The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-30 00:00:00

Herald, is, however, the only sort of argument by which
lay Lords and spiritual Lords arc encouraged to continue
a system which plunders and starves the poor.

The Earl of DURHAM has commenced his high official
career in the Canadas, with the promulgation of a Procla-
mation, and a letter to the Secretary of the Executive
Council, copies of which rill be found in another p trt o:
The Sun. With the purport of both documents we arc
extremely well pleased. The Noble Earl betrays none cf
Sir GEORGE Aanrun's suspicion concerning the applic
tion of the phrase " Reformers," even in colonies recently
in a state of open rebellion. On the contrary, his Lord-
ship invites the Reformers as such, and without any disguise,
openly to approach him with their counsels and remoa-
strances ; and knowing that a number of bitter grievances
must have served for a foundation for the late treasonable
attempt to cast off the dominion of the Mother Country,
he proposes their redress as among the objects to which his
earnest efforts shall be constantly directed. In dispcn ing
with the further services of the Executive Council his
Lordship states, with equal explicitness and truth, that it
is necessary for the interests of all, that his administrative
conduct should be free from all suspicions of political in-
fluence, or party feeling, and should rest wholly on his
own undivided responsibility. And for asmuch as the ne-
cessary abstraction from all party feeling cannot be expected
from any who have been participators in the struggle on
one side or the other, he prefers standing alone. This is
precisely the way to inspire the Canadians with confidence
in his Lordship's impartiality. It will be observed that in
the Proclamation, the Noble Earl does not so much as
employ the word "rebellion," in referring to the late insur-
rection in the Canadas. Unlike Sir GEORGE ARTHUR,
his Lordship knows how to treat with generous forbearance
a misled but repentant people. We begin to have every
confidence in the success of a mission so auspiciously corn
mcnced.

The Duke of RUTLAND last night presented a petition
from the Guardians of a Union in Nottinghamshire, praying
that certain alterations might be made in some of the details
of the Poor Law ♦mendment Act, but disciaiminz all in-
tention of objecting to the principle of that Act. The
Noble Duke holds a high rank among the Tories, and is
accounted one of the most determined opponents of the
MELBOURNE Administration. He cannot, however, like
the philosophical Lord STANHOPE or the pious Lord
WINCHILSEA "go the whole hog" in opposition. Jus-
tice and truth have not been quite banished from his mind
by party feelings. When the evidence is so strong in
favour of the beneficial working of a great measure—though
a Whig one—that it meets a man at every turn, the Duke
of RUTLAND will not shut his eyes or his ears to it. Stiil
less will he condescend to become the base instrument of a
party in misrepresenting and vilifying such a measure.
In presenting the petition referred to, he bore testimony
to the benefits which bad resulted from the New Poor-law
in the part of the country with which he is connected.
But he did not satisfy himself with this statement of
his own experience ; he also read extracts from returns in
his possession, which showed that under the operation of
this un-English law, as some shallow party scribblers de-
signate it, the comforts of the poor have been enlarged, and
wages not lowered ; while pauper marriages had been
diminished, without any increase in cases of illegitimacy.
The law which produces such effects as these must be un-
English indeed!

The whole of the Paris Journals of Thursday have been
received, but ti-,2ir contents are of no political interest.
A report of the state of Savings' Banks in the several De-
partments of France, exclusive of the Seine, which is not
yet completed, has been presented to the KING by the Ali
nister of Public Works, and the substance of it published
in the Moniteur of Thursday. Within the last year there
has been an increase of thirty-nine new banks, and of more
than twenty millions of francs in the whole amount of de-
posits. This, as we intimated above, is exclusive of any
increase in the capital where the progress of savings' banks
have frequently within the last year attracted the notice of
the Chambers.

We find it stated in one of these Journals, that the
French Government has ordered the squadron on the
Coast of South America, to blockade the port of Valpa-
raiso, to punish some insult offered to France by the
Chihli Republic. Tho blockade of Mexico and Beunos
Ayres is continued, and it is confidently asserted that
unless the claims of France ho conceded, another revolu-
tion, not unaccompanied with the massacre of several of
the principal authorities, will be the inevitable consequence.
Annexed are extracts from the Journals :
Our private letters from Madrid, dated the 20th, announce that
Patellos had captured in the •icinity of Ocana an immense convoy,
escorted by some of the Christino troops.—Gazette de France.
Several journals have stated that great changes arc going to be made
in the Judicial administration of our Colonies, and that a commissicn
had been appointed for this purpose. There is no foundation for the
news.-31oniteur.

VIENNA, JUNE l7.—The programme of the ceremonies of the Co-
ronation of his Majesty, the Emperor at Milan, gives occasion to fre-
quent deliberations. If it has been necessary to change the form of the
oath to be taken by the Emperor, in order to make it suitable
to the sectors! political situatio❑ of Italy, the ceremony itself
consists of great difficulties, because no King of Italy has been
crowned since Charles the Fifth, and the Coronation of Napoleon
could not be adopted as a basis. We learn that the two Bishops of the
Eastern Kingdom will place the Crown on the head of the Emperor.
The German, Hungarian, and Italian Guards will do duty alternately,
and will act altogether only on particular occasions—for instance, on
the Emperor's entry into Milan. The deputations of 70 or 80 Munici-
polities of Italy, each composed i f three Deputies Heralds in the ancient
Italian costume, will form a magnificent sight.
Letters from Milan assure us that it has been resolved to spare no ex.
pense, in order to render the ceremony as btilliant as possible.

ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 6.—lt is affirmed that the French and English
Consuls informed thePacha that he might refrain from sending his fleets to
sea this year. Accordingly he has given orders for three ships of the line
and some frigates which had been at sea for some days, to return to port.
Letters from Ileyrout say that at present everything wears a pacific ap-
pearance. The English stcam-boat is to set out from this town to-
morrow ; on its return We shall be better informed respecting the state of
affairs on the frontiers of Turkey.—Le Commerce.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the I:2th inst. mentions the sudden
death of Constantine Rudofimkine, Minister for Foreign Affairs during
the absence of Count ticsselrode. A superior officer of the Guards had
been sent with the news of his death to the Emperor. Some suspicion
seems to have been entertaieed that his death was not the effect of
natural causes. _ .

Letters from Malaga, mention that an infamous but unsuccessful at-
tempt on the life of Generil Palarea had been made by means of a pre-
ended dispatch containing fulminating posvdtr.
FRENCH FUNDS. —Pants, Juala 23.
rive per Cents., Mt Cite. 50c. 45c.
Three iter Cents., 80f sc. 15c. 10e.
Bank Actions, '2,650f. 2,120 f.
dente de Naples, I,Bf. 6('c.65c.
Roman Five per Cents.,
Spanish Actives, 22%.
Belgian Loan, 103.
Belgian Bank, 1,1.10 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. '24.
Haytia.i Lw.n„ 350 f.
HiensNon rut totototo
Ore month. paper, 25f. 474,.c.; money, 251.45 e
Three months, paper, 2,1. 32 r. ; money,
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. IVY. 45c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 15c.
Dank Actions, 2,620 f.
Homan:' 101%.
Belgian Loan, 103.
Belgian Bank, 1,410 f.
Portugue,c Three per Cents., 21.
Spanish Actives, '22!4
ti:ltian Loan, 351.11.
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WINSEN ON TOE LAKE, JUNE 9.2.—Yesterday we had the pleasure to
be favoured with the presence of our Sovereign. From the old town of
Bardowick, on the frontier of the district, where his Majesty was re-
ceived with o'eat festivity, his passage resembled a triumph. After
being welcomed at Willie'', whirls was decorated as for a festival, by
the Bailiff, M. Meyi r, the local authorities, and the clergy, amidst the
acclamations of the people, who had collected from the country far and
nest*, his Majesty went on the Elbe Dike to Hoople, where he alighted
from his carriage, and proceeded on toot to examine the Dike, which
was so damaged by the breaking op of the ice. At the place where the
great breach was made, which it now nearly repaired by means of the
aid so munificently graired by the King, his Majesty was received
with the joyful acclamations of the inhabitants of Newiands, who
honour him as their greatest benefactor. A deputation of the farmers,
who in the name of the whole district expressed their gratitude to his
Majesty for the generous support given them, and their gratification at
his honouring them with a visit—his Majesty answered to the follow-
ing effect only object was to promote the happiness of hie sub-
jects. He wished his subjects to confide in their King, who sincerely,
and without any secondary views, sought only their happiness, and not
listen to the insinuations of ill-disposed persons, whose efforts, actuated
by self-interest, tended only to rnisrepiesent and to calumniate his
Majesty's ptirrees. M. Meyer the Bailiff(Landroit) then said that the
Royal favour, which had hem so effectually exerted in this instance, was
gratefully acknowledged by the whole p• °Once. and which wou'd eon.
Untie to desire its lent established regulations for inviolable attachment
to its hereditary powers.

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Ilis Majec•y made the moat minute inquiries respecting the disaster,
and, forowel by the blessings of the inhabitants, left 11,5 to prozecti to
Hamburg and 3tatte.—llanover Gazette, June 25.

Th.; Prince de Lucca, the Countess of Syracuse,
Prince John of Saxony, and many other Italian and foreign personages
of the highest distinction, are assembled at Florence. On the 12th
instant Prince Charles Poniatowski gave an amateur represcntatioa of
i]onizetti'a opera, " L'Etisir d'Amore," in which Princess Eliza Ponia_
towski perfurrned the pait of Adios, and excited the enthusiastic admi-
ration of her hearers, while the Prince her husband I roduced an almost
equal effect in the part of Dulcamara. The evening concluded with a
splendid ball.

The Diario di Roma states that Cunt
who, although born in England has proved that he Is lir eally descended
from the ancient Tuscan family of that name, which was supposed to be
extinct, has received legal confirmation of his title from the Giand Diike
of Tuscany. It appears from the genealogical archives of the Tuscan
nobility, deposited in the Magliabechiana library in Florence, published
by Maria Mecatti, 1754, that the title of Count was granted to this
trious family by the Emperor Conrad, in. 1015.