The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

HOW TO REBUILD QUEBEC ?

(From the Sentinel.)
We are not about to enter into the mysteries of bricklaying
or masonry ; we have no present concern with granite or
cement ; neither have we any opinion to offer on styles of archi-
tecture. Our business is to show in what manner the destroyed
city of Quebec may be restored without private subscription.
or Parliamentary grants, without costing one shilling either to
Canada or Britain. What Oriental fiction fabled of Aladdin's
lamp; plain common sense can realise without incantation or
magic. Nothing is wanting to an end but adequate means,
and certainly the means to ends have long existed, though in
latent forms, before they have been discovered by philosophy
or applied by science. Need we cite such familiar examples as
gas or steam ? As these had a beginning, so also must we
have a commencement to the true system of productive power
—even to the power which can raise a fired city from its ashes
by a new combination of intelligence and industry. We take
it for granted that the materials of construction exist in
Canada—bricks, stone, lime, timber, tiles, iron, &c. ; and that
there are architects to design, and labourers to execute
what is designed. We want no other elements to rebuild Que-
bec. " What !" exclaims the sceptic, " can you do this great
thing without funds ?" t` And pray," we ask in reply, " what
do you mean by funds?" " Gold," answers the sceptic;
" ounces, aye, tons of gold." It is quite natural that men of
the old school should, talk thus. Living in an atmosphere of
illusions, and muddled by prejudices, they suppose, that gold
must be dug out of the mines before labour can build a house,
construct a ship, or plough a field, forgetful that society must
necessarily have made very considerable progress in many of
the useful arts before the precious metals were discovered ;
for surely man acted on the surface of the earth before he ex-
plored its interior. If the possession of gold must precede all
other forms of property in the order of time, and be the antece-
dent to their creation, so that gold is the efficient cause of all
the realised wealth scattered over the face of the globe,
how did man contrive to emerge from barbarism and pass
the boundaries of the nomadic state ? Does not testi-
mony and fact contradict this doctrine? Nay, mote; is it
not true that the countries possessing the gold and silver
reittert-lave,ever been inferior to those possessing coal and
;And does not history certify, that, when Spain began
to import -the pre.ciotts metals, she began to decline both in
the powers of production and national defence? Or, must
we mount up to the traditions of Greece and bring forward
the apologue of Midas, in refutation of the fa:lames of Junes
Loyd and the mystification, of Capel Court ? We beg attention
to the following facts. Those who doubt them may consult
official documents, living witnesses, and the very edifice itself
of which we are about to speak. If the facts are admitted,
then, we shall ask, where is the difficulty of rebuilding Quebec
without, private subscriptions, Parliamentary grant, or any the
slightest conceivable mode of taxation ? These, then, are the
facts, The States or Parliament of Guernsey, about the
year oui (we have forgotten:the exam date), determined
to a meat. naarkvt, .at the cost of 4,0001. ;
but, not pn-ssessing;gold,they issued symbols of their national
wealth in the shape,ol,,oneepound paper notes, not bearing in-
terest. With these they paid• the contractor, who discharged
wages with them, and other debts due tor the materials he used.
In due course of time the edifice was completed, and thus, with
these symbols, a substantial reality was created, withcut the
assistance of a single grain of gold. This market was divided
into shops, which were let to butchers, and the rental amounted
At the end of the first year of tenancy,
to 4001. per annum.
the holders of the symbols or notes, numbered from I to 400
inclusive, :brought them to the treasurer of the States, and
received for them the rents of the butchers; the notes were
repeating this opera ion, all the symbols
then burnt, and, by
were destroyed in ten years, while the market remained,
and still.• daes remain, Affording great accommodation
to the inhabitants„ and yielding an annual revenue
to the : States. • -Now, where is the difficulty of ap-
plying this system to the. rebuilding of Quebec ? What
is there to hinder our creating a reality with a
symbol? Let not the plan be condemned because it is novel,
for there was a time when gold coin was a novelty; let it not
be rejected because it militates against preconceived opinions,
for wisdom will always be ready to revise opinions when pre-
sumptive evidence is offered that 'they are wrong. If the
symbols of Guernsey, guaranteed by the whole tangible pro-
perty of Guernsey, could construct a market, why should not
the symbols of England, guaranteed by the whole tangible pro-
perty of England, build up a city ? No Guernsey- roan ,as
fool enough to refuse giving his commodities, for the market
notes, What_ Englishmen or what Canadian would be so sense-
less as to reject the city of Quebec notes, in exchange for what
he 1)44,-; o„seli ? -When
.Quebee is rebuilt, and its houses
4=4,4 ifliftf, Mtn* lemyr 01411 to cancel the symbols out

of the proceeds of the rents ? To effect this mighty good, *e
need not a grain of gold ; we shall not have tti pay any moneys
monger a farthing of interest, nor impose a feather of taxation
-either on the present or future generation. This is Alad-
din's lamp. Who can possibly oppose so simple, so efficient,
so costless a plan ? None but the holders of gold, the dealers in
money, discounters, usurers, loan contractors—men who say,
"We will lend you the mean of rebuilding the city of
Quebec." We answer, that it can be built without the means
these gentry proffer, and for the loan of which they make a
charge. We undertake to do it without their intervention,
without any payment whatever for interest. We want no third
party, no middle-man, between Parliament. and labour. Let
Parliament vote the symbols, 'and we will erect the streets and
squares without setting foot in Lombard-street or the
Bank parlour. But it may be said, " Charity begins at home ;
and, if you can effect these things in Canada, why not convert
the mud-cabins of Ireland into comfortable dwellings?" No-
thing easier; and, by the same plan, we could,bringall the waste
lands of Ireland into cultivation. In fact, was Glasgow built
with gold or with symbols? or, was the soil of Scotland ren-
dered fertile by the precious metals or by paper ? Every one
knows that the banking system of North Britain made North
Brit-in what she is. However„ instead of the symbols of
Joint-stock Comsanies, as in Scotland, we would use national
symbols, by which means we should save interest charges, and
prevent the possibility of a run,—since he who did run would
run against himself. The millions would not be debtors to the
hundreds ; there would be no division into bees and drones ;
no lazy fundholders exacting tribute from active industry. He
who produced most, would get hold of most of the symbols,
and, through the symbols, most of the realities which the
symbols would create ; while, on the contrary, the property of
the idle would depreciate, just as the labour of the industrious
would be appreciated. If gold be the necessary antecedent of pro-
duction, then are the holders of gold the absolute masters of
all the producing classes, anal British industry is the slave, the
bondsman of a foreign metal. The Duke of Wellington insists
that we must not be dependent on foreigners for corn, but up-
holds a law which makes us dependent on the presence in the
Bank cellars of a foreign metal. When the metal is shipped
off to Hamburgh by speculators in: currency, or to Dantzic by
buyers of wheat, masters go into the Gazette, and workmen
into the unions. This shows the power of the yellow metal,
as the masted of industry; Its withdrawal paralyses the brawny
arm of labour, just as the withdrawal of air produces suffoca-
tion in the body natural. Let us, then, emancipate ourselves
from this idol which our folly has enshrined in the temple of
Mammon, for the sole benefit of the Priesthood of Usury. Let
us make money our servant, not our master, and then just as
the wise Guernsey-men built. their market, so may we rebuild
Quebec, house, feed, and clothe our people, and make this
globe what God intended it to be,, .an earthly Paradise, where
all may live within the pale, of plenty and virtue.

CO Ultri: I.7,P4CULAR

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by tlae Royal suite,
left Osborne House at nine o'clock yesterday morning, em-
barked in the Fairy steam-packet.for Gosport, and quitted Gos-
port at twenty minutes past ten o'eloek by a special train on the
South Western Railway On arriving at the Nine Elms ter-
minus the Royal party entered two carriages and four, the
Queen, Prince Albert, and the Countess of Charlemonti Lady
in Waiting, being in the first carriage, and Colonel BoAles,
Master of the Household, Lerd Charles Wellesley, (Clerk Mar-
shall) Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to
Prince Albert, were in the second carriage. A party of the
4th Light Dragoons formed the escort from Nine Elms to
Buckingham Palace, where her Miijesty and her Royal Consort
arrived at five minutes before one o'elock.
The Queen and the Prince were. received at the Palace by
the Lord Chamberlain, the Alaater of the Horse, the Vice-
Chamberlain, the Keeper of the ,Privy Purse, the Earl of
Warwick, Lord in Waiting, Lord George Lennox, Lord in
Waiting to Prince Albert, and Captain Meynell, Groom in
Waiting to the Queen. _

Her 'Majesty held a Court and Privy Council at half-past
two o'clock. At the Court Baron de Hugel, Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King
of Wurtemberg, had an audience of the Queen on his return
from leave of absence. .

Mr. Everett, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary from the United States of America, had an audience
of her Majesty to deliver his letters of recal.

Mr. Loiiis:APLane, the new Envoy Extraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary from the United States, had an audience
of her Majesty, to deliver his credentials.
Baron de Gersdorff, Minister Resident from his Majesty the
Kim, of Saxony, had an audiePce of the Queen, to deliver
his retters of recal.

Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by the Earl
of Aberdeen, K.T., ber Majesty's principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester,
Master of the Ceremonies.

Mr. Fitzroy Kelly had an audience Of the Queen in the
Royal Closet, and had the honour to kiss hands on being ap-
pointed her Majesty's Solicitor. General.
Mr. Emerson Tennent had an audience of her Majesty, and
had the honour to kiss hands on being appointed Colonial
secretary at Ceylon.
The Queen held a Privy Council. It was attended by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, tile Lord President, the Lord
Privy Seal, the Cornmander.in,qhief, the First Lord of the
'Ti:easury. the Secretaries of-State for the Home, Foreign, and
Colonial Departments, the Chalicellor of the Exchequer, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the •President of the Board of
Control, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chief
Commissioner of the Woods niad-Forests, the Secretary at
War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.

Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hen. John Earl of Somers to be Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Hereford, his Lordship took the customary oaths ap-
pointed to be taken.
The Queen's speeeh, on closing the session of Parliament
this day, was arranged and agreed upon.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the closet in
Waiting.
. . Her Majesty gave audiences te. Lord Granville Somerset
(Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), also to the Earl of
Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, Lord Wharncliffe, and Sir R.
Peel.

The Court was attended by the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold
Stick in Waiting; the Vice Chamberlain, the Earl of War-
wick, Lord in Waiting ; and Captain fileynell, Groom in
Waiting.
The royal carriages of the Queen's state procession have
been ordered at Buckingham Palace at one o'clock, instead of
the usual time of half-past one o'clock.
THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS.—His Excellency
Baron Dedel visited his Majesty yesterday morning, at
Mivart's Hotel.

The Kin.. honoured General Sir George Murray, Master-
General of the Ordnance, with a• visit in the forenoon, at
his residence in Belgrave,squaKe.
'His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George
Edward Anson, arrived at: Mivart's Hotel, soon after one
o'clock, to pay a visit to the King. The Prince took leave
of his Majesty.
His Royal Highness .the Duke of Cambridge visited and
took leave of the King.
In the afternoon his Majesty left Mivart's Hotel for the
residence of Baron Dedel, in Wilton Creseent. His Excel-
lency, M. Bond, Minister of the Colonies ; Viscount Hawar-
den, Lord in Waiting ; Count Bylandt, his Majesty's Cham-
berlain; and Captain the Hon. Alexander Nelson Hood,
Groom in Waiting, attended the King. Colonel Baron Coe-
boom. his Majesty's Aide de Camp, had proceeded to Woolwich.
.1 d6eune was served at Baron Dedel's, soon after the ar-
rival of his Majesty and suite. The following had the honour
of meeting the King :—Ris Excellency Baron de Brunnow,
the Russian Minister, Lord Fitimr Somerset, and Lord Adol-
phus Fitzclarence. • -
At half-past three o'clock the King, having taken leave of
Lord Fitzroy Somerset and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence en-
tered one of the Queen's carriages and four, attended by his
Excellency Baron Dedel and Viscount Hawarden, and left
Wilton-crescent, for Woolwich, followed by Baron de Brunnow,
M. Bond, Count t3ylandt, and the Hon. Captain Hood in an-
other royal carriage and four.
On arriving at Woolwich, the King was loudly cheered by
a numerous assemblage of spectators, and was received by Sir
Francis Collier, Superintendent of the Dock-yard, and Lieut.-
General Lord Bloomfield, Commandant of the garrison.
His Majesty embarked in the Cyclop, conducted by Baron
Dedel, Baron de Brunnow, Viscount Hawarden, Sir F. Collier,
Lord Bloomfield, the Hon. Captain Hood, and Mr. May, Con-
sul-General of the Netherlands.

The King took leave of Baron Dedel, his Majesty's represen-
tative at the British Court, on board the Cyclop, the other
noblemen and gentlemen having also taken leave of his
Majesty.

After the departure of his Majesty, their Excellencies Baron
Dedel and Baron de 13runnow returned to town in one of the
royal carriages. Viscount Hawarden and the Hon. Captain
Hood, the Lord and Groom in Waiting, also returned to town,
the Noble Viscount proceeding to Buckinghkm Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday
His Excellency Louis 11PLane, the new Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, was
presented to the Earl of Aberdeen, en Tuesday last, and de-
livered his credentials to her Majesty at an audience yesterday.
Mr. S. Solomon, from St. Helena. had an interview with
Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from the Operative Tailors in London attended
at the Board of Trade yesterday, for the purpose of further ex-
plaining their grievances set forth in a Memorial presented on
the 23d of July. The deputation were very courteously re-
ceived, and were patiently heard.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet-
ing yesterday, at the office in Whitehall-place. There were
present the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, the Secre-
tary of . State for the Home Department, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the Right Hon John Nichol].

THE STORY OF A ROYAL FAYOURITE.—We are
requested
to state that Mr. Celburn, of Great Marlborough-
street, has this day published " THE STORY OF A ROYAL
FAVOURITE," by Mrs. Gore, in 3 vols. post Bvo., which can
new be had at all the libraries: Mr. Colburn has also just
published the following new novels :-2. Count Koningsmark,
by Captain Frederick Chamier, R.N. 3. The White Slave
and the Russian Prince, by the author of " Revelations of
Russia." 4. Self; or, The World as it Goes, by the author
of " Cecil." 5. Maids of Honour, a Tale of the Court of
ticorge 1. O. .fons..flu ‘.;trarit: or, The Adventu.c',
Kentuckian : and 7. De iluhan ; The Court Conspirator,
by M. Eugene Sue, author of" The Alysterres of Paris," &e.
U-ottNT KoNrc,,Aixr_t,. AN 11 te.p•RIC.% IL ROMA:\ Cf;
BY CArrars CHAMIER, Chan der is an adept
at choosing a subject. but. he has never before pitched upon a
more happy one than in the of " Count Konigsmark." Not-
withstanding Konigsmark's many bad qualities, and the personal
vanity which was the leading feature of his character, and
which tempted him into all his errors and crimes, he was a
man of courage, a gallant: Soldier, a gentleman by birth and
bearing, arid a man with generous impulses, high aspirings, and
a most active and fertile imagination. All these are excellent
materials of which to make a hero of romance, anti Captain
Chamier has very happily and skilfully availed himself of them ;
blending them also with many of the actual scenes and circum-
stances in which his hero was engaged during his eventful life,
and calling to his aid his own fertile fancy, when needed, to
heighten by- fiction the facts of history. There is an easy, off-
hand mariner about everything Captain Chamier does, which
falls in very well with the tone and spirit of reckless adventure
and exuberant life depicted in this novel, which is by far the
best of all the author's works which do not treat of nautical
ife.— Cous t Journal.

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WEST MINSTER-BRIDGE.
We are happy to find that the ruinous state of this
bridge was brought before the House on Monday last
Sir R. H. Inglis. The opinion of some of the most ere!,
nent engineers is in favour of its removal, and the fetal
uponai ir failure
it ofisfavourhave
Sir Robert Peel promised that after the labours of tP_:
thosea stronrge repairs
which
House are over the communications from the Commas'
sioners of Westminster• bridge should undergo fa c 4
sideration by the Government. We only hope that
subject will receive more attention than most holy
tasks usually do. The only improvement that bas )4_
been accomplished is the reduction of the steep asee,',l,'
efbetehneir bestowed
but even that advantage is nearly counteracted bye
narrowing of the roadway. into a deep trough,
surfacer
deep holes which are to be found all along the Burley
and threaten to introduce the passengers to a closer
quaintsnce with the water-leveL We confess
the
anticipated some greater improvements from
.(i,e
long and expensive repairs to which this !mil
Ai
has le :
en subjected, and we now begin tO "1r
pr bend that it is in vain to hope that any patching of
alteration n ill ever again make this bridge efficient in
the public convenience. Its appearance can never rd
altered sufficiently to make it correspond with 2_71
building of the.pr.sent age. On the one side, the 13°I,
Houses of Parliament are rising rapidly into notice in z,".e
the florid beauties of their design ; on the other side, t',s
Suspension-bridge creates a favourable impression by l'of
light and novel appearance ; while this ugly mass
s.one protrudes between them, and affords a revolting
treat to the beauty of the one and the utility of the I;
Toe subject is well discussed in a brief pae3P ye.
rr titled Metropolitan Bridge, and Westminster In2Pr°
meats. According to the writer—
A glance at a map will show the length and bred•
and vastness of the metropolitan region which requires ,
direct, communication, by Ilung2rford, or Northumbe_.lo,
laud- eet. with Charing-cross, Pall-mall, the liern'la
ket, necadilly, Oxford- street, and all the upper rt..;
of the wan ; and the expediency of resolving 14:,
termini of all the existing and projected railws.s"
leading to the south, south-east, and southswel;
into one main terminus, near the end Of a lila
' stautial carriage bridge, constructed at Hungerford
Northumberland-street, or somewhere thereaboutasel.
arrangement vastly more convenient than if the tn.
terminus were established at Waterloo or Blackfriors:
bridge ; because the traffic from either, to CharObt;
cress, would have to pass by the Strand and other strlii
too narrow for the immensity of the movement llie
Ti
already crowds and frequently chokes them.
" Westminster-bridge cannot be made to harmonise
position, or in taste, with the adjacent beautiful building;
whether by an improved or by a new superstructure
the existing piers. Whatever else be done, it is absolutely
necessary that the roadway be considerably enlarged' a,
" From this the piers have been extended, in
cuting the very ingenious expedients, still in progress'
to endeavour to secure the old foundations fr),„
further subsidence. This has been attempted "tai
driving rows of sheet piling - into the blue eaklot
about the old caissons, to prevent the materials
the natural bed of the river from being underwashed h,
,'
the current, or squeezed out by the weight of the brills
into the gradually deepening watercourses ; but the d
expedients having failed, notwithstanding the skill and
ability with which they have been devised and eXect-56
by an eminent engineer, and the removal of an int00"1;
quantity of material from the roadway and parapetg'a
may safely be pronounced that it is beyond the resollf%
of science or art to strengthen those foundati
sufficiently to bear the weight of an enlarged road
" A new bridge cannot he constructed on the preseho
site without previously removing the old one ;
woad incur an expense of at least 50,0001. or 60,0007,
erecting a temporary bridge, or stop the cornmeol4
,r,
tion between the Borough and Westminster altogaP„'e,
whilst the new work is proceeding. Again, there i 9"
room for a new bridge between the Parliamentaryi
Palace and the present bridge, for they are eirePj,
in contact ; and the construction of a bridge 92,1:6
where below the present site, say from Maudsl9.7
premises to Manchester-buildings, would occasioet,
very great outlayin propiding new approaches. But.
i
leaving Westminster-bridge in its present state, P.
temporary communication, a new bridge were e°,o4
strutted from Lambeth-stairs to the nearest pert„;
the, opposite bank, no expense for new approscPt,
would be incurred, a direct communication with We-„,
minster would be established, and a magnificent
trance into the capital formed at an interesting_
venerable part. The river-face of the new eu';,el
would be seen' to great advantage ; and, no 0%0
disfigured and obscured on the other flank, ig,a-e
toe distasteful structure which now defaces it shad -1"-nes'
been removed, the Parliamentary Palace, standing grta" n
fully and boldly out, would form a beautiful object !rat
the concave sinuosity of the- river, extending theeuv, he
Blackfriars-bridge and Somerset-house, which shoulpio
reclaimed from the unwholesome and disgusting state r=
which it now is, by the proposed embankment anoLnie
race, which it were easy to show is an interference Wre,
the state of the river at that part which is muchfir
quired, and thus that pestilential locality would be tr,
formed altogether into a beautiful and highly embeill9" -
portion of the metropolis.
" From the Westminster end of Lambeth-bride
street should be opened to lead directly to Shafteshurs
terrace, Eaton and Belgrave-squares, &c. ; another
'the river bank to Victoria Tower and Whitehall, P 55.
ing between Westminster Abbey and the Parliament'
Palace.
" Entering the Court end of the town by this
nificent portal; St. Margaret's Church removed, in
formity with the unanimous recommendation of rf
Select Committee ; the balls of courts located, as WA.'
ought to be, in the immediate vicinity of their 9eave;,re",
inns; the western face of the quadrangle, by
according to the present design, it is intell";eo
to enclose Westminster Hall, set back, to
greater space between it and Henry VIPs Chapel'
Parliament-street widened, by removing the bloei°
buildings between it and King-street ; Downing-9.° TO
finished ; and the Board of Trade completed, aniNti
comumuication would be formed between the Regal
1/
Parliamentary Palaces ; and, if Whitehall-street 13?1
not nor cannot be straightened throughout, those bliob:
ings should at least be thrown back which, on apPll3sce
ing Trafalgar-square, obtrude more immediately on
_
left to destroy its symmetry.
ich
" The several circumstances and projects upon e
this comprehensive proposition is based are II",
before the public. The instability of Westnailiste.::
bridge, and the necessity of constructing anothe';
the Bill fur widening and enlarging Hungerford
-
pension-bridge, so as to adapt it to carriages ; ;00
project for opening a direct communicationlool4.
Lambeth and the lower part of Westminster, Slislat'iji
bury-terrace, Eaton and Belgrave-squares ; the -"
for making a street between Buckingham Palace 612,
the Henses of Parliament ; the motion for a Select Come
mittee to take into consideration the removal of the .1):1 g
of court. These show that this is the time for t9O"-s;
them into immediate and enlarged consideration,
forming, altogether, one comprehensive project." aeo
We are by no means satisfied that these great cbsote.r
are altogether practicable ; but one thing is quite oleL.
Westminster-bridge cannot (indeed, will not itself).
main in its present state ; and a subject of so much
portance ought to receive the most attentive consine.at
Lion, with the view, perhaps, step by step, to carry 11}'
a complete plan by .which the public may be materirnb,
benefited, and those inconvenient and unsightly
struetions which now exist be effectually removed.

ARMY PRIZE MONEY.—The account of unclainleof
army prize money (formally made by the deputy-treasurerP,
the Royal Chelsea Hospital), from the 18th day of .111,cuarn,i''
1809, to the 31st day of December, 1844, directed to be he
nually laid her, re both Houses of Parliament by the Act tn,trha
2d William IV., cap. 52, was published yesterday. „0/ ,
debtor side of the account gives a sum total of 1,302,31;n;
of which 1,081,3121. accrued by cash arising from
kited and unclaimed shares of prize-money, grants,
and 221,060/. from the dividends or interest of 11013.1',,,,
invested in the public funds or other Government securiti
The creditor side of the account gives a grand tote! of
1,298,2531., of which 670,339/. consisted of cash refund& to
claimants, 57,618'. of the expenses in executing Acts
riftl,
1809 to 1844, and 570,284/. of sums paid for the Royal flitio
pits.l in diminution of the annual vote. A balance re:Tat
of 4,1291. The secretary states, in a memorandum, r„--re'
although the balance appears to be as above stated, yet there
is in the Three per Cent. Consols 100,0001. stock, invested o 4
account of army prize-money, the interest whereof is no.
eluded annually in the Parliamentary estimates, and "o
pleable to the payment of prize claims ; and when the amok,
thereof, in addition to other sums received on the sap ter,
count during the year, exceeds the sums paid, the Paytelt6:ot,
General takes the balance as an appropriation in his aectZbe
The difference between the above balance, 4,1291.. an". jo
,`
100,0001. stock in the Consols, arises from the investment
that stock having been made when the funds were very
,s'ee° 0
and from the sales thereout, as occasion required, having %if
from time to time effected when the prices were considers
higher.
ento,
Messrs. Spottiswoode, Hunt, Ellicombe, Hall, Hope, wee
Dunlop, and Prat, had an interview with the Earl 0f nta
housie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Ji

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On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, unles
Oliver Mason, Esq., to Mary, daughter of Edmund Tilt
Esq., M.P., Truro. fourth
On the sth inst., at St. James's, Piccadilly, Frank,
son of the late Nathaniel Milne, Esq., of the Inner Tetulli
to Augusta, third daughter of Henry Alexander, Esq'' •
Cork-sti
On Thursday, the 7th inst., at St. Peter's,
Eaton-scluar
Thomas Edward, second son of the late Sir Thomas Presto::
Bart., of Beeston-hall Norfolk, to Caroline second
second daught r ,
of the late William Willoughby Prescott, Es of Ilendat'
Middlesex.
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DIED
On the 7th inst., George Landels, formerly an officer in
her Alajestv's service, and late secretary to the Great Central
Sardinian Bailway, after a few days' illness, aged 42.
On the 15th of June, at Nassau, New Providence, Da
maF,, the Hon. Parick Brown, aed 77.
On the 3(1 inst., at Milton, Gragvesend, W. Williams,
late of Butildo, in his 74th year.
wil-
Ou the 6th inst., at Kemp-town, Brighton, the Hon.
liam Bligh, in his 70th year.
On the 3d hist , at Dover, John Laurens Bicknell, r9cl„:'
F.B.S. F.S.A., of Abingdon-street, Westminster, aged r.
5.L.
On the sth inst., in Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico,
Henry Rowed. t,S •
On the 6th inst., at his residence, in Hamilton-terrace'
joinfs-wood, Eichard Winter, Esq., aged 42.

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