The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

.JASSY, Nov. l3.—There is a report of an unsuccessful
action that the Russian troops had in Abchaiia, in the
beginning of September. A strong column found an im-
portant defile unoccupied, which leads to the villages in the
mountains. The Russian officers thought that this op-
portunity ought not to be neglected of penetrating
through the defile into the interior of the country. The
soldiers refused to adTance, and the officers were obliged
to take the lead in entering the defile. After half an
hour's march the column was attacked by the Abcharians,
who made a dreadful slaughter. They spared their powder
and cast stones from the steep sides of the mountains. Most
of the officers fell, and the troops fled in the greatest
confusion. The bodies of the slai❑ and the wounded
that fell into the hands of the savage Abcharians were
dreadfully mutilated, and thrown into deep clefts of the
mountains.

TufRaTE, Nov. 21.—The last steam boat from the
east brings word that a Turkish ship, manned by fifty
or sixty Turkish savors and soldiers, had succeeded in
getting out of the harbour of Alexandria into the open
rea, and will probably endeavour to reach a Turkish
port. It is believed at Alexandria that the leader of
these people, who before his departure or flight con-
ferred with many officers of the Turkish fleet, is com-
missioned by them to make important communications
to Chosrew Pacha. This event is not without import-
; :CC. being generally considered as a symptom of the
""satisfaction of the crews of the Turkish feet in the
harbour of Alexandria.

Actual Btl LDGeb'n. 1. UNDS—Baussets, Nev. 2',153s
othschild's n 5
Loz per Cent.
er Cent
2:1-'oan of Thirty' MillioPn 4 per Cent.
92
'man of City, 185
Society of c,: -, 4 per Cent 95
Bank ot B4igirkrn4r.e. 4 4per Cent ll4
National simie-utr;' S per Cent ............. - 70
Ex_cliaßrirguesosneisLopnadon (short)
Nov. "1g
DUTCH FUNDS. 8'
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.•
- • ~ ~,,
AISTEADAMSt ,OY. ,i.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent . Money. Bills.
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ...................... 514 5134.
Ainert Syndic, 43., per cent.. ....................... 973 i 98 te
Ditto, ditto, .Thi per cent. ... . .......... "• .. 93 9334
Commercial Company, 4,5, percent..,,, .. ............ wii 7s,‘
Ditto (1,132 and 1840) 5 per cent. ........ 161 hi 10234
Ditto 1,437, 5 per cent. ...................... "• - ......... ...
Loan 1537, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month
lios IA 96
Two months
—Dutch. Papers, Nei. 29. 8734
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VtiwNa. Nov ,
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents... ................ .......
-
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
-,Allgemeine ZeUung. Nov, ,t 7
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BBRLIN, Nov. 25.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4,,,,; per cent. .............!0334 : 103(
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent.:1.,2%; 10244
lilcchange on Landon, three months ... 621 622
—Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 26.

Sir Robert Peel entertained a party at his
pitable seat on Friday, consisting of the officers of
Tamworth and Lichfield troops of yeomanry cavalry,
the Duke of Newcastle, Sir Thomas Freemant!e, Lady
Preementle, Mr. Holmes, M.P., Lady Clinton, Colontl
Thorn, the Mayor of Tamworth, &c.
We understand there is no truth in the statement
of Mr. Justice Littledale's resignation, which appeared in
a Morning Paper.

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LONDON :
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3:1839.

We have received a letter complaining of the
proceedings of the Magistrates at Newport in exa-
mining, as reported in our Paper of the 23d ult.,
GEORGE HODGE, in the case of JENKIN MORGAN,
though his evidence only bore hard on Mr. FROST,
and did not touch MORGAN, and though Mr.
GEACII appealed to them against such an irregular
and partial proceeding. We now notice the cir-
cumstance, lest we should be unable to insert the
letter, and quite agree with our Correspondent, that
the examination, which only went to prejudice Mr.
FROST, was improperly and unduly entered into in his
absence. If the Government and the laws should
be placed in the wrong, in relation to Mr. FROST,
they now being completely in the right, it will arise
from the injudicious proceedings of the Magistrates
and some portion of the Press. United they seem
to press or► Mr. FROST, as our Correspondent re-
marks, more with the vindictiveness of partizans
than the stern impartiality of Judges.
Several days ago we drew attention to the im-
proper manner in which the Times, and other Tory
Journals, inserted tales and stories of Mr. FROST,
relating to his conduct several years back, but ob-
viously intended now to raise a prejudice against
him in the public mind. Our condemnation of that
course of proceeding wns echoed by the Weekly
Chronicle, but the lesson was thrown away on the
worse than blockhead who reports for the Times.
Yesterday it contained a column and a quarter of
extracts of letters, &c., all calculated to hold up
Mr. FROST as a long-established demagogue,
directing the people to meet by 30,000 at a
time, and having them completely under his com-
mand ; or to represent him as so formidable—
threats being used if he be injured—as to leave the
Government no alternative but to execute Mr.
FROST if he be found guilty. If such matters
transpire in evidence, the Journals are bound to
publish them, but to rake back in old reports and
old letters to criminate Mr. FROST, is now
not decent in a public Journalist. At the
same time, it is most injurious to the
public cause for it gives him the air of being
a persecuted man, and enlists the sympathies of the
multitude in his favour. It is a remark of Lord
MAHON, in his History of Europe subsequent to
the peace of Utrecht, that the people are always
much more affected by persons than by prin-
ciples, though the former do not concern them
and the latter do. But the proceedings we con-
demn combine both these sources of interest in one
object. The multitude are already deeply ena-
moured—too deeply, we are afraid, for the peace of
the empire—of the principles advocated by Mr.
FROST ; and the dead set made at him by some
part of the press, centers their interest and affec-
tions in him personally, and will make him appear
at once a hero and a martyr.

According to the report in the Times yesterday,
the Rev. Mr. COLES, on telling JOHN WILLIAMS
that he was discharged, advised him " to mind his
work, and give up all connection with Chartist
lodges." Now, however good such advice may be,
it is scarcely suitable for a Magistrate, sitting to
inquire into charges of sedition and treason, to give.
The Chartists, are a mere body of politicians,
whose opinions, right or wrong, are embraced
by a great number of persons. They are no
more necessarily conjoined with violence than
are the opinions of the Tories or the Whigs.
The multitude who have embraced those opinions
are not lovers of violence, and, by singling out the
Chartists as objects of his animadversion, the Rev.
Mr. COLES fuses them and the violent people all
into one mass. He does what he can to make the
Chartists think more fervently than ever that Mr.
FROST'S cause is their cause, while prudence would
separate them as widely as possible. Believing that
the conduct of this Rev. Gentleman is injudicious,
it adds to the aversion we have to see one of his
cloth so forward and willing in performing one of
the most disagreeable tasks of the Civil Magistrate.

The waspish Bishop of EXETER is again at his
old trade of misrepresentation. We do not wonder
that he winces under the lash which the Marquis
of LANSDOWNE has laid so sharply on his back,
nor that he should try to get some relief from the
pain ; but we do wonder at the impudence of his
tricks. He seems to think that all men are blind,
and that any deception, however gross, may be
practised upon them.
In one of the letters which we have inserted
elsewhere the Bishop labours to make the world be-
lieve that the Marquis of LANSDOWNE stated what
was untrue, when he said that Mr. JELLINGER
SYMONS disclaimed certain opinions imputed to
him by the Right Rev. Prelate. Now on this
point there cannot be better authority than Mr.
iSrneYs
uNIIOtNo wordsf rap S
i:_,
himself., That gentleman uses the follow-
sSo far from this opinion being the
own experience, it forms a part of a
communication from a Mr. WITHERS, a manufac-
turer, near Charleroi, attached indeed to my Re-
port, but with a distinct satement that I annexed it
without in any degree vouching for the accuracy
of the facts detailed by this gentleman, who is
personally unknown t• me.' And yet with this