The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. 141.

`,manufacturers wnuld instantly begin to prepare
toe. a ibreiga market. They Would set their
mills to AVer:•, and employ mor. people. They
might never sell what they set the people to make
they might next year be worse off than they
are now ; but nevertheless a great deal of imm_-
diate employment would spring from their hope
of making sales, and a great instant relief
would be afforded to the community by the re-
peal of the Corn•laws. Nor can we conceive
anything more heartless, and more reprehen-
sible, than the conduct of those men—many
of them. belonging to the working classes, all
of them professing to wish well to freedom and -
industry---who now, at various public meetings,
even while they denounce the Corn-laws, inter-
fere to prevent a strong and an unanimous de-
mand being wafted to the Throne for their imme-
diate repeal. Whether they be Mr. FEARGUS
O'CONNOR and his disciples, or any other
class of Chartists, they now share the
Tory guilt of starving the people of Pais-
ley, Leeds, Bolton, and Glasgow. 'Who-
ever now interferes to prevent a unanimous de-
mand for the repeal of the Corn-laws is as great
an enemy to the suffering working classes as
Lord STANLEY or the Duke of BUCKINGHAM.
The Parliament, by the direction of the Minis-
ters, refuses to undo the ligatures with which it
has bound society; and those who impede the
demand for repeal, encourage arid support the
Parliament in oppressing their brethren.
Earnestly as we now press on our readers, and
as we have long pressed on them, the propriety of
devoting their attention first to procure a repeal
of the Corn-laws, we are very far from supposing
that it alone will be a remedy far all our social
evils; but, of a great number of bad laws and
institutions, the Corn-laws are those which
most immediately injure us, which are
amongst the most unjust, and which we
must remove, before we can get rid of
other• similar unjust enactments. We have no
fear that we shall ever want a grievance when
they are repealed ; but we insist strenuously
that they are one of the greitest national griev-
ances, of which it is cruelty towards the work-
ing classes not most assidously to demand the
redress. The Parliament is now to be prorogued,
and the people must consider how they can le-
gally and constitutionally redress their. mighty
grievances theinselves. • • •,' , •••

It appears probable, judging from the returns
we published yesterday and the day before of
the number of cases of, fever in Edinburgh and
Manchester, that 1838 was unhealthy and fatal
to life; and that 1837, though lesS unhealthy and
less fatal to life than 1833, was much more un-
healthy and more fatal to life than the four pre-
ceding years. The year 1837 was the last of the
favourable years. Trade suffered severely at
the close of 1836, and before the month of June,
1838, the price of food had risen considerably,
and distress was felt and complained of.
Such being the facts, we regret that the
records of the Registrar-General, whose Third
Report has just been published by the House of
Commons, do not date from an earlier period
than June, 1837. During the first year's regis-
tration, from that period to June, 1838, our
social distresses had begun; and there is
no corresponding registration for the prosperous
years, from 1832 to 1836, inclusive. We think
it Tight at once to mention this fact, because
some of our Contemporaries are publishing ex-
tracts and remarks on the Report just men-
tioned, and drawing from it all sorts of unwar-
rantable inferences.

Remembering this important fact that 1837-
1838, is included in the bad years, we shall con-
tent ourselves now with quoting one remark
from the Third Report, and one illustration of the
devastating effects of the insufficiency of food in
the following years. After making various
allowances in order to institute a fair
comparison between the mortality in the years
1838-1839, 1839-1840, and the year 1837-
1838—itself a year of more than ordinary disease
and death—the Registrar-General comes to this
conclusion. The increased mortality for the
year IS3O-1840, as compared to the year 1837-
1838, was about 7,000, and, as compared to the
year 1833-1839, 14,900. Thus, allowing for the
increase of population, a great increase of morta-
lity took place in 1839-1840 above 1837-1838,
which was itself a disastrous year. The mor-
tality of 1838-1839, was not quite equal to
the mortality of the preceding year. We
know, too, from the metropolitan weekly re-
turns, which we regularly publish, that the
mortality this year is considerably less in pro-
portion than last year, showing, as we have be-
fore remarked, that when death has been very-
busy in one year less remains for him to do the
next. So the ycars from 1837 to 1840 having
been fatal years, the feeble of all ages, but par-
ticularly the feeble young, having been carried
off in great numbers ; the year 1841, when its
character comes to be summed up—the Re-
gistrar-General stops at present with 1840—
will appear to be, in comparison with its
immediate predecessors, a healthy year. We
shall probably return to this subject, and
to the Registrar-General's Report ; we must
now content ourselves with reiterating the state-
ment, that the mortality of the year now de-
scribed in it is that it was unfriendly to life.

Accounts from. Madrid state that the Infante
Don FRANCISCO DE PAULO may be expected in
that capital in the course of the month of October.
A letter from Mahon, dated the 10th ul t.,appearsin
El Corresponsal of the 27th, stating that France
had evacuated the Military Hospital in the
Isla del Rey, 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 27i foi• cash, and 281 I at 60 days, and'
the debt witlinut interest at 5; cash.

The news from France, with the exception of
the rumours and, speculations respecting the
English and Freucli fleetsbefbre Tunis, possesses
little interest:- M.tTntEaS, since his return to
the capital,' has c-o'ki:Clei•ably modified his war-
lifze ideas aStio'ardS Germany; but, if we are to.
v
judge from an article in his Journal, he is as war..
like as ever.towanls this country. The Journal
des Debats; .'itact 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 questiorrof
disarmament to the Chambers, which are to
meet early in December.
The Gazette de France publishes a letter from Birch-
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 Bordeaux, 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.
I We find the following in the And de LI Religion :—"lt
has been stated by several journals that. on the 29th ult.,
the Feast of St. Michael, masses were asked for and pet-
formed at several churches in Paris, for the recovery of
the Duke de Bordeaux. Having sought fur fuller infor-
mation, we learn that the masses iii thanksgiing fur 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 d'E--.--7-- ab-.
soonded 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 hia 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 hi; word of honour as to the ineorreetness'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 hate .taken, in the. hopes of corning up with
him. He was one of the party-invited to shOot." : ' '
The Atoniteur Parisiem states that the oreditoil 'of

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M. Jpalrytillre(koldini..; niratings for the consideration of
his atfirs.
The Trance, suds that the Countess Lehon has rondo
sacriiico of :sercrat, hundred thousand francs fro") h- r
'own fortune, in: behalf ot' M. Lehon, the notary,, her
brother4ii=laiv. . • • '
The anntial xn6eting of the Academie ties Beaux Arts
fdr the'distrihution of prizes 'was held On Saturday. IL
Gamier, the president, tool: the chair, supported by M.
Raoul Rochelle, perpetual secretary-;' ;M: Aebdie
WUS Ll. lag° -its;ttn tif inOt bets of
theinstitatei 37:

• The last accounts fruna the island --of ,Bourbott bring
the address preseutyd !to. :the Governor 'by .the-- Colonial
Council on the 10th.;June, had 'his reply.%,- In allasion
to the slave questitin 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
,instice
with firmness; and to respect the rights of all. He. advises
the Cotincil to have cmitid6ice in the Government- and Lo
act with 'prilderice and 'Moderation. Tho Council. in
their &chin-Ss-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 Ring' of Prussia has issued an order that in future
no music, not 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 BadenLßaden gives an animated ac-
! count of a stag-hunt on the 25th ult. by the hounds of the
Count de Semale, which'Wits kept up with unabated spirit
for five hours, during which 'the chacte 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 29th, of the
stag or .boar. ...Baden is still full of visitors.
The stianll, property on which Nicolas Poussin was
born at Andelp, near -Elbeuf, on the will be sold
by oil .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 lu Drone states that the arrondisse-
ment, of Montelimart was visited, on the 26th • ult.,
and the three previous clays, 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 damage 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 two 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 fields were
struck, and suffered more or less from the action of the
electric fluid. _ _

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 fur a long time indepen-
dent of the Porte.- Their
that
with respect to the
Sultan was.analogoua of the 'Dey of Algiers be-
fore our conquest At it certain: time the Porte, wishing to
render theM more-subject fo it, deter Mined to send an
expedition against them; but, as it could not subdue
them both at once, it•tletermined to. attack Tripoli first.
A flotilla left ConstantinOple,..and landed ~an army of
Turks at Tripoli,-on. the. of May; .1 833; The in-
ternal situation of thdeconntry..favoured.the.designs
the Porte. The brother and• Son of the late Pacha dis-
puted the supreme power. The
.former was shut up in
th:! town, and the latter was in possession of the country.
The Turkish Admiral,Mustaplia 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 vizit
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 leuntined to be
subdued ; the Porte had a greet wish to subdue it as it
had dune Tripoli. Encouraged by its first success, it
sent a second squadron to Tunis, under the command of
Tahir Pacha, who had instructions to reduce the l3ey 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 tae 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 Mold; they have
always failed before the attitude .of }ranee ; in these last
times it appears that it intended to pat its old project
into execution, and that Tahir Pacha was ordered to
sail to Tunis, after having put an end to the insurrection
of Caliche. 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
TahirPacha, convinced of the inutility of his sailing thither,
abandoned the idea, and returned to Constantinople. Now,
why has France intervened ? Why does it prevent
Tunis returning tinder 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 Beyliek 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
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, which 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 tte 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 done two
or three times, if any attempt is made.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, OCT. 4.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric.. Price
e r ci‘ch 5 per tungc. OX. div 114 75 ... 114 80 .., 114 55 ... 114 55
4 uer Cents 97 20 ... b 7 20 ... 97 2,1 ... 97 20
3 per Cent,... ... 79 50 . %965 ... 111 50 ... 79 55
l of r pine,.
Lattitte blativ. 5,009 Shares t. 075 —5075 ...f.07, ...50:9
I...vian Plank ......
gelgian 5 per Cents.
5 per uent.:., 1840 104%. ... 105% ... 104% ... li=slA
i;,,insh Active 23% ... ZY ... :3% ... 23',
Passive 5% ... 5 i ... 5% .. 5)4
Neapolitan
Korean ..... IC4 ... 104 ...103% ... 103%
ItAILWAN 3HA NES.

Versailles. L. P 2lO .. 210 ...209 75 . 208 75
It A 312 50 .. 312 1.0 ... 312 50 ... 31 50
Yowls
Mulhausen to Thann ..... ... 405 ... 41)5 ... 41)5 .. 4 5
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itrasburetolial(oshares red. 235 .. :.)35 ... £37 50 ... 237 50

ANTIC I PATIO N
OF THE

OVERLAND MAIL
FROM INDIA.

The following communication from Paris was
received yesterday :

PARIS, 'TUESDAY.
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
DtFEAT 01.1 THE CHINESE,
IVACUATION OF CANTON.

MARSEILLE

i, OCT. 3.

The Oriental, which left Malta on the 30th
September, 'has arrived this morning at ten, hav-
ing on board Captain Brown, charged with de-
spatches to tlieAneen ofEugland.
The triglish forced the advanced posts of Can-
ton the 23d or 47th of May, and prepared on the
instant to attack Canton, itself. But the Chinese
caPittilLeee Th4.pay 6,00%000 of dollars. The
Tartar garrison evacuated the city on the oth
June. The English haVe again occupied Hong
Kong. ' '

PROMISSORY- NOTES.
(From Tuesday's Gazette.)
Anlkr4dECCes?ll.4tiiiiptbf lte't 0A Ba y eerargeer Aggregate Amount of Promissory
on Demand which have been in
Cireutat':'en in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those
etrculathe*Bank of England, by Private Banks, and
by 'hint Stock Binks, in England and Wales, by the Banks
in Scotland, by the Bank of Ireland, and by all other Banks
• in Ireland; and of the Av e g e mount of Bullion in the
Bank •of England,• during the Four Weeks preceding the
18th day of September,
1841, pursuant to the Act of 4 and
• 5 Victoria, cap. 50..;

ENGLAND.

Bank ofEngland £17,069,000
Prirata Banks
Joint Stock Banks 3,311,941
SCOT LA ND.

Private and Joint Stock Banks 3,09'2,549

IRELAND.
Bank of Ireland 2,N77,92.5
Pri%ate and Joint Stock Banks ...••• 1,920,906

Total £34,049,457

Bullion in the Bank of England . . R-1,803.000
stamps
and
Taxes.
ort.
4,,,1.841.11E.NRY• L. ‘VICKHAIL

'BRIGHTON BAIL AY.—Notwithstanding the
,nlRlFic h9ty,apqident:on. Saturday, public confidence has
40t,11;allt tT‘noakcn in tbe arrangements for the safety
th'q qn, this:RaikWaYl as . tested by the fact
that Monday nna_Tuesdny morning the number of passen-
gers by the uli and. doWn trains were quite as many as
on the corresponding, days of last week. We feel great
pleasure in Stating.tnat the Directors, in conformity-with
the recommendation of the Coroner's Jury, have already
discontinued the. use of 'the four-Wheeled 'engines, and
hare replaced thein •by engines of six wheels, both the
tip ,'down trains on 'Tuesday lamming being drawn by
thi3(l
ose Oftlie litter description.

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" Who runs may read."

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The steam boat Peiki Choy! let had arrived at ethiclir,
frontConstaititioffe,`bringing the Sultan's' firman, grant-
in.,4 an anrnesty'filiihe'Candiot %intents.
7.l:he.,affair of and the- `cins!stitin of disarnia-
:ment chiefly occupy the Paris Journals of Monday.
:Their tone is extremely warlike; hut. fur wile now
loause we cannot ditcover.- The view taken of the Tunis
Aitkion by-.4a Prase, the, organ of the (court, as wed
~sC~ittnt=Mole,
will he found among the ' foreign news.
iJ The Spitindle de Id -Mtly*ze, a Toulon Journal, states
.that• the return of the-Mentehello ship of the line from
!Tunis, itaS :caused—considerable excitement. It is sup-
posed that the only Freneh.ships stationo there are the
Hercule and .Neptutie,:: but reports are circulated
of the departure several vessels for -that quarter. 11
steamboat had sailed from Toulon with despatches, said to
be of.a- pressing nature, fur Commodore Leroy, off Tunis.
On Saturday died,-at. his residence in Paris, aged 63,
Grimaldi Honore V., Prince of Monaco, Duke of Valen-
tinois, Peer of France. Grandee of Spain of the First
Class, and a Noble of Genoa.
The accounts from the principal wire growing dis-
tricts in France, Burgundy, Champagne, the Ithone, and
the Gironde, are on the whole very favourable.
The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Munich.

The licanburgh Gazette of the 24th ult. states that the
object of the Conference between the Emperor of Rus-
sia and the King of Prussia at Warsaw was to take into
consideration a proposal made by the British Govern-
ment, for a general disarming or diminution of all the
fleets in Europe.
The Konigsberg Gazette calls the attention of the
European Powers to the display of military made by
Russia on the Prussian frontier.

General Maroto, who signed the Convention of Ber-
gara, by which Don Carlos was driven out of Spain, has
addressed a letter to Colonel 21ilkm, complaining of the
rias at Valencia, in consequence of ,the appointment
of two Carlist Officers, who served under him, to
military appointments in that City. Though the
General takes up the matter -a . little too warmly,
considering that one . of the officers was obnoxious to the
citizens for acts committed during the reign of King Fer-
dinand, we have little doubt that his letter will be pro-
ductive of much good in Spain. In no country is a
union of the inhabitants of every shade of opinion more
necessary to the advancement of the general prosperity
than in Spain.