The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-26 00:00:00

"REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA.

"Department fur Foreign Affairs, Caraccas, April 17.
" I have the honour to forward you a copy of the
decree passed by the Congress on the 6th of the present
month, and confnmed by the Executive on the 10th of
the same, respecting the treaties which have to be con.
eluded between this Republic and the Ecuador.

" In three or four months' time there will be in your
capital a Minister Plenipotentiary appointed by my Go.
vernment to conclude the treaties which may be *found
necessary for the parties concerned, to liquidate the
amount of the foreign and domestic debt contracted by
the old Republic of Columbia, and to determine the
properthnial share which each ought to pay.
" I furnish yuu with this information beforehand for
your convenience, and I remain, &c.

" SANTOS MICIJELENA.
"To the Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the
Government of New Granada."

The Swedish Government have determined
that, after September, they will discontinue the forward-
ing of letters to England via Gothenburg. It seems the
rapid communication with England via Hamburg, by the
steam boats, has turned the regular correspondence en-
tirely into that channel, and that by discontinuing the
regular mail to England, the Swedish Government will
effect an annual saving of 0,000 dollars banco.

HEAVY FINE.—A poor woman named Mar-
garet Callaghan, was on Friday fined at Queen square t Os.
under the Grosvenor Act, for placing a basket of fruit on
the footway pavement, in Queen's-row, Pimlico ; in
default of payment she was committed for a month to
prison.

The Frankfort Journal says :—" We
learn
by a letter from Celthain, in Saxony, that on the 2d inst.
a flock of between 600 and 800 storks alighted near that
town, and afterwards resumed their flight towards the
".',l:. As the migration of these birds uniformly takes
place in the autumn, this early passage must be considered
as arising from some unusual natural cause."
,
SWANSEA.--- Last week was caught in a
Weir, on the eastern side of the pier head, rented of the
Duke of Beaufort
g
, by Robert and David Sparks, a fish, supposed to he a dolphin,
traordinary size and dimensions: Weight, 72168- ;
of the following ex-
length, 3 feet ; girth, 3 feet; front the a ut to thegill,
l.t inches; and the width of the tail, appearance of a fish of the above description being
In:inches. The
a no.
velty at Swansea, excited great curiosity
Wale viewaninongf the
inhabitants. It was exhibited to
in the new market-place, at threepence eacb,
the
daatoZ
wards cut up and sold to different gentlemen of the town,
at lixpence per pound... Hereford Journal.

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1833.

On Saturday we laid before our readers the
first report of the Select Committee appointed
to enquire into the conduct of the business at the
Stationary-office, and Sir JOHN KEY'S affair.
To-day we give its second report with some ex-
tracts from the evidence. It will be seen that the
Committee entirely exonerate the office, and those
at the head of it, from the charge of corrupt
practices, thus fulfilling the prediction we ven-
tured from the beginning to make upon this
subject. Sir JOHN KEY comes off rather more
lamely ; but has the consolation of thinking that
in consequence of his patriotic self-devotion, re-
gulations will be framed for every department of
the public service, which will prevent the future
necessity of similar sacrifices for the public
service. We understand that the inquiries in-
stituted by the Treasury have shown that
although the want of general regulations to '
ensure the efficiency of those who have brad the
good fortune to be introduced into Govern-
ment offices, has not upon the whole been
attended with such ill effects as might have been
expected, yet that there are cases which could
not have occurred under a proper system of
chec-

Tithes Stay of Suits' Bill passe,,,
House of Commons on Saturday, and was
immediately taken up to the Lords and read a
first time. It is to be read there a second time
this evening, that is, unless their Lordships in
their wisdom should think fit to reject it. We
would urge upon the recollection of their Lori}
ships, that the clause in Lord TENTERDEN S
Act, which has given room to the present vex-
atious proceedings of the clergy, was introduced
against that Noble Lord's wish, and that a
more sincere friend of the church was not to be
found than he was. The following extract from
the speech of the SOLICITOR-GINERAL, on
Saturday, may give them the means of judging
how far it will be wise to permit the clergy to
have their own way. The Learned Gent. said
" Front the information communicated to him
by his Hon. Friend the Member for East Cum-
berland he was authorised in saying that 9,000
suits had been instituted for tithes in cases
where there had been a modus. What was the
consequence of that, in the way of expense
alone ? Taking these suits to cost 200/. each,
there would be an expenditure approaching TO
TWO MILLIONS OF :NZONES'. But, in-1
dependently of the expense, what vexa-
tion was thus inflicted upon the occupier of
land, who had bought the property, or taken
it on lease, subject to a modus ?" Our co-
temporary, the Morning Post, who has usually
something droll to say even on the most serious
occasions, speaking on the subject says, " Time
majority of mankind arc not reasonable. They
require proofs that a system of gross exaggera-
tion has been practised upon the occasion of
this measure. They require proofs that the
clergy have not manifested a grasping or litigious
disposition." The first position of the Morning
Post we do not think it necessary to discuss.
Its lucubrations arc addressed to a select few,
and having always advocated the absolute power
of those few over the lives and fortunes of " the
majority of mankind," it is of course a fundamental
article of the Morning Post creed, that the
majority of mankind are without reason. But
passing this by, we think that the proofs our
Contemporary gives of his assertion are some-
what singular. The described requisitions of
the " majority of mankind" imply, we humbly
submit, a very fair amount of rationality, a
larger amount, we hear, than the Lords will be
able to satisfy, whatever they may do with the
Tithes Stay of Suits' Bill.

'e learn from Brussels that the bill of indict-
ment which M. GENDEBIEN brought forward
in the Chamber against M. LEBEAU, Minister
of Justice, for having given up (in violation
of the liberty of the subject) a French refugee
of the name of LAVERGE, judicially charged
with the crime of fraudulent bankruptcy, on the
application of M. LATOUR MAUBOURG, the
French ambassador, was rejected on Friday by
the Chamber, so that the Minister of Justice is
acquitted.

The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday are
full of rumours respecting the illness of the
King of SPAIN. The
,-general belief 'vas, that
he could not long continue to exist, u: der the
new character which his malady had assumed.
The preparations for the departure of Queen
Donna MARIA were at length completed, but
no day was as yet fixed ; as her Majesty's

departure would depend on the arrival on the
French coast of Admiral NAPIER, under whose
escort the young Queen was to embark. Louis
PI ILLIP was to leave town for Cherbourg on
Tuesday. Some uneasiness was reported to be
felt at the Tuilleries in consequence of the ap-
proaching majority of the young Duke of Bort-
DEAux, au event which was considered likely.
to create another stir among the Carlists, two of
whose agents, the Dukes of GRAMMONT and
DE GUICHE, were expected in France.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARis, Ace. t 4.
Five per Cents., 104 f. B:.c.Four and a Half per Cents, 100 f. Ssc.
Four per Cents., 94f. 15c.
Three per Cents., 761: 6Cc.
Bank Actions, 1,7101.
Bente de Naples, 92f. 20c.
Roman Five per Cents., 914\1.
Bente d'Espagnc, Five per Cents., 17.
Itente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 427 i.
Royal Spanish Loan, 85.
Jtente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 681.8.
Belgic Loan, 1831, 963,i %.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 23f. 50c.; money, 25f. 45c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 23f. 35c.
—Cours Authentigne.

The Brazil Papers contain a message delivered
by order of the Regency, in the name of the
EMPEROR, to the Chamber of Deputies, by
which it seems that the Brazilian Regency are
apprehensive that intrigues for the restoration of
Don PEDRO, have been carried on to a formida-
ble extent in the country. The message is a
singular one, though it wears much the aspect
of an exaggeration.

We extract the following passage from the
illadrid correspondence (dated the 15th inst.)
of a morning cutemporary :—" Letters from the
, frontiers, received yesterday, announce that the
siege of Oporto has been raised, and that the
whole of the army sent by MIGUEL against
Lisbon has been disbanded. It is every moment
expected that both he and Don CAItLOS will
seek refuge in Spain. MOItILLO, the Captain-
General of Galicia, has received orders to re-
pair to Tuy, to meet them there, as it is to-
wards that city that the two princes seem to
have directed their steps."

The German Papers have been received, but
their contents are not of public interest. The
Nuremburg Correspondent of the 18th corn-
plains of the protracted debates of the Hungary
Diet, in terms which would lead one to suppose
that the Hungarian Diet is ambitious of rivalling
the oratorical superfluities of our English House
of Commons. The Allgemeine Zeitung men-
tions that the Portuguese affairs cause much
uneasiness to the Cabinet at Berlin, who are
apprehensive of the spread of republican princi-
ples. This same Journal contains some vague
speculations on the subject of Switzerland, and
the late disturbances at Basle.

`VIENNA, Aug, 15.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 94,
Bank Sharei, I,22o.—Allgeitneine Zeituny, Aug. 20.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT
will give great satisfaction to the country by her
education of the Princess VICTORIA, the Heir
Presumptive to the Throne, and by the early
initiation of the youthful Princess into the senti-
ments, habits, and occupations of the people.
The prudent and sensible conduct of the

Duchess of KENT is fully appreciated by the
public ; and her daughter is more likely to be a
popular and patriotic Queen by introduction to
the people, than through a premature intimacy
with the vanity and seductions of a Court.
The- history and recent changes of the Con-
tinental dynasties, and the memorable passages
in the British Constitution the last three years,
have furnished to all reflecting minds eventful
and signal lessons of the mutability and fragile
character of monarchical power. The develope-
went of the Representative principle, displayed
in the determined and triumphant contest in
this country to reform the constitution of the
House of Commons, has, in flict, established a
practical Republic. As the constituencies be-
come inure enlightened and pure, the popular
power will be omnipotent, and the Aristocracy
will cease to tyrannise over the people, or to
coerce the Crown. The interest of the people
and the Sovereign will annually become more
closely allied, and by the recent answer of the
Duchess of K ENT to an Address of the InL-
bitants of Torquay, her Royal Highness is sen-
sibly impressed with the spirit of the British
Constitution, and the " temper of the times"
in which she lives. Such a wise and patriotic
illumination is the more creditable in a member
of a Foreign Royal family, ?nd proves that the
Duchess of KENT is eminently qualified to
educate the future Sovereign of this country,
and to govern her minority. The Princess
VICTORIA will probably succeed to her future
throne at a critical period, and when political
sagacity and patriotism can alone secure it to
her, or transmit it to her successors. The
Duchess of KENT replies to the Torquay ad-
dress, —" The Princess, communicating as she
does with all classes of society, is deeply con-
scious of the sacred importance of the trust which
may be eventually committed to her charge, and
fully impressed with the conviction that, to be a
constitutional sovereign of a free people, is the
_soo.st exalted object of human ambition." This
is the principle on which alone bee daughter can
wield the British sceptre ; and it is deeply gra-
tifying to see that its probable possessor is thus
instructed in her own true interest and that of
her future subjects. We never have doubted,
if the hereditary principle of the Peerage is
hereafter modified, and the Reformed Par-
liament works out its ends, that the
form of the British Constitution, and the
monarchy may long survive with advantage to
the people, and -is preferable to more extreme
changes, for which the country is not duly pre-
pared. If the future policy of the Princess
VICTORIA is consistent with the interest of the
nation, she will eclipse the glory of ancient
British queens ; if, unfortunately, by a deft c-
tivc education, and any sinister influence, it
should be opposed to the power and will of the
people, it does not require the gift of prophecy
to fortell that she will he the last British sove-
reign in this part of Europe. The indications
of her political culture are, howe7er, highly
honourable to the Dutchess of KENT.

We refer our readers to the Morning Chic-
nick, in our extracts from the Contemporary
on the extraordinary conduct of the Earl
0f wicx, who has just re-appeared in
Parliament V ft
isa'Ament and at Court, but has not yet con-
descended to answer the letter addressed to him
by the Ministers of the Crown, requiring expla-
nation of his personal transactions in the recent
profligate and disgraceful election in the borough
of Warwick. The Noble Earl may be assured