The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-20 00:00:00

policeman's evidence will go for anything, unless
it is supported by impartial witnesses. We ex-
press this feeling towards an apparently respect-
able body of men with regret, but the numerous
instances of gross misconduct, false charges, and
false swearing, which have come under our no-
tice lately, compel us to denounce them as a
body of men no less dangerous to public liberty
than to the peace of private families.

We have received Madrid journals and letters to the
11th inst., but their contents continue to be almost with-
out interest. The Madrid Gazette publishes a Decree
of the Government dividing Spain into fourteen districts,
or Captaincies-General, in the following order:—New
Castille, Catalonia, Andalusia, Valencia, Gallicia, Arra-
con, Grenada, Old Castille, Estramadura, Navarre, Bur;
gos, the Basque provinces, the Balearic Islands, and the
Canary Islands. A Decree of the Bth inst. states that,
in future, there shall be only one levy for the re-
gular army and the provincial militia. The troops are
to serve five years in the former, and three years in the
latter. The Castellano publishes a circular from the
Minister of the Interior to the different political chiefs
of the kingdom, calling upon them to enforce the laws
of March, 1837, for the regulation of the public press,
with proper severity.
On the 11th the Five per Cents. were sold for 25+
for cash, and for 25.13-16 I at 60 days, and the debt
bearing no interest for 6 at 60 days.

The Paris journals of Friday and Saturday have all
reached us, but they are more than usually barren of
news of any political interest. The emeutes in Paris
were not renewed. The reported death of the Duke of
BORDEAUX turns out to be a fabrication. A letter from
Kirchberg, of the 7th inst., states that " the joining
of the limb is perfect, and that no grounds
whatever exist for future apprehensions" QUE-
NISSET, the real name of the wretch who fired
at. the ROYAL PRINCES, has made some im-
portant revelations, and it is supposed that the
Government will at last obtain a clew to some of the
principal organizers of the secret societies. Twenty
have already been arrested, and among them is the man
who loaded the pistol. and another who made a rest
of his back that QUENISSET might take a more delibe-
rate aim.

The following extracts include the miscellaneous news
in the French papers

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" Who runs -May read."

FOR.EIXGN.

The French journals resent with much warmth the
attacks made upon the state of moral and religious, feel-
ing in France by the London Tory papers, in comment-
ing upon the recent attempt to assassinate the Royal
Princes. This is very natural ; but, as The Sun abstained
from employing any expression calmilated to wound the
self-love of the French people, the quarrel, as it now
stands,
_dons not concern us.

The reported death of the Duke of Bordeaux turns
out to be a money-jobbing fabrication. It must distress
the Royalists to reflect that it had the effect of improv-
ing the prices of French Stock.
It is stated that the French Finance Minister has
adjusted all the conditions of the new loan with M.
Rothschild. The loan is to be taken at the advanced
price of 80 per cent. Well done M. Humann
The name of the misc:eant who fired at the Royal
Princes is not Pappard, but Quenisset. The wretch had
stolen Pappard's papers and assumed his name just pre-
vious to the commission of the crime.

By a &wee of the Regent, Spain is divided into four-
teen Captaincies-General or Provinces, of which the
Basque Provinces constitute one, the Balearic Isles a
second, and the Canary Islands a third.
The period of service in the Spanish regular army is
fixed at five years, and in the militia at three. There is
in future to be but one levy for both.
Portugal has abolished the 15 per cent. on import du-
ties remitted in favour of Portuguese shipping ; so that
as regards all countries in which Portuguese vessels are
received on terms of equality, their flags are now on an
equal footing with the native shipping in Portuguese
ports. _ . _ _

Countries not admitting the equality of Portuguese
vessels, as regards imports, to have a corresponding ad-
ditional duty laid upon them in the waters of Portugal.
In addition to the regular tariff duties, carrying ves-
sels of produce for consumption in Portugal, and which
are neither Portuguese vessels nor vessels of the country'
from which the goods are exported, are liable to an ad-
ditional duty of 20 per cent. As English goods have
hitherto been imported into Portugal under the Portu-
guese flag, these regulations impose a duty of 15 per
cent. on British produce.
M. de Redder, the Belgian engineer, has entered into
a partnership with Mr. Stephenson for the manufacture
of locomotives on a new model.
Despatches were received on Friday by the Belgian
Government from the Commissioners of Commerce at
Paris. A Council of Ministers was summoned to take
them into consideration.
An extensive cooperage, and a paper warehouse, in the
Rue de la Cuiller, Brussels, were burned down on Friday
evening. Nine persons were seriously injured in at-
tempting to extinguish the flames, which were so hot as
to melt the lead on the roofs of the houses on the oppo-
site side of the street. The loss is estimated at 150,000
francs.

The Ami de I.i Charte of Clermont gives some further
particulars of the disturbances there. It says :
" The operations of the census began, on the 9th inst.,
at various parts of the town, but, at the Marche aux
Cuirs the populace insulted the persons charged with
carrying them on, and about three o'clock several com-
panies of infantry, and a detachment of cavalry were
stationed on the place. The populace assailed them vio-
lently with stones. The Dragoons wished to charge the
people, after bearing their attacks for nearly three hours,
but the officers would not let them, and it was only when
the safety of the soldiers became seriously compro-
mised, and the legal summonses to retire had been made
several times, that the infantry were ordered to fire.
Some of the men fired horizontally, though the officers
had directed them to fire in the air, and two of the citi-
zens fell mortally wounded. On the 10th a more serious
attack on the troops was made, and it was on this day
that M. Conchon, the Mayor, imprudently went out to
harangue the people, and to tell them the census had
been suspended. Ii was with difficulty he could be res-
cued and conveyed back to his residence. The insurgents,
having failed in their intention of murdering M. Conchon,
wreaked their vengeance on his house and prEperty. As
soon as they had made their way in they threw all his fur-
niture, linen, plate, l.is own papers, and those of import-
ance to many others, out of the window's, made a pile of
them in the street, set them on fire, and consumed
them to ashes. This being, done they tore down the
windows and doors, rooted up the trees and • shrubs of
the garden, and committed them also to the flames. The
whole of the contents of the house were not, however,
thus treated, for there were several bags of money which
were unquestionably otherwise disposed of. The mob
were not content with this, but they violated the secrecy
of M. Conchon's papers, and were seen to open and read
many letters by the light of the flames. They also
threatened to destroy the property of a tenant of M.
Conchon's, if he did not leave the house. On the 11th
the trouble subsided."
The IVlessager remarks on the statement of the Siecle
relative to the individual who fired on the Royal Dukes:
—" The names of the Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel of
the 15th were Parchappe and Gachot, and that of the
Captain of the company in which the prisoner served
Guerin. Lieutenant-Colonel Levaillant was never in

the 15th regiment, and must be totally unknown to
Quenisset. In 1835, when his battalion was at Ro-
mans, in the Drome, Quenisset was condemned to the
boulet for five years for insulting and threatening his
corporal, and resisting the guard ordered to conduct him
to confinement ; but his sentence was afterwards com-
muted to two years, and ultimately to one year. He had
only a few days more punishment to undergo when
he escaped from Belle Croix with the passport of a man
named i'appart, which he stole, and whose name he has
ever since preserved. He arrived it% Paris on 26th
November, 1837, and lived first at No. 55, Rue de Bercy
afterwards at the Barriere de Bercy, and lastly at No.
58, Rue Popincourt. It was in March 1840 that, under
the name of Pappart, he was sentenced by the Tribunal
of the Scine to six months' imprisonment for stabbing
the man at the public-house, as we have mentioned."
The Moniteur Parisien states that Quenisset has not
been condemned three times for theft, and once for pro-
curing a false passport, but that Pappart, whose papers
he stole, has actually been so.
Just at the time when the Ville de Rouen was leaving
Rio, the whaler Roland of Havre entered the road. It
had fallen in at sea with a vessel which was making sig-
nals of distress, showing that it needed immediate as-
sistance. This vessel, the name of which is not known,
was on fire ; it was bound to New Holland, with a great
number of passengers, and the danger was already so
imminent, that it was necessary to abandon the ship.
The Roland took on board the whole of the crew and
passengers, and landed them at Rio de Janeiro.

PT7BLICI OPINION.
The Morning Chronicle, after enumerating several.pub-
lic meetings that are about to take place in the provinces
on the subject of the new Ministry, goes on to say—
" We do not doubt that the effect of Sir Robert Peel's
speeches will be to add incalculably to the national in-
dignation. The people must POW see that a fraud has
been perpetrated on the Sovereign and on themselves.
The Prime Minister has lent himself to proceedings on
which he has already pronounced the strongest condem-
nation. He has not the power to rescue the nation from
the difficulties in which it,is now involved. He has at a
most critical period stepped in to defeat a benelcial po-
licy; and, finding the difficulties of his position more
than he can surmount, he leaves the nation to its unpa-
ralleled distress throughout the winter and spring, well
knowing that he has nothing ultimately to propose.
What compensation will it be to the nation, that when
the interval is passed, Sir Robert Peel must withdraw
from power with disgrace ? The nation, we repeat, is
defrauded. Sir Robert Peel is an impostor. The delay
he seeks is an insult to the people. He is bound, hand
and foot, and he is silent because he knows that
the moment he utters one syllable of his plan, his Ca-
binet will' tumble about his ears, if he be not in
accordance with the views of the Richmonds,
the Buckinghams, and the Knatchbulls. "—We

Thirty-two Spanish refugees, who were working in
the Canal at Arles, have been arrested and lodged in the
prison of that town.—Le Gazette de France.
The Journal du Ilagry of the 17th has the following
article :—" To the particulars which we published yes-
terday respecting the saving of the crew and passengers
of an English vessel by the Roland, Captain Olivier, we
add the following extracts from the Report of Captain
Hebert, Commander of the Ville Rouen The Eng-
lish ship which was burnt was called India, or Indiana ;
it was on the 9th of July, in 10 deg. 46 min. south lati-
tude, and 35 deg. 30 min. west longitude, that it was met
with on fire, which had already made great progress, and
the removal of the passengers was not wholly completed
before several persons had become the victims.' "
" The India, or Indiana, had 216, persons on board
when it left England ; 18 were either drowned or burnt
during the removal, and 198 were saved by the Roland,
and landed at Rio."—Le Constitutionnel.
The Echo du Nord of Lille mentions the arrest of a
lady in that town, under the following circumstances :
" It appears that, about three years ago, a too close inti-
macy commenced between Sub-Lieutenant L—, of the
4th Lancers, now in garrison at Hesdin, and the wife of
Captain de N—, of the Infantry, who had separated
herself f.om her husband twelve months before. Ma-
dame de N , who was constantly movinc, from place
to place to escape being traced by her husband, lately
took refuge at Hesslin, passing as the wife of Lieutenant
L—. Here, however, she was discovered by Captain
de N—, and a duel ensued on the Belgian frontier be-
tween the two officers, in which Captain de N— re-
ceived a severe wound in the arm. In consequence of
this rencontre, Sub-Lieutenant L— was put under
arrest, end came to Lille to undergo his confinement.
After remaining several days with Madame de N— at
the Hotel de Gand, he surrendered himself; and went to
the citadel. Captain de N---, learning that his wife
was at Lille, came and commenced proceedings against
her for adultery, in consequence of which she also has
been arrested and imprisoned."
BOURSE—Panrs, SATU RDA Y, SEPT. 18.

,
agree with our Contemporary, that Sir Robert Peel
is worse than a mere quack doctor—he is an impostor,
for he has taken his fee, and refuses to give his prescrip-
tion. He now plainly tells the suffering majority of the
labouring classes, that as they are used to starvation, it
can do them no great harm to continue starving on till
spring. And even then, he will not promise to do any
thing for them ;he will only consider about it 1 Mean-
time Parliament is to be sent about Its busluess, in order
that the Tory Ministers and their Tory majority. may
enjoy themselves during the autumn. Legislation is all
very well in its way, but it must not be suffered to inter-
fere with the private pursuits and pleasures of legislators.
Such, interpreted rightly, is the sum and substance of Sir
Robert Peel's late speech in Parliament.
The Times states that if the Whigs had resigned six
months ago, then the Tories might now have been in a
condition to propose their remedy for those distresses
under which all parties agree that the country is suffer-
ing. The following are our Contemporary's remarks:—
It the late Ministers had not thought proper, in defi-
ance of all precedent, constitution principle, and public
opinion, to encumber the offices of Government with
their presence for six months after they had lost the
confidence of the House of Commons, and the power of
carrying measures beneficial to the people, their succes-
sors might have been, ere now, in a position to legislate
upon all the subjects which we have enumerated: Re-
peatedly warned that the time for their resignation
was come, conscious that their opportunities of ac-
tion were passed, defeated, and having nothing but
worse discomfiture in prospect, Lord John Russell
and his colleagues continued sticking to the State
vessel, and retarding its motions, as a fish called the
remora is said to do to ships of another kind."—
This is the sheerest sophistry. It is the inclination, or
rather the power, and not the time, that Sir Robert Peel
has wanted, to bring forward his remedial measures. He
must have foreseen, early in the Session, the probability,
of his being soon called to office; and as an old and ex-
perienced statesman, must have been pretty well aware of
what was wanted by the country. It could have been
no news to him that the people were distressed, that
that commerce was fettered, and that the revenue was
declining; and he told us himself in so many express
words, that when he got the fee, he would prescribe the
remedy. Well, he has touched the fee, and now coolly
tells us, while pocketting it, that we must whistle for the
remedy—at least until spring !
The Herald observes, in reference to some recently
published accounts of the annual territorial revenues
and dibbul•sements of the East India Company :—" We
are not of that squeamish and Humeish school of politi-
cians which is horrified at the very sound of a public
debt ; nor do we think that the evils of a country bur-
dened with great national charges always arise from
heavy taxation ; the purposes for which national liabili-
ties may have been incurred, may convert a prima facie
curse into a great blessing • and it is easy to repay,
and more than repay, a people for the amount extracted
f.om them in taxes. But then the debt so created
must in such case have been expended in benefiting
the people by increasing the resources and capa-
bilities of the country, through the formation of
those great elementary improvements which would ren-
der it more attractive to capital. Now, we fear these
Indian debts have not been incurred for any such great
objects, and we search in vain through the Earl of
Auckland's Administration for any trace of great public
works, for any large amendment of the civil or criminal
law, for any improvement in its administration; for any
rendering of the police more effective, less terrible to the
innocent, and more repressive of guilt; for any alteration
of the hind tenures: in short, for any one aet which
would have rendered India more attractive to British
capital, which is its great and primary want. The truth,
is, that the military successes of the Earl of Auckland's
Goverment have somewhat obscured a most defective
internal administration."

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Fri.. Pile.
French. 5 per Cents. ex. div 115 15 ... 115 30 ... 115 15 ... 115 25
1 per Cents ..... lO6 ... (06 ... 106 ... 106
4 per cents 47 50 ... 97 50 ... 97 51 .. 97 50
3 per Cents... 7B 60 .... 78 90 ... 78 60 ... 78 90
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Passive 5l/4 ... 5 ... 51/4 ... 51/4
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ONE OF TEE STANDARD'S MisTAKES.—" Lord Palmer-
ston was more flippant than usual. It was, however, in
the case of Hong Kong that the Noble Viscount was most
riotously facetious. Sir Robert Peel had complained that
no less a sum than 900,000/. had been assigned to the
civil expenses of this inconsiderable acquisition in a single
year; mark, for the merely civ:*l expenses of an island not
one-fourth as large as Thanet, nearly a million sterling.
Why, the sum would nearly plate the island with silver,
if not with gold. Lord Palmerston, in allusion to this
complaint, bantered the Premier upon the pettiness of
noticing such a contemptible place as Hong Kong. Now
this, we think, was misplaced mirth. Hong Kong may
be a very contemptible place, and we believe it is ; but
900,0001. is not a very contemptible sum ; it makes a se-
rious inroad upon the national revenue, and the more
contemptible the object upon which such a sum has been
squandered, the more have they, guilty of the prodigality,
to answer to the country." This paragraph would hit Lord
Palmerston very hard if it were not throughout a mis-
take. The sum mentioned by Sir Robert Peel as having
been expended on Hong Kong was not 900,000/., but
9,0001., as correctly reported in The Sun. From which
of the Morning Papers the Standard and Globe borrowed
the palpnble and gross error we know not, though we
see that it is committed by the Times, but it was not
taken from The Morning Sun.

The Post thus apologizes for the delay of Ministers in
bringing forward their remedial schemes: —" What a
wicked Conservative Government,' cry the Whig-Radi-
cals. The consideration of the condition of the coun-

try is put off till February.' Indeed it is not. On the
contrary, the condition of the country is already under
the consideration of the Conservative Government, and
will be so during the period of the prorogation, what-
ever that may be. Some people have been so long in the
habit of looking at Whig-Radical Government, or the
scramble which passed for Government, that they do
not know what real Government is. It is not for the
purpose of making a show in Parliament that the Con-
servatives have taken office ; but in order that the
country may be governed better than it has been.
For this purpose, a great deal of consideration in the
Caliiet, and in the minds of individual Ministers,
is necessary. The Ministers do not want
merely to talk to the public through the medium
of Parliamentary debates, and reports in the
newspapers. There was enough of that mode of manag-
ing affairs during the last six years. The present Go-
vernment is resolved to do something; and in order to
do it well, it must be maturely considered beforehand."—
The Post is quite correct in its assertion that the " pre-
sent Government is resolved to do something"—hut un-
fortunately this " something" is only for itself. Its re-
solution is already taken to cling to place with the tena-
city of a limpet to a rock ; to do as little as it can pos-
sibly help for the people, and to delay that little to the
latest moment. Five long dreary months must the la-
bouring classes wait, until they have even a chance of
having their condition bettered. At the end of that
time Sir Robert Peel gives them—not a positive assur-
ance, but a vague hint, that he will be deliver( d of some
scheme or other for their benefit. In other words, the
Tory mountain, after being five months in labour, will
bring forth a mouse !
'lnc Dublin Evening Post, alkline. to Sir R. Peel, s
late speech in Parliament, says :—" Here is comfort for
'
the starving millions. Here is a splendid justification of
Sir Robert Peel and the Tories, for having forced them-
selves upon a reluctant Sovereign, on the false and hollow
pretence of carrying on the Government of the country
upon nrinciples to which thuy
have *been all their lives
or ose 1."
T".: Berwick Advertiser says of the Peel Ministry, that
its " intention seems to be to abandon the pursuit of
every object for which the faction have been clamouring
fir the last half-dozen years, and to attempt, if pos-
sible, nothing at all, in the way either of doing or of un-
doing."
The Leeds Times says What are the Corn-laws
but the briind tiLver.). uttnched t,. cry man, wernall,
and child in these kingdoms -They are the emblem
of a caste privileged to oppress as much as vi ere the chains
and the'whips of the West Indian slaveowners; and it

THE TORY SPEECH.—Sir Robert Peel ex-
plained his intentions last night in the House of Com-
mons. We are indebted to the diligence of The Sun
for thr r7ort P publish this day of a speech
delivered not IS nuar:s snlek!, and nearly 200 miles away.
The speech is sufficiently meagre. He is for staving off
the exposition of Ministerial views till next Sessietr.—We
hope the country will not submit to this.— Western Times.

THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER o►. 1,41

is as much the duty and the interest of all the indus-
trious classes to put down the slave-laws of the Mono-
polist
Aristocracy et lirtt e, os it was to put down the
8111st-lii*s of tht: same. Monopolist Aristocracy Abroad."
The Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle makes the following
remarks on the subject. of the prorogation of Parliament:
—" If Parliament, after its solemn and unanimous re-
Viogiiitidtl'of the existence of national suffering and the
necessity. of inquiring into it, allow itself to be prorogued
without doing anything, it will outrage and insult the
nation, It will declare, that believing all classes to be
undergoing great pressure, it will not take the trouble to
inquire whether it can do anything to diminish the pres-.
sure."

AtaietatlVl.
Glasgow, Birmingham, New Brentford, Chelsea,Whi te-
chapel, and the parish of St. Marylebone, have seve-
rally held meetings in the determination of petitioning
the Queen not to prorogue Parliament until the Corn-
laws have been thoroughly discussed.
Both power and hand-loom cloths have been in ani-
mated.demand at Manchester since Tuesday ; yarns too
are in good demand, and likely to continue until the
close of the shipping season.
At Leeds, during the last fortnight, there has been a
Very fair demand for goods of low qualities, heavy goods
fOr winter, and fancy_cloaking.
At Bradford, the yarn market is steady, the stocks
are very low, and prices for most sorts of goods firmly
maintained.

AGRXCULTURAM.
An immense quantity of grain has been secured in
the north of England, and the quality is understood to
be generally sound and good.
The price of bread fell generally on Saturday at the
East-end of the town from id. to l kd. per half-quartern
loaf.
The Doncaster Chronicl3 states that the crops in that
neighbourhood were seldom 'known to be finer, or to
yield more abundantly.

MAW AND POLICE.
At Hatton garden yesterday, an Irishwoman, named
Bridget Mahony having been charged with an assault on
one Susan Sullivan, who taunted her before the Magis-
trate, with having had children before she was married,
replied, " If I had, it was to my honour ; I let Mike see
I was of a good stock !" Both parties were held to bail
to keep the peace.

NAVAL AND rar.K.ITAR.Y.
On Friday last the 16th Regiment, and depots of the
26th and 49th Regiments, took up their quarters on
Dover heights and Castle, and on Saturday the depot of
the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade arrived.