The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-08 00:00:00

MINORITY

Of fifty-five who voted for reducing the Duty of Forty-
four Shillings, now paid on 1121hs. of Currants from
the lonian Islands, to Twenty-eight Shillings :
For the Reduction 55/ Majority
Against ditto 693 14

ENGLAND,
Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth
Attwood, Thos.—Birmingham
Bewes, T.—Plymouth
Blamire, Corn.
Berland
Brotherton, Joseph—Salford
Buller, C.—Liskeard
Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham
Chapman, A.—Whitby
Collier, J.—Plymouth
Divett, E.—Exeter
Evans, Colonel—Westminster
Ewart, Wm.—Liverpool
Faithfull, G.—Brighton
Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. Ed.
Gaskell, D.—Waketield
Gisborne, T.—North Derbysh.
Holcomb, J.—Dover
Harvey, D. W.—Colchester
Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, Ist
of Wight
Hawes, B.—Lambeth
Hughes, Hughes—Oxford
Hutt, Win.—Hull
Tames, W.—Carlisle
Lowther,Viscount—Westmore.
land
Lyall, G.—London
Moreton, A. ll.—West Glou-
cestershire TELLERS.
parker, J.—Sheffield
Grote, G.—London
Parrott, Jasper—Totness
Hume, J.—Middlesex
Penleage, C.—Southampton
It is worth considering by whom the small majority of
fourteen was composed, and if the Ministers and the
Members belonging to the Government are deducted, it
will be found that there was a clear majotity in favour of
the reduction. Currants have become of so great im•
portance as an article of food for the labouring classes, that
it becomes very desirable to obtain their admission into
the country at such a duty as will cheapen them. The
price of the currants is 7s. 6d. per cwt. in the island of
Z inte, and the duty now levied by us is 445. or 600 pfr
cent. The lonian Islands are under the protection of the
British Government, and it is singular that we should
place so heavy a duty on the produce of these islands.
No other fruit is charged so heavy a duty as the currants,
and the consumption is thereby much diminished ; and
the comforts of the consumers much diminished. It is to
be expected that this subject should be soon again before
I Parliament fur their consideration.

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ENGLAND
Plumptre, J. P.—East Kent
Potter, R.—Wigan
Poulter, J. S.—Shaftesbury
Sandal, Lord—Liverpool
Shawe, R. N.—Ea4t. Suffolk
Strutt, E.—Derby
'Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland
Tooke, W.—Truro
Torrens, Col.—Bolton
Whitmore, W. W.—Wolver.
hampton
Williams, G.—Ashton
Wood, Alderman—London
Young, G. T.—Tynemouth

SCOTLAND.
Sinclair, G.—Caithness-shire
Wallace, Robert—Greenock

IRELAND.
Copeland, Alderman
Mullins, F. W.—Kerry
O'Connell, Morgan—Meath
O'Connell, John—Youghall
O'Dwyer, A. C.—Drogheda
Rtithven, E. S.—Dublin
lluthven, Edward—Kildare
Sullivan, It.—Kilkenny
Wallace, T.—Carlow

Our criminal law (says Mr. A NDREWS, in his
able work on this subject) is the cause of ext nsive crime ;
for nothing is more certain than that cruelty in punishing
slight offences not only induces, but compels offenders to
commit alore atrocious crimes. Thus the robber who, in
England, takes the money of a traveller opon the high-
way, is compelled at the same time to take h
i is life, be-
cause as the punishment of death is equally inflicted for
robbery and murder, and as the murder of the marl who
is robbed is the bast way of getting rid of his evidence, it
becomes the very hest (safest) thing the robber can do to
perpetrate it. This is, certainly, a strange specimen of
the wisdom of our ancestors,

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1833.

We are now enabled to state, upon good au
thority, that the British and French Cabinets
have formally signified to the representatives of
Don PEDRO in this country their wish for the
ex-Emperor to withdraw all pretensions to the
Regency in favour of one of the aunts of Donna
MARIA. We are also assured that instructions
have been sent out to Lisbon to a distinguished
personage, to press such an arrangement ; and,
above all, to secure for it, if possible, the ap-
probation of the Duke of PALMELLA. The
grounds of this proposed arrangement are, Ist,
that Don PEDRO is disqualified for the Re-
gency by an article of the Constitutional Char-
ter, which declares that the Regent shall be the
next person in succession to the Crown—rather
an absurd enactment, we think, considering the
interest which such a person would have in
setting aside the heir apparent ; and, secondly,
because Don PEDRO is personally obnoxious to
certain Sovereigns whose consent is required to
the final arrangement of the Portuguese Question.
It does not appear from what we have heard
that any hope is entertained of Don PEDRO'S
consenting to relinquish the Regency, and it is
almost too late, we think, to enforce upon him
such an abandonment of dignity. All that has
been done towards the emancipation of the Por-
tuguese has been done in his name. He ar-
rived in Lisbon whilst the inhabitants were full
of enthusiastic gratitude for their deliverance
under his Regency. Will they not, for a
time at least, consider themselves bound by
gratitude to confirm him in the appointment ;
and will those eminent persons, the Duke of
PALMELLA, the Duke of TERCEIRA, and
Viscount St. VINCENT, who could enforce his
retirement, render themselves obnoxious to the
nation, or at least to that portion of the nation
which considers itself indebted to PEDRO
for the destruction of despotism, by opposing
the ambitious views of the ex-Emperor ? Lord
PALMERSTON and his colleagues now discover
the folly which they committed in refusing for so
long a time to recognise Donna MARIA as Queen
de facto of Portugal. Had they done this even
a month ago, they might have stipulated upon
any condition. PEDRO would not then have
ventured to have made his personal ambition an
obstacle to an arrangement which would have
secured the possession of Portugal to his
daughter. Now, however, that he has obtained
by his own means what he might have been in•
debted for to the intervention of England, he
may very fairly inquire upon what principle the
British Cabinet, after having refused to interfere
against Don MIGUEL, can interfere in favour
of those who desire the retirement of Don
PEDRO. Unless, therefore, PEDRO be a man
of greater moderation and somewhat sounder
sense than we take him to be, or the people of
Portugal should declare against him, which we
do not expect, considering how bitterly they
complained of the feebleness of the last female
regency, Lord PALMERSTON and Prince TAL-
LEYRAND will find it as useless to protocolize
against Don PEDRO as they did against the
King of the NETHERLANDS.

Some very unfounded statements have gone
forth respecting the Belgian conferences. VVe are
authorized to state that there is not the slightest
truth in the report of the King of HOLLAND
having insisted upon the capitalization of the
Belgian portion of the joint national debt, or
of his having raised his demand as to the share
of the debt to be borne by Belgium. He in-
sists, however, on the arrears, which the Bel-
present the chief ground of delay.
'There are,
Bel-
gians
ho:eayser,resesol
veuratelimy,:e.fruosebstto pay,s. and this is at
obstacles.

The study of political economy appears to be
making rapid progress in France. It has been
found desirable even to make the experiment of
a periodical expressly and exclusively devoted
to the circulation of the most important doctrines

of that great science, a science which viewed
from its true and proper elevation, comprehends
all the questions of public happiness. The
Monthly Review of Political Economy, of which
M. Fix is the Editor, is written in both a wise
and a benevolent spirit. The topics of the day
are treated ably, and the necessity of extending
commercial connection with England is earnestly
advocated in an article on the results of Dr.
BOWRING'S mission in France. By the way,
it was a great satisfaction to us, and it must be to
all benevolent minds, to observe by some of the
provincial newspapers, that l' Alliance indus-
trielle de la France and de 1 Angleterre (the
Trading Union between France and England)
was put forth among the prominent devices
during the celebration of the three glorious days
of July. Such are, such should be, the results
of every triumph of freedom. To the alliance
of monarchs the alliance of nations must succeed,
an alliance far holier, wiser, and better,—an
alliance whose instrument will be peace, and
whose consequence, prosperity.

Mr. HUME'S motion on the subject of the
house tax, although unearned last night, pro-
duced a number of declarations from Lord
ALTHORP, which give us strong hope that this
partial and therefore unjust tax will next Ses-
sion be either modified or reduced. His Lord-
ship observed " that though, if left to his own
opinion, and acting upon the financial princi-
ples which he entertained, he would not select
this tax as one of the first that he would pro-
pose to reduce ; yet, looking at the views of the
country on the subject, he did think that it
would be the duty of Government, whenever
it should be enabled to do so, to reduce this
tax, and that whenever its place could be sup-
plied, either by some different arrangement of
the assessed taxes, or by the substitution of
some other tax, the tax upon houses ought to
be reduced." His Lordship very truly states
that this was going much further than he yet
had done. In several other portions of his
speech, he expressed his hopes that the army
might next year be reduced, that the revenue
would improve, and that he should be able in
some way or other to meet the wishes of the
people. Whilst advocating the reduction of this
tax, we have throughout agreed with his Lord-
ship that in principle it was not a bad tax, for
in nine cases out of ten it falls upon the landlord,
and is in fact a tax upon property. The grand
objection we have always had to it has been that
it is a tax upon a particular species of property ;
that it is a part of the system by which the
landed aristocracy have sought to throw all the
burdens of the country upon commerce, manu-
factures, and industry generally. It has been as
a part of that system that it has been maintained
by the Tories. No longer ago than the last
discussion on the repeal of the house and window
taxes, a red faced man was heard, just before the
division, to say to a stolid looking youth, in the
lobby of the House of Commons, " Well, my
Lord, I suppose you back up the land ?"
Of course." The pair walked into the
House, and in half an hour " the land"
was proclaimed triumphant, and houses van-
quished. With many such enlightened legisla-
tors to deal with, the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, be he whom he may, will always
have a difficult task to perform in any attempt
to equalize the public burdens. It is the duty,
therefore, of the people to aid him, by every means
in their power, to fight their battle—nay, even by
their petitions and instructions to their represen-
tatives, to compel him, if need be, into the
performance of an act of justice. It is an act
of justice to relieve all house-owners and holders
from a tax on their property to which the pro-
perty of no other class in the community is
subject. Justice, we are assured, will be done;
and we are almost indifferent whether it be by
the removal of the tax altogether, or by such
an altered mode of levying it as will make
all houses, whether farm-houses or palaces,
throughout the United Kingdom, pay in the
same proportion as shopkeepers.

The Paris papers of Monday, Tuesday, and
yesterday's date, mention that preparations were
making at Paris for the departure of her Majesty
Queen Donna MARIA for Portugal. The
same papers contain an extract from the Augs-
burg Gazette, by which it would seem that
Russia, in conjunction with Austria and Prussia,
entertained a project of interfering in the affairs
of Portugal, by way of counteracting the influ-
ence of France and England. The Garde
National of Marseilles states, that disturbances
broke out in that town on the 28th and 29th,
when shouts were heard of " A bas les Bas-

tines !" " A bas le juste-milieu 1" which were
replied to by the troops of the line with shouts
of " Vive le Roi !" The Russian troops had
at length, it seems, received orders to evacuate
the Turkish dominions.

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By the Flanders Mail we have received Brus-
sels
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in the same way as England and France have
done in those of the East. The article is drawn
up with much address, and is evidently put forth
as a sort of feeler. " If," says the writer, " a
certain confidential union exists between
the English and French Governments, as
seems to result from the strict uniformity
of their mode of proceeding, the other Powers
must, by a similar process, neutralize such a
preponderating force, and endeavour to draw still
closer the bonds of friendship which already
subsist between them. Portugal now succeeds
to Belgium : Heaven grant that the seeds of
great and general trouble may not slumber in its
bosom ! " This is a pretty significant hint.
We trust, however, it will not have the effect of
alarming either France or England. A coalition
between the Northern Powers, when the general
state of Europe is considered, is a bug-bear cal-
culated only to call forth contempt and ridicule.

Yesterday, the following notice, signed by the
Duke of RICHMOND, the Postmaster-General,
was circulated in the city :

" General Post-office, Aug. 1833

,6 On and from Thursday, the 15th instant, a mail wil►
he sent to, and received from France, every day, Sunday
excepted.
4. L.tters will be taken in on Tuesdays and Fridays,
as usual, until eleven, p. m., and on the other days until
seven, p. m•

Better late than never ; but why, after all, is
the arrangement to be left so imperfect ? The
mails ought to be like rivers, constantly run-
ning. Every one could be left to his own con-
science, as to whether he should make use of
them on particular days; but as it is clearly possible
to imagine a case of necessity for communicating

with France on a Sunday, why should easy l
means of doing so be cut off ? But it is plain
that if our scrupulous Post-master-General is
to fulfil his pledge, he and all his establishment
must be accessary to what we consider a breach
of the Sabbath in others. A mail, says he,
will be received from France every day, and of
course the letters will be distributed every
day, Sundays excepted. Now, for a French
mail to arrive in London on the Tuesday,
it must start on the Sunday. Again, how can
a mail leave London on the Saturday without
involving the necessity of employing labour to
carry it across the channel the next day ? This
is British labour—Church of England labour ;
but if we were to carry the argument further, it
might be shown that a mail ought to leave
London on no day whatever, inasmuch as in
some part of its journey it would travel on a
Sunday. The absurdity of attempting to stop
all travelling of mails anywhere on the Sunday
is practically acknowledged by our Post-
office, for although in London we most
piously prevent any letters being put into the
post (except by Members of Parliament)
on the Sunday, yet in every other part
of the country letters are received and de-
adatched on that day. If, therefore, it be a
deadly sin to read a letter from a friend on
Sunday, the salvation of the metropolis is
insured, as far as that goes, at the expense of
that of the country. We would, therefore,
advise provincial saints forthwith to petition
Parliament to reverse the present system,
for it is clearly unjust that twenty mil-
lions should be damned to all eternity, in
the vain attempt to save the inhabitants of a
city already, we are told by ST. ANDREW, irre-
deemably lost. Perhaps the holy man would
make the change part of the Bill he is to bring
in next session to prevent beer and other liquors
from " working" on the Sabbath.

AIPERIALPAR,LIAMEN't
THIS DAY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

At twenty-five minutes after twelve o'clock the gallery
was opened, when we found between twenty and thirty
Members in the House.

Mr. JOHN ROMILLY brought up the report on
Maurice's Estate Bill • report read, and the Bill then read
a third time and passed. The Hon. Member then brought
up the report on the Limerick Chapel Estate Bill, which
was also read, and the Bill then read a third time and
passed.
Mr. BRISCOE moved the third reading of a Bill to
amend the Act of the Thames Tunnel! Company.—Read
a third time and passed.
On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON, the House
went into Committee on the Grand Juries (Leland Bill).
Clauses 59 to 62 inclusive, were respectively withdrawn
after a short discussion. Clauses 63 to 73, inclusive, were
then severally agreed to, with occasional amendments.
The chairman next read the 74th clause providing for
the presentments for dispensaries.
Mr. O'DWYER moved an amendment to make it im-
perative on Grand Juries to present the salaries of medical
men.

...-.
A long discussion ensued between Mr. Ruthven, Mr. E.
Ruthven, Sir E. Hayes, Dr. Baldwin, and Mr. Littleton
upon this subject.
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the Amendment l2
Against it
Majority —2

The clause was then agreed to.
A discussion took place upon clause 75, respecting the
qualifications of surgeons of dispensaries, to which Mr.
Vigors moved an amendment, which he ultimately with-
drew, and the clause was agreed to.
Clause 76 was agreed to without observation, and 77
with a verbal amendment.

Clause 78 was postponed.
Clauses 79, SO, 8 1., and 82 were agreed to.
Clause 83, after a division in which the numbers were
43 and 6, was expunged, in consequence of its interference
between landlord and tenant.

~... ..,
After some further discussion of no public interest, the
SPEAKER resumed the chair, and it being three o'clock,
the House adjourned.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended Aug. 2, 1833, made up from the Returns
of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England
and Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat—...... 565. 5d.1 Oats 19s. 4d.1 8ean5....... 345. sd.
Od 1 Rye ..—... 31a. lid 1 Pea5e........ 375. 4d.
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TOE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING.
Wheat..—. 555. ld.l Oats ...ft. 19s. 1d.18ean5....... 345. 3d.
3d.1 Rye ....... 325. lid 38s. Id.
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Wheat....... 31s. Bd.l Oats 18s. 3d.1 8ean5...... 183. 3d.
Barley led.' Rye 21s. 3d.1 Pease—ft.. 123. 6d.

HAY MA RKETS.—i At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND.
. . . .

New Meadow Hay ss. per load higher than last quoted ; prices
otherwise stationary. A moderate supply, and a steady trade.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
New Meadow Hay 3 5 3 15
Useful Old Ditto 3 10 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ......
Clover Hay 3 15 5 5
Oat Straw £1 6to X 1 8 I Wheat Straw ... 110 113

SMITHFIELD.
Supply good, trade dull, and prices barely stationary.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5
New Meadow Hay 3 5 3 10
Useful old Ditto 3 10 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-grass Hay .....
Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s s... Generally
Oat Straw ... Ll Bto £1 101 Wheat Straw 1 10 1 13

A correspondent, who is a stranger to the
metropolis, expresses his surprise that in such a city as
London, and in the very centre of it, the clock of St.
Paul's should be allowed to deceive and disappoint so many
thousands daily. The complaint is not without reason,
the clock having been out of order for upwards of two
months ; the mention of the fact may, however, be the
means orremedying the evil should it meet the eye of those
whose duty it is to attend to such matters. The same
charge may be brought against St. Martin's clock, which,
like, its cousin in the city, has been dumb for about the
same period. Other churches (St. John's in the Waterloo
road, for instance) are also in the same predicament ;
so
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public clocks of London.
COTTON MARKET.—TUESDAY, Two
o'CLocx.—There is very little demand for Cotton this
morning. The sales are only 150 Bahian, at 12d., and
about 600 American, at steady prices. Arrived one vessel
from Savannah.—Liverpool Standard.
CORM EXCHANGE.— TUESDAY, TWO
o'cLocx.—There were few country dealers at our market,
and but a poor attendance of the town trade. A small
retail business was done with the latter in good and fine
fresh red Irish Wheats, at 7s. a. 7s. 4d., and at 7s. 6d.
for extra fine, but extra kinds were neglected. The hold-
ers of Canada Wheats made no progress in sales, as they
would not submit to the same reduction as an Irish, which
is frilly 641. per bushel. Oats were 2d. a 3d. cheaper,
andwheads
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prime Drogheda Oatmeal was sold at 225., and 21s. 6d.
was very dull, at a decline of 2d. ; and most other articles
were nominally cheaper. Several parcels of new Drog-
aellvelontinofgnaewgreoeanti
Oat-
meal at 265. —Liverpool Standard.
grocer (an inhabitant of this town), entertained a select
tea party, and among the guests was a sergeant of the Ist
Dragoon Guards. About ten o'clock the party broke up,
and the vendor of cabbages, &c., with his better half, re-
tired to rest; but what was his astonishment on waking
the next morning to find that his wife had quitted the
connubial couch ! and no tidings of her could be found.
In the course of Sunday, a report reached Worthing that
a sergeant of the said regiment had deserted, and the green-
grocer tho'ight it not unlikely that his wife had under-
taken to be a partner of his flight. He and one of our
police-officers immediately proceeded to Arundel, where
they found the fugitives. The sergeant was safely con-
veyed to Brighton Barracks, and " the faithless she" re-
stored to her disconsolate husband.--Brighton Gazette:
A boat belonging to Mr. CATT brought on
shore, a few days ago, a fish of an extraordinary kind.
Its fins resembled the arms and hands (with finger nails)
of a human being, and it had two protuberances or sort
of pockets, on each breast, which were filled with small
fish. When taken from the net, it followed the fisher-
men round the boat, and in order to get ri i of so " ugly
a customer," they procured weapons, and despatched it
foethwith....Brighton Gazette.

COURT OF CITANCERY.-(THIS

GARRICK'S VILLA..—T:ARR v. rROTHEROS.
_Abed
Sir C. WETHERELL, on behalf of the plaintiff, 7;:.;,
to know whether it was the intention of the other 1"?
consent to the terms which be had yesterday proposJr
Mr. WRIGHT said that the solicitor's client vi." 10)
structed him was out of town, and that be (the soh6L4,
did not feel quite at liberty to consent to the o'
unless Sir Charles Wetherell would agree to big
peal motion being dismisse. Wit I°
Sir C. WETHERELL peremptorily refused to con ON
0
that, and declared tkat he would not deviate one si
from the terms that bad been offered.

A tiri
,ndeu

The LORD CHANCELLOR then recornmen.-
Wright's client to accede to the terms, which 1,6; Oil
C
diately did. Thus the Court confirmed Mr. or •
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to the landing and steps, part of the Temple 16/1001
Hampton belonging to Garrick's Villa. By the ter
compromise, all further legal proceedings are put
to, and each party pays his own costs.