The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUES')AY, OCTOBER 20 O.

" I will remain at my post, and act in all cases us the
present political events may require.

A GLORIOUS VICTORY

making a settlement they have unsettled everything.
The real object of the war—if object be tie,mit)cd

" I have the honour, &c.,
" F. N. S. WERRY, Consul of her Britannic Majesty,
and Aged or the East India Company in Syria."

"THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM."
It was a summer evening,

tendency—is to reverse the policy of ten years pit,
which was to counteract the ambitious objects of Russia.
The present treaty is to further all the objects which
have font,► been entertained by that graspiog power.—
Dubtin

autrrbdnyes;hem
out 1
- Oki. Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun,
Arid by him sported on the green
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll something large and round,
Which he beside the rivulet
playing there had found ;
eVn
,i t
said
h' e .
In
Ile came to ask what lie had found,
That was so large
ootllrac,
ti
euarninriaaodnll,gi,los,ses ismoothirgltesohoco,uklll:asi
about,sihl:
plough,e; round.
dui
:ne d, .
Oki Kaspar took it from the boy,'
Who stood expecrleteagatt:
rheoet:tp:l'ain in that great victors."
And,:
,rti‘,:lst( his cov.i:ilttielh
peao
~, NlN,Fllvfinoitedn'r:din felltah n con3i,m'u't7htihlonli 'seueint;G:ii
thousand
Great
For there's many
A
" Now tell us what 'turas all about,"
Young Peterkin he cries ;
While little Willielminc looks up,
With wonder-waiting. eyes ;
" Now tell us all about the war,
" And what they kill'd each other for."
It was the English," Kaspar cried,
.. Who put the French to rout,
" But what they hill'il each other for.,,
" I could not well make out. ' 1-"`3

HAMBURGLI MAIL.

- - lt is melancholy that it is in the power of a few head-
strong personages in one country to involve all other
co,ntries in the calamities of war ; it is startling to
find that civilization has done so little towards eradi-
cating the propensity to fight. A war would throw
Europe back in the march of improvement for a century
—it would destroy millions of her treasure and shod
torrents of her blood ; it would be productive of incal-
culable miseries everywhere : once begun, its end is
beyond human foresight, for fresh causes of quarrel are
sure to arise, in the pursuit of which the original
difference is forgotten. May God, in his infinite
mercy. avert its woes from the Christian world !

BERLIN, OCT. I3.—The Prussian Stale Gazelle 1
contains to-day the programme of the ceremonies to be
observed on the 15th of October. when the Estates of
the German provinces are to do homage to his Majesty.
FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, SEPT. 30.—(From the
Swabian .illercury.)—According to accounts which
may be depended on from travellers who come from
the interior of Russia, the reports of the French and
German papers of armaments and movements of troops
towards the south of the Empire are greatly exagge-
rated. Not a single battalion has yet commenced its
march from Poland. The journey of the Emperor to
the South is still uncertain. In conjunction with the
calm attitude of Austria in the crisis, we here find an
additional reason to believe that the hope of preserving
the general peace is not yet given up.
KIEL, OCT. 13.—1 t is reported here that an appli-
cation has been made on the part of the Russian Go-
vernment to ours, to know whether there would be any
objection to the Russian Baltic fleets wintering, if it
should be required in a Danish port in the Baltic. The
presence of several Russian men of war in the course
of the summer, makes the public inclined to believe tht
the Russian Government has our harbour in view.

Now is the time for Christianity to exert its iefiu
(nee, and prove its power. Now should its ministers
everywhere apply themselves to the allaying, by its
soothing mission of peace on earth and good will to man,
the excited and angry passions which, kindled without a
cause in one nation, are sure soon to be excited in the
other.--eSmncrect County Gazette.
. France has been as wrong and wayward, and after-
wards as braggart and abusive, as it is possible for her
to be—Syria has been brutally oppressed, and the Four
Powers are borind to aid the Sultan in preserving his
dominions both by treaty, humanity, and policy ; ne-
vertheless we shall great y rejoice at an avoidance of
further fighting. It is not, after all, a cause on which
to hazard so grave, so deplorable, and so much to be
avoided a catastrophe as an European beer. We repeat
our belief as well as our desire that this ccnsummation
may he avoided.— atfi)rd Chronicle.
,With respect to the immediate question of peace
or war, recent communications have passed between
Lord Palmerston and the French Government of a pa-
cific and conciliatory character ; and the question will
shortly merge into this, whether France and England
are to disturb the peace of Europe, in order to deter-
mine whether Mehemet shall, or shall not, remain
de facto the Governor of Egypt.—Carnarvon Herald.
We have already stigmatised the whole proceeding
on the part of our Ministry out of which all this alarm
and danger have grown, causing already great ex-
pense, as wholly unnecessary, and contrary to the in-
terests of England. We arc glad to fied that our
views agree with those of our most enlightened Con-
temporaries, and we arc sire they correspond with
the happiness and morality of England as well as the
opinion of the bulk of our industrious people.
We stated last week that the state pipers of
Lord Palmerston had confirmed us in our opinion
that England ought not to have engaged in such a
coarse, and aft'. s'ae ought immediately to withdraw from
it. Since, then, that state paper has been the theme of
almost unbounded eulogy by both Whig and Tory jour-
nals. It is, therefore, due to ourselves to justify our
opinion. We admit that, so far as France is concerned,
it is conclusive. It shows distinctly ant unanswerably
that France has not the smallest reason to find fault
with the conduct of England, which towards her has
been marked by moderation, respect, consistency, and
good faith. But so far as the English public is
concerned, it does not supply the shadow of a
reason why their resources should be employed, their
blood and treasure wasted, and the risk of a gene-
ral war encountered. In such a question two Go-
vernments are by the respective statesmen of both
considered as everything and the people as nothing.
Hence in Lord Palmerston's elaborate production there
is not one word to justify to the people of England the
course he has pursued. Considering the pledges on
which the Whig Government took office—Peace, Re-
trenchment, and Reform—we hold this to be a fatal de-
fect in that state paper. We are actually engaged in
war, for the lives of some of our people have been lost
in a combat, And a large force of both marines and sea-
men is employed on the coast of Syria ; and not one
word is put forth by Government to defend such a wide
departure from its principles. We spoke before of that
state paper in relation to our community, not in relation
to France ; and we repeat that it has not in one jot
altered our opinions that the proceedings of Lord Pal-
merston on this snlject were totally uncalled for, are ut
present injurious, and may be most ruinous to the coun-
try.—Brighion Guardian.

ST. PETERSBURGH, OCT. 9.—General Perowsky,
Governor-General of Orenburg, is still in this capital,
and will probably remain here a long time. Our differ-
ences with Khiva may perhaps be shortly settled in an
amicable manner. It is pretty confidently affirmed that
an Ambassador from the Khan is on his was hither for
the purpose of arranging these differences. The Rus-
sians who are detained prisoners in Khiva are to be re-
stored, and, if we may trust private accounts, are
already on their way.

" But every body-said,"-
quoth
" That 'twas a famous victory."
My father lived at Blenheim then
_ " 'Yon little stream hard by,
" They burnt his dwelling to the ground,
" And he was forced to fly ;
" So with his wife and child he fled,
" Nor had he where to rest his head.
" With fire and sword the country round
" \Vas wasted far and wide,
" And many a chilling mother then
" And new-born baby died ;
" But things like that you know must be
At every famous victory.'
" They say it was a shocking sight
" After the field was won ;
" For many thousand bodies here
" Lay rotting in the sun ;
" But things like that you know must be
" After a famous victory.
Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won,
" And one good Prince Eugene."
" Why, 'twas a very wicked thing,"
Said little Wilheltnine.
" Nay—nay—my little girl," quoth he,
" It was a famous victory.
" And everybody praised the Duke
" Who this great fight did win."
" But what good came of it at last ?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
Why that I cannot tell," said he,
" Bat 'twas a Limns vietory."—Soulkey.

HANOVEa, Ocz. 13.—We learn that after the re-
view the King will set out this evening for Berlin, to be
present at the ceremonies of the 15th.
OCT. 14.—His Majesty has been pleased to appoint
Count Von Kielmansegge, hitherto resident Minister at
Paris, to the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary t 4 the Court of Great Britain.
Hamburg Papers, Oct. 16.
HA.IIBU RG BOIISENHALLE, OCT. 16,
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Miares
A Russian Loan lO4 11.414••
uisizii 5 per Cent. tst serlcs, CGrtiticate 10n,;; 10)
Inscription, Ist Se.:ics lOl
RuAsian 5 per Cent. flop, and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 97
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2;4 pc. Cent—. ......... 43
Ditto sperCent
I'oli'h Bond.
New fieiiet
Arglo-oanisli Loan, 3 per Ceo' '7•211,
Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. —
r.ACH ANGUS ON: LONDON.
HAMBURG, OLT. 10.-1:1 3/s.—Two months, 13 IN.
STOCKHOLM, Occ. 9.—Seventy-five days, 11. iii.
PETRINBUBCI4, OCT. 9. —l2wo months, X 974, pence.
CLIRISTIANIA, OCT. 3 —Three months, 4 ISS
dELCiI AN k U NDS-11gussELs, OCT. 17.
Actual Mkt, 2i. per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent....
3 per Cent.

Thirty.seven-- •• €l 11,
Loan of City, 183'2, per Cent
Society of Cornin,rce, 4y, per Cent lO9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .............» 75
National Society .
Exchange on Condom (short)
Brussels Papers, Oct. 17.
A USTRI AN FUN US.—VIENNA, OCT. 9
five per Cents. Metalliques
Year per Cents.
'1 hrcc per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Aiken/eine Zeitung, Oct. 14

WAR OR PEACE.

(FROM THE COUNTRY PAPERS.)
What e'en England gain by such a war? Empty
glory at best, bought with battered brains and muti-
lated limbs. We may, indeed, accomplish something
more—a Europeen war, with its incalculable evils—a
result which would arrest the progress of cis ilizetion and
freedom, and fill the world with crime and misery.
From such a consequence let all good men pray for de-
livery. Both in France and in England, we rejoice to
believe that there are millions who abhor war, knowing
that they will chiefly suffer by it, that their means must
be taxed to maintain it, and that it will cause their
children's blood to flow in rivers. It is not the French
nation that is clamouring for war ; the political adven-
turers are the loudest in demanding it, and it is not to
be wondered at that the hot Goliath of France responds
to their fiery appeals,-a-Devonport Independent.
But, at all events, • wheteVer may be • the secret
wishes of Louis Philippe, the ' French people, we •he-
lieve, have resolved upon'war ; and, therefore,
war, we suppose, there . will J.C! ; and it will be
as some one has facetiously observed, 1" an immediate
war, brought on by meddling, statesmen :in their
anxiety to prevent the possibility of a ;distant war
springing out of the Eastern 4uestion." That
is, we are going to war to-day that we may be at
peace to-morrow ; absolutely plunging from the bank
into the stream, lest our boat should be, upset as we
cross it. 07. clever statesmen ! 0 ! able politicians!
Well might the Chancellor of Sweden tell us, that
it required little wisdom to preside over the affairs of
nations.—Liverpool Albion.
WAIL! AND FOR WHAT OBJECT ?—The wretched
tone of the London Press makes it peremptory in all
who are beyond the seductions of party to :•peak out—
to speak aloud for peace! There the newspapers seem
almost all engaged in fanning the flumes of hatred, and
it is difficult to say whettur the National and Univers
in France, or the Morning Chronicle and Standard in
England, have been most actively employed in the sa-
tanic work of flinging about the lighted brands of discord.
But " blessed are the peace-makers ;" and it will indeed
be a heavenly voice which can be heard for peace amid
these trumpet-blasts of war....-Manchester Times,
" War for our . holy religion !" was the cry raised
against the first French Revolution. For whit are we
now at war ? Is it our" religion"—is it our " glo-
rious Constitution"—is it for or against the slave-trade ?
British ships have entered upon a warfare in Syria, that
is likely to fan the flame of war throughout the earth ;
for every nation is interested in the question. Both
France and America are in honour and principle bound
to support MehetereCAli against the despots of the
earth.—Durham Chronicle.
The great question to be determined is, whether it
comports more with the interests of England to quarrel
with France and ally herself to Russia, or to comply
with the wishes of France, even though they be a little
unreasonable. Is the balance of power more likely to
be disturbed by ahandooing a little more or less of ter-
ritory to the Pacha, or by a general Europe in war ?
We hope that, even at the last hour, this calamity may
be averted—Carlisle Patriot.
MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.—A very distressing The people of England are interested in preventing
and melancholy scene was witnessed on Thursday morning, what now seems but too probable, and what the Whig
abort nine o'clock, in Stockwell-street, Glasgow. A pour Ministry are bringing about. Better by far would it
woman, whose husband had died in some wretched hovel have been that the cause of legitimacy had suffered—
in the neighbourhood of the Bridcgate, was seen walking that the integrity of the Turkish empire had been destroyed
behind a common barrow, on which was placed the remains —that the balance of power had been disturbed—than
of her departed husband. The poor creature, who ap.
at war trance. What is the
peered to by in a very distressed state of mind, several
times gave vent to her feelings. She was attended by her that we should be • with' '
Turkish empire to. us ? What shall we gain by the
little daughter, a girl about nine years of age. The par. " famous victory" just achieved at Beyrout ? What do
ties appeared to be of the poorest class of Irish shearers, we hope to gain by a war with the peaceable inhabitants
and a large crowd witnessed the melancholy scene, as it of China. The people of England and Scotland should
passed on its way to the churchyard. [This paragraph is protest against the act of their Government. Meetings
newspapers. And can it be really true, that in a Chris
now going the round of the Glasgow and Edinburghwith
large
E wgtyopt,n sw,
ittob d eFerl,amrecefo,
withr
tian city like Glasgow, the poor are suffered to bury their
the
smhaoiunitdenbaencheel?dfinpeaallcetl
Chine and with all the world.—Aylesbury News.
dead like dogs? A weeping widow " seen walking b '
e-
hind a common barrow, on which was placed the remains of Well-informed men have no doubt that the Ministry
her departed husband !" Oh! horrible, most berate I Where have determined on going to war with France through
were the parochial authorities, that so revolting a scene Mehemet Ali ; that is to say, they have determined on
was ever permitted? We would hope, for the sake of so dealing with Mehemet Ali, as they know, in their own
humanity, that there is some mistake in the account; arid Consciences, and intend, shall lead to a general war.
Iwe entreat our Glasgow contemporaries to see if they can- Whigs are going about saying, " This time we will par-
-1 not remove so foul a stain on the character of their city. tition France." Th.:t a political party should be taken
En. Scottish Standard.] with judicial madness, is no new thing ; and this is of it.
TIIE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.--The Jews We must not reason upon such facts, but act. The only
are now celebrating this festival ; it commenced on the object which in their insanity they can have in view, is to
12th, and ceases this day. They each take to the put a stop to the agitation for reform in England, and
Synagogue leaves of the date tree, the citron, boughs of repeal in Ireland. Their attack on MehemetAli is totully
myrtle, and branches of the drooping willow. On Satur..
without justification or temptation , and consequently
day last, being the intermediate one of the feast, a sermon it • lain the have a mark beyond. He has never
is py
was preached by Mr. Solomon, on the text " The feast of bted friend of England and
'
harvest home, at the year's circuit." This sermon Wagbeen anything but the devo
delivered in English (prayers being always read in He- Englishmen ;as all of us who have ever chanced to see
• children, can testify.
press and the ohjeet of the preacher evidently was to ire. the Pyramids, with our wives and
whom the • press on the heads of the congregation the necessity and At this moment the gallant old man,
,3 hi-ed
expediency of making public preaching a part of the reli. newspapers (the curse of hirchuis be n them) are
gious worship. i• n ' is declaring that no
calling " tyrant " and " barbar.a ,
.can binder
SOUTHAMPTON) OCT. 17.—LAUNCH OF AN Englishman shall be hurt as long as he
if hinder it,
IRON STEAMER.—( From a Correspondent.)—The iron anti inviting your commerce to his ports the block.-
steam vessel I some time ago announced as building- at aders will let it pass, though it is true that your prince-
Northam, was launched from the yard of the builders pal trade with him. which would be in corn, is cut off
Messrs. Sumners, Groves, and Day, on Wednesday last, by the tyrannical laws of our own country. His posi-
the. in
baptismal duties being performed by It.lissJane Ha to hint by solemn treaties.
ue, lion Syria was secured
sister of Mrs. Sumners, and daughter of the eminent egthe territory secured to him
lig' The Turks attacked him in
neer of that name. From the beauty of her model, and back. And then, when
by treaties, and he drove them . superior construction, she was appropriately named the t v is ripe, they attack
" Pride of the (Southampton) Waters." She is 115 feet the pear of the English Ministry With France, if
in length on the keel, and 16 feet 6 inches wide; her me- him again with a view to bring on a war
of '
dium draught of water two feet. The friends of the as in honour bound she opposes the infraction
what in
rd.solemn
o in try
owners were invited to an elegant dejeune a lafourchette, of engagements. All this is simply
which they partook during the time " The Pride" was society is called base ; and it is the some in polities.
towing round to the engine factory of her builders at me Russia, meanwhile, who covets Turkey, is gulling the
brook ; and although the power of the vessel (the Forester, fools with encoura Lement and assistance.—Sheffield Iris.
What is the ob •ect of the war
also of iron), was only six-horse power, she towed the That is ~ question
?
other the distance of six miles in an hour, and placed her ' which must be asked h Lord P..linerston, who seems to
under the shears, for receiving her bode,' and engines. have created
She is intended for the Southampton and tile of Wight ,
t has, knocked tlieir
England to Syr;4 ? They rnig 1- •
station.
heads together in those parts, as they did long enough
DEPLORABLE DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS. before, without •occueying anything
without the whole affair - t - any
thing
—On Saturday an inquest was held by Mr. Wakley, the
; more important thanrof a newspaper. We
Coroner, at the Archer public-house, Newton-street. 1 •
her
1,re,,5.0n
,I:,iamt
nave not meddled with tor •M~ -•!
------- Holborn, on view of the body of Ann Faulkerty, aged 59. r
forgot Russia
of Turkey on that SUICIDE AT W Thi
s
of the evidence it appeared that deceased was the wife I .;
Circassia we the integrity ATERLOO-BRIDGE.—
.
- • •
her cruel lawless ag m,rn lig between three an,l four o'clock, a young woman,
occasion. Neither• mind of a coal-dealer living ie Charles-street, Drury-lane. On 1 • del we n
Thursday morning last, at about eight o'clock, the de- gression,
against • which has opened the heart of aged 19 years, named Ed A'ards, threw herse:l off the City
Poland,
~, . e
model. .
...
to le in " . CW' I •
siGl 0, ater cm-bridge, and vies instantly carried away
ceased was in the act of serving some customers in the I Europe to the Autocrat. We per,' etc '
bead foremost on a heap of and many things for • • •ht have been some rec.
shop, when she fell
_.. ... coals 1 y which there might
interference.
But
1 two Indl f d bl d I her l t
years a i«. an was o iie to lease o; e-
injured her side. She was picked up by her husband, I son, right, or policy, to induce tin gay' , . e.
itigs in the Wat. Floe-road la .t n•ght, in coesequ,nee of the
l in something who, discovering that she was intoxicated, carried her into 1 barbarous remote Mehemet is engage'
~
~ .0. ~ taken
an apartment and laid her upon the bed, where he left her ,like the repeal of a union, andIlflVt• 1.1, mu
by some ofthe inhabitants i .
in vindicating tere rime- - -r-,
, sauce •i r -
s I luny,* complained of, and at a late hour la,t nicest
asleep. Her daughter on entering the room shortly after A cerdine
! pendenee of a long-plundered people. c • eiy, she was heardthat found her quite
• dead. The husband stated that deceased Lord Palmerston bristled"
up for deadly war end r• - the morning. drown herself before
to say she would
had been intoxicated every day during th. last three years. .for ten
versed .thewhole '
policy of the Cabinet
years, Mr, Turner, butcher, of Wakefield, has this
He had several times attempted to reclaim her, but could „1 .
er we had a right to make some set lenient to prevent week slaughtered a heifer, in the st.m.ch of , tech was
not. She had drank to a great excess of late, which .• '
he attributed to the maims • tance of her son robbing him future war, say the Pa'merstonists The wry to do that .011 ii 4 1,, a quantity of round s.ones, similar to :ho,, .. , •he
about three months ago of 1701. and two watches. Ver-
'would be not to have meddled at all. rl 1 ,-. Bot, in order ;0 sett ...ih ,re. one of whist weighed tee eoieede.....'l4"j“Z .
diet... That the deceased died from Mk:s3in drinking. • u i
secure peace, our dipluiadttsta have created war, a d 10 . Guv;,,,,ii„,, i

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Lord Byron's tragedy of Werner was revived last
night at this theatre, on which occasion Mr. Wal-
lack played the part of Count Ulric. His per-
formance .was a spirited one throughout, and would
have been still more efficient had he not, in places,
throWn a- little too much of transatlantic boisterous-
nesa into his manner. The audience - welcomed
him as an old favourite, and in the closing scenes.
of the play, when ,stung ,by the taunts of his
father, he boldly avows himself a murderer, gave
him considerable applause. Mr. Wailful; is a
clever actor, especially in melodrame, where his
knowledze of stage effect stands him in good
stead ; but he is deficient in that depth
and earnestness of feeling which is the
first requisite of a tragedian. Macready played
Werner, and -played it, too, with his usual
skill and judgment, Perhaps, this, on the whole,
may be pronounced his best character, for it is more
equably sustained, and exhibits less mannerism
than any of his more ambitious performances. He
never sinks below the level of his part, which is
more than can be said for his Hamlet or Macbeth.
After the tragedy, a new farce, in one act, entitled
Out of Place, was produced for the first tine. It is
lively and bustling enough, and gives Nlrs.Fitz william,
who plays the part of Sophy Sol lekins, a pert house-
maid, an excellent opportunity of disp'aving her
versatile powers. She sang two comic; wigs with
a world of archness, and delivered some common.
place dialogue with spirit and humour. The farcc
was tolerably successful, and will possibly run for
a fortnight or so. The house was full, but not
crowded.