The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-10 00:00:00

SKERRY-VORE.

The Board of Commissioners of the Northern Light-
houses have long had in view the erection of a building, on
the principle of the Eddystone and Bell-Rock Lighthouses,
upon the rock Skerry-vore. Several members of the Board
accordingly visited that rock some years since, and their
engineer, with the Pharos tender, is now on a survey to as-
certain the practicability and expense of this undertaking.
The western coast of Argyleshire has, in consequence, a
somewhat gay appearance, with surveyors' staffs and flags
on several of the islands. The first operation on the rock
itself was to erect a tide-scale, and a spear with a flag ;
and in case of accident to the attending boats, thereby
leaving the persons engaged in the survey on the rock,
some provisions were landed : in particular a cask of water
and a chest of biscuits were fixed upon the rock, with a
suitable inscription in. English and Gaelic, and if these are
above the attacks of the sea in winter, the provisions may
perhaps succour some ship-wrecked mariner ! What with
these preparatory measures, the noise of hammers, and the
waving of the flag on the rock, the seals and cormorants,
its only inhabitants, have entirely deserted it. Skerry-
yore rocks lie twenty miles to the westward of Staffa
and lona. They are situate in the open sea in the di-
rect tract of what is termed the outer-passage of the He-
brides, at the distance of about thirty-five miles from each
of the lighthouses of Barrahead and the Rhins of Islay ;
they also lie much in the way of ships making the land
from the Western Ocean, when bound by the North Chan-
nel for the Clyde and the Mersey, &c. This reef, including
the sunken rocks on either side of it, extends about ten
miles in an eastern and western direction, so that upon
Skerry-vore, or in consequence of it, many ships are lost
with their entire crew. Not a season passes that the inha-
bitants of the neighbouring islands islands do not make a
voyage to it in quest of wreck, which they are too suc-
cessful in finding, from a nail to an anchor. It fortunately
happens that the top of the chief rock of this range is con-
siderably above the highest tide, whereas Mr. Stevenson
laid the foundation of the Bell Rock Lighthouse under
the level of the lowest tide. The expense of a similar work
at Skerry-voce must therefore be less than that at the Bell
Rock, which he states in his work on this subject to be
about 63,000/. We happen to know, and we think it de-
serves notice, that Sir Walter Scott was much attracted by
the poetic name of Skerry-vore ; and that whilst he was col-
lecting materials for The Lord of
.the Isles he was so
struck with the account given by the inhabitants of lona of
its devastations that he visited this fatal rock ; and having
landed he waved his hat from the top. of it, and, in his own
happy manner, took possession of it in the name of his
Britannic Majesty.—Caledonian Mercury.

FURIOUS DRIVING.—On Monday, about twelve
o'clock, as two omnibuses were passing clown Cheapside, a
passenger in the first was getting out, but the driver did not
stop or slacken his speed, which was full eight miles an hour ;
the consequence was, the poor man was thrown down in step-
ping into the road, when the horses of the other omnibus,
which was going at the same rate, knocked him down, and
be very narrowly escaped with his life, as the wheels grazed
him in puling.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1634.:

The Paris Papers of Monday have all been re-
ceived by express, together with intelligence from
Bayonne of the 3rd inst., and arrivals from Lisbon of
the 31st of August. The French Journals report
very favourably of the success of the QUEEN'S troops
in Spain, who within the last few days have hunted
the insurgents from Elisondo to the heights of Ordox,
whence many of them have retreated in the most disor-
derly manner. The Carlist troops are grown weary
of war ; the novelty, or rather the chivalry of being
enrolled among the brave defenders of a Royal
fugitive, is a poor support against the perils of
famine and the sword, and the fatigues of forced mid-
night marches, with a victorious army hanging on and
harassing their rear. Chivalry is very fine in story-
books ; but in reality, where it generally rewards its
votaries with an empty belly and a bare back, and
perhaps only doffs its bonnet in a leave-taking at the
foot of the gallows, it is but a sorry acquaintance.
The Carlist volunteers already know this. For
weeks together have they been flying before a
victorious army, through a mountainous country
without roads, destitute of all but the most scanty
supply of potatoes, exposed to heavy and continual
rains, without shoes, coats, hats, or military accoutre-
ments, and without the possibility of reposing for a
single night in safety. This could not be borne
always. The troops evinced signs of gloomy discon-
tent, and the officers to cheer them on, or at least to
prevent the ruinous contagion from spreading, gave
out certain days when they predicted the Prince would
receive supplies and reinforcements. These days came,
and went ; but no supplies of any kind, no reinforce-

ments from any quarter, came with them. The conse-
quence was such as might be expected under such
circumstances. Whole battalions deserted, and re-
turned to their peaceful homes and families, and every
day some part of the insurgents are following their
example. On the 3d inst. a rumour reached Bayonne,
that ZUMALACARREGUI had been been attacked near
Lauz -by the Queen's troops, under the command of
LoRENzo, and that after a desperate resistance, in
which the insurgents suffered dreadfully, the Car-
list general fled precipitately towards the town, whither
he was hotly pursued by the Constitutional forces.
What remains for the Spanish Ministry is to in-
crease the army under RoD IL, and to act so as to con-
vince not only Spain, but Europe, that they are re-
solved to erase every vestige of rebellion in that
country. All that is wanted is a determination to act
with vigour, and to act honestly, consistently, and
openly. The Madrid Cabinet now know how much
the calling in of foreign aid to quell the insurrection
will be opposed by the Chambers, and therefore the
only thing they can do in the mean time is to
strengthen the army, and provide an abundance of
military muniments. The rebellion must of necessity
be soon extinguished, were its only foes the elements,
and the necessities common to our nature ; but it
would ill become the Government, to allow the Carlist
chiefs to change the tenor of their present warfare to
that of midnight marauding under the designation of
banditti. Rebels ought not to be suffered to dwindle
into robbers. They should be crushed forthwith, else
all Spain will become a den of dishonesty—a cave of
robbers, outlaws, and murderers.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARK, SEPT. 8.
Five per Cents., 105 f 20c. 45c. 40c.
Four per Cents., 911 50c.
Three per Cents., 751. 80c. 76f. 10c.
Bank Actions, 1,76 —c.
Rente de Naples, 121. 25c. 10c.
Boman Five per Cents., 92% 93%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cent.,.. 41% 42%.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 2434 2734 26%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 34 :‘5 35%.
Rente Perpet.d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 33 OS 37%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents , 99 4,
EXCHANUE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 2 if. 30c. ; money, —f —c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 251. .734 e.
—Cours Authentique.

We have received by express, from Falmouth, ar-
rivals from Lisbon bearing date the 3d instant. The
Regency Question, which we already informed the
public was carried in the Chamber of Deputies, was
discussed by the Peers on the 28th ult., and adopted
by a considerable majority. This happened most
fortunately at the present moment, as otherwise
Don PEDRO would not have had the power of
creating a single Peer, and the consequence would
have been, that the country would have been
left at the mercy of a haughty, despotic, igno-
rant, irresponsible Aristocracy, prepared to reject
whatever improvements the Deputies might suggest,
because forsooth ! not in accordance with the pack-
saddle wisdom of our venerable ancestors. It is pre-
sumed however that fear only operated on the majo-
rity of the Peerage. They dreaded an open col-
lision with the people, headed by a Prince not
the most moderate in his ambition, nor the most
quiescent under a sense of unmerited degradation.
All that was left them was a choice of evils, and they
had wisdom or discretion enough to choose the least,
the only stipulation they attempted to make was, that
the REGENT should strike out six names from the list
of new Peers, with which he with great good sense im-
mediately complied. The new batch of Peers, twenty-
four in number, were named by his Imperial Majesty
the EX..EMPEROR on the Ist instant. They are as

Count Porto Santo,
Count Penliafiel,

-vadount
_au-um-Gil de re. re,
Baron Sa do Bandeira,

... ,
Count Antonio Sampayo, Tomas de Mello Breyner,
Count Manoel Sampayo, Francisco Simoes Margiochi,
Count Farrobo, well known as M. de Maceda Pereira Cutinho,

Baron Quintilla, Jose Francisco Braucamp,
Messrs. Barradas and Trigoza, Polycarpo Jose Machado,
Councillors of State, Bartholomew de Gamboa e Liz,
Don Felipe de Souza Holstein, Roque Ribeiro d'Abranches
Jose Joaquim Gerando Sam- Castello-Branco,
paio, Joao da Cunha Souza Maior,
Alexander Tomas -de Morass Henrijue da Silva de Fonseca,
Sarmen to, Antonio Lobo de Barboso,
Marshal Saldanha, Ferreira Teixeira Givao."

Baron do Pico de Celeiro,
The resolution of the Chamber of Deputies for calling
in paper money, and establishing a metallic currency,
except in certain reserved cases of private and public
contracts entered into before the 23d of last July, and
terminating on the Ist January, 1838, has received
the sanction of the Peers. The country is in raptures
with it, and so many, and so striking are the improve-
ments now being carried on in Portugal, that
the inhabitants say it is the only nation in the
world can hereafter boast of the blessings of war I
The property of the convents is all being sold, and
the gold and silver vessels which are not required in the
regular parish churches are all sent to the Mint, and
coined to meet the exigencies of the State. The Go-
vernment also contemplates the establishment of pro-
vincial banks, something atter the system adopted in
Scotland, where thriving agriculturists and merchants
of small capital may procure temporary loans at any
rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. The same
scheme is about being set on foot by a foreign company
at Lisbon, to which the Ministry will offer no oppo-
sition. The face of the country is already greatly im-
proved, and under the auspices of a wise Administra-
tion, Portugal may be made one of the most flourishing
countries in Europe.
The question of the QUEEN'S marriage was dis-
cussed in the Chamber of Deputies on the Ist. Seve-
ral Members insisted that the Government should
name the Prince, who it was resolved should
be honoured with an alliance with the Imperial
House of Braganza ; but the Ministry refused,
and, on a division which took place on the
subject, they were supported by an overwhelming ma-
jority. The Duchess of BRAGANZA'S brother, the
Duke of LEICHTENBERG, is, however, the per-
sonage on whom the young Queen's hand will be be-
stowed—at least such is the general opinion. There
must be a great dearth of unmatched Princes, if the
Portuguese Regent can only find an uncle on whom to
bestow his illustrious daughter. To us the constant
repetition of such affiances is absolutely shocking.

The Report of the State of the Army in Spain,
presented to the Cortes by the Minister for the War
Department, and which has been published in a
Supplement to the Madrid Gazette of the 30th of
August, is a complete summary of the war in Spain,
from its commencement to the present time. We are
prevented from giving it by its great length, and its want
of interest to the general reader. The following extract
is, however, well worth attention, as it shows the real
danger in which Spain was placed at the commence-
ment of the rebellion, and the almost miraculous means
by which the country was delivered from the grasp of
the Pretender.

" At the death of the King, the force of the army was
i
reduced to little more than 55,000 men, n consequence of
the disbanding of some of the men enrolled in that year,
and who belonged to the levy of 1827, and tho non-in-
corporation of many of the substitutes of the levy then
just made. Doubtless it was to meet this deficiency that
19,000 of the provincial militia Were successively placed un.

der arms. Indeed, at that period 45,000 men included the
entire veteran force of the army ; the rest were either recruits
in training or provincial militia, who for the most part had
just left their homes. In this situation of things it was pro-
posed in October to disarm the Royalist volunteers. The
concurrence of circumstances was on the point of producing
a real crisis, and such a crisis the monarchy presented in No-
vimber ; for 40,000 of these Royalist Volunteers declared in
.different parts of the country for the Pretender, who then was
in Portugal, and who hastened to Marvao, on the frontiers of
that kingdom, in order thence to direct the movements of his
partisans. In Biscay, in Alava, in the prefecture of Morello,
and-in other territories, but particularly in Old Castile, the
insurrection showed itself in force. Merino assembled on the
banks of the Douro and the Arlanza, entire battalions of
Royalist Volunteers, armed, clothed, equipped, and disciplined.
Their plan seemed to be (and it was by no means badly con-
ceived) to transport themselves en masse between the Douro
and the Cordillera, which separates the Castiles, with the view
of receiving and carrying in triumph their leader, who, by
arrangement, was to proceed from Marvao along the same
frontier towards Almeida. If to this be added the state in
which the fortresses must necessarilyshave been after so long
a peace, and destitute as they were of resources—a force ren-
dered negative, as far as its service to the Government was
concerned by some officers, who, for various reasons, were
unable to inspire the Government with confidence—and the
penury of the Treasury, in direct inconsistency with the de-
mand for urgent, nay, we may almost say, for imperative
expenses ; and not further to charge the dark shades of this
sad picture, it will be easy to discover in it the critical situa-
tion in which Spain was placed in the middle of November,
and to deduce with impartiality the course which it would have
been necessary to pursue to make fortune deviate from the law
of probabilities, and adhere to the cause of reason and justice.
All good Spaniards may now congratulate themselves on the
happy change of circumstances, and recount on the shore the
dangers of the tempest.

The leading journal of Europe, we see, still con-
tinues its attacks on Lord BROUGHAM. Instead,
however, of thundering forth its own indignant %Ilse
dixit, it now attacks him (as O'CONNELL lately went
to gaol) by proxy—that is to say, it takes shelter
behind the Standard and the Albion, and leaves
them to fight its battles, giving them a pat on
the back by way of encouragement. Our readers
will at once fully appreciate the dauntless mettle—
the generous intrepidity—the unflinching con-
sciousness of integrity—that has dictated this chivalric
mode of warfare. But our contemporary was always
famous for the gallant way in which he conducted
himself in action. Where the bullets flew thickest—
where the danger was greatest—there, he always was.
He never hung back—not he ! never halted to calcu-
late chance's, or ascertain on which side lay. safety ;
no, no, he was superior, be sure, to all such
interested motives ; justice with him was justice,
and as such to be upheld, no matter at what risk. In
all political conflicts he invariably took as his model
the Chevalier BAYARD, sans peur et son reproche,
and if he now seem to be skulking from the field, and
placing the Standard and the Albion between him and
the enemy, it is from no pusillanimous motive, but
simply' from a desire—as disinterested, as, alas!
it is rare—that they may come in for a fair share
of the glories of the conflict. We fear, however, that
our contemporary's magnanimity has led him, in this
instance, to overrate the powers of his auxiliaries. To
the Standard, in particular, he evidently looks, as a
sort of Alter Ego, and quotes its ironical defence of
Lord BROUGHAM just as if it were the one final blow
wanting to demolish his Lordship. Now we have
read this effusion with some attention, and feel con-
vinced that its irony is such as, even under the most
adverse circumstances, the CHANCELLOR may rea-
sonably be expected to survive.

The Court-martial on Lord JOHN HAY, the
officers and ship's company of the Castor, terminated
on Monday at Devonport, as will be seen by the report
in another part of The Sun, in the acquittal of every
body on board except Lieutenant M'CLEVERTY, the
officer of the watch, who is sentenced to be dismissed

Lieutenant M'CLEVERTY was previously con-
sidered a very prorilising young officer.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The New Brunswick Papers state, that from all parts of
the province the crops pyonaise to be most abundant, which is
a very gratifying circumstance, and though the farmers may
be disappointed in effecting sales advantageously, of which
fear is entertained; still, by the kindness of Providence, they
will be secured against any severe privations.