The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1835.

bodied labourers out of work, the Rev. P. WALsH,
Roman Catholic Rector of the parish of Headfort, in
the county of Galway, stated that there were in his
parish alone four hundred able-bodied labourers who
could not get constant employment. He said that for
nine months in the year the bulk of the labouring poor
could get nothing to do ; and such was their indigence
that they could not afford to eat an egg, but were
obliged to sell it to help to pay the rent of the wretched
con-acre. They supported themselves in half-starva-
tion ; and he himself had known a hundred instances of
individuals, during the month of July last, who had not
more than one meal a day, and who for two months
previously had subsisted on two meals a day—six of
which, according to Mr. KING, would not be equal
to a dinner of bread and beef with a pint of beer. The
same person said, that he knew many poor people to
subsist during summer on cabbage and salt, without a
single potatoe ; and yet such was their delicacy, that
if any person entered their cabins while devouring this
miserable substitute for food, they sought to screen it,
lest their indigence should be made public. Mr. O'FL A-
IIERTY, a gentleman of respectability, stated that in
his village there were ten families who were every sum-
mer without half enough of the coarsest food ; and
Mr. LYNCH, the postmaster, gave it as his opinion
that the poor people lost three months' subsistence in
consequence of being obliged by starvation to dig their
potatoes before they were ripe. This dreadful state of
things does not arise from either the laziness or the
vices of the labourers, but solely from their want of
employment. Mr. ST. GEORGE, of Headford Castle,
a magistrate and a landlord resident in the county of
Galway, assured the Commissioners that there was no
want of industry among the people ; and that many
would work, and as many as could find employment
did work, for fourpence a day throughout a great part
of the year ! The same gentleman said that he never
knew of but one instance of a person committing a
crime for the purpose of being supported, by being
sent to prison ; and that theft, even to satiate the
cravings of hunger, was unknown among the peo-
ple in that part of the country. Mr. OTLAHERTY'S
evidence was to the same effect. " I have known,"
said he, " poor creatures living on one meal a day,
and they were as well behaved as if they had three."
When questioned as to the reason why the labourers
did not work the bits._of ground rented by themselves,
he informed the Commissioners that the cause was to
be found in their extreme indigence, which would not
suffer them to remain for any time without some remu-
neration for their labour, although a delay of a few
months would actually double it.
With these details of the actual condition of one
parish, we must conclude this subject for the present.
We have barely enumerated facts ; leaving to the
British people the duty of considering them as atten-
tively as they deserve. If they are of opinion that a
population, able and willing to work for fourpence a
day, should be suffered to starve for want of employ-
ment, then do we know nothing of the character of
Englishmen. The Agrarian outrages of the Irish
peasantry are constantly cited as causes of the general
distress ; and whenever a voice is raised against the
heartlessness of the landlords, we are deafened with a
senseless shout about fire insecurity of vested capital,
and a hundred other extenuating causes of the with-
drawal of property out of the country. That there are
districts in which the investment of capital in manu-
factures, by certain individuals, would be attended
with danger, we well know ; but this danger is
the consequence of the absence of capital, and not
the cause of it. It is the result of the memory
of deep wrongs, acting in conjunction with extreme
poverty and deplorable ignorance. To eradicate the
evil the danger must be incurred ; for to. elevate the
moral character of the people, it is necessary to im-
prove their condition by providing them with employ-
ment. But it is exceedingly unjust to represent every
part of Ireland as equally insecure. In the Parish of
Headfort, for example, in which four hundred persons
are without work, for nearly nine months in the year,
and without a supply of potatoes for the whole sum-
mer, we find no traces of such outrages. On the con-
trary, the poorest creatures among them starve as de-
corously, in their unfrequented hovels, as if the
eyes of all Europe were upon them. Even
hunger--devouring, maddening hunger.—confounds
not their notions of right and wrong, and never
once weakens their respect for the rights of property.
We much doubt whether such a state of high moral
feeling could be found to co-exist with an equal quan-
tity of wretchedness in any parish in England or
Wales.

The Paris Correspondent of a Morning Contempo-
rary—the most fashionable of Tory Journals—thus
comments upon the arrival cf Don SEBASTIAN at the
Head Quarters of the PRETENDER :

" Though a very young man, the presence of another
member of the Royal family amidst the brave Navarrese and
Basques will tend to excite their enthusiasm at a period
when the Neapolitan strumpet and the jobbing Jew, whom,
in her despair, she has summoned to her assistance, are about
to make another effort to subdue those heroic provinces."

It is a bad cause which requires to be bolstered up
with such language as is here applied to the Queen of
SPAIN, and the President of her Council. But, se-
riously, is this the way to write to suit the tastes
of our female aristocracy—for we believe our Con-
temporary is chiefly read by the ladies ? We cannot
belieVe it. And yet we are reminded of the vulgarisms
and coarse brutality of the liberal Press. We will not
quote Launce's challenge to his dog ; but we believe
such an epithet as the above applied to a Sovereign,
and a lady, never before found a place in our columns.

Belgian, Dutch, and German Papers of the latest
dates have been received. The latter are filled with
with congratulatory articles on the success which at-
tends the progress of the German Commercial Union.
We cannot but regret that so little attention has been
paid to this Confederation by Great Britain. It has
had its origin in the Cabinet Councils of Prussia, and
however it may work for that Kingdom, it will certainly
inflict a great injury upon the commerce of this
country. By destroying the nationality of the smaller
States, it will throw all the wealth, and all the moving
power of Germany, into the hands_of Prussia and Aus-
tria. The claims of Bavaria will not be neglected in
the first instance ; but as soon as the influence of the
minor Principalities is destroyed, Prussia will clear the
stage, so that herself and Austria may divide the
spoils of the Union between them. Had the British
Parliament performed its duty to the country, this
Union, fraught with so many evils to us, never would
have, had an existence. The system of protection du•
ties will soon produce the only fruits which we ever
stated they would, when Foreign States would come to
oppose England with her own weapons. Nothing
would do for us but make laws for the protection of
corn-growers ; and here comes Germany laden with a
Tariff for the protection of her manufacture against
British competition.
The Dutch and Brussels Papers bring no news of im-
portance. The Second Chamber of the States-General has
closed its sittings till the 23d. The Journal de la Haye
contains a considerable quantity of trash about the
affairs of Portugal in 1833, with a view to prove that
England at one time contemplated the recognition of
Don MIGUEL. Strange enough this mendacious
rubbish is very gravely commented upon by a certain

Tory Contemporary, always delighted with whatever
detracts from the high character of Great Britain.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENtga, Ocv. 25.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Bank Shares 1,370
—Aligemeine Zeitung, Nov. 1.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Boussms, Nov. 4.
Actual Debt, 254 per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent lOO4
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent l4B
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
—Brussels Papers, N0v..5.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, OCT. 31.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. ................10134 101%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 1004 99%
—Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 2.
DUTCH FUNDS—Ammar:4ra, Nov. 3.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 254 per Cent. 5514 55%
Loan (1830) 5 per cent.
Amort Syndic, 414 per cent. 9514 95%
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent. 79% 79%
Commercial Company, 44 per cent 1174 1184
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 22N.
Two months
—Dutch Papers, Nov. 4.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, OCT. 31.
FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 3 per cent.
Ditto Bank Shares 1303 1361
Anglo-Russian Loan lOO4 106
Ditto, 5 per cent. lOO% 100
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent 95% 8514
Ditto, 3 per cent 5614 56
Dutch '4, per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 744 74U
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents.... ..............
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 39% 39%
—Hamburg Papers, Oct. 31.

By letters of the 30th ult. received to-day from St
Sebastian, it appears that the vessel captured by the Spa-
nish steamer, Reyna Gobernadora, with arms, ammunition
&c., for the Carlists, is the Paddy from Cork, which
cleared out from London for the Cape de Verd islands and
the Cape of Good Hope, a short time since. Notwith-
standing this disguise, her real object, as well as some others
of a similar nature, it appears were well known to the
agents of the Spanish Government here, and the commanders
of the Spanish cruizers apprized accordingly.
MONEY-MARKET. Much trouble and delay
seems to have arisen in the settlement of the West India
claims, on account of the Commissioners having required a
special form of affidavit, instead of the common one, of
which few persons were aware. A claim to the amount of
upwards of 100,0001. was refused lately in consequence of
the informality of the power, and the party left town in dis-
gust at such a frivolous pretext for postponing payment so
long, and giving him so much unnecessary trouble. Since
his departure, however, an intimation has been given to
his agents, that the objection will be waved, and the money
paid on the 15th instant. It is now determined, we un-
derstand, by the Commissioners, not to act so rigorously as
they have heretofore done, in refusing payment upon affida-
vits and powers of attorney not worded according to a par-
ticular form. A great oversight has evidently been com-
mitted in some of the departments of Government, in not
making the persons interested acquainted with the proper
modes of establishing their claims. The English Stock-
market has been buoyant, and an improvement in its tone
is manifest, although no . marked advance has taken place
in Consols. About 230,000/. stock was again purchased
to-day (Thursday) on account of the disputed West India
claims, but as the orders for these transactions are known
two or three days previously to have been issued, the effect
is anticipated, and no improvement often takes place when
the operations are completed. Such was the case to-day
(Thursday.) The GovernMent broker procured all he de-
sired at one price, 91i.—Morning Paper.
LINCOLN ELECTION.—BRIBERY.—That a sys-
tem of gross and shameless bribery was practised by the
Tory party in this city at the last election, no unprejudiced
person acquainted with Lincoln has recently attempted to
deny ; and we believe there are but few even of the par-
tisans of Colonel Sibthorp himself who have now the te-
merity to assert, that the poor freemen have not received
a consideration for their votes given to that individual.
That the recipients of bribes are to a certain extent culpa-
ble, we of course cannot deny ; but we contend that the
unfortunate needy freemen are not so much to blame as
their tempters—those wealthy hypocrites who style them-
selves gentlemen, who lay their right hands upon their
breasts and talk of their honour—we may be told that our
assertion is unfounded, and that we have no grounds for
the statement ; but we can make reference to individuals
of the highest respectability, whose authority we have for
telling the people of Lincoln, and, to the disgrace of the
majority of the voters for this city at the last election, the
people of England also, that Colonel Sibthorp obtained
his seat by the most glaring acts of bribery and corrup-
tion ; which acts are proved by the evidence of John
Plumb, who, on Thursday last, publicly declared, in the
presence of a respectable company of individuals, that Mr.
George Reynolds (acting as clerk to Mr. Swan, he being
the paid agent of Colonel Sibthorp) called at his house,
on the 16th of September, 1835, and then and there paid
him, the said John Plumb, the sum of two sovereigns, in
consideration of the vote he gave to- Colonel Sibthorp at the
last election.—Lincoln Gazette.

M. Dupin has been occupied during the vacation in
collecting materials for a history of Nivernois, which he
means to publish shortly, together with a biography of Guy-
Coquille. He has also been making inquiries after certain
manuscript works of that celebrated lawyer, who was De-
puty for the Nivernois, in the States-General of Orleans
and Blois.

The Gentleman of the Balcarras family who has
been removed from the island of Papa, in the Shetland
group, under circumstances already stated, is at present in
London. It was an error to state that it was the Hon.
Hugh Lindsay ; the only member of the family of that
name is an uncle, not a brother, of the present Earl. The
gentleman in question is the Hon. Edwin Lindsay, twin
brother of Richard, and both younger brothers of the Earl
of Balcarras. Mr. Lindsay himself declares that he has
been 2.5 years in the island and has been treated there with
great cruelty ; he was formeely in the Madras military ser-
vice, and is now in his 50th year, having been born in
March, 1786 ; he has, he says, never been allowed to have
any communication with his twin brother.
The mail for Lisbon, which is made up this even-
ing, will, we are informed, be forwarded by the London
Merchant Steamer, one of the Peninsular Steam Naviga-
tion Company's chartered packets, instead' of by a sailing
vessel as hitherto. This is a decided improvement.
A short time since a boy was sent by his master, a
writing painter, to figure the mile stones from Hicks' Hall
to Barnet, in Roman numerals. On the fourth stone,
which is about a hundred yards south of Highgate-arch..
way, having painted IV., a passing carter from Finchley,
observing the figures, said, " Why, master, you're all
wrong ; this ben't six miles, but four—one and five be six .4
And the boy, not aware, of the waggery of the carter,
erased the IV, and painted on the stone the figures VI, as
they now remain.
An awful hurricane of wind, which has had no pa-
rallelin this quarter for a number of years, accompanied by
a very heavy rain, was experienced here (Montrose) on
Monday last. A great number of houses, both in the
town and neighbourhood, were either partially or wholly un-
roofed by the tornado. The large iron rod on the top of
the steeple supporting the weathercock, was unloosed from
its socket, and was seen vibrating in every direction. A
part of the leaden roof of St. John's Church was torn up,
and nearly carried away. Every mansion in the neighbour-
hood has to a greater or less extent, been denuded of the
trees by which it was sheltered or ornamented. But the
most lamentable circumstance that has occurred in the vi-
cinity is one by which a large family has been deprived of
their head and protector, and his master of an industrious,
faithful servant. The gardener of Frederick Grant, Esq.
of Mount Cyrus, John Officer, whose cottage has been
weighty gate over the thatch, with a view of
partially unroofed: was, with some of his neighbonrs in the
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further injury toit, when the tempest over-
gate upon the unfortunate man, and, striking
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vital part, killed him instantaneously.—Edin-
burgh Courant.