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NATIONAL PROPERTY IN
PORTUGAL.
ACCOUNT OF PROPERTIES SOLD, BEING PART OF
THOSE ANNOUNCED BY ADVERTISEMENT ON
THE 30TH JUNE LAST.
'Nor. I - Properties. V alua tions.l Boug 1.1 t for.

T.-looses in Run St. I azarn, Nos. 112 to 1191
Ditto, in Traves,a do riea, Nos. 11 to 14.
Ditto, in Rua d.ls Janollas Verdes, No. 6:1
Ditto, in Travessa da Vcronlea (no Nos.).
'Ditto, on the road to lienefica, Nos. 561 A

and 76:3 g
Ditto, contiguous to the al:ore, Nos. :114
to 507
Ditto, ditto, NoA. :o's to 570

Ditto, ditto, Nos. f,71 and 572.
Ditto, ditto, No. 573 to 577
Ditto, in Rua de St. Ftar.ciseo -de Paula,
No. 76
Ditto, in It.,a Nos. ,0 and 11 .
Di!.;o, in ditto.
Ditto, on the Plft side of the Convent of St.
Irtincisen .;'a la, with an open 3,ard
to Rua ;.divat, No. 1?
•' 'Rua Oliva], Nog. 1.26 to I:11

Ditto., in Rna. da Condessa, Nos. 33 to 37 :
i hit J, in ditto, Nos. n'S to 42
a",.to, in Ru 1 des Oailt.gOS Nos. 6to 8
',)itto, in d,ro, Nos. 17 to 1.1
I Ditto, in ditto, Nos. .2S to 30
Ditto, in Rua das Pintas do St. Antan,

Nos. 4 7
ritt-', in Cal cada do Duque, 'Sol. 13 and 14
Diltu, in Beco Oa Ricardo, Nos. 13 and 14
Dick), in ditto, Nos. 17 and 18
Ditto, in Calc ada do Duque de !Aloes, Nos
35 and 36 . .

itustic and Urban Farm, in 'Nal
I Homes in lina.Dircita do &ato Antonio,
Nos. 31 to 31
Ditto, in ditto, No. 39
Ditto, in ditto, Nos. 3t to 26
Di ;to, in ditto, Nos. 37 and 33
Ditto, in front of the Poplar-grove of the
Convent of Beato Antonio, Nos. 6 to JA
Ditto, in Travessa do Olival, Nes. i 'lnd 2
A Barrack in front of ditto, Nos. 21 And
Ditto, in the same place, Nos 23 to 28
Houses at Laveiras
Ditto, at ditto
Ditto, at ditto
Ditto, a: ditto

Ali(reis.
e,k7ty X.O
1,(i.)0,0(x)
1,0t0,' 00
4( 0,0 0

200,CC0

400,000
350; I 0
50,1,4V0
73'1,0.10

600,' 00
120; 0
95,500

£4,1 P,SN,
1,1 1),000
~5(1:),114 0
2,1110,C00
SOO, 00
• 741(1,0'10
400,000

%OW Wit
Ii .0,000
4 00"0

t.oO3rfo
1,,)00,0 0

900,00
cOO,OO
890,C;10
CO,OOO

700,000
2(X),0 0
'200,0
.2EOv op
600,0i0
500,0 n
mo

M it rei
9,41.3,0t1)
:2,010,0 0
3,500,0110
550,0'. 0

6:0,0:0

(V 20,000
5, 0.000
705,, I'o
790,0(10

1,211),0W 0
IJO,nOO
13,;,t (.0

8.200,14,0
3,2 ;1 ,0 0
2,810,1 01)
1,3111,1 00
1 0 '0,0,0
790,51:0

4,0 00
2,06
8000 It to
,5,f100

1,550:;00

,215,000
I,3nty 00
1,351,(pi►
141,01.0

1,0-5,000
‘201,00.1
2'22,0( 0
y 00
605,, 01
1,045,001
285,01:0
5(11,t 00

1,39,56:?,1X)0 ISS, 4 8 1,500
Commission forming the Junta of Public Credit, July 30, 1835,
JOSE JOAQUIM DE NORONHA FEITAL.
C.-21 ALE of NATIONAL PROPERTY in Por-
.3 tugal.—By authority.of his Excellency the Minister of Fi-
nance in Portugal, Notice is hereby given, for the information of
the British Public, that SALES of the NATIONAL PRO-
PERTY are proceeding according to the subjoined list. These
sales will proceed regularly. Payment for the said Property will
be received in the Bonds of the nye per Cent. Stock, at par, or at
20 per cent., in money, and the remaining 80 per cent. by instal-
ments of five per cent. per annum during 16 years, the deferred
payments being subject to an interest of two per cent. per annum.
The Government will continue to publish the future series r.s
their arrangements for sales are completed.
Office of the General Agency for Portugal, 8.
No. 5, Freeman's-court, Cornhill, Aug. 21, 1835.
Department of National Property.
In fulfilment of the Carta de Lei of the 15th April last, it is an-
nounced that the following National Property will be, Exposed for
Sale from the 29th of August forward, before the Commission form-
ing the Junta of Public Credit, with the view to the absolute sale,
at 12 o'clock on the days hereafter named, and biddings which may
be offered, according to the conditions of the said Carta de Lei, will
"be immediately received.
_ _

List the 4th.—On the 20th August next.
Property of the Convent of Cor;,as Christi, in Lisbon.
Nos. 1•..3 to 128, 4 lots, together valued at 28,000,000
Property of the Monastery of St.. 11ary, of the Vale of Mercy, of
the Congregation of fst. Bruno, at Laveiras.
Nos. 129 to 144, 16 lots, together valued at
On the 31. st of August next.

Property of the House of the Holy Ghost, of the Congregation do
Orotorio, at Lisbon.
No. 145, 1 lot, valuer! at 7,800,000
Property of the House of the Congregation of the Mission de Ril-
hafolles, at Lisbon.
Nos. 146 to 147, 2 lots, together valued at
Property of the Monastery of St. Vincente without, of the Canons
Regular of St. Agostinho, in Lisbon.
Nos. 148 to 150, 3 lots, together valued at 12,300,000
Property of the Monastery of St. Mary of the Vale of Mercy, of
the Congregation of St. Bruno, at Laveiras, Lisbon.
Nos. 151 to 154, 4 lots, together valued at 4,506,000
Property of the Monastery of St. Mary, of the Order of St. Jero-
.

nimo, at Belern .

No. 155, 1 lot, valued at ...
Property of the Convent of Our Lady of Penha de Franca dos
Eremitos Calvados de St. Agostinho, at Lisbon.
Nos. 156 and 157., 2 lots, together valued at
Property of the. College of Our Lady of Estrella, of the Benedictine
Monks, at Lisbon.
Nos. 158, 1 lot, valued at
List the sth.—On the 3d of September next.
Property of the House of St. Camillo de Leis, at Lisbon.
Nos. 159 to 166, 8 lots, together valued at .. 13,200,000
Prepay of the Monastery of St. Vicente without, of the Canons
Regular of St. Agostinho, in Lisbon.
Nos. 167 to 170, 4 lots, together valued at
List the 6th.—On the 4th of September next.

Property of the Convent of Our Lord Jesus, of Boa Norte, of the
Eremitus Desalcos of St. Paul, in Lisbon.
No. 171. one lot, valued at
Property of the House of Beato Antonio, of the Secular Canons of
St. John the Evangelist.
No. 172, one lot, valued at
Property of the Convent of St. Domingos, of the Order of Prega-
. _ .

_
dores, in LisliOn.
Nos. 173 to 187, 15 lots, together valued at
List the 7th.—On the 7th September next.

24,550,000

Property of the House of the Holy Ghost, of the Congregation of
the Oratorio, in Lisbon.
Nos. 181 to 197, 10 lots, together valued at
Property of the Chapel founded by Manoel Teixeira de Carvalho,
in the District of CEiras.
_

No. 198, one lot, valued at ..
Property of the Convent of the Monks of St. Paul, the Ist

in Lisbon.

Nos. 199 to 201, 3 lots, together valued at

List the 9th.—On the 10th of September next.
Property of the Convent of the Most Holy Trinity, ;:n Lisbon.
Nos. 202 to 203, 7 lots, together valued at
Property of the Convent of Our Lady of Conception, of the Agos-
tinho Desalcos, at Grillo, in
No. 209, one lot, valued at
Property of the Chapel founded by Antonz.o Vieira d'Andrade,
in Lisbon.

No. 210, one lot, valued at
Property of the Convent of EremitoF, Calvados of St. Agostinho,
situate at Collegin'.ko, in Lisbon.
Nos. 211 to 216, 6 lots, together valued at
Property of the Convent of the -Monks of St. Paul, the Ist Hermit

iri Lisbon.
Nos. 217 to 219, 3 lots, toy ether valued at
Commission forming thy,; Junta of Public Credit, July 30, 1835.
JOZE JPJAQUIM DE NORONHA FEITAL.
Translations of the Official Detailed Lists may be obtained at the
Office of the Geweral Agency for Portugal, 5, Freeman's-court,
Cornbill.

HAMBURG, AUGUST 7, 18:35.
NOTiCE is hereby given, that the Tickets of the
6',ith HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, guaranteed by
the HanfJurg State, that begins drawing on the 12th and 13th inst.,
ARE NEARLY ALL CLEARED OFF;
and that Tickets warranted undrawn, selling between the 14th and
28th just. at 10/. will not be on sale between the 31st inst. and
2d September (on which latter day the Largest Capital Prize is to
be .irawn), below LW.

The undersigned Contractors decline, as usual, to take anv
English orders for any thing less than a whole Ticket, the Corm-pondence for single shares being' too troublesome, and not worth
the postages.
Persons remitting 10/. without delay, will receive an immediate
answer by return of Post; but those who would not feel pleased to
receive ba:ik their remittance (as coming altogether too late, or.
after an ...dvaace in price), must lose no time in remitting 10/,
HEINE BROTUErts.

Direct, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg.
P. S.—ln the last (65th) Lottery, the Capital Prizes came up to
the following Tickets:—

No. 2,328 sold in Ha Bancomarcs
mburg . 100,0(X)
:1,277 sold to Li-aerick
5,427 sold to iliga 30,000
1,620 sold ;Al Hamburg for account of a London
house 20,000
3,451 sqd to Liverdool
The Pr'izes of the Hamburg Great Lottery, are since the last
Lottery payable without any deduction whatever, and at the present
Exchaar;e Bancomarcs 55 are equal to 4/.

Tim publication of Tau STN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 20 minutes past 3 u'doth.
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LONDON,
EVENING. AUGUST 22 '1835.

SATUP,

The question of the Repeal of the Stamp Duties was
brought forward last night in the Commons by Mr. E. Bur,
WER, in a speech, which, on the score of argument, left little
or nothing to be desired. The Hon. Gentleman put the
question on its proper footing when he said, " it was vain
to talk of the liberty of the Press, if they confined the
knowledge of it. It was taxed, and the people could not
get at it. It was, however, observed that if they took off
the tax, newspapers would be deteriorated in the market,
and the revenue injured. Now he should contend that
competition would increase the merit of literature. Give
Ike people cheap information, and they would receive moral
' nolitical information. They would know the laws, and
' evils arising from ignorance. In proportion as
- been taxed, it had.declined." Thinking and
soundly on the subject, confessing al; that f.t

was one of pressing importance, we cannot but express our
regret that Mr. BULWER was prevailed on to with-
draw his motion. The very cogency of his reason-
ing, net less than the zeal which he displayed through-
Out his speech, prepared us for his determination to
press it to a division: Had he done 50, he could scarcely
have failed to be successful, for the House was for the most
part composed of Members ready to give him their stre:
nuous support. But he has disappointed us not a little, by
a display of what appears to us, under the circumstances of
the case, very unnecessary discretion: Mr. Husr acted
a far more manly part when he observed, that had he
known the motion would have been withdrawn, he would
not have seconded it, We may say the same of Messrs.
WAKLEY and WARBURTON, whose speeches were charac-.
terized by a sagacity and decision worthy of the occasion.
The former gentleman, in particular, pressed the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER home ; in fact, left him wholly
without the means of reply, when in answer to his remarks,
that he feared the revenue might suffer by an immediate
remission of the Stamp Duties, lie observed flat he had
only to farm the tax, when he had no d0e.1.:,t that in the course
of a few hours, he might be enabled to secure himself from all
possibility of a loss. Mr. W!'.R.I3UP.TON was equally effective'
in his arguments. " The Right Hon. Gentleman," be oh-.
served, " had tall:-.ed of taking off the duty from one parti-
cular class, hat he (Mr. W.) abhorred the notion of favour-
ing any particular class, and contended that all classes were
here equally interested, inasmuch as all classes were now
newspaper readers." As Mr. O'CONNELL is known to be
just as favourable as Mr. WARBURTON to the remission of
the Stamp Duties, he should have pursued the same decided
course of conduct, instead of proposing the withdrawal of
the motion, and thus leaving it entirely at the mercy of the
Chapter of Accidents. But if Mr. O'CONNELL was to
blame, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was still mere
so ; for he, with an inconsistency amounting almost to the
ludicrous, admitted the justice of the principle, even while
he expressed himself afraid to act upon it. The re-
mission of the Stamp Duties was always a favourite
Whig topic, yet the party has now been four years
in office, and it. still remains where it was, when they
first assumed the reins of Government. In 1831 'they
made us the promise that some remission should
take place ; four years have since elapsed, and still
we are put off with the bare promise ! Nay, they even tell
us now that, had they a surplus, they might feel inclined to
rem;.. some other tax in preference to this newspaper one ;
tliough at the same time they admit, indirectly, that they
know of none that is more urgent in its nature, or that keeps
up a more vexatious monopoly! They cannot allege that
its remission will injure the revenue ; for it has been clearly
proved that it will have quite a contrary effect. Why then
do they hesitate ? We will tell them. From a mere habit
of procrastination—a habit in which they have long in-
dulged, and which if they do not check it in time, will
one day or other be the cause of their overthrow. We wish
well to Ministers ; we have supported them, and will still
continue to support them : but at the same time we are
not blind to their failings, nor afraid to expose them.
Whenever, therefore, we find them, as on the present occa-
sion, substituting a convenient expediency for justice, we
shall not hesitate to speak our mind. We are independent
alike of their smiles or their frowns ; for the cause we ad-
vocate is that of the people : it has no reference to
Whig, Tory, or Radical, as our readers no doubt have long
since perceived. It is on this principle that we have all
along advocated the remission of the Newspaper Stamp
Duty, which, by increasing the spread of political intelli-
gence, would benefit all classes equally ; and prove besides
of inestimable benefit to a Ministry, which, like the present,
is sincerely desirous, by resisting the domination of a fac-
tious oligarchy, to promote the welfare of the community.

Lord J. RUSSELL'S remarks last night in the House of
Commons, in reply to some absurd twaddle of Mr. HORACE
Twiss, are deserving of every attention. The House
heard them with the same delight that the country will
read them. Ministers, it is clear, will show themselves
equal to the crisis which is approaching. They will
stand fast by the people, let the Lords grumble and
thr,,aten as they may. Nevertheless, we must not
relax an instant in our exertions ; for Ministers have
a difficult game to play, and are fully deserving of
all the support that the people can give them. We
subjoin an extract of Lord. JOHN RUSSELL'S speech
which produced an electrical effect on the House :—" WE
ARE THE SERVANTS," observed his Lordship, "OF THE
CROWN ; WE bitE, AT THE SAME TIME, THE REPRE-
SENTATIVES or THE PEOPLE. We are here to repre-
sent the people, and to consult the people's interest. Ido
not irnpute it as a fault to another branch of the Legislature,
that, when legislative measures come before them, they
have rot considered what was their duty with regard to
thew,: legislative measures ; but I do say that, with respect
to these legislative measures, and with respect to the voting the
supplies qf money to the Crown, that this House is in full
possession of those powers which any House of Con:nzons
ever had I am not ready (and I will not
submit to do so from any imputation which may be thrown
out on the other side) to give up one single iota of the
powers which are considered the undoubted and inde-
feasible rights of the House of Commons, to provide such
laws as they think are necessary for the redress of
grievances, and to vote such supplies as they may think
in their conscience are best calculated to maintain the
honour of the Crown, and to preserve the great interests
of the country."

It will be seen by a reference to our parliamentary report,
that Mr. HUME presented a petition in the House of Com-
mons last night, signed by twenty thousand citizens of
Dublin, praying for the removal of Mr. SHAW from the Rd-
cordership of that city, on the ground of political partisan-
ship, and neglect of judicial functions. The speech delivered
by the Hon. Member for Middlesex was less marked by
good taste, than valuable for the excellent principle which
it embodied—namely, that the practice of vesting legisla-
tive and judicial functions in the same person is unconsti-
tutional, and subversive of civil liberty. The Right Hon.
RECORDER attempted a defence of;,lsconduct—legislative
and judicial—upon which we regret that we cannot afford
space for comment. e, however, made one imVortant
admission—he e[anfessed that, in his own opinion, . the
duties of a Judge and a Senator were too much for even
a per in of his distinguished ability.

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Thursday, together with advices from Madrid to the 13th
instant,

Certain declaimers in favour of the measures of abro-
gating the constitutional charter of Prance, recommended
by the CITIZEN KING to his most willing slaves the Depu-
ties, took fire at some remarks made by us some four or five
days since, in which it was stated, that unless the Madrid
Cabinet succe&led in putting down the Republicans, his
most Christian MAJESTY would, under some pretext or
other, decline the observance of the articles contained in
the Quadruple Treaty. What we knew, and announced
as a fact, was regarded as a mere surmise, intended to in-
crease the popular detestation of the person and policy of
the KING of the Barricades. The French Ministerial
Journals will very shortly, however, save us the trouble of
proving the correctness of the statement to which we have
alluded. It is evident that something unexpected is about
to take place, as their tone for the last eight days,
in treating of the war in Spain, has undergone a complete
change. There is no longer a parade of sympathy in fa-
vour of the QUEEN'S cause. The only matters dwelt upon
are the atrocities committed by the Liberals, and the
marches and counter-marches of the Carlists. The KING of
the FREI,: en is evidently afraid that the war in the North will
terminate in the establishment of a government in which the
Republican principle shall predominate. Rather than
sanction this, the KING of the FRENCH is prepared to vio-
-1 late any treaty—nay, be is prepared to send an army into
Spain to• fight under the banner of Don CARLOS. Symp-
toms of this feeling already begin to be manifested in r►lmost
every department of the Government. The telegraphic
despatches from Bayonne, which, during the earlier stages
of the rebellion in the North, were published in breathless
haste, in second and third editions of the Ministerial Jour-
nals, are now suffered to remain for days togetherin tile office
of the Minister of the Interior, before a sin gle copy of them is
sent to the newspaper offices. For a tin Le the put 'lie re-
garded this as a proof of the partiality with whi ch the
French authorities viewed the contest it) the Basque s. It
was reported that only such• bulletiva n brought di4;leart.

ening intelligence respecting the QUEEN'S cause were kept
back, and that all of a favourable character were published
he moment they were received. This report, though un-
true, was credited, and hence the recent change in the
language of the Government organs, excited no attention
in Paris. The CITIZEN KING has not succeeded so easily
in blindfolding or baffling the vigilance of the Press of this
country ; anti we are confident the present Government
will adopt such measures as will prevent a violation of a
treaty, intended to protect the liberties of Western Europe.
The debates of Wednesday and Thursday in the Cham-
ber of Deputies, on the Bill for Abolishing the Liberty of the
Press, arc not of such importance as to require from us
more than a bare allusion to them. Tht Government is
strong enough to carry all before it, and, in point of fact,
only laughs at the threats uttered by the Opposition.—
Another Revolution is inevitable.
The Iralicateur of Bordeaux has the 4"
"oaring :
" The accounts which we '
..ave given of the disturbances
':;". Spain are confirmed 14. v our letters.
• in several provinces
While the pcool,-c . for reform, the.rower the Queen has
been. no "where disregarded. At,nipoll (on the 10th) some
rel-nmican songs were heard, but the convent was burnt and
the churches pillaged, amidst cries of " The Queen for ever!
The C'ountrytim ever !" The same happened at Berga, a little
town in Catalonia, where the Governor was obliged to take
refuge with the troops in a fortified convent. Provincial
juntas have been everywhere formed, and order restored.
" There is no further news from Behobia. The Carlists have
had enough of the lesson given them on the 13th, and have
not since appeared. General Harispe arrived at St. Jean de
Luz on the 14th, and was to go on the 15th to Behobia.
The troops had orders to be ready for whatever might happen,
and a small reinforcement of artillery has been sent from
Bayonne."

It said that M. de Rayneval has requested to LM recalled from
Madrid, M. de Rumigny is spoken of as his successor, but
M. de Rumigny is not agreeable to the powers whom all pains
arc taking to satisfy. it is more probable that if M. de
Rayncval should be recalled, there will be only a ch.dro de
affaires at Madrid. Notice having been transmitted on the
15th of August, by the Prefect of the Department, to the
Maritime Prefect of Rochefort, that a suspicious vessel had been
seen on the coast, a light and well manned vessel, commanded
by a Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp to the Admiral, was imme-
diately dispatched from Rochefort. We must soon be ac-
quainted with the result of the expedition, if the suspected
vessel has remained on the coast. This event has given rise
to a thousand conjectures, with which the name of the adven-
turous Duchess of Berri is uniformly connected.-21fessager,
August 20.

FrI.ENCH FUNDS.—PARts. At/atter 21,,
Five per Cents., 109 E .5c lOSE 95c. 9,:c.
Four per Cents., WC 3'e.
Three per Cents. W. be. 80c. 70c.
Bank Actions% 2,02.5 E
Rente de Naples, 96t: 85c:90c.
Roman Five per Cents., 191
Itente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., Nth 1,4 SA.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 20g, 21 21
!l ova Spanish Loan, 0459
Rente Pcrpetuelle d'Espagne, 3.5 3444 31.:
NXCIIANLIE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 52 c.
Three Months, paper, —c.; money, '23f. 40e.
Bocitst, THREE o'CLoCK.—Very little business is doing
to-day, but the market is very heavy. The Three per Cents.
are at 78f. 75c. sellers. The Spanish Securities are lowering
daily.

OCAILTER TO FOUR..Five per Cents., 108 f. 90c. ; Three
per Cents., 78f. 65c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 34; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 20 ; Cortes, 34 ; Coupons, 161-; 'Gueb-
hards, 351; Differes, 14; New Loan, 40; Actives, 40;
Passives, 11; Ducats, 96 90; Romans, 1011; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 102; Dutch, ; Hay tians, —l. ; prabant
Bank,

P. S.—The New Spanish Loan has fallen four per cent.,
towards the end of business.

HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Auc.. P.I.
FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Ditto Bank Shares ,1325 1326
Anglo-Russian Loan 1.,554 105
Ditto, 5 per cent lOO L 0 li
Paper ltucriptinn, 6 per cent. —
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
`:ears
Ptittuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent B6t4 864
Ditto, 3 per cent 56% 564
Dutch -.4., per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —

Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 74 q
Notwrgian Loan of 1534, 4 pc r cents,
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cent'
Ditto 4 per Cent. —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 42%
PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, Aye. 15.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4j per cent. !01% 10,0,6
Prussian English Loan, 1e.30, 4 per cent 99% 99%
Exchange on London, Two months 6 2N
Prussian State Gazette. Aug. 16.

In resuming our inquiry into the abuses of the Post
Office Establishment, it is proper that we should pre-
cede it by the correction of a trifling error, which ap-
pears in our article of Monday last, on the Returns
made to Parliament on this subject. We then. stated,
that through the exertions of Mr. WALLACE, M.P.
for Greenock, to obtain a reform in every branch of
that department, a saving had been effected to the
amount of fourteen thousand pounds a year, which
saving, great as it appeared, was trifling compared with
what would be saved to the country by the new
contracts, which would be open to competition.
Now we were correct as far as regarded the actual
amount of the saving which had been effected, but in-
correct in leaving it to be inferred that this saving had
not been made in the new contracts entered into by
the Post-office. The fact is that our allusion to a fur-
ther saving had reference to the increased accommoda-
tion of the public, rather than to any diminution of
the actual expenses now incurred, by the conveyance
of the mails throughout the country. We were not
aware that the new contracts had been entered into ;
because we did not think that after the exposures that
had been made, and the remonstrances that had been
urged, the Post-office would have entered into any
contract under which a provision was not made for the
conveyance of the mails to and from London, and for
the delivery of all letters and parcels as regularly on
Sunday as on any other day of the week. We had
imagined that no Postmaster-General of the present
day would be found weak or wicked enough to sanc-
tion the continuance of a system which, while it
assumes the garb of Sabbath sanctity, actually leads
to increased desecration of the Sabbath—a system as
insulting to the majesty of an Omniscient Deity as it
is injurious to the interests of his creatures.

It is a common and, in many instances, a well-
founded objection to the legal code of this country, that
it extends a protection to the rich which it withholds
from the poor ; or, in other words, that the law is for
the affluent against the indigent. We object to it on
other grounds. We protest against the existence of
one law for London, and another for the provincial
towns throughout the Empire. In London the arrival
and departure of the mail coaches with the usual con-
veyances is forbidden on Sunday under the plea of
Sabbath protection ; in the provincial towns the arrival
and departure of such vehicles is never presumed to
involve a breach of the Lord's day. In London no let-
ters are delivered to the public on the Sabbath, nor can
persons for whom letters remain in the Post-office, ob-
tain them by sending messengers, or going personally
for them ; in the provincial towns, certain hours are
set apart on the same clay for the delivery of letters to
all who apply for them. In London only the Go-
vernment mail-bag is made up on Sunday ; in the
provincial towns, the whole of the correspondence is
sorted, and the several bags forwarded with as much
dispatch on the Sabbath as -on any other day in
the week. The country may well ask how does this
• happen, especially as we do not question the unity and
omnipresence of Him who commanded the Sabbath to
be kept holy ? Were the practice explained to a
Polytheist, he would immediately presume that the in-
habitants of London worshipped a different God from
the people of Dublin or Edinburgh. But before point-
ing out the cause and the effects of this difference,
between the Post Office regulations with regard to
Sabbath observance in London and the Proyincial
capitals, we invite public attention to the fact that, in
the Metropolis, there are eighteen Journals published
weekly, which ate all classed under the head of Sun-
day Newspapers. Of most of these Papers an edition
appears on Saturday in time for the post, which is fol-
lowed by another on Sunday morning, with all intelli-
gence up to twelve o'clock on the preceding night.
Now; as the mails do not carry Newspapers from
London on Sundays, the Proprietors of these Journals
are obliged to employ conveyances to have them carried
to Dartford, Hounslow, Barnet, Romford, Waltham-
cross,Ctoydon, and all the othea'oat-oilices in the vicinity

of the metropolis, from whence they are conveyed by the
mails to their several destinations. Now, mark the
exquisite absurdity, as well as the barefaced hypocrisy
of the Pos:srffice Sunday regulations, as exhibited in
this single instance. As the Government mails must
leave London on Sunday, and as all letters addressed-
to its officials must be delivered, the whole internal,
and almost. the whole external machinery of the Post-
office. Establishment is /kept going with nearly the
same uniformity on Sundays as on week days. The
same number of hands, and nearly the same quantity
of labour is employed, with this difference—that on
week days the labour goes to forward the "

. .
ie cour.,--
.
—.al, on Sundays to forward no interests The
coaches leave London, it is true; but then, for disf
tance of ten miles At least, they dre siadred kith tile
Sabbath-desecrating weight of a Newspaper. What,
however, would be a sin if committed in •St. Martin's-
le-Grand, becomes a public duty at Croydon, Houns-
low,anl Barnet. Coaches, on reaching these emporiums
of Sunday intelligence, have passed the hallowed boun-
dary, within which Post-office industry is an iniquity as
unpardonable as a sin against the Holy Ghost. In the
meantime the religious feelings of the community are
shocked by the sight of private coaches running in
every direction, in order that Sir FRANCIS FREELING
may edify pious old ladies by the rattling of empty
mails. Can there exist a greater absurdity than this?
Could a system be established more likely to impress
the people with contempt for all Legislative enact-
ments ? The breach of the Sabbath is made to con-
sist not in working only, but in the quantity and qua-
lity of the work done, and that too within a certain
given distance. For example, it is no sin to deliver
a letter to a Secretary of State—to drive a coach bear-
ing Treasury despatches—or to entail 'on others a ne-
•cessity of violating the Sabbath ; but it is a sin to
deliver a letter to a simple Member of the House of
Commons—to drive a coach laden with newspapers,
• and tradesmen's letters—and to do that on Sunday in
St. Martin's-le-Grand, which the same persons are
prepared to do, and must do, on the same day at
Croydon or Romford I This is theological hair-split-
ting with a vengeance.

Now, why in the name of reason is this system suf-
fered to continue ? The transmission of newspapers
and the delivery of letters on Sunday is with the public
a work of absolute necessity. Wherefore, then, should
it not be made so with the servants of the public ?
Whatever it can do without violating a duty, it eau
compel to be clone with an equal impunity from wrong.
Above all, why should there be a division of labour on
the Sabbath, more than on any other day in the week ?
Or why should the weight and quality of the bur-
den be assumed, to constitute the crime of carrying
it. Were the Post Office entirely closed on Sundays,
there could be some reason shown against carrying on
the public business on that particular day ; but as it
is partially open, it is the duty of the Government to
compel it to contribute towards the sanctity of the
Sabbath, by discharging all,the duties in its department
which are obligatory or compulsory on any portion of
the community. Whatever diminishes the aggregate
of Sunday labour—as public bakeries, &c. ; and what-
ever confines it to the recognized servants of the pub-
lic, by which all private scandal is avoided, promotes
the peifect sanctity of the Sabbath, and its adoption
is among the first duties of a Government impressed
with a veneration for true religion.
Regarded in the light of a source of revenue,
we have no doubt but that the Sunday deli-
very of letters in London would lead to an in-
crease of nearly one-sixth in the income derived
from this branch of the national Revenue. This is so
obvious that we need not insist upon it. To attempt
proving it by argument would be as idle as to paint a
window in order to increase the light. To render such
a measure as perfect as possible, it ought to be accom-
panied by a very large reduction of the postage duty.
At present the rate of postage is so high as to deter
thousands of persons from writing letters at all ; and
those who do write occasionally are obliged, from its
operation, to abridge their correspondence to a fifth of
what it would be under an improved system.

DANISH CLAIMS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR— A s a poor distressed mariner, one of the Danish
claimants, I beg leave to appeal to you, as my last hope, to
advocate our case, for I have reason to fear that the great ship-
owners in Parliament are indifferent to the sufferings of those
who, like me, have been reduced to penury. lam one of a
class of small shipowners who, in conjunction with my rela-
tions and friends, shared and commanded a small vessel in the
Baltic trade in the year 1807. Plain sailor as I was, and am,
I conceived, in consequence of the assurance which a friend
of mine had received from the Lords of the Admiralty, that I
might safely make my accustomed voyage to St. Petersburgh ;
but I found, unfortunately for myself and others, that I had
been deceived by the Admiralty, for the purpose of enabling
the Government of that day to carry on what they considered
a great political object, as, on my return, when running down
for the Island of Bornholm, I was boarded by what I thought
to be a pilot-boat, and taken there as a prize, by which I was
deprived of my little all, and myself and crew detained as
prisoners. Since then much has been the trouble I have had
to undergo, and difficult the task to provide maintenance for
my family ; but the hope that, ultimately, the justice which I
conceived I was entitled to expect could not fail me, has helped
me to bear with my fate. It is above a twelvemonth since I
was told that Ministers had pledged their word to Parliament
that justice had been done to all the claimants; but I now
understand that Ministers deny that they promised to do more
than indemnify those claimants for debts which they them-
selves might recover by an action at law, and which those who
have been active did recover in the time of Lord Chief Jus-
tice Ellenborough.. Can you, sir, condescend to enlighten
me on the subject? Some persons tell me that it is done to
oblige the King of Denmark, as his subjects who still owe the
money would prefer that our Government should pay it for
them. Other persons say that a Mr. Parker, of Sheffield,
having been promised that his friends and relations should be
paid, had agreed to excuse the Minister from paying any body
else. Thus you see how a poor ignorant man as I am is
puzzled what to believe and what to do on the subject, while
perhaps in another year I may be gone to my long home, and
my family to the workhouse.
Yours, very respectfully,
A POOR SAILOR.
We presume our correspondent alludes to the case Wolff v.
Oxholme; Mauleand Selwyn's Report:S. vol. 4, p. 106.

TILE HA rtvEsT.—The harvest has commenced in
this neighbourhood. Several fields of wheat and barley were
cut last week, and the weather has been most favourable for
the reaping and housing of the grain.—Liverpool Times.
YOUTHFUL HEROISM.—On Tuesday last, about
eighty of the boys of Heriot's Hospital, enjoyed themselves
in rambling over the hills near Harlaw, and afterwards dined
in Fleming's Inn, on curds and milk. When loitering at the
canal bridge, No. 10, waiting the arrival of one of the- light
boats, by which they had gone out in the morning, and
which bad been engaged to convey them to Edinburgh, a
country boy fell inta the water. He had already sunk twice,
and was in the act of disappearing a third time, when one of
the Hospital youths plunged into the canal, and succeeded in
rescuing the drowning boy. The young person who thus
distinguished himself by his courage and humanity is William
Mitchell, son of a mason, residing at the Water of Leith.—
Edinburgh Courant.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—III the week ending-
the 7th instant, no less than 14,588 passengers travelled the
whole length of the line along the Liverpool and Manchester
railway. This is exclusive of passengers going short distances,
and of those proceeding by the Bolton and other branch rail-
ways. The following is the number of passengers along the
whole line; during the first seven months of the present year :
January, 26,572; February, 24,171 ; March, 26,880; April,
31,390 ; May, 35,118 ; June,
,56,280 ; July, 54,642.—T0ta1,
255,353, This number is also exclusive of short distances
and branch railway passengers.
The fares between Liverpool and the Isle of Man,
.
and Douglas and Liverpool, have been greatly reduced of
l
have some days been as low as 25., and even ls., at
which rates, however, it is impossible for the boats to pay.
The consequence of the reduction has been that many thou-
sand persons have visited the island, and that the boats have
Tathee,y owing to the sharp competition amongst the steam-boats,
been crowded to excess. We understand they have several
times taken or brought back as many as 300 passengers at a
single trip.—Liverpool Times.
Three of the State prisoners who recently escaped
from St. Pelagic, at Paris, arrived here last Sunday, in a
French fishing-boat, having put to sea at• Fecamp. The
master of the boat, by way of doing a double stroke of busi-
ness,brought over some brandy at the same time, and the con-
setqiuerae4 wasG(iztchteizure of his boat by the revenue officers:—
.e

ItV.PERIA.I., PAJILI AMEN'
:

THIS DAY, SATURDAY, At 22

• HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEA KER. took the Chair at ten rain:des past 12 c'eloek.
Mr. MORE- O'FERRALL brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on the Dublin Police and Salaries of Justices' Bill.
DOMINICA RELIEF BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill, in
the Chair.
The clauses were agreed to, and the,Bill was ordered to be re-
ported.

STAMP ACT BILL.
This Bill also went through a Committee, and rrts ordered to be
reported.

ORANGE LODGES.

Colonel VERNER presented a petition from Sir Harcourt Lees,
in favor of Orange Lodges.
• ,
Mr. nu n v Div move the rejection of thd ;
but be vonid submit to the House whether it ought to be recelVed,
as it contained evitoiong disrespectful to the douse.
Mr. SHARMAN crtAwFortn called upon the Government
to iiaO'some lap to.ptit down such Associations as Orange Lodges.
Mri SHAW=The petitioner certainly has very strong political
feelings, but they do not elftend to individuals, and he is a most
respectable man. He would not jet ify the language of the peti-
tion ; it might be rather warm, but he apprchcafted there would be
no objection to it.
Tice petition was then laid on the table.
CORPORATION REFORM.
Mr. T. ATTWOOD peeSetited g petition from Birmingham,
stating that the petitioners approached the Hoot* with more con-
fidence than they had been accustomed to do in former 'ears; and
that this etintidt.,net was increased by their conductin supportlitg
just and hboai 106iniotiation: They thanked the House for
having pasted the Municipal nefdrin eud they prayed them to
stand firm, and on no account to suffer that gfeo, +And important ,
measure to be in any way mutilated.—( Hear, hear.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was glad to hear that. the Hon. Mem-
ber had advised the people of Birmingham not to revive the politi-
cal Unions. He begged to eorrect a report of what had been stated
last night, which had appeared in tile Morning Chronicle of that
day, relative to the other House of the Legislature. He had not im-
pitted to any Member of the other House any political motives, or
dereliction of duty, 114 hisite4 in the Report, but he had said that
when Legislative measures cattle before- them, they introduced
those alterations which seemed proper tit thetti.—(l-lear, hear.)
He thought it the more necessary to make this correction, as at the
present moment every speech, or letter, or observation, of his
(Lord J. Russell's) would be taken hold of, and perhaps used to
his prejudice and disadvantage.
Mr. E. SHAW concurred with the Noble Lord in approvios
of the advice given by the Hon. Member for Birmingham to his
constituents: It was easier, however, to set the wheel of radicalism
aphis, than td ArteSt its progress when it had been put in motion.
Mr. WAKLEY observed that the contest now going en between
the hereditary and representative Houses of the Legislature would
inevitably terminate in favour of the latter.—( Hear.) He spoke
of the House of Lords with all possible respect ; but he could tell
them that a short time would show the danger of tampering with
the measure of Municipal Reform note before them.
Mr. RUTIIVEN wished to see a good and sound understanding
restored between that and the other House. He hoped that House
would pursue a calm and cautious course, to prevent any dange-
rous collision between the millions of the United Kingdom and a
small party in the other House; but, at the same time, he hoped
that House would not degrade itself by any concession of the just
rights of the people, which would only precipitate the calamity
they were all anxious to prevent.—(Hear.)
Mr. SCHOLEPIELD said the meeting alluded to by his Hon.
Colleague had been characterised by the greatest firmness of purpose,
combined with the greatest moderation. He would not have al•
hided to it At all, if it had not been for the uncalled-for observa-
dons of the Hon. and Learned Member for the University of
Dublin. His Hon. Colleague had used the power and confidence
reposed in him by the people with the greatest moderation and
sound jUdgrtihit, sod had arrested their career, when perhaps they
might have transgregted the bounds of discretion, and when no
other person could have done so.-=( hear, hear.)
Mr. TULK brought up Mr. Buckingham's East India Compen-
sation Bill, which was read a first time.
Mr. MARK PHILIPS presented a petition from Manchester,
signed by 6,400 persons, complaining of the hours at which the
beer-shops were obliged to close.
Shortly after one o'clock the Houge, on the motion of Mr.
RUTHVEN, was counted out.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, Aug. 21.—Wind S.W. to E.S.E.—Arrived the Dublin
Lass, Silk, from Dublin; Alcyone, Goslin, from Swansea; Miss
Wellesley, Stevens, from Grenada. Arrived from the River and
sailed, the Christopher, Haye, for Quebec ; Asia, White, for ditto ;
Ada, Simpson, for St. John's, New Brunswick.—Eight,
wind S. S. W., with thunder and rain.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 21.—Wind S.E. to E.S.E., fine.
PLYMOUTH, Kuc. 20.—Wind W.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind variable, light breezes and fine.—
Arrived the John, Whalin, from Bahia ; and Andromache, An-
drews, from Bombay—sailed April 0. Off port the Dordecht
Van Hassen, Welcoat, from Mulken.
COWES, Aug. 21.—Arrived the Caraibo, Fell, from Valparaiso—
sailed May 25.
ISLE OF WIGHT, AUG. 21.—Arrived off port the Aurora, De
Hoad, from Batavia ; Scornful, Skuthy, from Jamaica ; and
Perseus, Bruce, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
PENZANCE, Auc. 20.—Arrived off, the Forrester, Haffid, from
Tobago ; Ulysses, Spilliker, from New York.
HOLYHEAD, Auc. 19.—Arrived the John Higs, Heisse, from
Bombay ; Elizabeth, Bentley, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
HULL, AUG. 20.—The Clarkson, Hudson, from Restigouche,
was lost on the shore last tide. The leak was occasioned by the
anchor hulling her.-21. The Clarkson has hauled into dock again.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Valiant, Bragg, from
erenada ; Ellen Brook, Redman, from New Orleans ; Pembroke
Castle, —, from Quebec.—Off port, the Cicely, —, from
Buenos Ayres ; Agenoria, --, from Bay Chaleur.