The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-19 00:00:00

Til E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1841.

The Common Council of the City of London,
which generally has the honour] of leading the
way in great political and commercial move-
ments has unfortunately come in last in the dis-
cussions on the three great important questions
which now agitate the entire country. We will
not quarrel with them, however, abour the delay,
as the independent Members have at last de-
cided justly, and defeated all the influence
of the LORD MAYOR, six Aldermen, and
fifty-eight monopolists. The Ministerial mea_
sure for repealing the Corn-laws was carried
yesterday by a majority of sixteen, and a peti-
tion to. that effect was adopted without opposi-
tion. We trust that this demonstration will be
followed by a full meeting of the Common Hall,
and that the citizens of London will take part
with the other Corporations throughout the
country in putting an end to a system of re-
striction and monopoly which threatens the em-
pire with the most direful consequences.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have been duly
received. The debate in the British Parliament
on the sugar duties and bread-tax is exciting the
liveliest interest in France. Most,Of the Journals
support Ministers, and recommend a dissolution
of Parliament in the event of their being de-
feated on a division. They contend that the
Ministers cannot resign without betraying The
country, as the first act of Sir ROBERT PEEL, on
taking office, d be to dissolve Parliament,
and so bring influence of 'Government
to bear against people at a new election.
From the Ho se o Commons there lies an ap-
peal to the nation, and this Ministers ought con-
fidently to make before giving way to the Tories.
Lord WARWICK'S taunting the poor with their
ignorance and inability to sign petitions, praying
for eave to fill their bellies with cheaper bread, is
severely commented upon in the Siecle of Sun-
day. That Journal, says very truly, that the Aris-
tocracy rob the poor of their earnings in the shape
of a bread tax, arm then sneer at them for not
being qualified to write begging letters to Parlia-
ment. If the tax were remitted, the people would
be in a condition to defray the ' charges of a
writing-master. Their Lordships, too, would be
saved the trouble of rejecting so many begging
letters.

The French Journals are very angry with some
of our Contemporaries for asserting that Louis
iPHILIPPE promised to evacuate Algiers. We
.regard the question with the utmost indifference.
Jf France cannot live without fighting, there is
no battle-field upon which she can let blood with
Less injury to the progress of knowledge and civi-
lizatiori than the theatre of her recent struggles
In Africa. A conquest which costs France
0.,000 men annually, and burthens her people
with taxation, ought not to be grudged her by
t hose who limit her will to disturb the repose of
lAirope by her power.

There is no domestic news of any importance
in the French Papers.
" Queen Christina," save the Gazette de France, " goes
daily from the Palais Royal to the Tuileries to breakfast and
di tie with the Royal Family. One of the Royal carriages goes
regularly, morning and evening, to convey her Majesty from
owe palace to the other, and conducts her back to her apart-
ments Two sentinels are posted at the doors, and the guard
turns out every time the Queen goes and returns, the drums
boa ting a Royal salute. The same honours are paid to her at
the Tuileries. The Queen passes all her leisure time in Writing,
rind after dinner is thus employed till 11, and sometimes 12 at
nigt it."
We have received the following letter from Vienna, dated
the Bth of May :—" The nomination of Baron Munch-Bell-
inghausen, our Ambassador in the Diet of Frankfort, and the
President of that Assembly, to the dignity of Minister of
State and Conferences, which is published to-day in the offi-
cial Gazette of, Vienna, is considered by those persons who
are acquainted with the internal policy of Austria, as the pre-
lude to a more important elevation. Baron Bellinghausen, it
s said, will soon be recalled to Vienna, to act in conjunction
~vith Prince Metternich, whose successor it is presumed he
-will be, for it is well known that though still young he is eon-
7sidered as the most able of the diplomatists of Austria, next
to Prince Metternich. After the death of Count Clam n
Martinitz it was thought that Baron. Figuelmont would
succeed the present Minister ; but since the influence
exercised last year by Baron Bellinghausen in the Department
of the Archchancellor during the ab.eriee of Prince Metternich.
here is no doubt that the Prince has chosen him for his sue-
cessor."
The peace of Europe is
. •
again confirmed, as the Journrd•du
Frankfurt assures us, in announcing the solution of the Eastern
question, the honour of which result it ascribes to the policy of
Printe Metternich. As for France, it asks' whether it has
gained by its policy of separating itself from the other Powers,
and it does not hesitate to declare that it does not think
so. It states, in the following terms, the result sprepared by the
retreat of M. Thiers, and by the declaration of peace on any
terms of M. Guizot : --" This policy has consolidated
the influence of ,England in the East, to the pre-
judice
.of that of France. It has caused the Viceroy
to lose, the fortress of St. Jean d'Acre, and all the ad-
vantage which the Treaty of the 15th July offered him, and
France, as probably lost a friend and an ally. If the fortification
,if Paris is represented to us as a happy result of that isolation,
answer only one word, as soon as the Emperor Aurelian
hail caused Rome to be surrounded with a rampart, the internal
city visibly hastened to its ruin ; it was, says Gibbon, a great
but deplorable enterprise, for the fortification of the capital an-
nounced the fall of the empire."—Le Commerce.

Letters from Athens, of the 18th ult., announce
that the Greeks are eager to join the Candiotes
in the war which these oppressed islanders are
waging against the Turks. in one now before
I us we find the following passage :
Numbers are starting for Candia every day. A party of
1130 a few evenings ago marched down to the Pirmus, singing
Rational songs, he; ded by a flag with the arms of Candia
crossing the Gree stripes, so that the Government can no
1. wager plead ignorance; they calculate 'in all, that no less than
4, .000 men have left Greece for Candia ; the Cretan colonies
of Nauplia, Alonamisasia, Modon, Coron, &c., are completely
at a.ndoved. A small goelette also left the Piraeus a few
ev,” ,ings since for Mount Athos, with 153 men and 80 barrel,
of p 3wder ; the powder, however, was bought at Hydra and
Spec :zia.
W e have various accounts from Thessaly, but, however, thy-,
all agree on one point that. about 800 men are concealed_ in
the pl uses between Mount Athos and the main land, and are.
well s upplied pith provisions from the two Greek villages there.
They- • seem to be waiting the arrival of a chief, supposed to be
GTzraenf.:;g,,lS:e.raatlaisysfoesel(
1'04.1 13p moment they are under the orders of a priest, .the:
of Ti irkey, the really small
wp'rehottiys under surveillance at Nanplia).;
Turkish
hnpt
population,
usuajoenss,;
afnrocittohestal:
preju-
dices of the Turks themselves, who have a prediction that their
reign_ in Europe is nearly over.
Against the insurgent Candiotes the Porte is
sending 6,000 men, besides the military force
already in the island. As such a body of troops

at having such facts promulgated in Parlia-
ment. We heartily thank them, therefore,
for attracting our particular attention to Mr. T.
BUNCOMBE'S speech, and for enabling us to as-
sure our readers, on the authority of those Tory
Journals, that it is an excellent speech, and that
it deserves their attention and approbation.
The attempt made by both the Post and the
Standard, to deduce from Mr. BUNCOMBE'S re-
commendations to the Legislature to look at
home, an advocacy of the slave trade, or an en-
couragement of slavery, such as was supplied
through many years by the Tories, is merely
silly. The English now sanction no slave trade, and
they have ransomed the slaves at a great price.
When General TARLETON resisted Mr. CLARK-
SON, the English carried on the slave-trade, it
was sanctioned by the Legislature, and they held
many hundred thousands of our fellow-creatures
in bondage. General TARLETON and the Tories
advocated the continuance of those enormous
crimes, and they insisted that the English should
not wash their hands of the guilt. Mr. BUN-
COMBE merely says to the Legislature " You are
bound to look to your own people, who are starv-
ing- ; whatever you can do to relieve them you
ought to do; your discriminating duties on sugar,
established in favour of slave-grown sugar, and
maintained to enrich the former owners of
slaves, weigh heavily on your own people,
and I call on you to take off some of their bur-
dens." If the consequence of that should
be. at some distant time to give encouragement
to the slave trade—which we deny, the guilt of
that will be on the head of those who practise
it, not on the Legislature of England, which
merely relieves its own subjects. Who can tell
that such will he the result? Who will believe
Dr. LTJSHINGTON and Sir FOWELL BUXTON,
seeing that they have been continually deceived?
Who can suppose that evil will come of doing
good ? If the Tories entertain such a supposition,
we can only say that they are as sceptical
and impious as they are hypocritical. Small,
very small, is the part the wisest man can see of
the consequences of his own actions, and we
never could or should do right, if the possibility
of evil resulting at some remote time and place
were to prevent us doing at every moment all the
good in our power. To reduce the sugar duties
will be a great benefit to our own people ; it is
doing right to them, and let us trust the issue to
Providence.