The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

From the short debate which took place in the
House of Lords on Saturday, it is clear that the Bills
for suspending the laws affecting corn and navigation
will be this evening unanimously passed through
their remaining stages. This is prompt legislation,
combining the dictates of wisdom and humanity.
The whole empire—but especially Ireland and Scot-
land—will recognise in this rapid enactment of mea-
sures of alleviation a commendable spirit of benevo-
lence and sympathy on the part of the Legislature
with the severe trials of destitution and famine to which
they are at present so deplorably and extensively
exposed. Our earnest hope is, that the same generous
sympathy, and the like unanimity, will be found to
welcome the introduction of any comprehensive and
philanthropical plans which Lord JonN RUSSELL may
this evening submit for rescuing Ireland from the
existing social evils, and for preventing their recur-
rence. It is impossible to estimate the advantages of
the moral effect produced in the minds of afflicted
millions when they learn that Parliament
cordially and liberally exercises its powers for
the mitigation of their heartrending suffer-
ings. It binds their affections towards a pro-
vident Government, attaches them to the insti-
tutions of their country, and fortifies them to a conti-
nuance of the exemplary patience which they have
hitherto exhibited to such a praiseworthy extent, that
it properly constituted a theme of eulogium in her
MAJESTY'S recent Speech to Parliament.
We have, however, to regret, in consequence of
what has passed in the House of Commons, and what
transpired in the Upper House on Saturday, that
some considerable delay is likely to intervene before
we shall possess a law, conformably with the scheme
broached by the Government, securing to us the advan-
tages that will accrue from the use of sugar in
breweries and distilleries. The Protectionists are
desirous that this measure should be limited in its
duration—viz., to the Ist of next September. The
Ministry, on the other hand, are fixed in their opinions
that it ought to be rendered permanent. There can
be no doubt that the Ministerial view is the sound
one. That of the Protectionists would, if adopted,
be found pernicious in the extreme. Lord STANLEY
is anxious for a Select Committee to inquire into, and
examine, by viva voce evidence,the probable effect of the
measure. We hope the Government will resist this
suggestion. Such a proposal would have no chance
of success in the House of Commons. The labours
of a Select Committee may be spun out with tedious
prolixity, and we have no doubt that such would be
the case, were the merits of permanently regulating
the duties on sugar, molasses, and rum, to be sifted
by such a tribunal. Our readers must bear in mind
that this measure is not consequent upon the distress
prevailing in Ireland, but is (independently of its
adaptation to the principles of free trade) an honour-
able fulfilment of an implied pledge, given to our
Wrest Indian colonies, when we exposed them to com-
petition with foreign sugar. It is but just to the
West Indians, that after they were deprived, and
very wisely so, by our adoption of free trade, of the
advantages they possessed in our home market in the
shape of differential duties, they should be allowed to
bring their produce, of every kind, into competition
with that of any other, here or else where. This
hope was distinctly held out to them last year. An
implied pledge of a similar character was given to
the Canadas, in respect of corn, simulta-
neous with the relaxation in our tariff of
differential duties favourable to Canadian produce.
That understanding was subsequently faithfully com-
plied with. Lord STANLEY officially carried it into
effect, and no man more strenuously insisted than did
his Lordship, when threatened to be thwarted by the
agricultural representatives, that it would be a
gross breach of national faith not to permit their corn
to be imported into the United Kingdom with the
benefit of a diminished duty.
.Mutatis rnutanclis,
Lord STANLEY is bound to take the same course now
with the West Indians which' he formerly adhered
to on behalf of the Canadas. The West Indians
could derive no benefit from a temporary law of a
few months in reference to their sugar, rum and
molasses. Such a law would be only "a delusion, a
m ockery, and a snare." No merchant would embark
his capital upon the uncertainty incidental to a tem-
porary and exceedingly limited alteration of the
respective duties in question. It would be a change
fraught with mercantile vexation, giving rise
to the speculations of gamblers, and entailing heavy
losses upon all who ventured to mix themselves up
with so precarious a commerce. The colonists are
naturally as impatient of particular restrictions as we
have become ourselves. They demand simple justice,
and the Imperial Parliament will assuredly render it
to them, not in a niggardly, but in a liberal and
equitable spirit.

A letter from Constantinople of the 80th ult. states
that the Austrian Internuncio had endeavoured to obtain
from the Divan its approval of the annexation of Cracow.
His Excellency had had several conferences with RE-
scam Pecus, and used arguments to make him com-
prehend that his Government would derive great advan-
tages from this annexation. RESCHID PACHA, however,
gave only vague replies. The English Ambassador,
Mr. WELLESLEY, becoming informed of these confer-
ences, had an interview with the Grand Visier, and sub-
mitted to him the protest of Lord PALMERSTON. RE-
SCBID PACHA. thereupon declared that he could not as-
sent to the annexation of Cracow, inasmuch as this
annexation was a violation of a treaty.

A letter from Rimini of Jan. 10 states that corn-riots
had taken place on several points of that district, but
that the arrival of Cardinal Gizzi's circular, prohibit•
ing the exportation of corn and flour, had contributed to
restore order. Disturbances had also occurred in Tus-
cany. The Grand Ducal Government had put them
down by force, and maintained the liberty of exporta-
tion. Great misery prevails in Romania, but it is hoped
that the employment about to be given by the railways
will in some measure relieve it. The different compa-
nies are to send in their plans on Feb. 7.

The Oriental and Peninsular steam-ship Tiber, arrived
on Sunday evening at Southampton from the Peninsula.
Her dates of departure are as follows:—Gibraltar, Jan.
16; Cadiz, 17; Lisbon, 20; and Vigo, 21.
No collision between the QUEEN'S troops and the in-
surgents had taken place since the last accounts from
Lisbon. DAS ANTAS had made good his retreat to
Oporto, where he arrived on the 7th, at the head of
about 4,000 men. The total force of the garrison of
Oporto is now 11,000 men, exclusive of 2,000 recruits
raised in the provinces of Minho and Tras-os-Montes.
SALDANHA, who has separated his army into two
divisions, is slowly advancing northward. The
slowness of his movements have enabled the
insurgents to fortify Oporto, so as to render it nearly
impregnable; as his whole force does not amount to
more than 7,000 men, it is thought that SALDAMIA.
will not venture to attack it, but will fall back upon
ents in Oporto seem
Coimbra, or some strong position, and await an attack
fro
m the
of success.gents. T
he iTnshue most active measures
quoimte confident
haVe been adopted by the Junta, not only to defend the
city, but to commence offensive operations, when such
may become necessary, and they have plenty of money.
Count MENSDORFF, a cousin of Prince ALBERT, who
went out some months since to Lisbon, at the request of
her MAJESTY, has returned in the Tiber.

MADAME VEmars.---This popular actress has been
fulfilling a farewell engagement for the last month at Liver-
pool, and on Friday evening she took leave of the people of
that town in the following characteristic address :—"Ladies
and Gentlemen,—l appear before you to say farewell, and
that in its most painful shape, a long and last farewell, my
health, rather than my inclination, believe me, induces this
apparently sudden step. Were 1, indeed, as old as some
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is accorded to few, to submit, without a murmur, to those afflic-
tions which are the lot of many. Great as has been the
favour I have obtained, it has been nowhere greater than in
this flourishin olent and liberal town ;
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humble and heartfelt thanks. Flow long I may yet perform
allow me on retiring from business,
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fessionally, I have come to the determination of closing my
to recommend to y
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cordial support my junior partner. Ile has secured for him-
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to myself, . will be steadily continued to my husband. Ladies
and gentlemen, I most respectfully, and most gratefully, bid
you farewell."

Madrid papers of the 16th and 17th have arrived.
The debate on the Address in the Senate still eat,
inned.
MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA had positively refused to be

nominated to the Presidentship of the Chamber of De-
puties, and it was thought the Senor. BRAVO MIIRILI•0
would be the Government candidate.

At a meeting of Moderado Members, held on the 15tih,
Senor PIDAL, the Minister of the Interior, protest 4 d
against this question of the Presidentship being made a
Ministerial question; but being opposed by Senor PA-
CHECO, the Minister retired with his friends. The 62
Deputies who remained then proceeded to ballot for a
candidate, and the numbers were for Senor CASTRO Y
Onozco, 20 ; Senor PACHECO, 5 ; Senor BRAVO 714
nui.o, 5; and Senor ARTELA, 1.
The Heraldo states that the arrival of a Legate frt /LD
Rome to the Court of Madrid is shortly expected.
MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 16.—The Three per Cer Lts.
closed at 311 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 204; -the
Coupons at 18i; and the Debt without Interest at 6-L.

- ZXPERIENCES or A GAOL CHAPLAIN.—The in-
tercourse which takes place between the Minister of the
Gospel and the criminal doomed to suffer the extreme
penalty of the law must be allowed to possess great interest
for the philosopher and Christian. In such circumstances
the secrets of the hearts of men are most likely to be laid
bare. In the gaol chaplain's narrative which will be pub-
lished in a few days, will befound facts of the most interest-
ing, absorbing and startling characters which ought to en-
gage the attention of all who can feel for their fellow-c,oun
trymeu. The subject is of the last importance.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday a ad
Saturday.
The debate on the Address closed in the Chamber of
Fears on Friday; the Address was carried by a majoxii

the Government of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and espe •Y of 144 to 8. In the course of the debate on Thursday
the following note, which said had
clay to a rancorous vituperation upon Lord PAL- 1 M. GUIZOT read
MERSTON. Lord PALMERSTON, however, requires no been delivered to him that morning only by the Russian
apologist ; he is fully equal to the exigencies of his
• I have just received your dispatch of the 19th instant, in
eminent office Charge d'Affaires
which you inform me of a question put to you by M. Guizot,
on the subject of the presumed incorporation of the Grand
Duchy of Warsaw with the empire of Russia. I hasten to
reply to it, authorising you, by the express command of the
Emperor, to contradict those rumours in the most formal
manner.
" What may have given rise to this new idea, designedly
propagated by the Polish emigrants, always ready to mis-
construe the intentions of the Imperial Government, is the
announced project of the suppression of the line of customs
which separates Russia from Poland. That measure, solicited
at different times by the population of the kingdom of Poland,
is for its advantage, because it offers for their produce an out-
let which they had not hitherto enjoyed.
"You are requested to make these explanations to tho
French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to conform your
language accordingly to all persons who may exercise any
influence on the state of public opinion."
On this subject the Constitutionnel says—
,. The dispatch of Count Nesselrode, which Mr. Guizot read
on Thursday in the Chamber of Peers, was concocted between
the French Ministry and the representative of Russia, and
sent to St. Petersburgh, where it received the approbation of
the Emperor, and whence it was returned in time for the de-
bate on the Address."
In the same paper we find the following observations
on the speech of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK in the House
of Commons, on Tuesday, on the conduct of the Northern
Powers :
" The Tory leader in the Rouse of Commons is consistent.
The Absolute Powers are the natural allies of his party ; the
policy of the Holy Alliance is its policy ; the reverses of
France and her mifortunes are invoked by it to invite the
Powers who have just annihilated the nationality of Poland
fo combine with Great Britain. The defeats of France have
been made the triumph of liberty! The destruction of Cracow
is the happiness of Poland; Yes; these are the real senti-
ments of the genuine Tories—of those who contend equally
against Russell the Liberal, and Peel the Reformer ! Such
are the allies, the warm friends, that our Ministry finds in
England ! uch is the direction in which they lean. The
Whigs in their eyes are blunderers—dangerous people with
whom it is necessary to break. Sir R. Peel himself, in the
middle of the most lively effusions of the entente cordiale,
was frequently accused by our Ministerial journals of bor-
rowing too much from the reform policy of the Whigs. But
the true Conservatives, the real successors of Lord Castle-
reagh, the heirs of the authors of the Treaty of Vienna, the
natural allies of the Absolute Powers—these are the friends
and supporters of our Cabinet. This preference for the Tories,
and the antipathy it testifies to all the Liberals of England,
is quite sufficient to characterise its policy."
All the Parisian journals notice with satisfaction the
tone in which France was alluded to on Tuesday night
in both Houses of the British Parliament, as a proof
that the desire of England is to maintain, if possible, a
good understanding with France. The Constitutionnel
and the Siècle both declare that the conduct of M.
GuizoT is without excuse ; that the declarations of Sir
ROBERT PEEL and of Lord JOUR RUSSELL that a Coburg
Prince was never put forward as a candidate for the
hand of the Queen of SPAIN by either of their Govern-
ments ; utterly takes away every pretext for concluding
the Montpensier marriage; and that if there has been a
rupture of the entente cordiale, the British Ministers are
entirely blameless.
Her Excellency the Marchioness of NORSIANBY gave
on Friday evening a brilliant soiree dansante, at which
the chief rank and fashion of Paris were present. There
was a full attendance of the diplomatic circle. Amongst
the distinguished personages were noticed Marshal
SOULT, Count MOLE, and Al. TRIERS.
The Chamber of Deputies have passed unanimously
the Bill for admitting corn and other kinds of grain at
the minimum duty fixed by the law of 15th April, 1832,
until the 31st of July next. Vessels leaving foreign
ports before that date were to be allowed to discharge
their cargoes, although they may not arrive in France
until after 31st July.
In the provinces the disturbances had been checked,
but only by the presence of a large military force. The
Journal des Debots says—
" That everywhere in the department of Indre these riots
offered the same character, and appeared to have been all
inspired by Communist ideas. The following was the plan
adopted by the promoters of the disturbances at Buzaneais,
and followed in all the revolted districts ;—Tire3- imposed on
the mayors and landowners an obligation to sell their wheat,
until next harvest, at the rate of 21. the double decalitre
(151. per hectolitre) ; to fix at If. 60c. the minimum of the
day's wages of labour, and to direct domiciliary searches to
be made to ascertain the quantity of grain in the possession
of each farmer. All the proprietors, whatever might be their
political convictions, were summoned to subscribe to those
conditions, and among the houses pillaged and the mills de-
stroyed were several belonging to men known in the country
to profess the most Radical opinions.
At Chateauroux, the flying columns sent out by
General RIGNY has returned with many prisoners. The
murderers of M. CRAMBERT have been arrested. In
the meanwhile, the cause of these disturbances still sub-
sists in full force.
A letter from Nantes, published in the Journal des
Debuts, says—
" The situation of our corn market has become sensibly
worse during the present week. Wheat has been sold at
35 francs the hectolitre of 156 pounds weight, and flour of
the first quality 100 francs the sack. This rise has caused
much excitement, and the Prefect had dispatched two com-
panies of infantry to Juigne, where some disturbances had
arisen."
And the National de I 'Ouest states, that the distress is
so great in the neighbourhood of Roscoff, in consequence
of the high price of provisions, that there are several
families who do not eat bread once in four days, and
whose principal food is composed of cabbage or turnips
stolen in the fields.
To add to the gravity of the situation, the Government
have received information from a colonel of National
Guards stationed in the neighbourhood of Tours " that
the feeling was spreading among the population that
the high price of grain was owing to the selfishness of
the proprietors, who were holding it over, speculating
upon advanced prices. Should this conviction lead to
outbreaks, it was his opinion that the National Guards
would not act, and all would depend upon the steadiness
of the soldiery."
There was a sort of emeute at Perigueux on the 17th,
at the funeral of M. FEYTAUD, the senior member of the
bar. M. FEYTAUD had been originally a priest, and
during the revolution he had taken the oath of alle-
giance to the civil constitution of the French clergy.
This oath he had refused to retract, and the bishop de-
clared that in consequence of such refusal the body
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dral in order to prevent th 9
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ing, police agents who had been posted near prevented him.
A body of infantry was soon placed in front of the sacred
edifice, whilst another was sent to protect the Bishop's palace
in case of need. The crowd soon entirely filled the cathedral,
and at one o'clock the funeral procession made its appear-
ance, with the commissary of police and mayor at its head.
A baker,* named Blondeau, formerly employed as singer in the
of the Perigueux bar were present in their robes. The body
cathedral, chanted the hliserere. A number of the members
was placed before the altar, which. was entirely naked of its
Aftep;
chanted the burial service. this was finished, the
ornaments and symbols
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crowd peaceably retired, though not without expressing their
indignation."
It is announced that 150 vessels laden with grain have
arrived at Marseilles.
The French funds and railroad shares improved on
the Paris Bourse on Saturday.
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2251. ;
C eTn thee. , Threei.l7 f.
ar san 3 ons, 496 f. 25c. ;
p6eore.; Cents.
Havre, osed
.a t 30c. the Fi
682 f 50c • Great Northern,
Rouen, 887 f. 50c. •
' f Vierzon, 582 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 554051 f.
25c. ; Avignon, 340 • , ,345 f. • Paris and Strasburg, 4 *
Bordeaux and Cett 4
i aL.75tl;
Basle 211 f. 25c. ; DiePPe,sc.;
LyonsTou r Tours andand Nantes,Avignon,
Spanish Three per Cents.,
seines and
Avignon, 8601.;
MARSEILLES, JAN.
RAILWAYS AT TIIE
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREI
GE JANUAR: 23.
LONDON STOCK EXCIIAN ,
Rhenish, 4—East India
Boulogne and Amiens, 14—Dutch
mbourg n,
and Ya-
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Great Southern of Madras, %—L9usixe Northe'rn of Fran
Northern, 637 f. 50c.; Paris land Lyons, 505 f.
lentla, —Namur and Liege, -" 67i —Rouen ce 114--
Orleans and Bordeaux, 7—Paris and Lyons,_Nantes,and Havre,
25%—Sambre and Meuse, 4% —Tours and J>i