The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, WI4IDNMA 8, 1835.

PERMITS-IMPORTANT TO THE

SPIRIT TRADE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The seizures and convictions which recently took
place for conveying spirits without permits, and which
^Awed considerable agitation in the trade, induced me to
orialize the Board of Excise, for their specific instruc-
'be subject. The Commissioners, with the prompti-
)th characterises men of business, caused immediate
be instituted into the merits of the memorial,
various references and reports, have been pleased
annunicate to me the concuiPent opinion of the Attor-
tand Solicitor-General, with that of the Excise Solicitor;
.rich being no less interesting to the trade in general than
to myself in particular, you may probably see the propriety
of publishing the enclosed documents (or a sufficient abstract
of them) for their information.
I remain, with much respect, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
HENRY BRETT.
No 139, Holborn Bars, July 2, 1835.

TO THE HONOURABLE COMMISSIONERS OF

HIS MAJESTY'S EXCISE.

" MAT IT PLEASE YOUR HONOURS-

"As a wholesale and retail spirit dealer, duly licensed, I
have constantly occasion to send out, in the same cart with
large parcels of goods, several single gallonslitmd sometimes
smaller quantities) of British and Foreign spirits to different
customers, in pursuance of their respective orders : and being
desirous of scrupulously conforming to the law on the subject,
under the direction of your Honourable Board, I humbly so-
licit information whether, when the aggregate quantity of any
particular kind-of spirit, so sent out in small quantities by the
same conveyance shall amount to, or exceed, two gallons, it is
requisite that I should draw a Permit for each individual con-
signee ?—or whether (to save trouble and to facilitate busi-
ness) provided every package be distinctly labelled and di-
rected, Permits for quantities not exceeding one gallon, may
be legally dispensed with ? Waiting your Honours' commands,
" I remain, Honourable Sirs,
" Your most obedient servant,
"London, May 15, 1835. " HENRY BRETT."

" beg leave to transmit you an official answer to
your application to the Honourable Board of Excise, bearing
date the 15th May, 1835.
" I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,

" W. PERRIN, General Surveyor.
" Excise Office, July 1, 1835.
" Mr. Henry Brett, 109, Drury-lane."

" In my opinion the case of spirits must be considered in the
mine light as the case of tea, under the Attorney and Solicitor -
General's opinion. If a retailer of spirits send out several
parcels of spirits bona fide intended for, and addressed to,
several different individuals, each parcel not exceeding a gallon,
although in the aggregate above a gallon, no permit is neces-
sary, notwithstanding all might be sent out at the same time,
by the same conveyance. This division, however, of the quan-
tity into smaller divisions will not excuse the necessity of a
permit, if the whole (being one description of spirits) is in-
tended for one person.

" June 23, 185. " W. K. DEHANEY.
" Communicate 27th Jute, 1835.

A Copy.
W. PERRIN,

" W. PLUNKETT."

STRENGTH OF RUSSIA.

The principal strength of Russia is at present composed
of thirty- four millions of Muscovites, who have no will,
save that of the Emperor ; who have no balancing power,
no protecting statutes, no property ; who are attached to
the soil, or transportable, at his pleasure, to the remotest
parts of the empire ; not excited by the hope of advance-
ment, not even spurred by the obligation of providing for
their own necessities ; resigned to whatever fate awaits
them, not inquiring into it. The indolent the untractable,
the turbulent spirits, if such are found, are draughted into
the army, and the mass remains, as before, with its passive
and active obedience, its strong muscle and pliant will.
Institutions, personal character, political accident, and
religion, may separately and disjointedly produce devoted-
ness, on the part of a people to its leader, its prophet, or its
government. But here all possible causes coincide to pro-
duce that devotedness which consequently exists in a de-
gree, and in an extent, unparalleled. Then are the ele-
ments of the power of Russia fixed and increasing, because
dependent on immutable causes, faith, ignorance, climate,
geographical structure, and extent.
This is the mighty nucleus round which her conquests
have been and are to he agglomerated ; her future acquisi-
tions are to furnish the resources which are to equip and
pay the number of men drawn from this uncontaminated
nursery, that are to render those conquests durable, and to
depress the populations she acquires down to her own
level, or below it.

Above this mass of serfs there is no middle class. The
Russian merchant when, as an exception, he does emerge
from serfage, rises in the second generation to the cIaSS of
nobles, or sinks ngain inrahls original-state. The progress
of Russia in manufactures has produced no independent
class of artisans ; her principal factories are the property
of the Crown, and the workmen the most wretched of the
serfs.

The soldier propagates no free race ; he is himself made
free, and therefore loses all interest in his brethren ; but
his children born before enrolment remain serfs, and sub-
sequent marriages remain unfruitful, from the dissolute mo-
rals of a Russian barracks. The military colonies are spe-
cific nurseries of soldiers intended to reproduce and support
the army, without being a drain on the general population
(deteriorated by the continual abstraction of the finest
men), and at little or no charge to the State.
The regiments stationed on certain frontiers, where a
strong and warlike population,- and an exhausting climate,
oppose her progress, must be married. Lands are allotted
them, they then form a military settlement like those of
ancient Rome ; opposed in interests and in feelings to the
natives, and inured to the climate.—British and Foreign
'lt-view.

DR EA DEUL OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday morn-
ing last, Mr. Joseish Cortes, one of the oldest keepers in the
Lancashire Lunatic Asylum, whilst sitting at his breakfast in
his own private room, was suddenly alarmed by the appearance
of one of the patients called Harrison, who rushed into the
room with one of the scrubbing-brushes in his hands, weighing
about 14ibs., with which he instantly struck the keeper, and
brought him to tine ground, and whilst there he repeated the
blows with terrific violei.ee,ctinsing the blood to flow in copious
streams from all parts of thc! boaj, in consequence of which
Cortes di,:d in four neu. after. An inquest was held on the
body at seven o'clock in the evening, but the Jury would come
no conclusion an ;lecauat of the absence of a material wit-

14CSS to whom it is 811Iji-,,i,ed patient hart previously men-
aynytiling 1i! dcsgli. The Jory w:11 sit again ou Mon-
day next. lite deceasel Las kit behind him a wife and seve-
ral children to lan:fit hii untimely death.—Preston Pilot.

At Chesterfield, on Monday last, a quantity of hay
was seen floating in the air in a southerly direction at a great
height above the church steeple. Portions of the bay were
detached in its progress, and descended into the town. It must
have been taken up by a whirlwind.—Chesterfield Reporter.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 6.—The
sales of Cotton to-day are 1,500 bags, at the last week's
prices. They consist principally of American.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKgT, JULY 6.—This
Market was to-day abundantly supplied with meat. There was
a good attendance, and nearly the whole was sold. In Beef and
Lamb there was no alteration from last week's prices. Mutton
was a shade higher. Beef, from 51d. to 51d. ; Mutton, from
61d. to 6d. ; Lamb, from 6d. to 6441.

The Mobile Regider of the '23d of May, has the
following --" The fate of Mrs. Alston, the accomplished
lady of Governor Alston. of South Carolina, and daughter of
Aaron Burr, has been shrouded in mystery for more than 20
years. Occasionally, indeed, some gleams of light have been
thrown around her melancholy end, and the belief is that she
fell a victim to piratical atrocity. Some three years ago, it
was currently reported that a man, residing in one of the inte-
rior counties of this State made some disclosures on his death-
bed, which went to confirm the confession previously made by
a culprit on the gallows, that the vessel in which Mrs. A. sailed
was scuttled for the sake of her.plate and effects. The fol-
lowing article, which we copy from the Alabama Jour-
nal, goes to throw some additional light ou the sub-
jett. The facts mentioned in it are quite new to
us, acid will be, most probably, to most of our readers :
Confession of a Pirate. The public, no doubt, remembers the
story of the daughter of Aaron Burr, who was the wife of
Governor Alston, of South Carolina. On the return of her
father from Europe, about the year 1812, she embarked from
Charleston on a visit to him at New York, on board a priva-
teer-built vessel, and was never heard of afterwards. It
seems that her friends at first thought the vessel had fallen
into the hands of pirates, and afterwards concluded that it was
wrecked and lost. It appeared from the statement of a re-
spectable merchant of Mobile, that a man died in that city re-
cently, who confessed to his physician, on his dying-bed, that
he had been a pirate, and helped to destroy the vessel, and
all the crew and passengers, in which Mrs. Alston had em-
barked for New York. He declared, says the Gentle-
man, that, after the men were all killed, there was an
unwillingness on the part of every pirate to taking the
life of Mrs. Alston, who had not resisted them or fought
them, and therefore they drew lots who should perform the
deed, as it had to be done. The lot fell on this pirate, who
declared that he effected his object of putting the lady to death
by layieg a plank along the edge of the ship, half on it and
half off, or over the edge, and made Mrs. Alston walk on
that plank till it tilted over into the water with her. The dy-
ing pirate requested the physician to make this story public,
but his surviving family will not permit or consent that the
name of the deceased should be known. The above tale was
repeated over and over by the merchant before mentioned in
the presence of a number
of gentlemen, whose names can be
given. He said bercceived it from the physician himself,
with no other injunction to sFuresy than that he should not
disclose the mute of the physician for, the prevent. On being
asked if the physician was a man of voracity and respectability,
Ir) replied there was no one more act in Mobile. The mer.
cl,ant was warned that this story would get into the news-
papers, to which he wade no objection.' "

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 21 minutes past 3 o'clock.

portionate to the duties they have to perform ; the '
saving arising out of this reform to be applied to the
purposes of gen'eral education. The means by which
these views were to be carried into effect were
detailed in Lord MoRTETH's admirable speech
of the 26th ult., and it was evident, from the conduet
of the Tories on that occasion, that they were greatly
disappointed and ;flightily enraged. They had flattered
themselves that the MELBOURNE Administration
would be unable to cope with the difficulties with
which the question of Church reform in Ireland was
beset, because they themselves had not sense enough
to surmount them. When, therefore, they found that a
wise and liberal Government had devised a plan by which
the changes and reforms. rendered necessary by the
state of Ireland might be effected without infringing,
in the most remote degree, the principle of an Esta-
blishment, their rage knew no bounds. Sir HENRY
HARDINGE, the concoctor of the Tory plan of Irish
Church Reform, spoke more like a man who had
received a gross personal affront, than a statesman
considering a question of public policy ; and now Sir
ROBERT PEEL comes forward with much more mo-
deration, but not less deadly hostility to the measure,
to develope the plot which the party have matured
to defeat its object. The expedient resorted to is
rather novel. " There are, says Sir ROBERT, certain
parts of this Bill of which I approve, and certain
other parts of which I disapprove"—no very unusual
circumstance, we should think—" therefore," conti-
nues the Right Hon. Gentleman, " I give you warn-
ing that when the Bill goes into Committee, I mean
to move that it be an instruction to the Committee that
the Bill be divided into two Bills---that the parts of
which I approve be thrown into the one, and dips 'of
which I disapprove into the other, and-my reasai for
doing this is, that I may not be obliged to oppose that
portion of the Bill which I think deserves my support."
This is the course Sir ROBERT means to pursue, and
this the reason he assigns for adopting it—a reason,
we may observe in
,passing, which would justify the
same mode of procedure in all other eases.
The portion of the measure which Sir ROBERT
would embody in his favoured Bill, is that which
relates to the conversion of tithe into a rent-charge.
The plan proposed by Government to effect this,
he thinks would do, provided there . were engrafted
on it a provision giving the landlord a power of
redemption, but he does not condescend to show how
the interests of the clergy are to be promoted by their
incomes being made dependent on the state of the
Stocks. The parts of the present measure to which
the Right Hon. Baronet has the most decided objec-
tion, and which he would include in a separate Bill,
are the appropriation of the surplus revenue to other
than ecclesiastical purposes, and what he calls the sup-
pression of the cure of souls in 868 parishes. We
can readily understand his dislike to the appropriation
principle. There arc many unpleasant recollec-
tions associated with it in his aspiring mind ; but
he is guilty of a misrepresentation when be says that
the cure of souls has been suppressed in 868 parishes.
In every one of these parishes in which there is a soul
to be cured, provision has been made for that
object ; and even when there are none, the principle
has been recognized by an incorporation quoad spiri-
tualia with some neighbouring parish.

, The carrying of the eleventh clause in the CoUnty
Coroners' Bill, which recognizes the principle of con-
ducting the business of the Court with open doom, is a
striking instance of the eonsistent firmness and inte-
grity of the majority of the present House of Com-
mons. Parliament begins to take a right view of ite
duties, and of the only way in which they can be dis-
charged effectually. A legislative body which does
not base its acts on some fixed and immutable prin-
ciple—some truth which will serve for a polar star in
any tempest—must always mislead the people, and
mismanage their affairs. Even should the princi-
ple adopted be an erroneous one, an adherence
to it is a thousand times preferable to the zig-zag
course of legislating according to the promptings
of present expediency,- without regard to order or ul-
timate consequences. Now the Parliament of Great
Britain having previously recognised the principle
that the exercise of all delegated power should be
public, we are glad to find it consistent with itself in
refusing to sanction, under any circumstances, a direct
departure from it. In a free country, such as ours,
we all know drat it is the omnipresence of the public
eye that keeps all public functionaries honest. Find
means to exclude its gaze, and justice will be an
vendible as any vegetable in Covent-garden Market.
From the Lord High Chancellor of England to the
lowest bailiff in the train of a County Sheriff—from
the High Court of Parliament to the humble tri-
bunal presided over by a district seneschal—all
would be one mass of bribery, perjury, and corruption
in its worst and most loathsome forms, did not the
Constitution of the country secure to Englishmen the
invaluable principle of the people's right to be pre-
sent wherever justice is being administered.
Some of the objections urged against the opening
of Coroner's Courts to the public were not a little
curious. Mr. HARDY thought " there was too much
plausibility in an open Court," but as the Court did
not sit for punishment but enquiry, he thought there
could be no good reason brought forward against elos-
ing it. He also cited an instance of a murderer who
attended an Inquest which was open, and from the
evidence given he found that he was likely to be im-
plicated, and so made his escape--an evil that could
not have happened had the Court been closed. With
regard to these objections, we may be allowed to say
that they are both worthy ut that lloa,
sagacity. Is it no punishment to eommit for trial, and
so incarcerate under a ban of murder, perhaps, for a
period of some weeks, probably months ? Does the com-
mittal for a capital crime, even where the party com-
mitted is subsequently proved to be innocent, carry no
calamity with it ? Are such mistakes never followed
by injury to the families and relations of individuals
so committed? .It is unnecessary to answer these
questions. Thera is no man of business who is not
perfectly sensible that suspicion under such circum-
stances would be ruinous to-him. - Now, what are we
to think of the legislator who would commit this en-
gine of oppression to the custody of a single individual,
who might direct it unobserved against the most ex-
cellent persons, without allowing them an opportunity
of defending themselves, and yet who would defend the
concession, on the ground that a Coroner's Court is
merely. a Court of Inquiry ? Mr. HARDY appears to
entertain the most pious horror of the escape of mur-
derers who attend Coroners' Inquests. The escape
of a murderer is unquestionably a very great evil ; but
we will take upon ourselves to assure him, that it is
one of those which will-not follow the throwing -open
of the Courts. There. may be an exception, but in
nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand,
the murderer will take the best care in his or her
power to keep from the Inquest. Such exceptions,
when they do occur, are out of the reach of legislative
enactment for they can only happen where the mur-
derer labours under an infatuation which renders escape
impossible, or when he is armed with the power of
bidding open defiance to the authority of the executive.
The instance cited by Mr. HARDY does not touch
the soundness of the principle. Even there, one of

the great ends of justice was accomplished, for.society
got for ever rid of the wretch.

Looking, then, at this question, as surrounded with
all the difficulties with which the Conservatives seek to
en6ompass it, our opinion is that there is no Com-
parison between the positive evils of a Closed-Court,
and all the possible ones that could arise from an open
one. We believe that there is no man acquainted with
the science of jurisprudence who will not readily admit
that the punishment of one innocent member of society is
a greater evil in a state than the escape of ten criminals
object of all judicial proceedings being rather
with a view to protect innocence than to punish guilt.
Even the escape of a murderer, in consequence of a
Coroner's Court being open, is by no means so great
an injury to society as the committal of an innocent
man on such a charge—an evil which has often
.re-
sulted from closing the doors during such investigations.

In a new Quarterly periodical, just published by
RInGwAY,-and entitled " The British and Foreign
Review"-,--the first Number of which is now lying be-
fore us—there is-a paper on the nature and designs of
the modern system of Russian policy, which, by the
force and variety of its arguments ; its bold, caustic,
sinewy style ; and more especially by its analytical cha-
racter, reminds us of some of those admirable essays
on foreign affairs with which LOrd BROUGHAM for,
so many years delighted the readers of the Edinburgh'
Repieib. The object: of the Essay is to create a
wholesome distrust. the professions of the Peters-.
burgh Cabinet,-ley showing that - notwithstanding its
pacific professions, and affected love of moderation, it
is slowly but surely paving the way for the attainment
of the one paramount object of its ambition—the pos-
session of Constantinople. To effect this great end,
Russia, the Reviewer asserts, wily hesitate at no sa-
crifice—at forfeiting no pledge however solemnly
sworn to. Yet she will not precipitate her de-
signs, or break out into any premature 'explosion:
far otherwise, she will bide her time, in the firm con-
viction—so infatuated is she on this one point—that
the clay is not far distant that trill see her the mistress
of Constantinople. On this branch of his theme the_
Reviewer expatiates with considerable eloquence and
vigour. " Russia's progress," he observes, "is not
the sudden conquests of a gifted leader, but the regular
advance of a system. The incorporation of a vast em-
pire, which the is now compassing, is a work'of infinite
labour, and until completed,
.she dares not awaken
Europe from its slumbers. She must not threaten and
alarm ; she must soothe and undermine ; she does
not excite combinations against her ; she sows dis-
sensions before her ; , the chains she carries do
not clank ; her footsteps have no echoes ; her
shadow blights where her hand cannot yet reach, and
where she comes, it is to abide." Yet this is the power
from which not a few of our Legislators, seem to think
civilized Europe has no cause for apprehension I
NAPOLEON, who knew her well, thought otherwise,
and .was of opinion, in common with the Reviewer,
that unless France and England confederated to check
her ambitious career, no earthly power could prevent
her wresting Constantinople from its Legitimate Sove-
reigns ; adding Persia to the number of her conquests,
and, by so doing, opening a road for the march of her
armies to the British possessions in the East. At the
present moment there is no Cabinet eo wily, and, in
nine cases out of ten, so successful in its intrigues, as
that of St. Petershurgh—none, consequently, that
should be the object of more unceasing jealousy to all
European States.

Dr. BRYCE, Principal of th© Belfast Academy,
commenced a series of lecturog yesterday at Willis's
Rooms, on a subject of vast importance, but hitherto
almost neglected in this country, —namely, the art of
teaching. The great objects of this science are, to
communicate real knowledge and mental cultivation,
not only in the shortest time, but in the most attractive
form, and, what is of still greater importance, to
_form
the moral and religious character of youth in public
schools. Defective as the system of teaching is in
this country, the evil arising from the defect is
trifling, as compared with the injury which is in-
flicted by bad example, and an almost total disregard
of shat is properly called moral instruction. This
evil has latterly been on the increase, and has become
so evident, that many parentS, preferring-"moral habits
to any literary acquirements, have been prevented al-
together from sending their children to public schools:
The subject is, however, beginning to attract public
notice ; and we trust that a system which has .been
found so successful in Prussia, and many parts of Ger-
many, and which the groat patron of education, Lord
BROUGHAM, has so long had in view, will speedily be
adopted in this country, The remarks of his Lordship
on this subject, in his comprehensive and convincing
speech on education in the House of Lords well merit
the attention of the Government. After describing
the beautiful effects of proper education, he adds :
" Here, then, is the path plain before us—fOr there is
not a single school in which the children might not be
thus trained and accomplished. Place No,-al Semi.
naties—seminaries for training teachers—in a few
such plaoes as London, York, Liverpool, Durham,
and Exeter—so that the west, south, nortn-east, anti
north-west of the island shall have the means of ob-
taining good masters, and you will yearly qualify 500
persons fitted for diffusing a perfect system of instruc-
tion all over the country. These Training Seminaries
would" not only teach the masters the branches of learn-
ing and science they are now deficient in, but would
teach them what they know far less—the didactic art—
the mode of imparting the knowledge which they have,
or may acquire--the best method of training and deal-
ing with children, in all that regards both temper, ca:
naeitv. and habits. and the means of stirring them to
exertion, and controlling their aberrations. tie whole
operation would occasion a very trifling expense to the
State ; I think 20,0001., for five or six years would,
with the individual efforts that must be called forth,
suffice for
country."
ming effectually the whole Education
softhee

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of.
Monday, bringing intelligence from Madrid to the 30th
ulti The REGENT has appointed General SARSFIELD
to the command of the army in the North—at least so
say private letters from the Spanish capital. SARS-
,II3I,,D commanded the army of operation in the
Basques in the beginning of 1834, and was only re-
called at his own express and urgent desire. A com
mission, composed of two Proceres or Peers, one de-
puty, and two public functionaries, in all five persons,
has been appointed to inquire into the best means of
establishing and preserving the liberty of the press.
When the courier left Madrid all was perfectly tran-
quil in that metropolis.
The letters from Bayonne, and the Journals •of the
South of France, do not yet explain the mariner in
which the raising of the siege of Bilboa was effected.
Thc following particulars are extracted from a letter,
dated Bayonne, July 1 :—" This very moment , a re-
port was spread that the Spanish Consul in this city
has received intelligence of an advantage gained by
Generals Latri, Iriarte, and Espartero, in the environs
of Bilboa on the 28th. The result of the affair is
said to have been the raising of the siege of Bilboa,
the abandoning of the positions round the city, and a
gr6at number of prisoners'taken."

fi►e most extraorimary dou►estic inWiligence cu►,
tainedin this day's arrivals from Paris, is the arniouuce-

ment of the discovery of a plot to assassinate the KING.
The manner in which the plot was found out is not.yet
made public, but on Sunday evening five persons were
seized, and on Monday morning two more captured.' The
plan of the conspirators was to kill the KING while
passing from the Tuilleries to Neuilly. The place
has been considered well chosen, and had the assassins
succeeded in attacking his MAJESTY, there is little
doubt but that they would have despatched him before
they could be overpowered by his guards. As soon as
the existence of the conspiracy was made known on
Monday, a deputation from the Peers, and several other
public functionaries, proceeded to Neuilly to congratu-
late his MAJESTY on his escape.
Should the above be correct, there is nothing
very surprising in it. Of that the King of the
FRENCH is perfectly well aware. But may it not
be one of those manoeuvres which have already been
so frequently adopted for the purpose of directing public
attention from the persecution of the prisoners of April?
We certainly suspect as much. When a conspiracy
is set on foot to rid the world of Louis PHILIPPE,
(from which evil may GOD preserve his Most Chris-
tian Majesty,) we are confident it will succeed, for
none will engage in it but persons capable of baffling
the vigilance of royal spies.
FRENCH FUNDS —PARIK, JULY 6.
Five per Cents.. 108 f. 90c. 109 f. 108 f. 93c.
Four and a Half per Cent, 1011. 60c.
Four per Cents., 531. tiOc.
Three per Cents., 79f. 25c. 30c. 20c.
Bank Actions, 2,000f..2,0n51.
Bente de Naples, 97f. 97f. sc. 10c. 97f.
Roman Five per Cents., 101.
Hente d'Espagite, Five per Cents., 40 3934%.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 2SY4. -
Bente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 42 42,A% 41S N.
Belgian Loan„Five per Cents, 10A.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 91X 92.
Ditto, Three per Cents, 62 61N 624.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 56f. 35c.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —t: ; money, 25f. 426 c.
'farce months,. paper, 251.32;4 c. ; money, 251: 30c
. fluibemeivre.

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BOURSE, TfIREE o'CLocx.—The improvement in the Eng.
lish funds has produced a corresponding effect on the different
securities here. The 3 per Cents. had been done yesterday
at Tortoni's from 79f. 30c. to 35c.: to-day at the Bourse they
were done at 79f. 45c., with a brisk market. Spanish stock
is greatly in demand, and at high prices, in consequence of its
being stated that numerous desertions had taken place in the
Carlist army on the retreat from Bilbea, chiefly among the
officers.

QUARTER TO FOUR. - Five per Cents., 1091. sc. ;
Three per Cents., 791. 40c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 41i- ;
Three per Cents., Spanish, 281; Cortes, 39/; Coupons 21 ;
Guebhards, —; Dilferes, 17 ; New Loan, 491 ; Definitives,
46 ; Passives, 14 ; Ducats, 97 25; Romans, 101; Belgians,
1011; Pedros, 921; Miguels, 26 ; Dutch,---; Haytian, —f. ;
Brabant Bank, 141.

Brussels and German Papers have been received,
bringing advices from Rome, and the frontiers of
Bosnia. Don MIGUEL continues to dwell at
Rome, where he edifies the POPE and Car-
dinals by the fervour of his. piety, and the fre-
quency of his devotional acts. In Bosnia peace
is partially restored. The Prussian Government is
engaged in the selection and adoption of Measures for
hying down rail-roads through every part of the coun-
try. There is no news from Vienna, and" the ac-
counts from Brussels relate entirely to the raising of
volunteers in England for the service of the QUEEN
of Spain. _ .

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, JULY 4. .
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 100,4
Loan of City, 1839, Four per Cent 98%
Society of Cammerce, Four and a Half per Cent ll9 ~,,
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent , ... 114 k
—Brussels Papers, July 6.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNE 27.
Five per Cents. Metalliqups
Four per Cents.
Bank Shares 1,344
—4llo7neine Zeitung, July 2.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Accounts from St. Sebastian, of June 29, state that bar-
racks were preparing there for the reception of the troops
coming from England, which were expected by the steamers.
Accounts from Barcelona state that a fine French frigate
was cruising off there, and great activity prevailed in the pub-
lic works. The factious have been driven into the mountains.
Our arrivals are only a French mail, with the Express from
Paris, bringing dates from Madrid of the 30th ult. It appears
that General Sarsfield is appointed to command the Spanish
army in the north of Spain.
The second division of the Spanish expedition sailed yester-
day from Greenwich, consisting of 400 men, on board the
London Merchant steamer. On Monday next it is expected
that 600 more will take their departure for the same destination.