The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DFC EMBER 4, 1810.

have many of its expenses and its burdens. We
must have a war navy. •

Now, we take leave to say that this condition of
France, and this burden on England, does no
honour to the statesmanship of our age. All the
nations around France are exposed to similar
alarm and similar expense. Germany is putting
her armies on a war footing. We apprehend
it is a very useful philosophy, whether it be

'ue or not, to infer a national fault wherever

there is national suffering. In this case the other
nations, as well as France, suffer from the French
passion for war, and they hare done what they
ought not to do, to provoke the calamity. We can
see, we think, at once in what they have done
wr-,ng. They have had a mutual jealousy of one
another and of France, and they have shut out each
other's trade, so that after a peace of twenty-five
years' duration, cotnparatively few commercial re-
lations between the different countries have been
formed, and the people have been prevented from
becoming friendly one with another. One result of
this miserable pettifogging jealousy, making the
narrow maxims of chapmen and pedlars the laws for
regulating the intercourse of nations, is that wide-
spread alarm and great public expenditure to which
we, in common with all the neighbours of France,

are now subjected.
We are afraid that such a fact will not add
much to the wisdom of statesmen, nor are they
likely by the errors of the past to profit for
the future. What we should recommend may
not appear much like what passes for worldly
wisdom, but being well aware that the French will
not give their commodities to any other people, and
will buy from others something equivalent to every
gallon of wine or yard of silk they sell, we should
say that, if statesmen wish to guard in future against
similar apprehensions and similar expenses to those
we now suffer, they should throw open their countries
to French trade, regardless of what the French Go-
vernment may do for their trade respectively. They
ought not to wait for commercial treaties, which, as
Mr. J. D. HUME has proved, are of no import-
ance ; but at once, so far as that would not inflict a
very serious injury on their own subjects, they ought
to open their ports to French trade, and to invite
the French to become a commercial and a peaceful
people. Our duties on wine, brandy, and silk
goods might, with a little management, be imme-
diately and most advantagously lowered, and an
example thereby set which would do more for en-
suring the peace of Europe, to the enrichment also
of all nations, than all the fleets and armies that
ever were organized for the preservation of the
balance of power.

Because we are of opinion that the other nations
of Europe might do much to make the French a
commercial and a peaceful pe3ple, we would not
have our readers suppose that the French Govern-
ment is not greatly to blame for the unsocial, and
semi-savage passions of its subjects. We made
some observations on the 11th and 12th ult., to
show that the French Government had grossly
neglected its duties. The recent inundations, an
occurrence against which no provision ap-
pears to have been made, is a proof that the
French Government has been much more intent

on preserving power, than on encouraging use-
ful arts and useful labours. In another part
of our Journal, we insert an able article from the
Morning Chronicle, setting in a clear and prac-
tical light, the gross mismanagement of the all-
regulating ;imperial Government of France. To that
we have nothing to add, but to express an opinion
that the French would help themselves, in spite of a
stupid Government and stupid Legislature, as the
English have helped themselves—for our commerce,
our useful arts, and our national wealth, owe nothing
to either the Executive or the Legislative—were the
countries by which France is surrounded to open

their bosoms to her commerce. If the Govern-
ment remain blind and perverse, the people may
be taught their true interests, and be incorporated
in the friendly and great social family of nations
by the statesmen of surrounding countries acting
on the well-ascertained and well-established princi-
ples of political economy. If, in their minds, the
truths of that noble science now remain fruitless
and dead, posterity will regard them, whatever pre-
sent consideration they may enjoy, as altogether
unequal to the times in which their lot has been cast.

The French journals of Wednesday bring the
speeches of M. BERRYER and M. DE LAMAR-
TINE, in the Chamber of Deputies, on the Ad-
dress, the debate upon which was opened on Wed-
nesday by M. DE REMUSAT, late Minister of the
Interior. The outline which we yesterday published
of M. BERRYER'S speech so fully embodied the
spirit of it that we shall add nothing to it but the
following extract, which strikes us as being con-
ceived in the most shameless spirit of national in-
gratitude. France should blush to find the great-
est of her orators capable of thus responding
to the
noble sentiments which animated Great Britain in
restoring the ashes of NAPOLEON :
Gentlemen, I hear the cannon of St. Jean d'Acre.
I hear the cannon—the English cannon, knockii:g
down the walls of that town before which Napoleon
was checked ; but I also hear the cannon which an-
nounces the arrival of the mortal remains which have
so long been held captive by the English. Will you
allow these remains to descend intii the tomb without
making a protest which shall fill with joy the manes of
that enemy of England ?—(Sensation.)
But by far the best and ablest speech delivered
since the commencement of the debate, was M. DE
LAMAItTINE'S, the Royalist poet, who, sepa-
rating himself from the trammels of his party,
boldly and most ably supported the policy
of the SOULT-GUIZOT Cabinet. The elo-
quent and enthusiastic orator proved that the
isolation of France was entirely owing to the pro-
crastination, and apparent treachery of the Cabinet
of the Ist of March. So far was M. DE LAMAR-
TINE from discovering an intentional insult to
France in the conduct of the Four Powers, that
he was surprised at the concessions so frequently
made by Lord PALMERSTON, and still more at
the earnest assurances repeatedly made by his
Lordship of the undiminished friendship of Eng-
land for France. The following sentences from
the speech of M. DE LAMARTINE will convey at a
glance the excelientspirit in which it is conceived:—
There is indeed one thing which has given me pain,
there is one fact which I should almost be inclined to
construe into an insult. Whilst we were arming with
vigour, and with a sort of fanaticism, whilst we were
calling for the fortification of Paris, as if we supposed
that they were destined to receive the assault of the
Four Powers, and that the capital was to be exposed
to invasion, those Powers did not levy a single man, or
move a single cannon towards their frontiers.—(Agita-
tion.) And why not ? Because those Powers said to
themselves, " We have no bad intentions towards
France ; she is acting under the influence of a mo-
mentary effervescence, and when that shall have passed
away, she will acknowledge her error." You see, then,
that there neither has been hatred nor secret antipathy
'
against France ; no, Gentlemen, France is not hated, she
is loved, she is respected, her alliance is desired, and it
will be her own fault if she remain isolated.

Upon the speech of M. DE REMUSAT WC have
but little to say. In character it is somewhat of a
nondescript. While the ex President of the
Council appeals to the sympathies of the Left, and
invokes the aid of the Republican press, the ex-
Minister of the Interior seeks an asylum among the

Conservatives.
The following correction of the report which ap-
peared in the. Journal des Debats of Tuesday, re-
lative to the news from Alexandria of the unquali-
fied submission of MEHEMET ALI to the Four
Powers, is from the official columns of the Messager
of Wednesday evening :
, Several journals announce that Government has re-

;.;,,ived from Alexandria the imell4.7;cace of the
of Mehemet Ali, to the propositions of Admiral Step_
ford, who had been charged to offer him
nachalic of Egypt. The intelligence tvll,y Govern-
ment has received contains nothing so positlve. The
prpositions will which Admiral Stopford is charged
had not yet reached Alexandria.

We grow ashamed of recording the savage war-
howling of the French Republican prsss. The
intense hatred of England which inflames the minds
of some of the French Journalists, amounts to an
absolute craze. England is to them but a syno-
nyme for all that is most detestable—another name
for treachery, tyranny, rapacity, and whatever is
most :deserving of the abhorrence of nations, and
the execration of the human race. For the most
part Atheists themselves, they accuse us of heresy ;
and, while trampling under foot the most sacred
precepts of the Gospel, they affect to shudder at
the impiety of a nation that hopes to go to Heaven
without kissing the POPE'S toe. For lack of bet-
ter arguments and stronger proofs of guiltiness on
our part, they take us to task for the crimes com-
mitted during the reigns of the RICHARDS and
thehd 1
.0-IhEl
y ye
EN YS, Ss
t, ar
yesterday resigned their sceptre, and as if
we were the same peoplq now that our ancestors
were in the days of the Black Prince. These
writers have painfully undeceived us. Previous to
the last four months we did not believe that there
was a man in France so well educated as to be
capable of performing the humblest duties of a
daily Journalist, who would have written thus of
England. Still less did we think it possible that
such sentiments would find an echo in the bosom of
a people who boast themselves to be the most
Livilised in Europe. In England, however, the
savage and barbarian cry which has been raised
against us in France has excited no other feelings
than those of pity and regret—pity that the prin-
ciples of civilization should be so little understood
in France, and regret that a nation in whose wel-
fare we took so deep an interest, should, in a fit of
madness, force a separation from her only friend.

But neither the furious tirades of the French
anarchical organs, nor the war rhapsodies of the
supporters of M. TRIERS in the Chambers, shall
provoke us to retaliate upon France or Frenchmen
a syllable of the foul abuse heaped upon this coun-
try. Our reputation for courage the most ex-
alted, for generosity the most unbounded, and for
integrity the most durable, is happily not doubt-
ful ; and, by the time our present differences with
France are adjusted, we shall need no additional
proofs of our moderation. Indeed, at this mo-
ment, we are most anxious that our Government
shou;d adopt some measure to demonstrate to al
Europe the amicable sentimemts which we enter-
tain, and have at all times since the Revolution of
July. entertained towards France. It would de-
light US if Lord PALMERSTON could in some
way assist in sustaining the wise, enlightened,
Christian policy of M. GUIZOT and the KING,
before the termination of the debate on the Ad-
dress in the Chamber of Deputies. This, indeed,
would be a work of mercy, which would form the
subject of a bright page in the future annal of
British statesmanship. Perhaps the most effective
form in which such an act could appear, would be
in a note signed by the representatives of the Fou
Powers, stating simply that no intention was en'
tertained of insulting France by the secret adop
tion of the Treaty of July. We have, ere this
felt some surprise that such a step was not earlier
taken. Much as we know Russia would dislike
signing such a note, we do not believe that she
would openly reject it, if agreed to by the other Three
Powers. But even if she did, her secession from a
policy so conciliatory would not retard the bene-
ficial influence of such a document upon the
wounded susceptibilities of France.

We wish to be fully understood. We do no
think, whatever turn affairs may now take, that
there is any danger of an immediate war with
France. But the seeds of a war sooner or later
are sown, unless honest and good men on all aides
seriously set about to eradicate them. 'We. must
read a practical leSson of wisdom and of benevo-
lence to France. We mutt teach her by our
moderation, our forbearance, and our perfect readi-
ness• to make all reasonable concessions to her
wounded self-love, the high value which we set
upon peace. We
.want no fresh laurels steeped in
the tears and blood of our European brethren. We
impressments of our young
want no war taxes ; no
men to manure with their carcasses the fields of
France, or to find a grave at the bottom of the
Mediterranean; no shenics
of savage exultation over
hostile fleets burned and armies annihilated ; no-
thing in short which would remind us of the triumph
of hatred over love, of barbat ism over civilisation, of I
violence, outrage, and destruction, over productive-
ness, order, and tranquillity. Of what France calls
glory we have already enough and to spare. We have
of finding our greatest
learned to grow ashamed
happiness in the amount of misery inflicted by us,
or which we are capable of inflicting upon our
fellow-creatures. The finest landscape is no longer
that which has been watered by the blood of an
enemy. We already prefer the vineyards to the
battle-fields of France,' 'and in the progress of the
plow, the shuttle, the steam-engine, and the pen,
we recognise the best auxiliaries of human improve-
ment, and surest wordly promoters of universal hap-
piness. We entertain no jealousy, social, commer-
cial, literary, or otherwise of France. We have no
old grudges to forget, no recent insults to pardon.
There is, then, every thing to predispose us to pa-
ific ouourselves—every
ti a to incline us to
soothe theirritation, fears, and c t
re-
move the groundless suspicions of France.

politician
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none whose
DEATH OF Mit. R. FERGUSON, 1%1 .r., LAIRD-Lmu.
TENANT OF FIFE.—II is with great regret we have to
record the death of Mr R. Ferguson,
.of Raith, well
ck,
fri
theo asnol d a
Whig kind-hearted
school,
wman,l, o
diedanl
well knownas
two o'clock, at his house in Portland-place. Thou.l
he never spoke in the House of Commons, there were
few men more constantly at their post, and
vote was more generally given for the right and the
good nose.
NURSE IN ORDINARY.--Mira. PaCkCr,
isa
Miss native
Atg u ofsAugusta
Edinburgh, r, who, it is Said
has been appointed wet•nurse to the Princess Royal,'
a daughter of the late
Nathaniel Gow of this city, and granddaughter of the
celebrated Neil Gow (" Famous Nell), Mrs. Packer
studied music at the Royal. Academy, London, with
the view of becoming a public singer, in which charac-
gshi,lewllisere she was
ter she appeared here at several concerts. Mrs. P. has, or
at least had, a splendid figure ; and no doubt possesses all
the qualifications requisite for the proper performance of
the duties of her important office.—Edinburgh Paper
[Why should not Pat and the Welshman, too, put
claims for the honour ? Reading came first, then
Cowes, now Modern Athens ; and as " auld Niel," the
famous fiddler, was born in the
.Highlands, Lochaber or
y cane from Bally-
Farintosh, perhaps has a share in the honour ; but his
might have been
shipped at a very remote. per!od‘ to the Sister Islaud
I from Kilgurrog, or Llandr.dlo in Val".
sh grandfathera
nnon , an and beinghis areal-grandfather
I as musical, how the nursery will ring Id
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I bids fair to rival Homer in our respect, a!lcirsi'fP:heekeirs

PRICE OF WHEAT.

price of Wheat in England, and lowest on the
Continent, since the passing of the Corn-laws :
The highest price,.taking the average of the year, in
England was i❑ 1817 945. The lowest price in Prussia
Proper was in 18'2.5 16s. 9d.
Return " Wheat," No. 177. March t 27, 1840.
(Signed) G. R. PORTER.
Statistical Department, Board of Trade.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

iCORN EXCHANGE.

This week's arrivals have been good of Wheat, Barley.
and Four, but of other grain inconsiderable. The trade
for Wheat was extremely dull, at Monday's prices. There
has been very little call for Barley since Monday. Beans,
Pease, and Oats, as last reported. Flour as last stated.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.

The trade for Beef was good, the prices have ad-
vanced. particularly on the best quality. There was ra-
ther a decline in the trade for Mutton and Veal, the
prices being hardly so good as on Monday last. The
supply of Pigs was short, but the trade was anything but
good. Beasts, 538; Sheep, 2,990; Pigs, 438; Calves,
121. Beef, 33. 81. to 53. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. lad. ;
Veal, 4s. to 4s. 4d. ; Prime ditto, 53. to ss. 4d.; Pork,
3s. Bd. to 45.; Prime ditto, 4s. 4d. to 43. 83. Clover
[lay, from 31. 15s. to 5/. 17s. ; Nlea,low, 31. 12s. to 41.
17.. ; Straw, 11. 103. to It 16s.
COLONIAL MARKET.

The public sales were of little moment, and privately
few transactions were made either for home use or export,
but prices were steady. The arrivals were small from all
quarters.
TEA MARKET..

The biddings were languid at the public sales, but a
small part only of that offered was sold, and former rates
were barely supported. Company's Congou flat at 2s.
31d. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.

There was rather more demand for P. Y.C., both on
the spot and to arrive. Prices were firm at 465. 9d. to
475., for the former purpose, and 47s 6d. for spring
months.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Cape of Gcod Hope papers to the 20th September have
been received.
FISHERIES AT THE CAPE.—" We are informed that
Mr. John Leson, at his property in Table Bay, has cured
and sold the following quantities of fish between the Ist of
January and the 31st of August, 1840:-160 tons of dried
fish, 550 tons of pickled mackerel ; total value of fish dried
and pickled, 4 3491. Os. 4d. Our bays swarm with fish,
and many of the sorts are of excellent quality. The chief
foreign market is the Mauritius. Thursday night was
stormy in Cape Town and neighbourhood; loud thunder
and vivid lightning continued almost without interval dur-
ing the night, with occasional gusts of wind. One vessel
tering enthe bay ran aground.
" PitovistoNs.—Beef and mutton have again descended
to their old prices, or rather below them—are now sold at
2d. per lb. These prices signify abundance, and accord-
ing to our accounts the whole colony is at this moment, so
far as the necessaries of life are affected, overflowing with
riches."

From the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date :-
64 BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, DEC. I.—The national funds
have but little varied, and business has been calm. Ar-
doin's Spanish was much sought after, and the prices were
better, 221 ; Coupons, 19 i."
A letter, dated Alexandria, the 11th November, states
that—" Soliman Pacha has joined Ibrahim. The fever
is making great havoc in his army, and the 'lumber of sick
is frightful."
The last letters from Bcyrout are of the 6th November ;
they state the force of Ibrahim's army at eighteen thousand
to tt. Great discontezit prevails amongst the mountaineers,
the English having promised them three piastres per day
and their food; but they were only paid the first day, and
the food given to them were only some old biscuits, found
in the magazines of Ibrahim. The plague has appeared
at Bevrout, and in several parts of the mountains ; it was
the Turkish soldiers who brought it to the place. It is
stated that the Pacha of Bagdad is advancing against
Damascus.