considering his enterprising character—the disaffection
which prevails against the SULTAN from his partiality
to Russia—and the vast superiority of the Egyptian
troops; that is a question of which there could be no
Fc;;side doubt. Chit any vile then mistake 'the mo-
tives of Russia in urging the renewal•- of the contest,
qr hesitate as to the course which France and England
ought to take ? Russia's object is to plunge the SUL-
TAN into greater difficulties, in order that, in return
for assistance, some new vantage ground may be ob-
tained for taking possession of the capital ; and the
obvious policy of these countries is to prevent this.
It would be greatly for the advantage of England if an
efficient Government, such as that of MEHEMET ALI,
were established at Constantinople, because it would
form one of the strongest barriers in that quarter against
the encroachments of Russia ; but at present that is out
of the question. The Emperor NICHOLAS is too much
interested in the dispute to stand by with a vast army
unemployed, and see the fall of Constantinople, and
would exert all his strength to protect the SULTAN
from invasion. England and France, therefore, must
be guided by the present juncture of affairs. The
former has a fleet of six sail of the line, with nine or
ten smaller vessels, in that quarter ; and negociations,
backed by such a fleet, together with the French fleet,
ready to sail from Toulon, would be sufficient to bring
the two parties to reason, without allowing Russia that
preponderance in the transaction which our negligence
or mistaken policy gave her on the former occasion.

Mr. Poulett Thomson' has`left town for Scotland.
The Right Hon. Gentleman is, we understand, about to ascer-
tain the state of manufacturing industry in Glasgow, Dundee,
&c. He is not expected to return for six weeks.. 2lforning
Advertiser.

NORTHAMPTON, AUG. 30.--Our Race Balls on
Wednesday and Thursday had to boast of a full attendance of
beauty and fashion. Tae first night was the best in point of
numbers, but on both evenings the ball went off with groat
spirit. Weippert's band attended.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY•)

iFROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, SEPT. 1.-44 find S. W., moderate.—Arrrivad from
the River, and sailed, the D' Auvergne, Hcrquet, for Honduras
Margaret, from the Westward ; Velocity, from Jamaica ; and
Lentor, Tramp, from Portsmouth, for Chatham. His Majesty
ships Thalia and Champion and the outward-bound remain.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Wind S. S.W. to W.---Arriyeo
the Lord Brougham, Peacock, from Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, Auo. 31.—Wind S.W.--Arrived from London
his Majesty's ship Algerine from the Cape of Good Hope'
SHOREHAM, SEPT. I.—Arrived the Jane Dunn, Loney, fr°ll
Quebec.
BRISTOL, SXTT. I.—Arrived the Adelaide, Dunsford, from
Leghorn.
GLOSTER, Acu. 31.—Arrived the Constantine, Berry, fr°l2.

Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, Ato. 31.—Arrived the Kangaroo, Reif, fr°ll/
Odessa; Variable, Oswald, from Nantes; and the Laura'
Rickells, from Memel.
CLYDE, AUG. 30.—Arr. the Leman, Cleling, from Jamaica'
STANGATE CREEK, AUG. 31.—Arrived the Columbia°
packet, Sadler, from Constantinople.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 31.—Wind W. to S.W. fresh breesell.'
Arrived the Skylark packet from Jamaica, sailed July 96;
his Majesty's ship Royalist, from Oporto; Margaret, Oder'
from Licata; and the James Dunn, Fusse, from Lisbon.

The Portland, Ord, from London, was run on shore new
Cronstadt, on the 22d ult., but was expected to bo got °
without damage.
The Ewell, Grove, from Morant to Carlisle Bay Jam
on the 25th July got upon a reef, and it was feared, would be
wrecked.
The Aurora, Watkins, from Maracaibo to Kingston, Jamai
on the 19th July, with loss of both masts, &c., bound to
verpool.
The Ellen, Drogher, with 22 hhds. of sugar for the Me.
dora, was totally lost at Innis Bay, Jamaica, previous to the
23d July.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

HAY MARKETS.—qAt per Load of 36 Trusses .

CUMBERLAND. X 4 °
Coars, heavy Lowland Meadow Hay ......... ...... ..... ....... 10
New Meadow Hay 4 5 0
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Itye.grass Hay 5 5 56 0.
Clover Hay . 4 5 9 0
Oat Straw ...... .......t.:1! —l2 to .£1 14 1 Wheat Straw 1 18
SMITH
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow HayFIELD.
.£4 £3 j 5 to 404
New Meadow Hay 4 5 5 0
Useful Old t)itto 4 10 5 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay
Clover flay „extra fine .t 6 0 Generally ....... 4 0 15 lB
Oat Straw .1.1 14 to £I 16 1 Wheat Straw 1 16

Coarse Meadow Hay _.--
j 4 --- ---
£3 IS to 4 5
1°
5
New Meadow Hay 4 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 4 11 y 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clover Hay
Oat Straw A 1 1z ta X 1 14 l Wheat Straw

lIUNGERFORD.

COLONIAL MARKETS.—(THIS DAY• 2„
BRITISH PLANTATION SUGAR.—During the last week
liveries were above 2,400 hhds., but the estimated sales Ilmo,un to
to 3,500 hhds. Strong grey Sugar for refining fetched s'"';
535., and brown Sugar from 50s. to 525. per cwt. and
Very little is doing in East India and Foreign Sugars to-day,
refined Sugars are dull of sale. of
COFFEE.—The market evinces much steadiness, at the re 7i,
advance. Fine and clean qualities have advanced from 61. t 4
oo
per cwt. Very little is doing in Foreign Coffee, as the orders 0
the Continent are small. a thie
The East India merchants' sale of Drugs, tcc., commence but
morning, pursuant to advertisment. The attendance was full, lit
the chief of the articles were withdrawn, as the merchants voubie
not consent to allow an extension of the prompt. Considers
discussion took place on the subject, but the preamble was Idhe
to by the committee. yoR
TEA.—The sale at the India House is proceeding. ibis
Iloheas are not lower, and the Congou packages rather higher
last sale. there
INDIGO.—The Market is in a very inactive state, although that
has been nothing pressing on the Market, but it is believed, 10
should any forced sales be attempted, they would not realise bflo
or 4d. per lb., the late quotations. The next sale will take Pat
on the 7th of October. Caracca and Guatimala have been brouPtll
forward by public sale in small lots, and during the pest °/°°
have declined 6d. per lb.
i le et
LAC-DYE.—There is a pretty fair demand for this art-c,,,i'eto
rather improved quotations. More compotitioa amonst pure.
is evinced. A bet
COCHINEAL —The recent arrivals have chocked the 'dope'
there is a rather gocd demand.
ANNATTO.—The quotations arc fully maintained, with a g
demand.
ARGOI. AND CREAM or TARTAR.—There is but little de°
for these articles, and the quotations are barely maintained. 01
'MADDERS AND MADDER_ROOTS.—Prices are rather lower,
theM market is very heavy.
UNJEET.—Nothing has been done of importance in this c°°l'
modity.
RUM is in demand for exportation. The delivery last week s(si
full 600 puncheons. Proof Leewards are at 2s. per gallon.
TALLow remains at 435. 6d. per cwt.
Hors.—The duty is at 145,0001. to 150,0001., the accounts pet
being so good.