The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

able speech with which his MAJESTY the EMPEROR
yesterday opened the Session of the Senate, and of
the Corps Legislatif, at the Tuileries. In that
document, after remarking that the financial posi-
tion of France has never been better during the
last quarter of a century, his MAJESTY announces
that "the effective force of the army, already
diminished by 30,000 men during the last year,
will soon undergo a further reduction of
20,000 ! Another and substantial guarantee
of the sincerity of the pacific policy with
which the restored Empire may be said
to have been formally inaugurated ! Everything
combines, therefore, to encourage us in the hope
that the peace of the world has become of late so
strongly secured, that Christendom may witness
with increasing joy the calm development of
civilisation.

iindLerrate the advantages that may, and probably
w.i/ .1, be derived from judicious enactments on these
ETL: portant and interesting subjects. The offences
of the existing Administration are of omission
rai ;her than commission. It is not for what they
do, , but for what they leave undone, that
the ly are tb be censured. There is no doubt
till A legislation was required on each and
eve )ry one of the topics on which he has yen-
tui:ed "to screw their courage to the sticking
place," and if it be judiciously and discreetly
brought into operation, great benefit will be con-
fe-rred on the community. Before we pronounce
a decisive judgment on the new projects relating
to registration, or charitable trusts, we must see
the details and the machinery by which they are
to be carried into execution when the bills be
printed. "Security of title," facility, and cheap-
nest; of transfer are the great objects to be at-
tained. The evils arising from the present system
in Middlesex, and Yorkshire, and in Ireland, are,
however, perhaps greater than the benefit derived
therefrom. There can be no doubt that in some
respects it is beneficial ; but there are many great
objections to which it is exposed, and which, if
practicable, should be obviated. There are diffi-
culties connected with the subject, but they are
not insuperable. In every other civilised nation
real estate can be transferred much more expedi-
tiously, cheaply, and we believe me may add with
greater security than in great Britain or Ireland.
There is really no reason why a similar practice
should not be introduced in this country, and with
equally beneficial results. The chief impediment
appears to be lest some suitor, who once in a cen-
tury, might be so fortunate (1 I I) as to become
involved in a litigation of the JARNDYCE v. JARN-
DYCE class—should be deprived of the baleful in-
heritance. They " manage these matters, how-
ever, better in France." And. there is no reason
why real estate should not be transferied. as speed-
ily and securely as personal property, why
lands or houses should not be conveyed as
rapidly, economically, and safely as investments
in the Three per Cent. Consols, or in any Rail-
way or Joint Stock Company. The necessity is
that there should be a registration of " titles,"
not of " deeds ;" and we regret to say that Lord
CRANWORTH'S measure is directed to the forme;
not to the latter point, and is, therefore, more
calculated to perpetuate than to remove the
existing abuses.
At present, we shall—following the example of
Lord ST. LEoNAßDs—pass over the Charitable
Trusts Bill. Something ought to be done on the
subject, but whether the present measure will
meet the exigency, is another point, on which
we shall reserve our opinion. The con-
solidation of the statute law is, however, a
matter on which there need be no reserve.
That has long been demanded, and acknowledg-
ments are due to those by whom the boon is to
be conceded. We return thanks, on this point, to
Lord CRANWORTH, and only regret that the initia-
tive has been so long delayed, and that much time
must elapse before the new digest or codification
of the statute law can receive the legislative
sanction.

is, in fact, the interest of every journalist in re-
gard to both opinions and facts ; for him, as for
every one else, in the long run, honesty is the
best policy. From all this it results, we think,
that readers generally look upon their newspapers
sA their friend and adviser in public matters. Most
select one near their own line of thinking, and,
perhaps, accept its views with too little consideration.
Many, andthey are doubtless theleast and best class,
like to compare the views of all, and to judge for
themselves. Those who do not read the leaders
do not grudge them to those who do, and those
who do read them would most reluctantly miss
the intellectual excitement which they furnish.
We do not think the time will yet come when
Editors of newspapers will be without great power
in England. If they lose it, it will be by such
misconduct as should inflict a ruinous war on the
p.

resent generation and entail an augmented debt
on posterity. In that case the prudence which
is lampooned as cowardice, would be thought infi-
nitely better than the vituperation and bullying,
which assumes the names of courage and justice.
It must have astonished many to find the same
oracle tender over the vile slave-holding despots of
the United States, and censuring the bland expos-
tulations of Stafford-house, yet indulging in fierce
invective against Louis NAPOLEON, and claiming
the right to abuse him as it pleases.

RICHARD COBDEN is a tyrant and a coward.
Denounce him, post him before all Europe and

America, and Asia too. He thinks the leading
articles of newspapers are little read, compared
with their news itself, and he regards the former

as of far less importance than the latter. Satis-
factory enough, indeed, to the vanity of our pro-
fession is the tribute he offers to " the talent, to
the transcendent ability" with which those articles
are written, but to think them less important, or
less read than the news, is an unpardonable sin.

Hence Mr. COBDEN is kindly offered confessorial
assistance in the profoundly difficult art of self-
knowledge, and his spiritual adviser tells him that
by sober introspection, he will discover that he is
intolerant of criticism and opposition, and that he
wants "to suppress all teachers but himself."
Nor that only, but that like many other tyrants,
he has but a craven heart. " Know thyself," Mr.
COBDEN, and thou wilt see that thy contemptuous
dqfiance of Russia, and thy withering attacks on
Austrian loans for crushing Hungary and Italy,
combined with thy respectful behaviour to the
elected EMPsnon of France, prove thee a coward.
You freely censure those you fear not—you crouch
where you are afraid.
Now, there is a great deal of truth in Mr.
CoBDEN'S remark, which, moreover, he has several
times made before, and especially in the point of
view which he was taking. To a very large pro-
portion of readers the news, distinctively so called,
is, the more important, and to vast numbers far
more interesting. What numbers who look, as
soon as they open a morning paper, at the busi-
ness news which concerns them, leave the political
articles till night, and perhaps post the paper to
a country friend in the evening without reading
them at all ! How many look at the evening
papers for the market intelligence of the day, and
how many in the country prefer an evening paper,
because it gives such intelligence for one day more,
in fact, than the morning papers which arrive at

the same time ! Then the sporting world, the
tale-loving world, and the fair students of the
catalogues of marriages, births, and deaths--very
great altogether must be the number who care
more for news than for editorial comments
upon it: Besides, Mr. COBDEN was address-
.

i4g a special class, and has always made
these remarks in connection with a special
object—the newspaper readers, namely, which a
mechanics' institute could furnish, and the vast
class who now never read a paper at all, or who
resort to the beer-shop or the public-house to see
one. He is right enough in respect to this class.
They are either too young or too illiterate, or too
contracted in their notions, to care for much but
the last novelty or the gossip of the day, though
the young mechanics will of course have acquired
an interest in all the higher discoveries of Art and
Science. Mr. COBDEN also knows full well that
_

England and France are now vieing with each
other in the expression of the most pacific policy, and
of the most amicable feelings, as well as of their de-
termination to maintain, if possible, the mos tfriendly
relations between their respective Governments.
What think the raw-head-and-bloody-bones panic-
mongers after this 7 How about that fire-eating
enthusiasm which only the other day prompted to
such extraordinary indecorum a gallant officer
like General BROTHERTON ? Was Mr. COBDEN
SO very ridiculous after all in his argu-
ments about the preservation of international
tranquillity ? That honourable gentleman, ever
since the publication of his remarkable and
humane pamphlet, " 1793 and 1853," has been
subjected to all kinds of sneers, obloquies, and
vituperations. We anticipated that such would
be the case immediately the brochure made its
appearance. But while declaring such to be our
conviction, we took the earliest opportunity to
avow our no less earnest belief that the time
would inevitably come, sooner or later, when the
reasonableness of those enlightened views would be
appreciated and rendered apparent. Well—the time
has come " sooner"—at any rate it is coming, and
that with unexpected rapidity. Already the
rulers of both countries, the Administrators of
Imperial France and of Monarchical England,
have reiterated, in terms admitting of no misap-
prehension, their solicitude, in spite of all that
has been said by warlike factions, to preserve un-
broken amity oetween the] foremost races of
Christendom. Sir CHARLPS WOOD'S absurd speech
at Halifax has elicited from his Ministerial col-
leagues the most satisfactory, because explicit and
pacific, explanations. M. BILLOT'S atrocious
pamphlet has simultaneously drawn from the
Councils of the Tuilleries the most manly and
straightforward disavowal of those criminal sug-
gestions on the part of one of the avowed
organs of Legitimacy. This is *ell. It augurs
happily for the peace of Europe, for the prosperity
of England, for the stability of affairs in
France, and for the steady and progres-
sive advance of the great movement of civili-
sation. Look at the disavowal of the warlike
intentions attributed to the Imperial Government
by the self-sufficient and blustering author of the
" Lettres Franques " the disavowal already
alluded to, the disavowal attributed to the
hand of NAPOLEON 111., but at any rate
appearing in his official journal, the Moni-
teur. Nothing could be more out-
spoken. It says—" The EMPEROR, like France,
wishes earnestly for peace (vent la paix), a fruit-
ful and honourable peace, the repose which is
suited to the nation ; and it certainly is not from
the old parties that the heir of NAPOLEON the
Great will ask counsel in any matter of honour or
of national dignity." Clear enough that, we take
it, and in all respects sufficiently significant.
Then turn to the companion revelations—the state-
ments made yesterday in both Houses of our Im-
perial Legislature as to the foreign. policy (so far as
concerns France) cherished at this juncture by the
English Government. The intemperate and un-
statesmanlike language used the other day on the
hustings at Halifax, by the Right Hon. ilaronet
the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of CONTROL, when
addressing his constituents, has been so. far pro-
ductive of good. that it has led to those now un-
mistakeable explanations. That language, how-
ever, may now, we rejoice to say, be altogether
forgotten—forgotten, as of no sort of value or
importance whatsoever. For it has been signally
expiated—Sir CHARLES WOOD having fairly
gown down on his knees, and confessed his peni-
tence. " Nothing," said the Right Hon. Baronet
in the letter read to the House of Commons, in
his absence, last evening, by Lord JOHN RussELL,
—" Nothing could be further from my intention
than to use any words which could be considered
as offensive to the EMPEROR, and I regret that
any expressions should have fallen from me on
that occasion on which such an interpretation
could have been placed." Simultaneously, as
it were, in both Houses, the same pacific
assurances were uttered by the two pro-
minent leaders of the present Coalition Ca-
binet—namely, in the Lords by the Prime
Minister de jure, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and in the
Commons by the Prime Minister de facto, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. The former said yesterday to
the House of Peers most distinctly, in answer to
the question put to him in his official capacity by
the
Marquis of CLANRICARDP—" I am happy to
assure the Noble Marquis that the best possible
understanding continues unbroken between the
two countries of France and England, nor is-
that appears the least likely
there anything
to endanger or diminish the cordiality of that
understanding." The Leader of the Commons
went, if possible, still farther in the utterance of
a like declaration : " The relations," said he,
" between the two countries are, I am happy to
say, of the most friendly nature : and with re-
spect to European affairs generally, the best pos-
sible understanding subsists between the two Go-
vernments." Scarcely have these assurances
fallen from, the lips of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and of
the Earl of ABERDEEN, when there is received in
this country by means of the Submarine Electric
Telegraph a report of the memorable and remark-

the members of almost glen. our Governments, ex
of the last one, and
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object to the ' admission lie
knowso, that mechanics' insti-
tutestheir walls ; hence he was ledof politics within
strong-
est light he could the little to. put in the
and Committees, mischief (as Cabinets
not Mr. COBDEN,
the • •
political articles in the , deem it) which
The newspapers would
young mechanics do.
would assuredly
for the news. care chiefly
So would the
bump-
kins, who would country
read his
that is the plain penny sheets ; and
account of the
very whole affair. A
harmless affair
never have been noticed indeed,
at all, w ch would
COBDEN censured the belligerents,had not Mr.
or at
least war-
provoking language of some magnates
Now, as of the press.
to the cowardice of Mr. ~ n OBDEN. The
appropriate
answer to a Russo-phobia to show
that Russia was powerless to injure w England ; the
same thing was not true of France. The appro-
priatean
warning to speculators in
Austrian Loan
was that Austria was bankrupt,
the price of the blood and the money
of freedom.
re-
gard to France, But, in
ce, with a powerful navy a few hours'.
sail from us, and an immense army b • besides—it is
not appropriate to say that she is not an object of
fear, but that she is so if
you
We grant that it would be consummate quarrel with her.
nsummate folly of
Louis NAPOLEON to inflict upon
France as well as
upon us the miseries of a war because of the as-
sumptions of newspaper
Editors ; still, if, as a
certain journal asserts, that • journal (and others
too, we presume,) reflects faithfully the general
opinions of Englishmen, and if those opini • • ons
are excessively provoking to Frenchmen,
nay,
if they only are provoking to the
man who,
according to the same journal, has centred in his
own hands the whole of that physical force which
could half ruin our trade and commerce—if this
be the case, surely, should war arise, such jour-
nals would be chiefly answerable for all its cala-
mities. By their own confession, a war mi •
ght be
the best security for the power of the man whom
they describe as the despot of France. To pro-
voke him to it, then, is to forge, as far as in them
lies, yet stronger fetters for the land they profess
to mourn over. It seems, however, we are to
spend millions more to raise an army and navy,
safe under whose protection we may have the en-
joyment of lecturing France and its Emperor at
pleasure. Millions more of taxes we are to pay
that the tongues of Cabinet Ministers, and the
pens of journalists, may indulge in vituperation of
cur next door neighbour, and theiroEmperor.
Should "leading articles," though of "transcendent
talent," lead to any such results as these, either
war itself, or war taxation in peace, we fancy
they would become as odious to their present
readers and admirers as they are now unin-
teresting to the illiterate and the mere hun-
ters for novelty. Write common sense, in
Mr. COBDEN'S case, for cowardice, and it
would about hit the mark ; and as to the great
Free-trader's impatience of all teaching but his
own, whether we agree with him or differ from
him, we can hardly deny him the credit of being
one of the best tempered of disputants, and if
occasionally he evinces a rather overweening con-
ceit of his own opinions, there are not wanting
writers widely famed intereststyle oracu/ar.
As to the general and influence of the
leading articles in English newspapers we have
Partly stated our opinion ; w© may add, however,
that from a pretty extensive observation and le
of
ong
experience, we are persuaded that they
axe
great interest to all the best portion of newspaper
readers, and that their influence is very
consider-
able with the minds' which influence the e
most
non-
reading circle. The news certainly
is th
important, since with that none coUld dispense ;
but the use which Editors of all opinions make
of it greatly enhances the value of a paper.
have time to wade
Not to mention that few
all which an intelligent editor
through
its essence, with appropriate
presents in
hints on its value, its truth, or incorrectness ; on
all debateable points the various journals are
obviously counsel on each side, and, like barristers,
each
they can and do select all the best points on
side, and leave it for the great jury of the nation
to give the verdict. On many other subjects,
moreover, they give not merely their
art honest a
udges
dvo-
cacy, but the decisions of entirely imfor the prepoe..
pial j ;
indeed, -with reasonable allowance
sessions and party bias, from which none of us
are free, we believe the general object of the Press
is to deliver those judgments and to advocate those
opinions which will stand the test of trial. Truth

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15,1 1853.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLock.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 bales, all to the
trade. The market closed heavily, with but little
alteration in prices, except American, at sid.,
which were 1-16 d. lower. The sales comprised
200 Pernam and Maranham, 200 Bahia, 500
Egyptian, 300 Surat, and 70 Sea Islands. Railway
Shares were dull at rather lower prices.
The following report upon the indigo sales is by
Messrs. H. W. Jewesbury and Co. •
"Catalogue B, consisting of goods in second hands,
was commenced to-day ; prices ruled more even than is
usually the case in this catalogue, The previous rate
of advance was fully maintained. 1,311 chests have
passed to-day, of which 122 were withdrawn, 530
bought in, and 660 sold. Catalogue A will be resumed
to-morrow, and the remainder of catalogue B, on Mon-
day next, should the sale not be concluded before."
The notice given from the office of her Majesty's
Paymaster-General, for a reduction from lid. to
ld. per centum per diem in the interest on Exche-
quer Bills, rather took the Stock Exchange by sur-
prise. There can be no doubt that the measure is
a judicious one, and that if the floating debt bears
a high premium, the country ought to have the
benefit in a reduction of the interest. The mea-
sure, no doubt, has been taken after consultation
with the Bank of England directors, and on that
account also will have a good effect.

The English Stock Market is rallying, and the
quotations are higher. The reduction in the rate
of interest on Exchequer Bills has had an effect
upon values generally. Consols have been 99i to
for Transfer, and 99i for Account. Nothing
has been done in Exchequer Bills bearing the pre-
sent rate of 14d., but at the opening of the market
there was considerable bustle, and, apparently to
produce an effect, offers were made to sell
the new Bills as low as 2s. premium, but
since there are many buyers at 10s. to 20s.
premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 1031 to and the Three per Cents. 1001
to I. Bank Stock has been worth 2271 to 228,
an India Stock after being 269 to 266.

The Foreign Securities have been very dull.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been marked 38
to Mexican stock is at 23k, and Peruvian Six
per Cents. are at 23k. Grenada Deferred have
been ilk to 11, and the Equador Bonds are at 51.
Austrian stock has been in demand at 97i to 98i.
Sardinian is 94k.

There appears, notwithstanding yesterday's ru-
mour, to be really a confirmation of Colonel Fre-
mont's mineral as well as soil rights to the ten
leagues in the Mariposa district, and it is strange
under such circumstances that the Californian
papers should in one or two instances assert directly
the contrary.
The Gold Mine Shares hare been firm, but with-
out much doing in them.
The South Australian Land Shares have further
advanced.
The Australian Bank Shares are also looking up.
In Railway Shares there is less firmness. The
York and North Midland have fallen 1/. to 1/. 10s.;
the Midland fto ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire
to ; and the South Eastern, and one or two
others are likewise flatter. The French Shares are
very firm, and there is a rise in Strasbourg of 4 ;
Northern to ; and Havre 4.
The railway meetings announced are the fol..
lowing
Company.
Blackburn ..

Date. Place.
. Feb. 28, Blackburn.

Bristol and Exeter Feb. 24, Bristol.

Buckinghamshire
City of Toronto & L. Huron Feb. 24, 13, St. Helen's-pl.
Colchester, Stour Valley, &c. Feb. 16, Colchester.
Cork and Waterford
Cornwall Feb. 26, Truro
Direct London & Portsmouth Feb. 25, London Tavern.
Dublin and Belfast Junction Feb. 16, Dublin.
Dublin and Drogheda Feb. 25, Dublin.
Dublin and Wicklow Feb. 16, Dublin.
Dundalk and Enniskillen Feb. 22, Dundalk.
East and West India Docks
and Birmingham Junction Feb. 19, Euston Station.
East Anglian Feb. 26, London Tavern.
East Lincolnshire Feb. 25, King's-cross.
Eastern Counties Feb. 25, London Tavern.
East Indian Feb. 18, 50, Old Broad-st.
Eastern -Union Feb. 25, Radley's Hotel.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Mar. 1, Glasgow.
Gloucester and Dean Forest Feb. 19, Gloucester.
Great Northern Feb. 26, Albion Tavern.
Great Sn. & Wn. (Ireland) Mar. 4, Dublin.
Great Western Feb. 17, Paddington.
Kilk. & Great S. & W. Irel Feb. 22, Dublin.
Lancaster and Carlisle Mar. 4, Liverpool.
Liverp., Crosby, & Southp. Feb. 15, Liverpool.
Llynvi Valley Feb. 24, Bristol.
London and Blackwall Feb. 15, London Tavern.
London and North-Western Feb. 18, Euston Station.
London and South-Western Feb. 16, London Tavern.
Madras Feb. 15, Office.
Manchester, Sheff., & Lin. Feb. 23, Manchester.
Midland
Mid. Gt. Western Ireland Mar. 4, Dublin.
Newmarket Feb. 26, London Tavern.
Newp., Aber., & llereford Feb. 23, London Tavern.
Northern and Easternl Feb. 17, Office.
North Devon Feb. 21, London Tavern.
North & South-West. Junc. Feb. 21, 15 Parliament-st.
Oxf. Worc. & Wolverhampt. Feb. 23, London Tavern.
Royston and Hitchin Feb. 28, 15A.,St.Helen's-pl.
Sambre and Meuse Feb. 17, Office.
Ditto ditto
Sheff., Rotherham, 8., W.,
H., and Goole Feb. 18, Wakefield.
South Wales Feb. 25, Paddington.
South Yorkshire Feb. 25, Sheffield.
St. Andrew's and Quebec
(Class A.) Feb. 24, 26, Parliament-st.
Taff Vale Feb. 16, Bristol.
Thames Haven Feb. 26, London Tavern.
Vale of Neath Feb. 19, Cardiff.
Waterford and Limerick Feb. 25, Waterford.
West Cornwall Feb. 28, Penzance.
Western of France Feb. 25, Paris.
Wharfdale
Whitehaven & Furness June Feb. 26, Guildhall-chamb.
York, Newcastle, & Berwick Feb. 18, York.
York & North Midland Feb. 23, York.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(Front the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities iool g
3 per Cert. Consols Annuities
New 34 per Cent. Annuities lO3
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6i
•
India Stock
South Sea Old Annuities 99i
Consols for Account 10th March 99i

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent 9Bl 7i
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto Small
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lO2
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Deferred,
1
Mexican 3 per Cent ....... ......... ............
Peruvian 6 per Cent.
_ _ _ _

Portuguese 4 per Cent. 3BA 8 x d
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... ..... .. 94;
panish Bonds, 3 per Cent . ............. 47;
Spanish Passive (Converted) sa
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto March Account 991 t

DEATHS BY COLD ON DARTMOOR. - Corporal John
Panton and privates George Driver and John Carlin,
belonging to No. 7 (Captain Brown's) Company, 7th
Regiment .Royal Fusiliers, stationed at the Dartmoor-
prison, Princetown, unfortunately lost their lives in the
snow on Dartmoor, on Saturday night. The two pri-
vates, who only left the Royal Military Hospital last
week, marched from the head-quarters, St. George's-
square, early on Saturday morning, under charge of
Corporal Ramsden, who conducted them seven miles, to
the village of Jump, where they were received by Panton,
who took them four miles further, to the Doursland-
barn Inn. Snow having fallen all day, the landlord
advised them not to proceed, but the corporal said they
must obey orders, and the three marched on. It is sur-
mised, from the positions in which their hats and knap-
sacks were scattered, that they passed through the first
snowdrift on the margin of the moor, a mile and half
from the inn, and reached the Devil's-bridge, a mile and
a half further. There they could not proceed, and re-
traced their steps to the first drift, which by that time
had become impassable, and here they unhappily
perished. John Smith, of No. 3 Company, who re-
turned to Devonport on Saturday, states that he and
Panton were four hours in the morning coming from
Doursland-barn (five miles), being at times up to their
arms in snow, which was in some parts eight feet deep.
He endeavoured to dissuade Panton from returning the
same evening. The bodies of Driver and Carlin were
found.

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to support this were some words dropped by him to a
policeman, who got into his company in disguise, and
the prisoner was discharged. There is now little expec-
tation of apprehending Jennings. Some of the local
police and London detectives have been watching the
haunts in which he was supposed to be concealed in the
metropolis, and an officer has been kept on board a
vessel at Liverpool 111 which it was thought, he might
attempt to escape, but 'without success,