The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y 1 AUGUST 3, 1841.

rulers and people of the " central flowery land,"
now that he is disencumbered of that political
pendulum, Captain ELLIOT, whose oscillations
between London and Pekin would have been in
the highest degree ludicrous, had they not in-
volved so deplorable a waste of British treasure,
blood, and honour. How far a different line of
policy, at the commencement of the dispute with
China, might have contributed to render an
appeal to physical force unnecessary, is a
question the solution of which is now of
little consequence, so far as concerns the
immediate contest. The philosopher might ex-
tract a lesson of wisdom from it for the guidance
of future statesmen, but in the present advanced
stage of hostilities it is the future that concerns
us, not the past. Enough that we are now actu-
ally at war with China—enough that we have for
an enemy a barbarian Power, by whom any con-
cession on our part would be regarded as
prompted, not by justice, not by the dictates of
humanity, but by a craven fear, a dastardly dread
—enough that nothing short of the most signal
triumph of British arms in China can secure to
our merchants a respectab'.e footing in the in-
dependent States of Central Asia—enough
that any compromise now would convert
the British name into a laughing-stock, and
provoke insults and injuries, which must
be resented at ten-fold disadvantage—enough,
we repeat, is any of these considerations, to impress
us with the necessity of following up the blow
already struck with an earnestness, a celerity)
and a force, which shall convince the Celestials
that while something may be hoped from our
clemency, everything is to be feared from our
vengeance. The miserable procrastination of
Captain ELLIOT will only appear a proof of our
signal forbearance, if the hostile measures now
adopted be enforced with spirit, energy, and
promptitude.
But how great soever may be the activity of
the British invading force, several months
must elapse before tidings can reach us of
the restoration of amicable relations with
China. The reinforcements which left India
in May were not expected to reach the Can-
ton river before the middle of July at the
earliest—perhaps not before the close of that
month. It was supposed that Chusan would be
re-occupied ; and as the south-western monsoon
which now sets in greatly impedes navigation in
the direction of the Peiho River, much time
must unavoidably be consumed before a British
force can make its appearance in the vicinity of
the Chinese capital. When once there, we have
no doubt that the experience of Admiral EL-
LIOT'S blunder will neither be lost upon Sir
GORDON BREMER nor Sir HENRY POTTINGER.
They will not be sent with their fingers in their
mouths on a fool's errand back to Canton to
squabble with inferior Mandarins for conces-
sions which their duty requires them to wrest
from the EMPEROR in person. They know the
worth of Imperial promises too well to trust
them without obtaining such a bond for their
performance as even the sacred brother of the
" Sun and Moon " will not dare to cancel in
their absence. To settle the Chinese question
effectually, we must make the Government and
people of China properly acquainted with the
stuff Jonst BULL is made of. If we begin again
with negotiating we are lost. Our proper course
is to fight first and negotiate afterwards. When
we have thrashed the Chinese, it will be quite
time enough to discuss the grounds of quarrel.
We can afford to be as moderate in our demands
then as now ; and when the Celestial Govern-
ment is made to understand that even an at-

tempt to dupe us cannot be made with impunity,
self-interest will demonstrate to it that honesty
is the best policy.
We are unacquainted with the exact footing
upon which our Government wishes to establish
British relations in China. We only know that
they are intended to include a formal recogni-
tion of our national equality ; to open a direct
channel of communication between the Repre-
sentative of her MAJESTY in China and the Court
of Pekin ; and fix upon a clear, recognised basis
the commercial intercourse between British
and Chinese subjects. These objects are all just,
reasonable and praiseworthy, but it is only by
the complete success of the expedition that we
can make sure of ,ohtninincr..shorp The Praftv.
genuiLy UL Lne Uninese wiii raise a thousand
objections, which will soon be removed if the
British Plenipotentiaries refer them to the arbi-
tration of the blue jackets. These arc the boys
to settle in a twinkling the Ko Tou controversy,
which cost Lords MACARTNEY and AMAERST SO
much trouble.

Nor ought it for an instant to be forgotten
that the most complete triumph of British arms
in China is demandei by the precarious tenure
by which British ascendancy is maintained in
the East. Great discontent prevails in various
districts of British India, and several of the
States on our frontier only await the appearance
of any reverse of our good fortune to take the
field against us. The King of AVA wants but a
pretext to break openly with us and in Cabool
and Affghanistan, we have as iTtany open and
secret enemies as we can well manage at presenti,
without seeking to increase them: Let us be
but victorious in China, these hostile
Powers .will ' endeavour to conceal, their
designs; and tremble at the very thought of
provoking our wrath. , Thus one' war' reso-
lutely and successfully.. carried on,, will avert
a series of conflicts fatal to our best interests,
and to the progiess of dvilization 'throughout
Central . „

:-We refer with,pleasure to an advertisement of
the Metropolitap •Anti-Corn-law Association, in
another part of= 7w Sun, announcing that the
Association is prepared to.send lecturers rd any.
part of the United Kingdom on the pdyment of
the lecturer's travelling expensesi. ThiS is a,
good
,msivey for the ignorance of the people in
many,pllces4',Most deplorable, and nothing will
so soon enlighten them, except some dire misfor-
tune, Sys discussion: If the Budget, bubble
though it be erroneously named by the Tories,
have-done nothing else, ,i,t has kindled a spirit
of inquiry into the Corn-laws Which will hot be
satisfied without a thorough and complete inves -
-tigation. The efforts of the Association will pro-
mote this useful end.

We learn with pleasure that the Conference of
Clergymen about to be held respecting the ge-
neral' and increasing distress caused by thWCorn-
laWL
promises
' ''°nlises well, and that. the prospects,of
l'r, •
al•rin anotherfi movement are brightening every day.
part
address ai't of The Sun will be found an ex-
cellenttOhn
on the subject to the Clergy of
Scotland. Let
properly
enrsliydei•
the
guardians
t iiawell.i.d i a
nTsb.
ni This
theie -
spectable body are pi
poor in that country; they communicate with the
heritors in timesof distress;
r caanddwwiet
hwnotuhl
other
classes
less interested in making bread t recom-
mende them also to comn un
i
ear .
..
is a fit- opportunity ; the countyelections
Scot-
land have proved that the farmers, most of them
o
r
having long leases, trusted not
f benefit remu-
neration 'to monopolies,
which bring ruin
on thelnanY, and cannot be said to
the few. ' We charitably believe that a
mistaken
idea of their own interests cannot have any in-
fluence on the humane and pious clergy of the
north, And that they will not lend their sanction
to this grievous tax for the sake of keeping up the
flays.

The readers of The Sun will find in another
column a petition addressed to the QUEEN by a
number of merchants, manufacturers, and traders
of the City of London, invoking her MAJESTY'S
most gracious attention to the measures which the
welfare of the State requires her MAJESTY to sub-
mit for the adoption of the new Parliament.
The petitioners, like a vast number of their fel-
low-subjects, participate in that growing infide-
lity respecting the honesty of public men, which
the conduct of past Governments for the last
quarter of a century has so mischievously engen-
dered;
.and they approach .their SOVEREIGN
as the only remaining sheet-anchor of the
nation. The late Parliament disappointed

their reasonable expectations; the constitution 1
of the new House of Commons fills them
with despondency. They see in public af-
fairs, without the interposition of the scep-
tre, a rushing from bad to worse. The
late House of Commons lost the confidence
of the country; the present cannot lose that
which it never had, though it may increase
the evil odour in which it stands be-
fore the country. With all deference for the
opinions of the petitioners, we think they
attempt to throw too heavy a burthen upon the
shoulders of Royalty. The QUEEN has performed
' her part nobly, and if the people have not doae
theirs it is too much to expect that her MAJESTY
will do it for them. The people may distrust
public men as much as they please, but while
they are true to, and have proper confidence in,
themselves, it matters very little whether the
leaders of Parliamentary factions be rogues
or honest men. Our admiration of the pa-
triotic conduct of the QUEEN, in taking part
with the people against the monopolists, is
unbounded ; nevertheless we look for no tri-
umph which the people do not mainly contri-
bute to achieve. At this moment they stand
greatly in need of help, but it is because they
shamefully neglected to help themselves.
If they persist in looking to the QUEEN for
the amelioration of the evils that press upon
them, let them meet by thousands, and, by the
adoption of countless addresses, strengthen the
hands of our Most Gracious Sovereign. The
petition of the citizens of London will serve as
a model for many others.

The ordinary mails have brought us the
French Journals of Sunday, the leading contents
of which an Express from Paris enabled us
to anticipate in the Afternoon Edition of
yesterday's Sun. We have also received Ma-
drid letters and Papers of the 25th of
July, from whence we learn that the re-
ported appointment of Count FLAUHAUT, as
French Ambassador to the Court of Spain, is by
no means in accordance with the wishes of the
Spanish Government. The intrigues of France
in the Peninsula begin to occasion the Regent
serious uneasiuess.

The Journal de Lot et Garonne of the 25th of July
contains the following paragraphs :—" After having
given an account of the criminal attempts, the pretext
for which was the several re-assessments prescribed by
the laws, we are happy to be able to speak in due terms
of commendation of the good sense and spirit of order
which characterise the inhabitants of our department.
In fact, such complete tranquillity prevails, that one.
would hardly imagine that the officers of the direct taxes
had already verified above half of the communes. They have
visited 178 of them containing 43,513 houses, and no-
where, not even in the most remote parts of the country,
have the proprietors or the tenants had any reason to
doubt the probity with which the agents have executed the
task assigned to them. The spirit which excites
people to contempt of the laws, would be unable
here to obtain credit among the people for the audacious
falsehood, that the officers rummage the wardrobe in
order to count the linen to tax it. This is a falsehood
as palpable as that a tax was to be levied on body shirts,
&c. The inhabitants of the towns and communes which
have not yet been visited, may judge of the nature of
these visits by the regularity of those which have already
taken place. The re-assessment has already taken place
in 130 communes of the departments of the Tarn ; it has
served to prove that in 12 several communes alone there
were 348 houses which had not yet been taxed.—Le
Moniteur.

(FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Auc. 1, 1841.—We are absolutely without po-
litical news of importance in this capital, and are for the
time being in a state of calm, which, however, like every
thing else, as long as the present state of things con-
tinue in Government matters, cannot be of long duration.
News has been anxiously looked for from Toulouse and
the south of France, where it was expected (perhaps
hoped) by the Government that the bold and unconstitu-
tional measures, not only of disbanding the National
Guard, but also of dissolving the Municipality, would
provoke some of the more ardent spirits to rise in rebellion,
and give the new corps of chasseurs an occasion for tinging
their bayonet-sabres with Republican blood, ; but the
object of the King has not yet been effected. In general
the fetes of July has gone off with the usual indiffe-
rence throught France. At Havre it has been remarked
as a strong sign of the times that not a single National
Guard appeared in uniform on the day of the principal
ceremonies, the 29th. The review of the civic corps took
place in Paris, and indeed it is very doubtful whether
Louis Philippe will ever dare again to face the ranks of
his " dear comrades" of the the throe glorious days of
liberty and equality. The Court all go to Eu on Wed-
nesday next, and the Parisians will contrive to sip their
coffee as usual, notwithstanding such a " lamented
absence." _ _ _

A good deal of attention is turned here, in the manu-
facturing world, to the rumoured Customs Union be-
tween France and Belgium. Independently of the
iron-masters and eo:d nir 44‘4.4- c4s 4 -
the project, it is more than probable that the great
Powers of Europe will try to hinder any attempt to open
a way for a future political union of the two countries in
question ; and we observe that the German official
papers give more room than usual to their Paris corres-
pondence on this subject and to arguments against it.
The King of the Belgians is said to be personally anxious
for it ; but of this we are inclined to doubt.

The Money Market of Paris has not been so much
affected by the failures at Vienna as was expected ; but
it is rumoured that the Rothschilds have to pull out ra-
ther largely, in order to keep. up the balance of their
power—financial power that is to say—in the various
markets of Europe. Human's loan is decidedly post-
poned. The two railroads to Versailles (the St. .Cload
and the Mendon lines) are to be made one and the same
undertaking ; not before it was time, for though the.
lines have taken well, the Companies (on account of the
heavy preliminary expenses) have for some time been
cutting each' other's throats.
The last advices from Algeria bring fresh accounts of
the discovery of peculations on a large scale in the :Com-
missariat Dqpartment of the French army. The fact
has been noltori§us for years ; but nobody expected that
General Rugeaud--himself not exempt from animadver-
sion for his admiration 'for Abd-el-Kader's Bpudjour
and the vicinal roads of his own department—would ever
dare to throw ' stones at his neighbour's windows, his
own house beir4 of a very vitreous dOnstruction.. .
•

THE CEOPS.--THE AVERAGES.—We understand from.
a gentleman Who has just traversed a considerable dis-
trict 'of the south •of England,that the crops of r grain
never looked better than ittpresent. They need only a
few days' sun thorOnghly to ripen them, when they will
yield,a,harvestbeYond an average. Hops'-and fruit; are
.also abundant, and if the weather. should. now. becnme
fine we shall have, in respect to the lasi:Untie4' of Provi-
dence," little to wish for. Sunday,' and the greater part
of yesterday, were. warm and auspicious days, which
titbit have had a: Mast beneficial effect. The averages,
'though workled'UpOn by speculators (and we know not
Why they 'anti not be worked upon, for the speculators
only wish to bring in corn at aglow a duty as possible,
and thereby benefit the,peoplo,"alle.no index to the ac-
tual price, and fictitious sales will not, we believe, have
any effect oil the price deinanded by the miller and the
baker. We do notloolc, therefore, on the rise in the
averages as,, an indication of 'a short crop sufficiently
strong to counteract the evidence of abundance which
seems to overspread our fields. ' .
.1:

MATCH AT BILLIARD4,—Last week 'a match
at billiards, which excited a considerable degree of in-
terest among the admirers of that exciting game, came
off' in Glasgow. Mr. John Roberts, of Liverpool, ge-
nerally known by the sobriquet of Liverpool Jack, a
celeirrated player at billiards, was brought to Glas-
gow
to play a match with Mr. John Fleming, of the bil-
liard-rooms. Buchanan-street. The match was for 500
up, and 501. a-side, and after a very keen contest, vic-
tory was declared in favour of Mr. Fleming by fourteen
poitits. At the outset the Liverpool player shot a-head,
but Fleming having made a score of sixty-seven off
the balls, a hit, we believe, unprecedented in the annals
of playing in Glasgow, turned the tide of success com-
pletely in his favour.
The Sentinelle of Bayonne mentions the deser-
tion of a French soldier a few days ago, who swam
across the Bidasoa, at the port of Andaye, and, though
pursued by hiir'cromrades in a boat, got safe into Fuen-
tarabia. The French soldiers followed him into this
town, but some Spanish sailors took his part, assaulted
the soldiers, and ' forced them to recross the frontier.
It was said that the Spanish authorities had sent a warm
protest into France against the violation of the Spanish
territory.
A REGION ON FIRE.—The road lay along the
ridge of the mountain. On our right we looked clown
the perpendicular side to a plain, two thousand feet below
us ; and in front, on another part of the same plain, were
the lake and the town of Aguchapa. Instead of going
direct to the town, we turned round the foot of the
mountain, and came into a field smoking with hot
springs. The ground was incrusted with sulphur, and
dried and baked by subterranean fires. In some places
were large orifices, from -which steam rushed out vio-
lently and with noise ; • and in others large pools or
lakes, one of them a hundred and fifty feet in circum-
ference, of dark brown water, boiling with monstrous
bubbles three or four feet high, which Homer might have
made the head-waters of Acheron. All around, for a
great extent, the earth was in a state of combustion,
burning our boots and frightening the horses, and we
were obliged to be careful to keep the horses from falling
through.. At some distance was a stream of sulphur-
water; which we followed up to a broad basin, made a
dam with stones.,and bushes, and had a most refreshing
warm. bath.—Stephens's Central America.
We beg to state, on authority, that there is no
foundation for the paragraph which has gone the round
of the newspapers, announcing that Mr. Brunel is about
to perform-a match from Bristol to London, by the engine
named the. ‘,‘ Hurricane," within two hours, for I,oooi-7--
Gloucatershire Chronicle.

fourteen years, were placed, again at the bar, and in-
formed by Mr. Justice Erskine that he should recal the
sentence, as there appeared considerable doubt as to the
first count of the indictment. They were then sentenced
to transportation fur seven years on a minor count of the
indictment.

Two good-looking country girls from Yarmouth
were brought before Sir John Cowan, at Guildhall, yes-
terday, charged with absconding from their parents.
The mother, it appeared, had pursued them to town and
traced them to a house in Shire-lane in time to save
them from ruin. They had been inveigled into the house
by some loose woman they met in the street.