The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-14 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This DA

DEAL, MAY 12.—Wind E.S.E., fine. 13, ILE., moderate.—Carne
down from the River, and proceeded, the Bmtrice, young, for St.
Vincent ; William Manning, Queleh, for St. Kitts; Africaine, M`Fag-
gart, for Australia; Egham, Turner, for Cadiz ; Agenora, Creed, for
Antigua; Diamond, Baldwin, for Berbice ; Orson, Scott, for Bahia;
Argyle, M`Donald, for Cape of Good Hope ; Wanderer, Smith, for
Mauritius ; Celesta, Robinson, for Quebec ; Mayflower, Holliday, for
Liverpool; Frances, Perkus, for Hobart Town.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 12.—Wind S.E. by S.W. 13, N.V. to 'W.N.E ,
fine.—Sailed the Frederick Wilhelm 111., Boltrendt, for Rio Janeiro;
Chapman, Christie, for Quebec ; her Majesty's ship Bellerophon, Malta.
PIA-mourn, MAT 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived". off, the Towson,
from Lisbon. Sailed the Hector, Wilson, for St.. Petersburgh Henry, Pauline,
Gerard, for Guadeloupe ; Susannah, Williams, for Hamburg% Hector,
Hill, for Quebec; Andreas and Caroline, Erboe,. -and Dorre, for Norway.
FALMOUTH MAY 11.—Wind E. strong breezes. 12.—Wind variable,
light breezes and fine.--Arrived the Express packet, Lieutenant Crake,
f
sailed April 11. Sailed the Druid, Spence, for
Quebec
ter, Cattermole, far Bre-
men; Henrietta, Sherres, for Ostend. It was reported at St. Thomas's
rebe Set ; Ives,Th° m
Gambell,as' for Hamburgh ; Vet
that the Star, packet, had arrived at Barbadoes els the sth of April, from
Falmouth.
LIVERPOOL MAY 12.—Wind N.N.W., light. 13.---Wind N., mode.
Wood-
house,
Brown,
rate. Arrived the Blorenge, Banks, from Calcutta; Vickbury,
erromJer.L.seyc,atDai:covnevr.fruo,m,
3,,, Brandt, from Cadiz ;
, Tarragona ; Eliza
and Mary, from ditto; Ludwig, Wilhelm, from. NVolgast.
New York Sun,
Off port, the
Lintin, from Mobile.
Charleston rNI eeswt onO;r l cans;
Orontes, N
Oallaisg, Egls, St. Übes.
........
DOVER, MAY 13.—Arrived off port, the Atla

month, to award our
Tmhoentchelstdtberirty
COLBURN'SNEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR
of the " Gurney
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diminished. " The Manager's Note Book, contains reminiscences of
the lives of Fawcett and Woodward; theyarefiill of incident, and very
amusing. " The Great Western Jungle" d,_usplays all that power of
vivid description for which the old Forest Ranger has become celebrated.
The subject of lunacy in France is continued, and the depictions of the
different kinds of mental derangement arc those of a rnaster-hand. my
Visit to Brussels " is every way worthy of i
Mr. h'
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" Ancient Days," by the gifted author of " Nourmahal," are as valuable
as they are intersting. The " Papers of a Gentleman-at-Arras" contain
much caustic criticism, as well as some amusing badinage. "Subjects
for Pictures," by L. E. L., display her usual Foetical taste and feeling.
The other papers are varied and attractive, and " The Conversazione " '
is continued with cleverness and spird.—Dublin Packet,
AN HARMONIOUS NAME.—A German journal
speaks of a young authoress who has distinguished herself in the lite-
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krenken.—Galignani's Messenger.

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MR. BULWER'S NEW ROMANCE.
This day was published, in royal Bvo. with 15 highly-finished
Historical Engravings, 31s. 6d. ; and a Portrait of the Author
after Chalon, executed under the superintendence of Mr. Charles
Heath ; India Proof Plates, 21. 12. 6d.
LEILA ; or, THE SIEGE OF GRANADA.
A Romance.

By EDWARD LYTTON BULWER, Esq.
London : Longman, Orme, and Co.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day

at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

Three hundred and thirteen Members of the House of
Commons united on Saturday to give Sir ROBERT PEEL,
as their leader, a great banquet. The meeting was alto-
gether political ; and the organs of the Tories, while they
exult in the manifestation, avow that such was the object.
The last toast of the evening, which was rapturously re-
ceived, was " Success on Monday next." Nor is it either
concealed or doubtful that the success to which this great
combination of Members of the House of Commons looks,
is to turn out the present Ministers, and place their leader
and some of his followers in Downing-street. The selfish
ambition was openly avowed ; and the public will naturally
ask what justification did or could these gentlemen assign
for their endeavours to cause all that agitation which is at
all times consequent on a change of Ministers, and which
in their case, they well know, would be little short of con-
vulsive.

The working classes, though many of them are looking
with eager hopes to every change as sure to promote their
favourite political plans, and many of them are combined
into " National Working Men's Associations," into Trades'
Unions and Cotton-spinners' Unions, are generally
tranquil, and the patriots of Merchant Tailors' Hall wish
apparently to supply them with an opportnnity of engaging
in vehement political agitation. Great, but just though
slumbering discontent exists in the Catholics of Ireland,
in the Dissenters of England, and in all liberal-minded, in-
telligent thinkers, at the arrogant demands of the Esta-
blished Priesthood. The combinators, by installing the
arrogant principle in high places, must wish to rally and
unite against the Church all the Catholics of Ireland, all
the Dissenters of England and Scotland, and all the op-
ponents of priestly domination—now numerous in the land
—and wish at once to provoke a trial of strength in a con-
flict, instead of quietly allowing the best founded
opinion to attain the ascendancy. Sir ROBERT
PEEL admitted, nay boasted, that the present situa-
tion of parties, in which a Ministry supposed—
and, alas !we are afraid, only supposed—to favour the
advance of popular principles from being controlled by a
strong Conservative opposition can do no harm, is most ad-
vantageous, and is almost perfection ; and for the mere gra-
tification of being in office he will destroy that balance, and
make a large number of men now in power, and now pledged
to prevent aggression on the Constitution, unite with all
that is discontented in the country, and countenance an
assault on those institutions which Sir ROBERT pretends to
he most anxious to defend. The great public evils which
Sir ROBERT PEEL finds, are a defalcation in the Revenue
—heartburnings in the Colonies—discord in the Peninsula
—and a decay of confidence generally in Europe ; and
he, as the head of this combination, proposes as a remedy,
a change in the Ministry, which will stir up agitation at
home, call into active operation that principle of ruling in
spite of the people on which he now aspires to come into office,
and make both the yielding of the Revenue less, and the
expenditure greater ;—which will change discord into mutual
extermination in the Peninsula, and will add great dread
to the great distrust which exists of rulers, and involve
most likely all Europe in` revolution. He and the combi-
natory are daring in their ambition, who for their personal
gratification are ready to risk such calamitous consequences
to their country and the world.
Sir ROBERT PEEL obviously mistakes still, as he has
ever yet mistaken, his own position and his own power.
He drew a contrast between the present Ministers as pro-
fessing to govern by concession, and his own party, as
avowing to govern by force ; but the fact is, that the Go-
vernment which professes to concede is, by its sense of
security, thereby enabled sometimes at least to resist ;
while the Government which professes to rule by force is
always in danger, and must give way rather than provoke
resistance. Did not Sir R.PEEL act on this policy in 1828, in
giving up the Test Act in 1829, by adding Catholic emanci-
tion to the many "boons" the Catholics had before wrung from
his party, and in 1835, by proferring to the Dissenters as
a bribe, if they would allow him to remain in office, all
which they asked, and which they have not yet been able
to get from the conceding Whigs controuled by a Conser-
vative opposition? But professing a deference to the
demands of the people inspires them with hope and
confidence, and enables the Government to refuse
concession to whatever is unjust, and to put down violence,
should it rear its head, as in Canada, with a strong, but a
merciful hand. Of all other principles, that of a few men
now attempting to rule society with a strong hand, laying
down the limits to which change shall go—progression,
which is change, being as natural and as necessary to so-
ciety as the continued circulation of the blood is to the health

of the body—is now most to be dreaded, as the certain
cause of—convulsion, and on that principle Sir ROBERT
PEEL and his fellow-combinators now propose to seize and
to conduct the QUEEN'S Government.

If what they seek and what they desire to preserve
were just, we should not disapprove of their conduct. The
principle, however, on which they pretend to be united,
which has tempted Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Sir FRANCIS
BURnETT from Radicalism into the arms of Toryism, and
has made Lord STANLEY assume his proper place, at the
head of those who require that strong self-will should be
expounded and defended, is to uphold Protestantism, which
they falsely assert is assailed. We heard Dr. CHALMERS
on Saturday loudly claim for this generation the same
right to judge of, and reject if it likes, the ritstal, and
Church Establishments now on foot in the land, as
was exercised by the Reformers in the 16th century—we
heard him contend for that in common with other great
and good men as the great principle of Protestantism, and
we heard him deride the claims of the Oxford divines to a
peculiar apostolic power. The right of private judg-
ment is, in truth, less a religious than a civil prin-
ciple, and should be as sacred and hallowed in Catho-
lics and Dissenters, who have a common political
faith and political rights as in members of the
Establishment. It is then pure Protestantism for
the Catholics to object to a Church Establishment which
is not theirs, and for the Dissenters to claim an exemption
from tribute to a priesthood which does not serve them.
Protestantism is defended, though the Establishmen the as-
sailed by the claims of the Catholics and Dissenters. On
the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL and his fellow combinators,
however, there is a determination to tax the whole com-
munity for the support of the priesthood of one sect. That
principle is in a civil Governor most unjust, and it is alike
opposed by the Catholics and the Dissenters. It is a clear
breach of the obligation by which every ruler is bound to
do equal justice to all his subjects ; and it cannot be car-
ried out in this land of partial freedom, but by the help of
that armed force, to which Sir ROBERT PEEL proposes to
appeal for support, nor without leading to the establish-
ment of a complete tyranny. It ought therefore to be at
once as zealously opposed, as it is openly and profligately
propounded. The advent of Sir ROBERT to office ought to
be, and probably would be, the signal for forming a close
and compact union of all who arc aggrieved by the claims
of the Church. Perhaps, even now, it is not too soon, as
the combinators have avowed their object to form such a
union to oppose them. The Tories are to seize power,
to preserve Church-rates, and prevent any application of
the Church revenues of Ireland to the education of the
Irish, and all \vim are interested in resisting the demands
and the aggressions of the Church, should at once
imitate the Tories, and unite to oppose them. We should
augur well of their success. The men who combine against

our liberties, had the chain, ion of the Corn-laws for
their Chairman, and demonstrate that these combinators
are as inimical to the physical welfare, as they are to the
moral independence of the people ; and are as ready to
starve, as they are to coerce the nation,

e copy from the Spectator of yesterday the following
paragraph :
A curious story is circulating in the district of Whitehall about the
postponement of the Budget. It is said that Sir Francis Head expended
an enormous sum—even a million sterling (enough to buy the entire
province, we should imagine,) has been named—on the celebrated—
coup 4' etat by which he changed the Upper Canada Legislature from
Liberal to Orange. The bills on the Treasury which were drawn for
that purpose are now to be provided for—just at the time when there is
a deficiency of cash for ordinary expenses. Such is the rumour; which,
strange and improbable as it may appear, Is really current in quarters so
respectable, that we should hardly be justified in omitting to mention it,
This is a curious story indeed. But is there a syllable
of truth in it ? Not one, we believe. Sir FRANCIS BOND
HEAD, towering as is his genius for political blundering,
could not be such a dolt as to suppose that Parliament
would defray a million of expense of his Excellency's incur-
ring. Were it true we should hear of nothing but rebel-
lions in Canada for the rest of our life. A harvest so rich
in gain would be, in the opinion of the Canadians, cheaply
purchased at the expense of a little blood letting.

We copy to-day an article from our excellent contempo_
rary the Morning Advertiser, concerning " the National
Loan Fund Society." It is highly gratifying to observe,
that the more closely this institution is examined the more
clearly is its advantages obvious. While upon this subject,
it is pleasing to dwell upon the matter contained in the ex-
tract from the Thurles report to the Government Loan
Fund. How favourable a light does such a statement
place the character of the Irish people, who have been ma-
ligned and calumniated by lay and clerical slanderers.
The accommodation rendered by the Agricultural to
such benevolent establishments, proves how beneficially a
a well regulated Joint Stock Bank Company can exercise
its influence, both for its own emolument and the prosperity
of the country, by drawing forth unemployed capital, and
calling into action dormant energies. When do we hear of
the Bank of Ireland—the: state money shop—performing
such services to the country from whence monopoly en-
ables it to amass its millions ? And where is the govern-
ment which will now attempt to perpetuate monopoly, by
renewing the Charter of the Bank:of Ireland with all its an-
cient privileges ? A Tory Administration would not dare to
do it. A Whig one must not attempt it.

We are indebted to the active agents of the Commercial
Steam Packet Company, Fish-street Hill, for the following
communication from Lisbon, dated the sth inst. The sub-
ject is not the most important, but it has the merit of
novelty, at least, to recommend it. A Company which
labours so strenuously to gratify public curiosity, while
suiting the general convenience of the traveling and mer-
cantile worlds, would meet with an ungrateful return from
those who would dispute the priority of its claims to public

support :
Lissox, SATURDAY, MAY ;s.—At half-past nine a.m. her Imperial
Majesty the Empress of Brazil, accompanied by her august daughter-in-
law, Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal, and her illustrious consort&m_
barked under a royal salute from the Arsenal on board the royal barge,
pulling thirty oars, and steered by a post captain in the Portuguese navy,
attended by six other state barges, with the principal Admirals, Gene-
rals, and the officers of state and clergy; she was received on board
the Commercial Steam Company's packet the Transit, Captain Wright.
son, with every mark of honour; and tu,on her Majesty stepping on
board the Transit, the Royal Standard of Portugal, with the English
and Portuguese ensigns were hoisted. The Transit slipped her moor-
ings upon a signal being given, and was saluted from the fort and arsenal
at Lisbon. On passing the Portuguese squadron, their yards were
manned, and each ship saluted in succession, His Excellency Admiral
Sir John Ommaney, of her Britannic Majesty's service, came on board to
pay his respects; and when passing the English and French squadrons,
the yards were manned, the mariws under arms, and the bands struck
up the Portuguese national hymn, and each ship tiled a royal salute.
The parting of the Queen of Portugal with the Empress and her sister,
the young Princess, was truly affecting, and a more general feeling of
love and veneration than was expressed by all classes towards the Emp-
ress was never witnessed. At half-past ten the. Transit passed Belem
underanother royal salute, and at forty-five minutes past eleven, passed
Fort St. Julian—and at each bastion, whe:ever a person could be seen,
scarfs and handkerchiefs were waving. Her Imperial Majesty travels
under the title of Madame la Comptesse de Minden°.
The Transit left Southampton yesterday at one o'clock for Rotterdam,
at which port her Majesty will disembark.

New York papers to the 17th ult. have been received,
They contain an important message from Governor
MARCY, recommending the resumption of specie pay-
ments by the banks of the State of New York—of which
an abridgment will be found in another part of The Sun.
Advices from Toronto, of the 6th ult., state that the
Mayor and Citizens had addressed his Excellency Colonel
Sir GEORGE ARTHUR, congratulating him upon his appoint-
ment to the Govenorship of Upper Canada. The answer
of Sir GEORGE was most satisfactory ; in fact, it was the
very reverse of the Draconic reply to the address presented
to him by the Reformers. His Excellency says :
" Your address is the more particularly gratifying to me at this mo-
ment, as by a full knowledge of and confidence in its power, the execu-
tive government is more at liberty, where justice does not absolutely
forbid it, to unfurl the banner of mercy.
" Harshness and severity are distinguishing marks of weakness and
apprehension.

" The country is strong enough to be magnanimous; and as the in-
habitants of Upper Canada have the reputation of being a religious
people, it will now be open to them, both collectively and individually,
to give proof of their Christian professions, by forgiving, without any
vexatious upbraidings, the extreme injuries they have received.
` The quality of mercy is not strain'd ;
It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven
Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ;
It b]esseth him that gives and him that takes;
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest.'
" If the great victory which has been achieved be now wisely used
with moderation and well-timed conciliation, the late seeming frown of
Providence, upon this noble province, may issue in a very great bless.
in:; for I do not despair of seeing many persons now come forward,
openly and avowedly, as loyal supporters of the Constitution, who, al-
though hitherto advocates for some partial changes in the institutions of
the country, nevertheless would be desirous to make the most public
declaration of their detestation of traitors, and murderers, and incen.
diaries; and thus you may become a more united, and therefore a more
happy people."

This is all that the most Radical Reformers of sane
mind, and honest principles, can desire. In the name of
mercy, let there be no vindictive effusion of blood. The
victors may talk of the atrocities committed by the rebels,
but who is there to call them to an account for the possibly
greater guilt by which rebellion was sot only crushed, but
those who were wrongfully suspected of favouring it, exter-
minated in the moment of victory ? In this case, what
crimes have not been created by failure ? Let us then be
merciful, for under such circumstances, the best conducted
trials must be mockeries of justice.

We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of
Friday and Saturday. In the Chamber of Deputies on
Thursday the Cabinet sustained a fresh defeat on the
question of the Railway project so long under discussion.
The Cabinet would have protracted the debate by a further
adjournment, but after a speech from M. ODILLON
BARROT, in which the policy of the Administration was
unsparingly censured, a division was called for, when there
app eared :
For the Ministerial project 139
Against it

...
Leaving Ministers in a minority of 127 votes ! A scene
of indescribable confusion ensued, in the midst of which the
PRESIDENT announced the adjournment of the Chamber.
It is generally known that the Chamber of Peers will
reject the Five per Cents. Interest Reduction Bill. This
led to a rise of nearly one-half per cent. on the price of this
Stock on the Bourse on Saturday.
The Paris Journals of Saturday continue to publish ac-
counts of the movements of the French troops on the Bel-
gian frontier. On the other hand, a letter from Berlin
states that Russia, Austria, and Prussia have agreed to
support Holland, in the event of the 24 Articles being now
rejected by Belgium.

The latest advices from Madrid are to the 6th inst. in-
clusive. The Government was then in hopes of being
able to bring the loan negociations to a satisfac-
tory c spoeneilcdlusyion. General LEON took possession of Los
Arcos, on the ~13d, after routing five Carlist battalions
Before evacuating the town, the rebels destroyed the
fortifications, and burned the Augustinian convent.
BRUSSELS, MAT 11.—A piece of news of the greatest importance to
Belgium is just announced to us. The Rhenish provinces are petition.
ing in favour of the state quo.
A great many of the most respectable persons of the Duchy of
Juliers, members of the Chambers of Commerce, masters of manufac-
tories, &c., have had a meeting in the little town of Erkelens, to draw
up and sign a petition, requesting the King of Prussia to think of
means to keep things in the prosperous state in which they now
are, demonstrating that the neighbourhood of Belgium, a manu-
facturing country, is much more advantageous to Prussia than
that of Holland could be. In fact, no good can be expected from
any change in the present state of the balance of Europe, which seems to
have been brought about by chance rather than political combination.
Why disturb a state of things with which everybody is satisfied I, Hol.
land, Belgium, and Prussia (the parties most interested, are all equally
well off in their respective situations. The Belgian Legation to the
Ottoman Porte left Vienna on the second of this month, to proceed
down the Danube to Constantinople. It is composed of the following
persons :—Baron O'Sullivan de Grass, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-
ter Plenipotentiary, Viscount Amadee Vitain XIV., the Marquis Theo-
bub de Rhodes, and Count Charles de Spanger. These gentlemen take
the customary presents.
ST PETERSBURG'', 27vIt APRIL.— A corps of 420,000 men will em-
bark at Sebastapol for Anapa, but will; neither be incorporated in the
army of the Black Sea nor employed against the Abascians, but sta.

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LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1838.