The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-01 00:00:00

TECH SUN, LONDON_, TURSDAY, MAY 1, r-3S

to all appearance the different particswill goon Warring With
each other till foreigners are compelledto interfere for the sake
of humanity, and put an end to a public nuisapcp. Nmp
Was such a case for foreign interfe7...
-mane out es Spain
now, 49rci" peddling system which France and
liug!and have carried on EO long, has had no other (ffect
than to prolong the war. We believe, both Governments
begin to %jos- the subject in that light, and we arc, there-
fore, inclined to believe the report, that the English Cabi-
net have come to the determination of making no further
sacrifices under existing circumstances. Unless the KING
of the FRENCH is resolved to co-operate sincerely, it is the
best determination Lord PALMERSTON can come to. It
would have two good effects. It would save the country
the expense of furnishing more supplies of muskets and
ammunition which will never be repaid, and it would put
the people of England and France completely on their
gu,:rd against those who are now scheming to rob them.

Lord WINCHILSEA, without abating one jot of his cre-
dulity, has changed the object of his too ready belief. He
was formerly duped by the Standard ; but the lesson he
was tltight by the exposure in Mr. O'CoNNELL's case, if
it have made him mistrust the Standard, has only induced
him to open his cars the wider to the syrens of the Bull
and the Times. The poor Lord, unable, apparently, to
sten] alone, must of necessity have somebody to lean on, and
the Standard crutch having broken under him, tumbling
him into the mud, he is now trying to get out by the help
of these two other crutches. All the questions which he put
last night to Viscount MELBOURNE were suggested by
these two Journals, unless, indeed, the Noble Lord can be
considered as the author of the leading articles of the
Sunday and the daily Journals. An avowal of such
authorship might, however, be dangerous to the
Noble Lord, throwing suspicion on the authorship
of the Standard's falsification, and making the world doubt
whether the Noble Lord were the dupe or the duped. We
wholly acquit him of either fabricating the falsity inserted
in the Standard, or of writing the attacks on Mr. TURTON,
which have appeared in the Times and the John Bull. For
that, the noisy Lord has not enough wit, and the questions
he put last night to Lord MELBOURNE, like the calumnies
against Mr. O'CONNELL, to which he gave currency in the
House of Peers, were borrowed from the leading columns
of a Tory Journal. To be prompted by the brickbat
Times is possibly the lot of other Peers, and other great per-
sonages, as well as of him who was once called mad FINCH
HATTON.

The Paris Journals of Sunday are wholly occupied with
the trial, and, we are happy to add, acquittal of the Na-
tional for a libel upon the Duke of ORLEANS. The AT-
TORNEY-GENERAL conducted the prosecution, and, to the
disgrace of the Bench, M. BASTARD, the President, dis-
charged the functions of an advocate for the Crown, instead
of fulfilling the sacred duties of a Judge. Nevertheless an
honest Jury was found, by whom the Editor was acquitted
amidst loud acclamations. This trial places the Duke of
ORLEANS in a no very enviable position, as the verdict of
the Jury is tantamount to a judicial decision, that the
Princes of the Blood have virtually usurped the rank which
they hold in the army.

By a letter from Bayonne of the 26th ult., we learn that
I\luNAGoaal's expedition for the pacification of the Basques
has little or no chance of being successful.
IlurovEa, APRIL 23.—T0-day only twenty-nine Members were pre-
sent in the Second Chamber. Now, as thirty-seven is the smallest num-
ber that can legally take any resolution, nothing could be proceeded
with, except the reading of a,Cabinet letter, of the I Ith inst., on the
publishing of the proceedings, according to which his Majesty has been
pleased to allow that, for the present, an abstract, as concise as possible,
of the substance of the more important discussions may appear ii the
journals of this city; but that individual speeches are never to be
inserted.

The Cabinet has not sanctioned the re-election of M. Von Hohnstadt.
on account of his well-known declaration in the Chamber; but has called
on the electors to make a new election, adding that the election may take
place, though only a single elector should appear to vote.
The Hanover Gaxette gives a statement of the revenue of the kingdom
for the year ending in July 1837, from which it appears that

The total revenue was lixdollars 6,306,173
The expenditure...

Giving a surplus of

Letters and papers from Madrid to the 22d ult. inclu-
sive, have been received. On the morning of the 21st the
Infante Don FRANSCISCO DE PAULO left Madrid with his
family, escorted, by SOO troops of the line. His departure
will not tend to improve the aspect of affairs in Spain. By
the Senate his Royal Highness was treated with insulting
arrogance ; and had it been the wish of the Government
to drive him into open rebellion, we presume it must have
acted towards him precisely as it has done since the adop-
tion of the Constitution. As for the Regent, she is re-
ported to be dangerously ill, in consequence of the scenes
witnessed during her late interviews with her sister. They
are altogether a very hopeful family.
The Castellano of the 21st contains the following disma
intelligence :

" Torremilane, April 11.

. _
" Yesterday the factious again re-entercd the Almaden mines, and we
believe completed the ruin of the establishment. There appear to have
been no more than 40 of them, while it is said the reserve reckons
7,000 men (consumes 7,000 rations), and is within two days' journey of
this place, without preserving so important a treasure. The country
around is;.completely ruled by the forces of Charles V., and as Alcudia
possesses at present so many flocks of merinos, the factious have
abundance to subsist on.

One of the Editors of the above named Journal has been
arrested and placed in solitary confinement by order of the
Government ; but the arrest preceded the publication of
the quoted paragraph, which has not been contradicted.
M. AGUADO is stated to have withdrawn his proposals for
the New Loan. It was likewise rumoured that M. MEN..
nizaeaL had been placed under the surveillance of the
police, and forbidden to quit Madrid without leave of ab-
sence. The charge preferred against the Ex-Minister is
that of having betrayed financial state secrets.

HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
Our Contemporary the Morning Post has published in a
Second Edition, the following brief but important commu-
nication, conveyed by a special messenger from Calais. We
are not at this moment in a condition to pronounce any
opinion respecting its authenticity :
" CALAIS, MONDAY AFTBILOON,—SinCe the bags were closed I have
i
learnt that a messenger has arrived from Belgium, bringing the n'elli..
Bence that Luxembourg has separated itself from that country."
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMiTERDAM, APRIL 27.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per 'ent
Nth, ditto 5 per cent.
A lima Syndic, 4% percent ll3 95a
Date, ditto, 13% per cent 7ll 7914
Commercial Company, 4', per cent lB4 155
Ditto (1532 and ;833) 5 per cent.
Loan 1530, 4 per cent. —
Ditto 1537, (1 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 17%
Two months

The improvement of the navigation of the Severn
from Gloucester is now fully determined on.
Owing to the backwardness of the season, cattle arc
beginning to suffer severely from want of provender, the stock of hay
bring, in many places; nearly exhausted.
There is exhibited in a cutler's window not far front
the Burlington Arcade a novel kind of instrument, something between a
stiletto and an oyster knife, ticketted " French defence knives." The
thing is altogether so un-English in its character that we trust it will be
immediately exploded.

_ .
" Ere long," says the Augsburg Gazette, " the
Lake of Constance will be navigated by nine steam-boats; the steam na-
vigation companies of Wurtemberg, Bavaria, Baden, and the town of
Morsburg having ordered five new vessels to be built. The Swiss Can-
tons arc too prudent to enter into a competition with these companies,
but will join with such of them as obtain the best success. The im.
provements of the ports of Constance and Morsburg we going on very
rapidly, and the proposition from Austria that free access to all parts of
the Lake should be granted has met with a favourable reception from all
p lites interested."
TILE LAW AGAINST GOOD TRADE I—At present
is so plentiful in England, that the rate of interest is only about
money
two, or two and a half per cent. Workmen are so numerous, that in
competing for labour, they have reduced wages, in many places, to the
starvation point. The winter has been one of the worst that our manu-
facturers have seen for many years; and yet there is every prospect that
trade will be still more depressed in the ensuing summer. Simpletons
sit with their hands in their pockets, and wonder when these evil days
diTinhceulptrYice of best wheat
in proving that
will come to an end. Men willg o ondev trade.erbe
much better, so long
" But there is no such law," exclaim the simpletons. Not under that
Mtheenreoisf
at London this week is 68s. per quarter. The price of best wheat at
Hamburgh is 335. iffel. per quarter. Were our manufacturers allowed
therenjm e'i
is ear lawhaP ';
whichbut wo
ueght shallto bhea'' soe christened. t e littlen ed.
freely to exchange the goods which glut the home market for wheat at
Ilamburgh, there would neither be surplus labour nor surplus capital
from one end of the island to the other. There is a law which pre-
vents the merchant from using his capital in that manner. That law
was passed by the Landowners' Union ; and let them call it by what
name they pleas*, it is virtually a " Law against Good •
frade."—
Bullon Free Press.

INGENUITY—In the reign of Catherine the Sc. cond, Kulibin, a Russian peasant, had the ingenuity to project a bridge
to be thrown over the Neva. It was roofed over, and towered a hun-
dred and sixty-eight feet above the water, the road not being carried
over the arch, but suspended in the middle below It. Kulibin was mu.
sical as well as mechanical, and he invented what he called a " chaunting
watch." This little machine was about the size of an egg ; within It
was represented the tomb of our Saviour, with the stone at the entrance
and the sentinels on duty. A spring being pressed, the stone would tie
suddenly removed—the sentinels would then fall down--the angels ap-
pear, the women enter the sepulchre, and the same chaunt be accurately
performed which is sung on Easter-eve. This watch, deemed so curious
at the time of its invention, was deposited in the Academy of Sciences at
Petersburg, and is supposed to have suggested the idea of the present
musical time.pieces.