The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-01 00:00:00

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Madrid was tranquil up to the 25th ult. The Military
Commission had sentenced Brigadier-General Quiroga,
who assisted in directing the attack on the Palace, to be
shot. The high rank of this officer forbids the indulg-
ence of a hope that he will be pardoned.
A revolutionary conspiracy of a formidable character
was discovered in Brussels on the 29th ult. In one of
the suburbs of that city two new six-pounders and two
field-pieces, with horses and ammunition, were seized.
They were conveyed by the police to the Town-hall.
Eight persons were arrested, including Generals Van-
dersmissen and Vandermecren, a captain whose name is
-not given, with some individuals of high rank. All the
particulars that have yet reached us will be found in
another column.
The Memorial Bordelais says that M. •Olozaga, the
Spanish Ambassador at Paris, has been invested with
the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic,
as a reward for his recent services. Major-Generals
Ayerbe Evariste, San Miguel, Charon, and Alcala
• have been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Ge-
nerals. Other rewards have also been granted by Es-
partero, and among them the title of Grandee of Spain
to General liodil.
The Courrier Francais and the National abuse the Go-
vernment for not increasing the French Army and Navy.
According to these organs of public opinion too great an
amount of taxes cannot be expended in equipping fleets

and rising armies.
PUZIAG OPINION.
Contrasting the present with the past Government.,
the Morning Post says e---" We have now an Adminis-
tration which, if it announces its design of doing any-
thing, will feel itself bound to carry that design into
effect. The present Administration does rot intend to
provide itself with the. convenient plea of having been
.obstructed, as a sufficient excuse for failing in its pro-
fessed objects. What the present Government proposes
to do, it will do, or resign the Government into other
hands. It is clear that, in such a ease, much caution as
to the announcement of intentions is necessary. Our
present Ministers do not intend to rest their claim to
public support upon what they undertake to do, but are
not able to do. They have no ambition to prolong their
administrative position, and their individual aggrandise-
ment, by such means. They will undertake 'nothing
hastily ; but what they undertake they will do. They
will announce nothing for the gratification of talkers,
before they have had time to consider whether
it is politic or nut. When plans are really formed
they will be announced ; when announced they
will be undertaken in good earnest ; and, when
thus undertaken, they will be accomplished."—
If, as the Post observes (and it is good authority on
such matters) Ministers will announce their plans when
they have formed them, then it is clear, from their pre-
sent dogged silence, that as yet, they have formed no
plans at all. And thee are the men who came into
power with an implied pledge that they would hasten to
relieve the country of those distresses which, they assert-
ed, their pfedecessors had brought on it ! They have
now been upwards of two mouths in office ; they are fully
aware of the pressing necessities of the people ; they
know that the long, inclement winter months are close
at hand ; that discontent is everywhere prevalent ; that
gaunt famine, with despair and anarchy in his train, is
stalking abroad through the manufacturing districts ;
and that Swing has already begun to light his destruc-
tive torch ; and yet, though they know and see all this,
Ministers,.on the showing of their own Journal, are, up
to the present moment, unprovided with even the skele-
ton of a remedy ! Was there ever such a set of per-
verse, short-sighted, ill-conditioned incapables !
The Herald observes, in reference to M'Leod's case :
" We should do well, while our sinews are yet strong
even for the very conflict which, had M‘Leod been con-
demned, must ere now. have taken place, but which his
acquittal- has providentially averted, to assume a firm and
inflexible attitude in enforcing the immediate and unequi-
vocating settlement by the United States of dormant ques-
tions and latent pretensions which can be left unsettled
by no Government honestly desirous of maintaining
peace. The north-eastern and the Western boundary ques-
tions are of this kind. It as' little consorts with
the honour of Britain as it favours the dark and
unprincipled designs of those lawless adventurers who
seek their own bad ends and private aggrandiSement
from the spoliation of British territory and property—
to leave in lingering uncertainty the formal 'specification
and establishment of the respective frontiers of the two
.Powers in those regions."—The spirit of this, however
'carefully disguised, is one of strong animosity towai ds
America, and cannot but have a mischievous effect.
Why talk just now about the United States equivocating,
respecting the
_settlement of the boundary question ?
Such a sneer can have but one result—namely, that of
,exasperating still further a country with whom it is our
interest, not less than our duty, to cultivate amicable
relations.
The Chronicle says—" Sir Robert Peel will not -be so
easily allowed to forget the time he so pompously asked
for. That time is the iron which has entered into the
soul of the people ; and should he dare to meet Parlia-
,Ammt with poor, mean, contemptible measures, a burst of
indignation will greet him, that will send hiiu once more
into private life. Of this the landed interest' is be-.
coming painfully aware ; and they are becoming pain-
fully afraid lest their Prime Minister be tempted *to
be a little extravagant in the way of figfilling some
of his premises. to now they are. setting their organs
to work. So be it. Blackwood intimates that, at
some distant period, Sir Robert Peel may be gathered
to the House of Peers, after his timous labours are over.
So be it also, and let him him take tempus fugit for a
motto. Meaatime, he had need rise early, and sit up
late.; for assuredly there is a
.tempest brewing that will
test his principles. All we hope is, that that tempest
will not sweep down something more valuable than the
'sliding scale' and Sir Robert Peel's Premiership."—We
are not alarmists ; but we do most firmly and conscien-
tiously believe that a tempest is brewing which, if not
• looked to in time, will sweep.away something more than
a Tory Ministry. The signs of its approach are
already visible on the skirts of the horrizon. "Far off
its coming gbonts." Let who will suffer by it ; one thing
is certain, that-it will fall with 'crushing power on the
Monopolists. The very sullenness of the people is one
of the surest indications of danger. It is the deep,
ominous lull that foretells the approaching hurricane.
The following is from the Edinburgh Chranicle:—
" When will trade revive ? The intense interest attached
to this question is not confined to the ;manufacturing
districts. In every part of the country the inquiry is
anxiously .and constantly made—' When will 'trade re-
vive ?' All ask what none can answer. The vital ener-
gies of the nation seem prostrate, and not the least
prospect as yet appears of returning animation. From
almost every manufacturing town, the cry is ruin, ruin,
and increasing misery."
We quote the following from the Cambrian :—" It
cannot be expected that this district can escape, more
than the rest of the country, its share of distress re-'
suiting from the blighting effects, of monopoly.. Ac-
cordingly we shall be prepared to hear from time to
time tidings 'of sufferings and privations as the
rigour of the season increases. Already the iron in-
terest knows .not where to turn itself to find a vent for
its products. Stocks having accumulated beyond the
demands of the markets, forges become extinct, and
workmen silently suffer for want of work, The eondie
don of the mining districts is getting truly lamentable."
In a leading article on the present state of the country
the Leeds Times says—" The gloom of winter is now
fast gathering around tit, and thick clouds seem alike to
envelope our physical atmospheres. The wail of deep
distress comes up from all the haunts of industry : the
manufacturing and the agricultural districts echo with
the cry of mourning and lamentation: labourers and ar-
tizans droop their heads in idleness, slid with their wives
and families retire into the remote corners of our towns
and cities to starve and to die in quiet. Shrinking even
from the light of the sun; and without human sympathy,
save of those as wretched as themselves, the poor dumb
tortured millions pine away in silent submission and
hopeless misery. There are nevertheless a few ominous
symptoms abroad, that the starved classes are in a des-
perate state, and ready for the commission of retaliation
and revenge upon the more fortunate portions of society.''
MONEY—TRADE—Coritivimtax.

The quantity of metal annually converted by the
French mints into coin—is 433,240 English lbs., produc-
ing 48,000,000 f.; 5,000,000 being in gold, and 43,000,000
in silver. It appears that there are 50,000,000 francs'
worth of copper money in circulation namely,
10,000,000 f. in.royal sous, 19,000,000 f. in bell metal, and
21,000,000 E in sous of the republic. This mass of metal
weighs 22,320,0001b5,
ECCLESIASTICAL.

Bishop Phillpotts has issued a charge to the Rev.
H. B. Head, announcing that he has appointed Commis-
sioners to inquire into a psper published by him res-
pecting the Lord's Prayer. The Bishop declares that
ho will proceed against him with the utmost rigour, and
the Rector, equally headstrong, is determined to re-
sist to the last. We hope the Bishop has found his match.
The case of the Ilex. 'A:Loftus v. Mary Ann Loftus,
his wife, which has been a long time pending, came be-
fore the Ecclesiastical Court at Norwich last week, when
the Judge decided that the charges against the husband
,were not proved, and that . the wife must return under
hig roof,
A vestry meeting was held at Leicester on Thursday
for the purpose of asking for a Church rate, when after a
verj uproarious discuision, only one hand was held up
for the rate, and forests of hands, says the Leicestershire
Mercury, were raised against it.
NAVAL AND DIMITART.
According to accounts from Halifax, North America-,
these were ill ttlat.port on the 18th of October eight vessels
of war, among otheti her Majesty's ship Winchester, 50
guns, the flag-ship of Sir Charles ituam.
'
The Hampshire Telegraph states that it is now L...4llli-
tively settled that the West India Mail Packet Comp:::
will make Southampton the rendezvous for their steamers.
Ten persons were drowned on Thursday meriting off
Blyth, a small seaport twelye taiieS tiOrth of N WCa
.
appears Lila', wey went out to try a new la. o at,
which was ;;;;-;-;' 4 a hear, sea? and out of eleven
persons in it, only one was saved:
At the close of the Registration of the West fitting of
Yorkshire, the clear Liberal gain is 408.
I'INE .ItattS,
The National Gallery opened this day OtoYember 1)
for the first time after the long recess. This public and
gratuitous exhibition contains upwards of 180 paintings
by many of the most celebrated artists of the different
countries of Europe.
THEATRICAL.
A meeting of the Drury-lane proprietors was held