The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-26 00:00:00

TB-141 FUN; LONDON'. MONPA Y, PRI". 26. 1641.

View that the return of Mr. Walter for the populous borough
of Nottingham becomes a contingency of the greatest possible'
importance.
To get Mr. WALTER elected fo:. Nottingham,
the Times panders to that democracy which on
other occasions it so bitterly chides. It is rea-
sonable and moderate when it wants son-retiring.
of the people, but when it wants nothing then it
is hard and brutal. To insure the service of the
Times it must be kept dependent on the Chart-
ists. Let them. Once place Mr. WALTER ill
Parliament, and the attachment of the Times to
the democracy would immediately cease. As
long as that gentleman is kept out of Parliament
he will wish to use the Chartists as the instru-
ments of his ambition. To make them serve his
purpose the Times now advocates. democracy ;
but as soon as that purpose is served, the Times
will forget its convenient principles. The Chart-
ists, then, must keep out Mr. WALTER to keep
the Times on their side. They will have a
powerful friend in that Journal as long as Mr.
WALTER needs their asssistance ; but let them
place him in Parliament, and the Times will
again be in all things a Tory journal.

SWIFT denied to the great MAnLuonouGn
every virtue, and doubted whether he knew any-
thing of the art of war; in our own day a greater
General than MARLBOROUGH has been mob-
denounced as the " stunted Corporal," and in

the same spirit our pretended religious and aris-
tocratic Contemporaries the Morning Post and
the Standard have discovered that it would be
as easy to find subject matter for blame as praise
in the series of brilliant exploits recently per-
formed by Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER on
the coasts of Syria and Egypt. That either truth or
good taste suggest such questionings of the merits
of men whose exploits have compelled nations to
recognize their greatness, none but the most
envious and the most prejudiced will admit for
an instant. The spirit that carps at and attempts
to detract from true greatness is the spirit of en-
vious malignity. But it finds no echo in the
hearts of Englishmen who, whatever may be

their other vices, are too brave themselves not
to glory in the valour of their distinguished
fellow-countrymen, and even cheerfully to
recognize in the bravery of their enemies
the strongest claim to their admiration
and respect. ft is not, therefore, because
we suppose that the contemptible attacks
upon Commodore NAPIER, suggested by envy
and jealousy, in the columns of the Post and the
Standard, will excite any other feeling than that
of indignation in the minds of the people of Great
Britain and Ireland, that we condescend to no-
tice them. Our object in doing so is to prevent
gross misstatements of facts, and false inferences
from them, from gaining credence among those
brave companions in arms of the gallant Commo-
dore, whose distance from our shores prevents
them from catching more than the faint echo of
the joyous shout with which cities have hailed
his return to his native land.

The Post and the Standard, who measure all
excellence by ecclesiastical and aristocratical mo-
dels, are out of humour, because Commodore
NA PIER, during his brief but brilliant expedition
in the Mediterranean, contrived to signalize him-
self in so many different ways. They would have
no objection to his acquiring the reputation of a
distinguished naval commander, an able general,
or a clever diplomatist, but "they resent as an in-
sult to the aristocracy, whose profession is war
and diplomacy, his discharging the duties of all
three in a manner alike honourable to himself
and advantageous to Europe. Hence it is that
we find them endeavouring to prejudice Sir Ito-
BERT STOPFORD and the other officers in com-
mand of the Syrian expedition against him, on
the ground that in his speech to the people of
Liverpool he neglected to pay a proper tribute of
respect to their gallantry. The following para-
graph is from an article in the Post of Thurs-
day :
We can allow much for the intoxication produced by popu-
lar applause, yet it would have seemed incredible, but that the
proof is before us, that, upon such an occa,ion, Commodore
Napier should so far have forgotten himself, and so entirely
have fm gotten everybody else, as to enlarge upon the triumphant
extinction-of Mehemet Ali's power in Syria, without mention-
ing the name of his commander, Sir Robert Stopford, or of
any other officer, and without yielding even the just and cue
tomary tribute to the gallantry and prowess of the British
sailors and marines. The characteristic generosity of his no-
ble profession seems to have been stifled in the heart of Com-
modore Napier. by what should have fanned it to its warmest
glow, the manifestation to himself, and in his person to his
companions in arms, of public gratitude and admiration.
Now it so happens that in the extract from the
Commodore's speech at Liverpool, upon which
the above commentary was written, Sir CH ARLES
NAPIER speaks generally of the conduct of the
whole expedition, with the exception of what was

done by himself individually in Egypt. He
speaks in the plural number, and none but the
merest word-catcher could understand him to
say otherwise than " we the officers and men of
the expedition did so and so."
But the Post finds fault with him for talk-
ing politics, and for daring to differ in opinion
;von the merits of the Egyptian question
1...01,2 Lord PALMERSTON and the Represen-
tatfi,es pf the Four Powers. Had Commo-
dore
fromNAP Z:R consented to abide by instruc-
tions tni:.d Po NSONBY, instead of follow-
ing
the dictates of
his own sound understand-
ing, MEHEMET ALI WOU.I
have been still in pos-
session of Syria. And sines we are called upon
to speak out, we must confess t:at the terms in
which the Commodore's Convention was rejected
by the British Admiral and the Brit s 4 Ambas-
sador at the Porte, evinced a feeling borateAng
on pleasure at finding occasion to censure the
conduct of an officer whose promptitude reflected
discredit on the tardy negotiations of official
adepts in all the crooked arts of Court di-
plomacy.
The Post says that Commodord NArtra's
friendship for the PACHA outweighed his a:AY Its
a British officer and a British subject, when he
advised him to reject the Firman of the Porte,
drawn up in pursuance of the earnest advice of
the Allies, including Great Britain. Here the
Post is in error; the Allies all disclaimed form-

ally having had anything to do with the Firmar.
They officially announced it as the voluntary act
of the SULTAN, and Commodore NAPIER would
not have been justified in looking at it in any
other light thin that of the sole act of the
Porte.

That he was right in the course he

adopted is borne out by the fact that Aus-
tria, Prussia, and England, are favourable
to a modification of the Finnan, and it is- even

said, in well-informed quarters, that Russia does
not oppose it. The Firman was drawn up, not
to settle the Eastern question, but to prepare the
way for the Porte to destroy MEHEMET ALt as
soon as it could sow the seeds of mutiny in his

army, and of rebellion in his family. Of the
dishonesty of the Porte throughout the whole of
the negotiations so many proofs are on record,
that it is impossible they could have escaped the
penetration of so shrewd a man as the Gallant
suspended, Brigadier Commodore. One instance deserves to be cited.
Afterrd eorders
st fol. A
en:::
uPaAteC iA
Syria,h ad receivedand
hostilities h i fa t
gma d
theer
rsßfrroi
the state oF the E •
gyptian army, and if he found
it formidable, to
observe the armistice ; but if
weak and disorganized,
to fall on it suddenly
and destroy it. This
detestable proceeding was
said to be sanctioned by Mr.vo.
Porte -General
t o
examine jo cy l
5:
carefully
se werefhuerey
00D, Lord PON-
SONEY'S dragoman, but General M ITCHELL, and
Captain STEUART, to the honour of the British
service, so strenuously and energetically
Turkish
op-
posed it, that the Commander did not
dare to carry it into effect.
We are quite. Sur.e that there is not an officer
or a man who served with Commodore NT
A PIER
in the Mediterranean, who will not cheerfully
admit that her MAJcsTY has not in her service
an individual less capable of appropriating to
himself the glory appertaining to others than the
Gallant Commodore. lle has laurels enough,
and to spare, without appropriating a sprig to
which any of his brave companions in arms can
lty the shadow of a claim. True valour is ever
modest and self: denying, and no one can call, in

question the heroism of NAPIER. When, there-
fore, he stated in his speech at Liverpool that the
expedition had to work double tides, and. that be
himself was called upon to perform the duties of
an Admiral, a Commander-in-Chief, and a diplo-
matist, lie stated facts known to ail the world,
not out of ostentation, but because he could riot
suppress them on such an occasion. At Alex-
andria; at the head of a detached squadron, he
was both Admiral and diplomatist, and at Bey-
rout he performed the duties of an able General
with promptitude and success. But Sir CHAR LEE,
except in the affair of the Treaty, never pre-
tended, or even suffered it to be surmised, that
he acted otherwise than in conformity with
the orders of Admiral Sir ROBERT STOPFORD,
whose glory has been increased by his successes.

In the progress of society, different classes of
men, who have been very useful in their time,
have beenirelentlessly extinguished. The avicielit
copyists, for example, were quite destroyed by
the invention of printing. In America sever: I
tribes of Indians were annihilated to make way
for the whites. In our own times and country
we have seen the hand-loom weavers reduced to
great distress by the introduction of power-loom
weaving. These filets may serve to indicate the
great and unavoidable changes which arc conti-
nually taking place in society, against the evil
consequences of which a wise Government would
think it one of its first duties to guard.
Not that Government ought to check the ir.-
troduction of machinery into use, but it ought to
distribute its advantages as equally as possible
over all classes. Society, benefiting by the new
machinery, should provide for the individuals t 3
whom it might bring destitution and death.
Society, however, has done no such thing, and
has very coolly told the hand-loom weavers
and others, that they must protect themselves,
that they must turn to some other trade
and earn a living, as they best may.
That these men have paid premiums
and have devoted several years to learn the
trade, makes no difference to the Legislature.
It is inexorable, and says, were it to give them
relief it would depart from general principles,
and would interfere with the course of trade and
the wages of labour.
•

But the Legislature does not adhere to this
principle whenever an office which it has created
is found of no use. Whenever some new mea-
sure of its own puts an end to useless places,
one of its first cares is to compensate the holders
of such places for their supposed losses. They
are to be protected, at the expense of society,
from all damage. Let what will happen to the
tax-payers, the emoluments of these favoured
children of the Legislature must not be dimi-
nished. The people, for whose sake alone the
places and offices are made, may starve, but the
place-holders must be fed. _ _ _

The debate on the Administration of Justice
Bill on Friday evening is an illustration of this.,
By that Bill it is proposed to abolish the equity
side of the Court of Exchequer, and, with the
tenderest care of those *hose services will no
longer be required, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER introduced a clause to enable the
Treasury to give compensation to all those who
had held office before the 14th March, 1840,
when the Bill was first introduced. Subsequent
to that period, however, the LORD CHIEF BARON
appointed his son to the office of Master in the
Court of Exchequer, and the Tories, on Friday,
by the mouth of Sir Wal. FOLLETT, moved an
amendment to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER'S compensation clause, the object of which
was to include in it this gentleman. The words
of the amendment went to substitute " holding
office in the Court of Exchequer to the present
time," for holding office on the 14th March,lB4o.
That amendment was carried, and it was the act
of the Tories, who now claim so much purity,
who talk about saving the public money, to vote
compensation to Mr. SCARLETT for, filling an
office about a twelvemonth, to which he was ap-
pointed by his father, that father being a Judge,
after it was known that the office w to be
abolishea!
All this may be very fair in the way of that
warfare which the aristocracy continually make

on the public purse; but the hand-loom
weavers, to whom all relief was refused when
their trade was partially destroyed, will not
think it very honest in the Legislature
to vote money to its own friends and
relations, and to its own class, while it refuses
a sixpence to the hand-loom weaver. This, the
weaver will say, "is only one specimen of that
one-sided, one-eyed justice which has alwaysbeen
dealt out to the labouring classes by the Legis-
lature." " Yet that Legislature," they will add,
" expects us to love and honour it as much as
those - for whose especial advantage it seems to
exist, while we • know it only as the instrument
which taxes and oppresses' us." Whether
the opinions of the weavers are likely to have any
influence on the Legislature we cannot say ; but
we are sure that a Legislature so acting neither
merits, nor can preserve the respect of the
people. It must not, for its own kith and kir,
grab all that it can lay its hands on.

An extraordinary%xpress from Falmouth an-
nounces the arrive." there yesterday of her Ma-
jesty's packet Pandora, Lieutenant INNis, from
Mexico, with six passengers and 330,000 dollars
on freight. She brings no political or commer-
cial neW's of any interest.

The whole of the French Journals of Friday
and Satufday have reached us, but they contain
. .
pclttical news of interest. We have likewise
received Madrid Papers of the 17th, the intern-
'gene& from which will be found elsewhere.
The editor a the France was tried before. the
Paris Court of Asskrof; on Saturday for publish-
-4x
_the corresporAePe, !f;:tributed to King
BER,RYEIt, and a. to•
Louts liMillivit, He ,Ivs 44440 by ,M:
crowded court. are .11e4rtily glad of it, Tl.e
following description of the ttilr,:ggir:tfilYil P:lea
Paris Correspondence of the Morning- .:I?st
M. Berryer appeared for M. Montour, the rtsspOriiible pub-
lisher of La France, and M. Partarieu Lafosse, tie Avorat-
General, conducted the prosecution, which was for 4cope I
against the King's person, by publishing the letters, and not ,
for the forgery of them, that charge having been aban:
doned. The trial lasted several hours, and the Court
was crowded to excess by an assemblage in which I
noticed several Peers, Deputies. Diplomatists, and ladies of
distinction. The Gazette de France was acquitted, owing to
the powerful-speech of M. Berryer. I never heard a more
splendid speech in the opening. and a more bard• tolling. one
in the reply. The President had frequently to check the au-
ditory in its applause during M. Berryer's speech, but the ver-
dict was received with a burst of cheering in the Court which
lasted some time. 111. Partarieu Lafosse rested his
case chiefly on the letter of La Cotenzporaine, published
in the London Sun. The Advocate-General attacked her
character, to which 111. Berryer replied by asing why she
had not been prosecuted if she had publkished forged
letters, as it was asserted. M. Berryer produced the originals
of the letters published by the Gazette de France, and
throwing them on the table, demanded that they might be
subjected to the severest scrutiny. The scene was here
highly dramatic. Altogether the trial produced extraordi-
Lary excitement from, the commencement to the end.
position of M. Larochejaquelin, establishing that he had caused
a careful inspection of all the original letters by persons
thoroughly acquainted with the King's handwriting, produced
considerable sensation. It appeared that there were 106 let
tens altogether. M. Partarieu Lafosse argued very strongly
that M. Talleyrand would never have committed himself by
leaving such a correspondence in hands where they were likely
t t be made use of.
The following- additional particulars of General
BUGEAUD'S late exploits in French Africa pre-
sent a frightful picture of the inhumanity which
characteriSes the conquests of France in that de-
voted region :
Gene:tl Bugeaud waited till the enemy was well grouped
together 04 the heights, and then gave orders to the 24th lie.
giment to attack them. The Lieut.-Colonel of the 24th (tile
Duke d'Aumale) commanded this attack ; but the Arabs could
not be said to be routed, since they precipitated themselves
down a deep ravine, and so steep, thgt after th
wo eir fall if
seemed impossible men could have tumbled t suer' a
height without breaking all their bones. Our men stopped
on the edge of the ravine, and fired down upon them. While
this was going on information was brought to the General that
a battalion of Arab regulars was concealed in the ravine which
defended them.
sel;ei with all the fury of
werethev
made o r der egdre
at
carnage t
borders the plateau orth.e cross, upon whichm othoerisAhrastiqueadnavraolry
was commencing to form again, and he
,
immediately,rnageal
to attack thew. This aisrge wa-
executed with wonderful sang fluid. The soldiers felt
with their swords and bayonets on the regulars, of whom
the ground. This battalion of regulars, which sulTer,d
so much, was that of Milianah,' commanded by El Barkani.
despair.though the
ileantt ander dheofersnl s strewed
"'be)! of Medeah, and was composed in great part of Ger
• man and Spanish deserters. The unfortunate people who

had come, we know not from whence, were so Much
overcome with fatigue, that they had not strength to
cl. mber up out of the ravine to . escrene from our troop•.
Some prisoners wets taken who we"e tillel on the road, be-
cause they could not follow the column. A Spaniard seeing
one of his companions fall, preferred lying down by his side,
and thus receiving his death, to make a single step further in
advance.
Fo KG E —During the last two days' (says the "Moniteur
Parisien) fs.l,se bills, to the amount of 180,000 francs, have
been presented to 'the Treasury, as having been drawn from
Algeria, hut were refused payment., . and have been pro-
tested. They were passed through the hands of some of the
most respectable bankers of Paris, and yet they bear no re-
semblance to the regular bills engraved here for the army in
Africa, and sent over for use, neither in form nor in the
quality of the paper. ..The signatures to the bills and all the
endorsements are forged, except those of bankers at Gibraltar,
Mahon, Cadiz, and London, who have negotiated and remitted
them to their correspondents at Paris. They are made payable
to ihe order of a Caissier-general, who is named, when, in fact,
the army of Africa has only one Payeur-general. Every
imeasu:e has been taken and ordered to detect the parsons who
have committe:l these frauds.

The inventory which has been taking in the house of M. Le-
hon for this last fortnight past, and which was supposed to be
nearly terminated, is now proceeding with increased diligence
in consequence of the discovery made in the office of this ex-
notary of 15 boxes containing important papers.
A letter from Rome of the 9th of April s Is, hopes are still
entertained of inducing the Archbishop of Cologne to make
the e-ncession on which the Prussian (;overnment thinks itself
hound to insist. The journey of M. Capaccion, under
Secretary of State to Germany, has been put off for some
days, in consequence of the difficulties that have arisen.
M. Charles Francois Oudot, formerly. member of the Court
of Cassition, one of the Deputie's to the Convention, who was
banished, and whom the Revolution of July, 1830, enti led to
return to France, has just d'ed, at the age of 86 years.
The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived at the
Tuileries, from Brussels. It is said that King Leopold will
leave Paris on the 3d of May, but that the Queen would stop
some days longer. Their Majesties are at the Palais Royal.
It is thought that Queen Christina will be at Paris before the
christening of the Comte de Paris. The apartments are pre-
pared in the Elysee. We observed, yesterday, in the streets
and public promenades of Paris, officers and privates of forty
regiments now in barracks at Paris and the environs. For
some days past the Duke of Weans has a conference almt,st
every afternoon with M. Humann at the Pavilion Marsau. It
is supposed that the Prince wishes to make himself thoroughly
acquainted with the French system of finance, with the real
1 amount of the deficit, and of the debt, and many things which
it is not for those to comprehend who are not initiated in the
arcana of the Rue Rivoli.—Le Commerce.
BO UR SE.....PARIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 24.

f frst Highest Lowest last
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L :Mite Bank 5,i;4:01. Spares 5157 50 ...5157 SC —5157 50 —5157 50
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New Loan lll% ... 1 l% ... 101% ... RH%
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Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5Si
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Bourcleaux to La Teste 4OO ... 4'.0 ... 400 ... 400
Mulhausen to Thann .....

TORIES AND CHARTISTS.—We have been in.
formed by a Correspondent that the Agent cf
the Duke of Newcastle and one of the Chartist
leaders are canvassing Nottingham together in
favour of Mr, Walter. It is very natural that
the sinking Tories should Glitch at any straw that
offers itself to their grasp, but it is not proper
that the buoyant Chartists should suffer them-
selves to be pulled down by the drowning Tories.
It is the height of charity in them to save their
enemies, thouwh should they succeed and replace
the Tories in powef, they wgi-M, probably find
that the serpent they had warmed into life would
in the first instance exert his new-found vigour to
sting them to death.
DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER.-.. 1110
Right Rev. Robert James Carr, D.D., Bishop
of Worcester? expired on Saturday evening, at
nine o'clock, at Hartlanry., Worcester. He had
been afflicted with savers fiar sortie time
past, and from the commencement of the attack
scarcely any hopes were entertained of his re-
covery. He was the son of the Rev. Colston
Carr, and brother of the late Sir Henry Carr,
K.C.B. He was consecrated Bishop of Chiches-
ter in 1824, and on the death of Dr. Cornewall
translated to the See of Worcester in 1831, The
diocese consists chiefly of the counties of Wor-
cester and Warwickshire, the annual value of
which is 6,5001., with the patronage of 17 livings.

QUEEN'S DENCH-(THIS DAY.)

NICHOLS V. THE LONDON AND BLACKWAT,I, RAILWAT
COMPANY.

In this case a rule had been obtained by Sir Frederick
Pollock, calling upon the defendants to show cause why a writ
of mandamus should not issue commanding them to issue a
warrant, under their hands arid seals, to one of the Coroners for
the county of Aliddlesex to empanel a Jury, and asses the
damages to be paid to the plaintiff for injury and deteri ration
of his premises by reason of the construction of the railway.
Sir W. FOLLETT now appeared to show cause against the
rule. The case turned upon the construction of the Act of
Parliament under which the Company was formed. The
plaintiff was a pork-butcher, 'carrying on business in Wliite
Lion-street, in the parish of St. Mary, Wh.teehapel, and he
claimed that the Company should purchase his premises, they
not being in the line or required for the purposes of the railway,
Now the Act, which was the 6th and 7th William IV., pro-
vided that whenever the property was situated within fifty feet
of the ra:lway, and was deteriorated in value by the'construc-
tion thereof, the Company should be compelled to purchase
the property. The affidavits of the plaintiff and one or two
other parties were to the effect that the receipts of the shop had
been diminished from SW. or 601. per week to between 301. and
351. by reason of the removal of various streets, lanes, and alleys,
and by reason of the removal of the inhabitants, and further
that the noise and shaking of the railroad was a source of
great annoyance to his family and the neighbourhood gene-
rally. He estimated tho lost of Imfbess for fifteen months at
5001., the improvements at 2001,, and the lease and Follett
at 8001., making a total of 1,5001. Now be (Sir W, Follett)
apprehended that the deterioration in value, as set cut in the
affidavits of the plaintiff did mt come within the meaning of
the Art of Parliament, and that the Company could not be
compelled to take the premises. If they were required to buy
every house where the trade and custom had fallen off, anti
which were situate within fifty yards of the railway, It could
never be constructed. Under these cireumstaneeS, he sub-
mitted that the rule for the mandamps must be discharged.
Sir F. POLLOCK, in support of the rule, contended that the
lease and goodwill of the premises were so deteriorated by rear
son of the construction of the railway as to bring it within the
terms of the Act of Parliament.
Lord DENN4N—The only doubt we have is whether the
plaintiff has stated that thp property has been deteriorated in
value in any way except in reference to trade and enstem.
Sir F. POLLocx said the affidavit di,tinctly set forth that
the " value of the premises is and has been greatly lessened
by the construction of the Railway, and that the trade and cus-
tom ot the shop had fallen off."
Lord DENMAN—Do you mean to say that the first member
of that sentence would he sufficient to bring the ease within the
meaning of the Act, unless there was something more to form
our opinion upon ?
Sir F, Poucocic would admit that, taking the passage by
itself, it would tint warrant the Court in coming to a decision
upon the ease, bat there wprp other passages in the affidavits
which, taken in connection with the part he had just read,
fully made out such a deterioration in the value ot the pro-
perty as brought it within the meaning of the Act.
The COURT was of opinion that in a case of doubt like the
present it would be better to admit than exclude the party,
and they were therefore of opinion that the rule for the manda-
mus sh±.44 be made absolute.