The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-12 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Triumphant Success—lmmense Novelty—Crowded Houses—
Second Night of Ainsworth's Tower of London.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 12,
Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and

entitled
THE TOWER OF LONDON.

The Tableaax Vivans, splendid CGstume, and Appointments;
from the Designs of the celebrated George Cruikshanks.
After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime!

entitled

HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY
GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS.

ht which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family ; Mr.
~otithby, the Original Clown; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and
the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran-
actini's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's
Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria.

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LONDON:
TUESDAY. JANUARY 12, 1:41.

We publish in our columns of this day the Pit E-
SIDENT'S Message—the last which Mr. VAN
BUREN is ever likely to deliver to the Congress of
the United States. Copies of it reached us from
'Bristol and Liverpool at the same time, havini.;
besn brought to Liver') 00l by the packet-ship
Sheffield, and to Bristol by the Cosmo, which yes-
eels left New York on the 19th ult. They salted
five dais in company, when the Sheffield fell to
leeward. Our thanks are due to our Bristol Cor-
respondent for the obliging attention manifeshd on
this ocr'asion. 1

The Message is moderate in its tone, and pacific
in its tendency. The Presidency of Mr. VAN
BUREN being about to expire., he has taken ye'
Aiiion to submit to the Consideration of the Con"
;press the leading ilinciples by: which
,his four
years 'administration were guided. These may be
reduced to two--namely, the maintenance of pc ace,
and an adherence through good and evil report to
the cash system. The peculiar objects of 4r.
VAN BurtEN's llwiror are a National Bank nd
National Debt, and a;:tinst these his dying kiel: is
ruthl e,ssly directed. \lr. VAN BUREN'S
S to a Na•iol,i Debt, though not over and
ab we compinnentary to the monarchical Govern-
n; ems of Europe, are sound, and based upon the
' ..afest political policy. We recommend the passage
-to the earnest attention of our British Liberal

statesmen :

The policy of the Federal Government, in extinguish-
ing as rapidly ossible the national debt, and subse.
quently, in resistinj every temptation to create a new one,
deserves to be regarded in the same favourable light.
Am-ing the many objecti9ns to a national debt, the certain
tendency of public securities to concentrate ultimately in
t/,e coffers of foreign stockholders, is one which is every
day gathering strength. Already have the resources of
many of the States, and the future industry of their citi-
zens, been indefinitely mortgaged to the subjects of
European Governments, to the amount of twelve
millions annually, to pay the constantly accruing
interest of borrowed money—a sum exceeding half
the ordinary revenues of the whole United States.
The pr, text which this relation affords to foreigners
to scrutinize the management of our domestic
affairs, if not actually to intermeddle with them,
presents a subject for earnest attention, not to say of serious
alarm. Fortunately, the Federal Government, with the
exception of an obligation entered into on behalf of the
District of Columbia, which must soon be discharged, is
wholly exempt from any such embarrassment. It is also,
as is believed, the only Government which, having fully and
faithfully paid all its creditors, has also relieved itself en-
tirely from debt. To maintain a distinction so desirable,
and so honourable to our national character, should be an
object of earnest solicitude. Never should a free people,
if it be possible to avoid it, expose themselves to the ne-
cessity of having
to treat of the peace, the honour, or the
safety of the Repubilc, with the Governments of foreign
creditors, who, however well disposed t
general they may be to cul-
tivate with us in friendly relations, are neverthe-
less, by the law of their own condition, made hostile to the
success and permanency of political institutions like ours.
" Out of debt out of danger" is a homely maxim,
not truer of individuals than of nations ; nor do
we believe the corruption of political principles en•
gendered by jobbing in national securities, in coun.
tries deeply in debt, to be compatible with the main.
tenance of simple republican institutions.
Mr. VAN BUREN takes great praise to himself
for having diminished the public expenses during
the four years of his administration. The expenses
of the current year, for example, he calculates will
be less by nine or ten millions of dollars than the
expenses of 1837. This is a legitimate subject of
self gratulation ; but looking at the present financial
and commercial condition of the United States, and
comparing it with what it was at the close of General
JACKSON'S second Presidency, we cannot discover
any peculiar claims which Mr. VAN BUREN
possesses to the gratitude:of his fellow-countrymen
ao far as relates to the mere question of finances.
During the Presidency of Mr. ADAM, half the
national income was required to pay the interest
and principal of the debt then existing. Forty-five
millions of dollars were expended in this way
during the four years this distinguished statesman
was in office:, General JACKSON succeeded, and
during the )eight years he administered the
government of the United States, sixty-four
millions of dollars were required to extinguish the
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public debt. When Mr. VAN BUREN entered
upon the Presidency he found the debt extin-
guished, and an overflowing Treasury, and at the
expiration of four years he makes it a matter of
boast that, after diminishing the expenditure to
the amount of nine millions of dollars, a minion and
a half of surplus will remain in the Treasury with-
out there having been any fresh taxes imposed.
'Tis true hat extraordinary expenses, to the
amount of twenty millions, are enumerated, but
even this proves nothing extraordinary in the finan-
cial ability of the PRESIDENT.

We are happy to learn from the Message
that there is a fair prospect of a speedy and ami-
cable settlement of the North Boundary question.
"The excitement," says the PRESIDENT, "which
grew out of the territorial controversy between the
United States and Great Britain, having in a great
measure subsided, it is hoped that a favourable
period is approaching for its final settlement." And
after enumerating the steps taken by both Govern-
ments to effect a speedy and amicable adjustment,
he continues :—" From the character of the
points still in difference, and the undoubted dispo-
sition of both parties to bring the matter to an early
conclusion, I look with entire confidence to a t
promp
and satisfactory termination of the negotiation." We
are well pleased to receive such an assurance
from the mouth of the PRESIDENT of the United
States. The question cannot be settled too soon
for the welfare of Great Britain and the United
States. While it continues in abeyance, evil-dis-
posed persons have it in their power to disturb the
harmony between two nations whose uninterrupted
friendship is essential to the progressive civiliza-
tion of the human race.

The Message concludes with a denunciation of
the atrocious African slave trade, which cannot fail
to give pleasure to the friends of humanity in every
part of
,the world. The PRESIDENT states that
two American vessels are at present cruizing off
the coast ofAfrica, charged with instructions to pre-
vent the violation of the American flag by any parti
cipation in that infamous traffic. But the PRESIDENT
does not stop here. Finding that the past efforts of the
opponents of slavery have been unsuccessful, he
proposes, as a remedy of the evil, the suppression
of all trade whatever with the slave factories on
the African coast. His words are worthy of being
remembered :—" I submit to your judgments," he
observes, in concluding his Message, " whether this
Government, having been the first to prohibit, by
adequate penalties, the slave-trade—the first to de-
clare it piracy—should not be the first also to for-
bid to its citizens all trade with the slave factories
on the coast of Africa ; giving an example to all
nations in this respect, which, if fairly followed,
cannot fail to produce the most effective
results in breaking up those dens of ini-
quity." This is a noble conclusion of a'
Message which, taken all in all, is of an extremely
satisfactory character. As it will be universally
read, we have touched but upon a few of the
leading points in it, and these we have not had
time to examine very carefully. The commercial
treaties between the United States and Portugal,
Belgium, and Prussia, manifest the zeal with
which America pursues her commercial interests in
every part of the world.

Besides the New York Journals, we have re-
ceived files of Canadian Papers, from which
want of space prevents us making any extracts in
our columns of this day. Lord SYDENHAM had suc-
ceeded in maintaining undisturbed the tranquillity
of the Upper and Lower Provinces, notwithstanding
several attempts to get up once more the steam of
rebellious excitement. The sympathisers, too, on
the AmericarF side, were kept in pretty good-order
by the Government of the United States, which
certainly has not been wanting in proofs of good
and kindly feel;ng towards Great Britain. For
commercial intelligence we refer to our City Article.

We have on two or three occasions lately, par-
ticularly on the 28th ult., directed the attention of
our readers to the order and decency with which
the great body of the electors of the United States
had voted in the late election of President. There
are no religious tests in the United States ; there

I are some restrictions as to residence, but none as to
property ; the greatest approach to Universal Suf-
frage that ever was known exists, and the result was
the collection of 2,400,000 votes without a riot or a
scuffle. Having reminded our readers of these facts,
we now beg them to turn to another part of The
Sun, where they will find amongst our extracts an
article from the 7 Imes, the latter part of which de-
scribes an election at Newfoundland. There the
poll was closed without making any return, the
Magistrates were unable to suppress the riot,
one of them was knocked down and his skull frac-
tured, and two houses were destroyed. But we
'iced not repeat the impressive lesson narrated by
the Times, except to close with its moral : such are
the results of a " community of enfranchised Pa-
pists under a Protestant Monarchy."
Before the Papists could be enfranchised they
must have been enslaved. There arc Papists in
the United States ; they have never been enslaved,
and they are as orderly as the Methodists or the
Episcopalians. Papists have more freedom in the
United States than i❑ Newfoundland. It is not,
therefore, freedom, but the pre-existing slavery
which is the cause of their turbulence under our
Protestant Monarchy. In the Protestant Mo-
narchy the Judges, the Commanders, the chief offi-
cers are most probably Protestant. In the United
States little or nothing is said about a man's reli-
gion. Under a Protestant Monarchy the Papists
are provoked by present inferiority, and a sense
of past wrongs, into an attempt to imitate their

oppressors, and obtain power by coercion. In the

Republic they are not excited to such outrage by
any sense either of present inferiority or past de-
privation ; and in the United States an election for
the Chief Magistrate is conducted with the greatest
order ; in Newfoundland the election of a Member
of the House of Assembly terminates in a bloody
riot.

These events teach us that the mode to avoid
such riots is to do no wrong. Do not exclude the
Papists, do not condemn a great body of the people
by political exclusion to inferiority and degradation,
and all the incentives to outrage and riot, which
grow from such exclusions, will have no existence.
But the statesmen of a Protestant Monarchy, and
the public writers of such a Monarchy, have sup-
posed, and still suppose, that the only way to avoid
outrage, is to degrade a large portion of the people
by law on account of their religion, or on account
of their poverty, and so excite anger and
discontent. They set the example of having re-
course to violence to obtain their ends, and they
reckon, but without their host, that their example
will never be followed. Untaught by the results
of former vicious intemperance and vicious coercion,
which always led to riot and outrage, our ultra-
Protestants, or ultra-political knaves, are even now
engaged in demanding the re-enacting of those
restrictive and degrading laws, from which alone
have flowed the evils they weep over. The worst
consequenceithasde
of their vicious system is that, after
graded the people, it has a pretext for con-
tinuing the degradation. The evil perpetuates it-
self, and increases with time. It should be stopped,
therefore, at the outset, and no temptation of pro-
mised advantages should encourage men to begin it.
The contrast between the election of the Presi-
dent of the United States, and the election
of a Member of the Legislature for Conception

Bay, Newfoundland, reflects no honour on the
Protestant Monarchy, and no disgrace on, the
Republic, which has no State religion. New-
foundland has the benefit of our institutions and
our example,—the United States has framed her
institutions according to her wants. The United
States are peaceable, with 14,000,000 of people ;
the little community of Newfoundland is split into
factions, and the people crack each other's skulls,
in all the rage of intolerance, during a contest for
political power. Whether the Protestant Monar-
chy or the irreligious Republic be the better
Government of the two, we must leave our readers
to judge.

It is plain, from our Correspondent's letter from
Walsall, and from the first number of the Walsall
Letter-Bag, which has reached us, that the Anti-
Corn-law party are prosecuting the contest at that
place with great spirit and great success. It de-
lights us to see that a Non-Electors' Committee has
been formed to influence the electors in favour of
Mr. SMITH by all legal means. We hope that
their example will be followed by the women, who
have much at stake in this contest, and ought not
to be silent or inactive.

We know with what reluctance they mix in po-
litical matters—we are aware of all the just repug-
nance there is to ask them—but in a contest like
this, in which life or death, abundance or starva-
tion, are involved, they ought to ehcourage their
husbands, brothers, and friends to vote for the
anti-bread-tax candidate. Let them remember that
infants of both sexes are now exposed to severe
toils—in the agricultural distrists, weeding or pick-
ing up stones—in the manufacturing distriets,
piecing and knotting—from which there is no other
chance of relieving them, but by obtaining good
wages and plenty of food for their parents. The
condition of the children of Britain should move
every mother's heart to exert herself to insure the
success of Mr. SMITH at Walsall.

We see, by our Correspondent's letter, that
there is one class of tradesmen who fear the conse-
quences of the repeal, and he properly recommends
that the League should direct its attention to the
point. It should endeavour to prove to the
tradesmen, that though the receivers of rent may
and must suffer for a time, yet the farmers will
benefit. They will have less to pay for seed corn,
for every thing they have to buy, and for every
thing they consume, and will, very speedily, if
not immediately, benefit by the repeal. There is
no reason whatever to suppose that the quantity
of our agricultural produce will be less after the
repeal than at present ; that the farmers will not
have as much or more to give in exchange for
the production of the manufacturers as now ;

and no reason therefore to suppose that their cus
tomers will suffer by the repeal. The farmers
have been made the victims of the landlords'
cupidity, and it might perhaps be as well if the
League should give them an assurance that it will
stand by them in endeavouring to obtain any rea_
sonable compensation for losses, should any be
consequent on the repeal, in cases where leases
have been entered into under the faith that the
present law would be continued. We honour the
British agriculturists, we detest the cupidity of
the owners of rent and rent charges, and while
we think the League should do all it can to re-
assure the former, and encourage them to make
common cause with the manufacturer, as they have
a common interest, in order to get rid of the Corn-
law, it should go on boldly, setting the latter at de-
fiance, for their sole object in keeping up this law
is to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
Nor have the farmers been so prosperous since
the Corn-laws were enacted, as to make it a diffi-
cult task to persuade them that it is disgraceful, as
well as disadvantageous, to be the instruments for
levying a tax of 275. per quarter on the food of
the labourer, in order to hand it over to the receivers
of rent and rent charges.
We have no doubt the League and the active
agents it employs will work these points well on
the spot, and convince both the farmers and the
saddlers' ironmongers that they cannot possibly lose
by the change. They have powerful reasons for
exerting themselves. If the election of Walsall
be carried against the League, it may give up all
hope of repeal this year ; if the League can carry
the election, there is good reason to believe that the
Ministers would then feel themselves constrained
to undertake at least a modification of the law. Its.
pealers throughout the kingdom, as well as at
Walsall, you are all on trial, and your reputation is
at stake

The following extract from the Monmouthshire
Merlin sets at rest all the speculations on the sub-
ject of the treatment of Mr. FROST. It is what
might be expected, and is no otherwise than credit-
able to the authorities::—

JOHN FROST.—A letter has this week been received
by the family of John Frost, in Newport, dated
Port Arthur, 4th July, in which he gives a de-
tail of his voyage from the Cape of Good
Hope, whence he dated his former letter, to Ho-
bart Town, and from thence to Port Arthur. The
contents of this letter, which we have from the best autho-
rity, will serve to set aside the contradictory speculations
of the London papers. Frost states that, on reaching,
Hobart Town, on the 30th of June, he was given to
understand that some ameliorating arrangement had
been determined on respecting him, Williams, and
Jones—that they were not to experience the rigours
of a penal settlement. Without beim, allowed to
land, they were sent from Hobart Town to Port
Arthur, where they arrived on the 4th of July, and were
brought to the office of the Commandant, where the rules
for their future government were read to them. These
rules Frost describes as stringent, but nevertheless such
as he shall be able to comply with. He states that
there was a marked distinction made between himself
and his companions and the other convicts—that while
the latter were sent off to the hard occupations to
which convicts are consigned, they were employed at
less onerous toils, that Frost was taken into the office of
the Commandant, that Williams was employed in a
subordinate, though not a laborious capacity, on the
public works, and that Jones was appointed to a convict
school. The letter appears to have been written in a
spirit of hope and exhiliration, but no allusion is made
to the extension of a free pardon, which the Standard
has assumed.

`We received last night the French papers of
Saturday. The news brought by them is not im-
portant. On Friday the Chamber of Deputies
met, and after a brief discussion on a Bill rela-
tive to judicial sales of property, broke up, as,
on a division, it was found there was not a suffi-
cient number of 'Members present to form a
House. The Journals, in general, are very mo-
derate in their tone, and are occupied chiefly with
articles relative to Spain, the late accounts of our
operations on the coast of China, and the re-
ported collision between a vessel belonging to the East
India Company and a ship belonging to Bordeaux,
to which they attach much importance. Despatches
had been received from Marshal VALLEE, dated
Algiers, Dec. 22, but they contain no news of
importance. The colony was said to be perfectly
tranquil. In the Court of Assize at Paris, M.
THORE, author of a work entitled " The Truth
on Democracy," was condemned to one year's im-
prisonment, and a fine of 1,000 francs. The fol-
lowing are the only extracts worth quoting :
The Messager of Friday evening says that the
French Government had received news from Alexandria
of the 24th ; from Beyrout, of the 7th ; and from Da-
mascus, of the Bth of December. At the latter date
Ibrahim Pacha was at Damascus. On the Ist, the
troops from Adana, Aleppo, and other places, had re-
joined him, making his army amount to 40,000 men,
of which 20,000 were regular troops. On the 24th of
November an Emir of the Mutualis having endea-
voured, at the head of a corps of 4,000 men, to excite
a rebellion in the Hauran, Ibrahim Pacha attacked and
destroyed them. The prisoners were all massacred.
The desertion from the Egyptian army was diminished,

but Ibrahim had been forsaken by another chief of the
Druses, who heretofore had rendered him great service.
Letters from Spain, of the 3d instant, boast of the
tranquillity of the capital, and the favourable commence-
ment of the year. The priest Perez de Arellano, who
exercised, up to December 31, the functions of Apos-
tolical Nuncio, though destitute of sufficient authority,
had been ordered to leave the capital by the Duke of
Victoria. A squadron of twenty horse was appointed
to escort him to the frontiers. The documents to this
effect are published in the Madrid Gazette of the Ist.
ARMING OF RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA.--The Deutsche
Blatt says, according to letters from Warsaw of De-
cember 20, that a Russian army of 120,000 men, with
420 pieces of cannon, is to be collected on the left bank
of the Vistula by the first days of May. It is to be
under the command of Generals Krentz, Rudinger,
Prince Sokohocoski, and Kajzacof.

Under date Berlin, December 22, the Gazette of
Eberfeld says that orders have been given to put all the
Prussian fortresses, even those of the north and east,
iu a state of defence.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have just reached
us. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied with
the Report of the Committee on Petitions, and:a
project for the extension of Departmental Roads.
The overflowing of the river Tet has laid Perpignan
under water. Several houses have fallen, and
much property destroyed. The question of
the fortification of Paris is, however, the
only one that seems to interest the capital. The
following paragraph, from the Debats of Sunday,
contains the latest news relative to this all-engross-
ing subject
Marshal Soult, in the Commission of Fortifications,
consented in the name of the Ministry to the simultaneous
execution of the detached forts and wall of circumvallation.
During five consecutive sittings the Commission examined
different inhabitants of the suburbs, and then proposed
amendments to the ministerial plan. On the 6th Marshal
Soult gave his answer, which adopted some of the amend-
ments of the Commission ; but he rejected two amend-
ments, one being a change in the place fixed on for de-
tached forts, the other an augmentation of the sums to be
allotted. Government proposed spending fifty-five mil-
lions of francs in 1841 and 1842. The Commission pro-
posed to spend eighty-seven millions, which would have
upset all the plans of the Finance Minister. The Minis-
try having persisted in its views, the Commission decided
on acceding to the views of the Ministry."
There was a fall of snow on Saturday night in Paris,
which, although a thaw had come on on Sunday, had
blocked up the roads. No mails from Germany, Spain,
Italy, or England had come in by one o'clock on Sunday.
Great activity is displayed in tracing the Coburg rail-
road, which is to connect Coburg, Hildburghausen,
Meiningen, Gotha, Weimar, Erfurt, and Eisenart, and
is to join the Prussian railroad further north. The
work will begin in spring. What an advantage when
this is finished I—a traveller can go in two days to Nurem-
berg, the centre of South German commerce, or from
Bannberg, the junction of the Main and the navigation of
the Ludwig Canal to Berlin, or Bremen, or Hamburgh.
Franconian Mercury.
BOURSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 9.

Brit Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
French 5 per Cents lll 80 .., 112 ... 111 80 ... 111 90
4 per Cents 99 .., 99 ... 09 .. 99
3 per Cents 77 25 ~.. 77 45 ... 77 95 ... 77 40
Bank of r'rance .. 3250 ...3250 ...3250 ...3250
Laftitte Bank I,ooof. 5h.... 1040 ~.1045 —lO4O ...1045
5000 f. Shares 5130 ~.5135 ...5130 ...5135
Belgian Bank
Spanish Active 24% ... 24% ... 2' ... 24%
Passive 5% ... 6 ... 5% ... 5%
Neapolitan
Roman .... 90% .„ 99% ... 99% ... 99%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles,R. B 4OO ..„ 405 ... 4CO ... 405
L.B 305 ... 307 50 ... 305 ... 305
- 485 485 ...485
__ ... 485

Orleans
, •

Strasburg to Bale ........ 245 '43 75 245
Mulhausen to Thann .
CAFE DE PARIS.-SUNDAY, JAN. 10.

HALF-PAST Two.—Last night, Saturday, the Three
per Cents for the Account were done at 77f. 30c. No-
thing has been done to-day, unless it be one bargain re-
ported to have been at 77f. 321 c.