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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 231, 1835

kind ; and we trust if a second impression of the book '
be called for, the electors will subscribe for presenta-
tion copies, to be delivered by the returning officers on
the hustings into the hands of the national Representa-
tives. Perhaps the author will be good enough to add
a few extra rules for the orderly introduction of braying
and cock-crowing into debates, and for the most ap-
proved manner of coughing, shouting, snoring, and
otherwise interrupting the progress of public business.
A few rules on the most insulting form of delivering
and receiving Parliamentary challenges ; and the least
suspicious way in which cowards may play the bully
within ear-shot of the Speaker, would likewise be of
immense service. Should it come within the Author's
province to touch upon the senatorial costume in the
Lower House, we request that he will recommend all
Members under forty years of age, with fair or florid
complexions, to enter the House with a pair of
riding whips instead of one, and to trail their
spurs instead of clanking them after the fashion
of serjeants of cavalry. Fingers, of course, were
made for wearing rings, but why should not thumbs
also ? The blaze of diamonds which dazzles the
eyes of all strangers on their first entrance into
the gallery of the House of Commons, would be abso-
lutely overpowering, could the Hon. Gentlemen be
persuaded to ornament their thumbs' as radiantly as
their fingers. No person could doubt the brilliancy
of speeches rounded off by the graceful waving of
such hands, and did an Hon. Member only point a
finger in disapprobation, the cutting nature of the
shining reproof could not be called in question by any
person having the use of his eyes. Of glasses of every
description, we shall not say one word, as we under-
stand from a Right Hon. Friend of our's, that he in-
tends next session to move for leave to bring in a Bill
for the regulation of quizzing, and the orderly suspen-
sion of all 'glasses worn within the walls of Parliament.

The rules which it will be the business of the
Author to introduce relating to the orderly conduct
of the Peers must be altogether of a different
character. As that august assembly boasts of heredi-
tary wisdom, we should recommend the abolition of
all debate, and that the House, like the Society of
Friends, should reverently listen, and instantly adopt
the spiritual promptings of each hereditary Legislator.
In an assembly where the omniscience and omnipo-
tence of each, for the purposes of legislation, is re-
cognized from the cradle to the grave, it would be folly
to recommend discussion or inquiry of any kind.
Where all are by birth equally wise, the wisdom of
each must be equal to that of the whole. When Bills
are brought up from the Commons, it might be well
to recommend their Lordships, as in cases where they
assume judicial functions, to decide upon'them by the
opinion of the last noble recruit from the nursery. We
have always been admirers of that profound wisdom
which recognized the right of sucking Peers to take
the lead in the exercise of judicial functions, and
we believe nothing could shed a brighter lustre
upon the councils of that heaven-taught assemblage of
senators, than to extend the practice to the ordinary
legislative duties of a Peer of Parliament. The
people have more claims to hereditary folly than wis-
dom, and therefore nothing is befitting the dignity of
the Peers which assimilates, in any degree, to the
rules recommended by popular sages. The people
have a habit of reverencing the wisdom of age, and
bowing.in silent acquiescence to the words of matured
judgment and ripened experience. In what more direct
or proper form, therefore, could the Peers distinguish
themselves as all-wise judges, than by commanding
death itself to obey the lisped mandate of the last
noble chuckle-head who imported among them the
reflected eloquence of a groom, and the graceful move-
ments of a dancing-master ? Nothing, of course,
could be more at variance with common sense, and
therefore more corroborative of the fact, that all the
wisdom which influences the legislative and judicial
conduct of the Peers is any thing but acquired.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Monday have
been received. The National is the only journal which
contains advices from Madrid of a later date than those
which appeared in the London Papers of yesterday.
It states on the authority of letters from the Spanish
capital, dated the 15th inst., two o'clock in the morn-
ing, that the political engagement between MM. MEN-
DIZABAL and VILLIERS on orie side, and-MM. de
TORENO and RAYNEVAL on the other, lasted eight
successive days. M. de TORENO persisted in favour
of violent measures of repression. It was General
QUESADA that put an end to the crisis, by terrifying
M. de TORENO, in the name of the garrison and popu-
lation of Madrid, with menaces of violence against his
person. The Presidency of the Council has not been
conferred on ALAVA, but on Don RAMON GIL de
la CUADRA, Member of the Proceres' Chamber, a
most decided member of the popular party, and an
intimate friend of MINA and MENDIZABAL. General
LATRE is appointed War Minister. The department
of the Navy and Justice had not been disposed of on
the departure of the courier ; but it was thought that
General ALAVA would have the former. M. MENDI-
ZABAL retained the Finances, and held the Home
Department ad interim. The first article of the new
Ministry's programme is " No intervention. If of
fered it shall be refused—if it be attempted by force it
shall be resisted."

The statement contained in the National is contra-
dicted by advices,received in London, bearing date the
16th inst. According to the latter, M. GIL de la
QUADRA, or CUADRA, has declined taking office, and
General ALAVA has been compelled to assume the
Presidency of the Council. The Home Department
is filled by M. MARTIN de los HERDS ; and M.
MENDIZABAL, as Finance Minister, has charged
himself, ad interim, with the Porkfeuille of the
Marine Department. The duties- of the other
offices are, in the meantime, to be discharged by the
Under Secretaries. The Council of Finance is sup-
pressed, its functions devolving upon the Council of
Spain.

On the night of the 15th, a Carlist conspiracy was
discovered in the barracks of the Cuirassiers, which
led to the apprehension of ten serjeants, and the dis-
covery of some important documents. We have
not learned whether any illustrious names were
found among the conspirators, or whether its ramifica-
tions had extended to any of the great departments of
the State.

On the 16th, the Madrid Cabinet published a Mi-
nisterial Manifesto, addressed to the Spanish people,
through the columns of the Gazette. The following
is the substance of it :

" One of the greatest, if not the principal, advantages
of a representative Government, is the facility which it
affords of satisfying, in all circumstances, the actual ne-
cessities of society. This is done by placing at the head
of the Administration men known by their antecedents,
and who have frankly avowed principles in harmony with
the public wants and wishes.
" What are the two necessities at this moment for Spain ?
The termination of the civil war, and the consequent con-
solidation of the throne of Isabel is the first ; the second,
the gradual but progressive march of public liberty. The
appointment of a Ministry in which persons capable of gua-
ranteeing that both these wants shall be attended to, offers
the best means of attaining this end. Two of the persons
already appointed to the Ministry have given proof of their
capacity in this respect.
As to the march of liberty, the entire life of the Mi-
nisteri, devoted to the cause of civilization and liberal
principles, gives ample testimony of their wishes to for

ward the progress of freedom in harmony with the spirit
of the age. Liberty, triumphant or defeated, has always
seen them triumph or suffer with her. They will always
remain faithful to her cause. Should they abandon her
at the moment an opportunity offers to serve her cause
most effectually ?—at a moment when they may aspire to
the glory of re-uniting a divided and disordered nation, and
of definitively rendering triumphant the cause of public
order, and of Isabella ?

" The vital principle of the new Government is the union
and concord of Spaniards, without which neither can free-
dom be secured, nor the Pretender put down. .

" A Government, convinced of the sanctity of its mis-
sion, cannot hope to produce the good of the people without
sustaining public credit, and giving an impulse to national
industry. The present Minister of Finance having resided
long in England, is not ignorant of the means of sustaining
public credit, and knows that the best mode of doing this is
the reform of abuses.

" The convocation of the Cortes shall not be delayed, so
that the voice of the Representatives of the Nation, united
with that of the Government, may calm every inquietude,
may encourage all well-founded and rational hopes, may
support public order, without which neither freedom nor
country can exist, may destroy all pretexts for dissension,
and restore union, at this moment so unfortunately com-
promised. At the same time not an hour shall be lost in
preparing, with due maturity and reflection, a law regulating
Ministerial responsibility. _ _ _

" Her Majesty's Government will devote itself wholly to
this task. Void of all party passions, it is devoted solely
to the public good. Sure of its intention, it will labour to
procure the three great benefits—a legitimate Throne, con-
cord, and liberty. Its acts shall demonstrate to all Europe,
that its intentions are solely these."

There is no domestic intelligence of the slightest
importance in the French Journals. Spain, and Spain
only, engages the whole undivided attentions of the
French Press. The Journal des Debats affects to
dread that the Juntas will, by their mistaken efforts
for Constitutional liberty, prostrate Spain before the
domineering march of Don CARLOS. MM. THIERS
and GUIZOT may dispel their fears on this head. The
Juntas will not play the part of the French Ministerial
patriots.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, SEPTEMBER 21.
Five per Cents., 107 f. Sec. 85c.
Four per Cents., 97f. 70c. 85c.
Three per Cents., Bef. 35c. 40c. 45c 50c.
Bank Actions, 2,075 f.
Rente de Naples, 98f. 15c. 25c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 3414.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 2'2%34, 34.
Royal Spanish Loan, 35 3535% 35 3434
Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 34 1414 34 3.5 34% 54 U%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103;4.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 87%T4 88.
Portuguese Three Her Cents. 573 .4.
Haytian Loan, 345 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 55c
Three months, paper, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 40c
—Ccvirs Authentigue.

BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.—The Rentes have again im-
proved. The only probable cause of this is the rise in the
English funds. The market is very firm. The Spanish secu-
rities have risen considerably : the monied men seem to have
a high opinion of the financial capacity of Mendizabal.
QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 90c. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 60c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 34+; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 22i; Cortes, 34i; Coupons, 191; Gueb•
hards, 344 ; Differes, 141; New Loan, 42 ; Actives, 414 ;
Passives, 124 ; Ducats, 98 30 ; Romans, 1021 ; Pedros, 88;
Belgians, 1031; Dutch, ; Haytians, 345 f. ; Miguels, —;
Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —.

German and Brussels papers of the latest dates have
been received this morning. Their contents are un-
interesting.

The conduct of the House of Lords during the late

Session of Parliament is a subject which ought never
to be lost sight of by the public, until the constitution
of that House be entirely remodelled. It is worse than
trifling to talk about the effect of public opinion upon
such a body. What have the Lords to fear from
public opinion that they have not already experienced ?
Have they not braved—nay defied—public opinion to
such a degree, that the whole empire is indignant at
their proceedings ;,and yet, with this fact staring them
in the face, persons are found silly enough to sup-
pose that a check, which has been proved utterly in-
efficient, will, without any assignable reason, become
all at once effective I The class of persons. who are
led away by this opinion, is, we believe, a very small
one, and, happily, the delusion is not likely to spread.
Mr. O'CoNNELL's mission will do much to open the
eyes of those who still hanker after hereditary legis-
lators, and we are happy to find that the provincial
Press is lending its aid in furtherance of the cause.
An able pamphlet, entitled " Reform of the House of
Lords," which has been published at Leicester, has been
put into our hands. We recommend it to the perusal
of all Reformers. It is written by Mr. BIGGS, to
whom the cause of Corporation Reform is much in-
debted. The following extract will explain Mr.
B/GGS'S views :

" Some people think this (the new-modelling of the
House of Lords) can never be accomplished without a re-
sort to arms, and a civil war ; others think from the oppo-
sition offered by the House of Lords, that an upper House
is entirely unnecessary, and that we might do without it al-
together ; that a House of Commons is fully enough for the
purpose of legislation, and that one House is better than
two. lam decidedly in favour of continuing two Houses,
for a variety of reasons ; but in the first place with regard
to the probabilities of altering the constitution of the House
of Lords without a revolution.

" The House of Peers consists of sixteen Scotch Peers,
who are elected by nearly one hundred of their fellow-Peers,
the beginning of every new Parliament, of twenty-eight Irish
Peers, who are elected by upwards of two hundred of their
fellow-Peers and sit for life, and of about four hundred
English Peers, who are hereditary legislators, and of course
born as Kings are, with all necessary qualifications for
government.
" These Scotch Peers once did not form any part of the
English legislature, but sat in their own House in their
good city of Edinburgh, when Scotland was an independent
kingdom, and were hereditary legislators. Like our En-
glish Peers, they caused the King and the people very consi-
derable annoyance, being anxious to retain all their old feu-
dal privileges, and steadily opposed to anything in the way of
public improvement ; they retained for upwards of one
hundred years their separate national legislature, after they
had been united with England under one Sovereign, and
frequently pursued different plans of policy, and affected
separate interests ; but at length, in the reign of Anne,
they were prevailed upon to send Commissioners to Lon-
don to negotiate a union, which their Parliament afterwards
ratified, and thus ceased to be a separate legislature ; their
elected Peers and Commoners from that time to the pre-
sent are sent by their countrymen to London to assist the
English (and subsequently by the Union, the Irish Mem-
bers) in the framing of laws for the United Empire.
" The Irish Peers also within the recollection of many of
us, once sat in their own House in the city of Dublin, and
were irresponsible, hereditary legislators ; both in Scotland
and in Ireland when the Union with England was respect-
fully proposed it was encountered by the most de-
termined opposition ; yet the Irish, like the Scotch,
were induced to give up their two Houses of Parlia-
ment, and to send their Peers and Commoners to le-
gislate at Westminster. No man could now wish to
undo what has thus been done, and if the Irish have not
yet reaped (as the Scotch unquestionably have) many ad-
vantages from English connexion, it has been owing to their
Church, to their internal dissensions consequent upon mis-
government, and to the feeling of insecurity there is about
making investments in that country by English capi-
talists ; when the Irish Church question, and the Irish
Corporation Reform Bill, and some few other questions
are settled and satisfactorily adjusted, and a state of se—
curity is superinduced, Ireland will of course then reap
all the advantages which a poor country must ever de-
rive from its propinquity and union with a rich one.
Here then are great organic changes effected from the
progress of events and the force of circumstances, with-
out bloodshed, fully as great or greater than there would
be in changing our House of Lords from an hereditary to an
elective House.
" The fundamental change in the constitution of our
House of Commons, is again another precedent in favour
of the possibility of great organic changes taking place
without bloodshed or revolution. The Lords were induced
to consent to the change from the force of circumstances ;
if they were once induced upon a question to which they
had great repugnance, why not again by the exercise of
the same or even more influential means ? Still this mea-
sure is never likely to be adopted until the public mind
is firmly, steadily, and perseveringly determined to carry it
at all risks.

" We will suppose the public mind in England, Scot-
land, and Ireland thoroughly imbued with the idea that an

hereditary House of Peers is incompatible with liberty,
that it stands in the way of improvement, that it marjhe
general interest of the nation, and Oat its timqi fully
come for a' thorough and extensive Reformation ; we will
suppose the whole country to be decidedly convinced of
this, deeply imbued with it, resolutely determined to make
the change ; the English people are slow to‘rnove, and
would rather bear the ills they have, than fly to others
that they know not of ;' but we will suppose that the
interruption to public business has been long-continued,
that one or two Houses of Commons have been sent
back to the people, and that the House of Commons now
sent is of so determined a character, that they are pre-
pared to take very strong measures ; we will suppose, in
the interim, that the struggle between the two Houses, or
rather between the Lords and the People, has been so
long, that the Commons have refused Supplies, and are de-
termined not to grant another farthing for carrying on the
business of the Government without a Reform of the House
of Lords : the army, then, we will suppose, is getting into
arrear—the navy is unpaid—the public creditors are cla-
morous for their dividends—public credit is about to receive
a shock—the whole stately fabric of the Monarchy' is in
danger : the Commons at this time bring in a Bill for the
reform of the House of Lords, the preamble of which says ;
Whereas the House of Lords in its present state is inju-
rious to public liberty, and dangerous to the peace and hap-
piness' of the people of these realms, be it therefore enacted,
that from and after the Ist of in the year of our Lord
18—, all Peers who sit in the upper House of Parliament,
shall take their seats there by virtue of elections of:the
people f this, of course, would be a very awkward Bill
for the Peers to deal with ; if the times were ordinary
they would, of course, resist it, indeed in such
times it would not be brought in ; but the Bill has passed
the Commons, and the, King or young Queen is supposed
to be favourable to it, or is, at all events, disposed
to see the question settled between the Peers and the people,
the Commons being determined, and the exigency of the
case admits of no delay :—the Whig Peers, many of them,
have no objection—Lord Brougham, of course, would have
none—the Tory Peers are many of them pensioners, de-
pendent upon the Commons and the Minister for their said
pensions, these latter Peers must be influenced ; the New-
castles and Winchilseas, indeed, might be allowed to vitu-

perate, but as what they said would only expose them to
ridicule, and convince nobody, they might stay and talk
about it and about it.' Here then are means and modes
enough to effect' the change, or if some of the more
refractory Lords could not be gained over, a creation of
fifty more by the King or Queen, who, like the rest,
should afterwards depend upon the people for their election
when the Bill was passed, would completely settle the ques-
tion, and the Bill would thus become law ; the Upper
House would then consist of some one or two hundred
members, as it might happen, selected by the people out
of six or seven hundred English, Irish, and Scotch Peers,
who alone would be eligible to seats in that House ; a
third a them might go out of office every three years, so
that their tenure of office would have enough of the cha-
racter of permanence about it to secure the country
against danger from crude legislation, or popular ebullitions
in the other House. The case would then stand thus ;
the King would confer titles of nobility on whom he chose
—on persons remarkable for wisdom, for wealth, for valour,
for public services—and the circumstances of such distinc-
tion being conferred by the King, would render them
eligible for election by the people to seats in the Urrper
House of Parliament ; the House of Commons in the
meantime must repeal their Septennial Act, which they
never had any constitutional right to pass at all, and
the Members must either be annually elected or not
longer than for a period of two years : we should thus
secure on the one hand a very popular Commons' House,
which would be returned sufficiently often to represent
every change in public opinion ; and on the other hand, a
house of revision, of a staid and somewhat permanent cha-
racter, which would counteract too hasty legislation, supply
what was defective, strike out what was objectionable, and
be in fact what we should elect them for, and what we
should expect them to be, the guardians and fathers of the
empire."

EAST INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

GENERAL QUARTERLY COURT.

A Quarterly General Meeting of the Court of Directors
of the East India Company took place this morning, William
Stanley Clarke, Esq., in the Chair.
The minutes of the last Court having been read,
The CHAIRMAN stated that certain Parliamentary papers,
relative to the compensation to the officers of the Company,
had been laid before the Court.
Sir CHARLES FORGES wished to know whether those
compensations -were to be paid without the authority of
the Court of Proprietors ? The compensations had been
awarded by the Directors, and sent up to the Board of
Control, from whence they had been laid before Parlia-
ment, and ordered to be paid Without the sanction of the
Court of Proprietors. Against this course he protested as
being illegal.

Tile CHAIRMAN said the Directors had followed the
usual course. As the compensations related to the China
service, it was necessary to lay them before Parliament.
Sir CHARLES FORBES contended that they ought first to
be submitted to the Court of Proprietors for their approval.
He knew that there was a difference of opinion on this
point, and that Lord Abißger and Mr. Serjeant Spankie
had been both consulted, and were against him ; but an
Hon. Proprietor had gone to the expense of obtaining an-
other opinion.
Mr. LINDSAY spoke to order. This question had been
already settled, and not to be re-opened, at least without
notice on the part of the Hon. Bart. _ _

Sir CHAS. FORBES thought he had a right to renew the
subject, more especially as his observations were directed to
the compensations for the Chinese factories.
The Clerk having read the titles of the several papers,
Mr. WEEDING spoke to order, and submitted that the
Hon. Baronet could not proceed with his objections, as no
compensations had been really ordered to be paid.
Sir C. FORBES said, that among the papers was one en-
titled" A list of compensations paid to officers of the China
service" for a given debt. He had the opinion of the Attor-
ney-General upon the same case as that laid before Lord
Abinger, and Mr. Sergeant Spankie ; and this was the
opinion of Sir J. Campbell—" After a good deal of hesita-
tion, I have come to the conclusion that these allowances
and compensations must still be submitted to the Court of
the Proprietors before they can be confirmed by the Board
of Control." .

Mr. WEEDING thought it a matter of importance, and
worthy the consideration of the Court.
Mr. LINDSAY defended the course pursued by the Di-
rectors.
Mr. MARRIOTT assumed that the Directors always acted
under the advice of their legal advisers, and if they were
wrong the Board of Control would set them right.
The CHAIRMAN said the Directors always acted upon
the Counsel of their professional men.
Sir CHARLES FORBES not only thought the course pur-
sued irregular, but objected to many of the compensations
as exorbitant, while in most instances the junior officers
had not been fairly remunerated. He concluded by giving
notice that at the next General Court he should move that
the compensations to the officers of the Company in the
China factory 'service to be taken into consideration.—
(Hear.)
Mr. SWEET, Mr. DODD, and some other Hon. Proprie-
tors, thought it was too late now to re-open this question.
Mr. WEEDING would have no objection to indemnify the
Directors, if they would revise the proceedings, for the
purpose of trying whether they could not do equal and
ample justice to all their servants.
After some further discuesion'
The CHAIRMAN suggested that the motion of the Hon.
Baronet must be an independent one.
A DIRECTOR admitted that the grant of compensation
was insufficient, and that the junior officers had not been
liberally treated. Therefore he recommended the Hon.
Baronet to direct his attention to the enlargement of that
grant when he brought forward his motion next Court day.
Mr. SWEET was proceeding to address the Court upon a
motion relative to the undisposed claims of the maritime
officers of the Company, when our reporter left.

In the American infant schools, the first thing taught
a child is to repeat its name and place of abode, thus secur-
ing its return home, should it by accident be lost.

WATER DRINKING.-It is a great mistake to
think that beer is necessary for a hard-working man. At
the time I write, there are a set of men employed in drain-
ing, by task-work, in Richmond Park, who are patterns of
English labourers. Hard as they work from morning to
night, and in all weathers, they seldom drink any beer.
They boil a large kettle of coffee in their little bivouac in
the park, and drink it hot at their meals. This costs them
but little ; but they do as hard a day's work upon it as any
labourers in England, and have continued to do so for three
years past, under all the disadvantages arising from wet and
cold to which a drainer is subject. A proof of this may be
found in Captain Ross's recent voyage to the Arctic
regions. He says that on a journey attended with great
difficulty and hardship, he was the only one of the party
whose eyes were not inflamed, and he was the only one who
did not drink grog. He was the oldest person amongst
them ; and, for the same reason, he bore fatigue better than
any of them. No better testimony to this is required than
the experience of the men who work at the iron-foundries.
This is the hardest work which falls to man to do ; and so
well do the labourers in this department know that they
cannot perform it if they drink even beer, that their sole
beverage during all the hours of this hot and heavy labour
is water.—Jesse's Gleanings of Natural History.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DiY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, SEPT. 22.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Blenheim,
Brown, from Singapore ; Alarm, Hannington, tom Limerick ;
and Alfred, Main, from Rye. Arrived from the river and
proceeded the Jouen Ricards, Tulloch, from Malaga ; and
Rose, Rose, from Stockton.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 22.—Wind S. S.E. to S.. strong and
squally —Arrived his Majesty's ship Dispatch, frail Halifax ;
and Lord Lynedoch, —, from St. Andero.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 21.—Wind S.W. to S.E., trong and
squally.—Arrived the Countess of Airlie, Bartlett, Tacmel.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—His Majesty's brio- Surpion, for
the Lisbon mail of the 25th instant ; his Majesty; steamer
Tartarus, for Cadiz and Mediterranean mails of thi Ist Oc-
tober. His Majesty's steamer African arrived at Gibraltar
the 10th September.
MARGATE, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Newton, Ritclie, from
Tobago ; and Brunswick,
BEACHY HEAD, SEPT. 22.—Arrived off, the Join Pirie,
Mathews, from the Cape of Good Hope.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Bashaw, Lairg, from
Virginia.
WHITEHAVEN, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Samuel, Mestray,
and Eleanor Packet, from Quebec.
Coax, SEPT. 20.—Arrived the Rebecca, Harman, from
Newfoundland.

INVERNESS, SEPT. 20.—Arrived the St. Nicholas, Megan,
from Restigouche.
YARMOUTH, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Heart of Oak, Clark,
from St. Pctersburgh.
YARMOUTH ROADS, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Wilhelnina,
Bahn, front Copenhagen.

THE MARKETS.-THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are only moderate arrivals this week of all kinds of Grain,
and a fair return of Flour. The Wheat trade continues lather
brisk for superfine samplqs, at Monday's rates. Barley, Beans,
Pease, and Oats, unaltered. Flour as last noted.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
h:nglish
.
Foreign

Oats. Flour.
60 qrs. 1,350 sacks
550
1,130

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Demerara Papers have been recived at Liverpool of the
15th August. They state that five Bills had been prepared
by the Attorney. General, under the instructions of the Gover-
nor. The heads of the Bills are as follows :—First, A Bill
to regulate the introduction of articled servants into the co-
lony. Second, A Bill to reduce:the price of bread. Third,
A Bill, giving to the Sheriffs' Court, in each district, power
to decide in all pecuniary claims, to the amount of 300
guilders. Fourth, A Bill constituting the Courts of Jus-
tice Courts of Requests. Fifth, A Bill altering the con-
stitution of the Board of Police of George Town, autho-
rising the inhabitants, paying taxes, to elect yearly the Com-
missioners of the said Board.

Cape of Good Hope papers have been received at the
North and South American Coffee House to the sth of
July, and New Brunswick to the 16th of August.
(From the Cape papers.)
The news from the frontier this week softens towards
peace : Albany is tranquil, and the farmers are proceeding
to their respective residences. In the new province the
hostile Caffres still show themselves in considerable num-
bers, and several skirmishes have taken place, with various
success, between them and the Fingoes.
An address was presented to his Excellency, Major-Gen.
Sir B. D'llrban, Governor and Commander-in-chief of the
Cape of Good Hope, in which the freeholders, merchants,
and other inhabitants of Cape Town, acknowledge their
warmest thanks for the prompt and energetic measures
pursued by his Excellency for the repulsion of the tribes
of Caffres, which broke in and devastated the whole line
of the Eastern frontier.

NOTIM—HEAD QUARTERS, GRAHAM'S TOWN, JUNE
18.—Since the last Notice,' issued from King William's
Town, on the 24th May, satisfactory communications have
been received from the Chief Crieli, who has established
himself firmly in his government. The intrenched camp at
King William's Town, and the flanking posts higher up and
lower down the Buffalo, at the Points and near Mount
Coke respectively, have been occupied, and the whole
central line of defence settled and established upon a per-
manent footing, which it is to retain until his Majesty's
pleasure is known. The roads are so excellent throughout
the province of Queen Adelaide, that not only the troops,
but even the convoys of waggons from King William's
Town, can reach the post at Fort Wellington in an easy
day's march."
The New Brunswick papers are void of news. His Ex-
cellency the Lieutenant-Governor, accompanied by Captain
Campbell, arrived on Thursday evening in the steamer,
Woodstock, from head-quarters, and yesterday morning he
left town by land on a visit to the Eastern countries.