The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

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THE ORANGEMEN AND EARL DR GREY.—The
quarrel is made up. The Lord Lieutenant, stt3'6
the Dublin Evening Post, requested an inter-
view with Mr. West—asked forgiveness, and ob-
tained it; and, soon after that gentleman had lett
the Viceregal presence, the humiliation of Lord
de Grey was placarded in a flaming " leader" of
the Mail.
THE NEW POLICE.—A case was tried before
Baron Alderson yesterday, which bears out the
view we have often been compelled to take of
the conduct of the New Police, and more parti-
cularly of their unaccountable propensity for im-
prisoning the innocent rather than the guilty.
A master-tailor had been given into custody by a
drunken man, on a charge of begging, for which, it
appears, there was not the slightest foundation.
The accuser was allowed to walk away, and the
other was shut up in a cell for the night, marched
through the streets next day to the police-office,
and, on being brought before the Magistrate, was
instantly tliseharged. .--For this he .brought an
action against the person who had given him into
custody, and got a verdict for 20/. damages. But
the chief offender, Inspector Maude, who took
the improbable iarge, escaped with only this
well-timed rebuke from the Judge, which we
recommend the Commissioners to have printed
in large characters and hung up in every station-
house :
Baron Alderson—When you have doubts in
future, exercise them for the purpose of keeping
people out of prison, not for putting them in.
If you had exercised any discretion, or the least
common sense, this matter would never have
been heard of,"

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.
There \sere few public sales, and but little business
was done by private contract. Prices were, however,
sustained in almost all instances. Raw Sugar was in
fair demand both by the grocers and refiners, and about
500 hhds. and tierces West India sold at full prices ;
some parcels of white Bengal sold at 70s. to 71i., and
fine yellow Mauritius at 645. to 665. 6d. per cwt. Re-
fined Sugar was in good request, and prices were a shade
higher for fine samples. In Coffee it was difficult to
effect sales, except at lower prices. Rice dull of sale,
and lower prices would be accepted. Pepper difficult of
disposal at former rates. Cassia Lignea very firm in
price, and in good request.
TEA MARKET.
The prices were steady, but without any activity in
the market.
Corn- ''s Congou at 15. 10d. per lb. cash.

TALLOW MARKi:T.
The prices were barely supported, and the market was
dull. Shall parcels of fine yellow Candle were taken off
at 465. 6d. to 465. 9d. per cwt. The arrivals are large,
and the deliveries fall short of former rears.
SPIRIT MA EKE'.
The Rum Market was firm, but the demand was dull,
and the sales confined to some trifling sorts of proof
Leewards, at Is. 11d, per gallon. Brandy in fair demand,
and very full prices were realised, especially for fine
old brands, which are getting scarce. Geneva quiet, but
not cheaper.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
The supply-was large, and the demand very middling
except for the fine qualities. The middling and ordinary
sorts scarcely saleatj!,,? Prices tritlwut alt:rntion.
Clover, 31. to 5/. 183. Hay, el. to 44 19s. ; Straw, IL
1213. to 11. 16s.

AND
Optnion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The text of a navigation treaty between Greet Britain
and Sardinia, on a footing of the most perfect equality,
will be found in another part of The Sun. It is for a
period of ten years from the date of its ratification, which
was the 16th ult. The substance of it might be given
in a sentence. English ships in Sardinian ports, and
Sardinian vessels in British ports, are to be treated re-
ciprocally, as native vessels, in all that regards tonnage,
freight, pilotage, quarantine, lighthouses, and signals.
The Courrier Francais has the exceeding littleness to
indulge in a fit of vituper/itive spleen, because Count de
St. Aulaire had the good taste,; at the Lord Mayor's
dinner, to compliment the company in the name of the
diplomatic body, on the good understanding subsistingbe-
tween England and France. "As to the French readers,"
says the Courrier Francais, "it is enough for them
to know that our Ambassador has used language and
uttered sentiments, in the name of the French nation,
which it cannot sanction. M. de Saint Aulaire offered
himself as a guarantee of the feelings of friendship and
fraternization which, he says, France still entertains for
England. It is quite evident that M. de Saint Aulaire
arrives from Vicente and has passed hastily through
Paris. The slightest inquiry into the state of public
opinion in France would have proved to him that the
feelings of the French nation are not such as he has re-
presented them to be." Since the Gourrier Francais be-
came the Oracle of M. Thiers, we doubt its representation
of the state of public opinion in France ; and, notwith-
standing its article, which we now notice with contempt,
we give the Frenchnation full credit for the kindly feeling
towards us expressed by his Excellency the French Am-
bassador.
The Journal des Debats condemns the treatment of
the political prisoners at Toulouse, and trusts the re-
port of the indignity of the iron collar is unfounded.
We stated some slays ago that France was indignant
at the abolition of the Fuerns, because that measure
would injure her coptraband trade with the Basques.
The Constitutionnel of Friday last denied this and ac-
cused us of ignorance. Hear now what the Sentinelle des
Pljrenees of the 11th says, quoted in the Constitutionne/
o Saturday :—" The people of Bayonne-are busy, night
and day, packing up goods to send them to Spain, be-
fore the tariff made by Espartero's. Government comes
into effect." What answer will our Paris Contemporary
make to this plain announcement? We happen to know
quite as much about the Basque fueros as the wise men
of Paris.
From Madrid the news is of the 7th inst. The Juntas
of Valencia, Alicante, and Barcelona had dissolved. in
obedience to the commands of the Government. The
Junta of Barcelona had declared itself willing to dis-
solve the instant the citadel was dismantled. As
General Van Helen threatened the town with a large
force, it was feared that a conflict was inevitable.
Punzac OPINION.
The recent appointment of Mr. Warren to the vacant
Queen's Sergeantship, which has created such a stir
among the Dublin lawyers, forms the subject of a lead-
ing article in the Advertiser, which observes :—" Some
of our Contemporaries have been discussing with con-
siderable animation the conduct of the Government in
appointing a Mr. Warren, instead of a Mr. West, to a
vacant Irish Sergeantship. When there is an oyster to
be disposed of and a lawyer in the way, we, all kpae
what will become of the fish, whatever mity:be,done.
with the shells ; but when there are two Leal* Geri-
tlemen with their eyes intent upon the same veforsei7—
" when Greek meets Greek "—there is sure he -a
struggle of no ordinary kind, and the big wig getS'
the oyster is likely to have the shells pitched, after
by the adherents of his unsuccessful competitor:; It
.epe
pears that Mr. West has been a most active pal-aye-reef
the Tories, putting down his money like a man for elect
tioneering purposes, and persevering, obstinately, like
some other animal, in throwing every possible difficulty
in the way of the Liberals."—We are heartily glad that
Mr. West has been unsuccessful, fur he is well known
as a determined partisan of the Tories ; and the very
circumstance of the Government supporting the claims
of such a man, shows that it is by no means so liberal
in its policy as it professed, and still professes to be.
Mr. 'Warren, the successful aspirant, may not be all that
could be desired, but he is at any rate a sounder lawyer
than Mr. West, and is not, so far as we have heard, so
determined a Tory partisan.
In an article on the subject of capital punishments,
suggested by the execution of Blakesley yesterday for
murder, the Times makes the following remarks:—" In
France the crime of murder is much more frequent, and
much more frequently aggravated by horrible circum-
stances of supererogatory depravity than in England.
The law, therefore, of France sacrifices the lives of inno-
cent, loyal, and useful citizens to its tenderness for those
who make war upon the human race. Nor does the evil
stop here; for the public mind is demoralized by . the
false principle thus admitted into the , national legisla-
tion; it is taught by the very authority which should
have inculcated the opposite feeling, to soften down and
palliate its natural abhorrence of murder. The refined
or the daring murderer becomes to some an object of
compassion; to others of interest ; and to too many of
admiration. With the depraved in the upper classes he
is the unhappy victim of passion or adverse fate, with
the sterner spirits of the lower, a bold adventurer, a
hero, or even a demigod."—lt is a curious and instruc-
tive illustration of the fact—in France at least—cant,
sheer maudlin cant, has had a great deal to do with the
opposition to capital punishments, that Robespierre
started on his public career with a sentimental essay,
and a still more sentimental speech against them ; and
that the Girondists were equally averse to their inflic-
tion, notwithstanding that these tender-hearted legis-
lators had no scruples in causing the death of hundreds
by their famous rise on the 10th of August, and in
winking at the September massacres, when upwards of
six thousand people were deliberately slaughtered in
three days.
The following statistics respecting our commercial in-
tercourse with Germany are from the Post :—" We find
from the statistical tables compiled by Mr. Porter, and
laid by the Board of Trade before Parliament, that the
export of British and Irish produce and manufactures to
Germany increased between the years 1827 and 1839—
and, with the exception of some accidental and tempo-
rary fluctuations, increased gradually—until, from
4,654,6181. of real or declared value, their amount in the
former year, they had risen to 5,215,1551. in the latter,
an increase of more than twelve per cent. We find,
also, from the same official publication, that the ton-
nage of British vessels that paid Sound duties, a
fair criterion, we suppdse, of our commercial in-
tercourse with that past of Germany in which
the law of the League is likely to be as strictly enforced
as ie any other, increased between the years 1832 and
1839 from 592,03 to 840,971 tons;; and that the ton-
nage of 1839, the last year included in the table, was
considerably greater than that of any one of the inter-
vening years. We find, also, that the proportion which
British vessels bore to the aggregate vessels of all na-
tions increased within the same period. Considering the
total tonnage of vessels of all nations entering die Sound
as an integer, the proportion of British tonnage in 1832
was ,324, and in 1839 ,342 ; the latter proportion being
greater than that of any intervening year with the ex-
ception of 1633 and 1838, in the former of which it was
,351, and in the latter ,848. These official statements are
not evidences of ruin to our manufacturers, or even of
decay." ,
tipeakinte.of the distress that at present so generally
exists in Paisley, the Chronicle remarks:—" The distress
is, we understand, confined to the hand-loom weavers.
The scale, according to which work Is paid, has ieng
been much' higher in Paisley than in other towns, and
many of the masters have long been in the habit of
sending work to towns at a distance "to obtain the benefit
of the lower scale. But the masters were unable to per-
suade the operatives to reduce the scale, and a number of
them have submitted longer to pay wages which they could
not afford than in prudence they ought to have done.
One fact is mentioned as a proof of the injury done
to a town by endeavours to bolster up wages—namely,
that the scale of wages of hand-loom weavers in Perth
has been raised 20 per cent. since the distress Which has
overtaken Paisley. It is clear from this that there is no
want of work in Perth, for, if there were, a rise of 20 per
cent. would be impossible. How happens it, then, that
in one town the hand-loom weavers should be without
employment, and in another the hand-loom weavers
should have so much employment as to be able to raise
their wages ? It can only be because in Paisley the
operatives persisted in maintaining a scale equally ruinous
to their masters and to themselves."
The Liverpool Chronicle observes : '4 There has
been a great fraud in Exchequer bills—and why? The
cense the Tory journals assure us, was that hateful sys-
tem of ECONOMY which has, of late years, been acted
upon by the Government. There has been a great fire
in the Tower. What was in fault? Economy again,
we are informed on the same unquestionable authority.
All th's is, doubtless, put forward as a feeler to the coun-
try. But it will not do. The people are too wise to be-
lieve that frauds and fires can only be prevented or ex-
tingoished by profligate extravagance. How the fingers
of then' T9TiCS are itching to be at their old tricks once
more I"

MONEY-Tnarm-i%3lvcryznucz.
At Bath a union has taken place between the old and
respectable banking establishment of Messrs. Tuffnell,
Falkner, and Falkner, of Bath, and Stuckey's Somerset-
shire Banking Company.
The Directors of the Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne.
and Sheffield Railway made their trip along the new
line to Godby, about eight miles front Manchester, on
Thursday last, and completed the journey in ea::
mi-
nutes. It opens for passengers . to-morrow, and the
Company propose running twenty trains a-day, or ten
each way.

COMMERCIAL REP ORM.
A Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association is about
being formed in Sheffield.

AGRICULTURAL.
Upwards of eighty allotment holders under the Sut-
ton Valence system, dined together, after payment of
their rent to Sir E. Filmer, in Kent, on Saturday last.
These holders occupy each a quarter of an acre, for
which they pay seven shillings, and they expressed them-
selves most thankful for the benefit.

ti.,.esc-nroitrEtnnTG.
A public dinner was given by the Callington Reform
Association, on Thursday last, to J. S. Trelawny, Esq.,
the son of the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. Three
hundred electors were present, and the result of the
meeting was most cheerinc, to the Liberal cause, there
having been a most decided gain in the registrations for
Callington, Liskeard, Launceston, and other places.

LAW AND POLICI.
Three boys were committed at the Hatton-garden
office, yesterday, to take their trial for stealing from
their parents, and the fathers in each instance were
bound over to prosecute.
At Guildhall a boy was committed to Bridewell for a
month for attempting to pick pockets, in view of the
gallows, yesterday.
At Union-hall, yesterday, a case came before Mr.
Cottingham, the Magistrate, respecting the practice of
refusing temporary relief to persons applying for it with
an order from a Magistrate, when Mr. Cottingham inti-
mated that for the future, if any instance of that kind
happened again, he would inflict the full penalty (51.) on
the relieving overseer.
An erroneous impression having been prevalent among
apprentices that an indenture was not binding unless a
premium had been paid to the master, a case was re-
ferred to the City Solicitor, who communicated his opi-
nion to the Chief Clerk at the Mansion-house yesterday,
in which he states that he could find no case in which
the doctrine contended for was laid down, and he was,
therefore, convinced, on referring to the different statutes
on the point, that a Magistrate had jurisdiction whether
a premium were paid or not. The Lord Mayor, acting
on this opinion, yesterday sent a refractory apprentice
to the House of Correction, to be kept at hard labour, for
a month. A number of lads, who were waiting the re-
sult, immediately scampered off to their work.
At Marylebone office, Mr. Rogers, landlord of the
Horse and Groom, Edgeware-road, was summoned by
Inspector Black for allowing drunkenness and disorderly
conduct in his house. The sergeant swore he saw
drunLren persons at the bar, and the constable who accom-
pa„ied h;2l swore he saw none, upon which the Magis •
d the charge.
tr ate dismiss,'
361,rmija.v.Y we'D
The Committee of Inquiry into the origin of the
yesterday in the Ordnance-
office fire was resume:2
before Colonel Peel :
t is said to be the intention
of the Committee to examine same scientific gentlemen
upon the probability of the fire being the result of such
T
stoves as were used in the Bowye;
owerYor. k news, is en-
Dr . Lardner, according to New
tie
ntific subjects,
gaged to give a series of lectures, ones-
during the
to the Mercantile Association of that
approaching winter.