The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1840

the insolence—if they will—of other Powers ; but
we deny that Tory measures, which have brought
the nation to this dilemma, can work a cure.
The character and the fate of a nation are nei-
ther changed nor settled byla few years of misgo-
vernment. The natural spring of prosperity is
strong in the heart of man and of nations, and it
requires many years, not to say ages, of misgovern-
ment to overcome that living energy. The national
debt—the result of long wars, begun from pride,
and waged from a love of oppression—is a Tory
product. The manufacturing and commercial dis-
tress, and the trade rivalry, irsstead of the trade co-
operation of other nations, are the natural and ne-
cessary products of our own Tory Corn-laws. The
lie which is at the bottom of our stupid currency
regulations was coined by the Tories. The Tories
sacrificed the interests of the nation to the wishes
of despots at the Congress of 'Vienna, and gave
birth in France to those heart-burnings—
while they strengthened Russia, and almost
annihilated freedom in Germany—which are at
present the great sources of our apprehensions
from abroad. Tory coercion, Tory taxation, and
Tory neglect, separated the bulk of the people,
by degrading them and enriching the aristocracy,
from their accustomed leaders, and made them feel
that they were both injured and insulted. That
the evils of which the Tories complain are not the
result of the Whig Administration is evident. They
prevailed to nearly the same extent as now, and
some of them to a greater extent, before the Whets
came into office in 1830. For several years after
they took office those evils were sensibly dimi-
nished. They are, therefore, of long standing and
of an aggravated character. TSe policy of the
Whigs did for a time alleviate the symptoms, but
latterly as the Whigs, from the natural inclination
of men in office, and from the pressure of the To-
ries, have verged to Toryism, those symptoms
have again become fiercer and more threatening
than ever. We agree with our Tory Contempora-
ries in recognizing the evils under which the country
suffers; but we affirm, in contradiction to them, that
they have all been caused by the , cantinais unjust,
cruel policy of the Tories.
We cannot enter at length into the means of
cure, further than to say, that they are to be found
in removing restrictions on trade—such for exam-
ple as the Corn-laws—and giving elbow-room to
our now hampered enterprize ; opening all our colo-
nies and foreign dominions to all our people, not
forcing them, as now, to emigrate from insults, in-
juries, or distress, or ejecting them as criminals,
carrying with them a settled and firm hatred of the in •
stitutions of the mother country, and ready, like the
United States, whenever an opportunity offers, to
set up an opposition empire of their own; extending
the franchise so as to include the bulk of the peo-
ple, and give them an influence over the Legisla-
ture, and an interest in preserving our institu-
tions. But if we cannot now discuss in
detail the means of cure, we must call
the attention of our statesmen and the public to
a peculiarity in the present condition of England,
which seems to us fraught with that ruin which
short-sighted, factious Tory scribes falsely attribute
to the little of liberality there is in the conduct of
the Ministry and the Legislature.
By the last accounts from New York the Boun-
dary Question has again assumed an unpleasant as-
pect. In the House of Commons, last night, Sir
ROBERT PEEL signific4tly ieinuired concern-
ing the probability of a war with the United States.
Our success in India, and the advance of
the Russians, have brought us into contiguity, and
almost into conflict, with Russia ; the friendly re-
lations which did exist with France are evidently
weakened, anti while our expenditure exceeds our
revenue there are rumours of war in Europe to fol.
lON the war in Asia. What, under these circum-
stances, is the condition of the bulk of our popu-
lation ? At the commencement of the revolu-
tionary war they were all Church-and-King men.
They burned TOM PAINE in effigy, and sacked the
houses of scientific Dissenters. Now, according
to the Report of the Handloom-weavers' Commis-
sion, just published, seven or eight per cent.
read the works of PAINE ; according to the
Bishop of EXETER double that ninnber are So-
cialists ; and it is a plain and palpable fact that
nearly the whole of the unenfranchised classes are
Chartists. The contrast between the present and
the past opinions and feelings of the bulk of the
population is the fact to which we invite public
attention.

What will be its consequences ? We can only
advert briefly to them. The mass of the people are
now alienated from our institutions both in Church
and State. However numerous may be the Church
Extension petitions got up by the priests, or flatter-
ing may be the reception landowners may receive
from their tenants, this fact cannot be denied. If we
have war, where will the Govoenment, the aristo-
cracy, and the priesthood find support ? The peo-
ple—the great, and by that backward statesman
Sir ROBERT PEEL, flouted and derided, demo-
cracy—no longer Church-and-King men, will
profit by the first moment of embarrassment

to attain their own ends. They have, in fact,
said they will—they have been advised to do so ;
and will leave the aristocracy, the priesthood,
and the ten-pounders to fight their own battles,
and get out of their embarrassment as they best may. If
they take arms, it will be to conquer freeciom for them-
selves ; if they enter our ships, it will be to insure
protection for themselves aainst the aristocracy, or
to carry the vessels in which they are oppressed over
to the enemy.

We think- this a most painful subject ; but hearing
and seeing what we see and hear, it becomes our
duty to advert to it. Whenever war comes, or
serious financial embarrassment comes—and both
are apprehended—the aristocracy will be compelled,
as in the case of the Catholics, as in the case of
the Irish Volunteers, to recognise the political
existence of the millions, and- cede to terror that
which they now deny to justice, Then will the
Extension of the Suffrage, and even the Charter
itself, be—like the Act of Roman Catholic Eman-
cipation—inevitable. The present almost total
alienation of the people from our institutions, con-
trasted with their blind attachment to them fifty
years ago, is a peculiarity which should now make
any apprehension of financial difficulty, or of war,
a subject of intense alarm. While there is yet
time—while there is yet peace—while there is yet
no constraint, justice and policy alike demand that
the Suffrage be extended, and the restrictions on
trade and enterprise-totally abolished.

Mr. WALLACE gave notice last night in the House
of Commons, that he would move for certain returns
relative to the Post-offiee on Monday, which we here
notice as the indication of a very general impression
that the Post-office authorities are secretly hostile to
the new system. In the individual balance, the public
good is too often light as a feather when weighed against
some paltry, personal, or official privilege ; and there-
fore it occasions us no surprise to learn that the frankers
of ladies' dresses, baskets of venison, and hampers of
wine, under the old Post-office systerq, look with mor-
tifiej rage upon the abolition of such abuses, and the
facilities afforded to the poor of rilciprocating the
best feelings of their nature at din equally cheap
rate with the hitherto privileged few. But the
more natural it is that the Post-office authorities
should throw impediments in the way of the
successful operation of the new system, the more
it behoves the country to keep a vigilant eye upon
them. They must not be suffered to thrust their arro-
gant assumptions of prescriptive abase between the na-
tion and one of the great measuris of Reform known
to the British empire since the passing of the Reform
Bill. As to Mr. HERRIES'S calculations of a deficit
in the Post-office revenue, they are so baseless as to be
every way unworthy of the financial reputation of that
gentleman—at present ono of the four or five most
prominent Tory expectant Chaneellors of the E tchequer.

The Madrid Gazette of the 5t last contains a re-
turn of the proceeds of the national pr perty sold by
the Spanish Goverment down to the Ist of January,
1840. The lots disrosed of were 2'7,123 in number ;
they were originally valued at 5e6,201,571 reals, but
brought 1,137,611,7...0 reals (nearly 11 millions and
a-half sterling.)
Her MAJESTY the QUEEN AEGENT has conferred
the Order of the Golden Fleece noon the King of
DENMARK, and the Grand Cross of Clawless 111. upon

the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs. Her MA-
JESTY has also, by a Royal Decree, dated the 4th inst.
commanded all Carlist officers adhering to the treaty of
Bcrgara, to forward their commissions and brevets of
rank to the Office of the War Minister, in order that
they may he replaced by Commissions from the
QUEEN.

From the theatre of war the sole intelligence con-
sists of a proclamation from ESPARTERO to the Cata-
lans, informing them of his appointment to the Chief
Command of that Province, and assuring them of a
speedy triumph over the Carlists.

The Paris Journals of Thursday contain very signifi-
cant allusions to a growing misunderstanding between
the Cabinets of Paris and St. Petersburgh. Several
causes appear simultaneously to contribute to the alie-
nation of the two Courts. One of them is thus no-
ticed in the columns of the Presse :
" If we be rightly informed, the Russian Government has for-
warded, thrcugh M. de Medem, to the French Cabinet, a note
of the highest importance, in which a distinction is carefully
drawn between the paragraph relative to Polish nationality
adopted by the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, in their ad-
dresses to the King, and the more than ostensible vote, or
rather open adhesion, of the Minister of Public Instruction, in
favour of the amendment of MM. Tascher and d'Harcourt. This
note is said to have greatly embarrassed the Cabinet, who had
not probably calculated how much firmness was required by
Ministers who want prudence."
Besides this note it is said that M. de MEDEM has
presented another to SOULT in the name of the Im-
perial Government, demanding the publication of all
papers found in the possession of M. Duamin, in
order to prove that the EMPEROR had nothing to do
with the Capitole or the BONAPARTIST conspiracy.
The following are the caustic remarks of the Journal
des Debats upon this note:—
" Russia had no right to demand or expect that Marshal
Soult would or could interfere in a matter which was under
investigation before the courts of justice. The Russian Go-
vernment complains of expressions and reports derogatory to
its dignity. Yes, autograph letters, alleged to have been penned
by an imperial hand, were spoken of. It was rumoured
that money had been supplied by Russia; such reports certainly
circulated widely among the public. They may have been
erroneous and exaggerated. Marshal Soult could only know
what was known to everybody, and no more. The legal officers
of the Crown alone knew more, if more was to be known. The
only reply Marshal Soult could accordingly make was to com-
municate to M. de Medem the decree of the Court, which
stated that there was no charge against M. Durand."
The Raport of the Committee on the dotation to the
Duke and future Duchess DE NEMOURS was expected
to be ready for presentation to the Chamber of Depu-
ties this day. The general discussion was expected to
begin on Monday.
The Russian Government has authorized the establishment
of a steam-packet communication between St. Petersburg and
Dunkirk.
We doubted from the very first the truth of the news of the
evacuation of Passages by the English, published by the Phare
des Pyrenees. In fact the whole is but a movement of troops,
as appears from the following article published by a Madrid
Journal of the 4th :

ST. SEBASTIAN, JAN. M.—Nine officers and 170 men of
the battalion of the Royal Marines left the port of Passages to
return to England, who have been recalled by their Govern-
ment ; the four years which the laws of their country allows
them to pass abroad having expired.
Agitation is spreading more and more in Biscay. No military
events have t;.ken place in Aragon since those of which we
have already spoken.—La Gazette de Franc•.
General Sebastiani arrived at Paris yesterday.
The departure of M. Guizot is fixed for Tuesday. Marshal
Maison has been for several days past dangerously ill. The
English Journals have not come to hand.—Le Constitutionnel.
A letter from Vienna, of the 4th of February, announces the
death of the Archduchess Pia, daughter of the Archduke
Fran_is Charles, and the Archduchess Sophia, and that of
Palpy. On the 2d of February there were 2,626 persons ill at
Viet-ma, of a bowel complaint.
The Committee which is to discuss the project of law relative
to the duties on sugar has begun by hearing the detailed
opinions of each of its Members on the subject laid before it for
examination. It has found that the project of law presented by
the Ministry is unanimously rejec'zed.__L• Commerce.

BOURSE.-P . ARIS, THURSDAY, FEB. 13.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll2 90 ... 112 95 ... 112 90 ... IT. 95
4 per Cents lO4 ..... 404 ... 104 ... 104
3 per Cents Bl 55 .. 31 60 ... 81 55 ... 81 60
Bank of France 3175 ...:3:80 —3175 ...:31FO
Lailitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1052 50 ...1055 .../052 50 ...V.55
5,000 f. Sh 5215 ...5215 ...5215 ...5215
Belgian Bank 945 ... 950 ... 945 ... 950
5 per Cents
3 per Cents 7! 25 ... 71 25 ... 71 25 ... 71 25
Spanish Active 27% ... 27% ... 27% ... 27%
Passive 7' ... 71,f, ... 7 ... 7
Old Deferred 7% ... 7% ... 74 714
Portuguese 3 per Cents 23% ... 23% ... 23% ... 23%
Neapolitan
Roman lO3 ... 1031 A ... 103 ... 113 k
RAILWAY SHARES.
Ut. Cermain
Versailles, R. B 550 ... 555 ... 550 ... 555
L.B 382 50 ... 387 50 ... 382 55) ... 385
Orleans .. 462 50 ... 462 50 ... 402 50 ... 462 50

Nlulhausen to Tbann
Straiturg to Bale .. 360 ... 362 253 75
ASPUALTES AND BITUMENS.
Yarn (Maberly's)

TIIE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—We learn
with much concern that his Grace the Duke of
Wellington was seriously indisposed yesterday
afternoon, on returning from a long ride. This
morning, however, we are informed, and can assure
our readers, on undoubted authority, that his
Grace is considerably recovered, although still con-
fined to his room—Standard.

SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS.—The Report
of this Committee, appointed on the 22d of January,
has just been published. It is filled chiefly with details
of the points in dispute between the Greenwich,
Croydon, Brighton and Dover Companies, and in order
to obviate such disputes for the future, the Committee
strongly recommend that some general superintending
authority, in the nature of a Board, should be esta-
blished. We will give the entire Report on Monday.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

- -
DEAL, FEB. 14. —Wind N.W.—Sailed the Horwood, Cole,
for Rio Janeiro; Roland, Blanchard, New Orleans; with the
rest of the outward bound.

LIVERPOOL. FEB. 14.—Wind S. W.-- Arrived the Clio, from
Halifax.--Sailed the Cintra, Renfree, for New South Wales ;
Santon, Huxtable, Calcutta ; Frankland, Pearce, Cape of Good
Hope ; Francis Barclay, Bartlett, Valparaiso ; Eliza Killuk,
Waugh, St. Thomas's; Stanley, Pugh, Hayti; Clydesdale,
Campbell, Antigua; Copse, Louthean, Jamaica; Albyn,
M'Laren, Havannah; Wave, Broadfoot, New Orleans; St.
Leon, Westcott. ditto ; Humber, Waldredge, ditto; Lady
Stormont, Griffiths, ditto ; Eliza Thornton, Fast, ditto ;
Francis, Short, New South Wales; Queen Victoria, Black,
Charleston ; Tamerlane, Theobald, Savannah ; British Tar,
Blinkhorn, ditto ; Pioneer, Graham, Mobile ; Pocahontas,
Alichaels, Baltimore ; Frankfort, Russel, New York ; Jas-
mine, Jarvis, Ancona. The John Goodall, Williams, sailed to-
day fur Rio Janeiro, is on shore on Mock Luggar Wharf. The
Powhattan, ArCerran, from New Orleans, on shore near
Blackpool, has six feet of water in her hold at high water.
400 bales of cotton have been discharged in good condition.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Saucy
Lass, Love, for Malaga ;;Enterprise, Pigeon, River Gambia.
PORTLAND RoAns, FEB. 14.—Sailed the Favourite, Wil-
liamson, for Rio Janeiro; Eliza Williams, White, Trinidad;
David, Shield, Gibraltar.
TORBAY", Fan. 13.—Sailed, the Adelina, Bradfield, for
St. Michael's:_ _

FEB. 13.—Sailed, Milo, Westlyn, New York.
DSaEE. 14.—The Espelate, Shien, from Charleston
Dunkirk,Sl°lvlEELsF on shore near Boulogne, is expected off after dis-
charging.
CORE, FEB. 12.—1 t commenced blowing a very heavy gale
last evening from the Southward ; moderated at about 3 A. M.
The masts of the Havre were visible yesterday above water.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS
To be observed by Vessels bound from England to any of the
Russian Ports in the Baltic.
The following is a copy of a letter received at Lloyd's, dated
" London, Feb. 14, 1840.
" Sir,—As a supplement to my communications of the 20th
of June and pith of July, 1839, on the subject of the Quaran-
tine Certificate to be prndueed by ships bound from England to
any of the Russian Ports of the Baltic with cotton, or any other
suspected goods, I have the pleasure to inform you that vessels
thus bound and laden, and furnished with clearances from the
Quarantine Establishment at Brombro' Pool, will be treated
on the same footing as those having cleared at Standgate Creek
or the Motherbank.

" Requesting you will be good enough to communicate this
new regulation to the Committee of Lloyd's,
" I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) " G. BENHAUSEN,
Russian Consul-General.
" Wm. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's."

THE WEDDING SUN.--We have to acknow-
ledge the favour of a copy of this splendid edition of our brilliant
Contemporary—which really surpasses all his past efforts—
bright and shining as they have been—to cheer anti illumine
the popular mind.— Western Times.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Yesterday, information
was received that on Monday, in Cockerton-lane, near Louth,
Mr. Dickinson Lewis was attacked by three men, who pulled
him from his horse, and robbed him of six 101. notes, six 5/,
cotes, and twelve sovereigns. The 51. notes were of the banks
of Messrs. Garfit and Co. and the Louth and Lindsay Banking
Company. One of the robbers was a man of /ow statue,dressed in a fustian shooting-jacket., and the others, who were
stout and tall, and one of them round-shouldered, wore dark-
co
loured clothes. A reward has been offered for their dis-
covery.
THE LATE MELANCHOLY COLLISION OFF
GaAvasuip—Loss or ANortiaa LH:E.—Yesterday morn-
ing the wife of Captain Cunningham, the master of the
Tyrian barque, breathed her last, in consequence of the inju-
ries she received by the Manchester steam-boat, belonging to
the Leith and Berwick Company, running into that vessel at
an early hour on Thursday morning. This makes the sixth
victim to this awful catastrophe. Her body, as well as that of
the boy which was picked up, lie at Gravesend, awaiting the
Cironer's inquest. Up to a late hour last night no tidings had
reached the Coroner for Kent that any more of the bodies Ladd
been found. From inquiries instituted by the reporter, it was
ascertained that the inquest had not been fixed last night. The
occurrence has created a very painful sensation in Gravesend
and the neighbourhood.
The King has authorised Madame Thiers to
wear the Order of Maria Louisa, conferred upon her by the
Queen of Spain.-- Gabgnani's Messenger.

NEWSPAPER STAMPS

Number of Stamps issued to the London Daily
Evening Newspapers, from the Ist of July to the
31st December, 1839.—•(Extracted from the Par-
liamentary Return)

July. Aug. Sept.
SUN'
GLOBE
STANDARD ... 80,000 80;000 80,000
COURIER
Oct. Nov. Dec.
SUN lOO,OOO 100,000 100,060
GLOBE
STANDARD
COURIER

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN.

The supply of Vegetables and Foreign Fruit was very large,
and the demand was good. Plants, 2s. to 3s. per dozen ;
Celery, per bdle. 6d. to Is. 6d. ; Onions, 3s. per sieve; Car-
rots, 4s. to ss. 6d. per dozen bunches ; Brocoli, 2s. to 3s. per
bdle. ; Turnips, 2d. per bunch; Oranges, 4s. te 10s. per 100;
Lemons, 45. to Bs. ; Apples, 4s. 6d. to 255. per bushel ; Cu-
cumbers, 12s. per brace; Savoys, 6d. to 9d. per dozen ;
Spinach, 2s. per sieve ; Peas, 20s. per sieve ; Freneh Beans,
ss. per 100; New Potatoes, 9d. per lb. ; old Whites, 55c.;
Devons, 70s. ; York Reds, 70s. to 755. ; Scotch, 655. to 70s.
Seakale, 2s. per punnet ; Asparagus, 64. to Ns.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Prices remain as before. Beef 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton
2s Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal 3s. Rd. to 4s. Bd. and 4s. 10d. ; Pork
3s. to 4s. Bd. ; dairy fed 4s. 10d. to ss. 6d, per stone of 81bs. ;
Fowls 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Guinea do. 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ;
Surrey Capons ss. to Bs. ; Cock Turkeys 6s. to 10s. ; liens
ss. to 7s ; Gold Plover is. ; Snipes Is. to 2s. ; Ducks 2s. 6d.
to 3s. ; Chickens ls. 6d. to •2s. 6d. ; Wild Rabbits 9d to Is. 2d. ;
Tame Is. 6d. ; Hares, 2s. 6d. to 3s. ; Geese, 6s. to 9s.