The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-10 00:00:00

CAYLEY, that it did not give protection enough.
Before 1833 it would have been hopelessly im-
possible for the Ministers to have done anything
with that law, and the manner in which they
have now been deserted
.by Whig landlords, is a
complete demonstration that they never had the
power to correct this legislative error, and ex-
tinguish this legislative crime.

It must also be remembered that the commerce
of the country was tolerably prosperous till the
beginning of 1838. The continual remissions of
taxation made by the Whigs from their accession
to office, continually fed the hopes, stimulated
the energies, and rewarded to a certain extent
the exertions of the industrious classes. An end,
however, came to these remissions of taxation,
and the fiscal system interfering with every
part of the social machine, clogged its progress.
When additional taxation became necessary in
1840 its retardation was made painfully appa-
rent to all. Though science and morals had alike
denounced the iniquitous Corn-law many years
before, it was not till 1840 that its effects were
so far developed that any Ministry could have
been justified in proposing to alter it. Assuredly
had the Whig Ministry so proposed, it would
have caused an instant dissolution of the Cabi-
net. There is no other measure which can give
more relief to the people than an alteration or abo-
lition of the Corn•law, and nothing more credit-
able than the wantonness of malice can induce
any writer to accuse the Whigs of not having
proposed an amendment in that erroneous and
Scoundrel legislation, while they had ;great ma-
jorities in the House of Commons.

Argument and facts of a similar character ap-
ply to the sugar duties. Since slavery was abo-
lished, there has been no year of very exorbitant
prices, but 1840 ; and no justification, therefore,
till after the experience of that year for pro-
posing an alteration in the law. Had Ministers
proposed it when prices were getting up, before
any person could tell how far they would rise, or
how temporary was the elevation, the statement
that the Whigs were taking advantage of a mo-
mentary and passing state of the sugar market,
to injure the sugar planters, would have been un-
answerable and most injurious. Till 1841, then,
the Ministers would not have been warranted in
proposing an alteration of the sugar duties; the
timber duties Lord ALTHORP tried to correct, and
was by the monopolists defeated. It implies a
false charge against the Ministers, then, to affirm
that they inexorably maintained the protective
system when they had large majorities, and only
abandoned it to harrass their successors. It is
only within the last three years that several of
its worst consequences, which were neutralised
before by successive reductions of taxation and
extension of the market, have been developed,
and tardy as we thought the Ministers were in
attacking it, the present contest is a proof that
they have now attacked it too soon for the con-
tinuance of their power.

We have lately laid before our readers two or
three proofs of increasing attachment to free
trade amongst the farmers, and here is another.
On seconding the nomination of Mr. ELIOT for
Roxburgh, on Tuesday last, a Mr. Munn.Av, of
Kerr Mains, used the following. language :
I am a farmer; I have no means of paying my rent
but from the land I occupy. The cry of agriculture in
danger has been raised through the length and breadth of
the land. What is that cry raised for ? Mr. Scott says
that he regards with alarm an experiment that has a ten-
dency to destroy our home agriculture, and lay us at
the mercy of foreign nations.—(Hisses.) But I ask,
if he is desirous, as he says he is, that the food of
the people shall be as cheap as it can be consistent
with a due regard to the permanent security of agricul-
ture, is he taking steps to procure that ? I congratu-
late you on the fact, that a large portion of the farmers
of this county—the largest and most influential portion
of them—will be found voting in favour of Mr. Elliot.
—(Cheers.) I will tell you a fact which, perhaps, may
startle you. I am a farmer on the l)uke of Roxburghe's
estate, and so wide-spread and universal is the feeling
that the present system of the Corn-laws is positively
injurious to the farmers (because it is injurious to the
whole community), that five of his Grace's tenants, pay-
ing among them a rental of 8,4001. per annum, will all
go forward and record their votes for Mr. Elliot.—
(Cheers.) There was a cry raised that cheap food would
lead to low wages. That was a most delusive cry,
Cheap food had nothing to do with low wages. I have
been in the United States ; I have seen a labouring man
there earn his dollar, or nearly 4s. 6d. a day, while his
loaf was only 4d., and his beef or mutton only 3d. per
lb.—(Cheers.) As this is a subject in which I am pecu-
liarly interested, and hope to see a measure carried
which shall be really beneficial to the farmer, I can con-
fidently assure you, that the farming interest is to be
most benefited by the thriving and prosperous state of
the crowds I see before me. In your prosperity rests
ours.—(Cheers.) 'The moment that the manufacturing
interest of the country falls from its high position, down
goes the farmer. We have had three indifferent harvests
of late, and corn has risen very high ; but then look at
the state of the manufacturer who buys our wool. From
the languishing state of manufactures there has been no
demand for wool, and that article has in consequence
fallen in price, till it is now less than ls. per lb. If a
lower price of corn would take money out of one of our
pockets, the thriving and prosperous state of manufac-
tures would put it into the other.--(Cheers.)
His statement that farmers are beginning to
suffer in the price of their wool, was confirmed
by Lord HOWICK at the nomination for Northum-
berland on Tuesday. It is confirmed, too, by the
account of the Exeter Wool Market of July 1,
as follows :

Here all is still gloom, and in the raw article farther
positive decline has taken place, several parcels of yolk
wool having been sold at lid. per lb., a lower price than
we think we have had to state fin- several years ; while
the tendency at present, it Were vain to attempt to dis-
guise, is still downward.
Great importations of colonial wool are con-
tinually taking place, which fetches rather an in-
creased price, and perhaps tends to beat down
the price of home-grown wool. With this vas.
quantity of raw material, pouring in from many
quarters, if the landlords will not allow the peo-
ple to have food, and will not allow them to
find customers abroad, it is plain that the wool
cannot be worked up and the prices must fall
To continue the Corn-laws the landlords must
also demand a heavy protecting duty on colonial
wool, when they and the colonists of the Southern
hemisphere will go to loggerheads. The re-
medy for their quarrels, as for all our com-
mercial evils, is to set trade free, and then the
farmers will iie sure, as Mr. MURRAY said, to
find their prosperity in the prosperity of the ma-
nufacturers.

We presume Mr. NEWDIGATE, who appeared
on the hustings at Brentford to nominate Colonel
WOOD, must be an elector of Middlesex. It is
said, indeed, that lie is to be the second Tory
candidate on a future occasion. To him, there-
fore., in common with the other electors, is the
language of Mr. BYNG addressed, which appears
as an advertisement in another part of The Sun.
If he be susceptible of any generous emotions,
the contrast between Mr. BYNG'S kind words and
his own harsh language, must give him great pain.
Mr. NEWDIGATE is, we believe, just of age, and
yet he had the impertinence to reproach Mr.
BYNG, a consistent politician for fifty years, with
the errors of his political life. Mr. NEWDIGATE
not only forgot the reverence due to age, but the
courtesy which is common amongst gentlemen.
He admitted that Mr. BYNG'S private life was
amiable—happy will it be for Mr. NEWDIG ATE
if, at the end of his career, any man shall be able
to say either of his public or his private life that
he resembled the good Mr. BYNG.

The Paris Journals of Thursday for the most part de-
vote their leading columns to the insurrectionary move-
ments now taking place in the different European pro-
vinces of the Ottoman Empire. The Republican Papers,
such as the National and the Siecle, are in favour of the
insurgents, but the Debats, and the organs of the
Government generally, regard them as rebels against
the authority of the Porte. As this question is one
of the gravest importance, we shall take an early oppor-
tunity of expressing at some length our opinions upon
it, for which space is wanting in our columns of to-day.
Whatever the advocates of Established Governments
may urge, we are prepared to prove that Turkey has
lost her hold upon Europe.
An express from Paris, of yesterday's date, with the
latest continental news will be found in another column.
Subjoined are extracts from Thursday's papers :
We find the subjoined news from Aden in the Malta Times:
--" The intelligence from this place (3d inst.) is of a very
satisfactory nature. It was rapidly improving and increasing
in population ; the number of inhabitants, incluuing the garri-
son, amounting to 12,000. The fortifications were progressing,
roads making, and many other improvements going on. In
less than five years it will be the largest town in Arabia, and
probably the richest. The Arabs, even since this last unsuc-
cessful attack in July, have remained perfectly quiet, and bring
plentiful supplies. 'I he troops were exceedingly healthy, and
the Europeans more so than in any part of India where they
are stationed."

Our readers know that according to one of the clauses of
tho Convention, concluded on the sth of April, 1840, between

France and the Grand Duchy of Baden, annual conferences
are to be held, alternately at Strasburgh ar.d Carlsruhe, be-
tween the engineers of the two States, for the purpose'of com-
municating to each other the projects for regulating the limits
of the two countries. It is announced that the first meeting is
to take place this year in the month of October at Carlsruhe ;
the matters which are to be the subject of the conference is
already prepared. Another object of this meeting is to lay
down a general system for regulating the courses of the river.
—Moniteur.

The Toulonnais of the Bth of July publishes a private
letter from Algiers of the 28th of June, in which we find the
following passages :
" The troops departed again on the 25th, as we announced to
you. We have received no news of them either directly or in-
directly. General Bugeaud, too, does not send us any infor-
mation, and we do not know where he is. He is, however,
expected very soon at Algiers, where certainly no triumphant
reception will be offered him. Our population is very discon-
tented, and daily growing poorer. Trade does not extend be-
yond the gates of the City ; in short, we are uneasy, and un-
happy.

Our hopes are incessantly turned to the future, which ap-
pears to us under gloomy colours. Thus we shall continue to
vegetate, unless, as we are made to hope, a civil Government
shall soon take the place of that which is a heavy burden on
us. Some names are already mentioned, and that of M.
Remurat is at the head of the list."—Le Commerce.
TRENCH AFRICA.

The Toulonnais of the 4th instant brings intelligence from
Algiers of the 29th ult. The Abbe Suchet, who bad been
sent by the Bishop to negotiate with the Arabs an exchange
of prisoners, and of whom no account had been received
since his departure, retu:ned to Algicr on the 28th. The
Arabs continued to commit all sorts of atrocities in, the
immediate vicinity of Algiers. On the 23d the hay belonging
to Marshal Cl suzel was burned on his farm of Baba-Ali, and
eight mowers were carried away by the Arabs. Whilst the
French were engaged in destroying Tekedernpt, Abd-el-
Kader, with his regular troops, had marched for Ain.Maidi.
The Sultan of the country, the brave Tedjini summoned him
to retire from his dominions. The Emir replied that he was
determined, either by fair means or by force, to reduce him
to subjection. A battle ensued, in which the calalry of Ted-
jini was said to have completely routed the regular battalions of
the Emir, killing between 800 and 1,000, and taking the rest
of them prisoners. General Bagaguay d'Hilliers again took
the field on the 22d, and was operating on the 27th in the
neighbourhood of Milianah. The military hospitals of Algiers
were encumbered with sick, and no less than 500 had been of
late embarked monthly for Mahon and Toulon. A report pre-
vailed in Algiers that a civil Government would shortly supers
sede the military yoke which hitherto paralyzed the develop-
ment of the resources of the colony, and that M. de Remusat,
former Minister of the Interior in the Thiers Administration,
who has made his peace with M. Guizot, was to be appointed
civil Governor.

The Brasier steamer was to have sailed for Tunis on the
Bth, with the new Vice-Consul of France in the regency on
board. France, according to that journal, has now in the
Mediterranean a naval force of nineteen sail of the line, of
which three are three-deckers, six frigates, a great number of
corvettes and brigs, and about thirty steamers. The flotilla
of brigs, which the Toulonnais announced was fitting out for
the Brazil; station, was intended for the coast of Texas, where,
in consequence of the difficulties which have arisen between the
President of the Republic and the Minister of France, M. de
Saligny, the presence of some French vessels of war was
re-
quired.
The Courrier des Etats Unis gives the following further
account of the affair of the ship Charles :
" When the captain of the steamer went on board the Charles
he found the ship entirely abandoned. On a table in one of
the cabins were four porter-bottles, nearly empty, and the froth
of the beer was still fresh. All the baggage of the passengers,
their clothes, &c., had disappeared. A great quantity of blood
was found all about the vessel and on the bulwarks of the ship,
showing that some one, after being dreadfully wounded, must
have been thrown into the sea. These circumstances left no doubt
that a crime of the most horrible nature had been committed on
board the Charles. After having carefully inspected all parts of the
vessel, the captain of the steamer con ti n ued cruising about for five
or six hours, in order, if possible, to discover the long. boat of the
Charles, and about ten miles off he fell in with a jolly-boat
which appeared to have belonged to that ship. There was a
dog in it belonging to one of the passengers, but nothing else
was found. The animal did not seem to have been long aban-
doned, for when he was given some water he did not drink
with much avidity. The French Consul at New Orleans has
given a list of passengers by the Charles, who had taken out
passports in his office, but it appears certain that there were
several passengers who had not done so. There were among
the male passengers one Spaniard and five French, and there
was a French lady, of Bordeaux, on board, Madame Veuve
Petit, with her two daughters."
ALGIERS.—A fatal mistake of one of the outposts of Mos-
taganem has cost us the life of a brave officer, the Captain of
one of the companies of foot chasseurs ; four soldiers were also
killet!, and eight others were wounded. This lamentable accident
happened in the following manner. Our Smelas were returning
from a sortie, accompanied by adetachinent of the chasseurs, when
the soldiers of the battalion on guard, unaccustomed to distin-
guish our allied Arabs from the enemy, fired upon the party as it
approached. The Srmlas immediately dispersed, leaving the
chasseurs, who were in the rear, exposed to the bullets of their
comrades. Between the 19th and 21st about 80 head of cattle,
belonging to allied Moors and Arabs, were stolen by the Kaby-
les, from the environs of the Maison Came and driven off
in the direction of Rassauta. On the 23d a quantity
of hay, belonging to Marshal Clauser, at Balba Ali, was set
on fire by the Arabs, who also captured six Europeans and
two Kabyles, employed in mowing. On the 16th fires were
seen at three other points of the plain."

It appears from the account of the affairs of the Bank of
France, published in the Moniteur in virtue of the law of June
30, 1840, that the balance sheet of this establishment, on the
31st June, 1841, amounted to 487,379,133 f. The state of the
accounts during the second quarter of 1841 was as follows:
average amount of specie in hand, 226,856,500 f. ; average
of discounts, advances, and loans, 136,630,000 f. ; aver-
age amount of current accounts of the branch banks,
16,958,000 fr. ; average of the circulation, 326,727,500 francs;
and average of the different accounts current, 156,077,000 fr.;
the operations realised during the same quarter were, for dis-
counts, advances, and loans, 246,060,000 fr. ; accounts cur-
tent, 2,050,787,000 fr. ; for those of the Treasury, 180,361,000
fr. ; and the amount of the general business of the whole esta-
blishment, 2,505,015,000 fr. The result of the operations of
the bank for the first half-year of 1841, is 5,252,436 fr.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, JULY 9.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
French 5 per Cents ll. 70 ... 114 95 ... I'4 'lO ... 114 95
4 per Cents 99 21 ... 99 25 ... 99 25 .., 99 25
g per Cent!. ex. div 76 60 76 65 ... 76 60 ... 76 05
Rank of &mice 3165 ...3165 —1165 ...3161
Lattitte Bank 1,0001. SI ares 112 i ...1030 ...10.15 ~.1030
5,000 f. St arcs 5125 —.5125 —.5120 ...5125
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Belgian 5 per Cents.
New Loan lO2 ... 112 .. 101% ... 101%
3 per Cents 69 LO ... 69 50 ... 69 N:1 ... 69 5J
ipanish Active 22% ... 223 ... %2 ... .4234
Passive 5 ... 5 ... 5 5
veapolitan lO2 00 ... 102 70 ... M 2 60 ...... lO2 70
R man
EAILWA Y SHARES.
Versaillcs.L.B
it. B 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 311 25 ... 312 50
Orleans ..

4tr3suurt to Bale

...:35 ...223 x
~,2.35

DISSOLVING VIEWS IN ST.

STEPHEN'S,

A VISION OF THE EDITOR OF THE "STANDARD?'
The Election bustle was past and o'er,
And thronged again was St. Stephen's floor,
Which showed, methought, as in days of yore,
(Days which I fear'd would return no more)
A band of Tories, each brisk as Wrench,
Rang'd in rows on the Treasury Bench,
And looking about them with suck an air
So exceedingly smiling and debonna ire,
That my thoughts, which had long been black as night,
Cleared up at once at the cheering sight,
And I capered, and cried with exulting shout,
" Thank God, those infernal Whigs are out !"
'Twas an exquisite View I the Tory chiefs,
No longer burdened with party griefs.
But impressed with a sunny sense of duty,
Formed a striking foreground full of beauty,
While the Sibthorpes and Bens with their beards
grotesque,
Formed a background still more picturesque.

But, alas ! while I gazed with delighted mien,
An ominous change came o'er the scene,
Which slowly dissolved, like the Views we meet
At the Polytechnic, in Regent-street—
I looked fsr Goulburn and Peel, but, 10,
They'd both disappeared, like last year's snow,
And where they had sat, I observed with dread
That Russell and Baring were seated instead !
I looked for Stanley, he too was gone,
And his place was usurped by Palmerston !
I looked for Hardinge, but 'mid the rout,
He also had marched to the right•about !
And where Sibthorpe had sat, so famed for speeches,
There sat Muntz in his Dutch-built breeches,
With Dan, the Destroyer, in full-blown pride,
Grinning from ear to ear by his side !
In :port, not one of the Tory pack
But was off in (what Colman calls) " a crack,"
Leav:ng the Whig and Radical crew
To grace together—the scamps !—this new
And unexpected Dissolving View ! I
Shocked at such change, with distracted brain
I cried—for I could not my wrath restrain—
"Oh d—n it, those Whigs are in again !"
Then woke with an asinine bray in my ear,
As the Member for Lincoln roared lustily " Hear !"

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 10.—Wind this day at noon, S. W.
DEAL, JULY 9. —W in dW. S. W., moderate. —Arrived the
Cecilia, Weddell, from Launceston ; John Oldham, Henley,
Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 9.—Wind W.N.W.— Arrived the Earl
of Dalhousie' from Calcutta ; Christiana, Valparaiso : Eliza-
beth Wood, Crasley, Barbadoos ; Spinsters, Colquhoun, Cape
Haytien. Sailed the Harvest Hotne,, Heron, for Calcutta ;
Mary, Queen of Scots, Kelly, Pernambuco : Columbus, Bar-
stow, New York ; Cornelia, Finch, ditto; Prompt, Morton,
Montreal ; Sherbrooke, Gray, Quebec ; Bunn, Smith, Africa;
Commerce, Corran, ditto. The Maria, bound to Oporto,
grounded near Farmby this morning, but came off on the
flood, and proceeded
HOLYHEAD, JULY 9.—Arrived off, the Joseph Winter,
from the Mauritius.
DARTMOUTH, JULY 8 —Arrived the Somerset, London for
Malta, with loss of topsail, val.', and sails split. Arrived off,
the Tornaten, Wingate, China and Batavia ; Seplung, Raw-
lins, Calcutta.
CARDIFF, JULY B.—Sailed the Emma, to Naples ; Drome,
Lyra ; Off Weymouth, 9th, Earl of Denham, Crouch, Cal-
cutta; Rosalind, Calford, Ceylon; Madras, Parsons, Van
Diemen% Land, sailed the 15th March; Regulus, Hunter, New
South Wales, sailed I Ith.
CLYDE, JULY B.—Sailed the Jane Brown, Wylie, Montreal.
Kmoszow rr, Jo LYB. —Arrived the Vestal, Beadle, Trinidad.
BURHAYEN, JULY 6.—Arrived the Patriot, Smith, Montreal,
SHIELDS, JULY 7 andB.—Sailed the Blixton, Buenos Ayres;
Majestic, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 9. —Wind S. S. W. to N. N. W._
Sailed the Ann, Major, Malta; lrvine Dalhousie. Arrived
off, the Lavinia, Hall, Sydney and New Irvine,
Wales; sailed the
Pillch, Martin Wingate, China.
COWES, JULY 9.—Arrived the Regalia, Poustee, from the
Havannah ; Munro, Balfour, from Buenos Ayres, and sailed
for Antwerp ; Amelia, Flasdale, Rio Janeiro, and sailed for
London.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 9.—N.N.W.—Arrived off, the Scipio,
Henderson, from Macao.
SWANSEA, JULY B.—The Betsey, of Plymouth, capsized
near Neath last night, but has been righted to-day, and will
be towed into a place of safety.