The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-01 00:00:00

rich manufacturers, the men with some capital,
may escape, and plant their looms and mighty
engines in some land where trade is free and
the Legislature honest ; but for the poor and in-
dustrious artisans, with their -wives and families,
there will be nothing but starvation and death.
One alternative offers itself, which the dauntless
resolution inspired by despair may prompt men
to embrace, but that alternative it becomes not
us to speak of, much less to counsel.

It was officially declared yesterday that the
election for the City of London had fallen on
Mr. MASTERMAN, Sir MATTHEW WOOD, Mr.
LYALL, and Lord JoHN RUSSELL, the first and
the third being Tories, the second and the fourth
Liberals. The contest was most severe and close.
The highest man on the poll, Mr. MASTERMAN,
had only 322 above the lowest, Mr. Alderman
PIRIE, while between Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who
stood the lowest of those elected, and Mr. WoL-
VERLEY ATTWOOD, the highest of the rejected,
there was only a difference of nine votes. The
Cityis like the empire at large, so equally divided
between light and darkness that neither of the
two parties can boast of a great preponderance.
We need not recommend Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL'S short but spirited speech to the attention
of our readers. Like all his speeches, it is distin-
guished by boldness, straightforwardness, and
energy. We must, however, question passages
which sets the example of London in a more fa-
vourable light than we yesterday placed it in,
and we must express our willingness to believe,
on his authority, that his election by so nume-
rous a constituency, will be a knell of dismay to
those protected interests which have thought
themselves safe in their strength.

In another part of The Sun will be found some
report of a public dinner given at Edinburgh
to Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, the eminent novelist.
Professor WILSON—he who is always among the
first to hold out a fostering hand to genius, and
to see that it gets fair play—presided on the oc-
casion, and complimented Mr. DICKENS with a
heartiness that, coming from such a man, must
have been inexpressibly gratifying to him. Mr.
DICKENS' reply was manly and pertinent, and
exhibited the same unerring tact and sound
healthy sense that distinguish all his productions.
We have long been -among the ardent admirers,
though not the flatterers, of Mr. DICKENS; we
have watched his career with interest, and feel a
strong conviction that whatever he may yet have
done, he has yet more to do, before he has fully
developed the mingled powers of wit, humour,
fancy, and feeling, with which he is abundantly
stored.

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The leading event of Saturday in Paris, as we learn by
our correspondence of Monday, was the funeral of M.
BEnavEn, senior, father of the celebrated Legitimist
Deputy, which came in curious contrast within forty
eight hours after that of M. GARNIER PAGES, one of the
most independent men in the Chamber of Deputies.
This second ceremony, like the first, passed off with per-
fect order ; it was attended by many of the leading legi-
timists still in Paris (most of that party have fled
with the Grandes Dames" of the Faubourg St. Germain
to the watering places), and by most of the members of
the Paris bar, by whom. M. BERRYER was held in univer-
sal respect. He had been long in the receipt of a large
income from a first-rate practice, but of late year.; acted
only as a chamber counsel. Notwithstanding this he is
said to have died poor, nearly as poor as his son is, and
it is hinted that he used to spend his money, in former
days, as many an eminent lawyer has done before him
both in France and England, upon the fairer portion of

his clients.
Marshal Sou LT is said to be still anxious to get rid of
M. GUIZOT if he could find any decent pretext for
making such'a violent dislocation of the Cabinet ; and he
is reported, with probability, to be determined on sacri-
ficing M. MARTIN Dtf NORD, whose clumsy misma-
nagement of the affair of the letters—the famous letters
of the Contemporaine—has rendered him exceedingly
obnoxious to an illustrious personage. The name of
TRIERS is " never mentioned now." His' residence in
the Place St. George is shut up, and he is working at
his "History of NAPOLEON" at Lille. The expectations
of M. GUIZOT and his friends with regard to England
are, that the Tories will succeed in getting a majority
in the elections ; and their sympathies are decidedly
with that party. M. HUMANN, the Minister of Fi-
nance, finds his hands so full of business with the nego-
tiations concerning the new loan, that he has aban-
doned the odious fiscal measures he had commenced
for apparently augmenting the population of cer-
tain towns by unduly influencing the returns, and
so obtaining a legal pretext for increasing their taxes.
It is reported that the difference between his proposals
and those of the house of ROTHSCHILD amounts only to
three francs. M. HUMANN wants to get the loans taken
at 78E, and ROTHSCHILD persists in offering only 75f.
The fact of overtures having been made by the Minis-
ters to German houses at Berlin, Frankfort, &c., is be-
yond a doubt.
The Duke of ORLEANS went to Fontainbleau to re-
ceive the Duke de NEmouns, who, it is now
said, is glad to absent himself from Court in con-
sequence of a tiff with the Marshal, and another
obstinate personage, on the affairs of General BATHOU-
ARD, whose cause the Duke had warmly espoused.
The General had recommended the urging on of the
works on the continuous line of fortifications rather too
warmly, and had not laid due weight on the importance
of the detached forts. Hence his conduct was viewed
with suspicion at Court, and his dismissal from the head
of the artillery followed as a matter of course.
The Charivari publishes an amusing diary, said to be
kept by Mademoiselle RACHEL at London. The fair tra-
gedian is made to say in it that Count D'ORsAY and the
Earl of CARDIGAN have nearly had an affair of honour
on her account. And after various absurd allusions to
public men of the day, she notes down that Sir ROBERT
INGLIS has written to her to beg for an interview !
Our letters from Madrid, with papers of the 21st inst.,
have come to hand. The Hablador contains a letter from
the Count de PARSENT, Secretary to the Infant Don
FRANCISCO DE PAULA, who writes from Paris on the
15th, to disclaim, on the part of that Prince, any intrigues,
which certain journals have asserted he is setting on
foot, for obtaining his nomination as one of the guardians
of the young QUEEN. The Infant denied his partici-
pationin any such proceedings ; and declares that in all
his actions he is guided by the sole love of his country.
He adds that the Prince will always bow with submis-
sion to the decision of the Cortes. A private letter from
Madrid says that the Minister of Finance has offered the
proceeds of the sales of salt and other monopolies as se-
curity for the loan of fifty millions of reals, which
he is trying to negotiate, but his ultimate success
was considered doubful. In the Senate, on the
21st, the Committee on disputed elections recom-
mended that Don PEDRO CHACON should be de-
clared to have vacated his seat by accepting the office of
Captain-General of New Castile. The report was laid-
on the table. The Committee on the new tariff question
then brought up its report, which .was ordered to be
printed. M. CAMPAZANO put some questions to 'the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the laxity with which the
Custom-house regulations were observed on the frontier to-
wards Portugal, and asked him to give explanations on
vvhathe called" the scandalous" contraband trade in salt,
carried on by smugglers in that direction. The Minister
replied that Government had their attention turned
towards the subject, and would not neglect the in-
terests of the country. The Corresponsal publishes a
proclamation from the Municipality to the inhabitants of
the capital, congratulating them on the enthusiastic
manner in which the anniversary of the Revolution of
1837 had been celebrated, and on the good order ob-
served by all classes on that occasion. Several accidents
are mentioned as having occurred at Cadiz on the day
of the procession of the Corpus Domini—a young man
fell from a high balcony in the principal street, and was
killed ; another was run over, and severely injured. In
general the accounts from the provinces of Spain were
satisfactory. On the Exchange of Madrid, on the 21st,
there had been 27 operations effected for a total sum of
13,400,000 reals (134,0001.) in the following stock—Five
per Cents. it 26* for cash ; and at 26 13-16 15-16 to
27* * at various dates.
The Official Bulletin of Public Instruction of Madrid,
publishes the following return of the principal schools in
the province of Madrid :
Boys' Schools ............... 170 Number of
examined girls attending 2,748
Girls' ditto. ................. 97 Masters
Boys' private ditto ...... 13 Mistresses ditto 33
Girls' private ditt0......... 39 Masters not examined 77
Number of boys attending 4,909 Mistresses ditto 33
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A certain ALI BEY was the leader of this machination ;
lie is the Captain of an irregular band of soldiers in the
service of the Porte. The authorities, after having tried
him and his accomplices, ordered them to be banished to
Kars. HAFIz PACHA is stated to have sent in his resig-
nation to the Turkish Ministry, because they will not
support him in carrying out certain measures of re-
formed administration, which he considers necessary for
the district under his authority. HAeiz bears the cha-
racter of a very honest and excellent man. It will be
remembered that he commanded the Turkish troops at
the fatal battle of Nezib. The same letter says that
numbers of Turkish families in that part of the Ottoman
Empire are migrating into Russia, in order to enjoy the
benefits of a more stable form of Government, and to
avoid the vexatious rapacity of the local Turkish autho-
rities. It was supposed that some remonstrances on this
subject would be made to Russia by the Porte.
A rumour is prevalent at Vienna, that the:King and
Queen of NAPLES intend visiting the Austrian capital
this summer, on occasion of the marriage of the young
Princess, the daughter of the Prince tie SALERNO. Their
Majesties would afterwards go to Baden, for the season
AUSTRIA
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of the waters. The cause of the marriage of the Arch-
duke STEPHEN with the Grand Duchess OLGA, of Russia,
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