The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

SIR CHARLES NAPIER.

The following paragraph has appeared in a
Sunday paper, evidently. concocted by Lord
TEIGNMOUTH or Mr. YOUNG to make an impres-
sion against the Gallant Commodore :
" Sir Charles Napier has received orders from the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to proceed
in the Pelican to Lisbon, and take command in the
Tagus,vice Commodore Coffin, who is at Plymouth."
It will be seen from a communication in another
part of the Paper, that the statement is entirely
destitute of foundation. The parties who put
forth the paragraph must have known well that
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, after his speech at a dis•
trict meeting in Marylebone, on Friday, could
not have accepted such an appointment, and they
must also have known that they sent the com-
munication to the Sunday Paper with the sinister
purpose of influencing the next election for the
borough of Marylebone. We wish them joy of
their knavish tricks.

We are glad to learn from various qu aters
that the Chartists are everywhere beginning to
make common cause with the rest of the people
in demanding a repeal of the Corn-laws. They
are to have a great open air meeting at Manches-
ter. In all cases they go for a total repeal ; and
it is, we believe, quite hopeless to expect
their co-operation in prder to establish a
fixed duty. It will be incumbent, there-
fore, on those who look for their aid to as-
sign some good reasons why a fixed duty is to
be preferred to a total abolition. It will not do
to say that the landlords will not grant more.
The same force which can extort a fixed duty
from them can extort a total abolition ; and we
own that we scarcely think it worth while to
excite the public feeling for so small a boon as
an Bs. fixed duty. The Chartists and the League
are wiser, and in conjunction they will be able to
achieve the total abolition.

We trust the example set by the Cltrtis:,s at
Manchester and other places will not be without
its beneficial influence in London. The great
meeting to be held at Guildhall to-morrow will,
we are sure, be undisturbed, and will carry its
resolutions unanimously. It will do Ministers
no harm whatever to urge public opinion a little
beyond the point at which they think, from pru-
dential motives, it is at present expedient to stoi .

The address of Colonel TnompsoN to the in-
habitants of Hull will be read with interest by
the unrepresented, as well as the represented,
throughout the country. It places the questions
of monopoly and free trade in a shape suited to
every capacity, and cannot fail to make an im-
pression among his old friends and suporters in
that borough. The Poor-law and the Corn-law
are justly contrasted. The Tories are enamoured
of both, and it therefore remains for the middle
and lower classes, on whom the grievances of
both entirely fall, to say whether they will have
a Tory Government, with Corn•-law and Poor-
law in full vigour, or a Liberal Government, de-
termined to neutralize the evils of the one by
the abolition of the other.

We have letters and papers from Madrid of
the 22d instant—the date of the telegraphic
despatch announcing the formation of the Spanish
Cabinet, which appeared in the Afternoon Edi-
tion of The Sun 6f Thursday. On that day the
new President of the Council, Senor GONZALES,
presented himself before the Cortes, and sub-
mitted the following three propositions as the
basis of the Ministerial policy :

" 1. The continuance of the present Cortes ;
" 2, The reduction of the effective of the army ; and, finally,
"3. Finance and Reform."

We are without any accounts of the state 01.
the Money Market. The 20th being Ascension
Day the Bourse was closed.

By extraordinary express from Paris, we
have received the French Journals of Fri-
day. In the sitting of the Chamber of De-
puties on Thursday afternoon, the Minister
of Finance, M. HUMANN demanded, and obtained,
leave to inscribe upon the great book of the
public debt, and to negotiate by public competi-
tion the amount of rentes, or Government
securities, necessary to raise a capital of fbur
hundred and fifty-eight millions of francs to
cover the deficit. in the Budget.
The Gazette de France,' Quotidienne, Conz-
meree, Ben Francais, National, and Journal
du Peuple, were seized at the Post-
oftice on Thursday, for having published
SIMON DIDIER'S letter relative to the Gre-
noble conspiracy -of 1816—a copy of which
will be found in another part of The Sun. The
French Government ought by this time to be
aware of the folly of libel prosecutions. Had
the French Cabinet regarded with contemptuous
silence the publication of La Contemporaine, the
DIDIER correspondence would never have been
heard of. But to prosecute libels is sure to ol►-
tain for them notoriety, as the unreflecting, can-
not be made to comprehend that any thing is
unimportant or unworthy of perusal which
engages the grave consideration of a Ministry.
If we may advance so trifling- an illus-
tration of this position, we would ob-
serve that, having read DIDIER'S letter, we had
deemed it of too little importance for publica-
tion in the present crowded state of our columns,
but after the notice taken of it by the French
Government we feel that it would not be dealing
fairly with our readers to withhold it from them.
The French Papers :,.nnounce, on the autho-
rity of the Augsburg Gazette, that the SULTAN
has made further concessions tJ the Viceroy of
Egypt. The extent of such concessions is not
stated.
There is no other important news in the French
Papers of Friday.

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The monopolists have triumphe. in FOAM!.
In the Chamber 'of Deputies on Thursday se-
veral propositions for reducing.the import duty
on cattle were rejected—the Ministers parodying
the declaration of Sir ROBERT PEEL that they
!would take another year to meditate upon the
utility of the measure. The Minister of Com-
merce did not blush to tell the
Chamber that
the reports of the distress of the working classes,
and of the scarcity of butchers' ;meat, were ex-
aggerated; and that if meat was scarce the