The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-11 00:00:00

THE kUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1838.

the nominations of his Committee, in spite of the mino-
rity. Thus Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan goes to legalize the
injustice which every tyrant majority—and no tyrant majo-
rity is equal to a Tory majority—would be sure to practise.
In our opinion this is a fatal objection to his scheme ; and
it is of no use in reply to us, for Legislators who give man-
kind at large no credit whatever for the least particle of good
sense or virtue, to say, as Sir ROBERT PEEL did, that "the
SPEAKER will look to higher objects than consulting the in-
terests of a party." ASpeaker who had no such duties to per-
form might, but when he shall be placed in the Chair as the
unscrupulous organ of a faction, as by Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S plan he will assuredly be, he will be neither
checked nor awed by public opinion. To such a man the
opinion of his party is public opinion, and whatever political
iniquity he might be guilty of to serve his friends, he would
ha% e their countenance and support. We place not the
least confidence in the virtue of politicians. The very man
who tells us to rely on the SPEAKER'S virtue, and who is himself
the most specious of his class, only the night before last
voted in contradiction to his own previously expressed
opinion, and what is far worse, contrary to reason and
justice, to please his party, against a Bill to which no other
fault could be alleged, than that it might possibly admit of
our ships being more cheaply victualled, and of a little more
food being surreptitiously obtained by our hungry and poorly-
fed people. The majority of that very assembly, too, of
which the SPEAKER is to be the organ, is composed of land-
lords who, in spite of all decency, and an utter defiance of
justice, make laws to enrich themselves, by enhancing the
price and limiting the supply of food to the people. To
tell us to repose the slightest confidence on the dic-
tates of such an assembly, when the Members suppose
that their interest or their ambition is concerned, is to mock
us, and to set at naught the whole history of political factions.
For our own parts, when we witness the landlords in both
Houses, so unblushingly and dishonestly making and main-
taining a starvation law, in order to enrich themselves,
there is nothing too bad for us to believe that
such men will commit, for the interest of their order.
The lesson they every day teach us is—that all man-
kind are sinful, ignorant, selfish—not to be trusted, but
to be coerced into goodness. On this principle, they
will neither allow us to eat nor to drink, with-
out submitting to their regulations ; we must, in many
cases, neither buy nor sell without asking their leave, or as
they prescribe; they will not trust to our own notions of reli-
gion, nor to our own views of what is for our temporal good;
and these men who daily preach these doctrines now pro-
pose to select one of themselves, and to confer on him, be-
cause of his contemplation of high objects, the power in
all cases of disputed election to decide who shall be the re-
presentatives of the people. When the majority of the
House of Commons shall be angels instead of Corn-law-
making landowners, we shall believe that the Speaker they
will elect may be confided in to execute with honesty and
justice such functions, and such power over the represen-
tation, as Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Bill would place in his hands.

The new Agricultural Society, of which the resolution s
appear in another place, is, we believe, very much wanted.
If it can instruct the farmers in other knowledge as well as
in improving modes of agriculture, its services will not be
thrown away. The agriculture of England, which was
once the pattern of the world, is now much inferior, ac-
cording to the statements made at the meeting this week,
to the agriculture of other countries, and the political
knowledge of the English agriculturists seems equally
backward. As the Society promises, we think, to improve
the farmer in both particulars, by encouraging habits of in-
vestigation, we wish it every success.

Were we to place confidence in the intelligence received
in the course of the last few days from Spain, we should
not hesitate to pronounce the ruin of Don CARLOS on the
eve of final accomplishment. But the rebels have been so
often " annihilated" by the QUEEN'S Generals during the
last three years—and all to no purpose—that we have be-
come exceedingly sceptical on the subject of the result of
v:ctorics, however complete. The Correspondent of a
Morning Contemporary, writing from the Spanish capital,
under date of the Ist inst., thus epitomizes the offiei
account of the triumph of the constitutional arms in •the
brig f space of a few days
. " whcri Espartero stated in his dispatch of yesterday that the faction
of Negri no lon:2;er existed, he rn,rely stated a truth, without the least
exaggcratien. The intelligence received here since of the event con-
firm:, the statement of the Commander-in-Chief, and gives an additional
importance to the victory. On the 25th ult. 237 chiefs and officers,
1,333 private soldiers, 500 muskets, and two piccei of cannon, entered
Burgos, escorted by the first regiment of the Guards and a squadron of
Polish Lancers. Besides those who were taken yrisoners by Espartero,
700 others of the fiction who went over to the Queen's troops were
brought to Breviesca on the same day, with a view of forming them into
a second battalion of Guides. Marie, who entered Burgos on the same
day, a:so brought with him 300 deserters from the faction, so that the
whole of them, together with about 100 more who were made prisoners
by detachments of the national troops belonging to Prcbenasco and 1110-
naste:io, amount in all to the round sum of 2,617 men lost to Don Carlos
on this occasion."
The crowning victory was ccmmunicated to the French
Government on Wednesday, in the following official bul-

Berlin of the 6th inst. enclose copies of a correspondence
of the Private Secretary of the Archbishop of COLOGNE,
seized at the house of Dr. BENTERIM, in which we can dis-
cover nothing of any interest to our English readers :

CPIRISTIANIA, APRIL 26.—A resolution of his Majesty of the I Ith of
this month, to revoke all the prohibitions to use the Norwegian Com-
mercial flag in certain seas; so that Norwegian merchandise shall beat
liberty to use the Commercial flag, as beyond Cape Finisterre, as in all
other more remote seas, but with the understanding, that till this flag
is recognised by the Barbary States, they will do so at their own risk of
being captured or molested ; at the same time Norwegian ships are at
liberty, if it was desired, to use the Union Commercial flag. General
joy was manifested by the inhabitants of the capital, and most of the
houses were illuminated.

VIENNA, APRIL 27.—1 t is thought that the family of Charles X.
will return to Kirchberg in the suumer. The Duchess of Angouleme
will pass some days at Vienna.

ST. PETERSBURG'', APRIL'S.—The last accounts from the Caucasus
announce the death of the brave commander of our army in this country,
Lieut.-General Saminoff, after a long illness. The Emperor's physi-
cian, who was sent by the Emperor to the Caucasus some weeks ago to
attend him, did not arrive in time to find him alive. This loss will be
severely felt, for in the fifteen years during which he had filled his office
there with the greatest zeal, he had acquired the most intimate know-
ledge of the country and the people. His successor is Lieut.-General
Grabbe, who has hitherto commanded the troops in the Caucasian fron-
tier, and in the territory of the Cossacks of the Black Sea.
HANOVER, MAY 3 —To-day, for the first time since the adjournment,
there was a sufficient number of members of the Second Chamber pre-
sent to constitute a House—that is to say, just one half of the whole.
Whether the Sittings will now proceed regularly may be very reason-
ably doubted. _

BELGIAN HlNDS—Barssus, MAYO.
Actual Debt, 2% - - Cent. .- 54%

~ _ 4 per .
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. Pt2
Loan of Thirty Millions 93%
Loan of City, 1E32, 4 per Cent WA,
Society of Commerce, 4 k-.3per Cent 166%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Con.
National Society .

-11russels Papers, May 9.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VirissA, MAY 1.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three psr Cents.
Bank Shares 1455!4
—AI I,zemeine Zeitung. May 6.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY ( THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday's
date, bringing the Amsterdam prices. They are the same as per yer-
terciay's Dutch mails. Nothing in them respecting the affairs of Luxem-
bourg.

It-is stated from Frankfort—" All we can say respecting the fair is,
that a great number of persons have been here; but very few pur-
chasers. The retail merchants are in expectation of selling a good deal
during the last week of the fair."

It appears that Count Toren° has been in Paris for these eight days
past, where he wishes to remain as long as possible incognito. He also
evades appearing in public for fear of being known ; but he has already
commenced a new negociation with some capitalists in Paris, to con.
elude for a Spanish loan.