The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1835.

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1835.

We have perused—though not without an effort--
Mr. ROEBUCK'S last three-halfpenny pamphlet on
" the Stamped Press of London, and its Morality ;"
and know not that we ever read a publication more
disgusting in its egotism—more bullying in its tone—
or more malignant in its insinuations. It opens with
some anile twaddle about what the Press should be
(we suppose Mr. ROEBUCK'S own pamphlet is in-
tended as a sample of what it should be), and then
proceeds to tell us what it is ; observing, inter alia,
that " in our aristocratic country, a newspaper editor
is not deemed a gentleman ; and if any person be
generally and avowedly known to be the editor of a
paper, he would lose caste, if he were previously con-
sidered of the class gentleman." Possibly, in the
circle of Almacks, this may be the case ; there, an
editor may not be deemed much worth as a gentle-
man ; he may even be in indifferent odour with the
under-bred, the half-educated, and 611 whose claims to
gentility may in themselves be equivocal ; but if
Mr. ROEBUCK mean to assert that there is any-
thing in the vocation of an editor, which neces-
sarily disqualifies him for the society of men of in-
telligence, of public honour, and private worth,
(the surest test of the gentleman,) then we tell him,
in language which he cannot mistake, that his as-
sertion is as rank a falsehood as ever was penned by
a Psalmanazer or a Munchausen. Take the Press as
a whole, and there is not one editorial member of it
whose claims to respectability are not to the full as
great as Mr. ROEBUCK'S, and whose claims to intel-
ligence are not a thousand times superior. As a poli-
tical writer his pretensions are beneath contempt ; full
of the egotism of Cobbett without his justification;
the solemn absurdities of Dogberry without their inge-
nuity ; and the bluster of Bobadil without its redeeming
humour. And is this the man who is to come forward
in his own proper person and put down the Press ?
This the paragon of purity who is to tax us with all
sorts of moral delinquencies ? Are we to be scared out
of our seven senses by the pert chatterings of a three-
halfpenny scribbler ? To be diverted from the broad
high-road of justice and common sense, because an owl
in an ivy-bush may happen to hoot in our path, " /
am not one of those to be frightened by these gentry.
I mean to try conclusions with them." No, no, Mr.
ROEBUCK, you have mistaken your men. The Press
is not yet destined to lick the dust at your feet, as it
is plain you have already discovered, by the breathless
haste with which you have recanted wholesale, the
deliberate charges which, in the excess of your boiling
courage, you thought fit to bring against Messrs.

STERLING and Fo t,TBLa QuE. The:mention of this
little episode reminds us of some of the most piquant
inconsistencies to be met with even in your pamphlet.
In the opening portion of it, you inveigh against the
" licentiousness of the Press ;" and to show how ut-
terly free you yourself are from all taint of the sort,
you bring forward charges against respectable indivi-
duals, so destitute of all semblance of a foundation,
that you are actually compelled, not only to retract,
but even to express your contrition for, them, ere the
ink is dry with which they were written I Then again,
you talk gravely and oracularly—as such sages are
apt to do—about the necessity of the Press adopting
a decorous, moderate, just tone of discussion ; and
prove how full-fraught you yourself are with such qua-
' lifications, by the production of a pamphlet whose ma-
lignity is only to be equalled by its dullness, as its
dullness is only to be surpassed by its vehemence I But
this is not all. You seem to imply that the Press is
deficient in intellectual, as well as moral qualities ; and
therefore you propose to supply this deficiency by the
brilliancy of your own talents! You spawn your three-
halfpenny pamphlets—by the bye, Sir, are they not
dear at this price ?—apparently for no other purpose
than that an astonished public may exclaim, " Bless
me, how vastly superior these are to the writings of the
Stamped Press ! Why, FONBLANQUE is a mere
ninny to ROEBUCK; and as for poor BLACK, the
sooner he hides his diminished head, the better I
Doubtless it is this consciousness of intellectual supe-
riority, that has induced you to inflict your "sincere
pity on the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. We
can always afford to commiserate our inferiors. But
do not be too sure, Sir, that your pity is deserved. If
we mistake not, you are the man to be pitied, not our
contemporary. It is scarcely possible for the human
imagination to conceive that, as an author, he can ever
fall so low in public opinion, as to reach your level.
After a careful, but painful, perusal of Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S pamphlet, we have conic to this conclusion,
namely, that be has assaulted the Press, for no other
reason than to advertize his own pedlar-wares. Many
a grub, who, but for such help, must have battened
on a dunghill for the whole of his ephemeral existence,
has, by means of it, been enabled to uplift himself
from his native dirt, sport the butterfly, and expand
his wings in the broad sunshine of notoriety. On
the whole, therefore, we are inclined to look on Mr.
ROEBUCK as a peculiarly fortunate gentleman; for who
would ever have heard of his pamphlets, if it had not
been for the seasonable animadversions of the Press ?
We have no doubt that he himself regards the case in
the same light, and whatever he may assert publicly
to the contrary, entertains towards us none but senti-
ments of the profoundest gratitude I

ZUMALACARREGUI is dead. This is the most
important intelligence that has been communicated
from Spain since the commencement of the civil war.
In him was concentrated the hope of the Carlists, and
with him sinks the cause of which he was the chose►}
champion. The death of ZUMALACARREGUI was
communicated to the French Government b) telegraph.
The fact was thus oflicially announced on the Paris
Bourse on the afternoon of Saturday :

" TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
" Bayonne, 27th June.
" GENERAL HARISPE TO THE MINISTER AT WAR AND TDB

?SINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.

" Zumalacarregui died on the 25:h inst., at 11 o'clock in
the morning, in consequence of his ;round.

" DE RICHEBOURG."

LACARIIEGUI was personally one of the
bravest officers in Spain ; but like most of his chival-
rous countrymen, his valour was stained by an innate
love of cruelty, which he too often indulged at the ex-
pense of the lives of the unfortunate prisoners who fell
into his hands. His talents were altogether military ;
nor had he the remotest idea of the possibility of go-
v rnin;Y Inca by ally other
means than the influence of
well-grounded fear. As a soldier he was a strict ob-
server of discipline, and exacted from those under him a
blind obedience to his commands. It is asserted, how-
ever, that notwithstanding the cruelty of his disposi-
tion, he refused to carry the war beyond the banks of
the Ebro, and that his real object was to secure the
franchises of the Basque provinces by separating them
from the rest of the kingdom of Spain, and elevating
them into an independent State, of which Don CARLOS
was to be proclaimed King. On the other hand, it has
been maintained that ZUMALACARREGIII prevented
Don CA rtLos from capitulating, and almost kept the
PRINCE a prisoner, from an apprehension that he
himself would be sacrificed, to gratify the vengeance of
the QUEEN-REGENT and her Government.

Although the time of ZUMALACAREGUI'S death
is only communicated by the telegraphic despatch; there
is every reason to believe that this event occurred at
Durango, the city to which he was conveyed imme-
diately after resigning the chief command to ERASO,
his first Lieutenant. The immediate cause of his death
is not stated ; but as it followed so suddenly the ampu-
tation of the thigh, there is little doubt but that it pro-
ceeded from the shut which he received before Bilboa,
hastened, of course, by the ignorance of his physician.
The ait of surgery is so indifferently practised in the
interior of Spain, that we should give very little for the
life of any man who would be obliged to submit to the
amputation of a member much less important than that
which caused the death of ZUMALACARREGUI.

The French Journals of Saturday, which we have
just received, bring a report of the death of General
ERASO, ZUMALACARREGUI'S successor in the com-
mand of the Carlists, who is stated to have been killed
by a fall from his horse. EltAso was a man of cou-
rage, but his flight from France, where he. was a pri-
soner on parole, reflected a deep stain on his character
both as a soldier and a man of honour. We regard the
rumour of his sudden death as premature, although re-
peated in several letters dated from the Spanish frontiers.
The domestic news contained in the French journals
of Friday and Saturday is not important. The
Journal des Debats, in a long article on the Spanish
intervention, says :—" It appears certain that the fol-
lowing measures were adopted by the Council of Mi-
nisters held at the Tuileries on Wednesday :—The
Legion of Foreigners now at 'Algiers shall be imme-
diately sent into Spain. This legion, which contains
5,600 men, shall receive from the French Government
three months' pay, with all necessary provisions and
ammunition. General DESMICHELS shall be the
Commander. Several superior French Officers shall
be appointed to promote the enlistment in France. A
considerable number of Poles, with their General
Officers, are said to be ready to enlist themselves. In
fine, France shall unite her naval forces with those of
England on the coast of Spain. France is ready to send
immediately three ships of the line, seven or eight frigates,
and as many lighter vessels. England will, on her side,
send at least the same number of ships." And in
another part of the same article it further observes :
" It is thought that within two or three weeks the
number of French volunteers will amount to about
3,000 jn Paris alone, who will be sent in small detach-
ments to Bayonne, and will pass the frontier in the
course of next month. About fifty applications on
the part of officers, for authority to join the volunteers
have already
.obtained a favourable answer. These
demands are exempted from the customary formalities
and do not pass through the medium of the Referen-
dories of the Great Seal. The authorisation is given
by simple letter, without i.tters patent, which would
oceasi9a considerable expense. The Belgian volun-

teers will obtain permission to traverse France on their
route to Spain. In case the recruiting should not
take place in Belgium, the Italian and Polish political
refugees have resolved to unite as volunteers, to act in
concert with the English corps, which is to he raised in
favour of Isabella II." Thus it appears that France
will send a very respectable auxiliary force to the as-
sistance of Spain, under the immediate sanction, if
not the controul, of the French Government. We
stated some days since, that we were impressed with a
conviction that the opinions of LOUIS PHILIPPE
underwent a change with regard to the intervention,
after being apprised of what took place at the Loo
in the course of the conversation between the King
of HOLLAND and the agent of Don CARLOS.
The report of the arrivals of Generals IRIARTE
and LATRE at Portugalette, at the head of 8,000
men, is confirmed by a telegraphic dispatch, published
in the Moniteur. To the announcement of the po-
sitive fact was added a belief that on the 22nd inst.
the Carlists raised the siege of Bilboa, and retreated
from before the town. VALDEZ was at Sornoza, at
the head of nineteen batalliobs.

The infamous prosecution of the prisoners of April
was suspended from Thursday to Tuesday (to morrow)
in consequence of the indisposition of Baron PAs-
QUIER, the President of the Court of Peers.

DEuzs, the Jew, who betrayed the ',Duchess de
BERRI into the hands of the French Government,
has published a pamphlet detailing an account of his
treachery on that memorable occasion.

FRENCHFUNDS.-PA ats, JusE 26.
Five per Cents., 108/. 35c. 20e. sc.
Four per Cents., 051. 40c.
Three per Cents., 78f. 60c. 4Cc. 30c.
National Loan, 1091. -c.
Bank Actions, 1,9481. '7sc. 1,050 f.
Bente de Naples, 96f. 20c. 15.1 ICc.
Roman Five per Cents., 100 100%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., al 35 ',.;14
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 27 27 27 261.
Royal Spanish Loan, 46
Perpet. d'Espagne. tive per Cents., 41% 4'3% 5i 3i 41.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 101.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., WA.
Haytian Loan, 3951. 392 f. 50c.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON. •
One month, paper, -1. -c. ; money, 251. 42%c.
Three months, paper, 23f. ; money, 251:
-fours Authentigue.
FRENCH FUNDS -Rum, JUNE 27.
Five per Cents., 1181. 35c. 15c. 25c.
Four per Cents., vst. 49c.
Three per Cents., 7Sf. 55c. 45c. 49c.
National Loan, 1181. se.
Bank Actions, 1,9551. 1,957 f. 54:k% 1,96
Rente de Naples, Olif 20e. 10c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10,N 100.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 35 31 4.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., `2"7-1,
Rova! Spanish Loan, 46.
Bente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 41 4014% 41.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 100 11;0
Portuguese LOAD, h ire per Cents , 133,A 86.
Haytian Loan, 390 f.

EXCHANGE CN Lo.NnoN.
One month, paper, —.e. ; floury, 25g. 42 c.
Three !maths, paper, 9.5 C. 32;4c.; meaty, 25f. 30c,

BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.--The 3 per Cents. opened at
78f. 30c. to 25c., but soon after the telegraphic despatch from
Bayonne was posted up, communicating the fact of Zumala-
cam.‘gui's death, in consequence of which the 3 per Cents.
rose to 78f. 65c. to 70c., but they have since receded to
78f. 50c.

The Spanish stock has not improved, and scarcely any busi-
ness of consequence has been done at the Bourse.
QUARTER TO Foos.—Fist per Cents., 108 f. 30c. ; Three
per Cents., 78f. 50c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 49-1( ; Three
per Cents., Spanish, 271 L ; Cortes, 341; Coupons 17 ; Gueb-
bards, 46 ; Differes, 16 ; New Loan, 47 ; Definitives, 401 ;
Passives, 12 ; Ducats, 96 20 ; Romans, ; Belgians, 100 ;
Pedros, 85 ; Miguels, —; Dutch, —; Haytian, 390 f. Bra-
bant Bank, 9:1.

German, Dutch, and Brussels Papers of the latest
dates have been received, from which we extract the
following :

BERLIN, JUNE 22.—We now learn that the invitations made
by his Majesty the Emperor Ferdinand for a meeting at Top_
litz have been accepted by the Sovereigns to whom they were
addressed, and that the meeting will take place in the latter
half of October.
VIENNA, JUNE 17.—We learn from London that Prince
Esterhazy has given up his intention of coming to Germany at
present, and may perhaps not ask for leave of absence this year.

ZARA, JUNE I.—We learn from Scutari, that in the combat
of the troops with the inhabitants the former had had en the
evening of the 21st above 200 killed, and the latter above 100.
The insurgents, 5,000 strong, are under the command of the
notorious bandit chief Husseen Bey. The Vizier's troops
however maintained their positions, and still occupy the Bazur.
STOCZHOLNI, JUNE 19.—1 t is pretty confidently affirmedXL
the King will set out in -July on his journey to the province of
Norrland, and proceed thence through Jemborland to Dron-
theirn in Norway.
BRUSSEL% JUNE 26. —Mr. Vandershuelem de Parthes, at-
tached to the Belgian Legation at Vienna, has arrived at
Brussels, and is said to be the bearer of a letter from
Prince Metternich, in which the Austrian Government de-
clares its opposition to the proposed intervention on the
part of Belgium in favour of the Queen of Spain.
The latest accounts from Alexandria say that the plague
had considerably abated both in that city and in Cairo. An
English schooner arrived on the 22d, at Ostend, coming from
Lisbon, last from Havre, where it landed twenty-three men of
the late French legion in the service of Portugal. It has still
on board 103 soldiers, who have also quitted the Portuguese ser-
vice. There are 10 Belgians among them ; all the rest are of
different foreign nations. They are in a deplorable condi-
tion, without clothing, and afflicted with various disorders.
During their whole voyage they had nothing to subsist on but
biscuit and water.

VIENNA, JUNE 19.-5 per Cent. Metalliques, 102 ; 4 per
Cents. 98; Bank Shares, I.347.—Allgemiene Zietung, June 24.

DU i'CII FUN 1 )S— A NISTERDA 51 , JUNE 217,
Money Bills.
A etlia 1 nebt, tN per Cent. 55 M%
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent i9,% :9 li
Loan (1.;:',0) 5 per cent.
Ditto (t 32 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Comr,ercial Company, 4• , per c.nt lOB 1' 8%
New ditto •
Exchange on London, One month l2 11%.
Two months
SPANISH FUNDS
Cortes at Amsterdam, 5 per Cent 40,4 to 4114
Ditto, ditto, 3 per Cent 2s‘i to •26%
Loan. London (1332) 5 per. Cent.
Cores Coupons
Co, tes Deferred Debt ....
Dutch Papers, June c-7.
BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, TUNE 27.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. IOO,A
Loan of City, 1832.4 per Coot 9,454
Society of Commerce, 4',. per Cent llBll
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent lB9
—Brussels Papers, June 2.

Letters and Tpapers from Lisbon to the 15th inst.
have been received. Their contents are politically un-
important. The QUEEN has filled up her leisure mo-
ments, since the resignation of the late Cabinet, by
signing the dismissal of its subordinates. This pro-
ceeding was carried so far that the Duke of PAL-
MELLA was at last under the necessity of remon-
strating with her MAJESTY, on the impolicy as
well as the injustice of such conduct. As many
of the appointments had been purchased on the un-
derstanding that they were for life, the QUEEN'S
dismissal of the purchasers was a robbery of the indi-
viduals, to the amount of the sum advanced for them to
the Government. Marshal SALDANIIA approved
of what was advanced by the Duke of PA LMELLA, so
that the QUEEN was constrained to relinquish her de-
sign of adding two hundred more to the list of those
already discharged—two hundred being the number
which her Most Faithful Majesty's secret advisers had
instructed her to discard with all possible dispatch.
Already rumours are in circulation of another change
of Ministry. The present Cabinet cannot go on in
the footsteps of CAR
rALno, and out of his track there
is no security for the country.

Letters from Madrid to the 21st inst., announcing
the recal of General VALDEZ from the command of
the army in the North, have been received. The late
CAPTAIN-GENERAL is succeeded in the command by
General MuRILL°, assisted by General ZARCO DEL
VALLE, who has been appointed Chief of the Staff,
ar.d is now on his way to Pampeluna, the head-
quarters of the Constitutional army. No cause is
assigned for the removal of VALDEZ, but we have
reason to know that his want of energy greatly dissa-
tisfied the QUEEN'S Government.

Madrid was tranquil up to the date of the letters
just received. The discovery of the Carlist conspiracy
in the capital a few days before, was really fortunate,
as its ramifications had been extended in several very
dangerous directions. The ringleaders of the plot
have been secured.

By command uf the Co;'ernmnt, hit; Bri-
tannic Majesty's Order in Counci) of the lOth of June,

suspending the Foreign Enlistment Act, has been
posted up on the Madrid Bourse.

In another part of The Sun will be found an in-
teresting Report of the proceedings at a public dinner
which took place at Bungay on Friday last. Our
readers will see with pleasure that a great number of
the friends of civil and religious liberty assembled on
this occasion to do honour to Mr. CHILDS, for the
noble stand made by him in defence of the rights of
conscience against the encroachments of ecclesiastical
tyranny. This was not only a testimony of respect
to the individual, but a homage to the cause. Mr.
CHILDS' fellow-citizens and friends, in celebrating
his release from the dungeons of the Protestant Inqui-
sition, celebrate also the triumph of those enlightened
principles by the force of which that release was ac-
complished, and before which the last remnant of cle-
rical usurpation will speedily disappear from that
statute-book which it has so long disgraced. Mr.
CHILDS has been exposed to much calumny and
reproach—the ever ready weapons of those who fight for
the abuses on which they fatten—because, after pay-
ing Church-rates so long, he has at last refused to pay
any longer. This late resistance, it is said, cannot be
imputed to a conscientious motive. So, because a
man submits to bear a burden when he cannot help
himself, he must never attempt to shake it off when
opportunity serves !
Mr. CHILDS submitted to pay Church-rate, not
because he did not feel it an iniquitous impo-
sition, but because he saw no remedy for the
grievance. The moment however arrived when he
perceived, from the state of the public mind, that re-
sistance would be successful. He seized that moment
without hesitation, offered himself a martyr in the
cause of religious freedom, and his self-devotion has
been crowned with success.

The frightful increase of crime in Ireland during the last
seven years—a period in which crime bas rapidly, diminished
in almost every state in Europe—would fill us with horror,
and despair of all moral improvement in that country, did
we not know the wretched state of the working population,
and the excesses which hunger will force men to commit,
for whom the law has made no provision, in the event of
being overtaken by extreme indigence. On the motion of
Mr. HussE, a return has been laid before the House of
Commons, showing the comparative number of criminal
offenders committed for trial in Ireland, and the number
convicted in each of the last seven years. According to
this document, the number of offenders committed
for trial in Ireland in the year 1828, was 14,683, of which
9,269 were convicted ; whereas in the year 1834, the number
committed was 21,331, out of which 14,253 were convicted
—thus giving an increase of nearly five thousand convictions.
in the brief period of seven years ! We allow that the gross
population of the country has greatly increased since the
year 1828, but certainly not in the same ratio as the
amount of outrage. Neither is the increase of a popula-
tion, almost entirely rural, any grounds for assuming a rela-
tive increase of crime, in the same way as when we speak
of a manufacturing or commercial population, in which
there is, with a constant collision, a perpetual clashing of
interests. Extreme want can alone be supposed to cause
agrarian disturbance ; and we believe there are few ac-
quainted with the real state of the sister country, but must
admit that hunger—hopeless and devouring hunger—has
been the original cause of the most of the frightful murders
and other barbarous excesses which reflect disgrace upon
the national character. It is not in human nature to lie
down and die quietly of famine ; and it is still less
natural for a parent to behold his wife and children
reduced to that deplorable condition, without- making
some desperate effort either to relieve them, or avenge
their wrongs on whomsoever he regards as the authors
of them. The beauty of moral perfection—respect
for the laws—veneration for the presumed " rights of pro-
perty''---and all the other motives which are quoted by phi-
losophers, to induce men to act according to the dictates of
reason, seem only so many juggleries devised by knaves to
plunder and oppress fools, in the eyes of the wretch who
sees his children or his parents expiring with hunger, and
against whom, even in this extremity, the law has closed.
every avenue to relief. The prospect of inevitable starva-
tion in the event of inevitable misfortune, is sufficient to
damp the spirit of any man that ever existed. Only con-
template it calmly, and without regard to passion or early
prejudice, and mark the horrible future which it shadows
forth—at a time too when sufferings. are least endu-
rable._ It is folly to talk of civilization in conjunction
with a state of being in which men may perish for want
of food in the midst of abundance. Civilization cannot'
co-exist with possible starvation in the sight of a whole
community. It never did. What is the increasing pros-
perity of a country to a man, whose labour is not accepted
as an equivalent for the quantity of food necessary to pre-
serve his life ? Whose fault•is it, that he, in the madness
of despair, seizes the brand, and reduces others to the
same state of wretchedness to which he believes they have
assisted in reducing him ? Not the fault of the maniac
incendiary, certainly ; neither is it the fault of the whole
population ; but it is the fault of the Legislature, whose duty
it was to have removed the primary cause of such atrocities.
Until a legal provision be made for the Irish poor,
in the event of inevitable distress, an annual increase
of crime in Ireland ought to be regarded rather as
the natural consequence of the defective state of
the law, which leaves the destitute poor to perish with
hunger in the midst of plenty, than as a proof of the
evil disposition of the inhabitants. For our own part, we
do not hesitate to assure the Legislature, that without the
Establishment of a wholesome system of Poor Laws in
Ireland, there never will, and there never can be, a total
cessation of agrarian outrage. Education may, and will,
do much to correct the morals of the people ; but all re-
flecting men must be aware that there are states of being
in which education exercises little or no influence over hu-
man action. Education is excellent ; but it is not all-suffi-
cient. To produce its proper effects, it must he accompa-
nied with an assurance, that no person can possibly perish
from extreme want in the midst of that abundance which
his own industry assisted in producing.
We trust that the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Ire-
land, will follow up the Bill introduced by him into the House
of Commons on Friday night on the subject of tithes in
Ireland, by a measure which shall guarantee a relief to the
starving poor of that neglected country. We understand
that such a measure is either actually prepared, or in course
of preparation, by the Government ; and we earnestly en-
treat that no time may be lost in bringing it be-
fore the country. The cause of the past delay, we believe,
to have arisen from the declaration made by Mr. O'CoN-
NELL, that he intended to bring such a measure before
Parliament. Mr. O'CoNNELL's long and intimate ac-
quaintance with the condition of the poor in every part of
Ireland—his' appreciation of the feelings of the Roman
Catholic body, who, forming as they do the great mass
of the population, form, of course, the great bulk of those
who require parochial relief—even his previous oppo-
sition to the establishment of Poor Laws in Ireland
induced the Government to withhold its measure, until the
Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin should have an op-
portunity of developing his scheme for relieving the wants
of his starving countrymen. We approve of this deli-
cacy, provided it be not carried too far. The Govern-
ment has already waited long enough for Mr. O'CON-
NELL'S Poor Law Bill ; and it is time to tell the
Irish people that it, too, is not quite unmindful of
their necessities. The duty of the GoVernment is likewise
more imperative than any that can devolve upon a private
Member of Parliament, even as affects his own constituents.
How much more, therefore, when the duty to be performed
involves the happiness of a whole nation

We have so often pointed out the benefit to society—
trade—commerce—and above all the increase of virtue and
religion that would follow from the establishment of Poor Laws
in Ireland, that we may be excused, if on the present occasion
we pass over these various subjects ; reserving their dis-
cussion till some measure of Irish Poor Relief be submitted
to the judgment of Parliament. One fact only are we
anxious to impress on the public mind—namely, that trade
Ti 1,e,v;,,1. 11,1161 the laudloids are com-
pelled to encourage it, in oruor to preserve the rental of

their estates from being eaten up by Poors' Rates. As soon as
the poor must be supported, depend upon it that the land-
lords will provide employment for them, by the introduction
of manufactures ; and after this is done the people will both
support themselves, and increase the value of all the landed
property in the island. Poor Laws are absolutely neces-
sary to the tranquillization and the social prosperity of Ire-
land. Indeed, so different in all respects is the condition
of that country from Great Britain, that the very reasons
which we ourselves have advanced against the evils.of the
old system of Poor Laws here, are among the strongest ar-
guments in favour of establishing Poor Laws in Ireland.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Montreal Papers to the Gth of June, and Quebec to the 4th
of June, have been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house.

(From the Montreal Papers.)
The steamer, Canadian, Eagle, arrived last flight, and put
us in possession of Quebec Gazettes. They state "we
have been given to understand, from undoubted authority,
that notwithstanding the change which has taken place in his
Majesty's councils, it is proposed by the present Ministers to
dispatch an officer, invested with the double character of Go-
vernor and High Commissioner, for the general purpose which
Lord Aberdeen has already explained, in his dispatch of the
14th of February, 1835, which has been communicated to the
House of Assembly." •
The Montreal Bank draws on London 93- per cent. prem.,
at 60 days sight.
" Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Papers to the 20th ult.
were received yesterday, but their contents are uninteresting.
The Newfoundiand.Pdpers state that their seal fishery must
have been very prodeetive. Some vessels caught over 6,000,
and several 5,500.
The meeting of the Stockholders of the Montreal Bank took
place, by whirls it appears by a statement given, that
the circulation of the notes of the Bank on the last balancing-
day was 198,000/., while they bad in their vaults in specie
113,0001., and 80,000/. in the bands of other banks and their
agents. They may be said to have in ready money a sum
equal to within 5,0001. of the whole extent of their issue.
During yesterday the weather was extremely close and
sultry; during the short time the thunder lasted the rain fsll
copiously.
The number of timber rafts on their way down to Quebec
was 50 to 60 at least ; nearly the whole of which have since
arrived.

(From the Quebec Papers.)
Business both in this province and Upper Canada is opened
upon a scale less extended than usual, nor does it appear likely
to attain the average of the last few years.
His Excellency Lord Aylmer left here yesterday evening
for Sorec, in the steamer St. George. He will remain there
to the 9th. June.

(From the Bermuda Papers.)
The Legislature of these islands is now in session. The
speech of the acting Governor, and the answer of the Council
and Assembly exhibit favourable views of the peace and pros-
perity of the Colony. •
Arrivals this morning :—Lisbon mail, by the Nautilus,
sailed 14th June ; a mail from Malta, by the Firefly, sailed
9th June, Cadiz 18th June, Corfu 4th June; two French
mails, two Wend, and one Hamburgh.
Letters have been received from Vera Cruz of the 7th May,
stating that the Eclipse packet had not returned from Tampico.
Nothing new from Zacatecas. It was expected Santa Anna
would arrive there about the 2d of May, and that every thin
would be arranged without bloodshed.