The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-31 00:00:00

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Feb. 183 S 96,000
Mar. 1838 lll,OOO

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Mar. 1838
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Jan. 1838 90,000
Feb. 1833 72,000
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Jan. 1838 39,000
Feb. 1838 3,2,000
Mar. 1838

136,000

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3, St. James's-square, May 31, 1838.
Published this day.
COLONEL MACERONPS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
In 2 vois. demy Bvo., with Portrait.
MEMOIRS of the LIFE and ADVENTURES
of COLONEL FRANCIS MACERONI,
Late Aide-de-Camp to Joachim Murat, King of Naples, Knight
of the Legion of Honour and of St. George of the fwo.
Ex-General of Brigade in the service of the Republic of Colum-
bia, &c.

John Maerone, St. James-square.

The deep interest which we take in the success of
the National Loan Fund and Life Assurance Society, from
a conviction that no institution was ever established so well
calculated to improve the moral and physical condition of
the middling and lower classes, will be readily inferred
from the space which we this day devote to the report of a
public meeting, convened at Reading on the 15th instant,
for the laudable purpose of inquiring into its efficiency. The
MAYOR presided ; and to the great credit of the clergy-
men of Reading and its vicinity several of them at-
tended the meeting, and expressed themselves most anxious
to forw.ard the views of the Society, the instant they had

satisfied themselves of its perfect adaptation to the wants and

interests of persons in an humble sphere of The speech
of the Rev. Mr. HOIME breathes throughout a spirit of
the most enlarged Christian benevolence. It embraces the
whole moral view of the question ; and to the Christian
and the philantrophist what view can be more inviting? He
well pointed out the bad fet.ling engendered among the
members of Benefit Clubs, in consequence of the jealousy
ith which they regard the claims- of sickness upon their
funds : and admirably contrasted with it the ennobling sense
of independence and self-respect originating in the ability
of the artizan or labourer to have recourse in his distresses
to a fund exclusively his own. " This Society," said. the
Rev. Gentleman, " raises the character of the insurer in his
nwn estimation, and in the estimation of others—a spirit
of independence springs up in his mind—he is a man
who has a stake in the country—who has a character

to lose—and thus it becomes a powerful principle re

straining him from vice. .By the exercise of a trifling
self-denial he secures a future reward, and restores,
in his own person, that spirit of independence, the
absence of which among the poor has been the Inne
of this country. The Society will promote, too, domestic
happiness and contentment. The wife can no longer re-
proach the husband with making no provision for herself '
and her children ; and the husband, instead of being reck-
less in his habits, will become careful, saving, and con-
tentedly dispose], ant his attachment to his wife and

family will be proportionately strengthened." No boon can
be conferred on society equal to a re3toration of a proud,
self-confiding sense of independLnce, and self-respect, among
the labouring classes. The man who has proper self-respect,
no matter how lowly his p-,sition i❑ the social scale, is capa-
ble of every virtue—the Lcing wl:o has lost it is a tool fit
for the perpetration oF any vice. Only bring this noble feeling

into practical operation—let it diffuse its ennobling influ-
ence among the poorer classes—and we shall hear no more
about Poor Law abuses. The humblest cottager will
close his eyes in death under the roof that sheltered him in
the prime of life, surrounded by his fiends and family, in-
stead of experiencing that desolation of heart which
all must feel who .Tee in the parish workhouse
the only prospect of a road to the grave. Mr. I-huMP-

TON, who preceded the Rev. Mr. HtJLME, in addressinc,,,
the meeting—and whose speech, regarded as an elu illation
of the principles of the Loan Fund Association, has never
been surpassed—dwelt upon this vie.v of the question with
equal force, judgment, fee:ing, and truth. Ws select one
extract, the substance of which ought to be en arson upon
the heart of the Legislature, as well as upon that of
every man and woman doomed to toil for their living
throughout the British Empire :
" I call upon you to co.optr:te with us in carrying out the principles
of this Society, which will give to the la:Auring man the certainty of
that independence—that full return of Ids industry in his old age which
he has every c'aim to, but which he has never yet bern able to secure
to himself. It has been ti nly said, that the vices of tie poor are the
punishment of the rich.' If the farmer or lan&d proprietor has his
ricks turned, his barns fired, does it not behove him to remove the
Cause of such evils? And what are the causes but ignorance, and the
want of the power of productiveness? Who is the rick_burner, the
poacher, theincendiary, and the va;abond ? The man who has reccivtd

no instr: xtion—who possesses no stake in the country—who having no-
thirg to lose, cars not for the losse3 of others-14'110 wanting bread and

the very means of existence, commits that act which renders the
food he wants more difficult of acquisition. On the other hand, the in-
dustrious well-disposed labourer is a blessing to his employer ; he im-
proves the value of 1:13 land—he increases his wealth—and therefore
Fe;f.interest even, if not gratitude, should point out that his industry
ought in his old age to be made available to himself, as it was to his
master in his youth and in the vigour of his manhood. ' The happi-
ness of our fellow_creatures is incorporated with our own; in doing good
to others we serve ourselves.' Let us carry out to its fullest extent this
principle, if I may so term it, of noble selfishness, and soon, very soon,
crime will uo longer walk abroad, and by reacting upon those placed by
for tune out of the reach of temptation, punish them for their neglect.
We do not sufficiently consider the obligations we owe the producer, the
operative, and the tiller of the soil, upon whom our very exis'ence
depends, and who, to procure us the blessings we enjoy,
are exposed
to many dangers and to much physical suffering; the clothes we wear,
the fuel that warms us, every comfort and luxury of life, are ours
through great dettrioration of health and risk of life; not a trade
but has its peculiar disease, its own risk of decrepitude, suffering,
and death ; and is it not hard that after such a life a man's old age
should end in a workhouse—that his earnings, the produce of the
sweat of his brow, should be fretted away for want of the fullest
means of accumulation ? No! if such has been the case, let it be so
no longer—unite with us, enable each man, the very poorest, to ac-
quire a stake in the country—to provide, by the industry of his
youth, for the independence of his old age ; and I think you will
agree with me when I say that that moral good, that moral revolu.
tion, will be effected in this conntry with the further aid of education
and religion, which railroads,in another sense, are now producing in
the land."

An appeal so just and so necessary cannot be addressed
in vain to the good sense of the British people. Already
have our own efforts, in behalf of the views of the National
Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, met with a suc-
cess which has completely satisfied us, that all that is want-
ing to the triumphant establishment of an institution so ob-
viously beneficial to all classes, is public attention. To
awaken such attention more generally, we have been in-
duced to re-publish, in another part of The Sun, an article
which appeared in this journal of the 9th inst., and which
at the time attracted a degree of attention wholly attribu-
table to the importance of the subject. It may have
escaped the notice of some of our readers, and such, if they
belong to the middling or lower classes, will thank us for
now directing their attention to it.

It is satisfa,;tory to learn from the City, that the detate
in the House of Coay.ms, on Tuesday evening., had

favourable effect on the Funds. Consols advanced 1- per
cent., which seldom occurs unless some information of mo-
ment transpires. So ready are men to hope for good, that the
mere promise of a cessation of party warfare by our leading
statesmen, for little else was promised, immediately makes
them believe that a multitude of benefits will be realised. II
statesmen only weighed well the immense advantages which
even their abstaining from party quarrels conferred on the
community, to say nothing of any positive benefits
they might possibly bestow it uuitsd to do good
—they would Surely, out of regard to their
own interest and reputation, be somewhat more patriotic,
and less selfish than at present. We are willing to
believe that the debate of Tuesday evening is the harbing,l
of a great improvement in their conduct, which may tend to
gain for them public esteem and approbatiornin which they are
now greatly deficient. They have, however, rather up-hill
work of it, and they may be assured that tke utmost cau-
tion, and the utmost vigilance to guard against their beset-
ting sin of faction, and the utmost attention to the public
welfare exclusively, will be necessary to gain and preserve
the public confidence.

Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the debate on Tuesday everieg,
gave it as his opinion that the Clergy of Ireland should not
vest the money in land into which,on the scheme of mlemp-
tion, the tithes are to be converted ; and he stated at consi-
derable length his reasons for not wishing the Church to he a
great landowner. 1-1, also stated that tic preferred the stocks
to land as the more profitable, and perhaps as the safer in-
vestment for the income of the Church. This marks a
wonderful change both in society and opinion. Land,
according to Sir ROBERT PEEL, is neither so profitable
nor so secure as the public funds. The public funds are.
altogether the creatures of law ; they exist by Act of Par-
merit, and Sir ROBERT PEEL would actually place the
Clergy
,wholly at the mercy of the Legislature. His pro-
position is directly at variance with the general opinion,
which goes to assign land, or income derived froM
land, as the only safe and ceit lin income, increasing as
society advances, for the support of the Church. How
the Clergy of the Church of England will like this new
doctrine of their great political chief, we arc not aware ;
but as a step to placing the Church completely in the
power of the House of Comm rns, coming from him, it much
astonished us. We cannot help thinking that this opinion
has been forced en Sir RoDEnT, by the insecurity which would
belong to landed property in the hands of the Protestant
clergy in Ireland. In the course of the debate, he remarked
that the hostility to tithes there had made rent insecure•
But is it not likely that the same hostility will continue,
and may it not operate on the House of Commons through
Irish Members, after the property of the clergy shall be
invested in the funds? We believe it would, as it would be
equally deserved; and moreover we believe that this hostility,
and the just desire of the public to get hold of the pro-
perty which is now appropriated to the clergy of one sect,
would pursue it to the funds, the security of which might
be endangered, as the security of rent is endangered in
Ireland, by giving a large portion of them to the priest-
hood of a small minority of the people. Let the fund-
holders beware of the project.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN has given notice that it is his
intention to move the f)liowing amendinent, when the
House of Commons goes into Committee on the Copyright
Bill :

I. That the further term shall belong to the author
and his representatives, where he has not parted with his
copyright.
0. That the further term shall belong to the assignee,
where the assignment was wholly or partially for natural
love and affection.
3. That the further term shall belong equally to the
author and his representatives, and the assianee and
representatives, where the aßs;gnment was wholly for a
money consideration.

4. That where the assignee of the copyright is also
assignee of plate;, which were the principal object of the
work, as in the instance of " Lodge's Portraits," the fur-
ther term shall belong- to the assignee.
5. To reduce the term from GO to 40 years.
The first. of these amendments seems to call fur no other
comment than that it is a mere superfluity, the Bill
having already virtually embodied it in the 4th clause.
The alteration proposed in the second of the Learned
Gentleman's amendments, is not founded on any principle

either of equity or common sense. It takes for granted

that because an author has " for natural love and affection"
given up the copyright which he possessed for 28 years,
therefore he would have given it up if his term of possession
had been sixty years. This appears to us a perfeztly un-
warranted infereiice. It is surely to be presumed that the
author, in such a case', knew what he was about ; was able
to appreciate, in some measure, the value of his gift ; and
did not intend to give more than his assignment actually
expressed. We put it to Sir EDWARD SUGDEN whether,
if he were called- upon as a Judge in Equity to decide on

the construction of a will in which an author bad left to a
legatee bis copyright in a certain work, he would not give
it as his opinion that ths testator's intention was to bequeath
the copyright for the term fixed by the law as it existed in
his lifetime, and not for any further term that might be
granted by future Acts of the Legislature.
The third amendment prryoses to divide the advantages
of the further term between the author and the publisher,
or their representatives, where the copyright has been sold.
This would be a manifest injustice to the author. What
right or title has the publisher to tile author's work after
the term for which he purchased it has expired ? Were
the law to remain as it is, ha would then have no more in-
terest in it than any one individual out of tke millions that
constitute the aggregate of the human race. It would Men
ha the right of any of those numerous individuals to pub-
lish it, if such should be hi; pleasura ; and, therefore, to
give to the pubiiiher the half of the value of the copy-
right for the enlarged term, under the plea of compensat-
ing hint for any peculiar loss that he will sustain, is a
subterfuge ef the very shallowest description—mere fudge,
that canr,ot bear a moment's examination.

The fourth amendment, ho;:ever, goes even further than

thi, inasmuch as it proposes to surrender to the pub-
lisher the whole of the author's right in such works
as consist partly of plate; and partly of letter-press, and in
which the plates were the " principal object of the work."
Now, to say nothing of the sweeping injastice of such an
er.ectment, how is it possible, in almost any instance, to
decide whether the letter-press or the pictorial embellish-
ments are the " principal " object of the work ? To at-
tempt to establish a standard by which to determine the
cndhssly varying degrees of relationship between these mu-
tually necessary elements of bookmaking- would be absurd,
and to introduce into the Bill a clause so vaguely expressed
as this, would be nearly the same tiling as to enact that
there should be a laws.ait in every such case. The
class of eases intended to come under the ope-
ration of this amendment differs in nothing. from
those in which, by additions made to the briginal work by
the publisher, part will Lelong to him and part to the au-
thor at the expiry of the existing term. In all such
cases, the best way is to leave the rarties to settle the
matter between themselves. They will soon discover that
it is their interest to settle it on equitable terms. At au
events, the utmost to which the law should interfere between
them should be to ordain a suLmission of the disputed
pcints to arbitration. .

As to the last of the Learned Gentleman's amendments,
we trust it %sill not for a moment be entertained. perpe-
tuity of copyright is the undoubted right of the author. The
Bill, in extending the existing legal term to sixty years
from the time of the author's death, deals out to
him but a small portion of justice ; but Sir ED-
WARD SuoDEN would pare dawn that portion to
still more minute dimensions. For this no good reason
can possibly be assigned, and we have not the least fear of
the House of Commons being sophisticated into its adop-
tion, by any of those hair-splitting refinements in which the
Learned Gentleman delights to indulge.

The following extract from the Lisbon Corre3pondenee
of a Morning Contemporary, dated the 22d inst., will not
fail, we trust, to attract the notice of her 111.A.trry's Mi-
nisters. It is pretty evident that we have been made the
dupes of Portugal, whose Government has not the remotest
intcnticn of really putting an end to the Slave 'i'rat'e, from
a belief that England will not carry her threats into execu-
tion. A few broadsides, and an execution or tv.o for pi-
racy, will best eradicate an error so fatal to the best interests
of humanity .

"Intentioned in a former letter that the Roge du Tage, a French ves-
Set ehartere4.l by the Portuguese Govern►ttent to convey the Governor

of St. Thomas's to his destination, was intended from all appearances to
be employed in the slave trade, and that it could not well have been so
without the knowledge of the authorities here. I have teen since in-
formed that there is no doubt whatever of the perfect knowledge and
connivance of the authorities with respect to this veisel, in which the
agent of the slavers here with otl.er well-knowit indivividuals are
deeply interested. 13 fact the authorities, generally speaking, are
either implicated themselves or bribed by the parties more immediately
interested ; or, if not bribed, are so far intluenced that no steps towards
putting down the trallic need ever he apprehended on their part.
Abroad and in all the colonies this is notoriously the case, and the con-
nivance of the colonial authorities in the slave trade has been abundantly
acknowledged by the parties themselves."

The Paris Journals of Tuesday continuo to report the
progress of the Budget for 1839 in the Chamber of De-
puties. This is the great business of the year, and to the
no small delight of Ministers they are likely to accomplish
it with little difficulty. The opposition numbers but few
able financiers, and those few are content to remain silent,
provided among the last list of jobs there appear a few for
the exclusive benefit of their respective constituencies.
In the sitting of Monday the Chamber of Deputies
finally adopted the following articles, forming the substance
of the New Railway Bill :--

" Art. I. The duty to the public treasury on the prices of places shall
be collected for the railroads on the portion of the tariff corresponding
to the price of the transport.
" 2. From the date of the promulgation of the present law this dis-
position shall be applicable to the lines of railroad now granted.
" 3. For the railroads of the tariff of which is either not fixed or not
divided into two portions corresponding, one to the transport, the other
to the toll, a duty of one-tenth shad be collected on the third of the
total price of the places. .
4. In each trditr the Railroad Companies shall have the power of
placing special carriages, the places in which shall be paid for according
to private agreement with the passengers ; but the number of places in
these carriages shall not exceed the tenth of the total number of the
places in the train.''

ÜBERT and his accomplices, convicted last week of a plot
against the Government, and sentenced to various terms of
impriionment, have appealed from the judgment of the
Court of Assizes to that of the Court of Caseation. The
appeal was lodged on Monday, and we trust will lead to an
abrogation of all the sentences, but that passed on HUBF.RT
himself. The conviction of the others on the evidence
produced against them was most disgraceful to the Jury.
The following paragraphs from a leading French Journal,
shows the anxiety of the Government with respect to the
present aspect of affairs in Africa :
" The news from Tunis, by way of Genoa, which is as late as seven-
teen days, mentions the hostilities committed against us by the troops of
the regency. The tribes in question who inhabit the mountains bor.
dering on the two territories, had been stirred up last year by the gold
and intrigues of Achmet Bey; beaten by the Tunisians, their warriors,
for the most part, remained in the interior of the province of Constan-
tine. At present they form a centre, around which all the robbers and
and vagabonds of the two country rally. The Government of Tunis
does not own them, and declines, as much as it can, all responsibility.
" By what that Government cannot disavow are its own acts, the vex-
ations, the spoitations to which French commerce is subjected, and for
which no justice can be obtained. Though these facts are notorious,
the Minister attempts to deny them It seems probable that this affair,
which becomes more complicated every day, has something to do with
the orders given to Admirals Gallois and Lalande. It is impossible that
it can be permitted any longer that Frenchmen shall be insulted and
robbed in a country which France has twice saved from the Turks and
Achmet Bey."

We have no intelligence from Spain of a later date than
the accounts which appeared in this Journal of yesterday.
Letters from Malaga allude generally to the discovery of
a Carlist plot in that city on the 11 th inst. A person
named DON ANTONIO XIMENEZ was seized, and a number
of Carlist passports and proclamations found on his person.
The porter of the Carmelite convent was likewise impli:
cated in the business, and in consequence thrown into
prison. Senor Cantos BAP.RITANO, of that city, has been
convicted for the murder of General ST. JUST, whom our
readers may remember was killed in a popular tumult about
two years ago.

FRENCH FUNDS. - num, MAY 29.
Fire per Cents., 109 f. :55c. 40c. Loc,
Four per Cents.,
Three per 81f. 15c. 25c. 20c.
Bank Actions, 2,715 f.
Re.nte de Naples, ICOf. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents. 101.
Spanish-Actives, 221 i
Spanish Passives, 5.
Belgian Loan, 102.4.
Belgian Bank, 1,42 f. 1,430 f. 1,-125f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Lents. 24 214.
ria)tiati Loan, 45(T. 445 f. 43'f.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per ('cuts. 109 f. sf.c.
Three per Cents., SIL SOC.
Bank Actions, 2,715 f.
Romans, 101.
Belgian Loan, 102!.>.
Belgian Bank, 1,4-25 f.
Spanish Actives,
Spanish Passives. 5
Haytian Loan, 430 f.
BELGIAN I. U NDS—Baussms, 111 av •-9.
Actual Deist, 2,,5i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. WI%
Loan of Thirty Millions Hi
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 97
Society of Commerce, 4 t per Cent 165
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent llO
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, May 29.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VICNNA, MAY 21.
Five per Cents. Dfletalliques
Fora per Cents.
4
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Ailgemeine Zeitung, May

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THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1838.