The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER H. 1839.

per cent. ; for private bills, at one and two months' 1
date, 6 per cent.; the same at three months, 7 per cent. ;
for Company's paper loans, 5 per cent.

HERALD.—The general advices from our East
Indian possessions, which have been received here to-
day, by the overland mail, do not add in any material
manner to the political intelligence which has already
appeared in this journal ; indeed, beyond the com-
mercial information which has arrived, nothing political
has transpired since the morning.
Commercial dates have been received from Calcutta
to the 17th, and from Bombay to the 29th of October.
The letters from Calcutta state that trade was generally
dull, but large shipments of Indigo continued to be
made for China, chiefly, it is said, on account of native
dealers, who did not seem to dread the loud denuncia-
tions of the Chinese authorities.

The reports of the Indigo crop at Calcutta were not
so favourable as could have been desired from the
upper provinces, the heavy rains having seriously im-
peded the manufacture ; but in the lower province the
manufacture for the season was completed. Opinions
as to the presumed amount of the season's crop differed
considerably, but the general impression was, that the
crop would show a deficit of nearly 117,000 maunds,
as compared with the former year. The exports of
the old crop, up to the 16th of October, were—to
Great Britain, 50,452 ; to France, 26,835 ; and other
places, 101 chests. Exchange on London was 2s. o,id.
a 2s. id. per Company's rupee.
At Bombay the markets for British manufactures
continue very dull, and prices much depressed ; and
although the Stocks were very low, the want of
demand for imports continued, showing a diminu-
tion in the resources of the people, which is
attributed to the withdrawal of so much capital
from the China trade, and the consequent limi-
tation of local currency. No further advices had
been received from China, but it appears that Admiral
Maitland had taken in stores for the Wellesley, and was
then on his way to Bombay, accompanied by the Larne,
Favourite, and Algerine, where it was presumed he
would lie until a reply was received from Government
respecting Captain Elliott's despatches. In the mean-
time the Volage and Cruiser had been sent to protect
the British interests in China. There had also been con-
siderable speculation in Opium at Bombay, for China,
by way of Manila, in the week previous to the 15th of
October, 1,307 chests of the drug were exported from
Bombay to Manilla, leaving 9,640 chests in store. The
Exchange on London was 2s. to 2s. Oid. a -id. per
rupee. The intelligence from India has not created so
much interest here as was expected most parties looking
to the next mail for important advices from China.

SUN.—The Foreign Exchanges were in a very
unsettled state this afternoon ; in fact most of the rates
were again lower, principally in consequence of the
agents of the Bank of England not been drawers of pa-
per either on Paris or Hamburg. We must therefore
quote a reduction in all the rates as follows :—Paris to
25f. 57}c ; Hamburg tolll3 9 ; Amsterdam to 12 31 ;
and Antwerp to 12 3i.
The vVest India produce markets were heavy this
afternoon, especially for Sugar and Rum. Teas sustain
the last rise. Saltpetre by public sale sold very well,
but for Spices the demand was heavy. It was reported
this after soon that there is an arrival off the coast with
later accounts from Canton than those before received.
The Funds were not affected by the state of the ex-
changes. Consols left off for the Account at 92i.
Exchequer bills at Is. discount ; and India Bonds at
7s. discount. Bank Stock was firm at 179.
The holders of Colombian Stock are not disposed
to accept the terms of the agents here, the tenour of
which we gave yesterday, and as new proposals will
probably be made, the stock has reached 25i this
afternoon. Mexican Bonds rose to 27i ; Spanish
Bonds rose to 24, and Portuguese to 33i. The other
Foreign Stocks were much the same this afternoon as
they opened in the morning.
The Birmingham and Derby Railway Shares have
fallen to 36 discount ; Great Western to 9 discount ;
Brighton to 151 discount ; but North Midland rallied
to 8 discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares
have improved to 1 premium.

It will be seen, therefore, that the circumstances
relating to these two precedents differ very much
from each other, and that the character and situa-
tion of King Philip were very different from those
of Prince George. We humbly conceive, however,
the constitutional doctrine to be, that by whatever
name the consort of a Queen Regnant be called,
he is only a subject, and has, as we conceive, no
peculiar privileges. If he be created a peer of Par-
liament, he would, of course, be privileged as such,
or he may enjoy any rank or any station in the
public service expressly conferred on him by the
Sovereign ; but, unless so conferred, he does not
appear to have any recognised Tights by the com-
mon law, such as the Queen Consort has, for in-
stance. The present King of Belgium, on his
marriage with the Princess Charlotte, may be con-
sidered as standing in nearly the same situation as
the consort of a Queen. We believe he declined a
peeraga, and merely took the rank in the table of
precedency and in the army expressly conferred on
him.

Blackstone (/), alluding to the husband of a
Queen Regnant, contents himself with the follow-
ing passage :—" The husband of a Queen Reg-
nant, as Prince George of Denmark was to Queen
Anne, is her subject, and may be guilty of high
treason against her, but in the instance of conjugal
infidelity he is not subjected to the same penal
restrictions. For which the reason seems to be,
that if a Queen Consort is unfaithful to the Royal
bed, this may debase or bastardize the heirs to the
Crown, but no such danger can be consequent on
the infidelity of the husband to the Queen Regnant."
Lord Coke (m) is, however, mo.e distinct than
this. Discussing the Statute of Treasons, he says,
" Le Roy is to be understood of a King Regnant,
and not of one that bath but the name of a King,
or a nominative King, as it was resolved in the case
of King Philip, who married Queen Mary, and
was but a nominative King, for Queen Mary had
the office and dignity of a King. And, therefore
an Act was passed that to compass the death of
King Philip, during his marriage with the Queen,
was treason."

Hawkins (n) says, on the Statute of Allegi-
ance, 11 Henry VII., chap. I, " A titular King,
as the husband of a Queen Regnant, seems to be
within the words, yet it is clearly not within the
meaning of this law."
The same law is also most clearly laid down by
Lord Hale (o). " The husband of a Queen Reg-
nant is not a King within this law (the Statute of
Treasons), for the Queen still holds her sovereignty
entirely as if she were sole." (Vide 1 Mary, cap.
2, sess. 3.)
We conceive, therefore, that we have now shown
the correct rule to be, that the husband of a Queen
Regnant of England, by whatever name he be
called, King or Prince, is a subject ; that no alle-
giance is due to him ; that no treason, without an
express Act of Parliament for that purpose, can be
committed towards him ; and that, as it would seem,
he has no acknowledged rank or privileges but
what are expressly conferred on him.

(a) The Queen Dowager is prohibited from marrying
without the consent of the Crown, " because the dispa-
ragement of the Queen shall give greater comfort and ex.
ample to other ladies of estate, who are of the blood royal,
more lightly to disparage themselves." 6 Henry VI. ; 2
Inst., 18, ; see Riley's Plac. Parl., 72; 1, Bla. Corn., 224.
(b) 1, Bla. Com., 218.
(c) Page 613.
(d) 1 Vol. 4, 363.
(e) Lingard, vol. 7, page 238.
(f) N. Bacon on Government of England (1651) 2d
part, page 275. This work is highly praised by the Earl
of Chatham, in his letters to his nephew.
(g) This seems very doubful, see Post, p. 66.
(h) Smollett, vol. 1., 181.
(i) Coxe's Marlborough, vol. 1, page 107.
(j) Coxe's Marlborough, vol. 2, pages 599, 601.
(h) See Parl. Hist., vol. 6, page 56.
(1) 1 Bla. Com., 224.
(m) 3 Inst. 6,7, and 8.
(n) Hawk, P. C., chap. 17, s. 20. Compare this with
what Bacon says, as before cited.
(o) Hale, P. C., 106.

On Thursday John Morris, aged 20, and John
Mullen, aged 19, privates of the 45th regiment of foot,
now stationed at Newport, were induced by the pro-
mises and insinuations of some Chartists, to join them
at a public house, near the town, where they soon be-
came intoxicated. The Chartists taking advantage of
this circumstance, stripped the young men of their re-
gimentals, and dressed them up in the working clothes
of the country. Ashamed and vexed at their folly and
disgraceful appearance, the soldiers were afraid to re-
turn to their barracks, and wandering over the country
sill: they. reached Bromyard, in Herefordshire, on Sa-
turday last, where they voluntarily delivered themselves
up as deserters ; they are now removed to the County
Prison to await such orders as the military law may
require.—Merlin.
CORN-LAWS AND WAGES.—The demand for
labour arises necessarily from the increase of national
wealth, excepting the minute fraction of the commodi-
ties which capitalists absolutely consume, or cause to
be consumed by their menials ; the rest must be put out
to use, and with a view to profit ; now this profit can-
not be realised without the employment of labour ; the
demand for labour increases therefore with the increase
of wealth, and the increase of wealth is consequent on
the repeal of any restriction which diminishes it, there-
fore, the repeal of the Corn-laws will increase the de-
mand for labour : how then can it lower the price of it ?
On the contrary, it must necessarily raise it. So much
for the theory. Now look to the fact ; according to
the fallacy we are combating. In December, 1835,
wheat was 365. per quarter ; in December, 1838, it was
785., more than double. Now, we ask any working
man, if his wages were twice as high last year as they
were in 1835 ? If not, he was better off when the
price was low than when it was high. Wages have ab-
solutely fallen as Corn has risen !! ! Great as are the
grievances under which working men labour, none equal,
or approach the Corn-laws in magnitude or effect.—
Wiltshire Independent.
THE CARLIST REFUGEES.—The deputation
of Spanish officers who waited on the Magistrates at
the Kensington Petty Sessions on Wednesday last, to
represent their destitute condition, appeared on Thurs-
day forenoon before the Board of Guardians of the
Kensington Union, assembled at the workhouse, Ken-
sington, as was recommended to them by the Magis-
trates. They were accompanied by Sir J. S. Lillie,
who being an ex-officio Guardian, and acquainted with
the particulars of their destitute situation, obtained for
them such temporary relief as the exigency of the case
required, until the decision of Lord Palmerston and of
the Spanish Ambassador, as to their ultimate destina-
tion, should be made known. The sufferers thanked
Mr. Gunter, the Chairman to the Board, and the Ma-
gistrate. At first the application met with consider-
able opposition,
. some of the members doubting the
power of the Board to interfere in such cases.; but ulti-
mately the unfortunate men retired, accompanied by the
relieving officer of the parish of Chelsea, in which
they are at present sheltered, who had instructions to
inquire into the particulars of each case, and act accord-
ingly. One of these veterans had served in the French
revolutionary war, and afterwards throughout the entire
of the Peninsular war under the Duke of Wellington.
Senor Corredor, an agent of Don Carlos, also attended,
and expressed his gratitude in like manner for the
timely assistance, having exhausted all the funds at his
disposal in the support of the refugees since their arrival
in England to the present time.

SOUTH AMERICA.—By the Emma, Captain
Gething, we have received advices from Valparaiso, of
the date September 1. It is said, that although the
Chilien conquerors of Peru have abstained from the
perpetration of those acts of outrage which it was
feared they would commit, the feeling of the van-
quished people is in favour of the reinstatement of the
banished Santa Cruz, who is now living as an unnoticed
resident at Guayaquil. It is supposei, and perhaps speed-
ily, that the deposed dictator may " regain his banished
honours." Hitherto matters are tranquil in each pro-
vince. The Emma brings 180,000 dollars in specie, and
the Horsford, which sailed in company with the Emma,
for London, is freighted with the same amount.
Captain Getbing informs us, that the Jane, Captain
Strachan, belonging to this port, was totally lost off
Coquimbo. A head sea, which suddenly rose in calm
weather, after the fashion of the much-dreaded Mada-
gascar rollers, drove the ship on the shore, in spite of
every precaution adopted to save her. The same ca-
sualty wrecked the George Canning, of Hamburg.
The crew of the latter were saved—the cook of the
former perished. The Commander of the Emma states,
that about the distance of 150 miles to the southward
and eastward of the Falkland Islands, he passed four
large islands of ice, and that during the latter portion
of his voyage he encountered strong and continuous
gales from the eastward. This statement corroborates
the opinion generally entertained as to the cause of the
detention of many vessels whose arrival has been for
some time expected. The latest rate of Exchange at
Valparaiso is quoted at 45.

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, DEC. 6.—Our gay
season may be now said to have closed, but many
families have taken houses for the winter. Lady Be-
resford has left for Paris, after a sojourn of three
months. Among our present visitors are Lord and
Lady Bury, Rear-Admiral Sir Willoughby and Lady
Lake, Sir William and Lady Hort, Lord Ventry, Ma-
jor-General Gordon, and Captain Wood. The theatre
is still open, and well attended ; two new dramas were
produced this week, namely, Le Panier Fkuri, and
Marguerite d'irorck. During the past week twelve
packet boats from London entered the port, with 290
passengers, 17 horses, 3 carriages, and merchandise.