The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-17 00:00:00

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LONDON,'
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1836

Mr. O'CONNELL—as our readers will do us the
justice to remember we anticipated from the first—
triumphantly vindicated himself last night from all
the charges brought forward against him, as respects
the Carlow election affair. One by one, he *disposed
of each ingenious slander, which for months past has
been the sole remaining stock-in-trade of his political
enemies ; and when he had substantiated his own per-
sonal and political integrity to the satisfaction of all
unbiassed minds, he quitted his defensive position,
and sallying forth, shillelagh in hand, carried the war
'right into the heart of the enemy's camp. t; It was
not," he said, " in respect of any thing connected with
the expenses of the Carlow election that he was now
accused and ready to be convicted, but because he had
contributed to put down Toryism; because he had
been instrumental in keeping the Tories where be
hoped they would always remain—covered with de-
feat. For this, and this only, he was now to be put
on his trial." Nevertheless, though he knew right well
the spirit that had suggested it, Mr. O'CoNNELT. did
not shrink from the trial. Not he. He dared the Tories
to it. He courted, and even seconded their motion
for a Committee—simply insisting that the Committee
should be an impartial, not a packed one. Fair play
was all he demanded at the hands of the House—a
.demand which so alarmed the Tories, that they made
more than one dexterous attempt to get a Committee
of their own choosing. Fortunately, however, their
manoeuvres were unavailing ; common sense carried
the day ; and consequently Mr. O'CONNELL may
already look on himself as fully acquitted.

But are the Tories in the same secure and honour-
able position ? Will nothing turn up in the Commit-
tee calculated to make their blank visages still blanker ?
Will they be able—however eager—to stop all allusion
to former electioneering intrigues at Carlow ? Not a
bit of it. his impossible the Committee can so cripple
and confine the range of its enquiries. Some notice—
no matter how irrelevant it may be called—must be
taken, of the eleven hundred persons, including one
hundred and ninety-three widows, and heaven hpows
how many orphans, who were driven from their homes,
outcasts on the world, in consequence of the part that
some of them had taken against the Conservatives in
recent Carlow elections—some notice, we repeat, must
be taken of these matters, and then how will the Tories
stand in the eyes of the unprejudiced people ? We
verily believe that the whole party is at this moment at
its wits' ends,galled to the quick to think that it should
ever have been duped into stirring in the business at
all; atld,
brainless,leastof politicalall,bysuchath
thing as RAPHAEL,
a mere coxcomb,
with
scarce wit
enough to distinguish his right hand from his left.
However, as the Tories have made their bed, so must
they lie on it. They have demanded enquiry, and en-
quiry they shall have to their heart's content.
Throughout the whole business, it is evident that
these men have been in a false position. The spirit
of corruption that they knew existed in themselves,
they felt convinced must exist equally strong in others ;
for we are but too apt to judge of other men's minds
by our own, and to give them credit for nothing but
that which we ourselves possess. Hence, when the
cry was raised against O'CoNNELL for tampering with
the purity of election, the Tories to a man believed
in it, and rejoiced to think that they had at last an oppor-
er to make
money by him,"
" He has
was the shout of one and all. Yet
sought
ofourtedtuhcei ngrichhimßtAop t eAi rE ownr
inlevoerld.
how stand the facts ? Mr. O'CONNELL did not seek
out RAPHAEL, but RAPHAEL sought out him !
Moreover, the sum of two thousand pounds—which
we feel persuaded will ere long be the death of the

ex-Sheriff of London—was proposed, not by O'CoN-
NELL, but by VIGORs. But then the latter was just
about to start for Ireland, and as the election for Car-
low was on the eve of commencement, it was necessary
that RAPHAEL, if he really intended to start for the
county, should make the necessary arrangements with
some other influential individual. VIGOR s, who was jour-
neying to Ireland, could not assist him ; O'CONNELL,
who was beside him, in London, could ! And to
O'CONNELL accordingly he applied. Yes, it was
RAPHAEL himself who made application to O'CoN-
NELL ; and not O'CONNELL to RAPHAEL. And
this is the Tory mountain that has so long been in
labour I This the mouse that it has produced ! The
question lies in a nut shell. The Member for Dublin
found, or rather fancied he found, in RAPHAEL, a
gentleman likely to serve the cause of Reform ; and as
such, he recommended him to the electors of Carlow.
Pecuniary considerations had nothing to do with the
matter. Mr. O'CONNELL had no more to gain by the
Ex-Sheriff's election for Carlow, than just one
additional friend to Ireland. He put not one
penny of the celebrated " two thousand.' into
his own purse. It was all, and more, expended in
the election-.-.a matter, however, which the Tories are
the last people on earth to be expected to-understand,
for they are famous for putting money into their
purses—no matter whether it be their own or the
people's.
For a further vindication of Mr. O'CoNNzLL's
conduct throughout this business, we refer our read-
ers to his own speech. It made a profound impres-
sion on the House, as must always be the case where
a man speaks the language of truth and sincerity. Sir
ROBERT PEEL was dumb. Even the jaundiced
STANLEY bad not a word to say. As for poor Mr.
HARDY's finical points, and affected witticisms, they
were disposed of in such a manner as leads us to con-
elude that the Member for Bradford will never again
attempt to act the wag in Parliament. His first
performance in this character, will, we suspect, be
his last.

Nothing now remains but that we offer our cordial
congratulations to the Tories on this, their second,
defeat. The majority of forty-five against them, on
the very first night of the Session—(the consequence
of that ill-advised snow-storm)—was their first dis-
aster ; and now, before this is repaired, comes the se-
cond ; in the shape of
,an assault and battery on
DANIEL, which can have no other result than to re-
coil on themselves. The fowlers are indeed caught
in their own snare. They who digged the pit have
themselves been the first to fall into it. We say this
in no spirit of partizanship. We are neither Whigs
nor Tories ; but we are lovers of fair-play ; and it
is precisely bect.use we are so, that we intreat our
readers not to take our own opinion, but to peruse
O'CoNNELL's defence with the strict attention it de-
serves, and then judge for themselves.

We copy from the -Leeds Times the Report of the
proceedings at a public Meeting of the inhabitants of
that influential borough, presided over by the Mayor,
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the abolition
of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. It is rather a novel
spectacle to behold the Municipal Authorities thus
join the people in denouncing the mischievous effects
of the taxes on knowledge. The Corporate Reform Bill
is yielding early fruit—to the great dismay of the Tories,
in every part of the country. The venerable champions of
the Six Acts are now on the eve of extinction. In defend-
ing themsel% es against popular influence they can no longer
silence a thousand tongues, and fill with dismay a thousand
hearts by the magic words "Remove the mace!—Ws
Worship is indignant that the advocates of the rag le
should dare to open their mouths in his presence !—This
meeting is dissolved!" The change may well affright the To-
ries. The passing of the Municipal Reform Bill was in point of
fact the spiking of their last gun. The fortress is now
ours, and we cannot be dispossessed of it without betraying
the country into the hands of its worst enemies. As to the
Newspaper Stamp Duty, we know it to be on the eve of a
very large reduction. We understand that a penny tax
will be retained, at least for the first year, and that many
facilities hitherto unknown to the Press will be afforded, in
order to give a true direction to public opinion.

Letters from Rome to the 3d instant, announce the
death of Madame MARIE LETITIA BONAPARTE, the
mother of NAPOLEON, who expired in that city on the
morning of the 2d, in the 86th year of her age. The most
extravagant romance that ever was written falls infinitely
short, in point of incr;Alulity, to the real life of this extraor-
dinary woman. From the widow of a poor Corsican officer
she saw herself elevated to the dignity of being the mother
of Kings—in one moment Europe was at her feet, and
before the next had passed away, empires, kingdoms, dy-
nasties and dignities had fleeted for ever from her view,
leaving not " a wreck behind." In 1814 she retired to
Rome, where she remained till her death. In her younger
years she was considered a very amiable woman ; buther suf-
ferings of late were so excessive, that few persons were per-
mitted to visit her. She had entirely lost her sight, and for some
years before her death, her bodily infirmities confined her in a
great measure to her bed. Her greatest consolation was
derived from her brother-in-law Cardinal FEscrt, who daily
visited her, and on all occasions undertook to make her ac-
quainted with the deaths and other disastrous occurrences
which happened among the members of her family. The
death of the Princess of MONTFORT preyed heavily upon
her spirits. She was observed to decline rapidly after the
melancholy event was made known to her ; but to the last
moment she retained the use of all her faculties. Her
death was so tranquil that her attendants at first imagined
that she had only fallen asleep.
From 1805 to 1814, Madame BONAPARTE'S life must
have appeared to herself a fairy dream. Her's was a " fall-
ing off" indeed, from the period of her taking refuge amid
the ruins of Rome ! Yet never before did the " Eternal
City" receive within its walls the mother of so numerous a
regal progeny. Her son, like a mighty magician, changed
the surface of the Universe ; but his fall, like a counter-
spell, restored it again to what it was ere he existed. Gene-
rations yet unborn will speak of Madame BONAPARTE as
the mother of NAPOLEON—as the procreatrix of an episode
in the history of mankind.

Madrid Papers to the 9th inst. have been received.
The people were every where busy in making prepara-
tions for the new elections—to them a novel species of
political liberty. Senor MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA,
who formerly represented Granada, will again be put
in nomination by some of his friends there ; and Coun
TORENO has already indirectly sought the suffrages o
his former constituents at Oviedo. Both the Ex-Mi
nisters will be defeated if the Government think prope
to take part against them. As to TORENO his popu.
larity, even among the Ex-Deputies who supported him
while in office, daily diminishes. Several serious charges
have been recently preferred against him, and defalca-
tions in different branches of the Customs have been
found out, of which it is rumoured he was not ignorant.
The higher class of citizens in Madrid begin to shake
their heads, accounting the solution of the problem of
his immense wealth, amassed in two or three years, no
longer difficult. The pregnancy of his lady prevents him
from leaving the capital, in which he is only safe while
MENDIZABAL appears personally attached to him.
The Carlists are declining in strength in several of
the disturbed provinces. in the beginning of Novem-
ber last the Pretender had a force of eleven thousand
troops in Lower Arragon, and in Catalonia twenty-
five thousand ; this force is now reduced to two
thousand men in the former Province, and fifteen in
the latter. About the same time the QUEEN'S troops
in Catalonia did not exceed eight thousand men ; they
now exceed twenty thousand, independent of the levies

which have since been raised, and who are now on
their way to join the Constitutional standard.
The Government has received Addresses from the
principal cities in the Basques, congratulating the
PREMIER on his firmness and natriotism in dissolving

;he Cortes.
The QUEEN'S Government has addressed the fol-
lowing proclamation to the Basque Provinces :

" Two years have elapsed since, seduced by a handful of some
strangers to your province, you have raised the standard of revolt
against a Queen who had never thought for a moment of abolish-
ing your venerable and antique institutions, nor of destroying
those altars before which your forefathers used to prostrate. Since
two years the blood of your brave children redden the soil to no
purpose ; the firmness of your mind, the topographical advantages
of your country, have added nothing to the domain of your Chief.
History will refuse to believe that, in a country which never ceased
to be the asylum of liberty, absolutism and the Inquisition can
have been invoked in the nineteenth century. Basques ! it is time
that such illusion should cease. Cruelly deceived by the true au-
thors of your disasters, you flatter yourselves with the absurd hope
of being assisted by a northern Prince, 500 leagues distant from
you, and who can do nothing for you without the content of the Ca-
binets at Paris and London. For you there exists no more hope : an
army of 100,000 men, supported by France, and England and Por-
tugal, will soon occupy your territory ; but before this occupation
takes place your Queen, as a proof of her solicitude for you in this
terrible moment, wishes to be your mother. Listen to her voice ;
whoever will abjure his errors and will abandon the standard of
the Usurper may retire into France; he will be pardoned, and
will receive from the Spanish authority at Bayonne four reels a
day if a soldier, or me.e if he is an Officer, and if he takes with
him his horse and war equipment. Listen to advices dictated by
your interests and that of your families. Secure bread for your
wives and children, and answer to the call of Royal benevolence in
flying from oppression. Here are the allowances which will be
granted to all those who will profit of the advantages offered :
A soldier four reals a day, sergeant or a corporal five reals, Officers,
including Captains, eight reals, principal Commandants and Chiefs
according to their rank, to fathers, mothers, or sons of soldiers six
reals, including the four reals allowed to soldiers personally. All
young men who, in order to avoid serving under Don Carlos, will
carry away their fathers or mothers, shall receive six reals for tw o
or three persons. There will be allowed for a gun and bayone
sixty reals, for a cartridge-box twenty reals, for a sabre, sword
and horse 400 reals."

We have received a file of Jamaica papers from
the 19th of December to the 3d of January inclusive
On the 25th or December his Excellency Lieut.-
Col. W. M. G. COLEBROOKE opened the Legisla-

tive Assembly of the Bahama Islands, with a speech,
in which the state of that portion of our Colonial
possessions is represented as in a most favourable
condition. Schools are being established in .every
district ; and from the reports of the local Magistrates,
it appears that the whole of the inhabitants are orderly
and industrious. The Address, in answer to the Go-
vernor's speech by the House of Assembly, speaks of
the schools established in connexion with King's Col-
lege, London, as useful and flourishing establish-
ments. Owing to the conciliating policy adopted by
the Marquis of SLIGO in Jamaica, the dissensions
between the late slave-owners and the coloured ap-
prentices are less frequent. The apprentices are ac-
quiring industrious habits.

The Paris papers of Monday have been received. Their
contents are of no importance. It may be a week yet be-
fore the re-appointment of a Ministry.
The trial of FIESCHI and his accomplices is now over
All that remained for the Court of Peers on Monday at
noon was to pass sentence on the accused. •We have
given the report of FIESCHI'S speech at full length.
_

PARIS, FEB. 15.—M. Pageot, Chargé d'Affaires of France in
the United States, has arrived at Havre on board the Poland
packet, accompanied by M. Dubois de Saligny, Secretary of Lega-
tion. The protection of the French interests remained intrusted to
the Consult: of Great Britain.
The Courier of the United States, Of Jan. 24, says—" It is
probable that the Congress will not discuss the proposal of the Pre-
sident of the United States, till it shall have learnt the effect pro-
duced in France by the first Message." It is evident that if it is
received at the Department for Foreign Affairs by the Duke de
Broglie, it cannot be satisfactory ; but we nevertheless retain our
full confidence in the continuation of peace. Good sense and reason
will have more weight than idle pretensions of etiquette or criminal
ambition.
But then, on the other hand, we learn, by way of England, that
the Senate has already complied with a part of the demands of the
President, by voting funds for arming steam-boats, and that it has
taken into consideration the demand to keep in reserve the surplus
revenue, to employ it, in case of need, in the defence of the country.
We are also informed that M. Quincey Adams has gone over to the
party of the President, a circumstance which has caused no little
sensation. However, an amicable conclusion, through the inter-
vention of England, is still hoped for. The military preparations
that America might make would only be an answer to those that
we have made ourselves.
The Castor steam-boat is gone from Toulon to Civita Vecchia,
with the Count de Latour Maubourg, Ambassador of France to the
Holy See. The presence of the Count at Rome is indispensable,
for the appointment of M. Lambruschini to the office of Minister of
State is an event of which France ought to take advantage.—
Massager, Feb. 15.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, FEBRUARY 15.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 45c. scc. 60c. 50.
Four per Cents.. 102 f. 50c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 65c. ilk. 70c.
Bank Actions, 2,165 f.
Rente de Naples, 991. 50c. 55c. stc.
Roman Five per Cents., 104.
Spanish Actives, 47% 48.
Spanish Differes, 24.
Spanish Passives. 157436 g.
Royal Spanish Loan, 37%.
Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 37%
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 104.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 84.
Portuguese Three per Cents 53.
Dutch Two and a half per Cents 56f, 25c.
Hay tian Loan, 4105. 400 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —c. —c.; money 25f. SO.:.
Three months, paper, —l. —c. ; money, 251.35 c.
.rs Authentivre. •

Bounsv, THREE O'CLOCK.—Very little business is doing to-
day ; tho Three per Cents. have, however, improved on the
prices of Saturday, owing to the general opinion that the
Chamber of Deputies will adopt the proposal of the committee
sitting on M. Gouin's bill for the conversion. The Three
per Cents. opened at 80f. 70c., and got up to WE 85c. The
Spanish securities are in demand, and the prices rather better.
QUARTER TO FOUL—Five per Cents., 109 f. 80e. ; Three
per Cents., 80f. 90c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, lBf ; New Loan, —; Actives, 48 ;
Passives, 15j-; Ducats, 99 55 ; Romans, ,104 ; Pedros, 84 ;
Belgians, 104 ; Dutch, 56f. 25c. ; Haytians, 400 f. —c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 13i ; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 24 ; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, 374 ; Royal Loan, 374.