The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-23 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1854.

Another of her MAJESTY'S Ministers—not the
Earl of ABERDEEN, but Sir GEORGE GREY—Lhas
been recently whining over the Evil of War. As
if England were to be frightened into a craven
Peace;through the fear lest, in fighting the Battles
of Humanity, she might be weighed down by the
remorse of blood-guiltiness ! The occasion se-
lected by the newly-appointed Colonial Secretary
for the utterance of those drivelling lamen-
tation's over the Horrors of War--was the
occasion of his re-election, on the 17th in-
stant, by the burgesses of Morpeth as their
representative in Parliament. " War itself," said
Sir GEORGE GREY, "is not a light evil : nay,
I may say," he added, "that it is the greatest evil
with which the human race can be afflicted."
These are the words addressed by a Minister of
the Crown to the people of England, by way, we
presume, of inspititing them in that course of
Justice, of Right, and of Honour, upon the vin-
dication of which they have at length, after
mature .deliberation, • adventured. Is this lan-
guage befitting the lips of a British Statesman,
called to the administration of the affairs of the
forty colonies of England during the crisis of a

war with that gigantic and despotic Empire whose
Ruler, is the mightiest of the champions of Bar-
barism, and, as such, the most formidable of all
the living foes of Liberty and Civilisation ? It
is surely somewhat anomalous, in regard to the pre-
sent Cabinet, that while Sir GEORGE GREY is moan-
ing over the Horrors of War, and the Earl of ABER-
DEEN is babbling about the blessings of Peace—as
if any man in his right senses could doubt for a
moment either the one or the Other—either that
Peace is fraught with Blessings and War with
Horrors—Lord JOHN RUSSELL is declaring that
the. only pacification that can now be looked for
must be one that is " durable, and solid, and
honourable ;" and the Earl of CLAENDON is
ItiaiSting that " safety can alone be sought
fcurtailing a Power which menaces the peace
o Europe
tion I" and the cause of progress and civilisa-
Literally, other words, Sir GEORGE
GREY is blowing cold while Lord JOHN RUSSELL
is blowing hot—th Earl .of
e Earl of CLARE DON is blow-
ing hot while the
A.BERDEEN is blowing
The Foreign Secretary and the Colonial
cold !
Secretary pull in opposite directions. The North
and the South, the East and the West, the nadir
and the zenith, ourselves and our antipodes are
not more opposed than, in this matter of the,war
the Noble Lord the p
with Russia, are resident of
the Noble Earl 01e p• the Council, and First Lord
d
Noboy questions
of the Treasury.that war is
dreadful—but lo ! here comes Sir GEORGE GREY
to proclaim its sinfulness to the men of Morpeth,
and through the men of Morpeth to the people of
the United Kingdom. Nobody again doubts for
an instant that Peace is holy, and pure, and in
every respect most
the
desirable—but lo !
Earl of ABERDEEN must avail himself of every
imaginable opportunity to harp upon the neces-
sity of clinging to it at all hazard, and of repur-
chasing it, if once lost, by any sacrifice. Ob-
viously both Sir GEORGE GREY and my Lord
ABERDEEN, both the Colonial Secretary and the
Prime Minister, speak as they have spoken for the
Purpose of damping the ardour with which the
country is disposed to carry on the struggle with
the mighty legions of the AUTOCRAT. It cannot
be that they wish to convince any one of the evil
of war and of the good of peace—because nobody
denies either the one or the other, as we have
alzpa,dy observed. Yet at the very time when
/We taunfortunate Ministers of the Crown—
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• s4rft unhappily the nominal head of the
44 ~T;;;Wriificyn, are endeavouring to allay
the war-
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in carrying on the war against the Emperor
NICHOLAS, and in conjunction with the Emperor
NAPOLEON, others of their more sagacious, more
chivalrous, and more patriotic colleagues are in-
citing the population to yet greater fervour in
abetting the warlike measures adopted by the
Administration. The world has been told by ONE
whose words are the words of adorable Truth and
Divine Wisdom, that " a house divided against
itself' can never stand ! Are not these contradic-
tions, and divisions, and inconsistencies within the
Cabinet tokens, very visible and undeniable tokens,
of the instability of the present Government ?

The claims of the unfortunate and deeply in-
jured Baron DE BODE have once more been brought
before the House of Commons. Another appeal
has bßei made to the chosen representatives of
the British people for justice to that ill-used ren gen-
tleman. Tedious as have been the delays, and
vexatious the procrastinations to which father and
son have been subjected, it was hoped that a
nation which boasts of its honour and integrity
would even at the eleventh hour vindicate its title

to these characteristics ; that, although hope had
been so long deferred, a certain, if a tardy re-
compense would have been bestowed for the pro-
tracted sufferings of sixty years. This anticipa-
tion has, however, like every other indulged in
by the ill-fated applicant, been bitterly disap-
pointed. Nothwithstanding the various-decisions
that have been pronounced—notwithstanding the
clear and unequivocal report of the Lords' Commit-
tee, the deliberate judgment of Lords LYNDHURST,
BROUGHAM, and. TRURO, and the able speeches of
Messrs. CHAMBERS, BOWYER, WALPOLE, and
MaraNs—the motion brought forward by the
Honourable and Learned Gentleman the Member
for Greenwich was rejected by a majority of 15,
there being 82 Members ofj Parliament who
thought that the national good faith did not re-
quire the satisfaction of claims established after
such long protracted investigation, while only 67
voted for rendering that satisfaction. Another
illustration is thus afforded of the maxim, that
men will, collectively, commit injustice of which
individually they would be grievously ashamed.
The division of responsibility, and perhaps the
motives facetiously assigned by SYDNEY SMITH to
corporations, has influenced the English House of
Commons, and the nation must again submit to a
well-founded imputation on its good faith, and
the sufferer to a further trial of his patience for
an indefinite period.
The argument of Mr. WALPOLE must have con-
vinced any unprejudiced person. The Right
Honourable Gentleman may be said to have re-
presented on the occasion Lord LYNDHURST—
" the distinguished man who"—to use the ap-
propriate language of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer—" at an age beyond that ordinarily as-
signed to human life, had applied to the con-
sideration of this case the powers of an intelli-
gence so keen and bright that it seemed as if no
extremity of old age could dim its lustre." The
points were so simply and intelligibly put for-
ward that the most obtuse individual could follow
the argument, perceive how it was sustained by
the admitted facts, and see that it disposed of the
entire issue.

There were three questions to be determined.

Ist. Was Baron CLEMENT DE BODE, the father
of the present claimant, a British subject ?
2nd. Did the property which constituted the
subject of the claim belong to him ?
3d. Was that property unduly confiscated
within the terms of the convention ?

If these interrogatories should respectively
be answered in the affirmative, the claimant is
entitled to the relief he claims—and the honour
of the British nation is involved in the prompt
and satisfactory settlement of his demand.
As to the first point, we find that Baron CLE-
MENT, whose rights are now vested in the present
claimant, was the son of Baron CHARLES, an officer
in the German regiment of Nassau, in which no
Frenchman could hold a commission. This Baron
CHARLES married an English lady, Miss KYN-
NERBLEY, of liocksley Park, Staffordshire, and his
son CLEMENT was born at his mother's domi-

cite in 1777, and shortly afterwards baptised at the

neighbouring town of Uttoxeter. Under these cir-
cumstances, born in England of au English mother,
he was to all intents and purposes an Englishman.
One, who, if he took up arms against Great
Britain, would to all intents and purposes have
been guilty of an act of high treason, for which
his life would be justly forfeited. The opinion of
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY was decisive on this point.
There was, it is true, an error in the first instance.
The Due de RICHELIEU conceived that, as the
father of the claimant, Earon CHARLES, had been
a German, he himself must also be a German.
This palpable error led to a delay in registering
his claim—a delay, however, for which he was
not in any degree. responsible. The mistake was
that of one of the French Commissioners ; and in-
asmuch as it was not in any degree ascribable to
the suitor himself, its consequences should
not be visited on him—more especially as others,
who could put forward no such excuse, had
their demands satisfied. Besides, such as it was,
it was rectified, and the objection waived nearly
38 years since. The claim being received, no
difficulty on that part of the case remains. But
it is now said that Baron CLEMENT had a mixed
character, that he was a French as well as an Eng-
lish subject, and that the forfeiture was made in
the former capacity. It is certainly rather late to
put forward this novel argument. It would be •
easy to show how difficult it would be to prove
that a man born in England, the issue of a Ger-
man father by an English motht.r, was a French
subject ; and even were it the case, this unques•
tioned English nationality would undoubtedly be
sufficient to sustain his claim, and entitle him to
the justice which he demands.
The next point was as to the validity of the
cession of the property from Baron CHARLES to
his son, the first claimant. We say as to the
validity of the cession, because there was no
denial that the father was possessed of the
property. There was no decided opinion against
the validity. It was merely doubted. Now, the
mere facts of the case would go far to support it,
for it was made for the very purpose of obtaining
British protection, and no perscn was, or could, in
consequence be defrauded by the surrender by a
father of his life-interest in favour of his son and
heir. The opinion of the various advocates who
were examined as to the state of the French law
were also decisive on the point.
The only remaining point was as to the justice
of the confiscation. It has been insisted that to
entitle him to compensation it must have been
" because he was an English subject." But that
fallacy has long since been disposed of. The de-
cisions of Sir W. GRANT and Lord STOWELL on
that part of the case were incontrovertible.
We trust, then, that the several constituencies
will call on their representatives to discard quib-
bles—scarcely worthy of an Old Bailey practi-
tioner, and to render simple justice to a deeply
injured man—without reference to the amount of
the demand, or the question as to where the
money to satisfy it is to come from.

VISIT OF THE RING OF PORTUGAL TO PORTSMOUTH.—
of Portugal and his brother, the Duke of
The
Oporto, visited
visited Portsmouth yesterday, and were re-
cyeairvde,dawusipthurtd. ue honours at the Clarence Victualling-
-413y
great They were conducted over the establish-
ment, which they
examined minutely, expressing the
Pleasure Which
in naval e, experienced in the inspection of the
storehouse, His Majesty and the Duke
then embarkednl
Albert steam yacht, and also the Vic-
tory. Captain RaTvhceornducted his Majesty over the
pejelson fell. The K;ng and
Portsmouth dockyard minutely,
Vic-
ship, and showed
his brother examined
luncheon at the Admiralty-
and afterwards partook of
auidiecilliby Sir Thomas and
house, where they Were entertained
tyo Londeonn soon
had
a: brother expressed
at Gosport and
Lady Cochrane. The King
after four
thei r satisfaction
Portsmouth,
andw withreturned
te
under a Royal salute.
The Duchess of Buccleuch, we regret to learn, is
suffering from very delicate health atMontagunousWhitehall-gardens. Her Grace. we believe, has note
quitted the family mansion in Whitehall-gardens • 8111C8
her arrival from Scotland. The noble Duke and Lord
Dalkeith dined with their relatives,' the Earl and Coun-
tess of Cawdor, in South:Audley-street, on Wednesday

evening.
REPRESENTATION AT MALDoN.—The new writ for
Maidon, it is expected, Will: he issued in the course of
the ensuing month. The candidates adopted by the
Conservative pai ty are Mr. Quintin Dick and Mr. Pea-
cock. 'her isno doubt of their success.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 10,000 bales, including 3,000 American
taken for export and on speculation. The market
closed firm at an advance of 1-16 d. per lb. for
American. Surats were also dearer, other kinds
without alteration. The sales comprised 8,500
American, 400 Perna,m, and Maranham at 6-i';(1. to
71d., 200 Bahia at GAd. to 6gd., 400 Egyptian at
51d. to Div., 1,500 Surat at 23/4d. to 3td. per lb.
Railway Shares were steady.
In Colonial produce a moderate business has been
done this week, and prices have not undergone
much variation. Sugar has been in request at full
prices. Tea has gone off very heavily, and at
rather lower rates. Spices have been cheaper,
except pepper and pimento. Rice has been rather
lower. Saltpetre firm, and in cotton there has
been more doing. In hemp there has been a
limited business only. Tallow has rather im-
proved.
A letter from Messrs. T. J. Stewart and Co., of
New York, dated the 10th instant, gives some
useful information upon the subject of the cotton
trade, and notices the circumstance, so much to be
regretted, of the Brokers' Association having de-
cided to discontinue the publication of the daily
statement of public sales. The plea that it is diffi-
cult to ascertain these appears to us wholly unte-
nable, for at least some guide would be preferable
to none. The letter states :

"After the receipt of both the Asia's and Niagara's
advises, a depressed effect was apparent, which subse-
quently, in a measure, wore off. The quotation of
sd. for Middling Uplands, brought by the steamer of
27th ult., was lower than shippers had calculated on,
and which holders are indisposed to accede to, as cot-
ton similar to our standard samples can only be bought
at the quotation in mixed lists. As our association have
found it impracticable to procure and embody the cor-
rect daily statement of sales, it has been suspended ; but
the principal firms meet weekly, as before, and after
frank discussions, alter the quotations to the last sales.
The business of the last fortnight has been variously
estimated ; we think 1,200 bales daily for the first week,
and 700 daily since, excluding shipments from first handy,
would give the probable amount of transactions. We
regard the market as closing steadier last evening.
A new loan for Turkey is spoken of, and the
attempt will probably again be made to obtain it
its London. The treasury at Constantinople has
been already paying 10 per cent. for loans upon

local notes. - - -
The firm of Davidson and Gordon has suspended,
having heavy liabilities. They were produce and
metal brokers, and had suffered by a firm that be-
came involved some time ago. A West India house
has likewise stopped this morning, and a wholesale
grocer's firm at Birmingham has stopped.
The English funds opened buoyantly, although
the speculative transactions have not been large.
Consols were 94k, and have since been 931 3. In
the New 31 per Cents. there have been numerous
transactions at 931 to 94k, and in the Threes at
9n- to 91. Exchequer Bills are 2s. discount to 2s.
premium. The A Bonds are sto h premium, and
the B to l premium.
A moderate business is doing in some of the
foreign stocks, and generally at full rates. Equador
Bonds have advanced to 31 and 4, Russian 5 per
Cents. to 971, and the 41 per Cents. to 86 and
86g, the latter being fto z per cent. better. Sar-
dinian have improved 1 per cent., being 85 and 86.
Belgian 4l per Cents. are quoted 91, and Dutch 4
per Cents. have risen to 90k to 901. Mexican are
steady at 24} g.
Railway Shares are about per cent. under yes-
terdav's highest rates.
In Mining Shares there have been several trans-
actions, without particular variation in price.
Joint-stock Bank Shares are very dull, but South
Australia have got up 21.
Land Shares are inactive, Crystal Palace quiet,
and Peninsular and Oriental 2/. higher again.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
From the Oliciat List.)
Busine.Ranne.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 4 3i
Si per Cent. Annuities
uousols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£1000
£5OO 4l p
Small
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Exchequer Bonds Scrip A............
Ditto B

P
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Equador Bonds
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 97
Ditto 43 per Cent B6' 6
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent...
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2OA 20
Divldenli on the above payable in London.
Belgian Bonds 4 por Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 2,1 per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates..,..~,
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 19th July 93a 4 x d

Two FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCES—Tins DAY. This
morning about eight o'clock an accident of a frightful
and fatal character occurred to a tad named Samuel
Joseph Thorp, aged 13 years, in the service of Messrs.
Mare and Co., the extensive steam-ship builders, Or-
chard-house, Blackwall. It appears that the deceased
was employed on board an unfinished vessel, lying in
the dry dock this morning, and while in the act of
jumping from the gunwale on to a temporary platform,
for the purpose of going to breakfast, his foot slipped,
and he was precipitated a distance of thirty-five feet,
and fell upon a beam, striking his bead with
such fearful violence that several portions of the skull
were forced into the brain, which escaped from
the wound. The poor fellow was picked up by his
companions and carried to the nearest surgeon, but the
injuries he had sustained were of such a serious nature
that it was deemed advisable to canvey him in a cart to
the accident ward of the London Hospital, where Mr.
Curling and Mr. Greenwood, the house surgeons,
rendered every possible aid, but the deceased ex-
pired shortly after his admission. Another fatal
accident happened to a child, named John
Deveraux, aged three years, whose parents reside at 5,
Johnson-street, Old Gravel-lane, St. George's-in-the East;
The child was amusing himself by playing at the front
window on the first floor, and during the momentary
absence of the mother he got upon the sill, and fell head
foremost on to the pavement in the street. He was
picked up by a female and carried to the house of a sur-
geon close by, but the deceased had received a fracture
of the skull and concussion of the brain. He was taken
to the London Hospital in a cab, but died at ten o'clock
this morning from the effects of the injuries. The bodies
await inqueAt.

SUSPENSION.--.The suspension was announced yester-
day of Messrs. Davidson and Gordon, produce brokers
and metal agents. The liabilities are understood to be
large, and the assets doubtful. A petition in bank-
ruptcy has been already opened against the firm. Two
other failures were also announced, but they were not
of sufficient importance for particular notice.
ROBBERY OF COLONEL SlBTHORP.—Yesterday John
Davy Robinson, a man who had been in the service of
Colonel Sibthorp, but had been discharged, was examined
before the magistrates at Grantham, charged with
having stolen bank notes from the Colonel to the amount
of 1,1001. Several witnesses were examined, from whose
evidence it appeared that the money had been taken from
a cash-box deposited at the Angel at Grantham, the
bead quarters of the Colonel's regiment. More pro-
perty belonging to Colonel Sibthorp was found upon the
prisoner, including 13 silk handkerchiefs. The prisoner
was remanded till Monday.

ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury is to preach in Portman Chapel,
Baker-street, next Sunday morning, on behalf of the
funds of the society. Among the large family of cha-
ritable institutions which are the glory of this metro-
polis, there is not one more deserving of support than
the Royal Highland School Society. Its funds are
administered with the greatest judgment and the strictest
regard to economy ; and the amount of good it achieves
with its limited means is incredibly great.
THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAMILY AT MAN-
CHESTER. —On Thursday the woman, Cecilia Knoll,
charged with this offence, was again placed before
the magistrates at the Manchester city police-court.
Mrs. M'Donald is still in a very dangerous state,
and confined to the -bed from the effects of the
poison. Professor Calvert, to whom the matter
ejected from the stomachs of the sufferers had
been sent for analysis, was absent from Manchester,
and consequently no report from him was presented ;
but one of his assistants attended to say that so far
as the analysis had proceeded no traces of poison had
been detected. The police since Tuesday, having
made inquiries, had traced the prisoner to several drug-
gists' shops in the neighbourhood of Oxford-road, but
none of them could fix the date at which she dealt with
them, nor could they say that what they sold her was of a
poisonous nature. One of them, however, Mr. Jos. Hall,
residing in Oxford-road, said that on the Wednesday week
(the day on which Mrs. M'Donald was taken ill), he sold
a packet of Battle's vermin killer, an article which con-
tains a large quantity of strychnine, but he could not say
to whom. Superintendent Taylor said two bottles of
Gowland's extract of lead had been found in the house,
and that there was a leaden cistern containing water
for scullery purposes. Mr. Maude said the water in
the cistern should he analysed. He thought it right
to caution the prisoner in the usual form, for at pre-
sent the only evidence against her was the threat
she was said to have uttered. He was far from saying
that such a threat implied that she would commit
the crime alleged against her, but still it was a
threat of a very grave nature, and one that raised
great suspicion against her. The prisoner denied that
she had attempted to poison, and sought to lay the
blame of Mrs. M'Donald's illness on the nurse, Mrs.
Stewart, who said she had given her a spoonful of some-
thing wrong as medicine. She reiterated her charges
against her master of ill-treatment, and alleged that
her quarrels with him were on account of his overbearing
conduct. The case was again remanded until Tuesday,
to
anon till2o OS the completion of the analysis.
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