The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

need not despair, if it have such a machine as it
has described at its command, of removing Viscount
MELBOURNE from the Court and the Ministry.

The Moniteur Parisien, the Messager, and the
Gazette de France of Wednesday night, have been
received by extraordinary express. They contain
the following highly important announcement :
" The Chambers are convoked for the 28th of Oc-
tober. The ordonnance of convocation will appear in
to-morrow's (Thursday's) Moniteur."
This news caused a decline of one per cent, in
the funds, at TORTONI'S. The general impression
was that the KING having refused to go all
lengths with M. TRIERS and the war party in
the absence of the Chambers, the Minister was
obliged to propose the immediate convocation. In
the meantime it is understood that a strong repre-
sentation will be made to the Four Powers, but
that no step, not rendered unavoidable by them,
will be taken to accelerate actual hostilities before
the assembling of the Legislative body.
In the mean time no base efforts are left untried
by the bulk of the Paris press, to fan the embers
of war into a conflagration, which shall overspread
Europe. From this censure we except the Journal
des Debats, which well and zealously supports
the cause of civilization and peace. In thus fol-
lowing the example of the English Journals,
the Journal des Debats merits our entire
approbation. Blustering is not patriotism—
In the hour of need the resources of Great Britain
will not be less abundant, the patriotism of the

people less manifest, the voice of the Press less
exalted and unanimous, nor the Government less
free to act with vigour and decision, for the extreme
moderation with which the Government, the Press,
and the people are now replying to the menaces
and threats of the Republican and Legitimist Press
of France. Extreme forbearance is one of the
characteristics of true courage, as modesty is of
superior merit. England does not forget what she
owes to her own dignity ; nor is the British Press
unaware that in the present feverish state of the
public mind on the other side of the Channel, it
has the power, which it nobly declines to exercise,
of hurling offensive projectiles a thousand times
more destructive than the shells which dismantled
Beyrout. We are powerful enough, and suffi-
ciently conscious of our power, to make no secret
of our horror of war, and especially of a war
with France. It is because we feel assured
that we are in a condition to meet her
on an equal footing both by land and sea, that
we make, and repeat so often this avowal. We
assume no superiority, and we concede none. 'We
are as worthy to be the foe as the friend of Franco
Of our alliances we say nothing, because experience
has taught us to rely only upon ourselves. Allies
are sometimes more encumbrances than helps—an
aphorism which no nation has a better right to
know than England. Moreover, we are sensible
that the mode of warfare which M. THIERS medi-
tates against Austria and Russia, in the event of
hostilities, would place us in a position with re-
spect to Poland and Italy at once painful and em-
barrassing. But would France escape unscathed
out of this fire of her own kindling ? Impossible.
With the first broadside in the Mediterranean wonld
disappear the fruits of her ten years conquests in
Africa. The soil for which she was so prodigal of
her blood and treasure—which she purchased,
among other crimes, by a violation of the faith of
treaties—would revert to the Sovereignty of ABD-
EL-KADER and the Porte. Her other colonies
would all follow the fate of Algiers ; and whatever
injury she might inflict upon British commerce, it
is not impossible but before the close of the contest
her Minister of Marine might discover that nations,
like VIRGIL's oxen and bees, sometimes toil to
enrich an enemy. British sailors ere now have in-
creased our navy at little cost, save that of blood,
of which they are no niggards, as our gallant
neighbours can themselves testify.
France, then, has much at stake. She may lose
much ; and what does she propose to gain ?
Nothing that, on the closest scrutiny, we can dis-
cover. With the first shot away goes her honour,
pledged under the Premiership of SOULT, to main-
tain the integry of the Ottoman empire under the
dominion of the SULTAN and his family. As
she professes neither to want Egypt, nor Camila,
nor Greece, nor the lonian Islands, nor the guar-
dianship of the Straits of the Dardanelles, nor any
island or territory whatever in the Mediterranean
more than she now possesses, we cannot in fairness
attribute to her any mercenary motive. Fighting
for glory is but a fine name for what always has
signified in France fighting for pillage, as the
annals of the Republic and the empire abundantly
testify. Now we acquit the French people,
and the French SOVEREIGN, of any wish to quarrel
with their neighbours in 1840 merely to find a
pretext for plundering them. We think it not im-
possible to define clearly enough, the policy of the
war party in France, but as this would infallibly
militate against the conservation of peace we shall
not make the attempt. M. THIERS has deceived
us, but he has not less disappointed the hopes of
the well-disposed among his own countrymen.
But our decided impression at present is, that
he good sense of the two countries will prevail, and
hat there will be no war. We infer from al'
lat has taken place that the French w'

not interfere with the conduct of the Allies,
so far az regards Syria ; consequently the
keys of the Dardanelles, according to the
stipulation of the Treaty of London, will
remain in the keeping of the Porte, as there will
be no necessity for the appearance of a Russian
fleet in the Mediterranean. It is not unlikely that
St. Jean d'Acre is by this time occupied by the
English, in the name of the Sultan ; and it is rot
probable that MEIIEMET ALI, unsupported by a
French squadron, will continue to set the Four
Powers at defiance. We have already stated that
England has no intention of co-operating with the
Porte in the deposition of the PACHA, provided
he yield in time. Our Government is not insen-
sible to the benefits 11,TEHENIET ALI has conferred
on Egypt, and we feel assured that the mercantile
classes in this country would deplore, as an Euro-
pean calamity, the removal of his Highness from
the government of the kingdom of the PHARAOHS.
BO UR S E.---Pmus, EDNEsipsY OCT• 7 .
FirstW Highest, Loweit Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents lOl 25 ... 102 10 ... 100 90 ... 101 83
4% per Cents 96 50 .., 96 59 ... 03 50 ... 26 50
4 per Cents 9l f 0 ... 91 :-,0 ... sal 5(1 ... 91 50
3 per Cents 66 10 .... 67 25 ... 65 90 ... C 6 85
650 ...2
Bank of France . ..... . i
25:.0 ... `2640 ... .620
Lzttlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 990 ... 999 ... 900 .9.35
5,000 f. Sh
13elgian Ban
Bank 795
5 per Cents " ••• Slsi ... 90 ... 9(14
Spanish Active 23 ... 23 „„ 23
... 23
Passive Bl'4 ... 5!1". ... 5% ... 51,4
Portuguese 3 per Cents t2,0'%4 ... 20 ... 201 i .., 1A
Neapolitan
Roman 93K, ••• 93 ... 93 ... 9.+.3x,
RAILWAY SHARES.
S. Germain
"' 515
Versailles, R. B 337 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50
‘" 337 50
L.B.
"• ^ .i3j
Orleans .
... 4.,5
Strasburg to Bale 3lO ... 310 ... 310 ... 3:0
DUTCH FUNDS.—ANISTERDAN, OCT. 6.
done'. Bill.
Actual Debt, 24, per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
AntonSyndle,4% per cent B3 83ii
Ditto, ditto, 34, per cent 'Bll4 68x;
Commercial Company, 4', Fcr tent 15514 153 (
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ......
Loan 1637, 51er cent.
Exchange on London, One month ll 97%
Two montha
Dutch Papers, Oct. 7.
BELGIAN I' UNDS—RUSBELS, OCT. 7.
Actual Debt, '2 % per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 9O
Loan of Thirty Millions, p
4 er Cent. _
--..-- 3 per Cent
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Loan of City, 183'2, 4 per Cent. S9
Society of Commerce, 4 !...;, per Cent lO9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society.
Exchange on London (ihott)
11 :-,3
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VivorA, SEPT. `:9,
10514
Five M
per:Canto. etalliques
• ILO
Fokr per Cen:s.
Three par Cent,.
1656
Bank Sharas
...Volt:eine &gun, Oct. 4,