The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

.FIR SUN, !LONDON', M. A. Y, JULY N. 1841.

mismanagement -or foul play. We
.confess we I
had faint hopes of the return of Mr. STEtjART for
Haddington, and Mr. Criu.ori. lost r hiS seat by
something worse than mistnanan:enient, jwhlalih
will be cleared up, in due time. But the return
for the counties is still more -creditable: Not-
withstanding the Violent denunciations made by
the Tories against the Government for daring to
interfere with the Corn-lavvs, to the ruin, as they
hypocritically say, of landlords. and .tenants,
three counties have been rescued from the mo-
nopolists, and five counties repreSented by Libe-
rals in last Parliament' have returned Tories,
making the loss in -the counties only two. Could
there-be a better proof that the intelligent Scotch
farmers regard the boasted advantage of the
Corn-laws as sheer humbug ? They know, as
the Marquis of TWEEDDALE emphatically de-
clared at a meeting of the English Agricultural
Association, that they must trust for remunera-
tion to their skill and industry, and, not to the
miserable delusion of averages, and sliding scales,
and- protecting duties. lt is a remarkable
fact, in confirmation of this statement,
that the ten counties that have returned
Liberal Members are nearly all agricul-
tural. Taking them alphabetically, , they
stand thus Banff, Caithness, Fife, Forfar,
Kinross, Kirkcudbright,Renfrew, Shetland and
Orkney, Sutherland, Wigtown. With the ex-
ception of Renfrew, the staple productions are
all derived. from the soil ; and five of ,them—
namely, Banff, Fife, Forfar, Kirkcudbright, and
Wigtown, can boast of the best farmers in the
orld,. Had these men looked at the Corn-laws,
we will notisay as the hope of their safety, hut
as any protection whatsoever, would they have
been'tnad enoughto_vote against their own inte-
rests? They know from experience that, on the
contrary, the restrictions on the corn trade de-
range.' periodically the whole system of com-
merce, ruin the manufacturers, their best cus-
tomers, and raise up in the foreign markets
rivals alike dangerous to farmer and ma-
nufacturer. The three counties which the
Liberals have gained, form noble proofs of
the intelligence of the agricultural class in
Scotland, and the five which they have lost do
not at all detract from their merit. Argyll goes
with the Duke, and as the present retainer of
the title has thought fit to abjure the political
principles so long held by this ancient and
gallant family, all the Campbells, of course,
follow in his train. The loss of Stirling and
Dumbarton we cannot account for; Edin-
burgh was lost by the disgraceful system
adopted by the Tories of creating paper votes;
and had Roxburgh been fairly contested, a
Liberal would have been returned. Though de-
serted by their late representative, opposed by
the Liberal Duke ofßoxnunon, and intimidated
by the agents of the Scorrs 'of Buccleuch and
Harden, the electors fought manfully with-
out a leader, and sustained a defeat more glo-
rious than a victory. A curse has befallen the
house of ELLIOT, so honoured by the gallant
HEATHFIELD.- Two of the name have made it a
bye-word, in the East for poltroonery, and a
third, in Roxburghshire, has, by his conduct,
pronounced the decision just. Scotland, however,
has nobly' dons her duty, and her example will
not be without its fruits. Though ,the Liberal
party had to 'Contend against the Church, the
Tories, and all those interested in the three great
monopolies, Corn,. Sugar, and Timber, they have
defeated the. monopolists united, by returning
thirty-one Members, while the old and young
Tories have returned only twenty-two.

The Paris Papers of,Friday and Saturday, with inte-
resting intelligence from the French capital of Sunday's
date, have reached us. We have likewise received the
Levant m ail with ad vices from Constantinople, Alexandria,
Smyrna, Athens, Corfu, and Malta, a summary of which
will be found in_ another part of The Sun.. As might be
expected, the French opposition Journals violently attack
M. GulzoT for replacing France on the amicable footing
which she occupied-with respect to the other Great
Powers of Flurope prior to the disastrous Administration
of M. THIERS. The following is a sample of the ribaldry.
of the Constitutionnel, the accredited organ of the his-
torian of the Revolution :

" M. Guizot has completed his work ; he has put an end to
the isolation of France, a sad success, of which certainly he
will not hate the audacity to make a boast. What, in fact,
7 A pptrrpv,fl, ;i an act raitiying the conclu-
sion of the Eastern question. But what had France to do with
an affair begun without her knowledge, and carried into
execution withotit her concurrence and against her influence.
It would have bean. quite sufficient to have remained passive.
Is it not thil height of humiliation to affix an exequatur to
what the Goyernment desired, but did not . dare to prevent.
Never had b Guizot the courage to propose this exequatur
to the Chanlber ; but Whit he did venture to say, he has
done.' 'He has signed, after its execution, the treaty which
twos concealed from him at its conclusion. As Minister, he
sanctions the trick which was put upon him as Ainbassador.
Nothing not! is wanting to the triumph of Lord Palmerston,
for the persopage'who gives his adhesion to the whole of Lord
Palmerston's conduct is the same who was dupe."
The Presse, . MoLE!ts Journal, ably defends, end
triumphantly *tikes the conduct.of, the. cabinet. We
have only space foroa brief extract in reply to the attack
of the Constitutionnel „

" The condition secured by the Protocol is quite important
enough for France to hare been anxious to join in it. It was
besides the only becoming mode of escaping frOm the sad posi-
tion in which we had been placed by the diplomacy of the Cabinet
of M. Thiers. France has no Innger to blush on resuming her
place in the conferences of Europe, now that the rowers declare
the treaty of July 15 to be extinct—that Austria has not
blushed to do it, after the kingdom of Greece has been
founded without her participation, and even in spite of her.
Has not England also had her day of isolation ? Was
she not compelled, in 1823, in spite of her protests, to
suffer interventions in the Spanish Peninsula? And did
that prevent her, at a subsequent period, and on a
proper occasion, from renewing her relations with Europe?
We can easily understand why M. Thiers should attach im-
portance to the duration of the isolation hi which his policy
had placed us. It must be very mortifying to him
to see his successors, in less than a year, snatch-
ing France from the consequences of his errors. If the
isolation of France be put an end to without injury to her
dignity ; if her relations' with Europe become more friendly
and confiding ; if public feeling be tranquillised ; if ruinous
armaments be checked ; if the fruitful labours of peace suc-
ceed to the noisy and sterile preparations for war; if States
become snore wealthy without the necessity of imposing new
taxes upon the people ; if, in a word, an era of tranquil and
progressive civilization should come, after the political and
financial storm created by the eabinet of the Ist March, M.
Thiers is lost for the future. The eight months of his disastrous
administration will only be remembered to be cursed, and to
serve as a warning against the recurrence of it."
.;• The bulk of tl.sio Fr..neh journals appear to regard with
comparative indifference the foreign ipolicy of the Go-
vernment. All their predictions within the last year
have already come to nothing. A sense of shame, per-
haps, reduces them to silence.
The license for re-opening the Odeon as a second Theatre
Francais was signed yesterday and delivered to M. d'Epagny,
who is to be the director. One of the most important of its
privileges is, that it is to be allowed to play the old pieces of
the drama—Tragedy and Comedy —on first obtaining the ex-
press authority of the Minister of the Interior. The represen-
tations are to commence in the course of October.
The King of Naples has commuted the punishment of
eight years' hard labour at the hulks adjudged upon the officers
engaged in the late duel at. Naples, which we mentioned a
short time since,. into two years' service in the ranks as private
soldiers. _ _

The Sad of. Marseilles says that great excitement has
been caused there by the stoppage :of Messrs. Alerentie Bro-
thers ; adding, that on Saturday morning it was learnt that, on
the precedieg day, a.telegraphic despatch had arrived, ordering
.seals to be put on their counting•houses, books, and papers,
and to arrest M. B. Merentie, who had left Marseilles for Paris
a fortnight before. The orders for affixing the seals were exe-
cuted on Saturday morning.
.—The Courier Francais states that the height to which
the water now shoots above the orifice of the Artesian well of
Grenelle is 18 metres,or 59 English feet. It is supposed that
the recent earthquake has had some influence in causing the
temporary stoppage, now centered. The quantity of sand and
clay thrown uphy the water, when it, firt, shot out after the
stoppage, was enormous. Baron Humboldt and M. Arago had
quitted the spot only five minutes before. About 300 metres of
the tube have been already got down, and the remaining 250
for the lower part of the bore, are to be made of smaller di-
mensions, and lowered through the portion already fixed.
The King of Bavaria has permitted the Rev. Dr. Doyle
of London to collect, up to September next, in the Bavarian
State, subscriptions for the building of a Catholic church in
London. The King has subscribell,ooo.florins for this pur-
pose from his privy purse.
A letter from Frankfort, in the Cologne Gazette, slates
that during the building of the new Catholic church in that
place, the Catholics performed divine service in the Protes-
tant church of Sainte-Gertrude, the Protestants having, in
order to accommotate them, changed the hour of their own
service. In the consecration of the Catholic church, which
took place on the 27th ult., the clergyman in the course of his
s •rn.on expressed in strong terms his gratitude for the spirit of
brotherly love and conciliation manifested by the Protestants
in the parish of Sainte- Gertrude.
A letter from Berne, of the 11th instant, states that there
was a fall of stow there the night before.
—The Memorial of Pau gives a lamentable account of the
state of the weatl.er in that country, and the effects of the late
storms. A house in that town was thrown down on Friday
right, and tl.e inhabitants owed their lives only to the resist-
ance of a beam, which supported the part in which they slept.
An immense mound of earth gave way near the hill of Bizanos,
and for a time stopped all passage on the road ; but_the autho-
rities had it cleared with promptitude, as fears Were enter-
tained that some persons might be buried under it. This was
found not to have been the case; but a carriage had passed by
only a few seconds before the fal took place. Many trees were
rooted up, and other ilaniage.done.
The Constitutionnel publishes a letter prom a, correspon-
banian troo
recent inps andsu rre Tur
ion.iskh atit'oriti in ularia
dent at Belgrade.
_dated let inst., containing some more ac-
counts of the excesses said to have been committed by the Al-
etants were either killed, burnt, or impaled, near Nissa, andadds_
several instances'arie'voleing'cruelty. The number of villages
thc Thisitleiteersasseßrtsg t hat,s'oo inhabi-
2,vhchcaused
in three districts alone destroyed reeritiotied as 225.
..- The Temp IttOtes
Istating
I"etter from cOngantiln
• -
• .1 ; •
• " .p1:1 4%m,-

that 3,000 tegular tiooptbadi hjGrjiiirilbarlfettt for Candia on I
board of a 74, two corvettes,,and a brig; and that 6,000 Alba-
nians,were_to hold_ themselves in readinfssto.leaKe at a mo-
ment's notice. This letter adtis;-iii"-the 6ithority 'of a rerson
whivha.d arrived from Candia,. that reinforeements.were much
wanted by the Turks; and tha in two affairs, on the ‘2.Bth May
.art,d the 4th inst., 6,000 regular troops were unable to defeat
00 ill-armed mountaineers.
—*A correspondent of the Dsbats writes, on the Bth instant,
from Barcelona :—" We have hart our day of barricades • but
as no cannon were called into play, We have no loss of life to
deplore. The Captaid-General Viri Haien, . who has the coin-,
mand of, the coast-guard,
.Overtise -f or 'sale, at five o'clock
yesterday afternoon, in a.,sniall narrow street; the Calle de
Basca, near the market plae.e; a quantity of contraband goods
Which had been seized. The Ayuntatiaiento, fearing a disturb-
=ice, requested the Captiin-General to susPelid the sale, but
he determined to persevere. Uperi thiS the" Alcades sent a
number of labourers with orders to unpaye,the Calle-de Bases,.
and form the stones into barricades, so that all entrance into it
was completely prevented, and"no one could reach t4e place of
sale, which was effectually prevented. The Captain-General
made no resistance to this manmivre of the municipality, and
the peace of the town remained 'undisturbed. In execution
of the decree for reducing the artier, the second battalion of the
Royal Guard, in garrison at Barcelona, Was jest been disbanded."

BOURSE--,PARIS, SATURDAY, JULY 17.
Ira Highest Lowest Last
Price price. Pric. Price
French 5 par Cents
41 per Cents
4 per Cents 449 25 09 l 5 t 5 2)
3 per Cents. ex. div 76 45 —%050... 70 45 ... Wi 50
sank of France
Lattitte Bank LOOK Stare ...1135
5,0J0f. Stares 5115 ...5115 ...5115
.e!eisn Bank ........... 774) . 770 770
Belgian 5 per Cents. ...... 112% 10? 102% .. 10,%
3 i,er cents 7O 70 ... 70 7J
New Loan 10414 21,4 ... 102% ... 112%
Spanish Active .....»......»» sub .„ sosh ;20%
Passive 4% 4% 4
Neapolitan
Rot an 402% ....IM% 1023( .a 104%
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MARY OF FE S

AND

Vulatt Opinion.

" "Who runs may read."

ABROAD.
rOUZZON-COMONIAXI.

The New Treaty signed by the Five Powers, for the
pacification of the East, is condemned by the French op-
position Journals of Friday and Saturday. They are
displeased at a return to reason on the part of the
French Cabinet. The Presse ably supports M. Guizot's
policy, which for ever extinguishes that flickering lumi-
nary of the war faction, M. Thiers.

The troubles in Toulouse do not yet appear to be
appeased. Should the disaffection extend to the French
capital more blood than wine would flow during the
celebration of the "three glorious days." The King is
greatly apprehensive of an emeute in Paris before the
fortifications are finished. When the Avails are up the
guns of the fortresses will treat discontented mobs to a
eheillvari, which will soon quiet the most noisy among
them.

Things are in a bad way at Constantinople. A
correspondent writing from that capital thus speaks of the
conduct of the Ministry :—" Beset with difficulties which
it is quite beyond their skill to-overcome, they only, think,
like seamen in extremity, of helping themselves to every-
thing within their reach. There now prevails in every
department the most desperate indifference to the public
service. Places and appointments of all sorts are sold
by auction. Malversation and oppression in the provinces
are the natural consequences; but complaints, unless
backed by open insurrection, or strongly seconded
by the representatives of the European Consuls, are no
longer listened to." Government, thus bereft of public
virtue, cannot stand. Where all offices are purchaseable
with money, no institution is stable. Turkey totters to
her fall—a fall from which Islam can never rise. What-
ever the Urquhartites may say, the Koran is an insuper-
able bar to the regeneration of the Moslem empire in
Europe.

It has been signified to the Sultan that her Majesty
Quz.en Victoria cannot consistently with the rules of the
public service, allow Lords Palmerston and Ponsonby to
accept the splendid diamond decorations intended for
them in requital of their services in effecting the pacifi-
cation of the East. Had her Majesty's Royal predeces-
sor given a hint of this sort to the late Earl of Durham,
before the decoration of Lambton Castle by the presents
of the Czar, the seizure of the Vixen might have led to
matters which would have worn a very different aspect
in the Black Sea, from those with which we are at pre-
sent familiar. The patriotism is indeed rare, which can
distinguish in a private benefactor a public enemy.

On the 20th ult. the Divan, at the instance of Baron
Sturmer, the Austrian Internuncio, adopted a proposal for
ameliorating the condition of the Syrian Christians. It
matters little what the Divan resolves to do so long as
the Paellas contrive to evade giving effect to its resolu-
tions. Unless the Great Powers actively assume the
protectorate of the Christian subjects of the Porte, no
Divan can protect them from the brutal insults of the
fanatic Osmanlis.

Mehemet Ali is carrying every thing with a high
hand in Egypt. His promises to Commodore Sir
Charles Napier appear to have been forgotten as soon as
that Gallant Officer was clear of the port of Alexandria.
As yet the Pasha has neither released the Syrian pri-
soners nor removed the obstacles to the freedom of
trade granted by the Hatti Scheriff. When Colonel
Napier demanded the release of the prisoners, he was told
that the Pasha had other business to attend to. Is the
Paella anxious for another interview with the Commo-
dore ? If he wishes to retain the Government of Egypt
in his family, he ought to give over collecting materials
for a bonfire at Alexandria, which may consume his
title-deed to so fair a wing of the Turkish Empire.
Russia is showing great activity in her arsenals.
Several war-steamers are building of large size.
The inauguration of Moliere's monument, now
constructing, is expected to take place on the 17th of
February—the anniversary of his death.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.

At a great dinner given at Bury, on Friday even-
ing, to Richard Walker, Esq., in honour of his return for
that town, Mr. G. W. Wood stated that Lord Spencer told
him a few days ago that any Administration, however
powerful, would commit an act of felo de se if it inter-
fered with the Corn-laws. The Ministers must have
been aware of that opinion, and could, therefore, have
brought forward their proposition only from a sense of
duty, as Mr. Wood said, and were determined not to
shrink from the consequences. We . have before
stated that it was impossible to listen to Mr.
Labouchere, and not believe that he spoke from the
most complete and sincere conviction that if something
were not done our manufacturers would be ruined.
At the same dinner Mr. Cobden, though he ex-
pressed himself dissatisfied with the Whig measures,
said the manufacturers were immeasurably indebted to
the Queen's Ministers for bringing forward measures at
all to initirOve the Corn-laws. He also told the 'factory-
owneis some home truths. The landlords rely, he said,
on the- diiebed prevailing between the master manufac-
turers and their workmen. The tendency of the
bread,tax is to diminish the wages of labour,
and the factory masters are the agents for
levying that tax on the workmen. Thus they
are made the instruments of their own ruin, or, as Mr.
Cobden said, the cat's-paw of the landlords, by consent-
ing to impoverish and degrade their fellow-labourers.
'The factory masters must prove to the workmen that
they are not to blame, and both must make common
cause against the common plunderer. At Manchester
they are late in discovering this important truth. The
factory masters have preferred imitatifig the landowners,
and have been ridiculously afraid of their workmen.
They now have their reward.

Twelve months and a severe winter have tested the
Oxford-street wood-paving. At a special meeting of the
Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, a memorial was pre-
sented signed by 370 rate-payers of Oxford-street, in fa-
vour of a wooden pavement for the whole of the street.
Richard Lloyd, the person who secured Hatfield,
the lunatic, when in the act of firing a pistol at George
111., in Drury Lane Theatre, died last week in the
Salop Infirmary.

The preparations for the meeting of the British
Association, at Devonport, are nearly complete. It will
commence on Thursday, the 20th inst., and continue
until the 4th of August.
Richard Russell, a shoemaker, of Hereford, com-
mitted suicide on Wednesday last. He had voted for
Mr. Burr, and sworn that he retained the same qualifi-
cation as that for which he registered, though his house
had been taken down. The idea of having taken a false
oath so preyed on his mind that he could no longer
endure life.