The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-22 00:00:00

SOUTH COAST OF DEVON.
TO BE LET or SOLD an excellent FAMILY
lIOUSE, with Flower and Kitchen Gardens, Coach-
House, Stables, and all necessary Offices, and with or without
Five Acres of land. The Premises are situate near Lymp-
stone, on the banks of the Exe, opposite P-owderham Castle, of
the grounds of which it commands a fine view.
For particulars apply (if by letter, post paid), at the Office
of H. R. Hill, 12, Copthall-court, London ; Mr. F. Dore,
auctioneer, Exeter ; or Mr. F. Searle, Lympstone.

ccts.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1839

wisdom can only and ought to conform. The To
ries, however, believe, and declare, that Acts of
Parliament give an impulse to society, direct its
course, and regulate its form and growth. They,
accordingly, never look beyond the four corners of
the Statute-book, and conclude that as long as that
remains unaltered things will remain stationary, and
society will adapt itself to that procrustean bed. Hence
they suppose that because they have in both Houses
voted against agitating the question of the Corn-
laws, that this subjectis settled and unalterable ;
but out of doors the reverse is known and felt ; and
no man of business, no farmer, no landlord will or
can believe, so as to take or let farms or make
contracts on the belief—that these laws will remain
just as they are now, or for the next three years.
Now, Lord JOHN RUSS.ELL, who formerly pro-
fessed a nobler faith, has adopted this Tory prin-
ciple and follows this 'Uory practice, so far as the
Reform Act is concerned ; and he placed a veto on
Mr. HumE's motion, because he would not
disturb and shake the confidence of the people in
the durability of our institutions. Poor little
man ! he does this at the very time when the
whole land is teeming with the most violent
condemnation of that Act—when, as Mr.
WARD told him, " it had filled the hearts
of the unenfranchised with gall and bitterness, and
all uncharitableness towards the enfranchised ;" and
when they are everywhere declaring the utmost hos-
tility, even to taking up arms, against this very Re-
form Act. If Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his pre-
sent supporters had wished to preserve for our in-
stitutions the authority of prescription, they should
have left them unaltered ; but it is too much to
claim for the miserable anomalies pointed out by Mr.
HUME—for the wretched abortion, which the fierce
Tories, aided by some false Whigs, made of that
Act, after an operation of only six years—the autho-
rity of antiquity, and say that in it then shall be
no innovation.
There was some reason in the Tory doc-
trine, that under the old Parliament, the nation
had gone through a long career of glory and
had attained as much happiness and freedom as
ever were known ; but it was totally unable to bear
up against the irresistible arguments of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and his friends, that this career and this
happiness had been attained in spite of the anoma-
lies and abuses of the rotten borough system, and
that society had changed and expanded so as to
make that condition of Parliament wholly unfit for
the present times. We agreed then with Lord
JOHN RUSSELL; but now he goes further into
error than the Tories, for since the Reform Act was
passed, much bad and very little good legislation
has been enacted, many old grievances have been
unredressed, and new ones created, numerous
wrongs have been perpetrated and rights denied,
till the whole land is in a flame of ungovernable dis-
content ; and yet he claims for this law of six years'
standing, which has been as yet attended by no per.
ceptible advantage, and while the feeble, pro.
crastinating, if not perfidious men, are ye
in existence who, made it and suffered it to
be perverted, all the deference and veneration
which the Tories, in 1831, claimed for the rotten
boroughs, after an existence of some hundred years.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL should have taken care, if
he meant to preserve the Reform Act unaltered,
to make it perfect ; and loudly condemned, as it was
at the time by many of the most enlightened friends
of Reform ; had he then declared that it was to
be a final and unchangeable measure, they would
have repudiated both it and the Whigs, and would
have run their chance for a better measure rather
than take it on those conditions. The whole rea-
soning of Lord JOHN RUSSELL rested on a Tory
foundation, which he had before overthrown ; and
preferring his authority in 1831, when he was un-
hampered by official ties, to his authority now,
his speech only convinces us that he pre-
fers ease to principle. If he had shown
that the present Act worked well—if he could
have pointed to numerous, serried, and harmonious
supporters, to an opposition disjointed and feeble—if
he could have pointed to the Corn-laws repealed,
to the Church effectually reformed, to abuses of the
law eradicated, to great economy in the national
expenditure combined with great efficiency in the
public service, to industry stimulated and honoured,
and to idleness .repressed arid disgraced—if he
could have pointed out one act of great substantial,
unpolluted justice done by the Reformed Parlia-
ment, we might have thought that he made out a
semblance of a case ; but all his arguments only
branded himself and his friends as incendiaries for
ever having disturbed the rotten boroughs.
P

Mr. D'lsnA ELI made one of those exhibitions
of himself in the House of Commons last night
which have caused him to be classed with the
amusements of the House. He always provokes
peals of merriment when he speaks, being as vague
as a novelist, while, like a rigid mathematician, he
continually demands
.precise definitions of his op-
ponent.
He has a flow of unmeaning words and a
great paucity of ideas. He wrote a pamphlet some
time ago, in which he insisted that the House of
Commons was not the House of the People but an
estate of the realm, though what it is, as an estate
of the realm, but the House of the People, the
Honourable Member always forgot to explain.
Greatly to the amusement of the House he
repeated over and over again his definition. just
as the fools of novelists and play-writers do,
with words they do not understand, without ever •
getting further, and excited the loud laughter of both
friends and opponents. What will the electors of
Maidstone think of a Representative who, like a
clown hired to make grimaces, is an object of general
ridicule ? In 1815 they were so averse from the
Corn-laws that they chased Lord DARNLEY and
his friends from the hustings, when they met to
petition for protection to agriculture, and compelled
them to agree to their resolutions, and draw up their
petition in a private room. Times are altered now,
and, under the Reform Act, both the Representa-
tives of Maidstone, the seat of one important branch
of industry, the manufacture of paper, now vote in
favour of continuing the Corn-laws, and of keeping
bread dear. ,The towns are not only swamped by
the counties, but they are misrepresented under the
Reform Act. That is, however, in a great mea-
sure the fault of the electors themselves, and they
will deserve no better if they continue to send
strangers to represent them in Parliament whose
conduct covers those who choose them with ridicule.

We insert the Address of the City of London
to her MAJESTY, and her MAJESTY'S answer,
which is of a nature not to enhance her popularity
with the City functionaries. Her MAJESTY tells
them, coolly and calmly, that the peace and security
of the inhabitants of her capital require the care
and attention of her Government ; that she has
caused, with these views, measures to be submitted
to Parliament, and that she relies on the zeal of
Parliament, and its regard for the rights and pri-
vileges of all her subjects. Her MAJESTY, there-
fore, will be at issue with the Corporation of Lon-
don ; and this answer is, we believe, the first ungra-
cious one she has had to return to any body of her
sub

heads of those infidel bakers who shock the pious
by enabling the poor man to enjoy a hot joint after
Church-time ! Judging from present appearances,
we think nothing more likely than that the Right
Rev. Prelate will persuade Ministers to make fools
of themselves after some such fashion as we have
just described ; fur if he can make them
believe that an early delivery of letters on
Sunday, is an act of irreligion in London, when
it is considered perfectly orthodox in the majority
of our country-towns, he can make them believe
anything, and, what is worse, perpetrate any ab-
surdity, however preposterous. The truth is, the
Bishop of LONDON—in his public capacity at least,
for in private we hear he is a truly pious and unas-
suming man—considers religion as a mere cold, dry
matter of fortn—a thing of conventional etiquette ;
and acting on this narrow, pedantic principle, he
bids fair, by his influence over Ministers, to give a
wonderful stimulus to Hypocrisy, who, even as it is,
needs no spur to quicken her march. if it be essen-
tial, to the progress of true religion, that the forms
and observances of the Sabbath be kept up with
puritanical strictness, at least let fair play be
observed, and all the classes be equally bound by
such forms. If no cleric or postman be permitted
to give out a letter on Sundays, let no cook be al-
lowed to work in a rich man's kitchen, or a West-
end hotel ; for the one servant is quite as much
entitled to rest on the Sabbath as the other.

The delay which has taken place in the forma-
tion of a new Ministry in France, has given rise to
serious apprehensions that the King, though seem-
ing to yield to the conditions of the Coalition, is
fully determined to maintain his own peculiar po-
licy, and that he is confirmed in this determina-
tion by the secession of GuizoT, and still
more by the irreconcilable pretensions of the
different parties that still appear to be united.
We should not indeed, be surprised, if
Louis PHILIPPE contrive to nullity (as the
Americans say) the result of the elections. He
has certainly materials to work upon which have
no inherent attraction for each other. They were

forced together by his headstrong policy, and a
little relaxation on his part, together with an infu-
sion of some new ingredients may restore all the
original force of the repulsive qualities. GUIZOT
asserts that though refused the only situation
which he could accept, he will remain neutral.
()DILLON BARROT, if refused the Presidency of the

Chamber, says he will'also remain neutral ; but will
their followers•show the same disinterested conduct,
or will they themselves long remain in this isolated
position when surrounded by so many attracting
powers ? The only chance of success the Coalition
had was by remain►ng united, and if the different
members have not sense or patriotism enough
to sacrifice their own minor differences to carry
out the only principle for which they coalesced,
the lessening of the power of the Crown—
they will become even less powerful than the
defeated Ministry. The organs of the Court
seem already certain of victory, and boldly as-
sert that the policy of the KING is the policy of
the great body of the French people ; that he was
chosen KING not because he was nearest to the
Throne, but because his political principles were
those of France ; and that though this policy may
vary on some points, its fundamental doctrines can-
not he overturned ; any Ministry that would atempt a
different course would only lose their time and labour
So says the Revue de Paris within these few days
It adds, " Nothing will be changed, and M. TM ERS
will not be abl e to adopt a more liberal foreign.
policy than M. MOLE." We fear there is seine
truth in this conclusion, and mote than one Liberal
Paper attaches the greatest importance to this all
but official declaration. " The Court," says the
Commerce, " has soon got rid of its alarms, and has
resumed all its original pretensions and blind policy."
We never remember having heard these pretensions
asserted before, with such boldness and precision.
And what in spires this confidence ? The certainty
that it has already sown seeds of discord, in the
ranks of the new Ministry. A few days, however,
will unravel the plot.

The French Evening Papers of Wednesday announce
that after a world of difficulty the Ministerial question
may be regarded as settled, and that the Ministry
whose names we published in The Sun of Monday will
be appointed. The history of the intrigue to break up
the Coalition is curious. The KlNG—hollow to the
last—invited the several proposed Ministers to meet
him separately, that hu might consult them respecting the
policy of the new Cabinet. On re-assembling on Tuesday
at the house of Marshal SOULT, they found that he had
been more anxious to sow dissensions among them than
to reconcile differences. On SOULT proposing that the
Ministerial List should be made out and published, the
KING, whose other objections were all removed, insisted
upon having a written programme of the policy of the
proposed Cabinet, signed by all the Members. This,
his MAJESTY calculated, would be work for a week for
the Coalition. He was disappointed ; the programme was
presented to him in less than an hour. Irritated at the
unexpected agreement among the leaders of the Coali-
tion, he refused to give the Marshal en immediate an-
swer, upon which Ti► Ens wrote to the Marshal declining
to have any thing more to do with the Cabinet. SOULT
handed Tntras' letter to the KING, which fortunately
was accompanied with the result of the vote in the
Belgian Chamber of Deputies, in favour of the Treaty
of the Twenty-four Articles. The KING at once
yielded, and 'NIERS consented to withdraw his letter
to Souur. Thus stood the question on \Wednesday even-
ing. The new Ministerial programme will be published,
whether the Coalition take office or not, in a day or
two. The correspondent of a Morning Contemporary
gives the subjoined account of it :
The programme comprehended a total chan,ge in the
system pursued in respect of Spain, not an intervention, I
must observe, but a real enforcement of the orders given
in conformity with the Treaty of Quadruple Alliance, and
to exact which Mr. Ellice stimulates M. Thiers. The
domestic points on which the new Ministers insisted were,
the conversion of the Five per Cents., and a sweeping
revision or reform of all the public functionaries. For ex-
ample, they demanded the dismissal of from twenty-five
to thirty of the eighty-six Prefects, and of a still greater
number of sub- Prefects ; the recal and removal of five,
if not six, Ambassadors, and the creation of a large batch
of Peers.
There is no domestic news of any moment in these
Papers. We have advises from Madrid of the 13th,
which state that M. PIZARRO, the Minister of Finance,
had concluded an arrangement with the Bank, which
had agreed to advance him 4,000,000 reels in March,
3,000,000 in April, and 3,000,000 more in May. The
Bank had accepted, in exchange, bonds to the amount
of from 13,000,000 to 15,000,000, payable out of the
extraordinary war tax.
BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH CO.

HALF-PAST Tuanz.—The market has been brisk, and a great deal
of business done. For the account The Three per Cents. opened
at 79f. 50c., rose to 79f. 80c., and closed at 79f. 75c., thus recover.
ing the 10c. fall of yesterday. The Five per Cents., from 108 f.
45c. ex dividend, got up to 108 f. 60c. last price, and a rise of Sc,
For money, the Three per Cents. are 15c. higher, and the Five
per Cents. be. The Bank of France Shares are as yesterday. The
Laffitte Bank 1,000 Shares are 2C 50c., and those of 5,000 f. are
10E, better. The Belgian Five per Cents. have improved per
cent., and the Three per Cents. 10c.; for the account the latter are,
however, but 79f. 90c. Much has been done in Belgian Bank
Shares, which have gone back 451, which is sf. more than the ad-
vance of yesterday. Notwithstanding the number of transactions
in the shares of both the Versailles Railways, they closed as yester-
day. The Havre have crept up another sf.
First Highest Lowes Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents(ex. div.) 101 45 105 55 ... 10, 45 ... 10i 13
4W, per Cents lO4 50 ... 101 50 ... 104 50 ... 101 50
4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 101 5
3 per Cents 79 55 _ 75 79 55 79 75
Bank of prance
Laltitte Bank I,OOOE Sh , 1057 50 ...LOW ...1057 :A _woo
5,004 ;h 5225 ...5225 ...59:2.5 ...5225
Belgian 5 per Cents lo'2 ... 102 ... 102 102
3 per Cents 7l ... 71 ... 71 „,, 71
Bank 670 ... 670 ... COO 6:20
anish Ac ivy 2t ... 2114 ... 2114, 21i/4
Don Miguel
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germai,
Versailles, 11. B 643 645 ... 635 042 50
L.ll 225 225 ... 220 ... 225
Charleroi 455 • ... 455 455 ... 455
Orleans .. 445 ... 450 450 450
Strasburg te Bale 340 ... 310 ... 337 50 ... 337 50
ASPHALTES AND BITUAENS.

Scyssel (A)
20110 —.2600 ...20011 —.2000
Yarn (Maberly's)
Galvaniz,:d Iron
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MARCH 16.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1472 1470
A n In-Russian Loan lo7ii losi
Russian 5 per Ceitt. Ist series, Certificate
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop,. and Co. 3d and 4th
Se i s 914 08
Ditto in Certificates
-Dutch ctual Debt, 2y, pe Cent.
Polish Bond;
New I ickct ... 156% 1564
Anglo. t'anish Loan, 3_per Cent

Mr. Foote, the father of the present Countess of
Harring'on, died yesterday at his house in Henrietta-
street, after a few hours' illness. Mr. Foote, in early life,
wa:, an actor of no high standing in the profession.—
There is no truth in the report in the Globe of yesterday
of the death of Mr. Foote, father of the Countess of Har-
rington.]
LEICESTER ELECTION.--Mr. Wynn Ellis was
yesterday returned by a majority of 310.
Just as the House of Commons was about to
adjourn on Wednesday night, Mr. Wallace moved for a
return of the total number of advertisements, and the total
amount received therefrom, in England and Wales, Ire-
land. and Scotland respectively, for each year, since the
duty was reduced to Is. 6d., and for each year, during a
corresponding period, bJere the duty was reduced.—
Ordered.