The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1,841.

Ndble Earl is worthy of perusal, and is deserv-
ing of the public approbation.
The truths which the Noble Earl had the
boldness to utter excited the Du.ke of WELLING'
TON, who declared that he would not allow
himself to be intimidated. Hear that, suffering
and petitioning people ! The great - Duke
has formed his resolution. • He takes on
himself the awful responsibility of refus-
ing all legislative attention to your prayers;
he will persist, at present at least, in maintain-
ing the laws which doom you to starvation,
disease, and death, and he won't allow himself
to be intimidated. The indomitable will of one
man, and that man indebted fur his power and
his wealth to. the grateful people, is to consign
thousands to disease and death, and the millions
must submit to brutal injustice because the Duke
of WELLINGTON will not be intimidated. We
apprehend, however, when the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON forgets his calm resolution, and finds it
necessary to boast of his firmness, that in fact he
begins to shake. He has a glimmering dread of
the awful consequences of irritating a hungry
people, and his heart sinks at the very moment
that he boasts that he will not allow himself to
be intimidated.
For mark, reader! that the Duke went on to
explain away the, harsh expressions attributed to
him on a former occasion. He did not assert, us
he was reported to have said, that there was
no distress; he asserted there " was distress in
several parts of the country, but the distress
did not arise from any want of food in the coun-
try." " There is no danger from a want of pro-
visions. There is distress owing to the want of
work, deficiency of wages, and -other causes."
The great Duke,. therefore, is anxious to make
out a tolerably good case for himself, and not
to allow the public to believe that he bluntly
denied the existence of that distress which his
cunning colleagues have tried to reason away.
Moreover, the Duke is by no means now tho-
roughly assured of the effects of the Corn-law.
He says, "it is a large question, to be consi-
dered in its bearings on commerce and finance.
He brought in the existing law, and recom-
mended its adoption.; but it stands in a different
light now from what it stood in when lie brought
it forward. Since then the knowledge of the
last and preceding Sessions has come to guide
the Legislature." The great Duke, then, mis-
trusts his own wisdom of 18728, he wavers, he
doubts while he boasts, and when HE talks of
taking the matter into serious consideration with
new lights, the Duke of WELLINGTON is pre-
paring to yield.
We quite agree with what Mr. COBDEN says
in his letter to .Mr. STURGE, " that one unani-
mous protest from the., bread-eaters is alone
wanted to ensure the doWofal ,Of . the system.'
Its extinction is decreed andio at hand. A very
little more exertions of the COBDENS, the
STURGES, and their magnanimous allies in every
part of the kingdom will be sufficient to attain
this great object. They must tell the Duke of
WELLlNoToN;sshowever, not to hamper him-
self with the consideration of treaties with other
Powers, but confine himself to what is due to the
people of this empire. Corn-law repeal is no
longer a question of political expediency or tem-
porary policy, but a question of, morality, of
justice, and of religion, which cannot be settled
in any way but one—namely, the complete abo-
lition of all the so-called protecting duties, alias
taxes for the benefit of the owners of rent, who
make the laws, on provisions of all kinds; and
which, not settled in that way, involves the fin.-
feiture of allegiance, the overthrow of the Go-
vernment, and the disruption of society. We
can tell the Duke of WELLINGTON that he will
be intimidated by the consequences of his obsti-
nate attachment to the bread-tax, and that in
spite of his boasting he will and must yield to
the strong remonstrances of the people.
We should, however, do this great man—great,
even in his humiliating errors—a gross injustice, it
we did not draw a broad distinction between him
and the mean, pettifoggers, his colleagues in the
other House, who have endeavoured, by a peat
variety of despicable subterfuges, to chetit their
own understandings into supporting a course•of
ff policy, because that secures their places, which
they know to be dishonestolud fraught with dan-
ger. Sir 11. PEEL, Lord STANLEY, and Sir
JAMES GRAHAM, have one and all admitted that
the law is intended to keep up rents—to enrich
diens and their class, therefore, at the expense of
other people ; but, as the landed interest at pre-
sent gives away office, they have heist • their
brains for reasons which shall give a sem-
blance of policy and patriotism to their
dangerous legislative plunder. Widely dif-
ferent from them, the frank and bold, though
we think ignorant and misinformed Duke, dis-
dains to employ their subterfuges, and half admits
his error, while he says that he must take the
subject afresh into consideration with the new
light which late events have cast on it. We pray
that he may come, and that speedily, to a right
conclusion, or he and his colleagues will find too
late, as Lord RADNOR. hinted, that by defending
the Corn-laws they have overthrown the present
n I right of property.
was

Since the close of the proceedings of the last
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,
which excited the indignation of every well-
regulated mind, the Non-intrusionist party have
discovered that the Kirk is placed in a most
dangerous position, and that if some means are
not adopted to reconcile the two contending par-
ties the ruin of the Establishment will be the con-
sequence. We are only surprised that they did
not admit this probable consequence long ago.
Trusting to their own assumed powers, they
thought they were justified in adopting a mode
of proceeding inconsistent with common sense,
inconsistent with the law of the land, and,.
„what is of infinitely more importance,' inconsist-
ent with the charitable doctrines laid down by
that Master under whom they profess to serve.
They punished without compassion, and finding
that their atrocious conduct (we cannot describe
it by any gentler name) excited universal sym-
pathy for the sufferers, they have changed their
tack, and sent' a deputation to wait upon the
QUEEN, or her.
__Brime Minister, to implore as-
sistance. They must indeed be reduced to the
last extremities. The QUEEN, the head of the •
Church of England, and the protector of the
laws of the land, can give no countenance to
men who set the laws of GOD and man at deft-.
ante ; and the Minister, always the eriend
and 'patron of the party whom they sa-
vagely trample upon, must regard them.
with feelings of abhorrence. This last appeal
we therefore consider decisive of the Veto Act,
It is a dead letter. The great body of the people
are against it—Judges, Parliaments, and Cabi-
nets, Whig and Tory, are against it. CHALMERS
himself, and
.Lord MONCRIEFF, the authors of
the obnoxious measure, are silent from shame;
and these firebrands are now forced to cry out
for help from the men they have injured. They
will therefore be humbly thankful, we presume,
for the means of escape held out to them by
one of their own party, who has seen the error
of his ways, and who has chosen to commu-
nicate it through this Journal, opposed front
the beginning to a step which we saw pregnant

with danger to the first Christian Establishinent
in the world. We refer to a communication
from a Clergyman and Professor at St. Andrew's,
in another part of the Paper. This venerable
Father of the Church recommends an abolition
of the Veto Act, and an oblivion of all past dis-
putes, as the ground-work of his scheme; and he
further recommends that the leading men on
each side should go up, arm-in-arm, as friends
to Sir ROBERT PEEL, and come to au under-
standing at once with the Government. We
reluctantly dissent from this proposal. Cook
and MEARNs tu'e mild, gentle men, long. habi-
tuated to the order and decency of civilized life,
and would not have the slightest chance when
yoked with CANDLISH and CUNNINGHAM.
There must be a gentle coercive system, a little
training, befure:the parties meet the Master of
the Ceremonies; and we, therefore, propose that
CANDLISH should be placed .between COOK and
MEARNS (adopting the plauof the tame-elephant-

Peer); that CcisilitZ•Wn.A3l should march between ,
ROBERTSON and BRYCE, (the latter gentleman
from his residence in India knows how to tame
wild animal 3); and that the Duke of ARGYLL
should be placed between the Earl of ABER-
DEEN and Lord ELLENBOROUGH, the rear to be
brought up by our Correspondent G., a repentant
sinner. These ten would effect the salvation of
the Church of Scotland. Without some arrange-
ment•of this kind we fear the case is hopeless.
The higher classes arc leaving the Kirk to be-
come Episcopalians, a college is about to be
established at Perth for the education of youth
. in that mode of worship, and even soma of the
Nou-intrusionist clergy, disgusted with the cant,
hypocrisy, and ruthless conduct of their party,
are glad to find rest under the wings of a Bishop.
Lord MONCRIEFF, the soa of the best friend of
the Scotch Church, must regard the result of the
last six years' agitation with no enviable feelings.

Among the petitions presented in the House
of Commons last night was one from Mr. STEELE,
O'CoNNELL's head pacificator for Ireland, pray-
ing for an alteration in the Coronation oath,
which certainly demands the attention of the
Legislature. That the Sovereign of this realm
should be compelled solemnly to affix the brand
of idolatry—of a most heinous offence against the
Majesty of GOD—upon the religious faith of
nearly nine 'Pillions. of her subjects, including
ti-en eminent for the 'antiquity of their descent,
their learning, and their' piety, reflects no credit
upon the boasted liberality of the British Legis-
lature. It is surely enough that the Sovereign
should be a good Protestant, without com-
pelling her to attest her sincerity by brand -
ing with infidelity' the faith of others.
Nor does our gracious QUEEN stand alone
in the involuntary outrage thus offered
to the Roman Catholics. Every Protestant
Member of the Lvgislature -is obliged to take
a similar oath, though in nine cases out of ten
the swearer can know nothing a the truth
of what he is swearing about, being wholly
ignorant of the real doctrines of the Church of
Rome upon the theological questions sub-
mitted to him for reprobation. We grant that
the oath is now generally regarded by the
majority of the Members of both ,Houses as
an idle form, which neither influences their
opinions no: their conduct. We would not• so
insult the good sense, the Christian charity,
and the right feeling of the majority of the
Members of. Parliament, as to suppose for an
instant that they took the oath in the spirit
in which it was 'first proposed.• it was framed
with a view, not only to exclude Roman
Catholics from Parliament, but to admit none
who were not actively hostile to them. To hate
the devil was not so meritorious a State duty as
to abjure the Pope and the Pretender. But
with the extinction of the House of STUART,
and the admission of Roman Catholics to Parlia-
ment, ceased all pretext for administering the ab-
juration oath in its present offensive, or rather
insultingly disg,raeckl, form. The continuing to
offer sodis,rraceful an insult to the Roman. Ca-
tholics, for no other conceivable purpose than to
outrage their religious feelings, was, and is, a
deplorable instance of bad polity, bad feeling,
and bad taste. It is the duty of Catholics to in-
sist upon being no. longer so insulted, and it is
equally the duty of Parliament and the govern-
ment to comply with a demand so just and rea-
sonable. We hail it as a good sign of tiktimes,
that Protestants themielves are growing
ashamed of tests insulting to the religious feel-
ings of their _fellow7subjetts, and that they*4al"e
the first to address'petitions to the Legislature
praying for their modification. The subject of
Mr. STEELE 78 petition is one which ought not
to be suffered to drop, and any Member taking it
up with spirit would not fail to do good service
to the country by wiping from the Statute7book
• a pernicious and offensive remnant of the penal
code.

Accounts from Madrid state that the Infante
Don FRANCISCO ng PAULO may. be expected in
that capital in the course of the month of October.
Aletter from M al kat, dated tl..<o9.tbul t., appears in
El COrearnsal of the 27th, stating that France
had evacuated the Military Hospital in the
Isla -del' '• key, with great promptitude.
The lease expired on the 3d, and on that day
the surrender was made, the French authorities
having left undisturbed, the building erected at
the expense of their Government." Business
commenced on the Madrid Bourse on the 27th,
but little business was done. The Fives were
done at 27 for cash, and 281 lat 60 days, and
the debt without interest at .51, cash.

The news from France, with the exception of
the rumours and speculations respecting the
English and French fleets before Tunis, possesses
little interest. M. THIERS, since his return to
the capital, has considerably modified his war-
like ideas as regards Germany; but, if we.are to
judge from an article in his Journal, lie is as war-
like as ever towards this country. The Journal
des Debats, and - the Ministerial organs, will
hear of no, disarmament, but the Constitu-
tionnel goes,still farther, and cries out—" Peace
to Germany and naval rivalry to., England.'"
We trust, however, that the deputies, who hold
the strings of the national purse, by no means
overflowing with- wealth, will set their faces
against a „system which must either ruin the
country by enormous and needless expenditure,
or bring on..a universal war. The Cabinet, there-
fore, has wisely resolved to refer the question of
disarmament to the Chambers, which are to
meet early n December.
The Gazette de France publishes a letter from Kirch-
.
berg of the 20th ult., stating that on that day the appa-
ratus had been removed for a short time from the leg of
the Duke de 73ordeaux, to ascertain whether it had been
at all shortened. This, says the letter, was not the case,
and the apparatus was to be removed altogether in a week.
We find t‘e following in the Anii de La Religion It
has been stated by several journals that, on the 29th ult.,
the Feast of St. Michael, masses wore asked for and pet -
formed at several churches in Paris, for the recovery. of
the Duke de Bordeaux. Having sought for fuller infor-
mation, we learn that the masses in thanksgiving for the
re-establishment of the health of the Prince, were ap-
plied for, but the clergymen, having consulted the au-
thorities, were told that they could not perform masses
likely to give rise to any political demonstrations.
The -Temps states, that before the Baron ab-
scovided from Paris, he invited several of his friends to
a shooting party for. Saturday, the better to conceal his
intention of going away. It says that when the reports
of his leaving the capital were first but erroneously
spread abroad, the Baron came to its office, accompanied
by a friend, to contradict the rumour„ and thi, friend
gave his word of honour a 3 to the incorrectness of the
statement. "This same gentleman," the Temps says,
" is a loser by the Baron of 50,000 francs, and he fol-
lowed him to a great distance on the road he was sup-
posed to have taken,• in the hopes of coming up with
him. lie was one of the party invited to shoot."
The Moniteur Parisien states that the creditors of
M. Joubert are holding meetings for the consideration of
his affairs.

The FraUce says that the Countess Lehon has made a
sacrifice of several hundred thousand francs from her
own fortune, in behalf of M: Lehon, the notary, her
brother-in-law.
The annual meeting of the Academie des Beaux Arts
for the distribution of prizes was held On Saturday. M.
Gamier, the president, took the chair, supported by M.
Raoul ilochette, the perpetual secretary, and M. Achille
Leclerc. There was a large assemblage of members of
the.lnstitute.
The last accounts from the island of Bourbon bring
the address presented to the Governor by the Colonial
Council on the 10th June,
.and his reply. In allusion
to the-slave question the Governor states that when the
French Government shall have come to a decision as to
the course to be pursued, it will know how to ally justice
with firinne'6s, and to respect the rights of all. He advises
the Council to have confidence in the Government and to
act with prudence and moderation. Th© Council in
their address had promised to co-operate as far as they
could in any measure of reform as to the slave question.
A violent conflagration occurred at Urnhstadt, in
Prussia, on the 21st ult., and destroyed 114 houses.
The King of Prussia liaz, issued an order that in future
no music, nut distinctly sacred, shall be performed in any
Protestant church of his dominions without especial au-
thorisation from the pastor of the church.
A letter from Baden-Baden gives an animated ac-
count of a stag-hunt on the 25th -ult. by the hounds of the
Count de Seinale, which was kept up with unabated spirit
for five hours, during which the chase had to pass and
repass three different streams. All the sportsmen ac-
quitted themselves most gallantly, but particularly the
Count, who escaped some risks of breaking his neck.
There was to be another' hunt on the 28th or 29ch, of the
stag or boar. Baden is still full of visitors.
The small property on which Nicolas Poussin was
born at Andelys, near Elbeuf, on the :seine, will be sold
by auction on Wednesday next, at Andelys. The upset

price is only 2,000 f. " M. Ingres, the artist," says the
Tempe," is determined to become the purchaser."
The courtier de la Drome states that the arrondisse-
ment of Montelimart was visited, on the 2.Stli
and the three previous days, by storms of unusual
violence, attended by an inundation, which threat-
ened consequences as disastrous as the floods of last
year. Every river and stream burst its banks, and
did considerable demage to the bordering lands. A
bridge over the Berre, near Taulingan, was carried away,
and another over the Lez, at Colombier ; several houses,
mills, and manufactories, were also washed away. Two
persons
.belonging to Montelimart are missing, and are
believed to have been drowned ; and tw o young men
were drowned in endeavouring to save the lives of
others. A young woman of Pierrelatte was killed by
lightning in a hut, where she had taken shelter, and
several other persons and many cattle in the Holds were
struck, MO suffered more or less from the action of the
electric fl

The following is an article of La Presse, a French
Ministerial paper, upon Tunis:—" The. Bey of Tunis and
the Pacha of Tripoli had been for a long time indepen-
dent of the Porte. Their position, with respect to the
Saltan was analogous to that of the lley of Algiers be-
fore our conquest. At a certain time the Porte, wishing to
render them more subject to it, determined to send an
expedition against them; but, as it could not subdue
them both at once, it determined to attack Tripoli first.
A flotilla left Constantinople, and landed an army of
Turks at Tripoli, on the 25th of May, 1335. The in-
ternal situation of the country favoured the designs of
the Porte. The brother and sun of the late Pacha dis-
puted the supreme power. The former was shut up in
the town, and the latter was in possession of the country'.
The Turkish Admiral, Mustapha Nedgib, craftily an-
nounced to Sidi Ali, the Pacha occupying Tripoli, that
he brought him succour against his nephew. Sidi Ali,
deceived by this declaration, let the Turkish troops take
possession of the town, and was so imprudent as to visit
the Admiral in his ship. There he was kept prisoner,
and sent in a few days to Constantinople, where he died
in obscurity. As to the nephew, he was soon brought to
reason, and the Porte re-seized its old authority upon
this Regency. The Bey of Tunis still ;emained to be
subdued ; the. Porte had a great wish to subdue it us it
had done Tripoli. Encouraged by its first success, it
sent a 8( coati squadron to Tunis, under the command of
Tahir Pacha, who had instructions to reduce the Bey by
cunning or by force. But France having learnt his project
sent Admiral Hugon from Toulon with a French squadron,
which came before Tunis almost at the same time as Tahir
Pacha. The .latter thought it prudent to turn back, and
sailed ' to Tripoli, where he strengthened the
authority of the Porte, shaken by internal factions.
Affairs remained in this state during a few years ; the
Porte has several times renewed its attempts, and espe-
cially under the Ministry of Count Mo:6; they have
always failed before the attitude of Irance ; in these last
times it appears that it intended to put its old project
into execution, and that Tahir Pacha was ordered to
sail to Tunis, after having put an end to the insurrection
of Candia. France, faithful to the same policy, has
again tried to hinder the re-action so much desired by
the Porte. For this reason M. Leray was sent a few
weeks ago to Tunis with an imposing naval force; and
Tahir Pacha, convinced of the inutility of his sailing thither,
t abandoned the idea, and returned to Constantinople. Now,
why has France intervened ? Why does it prevent
Tunis returning under French domination? France,
which insisted so much upon Mehemet Ali's preserving a
certain independence in his relations with the Sultan,
could not, without inconsistency, abandon the Bey of
Tunis. Here France has a more direct interest than in
,Egypt. The regency of Tunis touches the Beylick of
Constantine, where our dominion is now settled. It is
of great importance to us that the master of Tunis
should not be subject to the Porte. If, in fact, the Porte
1. reigned as sovereign on our frontiers of Constantine, it
would be a bad neighbourhood for us ; we would be in
continual quarrels with it, and, what is worse, with all
its protectors. Hence, a permanent chance of
difficulties, and perhaps of collisions. Add to this,
that the Arabs of this part of Africa are not
of the same religious sect as the Turks ; they
recognise as their chief the Emperor of Morocco, whilst
the latter regard the Sultan as the legitimate successor
of the Prophet. If these two sects were put in contact,
a terrible war would take place, a hich would add to all
the cause of subversion which we are striving to put an
end to, and would probably force us to intervene. The
result of this intervention would be, that we should have
both enemies upon our hands; in any case it would delay
two years the pacification of Algeira, which we are so
desirous to bring about. This simple exposure of facts
suffices to explain the French policy, and to justify it.
Besides, for the moment the Porte has abandoned all
projects against Tunis; now the object of our diplomacy
must be to bring about serious and definitive settlement.
And our sea forces must prevent it, as they have donetwo
or three times, if.any attempt is made.
BO URSE—PAR 18, MONDAY, OCT. 4.

Higheit Lowest
eLest

Pelee Price. Fru,. Price
;..tench 5 per Cent:. ex. div 114 73 ... :11 80 ... 114 :53 —ll4 53
4 per Cents in 20 ... 67 20 .. 57 2ii ... 117 20
3 per Cent.... ...... , 79 50 ... :1) 65 ... 70 50 ... 79 35
;lint. 01 franc,-
Laffitte 4!ank 5,11en4 flares :075 ...5075 ...1.07. ...5070
rs...gixii Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
a eer Cent:., 1840 164% ... 103% ... 1047, ... 11,5%
ii,iiish Active :3% ... 2:ly, ... '.:1% ... 23..
Passive 5% ••• hXt !)% WI
s:eapolitan
Rinnan '
eAii w A 1 St' A ItlF3t.
Versailles. Li' 2lO .. 210 ... 203 75 . 203 75
it ti
Ronan
Mulhansen to 'I hann...• .415 ... 405 ... 405 ... 4 5
,J.l--....a. 481! ... 480 ... • $3 ... 480
:itr.ishiiriz tt,Baii ,shares reel. ZS .. .35 . 237 50 ... 237 50
r,

His Grace tjie Duke of Wellington, the Right Hon.
Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley,
Sir James Graham, and other Members of the Cabinet
left town this morning for Windsor to attend the Privy
Council, which was to be held by her Majesty at half-
past twelve o'clock, at which it will be decided when
Parliament is to be prorogued. Her Majesty and suite
will arrive at Buckingham Palace on Saturday next from
Windsor.