The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-09 00:00:00

TLLEGRAFHIC DESPATCH.

This news created very little stir in ras',s, and we
sincerely hope that Frenchmen, s:.,eirig that Syria
is lost to MEILF:NIET ALI, cic:SerVedly lost too, inas-
much as ase Syrians g'setested him as a tyrant, and
threw e ;
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arOlte at the first summons of the
All;
„es—swill seriously turn their thoughts to
pc-esce. They must see now that they were
mistaken as to the sway of MEHEMET Aet in
Syria from the first. The principal bone of
contention is thus removed, and the Treaty of
July at an end. France, therefore, need
no longer stand aloof from the Great Powers. But to
prove her sincerity, she must discontinue her arma-
ments, which the Paris Journals of Monday inform
us are progressing with the utmost rapidity. If
these armaments be continued, we can but repeat
the opinion which we expressed on Monday as to
the line of conduct which it behoves the British
Government to pursue. We require now a stronger
pacific post to lean against than the respectable ma-
jority of eighty-six upon the Ministerial address,
especially as the bulk of these gentlemen treated
the question of a war with England less as a horri-
ble possibility to be avoided by all just means, than
as a question of time, and of means to carry it on
successfully. The Punic faith of M. 211IERs;
as avowed by himself and his colleague, M. de Re-
MUSA T, render us suspicious of those who hare
recorded their votes in support of the "war in
spring" policy. Nut that we entertain the
slightest distrust personally of the moderation
of the KING, the patriotism of M. GUIZOT,
or the magnanimous forbearance and good
sense of Marshal SOULT, but because we do not
find either in France herself, or in her represen-
tatives, that enthusiastic support of the policy of
the Court and Cabinet which would be to us a
guarantee of its changeless durability. We are
disturbed by the variance between the language and
the conduct of France. She still, it is true, speaks
of peace as an object especially dear to her, but
her hand, instead of an olive branch, grasps the
hilt of her sword. Her founderies roar and hiss,
but her cunning workers in brass and iron, instead
of forging steam-engines and rails for roads, cast
cannon, and manufacture bayonets and musket
barrels. Hcr arsenals are hives of industry, but it
is that her flag may carry death to all she may de-
nounce as her foes, not that her merchants may be
greeted as the harbingers of commerce and civiliza-
tion in quarters of the globe yet imperfectly con-
versant with the enterprise, the products, and the
humanizing influence of France. She prepares for
peace;, as the witches repeated the LORD'S Prayer
in incantations backwards. Instead of converting
the sword into a ploughshare, she forges the
ploughshare into a sword. Of her river barges
she makes gun-boats, and of her merchant craft
three-deckers. When pressed for a definition of
peace, she boldly proclaims it to be the forcible
submission of all Europe to the will of France ;
and that she is merely aiming to secure that great
blessing to the world
Now we are not so ignorant of international
law as to suppose that it is not perfectly com-
petent to France to raise whatever armaments she
may think proper for her own defence. Her only
limits to such dangerous extravagance are in the
forbearance of her neighbours, the money in her
treasury, and the patient submission of her people
to war-taxes in a time of peace. But this
competency to do mischief by inspiring alarms,
restricting commercial intercourse, and squandering
the money of the tax-payers, she only shares in
common with all the States by whom she is sur-
rounded. England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia,
arc as free to fit out armaments, to be ready against
the spring, as France. This is what the most
warlike of her subjects may yet discover to their
cost. We tried as long as we could to combat the
idea that a war between England and France, at
the present advanced state of civilization in both
was so much as possible. We fancied that nations
mutually so brave—mutually so enlightened—mu-
tually so benefited by commercial and neighbourly
intercourse—mutually so repentant that they should
have so long misunderstood each other—mutually
so eager to cement public by private friendships,
could never be again frantic enough to contemplate,
with yells of triumph, the shedding of each other's
blood. But the continuance of her armaments,
when every pretext for employing them in the East
is over, occasions us much uneasiness. The fol-
lowing extract from a letter, published in the
Times, and dated from Paris on Saturday last,
gives no exaggerated description of the enthusiasm
with which France is preparing for a state of things,
which we devoutly trust will never arrive :
Every letter received in Paris from the seaports of
France teems with notices of the measures ordered with
a view to the increase of the navy. That will not,
however, give you any uneasiness, but every letter re•
ceived from Grenoble, Strasburg, Metz, Lille, &c.,
speaks of the Herculean labours of the Government to
create or accumulate magazines of the materiel of war,
on a scale which nothing but insanity or a determina-
tion to throw off the mask when ready (or both, for
some people will say they are pretty much akin), could
account for. Europe is not to be alarmed by indis-
creet menaces as by M. Theirs—no raising of 450,000
men to increase the military force actually on foot to
900,000 men. Soldiers France can have at a mo-
ment's notice--" a breath can make them ;' but it is
not so with respect to cannons, muskets, sabres, and
bayonets, gunpowder, shells, balls, and bullets, clothing,
or accoutrements ; and all these things in sufficient
quantity for a three years' war, with an army of a
million of men, are in process of fabrication, collection,
and v. arehousing in France at, this very moment.
We repeat, then, that if these military prepara-
tions be continued—and M. HUNIANN's budget
looks very like their continuance—our Government
had better be prepared for whatever may happen
The Lords of the Admiralty have hitherto proved
themselves not unequal to the important demands
made upon them by the national interests in the
East and the West ; we trust they will not re-
lax in their vigilance in the promotion of the
true glory of their country. The pride, the
soul of England is her navy. Provided; the Admi-
ralty give encouragement to plenty of blue jackets,
like the gallant STOI'FORD, WALKER, and the in-
vincible CHARLEY NAPIER, we are safe. These
are the boys for us and old England. These are
not the " Queen's Ov%n," or the " Prince's Own,"
but they are the " Nation's Own," " Great Bri-
tain's Own," the " Queen, Prince, and People's
Own," wheresoever the British flag is spread to
catch the breezes of victory. It is indifferent to us
what is done upon land, provided nothing is neg-
lected at sea. Our only sure defence, after Heaven,
is in our wooden walls, and the stout hearts man-

ning them.
Of general news there is very little of any inte-
rest in the French Journals. What there is, to-
gether
with the report of the presentation of the
Budget to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday
will be found in another part of The Sun. M.
GulzoT and M. MARTIN (do Nord) have been
rc-Liected by arcat majorities.
Madrid Papers, of the 30th Int., have been re-
ceived, and extracts front them will be found in

" BAYONNE, DEC. 5.
" THE SUE-PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE

INTERIOR.

(This arrived by telegraph to Tours, and from that
city to Paris by courier.)
" By decree of the Regency, dated November 30. an
amnesty is granted for all crimes and offences committed
since July 10, 1837.
" The Carlist refugees, except for the moment, the
civil and military chiefs, and the officers and priests, are
authorised, on condition of taking the oath, to return to
Spain by the Junviierrs and Confrane."

LLOYIY S SHIPPING-('PHIS DAY.)

DEAL, DEC. B.—Wind S, S. W., fresh breeze.—Ar-
rived the Water Lily, Hart, from Jamaica. Sailed the
Natalie, Drcut- Amsterdam, for Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 8. —Wind S.E.—Arrived the Mos-
lem, Vale, from London, for Malta; Alderman Thump
son, Darling, from Newcastle for Jamaica ; Siam, Smith,
from London to Sierra Leone ; Superior, Dunning, Caps
of Good Hope; Collector, Palermo; Abercrombie Ro-
binson, Frazer, from London, for Malta, with bowsprit
sprung, and other damage; Spring, Day, from Yarmouth,
with loss of main boom, bulwarks, put back ; Susan,
Nearby, Sydney, New South Wales. It has blown a strong
gale from S. S. E. to S.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind S. S. W. to S. W., a vio-
lent gale.—Arrived the Deene, from Newcastle for Gib-
raltar ; Crane packet, Belize, sailed Oct. 2, Tampico, 18,
Vera Cruz and Havannah, 10th ult., with 95,200 dol-
lars; Royal Adelaide, Quebec ; Sir John Byng, Galatz ;
Champion, Bream, Taganrog ; Sarah, CafEero, Barletta;
Neptune, Stephens, Girganti ; Superb, Stewart, from In-
verkeithing, for Malta ; David Grant, Laurence, from
Shields, for Malta ; Etna, Sloss, ditto, ditto ; Monkton,
Haman, ditto; Charente, Pleya, from Sunderland for
Bordeaux ; Mary Anne Pendcup, Sillis, from Yarmouth
for Venice ; Adelaide, Dryden, from London, for Laun-
ceston; Wanderer, Hind, from London, for St. Lucia;
King Alfred, from ditto, to St. Michael's; Sophia, Payne,
from London, for Malta ; Libra, Gibbons, from ditto, to
Oporto. Put back thu Azores packet, Peters, fur St.
Michael's. The Montrose. with the Peninsular mails, and
the Penguin packet, for Brazil, are prevented sailing by
the violence of the galp.
PENZANCE, DEC. 6 —Arrived off port, the Alpine,
Charleston, from Amsterdam ; Guesachan, Anna, and Pro-
tector, Wood, Demerara.
BRISTOL, DEC. 7.—Arrived the General Douglas,

Hide, from Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 8 —The Cleveland, from Bombay,
Speed, from St. John's, New Brunswick, United King-
dom, front Quebec, and an American ship, are at anchor
near the north-west light-ship. The United Kingdom was
struck by a sea during the passage, which washed away
huh, arks, store-boats, and killed one man. It blew very
hard last night from the s ,uthward, with violent squalls,
during one of which the Valiant, from Port-au-Prince, that
was at anchor near N. W. light, dragged her anchors, and
was obliged to cut away her mast, &c., and thus rode out
the gale.
SALCOMBE, DEC. B.—The Esperance, Rolland, from
Adra to Dunkirk, was driven on shore at the entrance of
this harbour during a tremendous gale last evening, and is
breaking up ; crew saved.
TEIGNMOUTII, DEC. B.—The Howard, Bartlett, from
Mil aniichi, which arrived off this port yesterday, parted
from her anchors during a heavy gale from S. S.E. last
night, and lies stranded on the beach, but is expected to
be got cff shore if the weather continues moderate.
HARWICH, DEC. B.—The Elbe, Muller, from Havre to
Newcastle, was totally wrecked on the Goodwin Sands
last night; crew saved.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The sales of
Cowin to-day were 3,500 bags, chiefly Americans, at
steady prices.
LIVERPCOL SHARE LIST, DEC. B.—Eastern Counties
debentures 4a I 1-6ths ; Glasgow and Paisley 221 ; Grand
Junction (palter shares 5.24 ; Great Western 891,- ; ditto
fifths 9i 1 ; London and Birmingham 168 ; Brighton
United Company 30 ; Manchester and Leeds half shares
291 ; North Midland half shares 364.

The Philadelphia packet, London line, has arrived at
Deal ; her papers are old dates.
Our arrivals this morning are the Crane packet, from
Vera Cruz—sailed October 29, and Havannah November
10, and ship letters from the Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 7.
The packet Crane, from Tampico Oct. 18, has brought
only $95,000, not so large a freight as was expected ;
the following packet which is to come, the Star, will bring
a freight of nearly $lOO,OOO. The Crane had only one
passenger.
The accounts from Mexico continue gloomy.
It is stated in a Boston Paper that the ship Delhi, from
the East Indies, whose cargo is now selling in New York,
will realize a clear profit to her owners of 2.50,000 dollars
on one voyage.

In the expose of the French Minister of Finance, it is
stated that the expenditure for 1841, amounting to
1,200,000,000 i., and the receipts only 1,155,000,000 f.,
a new deficit of 45,000,000 f. would ensue, and th)t if the
armaments shonld be continued in 1841, the whole deficit
would exceed 832,000,000 f. This stgtement, no doubt,
will require a large! loan, but not to the amount anti-
cipated.