The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE,
STREET.ADELAIDE-

NOON. Fen. S.
Barometer 29'425 In.
Thermometer
Ilinhesf
Lov,est
W.nd E.—Freczing Point 32 Deg.
Tic wind now is greatly moderated, but the cold is still
very intense, and owing to the sere.ity of the weather .
vast numbers of persons arc thrown out of emplolment.
The Thames above bridge is no longer navigable. The •
ice which has been accumulating for some dais past has
now so connected itself as to become one vast and coati.
nuous field. The harp s moored on either bank from
Westminster-bridge to Putney are barricaded, and many
arc a: anchor in the middle of the stream. At four
o'clock yesterday the ice was so connected at and above
Battersea-bridge that a man might have e.s.i!y crossed the
river upon it. _ _

As a proof of the severity of the weather, and a prog-
nostieatii n of its continuance, a great many sea-gulls were
observed 113ing and beveling oter b yester-
day anerne,ori ; five °Meek uokards of a dozen were
counted at one time. Large numbers of i.Lipes have, dor-
irg the week, been c.c.-n in the mar,bes ef Tottenham and
Hackney. nr.d in the adjoining low lards of E.,_scx, and
occasiundly some wild duck.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL's-YESTEr,DA

The Derhy betting received an impulse from the appearance
of a city speculator with several imp: rant commissions, and
was sustained with unusual spirit until half-past six o'clock.
Little was done on the principal favourites, but the offers on
the field rose high enough to show a marked de„line in Palwmon,
who had but a slight call of Corona,ion. Eringo was backed for
a trifle at a faLing price, and at the outside, was not more than a
couple of points in advance of Cameleen, whose part• would have
taken the same odds that were offered against Ralpf. The weight
of the business fell upon the Rosalie colt, Knight of the Whirle,
and the Duke of Wellington, 28 and 26 to 1 having been taken
to four or five hundred pounds about the first, 26 to 1 three or
tour times about the second, and 1,000 to and 3,000 to 10.1
about the Duke. Prince Caradoc was backed at 24 to 1, and
improved even on that quotat.on before the close, but.no
change was observable in Marshal Soult. The odds quoted be-
low against Sir Hans were taken twice, and those against Er-
mergardis several times, whilst Knightsbridge, so !Ad:amble
an ortsider• a few days ago, dropped successively to 2,000 to 25,
2,000 to 20, and 2,000 to 15. The general odds at the close
were as follow :

THE

13 to 3 agst Scott's lot
20 to 1 agst MI the Mare taken
IS to 1 agst Palmmon--taken
18 to 1 agst Coronation
21 to 1 apt Eringo—taken
22 to 1 agst Pr.neo Caradoc
25 to 1 agst Marsha: Soult—taken
25 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle
25 to 1 agst Ralph
26 to 1 agst Rosalie colt—taken
:30 to 1 apt Duke of Wellington—taken
30 to 1 agst Wallah
33 to 1 agst Sir Ilans—taken
45 to 1 agst the Nob
50 to 1 agst Ermengardis—taken
50 to 1 cgst Nicias—taken and afterwards offered
.5S to 1 agst Morning Star—taken
1000 to 10 agst Simoom
1000 to 10 agst Iten Brace—taken
1000 to 10 ag...t Finchley—taken
500 to 5 agat Mosque—taken
1000 to 8 agst Mustapha—taken
2000 to 15 Knightsbridge—taken
2000 to 15 agst Tonquin —taken
1000 to 7 agst Phaon—taken
1500 to 100 :tgst Rosalie colt and Wahab—taken
1500 to 1000 on Coronation agst Rosalie—taken
1100 to 1000 on Prince Caradoc agst Rosalie—taken
600 to 500 on Cameleon agst Ralph--taken
600 to 500 on Marshal Soult agst Rosalie—taken
500 even between Pahomon and Coronation—taken
CHESTER. CUt'.
6 to I agst Bloomsbury—taken
20 to 1 agst Queen Bee—taken

MR. GLADSTONE CHAIRED AT WALSALL.
—We are assured, on the moat credible t.uthcri.y, that
Mr. Gladstone was actually chaired at the clo3e of the
election at Walsall. The old Tory practice could not be
resiLted. But who would Lave thought that, slur such a
v'ctory, Mr. Gladstone would have consented to anything
irfia dig.? Who would have imagined that he would
have submitted to be chaired around a stable-yard? Yet
such was the case. The orbit in sAbich be moved was the

George Inn stable-yard. Followed or surrounded by his
committee and a few stable-boys, who had been hired to
crack their lusty throats, the farce concluded, much to the
gratification of Mr. Gladstone, who seemed dreadfully ap-
prehensive of threading the public streets, and fearful,
poor fellow, of public tumult.—Manchester Times:
SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE.—Mr. Wire, who
acecmranied Sir Moses Montefiore in his mission to the
East, landed at Dover on Friday evening. lie left Sir
Moses and Lady Montefiore at Genoa, where they were
detained by an accident which occurred to one of their
servants on the road from Geno.: to Savona. While
changing horses, in descending a mountain, the fore-
horses, not being detached from the elrrilige, moved
on ; the servant ran to stop them, lest the carriage, in
ilhicr, were Sir Moses and Lady Monte Gore, should be
thrown over a precipice, nearly three hundred feet deep,
into the sea. The horses kicked the servant, knocked
him down, and both of the carriage-wheels passed over his
body, by which an inclination was given to the carriage,
and the wheels got locked in a drain, and turned it against
a rock on the opposite side of the precipice. The escape
was almost miraculous. S:r Moses and Lady Montefiore
were unhurt ; but the servant, although no bones were
broken, was severely bruised, and his right leg was dread-
fully lacerated. Tire party returned to Genoa, where Dr.
Brunet, an eminent English surgeon, dressed the wounds
of Sir Moses's servant, whose mistier and mistress deter-
minedo not to proceed on their journey homewards until h
should be able to accompany them.—Observer.
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COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.-11 /1//
night, was with-
performance at this theatre on Saturday
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summer Night's Dream, which had. been announced for
toTte
apuudbiel,c, changded.
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calledre thecut theatrel,ou until
had
gave vent to their
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hlehorete newsuh e r eouf pn
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came forward
posted outside." Mr. Cooper
four o'clock. A gentleman
ill-
ness Madame
had bills
said the want of notice to the public had been oc-
casioned solely by the later ess of the hour at wb:ch the
time to have
.
d reached the theatre. II t
information had e egged 'at the
time to add, that checks for INlonday's
Sameperformances
would be given, or 01'3 admission money returned, to any
lady or gentleman who chose to itake an application to
-
the money-takers. This quelled the " •1, approvers,' an
the entertainments of the evening proceeded " in peaea
and quietness."
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. s.—Our
of have been very barely supplied
with samples since
'
our last, and neatly everything
n show
taken
at rather
higher prices. The stock in first hands is now reduced to
a few hundred hogsheads, and there seems every probability
of our being absolutely destitute of sur,ars before arrivals
of any consequence come to Lar d.-13) idol Mercury,
CROCK FORD'S. This celebrated socicte no
longer exists. True, the house stands where it did, and,
doubtless, the new club will long bear the charmed name
of Crockford's ; but the Crockford's is no more, and th©
late proprietor has no longer any interest in the manage-
ment or table. The millionaire retires to enjoy in peace
his princely fortune. The new club is in the hands crl a
committee.
Dr. Chanting,his lecture on war, proposeg
; in
to alter altogether the military equipments of officers and
men, to strip them of all their finery, so attractive to the
vanity of the young—to remove all gaudy colour?, all
laces, feathers, epaulettes, Sc. fee., and to adopt the most
sombre colours for uniforms, as best suited to the dreadful
trade of human carnage. 'This, be thinks, would check,
considerably, the love for military career.
We are enabled to state, that the successor to
Sir Robert Stopford has not yet been fixed on ; neither is
it intended to raise the gallant Admiral to the Peerage.
He fill not, it is supposed, return home until next sum.
,te:.—/Vacul and Military Gazette.

a Committee of Supply, move that a' statue be
erected to Sir S. SMITH at the public expense.
Lord J. RUSSELL brought down to the House
a message similar to that brought down to the
Lords, relative to Lord KEANE. It is to betake,
into consideration to-day.
Lord STANLEY gave a neat and succinct his-
tory of the transaction concerning the Caroline,
in which he stated that the question was still the
subject of negotiations between the two countries,
that the Caroline had been destroyed by the
orders of our Government, and that Mr. M'LEOD,
a Sheriff of one of the counties of Canada, was
not actually present at the destruction of the
Caroline, though his life wasat this moment, per-
haps,
in jeopardy. The Noble Lord asked Lord
PALMERSTON, as the negotiations on the subject
had commenced in June 1828, whether he would
lay on the table the correspondence relative to
the destruction of the Caroline, on the night of
Dec. 20, 1837—whether the Noble Lord had
received the despatches from Mr. Fox referred
to in recent accounts from the United States—.
whether the Government had taken any, and
what steps, to protect Mr. M'LEOD, and whether
the Noble Lord would lay all the correspondence
on the table ?
Lord PALMERSTON admitted that Lord STAN-
LEY had handled the subject delicately and cor-
rectly, but stated that, pending the negotiations,
he thought it not expedient to lay the correspon-
dence on the table, but it should appear when-
ever the affair was closed. Her MAJESTY'S
Government, the Noble Lord said, had received
despatches from Mr. Fox ; and such of them as
had already been made public through the Ame-
rican papers he had no objection to produce,
though he considered it contrary to all rule to
lay papers on the table concerning a negotiation
while it was in progress. The Noble Lord also
confirmed Lord STANLEY'S statement that Mr.
M'LEoD was not present at the capture of the
Caroline. He further stated that the American
Government had elected to treat this matter as
one concerning the two Governments, and
therefore was debarred from treating it as an
offence against its laws. The Noble Lord
further stated that instructions had been
sent to Mr. Fox, in anticipation of a simi-
lar case, eighteen months ago; that it would send
further instructions, conformably to its duty,
but he was not prepared to state what they would
I
be.
In reply to Mr. HUME, Lord PALMERSTON
' added that the American Government had dis-
avowed the acts of the Americans who invaded
the Canadas, and left them, therefore, to be
dealt with by our authorities. He repeated that
the American Government had treated this as a
question between the Governments, and was at '
liberty, therefore, till the transaction was dis-
avowed by our Government, to change its
ground, and treat it on a different principle.
The American Minister had been ordered not to
press the matter.
In reply to Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL
said that he had understood that officers of her
MAJESTY'S navy and army were employed at the
destruction of the Caroline—that some of them
were wounded, but he had not heard, as the
Right Hon. Baronet implied, that some of them
had received pensions on account of their wounds.

Sir R. PEEL rose to put a question about Per-
sia, and in the midst of it was interrupted by
Mr. O'CONNELL, who said, amidst great cheering,
that Mr. M'LEoD's life was at stake, and that
whether he were right or wrong, the House
ought to declare that it would assist the Govern-
ment in preserving him.
Mr. O'BRIEN would have followed on the same
subject, but the SPEAKER insisted on hearing
Sir R. PEEL, and the affair of Mr. M'LEOD was
at an end.

In answer the Right Hon. Baronet, Lord PAL-.
MERSTON stated that on account of individuals
the satisfaction tendered by Persia had been ac-
cepted, but that there were still some points
about territory in dispute. He would lay the
communications before the House. The subject
was dropped.

Lord STANLEY'S Irish Registration Bill was
read a first time, and appointed to be read a se-
cond time on the ,24th inst.

On the question that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners Continuance Bill be read a second time,
Mr. D'IsRAELI opposed the motion. He described
the New Poor-law as a great social revolution.
There was nothing of any value in our social con-
dition for which we were indebted to Govern-
ment, but it had destroyed the parochial consti-
tution of England for a sordid consideration. In
two years be computed that the expense of the
poor would be as great as it was two years before
the present law came into operation. He ob-
jected to the Poor-law because it immured po-
verty in a prison, and compelled it to submit to
treatment fit only for criminals, and concluded
by moving to read the Bill a second time in six
months.

Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion, and in a
long speech enforced very ably his objections to
the Poor-law. He contended that the new law
had made a very small saving ; that it had passed
on false statements; that the poor-rates had not
increased under the old law in proportion to the
increase in the population, and the wealth of the
country; and that the present law was harsh and
cruel, and was and would be attended with the
most frighful consequences. Mr. G. KNIGHT and
Mr. BUCK supported the second readinfp and
stated that they should expect alterations in
Committee.

Mr. MUNTZ and Mr. LIDDELL supported the
amendment, the latter gentleman objecting
chiefly to the length of time it was proposed to
continue the Commission.

Sir R. PEEL spoke in favour of the second
reading. He reminded the House of the con-
dition of the labourers before the present Poor-
law was passed. He contended that the present
scale of wages proved nothing unless that was
brought home to the Poor-law. He reserved to
himself the right of opposing clauses of
the Bill. He objected to the long pe-
riod for which the Commission was to be
established, and he disliked attaching burial
grounds to workhouses, for the poor preferred to
be buried in consecrated ground, on which point
the Right Hon. Baronet was elaborately great
and lengthy. He wished the unions also not to
be enlarged. He professed himself an enemy to
abuses, and desirous to consult the feelings of the
poor.

Mr. DUNCOMBE objected to the Bill that it
would repeal all the local Acts for the govern-
ment of the poor of the metropolis.
Mr. Fox MAULE defended at some length the
conduct of the Commissioners.

Sir EDWARD KNATCHBCLL, while he pointed
out one grievous effect of the law during this
severe weather at Ashford, said he would support
the second reading of the Bill, but thought its
pi °visions, to some of which he was opposed, pre-
ferring that the Commissioners should be con-
tinued for only three years, would best be dis-
cussed in Committee.

LONDON
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1841.

A message was brought down to the Lords
from her MAJESTY by Lord MELBOURNE, re-
questing their Lordships to enable her MAJESTY
to make some provision for Lord KEANE on ac-
count of his great services in India. The message
is to be taken into consideration to-day.
Lord RED ES DA LE7S Copyhold. Commutation
and Enfranchisement Bill was read a second
time.

Viscount Howtcx cordially approved of the
Act of 1834, and strenuously supported the Bill.
Captain PECIIELL objected to the Bill that it
contained no clause to bring GILBERT'S unions
under the Poor-law Commissioners.
Mr. W. ATTWOOD complained of the severity
of the law, and the refusal of all amendment.
lie despaired of introducing any amendment in
Committee, and he should vote against the se-
cond reading.

The Earl of SHA FTESBURV presented a peti-
tion from the Earl of CARDIGAN to have Sir W.
FOLLETT, Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, and Mr.
ADOLPH US, as his Counsel.
The Noble Earl also presented another Report
from the Committe on Precedents, recommend-
irg that the Earl of CARDIGAN should be allowed
to sit on a stool at the bar uncovered and without
his robes at the trial, and that he be allowed
four tickets for his friends, and admission for
professional advisers.
The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL referred to the
case of Mr. M'LEoD, who has been seized by the
authorities of New York, and imprisoned on a
charge of piracy and murder, because he was
concerned, it was said, in the destruction of the
American steam-boat Caroline, during the Cana-
dian insurrection. The Noble Earl stated that
he had understood that Mr. M'LEOD was not one
of the party concerned in capturing and destroy-
ing the Caroline. He inquired of Viscount
MELBOURNE whether Government had received
any information on the subject?
Viscount MELBOURNE replied that the Go-
vernment had received information of Mr.
M'LEoD's arrest; and that Mr. Fox, our Mi-
nister at Washington, had demanded his libera-
tion. The American Government replied that it
had no power to order his liberation, as he was
in the hands of the authorities of New York. The
Noble Viscount declined to state what steps her
Majesty's Government meant to take, but he
assured their Lordships that everything should be
done to save the life of a British subject, and up-
hold the honour of the nation. Their Lordships
adjourned.
in the Chimons Mr. SMYTHE for Canterbury,
took his sprat. Our former announcement that he
had taken his seat at the same time as Mr. GLAD-
STONE wag premature.
A new writ was issued for Richmond (York- '
shire) in the room of Mr. SPEIAS, accepting the
Chiltern Hundreds.

Sir E. PiLmER believed the law required
amendment, but that the Bill would not effect
what was necessary ; he, therefore, should not
vote for either the second reading or the amend-
ment.

Mr. LANGDALE would vote for the second
reading, but would in the Committee take means
to procure for the members of every religious
persuasion the same facilities for the exercise of
their religion.
Mr. H. JAMES said the new law had worked
well in Cumberland, and the poor were better
taken care of than when they were put up to a
Dutch auction.

Mr. FIELDEN of course opposed the second
reading, and objected to the Committee of last
year that it was partial.
Lord JoHN RUSSELL wound up the debate, and
defended the law against the observations of Mr.
WAKLEY. He contended that the efficiency of
the Commission would be impaired by limiting
its duration to five or three years. The House
supported the Noble Lord's views. On a divi-
sion, 201 were for the second reading and 54
against it.
Mr. WAKLEY gave notice that on going into
Committee, he would move to divide the Bill
into two parts.
The Committee on the Customs Act, to take
into consideration the duty on East India Rum,
was postponed till Friday.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland obtained
leave to bring in a Bill to abolish arrest in per-
sonal actions (Ireland); and a Bill to facilitate the
recovery of Tithe Composition Arrear (Ireland).
The Administration of Justice Bill was brought
in by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and read a first
time.—The House sat till One o'Clock.

The part of Mr. O'CONNELL'S speech on Lord
MORPETH'S Bill which was most effective, was
that in which he reminded the House that the
country might be plunged in war, and might
want the assistance of Ireland. The discussion
in the House of Commons last night, in reference
to Mr. McLEop, must have awakened, we appre-
hend anxieties that have long been slumbering.

Several petitions were presente _l,eh i ac air st
the New Poor-law.
6ir F. BURDETT ga ;e notice t't e would in

The language of Lord PALMERSTON appeared to
us of ominous import. Lord STANLEY and the
Orangemen may be assured that the em-
pire cannot afford just now to throw Ire-
land into rebellion. Mr. O'CoNNELr. struck
the right string when he made the fears
of English gentlemen vibrate, and we are not
sure that a similar string, were there a master
hand to touch it, might not be made to vibrate to
the very heart of England. Here there is at
least as much, we believe there is great deal
more, political discontent than in Ireland, though
it may want an English O'CONNELL or a modern
WAT TYLER, to organize it into a power formid-
able to the Government.

Look, says Mr. MARSHALL, in an excellent
letter to Earl FITZWILLIA3I, published in the
Leeds Times—

Look at the condition of the agricultural labourer : enter his
bale cottage ; fee him striving to maintain himself and family
on the pittance of seven shillings a week. Consider what are
his sad prospects in life, on the very verge of absolute death by
hunger ; a single step, if so much, out of the poor-house ;
no hopes of amendment, of better or happier days;—as has
been his youth, so will be his comfortless old age,

Look again at the crowded streets of our great manufacturing
towns, peruse the various statistic accounts by impartial ob-
servers of the terrible destitution, the feerful want, disease, de-
gradation, misery. physical and moral, in every shape, that
reigns there. Look at the wan and haggard faces of the work
people that come into our Courts of Justice, that attend at our
public meetings. See how the very race of Englishmen is
dwindling down and degenerating under the effects of the un-
remitting labour, the insufficient and unwholesome food that
their country's laws allow them to enjoy.
Then adverting to the growth of democracy in
Europe, the onward movement of which is irre-
sistible, he says—
Stand aloof from it with unmanly fear and suspicion, refuse
to speak to it or understand it, treat it with mixed hostility,
contempt, and dread ; then e.rpeet war, and the result, a little
sooner or a little later, that aristocracy and monarchy, with hi-
deous confusion- and fierce violence, will be overwhelmed and
swept away.
Aye, stand aloof from it nobles, deride it To-
ries, go on plundering it landlords, tell it to be
patient with starvation, as the work of GOD,
priests, but do not expect its aid when you get
involved in difficulties and war. When that time
comes, and the Tory Press seem anxious to hasten
it on, then will the Chartists, and all the half-
starved, openly plundered, and discontented mil-
lions arise in their might, their iron-hearted and
iron-headed leaders will not be wanted, and then
the priests and the landlords, the Tories and the
nobles, will cry out for help, and there will be
none to save them. Then will they wish, but
wish in vain, that they had been righteous,
just, and honest, that they had made timely con-
cessions to the demands of the multitude, and
treated them like equal and free men. Depend
on it, whenever a foreign war is forced on Eng.-
gland, a civil, or rather, a servile war will be its
accompaniment, unless justice be done to the
masses, and those who will not now share the
franchise, or abstain from making laws to plunder
the people, will then have to contend for their
property and their lives. Either the disfran-
chised and injured multitude, if they receive no
redress, must be reduced to complete slavery,
and kept in awe by whips and swords, or they
will bring about, as Mr. MARSHALL says, a vio-
lent revolution. May GOD inspire the hearts of
ther aristocracy with fear now, and make them
'speedily do justice, in order to save them from
destruction.

The nomination for East Surrey took place
yesterday, and the show of hands was triumph-
antly in favour of Mr. ALCOCK. In the evening
a meeting of that gentleman's friends was held,
and the reports from several quarters were most
encouraging. A considerable degree of enthu-
siasm prevails throughout the county, and in-
fluential men are everywhere exerting them-
selves to secure Mr. ALcocK's return. Mr. AL-
COCK cordially seconds the efforts of his friends,
and has announced his determination to give the
electors of Surrey a full and fair opportunity of
recording their votes. It will be their business
to take advantage of it, and elect him. We
trust they will. These are critical times. We
have too many youngsters in the House of Com-
mons. The public needs the services of mature
well-informed men, and the electors of Surrey
will not be true to themselves if they do not pre-
fer Mr. ALCOCK to Mr. ANTROBUS.

Copies of treaties between her Majesty's Go-
vernment and the Argentine Confederation and
the Republic of Hayti, for the suppression of the
Slave Trade have been presented to both Houses
of Parliament. The zeal with which the Govern-
ment labours to unite the civilized world against
this infamous and inhuman traffic is deserving of
the highest praise 3 but we have doubts whether
it ever can be suppressed while domestic slavery
exists. When France, Spain, and Portugal have
abolished slavery in their colonies, and when
domestic slavery is abolished in the United
States, then, indeed, we may hope to realize the
objects of the great and good men who devoted
their lives to the enfranchisement of the coloured
race. To prevent entirely the exportation of
slaves from Africa, there must be no soil to re-
ceive a human being in a state of bondage. We
can only utterly root out the traffic in slaves by
the abolition of domestic slavery, and this will
only be accomplished by it being proved to the
satisfaction of slave-holding States that free la-
bour s cheaper, and consequently productive of
more profit, than slave labour. This proof—
better than a thousand abstract arguments on
the injustice of depriving men of their liberty by
brute force—England, we trust, will be soon in
condition to supply from the example of her
own colonies.

to 170,000,0001., having been more than doubled within
three years. The total expense of the management of
thee entral establishment. including salaries and ehargts
of all kinds, was only 971,0001 , being a reduction on
183 of 49,000 f."
M. Moreau has been re-elected censor of tie Bank of
France for three years, and Messrs. J. Perier, Doane, and
Lebeuf regents fur five years.
The Lyons papers mention that several small failures
have just taken place at Cbalons-sur- Saone, and have
caused much uneasiness among the merchants and dealers
of that place. _ _

The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on
Thursday with the Customs' Bill. The followino,
summary of an article in the Presse on the sub-
ject of this Bill is important, as expressing the
enlightened views of one portion of the French
Cabinet :

The present French customs law is founded nn the
principle of prohibition, more or less disguised under the
name cf protecting duties. The great argument upon
which this system is founded, is that France ought to be
protected, according to the economical jargon of the pro-
hibition school, from the consequences of becoming tribut-
ary to foreigners. Nothing can be more absurd than the
system of prohibition which wishes to force the nation
to produce at an enormous cost what might be purchased
elsewhere in greater quantities, of better quality, and
cheaper. With certain exceptions, nations ought to confine
themselves to cultivating or producing such objects only
as are suited to the nature of their soil and the genius of
their inhabitants. It is only society in its infant state which
endeavours to provide itself with the objects of second
order as well as the objects of first necessity. A nation
which would obstinately persevere in such a ruinous and
chimerical course might be compared to an individual who,
notwithstanding the resources which the various pro-
fessions afford, would endeavour to become his own
tailor, hatter, and shoemaker. Such, to make use of a vul-
gar simile, is precisely what France has done, thanks to the
system of prohibition. Under pretence of not becoming
tributary to foreigners, she has laid an excessive duty on
articles which might be obtained abroad at a moderate
price, in order to produce those articles herself by artifi-
cial and expensive methods. The consequence of thi
system has been, that foreign nations have refused to re-
ceive French produce, and thence have arisen an over-
stock of produce at home, commercial difficulties, and in-
cessant derangement in the material and political condi-
tion of the people. The Bill to regulate the Customs'
duties now under consideration in the Chamber of Depu-
ties involves many important questions, such as the im-
portation of cast metal, coal, spun flax, linen, &c.,
which it is to be hoped that the Chamber of Deputies will
give snore attention than in former years.
The following paragraphs include all the gene-
ral news of any interest in the French Jour-
nals :- -
LIBERATION OP THE JAMES WATT STRAMEk.—The
Gazelle des Tribunal's states, that on the 2d instant, the
Cour Roj ale of Rouen, on appeal, had reversed the judg-
ment of the President of the Civil Tribunal, who on the
complaint of the French Company, owners of the steam-
boat Phenix, ordered the British steam-boat, James Watt,
to be reized as security for the loss of the Phenix, sunk by
a collision with a steam-boat belonging to the English
Company. The James Watt has, in consequenc:. of this
judgment, been permitted to sail on her usual service.
Tea FRENCH FLEET. --We quote the following from a
Toulon letter of the Ist inst.:--" On the day after the first
division, consisting of the Ocean, Admiral Hugon's
flag-
ship, the Jena, Neptune, Triton, and Genereux, went out
of port, it was dispersed by a violent gale. The day be-
fore yesterday the Genereux reached the Island of Hyercs,
having lost several of her men, and a considerable part of
her sails. Captain Verdier has had his shoulder dislocated.
The Genereux can give no account of her consorts."

Madrid Papers of the 29th ult. have come to
hand. Among the many grave affairs that em-
ploy the attention of the Regency, we find that
of Court notices, prescribing the order in which
the Grandees of Spain were to attend a Levee to
be holden by the Most Serene infanta MARIA
Lo VISA, sister of Queen ISABELLA 11., on the 30th
ult. The Infanta LOUISA is a puling, punny child
of nine years of age, whose infantine caprices
occupy the grave heads of the Regency ! In the
land which commemorates the martyrdom of
RIEGO, this display of devotion to the most con-
temptible forms of despotism is really too bad..
But, perhaps, we mistake the object of the Re-
gency, which may be to render Court etiquette
as contemptible as it is silly and vexatious. If
such be their object they are going the right
way to work ; end that it really is, would appear
from an article in the Castellano, which states
that intrigues were on foot for the establish-
ment of a. republic. The same Journal of the
29th has the followhig account of the state of
the Money Market :
The funds continue to decline, arising, no doubt, from
the news from the provinces, where the state of things is
regarded in a different light from that of Madrid. The
vacillating nature of public tranquillity,the impotent and im.
provident Government, the oppressed state of the Treantry,
and the ill-managed division of the revenue, are sufficient
reasons for speculators to take alarm, and to lose confi-
dence. The present .disorder is a sad guarantee for the
future. In the Four per Cents. twenty bargains were
effected at 241 at sixty days, the New Five p r
Cents, forty-one operations were transacted for 28,480,000
reals, at 281 for cash ; 29 1-16, A-, 3-16, and 30, at sixty
days; and at 28*, 11-16, 13-16, 15.16, 29k, and 30, at
different periods. In the debt without interest business
wag done at 61 for cash.
BO llskSE.---Pants, FEIDAY, Fan. 5.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price Price
French 5 per Cents ll2 55 ... 112 70 ... 112 50 ... 112 60
4% per Cents...— 10..1 50 .. 102 50 ....10.2 50 ... 102 so
4 per Lento
t
3 per Cents 7- 76 70 ... 70 65 ... 76 65
)lank of rrance
I,llitte Bank 1.0001. Sh lOlO ...1150 ..1050 —lO5O
50001. Skares 5140 ...5140 ...5140 ...5110
tlelgian Bank
5 per Cents 99% ... 99% ... 9.41 ... S'llla
3 per Cents 6B 10 ... 68 10 ... 68 10 ... 68 10
New Loan 967i .. kiti ... 148• U ... 1;8%
Spanish Active l's;,', ... 2;4,, ... 25% ... 15%
Passive 6% ... 6% ~. 6% ... 6%
Neapolitan
Roman .... 1(10% .. 100% ... 11,0•74 ... 106%

EAILWAY SHARES.
St Germain ..
Versailles.R. B 450 ... 153 75 ... 450 ... 453 75
L. 8........ .....
Orleans ..
'krlsnurg to Bale
Reuen 467 50 ... 467 50 ... 467 50 ... 467 50

The Paris papers of Thursday and Friday have
arrived, but those of Saturday have not yet reached
us. The Moniteur of Thursday published the
following official despatch, confirming the news
from Egypt viven in the Evening edition of The
Sun of Saturday : _ _ _

We have received Belgian and German Jour-
nals of the latest dates. The following are ex-
tracts from them

" Alexandria, Jan. 23.
'THE CONSUL GENERAL TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN

AFFAIRS.

" The Turkish fleet has entirely left the port of Alex-
andria this day. News had been received of the arrival
of Ibrahim at Ramie, not far from Gaza. His army
must now be on the Egyptian territory. The Envoy of
the Porte has informed Mehemet Ali that he had learned
that the fii man granting to the Pacha the hereditary in-
vestiture of Egypt, had been signed by the Sultan. All
the engagements that have mutually been agreed upon
are consequently fulfilled."

Notwithstanding this satisfactory solution of
the Eastern question, France is relaxing none of
her preparations for war. Already have these
preparations cost her a sum equal to twenty-
nine millions sterling!
On Thursday the Committee was appointed
to examine the project of law demanding a mil-
lion of francs (40,0001.) for secret service. As a
vote for the secret service Bill is tantamount
to a vote of confidence in the Government, M.
GUIZOT has no reason, from what took place on
Thursday, to suppose that the passing of the
Fortifications' Bill has in the least weakened
his majority. In fact, on no occasion since the
meeting of the Chambers was his triumph so
complete, as not a single member of the Oppo-
sition was appointed a member of the Committee
on the Bill.

BRUSSELS, FEE. 4.—We learn that the Ministe'r of
Public Works is engaged on the means of introducing into
Belgium one of the greatest improvements that have been
made in our time, namely, a uniform rate of postage to
letters. A principal clerk of the Post-office was sent a
short time ago to England, to study the new system : his
report is said to indicate the mear.s of introducing it
among us, but with modifications, which would preveLt
the enormous diminution of the receipts which has taken
place in England. M. atogier will thus have the honour
of introducing the two greatest measures which have taken
place in the administration of Belgium—the com-
pletion of our rail-reads, and a reduced uniform rate
of postage, which France has just rejected.
We must confess that if the representative system have
the serious defect of wasting the time in debate, the Bel-
gian Chambers, which talks much, at least finds time to
do something. I- is not the case in France ; there
nothing or less than nothing is really done, for the erec-
tion of the fortification is spending its money in the
worst possible manner; they might as well make ducks and
drakes with it.

The frost was very severe during the night. This morn-
ing the mercury in Reaumer's thermometer was 9 below
zero. All the canals are frozen over, so that the navi-
gation is totally stopped, for the second time within two
months.
BRUSSELS, Fins. s.—The King will set Gut to. morrow
for London, where ate is,expected on Monday. He is to
be one of the godfathers to the Princess Royal of England,
whose christening is fixed for Feb. 10.
M. Von de Wcge, who has been here on leave of ab-
sence, lest Brussels to-day with his family to return to
his post.
VIENNA, JAN. 27.—Major-General Von Hess, who has
lately returned from the south of Germany, is on the point
of setting out for Berlin, to confer on some points not suffi-
ciently discussed relative to the measures which have lately
become necessary in Germany.
BELGIAN le UNDS—Baussimr, rals. 5.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Ccnt. .....
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Se%
(LP) 97
••••=••••• 3 per Cent. ......
—Thirty.seven-------•.• 88)i
Loan of City. 16.3 e, 4 per Cent. B9
Society of Commerce, 4 Wer Cent
Bank of Belgium, 5 per 87%
National Society . ...........
Exchange on Londoit (short)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 5.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS,—VtruirrA, JAR. 17

It was understood in well-informed quarters in
Paris, that M. GuizoT had addressed diplomatic
notes to the Four Powers, stating the terms
upon which France would adopt the Treaty of
July. These were the closing of the Straits
of the Dardanelles against vessels of war
of all nations ; the grant of the Pachalic of
Egypt in perpetuity to MEHEMET ALI; and gua-
rantees for the better government of the Chris-
tian population of Syria. Considering that these
propositions were made before the submission of
MEHEMET ALI, they are sufficiently reasonable
and moderate.

Count D'ARGOUT, Governor of the Bank of
France, has just made his annual Report to the
proprietors, of which the following is a sum-
mary :

Five per Cents. Metalliques
Foot Per Cents• %M. • M.. 0000000000 •••••••••••••• 0000000 09 00000 100
Three pa Cents.
Bank Shares IC36
.....111remeine Zeitung, Feb. 1
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, FEB. 5.
Money. mi.,.
tetual Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Ainest Syndic, 43a per cent 866, 874(
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent 7034 71
Commercial Company, 444 per cent 'sB* 160
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan lii37, 5 per cent. 04% 95
Exchange on London, One month l2
Two months
Dutch Papers, Feb. 6.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, FILL 2.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1620 161
Anglo-Russian Loan .. 106% 10634
Russizn 5 per Cent. Ist series, cs.rtilicate ...... 10234 102%
Inscription, Ist Seiigs lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop,: and Co. ad and 4th
Series ol:3a 96
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 46
Ditto b per Cent —
14!•34
Polish Bondi
New 1 icket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Ur.
NM wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Can:.... lOl
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB%
e.:XCH ANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, FEL :.-13 s.—Two months, 13 3
STOCKHOLM. JAN. 2 3.—SOventy-five days, 11. :_ 8.
CMRISTIANIA, JAN.2O —Three months, 4 50
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, FED. 2.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 449 per cent. lOl% 11.3%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 100% ItO 'A
Exchange on London, three months -- 6 17%
—Prussian Slate Gazelle, Feb 3.

" The total amount of operations for the Central Bank
and its branch banks was 2,915,000,0001., giving an in-
crease over 1339 of 7,000,0001. The dividends of 1840
have amounted to 139 f. on each share (originally 1,20010
vlo
being sf. less than in 1839. The total value of the ad-
vances
on bullion,sutonana
lco w
npaansie3s4,9h,6o6ld7e,orscooff.,rebnetiengs,
on an
inceisnt andbonds, a
87,789,0001. more than in 1839. The discounts amounted
to 932,280.0001., being 121,417,0001. less than in
1839. The greatest amount of bills in the bands of
the Bank at any one time was 201 millions in January -
and the smallest 130 millions in June. The num-
ber of commercial bills of exchange discounted by the
Central Bank is stated to have amounted to 610,600,
being 27,800 less than in 1839. The average amount of
this value was lowered, too, from 1,6391. to 1,5171., and
the average time of their maturity from 52 2.3 days to 66
4-srb days. Out of this number of bills 266,024 were from
I,ooof. to 200 f. .in value, and 63,247 under 2001. The
accounts current varied from 54 millions in January to 90
millions in October, and fell again to 61 millions in De
cember. In January, the Treasury was creditor of the
Bank for 170 millions ; its November for 105 millions, and
in December for 114 millions. The average amount of
the money kept in reserve by the Bank, during the
,
year, was
238 900 000 f., and the average amount
of its notes in circulation 221,900,0001. Dur-
ing the course of the year, the amount of bills upon
which payment was deferred, v‘ as only 48,493 f. ; and of
this, 32.7071. had been recovered. Two new branch
banks at Grenoble and Angoulerne, having been founded
during the year, their total number is now six ; and the
operations of the four first of those for that period, amounted

DUNFERMLINE.-This month there have been
one hundred and sixty funerals in our churchyard, which
is atm fur rim c I tl ( ttaublmortalitY.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1641.

MONEY and CO74.MERCIAL NE WS.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
There was rather a large business doing in the Fundy
to-day, if we go by the number of bargains, though iii
point of magnitude the transactions were not of importance.
Before the termination of business, the quotations had ral-
lied to about the highest point of Saturday, viz., 88i to ;I,
for Consols for money, and 88- to 89 fur the account.
There was no political intelligence to influence the value
of the Funds, which, however, continue affected by the
suspense respecting the intentions of the Chancell ,r of
the Exchequer. The bills were at ss. to 'is. premium
Bank Stock was dull at 164, and India Stock at 246. The
Reduced Three per Cents, realized 88/ to 89i, and the
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 97 to 97/-.
The Foreign Stocks were quite neglected. Spanish
Active Stock was marked 23i to 24k ; Portuguese New
Fire per Cents were at 311 for money, and 31 to 32 for
the account ; the Three per Cents. dropped to 19.1 for
money, but were at 20 for time ; Mexican Bonds of 1837.
were at 271 ; Peruvian at 16i to 16.-1-; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents were steady at 50.
The Share Market was more animated to-day.
Great Western brought 24 to 241, the Fifths 5/ to 5a , the
Manchester and Leeds 1/ to I ; the New 1 to and
the South Westesn, 18k premium ; Brighton Railway
Shares, were at 7 to 7/ ; Birmingham and Gloucester at
19/ ; Eastern Counties at 14/ ; North Midland at 25, and
South Eastern at 16 discount ; London and Westminster
Bink Shares wore at 4 prem. : and National Bank of
Ireland at 1 discount.
(From The Sxn of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The sales
of cotton to-day are 5,000 bags, at yesterday's quotations
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 6.—The Share
Market is still depressed. Our sales are—Manchester and
Birmingham, 25; Manchester and Birmingham Extension,
2/ ; Stafford and Rugby, 3* 3i ; Lancaster and Pres-
ton, 30 ; Manchester and Leeds, 70 ; Manchester and Liver-
pool District Bank, 11 A ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 10g.

Extract of a letter, per the Cambridge, from New York,
dated La. 8 :

" The Garrick is ashore about twenty miles north of
Sandy Hook. The third mate has reached this city this
morning, and reports the ship still ashore, but will no
doubt be got off with little damage. All on board are
safe, and the storm has LOW cleared up. Ship not bilged.

We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the
29th of November.

The foll9Ning is an extract from the Graham's Journal
of Nov. 19

" So many accounts ha‘e reached us from Natal, and
from the country to the west of the Druakberg, purport..
ing that a system of domestic slavery amongst the rnii.
grants is becoming very general, that it would be absurd to
affect to believe that they are altogether baseless. Ic is
affirmed that a traffic in native children is a matter of every
thy occurrence, and that the authorities, if they do not
openly countenance it, take no measures to suppress it, or
to punish those who arc engaged in such nefarious deal-
ings. We are assured that amongst the emigrants, the
sale of native servants take place under the very eye of the
Government. It behoves the emigrants to look carefully
to themselves in this matter.

SMALL Pox.—We are requested to state, for the infor-
mation of the public, that the rumour of small pox having
again appeared in Cape Town is unfounded.

From the Bombay Papers received this morning, it is
stated from Agra Uchbar, Dec. 19, that Colonel Stod-
dart Lad been released from confinement by the King, who
had ordered him to drill a battalion of infantry ; he was
then engaged in enrolling them.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of Satur-
day's date.
liouasE OF AMSTERDAM, FER. 3. —The affairs in Na
tional Funds have been insignificant; although Eorne of
the prices were firm little variation took piece. Litegrales
50 1-16. h ; Society of Commerce 1591. Iu the Foreign
Funds little has been done ; Ardoin's Spanish rather
weaker, 22 5-16ths Coupoos 201.

Cox.ols opened this morning heavy ; left off on Satur-
day at 69 sellers for the Account, opened this morning at
88, since which the AI: rket has a firmer appearance, and
they may be quoted at present 881 a for the Account;
Exchequer Bills 5 7 premium ; Bank Stock 163 164;
India Stock 245 247.

In the Foreiga Market Spanish Active rather A shade
lower, left off at 244, opened 231-, 24-k; Deferred, 124 ;
Passive, 6ii-; Portuguese same as they left off, 31i 32 ;
Three-per-Cents., 19i 20; Brazilian 721 ; Colombian
221 23 ; Mexican, 27/ 4 ; Chilian, 63 65 ; Belgian, 99
99 ; Dutch Two-sand-a• Half per Cents., 49,1, 50y ; Five
per Cents., 981 994.
SuattEs. —Great Western, 24A- 251 prem. ; New, 11
12 prem. ; London and Brighton, 74 7 dis. ; Black-
wall, 4,1 3s dis. ; Birmingham, 84 86 prem. ; South-
ampton, 57 58 per share ; Croydon, 123- per share ;
Greenwich, 84 1 per share; Manchester and Birmingham,
hif 14 dis.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.

Eastern Counties
Ditto Debentures - to
Great. Western
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and South 'Western 3eL 57:4... .. to

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland
PRICES OF IRISII STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 4.
.

3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 97b ( Grand Canal Stock ...... ...
Ditto Reduces ......
Ditto New, 1830
3i per Cent. Debt.
The private letters received this miirwrig oy the India
mail chiefly relate to commercial affairs, and there does not
appear to be any further intelligence than what has already
been published.

DUTCH AND HAfYIBUI(GH MAIL.

The Arnheiin Courant states confidently that there will
speedily be a change of Ministers, and gives a list of the
intended aryointmerits.
AMSTERDAM,F.Es. 4.—Sir Edward Disbrowe, the Bri-
tish Ambassador, gave a splendid ball on the evening of
the 3d, at which the King and Queen, and the Princes
and Princesses of the Royal family, were present. The
King wore an English Field Marshal's uniform. The
Princess of Orange did Sir E. Disbrowe the honour to
dance the first quadrille with him. All the Ministers and
chief Officers of State, the Foreign Ambassaders, and
other persons of distinction, to the number of 4CO, were
present.
The accounts from vat ious parts of the kingdom men-
tion the return of severe frost, and suspension of the navi-
gation in consequence of the change.—Dutch Papers,
Feb. 5.

HANOVER, JAN. 25.—. A report is current here respect-
ing the intention of the Government with regard to the
Convocation of the Assembly of the Estates of the
kingdom. The Cabinet, so it is said, have directed
the several Ministerial departments to confine themselves
to what is absolutely necessary in the matters which they
have to lay before the Assembly, it being intended to
convoke the Estates again during the year 1841, The
papers do not mention the health of the King, or of the
Crown Prince.—Haniburgh Papers.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN 13. —Tbe Divan is very much
engaged, and the Allied Cabinets are constantly endea-
vouring to give good advice to the Turkish Administra-
tion, and to infuse some energy into it. It is reported
in the best informed circles at Pera, that resolutions
have been provisionally taken la spectiug the future ad-
ministration of the Pachalics of Acre and Candia, which
merit a most important influence in these two pro-
vinces. Both the fortress of St. Jean d'Acre and the
harbour of Suda are to be separated from the administra-
tration of the Pacha, and to have Governors of their own,
and regular garrisons of chosen Turkish troops from Con-
stasitinople in the same manner as Belgrade. It is said
that the Austrian Cabinet proposed this measure, which
has beer, joyfully acceded to both by the Porte and by all
the other Cabinets. Thus the apprehension is at once re-
moved that England, France, or Russia might at some
time or other attempt to obtain extreme power at St. Jean
d'Acre, as the different journals have daily affirmed, ac-
cording to their respective party views.—Allye►ncine
Zeitung, Feb. 2.

It is stated that Mr. Jaudt.n intends to publish an ex-
planatory note respecting the statement of the United
States Bank, which will be sent to all the shareholders.

The British Market has been in an inactive state during
the whole of the morning; although the Market has rather
improved since the opening, still there is no spirit for
speculating ; the monied interest aro waiting to ascertain,
or have some hint respecting, the wants of Ministers.
Consols have been fluctuating from 8S to 68i, at which
price they are at present ; Exchequer Bills 5 7 prom ;
Bank Stock 164; India Stock 246.

In the Foreign Market scarcely a bargain doing except
in Spanish Active, which has been 23i, at present 24i;
Deferred 121 ; Portuguese 32 ; Dutch Two...and-a. Half
per Cents. 50 ; Five per Cents. 98'1.
In the Share Market little business doing, prices rather
lower. Eas err. Counties 74; Great Western 89i; Ditto
Fifths 91; London and Brighton 43 ; South Western.s7i.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank stock
3 per Cent. Red 896 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 88i Ditto Old Annuities
3!1 per Cent Red........ 98A Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent .....976 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 7pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ 6 pin
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 8 pin
Jan. 1660
Oct 1859 ... ...... ... India Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1860